Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
close 430455 thanks Aurelien Jarno dixit: An upgrade to a 6.1 kernel may fix the bug. It did. So the bug is closed for openssh. How about, we either nuke the 5.4 and 7.0 kernels, or fix them too, so that no other user will experience this problem? bye, //mirabile -- I believe no one can

Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
reopen 430455 thanks On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:24:42PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: close 430455 thanks (a) Please don't use the 'close' command to close bugs; as http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control notes, this is a deprecated practice. (b) I've already changed my local tree

Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Okay, I've found out more about the cause: sshd is compiled as PIE (position independent executable), but only Linux, NetBSD and MirBSD can execute them; FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD cannot. (The DragonFly gcc ignores -pie because it knows that its kernel can't execute them anyway.) So the

Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-25 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Okay, I've found out more about the cause: sshd is compiled as PIE (position independent executable), but only Linux, NetBSD and MirBSD can execute them; FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD cannot. (The DragonFly gcc ignores -pie because it knows that its kernel

Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Aurelien Jarno dixit: Thorsten Glaser a C)crit : Could you give us more details? Sure, these are however also in the PR. What problem do you get with this binary? It's not executable. Which architecture are you kfreebsd-i386 And which kernel are you using? Both 5.4 and 7.0 show the bug.

Bug#430455: sshd in unstable not executable any longer, seems to be a shared library

2007-06-25 Thread Aurelien Jarno
severity 430455 important thanks Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Aurelien Jarno dixit: Thorsten Glaser a C)crit : Could you give us more details? Sure, these are however also in the PR. Ok, I haven't seen the original bug before, as it was not sent to the list. Anyway kfreebsd-i386 is not