2.6.14.1

2005-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks 2.6.14.1 is released. It changes the ABI of procfs. Bastian -- ... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other. -- Kirk, Elaan of Troyius, stardate 4372.5 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ABI changes on specific architectures only

2005-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:28:23PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: I switched the alpha build from gcc-3.3 to gcc-4.0 in the not yet uploaded 2.6.14-3, and Jurij said he'll also switch sparc from gcc-3.3 to gcc-4.0. 2.6.14.1 seems to need an ABI bump anyway, so go ahead. How to handle these

Processed: typo

2005-11-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 298766 linux-2.6 Bug#298766: gnome-applets: battstat don't show correct values at startup on some hardware Warning: Unknown package 'linux-2.6.14-1-686' Bug reassigned from package `linux-2.6.14-1-686' to `linux-2.6'. -- Stopping processing

Re: ABI changes on specific architectures only

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 17 lines --] On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:28:23PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: I switched the alpha build from gcc-3.3 to gcc-4.0 in the not yet uploaded 2.6.14-3, and Jurij said he'll also

Re: version/infrastructure separation test ...

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:07:24AM +0900, Horms wrote: Yes and no. The problem is that basically we have two different things, the first one is the build infrastructure, which should really not be all that different for each version, and which there is

Re: version/infrastructure separation test ...

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:54:31AM +, Horms wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:07:24AM +0900, Horms wrote: Yes and no. The problem is that basically we have two different things, the first one is the build infrastructure, which should really not be

Re: 2.6.14.1

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 11 lines --] Hi folks 2.6.14.1 is released. It changes the ABI of procfs. Thanks, I'll work on getting the change into 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 as neccessary. There is already an entry for this in

Bug#338185: stay on 2.6.12 for now

2005-11-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:27:49 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:51:53AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: retitle 338185 ia64 has problems footprinting initramfs thanks ia64 users shouldn't upgrade to 2.6.14

Bug#338316: linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64: access to the sound card freezes the Apple iMac G5

2005-11-09 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64 Version: 2.6.14-2 Severity: important The computer (iMac G5 20 LCD) freezes when a process tries to play a sound: like a bell from bash or a login sound from gdm. The computer is not completely dead since the cursor is still blinking when the crash occurs

Bug#337152: linux-image-2.6.14-1-powerpc64: [powerpc64] can't load smu_queue_i2c module: Unknown symbol smu_queue_i2c

2005-11-09 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
I upgraded my kernel to linux-image-2.6.14-1 version 2.6.14-2 (unstable) and udev to version 0.074-2 (unstable) and still have the same error. I also downgraded udev to version 0.056-3 (stable) and could not boot the machine. Mmm. I enabled fancontrol, as suggested by benh, so it should be ok,

CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel

2005-11-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel, Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one can trigger an oops in sysctl. The fix is the only code change in 2.6.14.1 and has been assigned CVE-2005-2709. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:48:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel, Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one can trigger an oops in sysctl. The fix is the only code change in 2.6.14.1 and has been assigned CVE-2005-2709.

Re: CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel, Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one can trigger an oops in sysctl. The fix is the only code change in 2.6.14.1 and has been assigned CVE-2005-2709. Thanks, we're already on the

Re: CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:48:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel, Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one can trigger an oops in sysctl. The fix is the only

Re: CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:48:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel, Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one can trigger an

Re: Point to an actual bug

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:06:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, You know, the sheer ignorance displayed in this bug report is staggering. Firstly, there is no upload to stable; all 10.X uploads Yeah, sorry for thrusting your words, you said yourself that you uploaded it to

Re: new kernel-package breaks official linux-2.6 kernel builds, should not propagate to testing.

2005-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
1. the missing config caues manuals not to build ,[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) ] | DESCRIPTION | This manual page explains the Debian make-kpkg utility, which is | used to create the kernel related Debian packages. This utility | needs to be run from a top level Linux kernel source

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-09 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
On sam, 2005-11-05 at 16:31 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: and you probably have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your path Yes as on all unmodified Debian systems. I'd say this is a problem in the submitter's build host. Having a /usr/local/bin/perl symlink is very useful to run many perl

Bug#338347: psmouse driver keeps losing synchronization

2005-11-09 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Package:linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Version:2.6.12-10 This is an intermittent bug that has just got worse. I have a Toshiba Portege 7020CT with a builtin trackpoint and a PS/2 mouse that I connect via the PS/2 port in a port extension. The trackpoint is working fine but the PS/2 mouse behaves

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-09 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
I cannot reproduce. Please describe in detail how you rebuild the package. This is on a sarge system, since I'm doing a backport. I use this command: fakeroot apt-get -b source yaird -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#336471: still appears broken.

2005-11-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 336471 linux-2.6 found 336471 thanks On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:38:34 +1000 shorty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is the right bug to post to. Setting a vga value in the kernel line results in a fb console but gives an error for

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-09 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:16:08PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: On sam, 2005-11-05 at 16:31 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: and you probably have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your path Yes as on all unmodified Debian systems. I'd say this is a problem in the submitter's build host.

Processed: Re: Bug#336471: still appears broken.

2005-11-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 336471 linux-2.6 Bug#336471: linux-image-2.6.14.1-686: broken framebuffer console Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 option Bug reassigned from package `linux-image-2.6.14-1-686' to `linux-2.6'. found

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#298766: gnome-applets (kernel?) bug #298766

2005-11-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Err, sorry reassign 298766 linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 Bug#298766: gnome-applets: battstat don't show correct values at startup on some hardware Bug reassigned from package `linux-2.6' to `linux-image-2.6.14-1-686'. quit Stopping processing here.

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:16:08PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: On sam, 2005-11-05 at 16:31 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] I's like configuring a package with silly ./configure options and pretending it works everywhere. :) I did not intervene in the build process. I used this

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-09 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:20:47PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:16:08PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: On sam, 2005-11-05 at 16:31 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] I's like configuring a package with silly ./configure options and pretending it works

Bug#338228: yaird error: unrecognised line in /proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0 (fatal)

2005-11-09 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:04:23PM +0100, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote: apt-get dist-upgrade results in (on a fairly recent git kernel): yaird error: unrecognised line in /proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0 (fatal) Thanks for pointing this out. Attached three patches: -

Bug#295657: (fwd) Re: device mapper and linux software raid Bug#295657: Interesting article

2005-11-09 Thread maximilian attems
- Forwarded message from Erik Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you found any solution to this? or any other info... Not a solution, but we haven't experienced the problem since we went to xfs instead of ext3, even though we're now running SMP again.

Re: Bug#336471: still appears broken.

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Jonas Smedegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y --- CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m Well - not sure either if it's the same bug, but whatever. If happening that late in the game it seems to be kernel related - not ramdisk-related, so reassigning... The abouve

Re: new kernel-package breaks official linux-2.6 kernel builds, should not propagate to testing.

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. the missing config caues manuals not to build ,[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) ] | DESCRIPTION | This manual page explains the Debian make-kpkg utility, which is | used to create the kernel related Debian packages. This utility |

Re: Build while creating kernel-headers package

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It was remarked on IRC that a build with the new kernel-package does a full build even when compiling kernel-headers, and this behaviour was different from the kernel-package in Sid. Now, since make-kpkg only calls the top level

Bug#298766: gnome-applets: battstat don't show correct values at startup on some hardware

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:21:19PM +0100, Marco Innocenti wrote: Battstat on my laptop (Toshiba P20-311) don't show the correct value of the charge of the battery at startup. I have to wait several minutes to get it. I've made some test and discoveded that cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/* give

Bug#338347: psmouse driver keeps losing synchronization

2005-11-09 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 18:03 +, David Hugh-Jones wrote: Package:linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Version:2.6.12-10 This is an intermittent bug that has just got worse. I have a Toshiba Portege 7020CT with a builtin trackpoint and a PS/2 mouse that I connect via the PS/2 port in a port extension.

2.6.14-3 Release [includes 2.6.14.1/CVE-2005-2709]

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Hi, I'd like to get people's opinion on releasing 2.6.14-3. Here are some factors: * There are a number of changes in SVN, including 2.6.14.1/CVE-2005-2709 * The zero length udp problem has not been solved in 2.6.14.1, and this might mean that 2.6.14.2 comes out soon. Or we could just

Bug#338405: initramfs-tools: Duplicate files and inadequate use of busybox.

2005-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal Having cpio break sym-links is undesirable. For the case of shared objects it's probably best to use cp -L to break the links while copying. Currently the initrd is generated with both /bin/busybox and /bin/sh having the same file

Bug#338406: initramfs-tools: Doesn't create /dev/hda* device nodes on LVM system

2005-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal The initramfs generated on a LVM IDE system does not create /dev/hda* device nodes, so vgchange doesn't discover any LVM devices and therefore the machine can't boot. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Re: new kernel-package breaks official linux-2.6 kernel builds, should not propagate to testing.

2005-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:03:15 + (UTC), Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. the missing config caues manuals not to build ,[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) ] | DESCRIPTION | This manual page explains the Debian make-kpkg utility, which is | used

patch tracking dir in svn

2005-11-09 Thread dann frazier
hey, We've been tracking patches (mostly security) across kernel streams under people/ dirs in svn. Since this procedure isn't really specific to an individual, I'd like to move this out of people. My current plan is to move it to /patch-tracking - unless anyone has a better suggestion? --

Re: new kernel-package breaks official linux-2.6 kernel builds, should not propagate to testing.

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the new, streamlined, internal dependency mechanisms, it is actually going to be a big kludge not to require the configure target in the dependency path (since the dependency path has been separated from actual make commands for targets).

Re: patch tracking dir in svn

2005-11-09 Thread Horms
dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, We've been tracking patches (mostly security) across kernel streams under people/ dirs in svn. Since this procedure isn't really specific to an individual, I'd like to move this out of people. My current plan is to move it to /patch-tracking -

New kernel-package 10.009 heading for experimental

2005-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, There are very few changes in this version. At long last, the old, deprecated FLAVOURS mechanism (which predated EXTRAVERSION, and made users edit the top level Makefile to provide EXTRAVERSION like capability) is now gone. It had been marked as obsolete for a while, so this

Re: 2.6.14-3 Release [includes 2.6.14.1/CVE-2005-2709]

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:49:06AM +, Horms wrote: Hi, I'd like to get people's opinion on releasing 2.6.14-3. Here are some factors: * There are a number of changes in SVN, including 2.6.14.1/CVE-2005-2709 * The zero length udp problem has not been solved in 2.6.14.1, and

Re: New kernel-package 10.009 heading for experimental

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:23:22AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, There are very few changes in this version. At long last, the old, deprecated FLAVOURS mechanism (which predated EXTRAVERSION, and made users edit the top level Makefile to provide EXTRAVERSION like