Bug#958934: bind9: named fails to start after upgrade to 9.16.2

2020-04-26 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.16.2-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, Life was good on my DNS server until my recent update to 9.16.2-3. After upgrading, the exact configuration that was happy now fails to start. Example: # named -g -u bind 26-Apr-2020

Bug#677636: samba4: fails to install - libsecurity.so not found

2012-06-15 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: samba4 Version: 4.0.0~beta1+dfsg1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I recently attempted to install the samba4 package on my system; this fails persistently with the following output: Setting up samba4 (4.0.0~beta1+dfsg1-1) ... Traceback (most

Bug#668369: duplicity: Warning messages for every invocation

2012-04-11 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: duplicity Version: 0.6.18-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Every time I run duplicity, I receive the following trio of messages: ** (process:3384): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum' ** (process:3384): WARNING **:

Bug#633803: mediatomb: does not close/reopen logfile on kill -HUP

2011-07-13 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: mediatomb Version: 0.12.1-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I'm guessing about the upstream part. I happened to notice my system has a huge /var/log/mediatomb.log.5 file that's still being written. The /etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb script specifies that a pkill -HUP mediatomb should be

Bug#585900: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: NETDEV WATCHDOG: (tulip): transmit queue 0 timed out

2010-06-14 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-15 Severity: normal Here is an oops reported by my system against my trusty DE500 card: Jun 8 09:34:04 buzz kernel: [213252.816043] WARNING: at

Bug#584724: Not specific to via-rhine, apparently

2010-06-08 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Well, this is interesting... In an attempt to minimize the impact of this problem, I switched my config to use the DEC tulip-based card I also have in my system. This morning I got almost exactly the same trace (inline below). This suggests that whatever the problem is, it isn't specific to just

Bug#584724: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: NETDEV WATCHDOG: (via-rhine): transmit queue 0 timed out

2010-06-05 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-15 Severity: normal This appears to be the same bug as: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11663 I have attached kernel output; once the timeout occurs, the interface is unusable and bounces spastically (without becoming operational) until the system

Bug#539406: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp: fails to load fw for 1st scsi adapter

2009-07-31 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp Version: 2.6.30-2 Severity: important Well, the firmware loading logic has been flaky on my system for a few releases now. I previously reported bug 527265 against 2.6.29, where the qla1040 firmware would not load at all, and that was resolved in a later

Bug#527265: linux-image-2.6.29-1-alpha-smp: detached firmware qlogic/1040.bin fails to load for qla1280

2009-05-06 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-alpha-smp Version: 2.6.29-3 Severity: important Yes, I have the firmware on the system. The non-free package firmware-qlogic (from sid) is installed, /lib/firmware/qlogic/1040.bin exists and update-initramfs doesn't whine about missing firmware. ;-) See the

Bug#526001: linux-image-2.6.29-1-sparc64: boot failure: Fast Data Access MMU Miss

2009-04-28 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-sparc64 Version: 2.6.29-3 Severity: normal This kernel fails to boot on my Ultra60. Immediately after loading the initrd image, the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss appears and I get dropped back to the PROM ok prompt without any additional output. This appears

Bug#520550: duplicity: Please add PuTTY transport support

2009-03-20 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: duplicity Version: 0.5.06-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I find myself attempting to perform secure backups that must transit a proxy server to reach their destination. Generally I use PuTTY for these types of connections, as it understands how to deal with the proxy (unlike OpenSSH).

Bug#481410: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64: atp870u (ACARD) scsi module missing

2008-05-15 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 Version: 2.6.25-2 Severity: normal I see that both linux-image-2.6.25-1-amd64 and linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 no longer include the atp870u SCSI module (normally selected via CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD). This is a bummer since I have one of these cards in my system. :-p

Bug#480334: Regression: local-top scripts run before devices detected

2008-05-09 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92a Severity: important This seems very similar to reported (old) bugs, but it's a change in behavior for me so I'm opening this new problem to flag it. I recently updated to version 0.92 (I believe -- a couple days prior to 0.92a, which also exhibits the

Bug#480014: aboot: AS4100 fails to boot recent Debian kernels

2008-05-07 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: aboot Version: 1.0~pre20040408-2 Severity: important My present kernel (2.6.22-3-alpha-smp) is the last Debian kernel I have been able to boot successfully. I spent a lot of time thinking this might be the kernel, but on reflection reading the console output I blame aboot. :-) For

Bug#464229: linux-image-2.6.24-1-alpha-smp: fails to boot: machine check while in PAL mode

2008-02-05 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-alpha-smp Version: 2.6.24-2 Severity: normal I think the subject line says it all; this is on a 3-way AS4100. I am attaching console output of a boot attempt. As failure occurs prior to loading the initrd image, I am not sure any further configuration details are

Bug#437171: libpam-krb5: Login with explicit realm fails to map to local user

2007-08-10 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: libpam-krb5 Version: 3.5-1.1 Severity: normal Don't panic over the version. :-) This is package 3.5-1 with some local instrumenting added in an attempt to understand what is going on. Documentation claims: If the username provided to PAM contains an @ and Kerberos can, treating the

Bug#418652: initramfs-tools: does not build usable initrd with lvm2 2.02.24

2007-04-10 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85g Severity: important Tags: patch I just upgraded a ton of stuff (including LVM) after it hit testing folllowing the etch release. :-) The new LVM version uses a different file layout and consequently the lvm2 hook tries to grab the wrong file (which no

Bug#396921: bacula-director-pgsql depends on sqlite3?!

2006-11-03 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 1.38.11-6 Severity: minor I assume this is a bogus dependency that crept in during the build process. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: alpha Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-6+scsi Locale:

Bug#386432: bad specifier in /etc/cron.d/mdadm

2006-09-07 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: mdadm Version: 2.5.2-7 Severity: minor The automatic check on first Sunday of month logic is b0rken. :-) The specifier used in /etc/cron.d/mdadm is 6 1 1-7 * 7, but the problem is that man 5 crontab (and unhappy experience) shows that the rule triggers when minute, hour, month (6, 1,

Bug#367424: bacula-sd segfaults on start with autochanger defined

2006-05-15 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: bacula-sd Version: 1.38.9-7 Severity: important I just upgraded from the long-suffering 1.36.3 release and started tweaking my bacula-sd.conf file to add an Autochanger stanza as required for the new version. With my old 1.36.3 configuration, everything ran okay if you overlooked the

Bug#366730: linux-source-2.6.16: bogus scsi timeouts with qla1280 driver

2006-05-10 Thread R. Scott Bailey
. * **/ -#define QLA1280_VERSION 3.26 +#define QLA1280_VERSION 3.26.rsb /* Revision History: +Rev 3.26.rsb, May 10, 2006 R. Scott Bailey + - Increase timeouts (?) from 30 to 900 sec for tape support

Bug#363932: nfs-kernel-server: fails to start

2006-04-20 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.7-9 Severity: important The change introduced in this update to check for init_nfsd instead of nfsd_version caused the server to fail to restart on my system after this upgrade. I manually edited /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server to change the test back to

Bug#318112: linux-source-2.6.12: boot fails with serial console

2005-07-13 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Severity: important Well, in attempting to check 2.6.12 to see if it fixes md bugs in 2.6.10 and SCSI problems in 2.6.11, I have run into another problem... The system fails to find my serial console and init dies at the beginning of the bootstrap

Bug#317787: kernel-source-2.6.10: md memory leak

2005-07-11 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: kernel-source-2.6.10 Version: 2.6.10-5 Severity: important Tags: patch The attached patch against 2.6.10-5, due to Neil Brown, corrects a problem in 2.6.10 which causes the md driver to leak bios -- eventually resulting in a OOM condition. The problem appears to have been corrected

Bug#317459: onak: database corrupted (?) after bulk add

2005-07-08 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: onak Version: 0.3.2-1 Severity: important I don't know if this is an actual bug, or just user stupidity. :-) I haven't done a lot of playing with onak, but decided to exercise it a little bit by loading it with the debian keyring: gpg --export --keyring

Bug#313424: bind9: /usr/sbin/dnssec-makekeyset is missing

2005-06-13 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.3.1-2 Severity: important Bummer. I just updated and find that /usr/sbin/dnssec-makekeyset is missing, making it very difficult to generate my signed zone files. :-( Interestingly, although dpkg -L does not show this file is included in this package, looking at

Bug#308377: btest passes but bacula-sd cannot append under Linux 2.6.x

2005-05-09 Thread R. Scott Bailey
Package: bacula-sd Version: 1.36.2-2 Severity: normal I noticed this change in behavior when I upgraded my system from kernel 2.4.27 to 2.6.10. Attempting to position to the end of data on a tape in order to append backups no longer works: unmount mount run something 09-May 16:02 hamster-sd: