Re: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
terate over all of the dtbs for the current kernel and copy them around. But I think we're even farther from having any kind of standard boot.scr/uEnv.txt infrastructure that would cope with this, than we are from having dtbs themselves as a standard interface. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#760037: nfs-kernel-server: nfs crashes in set_nfsv4_acl_one

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
looks like a dupe of 754420. Doh. Sorry, read the dak output wrong! (Too many distracting backports kernels in the way :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#760037: nfs-kernel-server: nfs crashes in set_nfsv4_acl_one

2014-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
nger-supported kernel version. Is there any chance you could try upgrading to a later kernel? kirkwood appears to still be supported through jessie. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Bug#757835: nfs-kernel-server: after update 1.2.8-6->1.2.8-8 rpc.mountd starts crashing

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
p && *cp) { > buf[0] = 'Q'; > } > } > > int main(void) { > add_name(0); > return 0; > } > -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the

Bug#757835: nfs-kernel-server: after update 1.2.8-6->1.2.8-8 rpc.mountd starts crashing

2014-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
es 'cp' > cannot be NULL, forgetting that both 'cp' and 'old' could have been > NULL, making these expressions valid for NULL cp. Are you seeing this problem on i386 (like the original submitter), or do you see this problem on a different architecture? (If it&

Bug#756812: nfs-common: rpc.gssd crashes while mounting an encrypted nfs4 filesystem

2014-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
or segfaults ensue. If there is a reason for switching the linkage away from gssglue, then a coordinated transition would be needed. libtirpc has two reverse dependencies in the archive, rpcbind and nfs-utils. I would appreciate it if you would test both of them when making changes to libtirpc.

Bug#740491: Please provide a NEWS file that informs about necessary changes to idmapd.conf

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
s work. If you want to provide a patch, I'll apply it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debi

Bug#740491: Similar problem

2014-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
nd manually creating the directory may let the package upgrade, but will not give the correct behavior since this must be a mountpoint, not a directory.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and

Bug#623377: rpcbind: Please include upstart support in the rpcbind package

2013-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hey Bastian, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:56:54AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:15:31AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > + * Fix to look directly in /run instead of via the /var/run symlink. > Where is the bug report for this? This is mentioned in

Bug#623377: rpcbind: Please include upstart support in the rpcbind package

2013-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 719357 patch tags 623377 patch thanks With Luk's approval, I've prepared an NMU to address these two bugs in rpcbind. Please find the NMU diff attached. This NMU will be uploaded to unstable shortly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Bug#707960: fixed in nfs-utils 1:1.2.8-3

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:18:00AM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Source: nfs-utils > > Source-Version: 1:1.2.8-3 > > We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of > > nfs-utils, w

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > > > reject

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
to does imply some logistical challenges for ensuring that we continue to have good kernel support during the development cycle, so that release+1 will be supportable on the box. But this is a problem we've dealt with before, and certainly in this case the upstream kernel support is quite good

Bug#679449: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
s had a VFP unit, > but that forward path is easy. > It seems a net win compared to a few % extra speed in FPU-intensive > apps on v7+ CPUs. The v7+ CPUs far outnumber the v6 CPUs, of which there's only one platform that anyone is interested in (the RPi). Amortizing that few % spee

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
only by definition). > 1. Migration of existing systems is easier. > 2. There are still machines bought new which aren't ready for x32. Any such machine would also need a 32-bit kernel, so doesn't seem to be what we're talking about here. -- Steve Langasek Give m

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ian to switch this default than it is for Ubuntu, since Debian's choice of default arch doesn't have quite the same "all or nothing" impact on pressed CDs and the like. But IMHO it's better for our users to choose a default that's safe, at the cost of some users not get

Bug#640672: moving files to arch specific include breaks compilations with -m32

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
is not guaranteed to work unless the gcc-multilib package is installed; and if gcc-multilib is installed, you get a /usr/include/asm compatibility symlink pointing to /usr/include/$triplet/asm. There are still some problems with this setup, but I don't agree that the issue reported here is o

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
is it ok for these to be uploaded to stable-proposed-updates? This fixes a bug that makes squeeze kerberized NFS servers unusable with newer clients (e.g., wheezy). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek writes: > Steve> Hi Sam, I've also run into this bug, in the context of > Steve> preparing to update nfs-utils in Ubuntu for IPv6 support. My &g

Bug#622146: nfs-common: compatibility between squeeze and sid broken

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
path. You mention that fixing this properly requires backporting patches to both nfs-utils and krb5. Could you provide a reference for the krb5 patch? (I assume the nfs-utils one is the one Luk already linked to) I'm potentially willing to help with getting this int a stable update. Thanks, -- St

Re: support for making linux-libc-dev coinstallable under multiarch

2011-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Ben, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 12:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hello, > > This is the patch from bug #750585 on the linux package, which I've just > > gotten a freeze exception for; I've been

Bug#603858: Mount options for proc conflict with /etc/fstab breaking /etc/init.d/mountall.sh

2010-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
script reports a red FAILED because of that. This is the only symptom you describe, and that's certainly not critical! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#600937: Please disable /etc/kernel postinst hook if the target kernel is non-modular

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
sphrase. Instead we need to fix update-initramfs itself to not fail on a non-modular kernel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
this in the release notes either. :) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ere's something here that we've overlooked; but we shouldn't hold up our call for upgrade testing waiting for such logs to appear, in the absence of some other evidence of a problem when using grub. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free O

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
of caution; if lenny grub really doesn't need to be added to the Breaks, please close again - but please also let me know why, so we can write the release notes appropriately.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to s

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
., that they're *not* local modifications by the admin. With appropriate uses of ucf, this would not have been silently overwritten. And nfs-kernel-server calling ucfr wouldn't have saved you from this anyway, because the documented standard use of ucf is to call ucfr *after* calling ucf; so

Bug#596767: nfs-kernel-server does not check the ucf registry for conflicting package, registrations.

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
other package. This situation can never arise among Debian packages, because Debian policy stipulates that each configuration file has one and only one owning package. Supporting this for the benefit of third-party or local packages sounds like a wishlist bug to me. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#593421: More info, change of severity

2010-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ion 2.6.32-18. I'm sorry for the difficulty you're experiencing, but that does not meet the definition of a 'grave' bug. A grave bug is when the package is unusable *in general*, not when it is unusable on a particular piece of hardware. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#593683: linux-2.6 - images does not conflict with pre-policy versions of bootloaders

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
nly way we're likely to find those corner cases is by trying this change and seeing what bug reports come back. I'm definitely in favor of adding the Breaks. Doing this should shorten the squeeze release notes' upgrade instructions by about 20%. -- Steve Langasek

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
h up front. Fixing this is probably not going to be high on anyone's priority list, but I would argue against a lintian override in this case because I think there's real room for improvement. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Bug#590923: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#590923: smbclient: Mounted directory does not show all directories or hung up

2010-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 590923 grave thanks On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:48:34AM +0200, Jaekle, Andreas wrote: > the whole system hang up. I have to reboot the machine. Ok, raising the severity of the bug back to grave. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Deb

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 07:57:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe since awk is essential by way of being a pre-depends of base-files > both mawk and gawk should behave as if they were essential. No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:27:40AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:51:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Only because it's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that > > > > causes > > > > initramfs-tools to be p

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:10:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 06:38:41AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > O: Selecting previously deselected package mawk. > > > O: dpk

Bug#589963: preinst fails if awk is unpacked but not configured

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that causes initramfs-tools to be pulled into the essential set (which I do not), this is a cdebootstrap bug for not fulfilling the pre-depends of the essential packages before continuing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: A question about hard disk names with recent kernels

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
factors), kernel device names are not stable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ sla

Bug#581377: initramfs-tools: Multipath does not load correctly at boot time

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
ipath in the initrd-image. > When i create a symbolic link in lib64 pointing to lib/multipath the > initializing of the multipaths works. > I hope this helps to find the Bug. Almost certainly a bug in the multipath-tools package or its initramfs hook, not in initramfs-tools. Reassigning.

Bug#569250: [initramfs-tools] Please add plymouth compatibility

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
sign choice. But *if* it is included in the initramfs, then several other components need to be started before it in order to get the desired results (namely, the udev and framebuffer scripts). But the plymouth package in Debian doesn't install a script to start plymouth /at all/ in the initramfs

Bug#566192: initramfs-tools: md0 device not recognized at boot after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
usion of mdadm.conf in initramfs is the responsibility of the mdadm hook, not of initramfs-tools itself. Reassigning. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Upgrade script for libata transition

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
est builds on a buildd is adequate for uploading a bootloader with a different toolchain, so I haven't officially orphaned the package). If you care about getting feedback for alpha, I'd suggest mailing debian-al...@lists.debian.org. -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
is look at the "enterprise" versions was already done, and is what resulted in picking 2.6.32. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Linux image packages going to depend on python

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
xpress wishes of python upstream. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#553922: "cryptsetup: lvm is not available" lock up at boot

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
OME+devickeit / lvm2 conflict has resulted in the lvm2 package being removed from your system? (This happened to me here - fortunately I noticed the problem when trying to create a snapshot, and didn't have to wait for a reboot to discover it...) -- Steve Langasek Give me

Bug#553472: linux-libc-dev: Include linux/aufs_type.h for aufs2-utils?

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
der file into the aufs-tools source package > > like btrfs-tools does but I just think it's better to include it here, > > especially considering Debian derivatives. > Does Ubuntu include it in linux-libc-dev? No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enou

Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
in 2.6.31-rc8 is much more stable than EXA has been in the recent past. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.d

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
0 rx_errors: 0 rx_missed: 0 align_errors: 0 tx_single_collisions: 0 tx_multi_collisions: 0 unicast: 284 broadcast: 8 multicast: 1 tx_aborted: 0 tx_underrun: 0 # Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian De

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
; RTL_W32(MAR0 + 0, mc_filter[0]); > RTL_W32(MAR0 + 4, mc_filter[1]); > RTL_W32(RxConfig, tmp); > to: > RTL_W32(RxConfig, tmp); > RTL_W32(MAR0 + 0, mc_filter[0]); > RTL_W32(MAR0 + 4, mc_filter[1]); > in rtl_set_rx_mode(). Applied, r

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
el team wants, please first try to reconcile the "release team: yes" with waldi's "Luk: no". -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu D

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
s list, he proposed the venue? > I'm assuming he'll be around, as he lives in Portland anyway. If you > ask him nicely, I'm sure he'll show you the best places to find good > beer too. :-) I'm cc:ing him anyway. Yep, I'll be here, and I think beer might be arran

Bug#494363: marked as done (thecus nic driver multicast issue)

2009-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
30 [1573779.83] r8169: mac_version = 0x04 [1573779.83] r8169: Set MAC Reg C+CR Offset 0x82h = 0x01h [1573780.57] r8169: eth0: link down [1573780.57] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [1573781.34] r8169: eth0: link up [1573781.34] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:

Re: RL meeting

2009-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
ights will certainly be cheaper the sooner people are able to commit, so I would suggest trying to reach a yes/no on this particular idea in the next week or so. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I c

Re: Bug#539767: alsa-base: drop blacklist of snd-pcsp

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Downgrading, this isn't a release-critical bug. (Unless the alsa-base maintainers agree with you that this makes the package "unsuitable for release", in which case they can raise the severity again.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Bug#352765: linux-2.6: wrong drivers for tulip PCI IDs on alpha?

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
deem correct so that you don't have to worry about it, but don't close it so that it can't be found. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#535130: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: fails with lenny's udev

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
we don't add a versioned Depends: on udev outright. The use case for a recent Linux system without udev is diminishingly small. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the worl

Bug#533895: linux-image-2.6.26-2-r4k-ip22: Unable to Access Hardware Clock

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
here an easy workaround, or do I have to install "udev"? You ought to be using udev, on any modern Linux system. (As for downgrading to an old kernel - any kernel that doesn't support the new rtc system is also not supported by the glibc in squeeze.) -- Steve Langasek

Bug#528399: linux-image-2.6-k7: K7-Image not availble

2009-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:35:52PM +0200, Francis Debord wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6-k7 > Version: 2.6.26.lenny > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software This does not "break" anything. The i686 image works fine on k7 system

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:23:35PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > Also, SUSv3 is different from POSIX; TTBOMK, SUSv3 includes all the XSI > extensions, while POSIX leaves them as options. Yes; policy currently specifies SUSv3. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Bug#347186: linux-image-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic: Matroxfb alpha

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
lude running 'bterm'? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:20:49PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Is 'command -v' in SUSv3? 'which' is the predominant idiom used in > > maintainer scripts... > it is supported by dash as builtin. Whic

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:44:16PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:52:07PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > > --- initramfs-tools-0.93.2/update-initramfs.orig 2009-04-20 > > > 14:50:15.

Bug#524928: initramfs-tools: wrong path for elilo

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ly this should be if [ -x $(which elilo 2>/dev/null) ], since paths aren't supposed to be hard-coded in maintainer scripts at all? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the worl

Bug#516734: linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64: Dependency on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 cannot be meet

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
uploaded once already and rejected by the ftp team for debian/copyright irregularities. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#515826: your mail

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
release of the alpha port with Debian squeeze, but we can certainly put this on the list for documenting in the release notes for Debian 5.0.1. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and

Bug#515826: your mail

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. Perhaps you could try passing virtual_root.force_probe=1 as a kernel option when booting the installer, to see if that fixes the problem for you? -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Bug#516015: lenny kernel does not boot Alpha architecture

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
> let me know what more debugging info I can provide. Please check whether this is the same as bug #515956. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the w

Bug#515956: linux-image-2.6.26-1-alpha-generic: 2.6.26-1-alpha-generic fails to boot on DS10 (Tsunami)

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ue leading up to release, I guess there aren't a whole lot of alpha users left to worry about it. This is something I think we should get fixed for 5.0.1. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#313552: kernel-image-2.6.11-alpha: qla1280 driver doesn't work with ISP1020 (PCI ID: 1077:1020)

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:44:11PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:06:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:32:50PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > > Could you please retest this with a current 2.6.14 or 2.6.15-rc (from

Bug#507710: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: CPU overload, Sound server fatal error.

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
en know what this error means, or what component is responsible for it; I think we need a KDE maintainer to tell us what "CPU overload" means before we can treat this as a kernel bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

2008-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 483781 -wontfix thanks How is a mount helper supposed to address this? Having anything other than utf8 exposed on the vfs is broken, so it needs to be mounted as utf8; the fact that mounting as utf8 breaks vfat case-insensitivity is a bug in the vfat kernel driver. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
ysical > memory. Or am I missing something? Yes, you are. A kernel loaded at the legacy address *won't boot* on the newer hardware. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#503020: linux-image: tcp_dsack causes hangs when using proxy server

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
[my proxy] http://www.zdziarski.com > causes the web page to hang every other query. disabling net.ipv4.tcp_dsack > seems to resolve the problem, leaving me to believe something might be wrong > in how linux handles dupe sacks. This is probably <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: snd-pcsp vs pcspkr

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 01:19:37PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > One of the following modules have to go, both claims the same hardware: > - snd-pcsp > - pcspkr Are we meant to be voting? snd-pcsp sounds terrible, I think it should go away. :) -- Steve Langasek

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-4

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
, since the release team is actively working on getting 2.6.26 into testing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.

Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:40:31AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > On 13:15 Sun 24 Aug , Steve Langasek wrote: > SL> severity 496410 important > SL> thanks > You are mistake :) > Your script places in /usr/sbin, ie it runs with root privs. > If I create symlink /

Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ch are not valid shell, cron entries, password/shadow entries, or any other config file that I know of. So at best this appears to be a DoS symlink attack; therefore downgrading. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-3

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ey should go ahead and do the work themselves. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.deb

Re: Kernel package irregularities

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
for domU, with the intent that the associated image package (if it were actually fully functional) be shareable for both dom0 and domU? But then, in that case I would expect the image package to also include various non-hardware-related modules that are useful in a domU context. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c

2008-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
y assesment of severities is "best-effort". If a severity is > wrong, we can surely discuss it! > Do you mind if I reopen with non-RC severity, untill my question above has > been clarified? Yes, I mind. If there's not a DFSG violation here, then there is no bug that the ke

Re: Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:38:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:09:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:20:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Following the discussion some weeks ago I have a patch to fix most of >

Re: Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
t; - Definitions for AF_WANPIPE socket Seems ok, any regression is going to be very localized. If someone can take care of patching the two issues mentioned above, then I'm happy with a 2.6.26 upload to unstable. Otherwise I'll work on the patch myself tomorrow night. -- Steve Langas

Bug#492301: severity of 492301 is normal

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
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Re: imminent 2.6.26 sid upload

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
side is really considering 2.6.25 to be an option for lenny, and the sooner we get 2.6.26 into unstable the sooner we can get everything smoothed out for lenny. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
600 lines diff. Have you gotten any closer to finding the cause of this regression? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://

Bug#490293: linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686: CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please > use CIFS)". Just follow it and use cifs. No, we've already discussed this on IRC. CONFIG_SMB_FS should not be disabled in etch, the userspace support isn't there to give us feature parity via CIFS. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#404927: Fw: ICP/Adaptec 5085BR emits similar symptoms (group floppy)

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
" > ATTR{stat}==" 2228010170 15301778412411589 > 82721 75569632288074092 116412" > ATTR{capability}=="13" > > As can be seen, then DRIVER thing is empty. Thought I'd mention it, > even though I am unsure why DRIV

Bug#464229: Please merge with 480014

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
this is a commonly reported issue and there is potentially some work to be done on the kernel package to improve this, I'm instead merging it with the other open report, bug #473877. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Bug#480295: [alpha] missing asm/page.h

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 09:50:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 05:51:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > /usr/include/asm/page.h is _not_ provided by linux-libc-dev, but > > &

Re: Bug#480295: [alpha] missing asm/page.h

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
n back out of the kernel again and maintained separately if it can't comply with the freeze requirements when maintained in-tree. What's the best way forward here? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Fre

Bug#484824: initramfs-tools: seems not to build usable initrd, even with MODULES=most in initramfs.conf boot fails (xfs)

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ustification: breaks the whole system Overinflated severity. > initramfs-tools: seems not to build usable initrd, even with MODULES=most > in initramfs.conf boot fails (xfs) You'll need to show a transcript of this boot failure for anyone to help diagnose it. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Processed: info that it has *not* been dealt with

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
mpting to close bugs in contradiction of fact. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PRO

Bug#242866: Closure

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:26:03AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Rest assured that max speaks on behalf of the Debian _kernel_ team, not > all of Debian. No, he speaks on behalf of himself. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Dev

Bug#481363: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: udev incorrectly renames some wireless cards

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
apper device, which was previously renamed into eth2, now > became wlan0_rename (sic). Also, colleague experiences similar issues > with his ipw3945 card. This is bug #465775 in udev. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to

Bug#478751: linux-headers-2.6.25-1-686: missing dependency linux-kbuild-2.6.25

2008-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ntly, not a bug of this package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [

Bug#475310: ipw3945d: clear udev rules after remove

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
dn't create that file; this should be handled in udev, which needs to be able to correct the rules there that are only compatible with old modules. There is a corresponding (release-critical) bug in Ubuntu about this issue; please see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug

Bug#474670: initramfs-tools: [alpha] boot failure with linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
force-loading the module fixes it, we may be looking at the same issue; dunno if it's a kernel or udev bug, haven't had time to dig into it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: Future of the linux udebs

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
se schedule, I have just seen two members of the kernel team insisting exactly that, that the d-i beta should not be allowed to block the latest 2.6.24 kernel from being accepted into testing... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: No wifis detected

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Maks, Could you please provide a rationale when downgrading bugs like this? To an outside observer, it looks to me as if this module package truly is "unusable or mostly so" as a result of this bug. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: why aren't linux-latest packages updated yet in Sid?

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:10:42PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:25:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Which means that linux-latest was never updated at all for the 2.6.23 series > > in unstable. Why? > there is no 2.6.23 left in sid. Du

Re: why aren't linux-latest packages updated yet in Sid?

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
inux-latest was never updated at all for the 2.6.23 series in unstable. Why? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

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