Bug#984956: Me too

2021-03-21 Thread sixerjman
I am hit by this bug also. Going to try and learn SLURM in the meantime. Is there any progress? Thank you for your work on this excellent package.

Bug#970752: Works OK now with current version of open-vm-tools

2020-10-20 Thread sixerjman
sctl status vmtoolsd ? vmtoolsd.service - Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-10-20 13:47:58 EDT; 4min 49s ago open-vm-tools version: 2:11.1.5-1 OK to close

Bug#970752: system-detect-virt with Debian under VirtualBox

2020-09-26 Thread sixerjman
$ systemd-detect-virt oracle

Bug#970752: systemd-detect-virt

2020-09-26 Thread sixerjman
Results of 'systemd-detect-virt' detect 'vmware' correctly in both VirtualBox and VMplayer: $ systemd-detect-virt vmware

Bug#970752: Subject: open-vm-tools: ConditionVirtualization=vmware was not met

2020-09-22 Thread sixerjman
Package: open-vm-tools Version: open-vm-tools service (vmtoolsd) fails to start Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Tried to start vmtoolsd * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? n/a * What was the outcome of this action? Conditio

Bug#668613: Bug still exists

2020-09-17 Thread sixerjman
I have the same situation with two Broadcom adapters, one is Ethernet and the other is wireless. The postinst script sees the Ethernet adapter first, finds no matching firmware and defaults to downloading latest firmware (now 1:019-6) which does not work with older B43 adapters. See open bug https:

Bug#939262: Bug still exists in Version 20200721-1

2020-08-30 Thread sixerjman
It just hit me again.

Bug#964140: Correction - workaround does not work

2020-08-15 Thread sixerjman
b43-fwcutter still insists on installing the latest firmware (666 - sign of the devil HA). This package and b43-fwcutter are hopelessly broken on my previously working system. The last good version was 1:09-5, but that .deb is not available in any repository. Please help.

Bug#968452: sysstat: Invalid system activity file on i686

2020-08-15 Thread sixerjman
Package: sysstat Version: 12.3.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Execute 'sar' * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Deleted old s

Bug#965960: AMD64 version is clean

2020-08-12 Thread sixerjman
This bug only seems to happen on x86 (i686, et. al.) 32-bit architecture. AMD64 does not exhibit this behavior.

Bug#964140: V1:19-6 loads wrong firmware when >1 Broadcom network adapter present

2020-07-02 Thread sixerjman
Package: firmware-b43-installer Version: 1:019-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Upgrading to latest version from testing (1:019-6) The .postinst script derives the vendor : produc

Bug#960279: To pin version to 1:019-4

2020-05-15 Thread sixerjman
apt-mark hold b43-fwcutter apt-mark hold firmware-b43-installer

Bug#960279: b43-fwcutter: Version 1:019-5 breaks b43

2020-05-11 Thread sixerjman
Package: b43-fwcutter Version: 1:019-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Upgrade to lastest version in testing * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#953104: Fedora updates has bugix release of HPLIP

2020-03-07 Thread sixerjman
=== hplip-3.20.2-1.fc31 === Update ID: FEDORA-2020-c243f9765f Type: bugfix Updated: 2020-03-06 15:58:07 Description: 3.20.2 Sever

Bug#953104: Upstream issue link?

2020-03-07 Thread sixerjman
Has a problem been opened with HPLIP upstream? If so is there a link to the issue page?

Bug#953104: How to downgrade to 3.19

2020-03-06 Thread sixerjman
Thank you Addison. I also found this set of instructions for downgrading: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/02/how-to-downgrade-packages-to-specific.html

Bug#953104: How to downgrade to HPLIP version 3.19?

2020-03-06 Thread sixerjman
I was able to downgrade on my Fedora machine with the dnf command, but downgrade option(s) don't seem to be available with apt(-get). What is the procedure to downgrade on Debian systems? I am tracking testing/unstable, but see 3.18 is available in stable.

Bug#942563: Workaround for older chips

2020-02-28 Thread sixerjman
This workaround from the Debian iwlwifi wiki seems to have fixed the problem on my WiFi 5100 Link adapter: Troubleshooting Slow WiFi problems when using Bluetooth Some devices like the 6235 do include a Bluetooth device in the same card, which may lead into radio conflict. Newer devices (7200 an

Bug#942563: Any progress on getting a fix for this?

2020-02-24 Thread sixerjman
This is a record of all the restarts for the last ~24 hours: Feb 23 08:24:49 debiant kernel: [260162.902256] iwlwifi :04:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x200. Feb 23 10:00:37 debiant kernel: [265911.64] iwlwifi :04:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x20

Bug#948257: Is there a fix coming down the pike?

2020-01-11 Thread sixerjman
Can we expect a fix soon in whatever package causes the console spam? It's a rude awakening to get hit by these messages first thing in the morning when doing maintenance.

Bug#864079: Thank you for the update

2019-10-30 Thread sixerjman
Thanks for continuing to stay on top of this. I realize it is kind of complicated with the split out of the BackupPC software into 3 clients with shifting dependencies, but next to the operating system and attendant major subsystems (i.e. networking), the backup software is the most important subsy

Bug#864079: Status of this bug?

2019-10-30 Thread sixerjman
I would like to know if anybody is working on this. There has been a recent update of perl-base from 5.28 to 5.30 which necessitated rebuilding the backuppc and backuppc-xs (now libbackuppc-xs-perl) packages. The most recent backuppc version is now 4.3.1 and each time a new release of any of packag

Bug#909260: Retry coming

2019-09-26 Thread sixerjman
I will be retrying the 'make deb-pkg' build with kernel version 5 source in the next few days. I will report back later.

Bug#909260: Utilities used

2019-09-26 Thread sixerjman
Using gcc and binutils

Bug#935915: The problem went away

2019-09-03 Thread sixerjman
The last 4 or 5 days have seen a return to LAN speed transfers. I have no idea why it appeared or why it went away. There have been lots of WLAN errors as reported by my router. That may not have been the root cause but it certainly wouldn't help. Also, the Intel WiFi modem on one of the clients ha

Bug#885958: Variant of this error still occurring

2019-09-01 Thread sixerjman
Aug 6 09:00:07 debiant kernel: [876895.326060] iwlwifi :04:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x9200. Aug 6 09:00:07 debiant kernel: [876895.326070] iwlwifi :04:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 8.83.5.1 build 33692 Aug 6 09:00:07 debiant kernel: [876895.326199] iwlwifi

Bug#892102: epoll_wait.c no such file or directory?

2019-08-30 Thread sixerjman
I generated a core dump with gdb on the running instance of inetd. Here is the backtrace: #0 0x7f910f0997b7 in epoll_wait (epfd=3, events=0x55df220e8ad0, maxevents=32, timeout=2497) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c:30 30 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c: No such file or d

Bug#935915: Same problem reported on ubuntu

2019-08-29 Thread sixerjman
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-cacher-ng/+bug/1034392 The original bug was reported in 2012 but recent comments are from 2018 and 2019: Steve Dodd (anarchetic) wrote on 2018-07-07: #17

Bug#935915: CPU load, kernel IP filters not a factor

2019-08-29 Thread sixerjman
CPU load - Not a factor, utilization is almost always less than 30% when tests are run. Nothing is running in the GUI, of the acng server, not even a browser. The out of tree module is the 'netatop' module which works inside atop and it hardly uses any cycles. The module is loaded and the netatop

Bug#892102: Need a core dump

2019-08-29 Thread sixerjman
The inetd daemon runs as a systemd service, but lately I've been getting the following message when it crashes with SIGABRT: systemd-coredump[15585]: Resource limits disable core dumping for process 13098 (inetd). How can the system be configured to allow a core dump to be taken? I have core dump

Bug#935915: apt-cacher-ng: Extremely low transfer rate on LAN

2019-08-27 Thread sixerjman
Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 3.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Very low transfer speed for clients on LAN * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? apt update / apt upgrade * What was the outcome of this ac

Bug#892102: Valgrind options needed

2019-08-26 Thread sixerjman
The default 'memcheck' only shows the same stack trace as 'coredumpctl'. Which valgrind tool(s) and options should I use?

Bug#892102: Running systemd inetd service under valgrind now

2019-08-23 Thread sixerjman
sctl cat inetd # /etc/systemd/system/inetd.service [Unit] Description=Internet superserver Documentation=man:inetd(8) After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target ConditionPathExists=/etc/inetd.conf [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/bin/valgrind /usr/sbin/inetd ExecReload=/bin/kill -

Bug#892102: Possible correlation with cron job(s) run on the hour

2019-08-23 Thread sixerjman
Looking at the times it seems more likely that hourly cron jobs (logcheck, sysstat, backup jobs via backuppc) are causing system stress. Investigating devising a trap via valgrind or some other mechanism because the system load is different throughout the day so I can't really say which hour the ev

Bug#892102: Watchdog timeout expiring

2019-08-04 Thread sixerjman
tchdog is being triggered because at that point the > internal state of libevent is broken. > > It is implemented here, and there is not much that could go wrong unless > you can spot any misuse on libevent on my part: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/md/openbsd-inetd/blob/mast

Bug#892102: Watchdog timeout expiring

2019-08-04 Thread sixerjman
Hmmm, it looks like inetd watchdog timer is expiration (systemd or inet's?) is the root cause: -- Logs begin at Sat 2019-07-06 06:34:04 EDT, end at Sun 2019-08-04 07:55:01 EDT. -- Jul 23 08:37:26 debiant systemd[1]: Starting Internet superserver... Jul 23 08:37:27 debiant systemd[1]: Started Inter

Bug#892102: Reproduction

2019-08-04 Thread sixerjman
Sorry, I can find no correlation of the segfaults to any specific events other than maybe sleep / resume cycles. This morning I just resumed from sleep and inetd was fine.

Bug#892102: inetd coredumpctl info

2019-07-31 Thread sixerjman
PID: 21014 (inetd) UID: 0 (root) GID: 0 (root) Signal: 6 (ABRT) Timestamp: Tue 2019-07-09 08:00:05 EDT (3 weeks 1 days ago) Command Line: /usr/sbin/inetd Executable: /usr/sbin/inetd Control Group: /system.slice/inetd.service Unit: inetd

Bug#933202: Additional information

2019-07-27 Thread sixerjman
kernel: [155898.814801] xfdesktop[7896]: segfault at 10 ip b7052d52 sp bfb1a070 error 4 in +libglib-2.0.so.0.5800.3[b700+82000]

Bug#933202: xfdesktop4: SEGV in g_slice_alloc

2019-07-27 Thread sixerjman
Package: xfdesktop4 Version: 4.12.4-2 Severity: normal coredumpctl info output: Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.xfdesktop.1000.78062c2cbcad4f70a20e427190921195.7896.156423115200.lz4 Message: Process 7896 (xfdesktop) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thre

Bug#928821: Section 3.1 'An overview of the boot strap process' should reference UEFI

2019-05-11 Thread sixerjman
Package: debian-reference Source: debian-reference Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Reading Section 3.1 'Bootstrap Process' * What exactly did you do (or no

Bug#925200: missing warning for wrong path

2019-03-21 Thread sixerjman
ice-help-en-us should fail this new > test. It shouldn't list /usr/share/libreoffice/help/media/* which is > outside of /usr/share/doc/*. Instead, it should create symlink using > dh_link: > /usr/share/doc//help -> /usr/share/libreoffice/help > Then use this new path for doc-base. > > PS sixerjman: I think your concern is addressed with lintian now. >

Bug#924686: debian-reference

2019-03-15 Thread sixerjman
Source: debian-reference Version: 7.5.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Trying to access debian-reference from dwww * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (

Bug#803342: I switched to dwww

2019-02-27 Thread sixerjman
No problems experieced with dwww's cron daily or weekly jobs.

Bug#864079: I am onboard the team to help package BackupPC V4

2019-02-16 Thread sixerjman
I have been tracking and using the upstream version of BackupPC V4 for awhile and would like to help out as a set of eyes and testing. I am currently using V4.2.1 but will be upgrading to V4.3.0 this weekend. Thanks for all your efforts with this marvelous software backup suite!

Bug#921024: Apache and apache-htcacheclean services fail to start after this update

2019-02-03 Thread sixerjman
straces on the way

Bug#912749: Correlation with upgrade

2019-01-23 Thread sixerjman
Seems to occur on the first tmpfiles clean run after upgrade. Version 0.8.8.3 (March 2018) changelog has this: - speech-dispatcher.tmpfile: Add /var/run links in systemd case.

Bug#912749: These warnings occur with annoying regularity

2019-01-21 Thread sixerjman
Even after performing the prescribed fix, after a few days or weeks the warning are back.

Bug#914495: Fixed in linux-image-4.19

2018-12-28 Thread sixerjman
Just installed it from testing distribution and no black screen, modeset worked fine.

Bug#873075: Version 4.3.0 Release notes

2018-12-07 Thread sixerjman
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases/tag/4.3.0

Bug#873075: Fedora just released V4.3.0-1

2018-12-07 Thread sixerjman
Many enhancements and bug fixes included: http://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/index.html

Bug#914495: Bug appearing on Intel GM965

2018-12-06 Thread sixerjman
I incorrectly stated there was no problem on one of my Debian machines with video adapter Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c). There is black screen and lightdm failed to start after this: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Bug#914495: More evidence that the gen4 adapter commit is at fault

2018-12-04 Thread sixerjman
I have 3 Debian machines in the lab, and two booted 4.18.3 fine. One has a Radeon GPU, the other is an Intel GM965. The one that gave me the black screen at boot is: lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev

Bug#914495: nomodeset enabled boot

2018-12-04 Thread sixerjman
But the graphics mode is low res (1280x768). Also, 'nomodeset' is no longer documented in the kernel parameters doc ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt).

Bug#822323: I had to enable cgi(d) module to get this working

2018-11-13 Thread sixerjman
sudo a2enmod cgi Your MPM seems to be threaded. Selecting cgid instead of cgi. Enabling module cgid. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: systemctl restart apache2

Bug#873075: backuppc-xs must be rebuilt after perl-base upgrade from 5.26 ---> 5.28

2018-11-09 Thread sixerjman
Recent testing updates installed perl-base 5.28 which breaks the unofficial backuppc-xs.deb on https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages. The solution is to uninstall backuppc-xs, install the perl updates, then build a new backuppc-xs.deb using the instructions on the page.

Bug#882504: I get 'network unreachable failures' after resume from suspend

2018-10-05 Thread sixerjman
Using apt-cacher-ng, after resume I see: Oct 05 04:30:58 debiant apt.systemd.daily[21976]: Reading package lists... Oct 05 04:30:58 debiant apt.systemd.daily[21976]: W: Failed to fetch http://localhost:3142/debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/dists/testing/InRelease Oct 05 04:30:58 debiant apt.systemd.dai

Bug#909841: Workaround was to delete failing directory

2018-10-04 Thread sixerjman
After moving '/usr/local/share/fonts' to a backup location fc-cache ran successfully. The local font directory (which contained only the .uuid) was not recreated.

Bug#909841: fc-cache failure preventing dpkg configuration of libreoffice updates

2018-10-02 Thread sixerjman
Ran into this problem when the aptitude upgrade was interrupted yesterday. Trying 'dpkg --configure -a' resulted in the following: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-core: libreoffice-core depends on fontconfig; however: Package fontconfig is not configured yet. dpk

Bug#909260: make deb-pkg output shows fixdep compile / link failure occurs in objtool

2018-09-21 Thread sixerjman
There are two fixdep.c files, one in basic scripts and the other in tools. I exported gcc option '-fPIC' in an attempt to get past the linker error, and it was in effect for the basic script, but was not passed to the tools script. The follow output is from a log of the build process: grep fixdep

Bug#831764: I am on V3.14.0-3 and experiencing this

2018-08-28 Thread sixerjman
The rsyslog configuration I have has messages, kern and ssh log. I see the active file(s) as messages | kern | ssh log.1 and all have 'delaycompress' in the /etc/logrotate.d/ snippet: /var/log/ssh.log /var/log/messages /var/log/kern.log { rotate 7 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress

Bug#873075: Debian packages for V4.2.1 and friends (rsync-bpc / backuppc-xs) available

2018-08-23 Thread sixerjman
.deb files are available here: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Build-Your-Own-Packages

Bug#903217: Problem went away

2018-08-19 Thread sixerjman
After pool size registered as non-zero I have graphs.

Bug#903217: Still no graphs

2018-08-19 Thread sixerjman
Even after applying the above mentioned patch. The fact that the pool size shows at 0 bytes on the status page (pool size is several gigabytes) probably has some bearing.

Bug#881632: Try latest version

2018-07-19 Thread sixerjman
'Stack smashing detected' crashes fixed in last version: x11vnc (0.9.13-6) unstable; urgency=medium * Add two buffer overflow fixes from upstream. Closes: #851496, #859213. This is a temporary measure, new upstream should be package instead. -- Nikita Yushchenko Mon, 07 May 2018 23:13:4

Bug#857498: This is fixed in latest version

2018-07-19 Thread sixerjman
x11vnc (0.9.13-6) unstable; urgency=medium * Add two buffer overflow fixes from upstream. Closes: #851496, #859213. This is a temporary measure, new upstream should be package instead. -- Nikita Yushchenko Mon, 07 May 2018 23:13:43 +0300

Bug#873075: +1 on the packaging suggestion

2018-07-06 Thread sixerjman
I am moving my backup server from Fedora (currently V4.2.1 with package rsync-bpc V3.0.9.12) to Debian.