Bug#546809: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#546809: listing contents of remote directory does not show all content and can cause kernel panic

[Kevin <kevin.crain1@gmail.com>]

I am using the standard kernel in apt package linux-image-2.6.26-2-686


Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):
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>> reassign 546809 linux-2.6
>> thanks
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>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:49:47PM -0700, Kevin Crain wrote:
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>>> After mounting a remote directory, I 'cd' to a directory contained
>>> therein and do an 'ls'.  This directory contains over 200 files but I
>>> can see only 131.  If I do an 'ls some_file' on a specific file that is
>>> not listed it will list it.  Browsing the remote directories using
>>> Konqueror shows all files.  If I do an 'ls|less' on the directory with
>>> over 131 files the kernel panics and the system either locks up or
>>> reboots.
>>>       
>> Then you have a kernel bug.  Reassigning.
>>     
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> I agree this has nothing to do with samba, but isn't it weird that
> this is the first time we get such report? Is the kernel the stock
> lenny kernel on the client?
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