[Bug 1913342] Re: zfs.8 man page snapshot listing instructions are confusing

2021-02-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Filed upstream, as you suggested: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11562 It's been a couple of years since I've pushed a pull request on github, so I'll probably remain lazy and not get around to it in this case, to avoid the extra time it would take me to recall just how to do it. A few mi

[Bug 1913342] [NEW] zfs.8 man page snapshot listing instructions are confusing

2021-01-26 Thread Paul Jackson
Public bug reported: The zfs.8 man page describes in 3 places how to include snapshots in "zfs list": 1) Snapshots are displayed if the listsnaps property is on (the default is off). 2) Snapshots are displayed if the listsnaps property is on. The default is off. See zpool(8) for more informati

[Bug 1245061] Re: muon-updater stuck at Loading Software List

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Jackson
I too have the problem of muon freezing at 33% "Loading Software List", after apparently completing a successful upgrade of a few updated packages in Kubuntu 13.10 << Why has this bug been marked "Invalid"? >> Apparently there are two bugs being tracked here -- someone merged in a different rep

[Bug 1031718] Re: Obscure error messages caused by ubuntu patch

2012-09-23 Thread Paul Jackson
The following code might provide a useful and reliable means of parsing this auxv information: [CODE] #include #include #include /* * The following flgets() and examine_auxv() routines are Copyright * 2006 and 2012 respectively by Paul Jackson . * * These routines are free software; you c

[Bug 1031718] Re: Obscure error messages caused by ubuntu patch

2012-09-22 Thread Paul Jackson
The opening post in Bug #1014487 (which has been duplicated to this present bug now) contains some suggested code which might be adapted for use in libjpeg-turbo8 to accomplish what the '/proc/self/auxv' access that is presently failing with this open error: -- You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Aha - /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox is setuid root, and then lowers its privilege to the invoking user, with a pair of setresgid and setresuid calls, prior to the failure to open /proc/self/auxv. Perhaps the auxv file retains its root ownership across these events, which would make it unable t

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
>> ... when I tested it on my 12.04 desktop box, /proc/self/auxv had permissions >> set to -r (400) with the user and group set t whoever is logged in >> at the time. Well, /proc/self always links to the current process's /proc entry. It is just a short hand for /proc/PID, where PID is

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Looking through the libjpeg code, it says in a README to send bug reports to jpeg-i...@uc.ag. So I have just sent the following message there: == As reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1014487, and at https://www.virtual

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Wanderson Santiago dos Reis (wasare) : The problem you are concerned with is NOT the problem this bug is concerned with. Virtualbox has been working all along for me, all the time. The only problem I am reporting in this bug report is the message "Error opening file for reading: Permission denie

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Downloading libjpeg-turbo with this command: bzr branch lp:ubuntu/precise/libjpeg-turbo and searching the source code for "auxv", it seems that on my system (x86_64, but not APPLE) that the code tries to open /proc/self/auxv, and complains perror("Error opening file for reading") if the open fail

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Jackson
wasare wrote: >> I make a aptitude purge virtualbox-4.1 and a fresh package install from >> virtualbox.org. >> >> worked fine for me. I only see the failure when running virtualbox as non-root. === One more important detail: the failing open of /proc/self/auxv apparently comes from the followi

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Jackson
Yes, virtualbox starts and works fine. I've just spent several hours in it, doing various Windows XP installs and configurations ... virtualbox worked flawlessly. I am also running virtualbox on a 12.04 x64 system, non-super user. I have not submitted any bug report to Oracle/virtualbox -- just

[Bug 1014487] Re: virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Jackson
The way I got the strace output, without having to make the strace binary setuid root, was to note the pid of my shell (echo $$), then in another terminal window, invoke strace as root on that shell. Then within the now strace'd shell, run virtualbox under my normal user id. -- You received this

[Bug 1014540] Re: syncfolder: ERROR attempting to sync flags - No such file or directory

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Jackson
ah - I can do in a single os.path.relpath() call what it took me two splits and a join to do. A new and improved version of the most recent patch above is attached to this post. ** Attachment added: "fix recorded filename in offlineimap Maildir.py scanfolder() Version 3 patch" https://bugs.l

[Bug 1014540] Re: syncfolder: ERROR attempting to sync flags - No such file or directory

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Jackson
The above patch 'patch offlineimap Maildir savemessageflags rename' is wrong I believe. I have a new, improved explanation for this problem (but I could still easily be very wrong.) With the above patch, I started getting crashes when savemessageflags() was called from a different stack: ===

[Bug 1014540] Re: syncfolder: ERROR attempting to sync flags - No such file or directory

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Jackson
attach patch, since putting it inline mangles the spacing :) ** Patch added: "patch offlineimap Maildir savemessageflags rename" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/offlineimap/+bug/1014540/+attachment/3194363/+files/Maildir.py.patch -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 1014540] [NEW] syncfolder: ERROR attempting to sync flags - No such file or directory

2012-06-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Public bug reported: I just upgraded from Kubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, and as soon as I did, a reliably working cron job using offlineimap started generating errors every run. The version of offlineimap I have from 12.04 is Version: 6.3.4-1 The errors looked like the following: === Account sync

[Bug 1014487] [NEW] virtualbox: Error opening file for reading

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Jackson
eans of parsing this auxv information: [CODE] #include #include #include /* * The following flgets() and examine_auxv() routines are Copyright * 2006 and 2012 respectively by Paul Jackson . * * These routines are free software; you can redistribute them and/or * modify them under the ter

[Bug 808254] Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Jackson
What I see (happens to be in English) is: "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" This is on Firefox 11.10, Kubuntu 11.10, with an ATI Radeon card (not an NVidia). Flash works fine within the browser. Strace'ing and grep'ing a

[Bug 487463] Re: one of the mythtv extensions failed to install

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Jackson
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36006928/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36006929/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36006930/Dmesg.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 487463] [NEW] one of the mythtv extensions failed to install

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Jackson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythexport It may be an existing bug. I don't have enough information to know. I can't recall the actual error reported ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Nov 23 00:13:47 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed p

[Bug 68267] Re: x11-common loop asking 'Please enter an integer between -20 and 19.' at debconf medium or higher

2007-03-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Paul Dufresne wrote: > So as I understand: "set +e" make sure that it will NOT exit > script because of the non-zero expr results. Which seems ok. Aha - you're right. I didn't notice that it was , not the reverse order. Thanks for pointing that out. -- x11-common loop asking 'Please enter an i

[Bug 68267] Re: x11-common loop asking 'Please enter an integer between -20 and 19.' at debconf medium or higher

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Jackson
A couple of things in the x11-common.config script validate_nice_value() don't look right to me: 1) That "set +e ... set -e" seems -really- bogus. That forces exit on non-zero exit status from simple commands, and this script intentionally invokes some simple commands that might