Package: kmilo Version: 4:3.2.2-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
DETAILS OF ERROR kmilo is for certain types of Sony laptops whereas on others it causes the system to malfunction. Sony PCG-GRT100: kmilo queries the status of the battery upon kde startup which causes the network interface/card to lock up. As a result, subsequent attempts to use network (eth0) cause NETDEV WATCHDOG mesages in the log: Sep 14 11:47:22 mobile kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Sep 14 11:47:22 mobile kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000000 00000260 The network appears to be locked, and can be made to work only upon reboot. ping to the laptop from outside also ceases to work (comments [] are mine): outside% ping mobile [ the system is being booted but network card is not yet recognized ] PING mobile (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote mobile 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote mobile 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote mobile 64 chars, ret=-1 [ ok, network card is recognized, and eth0 interface is up ] 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms [ at this moment kde is started, and kmilo flashed the battery status on the screen ] [ the network is locked. ping does not do any output ] [ Ctrl-C ] --- mobile ping statistics --- 16 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 50% packet loss FINDINGS kmilo is listed as one of the packages kde depends on. Removing kmilo causes deinstallation of major part of kde. Manual removal of the kmilo files causes no apparent disfunctionallity of the rest of kde. Including acpi=off (pci=noacpi or similar) as kernel parameters causes no effect. TO RESOLVE remove kmilo from list of packages kde depends on, so that kmilo could be installed/deinstalled independently without causing problems with other kde dependencies. *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-emp_2420p6a0328sis Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages kmilo depends on: ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System event recording an ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information