[Bug 1040846] [NEW] Missing content in /etc/nsswitch.conf causes failure

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I can't find any package that /etc/nsswitch.conf belongs to, so I'm reporting this issue here since it's related to automount. I use NIS to distribute automount databases, and the autofs5 package. My /etc/auto.master file contains: +auto.master and I can run "ypcat -k auto.

[Bug 1040846] Re: Missing content in /etc/nsswitch.conf causes failure

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to autofs5 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040846 Title: Missing content in /etc/nsswitch.conf causes failure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 488696] Re: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Smith
Steve's comment #18 is not correct. Automount was first created in the late 1980's, and when Sun released the first version of name service switch in the early 1990's, it was already being used to manage automount maps. Automount maps have been considered a standard, basic name service ever sinc

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 Please undo the "duplicate" status of this bug. This bug still exists in Precise 12.04 and 12.04.1: when I start my system autofs cannot see any maps that are stored in NIS. -- You received this bug notificat

[Bug 912030] [NEW] The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: A long time ago I reported a bug in the autofs package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/111612 That bug was fixed, but now I've discovered that the same bug still exists in the autofs5 package. Please see the above bug for the issue and the fix (I appli

[Bug 111612] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs is broken

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Smith
FYI, just discovered that the fix made here for autofs4 was never applied to autofs5, and the same bug exists there; filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/912030 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to a

[Bug 912030] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #782169 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 ** Also affects: autofs5 (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 50430] Re: NIS has problems starting before the network comes up

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
Manager doesn't wait for NIS to start before starting # autofs, so we have no maps. Restart it. # # Install with: # sudo cp ~/Downloads/reautofs /etc/init.d # sudo update-rc.d reautofs defaults 99 # # # Author: Paul Smith start () { nohup /bin/sh -c ' while true; d

[Bug 691329] [NEW] dnsmasq init file has incorrect DNSMASQ_INTERFACE reference

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dnsmasq Looking at the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq file I see a bug; in the start() function it says: ${DNSMASQ_INTERFACE:+ $DNSMASQ_INTERFACES} \ This is wrong; the variable names should both be the same. Assuming the right variable name is DN

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 Chuck, can you please undo the "duplicate" status of this bug? This is NOT a duplicate of bug 50430 -- Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213574 You received this bug not

[Bug 215904] Re: (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Smith
I found this bug, I think. We're getting identical problems causing Evolution Exchange to crash. The problem is ldap is accessing memory after it's been freed. Here's the Gnome bug with lots of backtraces and some valgrind logs I used to figure it out: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

[Bug 231898] Re: evolution-exchange-storage SIGABRT

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 215904 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215904 This is really a bug in openldap which is causing lots of ldap-based apps to fail. There is more info in ubuntu bug #215904 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 215904 (ITS#5518) Assertion error

[Bug 215904] Re: (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Smith
Marked Evolution Exchange bug as a duplicate. -- (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openldap2.3 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mail

[Bug 215904] Re: (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Smith
I've loaded up these libraries to test the Evo Exchange crasher. Unfortunately there was no reliable way to reproduce it; you just had to do lots of work and eventually it would happen. However, I've added a debugging message to the code so that I'll know when I've hit a point where it SHOULD have

[Bug 5608] Re: SWAT expects to authenticate as root

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Smith
This is unquestionably a bug in the Ubuntu SWAT package. If you can't log into SWAT as an administrator on a standard Ubuntu system, then the package is broken. Not only that, but the Importance level of "Low" is wrong, since the package is not functional as installed. If the SWAT developers can

[Bug 215904] Re: [SRU] (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Smith
The bug is in the libldap package. When you get a new version of that (which I believe is out now, even for the standard repositories) then all applications that use LDAP (including Evolution, xscreensaver, Apache, etc.) will use it and have the fix. There's no need for a new Apache package, beca

[Bug 215904] Re: [SRU] (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Smith
This is still in -proposed? I think it's pretty clear what this bug is and that it's fixed by the update; we've had a number of people testing it and reporting success already. Plus, if you look at the actual patch, it's pretty clear that it fixes the problem. IMHO this should get promoted out o

[Bug 215904] Re: [SRU] (ITS#5518) Assertion error in io.c:234: ber_flush2

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Smith
Sorry, I didn't realize people were waiting for me. I have no recipe for reliably reproducing the problem using Evolution so I can't be 100% sure that it's been fixed. However, I've been using the fix since Chuck posted his PPA version on 23 May, and -proposed version since it was uploaded, and I

[Bug 192566] Re: dhclient updates resolv.conf behind network-manager's back

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
This might be a problem but I don't see how it proposes to fix bug #90681 unless we can modify every application, including 3rd party VPN tools, that want to change /etc/resolv.conf to use NetworkManager to do it instead of modifying the file directly. Here's a hint, though: we can't do that :-).

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
I hit this too; my company uses Juniper's NetworkConnect and it adds its own DNS servers as the first ones to search to /etc/resolv.conf. I disabled the download of the DNS server info altogether which is obviously not optimal, but works OK for me because I've installed a Linux image on my Linksys

[Bug 192566] Re: dhclient updates resolv.conf behind network-manager's back

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
I guess I misunderstood your comment. IMO, bug #90681 has no relationship to NetworkManager at all. It could be that the system in 90681 has disabled NetworkManager altogether and is using raw dhclient; that bug would still happen. The problem that the dhclient-script overwrites /etc/resolv.conf

[Bug 246343] [NEW] dhclient.conf should request nis-domain etc. by default

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I filed a bug against the "nis" package that they don't provide any dhclient-exit-hooks.d hook scripts to handle nis-domain/nis-servers /nisplus-domain/nisplus-servers DHCP options: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246322 I also suggested that they need to modify the dhclient.

[Bug 74164] Re: Request ntp-servers by default

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
Hrm, I just filed a bug about this under the "ntp" package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246314 Note that the ntp package DOES come with dhclient-exit-hooks.d scripts to turn on/off NTP servers at appropriate times. As this bug mentions, all that's missing are the entries in dhclient.conf... w

[Bug 74164] Re: Request ntp-servers by default

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
Note you need both nis-servers AND nis-domain. And, there's nisplus- domain and nisplus-servers as well. I opened a separate bug for NIS; the request for the "nis" package to create appropriate dhclient exit hooks is bug #246322 The bug for dhcp3-client to add these to dhclient.conf is bug #2463

[Bug 246322] Re: nis package must provide DHCP client scripts

2008-07-08 Thread Paul Smith
After I filed this I realized there was no facility for updating dhclient.conf via dpkg scripting, so I also filed bug #246343 to have these fields added to the dhclient.conf "request" line by default. It won't hurt anything to have them requested there: if they're not available from the server th

Re: [Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:16 +, Chuck Short wrote: > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 > > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 50430 >NIS

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
Is anyone ever going to do anything about this? I know it's not an easy problem but there are solutions here which will help at least some of the people and which are not harmful (for example, not updating /etc/resolv.conf on RENEW if the old nameserver is still present). If we could do at least

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not sure why you think retrieving domain info from the DHCP server will do anything to help the problem, which is that the Ubuntu DHCP client is overwriting the resolv.conf file and replacing nameservers that were added due to VPN connections. -- resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc... h

[Bug 1387459] Re: autofs stops working after upgrade to 14.10

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
I believe this is a duplicate of Bug #1386869 There's a workaround in the comments of that bug. HTH! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to autofs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387459 Title: autofs stops work

[Bug 1386869] Re: -host in auto.master not mounting nfs exports

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
This appears to be a bug in the version of autofs that Ubuntu is shipping. See this report from ArchLinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38379 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to autofs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1386869] Re: -host in auto.master not mounting nfs exports

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
Also there's a problem reported in Fedora against 5.0.7, but apparently still present for 5.0.8: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038356 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1038356 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038356 -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1386869] Re: -host in auto.master not mounting nfs exports

2014-12-07 Thread Paul Smith
Is there a reason we can't just go get the patches that Ian Kent already provided for Fedora (see my link to the Red Hat bugzilla entry, which contains references to RPM versions that fix the problem) and apply them here and/or in Debian since the bug exists there as well? -- You received this bu