Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error

2017-07-11 Thread Alan Schwartz
s) Reading package lists... Error! E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (22: Invalid argument) E: Could not open file - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Problem opening E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. -- Alan Schwartz The Michael Ree

Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error

2017-07-11 Thread Alan Schwartz
attributes on any /var/lib/dpkg/status files. * If you have any policy framework enabled (SELinux or AppArmor), please check if any of these are forbidding the access. Neither of those are enabled. -- Alan Schwartz The Michael Reese Endowed Professor of Medical Education Associate Head, UIC

Bug#867997: Further thoughts

2017-07-11 Thread Alan Schwartz
My gut tells me this is a permission issue with the new _apt user, but again, on another system same hardware and same file ownership for all the apt-related stuff, all is well. Reinstalling the apt package via dpkg did not help.

Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error

2017-07-10 Thread Alan Schwartz
Package: upgrade-reports Version: 9 Severity: grave Followed the Debian 9 release notes to upgrade a jessie i386 (686) machine to stretch. No apt sources except official debian ones. Following the apt-get dist-upgrade step, attempts to use apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude produce the following error:

Bug#612672: libsafe

2011-02-15 Thread Alan Schwartz
to run with libsafe. Any ideas on that? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alan Schwartz | ala...@uic.edu | Life is what happens to Associate Professor Director of Research | you while you're busy

Bug#612672: samba: fails to set up IPC$ share due to canonicalize_connect_path failure

2011-02-13 Thread Alan Schwartz
Thanks for the reply. Here you go. Same /tmp setup as other debian servers I have: % ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 12288 Feb 13 18:35 /tmp/ - Alan pgp85dKctFWrK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#612672: samba: fails to set up IPC$ share due to canonicalize_connect_path failure

2011-02-09 Thread Alan Schwartz
Package: samba Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 Severity: important Upgraded lenny to squeeze. Samba configuration that used to work on lenny no longer works. Replaced it with a minimal configuration, still doesn't work. Symptoms: smbclient -L localhost does not list shares, and log file gives an error

Bug#475059: inn2-inews: inews -h fails to post when authinfo is required

2008-04-08 Thread Alan Schwartz
Package: inn2-inews Version: 2.4.3+alansz-1 Severity: important Tags: patch Posting to the news.supernews.com nntp server, as configured since 31 March 2008, using inews -h, fails with you do not have permission to post, because the nntp server responds to the initial post command with a 480

Bug#475059: Some rfc investigation

2008-04-08 Thread Alan Schwartz
Based on rfc 3977, it may be the Supernews's 480 response code is not valid to return in response to inew's mode reader command, and thus there is not really an inews bug here, but a nonconformance on the part of a major usenet provider. I have also reported this to Supernews. That said, it

Bug#368627: Further information: nagios check_mysql

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Schwartz
. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alan Schwartz | Disclaimer: I represent no one [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Associate Professor |Life is what happens to you while Department of Medical Education | you're busy making other plans University of Illinois

Bug#368627: Further information: nagios check_mysql

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Schwartz
Quoting sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi alan, On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:38:16AM -0500, Alan Schwartz wrote: It occurs when my nagios monitoring system is running the check_mysql plugin against this mysql server. That plugin is running as follows: check_mysql -H mysql ip

Bug#368627: mysql-server-4.1: repeatedly crashes with segfault after security update (4.1.11a-4sarge3)

2006-05-23 Thread Alan Schwartz
Package: mysql-server-4.1 Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge3 Severity: important A previously (as in for months, up to yesterday) working mysql-server-4.1 (4.1.11a-4sarge2) installation has started crashing over and over again (like every 10 minutes) after the upgrade to 4.1.11a-4sarge3. This only happens

Bug#343309: [Fwd: Bug#343309: pennmush: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD] (Penndev #6819)

2006-01-13 Thread Alan Schwartz
PROTECTED], once [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mush.pennmush.org 4201) | PennMUSH Server Maintainer =-= PennMUSH God's Guide: http://www.pennmush.org/~alansz/guide.html PennMUSH