merge 311758 323860 thanks On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Marc Lehmann wrote:
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:38:34PM -0800, Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:Is this problem happening with Debian kernels only,As I wrote before (quite a number of times actually: it would really help if the people acting on this bug would read the bugreport and its history, all the required information is there and has been repeated by me a number of times. This would have save both you and me (and others) valuable time because you wouldn't have to wait for my answer to a question that has been answered a number of times already), it does not happen in the kernels I compile myself, although I am convinced that the bug is in the upstream kernel. I don't know for sure, though, I _do_ know that all debian kernels are buggy, and none of my own.
Ok, I have to apologize for not digging in BTS hard enough. In the future though please consider using the BTS version tracking feature to indicate that the problem is still present in the newer kernels, instead of filing a totally new bug. That way all the relevant information will be in one collected in one place.
The only effect of removing such bugs would be to lose track of those bugs and misinform debian users by hiding valid bugs. I thinkt hat would be a great disservice to the users. The strength of the debian bts is precisely that it documents known bugs in debian, not that it hides that info. I hope you understand that keeping valid bugreports has great value, far greater than the possible pride of having a (superficially) bug-free package. The loss for other people who are suffering from the same or similar bugs would be big.
You have a point here, I agree. I shouldn't have suggested to close this bug. But the way I see it, you are the only person so far hitting it, while using one particular application, which is not packaged for Debian. Given that there are probably quite a few VPN/IP tunneling users out there, it raises questions about whether this application might be at fault (no offense intended, I know that you are the upstream author :-).
Now to something constructive. I'm willing to work on this bug and try to reproduce and hopefully resolve it. It would help me a lot if you would describe a simplest gvpe setup in which the bug can be reproduced, so that I can build a few kernels interpolating between the Debian config and the working config which you posted earlier, and try to figure out which config option causes it. That'll hopefully give us some insight.
Best regards, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC