[Bug 1771802] [NEW] enable rc-local.service unit by default

2018-05-17 Thread Matthew Hawkins
Public bug reported: Every other systemd-infected distribution leaves the rc-local.service unit enabled; this is probably because provisioning systems need to use it to launch first-boot tasks. Ubuntu has been blindly following suit in every other respect and should do the same here also. It's

[Bug 1663066] Re: firefox crashes on every web site

2017-02-09 Thread Matthew Hawkins
I discovered the root cause; DNS was broken. That being the case, I'd expect a better response from Firefox than to simply segfault its renderer. Chromium was able to pinpoint the problem with a helpful error message. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1663066] [NEW] firefox crashes on every web site

2017-02-08 Thread Matthew Hawkins
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, with xenial HWE & apt-get update/upgrade @1486597947 UTC Firefox: 51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 Tried both HTTP and HTTPS sites. All cause a crash. Firefox displays "Bad news first: This tab has crashed". Attempting to reload the tab restores the

[Bug 1473000] [NEW] Child processes not reaped when parent dash terminated

2015-07-09 Thread Matthew Hawkins
Public bug reported: When dash is used as /bin/sh and is called with -c to execute commands, dash doesn't appear to pass signals to the child process. When the process spawning dash sends dash a SIGTERM for example, it causes those subprocesses to never die, and wrecks havoc on servers as tons

[Bug 253985] Re: Package Awesome 3.0-rc1 for Intrepid

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Hawkins
awesome 3.0 final has been released. It relies on xcb-util 0.3.0. Both can be built from Debian experimental. Pull down the 3 files from the source distribution, and run something like: dpkg-source -x xxx.dsc cd whatever_dir_just_got_made debuild (substituting the right .dsc filename and the

[Bug 19775] Re: Missing hostname in /etc/hosts causes sudo to fail

2008-05-24 Thread Matthew Hawkins
I got this with a fresh install of 8.04 too, and I've had to help a few people on IRC who have been bitten by it. My solution was as follows: boot into recovery console (the only way to get root now since sudo is broken) edit /etc/hosts and add the shortname - I added it to both the 127.0.0.1

[Bug 234111] Re: network-admin fails to correctly edit /etc/hosts, causes sudo to fail

2008-05-24 Thread Matthew Hawkins
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 19775 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19775 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 19775 Missing hostname in /etc/hosts causes sudo to fail -- network-admin fails to correctly edit /etc/hosts, causes sudo to fail