Bug#841665: boinc-client: The boinc-client init script has a badly constructed parameter for xhost

2016-10-21 Thread Preston Maness
ld still address this in any case. Cheers, Preston Maness On 10/21/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Brennan wrote: > Package: boinc-client > Version: 7.6.33+dfsg-1~bpo8+1 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > Justification: user security hole > > Dear Maintainers, > > boinc-client

Bug#815214: boinc-client: boinc client not updating log files

2016-02-19 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ugh. Fuckin' mail clients. It mangled my ExecStart line (and is still trying to mangle it). My service file looks like this presently: http://pastebin.com/103cK3Ym Cheers, Preston Maness On 02/20/2016 01:20 AM, Preston Maness wrote: > Ho

Bug#815214: boinc-client: boinc client not updating log files

2016-02-19 Thread Preston Maness
;, and then the log files were written to again. Cheers, Preston Maness P.S. - With respect to the other bug 813728 where the log has a bunch of "No protocol specified" messages, I'm still thinking about how to handle that one. The xorg-server is ultimately responsible for the m

Bug#813728: boinc-client: spews "No protocol specified" every second when active

2016-02-04 Thread Preston Maness
1 1 1 See https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1453 for the relevant pull request where I reinstated and improved the XSS-based idle detection. Cheers, Preston Maness On 02/04/2016 01:00 PM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Package: boinc-client Version: 7.6.22+dfsg-3 Severity: min

Bug#813728: boinc-client: spews "No protocol specified" every second when active

2016-02-04 Thread Preston Maness
man's timer with a decrement counter, only retrying failing DISPLAYs every $number of minutes, which would ease up on the amount of entries at least. I'm going to keep mulling this over in case I can find out a better way to handle this. Cheers, Preston Maness On 02/04/2016 04:53 PM, Preston

Bug#812835: boinc-client: leaks hundreds of x11 connections

2016-01-26 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Howdy, I'm almost positive this is a bug introduced by my pull request to add XSS-based idle detection back into the boinc client: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1453 I am able to replicate the issue (seeing the number of socket connections

Bug#812835: boinc-client: leaks hundreds of x11 connections

2016-01-26 Thread Preston Maness
out of scope of the function in hostinfo_unix.cpp would close the connection automatically. With this patch, I don't see the boinc client pilling up X11 connections like it was before. Cheers, Preston On 01/26/2016 11:10 PM, Preston Maness wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm almost positive this

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2015-12-16 Thread Preston Maness
gt; > On Wed, 16 Dec, 2015 at 0:34, Preston > Maness<aspensmons...@riseup.net> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED > MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > > An update: > > Re-incorporating the XSS idle-detection code works as expected. I > scrapped the DPMS code and only kept the XS

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2015-12-15 Thread Preston Maness
ning up the changes, hopefully getting upstream to reinstate the XSS code, and determining how best to get the fix into the Debian packages. From what I can tell, an additional dependency on "libxss1" would be necessary. Cheers, Preston On 12/14/2015 07:28 AM, Preston Maness wrote:

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2015-12-14 Thread Preston Maness
. I don't know too much about X, but I'll be giving a few different possibilities a go in the coming days. Cheers, Preston On 12/11/2015 09:44 AM, Preston Maness wrote: > Howdy howdy, > > I think I deserve a slow clap for such a slow response/addresssing > of a bug. Indeed my respons

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2015-12-11 Thread Preston Maness
r the static part only at startup. Also factor the Unix HOST_INFO code into multiple functions. == As it stands, BOINC's Event Log does show periodic "Suspending computation - computer is in use" messages. Show I'm operating on the assumption that something is

Bug#772890: livestreamer: twitch.tv streams stopped working

2014-12-12 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Seconding the request to have the package updated from upstream due to this issue. Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUi+gNAAoJEM8h7WmSAmadVPEH/Al0Hh7km7A4Ucta0Gj1ZBJw

Bug#764494: Login verification down or unavailable

2014-11-01 Thread Preston Maness
at some point during the week. Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUVbAWAAoJEM8h7WmSAmad0PoH/1mTIdTKhL2lf64jwYQqzgf4 MH1xIJoBIPSZZBbuWhOoy7tI35Pz+aviTmmv4KEbb0q+MgT7Z8UuzMmb7AYklFDu 1Ed5zcXSiE8NenR9+QJoCU8KRDJrxPghU4RwXQlHYAGuCIhhI5HKVk7n+6MVAr0j Mn37

Bug#766429: sysstat service will not start on machines with systemd

2014-10-23 Thread Preston Maness
? Or is there a different bug somewhere? Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUSbYFAAoJEM8h7WmSAmadq/EH/2NWvvSlMQixCNkT863sapff n9msTPqMl5zdYL+lsj4FJVn6mXXTJnsPgb8xuZq4q7gbbcaBClnzL0HDBciBFsad uwoDbvbb4lu0T5HNBNhueZ+urUbCUqDw+N6VlOsQbfguhPXruO2OAAMgJ5k9irjg

Bug#766429: sysstat service will not start on machines with systemd

2014-10-22 Thread Preston Maness
files, and attempting to utilize the default one suggested upstream does not work. Cheers, Preston Maness -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w

Bug#721298: Boinc Client Idle Detection Progress

2013-12-18 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, Well, it certainly took longer than a weekend :) But winter break is here and I can now spend some time hacking away at this. I've had some progress debugging the problem. I'm still working on it, but it looks like there is a tty sitting

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2013-10-30 Thread Preston Maness
that attempting to live-debug with gdb could get hairy, though I could always dive into that if I had to. Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSca7oAAoJEM8h7WmSAmadisoH/3ETae38BHZDEgU3

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2013-08-31 Thread Preston Maness
suspect there could be a background process of some sort on my machine that is being detected as active user activity, leading boinc to believe the computer is in use. But I can't find any logs that look relevant in /var/lib/boinc-client/. Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2013-08-30 Thread Preston Maness
, the machine is still doing pretty well. I haven't checked any GPU jobs to see if they're getting computation errors, but the CPU jobs all seem to be completing just fine. Cheers, Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http

Bug#721298: boinc-client: Idle Detection Not Working Computer Always In Use

2013-08-29 Thread Preston Maness
as to how I may help in further troubleshooting this issue. Cheers, Preston Maness -- Package-specific info: -- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client: # This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the # /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script. # Set this to 1 to enable

Bug#657920: pidgin-libnotify: plugin fails to load in Pidgin

2012-03-22 Thread Preston Maness
? Preston Maness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPa7aUAAoJEM8h7WmSAmadg/QH/ReoRSpiSHhQFJVBboEpPA4k MY+/Tnm5yrs3oPcHLEemyzcdvrvDeMVopODY0/P0SvzXepelGWHoocpuYKlllo/u