On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 13:26 -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64 > Version: 2.6.32+29 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software No, anything you run on top of the kernel is related to it. > With Linux 2.6.32 as supplied with Debian Squeeze, Netatalk is unable > to thrive. Connections made to afpd will open, but attempting to transfer > files will take a very long time and/or eventually time out. > > I've noted this with both Netatalk as supplied with Squeeze and with > Netatalk 2.2.1 built from the Wheezy source package, which I evidently > need for AFP 3 support. > > Installing Linux 3.2 from backports, with no other changes to the system, > allows afpd to work correctly. I hit on the idea of trying this after > installing a Fedora 16 system to compare performance and to try to isolate > the issue. Fedora 16 uses a newer kernel. > > As it stands, Netatalk is unusable in Squeeze without a newer kernel. I > assume this to be an issue with the kernel that can be addressed and > corrected for the next minor release, and I'd be happy to help try to > isolate it and test any correction that's devised. Well I can only see two bug fixes to Appletalk between those kernel versions. Can you try the attached patch? <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official> explains how to rebuild official kernel packages, though you could also build a custom kernel (explained further down that page). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:49:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk:: da.s_net not copied but assigned to itself in
aarp_rcv()
commit 2a04cd4c7d41c4549764734dcf5a883d304e3229 upstream.
da.s_net was not copied but assigned to itself.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/appletalk/aarp.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/appletalk/aarp.c b/net/appletalk/aarp.c
index 9d4adfd..f2b3b56 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/aarp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/aarp.c
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ static int aarp_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
ma = &ifa->address;
else { /* We need to make a copy of the entry. */
da.s_node = sa.s_node;
- da.s_net = da.s_net;
+ da.s_net = sa.s_net;
ma = &da;
}
--
1.7.9.1
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