| golinux | LeePen: Just back from a long and and will be afk shortly | 00:16 |
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| golinux | Will leave notes when I have a checn later tonight. | 00:16 |
| KatolaZ | Centurion_Dan: what do you mean by "fixing" d-i? | 06:13 |
| KatolaZ | could you please work on experimental for that? | 06:13 |
| KatolaZ | regarding policykit, there was a DSA a couple of days ago | 06:13 |
| Centurion_Dan | KatolaZ: of course ;-) | 06:38 |
| KatolaZ | thanks :) | 06:38 |
| KatolaZ | I would like to keep d-i working at all times, from now on | 06:38 |
| KatolaZ | so it's important to have the unstable version, well, "stable" :D | 06:39 |
| Centurion_Dan | for sure. I won't push anything until I've tested locally... and there is a little uncertainty with grub configuration... | 06:40 |
| Centurion_Dan | creating a 32bit uefi core image is the easy part, the problem is grub doesn' | 06:40 |
| Centurion_Dan | t appear to | 06:40 |
| Centurion_Dan | expose any detail indicating whether it's the 32bit or 64bit version of itself... this means that I basically have to try test loading a module in order to figure out which is the correct platform path to set... | 06:43 |
| KatolaZ | mmmhhh | 06:44 |
| Centurion_Dan | It shouldn't be to hard to sort out and once I've figured it out I'll also push a patchset upstream to debian as well. | 06:44 |
| KatolaZ | oki | 06:44 |
| Centurion_Dan | It's really just because my mum bought a cheap tablet thing (nextbook 10.1) which has this particular buggy platform that only will boot 32bit efi loaders and not 64bit ones even though it has a 64bit capable processor... | 06:46 |
| Centurion_Dan | The stupid thing came with wondows8 | 06:47 |
| Centurion_Dan | starter edition... so it's pretty hobbled even for a windows device... | 06:48 |
| KatolaZ | but just how frequent is it? | 06:48 |
| KatolaZ | I mean, if it's not even covered by Debian, with an enormous user base... | 06:48 |
| Centurion_Dan | the intel baytrail SoC is used across a wide range of cheap tablets and some of the intel NUC's | 06:49 |
| Centurion_Dan | so there are a fair few of them around. There is a howto floating around about hacking a ubuntu install for it, and there is another distro that also purportedly works on it. | 06:51 |
| Centurion_Dan | also it boots the i386 installer too.. | 06:52 |
| Centurion_Dan | but it'd be nice to fully use the cpu capabilities... you get the picture... | 06:53 |
| Centurion_Dan | ;-) | 06:53 |
| Centurion_Dan | bbl | 06:53 |
| KatolaZ | Centurion_Dan: I guess for polkit we should work on the latest 0.115 available in sid | 07:00 |
| KatolaZ | the DSA is not a deadly one, but still worth to be addressed | 07:00 |
| KatolaZ | I don't know what's the state of polkit, but we should try to have it in beowulf so that people can start testing stuff | 07:01 |
| KatolaZ | and testing will take long time | 07:01 |
| Centurion_Dan | KatolaZ: sounded like it's a systemd bug rather then polkit specifically... probably some short sighted perspective ala LP's hero William Gates III - "nobody could ever possibly need more the 96MB of ram" ;-) | 08:08 |
| KatolaZ | no Centurion_Dan | 08:08 |
| KatolaZ | it's not related to systemd | 08:08 |
| KatolaZ | the bug is in policykit | 08:08 |
| KatolaZ | they demonstrated it with systemctl | 08:08 |
| KatolaZ | because that's the easiest thing that can give you root and uses policykit | 08:09 |
| KatolaZ | but the bug is definitely in policykit | 08:09 |
| Centurion_Dan | interesting... I'll dig the CVE and checkout the patch... | 08:10 |
| LeePen | Centurion_Dan: I had a go at installing Gnome 3 to test your lib(elogin|system)d0 symlink idea. AFAICS, gnome isn't installable at the moment on ceres as it requires udisks >= 2.7.6 which we don't have, even in experimental. | 11:22 |
| Centurion_Dan | LeePen: Ok, I'll take a look to fix that too... | 11:23 |
| LeePen | Centurion_Dan: thanks. | 11:24 |
| LeePen | Centurion_Dan: I am happy to help with polkit, but I don't want to duplicate work. How far have you got? | 11:25 |
| golinux | LeePen: Your packages in experimental do indeed sort the pkexec and action button failures I was experiencing. | 22:05 |
| golinux | This is the magic incantation that worked: | 22:05 |
| golinux | # apt-get install libpolkit-agent-1-0=0.105-18+devuan2.3 libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind=0.105-18+devuan2.3 libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind=0.105-18+devuan2.3 policykit-1=0.105-18+devuan2.3 policykit-1-gnome=0.105-7 | 22:06 |
| golinux | I also had to do a pam-auth-update and logout/in (at fsr's suggestion) | 22:07 |
| golinux | And of course make sure those few options in settings > sessions are ticked. | 22:08 |
| golinux | I encourage anyone to test these packages so we can get on with beowulf!! | 22:08 |
| golinux | That was more cli than I've done in a year to get that sorted. Whew! A bit of an exaggeration but that's what it felt like. | 22:09 |
| golinux | A HUGE thank you to LeePen and fsr for nurse-maiding me through this. | 22:11 |
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