[Bug 1218819] [NEW] libfdt-dev is broken for current LTS release

2013-08-30 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Currently attempts to use libfdt-dev will fail as the packaging doesn't include the libfdt_env.h header required by the others. One place this breaks for example is trying to compile the current QEMU using system libraries. This has already been fixed upstream so the fix

[Bug 1218819] Re: libfdt-dev is broken for current LTS release

2013-08-30 Thread Alex Bennee
This is the upstream bug-report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706137 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1218819 Title: libfdt-dev is broken for current LTS release

[Bug 1218819] Re: libfdt-dev is broken for current LTS release

2013-08-30 Thread Alex Bennee
I can confirm that after hand-building Debian's device-tree- compiler_1.3.0-4 packages and installing them I could successfully build something using libfdt-dev (qemu). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 624877] Re: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-09-18 Thread Alex Bennee
So I have verified that the proposed dpkg no longer hangs. I used the following script to generate heavy load on the system: #!/bin/bash # # Generate IO load echo starting load #dd if=/dev/zero of=zero sleep 1s dd if=/dev/urandom of=urandom sleep 1s dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sda1_backup1 sleep 1s dd

[Bug 624877] Re: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-09-14 Thread Alex Bennee
Thanks to Ted for clearly elucidating the two competing issues. For the time being we can't move from 10.04 (whole OS upgrades tend to be unpopular with customers for point releases). However as the kernel lock is always triggered by dpkg I'm hoping that just fixing dpkg will be enough. I assume

[Bug 624877] Re: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-09-13 Thread Alex Bennee
Surely the fix required is for the kernel? While dpkg might be good at triggering the bug it may not be the only thing that can hang the kernel requiring a hard reset. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 624877] Re: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-09-13 Thread Alex Bennee
The behaviour we are seeing is dpkg hangs and never returns. As dpkg is left in the D state and is un-killable the only recourse is to hard reset the box (power-cycle) it. However it might be due to file-system load it can never achieve the file-system sync. I'm currently trying to come up with a

[Bug 624877] Re: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Bennee
I'm confused as to when this fix was released. I can't see any reference to this bug in the changelogs of either dpkg or the linux- image. I'm seeing on customer 10.04LTS machines running the latest packages which makes me think the bug is still there. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 979758] Re: package fails to configure on failing to find /etc/init.d/nis

2012-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
I suspect the invoke-rc.d line needs to be wrapped in the -e part of the of the check? The current preinst code looks like: # Manually remove the nis init script, which has to be split into per-daemon # upstart jobs if dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt-nl 3.17-32ubuntu1.1 then # since this

[Bug 979758] [NEW] package fails to configure on failing to find /etc/init.d/nis

2012-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: On upgrading to Precise I find that apt cannot complete due to a --unpack failure running the pre-installation script. dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/nis_3.17-32ubuntu4_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 313937 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to

[Bug 979758] Re: package fails to configure on failing to find /etc/init.d/nis

2012-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
I suspect the invoke-rc.d line needs to be wrapped in the -e part of the of the check? The current preinst code looks like: # Manually remove the nis init script, which has to be split into per-daemon # upstart jobs if dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt-nl 3.17-32ubuntu1.1 then # since this

[Bug 930330] Re: gnome-keyring-daemon leaks memory badly

2012-02-13 Thread Alex Bennee
Following a weekend of my work machine idling and doing nothing I can now report gnome-keyring-daemon is taking up 8.7% of my memory: 983M (VIRT) 677M (RES) 8.7% MEM -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 930330] Re: gnome-keyring-daemon leaks memory badly

2012-02-13 Thread Alex Bennee
Apologies - this package is part of the Gnome 3 PPA. According to #179873 I can't assign this bug to a PPA so I'm unsure what to do. Will contact the PPA manager directly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 930330] [NEW] gnome-keyring-daemon leaks memory badly

2012-02-10 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: There seems to be a persistent leak in gnome-keyring-daemon. Several times I've come into work to find a very sluggish machine swapping applications back in with the daemon consuming 45% of my system memory (according to htop on an 8GB machine). If there is any debugging tips

[Bug 930330] Dependencies.txt

2012-02-10 Thread Alex Bennee
apport information ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930330/+attachment/2730042/+files/Dependencies.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930330

[Bug 911693] Re: No debug symbols for git

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Bennee
Does that make this an upstream bug for Debian? I've also found another package without debug symbols (libgdk- pixbuf2.0-0), should I raise a bug for that as well? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: Distro patch to libtool on Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu Oneiric breaks compile of rrdtool (Was: Re: [rrd-developers] Compile failure due to libwrap on Ubuntu 11.10)

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Bennee
On 5 January 2012 16:52, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 05:33:51PM +, Alex Bennee wrote: On 20 December 2011 15:46, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Hi Alex, Yesterday Alex Bennee wrote: On 19 December 2011 17:00, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote

[Bug 911693] [NEW] No debug symbols for git

2012-01-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: I'm trying to do some system profiling on a server that's behaving poorly while cloning repositories. To do proper profiling I need the debug symbols but I can find them even with the ddebs.ubuntu.com repo added. root@vsbldhost:/scratch/root# apt-cache search dbg | grep git

[Bug 890167] [NEW] Moonlight not available for Oneiric Ocelot

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Unfortunately I need Moonlight installed to use an internal intranet site. After following link on the 'net I found a suggestion it should be apt-get 'able. However according to the package page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/natty/moon there is no version built for

[Bug 882941] Re: Debmirror ignores '--method' option (always uses rsync)

2011-11-08 Thread Alex Bennee
I can confirm this happens. A strace very clearly shows it ignoring me: 29077 execve(/usr/bin/debmirror, [debmirror, --host, sloy, --method=http, -r, apt, --dist=repo, --arch=amd64,source, --section=main, VNMS_2.1.32-0], [/* 83 vars */]) = 0 29078 execve(/bin/sh, [sh, -c, patch --version

[Bug 882941] Re: Debmirror ignores '--method' option (always uses rsync)

2011-11-08 Thread Alex Bennee
This looks like it's an upstream change. From the man-page: --rsync-extra=foo[,bar,..] Allows to also mirror files from a number of directories that are not part of the package archive itself. Debmirror will always use rsync for the transfer of these files, irrespective

[Bug 554983] Re: powertop: powertop.c:113: push_line_pid: Assertion `strlen(string) 0' failed.

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Bennee
The core dump is because of the assertion failure. Somehow the processing of /proc/timer_stats has broken. I can't see anything obvious as to why. I'd suggest running it under valgrind and seeing if that throws up any warnings. I have seen some other interesting core dumps on 10.04 in various

[Bug 595265] Re: Can not add Facebook account as add button not displayed after authorisation.

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
I tried the steps described in #157 (although I couldn't find the Gwibber permissions/authorization on FAcebook's site, I just deleted to the App). When attempting to login via the Gwibber status panel I get success reported in the text box but no Add button. I'm running the Gwibber PPA on 10.04

[Bug 570598] [NEW] Kernel oops caused while accessing one USB drive after a USB pen plugged in

2010-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Shortly after inserting a USB key into my hub the kernel oopsed on accessing my other removable USB drive which I keep permanently connected to my machine. It looks as though the addition of the key may have caused by previously mounted drive to be re-registered on a new

[Bug 423748] Re: Unable to create valid debug packages from some packages

2010-04-27 Thread Alex Bennee
I can't test the current setup on Lucid, we are using LTS for a reason. I can test when transition to the next LTS release. However from your experiments it sounds like a problem that only affects the LTS and has been fixed from updates to the build system. -- Unable to create valid debug

[Bug 273099] Re: No debug symbols package for net-snmp

2009-12-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Will there ever be a release for Hardy LTS? -- No debug symbols package for net-snmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273099 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to net-snmp in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list

[Bug 273099] Re: No debug symbols package for net-snmp

2009-12-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Will there ever be a release for Hardy LTS? -- No debug symbols package for net-snmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273099 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 183673] Re: Users-admin unlock not working

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Bennee
What package update is meant to have fixed this. I have the same problem that the Unlock button is greyed out for most of the admin tools when I access the server with ssh -Y and vncviewer. The suggested work around (#26) doesn't seem to have any effect. Obviously it's a bit crippling not being

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-04 Thread Alex Bennee
I wrote a quick script and found that the only debug symbols I'm sure are suspect were the origin -dbg version of the libcairo ones. There are a bunch of files in the top level of /usr/lib/debug which don't match but I was kinda guessing, e.g.: 14:31 a...@pitcairn/x86_64 [dbgsym.git] ./dbgsym.py

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
The problem is that when the library was built the CRC of the debug symbols file gets planted in the main library file. OProfile very sensibly checks that the CRC of the debug file matches that stored in the actual library and ignores it if it doesn't. GDB may well work and having hacked oprofile

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
It could be this only affects the Hardy packages? Or maybe something more subtle? As you say GDB should complain but it certainly doesn't seem fussy: v...@vnms:~$ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-terminal GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
Just for completeness are there any pointers to using the pkg-create- dbgsym package? Installing it and rebuilding the package doesn't seem to have worked. -- libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415424 You received this bug

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
It looks like this is a bug in the tools. I installed pkg-create- dbgsym and rebuilt cairo from scratch and installed the new packages and I still get failures due to bad CRCs. I shall raise a new bug as I doubt this is the libcairo package explicitly. -- libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol

[Bug 423748] [NEW] Unable to create valid debug packages from some packages

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Following on from my investigation into LP#415424 it seems even the correct way of installing pkg-create-dbgsym doesn't allow the generation of correct debug packages. Although the packages are usable by the likes of GDB tools like oprofile rightly complain when they

[Bug 423748] Re: Unable to create valid debug packages from some packages

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
Hmm I thought Launchpad would ask me, however I'm running Hardy LTS. -- Unable to create valid debug packages from some packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423748 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 423776] Re: lsdvd crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
Is this a disk that has worked before? I'm completely guessing as I don't have lsdvd on any Ubuntu systems, but on other systems I've seen crashes with interesting discs. I'd done a hacky patch to it to make it slightly more robust: commit aadfb3181c94b6e1ee1708fd256df5654e5533a4 Author: Alex

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
I was rebuilding from source after install the pkg-create-dbgsyms package. Although curiously installing a dbgsym from the repo you referenced: apt-get install libcairo2-dbgsym followed by opreport: snip fetching .gnu_debuglink section .gnu_debuglink section has size 18 .gnu_debuglink filename

[Bug 415424] Re: libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Bennee
Two cases: 1. Built from source (with pkg-create-dbgsyms installed). Installed my locally built package with the locally built dbgsym ddeb: sudo dpkg -i libcairo2-dbgsym_1.6.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.ddeb libcairo2_1.6.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb The CRCs didn't match leading me to raise #423748. 2. Installed

[Bug 415424] [NEW] libcairo2-dbg CRC doesn't match symbol (I suspect this is more widespread)

2009-08-18 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: While attempting to oprofile something on my Hardy system I discovered the following: v...@vnms1:~/ajb$ opreport -V bfd -l /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2.17.3 CPU: Core 2, speed 2500 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Clock cycles when not halted) with a unit mask of

[Bug 219907] Re: detect lan printers no longer settable

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Bennee
Can confirm this is still a problem on 8.04 Hardy Heron. I guess bugs don't get fixed on Hardy unless they are confirmed on later builds :-( -- detect lan printers no longer settable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219907 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 227849] Re: MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers

2008-12-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Sorry for the delay. Unfortunately I can't just upgrade my development machine at work just to test the new X drivers. We are developing against LTS for a reason. I've added the lspci output for reference if it ever gets looked at again. ** Attachment added: lscpi -vvnn output

[Bug 194505] Re: Clock applet doesn't load when Google Calendar is used in Evolution

2008-10-13 Thread Alex Bennee
Just to echo eNz1m3 as I've just run into this very same bug. Does Hardy not get updates for bugs like this. It is meant to be a LTS system and this is a breaking the desktop bug. -- Clock applet doesn't load when Google Calendar is used in Evolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194505 You

[Bug 273099] [NEW] No debug symbols package for net-snmp

2008-09-22 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Running valgrind against some programs built with libsnmp I came across some invalid reads. Unfortunately it's in the guts of net-snmp and there is no debug symbol package to install to help elucidate whats going on. ** Affects: net-snmp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 273099] [NEW] No debug symbols package for net-snmp

2008-09-22 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Running valgrind against some programs built with libsnmp I came across some invalid reads. Unfortunately it's in the guts of net-snmp and there is no debug symbol package to install to help elucidate whats going on. ** Affects: net-snmp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 252174] Re: gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Bennee
Since todays updates it's started crashing for me on BBC's iplayer website. Seems flash-like -- gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252174 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 259858] Re: xfce4-places-plugin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Bennee
Hmm is there anyway to get the auto bug report daemon to append additional information to existing bugs? -- xfce4-places-plugin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 252901] Re: ubuntu-server install fails at grub-install stage when running in a KVM image

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Bennee
My current work-around was to build an image with ubuntu-kvm-image- builder, boot it with the server CDROM (for some reason despite having a working GRUB it failed to install a kernel image), install the image and the reboot. -- ubuntu-server install fails at grub-install stage when running in a

[Bug 252901] Re: ubuntu-server install fails at grub-install stage when running in a KVM image

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Bennee
** Attachment added: grub-fail.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16379302/grub-fail.png -- ubuntu-server install fails at grub-install stage when running in a KVM image https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 252901] [NEW] ubuntu-server install fails at grub-install stage when running in a KVM image

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-installer When installing the latest Ubuntu Server into a KVM machine the install locks up at the point it tries to install the grub bootloader. Further investigation shows it fails after installing stage_1_5. It will hag after that point although

[Bug 251114] [NEW] Fails to auto-mount YP-U2R music player as USB storage

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal-info Usually this works once and then fails on future insertions. Occasionally the device will mount if the machine is under heavy load which may indicate some sort of race. Looking at gnome-volume-manager it's fairly clear why it doesn't proceed:

[Bug 240938] Re: Needs builtin lpia modules to improve boot time

2008-06-24 Thread Alex Bennee
I have to echo Dave Millers comments. There have been a lot of kernel updates recently and it seems rather Windowsy to force everyone to reboot just for some boot time saving. In future it might be worth keeping fixes like this rolled up until the next security/bug fix before pushing out to

[Bug 227849] [NEW] MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nvidia-kernel-common When exiting the screen saver my X session crashed leaving the screen corrupted. It was possible to ssh into the box although the screen saver processes where using most of the CPU time. I was unable to restart X with the

[Bug 227849] Re: MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Bennee
** Attachment added: lscpi output for system http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14343414/lspci.dump ** Also affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers

[Bug 227849] Re: MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Bennee
** Attachment added: kernel log showing hang in kernel and crash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14343431/kern.subset.log -- MirrorBlob screen saver crashes X hard with nvidia drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 162664] Re: no video output module play nice with Compiz

2008-02-13 Thread Alex Bennee
I'm not sure if this is related or not. On my setup: 15:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/x86_64 [Desktop] cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 7.10 15:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/x86_64 [Desktop] dpkg -l mplayer ii mplayer

[Bug 186999] Re: Dell OEM ATI graphics chip not recognised by Restricted Drivers Manager

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Bennee
The pci-id I have here is also 01:00.0 0300: 1002:94c1 I see someone else has already tested the Hardy package. However the particulars of the driver that envy installed are: (somewhat trimmed) Envy - Version 0.9.10 Ubuntu Gutsy 64bit Your graphic card has been detected as a ATI RADEON HD 2400

[Bug 186999] [NEW] Dell OEM ATI graphics chip not recognised by Restricted Drivers Manager

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: restricted-manager I did a fresh install on 7.10 (Gutsy) on a fresh Dell Optiplex 755. The machine has an ATI chipset which is unidentified by it's PCI ID: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 94c1 (prog-if 00 [VGA

[Bug 162523] PS3 Wireless network not detected

2007-11-13 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-ps3 After installing the Fiesty Custom image the Wireless network of the PS3 is not detected. This may be related to the recent update of the GameOS Firmware to 2.0. The kernel version was: 2.6.20-15-powerpc64-smp #3 Apr (For Reference: YDL have

[Bug 126234] Udev Package missing debug info package

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Bennee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: udev Whilst trying to get more info on bug 115616 I would like to look at where in udev the ioctl is coming from. However the udev package is currently missing a debuginfo package. ** Affects: udev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status:

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2007-06-29 Thread Alex Bennee
I've seeing the same thing but with a command line openvpn connection. However the patch to the script didn't seem to work. In my case the initial connection is being handled by wpa_supplicant and uses dhclient not dhclient3 -- resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

[Bug 47971] Re: synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to

2006-09-25 Thread Alex Bennee
The ubuntu driver showed up as 0.14.3 and upstream 0.14.4 had a bunch of fixes for 64 bit issues. I was having the same problem with random pastes caused by phantom 3rd button presses each time I put my finger on the touchpad (even if I had disabled tapping). I have since manually updated to the