Comment 8 for bug 459265

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: [Bug 459265] Re: oops in gss_validate

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 07:47 +0000, Wolfgang Granzer wrote:
> It seems that the fix has not been integrated yet in Karmic.

Right.

> I have
> updated to 2.6.31-15. However, the "gss_validate" problem remains.

Yup. IIRC that is based on 2.6.31.4 and the fix went into .6 (these are
upstream release versions, not Ubuntu package release versions).

> Is there any reason why the fix has not been submitted for Karmic?

Good question.

> This
> bug is really serious since it makes Karmic completely unusable if NFS4
> mounts are used.

Indeed.

What really puzzles me though is how does this kind of crap always seem
to slip through the QA process? Are they not trying to exercise at
least the most common functionality before calling a release "good"?

Surely NFS4 is not all that uncommon.