Your message dated Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:41:08 +0000
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and subject line Bug#519855: fixed in wwwoffle 2.9f-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #519855,
regarding wwwoffle root CA certificate expiry freezes boot
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Package: wwwoffle
Version: 2.9d-3
Severity: critical
X-debbugs-Cc: [email protected],[email protected]
Dear Debian WWWOFFLE maintainer: when wwwoffle's certificate expires,
http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
booting waits for it to be rebuilt, which may take forever, i.e.,
cannot boot, depending on ones system, especially at boot time when
there is little entropy.
The notice "The WWWOFFLE root CA files don't exist. Please
stand by while these are generated (this may take very long, depending
on your system)." only is seen in the logs, not on the screen. Nor are
there progress indicators. Even on gigahertz systems, minutes go by
with the user staring at frozen boot messages, which may be underneath
a splashscreen, e.g., on a cellphone, where half an hour will go by
with no sign of whenever one might be able to finish booting.
I repeat, there is not enough entropy at boot. You effectively lock
users out of the whole system with this ticking time bomb.
Workaround:
Reboot (CTRL-ALT-DEL) into single user mode.
update-rc.d -f wwwoffle remove
or boot from emergency Knoppix etc. CD and
rm /etc/rc?.d/S20wwwoffle and reboot.
Later after boot, when it will no longer make the whole system wait,
and there is more entropy, one may try removing the empty
/etc/wwwoffle/certificates/root/root-key.pem and rebuilding it using
/etc/init.d/wwwoffle start.
If after many minutes this never completes, consider copying it from a
machine that has one...?
Then
# update-rc.d wwwoffle default
Another consideration is how to install wwwoffle on smaller devices in
the first place. One can only copy the certificate by hand from
another machine.
Anyway, in the http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wwwoffle.user there
is mention about redesigns, as apparently this time bomb has gone off
at about the same time for several people...
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Source: wwwoffle
Source-Version: 2.9f-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wwwoffle, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
wwwoffle_2.9f-1.diff.gz
to main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9f-1.diff.gz
wwwoffle_2.9f-1.dsc
to main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9f-1.dsc
wwwoffle_2.9f-1_amd64.deb
to main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9f-1_amd64.deb
wwwoffle_2.9f.orig.tar.gz
to main/w/wwwoffle/wwwoffle_2.9f.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Slootman <[email protected]> (supplier of updated wwwoffle package)
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:06:31 +0100
Source: wwwoffle
Binary: wwwoffle
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.9f-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Paul Slootman <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Paul Slootman <[email protected]>
Description:
wwwoffle - World Wide Web OFFline Explorer
Closes: 242778 384868 504679 506381 510508 519855 527235 529916 530495 535741
559386 560181 564475 566553
Changes:
wwwoffle (2.9f-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
* Acknowledge NMU
* Fix building with gnutls (fix is in new upstream)
closes:#564475,#529916
* New upstream contains updated config.{guess,sub}
closes:#535741
* init.d script shouldn't fail doing "stop" if daemon wasn't running.
That may be the right thing philosophically, but lots of things break.
closes:#506381,#566553,#560181
* Updated Standards-Version to 3.8.3.
* Check during start and restart whether the certificate is to expire within
a week, and say so. Also use faster certificate generation.
Also check in cron.daily script whether the certificate is about to expire.
If it has expired, force a restart to regenerate it.
Added utility 'wwwoffle-checkcert' for this.
closes:#519855
* Fix postrm not to search /etc/wwwoffle/ if that dir doesn't exist.
closes:#530495
* Fix from upstream for "address family is not supported" during startup.
closes:#527235
* Add cron to suggested packages, and don't try to create a file in
/etc/cron.d if that directory doesn't exist.
closes:#504679
* Don't chown the whole tree in postinst.
closes:#242778
* Removed duplicate dot on German confirmation page.
closes:#510508
* Added Japanese debconf translation, thanks to Hideki Yamane.
closes:#559386
* Use configured spool-dir value from config file in init.d
and ip-down.d scripts.
closes:#384868
* Removed unmatched '(' embedded in perl command in wwwoffle.config,
which had been there for a long time. Perl has become more picky?
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