[arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot
Hi, just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow) Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:26:07PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow)
Greetings,
Pierre
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
Hrmm, works for me. Semi-related note, why are we forcibly updating syslinux to the MBR on package update?
Am 08.08.2012 20:40, schrieb Dave Reisner:
Hrmm, works for me. Semi-related note, why are we forcibly updating syslinux to the MBR on package update?
syslinux does not change the MBR on update. It only updates /boot/syslinux/ldlinux.sys and /boot/syslinux/*.c32.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi,
just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow)
Greetings,
Pierre
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
A user have opened a bug report about this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31065
Am 08.08.2012 20:56, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi,
just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow)
Greetings,
Pierre
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com A user have opened a bug report about this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31065 It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it.
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it.
Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch. I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken.
Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it. Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.
I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it. Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.
I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel headers. Allan
On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. I don't have the time now to look at it. Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.
I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel
headers.
Allan
Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
That patch is indeed fine; this issue seems to be due to GCC 4.7. I tried several prereleases of syslinux 4.06 in a VM and narrowed it down the following commit which makes it work again: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=b6be466 I have attached the above patch and respective PKGBUILD changes to the bug report [1]. I have also uploaded a prebuilt x86_64 package [2] for anyone wanting to give it a quick test. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31065 [2] http://dev.archlinux.org/~foutrelis/syslinux-4.05-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Am 09.08.2012 03:40, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote:
The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
That patch is indeed fine; this issue seems to be due to GCC 4.7.
I tried several prereleases of syslinux 4.06 in a VM and narrowed it down the following commit which makes it work again:
Thanks for tracking this down.
On Thursday 09 August 2012 04:40:53 Evangelos Foutras wrote:
I have attached the above patch and respective PKGBUILD changes to the bug report [1]. I have also uploaded a prebuilt x86_64 package [2] for anyone wanting to give it a quick test.
Thanks Evangelos, with rel -6 syslinux works again. -- Andrea
Am 08.08.2012 20:26, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
Hi,
just a heads up for testing users: it seems the latest syslinux package might be broken. It either frezzes right after printing the copyright line or I got some blinking garbage on the screen. (couldn't investigate; maybe I got more time tomorrow)
Should be fixed in 4.05-6 in [testing].
participants (7)
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Allan McRae
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Andrea Scarpino
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Dave Reisner
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Evangelos Foutras
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Pierre Schmitz
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Thomas Bächler
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Tobias Powalowski