Bug#883413: linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64: WARN_ON_ONCE in page_counter_cancel() in mm/page_counter.c

2017-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
vice using systemd, but that instantly > resulted in the following kernel panic: [...] > I don't know that this is the same bug at all, but I'm keeping it on > this report for now as it seems at least related somehow. The log messages don't look even slightly related, so please move this to a separate

Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

2017-12-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
d imply that older multi-socket systems with a shared memory controller would not be affected, while some single-socket systems with multiple memory controllers would be affected. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signatu

Bug#883938: fixed in linux 3.16.51-3

2017-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
pdated until the next point release. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2017/12/msg2.html Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

2017-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
and I will upload them too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

2017-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 21:29 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There were several commits interspersed with sched/topology fixes > upstream that I thought were cleanup and therefore didn't backport to > the 3.16 stable branch. Now I suspect that at least some of them are > needed. >

Bug#883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

2017-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
they fix the regression for you? If this doesn't help, I think we may just have to revert the sched/topology fixes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:32:07

Bug#883890: nfs-common: Fully Qualified DNS Name mounts in fstab fail to be mounted

2017-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
nding on which network configuration tools you use, you might need to define additional dependencies for network-online.target or remote-fs-pre.target. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#882369: linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64: Non-free RTL8192 firmware possibly packaged in main

2017-11-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
deblobbing, seeing as the adaptor is > functioning normally under a supposedly fully free system. > > I am worried there may be non-DFSG compliant firmware packaged in main. [...] There isn't, at least not in this instance. The log messages are a little misleading. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Be

Bug#881116: Call trace at debian stretch

2017-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
This isn't the first BUG message; please send the first one. Also what extra modules you have added? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#880441: linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64: silently enabled AppArmor breaks other programs

2017-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2017-11-05 at 12:21 +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings: > > My understanding was that enabling AppArmor shouldn't do very much > > until a policy is loaded (which it won't be if you don't install the > > userland tools). As you've found, that isn't

Bug#880502: [pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#880502: lxc: cannot start container with kernel 4.13.10

2017-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
se they > > have any input to provide. > > Can you try to set "lxc.aa_allow_incomplete = 1" in your config? > LXC expects Ubuntus patched kernels when it comes to AppArmor, not the > upstream ones :( > > And I think Debian enabled AppArmor by default in the lates

Bug#880501: pam-auth-update may create empty configuration file, disabling all authentication

2017-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.1.8-3.6 Severity: grave I performed a full-upgrade on a system with little space on the root filesystem. This failed part way through due to running out of space. A while after resolving this and completing the upgrade, I found that: 1. The GNOME screensaver

Bug#880441: linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64: silently enabled AppArmor breaks other programs

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
er starts and some > more as well. Applications built for Linux are unrelated to Linux? I don't think so. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#878935: libbpfcc needs a way to ensure the current kernel's headers are installed

2017-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 00:46 +0800, Liang Guo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 14:21 +0200, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > > > Ok, that's what I figured. Is there at least a solution to the "if th

Bug#878935: libbpfcc needs a way to ensure the current kernel's headers are installed

2017-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 14:21 +0200, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 13:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Please comment on bug #877925 [4] and/or #878922 [3] regarding on how > > > to solve the "this package needs the current kernel's headers > > &g

Bug#878935: libbpfcc needs a way to ensure the current kernel's headers are installed

2017-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
inal bug [4]. > > Please comment on bug #877925 [4] and/or #878922 [3] regarding on how > to solve the "this package needs the current kernel's headers > installed" problem! You cannot use package dependencies to do this. It has to be a run- time check. Ben. -- Ben Hutchin

Bug#875881: linux: CVE-2017-1000251

2017-09-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
ich seems to be quite critical fixed > anytime soon? :-) > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000251 Probably less critical than you think, since we enable CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not a

Bug#873142: virtualbox-dkms: Installation hangs running depmod...

2017-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
.11.0-2-amd64 installed and running (as in your report), linux-headers-4.11.0-1-amd64 installed (as in your report) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#872263: [rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports

2017-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
h /usr/lib/debug/.build-id therefore have the same (hash- based) name and *different* content. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.    - Robert Coveyou signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports

2017-08-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
he exact same code is ever built in two unrelated packages then their debug info packages will conflict even if the regular binary packages don't. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#801975: linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64: pm80xx report failing drive but mdadm doesn't set this drive failing

2017-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
that that has been fixed, as your report now shows up in a list of bugs for the linux source package. Were you ever able to determine how to trigger this data loss? Did you find a fix? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc

Bug#867358: mips/mipsel: mips-linux-gnu-gccgo-7: waitid: bad address

2017-08-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 15:24 +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > Hi, > > On 16/07/17 23:31, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Control: tag -1 upstream patch > > > > On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 23:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 13:10 +0300, Adrian Bun

Bug#869613: libreoffice write crashes (Debian 9)

2017-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 07:33 -0400, Aaron Valdes wrote: > Thanks Rene, > > I installed Debian 9 AMD64 on my Asus Laptop the other > day.  libreoffice writer (lowriter) did not crash on that system. That's because this problem is specific to the Java implementation on i386. B

Bug#869511: linux: binNMU-unsafe dependency on linux-headers-*-common

2017-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
aders packages, which are architecture-dependent but depend on an > identical *binary* version of the architecture-independent > linux-headers-*-common package. [...] Oops, I missed this when making the latter arch-independent. This is fixed in the git repo, and I should upload soon. Ben. -- B

Bug#866376: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#866376: network-manager: Network-Manager cause kernel panic

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
had ethernet with a telephone) > > If you need some other extra infos, just ping me, i will give you the  > info next week. > > @Ben is the driver needinfo still actual? Sorry, for kernel issue i'm  > still a newbie :) No, since I worked out what the driver is. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#867124: Not a kernel bug

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
r and not to work around it in the vmxnet3 driver, there is probably nothing for us to do here. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#867358: mips/mipsel: mips-linux-gnu-gccgo-7: waitid: bad address

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream patch On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 23:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 13:10 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.9.30-2 > > Control: retitle -1 mips/mipsel: mips-linux-gnu-gccgo-7: waitid: bad address > >

Bug#867358: mips/mipsel: mips-linux-gnu-gccgo-7: waitid: bad address

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
his is actually a kernel bug: >   https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2017-03/msg00580.html That's now a 404, strangely. Did you mean "[PATCH 0/2] Fix indirect syscall handler for syscalls with > 4 args"? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#865303: LibreOffice Writer still closes silently on 32-bit Stretch and Sid

2017-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
; > Please fix LibreOffice Writer problem on 32bit Debian. I've been discussing this regression with upstream develo[pers. It's now understood and we have several possible fixes but we have not yet settled on the best one. You should also be able to work around it by temporarily disabling the Stack

Bug#865549: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#865549: cargo still segfaults / rustc still FTBFS with the newest fixed kernel

2017-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream patch moreinfo On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:57:00 + Ximin Luo <infini...@debian.org> wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 17:45 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> Ximin Luo: > >>> [..] > >>> > >>> The

Bug#866691: linux-image-*-dbg metapackages are installable

2017-06-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux-latest Version: 80 Severity: serious src:linux version 4.9.25-1 moved the debug info packages back to the main archive and changed their name suffix from -dbgsym back to -dbg. src:linux-latest needs to be changed accordingly. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0

Bug#865549: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] cargo still segfaults / rustc still FTBFS with the newest fixed kernel

2017-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
000-4000 rw-p 00:00 0   > [stack] > > Setting `ulimit -s 24576` still works, though. Do you know how much stack space this function needs? Can you get the page fault address? (I don't remember how to do that in gdb.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#866376: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#866376: network-manager: Network-Manager cause kernel panic

2017-06-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
his sound familiar? No it doesn't. > Should this issue be reassigned to the kernel? [...] Of course. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#865461: Wheezy update of unrar-nonfree?

2017-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
at wheezy is new enough to run it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#865549: linux-image-3.16.0-4: stackguard fix incorrect

2017-06-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
lugin < > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1699772>;, > commons-daemon, ...). Yes, that's what I worked out from bug #865303 and those merged with it. Ben. > Can confirm that the updated patch fixes the problem (amd64). -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety

Bug#865549: linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc64le: stackguard fix incorrect; probably causes cargo to segfault on ppc64el

2017-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
distros applied an incorrect one. Can you please test with this candidate fix? https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/CVE-2017-1000364/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#864269: The radvd FTBFS fix is not required for stretch

2017-06-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
xed in unstable). Right. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#864269: Bug#864233: unblock: linux/4.9.30-1

2017-06-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:24 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:29 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > This includes many important bug fixes, including security fixes.  It > > > adds support for system

Bug#863290: src:linux: no warning that btrfs RAID5/6 is buggered up

2017-05-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
upstream. > > A proposed warning patch attached. Haven't looked closely, but I'm OK with this in principle. I think we should also taint the kernel (like we do for FAN_ALL_PERM_EVENTS). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. signature.

Bug#862095: reportbug: Bugs in backported packages must not be sent to the BTS

2017-05-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 15:00 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi! > > I disagree with making this RC right now, for the following reasons: [...] I also disagree, and I like bugs for backported linux packages going to the BTS as they are rarely specific to the backport. Ben. -- Ben Hut

Bug#860952: fixed in rar 2:5.4.0+dfsg.1-0.1

2017-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2017-05-07 at 15:29 +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 04:03:36AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Files: > >  6e4f05c3a05bc43f3eaab0da36e6d163 2015 non-free/utils optional > > rar_5.4.0+dfsg.1-0.1.dsc > >  d02b8742478d5e6

Bug#861225: [Regression] Soft lockup in KVM/QEMU virtual machine

2017-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
. That should be available on mirrors in a day or two. Let us know if it works for you. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#861313: kernel BUG with kvm

2017-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
oday or tomorrow, > unless someone else beats me to it. [...] Thanks for this information. I can reproduce the regression and am now doing the bisection. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#861225: [Regression] Soft lockup in KVM/QEMU virtual machine

2017-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
nel casues guests to crash. Is that correct? If so, can you check whether the host kernel logs anything when this happens, and send that? > I would like to do that once there is a newer kernel in proposed or > security that needs to be tested anyway. Would that be OK, too? [...] But I can't fix

Bug#861225: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel dumps after a short while if KVM/QEMU (debian) guests are running

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
le a serial console, you can then use 'screen' or similar to view and capture output on that serial port. When I do this with virt-manager, the pty name is shown on the Details tab once the VM is running. I don't know how to find it out in virsh. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists s

Bug#861225: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel dumps after a short while if KVM/QEMU (debian) guests are running

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
n earlier BUG logged; please send that too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#750593: Stable update request: kernel changes to fix PIE with large stack

2017-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
ahead and made these changes.  I verified that they build on all release architectures except mips/mipsel (porterboxes were down) and was able to test the result on amd64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64 (standing in for ppc64el) and s390x. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproo

Bug#860952: Statically linked to glibc, in breach of policy and copyright

2017-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: rar Version: 2:5.4.0-1 Severity: serious Policy forbids executables statically linked to glibc (though other C libraries such as dietlibc are allowed). This is also a copyright violation. Proprietary programs can generally be dynamically linked with glibc and distributed under the

Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

2017-04-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 important Control: severity 824442 important On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 23:20 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2017-04-11 03:35, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:48:45 +0200 Aurelien Jarno <aurel...

Bug#860080: linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64: Kernel oops with the mcs 7780 irda adapter

2017-04-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
x37c/0x570 > [usbcore] [...] Send the full oops message, not just the call trace. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

2017-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
e . The problem is > that the __UAPI_DEF_IF_* constants are set to 1 in > even if is not included. [...] Does this affect any real programs, or is this just theoretical (and therefore should be downgraded)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This

Bug#859143: kup: please update to v0.3.6 due changes on k.o

2017-04-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:18:06 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2017-03-30 22:45:57 [+0100], Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Upgrading severity as it would be pointless to release with this > > version. >  > Sure. And probably something for current stable, I don't know. Sho

Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't

2017-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 15:42 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings: > > How about "Breaks: busybox (<< 1:1.22.0-17~)"?  I think that does the > > job. (I actually include busybox-static in the Breaks field too.) > Yes :) At least it'll ensure

Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't

2017-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
t need it, i.e. those that haven't cryptsetup >    installed, and haven't busybox already pulled by anything else. [...] How about "Breaks: busybox (<< 1:1.22.0-17~)"? I think that does the job. I've actually committed that change but failed to upload yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Bug#858122: Upgrade linux kernel to 4.9.15 in sid and stretch

2017-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Julien Aubin wrote: > OK I did this. Does it have a huge impact on the system except mitigating > the flaw ? (I don't think I have an HDLC hardware...) If you don't know whether you have it, you don't have it. :-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life i

Bug#858122: Upgrade linux kernel to 4.9.15 in sid and stretch

2017-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
.] Note that we already documented a mitigation for this in the DSA. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
oordinate with the d-i maintainers, thanks. We don't remove any packages; that happens automatically. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates signature.asc De

Bug#817236: schroot: no access to pseudo-terminals in new chroots

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 11:13 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 at 10:27:38 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > The temporary workaround with /dev/ptmx could be made optional.  It's > > not OK to break the previously working configurations. > > If I'm unders

Bug#809167: cron: Cron Daemon Use-After-Free Vulnerability May Cause Local Root Privilege Escalation

2017-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
ntil I have discussed this with security@d.o. ...and the result was? (I think this probably can be downgraded. At least on Linux, I expect memory allocation to either succeed or kill the program. But this should be fixed, anyway) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all

Bug#777511: kernels tested

2017-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Bug#847478: FTBFS: needs to Build-Depends on gperf

2017-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
p-kw.h -rw-rw 1 ben ben 10382 Aug 2 03:01 locale/programs/locfile-kw.gperf -rw-rw 1 ben ben 25742 Aug 2 03:01 locale/programs/locfile-kw.h All the timestamps are equal in the upstream tarball, but if the .gperf files are touched before building it will result in this build failure. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#842446: sbsigntool: FTBFS: test sign-verify.sh failed on arch x86_64

2017-01-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
and fixes the test failures with the older toolchain. I made an NMU to fix this, and am attaching the debdiff. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. diff -Nru sbsigntool-0.6/debian/changelog sbsigntool-0.6/debian/changelog --- sbsigntool-0.6/d

Bug#757083: Migration from sysvinit to systemd: reboot fails to complete

2017-01-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
be the severity of this bug report should be raised... >  > Indeed, I think it should and am now raising it, and this should really > be fixed for stretch. >  > Unmounting /usr alongside other filesystems is problematic because: >  > 1. Commands used after that might live or use a

Bug#851498: g-s-d has an undocumented and unstable tmp-cleaner

2017-01-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
is still an important bug, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#851498: g-s-d has an undocumented and unstable tmp-cleaner

2017-01-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: gnome-settings-daemon Version: 3.22.1-1 Severity: grave I noticed that gnome-settings-daemon regularly crashes and restarts on my system. I investigated this with gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x7f00e6aac261 in _g_log_abort (breakpoint=1) at ././glib/gmessages.c:487 #1

Bug#850059: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: After suspend, the power button powers off the laptop instead of resuming

2017-01-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
tten *and flushed* to disk by the application, but was not readable afterward - this does not count. Writes are buffered, and user space has to deal with that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Bug#848851: linux: FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 upstream fixed-upstream pending On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 02:38 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 02:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] > > Let's try without that -pie: > > > > $ ld -m elf64lppc -T arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds -

Bug#848851: linux: FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
works!  So we need to filter out -pie here as well. (Or disable building these wrappers, since we don't actually package them. But that doesn't seem to be a kconfig option) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#848851: linux: FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 02:34 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > Let's try without that -pie: > > $ ld -m elf64lppc -T arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds -o > arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries arch/powerpc/boot/pseries-head.o > arch/powerpc/boot/of.o arch/powerpc/boot/epapr.o .

Bug#849841: [src:linux] bpfcc-tools don't work on 4.8 signed kernels

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
This should be corrected in the next version. Please report whether the next update to linux-signed-4.8.0-2-amd64 fixes this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#847575: closed by Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> (no embedded dietlibc)

2016-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 22:49 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > fixed 847575 1.43.3-1 > thanks > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:57:43PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > I intended to prepare a patch but found that e2fsprogs no longer builds > > > the stat

Bug#847575: closed by Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> (no embedded dietlibc)

2016-12-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
d. Oops, sorry for the wrong version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

2016-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 05:59 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 13:51 +0800, Zheng Xu wrote: [...] > > mozjs1.8.5 -- The patch is different with the upstream one. Because in the > > old js, there might be objects pass from C allocation, only modify the heap &

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

2016-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
d all the packages which depends on mozjs1.8.5 That's not an option as no library ABI changes can go into testing before the release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

2016-12-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 03:24 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/11/2016 03:13 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Looking at the patch that was added in -4: WTF?  It changes the library > > ABI, but you didn't bump the soname.  Of course that breaks clients! > > That's o

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

2016-12-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
oken in the same way. At this point in the release cycle no more library transitions are allowed, so libmozjs has to be fixed with a kluge like the patch that Zheng Xu sent, not the upstream change. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 11:24 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:21:21AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > ... > > > (2) firmware-misc-nonfree lacks "Breaks: initramfs-tools (<= > > > 0.125)" which it will need even after #847340 is fixe

Bug#847580: Embeds dietlibc (GPL) but does not have a Built-Using field

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: util-vserver Version: 0.30.216-pre3120-1.1 Severity: serious Some binaries in util-vserver are statically linked to dietlibc which is licensed under GNU GPL. util-vserver must have a Built-Using field to record which version was used and ensure that the corresponding source package is

Bug#847579: Embeds dietlibc (GPL) but does not have a Built-Using field

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: ngetty Version: 1.1-3 Severity: serious ngetty is statically linked to dietlibc which is licensed under GNU GPL. ngetty must have a Built-Using field to record which version was used and ensure that the corresponding source package is kept in the archive. Ben. -- System Information:

Bug#847577: Embeds dietlibc (GPL) but does not have a Built-Using field

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: integrit Version: 4.1-1 Severity: serious integrit is statically linked to dietlibc which is licensed under GNU GPL. integrit must have a Built-Using field to record which version was used and ensure that the corresponding source package is kept in the archive. Ben. -- System

Bug#847576: Embeds dietlibc (GPL) but does not have a Built-Using field

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: fgetty Version: 0.7-1 Severity: serious fgetty is statically linked to dietlibc which is licensed under GNU GPL. fgetty must have a Built-Using field to record which version was used and ensure that the corresponding source package is kept in the archive. Ben. -- System Information:

Bug#847575: Embeds dietlibc (GPL) but does not have a Built-Using field

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: e2fsck-static Version: 1.43.3-1 Severity: serious e2fsck-static is statically linked to dietlibc which is licensed under GNU GPL. e2fsck-static must have a Built-Using field to record which version was used and ensure that the corresponding source package is kept in the archive. Ben.

Bug#818616: luajit: laujit segfaults on arm64

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
hat (because > important stuff like nginx need luajit), but presumably the transition > freeze applies here? They both build libluajit-5.1-2 so I don't see that there's any transition needed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: T

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 15:34 +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 08/12/16 15:21, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Doesn't apt-listbugs see bugs that 'affect' a package? > > I do not know. Does "affects" provide the version information that  > apt-listbugs needs to filter bugs

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
ls is fixed, so I'm assigning this bug back. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#844605: X11 segfault with AMD GPU since 4.8.x / Firmware issue

2016-12-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
[...] Missing firmware isn't a kernel bug, it's a bug in a firmware package. (And X blowing up is probably an X driver bug.) The missing firmware is fixed in the latest firmware-nonfree upload. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#842458: upgrade-reports: After dist-upgrade from jessie to testing, kernel doesn't load, not a single message on screen

2016-12-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
processors should still be supported. We've only dropped support for 586-class processors (like the original Pentium). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#841883: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686: cannot boot with 4.7.8-1, stuck at loading initrd

2016-12-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
testing now has 4.8.7-1; please report whether it works for you. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#847071: firmware-nonfree has no binaries on any arch

2016-12-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
hem from the > (non-free) sources. > > I guess a new upload should be done. *sigh* I keep forgetting that non-free is special and this won't be auto-built. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain

Bug#844549: network-console broken: no screen to be resumed matching sh

2016-11-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
[ -x "$screen_bin" -a "$TERM_TYPE" != network -a "$TERM" != dumb ] Is that really what we want? Ben. >   # there's GNU/screen binary, run menu in it. > >   # call this script again with in GNU/screen, possibly in UTF-8 > > mode > >   SCREEN_OPT="" > -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#843199: perf is linked to libcrypto - licence incompatibility

2016-11-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: src:linux Version: 4.7.8-1 Severity: serious perf uses SHA1 and MD5 implementations from OpenSSL's libcrypto if it is found at build time. Since perf is under GPLv2 without an OpenSSL exception, this isn't allowed in Debian. We need to disable this feature or substitute implementations

Bug#842786: numix-icon-theme: FTBFS (dpkg-source can't extract orig tarball)

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 19:17 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:13:00PM -0600, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Do Debian buildds use overlayfs? > > > Yes, I think so. Just look at any build log in buildd.debian.org

Bug#842786: numix-icon-theme: FTBFS (dpkg-source can't extract orig tarball)

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Do Debian buildds use overlayfs?  If not then I don't see how this can be serious. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:    Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#841883: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686: cannot boot with 4.7.8-1, stuck at loading initrd

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
686 in unstable, depending on the new image package > linux-image-4.8.0-1-686, but instead I see that the unstable > version is still identical to the testing one: [...] That is waiting for the same reason. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:    Among economists, th

Bug#841883: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686: cannot boot with 4.7.8-1, stuck at loading initrd

2016-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo I think this may be the same as bug #841850 which is fixed in version 4.8.5-1.  Please let us know whether that works for you. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:    Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc

Bug#841850: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686_4.7.8-1_i386.deb does not boot on Thinkpad T41

2016-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
07) > >  4.7.6-1 is now running correctly again, 4.7.8-1 did not boot, see > above! >  (So the first line does _not_ describe the problematic system!) [...] We're going to need some more information about where things went wrong, which you should be able to get by replacing the 'qui

Bug#841368: gcc-6 6.2.0-7 breaks kernel build if stack protection is enabled

2016-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
1  | unstable-debug  | source > > You should be noted that building kernel from vanilla source isn't > good idea in Debian. [...] It is absolutely supported (so long as you enable the necessary features) and is common practice.  However, any bugs in some other version of t

Bug#841368: gcc-6 6.2.0-7 breaks kernel build if stack protection is enabled

2016-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ild kernel successfully. > > I'm currently looking for correct way to do this trick. > > -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#822671: initramfs-tools: preserves unmodified /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf on upgrades from jessie

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
patch -p1'.  But I haven't yet taken the time to try it out. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#822801: xl2tpd makes kernel soft lockup

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
nds I am not sure, the keybroad is useless. I can type nothing. And I > find there are some words on the screen. > NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup CPU#0 stuck for 23s ... And the mechine begins > to beep. Does this problem still occur when using Linux 4.7 (currently in unstable)? Ben. --

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