Bug#789652: installation-guide: improve explanations about rebooting, etc

2015-06-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Tags: patch thanks see also #760923. Not sure this is quite correct for powerpc. Index: manual/en/post-install/shutdown.xml === --- manual/en/post-install/shutdown.xml (revision 69984) +++

Bug#786476: redmine: minor error during postinst

2015-05-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: redmine Version: 2.5.1-2~bpo70+6 Severity: normal Tags: patch During installation the postinst throws an error. Setting up redmine (2.5.1-2~bpo70+6) ... Creating config file /etc/redmine/default/session.yml with new version A new secret session key has been generated in

Bug#762167: debian-faq: please update termcap/ncurses/tinfo information

2014-09-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-faq Severity: wishlist The faq [1] says: Debian uses the terminfo database and the ncurses library of terminal interface routes, rather than the termcap database and the termcap library. Users who are compiling programs that require some knowledge of the terminal

Bug#762169: [ncurses] please add a brief explanation of termcap/ncurses/tinfo

2014-09-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: ncurses Severity: wishlist Hi, debian-faq just fell out of testing [1]. It is the only Debian document I have been able to find that explains how to deal with programs that expect to link with termcap. There is a helpful summary of recent developments in [2]. Would it be possible to

Bug#752372: Support the 'postfix' user being defined in NIS

2014-06-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: postfix Version: 2.9.6-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch thanks Hi, Please consider applying the patch shown below. Without the patch, in the situation described, postfix refuses to start because the runtime user it wants to use is not yet available. This patch also appears to be

Bug#748080: denyhosts: RESET_ON_SUCCESS not working

2014-05-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: denyhosts Version: 2.6-10+deb7u2 Severity: normal On a debian system a successful ssh login is recorded like this in auth.log: May 14 09:57:40 mybox sshd[30973]: Accepted password for joe from 1.15.16.24 port 57633 ssh2 But regex.py is looking for: SUCCESSFUL_ENTRY_REGEX =

Bug#736904: apt-mirror: spelling grammar cleanups

2014-01-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: apt-mirror Version: Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi I was looking into apt-mirror and noticed a few things that were easy to fix. Please consider the attached patch (against current git). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.8 APT prefers

Bug#734329: denyhosts: regression in regex.py

2014-01-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 07:34:54PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Control: tags -1 + patch Hi Vincent, On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 06:32:13AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: A real fix seems more involved. Suggestions welcome. Personally I cannot reproduce this issue on any of my machines, but I

Bug#734329: denyhosts: regression in regex.py

2014-01-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: denyhosts Version: 2.6-10.1 Severity: important Hi I have 2.6-10 running on a few squeeze hosts here and applied the patch that should fix #692229. I think there is a problem with one aspect of that change - - FAILED_ENTRY_REGEX = re.compile(rFailed (?Pmethod.*) for (?Pinvalidinvalid

Bug#721348: clarify how to contribute (v2 patch)

2013-09-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Could you please incorporate these changes and resend your patch? Thanks for the warm welcome. Next attempt attached. -- From 2e07d1e01fb28d80dcc00711a0d9be97f72b2ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vince McIntyre mci156@shambles.windy Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 20:58:38 +1000 Subject: [PATCH]

Bug#720130: denyhosts: README.debian - explain interaction of PIDFILE and DENYHOSTS_LOCK

2013-08-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: denyhosts Version: 2.6-10 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** If the user edits denyhosts.conf, its possible for LOCK_FILE (in /etc/denyhosts.conf) and PIDFILE (in /etc/init.d/denyhosts) to end up pointing to different places, without the user

Bug#718229: nagstamon: missing depends or recommends?

2013-07-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nagstamon Version: 0.9.7.1-1~bpo60+1 Severity: normal /usr/share/nagstamon/Nagstamon/Config.py explicitly references some binaries that do not seem to be mentioned in the dependencies for this package: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/vncviewer Perhaps these

Bug#718230: nagstamon: fails to open GUI after fresh install

2013-07-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nagstamon Version: 0.9.7.1-1~bpo60+1 Severity: normal % sudo apt-get install nagstamon % nagstamon Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/nagstamon, line 89, in module GUI.Settings(servers=servers, output=output, conf=conf) File /usr/share/nagstamon/Nagstamon/GUI.py,

Bug#716655: multipath-tools: mention aliases in README.debian

2013-07-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:33:41PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2013 05:52 AM, Vincent McIntyre wrote: Explicit aliases for particular wwwn are a better alternative than user_friendly_names because the mpathN - wwwn name mapping can change unexpectedly. The patch

Bug#716655: multipath-tools: mention aliases in README.debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.9+git0.4dfdaf2b Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Explicit aliases for particular wwwn are a better alternative than user_friendly_names because the mpathN - wwwn name mapping can change unexpectedly. The patch below explains this in README.debian. Please

Bug#714901: libpam-unix2: (wishlist) make it clearer that the wrong password was entered

2013-07-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libpam-unix2 Version: 1:2.4.1-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi I am using this module to help users change passwords on a mixed file NIS system. If they happen to enter the wrong string for the old password, they get a somewhat

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (30/04/2013): gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. Thanks, Vincent. Applied locally

Bug#706112: [PATCH 0/4] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (30/04/2013): gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. Thanks, Vincent. Applied locally

Bug#706594: nis: hardcoded UID limit in mknetid

2013-05-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nis Version: 3.17-31 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, nis supports 32-bit uids pretty well but I discovered mknetid does not - it hard-codes a uid limit in the insert_user() function. This has the effect of ignoring all users with uid

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
the archive. [PATCH] Actually set bootdev. After taking all the trouble to get the right value into the $bootdev shell variable, ensure that we db_set grub-installer/bootdev with that value. Signed-off-by: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au --- grub-installer |8 ++-- 1 file

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
-scan - don't abuse the 'seen' flag Signed-off-by: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au --- debian/grub-installer.templates | 13 + grub-installer | 99 +-- 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi Joey thank you for your helpful comments. I'm working on fixing the issues. I do have one question because I'm completely new to the translation side of things... On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:28:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: There are also some hardcoded user-visible strings embedded in the

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Sadly, this issue will probably be in wheezy as nobody digged enough to tackle this down and we get rid of it before the last version of D-I is released. Please see my working (for me), tested, waiting-for-review patch [1] sent to the -boot list yesterday. Cheers Vince [1]

Bug#706112: debian-installer: Wheezy installer always install bootloader in /dev/sda

2013-04-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:33:01AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi Vince Please see my working (for me), tested, waiting-for-review patch [1] sent to the -boot list yesterday. Do you know how the problem can be triggerd. As far as I remember only some installation from USB are

Bug#705721: nis: missing -r option to makedbm for netgrp targets

2013-04-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nis Version: 3.17-31 Severity: minor Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, our netgroups map has a good number of comment lines, some of which generate warnings like this: makedbm: warning: malformed input data (ignored) The patch below turns on the -r

Bug#705577: nis: rpc.yppasswdd check for shadow password inconsistent with yppasswd's check

2013-04-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nis Version: 3.17-31 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi I was experimenting with the following setup: - debian NIS master (squeeze/amd64) - separate passwd and shadow maps - passwd and shadow files distinct from master's

Bug#696877: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

2013-04-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:51:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au (08/04/2013): May I remind people about #696877 (when installing from USB stick, grub writes the MBR to the wrong device - the USB stick). I think this problem has been around

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
may I suggest a couple of copy-edits to your original: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:36:20AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: I propose this text instead: --- section id=mksh titlePdksh to mksh transition/title para The Public Domain Korn Shell (systemitem

Bug#671347: patch

2013-01-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch I just noticed that the cups-bsd.config file asks the question about LPD support at priority 'medium', which is perhaps too low and not being shown to the user in some contexts. But if 'medium' is appropriate, then perhaps a bit of documentation would fix this bug? index

Bug#610282: preseed: partman-lvm/confirm boolean true does not suppress Before the Logical Volume ...

2012-12-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
tags patch thanks Hi, I believe the entirety of the required patch is at the end of this message. Please consider applying it. I'd like to make a plea for an easily-findable branch or tag series for making updates like this to the installation guide which-applies- to-the-current-'stable'. When

Bug#693194: twm: does not handle UTF-8 locales

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: twm Version: 1:1.0.4-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Not sure the title of this report is correct. I've been having an issue with twm where the decorations in the window titl= e tabs are in a font size that does not match the text used in the tab,

Bug#683696: [wheezy] upgrading kernel udev discussion needs modification

2012-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Severity: Normal In the Upgrades from Debian 6.0 (squeeze) chapter: the discussion of which order to upgrade the kernel and udev that applied to the lenny-squeeze transition seems no longer relevant to squeeze-wheezy. It may be sufficient to just delete this section, but I

Bug#683698: [wheezy] mention SSD TRIM support

2012-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Severity: Normal Possibly in the 'whats new' chapter: Wheezy will have full TRIM support for SSDs, which came in in 2.6.33. There are some configuration changes people should make themselves aware of, they are documented at http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization. I'm not

Bug#679349: qa.debian.org: unhelpful handling of older VCS browse links (op=log)

2012-06-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The hplip package source has this: Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-hpijs/hplip/?op=log The (browse) link in the packages.qa.d.o page [1] is the same URL. Following that link gives this result:

Bug#656899: may go back to lenny

2012-06-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I am seeing those messages on a lenny system running 2.6.26. Details attached. -- Script started on Fri 15 Jun 2012 14:12:50 EST foo:~# !sh sh mdadm-details.sh -- uname -a Linux foo 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:19:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux -- apt-show-versions mdadm mdadm/lenny uptodate

Bug#590436: Why does cups-bsd depend on update-inetd?

2012-06-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
my version of this package % apt-show-versions cups-bsd cups-bsd/squeeze uptodate 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 uses that package in the maintainer scripts % grep -l update-inetd /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups-bsd.* /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups-bsd.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups-bsd.postrm

Bug#676472: cups: please suggest a compatible inet server (for lpd support)

2012-06-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: cups Version: 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Somehow my system got installed with update-inetd but not inetutils-inetd. I wanted to turn on lpd support so installed cups-bsd. update-inetd ran without apparrent errors when I did #

Bug#508941: [patch] mention how to turn on cups-lpd

2012-06-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch Hello, please consider this for inclusion in the next release of this package. === modified file 'debian/README.Debian' --- debian/README.Debian2008-05-23 08:14:05 + +++ debian/README.Debian2012-06-07 22:50:09 + @@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ testing purposes. If you

Bug#559602: cups-bsd: permision problem

2012-06-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: moreinfo On a fresh install of 1.4.4-7+squeeze1, I don't see any problems. % dpkg -L cups-bsd | grep bin/ |xargs ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18432 Nov 29 2011 /usr/bin/lpq -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14256 Nov 29 2011 /usr/bin/lpr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10160 Nov 29 2011 /usr/bin/lprm

Bug#668572: installation-guide: [patch] mention DEBCONF_DEBUG

2012-04-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi please consider this patch explaining the use of DEBCONF_DEBUG when debugging a preseeded installation. I found it a helpful tool. Cheers Vince Index: manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml

Bug#666974: installs to /dev/sda when grub-installer/bootdev = /dev/sdb

2012-04-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.60+squeeze3 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** When I specify in my preseeding file: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sdb d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sdb grub-installer ignores me

Bug#666974: Acknowledgement (installs to /dev/sda when grub-installer/bootdev = /dev/sdb)

2012-04-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I realised the code fragments I showed are from master, not the squeeze branch. However I don't think it makes a difference. Firstly the code parsing grub-mkdevicemap has not changed. Secondly even if the condition ([ $default_bootdev != '(hd0)' ] \ ! partmap

Bug#602464: libpam-unix2: does not use blowfish hash in /etc/shadow entries

2012-01-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:26:58AM +1100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcint...@csiro.au, 2010-11-05, 13:18: I used the default /etc/security/pam_unix2 file; % sudo mv /etc/security/pam_unix2.default /etc/security/pam_unix2 You are not supposed to rename this file. The PAM

Bug#602464: libpam-unix2: does not use blowfish hash in /etc/shadow entries

2012-01-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
One further thing about the symlink business. README.Debian says: The new /etc/default/passwd from upstream has been moved to /etc/security/pam_unix2.default I think it would be easier to understand if it said: The configuration file for this module is /etc/security/pam_unix2.default.

Bug#508740: adduser: confusing message regarding format of group names

2011-11-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:44:11PM +1100, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: addgroup: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax

Bug#547922: a small clarification

2011-10-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
could I ask for clarification of something here. I have rsync starting via the init script. It is unmodified (version 3.0.3-2, yes I know I need to upgrade) $ grep pid /etc/rsyncd.conf pid file = /var/run/rsync-daemon.pid $ grep -c rsync /etc/inetd.conf 0 When I start the

Bug#627733: quotatool: inconsistent units in -d output

2011-05-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: quotatool Version: 1.4.11-1 Severity: normal A given user has block usage of 1296 Mbyte and a quota of 5000Mbyte. # quota -F xfs -vs -l -u fred Disk quotas for user fred (uid 123456): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sdb1

Bug#453076: closed by Rémi Denis-Courmont r...@remlab.net ((pas de sujet))

2011-05-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
From: Rémi Denis-Courmont r...@remlab.net To: 453076-d...@bugs.debian.org 453076-d...@bugs.debian.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:13:54 +1000 Subject: (pas de sujet) Hello, I am unable to reproduce your problem and I assume it was already fixed in VLC 0.9-1.1. Please retry with a

Bug#514976: bzr branch doesn't work

2011-03-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
For info - I hit this bug and tried to get the bzr branch and test. I get this: % bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ bzr: ERROR: Unknown branch format: 'Bazaar Branch Format 7 (needs bzr 1.6)\n' -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#514976: grub-probe cannot locate /boot on /dev/sdag1, even when device.map is correct

2011-03-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
The affected system here is running debian lenny. I installed the lenny-backports version of bzr and was able to branch. This workaround appears to work for lenny users, as well. Details below. What are the prospects for getting this fixed in stable or oldstable? Cheers Vince # bzr log |head No

Bug#571179:

2011-03-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello, this feature request has now had a year for due consideration. What is your decision? Thanks Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#612561: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org - not displaying hits in lenny/oldstable or squeeze/stable

2011-02-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** I performed the following search: (Wed Feb 9 06:30 UTC 2011) lynx http://packages.debian.org/xfce4 This returned exact hits and partial-match hits correctly for the sid/unstable and experimental

Bug#609944: release-notes: [patch] confusion about grub flavours in id=upgrading-udev

2011-01-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Severity: minor I got tripped by the kernel/udev compatibility issue some time ago and was glad to see some good notes about how to deal with it. However I think it could be made a bit clearer still. para arch=i386;amd64 Users of the systemitem role=packagegrub/systemitem

Bug#602464: libpam-unix2: does not use blowfish hash in /etc/shadow entries

2010-11-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libpam-unix2 Version: 1:2.4.1-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** I was testing this module out, because I need local nis passwords. % grep passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files nis I changed /etc/pam.d/common-password to read: % grep -v ^#

Bug#513131: patch

2010-10-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
tag 513131 + patch thanks Please find attached an attempt at patching this (against svn trunk). I've removed the references to xlibs, xfree86-common and xserver-common. I note xserver-common looks like it will appear in squeeze. More work on the list of obsolete packages is probably required but

Bug#512703: tigervnc packages

2010-09-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello, tigervnc seems to be providing unofficial debian packages; http://oss.m-privacy.de/tigervnc This may help the packaging effort. Perhaps a bit of discussion with them could result in them producing lintian-clean packages that could be sponsored into the archive? Cheers Vince -- To

Bug#597152: rplay-server: silently fails unless OSS support is working

2010-09-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: rplay-server Version: 3.3.2-11.1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** On a lenny system we used ALSA to configure sound. We tried to play some .au (.snd) format files with rplay, but this failed. rplay-client exited with no error status. We were able to play

Bug#580312: test script

2010-09-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
After numerous attempts at narrowing this down, we could not find the cause. It really only appears to occur at exit time, so it's a minor issue. In case anyone else hits this or wants to try to reproduce, the attached test script should be able to produce the issue. testloop.sh Description:

Bug#596785: ftp: segfaults after running !ls

2010-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: ftp Version: 0.17-18 Severity: normal connected to proftpd as anonymous... ftp !ls patch.* 4 patch.0 2 patch.1 *** glibc detected *** ftp: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09f8e300 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb75f7396]

Bug#596785: Acknowledgement (ftp: segfaults after running !ls)

2010-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Having some trouble producing a reliable test case. It may be related to a failure of the PUT command, or use of ls -l. ftp put patch.1 local: patch.1 remote: patch.1 200 PORT command successful 550 patch.1: No such file or directory ftp !ls patch.1 2 patch.1 ftp !ls -l patch.1 *** glibc

Bug#595218: Bug#595340: grub-pc: upgrade-from-grub-legacy can make system unbootable

2010-09-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
This turned out to be a problem with one of the other disks in the system. The first disk in the chassis, which is enumerated as /dev/sda, contains a Dell utility partition. This uses linux under the hood, and of course has a GRUB setup in the MBR. I was working with the second disk in the

Bug#595218: Acknowledgement (upgrade-reports: [amd64][lenny-squeeze][20100902] almost successful)

2010-09-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
So I attempted to reinstall grub to the MBR following these sources: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 No dice. I tried the following - * with the installer cd in 'rescue' mode * mount /dev/sdb1 (which contains /boot) * start a shell in /dev/sdb1

Bug#595218: upgrade-reports: [amd64][lenny-squeeze][20100902] almost successful

2010-09-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: important Justification: renders system unbootable Today I did a dist-upgrade from lenny to squeeze. The short version is: it worked, until I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. That left the system in an unbootable state, see the end of the report. This bug should

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:31:22PM +1000, Ben Hutchings wrote: I've committed support for this in the svn repository branch for lenny. You can build and test this now by following the instructions at http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official-vcs or wait

Bug#594657: [i386][netboot][squeeze daily 20100826-03:57] Dell Optiplex 780: Success installing lenny

2010-08-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Boot method: network (PXE/DHCP) Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ dated 20100826-03:56 # cat /var/log/installer/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.0

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:38:50PM +1000, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Vincent McIntyre (vince.mcint...@atnf.csiro.au): Hi, this problem is also occurring on Dell Optiplex 780 machines, the PCI ID of the network card is 8086:10de. I tried installing using this netboot image

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-26 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Vincent McIntyre wrote: past few months and I was waiting for a fix for #568495. oops I meant #568975. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:02:11PM +1000, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 06:38 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: ... Have you tried with the netboot (*not netinst*) image which you can find at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer under Daily builds? It won't help.

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:24:01PM +1000, Ben Hutchings wrote: Aargh, you've transposed two digits and confused both yourself and me. The above device ID is for an 825*67* supported by e1000e, not an 82576 supported by igb (for which we already backported the necessary changes). You're

Bug#512546: Ethernet card not found

2010-08-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, this problem is also occurring on Dell Optiplex 780 machines, the PCI ID of the network card is 8086:10de. I tried installing using this netboot image: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/ which has the date stamp

Bug#594160: wu-ftpd: fails to install (userdel: error deleting password entry)

2010-08-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: wu-ftpd Version: 2.6.2-30 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** % sudo apt-get install wu-ftpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer

Bug#594160: (wu-ftpd: fails to install (userdel: error deleting password entry))

2010-08-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch thanks The templates file has Template: wu-ftpd/anonymous Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Do you want to allow anonymous ftp access? Anonymous FTP allows users to log in to the server using the username ... And the postinst does this db_get

Bug#592693: fv: incorrect path to help files

2010-08-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: fv Version: 3.0-17 Severity: normal To reproduce: % fv select the 'help' item from the main menu this results in an error message box containing this: -- start --- couldn't open /usr/lib/fv/doc/deskTopManager.html: no

Bug#568975:

2010-08-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, #492897 has been closed, Add support for mdadm metadata formats 1.x. Does that change the situation with this bug? Is the reversion to 0.9 format still being considered, or has it been decided? Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

2010-06-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Sometimes, multipath-tools does not create all the /dev/mapper/mpathN devices one is expecting it to create. This seems to occur if there more than two multipathed devices. I have

Bug#585084: python2.5-dbg: configuration fails if /usr/local/ is readonly

2010-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: python2.5-dbg Version: 2.5.2-15+lenny1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** % sudo aptitude safe-upgrade ... Setting up python2.5-dbg (2.5.2-15+lenny1) ... mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/debug': Read-only file

Bug#580312: multipath-tools: multipathd segfaults when restarted

2010-05-09 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I changed the setup slightly, connecting the storage unit and the host to a FC switch. There are still two LUNs and now there are 4 paths to each. # multipath -l mpath1 (2227300015530e20d) dm-1 Promise ,VTrak E610f [size=13T][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0] \_ round-robin 0

Bug#580312: multipath-tools: multipathd segfaults when restarted

2010-05-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** I have a simple setup with a Promise VTrak E610f direct-connected to a Dell 2950 with LSI FC949SE card. There is only one FC connection. Two LUNs are exposed by the Promise. #

Bug#571179: please add netpbm support to pgplot5

2010-02-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: pgplot5 Version: 5.2.2-14 Severity: wishlist It would be nice to be able to generate PPM output files from PGPLOT programs. This has been possible in the upstream code for many many years. Please consider adding support in the same way as for PNG files. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#571179: #571179 - patch

2010-02-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch The necessary change appears to be quite small, see attached patch (made against 5.2.2-15). --- a/pgplot5-5.2.2/debian/drivers.list.debian 2010-02-24 15:52:17.0 +1100 +++ b/pgplot5-5.2.2/debian/drivers.list.debian 2010-02-24 15:52:30.0 +1100 @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-10 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I think I've identified the issue here. Details at the end. In short: partman-auto-raid v15 creates /dev/md0 with a v1.1 superblock. The version of grub being used (0.97-47lenny2) doesn't handle this version of the superblock metadata AFAICT (see e.g. #554500). This seems to be causing the

Bug#568975: ([squeeze/lenny][i386][2010-02-04] grub-installer fails, system unbootable)

2010-02-10 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, vincent.mcint...@csiro.au wrote: The options for resolving it (so lenny-via-squeeze works) seem to be: - add a debconf configuration item to specify the metadata version I started a patch but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. The attached is just an attempt to

Bug#568835: grub-install: incorrect handling of return value from grub-probe -t

2010-02-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: grub-common Version: 1.96+20080724-16 Severity: important Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** During an installation, I had a problem with the grub step. The system is going to be set up with the '/' partition on a software raid device, /dev/md0. /boot will be

Bug#568495: [patch] partman-auto-raid/README

2010-02-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: partman-auto-raid Version: 15 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I found what I think is a minor error in the partman-auto-raid/README (the elements of the recipes should be separated by periods, not commas). The attached corrects that and tries to clarify two parts of the text I

Bug#552787: ([i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily)

2009-10-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue: - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#553306: clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite

2009-10-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In relation to #552787, I've attempted to improve the relevant text in the preseeding appendix of the manual. It's a bit wordier (sorry translators). Cheers Vince Index: trunk/manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml

Bug#533221: possible patch

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I've had a quick look at this, I _think_ the attached is all that is required. regards Vince Index: tzsetup/debian/common.templates.in === --- tzsetup/debian/common.templates.in (revision 61048) +++

Bug#552787: [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Version: [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
you're more patient than I realised. One thing I have been trying to figure out is how to get the usertags defined for a given bug report to be displayed in the browser. If you give the user in the users field, they're displayed as if they were actual tags. Really? I mean here when I am

Bug#549703: [i386][lenny] grub guesses wrong location for MBR?

2009-10-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB key built with netbootin Image version: Lenny Netinstall 5.0.3 Lenny Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 (20090906-12:06) Date: 2009-10-05T10:00 GMT

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
They're actually in the information for each bug, too. If you click on the [i|N|ÿÿ] bits, you'll see them. Ah. Lovely! Well hidden, but then all the more rewarding when found. I do still think it would be useful to show them in the bug when it is fully displayed. Cheers Vince

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: Ah. Lovely! Well hidden, but then all the more rewarding when found. I do still think it would be useful to show them in the bug when it is fully displayed. They are supposed to be; it's just a small bug that caused them not to be, which (as I've

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I was reviewing what passes for documentation on the use of usertags [1] to query the bts, via bugs.debian.org/pkgreport.cgi, and started experimenting in order to find what does does not actually work, inspired by the material in [2]. I put in this

Bug#517644: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
talking to myself again... Luk Claes wrote... Feel free to test with the version in proposed-updates to really make sure it's fixed. I'm not completely sure how to do this. From what I can gather from [1] I need to build my own installer image, which I'll have a go at. I initially

Bug#532840: cannot netinstall 'etch' with 'etch' installer

2009-06-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal I cannot netinstall 'etch' with the 'etch' installer. I am using a well-tested PXE boot setup, see eg #517644. I selected suite=etch on the installer boot line. I select ftp.au.debian.org as the mirror in the choose-mirror screen. After that,

Bug#517644: reopening

2009-05-20 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
package: choose-mirror tags 517644 + reopen thanks Hi, I just tried to use the lenny installer to install an etch i386 system. The same issue as before occurs, see the /var/log/installer/syslog extract below. I redid the install with suite=oldstable in the PXE boot line and got the same

Bug#520831: apt.conf(5): please mention /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2009-03-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
package: apt version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 tags: patch severity: wishlist Hi, I was looking into the order in which apt processes /etc/apt/apt.conf and the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* files, and noticed the apt.conf.d directory is only mentioned in the apt-get(5) manpage. The ordering is indeed explained

Bug#442189: additional information

2009-03-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I found that our local repository had the mapping between Suite and Codename done inconsistently - in particular in some places we still had 'stable'-'sarge'. However we consistently use codename in our sources.list files, so I'm a bit surprised this would make any difference. I updated the

Bug#517644: Info received (Bug#517644: [amd64][lenny] since lenny release, unable to install 'etch' via 'lenny' installer)

2009-03-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I've confirmed this behaviour also occurs when using ftp.au.debian.org as the mirror, instead of our local apt-proxy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#517644: [amd64][lenny] since lenny release, unable to install 'etch' via 'lenny' installer

2009-02-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: network (PXE/DHCP) Image version: http://ftp.au.debian.org/lenny/dists/lenny/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ The installer image files are marked This is a Debian 5.0 (lenny) installation netboot image. It was built

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