Bug#740070: Updating the sendmail Maintainer field

2020-04-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Debian's Sendmail package has been orphaned for several years. The amount of work which might be involved in maintainership is a little scary, but I should like to take it on. To control unwanted mail, I primarily use milters. In the early years (I've used Sendmail in production for more than

Bug#953545: linux-image-4.19: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: linux-image Version: 4.19.0-8-amd64 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, Please see debian-bugs mailing list thread below, but please be aware that the threading of the messages could be improved upon.

Bug#857304: Subject: iptables-persistent: netfilter-persistent save fails if run from cron because full paths are not given in scripts.

2017-03-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: iptables-persistent Severity: critical Tags: security patch ipv6 Justification: root security hole Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Running '/usr/sbin/netfilter-persistent save' from root's crontab. * What was the outcome of this action? A mail message

Bug#857301: Subject: iptables-persistent: netfilter-persistent save fails if run from cron because full paths are not given in scripts.

2017-03-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: iptables-persistent Severity: critical Tags: security patch ipv6 Justification: root security hole Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Running '/usr/sbin/netfilter-persistent save' from root's crontab. * What was the outcome of this action? A mail message

Bug#779384: Bug is serious.

2015-05-14 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, When I upgraded my laptop from Wheezy to Jessie the JME driver failed. When I was running Wheezy the Debian-supplied version did not work at all, leaving me with no Ethernet connection. So I would routinely replace the JME driver supplied by Debian with one from JMicron which I

Bug#635691: Memory leak.

2014-12-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Confirmed that this fault is still present three years on. The app leaks huge quantities of memory even when it is not used. In this example it appears bad enough to use up all available swap (2GiB) in about a month and so kill the machine:

Bug#645713: apt: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'openjdk-6-jre'

2014-06-14 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u1 Followup-For: Bug #645713 Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? apt-get dist-upgrade, Squeeze-Wheezy. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

Bug#583200: cdrom: Installing on fourth disk of a four disk system overwrites MBR of first disk

2013-06-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: cdrom Followup-For: Bug #583200 Dear Maintainer, Using the Debian 7.0 AMD64 network install CDROM. Attempted to create a Debian Wheezy system on /dev/sdd of a system which already contains a Debian Squeeze installation on /dev/sda. Two other drives in the system. All are 3-Terabyte

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:05:32PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: logs as a time series and not one big pile of jumbled messages: [1.017969] nv_probe: set workaround bit for reversed mac addr [1.022092] SCSI subsystem initialized

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: initscripts Severity: normal The man page for rcS is dated 16 January 2006. The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'. This option is mentioned in for example

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:02:57PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'. ... This is intentionally undocumented. In previous stable

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default. Disabling this is not something which is useful ... Not correct

Bug#516150: more information

2009-07-26 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, 2009/7/26 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:47:55PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Please provide more information: - uname -a - the complete kernel log (dmesg) - cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/* Dimitri, can you provide the mentioned

Bug#515978: traceroute giving false latencies for both icmp and udp

2009-02-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, This problem is a symptom of a library issue. The 'ping' utility has the a similar problem. Until upgrading from 'Etch' to 'Lenny' on AMD64 (dual Opteron) we had no problems with either. The system runs 'Smokeping' tp monitor our networks. Now it is basically useless. The results

Bug#515978: traceroute giving false latencies for both icmp and udp

2009-02-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, Apparently this issue has been around for quite a while. What a pity it hasn't been properly put to bed yet. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=128428 For the time being I've added clock=tsc to my kernel boot command line as a workaround. This resolves my immediate

Bug#515978: traceroute giving false latencies for both icmp and udp

2009-02-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:01:11PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: reassign 515978 libc6 thanks G.W. Haywood wrote: This problem is a symptom of a library issue. The GNU libc simply calls the gettimeofday syscall, so it doesn't come from here, but must probably from