Search Results: "Benjamin Drung"

17 January 2016

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 38 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort between January 10th and January 16th:

Toolchain fixes Benjamin Drung uploaded mozilla-devscripts/0.43 which sorts the file list in preferences files. Original patch by Reiner Herrmann. Lunar submitted an updated patch series to make timestamps in packages created by dpkg deterministic. To ensure that the mtimes in data.tar are reproducible, with the patches, dpkg-deb uses the --clamp-mtime option added in tar/1.28-1 when available. An updated package has been uploaded to the experimental repository. This removed the need for a modified debhelper as all required changes for reproducibility have been merged or are now covered by dpkg.

Packages fixed The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: angband-doc, bible-kjv, cgoban, gnugo, pachi, wmpuzzle, wmweather, wmwork, xfaces, xnecview, xscavenger, xtrlock, virt-top. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Untested changes:

reproducible.debian.net Once again, Vagrant Cascadian is providing another armhf build system, allowing to run 6 more armhf builder jobs, right there. (h01ger) Stop requiring a modified debhelper and adapt to the latest dpkg experimental version by providing a predetermined identifier for the .buildinfo filename. (Mattia Rizzolo, h01ger) New X.509 certificates were set up for jenkins.debian.net and reproducible.debian.net using Let's Encrypt!. Thanks to GlobalSign for providing certificates for the last year free of charge. (h01ger)

Package reviews 131 reviews have been removed, 85 added and 32 updated in the previous week. FTBFS issues filled: 29. Thanks to Chris Lamb, Mattia Rizzolo, and Niko Tyni. New issue identified: timestamps_in_manpages_added_by_golang_cobra.

Misc. Most of the minutes from the meetings held in Athens in December 2015 are now available to the public.

16 August 2015

Benjamin Drung: DebConf 15

I am still alive and currently attending DebConf 15. Feel free to grab me for a talk. I am just shy, not antisocial.

17 July 2015

Simon Kainz: DUCK challenge: week 2

Just a litte update on the DUCK challenge: In the last week, the following packages were fixed and uploaded into unstable: Last week we had 10 packages uploaded & fixed, the current week resulted in 15 fixed packages. So there are currently 25 packages fixed by 20 different uploaders. I really hope i can meet you all at DebConf15!! The list of the fixed and updated packages is availabe here. I will try to update this ~daily. If I missed one of your uploads, please drop me a line. A big "Thank You" to you. There is still lots of time till the end of DebConf15 and the end of the DUCK Challenge, so please get involved. And rememeber: debcheckout fails? FIX MORE URLS

14 November 2013

Benjamin Drung: Wanted: Most secure unencrypted email solution

Dear lazy web, Thanks to the global surveillance disclosures, I am searching for a secure email solution. Using end-to-end encryption seems to be the only secure solution to keep the email content private, but it does not protect your email header. End-to-end encryption has the big drawback that the communication partner has to use it, which is rarely the case. I want to communicate as secure as possible even with people that do not use end-to-end encryption. What is the most secure unencrypted email solution? Should I rent a (virtual) server in my country (Germany) and run my own email server on it? Do you know any reliable, inexpensive server host for such use case?

10 November 2013

Gregor Herrmann: RC bugs 2013/45

here's the list of RC bugs I've worked on during the last week.

5 January 2013

Paul Tagliamonte: Updates to dput-ng since version 1.0

Big release notes since 1.0: We ve got a new list dput-ng-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org feel free to subscribe! 
1.3:
  * Avoid failing on upload if a pre/post upload hook is missing from the
    Filesystem.
  * Fix "dcut raises FtpUploadException" by correctly initializing the uploader
    classes from dcut (Closes: #696467)
1.2:
  * Add bash completions for dput-ng (Closes: #695412).
  * Add in a script to set the default profile depending on the building
    distro (Ubuntu support)
  * Fix a bug where meta-class info won't be loaded if the config file has the
    same name.
  * Add an Ubuntu upload target.
  * Added .udeb detection to the check debs hook.
  * Catch the correct exception falling out of bin/dcut
  * Fix the dput manpages to use --uid rather then the old --dm flag.
  * Fix the CLI flag registration by setting required=True
    in cancel and upload.
  * Move make_delayed_upload above the logging call for sanity's sake.
  * Fix "connects to the host even with -s" (Closes: #695347)
Thanks to everone who s contributed! 
     7  Bernhard R. Link
     4  Ansgar Burchardt
     3  Luca Falavigna
     2  Michael Gilbert
     2  Salvatore Bonaccorso
     1  Benjamin Drung
     1  Gergely Nagy
     1  Jakub Wilk
     1  Jimmy Kaplowitz
     1  Luke Faraone
     1  Sandro Tosi
This has been your every-once-in-a-while dput-ng update. We re looking for more code contributions (to make sure everyone s happy), doc updates (etc) or ideas.

27 November 2012

Benjamin Drung: Code name for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Every Ubuntu release gets an alliterative code name from Mark Shuttleworth. It is a composition of an adjective and an animal. The upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 has the code name Raring Ringtail . Since nearly the beginning, the code names follow the alphabetical order. We will reach the letter Z with Ubuntu 17.04 if no letters are skipped. Will we wrap then and begin with A again? At UDS-R in Copenhagen, Mark Shuttleworth jokingly said between Jono Bacon s introduction and Mark s keynote speech, that vegetables will be used once we run out of letters. He proposed the code name for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Brilliant Broccoli!

23 April 2012

Benjamin Drung: Unreliable SSDs

Today my system froze and failed to reboot. I plugged in an Ubuntu live USB stick and booted from it. Then I discovered the problem that my Intel SSD 320 broke. The output of hdparm is attached to the end of the blog post. You can see that the device size is reduced to 8 MB from 120 GB and the serial number is called BAD_CTX 00000159. The firmware of the SSD was up-to-date and the last firmware update should have fixed the 8 MB bug. The Intel SSD 320 is my second SSD. My first SSD was a Super Talent Ultradrive GX 64GB, which died after around fifteen month of heavy use. It left a big bunch of my data corruption behind. SSDs seems to be very unreliable. Both SSDs died, but I cant remember that one of my HDDs died. $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: INTEL SSDSA2CW120G3
Serial Number: BAD_CTX 00000159
Firmware Revision: 4PC10362
Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029)
Supported: 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 8
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16128
LBA user addressable sectors: 16384
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 16384
Logical Sector size: 512 bytes
Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 8 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 8 MBytes
cache/buffer size = unknown
Nominal Media Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
SET_MAX security extension
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* WRITE_ DMA MULTIPLE _FUA_EXT
* 64-bit World wide name
* IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
* WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
* READ,WRITE _DMA_EXT_GPL commands
* Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
* Phy event counters
* Software settings preservation
* SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
* SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
* Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks)
* Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
supported: enhanced erase
2min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 500151795951d4b9
NAA : 5
IEEE OUI : 001517
Unique ID : 95951d4b9
Checksum: correct

3 July 2011

Benjamin Drung: libkibi ready for testing

Yes, the library is finally called libkibi. The second poll ended with a tie between libbyteprefix (48 votes) and libkibi (45 votes). Then I decided to call the library libkibi. libkibi is hosted on Launchpad. A working version can be pulled from lp:libkibi with bzr. Please test the library, reports bugs, and ask questions. Why you should use libkibi instead of g_format_size_for_display (from GLib):

Benjamin Drung: Nautilus with libkibi

In this Ubuntu cycle, I work on getting the units policy implemented. For this I wrote a library called libkibi. Here are some screen shots how nautilus looks like with libkibi. Some changes are highlighted in red. The file properties will show the file size in base10 and base2: PS: I failed to launch nautilus in English. Therefore the screen shots are in German. PS : You can grab the modified nautilus package for Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) from my experimental PPA (at your own risk!).

Benjamin Drung: libkibi 0.1 released

The first version of libkibi is released. This library is designed for formatting sizes in bytes for display. The user can configure a preferred prefix style. Packages for Debian unstable and Ubuntu 11.04 (maverick) are uploaded. It contains a README for developers and a byteprefix man page for users, which can be read with man 5 byteprefix once installed. Thanks to Stefano Rivera for writing the man page! For a demonstration how this library used by an application can look like, read my previous post.

Benjamin Drung: How to purge Wine completely

I had Wine installed and wanted to get rid of it completely. I removed the Wine Debian package and what belong to it, but the Windows applications still appeared in the GNOME main menu. I removed the .wine directory and all local wine-related desktop files: rm -rf ~/.wine ~/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/wine-* ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache Now there is no sign left that Wine was installed.

Benjamin Drung: Symptoms of a dying graphic card

All started in December last year. I saw a red and a green pixel on my monitor. Moving the window containing the wrong-colors pixels corrected them. The wrong-colored pixels reappear from time to time in increased quantity. Then a second symptom appeared: The screen went black and came back one second later. This was triggered by moving a window and scrolling. I wasn t sure what the reason was. Either it was a bug somewhere in the X stack or some hardware was dying. dmesg showed multiple problems with the radeon driver:
[283808.667454] radeon 0000:01:00.0: ffff88021f815c00 unpin not necessary
[283808.667820] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU softreset
[283808.667823] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008010_GRBM_STATUS=0xE57024A4
[283808.667825] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008014_GRBM_STATUS2=0 00330302
[283808.667826] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_000E50_SRBM_STATUS=0x200000C0
[283808.667832] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008020_GRBM_SOFT_RESET=0x00007FEE
[283808.682844] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008020_GRBM_SOFT_RESET=0 00000001
[283808.698840] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008010_GRBM_STATUS=0 00003028
[283808.698843] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_008014_GRBM_STATUS2=0 00000002
[283808.698845] radeon 0000:01:00.0: R_000E50_SRBM_STATUS=0x200000C0
[283808.699845] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU reset succeed
[283808.717570] [drm] Clocks initialized !
[283808.765829] [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
[283808.765838] [drm] ib test succeeded in 1 usecs
[283808.765840] [drm] Enabling audio support
[283812.521265] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 1000msec
[283812.521269] [ cut here ]
[283812.521294] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c:235 radeon_fence_wait+0 365/0x3d0 [radeon]()
[283812.521297] Hardware name:
[283812.521299] GPU lockup (waiting for 0x00AE670A last fence id 0x00AE6705)
[283812.521301] Modules linked in: btrfs zlib_deflate crc32c libcrc32c ufs qnx4 hfsplus hfs minix ntfs vfat msdos fat jfs xfs exportfs reiserfs nls_utf8 udf ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp kvm_intel kvm parport_pc ppdev snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd_seq_midi radeon snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device ttm snd pl2303 drm_kms_helper coretemp usbserial joydev psmouse soundcore drm serio_raw intel_agp i2c_algo_bit lp parport hid_cherry usbhid hid firewire_ohci firewire_core usb_storage crc_itu_t e1000e ahci libahci pata_marvell
[283812.521360] Pid: 2194, comm: compiz Tainted: G W 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu
[283812.521362] Call Trace:
[283812.521370] [<ffffffff8106089f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[283812.521374] [<ffffffff81060996>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0 46/0 50
[283812.521390] [<ffffffffa01bd775>] radeon_fence_wait+0 365/0x3d0 [radeon]
[283812.521394] [<ffffffff8107f730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0 0/0 40
[283812.521410] [<ffffffffa01bdf71>] radeon_sync_obj_wait+0 11/0 20 [radeon]
[283812.521418] [<ffffffffa01751a3>] ttm_bo_wait+0 103/0x1c0 [ttm]
[283812.521435] [<ffffffffa01d4e1a>] radeon_gem_wait_idle_ioctl+0x9a/0 150 [radeon]
[283812.521447] [<ffffffffa010f433>] drm_ioctl+0 463/0 520 [drm]
[283812.521465] [<ffffffffa01d4d80>] ? radeon_gem_wait_idle_ioctl+0 0/0 150 [radeon]
[283812.521470] [<ffffffff81162f0d>] vfs_ioctl+0x3d/0xd0
[283812.521473] [<ffffffff811637e1>] do_vfs_ioctl+0 81/0 340
[283812.521477] [<ffffffff811535f1>] ? vfs_read+0 181/0x1a0
[283812.521480] [<ffffffff81163b21>] sys_ioctl+0 81/0xa0
[283812.521484] [<ffffffff8100a0f2>] system_call_fastpath+0 16/0x1b
[283812.521487] [ end trace 6d5e03bab743abfa ]
[283812.521493] [drm] Disabling audio support
[283812.525575] [drm:radeon_ib_schedule] *ERROR* radeon: couldn t schedule IB(10).
[283812.525579] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Faild to schedule IB !
[283812.527021] [drm:radeon_ib_schedule] *ERROR* radeon: couldn t schedule IB(11).
[283812.527024] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Faild to schedule IB !
[283812.527921] [drm:radeon_ib_schedule] *ERROR* radeon: couldn t schedule IB(12).
[283812.527923] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Faild to schedule IB !
The time between going black reduces every time. The system wasn t usable any more in the end. After testing that the screen was going blank on other systems like a live CD of Ubuntu and a not noteworthy proprietary system, it was clear that some hardware component was dying. My first assumption was verified after replacing it: My graphic card, a Radeon HD 4670, died. This was three weeks ago and around 25 month after I bought the graphics card. So I didn t have to worry if replacing the fan voided the guarantee, because the guarantee lasts only 24 month. Conclusion:
  1. Not every error is a software bug.
  2. The hardware component with the highest failure rate is the graphics card, followed by the motherboard. Four graphics cards died last year (in four different systems owned by four different people, in three different households).
  3. Not every error is a software bug.

31 March 2011

Benjamin Drung: System cleanup

Tonight was system cleanup day. Baobob showed me where are the gigabytes hide. The home directory got rid of huge, old VCS checkouts of various projects. Then it was time to look at the system directories. I cleaned my apt cache sudo apt-get clean and the cache from pbuilder. Then I found something that lead to this blog post: /var/log consumed 3.8 GB. The biggest files were 1.8 GB /var/log/kern.log
1.8 GB /var/log/syslog
4.3 MB /var/log/dpkg.log
1.4 MB /var/log/kern.log.1 Flattr this

30 March 2011

Benjamin Drung: Hardware review I

This month I built two systems with identical hardware component (except for the case). Here s the list of components: Cases often don t meet my high requirements. Many cases are sharp-edged, bad designed (inside and outside), use cheep plastic, and/or vibrate, because the hard drives confer their vibration to the case. The Sugo SG02-F case is not perfect, but I will recommend it. The Silentium T11 case has no shard edges, but I won t recommend it. Too much plastic and optical not appealing. You probably have to replace the boxed CPU heat sink and use a better power supply if you want a silent system. How well do these components work with Ubuntu 10.10 (and probably other recent GNU/Linux distributions)? Perfectly. Everything that I tested worked: Flattr this

Benjamin Drung: First interview

Kristian Ki ling from the Ubuntu User magazine interviewed me at the last Ubucon. You can read the (German) interview in Ubuntu User 02/2011 or on-line. Flattr this

18 January 2011

Benjamin Drung: Poll: How to call the library?

Dear lazy web, I am writing a library that implements the Units Policy of Ubuntu. This library can be used to format sizes (of files, disks, memory, etc.) for displaying them and the other way around. For example, the size 12345 bytes can be formatted to 12.3 kB, 12.1 KiB, or 12.1 KB depending on the configuration. An other function will give you the possibility to convert 12.3 kB, 12.1 KiB, or 12.1 KB back to 12345 bytes. The preferred binary unit can be configured by an text file (per system and per user) and by an environment variable. The library is written in C and doesn t have any dependency. Therefore it can be used by any program on any desktop environment. Binding to other languages like C++, Python, Java are planned. Before creating a project for this library, I need a name for the library. The current prototype is called libdisplayunits, but this name reflect only the half of the project. It does not indicate that the library can be used for inputting sizes. What do you think? What is the best name for the library? Please poll and/or comment below.

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Benjamin Drung: Poll: libkibi VS libbyteprefix (or: How to call the library? 2)

Dear lazy web, thanks for voting the best name for the library that helps implementing the Units Policy of Ubuntu. The winner with the most votes has been libkibi. There was one suggestion that got my attention: libbyteprefix. The suggestion came too late to have a chance. Therefore I ask you again to vote for the library name, but this time only these two names are open for voting: libkibi and libbyteprefix. libkibi is short and sounds good. On the other hand, libbyteprefix describes exactly what the library is supposed to do. I was asked to use a free (as in freedom) poll-service. So please go to the Selectricity unitspolity vote and select your favorite. Thanks.

31 December 2010

Debian News: New Debian Developers (December 2010)

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month: Congratulations!

The following developers have returned as Debian Developers after having retired at some time in the past:

Welcome back!

30 December 2010

Benjamin Drung: Debian Developer

Yesterday I became Debian Developer. I already used my new @debian.org mail address for uploading a vlc security fix to unstable and audacious & audacious-plugins 2.4.2-1 to experimental.

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