Bug#907970: Please stop using debiandoc-sgml (deprecated)

2018-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
partman/Makefile > +++ b/doc/devel/partman/Makefile [...] > +all: *.xsl *.dbk > + @./build.sh [...] make doesn't expand wildcards automatically; you need to use the $(wildcard) function to do that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsis

Bug#907911: linux: Resetting chip after gpu hang (crash dump) when zooming on the opencaching.de map

2018-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream Please can you also report this upstream as requested in the error message: On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 00:55 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > [ 5766.948826] [drm] Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org > against DRI -> DRM/Intel Ben. -- Ben Hutc

Bug#907704: choose-mirror: default to deb.debian.org

2018-09-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
as a default. But apparently it required a lot of maintenance work, which no-one was prepared to continue doing. That's why deb.debian.org is a plain CDN which doesn't rely on the existing mirror network. It also supports TLS (which I think should also be enabled by default in the installer).

Bug#906250: ITP: execline -- small and non-interactive scripting language

2018-09-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
/www.mail-archive.com/skaware@list.skarnet.org/msg01225.html > -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#906189: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Laptop does not suspend in 4.17 - worked up to 4.16

2018-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
't include any kernel log messages for the failed suspend, which might help to explain this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#907585: Contains Linux kernel iamge with source not provided

2018-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: firmware-cavium Version: 20180518-1 Severity: serious Tags: upstream It was reported upstream that the file liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin contains a Linux kernel image, but without the proper licence text or source code accompanying it in this repository. Ben. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#907042: opam 1.2.0 is deprecated (jessie)

2018-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
fiable in jessie (specifically libdose3-ocaml-dev (>= 4.0.1-2~), libcmdliner- ocaml-dev (>= 0.9.7~), ibjsonm-ocaml-dev). It looks like you will need to revert several of the packaging changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:

Bug#907320: Automatic upgrade of firmware-{adi,ralink} packages is still broken

2018-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:firmware-nonfree Version: 20151018-2 Severity: important The firmware-{adi,ralink} binary packags were folded into the firmware-misc-nonfree package, which Replaces and Breaks the former. But if a system has only, say, firmware-ralink, installed, APT will never replace this with

Bug#905934: [git-buildpackage/master] Add test case for bug #905934

2018-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
tag 905934 pending thanks Date: Sun Aug 12 00:56:47 2018 +0100 Author: Ben Hutchings Commit ID: 771114b4f6089b507b91b1ad8faa762394159e2f Commit URL: https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git-buildpackage//commit/?id=771114b4f6089b507b91b1ad8faa762394159e2f Patch URL: https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git

Bug#905934: [git-buildpackage/master] pq import: Look for DEP-3 header fields even if git mailimport succeeds

2018-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
tag 905934 pending thanks Date: Sun Aug 12 00:42:11 2018 +0100 Author: Ben Hutchings Commit ID: 0304fd3b56d549a74f913799d71e437e9c2c24d5 Commit URL: https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git-buildpackage//commit/?id=0304fd3b56d549a74f913799d71e437e9c2c24d5 Patch URL: https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/git

Bug#906664: initramfs-tools: Add partition table support to get_fstype

2018-08-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 08:38 +0300, Nazar Mokrynskyi wrote: > 21.08.18 02:57, Ben Hutchings пише: [...] > > LVM inside LUKS (I don't know why you call it multi-layer LVM) is well > > supported in Debian, so I find this statement surprising. > > I know it is supported and exp

Bug#906729: Please fix SELinux labels of /vmlinuz symlink after kernel update

2018-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
orecon executable if the executable is installed on the machine as > it handel the case were selinux is disabled on the machine gracefully > > ie. restorecon /vmlinuz Why is this needed? Only boot loaders should be using these symlinks and they don't know or care about SELinux stuff. Be

Bug#906664: initramfs-tools: Add partition table support to get_fstype

2018-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
options?". [...] I think the current behaviour of get_fstype is correct. It doesn't print any error message; it just tells the caller whether a filesystem was detected and if so what type it is. It's up to the caller whether to treat a failure as fatal, or to check for a partition table as

Bug#905089: Acknowledgement (linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64/amdgpu: not loading firmware with polaris11)

2018-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
ls changelog: * [71f5d61] mkinitramfs: Create usr-merged filesystem layout (Closes: #874523) and you can read that bug report yourself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#906328: bmap-tools: slow write: failed to enable I/O optimization, expect suboptimal speed

2018-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Talk to the upstream kernel developers (linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org). The old block layer is going to be removed in favour of blk-mq eventually, so I don't see any point in changing the default back. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingeni

Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html

2018-08-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 minor Control: retitle -1 Files in git-doc may not be findable by apt-file search On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:27 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > tags 905938 + moreinfo > quit > > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > git-rebase(1) refers to > &

Bug#905965: debian-installer: preseeding language fails

2018-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
d line. See <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s03.html.en#preseed-args>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#905995: git-debrebase is slow with large numbers of non-upstream commits

2018-08-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
size of the tree, or the number of commits to upstream code, or both, is the problem. On stable branches we may have 1000 or more such commits, so if (as I suspect) the time is proportional to that number then I think we would need at least a factor of 10 improvement in the speed of operation. Ben. -

Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: git-man Version: 1:2.18.0-1 Severity: normal git-rebase(1) refers to /usr/share/doc/git/html/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html, but this filename does not exist in any package. git-doc contains /usr/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html which is presumably the right file to

Bug#905934: git-debrebase: convert-from-gbp may lose non-git header fields

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 00:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: reassign -1 git-buildpackage 0.9.9 > > gbp pq is actually responsible for this. [...] I've written test cases and fixes for this and a related bug, and pushed them to: https://salsa.debian.org

Bug#905934: git-debrebase: convert-from-gbp may lose non-git header fields

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 git-buildpackage 0.9.9 gbp pq is actually responsible for this. Ben. On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 23:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: git-debrebase > Version: 6.6 > Severity: normal > > Where patches have DEP-3 header fields that cannot be directly in

Bug#905934: git-debrebase: convert-from-gbp may lose non-git header fields

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
he Bug-Debian and Forwarded fields are included in commit 59bf920cddd60a767f0647b07ac4eea5904c35c1a. Whereas patch bugfix/all/usbip-fix-misuse-of-strncpy.patch has: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:30:24 +0100 Subject: usbip: Fix misuse of strncpy() Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
etinst image for test purposes. Do you want to > perform some tests? I can test this easily. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#905827: Buster on Dell XPS 15 9570

2018-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 12:21 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: [...] > Changed boot mode to > 1) Legacy External Device Boot Mode, Secure Boot OFF [...] This sounds like BIOS emulation, which is not really recommended on current UEFI systems. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of

Bug#905574: linux-image-4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: cryptsetup missing in intitramfs for kernel 4.17

2018-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 14:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:15 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Inspecting the initramfs shows that the cryptsetup related parts are > > > missing for 4.17, but still in the 4.16 kernel. > > > > > >

Bug#905116: [PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes

2018-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 07:14 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:41:09 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Commit 720ac2ef479d ("PATCH scripts/kernel-doc") fixed the two > > instances of literal braces that Perl 5.28 warns about, but there are >

Bug#905568: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Enable CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE to prevent trashing cheap EFI flash storage chips

2018-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
on warning. If this warning, or warnings, are logged at every boot, that might mean that the variable space always gets filled up again before fwupd can run. Can you look back through the system log (dmesg or /var/log/messages) to find the warning message? We would need to see everything from &qu

Bug#905574: linux-image-4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: cryptsetup missing in intitramfs for kernel 4.17

2018-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
sk encryption and then installing this kernel version from backports. That produced a working initramfs for me. - Which version of cryptsetup did you have installed previously? - If you put "CRYPTSETUP=y" in /etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook, does the older version then build a work

Bug#905116: [PATCH v2] scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes

2018-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
onsistency and to avoid confusing bracket-matching in text editors. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- v2: Rebase on top of commit 720ac2ef479d; reword accordingly scripts/kernel-doc | 20 ++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel

Bug#905116: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes

2018-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
will remove it (resulting in a fatal error). Escape all left braces that are treated as literal characters. Also escape literal right braces, for consistency and to avoid confusing bracket-matching in text editors. References: https://bugs.debian.org/905116 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- I

Bug#905520: lvm2: Ensure COW device is writable even for read-only thick snapshots

2018-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: found -1 2.02.168-2 Please fix this in a stable update as well as in unstable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#905404: firmware-iwlwifi firmware won't load without reboot

2018-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign src:firmware-nonfree Control: retitle -1 Should recommend rebooting to load new firmware On 4 August 2018 14:14:33 GMT+08:00, tom wrote: >Package: firmware-iwlwifi >Version: 20161130-3 >Severity: normal > >I installed the package firmware-iwlwifi, and the firmware >for my

Bug#821055: Bug#821088: Secure Boot support in live-wrapper

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 18:12 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 23:03 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 17:50 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 21:56 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Since vmdebootstr

Bug#821055: Bug#821088: Secure Boot support in live-wrapper

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 17:50 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 21:56 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Since vmdebootstrap is no longer developed, bug #821088 will not be > > fixed there, but perhaps Secure Boot will be supportable using vmdb2. > > > >

Bug#698668: [PATCH] Documentation/media: uapi: Explicitly say there are no Invariant Sections

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
there are none (as is recommended by the license text). Make it explicit that there are none. References: https://bugs.debian.org/698668 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Documentation/media/media_uapi.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation

Bug#821055: Secure Boot support in live-wrapper

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
. If vmdb2 has specific logic for installing grub2, #821088 should be reassigned to vmdb2. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#821051: Need support for uploading and signing EFI executables

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
e-signing>. This bug should stay open until the signing service is in production. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#905340: stretch-pu: package linux/4.9.110-3

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: stretch User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Please copy linux version 4.9.110-3 to the stretch-updates suite. It fixes several serious regressions in the latest point release. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#904060: deb-triggers(5) should explain how await/noawait flags are combined

2018-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 10:45 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 01:03:04 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Package: dpkg-dev > > Version: 1.19.0.5 > > Severity: normal > > > For explicit triggers, both the interested and activ

Bug#904822: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Freeze/timing/interrupt problems since 4.17

2018-08-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-08-01 at 19:19 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Ben Hutchings (2018-07-30): > > Or perhaps by these changes listed in the changelog: > > > > * Improve battery life on laptops (Closes: #898629) > > Thanks to Hans de Goede > > - ATA: A new

Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-08-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
/releases/zutils/zutils-1.8-pre2.tar.lz > > The relevant entry in NEWS: > "A buffer overrun has been fixed in zcat which happened sometimes when > the '-v, --show-nonprinting' option was used (or indirectly enabled)." Thanks, Antonio. Will you request a CVE ID for this? Ben. --

Bug#905135: task-kde-desktop is not installable

2018-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
and is in fact > already installed on my system) > > I am confused. libkf5xmlgui5 has some funky architecture-dependent > dependencies on qtbase-abi-5-10-0 vs qtbase-abi-5-11-0; perhaps it has > something to do with that? [...] It has not been rebuilt for unofficial ports (yet). I th

Bug#905135: task-kde-desktop is not installable

2018-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
haps you have pinned packages (through /etc/apt/preferences.d) that prevent the upgrade? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own progr

Bug#756859: installation-guide: USB boot

2018-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 10:40 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Please remove all the text about USB-ZIP. Zip drives have been > > obsolete for over 10 years and I think only very old BIOS versions will > > expect that kind of partition t

Bug#759428: [installation-guide] non-US is no longer existing, so there is also no "export-restricted" software

2018-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 11:00 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > I agree that this should be changed. However I think that the wording > > "standard versions" also relates to there being unrestricted (standard) > >

Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 20:16 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/30/2018 10:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > You still haven't explained why, having fixed a bug, you then reopened > > and reassigned it. > > At the time the bug was filed, it wasn't clear to me if t

Bug#904819: Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
3931 again? No, I do not. The initial report states: 1. zutils was installed 2. The error message from glibc said it was in a process called zcat: *** Error in `zcat': free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x016e6980 *** Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get pro

Bug#904822: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Freeze/timing/interrupt problems since 4.17

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
uot;snd_hda_intel.power_save=0" on the kernel commandline (0 is previously default). The hints there are meant as workarounds. Let us know if they work for you. We can disable power-saving by default on specific hardware where it doesn't work properly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
nt (like an encrypted volume). You need to remove such disks from the > +system, before performing a new LVM setup! And - as always - you need to have > +backups of your data. You made that backups, as we already told you, right? > + > + [...] I think the last sentence is not really ne

Bug#756859: installation-guide: USB boot

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please remove all the text about USB-ZIP. Zip drives have been obsolete for over 10 years and I think only very old BIOS versions will expect that kind of partition table in USB storage devices. This text is more likely to confuse people than to be useful. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow

Bug#413647: [installation-guide] In Appendix D.3, common problem with Grub

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
can close this report IMO. Indeed, /etc/mtab is now a link to /proc/mounts so I don't think this particular failure is possible. > Any objections? None from me, Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#759428: [installation-guide] non-US is no longer existing, so there is also no "export-restricted" software

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
ver I think that the wording "standard versions" also relates to there being unrestricted (standard) and non-US versions of some packages. Perhaps "standard versions" could be changed to something like "the system". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904997: convert-from-gbp should warn when deleting unused patches

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: git-debrebase Version: 6.2 Severity: normal $ git-debrebase convert-from-gbp gbp:info: Trying to apply patches at 'fe7619ab36a78fd649326f458cbf8bc99c4f56c1' gbp:warning: Patch 'fix-ftbfs-with-gcc-6.patch' has no authorship information, using 'Ben Hutchings ' gbp:info: 7 patches listed

Bug#904996: Bad error message when new-upstream given an invalid version

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: git-debrebase Version: 6.2 Severity: minor I tried using the --force option, but put it in the wrong place, leading to: $ git-debrebase new-upstream --force 20180725.1db5961 upstream Can't call method "is_native" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/git-debrebase line 1175. The error

Bug#904993: git-debrebase convert-from-gbp doesn't handle multi-line Description

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: git-debrebase Version: 6.2 Severity: normal git-debrebase convert-from-gbp failed to convert the headers in the attached patch: gbp:warning: Patch 'fix-ftbfs-with-gcc-6.patch' has no authorship information, using 'Ben Hutchings ' It worked with the other patches using Author

Bug#904990: Missing online help

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: git-debrebase Version: 6.2 Severity: normal One or both of these commands ought to work: $ git-debrebase help bad usage: unknown git-debrebase sub-operation help $ git-debrebase --help Unknown option: help at /usr/share/dgit/gdr/perl5/Debian/Dgit.pm line 127.

Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 08:46 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/28/2018 11:57 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > did you see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903931#47 > > > and following? > > > > It didn't show up on this bug's message log because

Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-07-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
important Control: tag -2 security On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 11:21 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/28/2018 11:05 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >* Skipping zcat for now (Closes: #902936, #903931). > > > > [...] > > > > But you didn't actually do that. > &g

Bug#902936: fixed in zutils 1.7-2

2018-07-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
put is, if it can trigger a double-free then that's a bug - in zutils. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904749: make: patch of arscan.c fails dependency testing

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
e. I'll go with INT_MAX as the maximum size (since offsets and sizes are mostly stored as ints here). Although alloca(INT_MAX) is not going to well! New patch attached. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. From dd759110a1914d9325bf57a9a8

Bug#904749: make: patch of arscan.c fails dependency testing

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 23:41 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > Sorry about this. You didn't give an example to reproduce this, but I > was able to construct one. Please could you test that the attached > patch also works for your real usage? [...] Really attached this time. Ben.

Bug#904749: make: patch of arscan.c fails dependency testing

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
the if let us compile again. Sorry about this. You didn't give an example to reproduce this, but I was able to construct one. Please could you test that the attached patch also works for your real usage? I also uploaded a new source package with this patch to: https://people.debian.org/~benh/pack

Bug#893283: firmware-ipw2x00: ipw2x00 firmware: MAC changes everytime WIFI reconnect

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
> > And, randomly, so many: > > ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. > ... > -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#903641: Preserve numlock state during cryptdisk boot password prompt in plymouth

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
new VT. 3. Press Alt-F2 to activate the new VT. Does Num Lock turn off? 4. Press Alt-F1 to activate the first VT. Does Num Lock turn on or off? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904730: lxc-destroy can't destroy a container

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: lxc Version: 1:2.0.9-6 Severity: important ~$ sudo autopkgtest-build-lxc debian unstable amd64 2>&1 | tee ~/tmp/autopkgtest-build-lxc.log WARNING: ext3 signature detected on /dev/deadeye/autopkgtest-unstable-amd64.new at offset 1080. Wipe it? [y/n]: ^C ~$ sudo lvremove

Bug#904732: autopkgtest-build-lxc doesn't work

2018-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.4.1 Severity: important ~$ sudo autopkgtest-build-lxc debian unstable amd64 Logical volume "autopkgtest-unstable-amd64.new" created. debootstrap is /usr/sbin/debootstrap Checking cache download in /var/cache/lxc/debian/rootfs-unstable-amd64 ... Downloading

Bug#903322: firmware-qlogic: firmware checksum fails for qla2100 and qla2000 FC cards with kernel 4.x

2018-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
> there. If the firmware works under an old kernel version, this is a regression in the driver, not the firmware! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#849330: firmware-iwlwifi: intel 8260 does not work when using modfile /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode and kernel 4.8

2018-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo This firmware file was updated in version 20170823-1, but there was no explanation of what changed. Did it fix the problem for you? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#784206: [installation-guide] Re: "Compiling a New Kernel" section is hugely outdated

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 20:34 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Package: installation-manual > > Severity: important > > > > There are many things wrong with the current text for "Compiling > > a New Kernel". > &

Bug#904600: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: kernel 4.17.0-1 caused many problems on cold boot

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
n these commands to get the model and revision strings for the HD, so this can be done automatically if necessary: cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/model cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/rev Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature

Bug#903310: Please move this bug to bumblebee

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
package maintainers if possible. OK, I'm doing that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904600: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: kernel 4.17.0-1 caused many problems on cold boot

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
er switch [...] What were the "many problems"? What were you waiting for, that didn't happen? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#765750: initramfs-tools: should probably recreate initrd after installing

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
licting packages. I think this means that (3) no longer follows, and whichever of the automatic initramfs generator packages is currently installed should be considered to "own" /boot/initrd.img-*. I will therefore change update-initramfs to behave as if the "-t" option is always used.

Bug#875781: initramfs-tools-core: /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf is not modified on upgrade/install/reconfigure

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
the configuration will not be automatically reset to the default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs

Bug#903393: [initramfs-tools] update-initramfs -u warns: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 console-setup 1.184 This is not a bug in initramfs-tools. The warning comes from console- setup and is triggered by a change to the German keyboard layout (from <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102225>). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it

Bug#904086: Add fsck.xfs and xfs_repair to the initramfs

2018-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
e verification is only done in force mode. > > (xfsprogs is outdated in sid right now) I think xfsprogs should take responsibility for adding the necessary files to the initramfs. It doesn't make sense for initramfs-tools to have to know about quirks like this. (There is precedent for this; btr

Bug#904441: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: system disk stopped during boot

2018-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
e's any further details you need about my hardware > or system configuration. [...] Does adding the kernel parameter "ahci.mobile_lpm_policy=1" avoid this? Can you also run these commands to get the model and revision strings for the HD, so this can be done automatically if neces

Bug#898021: Status of this bug

2018-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
es then we might have an opportunity to make Qt upstreams > reconsider the issue. CVE-2018-1108 was fixed in the kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904309: RFP: tilda -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

2018-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
39)] > [New Thread 0x7fffde5e8700 (LWP 10940)] > [New Thread 0x7fffddde7700 (LWP 10941)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdd5e6700 (LWP 10942)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdcde5700 (LWP 10943)] > > Thread 1 "tilda" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x75ea4339 in X

Bug#749832: systemd: ignores /run/do-not-hibernate, hibernates after kernel update

2018-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 10:54 +0100, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jul 21 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Prior to installing systemd, hibernating was not possible after a kernel > > > > update. I believe the mechanism to prevent it was a > > > > /run

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/libxcrypto/libcrypt.so.*; do dst=/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/$(basename $src) dpkg-divert --package libxcrypt1 --remove --divert $dst $dst.glibc mv $dst.glibc $dst done Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#749832: systemd: ignores /run/do-not-hibernate, hibernates after kernel update

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
its build ID, can be read from /sys/kernel/notes. You can then unpack the installed kernel image and compare with the build ID in that. Unfortunately the "unpack" step is dependent on architecture and boot loader, which I think makes this impractical. The best I can suggest at this point

Bug#898021: Some more details

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
n't really trust entropy provided by HWRNGs. More background information: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2018/05/msg00130.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2018/05/msg00176.html Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc

Bug#898092: sddm: takes extremely long time to start

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ilable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#903821:

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ot;stretch-updates" suite which is enabled by default. Note that you can work around this bug by adding "pti=off" to the kernel command line. This is safe to do in all Xen PV amd64 guests, because PTI is not needed and never used in this environment. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No pol

Bug#865691: closed by Ben Hutchings (Bug#865691: fixed in initramfs-tools 0.131)

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
into a stable update once the new version has been in testing for some time. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#897802: linux: ftbfs with GCC-8

2018-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reopen -1 Control: notfixed -1 4.16.12-1 On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 18:22 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Version: 4.16.12-1 > Control: tag -1 - experimental > > On Thu, 24 May 2018 13:34:37 +0900 Nobuhiro Iwamatsu > wrote: > > Control: tag -1 fixed

Bug#890950: RE: Bug#890950: Info received (Bug#890950: initramfs-tools: Resuming from hibernated swapfile fails)

2018-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
gt; https://salsa.debian.org/superm1-guest/initramfs-tools/commit/f74423c610bd3b9ee9baf97d42bfa0219bfb4826 > https://salsa.debian.org/superm1-guest/initramfs-tools/commit/a39f61e48eca03e264a7235ee984db76e8c10aa9 > Please make a merge request on Salsa and then we can nitpick^Wdiscuss this in detail

Bug#845034: marked as done (initramfs-tools: please ensure initrd images are reproducible)

2018-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
_AU.UTF-8 already set in the environment. That overrides LC_COLLATE etc. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904067: ngetty: diff for NMU version 1.1-3.1

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: ngetty Version: 1.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for ngetty (versioned as 1.1-3.1) and uploaded it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Bug#802185: ngetty-helper segfaults after login name is typed in the login prompt

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
etlibc that uses the deprecated "vsyscall" entry points to the kernel, and you are using a kernel with vsyscall disabled. This will be fixed by rebuilding ngetty. But the older version should still work if you rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION enabled (or, if it's a

Bug#822730: initramfs-tools: Should we migrate to a "interest-noawait" trigger for update-initramfs -u?

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
. A search for explicit triggers: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=activate.*update-initramfs shows that there are packages that use "activate-await", and I would not want to override that without consultation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#845034: Updated patch

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
libraries will be different. > > […] > > Since there is no option to explicitly disable creation of the aux- > > cache file, I propose to delete it ldconfig creates it. > > ^ > > Missing "if"? :) Yes, "... delete it if ldcon

Bug#856589: marked as done (mkinitramfs fails with MODULES=dep and root on tmpfs)

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Did you actually mean to close this bug? The commit you made only fixes the error message. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description

Bug#904060: deb-triggers(5) should explain how await/noawait flags are combined

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.0.5 Severity: normal For explicit triggers, both the interested and activated packages can specify "await" or "noawait". I could not understand from the current documentation what is supposed to happen if the two specify the opposite. Looking at the source, I

Bug#903776: Kernel 4.9.110-1 sit: non-ECT warnings

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 22:31 +0200, Thomas Leuxner wrote: > * Ben Hutchings 2018.07.17 22:52: > > > > Jul 14 12:46:18 edi kernel: [ 29.601249] sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over > > > IPv4 tunneling driver > > > Jul 14 12:46:24 edi ke

Bug#845034: Updated patch

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
not create /var/cache itself, the aux-cache file is only created if a hook script creates that directory. I think that explains why Chris didn't find this problem. Since there is no option to explicitly disable creation of the aux- cache file, I propose to delete it ldconfig creates it. Ben. --

Bug#903931: [initramfs-tools-core] unmkinitramfs uses "-t" for zcat like it was a "test integrity" option (it's not and it causes crashes)

2018-07-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
t's really bad. Reassigning this again. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#903931: [initramfs-tools-core] unmkinitramfs uses "-t" for zcat like it was a "test integrity" option (it's not and it causes crashes)

2018-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
rashes. Please report which version of gzip is installed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#820230: initramfs-tools: DHCP is very flaky and sometimes doesn't work

2018-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
epository [3] and build it yourself. It > worked like a charm on my server. Yes, this does seem likely. I uploaded the new version of klibc in December last year. Has that fixed the problem for you? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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