[Bug 1125726] [NEW] boot-time race between /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate and /etc/init.d/ntp start

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: We're seeing a race between if-up.d/ntpdate and the ntp startup script. 1) if-up.d/ntpdate starts. 2) if-up.d/ntpdate acquires the lock /var/lock/ntpdate-ifup. 3) if-up.d/ntpdate stops the ntp service [which isn't running anyway]. 4) if-up.d/ntpdate starts running ntpdate,

[Bug 1125726] Re: boot-time race between /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate and /etc/init.d/ntp start

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
In addition, /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp is *also* getting in on the act, doing an ntp restart when it sees ntp service information from the DHCP server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1125726] Re: boot-time race between /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate and /etc/init.d/ntp start

2013-02-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We're seeing a possibly related problem on first boot, with more painful consequences. Our install process does a puppet run in the late_command, and then a reboot, and then another puppet run happens on boot. In that first boot to the installed system, we're seeing ntp start once and fail,

[Bug 833994] Re: debian-installer does not support https when using with preseed files

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I don't think certificates are necessary here: we could permit any https without any certificate checking, and still have an improvement, with no additional dangers over using http. For example, you would remain vulnerable to DNS spoofing or man-in-the-middle problems, but you would not be subject

[Bug 936506] Re: graphical glitch after login (295.20 regression)

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Here is a screenshot of glitchy menu behavior. Here, menus show the background shadow effect, but the actual foreground text is missing or partial, and shows up when you mouse over it. In both cases, I believe the bug is that Unity thinks that some texture or other has particular contents, but

[Bug 936506] Re: graphical glitch after login (295.20 regression)

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Screenshot of glitchy menu ** Attachment added: IMG_20120227_144839.jpg https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/936506/+attachment/2819255/+files/IMG_20120227_144839.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 936506] Re: graphical glitch after login (295.20 regression)

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Here is screenshots of the glitchy launcher. This happens (reliably) on a 24 Dell monitor, the system is a Dell T3500 with Quadro FX 580. This happens when I switch from the X display to a VT and then back. The launcher and the top menu/notification bar both look glitchy. As soon as the mouse

[Bug 901741] Re: perl-modules lucid-precise upgrade failure: debsums needs to restrict itself to Essential dependencies

2012-01-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Thanks for looking at this Colin; I appreciate the eyes! It's in the depths of dark magic to me sometimes. For this to work reliably in a cross-version lucid-precise upgrade, however, won't you need to push a new libwmf0.2-7 package in lucid that fixes its prerm? -- You received this bug

[Bug 901741] Re: perl-modules lucid-precise upgrade failure: debsums needs to restrict itself to Essential dependencies

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sounds great. Given the large number of packages using defoma, it might be worth a comprehensive scan across lucid to make sure the no-op prerm is in place for all of them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 921315] Re: lightdm greeter provides no access to pam accounts

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
No. We are fine with users who have already logged in having their username visible; that's helpful. It's not a lightdm issue, but I'm really quite flabbergasted how even one user shows up in the accounts manager before anyone has logged in, on our configuration. In any case, we like the idea

[Bug 921315] Re: lightdm greeter provides no access to pam accounts

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
By the way, this bug is quite new. With our configuration, in December, it worked just fine, as far as I can tell. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921315 Title: lightdm greeter

[Bug 880104] Re: Using pam_group results in: pam_group(lightdm:setcred): unable to set the group membership for user: operation not permitted

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Has any progress happened on this bug? It turns out it's even more important to us than we initially realized; we rely on it to add users to the fuse and cdrom groups; being absent those groups cases real inconvenience. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 921315] Re: lightdm greeter provides no access to pam accounts

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We're case 2. Listing all the users is impossible anyhow. Where would you get the list? But we're OK I believe with listing those who have logged in before on the particular machine. That's not essential however. Right now the other selector is totally missing. It should be impossible for that to

[Bug 921315] Re: lightdm greeter provides no access to pam accounts

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I have confirmed that adding greeter-hide-users=true in the SeatDefaults stanza of lightdm.conf fixes the problem. We would still like to have the behavior I saw before, where if a user was known to the accounts manager, they would be listed, but there was always an other box also. However, this

[Bug 926447] [NEW] New resolvconf interacts badly with something in installs

2012-02-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: As of ubuntu7 (and maybe ubuntu6), we get failing installs related to the new resolvconf changes which do the /etc/resolv.conf link in the postinst. During the select and install software step, we see /etc/resolv.conf go away (simply vanish) at some point in the prep step,

Re: [Bug 732990] Re: libpam-krb5 writes to /tmp, does not work when disk is full.

2012-02-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
It's already there. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Alec Warner 732...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote: Can we get it in Precise? On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: As of libpam-krb5 4.5, the temporary ticket cache will be written to ccache_dir rather than /tmp if

[Bug 926447] Re: New resolvconf interacts badly with something in installs

2012-02-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'm pleased to report that with the newly rebuilt installer images that include this patch, the symptoms we reported are no longer visible. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926447

[Bug 937665] Re: Ubuntu 12.04, compiz snap plugin behaves inconsistently when dragging snapped windows

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I have seen this bug both on precise and oneiric (haven't checked anything older). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937665 Title: Ubuntu 12.04, compiz snap plugin behaves

[Bug 934799] [NEW] trousers start script has exit status 137

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: trousers version 0.3.7-2 can't start $ sudo /etc/init.d/trousers start * Starting Trusted Computing daemon tcsd

Re: [Bug 244250] Re: Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: Actually, we do want a reboot notification when we issue security updates. When we issue security updates, we don't enter the major upgrade section, as we don't want the update to automatically restart

Re: [Bug 244250] Re: Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
How do you distinguish a server from a desktop, and what about servers that don't run ssl-using daemons? Thomas On Oct 4, 2011 2:05 PM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: We've already removed reboot notifications from openssl on desktops, I'm just talking about servers.

Re: [Bug 244250] Re: Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: Right now, the best way we have of determining if we're a server or a desktop is to check if X is running. It's not ideal, and suggestions are welcome. I think my question is suggesting that there really

[Bug 963533] [NEW] opencryptoki version churn has broken some systems

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: In the ongoing version churn of opencryptoki and libopencryptoki0, we have users who are in the following state: Our archive (and apt-cache policy agrees) has version 2.3.1+dfsg- 3ubuntu4 for both opencryptoki and libopencryptoki0. But installed on the system are

[Bug 963565] [NEW] opencryptoki postinst fails when pkcsslotd is already running

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Version 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu4. opencryptoki postinst does invoke-rc.d opencryptoki start || exit $? In turn, /etc/init.d/opencryptoki [start] does start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/lib/opencryptoki/.slotid --exec /usr/sbin/pkcsslotd -- But if pkcsslotd

[Bug 963565] Re: opencryptoki postinst fails when pkcsslotd is already running

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
It is possible that this is the root cause underlying https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opencryptoki/+bug/963533. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963565 Title: opencryptoki

[Bug 963565] Re: opencryptoki postinst fails when pkcsslotd is already running

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Whoops, error in editing. the transcript of the failing init.d script should look like this: # /etc/init.d/opencryptoki stop Stopping PKCS#11 slot daemon: pkcsslotd. # echo $? 0 # /etc/init.d/opencryptoki start Starting PKCS#11 slot daemon: pkcsslotd. # echo $? 0 # /etc/init.d/opencryptoki start

[Bug 921315] Re: Support case where username is manually entered but local users are shown in user list

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 844039 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844039 John, I'm confused by why you think this is a dup of bug #844039. That bug requests that the Other option be disabled. This bug complains the opposite: that it *is* disabled, even when it should not be. --

[Bug 947663] [NEW] pam_conv.conv callback not honored by lightdm/unity-greeter

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Reporting against unity-greeter because it's a UI problem, but it might well go deeper. We have a pam auth module which needs to use pam_conv.conv (the callback function which prompts the user). It implements a two-factor authentication regime, in which the first factor is a

[Bug 947663] Re: pam_conv.conv callback not honored by lightdm/unity-greeter

2012-03-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
It appears that user-list.vala (user_list.show_prompt) basically ignores the text of the prompt and displays its own messages, based on the guess that if echo is off then it's a password, and if echo is on, it's a user, sort of, sometimes. This is quite wrong. -- You received this bug

[Bug 880104] Re: Using pam_group results in: pam_group(lightdm:setcred): unable to set the group membership for user: operation not permitted

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We no longer see the error message, but pam_group is still not setting the groups we need it to set. ** Changed in: lightdm Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 844044] Re: Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Please do not confuse hiding user list with providing a user-name entry box. We want a user list *and* we want the ability to enter a user-name by hand if the person logging in is not in the list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 931967] Re: Corrupted graphics after the login until the unity launcher appears

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
data leakage is a security issue :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931967 Title: Corrupted graphics after the login until the unity launcher appears To manage notifications about

[Bug 844044] Re: Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Robert, I think that will be very great for our case. I agree completely that it is not plausible to distinguish a network account. For our part, we are not concerned so much with the labeling, and whatever looks good to the designers is fine with us. I'm very pleased that this change will let us

[Bug 880104] Re: Using pam_group results in: pam_group(lightdm:setcred): unable to set the group membership for user: operation not permitted

2012-03-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Fix works for us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880104 Title: Using pam_group results in: pam_group(lightdm:setcred): unable to set the group membership for user: operation not

[Bug 956848] Re: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise

2012-03-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We rely on pam_mkhomedir. We're using it with the standard options. It used to work fine on lightdm, but as of recently, it doesn't. It works fine with ssh. This is crucial for us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 956848] Re: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise

2012-03-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The documentation for pam_open_session says, It should be noted that the effective uid, geteuid(2). of the application should be of sufficient privilege to perform such tasks as creating or mounting the user's home directory for example. AFAICT, this is contrary to Steve Langasek's assertion that

Re: [Bug 888714] Re: disabling guest login in lightdm also disables account switcher in unity

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
A new option has been added to lightdm which provides the needed functionality here. So AFAIC this one can be closed. On Mar 27, 2012 8:31 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: ** Also affects: indicator-session Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug

[Bug 953494] Re: bcm_wimax module hangs when Sierra Wireless 250U Data Card removed

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I know apport-collect is now SOP to insert a delay into the processing of every bug, but I do think it's perfectly clear what's going on here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953494

[Bug 844044] Re: Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Thanks for this Robert; it works great! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844044 Title: Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 947663] Re: pam_conv.conv callback not honored by lightdm/unity-greeter

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I just tried a login with a second factor module in place in pam, and whether it's deliberate or not, I see that a two-factor auth prompt shows up nicely in the unity-greeter box. Perhaps this is because we switched to teh new greeter-show-manual-login and disabled greeter-hide- users, or not, but

Re: [Bug 931967] Re: Corrupted graphics after the login until the unity launcher appears

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'm concerned that this bug exposes a very severe security bug in X, at least, on affected hardware. If I understand correctly, I could create a pixmap, not initialize it, and thus gain access to various bits of previous screen real-estate. (Note that people have seen on their display desktop

[Bug 960546] Re: package libopencryptoki0 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/opencryptoki/stdll/PKCS11_SW.so', which is also in package opencryptoki 2.3.1+dfs

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Didn't we just have this? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954303 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960546 Title: package libopencryptoki0 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu2 failed to

[Bug 954306] Re: package libopencryptoki0 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/opencryptoki/stdll/PKCS11_SW.so', which is also in package opencryptoki 2.3.1+dfs

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
It's back: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opencryptoki/+bug/960546 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954306 Title: package libopencryptoki0 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu1 failed to

[Bug 817269] Re: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2012-03-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
In our case, the problem was traced to lockd and portmap. Specifically, without access to lockd, NFS can only do the 30 second fallback method of retrying locks. We had restricted portmap to listen only on localhost, which is why lockd was unable to function properly. Once we unrestricted portmap

[Bug 963533] Re: opencryptoki version churn has broken some systems

2012-04-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
ping -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963533 Title: opencryptoki version churn has broken some systems To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 963533] Re: opencryptoki version churn has broken some systems

2012-04-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Yes, we know for sure that purge reinstall fixes the problem...that's our advice to affected users. But the packaging system is supposed to work automatically, and we rely on that to maintain tens of thousands of machines. (Though obviously not that much is running precise right now.) This issue

[Bug 963565] Re: opencryptoki postinst fails when pkcsslotd is already running

2012-04-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Are you sure that every old version of the package correctly stopped the daemon in the prerm? (Hey, that might explain why the other bug I noted was happening.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 953404] [NEW] ia32-libs in precise is missing libgconf-2-4:i386

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: In lucid, ia32-libs contains the 32-bit version of libgconf-2-4: $ dpkg -L ia32-libs | grep gconf /usr/lib32/pkgconfig /usr/lib32/pkgconfig/gtk-engines-2.pc /usr/lib32/gio/modules/libgiogconf.so /usr/lib32/libgconf-2.so.4.1.5 /usr/lib32/libgconf2-4

[Bug 954303] [NEW] opencryptoki 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu1 has self-conflict

2012-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Version 2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu1 of opencryptoki includes /usr/lib/opencryptoki/stdll/PKCS11_SW.so in both the libopencryptoki0 and opencryptoki packages: $ dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/opencryptoki_2.3.1+dfsg-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb | grep PKCS11 lrwxrwxrwx

[Bug 877904] Re: Top panel visible in locked screen

2012-03-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We've seen this as well on Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877904 Title: Top panel visible in locked screen To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 931967] Re: Corrupted graphics after the login until the unity launcher appears

2012-03-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
An additional data point, consistent with what's been said here, is that our users with lightdm and unity-greeter who log in to a gnome-shell session instead of a unity session see exactly the same sort of corruption. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 936506] Re: graphical glitch after login

2012-02-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
This appears to be one of several serious regressions in 295.20-0ubuntu1. I can confirm that we see it as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/936506 Title: graphical glitch after

[Bug 903899] [NEW] undeclared package conflict between libatk-adator-schemas and at-spi

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: at-spi (1.32.0-0ubuntu4) contains the file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.a11y.atspi.gschema.xml which is also present in libatk-adaptor-schemas (2.3.2-0ubuntu3). At the least a Conflicts is likely needed. ** Affects: at-spi2-atk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 888714] Re: disabling guest login in lightdm also disables account switcher in unity

2012-01-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Can this please not be closed just because it was (mostly) ignored? ** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/888714

[Bug 896375] Re: lightdm does ignore session selection first time non local user is choosen

2012-01-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We have this problem too. Our users typically do not have a home directory until the first time they log in, by the way, with the use of pam_mkhomedir.so to create it, however this behavior is independent of whether the home directory exists or not. We do not see the session chooser widget until

[Bug 921315] [NEW] lightdm greeter provides no access to pam accounts

2012-01-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: In our configuration, nearly all users are granted access to the system via pam. The User Accounts dialog in Settings shows only a single user which was created at install time...and I'm not sure where from, because we preseed d-i passwd/make-user boolean false to try and

[Bug 900515] Re: evince-common conflicts with old evince package

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
As far as I can tell, this isn't fixed. I just had the following: Unpacking evince-common (from .../evince-common_3.2.1-1ubuntu4_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.2.1-1ubuntu4_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

[Bug 912431] Re: Preseeded 12.04 grub-install failed: Wrong number of args: mapdevfs path

2012-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We have this problem too. The fix is in grub-installer in the udeb. The problem is the grub_probe function in that script. It does an apt- install and then calls grub-probe in the chroot. The apt-install prints output, however, and the callers of grub_probe expect to see only the output from

[Bug 912431] Re: Preseeded 12.04 grub-install failed: Wrong number of args: mapdevfs path

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'm confused about why chroot_setup is the issue here. It's the apt- install command inside the grub_probe command which is spitting out output, and the output it spits out looks like typical apt-get output. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 900509] [NEW] libnm-glib-vpn1 has undeclared conflict with old libnm-glib2 package

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: libnm-glib-vpn1 in precise contains the file /usr/lib/libnm-glib- vpn.so.1 which was also found in lucid's libnm-glib2 package. At the least it needs to declare an appropriate conflict. ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 900515] [NEW] evince-common conflicts with old evince package

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: evince-common version 3.2.1-1ubuntu1 (in precise) contains the file /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/evince, which is also found in the evince package 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.2 (in lucid). It should declare a conflict, at the very least. ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 900570] [NEW] undeclared package conflict between python-desktopcouch-application (in precise) and python-desktopcouch (in lucid)

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: The python-desktopcouch-application (version 1.0.8-0ubuntu1) package contains the file /usr/share/pyshared/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/__init__.py which also exists in the python-desktopcouch package in lucid (0.6.4-0ubuntu3.3). A package conflict, at least, should be

[Bug 901701] [NEW] nsscache syntax error in /usr/share/pyshared/nss_cache/lock_test.py

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: nsscache has a syntax error in /usr/share/pyshared/nss_cache/lock_test.py which produces a compiler warning in precise. I believe that Jamie Wilkinson is uploading a patch to Debian soon, which should get pulled into precise once it's in Debian. ** Affects: nsscache (Ubuntu)

[Bug 901741] [NEW] perl-moules lucid-precise upgrade failure

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Upgrading from lucid to precise finds a problem with the defoma invocation in the prerm of the libwmf0.2-7 package, when upgrading from 0.2.8.4-6.1ubuntu2 to 0.2.8.4-8.1ubuntu1, and with apt-get's invocation of debsums. The error reported is this, from dpkg (via apt-get):

[Bug 901741] Re: perl-modules lucid-precise upgrade failure

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
** Summary changed: - perl-moules lucid-precise upgrade failure + perl-modules lucid-precise upgrade failure -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901741 Title: perl-modules lucid-precise

[Bug 901451] Re: package hyphen-en-us 2.7.1-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Happens to us too: Setting up hyphen-en-us (2.7.1-4ubuntu1) ... Error: update-openoffice-dicts not present or executable. Missing dependency on dictionaries-common? Said program is gone now; postinst should call it conditionally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 828319] [NEW] shadowconfig uses pwck -p and grpck -p which aren't actually supported

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: /sbin/shadowconfig from the passwd package uses pwck -p and grpck -p. On some other Linux systems, the -p flag to these programs says to silently fix problems found in those files. But the Ubuntu Lucid versions do not actually do that. The Ubuntu Lucid versions ignore the

[Bug 828319] Re: shadowconfig uses pwck -p and grpck -p which aren't actually supported

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[Not sure why launchpad is insisting on labelling this package shadow, but on lucid it's passwd.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828319 Title: shadowconfig uses pwck -p and grpck -p

[Bug 828319] Re: shadowconfig uses pwck -p and grpck -p which aren't actually supported

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Oh, that's the source package name. This bug is also in the Debian stable version of the package as well. ** Also affects: shadow (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 828319] Re: shadowconfig uses pwck -p and grpck -p which aren't actually supported

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Reported to Debian bts as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638263. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #638263 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638263 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 817269] Re: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The following patch solves the problem. ** Attachment added: use-read-locks https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/817269/+attachment/2290468/+files/use-read-locks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 817269] Re: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Thank you, David. I've joined that list and added my thoughts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817269 Title: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS To manage

[Bug 817269] [NEW] Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Pulseaudio uses a cookie file (normally ~/.pulse-cookie). This file is manipulated by the code in src/pulsecore/authkey.c. Currently it does this to read the key: 1) Open the file 2) Acquire a write-lock for the file. 3) Read the file. 4) If the file is not a good cookie,

[Bug 817269] Re: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2011-07-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The following script (if ~ is in NFS) will demonstrate the problem. The two pactl processes both try to acquire the lock on the file simultaneously, and whichever one loses will take thirty seconds before it wins, because of the needless contention (and the unfortunate facts of how lockd in NFS

[Bug 377367] Re: gnome-terminal doesn't handle colons in URLs

2011-10-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
This affects lucid; can the patch be pulled in to an SRU? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377367 Title: gnome-terminal doesn't handle colons in URLs To manage notifications about

[Bug 817269] Re: Pulseaudio lock of pulsecookie file is pessimal on NFS

2011-10-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I think this may have been caused by a local configuration change. We will not know for certain for a few weeks. I would like to leave the bug alone until I can confirm this newer understanding, at which point I'll close it. There isn't any need to spend energy on it right now. -- You received

[Bug 888749] Re: xdiagnose declares unnecessary dependency on apport

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Enterprises need to insulate their systems from reporting upstream, not because of an objection to participating in upstream development, but because we need to prevent our users from accidentally leaking confidential information. Somewhere the following dependency chain needs to be broken:

[Bug 882685] [NEW] lucid linux-firmware lacks ath3k driver update

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: The version of linux-firmware in lucid-updates is 1.34.7. This lacks an update to the ath3k driver which was released in the git.kernel.org firmware repo on December 13, 2010. See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-

[Bug 620693] Re: Screen not locked when turned off

2011-11-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Let me stress that this is not a fairly minor problem, but is a critical security vulnerability in some contexts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620693 Title: Screen not locked when

[Bug 888714] [NEW] disabling guest login in lightdm also disables account switcher in unity

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: I need to disable guest logins for lightdm, and did so by adding the line allow-guest=false to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. However, this also has the side-effect of disabling the user-switcher in the indicator area of Unity after I log in, which is bad. I want the

[Bug 888749] [NEW] xdiagnose declares unnecessary dependency on apport

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: xdiagnose currently declares a dependency on apport. This is not necessary; it seems that xdiagnose includes some apport hooks, but that's fine to do (and the rest of the package runs fine) without apport present. This dependency should be changed to a Recommends or Suggests.

[Bug 888714] Re: disabling guest login in lightdm also disables account switcher in unity

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I think I see what's going on. By removing the guest account, the desktop now thinks there is only one user... First, that's incorrect. With pam, there may well be accounts that lightdm can log in to, but which are not visible in the accounts database, and the Switch User Account option would

[Bug 888749] Re: xdiagnose declares unnecessary dependency on apport

2011-11-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Got filed against incorrect package for some reason. ** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = xdiagnose (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/888749 Title: xdiagnose declares

[Bug 882685] Re: lucid linux-firmware lacks ath3k driver update

2011-11-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Our user confirms that 1.34.13 solves the problem on lucid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882685 Title: lucid linux-firmware lacks ath3k driver update To manage notifications about

[Bug 727458] [NEW] tcsh truncates .history when multpile scripts run

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tcsh tcsh truncates the .history when multiple scripts are run. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648592 for the description of how to reproduce this. We know the problem happens in tcsh 6.17.00, and it was reportedly fixed in 6.17.01

Re: [Bug 683938]

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Because we run a modified kernel, it would be inconvenient to need to install a vanilla system in order to verify the fix there. Etienne has/had a vanilla setup reproducing the bug. I can confirm that the patch successfully solves the problem for our kernel. Thomas On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:34

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Stefan says While in the case we test, the request is seen as success but then the authentication flavours do not match and the client does an explicit umount request (probably the same happens when the authentication methods are supported but the authentication fails). I spent a lot of time

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
What lies behind the comment on the umount call is this: the NFS protocol requests that clients tell servers when they unmount partitions, so that servers can stop reporting it in tools like showmount. The client doesn't care at all if the server ever gets it, and even if you do an unmount RPC,

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I've been busy this morning with other responsibilities, but I can report now that I agree that no automount involvement is necessary; merely repeating the mount request eventually provokes the failure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Removing the umount attempt seems to make the problem go away. Not a fix, but it's nice to have a workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683938 Title: kernel crash on symlink

[Bug 686834] [NEW] metacity gets confused about which window to move

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Using metacity on gnome in lucid: Steps to reproduce: Before everything, make sure you turn of compiz (desktop effects). 1) Open a terminal 2) Maximize it 3) Open another terminal, overlaying on top of the first one 4) Try to grab the title bar of the second

[Bug 686834] Re: metacity gets confused about which window to move

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'll do some more checking here to see about it. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Fabio Marconi marconifa...@ubuntu- it.orgwrote: I assign to metacity, but i cannot reproduce this issue ** Package changed: ubuntu = metacity (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Awesomeness! I'll give it a try today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683938 Title: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 683938] Re: kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
This is not quite right. The second one should use ARRAY_SIZE(mnt3_procedures). The value happens to be the same, but still...let's not make a new bug if someone implements another part of the protocol someday. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1032831] [NEW] zgrep -NUM doesn't work if NUM is two digits or greater

2012-08-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Public bug reported: Create a gzipped file: $ for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo $i; done file.txt $ gzip file.txt Then: $ zgrep -9 17 file.txt.gz 8 9 ... 25 26 works. But: $ zgrep -10 17 file.txt.gz gzip: 17.gz: No such file or directory fails. Note that grep

[Bug 940603] Re: white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking applications from using stuff under it

2012-04-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
ping? this is such a critical issue, and we would like to be able to test it before precise launches. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/940603 Title: white box randomly shows up at top

Re: [Bug 940603] Re: white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking applications from using stuff under it

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The build failed, did it not? On Apr 13, 2012 1:50 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thomas, the new compiz is in precise, you should be able to test from there or did I overlook something? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Goobuntu Team, which is

Re: [Bug 940603] Re: white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking applications from using stuff under it

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
We've got it now, and reports are coming in from our users that they are no longer seeing the white boxes. Good news indeed, and thanks! On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-

[Bug 981053] Re: Creating system dconf configuration crashes lightdm

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sorry for the churn here. I'm not actually concerned about the bug in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662141. I agree that's user error, and there's nothing particularly crucial about improving the error reporting here. The bug at this point is that when the file does exist, and is

[Bug 981053] Re: Creating system dconf configuration crashes lightdm

2012-04-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Also, on Ubuntu, there is no system table at all by default, so a failure to open one that's configured probably doesn't degrade the system much. ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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