package: olsrd severity: serious version: 0.5.6-r7-1 x-debbugs-cc: [email protected]
Hi, the mail below mentions (at least) two issues, this Debian bug shall only be about olsrd not working with the squeeze kernel. On Sonntag, 28. November 2010, Henning Rogge wrote: > > Is 0.5.6.r7 so broken that it's not usable? > > Yes and no... > > it contains a number of bugs, including one memory leak somewhere with MID > messages and some problems in the routing setup of linux. > > The memory leak was always there, but it got worse enough with 0.5.6-r7 to > be noticed (it got worse by accelerating the detection of interface > settings of your neighbors). > > The problem is that the linux kernel changed the semantics of a few > important (important for OLSRd) proc-file entries in kernel 2.6.31. This > bug was fixed with 0.5.6-r8 I think. Without this fix OLSRd will not run > right on this kernels. We had to build in a direct check of the kernel > version to fix it. > > See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/14/256 cheers, Holger
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
