September 2023 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

dhcpcd: Buffer overflow after update from 9.4.1-1.0 to 10.0.2-1.0
by Friedrich Romstedt 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Hi, `dhcpcd-9.4.1-1.0` is running fine on my Arch Linux 32 box. However, when updating to `dhcpcd-10.0.2-1.0`, I am encountering errors captured by `systemd`. `dhcpcd` exits with the error message `*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated`. I am attaching the output of `systemctl status --state failed`. I did some googling but couldn't find a way to remedy this problem. Any ideas? Seems to me to be possibly system specific; please let me know what details to provide would be helpful. Best, Friedrich

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Re: dhcpcd: Buffer overflow after update from 9.4.1-1.0 to 10.0.2-1.0
by Friedrich Romstedt 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Hi Andreas, Am Do., 28. Sept. 2023 um 20:16 Uhr schrieb Andreas Baumann <mail(a)andreasbaumann.cc>: > > Yes, this is a known problem with some versions of dhcp. Easiest > is to simply use dhclient instead of dhcpd. Ok, thanks for the info. To avoid risking to lose access to the machine when trying possible future versions of dhcpcd, I am using a systemd-networkd approach now, which is working fine. I have a fully static use-case here. Have a nice day, Friedrich

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Archlinux32: python & lots of dependent packages out of sync
by Markus Schaaf 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

Hi, in the Archlinux32 repos, a lot of packages that install Python modules need rebuilding. It would be nice, if upgrading Python and such packages could somehow be coordinated, such that a new release of the Python interpreter and these packages are only pushed after all of them have been rebuilt. I don't know how Archlinux handles this, but I never noticed such problem there. A cursory look through the logs seems to show that many of the packages I'm complaining about failed building, because a dependency wasn't built/updated first. For instance Borg failed because of python-jaraco.functools, which failed because the dependency python-setuptools is missing, which should have been pulled in by python-setuptools-scm. Here is part of the build log for python-jaraco.functools: > (2/3) installing python [######################] 100% > > > Optional dependencies for python > python-setuptools > python-pip > sqlite [installed] > mpdecimal: for decimal > xz: for lzma [installed] > tk: for tkinter > (3/3) installing python-more-itertools [----------------------] 0% > (3/3) installing python-more-itertools [######################] 100% > > > [?25h==> Checking buildtime dependencies... > ==> Installing missing dependencies... > [?25lresolving dependencies... > looking for conflicting packages... > > Packages (15) perl-error-0.17029-5.0 perl-mailtools-2.21-7.0 > perl-timedate-2.33-5.0 python-iniconfig-2.0.0-2.1 > python-packaging-23.1-1.1 python-pep517-0.1-1.3 > python-pluggy-1.0.0-2.1 python-typing_extensions-4.7.1-1.0 > git-2.40.1-1.0 python-build-0.1-1.3 python-installer-0.1-1.3 > python-jaraco.classes-3.2.3-1.1 python-pytest-7.4.0-1.0 > python-setuptools-scm-7.1.0-4.1 python-wheel-0.1-1.3 > > Total Installed Size: 49.66 M As you can see, python-setuptools-scm gets installed without its dependency python-setuptools. Could someone please have a look at this? BR

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