[Bug 1453861] Re: upstart hangs at boot when LDAP authentication is used

2015-05-12 Thread rw
Output of dpkg --get-selections ** Attachment added: "dpkg_get_selections" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1453861/+attachment/4396189/+files/dpkg_get_selections -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 1453861] Re: upstart hangs at boot when LDAP authentication is used

2015-05-12 Thread rw
Output of initctl --list after boot with NIS. ** Attachment added: "initctl --list" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1453861/+attachment/4396188/+files/initctl_list -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1453861] Re: upstart hangs at boot

2015-05-12 Thread rw
We could reproduce the problem on a machine that was mothballed after installing 14.04 on March 12, 2015. 1) The machine still booted fine. Linux 3.13.0-48-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 12 11:16:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 2) We updated the machine with all patches released betwe

[Bug 1453861] [NEW] upstart hangs at boot

2015-05-11 Thread rw
Public bug reported: We have a few machines running Ubuntu 14.04, fully patched. Reboots usually get scheduled for the weekend after a kernel update. After this weekend's reboot, most of the machines didn't come up again. We determined that upstart gets hung during the boot sequence. We tried to

[Bug 869408] Re: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu

2011-10-20 Thread rw
Exactly the same problem here; confirmed for VMware Player 4 & VMware Workstation 8. Guest: Windows XP SP3 with latest updates & VMware tools Host: ubuntu oneiric 11.10 final with nvidia 280.13 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 596299] Re: Decrypted partition won't mount (ext4)

2011-06-23 Thread RW Penney
I suspect this issue could be the result in changes in the behaviour of cryptsetup since the upgrade. Instead of trying to read the key-material from stdin, you could try "crypsetup --key-file /mnt/usb/keys/fs". The failure to mount could simply be a sign that the filesystem hadn't been decrypted

[Bug 616613] Re: cryptmount tries to invoke missing udevsettle

2011-06-23 Thread RW Penney
Can we declare this bug to have been fixed? The upstream Debian bug has been fixed since June 2010; cryptmount-4.1 has been part of Ubuntu releases "Maverick" (10.10) and "Natty" (11.04); and cryptmount-4.2 has just been been flagged for inclusion in "Oneiric" (11.10). -- You received this bug n

Re: [Bug 474258] Re: Extremely dangerous! cryptswap killed my partition

2011-05-05 Thread RW Penney
d to run. This feature is currently part of the beta release of cryptmount-4.2. I'm hoping this will significantly reduce the risk of accidental dataloss in a way similar to the /etc/crypttab issue, even if it can't eliminate it entirely. Kind regards, RW Penney -- You received this

[Bug 601521] Re: package linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic 2.6.32-23.37 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-07-03 Thread RW Driskill
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51357178/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51357179/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51357180/AptOrdering.txt **

[Bug 601521] [NEW] package linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic 2.6.32-23.37 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-07-03 Thread RW Driskill
Public bug reported: Installed Ubuntu 10.04 to a USB drive. Updated software via Administration > Update Manager. Downloaded and installed all listed updates. Something didn't update. I am new to Ubuntu and don't know what the error messages mean, nor indicate. ProblemType: Package DistroRel

[Bug 223583] Re: LVM unusable after uncleanly unplugging USB disk

2010-06-26 Thread RW Penney
This is more of a feature request than a bug in cryptmount. As already noted, the original source of the problem seems to be the behaviour of the LVM system. -- LVM unusable after uncleanly unplugging USB disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223583 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 451987] Re: cryptmount crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

2010-06-26 Thread RW Penney
The upstream release of cryptmount-4.1 (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cryptmount) includes this patch. cryptmount-4.1-2 is now available in debian-testing, and is scheduled for inclusion in the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu. cryptmount-4.0.2 has been available in Lucid Lynx for a while

[Bug 583020] Re: package linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-05-19 Thread RW Driskill
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48750842/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48750844/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48750846/AptOrdering.txt **

[Bug 583020] [NEW] package linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-05-19 Thread RW Driskill
Public bug reported: Attempting to set up Ubuntu to run from external USB thumb drive, something about GRUB not installing. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33 Regression: No Reproducible: Yes ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.

[Bug 227808] Re: file permissions destroyed by vim/gvfs/fuse

2010-04-14 Thread rw
sshfs does not exhibit this problem, and is a workaround i've had to use in the meantime. -- file permissions destroyed by vim/gvfs/fuse https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227808 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 474258] Re: Extremely dangerous! cryptswap killed my partition

2009-11-07 Thread RW Penney
As a reminder - your bug report does NOT relate to the "cryptmount" package given details in your original post. The problem with running "swapon" with an encrypted partition is simply that both the /etc/crypttab mechanisms, and those of other encryption tools, perfectly reasonably regenerate the

[Bug 474258] Re: Extremely dangerous! cryptswap killed my partition

2009-11-07 Thread RW Penney
This bug report really does not sound like it refers to the "cryptmount" package. Specifically, "cryptmount" does not use the /etc/crypttab file for any purpose, nor does it include any utility called "cryptswap" (even though if offers similar generic functionality). More generally, it would appe

[Bug 451987] Re: cryptmount crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

2009-10-30 Thread RW Penney
Thanks for finding this bug, and for the helpful stack traces. I believe this problem is due to differences in the error-checking applied in the LUKS key-manager from other cryptmount key-managers. I've attached a patch which I hope will sort out the problem. This patch will be incorporated in fut

[Bug 375913] [NEW] kile embedded viewer not working after upgrade to 9.04

2009-05-13 Thread rw
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kile The embedded viewer in Kile relies on the kviewerpart.so (DVI) and libkghostviewlib.so.0 (PDF) libraries, which are not available anymore in Ubuntu 9.04. Since the embedded viewer was the default in earlier versions, upgrading to 9.04 will render Kil

[Bug 260687] Re: pam_smbpass.so segfaults

2008-09-18 Thread rw
This is a nasty problem, because it makes login impossible (except in single-user mode) if libpam-smbpass is installed. We currently have three machines with Intrepid (latest updates); on two of them there's no problem, on the third pam_smbpass.so segfaults on every login attempt (and thus the logi

[Bug 232450] Re: Test for installed packages in cfengine is broken

2008-08-15 Thread rw
This bug hasn't even been triaged..I don't think that anyone in the "official channels" is even taking note, after all, the package is in "universe" only :( Maybe the best thing to do is backporting it, and offering the backport for the hardy-backports repository. -- Test for installed packages

[Bug 241609] Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks lost after unclean shutdown

2008-07-31 Thread rw
> On that note, it may be that this bug is already fixed. I edited > 'profiles.ini' again and tried running with my old (previously broken) > profile. > It started up with no problem, which it would not a month ago, so maybe one > of the recent updates has fixed this issue... without > changing

[Bug 241609] [NEW] Firefox 3 bookmarks lost after unclean shutdown

2008-06-20 Thread rw
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 ubuntu 8.04, firefox 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 Note: the following was an intentional experiment to (successfully) verify identical problems reported by two other users at our site a) After an unclean shutdown of the machine (by switc

[Bug 232450] Re: Test for installed packages in cfengine is broken

2008-06-06 Thread rw
The issue is discussed in https://cfengine.org/pipermail/help- cfengine/2008-February/002960.html The conclusion apparently was/is, that Debian changed the command to execute. Quoting from the linked post: START QUOTE Here's an excerpt from the Debian Etch (backports) patch [2] against cfengi

[Bug 232450] Re: Test for installed packages in cfengine is broken

2008-06-06 Thread rw
No, the code is doing something quite stupid, as I found out running it under strace (strace -f -o cfengine.log cfagent --verbose --no-splay). You can see the following in the log: 28715 execve("LANG=C", ["LANG=C", "/usr/bin/apt-cache", "policy", "arpwatch"], [/* 17 vars */] 28639 _llseek(3, 0

[Bug 232450] [NEW] Test for installed packages in cfengine is broken

2008-05-21 Thread rw
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cfengine2 Testing for an installed package always results in an error message, like: Package: tracker Something impossible happened... ('grep' exited abnormally). and the package is assumed to be not installed; the related cfengine config lines are:

[Bug 164611] Re: [dapper] vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15-2.6.15.10-13 breaks vmware-player

2008-01-09 Thread rw
Same error message here (vmware-player-kernel- modules-2.6.15-29_2.6.15.11-13, vmware-player 1.0.1-4). Needed to roll back to kernel version 2.6.15-28 (and corresponding vmware-player- kernel-modules-2.6.15-28_2.6.15.10-11) to start vmware-player. -- [dapper] vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15-2.6.15.10

[Bug 42020] Re: installer: grub password included as cleartext in menu.lst

2007-11-18 Thread RW Penney
I've attached a *tentative* patch, which should make encrypted-passwords the default option, by adding a new debconf parameter ("grub-installer/hash-password") which controls whether the manually-entered password is passed through grub's md5crypt function before entry in the menu.lst. If approp

[Bug 64625] Re: libdevmapper incompatible with cryptsetup kernel driver

2007-11-18 Thread RW Penney
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 106696 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106696 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 106696 Failure to auto-load dm-mod kernel module -- libdevmapper incompatible with cryptsetup kernel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64625 You receive

[Bug 29019] Re: TypeError thrown from vorbiscomment_set_vendor_string

2007-11-17 Thread RW Penney
python-flac was removed from the Ubuntu archives in November 2006 (bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyflac/0.0.4-1) python-mutagen might be an appropriate replacement. Should this bug be marked as completed? -- TypeError thrown from vorbiscomment_set_vendor_string https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 140868] Re: command-not-found executable missing

2007-11-17 Thread RW Penney
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 135794 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135794 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 135794 [gutsy] command-not-found not found -- command-not-found executable missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140868 You received this bug notification

[Bug 135794] Re: [gutsy] command-not-found not found

2007-11-17 Thread RW Penney
Can this bug be marked as resolved? Package bash-3.2-0ubuntu11, as used in xubuntu7.10, appears to correctly reference /usr/lib/command-not-found in /etc/bash.bashrc. -- [gutsy] command-not-found not found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135794 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 154171] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 failed to upgrade my 7.04 system.

2007-10-20 Thread RW
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 153980 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153980 This has been solved, but I am not sure how to remove it or mark it as solved. -- Ubuntu 7.10 failed to upgrade my 7.04 system. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154171 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 154171] Ubuntu 7.10 failed to upgrade my 7.04 system.

2007-10-18 Thread RW
Public bug reported: 2007-10-18 18:54:45,942 INFO release-upgrader version '0.81' started 2007-10-18 18:54:46,788 DEBUG lsb-release: 'feisty' 2007-10-18 18:54:46,789 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run 2007-10-18 18:54:48,054 DEBUG checkViewDepends() 2007-10-18 18:54:48,055 DEBUG getRequiredBackports()

[Bug 93568] Re: cannot initialize device-mapper

2007-08-05 Thread RW Penney
This issue has been patched in cryptmount-2.1 with a precautionary "modprobe" in the /etc/init.d scripts. An updated debian package (2.1-1) has just been uploaded to unstable. -- cannot initialize device-mapper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93568 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 107945] Re: Security update of libx11-6 causes IDL segfault

2007-04-20 Thread rw
I don't expect an update to IDL anytime soon, and downgrading (which we already have done to keep the science users running) implies that nobody can browse securely anymore, as far as I understand the bug. -- Security update of libx11-6 causes IDL segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107945 Y

[Bug 107945] Security update of libx11-6 causes IDL segfault

2007-04-20 Thread rw
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libx11-6 The recent update from 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu9 to 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu9.1 on Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS causes IDL (Interactive Data Language, from ITT Visual Information Solutions) to segfault. This is a pretty severe problem, since lots of scientific institutions d

[Bug 106696] Failure to auto-load dm-mod kernel module

2007-04-15 Thread RW Penney
Public bug reported: The libdevmapper package (1.02.08 in ubuntu-7.04-beta) does not auto- load the kernel dm-mod module either at system bootup, or when first used by a client application (e.g. cryptsetup, cryptmount). This means that those client applications will typically fail unless the user

[Bug 93568] Re: cannot initialize device-mapper

2007-04-14 Thread RW Penney
I think this is really a problem with the libdevmapper package (1.02.08) in the ubuntu-7.04-beta release which I have tried this on. The problem seems to be entirely due to the failure to load the main device-mapper kernel-module either on system boot-up or when libdevmapper is first used. The debi