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Before I disappear into the Japanese winter holidays, here the Christmas update of all TeX Live packages. Nothing spectacular here, just the usual bunch of updates of loads of packages. There is a bug with respect to a file move from one package to another, will be fixed in an upload soon. Debian - TeX Live 2015

Updated packages apnum, appendix, archaeologie, babel, babel-french, babel-greek, babel-hungarian, bangorcsthesis, beamer-verona, bhcexam, bibarts, bidi, bxjscls, chemfig, commado, comprehensive, context, cslatex, csplain, ctanify, doclicense, dvips, ejpecp, exsheets, fbb, fibeamer, fithesis, fontools, francais-bst, gitinfo2, glossaries, gnuplottex, greek-fontenc, hyph-utf8, indextools, ksp-thesis, l3build, l3experimental, l3kernel, l3packages, latexcourse-rug, lollipop, lstbayes, lualibs, luaotfload, luatexja, luatexko, luatodonotes, make4ht, mcf2graph, media9, mex, mfirstuc, mhchem, mptopdf, nameauth, nevelok, newtx, nicetext, nucleardata, ocgx2, pageslts, petri-nets, phonrule, pkuthss, powerdot, proofread, proposal, pst-labo, pst-solides3d, reledmac, sapthesis, serbian-lig, showlabels, t2, tcolorbox, tempora, testhyphens, tetex, tex4ebook, tex4ht, texlive-scripts, texsis, thuthesis, toptesi, tudscr, ucharcat, versonotes, xcharter, xepersian, xifthen, xindy, xint. New packages beamertheme-detlevcm, beamertheme-metropolis, beamertheme-phnompenh, beamer-verona, bitpattern, carbohydrates, delimseasy, drawmatrix, einfuehrung2, ellipse, ffslides, gitlog, greektonoi, ksp-thesis, longfbox, options, simpler-wick, unicode-data. Enjoy.

Discworld Noir was a superb adventure game, but is also notoriously unreliable, even in Windows on real hardware; using Wine is just not going to work. After many attempts at bringing it back into working order, I've settled on an approach that seems to work: now that qemu and libvirt have made virtualization and emulation easy, I can run it in a version of Windows that was current at the time of its release. Unfortunately, Windows 98 doesn't virtualize particularly well either, so this still became a relatively extensive yak-shaving exercise.

These instructions assume that /srv/virt is a suitable place to put disk images, but you can use anywhere you want. The emulated PC After some trial and error, it seems to work if I configure qemu to emulate the following:

Fully emulated hardware instead of virtualization (qemu-system-i386 -no-kvm)
Intel Pentium III
Intel i440fx-based motherboard with ACPI
Real-time clock in local time
No HPET
256 MiB RAM
IDE primary master: IDE hard disk (I used 30 GiB, which is massively overkill for this game; qemu can use sparse files so it actually ends up less than 2 GiB on the host system)
IDE primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave: three CD-ROM drives
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Realtek AC97 sound card
Cirrus video card with 16 MiB video RAM

A modern laptop CPU is an order of magnitude faster than what Discworld Noir needs, so full emulation isn't a problem, despite being inefficient. There is deliberately no networking, because Discworld Noir doesn't need it, and a 17 year old operating system with no privilege separation is very much not safe to use on the modern Internet! Software needed

Windows 98 installation CD-ROM as a .iso file (cp /dev/cdrom windows98.iso) - in theory you could also use a real optical drive, but my laptop doesn't usually have one of those. I used the OEM disc, version 4.10.1998 (that's the original Windows 98, not the Second Edition), which came with a long-dead PC, and didn't bother to apply any patches.
A Windows 98 license key. Again, I used an OEM key from a past PC.
A complete set of Discworld Noir (English) CD-ROMs as .iso files. I used the UK "Sold Out Software" budget release, on 3 CDs.
A multi-platform Realtek AC97 audio driver.

Windows 98 installation It seems to be easiest to do this bit by running qemu-system-i386 manually:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 /srv/virt/discworldnoir.qcow2 30G
qemu-system-i386 -hda /srv/virt/discworldnoir.qcow2 \
    -drive media=cdrom,format=raw,file=/srv/virt/windows98.iso \
    -no-kvm -vga cirrus -m 256 -cpu pentium3 -localtime

Don't start the installation immediately. Instead, boot the installation CD to a DOS prompt with CD-ROM support. From here, run

fdisk

and create a single partition filling the emulated hard disk. When finished, hard-reboot the virtual machine (press Ctrl+C on the qemu-system-i386 process and run it again). The DOS FORMAT.COM utility is on the Windows CD-ROM but not in the root directory or the default %PATH%, so you'll have to run:

d:\win98\format c:

to create the FAT filesystem. You might have to reboot again at this point. The reason for doing this the hard way is that the Windows 98 installer doesn't detect qemu as supporting ACPI. You want ACPI support, so that Windows will issue IDLE instructions from its idle loop, instead of occupying a CPU core with a busy-loop. To get that, boot to a DOS prompt again, and use:

setup /p j /iv

/p j forces ACPI support (Thanks to "Richard S" on the Virtualbox forums for this tip.) /iv is unimportant, but it disables the annoying "billboards" during installation, which advertised once-exciting features like support for dial-up modems and JPEG wallpaper. I used a "Typical" installation; there didn't seem to be much point in tweaking the installed package set when everything is so small by modern standards. Windows 98 has built-in support for the Cirrus VGA card that we're emulating, so after a few reboots, it should be able to run in a semi-modern resolution and colour depth. Discworld Noir apparently prefers a 640 480 16-bit video mode, so right-click on the desktop background, choose Properties and set that up. Audio drivers This is the part that took me the longest to get working. Of the sound cards that qemu can emulate, Windows 98 only supports the SoundBlaster 16 out of the box. Unfortunately, the Soundblaster 16 emulation in qemu is incomplete, and in particular version 2.1 (as shipped in Debian 8) has a tendency to make Windows lock up during boot. I've seen advice in various places to emulate an Eqsonic ES1370 (SoundBlaster AWE 64), but that didn't work for me: one of the drivers I tried caused Windows to lock up at a black screen during boot, and the other didn't detect the emulated hardware. The next-oldest sound card that qemu can emulate is a Realtek AC97, which was often found integrated into motherboards in the late 1990s. This one seems to work, with the "A400" driver bundle linked above. For Windows 98 first edition, you need a driver bundle that includes the old "VXD" drivers, not just the "WDM" drivers supported by Second Edition and newer. The easiest way to get that into qemu seems to be to turn it into a CD image:

genisoimage -o /srv/virt/discworldnoir-drivers.iso WDM_A400.exe
qemu-system-i386 -hda /srv/virt/discworldnoir.qcow2 \
    -drive media=cdrom,format=raw,file=/srv/virt/windows98.iso \
    -drive media=cdrom,format=raw,file=/srv/virt/discworldnoir-drivers.iso \
    -no-kvm -vga cirrus -m 256 -cpu pentium3 -localtime -soundhw ac97

Run the installer from E:, then reboot with the Windows 98 CD inserted, and Windows should install the driver. Installing Discworld Noir Boot up the virtual machine with CD 1 in the emulated drive:

qemu-system-i386 -hda /srv/virt/discworldnoir.qcow2 \
    -drive media=cdrom,format=raw,file=/srv/virt/DWN_ENG_1.iso \
    -no-kvm -vga cirrus -m 256 -cpu pentium3 -localtime -soundhw ac97

You might be thinking "... why not insert all three CDs into D:, E: and F:?" but the installer expects subsequent disks to appear in the same drive where CD 1 was initially, so that won't work. Instead, when prompted for a new CD, switch to the qemu monitor with Ctrl+Alt+2 (note that this is 2, not F2). At the (qemu) prompt, use info block to see a list of emulated drives, then issue a command like

change ide0-cd1 /srv/virt/DWN_ENG_2.iso

to swap the CD. Then switch back to Windows' console with Ctrl+Alt+1 and continue installation. I used a Full installation of Discworld Noir. Transferring the virtual machine to GNOME Boxes Having finished the "control freak" phase of installation, I wanted a slightly more user-friendly way to run this game, so I transferred the virtual machine to be used by libvirtd, which is the backend for both GNOME Boxes and virt-manager:

virsh create discworldnoir.xml

Here is the configuration I used. It's a mixture of automatic configuration from virt-manager, and hand-edited configuration to make it match the qemu-system-i386 command-line. Running the game If all goes well, you should now see a discworldnoir virtual machine in GNOME Boxes, in which you can boot Windows 98 and play the game. Have fun!

concurrent-output released yesterday got a lot of fun features. It now does full curses-style minimization of the output, to redraw updated lines with optimal efficiency. And supports multiline regions/wrapping too long lines. And allows the user to embed ANSI colors in a region. 3 features that are in some tension and were fun to implement all together. But I have a more interesting feature to blog about... I've added the ability for the content of a Region to be determined by a (STM transaction). Here, for example, is a region that's a clock:

timeDisplay :: TVar UTCTime -> STM Text
timeDisplay tv = T.pack . show <$> readTVar tv
clockRegion :: IO ConsoleRegionHandle
clockRegion = do
    tv <- atomically . newTVar =<< getCurrentTime
    r <- openConsoleRegion Linear
    setConsoleRegion r (timeDisplay tv)
    async $ forever $ do
        threadDelay 1000000 -- 1 sec
        atomically . (writeTVar tv) =<< getCurrentTime
    return r

There's something magical about this. Whenever a new value is written into the TVar, concurrent-output automatically knows that this region needs to be updated. How does it know how to do that? Magic of STM. Basically, concurrent-output composes all the STM transactions of Regions, and asks STM to wait until there's something new to display. STM keeps track of whatever TVars might be looked at, and so can put the display thread to sleep until there's a change to display. Using STM I've gotten extensability for free, due to the nice ways that STM transactions compose. A few other obvious things to do with this: Compose 2 regions with padding so they display on the same line, left and right aligned. Trim a region's content to the display width. (Handily exported by concurrent-output in a TVar for this kind of thing.)

I'm tempted to write a console spreadsheet using this. Each visible cell of the spreadsheet would have its own region, that uses a STM transaction to display. Plain data Cells would just display their current value. Cells that contain a function would read the current values of other Cells, and use that to calculate what to display. Which means that a Cell containing a function would automatically update whenever any of the Cells that it depends on were updated! Do you think that a simple interactive spreadsheet built this way would be more than 100 lines of code?

I've been doing a little bit of dynamically typed programming in Haskell, to improve Propellor's Info type. The result is kind of interesting in a scary way. Info started out as a big record type, containing all the different sorts of metadata that Propellor needed to keep track of. Host IP addresses, DNS entries, ssh public keys, docker image configuration parameters... This got quite out of hand. Info needed to have its hands in everything, even types that should have been private to their module. To fix that, recent versions of Propellor let a single Info contain many different types of values. Look at it one way and it contains DNS entries; look at it another way and it contains ssh public keys, etc. As an migr from lands where you can never know what type of value is in a $foo until you look, this was a scary prospect at first, but I found it's possible to have the benefits of dynamic types and the safety of static types too. The key to doing it is Data.Dynamic. Thanks to Joachim Breitner for suggesting I could use it here. What I arrived at is this type (slightly simplified):

newtype Info = Info [Dynamic]
    deriving (Monoid)

So Info is a monoid, and it holds of a bunch of dynamic values, which could each be of any type at all. Eep! So far, this is utterly scary to me. To tame it, the Info constructor is not exported, and so the only way to create an Info is to start with mempty and use this function:

addInfo :: (IsInfo v, Monoid v) => Info -> v -> Info
addInfo (Info l) v = Info (toDyn v : l)

The important part of that is that only allows adding values that are in the IsInfo type class. That prevents the foot shooting associated with dynamic types, by only allowing use of types that make sense as Info. Otherwise arbitrary Strings etc could be passed to addInfo by accident, and all get concated together, and that would be a total dynamic programming mess. Anything you can add into an Info, you can get back out:

getInfo :: (IsInfo v, Monoid v) => Info -> v
getInfo (Info l) = mconcat (mapMaybe fromDynamic (reverse l))

Only monoids can be stored in Info, so if you ask for a type that an Info doesn't contain, you'll get back mempty. Crucially, IsInfo is an open type class. Any module in Propellor can make a new data type and make it an instance of IsInfo, and then that new data type can be stored in the Info of a Property, and any Host that uses the Property will have that added to its Info, available for later introspection.

For example, this weekend I'm extending Propellor to have controllers: Hosts that are responsible for running Propellor on some other hosts. Useful if you want to run propellor once and have it update the configuration of an entire network of hosts. There can be whole chains of controllers controlling other controllers etc. The problem is, what if host foo has the property controllerFor bar and host bar has the property controllerFor foo? I want to avoid a loop of foo running Propellor on bar, running Propellor on foo, ... To detect such loops, each Host's Info should contain a list of the Hosts it's controlling. Which is not hard to accomplish:

newtype Controlling = Controlled [Host]
    deriving (Typeable, Monoid)
isControlledBy :: Host -> Controlling -> Bool
h  isControlledBy  (Controlled hs) = any (== hostName h) (map hostName hs)
instance IsInfo Controlling where
    propigateInfo _ = True
mkControllingInfo :: Host -> Info
mkControllingInfo controlled = addInfo mempty (Controlled [controlled])
getControlledBy :: Host -> Controlling
getControlledBy = getInfo . hostInfo
isControllerLoop :: Host -> Host -> Bool
isControllerLoop controller controlled = go S.empty controlled
  where
    go checked h
          controller  isControlledBy  c = True
        -- avoid checking loops that have been checked before
          hostName h  S.member  checked = False
          otherwise = any (go (S.insert (hostName h) checked)) l
      where
        c@(Controlled l) = getControlledBy h

This is all internal to the module that needs it; the rest of propellor doesn't need to know that the Info is using used for this. And yet, the necessary information about Hosts is gathered as propellor runs.

So, that's a useful technique. I do wonder if I could somehow make addInfo combine together values in the list that have the same type; as it is the list can get long. And, to show Info, the best I could do was this:

 instance Show Info where
            show (Info l) = "Info " ++ show (map dynTypeRep l)

The resulting long list of the types of vales stored in a host's info is not a useful as it could be. Of course, getInfo can be used to get any particular type of value:

*Main> hostInfo kite
Info [InfoVal System,PrivInfo,PrivInfo,Controlling,DnsInfo,DnsInfo,DnsInfo,AliasesInfo, ...
*Main> getInfo (hostInfo kite) :: AliasesInfo
AliasesInfo (fromList ["downloads.kitenet.net","git.joeyh.name","imap.kitenet.net","nntp.olduse.net" ...

And finally, I keep trying to think of a better name than "Info".

I have worked with ARM based systems for longer than I care to admit to myself. From the Acorn Archimedes 305 in 1987 through to modern 64bit systems I have seen many many changes in the ARM community. One big change has been the rise of the inexpensive single board computer (SBC).

Arguably the Raspberry Pi (RPi) was responsible for starting this trend. Before RPi there were small development boards available, I was even involved in producing some of them, none of these really became a big thing and were principally vehicles for silicon vendors to showcase their SoC in an accessible way. When I say accessible I mean for silicon vendors who were previously used to charging many thousands of pounds for their development boards now only charging hundreds.

In my opinion the RPi was a complete disruption to the SBC market. In early 2012 a complete ARM computer system could now be purchased for $35 ( 25) which was substantially cheaper than the best contemporary competitor the Beaglebone $89 ( 60)

To be clear, the reason the RPi succeeded (millions sold, household name) was not on price alone but also the large amount of good supporting software and how easy it was made for teachers and makers to use.

There were several areas that the RPi managed to change perceived issues into opportunities for using what was already available or third parties to provide. There were also several issues raised about the original RPi:

no case
no integrated storage
not having an x86 processor
being a slow processor
limited peripheral support
no real time clock
not supplying keyboards, mice
not providing displays.

Some of these have been addressed since release as the foundation now sells cases, hardware revisions with much more powerful processors, pre-configured storage, cameras and displays. The important thing to note here though is the RPi has made the bare SBC a much more widely accepted product where all the non critical parts are considered "extras" and a lot is forgiven because of the price.

With that acceptance there have been many, many new SBC coming to market with better peripherals and increasingly competitive pricing. These are technically not clones as none of them use the Broadcom processor of the RPi but they often share many features and possibly even a compatible expansion header.

Banana pi in my case with a 2.5inch drive bay

The Banana Pi was one of these copycats which I acquired for a similar price as an RPi in 2014. The main processor of this system was a 1Ghz dual core Allwinner A20 processor (a considerable advance on the 700MHz single core of the original RPi) coupled to a gigabyte of memory. Additionally the board benefited from having SATA and gigabit Ethernet MAC which made for a much more versatile system. Various third parties filled in the missing peripherals including my own attempt at a case.

I acquired a cubietruck for the NetSurf project to use as a build node in their CI system this is again based on the A20 but with more memory and somewhat better peripheral support but at a substantial cost over the Banana Pi.

The most recent addition to this form factor is the introduction by Xunlong Software of the Orange Pi PC. This little board is the same footprint as the RPi2 B+ design but with differing connector placement. The processor is a quad core 1.6GHz Allwinner H3 with a gigabyte of memory and has has Ethernet and USB but no SATA.

The big news about this board though is the price, at $15 ( 10) it resets the price expectations just as the RPi did before it. I was initially sceptical of the quality of the product (or if it would arrive at all) but I have acquired five of these boards and every one of them came well packaged, boxed and in a static bag, just like the RPi does, and they all worked.

I created a case design based on my RPi slimline case so they would be protected when piled up with all the other boards. The use of a DC barrel jack instead of micro USB for power is better in that the connector is more robust and intended for higher current draws but does mean additional leads are needed. There are, however, two flies in the ointment, neither are showstoppers but make the board a little more difficult to use.

One is a simple necessity of a substantial heatsink on the H3 processor. Initially I used a small 20 x 20mm copper heatsink (around 800mm square surface area) but this was insufficient under full load. I did not want to have to use a fan so I milled some slots into copper round bar, then cut off sections and faced them on a lathe. The completed design had more than 2200 square mm surface area and cost around $2.5 ( 1.5) in material (and a couple of hours in the workshop but that was fun and I made something)

The second issue and arguably much more serious is that of software. Let me be honest, it is dreadful, I mean very bad indeed. The images provided from the Orange Pi website are some of the worst examples of "do something quick" I have experienced.

Fortunately a user on the forums named loboris decided to create scripts that generate a Debian (and Ubuntu and Fedora) distribution images that can be installed from SD card. He relies on a somewhat patched 3.4 kernel full of Allwinner vendor changes and the inevitable binary blobs for the Marli GPU but the result does work.

I have had a few units acting as distcc compiler slaves for two weeks now at 100% CPU loading and they are still running. The processor does not get overly warm with the heatsink installed and Debian behaves just fine. The main caveat being that it is definitely not going to work if you try and update the kernel through packaging.

The state of software support and Xunlong Software relying on a forum user to complete their product does tarnish an otherwise impressive and possibly market changing SBC.

Perhaps I expect too much for fifteen bucks? I guess when the cost of the case, heatsink, cables and memory storage card is similar to the rest of the computer there is simply no margin left for anything else.

In conclusion hopefully this brief overview has provided some insight into what is available in this market and that the Raspberry Pi is indeed not the only option.

I finish with an image is of my ARM build farm consisting of every SBC I mention here (including a couple of RPi)

A big update of all related packages (tex-common 6.04, texlive-bin 2015.20150524.37493-7, texlive-base/lang/extra package 2015.20151016-1) due to the move to support multi-arch. Of course, the regular updates of the TeX Live are included, too. With this change it should be possible to run a multi-arch system with only one TeX Live installed. Debian - TeX Live 2015

Thanks to the excellent support and testing of the Multi-arch guys, in particular Thorsten Glaser, Helmut Grohne, Johannes Schauer, and Wookey, I learned a lot about multi-arch, and I hope that the current setup is safe. All the packages but the various lib* packages are tagged as Multi-Arch: foreign, while the lib packages are tagged Multi-Arch: same. Anyway, if you find a bug concerning multi-arch, that is that some of the programs exhibit architecture information, please let us know via a bug report. Updated packages acro, alegreya, amiri, assoccnt, attachfile, babel-french, babel-hungarian, barr, beebe, biblatex-philosophy, bidi, bnumexpr, caption, chemfig, chemformula, chemmacros, cjk-gs-integrate, csplain, dantelogo, dataref, dtxgen, dvipdfmx-def, dvips, eledmac, elements, fcolumn, fithesis, fontspec, genealogytree, gradstudentresume, gtl, jfontmaps, knuth-local, koma-script, kotex-oblivoir, kotex-plain, kotex-utf, kpathsea, l3build, l3experimental, l3kernel, l3packages, latex, latexconfig, ledmac, ltxfileinfo, lualatex-math, luamplib, luatex, luatexbase, luatexja, luatexko, make4ht, mcf2graph, mflogo, modiagram, multiexpand, newtx, odsfile, old-arrows, paracol, pdfpages, pdftex, plain, pst-stru, pxchfon, randomwalk, reledmac, resumecls, rubik, selnolig, showhyphens, siunitx, suftesi, tetex, teubner, tex4ebook, tex4ht, texlive-scripts, tikzsymbols, tipfr, tools, tudscr, uassign, unicode-math, unravel, visualfaq, xepersian, xetex-def, xint. New packages archaeologie, ctablestack, dynamicnumber, exercises, fibeamer, h2020proposal, imfellenglish, lstbayes, tempora, xellipsis. Enjoy.

Usual regular update of the TeX Live packages. Now that Debian/unstable is back to full development speed thanks to the end of the bit gcc transition, probably this TeX Live update will be lost between the hundreds of others. Anyway a few interesting changes are still in there. Debian - TeX Live 2015

Most importantly the fix for unicode-math that was broken for a short time, and for the Japanese users it seems that the LaTeX3 packages have gained support for upTeX. Good to hear. Of course, these are not the only updates and newcomers, see the list below. Updated packages abc, acro, alegreya, animate, arabxetex, babel-bosnian, babel-french, babel-greek, babel-latin, babel-welsh, beamer-FUBerlin, bidi, bigfoot, blochsphere, bxjscls, chemformula, chemmacros, chet, classicthesis, crossrefware, csplain, ctable, ctanify, datetime2, datetime2-basque, detlev-cm, disser, doclicense, drm, dtxgen, dtxtut, dvips, ecclesiastic, eledmac, embrac, etex-pkg, etoc, factura, fbb, fithesis, font-change, fontname, glossaries, gothic, greek-fontenc, IEEEtran, l3build, l3experimental, l3kernel, l3packages, latexconfig, lettrine, luatexja, mathastext, mcf2graph, media9, metrix, mhequ, minted, moderntimeline, newtx, ocgx2, pagecolor, pdftex, pgf, pstricks, reledmac, resphilosophica, roboto, shdoc, siunitx, suftesi, tetex, tex4ht, texlive-scripts, tikz-bayesnet, translations, ucharcat, udesoftec, ulthese, unicode-math, ut-thesis, withargs, xint. New packages checklistings, cleanthesis, easyreview, fei, medstarbeamer, mfirstuc, nevelok, old-arrows, proofread, uassign, xebaposter. Enjoy.

For those who are starving for some updates while the big gcc5 transitions brings the rest of Debian/sid to a halt, here is some fresh meat, a new TeX Live checkout. Nothing spectacular new here, just the usual big bunch of updates of and several new packages. Maybe worthwhile mentioning is that luasseq has been reincorporated into the TeX Live packages. Thanks to the maintainer for his work till now! Debian - TeX Live 2015

From the long list of changes let me pick one update and one new package: pgf has been updated to 3.0.1, which is just a small change in number, but incorporates 1.5 years of fixes, and the list of fixes is long. And a very interesting newcomer is pdfpagediff by C. V. Rad hakr ish nan. It allows visual comparison of two pdf files by overlaying them in a transparent way, making even slight changes in the layout immediately visible. Of course, these are not the only updates and newcomers, see the list below. Updated packages academicons, addlines, algorithms, archaic, babel, babel-estonian, biber, biblatex-source-division, bidi, bxjscls, chronology, cjk-ko, conteq, csplain, csquotes, curve2e, datatool, doclicense, dvips, eledmac, enotez, esami, eso-pic, etex-pkg, etoolbox, exsheets, fandol, fithesis, fontawesome, fontspec, forest, glossaries, greek-inputenc, jslectureplanner, kotex-oblivoir, kotex-utf, l3build, l3experimental, l3kernel, l3packages, latex, leadsheets, ledmac, lshort-english, luamplib, luasseq, luatexko, maths-symbols, media9, memoir, metrix, mhchem, minitoc, moderncv, modiagram, morefloats, mptopdf, msu-thesis, nameauth, ndsu-thesis, newpx, newtx, newtxsf, newtxtt, notes, ocgx2, pageslts, pdfpages, pdftex, pgf, phonrule, plain, polyglossia, pstricks, ptex, pxchfon, reflectgraphics, rsfso, sectionbox, siunitx, skrapport, standalone, tcolorbox, tetex, tex4ht, texfot, texinfo, texlive-scripts, todonotes, translations, tudscr, ucbthesis, unicode-math, xcharter, xgreek. New packages alertmessage, bewerbung, bidihl, bxpdfver, cloze, comicneue, copyedit, fcavtex, gradstudentresume, make4ht, mcf2graph, multiaudience, nmbib, pdfpagediff, quran, reledmac, roundrect, screenplay-pkg, shapes, tex4ebook. Enjoy.

TinyTiny-RSS has some nice failure modes. And upstream support forums aren't really helpfull so when you search for your current problem, chances are that there is one mention of it on the web, in the forum, and the only thing happening there is people making fun of the reporter. Anyway. This installation has seen lots of error messages from the updater in the last several months:

Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

And, more recently, the android app stopped working with ERROR:JSON Parse failed.. Turns out both things are related. First thing I noticed was changing preferences in the web panel stopped working until you use the reset to Defaults option and then changed settings. Plugging wireshark in between showed what was going on (Note: API was displayed as enabled in Preferences/Preferences):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.8.0
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:00:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.43
Content-Language: auto
Set-Cookie: [...]
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Api-Content-Length: 234
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Warning:  Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ENABLE_API_ACCESS (owner: 2) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

 "seq":0,"status":1,"content": "error":"API_DISABLED" 
0

Solution for fixing the Android app (and the logspam on the way as well) seems to be to reset the preferences and then configure tt-rss again (In the webapp, not in the android thing!). Also silences tt-rss update_daemon as well, yay! One last thing: someone out there who wants to explain to me how to fix

Fatal error: Query INSERT INTO ttrss_enclosures
                                                        (content_url, content_type, title, duration, post_id, width, height) VALUES
                                                        ('https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/e6d6ceb7764252af8da058e30cd8cb5f?s=96&d=identicon&r=G', '', '', '', '0', 0, 0) failed: ERROR:  insert or update on table "ttrss_enclosures" violates foreign key constraint "ttrss_enclosures_post_id_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (post_id)=(0) is not present in table "ttrss_entries". in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/pgsql.php on line 46

Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.8.0
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:00:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.43
Content-Language: auto
Set-Cookie: [...]
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Api-Content-Length: 234
ea


Warning:  Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ENABLE_API_ACCESS (owner: 2) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

 "seq":0,"status":1,"content": "error":"API_DISABLED" 
0

Fatal error: Query INSERT INTO ttrss_enclosures
                                                        (content_url, content_type, title, duration, post_id, width, height) VALUES
                                                        ('https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/e6d6ceb7764252af8da058e30cd8cb5f?s=96&d=identicon&r=G', '', '', '', '0', 0, 0) failed: ERROR:  insert or update on table "ttrss_enclosures" violates foreign key constraint "ttrss_enclosures_post_id_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (post_id)=(0) is not present in table "ttrss_entries". in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/pgsql.php on line 46

Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108
Warning: Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ALLOW_DUPLICATE_POSTS (owner: 3) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.8.0
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:00:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.43
Content-Language: auto
Set-Cookie: [...]
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Api-Content-Length: 234
ea


Warning:  Fatal error, unknown preferences key: ENABLE_API_ACCESS (owner: 2) in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/prefs.php on line 108

 "seq":0,"status":1,"content": "error":"API_DISABLED" 
0

Fatal error: Query INSERT INTO ttrss_enclosures
                                                        (content_url, content_type, title, duration, post_id, width, height) VALUES
                                                        ('https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/e6d6ceb7764252af8da058e30cd8cb5f?s=96&d=identicon&r=G', '', '', '', '0', 0, 0) failed: ERROR:  insert or update on table "ttrss_enclosures" violates foreign key constraint "ttrss_enclosures_post_id_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (post_id)=(0) is not present in table "ttrss_entries". in /srv/www/tt-rss.faui2k9.de/root/classes/db/pgsql.php on line 46

After long time of waiting we finally released TeX Live 2015. Get some champagne, and ready to party!

Get it via downloading the net-installer, by obtaining a DVD, or downloading the iso. Besides the huge list up updates to packages and loads of bug fixes to all the programs, here are some notable news:

new LaTeX2e release which automatically includes fixltx2e
pdfTeX got improved jpeg support (exif and JFIF)
luaTeX got a new library newtokenlib
XeTeX got image handling fixes
MetaPost got a new numbersystem binary, and Japanese variants were added (upmpost and updvitomp)
MacTeX s Ghostscript packages got a facelift with better CJK support, other Unix-like distributions can do the same with my the newly included script cjk-gs-integrate (also one one my projects)
fmtutil got rewritten in perl, as reported here
architectures: *kfreebsd was removed,and some additional platforms available as custom binaries. The DVD does not contain all platforms (due to space reasons), but all of them can be installed via the net-installer.

Regular updates of the repository will start in due course. Thanks to all the contributors for the hard work. Let s have a party!

This weekend I had to downgrade my home desktop to stable thanks to a strange Xorg bug which I've been unable to identify among the current ones. Both testing and sid versions seem affected and all you can see after booting is this:

The system works fine otherwise and can be accessed via ssh, but restarting kdm doesn't help to fix it, it just changes the pattern. Anyway, as explaining a toddler he cannot watch his favourite youtube cartoons because suddenly the computer screen has become an abstract art work is not easy I quickly decided to downgrade.

Downgrading went fine, using APT pinning to fix stable and apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade after that, but today I noticed libreoffice stopped working with this message:

Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libreglo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

All I found related to that is a post on forums, which didn't help much (neither the original poster nor me). But just found the library was not missing, it was installed:

# locate libreglo.so
/usr/lib/ure/lib/libreglo.so

But that was not part of any ldconfig conf file, hence the fix was easy:

# echo '/usr/lib/ure/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libreoffice-ure.conf
# ldconfig

And presto! libreoffice is working again :-)

I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 2 13. While, at the time, the Yoga 3 was available, I decided to go for Yoga 2 13. The Yoga 3 comes with the newer Core M Broadwell family, which, in my opinion, doesn't really bring any astounding benefits. The Yoga 2 13 comes in mulitple variants worldwide. Infact these hardware variations have different effets when run under Linux. My varaint of Yoga 2 13 is:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz
RAM: 8 GiB - Occupying 2 slots
Memory Controller Information
        Supported Interleave: One-way Interleave
        Current Interleave: One-way Interleave
        Maximum Memory Module Size: 8192 MB
        Maximum Total Memory Size: 16384 MB
       
Handle 0x0006, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
Handle 0x0007, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
The usual PCI devices:
rrs@learner:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
17:37          
And the storage devices
Device Model:     WDC WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0-SSHD-16GB
Device Model:     KINGSTON SM2280S3120G

Storage

The drive runs into serious performance problems when its SSHD's NCQ (mis)feature is under use in Linux <= 4.0.

[28974.232550] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[28974.232565] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: port does not support device sleep
[28983.680955] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x400100 action 0x6 frozen
[28983.681000] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[28983.681027] ata1: SError:   UnrecovData Handshk  
[28983.681052] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.681082] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:b8:84:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.681152] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.681171] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.681202] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:08:f8:89:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.681271] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.681289] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.681316] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:10:38:8f:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.681387] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.681407] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.681435] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:18:78:94:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697642] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697643] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697646] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:c8:38:65:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 25 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697647] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697648] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697651] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:d0:78:6a:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 26 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697651] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697652] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697656] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:d8:b8:6f:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 27 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697657] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697658] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697661] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:e0:f8:74:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 28 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697662] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697663] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697666] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:e8:38:7a:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 29 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697667] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697668] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[28983.697672] ata1.00: cmd 61/40:f0:78:7f:88/05:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 688128 out
                        res 40/00:3c:78:a9:88/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[28983.697672] ata1.00: status:   DRDY  
[28983.697676] ata1: hard resetting link
[28984.017356] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[28984.022612] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[28984.022740] ata1: EH complete
[28991.611732] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[28992.183822] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[28992.186569] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk
[28992.186604] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[28992.189594] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[28992.967426] PM: suspend of devices complete after 1351.349 msecs
[28992.999461] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 31.990 msecs
[28993.000058] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[28993.000306] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[28993.016463] PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 16.978 msecs
[28993.017024] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[28993.017349] PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[28993.017357] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[28993.017389] intel_pstate CPU 1 exiting
[28993.018727] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU1
[28993.019320] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[28993.019646] intel_pstate CPU 2 exiting

In the interim, to overcome this problem, we can force the device to run in degraded mode. I'm not sure if it is really the degraded mode, or the device was falsely advertised as a 6 GiB capable device. Time will tell, but for now, force it to run in 3 GiB mode, and so far, I haven't run into the above mentioned probems. To force 3 GiB speed, apply the following.

rrs@learner:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.0.4+ root=/dev/mapper/sdb_crypt ro cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 rootflags=data=writeback libata.force=1:3 quiet
16:42

And then verify it... As you can see below, I've forced it for ata1 because I want my SSD drive to run at full-speed. I've done enough I/O, which earlier resulted in the kernel spitting the SATA errors. With this workaround, the kernel does not spit any error messages.

[    1.273365] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[    1.287290] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 4 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode
[    1.288238] ata1: FORCE: PHY spd limit set to 3.0Gbps
[    1.288240] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xb051b000 port 0xb051b100 irq 41
[    1.288242] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xb051b000 port 0xb051b180 irq 41
[    1.288244] ata3: DUMMY
[    1.288245] ata4: DUMMY
[    1.606971] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)
[    1.607906] ata1.00: ATA-9: WDC WD5000M22K-24Z1LT0-SSHD-16GB, 02.01A03, max UDMA/133
[    1.607910] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    1.608856] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    1.609106] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD5000M22K-2 1A03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    1.927167] ata2: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    1.928980] ata2.00: ATA-8: KINGSTON SM2280S3120G, S8FM06.A, max UDMA/133
[    1.928983] ata2.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    1.929616] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133

And the throughput you get out of your WD SATA SSHD drive, with capability set to 3.0 GiB is:

rrs@learner:/media/SSHD/tmp$ while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.img bs=1M count=20000; sync; rm -rf foo.img; sync; done
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 202.014 s, 104 MB/s
20000+0 records in
20000+0 records out
20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 206.111 s, 102 MB/s

Hannes Reinecke has submitted patches for NCQ enhancements, for Linux 4.1, which I hope will resolve these problems. Another option is to disable NCQ for the drive, or else blacklist the make/model in driver/ata/libata-core.c

By the time I finished this blog entry draft, I had tests to conclude that this did not look like an NCQ problem. Because in degraded mode too, it runs with NCQ enabled (check above).

rrs@learner:~$ sudo fstrim -vv /media/SSHD
/media/SSHD: 268.2 GiB (287930949632 bytes) trimmed
16:58          
rrs@learner:~$ sudo fstrim -vv /
[sudo] password for rrs:
/: 64 GiB (68650749952 bytes) trimmed
16:56

Another interesting feature of this drive is support for TRIM / DISCARD. This drive's FTL accepts the TRIM command. Ofcourse, you need to ensure that you have discard enabled in all the layers. In my case, SATA + Device Mapper (Crypt and LVM) + File System (ext4) Display

The overall display of this device is amazing. It is large enough to give you vibrant look. At 1920x1080 resolution, things look good. The display support was available out-of-the-box.

There were some suspend / resume hangs that occured with kernels < 4.x, during suspend / resume. The issue was root caused and fixed for Linux 4.0.

You may still notice the following kernel messages, though not problematic to me so far.

[28977.518114] PM: thaw of devices complete after 3607.979 msecs
[28977.590389] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.590582] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.591095] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.591185] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.591368] acpi device:30: Cannot transition to power state D3cold for parent in (unknown)
[28977.591911] pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
[28977.591933] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.592093] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[28977.592401] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment

You may need to disable the Intel Management Engine Interface (mei.ko), incase you run into suspend/resume problems.

rrs@learner:/media/SSHD/tmp$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/intel-mei-blacklist.conf
blacklist mei
blacklist mei-me
17:01

You may also run into the following Kernel Oops during suspend/resume. Below, you see 2 interation of sleep because it first hibernates and then sleeps (s2both).

[  180.470206] Syncing filesystems ... done.
[  180.473337] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
[  180.475210] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff]
[  180.475213] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x0006f000-0x0006ffff]
[  180.475215] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00088000-0x000fffff]
[  180.475220] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x97360000-0x97b5ffff]
[  180.475274] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x9c36f000-0x9cffefff]
[  180.475356] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x9d000000-0xffffffff]
[  180.476877] PM: Basic memory bitmaps created
[  180.477003] PM: Preallocating image memory... done (allocated 380227 pages)
[  180.851800] PM: Allocated 1520908 kbytes in 0.37 seconds (4110.56 MB/s)
[  180.851802] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
[  180.853355] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[  180.853520] wlan0: deauthenticating from c4:6e:1f:d0:67:26 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[  180.864159] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[  181.172222] PM: freeze of devices complete after 319.294 msecs
[  181.196080] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  181.196124] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3707 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:7904 hsw_enable_pc8+0x659/0x7c0 [i915]()
[  181.196125] SPLL enabled
[  181.196159] Modules linked in: rfcomm ctr ccm bnep pci_stub vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) bridge stp llc xt_conntrack iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_CHECKSUM xt_tcpudp iptable_mangle ip_tables x_tables nls_utf8 nls_cp437 vfat fat rtsx_usb_ms memstick snd_hda_codec_hdmi joydev mousedev hid_sensor_rotation hid_sensor_incl_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support hid_multitouch x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm btusb hid_sensor_hub bluetooth uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops
[  181.196203]  videobuf2_core v4l2_common videodev media pcspkr evdev mac_hid arc4 psmouse serio_raw efivars i2c_i801 rtl8723be btcoexist rtl8723_common rtl_pci rtlwifi mac80211 snd_soc_rt5640 cfg80211 snd_soc_rl6231 snd_hda_codec_realtek i915 snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec_generic ideapad_laptop ac snd_compress dw_dmac sparse_keymap drm_kms_helper rfkill battery dw_dmac_core snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_soc_sst_acpi snd_hda_controller video 8250_dw regmap_i2c snd_hda_codec drm snd_hwdep snd_pcm spi_pxa2xx_platform i2c_designware_platform soc_button_array snd_timer i2c_designware_core snd i2c_algo_bit soundcore shpchp lpc_ich button processor fuse ipv6 autofs4 ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache btrfs xor raid6_pq algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sg usbhid sd_mod rtsx_usb_sdmmc rtsx_usb crct10dif_pclmul
[  181.196220]  crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ahci libahci libata xhci_pci ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common thermal fan thermal_sys hwmon i2c_hid hid i2c_core sdhci_acpi sdhci mmc_core gpio_lynxpoint
[  181.196224] CPU: 3 PID: 3707 Comm: kworker/u16:7 Tainted: G           O    4.0.4+ #14
[  181.196225] Hardware name: LENOVO 20344/INVALID, BIOS 96CN29WW(V1.15) 10/16/2014
[  181.196230] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[  181.196233]  0000000000000000 ffffffffa0706f68 ffffffff81522198 ffff880064debc88
[  181.196235]  ffffffff8106c5b1 ffff880251460000 ffff880250f83b68 ffff880250f83b78
[  181.196237]  ffff880250f83800 0000000000000001 ffffffff8106c62a ffffffffa071407c
[  181.196238] Call Trace:
[  181.196248]  [<ffffffff81522198>] ? dump_stack+0x40/0x50
[  181.196251]  [<ffffffff8106c5b1>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
[  181.196254]  [<ffffffff8106c62a>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
[  181.196278]  [<ffffffffa06ae349>] ? hsw_enable_pc8+0x659/0x7c0 [i915]
[  181.196289]  [<ffffffffa0643ee0>] ? intel_suspend_complete+0xe0/0x6e0 [i915]
[  181.196300]  [<ffffffffa0644501>] ? i915_drm_suspend_late+0x21/0x90 [i915]
[  181.196311]  [<ffffffffa0644690>] ? i915_pm_poweroff_late+0x40/0x40 [i915]
[  181.196318]  [<ffffffff813fa7ba>] ? dpm_run_callback+0x4a/0x100
[  181.196321]  [<ffffffff813fb010>] ? __device_suspend_late+0xa0/0x180
[  181.196324]  [<ffffffff813fb10e>] ? async_suspend_late+0x1e/0xa0
[  181.196326]  [<ffffffff8108b973>] ? async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x160
[  181.196330]  [<ffffffff81083a5d>] ? process_one_work+0x14d/0x3f0
[  181.196332]  [<ffffffff81084463>] ? worker_thread+0x53/0x480
[  181.196334]  [<ffffffff81084410>] ? rescuer_thread+0x300/0x300
[  181.196338]  [<ffffffff81089191>] ? kthread+0xc1/0xe0
[  181.196341]  [<ffffffff810890d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[  181.196346]  [<ffffffff81527898>] ? ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[  181.196349]  [<ffffffff810890d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[  181.196350] ---[ end trace 8e339004db298838 ]---
[  181.220094] PM: late freeze of devices complete after 47.936 msecs
[  181.220972] PM: noirq freeze of devices complete after 0.875 msecs
[  181.221577] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S4
[  181.221886] PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[  181.222702] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  181.222731] intel_pstate CPU 1 exiting
[  181.224041] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU1
[  181.224680] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[  181.225121] intel_pstate CPU 2 exiting
[  181.226407] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU2
[  181.227025] smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline
[  181.227441] intel_pstate CPU 3 exiting
[  181.227728] Broke affinity for irq 19
[  181.227747] Broke affinity for irq 41
[  181.228771] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU3
[  181.228793] smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
[  181.229624] PM: Creating hibernation image:
[  181.563651] PM: Need to copy 379053 pages
[  181.563655] PM: Normal pages needed: 379053 + 1024, available pages: 1697704
[  182.472910] PM: Hibernation image created (379053 pages copied)
[  181.232347] PM: Restoring platform NVS memory
[  181.233171] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  181.233246] x86: Booting SMP configuration:
[  181.233248] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
[  181.246771] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU1
[  181.249339] CPU1 is up
[  181.249389] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x2
[  181.262313] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU2
[  181.264853] CPU2 is up
[  181.264903] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
[  181.277831] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU3
[  181.280317] CPU3 is up
[  181.288471] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S4
[  182.340655] PM: noirq thaw of devices complete after 0.637 msecs
[  182.378087] PM: early thaw of devices complete after 37.428 msecs
[  182.378436] rtlwifi: rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
[  182.451021] rtc_cmos 00:01: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
[  182.697575] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)
[  182.697617] ata2: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[  182.699248] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[  182.699911] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[  182.699917] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: port does not support device sleep
[  186.059539] PM: thaw of devices complete after 3685.338 msecs
[  186.134292] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.134479] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.134992] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.135080] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.135266] acpi device:30: Cannot transition to power state D3cold for parent in (unknown)
[  186.135950] pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
[  186.135974] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 01] add_size 200000
[  186.135980] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.136049] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: res[15]=[mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] get_res_add_size add_size 200000
[  186.136072] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: BAR 15: assigned [mem 0x9fb00000-0x9fcfffff 64bit pref]
[  186.136174] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  186.136490] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  199.454497] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[  200.024190] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[  200.024356] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[  200.025359] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk
[  200.028701] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[  201.106085] PM: suspend of devices complete after 1651.336 msecs
[  201.106591] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  201.106628] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3725 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:7904 hsw_enable_pc8+0x659/0x7c0 [i915]()
[  201.106628] SPLL enabled
[  201.106656] Modules linked in: rfcomm ctr ccm bnep pci_stub vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) bridge stp llc xt_conntrack iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_CHECKSUM xt_tcpudp iptable_mangle ip_tables x_tables nls_utf8 nls_cp437 vfat fat rtsx_usb_ms memstick snd_hda_codec_hdmi joydev mousedev hid_sensor_rotation hid_sensor_incl_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support hid_multitouch x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm btusb hid_sensor_hub bluetooth uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops
[  201.106694]  videobuf2_core v4l2_common videodev media pcspkr evdev mac_hid arc4 psmouse serio_raw efivars i2c_i801 rtl8723be btcoexist rtl8723_common rtl_pci rtlwifi mac80211 snd_soc_rt5640 cfg80211 snd_soc_rl6231 snd_hda_codec_realtek i915 snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec_generic ideapad_laptop ac snd_compress dw_dmac sparse_keymap drm_kms_helper rfkill battery dw_dmac_core snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_soc_sst_acpi snd_hda_controller video 8250_dw regmap_i2c snd_hda_codec drm snd_hwdep snd_pcm spi_pxa2xx_platform i2c_designware_platform soc_button_array snd_timer i2c_designware_core snd i2c_algo_bit soundcore shpchp lpc_ich button processor fuse ipv6 autofs4 ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache btrfs xor raid6_pq algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sg usbhid sd_mod rtsx_usb_sdmmc rtsx_usb crct10dif_pclmul
[  201.106711]  crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ahci libahci libata xhci_pci ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common thermal fan thermal_sys hwmon i2c_hid hid i2c_core sdhci_acpi sdhci mmc_core gpio_lynxpoint
[  201.106714] CPU: 0 PID: 3725 Comm: kworker/u16:25 Tainted: G        W  O    4.0.4+ #14
[  201.106715] Hardware name: LENOVO 20344/INVALID, BIOS 96CN29WW(V1.15) 10/16/2014
[  201.106720] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[  201.106723]  0000000000000000 ffffffffa0706f68 ffffffff81522198 ffff880064dd7c88
[  201.106725]  ffffffff8106c5b1 ffff880251460000 ffff880250f83b68 ffff880250f83b78
[  201.106727]  ffff880250f83800 0000000000000002 ffffffff8106c62a ffffffffa071407c
[  201.106728] Call Trace:
[  201.106737]  [<ffffffff81522198>] ? dump_stack+0x40/0x50
[  201.106740]  [<ffffffff8106c5b1>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
[  201.106742]  [<ffffffff8106c62a>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
[  201.106765]  [<ffffffffa06ae349>] ? hsw_enable_pc8+0x659/0x7c0 [i915]
[  201.106776]  [<ffffffffa0643ee0>] ? intel_suspend_complete+0xe0/0x6e0 [i915]
[  201.106786]  [<ffffffffa0644501>] ? i915_drm_suspend_late+0x21/0x90 [i915]
[  201.106797]  [<ffffffffa0644690>] ? i915_pm_poweroff_late+0x40/0x40 [i915]
[  201.106802]  [<ffffffff813fa7ba>] ? dpm_run_callback+0x4a/0x100
[  201.106805]  [<ffffffff813fb010>] ? __device_suspend_late+0xa0/0x180
[  201.106809]  [<ffffffff813fb10e>] ? async_suspend_late+0x1e/0xa0
[  201.106811]  [<ffffffff8108b973>] ? async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x160
[  201.106813]  [<ffffffff81083a5d>] ? process_one_work+0x14d/0x3f0
[  201.106815]  [<ffffffff81084463>] ? worker_thread+0x53/0x480
[  201.106818]  [<ffffffff81084410>] ? rescuer_thread+0x300/0x300
[  201.106821]  [<ffffffff81089191>] ? kthread+0xc1/0xe0
[  201.106824]  [<ffffffff810890d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[  201.106827]  [<ffffffff81527898>] ? ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[  201.106830]  [<ffffffff810890d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[  201.106832] ---[ end trace 8e339004db298839 ]---
[  201.130052] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 23.960 msecs
[  201.130725] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[  201.130885] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[  201.146986] PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 16.930 msecs
[  201.147591] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[  201.147942] PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[  201.147948] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  201.147999] intel_pstate CPU 1 exiting
[  201.149324] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU1
[  201.149337] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[  201.149640] intel_pstate CPU 2 exiting
[  201.151096] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU2
[  201.151108] smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline
[  201.152017] intel_pstate CPU 3 exiting
[  201.153250] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU3
[  201.153256] smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
[  201.156229] ACPI: Low-level resume complete
[  201.156307] PM: Restoring platform NVS memory
[  201.160033] CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0x1c, date = 2014-07-03
[  201.160190] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  201.160241] x86: Booting SMP configuration:
[  201.160243] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
[  201.172665] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU1
[  201.174982] CPU1 is up
[  201.175013] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x2
[  201.187569] CPU2 microcode updated early to revision 0x1c, date = 2014-07-03
[  201.188796] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU2
[  201.191130] CPU2 is up
[  201.191158] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
[  201.203297] kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU3
[  201.205679] CPU3 is up
[  201.210414] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S3
[  201.224617] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
[  201.332523] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
[  201.332634] PM: noirq resume of devices complete after 121.623 msecs
[  201.372718] PM: early resume of devices complete after 40.058 msecs
[  201.372892] rtlwifi: rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
[  201.373270] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
[  201.373271] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Starting disk
[  201.445954] rtc_cmos 00:01: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
[  201.692510] ata2: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[  201.694719] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[  201.694724] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: port does not support device sleep
[  201.836724] usb 2-4: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[  201.890158] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5702], y [..4730]
[  201.930768] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried min coordinates: x [1242..], y [1124..]
[  202.076784] usb 2-5: reset full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  202.205100] usb 2-5: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes
[  202.316799] usb 2-7: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[  202.444945] usb 2-7: No LPM exit latency info found, disabling LPM.
[  202.556817] usb 2-8: reset full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[  202.908691] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[  203.932602] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)
[  204.044890] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[  206.228698] PM: resume of devices complete after 4855.892 msecs
[  206.380738] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.383152] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.385775] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.388066] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.390415] acpi device:30: Cannot transition to power state D3cold for parent in (unknown)
[  206.393078] pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
[  206.393098] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.395470] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.397927] i915 0000:00:02.0: BAR 6: [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x2] has bogus alignment
[  206.518516] Restarting kernel threads ... done.
[  206.518812] PM: Basic memory bitmaps freed
[  206.518816] Restarting tasks ... done.

There is one more occasional Kernel Oops (below), which I believe again has to do with Intel.

[ 8770.745396] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 8770.745441] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7206 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:9756 intel_check_page_flip+0xd2/0xe0 [i915]()
[ 8770.745444] Kicking stuck page flip: queued at 466186, now 466191
[ 8770.745445] Modules linked in: cpuid rfcomm ctr ccm bnep pci_stub vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) bridge stp llc xt_conntrack iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_CHECKSUM xt_tcpudp iptable_mangle ip_tables x_tables nls_utf8 nls_cp437 vfat fat rtsx_usb_ms memstick snd_hda_codec_hdmi joydev mousedev hid_sensor_rotation hid_sensor_incl_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support hid_multitouch x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm btusb hid_sensor_hub bluetooth uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops
[ 8770.745484]  videobuf2_core v4l2_common videodev media pcspkr evdev mac_hid arc4 psmouse serio_raw efivars i2c_i801 rtl8723be btcoexist rtl8723_common rtl_pci rtlwifi mac80211 snd_soc_rt5640 cfg80211 snd_soc_rl6231 snd_hda_codec_realtek i915 snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec_generic ideapad_laptop ac snd_compress dw_dmac sparse_keymap drm_kms_helper rfkill battery dw_dmac_core snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_soc_sst_acpi snd_hda_controller video 8250_dw regmap_i2c snd_hda_codec drm snd_hwdep snd_pcm spi_pxa2xx_platform i2c_designware_platform soc_button_array snd_timer i2c_designware_core snd i2c_algo_bit soundcore shpchp lpc_ich button processor fuse ipv6 autofs4 ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache btrfs xor raid6_pq algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sg usbhid sd_mod rtsx_usb_sdmmc rtsx_usb crct10dif_pclmul
[ 8770.745536]  crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ahci libahci libata xhci_pci ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common thermal fan thermal_sys hwmon i2c_hid hid i2c_core sdhci_acpi sdhci mmc_core gpio_lynxpoint
[ 8770.745561] CPU: 0 PID: 7206 Comm: icedove Tainted: G        W  O    4.0.4+ #14
[ 8770.745563] Hardware name: LENOVO 20344/INVALID, BIOS 96CN29WW(V1.15) 10/16/2014
[ 8770.745565]  0000000000000000 ffffffffa0706f68 ffffffff81522198 ffff88025f203dc8
[ 8770.745569]  ffffffff8106c5b1 ffff880250f83800 ffff880254dcc000 0000000000000000
[ 8770.745572]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff8106c62a ffffffffa0709d50
[ 8770.745575] Call Trace:
[ 8770.745577]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81522198>] ? dump_stack+0x40/0x50
[ 8770.745592]  [<ffffffff8106c5b1>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
[ 8770.745595]  [<ffffffff8106c62a>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
[ 8770.745616]  [<ffffffffa06a0bb3>] ? __intel_pageflip_stall_check+0x113/0x120 [i915]
[ 8770.745634]  [<ffffffffa06af042>] ? intel_check_page_flip+0xd2/0xe0 [i915]
[ 8770.745652]  [<ffffffffa067cde1>] ? ironlake_irq_handler+0x2e1/0x1010 [i915]
[ 8770.745657]  [<ffffffff81092d1a>] ? check_preempt_curr+0x5a/0xa0
[ 8770.745663]  [<ffffffff812d66c2>] ? timerqueue_del+0x22/0x70
[ 8770.745668]  [<ffffffff810bb7d5>] ? handle_irq_event_percpu+0x75/0x190
[ 8770.745672]  [<ffffffff8101b945>] ? read_tsc+0x5/0x10
[ 8770.745676]  [<ffffffff810bb928>] ? handle_irq_event+0x38/0x50
[ 8770.745680]  [<ffffffff810be841>] ? handle_edge_irq+0x71/0x120
[ 8770.745685]  [<ffffffff810153bd>] ? handle_irq+0x1d/0x30
[ 8770.745689]  [<ffffffff8152a866>] ? do_IRQ+0x46/0xe0
[ 8770.745694]  [<ffffffff8152866d>] ? common_interrupt+0x6d/0x6d
[ 8770.745695]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8152794d>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 8770.745701] ---[ end trace 8e339004db29883a ]---

Network

In my case, the laptop came with the Realtek Wireless device (details above in lspci output). Note: The machine has no wired interface.

While the Intel Wifi devices shipped with this laptop have their own share of problems, this device (rtl8723be) works out of the box. But only for a while. There is no certain pattern on what triggers the bug, but once triggered, the network just freezes. Nothing is logged.

If your Yoga 2 13 came with the RTL chip, the following workaround may help avoid the network issues.

rrs@learner:/media/SSHD/tmp$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
options rtl8723be fwlps=0
17:06

MCE

Almost every boot, eventually, the kernel reports MCE errors. Not something I understand well, but so far, it hasn't caused any visible issues. And from what I have googled so far, nobody seems to have fixed it anywhere

So, with fingers crossed, lets just hope this never translates into a real problem.

What the kernel reports of the CPU's capabilities.

[    0.041496] mce: CPU supports 7 MCE banks
[  299.540930] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged

The MCE logs extracted from the buffer.

mcelog: failed to prefill DIMM database from DMI data
Hardware event. This is not a software error.
MCE 0
CPU 0 BANK 5
MISC 38a0000086 ADDR fef81880
TIME 1432455005 Sun May 24 13:40:05 2015
MCG status:
MCi status:
Error overflow
Uncorrected error
MCi_MISC register valid
MCi_ADDR register valid
Processor context corrupt
MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region)
Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
STATUS ee0000000040110a MCGSTATUS 0
MCGCAP c07 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0
CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 69
Hardware event. This is not a software error.
MCE 1
CPU 0 BANK 6
MISC 78a0000086 ADDR fef81780
TIME 1432455005 Sun May 24 13:40:05 2015
MCG status:
MCi status:
Uncorrected error
MCi_MISC register valid
MCi_ADDR register valid
Processor context corrupt
MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region)
Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
STATUS ae0000000040110a MCGSTATUS 0
MCGCAP c07 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0
CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 69
Hardware event. This is not a software error.
MCE 2
CPU 0 BANK 5
MISC 38a0000086 ADDR fef81880
TIME 1432455114 Sun May 24 13:41:54 2015
MCG status:
MCi status:
Error overflow
Uncorrected error
MCi_MISC register valid
MCi_ADDR register valid
Processor context corrupt
MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region)
Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
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Review: Some Remarks, by Neal Stephenson

Publisher:	William Morrow
Copyright:	June 2013
ISBN:	0-06-202444-2
Format:	Trade paperback
Pages:	336

This is going to be another weird review, since I read this essay collection about three months ago, and I borrowed it from a friend. So this is both from fading memory and without a handy reference other than Internet searches. Apologies in advance for any important details that I miss. The advantage is that you'll see what parts of this collection stuck in my memory. Some Remarks is, as you might guess from the title, a rather random collection of material. There's one long essay that for me was the heart of the book (more on that in a moment), two other longer essays, two short stories, and thirteen other bits of miscellaneous writing of varying lengths. I found most of the short essays unremarkable. Stephenson uses a walking desk because sitting is bad for you that sentence contains basically all of the interesting content of one of the essays. I think it takes a large topic and some running room before Stephenson can get up to speed and produce something that's more satisfying than technological boosterism. That means the most interesting parts of this book are the three longer works. "In the Kingdom of Mao Bell" was previously published in Wired and is still available. Some Remarks contains only excerpts; Stephenson says that some of the original essay is no longer that interesting. I had mixed feelings about this one. Some of the sense of place he creates was fun to read, but Stephenson can't seem to quite believe that the Chinese don't care about "freedom" according to his definitions in the same way and therefore don't have the same political reaction to hacker culture that he does. This could have been an opportunity for him to question assumptions, but instead it's mostly an exercise in dubious, sweeping cultural evaluation, such as "the country has a long history of coming up with technologies before anyone else and then not doing a lot with them." A reminder that the detail with which Stephenson crams his writing is not always... true. Stronger is "Atoms of Cognition: Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715 2010," which covers material familiar to readers of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. The story of Newton, Leibniz, their rivalry, and the competing approaches to thinking about mathematics and science was my favorite part of that series, and in some ways the non-fiction treatment is better than the fictional one. If you liked the Baroque Cycle, this is worth reading. But the highlight of the book for me was "Mother Earth Mother Board." This is a long essay (50,000 words, practically a small book and the largest part of this collection) about the laying of undersea fiber-optic cables. Those who have read Cryptonomicon will recognize some of the themes here, but there's way more to this essay than there was to the bits about undersea cables in Cryptonomicon. It's mostly about technology, rather than people, which puts Stephenson on firmer ground. The bit about people reads more like a travelogue, full of Stephenson's whole-hearted admiration of people who build things and make things work. There's a bit of politics, a bit of history, a bit of tourism, and a lot of neat trivia about a part of the technological world that I'd not known much about before. I would say this is worth the price of the collection, but it too was previously published in Wired, so you can just read it online. Those reading this review on my web site will notice that I filed it in non-fiction. There are a couple of stories, but they're entirely forgettable (in fact, I had entirely forgotten them, and had to skim them again). But, for the record, here are short reviews of those: "Spew": This originally appeared in Wired and can still be read on-line. The protagonist takes a job as a sort of Internet marketing inspector who looks for deviations from expected profiles. While tracing down an anomaly, though, he finds another use of the Internet that's outside of the marketing framework he's using. It's unlikely that anyone who's been online for long will find much new in this story. Some of that is because it was originally published in 1994, but most of it is just that this isn't a very good story. Stephenson seems to have turned up his normal manic infodump to 11 to satisfy the early Wired aesthetic, and the result is a train wreck of jargon, bad slang, and superficial social observation. (3) "The Great Simoleon Caper": Originally published in TIME, this story too is still available online. It's primarily interesting because it's a story about Bitcoin (basically), written in 1995. And it's irritating for exactly the same reason that Bitcoin enthusiasm often tends to be irritating: the assumption that cryptocurrency is somehow a revolutionary attack on government-run currency systems. I'm not going to get into the ways in which this doesn't make sense given how money is used socially (David Graeber's Debt is the book to read if you want more information); just know that the story follows that path and doesn't engage with any of the social reasons why that outcome is highly unlikely. Indeed, the lengths to which the government tries to go to discredit cryptocurrency in this story are rather silly. Apart from that, this is typical early Stephenson writing. It's very in love with ideas, not as much with characterization, and consists mostly of people explaining things to each other. Sometimes this is fun, but when focused on topics about which considerably more information has become available, it doesn't age very well. (5) Overall, there was one great essay and a few interesting bits, but I wouldn't have felt I was missing much if I'd never read this collection. I borrowed Some Remarks from a friend, and I think that's about the right level of effort. If it falls into your hands, or you see it in a library, some of the essays, particularly "Mother Earth Mother Board," are worth reading, but given that the best parts are available on-line for free, I don't think it's worth a purchase. Rating: 6 out of 10

A few weeks ago I went to see Blade Runner: The Final Cut in a one-off showing at the Tyneside Cinema. I've only watched the Final Cut once and that viewing was a bit compromised, so it was nice to see it properly, and on a massive screen with decent surround sound too. Whilst watching it I saw something that I thought might potentially have been a visual reference to Scott's earlier movie, Alien. When Deckard is climbing onto the roof of the Bradbury building, there's a decorative motif that to me, looks very Giger-esque, biomechanical, a bit like a chest-burster.

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I went back and took a screenshot from the Blu Ray at the same point. What do you think? As it happens, whilst the inner regions of the building in the movie are the Bradbury building (or at least the entrance hall), I don't think the upper exterior shots are.

Purge

There are a few other, well-known references to Alien in Blade Runner, although they are likely simply re-used effects rather than explicitly easter eggs. The display screen in Gaff's Spinner is re-used from the Narcissus (here's a comparison) and the ambience in Deckard's apartment also featured in the Nostromo's medical bay. Some enterprising person has put together a 12 hour session of that particular sound effect looping. There's a number of other comparisons and spots at this propsummit.com thread.

So, Sony caved in (according to Rob Lowe) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar (according to Newt Gingrich). It should not surprise anyone, after the whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA and their allies for many years have done their best to make sure the technology used by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing the secret services to spy on its own population. No one in their right minds could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all over the globe could only be used by the personnel authorized to do so by the president of the United States of America. If the capabilities are there, they will be used by friend and foe alike, and now they are being used to bring Sony on its knees. I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to lose its next cyber war too, given how eager the western intelligence communities (and probably the non-western too, but it is less in the news) seem to be to continue its current dragnet surveillance practice. There is a reason why China and others are trying to move away from Windows to Linux and other alternatives, and it is not to avoid sending its hard earned dollars to Cayman Islands (or whatever tax haven Microsoft is using these days to collect the majority of its income. :)

So, Sony caved in (according to Rob Lowe) and demonstrated that America lost its first cyberwar (according to Newt Gingrich). It should not surprise anyone, after the whistle blower Edward Snowden documented that the government of USA and their allies for many years have done their best to make sure the technology used by its citizens is filled with security holes allowing the secret services to spy on its own population. No one in their right minds could believe that the ability to snoop on the people all over the globe could only be used by the personnel authorized to do so by the president of the United States of America. If the capabilities are there, they will be used by friend and foe alike, and now they are being used to bring Sony on its knees. I doubt it will a lesson learned, and expect USA to loose its next cyber war too, given how eager the western intelligence communities (and probably the non-western too, but it is less in the news) seem to be to continue its current dragnet surveillance practice. There is a reason why China and others are trying to move away from Windows to Linux and other alternatives, and it is not to avoid sending its hard earned dollars to Cayman Islands (or whatever tax haven Microsoft is using these days to collect the majority of its income. :)

Inspired by "An ASM Monad", I've built a Haskell monad that produces brainfuck programs. The code for this monad is available on hackage, so cabal install brainfuck-monad. Here's a simple program written using this monad. See if you can guess what it might do:

import Control.Monad.BrainFuck
demo :: String
demo = brainfuckConstants $ \constants -> do
        add 31
        forever constants $ do
                add 1
                output

Here's the brainfuck code that demo generates: >+>++>+++>++++>+++++>++++++>+++++++>++++++++>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<<<<<<<<[>>>>>>>>+.<<<<<<<<] If you feed that into a brainfuck interpreter (I'm using hsbrainfuck for my testing), you'll find that it loops forever and prints out each character, starting with space (32), in ASCIIbetical order. The implementation is quite similar to the ASM monad. The main differences are that it builds a String, and that the BrainFuck monad keeps track of the current position of the data pointer (as brainfuck lacks any sane way to manipulate its instruction pointer).

newtype BrainFuck a = BrainFuck (DataPointer -> ([Char], DataPointer, a))
type DataPointer = Integer
-- Gets the current address of the data pointer.
addr :: BrainFuck DataPointer
addr = BrainFuck $ \loc -> ([], loc, loc)

Having the data pointer address available allows writing some useful utility functions like this one, which uses the next (brainfuck opcode >) and prev (brainfuck opcode <) instructions.

-- Moves the data pointer to a specific address.
setAddr :: Integer -> BrainFuck ()
setAddr n = do
        a <- addr
        if a > n
                then prev >> setAddr n
                else if a < n
                        then next >> setAddr n
                        else return ()

Of course, brainfuck is a horrible language, designed to be nearly impossible to use. Here's the code to run a loop, but it's really hard to use this to build anything useful..

-- The loop is only entered if the byte at the data pointer is not zero.
-- On entry, the loop body is run, and then it loops when
-- the byte at the data pointer is not zero.
loopUnless0 :: BrainFuck () -> BrainFuck ()
loopUnless0 a = do
        open
        a
        close

To tame brainfuck a bit, I decided to treat data addresses 0-8 as constants, which will contain the numbers 0-8. Otherwise, it's very hard to ensure that the data pointer is pointing at a nonzero number when you want to start a loop. (After all, brainfuck doesn't let you set data to some fixed value like 0 or 1!) I wrote a little brainfuckConstants that runs a BrainFuck program with these constants set up at the beginning. It just generates the brainfuck code for a series of ASCII art fishes: >+>++>+++>++++>+++++>++++++>+++++++>++++++++> With the fishes^Wconstants in place, it's possible to write a more useful loop. Notice how the data pointer location is saved at the beginning, and restored inside the loop body. This ensures that the provided BrainFuck action doesn't stomp on our constants.

-- Run an action in a loop, until it sets its data pointer to 0.
loop :: BrainFuck () -> BrainFuck ()
loop a = do
    here <- addr
    setAddr 1
    loopUnless0 $ do
        setAddr here
        a

I haven't bothered to make sure that the constants are really constant, but that could be done. It would just need a Control.Monad.BrainFuck.Safe module, that uses a different monad, in which incr and decr and input don't do anything when the data pointer is pointing at a constant. Or, perhaps this could be statically checked at the type level, with type level naturals. It's Haskell, we can make it safer if we want to. ;) So, not only does this BrainFuck monad allow writing brainfuck code using crazy haskell syntax, instead of crazy brainfuck syntax, but it allows doing some higher-level programming, building up a useful(!?) library of BrainFuck combinators and using them to generate brainfuck code you'd not want to try to write by hand. Of course, the real point is that "monad" and "brainfuck" so obviously belonged together that it would have been a crime not to write this.

Last night I mostly patched my local copy of less to build and link against the PCRE regular expression library. I've wanted to do that for a while, and reading Raymond Chen's blog post last night made me try it out. The patch was small and pretty neat, and I'm familiar with GNU less having patched it in the past. But it doesn't contain tests. Test cases are hard. Many programs, such as less, are used interactively which makes writing a scaffold hard. Other programs suffer from a similar fate - I'm not sure how you'd even test a web browser such as Firefox these days - mangleme would catch some things, eventually, but the interactive stuff? No clue. In the past MySQL had a free set of test cases, but my memory is that Oracle locked them up. SQLite is famous for its decent test coverage. But off the top of my head I can't think of other things. As a topical example there don't seem to be decent test-cases for either bash or openssl. If it compiles it works, more or less. I did start writing some HTTP-server test cases a while back, but that was just to automate security attacks. e.g. Firing requests like:

GET /../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.0
GET //....//....//....//etc/passwd HTTP/1.0
etc

(It's amazing how many toy HTTP server components included in projects and products don't have decent HTTP-servers.) I could imagine that being vaguely useful, especially because it is testing the protocol-handling rather than a project-specific codebase. Anyway, I'm thinking writing test cases for things is good, but struggling to think of a decent place to start. The project has to be:

Non-interactive.
Open source.
Widely used - to make it a useful contribution.
Not written in some fancy language.
Open to receiving submissions.

Comments welcome; but better yet why not think about the test-coverage of any of your own packages and projects...?