[Touch-packages] [Bug 2024398] Re: wipefs not working as documented

2023-06-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Well, color me baffled. I was all set to try testing before and after applying the update. But now I cannot make the problem happen. I'll apply the updates anyway. Feel free to do what makes sense with this bug report -- mark worksforme, mark as duplicate, whatever. All I can think of is that

[Touch-packages] [Bug 2024398] Re: wipefs not working as documented

2023-06-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Actually, this ran from a thumb drive, and I was about to update the whole show to 22.0 LTS. I'm not used to doing updates of just one package. Can you give some details on how to do that? Or would the blanket update serve your purpose? -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 2024398] [NEW] wipefs not working as documented

2023-06-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Working on a new app to do full-disk backup and recovery, I'm having trouble with clearing existing partitions on a target drive. The man page for wipefs says that wipefs -a should wipe all partitions on the drive, but I have a situation where it has a strange result: lsblk

[Touch-packages] [Bug 2002994] [NEW] sshd_config makes some changes awkward

2023-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: As distribted, the file sshd_config has apparently been modified from an upstream version -- those lines that are NOT comments. There is no good way for me to change any of them, even though there is a sshd_config.d directory for my changes. That is because the files in the

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1921009] Re: Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Color me embarassed. I just tried this again on a different system, still with the same software, and it worked perfectly, using the same source and destination drives as when I first had a problem. Mark this "worksforme" I guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1921009] Re: Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
There is probably more going on than I realized. I edited the file so that all references were to /dev/sdc without those added "p" characters. It still complained about parsing sdc. Now I'm completely puzzled and would ask for a better error message. -- You received this bug notification

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1921009] [NEW] Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a dump from an M.5 drive named "/dev/nvme0n1" that I wanted to apply to a regular SCSI drive /dev/sdc. This got the GPT built but when it tried to work on partitions, it failed, giving the error message sfdisk: failed to parse partition number: '/dev/sdc' This is

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1920967] [NEW] Bash not interpreting negative offsets in Substrring Expanison of parameters

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: According to the man page, $(variable:offset[:length]} should treat negative offsets as counting from the end of the value. Instead, I find any such substring expansion expands the ENTIRE variable regardless of the exact negative offset or any length provided. A short

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1916645] [NEW] sfdisk --force says it can correct a size mismatch, but then fails.

2021-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Trying to restore a GPT partition table using a dump sfdisk previously created from a larger disk to a smaller one (but has enough room for the partitions) fails. I'm using the --force option to try to make this work. It doesn't. The first line of the output (with added

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1901343] Re: timing bug creates interacctions between util-linux utitlities

2020-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
** Attachment added: "Test script to investigate the error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1901343/+attachment/5426630/+files/test.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1901343] [NEW] timing bug creates interacctions between util-linux utitlities

2020-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This is a creepy bug that seems to disappear under examination. In this case it appears that the bug is a timing bug, and introducing delays makes it go away. I call this sort of thing a "frankenbug" because of creepyness and difficulty diagnosing. It appears to be an

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1883441] Re: Fatal interaction between sfdisk and lsblk

2020-07-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I tried, but when I went back to the same system, with the same drives, and tried again -- you guessed it, it did not fail. I really hate intermittent errors. You may as well mark this one "works for me". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1885627] [NEW] sfdisk does not notice over-large partitions

2020-06-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Call this a feature request. I found that when I use the output of "sfdisk --dump" from one disk to format another one that is smaller, sfdisk does not complain. Of course, using those partitions caused problems because they went off the end of the new disk. The error can

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1883441] [NEW] Fatal interaction between sfdisk and lsblk

2020-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm posting this against util-linux because it's lsblk calls that fail, but the failure depends on a prior call to sfdisk which is part of the fdisk package. Remove the sfdisk call, and the failure does not happen, at least in my test setup. A call to sfdisk in a script

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1817496] [NEW] Login always shows partitions to be fsck-ed, even after reboot.

2019-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This system reports /dev/sda5 will be checked on the next reboot. Maybe it is (it's EXT4 on as SSD drive, so it could be too fast to notice), but the message persists even after such a reboot. I would expect it to go away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1804910] Re: pip3 cannot install gmpy

2018-12-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
allationDate: Installed on 2018-10-18 (36 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 > (20180725) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about t

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1804910] [NEW] pip3 cannot install gmpy

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm using python3 and want gmpy. Attempts to install it fail. I routinely capture the output of maintenance tasks, and am attaching the results. This output begins with the text of the shell script I wrote to do this, which includes calls to the bash functions I wrote to

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1804908] [NEW] Fails to load 'gmpy'

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: It may be this is a problem in gmpy itself, but since it is not installed, ubuntu-bug won't let me report a problem with it. In any event, I routinely capture the output of package maintenance tasks, and I'm attaching the output of the most recent run of a shell script I

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1804908] Re: Fails to load 'gmpy'

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I see that this arises when the script calls pip3 to install a python package. I'll clean this up to do just that by itself, and re-submit. Call this one invalid, I guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1799868] Re: seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-36.39-generic 4.15.18 > Uname: Linux 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia > ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME > Date: Wed Oct 24 20:17:15 2018

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1799869] Re: ubuntu-bug (a.k.a. apport-bug) not working in Xubuntu

2018-10-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
pgraded to bionic on 2018-08-19 (66 days ago) > modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified] > mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2017-05-02T14:12:29.908000 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1799

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1799869] [NEW] ubuntu-bug (a.k.a. apport-bug) not working in Xubuntu

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Sorry for using Ubuntu to report an Xubuntu bug, but the problem is exactly that bug reporting is not working for me in Xubuntu. When I tried to create what eventually became bug 1799868 here on Xubuntu, as soon as the web browser (Chrome) came up, it waas reporting a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1799868] [NEW] seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I can use seq(1) to generate sequences of large numbers if I use the default increment: $ seq 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105725 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105722

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1799868] Re: seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's worse than I thought. Increments of 2 fail even when aa factor of 100 away from the limit: kevin@plato-x:~$ seq 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 1 170141183460469231731687303715884105725 | head -10 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105722

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1737657] Re: Failure to be root is repored in a misleading message

2017-12-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n Dec 11 17:53:23 2017 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (490 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: ntp > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage not

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1737657] [NEW] Failure to be root is repored in a misleading message

2017-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This is a feature request. When solving a problem or in a rush, I don't necessarily remember everything from a man page, or even think to read it. This is what happened with ntpdate(8) $ ntpdate 11 Dec 20:08:12 ntpdate[13930]: no servers can be used, exiting $ Of course,

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1728709] [NEW] bash man page has a typo, repeating .bashrc when one should be /etc/bash.bashrc

2017-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: The INVOCATION section of the man page has the text "reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist and are readable" which repeats "~/.bashrc". By experiment, I find it probable that the first of these .bashrc references should read

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Oops. I did locate the directory on a backup. As you supposed, I had created queue.py initially to do the test. I re-ran it as 'q.py' to see if that helped, but did not delete the original. So you were right -- name conflict. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
op: XFCE > Date: Wed Sep 28 20:54:17 2016 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (51 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probab

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1671952] Re: python program gets segmentation fault

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
6-08-08 (214 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: &

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1720691] Re: seg fault using sqlite3 module

2017-10-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The machine is a Core i7 with 32 GB RAM. The swap space is also 32 GB. Nothing else was active during this run other than the usual daemons; some terminal and browser windows were open, but not in use. The activity was all on a RAID which had at the time 2 TB free. -- You received this bug

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1720691] [NEW] seg fault using sqlite3 module

2017-10-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I got a seg fault and core dump about 5 hours into a hand-coded merge of two databases. WAL (write-ahead logging) was enabled, and the journal was about 500MB, so I tried again with periodic commits, and after about 20 hours its still going strong. In any event, I regard a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1677725] [NEW] Error report on bootup is useless to me

2017-03-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: On booting my system, I see dialog reporting a "system program error" with no further information, and is asks me if I want to report this. I have no basis on which to make the choice, because I have been completely unable to figure out what problem is being reported. The

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1677042] [NEW] Grub recovery boot root prompt is unstable

2017-03-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I've seen this on two systems: Xubuntu on dual Xeons, and Ubuntu on an I-7. When I choose "advanced options" -> "recovery mode" in Grub, and then "root shell prompt" in the resulting booted system, I cannot expect it to be functional for long. I can do a few things, but

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1676456] [NEW] less highlights don't work with my terminal colors and I don't see how to change it

2017-03-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I prefer very light background colors, unlike the default xterm's black. Some time ago, less(1) changed its way of doing highlights (such as when displaying man pages) so that they are pure white. This makes them much harder, rather than the intended easier to read. This

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1671952] Re: python program gets segmentation fault

2017-03-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I modified the code to issue commit() calls, which it had not been doing. It ran to completion, having made over 3 million changes to the database. Perhaps a really big journal does not work well? Even if so, I would consider a segmentation fault a bug. -- You received this bug notification

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1671952] [NEW] python program gets segmentation fault

2017-03-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Running a Python 3 / sqlite3 script that develops a database representing a game tree, a segmentation fault occurred. The program had written 4,910,495 lines of output when it crashed, redirected to a file. It appears normal, and its size is about right for the job being

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1651923] Re: apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the destination undecoded.

2017-01-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
usicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=16056 > > https://www.drupal.org/node/2324991 (clues on root cause) > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 > Package: apt 1.3.3 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-lowlatency 4.8.6 > Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-lowlatency x8

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1658545] [NEW] media-change required for apt-get install python-pip python3-pip

2017-01-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Attempting to install either python-pip or python3-pip does a request for a media change, and not having that medium, it cannot be done. This occurs for me on Xubuntu amd-64, but NOT on i386. It occurs to me this may belong to the python and python3 packages, but since I

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1655214] [NEW] re.match is anchored to the beginning of the string.

2017-01-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: All matches, whether compiled or not, appear to be anchored to the beginning of the target string. Un-anchoring requires a beginning ".*" in the pattern kevin@plato-x:/raid/917$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1655215] [NEW] re.match is anchored to the beginning of the string.

2017-01-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: All matches, whether compiled or not, appear to be anchored to the beginning of the target string. Un-anchoring requires a beginning ".*" in the pattern kevin@plato-x:/raid/917$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1637629] [NEW] monitors become unavailable after blanking

2016-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: My monitors become unavailable and hard to configure after blanking, or switching to a different input, let alone unplugging. I can boot into 14.04 and do not see this problem. It is present in 16.04. I did not use the releases in between on this system. It is a core-i7

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1637219] Re: ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1637213 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637213 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1637213 ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1637219] [NEW] ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: ubuntu-bug begins immediately with the following warning message, which I'm pretty sure just confuses most of us. If this gets posted, then the message does not indicate a failure. /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without specifying a version

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1637213] [NEW] ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: starting ubuntu-bug, it outputs this warning message immediately: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Wnck', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded. from

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1629123] [NEW] multiprocessing.Pool fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Trying the examples from https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html#exchanging-objects-between-processes the example for Pool fails. It's attached. The error implicates something missing in SimpleQueue $ python3 Pool.py Traceback (most recent call last):

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Noting still further: When I tried the same program with the default Python (2.7), it worked just as the documentation promised, so the problem is in the Python 3.5 build. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Noting further: There's a Note at the bottom of the entry for Queue in 17.2.2.2, https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html#pipes-and-queues which says that ImportErrors can be caused by failure of the system to support semaphores, as outlined in Issue3770 (Closed years ago):

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1628763] [NEW] Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Reading https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html #exchanging-objects-between-processes, I have copy-pasted the code into a file. Running it with python3 fails thus: Traceback (most recent call last): File "q.py", line 7, in q = Queue() File

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1615249] [NEW] ubuntu-bug produces errors

2016-08-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I run the command "ubuntu-bug" (with no package name) and it reports errors that I did not see in previous releases of Ubuntu: > kevin@camelot-x:~$ ubuntu-bug > /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without > specifying a version first. Use

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1506669] [NEW] top loses track of processes when running a very long time

2015-10-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a pipeline of about 2 dozen commands that I expect will run for 2-3 weeks, with top running concurrently in another window. They are compute-intensive, and there is always at least one one that is running and sometimes more. In spite of this after several days, top

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1330239] Re: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid showed in syslog in Ubuntu 14.04

2015-01-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This is probably obvious, but if like me you don't have or want a modem, you can remove the package that's generating these messages: apt-get remove modemmanager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to modemmanager

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1404548] [NEW] sort --reverse does not reverse numeric sorts

2014-12-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: The --reverse option is supposed to reverse the sense of comparisons, but does not affect numeric ('g' or 'n') sorts. With the input filed 02 q l 10 f abc 01 x abc 01 y abc 01 z n 10 u d 02 m d 02 b b 10 c I get the same results with either of sort --reverse -k2n sort -k2n

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1374898] [NEW] Vim has 32-bitlimits; annoying on really large files and 64-bit machine

2014-09-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a program that I'm debugging. It generates enormous log files which I need to peruse. I use vim as the tool of choice ordinarily, but vim stops loading the text when it reaches line 2147483647. That sounds familiar. It gives no hint of what's wrong, so I tried