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Author: info at smallinnovations dot nl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Who remembers rootkit..
On 21-10-18 12:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>
> Thanks for the post.
>
> I first noticed it while testing Stretch, I run a multimedia setup no
> problem with Jessie without systemd or wheezy, I was running a intel
> laptop HDMI to a big screen smart tv, the screen would go black and
> the audio would stop, I'm not the only on who has seen the problem as
> it's been mentioned on the Debian mailing list. Since then I have ran
> it on other systems, like Devuan, PCLinuxOS and Slackware too and have
> seen the the problem in real time while looking at the system log and
> I would see the kernel making calls to get a outside HTTP, I bring
> down my net connection and the kernel calls avahi daemon to bring it
> back up and make a HTTP connection, I stop avahi daemon and the kernel
> binds with the NIC and tries to get outside HTTP, that's where my
> firewall stops it.  But the kernel keeps trying over and over and over
> endlessly to get outside HTTP and all this makes it imposable to watch
> my movie.  Using the Intel laptop was convenient, but I got the idea
> to try my AMD nvidia desktop, I got the same kernel activity but no
> interference with audio/video, I'm now using ATI Radeon laptop, works
> the same as nvidia or maybe it's because their both AMD as I don't
> have nvidia or ATI running on a intel system that I can test.
>
> Questions?


Sounds like you have DRM enabled in your system which phones home for a
authorization check. You may be should avoid the non-free repos. Or
compile your own kernel.

Grtz.

Nick