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Careful with PIDs

Sep 17, 2012dropbear5 Commentspsmisc, SoftwareFreeBSD, Hurd, Linux, Process identifier, procfs, psmisc, Unix

Quick question, what is the lowest Process ID you will find?  Most people (myself included until recently) would be able to say that the lowest number is 1 for the init process.  Plenty of programs including ps and pstree have this assumption. This assumption bit me this week with Debian Bug 687829 where pstree on…

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debhelper versions – Guilty!

Jul 12, 2012dropbeardebian, SoftwareDebhelper, debian, Linux

After reading Jakub’s pet peeve about debhelper build-dependencies I decided to check my own and sponsored packages to see how they fare. find debian/ -type f -name control | xargs grep -h -o ‘debhelper (>= 9[^)]*)’ | sort | uniq -c 2 debhelper (>= 9) 2 debhelper (>= 9.0) 3 debhelper (>= 9.0.0) 1 debhelper…

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pam bugs hurt

Jun 6, 2012dropbear1 Commentdebian, Softwaredebian, Linux, pam, Ubuntu

I did some upgrades of what seemed like a million packages today on my Debian sid computer.  I was doing this remotely and when I tried to ssh back in I got kicked out after entering my password, hmmm. OK, so I waited until I could get in front of it and tried to login…

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procps-ng 3.3.3 released

May 23, 2012dropbear6 Commentsprocpsdebian, Linux, procps

This weekend procps-ng version 3.3.3 was tagged and released for distribution.  There have been many patches and fixes involved in this release as we move from an unchanging static sort of code into something that is easier to maintain and build on various architectures.  The good thing is I’m down to 1 or 2 patches…

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psmisc 22.16 Released

Feb 26, 2012dropbearpsmisc, SoftwareDeb (file format), debian, Distributions, Linux, Programming, psmisc, tdd, Tests

psmisc version 22.16 was released today.  It is a bugfix release that bascially fixes a problem around strings in C.  Process name lengths are only supposed to be 16 characters long, so a 17 bye buffer is ok; until you have processes with brackets which means the string is 18 characters. The next wrinkle is…

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VMware Player on Debian

Feb 18, 2012dropbear12 CommentsSoftwaredebian, Emulators, Linux, VMware, VMware Player, VMware Server

For various reasons, having vmware running on my desktop would be kind of useful.  VMware provide a Free (as in beer) version of their software called VMware Player. I downloaded the file VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle off their website and tried to build it. It failed to build. Given my previous lack of success with VMware server, I…

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Unlucky sometimes

Jan 27, 2012dropbear2 Commentsdebian, psmisc, SoftwareBuffer overflow, debian, Linux, Programming, Strcpy

Sometimes life throws little curves at you to see if you are still awake, today has been one of those days. fglrx is (apparently) fixed I’ve had a long-running problem with fglrx on my laptop.  The problem stems from ATI closed-source drivers with one of those laptops that has an ATI and Intel driver. It…

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MediaServer with Rygel

Jan 11, 2012dropbear11 CommentsSoftwareDigital Living Network Alliance, Linux, Media server, Ubuntu

Like a lot of  people, I have one of those set-top TV boxes that can record TV shows at set times.  I made sure that I could get at the files (using a FTP server in this case) and that the files were some sort of common standard (MPEG 4 TS).  I also have a…

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procps 3.32 Debian packages

Jan 10, 2012dropbeardebian, procpsDeb (file format), debian, Distributions, Linux, Patch (Unix)

Following up from the upstream release of a new procps, the Debian packages have also been updated. This upload has a significant change in that, I hope, procps is now multi-arch compliant. To make this happen, the libprocps library is now in it’s own package, separate from the binaries. It also means that if you…

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procps-ng version 3.3.2 released

Jan 6, 2012dropbear1 Commentdebian, procpsApplication programming interface, debian, Linux

procps-ng version 3.3.2 was released today.  This version fixes some bugs introduced in version 3.3.1 as well as a number of enhancements. Below is the most significant set of changes that 3.3.2 brings. NLS The most visible change is that procps-ng is now international.  The NLS changes took a long windy path but we got…

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