On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 17:22 -0300, Gurvan Huiban wrote: > Dear maintainer > > > > I believe that one of the patch applied on Debian kernel interferes > > > with the relationship between the Browser and Java when running the > > > Internet banking applet. > > > > We don't patch very much, so my suspicion is that this is purely > > triggered by the version number (only 2 dotted components). > > > > > Could you please investigated? > > > > So there's an easy way to check this. Try quitting Iceweasel and then > > restarting it with the command: > > > > setarch x86_64 --uname-2.6 iceweasel > > You are right: with the command above, the Java applet works perfectly. > > Hence I believe the bug lies in the applet (should be more permissive with the > kernel numbering) and not in the kernel. > > As far as I am concerned, the bug can be closed. Thank you. I will (try to) > open a bug with the bank > > Gurvan > > PS. How did you get the idea that the problem was related to the kernel > version number? It's the only difference I could expect a Java applet to be able to detect, and just the sort of thing I would expect banking software to check unnecessarily. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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