[Bug 164968] Re: [Upstream] [hardy] OpenOffice.org doesn't sends an User Agent

2011-01-26 Thread Gerry Reno
This also prevents OpenOffice from being able to access many webdav servers who filter on the user agent string to determine allowable webdav clients. I tested this against a webdav server using OOo Writer v3.1.1 and the user agent string delivered by OOo was blank and the server refused to allow

[Bug 706764] Re: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-26 Thread Gerry Reno
** Tags removed: fixed-in-debian fixed-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706764 Title: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 706764] Re: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-26 Thread Gerry Reno
Hi Alex, I tried to run the fix you show for development snapshot on my machine but it says this: The program 'dc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install dc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 706764] Re: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-26 Thread Gerry Reno
My machine is just a basic Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid server. It does have the 'bc' calculator installed but not 'dc'. 'dc' being RPN is also quite obtuse to understand being stack based which might the code difficult to maintain. 'expr' can be a pain to use with all the quoting needed but I see

[Bug 706764] Re: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-24 Thread Gerry Reno
When I look at upstream 20061020-3: MEMSIZE=`head -1 /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print $2 }'` looks like it still might be high by a factor of 1024 since MEMSIZE is in megabytes and meminfo is in kilobytes. That is why my patch adjusted for the difference: MEMSIZE=$(($(cat /proc/meminfo | awk

[Bug 706764] [NEW] dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-23 Thread Gerry Reno
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dphys-swapfile In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid. Package: dphys-swapfile does not set the proper swap file size. It currently looks at /proc/kcore to determine the memory size and in my machine this file is 0 bytes. Attaching patch. ** Affects:

[Bug 706764] Re: dphys-swapfile sets incorrect swap size

2011-01-23 Thread Gerry Reno
** Patch added: dphys-swapfile.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706764/+attachment/1804396/+files/dphys-swapfile.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706764 Title:

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-20 Thread Gerry Reno
Scott, I just tested a recent Maverick AMI and it does indeed correctly set the hostname to the newly assigned internal domain name after a stop/start sequence. So no need to open any other bugs on that score. + uname -n ip-10-117-39-235 + hostname -s ip-10-117-39-235 + hostname -d

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-20 Thread Gerry Reno
cloud-init does a lot of things. I guess what I'm looking for is whether cloud-init could be made to emit events as it works such that other upstart jobs can listen for those events and then use them to trigger their startup as opposed to waiting for the entire cloud-init process to complete.

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-20 Thread Gerry Reno
Scott, I just tested a recent Maverick AMI and it does indeed correctly set the hostname to the newly assigned internal domain name after a stop/start sequence. So no need to open any other bugs on that score. + uname -n ip-10-117-39-235 + hostname -s ip-10-117-39-235 + hostname -d

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-20 Thread Gerry Reno
cloud-init does a lot of things. I guess what I'm looking for is whether cloud-init could be made to emit events as it works such that other upstart jobs can listen for those events and then use them to trigger their startup as opposed to waiting for the entire cloud-init process to complete.

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
This fix is needed for Lucid as well. I have a clustered filesystem that fails because of this bug. It relies upon the hostname value always being set correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in ubuntu.

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
As the ec2 meta-data, local-hostname, returns the long form of hostname, I would also propose that an enhancement that a new ec2 meta-data attribute be added: local-shortname that would return the short version of hostname such as is returned from 'hostname -s' on a properly configured

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
When hostname is properly working on a system all of the following commands should work as expected: #uname -n #hostname -a #hostname -s #hostname -d #hostname -f #hostname Source: http://www.debianadmin.com/change-hostname-or-server-name-of-a -linux-machine.html -- You received this bug

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
Running the following commands appears to correctly set all the forms of hostname on my Lucid ec2 instance: echo $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname) | sed 's:\..*$::' /etc/hostname /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.hostname=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
Now since my cluster filesystem starts real early in the bootup (S20) I need the hostname to be set correctly even earlier. So that would probably require some upstart job to run at S10. So now I need to see how cloud-init is doing this and if it is early in the bootup. -- You received this

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
This fix is needed for Lucid as well. I have a clustered filesystem that fails because of this bug. It relies upon the hostname value always being set correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
As the ec2 meta-data, local-hostname, returns the long form of hostname, I would also propose that an enhancement that a new ec2 meta-data attribute be added: local-shortname that would return the short version of hostname such as is returned from 'hostname -s' on a properly configured

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
When hostname is properly working on a system all of the following commands should work as expected: #uname -n #hostname -a #hostname -s #hostname -d #hostname -f #hostname Source: http://www.debianadmin.com/change-hostname-or-server-name-of-a -linux-machine.html -- You received this bug

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
Running the following commands appears to correctly set all the forms of hostname on my Lucid ec2 instance: echo $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname) | sed 's:\..*$::' /etc/hostname /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.hostname=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest

[Bug 596993] Re: hostname handling needs improvement for elastic-ip and ebs start-stop

2011-01-19 Thread Gerry Reno
Now since my cluster filesystem starts real early in the bootup (S20) I need the hostname to be set correctly even earlier. So that would probably require some upstart job to run at S10. So now I need to see how cloud-init is doing this and if it is early in the bootup. -- You received this

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-14 Thread Gerry Reno
Opened a kernel bug about this problem: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26702 . ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #26702 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26702 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-13 Thread Gerry Reno
1. The problem was fixed when I went through the 3mb/second channel. That's probably because it was a different controller or the hardware at least differed sufficiently enought so as to not exhibit the problem. 2. I had to re-install the OS completely due to data corruption caused by the READ

[Bug 591532] Re: ata errors { DRDY ERR } { ABRT } in Lucid

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
I've got this same DRDY ERR occurring on one of my machines, and once it started it continues to show this error. I did a drive test on the drives and no errors were found. So this is definitely something with the kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
I'm seeing this same error with Lucid x86_64 and kernel 2.6.32-21. My drive is a Hitachi 500GB SATA. Once this error starts I get hung task timeouts and the systems starts freezing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
It also generates filesystem errors such that I have to run fsck on the next boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550559 Title: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED --

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
And I just checked and my south bridge is an AMD SB750 with 6 SATA. I'm using AHCI mode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550559 Title: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
I just went and upgraded to kernel 2.6.37-12-server from kernel-ppa and after rebooting into it I'm still see the same READ FPDMA QUEUED errors I was before. Both drives in the machine check out fine according to the drive tests. I've noticed a little unexplained freezing up and releasing

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
Cabling is fine. I just tried to run 'sudo apt-get update' and it is telling me that I need to run 'dpkg --configure -a'. When I do that it tries to reconfigure the new kernel package again. So the read errors must have prevented the configure from completing. But the read errors will not let

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2011-01-12 Thread Gerry Reno
Tried adding libata.force=noncq to 2.6.37-12-server kernel boot line and the errors are changed to READ DMA EXT. This particular machine has a Gigabtye M/B. Some details: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]

[Bug 408417] Re: No option to log in remotely via XDMCP

2010-07-14 Thread Gerry Reno
This removal of XDMCP affects us as well. Why is the LTS release (Lucid) marked as Won't Fix? This is a critical piece of functionality that has been removed from Ubuntu without any advance notice or warning. Please fix this for the LTS release (Lucid). -- No option to log in remotely via

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-07-03 Thread Gerry Reno
Milan, excuse me, but closing this report is ridiculous. It is NOT at all a feature request. This is clearly a bug, a bad bug, and it needs fixed. A lot of research and symptoms are detailed in this report that will be useful for those trying to fix this issue. And the problem needs to be

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-07-03 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221363 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 As the reporter, it seemed as if you were trying to push aside this bug. I'm glad to hear that is not the case. Thank you. I have no problem with it being marked as a duplicate of a true bug that is for

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-06-30 Thread Gerry Reno
I logged out the user and started a new session: I went to try accessing Users and Groups from the menu and got the same behavior as before. Only the Password button for the current user worked, nothing else. $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 12237 pts/300:00:00 bash 12284 pts/300:00:00

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-06-30 Thread Gerry Reno
$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 12237 pts/300:00:00 bash 19027 pts/300:00:00 ps $ pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set --allow-user-interaction --process 12237 Not authorized. $ pkcheck --action-id com.ubuntu.systemservice.setproxy --allow-user-interaction

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-06-30 Thread Gerry Reno
I am remote logged into the machine using vnc/ssh/nx and this behavior is extremely undesirable. Nobody would expect this type of behavior. I have remote logged into machines for years like this and never saw this type of behavior. -- PolicyKit authentication always fails

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 I reinstalled 'dbus' and this cleared the error but I'm seeing strange behavior. Logged in as a regular user. Time and Date: all greyed out and you are not authorized..., no prompt to enter root

[Bug 295405] Re: Fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: not owned by the messagebus group

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
I reinstalled 'dbus' and this cleared the error but I'm seeing strange behavior. Logged in as a regular user. Time and Date: all greyed out and you are not authorized..., no prompt to enter root password. Users and Groups: can only change Password for current user, the other Change buttons do

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 I wouldn't say it's completely different. Just maybe that the permissions aspect of the bug has been solved but there are still other related errors showing. Without sudo: $ users-admin (users-admin:18974):

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 I do not have the time at the moment to create another fresh install of Lucid using ubuntu-server followed by ubuntu-desktop. I've been reading the wiki entry about PolicyKit. But there is nothing that says

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 # ps -ef | grep polkitd root 2552 1 0 15:33 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd # killall polkitd # ps -ef | grep polkitd # # sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd [1] 32132 # Registering

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 The user does not have a password. All users are keyed access. # ck-list-sessions Session20: unix-user = '1001' realname = 'David Reno' seat = 'Seat18' session-type = ''

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 Created a user 'test' with a password: $ sudo adduser test Adding user `test' ... Adding new group `test' (1002) ... Adding new user `test' (1002) with group `test' ... Creating home directory `/home/test'

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 And here is Session 26: Session26: unix-user = '1002' realname = 'TEST USER' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ''

[Bug 598909] Re: PolicyKit authentication always fails

2010-06-29 Thread Gerry Reno
# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-ubuntu-admin.conf [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-group:admin The users were not members of 'admin' group. I added them and reran the tests. Still got the exact same results. It didn't seem to make any difference. $ ps PID TTY TIME

[Bug 295405] Re: Fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: not owned by the messagebus group

2010-06-28 Thread Gerry Reno
It did not seem to matter that the launcher was group as 'messagebus'. It still generated the error even after I changed the group. In my case it was a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid server and followed by an install of ubuntu-desktop. Those were the main packages. -- Fails to run

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-28 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 $ jockey-gtk Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/jockey-gtk, line 417, in module sys.exit(u.run()) File /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jockey/ui.py, line 428, in run

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-28 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 Scroll just a little bit. You have my strace here in comment #5 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools- backends/+bug/598909/comments/5 -- Failed to execute program

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-28 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 Also, look back and you'll see that I've reinstalled all the requested packages. It didn't change anything. -- Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-27 Thread Gerry Reno
Ok, here is some more info: # ls -l /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper -rwsr-xr-- 1 root avahi 47520 2010-03-30 18:43 /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper # cat /etc/group | grep -e 108 -e avahi messagebus:x:108: avahi-autoipd:x:111: avahi:x:112: # cat /etc/passwd | grep -e messagebus

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-27 Thread Gerry Reno
If I change the UID for messagebus it will be the same id as haldaemon so I don't think I should do this. Really I can see nothing wrong with the ids. There are no duplicated id's. -- Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-27 Thread Gerry Reno
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 This is NOT the same problem! This is not a duplicate bug. The other cases were about duplicated GID's. # grep messagebus /etc/passwd messagebus:x:102:108::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false # grep 108 /etc/group

[Bug 295405] Re: fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

2010-06-27 Thread Gerry Reno
Seriously, a user cannot be expected to get into a terminal and go searching their entire system trying to fix up GIDs that were incorrectly set by some package. That isn't even a possible general workaround. This bug is a SHOWSTOPPER for Ubuntu Lucid. The majority of users are not going to

[Bug 160862] Re: users-admin (System-Administration-Users and Groups) overwrites group file

2010-06-26 Thread Gerry Reno
Ok, if you think this is not related I'll be glad to open a new bug. I do think this is the same underlying problem though. Also: # apt-show-versions liboobs liboobs not installed (even not available) There is no such package. -- users-admin (System-Administration-Users and Groups) overwrites

[Bug 598909] [NEW] System|Administration|Users and Groups: The configuration could not be loaded.

2010-06-26 Thread Gerry Reno
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: system-tools-backends I am running lucid with system-tools-backends at 2.9.4 and am seeing errors trying to run any of: Time and Date Users and Groups example: $ users-admin (users-admin:12353): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-26 Thread Gerry Reno
The UID for user 'messagebus' is already 102. Not sure what you are asking there. # apt-cache policy liboobs-1-4 liboobs-1-4: Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main

[Bug 598909] Re: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

2010-06-26 Thread Gerry Reno
What I got out of the other bugs comment was that it needs to be checked that there is not two groups using same ids. I don't see that as the case here. -- Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598909 You received this bug