Bug#1041836: Version Correction

2023-07-24 Thread Mike Bird
Please note that the bug is in version 2.36-9+deb12u1 i.e. the new version just released to Stable. reportbug saw 2.36-9 because I had to revert to the previous version before anything but static executables would work. --Mike

Bug#1041836: libc6 2.36-9+deb12u1 stack smashing on some but not all amd64

2023-07-23 Thread Mike Bird
Package: libc6 Version: 2.36-9 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, Installing libc6_2.36-9+deb12u1_amd64.deb on some but not all systems results in every dynamically linked program dying with a spurious report of stack smashing. Getting back to a working

Bug#610185: sysv-rc.postinst needs to provide more balanced description of insserv pros and cons

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
Package: sysv-rc Version: 2.88dsf-13.1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Blindly enabling insserv can result in unbootable systems or systems which boot but don't start all services. sysv-rc.postinst currently states that enabling insserv is recommended, with no mention

Bug#487606: cups.prerm deletes /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb which belongs to smbclient

2008-06-22 Thread Mike Bird
Package: cups Version: 1.3.7-7 Severity: serious Justification: see debian-devel thread cups.prerm deletes the /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb symlink which belongs to smbclient package. Several systems here were bitten by this during the cupsys-cups transition, as cupsys.prerm had the same problem.

Bug#478547: grub-install raid1 ext3 failure - regression from Etch

2008-04-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed April 30 2008 03:38:29 Robert Millan wrote: Please could you test the attached patch? The patched version of grub-install ran without errors on the raid1 ext3 system and the system was was subsequently rebooted successfully. Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#478547: grub-install raid1 ext3 failure - regression from Etch

2008-04-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed April 30 2008 11:21:49 Mike Bird wrote: On Wed April 30 2008 03:38:29 Robert Millan wrote: Please could you test the attached patch? The patched version of grub-install ran without errors on the raid1 ext3 system and the system was was subsequently rebooted successfully. Also

Bug#478547: grub-install raid1 ext3 failure - regression from Etch

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Bird
Package: grub Version: 0.97-37 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system grub-install '(hd0)' reports The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. The problem occurs when grub-install is using dump for some kind of verification. The log is written to /tmp file with a random