[Bug 1845214] Re: Keyboard NumLock indicator turns off on connecting another keyboard

2022-02-11 Thread Stuart Longland
I've noticed the same thing… both on Ubuntu, and lately on Gentoo as well, so I'm thinking maybe something in udev / kernel has changed? I use FVWM2 as my desktop on both OSes. My desktop runs Ubuntu 20.04 (AMD64). On my laptop (Panasonic CF-53, which runs Gentoo) it's particularly insidious, pl

[Bug 1857407] Re: mplayer broken Theora codec: libmpcodecs/vf.c:287: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2020-04-26 Thread Stuart Longland
Right, so the situation is this: bit rot. mplayer is no longer maintained apparently, the suggested alternative being `mpv`, which *can* be used with `xscreensaver` (see Debian bug#958865 link). Guess we can close this now, time to migrate over to `mpv`. -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 1857407] Re: mplayer broken Theora codec: libmpcodecs/vf.c:287: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2020-04-25 Thread Stuart Longland
So this issue has been known of in Debian for a while now. I reported the issue today there: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958865 but there was this earlier report from nearly a year ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920485 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug

[Bug 1857407] Re: mplayer broken Theora codec: libmpcodecs/vf.c:287: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
Reproduced the same crash on Debian 10. ** Also affects: mplayer (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1857407 Title: mplayer broken The

[Bug 1857407] [NEW] mplayer broken Theora codec: libmpcodecs/vf.c:287: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
Public bug reported: Hi, I'm using 'mplayer' alongside 'xscreensaver' to play a few videos as screen savers. To save space, I've dropped the frame size of the videos (and they play without sound). On some videos, which I have converted from other media (the example I will give here is a truncat

[Bug 1730947] Re: package fails to build with glibc-2.26

2019-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
I hit the same bug on Gentoo with glibc-2.29-r2 and alsa-lib-1.1.8. Looking at the code, I see they do something similar to the suggestion made in https://stackoverflow.com/a/32672476. It would appear this kludge no longer works. Down later the suggestion was to tweak the -std=XXX flag passed to

[Bug 1815978] Re: sa-compile broken on 16.04 LTS AMD64

2019-02-19 Thread Stuart Longland
C source (and headers), and are installed *together* so there shouldn't be a need to introduce this fragile complexity of having architecture-dependent C compiler include paths. It certainly was this way on Gentoo/MIPS where we had to contend with not two, but three ABIs (o32, n32 and n6

[Bug 1815978] Re: sa-compile broken on 16.04 LTS AMD64

2019-02-15 Thread Stuart Longland
Okay, well firstly, we're not planning on moving up to 18.04 LTS for a while… so everything here is as per the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS distribution. > - the current libperl in 18.04 should be libperl5.26:amd64 - could you upgrade that and all other packges and retry? root@bnesecrf0:~# apt-cache search l

[Bug 1815978] [NEW] sa-compile broken on 16.04 LTS AMD64

2019-02-14 Thread Stuart Longland
Public bug reported: This could be a bug in the underlying toolchain or Perl libraries. The host in question has been updated from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS → 14.04 LTS → 16.04 LTS. root@bnesecrf0:~# sa-compile Feb 15 08:52:01.090 [1364] info: generic: base extraction starting. this can take a while...

Re: [Bug 1313497] Re: USB keyboard unresponsive on fresh install

2014-04-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 29/04/14 18:35, Stefan Bader wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > On 29.04.2014 05:23, Stuart Longland wrote: >> Did the linux-3.13.0-24-generic package miss out a few files or are they >> in a separate package the installer forgot to install? > > That could be and depends on y

[Bug 1313513] Re: mountall does not honour _netdev

2014-04-28 Thread Stuart Longland
As a point of interest, this is an `rbdmount` script I use with upstart as a work-around to the mountall issue. It assumes that the devices listed in /etc/ceph/rbdmap are intended to be mounted locally, and so calls mount on each listed device that appears. Very much a hack: it'd be more elegant

Re: [Bug 1313497] Re: USB keyboard unresponsive on fresh install

2014-04-28 Thread Stuart Longland
t; /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/crypto/cast_common.ko > /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/crypto/wp512.ko > /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/crypto/crc32.ko > /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/crypto/deflate.ko > /lib/modules/

Re: [Bug 1313513] Re: mountall does not honour _netdev

2014-04-28 Thread Stuart Longland
the device it needed would appear in time. I can understand the "let's wait it out and see if it appears", but not the "let's halt everything until the device magically appears". The latter is dangerous for any system for which local console access is difficult or un

[Bug 1313513] [NEW] mountall does not honour _netdev

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
Public bug reported: Hi, This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMD64. I tried configuring a Ceph Rados Block Device (rbd) to be mounted during boot on /var/lib/one, containing my OpenNebula configuration and database. The idea being that should the machine go belly up, I'll have an up-to-

Re: [Bug 1313497] Missing required logs.

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
you should see the attachments now. Due to being the reporter of the problem I am unable to mark the bug as "confirmed". Regards, -- Stuart Longland Systems Engineer _ ___ \ /|_) | T: +61 7 3535 9619 \/ | \ | 38b Douglas StreetF: +61 7 3535 9699

[Bug 1313497] ProcModules.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099047/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497

[Bug 1313497] UdevLog.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevLog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099049/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497 Title:

[Bug 1313497] WifiSyslog.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099050/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => New -- You received this

[Bug 1313497] ProcInterrupts.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099046/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131

[Bug 1313497] UdevDb.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099048/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497 Title: US

[Bug 1313497] ProcEnviron.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099045/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497

[Bug 1313497] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099044/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497

[Bug 1313497] Lsusb.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099042/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497 Title: USB

[Bug 1313497] Lspci.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099041/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497 Title: USB

[Bug 1313497] Re: USB keyboard unresponsive on fresh install

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS onto a machine here. During the installation (which is pre-seeded) and in the BIOS, my keyboard works flawlessly. However, the moment I boot the machine u

[Bug 1313497] CurrentDmesg.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099040/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497

[Bug 1313497] PciMultimedia.txt

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
apport information ** Attachment added: "PciMultimedia.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313497/+attachment/4099043/+files/PciMultimedia.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13134

[Bug 1313497] [NEW] USB keyboard unresponsive on fresh install

2014-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
Public bug reported: Hi, I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS onto a machine here. During the installation (which is pre-seeded) and in the BIOS, my keyboard works flawlessly. However, the moment I boot the machine up, I note the keyboard is not operational. Naturally, I discover this

[Bug 1289318] Re: Samba dumps core if you try to export keytab in trusty

2014-03-24 Thread Stuart Longland
For the record, my initial report of problems was here: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-March/179844.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289318 Title: Samba dumps core if

[Bug 1246732] Re: Access denied to web frontend resources

2014-03-19 Thread Stuart Longland
Actually, rather than commenting out stanzas, one should just fix the directives to use the correct statement in the sogo.conf: Require all granted # Explicitly allow caching of static content to avoid browser specific behavior. # A resource's URL MUST change in order to have the cl

[Bug 384347] Re: _netdev not working

2014-02-19 Thread Stuart Longland
Just discovered this "gem" trying to mount a Ceph RBD device on boot. To add insult to injury, this is on a normally headless server, which is in a difficult spot to get a keyboard and monitor to. A server that requires me to be physically present to press a S key (and also as a side-effect, *does

[Bug 1067934] Re: spends 10+ minutes deduplicating Package lists

2014-02-18 Thread Stuart Longland
That seems to have fixed it at long last. We've got a rather complicated boot menu system so out of those netboot tarballs, I just grab initrd.gz and linux files, and place them in a common directory tree so we can deploy various i686 and AMD64 distributions by picking them from a menu. The broke

[Bug 1067934] Re: spends 10+ minutes deduplicating Package lists

2014-02-18 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi, Apologies for the delay. I've been on other projects and only just got back to this one. We're using the files from http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/pub/ubuntu/archive/dists/precise- proposed/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz I'm downloading the latest copy of that now,

[Bug 1067934] Re: spends 10+ minutes deduplicating Package lists

2014-01-14 Thread Stuart Longland
Silly question, has this fix made it into the current netboot images for Ubuntu 12.04 on AMD64 and i686? I just downloaded the latest netboot images, even tried the ones in the -proposed directory, and I'm still getting a long pause from my netboot images. -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1012629] Re: grub-installer ignores "bootdev" setting in preseed file

2013-09-06 Thread Stuart Longland
I've got the following in my preseed file: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sdc d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean false d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sdc We've got two machines intended as Ceph OSD nodes, they've got two 3TB HDDs on the two high-speed SATA ports and a 60GB SSD on

[Bug 989396] Re: Package keyboard-configuration post-installation script. Hang on /bin/setupcon --force --save for 10 min then killed

2013-08-30 Thread Stuart Longland
Well, I've been battling this for the past 8 hours. I'm trying to configure some virtual machines. My intention is to provision some real machines for use in an Ceph/OpenStack cluster. Since it'll probably take a few attempts, I want to automate as much as possible. As a test, I am doing the dep

[Bug 1053217] Re: gdm leaking filehandles, causing "too many open files"

2013-07-23 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi, Is there any possibility of this patch being reviewed and included in the Ubuntu 10.04 series? We just had the customer at this site ring up complaining that they couldn't log in today. Turns out something reverted our patched gdm package back to the original Ubuntu one. Think: big industri

[Bug 666828] Re: task jbd2/cciss!c0d0:258 blocked for more than 120 seconds

2013-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
Fair enough, I think I found some related files on the HP site, been reading through those. What I don't understand is this: why is it suddenly a firmware issue now on Ubuntu 12.04, when it wasn't an issue on VMWare ESX? The hardware has not changed. If there's a firmware bug, fine, but why was

[Bug 666828] Re: task jbd2/cciss!c0d0:258 blocked for more than 120 seconds

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Longland
Just re-loaded, lspci reports the affected controller as being the following: 07:01.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx (rev 01) Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 642 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18

[Bug 666828] Re: task jbd2/cciss!c0d0:258 blocked for more than 120 seconds

2013-04-25 Thread Stuart Longland
Not sure what the official status is, but I'm getting this problem with a HP ProLiant box here running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and linux- image-3.5.0-25-generic as well as the 3.2-series kernels. For me the machine will run fine for about a day, then everything locks up. If I'm lucky, I can SSH in, but

[Bug 970234] Re: Selecting spice and qxl mode results in blank screen

2013-02-14 Thread Stuart Longland
I've noticed this myself. For what it's worth, a lot of people here are experiencing it with Windows VMs. I tried booting a Zentyal system with a qxl emulated card and got the same result. root@bneprdcn0:/var/lib/libvirt/images# dpkg -l qemu-kvm* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Statu

[Bug 1053217] Re: gdm leaking filehandles, causing "too many open files"

2012-09-19 Thread Stuart Longland
Okay, I can confirm this would appear to fix the problem. Test procedure: 1. Log in remotely to the affected machine using ssh, run the following command: $ sudo watch ls -l /proc/$( pidof gdm-binary )/fd 2. Start a remote X session with that host (through Xnest, plain X, whatever)... observ

[Bug 1053217] Re: gdm leaking filehandles, causing "too many open files"

2012-09-19 Thread Stuart Longland
** Patch added: "The aforementioned patch for gdm" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053217/+attachment/3324446/+files/gdm-2.30.2.is.2.30.0-filehandle-fix.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1053217] [NEW] gdm leaking filehandles, causing "too many open files"

2012-09-19 Thread Stuart Longland
Public bug reported: At a client's site (a large mining company here in Queensland) we have a Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine running MacroView SCADA in a dr:bd high availability cluster. Workstations connect to the server via XDMCP for control of the local plant. In the past they ran two discrete

[Bug 259139] Re: Ncurses package does not contain libtinfo

2012-09-12 Thread Stuart Longland
Hate to bump an old bug... but it seems silly to create another one for essentially the same issue. I am currently packaging a proprietary application as an Ubuntu package (the MacroView SCADA system, as it so happens). Host platform is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS i386. In previous releases, the upstream s