update on release-critical bugs report
After a hint from Ben Collins that xggi wasn't features in the list of release critical bugs I checked the code and found a nasty little bug: there was a slight error in the way the list of sources was read, and as a result sources were not listed in the report. This has been fixed now, and as a result the number of release critical bugs has grown by about 30.. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | pgpJdSpmyu6Dq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Need help with OpenSSH X authorization
severity 59862 normal
thanks
To the Release Manager:
This is an RC bug I cannot reproduce, it seems rare
and probably relates to differences in local configuration
or something like that. I'm not very enthusiastic about
getting this fixed for potato (and Branden seems all out of
clues too); it does not seem (to me) that horrible to let
this one slip by. If you disagree, just say no.
To the submitter (developers, please read on):
This bug report contains mixed output from AIX ssh,
OpenSSH, etc. It also involves one buggy X version.
Could you please do the following:
-ensure you have upgraded to X 3.3.6-5, OpenSSH 1.2.2-1.4
-log in locally, via xdm
-show the output of:
printenv DISPLAY
printenv XAUTHORITY
xauth list
xauth list $DISPLAY
ltrace -s100 -S xset s on
ssh -v localhost
printenv DISPLAY
printenv XAUTHORITY
xauth list
xauth list $DISPLAY
ltrace -s100 -S xset s on
If you also see errors like
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 105
Error: Can't open display: ...:10.0
but with no ssh debug lines like
debug: Received X11 open request
debug: channel 0: new [X11 connection from ... port ...]
then it seems like the sshd is not creating a X11
sockets; in that case show output of
ltrace -s100 -S sshd -d -p
# change xterm/console
ssh -v localhost -p
printenv DISPLAY
xset s on
And please make sure there are no passwords in the
ltrace outputs.
I am pessimistic about finding this bug in time for the
freeze. I'm lowering the severity to normal; if someone
else can reproduce this bug, then I will upgrade it back
to release-critical.
To the developers:
Branden and I banged our heads together on this. No go.
If you can help, _PLEASE_ do. This used to be RC; I just
downgraded it.
Here's the current idea:
1) ssh grabs the first line of xauth list $DISPLAY
2) stores the proto and data
3) generates random fake data, same proto
4) sends proto+fake data to remote
5) remote sets up a remote:10 socket, /tmp/Xauth, with proto+fake data
6) any X requests coming in with proto+fake data get translated to
proto+real data
Some part of this seems to fail. If you read the bug report,
you will see that earlier it failed in stage 6, due to X -4
being buggy. But that does not explain the current weirdness,
now it does not seem to get all the way to item 5. The
Can't connect and no errors from ssh seems to indicate that
sshd did not create the socket at all -- this is why I requested
sshd -d and traces, to see the socket creation.
xdm started using XDM-AUTH-1 recently. It may be involved in
this, though it still creates a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, too -- and
it should accept it, too.
Please help; try to reproduce if nothing else.
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000
Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. [Note: this need not be a permanent drop, but a temporary measure to get potato out the door. Navigator/Communicator are non-free, the installer packages are contrib. Just my 0.2c Andy
Bug Reports and Upstream Authors
In the course of my job as bugmaster of the BTS, I got this response. (The gentleman was trying to respond to bugs by sending [EMAIL PROTECTED] the comments). I'm not sure what packages he's refering to or who the maintainers are but if one upstream author feels this way...??? The key that I'd like to point out to the rest of the project is or do I see a regular practice of forwarding those reports upstream... - Forwarded message from T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 100 16:41:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Darren O. Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mar 17, 0 01:06:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] You sent me a whole stack of email comments about filed bugs.. that has nothing to do with the system itself... the comment about the system was in reply to your comment that the email comments were not appropriate. (but the web interface really does lack a way to respond; I happen to be the upstream maintainer for those programs, and the interface doesn't provide me a way to respond other than by saving the text to a file, cutting pasting the address - nor do I see a regular practice of forwarding those reports upstream...). -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey - End forwarded message - -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian TeamLinux Infrastructure Engineer * pgpBs1CJaniuV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Ben Collins wrote: That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract, which unpacks the tarball itself. Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it down. For the record, I did a clean install yesterday with the standard boot floppies and experienced the same problem during dselect's installation of all the standard packages. I hit enter and saw that on the second go around man-db unpacked just fine. I don't have a spare machine lying around and don't feel like hosing my man install so I can't go back and reproduce it. Any clean install would have the problem though, I guess. (BTW, at what point should we trim To: and Cc:? If I had sent this to just the bug database and debian-devel would that have been enough to have it propogate to the right people?) -- Brian Kimball
Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. [Note: this need not be a permanent drop, but a temporary measure to get potato out the door. Navigator/Communicator are non-free, the installer packages are contrib. No, that would suck. Keep 4.7 at least. It's buggy but we're used to it. Unless they're Debian packaging issues I don't think they can be release critical. Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:48:30PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are supposed to be forwarded upstream (with a patch if one is available). That is part of the Debian philosophy. I estimate that I get notified of less than 5% of the bugs. IIRC, Thomas Dickey is ncurses upstream maintainer... frankly, it has been practically orphaned for a long time, due to Galen Hazelwood's apparent AWOLness. And recently Espy offered it for adoption, again... that package really seems to be a `wild beast'. Anyway, wading through old bugs is a boring, difficult and overall completely uninteresting task. But it has to be done. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. Yuck. MozM14 still has a host of bugs that make it worse than Navigator. Bugs on the level of converting OPENTAG to within TEXTAREA blocks. It's not IMHO an acceptable browser for anything involving FORM elements. -- Bob Galloway You're always hearing something Until silence interrupts it Like dinosaur burps -- Sifl
Re: Less interactive upgrades.
On 16-Mar-00, 21:33 (CST), Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is released. Oh, absolutely. However, Wichert wrote woody+2, which seemed excessive (at current rate of release, that's about 2003.) -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
Uninstallable Task Packages
Hello, I reported the same problem in some different context allready, but since there was no answer, here it is again: After a fresh install of a potato system with boot-floppies 2.2.8 (i386) and no packages installed, besides those in the base-system, it is unpossible to install certain task-packages. For example, trying to install task-gnome-desktop will yield the following result: apt-get install task-gnome-desktop Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-gnome-desktop: Depends: gmc but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-faq but it is not going to be installed On the other hand, the following command works fine: apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gnome-faq gmc So, the package is (theoreticly) installable. This is the reason, why I feel unsure here, against which package I should file a bug with this problem: apt or the task-package Greetings, Peter -- Peter Ganten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]
Here is one more response that I got from the gentleman - Forwarded message from T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: T.E.Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 100 17:39:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Darren O. Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mar 17, 0 01:46:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] and the interface doesn't provide me a way to respond other than by saving the text to a file, cutting pasting the address - nor do I see a regular practice of forwarding those reports upstream...). No, not from the web page. The BTS is primarily an email system. I'm working on making it more CGI accessable.. and then I might be able to do something like providing an email address that links to the bug (it's the bug [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I actually liked the idea (honestly). I was put off by your tone..=20 I'm rather irritable on Fridays, but I bark more than bite. Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are supposed to be forwarded upstream (with a patch if one is available). That is part of the Debian philosophy. I estimate that I get notified of less than 5% of the bugs. The web interface is useful, but awkward. (I've been following it for a year or so - don't recall when someone first pointed me to it - but most of the bugs on the list haven't been mentioned to me until I asked the maintainer about it). -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey - End forwarded message - -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian TeamLinux Infrastructure Engineer * pgp7mP4wsCoCU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages
Josip == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josip I noticed that [EMAIL PROTECTED] bot processes the messages you Josip send to id silently, then processes it again, but this time Josip mailing the report to you. I have noticed something similar myself, ie I try to reopen a bug report, but get a response back saying it was already opened. This could also be somebody else, too, I guess, but I was doubtful at the time. This happened when I accidently closed the wrong bug report. More often (several times now), I have had [EMAIL PROTECTED] process (and reply) to my bug reports two times, the first time works, the next time complains saying the task was already done. This is when I mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and possibly the bug submitter (no one else). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt-Problem
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libtool 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. Need to get 177kB of archives. After unpacking 681kB will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de potato/main libtool 1.3.3-9 [177kB] Failed to fetch http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? Jason This means your mirror is broken, try another site. Not if it works when manually installing the same deb file with dpkg... (sorry, my news feed is still catching up after being down for some time, so this may have already been addressed). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt-Problem
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: libtool 1.3.3-9 [177kB] Failed to fetch http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? Jason This means your mirror is broken, try another site. Not if it works when manually installing the same deb file with dpkg... Maybe in the time you downloaded the new file your mirror fixed itself. That error means the .deb it fetched was too small, ie still being downloaded. Jason
Re: Need help with OpenSSH X authorization
MoiN On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:08:34PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 105 Error: Can't open display: ...:10.0 Did you look at /usr/incluse/asm/errno.h for the error codes? errno = 105 does look like some weird memory problems. The other errno mentioned in the bugreport (113) seems to be some misconfigured network - you should have a look at /etc/hosts. I have looked at the bugreport and I dont know if ssh is to blame for this. The submitter also sould try to start X clients on the shell server without tunnelling then through ssh first. He should't use xhost + but instead something like: xauth nextract - $DISPLAY | ssh remotehost xauth nmerge - \ export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; xterm Be sure that DISPLAY is set to the fqdn of the XServer host. Ingo -- Windows, me?
Re: Apt-Problem
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Maybe in the time you downloaded the new file your mirror Jason fixed itself. That error means the .deb it fetched was too Jason small, ie still being downloaded. I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339 and 60399 for a similar problem with man-db. This was posted as another thread on debian-devel. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco Ben wrote: [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at this?] Unpacking replacement man-db ... dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Building manual page index in background. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ben This looks like a system problem. Looks like gzip is getting Ben killed (the Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running? 2.2.14 -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same bug on this list the morning after i noticed it. ben, any way we could get dpkg-deb to print the signal that killed it's child? Ben try running: Ben dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir Ben If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the Ben start of that line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file. oops, sorry, sent that last message too soon, it might have been 2.2.13. The 2.2.14 system worked. I don't have access to the broken system again until next Monday. I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. I think it is worth noting though that dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile worked, although I didn't check if the output was valid. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:41:11AM -0800, brian moore wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:52PM -0800, Bill Jennings wrote: Previously Scott Jennings wrote: I've written an M4 file for sendmail 8.9.3, and packaged it up as a debian package. Configuration on a per-user basis is the main purpose of this hack. On our network, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be able to get mail from all sites [ . . . ] (e.g. best.com). Yep, we run something very much like the above here. Users can customize their settings (with an additional hack of my own doing for my own person list) with a handy CGI. I would very much like to see the above in Debian. OK, Now I've really done it. This is now three M4 files. Two feature hacks and a common. The new feature adds four new test options in addition to :RBL:DUL:RSS:ORBS: and they are :XRBL:XDUL:XRSS:XORBS: If an entry uses :RBL: mail from Black-Holed sites will bounce transient. If an entry uses :XRBL: it will be delivered, with an X-Spam: header, including an explanation/notice and the URL to the page for that IP, showing the evidence spam etc. I'll build the new package now. Getting sendmail to insert conditional headers is a real bear. -smj
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually Ben extract, which unpacks the tarball itself. Ben Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to Ben track it down. It is easy for me to reproduce - simply downgrade to man-db .13, and use apt-get upgrade to upgrade to version .14 again -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt-Problem
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339 and 60399 for a similar problem with man-db. This was posted as another thread on debian-devel. This looks like something entirely different Jason
Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:42:12AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: IIRC, Thomas Dickey is ncurses upstream maintainer... frankly, it has been practically orphaned for a long time, due to Galen Hazelwood's apparent AWOLness. And recently Espy offered it for adoption, again... that package really seems to be a `wild beast'. Tom Dickey is also the upstream xterm maintainer. He and I have exchanged mails several times over the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bob Church roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpasB6DlY6ul.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:12:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. I doubt it, because i installed on a machine ... and i booted from 2.3.49 to do the final parts of the install, and man-db failed in the same way.. along with some other program, a text mail program, but i forget which. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Erik Bernhardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain pgpLUZvckeN6m.pgp Description: PGP signature
ITP: texguy
Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy TeX-Guy is a set of DVI file controlling programs for X-Window and printers This package contains: xgdvi --- A simple DVI previewer with GTK+ (the GIMP Toolkit) on X Window System version 11 release 6. spwg --- A very simple previewer. spawg --- A simple previiewer but supports anti-aliasing display. spwx11--- 'spwx11' stands for 'the Simplest Previewer in the World for X11' (without anti-aliasing). spx11 --- a simple previewer (without anti-aliasing). spawx11 --- 'spawx11' stands for 'the Simplest Previewer with Antialiasing in the World for X11'. dvi2misc --- A program that generates miscellaneous format file from a DVI file. Previously, this program was called dvi2bdps. It supports the following output formats: * PostScript (in bitmap image form) * PGM image file * EPSON ESC/Page printers * RICOH RPDL printers (e.g., NX110, NX700, etc.) dvi2escpage --- A printer driver for EPSON ESC/Page printers. It supports 300dpi and 600dpi modes. (This may not work for EPSON LP-7000 and LP-7000G.) dvifontlist --- A program to display a list of fonts used in a DVI file. dvispecials --- A program to display `special' DVI instructions (e.g., EPS file) in a DVI file. Copyright: GPL
Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem
At 10:57 +1100 2000-03-12, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Also, libc6 tries to restart some NSS-using services, but never seems to succeed in restarting sshd. I end up with it refusing connections, although sshd still appears to be running (the original process and not a new one). I guess that means that ssh has a buggy init script then, because I merely call it with an argument of restart. I've also heard that some versions of ssh have an init script that kills all sshd processes on the system, so maybe I should not do it at all. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://web.espy.org/ URL:http://www.debian.org/
Re: xfs question
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:27:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I think the answer is in the FAQ: Oops. I didn't know there is a FAQ. zgrep -i unix /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like Like the Unix filesystem, windows in X are laid out like a tree with a FontPath unix/:7100 I see. Thanks. I tried unix/localhost:7100 and that doesn't work. I sometimes wonder why I bother maintaining that FAQ. Sorry. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
Re: ssh master
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:10:20AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: No, just from you.. Mar 17 00:57:44 master named[1815]: bad referral (de.colt.net ! host.DE.COLT.net) Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(h-62.96.162.190.host.de.colt.net) failed Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: refused connect from 62.96.162.190 Argh! It's that damn provider again. I use two different ones and this one has had name service problems before. Thanks. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
Re: mod_perl unhappy with libxml-parser-perl
Hi! Is there any way I can help you (as maintainer of libxml-parser-perl)? Thanks, Ardo Robert Coie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed a conflict between the versions of Expat in apache-perl 1.3.9.10-1.21-6 and libxml-parser-perl 2.27-6 that causes memory corruption. I assume that the DSO apache-1.3.9/libapache-mod-perl 1.21 in potato is similarly affected, as I first started getting segfaults when running under that version. The problem arises because the expat-lite version of the expat library is compiled into apache without defining XML_DTD. The libExpat.so in libxml-parser-perl is compiled with XML_DTD defined, which, among other things, changes the size and composition of various data structures. If an object is allocated by the expat-lite code, accesses to it from the libxml-parser-perl code can clobber memory. I can think of several ways to solve the problem: (1) Delete the expat-lite directory from the Apache build tree, or disable it somehow. Pro: simple. Con: perhaps somebody needs it. (2) Make the expat-lite version compile with XML_DTD defined also, so it is compatible with the libxml-parser-perl version. Pro: saves expat-lite in Apache. Con: fragile; perhaps there are other incompatibilities, even some insoluble ones due to Apache forking Expat. (3) Use preprocessor hackery to rename the symbols in the expat-lite version, so there is no possibility of code mixing and matching. Pro: Solves the Cons of the first two options. Con: more difficult to do, introduces what could be viewed as a gratuitous incompatibility with the mainstream Apache distribution. -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://home.flevonet.nl/~avrangel PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9
Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation
Previously Ben Collins wrote: try running: dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir You are aware that that uses a completely different codepath to extract the package, right? Wichert -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | pgpUaXpgnGhGW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Single architecture on -announce lists
During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, these lists would be split by architecture, and anyone interested in more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as required. I am sure that the overwhelming majority would subscribe to only one list. What happened to this idea? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote: As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, these lists would be split by architecture, and anyone interested in more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as required. I am sure that the overwhelming majority would subscribe to only one list. AOL! Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail server) and are forwarded this way to my usual mail account, dropping the rest (IMHO the major part) into the bit bucket. What happened to this idea? I guess nobody volunteered to split the lists and actually do it. Cheers, P. *8^) -- - Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany --- http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig -
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. Funny, I don't notice any such messages going to -devel-announce or -announce. -- G. Branden Robinson|Murphy's Guide to Science: Debian GNU/Linux |If it's green or squirms, it's biology. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it stinks, it's chemistry. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |If it doesn't work, it's physics. pgpiozaCIFw9O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. Funny, I don't notice any such messages going to -devel-announce or -announce. It might be he wants to talk about -changes ? There he's right (and I do totally agree with him). cu, Adrian -- A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi
Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000
Just some notes to avoid duplication of effort. Package: freewnn (debian/main) Maintainer: Keita Maehara [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59450 freewnn: fails to build, tries to chown a bin to a non-existant user Already NMU'd Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc Already NMU'd Package: rscheme (debian/main) Maintainer: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] [REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed. 53734 rscheme: build fails if there is no info about the packages Will NMU. Package: scalapack (debian/main) Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55272 scalapack: can't build from source 58386 scalapack_1.6-12(frozen): build error (undefined symbols) 60530 scalapack: fails to build on sparc Getting ready to debug these problems, will NMU if succesful. Package: vnc (debian/main) Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60529 vnc: fails to build because of old imake config files 60532 vnc: missing symbols when linking on sparc Already NMU'd Package: xggi (debian/main) Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55911 xggi: outdated imake config files Will NMU shortly. Package: xview (debian/main) Maintainer: Martin Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60536 xview: compile expects sparc to be sunos Will NMU shortly. --Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail server) and are forwarded this way to my usual mail account, dropping the rest (IMHO the major part) into the bit bucket. Could you possibly post/email me your procmail recipes to do this? -- Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. -- Mae West
Re: aptitude
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed It's in ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail server) and are forwarded this way to my usual mail account, dropping the rest (IMHO the major part) into the bit bucket. Could you possibly post/email me your procmail recipes to do this? Please post then - I want'em to! Thx, Andy -- Andreas Rottmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Pfeilgasse 4-6/725, A-1080 Wien, Austria, Europe http://www.altern.org/arot/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop
Thanks to all who replied about this. The problem was solved by reducing the dot clock from 75.0 to 65.0. This gave a much better picture than I used to have before I upgraded xserver-svga. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal; For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21
Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000
On Mar 18, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: mkhybrid (debian/main) Maintainer: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60119 mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's Just uploaded with this patch; it's now in Incoming. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence|Get Debian GNU/Linux CDROMs| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/ | | | | |Grad Student, Pol. Sci.|Join the party that opposed the CDA| | University of Mississippi | http://www.lp.org/| =
Re: aptitude
Robert Ramiega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( it's in dpkg-dev. -- (jacob kuntz)[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (megabite systems) think free speech, not free beer.
Re: aptitude
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed It's in ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( dpkg.h is in the dpkg source, I think. Ian doesn't want to export the functionnalities of dpkg into a librarie since he couldn't change the interface then. -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source -- Fabien NinolesChevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage:http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70
Re: aptitude
Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed It's in ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( dpkg.h is in the dpkg source, I think. Ian doesn't want to export the functionnalities of dpkg into a librarie since he couldn't change the interface then. my mistake! sorry for the confusion. -- (jacob kuntz)[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (megabite systems) think free speech, not free beer.
Re: Single architecture on -announce lists
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. =20 Funny, I don't notice any such messages going to -devel-announce or -announce. --=20 G. Branden Robinson|Murphy's Guide to Science: Dh!! s/announce/changes/ Soory about that. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: ITP: texguy
From: Ryuichi Arafune [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ITP: texguy Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:17:30 +0900 Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy It seems TeX-Guy is already packaged or ITP'ed by Masayuki Hatta and sponsored by Keita Maehara. From: Masayuki Hatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ITP: vflib3 and tex-guy Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:34:52 +0900 I'd like to contribute my vflib3 and tex-guy packages to Debian. They have been provided in Debian JP archive until now. (snip) Keita Maehara [EMAIL PROTECTED] is kind enough to upload these stuff as a sponsor. Thanks! Regards,2000.3.19 -- Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
Re: priority of x-window-manager
Seconded, heartily. Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To sum up, what I'm saying is this: I think a Debian window manager policy should say that window managers should be given higher priority if they DON'T mangle localized information that they are intended to pass along to the user. And that is what I understand internationalization of computer software to mean -- it makes localization transparent and possible. -- Taketoshi Sano: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
