Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
time trying to debug them from cold, such as AppArmor profiles and example scripts, and it's just good manners to give maintainers an explicit heads-up. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#977245: openssh-server: Kernel error after big rsync or scp

2020-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
ors. > > The hardware of the remote machine was a RockPro64. > The client operating systems tested were Gentoo and Arch linux. In general kernel oopses are kernel bugs, not userspace bugs, so reassigning to linux. I expect that the full contents of the oops messag

Re: last preparations for switching to production Secure Boot key

2019-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
switching to the production > key? And prepare an upload with the changes described above and ready > to use the production key? I don't know of any blockers from the grub2 side. Once the archive has the "packages" key changes, I can prepare an upload -

Bug#882380: initramfs-tools: Update-initramfs can take an unnecessarily long time if other disk activity is ongoing

2018-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
est adding a dependency on coreutils (>= 8.24), which introduced the feature of sync(1) being used here. I've put all this in a merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/merge_requests/6 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Bug#849923: openssh-server: no login possible after upgrade on x32

2017-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
x27;ve cloned a kernel bug for this with this message. > > On 2017-01-02 17:49, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > sshd's seccomp sandbox is denying a clock_gettime call. But it's more > > Probably a stupid idea, but a short-term stopgap: can we disable seccomp >

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
t want to get GRUB signed by Microsoft anyway; their signing process is far too cumbersome for anything but a loader that we try not to change very often. Their guidelines permit chaining to GPLv3 code via shim, so this part of it should not be a problem. -- Colin Watson

Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

2011-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
mfs-tools Architecture: all +Multi-Arch: foreign Recommends: busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-initramfs Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.5.23-2~), cpio, module-init-tools, udev, findutils (>= 4.2.24), ${misc:Depends} Suggests: bash-completion Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2011-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
this that we should know about? Don, what do you think about all this? I think it's tractable, but it feels like a pretty solid weekend's work to me. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@li

Bug#592519: Bug#627677: alternative initramfs compressor

2011-05-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Colin Watson wrote (23 May 2011 14:47:18 GMT) : > > + # We probably ought to use COMPRESS= in a temporary file in > > + # /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ instead, but it's hard to > > +

Re: Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

2011-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
specific command won't cut it there. The above algorithm seems simple enough; I can probably find time to propose a strawman patch to grub-mkconfig_lib for that at some point. The main thing that I'm unsure about in DebianLinux's algorithm is the pre-release handling. Debian GRUB

Bug#619670: initramfs-tools: make robust against libraries only runtime-linkable due to /etc/ld.so.conf*

2011-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
;; + /lib/*) + dirname=/lib + ;; + esac + fi + # FIXME inst_lib mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/${dirname}" if [ ! -e "${DESTDIR}/${dirname}/${libname}&

Bug#605090: linux-2.6: [RFC] Add a grsec featureset to Debian kernels

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
the 6-64999 range, and I'm waiting for their > comment. I let Yves-Alexis know by private e-mail, but, for the public record, I allocated these gids as requested. http://bzr.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/users/cjwatson/base-passwd/trunk/revision/155 -- Colin Watson

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:47:56PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 09:35 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is a good start, but it doesn't specify *how* boot loader packages > > are to be disabled. I think that this needs to be consistent across > &g

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:44:32AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 16:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Actually, what I want is a consistent way to disable bootloader > > invocation for all bootloaders, without necessarily requiring the > > bootloa

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
; Report a bug on lilo; I suppose it should warn but still 'succeed' if > /etc/lilo.conf is missing. elilo should do the same. This is my bug > and I can fix it. :-) No idea about zipl but I doubt you care about > s390 live media. What I specifically do not want is for

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:45:44PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:25 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > In the case where one is building an image and part of the image build > > involves running update-initramfs, it would be useful to have a single > &

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623375.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
begins with 'linux-image-' and > do nothing in this case. [Is this sensible or is it too 'clever'?] Sensible, I think. There's no point running update-grub three times. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Processed: reassign 586148 to src:grub2

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
o install while > running 'update-grub': Invalid parameter, 2.6.34-1-amd64 > Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'src:grub2'. > Bug No longer marked as found in versions 2.6.34-1~experimental.2. This is #586056, fixed in grub2 1.98+20100

Bug#586006: initramfs-tools: noisy resume

2010-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
sp ships an resume binary too if [ -n "${resume_offset}" ]; then - /bin/resume ${resume} ${resume_offset} + /bin/resume ${resume} ${resume_offset} >/dev/null 2>&1 else - /bin/resume ${resume} + /bin/resume ${resume} &

Bug#586002: initramfs-tools: should work around 'find -printf %Y' bug

2010-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
; | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \ - | xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f +(cd "${DESTDIR}" && find . -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \ + | xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f) [ "${verbose}" = y ] && echo &

Bug#585897: initramfs-tools: allow multiple break points

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
ctions index 685642e..89451c7 100644 --- a/scripts/functions +++ b/scripts/functions @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ panic() maybe_break() { - if [ "${break:-}" = "$1" ]; then + if echo "${break:-}" | egrep -q "(,|^)$1(,|$)"; then panic "Spawn

Bug#365128: Seen here also..

2008-12-22 Thread Colin Watson
of way) for a while, and I haven't had a chance to figure out what's wrong with it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#509007: mkvmlinuz: force -fno-stack-protector

2008-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
ed to explicitly compile with -fno-stack-protector. I know this isn't an immediate problem for Debian, but would you consider applying this patch anyway? It should be harmless. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] diff -Nru mkvmlinuz-35/boo

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
trinsic property of 2.6.24; enabling CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER again will restore compatibility. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447153: /usr/bin/scp: Fails to notice write errors

2007-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:02:25AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > To openssh-unix-dev: does anyone think this is worth a workaround? > > Gut feeling is that it should be fixed wherever the problem is. Yeah, that'

Bug#447153: /usr/bin/scp: Fails to notice write errors

2007-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 12/11/2007, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To openssh-unix-dev: does anyone think this is worth a workaround? The > > ftruncate seems rather unnecessary if we've already written out the &g

Bug#401384: fixed in mkvmlinuz 28

2006-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
l (I'm looking at mkvmlinuz_29.tar.gz); did you maybe forget to 'svn add' it? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374185: mkvmlinuz: syntax errors in script

2006-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:42:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > reopen 374185 unreproducible > severity 374185 important > thanks > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:50:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This part of the report is still valid no matter whether you're using

Bug#378089: initramfs-tools: create /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d in preinst before writing to it

2006-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
e that this bug may have produced /etc/initramfs-tools as a regular file, due to this incautious code: cp /etc/mkinitrd/modules /etc/initramfs-tools You should append a trailing slash when copying to directories to defend against this; my patch also does this. Cheers, -

Bug#374185: mkvmlinuz: syntax errors in script

2006-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
sh, I get: /usr/sbin/mkvmlinuz: 61: arith: syntax error: "OPTIND-1" Please apply this part of Wouter's patch. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#365978: Uploader wanted ...

2006-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:03:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:48:17AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Sure, I can do this (although I can't tag it in svn). Is > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/utils/mkvmlinuz/mkvmlinuz > > the corr

Re: Bug#365978: Uploader wanted ...

2006-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
hough. Colin or Bastian are obvious > choices. Sure, I can do this (although I can't tag it in svn). Is svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/utils/mkvmlinuz/mkvmlinuz the correct URL? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

Bug#365978: mkvmlinuz: doesn't clean up temporary directory

2006-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
by an option or an environment variable rather than being the default behaviour? (I noticed this when my 512MB /tmp filled up after a few d-i daily builds.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Bug#365128: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc: oops while running two X servers

2006-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
001:10:1b.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 04) 0001:11:00.0 0280: 1260:3890 (rev 01) 0002:24:0b.0 0600: 106b:0036 0002:24:0d.0 ff00: 106b:003b 0002:24:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0031 (rev 81) 0002:24:0f.0 : 106b:0032 (rev ff) Let me know if there's anything else you need. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I'd be happy to, but there's no linux-image-2.6.* package for apus yet.

Re: Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
re is working anymore, given > the state of 2.4.27 in etch/sid. I'd be happy to, but there's no linux-image-2.6.* package for apus yet. Looking at the kernel trunk in svn, perhaps apus needs to be added to flavours: in arch/powerpc/defines? Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: sarge upgrade - linux, grub conflict

2006-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
es the pre and post scripts specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf. > update-grub from grub older than 0.97-3 writes informations to stdout, > which is coupled to debconf and makes it fail. Surely sarge kernel updates should be using the kernel-package in sarge, namely 8.135. If there

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
s/; the images there are untested, and I haven't yet cronned the build (I probably need to get my Pegasos going again and move it there, rather than trying to do it on my laptop), but I'll try to get that sorted out sometime this week. If you'd like

Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 06:35:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 03 December 2005 18:18, Colin Watson wrote: > > usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at > > least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to > > port nearl

Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
move it from experimental to sid soon. > > Oh, then it was the x86/vesa only thingy ? usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to port nearly anywhere. -- Colin Watson

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
x27;m told will eventually break due to kernel changes, and probably doesn't work so well for wacky block devices even now), either by changing lilo directly to do that or just by making lilo-installer override it by adding root= to the kernel command line in append=. initramfs-tools does handle

Re: what happened to vesafb support in 2.6.13-1?

2005-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
ckground info the old half-baken vesa modular patch conflicts > with upstream fixes. hch, waldi and i decided that to be a good > time to drop it. Unless the hardware support of one or other framebuffer driver has been radically improved, or unless there's somethi

Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...

2005-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
nary-only NMU in some ways and get confused. I've made that mistake before ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
o-installer that's waiting for a newer busybox release with 'readlink -f' support. It can be enabled whenever d-i switches to 2.6.13. Please do not reassign this bug, as initrd-tools really *does* need fixing. (There's no fix for this bug in Ubuntu yet either.) Cheers, --

Re: 2.6.12 upload

2005-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
torically, having the udebs be controlled by the d-i team made sense. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
dware, try usin XEN. No need to mess with older hardware *or* Xen. Use the mem=32M (etc.) kernel parameter. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI MPT drivers - why compiled as a module?

2005-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
media and the like. The correct approach when using a stock kernel is to make sure your initrd knows to load the Fusion module. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: broadcom proposed firmware licence, please comment ...

2005-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
ow exactly what we're doing about firmware yet. I have a kernel-wedge patch in Ubuntu which supports generating *-firmware-*-di udebs, although it's a bit clone-and-hack from copy-modules and I haven't ported it to kernel-wedge 2 yet. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Bug#290329: testing on PowerMac

2005-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
FWIW, MODULES=dep works fine for me on my PowerBook. I think this change is probably worth it - we've had a number of issues in the past with large initrds on powerpc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Bug#306355: linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7-smp: fails to boot on udev system

2005-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
isled you into reporting this bug to Debian? If so, perhaps we could fix it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#297794: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc: postinst almost completely missing, breaks installer

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:10:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc > Version: 2.4.27-3 > Severity: critical > > The complete contents of kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc.postinst are now as > follows: > > #!/bin/sh > set -e

Bug#297794: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc: postinst almost completely missing, breaks installer

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
st from kernel-package. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with kernel on SATA hosts - RC?

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
ld be a regression to jam them back into the kernel monolithic-style (for one, it would probably make it impossible to put the kernel on a floppy). > Do these messages this apply to the /dev inside the initrd?? FWIW, the > machine does not use udev or devfs. Those messages indicate

Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
t putting dots in the names. Good call. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#271899: Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:07:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > severity 271899 important > merge 271899 272139 > tags 272139 + pending > thanks > > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-17 19:12]: > > It's probably best for us to try both. The fo

Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
probably best for us to try both. The following patch (actually against 0.1.70 rather than 0.1.74, but should still apply) works for me: http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/initrd-tools.sys-block.diff Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition

2004-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
-hppa in the debian-installer repository, not the standard kernel-image debs. You can tell this by the way the column was headed "linux-kernel-di". > Now if d-i needs special work of mine to sync with kernel updates, I'd > better be taught about it. It does. There are plenty of examples in the d-i repository. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody->sarge upgrades on mips: glibc vs. kernel

2004-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
ibc. Modern kernel packages have dependencies that require a glibc newer than that in woody. To break this deadlock, we need upgrade kernel packages so that there's something to which we can point users in the release notes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Instead of the amd64 GR: rudimentary amd64 support for sarge, need sponsor.

2004-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
not part of base and thus not frozen). Matthias, how do you feel about > that? libgcc1 is produced from the gcc-3.4 source package on many architectures, so it is frozen. It'll have to go through t-p-u. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#249205: [getty-info@mail.nwmagic.net: Re: [syntaxis@gmx.co.uk: Bug#249205: gettyps: no right to modify]]

2004-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
'm also tagging the bug to note that gettyps isn't in testing or unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
r some time and in my experience work well. > Ah, and i am seriously considering dropping support for apus from the > kernels (and thus debian-installer). Amen! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Prism54-devel] BE in stock kernel

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:34:46AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > I suggest changing the Maintainer of the kernel pseudo-package to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's fine by me, but the file of pseudo-package maintainers is maintained by ftpmaster. Cheers, -- C

Re: Debian kernel maintainter takeover

2004-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
el source > (orig.tar.gz) and a non-free blob source. Of course. That doesn't stop you putting the scripts that remove non-free things somewhere in the Debian diff for convenience and cooperation, though. See doc-linux. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]