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2013-09-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: unarchive 655944 Bug #655944 {Done: Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org} [linux-2.6] linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64: Kernel threads use significant amount of CPU Unarchived Bug 655944 reopen 655944 Bug #655944 {Done: Moritz Mühlenhoff j...@inutil.org}

Bug#709989: (no subject)

2013-09-09 Thread James Bennet
I saw a similar issue. Wheezy KVM host (Doesn't do anything else) with squeeze VMs (Latest packages on host - Kernel was stock Debian one). All filesystems are ext3 (no ext4). This was the stacktrace from kern.log (anonymised to remove hostname): [406699.787067] general protection fault:

Re: The effect of the kernel version on am-utils

2013-09-09 Thread Yoram Bar Haim
using 3.x instead of 3.x.0 (when minor-minor version is 0) is done by kernel.org, so I suppose it makes sense for Debian to follow this scheme. it may be a good idea to run a test that logs all components calling uname, so they can be checked for version scheme bugs. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:46

Re: The effect of the kernel version on am-utils

2013-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:12 +0200, Yoram Bar Haim wrote: using 3.x instead of 3.x.0 (when minor-minor version is 0) is done by kernel.org, so I suppose it makes sense for Debian to follow this scheme. Actually, the '.0' is still included if you build a kernel without any stable updates and

Re: The effect of the kernel version on am-utils

2013-09-09 Thread Yoram Bar Haim
this work-around will make program think they run on top of 2.6.x kernel, which might be a bug if the program does have special behavior for 3.x.y On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:12 +0200, Yoram Bar Haim wrote: using 3.x

Bug#722263: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: efivarfs is not supported by the Debian kernel.

2013-09-09 Thread Hendrik Schwartke
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, we are trying to setup Debin Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot environment using our own keying material. To be able to write to the UEFI Secure Boot nvram from Linux we need support for the efivarfs. Unfortunately

Re: The effect of the kernel version on am-utils

2013-09-09 Thread Chris Boot
On 09/09/13 14:07, Yoram Bar Haim wrote: this work-around will make program think they run on top of 2.6.x kernel, which might be a bug if the program does have special behavior for 3.x.y With all due respect, it's a bug in a program if it crashes with a 3.x uname string. If it then also

Bug#722270: linux-image-3.10-2-amd64: Will only reboot if ehci_pci and ehci_hcd modules are unloaded

2013-09-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: src:linux Version: 3.10.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, my system will only reboot, e.g. from the gnome-shell menu, if I have forcefully unloaded the ehci_pci and ehci_hcd modules via rmmod before. Else, it simply changes to a VT and prints a line like The system is going to reboot NOW but

Re: The effect of the kernel version on am-utils

2013-09-09 Thread Yoram Bar Haim
Of course, this is a bug in the user-space compnent (libamu in this case), and sure, a code that crashes because it does not like the release string is a bad code, no argument about that. the idea of running a test to locate problematic component was not ment to be a responsibility of