Bug#808266: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: i386 Wheezy JFS broken in 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 security update

2015-12-18 Thread Robert Henney
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:34:28PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Well it doesn't seem to be doing the right thing any more.  The error > messages you got indicate that the old kernel is being used with new > modules, i.e. the boot loader is not loading the upgraded kernel. > Please check the gr

Bug#808266: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: i386 Wheezy JFS broken in 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 security update

2015-12-18 Thread Robert Henney
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:20:16PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Which boot loader are you using?  Your report doesn't list any: > > Versions of packages linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae suggests: > pn  debian-kernel-handbook  > pn  grub-pc | extlinux | lilo   > ii  linux-doc-3.2  3

Bug#808266: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: i386 Wheezy JFS broken in 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 security update

2015-12-18 Thread Robert Henney
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:20:49AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 19:20 -0500, Robert Henney wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 > > Severity: important > > > > Today's kerne

Bug#808266: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: i386 Wheezy JFS broken in 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 security update

2015-12-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 Severity: important Today's kernel security update appears to have broken JFS support on i386, though JFS still appears to be working on x86_64. # mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: unknown filesystem type 'jfs' # modprobe jfs ERROR: could not insert

Bug#750361: stopped working on my Pentium III

2014-09-28 Thread Robert Henney
Today's security update for Chromium stopped it working on my Pentium III laptop. Just saying in case there's any chance it can be made to work again. # # Fatal error in v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53 # CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed # C stack trace === 1

Bug#700384: iproute: 'ip monitor all' prefix banner spamming

2013-02-12 Thread Robert Henney
Package: iproute Version: 20120521-3 Severity: minor When using 'ip monitor all', prefix banner spamming of the object type occurs. On squeeze this does not happen (the object type is only printed once), so I presume the bug was introduced in a more recent version that made it into wheezy. >Fr

Bug#505638: mailman: Mailman dies on log rotation

2012-10-23 Thread Robert Henney
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Ivan Marton wrote: > Hi! > > I've faced the same problem. This bug took my mailman down this last Sunday. In fact, you'll notice that reports of this bug appear to indicate that it only occurs during Sunday morning cron execution. I believe this is bec

Bug#673366: iputils-ping: ping6 can display wrong from ip address

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20100418-3 Severity: minor I have two ipv6 tunnels configured on my host: iface he-ipv6-t1 inet6 v4tunnel address 2001:470:7:866::2 netmask 64 gateway 2001:470:7:866::1 endpoint xxx.xx.22.2 local xx.xx.209.241 iface he-ipv6-

Bug#673355: iproute: man page and /bin/ip disagree on del vs delete

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: iproute Version: 20100519-3 Severity: minor the 'ip' man page does not mention the command "del" at all but does claim, "As a rule, it is possible to add, delete and show (or list ) objects". however, 'ip' does not always recognize "delete" as a commend. robh@debian:~$ ip tunnel delete

Bug#673350: squid3: typo in squid.conf

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: squid3 Version: 3.1.19-1+b1 Severity: minor There is a minor typo in /etc/squid3/squid.conf in the paragraph below. the final "t" in persistent of "server_persisten_connections" has been left off. | # Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is | # incomp

Bug#673348: fping: man page inconsistency in regards to numeric arguments

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: fping Version: 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1 Severity: minor very minor documentation inconsistency in that several options which take numeric arguments are shown with an underscored "n" (eg. "-in", "-bn", and "-rn") but at the same time several others are not (eg. "-c", "-C", and "-p"). -- Syst

Bug#673344: mdadm: man page typo

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: mdadm Version: 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1+squeeze1 Severity: minor In the paragraph below from the mdadm.conf man page, I suspect the first occurrence of "of" was meant to be "or". | Alternatively, a device line can contain either of both of the | words containers and partitions. The word cont

Bug#673323: e2fsprogs: resize2fs -f should ignore missing mtab

2012-05-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-4stable1 Severity: wishlist resize2fs will abort if /etc/mtab does not exist, even if the -f option is given. I believe a missing /etc/mtab in general indicates that no filesystems are mounted, and it appears some umount's (busybox?) remove the mtab file after

Bug#647144: bind9-host: host issues stream of identical queries

2011-10-30 Thread Robert Henney
Package: bind9-host Version: 1:9.6.ESV.R4+dfsg-0+lenny3 Severity: normal The host utility will walk though the search domains list trying each. In cases where a FQDN is given however, it doesn't seem to completely alter its behaivor as should be expected. $ grep search /etc/resolv.conf search ru

Bug#616037: iptables: increased verbosity (-vv) undocumented in man page

2011-03-01 Thread Robert Henney
Package: iptables Version: 1.4.2-6 Severity: wishlist increasing the verbosity level (eg. -vv) results in some additional output which may be worth making note of in the man page. # iptables -vvL [...] Table `filter' Hooks: pre/in/fwd/out/post = /0/94/128/ Underflows: pre/in/fwd/o

Bug#533601: tcpd fails reverse name resolution

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Henney
please disregard my last message. the behavior I was seeing on my system was due to my overlooking an earlier line in the host.allow file which was causing a match condition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#533601: tcpd fails reverse name resolution

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Henney
I believe I am witnessing this bug with a particular connecting host. I'm running lenny on i386, and it seems there is an additional symptom that appears when this bug bites besides what has been described so far. a spawn command in hosts.allow never executes for this particular host. it's not t

Bug#607415: telnetd not draining input from child

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Henney
Package: telnetd Version: 0.17-36 Severity: normal telnetd does not appear to complete passing input from the child process after SIGCHLD is received. this can be shown using a short script like #!/bin/sh echo "firstly this" sleep 1 echo "lastly this" and an entry such as this in inetd.

Bug#575057: screen -x occasionally hangs when attaching

2010-03-23 Thread Robert Henney
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-11+lenny1 Severity: normal sometimes when using "screen -x" to re-attach to an existing session, the process will appear to hang and never fully attach. this might happen with "screen -r" as well, but I generally only use -x and probably as a result have only see

Bug#572994: vim-tiny: vim.tiny does not show candidate in replace with confirmation

2010-03-16 Thread Robert Henney
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:18:40AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:03:43PM -0500, Robert Henney wrote: > > vim.tiny does not show what the current candidate string for > > replacing is when performing a prompted search, eg > > > > :1,$s/t

Bug#572994: vim-tiny: vim.tiny does not show candidate in replace with confirmation

2010-03-07 Thread Robert Henney
Package: vim-tiny Version: 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2 Severity: normal vim.tiny does not show what the current candidate string for replacing is when performing a prompted search, eg :1,$s/text/replace/gc this makes it slightly tricky to know what will happen when responding to the prompt. the large

Bug#564004: mdadm: option -N does not work as documented

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Henney
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7.2-3 Severity: normal the option -N as documented in the man page is not recognized by mdadm. $ mdadm -C -Njohn mdadm: invalid option -- N the alternative form of the option does work however. $ mdadm -C --name=john mdadm: an md device must be given in this mode

Bug#549880: debian-installer: hungs with unstruted sources

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Henney
I believe that I have now confirmed that it has something to do with installing while the system time is set far in the past. after setting the hardware clock in Open Firmware, the next install attempt went flawlessly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#549880: debian-installer: hungs with unstruted sources

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Henney
Package: debian-installer Severity: important On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:27:43PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > I'm not sure if this is still a bug, since it happened with an etch > 4.0r4 i386 business-card image, but I don't know how to reproduce it, so > I reported it anyway. Feel free to close i

Bug#481435: parted: cp refuses to read from partitions mounted read-only

2008-05-15 Thread Robert Henney
Package: parted Version: 1.7.1-5.1 Severity: normal when using parted to copy a partition, if the source partition is mounted read-only parted will refuse to perform the operation with the message, "Error: Partition xxx is being used. You must unmount it before you modify it with Parted." The e

Bug#331038: (no subject)

2008-05-13 Thread Robert Henney
Package: avifile-player Version: 1:0.7.44.20051021-2.2+b1 The bug for me is as already described, but I can provide another sample from a machine on which it appears. Is is interesting that the reported bogus MHz is identical to the first report, and that may provide a clue as to the cause.

Bug#416177: bug continues to bite

2008-03-11 Thread Robert Henney
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:58:31AM +, Paul Martin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:25:07PM -0400, Robert Henney wrote: > > witnessed the bug this morning as it triggered on all of my etch boxes. > > every log file within the entries in /etc/logrotate.d/* marked "monthly

Bug#416177: bug continues to bite

2008-03-10 Thread Robert Henney
witnessed the bug this morning as it triggered on all of my etch boxes. every log file within the entries in /etc/logrotate.d/* marked "monthly" was rotated at 6:25 am. yes daylight savings time sucks and computers don't cope well with it as evidenced by these bugs. wish I didn't have to live whe

Bug#415627: xorg crash on backwards time adjustment

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Henney
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:40:19PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > > There have other reports like this one in the past. For instance, > recently, "Bug#412275: no display and system freezes after adjusting > time with KDE clock on 945GM graphic chip". We could probably merge > them, even if the sympt

Bug#415627: xorg crash on backwards time adjustment

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Henney
ok, I was right in my original report that the crash happens when the system time is moved backwards. somehow I got onto the idea that moving the time forward was the trigger, and explains why I had trouble consistently reproducing it for a while. this will crash the X server every time on my mac

Bug#415627: xorg crash on backwards time adjustment

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Henney
the previous report referring to moving the system time back should rather be moving the time forward. sorry about that. in addition, I've hit upon a snag. after reproducing the crash several times prior to filing the bug report, I have since found that it does not occur every time as I first co

Bug#415627: xorg crash on backwards time adjustment

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Henney
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-15 when the system clock is adjusted backwards by a significant period of time (eg. 20 minutes), the X server will immediately crash. this is reproducible on my computer every time. I suspect it has to do with acpi event handling, although allowing the normal scree

Bug#347317: January appears as 00 in output

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Henney
Package: cksfv Version: 1.3-3 date line in output appears as "2006-00-08" when it should probably be "2006-01-08". [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/stow$ ls -l testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 robh robh 175480832 Jan 8 02:08 testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/stow$ cksfv testfile ; Generated by cksfv v1.3 on 2006-01-09 at

Bug#331015: printf doesn't treat \c as man page documents

2005-09-30 Thread Robert Henney
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 from man page: FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are: [...] \c produce no further output but executing printf "one\n\cword\n" produces one \cword interestingly, on our freebs

Bug#312101: Today's "apt-get upgrade" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Henney
Had the same happen here. Lost a heavily customized XF86Config-4 for a multi-head workstation with unusual driver configuration. Several months of small timing adjustments and other tuning to get things just right now out the window. I kick myself for not backing up, but how the file was destroy