Re: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
boot.scr/uEnv.txt infrastructure that would cope with this, than we are from having dtbs themselves as a standard interface. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#760037: nfs-kernel-server: nfs crashes in set_nfsv4_acl_one

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
! (Too many distracting backports kernels in the way :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Bug#760037: nfs-kernel-server: nfs crashes in set_nfsv4_acl_one

2014-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
be supported through jessie. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#757835: nfs-kernel-server: after update 1.2.8-6-1.2.8-8 rpc.mountd starts crashing

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
) { cp++; } __builtin_strncpy(buf, old, cp-old); if (cp != old) { buf[0] = 'Q'; } if (cp *cp) { buf[0] = 'Q'; } } int main(void) { add_name(0); return 0; } -- Steve Langasek Give me

Bug#757835: nfs-kernel-server: after update 1.2.8-6-1.2.8-8 rpc.mountd starts crashing

2014-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
cp. Are you seeing this problem on i386 (like the original submitter), or do you see this problem on a different architecture? (If it's a compiler problem, this will be relevant to getting it fixed properly.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#756812: nfs-common: rpc.gssd crashes while mounting an encrypted nfs4 filesystem

2014-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
ensue. If there is a reason for switching the linkage away from gssglue, then a coordinated transition would be needed. libtirpc has two reverse dependencies in the archive, rpcbind and nfs-utils. I would appreciate it if you would test both of them when making changes to libtirpc. -- Steve

Bug#740491: Please provide a NEWS file that informs about necessary changes to idmapd.conf

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
a patch, I'll apply it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#740491: Similar problem

2014-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
the package upgrade, but will not give the correct behavior since this must be a mountpoint, not a directory.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#623377: rpcbind: Please include upstart support in the rpcbind package

2013-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hey Bastian, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:56:54AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:15:31AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: + * Fix to look directly in /run instead of via the /var/run symlink. Where is the bug report for this? This is mentioned in bug #719357. case $1

Bug#623377: rpcbind: Please include upstart support in the rpcbind package

2013-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 719357 patch tags 623377 patch thanks With Luk's approval, I've prepared an NMU to address these two bugs in rpcbind. Please find the NMU diff attached. This NMU will be uploaded to unstable shortly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#707960: fixed in nfs-utils 1:1.2.8-3

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:18:00AM +, Steve Langasek wrote: Source: nfs-utils Source-Version: 1:1.2.8-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of nfs-utils, which is due to be installed

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
support during the development cycle, so that release+1 will be supportable on the box. But this is a problem we've dealt with before, and certainly in this case the upstream kernel support is quite good, which I think makes this a fairly low risk. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#679449: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
compared to a few % extra speed in FPU-intensive apps on v7+ CPUs. The v7+ CPUs far outnumber the v6 CPUs, of which there's only one platform that anyone is interested in (the RPi). Amortizing that few % speed improvement across the whole range of devices armhf runs on adds up to a big deal. -- Steve

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
doesn't seem to be what we're talking about here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, since Debian's choice of default arch doesn't have quite the same all or nothing impact on pressed CDs and the like. But IMHO it's better for our users to choose a default that's safe, at the cost of some users not getting the most out of their hardware if they use the default. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#640672: moving files to arch specific include breaks compilations with -m32

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
don't agree that the issue reported here is one of them and I don't see any reason to change the linux-libc-dev package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
to stable-proposed-updates? This fixes a bug that makes squeeze kerberized NFS servers unusable with newer clients (e.g., wheezy). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
this properly requires backporting patches to both nfs-utils and krb5. Could you provide a reference for the krb5 patch? (I assume the nfs-utils one is the one Luk already linked to) I'm potentially willing to help with getting this int a stable update. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Steve == Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: Steve Hi Sam, I've also run into this bug, in the context of Steve preparing to update nfs-utils in Ubuntu for IPv6 support. My Steve NFS server is running squeeze

Re: support for making linux-libc-dev coinstallable under multiarch

2011-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Ben, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 12:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hello, This is the patch from bug #750585 on the linux package, which I've just gotten a freeze exception for; I've been told to send it to the mailing list

Bug#603858: Mount options for proc conflict with /etc/fstab breaking /etc/init.d/mountall.sh

2010-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
of that. This is the only symptom you describe, and that's certainly not critical! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#600937: Please disable /etc/kernel postinst hook if the target kernel is non-modular

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
-initramfs itself to not fail on a non-modular kernel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
overlooked; but we shouldn't hold up our call for upgrade testing waiting for such logs to appear, in the absence of some other evidence of a problem when using grub. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, even DDs who should know better often upgrade without reading the release notes. Conversely, if you disagree that there's any reason for the kernel to declare a Breaks: against the old bootloaders, then I disagree that we should document this in the release notes either. :) Thanks, -- Steve

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
of caution; if lenny grub really doesn't need to be added to the Breaks, please close again - but please also let me know why, so we can write the release notes appropriately.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
stipulates that each configuration file has one and only one owning package. Supporting this for the benefit of third-party or local packages sounds like a wishlist bug to me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
, this would not have been silently overwritten. And nfs-kernel-server calling ucfr wouldn't have saved you from this anyway, because the documented standard use of ucf is to call ucfr *after* calling ucf; so a failure from ucfr would come too late to avoid updating /etc/exports. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#593421: More info, change of severity

2010-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
for the difficulty you're experiencing, but that does not meet the definition of a 'grave' bug. A grave bug is when the package is unusable *in general*, not when it is unusable on a particular piece of hardware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
and seeing what bug reports come back. I'm definitely in favor of adding the Breaks. Doing this should shorten the squeeze release notes' upgrade instructions by about 20%. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
override in this case because I think there's real room for improvement. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#590923: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#590923: smbclient: Mounted directory does not show all directories or hung up

2010-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 590923 grave thanks On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:48:34AM +0200, Jaekle, Andreas wrote: the whole system hang up. I have to reboot the machine. Ok, raising the severity of the bug back to grave. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:27:40AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:51:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Only because it's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that causes initramfs-tools to be pulled into the essential set (which I do

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 07:57:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Maybe since awk is essential by way of being a pre-depends of base-files both mawk and gawk should behave as if they were essential. No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
to be pulled into the essential set (which I do not), this is a cdebootstrap bug for not fulfilling the pre-depends of the essential packages before continuing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:10:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 06:38:41AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: O: Selecting previously deselected package mawk. O: dpkg: regarding .../mawk_1.3.3

Bug#581377: initramfs-tools: Multipath does not load correctly at boot time

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
a symbolic link in lib64 pointing to lib/multipath the initializing of the multipaths works. I hope this helps to find the Bug. Almost certainly a bug in the multipath-tools package or its initramfs hook, not in initramfs-tools. Reassigning. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Bug#569250: [initramfs-tools] Please add plymouth compatibility

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
other components need to be started before it in order to get the desired results (namely, the udev and framebuffer scripts). But the plymouth package in Debian doesn't install a script to start plymouth /at all/ in the initramfs. That's not a bug in initramfs-tools. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#566192: initramfs-tools: md0 device not recognized at boot after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
of the mdadm hook, not of initramfs-tools itself. Reassigning. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Re: Upgrade script for libata transition

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
about getting feedback for alpha, I'd suggest mailing debian-al...@lists.debian.org. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: Linux image packages going to depend on python

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
. python-minimal is an artifact inherited from the Ubuntu packaging, where the package is Essential: yes and python is Priority: important. Nothing should depend on python-minimal except for python itself, in Debian *or* in Ubuntu; to do so is contrary to the express wishes of python upstream. -- Steve

Bug#553922: cryptsetup: lvm is not available lock up at boot

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
package being removed from your system? (This happened to me here - fortunately I noticed the problem when trying to create a snapshot, and didn't have to wait for a reboot to discover it...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#553472: linux-libc-dev: Include linux/aufs_type.h for aufs2-utils?

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
think it's better to include it here, especially considering Debian derivatives. Does Ubuntu include it in linux-libc-dev? No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
work. It even leads to data corruption. See #545517 Since I remove KMS (ie since my bug report), I had no problem at all (with many many suspend-resume cycles) Results vary, then; with my Intel 945, KMS in 2.6.31-rc8 is much more stable than EXA has been in the recent past. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
: 0 tx_single_collisions: 0 tx_multi_collisions: 0 unicast: 284 broadcast: 8 multicast: 1 tx_aborted: 0 tx_underrun: 0 # Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
]); RTL_W32(MAR0 + 4, mc_filter[1]); RTL_W32(RxConfig, tmp); to: RTL_W32(RxConfig, tmp); RTL_W32(MAR0 + 0, mc_filter[0]); RTL_W32(MAR0 + 4, mc_filter[1]); in rtl_set_rx_mode(). Applied, rebuilt; doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. -- Steve Langasek

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
show you the best places to find good beer too. :-) I'm cc:ing him anyway. Yep, I'll be here, and I think beer might be arranged. :-) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
with waldi's Luk: no. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
[1573779.83] r8169: Set MAC Reg C+CR Offset 0x82h = 0x01h [1573780.57] r8169: eth0: link down [1573780.57] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [1573781.34] r8169: eth0: link up [1573781.34] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready -- Steve Langasek

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
people are able to commit, so I would suggest trying to reach a yes/no on this particular idea in the next week or so. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Bug#539767: alsa-base: drop blacklist of snd-pcsp

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Langasek
the alsa-base maintainers agree with you that this makes the package unsuitable for release, in which case they can raise the severity again.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Bug#352765: linux-2.6: wrong drivers for tulip PCI IDs on alpha?

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
that you don't have to worry about it, but don't close it so that it can't be found. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#535130: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: fails with lenny's udev

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Depends: on udev outright. The use case for a recent Linux system without udev is diminishingly small. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#533895: linux-image-2.6.26-2-r4k-ip22: Unable to Access Hardware Clock

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
have to install udev? You ought to be using udev, on any modern Linux system. (As for downgrading to an old kernel - any kernel that doesn't support the new rtc system is also not supported by the glibc in squeeze.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Bug#528399: linux-image-2.6-k7: K7-Image not availble

2009-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:35:52PM +0200, Francis Debord wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6-k7 Version: 2.6.26.lenny Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software This does not break anything. The i686 image works fine on k7 systems. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:23:35PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: Also, SUSv3 is different from POSIX; TTBOMK, SUSv3 includes all the XSI extensions, while POSIX leaves them as options. Yes; policy currently specifies SUSv3. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Bug#347186: linux-image-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic: Matroxfb alpha

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
'? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:44:16PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:52:07PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: --- initramfs-tools-0.93.2/update-initramfs.orig 2009-04-20 14:50:15.0 -0600 +++ initramfs-tools

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:20:49PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: Is 'command -v' in SUSv3? 'which' is the predominant idiom used in maintainer scripts... it is supported by dash as builtin. Which isn't what I asked. We shouldn't be using non

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
aren't supposed to be hard-coded in maintainer scripts at all? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Bug#516734: linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64: Dependency on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 cannot be meet

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
already and rejected by the ftp team for debian/copyright irregularities. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Bug#515826: your mail

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
, but we can certainly put this on the list for documenting in the release notes for Debian 5.0.1. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#515956: linux-image-2.6.26-1-alpha-generic: 2.6.26-1-alpha-generic fails to boot on DS10 (Tsunami)

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
for 5.0.1. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Bug#516015: lenny kernel does not boot Alpha architecture

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
more debugging info I can provide. Please check whether this is the same as bug #515956. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#515826: your mail

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. Perhaps you could try passing virtual_root.force_probe=1 as a kernel option when booting the installer, to see if that fixes the problem for you? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#507710: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: CPU overload, Sound server fatal error.

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
maintainer to tell us what CPU overload means before we can treat this as a kernel bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Bug#313552: kernel-image-2.6.11-alpha: qla1280 driver doesn't work with ISP1020 (PCI ID: 1077:1020)

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:44:11PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:06:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:32:50PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: Could you please retest this with a current 2.6.14 or 2.6.15-rc (from experimental) image

Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

2008-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 483781 -wontfix thanks How is a mount helper supposed to address this? Having anything other than utf8 exposed on the vfs is broken, so it needs to be mounted as utf8; the fact that mounting as utf8 breaks vfat case-insensitivity is a bug in the vfat kernel driver. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
missing something? Yes, you are. A kernel loaded at the legacy address *won't boot* on the newer hardware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#503020: linux-image: tcp_dsack causes hangs when using proxy server

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
://www.zdziarski.com causes the web page to hang every other query. disabling net.ipv4.tcp_dsack seems to resolve the problem, leaving me to believe something might be wrong in how linux handles dupe sacks. This is probably http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11721. -- Steve Langasek

Re: snd-pcsp vs pcspkr

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 01:19:37PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: One of the following modules have to go, both claims the same hardware: - snd-pcsp - pcspkr Are we meant to be voting? snd-pcsp sounds terrible, I think it should go away. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-4

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
team is actively working on getting 2.6.26 into testing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:40:31AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: On 13:15 Sun 24 Aug , Steve Langasek wrote: SL severity 496410 important SL thanks You are mistake :) Your script places in /usr/sbin, ie it runs with root privs. If I create symlink /etc/shadow - /tmp/eglog and You

Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
to be a DoS symlink attack; therefore downgrading. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel package irregularities

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
image package (if it were actually fully functional) be shareable for both dom0 and domU? But then, in that case I would expect the image package to also include various non-hardware-related modules that are useful in a domU context. shrug -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-3

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
the work themselves. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
. If there's not a DFSG violation here, then there is no bug that the kernel team has any reason to fix. It is definitely not in our interests to diverge from upstream over such an issue. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Seems ok, any regression is going to be very localized. If someone can take care of patching the two issues mentioned above, then I'm happy with a 2.6.26 upload to unstable. Otherwise I'll work on the patch myself tomorrow night. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Bug#492301: severity of 492301 is normal

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33 # recommends are not serious severity 492301 normal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
you gotten any closer to finding the cause of this regression? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL

Re: imminent 2.6.26 sid upload

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
to be an option for lenny, and the sooner we get 2.6.26 into unstable the sooner we can get everything smoothed out for lenny. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#490293: linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686: CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
, please use CIFS). Just follow it and use cifs. No, we've already discussed this on IRC. CONFIG_SMB_FS should not be disabled in etch, the userspace support isn't there to give us feature parity via CIFS. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#404927: Fw: ICP/Adaptec 5085BR emits similar symptoms (group floppy)

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
DRIVER is empty in the first place. Using 2.6.24-1-686 (from etch-backports). Bernhard -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Bug#480295: [alpha] missing asm/page.h

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
when maintained in-tree. What's the best way forward here? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Re: Bug#480295: [alpha] missing asm/page.h

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 09:50:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 05:51:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: /usr/include/asm/page.h is _not_ provided by linux-libc-dev, but exclusivly used by /usr/include

Bug#484824: initramfs-tools: seems not to build usable initrd, even with MODULES=most in initramfs.conf boot fails (xfs)

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
the whole system Overinflated severity. initramfs-tools: seems not to build usable initrd, even with MODULES=most in initramfs.conf boot fails (xfs) You'll need to show a transcript of this boot failure for anyone to help diagnose it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Bug#242866: Closure

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:26:03AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Rest assured that max speaks on behalf of the Debian _kernel_ team, not all of Debian. No, he speaks on behalf of himself. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Processed: info that it has *not* been dealt with

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
to close bugs in contradiction of fact. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#481363: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: udev incorrectly renames some wireless cards

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
renamed into eth2, now became wlan0_rename (sic). Also, colleague experiences similar issues with his ipw3945 card. This is bug #465775 in udev. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Bug#478751: linux-headers-2.6.25-1-686: missing dependency linux-kbuild-2.6.25

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
of this package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#475310: ipw3945d: clear udev rules after remove

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
; this should be handled in udev, which needs to be able to correct the rules there that are only compatible with old modules. There is a corresponding (release-critical) bug in Ubuntu about this issue; please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/183968. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#474670: initramfs-tools: [alpha] boot failure with linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
to dig into it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No wifis detected

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Maks, Could you please provide a rationale when downgrading bugs like this? To an outside observer, it looks to me as if this module package truly is unusable or mostly so as a result of this bug. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: why aren't linux-latest packages updated yet in Sid?

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
in unstable. Why? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why aren't linux-latest packages updated yet in Sid?

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:10:42PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:25:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Which means that linux-latest was never updated at all for the 2.6.23 series in unstable. Why? there is no 2.6.23 left in sid. Duh. I asked why it *wasn't

Bug#462221: severity of 462221 is important

2008-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.12 # hardware-specific, does not affect amd64 in general severity 462221 important -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435413: oops when Windows server sent bad domain name null terminator

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
written with this use case in mind, to the point that the semantics of specifying user mounts via /etc/fstab are subtly annoying.) The Debian package ships with this feature enabled, so we should treat this bug accordingly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: installing kernel on vfat fs failed

2007-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
installer forbid installation of /boot (and / and /usr and /var ...) on filesystem types that don't support Unix semantics? If not, it should. I think the kernel package is the wrong layer at which to check for this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#454604: linux-2.6: Xen kernel packages for 2.6.22

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
be worth to take a look there and see if they have it done. Stephen Frost pointed out that Ubuntu has Xen support for 2.6.22 in gutsy. There don't yet appear to be kernel images for 2.6.23 or better in hardy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: .config 2.6.24 i386/amd64 discussions

2007-12-01 Thread Steve Langasek
power savings as a result of tickless. Perhaps standard and performance would be better descriptors here? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

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