Hoary Array 6 and Preview - Installation Test Bugs

Postfix

• the /var/log/mail.log containing this error entris:

        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 6998 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7005]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7005 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7010]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7010 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7013]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7013 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7036]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7036 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7040]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7040 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
        ... postfix/local[7052]: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 7052 exit status 1
        ... postfix/master[4888]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
  

• References in the Mailinglists
  • sudo newaliases anser from Rob Chanter
  • New Posting in developer list
  • I filed a bug with Bugnr 7802 what is duplicated with BugNr 6232 and fixed in postfix (2.1.5-9ubuntu2) - bug resolved, but the delivery is done to root@localhost, not to the installation account! Filed to this bug.

    One reason could be the timestamp of the alises files:

               sudo ls -lh /etc/aliases*
               -rw-r--r--  1 root root  99 2005-03-20 20:34 /etc/aliases
               -rw-r--r--  1 root root 12K 2005-03-20 19:38 /etc/aliases.db
    

    This error message could be found in /var/log/mail.log:

              ... postfix/cleanup[24602]: 618953BEB1: message-id=<20050320200228.618953BEB1@localhost.localdomain>
              ... postfix/local[24604]: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases
              ... postfix/local[24604]: 618953BEB1: to=<root@localhost.localdomain>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local,
              delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
    

    And now the postfix_map:

              postmap -q root hash:/etc/aliases
    postmap: warning: database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases
    

    The first boot after the installation process:

              Mar 20 20:37:06 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#16ubuntu4: restart.
              Mar 20 20:37:06 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic
    

    Workaround to fix this bug:

              sudo newaliases
              stb@fugazzi:~$ sudo ls -lh /etc/aliases*
              -rw-r--r--  1 root root  99 2005-03-20 20:34 /etc/aliases
              -rw-r--r--  1 root root 12K 2005
    

    Now the mails are devilierd correctly:

              mail -s "Test" root
              testmail 2
              .
              Cc:
              stb@fugazzi:~$ mail
              Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
              "/var/mail/stb": 1 message 1 new
              >N  1 stb@localhost.loc  Tue Mar 22 12:07   14/488 Test
              &
    

Postfix:

database /etc/aliases.db is older than source file /etc/aliases. See error description above. The following sequenz would show the installation process and help to nail down the problem.

• Installation - Time zone configuration

  At this point switch to console 2 and check which time and check the aliases files:

           chroot /target
           date
           Thu Mar 22 15:31:41 UTC 2005
           ls -lh /etc/aliases*
           ...  51 Mar 22 15:16 /etc/aliases
           ... 12k Mar 22 15:18 /etc/aliases.db
  

  This looks OK. Switch to console 1 and set the timezone to vienna (UTC+0100). Now back to console 2:

           ...
           date
           ... 16:33:33 CET 2005
  

  Continuing the installation process (enter Username and password), switch back to console 2, before reboot and check the aliases*:

           ...
           ls -lh /etc/aliases*
           ...   99 Mar 22 16:34 /etc/aliases
           ...  12k Mar 22 16:18 /etc/alises.db
  

The /etc/aliases file had been changed - the username has been added and not updated with newalises! Now reboot the system.

• Filed a bug with BugNr 8067 . This bug is fixed!

Manual Pages:

• Manual Page mdadm containing "non-printable" characters instead of "-", example --add. Reason: the grub manual page containing \-\-option and the mdadm page containing --option. Answer:
  • Daniel Silverstone: Check out /etc/groff/

    There are a couple of files in there to deal with manand mdoc pages.

    Near the bottom of each is a couple of lines you can uncomment to force the manual pages to use ordinary "-" characters

  • Colin Watson: I wish we could fix the console fonts so that they all included Unicode HYPHEN. Failing that, I think I'm leaning towards giving up and rendering - as the ASCII "-" character rather than a proper hyphen in the utf8 driver, both in Debian and Ubuntu.
  • /etc/groff/man.local:

          .  \" Many UTF-8 man pages use "-" instead of "\-"  for dashes such as those
          .  \" in command-line options. This is a bug in those pages, but if you want
          .  \" all hyphens to be rendered as the ASCII-compatible HYPHEN-MINUS
          .  \" anyway, then uncomment this.
          .  \" if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
          .  \"   char - \N'45'
    

  • In Hoary Array 7 fixed. The mdadm manual page is displayed correctly.

Radeon 9200 on AMD64 - Xserver crahses

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change to:

   #Load dri

solves this problem. See Ubuntu Bug #6188

Powernowd on Athlon 64 Notebook

Powernowd is not running per default with Hoary Array 7. The required module powernow-k8 is not loaded. I have added a comment to the Ubuntu BugNr 7806 and we see what's happen!

XServer and Philips Brilliance 109P4

The hardware detection can not detect this monitor and therefor the Vertical Sync is 60Hz. I edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following block:

   Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Philips 109P4"
        Option          "DPMS"
        HorizSync       30-110
        VertRefresh     50-160
   EndSection

Don't forget to change this line:

        Monitor         "Philips 109P4"