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 1NFrpN-0006at-Vm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:13:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 270E9E09C4; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0703DE0AD1 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851141B4005 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:13:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.123 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.123 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.524, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QUyPodJozqaF for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EEC1B4013 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NFroy-0003jL-8X for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:52 +0100 Received: from athedsl-388818.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.70.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:52 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-388818.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:12:36 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200912021251.54344.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091202144816.GA4798@ca.inter.net> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-388818.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091202 Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: <20091202144816.GA4798@ca.inter.net> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 447714a2-45de-45f3-b36a-dbbfa4fa7d5c X-Archives-Hash: ffe1282a3ab45aa8d88c6b0a14af9e4c On 12/02/2009 04:48 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 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. (3) Never run a mix of arch and ~arch if you can avoid it :D