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Re: New kernels
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 5:31 am
by xeno74
musa wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 2:24 pm
HI
Fienix running with vmlinux-6.15_a6
Pydpainter running on Fienix
Thanks a lot for testing the alpha6!
The alpha6 of kernel 6.15 with the improved NTFS3 driver:

Re: New kernels
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 7:43 am
by Hypex
Wow these alphas are coming think and fast. I've only just installed the alpha 5. Haven't tested the alpha 5 yet and the alpha 6 is here!

Re: New kernels
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:13 pm
by xeno74
Re: New kernels
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:38 pm
by Hypex
While I'm here I can report the alpha 5 was good. I did notice a few PAM errors in boot logs. But kernel boots fine and this is one of the best alpha series so far.
I also discovered why my Xenial was looking for an i386 so library. It wasn't me at all. I found out that my MATE 2017 Zesty has the same issue! It's the python-nautilus package. The powerpc version has a bug in the binary and tries to open an i386 library! Was it ever fixed? I wonder if was wrecked when they added a patch for amd64 support when the i386 version broke on amd64?
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damien@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -S libnautilus-python.so
python-nautilus: /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-python.so
damien@ubuntu:~$ file /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-python.so
/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-python.so: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=2d95bd18b76fd32d6e1b5268d22e0f5600306e02, stripped
damien@ubuntu:~$ strings /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-python.so | grep i386
nautilus-python:g_module_open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu//libpython2.7.so.1.0
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu//libpython2.7.so.1.0
damien@ubuntu:~$ strings /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-python.so | grep powerpc
damien@ubuntu:~$
So here's a test for anyone running Ubuntu Xenial or Zesty. Install nautilus-admin and run nautilus as root. You can also quit it and reload from CLI. Does it also try and open an i386 binary on your system?
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sudo apt install nautilus-admin
sudo nautilus
(nautilus:5941): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
(nautilus:5941): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: g_module_open libpython failed: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu//libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Re: New kernels
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:43 am
by xeno74
Hypex wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:38 pm
While I'm here I can report the alpha 5 was good. I did notice a few PAM errors in boot logs. But kernel boots fine and this is one of the best alpha series so far.
Yes, you're right. It's a good alpha series. Thanks for testing!

Re: New kernels
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:40 pm
by Hypex
xeno74 wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:43 am
Yes, you're right. It's a good alpha series. Thanks for testing!
Just tested the A6 before the RC1 comes. The A5 had some rebooting issues but the A6 looks good. So far rebooted three times and all is good. On Debian the kernel is printed with aqua in parts. It's slow to reboot because of all the GPU lockup errors it prints but gets there in the end.
Back to Xenial now and working fine. Been installing to it first and booting it last. Might need to grab a serial boot log. I continue to see these module.dep errors but it goes by so fast I cant see the details. I still have no idea why it's printing it. There's no sign on the system after. I grepped the /var/log files as well as grepped journalctl. The only one that shows up is on some old 2.4 kernel log. Is root too high for the kernel boot to see? I must be missing something. Maybe I'm too blind to see the elephant modules in the room. But I just don't see why it cannot find these files!
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damien@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/6.15.0-a6-powerpc64-smp-ga1b5bd45d4ee-dirty/
total 1052
drwxr-sr-x 9 root users 4096 Apr 3 18:25 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 177611 Apr 3 18:25 modules.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 182721 Apr 3 18:25 modules.alias.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 23389 Apr 3 18:25 modules.builtin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 50004 Apr 3 18:25 modules.builtin.alias.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 26455 Apr 3 18:25 modules.builtin.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 183601 Apr 3 18:25 modules.builtin.modinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 71969 Apr 3 18:25 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 95928 Apr 3 18:25 modules.dep.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 171 Apr 3 18:25 modules.devname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 22118 Apr 3 18:25 modules.order
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 55 Apr 3 18:25 modules.softdep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 92780 Apr 3 18:25 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 116680 Apr 3 18:25 modules.symbols.bin
Re: New kernels
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:07 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
The merge window is over. Linus Torvalds has released the
RC1 of kernel
6.15 for testing.
I compiled it for our machines today.
Download and further information:
github.com
Please test the kernels.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: New kernels
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:28 pm
by musa
Hi
Chimera 32 running with vmlinux-6.15_rc1
The was some upgrades today
Have a nice day

Re: New kernels
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 6:29 pm
by xeno74
musa wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:28 pm
Hi
Chimera 32 running with vmlinux-6.15_rc1
The was some upgrades today
Have a nice day
Great, that it works.

Thank you for testing the RC1.
Re: New kernels
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 6:13 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
I am pleased to announce the
stable long-term kernel
6.12.22 with many improvements and fixes.
New:
- X1000: ABIv2 kernels (CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2)
- X1000 and e5500: CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_MULTICOLOR=y for Logitech devices (HID_LOGITECH)
- X1000: Support for Logitech receivers and devices (CONFIG_HID_LOGITECH_DJ=m)
- X1000: User namespaces (CONFIG_USER_NS=y). They allow unprivileged user code access to call kernel code that was historically restricted to root. This is already activated in the e5500 kernel config.
- X1000 and e5500: PlayStation HID Driver (CONFIG_HID_PLAYSTATION=m)
- Radeon fix
- Linux Git log
- Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.12
Download:
github.com
Alternative download link:
linux-image-6.12.22-X1000_e5500.tar.gz
Cheers,
Christian