Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello Dan — thanks kindly, I had indeed not noticed….

I guess I’ll have a chance to test if the libelf-dev issue is really the fix 
when the patches do roll out.

In that vein, I would like to note that 
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754 
<https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754>  makes no mention 
of bpo kernels in backports.  Is this by design?

Cheers!
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> On Jan 7, 2018, at 18:44, Daniel Reichelt  wrote:
> 
> On 01/07/2018 07:47 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote:
>> and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in light of meltdown --
> 
> To avoid a false sense of security: according to [1], [2], [3], the
> current stretch-bpo kernel (linux-image-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-$arch) does *NOT*
> yet include any mitigations against meltdown.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5753
> [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754
> [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5715
> 



Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks, Yao —  in messing around with this, I did end up finding a thread that 
suggested installing libelf-dev — I did so, but I guess the order in which I 
did it make me recompile my dkms modules manually.

Thanks for the note!
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> On Jan 7, 2018, at 18:31, Yao Wei  wrote:
> 
> It is caused by a missing dependency libelf-dev.
> It is already reported against linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64:
> https://bugs.debian.org/886474 <https://bugs.debian.org/886474>
> 
> I have the same symptom of broadcom-sta-dkms
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 at 02:47 Boyan Penkov  <mailto:boyan.pen...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After the latest update to 4.9.0-5, and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in
> light of meltdown -- my nvidia drivers failed to load.
> 
> Rebulding the modules manually --
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017
>  
> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017>
> -- did fix it.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --
> Boyan Penkov
> 



kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello,

After the latest update to 4.9.0-5, and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in
light of meltdown -- my nvidia drivers failed to load.

Rebulding the modules manually --
https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017
-- did fix it.

Did I miss something?

Cheers!

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Boyan Penkov



Re: Fingerprint-GUI?

2016-05-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
I could certainly see your point; also, all the relevant upstreams are pretty 
slowly developed.

However, for some cases and with appropriate cautions, using fingerprint 
readers may be useful.  This effort is not on the critical path, it seems.

cheers!

On Sat, May 07 2016, Andrew Shadura wrote:

> On 7 May 2016 at 22:33, Boyan Penkov  wrote:
> > Is there an effort to package fingerprint-GUI? Does anybody have a one-off 
> > .deb for Jessie for this that they may be using?
> 
> Fingerprint readers are insecure, and that's something that can't be
> fixed. I'd prefer to see fewer fingerprint-related software packages
> in Debian rather than more.


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Fingerprint-GUI?

2016-05-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello all,

Is there an effort to package fingerprint-GUI? Does anybody have a one-off .deb 
for Jessie for this that they may be using?

http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprint/

Cheers!
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