Bug#502444: sshd fails at boot-time following reload by /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server presumably due to race condition

2008-10-16 Thread Tim Small
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:5.1p1-3 Severity: important The sshd on this server exits before the boot process in complete on approx 70% of boots on this machine - presumably due to a race condition. It appears to die following the reload by /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server when the

Bug#499504: Need info

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Small
FYI, I the bug appears to have been hit on July 10th, and July 24th, and then not again until Sept 10th. I generally apply Debian security patches within a day or so, I think the bug was hit both before and after the security fix for #490217 was installed. The three emails in question are:

Bug#499504: Unreproduceable

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Small
Yes, I'd be happy to run an instrumented version, thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#499499: Logcheck rule supplied with whitelister is leaky

2008-09-19 Thread Tim Small
Package: whitelister Version: 0.8-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch The logcheck rule currently shipping with whitelister is a bit leaky - it lets through some DUNNO status lines, and also doesn't handle whitelister's SPF checking functionality. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#499503: No logcheck rules for postfix-policyd-spf-python

2008-09-19 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-python Version: 0.6-2~bpo40+1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There are no logcheck rules included in the postfix-policyd-spf-python package. For users of logcheck, this makes their daily logcheck emails very noisy, even on small mail sites. -- System Information:

Bug#499504: postfix-policyd-spf-python: Incoming email can cause policyd-spf to crash.

2008-09-19 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-python Version: 0.6-2~bpo40+1 Severity: normal See log excerpt: Sep 10 18:36:04 zebedee postfix/smtpd[5920]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/policyd-spf while reading input attribute name Sep 10 18:36:05 zebedee policyd-spf[6676]: Traceback (most recent

Bug#499504: postfix-policyd-spf-python: Incoming email can cause policyd-spf to crash.

2008-09-20 Thread Tim Small
Scott Kitterman wrote: Bug is actually in python-dns. I'm currently on vacaction, but will look into it when I return (roughly a week). OK, Ta. AFAIK, the python-dns version which was installed at the time was 2.3.0-5.2+etch1. Cheers, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#446685: EABI / Old ABI problem?

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Small
I have seen similar behaviour. It was caused by using old ABI binaries (standard Debian Etch / Arm user-space), with the EABI Buffalo kernel. Try downloading http://armel.applieddata.net/developers/linux/eabi/armel-root-fs.tar.bz2 and chrooting into it, then trying the iptables binary

Bug#424866: vimdiff makes comments invisible (with syntax highlighting enabled)

2007-10-03 Thread Tim Small
James Vega wrote: I had seen this before (both in practice and as submitted in #379839) but I'm not able to reproduce it anymore. The diffs are easily readable. Are you still able to reproduce this? No, I can't seem to reproduce this any longer, although I'm not using the exact same test

Bug#403985: apt-get update crashes in pkgAcqDiffIndex::ParseDiffIndex

2007-01-02 Thread Tim Small
I'm seeing similar behaviour, but have a differing backtrace: Hit http://ftp.sunet.se sarge/main Release Hit http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... 0% Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7d9e363 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6

Bug#221849: ClientAliveInterval option emits error to screen

2007-01-31 Thread Tim Small
I've seen similar behaviour when connecting to a sarge ssh server from an RHEL client. Upgrading the client from: OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f to: OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 made the problem go away. With -v turned, on the newer ssh client emits

Bug#428532: cricket: Minor problem with upstream getFormat.c

2007-06-12 Thread Tim Small
Package: cricket Version: 1.0.5-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hohum, just fixed the amd64 bug myself before noticing the new version in unstable had already fixed it... Anyway, this patch to getFormat.c is still perhaps slightly useful. Tim. --- cricket/util/getFormat.c.orig 2007-06-12

Bug#421087: hdparm doesn't cope with changing device names

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Small
Package: hdparm Version: 6.9-2 I have a machine with several drives. These drives appear under differing device names, depending on kernel version, and differing startup conditions (e.g. module load order). I would like some drives (3.5 drives) to spin-down when not in use, and some (2.5

Bug#421087: hdparm doesn't cope with changing device names

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Small
Stephen Gran wrote: I would suggest adding udev rules to map drives bassed on something (serial number, whatever) and create a permanently named symlink based on that. hdparm can then run on the symlink. OK, that sounds like a good solution. Would you accept a patch to the man page if I

Bug#426700: samba: Samba incorrectly remembers defunct IP addresses when running as a WINS server

2007-05-30 Thread Tim Small
Package: samba Version: 3.0.24-6etch2 Severity: normal When a samba server is running as a wins server, the wins server remembers IP addresses of the server, which have since been deleted. Restarting samba, and using net cache flush does not cure the problem. Clients intermittently recieve

Bug#431832: whitelister: logcheck regexes missing ESMTP, ipv6 etc.

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Small
Package: whitelister Version: 0.8-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch This patch expands the logcheck regexes to cover ipv6 addresses, and ESMTP connections. Also some missing '^' begining of line special characters (please check this is appropriate!). Ta, Tim. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#431832: Improved patch

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Small
Sorry, insuffiently tested patch - it wasn't catching all the weird stuff that can show up in the helo field... --- /u3/sid-amd64/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/whitelister 2007-01-07 16:28:37.0 + +++ ignore.d.server/whitelister 2007-07-05 11:41:09.0 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

Bug#431835: postfix-gld: No logcheck filter supplied.

2007-07-05 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-gld Version: 1.7-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch No logcheck filter (for use with the logcheck package) supplied. Simple filter included in this report, seems to do the job. Tim. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#429811: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: --all prompts the user to choose, even if there are zero choices.

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Small
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives There are 0 alternatives which provide `j2sdkreadme.desktop'. SelectionAlternative --- Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: --

Bug#424866: vimdiff makes comments invisible (with syntax highlighting enabled)

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Small
Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-122+1etch2 Severity: normal Comments in some differences become invisible (background, and foreground colour are the same) when using vimdiff to display files which have differences between the comments (i.e. if a commented line forms part of a difference between the

Bug#418736: Are there any initial passes at 3.8.0 support?

2007-05-22 Thread Tim Small
Hi, I'm doing some bug investigation at the moment, and I was wondering if there is a source control repository for the Debian package, or if not, whether anyone had done a first pass at modifying the package for the new upstream release? Thanks, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#425542: dspam-webfrontend: The current apache2 sample config doesn't work on etch.

2007-05-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: dspam-webfrontend Version: 3.6.8-5 Severity: normal The current apache2 sample config doesn't work. There is a workaround detailed here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394097 Also the comment: # Note: you have to add www-data to the 'shadow' # group to make

Bug#320838: kdm uses /dev/random, instead of /dev/urandom, and blocks on some systems with poor entropy

2005-08-01 Thread Tim Small
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: important On machines with not much entropy, kdm blocks on startup as it runs out of entropy from /dev/random. It should probably use /dev/urandom instead. Possibly related to #294267 #240027 #298254 and maybe others. This is particularly troublesome

Bug#320838: kdm uses /dev/random, instead of /dev/urandom, and blocks on some systems with poor entropy

2005-08-03 Thread Tim Small
Christopher Martin wrote: On August 1, 2005 21:16, Tim Small wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: important On machines with not much entropy, kdm blocks on startup as it runs out of entropy from /dev/random. It should probably use /dev/urandom instead. Possibly related

Bug#482168: awffull: Awffull cron job chatty.

2008-05-21 Thread Tim Small
Package: awffull Version: 3.8.2-1.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Awffull daily cron job is chatty - gives output when there is no error condition. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to

Bug#489005: debian-installer: Grub unconditionally set to use serial console when an install takes place via the serial port.

2008-07-02 Thread Tim Small
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch2 Severity: important If an install takes place via a serial console (e.g. by passing console=/dev/ttyS0 via the d-i boot loader), d-i then configures grub to use serial console output. On machines with serial BIOS support, grub then fails to boot,

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2008-07-02 Thread Tim Small
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch2 Severity: normal I preseeded an Etch installtion with: d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0) (hd1) but it didn't do what I expected with respect to software RAID, and failed drives. The current behaviour seems to be: boot from sda if it is

Bug#484560: Fixed in upstream CVS

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Small
FYI, I'm currently successfully using a locally compiled package (ipmitool-1.8.10pre-cvs20080401-1) which I created from upstream CVS, and works correctly in this scenario. If I remember correctly, 1.8.9 didn't work, but I'm not 100% sure... Cheers, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#352201: Request to add cricket contrib tree boxen

2006-02-10 Thread Tim Small
Package: cricket Severity: wishlist As the boxen cricket contrib tree: http://www.dezwart.net.au/~pete/pooter/cricket/boxen/ Is well suited to data collection from Linux boxes. I wonder if this could be added to the Debian package?

Bug#383486: DAC960 module not loaded following install

2006-08-17 Thread Tim Small
Package: installation Version: Etch Beta 3 Following installation of Etch, using the Beta 3 installer (netinst CD image), installation runs to completion without error, on reboot, grub appears fine, and the kernel loads, but during boot hangs with something like waiting for root filesystem.

Bug#383486: DAC960 module not loaded following install

2006-08-17 Thread Tim Small
No, changing the boot device parameter doesn't fix this - at least I changed the parameter in the grub UI (I had already tried this before, but just tried again to verify this) - if changing it in the grub config file, and then re-running update-grub will change what modules are loaded, then I

Bug#383486: PATCH to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions

2006-08-18 Thread Tim Small
--- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions.orig2006-08-18 13:21:56.0 +0100 +++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions2006-08-18 13:19:46.0 +0100 @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ scsi) for x in 3w-9xxx 3w- a100u2x aacraid advansys ahci \ aic79xx aic7xxx

Bug#476846: Bug does NOT happen for sid version (9:1.1.7.1-1) of genisoimage on armel

2008-04-20 Thread Tim Small
Tobias Frost wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:24 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: No, it's not an endian problem. i386, amd64, arm, and armel are _all_ little-endian. MMmmh, I always thought arm and armel differs in endianess... Nope, some packing, and syscall, and FP differences.

Bug#468388: postfix-policyd-spf-perl: Can't whitelist legitimate forwarders, or backup MX

2008-02-28 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-perl Version: 2.005-1 Severity: important Mail which is received at a primary MX, (which is running postfix-policyd-spf-perl) and has transited through either a backup MX or a non-SRS forwarder will be incorrectly marked an spf violation (hard, or soft) by

Bug#468388: Yes - It can (sort of)

2008-02-29 Thread Tim Small
Scott Kitterman wrote: man postfix-policyd-spf-perl will tell you how to set this up. It certainly doesn't qualify as easy, but, at least for a list of IP addresses it can be done. See the paragraph that starts The policy server skips ... in the synopsis. Ah yes it does - I suppose I

Bug#412941: Further bug info

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Small
Just to provide some more info (as much to make this bug easier to find as anything else). Bug #404794 is relevant to this - strace output when this fails is: ioctl(4, TUNSETIFF, 0x7fffb5173c60) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) One suggested fix would be to ship this part of the network

Bug#475159: mysql-server-5.0: MySQL parser interprets null characters in SQL input as whitespace.

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Small
2008-04-01 08:30:03.0 +0100 +++ i386/mysql-dfsg-5.0-5.0.32/debian/changelog 2008-04-01 08:32:49.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +mysql-dfsg-5.0 (5.0.32-7etch5bright) stable-proposed-updates; urgency=low + + * Fix upstream bug http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=25596 + + -- Tim Small [EMAIL

Bug#324492: Any chance of reclasifying this?

2008-03-28 Thread Tim Small
Hello, IMO, this bug shouldn't be wishlist - since it's definitely a bug and leads to behaviour which is confusing and wrong, not a feature enhancement - other data in the side bar is related to versions in the release which is currently being displayed, but the Bug Reports link points to

Bug#526011: smartmontools: smartd fails to work with SATA drives behind a Dell MPT SAS RAID controller

2009-04-28 Thread Tim Small
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-2+lenny1 Severity: normal smartd fails to work with SATA drives which are behind a Dell MPT SAS RAID controller (smartd does work correctly with SAS drives, and smartctl works correctly with both SATA and SAS): Device: /dev/sg0, opened Device: /dev/sg0, found

Bug#609368: duplicity: Test for time moving forward fails because it seems to use an unchanging time from a file

2011-01-08 Thread Tim Small
Package: duplicity Version: 0.6.08b-1+b1 Severity: important I believe I had a connectivity problem which interrupted a transfer, and since then duplicity has failed on every run saying: time not moving forward at appropriate pace - system clock issues? - which was the result of a failed

Bug#566239: closed by Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org (Re: Bug#566239: iceweasel -ProfileManager now requires the manual addition of -no-remote)

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Small
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This was reverted on purpose. While this behaviour is annoying, this is how it has been upstream for years and it appears it is unlikely to change upstream. I don't feel it's worth continuing to diverge there, especially when all the documentation around profile

Bug#563160: Add the tcp plugin to track TCP connection states to munin-plugins-extra

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Small
Tom Feiner wrote: Hi Tim, Thanks for the bug report. The plugin looks very nice :D Basically, the right way to get a plugin included in the munin-plugins-extra package, is to have it accepted by upstream, and it will automatically be packaged into munin-plugins-extra as part of the contrib

Bug#565353: Offer of testing

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Small
I have a Dell PowerEdge R210 (with 2 onboard BCM5716s) which I was just trying to PXE-install. I'd be happy to test the modified packages if you like. Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#565353: Offer of testing

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Small
You can build a package from svn with the following commands: Thanks for the instructions, but I'd just about managed to find the svn, and cobble together something similar a few hours before your email to get some 2.6.26-22 packages built. Seems good so-far - I'm leaving the machine doing

Bug#565353: Info received (Bug#565353: Offer of testing)

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Small
Transferred about a terabyte over NFS over 3 days whilst under disk/CPU load - with no apparent problems, thanks. Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#558760: mysql-client-5.1: Missing man page for mysqlanalyze etc.

2009-11-30 Thread Tim Small
Package: mysql-client-5.1 Version: 5.1.37-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch mysqlcheck is linked to various other binaries which modify its behaviour, but the corresponding man page links are missing. Patch included, but I'm not sure if this is the proper way to do this... Ta, Tim. -- System

Bug#558774: /etc/init.d/postfix-policyd reload ... causes postfix-policyd to exit.

2009-11-30 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-policyd Version: 1.80-2.3 Severity: important /etc/init.d/postfix-policyd reload seems to make the policyd exit. The reload option in the init script sends SIGHUP, but there is no handler defined in the source code. Furthermore, postfix-policyd seems to use signal() in a

Bug#538721: puppet: logcheck rules missing log rotation message - Reopening log files

2009-07-26 Thread Tim Small
Package: puppet Version: 0.24.5-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Can you add this line to /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/puppet please? ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ puppetmasterd\[[0-9]+\]: Reopening log files$ Ta, Tim. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT

Bug#503198: arno-iptables-firewall causes a lot of logfile noise in the default config

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Small
Package: arno-iptables-firewall Version: 1.8.8.o-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In its default configuration, a lot of noise ends up in the logs - given the frequency of intrusion attempts these days. This attached patch works in conjunction with the rsyslogd, and add filtering of the

Bug#503198: arno-iptables-firewall: Additional logrotate config file.

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Small
Package: arno-iptables-firewall Version: 1.8.8.o-2 Followup-For: Bug #503198 This patch also introduces a corresponding logrotation configuration file for the newly created log file. It's difficult to know what these defaults should be, as firewall log quantities will vary a lot between sites

Bug#503198: arno-iptables-firewall causes a lot of logfile noise in the default config

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Small
Hello, It'd be nice to be able to configure what gets logged - e.g. packets can get logged for a variety of different reasons: prefix `Bad TCP flag(128): ' prefix `Bad TCP flag(64): ' prefix `Class A address: ' prefix `Class B address: ' prefix `Class C address: ' prefix `Class M$ address: '

Bug#503198: arno-iptables-firewall: Additional logrotate config file.

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Small
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to rename /var/log/firewall into /var/log/arno-iptables-firewall (or something else less general). Not That's possible, and it did occur to me. An additional enhancement might be to put a common string (arno:?) at the front of the 'prefix' in the

Bug#504100: logcheck-database: Minor change to /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-ssh fixes whitespace related problem.

2008-10-31 Thread Tim Small
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.68 Severity: normal Tags: patch SSHD in lenny and etch emit white space at the end of ssh login authentication failure lines. It would appear that line 11 of the current /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-ssh intends to filter such lines (in fact

Bug#504107: udev: module iTCO_wdt not listed in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

2008-10-31 Thread Tim Small
Package: udev Version: 0.125-7 Severity: normal The iTCO_wdt module should probably be listed in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with all the rest... Perhaps some method of listing: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/watchdog/ and using this to auto-update the list would help? Cheers, Tim.

Bug#569541: munin-node: diskstats plugin forces width to 450

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Small
Package: munin-node Version: 1.4.3-2 Severity: normal /usr/share/munin/plugins/diskstats hard-codes a graph width of 450 - as I specify the following in my munin.conf: graph_width 800 graph_height 600 The diskstats graphs thus look a bit daft being tall and skinny I suppose what it really

Bug#554793: watchdog: Fix for watchdog init scripts.

2010-01-08 Thread Tim Small
Package: watchdog Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, Sorry for the big fat pause on this - the hardware which I was debugging is now in production, and I don't have another example to test on at the moment. I got the Dell PE860 working by switching to the iTCO_wdt watchdog device instead. I'm

Bug#554793: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: ipmi_watchdog module, frequently returns errno=16 - Device or resource busy on Dell Poweredge 860s

2010-01-08 Thread Tim Small
Sorry - just to further clarify, this is what would happen without the patch... 1. wd_keepalive daemon is started early in the boot process, loads ipmi_watchdog and opens + starts to write to /dev/watchdog 2. watchdog init script sends TERM to wd_keepalive daemon 3. watchdog init script

Bug#554793: closed by Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org (Bug#554793: fixed in watchdog 5.7-2)

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Small
Hi, Could this patch be pushed into lenny-proposed-updates? It would seem to fit the description of a critical bug: makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss... ... I think this bug can tick both of those boxes: . System hard-resets during

Bug#563160: Add the tcp plugin to track TCP connection states to munin-plugins-extra

2009-12-31 Thread Tim Small
Package: munin-plugins-extra Version: 1.2.6-17 Severity: wishlist It'd be handy if the tcp plugin which I wrote could be added to munin-plugins-extra http://muninexchange.projects.linpro.no/?viewphid=773 ... it seems to be broadly in line with the contents of this package, and would be

Bug#551894: 4.3.2 reports itself as 4.3.1, distorted gui

2009-12-31 Thread Tim Small
Package: ktimetracker Version: 4:4.3.2-1 Severity: normal Same behaviour here - makes this package pretty-much useless... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64

Bug#551894: ktimetracker: Fixed in 4.3.4

2010-01-07 Thread Tim Small
Package: ktimetracker Severity: normal Fixed with 4:4.3.4 in testing. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#564063: logcheck-database: heartbeat daily informational stats report

2010-01-07 Thread Tim Small
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.3.5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Everyday running heartbeat binaries spit out this sort of thing: info: Daily informational memory statistics info: MSG stats: 6/8455339 ms age 0 [pid3642/MST_CONTROL] info: cl_malloc stats: 581/277854388 116076/56902

Bug#566141: The existence of /etc/schroot/mount-defaults is undocumented in the manual pages.

2010-01-21 Thread Tim Small
Package: schroot Version: 1.2.3-1+b1 Severity: normal The existence of /etc/schroot/mount-defaults is undocumented in the manual pages for both schroot and schroot.conf Many users resort to manually maintaining bind mounts unnecessarily as a result! Tim. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#566239: iceweasel -ProfileManager now requires the manual addition of -no-remote

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.6-1 Severity: normal Unlike the Iceweasel in Lenny, the use of -ProfileManager now requires the additional use of '-no-remote' to maintain the previous behaviour... This was previously a debian custom fix ref bug #356250 -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#566295: initramfs-tools: Deviation from Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt WRT multiple net devs

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions attempts to follow the semantics described in Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt with respect to IP autoconfiguration, however a significant departure from the behaviour is

Bug#513903: mediawiki: Some mechanism or to point the Help pages to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:* would be handy.

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Small
Package: mediawiki Version: 1:1.12.0-2lenny1 Severity: wishlist There is currently no documentation for how to populate, or redirect the help pages (which are empty by default). I believe the way to redirect the links currently is to edit /usr/share/mediawiki/languages/messages/Messages*.php and

Bug#349830: courier-imap: Please fix prior to lenny release - RAMRUN=yes in /etc/default/rcS causes startup failure

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Small
Package: courier-imap Version: 4.4.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #349830 In Lenny, with RAMRUN=yes enabled in /etc/default/rcS, courier imapd and auth daemon fail to start (subdirectory creation is necessary). I would appreciate it if you could up this to important and fix, as I currently have to

Bug#514326: debian-policy: fhs-2.3 doesn't specify that /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile ref rcS(5)

2009-02-06 Thread Tim Small
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The requirements for /var/run and var/lock don't specify that the contents of these directories may be volatile (e.g. ramdisk based, as happens if you enable the RAMRUN option in /etc/default/rcS). Some packages assume that

Bug#541333: t38modem doesn't work with the standard Lenny kernel due to lack of BSD pty support

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Small
Package: t38modem Version: 0.8.4-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Err, t38modem doesn't appear to work at all on Lenny, as the default kernel config for Lenny has: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set According to http://t38modem.sourceforge.net/ Version 1.0.0 introduces

Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Small
Ola Lundqvist wrote: Yes other distributions has solved this problem by simply switching to other alternative vnc implementations. Just a bit more feedback on this - Redhat, and OpenSolaris, amongst others are switching from RealVNC to tigervnc, as RealVNC seem to have dropped their

Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Small
Julien Cristau wrote: I suppose it'd be nice to have the Xvnc server, and libvnc.so as part of upstream xorg, but I've no idea if that has even been considered by the parties involved! Isn't the vnc code under the gpl? Err, yes - good point it's GPLv2 - so that'd that one out of the

Bug#541601: zabbix-server-mysql: zabbix 1.4 to 1.6 upgrade fails to create Disabled user group

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Small
Package: zabbix-server-mysql Version: 1:1.6.5-1 Severity: normal Upon upgrading from zabbix-server-mysql to zabbix-server-mysql, the Disalbed user group is not created (unlike a clean install of the 1.6 packages). Workaround with: insert into usrgrp set usrgrpid='9', name='Disabled',

Bug#541715: linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64: Can't set io scheduling class from within a VE.

2009-08-15 Thread Tim Small
Package: linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64 Version: 2.6.26+17+lenny1 Severity: normal It is impossible to set the io scheduling class of a process from within a VE: eris:~# ionice -c 3 /bin/bash ioprio_set: Operation not permitted ... it should be possible to drop the priority of tasks with in a VE

Bug#502444: Question about the sshd bug

2009-02-10 Thread Tim Small
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, could it be that the problem occurs when two or more network interfaces come up simultaneously? The first causes sshd to restart and the second then sends a signal before the signal handler is installed. Does that sound reasonable The machine which was seeing

Bug#349830: courier-imap: Please fix prior to lenny release - RAMRUN=yes in /etc/default/rcS causes startup failure

2009-02-11 Thread Tim Small
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: I might be dense, but I don't get the point why the /var/run subdirectories aren't restored from the dpkg database information. Please also supply a pointer to the policy or a consensus reached on the developer's mailing list about this init script bloat.

Bug#514326: debian-policy: fhs-2.3 doesn't specify that /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile ref rcS(5)

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Small
Colin Watson wrote: Tim was referring to the text of the FHS, though (see the subject line), which I don't think we ought to modify in debian-policy for this. Yes, sorry about that, I hadn't appreciated that the FHS is independent of Debian.. Your proposed change to policy looks good. I

Bug#537987: postfix-gld: Logcheck cron output too chatty

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: postfix-gld Version: 1.7-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The postfix-gld cron job gives output like this: Cleaned 10 entries older than 90 days Cleaned 114 entries older than 7 days ... one possible fix would be to add a '-q' flag to the gld program to only create output during error

Bug#537987: Acknowledgement (postfix-gld: Logcheck cron output too chatty)

2009-07-23 Thread Tim Small
Grr. Sorry, original patch won't work. The new cron job should be: (/usr/sbin/gld -c 90 /usr/sbin/gld -k 7) | egrep -v 'Cleaned [[:digit:]]+ entries older than [[:digit:]]+ days' i.e. the two gld command grouped in a single sub-shell so that the egrep processes the output of both. Cheers,

Bug#535462: mylvmbackup: Supress logcheck noise resulting from ext3 journal recovery

2009-07-02 Thread Tim Small
Package: mylvmbackup Version: 0.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The attached logcheck fragment can be installed using dh_installlogcheck. On systems with logcheck installed, it causes kernel log messages related to ext3 journal replay to be ingored (rather than emailed to the system

Bug#535462: mylvmbackup: And now for a non-empty patch file...

2009-07-02 Thread Tim Small
Package: mylvmbackup Version: 0.11-1 Followup-For: Bug #535462 Original report contained an empty patch file. Oops. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)

Bug#535562: logcheck runs at normal I/O priority, and is hard-coded to nice -n10

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Small
Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.69 Severity: normal logcheck is a batchy job, but currently runs at normal I/O priority, and is hard-coded to run with a niceness of 10. As a result logcheck can degrade interactive performance on machines with a lot of log traffic, relatively slow CPU or expensive

Bug#581392: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: A couple of RAID4/RAID6 fixes from upstream.

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Small
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-21lenny4 Severity: normal Tags: patch -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-21lenny4) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 22:29:32 UTC 2010 Here are a

Bug#578352: mdadm: failed devices become spares!

2010-05-17 Thread Tim Small
Pierre Vignéras wrote: And the next question is: how to activate those 2 spare drives? I was expecting mdadm to use them automagically. If you want to experiment with different ways of getting the data back, but without risking writing anything to the drives, you could do this: 1. Use

Bug#580714: debian-installer: build installer image for Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Small
Hi, First of all, thanks for the work on this - it's been on my TODO list for about 2 years now :o( Ryan Tandy wrote: I thought I'd read that entire thread, but as you can see the form I used in the patch is from an older message that Tim quotes. My Linkstations work fine (on stock firmware

Bug#568922: mdadm: data-check of RAID array md0 results in soft lockup of CPU's

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Small
What happens if you disable NCQ? Seen similar crap on another system with WD drives, and I suspect a firmware bug. That system was OK with a queue depth of 2 or less. You can confirm this with hdparm -t, I think. This problem should really be assigned to the kernel I suppose, as all that mdadm

Bug#568922: mdadm: data-check of RAID array md0 results in soft lockup of CPU's

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Small
The speed looks fine from hdparm -t , so maybe it's not that. On my systems, the hdparm -t results increased by a factor of 3 when I: echo 2 /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth Do the drives look healthy based on the output of smartctl -a ? i.e. Raw values of pending sector , and reallocated

Bug#581001: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: Broadcom 5709 lockup with message-signalled-interrupts

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Small
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-21lenny4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, We've seen what I suspect was this problem under Lenny on one box. Fix is upstream, and also in RHEL5 now... http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3832 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0398.html

Bug#577923: cryptsetup is too chatty

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Small
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-7 Severity: normal Cryptsetup breaks normal unix conventions by being too chatty e.g. this command: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc Hitachi_500G_number_2a --key-file - ... outputs: Command successful. to standard error. STDERR is conventionally used for

Bug#576209: corosync_overview manual page in incorrect section (8)

2010-04-01 Thread Tim Small
Package: corosync Version: 1.2.0-3~bpo50+1 Severity: minor This package includes a corosync_overview manual page in manual section 8, which is for system administration commands. Section 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions) is probably a better fit. -- System

Bug#576511: drbd8-utils: Ships with violent default actions for various drbd fault conditions - may cause dataloss.

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Small
Package: drbd8-utils Version: 2:8.3.7-1 Severity: normal /etc/drbd.d/global_common.conf ships with the following lines enabled: handlers { pri-on-incon-degr /usr/lib/drbd/notify-pri-on-incon-degr.sh; /usr/lib/drbd/notify-emergency-reboot.sh; echo b /proc/sysrq-trigger ; reboot -f;

Bug#576545: cluster-agents: ManageVE OCF script fails to stop in some circumstances.

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Small
Package: cluster-agents Version: 1:1.0.2+hg1712-1~bpo50+1 Severity: normal Tags: patch ManageVE does not force a stop. Patch attached (note - hard-coded VZ location would break on other distros where openvz is in non-lsb location). Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#576545: cluster-agents: ManageVE OCF script fails to stop in some circumstances.

2010-04-05 Thread Tim Small
Sorry, had manually installed the new cluster-agents package which has been split-out from heartbeat 3, and I'd guess will be in Debian soon... Cheers, Tim. Martin Michlmayr wrote: reassign 576545 heartbeat thanks * Tim Small t...@seoss.co.uk [2010-04-05 16:00]: Package: cluster

Bug#574363: bridge-utils: brctl setportprio may fail silently

2010-03-17 Thread Tim Small
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.4-5 Severity: normal Using values which the kernel deems to be invalid with brctl setportprio does not result in the user being informed of the error. e.g. end of the output of: strace brctl setportprio br0 eth0 126 is as follows:

Bug#562431: on x86_64, boinc-client should recommend or possibly suggest ia32-libs

2009-12-24 Thread Tim Small
Package: boinc-client Version: 6.10.17+dfsg-1 Severity: normal It is not documented that boinc-client will be able to run applications from projects which only support the i686-pc-linux-gnu platform, on Debian amd64 systems, so long as the ia32-libs package is installed. ia32-libs should

Bug#524168: cryptsetup: Swap on dm-crypt on top of software RAID results in a sw RAID resync on every boot.

2009-04-15 Thread Tim Small
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-7 Severity: normal Using the documented method for a throw-away encrypted swap partition, results in a software RAID resync on every reboot. I assume that the swap partition is not being correctly stopped during shutdown i.e. this isn't happening: 1. swapoff

Bug#524173: cryptsetup: cryptdisk_start target doesn't return a sensible exit code on failure.

2009-04-15 Thread Tim Small
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-7 Severity: normal Running cryptdisks_start target doesn't return a sensible exit code (always returns zero), if the operation fails: ermintrude:~# cryptdisks_start cryptvz1 echo 'exit code says OK!' Starting crypto disk...mount: special device

Bug#604469: linux-image-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64: openvz - deadlock during RAID rebuild with container backing store on LVM+snapshot

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-25lenny1 Severity: normal On Lenny, I have observed the following behaviour: An I/O deadlock occurs under the following conditions: . OpenVZ container data stored on an LVM for which the PV is an md RAID1 . RAID1 md undergoing a rebuild

Bug#603903: Documentation for modules=list in initramfs.conf is unclear

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Small
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.98.5 Severity: normal How's this? --- initramfs.conf.5.orig 2010-11-18 10:08:00.093469868 + +++ initramfs.conf.52010-11-22 16:47:45.692926195 + @@ -22,16 +22,24 @@ .TP \fB MODULES Specifies the modules for the initramfs image. -The default

Bug#574897: new upstream version 9.28 available

2010-11-24 Thread Tim Small
Package: hdparm Version: 9.27-2.1 Severity: normal I was wondering if this is likely to make it into squeeze? Another couple of potentially nasty bugs in 9.27, in case these are useful for extra encouragement.. security-erase fails on most drives 750GB as a 2-hour timeout is hard-coded - this

Bug#594326: arno-iptables-firewall leaves Debian hosts open on ipv6 without warning the user

2010-08-25 Thread Tim Small
Package: arno-iptables-firewall Version: 1.9.2.k-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream ipv6 Although the version of arno-iptables-firewall contains preliminary ipv6 support, it is turned off by default, and it doesn't appear thta it can be enabled at the same time as ipv4 support is enabled. Running

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