[users@httpd] Custom 404 Pages not being GZIPed in Apache 2.4

2015-03-15 Thread Rob Donovan
problem that needs to be looked at and/or fixed. (Note, you have to make sure the response is 256 bytes to get Apache to compress, so that's what the str_repeat() bit is) Thanks, Rob Donovan.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Slaves under Squeeze

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Donovan
Thanks - that brought me more progress than I've seen all day :) Changing to the following on the server : upsd.conf: LISTEN 0.0.0.0 with no other changes from what I posted on the previous page got both the server and slave nuts starting up ok. For the record ifconfig on the server

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Slaves under Squeeze

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Donovan
Changing to the following on the server : upsd.conf: LISTEN 127.0.0.1 LISTEN 192.168.1.102 also works :) ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

Bug#639539: top problem

2011-09-13 Thread Rob Donovan
has happened again : top - 22:49:30 up 7 days, 7:38, 3 users, load average: 1.19, 0.88, 0.80 Tasks: 212 total, 3 running, 209 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 1.5%sy, 92.7%ni, 5.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16461424k total, 11328664k used, 5132760k

Bug#639539: Load average bug

2011-09-07 Thread Rob Donovan
(max being 800%). Under Lenny xload displayed similar jobs as (almost) 8 bars. Now it's much less than 1 bar. xload is therefore effectively broken. Rob Donovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#639539: ps

2011-09-07 Thread Rob Donovan
This may be related : I run jobs that eat nearly 800% of my 800% available CPU that take about 10 days to complete, and I run them at nice 19. Under Lenny such jobs always showed up at the top of top reporting 700% + CPU consumption, as you'd expect. I upgraded to Squeeze on 19 August 2011,

Re: [Bug 606999] Re: buffer length error in syslog

2010-09-18 Thread Rob Donovan
Me neither. I gave up on Ubuntu eventually (due to another bug) and installed Debian Lenny best /rob flavin wrote: I got the same, and I found this: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/126270.html but I still don't know how to fix it -- buffer length error in syslog

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with Cyber Power 700 AVR

2010-08-30 Thread Rob Donovan
1) syslog errors every 20+ minutes or so like : Aug 7 10:21:03 ben usbhid-ups[3321]: libusb_get_string: error sending control message: Broken pipe Not a cause of concern. It is a way of telling that the UPS is currently not able to handle a command. Most likely this is due to the UPS

Bug#511463: [ddd] ddd: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Donovan
I think I should add that the more serious consequences of this bug (machine hanging, etc) were seen when running ddd on my 64bit Linux server via a ssh session from, and with the display exported to, a 32bit Windows XP machine running the Cygwin X server. I haven't tried running an X server

Bug#511463: [ddd] ddd: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Donovan
I have/had this bug running ddd under a new installation of Debian Lenny 5.05 amd64. It is now solved. In my case this bug didn't only cause the error message, but also caused ddd to become sluggish or unresponsive, consume large amounts of CPU or hang when accessing menus. For example,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with Cyber Power 700 AVR

2010-08-09 Thread Rob Donovan
It turns out Cyberpower's own Linux software can't talk to the cp1500avr over serial cable either. So the nut serial driver probably isn't the problem. I've already shown the UPS and cable are OK by talking to Windows. It seems unlikely that both Thomas and I and all the other posts you can

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with Cyber Power 700 AVR

2010-08-07 Thread Rob Donovan
I applied the aforementioned patch to 2.4.3 and recompiled. Since the patch only affects newmge-shut and usbhid-ups I just copied the latter into /lib/nut/ This works, insomuchas all the nut programs start up and run. However, there are 3 remaining problems: 1) syslog errors every 20+

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with Cyber Power 700 AVR

2010-08-06 Thread Rob Donovan
hi there, I ran portmon. Read on... I'm running nut 2.2.2-6.5 under Debian Lenny 5.05 on a Dell T110 PowerEdge Server hooked to a Cyberpower 1500 AVR LCD. All new hardware purchased in the last 3 months. I tried to attach via usb at first, but was getting stale data errors in syslog

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with Cyber Power 700 AVR

2010-08-06 Thread Rob Donovan
My previous post was a follow-up to this discussion in February: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2010-February/005924.html ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org

Bug#63995: obfuscation

2010-07-31 Thread Rob Donovan
The solution (namely, turning @ into !-- blah --#64!-- blah -- is a needless obfuscation that isn't going to actually net us anything. This sounds like a plausible argument, but it hasn't been my recent experience. I submitted my 1st Debian bug on 7/29/10 at 3.51pm and got my first spam email

Bug#590895: sysvinit: shutdown -hP sets INIT_HALT to POWERDOWN not POWEROFF

2010-07-29 Thread Rob Donovan
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal The shutdown man page says that the -P option will set the INIT_HALT variable to POWEROFF. However, echo statements placed at the top of do_stop() in /etc/init.d/halt reveal that this variable is set to POWERDOWN. Assuming nothing

[Bug 606996] Re: ctrl alt F1 does nothing

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Donovan
Turns out this is not an Ubuntu bug - sorry. On this keyboard the last regular key on the right hand end of the function key row is F Lock. It has to be on (the indicator light nearest you) for the function keys to work. Except with the BIOS, apparently... Thanks for the post kurt. -- ctrl

[Bug 606989] [NEW] /var/run /var/lock mounts prevent umount of /var at shutdown

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Title says it all really. Leads to error messages like umount2: Device or resource busy. umount: /dev/sda8 busy - remounted read-only in the shutdown console messages. Since /var is remounted read-only the technical consequences of this bug are nil, I think. However, the

[Bug 606996] [NEW] ctrl alt F1 does nothing

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing on either of my machines : Dell Dimension 2400 (old cheap desktop) and Dell T110 Poweredge (new expensive server). In both cases I'm using a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0. I chose the nearest thing on setup, Microsoft Natural I

[Bug 606996] Re: ctrl alt F1 does nothing

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Donovan
woops : this is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit and 64 bit. -- ctrl alt F1 does nothing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606996 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 606999] [NEW] buffer length error in syslog

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: acpi This error occurs in /var/log/syslog on boot. I have no idea if it has any consequences. System is Dell T110 Poweredge running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit. Jul 16 10:57:42 ben kernel: [4.352252] ACPI Error: SMBus or IPMI write requires Buffer of

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall does everything twice

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Donovan
I spent another half day or so on this. I didn't really get anywhere but I think the evidence is that neither the mountall.conf main script nor mountall itself actually restart (the script doesn't echo and the 2nd set of fscks don't show the parse_filesystems comments of the first, which are

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall does everything twice

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Donovan
1) I added 4 echo statements to each script in mountall.conf and can now say with no doubt that the main script runs once, and the post-stop script runs twice. I don't know how this can happen, but it does. 2) I added echo statements to both scripts in mountall-shell.conf too, also changing

[Bug 606512] [NEW] plymouth causes staircase right-shifting on serial console

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: plymouth I run Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit using a serial over lan (SOL) console. On shutdown I find my console messages print normally at first until I get to Stopping dsm_sa_eventmgr32d: * Stopping dsm_sa_datamgr32d: * Shutting down DSM SA Connection

[Bug 606512] Re: plymouth causes staircase right-shifting on serial console

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Donovan
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52051686/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52051687/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52051688/Dependencies.txt **

[Bug 602723] Re: Upstart job to clean /tmp does not run when /usr is on a seperate partion

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Donovan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 523587 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523587 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 523587 /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf uses find, which is in /usr/bin -- Upstart job to clean /tmp does not run when /usr is on a seperate partion

[Bug 153425] Re: (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console written to

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Donovan
For the record I filed this as Ubuntu Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/606512 -- (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console written to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153425 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall runs fsck, all clean, mounts, twice... out of boredom?

2010-07-15 Thread Rob Donovan
I think I should say a little more about my power failure which may be relevant. I installed the NUT 2.4.3 package for use with a Cyberpower CP1500AVRLCD UPS system. I set it up with a usb connection using the usbhid-ups driver. Everything worked very well and I was pretty much done when I

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall does everything twice

2010-07-15 Thread Rob Donovan
** Summary changed: - mountall runs fsck, all clean, mounts, twice... out of boredom? + mountall does everything twice -- mountall does everything twice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall does everything twice

2010-07-15 Thread Rob Donovan
It seems upscmd ups shutdown.stayoff does simply power off the load after all. I downloaded the nut source package and everything I saw pointed that way. I couldn't find any evidence of the code writing flags or commands to disk, though I admit I lost track of things through the socket. So, I

[Bug 605687] [NEW] mountall runs fsck, all clean, mounts, twice... out of boredom?

2010-07-14 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mountall My system (running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit Desktop) has partitions /, /var, /usr, /home, /boot, /tmp, and ben1 on a 2nd disk. At boot, fsck is run on all partitions, and all report clean, and are mounted successfully. The boot continues happily

[Bug 605687] Re: mountall runs fsck, all clean, mounts, twice... out of boredom?

2010-07-14 Thread Rob Donovan
** Attachment added: boot_mountall_debug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51952175/boot_mountall_debug ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51949956/Dependencies.txt -- mountall runs fsck, all clean, mounts, twice... out of boredom?

[Bug 153425] Re: (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console written to

2010-07-09 Thread Rob Donovan
I now realise my comments were about a different kind of right-shifting behaviour which affects only the text on a line by line basis, not the whole screen, and which appears to be known as the staircase effect. Sorry for posting off topic. But, since I started, I'll mention that I managed to

[Bug 603363] [NEW] sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Under Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, sshd is an upstart job controlled by /etc/init/ssh.conf This file provides for start and stop as follows: start on filesystem stop on runlevel S At shutdown or reboot, therefore, sshd is not stopped. Since sshd is in /usr/sbin/sshd and also

[Bug 603363] Re: sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51594460/Dependencies.txt -- sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603363 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed

[Bug 603363] Re: sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
Jolly good. I'm blogging my progress on this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474942 which also describes the boot time messages that _may_ be related to this problem. I'll post here directly if/when I can confirm that they are/aren't. -- sshd never stops, prevents umount of

[Bug 603363] [NEW] sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
Public bug reported: Under Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, sshd is an upstart job controlled by /etc/init/ssh.conf This file provides for start and stop as follows: start on filesystem stop on runlevel S At shutdown or reboot, therefore, sshd is not stopped. Since sshd is in /usr/sbin/sshd and also

[Bug 603363] Re: sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51594460/Dependencies.txt -- sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603363 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 603363] Re: sshd never stops, prevents umount of /usr partition

2010-07-08 Thread Rob Donovan
Jolly good. I'm blogging my progress on this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474942 which also describes the boot time messages that _may_ be related to this problem. I'll post here directly if/when I can confirm that they are/aren't. -- sshd never stops, prevents umount of

[Bug 153425] Re: (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console written to

2010-07-07 Thread Rob Donovan
I'm seeing much the same right shifting of the console while running a serial console. System is Dell T110 PowerEdge, running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. Serial Console is running on windows with the same results using either a mintty windows or a Cygwin X xterm window. It mostly seems to affect

[Bug 153425] Re: (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console written to

2010-07-07 Thread Rob Donovan
In the case that I've examined I can add that the newline is supplied by the log_success_msg function in /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh which is sourced into the bash script providing the echo -n (Dell/SARA's /etc/init.d/dataeng in this particular case). -- (Multiseat) screen shifts when /dev/console

Re: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Donovan
Looks like I posted too soon. I can run SOME Cygwin/gcc programs up to 2.83GB with the changes I mentioned in my first post (yesterday), but not ALL programs (and not anything useful...). The problem seems to be with Cygwin's implementation of disk access functions like fscanf() and

Re: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Donovan
,__FILE__,__LINE__); return(1); } c++; if ((c % 5000) == 0) { if ((f = fopen(./tmp,r)) == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,Problem in %s line %d opening input file\n,__FILE__,__LINE__); return(1); } // fscanf(f,%s,buf); fclose(f); } } return(0); } Rob Donovan wrote

Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Rob Donovan
I've found the following to be true on my system and feel these details could usefully be added to the Changing Cygwin's Maximum Memory page in the User's Guide. My system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with 4GB of physical RAM running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3. Uname -v reports the