Alexander Sack wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:31:30PM +0200, Von Wolher wrote: > >>Hello Kitame, >> >>I'm sorry to approach you like this but we got a very urgent situation >>which was caused by the latest update for mozilla-*. This update messed >>up enigmail completely. We got now 5 systems showing the exact >>behaviour. They use Mozilla 1.7.8 (latest sarge) and enigmail (latest >>sarge). Enigmail doesn't show any keys anymore in the key management >>window and some options might be missing from the key menu too. >> >>We checked with gpg on the commandline and luckily everything was there >>in the rings and also working fine on the commandline. >> >>These boxes run the official sarge release, no backports or anything >>exotic on them, pure sarge debian. Please let me know how to solve this >>problem since our users can't work on the commandline. >> >>To be sure, it happened with the latest update: >> >>[SECURITY] [DSA 1160-1] New Mozilla packages fix several vulnerabilities >> >>after installing that with apt-get enigmail stopped working properly. >> > > > As you can still use enigmail core features, aka encrypt/decrypt and > sign/verify it has yet to be decided if we will roll-out an updated > package for this issue. In any case, if we push a dedicated update for > this, it will take some days until all architectures finished the new > build. > > To give you instant cure - if you are using i386 - there will be a fix > in my security preview archive [1] in approx. one hour from now > (Version: 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.2.2). > > > FWIW, we need more volunteers (pure desktop sarge users) that help > testing mozilla updates before they get rolled out in order to prevent > bugs like this to slip through in future. For sarge we completely rely on > the help of our community to do QA which is not provided by the mozilla > project anymore - they have abandoned security support for versions > shipped in sarge. > > To help, just keep the security archive lines [1] in your > sources.list and upgrade regularly. Better monitor my blog (see sig) > to get informed if a new security update is about to land. If there is > a new security update, keep your eyes open for new bugs and report > them to me. > > Thanks, > > [1] - http://www.asoftsite.org/apt-archives.html > > > - Alexander >
Hello Alexander, Thank you very much for the lightspeed reaction and fix !!! I'll set those extra lines in the sources.list of a few general use boxes which also run pure debian sarge and will keep you updated in case an updated doesn't workout. Thanks again mate! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
