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Re: [stable] openvpn in etch crashes on amd64



tags 390697 + patch
thanks

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:07:55PM +0000, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > (I am not the maintainer.) openvpn in etch randomly crashes on amd64 due
> > to #390697, a side effect of #394695.  It is possible that disabling the
> > "comp-lzo" option in openvpn would eliminate the crashes, but this would
> > also disable compression of the transported VPN traffic.
> > 
> > The fix for the version in etch is very simple:
> > 
> > -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), libssl-dev (>> 0.9.6), liblzo-dev, libpam0g-dev
> > +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), libssl-dev (>> 0.9.6), liblzo2-dev, libpam0g-dev
> > 
> > I've tested this on a busy VPN and I have not seen any crashes on client
> > or server.  Would it be possible to see this fix in a stable update?
> 
>   you should open an RC bug on the adequate version, with that fix, tag
> it patch, contact the maintainer see if he can do a stable update, or
> else propose to do it as an NMU into tpu.

ok, done.  do you mean s-p-u, not t-p-u?

>   but this is definitely RC, as it renders the package useless on an
> architecture.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org

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