Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > More details. > > The target system is pxe booted and next-server takes it to a (debian) > > system running tftpd-hpa. The defaults.cfg has lots of boot targets > > but the one I have been testing with is the netboot image, in m

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:01:20AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > ... > > warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. > > > > warning: Could not load shared library symbols for 4 libraries, e.g. > > /lib/libc.so.6. > > Use the "info sharedlibrary" command to see the complete

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:29:18AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > Also you might want to use the console (alt+f2) to run wget by hand and > > see if the issue happen with all hosts or only some of them. > > I tried to wget pages from a few web sites from the alt+f2 consol

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:03:19PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: ... > > If all of that makes no difference, what would be the next step? > > What would be interesting would be to try to reproduce the issue in > qemu or virtualbox, with as many things as possible close to your > system. > Just

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:38:32PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: A brief note on the client side of things. At step 3, after installing your packages but before tweaking nfs-server.service, the critical chain for the client mount is usr-local.mount +1.145s └─remote-fs-pre.target @7.493s

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:22:25AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Vincent McIntyre. > > Thanks for your thurough testing and useful feedback. > > Let me start with a disclaimer: I'm not maintaining nfs (and I'm > not even using it myself so my knowled

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:28:55PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > - make sure all ipv6 related options are disabled > >and no ipv6 DNS entries exist for the target host > >Didn't try it. The failure happens really early, before the >preseed file i

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:30:32AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > You've given me a few things to try out > - tell DHCP to supply different DNS servers (running bind) Makes no difference. These servers are not configured for v6, while the first ones I used were. T

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > I don't talk about the software running on your DNS servers, but > rather how they behave when they get queried. It might depends on > many other things, like if your network has IPv6 or not. > > Note that's only one explanation,

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:46:30AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2016-09-09 10:27, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > > Package: libc6-udeb > > Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: breaks installation entirely > &

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I found one further issue which is related to #738063. I wanted to limit the exports to supporting version 2 and 3. I first set RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--manage-gids --no-nfs-version 4" as explained in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server. But I found I also needed add the following to that file: RPCNFSDPR

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Thanks Andreas for those new packages. I did some testing of the 1.2.8-9.2 packages on a clean jessie install. They are pretty close but I found an issue with NFS exports in one case. I used the attached check.sh script to show the state of various targets as I changed things. The attached result

Bug#837123: ([anna] segfault in wheezy installer)

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I just realised this went to the libc maintainers; I was expecting it would go to the debian-installer team. This might be an issue in the way libc6-udeb is being used within debian-installer, rather than libc6-udeb itself. I don't know how to figure out if that is the case; if it is the case, p

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libc6-udeb Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10 Severity: grave Justification: breaks installation entirely The wheezy installer fails with anna reporting a segfault: ... anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving libc6-udeb 2.13-38+deb7u10 anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving finish-install 2.41wheezy1 anna[5033]: DE

Bug#775541: NFS mounts fail at boot after Debian 8.5 upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello Paul I read your feedback on this issue with interest. Could you provide a bit more information about the package versions on your system? dpkg -l rpcbind nfs-common nfs-kernel-server systemd Also I think the output of these commands would be helpful systemd-analyze critical-path remote-f

Bug#821811: samba: badlock patch breaks trust relationship

2016-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I can confirm that after downgrading these packages samba samba-common samba-common-bin libwbclient0 smbclient samba-tools to version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7 and then upgrading with apt-get -t santiago-wheezy install samba samba-common \ samba-common-bin libwbclient0 smbclient samba-too

Bug#784743: updated patch

2015-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch The perl patching command given by Edmund results in this change: --- debian/patches/linker-specific-changes.orig 2011-11-19 16:45:51.0 +1100 +++ debian/patches/linker-specific-changes 2015-08-03 14:16:16.518331208 +1000 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ grtv00.o : $(DRVDIR)/imdef.h

Bug#706112: [PATCH 0/4] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. > > Thanks, Vincent. > > Ap

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. > > Thanks, Vincent. > > Ap

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
> > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. [PATCH] Actually set bootdev. After taking all the trouble to get the right value into the $bootdev shell variable, ensure that we db_set grub-installe

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
methods in grub-pc & iso-scan - don't abuse the 'seen' flag Signed-off-by: Vincent McIntyre --- debian/grub-installer.templates | 13 + grub-installer | 99 +-- 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 3

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi Joey thank you for your helpful comments. I'm working on fixing the issues. I do have one question because I'm completely new to the translation side of things... On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:28:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > There are also some hardcoded user-visible strings embedded in the

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:33:01AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi Vince > > > > > Please see my working (for me), tested, waiting-for-review patch [1] > > sent to the -boot list yesterday. > > Do you know how the problem can be triggerd. As far as I remember only > some installation from

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
> Sadly, this issue will probably be in wheezy as nobody digged enough > to tackle this down and we get rid of it before the last version of > D-I is released. Please see my working (for me), tested, waiting-for-review patch [1] sent to the -boot list yesterday. Cheers Vince [1] https://lists.

Bug#517644: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
talking to myself again... > Luk Claes wrote... > > Feel free to test with the version in proposed-updates to really make > > sure it's fixed. > > I'm not completely sure how to do this. From what I can gather from [1] > I need to build my own installer image, which I'll have a go at. > I initial

Bug#517644: reopening

2009-05-20 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
package: choose-mirror tags 517644 + reopen thanks Hi, I just tried to use the lenny installer to install an etch i386 system. The same issue as before occurs, see the /var/log/installer/syslog extract below. I redid the install with suite="oldstable" in the PXE boot line and got the same resu

Bug#517644: Info received (Bug#517644: [amd64][lenny] since lenny release, unable to install 'etch' via 'lenny' installer)

2009-03-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I've confirmed this behaviour also occurs when using ftp.au.debian.org as the mirror, instead of our local apt-proxy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#475958: document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure

2008-10-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Please let me know if something is wrong or badly written. It's a great idea to document this problem and ways to deal with it. It's an extremely unsettling experience to have it occur unexpectedly. Could I suggest taking your notes one step further, and explaining how to fix it permanently, o

Bug#332782: Your contribution to the Debian release notes (re-post)

2008-09-28 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hello, "I allow that my contribution to the Debian GNU/Linux release notes can be distributed under any DFSG-free license." Good luck with the next release notes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403696: more info

2006-12-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I can confirm this bug. This might be related to some compatibility with libgtk2.0-0 ? % script log.gtk % strace gtkdialog % exit % grep ^open /tmp/log.gtk | grep -v ENOENT | \ sed -e 's/^.*"\(.*\)",.*/\1/' |xargs grep -li gtkdialog /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#339290: additional info

2005-12-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: update-flashplugin Hi a little more info, hope this helps. I have a sarge system in which I tried hacking /etc/update-flashplugin.conf.rb as noted above. This was the result. # cat /etc/update-flashplugin.conf.rb # -*- ruby -*- # module UpdateFlashPluginConf SITES = { #"slug

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-06 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
And what about people that actually intend to use libraries from other locations instead of those in /lib, without breaking firefox ? Sorry, but I'm not following you. How would that come about? The library in question is libgcc_s.so.1. When would someone running a 'stable' system need to chang

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-05 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I think I am seeing this too. It was reported in #316824 (for 'mozilla') but I did not cross-report to 'mozilla-firefox'. The patch below should fix the issue, see #316824 for why I think it fixes it. I don't see why the firefox script should circumvent YOUR broken LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If your LD_LI

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2sarge5 Followup-For: Bug #322239 Hi I think I am seeing this too. It was reported in #316824 (for 'mozilla') but I did not cross-report to 'mozilla-firefox'. The patch below should fix the issue, see #316824 for why I think it fixes it. PLEASE can you app