Bug#579684: SEEK_END is not a replacement for O_APPEND

2010-05-15 Thread Regid Ichira
  For the record: Quoting the GNU C library manual:     If you want to append to the file, setting the file position to     the current end of file with SEEK_END is not sufficient. Another     process may write more data after you seek but before you write,     extending the file so the

Bug#581807: dpkg: deferred extract may need fsync to unpack without error

2010-05-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Brandon, Brandon wrote: Upon reinstalling or upgrading to the 0.9.9.2-1 version of the gecko- mediaplayer package, the 1.15.7.1 version of dpkg performs a deferred extract unpacking of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so as the target of a number of symbolic links, but

Bug#581808: Regression in debconf breaking live-initramfs

2010-05-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: debconf Severity: important Owner: debian-l...@lists.debian.org Affects: live-initramfs 1.236.1-1 Hi, I'm having a weird problem with debconf which breaks live-initramfs 1.236.1-1: + db_set passwd/root-password-crypted * + _db_cmd SET passwd/root-password-crypted * + IFS= printf %s\n

Bug#581809: gnome-color-manager: gcm-apply isn't run

2010-05-15 Thread Avery Fay
Package: gnome-color-manager Version: 2.30.1-1 Severity: normal I assumed gcm-apply would be run on login because of the presence of /etc/xdg/autostart/gcm-apply.desktop. This doesn't appear to be the case. The color profile isn't changed for my monitor until I run gcm-apply manually. -- System

Bug#581803: installer task selection behaves gracelessly

2010-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 581803 tasksel retitle 581803 Should add a confirmation dialog after choosing tasks before starting package installation thanks Quoting James Cranch (jd...@cam.ac.uk): I consider this behaviour to be not optimal, since then it requires effort and understanding to undo/correct the

Bug#581807: dpkg: deferred extract may need fsync to unpack without error

2010-05-15 Thread Guillem Jover
severity 581807 minor thanks Hi! On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:51:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Brandon wrote: Upon reinstalling or upgrading to the 0.9.9.2-1 version of the gecko- mediaplayer package, the 1.15.7.1 version of dpkg performs a deferred extract unpacking of

Bug#581807: dpkg: deferred extract may need fsync to unpack without error

2010-05-15 Thread Guillem Jover
severity 581807 important thanks On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 06:56:46 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:51:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Brandon wrote: Upon reinstalling or upgrading to the 0.9.9.2-1 version of the gecko- mediaplayer package, the 1.15.7.1 version of dpkg

Bug#580825: above fix isn't quite right

2010-05-15 Thread Neil Moore
This fix isn't quite right, because it will try running checkarray even if the checkarray script is not there (e.g. if the package is removed but not purged) or is not executable. In fact, in this case the above version will try running checkarray every sunday, thus generating a weekly command

Bug#581807: dpkg: deferred extract may need fsync to unpack without error

2010-05-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Brandon, Brandon wrote: Unpacking replacement gecko-mediaplayer ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gecko-mediaplayer_0.9.9.2-1_i386.deb (--install): unable to open '/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so.dpkg-new': No such file or directory That helped. My

Bug#581807: dpkg: deferred extract may need fsync to unpack without error

2010-05-15 Thread Brandon
Brandon wrote: So far, gecko-mediaplayer is the only package to trigger this error for me. While browsing through the strace, I saw ELOOP errors and eventually realized that the file may be deleted because of an improper symlink. Unfortunately, the improper symlink was on my end: $ ls -ld

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