Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

2017-12-12 Thread Dominic Benson
3.16.51-3~a.test also works on my previously problematic box.

Bug#883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

2017-12-10 Thread Dominic Benson
I encountered this on an old Intel SR1600 box with Westmere Xeons. I have an Ivy Bridge E5-1620v2 physical box that has booted successfully with this kernel, and I haven't seen any problem among the dozen or so VMs that have so far rebooted onto it (VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, on dual E5 Xeon Sandy Bridg

Bug#853950: firehol: NFS client fails even with policy accept

2017-02-02 Thread Dominic Benson
Package: firehol Version: 3.1.1+ds-1 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream Dear Maintainer, In recent Firehol (3.x), a family of options like FIREHOL_DROP_ORPHAN_TCP_ACK were added, intended to avoid log noise for end-of-session packets where the connection tracker has already closed them (on

Bug#815545: libgraphite2-2.0.0: Incorrect SONAME in shlibs (3 vs 2.0.0)

2016-02-22 Thread Dominic Benson
Source: libgraphite2-2.0.0 Version: 1.3.5-1~deb7u1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, It looks like the reversion from -3 to -2.0.0 when rebuilding this for oldstable-security omitted to update debian/libgraphite2-2.0.0.shlibs. The effect is that when building against it [observed lo

Bug#636040: finish-install: hvc0 console added to inittab even when not available

2011-07-30 Thread Dominic Benson
On 30 Jul 2011, at 15:57, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 15:28 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: >> >> OK. I'm not really sure under what real circumstances it would be entered. >> >> My concern was that, if it is used, as /sys/bus/xen and /dev/hvc0

Bug#636040: finish-install: hvc0 console added to inittab even when not available

2011-07-30 Thread Dominic Benson
On 30 Jul 2011, at 14:56, Ian Campbell wrote: > (please keep 636...@bugs.debian.org CC'd so this conversation is > recorded on the bug) Sorry - missed that last time. > > On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 14:43 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: >> On 30 Jul 2011, at 14:40, Ian Campbel

Bug#636040: finish-install: hvc0 console added to inittab even when not available

2011-07-30 Thread Dominic Benson
Package: finish-install Version: 2.32 Severity: normal finish-install 90console script checks for the existence of /sys/bus/xen to determine whether to add a console on /dev/hvc0 - but in 2.6.38 / 2.6.39 this always appears to exist. The effect is an "init id co respawned too fast, disabling fo