Bug#918036: linux: uptime after reboot wrong (kvm-clock related?)

2019-02-10 Thread Ewen McNeill
I'm also seeing this issue, also on a Debian Linux 4.19 kernel (on updated Debian unstable VM), also on KVM, straight after rebooting the VM. But without any suspending involved, I just reboot the VM, and as soon as I can log in after rebooting its showing 6+ days of uptime. The uptime jumps

Bug#774851: torrus-common: cronjob produces output /srv/torrus/collector_rrd: No such file or directory

2015-04-22 Thread Ewen McNeill
Andreas Beckmann wrote: 3m11.8s DUMP: find: `/srv/torrus/collector_rrd': No such file or directory This output is also produced when the package is still installed. From looking into the cron output, it appears to be a result of /etc/cron.daily/torrus-common calling /usr/share/torrus/s

Bug#775702: caff: Using gpg-agent without GPG_TTY causes silent caff failures

2015-01-28 Thread Ewen McNeill
For completeness, with the help of an insightful question asked by the MacPorts signing-party package maintainer I re-discovered that I'd put in a shell script wrapper around "gpg", which attempted to auto-set GPG_TTY from stdin or stderr. Because (from reading the comments in the script;

Bug#775702: caff: Using gpg-agent without GPG_TTY causes silent caff failures

2015-01-22 Thread Ewen McNeill
On 23/01/15 13:20, Guilhem Moulin wrote: [T]he next step would be to mail gnupg-de...@gnupg.org, at least if the culprit is not the OSX maintainer (I dunno how things work there; assuming these macports are not built by upstream). MacPorts is basically FreeBSD ports, for Mac OS X. So it functi

Bug#775702: caff: Using gpg-agent without GPG_TTY causes silent caff failures

2015-01-20 Thread Ewen McNeill
On 21/01/15 13:24, Guilhem Moulin wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 at 11:12:44 +1300, Ewen McNeill wrote: - MacPorts (OS X) (gpg 1.4.18): works _without_ sderr redirected, fails with stderr redirected (no output, exit code 1), unless GPG_TTY is set then it works again. Wow that's odd. I

Bug#775702: caff: Using gpg-agent without GPG_TTY causes silent caff failures

2015-01-20 Thread Ewen McNeill
On 21/01/15 6:05, Guilhem Moulin wrote: Your report says you have signing-party 1.1.4-1, but your patch seems to be against a more recent version :-P Yes, the patch was originally written for the version in OS X MacPorts, which is currently between the version in Debian Stable and Debian Unst

Bug#775702: caff: Using gpg-agent without GPG_TTY causes silent caff failures

2015-01-18 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: signing-party Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: normal Initially encountered on OS/X with MacPorts (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46601), but reported here because (a) Debian appears to be the upstream for signing-party/caff (http://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org/) and (b) AFAICT by inspection

Bug#418757: /proc/scsi/aacraid workarounds

2008-06-12 Thread Ewen McNeill
FTR, a couple of (partial) work arounds for this issue: 1. Use an older version of afacli: http://ftp.us.dell.com/scsi-raid/afa-apps-snmp.2806076-A02.tar.gz as suggested by: http://wiki.club.cc.cmu.edu/org/ccwiki/AACRAID (and various mailing list postings I eventually found.)

Bug#418757: Debian Etch: Patch: /proc/scsi/aacraid missing

2008-06-12 Thread Ewen McNeill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dann frazier writes: >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:28:49PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote: >> Amongst other things this prevents using the Dell afacli management tool >> to monitor/manage the RAID arrays, since it checks for >> /proc/scsi/aacrai

Bug#418757: Debian Etch: Patch: /proc/scsi/aacraid missing

2008-06-10 Thread Ewen McNeill
As noted by Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last year, with the default Debian Etch kernel, /proc/scsi/aacraid is missing on the Debian Etch kernel, even when the AACRAID driver is loaded and operating. Amongst other things this prevents using the Dell afacli management tool to monitor/manage

Bug#433870: (Debian Sarge) not fixed (was Re: Bug#433870 closed by Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#433869: fixed in tzdata 2007f-1etch1))

2007-07-31 Thread Ewen McNeill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, De bian Bug Tracking System writes: >This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report >#433870: Sarge: TimeZone: New Zealand change to daylight time transition, >which was filed against the tzdata package. >It has been closed by Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROT

Bug#433869: Etch: New Zealand change to daylight time transition

2007-07-19 Thread Ewen McNeill
I have also filed a bug on libc6 in Sarge for this issue (since the timezone information is rolled into the libc6 package in Sarge), #433870: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433870 You may possibly wish to coordinate with the libc6 maintainer. Ewen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#433870: Sarge: TimeZone: New Zealand change to daylight time transition

2007-07-19 Thread Ewen McNeill
The equivilent bug for Etch is #433869: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433869 Ewen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#433870: Sarge: TimeZone: New Zealand change to daylight time transition

2007-07-19 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 Severity: normal The New Zealand Government has altered the dates when Daylight Time will start and end starting this year. Daylight Time will begin one week earlier (on the last Sunday in September, instead of the first Sunday in October), and finish tw

Bug#433869: Etch: New Zealand change to daylight time transition

2007-07-19 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: tzdata Version: 2007b-1 Severity: normal The New Zealand Government has altered the dates when Daylight Time will start and end starting this year. Daylight Time will begin one week earlier (on the last Sunday in September, instead of the first Sunday in October), and finish two weeks la

Bug#349196: sudo: proposed fix seems okay (was Re: sudo: DSA946: omitting $HOME)

2006-03-20 Thread Ewen McNeill
Ewen McNeill writes: >In reply to bug 349729 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 [...] >>[the advisory indicates only LC_*, LANG, LANGUAGE and TERM are passed through] >[ The discussion is now merged into: > htt

Bug#349587: sudo: DSA946: omitting $HOME

2006-03-20 Thread Ewen McNeill
In reply to bug 349729 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please read the advisory again: >http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 > >It says: > > "Additional variables are only passed through when set as env_check > in /etc/sudoers, which might be required for some scripts to > co

Bug#332251: Squid: Woody: -2woody11 fixes FTP issue

2005-11-09 Thread Ewen McNeill
DSA 809-3 released squid 2.4.6-2woody11 which included the fix for the FTP instability regression. I have had a hand patched version in production for a week, and 2woody11 in production for two days, and both seem to have been stable. (With -2woody10 it would crash at least once an hour.) So I t

Bug#331714: DSA-809-2: patch: squid: -woody10: crash on FTP data channel close

2005-10-31 Thread Ewen McNeill
1 13:09:43 2005 +++ squid-2.4.6-ftpfix/debian/changelog Tue Nov 1 13:03:58 2005 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +squid (2.4.6-2woody10.ftpfix) oldstable-security; urgency=high + + * Added fix for broken ftpDataRead() handling (in ftp.c), which was broken +by 2.4.6-2woody10 patches. Suggested by "Kosa

Bug#331718: Woody: reportbug crashes querying BTS: "IndexError: list index out of range"

2005-10-04 Thread Ewen McNeill
. Full session: -=- cut here -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ reportbug reportbug Using 'Ewen McNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as your from address. Getting status for reportbug... Querying Debian bug tracking system for reports on reportbug (Use ? for help at prompts.) Traceback (most recent

Bug#331714: 2.4.6-2woody10: regression: assertion failed: comm.c:636: "F->flags.open"

2005-10-04 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: squid Version: 2.4.6-2woody10 Severity: normal After installing the 2.4.6-2woody10 security update for Squid on Debian Woody (DSA 809-2, fixing a regression in DSA 751), squid now regularly restarts itself, logging: assertion failed: comm.c:636: "F->flags.open" This is happening appro

Bug#330999: samba.postinst destroys smbpasswd if LDAP/NIS is down

2005-09-30 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: samba Version: 3.0.14a-3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss When upgrading from Debian Woody (with Samba 2.x) to Debian Sarge (with Samba 3.x), /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.postinst attempts to convert the smbpasswd database to the new TDB format, with the following c

Bug#330268: Acknowledgement (Sun: Blade100: serial console install fails after reboot)

2005-09-26 Thread Ewen McNeill
Further to my report: - I ended up forcing a reboot by powering the machine off (as sending a break on the serial console didn't seem to work, and there was no functional tty or remote access) - After rebooting the system complained that it couldn't fsck /dev/hda2 (the root disk) and prompte

Bug#330268: Sun: Blade100: serial console install fails after reboot

2005-09-26 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Version shipped with Debian 3.1r0a uname -a: Linux version 2.6.8-2-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Wed Mar 23 04:23:37 EST 2005 Date: 2005/09/27 14:00:00 NZST Method: Network boot into install system,

Bug#310801: reopening upgrade bugs

2005-09-22 Thread Ewen McNeill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Allombert writes: >reopen 310801 [...] > >Hello, I reopen these report that have been summarily closed without >being processed. When the bug is an upgrade failure, we should at least >try to reproduce the failure before closing the bug. [...] While I agree

Bug#324204: mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge3 fixes issue

2005-09-01 Thread Ewen McNeill
Hi, It appears that mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge3 resolves the issue with mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge2; with the new update installed from DSA 779-2 both middle-click and ctrl-click work again to open new tabs. So I think you can close this bug. Bug #324686 and bug #325612 appear to report the

Bug#325663: README.Debian: Document --disable-debug setting

2005-08-30 Thread Ewen McNeill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laszlo Boszormenyi writes: >On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 18:20 +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote: >> Package: libneon24 >> Version: 0.24.7.dfsg-2 >> Severity: normal >> >> libneon24 is compiled with the --disable-debug parameter. This appar

Bug#325663: README.Debian: Document --disable-debug setting

2005-08-29 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: libneon24 Version: 0.24.7.dfsg-2 Severity: normal libneon24 is compiled with the --disable-debug parameter. This apparently means that setting ne_debug is completely ignored. Which in turn means that the subversion recommendation to set neon-debug-mask (in .subversion/servers) to debug

Bug#324204: mozilla-firefox: 1.0.4-2sarge2 breaks middle-button and ctrl-click for new tab

2005-08-20 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2sarge2 Severity: normal In 1.0.4-2sarge1 (and every other Firefox build I've used), it's possible to open a new tab (or window) with the middle mouse button, or with ctrl-click, on a link. In 1.0.4-2sarge2 neither of these features work any longer; clickin

Bug#310801: Successful: mipsel: Cobalt: Woody->Sarge upgrade

2005-05-28 Thread Ewen McNeill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Thanks again for your report, report from upgrade on less mainstream >architectures are very valuable to us. FWIW, I've successfully upgraded my Cobalt RAQ2 (mipsel) from Woody to Sarge by updating to the Sarge apt sources, apt-get update,

Bug#310801: Failed: mips(el) (cobalt): no aptitude package in woody for mips(el)

2005-05-28 Thread Ewen McNeill
reopen 310801 retitle 310801 Release Notes: mips(el): further notes on upgrade approach In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] r writes: >Frans Pop has changed the release notes to follow your suggestions: >[] > # apt-get install aptitude > >aptitude will show you a list of the

Bug#310801: Failed: mips(el) (cobalt): no aptitude package in woody for mips(el)

2005-05-25 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: upgrade-reports [NOTE: This duplicates some information in report #310005; I'm still filing as a separate bug because I think the specific issue (aptitude missing in woody for mips(el)) is sigificant enough to warrant separate attention. Feel free to close this bug if/when issue raised i

Bug#309705: Successful: Alpha: A/S 255: Woody->Sarge upgrade

2005-05-18 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: upgrade-reports Archive date: Tue May 17 20:00:01 UTC 2005 Upgrade date: 2005/05/19 09:00:00 +1200 uname -a: Linux alphadeb 2.4.18-1-generic #1 Sat Apr 10 10:19:35 EST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux Method: aptitude following instructions here: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/alpha/release-no

Bug#309576: Successful: Sparc: SS5: Woody->Sarge upgrade

2005-05-17 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: upgrade-reports Archive date: Tue May 17 20:00:01 UTC 2005 Upgrade date: 2005/05/18 12:30:00 +1200 uname -a: Linux ss5 2.4.26-ss5 #1 Tue Apr 20 11:19:22 NZST 2004 sparc GNU/Linux Method: aptitude (via instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/sparc/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en

Bug#309560: Release Notes typo

2005-05-17 Thread Ewen McNeill
Package: upgrade-reports Archive date: Tue May 17 20:00:01 UTC 2005 Upgrade date: 2005/05/18 12:30:00 +1200 Apologies for abusing this method to report a Sarge release documentation issue, but it seemed the most likely to get to the relevant people in a position to actually fix it before the re