From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFqVm-00032V-8H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:48:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FF49E08F4; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1j.uniserve.ca [216.210.109.128]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64930E08F4 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-254.61.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.61.254] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NFqV7-0003eb-K6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:48:18 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:48:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:48:16 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug Message-ID: <20091202144816.GA4798@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200912021251.54344.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: 99b4ca0e-2701-44c6-abc1-5f16ba09f8fc X-Archives-Hash: 92c43efe2b21c6cdba61ecc0ba0eae46 091202 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: >>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of-gnu-patch-2-6 >> I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10 days later >> when a report on b.g.o. showed it was affecting OOo. >> Right in the middle of those 10 days, I ran 'emerge -e world' >> > Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. > I emerged patch-2.6 on November 15 > and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. > After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, > including all of KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice. > Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can have > on a source-based distro... 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca