Bug#909231: "lexical" taperscan in Amanda 3.5 ignores tapes' pool assignment

2018-09-19 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: amanda-common Version: 1:3.5-1 The lexical taperscan algorithm is supposed to select the next volume to use based on the lexical ordering of volume labels, but as implemented in Amanda v3.5 it does not properly restrict the volume labels being processed to those from the tape pool in que

Bug#891757: package's /etc/udhcpd.conf still mentions obsolete "remaining" option

2018-02-28 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:36:46 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > (Comparing those two files quickly I don't see any other obsolete option > still listed in the Debian /etc/udhcpd.conf file.) Actually, looking a little more closely it seems that this Debian-specific file

Bug#891757: package's /etc/udhcpd.conf still mentions obsolete "remaining" option

2018-02-28 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: udhcpd Version: 1:1.27.2-2 I noticed that the copy of /etc/udhcpd.conf installed by the udhcpd package includes a section describing the "remaining" option: = # If remaining is true (default), udhcpd will store the time # remaining for each lease in the udhcpd leases file. This is #

Bug#775612: amanda-server: Depends on Tie/StdHash.pm which exists on NO package in debian

2017-07-22 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
> This seems to be yet another occurrence of > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781120 -- handling > of non-readable directories on @INC Just to pull together the various strands of this discussion: the issue is that no StdHash.pm file actually exists, but Perl don't know that

Bug#795025: systemd-udevd: Process '/lib/udev/hdparm' failed with exit code 5

2017-01-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 15:16:30 -0400, Alain Choquet wrote: > The error in systemd log is not caused by the APM option itself but by the > failed attempt by hdparm to write output messages to a non existent output. > On my system a command in /lib/udev/hdparm expands to > > /sbin/hdparm -B254 -q

Bug#795025: Spoke too soon

2017-01-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 08:35:00 -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote: > The error still exists here even after specifying > '-B 255' because this WD Caviar drive does not > support APM. I'll let upstream handle this. I found that I could avoid the error by giving a blank "apm" value in hdparm.conf,

Bug#845597: shorewall: Shorewall doesn't start at the system boot

2016-12-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 14:41:27 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > I have only worked with this under Ubuntu (not Debian per se), but I > believe the issue you are seeing is that the Shorewall documentation has > not been updated to reflect the use of systemd instead of the old-sty

Bug#845597: shorewall: Shorewall doesn't start at the system boot

2016-12-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:56:54 +0100, Carlo Stemberger wrote: > At the moment all seems to work as expected, with an exception: the > program doesn't start at the system boot; however I can run Shorewall with > both > `# service shorewall start` and `# shorewall start`. > > Please note that I set `

Bug#796599: false positive for Linux/Ebury - Operation Windigo -> due to now existing 'ssh -G' parameter

2016-06-27 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
For what it's worth, Fedora just released their own fix to this problem, as discussed in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234436 (The specific patch they implemented can be found here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/chkrootkit.git/commit/?h=f23&id=82dd537b2fd88850eb4327a

Bug#825317: bash-completion: Un-escaped "~*" leads to spurious NSS lookups

2016-06-26 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
00-fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch was introduced in bash-completion v1:2.1-3 as a fix for bug 739835 "filename completion broken with bash 4.3". https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835 The patch file was originally pulled from Ubuntu, where it was created to fix two LP bugs: *

Bug#776259: samba-common.postinst searches smb.conf for non-existent "[cdrom]" keyword

2015-01-25 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: samba Version: 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 In the past when I upgraded my samba packages, the samba-common.postinst script automatically copied my locally-defined shares from smb.conf onto the end of the generated smb.conf.ucf-dist file... but recently I noticed that's no longer happening. Looking a

Bug#776223: missing documentation of Debian "usershare max shares" customization

2015-01-25 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Attached is a suggested patch for the "max shares" entry in the distributed smb.conf file. Nathan --- smb.conf.ucf-dist_trusty2014-10-28 14:44:30.031106772 -0400 +++ smb.conf_max-share_new 2015-01-25 12:15:00.345729305 -0500 @@ -178

Bug#776223: missing documentation of Debian "usershare max shares" customization

2015-01-25 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
The smb.conf.5 section for "max shares" currently says: usershare max shares (G) This parameter specifies the number of user defined shares that are allowed to be created by users belonging to the group owning the usershare directory. If set to zero (the de

Bug#776223: missing documentation of Debian "usershare max shares" customization

2015-01-25 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: samba Version: 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1 I was recently setting up Samba on a file server system running Ubuntu Trusty, and as I was testing out my configuration I was surprised to find error messages similar to process_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/test failed. No such file o

Bug#740551: documentation for APT::Periodic::MaxSize v.s. processing in apt.cron.daily

2014-03-02 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: apt Severity: minor Version: 0.9.15.5 Near the top of /etc/cron.daily/apt, the documentation for the MaxSize variable says: # APT::Periodic::MaxSize "0"; (new) # - Set maximum size of the cache in MB (0=disable). If the cache #is bigger, cached package files are deleted until the s

Bug#356937: /usr/bin/logger: logging to facility kern doesn't work

2013-09-05 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
For what its worth, the man page for logger v2.20.1 includes some warning text about this issue: Valid facility names are: auth, authpriv (for security information of a sensitive nature), cron, daemon, ftp, kern (can't be generated from user process) [...]

Bug#705215: logger: logs locally, even when told to write to remote syslog server

2013-09-05 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
I recently ran into this bug, too (on an Ubuntu Precise system, running bsdutils 1:2.20.1-1ubuntu3), and in my investigation discovered that a similar patch has been applied upstream to fix this bug: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=86248cd28a27bdd9a437e3899

Bug#658975: tar -g incremental segfault

2012-12-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
I don't have any personal experience with this bug, but according to the following post, it was fixed in tar 1.24: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-10/msg00039.html The patch referenced in that message is just one line, and can be found at: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.

Bug#651503: rake: dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby

2012-06-18 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:58:57 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > the new dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby. On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 19:29:58 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > Doing so would presumably help avoid pulling in the "

Bug#651503: rake: dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby

2012-06-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
(On a related note, "ruby-interpreter" is now provided by all the available "ruby1.x" packages, so it should probably be safe to drop the "ruby" half of the rake packages's "ruby | ruby-interpreter" dependency. Doing so would presumably help avoid pulling in the "ruby" v4.8 transitional package

Bug#651503: rake: dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby

2012-06-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
> the new dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby. > I'm not sure if this package is to blame. But to me it seems the package rdoc > and the versioned packages rdoc1.8 and rdoc1.9.1 are virtual packages provided > by the ruby* packages. Therefore, the dependency on rub

Bug#624391: initscripts: postinst dupes /etc/motd into /etc/motd.tail

2011-06-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 22:09:22 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:44:15 PM Andrew Pollock wrote: > > In short, I don't think the postinst should be creating an /etc/motd.tail > > if one doesn't exist already. > > I do not completely understand this statement. Do you mean: posti

Bug#403213: Trouble with SSL and certificates

2010-12-27 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 17:13:27 +0100, Nirgal Vourgère wrote: > Support for TLS_CACERTDIR has been broken. See bug 513270 > > I had a simmilar problem. > Using an explicit TLS_CACERT with the specific crt/pem file works around. Note that as it copies certificates into the /etc/ssl/certs director

Bug#506786: dosfstools: dosfslabel does not seem to set the label correctly

2009-08-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 19:31:30 +, Sam Morris wrote: > I've tried running dosfslabel to change the label of a vfat filesystem. This > seemed to work: > > # /sbin/dosfslabel /dev/sda1 > sam > > However, the change was not picked up by HAL. On investigation, it seems that > this is because lib

Bug#540683: libdvdread: debian/copyright file doesn't mention new upstream

2009-08-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: libdvdread Severity: minor I noticed that even in the very latest unstable version of this package (I checked both the "copyright" link from the Package Tracking System page and the Debian git repository), debian/copyright still gives only the Download: URL for the old chalmers.se upstrea

Bug#526360: vmstat: format of partition lines in /proc/diskstats changed in Linux 2.6.25

2009-04-30 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
d Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - na

Bug#513243: iftop: top bar still shows bits even when use-bytes/-B is active

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: iftop Version: 0.17-3 Severity: normal When I use the -B command line option or the "use-bytes" config-file option, most of the bandwidth rates on the screen change to bytes... but the numbers in the top line of the screen do not. A one-line patch to fix this problem was posted in the Ge

Bug#265501: openssh-client: ServerAliveInterval has the same bug

2008-04-30 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
et so I am not able to confirm this with an actual test.) Nathan -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software co

Bug#273577: raidutils: shared memory leak in raidutil

2008-02-01 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
machine. Nathan -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.co

Bug#413136: raidutils: File /dev/dpti17 Could Not Be Opened

2008-01-29 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
the raideng segfault-after-finding-the-i2octl-device issue. As far as I could see from the history, all the people who reported a device-file problem were able to get past it (at least far enough to run into the segfault problem). So hopefully if the patch does actually resolve #332229, then bug

Bug#332229: raidutils _osdStartCp/DPTI_startEataCp segfault

2008-01-29 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
and so I'm thinking it might make sense to separate this DPTI_startEataCp issue into a second Debian bug. Nathan -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-

Bug#332229: patch to fix raidutils (raideng) segfault

2008-01-29 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
o have run into it. Nathan p.s. I based my fix on the I2OGETIOPS documentation found in the kernel Documentation/i2o/ioctl file, e.g. http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.18.5/Documentation/i2o/ioctl#L33 ---

Bug#440161: Adding support for i2o RAID adapters

2008-01-25 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
I noticed the following question from Otavio Salvador in the discussion for bug #440161: > I still fail to understand how i2o_block will work for your device if > it's not registered for it on pcialias file ... that makes me worry > about it. I think the answer to the question is that the i2o_cor

Bug#457338: aptitude-doc-en: incorrect keybindings for PrevPage command in default keybindings table

2007-12-21 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.2.15.9-6bpo3 Severity: minor I noticed that the table of default keybindings in the Aptitude table shows that both NextPage and PrevPage are listed as bound to "pagedown,C-f". Presumably, PrevPage should actually be listed as bound to "pageup,C-b". I originally

Bug#401981: cupsys: cupsd.conf no longer has "Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap" line

2006-12-06 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.7-1 Severity: normal I just upgraded from Sarge to Etch, moving from cupsys 1.1.23-10sarge1 to 1.2.7-1 in the process. I noticed that the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf distributed with 1.2.7-1 no longer includes a Printcap line, and thus CUPS is now putting the printcap file i

Bug#400942: debian-archive-keyring: README could use links to additional information

2006-12-01 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:55:49PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > I noticed that bug #401114 has been filed against the > debian-archive-keyring package on this topic. Please ignore the above message; it was sent to the wrong bug.

Bug#400935: upgrade-reports: Woody -> Sarge upgrade installs debian-archive-keyring before upgrading apt

2006-12-01 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
I noticed that bug #401114 has been filed against the debian-archive-keyring package on this topic. Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#400942: debian-archive-keyring: README could use links to additional information

2006-12-01 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
I noticed that bug #401114 has been filed against the debian-archive-keyring package on this topic. Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#400942: debian-archive-keyring: README could use links to additional information

2006-11-29 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: debian-archive-keyring Version: 2006.11.22 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if the README file for debian-archive-keyring included a little more information on how the package is "supposed' to function and how one can "make use" of the keys it contains when that doesn't happen. A fe

Bug#400935: upgrade-reports: Woody -> Sarge upgrade installs debian-archive-keyring before upgrading apt

2006-11-29 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal When I followed the instructions in the Sarge -> Etch release notes and run "aptitude upgrade aptitude", that operation also brings in the causes the "apt" package to be updated as well as installing the new "debian-archive-keyring" package. However, at l

Bug#321365: popularity-contest: documentation of popcon tags v.s. a "vote"

2006-03-30 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
ic release, and ignore packages it finds that aren't in that release? Etc.) Nathan ---- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software cons

Bug#352244: incorrect description of /etc/smartmontools/run.d/ scripts in README.Debian

2006-02-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
of packages smartmontools depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray

Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates

2006-02-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > Package: popularity-contest > > Version: 1.28 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > I was interested in convertin

Bug#322471: remote ntptrace incompatible with ntp-server's default ntp.conf file

2005-08-10 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
ends on: ii ntp1:4.2.0a+stable-2 Network Time Protocol: network uti ii ntp-simple 1:4.2.0a+stable-2 Network Time Protocol: daemon for -- no debconf information -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway

Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates

2005-08-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
ription of the and fields, or in the FAQ as a new question). Thanks. Nathan -------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co.

Bug#298760: popularity-contest: Gives inaccurate information when disk is mounted with noatime option

2005-08-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > A related issue is the case where a program such as "integrit" updates > the atime of all files in /bin and /usr (and elsewhere) each day. [...] > So, my point is that if you add special handling f

Bug#321365: popularity-contest: documentation of popcon tags v.s. a "vote"

2005-08-04 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I've been noticing the popularity-contest package/project mentioned frequently on Debian mailing lists and similar places, and often those messages mention "votes" for this or that package. However, when I installed the package myself a

Bug#298760: popularity-contest: Gives inaccurate information when disk is mounted with noatime option

2005-08-04 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > The issue is that all the atime values fall in a short range (e.g. > 1108386315 - 1108384615 = 1700 sec < 30 minutes) and occur just before > the runtime of popularity-contest itself. > > > So, my

Bug#298760: popularity-contest: Gives inaccurate information when disk is mounted with noatime option

2005-08-04 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
ot like to have systems affected by this problem participating in the program. Is it more helpful or harmful for these systems to be included given their bogus "vote" counts?) Nathan ---