Bug#587790: grub-pc: upgrade-from-grub-legacy exits with success (and deletes grub1) even when grub-setup fails

2010-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
have in progress in order to fix #554790 et al, but it needs to behave slightly differently in the middle of upgrade-from-grub-legacy. I'll make sure that this happens when I merge that code. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#560823: grub-ieee1275: Error "Memory Address not Alligned" when trying to boot any menu entry

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
you please try upgrading to the current version in unstable and letting us know if it resolves this problem? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#584564: updating grub 1.98+20100602-1, unable to boot, "error: out of partition"

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
See comments in the "Menuentry > 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686'" at line 62. > http://pastebin.com/dimJdBUb This looks very much like #584426. Please upgrade to grub-common and grub-pc version 1.98+20100602-2 or newer, and let me know if the problem persists. T

Bug#586449: [grub-pc] /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/hda'.

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
this bug is suffering from. Your bug is #583271. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#587388: d-i: fails to install grub-2

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
go in the squeeze installer; see the changelog for grub-installer 1.38, uploaded on 12 June 2009. Are you attempting to use a lenny installer to install squeeze? This won't work well. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#586608: grub-pc: the dreaded unaligned pointer problem

2010-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
ore detail than that given the information available so far. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586142#25 for general background on this class of problem. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#586449: system after grub-pc upgrade (unaligned pointer) locales problem

2010-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
ation to it, so that I can deal with both your problems without getting horribly confused? It's entirely possible that you have the same symptoms but different causes. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#586449: Acknowledgement (unbootable system after grub-pc upgrade (unaligned pointer) locales problem)

2010-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
re actually the filesystem autodetection that failed, but it's more usually grub-probe failing to handle the device at all.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Bug#586143: grub: Re: boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
e2 existed (assuming you haven't already upgraded to 1.98+20100617-1, which will offer to remove it for you if it exists and it detects that you've run grub-install with GRUB 2 at some point). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
hat the stage2 file were present, when > running into tis error might be verry close to 100 percent. ;-) That makes complete sense. Thanks for following up. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...

Bug#586449: Acknowledgement (unbootable system after grub-pc upgrade (unaligned pointer) locales problem)

2010-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
l locales-all. But none of > this worked. Don't worry about the locales stuff - it's just noise for the time being and is not actually relevant to your GRUB problems. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs

Bug#586380: update-grub generates root=/dev/hda1

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
ug, but this does rather suggest that you originally upgraded from GRUB Legacy and have run grub-install at some point since then rather than running upgrade-from-grub-legacy, which would put you squarely in the middle of #586143. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian

Bug#586377: grub-pc: Misalligned pointer when booting

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
d > pointer before getting in the menu. I couldn't do anything. Do you have /boot/grub/stage2? If so, this is #586143. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
I don't want to use this bug for an analysis of your problem because we have already established that it seems to be qualitatively different in cause despite having similar symptoms. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#586143: And where do I now get a 64bit DSL rescue disk?

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
where I can concentrate on it); removing it would make it very difficult for me to find problems. ftpmaster, please disregard this. unstable is unstable. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:49:57PM +0200, mahashakti89 wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 Colin Watson wrote : >> Could you please confirm whether or not you have a file >> /boot/grub/stage2 on your system? > > A LONG TIME AGO I purged the boot directory from all stage files > b

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
you have a file /boot/grub/stage2 on your system? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
luding the original reporter) have /boot/grub/stage2 and I have a pretty complete theory for how that could cause this bug. Could you please file a new bug report with full details so that we can analyse your problem separately? Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#586143: Same problem

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
that's the case then I know what to do. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#586143: Same problem

2010-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
n a virtual machine, upgraded to the latest version of grub-common and grub-pc, and so far have been unable to recreate this. > /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no mapping exists for tagesuhu-root ... probably because downgrading to 1.98-1 loses a bunch of ot

Bug#586143: grub-pc 1.98+20100614-* not bootable

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
ked, no? Ideally, but evidently not. Downgrades are sometimes a bit hairy, particularly when files have moved around. I suggest reinstalling grub-common. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
you'll run into problems. It's beginning to sound like this is just another duplicate of that general class of problem, although it's slightly surprising that we're getting so many of them all of a sudden. Perhaps this is due to Vladimir's iterator changes on 2010-06-10

Bug#586143: grub-pc 1.98+20100614-* not bootable

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
e has probably been botched somehow, since in 1.98-1 grub-mkimage lived in the grub-pc package but in more recent versions it lives in grub-common. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#586143: The patch fixed it for me

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
s in message #10 were to run 'grub-install /dev/sda', not 'grub-setup /dev/sda'; grub-setup is not normally intended to be used directly. Could you please try with grub-install instead? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] --

Bug#586143: Doesn't boot: Unaligned pointer 4c191bea

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
;2 exit 1 fi -echo "search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root " > ${grubdir}/load.cfg +echo "search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root " >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg echo 'set prefix=($root)'"${relative_grubdir}" >> ${grubdir}/load.cfg

Bug#586056: grub-pc: update-grub fails with "Invalid parameter"

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
e thought, I decided that it was easier to simply undo the new strictness in grub-mkconfig, rather than e.g. introduce a whole new option parser to update-grub. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...

Bug#579948: [parted-devel] Some debugging info

2010-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:40:12PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:06:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > parted-devel, can anyone comment on this? It seems to me that either > > (a) _get_lax_constraint should be using ped_alignment_any for its start > &

Bug#580224: libparted0-udeb: not installable on kfreebsd-*, depends on libgeom0

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:41:50PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Colin Watson a écrit : > > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:59:38PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> thanks to your efforts, parted gets now built again on kfreebsd-*; > >> unfortunately its udeb isn't

Bug#585068: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:25:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:07:35AM -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > I can think of an alternative.  We do still need grub_install_dos_part > > > and grub_install_bsd_part f

Bug#579948: Some debugging info

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
here to support non-cylinder alignment, I'm guessing that (a) is closer to the real situation, but I don't know these systems very well. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#580224: libparted0-udeb: not installable on kfreebsd-*, depends on libgeom0

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
ind time to investigate yet, but I don't want to forget about > it totally. I'm afraid I don't understand Aurelien's mail. The current version (as far as I'm aware) of the parted FreeBSD patch entirely relies on libgeom. Wouldn't the correct fix for this be to

Bug#585068: [PATCH] Fix grub-probe partition naming on FreeBSD

2010-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
practical problem? 2010-06-13 Colin Watson * kern/emu/hostdisk.c: Include and on FreeBSD. Define HAVE_DIOCGDINFO on NetBSD and FreeBSD to reduce the verbosity of later #ifs. (find_partition_start): Define this function on FreeBSD too. (device_is

Bug#585668: grub2: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
d-depending on gcc-4.4-multilib on kfreebsd-amd64. I plan to upload fairly soon, but I'd like to get the other kFreeBSD breakage (#585068) fixed first. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ.

Bug#575076: msdos fstab mode

2010-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
tables. I don't think it relates to whatever your problem is. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#585068: grub-pc: fails to boot kfreebsd with "no such partition" after upgrade from 1.98-1

2010-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
seem to find its "normal" module > > anymore by itself but needs a manual hint: > > I've fixed this bug about a week ago in mainstream The version Axel is running has everything up to r2422: 2010-06-02 Colin Watson * docs/grub.texi (Simple configuration)

Bug#585068: grub-pc: fails to boot kfreebsd with "no such partition" after upgrade from 1.98-1

2010-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
upgrading? I'm happy to spend some time on this inside kvm or whatever, but will need a bit of guidance as I've never used kFreeBSD. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#584822: grub2: command password

2010-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
er1 { set root=(hd0,2) chainloader +1 } The `grub-mkconfig' program does not yet have built-in support for generating configuration files with authentication. You can use `/etc/grub.d/40_custom' to add simple superuser authentication, by adding `set superusers=

Bug#584822: grub2: Command 'password' is still ignored in 'Squeeze' although provided.

2010-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
out, obviously, but I want to see the structure). Are you following the structure given in http://grub.enbug.org/Authentication, specifically including setting the superusers variable? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#584595: grub-pc: package upgrade fails with "/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
xt upload will deal with this bug too. Let me know if it doesn't. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#584595: grub-pc: package upgrade fails with "/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
; (hd0) /dev/sda > (hd1) /dev/sdb > *** END /boot/grub/device.map Does this device.map match the devices you actually have? In particular, check that they aren't /dev/hda and /dev/hdb instead. Please run 'sudo sh -x /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig

Bug#584552: recent grub update makes insmod gpt fail

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
support - is the module > now called part_gpt.mod? It's been called part_gpt.mod for some time, but there was an upstream commit that incorrectly left off the "part_". I've already fixed this upstream and uploaded 1.98+20100602-2 to cor

Bug#584474: FTBFS: usbms.c:315: error: format ‘%02x’ expects type ‘unsigned int’

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
(If this is unacceptable for whatever reason, then the proper fix would be to cast to (unsigned long long) and to use %02llx - but I prefer having an accurate length modifier, really.) 2010-06-04 Colin Watson * kern/misc.c (grub_vsnprintf_real): Support 'z' length

Bug#579519: grub-installer - Overwrites bootloaders on different device

2010-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
moval of GRUB Legacy support. I expect that it will be sorted out by using stable device names in GRUB, for which there are already other bug reports. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian

Bug#584062: sdf: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
ght expect problems given that sdf has open-arbitrary-file constructs of its own. Is that good enough for you, or are you trying to achieve a higher level of assurance? If the latter, what could sdf reasonably do here? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debia

Bug#558025: [kali] segfault at startup

2010-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:06:03PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > libforms2 has hit the archive: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libf/libforms/ Uploading now, thanks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#550704: grub-pc - Needs to handle symlinks in /dev/mapper

2010-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
to take a stance one way or the other; we should just work with both. Fortunately this is quite straightforward. Here's a patch, which I've also pushed as a bzr branch to people/cjwatson/mapper-symlink. 2010-05-28 Colin Watson Make grub-probe work with symbolic links under

Bug#551319: [grub] grub: crashes frequently on boot

2010-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
have the exact text? I can't find any text in GRUB that's similar to the message you report, so it's hard to tell what's going on here. Can you reproduce this behaviour with version 1.98-1, currently in testing? I'm going to downgrade this from release-critical to im

Bug#570960: shouldn't block migration to testing

2010-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
;$modules search_fs_uuid" +else +echo 'set debug=all' > ${grubdir}/load.cfg +config_opt="-c ${grubdir}/load.cfg " fi else prefix_drive=`$grub_probe --target=drive --device ${grub_device}` In the meantime, this seems not too widespread

Bug#558025: [kali] segfault at startup

2010-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
age > has cleared NEW. I want to upload kali to switch to 3.0 (quilt) anyway, so in this case it doesn't matter. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#558025: [kali] segfault at startup

2010-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
s a > new package. I have an upload ready. Could you let me know when you get the notification that it's been processed through NEW, so that I don't need to poll for it? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#577632: Can't locate filetest.pm in @INC ... dpkg: error processing debconf

2010-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
but yes, this seems reasonable. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#577299: running debconf as non-root (for tests)

2010-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
but instead simply looks at the file modes; "use filetest 'access'" changes this to be more careful, and is what we need to fix this bug. I've fixed this in debconf's Subversion repository, and will upload 1.5.31 shortly. I've tested that this unbreaks update-i

Bug#574350: grub-pc: boot failure after upgrade to 1.98

2010-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
and we're on the path to a fix, so there's little point trying to optimise things by closing the bug. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#574350: grub-pc: boot failure after upgrade to 1.98

2010-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
ll result in a debconf question on upgrade when we can't automatically work out the right answer reliably. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#570663: FTBFS

2010-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:29:36PM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > The uses of TRUE and FALSE only occur in a Debian patch.  Perhaps it > > would be more appropriate to simply use 1 and 0 there directly? > >

Bug#571044: [Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#571044: FYI: daily images borked; cause not yet known

2010-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
ing and in fribidi for not terminating. Yes, I think that's my feeling. Fixing either renders the other one no longer release-critical, I think. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#571044: FYI: daily images borked; cause not yet known

2010-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
libfribidi0-udeb 0.19.2-1 amd64 > > Confirmed and bug filed (#571044). It's possible (and arguably sane, on the basis of defence in depth at least) to work around this in newt. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570581 -- Colin Watson

Bug#564559: makepasswd: Default settings generate insecure passwords

2010-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:23:17PM +0300, Fyodor Menshikov wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: >> I'm not sure how calling srand every time would help at all, though. >> Your point is that there are only 2^32 possible seeds. If we call srand >> every time, then there are stil

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
tags 568381 pending thanks On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:52:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:07:50PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 04 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Marko Jung reported that d-i segfaults when you use > > &g

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
home in C than I will have to look deeper than that. > > Colin, do you have time? I should have time today. Grabbing a current image now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@list

Bug#554790: grub-pc: store grub-pc/install_devices using by-id

2010-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:24:06PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > UUIDs are properties of filesystems, not disks or partitions, and the > > MBR of a hard disk does not have a UUID. > > Since MSDOS partitions are limited to 2TByte partitions anyway,

Bug#564559: makepasswd: Default settings generate insecure passwords

2010-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
that's vastly more than the space of available passwords for the default lengths, and you'd have to be generating somewhat over 30-character passwords before you started reaching that kind of entropy. (Plus, urandom(4) recommends reading no more than that amount of data per invocation.

Bug#526670: FTBFS with GCC 4.4: dereferencing pointer breaks strict-aliasing rules

2010-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
ixed, since it's built fine on Ubuntu for a while now. Sorry for losing track of this bug report until now. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548621: pcmciautils: Incorrect init.d script dependency

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:17:07PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Colin, any progress with this: > > [Colin Watson 2009-09-27] > > Thanks for your report. I have a fair bit of stuff in bzr that I've > > been meaning to upload, so please don't NMU - I'll i

Bug#562593: Bug not present in kernel 2.6.28.10 (vanilla)

2010-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
a-key -N '' -t dsa I'd like to see if this indicates where it hangs. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562518: Bug#562503: Bug#562518: zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 hangs(?)

2010-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
pages. I've uploaded a fix for this in man-db 2.5.6-5. Here are the upstream changelog entries, for the record (I made a slight mistake in the first attempt, caught during testing): Fri Jan 1 13:26:21 GMT 2010 Colin Watson * src/manconv.c (try_iconv): Only handle iconv errors wh

Bug#558025: [kali] segfault at startup

2009-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
fl2, fr2, ft2, and fb2, all before posthandle. (There are also multiple changes after posthandle.) No wonder kali is breaking. Peter, doesn't this require libforms1 to have a new SONAME, or else to clean up its interface to be ABI-compatible with previous

Bug#558025: [kali] segfault at startup

2009-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
libforms1 1.0-8 it works fine) Could I have a core dump? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#556635: udev: blanks inserted RW media

2009-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
This appears to be fixed in git now: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=160b069c25690bfb0c785994c7c3710289179107 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#541316: exuberant-ctags: tags file is corrupted

2009-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
d mozilla Can you provide a smaller test case, please? My Internet connection is rather slow, and I don't want to download a large package like this if I can avoid it. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#555331: [col] improperly fails with Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

2009-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
ov 09, 2009 at 03:15:02PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > In the short term, I think the best approach would be for man to set > LC_CTYPE to some appropriate locale that matches the encoding requested > by -E while running col. I'll see if I can arrange for this. Fixed upstream, so I'm

Bug#555331: [col] improperly fails with Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

2009-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
d one otherwise, a bit like the hack in installation-locale; or perhaps we should just make sure that there's always a C.UTF-8 locale on the system, which could be used to get UTF-8 character type semantics without implying a particular language or country. -- Colin Watson

Bug#549620: ssh: slogin segfaults on MIPS

2009-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
//bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526961 Indeed, thanks - and #538313 is for the workaround. Will upload soon. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#549197: man-db: man command show empty pages, with zsoelim signal 11

2009-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
her than the current stable and I've made eight upstream releases since then fixing really quite a large number of bugs, so I'm not going to keep this as a release-critical bug forever; I'm leaving it that way for now on the off-chance that this bug is still p

Bug#538948: netbase: Fails to install if ifupdown is not available

2009-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
I: Configuring netbase... [...] I: Configuring ifupdown... [...] W: Failure while configuring base packages. I: Configuring netbase... I: Base system installed successfully. CCing -boot in case other people see this during testing and are confused, as I was. -- Colin Watson

Bug#537667: groff: file conflict with groff-base

2009-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:53:34AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-20 09:21 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Retrying succeeded, so a bumping the versioned "Replaces" on groff-base > >&

Bug#537667: groff: file conflict with groff-base

2009-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
to install that symlink and I didn't notice). I'll remove this from groff_1.20.1-2_i386.deb. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#533963: fatresize fails to build against current parted: ped_free -> free

2009-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
plain free. See: http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=f7fcc31e0ce072820df58ca4f8810b0f6b038b06 Attached please find a patch to fix this problem. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] Index: fatresize.c

Bug#531942: FTBFS on mipsel due to missing -fPIC

2009-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:34:36PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:11:43AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> mips and mipsel do now also need the -fPIC compilation flag to make > >> sure shared objects only contain position in

Bug#531942: FTBFS on mipsel due to missing -fPIC

2009-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
committed a fix, thanks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#527057: console-setup: insecure tempfile handling

2009-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:21:13PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:08:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Anton, I'm filing this bug rather than just correcting it because I'm > > not sure what you want to achieve here. Was it just code you comm

Bug#527057: console-setup: insecure tempfile handling

2009-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
Was it just code you committed by accident, or do you explicitly want to have extra logging in the package? If the latter, I'd suggest perhaps calls to logger(1) guarded by an environment variable. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#526904: /usr/bin/ssh: ssh fails to execure command on remote side.

2009-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
> executed. These > commands are made from command prompt by hands. Here is a log: My guess is that this is due to something broken in your shell initialisation files. Please attach .bash_profile and .bashrc, obscuring anything sensitive if necessary. -- Colin Watson

Bug#503367: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: Again: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2009-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
They aren't suitable for programs that have completely different functions but whose names happen to clash. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#516641: Depends on GTK 1.2

2009-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
I plan to upload a snapshot of trunk soon, but am still working through a few problems with it. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Bug#513071: Regression: for some hosts etch can connect but lenny can't (password auth)

2009-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
d some compatibility code. In that case I am not convinced that this really qualifies as serious.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#511893: ucf stores diff (of private files) in debconf (world readable)

2009-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
7;t have to, though.) Joey, what do you think of this? I'd rather not add a new database unilaterally. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#512576: pybridge-server: unusable without pybridge installed

2009-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
obably will as a workaround, but I'd rather not because this machine is headless and will never run the client. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#512397: wide-dhcpv6-server: fails to disconnect from debconf, hanging postinst

2009-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
s already makes will take care of file descriptors 0, 1, and 2. For anyone affected by this, a workaround to allow the upgrade to proceed without inconvenient dpkg errors is to run '/etc/init.d/wide-dhcpv6-server restart' from a separate shell. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#502444: sshd fails at boot-time following reload by /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server presumably due to race condition

2009-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
27;restart' rather than 'reload' for the time being. I'm going to keep looking into this and trying to figure out why SIGHUP might be failing, though. I note that both you and Tim are on amd64, which could conceivably be relevant. -- Colin Watson

Bug#502444: sshd fails at boot-time following reload by /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server presumably due to race condition

2009-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
up sequence I think it should avoid the race. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] --- /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server 13 Jun 2007 22:43:48 - 1.2 +++ /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server 13 Jan 2009 20:18:14 - 1.3 @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ if

Bug#511620: putty-tools: psftp segfaults trying to open a remote server

2009-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
calls fail, or if it cannot allocate memory. This could happen if you've run out of memory or hit a resource limit. Could you please investigate and find out whether one of these things is true? strace may help. Regards, -- Colin Watson

Bug#511628: Processed: pscp and putty segfault as well

2009-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
1620 cloned as bug 511628. Cloning a bug between two binary packages in the same source package really just makes my job harder. I'm going to close the clone again - please just use the original bug #511620 (which I'll reassign to putty). -- Colin Watson

Bug#506938: marked as done (openssh-server: Can't connect to sshd on vserver since the latest update in lenny (only on vservers))

2008-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
: Closing bug...as instructed by the bug submitter > > As the bug submitter said, this bug report has nothing to do with > openssh-server. > > Hence, closing seems to be the right action here... Ah, for some reason I didn't see Florian's foll

Bug#506938: openssh-server: Can't connect to sshd on vserver since the latest update in lenny (only on vservers)

2008-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
sep directory (/var/run/sshd) has been there for ages and ages. Are you sure you didn't change any vserver settings recently? Why can't it chroot? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#506842: ssh: All SSH functionality segfaults with libcrypto

2008-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
9.8 package. What version of that do you have installed? It's suspicious that this happened just after an openssh upload, and I suppose this must be amd64-specific since it worked for me when I uploaded it on i386. Can anyone on debian-ssh@ help? -- Colin Watson

Bug#506115: openssh: Plaintext Recovery Attack Against SSH

2008-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
severity 506115 normal thanks On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:40:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:44:02PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > Hi OpenSSH package maintainers (and lists), > > > > I saw new OpenSSH vulnerability issue. > > See

Bug#505621: gocr: installs file in /usr/man

2008-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
on of autoconf, since this was fixed in autoconf 2.59c released in April 2006; could you please either upgrade that or override this in debian/rules? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#503367: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2008-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
iables and such, I'd much rather that debian-med's program change its name since they seem to be willing to do so. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502618: partman: /dev/mapper/vg0-home is apparently in use by the system

2008-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:02:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > > That may be the proximate cause, but at most it's just exposing > > breakage elsewhere. The actual incorrect code is in libparted itself, > > not parte

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