Serious problem after tetex security update
Hi! After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently need it! Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious problem after tetex security update
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently need it! I found the solution. There is a bug in the new package: /usr/share/texmf/web2c does not link to /var/lib/texmf/web2c (as it should) but to /var/lib/texmf/web2 (note the missing c). As a result the link wasn't even created in my case. (There was no /usr/share/texmf/web2c after the security update.) Is it enough to report that here, or should I report it somewhere else too? Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious problem after tetex security update
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incoming from Andreas Goesele: I found the solution. There is a bug in the new package: /usr/share/texmf/web2c does not link to /var/lib/texmf/web2c (as it Odd. It worked for me (though I haven't tried any LaTeX commands): (0) keeling /home/keeling/.mozilla/plugins_ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/web2c /var/lib/texmf/web2c /var/lib/texmf/web2 ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Nov 25 11:06 /usr/share/texmf/web2c - /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ This link wasn't created in my case. But maybe I was wrong about the reason. Just to test it I reinstalled the new package and this time there was no problem. The wrong link to the non-existing /var/lib/texmf/web2 in the package might be irrelevant as the right link should be created by the postinst script. (Anyway, so it seems to me.) No idea why the link wasn't created when I first updated the package. But as long nobody else gets the same problem I assume there is no bug ... Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will kernel-image-2.4.23 be available ?
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/mm/[EMAIL PROTECTED] i see other code fragments that has a similar PAGE_ALIGN() problem - sounds like the macro needs to be cleaned up ? Sorry, this comment was a little too cryptic for me. Could you expand a little bit on it? Do you want to imply in any way that this patch wouldn't be enough to secure the kernel? If so, why? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will kernel-image-2.4.23 be available ?
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/mm/[EMAIL PROTECTED] i see other code fragments that has a similar PAGE_ALIGN() problem - sounds like the macro needs to be cleaned up ? Sorry, this comment was a little too cryptic for me. Could you expand a little bit on it? Do you want to imply in any way that this patch wouldn't be enough to secure the kernel? If so, why? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana
strange entry in /etc/init.d
Hi, unexpectedly I found my LANG locale env variable change. I took a look into /etc/environment and found as last entry: LANG=C I found this strange as I thought for bash one would write export LANG=C (or LANG=C and then export LANG) and my own entry export [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't changed. The file was modified while the machine was unattended and downloading or possibly starting to install for an apt-get update. Is it possible that some package would add such a line to my /etc/environment? What package could that be? Or should I worry about an intruder? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange entry in /etc/init.d
Hi, unexpectedly I found my LANG locale env variable change. I took a look into /etc/environment and found as last entry: LANG=C I found this strange as I thought for bash one would write export LANG=C (or LANG=C and then export LANG) and my own entry export [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't changed. The file was modified while the machine was unattended and downloading or possibly starting to install for an apt-get update. Is it possible that some package would add such a line to my /etc/environment? What package could that be? Or should I worry about an intruder? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele
Why do I get mail for root of sunbird.aimcomm.com?
Hi, all of you probably got the following mail: From: Tim Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:02:45 + (GMT) Subject: Re: root's home world readable (part 24 of 24) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following content: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running OK, I kind of understand, why I got this one: It came over the list. But I got a bunch of messages to root (and some privileged user) of sunbird.aimcomm.com which did not come over the list. How is this possible? Andreas Goesele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do I get mail for root of sunbird.aimcomm.com?
Hi, all of you probably got the following mail: From: Tim Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:02:45 + (GMT) Subject: Re: root's home world readable (part 24 of 24) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following content: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running OK, I kind of understand, why I got this one: It came over the list. But I got a bunch of messages to root (and some privileged user) of sunbird.aimcomm.com which did not come over the list. How is this possible? Andreas Goesele
