[Bug 646777] Re: security alert: path race exploited in recursion

2011-08-11 Thread Philip Hands
As pointed out by Chris Dumont in the matching Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611659#20 the problem here is not the symlink, but the fact that the update.cf from the examples directory is still using the old path, thus causing the symlink to be used, whereas it

[Bug 380303] Re: thinkpad-acpi X200 Thinkpad fan fails to spin down .

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Hands
@Michael Eklund Thanks for persisting in commenting on this bug -- it's also present in Debian Squeeze (as one would expect from such a generic cause). @Florian M. The command I think he's suggesting is: iwconfig wlan0 power on As one can see in this (edited) output: root@poker:~# iwconfig

[Bug 154086] Re: Installing to HDD with previous ubuntu fails to create fresh LVM claiming group already in use

2011-05-23 Thread Philip Hands
The cause of this (assuming that it's the same bug as I've been tracking in Debian Squeeze) is that the LVM data is on the disk, but the partitions are not, so when it tries to look for pre-existing PVs it finds none. Then it sets up the partitions, and assuming the partitions are created in the

[Bug 230387] Re: [needs-packaging] arduino

2009-12-14 Thread Philip Hands
It might be of interest to anyone packaging the IDE that I've started a package of the bits needed to build any upload sketches without the IDE -- Personally, I don't care for IDEs so wouldn't want to be responsible for maintaining a package containing it, as I wouldn't be eating my own dog food,