Bug#1061095: linux-image-6.6.11-amd64: 2.5gbit USB device with r8152 chipset only does 100baset

2024-01-17 Thread Russell Coker
Package: src:linux Version: 6.6.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream [51076.208113] r8152-cfgselector 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd [51076.236596] r8152 2-1:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8156b-2.fw [51076.258622] r8152 2-1:1.0: ram code speedup

Bug#983839: linux-image-5.10.0-3-amd64: /proc/kallsyms shouldn't be readable by non-root

2021-03-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.13-1 Severity: normal $ wc /proc/kallsyms 168114 567685 7891149 /proc/kallsyms https://dustri.org/b/spectre-exploits-in-the-wild.html The above article says that Fedora no longer makes kallsyms available to unprivileged users to make attacks on the kernel more

Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed

2020-10-22 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.139 Severity: minor No gzip in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip When COMPRESS=zstd is in the configuration file but zstd is not installed I get the above error. It should say "No zstd" -- Package-specific info: -- initramfs sizes -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18M

Bug#959070: klibc-utils: fstype falsely claims to need an executable stack

2020-04-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: klibc-utils Version: 2.0.7-1 Severity: normal root@sevm:~/pol# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/sda2 Segmentation fault root@sevm:~/pol# execstack -c /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype root@sevm:~/pol# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/sda2 FSTYPE=btrfs FSSIZE=719360278528 The fstype program is

Re: Debian kernel bugs

2019-04-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday, 15 March 2019 1:44:58 AM AEST Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 04:35 +0000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is there an archive of all the kernels that have been uploaded to Unstable > > that I could do a binary search on and find out which version had the > &

Re: Debian kernel bugs

2019-03-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday, 15 March 2019 1:44:58 AM AEDT Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 04:35 +0000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is there an archive of all the kernels that have been uploaded to Unstable > > that I could do a binary search on and find out which version had the > &

Debian kernel bugs

2019-03-14 Thread Russell Coker
When I run my work laptop (latest Thinkpad Carbon X1) with the kernel from Testing it fails to resume from suspend about 30% of the time. When I use the kernel from Stable (with Testing userspace) it runs correctly. Do you have any ideas for how I could track this down? It fails when it's not

Bug#862013: initramfs-tools-core: /run tmpfs size hardcoded at 10% RAM, but 16.0 MiB free required in /run/systemd

2017-06-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 4:19:56 AM AEST Michael Biebl wrote: > > Now what can we do about /dev and /sys/fs/cgroup neither of which needs to > > be 24G in size on a system with 48G of RAM? Should I open a new bug > > report about this? > > What exactly would that solve? > Neither of those are

Bug#862013: initramfs-tools-core: /run tmpfs size hardcoded at 10% RAM, but 16.0 MiB free required in /run/systemd

2017-06-26 Thread Russell Coker
For /run specifying the number of inodes is also a good idea. For a system with 160M of RAM it will default to 20480 inodes which may be more than you want on a system with less than the recommended amount of RAM. tmpfs /run tmpfs nosuid,noexec,size=20M,nr_inodes=4096 0 0 The above might be

Bug#862013: also it can be too big

2017-06-17 Thread Russell Coker
On systems with large amounts of RAM allocating 10% for /run is also undesirable. My latest server has 48G of RAM (not really big by server standards) and I don't want a runaway process writing to /run to consume 4.8G of RAM before it is stopped. /dev has no size specified in

Bug#859692: initramfs-tools: should depend on busybox

2017-04-05 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.127 Severity: important # dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64 /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-amd64 E: busybox or busybox-static, version 1:1.22.0-17~ or later, is required but not installed

Re: [DSE-Dev] CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE

2017-04-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 11:46:59 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Dear kernel maintainer, do you have an idea about this? > > It's been that way in Debian since at least 2005. So anyone who has a > working SELinux policy for Debian must have taken this behaviour into > account. > > Maybe we'll go with

Bug#849247: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: module bochs_drm does not respect nomodeset

2016-12-23 Thread Russell Coker
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.11-1 Severity: normal I am running a KVM server without X11 or VNC access, so I want a plain text console for all VMs. When running a Debian/Unstable Dom0 qemu provides the new bochs virtual hardware interface by default, the kernel loads the driver for that,

Re: Linux kernel version for jessie

2014-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:32:55 Ben Hutchings wrote: This will be Linux 3.16, due to be released in early August. Release candidates for Linux 3.16 are already packaged and available in the experimental suite. Do you plan to back-port BTRFS changes to 3.16? I'm thinking of filing a bug report

Bug#756714: linux-image-3.14-2-amd64: kernel BUG at /build/linux-C0Ywsc/linux-3.14.13/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:540

2014-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
Package: src:linux Version: 3.14.13-2 Severity: normal This happened in the Dom0 of a Xen server running the Linux and Xen kernels from Unstable. Nothing unusual happeneed apart from the BUG. -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.14-2-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc

Re: Linux kernel version for jessie

2014-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:35:55 Ben Hutchings wrote: I'm thinking of filing a bug report against the Debian-installer package to warn people about BTRFS. I don't believe that BTRFS in 3.15 is suitable for a typical Debian user and I don't know how good 3.16 will be. Do you think some

Bug#746325: linux-image-3.14-trunk-amd64: Kernel panic running Xen

2014-04-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-3.14-trunk-amd64 Version: 3.14.1-1~exp1 Severity: important Below is the kernel message log from a panic when running Xen. Because of this I had to move back to an earlier kernel. On the same server kernel 3.12.9-1 has worked well for me and I'm now trying 3.13.10-1. Apr

Re: NSA software in Debian

2014-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs wrote: I would also like this. Yesterday I started compiling 3.2.54 with grsec and PaX. A ready debian kernel(-source) with grsec and PaX would be fine. Currently I am distributing my special packages via my own repository - is there

Bug#696223: linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64: USB keyboard and mouse stop working

2012-12-18 Thread Russell Coker
Package: src:linux Version: 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal On two systems running this kernel I've had the USB keyboard and mouse stop working. Both keyboard and mouse stop working at the same time, unplugging them and plugging them in again doesn't help. The systems both work

Bug#695886: still a problem with 3.6-trunk-amd64

2012-12-15 Thread Russell Coker
I've attached the output of dmesg after mounting the filesystem in question with 3.6-trunk-amd64 from experimental and then running ls -l on the root of the filesystem in question. 3.6 is a significant improvement in that although the filesystem is mounted read-only I can access at least some

Bug#695886: 3.2.35-1 crashes too

2012-12-13 Thread Russell Coker
I've just tested version 3.2.35-1 from unstable and it crashes in the same way. I've attached dmesg output from 3.2.35-1 crashing. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Bloghttp://doc.coker.com.au/ dmesg.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: Wasn't it once the case with PaX that packages have to be compiled specially? Or some ELF headers added or so? Some shared libraries have code which can't be run without an executable stack, it's a small number of

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: Whilte it may help the kernel team to not have to worry about problems in the grsec flavor when preparing uploads, preventing delays for the non-grsec images. But, that just pushes the coordination down a ways - for stable updates we

Bug#654206: linux-image-3.0.0-2-amd64: max_batch_time doesn't seem to work

2012-01-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.0.0-6 Severity: normal According to mount(*) the max_batch_time parameter for mounting an ext4 filesystem has a default value of 15000. When I try using it with values of 1 and 2 it appears to not work: # mount -o loop,max_batch_time=1 test /mnt/tmp #

Bug#582972: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Inserting rtl819xU USB wireless device twice caused kernel error

2010-05-24 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-13 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-12) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-10) ) #1 SMP Mon May 3 10:42:25 UTC 2010 I inserted the USB wireless device, found it to not

Bug#579081: linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-686: fails to boot with xenhopt=dom0_mem=256000

2010-04-24 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-10 Severity: normal This problem concerns the Xen 2.6.32 kernel not booting when running Xen with dom0_mem set to less than 335000 (33 fails). After the Xen kernel loads it doesn't appear to even start executing Linux kernel code, it just blanks the screen

Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

2010-02-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream to the kernel.org

Bug#567591: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: kernel package should conflict with lvm2 package from Lenny

2010-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: When I ran apt-get dist-upgrade it aborted because it tried to upgrade udev first and the kernel wasn't new enough.  So I ran apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 which worked but then it didn't recognise the LVM

Bug#567591: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: kernel package should conflict with lvm2 package from Lenny

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 Version: 2.6.32-5 Severity: normal I have just done an upgrade from Lenny to Testing. When I ran apt-get dist-upgrade it aborted because it tried to upgrade udev first and the kernel wasn't new enough. So I ran apt-get install

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Russell Coker
is to never buy new hardware except in the case of systems that break, and in that case I'll buy at auction - which probably means systems that are 2+ years old. -- Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/category/security/ My Security blog

Bug#548838: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: cdc_acm causes loss of keyboard access when device is removed

2009-09-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 Version: 2.6.26-19 Severity: normal I use the cdc_acm driver to access the Internet via my LG U990 Viewty mobile phone. About 50% of the time when I unplug the Viewty from the USB port (after running poff to stop using the device) the keyboard of my Thinkpad

Bug#445849: can't seem to reproduce this

2009-05-21 Thread Russell Coker
I performed the test as described with kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 and it worked OK. I couldn't test 2.6.26-2 due to other bugs, but unless there has been a regression (which I doubt) I think that this one is fixed. -- Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My

Bug#529870: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Kernel panic when using SE Linux

2009-05-21 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 Version: 2.6.26-15lenny2 Severity: important In my tests the latest 2.6 kernels for i386 (both Xen and non-Xen) and for AMD64 Xen will crash if SE Linux is enabled. The crash occurs even if SE Linux is in permissive mode, so the kernel parameter selinux=0 is

Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 28 December 2008 03:28, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:06:50PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-7 Severity: normal I'm running this kernel on my EeePC 701. When I tell the system to halt

Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

2008-12-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:05, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: It doesn't seem to happen all the time. In the past it had seemed to happen every time (but perhaps I had just got unlucky), now it seems to fail to halt about 70% of the time. Could it be that the presence of the

Bug#496967: similar problems on my EeePC

2008-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
When booting kernel 2.6.25-7 on my EeePC 701 about 50% of the time the machine will hang at the setting clock stage. This sounds similar to the problem described here and in #479709. Also when I try to boot kernel 2.6.26-3 the machine will abruptly power-down shortly after I enter the

Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

2008-07-27 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-7 Severity: normal I'm running this kernel on my EeePC 701. When I tell the system to halt it shuts down almost everything (the screen goes off) and then hangs. It leaves one LED on and produces some heat as the only indications that it's not

Bug#338405: closed by mistake?

2008-05-29 Thread Russell Coker
reopen 338405 thanks I don't want a boot splash system, so therefore splashy won't fix any initramfs bugs for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472584:

2008-03-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 06:26, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:11:38AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: I think it's reasonable to expect a Lenny kernel to work in the same manner as an Etch kernel and to consider any failure to do so to be a bug. Well

Bug#472584:

2008-03-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 31 March 2008 04:57, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you know how to report bugs. Pardon, this does not even include the minimal information to say anything, e.g. the kernel command line as specified in the xen config file. From the symptoms I would say you want to

Bug#410480: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686: PAE breaks Pentium-M CPUs

2007-02-10 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-10 Severity: important The change from linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-686 to linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686 of enabling PAE prevents operation on Pentium-M systems and other 686 machines that lack PAE. The number of 686 class machines with 4G

Bug#338405: another patch

2006-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:33, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well the patch description is different to the patch itself. kinit is not used in initramfs-tools and is not removed in the patch below, what you remove are dash and minips from klibc-utils. Sorry for the

Bug#338405: another patch

2006-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 31 December 2006 23:47, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as you agree that the busybox utitilites are not functional ident, i queue that patch for postetch. there should be enough time to poke new busybox upstream to merge such patches. OK, post-etch will do. I'll write

Bug#338405: another patch

2006-12-30 Thread Russell Coker
The attached patch creates a new config option ONLY_BUSYBOX which can be set if you want to use busybox instead of kinit. It saves over 200K of compressed size on my system. I believe that this should be included, it doesn't stop kinit being used, merely provides another option. ---

Bug#402499: initramfs-tools: depmod wastes space and time, please replace it with a modules.dep file

2006-12-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 11 December 2006 20:57, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The major issue is that the depmod program is simply larger than a full modules.dep file when compressed. Given that most sane configurations will not have the complete set of kernel modules (I use modules=list

Bug#338405: another patch for busybox support

2006-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
The following will significantly reduce the size of an initramfs when busybox is used while also enabling all busybox commands (handy if you have an option to run a shell from the initramfs for recovery). In spite of what maks thinks, the busybox option is still there, so it should be made to

Bug#396169: linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686: Does not support PC serial ports

2006-10-30 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686 Severity: important It seems that one serial port is supported for a console, but the other serial port (two ports was a standard feature in PCs until very recently) is not supported in any way. If you want to use a modem, UPS, or other device that connects

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

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-08-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 31 July 2005 03:00, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it doesn't. If you have a working Debian system with root on LVM and install kernel 2.6.13-rc4 then it won't boot. This is due to a bug in initrd-tools so I don't think that the bug should be reassigned (not

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-07-30 Thread Russell Coker
The 2.6.13 rc kernels have devfs removed. Debian won't support 2.6.13 until this problem is fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-07-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 30 July 2005 23:42, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:22:31PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: The 2.6.13 rc kernels have devfs removed. Debian won't support 2.6.13 until this problem is fixed. Debian works just fine without devfs once installed

Re: IDE drivers

2005-06-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 02 June 2005 00:46, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fedora kernel binary packages have IDE compiled into the kernel, presumably to work around this problem. I guess that this indicates a bug in the kernel.org source. But while we wait for that to be fixed I

IDE drivers

2005-05-31 Thread Russell Coker
On a couple of machines I've found that having IDE drivers built as modules (as is done in the Debian kernel binary packages) will result in DMA not being usable and performance sucking (3MB/s maximum transfer rate). On the same machine using a kernel with the IDE drivers compiled in (with

Bug#280571: This prevents use of root=/dev/other-vg/root

2005-01-17 Thread Russell Coker
Generally we want to support as many possibilities for configuring a system as possible, both for regular use and system recovery. Using an initrd with a root file system on a VG other than the one that the initrd was created for should work. With the current mkinitrd script it does not.

cobalt kernel patch for 2.6.x

2004-07-01 Thread Russell Coker
http://www.no-l.org/pages/cobalt-patch.html At the above URL there is a patch against the Debian 2.6.6 kernel to support Cobalt hardware. I have also uploaded a kernel patch package to Debian with it. It seems to work OK, and it would be good if we could get it included upstream... --