Re: [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled

2017-03-19 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Using a protocol that does not verify the identity of the server in any way (AnonTLS that uses Anonymous Diffie Hellman ciphers) can be as good as no encryption or worse, as it gives users a false sense of security. On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Varstamni Q <1281...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

[Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled

2016-08-22 Thread Iordan Iordanov
The upstream bug was reported about 2.5 years ago. It certainly looks like the developers of Vino are not going to change the default to not require encryption. Would it be possible to change the default for Ubuntu to not require encryption at least? -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1615251] [NEW] By default, Vino requires insecure anonymous Diffie Hellman ciphers for encryption and is incompatible with Android 6+ devices

2016-08-20 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: Anonymous Diffie Hellman certificates do not provide identity verification (unlike x509 certificates). Therefore, while they provide link encryption, they do not guard against man-in-the-middle attacks. Google decided to drop support for these certificates in v6.0+

[Bug 1219525] Re: Cannot unhide (show hidden) launcher over Remote Desktop (VNC connection over vino or x11vnc)

2013-12-25 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi! Please subscribe to this bug and indicate that you are affected to increase the heat of this bug and confirm that it exists. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219525 Title:

[Bug 1219525] [NEW] Cannot unhide (show hidden) launcher over Remote Desktop (VNC connection over vino or x11vnc)

2013-09-01 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: When the Launcher is hidden (System Settings-Appearance-Behavior -Auto-hide the Launcher-On), when sitting in front of the computer, one is able to show it by moving the mouse all the way to the left quickly. When connected over Remote Desktop, one is unable to make the

[Bug 1193483] [NEW] x11vnc fails to find X Login Greeter when lightdm is used

2013-06-21 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: The vnc server x11vnc has a very useful mode which allows a user with admin sudo privileges (or root) to run x11vnc and to automatically discover an X Login Greeter. The objective is to be able to login on :0 even when nobody has a login session. An example commandline for

[Bug 985202] Re: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2013-04-01 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Please join the bug-report for the new bug related to Kwin not resizing itself to fit within the NX window. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxfixes/+bug/1152754 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1152754] Re: kwin fails to resize to fit to the NX window with this version of libxfixes3

2013-03-08 Thread Iordan Iordanov
This is the patch which upgrades libxfixes3 from Oneiric to Precise which seems to break kwin's ability to resize. ** Patch added: 01_fixesproto-v6.diff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxfixes/+bug/1152754/+attachment/3564241/+files/01_fixesproto-v6.diff -- You received this bug

[Bug 1152754] [NEW] kwin fails to resize to fit to the NX window with this version of libxfixes3

2013-03-08 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: We use KDE under NX, and were happy to discover that the new libxrandr proposed in this bug-report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/libxrandr/+bug/985202 fixes the issue of kwin crashing when the NX window resizes. However, we now discover that it does

[Bug 985202] Re: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2013-03-08 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I just started a new bug about Kwin not resizing itself to fit within the NX window (when the NX window is resized). This can be reproduced when NOT in full-screen only. Here is a link to the new bug in case people want to follow the developments, share experiences, and help:

[Bug 1098342] [NEW] out of memory errors when performing I/O on a system with large amount of RAM and 32-bit pae kernel

2013-01-10 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: We have a system with 64GB of RAM which we have to run with a 32-bit installation for various reasons. When performing I/O on that system, we suddenly get Out of memory errors, and if I/O is fast enough (i.e. cat /dev/zero /dev/shm/somefile), the system becomes unusable very

[Bug 985202] Re: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2012-12-14 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Would disabling xfixes affect the ability of the window manager to detect a resize of the NX client window? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985202 Title: libx11 causes kwin to crash

[Bug 1086016] [NEW] iostat does not report load on individual partitions within RAID10 block device

2012-12-03 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: When iostat is run with the flag -p ALL (for example iostat -xk 1 -p ALL), on a system with md0 being RAID10 with RAID devices: sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, sdf, the output looks like this. Note that iostat does not report any load on the individual partitions on the RAID

[Bug 1086016] [NEW] iostat does not report load on individual partitions within RAID10 block device

2012-12-03 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: When iostat is run with the flag -p ALL (for example iostat -xk 1 -p ALL), on a system with md0 being RAID10 with RAID devices: sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, sdf, the output looks like this. Note that iostat does not report any load on the individual partitions on the RAID

[Bug 1078345] Re: hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-14 Thread Iordan Iordanov
significant uptime and NFS traffic over UDP to recur. If we manage to reproduce the bug on different hardware by generating large amounts of NFS traffic over UDP, we will advise on how you can reproduce the bug, and we can try other kernels. Sincerely, Iordan Iordanov -- You received this bug

[Bug 1078345] Re: hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
The ubuntu-bug information collection itself also caused the following two dmesg lines to appear, which do not appear in CurrentDmesg.txt: [1030231.494607] ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table [OEMB] - 0xF2, should be 0xEF (20110623/tbutils-314) [1030231.494860] ACPI Warning: Incorrect

[Bug 1078345] [NEW] hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: We have two systems with a lot of simultaneous KDE sessions which mounts user data over NFS. We also have two shared servers that only provide ssh-access (no KDE sessions running), that also mount user data over NFS. We've had three different machines hang the same way as I'm

[Bug 1078345] Re: hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
A further development. While we were trying to narrow down the problem, we ruled out routing problems and discovered that NFS over UDP was the issue. mount -o rw,udp fileserver:/mount/path /mnt hangs, whereas mount -o rw,tcp fileserver:/mount/path /mnt works. Then we tested pure UDP networking

[Bug 1078345] Re: hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I've also determined that the size of the file is inconsequential. I redid the testing with /bin/nc over UDP and over TCP with a 1.2GB file. The transfer was done from the affected machine to our fileserver. The result is as follows: fileserver:/$ ls -l /tmp/test2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

[Bug 1078345] Re: hung system with half-working networking, unresponsive NFS mounts

2012-11-13 Thread Iordan Iordanov
This issue happened early last summer as well, which was with linux- image-3.2.0-2X-generic-pae. I am not 100% sure how small X was. I believe the first kernel we went into production with was -23, and it happened soon afterward, so it was either with 23 or with 24. We have no real observations

[Bug 1075224] [NEW] empty IPI mask WARNING on Supermicro H8DGi motherboard

2012-11-05 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: A kernel WARNING shows up on our Supermicro H8DGi based system after a certain amount of uptime. We can't tell whether there is any negative effect from it as the system stays up. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic-pae

[Bug 1067917] [NEW] Cannot launch more than one xvfb instance as different users

2012-10-17 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: Steps to reproduce: (1) As a certain user (userX), launch xvfb using xinit (successfully) thus: $ /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- /usr/bin/Xvfb :40 -screen 0 1280x1024x24 -cc 4 -nolisten tcp [dix] Could not init font path element

[Bug 1067917] Re: Cannot launch more than one xvfb instance as different users

2012-10-17 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I discovered another bug-report which sounds different but is related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/972324 On July 13, 2012, David Lichteblau (david-lichteblau) was the last person to comment, noting that the issue is because a non-$DISPLAY specific file owned by

[Bug 1019389] Re: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-07-04 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi Philip, As I said, we install the system not with the Debian/Ubuntu installer but with FAI (which is a system allowing the mass deployment of Ubuntu installations). We have hundreds of Precise installations performed this way. I am not sure what you mean by supported, I was just reporting a

[Bug 1019389] Re: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-07-03 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi Philip, I am attaching output from a test machine where grub2 was installed to /dev/md0 and where booting hangs. The RAID1 array is degraded (with only one member), to keep things simple. Here is the output of mdadm --detail /dev/md0 on the same machine, so you can see it is with metadata

[Bug 1019389] Re: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-07-03 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I even tried explicitly telling grub2 to load mdraid1x and raid modules to no avail - it still hangs with a blinking cursor indefinitely when booting from the drive is attempted: root@test7:/# grub-install --modules=mdraid1x raid /dev/md0 Installation finished. No error reported. -- You

[Bug 1019389] [NEW] Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-06-29 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: This is 100% reproducible with metadata 0.9 and 1.0. We are installing a system with FAI (Fully Automatic Installation), and creating a full disk RAID1 array with two devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). This results in a device /dev/md0 which we then label with a GPT label, and

[Bug 1019389] Re: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-06-29 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019389 Title: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install To manage notifications about

[Bug 1019389] Re: Grub 2 hangs on boot after installing on RAID1 device (/dev/md0), reports no problems during install

2012-06-29 Thread Iordan Iordanov
In case it is relevant, here is a print out of the partition table, even though (as mention previously), Grub 2 does install successfully when the raw devices are specified (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb): # parted /dev/md0 print Model: Linux Software RAID Array (md) Disk /dev/md0: 500GB Sector size

[Bug 1014848] Re: Systems sometimes come up with RAID devices dropped, re-adding fails.

2012-06-19 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi Dmitrijs, I read the bug-reports that you pointed us to, and my bug-report is definitely a duplicate of both of them, but combined into one :). We have reconfigured our system to boot with a degraded RAID, and because the devices have not udevadm settled yet, we are hit with:

[Bug 1003081] Re: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

2012-06-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
On the other hand, the server which we installed 3.4.0 onto for testing has been running for 12 days with no similar errors. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003081 Title: INFO:

[Bug 1003081] Re: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

2012-06-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Fortunately, I was able to observe that this is not a regression from 3.2.0-23 to 3.2.0-24. We have a server which is running 3.2.0-23 which output the same errors. Here is the output in dmesg: [988120.548020] INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 1 (t=0 jiffies) [988120.548041] sending NMI to all

[Bug 1014848] [NEW] Systems sometimes come up with RAID devices dropped, re-adding fails.

2012-06-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: We have 3 systems with RAID1 sets which sometimes come up with one device missing. Attempting to re-add the device fails with: # mdadm /dev/md2 --re-add /dev/sda6 mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sda6 to /dev/md2 is not possible # mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sda6 mdadm: /dev/sda6

[Bug 1014848] Re: Systems sometimes come up with RAID devices dropped, re-adding fails.

2012-06-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014848 Title: Systems sometimes come up with RAID devices dropped, re-adding fails. To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1004619] [NEW] mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2012-05-25 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: I noticed an error in dmesg to the effect that mount.nfs was not able to allocate memory. We auto-mount NFS directories on this system, if that's relevant. The server has 2GB of RAM and typically has 1.5GB free with almost no swap used. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu

[Bug 1004619] Re: mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0

2012-05-25 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004619 Title: mount.nfs: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0xc0d0 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1003081] Re: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

2012-05-23 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Hi Joseph, Unfortunately, on all three systems that we observed this issue, there was no obvious reason for why it happened and hence we have no way of reproducing the problem. We are able to test with the latest upstream kernel only on one of the machines as only one of them is not mission-

[Bug 1003081] [NEW] INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

2012-05-22 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: After running for a while, we receive messages to the effect that various processes (swapper and ssh-keysign in this case) are stalled on some CPU. We had not observed this behavior with linux-image-3.2.0-23 -generic-pae, but we may have been lucky rather than this being a

[Bug 1003081] Re: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies)

2012-05-22 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003081 Title: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 3 (t=0 jiffies) To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 985202] Re: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2012-04-19 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I decided to go try downgrading some libraries to Oneiric to see whether kwin will stop crashing, and indeed, after downgrading this set of libraries to the ones from Oneiric: libx11-6_1.4.4-2ubuntu1_i386.deb libxdamage1_1.1.3-2_i386.deb libxext6_1.3.0-3_i386.deb libxfixes3_5.0-4_i386.deb

[Bug 985202] [NEW] libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2012-04-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: This behavior is 100% reproducible. I have freenx-server installed from here: https://launchpad.net/~freenx-team/+archive/ppa And am logging in from a remote machine with the newest nxclient from nomachine.org. What happens is that upon login or shortly thereafter, kwin

[Bug 985202] Re: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol)

2012-04-18 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985202 Title: libx11 causes kwin to crash on login (over NX protocol) To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 798250] [NEW] An aspire 5736z-4076 was uncleanly shutdown, and upon startup, there was an oops with this kernel before fsck of /

2011-06-16 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.32-32-generic An aspire 5736z-4076 was uncleanly shutdown, and upon startup, there was an oops with this kernel before fsck of the root partition (/). The oops specifically mentioned the boot drive of the system as the source of the

[Bug 798250] Re: An aspire 5736z-4076 was uncleanly shutdown, and upon startup, there was an oops with this kernel before fsck of /

2011-06-16 Thread Iordan Iordanov
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798250 Title: An aspire 5736z-4076 was uncleanly shutdown, and upon startup, there was an oops with this kernel before fsck of / To manage

[Bug 790825] [NEW] numerous warnings in dmesg related to wireless (ath5K)

2011-05-31 Thread Iordan Iordanov
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.32-30-generic This is happening on a Dell Latitude D410 with an Atheros based wireless adapter installed (ath5K driver). The interesting thing is that after all these warnings, the machine still seems to operate normally, including the

[Bug 790825] Re: numerous warnings in dmesg related to wireless (ath5K)

2011-05-31 Thread Iordan Iordanov
** Attachment added: dmesg output https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790825/+attachment/2149381/+files/BUG_D410.TXT -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790825 Title: numerous warnings in

[Bug 580169] Re: can no longer use iptables recent module multiple times after upgrade to lucid

2011-03-10 Thread Iordan Iordanov
I found the same recent module limitation on my dd-wrt router with kernel 2.4.37. I can't set a hitcount higher than 20! This means that if I want to consider a larger window of time, like 60 seconds, many legitimate forms of communication would trip the recent module. Hence, for DoS attacks, I