Bug#944780: Info received (Many more cases where this fails - proposed patch included)

2024-03-09 Thread Tim Woodall
This bug is still present in bookworm. Attached updated patch. diff -urN bash-5.2.15.orig/execute_cmd.c bash-5.2.15/execute_cmd.c --- bash-5.2.15.orig/execute_cmd.c 2022-12-13 17:09:02.0 + +++ bash-5.2.15/execute_cmd.c 2022-12-13 17:09:02.0 + @@ -5633,7 +5633,12 @@

Bug#1022043: apt-cacher-ng sometimes fails with several concurrent

2024-02-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: Hi Tim, thanks for the provided patch! We see the same issue here, so I included it in a locally built package to give it a try on our infrastructure. So far it looks quite promising, no errors up to now . That's great! I've been running it for

Bug#1022043: Info received (improved patch)

2024-02-07 Thread Tim Woodall
Try again - without the old patch at the top.diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt index 024f6a0..011ab42 100644 --- a/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/CMakeLists.txt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1) +set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON) + # try to set the best C++ language

Bug#1022043: improved patch

2024-02-07 Thread Tim Woodall
I've cleaned up the patch and got rid of a lot of the cruft that got added while I was debugging. Also found one more race condition in my original solution that I believe is now fixed. And I believe it's now safe even if different urls map to the same cache file which the previous patch didn't

Bug#1022043: Race condition downloading index files.

2024-02-06 Thread Tim Woodall
I've managed to reproduce this issue when many hosts hit apt-cacher-ng at the same time. Attached a patch which fixes it for me - this is a quick and hacky patch! Sent debug logs of a run that reproduces this problem and a run with this patch applied directly to the maintainer. diff --git

Bug#1017944: Doesn't affect buster

2022-09-12 Thread Tim Woodall
Guess we're finding out where everyone's update windows are. Some though may report before resolving the issue or somewhat after. Or people may not have noticed yet if they haven't rebooted or attempted to start a new guest. It doesn't affect buster hosts. bullseye is impacted.

Bug#1019500: apt-cacher-ng should depend on xz-utils

2022-09-10 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 3.7.4-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The /etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher-ng installed by apt-cacher-ng uses /usr/bin/xz from xz-utils but apt-cacher-ng does not depend on that package. Please consider adding this dependency otherwise you can get emails from cron

Bug#941248: Amended patch proposed.

2022-08-28 Thread Tim Woodall
I'd like to propose a slightly modified patch: diff -urN bash-5.1.orig/debian/etc.bash.bashrc bash-5.1/debian/etc.bash.bashrc --- bash-5.1.orig/debian/etc.bash.bashrc2022-03-27 18:36:06.0 + +++ bash-5.1/debian/etc.bash.bashrc 2022-03-27 18:36:06.0 + @@ -4,7

Bug#944780: Many more cases where this fails - proposed patch included

2022-08-28 Thread Tim Woodall
This same problem happens for SUBSHELL_PAREN, SUBSHELL_COMSUB, SUBSHELL_PIPE and SUBSHELL_COPROC as well as SUBSHELL_ASYNC Test case (This must be sourced to see SHLVL == 1 which causes /etc/bash.bashrc to be sourced in a shell started by ssh) $ cat test.sh test1="bash -c 'echo \$SHLVL'"

Bug#979354: Redone patch so that it applies against the dsc.

2021-11-16 Thread Tim Woodall
I have also hit this bug while backporting openssh from unstable to bullseye (ironically so I can avoid the need to use dpkg-divert) I've redone the patch proposed above so that it applies against the unpacked source package: apt-mirror@aptmirror17:/mnt/mirror/local-debs (master)$ cat

Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-08 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, Helmut Grohne wrote: I do see the advantages of using https. I do not see how to not make it happen without breaking relevant use cases. Same with the /usr-merge. I do see the advantages. I've stopped counting the things that broke. Most recent one is the uucp FTBFS. Change

Bug#986442: debianutils: replace use of awk with grep in add-shell

2021-04-06 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: debianutils Version: 4.8.6.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, add-shell uses the following construct to ensure that the last line of /etc/shells contains a newline: if ! awk '{print}' "$file" > "$tmpfile" I'd like to request that it be changed to if ! grep '' "$file" > "$tmpfile"

Bug#983694: dpkg: Add "write-once" flag to conffiles that can then be created via the fsys-tarfile.

2021-02-28 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.7.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, This is a wishlist item relate to: Re: Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked With the patch included below the problem packages, Provides: awk and base-passwd can be trivially modified so

Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: So yes, workarounds are (sadly) still necessary to debootstrap Debian. But arguing with Debian policy is the wrong way forward as policy does not talk about the debootstrap scenario but only about the system where your packages were

Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:33:10AM +, Tim Woodall wrote: A. /etc/passwd is part of base-passwd's interface and base-files is right in relying on it working at all times. Then base-passwd is rc buggy for violating a policy must. Fixing

Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:33:10AM +, Tim Woodall wrote: As far as I can see, making base-passwd not essential, only required, and then making passwd and base-files pre-depend on base-passwd the system seems to bootstrap /etc/passed and /etc/group

Bug#983251: passwd is missing dependencies

2021-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: * Tim Woodall [210221 15:28]: I am unsure how debootstrap avoids the first problem - It could just be down to luck that debootstrap configures base-passwd before passwd. grep is Priority: required

Bug#924401: #924401 base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2021-02-21 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, A. /etc/passwd is part of base-passwd's interface and base-files is right in relying on it working at all times. Then base-passwd is rc buggy for violating a policy must. Fixing this violation is technically impossible. I seem to have hit this same issue independently. Could you

Bug#983251: passwd is missing dependencies

2021-02-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: * Tim Woodall [210221 15:28]: I am unsure how debootstrap avoids the first problem - It could just be down to luck that debootstrap configures base-passwd before passwd. grep is Priority: required and Essential: yes so it could be argued

Bug#983251: passwd is missing dependencies

2021-02-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: * Tim Woodall [210221 15:28]: I am unsure how debootstrap avoids the first problem - It could just be down to luck that debootstrap configures base-passwd before passwd. grep is Priority: required and Essential: yes so it could be argued

Bug#983251: passwd is missing dependencies

2021-02-21 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.5-1.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, passwd has a dependency on grep and base-passwd but does not explicitly state those dependency. When attempting to configure without base-passwd configured you get: Setting up passwd (1:4.5-1.1) ... pwck: cannot open

Bug#983115: Acknowledgement (make -t doesn't correctly touch grouped targets that are built by a recursive make)

2021-02-19 Thread Tim Woodall
Might not be related, but a trivial makefile: foo bar &: echo make -t only touches foo, not bar. Rerunning says 'foo is up to date'

Bug#983115: make -t doesn't correctly touch grouped targets that are built by a recursive make

2021-02-19 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: make Version: 4.3-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, (N.B. I've backported make 4.3-4 to buster as I need grouped targets but I have made no changes other than to depend on guile-2.2-dev instead of guile-3.0-dev) In some cases you need to run make -t multiple times to touch all the

Bug#855234: fakechroot: debootstrap --variant=fakechroot fails if systemd is not installed

2021-02-17 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, I'm seeing a similar issue trying to install build-deps. Steps to reproduce: Minimal system with build-essential installed running on a system that does not have systemd installed fakeroot fakechroot chroot ${buildchroot} apt-get -y --only-source build-dep openssh=1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 ...

Bug#980140: usbip: kernel bug when removing usbip_host (started very recently)

2021-01-15 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: usbip Version: 2.0+4.19.160-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, usbip stops working (this has been a long standing issue) and not the bug I'm reporting. Previously, when this happens I would do rmmod usbip_host, modprobe usbip_host and then it would start working again. Now, when I

Bug#941148: Acknowledgement (alpine incorrectly reporting server name does not match certificate.)

2020-05-04 Thread Tim Woodall
My mistake. I was looking at the imap certificate but forgot to look at the SMTP certificate - which is where the Subject Alternative Name was missing. This can be closed.

Bug#954846: chromium: Requires a (possibly broken) default route in order to connect to a (reachable) ipv6 proxy

2020-03-24 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: chromium Version: 80.0.3987.149-1~deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If you start chromium with valid working ipv6 proxy config but no default route configured then chromium will say: No internet There is something wrong with the proxy server, or the address is incorrect. Add

Bug#940473: closed by Alexander Zangerl (Bug#940473: fixed in dump 0.4b46-6)

2019-10-07 Thread Tim Woodall
Awesome, thank you! Confirmed that this has fixed my verification failure. (FWIW, my failure was on ext3) On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the dump package: #940473: dump: Verify fails

Bug#941148: alpine incorrectly reporting server name does not match certificate.

2019-09-25 Thread Tim Woodall
Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 1044 (0x9896ac) Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption Issuer: C = GB, ST = London, O = Certificate Authority, CN = Tim Woodall CA Validity Not Before: Sep 15 13:20:28 2019 GMT

Bug#940473: dump: Verify fails when multiple extended attributes are present

2019-09-16 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: dump Version: 0.4b46-3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, This is a very longstanding, but minor, bug that I've finally got around to reporting. I did investigate trying to fix but it appeared highly non-trivial. Note that this only affects a verify. A restore gives the correct results.

Bug#914018: Acknowledgement (xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: kernel oops when starting wireless networking when booted with xen efi hypervisor)

2019-09-13 Thread Tim Woodall
I've just upgraded to buster and this problem is resolved.

Bug#820145: Sendmail-bin moves /etc/mail/ssl to /etc/mail/tls even when both directories exist

2016-04-05 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: sendmail-base Version: 8.14.4-4+deb7u1 Severity: minor I have /etc/mail/tls and also /etc/mail/ssl which contains dhparam.pem. On upgrading sendmail-base the pre-inst script does: # Move files to new home if [ -d /etc/mail/ssl ]; then

Bug#656899: mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition warnings

2012-03-24 Thread Tim Woodall
I'm also seeing this problem. I can trigger these errors trivially by doing: /sbin/lvcreate -A n -L500M -s -nvar-backup /dev/vg0/var and /sbin/lvremove -A n -f /dev/vg0/var-backup Seeing lots of these two errors: Mar 24 10:53:25 feynman kernel: [4198946.403294] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a

Bug#614068: Acknowledgement (Dump fails to dump some files with leading zeros correctly)

2011-02-21 Thread Tim Woodall
Upstream now has a fix for this. version 1.72 of traverse.c Index: traverse.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/dump/dump/dump/traverse.c,v retrieving revision 1.71 retrieving revision 1.72 diff -u -w -r1.71 -r1.72 --- traverse.c 10 Jun 2010

Bug#614068: Dump fails to dump some files with leading zeros correctly

2011-02-19 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: dump Version: 0.4b43-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch einstein:~# /sbin/dump -0 -f- /var/spool/news/overview/ | restore -oax -f- DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Feb 19 13:27:45 2011 DUMP: Dumping /dev/mapper/vg0-var (/var (dir /spool/news/overview)) to standard output

Bug#520633: xscreensaver: screen does not lock if switched to virtual terminal

2010-09-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Jose Luis Rivas wrote: Hi Tim, What Jamie says is easy to check, just see the log of xscreensaver and check if this is the case. If that's true then this bug should be reassigned. I'm still not able to find any logs for xscreensaver at all. But I now think that I'm not

Bug#520633: xscreensaver: screen does not lock if switched to virtual terminal

2010-09-04 Thread Tim Woodall
This is still happening. I've not found a way to fix it. There was an earlier comment about checking xscreensaver logs but I don't know where these logs are. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#520633: xscreensaver: screen does not lock if switched to virtual terminal

2009-10-27 Thread Tim Woodall
Sorry, only just seen this reply. (My spamfilter thinks anything not sent via BTS is spam) Where is the xscreensaver log? I cannot see anything in Xorg.log but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Tim. -- God said, div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t, and there was

Bug#520633: xscreensaver: screen does not lock if switched to virtual terminal

2009-03-21 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: important If you are switched to a virtual terminal e.g. ctrl-alt-f1 then the X session does not lock. The old behaviour in etch: when you switched back to the X session ctrl-alt-f7 the screen would momentarily display the old screen before the

Bug#450762: Similar problem using root=UUID=.....

2009-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
I've been having a similar problem trying to get lvm on raid booting with root=UUID=... I've managed to get it working as follows: 1. Copy /sbin/dmsetup to sbin in the initramfs. 2. Add lvm=vg0 to the kernel commandline 3. Apply the following: diff -ur y/init x/init --- y/init

Bug#510679: sendmail-bin: sendmail init scripts need /bin/ps but sendmail does not depend on procps

2009-01-04 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: sendmail-bin Version: 8.14.3-5 Severity: minor It's possible to install sendmail without having the procps package installed. However /etc/init.d/sendmail uses ps to determine if sendmail is running. Tim. -- Package-specific info: Ouput of /usr/share/bug/sendmail-bin/script: snip

Bug#484823: multipath-tools: /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules breaks LVM snapshots

2008-06-08 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Guido Günther wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:07:49PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: With the add replaced with change, or the udev rule removed completely I've never seen a failure. O.k. find. A mark the bug as fixed in lenny then. Do you have a chance to try the packages

Bug#484823: multipath-tools: /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules breaks LVM snapshots

2008-06-07 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Guido Günther wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: The /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules exposes a race that causes LVM snapshots to fail to be created intermittently. You mean: # take care of devmap partitioning ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM

Bug#484823: multipath-tools: /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules breaks LVM snapshots

2008-06-06 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.7-1.1etch1 Severity: normal The /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules exposes a race that causes LVM snapshots to fail to be created intermittently. This caused my backups to suddenly start failing when I installed this package to get kpartx. /sbin/lvcreate -A

Bug#409243: Happens for me too

2007-04-29 Thread Tim Woodall
I've had exactly the same problem. Upgraded to etch with 2.4 kernel - everything working fine. Upgraded to 2.6 kernel - won't boot. In the rescue shell, vgchange -ay vg0 gives no volumes group found. Everything is at the latest version in etch. partition table is /dev/hda1 for /boot

Bug#409243: Info received (Happens for me too)

2007-04-29 Thread Tim Woodall
I've just found this comment attached to bug#381351: I just did a bit of investigation into a slimilar issue - it seems that the image created by initramfs-tools doesn't work with LVM if mdadm is not installed. I suspect that this was my problem as I didn't have mdadm installed. It may be

Bug#345362: Data is stale - problems with belkin driver.

2006-04-03 Thread Tim Woodall
Bother - what I meant to say in that last message and forgot is the following that is extremely annoying: Apr 3 22:54:49 pauli upsd[981]: Data for UPS [belkin] is stale - check driver Apr 3 22:54:50 pauli upsmon[985]: Poll UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - Data stale Apr 3 22:54:50 pauli

Bug#345362: Seen similar problem with belkin driver

2006-04-03 Thread Tim Woodall
I'm seeing a similar problem with the belkin driver attached to the serial port. Nut Version: 2.0.1-4 pauli:/etc/nut# uname -a Linux pauli.home.woodall.me.uk 2.4.27-3-k6 #1 Wed Feb 8 12:52:54 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux In my case this seems to be caused by using the scanner which is attached by an

Bug#312844: console-tools: Same problem attempting to build the keyboard map for psion-5mx kernel

2006-04-01 Thread Tim Woodall
Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-56 Followup-For: Bug #312844 I'm having exactly the same problem while attempting to build a kernel for the psion 5mx (http://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/) This contains a number of special keycodes for controlling things like backlight, contrast, power

Bug#312844: console-tools: Same problem attempting to build the keyboard map for psion-5mx kernel

2006-04-01 Thread Tim Woodall
I've now constructed a patch that fixes this problem for me. (I don't think this will fix the original problem as that was running loadkeys without --mktable) I now do: LD_PRELOAD=./libconsole.so ./loadkeys -u --mktable keymap_psion_us.map keymap_psion_us.patch.c and the mapfile is created

Bug#312844: loadkeys -m -u for building psion kernel already fixed in Sid.

2006-04-01 Thread Tim Woodall
I've discovered that the version of loadkeys in Sid already fixes the problem building the keyboard map for the psion if you supply the -u option. Still have the problem that you must be root (patch in bug #341956 that fixes this) Has the original poster tried using loadkeys with the -u flag? Or

Bug#341956: Also resolves issues in bug #312844

2006-04-01 Thread Tim Woodall
The version in Sid, together with this patch, also fixes the problems I've reported in Bug #312844 Tim. -- God said, div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t, and there was light. http://tjw.hn.org/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#341956: Same problem in package kbd.

2006-04-01 Thread Tim Woodall
Identical problem, fixed by same patch, in package kbd. (Patch is same change, but the above patch will not apply to the source in kbd - the indenting is different) Can this bug also be attached to package kbd? Or does a new bug need opening? Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#295449: Patch to get CAserial and CAcreateserial working again

2005-05-23 Thread Tim Woodall
The included patch fixes the problem where CAserial no longer works. Note that you now have to give either CAserial or CAcreateserial (or both) in order to use a serial number file. The first hunk of the patch fixes the actual bug report. The second hunk fixes a bug where there is more than one