Bug#971758: Packaging an ancient version is becoming a problem for projects that depend on this

2024-11-21 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 17:13 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > > Am 21.11.24 um 16:33 schrieb James Bottomley: > > Ideally I'd prefer Debian to have the same version as every other > > distribution, but I think removing the ancient version

Bug#787814: get-iplayer: unable to download anything

2015-06-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:24:09 +0100 Peter J Ross wrote: > On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:04:52 +0100 =?utf-8?b?SnVoYSBKw6R5a2vDpA==?= > wrote: > > Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/bin/get-iplayer line 7099. > > This has been fixed upstream in version 2.93. > > Current upstream version is 2.94. I confirm

Bug#672851: netbase 5.0: network connection does not come up upon reboot

2012-05-20 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 22:40 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 19:55 +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 16:19 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > There is no bug, just don't do stupid things to your system. > > > >

Bug#672851: netbase 5.0: network connection does not come up upon reboot

2012-05-19 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 16:19 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 19, James Bottomley wrote: > > > It means that anyone who does a dist-upgrade -t testing gets no > > networking. This just happened to me with a co-lo box resulting in a > Don't do it then ffs. In

Bug#672851: netbase 5.0: network connection does not come up upon reboot

2012-05-19 Thread James Bottomley
Package: netbase Version: 5.0 Followup-For: Bug #672851 This bug is still present in testing It means that anyone who does a dist-upgrade -t testing gets no networking. This just happened to me with a co-lo box resulting in a wasted hour investigating the source of an apparent boot failure. Thi

Bug#614968: has now impacted testing

2011-03-06 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 10:34 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > If I remove the transactions and just do a straight delete, everything > works (at least in my test environment; I'll try it on the real program > tonight). There's actually no real reason for the deletes to be don

Bug#614968: has now impacted testing

2011-03-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 15:06 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > I picked this up on a recent testing upgrade (last Saturday). My > > postgrey process is now dying every night as well (I've set up a harness > > to restart it, but it's not ideal). &

Bug#614968: has now impacted testing

2011-03-04 Thread James Bottomley
I picked this up on a recent testing upgrade (last Saturday). My postgrey process is now dying every night as well (I've set up a harness to restart it, but it's not ideal). Following what happened in #441069 I tried db5.1_recover -h /var/lib/postgrey/ but that doesn't fix the problem. Whateve

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-06 Thread James Bottomley
'd child never writes > > to the memory that causes the fault. > > Thanks for writing and testing a patch. > > The case of #561203 is second scenario. I think that this case is > relevant to VIVT-WB machine too (provided kernel does copy by kernel > address). > >

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-06 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:37 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > (5) Child process B is waken up and sees old value at in > , > > through different cache line. B sleeps. > > This isn't possible. at this point, A and B have the same virtual > address and mapping

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 22:51 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the discussion. > > > > James Bottomley wrote: > > > So your theory is that the data the kernel sees doing the page copy can > > > be stale because of dirty cache lines in userspac

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 12:48 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply. > > James Bottomley wrote: > > In COW breaking, the page table entry is copied, so A and B no longer > > have page table entries at the same physical location. If the COW is > > in

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:41 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > (9) Process B does read-access on memory, which gets *NEW* data in > cache (if process space identifier color is same). > Process B does write-access on memory which causes memory fault, > as it's COW memory. > > Note: Proces

Bug#558999: FTBFS [hppa] - recompile with -ffunction-sections

2009-12-01 Thread James Bottomley
> I am not very good at GCC optimizations. Can you please explain why > this problem is not seen on other architectures? Also can you please > advise if I should add this compiler option for all arch or just hppa. It's not really a gcc problem, it's an ELF one. The ELF spec for HPPA says that we

Bug#519707: Upgrade to new version of postgrey fails to start with FATAL: ERROR: ...

2009-09-11 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 12:06 +0100, Antonio Radici wrote: > thanks for your report, I wrote a preinst script which is running a > db4.7_upgrade if we are upgrading from a version less than 1.31-1. That sounds like a good fix, thanks. > This is fixed in the git repo in collab-maint and it will be i

Bug#545229: linux-image-2.6.30-1-parisc: panic on boot

2009-09-05 Thread James Bottomley
s actually caused by binutils outputting duplicate .text section names. However, this trips a panic on boot because kernel/modules.c has insufficient error checking for this case Patches to fix this are >From 1b364bf438cf337a3818aee77d68c0713f3e1fc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Botto

Bug#541702: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Kernel fails to start networking because no e100 firmware

2009-08-15 Thread James Bottomley
OK, so lets go back to basics here. The point of a bug report is to report a bug. The Bug here is that large numbers of systems will break on upgrade to this kernel once it hits stable. This is the problem that needs fixing. The fact that you find the suggested fix politically incorrect, or tha

Bug#541702: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Kernel fails to start networking because no e100 firmware

2009-08-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 19:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:47 -0700, james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com > wrote: > > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 > > Version: 2.6.30-5 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 2.2.1 > > That very same section explains why we c

Bug#519707: Upgrade to new version of postgrey fails to start with FATAL: ERROR: ...

2009-03-14 Thread James Bottomley
Package: postgrey Version: 1.32-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 "makes package to buggy to release" This looks to be an incidental fault affecting postgrey, but the serious consequence is that postgrey refuses to start. What seems to have happened is that on the recent system upg

Bug#479612: after upgrade to spandsp 0.0.4pre18 asterisk-app-fax crashes asterisk

2008-05-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:30 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > Apparently the dependency of asterisk-spandsp-plugins and spandsp-dev > > is pretty tight. It looks like there was a binary incompatible change > > introduced by the upgrade from 0.0

Bug#479612: after upgrade to spandsp 0.0.4pre18 asterisk-app-fax crashes asterisk

2008-05-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:47 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:13:40PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > Package: asterisk-app-fax > > Version: 0.0.20070624-1 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: causes serious data loss > > > >

Bug#479612: after upgrade to spandsp 0.0.4pre18 asterisk-app-fax crashes asterisk

2008-05-05 Thread James Bottomley
Package: asterisk-app-fax Version: 0.0.20070624-1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Apparently the dependency of asterisk-spandsp-plugins and spandsp-dev is pretty tight. It looks like there was a binary incompatible change introduced by the upgrade from 0.0.4pre16 to 0.0

Bug#476292: linux-image-2.6.24-1-parisc64: 64 bit kernel panics on boot in handle_interruption

2008-04-15 Thread James Bottomley
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-parisc64 Version: 2.6.24-5 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system The parisc 64 bit kernel panics on boot with this: CC net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_raw.mod.o CC net/ipv4/tcp_diag.mod.o CC net/ipv4/tunnel4.mod.o CC

Bug#476285: linux-image-2.6.24-1-parisc: panics on boot in cmpxchg_futex_value_locked

2008-04-15 Thread James Bottomley
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-parisc Version: 2.6.24-5 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system This actually isn't just a bug in debian, it affects every distro which uses the stable tree as a base for instance, the gentoo bug is here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_b