Bug#199715: marked as done ([xdm]: 4.1.x makes ia64 go boom)
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Subject: xdm crashes system on IA64
Package: xdm
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: grave
Tags: woody
I did a base install on a HP zx2000 with the addition of X11 only. Each
time xdm starts the box crashes. I did not see this issue filed in the
database. I believe this is an issue with using /dev/mem, rather then
/dev/urandom, to seed the random number generator. It appears to be
fixed in SID.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux garfield 2.4.19-itanium-smp #1 SMP Wed Oct 23 20:05:46 MDT 2002 ia64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii cpp 2:2.96-16 The GNU C preprocessor.
ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6.1 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam0g 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16 X Athena widget set library
ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-16 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.1.0-16 X Window System client libraries
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [xdm]: 4.1.x makes ia64 go boom
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This bug was fixed way back in xfree86 4.2.1-4:
xfree86 (4.2.1-4) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
[...]
* patch #091: new; drop the sumFile() function from xdm's genauth.c file,
define DEV_RANDOM for Linux and the Hurd, and change the meaning of the
randomFile resource to indicate the file that should be opened for the
reading of entropy. The default random file on Linux and the Hurd is
/dev/random; on NetBSD it remains /dev/urandom per the existing XFree86
code. Twinks who don't want xdm "draining their entropy pool" can edit
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and set "DisplayManager.randomFile" to "/dev/ze=
ro"
if they want. Anyway, this fixes a bug with xdm causing machine checks=
on
some architectures when reading a lot of data from /dev/mem.
(Closes: #107311)
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:24:48 -0500
Closing this report.
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