Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Omari Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would probably be an upstream question, but is there no way to check for a null pointer before dereferencing it? I'm not familiar with kernel or AFS coding, but it seems like calling a function on faith with an inconsistent API is asking for

Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-16 Thread xsdg
Package: openafs-client Version: 1.3.81-5 Followup-For: Bug #249315 I happily installed openafs-{client,modules-source,krb5}, compiled the module, and did `modprobe openafs`. When I ran `/etc/init.d/openafs-client start`, my kernel OOPSed and the something complained that the cache was on an XFS

Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
xsdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I would appreciate if a warning of some sort showed up in debconf -- I tend not to look under /usr/share/doc/ unless I feel I need information in the first place. There's no winning on this; a debconf warning would get other people annoyed at debconf

Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-16 Thread Omari Stephens
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 16:51, Russ Allbery wrote: xsdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ::snip? SNIP!:: Secondly, something, somewhere, recognized that the cache was on an XFS partition, but only warned me after I was unable to do anything. From re-reading the original report, it appears that this

Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-16 Thread Sam Hartman
xsdg == xsdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xsdg First, I would appreciate if a warning of some sort showed xsdg up in debconf -- I tend not to look under /usr/share/doc/ xsdg unless I feel I need information in the first place. I believe this would be against debconf policy or would at