Bug#649491: boot fails when libnfsidmap.so.0 not found...

2011-11-21 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libnfsidmap2 Version: 0.24-1 Severity: critical ...because /usr is an NFS mount! Please move everything under /usr/lib to /lib. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#633019: libtirpc1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On July 7, 2011 05:41:57 PM Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > found 633019 0.2.0-2 > thanks > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:27:25PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS > > mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and

Bug#633021: libgssglue1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libgssglue1 Version: 0.3-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and I am left without a /usr partition. I have worked around the problem by booting with a rescu

Bug#633019: libtirpc1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libtirpc1 Version: 0.2.2-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and I am left without a /usr partition. I have worked around the problem by booting with a rescu

Bug#626450: if you can't remount /root

2011-05-12 Thread Bruce Sass
[maybe I'm just naive wrt how the initramfs works ] (initramfs) mount -o remount,rw /root mount: can't read '/proc/mounts': no such file or directory So I changed the "ro" kernel arg to "rw", booted, then created the symlink. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.d

Bug#592361: libssl0.9.8: libcrypto.so.0.9.8 accessed before /usr is mounted

2010-08-09 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8g-16 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system /usr on my "unstable" box is an NFS import. When networking is being brought up /sbin/dhclient fails because it can't find libcrypto.so.0.9.8--which lives under /usr/lib--consequently eth0 doesn't ap

Bug#490640: hp-scan: Aborts with a traceback when trying to scan.

2008-07-13 Thread Bruce Sass
severity 490640 important tag 490640 confirmed On Sun July 13 2008 03:59:43 am Andrew Ruthven wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 2.8.6-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable I have downgraded the reportfrom grave to important because only scanning is affected, although sca

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu May 15 2008 01:52:40 pm you wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: > > IMO, something is horribly broken if a PID file can disappear yet > > the daemon is left running- > > Yes, but please assume that this horribly broken thing only happened > with older

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed May 14 2008 01:36:10 pm you wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: > > > This bug is now closed with the new dpkg; could you upgrade and > > > confirm you still have the hal bug? > > > > I can confirm the hal package fails to configure (via >

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-14 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon May 12 2008 01:00:52 pm Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: > > The exim Maintainer called it a > > "heisenbug", see #396944, he also filed #440657 shortly after but I > > don't know if it is related

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat May 10 2008 03:54:33 pm Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Most likely we are being bitten by a start-stop-daemon bug and you > > may want to see how the exim Maintainer worked around the problem. > > Yes; there are many bugs in ssd in

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-10 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software ...which causes dpkg to err out, halting the upgrade process. Since neither dpkg or upgrading explicitly depends on hal, its failure is breaking unrelated software/processes. Investigation reveals that /var

Bug#447860: work-around

2007-11-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I've been having the `start failed' problem and after snooping around I noticed there was no pidfile yet hald was running. After manually stopping and starting hald (/etc/init.d/hal stop or start) then rerunning dselect (to clear up the failed-config status, which failed) I noticed the pid

Bug#433133: init.d/portmap hack still the only one working

2007-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu July 19 2007 03:58:58 am I wrote: > On Thu July 19 2007 03:01:30 am you wrote: > > or try the patch in #433386 against initscripts. > > I'll give it a try, and I expect it will work because so far the only > success I've had is with this hack: > - > --- /etc/init.d/portmap.orig20

Bug#433133: ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no

2007-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu July 19 2007 03:01:30 am you wrote: > > I can manually start rpc.statd, then mount the missing nfs imports, > > but since /usr was missing during the boot there is bound to be > > stuff which didn't start properly. Is there a way to ensure > > everything is in order besides manually discover

Bug#433133: ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no

2007-07-18 Thread Bruce Sass
> Try setting ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no in /etc/default/rcS. I'm currently > talking to the initscripts maintainers to try to find a good solution; > it seems like the fix in 1:1.1.0-10 introduced a race condition. This doesn't work for me, it kinda makes things worse because now the messages telling m