Mike Pagano's Weblog http://www.mpagano.com/blog My Digital Contribution Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:25:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sleepy http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=133 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=133#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:22:48 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=133

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=133 2 New Gentoo Sources released http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=132 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=132#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:02:52 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=132 I just released gentoo-sources 2.6.32-r14, 2.6.34-r6 and 2.6.35-r2. These all include the patch for the local privilege escalation flaw bug that was recently announced. So, I do recommended all gentoo-sources users upgrade to these latest versions.

There is also a bug fix included for people that were experiencing the freeze/oops in 2.6.35.2 as referenced in this bug.

Please note that 2.6.33 is no longer being supported by Gentoo-Sources.

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=132 2 dhcpcd trouble with kernel 2.6.35 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=129 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=129#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:37:12 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=129 If you’re network interface is having trouble getting an IP from dhcpcd on kernel version 2.6.35 please sync and update to dhcpcd-5.2.7.

Thanks

upstream bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187#c12
Fix changelog: http://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/2010/0218.html

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=129 2 gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r4 released http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=128 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=128#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=128 I have just committed gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r4 to the tree.

This kernel uses genpatches-2.6.32-5 and includes the following:

linux 2.6.32.1
linux 2.6.32.1
linux 2.6.32.2
linux 2.6.32.3
linux 2.6.32.4
linux 2.6.32.5
linux 2.6.32.6
linux 2.6.32.7
linux 2.6.32.8
A transmit hang fix for broadcom 5906

And the normal patches we always carry over such as fbcondecor, etc.

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=128 5 gentoo-sources-2.6.31 released http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=125 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=125#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:22:01 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=125 I just committed gentoo-sources-2.6.31 to the portage tree.

Check out Kernel Newbies for the ChangeLog.

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=125 4 gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r3 released, all 2.6.30-rX users should update http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=119 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=119#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:43:40 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=119 gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r3 contains a fix for a security flaw that also comes complete with some exploit code.

Apparently, it only affects 2.6.30 so if you gentoo-sources-2.6.30 please upgrade to r3.

I just committed it, so it should hit the mirrors soon after I post this.

Thanks to everyone who brought to my attention and thanks kerframil for the links below that provide additional information.

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6820
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2009-July/005810.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdkpJ13e6Z0

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=119 4 gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 released http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=116 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=116#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:06:10 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=116 Just a quick note to say we have released gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 which includes linux 2.6.29.4.

Give it a test, please, as we plan on asking for 2.6.29 stablizing real soon™ .

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=116 11 New portpeek version 1.8.0 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=112 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=112#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 12:55:36 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=112 I just released a separately masked version of portpeek. It contains a new feature to handle the ~ (tilde) in the package.* files.

If specified with the -t argument, the code will retrieve the tilde indicated line, and look to see if a later version is stabilized.

If it is, the ~tilde package is removed.

I recommend backing up your files before trying this, as it’s new and WFM(tm) but I don’t want to hose anyone’s files.

If you do encounter any errors, please open a bug in bugzilla and attach the backup of file you made previous to running the command.

Thanks

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=112 0 gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 released http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=102 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=102#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:50:58 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=102 Just a quick note to say gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 was just put in the  portage tree. This release includes the 2.6.29.1 patch which has a fix for forcedeth issues.  Also included are the ext4 filesystem patches.  This is definitely a must upgrade for ext4 users.

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/linux-patches/genpatches-2.6/tags/2.6.29-2/

]]> http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=102 7 gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r4 released. http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=99 http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=99#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:31:49 +0000 admin http://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=99 I just released gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r4. Amoung other patches, it includes four patches that help prevent data loss on ext4 filesystems during a crash. So, if you use ext4 and gentoo-sources, you might want to upgrade to r4 when it hits the mirrors.

Thanks to the hardened team for identifying those patches and making it easy to include them in genpatches.

The changes for this release of genpatches can be found here [1].

[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-kernel/msg_fb5df8b9d72b815361711a5b26aed64e.xml

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