On Thu, 3 May 2012 16:15:44 -0700 Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:25:04PM +0100, TJ wrote: > > Due to other commitments I allowed my membership (2006-2010) of the > > bugcontrol team to lapse some time ago. I'm now in a position to > > devote time to bug-control once more and am therefore requesting > > membership. > > > > 1. I'm always polite and cannot recall ever having a bad experience > > with a bug reporter. I signed the code of conduct in 2006. > > > > 2. I have read and understand the documentation and have applied it > > extensively to bugs over a long period of time. I've re-read it now > > to ensure I'm up to date. > > > > 3. Sensitive data such as passwords or personally identifying > > information (name, account numbers, digital certificate keys) can > > sometimes be found in stack-traces as data in function arguments or > > in the binary data of core dumps. > > > > 4. I tend to roam the packages tackling bugs that lack love or > > appear to be particularly challenging to analyse and trace. > > Sometimes they come to my attention due to affecting me; other > > times I might read about them in forums or mailing-lists or see > > them mentioned on IRC. > > > > 5. Bugs I've worked on. As well as triaging I generally go after the > > cause of the bug and document my research (for others to follow on) > > even if I can't provide a final bug-fix or work-around. Where I can > > provide a fix I'll publish a patch and debdiff or link a code branch > > and request an SRU where appropriate. > > > > 5.1. HIGH. [Precise] sudo. Abort in libpam-mount due to > > pam_open_session() not being called. > > > > Analysis and tracing revealed this as a high importance bug because > > it shows that sudo was not calling pam_open_session() when a valid > > cached timestamp was present. This could theoretically expose new > > vectors for privilege escalation. > > > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/927828 > > > > 5.2 NORMAL/HIGH. [Lucid] ubuntuone-client. Ubuntuone-client software > > wont start. > > > > This was an 'annoyance' bug but also very visible to affected users > > since it prevented access to ubuntu-one. I delved into the Python > > code and identified a coding problem, published a corrective > > workaround, and alerted the Ubuntu One team. > > > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/666608 > > > > 5.3 HIGH. [Oneiric, Precise] mountall. could not mount > > /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 > > > > This was a high importance bug that prevented encrypted swap being > > mounted during boot. I was able to figure out a method of tracing > > the early start-up to aid running and monitoring the processes > > manually. That led to revealing one underlying cause (there were > > two). I was able to develop a fix which was polished by Steve > > Langasek. It also caused me to write analysis scripts to determine > > the most efficient patch. It turned out the bug report covered 2 > > distinctly different problems which masked each other. > > > > https:/launchpad.net/bugs/874774 > > > > 5.4 HIGH. [Oneiric] casper, upstart. PXE/NFS boot requires "IPAPPEND > > 2" in PXE menus > > > > For those affected this is of high or critical importance since it > > caused a failure to boot of PXE clients. This affected my network > > so I was the original reporter too. A simple report detailing a > > package which broke existing functionality after upgrade without > > any warning. This would mainly affect network and systems > > administrators. > > > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/923219 > > > > 5.5 HIGH. [Feisty onwards] apache2 2.1.5+. TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT causes > > random HTTP connection failures in load-balanced web-server farms > > > > In a web server-farm scenario that is fronted by hardware > > load-balancers, in this case Juniper Redline aka DX, where the > > load-balancers are configured to use TCP multiplexing (holding open > > and re-using HTTP connections to the web servers) there exists the > > potential for random, unexplained and untraceable connection > > failures. > > > > This bug was high priority for the e-commerce retailer since it > > affected payment transactions amongst other things. I spent over a > > week working on it, writing custom C tools and custom kernels, > > until I was able to finally identify the cause (weakly written > > standards and poor implementation) and suggest a fix (a one line > > Apache config change). > > > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/134274 > > While these bugs aren't the typical sort of triage that we see your > research into the bugs is phenomenal. Additionally, I recall your > previous work and would be happy to have you back in the team. > > Barring any objections I'll add you next week. +1 ..C..
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