Bug#1033616: cups prepends job number to job-name so job names near 255 characters may be too long

2023-03-28 Thread John Hughes
Package: cups Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I printed a page from firefox with a very, very long URL. Firefox used the first 255 bytes of the URL as the job name. * What was the outcome of this action? The job

Bug#989906: openssh-server: With GSSAPIKeyExchage "yes" openssh presents poor quality key exchange methods

2023-02-13 Thread John Hughes
sn't exist in the obsolete openssh-server 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 I'm using :( Time to get back on the upgrade treadmill. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI -- an Esker company.

Bug#989906: openssh-server: With GSSAPIKeyExchage "yes" openssh presents poor quality key exchange methods

2023-02-13 Thread John Hughes
f an idiot for missing that, thanks for the tip. However, the default for GSSAPIKexAlgorithms should be adjusted. See patch: https://github.com/felixhaedicke/openssh/commit/11244c7dd5fb5a8d8ecf07016e0d7afff982f0a3.diff Seems reasonable to me. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI -- an Esker company.

Bug#710490: Well, the zombie bug just bit me again

2022-11-07 Thread John Hughes
One of my workstations had a bad ethernet cable, so it was connecting to the switch at 100M instead of 1G.  The extra negotiation time meant that automount was always being started before the network was ready. (Debian bullseye). -- *John HUGHES* Directeur technique *CalvaEDI* An Esker

Bug#1014606: cssc: the sccsdiff command leaves empty get.xxxxx files hanging around

2022-07-08 Thread John Hughes
Package: cssc Version: 1.4.0-6jh2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? did an "sccs sccsdiff command" * What was the outcome of this action? an empty get.x file was created in the current directory * What outcome did you expect instead?

Bug#998642: Valgrind output with debug symbols available (+patch to fix problem)

2021-11-05 Thread John Hughes
I built cssc from source to get the debug symbols and valgrind shows: valgrind cssc-1.4.1/src/get s._x-xx ==319086== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==319086== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==319086== Using Valgrind-3.16.1 and LibVEX; rerun with

Bug#998642: cssc: The "get" command fails to interpolate the "module name" for long filenames

2021-11-05 Thread John Hughes
Package: cssc Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? We found that the %M% SCCS keyword in some of our files was not being correctly interpolated. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Did a "get" on a

Bug#994242: linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64: On a DELL Optiplex 5090 the screen goes black on boot

2021-09-14 Thread John Hughes
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.46-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installed Debian Bullseye on a new DELL Optiplex 5090 PC * What was the outcome of this action? After the initial boot messages the screen goes blank. * What outcome did you

Bug#989906: openssh-server: With GSSAPIKeyExchage "yes" openssh presents poor quality key exchange methods

2021-06-15 Thread John Hughes
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, What did I do? * Configured GSSAPIKeyExchange "yes", because it's a good idea and the automatic updating of renewed credentials it allows is very, very useful. What happened? * When

Bug#915008: I've seen a similar problem and managed to work around it.

2020-07-29 Thread John Hughes
12:13:10 oceanic kernel: [ 16.275045] iwlwifi :00:14.3: FW already configured (0) - re-configuring It is possible that this problem was caused by the laptop battery running completely flat, and the Linux driver or firmware missing some initialisation step. -- *John HUGHES* Directeur

Bug#892325: linphone: please package linphone 4.0

2020-06-05 Thread John Hughes
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:52:03 +0100 "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" wrote: > > I think dropping the deprecated GTK client is fine. Please, whatever happens, the gtk version of linphone should *not* be dropped.  It is much more "old fashioned" in appearance than the new Qt version but is infinitely

Bug#959104: linphone: ldap is enabled but the ldap configuration page is not visible

2020-04-29 Thread John Hughes
Package: linphone Version: 3.12.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? wanted to try ldap * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? went to preferences page * What was the outcome of this action? No ldap tab is

Bug#954328: linphone loops sending REGISTER because it doesn't believe the SIP OK matches the SIP register

2020-03-20 Thread John Hughes
Package: linphone Version: 3.12.0-3.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Trying to work from home due to covid-19 :( * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Set up linphone to talk to our existing asterisk setup.

Bug#948277: certbot: stretch-backports certbot is version 0.28, --dry-run fails

2020-01-06 Thread John Hughes
Package: certbot Version: 0.28.0-1~bpo9+1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? trying to use let's encrypt / certbot * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Tried to do a --dry-run to test

Bug#803197: Exactly the same problem happens with sendmail.

2018-12-30 Thread John Hughes
On 30/12/2018 02:40, Ryan Tandy wrote: I'm sorry for not responding to this for so long, but do you recall what release of Debian you saw this behaviour on? squeeze (yes, it's completely out of date :( ) I've been looking at this ticket again and it looks like in stretch (Debian 9) and

Bug#911602: thunderbird: error console doesn't work -- all categories disabled, can't enable

2018-10-22 Thread John Hughes
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:60.2.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Thunderbird 60 was installed (as a security update), the error console stopped working. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#571617: multipath-tools: multipathd "switch multipath group" leads to strange state

2018-08-16 Thread John Hughes
On 11/08/18 21:38, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: Do you still see this behaviour in stretch and/or buster? I'm not using multipath tools at the moment.

Bug#886746: Bug is fixed in vanilla kernel 4.9.77

2018-01-24 Thread John Hughes
This bug appears to have been fixed somewhere between 4.9.65 and 4.9.77 -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#886746: Bug exists in vanilla kernel 4.9.65

2018-01-23 Thread John Hughes
I've compiled a vanilla kernel 4.9.65 (from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) and the bug is present.  Vanilla kernel 4.9.30 works. I'll roll up my sleeves and start bisecting. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.

Bug#886746: Bug also present in linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64 4.9.65-3+deb9u1

2018-01-09 Thread John Hughes
Versionn linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 seems Ok. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#886746: linux-image-4.9.0-5-amd64: screen connected via displayport hub flashes black

2018-01-09 Thread John Hughes
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installed linux-image-4.9.0-5-amd64 version 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Open a gnome-terminal window, wait a

Bug#879115: hplip can't print jobs with unicode surrogate characters

2017-10-19 Thread John Hughes
Package: hplip Version: 3.16.11+repack0-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Tried to print PDF from evince * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Pressed the print button * What was the outcome

Bug#802612: Or to put it another way...

2017-09-05 Thread John Hughes
Another way to read "fakeroot fails in user namespaces" is "fakeroot only works on stretch if you change init". -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#803197: Exactly the same problem happens with sendmail.

2017-09-04 Thread John Hughes
closes the fd and reopens /dev/urandom. From sendmail's point of view it looks like one of its files has suddenly been replaced with random garbage! I've hacked my copy of sendmail to close fds above 3, which works around the problem for me, but is a bit ugly. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S

Bug#870198: This is issue 67 in upstream -- Filters editing window hangs in TB 47

2017-09-01 Thread John Hughes
https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/issues/67 There is a patch for it -- https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/commit/cdf54a49fe50641dac73e657346e8c2249fbb63f -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#873171: mdadm starts arrays on boot even though AUTO -all specified if no ARRAY in mdadm.conf

2017-08-25 Thread John Hughes
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Upgraded from Jessie to Stretch * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? We want to start our mdadm raid arrays manually, so we have no ARRAY lines

Bug#873116: mdadm: If no arrays are specified in mdadm.conf then initrd starts all arrays

2017-08-24 Thread John Hughes
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? upgraded from jessie to stretch * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? We want to manually start our arrays, rather than having them started on

Bug#867311: Enviroment variables

2017-07-13 Thread John Hughes
n. Calling pam_acct_mgmt is optional; pam-krb5 doesn't do anything different when it's called in this case. So it won't work if we don't set the KRB5CCNAME environment variable. But when? Should we special case this one or set all PAM environment variables? -- John Hughes, Calv

Bug#867311: How ticket renewal "works" on Stretch

2017-07-13 Thread John Hughes
The difference between gdm3-3.14 and gdm3-3.22 seems to be that in 3.22 the PAM "setcred" operation is done by the gdm-session-worker started by gdm, where in gdm 3.14 a second gdm-session-worker is started with the enviromnent returmed by PAM. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -

Bug#867311: How ticket renewal works on Jessie (gdm3-3.14.1-7)

2017-07-13 Thread John Hughes
gdm3 sends a StartReauthentication message to the gdm-session-worker. gdm-session-worker creates a ReauthenticationRequest. reauthentication_request_new creates a GdmSession with the environment from PAM (including KRB5CCNAME) session_worker_job starts a new gdm-session-worker with that

Bug#867311: Info received (Log from a jessie system (gdm3-3.14.1-7))

2017-07-10 Thread John Hughes
Further debugging by printf shows that: On Jessie when libpam_krb5 gets to "pam_sm_setcred: entry (reinit)" the ticket cache name is in the environment (KRB5CCNAME) (the real environment, not the PAM args one). On Stretch at the same place KRB5CCNAME is unset.

Bug#867311: Log from a jessie system (gdm3-3.14.1-7)

2017-07-07 Thread John Hughes
Jul 7 15:15:25 tauric gdm-password][3741]: pam_krb5(gdm-password:auth): (user john) attempting authentication as j...@calvaedi.com Jul 7 15:15:25 tauric gdm-password][3741]: pam_krb5(gdm-password:auth): user john authenticated as j...@calvaedi.com Jul 7 15:15:25 tauric gdm-password][3741]:

Bug#867311: Problem also noted in Ubuntu launchpad bug 1336663

2017-07-05 Thread John Hughes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1336663 Which is about lightdm, bug also notes that the same bug exists in gdm3. -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#867311: gdm3: gnome unlock screen doesn't refresh kerberos ticket (via PAM)

2017-07-05 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.22.3-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? We use kerberos (and nfsv4) and gnome * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Locked my screen (or let my screen autolock), left the desk for a few

Bug#833427: nautilus: Nautilus freezes when searching

2016-08-04 Thread John Hughes
Package: nautilus Version: 3.14.1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Any attempt to search in Nautilus causes Nautilus to freeze completely until the process is ended in System Monitor. It is then impossible to start Nautilus again until any tracker-* process is also ended in System Monitor.

Bug#824171: icedove can't open folder on IMAP server, shows "checking server capabilites" then nothing.

2016-05-13 Thread John Hughes
Package: icedove Version: 38.7.0-1~deb8u3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Did an aptitude upgrade, upgraded icedove from 38.5.0-1~deb8u1 to 38.7.0-1~deb8u3 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

Bug#772848: This is also 818502

2016-04-08 Thread John Hughes
Václav Ovsík, being much smarter than me, has tracked this bug down and found a patch that fixes it. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818502 -- John Hughes, CalvaEDI S.A.S. -- An Esker Company <john.hug...@calva.com> +33 1 4313 3131

Bug#792582: simple-scan: With HP network connected MFC simple-scan gives model as scanner name

2015-07-16 Thread John Hughes
Package: simple-scan Version: 3.16.1.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have two HP MFC devices * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I tried to pick the scanner I wanted from the simple-scan preferences

Bug#759786: Bug is in intel drm, not gdm3, bug is still present.

2015-01-26 Thread John Hughes
Well, I spoke too soon - it doesn't work with 3.14.1-3, the problem is still present. I'm now convinced that it's a kernel bug - in the intel driver. Often, when I try to change the Gnome primary display from the built-in lvds panel to the external (HDMI) monitor I get errrors like: [

Bug#759786: Works with gdm3 3.14.1-3

2015-01-17 Thread John Hughes
Well, now it seems to work again. As far as I can tell the problem was that the login page was being displayed on the built-in screen, but it was turned off. (Although I never managed to login by typing blind, so maybe it was worse than that). Now I have 3.14.1-3 all is well again. -- To

Bug#773286: Info received (It looks like a conspiracy between libvirt and kvm)

2014-12-19 Thread John Hughes
Well, I've upgraded to: # dpkg -l libvirt* qemu* | grep '^ii' ii libvirt-bin 1.2.9-6~bpo70+1amd64 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt-clients 1.2.9-6~bpo70+1amd64 programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt-daemon

Bug#773286:

2014-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/14 14:59, Michael Tokarev wrote: 19.12.2014 16:50, John Hughes wrote: Note: ... -no-acpi ... No ACPI, no hotplug? The linux guest-side module to handle hotplug is acpiphp. I think the name speaks for itself. When I can get my users to stop doing real work to let me play with my

Bug#773286:

2014-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/14 15:10, Michael Tokarev wrote: Also, libvirt isn't right (IMHO) to stick with particular machine version (in your case, -M pc-1.1). It is needed for certain guest OS types, for example windows, to keep its activation changes (so that hw should not change). Linux is much more tolerant

Bug#773286:

2014-12-19 Thread John Hughes
On 19/12/14 15:53, Michael Tokarev wrote: acpi is not the only possible way. More recent qemu (not pc-1.1 which you used) also has pcie bus, which does support hotplugging without acpi. But you used both pc-1.1 (old non-pcie machine) and no-acpi. Ok, thanks. Still waiting for people to stop

Bug#773286: Happiness!

2014-12-19 Thread John Hughes
Ok, I've added featureacpi//feature and got rid of the pc-1.1 rubbish, now the qemu looks like: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name cedric.CalvaEDI.COM -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.1,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 8192 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid

Bug#773286: It looks like a conspiracy between libvirt and kvm

2014-12-17 Thread John Hughes
I've restarted my VM and tried again. This is what I see: adriatic:~# lsof /dev/md124 adriatic:~# virsh attach-device cedric.CalvaEDI.COM zz.xml error: Failed to attach device from zz.xml error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': Bus 'pci.0' does not support

Bug#773286: qemu-kvm: attemt to attach block device fails Bus 'pci.0' does not support hotplugging

2014-12-16 Thread John Hughes
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Tried to add a new disk to a running kvm guest * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Using the virsh attach-device command I tried

Bug#773286: qemu-kvm: attemt to attach block device fails Bus 'pci.0' does not support hotplugging

2014-12-16 Thread John Hughes
Well, it looks like the command has half worked -- lsof shows me that kvm has opened the block device I tried to add. Now how to make it give it up? # lsof /dev/md/cedric\:new COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME kvm 28159 libvirt-qemu 28u BLK 9,124

Bug#772848: ext3 fs gets ext4_mb_release_inode_pa error, remounted read-only)

2014-12-12 Thread John Hughes
It turns out that this is not the first time I've seen this bug, it happened on another VM (on another physical machine). The storage stack is similar: On the host (3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64): mdadm raid (2 SATA disks) LVM On the guest (3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64) LVM2, ext3 filesystem. Dec 10 22:33:24

Bug#772848: ext3 fs gets ext4_mb_release_inode_pa error, remounted read-only

2014-12-12 Thread John Hughes
Here's what the fsck looked like. No serious damage. root@olympic:~# fsck -y /dev/olympic/olympic-imap fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) olympic-imap: recovering journal olympic-imap contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and

Bug#772848: linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64: ext3 fs gets ext4_mb_release_inode_pa error, remounted read-only

2014-12-11 Thread John Hughes
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.3-2~bpo70+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm running cyrus imapd on a KVM hosted virtual machine with kernel 3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 Twice (so far) I've seen the error: [957229.875900] EXT4-fs (dm-4): pa 88001f7ff980: logic 0, phys. 9176576, le$

Bug#772848: ext3 fs gets ext4_mb_release_inode_pa error, remounted read-only)

2014-12-11 Thread John Hughes
Looks superficaly like: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/43443/focus=43448 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#770472: libfreeipmi12: programs using libfreeipmi2 crash the first time after a system boot (on Xen)

2014-11-22 Thread John Hughes
On 11/21/2014 10:30 PM, Albert Chu wrote: I imagine the bug is somewhere in xen's memory mapped I/O area if it's happening the first time after boot. Since I'm just using the normal in() and out() calls, not sure there's much I can do. If there is a way to massage freeipmi to not trigger the

Bug#770472: libfreeipmi12: programs using libfreeipmi2 crash the first time after a system boot

2014-11-21 Thread John Hughes
Package: libfreeipmi12 Version: 1.1.5-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Ran a program linked against libfreeipmi2, for example bmc-config. * What was the outcome of this action? Segfault: [ 304.932148] traps: bmc-config[6848] general protection

Bug#770472: Acknowledgement (libfreeipmi12: programs using libfreeipmi2 crash the first time after a system boot)

2014-11-21 Thread John Hughes
Ok, it's not exactly how I described it, bmc-config (and some other commands) will crash *until* ipmi-sensors is run, at which point it will start working. Until the next reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#770472: Info received (Bug#770472: Acknowledgement (libfreeipmi12: programs using libfreeipmi2 crash the first time after a system boot))

2014-11-21 Thread John Hughes
The bug only happens when running under xen, not on the bare metal. So I guess it's a xen bug really. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#762939: nfs-common: /etc/init.d/nfs-common starts #!/bin/bash

2014-09-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.2.8-9 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, /etc/init.d/nfs-common starts #!/bin/bash, but doesn't seem to contain any bashisms. It'd be nice to use /bin/sh. -- Package-specific info: -- rpcinfo -- program vers proto port service 104 tcp

Bug#762937: minissdpd: Please don't use /bin/bash in initscript

2014-09-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: minissdpd Version: 1.2.20130907-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, /etc/init.d/minissdpd starts: #!/bin/bash It doesn't seem to contain any bashisms so it'd be nicer to use /bin/sh -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#762940: grub-pc preinst and postrm scripts use bash

2014-09-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02~beta2-11 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The preinst and postrm scripts use bash, but don't seem to include any bashisms. It'd be nice to use /bin/sh instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#759786: gdm3: multiple displays handled incorrectly (used to work)

2014-08-30 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.12.2-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Booted my laptop with external display attached * What was the outcome of this action? Internal display turned off, no login screen on secondary display * What outcome did you expect

Bug#755703: libtirpc1 0.2.4-1 causes rpc.gssd to crash on nfs4 sec=krb5 mount

2014-07-22 Thread John Hughes
Package: libtirpc1 Version: 0.2.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Upgraded to libtirpc1_0.2.4-1_amd64.deb * What was the outcome of this action? nfs4 sec=krb5 mounts stopped working, rpc.gssd segfaults in libgssapi_krb5 Jul 22 16:22:22 celtic

Bug#727192: The patch from the gnome bugzilla works for me

2014-05-22 Thread John Hughes
I've been running for two days now with the patch from the gnome bugzilla and everything works OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727192: This looks like gnome bug 691269 - lock screen with pam_krb5 authentication doesn't update ticket cache

2014-05-20 Thread John Hughes
*https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691269* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032154 And Redhat bug***1032154* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032154 -gdm calls pam_setcred with PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED instead of PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED during screen unlock

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-27 Thread John Hughes
On 26/04/14 18:49, John Hughes wrote: if (ref($content_ref) eq 'CODE') { my $buf = $content_ref(); $buf = unless defined($buf); +utf8::downgrade ($buf); $buf = sprintf %x%s%s%s, length($buf), $CRLF, $buf, $CRLF if $chunked; substr($buf

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-27 Thread John Hughes
On 27/04/14 10:35, John Hughes wrote: But that's the wrong place to fix it. The bug is realy in $socket-syswrite, aka Crypt::SSLeay::Conn::write. That's where the bug should be fixed. This patch fixes it for me. --- SSLeay.xs.dist 2007-08-13 19:42:33.0 +0200 +++ SSLeay.xs 2014

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-26 Thread John Hughes
On 25/04/14 22:01, Niko Tyni wrote: found 745823 6.06-1 thanks My pleasure. Interesting. I can reproduce this on (mostly current) sid with libwww-perl 6.06-1. Ah, I was going to test that Monday :-) Quoting HTTP::Request documentation: $r-content( $bytes ) Note that the

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-26 Thread John Hughes
On 26/04/14 16:11, John Hughes wrote: Maybe something like if (utf8::is_utf8($data)) { eval { utf8::downgrade ($data); }; croak content not bytes if $@; } That's ridiculously over the top. We could just unconditionaly call utf8::downgrade ($data

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-26 Thread John Hughes
On 26/04/14 18:12, John Hughes wrote: We could just unconditionaly call utf8::downgrade ($data); Interestingly there is code in HTTP::Message that does that, but we're going from LWP::Protocol::http::request to LWP::Protocol::https::Socket-syswrite. This fixes it for me. --- /usr/share

Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

2014-04-25 Thread John Hughes
Package: libwww-perl Version: 5.836-1 Severity: normal This was horrible to narrow down, but: 1. I'm doing a POST to a HTTPS url 2. Some of my headers containg iso-8859-1 data 3. The body is sent with transfer-encoding: chunked 4. the is_utf8 bit was set on the data (although it happens to be

Bug#743796: flash-kernel: kirkwood+ should be considered the same as kirkwood

2014-04-06 Thread John Hughes
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.3+deb7u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Built a custom kernel with make-kpkg * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I built it in the directory containing the .git subdirectory

Bug#740933: linux-image-3.13-1-amd64: sony vaio z1 lspci hangs reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/config

2014-03-06 Thread John Hughes
Package: src:linux Version: 3.13.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I upgraded from 3.2.0-4-amd64 to 3.13-1-amd64 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? tried to see my pci devices with a lspci * What was

Bug#740933: Bug exists in 3.12, not in 3.11

2014-03-06 Thread John Hughes
I've tried 3.12.8-1 and 3.11.10-1 (the kernels I just happened to have lying around). Same behaviour in 3.12 3.11 seems to work ok. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#740933: This is what lspci (eventualy) shows on 3.13

2014-03-06 Thread John Hughes
Just before the system goes into cpu-bound loops: root@russia:~# lspci -vvv -s :01:00.1 ... long delay... 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 905a Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-

Bug#623130: Same behaviour from some French government forms, for example CERFA 13752

2014-01-09 Thread John Hughes
A link: https://www.formulaires.modernisation.gouv.fr/gf/showFormulaireSignaletiqueConsulter.do?numCerfa=13752 Where they even say: /Le logiciel Adobe Reader version 8.0 ou + est nécessaire pour visualiser et utiliser ce formulaire. Cliquez *http://get.adobe.com/fr/reader/* pour le

Bug#623130: This is poppler bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265

2014-01-09 Thread John Hughes
Turns out the so called pdf isn't a pdf at all: I started looking at what it would take to implement javascript. The problem is all the javascript in this pdf does is check the viewer version and if 7.0 loads the XFA plugin. The pdf contains a stream with 600KB of XML starting with template

Bug#730177: The patch fixes the bug for me.

2014-01-06 Thread John Hughes
Gdm3 now starts up OK even with /usr/local mounted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#730177: Added to Gnome Bugzilla

2014-01-06 Thread John Hughes
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721629 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#734141: This bug is caused by patch glib-2.22.5-gio-local-stat-selinux-mls-2.patch

2014-01-04 Thread John Hughes
That was done to fix RedHat bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#730177: I can't really understand whats happening.

2014-01-03 Thread John Hughes
On 03/01/14 12:05, Simon McVittie wrote: Could you share the source code of your FUSE filesystem, please? Thanks, S Ok, attached. Run it as root: perl ./eacces.pl --nonempty --logfile logfile [--allow_other] /usr/local It makes a bind mount of /usr/local to /tmp/original.$$ then uses fuse

Bug#730177: I can't really understand whats happening.

2014-01-03 Thread John Hughes
Fed up with strace I've been looking at the gdm3 log files, and I think I see an earlier difference in the behaviour. A working session has this in :0-greeter.log gnome-session[]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: started pid:2489 gnome-session[]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase APPLICATION

Bug#730177: I can't really understand whats happening.

2014-01-03 Thread John Hughes
On 03/01/14 13:33, John Hughes wrote: (The log message is slightly different because I tried to add a try/catch around the error in fileUtils.js but I obviously did it in the wrong place). And putting back the original fileUtils.js gets the same behaviour: gnome-session[2542]: DEBUG

Bug#730177: The bug is in GLocalFile's query_info_finish, it doesn't throw errors on EACCES.

2014-01-03 Thread John Hughes
Via a twisty little list of javascript, all unreadable :-( we arrive at a call to query_info_async followed by query_info_finish which, when called to collect the information for a nonexistent file throws an exception, but when called to collect the information for an inaccessible file returns

Bug#730177: There are two bugs - in glib and gnome-shell

2014-01-03 Thread John Hughes
It seems to me that we have a classic situation of two bugs conspiring to ruin our day. 1. For some strange reason glib decides not to tell people about EACCES when they ask for information about a file/directory 2. gnome-shell thinks that just because glib provides it information about a

Bug#733952: gdm3 doesn't show greeter if started from invoke-rc.d

2014-01-02 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.8.4-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Trying to debug #730177 (gdm3 doesn't show greeter if can't access /usr/local) I did an update-rc.d remove and tried to start gdm3 by invoke-rc.d gdm3 start * What was the outcome of this

Bug#730177: I can't really understand whats happening.

2014-01-02 Thread John Hughes
The only difference I can see between the sessions that work (with /usr/local unmounted) and those that fail (with /usr/local nfs mounted, so all accesses get EACCES) is that when things go well I see the message: gnome-session[2575]: DEBUG(+): Detected that screensaver has appeared on the bus

Bug#730177: Well, the problem isn't the home directory, it's /usr/local

2013-12-28 Thread John Hughes
On 12/28/2013 12:39 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: Why can't the greeter read files in /usr/local, though? Aren't they 0644/0755? Because the filesystem is mounted with sec=krb5 and the Debian-gdm user doesn't have a kerberos ticket. I guess it's partly a misconfiguration on my part, I'll

Bug#730177: It seems to be something to do with nfs4/krb5/autofs

2013-12-27 Thread John Hughes
In my attempts to debug this I managed to break my autofs configuration and, bizzarely, gdm3 started working again. When I fixed autofs then I get back to the situation where gdm3 hangs. I'll try to work out the differences between the situation with the home directory unmounted (gdm3 works)

Bug#730177: gdm3 gets very upset when it can't access the home directory

2013-12-27 Thread John Hughes
The difference between the two cases seems to be this: 1. when my home directory is *not* mounted: gnome-session[]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged gnome-session[]: DEBUG(+): GsmDBusClient:

Bug#730177: Well, the problem isn't the home directory, it's /usr/local

2013-12-27 Thread John Hughes
I ran gdm3 under strace both with and without the network connected. When the network is not connected (so no nfs directories are mounted) gdm3 shows the greeter screen. When the network *is* connected, so the nfs directories are mounted the greeter screen is not showing. I examined the

Bug#731887: systemd: Lid close on laptop doesn't suspend

2013-12-11 Thread John Hughes
On 12/10/2013 11:37 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Please post the output of systemd-inhibit --list before you do such a lid-close. # systemd-inhibit --list Who: john (UID 1000/john, PID 3736/gnome-settings-) What: sleep Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen Mode: delay Who:

Bug#731884: Problem is in detection of partition table after mdadm volume created

2013-12-11 Thread John Hughes
What seems to be happening: In the cases where the system boots correctly the mdadm volume is created then a partition table is found. In the cases where the system fails to boot the mdadm volume is created then the kernel says md126: unknown partition table. Running the kernel without the

Bug#731887: systemd: Lid close on laptop doesn't suspend

2013-12-11 Thread John Hughes
On 12/11/2013 10:49 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Have you booted with systemd being your PID 1 or do you still use sysvinit? I'm a stick in the mud. Ok, trying with init=/bin/systemd It slept. It woke up. Log [ 94.784260] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0: Bus check notify on _handle_hotplug_event_root [

Bug#731887: systemd: Lid close on laptop doesn't suspend

2013-12-11 Thread John Hughes
On 12/11/2013 10:49 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Have you booted with systemd being your PID 1 or do you still use sysvinit? Ok, with init=/bin/systemd it seems to work reliably. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#731884: Problem is order of partitions seen by mdadm

2013-12-11 Thread John Hughes
When the system works it builds the devices from sda and sdb. When it fails its because it tries to build a container from sda3 and sdb. To mdadm sda3 looks like it is part of an imsm container, but it's not. It isn't even a partition! sda and sdb contain a imsm raid0 device that is

Bug#731884: initramfs-tools: randomly /dev/disk/by-uuid doesn't exits, making boot from crypt partition fail

2013-12-10 Thread John Hughes
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.115 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Upgraded * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Rebooted * What was the outcome of this action? Fell into busybox shell because

Bug#731887: systemd: Lid close on laptop doesn't suspend

2013-12-10 Thread John Hughes
Package: systemd Version: 204-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Closed laptop lid * What was the outcome of this action? Nothing * What outcome did you expect instead? Suspend. I see in dmesg: [

Bug#730177: What can I do to help debug this one?

2013-12-05 Thread John Hughes
The problem persists. A clue? We use kerberos for login, with nfs4 home directories auto-mounted. Help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#729567: Debian bug #726676: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64: TCP packet loss when using proxy ARP IP addresses

2013-11-24 Thread John Hughes
On 11/24/2013 01:52 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 16:29 -0800, Andris Kalnozols wrote: Package: src:linux Version: 3.10.11-1 Please close bug report #726676 as the observed problem had nothing to do with proxy-arp. The correct diagnosis was provided by John Hughes who filed

Bug#726676: Debian bug #726676: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64: TCP packet loss when using proxy ARP IP addresses

2013-11-15 Thread John Hughes
better? -- John Hughes, Atlantic Technologies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#726676: Maybe this has some connection to bug 729567

2013-11-14 Thread John Hughes
But my problem seems to have nothing to do with ARP. Do my traces look like yours? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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