[Bug 1945748] [NEW] Recent apache2 upgrade has exposed an error in mailman3 Apache config

2021-10-01 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

Details are in the Mailman mailing list here:

https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-
us...@mailman3.org/thread/JSLTGUQDWRGQTOZWUKIOSDJLJSDYMSUC/

But since the Apache2 security fix of 28th September 2021, Mailman3's
web interface produces a lot of 404 errors.  The fix is to remove the
trailing / from the ProxyPass rule, so:

ProxyPass /mailman3 unix:/run/mailman3-web/uwsgi.sock|uwsgi://localhost/

becomes

ProxyPass /mailman3 unix:/run/mailman3-web/uwsgi.sock|uwsgi://localhost

I confess I don't know why this fixes it, but it does.  I also tried
that config with the old version of apache2 from before the security
fix, and it still works, so I don't think it introduces a regression.

Regards,

Tim

** Affects: mailman3 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 1945710] Re: mailman3 has broken since apache2 security upgrade

2021-09-30 Thread Tim Cutts
Ah, it looks like this is actually a bug in mailman3 after all - but the
change in apache2 has exposed it.

I'll file a bug report there.

Thread here:

https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-
us...@mailman3.org/thread/JSLTGUQDWRGQTOZWUKIOSDJLJSDYMSUC/

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[Bug 1945710] [NEW] mailman3 has broken since apache2 security upgrade

2021-09-30 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

Ever since 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.5 on the 28th September, Mailman3 has broken.
No changes have happened in that package, or my configuration, but it
broke after the apache package installation, and the recent regression
package 4ubuntu3.6 has not restored it.

If I downgrade apache2 binary packages back down to 2.4.41-4ubuntu3,
mailman3 starts working again, which shows that the apache2 security fix
is the cause.

I don't know much to help diagnose this, but the logs for the mailman-
web django app show that something is wrong in the urls that get put
back into the templates, so I end up with lots of errors like:

WARNING 2021-09-29 23:08:21,407 1079 django.request Not Found:
/mailman//accounts/login/

** Affects: apache2 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 1098357] Re: update libextlib-ruby/ruby-extlib packages for CVE-2013-0156

2013-01-13 Thread Tim Cutts
The same security announcement mentions the Rails actionpack package
also being affected by the same bug.  Again, all versions in Ubuntu
currently are affected.

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Re: [Bug 1080631] unattended-upgrades file descriptor leak

2012-12-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 11 Dec 2012, at 17:23, Michael Vogt  wrote:

> This patch should do the trick, I did a smoke-test in a chroot, feedback
> welcome. If its looking good I can SRU it.
> 
> ** Patch added: "backport for lucid"
>   
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1080631/+attachment/3457487/+files/fd-leak-lucid.diff
> 
> ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Lucid)
>   Status: New => In Progress
> 
> ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Lucid)
>   Importance: Undecided => High

I've applied that patch and created a package, but we're now in a no-
changes freeze until after Christmas, so I'll get back to you in the New
Year with the results.

Tim

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[Bug 1080631] [NEW] unattended-upgrades file descriptor leak

2012-11-19 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

Debian #646620 affects Lucid.  The bug has been fixed in Precise, but
Lucid is still under support, and has the same problem; a zombie process
from unattended-upgrades prevents cron.daily from completing, and
everything gets a bit stuck.

The patch in Debian #646620 looks like a reasonable band-aid, but
unfortunately unattended-upgrades has changed a *lot* between its last
update in Lucid and what's currently going on in recent Debian and
Ubuntu releases.

Nevertheless, this is an important issue, because it seriously breaks
cron on Lucid machines.  I have to manually fix two or three production
machines a day here where run-parts has got stuck.

Any chance a similar workaround could be applied to the Lucid version?
I'm not sure my Python Fu is quite good enough to work out the
equivalent patch otherwise I'd have done it myself...

Thanks,

Tim

** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Debian)
 Importance: Unknown
 Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #646620
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646620

** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646620
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 936870] Re: unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt due to "newconffile" line

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Cutts
Unfortunately not - I never found out how the status file got into that
state.  I suppose you could simulate my original report by force-
downgrading to an old version of some package (say the DHCP client if
you want to use exactly the situation I had), and then hand editing the
status file into the state which I found in my original bug report.

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Re: [Bug 936870] unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt due to "newconffile" line

2012-11-07 Thread Tim Cutts
On 7 Nov 2012, at 15:57, Brian Murray  wrote:

> Right this fix only made it into quantal and it needs to be released as
> an SRU for precise.

And Lucid as well?  Lucid is still a supported LTS release, is it not?

Tim

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[Bug 779929] Re: keytool error on postinst, local CA certificate

2012-10-16 Thread Tim Cutts
Any chance of this bug receiving some attention?  While Canonical still
supported the Sun JRE packages, there was a workaround, but now that
those packages have been dropped, that workaround no longer exists,
making the issue much more serious.

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Re: [Bug 977962] Re: package am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Cutts
It's not a bug in am-utils.  Your am-utils config mentions NIS, which is
not the default, and you don't have NIS installed, so it doesn't start
correctly.  Either install NIS as well, or fix your pre-existing am-
utils config.

On 27 Jul 2012, at 15:45, Launchpad Bug Tracker
<977...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
> 
> ** Changed in: am-utils (Ubuntu)
>   Status: New => Confirmed
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>  status 1
> 
> Status in “am-utils” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
>  System info:
>  Release: 12.04(precise) 32-bit
>  Kernel Linux 3.2.0-22-generic
>  GNOME 3.4.0
>  HP-HDX-16-Notebook
>  Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz x 2
> 
>  I just upgraded from the 11.10 release.  On it I could not get the am-
>  utils package to update or work properly.  I tried upgrading to the
>  12.04 but it hasn't fixed anything.  I've tried installing it from
>  terminal but it always comes up with this error:
> 
> 
>  sangie@angie-HP-HDX-16-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install am-utils
>  [sudo] password for angie: 
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree   
>  Reading state information... Done
>  am-utils is already the newest version.
>  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>python2.6-minimal python2.6
>  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>  Setting up am-utils (6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1) ...
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: 1: /etc/init.d/am-utils: ypmatch: not found
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: cannot find master map
>  invoke-rc.d: initscript am-utils, action "start" failed.
>  dpkg: error processing am-utils (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   am-utils
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>  angie@angie-HP-HDX-16-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree   
>  Reading state information... Done
>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>python2.6 python2.6-minimal
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 12.9 MB disk space will be freed.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>  (Reading database ... 242923 files and directories currently installed.)
>  Removing python2.6 ...
>  Removing python2.6-minimal ...
>  Unlinking and removing bytecode for runtime python2.6
>  Processing triggers for man-db ...
>  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
>  Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
>  Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
>  Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
>  Setting up am-utils (6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1) ...
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: 1: /etc/init.d/am-utils: ypmatch: not found
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: cannot find master map
>  invoke-rc.d: initscript am-utils, action "start" failed.
>  dpkg: error processing am-utils (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>Errors were 
> encountered while processing:
>   am-utils
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
>  ProblemType: Package
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  Package: am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Tue Apr 10 07:15:00 2012
>  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 
> exit status 1
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
>  SourcePackage: am-utils
>  Title: package am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: 
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (0 days ago)
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[Bug 936870] Re: unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt due to "newconffile" line

2012-04-25 Thread Tim Cutts
Yep, it's very odd.  I don't know how the status file gets into that
state.  It might be a bug in dpkg.  dhcpcd wasn't the only package
affected - I did see it on one other (can't remember which, now - I put
cfengine code in place on our systems to spot this problem and sanitise
the status file, so the evidence isn't there any more)

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[Bug 650610] Re: tcl apps kill X in 10.10

2012-04-03 Thread Tim Cutts
Since wish on its own does this, it's not a tkcvs bug, but must have
been a problem with the tk8.5 package on which tkcvs depends, if
anything.

** Package changed: tkcvs (Ubuntu) => tk8.5 (Ubuntu)

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[Bug 936870] Re: unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Cutts
** Attachment added: "unattended-upgrade --debug output"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/936870/+attachment/2761618/+files/unattended-upgrades.log

** Attachment removed: "unattended-upgrade --debug output"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/936870/+attachment/2761618/+files/unattended-upgrades.log

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[Bug 936870] Re: unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Cutts
Trying that attachment again

** Attachment added: "unattended-upgrades --debug output"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/936870/+attachment/2761620/+files/unattended-upgrades.log

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[Bug 936870] [NEW] unattended upgrade failing due to incorrectly detected conffile prompt

2012-02-20 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

On severa hundredl of our Ubuntu machines, we have unattended upgrades
active.  Over the weekend, this started reporting on all machines with
dhcpcd installed that it could not upgrade that package due to a
conffile prompt.  This looks very similar to #773007  and #336558, both
of which are marked as fixed.

On one of the machines, I've run unattended-upgrades --debug, and
attached the output below.  The MD5 sums seem to match (which is a
relief - I didn't think I was modifying these files), so I don't know
why the conffile prompt is being detected.  If I run apt-get safe-
upgrade on its own, it successfully upgrades the package with no
prompting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.55ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-server 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 20 10:06:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 
(20100816.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades

** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid

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[Bug 542731] Re: [gm45] Xorg crash - Failed to submit batchbuffer: No space left on device

2012-01-27 Thread Tim Cutts
I have users here also reporting this sort of crash (in our case it seems to 
happen when logging in from a locked screen).
It would be very useful if this fix could be brought into Lucid.  I'm 
supporting many desktops in an enterprise environment, and it's only really 
feasible for us to use LTS releases.

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[Bug 24061] Re: GPG error with apt-get/aptitude/update-manager behind proxy (BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5)

2011-10-10 Thread Tim Cutts
Robbie, why has this been triaged as "Won't fix?" this causes real
problems for people trying to run Ubuntu on machines behind Squid
proxies that they don't control (for example in a corporate or
university environment).

It seems to me that an appropriate fix would be for apt-get clean to
actually remove the cached lists files, as well as the partial directory
contents.  At the moment, there's no apt-get command which properly
cleans the downloaded files.

As such, this is really a problem in Debian, not Ubuntu, and should be
passed upstream.

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[Bug 571444] Re: Boot hangs and unable to continue when automount disk in fstab is not available (Off or Disconnected)

2011-08-31 Thread Tim Cutts
We've also been bitten by this.  We run approximately 2000 servers
(currently mostly Debian, but increasing numbers of Ubuntu Lucid).
We're finding our servers hang if, for example, a SAN disk has failed,
for whatever reason.  Now, yes, we usually have some sort of remote
console access, but it's a royal PITA to use, and if I have several
hundred machines affected because of a mistake in SAN zoning or
something, it's really impractical to start a console session on each
server to press S.  I'd be there for weeks.  Of course in reality I'd
just power cycle them all again.

There needs to be some sort of remote administration access using ssh or
something similar, presumably started from the initrd, from which people
can recover from this sort of situation.  In the meantime I think I'll
probably use kumy's mountall that proceeds anyway, which restores the
Debian behaviour.  At least then I get a booted system which I can log
into and diagnose.

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[Bug 450482] Re: no sv_dump even with debugperl

2011-08-26 Thread Tim Cutts
The bug also affects Debian, and is fixed with the patch which fixed the
same bug in the FreeBSD world.  See:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-
bugs/2011-May/210916.html

Tim

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[Bug 794986] Re: package am-utils 6.2 rc20101201-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-06-09 Thread Tim Cutts
I should add, I expect it is.  We need more detail - what do your am-
utils config files look like, and is NIS configured on your machine
correctly?

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[Bug 794986] Re: package am-utils 6.2 rc20101201-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-06-09 Thread Tim Cutts
This is a duplicate of 774134.

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  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1

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Re: [Bug 659738] Re: Duplicate welcome message in motd (caused by postinst script creating motd.tail file)

2011-06-09 Thread Tim Cutts
On 9 Jun 2011, at 12:27, Michael Lueck wrote:

> How's progress getting this fixed in stable distribution? I just had to
> "sudo rm /etc/motd.tail" on Lucid servers again. So I guess doing so is
> not a one time manual fix. :-(

I use cfengine2 on our systems, and the following hideous runes are
keeping it under control:

groups:
  ubuntu_lucid::
have_motd_tail = ( FileExists("/etc/motd.tail") )
  have_motd_tail::
broken_motd_tail = ( ReturnsZeroShell("/bin/grep -q ${quote}Welcome to 
Ubuntu!${quote} /etc/motd.tail") )

tidy:
  broken_motd_tail::
/etc pat=motd.tail age=0 

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Tim

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[Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2011-06-03 Thread Tim Cutts
I've marked it as confirmed, but I'm not an Ubuntu maintainer, only the
maintainer of the slightly-upstream Debian package, so I don't know what
the procedures are for updating the real distribution.  I'm slightly
surprised the LTS version (6.1.5-12ubuntu1) isn't working - I think it
might because LTS now uses kernels which are even newer than were
current in Lenny when I initially patched this back in 6.1.5-10.   While
the Debian Testing package might well work for you, I suspect that the
Ubuntu maintainers might not want to use it, at least in LTS, for two
reasons:

1)  It's an upstream version change, not just a tweak to 6.1.5
2)  The upstream I'm now using is a git checkout; 6.2 still hasn't been 
formally released, so I'm having to base my packages off from the git trunk, 
which doesn't seem like something that's suitable for a 'Long Term Support' 
release!

I suppose one possibility is to create an am-utils PPA, and then those
people that want to use the bleeding edge Debian version can use that if
they want to risk running around with their pants on fire.  :-)  I'll
look into that, although I don't know whether it's something I will do -
I am on the verge of orphaning the am-utils package.  I don't use it any
more at work, and I'm going to become a father some time in the next two
weeks, so my time will be limited!

Regards,

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[Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2011-06-03 Thread Tim Cutts
** Changed in: am-utils (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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[Bug 785242] Re: plymouth always shows a splash screen regardless of whether 'splash' is on the command line

2011-05-20 Thread Tim Cutts
On 19 May 2011, at 22:12, Steve Langasek wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> When you say plymouth shows a splash screen, what exactly do you see?
> plymouth will *run* unconditionally on boot, because it's needed to
> broker boot-time console I/O; but on a server there should be no
> graphical boot splash support *installed* by default, and booting
> without 'splash' on the commandline should cause no splash screen to be
> displayed - only the details plugin (plaintext output).
> 
> The initramfs-tools script should also not be used by default; there are
> only a limited number of cases in which this script will be installed in
> the initramfs at all (see the initramfs hook script for details).
> 
> Finally, the problematic script you mention, /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh, is
> not part of the standard 10.04 LTS install.  This seems to be provided
> by a 'console-common' package in universe.  Do you know why you have
> that package installed - pulled in as a dependency, carried over as part
> of an upgrade from a previous release?

Hi Steve, you set me to thinking, and I think I now know what's going
on.  I noticed this when trying to use FAI to install Ubuntu servers.
It looks like my FAI tried to install ubuntu-minimal, which despite its
name appears to include some stuff targeted at the desktop version.  Mea
culpa.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a conflict between this console-
common script and plymouth's splash screen.  It's probably really a bug
with the console tools rather than plymouth.  There are several similar
bug reports around.  For example, there's a fairly long standing bug
report in Debian which no-one's done anything about:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500831

which I suspect is related.

Sorry for wasting your time with this one, Steve - feel free to reassign
to the console stuff as a normal priority bug if you wish.  And thanks
for pointing me to what I'd done wrong...

Tim

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[Bug 785242] Re: plymouth always shows a splash screen regardless of whether 'splash' is on the command line

2011-05-19 Thread Tim Cutts
I should add the reason I've changed that init-top script is to work
around this bug by never switching the splash screen on

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[Bug 785242] Re: plymouth always shows a splash screen regardless of whether 'splash' is on the command line

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[Bug 785242] [NEW] plymouth always shows a splash screen regardless of whether 'splash' is on the command line

2011-05-19 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: plymouth

On Ubuntu Server 10.04:  Even when I don't have 'splash' as a kernel
parameter, plymouth still shows a splash screen (which seems to be done
by  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/plymouth).  On its own,
this is a minor niggle.  However, it has a more serious knock-on effect
if the system is configured with a default locale which uses UTF-8.  In
that case, much later in the boot process, /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh
tries, via the unicode_start program, to run the vt-is-UTF8 command,
which hangs if there is a splash screen present (this part is arguably a
bug in console-tools).

The combination of these two bugs, one in this package and one in
console-tools, is that the console of the machine never produces a
getty, because the rc script never completes.  If you don't have a
network connection working yet, you're reduced to having to use
init=/bin/sh to get a prompt, because the same situation prevents you
getting into single user mode too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 [modified: 
usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/plymouth]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-server 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 19 14:58:18 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
SourcePackage: plymouth

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid

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[Bug 779929] [NEW] keytool error on postinst, local CA certificate

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Cutts
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ca-certificates-java

Description:Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release:10.04

ca-certificates-java:
  Installed: 20100406ubuntu1
  Candidate: 20100406ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 20100406ubuntu1 0
990 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


Here at the Sanger Institute we have our own local CA.  We distribute the 
certificate for that CA to all of our machines using cfengine.  This works fine 
with the regular ca-certificates stuff on both Debian and Ubuntu.  But it fails 
with ca-certificates-java, as follows:

The keytool invocation in the postinst script which attempts to add the
certificate fails, and the error is discarded, so it's not immediately
obvious what went wrong.

I edited the postinst script to include set -x so that I could get
something out of it, and noticed (1) that the init script deletes the
temporary output file even if the script fails, which means that you
can't see the errors. So, I changed it so that it doesn't delete the
tempfile if there are errors, and this then showed me that the following
part of the script execution path shows the error being generated:

+ LANG=C
+ LC_ALL=C
+ keytool -importcert -trustcacerts -keystore /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts 
-providerClass sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11 -providerArg 
'${java.home}/lib/security/nss.cfg' -noprompt -storepass changeit -alias 
genome_research_ltd_certificate_authority_cert_pem -file 
/usr/share/ca-certificates/sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem
+ grep -q 'Signature not available' /tmp/fileW2Zx2A
+ echo ' error adding 
sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem'
  error adding sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem
++ expr 0 + 1
+ errors=1

and the log entry says:

keytool error: java.security.ProviderException: Secmod module already
configured

Google doesn't have much to say about this particular error. This is
causing us serious issues, since it's causing dpkg and aptitude to fall
over on most machines, perpetually trying to run the ca-certificates-
java postinst script.

Hopefully you know what that error means...

** Affects: ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 664412] Re: ca-certificates-jave fails to add certificates from TU Berlin

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Cutts
Also on lucid, I see something like this on our Ubuntu machines at the
Sanger Institute; we have our own local CA, and the keytool invocation
in the postinst script which attempts to add the certificate fails.  I
edited the postinst script to include set -x so that I could get
something out of it, and noticed (1) that the init script deletes the
temporary output file even if the script fails, which means that you
can't see the errors.  So, I changed it so that it doesn't delete the
tempfile if there are errors, and this then showed me that the following
part of the script execution path shows the error being generated:


+ LANG=C
+ LC_ALL=C
+ keytool -importcert -trustcacerts -keystore /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts 
-providerClass sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11 -providerArg 
'${java.home}/lib/security/nss.cfg' -noprompt -storepass changeit -alias 
genome_research_ltd_certificate_authority_cert_pem -file 
/usr/share/ca-certificates/sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem
+ grep -q 'Signature not available' /tmp/fileW2Zx2A
+ echo '  error adding 
sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem'
  error adding sanger.ac.uk/Genome_Research_Ltd_Certificate_Authority-cert.pem
++ expr 0 + 1
+ errors=1

and the log entry says:

keytool error: java.security.ProviderException: Secmod module already
configured

Google doesn't have much to say about this particular error.  This is
causing us serious issues, since it's causing dpkg and aptitude to fall
over on most machines, perpetually trying to run the ca-certificates-
java postinst script.

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[Bug 664412] Re: ca-certificates-jave fails to add certificates from TU Berlin

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Cutts
Sorry - I think my problem's slightly different... it doesn't involve
update-ca-certificates.  I'll file a separate report.

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Re: [Bug 774134] Re: package am-utils 6.2+rc20101201-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-05-03 Thread Tim Cutts
On 30 Apr 2011, at 15:08, Peter Raupp wrote:

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> Title:
>  package am-utils 6.2+rc20101201-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>  status 1
> 
> Status in “am-utils” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: am-utils
> 
>  would not install durring upgrade

The problem here is that you have configured am-utils to use NIS, but
you don't have a NIS client installed.  This caused the init script to
fail when it tried to use NIS to obtain the master map.

am-utils does not depend on NIS, because it's quite possible to use it
without NIS, but if you answer yes to the debconf question about using
NIS for the master map, you do have to have NIS installed and running
before am-utils will start.

The solution is for you to either install the NIS client package first,
or to change the am-utils debconf settings (using dpkg-reconfigure) not
to use NIS.

I don't think this is actually a bug in the package.

Tim

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Re: [Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2011-05-03 Thread Tim Cutts
On 27 Apr 2011, at 21:33, James Sparenberg wrote:

> I've found a work around.  Install am-utils and libamu4 from debian
> testing.  So far for me on 10.4LTS this has worked without fail for me.

That makes sense.  You need the more recent version for it to work
properly with recentish kernels (I think the locking problem emerged
with 2.6.26)

Regards,

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Re: [Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Cutts
Note that switching to mount_type = autofs is not a transparent change
to your users, because it causes the mounts to happen in place rather
than as symlinks to the real mount location elsewhere, as it does in the
traditional mount_type = nfs.  This means that the output of some
routines which determine the current working directory will change.

mount_type=autofs actually is rather more sensible at this than the old
system, but nevertheless there will be a change in behaviour which might
affect your users or applications.

Tim

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Re: [Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Cutts

On 25 May 2010, at 12:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote:

> I wish to retract my statement about 100% effective on adding the line
> mount_type = autofs  as I've run into two upgrade systems that did not
> work right, so much so that it eventually borked the install on one.
> (No problem thanks to amd I've got disposable installs however 
> ) ;)
> 
> Has anyone tried pining the am-utils version in 10.04 back to the
> version from 9.10 or 9.04?  I'm wondering if that will give a clue as to
> what changed.  I'm planning on doing some experimentation in this
> direction I'll report what I find.

I suspect you'll find it's not that am-utils has changed (the version of
the package will probably be the same, at least at the upstream version,
6.1.5, which came out in 2006 or so) but that the Linux kernel has
changed, and am-utils has failed to keep up with it.  I've been talking
on the am-utils mailing list over the past 24 hours, and there is still
one maintainer of the upstream package.  There hasn't been a release for
almost five years now, but there have been some changes going on in a
pre-release capacity, and I'm going to attempt building a package from
the current git sources at some point in the next couple of weeks, if I
find the time.  Keep an eye out for an upload to Debian sid (I don't
target Ubuntu directly)

Tim

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Re: [Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Cutts

On 24 May 2010, at 4:08 am, Phil Kaslo wrote:

> 
> We had been using amd instead of autofs on a large  server, with possibly 100 
> - 200 concurrent login sessions. 
> With autofs, each home directory  for a logged in user would be a separate 
> mount point.  We found that things 
> started to get ugly,  when the number of mount points  grew to a number 
> somewhat less than 256, maybe 200
> to 220.Using instead static mounts  from the file servers, and then using 
> amd to manage symlinks, via map
> entries for /home of the form  
> username fs:=/directory/path;type:=link
> keeps the number of nfs mounts down to the number of static mounts.
> 
> We have been using autofs on all our other linux boxes (Ubuntu and Fedora).   
>  But due to this issue 
> we had been using amd on our main instructional server, now running Ubuntu.
> 
> Have other people  had success with using autofs for /home, with large 
> numbers of concurrent logins?
> With more than say 256 nfs mount points?

We avoided the issue by having users home directories being say,
/home/t/tjrc, with the automount and the t level so there are only 26
mountpoints, regardless of the number of logins.

We saw a similar thing to you with our automounted /software directory,
and used a similar solution to you; we statically mounted the fileserver
elsewhere, and used autofs to manage symlinks to it.  This was not due
to number of filesystems mounted, but more because it copes better when
the number of simultaneous mount requests gets large (such as when we
reboot the entire 500 node compute cluster)

Tim

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Re: [Bug 571972] Re: With Lucid Lynx after upgrade or install mounts mounted with automounter daemon don't mount

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Cutts
am-utils is getting harder and harder to keep working.  The upstream  
project is dead, to all intents and purposes.  There hasn't been any  
release from them for at least two years, possibly more.  The code has  
not kept up with changes in the Linux kernel lately.  It got so  
painful for us at work we switched to autofs instead.  Not as feature- 
rich, but more active as a project.

I'll have one more go at contacting upstream.  If no timeline appears  
for further development, I will probably orphan the debian packaging.

Tim


On 21 May 2010, at 12:24, Gabriele Greco   
wrote:

> I've tried to apply the patch with a partial success, the patched
> version is able to mount the NFS filesystems BUT it's not able to go
> past listing the files, I still get this error:
>
> [85349.668258] svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97).
>
> Then when I try to access the files I get:
>
> ls -lrt /net/wyoming/tmp/
> ls: cannot access /net/wyoming/tmp/testsuite06052010.tar: Input/ 
> output error
> ls: cannot access /net/wyoming/tmp/RIEPILOGO PROGETTI.doc: Input/ 
> output error
> ls: cannot access /net/wyoming/tmp/MCT2_2.15.3.run: Input/output error
>
> I tried also with the patch on the debian bug tracking without any
> success... (same behaviour of the unpatched version)
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>
> Bug description:
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>
> 1.  This occurs both in upgrades from 9.10 and Fresh Installs.
>
> 2.  Recreation method:  Start am-utils
>
> 3.  Significant error messages  (similar too)
>
> Apr 29 17:42:02 temp6 amd[4285]/error: '/net': mount: No  
> locks available
>
> or
>   Apr 29 17:42:03 temp6 amd[4283]/fatal: amfs_toplvl_mount:  
> amfs_mount failed: No locks available
>
>
> This occurs with configuration files that prior to the upgrade/ 
> install worked fine.  This does however have a work around that for  
> me at least has proven 100% effective.  Adding this line to the  
> [global] section of /etc/am-utils/amd.conf
>
>  mount_type = autofs
>
> Seems that this is actually an upstream kernel problem with kernels  
> above 2.6.24, however I felt it would be best to report it for the  
> purpose of tracking and finding a way to alert people on how to  
> manage this problem.  Additionally I've tested putting the line into  
> the amd.conf of 9.10 systems and it has had no negative affect on  
> performance.
>
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Re: [Bug 491977] [NEW] am-utils reads but ignores cache_duration settings in amd.conf

2009-12-03 Thread Tim Cutts

On 3 Dec 2009, at 7:35 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: am-utils
>
> Settings on our systems has cache_duration =  1800  (30 minutes)  
> what we
> are seeing however is that the mount disappears with 2 minutes (amd
> default timeout) of last access.  This is occurring most noticeably  
> now
> that we are switching to karmic 64bit and new servers.

The attempts to unmount are affected by two options, this one and also  
dismount_interval.  If you also set dismount_interval to 1800, you'll  
get the effect you want.

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[Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

2009-09-30 Thread Tim Cutts
I'm still having difficulty getting persistence to work on Xubuntu 9.04;
casper version is now 1.173.  I still have the same fundamental race
condition problem - the casper scripts have completed by the time the
USB subsystem has finished initialising itself and any USB storage
devices have appeared.

Looks like I will have to continue using my gross hack from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/219192/comments/53

I don't know what else I could do - perhaps rebuilding the kernel with
usb-storage static might help, but I want to continue using standard
kernel packages really.

Tim

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[Bug 299936] Re: am-utils does not put links in /etc/rc*.d (does not start at boot)

2009-09-16 Thread Tim Cutts
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #521392
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521392

** Also affects: am-utils (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521392
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 64203] Re: can't restart with mounts in use

2009-09-16 Thread Tim Cutts
I'm not sure there's much that can be done about this - it's the nature
of am-utils that it can't be restarted cleanly if mounts are in use
(autofs behaves similarly; I suspect this is something that always tends
to be the case with automounters).  I suppose I could always just change
the postinst script so that it does not attempt to restart the
automounter on upgrades, but that might open a whole new can of worms.

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Re: [Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

2009-05-07 Thread Tim Cutts

On 7 May 2009, at 9:40 am, vikjon0 wrote:

> I tried Tim's fix and it did not work for me. I think I need to give  
> up or go into the details.

It could be that your USB subsystem takes more than 25 seconds to come  
up, which would explain why it works for me and not for you.  But I  
don't know.  I did say it was a nasty hack.  :-)

Regards,

Tim

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Re: [Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

2008-11-02 Thread Tim Cutts

On 21 Oct 2008, at 3:45 pm, Evan Dandrea wrote:

> Tim,
>
> Can you try the latest daily-live CD [1] and report back on whether or
> not the problem still persists for you?
>

I haven't tried the daily live CD, but I have tried the Xubuntu 8.10  
release live CD, now that it's out, and I still have the same problem,  
but the patch I included does still fix it (in its rather crude way)

Tim

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[Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

2008-10-21 Thread Tim Cutts
OK, so I've made a nasty hack change to my casper script, and that seems
to solve the race condition problem.  It just loops finding the casper-
rw device 5 times, waiting 5 seconds before each try, before it gives
up.  It only does this if PERSISTENT is set.

This has fixed the problem for me, but I think it's a nasty solution.  I
guess it would work better if I built a custom kernel for the Live CD
which has usb-storage statically compiled in rather than as a module.


** Attachment added: "Makes casper wait for USB storage devices to be detected 
for up to 25 seconds before giving up"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18764945/casper.diff.txt

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[Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

2008-10-21 Thread Tim Cutts
I think there's something else going on, too.  I can't get persistence
to work either, and I've built an initrd with the latest casper in it,
but it still doesn't work.  It never finds the casper-rw or home-rw
devices.  Having set -x in the casper script to get some debugging info,
I see that when it looks for the cow device, scanning things in
/sys/block, that the USB devices aren't there yet, so there seems to be
some sort of race condition where the USB devices haven't been detected
by the time it looks for the home-rw and casper-rw filesystems.

What should I do to fix this?  I've tried putting usb-storage in the
/conf/modules of the initrd to get it to be loaded earlier, but that
hasn't been enough.  I could do something nasty like put a deliberate
sleep in somewhere, but that's just nasty.  Any other ideas?

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[Bug 269998] Re: Please merge am-utils 6.1.5-11 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Cutts
I've just uploaded 6.1.5-12 to Debian, which is a minor policy fix.  So
you might want to grab that one rather than 6.1.5-11

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