Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, one thing that has been mentioned on this list, but for which there doesn't yet seem to be a good fix for is separating out the console and x keyboard options. as previously mentioned by another poster if my keyboard is latin american have the choice of setting LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="keyb=latam"

Re: German keyboard layout (AltGr-key)

2009-10-28 Thread os.n...@gmx.de
I had another search in the internet. There were many bugs concerning xorg and the right Alt-key reported this summer, but no solution! That's what I did this evening: Boot from liveCD startx Right Alt-key doesn't work exit (of the GUI) startx Right Alt-key works fine exit (of the GUI) diff /var

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > please send all patches you want to have merged in live-helper 1.x. > there will be a final upload end of next week, after which live-helper > 1.x is being deprecated and the work on live-helper 2.x starts. by request from Cody, this is shifted one week further away in orde

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: > At least booting iso images over http works around the annoying bug in > mksquashfs that causes the resulting squashfs to be inacessible to the > web server. The isos are created with permissions specified by umask > so they just work. It also reduces storage requirements f

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello I'm not sure it is urgent but I sent patches for iscsi boot and iso image over http boot earlier. At least booting iso images over http works around the annoying bug in mksquashfs that causes the resulting squashfs to be inacessible to the web server. The isos are created with permissions s

Re: TIP: Prevent kaboom from running with a KDE 4 LiveCD

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Diederik de Haas wrote: > after running lh_config and before lh_build, create a file named "kaboom" > (without quotes) at > config/chroot_local-includes/etc/skel/.local (create the directories if > needed). > It doesn't have to contain anything (so touch would do it). i think that newer live-in

(last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, please send all patches you want to have merged in live-helper 1.x. there will be a final upload end of next week, after which live-helper 1.x is being deprecated and the work on live-helper 2.x starts. Speaking of the unreleased version 1.0.6 in git, note that i'll intend to address and fix

Re: [PATCH] add apt pinning support to LH1

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Rui Miguel Bernardo wrote: > This should have been done sooner, before the end of lh1 uploads to > debian repositories lh1 is not yet dead, there are a few pending issues to fix. > I hope that this patch gets applied in > live.debian.net repository. applied, updated snapshots will appear in a fe

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

2009-10-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:58PM +0500, surreal wrote: > I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS > which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. I guess you are talking about CVE-2008-5300 [1]. What happe