On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:23:51AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I realize there's a debbugs mailing list but it's seen a total of four > posts for this year, I thought debian-user might be more useful. > > I'm maintining a debbugs installation inhereted from another admin. > Following a server move, after which it initially *did* work, the system > hasn't been processing bugs (handling new requests) or responding to > queries via the "request" address for the past several days. > > Major subsystems on the box *do* work -- mail, browser, cron, etc. Not > sure what else debbugs requires, the documentation is *very* sparse. > > At this point I'd appreciate some assistance in tracking down and > identifying the issues with the system, probably focussing on stupid > mistakes (hopefully mine) and/or what I should be checking.
More data. First, in what may or may not be a related problem, running "apt-get update" on the same system results in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:msglog]$ apt-get update 0% [Connecting to localhost] [Connecting to localhost] ...which is somewhat less than optimal. Not sure why this is, /etc/apt/sources is: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free under /var/spool/exim/msglog, I find many files which contain contents similar to: 2000-08-11 01:08:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: debbugs_pipe transport failed: Child process of debbugs_pipe transport returned 100 from command: /usr/lib/debbugs/receive *** Frozen (delivery error message) Running /usr/lib/debbugs/receive by hand as user debbugs, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/www/sites/debbugs$ /usr/lib/debbugs/receive Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 27. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 30. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 54. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 60. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 61. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/debbugs/receive line 66. Unknown bug service address @bugs.opensales.org. Recognised addresses are: General: Read bug# in Subject: bug# is NNNN: request submit bug NNNN NNNN-submit control maintonly NNNN-maintonly owner quiet NNNN-quiet postmaster forwarded NNNN-forwarded done close NNNN-done NNNN-close submitter NNNN-submitter (all @bugs.opensales.org.) For instructions via the WWW see: http://bugs.opensales.org/ http://bugs.opensales.org/Reporting.html http://bugs.opensales.org/Developer.html http://bugs.opensales.org/Access.html Instructions are available from ftp.debian.org and at all Debian mirror sites, in the files: debian/doc/bug-reporting.txt debian/doc/bug-log-access.txt debian/doc/bug-maint-info.txt For details of how to access bug report logs by email: send [EMAIL PROTECTED]' the word `help' ...which makes me suspect I'm not invoking the script properly or am failing to initialize something. I'm not sure where /usr/lib/debbugs/receive is supposed to be run by (which was why I wanted to install glimpse which is why I'm noting apt-get fails....). Thoughts, anyone? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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