Bug#4182: grep on /proc/kcore dumps core
Package: grep Version: 2.0-5 Reproduce by: # grep foo /proc/kcore Segmentation fault (core dumped) While grepping on /proc/kcore is something you would not ordinarily do, grep should still not dump core. I originally stepped on this with find / | xargs grep foo. System stuff: Linux uluru 2.0.0 #2 Tue Jul 23 16:32:09 PDT 1996 i686 Debian 1.1 /lib/libc.so.5 - libc.so.5.2.18 Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
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OVER 16 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
660 gdbGDB gets address of structure David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
725 xbase twm places windows incorrectly Stephen Early [EMAIL
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740 xbase xclock leaves `droppings' in i Stephen Early [EMAIL
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773 xbase xmh falls over if mh is not in Stephen Early [EMAIL
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775 xbase twm reports errors on incorrec Stephen Early [EMAIL
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797 termcap-co /etc/termcap console keydefs f Christian Hudon [EMAIL
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818 bash bash builtin `echo' doesn't ch Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
820 tcsh tcsh builtin `echo' doesn't ch Andrew Howell [EMAIL
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821 shellutils /bin/echo doesn't check write [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Da
825 trntrn warning messages corrupt t [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan
836 termcap-co Possible bugs in termcap syste Christian Hudon [EMAIL
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OVER 15 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
887 xarchiexarchie barfs when ftp closes Christian Linhart [EMAIL
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889 info Info 3.1-6 Erick Branderhorst branderhors
902 lprlpr can't print a PostScript f Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OVER 14 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
911 libc4 libc causes rsh to fail on com (unknown -- `libc')
957 dpkg dpkg should automatically log Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
988 bsdutils `script' is insecure, and gene Austin Donnelly [EMAIL
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998 boot-flopp Can't Configure DOS Partitions Bruce Perens [EMAIL
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1009 bash bash problem with quoting/comp Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1016 procps top has 3's in vt100 Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1032 boot-flopp Linux Counter Project Info Not Bruce Perens [EMAIL
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OVER 13 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
1037 dpkg dselect user interface (was Re Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1045 termcap-co tgetflag(hc) segfaults (fwd) Christian Hudon [EMAIL
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1061 lpr/etc/printcap vs. /usr/man/man Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1099 perl perl bug Darren Stalder [EMAIL
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1108 binutils No manpage ar(5) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1112 gsfontsa2gs output unusable by gs but joost witteveen [EMAIL
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1118 fortunefortune is setuid games ?! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David H.
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1130 libc4 Stdlib.h problems when using g (unknown -- `libc')
OVER 12 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
1164 shellutils who --help uses /etc/{w,u}tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Da
1170 perl perl fails to make headers fir Darren Stalder [EMAIL
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1176 procps /usr/bin/top segfault with unk Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1201 perl perl doesn't know about includ Darren Stalder [EMAIL
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1211 libc4 libc __nis_getgrnam() segfault (unknown -- `libc')
1239 findutils /etc/cron.daily/find: updatedb Kevin Dalley [EMAIL
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1240 procps ps(1) man page incomplete Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1246 procps ps man page does not agree wit Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1247 perl perl ... globbing only works Darren Stalder [EMAIL
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1265 uucp Misc. uucp bugs[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David H.
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OVER 11 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
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1275 xarchiexarchie clumsy with 2-button m Christian Linhart [EMAIL
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1278 libc4 dpkg seg faults with NIS (unknown -- `libc')
1279 libc4 Strangeness involving bsd/sig (unknown -- `libc')
1281 bin86 bin86 (unknown -- `bin')
1292 xserver-sv X locks up Stephen Early [EMAIL
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1303 binutils `man 1 nm` slightly incomplete David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1314 ncurses3.0 ncurses fails in silly way on (unknown -- `ncurses')
1336 procps CFLAGS shouldn't be used when Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1366 acmacm networking problemsIan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1372 boot-flopp rootdisk: no dvorak keytable Bruce Perens [EMAIL
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1378 libc4 weird ELF/a.out difference (unknown -- `libc')
1381 workbone workbone postinst fails[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D.J. G
1399 dpkg dselect error handling not con Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1406 dbackupbackup postrm can fail when it [EMAIL
Bug#660: GDB gets address wrong of struct member in memory breakpoint
I'm looking at the backlog of forgotten bugs, and have verified that this one still exists. The original report was for gdb 4.12, but Ian Jackson verified that the problem exists under 4.14, and I just verified that it exists for 4.15.1-1. Should this be forwarded to the upstream maintainers of gdb? We haven't touched this bug since October. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice
Bug#818: echo builtin doesn't check for write errors
As of 1.14.6-4, this bug is still there... maybe $ type echo echo is a shell builtin $ echo foo /dev/full $ echo $? 0 $ cat /dev/zero /dev/full cat: write error: No space left on device $ echo $? 1 $ /bin/echo foo /dev/full $ echo $? 0 $ file /bin/echo /bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, stripped $ The built-in version of echo is faithfull reproducing what the binary version does. If they are both in error, should another bug be filed for shellutils? The manpage for echo makes no mention whatsoever of return values. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice
Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase - /boot/psdatabase?
Package: kernel-package
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: kernel-package
Version: 2.03
Depends: perl (= 5.002-8)
Recommends: libc-dev, gcc
Suggests: kernel-source
I am installing a custom kernel using kernel-package. Whenever it
tries to build the new psdatabase I get an error message. The
relevant portion of /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.0.12.postinst is
if ( -x /sbin/psupdate -f /boot/vmlinux-$version ) {
unlink(/boot/psdatabase);
symlink(/boot/psdatabase-$version, /boot/psdatabase);
system(/sbin/psupdate /boot/vmlinux-$version);
if ( -f /boot/psdatabase-$version ) {
unlink(/boot/vmlinux-$version);
}
else {
print \nAn error seems to have ocurred while generating the\n;
print psdatabase file /boot/psdatabase. NOT deleting the\n;
print /boot/vmlinux-$version so that the database may be \n;
print created manually\n;
}
}
so after running /sbin/psupdate there is an attempt to find if
/boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate
indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked
and indeed that file was updated. Am I supposed to have a link from
/etc/psdatabase to /boot/psdatabase? This sequence would make sense
to me if that was the case.
--
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Statistics Department608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
Re: fhs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: echo $HOME/Mailbox $HOME/.forward Richard Kettlewell: This is a bad idea if the home directory is NFS-mounted from a remote system; IME file locking under NFS is very easy to get wrong. (Not that all mailers get locking right even on local file systems...) This is a symptom of flaws in NFS and in the standard unix mailbox format. One possibility is to go to a more robust format (e.g. qmail's Maildir). Another possibility is to live with NFS's failures :-( I think we'll be stuck with NFS's flaws for a while yet; to ignore them would be unwise. The same remark applies to mailbox formats, though that should be easier to fix - I've not looked at qmail so I have no opinion on whether it's done it well. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
Re: Shadow problems
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: Which reminds me: RedHat is going to integrate PAM into their next release. Perhaps now is a good time to look if we should consider using that too, or if we think that shadow is good enough for now. Someone's already compiled libpam for Debian---I guess the question is just whether or now we feel it's advisable to do this now. I browse the PAM mailing list, but I don't have a feel for whether it's ready for use or not---though RedHat is pretty quick about releases, so I would guess that if it's not it will soon be ready. I think that we should use it if it is. Mike. -- Don't let me make you unhappy by failing to be contrary enough
Re: Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase - /boot/psdatabase?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Bates writes:
so after running /sbin/psupdate there is an attempt to find if
/boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate
indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked
and indeed that file was updated. Am I supposed to have a link from
/etc/psdatabase to /boot/psdatabase? This sequence would make sense
to me if that was the case.
This has been brought up a couple of times in as many weeks.
It looks like what we're seeing is a change in behavior in psupdate.
Here's a patch to be applied to
/usr/lib/kernel-package/debian/image.postinst:
--- image.postinst.~1~ Thu Jul 18 02:16:18 1996
+++ image.postinst Wed Aug 14 11:53:45 1996
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@
unlink(/boot/psdatabase);
symlink(/boot/psdatabase-$version, /boot/psdatabase);
system(/sbin/psupdate /boot/vmlinux-$version);
- if ( -f /boot/psdatabase-$version ) {
+ if ( -f /etc/psdatabase ) {
unlink(/boot/vmlinux-$version);
+system(mv /etc/psdatabase /boot/psdatabase-$version );
}
else {
print \nAn error seems to have ocurred while generating the\n;
I'm still waiting for someone to let me know if psupdate was working
before and is now broken so the bug can be refiled against it, or
whether it was broken and is now working, in which case I'll release a
new kernel-package.
Mike.
--
Don't let me make you unhappy by failing to be contrary enough
exmh and Xauthority
Hi, I think it was on debian-devel that somebody asked about this subject. I replied that I had a rather simple setup using the .xserverrc-file, and a couple of people asked me to mail it to them. So I decided to send it to the list. Here it follows: #!/bin/sh # Generate a random key; Mui and Pearce offer a number of alternatives # for this. randomkey=`perl -e 'srand; printf int(rand(10))'` # HOST=`hostname` # # Add the code to the .Xauthority list for local-host sockets xauth add $HOST/unix:0 . $randomkey # # Add the code to the .Xauthority list for TCP/IP connections xauth add $HOST:0 . $randomkey exec /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth $HOME/.Xauthority Sometimes there are some messages on startup about non-hex characters in the random-key, but it still works AFAIK. Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ---
bruce was off-line
I have been off-line since Wednesday night, sorry if you've been trying to reach me. I got a middle ear infection that deleted my sense of balance for most of Thursday. I'm still a bit woozy today. I'll never ignore a sore throat or earache again. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/
Bug#4176: mkdosfs has file conflict with dosfstools
You write: }Package: mkdosfs, dosfstools }Version: 0.3b-1, 1.0-1 }Unpacking mkdosfs (from .../misc/mkdosfs_0.3b-1.deb) ... }... }dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: } trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/mkdosfs.8', which is also in package dosfstools The package mkdosfs is the predecessor of dosfstools. I have asked Guy to remove the first one. It seems that he has more important work to do. Regards, Joey PS: Guy, would you please remove mkdosfs from the archive and close this bug.-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / /but, of course, some are too silly to answer -- perl book /
Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file
Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01
Debian's INN has its active file located in /var/lib/news/active.
The nn newsreader mentioned above unfortunately tries to read it
from /usr/lib/news/active.
Here's an strace excerpt:
wazergate!joey:~ strace nn
[...]
uname({sys=Linux, node=wazergate, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/hosts, O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=156, ...}) = 0
read(3, 127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n192.109.22..., 4096) = 156
read(3, , 4096) = 0
close(3)= 0
brk(0x8049000) = 0x8049000
brk(0x804a000) = 0x804a000
brk(0x804d000) = 0x804d000
open(/usr/lib/news/active, O_RDONLY) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory)
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(4, 197), ...}) = 0
brk(0x804e000) = 0x804e000
ioctl(1, 0x5401, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
write(1, could not fetch active file\n, 28could not fetch active file
Regards,
Martin
