Bug#964761: Creating btrfs subvolumes with setup-storage fails in certain conditions

2022-12-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, the bug can be solved with the attached patch. Regards Christoph --- fai-5.10.3.orig/lib/setup-storage/Commands.pm +++ fai-5.10.3/lib/setup-storage/Commands.pm @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ sub build_btrfs_commands { next unless ($config eq "BTRFS"); #create BTRFS RAIDs -foreach my

Bug#819060: clamsmtp/proxsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2020-07-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, is there a chance that my patch will ever be integrated into the package? Regards Christoph

Bug#884994: systemd: shutdown does not send its warning messages when time is more than ten minutes

2019-09-03 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Can you be more specific, how sysvinit behaved. When exactly did sysvinit start with the notification messages, what was the initial interval and how exactly did the interval change on each iteration. I am sorry, I do not remember more than I already wrote and unfortunately, I have n

Bug#935525: sddm ignores policykit rules

2019-08-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
can suspend, hibernate, shutdown or reboot the machine without having to autenticate as root before. Regards Christoph Pleger -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: am

Bug#935319: plasma-workspace-wayland: Plasma Wayland session crashes

2019-08-21 Thread Christoph Pleger
nt:0:1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/cpleger Failed to create wl_display (Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt) qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found. qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to disp

Bug#887495: cups-browsed: 'No destination host name supplied by cups-browsed for printer "name", is cups-browsed running?' for all queues

2018-03-26 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I discovered the same problem on my computer today and found out that it is NO coincidence that the problem occurs on the KDE desktop. After several unsuccessful attempts of getting it to work under KDE by stopping cups and cups-browsed, editing configuration files, deleting all files

Bug#819060: clamsmtp/proxsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2018-02-21 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, a new version of the patch, in accordance to RFC 5321 only accepting CRLF as line separator, and with usage of builtin struct member _crlf to remember CRLFs. By the way, clamsmtp maintainers already integrated my patch into their package. Regards ChristophIndex: proxsmtp-1.10/comm

Bug#819061: [Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#819061: clamsmtp/proxsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2018-02-19 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, But since you asked so nicely I did look into it and found that your patch does not apply to clamsmtp. I attached a version of the patch that applies to clamsmtp. It also includes minor other code changes, but that should not change functionality. Also you made some changes that d

Bug#819060: clamsmtp/proxsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2018-02-16 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, after this has been undealed with since almost two years, I wrote a patch myself. Maybe someone finds at least the time to review it. Regards ChristophIndex: proxsmtp-1.10/common/smtppass.c === --- proxsmtp-1.10.orig/comm

Bug#889740: xmotd: crashes when built with hardening

2018-02-13 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, so, I suggest the attached patch for a solution. It removes most compile time warnings and makes xmotd to not crash (tested on stretch amd64). Regards ChristophRemove compiler and linker warnings Index: xmotd-1.17.3b/atom.c =

Bug#889740: thunderbird: Faulty apparmor configuration

2018-02-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: xmotd Version: 1.17.3b-9 Dear maintainers, on several Debian 9 computers, the stretch version of xmotd crashed every time with the following error message: xmotd: Bad address Then, I installed version 1.17.3b-8 from oldstable, which did not crash. Then, I built from source, which g

Bug#884994: systemd: shutdown does not send its warning messages when time is more than ten minutes

2018-01-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Fwiw, this behaviour makes sense to me. If you start a scheduled login 2 days in advance, sending a shutdown message every minute would not be helpful. Restricting that to the last ten minutes seems reasonable. How did sysvinit behave in that regard? As far as I remember, sysvinit star

Bug#884994: systemd: shutdown does not send its warning messages when time is more than ten minutes

2018-01-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, This functionality has been reworked completely based on systemd-logind. Can you please test with a more recent version, like 232 from stable. at least, the problem does not occur in this form on a stretch machine, though I find it a disadvantage that no warning message is shown ea

Bug#886632: thunderbird: Faulty apparmor configuration

2018-01-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:52.5.2-2~deb8u1 Dear maintainers, when apparmor starts on my jessie computer, it shows the following message: AppArmor parser error for /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird at line 12: syntax error, unexpected TOK_SET_VAR

Bug#884994: systemd: shutdown does not send its warning messages when time is more than ten minutes

2017-12-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u7 Severity: important Dear maintainers, The command 'shutdown -h +$time" does not send its repeated warning messages to logged in users when $time is greater than 10, but sends it only once - directly after entering the shutdown command. That is a serious

Bug#763601: systemd: booting is extremely slow depending on order of "console" arguments to kernel

2017-10-11 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have the same problem on my jessie machine. The only difference is, that in contrast to Sven, I get the serial getty after booting was finished, but no status lines on the serial console during the boot process, after changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS2,115200n8r"

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-08-29 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, You might want to edit your pull-request to either target the branch-2.1 from upstream, or rebase yours on top of upstream's master; as-it-is it's quite confusing :-/ The request has already been acted on and the issue is closed. They did not exactly apply my patch, but their solutio

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-08-28 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Would you be interested to push a pull-request to upstream? It doesn't make a lot of sense for me to play proxy… https://github.com/apple/cups Done, though I do not understand what you see as a possible problem there. I guess that comparison of port numbers in an AF_UNIX con

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-08-28 Thread Christoph Pleger
Author: Christoph Pleger Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/868316 Last-Update: 2017-08-28 Index: cups-2.2.1/cups/request.c === --- cups-2.2.1.orig/cups/request.c 2017-08-28 14:25:03.0 +0200 +++ cups-2.2.1/cups/request.c 2017-08

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-08-28 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, To be more exact, cg->ipp_port is 631, but httpAddrPort(cg->http->hostaddr) is 0. Regards Christoph

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-08-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, the bug at least somehow has to do with these lines in cups/request.c: if (strcmp(cg->http->hostname, cg->server) || cg->ipp_port != httpAddrPort(cg->http->hostaddr) || (cg->http->encryption != cg->encryption && cg->http->encryption == HTTP_ENCRYPTION_NEVER)) The

Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

2017-07-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Printers -> -> Administration -> Set Default Options A workaround to avoid doing this is to have DefaultPolicy in cupsd.conf on the server as "authenticated". Ah, thank you, I found it. Regards Christoph

Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

2017-07-21 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, Isn't it under "Policies"? Maybe I am blind, but I even cannot find "Policies", though I have clicked on many of the links. Regards Christoph

Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

2017-07-21 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, cups-browsed now saves a copy of the remote printer's PPD in /var/cache/cups. "Operation Policy" is one of the options which can set there using the web interface (say). I cannot find where to change the operation policy in the web interface. I wonder whether we really have a bug her

Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

2017-07-19 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, But I dug a hole for myself. 4. Reinstall stretch's cups-browsed (no change in cupsd.conf) to go back to 2. "OpPolicy authenticated" is what I get! 5. Remove "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf. Back to 1. Not at all! It's still "DefaultPolicy authenticated". Colour m

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-07-17 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On 2017-07-14 17:51, Brian Potkin wrote: We'll need an error_log; the Printing section of the wiki will guide you in getting one. Compress it with gzip and send it to #868316. The log is attached. I stopped the cups daemon, removed the old error_log, started the cups daemon, tried to

Bug#868316: cups-bsd: lpr does not print with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf

2017-07-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: cups-bsd Version: 2.2.1-8 Dear maintainers, I do not know if it is a problem with the lpr program from cups-bsd or with the cups daemon itself, but with "DefaultPolicy authenticated" in cupsd.conf, lpr does not print, but the job remains in the print queue for a while and then is rem

Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

2017-07-13 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.11.6-3 Severity: critical Dear maintainers, cups-browsed from Debian stretch ignores the "DefaultPolicy authenticated" entry in my cupsd.conf, so that all browsed-imported printers in /etc/cups/printers.conf are listed with "OpPolicy default". That differs fro

Bug#865976: mdadm destroys my LSI Megaraid software raid

2017-06-26 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: mdadm Version: 3.3.2-5+deb8u2 Severity: critical Dear maintainers, I created a virtual drive in the the RAID-Setup of a computer with LSI Megaraid software raid support. Then I booted from my self-created installation DVD (that has mdadm installed), let it partition the virtual drive

Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

2017-06-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: dmraid Version: 1.0.0.rc16-5 Severity: critical Dear maintainers, dmraid in jessie currently does not activate my software raid. As the boot/root partition is on the raid, my machine does not boot. The reason is that in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/dmraid, the call o

Bug#845378: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#845378: unbound: Resolvconf script is not executable

2016-11-24 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Yes, it does? In the default configuration Unbound performs recursion to resolve names. No. Sorry that I can only try version 1.4.22-3+deb8u2 from jessie and version 1.5.8-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu xenial, because I have no machine with stretch/sid, but with both of these versions, after turn

Bug#845378: unbound: Resolvconf script is not executable

2016-11-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > The resolvconf update.d hook for unbound is somewhat problematic, so it > is disabled by default. Enabling or disabling a resolvconf update.d hook > is done by setting or clearing the executable bit on the hook. But when the executable bit is not set and resolvconf is installed, the user

Bug#815556: unscd: nscd crashes again and again

2016-05-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Do you already know when you can upload a fixed version to jessie-backports?

Bug#820180: Add possibility to de-activate dmraid on demand

2016-04-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: dmraid Version: 1.0.0.rc16-5 Dear maintainers, some days ago, I booted an NFSROOT by PXE and used mdadm to create a raid 1 arary of two disks, with ddf metadata format. Then, I installed a base system on the raid and rebooted, but the boot was not successful, because device names had cha

Bug#819061: clamsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2016-03-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: clamsmtp Version: 1.10-13 Dear maintainers, (E)SMTP RFCs say that when a client is sending mail data, it must prepend an additional dot to lines with a leading dot, and that the server must remove that additional dot. clamsmtp does not handle that correctly; when receiving mails, there i

Bug#819060: proxsmtp does not handle lines with leading dots correctly

2016-03-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: proxsmtp Version: 1.10-2.1 Dear maintainers, (E)SMTP RFCs say that when a client is sending mail data, it must prepend an additional dot to lines with a leading dot, and that the server must remove that additional dot. proxsmtp does not handle that correctly; when receiving mails, there

Bug#817905: Please add creation of package grub-rescue-efi-amd64

2016-03-11 Thread Christoph Pleger
Source: grub2 Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 Severity: wishlist Dear maintainers, I suggest that you add the creation of a package named grub-rescue-efi-amd64, equivalent to grub-rescue-pc. I have attached a patch which does this. It applies to the current version in jessie security. The resultin

Bug#813364: Preventing users from rebooting / shutting down does not work

2016-03-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, is there any progress in solving this bug? Currently not only jessie, but also even sid is still going with an obsolete policykit version which - at least, it seems so for me - does not support the new rules syntax in local policykit configuration files under /etc/polkit-1, with which I cou

Bug#816858: Logical volumes on external USB disk cause boot to enter emergency shell

2016-03-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have to modify my statement about a new version of lvm2. After installing systemd again (for getting the journal messages) and rebooting, the computer booted completely, without entering the emergency shell. Downgrading lvm2 to the jessie version re-introduced the problem. So, the bug is

Bug#816858: Logical volumes on external USB disk cause boot to enter emergency shell

2016-03-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
ontain an additional sleep command before the vgchange call. With systemd, the sleep command does not help. So, journalctl is not available. What log is best in this situation? Regards Christoph Pleger

Bug#816858: Logical volumes on external USB disk cause boot to enter emergency shell

2016-03-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
id not help. I have attached the output of dmesg directly after entering the emergency shell. Regards Christoph Pleger[0.00] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Initializing c

Bug#816858: Logical volumes on external USB disk cause boot to enter emergency shell

2016-03-05 Thread Christoph Pleger
way I found so far to prevent that is to use sysvinit instead of systemd and insert a sleep in /etc/init.d/lvm2 before vgchange. Regards Christoph Pleger

Bug#815556: Please close

2016-02-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Please, close this bug number. Accidentally, because I expected that the first attempt had failed, I sent my report twice and I would like to keep the other one.

Bug#815557: unscd: nscd crashes again and again

2016-02-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
crashing again and again. For example, today at about 09:00 am local time, I restarted nscd on all of these computers, and now, at 01:16 pm local time, nscd has crashed on 85 of them. Regards Christoph Pleger *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led

Bug#815556: unscd: nscd crashes again and again

2016-02-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
crashing again and again. For example, today at about 09:00 am local time, I restarted nscd on all of these computers, and now, at 01:16 pm local time, nscd has crashed on 85 of them. Regards Christoph Pleger *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What

Bug#813364: Preventing users from rebooting / shutting down does not work

2016-02-01 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-8 Severity: important Hello, in Debian wheey, I used the attached file in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/ to prevent users from rebooting, shutting down, hibernating or suspending the system without having to enter the root password before. In Debian

Bug#792186: vpnc does not respect target network any more

2015-10-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
The problem is that vpnc does not pass the IPSEC target network values to vpnc-script.

Bug#792186: vpnc does not respect target network any more

2015-10-02 Thread Christoph Pleger
The bug report is now almost three months old. Is there anything going to happen to solve the problem?

Bug#795186: portsentry is starting too early

2015-08-11 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: portsentry Version: 1.2-13 Hello, In Debian jessie, portsenty is starting too early, that is, it is starting before other services are started that want to use the same ports, therefore blocking these ports so that starting these other services fails. For example, the default configurati

Bug#792186: vpnc does not respect target network any more

2015-07-12 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: vpnc Version: 0.5.3r550-2 Hello, in Debian wheezy, a target network for IPSec could be set with the following configuration value in /etc/vpnc/default.conf: Target networks In jessie, not only this has been changed to IPSEC target network but also, it does not work any more, that i

Bug#778580: dracut-network: dracut fails to start up rpc.idmapd required for nfsroot over nfsv4

2015-04-20 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, at least one problem with the nfs module of dracut-network is that it assumes that rpc.idmapd expects rpc_pipefs in /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, but that is not necessarily true, and in jessie it is wrong in most cases. rpc.idmapd takes the mountpoint for rpc_pipefs from the definition of Pipef

Bug#778580: dracut-network: dracut fails to start up rpc.idmapd required for nfsroot over nfsv4

2015-04-20 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, even after setting Pipefs-Directory to /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs in /etc/idmapd.conf, I still have a problem: The user ids on the client seem to be correct now, but for all files and directories belonging to the root group on the server, the client shows 'nogroup' as group. This does not happ

Bug#781656: Cannot boot with a bind-mounted /usr

2015-04-01 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.119 Hello, the initramfs-tools init script contains lines to mount /usr for use with systemd. This mount does not work if /usr has to be bind-mounted from another filesystem, with an fstab entry like this: /export/usr /usrnonebind

Bug#771188: multi-user.target boots to graphical mode

2015-03-20 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Is x-display-manager.target active? Yes, it is. Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#771188: multi-user.target boots to graphical mode

2015-03-20 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, >> Say you use kdm, which doesn't ship a native service file yet and >> doesn't yet support the new scheme, you could try a different approach: >> Add systemd.mask=kdm.service to the kernel command line >> >> This will runtime mask the service and prohibit it's start. >> >> Btw, when you b

Bug#780636: (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Christoph Pleger
Subject: systemd: Computer does not reboot after defining static network interface Package: systemd Version: 215-12 Severity: important Hello, after changing the configuration of my eth0 network interface from network-manager-configured (with dhcp) to statically configured by creating a file /

Bug#623634: libnet-rawip-perl: miscalculates header checksums

2014-04-01 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Thanks. > > Do you happen to still have the sources (bugtrackers, packaging VCS, > ...) of the patches? Unfortunately, no. Some things about these patches can be found when searching for their file names on the web, but on a quick search, I did not find the information you requested. >

Bug#623634: libnet-rawip-perl: miscalculates header checksums

2014-03-26 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Besides that I see the following warning in the build log for -2: > > RawIP.xs: In function 'XS_Net__RawIP_timem': > RawIP.xs:614:9: warning: format '%u' expects argument of type 'unsigned > int', but argument 2 has type '__time_t' [-Wformat=] > RETVAL = newSVpvf("%u.%06u",tv.tv_

Bug#623634: libnet-rawip-perl: miscalculates header checksums

2014-03-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
My perl script works if libnet-rawip-perl is compiled with gcc 4.6 . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#623634: libnet-rawip-perl: miscalculates header checksums

2014-03-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
To find out if the problem of my perl script is caused by libnet-rawip-perl, I installed the wheezy version of libnet-rawip-perl, and with that, my script worked. But as the downgrade of libnet-rawip-perl had resulted in some other packages being downgraded too, I could not be sure if the bug is in

Bug#623634: libnet-rawip-perl: miscalculates header checksums

2014-03-24 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have found another situation with bad UDP checksums: For Debian wheezy, I created the attached Debian package, containing a simple Perl script IRB-DHCP-Client, which takes a network interface name and a timeout value as its arguments, sends a broadcast DHCP request to the network, waits

Bug#637442: debmirror: New Contents file location

2013-06-18 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > This would require debmirror to change at every debian release to keep the list of release names up-to-date. Can't it simply detect where the file is? Ok, here is a second version that finds the location of the contents files by analyzing the Release file. Regards Christoph --- debmi

Bug#637442: debmirror: New Contents file location

2013-06-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, me and two colleagues developed a small patch which we believe solves the bug. We used the patched debmirror version for mirroring squeeze, wheezy, jessie and sid, and like we expected, it used the old location for squeeze contents files and the new location for wheezy, jessie and sid conte

Bug#637442: debmirror: New Contents file location

2013-06-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Isn't it possible to raise the severity of this bug? Besides not really fully mirroring, current debmirror makes packages apt-file and command-not-found unusable for their respective purposes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#710230: avelsieve: Probem with special German characters

2013-05-29 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: avelsieve Version: 1.9.9-2.4 Hello, I have a rule that, if a virus was detected in an email, discards the email and sends a notification message. That message contains special German characters like ö, ß etc. When in a web-browser I log in to my email server, open the "Filters" link and

Bug#710179: avelsieve: Clicking on "More Options" does not do anything

2013-05-28 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: avelsieve Version: 1.9.9-2 Hello, when in a web-browser I log in to my email server, open the "Filters" link and then click on "More Options" on the left side of a rule, nothing happens. This is in contrast to an avelsieve installation directly from upstream, together with the recommende

Bug#623683: #623683 grub-pc: grub2 and Windows 7 infinite reboot loop

2013-01-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > This bug here has been solved by a resolved bug below. Can > it be closed? > > bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623683 > > > #567728 <567...@bugs.debian.org> > grub-common: update-grub fails to generate a valid entry for my windows 7 > installation I am not reall

Bug#540291: initscripts: fails to mount NFS shares at boot

2012-07-27 Thread Christoph Pleger
I have the same problem and neither setting ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no in /etc/default/rcS nor using bg as a mount option in /etc/fstab solves it. Both of these lead to the following error message, though my server name really exists: mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server server-name: Name or service not kno

Bug#544687: libpam-unix2: forks numerous instances of unix2_chkpwd

2012-05-29 Thread Christoph Pleger
On Sun, 27 May 2012 21:53:59 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: > >It seems that this only happens when a user wants to unlock the > >screen, not when logging in. > > Does it happen regardless of whether the entered password was correct > or not? This is always happening, regardless of if the password is

Bug#544687: libpam-unix2: forks numerous instances of unix2_chkpwd

2012-05-24 Thread Christoph Pleger
> That is, unix2_chkpwd is called recursively again and again and the user > cannot be authenticated. It seems that this only happens when a user wants to unlock the screen, not when logging in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#544687: libpam-unix2: forks numerous instances of unix2_chkpwd

2012-05-24 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, though I obviously do not have the exactly same bug occurring, because the corresponding change that introduced my bug took place two days after Jakub's last message, I add my bug description to this report, because my bug fits perfectly to the subject. That is, unix2_chkpwd is called recur

Bug#647888: mcelog does not start at boot time

2011-11-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > - check your logs for messages from mcelog during system startup > - see if the problem also exists with Squeeze's standard kernel > - see if mcelog from sid fixes the problem with your current kernel 1. The relevant lines from syslog is: Nov 8 10:13:56 fiws117 mcelog: mcelog read: No

Bug#647888: mcelog does not start at boot time

2011-11-07 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: mcelog Version: 1.0~pre3-3 Severity: normal Hello, on my machine, mcelog is not started at boot time (or crashes immediately), though the rc links are set. It pretends to start and shows "Starting Machine Check Exceptions decoder: mcelog." without any error message, but calling 'pidof mc

Bug#616171: nscd loses groups

2011-07-26 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > I have also noticed that with group set just to "compat" > with nscd turned on, that sometime nscd loses the NIS groups > and just reports the local groups. I have a very similar problem: With nscd running, when all user's account data comes from NIS, `groups user` often shows only the p

Bug#623683: grub-pc: grub2 and Windows 7 infinite reboot loop

2011-04-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Severity: important Hello, on my computer, Windows 7 cannot be booted if grub2 is installed as bootloader. Everytime when I choose Windows 7 in the boot menu, Windows starts to boot and shows its animated boot logo, but after some time, probably when nor

Bug#622750: Acknowledgement (general: "shutdown -r" does not reboot)

2011-04-15 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, the reason for the problem was that when upgrading from lenny to squeeze, some things have gone wrong with the runlevel links in /etc/rc?.d so that they were not called in a correct order. I deleted all runlevel links and recreated them by 'dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc'; now rebooting works ok.

Bug#622750: general: "shutdown -r" does not reboot

2011-04-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: general Severity: normal Hello, when I am logged in (by ssh or on tty1-tty6) as root on the machine where I am writing this from and enter "shutdown -r now", the machine does not reboot, but instead I get the message: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue):

Bug#614757: debmirror: Some archives cannot be mirrored since Sunday

2011-02-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.5 Severity: normal Hello, maybe this is not the right place for describing my mirroring problems, but I do not know wherelse I can write about it: I am mirroring the debian, debian-security, debian-backports and debian-volatile archives. After the release of squ

Bug#510712: initscripts: inconsistent management of /etc/nologin file|symlink

2010-10-27 Thread Christoph Pleger
The bug still exists in current lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > That's the same... what's this directory and why did you do that? > Try without it please. It is one of the directories that is included in upstream. The parameter -l is necessary for dh_shlibdeps to find some libraries which are needed to execute the binary. Without -l, dpkg-buildpackag

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-07 Thread Christoph Pleger
> Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set during the build process? I did not explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I just appended a directory to it by using the -l parameter of dh_shlibdeps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-07 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Hum, in theory /usr/lib32 is checked first. What's the output of > the failing dpkg-shlibdeps call if you add the -v option ? The relevant lines are: Library libidn.so.11 found in /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libidn.so.11 No associated package found for /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libidn.so.11

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
Probably, the problem occurs because the library is located in /usr/lib32, but /usr/lib32 is a symbolic link to /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib. In my opinion, dpkg-shlibdeps/dpkg should handle symbolic links correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
> What does "dpkg -S /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libidn.so.11" return? It returns "not found". Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588141: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps does not find dependency information of a 32-bit executable on an amd64 machine

2010-07-05 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.29 Severity: normal Hello, I want to build to build a debian package for my amd64-architecture. The resulting package contains 32-bit libraries and executables which are part of the orig.tar.gz from upstream. These libraries and executables need 32-bit libraries w

Bug#299150: To: line without hostname

2010-04-30 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I created a patch that solves this problem. It does not simply append the hostname to the To||Cc-Headers, but respects the RewriteDomain. If the recipient is listed in /etc/ssmtp/revaliases, the alias address is used in the To||Cc-Header. Much of the patch code is taken from other function

Bug#566113: /usr/lib/utempter/utempter has wrong group and permissions

2010-04-01 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:52:36 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > That should fail the build-dependency check, libutempter build-depends > on a newer debhelper than is in lenny. I changed the dependency in the control file, so that only the lenny version of debhelper was required. As the build

Bug#566113: /usr/lib/utempter/utempter has wrong group and permissions

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Pleger
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:27:34 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > How exactly did you build the package? The packages in the archive > have correct permissions (on all architectures)... I built it with "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot", but with the lenny version of debhelper. Maybe that is the r

Bug#566113: /usr/lib/utempter/utempter has wrong group and permissions

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: libutempter0 Version: 1.1.5-2 Hello, I downloaded your package source and used it to create the two packages for lenny. After installing package libutempter0, the command 'ls -l /usr/lib/utempter/utempter' shows the following: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4848 2010-01-19 14:08 utemp

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2010-01-18 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > For your information, security uploads for etch and lenny have been > done, so we are close to release a Debian Security Announce (DSA) > with a fix (we are only missing a few builds for etch). > > I have also build the lenny package for i386 and uploaded it here: > http://temp.aurel32.n

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2010-01-06 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:50:34 +0100 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Thanks for the patch. I don't know a lot neither about NIS nor about > the NIS API, but it basically looks ok. Some minor changes and code > indentation will probably be need before it can be accepted upstream. > See my comments in

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:50:34 +0100 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > This should probably be free(result). Also there is indentation > issues. Oops, my mistake, obviously I sent an obsolete version of the patch. I remember that I got a compilation error because of the missing parantheses. Now, I h

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
The attached patch seems to solve the problems. It works with nscd as well as without nscd. Authentication works fine now. It makes the following changes: * In nis-pwd.c, do not mangle encrypted password from passwd.adjunct.byname map into the password field of passwd map, instead mangle

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-16 Thread Christoph Pleger
I created the attached patch, which completely disables mangling of passwd and passwd.adjunct.byname maps. Additionally, the encrypted password is looked for in the map passwd.adjunct.byname if the map shadow.byname does not exist. This make getpwnam and getspnam work like I think is correct (th

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
> Unfortunately I don't have a NIS setup to debug that. Can you try with > libc6 / nscd from testing or unstable on a machine or even in a > chroot? > > If it is fixed in newer versions, we will try to find the commit > fixing this and then backport the fix. If it is not, I'll have to > create a N

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, the mangling of passwd and passwd.adjunct.byname happens in glibc-2.7/nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c. Before I found out that nscd is part of the problem, I tried to let the mangling happen only if the calling user to getpwnam is root (by checking for geteuid() == 0), but that did not solve the prob

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-14 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, the problem is somehow caused by nscd. When I disable passwd caching in /etc/nscd.conf and then restart nscd, the shadow passwords can only be seen by root. Because of the security risk, I recommend to set the severity of this bug to "critical". Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#560333: libc6: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

2009-12-10 Thread Christoph Pleger
Package: libc6 Version: 2.7-18 Severity: normal Hello, I have several machines where almost all user accounts come by NIS. The NIS server is running on a Solaris machine. As usual, the Solaris NIS server exports the passwd data in the map "passwd" and the shadow data in the map "passwd.adjunct.by

Bug#524992: gnome-settings-daemon: Faulty keyboard layout when logging in from remote

2009-04-23 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Yes, this is expected if you disabled the keyboard plugin. The message also appears when the plugin is not disabled. > > Does your ?modified X.org? has the XKB extension available? No, it does not have that extension. That is probably the reason for the wrong keyboard layout. I think

Bug#524992: gnome-settings-daemon: Faulty keyboard layout when logging in from remote

2009-04-22 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > Looks like there is no keyboard configuration at all, so this is an X > issue. What was the configured layout in xorg.conf before the upgrade, The X server, which is a modified version of Xorg, runs on a Sun. No xorg.conf is necessary and it does not exist. > and what layout now appears

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