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 su

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: > > --- > > > Pdksh to mksh transition > > The Public Domain Korn Shell ( role="package">pdksh) > package is being r

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 (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

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 /etc/{passwd,shado

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 opti

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

2013-04-24 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] https://lists.

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

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

2013-04-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
methods in grub-pc & iso-scan - don't abuse the 'seen' flag Signed-off-by: Vincent McIntyre --- debian/grub-installer.templates | 13 + grub-installer | 99 +-- 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 3

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

2013-04-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
> > 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. [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-installe

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 abov

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 inscr

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 cons

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 > &g

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 (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. > > Ap

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 (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. > > Ap

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 sho

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 GUI.Settings(servers=servers, output=output, conf=conf) File "/usr/share/nagstamon/Nagstamon/GUI.py", line

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 necessaril

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 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 20:58:38 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify how to contribut

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#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 2

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 /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups-bsd.

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 # dpkg-

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 -rwxr-

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 daemon

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 a

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 ([ "$default_bootdev" != '(hd0)' ] && \ ! partmap "$default

Bug#751993: another instance

2016-11-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 04:27:40PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 09:15 +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > This is a problem because I need to blacklist DELL, > > multipath -l -v 3 gives me the

Bug#799781: found the upstream commit

2016-11-10 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:04:06 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > I have a problem here. > > The fix, that you mentioned for the Shared Lock, does not seem to be > committed upstream. Neither master, nor Hannes's suse-fixes branch. It is there, please see http://git.opensvc.com/gitweb.cgi?p=multip

Bug#843953: multipath-tools: LVM on internal disks + multipath-toosl = no multipaths

2016-11-10 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.5.0-6+deb8u2 Severity: important * What led up to the situation? Upgrade working wheezy system to jessie Apply patch to fix multipath segfault, see #751993 The system boots off an internal physical disk That disk has one / partition and an LVM p

Bug#843953: multipath-tools: LVM on internal disks + multipath-toosl = no multipaths

2016-11-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 04:06:44PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Related notes: > > > >    On some reboots the system log shows multipath timing out. Below is > > 'sdd'. > >    The timeout occurs 33 seconds after the disk was attached. > >    I was unable to determine the cause of this or r

Bug#855656: release-notes: update on mysql/mariadb for stretch

2017-02-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello this is a start on the notes needed regarding mysql/mariadb. This has been developed in consultation with the mysql package maintainers. It is probably missing a few pieces that should go in other chapters, such as upgrading.dbk. Comments

Bug#855656: release-notes: update on mysql/mariadb for stretch

2017-02-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:56:44AM +0100, Baptiste Jammet wrote: > Hello, > > Le 21/02/2017 01:09, Vincent McIntyre a écrit : > > >this is a start on the notes needed regarding mysql/mariadb. > >[...] > >Comments welcome. > Thanks for

Bug#855656: release-notes: update on mysql/mariadb for stretch

2017-02-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 05:58:08PM +0100, Baptiste Jammet wrote: > > I add an for the note about binary data file formats > not backwards compatible, and choose to add default-mysql-* next > to virtual-mysql-*. > Updated patch attached, for clarity. Good idea. I added a 'for example' to the sent

Bug#860970: release-notes: MariaDB vs MySQL section 2.2.3 needs clarifying on how to perform the upgrade

2017-04-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi Paul If I understand correctly, you are suggesting this change: MariaDB is now the default MySQL variant in Debian, at version 10.1. The Stretch release introduces a new mechanism for switching the default variant, using metapackages created from the mysql-defaults source package. F

Bug#784743: updated patch

2015-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch The perl patching command given by Edmund results in this change: --- debian/patches/linker-specific-changes.orig 2011-11-19 16:45:51.0 +1100 +++ debian/patches/linker-specific-changes 2015-08-03 14:16:16.518331208 +1000 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ grtv00.o : $(DRVDIR)/imdef.h

Bug#821811: samba: badlock patch breaks trust relationship

2016-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I can confirm that after downgrading these packages samba samba-common samba-common-bin libwbclient0 smbclient samba-tools to version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7 and then upgrading with apt-get -t santiago-wheezy install samba samba-common \ samba-common-bin libwbclient0 smbclient samba-too

Bug#823372: winbind: segfault on first login attempt

2016-05-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: winbind Version: 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u9 Severity: normal possibly-related bugs: 820981 We have not used winbind in our setup until the badlock patches came along (2:3.6.6-6+deb7u9). We follwed the recommendation in #820981. The environment is MS AD, we are running a "member server" serving a f

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 /etc/redm

Bug#760923: tentative patch

2015-06-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
7; command. +This command halts the machine but no longer turns off the power - +use shutdown -h or poweroff for that. +The old behaviour is regarded as a bug by upstream and won't be changed +in this package so as to maintain compatibility with other Linux distros. + + -- V

Bug#760923: tentative patch

2015-06-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Control: tag 760923 patch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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) +++ manual/en/post

Bug#760923: tentative patch

2015-06-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:24:10AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 23, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > +systemd (221-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > This has not changed in 221: even if we really want to document this in > NEWS.Debian then the message must not be dis

Bug#760923: tentative patch

2015-06-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:58:28AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > This sounds confusing -- systemd has never changed the behaviour of > "halt"; sysvinit misimplemented halt, so the change is between > changing init systems, not upgrading any particular version. > > How about something like > > "h

Bug#760923: tentative patch

2015-06-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 09:47:35PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 23, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > This sounds confusing -- systemd has never changed the behaviour of > > "halt"; sysvinit misimplemented halt, so the change is between > > changing init systems, not upgrading any particular versio

Bug#789604: release-notes: 'halt' behaviour changed without notice

2015-06-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Tags: patch thanks Hi, I'm submitting this patch on the advice of the systemd maintainers. Could this be applied to the jessie release notes? I sent a separate patch for the installation-guide, #789652 Cheers Vince Index: issues.dbk

Bug#789604: release-notes: 'halt' behaviour changed without notice

2015-06-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Control: tag 789604 patch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#789604: release-notes: 'halt' behaviour changed without notice

2015-06-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > I'm submitting this patch on the advice of the systemd maintainers. > > Could this be applied to the jessie release notes? > > It's good, but I've got a couple of Engli

Bug#789652: v2 patch

2015-06-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:51:02PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > Justin B Rye wrote: > >> It's good, but I've got a couple of English usage nitpicks: > > > > And I'm happy to have you pick the nits off my contribution :) &

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 interface

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 ad

Bug#767946: updated patch

2017-05-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch Thanks The attached version of lshw-common.patch avoids those warnings. Kind regards Vince Added paths to look for device idsIndex: lshw-02.14/src/core/pci.cc === Index: lshw-02.18/lshw-B.02.18/src/core/pci.cc

Bug#751993: upload?

2017-05-31 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi there have been a couple of stable point releases (8.7,8.8) since this and #799781 were tagged as pending, but they haven't made it in. Could you check what's up please? Vince

Bug#864192: multipath-tools: Typo in README.Debian

2017-06-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Source: multipath-tools Version: Typo in README.Debian Severity: minor Bug 8217322 does not exist. @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I see a lot of "io_setup failed" message using the directio checker -Debian Bug #8217322 +Debian Bug #827322

Bug#814363: update to uscan file

2017-06-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
tags: patch thanks mate I noticed a new upstream version (0.7.1) so I thought I would try to make uscan notice as well. This seems to work reliably: --- debian/watch.orig 2017-06-06 16:48:45.205127553 +1000 +++ debian/watch2017-06-06 17:18:16.788922857 +1000 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ # format v

Bug#872524: git-buildpackage: documenting import from upstream git

2017-08-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.8.18 Severity: minor Tags: patch thanks Hi, I was looking in the manual for information on starting from scratch with an upstream git and found it a little terse for newbies like me. Please would you consider applying the attached patches. The published versio

Bug#872890: [patch] initialise loop variable in rescan-scsi-bus.sh

2017-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: sg3-utils Version: 1.42-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch thanks Using rescan-scsi-bus.sh is scary enough at the best of times, but when it prints things like this it's even scarier /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh: line 257: test: !=: unary operator expected That line reads 257 if tes

Bug#864476: [patch] lintian appeasement

2017-06-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.6.4-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This series quells some lintian warnings. I hope it is helpful. If not, just wontfix. Vincent McIntyre (4): Add more shlib-symlink overrides, following previous example Silence bogus warning about undefined macro

Bug#864849: [patch] fix watch file

2017-06-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: autofs Severity: normal Version: 5.1.2 Tags: patch thanks mate This patch makes uscan do something useful again. --- a/debian/watch +++ b/debian/watch @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ version=3 -ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/autofs-(5[^-]*)\.(?:tar\.xz|txz|tar\.bz2|tbz2|tar\.gz|tgz)

Bug#864852: [patch] fix missing dependency on lsb-base

2017-06-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: autofs Severity: normal Version: 5.1.2-2 Tags: patch thanks Lintian marks this as an error, may as well fix it. Signed-off-by: mci156 --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 9501d97..0bbca56 100644 --

Bug#864853: [patch] fix lintian warning about man/autofs.8

2017-06-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
+++ b/debian/patches/fix-whatis.patch @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Author: Vincent McIntyre +Forwarded: no +Description: Reinstate - separator in NAME section, to satisfy lintian + +Upstream presumably dropped reference to the init script +because the page now describes both that and the systemd +.service

Bug#864857: [patch] avoid blhc warning about -fPIE

2017-06-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
+Author: Vincent McIntyre +Forwarded: no +Description: Avoid warning about -fPIE from blhc + +This is probably not entirely necessary since all modules are +compiled with -fPIE, but it avoids a warning. +Index: autofs-5.1.2/daemon/Makefile

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

2017-08-31 Thread Vincent McIntyre
> As of 2017, I tend to think that lpd support should disappear for Buster. Iff > we'd want to keep it, having cups-bsd get a > Suggests: inetutils-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd > _could_ make sense. > > I'm not going to investigate more than that; so if someone wants that in > 2

Bug#866179: [stretch] old versions of gcc not available

2017-06-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Hi it appears that, in contrast to previous releases, stretch does not come with the gcc available in the previous release. I think this should be noted in the release notes along with a pointer to any discussion about the reason for this. Can anyone hel

Bug#866179: patch

2017-06-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch thanks A bit of trawling turned up the d-d-a posts and the wiki pages. Please consider this for inclusion. Index: whats-new.dbk === --- whats-new.dbk (revision 11691) +++ whats-new.dbk (working copy) @@ -432,6

Bug#820983: ok to close

2017-07-31 Thread Vincent McIntyre
this bug can be closed since the omission was addressed not long after. samba (2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3) jessie-security; urgency=high ... [ Andrew Bartlett ] * Add back better NEWS item for 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1 ... -- Salvatore Bonaccorso Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:05:31 +0200 I verified thi

Bug#759553: suggested patch

2017-08-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Tags: patch Thanks Can this be fixed please? I wasted an hour tracking this down while trying to resolve another issue. --- lib/auto-lvm.sh.org 2017-08-02 10:24:35.773321165 +1000 +++ lib/auto-lvm.sh 2017-08-02 10:24:49.709392154 +1000 @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ defvgname="$RET"

Bug#870448: hw-detect - stop using modprobe -l

2017-08-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.124 Severity: normal Tags: patch I keep seeing this in installer logs, back to jessie. Aug 2 01:52:11 main-menu[193]: (process:224): modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' I rated this normal rather than minor because the way it is working now the is_available() function

Bug#870448: hw-detect - stop using modprobe -l

2017-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:58:05PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > But this still prints error messages for missing modules. I think the > function should be implemented as: > > is_available () { > modprobe -qn "$1" > } > I agreee, much better!

Bug#870574: lowmem: naming of main-menu.d item

2017-08-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: lowmem Version: 1.45 Severity: normal Poking around an install environment I looked in /lib/main-menu.d and found these files: 10rescue 5lowmem Then I found the original commit message: commit b9741a97a349f9ed4364b3411c3ab8afc590e385 Author: Joey Hess Date: Fri May 6 01:3

Bug#775541: NFS mounts fail at boot after Debian 8.5 upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello Paul I read your feedback on this issue with interest. Could you provide a bit more information about the package versions on your system? dpkg -l rpcbind nfs-common nfs-kernel-server systemd Also I think the output of these commands would be helpful systemd-analyze critical-path remote-f

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libc6-udeb Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10 Severity: grave Justification: breaks installation entirely The wheezy installer fails with anna reporting a segfault: ... anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving libc6-udeb 2.13-38+deb7u10 anna[5033]: DEBUG: retrieving finish-install 2.41wheezy1 anna[5033]: DE

Bug#837123: ([anna] segfault in wheezy installer)

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I just realised this went to the libc maintainers; I was expecting it would go to the debian-installer team. This might be an issue in the way libc6-udeb is being used within debian-installer, rather than libc6-udeb itself. I don't know how to figure out if that is the case; if it is the case, p

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Thanks Andreas for those new packages. I did some testing of the 1.2.8-9.2 packages on a clean jessie install. They are pretty close but I found an issue with NFS exports in one case. I used the attached check.sh script to show the state of various targets as I changed things. The attached result

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I found one further issue which is related to #738063. I wanted to limit the exports to supporting version 2 and 3. I first set RPCMOUNTDOPTS="--manage-gids --no-nfs-version 4" as explained in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server. But I found I also needed add the following to that file: RPCNFSDPR

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:46:30AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2016-09-09 10:27, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > > Package: libc6-udeb > > Version: 2.13-38+deb7u10 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: breaks installation entirely > &

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > I don't talk about the software running on your DNS servers, but > rather how they behave when they get queried. It might depends on > many other things, like if your network has IPv6 or not. > > Note that's only one explanation,

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:30:32AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > You've given me a few things to try out > - tell DHCP to supply different DNS servers (running bind) Makes no difference. These servers are not configured for v6, while the first ones I used were. T

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:28:55PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > - make sure all ipv6 related options are disabled > >and no ipv6 DNS entries exist for the target host > >Didn't try it. The failure happens really early, before the >preseed file i

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:22:25AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Vincent McIntyre. > > Thanks for your thurough testing and useful feedback. > > Let me start with a disclaimer: I'm not maintaining nfs (and I'm > not even using it myself so my knowled

Bug#775541: tests of new packages

2016-09-11 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:38:32PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: A brief note on the client side of things. At step 3, after installing your packages but before tweaking nfs-server.service, the critical chain for the client mount is usr-local.mount +1.145s └─remote-fs-pre.target @7.493s

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:03:19PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: ... > > If all of that makes no difference, what would be the next step? > > What would be interesting would be to try to reproduce the issue in > qemu or virtualbox, with as many things as possible close to your > system. > Just

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:29:18AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > Also you might want to use the console (alt+f2) to run wget by hand and > > see if the issue happen with all hosts or only some of them. > > I tried to wget pages from a few web sites from the alt+f2 consol

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:01:20AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > ... > > warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. > > > > warning: Could not load shared library symbols for 4 libraries, e.g. > > /lib/libc.so.6. > > Use the "info sharedlibrary" command to see the complete

Bug#837123: [anna] segfault in wheezy installer

2016-09-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > More details. > > The target system is pxe booted and next-server takes it to a (debian) > > system running tftpd-hpa. The defaults.cfg has lots of boot targets > > but the one I have been testing with is the netboot image, in m

Bug#835067: libpam-passwdqc: improvements(?) to password prompting

2016-08-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libpam-passwdqc Version: 1.3.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch I noticed some repeated text and somewhat tortured wording in the prompts for new passwords. Please consider the attached patch. It defines a couple of extra text slugs to make the prompt wording more consistent across the diff

Bug#838946: [patch] preseed appendix of d-i manual: use_autoconfig

2016-09-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-installer-manual Version: Head Severity: minor Tags: d-i patch thanks (resending as a bug, my post to -boot didn't elicit any replies) For some years the disable_autoconfig preseed has been shown in the appendix on preseeding. However setting that just sets use_autoconfig appropr

Bug#838948: [patch] preseed appendix of d-i manual: use_autoconfig

2016-09-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Severity: minor Tags: d-i patch thanks (resending as a bug, my post to -boot didn't elicit any replies) For some years the disable_autoconfig preseed has been shown in the appendix on preseeding. However setting that just sets use_autoconfig appropriately. Yet use_au

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

2016-09-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
(we were discussing having a branch of manual for each stable release) This appears to have happened - thanks Samuel! https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/branches/manual/jessie/ I think it would be worth mentioning the existence of this in the trunk README - suggested patch below. Please let m

Bug#810219: confirmation

2016-07-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
We also hit this with Dell Optiplex 7040 desktops % cat /etc/debian_version 8.5 % uname -v #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u2 (2016-06-25) % lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 191f (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1901 (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible control

Bug#831875: linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64: endless "NMI backtrace" loop

2016-07-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3~bpo70+1 Severity: normal The system is running the wheezy release. After some fibre channel multipathing issues, my system ended up endlessly printing messages like the one below for each of 32 cpus, every 3 sec. However the problem occurs in more

Bug#831985: [patch] fix default for 'prio' in manpage

2016-07-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.6.1-3 Priority: minor I noticed the manpage documents the wrong default for 'prio'. At least, it seems that way from this check: $ grep DEFAULT_PRIO libmultipath/prio.h #define DEFAULT_PRIO "const" #define DEFAULT_PRIO_ARGS "" Now that upstream ditched the exa

Bug#831985: Acknowledgement ([patch] fix default for 'prio' in manpage)

2016-07-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I've found a couple of other nits that could be fixed, see attached patch. There was one item I was unsure about so I left it out of the patch. The manual page says the default is reassign_maps = yes but libmultipath/defaults.h says #define DEFAULT_REASSIGN_MAPS0 This gets used like so

Bug#831985: [patch] fix default for 'prio' in manpage

2016-07-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:20:54PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Control: tag -1 +pending, fixed-upstream > > > Hello Vincent, > > THank you for your patch and care for ensuring documentation is > intact. > > With today's release of 0.6

Bug#428108: nfs-kernel-server: autofs clients kill rpc.mountd

2007-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.10-6 Severity: important Perhaps this is a bug in the NIS package but since the fault affects rpc.mountd I am filing here first. Feel free to reassign... Summary --- I have a system which exports one filesystem. Access to the export is controlled via

Bug#428108: nfs-kernel-server: autofs clients kill rpc.mountd

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Run strace with -s 5000 or similar, and you'll see the entire error message. > This smells _very_ much like a NIS bug. :-) here's the output, not quite sure what it means. 7538 write(2, "rpc.mountd: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:78: _nss_nis_setnetgren

Bug#428139: [amd64][etch][4.0r0] success: Sun X2200 server

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: etch amd64 netinst 4.0r0 (20070308) uname -a: Linux testhost.atnf.CSIRO.AU 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4 00:37:33 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Date: 2007.06.05 Method: How did you install? netinst cdrom, with 'install'

Bug#417396: quotatool: sometimes fail to read correct block device

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
> I plan to wait for a new upstream version before uplaoding a new > package, but I could provide you with an updated version if you want. that's ok. It only affects the test rig, not production use. Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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