Bug#914418: apt: Foreign packages that depend on "all" arch packages won't install

2018-11-23 Thread John Pearson
Package: apt Version: 1.4.8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have a number of i386 and amd64 systems, mostly running amd64 kernels and with support for both architectures in d

Bug#832566: systemd-machined breaks automounting nfs shares

2018-03-25 Thread John Pearson
eate a similar environment to check, or failing that report back when it's upgraded. Regards, John Pearson. On 25/03/18 07:11, Michael Biebl wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:39:58 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: Am 27.10.2016 um 23:13 schrieb John Pearson: Hello Michael, Thanks for looking at this

Bug#888703: Certbot version 0.21 required to interoperate with LetsEncrypt

2018-01-28 Thread John Pearson
My report suggested upgrading to certbot 0.20 would fix the issue; closer reading indicates that version 0.21 is required. Sorry for the confusion - I submitted the original report before my first coffee of the day :( John Pearson -- *email:*j...@huiac.com "The gre

Bug#888703: certbot: Fails to renew certificate - too old

2018-01-28 Thread John Pearson
he recommendation is to upgrade to certbot 0.20. I note this version is currently in sid; can it please be passed dpown to stretch, or stretch-backports? THank you, John Pearson

Bug#832566: systemd-machined breaks automounting nfs shares

2017-03-28 Thread John Pearson
h disabling and masking the systemd-machined service using systemctl, but that appears to have no effect. Regards, John Pearson. On 28/03/17 16:09, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 27.10.2016 um 23:13 schrieb John Pearson: Hello Michael, Thanks for looking at this. On 22/10/16 11:07, Michael B

Bug#832566: systemd-machined breaks automounting nfs shares

2016-10-27 Thread John Pearson
Hello Michael, Thanks for looking at this. On 22/10/16 11:07, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 27.07.2016 um 02:59 schrieb John Pearson: Hello Michael, After the problem first occurred I reviewed bug #767468 and purged both cgmanager and sytemd-shim, but the problem remained. And, of course, /proc

Bug#832566: systemd-machined breaks automounting nfs shares

2016-07-26 Thread John Pearson
evant automount map files, and fstab. I've also attached a (slightly truncated) copy of the output of journalctl -alb; the problems this morning that prompted my report are logged a few minutes after 8am on 27 July. Regards, John Pearson. On 27/07/16 10:07, Michael Biebl wrote: Control

Bug#832566: systemd-machined breaks automounting nfs shares

2016-07-26 Thread John Pearson
Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Upgraded a Debian Wheezy system that uses automounted NFS home directories to Jessie * What exactly

Bug#766294: virt-manager: Cannot Exit Console Fullscreen Mode

2015-06-02 Thread John Pearson
ng the VM - switching to using the "Spice" display server fixes the issue. Regards, John Pearson -- *email:*j...@huiac.com "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Albert Allen Bartlett *web:* http://www.huiac.com/ *mob:* +61 407 391 169 *phone:*+61 8 7127 6275

Bug#619346: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#619346: network-manager: No option to respect RAs if IPv6 forwarding is enabled

2011-04-10 Thread John Pearson
e wherewithal to manage it ourselves; or * Pass more information to the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d scripts, so that they can be used to implement a per-network policy rather than a per-interface policy. Regards, John Pearson On 09/04/11 08:58, Michael Biebl wrote: >

Bug#619346: network-manager: No option to respect RAs if IPv6 forwarding is enabled

2011-03-22 Thread John Pearson
t should either leave the accept_ra setting alone when the "Automatic" method is selected, so that the user can specify the behaviour they want in (e.g.) /etc/sysctl.conf, or provide an additional option to allow stateless autoconfiguration via RAs even when IPv6 forwarding is enabled.

Bug#573928: manpage is incomplete and incorrect

2011-01-15 Thread John Pearson
? John Pearson. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash ezst

Bug#608458: after some time, lircd emits spurious codes

2010-12-30 Thread John Pearson
rc clients run in an automatically logged in X session). I didn't see this problem with 0.8.7, so it seems likely that it is fixed by some change between the two versions; however I can't identify anything obviously related in the upstream changelog. Regards, John Pearson -- Syste

Bug#606930: apt CDROM method fails if more than one package is required from a CDROM

2010-12-12 Thread John Pearson
fstab to '/media/apt' does not help; the only way I can find to install multiple packages from the same CDROM in a single apt-get operation is to replace the /cdrom mountpoint with a symbolic link to /media/apt. Regards, John Pearson -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT

Bug#605631: imap.monitor now requires anonymous logins

2010-12-01 Thread John Pearson
sting behaviour if none are supplied. Thanks, John Pearson -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.7-0briar (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8

Bug#594966: virt-manager: Silently labels existing disk images as 'raw'

2010-08-31 Thread John Pearson
Package: virt-manager Version: 0.8.4-7 Severity: normal Virt manager allows you to attach an existing disk image to a virtual machine, but does not allow the user to specify the file format; it creates XML files that specify "driver='raw'" regardless of the image format. Previous versions omitte

Bug#594962: libvirt-bin: VMs using qcow2 fail to start with 0.8.3-1: "No bootable device"

2010-08-31 Thread John Pearson
Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: important I have a number of VMS which use qcow2 files as disks. After upgrading to 0.8.3-1 they failed to boot, with messages like "No bootable device". The issue appears to be that the XML files in /etc/libvirt-bin/qemu contain disk definitions

Bug#579575: fat does not sync on umount

2010-08-01 Thread John Pearson
viour then this remains a serious bug that can cause data loss - the original reporter mounted his drive from the command line and so at least had the option of specifying 'sync', but in my case the drive was mounted automatically during a GNOME session, and there was no opportunity to sp

Bug#579575: also seen here, with VFAT fs corruption

2010-04-28 Thread John Pearson
tions were done as root. More or less stock Lenny install, with linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 version 2.6.26-21lenny4 and mount 2.13.1.1-1 John Pearson -- jo...@gtagalenco.com.au | The greatest problem in communication is Network Administrator| the illusion that it has been accomplished

Bug#578838: system-config-printer: Probing for LPD printer hangs

2010-04-22 Thread John Pearson
Package: system-config-printer Version: 1.0.0-6 Severity: normal When setting up an LPD printer with the gnome Printers applet, selecting 'LPD/LPR printer', entering a hostname or IP address and clicking on 'Probe', tha applet hangs indefinitely. The printer concerned is an HP LJ 6mp connecte

Bug#558453: samba: smbd memory leak if the client is running HP toolbox

2009-11-28 Thread John Pearson
rn up the log level for an affected workstation immediately after logon, and will attach the log it produced. Regards, John Pearson. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SM

Bug#556018: cups: no longer shows jobs for a specific queue

2009-11-12 Thread John Pearson
Package: cups Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Severity: normal Before the most recent security update, you could view details of all/active/completed jobs in the web interface by selecting the "printers" tab, clicking on the printer in question and clicking pn "Show Completed jobs", "Show All Jobs" and

Bug#525087: Documentation: man page error re: find_all_inputs method

2009-04-21 Thread John Pearson
Package: libwww-mechanize-perl Version: 1.34-2 Severity: normal The man page for WWW::Mechanize shows the find_all_inputs method accepting a single hash reference argument. It actually requires a flat list of attribute => value pairs. John Pearson -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#516999: nautilus: Desktop Launcher Properties dialog on NFS closes when you select the Launcher tab

2009-03-15 Thread John Pearson
ing issue: if you wanted to confirm, try mounting /home using the kernel mode server, but with the "nolock" option to disable locking. This isn't an option for us in production environments because we need locking, but it may help some people and may help isolate the underlying issue

Bug#516999: nautilus: Launcher Properties dialog on NFS closes when you select the Launcher tab

2009-02-24 Thread John Pearson
Package: nautilus Version: 2.20.0-7 Severity: normal We use NFS-mounted /home directories; the Properties dialog for desktop launchers is broken for us. We see the same behaviour using both NFS3 and NFS4. If you select Properties for a desktop launcher and choose the "Launcher" tab, the dialo

Bug#514815: iceweasel: print produces no output for some pages

2009-02-10 Thread John Pearson
zilla/ Sample Print-to-file output is attached. Regards, John Pearson -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc3

Bug#507407: vim-common: /usr/share/vim/addons no longer in runtimepath

2008-11-30 Thread John Pearson
nt an RC bug in many, if not most, of the affected packages. John Pearson. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.1

Bug#476727: tightvncserver: completely wrong keyboard-layout after logon to gnome

2008-11-03 Thread John Pearson
To clarify and in case it isn't obvious from the original report, the gdm login screen works fine - it's only after login that the keyboard map gets weird. I'm using xvnc4viewer: if I use tightvncviewer or realvncviewer then the vnc viewer never receives the input focus, perhaps again because I'm

Bug#476727: tightvncserver: completely wrong keyboard-layout after logon to gnome

2008-11-03 Thread John Pearson
I also see this in version 1.3.9-4 (testing). I'm connecting from a Debian etch box using xvnc4viewer under Gnome; my keyboard is a Logitech cordless US keyboard with windows keys, and I'm using the "evdev" keyboard driver on the client - perhaps that's the common element? John. -- [EMAIL PROT

Bug#504438: slapd: Upgrade fails when there are multiple BDB backends

2008-11-03 Thread John Pearson
Package: slapd Version: 2.4.11-1 Severity: important I have multiple BDB backend directories configured in my slapd.conf; the upgrade from etch fails when attempting to load the second directory from the backup made by the postinst script, with the message > Directory /var/lib/ldap-na for dc=na

Bug#492672: vnc4server: libvnc.so crashes xserver-xorg-video-intel in etch

2008-07-27 Thread John Pearson
tionality: vino requires a local user to login and enable remote connections, and Xvnc4 provides a complete, stand-alone server so is of limited use for remote assistance/training and so on. Vino also has (subjectively) much poorer performance than libvnc.so or Xvnc4. Thanks, John Pearson. -- Sys

Bug#471643: ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database directory

2008-03-30 Thread John Pearson
me internal servers that don't have their own mail queue and rely on handing off bulky mail (e.g., voicemail) to the server on the first attempt. John Pearson. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The greatest problem in communication is Network Administrator| the illusion that it has been a

Bug#448785: gnome-terminal: Shortcuts that use Shift also work with CapsLock

2007-10-31 Thread John Pearson
key down, particularly in relation to comparatively common keystrokes like 'Ctrl-Q' and potentially dangerous actions like 'close window'. Thanks, John Pearson. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates&

Bug#428531: clusterssh: cssh accepts but ignores the '-o' option

2007-06-12 Thread John Pearson
Package: clusterssh Version: 3.19.1-4 Severity: normal The man page describes a '-o' option for passing arguments to the child ssh process(es), but while the cssh script accepts the option it appears to ignore it. For now, I've edited my .csshrc file to pass the required arguments to ssh, but it

Bug#273059: PAM should canocolize uid with NSS before group membership is set

2007-04-01 Thread John Pearson
since IMO the major issue is that these two packages, which work closely together, exhibit very different behaviours in this regard. Comments? John Pearson. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The greatest problem in communication is Network Administrator| the illusion that it has been accomplished

Bug#414948: mondorestore hangs when trying to create a new RAID array

2007-03-25 Thread John Pearson
h both existing RAID autodetect partitions, and with empty disks that I've 'added' RAID partitions to using mondorestore's partition editor. Regards, John Pearson. Bruno Cornec wrote: > John Pearson said on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:59:20AM +1030: > > >> Ran '

Bug#414948: mondorestore hangs when trying to create a new RAID array

2007-03-14 Thread John Pearson
r different reasons, later in the process). Workaround is to build the arrays/devices manually, edit mountlist.txt, say 'Don't format my partitions', etc., but it appears that this is meant to work, and it would be easier for the inexperienced if it did. Thanks, John Pe

Bug#217048: Please reconsider this bug

2007-02-12 Thread John Pearson
esn't do this yet and doesn't yet appear stable or complete enough for my liking. Thanks, John Pearson. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The greatest problem in communication is Network Administrator| the illusion that it has been accomplished +61 4 0739 1169 | - George Bern

Bug#405505: Man page references .mkisofsrc, but binary expects .genisoimagerc

2007-01-03 Thread John Pearson
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.0-1 Severity: important The man page for genisoimage refers repeatedly to .mkisofsrc, but the genisoimage ignores this file; it uses .genisoimagerc instead. As 'mkisofs' is currently installed as a symlink to 'genisoimage', presumably for the benefit of legacy

Bug#376994: apt-proxy: Does not support ssh: URIs

2006-07-05 Thread John Pearson
o patch, but my Python is essentially non-existent and a quick look suggests that this is not a 'quick fix' issue. Thanks for what is in other respects a great tool, John Pearson. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.6-xen Locale: L