Bug#865746: Fixed with new kernel

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Fixed for us with the kernel announced here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00160.html

which fixes bug 865303

Thanks!

Jon

Bug#865311:

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

C programs which start a jvm using jni also segfault. This smells like 
fundamentally the same issue.
I added a "me too" to debian bug 865746 (collectd), with links to info 
about the issue at Ubuntu - including
a test program to reproduce. See 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865746#15 and #16.

Bug#865746: See also related Ubuntu kernel-package bug

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:09:29 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?Jon_K=c3=a5re_Hellan?= 
 wrote:

> This Ubuntu bug report shows how to reproduce
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1700270
>
> Example program in comments 1, 2 and 3.
>
> It is filed against their kernel-package. Apparently, anything that uses
> jni to instantiate a jvm will fail.
>

And their bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1699772
shows a lot of software affected by the bug.

This is probably the same issue as inDebian src:linux bug 865303, 
although the workaround discussed there isn't applicable. I'll add a 
pointer from that bug to this one.

Bug#865746: See also related Ubuntu kernel-package bug

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

This Ubuntu bug report shows how to reproduce

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1700270

Example program in comments 1, 2 and 3.

It is filed against their kernel-package. Apparently, anything that uses 
jni to instantiate a jvm will fail.

Bug#865746: Same bug on jessie

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

We see the same segfault on jessie with collectd 5.4.1-6+deb8u1

Jon Kåre Hellan
UNINETT AS - Trondheim - Norway

Bug#377539: Summarizing our IRC session

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

We discussed this on IRC. Here's what we came up with.

PnP support for nsc-ircc is new in 2.6.17.
The dmesg log shows the following:

nsc_ircc_pnp_probe() : From PnP, found firbase 0x2F8 ; irq 3 ; dma 3.
nsc-ircc, chip-init
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
pnp: Device 00:14 disabled.

It looks like PNP is disabling the IR device.


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Bug#372468: libgtk-java not installable in sid

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Package: libgtk-java
Version: 2.8.4-1

Here's what happens when trying to install libgtk-java on sid:

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgtk-java: Depends: libgtk-jni (= 2.8.4-1) but it is not going to 
be installed

   Depends: libglib-java but it is not installable
   Depends: libcairo-java but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

libglib-java and libcairo-java have no installation candidate.


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Bug#345845: When will we see the fix in sid?

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Hi,

Thanks for telling me how to report this bug upstream:

 Java applets go blank immediately

I reported it as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322257, 
which in turn is a duplicate of 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315841. This bug is fixed 
upstream.


The effect of the bug is that java applets don't work if adblock is 
installed. For me, the consequence is that I have to use another browser 
to do home banking. That works, but it's getting old :-)


Do you know in which version of Firefox the fix will be included? 
According to mozilla.org bugzilla, target milestone is mozilla1.9alpha, 
if that means anything. Any wild guesses about when we can expect to see 
the fix in Debian?


For what it's worth, on Fedora Core 4, java applets work in Firefox 
1.5.0.1 even with adblock installed. The package version is 
firefox-1.5.0.1-1.


Jon



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Bug#353790: Bug is fixed in 2.6.16

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

2.6.16 includes the fix to this bug. Please close my bug report.

Jon Hellan


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Bug#353790: Bug is being fixed upstream

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Hi,

The linux-ide developers have worked with Silicon Image and found the
cause and a real fix. Yay for open specifications! The fix is expected
in version 2.6.16 or 17. See
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/8255

Jon



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Bug#353790: More info

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

I forgot to tell that I've seen this problem with kernels as far back as
2.6.8. My feeling is that it happens more frequently now than half a
year ago. I know this points in the direction of hardware problems, but
Windows works, even for large file copies. The vendor mounted two disks
and copied a 15 GB dummy file back and forth. Result OK. Test was
repeated while system was stressed. Still OK. Finally a continuous 65
hour stress test.

May be marginal timings have become more problematic over time.

I know this will be hard to track down. Suggestions for workarounds are
welcome. Is there anything like hdparm for SATA?

Regards

Jon




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Bug#353790: Progress

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Hi,

I googled a bit, and that led me to what I think is the solution.

If you read the thread at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=278603,
you find that there are known problems with Seagate and the Silicon
Image 3112a controller. 

What you need to do is add your drive model (ex: ST3200822AS) to the
blacklist in sata_sil.c (kernel source top
dir/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c). 
Look for the section with a listing of drives and MOD_15_QUIRK. Needless
to say, this involves recompiling the sata_sil kernel module.

This quirk flag is named  SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE in current kernel
sources. It turns out that my disk, Seagate ST3200822AS, is already on
the blacklist with the correct quirk flag. However, the quirk fix isn't
applied for 3512 controllers, which is what I've got.

I changed sata_sil.c like this:

--- drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c.orig 2006-02-21 18:10:43.0 +0100
+++ drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c 2006-02-21 19:40:35.0 +0100
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 static const struct pci_device_id sil_pci_tbl[] = {
{ 0x1095, 0x3112, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112_m15w },
{ 0x1095, 0x0240, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112_m15w },
-   { 0x1095, 0x3512, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112 },
+   { 0x1095, 0x3512, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112_m15w },
{ 0x1095, 0x3114, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3114 },
{ 0x1002, 0x436e, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112_m15w },
{ 0x1002, 0x4379, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, sil_3112_m15w },

I can see from the log that Seagate errata fix is enabled, and haven't
seen any more lockups.

This removes the last occurrence of sil_3112 in sil_pci_tbl.

Regards

Jon



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Bug#278392: Looking over outstanding reports sent by me: Can this be closed know.

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

hi,

I'm looking over outstanding reports sent by me and found this one from 
over a year ago. I would be very surprised if it hasn't been fixed. Can 
you decide just by looking?



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Bug#278392: Looking over outstanding reports sent by me: Can this be closed know.

[Jon Kåre Hellan]

Frans Pop wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:53, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:


I'm looking over outstanding reports sent by me and found this one from
over a year ago. I would be very surprised if it hasn't been fixed. Can
you decide just by looking?



SATA support is still under development and there are still issues.
However, it is very hard to keep track of individual drivers.

I think the general issue is still there in the kernel, but during an 
installation using the 2.6.15 kernel different initrd generators are used 
from Sarge and those have better logic for loading ide-generic, so I 
would guess that with the Etch installer (daily images) you will not see 
the problem any more.


Let us know if we should close your report.


Let me put it this way: I have no objection to you closing it. Feel free 
to let it remain open if you would lose information by closing it.