Bug#508834: update grub runs grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2?

2010-01-02 Thread Jim Bray
While the "transform" stuff does make the scripts less readable and thus less maintainable, it doesn't cost much in execution, and would not in itself be worth diverging from upstream. The fact that grub-probe is somewhat broken is in my opinion reason enough to diverge from upstream, if

Bug#508834: update grub runs grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2?

2009-12-31 Thread Jim Bray
Update-grub has always been ridiculously slow for me also (maybe a minute), most of it disk-thrashing. I finally ran iotop while doing an update-grub and found that this is where it is spending its time: grub-probe -t fs /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 (Note: the various copies of transform="s,x,x

Bug#536791: ia32-libs uninstallable, preventing installation of wine, etc

2009-07-13 Thread Jim Bray
Package: ia32-libs Version: 21 Severity: normal -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/s

Bug#510758: klibc-utils: /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype reognizes ext4 as ext4, making ext4 root unbootable

2009-01-09 Thread Jim Bray
maximilian attems wrote: please stop sending broken html mails. I'm using Seamonkey 2.0-alpha-2 for mail. You can file a bug report with them if you want. there is a newer version in experimental, but without the ext4 fix yet. no priority for lenny as 2.6.26 is anyway too old for ext4.

Bug#510758: klibc-utils: /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype reognizes ext4 as ext4, making ext4 root unbootable

2009-01-04 Thread Jim Bray
Package: klibc-utils Version: 1.5.12-2 Severity: important In /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local, get_fstype() uses what is probably /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype to determine the fs type. This returns 'ext3' for an ext4 fs, unlike /lib/udev/vol_id, which returns 'ext4'. This breaks the initr

Bug#510642: kernel-package fails to rebuild changed or affected files

2009-01-03 Thread Jim Bray
Package: kernel-package Version: 11.015 Severity: normal I just patched a file, did make-kpkg, and nothing happened: /usr/src/linux# patch -p1 <../cpufreq-patch patching file drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c /usr/src/linux# make-kpkg kernel-image exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=2.6.28-10.00

Bug#497280: This should be fixed, not a wishlist item

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Bray
David Spreen wrote: I will upload a fix to this today. Thanks. I will try it when it appears. However, due to AN.ON's obligation to implement data retention in accordance with German law[1] and the fact that most free cascades only use a short mix cascade within Germany, I will orphane the p

Bug#497280: This should be fixed, not a wishlist item

2008-12-28 Thread Jim Bray
It's kind of silly that this is marked as a 'wishlist' item when it prevents anon-proxy starting more than once, upon installation, on systems with a dynamic /var/run, and when the following three lines in /etc/init.d/anon-proxy (marked with a '+') fix the problem. I tried start-stop-daemon -

Bug#345057: apt doesn't handle blank lines in /etc/apt/preferences

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Bray
I'm running unstable, apt version 0.7.14 Trying to pin a package (grub-pc), I kept running into: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header It turns out that any blank line in /etc/apt/preferences, even a trailing blank line, causes the above error. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Bray
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote:   The stock '10_linux' entry will be overwritten every time a new version of grub comes out, or at the very least dpkg will ask me which config file I want, the old or new. It do

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-26 Thread Jim Bray
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:38:54PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote: [...], given that automatically generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system, How's this related to UUIDs? (btw, manually generating boot entries can result in

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Bray
I propose that a grub option be added to disable all uses of UUIDS, and that this option be made the default, given that automatically generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system, and that many people prefer human-readable config file entries in the Unix tradition an

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-23 Thread Jim Bray
I have just installed grub-pc version 1.96+20080621-1. My /etc/default/grub contains: # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true 'search --fs-uuid' lines should not be generated by update-grub, as I have the "GRUB_DISABLE_LI