Bug#717890: nfs-kernel-server: move manpages to nfs-common

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.2.8-4 Severity: wishlist Hi. I'd think it would be really useful to move the more general manpages (especially exports(5) but maybe also some of the others) to the nfs-common package. I would like to be able to read them, with getting a nfs server. Cheer

Bug#721005: linux: sierra Gobi 3000 WWAN no longer works

2013-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 3.10.7-1 Severity: normal Hi. I got a little bit stuck with this... I'm having a Fujitsu Lifebook E782 which has some Sierra Gobi 3000 UMTS modem in it. For many years it simply used to work perfectly, but a year ago or so it already stopped working (i.e. wasn't detected

Bug#875881: linux: CVE-2017-1000251

2017-09-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.12.12-2 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Hi. Any chance to get CVE-2017-1000251, which seems to be quite critical fixed anytime soon? :-) https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000251 Thx, Chris

Bug#875881: linux: CVE-2017-1000251

2017-09-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 19:18 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Probably less critical than you think, since we enable > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR. Well... yes, but it wouldn't be the first time in history, that such defence could then also be circumvented in the next evolution of an exploit :-) But of

Bug#878829: initramfs-tools: system freezes at boot with MODULES=dep

2017-10-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.130 Severity: important Hi. The following is a quite strange problem, and it may actually be a kernel bug. Few days ago, I got a new notebook (a Fujitsu U757), before I removed the HDD from the old one, I changed MODULES=most on the old and updated the initra

Bug#880441: linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64: silently enabled AppArmor breaks other programs

2017-10-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: src:linux Version: 4.13.10-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Hi. Apparently AppArmor was enabled per default in the last version. While I'm usually in favour of anything that improves security (leaving aside the question here whether SELinux wouldn't be the

Bug#880441: linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64: silently enabled AppArmor breaks other programs

2017-10-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
The severity would have shown people which haven't upgraded, that there are issues... :-( On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 16:01 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Although you can disable it (security=dac or apparmor=0) if you want. Sure. I never said this wasn't possible. > > While I'm usually in favour of a

Bug#782519: initramfs-tools: please move /run/initramfs/fsck.log to /var/log

2015-04-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: wishlist Hi. I just noticed in the changelog that there is /run/initramfs/fsck.log. Awesome :-) But could you please move that to /var/log (and appened entries each run and have it handled by logrotate)? Yes I know, this is from the initramfs w

Bug#869149: linux: please merge Btrfs: fix early ENOSPC due to delalloc

2017-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 Severity: normal Hey Ben, et al. There seems to be an annoying bug in btrfs, as described here: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg67479.html It's not really extremely critical as it causes no direct fs corruption, but it gives spurious ENOSPC in

Bug#848724: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d': Directory not empty

2016-12-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey I had the very same,... empty dir left behind... never modified any configs in it (and even then I couldn't see how this can be desired, if the modified config itself wasn't left behind somehow :) ). Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#848724: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kernel/signed_postinst.d': Directory not empty

2016-12-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 04:39 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It looks like dpkg will remove it on the next upgrade of initramfs- > tools-core.  The problem only occurs once because dpkg tries to > remove > the directory before the conffile. I've seen such tickets several times before,... and had the

Bug#805903: linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64: USB ExpressCard makes kworker process utilise 72% CPU infinitely

2017-01-12 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Ben. Sorry I oversaw your mail back then. Provided the information from perf top now in the kernel.org bugzilla, and pinged the linux-usb list as you suggested: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151899.html Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#851533: NBD: exported files over something around 1 TiB get an insane device size on the client side and are actually empty

2017-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.9.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream Hey. There's an issue in NBD which prevents some larger images to be correctly "connected" on the client side (if done by the kernel), largely described here: https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/issues/44 Thers's a patch

Bug#851533: NBD: exported files over something around 1 TiB get an insane device size on the client side and are actually empty

2017-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 02:37 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This should possibly go to 4.9-stable, but in any case I've queued it > up for our next upload. Could you ping the responsible people? Guess you have far better contacts there than me ;-) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryp

Bug#541406: nfs-utils updated to 1.3.4-1, please check your bug #541406

2016-12-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
The bug in question was a wishlist matter, so it's not really "fixed" by recent upstream versions. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#914136: linux: enable CONFIG_CRYPTO_MORUS* and CONFIG_CRYPTO_AEGIS*

2018-11-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.18.10-2+b1 Severity: wishlist Hi. Could you please enable the crypto modules for MORUS and AEGIS AEAD ciphers? It shoul be supported now in cryptsetup/dm-crypt for volumes with integrity protection and I'd like to play with them. Thanks, Chris. -- System Information:

Bug#914505: linux: reference to netfilter chain not removed on rule replacement, subsequently system hangs

2018-11-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.18.20-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi. Possibly the following may be also partially iptables (i.e. the userland tool) fault. I'm using fail2ban with some custom usage mode, which is that the hook-rule for fail2ban's change isn't just appended somehwere, but an

Re: linux: enable CONFIG_CRYPTO_MORUS* and CONFIG_CRYPTO_AEGIS*

2018-11-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Just wondered if a maintainer could possibly tell me whether this could happen anytime soon? It's no big problem for me if not, I'd just want to avoid compiling the whole kernel on my system (which is not the fastest one ^^) if you'd enable it anyway on the next version or so. Cheers, Chri

Bug#914505: Acknowledgement (linux: reference to netfilter chain not removed on rule replacement, subsequently system hangs)

2018-11-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201791

Bug#915666: linux: data corruption with blk-mq

2018-12-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.18.20-2 Severity: critical Tags: upstream patch Justification: causes serious data loss Hi. There's a bug in the blk-mq schedulers which may cause serious data curruption... See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685 Seems like a patch was made recently,...

Bug#915666: linux: data corruption with blk-mq

2018-12-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
For those reading along, Jens Axboe gave a summary on how to check whether one's affected or not: Quoting from: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685#c294 > scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=0 will do the trick, as will just ensuring that you have > a scheduler for your device. Eg for sda, check: >

Bug#888509: Acknowledgement (BUG: soft lockup - CPU# stuck)

2018-02-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
There is some indication, that this issue doesn't occur with the kernel from oldstable (i.e. 3.16.51-3+deb8u1, with the rest of our userland still at stretch)... at least we have on node downgraded to that kernel, and so far that one wasn't hit in nearly two weeks, while many other were. If there'

Bug#802909: firmware-nonfree: turn meta-package Depends into Recommends

2015-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: firmware-nonfree Version: 20151018-2 Severity: wishlist Hi. Could you please turn all the Depends of the meta-packages into Recommends? It doesn'ts seem to make much sense to force e.g. everyone who wants to install firmware-linux-nonfree to have to install firmware-amd-graphics as well

Bug#803322: initramfs-tools: gives wrong warnings about fsck.btrfs

2015-10-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: normal Hi. When / is on btrfs, then /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fsck tries to include /sbin/fsck.btrfs into the initramfs; fsck.btrfs is however in /bin (and included by btrfs-tools' initramfs hook). So the warning is misleading (as a fsck f

Bug#803739: cosmetic: /initrd.img /vmlinuz smylinks - absolute vs. relative

2015-11-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Severity: minor Hey. This is absolutely just cosmetic ;-) I've noted that the symlink /initrd.img is always absolute, while /vmlinuz is always relative, e.g.: $ ls -al /initrd.img /vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 27 13:37 /initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-1-amd64 lrwxrwx

Bug#804295: initramfs-tools: doesn't warn/fail when dpkg triggers for update-initramfs don't actually update

2015-11-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: normal Hi. I've just noted the following: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120) ... update-initramfs: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-1-amd64 has been altered. update-initramfs: Cannot update. Override with -t option. Not sure what caused it to

Bug#721005: linux: sierra Gobi 3000 WWAN no longer works

2015-11-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. That seems to work again at least since 4.2.5-1, but probably already since few versions earlier (I didn't check this every time). See upstream for little more details Closing, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#805903: linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64: USB ExpressCard makes kworker process utilise 72% CPU infinitely

2015-11-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: src:linux Version: 4.2.6-1 Severity: normal Hey. This is originall from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2090843: I bough a USB3.0 ExpressCard from StarTech[0] which is apparently[1] based on the NEC uPD720200. Using a kernel 4.2.6 on amd64, the System is Debian sid, the fo

Bug#806688: linux: create /vmlinux. symlinks

2015-11-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.2.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hey. Not sure if linux is the right source package for this... In several circumstances it would be handy, if there were /vmlinux. and /initrd.img. symlinks where each of them points to the most recent installed kernel/initramfs of the respective

Problems with detecting 4GB RAM

2005-10-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'm using a Tyan Thunder K8WE board with two DualCore Opterons (AMD Modell 275). Each CPU have two 1GB RAM modules (thus a total of 4GB). When I enter the BIOS the summary screen show 4096 MB but Linux seems to detect only 2815 MB (see attached dmesg.txt). High Memory Support is enabled

General Kernel configuration questions

2005-10-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi,.. :-) I've got some questions about kernel configuration... and hope someone could possibly help me. I'm using a Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE mainboard,.. with two AMD Opterons Model 275 (=2,2 GHz and DualCore). My total amoun of physical RAM is 4 GB (2 GB for each CPU). So,... 1) Maximum numb

Re: Problems with detecting 4GB RAM

2005-10-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Frederik Schueler wrote: looks like you did not activate NUMA and sparse/discontiguous memory mapping. What is that NUMA? I've already read about it on some websites (k8we.com). Do I have to change some BIOS settings perhaps? I must admit that I don't understand most of the BIOS options,...

Re: Problems with detecting 4GB RAM

2005-10-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ok,.. I've changed some options in the Memory Hole Menu,... (activated IOMMU or something like that,.. an changed something from disabled to software) Now Linux seems to correctly identify my memory: (dmesg) Linux version 2.6.13.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-1)) #1 SMP

Suggestion to use iommu=soft for all the kernel packages in etch

2006-12-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. I'm currently (together with others) investigating in a severe data corruption problem that at least many users might suffer from. A short description, when you validate lots of GBs over and over with md5sums (or another hash) there are errors found. We do not yet know the real res

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2006-12-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: kernel Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hi everybody. I'm currently (together with others) investigating in a severe data corruption problem that at least many users might suffer from. A short description, when you validate lots of GBs over and over with md5sum

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Sorry that I've ignored the last answers to the bug but I somehow missed the mail. First of all,.. there is still no other solution than iommu=soft (at least as of my knowledge) and we had even someone on the bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org who claimed that _only_ iommu=soft helped, but not

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: >> In all doing respect, I think that it's a much greater risk to not use >> iommu=soft per default than doing so. Even if we imagine that there >> would by systems that don't work with the sw-iommu it's likely that >> they simply break (at boot time). And then the affecte

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Steve. As I've told you in my email before I just tested your patch with the following results (used linux-source-2.6.18 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) from testing, of course on an amd64 system): - The patch applies without problems - The kernel compiles with it without problems (at least with my config)

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: > But regardless, there are no plans > for another kernel update before etch r0, and including one is likely to > delay the release. I'm of the opinion that this bug does not justify a > delay at this point. > Uhm, sad to hear this... > With the consent of the kernel

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Andreas Barth wrote: > BTW, we intended to have frequent kernel uploads to proposed-updates, > and frankly speaking, I personally don't mind to already have a newer > kernel in proposed-updates during the release, but that's something I > want to have signed-off by Martin. The main problem with the

Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping

2007-03-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Steve Langasek wrote: > Well, there's no reason that someone can't use iommu=soft when booting the > installer, as well. So perhaps it would be best to clone that bug and > include this information in the installation guide or errata? > Yes that's a good idea. I assume it would be also a probl

Bug#487409: initramfs-tools: plase put get_fstype() to funtions

2008-06-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92b Severity: wishlist Could you please move the get_fstype() from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions so that other scripts can use it, too? (My problem is, that I have a script in local-top, that tries to

Bug#487409: initramfs-tools: plase put get_fstype() to funtions

2008-06-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:36 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > that shouldn't be needed, did you try booting with rootdelay=X ? No,... but isn't rootdelay a delay for mounting the root-filesystem? I'm temporarily mounting another filesystem (USB-stick) where the key for dm-crypt/cryptsetup lies. >

Bug#878829: initramfs-tools: system freezes at boot with MODULES=dep

2018-05-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Just had a look at this by comparing the list of kernel modules loaded just before cryptsetup waits for passphrase entry at boot, with modules=most and =dep. By that I found out, that with =most the module psmouse is loaded while it is not with =dep. If I add psmouse to /etc/initramfs-tools/modul

Bug#1006500: Missing bnx2x firmware 7.13.21.0 renders NIC unusable with Linux 5.16

2022-07-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I just ran into the same problem in bullseye. Linux lcg-lrz-admin 5.10.0-15-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.120-1 (2022-06-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux Salvatore, AFAICS, that kernel should already contain the commit you've mentioned, however, it still gives an error about missing firmware. Downloading t

Bug#1017915: btrfs: space cache corruption and potential double allocations

2022-08-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 5.18.16-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hey. This is merely a heads up, that a potentially pretty nasty data corruption issue has been found in btrfs. As far as I understand: It was introduced in 5.12, has the highest chances to occur with free space cache v2,

Bug#1017915: btrfs: space cache corruption and potential double allocations

2022-09-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: tags -1 + patch Hey. The patch for this has been merged in the stable kernels... could you please cherry pick respectively update the sid kernel ASAP? https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.19.6 commit: a2e54eb64229f07f917b05d0c323604fda9b89f7 btrfs: fix space cache c

Bug#1017915: btrfs: space cache corruption and potential double allocations

2022-09-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 16:40 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > 5.19.6-1 has been uploaded earlier today. Ah,... okay... I had only seen the UNRELEASED commit in salsa. Cheers, Chris.

Bug#1020713: initramfs-tools: RESUME=auto probably a security hole

2022-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.142 Severity: important Tags: security Hey. According to initramfs.conf(5): > RESUME > Specifies the device used for suspend-to-disk (hibernation), > which the initramfs code should attempt to resume from. If this >

Bug#1020713: initramfs-tools: RESUME=auto probably a security hole

2022-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Am 25. September 2022 20:13:26 MESZ schrieb Bastian Blank : >On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 08:05:29PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >But an attacker can already modify the kernel command line. Secure boot >up until recently was completely incompatible with hibernation, so >

Bug#1022848: linux: 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug

2022-10-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 5.19.6-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi. 6.0.3 introduced a commit that causes (permanent) CPU soft lockups for some people with btrfs filesystems, effectively breaking the system, e.g. when booting. See e.g. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btr

Bug#1022848: linux: 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug

2022-10-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: retitle -1 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug in 6.0.3, affecting space cache v1 filesystems Control: notfound -1 5.19.6-1 Control: found -1 6.0.3-1 No idea why reportbug picked 5.19.6, which I have not even installed anymore... o.O

Bug#1022848: linux: 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug

2022-10-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Am 27. Oktober 2022 20:56:49 MESZ schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso : >According to your references there is the workaround of mounting with >clear_cache,space_cache=v2 and convert the filesystem. > >What would one prevent doing so? v2 space cache is still rather new and had only recently some bug

Bug#981302: Setup /dev/fd and /dev/std{in,out,err} after mounting devtmpfs

2021-12-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. This seems like a very trivial patch... and a very helpful one, too. Any chance to get this merged? Thanks, Chris.

Bug#1002797: initramfs-tools: UMASK option doesn't catch all cases

2021-12-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.140 Severity: normal Tags: security Hi. AFAIU, the UMASK option is there for cases like e.g. when dm-crypt keys are included in the initramfs. I played a bit with it, and found that it already doesn't just affect the final initramfs image, but also parts belo

Bug#998627: linux: please enable the new NTFS3 driver in 5.15

2024-05-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Seems there were at least a series of commits from upstream last November and few again this January. And there even seem to be some more in their dev branch. The number of CVEs mentioned by Salvatore is worrying, but it looks even much worse over the years for ntfs-3g: https://cve.mitre.or

kernel signed/unsigned packages

2024-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hello there. I just wondered whether it has even been considered to make just one package which contains the actual kernel+modules, and another one that contains the signatures? I'm not an expert when it comes to the binary layout of that, but AFAIU, the modules are anyway the same between the

Bug#572712: use hardened sysctl net.* settings per default

2024-07-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Ben. Nice to see a package for that :-) On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 00:46 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1 > > This is (effectively) set to 2 by the new configuration. Just wondered why not using 1? AFAIU, the RFC would recommend strict mode (1). Does that break anyth

Bug#890950: initramfs-tools: Resuming from hibernated swapfile fails

2022-12-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Is this still followed up or already supported to some extent in the meantime? I've looked through the previous messages and suggested patches and some notes on these: - Auto-detection of resume device, when resuming happens, is most likely a security hole, as I've described previously in

Bug#1031188: linux: synaptics speed/sensitivity messed up with 6.1.0-4

2023-02-12 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 6.1.11-1 Severity: normal Hey. Over the year this has unfortunately happened numerous times, either by changes in the Xorg driver, or libinput... and now it seems the kernel caused the same: After upgrading from linux-image-6.1.0-3-amd64 to linux-image-6.1.0-4-amd64 and a

Bug#1031188: linux: synaptics speed/sensitivity messed up with 6.1.0-4

2023-02-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Salvatore. On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 07:12 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Just to be sure, that I understood you correctly. That is if on the > current system with the issue you roll back just only the kernel back > to 6.1.8-1, then the issue dissaper? Exactly, and the roll back even only

Bug#989143: initramfs-tools: doesn’t actually compress with zstd

2021-05-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.140 Severity: normal Hey. Just noted by coincidence, that even though I have set: COMPRESS=zstd and zstd is installed and even runs (seen in e.g. top utility) when running update-initramfs -u the files are in the end nevertheless plain cpio: file /boot/i

Bug#989143: initramfs-tools: doesn’t actually compress with zstd

2021-05-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 11:08 +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote: > To validate my argumentation, > please set 'COMPRESS=gzip' in '/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf', > run 'update-initramfs -u' again and compare the sizes of the > (probably) > zstd-compressed one with the

Bug#989143: initramfs-tools: doesn’t actually compress with zstd

2021-06-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2021-06-05 at 16:23 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > You have intel-microcode installed, which prepends an uncompressed > initramfs.  Not a bug. Couldn't it then just skip the compression altogether? Cheers, Chris.

Bug#989143: initramfs-tools: doesn’t actually compress with zstd

2021-06-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2021-06-05 at 16:59 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > You mean, can the main initramfs be uncompressed?  I'm not sure > whether > the kernel supports that.  It's certainly not an option in initramfs- > tools at the moment. Forget it... I'm stupid ^^ ... it's just the microcode, that's uncompre

Bug#1006500: marked as done (Missing bnx2x firmware 7.13.21.0 renders NIC unusable with Linux 5.16)

2022-10-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Bastian. Thanks for fixing. Is this going to be backported to bullseye? Thanks, Chris.

Bug#1022848: linux: 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug

2022-10-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Salvatore. On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 06:49 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > I did decide to still do so, so we can have the CVE fix migrate > finally to testing (which took some time as well given there was the > perl transition ongoing). Fine for me... I think it would be nice if there was a

Bug#1022848: linux: 6.0.5 fixes critical btrfs bug

2022-10-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 09:23 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > No unfortunately we cannot do that. The reason is similar to what > lead > to > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/248736d493fcfd0e05cd23f97befe40f5c125c71 > or caused bugs like #916927. Forgive me my ignorance, b

Bug#1006500: marked as done (Missing bnx2x firmware 7.13.21.0 renders NIC unusable with Linux 5.16)

2022-10-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 09:44 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > We do similar with intel-microcode updates, so maybe this is > something > we should consider to. But I think it's to early to think about a > potential 20220913-1~deb11u1 via a bullseye point release. It's just that for any bullseye

Bug#1023240: firmware-iwlwifi: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode possibly missing

2022-10-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 20221012-1 Severity: normal Hey there. There possibly is a firmware file missing. In the kernel log I see: # dmesg | grep -i wifi [ 158.112234] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux [ 158.114662] iwlwifi :00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-so-a0

Bug#1023245: firmware-iwlwifi: missing ibt-0040-0041.sfi causes Bluetooth device 8087:0033 to not work

2022-10-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 20221012-1 Severity: normal Hey there. My new Fujitsu Lifebook U7512 has some Intel USB Bluetooh device: # lsusb -v -d 8087:0033 Bus 001 Device 009: ID 8087:0033 Intel Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB

Bug#1023773: debian-kernel-handbook: info about disabling debug info out of date?

2022-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: debian-kernel-handbook Version: 1.0.20 Severity: normal Hey. Chapter 4.2.1.1. Disk space requirements explains how to disable debug info during, build: > You can disable debug info by changing the value of debug-info to false in > debian/config/arch/defines, if it's set there, or in deb

Bug#1023779: linux: deleting the kernel image package leaves back /lib/modules/ when a kernel package was built

2022-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 6.0.7-1 Severity: normal Hey. When I tried out some recent patch from the intel folks for i915, I built a custom kernel as described in: https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official Now before I installed the custom built de

Bug#1023779: linux: deleting the kernel image package leaves back /lib/modules/ when a kernel package was built

2022-11-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Just noted, that part of what I wrote is probably bollocks. ^^ On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 03:37 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > $ ls -al 6.0.0-3-amd64/build 6.0.0-3-amd64/source > lrwxrwxrwx 1 calestyo calestyo 36 Nov 5 14:41 6.0.0-3-amd64/build -> > /usr/src/linux-headers-6

Bug#1023779: linux: deleting the kernel image package leaves back /lib/modules/ when a kernel package was built

2022-11-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Diederik and Bastian On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 13:07 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Those symlinks are included in linux-headers-6.0.0-3-amd64, see > https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/linux-headers-6.0.0-3-amd64/filelist > > Did you remove that package as well? You are both right, I have lin

Bug#1024735: klibc-utils: klibc sh segfault on invalid substitutions

2022-11-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: klibc-utils Version: 2.0.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hey there. There’s a bug in ash-bashed shells, including the one shipped with klibc. The original variant is described here (for dash): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024635 respectively https://lore.kern

Bug#1024735: [klibc] klibc sh segfault on invalid substitutions

2022-12-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Ben. On Sun, 2022-11-27 at 17:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I don't think I will work on this in klibc until there's a fix in > upstream dash.  If you're still watching upstream dash, please let me > know when there's a fix I can pick. A patch has now been posted for dash at: https://lore.

Bug#1024735: klibc-utils: klibc sh segfault on invalid substitutions

2022-12-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Just for the records, meanwhile I've also opened a proper ticket about this over at BusyBox regarding the same bug in their sh at: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15171

Bug#993319: nfs-kernel-server: consider to ship exports(5) manpage in nfs-common

2021-08-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.3.4-6 Severity: wishlist Hi. It may make sense to ship exports(5) manpage in nfs-common as the same file is also used by other NFS server implementations (e.g. one of them would be dCache (http://dcache.org/), which provides a pNFS 4.1 server). And obviso

recommended way to find out whether one is "within" the initramfs?

2021-10-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I've just wondered whether there is recommended way to find out whether one is currently "within" the initramfs (i.e. early boot) as generated by Debians initramfs-tools, or not? I'd have probably done something like checking for: if [ -f /conf/initramfs.conf ] && [ -f /scripts/init-top/ORDE

Re: recommended way to find out whether one is "within" the initramfs?

2021-10-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Romain. Thanks for your ideas: On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 18:49 +0200, Romain Perier wrote: > Quickly, few ideas (perhaps not the perfect ones): > 1. Check for what is currently mounted as "/" ? (which technically > should differ between initramfs or real rootfs) That sounds like a pretty nice id

\r not escaped in e.g. /proc/mounts

2021-10-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Wanted to ask here, before I make (probably unnecessary noise at lkml).. O:-) I just noticed that \r is not escaped in e.g. /proc/mounts (and possibly similar files that do such escaping). The output does in fact contain then a \r, so I guess parsing for most (all?) shell tools should be

Bug#996606: linux: leftovers on purge of linux-image-5.*

2021-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 5.14.12-1 Severity: normal Hey. There are some leftovers when purging: Purging configuration files for linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64 (5.14.9-2) ... rmdir: failed to remove '/lib/modules/5.14.0-2-amd64': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: while removing linux-image-5.14.0-2-a

Bug#945055: closed by car...@debian.org (Closing this bug (BTS maintenance for src:linux bugs))

2021-05-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
This bug has actually NOT been fixed. It's NOT the one with the CPU not going into the RC6 state. Cheers, Chris.

Bug#945055: closed by car...@debian.org (Closing this bug (BTS maintenance for src:linux bugs))

2021-05-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 15:56 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > In this case I'm reopening the bug again. But I suggest to ping again > upstream in this case, because without progress/movement/ideas > upstream we cannot do anything here downstream. I'm afraid that upstream has shown pretty clearl

Bug#771301: cannot mount /usr if INITRDSTART in /etc/default/mdadm does not include the necessary device

2015-03-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I'm a bit disturbed by seeing such a regression added so shortly before release. AFAIU the NEWS entry: >* If the /usr filesystem is on a RAID device and the INITRDSTART > setting in /etc/default/mdadm is not 'all', you will need to change > it to include that device. the value (which de

Bug#780295: linux-image-3.19.0-trunk-amd64: net bridge devices no longer brought up correctly

2015-03-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: src:linux Version: 3.19.1-1~exp1 Severity: normal Hi. Not sure whether this bug is actually within the kernel or whether the real problem is rather in libvirtd or network-manager (which is always a valid suspect of screwing up network things). Since I've upgraded from 3.16 from sid to

Bug#940105: linux: serious corruption issue with btrfs

2019-09-12 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 5.2.9-2 Severity: critical Tags: upstream patch Justification: causes serious data loss Hi. There were some reports over the last weeks from users on linux-btrfs which suffered from catastrophic btrfs corruption. The bug which is apparently a regression introduced in 5.2 h

Bug#940105: linux: serious corruption issue with btrfs

2019-09-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Just to put some emphasise on this, the fix has now been merged late to 5.3 as urgent. Also note Filipe's post[0] that the issue can more or less hit anyone. Cheers, Chris. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/9731b0e7-81f3-4ee5-6f89-b4fd8d981...@petaramesh.org/T/#m7b3863ef7ec5f62a2f7

Bug#940105: linux: serious corruption issue with btrfs

2019-09-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Is there anything one can help to speed this up? A patch is available for two weeks now, while Debian users of testing and unstable are left with the danger of catastrophic btrfs corruption without even any warning to them (so that they could at least downgrade to <5.2). Cheers, Chris.

Bug#943422: linux: 5.3.7 breaks soundcard

2019-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 5.3.7-1 Severity: important Hi. Apparently changes from 5.2+107 -> 5.3.7-1 break sound completely. As soon as I login to the desktop environment the following goes of: Oct 24 18:33:10 heisenberg kernel: snd_hda_intel :00:1f.3: azx_get_response timeout, switching to p

Bug#922306: linux: btrfs corruption (compressed data + hole data)

2019-02-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 4.19.20-1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream patch Justification: causes serious data loss Hi. Apparently there was a longer existing data corruption bug in btrfs[0], AFAIU it happened when compression was used together with holes in data and there was *no* recognition by ch

Bug#922306: linux: btrfs corruption (compressed data + hole data)

2019-02-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Here's the "proper" patch: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg85515.html

Bug#922306: linux: btrfs corruption (compressed data + hole data)

2019-03-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Ben, Salvatore. Thanks for cherry-picking the bug for unstable. AFAIU stretch and jessie[-backports] should be affected as well. Shouldn't it go there, too? At least at the upstream mailing list it was said[0] the the bug was introduced around October 2008, which should be roughly kernel 2.6

Bug#945055: linux: CPU runs at considerably higher temperatures

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
btw: 5.3.15-1 seems to be still affected. While I see mostly "normal" temperatures right after boot (and when everything has settled)... after some point in time, tmeperatures get up and remain at high levels, e.g. : Package id 0: +81.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0:+7

Bug#945055: linux: CPU runs at considerably higher temperatures

2019-12-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
I should perhaps add that there is some slight indication that this might be graphics related. Cause when I switch from the running X/Cinnamon (with the CPU at average temperatures between 75-70°C, while top doesn't show really much) to the virtual kernel console, temperatures go down drastically

Bug#947340: linux-base: can't be upgraded

2019-12-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: linux-base Version: 4.6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi. Since last April, the package can't be upgraded as it conflicts with the current version of kernel-common. Would be nice if this could be resolved. Probably it's this change: * Take over kernel-img.c

Bug#945055: linux: CPU runs at considerably higher temperatures)

2019-12-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: severity -1 grave Raising severity, since this current kernels are completely unusable on at least some hardware (i.e. the one I use here), since the temperature just explodes. I'd say grave is justified already by potential hardware damages of systems running even at little actual load a

Bug#945055: Acknowledgement (intel-microcode: CPU runs at considerably higher temperatures)

2020-01-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: forwarded -1 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d05aba2742ae42783788c954e2a380e7fcb10830.ca...@scientia.net/ Hey. I've forwarded this to lkml. My most recent post in that thread[0] contains an pretty elaborate test series comparing kernel 5.2 vs. 5.4 (each with intel_pstate=disable and witho

Bug#945055: linux: CPU runs at considerably higher temperatures

2020-01-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. According to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/953 the bug was introduced by: drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (d4360736a7c0a6326e3bbdf7d41181f6ed03d9a6) which, AFAIU, is actually a security fix. There seem to be some patches, but not sure when they'll be "final" (i

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