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 1NHHr8-0002AR-AH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:12:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02B5BE08EC; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4863E08EC for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so136759ewy.10 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:12:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=tSBKyGMddA8CruZ4P8YGriicysQgCdwgOZ92dY08rC0=; b=s2wTwER/38dsG7jfW1U6aXjXKeWJzxzpfhtquNm9QKDYa4etDcGlFu4iJFu3/po5/6 DS8oQyDfVG6HyNRIUlOwxs5TPSKwOXbt8anRwOIx/bWglwVN+dwfYSDt8DV0o8OQSO8U c01ZHUCukvlx+FAX8/k5yTTrJm4D5zhRUzhSQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=u/qSuLou7Hei1F8zQ8EynBP/aou9E2Qul0rn+XfsWeJu+M1vXg5ZX4hibq64/ghRmg IB61i6QQApKQ4Ptez9kaoB3d7Hn3FIYt0s5HjfyGrqWudqjYEVbiLyuVpX3EEH/cMDdp FGkOsRefo8qSFHq/ibpcR74lcxWLhzWjrrzYc= Received: by 10.216.88.68 with SMTP id z46mr1974872wee.27.1260108723968; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p37sm11202232gvf.23.2009.12.06.06.12.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:12:03 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:11:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen0r4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912061511.57421.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9ecd4126-d522-4459-8b13-ad72ffa8f5a9 X-Archives-Hash: 3316ddedbca7fa896e93de00145307b4 On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" wrote: > >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. > >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. > > I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to run a > ~amd64 system for evaluation, and yesterday I got my comeuppance. I > wanted to go back to an earlier backup of the test system*, so I took a > backup of my home directory with its e-mail history, wiped the partition > and restored the old backup followed by the home directory. Wrong. I'd > mixed the home directories of the two systems and so I lost the last > five weeks' worth of e-mails. > > And no, I hadn't been drinking or getting over-tired. Just goes to show > - you can't be too careful. > > * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought > must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything > installed since then hadn't fixed them. > well, I had (1!) problem after updating to KDE 4.3.4. Konsole's fonts looked ugly and the cursor was misplaced to the right by one 'space'. Rebuilding everything emerged after patch-2.6 (which included kde, qt and a lot of other stuff), solved that problem.