Re: remotely exploitable buffer overflow

2006-03-22 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Geoff Crompton wrote: Security focus list a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17178 I can't find a CVE for it yet, so I cant see if you've got it under control on your subversion patch tracking page. It's the first time I've heard of that. Solar Designer

Bug#358153: testing (etch): cannot boot on software raid

2006-03-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Vegard Svanberg wrote: * maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-21 14:37]: The raid1 kernel module appears to be in the initrd image, but is not loaded. Loading it manually does not create /dev/md{012}. Grub has set root=/dev/md0. can you provide

Re: remotely exploitable buffer overflow

2006-03-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:08:03PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: Security focus list a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17178 This is wrong. The buffer overflow is limited to local users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The relevant commit in the upstream repository is

Bug#358288: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686: Cannot load module acpi-cpufreq with 2.6.16 on ThinkPad X41

2006-03-22 Thread Johannes Adams
Linux kernel version 2.6.16 broke cpufreq support for me. I can no longer load the module acpi-cpufreq, which means that software such as cpufreqd doesn't work. I had the same problem on a MSI s260 (Medion version). Loading the modules speedstep-centrino instead of acpi-cpufreq solved it for

Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4?

2006-03-22 Thread Martijn Pieters
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.56 Severity: grave After upgrading from initramfs-tools 0.55b to 0.56 my 2.6.15-1-686-smp system would no longer boot, and drop me into a busybox shell. Among the boot messages busybox had printed a help message for mknod (at a glance identical to the output of

Bug#358360: initramfs-tools: Doesn't find hdd (module ide-disk)

2006-03-22 Thread Michal Sojka
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.57b Severity: important The description of this bug is the same as for #344754. The only difference is the version of package. The solution presented in #344754 works in my case as well. The problem appears with standard Debian kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp. I

Bug#358365: installation: creating initrd with yaird fails

2006-03-22 Thread David Förster
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: important Installation fails with the following output: Setting up linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 (2.6.16-1) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: bad value in

Re: 2.6.16 released - 2.6.16-1

2006-03-22 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, should we upload 2.6.16-2 today, to get ia64 and hppa into the archive? Only m68k would be left then, and could be scheduled as 2.6.16-3 upload when it's done. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Processed: Re: Bug#358360: initramfs-tools: Doesn't find hdd (module ide-disk)

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 358360 morinfo unreproducible Unknown tag/s: morinfo. Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato woody sid help security upstream pending sarge sarge-ignore experimental d-i confirmed ipv6 lfs fixed-in-experimental

Bug#358360: initramfs-tools: Doesn't find hdd (module ide-disk)

2006-03-22 Thread maximilian attems
tags 358360 morinfo unreproducible severity 358360 normal stop On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Michal Sojka wrote: The description of this bug is the same as for #344754. The only difference is the version of package. The solution presented in #344754 works in my case as well. The

Bug#358365: installation: creating initrd with yaird fails

2006-03-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:11:15PM +0100, David Förster wrote: Installation fails with the following output: Setting up linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 (2.6.16-1) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: bad value in

Bug#358371: man page reference should not include full path

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.53 Severity: minor | See /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs(8) for further details. This is not very helpful... makes cutpaste hard. Can you please simply say mkinitramfs(8). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4?

2006-03-22 Thread maximilian attems
severity 358354 important tags 358354 moreinfo stop as works for lots others On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Martijn Pieters wrote: After upgrading from initramfs-tools 0.55b to 0.56 my 2.6.15-1-686-smp system would no longer boot, and drop me into a busybox shell. Among the boot

Processed: Re: Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4?

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 358354 important Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4? Severity set to `important'. tags 358354 moreinfo Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4? There were no tags set. Tags added: moreinfo stop as works for lots

Re: 2.6.16 released - 2.6.16-1

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frederik Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-22 14:36]: should we upload 2.6.16-2 today, to get ia64 and hppa into the archive? And mips/mipsel, which had a failure in -1 I couldn't predict. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

ATA_PIIX and initrd

2006-03-22 Thread Jose Luis Ayala
Hi guys! I don't know if you are working on the ata_piix bug that prevents me from using the IDE CDROM with the ATA HD... but it's making me going crazy! :) I've following the recommendations of making a new initrd file with the modules ide-generic ata_piix sd_mod and ordered in this way. Now,

Bug#358391: linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7: sendfile64 broken in vserver version

2006-03-22 Thread Lukasz Pankowski
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7 Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: normal Hi, After installing linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7 my http server working in a vserver stopped to serving static content (dynamic is served ok). strace shows the static content is served with sendfile64 which suggest

Bug#358397: initramfs-tools: Fails to install

2006-03-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.57b Severity: grave Hi, The package fails to install (failure to check if the image is modifiable), is the first part. Failure to install makes is unuseable. , | Errors were encountered while processing: | initramfs-tools | E: Sub-process

Re: Normal users can't build modules against kernel headers?

2006-03-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:00:43 +0100 Bas van Schaik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, I'm trying to package enbd (Enhanced Network Block Device) for Debian. This also includes building a module against the kernel headers for the client-side of the block device. Building the module on the

Bug#351623: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: seems to be fixed

2006-03-22 Thread Peter De Wachter
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 Version: 2.6.15-8 Followup-For: Bug #351623 Hello all, I've got no reiserfs problems with version 2.6.15-8. From the changelog, it looks like this is the relevant patch: * Add stable Release 2.6.15.5: - reiserfs: disable automatic enabling of reiserfs

Processed: Re: Bug#358365: installation: creating initrd with yaird fails

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Version: 0.0.12-4 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. notfound 2.6.16-1 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. reassign 358365 yaird 0.0.12-3 Bug#358365: installation: creating initrd with yaird fails Bug reassigned from

Bug#358360: initramfs-tools: Doesn't find hdd (module ide-disk)

2006-03-22 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 358360 important thanks On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:27:55PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: you seem to be running a mixture of testing and sid, that is _not_ supported. The dependencies say something else. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty!

Bug#358424: kernel-image-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp: sk98lin driver not finding my gigabit card

2006-03-22 Thread anarcat
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp Version: 2.6.8-16sarge1 Severity: wishlist The builtin sk98lin driver in that kernel cannot detect properly that gigabit card. sk98lin: No adapter found. Using the manufacturer driver works, however, and the card is properly detected:

Processing of linux-2.6_2.6.16-2_i386.changes

2006-03-22 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-2.6_2.6.16-2_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-2.6_2.6.16-2.dsc linux-2.6_2.6.16-2.diff.gz linux-doc-2.6.16_2.6.16-2_all.deb linux-manual-2.6.16_2.6.16-2_all.deb linux-patch-debian-2.6.16_2.6.16-2_all.deb

linux-2.6_2.6.16-2_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-image-2.6-386_2.6.16-2_i386.deb to pool/main/l/linux-2.6/kernel-image-2.6-386_2.6.16-2_i386.deb kernel-image-2.6-686-smp_2.6.16-2_i386.deb to pool/main/l/linux-2.6/kernel-image-2.6-686-smp_2.6.16-2_i386.deb kernel-image-2.6-686_2.6.16-2_i386.deb to

linux-2.6_2.6.16-1_s390.changes ACCEPTED

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-image-2.6-s390_2.6.16-1_s390.deb to pool/main/l/linux-2.6/kernel-image-2.6-s390_2.6.16-1_s390.deb kernel-image-2.6-s390x_2.6.16-1_s390.deb to pool/main/l/linux-2.6/kernel-image-2.6-s390x_2.6.16-1_s390.deb linux-headers-2.6-s390_2.6.16-1_s390.deb to

Processed: LSI/Megaraid RAID controller

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 334331 Bug#334331: LSI/Megaraid RAID controller Bug reopened, originator not changed. As per ubuntu bug 17388 linked to, this issue still exists for this Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. card in RAID5 mode, which uses the

Bug#348147: Patch version 3

2006-03-22 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, I've attached a third version of the patch. The changes to the init script have been removed and I intend to add the script/hooks files to the cryptsetup package instead (separate wishlist bug to be filed soon). Thus, the patch is reduced to a four-line change to scripts/functions, I

Bug#348147: LVM-Crypt

2006-03-22 Thread David Härdeman
Hadmut Danisch wrote: So before mounting /root the initram needs to scan for RAID, setup encryption, scan the LVM device and then mount / . The first two are already there with the patch, i.e. regular scanning is first done (RAID, LVM, EVMS, etc) and encryption is then setup. Currently, the

Bug#358502: snd_hda_intel needs position_fix=1 on my machine suddenly

2006-03-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: wishlist Not sure if there is a way to fix this or if its just yeah, hardware sucks but 2.6.16 makes snd_had_intel's position_fix=1 param quite needed. [Actually there was a little static, every once and a while, in previous kernel

Bug#334331: LSI/Megaraid RAID controller

2006-03-22 Thread Satadru Pramanik
As per ubuntu bug 17388 linked to, this issue still exists for this card in RAID5 mode, which uses the megaraid_mbox driver. Using the Debian Etch nightly Installer from March 15, 2006, I was able to install Etch on a Raid 5 volume, but the initramfs attempted to load the root fs before

Bug#358512: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp: kernel-headers seems to contain unconfigured kernel

2006-03-22 Thread Mau
Package: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable probably a bug in this package - module-assistant says 'Warning, /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1 seems to contain unconfigured kernel source!' Thanks - Mau -- System Information:

Bug#358153: There is a race in initramfs-tools

2006-03-22 Thread Jose Luis Rey
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.53c Followup-For: Bug #358153 By the time /scripts/local-top/md runs, there are no scsi devices created (at least in my machine with Adaptech cards). The problem is related to udev, lasting many seconds to create /dev/sd*. I solved the problem with a

Bug#358424: kernel-image-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp: sk98lin driver not finding my gigabit card

2006-03-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * anarcat [Wed, Mar 22 2006, 01:11:37PM]: Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp Version: 2.6.8-16sarge1 Severity: wishlist There is no point in reporting wishlist bugs against Stable kernels, they are not going to be fixed because Sarge is stable. The builtin sk98lin

Bug#358512: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp: kernel-headers seems to contain unconfigured kernel

2006-03-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Mau [Thu, Mar 23 2006, 01:01:22AM]: Package: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable probably a bug in this package - module-assistant says 'Warning, /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1 seems to contain

Bug#327355: DPL Debate prepared questions list [Debian Policy Sucks]

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-20 21:10]: Anthony, do you still see this bug with 2.6.15 or (better yet) 2.6.16? (will be uploaded tomorrow). 2.6.15, yes. I'll check 2.6.16 when it hits unstable (I'm guessing, though I still need to test, that the ide-tape cleanup in

Bug#358510: linux-image: SCSI/SATA boot problem

2006-03-22 Thread Glenn English
Package: linux-image Version: 2.6.?? i386 and amd64 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have 2 systems with SCSI system disks and SATA misc disks (P4 and AMD64). At install, I put / on the SCSI and the grub MBR on (hd0) (set to the SCSI in the BIOS). The installer wrote

Processed: Re: Bug#358510: linux-image: SCSI/SATA boot problem

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 358510 initramfs-tools 358510 Bug#358510: linux-image: SCSI/SATA boot problem Warning: Unknown package 'linux-image' Bug reassigned from package `linux-image' to `initramfs-tools'. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#351623: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: breaks reiserfs)

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:34:59 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#351623: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7: seems to be fixed has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the

Bug#358512: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp: kernel-headers seems to contain unconfigured kernel

2006-03-22 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Mau [Thu, Mar 23 2006, 01:01:22AM]: Package: linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable probably a bug in this package - module-assistant says 'Warning,

Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error

2006-03-22 Thread Jerry Quinn
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 Version: 2.6.16-2 Severity: important Installing this package failed as follows: Setting up perl-doc (5.8.8-3) ... Setting up rcconf (1.18) ... Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

Bug#350510: 2.6.16 does not fix situation for uhci_hcd/ehci_hcd

2006-03-22 Thread EspeonEefi
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.57b Followup-For: Bug #350510 I upgraded to the 2.6.16-1-686 that just landed in unstable, and I'd like to report that this bug still exists under 2.6.16 at least for uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-22 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, It is pretty obvious (to me, at least) that the need for the official packaging policy for the out-of-tree kernel modules is long overdue. As mentioned on the wiki page dedicated to it [0], the current situation is a mess. I would like to call for a formal discussion, which will eventually

Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reassign 358537 yaird thanks * Jerry Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-22 22:05]: Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: bad value in /boot/config-2.6.16-1-k7: CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xB000 (fatal) mkinitrd.yaird failed to

Bug#358537: This is apparently a dup of 358365

2006-03-22 Thread Jerry Quinn
It looks like the quick fix is to require yaird = 0.0.12-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: Re: Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error

2006-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 358537 yaird Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error Bug reassigned from package `linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7' to `yaird'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error

2006-03-22 Thread Jerry Quinn
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jerry Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-22 22:05]: Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: bad value in /boot/config-2.6.16-1-k7: CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xB000 (fatal) mkinitrd.yaird failed to create

Bug#358537: linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7: Install fails on yaird error

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
tags 358537 + fixed thanks * Jerry Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-22 23:16]: BTW, can you please try if initramfs-tools works? (it should) I found that yaird 0.0.12-8 fixes the problem. Do you still want me to try the initramfs-tools as well? If yaird work for you that's fine. --

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-22 Thread Joey Hess
Jurij Smakov wrote: * Automatic rebuilds (configurable) on kernel updates. Nothing fancy, just a transparent way to figure out whether the currently installed kernel module source is compatible with the new kernel, and attempt rebuild and installation, if neccessary. The thing I really

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-22 Thread Andres Salomon
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, It is pretty obvious (to me, at least) that the need for the official packaging policy for the out-of-tree kernel modules is long overdue. As mentioned on the wiki page dedicated to it [0], the current situation is a mess. I would like to call for a formal