[Bug 1926918] Re: cannot install libc6-dev, requires old libc6 version

2021-05-03 Thread Jim Salter
Balint, what is the accepted method to downgrade an installed package to a prior version? I can think of three or four ways to accomplish it, but I can think of ways it could bite me in the butt having done so just as easily. :) This is especially a problem for this particular package, because

[Bug 1926918] [NEW] cannot install libc6-dev, requires old libc6 version

2021-05-02 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: Current version of libc6:amd64 in Focal is 2.31-0ubuntu9.3. libc6-dev requires 2.31-0ubuntu9.2 **only**. This prevents installation of libc6-dev (as originally discovered while trying to install build- essential, which also requires libc6-dev).

[Bug 1713248] Re: pubkey auth hangs on high latency networks

2017-08-26 Thread Jim Salter
After logging in, my actual tests move several gigabytes of http traffic - downloads of incompressible data in files ranging from 16KB to 16MB - complete without incident. I've been resorting to establishing an ssh control channel while the test laptops are in short range, then taking them to the

[Bug 1713248] [NEW] pubkey auth hangs on high latency networks

2017-08-26 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: This is a weird one. I use a small fleet of laptops to do professional network testing, and I wrote some tools that use SSH with pubkey auth to run simultaneous tests. The problem is, if the wifi connection isn't superb, the auth times out more often than not. For example,

[Bug 1639963] Re: zfs get compressratio returns bogus results

2016-11-07 Thread Jim Salter
Thanks Hajo - for some reason I didn't see your post until I'd already posted up there ^^; obviously you're correct. I don't see an obvious "close" button here, so I tagged it "invalid". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1639963] Re: zfs get compressratio returns bogus results

2016-11-07 Thread Jim Salter
Looks like this was an oops on my part - I got it pointed out for me that piping from /dev/zero to a filehandle results in a sparse file, which I did not understand and which explains the lack of impact from *that*. I verified that compressratio reports properly when dumping highly compressible

[Bug 1639963] [NEW] zfs get compressratio returns bogus results

2016-11-07 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: I'm running a just-installed-today copy of 16.04.1, installed from an ISO also just downloaded today from releases.ubuntu.com. root@xenial:~# lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release:16.04 root@xenial:~# apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux

[Bug 1551351] Re: dhclient does not renew leases

2016-10-24 Thread Jim Salter
I am also still affected by this bug. I build small Ubuntu-based routers, and the ones running Xenial are very likely to fail to get new leases after the connection drops from the ISP, or if they're booted while the connection to the ISP / the ISP's edge device is down. I'm having to resort to

[Bug 1605792] [NEW] firefox fails "profile cannot be loaded"

2016-07-22 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: Fresh install Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, server distro, apt update ; apt dist-upgrade -y ; apt install ubuntu-desktop -y ; shutdown -r now. Firefox would not open, stating "profile cannot be loaded, may be missing or inaccessible". Checked ownership of ~/.mozilla ; all files

[Bug 1541447] [NEW] virt-manager does not display global menu

2016-02-03 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: No global menu in virt-manager, whether Appearance settings are to use to global menu or display application menu in title bar. Either way, no app menu == no ability to add new connections or set preferences. I was going to clear out my virt-manager preferences (including

[Bug 1417051] Re: bug in dependency resolution while installing libguestfs-tools

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
In the meantime, workaround for those of us who aren't package maintainers is here: http://jrs-s.net/2015/05/13/libguestfs0-and-zfs-on-linux-in-ubuntu/ TL;DR edit the deb, remove the ill-considered dependency, done (at least until the next update puts it right back again). -- You received this

[Bug 1053911] Re: libguestfs-tools shouldn't have hard dependency on zfs-fuse daemon

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
Workaround here: http://jrs-s.net/2015/05/13/libguestfs0-and-zfs-on- linux-in-ubuntu/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053911 Title: libguestfs-tools shouldn't have hard dependency on

[Bug 1053911] Re: libguestfs-tools shouldn't have hard dependency on zfs-fuse daemon

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
It's fixed in Ubuntu 14.10 onwards. I wouldn't really say it's fixed; the hard dependency is moved downward a package to libguestfs-zfs, but it's still a hard dependency on zfs-fuse there, which still conflicts with zfsutils from ZFS on Linux, which is still by far the preferred method to

[Bug 1417051] Re: bug in dependency resolution while installing libguestfs-tools

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
This should be fixed by changing the dependencies in libguestfs0. For one, ZFS shouldn't be a hard dependency at all, it should be a recommend. For another, whether a depend or a recommend, it should be 'zfs-fuse | zfsutils', not merely 'zfs-fuse' as it is now. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1417051] Re: bug in dependency resolution while installing libguestfs-tools

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
This is neither an issue with aptitude nor a bug This is technically not an issue with aptitude, which is doing what it's supposed to, but this is ABSOLUTELY a bug. zfsutils provides all the code that libguestfs0 is looking for, but the libguestfs0 package is not configured to accept anything

[Bug 1053911] Re: libguestfs-tools shouldn't have hard dependency on zfs-fuse daemon

2015-05-13 Thread Jim Salter
This is still not fixed in Ubuntu Trusty, and it's biting me in the ass today. Another ZFS on Linux user here, as well, so the dependency on zfs-fuse - which is essentially a completely dead project AFAICT - is especially rankling. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 998589] Re: remmina 1 button broken in Precise

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
Yup, still an issue in Precise with Unity desktop. Though it seems to be less awful - I still get a bizarrely vertically stretched window, but now it seems relatively normal aside from being catastrophically the wrong height. (The button does get the width correct, at least). I'll also test

[Bug 998589] Re: remmina 1 button broken in Precise

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected precise running-unity ** Description changed: Broken on my recently-upgraded-from-Oneiric workstation: Suddenly, clicking the resize window to remote display button (the 1 button) in a Remmina connection results in a really bizarre,

[Bug 998589] Re: remmina 1 button broken in Precise

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
apport information ** Tags added: third-party-packages trusty ** Description changed: Broken on my recently-upgraded-from-Oneiric workstation: Suddenly, clicking the resize window to remote display button (the 1 button) in a Remmina connection results in a really bizarre, stretched-

[Bug 998589] Re: remmina 1 button broken in Precise

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
Yep, still broken in Trusty as well. Horizontal width is correct, but AFAICT Remmina basically tries to create an infinite height window, but is constrained by what the DE is willing to let it do (I could be wrong about that, but that's what it looks like). -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 998589] ProcEnviron.txt

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcEnviron.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998589/+attachment/4281725/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998589

[Bug 998589] Re: remmina 1 button broken in Precise

2014-12-15 Thread Jim Salter
Windows Anything. Happens with Windows Server 2003 (SBS, Standard, and Datacenter), Windows 7 Pro (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2008 (SBS and Standard), Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. Interestingly, watching it again as I type this (and double-checking with Server 2012 as a

[Bug 1310798] Re: JMicron JMC250 ethernet: networking always disconnected

2014-07-25 Thread Jim Salter
I'm more interested in what it looked like before the fix, I guess - in my case, the card was just never aliased to eth0 at all, and was marked DISABLED on boot. All I had to do to mine was ifconfig up p1p1 (it was being detected as p1p1, and not aliased to eth0 or ethanythingelse) and it was

[Bug 1310798] Re: JMicron JMC250 ethernet: networking always disconnected

2014-07-24 Thread Jim Salter
Alex, please sudo lshw -c network and post output. On my Trusty system, the card showed up as there but disabled - finding it with lshw -c network allowed me to ifconfig up the device and truck right on from there with no issues (though with a funny devicename - p1p1 instead of eth0, but who

[Bug 1310798] Re: JMicron JMC250 ethernet: networking always disconnected

2014-05-30 Thread Jim Salter
Workaround over here. I don't know why, but the device just doesn't get named eth(x), it gets named p1p1 or similar, and doesn't get automatically entered into /etc/network/interfaces. I did lshw -c network on a new Trusty x64 Server install on my Gazelle Pro p9 laptop, and it showed the JMC250

[Bug 1310798] Re: JMicron JMC250 ethernet: networking always disconnected

2014-05-30 Thread Jim Salter
correction: my laptop's a gazprop6, sorry 'bout the typo/braino. Very definitely a JMC250 chipset wired ethernet controller in it, though. Didn't autodetect during the installer process (though the wireless did), didn't come up on first boot (and wouldn't, until I'd manually run ifconfig p1p1 up

[Bug 1196059] Re: Unsupported date format

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Salter
I can confirm this is still present in some cases. I don't have the problem on my standard desktop machine running Saucy, but I do have it on my Acer C720 Chromebook running Saucy. indicator-datetime: Installed: 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1

[Bug 930540] Re: Mismatching module name in .conf for libapache2-mod-rpaf 0.6-2

2013-08-19 Thread Jim Salter
By the way - I can confirm that IfModule rpaf_module works. (And seems more portable / stable than referring directly to the module version - I'm going to assume that the Debian people are Doing It Right.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 986747] Re: Config file gets mangled

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Salter
I did not have duplicate entries in my list - checked with sort | uniq -c. didn't check the autogenerated list for dupes; just pointed to the non-autogenerated in squid-deb-proxy.conf, and poof, problem resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server

[Bug 930540] Re: Mismatching module name in .conf for libapache2-mod-rpaf 0.6-2

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Salter
This just bit me in the ass, too. HIGHLY annoying and should be ridiculously simple to fix in the package... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930540 Title: Mismatching module name in

[Bug 986747] Re: Config file gets mangled

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Salter
I did not have duplicate entries in my list - checked with sort | uniq -c. didn't check the autogenerated list for dupes; just pointed to the non-autogenerated in squid-deb-proxy.conf, and poof, problem resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1213556] [NEW] package nagios-nrpe-server 2.12-5ubuntu1.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: blergh... dunno? sorry, I usually provide great bug reports, but this was an automatic thing thrown up by whoopsie and I really just want to get on with my day =) ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nagios-nrpe-server 2.12-5ubuntu1.2

[Bug 1061101] Re: TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

2013-08-09 Thread Jim Salter
This bug is currently biting me. I've had the PPA created for about 24 hours, and my key has been published to my Launchpad account for ~2 hours. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061101

[Bug 1193464] [NEW] whoopsie password fail

2013-06-21 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: This problem exists on EVERY DUI'ed Ubuntu 12.04 machine and VM I operate - upwards of 50, varying between physical and virtual, with wildly different hardware, across 12.04, 12.04.1, and 12.04.2. When the System Problem Detected dialog comes up, if I select Report I then

[Bug 1050577] Re: Apport prompts several times for privileges during bug filing

2013-05-24 Thread Jim Salter
This also affects me on MULTIPLE Precise servers with ubuntu-desktop metapackage installed. Except that as far as I can tell, apport never does get sufficient elevations - as many times as I feed it a password, it just asks me for it again. I'd assumed that something was broken, like maybe it

[Bug 1178884] [NEW] unhelpful kvm error msg thrown when cache=none and no direct IO

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: If you set cache=none to the definition of a guest's disk when the underlying storage subsystem does not support Direct I/O - for example, glusterFS or ZFSonLinux, or any FUSE filesystem - your guest will not start, and the error message thrown is a very generic cannot

[Bug 1178884] [NEW] unhelpful kvm error msg thrown when cache=none and no direct IO

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: If you set cache=none to the definition of a guest's disk when the underlying storage subsystem does not support Direct I/O - for example, glusterFS or ZFSonLinux, or any FUSE filesystem - your guest will not start, and the error message thrown is a very generic cannot

[Bug 962376] Re: spicevmc not supported in QEMU binary

2013-04-10 Thread Jim Salter
You don't need to rebuild the VM - a simple: sed -i 's#bin/kvm#bin/kvm-spice#g' /etc/libvirt/qemu/*.xml will do the trick, after which you need to stop all your guests and then redefine them with lines like this: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/foo.xml ... to redefine a guest named foo, etc.

[Bug 566122] Re: fails to move files to usb drive

2013-01-22 Thread Jim Salter
This bug is affecting me right now. Precise 12.04.1 amd64. ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566122 Title: fails

[Bug 1097964] [NEW] baobab doesn't respect FS boundaries with ZFS

2013-01-09 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: With ZFS volumes mounted to /data and /backup (using the zfs-native PPA), baobab incorrectly reports my root FS as full - actually, way, way, WAY over full, as the root filesystem is 20G but /data and /backup have over 100G of stuff in them. I am filing this as a baobab bug,

[Bug 1095139] [NEW] cannot browse *.microsoft.com in Windows guests with bridged networking

2013-01-01 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: In a machine with Ubuntu Precise 12.04.1-LTS as the host and Windows 7 Pro x64 as the guest, if the guest uses /dev/br0, I can browse any site I can think of EXCEPT any microsoft.com site fine in the guest - but any *.microsoft.com will hang indefinitely, in any browser. The

[Bug 1095110] [NEW] dl.google.com repository always misses

2013-01-01 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: Not sure why, but squid-deb-proxy ALWAYS thinks that any package or list from dl.google.com is a miss. I've had squid-deb-proxy installed and working on the machine below for quite a while now, and have dl.google.com added to /etc/squid-deb-proxy/mirror-dstdomain.acl. I

[Bug 1095116] [NEW] changing CPU threads does not trigger Apply button availability

2013-01-01 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: When updating the number of threads in a guest's vCPU in virt-manager, the Apply button did not become available. I ended up having to work around it by changing the number of sockets as well as the number of threads, then clicking Apply, then changing the number of sockets

[Bug 1095139] [NEW] cannot browse *.microsoft.com in Windows guests with bridged networking

2013-01-01 Thread Jim Salter
Public bug reported: In a machine with Ubuntu Precise 12.04.1-LTS as the host and Windows 7 Pro x64 as the guest, if the guest uses /dev/br0, I can browse any site I can think of EXCEPT any microsoft.com site fine in the guest - but any *.microsoft.com will hang indefinitely, in any browser. The

[Bug 1025178] Re: spicevmc not supported in this QEMU binary

2012-11-24 Thread Jim Salter
see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm-spice/+bug/962376 for workaround. please, please, PLEASE fix this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1025178 Title: spicevmc not

[Bug 962376] Re: spicevmc not supported in QEMU binary

2012-11-24 Thread Jim Salter
Also note: if you want to get qxl video and spice guest tools working in Windows guests, you've got a bunch more stuff to do. See my notes in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seabios/+bug/958549 for details. (Trying to leave enough breadcrumbs that anyone searching for these issues can

[Bug 962376] Re: spicevmc not supported in QEMU binary

2012-10-27 Thread Jim Salter
reprinting the dirty workaround linked by fmo: sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm-spice cd /usr/bin/ sudo rm kvm sudo ln -s qemu-system-x86_64-spice kvm Worked for me as well. NOTE: guests displayed black screen unless video set to cirrus - vga, qxl, etc did not work with Spice agent channels

[Bug 958549] Re: Black screen on guest with anything except Cirrus

2012-10-27 Thread Jim Salter
Confirm AppArmor message here also: syslog:Oct 27 16:09:31 banshee kernel: [609909.052908] type=1400 audit(1351368571.038:185): apparmor=DENIED operation=open parent=1 profile=libvirt-0640ddeb-8f7f-11f9-c4ed-f8ea03a8 name=/proc/15859/auxv pid=15859 comm=kvm requested_mask=r denied_mask=r

[Bug 958549] Re: Black screen on guest with anything except Cirrus

2012-10-27 Thread Jim Salter
I nerfed the AppArmor problem easily enough by adding the following line to /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libvirt-qemu: @{PROC}/*/auxv r, and doing /etc/init.d/apparmor restart. Confirmed: DENIED messages went away. However, still no BIOS screen if booting in qxl video mode; also still no

[Bug 958549] Re: Black screen on guest with anything except Cirrus

2012-10-27 Thread Jim Salter
Oh, MY. This was ugly - switched back to VNC display and cirrus video and removed Spice channels; that got things running on my guest again. Reinstalled the spice-guest-tools - that worked fine. Shut down the guest, switched video to QXL, and started the guest - black screen. Used Remmina to

[Bug 549325] Re: 32 bit compatible GL library missing.

2012-09-08 Thread Jim Salter
This is still affecting me as well. 12.04-LTS, clean install. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549325 Title: 32 bit compatible GL library missing. To manage notifications about this

[Bug 999957] Re: Inconsistency detected by ld.so:

2012-09-08 Thread Jim Salter
Thalass, can you please tell me what your issue was? I arrived here because of getting this error while trying to launch X3:Reunion as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57

[Bug 1000605] Re: innotop is not working: missing dependency on libterm-readkey-perl

2012-09-04 Thread Jim Salter
Thanks James. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000605 Title: innotop is not working: missing dependency on libterm-readkey-perl To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1000605] Re: innotop is not working (misses Term/ReadKey.pm)

2012-09-03 Thread Jim Salter
This is so NOT sufficient. It's - BROKEN. If you don't want to include libterm-readkey-perl with mysql-server, then innotop should be broken OUT of mysql-server and made its own package... which includes libterm-readkey-perl. The simple fact that people KEEP filing this bug over and over again