Bug#925518: Native Advertising Proposal - planet.ubuntu.com

2019-09-17 Thread John Williams
Hello, John here from SourceGlobalMedia.com - We are a reputed Digital Marketing Agency working with variety of clients from UK, USA, France, Greece, Finland, Germany and Spain. We are interested in developing partnerships with companies / webmaster such as yourself to check if you can publish sp

Bug#926592: Buffer overflow in readlink running under fakechroot

2019-04-07 Thread John Williams
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.19-3 In an up-to-date installation of stretch, I do this: fakechroot readlink /etc/ssl/certs/* and get this: *** Error in readlink: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0xee312140 *** Note that this is *not* in a faked chroot. Looking at the source code:

Bug#889720: xauth crashes when directory name matches host name

2018-02-06 Thread John Williams
Package: xauth Version: 1:1.0.10-1 Architecture: arm64 Running 'startx' on a machine named 'myhost' (aarch64), with a sub-directory named 'myhost' in my home directory: X starts very slowly, and I see the message: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/john/.Xauthority Here's

Bug#888850: systemd-timesyncd fails to start

2018-01-30 Thread John Williams
Package: systemd Version: 236-6 After a recent installation of buster (aarch64), systemd-timesyncd fails to start systemctl status systemd-timesyncd says: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code' I notice that /

Bug#888849: Running X clobbers /dev/tty1 owner

2018-01-30 Thread John Williams
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.7+19 On 'buster', I log into the console and then manually run 'startx' from the command line. After X has terminated, the ownership of /dev/tty1 has changed from myself to root, thereby preventing subsequent programs from accessing it. I'm running on an aarch64 machin

Bug#780062: lircrcd segfaults

2015-03-08 Thread John Williams
Package: lirc Version: 0.9.0~pre1-1.2 I have just updated from wheezy to jessie (i386) At random intervals my lirc configuration stops working; I can see that the lircrcd program has disappeared, and /var/log/syslog contains this: lircrcd[843]: segfault at e975f324 ip 0804942b sp bfac5c90 error

Bug#727016: Systemd upgrade restored deleted configuration file

2013-10-21 Thread John Williams
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:43:33 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > I hope you didn't place a real file in > /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/? > Only symlinks should be created in .wants directories. No, I created /etc/systemd/system/autologin\@.service and then linked to that > The conffiles ha

Bug#727016: Systemd upgrade restored deleted configuration file

2013-10-21 Thread John Williams
Package: systemd Version: 204-5 Severity: minor I deleted the file: /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service (I replaced it by my own login service file with a different name) and a recent upgrade to systemd restored the missing file. Perhaps this file should be added to "conff

Bug#683340: Core dump in ssl proxy

2012-07-30 Thread John Williams
Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.22-9 I have got webserver A (which is apache) acting as a reverse proxy for webserver B (which is lighttpd). Note that I'm using the i386 version in both cases. Webserver A is configured like this: SSLProxyEngine on SSLProxyCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ca.crt

Bug#679987: Blank screen on UK channel 5

2012-07-02 Thread John Williams
Package: xineliboutput-sxfe Version: 1.0.7+cvs20120609.1902-1 When vdr is tuned to some channels (for example, UK "channel 5") I get a screen showing the "no signal" image. Other channels (for example, BBC1) work OK. The vdr-sxfe program must be communicating with vdr, because if I send LIRC comma

Bug#581978: Missing support for HUD OSD

2010-05-17 Thread John Williams
Package: xineliboutput-sxfe Version: 1.0.6~cvs20100502.0851-1 When trying to use the "HUD OSD" feature, the vdr-sxfe program says: "Application was compiled without XRender support. HUD OSD disabled." The (upstream) Makefile tests for the X render and Xinerama extensions at compile time, and pr

Bug#496676: Buffer overflow in arrayprobe

2008-08-26 Thread John Williams
Package: arrayprobe Version: 2.0-2 When I run arrayprobe on my machine, I get: *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0806d780 *** Aborted I have attached a patch which fixes this. patch Description: Binary data

Bug#367472: Potential hang in nmbd

2006-05-17 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:22:54 -0500 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, it still happens in 3.0.22 and the current code in subversion. > > > > The problem is happening when a rogue program sends a datagram with a bad > > checksum. This wakes up the select() but the subsequent rec

Bug#367472: Potential hang in nmbd

2006-05-17 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 16 May 2006 07:29:23 -0500 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting John Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: samba > > Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 > > > > I don't know whether it's appropriate to send this to Debian or to th

Bug#367472: Potential hang in nmbd

2006-05-16 Thread John Williams
Package: samba Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 I don't know whether it's appropriate to send this to Debian or to the upstream maintainer of Samba, so I'll do both. The code of the nmbd program calls select() in the listen_for_packets() function in nmbd/nmb_packets.c. If this returns successfully, it th

Bug#354466: Malformed md5sums file in libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_sparc

2006-02-26 Thread John Williams
Package: libperl5.8 Version: 5.8.4-8sarge3 The md5sums file in the sparc package contains this: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e - There is no file named '-' in the package, and no md5 sum is supplied for the files that do exist in the package. The i386 package is OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai