Bug#953670: systemd: uncommanded switch to Plymouth boot screen

2020-03-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#953670: systemd: uncommanded switch to Plymouth boot screen

2020-03-11 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: systemd Version: 245-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, about 20 minutes after boot, regardless of what the user is doing, the graphical desktop is replaced with an unresponsive Plymouth boot screen. It looks like this is on virtual console one.

Bug#948301: libkmod2: update-initramfs fails in lookup_builtin_file()

2020-01-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: libkmod2 Version: 26+20191223-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, upgrading: kmod (26-3 => 26+20191223-1) libkmod-dev (26-3 => 26+20191223-1) libkmod2 (26-3 => 26+20191223-1) fails with: [...] Preparing to unpack

Bug#947907: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/java/juh.jar', which is also in package libjuh-java

2020-01-03 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
libreoffice-java-common installed. I note that the four removed packages are recommends for ure; these were not installed by "apt --fix-broken install". Plain installation would likely attempt to install the conflicting recommended packages for most users (and fail). Kind regards, -- B

Bug#947910: ure uninstallable because of file conflict with libjuh-java

2020-01-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: ure Version: 6.4.0~rc1-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, upgrading: libjuh-java (1:6.4.0~rc1-2 => 1:6.4.0~rc1-5) [...] ure (6.4.0~rc1-4 => 6.4.0~rc1-5) results in: Unpacking ure (6.4.0~rc1-5) over (6.4.0~rc1-4) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#941822: enchant uninstallable with hunspell (except en-us) because libenchant1c2a depends on nonexistent hunspell-directory

2019-10-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: enchant Version: 1.6.0-11.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, enchant 1.6.0-11.2 is uninstallable with hunspell (except en-us) because libenchant1c2a depends on a nonexistent hunspell-directory, which should probably be hunspell-dictionary, as

Bug#932861: boot failure because e2fsprogs should depend on logsave

2019-07-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
to update the latest initramfs to include logsave before it was able to boot. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#932643: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#932643: cryptsetup upgrade causes cryptsetup-initramfs autoremoval and boot failure

2019-07-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
not to auto-remove the latter upon `apt upgrade --autoremove`. Thanks, Guilhem. Confirmed fixed in 2:2.1.0-7. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#932643: cryptsetup upgrade causes cryptsetup-initramfs autoremoval and boot failure

2019-07-21 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
manual for LUKS/LVM installations but the affected system had only cryptsetup marked as manual and was relying on its Depends: cryptsetup-initramfs to boot. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#932643: cryptsetup upgrade causes cryptsetup-initramfs autoremoval and boot failure

2019-07-21 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:2.1.0-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, upgrading cryptsetup from 2:2.1.0-5 to 2:2.1.0-6 causes autoremoval of cryptsetup-initramfs and consequent failure to boot from LUKS/LVM. Workaround is to boot previous kernel (with

Bug#922183: libpam0g: upgrade to 1.3.1-1 breaks running xscreensaver, locking user out of session

2019-02-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: libpam0g Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, after upgrading: libpam-modules (1.1.8-4 => 1.3.1-1) libpam-modules-bin (1.1.8-4 => 1.3.1-1) libpam-runtime (1.1.8-4 => 1.3.1-1) libpam0g (1.1.8-4 => 1.3.1-1) libpam0g-dev (1.1.8-4 =>

Bug#919213: irqbalance: endless loop during configure, system reaches maximum of open files

2019-01-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
normally] Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#917124: lvm2 logical volumes are not properly initialized

2018-12-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Subsequent shutdowns do not seem to be affected. Kind regards -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#917124: lvm2 logical volumes are not properly initialized

2018-12-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Thanks, Michael. Confirmed fixed for me in 240-2. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#917124: systemd: local-fs.target fails with result 'dependency'

2018-12-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
: ID_FS_VERSION=1.0 E: MAJOR=253 E: MINOR=2 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: TAGS=:systemd: E: USEC_INITIALIZED=12329587 E: net.ifnames=0 Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#917124: systemd: local-fs.target fails with result 'dependency'

2018-12-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/12/2018 13:43, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 23.12.18 um 01:38 schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies: On 23/12/2018 13:11, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 23.12.18 um 00:58 schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies: Failure was seen with linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64 4.19.9-1. (Needed to boot an 4.18.0-3-amd64 initramfs to get

Bug#917124: systemd: local-fs.target fails with result 'dependency'

2018-12-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/12/2018 13:40, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 23.12.18 um 01:28 schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies: Dec 23 13:07:52 ripley lvm2-activation-generator: lvmconfig failed Dec 23 13:07:52 ripley lvm2-activation-generator: Activation generator failed. Dec 23 13:07:52 ripley systemd[376]: /lib/systemd/system

Bug#917124: systemd: local-fs.target fails with result 'dependency'

2018-12-22 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 23/12/2018 13:11, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 23.12.18 um 00:58 schrieb Ben Caradoc-Davies: Failure was seen with linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64 4.19.9-1. (Needed to boot an 4.18.0-3-amd64 initramfs to get a working system.) So 4.18 works and 4.19 fails? No, 239-15 works with either kernel

Bug#915666: linux: data corruption with blk-mq

2018-12-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Comments on the upstream bug <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685> indicate that fixes have been released in Linux 4.20-rc6 and 4.19.8. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#912695: apt-show-versions: breaks "apt-get update" and uninstallable after Perl 5.28 upgrade

2018-11-02 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: apt-show-versions Version: apt-show-versions Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, after the Perl 5.28 upgrade, if apt-show-versions (0.22.8) is installed, "apt- get update" fails with: # apt-get update Hit:1 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable

Bug#908681: libsane1: nothing provides libsane so xsane uninstallable

2018-10-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
I was able to install libsane1 1.0.27-3 without removing xsane, so this aspect of the issue seems to be resolved in 1.0.27-3. Thanks very much. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#908681: libsane1: nothing provides libsane so xsane uninstallable

2018-10-02 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
The removal of "Provides: libsane" in libsane1 1.0.27-2 makes xsane uninstallable because nothing provides libsane. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#908087: reportbug: Fails with: TypeError: fixer() missing 1 required positional argument: 'check_hostname'

2018-09-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian-u...@lists.debian.org for assistance. > reportbug Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Ben Caradoc-Davies ' as your from address. Getting status for reportbug... Checking for newer versions at madis

Bug#907026: cups-filters: filter failed on Ricoh MP 3554 SP after upgrading to 1.21.0-1

2018-08-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Confirmed fixed in 1.21.1-1. Thanks! Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#907026: cups-filters: filter failed on Ricoh MP 3554 SP after upgrading to 1.21.0-1

2018-08-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Also affects Brother MFC-L2740DW with Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor from foomatic-db-compressed-ppds 20180604-1. Confirmed fixed by downgrading cups-browsed, cups-filters, cups-filters-core-drivers, libcupsfilters1, and libfontembed1 to 1.20.4-1. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc

Bug#899080: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Bug#898088: fixed in libbsd 0.8.7-1.1)

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#898088: arc4random_buf() may block for a long time

2018-05-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
This also affects xfce4-session: Bug#899080: xfce4-session hangs in getrandom if crng not ready https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899080 Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#897945: visualvm will not start since upgrade of libnb-*-java to 8.1+dfsg1-8

2018-05-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: visualvm Version: 1.3.9-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, visualvm will not start since upgrade of libnb-*-java to 8.1+dfsg1-8. It just pauses at the splash screen for a while and then exits with code 2. strace suggests it tries some sort of

Bug#896132: thermald uninitialised member causes loss of temperature control

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
I added a comment to warn Ubuntu users following Launchpad #1764320, the patch for which caused this problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1764320 -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#896132: thermald uninitialised member causes loss of temperature control

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: thermald Version: 1.7.0-5 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, 0002-Don-t-keep-on-reading-a-sensor-if-the-temperature-is.patch, added in 1.7.0-5, introduces a new cthd_sensor data member temp_unreadable but fails to initialise it. This

Bug#889608: Bug#889617: man-db: all man pages fail to display with "command exited with status 4"

2018-02-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/02/18 13:40, Axel Beckert wrote: Control: merge 889608 -1 Hi Ben, thanks for the bug report. Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: under man-db 2.8.0-1 amd64 all man pages fail to display with: $ man man man: command exited with status 4: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man- db/manconv -f UTF-8

Bug#889617: man-db: all man pages fail to display with "command exited with status 4"

2018-02-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Rebooting restores man page rendering, even with 2.8.0-1, but reinstalling causes the bug to reappear. It looks like root can view man pages but an unprivileged user cannot. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient

Bug#889617: man-db: all man pages fail to display with "command exited with status 4"

2018-02-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ses are unconfined but have a profile defined. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#889617: man-db: all man pages fail to display with "command exited with status 4"

2018-02-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
fsuid=1000 ouid=0 target="/usr/bin/man//groff" Feb 05 13:09:30 ripley audit[30195]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" info="no new privs" error=-1 profile="/usr/bin/man" name="/usr/bin/troff" pid=30195 comm="groff" requested_mask="

Bug#889617: man-db: all man pages fail to display with "command exited with status 4"

2018-02-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: man-db Version: 2.8.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, under man-db 2.8.0-1 amd64 all man pages fail to display with: $ man man man: command exited with status 4: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man- db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t

Bug#889504: libqt5core5a fails to install: rmdir: failed to remove '/etc/xdg/QtProject': No such file or directory

2018-02-03 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Upgrade of libqt5core5a (5.9.2+dfsg-7 => 5.9.2+dfsg-8) succeeded for me on sid. Prior to upgrade I had /etc/xdg/QtProject (an empty directory). $ ls -ald /etc/xdg/QtProject drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:50 /etc/xdg/QtProject/ Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transi

Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/11/17 23:33, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:22:11PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: installation of 2.02.176-3 (etc) *fails* in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/lvm2. Installed debs hot off incoming: I see. This is added error checking that now shows another problem

Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
encountered while processing: initramfs-tools Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/11/17 20:02, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 06:37:36PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Nope, it only breaks itself. Well, it only breaks systems that use it. upgrading to lvm2 2.02.176-2 (and related packages

Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/11/17 22:22, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I will reproduce and try to get better information. Bastian, you are too quick for me. Instead I will test 2.02.176-3 (etc) as soon as it is built. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software L

Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

2017-11-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.176-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, upgrading to lvm2 2.02.176-2 (and related packages) results in boot failure. Photo of boot message attached. Upgrade was: dmeventd:amd64 (2:1.02.145-1, 2:1.02.145-2) dmsetup:amd64

Bug#877729: freeplane startup fails with FileNotFoundException for MANIFEST.MF

2017-10-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
d (1.6.6-2); stale list?: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/freeplane/filelist Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#877729: freeplane startup fails with FileNotFoundException for MANIFEST.MF

2017-10-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: freeplane Version: 1.6.6-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, startup of 1.6.6-2 fails with: org.knopflerfish.framework.readonly=true org.knopflerfish.gosg.jars=reference:file:/usr/share/freeplane/core/ org.freeplane.user.dir=/home/ben

Bug#876052: libregexp-pattern-license-perl installs /usr/share/man/man3/Regexp::Pattern::License.3pm.gz without proper Replaces/Breaks

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Laurent, I was hoping this was fixed in 3.0.31-2. See my report in #876056: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876056 I was able to fix my packages with "apt-get install -f" even with 3.0.31-1. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@wintersun.org>

Bug#876056: libregexp-pattern-license-perl file conflict with licensecheck

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Preparing to unpack .../19-licensecheck_3.0.31-1_all.deb ... Unpacking licensecheck (3.0.31-1) over (3.0.30-1) ... The problem is the installation order, which is likely fixed in 3.0.31-2 (with a Breaks:?). Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Softwa

Bug#876056: libregexp-pattern-license-perl file conflict with licensecheck

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
See similar report in #876052 for 3.0.31-2. This might not be fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876052 -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#876056: libregexp-pattern-license-perl file conflict with licensecheck

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: libregexp-pattern-license-perl Version: 3.0.31-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, libregexp-pattern-license-perl has a file conflict with licensecheck: Selecting previously unselected package libregexp-pattern-license-perl. Preparing to unpack

Bug#874611: python-shapely,python3-shapely: uninstallable in sid

2017-09-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
It looks like this bug has been fixed by 1.6.1-1+b1. Andreas, please confirm. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#874611: python-shapely,python3-shapely: uninstallable in sid

2017-09-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
This also makes qgis uninstallable on sid. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#873627: udisks2 in sid apparently left me with a borked system in plasma(?))

2017-09-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
I can confirm that udisks2 2.7.2-2 fixes the thunar problems that I reported above: I see only the "usual" filesystems and can mount and unmount removable devices as expected. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <

Bug#873627: udisks2 in sid apparently left me with a borked system in plasma(?)

2017-08-30 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
udisks2 is now uninstallable on sid because of #873748: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873748 Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#873627: udisks2 in sid apparently left me with a borked system in plasma(?)

2017-08-29 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
/debian/20170827T034402Z/ sid main Then ran the following to downgrade and hold: apt-get update apt-get install udisks2=2.6.5-2 libudisks2-0=2.6.5-2 apt-mark hold udisks2 libudisks2-0 A system restart was required. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Tra

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

2017-08-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Downgrading to thunderbird and lightning 52.2.1-4 restores usability. Reinstallation of libevent-2.0-5 (autoremoved) is also required. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#871629: thunderbird UI unusable with many widgets not drawn

2017-08-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:52.2.1-4+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the thunderbird UI is unusable with many widgets not drawn. See attached screenshot. Mouse hover causes some to be drawn. Using XFCE with Clearlooks Phenix theme. Changing theme

Bug#870772: libgsl misses some breaks/replaces

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Is there something wrong with libgsl23 2.4+dfsg-4? nco which depends on libgsl23 and {inkscape, qgis} which depend on libgsl2 are not coinstallable. Should libgsl23 have libgsl2 in its "Replaces:"? I do not understand, but I suspect that something is wrong. Kind regards, -- B

Bug#857029: Bug#857032: thunderbird: Thunderbird 1:45.7.1-2 fails to start

2017-03-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
is far too easy to add a trailing space when unwrapping lines or sending snippets via email. Everyone using Bourne shell will be bitten by this one sooner or later. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
bug back. Thanks very much. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
lacks "Breaks: initramfs-tools (<= 0.125)" which it will need even after #847340 is fixed. If you are sure that you want this bug on initramfs-tools, I will defer to your expertise, but I do not see how this addresses my points above. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transi

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs (initramfs-tools <= 0.125) if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
c-nonfree bug. :-) Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs if plymouth installed

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ffects systems with plymouth installed. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
apt-listbugs users from the breakage upgrading firmware-misc-nonfree triggers. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#847343: firmware-misc-nonfree: breaks update-initramfs

2016-12-07 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: firmware-misc-nonfree Version: 20161130-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the following upgrade breaks update-initramfs: firmware-amd-graphics (20160824-1 => 20161130-1) firmware-atheros (20160824-1 => 20161130-1) firmware-brcm80211 (20160824-1

Bug#845480: /bin/ps depends on /usr/lib/... which makes the system unbootable

2016-11-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
because critical bugs cause apt-get upgrade to prompt for user input. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#831637: live-wrapper: kernel panic: Can't open /scripts/live

2016-07-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/07/16 14:58, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Quoting problem? This GRUB2 command line option: boot=live components should be: boot="live components" I take that back. All this does is disable live boot and allows failure to occur elsewhere. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc

Bug#831637: live-wrapper: kernel panic: Can't open /scripts/live

2016-07-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
drop back to an (initramfs) prompt. Tested with an emulated UEFI boot: qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -m 1024 -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -hda live.iso Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#820294: openjdk-7-jre-headless: uninstallable since tzdata-java is gone

2016-04-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
?bug=818308 In a nutshell, I installed openjdk-7 from experimental: apt-get -t experimental install openjdk-7-jdk and apt-listbugs led me here. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#818308: openjdk-7-jre-headless: openjdk-7 uninstallable because tzdata-java removed

2016-04-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
n created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openjdk-7-jdk : Depends: openjdk-7-jre (= 7u95-2.6.4-1+b1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held bro

Bug#818308: openjdk-7-jre-headless: openjdk-7 uninstallable because tzdata-java removed

2016-04-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
openjdk-7 is still uninstallable on unstable because 7u95-2.6.4-3 is only available in experimental and has not yet been accepted into unstable. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#819618: openjdk-8-source: "source" package is empty (does not contain src.zip anymore)

2016-04-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Chris, looks like this just got fixed in 8u77-b03-3. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#819618: openjdk-8-source: "source" package is empty (does not contain src.zip anymore)

2016-04-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Chris, is the incomplete debug information worthy of a separate bug report against openjdk-8-jdk-headless? This sounds to me like a separate issue. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#819618: openjdk-8-source: "source" package is empty (does not contain src.zip anymore)

2016-03-31 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Chris, according the file list <https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/openjdk-8-jdk-headless/filelist> openjdk-8-jdk-headless contains /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/src.zip Perhaps openjdk-8-source is now obsolete? Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz&

Bug#818308: Bug#818304: tzdata-java: Removal of tzdata-java in tzdata 2016b-1 makes openjdk-7 uninstallable

2016-03-15 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 16/03/16 08:46, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On 2016-03-16 08:02, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Please restore tzdata-java so that openjdk-7 can be installed on unstable. We can't do that. The support to build tzdata-java seems to have been removed from openjdk, that's why we had to stop building

Bug#818308: Bug#818304: tzdata-java: Removal of tzdata-java in tzdata 2016b-1 makes openjdk-7 uninstallable

2016-03-15 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Also reported for openjdk-7 as #818308 where this bug is grave. I do not know how else to use bts to report a normal bug in one package that is grave in another. I do not think bugs with different severity can be merged. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient So

Bug#818308: openjdk-7-jre-headless: openjdk-7 uninstallable because tzdata-java removed

2016-03-15 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless Version: 7u95-2.6.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, As reported in #818304, openjdk-7 cannot be installed on unstable because, in tzdata 2016b, tzdata-java was removed. Apologies for the duplicate bug report. This is

Bug#817178: qgis uninstallable on unstable

2016-03-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Workaround is to manually remove the diversions: dpkg-divert --remove /usr/bin/qgis dpkg-divert --remove /usr/bin/qbrowser Note that this was an upgrade from the previous qgis on unstable. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited

Bug#817178: qgis uninstallable on unstable

2016-03-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: qgis Version: 2.14.0+dfsg0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, qgis conflicts with its Recommends and cannot be installed on unstable: Preparing to unpack .../qgis_2.14.0+dfsg0-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking qgis (2.14.0+dfsg0-1) ... dpkg: error

Bug#812935: openjdk-7-jdk: Missing openjdk-7_7u95-2.6.4-1 build on amd64 for Debian unstable

2016-01-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: openjdk-7-jdk Version: 7u91-2.6.3-3 Severity: serious Tags: security Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Dear Maintainer, the openjdk-7_7u95-2.6.4-1 build on amd64 for Debian unstable has been missing for a week, despite being shown as green on

Bug#800813: iceweasel: Creating or renaming a bookmark overwrites other bookmarks

2015-12-28 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ox%2043=equals=FIXED=anyexact_format=advanced=target_milestone=cf_status_firefox43_status=RESOLVED_status=VERIFIED_status=CLOSED=mozilla43=fixed%2Cverified=0 Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#791869: Infinite hang on update-initramfs

2015-07-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig root 18927 18919 0 09:12 pts/100:00:00 /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device /d root 18928 18927 0 09:12 pts/100:00:00 vgs --options vg_uuid,pv_name -- Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http

Bug#791869: System hangs on boot with lvmetad not active

2015-07-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert home vg -wi-ao 36.99g root vg -wi-ao 18.62g Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http://transient.nz/ New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#791869: Info received (Bug#791869: System hangs on boot with lvmetad not active)

2015-07-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
I am unable to reproduce this hang. When I re-enable lvmetad in lvm.conf and run update-initramfs -u, reboot succeeds (many trials). Perhaps it is just the very intermittent failures on SSDs reported by Stefan? -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http

Bug#791869:

2015-07-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
An alternative explanation is that my original hung update-initramfs that required pvscan --cache to complete created a broken or incomplete initramfs. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http://transient.nz/ New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#791869: lvm2: updating src:lvm2 from 2.02.111-2.2 to 2.02.122-1 breaks booting, mounting LVs other than / fails

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
GNU/Linux Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http://transient.nz/ New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#791869: lvm2: updating src:lvm2 from 2.02.111-2.2 to 2.02.122-1 breaks booting, mounting LVs other than / fails

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
not yet had a failed boot with lvm2 2.02.122-2. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http://transient.nz/ New Zealand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#758619: reportbug fails with Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked

2014-09-21 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
This grave bug is still present in reportbug 6.5.1 on fully patched sid, preventing all bug reporting: $ reportbug Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked Aborted Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@wintersun.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#754846: upower upgrade breaks xfce4-power-manager suspend

2014-07-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Confirmed fixed in xfce4-power-manager 1.2.0-5 and upower 0.99.0-3 on amd64. Thanks very much! Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@wintersun.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#754984: libpam-systemd 208-6 conflicts with sysvinit-core

2014-07-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Package: libpam-systemd Version: 204-14 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, libpam-systemd 204-14 lived in peaceful coexistence with sysvinit-core by depending on systemd-sysv | systemd-shim. libpam-systemd 208-6 amd64 now depends on systemd-sysv alone,

Bug#754846: upower upgrade breaks xfce4-power-manager suspend

2014-07-14 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Problem confirmed by downgrading upower 0.9.23-2+b2, which immediately fixes the issue. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@wintersun.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#752591: Alternative explanation for bug 752591

2014-06-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 27/06/14 10:04, Tommaso Colombo wrote: RUN{builtin}+=kmod load sg Tommaso, this also works for me. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#752605: Acknowledgement (udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable)

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Note that the affected initrd is initrd.img-3.14-1-amd64; this report references 3.13 because that is my latest bootable initrd! -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre

Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
.deb libudev1_204-10_amd64.deb libudev1_204-10_i386.deb The only changes that were made to udev in 204-11 are [1] and [2] If so, could you both try to revert those two patches one by one, rebuild the initrd and see if that makes a change I will try this next. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc

Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/06/14 14:38, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: The only changes that were made to udev in 204-11 are [1] and [2] If so, could you both try to revert those two patches one by one, rebuild the initrd and see if that makes a change I will try this next. Michael, manually reverting your [1

Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
a timing related issue, you might also try with the rootdelay= boot parameter and setting that to something like 30 -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
, can you confirm that that reverting the kmod load sg patch also fixes your problem? -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre --- udev.broken/80-drivers.rules 2014-06-25 14:43:18.856941146

Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/06/14 15:21, Michael Biebl wrote: Ben, could you include your/etc/{fstab,crypttab} Attached. It is also worth noting that I am running sysvinit with systemd-shim. Note sure how this changes the contents of initrd. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au

Bug#752591: Bug#752605: udev: luks/lvm not detected rendering system unbootable

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
please re-add above rule to 80-drivers.rule and test again. Michael, I can confirm that this variant works for me as well. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre

Bug#752591: #752591: udev: initrd fails to create /dev/sda* after udev upgrade

2014-06-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Confirmed fixed in 204-12. Thanks Michael! Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@wintersun.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#729559: pgtap: /usr/share/postgresql/*/extension/pgtap--0.90.0.sql missing after rebuilding

2014-01-30 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
an installation issue on PostgreSQL 9.3.2. http://api.pgxn.org/src/pgtap/pgtap-0.94.0/Changes Perhaps upgrading Debian pgtap to 0.94 might fix this issue? Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian

Bug#728361: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728361: Bug#728361: MATE does not offer shutdown/suspend/hibernate buttons

2013-11-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 07/11/13 05:35, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Can you check if libpam-ck-connector is installed? libpam-ck-connector is installed: ii libpam-ck-connector:amd64 0.4.6-3+b1 amd64 ConsoleKit PAM module -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@wintersun.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ

Bug#728361: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728342: lightdm greeter hang and xfce4 polkit failure

2013-11-02 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/11/13 19:00, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: [I'm switching to #728361 for this case] On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:19 +0800, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: No, there are no local configuration changes. I am using a custom ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc but all it adds is some xrandr and path changes. Hmhm

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