Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-07 Thread Harald Barth
I'm doing this for my site. As in su or in astro? It also has the duplicate NAT ping issue, which can cause clients to flood file servers with substantial amounts of useless traffic in some situations. Which in itself should be enough to stop it from being released. But I'm pessimistic,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Harald Barth h...@kth.se writes: Which in itself should be enough to stop it from being released. But I'm pessimistic, Ubuntu has in spite of its popularity issues when it comes to fixing bugs that they can dismiss by blaming upstream debian. But maybe my experience is biased from the messy

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-07 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Harald Barth [2012-04-07 11:09:53 +0200]: I'm doing this for my site. As in su or in astro? As in astro, for the time being. If others within su want to leverage my work that can be arranged, but so far I haven't been asked. It also has the duplicate NAT ping issue, which can cause

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Sergio Gelato sergio.gel...@astro.su.se writes: I also suspect that it's going to take less effort to just maintain PPAs --- for me personally it's already quite clear, for the community at large it may be harder to estimate --- than to push updates through the Ubuntu process, but it doesn't

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-06 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Andrew Deason [2012-04-05 12:22:09 -0500]: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:20:03 +0200 Sergio Gelato sergio.gel...@astro.su.se wrote: My reading of the Ubuntu wiki is that for serious bugs like the ones in 1.6.0pre1 one can apply for a Stable Release Update. one can as in, anyone? Or do we need

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sergio Gelato sergio.gel...@astro.su.se writes: Remind us: what are the reasons (bugs) why one really doesn't want to run 1.6.1pre1? 1.6.1pre1 at least doesn't have the 1.6.0 file corruption bugs in the fileserver (which were fixed in 1.6.0-3), but it still has the keep-alive and idledead

[OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-05 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Russ Allbery [2012-04-04 10:02:28 -0700]: Jeffrey Altman jalt...@your-file-system.com writes: On 4/3/2012 10:04 PM, Ken Elkabany wrote: 1.6.0pre1 which was packaged with Ubuntu 11.10. Should we make it a priority to upgrade? 1.6.0pre1 is not an official OpenAFS release. It was a

[OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu

2012-04-05 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:20:03 +0200 Sergio Gelato sergio.gel...@astro.su.se wrote: My reading of the Ubuntu wiki is that for serious bugs like the ones in 1.6.0pre1 one can apply for a Stable Release Update. one can as in, anyone? Or do we need someone with ubuntu/canonical (or just a debian

[OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Login Issues

2010-12-22 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:40:57 +0100 Thomas Calderon calderon.tho...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is reproductible for me using this approach: running gnome-screensaver in debug renew TGT with 10 seconds lifetime and lock wait 15 minutes - the GUI is freezed killing in console gives back

[OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Login Issues

2010-12-22 Thread Andrew Deason
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:35:05 -0500 (EST) Thomas M. Payerle paye...@umd.edu wrote: I do not see any good ways to get around this. Allowing something w/out user's tokens read access to ~/.Xauthority seems rather questionable, plus awkward as needs some access to ~ as well. Could probably hack

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Login Issues

2010-12-22 Thread Thomas Calderon
Hi again, Good to know I'm not alone in this boat, I'll give a shot with a local Xauthority and fall back to xlock in case I'm not satisfied with the outcome. Anyway many thanks for the answers you all provided, this mailing list sure is useful. Merry Christmas to all! Thomas. On Wed, Dec 22,