[Bug 988925] Re: util-linux no longer provides ddate

2012-04-27 Thread John Pearson
Is there a reason for this omission?

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Re: [Bug 602945] Re: apt-cdrom fails due to inconsistent choice of mount points

2010-08-02 Thread John Pearson
Hi,

I'm now unable to reproduce this bug: on a fresh media-less 10.04
install apt-get can now install packages from my CDR, using '/cdrom' as
its mount point.  Perhaps, something in 10.04.1 had a positive effect on
the issue.

So from my personal point of view, I think you can close this bug as
unreproducible.


Thanks,


John Pearson

On 31/07/10 18:01, Michael Vogt wrote:
 Thanks for your bugreport.

 The path should be autodetect via udev. Could you please run:
 $ sudo apt-get install -o Debug::Acquire::cdrom=true some-package-from-the-cd
 and attach the output here?

   


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[Bug 602945] [NEW] apt-cdrom fails due to inconsistent choice of mount points

2010-07-07 Thread John Pearson
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: apt

I did a network (medialess) install of Ubuintu 10.04LTS on a new PC,
then added a CDROM source using apt-cdrom add.

It recongized my media and added appropriate lines to sources.list anmd
so on, but installing packages from the CDROM at the console command
line fails with file not found messages.

On this system (presumably, because it's a medialess install) there is
no entry for the cdrom in /etc/fstab.

It looks like what happens is that apt-get, etc., mount the CDROM at
/media/apt, but when lookng for packages it's searching under /cdrom,
whgich does not exist.

Creating a symbolic link to /media/apt at /cdrom allows things to work,
but should not be necessary.  Apt-cdrom should use the same mountpoint
for accessing files on the CDROM as it used to mount the medium.

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 224642] Re: desktop launcher properties window disappears

2009-03-23 Thread John Pearson
Hi Andy.

The patched 2.6.24 kernel you provided resolves the issue on hardy for
me, and hasn't caused any other problems so far.  Will this make its way
into 8.04 as an update?

Thanks,

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[Bug 224642] Re: desktop launcher properties window disappears

2009-03-22 Thread John Pearson
Hi there,

Any chance of test kernels with the fix for 8.04?  I'm keen to
test/verify the fix, but we're currently working with Hardy (LTS), not
Jaunty.

Thanks,


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[Bug 224642] Re: desktop launcher properties window crashes

2009-03-15 Thread John Pearson
Hi,  This bug was closed as invalid because no GDB stack trace had been
provided for the crash; but there is no crash per se, so a stack trace
is not really appropriate.

Further investigation reveals that everything works fine with user-space
NFS but not with the kernel-based NFS server, which suggests it's a
locking issue of some kind (as unfs3 does not support locking).

Please let me know if there's anything you need which we can actually
provide.

John Pearson.


** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
   Status: Invalid = Incomplete

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[Bug 201777] Re: Not working routes with TAP device

2008-12-02 Thread John Pearson
Hi Daniel,

Not having used vpnc I may be wrong, but my understanding is that vpnc
is a client for Cisco IPSec VPNs, and doesn't interoperate with OpenVPN
(an independently developed VPN which doesn't use IPSec, and provides
for SSL authentication), so it doesn't really represent a workaround.


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[Bug 212739] Re: regression: desktop launcher with empty TryExec line does not work anymore

2008-07-24 Thread John Pearson
I see this is fixed in Intrepid; what's the plan for fixing this in
Hardy?  That's a (relatively new) LTS release and we're evaluating it as
an upgrade from 6.06, but if this isn't resolved it would require hand-
editing all desktop launchers in each user's profile, which would be a
hard sell.


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[Bug 224642] Re: desktop launcher properties window crashes

2008-07-24 Thread John Pearson
Here's a me too.

/home is NFSv3 mounted and there's nothing obviously wrong with the
Launcher, but the Properties dialog closes after selecting the
Launcher tab.  No sign of distress or any actual crash, it just
closes.

Happens on Hardy 8.04 with both old (6.06) and newly-created launchers.


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[Bug 251340] [NEW] Firefox ignores URLs on command line

2008-07-23 Thread John Pearson
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

Recently upgraded Firefox to 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614d-0ubuntu1
from dapper-security and it now ignores URLs given on the command line,
meaning that clicking on links in email, and desktop launchers,
display the Firefox start page rather than the intended page.

The Firefox wrapper script appears to do the right thing - ps shows a command 
like
  /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox http://example.com/
but Firefox loads its start page and the location bar is empty.

I tried launching firefox-bin directly just to confirm, and the
behaviour is the same.

Thanks,


John Pearson.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 201777] Re: Not working routes with TAP device

2008-07-10 Thread John Pearson
I can confirm this behaviour; I'm a Debian user but have used the Ubuntu
source to build network-manager-openvpn.

I'm using OpenVPN with a tap interface to create a bridged
configuration; everything works fine when stopping and restarting
OpenVPN by hand, but the network-manager plugin treats the TAP device
like a point-to-point interface, and ignores options pushed by the
server that are designed to set up the appropriate routes.

My server config for this client includes the options
  ifconfig-push rose 255.255.255.0
  push redirect-gateway def1
('rose' resolves to the intended IP, 192.168.113.224)

Here's the routing table I get:
  # route -n
  Kernel IP routing table
  Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
  203.122.249.19  192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH   0  00 wlan1
  192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 wlan1
  192.168.254.0   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 br1
  0.0.0.00.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0  00 tap1

But this is what it should be:
  # route -n
  Kernel IP routing table
  Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
  203.122.249.19  192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH   0  00 wlan1
  192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 wlan1
  192.168.254.0   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 br1
  192.168.113.00.0.0.0255.255.255.0  U 0  0  0  tap1
  0.0.0.0192.168.113.106  128.0.0.0 UG  0  0  0  tap1
  128.0.0.0 192.168.113.106  128.0.0.0  UG  0  0  0  tap1

In my syslog, I see
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose nm-openvpn[14790]: TUN/TAP device tap1 opened
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose nm-openvpn[14790]: ifconfig tap1 192.168.113.224 netmask 
255.255.255.0 mtu 1500 broadcast 192.168.113.255
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose avahi-daemon[9140]: New relevant interface tap1.IPv4 for 
mDNS.
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose avahi-daemon[9140]: Joining mDNS multicast group on 
interface tap1.IPv4 with address 192.168.113.224.
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose avahi-daemon[9140]: Registering new address record for 
192.168.113.224 on tap1.
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose nm-openvpn[14790]: 
/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper tap1 1500 
1576 192.168.113.224 255.255.255.0 init
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose NetworkManager: information^IVPN Activation (Huiac) 
Stage 4 of 4 (IP Config Get) reply received.
  Jul 11 14:03:43 rose nm-openvpn[14790]: ERROR: Linux route add command 
failed: shell command exited with error status: 7

Note that I only see one error, although the directives specified by the
server should result in 3 routes being added (rather than the 1 bogus
Point-to-pint style default route which I end up with).

This appears to be an upstream bug and there appear to be several
duplicates in launchpad, but there doesn't appear to have been any
movement on it; I'd be very interested to see it addressed, because it's
one of the principal roadblocks which currently prevent us from
recommending or offering Ubuntu to our corporate clients for deployment
on laptops - they currently use Windows XP with direct OpenVPN support
(i.e., just running the OpenVPN service with X.509 certificates managed
by the MS Certificate Store), which just works in this configuration.


John.

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[Bug 67897] CUPS drops jobs, reprints 'old' jobs with wrong options after a restart

2006-10-23 Thread John Pearson
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: cupsys

We maintain a legacy application which runs under dosemu on Ubuntu
workstations and prints 'raw' jobs using 'lpr -l' as $_printer_command
in dosemu.conf, using a Deban Sarge cups server as destination.

Printing is raw because the legacy app includes printer commands that
look like PCL, but break hpgltops.

From time to time, when cupsys is restarted an 'old' job, previously
transferred to the server, is 're-printed', but not as a raw job: it is
passed to hpgltops, which loops forever and redlines the CPU.

In cupsd.conf, PreserveJobFiles is left at its default, stated as 'no'.

Sample /etc/cups/error.log lines, from when the job was originally spooled (the 
'problem job' is job #11682 in this case):
I [23/Oct/2006:05:41:28 +0930] Adding start banner page none to job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:41:28 +0930] Adding end banner page none to job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:41:28 +0930] Job 11682 queued on 'main_laser' by 'va-kyle'.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:41:28 +0930] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp (PID 
26126) for job 11682.
N [23/Oct/2006:05:41:28 +0930] [Job 11682] : Print file accepted - job ID 
142489.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:41 +0930] Adding start banner page none to job 11683.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:41 +0930] Adding end banner page none to job 11683.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:41 +0930] Job 11683 queued on 'main_laser' by 'va-kyle'.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:57 +0930] Adding start banner page none to job 11684.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:57 +0930] Adding end banner page none to job 11684.
I [23/Oct/2006:05:42:57 +0930] Job 11684 queued on 'main_laser' by 'va-kyle'.
I [23/Oct/2006:06:04:34 +0930] Adding start banner page none to job 11685.
I [23/Oct/2006:06:04:34 +0930] Adding end banner page none to job 11685.
I [23/Oct/2006:06:04:34 +0930] Job 11685 queued on 'main_line_4' by 'va-kyle'.
I [23/Oct/2006:06:04:34 +0930] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp (PID 
27093) for job 11685.
N [23/Oct/2006:06:04:34 +0930] [Job 11685] : Print file accepted - job ID 142493

Note also that there is no indication of the disposition of the two
subsequent jobs, which makes me suspect a (slow?) race of some kind;
grepping the log files confirms that they 'vanish without trace': they
are no longer in the queue or the spool area, and server log files
suggest that they were not, in fact, printed.

And when CUPS is next restarted:
I [23/Oct/2006:07:40:02 +0930] Full reload complete.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:40:02 +0930] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpgltops 
(PID 31667) for job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:40:02 +0930] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 
31668) for job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:40:02 +0930] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
(PID 31669) for job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:40:02 +0930] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp (PID 
31670) for job 11682.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:41:41 +0930] Adding start banner page none to job 11704.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:41:41 +0930] Adding end banner page none to job 11704.
I [23/Oct/2006:07:41:41 +0930] Job 11704 queued on 'main_line_4' by 'va-kyle'.

Hpgltops consumes all available CPU and never exits, effectively
blocking the print queue; while this is also a bug, we're not too fussed
about that angle, as the job is arguably not 'well formed'; however,
having a critical component of the print system this vulnerable is
obviously undesirable.

Regards,


John.

** Affects: cupsys (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: Unconfirmed

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[Bug 67897] Re: CUPS drops jobs, reprints 'old' jobs with wrong options after a restart

2006-10-23 Thread John Pearson
Sorry, should have mentioned; this is in Ubnutu 5.10, with cupsys
1.1.23-10ubuntu4


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