On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 02:32 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2018-02-25 15:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > > > On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 15:02 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > please allow the upgrade of nvidia-modprobe in stretch to a new > > > upstream release matching the updated nvidia-graphics-drivers > > > package. > > Please go ahead. > > That was uploaded yesterday, but I just uploaded another fix to sid > that > may be worthy to be fixed in stretch, too. > > nvidia-modprobe (a setuid root binary) stopped working for regular > users > since dash started dropping privileges if euid != uid (like bash has > been doing for ages). The fix is a oneliner: call setuid(0) before > forking modprobe to preserve permissions through the recursive shell > and > modprobe invocations needed by our modprobe configuration using > install > commands. > > The problem is reproducible in stretch if /bin/sh points to bash > instead > of dash. > > The incremental source debdiff is attached.
That seems reasonable. > If that is acceptable, please reject 384.111-1~deb9u1 and I'll upload > 384.111-2~deb9u1 instead. > Feel free to upload the new package, we can sort out the earlier upload later. Regards, Adam
