Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 Version: 2.6.8-12 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Zero-length accesses to Samba shares return errors after 30s timeout, while the requested action seems to happen: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/thiemo$ l test -rw-r--r-- 1 thiemo users 0 Jan 28 15:30 test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/thiemo$ chmod a-r test chmod: changing permissions of `test': Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/thiemo$ l test --w------- 1 thiemo users 0 Jan 28 15:30 test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/thiemo$ touch test touch: setting times of `test': Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/thiemo$ l test --w------- 1 thiemo users 0 Jan 28 16:01 test The kernel log is as follows: smb_trans2: invalid data, disp=0, cnt=0, tot=0, ofs=0 smb_add_request: request [c2354ec0, mid=180] timed out! What makes this a grave severity is that many editors seem to choke on the errors and cannot save to smb-mounted shares. This is true at least for OpenOffice. Luckily this problem seems to be well-understood: citing Mike Lee: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-December/097411.html "It seems that some CIFS code got trampled on during a smb kernel patch. I believe this will be fixed in the 2.6.10 kernel (pretty soon I hope). For now, you can add the following entry to your smb.conf file: "unix extensions = no" citing Chuck Ebbert: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.2/2326.html "The SMB patch in 2.6.9-ac10 is broken. When a reply is received and it contains no data (only parms), the data_offset is zero. Since no data will be copied, zero offset is perfectly valid. [..] With the original patch very bad things happened, like trying to save files from a text editor truncated them to 0 bytes, followed by editor freezing for many seconds then asking for a new name to save the file as. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.77 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]