Comment 6 for bug 1689886

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jeff Hugo <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Manoj, how do you recommend utilizing the PPA?
>
> I downloaded the debian packages for linux-image and headers, used
> dpkg to install, and while it boots, many of the drivers are missing,
> so the test case cannot be executed.

The instructions to add the ppa and install the kernel etc are in the
PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~centriq-team/+archive/ubuntu/test/

in brief:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:centriq-team/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.10.0-20-generic
linux-image-extra-4.10.0-20-generic

If you have multiple versions of the kernel installed on your system
and if you want to stop at the grub menu to select your kernel... you
need to edit /etc/default/grub and comment out "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0"
before you install the kernel package (if you edited after you
installed you can just run sudo update-grub2). This will drop you into
the grub menu, where you can go into the "Advanced" tab and select the
kernel you want to boot.

> I attempted to go through DI, but pointing DI to the test PPA does
> not seem to install the correct kernel, and leaves the system in a
> non-bootable state.

>
> Jeffrey Hugo
> Senior Engineer
> Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc.
> 1-303-247-5002
>
> From: Manoj Iyer [mailto:<email address hidden>]
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 10:16 AM
> To: Joseph Chang <email address hidden>
> Cc: Jeff Hugo <email address hidden>; <email address hidden>
> Subject: RE: [Bug #1689886] Please test this kernel and report
> results for SRU.
>
> Joseph,
>
> Thanks for testing. Have you tested the kernel in the centriq test
> PPA with the patch applied? Or was it an upstream kernel? If you
> tested the kernel in centriq test PPA could you please post your test
> results here?
>
> Thanks
> Manoj
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Chang
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I already test the patch on REP and it really fix the kernel panic
>> issue.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c?id=6de65fcfdb51835789b245203d1bfc8d14cb1e06
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Joseph.
>> From: Jeff Hugo
>> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:28 PM
>> To: Manoj Iyer <email address hidden>; <email address hidden>
>> Cc: Joseph Chang <email address hidden>
>> Subject: RE: [Bug #1689886] Please test this kernel and report
>> results for SRU.
>>
>> Yep, I’ll have it tested.
>>
>> Jeffrey Hugo
>> Senior Engineer
>> Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc.
>> 1-303-247-5002
>>
>> From: Manoj Iyer [mailto:<email address hidden>]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 10:00 PM
>> To: Jeff Hugo <email address hidden>; <email address hidden>
>> Cc: Joseph Chang <email address hidden>
>> Subject: [Bug #1689886] Please test this kernel and report results
>> for SRU.
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Could you please test the kernel in PPA
>> https://launchpad.net/~centriq-team/+archive/ubuntu/test/ that has
>> Joeseph Chang's patch ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread()
>> on a QDF2400 REP system and report your results?
>> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689886
>>
>> When you report the test results please include the output of the
>> working ipmi command.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Manoj Iyer