Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Robert LeBlanc rob...@leblancnet.us writes: I too have been bitten by this. For as flexible as the Debian Installer is and everything you can do, it's pretty disappointing that it can't do VLANs. A lot of enterprises use VLANs, and it seems it would be important to have VLAN support to

Bug#563861: localechooser: Maybe ask preferred locale in more cases?

2010-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: +1 for me. Nice catch, again. That specific example would have raised suggestions at some time so it's much better if we can anticipate them. Current text is: There is no locale defined for the

Bug#559655: the upgrade misses an explicit version

2010-01-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tags 559655 patch thanks Hi, I hit this issue when trying to build agains backport.org packages. Please consider this log fragment: ┌──┐ │ Install build dependencies

Bug#559655: the upgrade misses an explicit version

2010-01-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, After a second thought, my patch probably won't solve the problem of experimental (or other NotAutomatic) dependencies: in the best case it fixes NotAutomatic upgrades only. I'll look in the dependency problem if this track is deemed reasonable. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#563130: installation-reports 5.0.3 failure

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
steven ste...@graywitch.co.nz writes: Took a working Debian 4.0 system and did a fresh install of Debian 5.0.3 via netinstall cd. Attempted to install to PERC3 raid PCI device, this worked on Debian 4.0 but wont detect on 5.0.3. attempted to install the megaraid_mbox module manually, no

Bug#562636: libshibsp4: shibd wont start

2009-12-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jason Cormie j.cor...@abertay.ac.uk writes: uadsmc11:~# /etc/init.d/shibd restart shibd error: unable to run config check as user Restarting Shibboleth 2 daemon: /usr/sbin/shibd: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libshibsp.so.4: undefined symbol:

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel: I think the issue is with the host's Xen utilities

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:56 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: For Lenny you could workaround by downloading the kernel and ramdisk locally and use the install-kernel= and install-ramdisk= options to xm-debian.cfg

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:46 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: The current code in xm-debian.cfg uses Python-managed temporary files, which are unlinked too early (in parallel with the RPC call). I can't recommend a good solution, and maybe it's already

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny4 Severity: normal Hi, I encountered this while testing daily snapshots under Xen 3.2 with long extra command lines (you may consider this sort of preseeding stupid, but that's not the point now): $ sudo xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true

Bug#557964: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-12-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi writes: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:02:05PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Here they are, with version 2.13.1: $ LANG= man grep-dctrl | fgrep apt|dpkg | od -c 000 % g r e p - s t 020

Bug#557964: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-12-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi writes: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:02:05PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Here they are, with version 2.13.1: $ LANG= man grep-dctrl | fgrep apt|dpkg | od -c 000 % g r e p - s t 020

Bug#557964: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-12-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi writes: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:02:05PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Here they are, with version 2.13.1: $ LANG= man grep-dctrl | fgrep apt|dpkg | od -c 000 % g r e p - s t 020

Bug#557964: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-12-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
package dctrl-tools tag 557964 - moreinfo thanks Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi writes: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 05:29:30PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Jon Bernard jbern...@debian.org writes: This is quite odd, my manpages for dctrl-tools show single quotes for each

Bug#532000: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#532000: acpi: current_now sysfs attribute is being replaced by power_now

2009-12-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org writes: Thus Linux 2.6.30 exports both power_now and current_now containing the same value. However, the latter is not correct and will get deprecated sooner or later, so please start preferring (reading) the former. For whatever reason my systems do not

Bug#557964: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-12-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jon Bernard jbern...@debian.org writes: This is quite odd, my manpages for dctrl-tools show single quotes for each example you list here. This manifests in UTF-8 locales only, see also #457839 for example. You have to use escape sequences in groff source to get consistent apostrophes. --

Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

2009-11-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.13.1 Severity: minor Hi, Subject says it all, but let me provide two examples from the EXAMPLES section: % grep-status -P -e ’apt|dpkg’ should read % grep-status -P -e 'apt|dpkg' and % grep-available -c -FMaintainer \ ‘grep-available -sMaintainer -n -PX

Bug#496728: more width strangeness

2009-11-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Setting the config variable from the command line doesn't work: $ aptitude search -w70 apt-utils -F '%p %v# %V# %t#' apt-utils none 0.7.24 unstable $ aptitude search -oAptitude::CmdLine::Package-Display-Width=70 apt-utils -F '%p %v# %V# %t#' apt-utils

Bug#549936: breaks Shibboleth SPs: IdPs with KeyDescriptor use=signing are broken

2009-10-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Faidon Liambotis parav...@debian.org writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Unfortunately, I'm both sick at the moment and my main computer is dead with hardware failure, so I can't easily pursue it at the moment. If someone else could, that would be great. I had proposed the needed changes for

Bug#501436: any news on this?

2009-09-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Is anybody still maintaining this package? Some bug reports has been unanswered for years... -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#381351: initramfs-tools: This also happens when SCSI is not settled yet, patch included which works around the problem.

2009-08-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: I am ready to apply this change but I am unsure about a detail: is there any reason to run udevadm settle a second time before scsi_wait_scan is loaded? You told me it was racy to check for /sys/bus/scsi otherwise, see

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: And if I choose to install stable I *can* reproduce the issue, both on s390 and i386. And I can confirm that it is a segfault in mount when mounting /proc (this is after extracting required packages). But it is indeed very strange that only the first

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Monday 03 August 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: I can't see anything strange in it now, but it would be interesting to know whether it depends on the contents of /target/etc/mtab (what if you delete it before the mount?). Having an strace of a second

Bug#530881: dpkg bug as well

2009-08-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Looks like it's linked to dpkg bug #539617. -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#452388: Back on 'standard system' is confusing bug report

2009-07-29 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: My understanding of your point is that having this: [ ] Desktop environment [ ] Foo [ ] Bar [ ] Standard (non-graphical) environment does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI. If we go back to Standard

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task? vs. Bug#452388: standard system

2009-07-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: I'd very much appreciate to have more input about this. I think that an SSH server deserves to be put in light in some way. On the other hand, having a task for only one package is kind of overkill Why not put the ssh server (and client) into

Bug#533625: tcpdump: improve output file flushing

2009-06-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: tcpdump Version: 3.9.8-4 Severity: wishlist Hi, the -U flag is very useful, and would be even more useful if it flushed the output buffer after writing the header after opening the output file before writing out any packets. This would do away with error messages like: $

Bug#532000: acpi: current_now sysfs attribute is being replaced by power_now

2009-06-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: acpi Version: 1.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, Consider this commit from the Linux-2.6 tree: commit 7faa144a518c456e2057918f030f50100144ccc6 Author: Alexey Starikovskiy astarikovs...@suse.de Date: Fri Mar 27 22:23:52 2009 -0400 ACPI: battery: add power_{now,avg} properties to

Bug#530881: apt: --quiet emits progress indicators

2009-05-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: apt Version: 0.7.21 Severity: normal Hi, Recently my automatic schroot update cronjob started to contain progress messages. As --quiet is documented explicitly not to do this, I consider this a bug. For example, after entering my sid build chroot, the command # apt-get --quiet --yes

Bug#528428: initramfs-tools: break=init boot option does not work

2009-05-12 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: normal Hi, The break=init boot option does not work, because the init script unsets the break variable while cleaning the environment before testing it: [...] unset break [...] maybe_break init [...] This is probably easy to fix by moving the

Bug#524888: broken symlink: /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/examples/website/asciimath.html

2009-04-20 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: asciidoc Version: 8.2.7-3 Severity: minor Hi, $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/examples/website/asciimath.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 20 15:05 /usr/share/doc/asciidoc/examples/website/asciimath.html - ../../asciimath.html is a broken symlink, as $ ls -l

Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Seb s...@h-k.fr writes: My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no sound. [...] My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128. The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd). Sound does not work either when I select

Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Seb s...@h-k.fr writes: My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no sound. [...] My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128. The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd). Sound does not work either when I select

Bug#477788: why not use the device-mapper?

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, I guess lvm-snapshot was disqualified for wasting too much space, which is required by the builds but unused by the source chroots. Basically, one can't create a snapshot bigger that its origin. Let me share my take on this problem. It isn't proven yet, so I'd be especially grateful for

Bug#477788: why not use the device-mapper?

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes: Currently I abuse the chroot description to carry the size of the extension, lacking anything better. Maybe it's worth pointing out that this choice properly turns the following into no-op when working with source chroots (after enabling them in the config

Bug#477788: why not use the device-mapper?

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes: also sprach Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu [2009.02.24.1922 +0100]: The idea is to augment the lvm-snapshot schema by creating a fresh LV, appending it to the snapshot and resizing the filesystem on the resulting block device. Currently I abuse

Bug#477788: why not use the device-mapper?

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes: also sprach Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu [2009.02.24.2033 +0100]: * lvm-snapshot: clean, but the chroot source LVs have to be large enough to accomodate the build process, even though this space is always unused by the minimal chroot

Bug#501436: IPOPTS renamed to IP

2009-02-23 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, The IPOPTS variable is being renamed to IP and exported by initramfs-tools. As soon as #516746 is closed by an upload, the change is in effect. That could be used by a forthcoming version of open-iscsi. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#516213: vg not found at the boot

2009-02-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jan Čípa czi...@gmail.com writes: 2009/2/20 Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu Jan Čípa czi...@gmail.com writes: On the first boot after installing debian-500-hppa-DVD-1.iso on HP A500 PA-RISC, booting halts on ALERT! /dev/mapper/hp--server-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Setup

Bug#516213: vg not found at the boot

2009-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jan Čípa czi...@gmail.com writes: On the first boot after installing debian-500-hppa-DVD-1.iso on HP A500 PA-RISC, booting halts on ALERT! /dev/mapper/hp--server-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! Setup with guided LVM option, kept recommended defaults. No complaints during

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Rohan Dhruva wrote: My /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition having many (upwards of 15) ISOs. They are all present in a single directory in the root, so debian installer did check them. Possibly there are ways to improve this

Bug#514826: Same problem here with another hardware configuration

2009-02-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Emmanuel Lesouef e.leso...@crbn.fr writes: As suggested by Daniel, I can confirm that my system is booting after modifying the lilo command-line. It's probably the same issue as #511447. Should we merge them? -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#514009: Release notes: section about Braille displays in installing.dbk/installing.po

2009-02-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk writes: W. Martin Borgert wrote: On 2009-02-07 18:41, Samuel Thibault wrote: Christian Perrier, le Sat 07 Feb 2009 17:05:01 +0100, a écrit : +section id=install-with-speech + titleInstall debian; with a hardware speech synthesis/title [...] and maybe s/a/an

Bug#514009: Release notes: section about Braille displays in installing.dbk/installing.po

2009-02-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org writes: Ferenc Wagner, le Sun 08 Feb 2009 10:33:06 +0100, a écrit : I'd suggest something simpler, like this, if possible (my English may need fixing, but the idea is to get rid of along with support for and s/syntheses/synthesis/): Support

Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

2009-02-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Sebastien Desreux s...@h-k.fr writes: My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no sound. [...] My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128. The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd). Sound does not work either

Bug#513924: lvmcfg: Physical Extent (PE) size too small

2009-02-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Laurent Grawet debian-b...@grawet.be writes: The default PE size is too small (4MB) for some use when creating volume groups (VG) with debian-installer. If you're dealing with large amounts of data, it is highly suggested to go for a larger extent size for performance reasons. man vgcreate

Bug#503063: Isn't this some filesystem corruption?

2009-01-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
What file system is this? I've seen similar on XFS, and that could be repaired by running xfs_repair. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#496512: Will this be fixed for Lenny?

2009-01-15 Thread Ferenc Wagner
John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org writes: It did not have a build-conflicts on python2.4, and Bacula's autoconf picks the oldest Python it finds. The buildds didn't have python2.4 installed, but my machine did. Then even if 2.4.4 is declined, 2.4.3 could be fixed by an i386 binary only

Bug#511814: ipmievd: can't change syslog facility

2009-01-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.9-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, Apparently the LOCAL4 syslog facility is hardwired in lib/log.c. Unfortunately, this clashes with out internal usage of LOCAL4. Please include a command line option for changing it. Thanks, Feri. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#496512: Will this be fixed for Lenny?

2009-01-12 Thread Ferenc Wagner
John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org writes: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Will this wrinkle be smoothed before the Lenny release? I am uploading 2.4.4 now with the change. I am not sure if the release team will allow it in for lenny, but I will ask. Thanks, that's about as good as it gets

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote: short: the maximal size of the unlimited partition is specified as 1,000,000,000 in the recipes, and the numbers there mean MBs, so that's 1000 TB. OK, but IMO this is more a structural flaw in partman-auto's

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes: Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead Of course I meant 4000 TB = 4 PB, not 4 EB here. And wondered the overhead of compiling dc into busybox, for doing unlimited

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu): I have no base to decide which is better, but there isn't too much difference; I can't consider either one wrong. The following patch contains an unnecessary change as well: lcreate can use up all

Bug#511180: partman? failure to see ext3 fs on partitioned raid 1 array

2009-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Leif W warp-...@usa.net writes: Currently, mdadm, fdisk and cfdisk, ext2fs utils, and mount utils fully handle partitionable/partitioned raid arrays. I can handle this all with manual commands. But the install scripts do not allow any intervention or injection of manual commands in the

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Friday 09 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: The fix is to use kB units in calculating the free space: free_size=$(vgs -o vg_free --units K --noheading --nosuffix $VG_name | sed -e 's/\..*//g' I have committed and uploaded this change. Thanks

Bug#511447: installation-reports: USB-stick install: reboot after install fails due to incorrect root device

2009-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Pyotr Berezhkov p.g.berezh...@gmail.com writes: rebooting into the installed system failed, as the initrd incorrectly identified the root device. As it turned out, the root device specified on Lilo's kernel command line (root=fd02 in my case) was incorrect. It would be interesting to see

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: I can accept this, but then this BR should not be closed, as the 1 TB limit (which hit the reporter) remains. People with big disks can still get huge swaps, as no LV can suck up more than 1 TB. Sorry if I

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents. After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on 3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ... that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents. After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on 3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ... that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of the 1GB RAM). However, it issues lv_create noc2 swap_1 1406 to create it, thus creating a

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents. After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on 3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ... that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300

Bug#496512: Will this be fixed for Lenny?

2009-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi John, Will this wrinkle be smoothed before the Lenny release? I hold back the latest bacula upgrade on several machines, as it wants to pull back Python 2.4. I'd rather stop this, though, if there's no hope of another upload. -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#511054: Processed: Re: Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#511054: permissions on /var/log/news

2009-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 07, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Even better, a system I installed fairly recently does not even have a /var/log/news directory. The submitter disagrees. The inn and inn2 packages can deal with either no directory or a 755 directory, but

Bug#511054: Processed: Re: Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#511054: permissions on /var/log/news

2009-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes: At the end of installation /target does not contain /var/log/news. But drw-r--r-- 2 root root 55 2008-10-17 18:16 /var/log/news on an older Lenny install of mine (with no Inn nearby). The dir is claimed by no package, /var/lib/dpkg/info/* does

Bug#511054: wrong permissions on /var/log/news

2009-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: reassign 511054 rsyslogd thanks However, as the system I have still used sysklogd and is free of the problem, and my /etc/syslog.conf mentions news log files, and the BR mentions rsyslogd, my best guess is that the syslog daemon is the real cause.

Bug#511054: Processed: Bug#511054: wrong permissions on /var/log/news

2009-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes: So, why is this a rsyslog bug now? See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511054#67 And, what's the problem with that? /var/log also has root:root 755 permissions

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: The installer wants to use 33% of diskspace which is 500 G I G A (!) bytes as swap space I'm personnally not in position to do such tests (moreover it may require a knowledge of partman that I'm not usre to have). For a start, I could reproduce

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Even if I change in /lib/partman/recipes/30atomic 96 512 300% linux-swap to 96 512 128 linux-swap the size of the swap LV won't drop below 2.8 GB. Also, when it is left as 300%, the final size does not depend on the size of the system RAM (tested at 1024 and 128 MB). -- Feri. -- To

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
On the other hand, the pseudocode in installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt gives reasonable results, so its implementation is probably broken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: Investigating this might be fairly tricky as it will be difficult to test our usual way (with virtual machines) as the size of the installation disk obviously matters here. I fail to see the problem, virtual disks are the easiest to change the size

Bug#509995: vlan: vconfig manpage error

2008-12-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: vlan Version: 1.9-3 Severity: minor Hi, Issuing vconfig without arguments gives the usage example: set_flag[interface-name] [flag-num] [0 | 1] while the manual page says: set_flag [vlan-device] 0 | 1 Please fix it when convenient (yes, I known vconfig is

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP. I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first, though. The installation guide recommends tftpd-hpa

Bug#509589: check_ntp: wrong output for host with both A and AAAA record

2008-12-23 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: nagios-plugins-basic Version: 1.4.5-1etch1 Severity: normal Hi, Please consider this: $ host -t any lipton.aai.niif.hu lipton.aai.niif.hu A 193.225.14.195 lipton.aai.niif.hu 2001:738:0:701:80:C1E1:EC3:0 $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp -H lipton.aai.niif.hu

Bug#509290: Package: installation-reports

2008-12-20 Thread Ferenc Wagner
George Pinto gmpin...@gmail.com writes: Image version: http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/debian-40r5-i386-DVD-1.jigdo Machine: Intel P45 Express Chipset Processor: Intel core2 Quad Q6700 2.66ghz Memory: Corsair XMS3 2GB PC3-10666 Partitions: default scenario Output of lspci -nn and lspci

Bug#462366: Upstream fix is available

2008-12-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tag 462366 +patch thanks Hi, This bug still badly breaks Etch-Lenny upgrades, so I consider it rather serious. On the other hand upstream already patched it[1], so it would be quite easy to fix, maybe even possible before the Lenny release. Opinions? [1]

Bug#507372: cdebconf-newt-udeb: does not show enough choices for long descriptions

2008-12-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jérémy Bobbio lu...@debian.org writes: The issue probably requires more invasive changes in the newt frontend; let's postpone them to better times. I'm trying to reproduce the issue in a normal system context instead of the installer environment for easier debugging. However, I can't get any

Bug#508749: exim4-base: README.Debian contains outdated info on Diffie-Hellman parameters

2008-12-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: exim4-base Version: 4.69-9 Severity: normal Hi, After fixing #475194 et al (concerning regeneration of DH parameters) one inconsistency remained. Namely, README.Debian was not revised, and still says that the parameters are regenerated each day from Cron. I spent some time looking for

Bug#508434: ipmitool: Several init script problems due to wrong pidfile name

2008-12-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.9-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: Policy 9.3.2 Hi, According to man ipmievd: pidfile=filename Save process ID to this file when in daemon mode. Defaults to /var/run/ipmievd.pidN (where N is the ipmi

Bug#508439: nagios3-common: NAGIOS PROCESS CHECK COMMAND documentation not present anymore

2008-12-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: nagios3-common Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, After upgrade I noticed that the new cgi.cfg misses the documentation block above nagios_check_command. I guess it was removed in error. Could you please put it back? As easy as applying the reverse of the diff below.

Bug#508335: logcheck-database: xdm rules don't match

2008-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.68 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, the current xdm ignore rules read: ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+[[:space:]]+: \(pam_[[:alnum:]]+\) session opened for user [[:alnum:]-]+ by \(uid=[0-9]+\)$ ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+[[:space:]]+:

Bug#499033: Now why ship VeraMono.ttf?

2008-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Since it isn't used anymore, maybe VeraMono.ttf could be removed from the package. Yes, it weights 50kB only... Just an idea. -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jérémy Bobbio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: As we are not interested in the settings of the serial line or by the state of the VT, we can just omit the struct declarations and be fine with a dummy buffer. Don't you risk overflowing the

Bug#254243: will it get a freeze exception?

2008-12-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Thanks for finally fixing this long standing and disturbing bug! Do you think it will get a Lenny freeze exception? :) -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#505237: Fixed in Lenny

2008-12-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
found 505237 5.4.1~dfsg-11 thanks Hi, yes, apparently this bug is present in Lenny,too . On a clean install: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude install snmpd [...] Setting up snmpd (5.4.1~dfsg-11) ... Starting network management services: snmpd. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps $(pgrep snmpd) PID

Bug#504496: rsyslog: please add back im3195 module

2008-11-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi Michael, yes, I know about RFC 3195 being mostly abandoned. And this is indeed chicken and egg... I don't blame you if you don't feel like working on this. Maybe I'll pick it up given enough nagging from the network people. Seems like it's at least possible to compile after all. --

Bug#364565: paste still broken :(

2008-11-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Unfortunately I have to take my previous statement back. I backported 3.22-2 to Etch, and it still does the following 4 replacements on paste: ! - $ _ - ? - - / 0 - ` At least these are the ones I could find. Unfortunately currently I have no access to graphical Lenny machines. My

Bug#504496: rsyslog: please add back im3195 module

2008-11-20 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ferenc Wagner wrote: The Debian changelog for version 2.0.2-2 says you removed this module intentionally, but didn't it get useful since then? do you actually use and need support for RFC 3195 style of logging. According to rsyslog upstream

Bug#364565: any news on this?

2008-11-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3.22-2 seems to work fine for me (except œ which emits Unknown character in xmodmap keytable: œ (339), but I can live without it when administrating clusters ;) ) Yes, 3.22-2 doesn't replace dashes with slashes like 3.19.1-4 does. Which is good. But

Bug#502552: included in 2.6.26.8

2008-11-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tag 502552 + fixed-upstream thanks The upstream fix is included in 2.6.26.8. Hopefully that will be included in some upcoming post-10 Debian kernel revision. -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#474333: you forgot to add the new directory

2008-11-13 Thread Ferenc Wagner
reopen 474333 thanks Hi, after upgrade I got the following in syslog: nrpe[24547]: Could not open config directory '/etc/nagios/nrpe.d' for reading. nrpe[24547]: Continuing with errors... because /etc/nagios/nrpe.d is not contained in the package. Please add it. -- Thanks, Feri. -- To

Bug#364565: any news on this?

2008-11-12 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, I'm using qwerty, but paste replaces keys nevertheless, for example pasting a dash (-) comes out as a slash (/) in version 3.19.1-4. Is 3.22-2 expected to be better? -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#498749: Why not fixed yet?

2008-11-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
fixed 498749 2.12-1 thanks Hi, How will this bug be fixed in Lenny? It's fixed upstream by remembering to zero-terminate the plugin output. Is there anything I could do to make this happen? I has been pending for two months now.

Bug#453123: debconf interaction not closed

2008-11-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
man debconf-devel (on an Etch system) says: If your postinst launches a daemon, make sure you tell debconf to STOP at the end, since debconf can become a little confused about when your postinst is done otherwise. So why not follow good advice? Adding db_stop to the end of

Bug#453123: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#453123: debconf interaction not closed

2008-11-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Of course not leaking file descriptors is a good practice, but it isn't the responsibility of all the daemons of the world to close all possible file descriptors their parent might have leaked to them (see for example http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486826#37). I don't agree

Bug#505237: /etc/init.d/snmpd start reports error if already running

2008-11-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: snmpd Version: 5.2.3-7etch4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 9.3.2 Hi, The start action shouldn't fail if the service is already running: # invoke-rc.d snmpd start Starting network management services:invoke-rc.d: initscript snmpd, action start failed. This happens with

Bug#505239: preinst: initrddep not initialized

2008-11-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem Version: 2.6.26-10 Severity: minor Hi, The preinst/initrd-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem template uses an ${initrddep} substitution, which always gets replaced by D, as the $initrddep Perl variable corresponding to it is never assigned anything else. This results

Bug#504805: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686: panic: iret exception

2008-11-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 Version: 2.6.26-9 Severity: important Hi, Since switching to the Lenny xen kernel in dom0, I experienced several crashes under xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386, version 3.2.1-2. I guess I should bring this up with upstream, but there's no such thing in this case

Bug#499033: column indentation is broken

2008-11-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Matthias Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobi said we should use tabbing and my trials with this were not successful. The tabbing with \t doesn't create a correct alignment. I also played with this stuff and came to the conclusion that tabulators are not adequate for this purpose. For a

Bug#501383: try -bigmem instead

2008-11-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, what happens if you boot linux-image-2.6.26-1-686-bigmem in your domU instead? The xen flavour is necessary for dom0 support only. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504496: rsyslog: please add back im3195 module

2008-11-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: rsyslog Version: 3.18.2-1~bpo40+1 Severity: wishlist Hi, The Debian changelog for version 2.0.2-2 says you removed this module intentionally, but didn't it get useful since then? Thanks, Feri. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (600,

Bug#499745: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686: freezes under Xen 3.2.0

2008-10-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Yesterday afternoon three out of our four Lenny virtual machines froze. The consoles went unresponsible, the buffers contained no interesting

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