Bug#425314: $HOME still in use after session has been closed - Steps to reproduce

2007-05-26 Thread Christian Kastner
and removal of the encrypted device will fail. Enabling debug mode in /etc/security/pam_mount.conf will show three kdeinit processes keeping $HOME and $HOME/.xsession-errors open. Regards, Christian -- Christian Kastner PGP Key: AE90E13F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#425314: $HOME still in use after session has been closed - Steps to reproduce

2007-05-27 Thread Christian Kastner
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Bug#425314: Cause identified + workaround ($HOME in use after session closed)

2007-05-28 Thread Christian Kastner
the problem for me, libpam-umount cleanly unmounts my $HOME. I can live with the workaround, however it would be really nice if the maintainers could find an alternative solution for the problem. Thanks for helping me resolve the issue! Christian -- Christian Kastner PGP Key: AE90E13F

Bug#425314: ksmserver: $HOME still in use after session has been closed

2007-05-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: ksmserver Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 Severity: normal Hello, I've been desperately trying to resolve a session-related issue with my dm-crypt-backed $HOME directory. I use libpam-mount to set up and mount the encrypted device on $HOME when I log in and umount/remove it when I log out.

Bug#475861: xscreensaver: PAM configuration for screensaver service should contain @common-account

2008-04-13 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.24-5 Severity: minor Hello, By using the PAM configuration for the other service recommending in the Securing Debian Manual[0], I noticed that unlocking the screen always produced a warning by the account service type. The other config is triggered because the

Bug#606325: cron: Off-by-one in manpage example

2010-12-08 Thread Christian Kastner
tags 606325 + confirmed pending thanks On 12/08/2010 01:51 PM, Ulrich Klauer wrote: In the EXAMPLE CRON FILE section of crontab(5), there is this example: # Run on every second Saturday of the month 0 4 8-15 * *test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 echo 2nd Saturday The range of days

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 608874 confirmed thanks Hi Philippe, On 01/04/2011 10:08 AM, Philippe Teuwen wrote: After upgrade from cron 3.0pl1-114 to 3.0pl1-116 I had the following problem: I can confirm the general issue, however this should have first appeared in -110, not -114 (see #581612, where we accidentally

Bug#608857: cron: Please add the configurable CRONTAB_UTC patch by Björn Danielsson

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Axel, On 01/04/2011 04:19 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: According to crontab(7) there's no possibility to write cronjobs which are independent of local DST regulations if the local time of the system uses a timezone with a DST rule. An elegant and backwards-compatible solution for this problem

Bug#608874: [cron] New behavior of returning an error if grandchild exit status not 0 is not properly advertised

2011-01-04 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01/04/2011 08:38 PM, Philippe Teuwen wrote: You're right that the problem was introduced earlier. I guess I saw it only after this upgrade because of an upgrade of logcheck as well and now logcheck reports me that error from /var/log/syslog. Ah, so it is also visible in the default

Bug#609380: liblinear: please package new release (1.7)

2011-01-09 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01/09/2011 03:32 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Howdy ;-) Version 1.7 released on September 13, 2010. An updated package is already available: http://www.kvr.at/debian/pool/main/libl/liblinear/liblinear_1.7+dfsg-1.dsc Sponsorship welcome, though :-) Squeeze RC bugs are low nowadays, might

Bug#590876: ITP: cronie -- Fork of the ISC cron job scheduler

2011-01-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Nicholas, On 01/25/2011 10:12 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Christian, I came across this fork today and I was thinking of raising an ITP, which obviously I don't need to do now. However as I read it you are not actually thinking of packaging it any time soon, which is a shame. I cannot

Bug#612100: ITP: diveintopython3 -- Book for learning Python 3

2011-02-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at * Package name: diveintopython3 Version : r916 Upstream Author : Mark Pilgrim * URL : http://diveintopython3.org * License : CC-BY-SA-3.0 Programming Lang: HTML Description : Book

Bug#615108: [uscan] Fixes for repacking ZIP files

2011-02-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Subject: [uscan] Fixes for repacking ZIP files Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.71 Severity: normal Tags: patch When repacking ZIP files, because of the way uscan invokes tar, the current directory '.' (dot) is always included in the resulting tar archive. Unpacking such an archive has the side

Bug#559335: aoetools: init script doesn't wait long enough, tries to umount not mounted filesystems

2009-12-30 Thread Christian Kastner
Andrei Caraman wrote: The stop problem In my setup, /etc/init.d/ocfs2 stop will umount the AOE-backed filesystem, so when /etc/init.d/aoetools stop tries to umount it (again!), the umount command fails, and because of the set -e, the script exits immediately, skipping the

Bug#581612: cron: Cron jobs fail after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110

2010-05-14 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Robbert, On 05/14/2010 11:59 AM, Robbert Kouprie wrote: On two different machines I have some cron jobs failing after upgrading from 3.0pl1-105 to 3.0pl1-110. Involved MTA is postfix in both cases. Downgrading to 3.0pl1-105 makes the issue go away again. For example, the below cronjob

Bug#581612: cron: Cron jobs fail after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110

2010-05-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/14/2010 12:59 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: Hi Robbert, On 05/14/2010 11:59 AM, Robbert Kouprie wrote: On two different machines I have some cron jobs failing after upgrading from 3.0pl1-105 to 3.0pl1-110. Involved MTA is postfix in both cases. Downgrading to 3.0pl1-105 makes

Bug#581612: cron sends e-mails when a job exits nonzero (after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110)

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/19/2010 12:03 AM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: clone 581612 -1 reassign -1 php4 retitle -1 php4: update test avoiding nonzero exit status when removed-but-not-purged thanks If it is desired behavior that cron now sends out email if the job exit's with status 1, it is strange that I now

Bug#155109: Bug#581612: cron sends e-mails when a job exits nonzero (after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110)

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/19/2010 03:28 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: You want cron to allow a job to fail silently? The question is not what I want to do, it's what can I /can/ do. Although avoiding noise from some existing package cron.d jobs is additional work, having an assertive cron helps people to catch

Bug#582315: ITP: pyrit-cuda -- NVIDIA CUDA support for Pyrit

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at * Package name: pyrit-cuda Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Lukas Lueg lukas.l...@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ * License : GPLv3 + linking exceptions for OpenSSL

Bug#512757: cron disable crontab of NIS users on boot

2010-05-06 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 512757 confirmed pending thanks On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Michael Kaaden wrote: AFAICS the only problem is the correct order for the start of NIS, autofs, and cron. cron should start after NIS and autofs. Thanks for the hint, I committed a fix. Christian signature.asc Description:

Bug#304036: Should this patch be applied?

2010-05-06 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 304036 pending thanks Hi Gerrit, On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:10:06PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Hi Gerrit, I would like to know what is your standing wrt to this bug. Bcron is now available in unstable, so maybe the patch

Bug#543895: Cron uses /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale

2010-05-06 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 543895 -moreinfo +confirmed +pending thanks Hi Peter, On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Peter Rabbitson wrote: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On this bug, if you see cron's init.d script you will see this: parse_environment ()

Bug#570918: ITP: pyrit -- challenge WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK security

2010-05-07 Thread Christian Kastner
retitle 570918 ITP: pyrit -- challenge WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK security owner 570918 deb...@kvr.at thanks I'm particularly interested in the GPGPU-aspects of this package. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#580924: ITP: pyevolve -- Complete genetic algorithm framework written in pure python

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at Owner: Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at * Package name: pyevolve Version : 0.6rc1 Upstream Author : Christian S. Perone * URL : http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net * License : PSF Programming

Bug#580887: marked as done (notify user if his crontab is no longer valid upon upgrade)

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
On 05/10/2010 12:15 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote: That argument assumes that cron's parser hasn't been improved or fixed, which is inconsistent with this changelog entry: =20 * entry.c - Explicitly check for valid ranges in range values instead of up= stream's broken approach which

Bug#580938: cron sends mail to null after upgrade to v3.0pl1-110

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 580938 confirmed pending severity important thanks On 05/10/2010 02:14 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: My crontab entries all have this in them, so that emails to *not* get sent: MAILTO= However, after the most recent upgrade, root has begun sending emails each time that cron runs.

Bug#580942: document wacky default charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 580942 confirmed thanks On 05/10/2010 02:50 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: By default, cron will send mail using the mail Content-Type: header of text/plain with the charset= parame- ter set to the charmap / codeset of the locale in which crond(8) is started up - ie.

Bug#580938: cron sends mail to null after upgrade to v3.0pl1-110

2010-05-10 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 580938 +patch thanks On 05/10/2010 05:08 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/09/2010 08:22 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: tag 580938 confirmed pending severity important thanks On 05/10/2010 02:14 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: My crontab entries all have this in them, so that emails to *not* get

Bug#505143: zd1211-firmware: pluscom wu-zd1211b, firmware not working (RF MAXIM_NEW_RF 0x8 is not supported)

2010-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 reassign 505143 linux-2.6 retitle 505143 zd1211rw: RF MAXIM_NEW_RF 0x8 is not supported found 2.6.26-21 notfound 2.6.29-1 thanks Jelle de Jong wrote: Christian Kastner wrote, on 20-03-10 03:53: Geoff seems to have correctly identified the source

Bug#500712: problem is not reproducible anymore, fixed?

2010-03-20 Thread Christian Kastner
Jelle de Jong wrote: Hi Christian, Christian Kastner wrote, on 20-03-10 03:44: have you encountered this issue again since your initial report, or is it still unreproducible? I tested the boot process with three different zd1211 devices and the boot process did not slow down as much

Bug#522602: xdm randomly crashes on logout

2010-04-12 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 07:40:46 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Sometimes, when I log out of XFCE4, xdm crashes. I have found four different types of crashes in /var/log/xdm.log: A) Crash (with backtrace) because of 'corrupted double-linked list' B

Bug#76625: parsing is not very smart

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
Steve Greenland wrote: On 09-Nov-00, 05:57 (CST), Thue t...@diku.dk wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-60 Severity: normal Entering a single line via crontab, without a linebreak at the end, cron ignored it. Yes, I know. It's intentional in the original code: ch =

Bug#373152: cron should randomize /etc/crontab to be more friendly to virtual servers

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 373152 wishlist merge 373152 522419 thanks In my own experience, the only proper approach -- guaranteeing safe system loads -- is a managed solution, ie either custom crontabs for the guests or having cron jobs managed by the host (as Russell plans to do). Nevertheless, I understand the

Bug#460070: this bug/#460070 - cron: Using day-of-month and day-of-week together doesn't work as expected

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 460070 wishlist tag wontfix thanks As many have indicated here, this behaviour is standard. I don't like it either, but that's the way it is. Anyway, there are easy workarounds for this (see Justin's shell trick, for example). Because Jesús was kind enough to provide a patch, I'm

Bug#484349: cron: should have a load-limit making it not run when a certain load has reached

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 484349 wishlist tag 484349 wontfix thanks Hi Folkert, Folkert van Heusden wrote: cron: should have a load-limit making it not run when a certain load has reached e.g. when the load reaches 20, don't run anymore cron-jobs. this is helpfull if the system is already having a hard

Bug#532578: Treat EOF as newline in crontab?

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
Reuben Thomas wrote: On 15 April 2010 22:27, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: [4. Why are we still shipping cron, when fcron has been apparently capable and planned to take over from cron+anacron for years (and can already be used in place of anacron)?] Probably

Bug#532578: Treat EOF as newline in crontab?

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 532578 fixed thanks Hello Reuben, Reuben Thomas wrote: BUGS Although cron requires that each entry in a crontab end in a newline character, neither the crontab command nor the cron daemon will detect this error. Instead, the crontab will appear to load

Bug#79037: cron does not shout when the crontab lacks a newline.

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
unmerge 79037 tag 79037 -fixed thanks Hi Jakub, Justin, Jakub Chmielewski wrote: I put some files in /etc/cron.d but have found out that the cron does not run then, though they are marked as loaded (RELOAD in the log). I've dug the source and found the load_user routine in user.c. When

Bug#540739: Fwd: Should allow the sysadmin to edit cron jobs for other SE Linux roles

2010-04-15 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Russell, Russell Coker wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-105 Severity: normal The crontab -u command allows the sysadmin to edit the crontab file for another user. If it is run as unconfined_t or sysadm_t (really the -u option shouldn't work otherwise) then there should be an

Bug#79037: cron does not shout when the crontab lacks a newline.

2010-04-19 Thread Christian Kastner
(Jakub bounced, so I dropped him from CC:) Christian Kastner wrote: Jakub Chmielewski wrote: I put some files in /etc/cron.d but have found out that the cron does not run then, though they are marked as loaded (RELOAD in the log). I've dug the source and found the load_user routine

Bug#433609: this bug/#433609 - Cron does not recover from broken links

2010-04-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Justin Pryzby wrote: #433609 - Cron does not recover from broken links http://bugs.debian.org./433609 Debian cron seems to be patched to avoid spinning up laptop harddrives. The logic is: if no spoolfiles have been added or removed (the parent's mtime is unchanged) no

Bug#470564: cron: dies when directory does not exist

2010-04-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:14:55PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: We just had cron die on our production boxes as someone was moving /var/spool around. Whilst I certainly don't mind it warning that /var/spool/crontabs didn't exist, it would be really nice if it didn't

Bug#578751: cron should not check for missing lost+found on xfs

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
merge 577508 578751 thanks Hello Joerg, Joerg Dietrich wrote: /etc/cron.daily/standard checks for the existence of lost+found directories on ext[2-4] and xfs file systems and complains if they are absent. This is not necessary on xfs file systems since xfs_repair will create lost+found

Bug#155109: cron: possible cause identified (willing to write patch with advice)

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Alexis Huxley wrote: I am almost certain that this bug is caused not by running a program from cron which generates a lot of output, but rather by running a program that takes a long time to run. I have examined the cron sources and this is what happens: 1) main cron process forks a

Bug#155109: this bug/#155109 - cron: sendmail can time out during extended interval of job execution

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 155109 confirmed pending thanks Hello Justin, Justin Pryzby wrote: I'm including patches for cron-3 and cron-4 which effect the saving of job output to a tempfile rather than a potentially-longlived pipe to sendmail. That also allowed me to output a warning when a job fails. I have

Bug#443615: cron: warn if a cronjob fails

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 443615 confirmed pending thanks I'm not quite sure whether this is about the mail-timeout-bug or the missing-newline-before-EOF-bug, but both have been resolved and will be fixed by the next upload. Thanks, Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#497742: Cannot set environment variables to NULL, get bad minute error

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-104 The first form below does not work. $ echo -e 'zzz=\n* * * * * date'|crontab - -:0: bad minute errors in crontab file, can't install. $ echo -e '* * * * * date'|crontab - $ echo -e 'zzz=4\n* * * * * date'|crontab - $

Bug#577133: cron jobs fail silently if too much output is produced and no MTA is installed

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Bob, Bob Feldbauer wrote: If a cron job produces too much output, it will silently fail if no MTA is installed. This issue was reported and confirmed as a bug in Ubuntu (bug #151231 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/151231) but does not seem to have been reported in

Bug#555954: Jobs in /etc/cron.d stopped running

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Mike Bird wrote: All my /etc/cron.d jobs stopped running this morning. I suspect it is because a few were scheduled to run at an hour which did not exist today due to DST. This is a separate issue which was fixed by -109 (see changelog). Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Bug#555954: cron stops inspection of new cron jobs after a 'Error: bad hour; while reading'

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Xavier, xavier renaut wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-106 Severity: normal if one creates a cron job in cron.d , wait for the reload, change it again with a bad time, ie : * 222 * * * root echo /dev/null cron will report cron[26144]: Error: bad hour; while reading

Bug#482541: cron: major performance issue with initgroups

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Bas, Bas van der Vlies wrote: First a brief description of our setup: - +/- 800 nodes installed with debian - more then 4000 users and each user has its own group - 2 LDAP servers (master/slave) setup This is what i encountered when cron runs a script. This script

Bug#555954: ditto

2010-04-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Josip, Josip Rodin wrote: Hi, I believe this problem just hit me too, on lenny. The issue here is that cron will skip the execution of ALL jobs in a particular /etc/cron.d/file if just one of them has an incorrectly formatted timing specification. Yes, this is intentional. In my case

Bug#555954: ditto

2010-04-23 Thread Christian Kastner
Josip Rodin wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:11:49AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: I believe this problem just hit me too, on lenny. The issue here is that cron will skip the execution of ALL jobs in a particular /etc/cron.d/file if just one of them has an incorrectly formatted timing

Bug#555954: ditto

2010-04-23 Thread Christian Kastner
Josip Rodin wrote: I don't quite see how these two things need to be handled the same way. In #378153, the problem was cron executing some completely broken cron.d file (a binary file). A specific typo in a specific field is not the marker of a completely broken cron.d file. Indeed, it isn't.

Bug#204815: cron: fails when userid not in /etc/shadow

2010-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Evgeny, this bug has been open for almost 7 years. I ran some tests, and I think the underlying issue has been solved, one way or another (see below). Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: On 10-Aug-03, 06:32 (CDT), Evgeny Stambulchik fnevg...@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il

Bug#555954: more

2010-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 555954 unreproducible moreinfo thanks Tagging Xavier's original report, since the two other (independent) issues appear to be resolved. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#484122: FW: cron: segmentation fault while executing the jobs (correction)

2010-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 484122 libpam-mount thanks Apologies, my bug number was off by one. Christian Kastner wrote: reassign 484123 libpam-mount thanks Hello Bastian, From the 4 segfault reports presented in this bug against cron, 1 was definitely caused by a libc upgrade and is merely an FYI

Bug#533726: bad minute test misses 5-65/30

2010-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 533726 confirmed pending thanks jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-106 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/crontab These aren't caught by the bad minute test. 5-65/30 * * * * 6-66/30 * * * * 7-67/30 * * * * It should catch anything above 59. I didn't test hours

Bug#435271: only root crontabs are executed

2010-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Fahad Ahmad wrote: I am facing the exact same problem as the original poster on all my debian lenny servers. The servers that are still on etch with the exact same pam configurations have no problems running jobs as normal users. Here is the strace output from cron: *snip* 443

Bug#578215: RFP: ggaoed -- a high-performance AoE (ATA over Ethernet) target implementation

2010-04-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Roman Mamedov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Package name: ggaoed Version: 1.1 Upstream Author: Gábor Gombás gomb...@sztaki.hu URL: http://code.google.com/p/ggaoed/ License: GPL v2 Description:

Bug#437180: this bug/#437180 - some user cronjobs are not beeing executed upon reboot

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Wolf, Wolf Wiegand wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Could you test if this problem exists with recent versions of cron? I just checked on a current sid machine, the problem still exists: $ dpkg -l cron | grep ^ii ii cron 3.0pl1-103 management of regular background

Bug#555954: ditto

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Josip Rodin wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:59:18PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Thanks. Will it show up whenever it is disabled, i.e. will I have a chance to actually see the message post res? I'm not sure I quite follow, but generally speaking, the message will be logged to syslog once

Bug#555954: ditto

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Josip Rodin wrote: I don't think the OP's bug is any different. He could have corrected the error e.g. by what I did - by moving a backup file into place, but then crond didn't pick up the 'new' file because it wasn't really new. It doesn't have to be new in a chronological sense. The sole

Bug#260789: cron jobs not running

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Joey, Joey Esquibal wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-72 : sparc When I created a new cron job using the root user, example: 30 12 * * * /path/to/script/script.sh It shows me the following log: Jun 23 13:48:01 portal /usr/sbin/cron[6755]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root) Jun

Bug#465473: gc_approx: would be nice to keep unneeded packages X days before deletion

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Andrew Vaughan wrote: Package: approx Version: 3.0.0~bpo40+1 Severity: wishlist Hi It would be nice to be able to configure gc_approx to keep superceded/ removed packages for a month or so before deleting them. This would be useful for those occasions when you upgrade to a broken

Bug#437180: this bug/#437180 - some user cronjobs are not beeing executed upon reboot

2010-04-29 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 437180 confirmed pending thanks Wolf Wiegand wrote: Hi Christian, Christian Kastner wrote: $ crontab -l @reboot FOO=$(ls /); echo $FOO | mail w...@localdomain @reboot FOO=asdf; echo $FOO | mail w...@localdomain $ grep CRON /var/log/syslog | egrep wolf|reboot Mar 8 11:35:10

Bug#308904: Related to a lib!?

2010-04-29 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 308904 libpam-ldap thanks Hi Richard, Steve Greenland wrote: On 16-May-05, 10:55 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de wrote: There's really nothing cron can do about this. Strange. But why do cron die or block? And why do I have this problem only the last few weeks and not bevore?

Bug#206948: cron: ldap causes a signal death?

2010-04-29 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 206948 libnss-ldap thanks Hi Richard, Steve Greenland wrote: On 09-Jul-04, 09:11 (CDT), benf...@etica.net wrote: Using nscd instead of direct libnss-ldap-slapd makes the problema go away. Right. The pam_ldap people won't fix their module to catch SIGPIPE, the expect every

Bug#579640: cron complains about missing lost+found dirs

2010-04-30 Thread Christian Kastner
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-105 Severity: normal Recently, cron has started complaining about missing lost+found directories on my ext3 filesystems: | Some local filesystems do not have lost+found directories. This | means that these filesystems will not be able

Bug#579640: cron complains about missing lost+found on XFS

2010-04-30 Thread Christian Kastner
Peter Chubb wrote: Version: 3.0pl1-109 Package: cron XFS doesn't create or use lost+found by default, so there's no point in complaining it doesn't exist. This was already reported in #577508. A fix is currently pending upload. Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Bug#323710: Bad default /etc/crontab disables cron

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 323710 wishlist retitle 323710 Better cron - anacron interaction thanks Hello, Joel Barker wrote: When anacron is installed but disabled (ie, no symlink exists in /etc/rc?.d), then cron will fail to run the cronjobs in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. This is because the default

Bug#323710: Still a problem?

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Brandon wrote: It seems that this is no longer an issue. Anacron installs a script, /etc/cron.d/anacron. Even if anacron does not run at startup, such as if /etc/rc?.d/*anacron was removed, cron will start anacron at 7:30am each morning. This won't work, because /etc/cron.d/anacron uses

Bug#578856: bind mounts not handled correctly by lost+found check in /etc/cron.daily/standard

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Rob, Rob Walker wrote: My system has a number of bind mounts set up: the root is NAND flash, so /usr /var /srv are on a disk (/mnt/disk) /etc/fstab has: /mnt/disk/srv /srvnonebind0 0 /mnt/disk/usr /usrnonebind0 0

Bug#537073: Let passwd package handle backup of /etc/passwd, etc.

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
The passwd package is pending an upload for daily backups of /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow}, see #554170. Justin took care of it (thanks!), but probably forgot to mention it here. We'll proceed as did for dpkg backups in #541412. Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Bug#578856: bind mounts not handled correctly by lost+found check in /etc/cron.daily/standard

2010-05-02 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 578856 confirmed thanks Rob Walker wrote: Here's the results of the commands you requested: [...@makalu ~]$ df -P --type=ext2 --type=ext3 --type=ext4 --type=xfs Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1307663800 229912116 74626000

Bug#522602: xdm randomly crashes on logout

2010-04-04 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 07:40:46 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Sometimes, when I log out of XFCE4, xdm crashes. I have found four different types of crashes in /var/log/xdm.log: A) Crash (with backtrace) because of 'corrupted double-linked list' B

Bug#500712: problem is not reproducible anymore, fixed?

2010-03-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Jelle, Jelle de Jong wrote: Hello everybody, I did some testing on bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500712 And It seem I am unable to reproduce the delay, so I think the problem is fixed? Any ideas how? it appears to be the same kernel and firmware... have you

Bug#573468: zd1211-firmware: pluscom wu-zd1211b, firmware not working (RF MAXIM_NEW_RF 0x8 is not supported)

2010-03-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Jelle, Jelle de Jong wrote: Package: zd1211-firmware Version: 2.21.0.0-0.1 Severity: normal I bought bunch of wireless dongles with a zd1211b chipset, but they don't work (yet). Who would be the best person to contact to get support for the device? I hope the debian maintainer

Bug#505143: Fwd: zd1211-firmware: pluscom wu-zd1211b, firmware not working (RF MAXIM_NEW_RF 0x8 is not supported)

2010-03-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello Jelle, Jelle de Jong wrote: Package: zd1211-firmware Version: 2.21.0.0-0.1 Severity: normal I bought bunch of wireless dongles with a zd1211b chipset, but they don't work (yet). Who would be the best person to contact to get support for the device? I hope the debian maintainer

Bug#590290: Bug#604181: Cron leaking file descriptors

2010-11-22 Thread Christian Kastner
On 11/22/2010 09:34 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at: If you're interested and/or willing to help testing, an amd64 package (and source package, for other platforms) based on the current -115 plus the (one-line) fix for this issue are available here: http

Bug#590290: Bug#604181: Cron leaking file descriptors

2010-11-23 Thread Christian Kastner
No, that was it. Anyway, I'll try to get properly validate the fix 100% some time this week. Thanks again, Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#590290: Proper fix implemented

2010-11-28 Thread Christian Kastner
A proper fix has been implemented. The current fix was bit of a hack; the issue preventing a proper fix was me overlooking that vixie cron still used vfork() in some spots. Christian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#596369: cron: dpkg-reconfigure fails

2010-09-10 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 596369 dpkg thanks Hi, On 09/10/2010 09:06 PM, Steven Malin wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-114 Severity: normal if i do a dpkg-reconfigure on the cron package i get the following messages: ---snip--- r...@bluewave:~# dpkg-reconfigure cron Stopping periodic command

Bug#596632: doxygen segfaults while building documentation

2010-09-12 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: doxygen Version: 1.7.1-2 Severity: important Doxygen occasionally segfaults when attempting to build part of the documentation for the Shark Machine Learning Library, specifically the documentation for ReClaM. When the segfault occurs, it is always during processing of a certain file. I

Bug#596632: Correct backtrace

2010-09-12 Thread Christian Kastner
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Bug#596632: Correct backtrace

2010-09-12 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/13/2010 01:46 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: I attached the wrong file, here's the correct one. This time with attachment. Sorry. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x006906ef in DocFormula::isInline (this=0x1be4860) at docparser.h:453 453 bool isInline

Bug#596636: doxygen build ignores CFLAGS

2010-09-12 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: doxygen Version: 1.7.1-2 Severity: normal debian/rules indicates that noopt and debug are supported in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Both add the appropriate flags to CFLAGS. Both are ignored. The only way I could get a debug build was by passing the --debug option to ./configure. Christian

Bug#595485: ITP: shark -- Modular Machine Learning Library

2010-09-04 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at * Package name: shark Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : Shark Project * URL : http://shark-project.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Modular

Bug#596283: Freeze exception: shadow / possible cron update?

2010-09-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 08/18/2010 08:31 PM, Nicolas François wrote: * debian/passwd.cron.daily: Handle the backups of the user and group databases so that it can be removed from the standard daily cron job. Closes: #554170 I only now noticed that this version of shadow entered testing. Assuming

Bug#596283: Freeze exception: shadow / possible cron update?

2010-09-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/19/2010 06:21 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:21:38 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Assuming that #596283 will be fixed by a -2 release of shadow, I was wondering whether the Release Team would like a cron -115 as well, with this feature removed from /etc

Bug#596283: Freeze exception: shadow / possible cron update?

2010-09-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/21/2010 01:36 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:58:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: How about letting cron depend on the new passwd package instead of breaking the old? ISTM this would have been the better action for #541415 as well. Sounds like that would work.

Bug#597707: cron: Cron segfaults while executing jobs

2010-09-22 Thread Christian Kastner
merge 597707 597705 thanks Hi Igor, On 09/22/2010 01:08 PM, jen...@debian.org wrote: Each time cron tries to execute a job from /etc/cron.d (or any other crontab) I see syslog entries like these: some-machine:~# grep 'segfault at 0 ip 0 sp' /var/log/syslog Sep 22 07:17:01 some-machine

Bug#602903: cron: lsb dependencies should use $named

2010-11-09 Thread Christian Kastner
tags 602903 + moreinfo thanks Hi Erwan, On 11/09/2010 10:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: /etc/init.d/cron uses a Should-start: nscd Thus it does not work on installation using another resolver ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: cron # Required-Start:$remote_fs $syslog $time #

Bug#602903: cron: lsb dependencies should use $named

2010-11-10 Thread Christian Kastner
tags 602903 confirmed pending thanks On 11/09/2010 10:30 PM, Erwan David wrote: On 09/11/10 21:54, Christian Kastner wrote: On 11/09/2010 10:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: /etc/init.d/cron uses a Should-start: nscd Thus it does not work on installation using another resolver ### BEGIN INIT INFO

Bug#599160: cron: Please document applied patches and/or use quilt

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Allard, On 10/05/2010 10:14 AM, Allard Hoeve wrote: Today I was trying to apply a patch to the latest Debian package in squeeze. Unfortunately, the patch didn't immediately apply. This led me to investigate why. What kind of patch, and from what source (BTS, third party, ...)? That part

Bug#601259: FTBFS if only built with Python =2.6

2010-10-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 10/24/2010 09:59 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: On 10/24/2010 03:22 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Luke Faraone lfara...@debian.org, 2010-10-24, 13:55: When attempting to build this package with pyversions of 2.6-, the package FTBFS because it expects there to be a build/lib directory. Versions of

Bug#601259: FTBFS if only built with Python =2.6

2010-10-25 Thread Christian Kastner
On 10/25/2010 06:15 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: On 10/24/2010 06:40 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: armel, hppa, mips, powerpc, maybe s390, plus all non-Linux ones. Use something like: $(shell python -c 'import distutils.util as d; print d.get_platform()') Okay, I've committed the above. Is this

Bug#604181: Cron leaking file descriptors

2010-11-20 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 590290 cron forcemerge 590290 604181 tags 590290 confirmed pending thanks Hi Jaap, On 11/21/2010 01:33 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: When cron runs lvdisplay (lvm2 2.02.66-4) from a simple shell script once every evening, my Debian squeeze system consistently gives this kind of error:

Bug#604163: dpkg-maintscript-helper error reconfiguring the package

2010-11-20 Thread Christian Kastner
reassign 604163 debconf forcemerge 560317 604163 thanks Hi Marco, On 11/20/2010 09:20 PM, Marco Nenciarini wrote: On a freshly installed squeeze system: mnen...@poison:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p low cron Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't

Bug#599897: cron: /etc/default/locale may miss

2010-10-12 Thread Christian Kastner
tag 599895 + unreproducible thanks Hi David, On 10/12/2010 09:55 AM, David Delon wrote: Extract from /usr/share/doc/cron/changelog.Debian.gz: * debian/cron.pam: - In addition to the reading /etc/security/pam_env.conf and /etc/environment (obsolete config file) previous

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