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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1378-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

From: Jonathan Wilson <jw(at)mailsw.com>
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 14:43:50 EDT


On Friday 28 September 2007 07:45, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Friday 28 September 2007 11:18, Jan Wagner wrote:
> >>> Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
> >>> You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub
> >>> instead!
> >>
> >> you need to modify /etc/kernel-img.conf!
> >
> > I believe this happens with a freshly installed etch system, so this is
> > bad. (Though off-topic for -security.)
>
> IIRC, this should apply only to upgrades from sarge. It's covered in
> Etch's release notes

It does, in fact, happen to new Etch installs - it happened to me yesterday when I tried to apt-get upgrade an Etch 4.0 install (network install from netboot CD). I have had it happen to me more than once on Etch installs (not upgraded from Sarge).

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