[ubuntu-users] Warning -- Bug

Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. thilts at mcsnet.ca
Thu Jan 8 20:42:28 UTC 2009


I first noticed this problem affecting the math packages called Maxima, 
xmaxima, and wxmaxim when doing an upgrade on 7.10 and then an upgrate 
of 8.4.  The upgrades cause the lines in /etc/hosts:
###127.0.0.1 localhost
###127.0.1.1 Ubuntu.peggyted
to be commented out as shown above.

The line "127.0.0.1 localhost" is critical for the operation of xmaxima 
as well as wxmaxima and without this line they don't work giving the 
error that they cannot connect and/or cannot obtain a socket.  I don't 
know how other packages would be affected. I manually set up my static 
addresses thus  "touching" the file /etc/hosts which may cause an 
automatic upgrade process a problem.

Also: I now get the following error as a result of the upgrade:

ted at Ubuntu:~$ sudo smbclient -L Ubuntu -U ted -W peggyted
Password:
Server requested plaintext password but 'client use plaintext auth' is 
disabled
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 14336
ted at Ubuntu:~$

Whereas the following works for the other machines:

ted at Ubuntu:~$ sudo smbclient -L Ubuntu -U ted -W peggyted
params.c:Parameter() - Ignoring badly formed line in configuration file: 
allow hosts
Password:
Server requested plaintext password but 'client use plaintext auth' is 
disabled
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 14336

ted at Ubuntu:~$ sudo smbclient -L cic2ext -U ted -W peggyte
Password:
Domain=[CIC2EXT] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        Documents and Settings Disk
        C_cic2ext       Disk
        G on cic2ext    Disk
        hpphoto         Printer   hp photosmart 7350 series
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        SharedDocs      Disk
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        hd2news         Disk
        F_cic2ext       Disk
        Offline         Disk
        D-CDRW-cic2     Disk
Domain=[CIC2EXT] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
ted at Ubuntu:~$




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