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Bug#181493: Is the Sun RPC License DFSG-free?

[Brian M. Carlson]

reopen 181493 !
thanks

For the debian-legal people, this is the controversy at hand:

Sun RPC code is included as part of glibc. The license, which is
included below, prohibits distribution of the original code under its
original terms, which would make the license non-free. Including
non-free code into otherwise free code does not make the code free, IMO.


Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is
  provided for unrestricted use provided that this legend is
  included on all tape media and as a part of the software
  program in whole or part.  Users may copy or modify Sun RPC
  without charge, but are not authorized to license or
  distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
  program developed by the user.

  SUN RPC IS PROVIDED AS IS WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND
  INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTIBILITY AND
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF
  DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE.

  Sun RPC is provided with no support and without any
  obligation on the part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. to assist in
  its use, correction, modification or enhancement.

  SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT
  TO THE INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS, TRADE SECRETS OR ANY
  PATENTS BY SUN RPC OR ANY PART THEREOF.

  In no event will Sun Microsystems, Inc. be liable for any
  lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and
  consequential damages, even if Sun has been advised of the
  possibility of such damages.


I'd like an opinion. M-F-T is set appropriately.


On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:48:04PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #181493: glibc: Sun RPC code is non-free,
> which was filed against the glibc package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
> unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
> message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email.

This explanation is unsatisfactory. I think that the Sun RPC code is
non-free, and I want an opinion from debian-legal.

> At Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:28:48 +1000,
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > This bug should be closed.
> 
> OK, I've closed now.
> 
> Regards,
> -- gotom

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Bug#204682: please close this bug-report

[Jurriaan]

After seeing the new glibc update worked for almost everyone else, I
started apt-get install --reinstall every package I could think of. No
luck. Then I changed root's shell and BINGO!

As can be seen in the bugs on bash-static, bash-static may fail without
warning whenever a new glibc version is uploaded. To me, that doesn't
sound like 'static', but hey - at least I can login as root again!

Please close this bug, glibc is not at fault.

Kind regards,
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Bug#204981: libc6: vmware workaround

[Brad Langhorst]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #204981

gotom:

Thanks for maintaining this package!
Here's some more information about this problem that might help you solve the problem 
in glibc (i think there is one there).

After spending hours trying to track this down I thought maybe I could save somebody 
else some effort ...

Petr Vandrovec posted this in
vmware.for-linux.experimental

>But glibc developers should think about it... I believe that it dies because of part
>of patch/10_cvs.patch which introduces _IO_old_init. Due to this mode & wide_* is now
>uninitialized, and _IO_default_seekpos in libio/genpos.c sigsegvs instead of invoking
>old _IO_old_seekoff.

He suggests this fix

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include 
#include 
#include 

FILE* fopen(const char* path, const char* attr) {
 FILE* (*old_fopen)(const char* path, const char* attr) = NULL;

 if (old_fopen == NULL) {
 old_fopen = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fopen");
 if (!old_fopen) {
 errno = ENOSYS;
 return NULL;
 }
 }
 return old_fopen(path, attr);
}
ppc:/mnt/vmware/xx# gcc -o fopen.so -shared fopen.c -W -Wall
ppc:/mnt/vmware/xx# cp fopen.so /usr/lib
ppc:/mnt/vmware/xx# LD_PRELOAD=fopen.so vmware

Compiling and running that overrides the fopen call from libc6 I think.
This solution works around the problem for me.

(thanks petr!)

brad

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Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7The Berkeley database routines [gl

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Bug#206663: glibc: some GNU/KFreeBSD fixes

[GOTO Masanori]

At Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:10:03 +,
Robert Millan wrote:
> This patch includes a few minor fixes to support GNU/KFreeBSD in
> the file specific to the Debian package. FreeBSD's kernel (KFreeBSD)
> is not supported in upstream sources though (and won't be for a long time).

I don't know about KFreeBSD, so please answer that freebsd-gnu is 
no more supported and kfreebsd-gnu replaces completely?

> [2 /tmp/glibc.diff ]
> diff -Nur glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk 
> glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk
> --- glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk 2003-08-22 02:31:49.0 +0200
> +++ glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
> @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
> -threads = yes
> -config-os = freebsd-gnu
> -add-ons = linuxthreads
> -NO_TEST = yes
> -extra_config_options := --disable-compatible-utmp --enable-kernel-include=4.6
> diff -Nur glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk 
> glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk
> --- glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 
> +0100
> +++ glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk2003-08-22 04:57:22.0 
> +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +threads = yes
> +config-os = kfreebsd-gnu
> +add-ons = linuxthreads
> +NO_TEST = yes
> +extra_config_options := --disable-compatible-utmp --enable-kernel-include=4.6

There is no need to replace file, but only need to modify config-os.

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Bug#206645: Can't generate `Leave.alone' locale

[Peter Chubb]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2-3

Last time I installed the locales package, I selected `Leave alone' to
avoid changing anything during configuration.

Next update, I see: 

Setting up locales (2.3.2-3) ...
Generating locales...
  Leave.alone...cannot open locale definition file `Leave': No such
file or directory
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4


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Bug#206663: glibc: some GNU/KFreeBSD fixes

[Robert Millan]

Package: glibc
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-22
Severity: wishlist

This patch includes a few minor fixes to support GNU/KFreeBSD in
the file specific to the Debian package. FreeBSD's kernel (KFreeBSD)
is not supported in upstream sources though (and won't be for a long time).

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diff -Nur glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk 
glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk
--- glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk   2003-08-22 02:31:49.0 +0200
+++ glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/freebsd.mk   1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-threads = yes
-config-os = freebsd-gnu
-add-ons = linuxthreads
-NO_TEST = yes
-extra_config_options := --disable-compatible-utmp --enable-kernel-include=4.6
diff -Nur glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk 
glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk
--- glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk  1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 
+0100
+++ glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd-gnu.mk  2003-08-22 04:57:22.0 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+threads = yes
+config-os = kfreebsd-gnu
+add-ons = linuxthreads
+NO_TEST = yes
+extra_config_options := --disable-compatible-utmp --enable-kernel-include=4.6
diff -Nur glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/soname.mk glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/soname.mk
--- glibc-2.3.2.old/debian/sysdeps/soname.mk2003-08-22 02:31:49.0 +0200
+++ glibc-2.3.2/debian/sysdeps/soname.mk2003-08-22 04:58:01.0 +0200
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM),gnu)
   libc = libc0.3
 else
-  ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM),freebsd)
+  ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM),kfreebsd-gnu)
 libc = libc1
   else
 libc = libc6

Bug#205328: libc6 upgrade breaks libnss-mysql deb

[GOTO Masanori]

At 21 Aug 2003 08:37:52 -0600,
Andreas J. Guelzow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After upgrading to libc 2.3.2 on debian sid, the libnss-mysql package
> stops to work correctly:
> 
> console logins hang (for /etc/passwd and mysql accounts), su hangs etc. 
> 
> of course having read that it will also break the mathematica kernel
> means I can't really consider upgrading our systems anyways.

Don't submit other bugs into one bug report.  Please submit your bug
into libnss-mysql.  I think it's needed to recompile with the latest
glibc.

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Bug#204654: glibc 2.3.2-2 breaks apache on ia64

[Tore Anderson]

* GOTO Masanori

 > Could you rebuild apache with -g without -O2 and find where your
 > apache is died?

* Matthew Wilcox

 > If I recompile apache, it doesn't die any more.

  Maybe it would be more helpful if you downgraded your libc6 package
 to the latest version known to work, compiled the nonstripped Apache
 binary, then upgraded again?  I think you should be able to get a
 useful backtrace then.

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Bug#205328: libc6: mathematica segfaults, too

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:18:53 +0200,
Meik Hellmund wrote:
> gotom wrote in this bug report log:
> >I don't have any interests non-opensource non-free commercial packages
> >written in this original report (so I plan to just close),
> 
> Please, please, reconsider your position in this question. It could move 
> Debian in a niche for purists.  
> I run as a sysadmin over 60 Debian Linux boxes for scientists in a university
> institute for theoretical physics and a institute for mathematics. This would
> be impossible without e.g. Mathematica for Linux or Maple for Linux running on
> these computers. People need this software for their daily work. 
> (Please don't point me to free computer algebra systems like Maxima or Octave.
> I know them and their abilities.)
> 
> The statically linked mathematica "kernel" is one more piece of software
> that segfaults with libc6 2.3.2 
> The problem is not urgent, Woody is working fine, but when the situation 
> stays this way, the next update could sweep away Debian from our computers.  

I think RedHat will ship next RH9.x/10, then Wolfram Research will
ship new version for glibc 2.3.3.

> Please, at least publish some kind of workaround for this problem
> (using something like LD_PRELOAD? Is this possible with a static binary?)

Yes, use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or chroot.  The problem is even static
binary loads dynamic linked libraries.  And yes, we need to make FAQ
about this issue.

Regards,
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Bug#206531: Something to test with

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:24:30 +0200,
Sebastian Ley wrote:
> I have created a .tar.gz of a freshly built d-i tree. Perhaps this
> will be useful for further investigation. A "chroot tree bin/sh"
> causes an immediate segfault.

Exactly it's caused sigsegv.

> http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/d-i/d-i-tree.tar.gz

I unpacked it, and check libc.so.6:

-rwxr-xr-x1 gotomgotom   77728 Aug 21 19:08 ld-linux.so.2
-rw-r--r--1 gotomgotom  610436 Aug 21 19:08 libc.so.6

How to make them in d-i?

Regards,
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Bug#206522: libc-udeb: maybe should not provide glibc-2.3.2-2

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:36:06 +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, today I tried to update the package "locales"
> $ sudo apt-get install -u -s locales
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libc-udeb
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libc-udeb
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   locales
> 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
> Inst libc-udeb (2.3.2-3 ftp.de.debian.org)
> Inst locales [2.3.2-2] (2.3.2-3 Debian:unstable)
> Conf libc-udeb (2.3.2-3 ftp.de.debian.org)
> Conf locales (2.3.2-3 Debian:unstable)
> 
> My apt/sources.list looks like :
> deb http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main/debian-installer
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, should I use pinning for debian-installer ? 

I don't touch debian-installer yet, but I guess your apt-line has no
libc6 information?  Instead of libc6, apt-get try to provides
glibc-2.3.2-3 using libc-udeb.  Please confirm it.

> How could I have debian-installer in my sources.list without risking to
> install some udeb in my system ?

I recommend you to hear about this issue on debian-boot or d-i related
lists.

Regards,
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Re: Bits from the RM

[GOTO Masanori]

At 21 Aug 2003 17:29:16 +0100,
Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:52, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > My concern is (1) hppa build.  If we can't get hppa glibc, we may need
> > to drop it finally...
> 
> I don't think the hppa glibc is as inscrutable as all that.  The main
> problem seems to be that Carlos is the only person working on the bug,
> and he is only able to devote a limited amount of time to it.  If and
> when we get to the point of hppa being the only outstanding glibc issue,
> we will just have to lean on some of the other PA guys to get involved.

Indeed.

My point is hppa is release architecture.  So if toolchain and core
library do not work well, then we can't release, or we drop it from
release archs.

> The main problem that is concerning me at the moment is the large number
> of reports of binary incompatibility with older versions.  It's all very
> well to dismiss the difficulties with non-free software as somebody
> else's problem, but the fact that so many of these issues are cropping
> up all at once does suggest that glibc itself is doing something wrong. 
> However, in absence of a reliable way to reproduce the bug using only
> free software, it is hard to see a way forwards.  I will have a play
> with that antique inn that seemed to be experiencing trouble, and see if
> I can get a handle on it like that.

Yes, good point.  I forgot to write about this binary incompatibility
issue.  It's numbered as (5) from my previous mail, and it's also
concerned item.

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Re: Bits from the RM

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:09:29 -0500 (CDT),
Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:52:32PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > > AFAIK, the unresolved difficult bugs are: (1) hppa build (2) dpkg
> > > (setjmp/longjmp) on sparc (3) NIS (will be fixed?)  (4) misterious
> > > apache on ia64 bug.
> >
> > Is there a bug# for (2)? If not, could someone forward the appropriate
> > mails to the BTS for tracking, please?
> 
> I'd be interested too.  Haven't seen anything on -dpkg about it.

It was reported by joshk on IRC, but I'm not still clear where this
problem come from.  Example:

ultra30:~> dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version
Version: 2.3.2-3
ultra30:~> dpkg -s dpkg | grep Version
Version: 1.10.10
ultra30:~> dpkg
Bus error

dpkg works well with some options, but only typing `dpkg' breaks with
bus error.  It's not related with the existence of libc6-sparc64.
From tracking with gdb, dpkg breaks setjmp()/longjmp().  The
mysterious thing is that it works fine to compile gcc-3.2/gcc-3.3
without -O2 optimization.  It's also ok with glibc 2.3.1-17, IIRC.

Regards,
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Re: Bug#206333: libc6: libc6 2.3.2-2 conflicts with inn 1.7.2-4

[Philip Blundell]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:43, Adam Warner wrote:
> Perhaps it's the same reason that programs compiled against glibc 2.0
> performing a fseek() segfault:
> 

Seems likely.  I suspect this is also the cause of Joey Hess's problem
with rewind().

p.


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cvs commit to glibc-package/debian by pb

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Repository: glibc-package/debian
who:pb
time:   Thu Aug 21 14:53:23 MDT 2003
Log Message:
  log changes
  
  

Files:
changed:changelog


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Repository: glibc-package/debian/patches
who:pb
time:   Thu Aug 21 14:51:53 MDT 2003
Log Message:
  patch waitpid in not-cancel.h too, for popen's benefit
  
  

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changed:glibc23-arm-waitpid.dpatch


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Re: Bits from the RM

[Adam Heath]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:52:32PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > AFAIK, the unresolved difficult bugs are: (1) hppa build (2) dpkg
> > (setjmp/longjmp) on sparc (3) NIS (will be fixed?)  (4) misterious
> > apache on ia64 bug.
>
> Is there a bug# for (2)? If not, could someone forward the appropriate
> mails to the BTS for tracking, please?

I'd be interested too.  Haven't seen anything on -dpkg about it.


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Bug#206622: libc.so script busted

[Philip Blundell]

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.3.2-2
Architecture: arm
Severity: serious

This can't be good news:

/* GNU ld script
   Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
   the static library, so try that secondarily.  */
*** BUG in libc/scripts/output-format.sed ***
elf32-bigarm,elf32-littlearm
GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )

I guess we need to fix output-format.sed to handle this somehow.




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Re: Bits from the RM

[Philip Blundell]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:52, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> My concern is (1) hppa build.  If we can't get hppa glibc, we may need
> to drop it finally...

I don't think the hppa glibc is as inscrutable as all that.  The main
problem seems to be that Carlos is the only person working on the bug,
and he is only able to devote a limited amount of time to it.  If and
when we get to the point of hppa being the only outstanding glibc issue,
we will just have to lean on some of the other PA guys to get involved.

The main problem that is concerning me at the moment is the large number
of reports of binary incompatibility with older versions.  It's all very
well to dismiss the difficulties with non-free software as somebody
else's problem, but the fact that so many of these issues are cropping
up all at once does suggest that glibc itself is doing something wrong. 
However, in absence of a reliable way to reproduce the bug using only
free software, it is hard to see a way forwards.  I will have a play
with that antique inn that seemed to be experiencing trouble, and see if
I can get a handle on it like that.

p.



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Bug#204711: same problem without NIS but with (lib)nss-mysql

[Andreas J. Guelzow]

Just to add the note that the same or at least very similar symptoms
appear with nss-mysql (the debian package libnss-mysql) and no NIS.

With 2.3.2 I can login via gdm, but not on the console. I can't su but I
can ssh into the machine. If I remove mysql from the group line in
nsswitch.conf then root logins on the console work again (root is a
local ie. /etc/passwd account).

Andreas



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Bug#205328: libc6 upgrade breaks libnss-mysql deb

[Andreas J. Guelzow]

After upgrading to libc 2.3.2 on debian sid, the libnss-mysql package
stops to work correctly:

console logins hang (for /etc/passwd and mysql accounts), su hangs etc. 

of course having read that it will also break the mathematica kernel
means I can't really consider upgrading our systems anyways.

Andreas



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Re: Bits from the RM

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:52:32PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> AFAIK, the unresolved difficult bugs are: (1) hppa build (2) dpkg
> (setjmp/longjmp) on sparc (3) NIS (will be fixed?)  (4) misterious
> apache on ia64 bug.  

Is there a bug# for (2)? If not, could someone forward the appropriate
mails to the BTS for tracking, please?

Cheers,
aj

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Bug#205328: libc6: mathematica segfaults, too

[Meik Hellmund]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #205328

gotom wrote in this bug report log:
>I don't have any interests non-opensource non-free commercial packages
>written in this original report (so I plan to just close),

Please, please, reconsider your position in this question. It could move 
Debian in a niche for purists.  
I run as a sysadmin over 60 Debian Linux boxes for scientists in a university
institute for theoretical physics and a institute for mathematics. This would
be impossible without e.g. Mathematica for Linux or Maple for Linux running on
these computers. People need this software for their daily work. 
(Please don't point me to free computer algebra systems like Maxima or Octave.
I know them and their abilities.)

The statically linked mathematica "kernel" is one more piece of software
that segfaults with libc6 2.3.2 
The problem is not urgent, Woody is working fine, but when the situation 
stays this way, the next update could sweep away Debian from our computers.  

Please, at least publish some kind of workaround for this problem
(using something like LD_PRELOAD? Is this possible with a static binary?)
 
Regards,
Meik


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Bug#206531: Something to test with

[Sebastian Ley]

I have created a .tar.gz of a freshly built d-i tree. Perhaps this
will be useful for further investigation. A "chroot tree bin/sh"
causes an immediate segfault.

http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/d-i/d-i-tree.tar.gz



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Bug#206531: Problems building d-i after upgrading Sid chroot

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: libc6-pic
Version: 2.3.2-3
Severity: serious

After upgrading my Sid chroot, the cdrom floppy built by d-i is unable
to boot properly.

These are the last messages printed when booting the floppy:

  RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
  Freeing initrd memory: 1441k freed
  VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
  Mounted devsf on /dev
  VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
  Trying to move old root to /initrd .. failed
  Unmounting old root
  Trying to free ramdisk memory ... failed
  Mounted devfs on /dev
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed

I upgraded these packages:

  The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbz2-1.0 python2.3
  The following packages will be upgraded
apt apt-utils base-files binutils build-essential console-common
console-data console-tools coreutils cpp cpp-3.3 debconf
debconf-i18n debconf-utils debhelper devscripts discover-data
e2fslibs e2fsprogs file fileutils g++ g++-3.3 gcc gcc-3.3
gcc-3.3-base libblkid1 libc6 libc6-dev libc6-pic libcomerr2
libconsole libcurl2 libdb4.1 libdebconfclient0
libdebconfclient0-dev libgcc1 libmagic1 libsasl2 libss2 libstdc++5
libstdc++5-3.3-dev libuuid1 locales man-db modutils nano netbase
passwd perl perl-base perl-modules python python2.2 shellutils
tasksel textutils

We suspect the upgraded libc provoked the problem.  That is why I
report it against libc6-pic.  More info will be provided when we know
more.


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Bug#205328: Libc 2.3.2-2 breaks programs staticly linked against 2.3.1

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:58:05 +1000,
Peter Chubb wrote:
> Any program that (indirectly) uses libnss, staticly linked with older
> glibc versions will segfault after 2.3.2 is installed.  I suspect this
> is because of a changed internal interface with libnss.
>
> I believe that the problem is that the NSS mechanism uses dynamic
> linking even if an executable is linked staticly.

Yes, you're right.  And this is famous problem.  And we frequently
close such bugs.

Regards,
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Re: Bits from the RM

[GOTO Masanori]

At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:17:27 +1000,
Anthony Towns wrote:
> [1  ]
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:49:33AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:49:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Also make sure to include some leg room if you depend on packages that
> > > have a tendency to be buggy (glibc, for example).
> > The new glibc has already stalled the progress into testing of a large
> > number of packages, and the number of RC bugs still seems to be going up.
> > How are we going to manage to produce a release in 6 months the face of this
> > obstacle?  The last time there was this sort of breakage, it took many
> > months just to get glibc itself it sorted out.
> 
> Yup. The difference is that this time we have a Glibc maintenance team
> that's able to work together effectively, has some experience with the
> package, and has a better understanding how important it is to get it
> fixed quickly.

AFAIK, the unresolved difficult bugs are: (1) hppa build (2) dpkg
(setjmp/longjmp) on sparc (3) NIS (will be fixed?)  (4) misterious
apache on ia64 bug.  Note that (3) becomes ok to revert patches, (4)
may be non-glibc bug.  Well, they are still something hard work. :-)

My concern is (1) hppa build.  If we can't get hppa glibc, we may need
to drop it finally...

Regards,
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Bug#206522: libc-udeb: maybe should not provide glibc-2.3.2-2

[thomas]

Package: libc-udeb
Version: 2.3.2-2 (not installed)
Severity: normal

Hi, today I tried to update the package "locales"
$ sudo apt-get install -u -s locales
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libc-udeb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc-udeb
The following packages will be upgraded
  locales
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
Inst libc-udeb (2.3.2-3 ftp.de.debian.org)
Inst locales [2.3.2-2] (2.3.2-3 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc-udeb (2.3.2-3 ftp.de.debian.org)
Conf locales (2.3.2-3 Debian:unstable)

My apt/sources.list looks like :
deb http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main/debian-installer

Maybe I'm missing something, should I use pinning for debian-installer ? 
How could I have debian-installer in my sources.list without risking to
install some udeb in my system ?

Thanks for your help.



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Re: Bug#206333: libc6: libc6 2.3.2-2 conflicts with inn 1.7.2-4

[Adam Warner]

Hi Philip Blundell,

> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I worked around it by upgrading inn from 1.7.2-4 to 1.7.2debian-22.
> 
> Wow.  Even potato has 1.7.2-16, so 1.7.2-4 must be a really old version.
> 
>> May I humbly suggest that libc6 2.3.2-2 conflict with inn 1.7.2-4?
> 
> This shouldn't be necessary.  It sounds like inn has fallen victim to
> some ABI incompatibility in the new glibc.

Perhaps it's the same reason that programs compiled against glibc 2.0
performing a fseek() segfault:


[this was debugged by Richard Bass of NeTraverse, who produce Win4Lin], 

Regards,
Adam


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