Severity: normal On 08/26/2013 04:52 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Package: cpm > Version: 0.28-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > cpm 0.28-1 fails to start at all on i386 systems. No matter how it > is run, it just produces the errors: > > Failed to scan kernel release. (Success, 0) > Cannot drop root privileges. (684) > > It does work on amd64. I also tried 0.26-1, but it has the same > problem. >
Actually, it's not the architecture, but your kernel release which is the likely cause for this failure. This is upstream https://github.com/comotion/cpm/issues/35 Although this is a priority, it should not break all i386 systems. Please try out the following patch and see if it fixes the issue: diff --git a/security.c b/security.c index 4735636..52479b7 100644 --- a/security.c +++ b/security.c @@ -454,9 +454,14 @@ int check_kernel_version() }else if(!strncmp(uts.sysname, "Linux", 5)){ int maj,min,rel; if(sscanf(uts.release, "%d.%d.%d", &maj, &min, &rel) != 3) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s (%s, %d)\n", - _("Failed to scan kernel release."), - strerror(errno),errno); + // maybe it's a 3.10-rc3 release. + if(sscanf(uts.release, "%d.%d", &maj, &min) != 2) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s (%s, %d)\n", + _("Failed to scan kernel release."), + strerror(errno),errno); + return 0; + } + rel = 9; // instead of passing garbage }else{ //fprintf(stdout, "kernel rel: %d.%d\n", maj, min); if(maj > 2 ||
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