Bug#818280: upgrade-reports: System is unusable after "aptitute safe-upgrade" [SOLVED]

2016-03-19 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. It turned out that the problem was related to LVM partitions not being "available" while "systemd" was trying to run "fsck" on them. In maintenance mode, I just ran # vgchange -a y theVolumeGroupName and they were automatically detected, and mounted. Then the boot sequence could proceed no

Bug#818280: upgrade-reports: System is unusable after "aptitute safe-upgrade"

2016-03-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I first ran # aptitude safe-upgrade which completed successfully. ["aptitude" automatically selected packages related to "console".] I then installed the linu

Bug#612660: CVE-2010-4476 Trivial DoS when parsing strings into Java Double objects

2011-02-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: openjdk-6-jre Version: 6b18-1.8.5-1 Severity: important Hello. I just wanted to mention that the bug is not limited to remote access. It is triggered by any attempt to parse the decimal representation of the problematic numbers. In particular, when such a representation appears in source

Bug#524554: Sorry!

2009-06-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I must apologize for my previous post: I was using "reportbug" and it didn't show the full history of the bug which I had selected (which led me to believe that the original report hadn't been taken care of...). [Nevertheless it's fairly misleading that "reportbug" doesn't provide the full hi

Bug#524554: skencil: Skencil is crashing

2009-06-09 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: skencil Version: 0.6.17-16 Followup-For: Bug #524554 Hi. I see that no follow-up has been provided to the original report; is this software still maintained in Debian? Best, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstabl

Bug#492490: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#492490: [reportbug] Crash

2008-07-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. That was a quick reply; thanks! [And it was too quick a report too (see below).] > > --- Package information. --- > > Depends (Version) | Installed > > =-+-=== > > python (>= 2.4) | 2.4.4-6 > > Is this version the default on your

Bug#492490: [reportbug] Crash

2008-07-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: reportbug Version: 3.43 Severity: critical --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi. Trying to run the program: $ reportbug Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1823, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 832, in main lib_packa