Bug#1022822: apache2: improve apache2 OOM handling w/systemd

2022-10-26 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.54-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-bu...@l8r.net Dear Maintainer, A single apache2 thread was hit by the linux kernel OOM killer, and was killed. Systemd "helpfully" decided to then halt apache2 completely. As per this bug report: https://bugzilla.re

Bug#1014732: logrotate: daily mail “error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is world-readable and thus…”

2022-07-10 Thread Brad Barnett
Can confirm this bug here, and an updated patch fixes this. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090926 And: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/commit/31cf1099ab8514dfcae5a980bc77352edd5292f8 Suggest at the very least, this is updated in Debian for the next point release.

Bug#977125: needrestart ignores invoke-rc.d return code, not catching error conditions in attempted restarts of services

2020-12-11 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: needrestart Version: 3.4-5 Severity: normal buster's behaviour, in terms of ENV setup differs, when one performs 'su -' versus 'su root'. Due to this, 'sbin' paths are not in a 'su root' $PATH. This means that this happens, when one does an apt-get upgrade as 'su root': Restarting se

Bug#942750: coreutils: ls adds spaces to start of output, inconsistently

2019-10-20 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: coreutils Version: 8.30-3 Severity: minor ls adds a space at the start of some output. Seems to only happen when extra quoting is in the output: root@hmm:/tmp/oo# ls a b 'sd ' root@hmm:/tmp/oo# rm sd\ root@hmm:/tmp/oo# ls a b root@hmm:/tmp/oo# touch c root@hmm:/tmp/oo# ls a b

Bug#928415: disabling javascript

2019-05-05 Thread Brad Barnett
Attached is a snapshot of the banner, as it appears on all versions of Firefox I use that have disabled add-ons. This is on debian stable, 60.6.1esr-1~deb9u1. Are you running this version? Do you have add-ons installed? If so, you should probably submit a separate bug, either to mozilla or her

Bug#928415: studies

2019-05-05 Thread Brad Barnett
> installing the STUDIES "hotfix" from Mozilla by hand on each one is not > feasible. Not to mention, this requires that other features of Firefox's 'phone home' framework are turned on, which 'studies' uses. For example, in the GUI, the 'studies' option is under: "Allow Firefox to send techn

Bug#928415: disabling javascript

2019-05-04 Thread Brad Barnett
While I agree an unknown disabling of plugins, not just noscript (there are others like noscript) is a security concern... There is a big, yellow banner that appears and stays at the top of your browser, informing you if any plugins/add-ons are disabled. So for me, the 'big deal' is being infor

Bug#928125: losetup causes Dead systemd-udevd processes, blocks forever

2019-04-28 Thread Brad Barnett
Ack, should have thought of that. Just tested. OK kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.144-3 (2019-02-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux Borked kernel: 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) x86_64 Hmm. Just noticed GNU/Linux tag is missing too.. On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:41:47 +0200 Mic

Bug#928125: more info

2019-04-28 Thread Brad Barnett
FYI, I'm running sysvinit.

Bug#928125: losetup causes Dead systemd-udevd processes, blocks forever

2019-04-28 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: udev Version: 232-25+deb9u11 After today's upgrade to debian 9.9, I attempted to create a disk image. I have a script, it does the following: ### dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ff1.raw bs=1G seek=8 count=0 sync sleep 1 parted /tmp/ff1.raw mklabel msdos parted -s /tmp/ff1.raw mkpart primary l

Bug#909294: buster base installing reportbug-gtk, therefore pulling in loads of X/GTK libraries

2018-09-21 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: installation-reports Boot method: iso in virtualbox Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: September 21, 2019 Machine: 64bit Virtualbox with 'debian' selected Processor: N/A (I worry about CPU info now, thanks

Bug#907783: telnet not parsing telnetrc

2018-09-01 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: telnet Version: 0.17-41 After an upgrade from jessie to stretch, and moving my jessie .telnetrc file into my homedir, I noticed that it was no longer parsed correctly. # cat .telnetrc 172.16.1.1 mode char Yet stretch's version of telnet does not switch to character mode. A bit of

Bug#878191: Error in `/usr/bin/mplayer': corrupted double-linked list: 0x0000560ab80de850

2017-10-10 Thread Brad Barnett
Some info. It seems that the default for probesize might be 500: https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe-all.html probesize integer (input) Set probing size in bytes, i.e. the size of the data to analyze to get stream information. A higher value will enable detecting more information in cas

Bug#878191: Error in `/usr/bin/mplayer': corrupted double-linked list: 0x0000560ab80de850

2017-10-10 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.3.0-6 I've recently been playing more 4k / 2160p video files, 8 bit encoded. All have been fine with the exception of two of them. $ uname -a Linux xsdfsdf 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ /usr/bin/mplayer -fs filename.2160p

Bug#861576: new dpkg colourized output doesn't respect /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable

2017-04-30 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.23 Newer versions of dpkg have colourized output. I can see the usage case for this, and I can see the value for some. However, for others, it is a major detractor. One of the issues with the recent colourization of the userland, is that each has its own way to disab

Bug#860908: perl 5.24 segfaults during a dpkg -i of cmanager (and other packages)

2017-04-30 Thread Brad Barnett
that luck resulted in that memspace not being used for anything I noticed. Sorry for the issue guys, very sorry to waste your time. And thanks for the help. On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:00:25 -0400 Brad Barnett wrote: > > > > > Can you reproduce the segfault reliably by run

Bug#860908: perl 5.24 segfaults during a dpkg -i of cmanager (and other packages)

2017-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
> Can you reproduce the segfault reliably by running: > > "deb-systemd-helper unmask cgmanager.service >/dev/null" > > With Perl 5.24? > Hmm. root@newoldbe:/var/cache/apt/archives# deb-systemd-helper unmask cgmanager.service >/dev/null /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper was not called from dpkg.

Bug#860908: perl 5.24 segfaults during a dpkg -i of cmanager (and other packages)

2017-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
> Could you perhaps include the following information: > > * Which architecture are you using? If you have multi-arch enabled, >please list the architecture of the perl packages (e.g. in the form >of "dpkg -l" if you don't mind including a list of all packages >installed) amd64, n

Bug#860908: perl 5.24 segfaults during a dpkg -i of cmanager (and other packages)

2017-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: perl Version: 5.24.1-2 When installing packages right after a fresh stretch install, perl started to segfault. EG: Setting up cgmanager (0.41-2) ... Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segm

Bug#860234: redmine: various issues on jessie -> stretch upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: redmine Version: 3.3.1-4 Severity: normal During a jessie to stretch upgrade: 1) ln: /var/lib/redmine/default/log: cannot overwrite directory dpkg: error processing package redmine (--configure): A rm of existing log dir, then allowed the link to be created.. 2) The DB install prompt

Bug#842370: qemu qmp unix sockets stop working with 'connection refused' randomly

2016-10-31 Thread Brad Barnett
ichael Tokarev wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible > > 28.10.2016 17:30, Brad Barnett wrote: > > Package: qemu-system-x86 > > Version: 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 > > > > I've been unable to find anything about this via Google searches, > > mailing list se

Bug#842370: qemu qmp unix sockets stop working with 'connection refused' randomly

2016-10-28 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 I've been unable to find anything about this via Google searches, mailing list searches, IRC, you name it. Nor, does the documentation seem to indicate I'm doing anything wrong. Additional queries to qemu-devel and qemu-discuss fell flat, wi

Bug#703092: Info received (Bug#703092: dpkg --set-selections ignores available packages never installed or removed by dpkg)

2013-10-20 Thread Brad Barnett
I view this bug as very high priority. I see more than a decade of documentation out there, and of user experience familiar with a process. A process that changed for code correctness, and for absolutely no other reason. A process than in changing, broke the existing process. And when the proc

Bug#703092: dpkg --set-selections ignores available packages never installed or removed by dpkg

2013-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:30:48 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: > What I'm planning to do to try to improve the situation is: > > * Document the change in the man page in master targetting 1.17.x > (perhaps 1.16.x too). > * Probably add a single warning at the end of the --set-selections >

Bug#703092: dpkg --set-selections ignores available packages never installed or removed by dpkg

2013-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
I might add, that I attempted to use Guillem's suggestion in that email. I get borked at the whole: apt-cache dumpavail && dpkg --update-avail / --merge-avail How on earth is that even supposed to work? Doesn't seem to function here... On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:41:35

Bug#703092: dpkg --set-selections ignores available packages never installed or removed by dpkg

2013-04-21 Thread Brad Barnett
Uh, yeah... great. Ok, so we have a regression that is "OK", because it is based on whether a behaviour is technically correct. I've seen this bug for months and months, but thought it was a well known bug that just wasn't resolved. In fact, I didn't even look for bug reports. I didn't even lo

Bug#559982: upstream bug is closed, marking pidgin as out of date

2009-12-15 Thread Brad Barnett
The upstream bug report, targeted in this bug report, is closed. It's marked as OUT OF DATE version. This means that the upstream bug report, will not help Debian Lenny's version of Pidgin. Either a patch must be backported, or there needs to be a volatile update to Pidgin. It's what volatile

Bug#449346: kvm: network sometimes just stops

2009-10-31 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: kvm Version: 72+dfsg-5~lenny2 Severity: important Scratch that. This: vdekvm -net nic,model=i82559er -net vde,sock=/var/run/vde2/mytap.ctl resulted in an instant segfault of KVM, when trying to write any data to an NFS share. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@l

Bug#449346: kvm: network sometimes just stops

2009-10-31 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: kvm Version: 72+dfsg-5~lenny2 Severity: important I have precisely the same issue, but using VDE2 as well. The following worked: vdekvm -net nic,model=i82559er -net vde,sock=/var/run/vde2/mytap.ctl The following NIC models failed: "ne2k_pci", "pcnet", "rtl8139" That is, after brief

Bug#455593: this package should never be installed by default

2009-03-05 Thread Brad Barnett
I believe all of my installs are RC1 or beta2 Lenny's. I've checked with a few people, and they do not have this package as default on released Lenny. Such as it is, I imagine this was removed from the default install, and if so I apologise for this report. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#455593: this package should never be installed by default

2009-03-05 Thread Brad Barnett
I have several post etch systems, that have this installed by default on them. This should not be the case, as its behaviour is quite destructive, dependant upon what you are doing. That is, it prevents your machine from booting. For example: 1) I did not ask for this package to be installed

Bug#491043: confirmation of bug

2008-07-24 Thread Brad Barnett
This bug occurs here, and in fact also exists when I try to play any file from the command line. I used to use XMMS in stable for playing voice messages that I receive in my email, but I can't now... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Bug#445748: easily reproducable via network drop

2008-07-17 Thread Brad Barnett
Hi, I believe I have found a method to reproduce this bug via ssh port forwarding. 1) use SSH to create a port forward tunnel for jabber eg: -L 5222:some.remote.host:5222 2) connect to the remote server via the tunnel (that is, set the jabber prefs to connect to localhost:5222) 3) afte

Bug#423091: xtightvncviewer: tightvncviewer defaults to raw encoding when connecting to localhost

2007-05-09 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: xtightvncviewer Version: 1.2.9-21 Severity: important When xtightvncviewer connects to localhost, it automatically assumes that it should use raw encoding. For example, the output states "Same machine: preferring raw encoding". However, this should not be the case, as many people u

Bug#408622: this should fix the bug... it does here

2007-03-18 Thread Brad Barnett
The same problem exists for me, using standard 32bit stable. The problem is that perl sees a symlink as a directory, if it points to a directory. Perhaps this is a change since 5.005 -> newer versions of perl? Anyhow, update-jail creates directories if it sees that they are such, via -d.. and

Bug#402628: iceape fails to use -remote openURL correctly

2006-12-13 Thread Brad Barnett
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:49:48 +0100 Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Brad Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:08:22 +0100 > > Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Bug#402628: iceape fails to use -remote openURL correctly

2006-12-13 Thread Brad Barnett
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:08:22 +0100 Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote: > > Package: iceape-browser > > Version: 1.0.6-1 > > > > Iceape fails to use openURL correctly. For example: > > M

Bug#402691: vim.full refuses to turn syntax highlighting off

2006-12-12 Thread Brad Barnett
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:40:58 -0500 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tag 402691 unreproducible moreinfo > thanks Please close this bug, sorry to bother you over it. It seems that I mistook an (annoying) new Vim70 feature, parenthesis highlighting, for syntax highlighting. If others want

Bug#402691: vim.full refuses to turn syntax highlighting off

2006-12-12 Thread Brad Barnett
2006 at 11:21:00PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote: > > For some reason, syntax highlighting is now on by default with vim. > > That's not the case as evidenced by the lack of syntax highlighting when > starting Vim as "vim -u /etc/vim/vimrc -N". Hmm. When I start vim like t

Bug#402691: vim.full refuses to turn syntax highlighting off

2006-12-12 Thread Brad Barnett
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:40:58 -0500 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tag 402691 unreproducible moreinfo > thanks > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:21:00PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote: > > For some reason, syntax highlighting is now on by default with vim. > > Th

Bug#402691: vim.full refuses to turn syntax highlighting off

2006-12-11 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: vim-full Version: 1:7.0-122+1 For some reason, syntax highlighting is now on by default with vim. Fair enough, perhaps enough people prefer it... However, I am unable to turn off syntax highlighting at all. Editing /etc/vim/vimrc, and uncommenting: "syntax on and changing it to: syn

Bug#402628: iceape fails to use -remote openURL correctly

2006-12-11 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: iceape-browser Version: 1.0.6-1 Iceape fails to use openURL correctly. For example: -remote "openURL(http://domain.com/)" Opens a new window, whereas it should open in an existing window. -remote "openURL(http://domain.com/,newwindow)" Generally results in a "The requested URL /,neww

Bug#336441: this problem occurs with AMD64 and Mozilla here.. but primarily if cache settings are set to "always check"

2005-12-11 Thread Brad Barnett
Package: mozilla Version: 2:1.7.12 Followup-For: Bug #336441 Here is my bug report to moz.org, they kicked me back here with lame excuses about them no longer taking 1.7.x bug reports... If I set the cache to "every time I view the page", Mozilla crashes when I view a page the second time. Thi