Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-06 Thread Thomas Liske
tags 746363 fixed-upstream thanks On 05/06/2014 09:50 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: Re, On 05/05/2014 11:38 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Liske wrote: Does the system has any enhanced security mechanism established? At least not on purpose. Default debian kernels. I've attached a s

Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-06 Thread Thomas Liske
Re, On 05/05/2014 11:38 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Liske wrote: Does the system has any enhanced security mechanism established? At least not on purpose. Default debian kernels. I've attached a small debug script (modified needrestart script) which analysis the processes and

Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Thomas, Thomas Liske wrote: > Does the system has any enhanced security mechanism established? At least not on purpose. Default debian kernels. > I've attached a small debug script (modified needrestart script) > which analysis the processes and looks for non-readable > /proc//exe symlinks. C

Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Liske
Hi Axel, On 05/01/2014 12:13 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: The problem is the second scanning pass which looks for the parent processes. It seems to happen if a process is a child of a kernel thread... sadly I could not reproduce it, yet. Strange. I really wonder what's so different on my boxes. Did

Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-01 Thread Axel Beckert
severity 746550 wishlist Hi Thomas, Thomas Liske wrote: > > At least all of these pids I checked were kernel threads for which the > > above behaviour is IIRC normal: > > > > # ps auxwww | fgrep --color '[' > > root 1 0.0 0.0 13228 668 ?Ss2013 2:21 init [2] > > root

Bug#746363: needrestart: "uninitialized value" by kernel threads

2014-05-01 Thread Thomas Liske
Hi Axel, On 05/01/2014 01:46 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: >> On 04/29/2014 12:35 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: >>> # needrestart >>> Scanning processes... >>> Scanning candidates.Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at >>> /usr/sbin/needrestart line 2