Bug#919233: Install Guide vs. Secure Boot

2021-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
t booted fine for me in UEFI/SecureBoot mode. I thought >I >remembered reading (somewhere) that all recent debian installers (and live >systems??) can boot in legacy BIOS mode or UEFI mode with or without secure >boot. Ah, good catch. I'm checking on this now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Bug#981381: nmu: cdebootstrap_0.7.7+b13

2021-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: binnmu Hey folks, I've removed the hardcoded READSIZE limitation in libdebian-installer and uploaded that in version 0.121. To also fix this bug in cdebootstrap-static we'll need to binNMU this

Bug#980566: Crashes with python traceback if parsing ubuntu.csv

2021-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: lsb-release Version: 10.2019051400 Severity: normal Hi! lsb_release has two ways to work out distribution information, It first reads the data in /usr/lib/os-release to see if all the info it needs is there. If not, it falls back to working out the distribution from the contents of

Bug#980458: buster-pu: package debian-installer-utils/1.132+deb10u1

2021-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
upload + + [ Steve McIntyre ] + * Backport from unstable: +list-devices-linux: Support partitions on USB UAS devices +Closes: #980455 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:49:06 + + debian-installer-utils (1.132) unstable; urgency=high * Team upload dif

Bug#980455: d-i does not support running from USB UAS devices

2021-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i d-i does not recognise USB UAS drives such as the Corsair Voyager GTX flash drive, meaning it's impossible to use them for installation. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB flash drive Image version: Buster 10.7.0 amd64 DVD

Bug#980209: misclassified?

2021-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
ect. That's an odd one... Reassigning to the calamares-settings-debian package for Jonathan to see it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#980249: wiki.debian.org: 408 Request Timeout editing U-boot/Status

2021-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
dits with Firefox. The page saves and I reliably get a response in less than a second on both Save and Preview. Can you give us more information about your setup please? Are you using IPv4 or IPv6? Do you have any problems editing other pages? Any extensions installed that might have an eff

Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated

2021-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >Hmm, I wonder why the text is truncated at all... >> > >> >The whole text from the templat

Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated

2021-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Holger, On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 08:27:09PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> >When installing on an NVMe device, the message >> > >> >"The installer is now ov

Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated

2021-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
to write a terabyte of random data. >I suspect you can't do much about that though (... use RDRAND directly?). And as we discussed later, there's a separate bug for the performance issue. I'll look at that next. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@

Bug#976685: dash -x output seems broken

2020-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: dash Version: 0.5.11+git20200708+dd9ef66-2 Severity: important Hi, Reporting this on behalf of the upstream strace developers. They've noticed this bug, and I can confirm. It looks like the new version of dash is giving incorrect output when called with -x. Older version in buster: $

Bug#976617: Calamares allows me to select a username of "root"

2020-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: calamares Version: 3.2.4-3 Severity: normal Hi! I've just done a test installation using a 10.7.0 live image. Calamares will happily let me tell it I want my username on the new system to be "root". The installation continues happily for a while, then fails when useradd fails. It would

Bug#976481: libatomic-queue: FTBFS on arm64: hardware.hpp:25:6: error: #warning "No hardware_pause implementation available - falling back to local volatile noop." [-Werror=cpp]

2020-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
tsc" : "=a"(lo), "=d"(hi)); return (static_cast(hi) << 32) | static_cast(lo); } #elif defined(_M_AMD64) static inline std::uint64_t getticks(void) { return __rdtsc(); } #else // TODO - add support for more compilers! #error "Unsupported compi

Bug#976572: bio-eagle: FTBFS: MemoryUtils.hpp:34:10: fatal error: xmmintrin.h: No such file or directory

2020-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Either the package doesn't support non-x86, or there's a bug and it's mis-detecting which platform you're on. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty

Bug#921740: Pointless scans of the root filesystem at startup

2020-11-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 12:49:21AM +0100, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: >On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:28:25 +0000 >Steve McIntyre wrote: >>tack:~/debian/geeqie$ strace -f -o strace geeqie ~/*jpg >> >>(geeqie:6782): Gdk-ERROR **: 23:27:04.560: The program 'geeqie' >>rec

Bug#921740: Pointless scans of the root filesystem at startup

2020-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 01:24:47AM +0100, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: >On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:59:39 +0000 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>Hi Andreas! >> >>Thanks for looking into this for me! >> >>On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 04:23:12PM +0100, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: &g

Bug#975417: updating metadata for version tracking

2020-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: fixed -1 37-6 thanks -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#975425: buster-pu: package efivar/32-2+deb10u1

2020-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Adam, On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 08:52:20PM +, Adam Barratt wrote: >Control: tags -1 + confirmed > >Hi, > >On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 02:54 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'd like to upload a stable update for efivar, with two (sets of) >> fixes backported from

Bug#975425: buster-pu: package efivar/32-2+deb10u1

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
possible + segfault. ++ Add support for nvme-fabrics and nvme-subsystem devices. Closes: + #975417 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:03:59 + + efivar (37-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Cherry-pick fix from upstream: diff -Nru efivar-37/debian/p

Bug#975417: Fails to parse /sys/dev/block links for NVMe devices, fixed upstream

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:43:42AM +, Andy Smith wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:20:06AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Could I ask you to please try the package versions from >> >> https://people.debian.org/~93sam/efivar/ >> >>

Bug#975417: Fails to parse /sys/dev/block links for NVMe devices, fixed upstream

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
ask you to please try the package versions from https://people.debian.org/~93sam/efivar/ and confirm that they're good for you? Cheers, Steve -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell

Bug#945404: grub2-common: '/boot/grub/.background_cache.png' is not created on LUKS encrypted system

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
o /boot, after all... @Colin: thoughts? Patch attached for review. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have

Bug#975367: installation-report

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
>debootstrap: tar: can't open './usr/share/doc/gcc-8-base/ >README.Debian.amd64.gz' File exists >debootstrap: xscat: write: Broken pipe >debootstrap: ar: write error: Broken pipe This isn't going to work - you can't just install over an existing system like this. -- Steve McIntyre, C

Bug#921740: Pointless scans of the root filesystem at startup

2020-11-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;(I haven't packaged the git snapshot in Debian yet, because it looks >like a new upstream release is imminent). ACK. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Bug#957074: cdrkit: ftbfs with GCC-10

2020-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
If you're happy to take ove cdrkit for now, I'd be very happy. I don't have the time to care for it any more. Thomas has been doing a great job with xorriso and friends, so it would be lovely to see us no longer need to keep the old code around any more... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#973715: fwupd-amd64-signed: Uninstallable; not binNMU-friendly

2020-11-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
friendly. Please consider setting a version >> > > range to allow binNMU-ed package to satisfy the dependency >> > > relationship. >> >> Please consider reading https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU and see how can >> things be improved. >> >> Than

Bug#971697: Missing dependency on vine

2020-10-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: kombu Version: 4 Severity: important Hi! Kombu uses vine in several places, but the binary packages don't depend on it. #858540 added it as a build-dep to solve an FTBFS, but there's still no binary dependency. Looks like it's missing in setup.py? There's a dependency on python-amqp

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:08:59PM +0100, Janek Stolarek wrote: >Please disregard my last email completely - fault on my side. Secure Boot >works as expected. ACK, no worries. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer,

Bug#967918: (no subject)

2020-08-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:54:49AM +0100, Aperture wrote: >Patch has also been submitted in salsa as: > >https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-efi/-/merge_requests/1 ACK, thanks. Merged now, will do an upload shortly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#968051: Please include direct links to PGP public keys where possible

2020-08-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, Now that keyservers are not so useful any more, it's probably a good plan to directly publish public keys in the various places where we list key IDs / fingerprints etc.: * DAM in /intro/organization * CD signing keys in /CD/verify * Security team

Bug#966554: how to apply the workaround?

2020-08-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
partitions. No >windows. Separate /home partition. In case any of that is relevant.) > >So, it seems it's somehow stuck on efivars being full, when it isn't?! ACK. Please try a reboot, let's see if that helps. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval

Bug#966554: how to apply the workaround?

2020-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ates and buster-proposed-updates won't matter now. The grub packages are directly in the main buster repo. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

Bug#287876: Bug#276545: Bug#287876: File $HOME/.xsession-errors grows very large

2020-08-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
+fi + # attempt to create an error file; abort if we cannot if (umask 077 && touch "$ERRFILE") 2> /dev/null && [ -w "$ERRFILE" ] && [ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508b1001052395358323050350006 2. Warn if install_devices is empty? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Dropping the CC to Chad here ] On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:52:41PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Do we need to scan? if grub is installed and doing an upgrade and >>there is only one disk of an appropr

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
ting config in a config file that people can edit. We already store some of our stuff in /etc/default/grub, let's push more of our config there? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to

Bug#966575: Security update can break grub - grub_calloc not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 03:07:58PM +0100, Geoff Gibbs wrote: >On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:30:14 +0100 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I'm guessing - do you have multiple disks on your system? If so, try >> "grub-install " on each of the bootable disks and that should >>

Bug#966575: Security update can break grub - grub_calloc not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
ers are all handled by LVM I'm guessing - do you have multiple disks on your system? If so, try "grub-install " on each of the bootable disks and that should fix your problem. I think we need a proper fix for this in the longer term, but that's not going to happen overnight. -- Steve McInty

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
lem. If not, please get back to us ASAP and we'll try to debug the problem here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back

Bug#966575: grub-pc: error: symbol `grub_calloc' not found.

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
t. I remembered incorrectly. It’s just one >unencrypted F2FS formatted partition. How many disks do you have on your system, please? *If* you have more than one, there's a potential for grub-install to have not been run to install grub to all the MBRs, and then the BIOS finds an old copy of the GRU

Bug#966575: I was affected as well

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
. ACK. Same thing applies as I suggested to Paul - maybe an inconsistent set of updates. Have you *fixed* the problem by using the live boot? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Bug#966608: debian-cd: Daily iso flagged as virus/malware by Firefox

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
he same issue. ACK, thanks for reporting. It *is* a false positive - we are happy that we do not have a problem with malware. We've had a slew of similar complaints this week, all apparently triggered by Google's "safe browsing" service. We're trying to get it fixed at their en

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
he works. I installed the packages from the repo, >disabled Secure Boot, >and I can now boot into Windows without problems. Awesome, massive thanks for helping to test this for us! We'll get the fixed packages rolled up and released ASAP to replace the broken ones. -- St

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
ry contains >grub-efi-amd64-signed-template. Is that intentional? That's part of the Debian process for generating grub-efi-amd64-signed, it's no use to you. For now, uninstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed package that you have please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
allation to test dual-boot and that's going to take a while... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." -― Andy Weir, "The Martian"

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
think* we have identified the problem. Would you be able to test some locally-built (non-SB) grub binaries for me please? >Also, I have seen posts on reddit complaining about the same problem >so it's not just me. Nod. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#966554: grub2-common: BootHole fixes in DSA-4735-1 break dual-boot with Windows

2020-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
please confirm if going back to the previous versions of the Grub packages fixes the problem for you? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

Bug#933031: pristine-tar: unable to unpack some deltas of version 2

2020-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tags -1 +patch On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 04:17:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Control: severity -1 grave ... >IMHO this has to be a grave bug - without reimporting this repo we >can't get our older revisions back. Then I'm worried that this will >break things if we nee

Bug#933031: pristine-tar: unable to unpack some deltas of version 2

2020-07-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Fri Jan 13 23:28:04 2017 +0100 fix #851286 :100755 100755 1a34e953ba363ae1e284b97f83f63f6ef80ea544 3ba76f79d376d011451b8c572b20e185b715bed1 M pristine-tar :04 04 84bc809be6b4dcf81cfce71f0550858957a3e92f f8eb72beb458cbd9770f88f0f4efc00f0c75a299 M test bisect run success .

Bug#965952: FTBFS when parallel-building (-j32)

2020-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: grub2 Version: 2.04-8 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Found this when doing build testing locally on a big machine. It looks like maybe the part of the build system for .po files isn't parallel-safe. If I rebuild with -j1, all works fine... Full build log online at

Bug#964588: stretch-pu: package fwupd/0.7.4-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
now. Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Bug#964589: buster-pu: package fwupd/1.2.5-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 12:25:05PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >Control: tags -1 + confirmed > >Thanks. Please go ahead. In incoming now, cheers! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to

Bug#964589: buster-pu: package fwupd/1.2.5-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 10:27 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We'd like to push an update for fwupd in Buster. It's not as far out >> of date as that in Stretch, but it's starting to show its age an

Bug#964588: stretch-pu: package fwupd/0.7.4-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 10:20 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We'd like to push an update into the last stretch point release for >> fwupd. The last version in stretch (0.7.4-2) is now considere

Bug#964589: buster-pu: package fwupd/1.2.5-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: buster User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Hi folks, Similarly again for Buster... We'd like to push an update for fwupd in Buster. It's not as far out of date as that in Stretch, but it's starting to show its age and

Bug#964588: stretch-pu: package fwupd/0.7.4-2

2020-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: stretch User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Hi folks, We'd like to push an update into the last stretch point release for fwupd. The last version in stretch (0.7.4-2) is now considered so old that it's (a) not really

Bug#963573: partman-target: please add systemd hints to fstab

2020-06-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
atch attached. Applied in git now, thanks for the patch! ( I was just bitten by this systemd bahaviour myself a few days ago, so +1000) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:29:28AM -0700, John Johansen wrote: >On 6/26/20 9:50 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> OK, will try that second... >> > >I have not been able to reproduce but > >So looking at linux-4.19.y it looks like >1f8266ff5884 apparmor: don't

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi again, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:41 PM Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >... > >>&

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Jann, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:41 PM Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> > Considering I'm running strace build tests to provoke this bug, >> > find

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:45:18PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Greg, > >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 i

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Greg, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 is the first bad commit >> commit e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 >> Author: Ja

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
g, finding the failure in a commit talking about ptrace changes does look very suspicious...! Annoyingly, I can't reproduce this on my disparate other machines here, suggesting it's maybe(?) timing related. Hope this helps - happy to give more information, test things, etc. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
67084a647e 865a227665e460e159502f21e8a16e6fa590bf50 M security Considering I'm running strace build tests to provoke this bug, finding the failure in a commit talking about ptrace changes does look very suspicious...! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:39:38PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >>Control: found -1 4.19.118-1 >>Control: tags -1 + upstream >> >>> >>> As I can reproduce this quite easily, I'm happy to

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Salvatore! On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >Control: found -1 4.19.118-1 >Control: tags -1 + upstream > >Hi Steve, > >On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:58:35PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Source: linux >> Version: 4.19.118-

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 Severity: serious Hi folks, Trying to reproduce #963462 on my Thinkpad T470, I'm repeatedly getting a hard lockup running the strace testsuite. I've done this 4 times to be sure. Each time it seems to have failed in a slightly different place in the

Bug#963071: daily errors in webwml/check_trans.pl (called by cron/scripts/check_trans.sh)

2020-06-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
letter if the usual path fails > >I tend to the A proposal because it's the one that I can do, but if >there is anybody who can provide B, that's more elegant I guess :-) Option A looks like the obvious thing to do, so I've just done it. I don't see any good reason for the leading-cap n

Bug#962982: buster-pu: package jigdo/0.7.3-5

2020-06-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 07:15:22AM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >Control: tags -1 + confirmed > >On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 22:15 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'd like to push a tiny update into buster for jigdo please. The >> existing version in buster doesn't support https

Bug#962776: jigdo-lite: silently ignores HTTPS mirrors

2020-06-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
snapshot.d.o. > >AFAICS this is already fixed in unstable, but please fix it in buster too. ACK, good plan. I've just uploaded jigdo_0.7.3-5+deb10u1_source.changes now, targeting buster. Cheers, Steve -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com &quo

Bug#962982: buster-pu: package jigdo/0.7.3-5

2020-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
:54:52.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +jigdo (0.7.3-5+deb10u1) buster; urgency=medium + + * Backport more upstream changes to make jigdo-lite and jigdo-mirror +support https. Closes: #962776 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:54:52 +0100 + jigdo (0.7.3-5) un

Bug#962594: grub-efi-amd64: GRUB-EFI reprots: /dev/sda: open failed

2020-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 98589918-89BC-48F0-9D29-CFD892E47618 Device StartEndSectors Size Type /dev/sda1 204810506231048576 512M EFI System /dev/sda2 10506241550335 499712 244M Linux filesystem /dev/sda3 1550336 3907028991 3905478656

Bug#962506: marked as done (grub: grub-install puts wrong partition to `load.cfg`)

2020-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
tem for a location where dpkg tries to install things - it expects to use filesystem semantics that FAT cannot provide. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the

Bug#958894: grub-efi-amd64-bin: Secure Boot forbids loading? module from .../multiboot.mod

2020-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:57:32PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Am 2020-04-28 17:32, schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Sorry, no. If you need unusual grub modules like this then you'll need >> to disable Secure Boot. > >I have now disabled Secure Boot a

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:34:36AM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote: >On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:54 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 01:15:37AM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote: > >[...] > >> >To avoid needing any workarounds such as those discussed

Bug#959712: Add probe module to signed UEFI images

2020-05-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/blob/master/debian/build-efi-images#L127 Is it not working for you? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
the grub >configuration gives output on serial as well as connected monitor. > >The next issue that needs fixing is to update the kernel command line >to launch the installer on the serial console. I think few people have been bothered by this in the past - all the server machine

Bug#912846: grub2: stop depending on ttf-dejavu-core

2020-05-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
you >please also send it upstream (grub-de...@gnu.org)? I don't see a reason >it couldn't be applied there, and it would make ongoing maintenance >easier. Ah, I've just taken the change and pushed to git... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval

Bug#753821: closed by atzlinux (bugreport is too old)

2020-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
, atzlinux 肖盛文 wrote: >please use bugreport to report it again. > >The code isn't change,this it true.But others all >changed,hardware,kernel,OS,etc,. > >this bug close at first. > > >在 2020/5/6 下午8:39, Steve McIntyre 写道: >> Control: reopen -1 >> >> Sorry, n

Bug#956418: src:glibc: Please provide optimized builds for ARMv8.1

2020-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
be ambarrassed as you point out the obvious flaw I'm missing...) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "... the premise [is] that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the huma

Bug#753821: closed by atzlinux (bugreport is too old)

2020-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
w...@bugs.debian.org with problems >From: atzlinux >To: 753821-d...@bugs.debian.org >Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 09:43:33 +0800 >Subject: bugreport is too old >Message-ID: <9500528e-db80-3276-ed3e-1fdfad2a3...@sina.com> > > >-- >肖盛文 Faris Xiao >微信:atzlinux >QQ

Bug#959174: php7.4-fpm: should not depend on "systemd" ideally?

2020-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ust stop. > >You please stop unloading your stress on me. I am not the cause of your >troubles. It is a difficult time for everybody. Please cool down, both of you? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to be the first k

Bug#959484: grub-common: typos in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

2020-05-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
rd compatiblity. Can be removed > >should be "compatibility" > ># If so, we can remove the cache file (if any). Otherwise the backgound > ^ >should be "background&q

Bug#959372: RM: c-graph -- RoQA; RC buggy for months

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! Please remove c-graph. It's been RC buggy (#941513) with no sign of an upload for months. This will allow us to remove the obsolete texlive-generic-recommended package that needs to go away.

Bug#959371: RM: pspp -- RoQA; RC buggy, no maintainer response

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove gri. It's RC buggy (#932951) with no apparent maintainer response in a very long time. This will allow us to remove the obsolete texlive-generic-recommended package that needs to go away.

Bug#959370: RM: mh-e -- RoQA; RC-buggy, no maintainer response

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove mh-e. It's RC buggy (#941539, #934993, #935041) with no apparent maintainer response in a very long time. This will also allow us to remove the obsolete texlive-generic-recommended package that needs to go away.

Bug#959369: RM: gri -- RoQA; RC buggy, no maintainer response

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! Please remove gri. It's RC buggy (#932949, #941557) with no apparent maintainer response in a very long time. This will also allow us to remove the obsolete texlive-generic-recommended package that needs to go away.

Bug#959368: RM: frown -- RoQA; RC buggy, no maintainer response

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! Please remove frown. It has 2 RC bugs open (2 different FTBFS) for over a year, with no maintainer response. Low popcon too. It also build-deps on the obsolete texlive-generic-recommended package that needs to go away.

Bug#959228: grub2: Grub2 V2.04-7 does not recognize BTRFS RAID1c4 filesystem

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi! On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 10:57:15AM +0200, waxhead wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 10:11:23AM +0200, waxhead wrote: >> > Source: grub2 >> > Version: 2.04-7 >> > Severity: important >> > >> > Dear Maintain

Bug#959228: grub2: Grub2 V2.04-7 does not recognize BTRFS RAID1c4 filesystem

2020-05-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng live cd and rebalanced my rootfs back to btrfs > raid1 Try again next Monday - the live images are only updated weekly. Grub version 2.04-7 only just migrated to testing in the last 24h... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We'

Bug#959037: lintian: FPOS? for executable-in-usr-lib

2020-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
se directories is where d-i go look for >hooks, and I doubt just moving them to libexec is useful. > >I'm re-instating the CC on d-boot@ to see if it sparks some comment... ACK. d-i won't be looking in /usr/libexec. Please leave things where they are... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell

Bug#958894: grub-efi-amd64-bin: Secure Boot forbids loading? module from .../multiboot.mod

2020-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:43:54PM +0200, fab...@greffrath.com wrote: >Am 2020-04-26 20:06, schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Sorry, no. Grub doesn't have any support for signing of modules >> itself. For Secure Boot, all the desired modules have to built-in. > >So, there isn't

Bug#958925: grub-efi: Does not sign EFI entries.

2020-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 05:25:10PM +0200, Santiago José López Borrazás wrote: >El 27/4/20 a las 17:07, Steve McIntyre escribió: >> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying here. Can you please >> explain a little more? What exactly are you trying to do? What exactly

Bug#958925: grub-efi: Does not sign EFI entries.

2020-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
don't understand what you're saying here. Can you please explain a little more? What exactly are you trying to do? What exactly is happening that you don't expect? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were

Bug#956570: should offer possibilities to override host /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hostname

2020-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
resolv.conf? And the hostname is a sed call away… > >The problem with the hostanme is that package post-inst scipts might >pick up the wrong host name during the actual debootstrap run before an >external script can intervene. d'accord with /etc/resolv.conf. ACK, that's a fair point

Bug#958894: grub-efi-amd64-bin: Secure Boot forbids loading? module from .../multiboot.mod

2020-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:49:15PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: >Wouldn't it be possible to simply sign some specific grub modules? Sorry, no. Grub doesn't have any support for signing of modules itself. For Secure Boot, all the desired modules have to built-in. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambri

Bug#958894: grub-efi-amd64-bin: Secure Boot forbids loading module from .../multiboot.mod

2020-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
rub-invaders or some of the other more esoteric grub features, then you'll have to disable Secure Boot. Have you tried that? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#958722: grub-efi-amd64-signed - Uninstallable

2020-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
can't have it all in a single source package, right? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Bug#956418: src:glibc: Please provide optimized builds for ARMv8.1

2020-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:08:46PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I think the -moutline-atomics is probably good to enable by default >> once we've got it (gcc 10). that's the suggestion I've heard from gcc >>

Bug#956418: src:glibc: Please provide optimized builds for ARMv8.1

2020-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
nions on this matter? It's a good question, and thanks for asking! I definitely think it's worth doing -moutline-atomics, and I'm hoping Steve can share some performance numbers to help convince. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

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