Bug#681553: More info

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Holmberg
After rebooting into inux-image-3.2.0-2-686-pae i dont se this problem any more. snippet from kern.log Jul 9 00:07:34 EV705AB69A02DA kernel: [49502.048124] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7003824 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jul 9 00:07:34 EV705AB69A02DA kernel: [49502.048133] ata1.00: failed

Bug#681553: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae: getting ata1: hard resetting link and computer freezes

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Holmberg
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I upgraded to linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae from linux-image-3.2.0-

Bug#678443: Hard lockups due to "lockup-detector" (NMIs) on multi-Pentium-3 SMP systems on all kernel builds since 2.6.38

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 21:49 +0200, Hans-Juergen Mauser wrote: > Hello, > > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > > > I think it's fine and has nothing to do with the problem. > > > > Since you say it has taken 1-8 days for any problem to appear, I suppose > > you will have to wait a few week

Processed: Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 617299 -1 Bug #617299 [dpkg] dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp Bug 617299 cloned as bug 681550 > retitle -1 kernel-handbook: encourage disabling DEBUG_INFO and setting TMPDIR Bug #681550 [dpkg] dpkg-deb: should

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 617299 -1 retitle -1 kernel-handbook: encourage disabling DEBUG_INFO and setting TMPDIR submitter -1 ! reassign -1 debian-kernel-handbook 1.0.13 quit Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > The solution to bug #617299 is therefore to either define TMPDIR to > some actual hard-disk with sufficient stora

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
2012/7/13 Ben Hutchings : > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02:57PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> (putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be >> reassigned to 'linux') >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >> > (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) >> > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> >> 2

Bug#681354: linux-image-2.6.32: Complaint from firewire driver at system startup.

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 08:20 -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-45 > File: linux-image-2.6.32 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > A firewire driver produces this complaint at system startup. > Loading, plea

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 07:51 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2012/7/13 Ben Hutchings : [...] > If I disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO again just before building, the kernel > indeed is MUCH smaller (I had probably forgotten to disable it before > attempting a new build; sorry for the confusion) and it ea

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 13:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I > am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of > hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many > of the "support infrastructure"

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Frank Rowand
On 07/13/12 14:55, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > > But just removing all the certainly unused macros probably wouldn't have > > made a noticeable difference to anyone using those defconfig files > > anyway. > > My point is that I don't thin

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread david
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote: We are going to end up with a million+ (or something like that) "config " options that are going to have to be kept up-to-date regularly... Do we really want that? Maybe we do, maybe we don't - I'm not saying anything either way - just pointing it out. I

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I > am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of > hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many > of the "support infrastructure" questions ar

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Hans de Bruin
On 07/13/2012 10:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I > am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of > hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many > of the "support infrastructure" questions

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:17:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > As long as you don't mind these being added after the fact, I suppose > > it would be workable. The reason I say that is sometimes, it even catches > > *us* > > by surpris

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread david
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote: Oh dear. I would expect Fedora to say that they require SELinux, thereby making it unusable by anyone doing LSM development. Oh, *absolutely*. These options would *not* be meant for people do

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Bolle
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 17:55 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > My point is that I don't think there's many people actually using them. > (maybe more on the niche platforms, but x86[64] ? I'm sceptical they're used > at all) I guess you're right. Personally, I tend to start my journeys in self compiled ke

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Tony Luck
I always thought that the x86 defconfig file was the one that Linus used for his primary machine. -Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+8mbbl9mrx

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Bolle
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 17:02 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > I wish defconfig was actually something useful like this, instead of.. > what the hell is it exactly ? No-one even seems to agree, other than > "random selection of options, many of which were removed n years ago" As for the "many of which wer

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > But just removing all the certainly unused macros probably wouldn't have > made a noticeable difference to anyone using those defconfig files > anyway. My point is that I don't think there's many people actually using them. (maybe m

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > We could at least make selection of a minimal set of drivers for the > more common virtualised platforms a lot easier. > Right now, you need to hunt through 30+ different menus in order to find > what you need to run in a basic KVM virtua

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > Oh dear. I would expect Fedora to say that they require SELinux, > thereby making it unusable by anyone doing LSM development. Oh, *absolutely*. These options would *not* be meant for people doing odd things and experienting with config

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Casey Schaufler
On 7/13/2012 1:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I > am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of > hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many > of the "support infrastructure" questions ar

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > As long as you don't mind these being added after the fact, I suppose > it would be workable. The reason I say that is sometimes, it even catches > *us* > by surprise. We recently found out our virtualisation guys started > using sch_htb fo

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Khalid Aziz
On 07/13/2012 02:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: Would something like this make sense to people? I really think that "How do I generate a kernel config file" is one of those things that keeps normal people from compiling their own kernel. And we *want* people to compile their own kernel so that th

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > I wish defconfig was actually something useful like this, instead of.. > what the hell is it exactly ? No-one even seems to agree, other than > "random selection of options, many of which were removed n years ago" It's just to difficult to upd

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Myklebust, Trond
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 13:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I > am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of > hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many > of the "support infrastructure"

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:37:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The point I'm slowly getting to is that I would actually love to have > *distro* Kconfig-files, where the distribution would be able to say > "These are the minimums I *require* to work". As long as you don't mind these being ad

[RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
So this has long been one of my pet configuration peeves: as a user I am perfectly happy answering the questions about what kinds of hardware I want the kernel to support (I kind of know that), but many of the "support infrastructure" questions are very opaque, and I have no idea which of the them

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > >>> Just to confirm, are you certain CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is disabled? >> >> Yup. > > Ok. Please attach your .config so we can reproduce this. I have already stated that the .config is copied as-is from the stoc

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02:57PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > (putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be > reassigned to 'linux') > 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > > (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) > > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > >>> M

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> (putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be >> reassigned to 'linux') >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >>> (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) >>> Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > I'm already aware of the effects of stripp

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > I have already stated that the .config is copied as-is from the stock > Debian 3.2 kernel's config. Oh, interesting. May we have a debdiff of the binary packages, too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >> Just to confirm, are you certain CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is disabled? > > Yup. Ok. Please attach your .config so we can reproduce this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
(putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be reassigned to 'linux') 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >>> Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > (putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be > reassigned to 'linux') > 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >> (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) >> Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >>> I'm already aware of the effects of stripping binaries. However, you >>> gotta

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : > Hi, > > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> Actually, this feels like an upstream kernel 3.2 bug: as a test, I >> purposely disabled TMPFS for /tmp just to see if the kernel package >> would finally build as expected. It did, except that the resulting DEB >> is a whopping 4

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder : >> Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >>> the resulting DEB >>> is a whopping 488MB in size, compared to 22MB for the stock Debian >>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Actually, this feels like an upstream kernel 3.2 bug: as a test, I > purposely disabled TMPFS for /tmp just to see if the kernel package > would finally build as expected. It did, except that the resulting DEB > is a whopping 488MB in size, compared to 22MB for the

Processed: Re: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-2-amd64: impi oops on intel motherboard

2012-07-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > found 571980 linux-2.6/2.6.32-45 Bug #571980 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: Kernel oops when ipmi modules loaded on ibm 326m Marked as found in versions linux-2.6/2.6.32-45. > fixed 571980 linux/3.2.21-3 Bug #571980 [linux-2.6] linux-i

Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
2012/7/13 Martin-Éric Racine : > 2012/7/13 Martin-Éric Racine : >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.16.4.3 >> Followup-For: Bug #617299 >> >> I also encounter the same bug when trying to build kernel 3.2.21 from >> upstream tarball: >> >> $ LOCALVERSION=-git-686-pae make deb-pkg >> [...] >> dpkg-deb: b

Bug#571980: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-2-amd64: impi oops on intel motherboard

2012-07-13 Thread Ian Crowther
On 12/07/12 21:21, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ian Crowther wrote: I'm not sure what 2.6.32.y means. I've installed 2.6.32-5-686, which seems to be recent. Am I correct in assuming you mean version 2.6.32-45? You can check with dpkg-query -W linux-image-$(uname -r) to see the v

Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I certainly consider mounting of debugfs to be significant security > liability. I'm not at all happy that people use it as the basis for Seconded. I know of at least three ways to hardcrash boxes through debugfs (system specific, not a kernel bug), an

Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-13 Thread Bjørn Mork
Ben Hutchings writes: > I would like to address this by backporting this feature: > > commit d6e486868cde585842d55ba3b6ec57af090fc343 > Author: Ludwig Nussel > Date: Wed Jan 25 11:52:28 2012 +0100 > > debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options > > and then changing the default mode (mask) to b

Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-13 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Bjørn Mork wrote: > 1) mode and owner is not propagated to files below the mount point: That's intentional to keep things simple. If you can control the x bit on the mount point then you can control who can reach files beneath. > 2) ownership and mode seems to be shared amoung all mount points,