Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 131, Issue 7

2017-10-13 Thread John Johansen
On 10/11/2017 07:20 AM, Thomas Gertin wrote: > Thanks guys, > > Here are my CVE identifiers: > > CVE-2016-9843 > > CVE-2016-9842 > > CVE-2016-9841 > > CVE-2016-9840 > > I looked them up on the Ubuntu CVE tracker > (https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/) > > I am having trouble

Re: CVE-2017-1000364 kernel fix brake user-space programs

2017-06-23 Thread John Johansen
On 06/23/2017 12:52 PM, Nrbrtx wrote: > Dear Ubuntu developers! > > I can't understand how this happen, but your latest kernel upgrade broke many > user-space applications. > > For me this process was started from Scilab. I can't use it with new kernels > (linux-image-3.13.0-121-generic on

Re: Can we include HWE in the release version?

2016-04-06 Thread John Johansen
On 04/06/2016 02:32 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 6 April 2016 at 22:25, Xen wrote: >> Bryan Quigley schreef op 06-04-16 22:35: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The naming scheme of just "Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS" is no longer >>> meaningful when it comes to determining what

Re: Kernel releases

2015-07-30 Thread John Johansen
On 07/30/2015 11:49 AM, christopher.carl...@zodiacaerospace.com wrote: Thank you for your reply, Paul. BTW, I'm running 14.04.2 LTS.x86_64. I also don't always restart, but I presume the only reason we got a kernel update is because of a bug or security, which encourages me to restart.

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-04-29 Thread John Johansen
On 04/29/2015 07:55 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-04-29 10:44 PM, John Moser wrote: On 04/29/2015 10:36 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-04-29 12:42 AM, John Moser wrote: On 04/29/2015 12:40 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I am very happy with window controls on the correct (left)

Re: /boot/vmlinuz-* readable only by root, preventing userspace tools like libguestfs from using host kernel.

2014-05-22 Thread John Johansen
On 05/22/2014 01:24 AM, Robie Basak wrote: This will probably want the attention of the kernel team for a reply, so forwarding there. Is there maybe a security reason why it is arranged this way? I note that System.map is the same. It was done deliberately to make it harder for an attacker