Comment 72 for bug 264019

[For people reading this as a Launchpad bug report: this mail was sent
to users who reported problems here, and CCed to the bug report for the
record.]

Hi,

I understand that all of you have reported being affected by
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/264019. We've put a
workaround in place for Ubuntu 8.10 (turning off TCP timestamps by
default), and I'd like to confirm that this successfully works around
the bug for you.

Assuming that you're still running intrepid, you can apply our
workaround by upgrading to version 1:3.2.7-9ubuntu2 of the 'procps'
package. This is available now on archive.ubuntu.com, although if you're
using a mirror this may take a while to propagate, and if the bug itself
prevents you from reaching archive.ubuntu.com then of course this may be
a problem. I've put copies of the packages here, which you can fetch
from a separate machine and install with 'sudo dpkg -i' if you need to:

  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/tmp/procps/procps_3.2.7-9ubuntu2_amd64.deb
    (md5sum: 9e7bc81b5bd2122fcbb6a8095e13ca3b, for 64-bit PCs)
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/tmp/procps/procps_3.2.7-9ubuntu2_i386.deb
    (md5sum: f574ef691b8ab6492bad30fdbe2d0829, for 32-bit PCs)

Please report your findings as comments on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/264019 so that we
can confirm this fix as quickly as possible or, if necessary, figure out
what else we need to do.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]