Bug#249315: XFS warning should be displayed more prominently

2005-05-16 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 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

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 t

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 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