Bug#1069757: BUG#1069757 - upstream bug report submitted

2024-06-05 Thread Bill MacAllister
Upstream kafs developers have discussed this bug report. A issue has been created on gitlab, https://gitlab.com/linux-afs/kafs-client/-/issues/2. The upshot of the discussion is that the use of -m32 and -m64 should be conditionalized based on the architecture. Bill -- Man knows so little abo

Bug#1070211: ITP: krb5-wallet -- The wallet system manages secure data. It is build on top of remctl. One of the object types it supports is Kerberos keytabs, making it suitable as a user-accessible

2024-05-01 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bill MacAllister X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: krb5-wallet Version : 1.5 Upstream Contact: Bill MacAllister * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/whm/krb5-wallet * License : (Expat

Bug#1066630: Patch to address Debian Bug report #1066630

2024-04-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
The following patch results in a clean build. I will work to get the patch uploaded. (I am not a Debian Developer) Index: libnet-ldapapi-perl/Makefile.PL === --- libnet-ldapapi-perl.orig/Makefile.PL 2024-03-29 07:00:25.037139644

Bug#1066630: Confirming the build problem

2024-03-31 Thread Bill MacAllister
This is a confirmed bug. I am working on a solution. Bill

Bug#1052304: Debian 6.1 Kernels suspect

2023-12-14 Thread Bill MacAllister
On 2023-12-14 01:54, Bill MacAllister wrote: This took me longer that I wanted, but I have built kernels the following kernels with the patch: linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64-dbg_6.1.66-2~afs1_amd64.deb linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64-unsigned_6.1.66-2~afs1_amd64.deb linux-image-6.1.0-15-cloud-amd64

Bug#1052304: Debian 6.1 Kernels suspect

2023-12-14 Thread Bill MacAllister
On 2023-12-09 09:49, Bill MacAllister wrote: On 2023-12-08 15:59, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Saturday, 9 December 2023 00:28:50 CET Jeffrey Altman wrote: The bug is considered valid by upstream. A proposed fix for this issue is being reviewed. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs

Bug#1052304: Debian 6.1 Kernels suspect

2023-12-09 Thread Bill MacAllister
On 2023-12-08 15:59, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Saturday, 9 December 2023 00:28:50 CET Jeffrey Altman wrote: The bug is considered valid by upstream. A proposed fix for this issue is being reviewed. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2023-December/007408.html Please leave this issu

Bug#1052304: Debian 6.1 Kernels suspect

2023-10-14 Thread Bill MacAllister
After more testing Jeff Altman and Marc Dionne have reported that the problem accessing AFS files using kafs does not occur if the client has IPv6 configured. Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs

Bug#1052304: Debian 6.1 Kernels suspect

2023-09-27 Thread Bill MacAllister
Before I started bisecting the 6.1 kernel I thought I should re-examine the assumption that 6.1.0-9 was a good kernel, i.e. a kernel where accessing AFS volumes using kafs does not cause seg faults. I tested 6.1.0-2, 6.1.0-5, and 6.1.0-7 without success. Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the gun

Bug#1052304: kafs failure testing

2023-09-27 Thread Bill MacAllister
I spent a couple days bisecting kernels attempting to isolate this bug to a specific kernel. What I found was that the simple test that I included in the initial bug report, i.e. ls /afs/ca-zephyr.org, is not sufficient to test for failure. This test can succeed multiple times and then sometime

Bug#990020: Subscribing to the Linux AFS mailing list

2023-01-29 Thread Bill MacAllister
I had some problems subscribing to the list myself. To get to the mailmail page use the URL: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-afs Bill -- "Can't sing louder than the guns when I'm gone, so I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." Phil Ochs

Bug#933326: RFP: kafs-client -- User space tools for the kafs kernel module

2019-07-29 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kafs-client Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : David Howells * URL : https://www.infradead.org/~dhowells/kafs/kafs_client.html * License : GPL V2 Programming Lang: C, Python 3 Description : User space tools

Bug#866952: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#866952: xen-system-amd64: Xen 4.8 Install on Stretch Crashes on Boot

2017-07-03 Thread Bill MacAllister
Thanks very much for you quick response. On Monday, July 3, 2017 7:34:30 AM PDT, Bastian Blank wrote: Control: severity -1 important On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:37:40PM -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: Package: xen-system-amd64 Version: 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the

Bug#866952: xen-system-amd64: Xen 4.8 Install on Stretch Crashes on Boot

2017-07-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: xen-system-amd64 Version: 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Initially an attempt was made to upgrade an existing Jessie Xen 4.4 system to Stretch Xen 4.8. When that failed I decided

Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

2015-04-12 Thread Bill MacAllister
/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.kernel.general/39123/ On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 01:01 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > > --On Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:25:34 AM +0100 Niels Thykier wrote: > > > I have CC'ed the Debian linux maintainers as I noticed your kernel > > reports a null pointer de

Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

2015-04-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
s. I really need to come up with a work around or a solution to this problem. Any ideas about what I should try next? Bill -- Bill MacAllister Systems Programmer, Stanford University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#776192: Bug: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem

2015-01-25 Thread Bill MacAllister
8c0 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! (initramfs) ls /dev/disk/by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 60 . drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 60 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 9 ata-TEAC_CD-ROM_CD-224E-N -> ../../sr0 Bill -- Bill MacAllister System Programmer, Stanford University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#743002: Away from my mail [Re: Bug#743002 closed by Axel Beckert (Re:]

2014-09-30 Thread Bill MacAllister, via an autoresponder
I will be away from the office until Wednesday, 1-Oct-2014. It is not clear what network connectivity I will have. I will be reading mail sporadically at best. Your mail regarding Bug#743002 closed by Axel Beckert (Re: will be read for certain when I return. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#740701: multipath-tools: mkfs fails "Add. Sense: Incompatible medium installed"

2014-08-01 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:13:15 PM +0200 Hans van Kranenburg wrote: If Bill (OP) agrees, I'll close it as soon as I found a solution for the problem, documenting it, whatever that is. That is fine by me. Thanks for your work on this. Bill -- Bill MacAllister System Progr

Bug#740701: [Netapp-Linux-Community] Bug#740701: multipath-tools: mkfs fails "Add. Sense: Incompatible medium installed"

2014-07-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
p, but I do know that as we upgraded our AFS servers to wheezy we requested that the storage folks re-initialize the storage. As to testing, we do have a system that we can make changes on, but I am not sure it is useful at this point since we no longer see the failure. Bill -- Bill MacAllister S

Bug#743459: xen-tools: xen-create-image fails leaving lv mounted

2014-04-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
="dom0_mem=512M,max:512M" Bill -- Bill MacAllister Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#743002: xen-tools: xen-create-image fails leaving lv mounted

2014-03-29 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: xen-tools Version: 4.4-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After the backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 was installed xen-create-image starting failing intermittently because it is not possible to unmount the new logical volume. It appears that a kernel thread is holding

Bug#740701: multipath-tools: mkfs fails "Add. Sense: Incompatible medium installed"

2014-03-04 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:49:52 PM +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Let's attemt the email in chunks. On 03/04/2014 01:19 PM, Bill MacAllister wrote: Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.9+git0.9c3c5172-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? W

Bug#740701: multipath-tools: mkfs fails "Add. Sense: Incompatible medium installed"

2014-03-03 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.9+git0.9c3c5172-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? We use multipath connected devices on our OpenAFS servers. We are in the process of attempting to upgrade the systems to wheezy. Our normal procedure is to completely

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2014-01-31 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:59:38 AM -0500 "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:17:22AM -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: And after doing some more testing, with the correct server this time, I discovered that 2.1.26 does _not_ fix the problem, i.e. mins

Bug#714982: postgresql-common: logrotate should not be required by the package

2013-07-04 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: postgresql-common Version: 134wheezy3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? The requirement of having logrotate conflicts with our policy of using another method of log rotation and requires specific code in out configuration management sy

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-24 Thread Bill MacAllister
ive a better error message than it is, but really JNDI should just probably handle it. Bill On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Bill MacAllister wrote: --On Thursday, March 21, 2013 04:44:20 PM -0700 Bill MacAllister < w...@stanford.edu> wrote: Yeah, it's almost certainly an upstream

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-23 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Thursday, March 21, 2013 04:44:20 PM -0700 Bill MacAllister wrote: Yeah, it's almost certainly an upstream bug. Ah, I see that Cyrus SASL has a Bugzilla and everything these days. Once I complete testing today I will file the bug. And I confirmed that if I use TLS encryptio

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-21 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:02:10 AM -0700 Bill MacAllister wrote: --On Thursday, March 21, 2013 09:51:45 AM -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: Ondřej Surý writes: Basically you have much deeper knowledge of SASL and Kerberos internals than I have :). So while I would be happy to assist

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-21 Thread Bill MacAllister
t certainly an upstream bug. Ah, I see that Cyrus SASL has a Bugzilla and everything these days. Once I complete testing today I will file the bug. Bill -- Bill MacAllister Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-17 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Saturday, March 16, 2013 07:03:38 PM -0500 Dan White wrote: On 03/15/13 01:47 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: Package: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit Version: 2.1.25.dfsg1-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, We are starting the process of upgrading our LDAP service to OpenLDAP 2.4.34

Bug#703113: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: Java client GSSAPI connections to OpenLDAP fail

2013-03-15 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit Version: 2.1.25.dfsg1-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, We are starting the process of upgrading our LDAP service to OpenLDAP 2.4.34 on wheezy. None of the Java applications that we have tested can connect to the LDAP server using GSSAPI. In the server

Bug#700260: gnome: text is mal-formed in xterm and emacs

2013-02-10 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I just starting using Gnome and I think it has tweaked a problem with my nvidia card (Gforce GT 220). The problem appears most in emacs and xterm. When I start typing about every other character does not render

Bug#666142: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#666142: Bug#666142: octave: Please support -mieee option to mkoctfile

2012-04-01 Thread Bill MacAllister
an unofficial Alpha porterbox will need to be made available to Debian Developers, however I personally can't attend to that for at least three weeks. Could we just allow DDs to login to one of the buildd servers? If that is sufficient then I can make one of my buildd servers available. B

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Bill MacAllister
that a mouse slows everything down. I do just fine with character cell xterms and no mouse. I do think it is worth getting color to work when possible. The syntax highlighting helps me spot stupid errors early. Bill -- Bill MacAllister Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University

Bug#500174: ITP: libnet-ldapapi-perl -- Perl bindings for OpenLDAP C API

2008-09-25 Thread Bill MacAllister
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bill MacAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnet-ldapapi-perl Version : 3.0.3 Upstream Author : Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/MISHIKA