Bug#679867: libxml2: "failed to load external entity" for HTTPS

2017-01-23 Thread Chris Adams
This is becoming a bigger problem as a greater percentage of the web moves over to HTTPS. I was trying to work on an IETF RFC draft and that's no longer possible using libxml2 because URLs like http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.1321.xml now unconditionally redirect to HTTPS.

Bug#474021: ldap-utils: ldapsearch should send errors to stderr

2015-08-28 Thread Chris Adams
I don't believe I reported that upstream and by now the patch is no doubt fairly old. Since I no longer use OpenLDAP in any capacity I'm not particularly motivated to update it & push it through. Chris

Bug#463466: request-tracker3.6: Enhancement to provide a global squelch list

2010-07-23 Thread Chris Adams
No - at this point it's been a few years since I've supported RT at all and it's an easy patch to update if someone still needs it. Chris On Jul 23, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:57:01AM -0800, Chris Adams wrote: >> The atta

Bug#470509: Split patches?

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
On Apr 21, 2008, at 1:00 AM, Richard A Nelson wrote: Sorry for not being more responsive on this issue, it is an important one for alot of people... I've been looking at options/alternatives/ dealing with `real life` No problem - the same process applied on my side between the "ranting abou

Bug#476574: wireshark-common: /usr/share/wireshark shouldn't be nested

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
Package: wireshark-common Version: 0.99.4-5.etch.2 Severity: minor The wireshark files are stored one level deeper than normal - e.g: /usr/share/wireshark/wireshark/manuf instead of the normal /usr/share/wireshark/manuf -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT pol

Bug#476567: splint: man page references obselete options

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Adams
Package: splint Version: 3.1.1-6 Severity: minor I just installed splint for the first time and after looking at the man page added +usestderr to my command-line. This produced the following error: Command Line: usestderr flag is obsolete. This has been replaced by more precise flags for con

Bug#470509: Split patches?

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Adams
Would it be useful if I split this patch to remove the syslog additions? libpam-ldap-search-attribute-fix.diff Description: Binary data Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#471354: [Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#471354: closed by Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#471354: libgnutls13: gnutls13=1.4.4-3 causes pam_ldap failures based on transfer size)

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Adams
On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Can we check whether my workaround will be included in pam_ldap first? Otherwise we're in the situation where some users will not be able to authenticate against LDAP without any obvious reason. Hello, well I will just wait for a negative

Bug#474021: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#474021: Bug#474021: ldap-utils: ldapsearch should send errors to stderr

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Adams
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: In the example I included, the server timeout error was sent to stderr if the server was down (e.g. connect() gets an RST) but not in the case of a timeout (the LDIF comment is all you get). In this case, do you mean a timeout at the *

Bug#474021: ldap-utils: ldapsearch should send errors to stderr

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Adams
Package: ldap-utils Version: 2.3.30-5 Severity: minor ldapsearch sends error messages in its data stream: Search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 775 # numEntries: 774 It would be nice if something went to stderr in case stdout has been redirected so an abnormal result was ob

Bug#470509: libgnutls13 bug report

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Adams
I've filed bug # against libgnutls13 since upgrading to the version in testing will fix the underlying failure. I think it makes sense to implement the workaround in my patch simply on the grounds of network efficiency since the overhead is pretty dramatic. Should I move the operational log

Bug#471354: libgnutls13: gnutls13=1.4.4-3 causes pam_ldap failures based on transfer size

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Adams
Package: libgnutls13 Version: 1.4.4-3 Severity: normal #470509 turns out to be caused by the version of libgnutls13 - if the version from stable (1.4.4-3) is in use pam_ldap will return an incorrect authentication error because the ldap_search_s() call will fail when gnutls_read() returns an inter

Bug#471354: closed by Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#471354: libgnutls13: gnutls13=1.4.4-3 causes pam_ldap failures based on transfer size)

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Adams
On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Upgrading to the version in testing solves the problem. Ok. I am marking the bug as fixed in that version. Since this is not rc (speak up if you disagree), that is probably going to be the only action I am taking. Can we check wh

Bug#470509: And a patch…

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
The problem appears to be related to the response size when calling ldap_search_s() in _get_user_info(): rc = ldap_search_s (session->ld, ssd->base, ssd->scope, filter, NULL, 0, &res); pam_ldap works correctly if that line is changed to either not request attribute data: rc = ldap_sea

Bug#470509: More debugging notes

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Adams
I've worked on a patch to add more informative syslog() use to pam_ldap, oriented towards system administrators who are investigating failures. With that and a number of hacked in syslog() calls in libldap2, it's starting to appear that the problem is caused by an underlying failure in gnut

Bug#467042: Package split

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Adams
I'm not sure if this was part of the prior discussion but when I prepared a trimmed-down version for our Debian server VMs I planned for a three-part split: open-vm-tools: vmware-guestd, vmware-checkvm, libguest open-vm-tools-modules: kernel modules (so we can avoid installing this in favor

Bug#464209: lm-sensors: sensord should report errors but not abort

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Adams
Package: lm-sensors Version: 1:2.10.1-3 Severity: normal We have a Sun x4100 M2 which has a partially-supported ADM sensor chip: i2c_adapter i2c-1: : Unrecognized stepping 0x45. Defaulting to ADM1026.o We have lm-sensors automatically configured and started on all of our systems. The sensor mis

Bug#463465: Other fixes

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
[Thu Jan 31 22:00:23 2008] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm line 1468. (/usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm:1468) -if ( $ARGSRef->{ $field . '_Date' } ne '' ) { +if ( $ARGSRef->{ $fiel

Bug#463466: request-tracker3.6: Enhancement to provide a global squelch list

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Package: request-tracker3.6 Version: 3.6.1-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The attached patch allows you to create a SiteConfig variable containing a list of addresses which RT should not send email to: Set($SquelchList, '[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]'); -- Package-spec

Bug#463465: request-tracker3.6: Logged errors due to use of an uninitialized variable in Web.pm:1239

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Package: request-tracker3.6 Version: 3.6.1-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Web.pm uses a variable which may not always be defined - this causes the following error: [Thu Jan 31 19:55:49 2008] [warning]: Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm li

Bug#461169: pdftk: Patch to handle UTF-8 data in update_info

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: pdftk Version: 1.40-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch l10n pdftk's UpdateInfo expects all of its info to be plain ASCII. This causes problems with UTF-8 characters (e.g. a u with an umlaut (U+00FC) which is input as 0xC3BC will be converted to 0xFFC3 0xFFBC) which is inconvenient for author

Bug#461167: libpdf-api2-perl: $pdf->info() metadata improperly handles Unicode strings

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: libpdf-api2-perl Version: 0.57-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch l10n PDF::API2 includes Encode but doesn't use it when checking for UTF-16 strings in metadata ($pdf->info() hash). This causes the output to be garbled in our UTF-8 (perl -CSD) environment. The attached patch uses Encode::det

Bug#457409: debian-installer: GRUB config needs to use UUIDs to avoid boot failure on Sun x4100 M2 (Galaxy)

2007-12-21 Thread Chris Adams
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal We have a number of Sun x4100 M2 systems and have run into a significant problem triggered by the newer ILOM service processors. The SPs provide a nifty remote CD-over-network feature as part of their KVM function; unfortunately this results in a race co

Bug#457403: debian-installer: Serial console parameters are not used when generating grub config

2007-12-21 Thread Chris Adams
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch1 Severity: important Our cluster nodes PXE boot with the following parameters: append initrd=debian/etch/DI/amd64/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=18000 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw console=ttyS0,57600n8 auto url=http://198.202.70.23/DI/presee

Bug#449606: netatalk: truncated directory display when a ._ resource fork is unreadable

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Adams
Package: netatalk Version: 2.0.3-5 Severity: important Our AppleVolumes.default is configured to use adouble:osx (this is a requirement as most of our Macs are OS X NFS clients) with the following options: :DEFAULT: adouble:osx options:usedots,nohex,upriv cnidscheme:dbd When afpd encounters a ._

Bug#381373: Update: gethostbyname() still fails on etch

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Adams
Sorry about the delay updating this ticket - I can confirm that this still happens on Etch for both i386 and amd64. All of our systems have been updated so /etc/nscd.conf contains "enable-cache hosts no". Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#349709: Support for custom arguments

2007-08-10 Thread Chris Adams
I recently ran into this problem and made a very similar patch to change the $HTTPD calls for start & configtest to include $APACHE_ARGUMENTS (if it exists) so we can add a few needed defines in /etc/apache2/envvars (e.g. -DTEST_SITE vs. -DPRODUCTION_SITE so we can share a common Apache con

Bug#424683: #424683 samba: Samba child segfaults when scanned using MBSA

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Adams
On Jun 22, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Noèl Köthe wrote: tags 424683 - moreinfo tags 424683 + fixed-upstream thanks That was fast - thanks! Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#424683: samba: Samba child segfaults when scanned using MBSA

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: samba Version: 3.0.24-6etch1 Severity: minor While scanning our domain this morning I noticed that smbd will crash in api_eventlog_open_eventlog (#4 in the backtrace below) when scanned by Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer. I've marked this as minor because it doesn't interfere with

Bug#378261: #378261 - slapd fails under heavy load due to descriptor limit - Debian Bug report logs

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Adams
I've verified that the same fault happens on 2.3.30-5 on a clean Etch install. With nfiles set to 8192 the following will occur quite easily in testing: slapd[5574]: daemon: 4096 beyond descriptor table size 4096 When this happens the connection is still accepted so the client will wait un

Bug#420817: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: The boot process hangs following the completion of /scripts/init-bottom

2007-04-24 Thread Chris Adams
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: mptbase boot hang on Dell Precision 650 Severity: important The problem is related to the Fusion-MPT SCSI card: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI The last kernel which boots successfully is 2.6.18-2. 2.6.18-3, 2.6.18

Bug#419575: varnish: Varnish should default to using /var/cache instead of /var/lib

2007-04-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: varnish Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: minor Most similar packages use /var/cache to store cached files; the default /etc/default/varnish uses /var/lib instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Shell:

Bug#419109: amd64-libs-dev: diversion fails during upgrade from sarge

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Adams
Package: amd64-libs-dev Version: 1.4 Severity: important amd64-libs-dev has a problem similar to amd64-libs' #362960: Setting up amd64-libs-dev (1.4) ... dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/include/asm/a.out.h' with different file `/usr/include/asm-i386/a.out.h', not allowed -- Sys

Bug#418925: apache2: mod_proxy_http / ProxyPass uses an invalid Host: header for backend requests

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.3-4 Severity: important I have been replacing the sadly-unreliable apt-proxy with an Apache2 mod_cache setup. Opera's Debian archive turns out to be virtual hosted and fails when used like this: ProxyPass /opera http://deb.opera.com/opera smax=4 retry=60 tcpdump co

Bug#362960: #362960 - amd64-libs: diversion foo fails during upgrade from sarge - Debian Bug report logs

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Adams
I'm not the original reporter but I just ran into the same problem: I'm not sure I entirely follow what's going on when this happens. We're in the postinst which means files from older amd64-libs packages have been removed. If removing the diversion would cause a conflict, then you must have bo

Bug#390923: mpt-status: Incompatibility with SAS1064 controller on Sun Fire x4100

2007-01-22 Thread Chris Adams
On 2007-01-22, at 2:09 PM, Steffen Joeris wrote: Could you maybe check if this error still exists with the latest version in experimental? Just in case you need a sarge backports, you can grep it from this site[0]. Sure - the affected machines were running etch / amd64 so the version ins

Bug#398684: mailman: Hostname settings are ignored when generating admin emails

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Adams
On 2006-11-15, at 1:05 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Have you created the list before setting DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and/or DEFAULT_URL_HOST correctly? In this case, you need to call: /var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url ${LISTNAME} I'm sorry - I should have mentioned that I had already r

Bug#398684: mailman: Hostname settings are ignored when generating admin emails

2006-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-8sarge5 Severity: normal We're using mailman with a virtual domain ("lists.example.edu") on an existing postfix server ("example.edu"). Postfix is configured to use a mailman transport for that domain. We have the various host variables set to "lists.example.edu":

Bug#397730: openssl: Password input fails when using sudo

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Adams
Package: openssl Version: 0.9.8c-3 Severity: normal sudo openssl genrsa -aes192 -out /etc/ssl/private/host.example.edu.key 1024 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo password: Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus .++ ++ e is 65537 (0x10001) Enter pass phrase for /etc/ss

Bug#393778: spamassassin: Custom X-Spam-* headers cannot be used with header rules

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Adams
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.3-0bpo1 Severity: normal I'm attempting to add a rule which matches on a custom header set by an outside spam filter which adds a header to identified spam (we don't want to trust this completely but it would be a good source of a few extra points). Unfortunate

Bug#390923: mpt-status: Incompatibility with SAS1064 controller on Sun Fire x4100

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
Package: mpt-status Version: 1.1.6-8 Severity: wishlist http://forum.lucidnow.com/viewtopic.php?t=144&sid=b49e9cd062a077f40de894a5c9074eaf implies that v1.1.5 and later support the LSI SAS1064 controllers on Sun Fire x4100 systems. Unfortunately the latest mpt-status from testing fails, sugge

Bug#390921: mpt-status: Version number reported by --version is incorrect

2006-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
Package: mpt-status Version: 1.1.6-8 Severity: minor mpt-status --version returns 1.1.5 - this appears to be an upstream bug -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/ba

Bug#378261: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#378261: slapd fails under heavy load due to descriptor limit

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Adams
On 2006-09-28, at 1:11 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: If I change the ulimit to 1024, then it fails at: Sep 28 13:09:59 ldap-test2 slapd[29388]: warning: cannot open /etc/ hosts.allow: Too many open files Sep 28 13:09:59 ldap-test2 slapd[29388]: error: bad option name: "171.64.11.148" Sep 28

Bug#378261: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#378261: slapd fails under heavy load due to descriptor limit

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Adams
On 2006-07-16, at 6:16 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: If the debian build links against tcp wrappers, that may be the actual problem. This is rather well discussed on the OpenLDAP archives. I couldn't find much which seemed relevant in the archives but I've confirmed that this is not the

Bug#387060: gamin: gam_server chewing cpu

2006-09-11 Thread Chris Adams
Package: gamin Version: 0.1.7-2bpo1 Severity: normal We've noticed a sporadic gam_server problem on a busy courier-imap server. The problem initially sounded like #333205 but a little investigation suggests otherwise. During the problem gam_server will chew 100% CPU strace reveals that it is mak

Bug#385248: firefox: Core dump from what appears to be the same bug

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Adams
Package: firefox Followup-For: Bug #385248 I've saved a copy of a core dump from Firefox here: http://improbable.org/chris/BugReports/385248.core.bz2 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-

Bug#381373: nscd: Sporadic gethostbyname() hostname failures

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nscd Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 Severity: important I have not been able to determine the trigger but after some period of time nscd will start returning failures for any attempt get the system hostname. Here's an example from an amd64 (i386 is also affected) sarge system: [EMAIL PROT

Bug#379868: mysql-server-4.1: preconfigure fails on an upgrade

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Adams
On 2006-07-26, at 12:27 AM, Christian Hammers wrote: On 2006-07-25 Chris Adams wrote: An apt-get upgrade resulted in the following: Can't exec "/tmp/mysql-server-4.1.config.169501": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168. Are you using some kind o

Bug#379868: mysql-server-4.1: preconfigure fails on an upgrade

2006-07-25 Thread Chris Adams
Package: mysql-server-4.1 Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge5 Severity: normal An apt-get upgrade resulted in the following: Can't exec "/tmp/mysql-server-4.1.config.169501": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168. open2: exec of /tmp/mysql-server-4.1.config.169501 configure 4.1.11a

Bug#378261: slapd fails under heavy load due to descriptor limit

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
Package: slapd Version: 2.2.23-8 Severity: important slapd can fail under heavy load with the following message: Jul 14 10:12:04 economo slapd[16502]: daemon: 1024 beyond descriptor table size 1024 There are several problems here: 1) slapd uses more file descriptors than it arguably should (#

Bug#367601: pine: Interrupted message inconsistency with Maildir driver

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: pine Version: 4.62-1 Severity: minor Many of our Pine users have their accounts configured to use the Maildir driver. If their connection to the server is broken Pine will save the message to ~/.pine-interrupted-mail - unfortunately it doesn't check that file when it you restart Pine so

Bug#366622: courier-imap: Maildir ACL performance problems

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Adams
Package: courier-imap Version: 3.0.8-4sarge4 Severity: normal We have a user with ~3500 mail folders (consolidating folders isn't an option). An IMAP session takes several minutes and according to strace most of the time is spent processing the courierimapacl files in each folder. This leads to t

Bug#365677: nscd: restart should cause a cache refresh

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nscd Version: 2.3.6-7 Severity: minor I noticed that nscd had cached an old copy of an LDAP group which we had recently changed. After a few minutes of bad results I ran '/etc/init.d/nscd restart' in the hope that it would cause nscd to invalidate its cache but this didn't work. 'ncsd -

Bug#365676: nscd: restart should cause a cache refresh

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nscd Version: 2.3.6-7 Severity: minor I noticed that nscd had cached an old copy of an LDAP group which we had recently changed. After a few minutes of bad results I ran '/etc/init.d/nscd restart' in the hope that it would cause nscd to invalidate its cache but this didn't work. 'ncsd --

Bug#361337: phpwiki: Upgrade re-initialized database

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Adams
Package: phpwiki Version: 1.3.11p1-1 Severity: normal I upgraded a running phpwiki install from a sarge system. We used external authentication in the past which meant that phpwiki bombed out the first time it tried to hit the user table; after changing ENABLE_USER_NEW to false I was able to logi

Bug#353247: nagios-plugins: check_ping occasionally segfaults

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nagios-plugins Version: 1.4-6 Severity: minor The check_ping plugin segfaults very infrequently: check_ping[3913]: segfault at 5556d000 rip 55613b6d rsp b204 error 6 check_ping[24961]: segfault at 5556d000 rip 55613b6d rsp b204 er

Bug#352734: nagios-plugins: check_by_ssh help lists unsupported -w/-c options

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nagios-plugins Version: 1.4-6 Severity: minor check_by_ssh --help includes the following: -w, --warning=DOUBLE Response time to result in warning status (seconds) -c, --critical=DOUBLE Response time to result in critical status (seconds) Attempting to use either option results

Bug#351847: nagios-plugins: check_imap / check_simap help is incorrect

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Adams
Package: nagios-plugins Version: 1.4-6 Severity: normal check_imap and check_simap will print usage options with --help which include the following: -w, --warning=DOUBLE Response time to result in warning status (seconds) -c, --critical=DOUBLE Response time to result in critical status

Bug#336113: flashplugin-nonfree: Installer should use the system proxy settings

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Adams
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 7.0.25-5 Severity: wishlist We have a web proxy specified both during the base system install and in the http_proxy environmental variable. The installer should honor these settings or be replaced a tool/library like wget or curl which has standard proxy supp

Bug#238299:

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
I've noticed the same problems with the .uidvalidity files which are created by c-client apps, most notably pine. It seems like there should be a filter which would hide anything which is not a directory and doesn't contain cur/new/tmp children since any attempt to access something which is

Bug#331529: pine: postponed-folder isn't correctly deleted when using Maildir

2005-10-03 Thread Chris Adams
Package: pine Version: 4.62-1 Severity: normal Normally pine deletes its postponed-folder when that folder is empty. If you use Maildirs it will delete the cur, new, and tmp subdirectories but will leave the top-level directory intact (it's possible that this is due to Pine not deleting files it

Bug#315319: mutt: /etc/Muttrc contains a typo for smime_encrypt_command

2005-06-21 Thread Chris Adams
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.9-2 Severity: normal /etc/Muttrc contains the following line set smime_encrypt_command="openssl smime -encrypt -%a -outform DER -in %f %c" The "-" before %a causes the openssl command to display the usage information and quit when you attempt to send an enrypted messa