FS#44670 - [iputils] WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 20 April 2015, 22:14 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 08 May 2015, 13:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

This warning appears under linux-4.0 when ping for example a down host. This is from a bug from pre linux-2.4.9 age.

$ ping 192.168.90.2
PING 192.168.90.2 (192.168.90.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended.
From 192.168.90.77: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
...

Additional info:
iputils-20121221-3
linux-4.0-2

Looks like there are some iputils developement here [#1], otherwise just only a patch [#2] can be applied like in other distros.

[#1] https://github.com/iputils/iputils
[#2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/iputils.git/tree/debian/patches/recverr_works_bug709052.patch
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 08 May 2015, 13:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  testing
Comment by Shawn Nock (nocko) - Monday, 04 May 2015, 13:07 GMT
I see this as well on:

4.0.1-1-ARCH
iputils 20121221-3

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