[Bug 1784774] Re: snapd is not autofs aware and fails with nfs home dir

2022-04-23 Thread Markus Kuhn
It may also be worth noting that Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication for NFS works a bit differently from Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication for applications, because NFS happens in the kernel, and therefore the kernel needs to get access to the Kerberos tickets (credentials). The kernel's NFS client does s

[Bug 1909663] Re: atril on opening ptc40.ps.bz2 file crashed with SIGSEGV in cairo_surface_set_device_scale()

2020-12-30 Thread Markus Kuhn
Also reported upstream at https://github.com/mate- desktop/atril/issues/506 ** Bug watch added: github.com/mate-desktop/atril/issues #506 https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/issues/506 ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1662552] Re: snaps don't work with NFS home

2020-10-26 Thread Markus Kuhn
I should add that at the moment, my first problem is still that NFS seems not permitted at all: $ aptitude show snapd Package: snapd Version: 2.47.1+20.04 State: installed # snap install pdftk 2020-10-26T15:12:47Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart... pdftk 2.02-4 from S

[Bug 1662552] Re: snaps don't work with NFS home

2020-10-23 Thread Markus Kuhn
on an NFS filer. Specifically, my environment has the following characteristics: $ getent passwd mgk25 mgk25:*:1597:1597:Markus Kuhn:/home/mgk25:/bin/bash $ echo $HOME /home/mgk25 $ ls -l /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Oct 22 23:35 /home -> homes $ ls -l /homes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct 13 20

[Bug 849416]

2020-09-22 Thread Markus Kuhn
Dear newcomers to this issue. As explained above in [comment 122](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505024#c122), this issue is really a bug (violation of the MIME standard) **in the calendar function of Microsoft Exchange** that sends these messages. Regarding Thunderbird, this issue is

[Bug 1787989] Re: adwaita icon them not found

2020-04-22 Thread Markus Kuhn
Should the capitalization of Adwaita not also be fixed for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) in package xubuntu-icon-theme file /usr/share/icons/elementary- xfce/index.theme which still says Inherits=adwaita,gnome,hicolor even though /usr/share/icons/Adwaita has a capital A? -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 1784499] Re: AppArmor treats regular NFS file access as network op

2018-10-12 Thread Markus Kuhn
See also https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/apparmor/2018-October/011823.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784499 Title: AppArmor treats regular NFS file access as network op To ma

[Bug 1662552] Re: snaps don't work with NFS home

2018-10-12 Thread Markus Kuhn
The real bug here is that AppArmor should restrict NFS access only via the file-path rules, and not via the network rules, since if an application accesses a file via NFS, all related network traffic is initiated and controlled by the kernel (or by kernel helper processes like automount, rpc.gssd a

[Bug 1784499] Re: AppArmor treats regular NFS file access as network op

2018-10-12 Thread Markus Kuhn
AppArmor really should restrict NFS access only via the file-path rules, not via the network rules, since if an application accesses a file via NFS, all related network traffic is initiated and controlled by the kernel (or by kernel helper processes like automount, rpc.gssd and nfsidmap), and not b

[Bug 1790908] Re: Ghostscript 9.22 garbles characters when rendering certain PDFs

2018-10-02 Thread Markus Kuhn
Thanks for releasing the fix! I can confirm that the reported problem no longer appears with the new ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1. ** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 1790908] Re: Ghostscript 9.22 garbles characters when rendering certain PDFs

2018-09-05 Thread Markus Kuhn
Related-sounding bug reports: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699324 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889302 ** Bug watch added: Ghostscript (AFPL) Bugzilla #699324 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699324 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #88

[Bug 1790908] [NEW] Ghostscript 9.22 garbles characters when rendering certain PDFs

2018-09-05 Thread Markus Kuhn
Public bug reported: Certain PDFs such as https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/downloads/ring/ring-2014-05.pdf render in ghostscript 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1 (as found on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS install) with almost all characters replaced by either random characters or empty rectangles. Same problem in

[Bug 1648107] Re: $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2018-08-24 Thread Markus Kuhn
LightDM is already able to create the xauthority file locally under $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, using configuration option user-authority-in-system- dir. This option is off by default on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04, but can be enabled with # echo -e '[LightDM]\nuser-authority-in-system-dir=true' >/etc/lightdm/lightd

[Bug 1648107] Re: $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2018-08-24 Thread Markus Kuhn
see also bug 685194 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1648107 Title: $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1787989] Re: adwaita icon them not found

2018-08-24 Thread Markus Kuhn
Likewise, I get $ okular Icon theme "adwaita" not found. Icon theme "adwaita" not found. (on Xubuntu). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787989 Title: adwaita icon them not found To

[Bug 1749309] Re: Tor starts before IPv6 is available

2018-02-16 Thread Markus Kuhn
Could not perhaps Tor be fixed to follow the advice for developers at the end of https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/#whatdoesthismeanformeadeveloper such that it can be started up even if the network has not yet been allocated all addresses? -- You received this bug

[Bug 1648107] Re: $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2018-01-11 Thread Markus Kuhn
While we are at it, we could probably also set ICEAUTHORITY=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ICEauthority in a similar fashion, as this is the equivalent cookie facility for X11 client-client communication. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1614261] Re: RPCSVCGSSDOPT is ignored by boot script

2017-06-08 Thread Markus Kuhn
I can confirm the diagnosis in #7 and suggest the attached patch as a fix. ** Patch added: "patch for /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/nfs-utils_env.sh" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/1614261/+attachment/4892651/+files/nfs-utils_env.diff -- You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 1614261] Re: RPCSVCGSSDOPT is ignored by boot script

2017-06-08 Thread Markus Kuhn
** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614261 Title: RPCSVCGSSDOPT is ignored by boot script To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1648107] Re: $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2016-12-08 Thread Markus Kuhn
As a workaround, install the attached shell script as /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10local-xauthority It uses xauth to merge ~/.Xauthority into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xauthority and then updates XAUTHORITY to point at that location. (Note that the "xauth merge" command will leave a warning such as "xauth: f

[Bug 1648107] [NEW] $XAUTHORITY should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2016-12-07 Thread Markus Kuhn
Public bug reported: Historically, the X authority file was placed into $HOME/.Xauthority such that X11 clients on remote servers could access it in environments in which $HOME is located on a network file system. Today, this practice has become an anachronism that causes far more problems than i

[Bug 1380080] Re: Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied (convert init to upstart)

2016-10-23 Thread Markus Kuhn
Correction: In #9 I should have said "no longer exists in Ubuntu 16.04". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380080 Title: Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied (conv

[Bug 1380080] Re: Cannot make directory '/var/run/screen': Permission denied (convert init to upstart)

2016-10-22 Thread Markus Kuhn
If I understood the following correctly, this bug no longer exists in Ubuntu 14.04, thanks to the switch to systemd: The file $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf d /var/run/screen 0775 root utmp in package "screen" tells systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/run/screen and $ systemctl list-

[Bug 1604010] Re: sntp missing

2016-08-03 Thread Markus Kuhn
General comment: I would not consider "Use of uninitialized value" warnings in Perl on their own as evidence of a lack of software quality. If a Perl programmer deliberately used the fact that undef also works as an empty string, I would still consider that to be a perfectly legitimate Perl program

[Bug 1604010] [NEW] sntp missing

2016-07-18 Thread Markus Kuhn
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 16.04, the binary file /usr/bin/sntp is missing from the package ntp. The associated man page /usr/share/man/man1/sntp.1.gz is still included. How to reproduce: $ sudo apt-get install ntp $ dpkg-query -L ntp | grep sntp /usr/share/man/man1/sntp.1.gz Expected resul

[Bug 614731] Re: shutdown hangs with wlan autofs/nfs mounted homedirs

2016-06-10 Thread Markus Kuhn
In Ubuntu 16.04, you could place into /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d /pre-down.d a script to run something like "killall -s USR1 automount && sleep 1". This should help to timeout non-busy automounts before the network interface goes down. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 946322] Re: Add ICMP/IGMP protocols to cli tool

2015-05-19 Thread Markus Kuhn
** Also affects: ufw (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: ufw (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946322 Title: Add ICMP/IGMP protocols to c

[Bug 1124250] Re: Partially incorrect uid mapping with nfs4/idmapd/ldap-auth

2015-05-07 Thread Markus Kuhn
If I understood correctly, historically there have been two independently developed alternative user-space mechanisms that can perform uid <-> user name lookups for the Linux NFSv4 implementation in the kernel, one from the University of Michigan and one from NetApp: A) /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd runs

[Bug 1124250] Re: Partially incorrect uid mapping with nfs4/idmapd/ldap-auth

2015-05-07 Thread Markus Kuhn
I can confirm that the problem persists (and possibly even has become more common) here with the recent kernel update: $ ls -ld /some-nfsv4-mounted-directory ; cat /proc/key-users ; uname -a drwxrwsr-x 2 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Dec 20 2007 . /proc/key-users: 0:60 59/59 53/2000 1226/400

[Bug 193913] Re: Font Helvetica is not in the mapping file.

2013-01-29 Thread Markus Kuhn
Practically all PostScript interpreters out there either include the 13 standard fonts - Times (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) - Helvetica (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique) - Courier (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique) - Symbol (listed in Appendix E of the PostScript Language R

[Bug 371181] Re: xauth authentication not working

2010-12-13 Thread Markus Kuhn
These "xhost +si:localuser:..." settings have also caused problems to Tk users on RedHat/Fedora systems in the past: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=349071 https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216236 It all goes back to the Tk changes entry 4/26/93 (new feature)

[Bug 371181] Re: xauth authentication not working

2010-12-13 Thread Markus Kuhn
Since Ubuntu uses several "xhost +..." lines in its default configuration, one could argue it should have compiled TCL/Tk with the TK_NO_SECURITY flag set, otherwise Tk's "send" IPC breaks, which is really what I suspect this bug report is all about. Even better would be to patch in Tk the "xhost"

[Bug 371181] Re: xauth authentication not working

2010-12-13 Thread Markus Kuhn
Really a Tk problem, nothing to do with openssh, therefore changing package and reopening. ** Package changed: openssh (Ubuntu) => tk8.5 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: tk8.5 (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 371181] Re: xauth authentication not working

2010-12-13 Thread Markus Kuhn
The problem may be related to Ubuntu (experienced on 10.4) apparently executing the commands xhost +si:localuser:`id -un` xhost +si:localuser:root xhost +si:localuser:gdm or does something equivalent when you log in. Just type "xhost" to see the list of non-xauth authorizations currently enabled