Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-09-20 Thread Modestas Vainius
tags 524940 - help tags 524940 patch thanks Hello, On trečiadienis 05 Rugpjūtis 2009 03:05:06 Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 05, Eli Mackenzie eli.macken...@gmail.com wrote: With this bug marked important, apt-listbugs didn't notify me that there was anything wrong with this package. A failure

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-08-04 Thread Eli Mackenzie
severity 524940 critical thanks With this bug marked important, apt-listbugs didn't notify me that there was anything wrong with this package. A failure to boot seems to fit the makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break description of critical more than important. If you

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-08-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 05, Eli Mackenzie eli.macken...@gmail.com wrote: With this bug marked important, apt-listbugs didn't notify me that there was anything wrong with this package. A failure to boot seems to fit the makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break description of critical

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-07-28 Thread Rod Tye
I have the same symptoms with module-init-tools 3.9-2. Reverting to the stable version 3.4-1 fixes the problem. r...@hibisco:~/sound$ ps -ef | grep modprobe root 7943 5501 0 19:34 pts/200:00:00 modprobe snd_via82xx root 7955 7943 0 19:34 pts/200:00:00 sh -c modprobe

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-04-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 26, Carl Miller c...@energoncube.net wrote: I can corroborate this bug. I just upgraded to module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1, and oss-compat 0.0.4+nmu3, and had the exact same thing happen to me. Please provide the complete content of /etc/modprobe.d/ and /lib/modules/$(uname

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat

2009-04-26 Thread Carl Miller
I can corroborate this bug. I just upgraded to module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1, and oss-compat 0.0.4+nmu3, and had the exact same thing happen to me. I found that the minimal way out of it was to comment out any line in any /etc/modprobe.d/* file that began with install and referenced any

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 21, Matthew J. Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: I suspect this will be unreproducible since it hasn't been reported yet that I definitely never experienced this on my system. Anyway, I have no reason to believe this to be a m-i-t bug. Please show the content of

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Matthew Lockner
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 21, Matthew J. Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: I suspect this will be unreproducible since it hasn't been reported yet that I definitely never experienced this on my system. Anyway, I have no reason to believe this to be a m-i-t bug. The strongest

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: The strongest evidence is that if I downgrade module-init-tools to the prior version and hold the prior version and hold the package, the problem goes away. I'd find the next most likely candidate to be Not very compelling evidence.

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: Since its postinst is my means of demonstrating the problem, then of course removing the package will prevent the problem from appearing, at least in this context. You can remove it and manually run modprobe. Anyway, I am quite sure

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Matthew Lockner
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: The strongest evidence is that if I downgrade module-init-tools to the prior version and hold the prior version and hold the package, the problem goes away. I'd find the next most likely candidate to be

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Matthew Lockner
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: Since its postinst is my means of demonstrating the problem, then of course removing the package will prevent the problem from appearing, at least in this context. You can remove it and manually run

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: What kind of crap am I looking for? Anything related to snd* modules for a start. properly. If we as users can't expect to be able to use this file anymore, it would be user-friendlier for the package upgrade to tell us so and state

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-22 Thread Matthew Lockner
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner mlock...@iastate.edu wrote: What kind of crap am I looking for? Anything related to snd* modules for a start. properly. If we as users can't expect to be able to use this file anymore, it would be user-friendlier for the package

Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew J. Lockner
Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.7-pre9-1 Severity: important I recently did an aptitude upgrade. I found that when the postinst of the oss-compat package was run during configuration of packages, I got a screenful of warnings, and found a long list of modprobe and sh modprobe processes