[Bug 1857654] [NEW] xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package causes Elan touchpad jumpiness

2019-12-26 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: On a ASUS Zenbook, UX331FA, with Ubuntu 19.10 (actually Xubutu), the pad was wildly jumpy, even responding when not directly touched, until I uninstalled this package. This is a known problem. The pad works well after the package is removed. See for instance https://askubuntu.

[Bug 1808403] [NEW] cloud-init identified possible datasources ... as: ['OpenStack', 'None'] However, the datasource used was: ConfigDrive

2018-12-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: OpenStack Newton on Rackspace Private Cloud: ** # A new feature in cloud-init identified possible datasources for# # this system as:# # ['

[Bug 1544115] Re: init.d script does not stop pluto daemon

2016-05-31 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Ubuntu 14.04 we have Linux Openswan U2.6.38/K3.13.0-57-generic which is working fine to connect to a Cisco ASA, basically. Our problem is on the the Openswan end we're dual-homed - two ISP lines - and we'd like to be able to switch between them for the IPsec tunnel at will. The Cisco, as it hap

[Bug 1544115] [NEW] init.d script does not stop pluto daemon

2016-02-10 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Running "/etc/init.d/ipsec stop" leaves the pluto daemon running, so IKE negotiations continue if the other end is up. This results in a confused connection if, for instance, the purpose of stopping it is to switch the tunnel to a different interface and ISP line with a common

[Bug 1289488] [NEW] Ubuntu 12.04 initramfs-tools-bin : Depends: libudev1 (>= 183) but it is not installable

2014-03-07 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Looks like libudev1 isn't even available for 12.04. So: # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: initramfs-tools : D

[Bug 984688] Re: initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-bin (<< 0.99ubuntu11.1~)

2014-03-07 Thread Whit Blauvelt
initramfs-tools-bin : Depends: libudev1 (>= 183) but it is not installable As far as I can see at http://packages.ubuntu.com libudev1 isn't even available for precise. So why has this 12.04 system ended up stuck with this bad dependency? -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 984688] Re: initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-bin (<< 0.99ubuntu11.1~)

2014-03-07 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Looks like the current problem is the current initramfs-tools-bin requires libudev1. Where can I manually get that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984688 Title: initramfs-tools depend

[Bug 993660] Re: package samba-common 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.4 failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba.dpkg-new': Too many levels of symbolic links

2014-02-02 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The steps above didn't work for me. What did was pulling /etc/dhcp3 /dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba from a different system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993660 Title: package samba-c

[Bug 1162276] Re: do-release-upgrade failing from 11.04

2013-03-30 Thread Whit Blauvelt
It looks like the error was occassioned by nspluginwrapper being installed. At least it was removal of that (after removal of some other things that occassioned "Holding Back" messages in the log) that has allowed the process to finally go forward. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1162276] [NEW] do-release-upgrade failing from 11.04

2013-03-30 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Instructions say can be caused by upgrading to or running a pre-release version (doesn't apply) or by unofficial software packages (can't say if applies). This may be a feature request rather than a bug request per se. If there may be unofficial software packages on the system

[Bug 284229] Re: console-kit-daemon using a lot of cpu

2013-01-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Just had a serious runaway console-kit-daemon on Lucid! Ran my load up into the 40-50 range with 100% CPU. Killall console-kit-daemon reduced load to under 0.30. Is this a regression, or a newer bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 488696] Re: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

2012-09-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Why isn't this fixed for Precise? Ubuntu is often a server OS. Autofs is best practice for mounts by a server. Precise is LTS, so this belongs on it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48869

[Bug 1015803] Re: flash plugin skips ahead, has no sound after 11.04 to 12.04 upgrade

2012-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Found the problem. It's an odd one. Looking in the Volume Control app (not sure if it's a Gnome or Xfce thing - desktop is Xfce), it showed that it has been defaulting to trying to play the audio stream through "Redwood HMDI Audio" on account of seeing a Radeon video card in the system. Turning tha

[Bug 1015803] [NEW] flash plugin skips ahead, has no sound after 11.04 to 12.04 upgrade

2012-06-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Now flash videos in web pages skip ahead about as fast as they're downloaded. And are silent. This is on a 64-bit system. Used to work perfectly with these. Same problem now in both Chrome and Firefox. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.236ubuntu0.12.04.1 ** Af

[Bug 79182] Re: ipset is not useful in ubuntu, because kernel and iptables do not support it.

2012-06-12 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Detected an error with ipset utility : ipset v4.5, protocol version 4. ipset v4.5: Kernel ip_set module is of protocol version 6.I'm of protocol version 4. Please upgrade your kernel and/or ipset(8) utillity. That's running a FirewallBuilder script on Ubuntu 11.10. So the ipset utility does not m

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2012-03-05 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Turns out not to be the kernel in my case, but udisks-daemon which is doing the persistent polling of the non-existent GTP on the bad sector, and thus severly retarding boot times and performance. I've filed a bug on that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/946565 -- You rece

[Bug 946565] Re: udisks-daemon hangs system at boot when bad GPT sector on HD

2012-03-05 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I'd speculate that a few of the reports here might be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550559 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946565 Title: udisks-daemon

[Bug 946565] [NEW] udisks-daemon hangs system at boot when bad GPT sector on HD

2012-03-04 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: This is on an ASUS Eee 1001P with hard drive and SD card (and USB), running Ubuntu 10.04.4 with udisks 1.0.1-1ubuntu1. The hard drive developed a bad sector in the area reserved for the secondary GPT - the second-to-last sector in this case. The drive does not use GPT. Nonethe

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2012-03-02 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Found and fixed the problem. In my case the kernel was trying to check the secondary GUID partition table (GPT), where there was a bad sector - in this case in the second-to-last sector on the disk (and outside of all partitions). Except on my system there also was no GUID partition table - no prim

[Bug 550559] Re: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED

2012-03-02 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Just had this show up on an ASUS 1001P. In this case it may be failing hardware, for all I know. Getting a lot of: Mar 2 08:31:29 boot2 kernel: [ 2958.107227] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 2 08:31:29 boot2 kernel: [ 2958.107242] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x4008 Mar

[Bug 60764] Re: Large file transfer gives error: Corrupted MAC on input

2012-02-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Here was my problem, it looks like: A firewall rule on the remote box (which is on my LAN) which rejected traffic to IP 224.0.0.1, which is part of the Local Network Control Block. That's evidently a channel required by the two host systems in connection with rx and tx delay requests. -- You rece

[Bug 60764] Re: Large file transfer gives error: Corrupted MAC on input

2012-02-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Here's helpful background: https://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/ssh_messages_code_bad_packet It doesn't look to me like turning off rx and tx should in any way lessen OpenSSH's resistance to corruption, so should be safe as far as this goes. The other side of this is that it looks like somehow havi

[Bug 60764] Re: Large file transfer gives error: Corrupted MAC on input

2012-02-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I realize this is closed. Just adding a few notes from my own experience since the discussion here has been useful to me. In my case the error shows up in running "ssh -Y" to a second system, and then starting "dosemu" on the remote system (which will tunnel to my desktop). The remote system has an

[Bug 809632] Re: libvirt-bin upstart process issues wrong message

2011-07-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Please explain what "Job is already running" means when the job is _not_ already running. In the general meaning of "already running" there should be, well, something running, a process, yet when this message is issued there is no libvirt-bin or libvirtd or any related process at all. Nor is there

[Bug 809632] [NEW] libvirt-bin upstart process issues wrong message

2011-07-12 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 11.04 Server, # service libvirt-bin start start: Job is already running: libvirt-bin That's just wrong. There's no such process. There's also no /var/run/libvirtd.pid file. This continues to happen after a full purge of libvirt-bin and reinstall of 0.8.8-1ubuntu6.2

[Bug 488696] Re: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

2011-06-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Why is that a year after the fix was released (adding the nnswitch.conf line works for me on Ubuntu Server 10.10), there is no updated package with the fix for Ubuntu 10.10? 11.04 does not appear to need the fix, despite that line being added. But 11.04 does. Shouldn't it have been pushed out? --

[Bug 795622] [NEW] Interface sensor fails

2011-06-10 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: watchdog syslog:Jun 10 11:57:37 black watchdog[9686]: starting daemon (5.9): syslog:Jun 10 11:57:37 black watchdog[9686]: int=1s realtime=yes sync=no soft=no mla=24 mem=0 syslog:Jun 10 11:57:37 black watchdog[9686]: ping: no machine to check syslog:Jun 1

[Bug 527401] Re: grub-installer fails to install on a raid1 array

2010-09-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Oh, I see Colin's worked on it (http://www.listware.net/201007/grub- devel/64403-patch-mdadm-1x-metadata-support.html). Now to see if there's an accessible way to build/install and use. -- grub-installer fails to install on a raid1 array https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527401 You received this bu

[Bug 527401] Re: grub-installer fails to install on a raid1 array

2010-09-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I'm seeing this bug in an install of 10.04.1, although this may be related to my creating the RAID 1 array before hand, since with the WD20EARS drives otherwise the cylinder alignment isn't right - or at least I can't see how to make it so. Is there a work-around? Or do I have to entirely reinstal

[Bug 633543] Re: Intel 82576 NIC trouble with igb module

2010-09-08 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The same problem is there when these systems are booted with the latest System Rescue Disk (Gentoo based, also a 2.6.32 kernel). I haven't been able to find any reports of this problem searching kernel.org or here. -- Intel 82576 NIC trouble with igb module https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633543

[Bug 633543] [NEW] Intel 82576 NIC trouble with igb module

2010-09-08 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: We have two new Supermicro servers with Intel 82576 NIC chips, running 10.04 server with 2.6.32-24-server, which uses the igb module to support them. What works: The two systems can talk to each other, either through any of several switches or over a crossover cable. What do

[Bug 525154] Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

2010-09-06 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I strongly agree with the comments above. Against considerable management pressure to run all Linux boxes as RHEL/CentOS, I've insisted on building half our systems on Ubuntu Server, notwithstanding the really poor decision to transition from init.d to upstart. But to encounter this sort of brokenn

[Bug 374359] Re: Kernel Oops (NULL Pointer) in 2.6.28-12 (sysfs problem?)

2010-08-25 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Just saw this on a 10.04 system, but with a vanilla kernel 2.6.35.2 from source. So it may still be an upstream kernel bug. Looked like this: Aug 25 17:13:30 xxx kernel: [159044.622651] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0048 Aug 25 17:13:30 xxx kernel: [159044.6

[Bug 569530] Re: vmbuilder create ubuntu-kvm directory even when using --raw

2010-08-09 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Not sure if this is a related bug, or just a lack of documentation, but: vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite lucid --flavour virtual --arch amd64 -o --libvirt qemu:///system produces an ubuntu-kvm directory with, in this instance: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 396754944 2010-08-08 21:20 tmpEs8Mq4.qcow2 -rwx-

[Bug 567284] Re: over-consumes system resources

2010-04-26 Thread Whit Blauvelt
While I'd seen this happen a couple of times before I uninstalled indicator-sound, since reinstalling it hasn't repeated yet. So either it's intermittent, and will happen again at some point, or it was dependent on other factors in the state of the beta which may have since changed. -- over-consu

[Bug 567284] Re: over-consumes system resources

2010-04-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Thanks for the quick response. All I can say is that the process that using up resources was identified as "indicator-sound". Can that apply to either? -- over-consumes system resources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567284 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 567284] [NEW] over-consumes system resources

2010-04-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: indicator-sound Running the current 10.04 beta as a VirtualBox session on a netbook, with 1 gig assigned to it, indicator-sound grabs > 40% of CPU for itself and runs the system load up over 4. This is with nothing running using audio, and audio totally m

Re: [Bug 206182] Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2010-03-10 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:21:27AM -, Philip Muskovac wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been > any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue > for you. Can

[Bug 388057] [NEW] NetworkManager deletes IPs, doesn't restore them

2009-06-16 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 8.10, when a switch or hub is disconnected, NetworkManager deletes the IP assignment(s) and the routes associated with that interface. When the switch or hub is reconnected, NetworkManager recognizes it is back, but fails to do the "ifdown ethX; ifup ethX" or equival

[Bug 232129] Re: /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter fails

2009-06-12 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I get the same error as Christobal, on Hardy (server). -- /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232129 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com htt

[Bug 377994] Re: joe paragraph reformat now inserts extra spaces

2009-05-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Doing more research, evidently this was a "feature" in prior versions that wasn't at least in some cases actually working - might be why I never saw the behavior before. It can be disabled in the pertinent rc file (e.g. /etc/joe/jstarrc) by entering under "Default local options" -french over at

[Bug 377994] [NEW] joe paragraph reformat now inserts extra spaces

2009-05-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: This is joe 3.7-1 on jaunty. (The form here won't accept that.) Using the paragraph reformat command (^B if using the jstar command set for joe), joe now inserts two spaces after periods, even if originally entered as one space. It never did that before; it simply wrapped the

[Bug 347881] [NEW] dovecot-imapd incompatible with ntpdate use

2009-03-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dovecot-imapd As described at http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards, any reset of the system clock backwards causes dovecot-imapd to abort itself. In Ubuntu's standard /etc/network/if-up.d is an "ntpdate" script which runs ntpdate if static interface

[Bug 148454] Re: console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads

2009-03-13 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On an Xubuntu Intrepid server, just found console-kit-daemon taking 96-100% of CPU. Yes, this is not the same bug as this report is. But it does seem like including this package in a default install is bad engineering. -- console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 206182] Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2008-12-04 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Can't say. The only two systems I have with that many NICs are in production, and will be running 8.04 for some while yet. Plus I have no reason to use them with ipv6. (I'd recommend that having ipv6 enabled by default be reconsidered, since there's so little real-world use of it and there may be o

[Bug 203280] Re: ftp client fails when only control channel is ssl

2008-12-03 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The bug is gone now in 8.10. -- ftp client fails when only control channel is ssl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

[Bug 229312] [NEW] partman partition boundaries don't match cylinders

2008-05-11 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: partman-base On two HP ProLiant 360s with HP (Compaq) 400i SAS RAID, partman creates partitions which do not match the cylinder boundaries. This happens with Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04, as well as with Debian Etch - so it's not just Ubuntu's version of partman

[Bug 206182] Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2008-03-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
** Description changed: With Ubuntu Server 7.10, on a system with 6 NICs, /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf ends up with only "all default eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 lo", while /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf ends up (correctly) with "all default eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4 eth5 lo". This may or may

[Bug 206182] Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2008-03-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Sorry, bad paste there, First para should say: ... while all /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf ends up (correctly) with ... ** Description changed: With Ubuntu Server 7.10, on a system with 6 NICs, /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf ends up with only "all default eth0 eth1 - eth2 eth3 lo", while all defaul

[Bug 206182] Re: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2008-03-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
(Now fixed in description - hadn't seen edit option.) -- /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206182 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 206182] [NEW] /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf not fully populated when > 4 NICs

2008-03-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: With Ubuntu Server 7.10, on a system with 6 NICs, /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf ends up with only "all default eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 lo", while /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf ends up (correctly) with "all default eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4 eth5 lo". This may or may not be related

[Bug 203280] Re: ftp client fails when only control channel is ssl

2008-03-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
I've found a proposed patch for this, but am uncertain of its usability: http://www.mailarchives.org/list/debian-devel/msg/2005/16630 -- ftp client fails when only control channel is ssl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 203280] [NEW] ftp client fails when only control channel is ssl

2008-03-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ftp-ssl When the ftp-ssl client connects to an ftp server with SSL/TLS only on the control channel, not the data channel, then only the control channel works. This is particularly a problem with the pure-ftpd server, which provides SSL/TLS for only the co

[Bug 63450] Re: acpid install fails, upgrading from dapper to edgy beta.

2008-03-06 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Also the same problem on a Gutsy server fresh installation, although can't recall if acpi has been included in an upgrade within Gutsy since install. Fix just above worked. -- acpid install fails, upgrading from dapper to edgy beta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63450 You received this bug noti

[Bug 191857] Re: winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error

2008-02-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
But that means there's a major bug! After awhile, without "files" in passwd, group or shadow, local users are lost! So the bug title here isn't the major one. The real bug is that "files winbind" or "winbind files" does not result in a working winbind, while narrowing it to just "winbind" does, but

[Bug 191857] Re: winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error

2008-02-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The error happens when nsswitch is set to use winbind as so: === # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

[Bug 191857] Re: winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error

2008-02-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
("/init" is a symlink to /etc/init.d on my system - same error if invoked /etc/init.d/winbind restart - of course) -- winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 191857] Re: winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error

2008-02-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The samba package is: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3 -- winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ub

[Bug 191857] [NEW] winbind init script triggers "invalid group" error

2008-02-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: samba This is in a current install of Ubuntu Server 7.10: # /init/winbind restart * Stopping the Winbind daemon winbind