On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 15:49 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 08:31 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
[...]
> > * the test freeze is surprising, the test threads seem to be idling for
> > an unknown reason. maven-surefire-report-plugin 2.22.3 isn't compat
On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 08:31 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> On 27/04/2025 21:31, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > So then I compared the build dependency versions in the last good and
> > first bad snapshots, and tried upgrading the Java packages one by one.
> > The result w
ssion in surefire, or whether
the plugin that was removed just happened to interact with the bug and
changed it from a deadlock into an exception.
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him 16.0 release has already happened upstream, and it passes CI
> for me locally.
>
> *However*, we're waiting on a bugfix for
>
> https://github.com/rhboot/shim/issues/74
[...]
That was fixed 8 years ago, so I'm guessing you mean:
https://github.com/rhboot/shim/issu
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While this is an unfortunate regression, it does not 'render the package
unusable' in general.
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(using a rescue shell),
then none of the files are updated automatically. Running 'apt
update' updates them all as expected.
So it seems like this problem may be specific to PackageKit.
Sven and Laurent, do your affected systems have PackageKit installed?
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py mode) is also insecure:
>
> │ > sets the (second) mark and writes the contents of the paste buffer
> │ to the screen-exchange file (/tmp/screen-exchange per default) once
> │ copy-mode is finished.
>
> The default file is under /tmp (poor default choice) and not protecte
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Downgrading this from serious because:
- This does not affect the default C and C++ toolchain
- There are workarounds available:
- Build with -gdwarf-4
- Disable use of dh_dwz
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[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs rig
, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
Possibly dh_strip no longer treats legacy *-dbg packages as special?
In any case, this can be fixed by adding .exec and .image to the
dh_strip exclusions. This is what the attached patch does.
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[W]e found...that it wasn't as
n the source package.
I have reported this upstream and expect that the licence will be
fixed, but in the mean time it should be excluded from the source
package.
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug
nders' accounts of fuzzing
NetSurf, a similarly "light" browser project:
<https://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2016/08/down-rabbit-hole.html>,
<https://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2016/10/rabbit-of-caerbannog.html>.
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APT pre
r the
CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS which was disabled). So I still don't
understand what's special about your configuration that results in the
failure.
Could you please send:
- The *complete* kernel config that you were using (before enabling
CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS).
- All the error mess
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As only one person has reported this and it's not been reproducible (so
far), I don't think this is critical.
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No explanation found in bug report.
- Is this a regression?
- Are there any other messages from iwlwifi in the kernel log?
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Module loading worked OK, so I don't believe this is a general problem.
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On Sun, 2025-03-16 at 20:21 +0100, Eric Valette wrote:
> On 16/03/2025 20:13, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > Does your initramfs image include the right version of modprobe?
> > Boot with "break=top" and run "modprobe --version" to check this.
>
> It
gtests with a modified
initramfs-tools-core.
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olicy violation, it can't be a severe policy
violation, and so I've downgraded the bug to "normal" severity. I agree
that there's a bug here, but it's not release-critical.
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It needs to be fixed by reverting ‘src:python-click’ to a known-working
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Hi Adam,
On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 11:32 +, Adam Thorn wrote:
> On 19/02/2025 20:12, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>
> NB all of the following is without specifying swiotlb=$VAL on the kernel
> cmdline, and booting with the Xen hypervisor.
>
> > To con
(This reverts the above change.)
3. Is this fixed in version 6.1.128-1a~test2, from the same place?
(This adds an upstream fix on top of the above change.)
Note that the test packages above are not signed for use with Secure
Boot.
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, Ben Harris wrote:
The attached patch switches init_py_module() to use
PyObject_GetOptionalAttr() in place of PyObject_GetAttrString().
...
However, this is not really a good fix. Any other exception raised by
PyObject_GetOptionalAttr() will still be ignored, and will
ceptions to init_py_module(). And a patch that requires Python
3.13 probably won't be acceptable upstream right now.
Still, it's not any worse than the code that's already there, and it
means that at least well-behaved Python mutators will work again.
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/usr/bin/userv is setuid.
PS: Thank you for dgit-user(7) and "dgit pbuilder", which made testing
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Hello,
Thanks for the patch! I'm sorry I didn't get to this earlier; I was
really busy with university when the bug was first posted, and by the
time break started I had already forgotten about it. Just uploaded a new
revision with your patch.
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se Linux Linux 6.3-rc1
(released around 2023-03-05) or later. (This might also affect earlier
versions, I didn't investigate too closely.)
Since wondershaper is orphaned, I suggest removing this package, but don't know
how that process works.
With regards,
Ben
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It looks like this is meant to be fixed by:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024124905.368044-1-stanislaw.grus...@linux.intel.com/
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On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 05:54 +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> I am glad the firmware was added to linux-firmware. In fact, I had submitted
> the same file in
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-firmware/20230320164448.3489-1-b...@debian.org/
> but that was ignored. I am goi
ot, I suppose we will need to keep both
packages around with Conflicts, or use alternatives to manage these
filenames.
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On Wed, 2024-08-07 at 00:07 -0400, Bud Heal wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 06:51 -0400, Bud Heal wrote:
> > > I filled up the (micro)SDs, including the current one I have been scanning
> > > into, the one that I set aside as probably defe
On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 17:16 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > I suppose I can make this work again for bookworm, but I won't do so
> > for unstable.
>
> Then, perhaps issue a visible warning so that people can change
>
or bookworm, but I won't do so
for unstable.
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by running:
apt install -y mandos-client linux-image-amd64
apt purge -y mandos-client
Ben.
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Sorry, I got confused by the multiple reports of this and thought you
had
opened two different bug reports for this.
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rd that the exit status is 0 but it shows errors.)
OK, so this is a bug I've just fixed (in version 0.144).
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On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 01:11 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 12:46:00AM GMT, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Please send the output of this command:
> >
> > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 | grep /lib/modules | head
>
&g
it heads-up.
I've made a team upload of iproute2 (version 6.10.0-2) with this change
reverted.
Luca, please leave the symlink in place at least as long as there are
packages that rely on it.
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cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device UUID=8[...]...
> mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found.
> mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found.
[...]
Please send the output of this command:
lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 | grep /lib/modules | he
pgrade` so easily.
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On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 19:32 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 patch fixed-upstream
>
> A fix was applied to the ext4 "dev" branch earlier today:
> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?h=dev&id=7882b0187bbeb647967a7b599
the folders
> and watch the thumbnails be created.
[...]
So one or both of:
- A change in the way this newer version of GNOME (or whichever desktop
environment you're using) does thumbnail generation
- Using USB storage instead of an SD controller
mitigates the problem, but we don
Hello all,
This issue was fixed by initramfs-tools version 0.143 in experimental.
I have just uploaded version 0.143.1 to unstable, so you should be able
to get the fix through a regular upgrade in a few hours (if using
unstable) or days (if using testing).
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ranch of
<https://salsa.debian.org/benh/a56.git>.
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+++ a56-1.3+df
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aragraph addressing a single release in a mailing
list discussion) for any Debian developer to find?
If not, it seems these confusions and delays and blocked migrations are far
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herry-picking
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(arch=linux-any)lzma_stream_encoder_mt_memusage@XZ_5.1.2alpha 5.4
(arch=linux-any)lzma_stream_encoder_mt_memusage@XZ_5.2.2 5.2.2
- XZ_5.6.0@XZ_5.6.0 5.6.0
- lzma_mt_block_size@XZ_5.6.0 5.6.0
+ XZ_5.6.0@XZ_5.6.0 5.6.2
+ lzma_mt_block_size@XZ_5.6.0 5.6.2
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On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 08:58 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Wed 19 Jun 2024 12:30:38 AM +02, Ben Hutchings wrote;
>
> > On Tue, 2024-06-18 at 15:43 +0100, Luis Henriques (SUSE) wrote:
> > > When fast-commit needs to track ranges, it has to handle inodes that have
&g
ommit as ineligible.
>
> Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039883
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE)
Reported-by: Hervé Werner
Tested-by: Ben Hutchings
I think this should also have:
Fixes: 9725958bb75c ("ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range
fix this bug.
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Control: retitle -2 firmware-free: Incomplete source for carl9170-1.fw
On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 21:18 +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Am 05.06.24 um 20:59 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > Please identify precisely which policy
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> Re: Ben Finney
> > At https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dput/-/merge_requests/15> is a
> > merge request proposing to fix this bug.
> >
> > Can you try the resulting Dput package, and confirm whether it corrects
> > the
On 12-Jun-2024, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 11-Jun-2024, Christoph Berg wrote:
>
> > File "/usr/share/dput/dput/dput.py", line 1152, in
> > upload_files_via_method_scp
> > line.strip() for li
ecently refactored code, thank you for finding it. I will
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or message using the above script and:
- Linux 6.10-rc2
- A 2 GiB loopback devic instead of /dev/sdb
I bisected this back to:
commit 9725958bb75cdfa10f2ec11526fdb23e7485e8e4
Author: Xin Yin
Date: Thu Dec 23 11:23:37 2021 +0800
ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range during ftruncate
It is
fixed.
Thank you for the report.
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> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-free/-/merge_requests/4/diffs?commit_id=487a3891528cdf363f97c5ff20f9c6dcb6f49c33
>
> As this is a Policy violation and the issue seems to be ignored I am raising
> the severity.
Please identify precisely
On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Ben (and all the rest),
>
> On 15-05-2024 9:56 p.m., Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Apologies for leaving this bug for so long.
>
> NP, part of live I guess.
>
> > Is this bug still occurring?
>
> I don&#
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Hi Bud,
Please understand that when I aksed you to carry out a specific test, I
had a good reason for doing exactly that. The tests that you have
carried out so far, while useful, don't provide the same information.
Ben.
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Package: ddcci-dkms
Version: 0.4.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
Although upstream has not yet bumped the version number, I believe they have
committed changes that fix this to their GitLab repo.
*** /var/lib/dkms/ddcci/0.4.4/build/make.log
DKMS make.
l it up.
2. Remove and reinsert the card.
3. Compare the files on the card with the files you copied from.
and report back here.
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 21:36:53 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
>
> Hi Ben and the rest,
>
> On 04-12-2023 15:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> CPU: 6 PID: 15039 Comm: lxc-start Tainted: G D W L
> >> 6.5.0-0
and the porterbox can't reproduce it but the buildd can.
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build could be fixed by setting ARM_V7 in d/rules on armhf, but I would
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so doesn't happen on any of my systems but does on
buildd and apparently your system. I guess I'll request guest access to
an armhf porterbox and hope FTBFS happens there so I can debug this.
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It turned out to just be a test expecting the 32 bit limit. This is
patched in the newest version which I have just uploaded. Build fixed!
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Hello,
Arch Linux ARM supports armhf/armel just fine, so I think this can work
with little to no patches. I haven't been able to take a look since the
t64 transition because I have been busy with other things. I will likely
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sually avoids P1 we
now know that this is not always the case.
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+dfsg-10_amd64.deb \
libgmp10_2%3a6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1_amd64.deb \
libgnutls30_3.7.9-2_amd64.deb libldap-2.5-0_2.5.13+dfsg-5_amd64.deb)
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libnfsidmap1_1%3a2.6.2-4_amd64.deb
Ben.
again now, and I extracted some of the logs.
> Please let me know if you need more info.
The first error logged in this file has:
> CPU: 6 PID: 15039 Comm: lxc-start Tainted: G D WL
> 6.5.0-0.deb12.1-arm64 #1 Debian 6.5.3-1~bpo12+1
The D and W flags mean there were prior BUG and
r message for this,
but I'm not exactly sure. It should be verified that this detection
will work the way you expect, so that the error message doesn't change
and create a support burden for the installer team.
Currently kernel-wedge generates the udeb package names and would need
On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 22:01 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 release.debian.org
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 03-08-2023 18:01, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > ci.debian.net must therefore also test updating the binaries from all
> > these source packages together, not
The test log for reference:
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dkms/36392756/log.gz
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e to do this in a general way then we need a specific
workaround that can be used in dkms and any other affected packages
to prevent this invalid test scenario.
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500
hat reason, I don't
think it should "serious", i.e. a blocker for testing propagation.
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ot work anymore.
[...]
I already implemented that in 2016. Did it break?
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dkms failing to build a module for an incompatible kernel.
> Nothing can be done by the kernel to fix this as the kernel internal
> interfaces are not stable, the module needs to be upgrade accordingly to
> support the new interface.
No, this is modpost inserting a reference to a new header
On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 10:01 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:01:04 +0200 Ben Hutchings
> wrote:
> > Package: sgt-puzzles
> > Severity: serious
>
> The fix for this bug will not automatically migrate to testing because
> the pack
Package: sgt-puzzles
Version: 20230122.806ae71-1
Severity: serious
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Security Team
Ben Harris found multiple issues in sgt-puzzles where a malformed game
description or save file can lead to a buffer overflow, buffer
overread, use of an
o the necessary modules don't
get loaded automatically.
There is a separate bug report #1028301 explicitly relating to grub-
probe. I found the upstream commits that seem to fix it and added them
to that bug report. Perhaps they would also fix this?
Ben.
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This appears to be the same as #1028301, for which I've attached
upstream patchs.
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eady broken (#1030205) so I couldn't test it.
I will NMU with the attached changes shortly.
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diff -Nru insubstantial-7.3+dfsg3/debian/changelog insubstantial-7.3+dfsg3/debian/changelog
--- insubstantial-7.3+dfsg3/deb
t changed is that we now use LUKS2 instead of
LUKS1. Although GRUB has some LUKS2 support, it doesn't probe LUKS2
volumes automatically.
I found the 3 upstream commits that are enough to make the "grub-probe
..." line work and am attaching a debdiff with those. I don't know
wheth
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