Bug#386667: apcupsd: Causes kernel oops

[Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@linuxasylum.net>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> reassign 386667 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
> severity 386667 important
> thanks
>
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 07:15:56PM +1000, Peter Dey wrote:
> > Package: apcupsd
> > Version: 3.10.17-2
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> > The kernel on my system has Oopses, on average, twice a month, since installing apcupsd.
> > In all Oops cases, apcupsd has been listed as the process in kern.log.
>
> > Since the instructions its oopsing on are fairly generic (sys_ioctl and exit_sighand), I'm guessing apcupsd is somehow 
> > managing to cause the oops...
>
> However, a kernel oops is always a kernel bug.  Given that apcupsd doesn't
> contain any kernel modules, I'm reassigning this to the corresponding kernel
> package.
>
> I'm also lowering the severity, since from the kernel POV this bug doesn't
> make the kernel unusable, it just makes it impossible to use apcupsd with
> this kernel.
will forward this bug to apcupsd mantainer, maybe they have some clue 
about it .

Regards
Samuele

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