Hi, Please note I got the versions wrong in my first bug post the numbers should be 3.3.4 and 3.3.3 not 1.3.4 and 1.3.3.
Kitty On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:08 PM, kittyofthebox <kittyofthe...@gmail.com>wrote: > Package: lm-sensors > Version: 1:3.3.4-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Hi, > > Please note the following: > > "September 5th, 2013: Hardware breakage reported Over the past few months, > we had several reports of sensors-detect causing serious trouble on recent > hardware (most notably laptops.) We still don't know what exactly is > happening, and while it might be reversible, we don't know how, so in > practice this is equivalent to the hardware itself being broken. The > symptoms are that the display starts misbehaving ( wrong resolution or > wrong gamma factor.) We have mitigated the risk by changing the default > behavior of sensors-detect to no longer touch EDID EEPROMs and then to > no longer probe graphics adapters at all unless the user asks for it. > We urge maintainers to backport changesets r6040 and r6084 to all Linux > distributions which are still shipping lm-sensors 3.3.2 or older. > Versions 3.3.3 and newer are not affected." > > Links to changesets: > http://lm-sensors.org/changeset/6040 > http://lm-sensors.org/changeset/6084 > > This seems pretty serious and I thought it warranted a bug report. I've > read > through the changelogs and while 1.3.4 is in unstable, stable and even old > stable > still have versions prior to 1.3.3 > > Kitty > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (400, 'oldstable'), (300, > 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages lm-sensors depends on: > ii init-system-helpers 1.8 > ii libc6 2.17-92+b1 > ii libsensors4 1:3.3.4-2 > ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12 > ii perl 5.18.1-4 > ii sed 4.2.2-2 > > lm-sensors recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages lm-sensors suggests: > pn fancontrol <none> > pn i2c-tools <none> > pn read-edid <none> > pn sensord <none> > > -- no debconf information >
