Bug#453786: Accepted dnprogs 2.39.2 (source i386 all)

2007-12-08 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, Patrick Caulfield wrote: dnprogs (2.39.2) unstable; urgency=low . * Fix package building with new dpkg-shlibdeps Closes: #453786 A changelog must explain the change, ie how you fixed the problem. In the future try to not forget

Bug#425012: Package lvm10 not in stable

2007-05-18 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Klaus Ethgen wrote: Package: lvm10 Version: 1:1.0.8-12 Severity: critical The lvm10 package is not in stable any more so all systems with kernel 2.4 and lvm will be broken! Debian's 2.4 kernels include the device mapper patches. That will enable lvm2 to work. Although I thought that 2.4

Bug#399665: libdnet{,-dev} should not assume the user wants to *use* DECnet

2006-11-23 Thread Patrick Caulfield
That's fair. I'll make the library packages a Recommends and the progs package a depends...there really is no point in installing the progs if you're not going to use them and I really want to ease DECnet installation as much as possible - it's complicated enough as it is! Patrick -- To

Bug#394819: Please remove package lvm10 from unstable

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal lvm10 doesn't build on unstable anymore and is superceded upstream by lvm2 see bug report 394212. LVM2 is compatible with lvm1 metadata and supported upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#394212: FTBFS

2006-10-20 Thread Patrick Caulfield
lvm10 doesn't work with 2.6 kernels and is unsupported upstream. I recommend we remove this package for etch. lvm2 works with 2.4 kernels, and is compatible with lvm10 metadata formats. and (importantly) is well supported upstream -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386070: vgcfgbackup: invalid option -- f

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Jesse Molina wrote: Package: lvm10 Version: 1:1.0.8-12 Severity: normal Hi When passing options -f or --file to vgcfgbackup, I get an error; vgcfgbackup: invalid option -- f The man page says that this is a valid option. Not sure if the man page is out of date, or there is

Bug#358500: Not a bug

2006-03-27 Thread Patrick Caulfield
dnprogs isn't affected by this bug as it doesn't call any routines inside uulib that use this function. The only call we make into the library is UUEncodeToStream(); where the output 'file' is always either a pipe or a socket to a mail delivery program. patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#278180: lvm2: md_component_detection should default to 1 instead of 0

2005-12-13 Thread Patrick Caulfield
I am reliably informed by Alasdair that the md_component_detection is considerably better than it was. In fact it now uses the same detection algorithm that MD itself uses. So I think this should be set back on by default now. -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#330166: lvm2: O_DIRECT not disabled on HPPA

2005-09-26 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.01.14-1 Severity: important Tags: patch HPPA kernels don't support O_DIRECT, as LVM2 uses O_DIRECT to read/write metadata this option has to be disabled in ./configure. It looks to me like a simple typo in debian rules: -ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH), arm hpp

Bug#325775: /lib/lvm-10/pvmove: does not stop on SIGINT

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Holger Dietze wrote: Package: lvm10 Version: 1:1.0.8-8 Severity: normal File: /lib/lvm-10/pvmove I have a long-running pvmove which I decided to abort (and resume later). According to manpage: pvmove may be safely interrupted by SIGINT while moving next free allocated logical

Bug#310678: AW: Bug#310678 acknowledged by developer (Bug#310479: fixed in lvm-common 1.5.19)

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Michael Setzer wrote: Patrick, I'm not pretty sure if I got you right. After upgrading lvm-common to 1.5.19 the error is still there and my system is still unbootable (same error message as described already). It certainly fixed the problem for the original reporter. Once I'd see the

Bug#310678: AW: Bug#310678 acknowledged by developer (Bug#310479: fixed in lvm-common 1.5.19)

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Michael Setzer wrote: Patrick, I'm not pretty sure if I got you right. After upgrading lvm-common to 1.5.19 the error is still there and my system is still unbootable (same error message as described already). What I've done now to upgrade to 1.5.19 is: - booted with the

Bug#310479: Severe breakage of root-on-lvm2 with lvm-common 1.5.18

2005-05-25 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Thanks. Can you try the updated package on http://people.debian.org/~patrick/ please? -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#310479: Severe breakage of root-on-lvm2 with lvm-common 1.5.18

2005-05-25 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Christian Weeks wrote: Yup. That worked a treat. Thanks! Great, I'll upload that one then. -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#310479: Severe breakage of root-on-lvm2 with lvm-common 1.5.18

2005-05-24 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Christian Weeks wrote: Package: lvm-common Version: 1.5.18 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I ran an upgrade this morning and picked up this package, among others, including a new kernel image. This generated a new initrd which rendered my Root on LVM system

Bug#310479: Severe breakage of root-on-lvm2 with lvm-common 1.5.18

2005-05-24 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Christian Weeks wrote: Hmm, I've regenerated a working one now... When I was examining it, it did have vgchange contained within it, and also another vgchange under /lib/lvm-200/ (or something similar)... I figured that one of the scripts was somehow choking when it tried to execute the

Bug#303423: LVM has annoying 110% restriction on snapshot LV size

2005-04-07 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Patrick Caulfield writes (Re: Bug#303423: LVM has annoying 110% restriction on snapshot LV size): There's no point in creating a snapshot any bigger! The COW mechanism copies blocks from the original device into the snapshot

Bug#303423: LVM has annoying 110% restriction on snapshot LV size

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:52:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Package: lvm10 Version: 1.0.4-5woody2 (source) I have a backup system that makes snapshots of the filesystems when backing them up. In order to minimise the risk of snapshots overflowing, I arranged for the snapshot to use all of

Bug#300469: btw losetup

2005-03-20 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:37:09AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: PS. I've noticed that the loop devices are not released. mount -o loop $from $to # this allocates a loop device, as can be seen in ps auxww # (under kernel 2.4.x, as [loop0] or similar kernel threads) # or in /proc/mounts

Bug#300469: btw losetup

2005-03-20 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:55:27PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: Actually, I've just read the manpage for umount and have realised there is a -d option exactly for the purpose of releasing the loop device. So, additionally to applying my patch, the umount statements in

Bug#293693: lvm2: lvcreate causes device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument

2005-02-05 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:06:34PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'm trying to set up LVM for the first time.??I have the?dm-mod kernel module loaded.??No?udev?or?devfs?here. The?following commands all succeed: pvcreate /dev/hda1 vgcreate vg /dev/hda1 vgchange -ay vg Now I want to

Bug#292984: lvm2: lvremove causes inconsistent VG metadata

2005-02-02 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:23:08AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Hello Patrick, On Monday 31 January 2005 16:40, you wrote: Secondly try using vgcfgrestore to restore the metadata onto the disks, you only need to do this if 1) above fails I've got my system back! :-D Your suggestions and

Bug#293174: pvmove: manpage out of sync

2005-02-02 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:01:24PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Patrick Caulfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so only man pvmove left. Yep, -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#281925: I am using LVM2 with LVM1 on-disk under 2.6

2005-02-02 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:06:18PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: If e2fsadm does not support LVM2, and 2.6 only supports LVM2, would it not be possible for e2fsadm to check for 2.6 and refuse to run? Giving me the help screen of a different command (lvmextend) is not quite helpfull right

Bug#293174: pvmove: manpage out of sync

2005-02-02 Thread Patrick Caulfield
:-) CVSROOT:/cvs/lvm2 Module name:LVM2 Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-02 14:31:49 Modified files: . : WHATS_NEW tools : commands.h Log message: Remove unused -f from pvmove Patches:

Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Package: libsysfs1 Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: normal Please can you move libsysfs into /lib ? The multipath tools rely on this library for device identification and they really need to be started before /usr is mounted if it is on a different partition. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#293174: pvmove: manpage out of sync

2005-02-01 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:06:42PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Package: lvm-common Version: 1.5.17 Severity: minor File: pvmove Hi, the manpage of pvmove doesn't list all options, namely -f, of pvmove and does not describe al options it mentions, namely -v. On that note: The

Bug#292984: lvm2: lvremove causes inconsistent VG metadata

2005-01-31 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Two things to try: firstly, enable md_component_autodetection in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf - it look slike the system has found BOTH the MD and it's components, that explains the duplicate PV entries. If this doesn't work then add filters to lvm.conf to exclude the SCSI disks (or just include the MDs).

Bug#292070: Unable to create VG on md device with newer lvm2

2005-01-25 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:38:53PM +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: Check you don't have md_component_detection disabled in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. Otherwise try adding filters. yes, md_component_detection is disabled by default in Debian because the original implementation was buggy and caused

Bug#245282: Documented elsewhere

2005-01-12 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:57:05PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: This is documented in the cryptsetup package. I don't think dmsetup needs to document these features since they are not very useful without the hash functions, etc. I would close this bug if I was maintainer. :-) Agreed.

Bug#289888: Default max vg size of 256GB a bit on the small size nowadays...

2005-01-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:28:27AM -0500, Christian Hudon wrote: Package: lvm2 Version: 2.00.24-1 I guess 256GB was a nice large number the for default max vg size when lvm1 was started, but now that you can buy a single hard drive that is twice this size, it seems to me to be a bit on

Bug#289888: Default max vg size of 256GB a bit on the small size nowadays...

2005-01-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
It might be that you are using LVM1 format metadata - which still has this restriction. vgconvert will upgrade that metadata to LVM2 and remove the limit. (BTW the default of 4MB PE size is years old on LVM1 (25/10/2002), and has never been a limitation in LVM2) -- patrick -- To

Bug#289888: Default max vg size of 256GB a bit on the small size nowadays...

2005-01-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Christian Hudon wrote: Hmm. If that's really the case, then the manpage for vgcreate is in need of some serious updating. Some extracts: -s, --physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[kKmMgGtT] Sets the physical extent size on