Bug#717367: rlwrap: build fails with rbgen: command not found

2013-07-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: rlwrap Version: 0.37-3 Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I have all the build-dependencies of rlwrap installed, but when I try to build the latest version from git (git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/rlwrap.git), it fails with

Bug#717367: rlwrap: build fails with rbgen: command not found

2013-07-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Mike Miller's message of Fri Jul 19 13:48:48 -0700 2013: No, I suspect you are right that rbgen is not in the Debian archive, but it is also not normally needed to build the package. In particular, it should only be needed if src/completion.rb is modified. Can you tell me what

Bug#711826: no more unattended upgrades since Wheezy is out

2013-07-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Michael Vogt's message of Sun Jul 14 23:18:14 -0700 2013: The current version of unattended-upgrades has the following lines: Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern { origin=Debian,archive=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security; This should fix the problem. As a

Bug#711826: no more unattended upgrades since Wheezy is out

2013-07-08 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Jumping into this bug... It would definitely help me to have one unattended-upgrades configuration that works without change across multiple Debian releases, even when I choose to stay behind the current stable for a while. The problem is, the archive/suite in Debian release files seems to be

Bug#685310: aptitude: Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant defaults to true

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a package intalled that is not depended upon by any other intalled package, or recommended, but is suggested by another installed package (specifically, libterm-readline-gnu-perl). If I run aptitude markauto

Bug#683942: xterm: alternate screen scrolling

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Thomas Dickey's message of Sun Aug 05 11:06:02 -0700 2012: On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:40:22AM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Is there another way for me to get this behavior? It's fairly simple as an addition to xterm, probably hard other ways... That sounds like a note that I

Bug#683859: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#683859: closed by Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com (Re: Bug#683859: aptitude: APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic is not honored)

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Daniel Hartwig's message of Sun Aug 05 02:41:30 -0700 2012: [then, after make foo] # aptitude --remove-user-tag foo-builddep '?user-tag(foo-builddep)' Did you mean to add an unmarkauto to this command? No, actually it should have 'remove' which I missed. The build deps

Bug#683863: libfprint0: udev rules not applied when libfprint0 is installed

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Didier Raboud's message of Sun Aug 05 02:33:45 -0700 2012: Le samedi, 4 août 2012 23.56:02, Andrew Pimlott a écrit : libfprint0 installs some udev rules to make fingerprint readers accessible to the plugdev group. However, since many fingerprint readers are built

Bug#683937: grub-pc: install scripts should back up the MBR

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-22.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When the grub-pc scripts install grub, they do not back up what was in the MBR. Even if grub itself is reliable, the user may want to go back to the old MBR. For example, I found after installing grub on my Thinkpad X220

Bug#683942: xterm: alternate screen scrolling

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 278-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I used gnome-terminal recently and noticed that using the mouse wheel caused scrolling within apps like vim. I thought that was strange, because I disabled mouse support in vim. It turns out gnome-terminal has a feature called

Bug#683859: aptitude: APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic is not honored

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The apt-get build-dep command honors the APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic option (to mark installed packages as automatically installed). The aptitude build-dep command does not honor this option. It would be less confusing if

Bug#683863: libfprint0: udev rules not applied when libfprint0 is installed

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: libfprint0 Version: 1:0.4.0-4-gdfff16f-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, libfprint0 installs some udev rules to make fingerprint readers accessible to the plugdev group. However, since many fingerprint readers are built-in to computers, they are never plugged in, and thus the udev

Bug#683866: aptitude does not have an autoremove command

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, aptitude does not have the autoremove command that apt-get has. There does not appear to be any way to uninstall automatically installed packages from the command line with aptitude. (I don't know if it is a goal to be able

Bug#683859: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#683859: aptitude: APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic is not honored

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Axel Beckert's message of Sat Aug 04 14:51:35 -0700 2012: Andrew Pimlott wrote: The apt-get build-dep command honors the APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic option (to mark installed packages as automatically installed). The aptitude build-dep command does not honor this option

Bug#683866: aptitude does not have an autoremove command

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Andrew Pimlott's message of Sat Aug 04 20:06:36 -0700 2012: Excerpts from Daniel Hartwig's message of Sat Aug 04 17:53:08 -0700 2012: aptitude does not have the autoremove command that apt-get has. There does not appear to be any way to uninstall automatically installed

Bug#683859: closed by Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com (Re: Bug#683859: aptitude: APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic is not honored)

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from owner's message of Sat Aug 04 18:15:03 -0700 2012: On 5 August 2012 06:49, Andrew Pimlott and...@pimlott.net wrote: (a way to hold off the automatic uninstalls until ready would be nice), Such an option exists: Aptitude::Delete-Unused. Fair. 1. Often you only want

Bug#683866: aptitude does not have an autoremove command

2012-08-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Daniel Hartwig's message of Sat Aug 04 17:53:08 -0700 2012: aptitude does not have the autoremove command that apt-get has. There does not appear to be any way to uninstall automatically installed packages from the command line with aptitude. Aptitude operates under the

Bug#683747: installation-reports: partitioning gets wedged after selecting empty partitions for LVM

2012-08-03 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, My computer came with three NTFS partitions, primaries 1-3. During install, I resized partitions 2 and 3, leaving: primary 1 (NTFS) primary 2 (NTFS) empty space primary 3 (NTFS) empty space I went to

Bug#683770: installation-reports: when installing GRUB, says it can't find another operating system

2012-08-03 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When I got to the GRUB installation stage of my install, I got the message: It seems that this new installation is the only operating system on this computer. But this is incorrect: Windows 7 is occupying two primary

Bug#657060: linux-image-3.1.0-1-486: system sometimes resumes shortly after suspending

2012-04-24 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Ben Hutchings's message of Tue Jan 24 20:01:16 -0800 2012: I doubt it's going to make any difference, but could you please check whether this is fixed in the current version in unstable (3.2.1-2)? (You should install that anyway as it has an important security fix.) Thanks and

Bug#657060: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: Bug#657060: linux-image-3.1.0-1-486: system sometimes resumes shortly after suspending)

2012-04-24 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from owner's message of Tue Apr 24 18:57:04 -0700 2012: It's conceivable that a lid switch might fail in such a way as to cause an unwanted wakeup. But I would usually suspect a software bug (or a hardware quirk that should probably be worked around in software). Since we've now

Bug#664217: synergy: crash when pasting client clipboard into Google Chrome

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I can still reproduce the problem using synergyc from the same package version, 1.3.8-1. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#664217: synergy: crash when pasting client clipboard into Google Chrome

2012-03-16 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: synergy Version: 1.3.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I can reproducibly crash my local synergys by copying text on the synergy client host, then trying to paste it into the Google Chrome URL bar by middle-clicking. When I run synergys --address 127.0.0.1 --no-daemon under

Bug#663932: slapd: upgrade script does not handle /var/lib/ldap as symlink

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: slapd Version: 2.4.23-7.2 Severity: normal On my system, /var/lib/ldap is a symlink (to higher-reliability storage than my root device). I'm not sure whether this configuration is intended to be supported, but it has worked for me so far. However, during the upgrade from lenny to

Bug#546368: no database configured for that naming context on Squeeze upgrade

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I had another case of this same problem on Squeeze upgrade. It was quite confusing to me, as I am not experienced with LDAP and only had it installed for another application. I changed the root DN after the initial install, because the other application required it. I had no idea that this

Bug#657060: linux-image-3.1.0-1-486: system sometimes resumes shortly after suspending

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.1.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, For the last several kernel releases, I have had an intermittent problem suspending my Thinkpad X40. A high fraction of the time, after I suspend (running pm-suspend), the system seems to go to sleep (the screen goes off

Bug#647955: ifplugd: Plug in cable while on wireless - no default route

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: ifplugd Version: 0.28-19 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I run ifplugd on my eth0 ethernet interface, and use wpa_supplicant for my eth1 wireless interface. When I am on wireless and plug in my ethernet cable, I often (but not always) end up with a configured eth0 interface but no

Bug#647955: ifplugd: Plug in cable while on wireless - no default route

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Log (daemon.log) for a problem case. Note the interleaving of eth0 and eth1 events. Nov 7 14:07:27 apple ifplugd(eth0)[27270]: Link beat detected. Nov 7 14:07:27 apple ifplugd(eth0)[27270]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. Nov 7 14:07:27 apple ifplugd(eth0)[27270]: client: OK

Bug#625782: exim4-config: dkim should not try sign when forwarding

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.72-6 Severity: normal I have dkim signing enabled using the debian DKIM_* macros. When mail is forwarded using .forward, exim still tries to look up a key for the domain. When it fails, it logs a warning that goes both to mainlog and paniclog. (I think the

Bug#607576: closed by Andreas Metzler ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org (Re: Bug#607576: exim4-config: after upgrade, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf is present and breaks exim)

2011-04-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
A belated thank-you for informing me of this issue. I'm sure you are right and it is correct to close the bug. Andrew Excerpts from owner's message of Sun Apr 17 10:06:04 -0700 2011: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the exim4 package:

Bug#622821: wpasupplicant: reassociates after disconnect

2011-04-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of Fri Apr 15 04:14:16 -0700 2011: On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:36:00 AM Andrew Pimlott wrote: * After a disconnected event, attempt to reassociate to a network when using wpa-roam. If I'm understanding this correctly, I don't see the sense

Bug#574376: [mod-security-users] ModSecurity segfaults

2011-04-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Following up on a very old thread (below). Brian, thanks for your very useful instructions, and sorry for not following them sooner. Excerpts from Brian Rectanus's message of Sat Mar 20 14:51:16 -0700 2010: Often if you upgrade/replace mod_security2.so on a running httpd you will see this

Bug#622806: zsh: unset SHLVL not propertly propagated over exec

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.11-4 Severity: normal It seems that if you unset the SHLVL environment variable, the SHLVL is not properly propagated over exec: % zsh % echo $SHLVL 2 % unset SHLVL % echo $SHLVL % perl -e 'print $ENV{SHLVL}\n' % exec perl -e 'print

Bug#622821: wpasupplicant: reassociates after disconnect

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 0.7.3-2 Severity: normal In the changelog: * After a disconnected event, attempt to reassociate to a network when using wpa-roam. If I'm understanding this correctly, I don't see the sense in this. It definitely changes the user experience. Before, in

Bug#622827: vim-runtime: recent changelog not included in package

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2 Severity: minor I can't find the recent changes to vim in the Debian package. ':help version7 gives me a list of all the patches through 7.3, but not the subsequent patches. It would be nice to add these to version7.txt when you apply

Bug#612351: resolvconf: move VPN interfaces to the end of interface-order

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: resolvconf Version: 1.48 Severity: wishlist Currently, tun* is ahead of eth* in /etc/resolvconf/interface-order. I think that putting the VPN interfaces at the end may be a better default. By VPN interfaces I mean the interfaces that are typically used to reach VPNs or other special

Bug#460200: vpnc does not always call resolvconf -d on terminaison

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I have this problem too. I think there is a simple work-around. Just move tun* down in /etc/resolvconf/interface-order. This will put the VPN's nameservers at the end of /etc/resolv.conf, so your normal nameserver will be used first. In fact, I think that's a better default for

Bug#607576: exim4-config: after upgrade, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf is present and breaks exim

2010-12-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.69-9+lenny1 Severity: important I have a locally-compiled exim4-daemon-custom package, along with the standard exim4, exim4-base, and exim4-config packages. Recently, they were all at 4.69-9 when 4.69-9+lenny1 hit security. aptitude prompted me to upgrade exim4,

Bug#607118: aptitude: after 'q' is cancelled with ctrl-q, it doesn't work again

2010-12-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-3.2 Severity: minor Start aptitude. Hit 'q', and the dialog Really quit Aptitude? [n]y appears. Hit ctrl-g to cancel, and the dialog is dismissed. Hit 'q' again, and nothing happens. Andrew -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 18 2010

Bug#152354: aptitude: q q should quit

2010-12-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
'q' is also used to go up a level of nested screens. So users may hit 'q' several times to get back to the top level (and then 'n' to avoid quitting). If hitting 'q' one extra time caused aptitude to quit, it would be quite a surprising and frustrating change. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#605200: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: ipw2100 fatal interrupts using TKIP (WPA2-PSK)

2010-11-27 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-27 Severity: normal I set up a new wireless router and started getting frequent network dropouts associated with the message ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart. I have narrowed down the problem to TKIP encryption in WPA2-PSK. If I use WEP or

Bug#601033: apache2.2-common: AddOutputFilterByType is deprecated but used in deflate.conf

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Stefan Fritsch's message of Tue Nov 16 15:03:05 -0800 2010: On Friday 22 October 2010, Andrew Pimlott wrote: It gets weirder: if I change text/plain to text/html, the encoding is not added. It seems that AddOutputFilterByType catches proxied requests if text/plain appears

Bug#601033: apache2.2-common: AddOutputFilterByType is deprecated but used in deflate.conf

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.16-3 Severity: normal AddOutputFilterByType is deprecated, however it is used in the Debian package in mods-available/deflate.conf. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#addoutputfilterbytype I had a problem in a reverse proxy configuration that I

Bug#600294: Need to turn off 'Headphone Jack Sense' and 'Line Jack Sense'

2010-10-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.23-2 Severity: wishlist Five years on, bug 297343 (archived, so I couldn't reply to it) takes me out for a few frustrating hours. I was playing with mixer levels to get my mic capture working and turned on Headphone Jack Sense, no doubt thinking that turning

Bug#600294: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#600294: Need to turn off 'Headphone Jack Sense' and 'Line Jack Sense'

2010-10-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Elimar Riesebieter's message of Fri Oct 15 10:12:00 -0700 2010: * Andrew Pimlott [101015 08:46 -0700]: Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.23-2 Severity: wishlist Five years on, bug 297343 (archived, so I couldn't reply to it) takes me out for a few frustrating hours. I

Bug#547231: closed by Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com ([rt.cpan.org #59832] clobbers binmode layers on filehandles)

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Salvatore, thanks for following up on this report. I have some questions below. Excerpts from owner's message of Wed Aug 18 04:30:08 -0700 2010: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report ... Hi Andrew I'm forwarding you the reply from upstream according to your report.

Bug#581612: cron sends e-mails when a job exits nonzero (after upgrade to 3.0pl1-110)

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Christian Kastner's message of Wed May 19 10:10:25 -0700 2010: I just re-read #443615. I understand the wish for such a feature, and have added it to my ideas list (among #373152 et al). Such a feature could be added in squeeze+1, via a --strict flag or similar, but I won't

Bug#374861: rsync: an option to pretend that the sources have trailing slashes

2010-04-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I second this wish. In a wrapper, you may want the clone this object to this name behavior without knowing whether the source object is a file or directory. There is no way to do this. If you append the trailing slash and the object is a file, rsync will complain that the object is not a

Bug#577836: mysql-server-5.0: Aborted cached query causes next query to hang (mysql bug 40264)

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny3 Severity: important Mysql bug 40264: When query caching is enabled, large amounts of queries are sent to the server in succession, and a query is aborted, the query cache is put into a state which hangs indefinitely the next time that query is

Bug#574376: libapache-mod-security: seg fault first time using (goes away on reload)

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: libapache-mod-security Version: 2.5.11-1~bpo50+1 Severity: normal I just started using mod_security. I installed it on a test system, created a configuration, then copied the configuration to several other system and installed mod_security. The install enables mod_security and reloads

Bug#570568: mysql-server-5.0: replication fails when dropping non-existent view

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny3 Severity: important My replication setup just stopped working. I found it is because of http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30998 Replication breaks any time you try to drop a view that did not exist, because mysql includes it in its binary

Bug#570423: cron: hostname abbreviated

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-106 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When cron sends email, it includes the hostname in the subject. Except, it abbreviates it to the part before the first .. That seems kind of pointless for me except as a matter of overzealous brevity. Moreover, I have systems in

Bug#566600: state of the bell

2010-02-01 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I'm having trouble with my X11 bell too (in current unstable), and I see a few bugs outstanding (564200, 564464, 566600). It seems to me that there are multiple issues, and they might be getting confused. I'll add my observations here and try to help sort things out. First, my .xsession has two

Bug#443615: cron: warn if a cronjob fails

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
There seem to be several issues in this bug, but I want to chime in on the one that matters most to me: Justin Pryzby wrote: However [the cron job] returns nonzero exit status, so I think it should log that, and also warn the user by mail (even if the command output nothing else). I sent

Bug#561999: mysql-server-5.0: flush logs corrupts mysql-bin.index

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2 Severity: normal I have uncommented the log_bin setting in /etc/mysql/my.cnf in order to to make my server a replication master. This has been working fine, but one day I executed flush logs, and the slave started throwing errors: Dec 21

Bug#525315: better hysteresis for wpa_action

2009-10-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I have been much happier since I installed the attached script and configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh to use it instead of /sbin/wpa_action. It delays disconnect events for 5 seconds, and if a new connect comes within that time, it cancels the disconnect. Other than that, events are

Bug#525315: better hysteresis for wpa_action

2009-10-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
attached #!/bin/sh IFACE=$1 ACTION=$2 SELF=$$ PENDING_FILE=/tmp/pending_disconnect.$IFACE.lock log () { echo $(date '+%F %T') $@ /tmp/wpa_action.$IFACE.log } lock () { lockfile /tmp/wpa_action.$IFACE.lock } unlock () { rm -f /tmp/wpa_action.$IFACE.lock } # Note: wpa_cli runs us

Bug#547231: libterm-readline-gnu-perl: clobbers binmode layers on filehandles

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl Version: 1.19-1 Severity: normal If I call Term::ReadLine-new('test', \*IN, \*OUT); any encoding layers I have set on OUT seem to be removed. I tracked it down to the line in the perl source that sets $Attribs{outstream}. I looked briefly at the .xs

Bug#525315: handling disconnect/reconnect

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I have some comments on this issue. I don't think there is any loop going on, and I think the hysteresis check is probably the wrong way to deal with this. First, I think the reason the reporter is seeing dhclient repeatedly obtaining and releasing is not because there is any kind of loop, but

Bug#544944: rlfe does not always write history file

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: rlfe Version: 6.0-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch I found rlfe sometimes doesn't save its command history as expected. I tracked this down to the two different ways rlfe can exit. (Search for exit (0) in the source.) The first is SIGCHLD from its inferior, the second is read error from

Bug#532613: Possible cause?

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I tried this workaround with poor results. If I crank the first of those four mixer levels all the way up and turn the volume of my speakers all the way up, I can hear something. But it's nowhere near reasonable. The other three levels have no effect. I have a VIA MII1 with this sound

Bug#541117: xserver-xorg-video-intel: high CPU usage after 2.7.1-1 - 2.8.0-1 upgrade

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:56:16AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: According to errors in your log, something's going bad with DRM. Does this log come from a second X server while another X server was already using the DRM device? Damn, I don't know why I didn't notice that. No, it was the only X

Bug#525123: xserver-xorg-video-intel on Intel 82852/855GM: display corrupted

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Following up on my message to this bug When I upgraded to driver version 2.8.0, I had terrible performance. I reported it as bug 541117. It turned out that I had to re-enable dri to fix that. Fortunately, I don't see this bug any more! Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#541117: xserver-xorg-video-intel: high CPU usage after 2.7.1-1 - 2.8.0-1 upgrade

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.8.0-1 Severity: important After upgrading from 2.7.1-1, firefox is terribly slow and causes xorg to pin the CPU for several seconds when (for example) switching tabs. I'm running kernel linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 on a Thinkpad X40. I've looked through

Bug#541153: sun-java5-plugin: update-alternatives complains on purge

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: sun-java5-plugin Version: 1.5.0-20-1 Severity: minor When I purged, I got lots of messages like update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/HtmlConverter (part of link group HtmlConverter) doesn't exist. Removing from list of alternatives. I think

Bug#541154: sun-java6-plugin: mention that plugins don't show up when Enable Java not selected in iceweasel

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: sun-java6-plugin Version: 6-15-1 Severity: wishlist This is definitely a user error, but since it frustrated me, I thought you could mention it in the documentation (eg README.Debian). If in your iceweasel Edit/Preferences, under Content, you have Enable Java unchecked, the java plug-in

Bug#337132: atjobs/.SEQ has wrong ownership

2009-07-27 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I see this problem with 3.1.10.2: % at midnight Cannot open lockfile /var/spool/cron/atjobs/.SEQ: Permission denied However, contrary to the original poster, atd is running on my system. The rpoblem for me is that atjobs/.SEQ is owned by root: % sudo ls -l

Bug#537885: nosql: refers to buildd directory

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: nosql Version: 4.0.14-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The 4.0.14-5 build refers to a buildd directory: % /usr/lib/nosql/jointable mawk: cannot open /build/buildd-nosql_4.0.14-5-i386-ba5oQD/nosql-4.0.14/debian/nosql/usr/lib/nosql/lib/jointable.awk (No such

Bug#496740: cannot execute binary file

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I just ran across this issue in a different way, where it wasn't obvious what was going on. Basically, I confused my su syntax and ran something like % su andrew id Password: /usr/bin/id: /usr/bin/id: cannot execute binary file What a baffling message that is! It looks like a

Bug#475097: powersaved: Thinkpad T60: Fn+F4 no longer suspends-to-ram machine

2009-05-28 Thread Andrew Pimlott
There appears to have been some progress on this bug. powersaved now responds to Fn+F4. It seems to get the event from HAL (when I stop hal, powersaved no longer responds). Wow, is the future really here?? No, things are still badly broken: - Fn+F4 suspends to disk, not ram. - Fn+F12 does

Bug#526823: getaddrinfo still fails

2009-05-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:31:40AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:53:17AM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: This problem is back for me as well, after being fixed in 2.9-6. 2.9-7 works, 2.9-10 fails. options single-request in my resolv.conf does nothing. (Could you

Bug#525123: xserver-xorg-video-intel on Intel 82852/855GM: display corrupted

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I observe the same on my Thinkpad X40, and use the workaround of disabling DRI (thanks Joe!). This is the first version of the -intel driver I've tried; the -i810 driver worked fine. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#526823: getaddrinfo still fails

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
This problem is back for me as well, after being fixed in 2.9-6. 2.9-7 works, 2.9-10 fails. options single-request in my resolv.conf does nothing. (Could you verify that is the correct syntax?) Here is my DNS trace with single-request set. 11:51:45.491726 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 26230, offset

Bug#528261: xserver-xorg: new mouse configuration needs examples

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Severity: wishlist I found out from NEWS.Debian about the changes to configuration of input devices in X. It all seems fine, except that it took me a while to figure out exactly how to port over my xorg.conf to HAL (file location, syntax, restarting hald).

Bug#516218: getaddrinfo not working while gethostbyname works

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
My DSL router also triggered this issue. I just want to add the note that for me, getaddrinfo does occasionally return correct results, indicating that the flakiness of the DNS server is timing dependent. What a maddening problem to diagnose! Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#517256: #517256 xpdf claims exclusive access to audio device

2009-03-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:30:55PM +, Steve Cotton wrote: This sounds like #496958 . Could that xpdf-reader instance have been launched from IceWeasel? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496958 Oh, of course. I don't know why I didn't think of this other than that it is

Bug#517256: xpdf-reader: xpdf claims exclusive access to audio device /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.02-1.4 Severity: normal Sound seemed to stop working on my system one day, with errors like ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Using strace, I found a failure to open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p. And lsof revealed % sudo lsof

Bug#465454: fvwm: EdgeMoveResistance does not affect top edge

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.24-1 Severity: normal I just upgraded from 1:2.5.23-2, and had EdgeResistance 0 100 in my .fvwm2rc. When I restarted, windows being moved would properly resist on the left, bottom, and right edges, but not the top. Moving windows off the top of the screen

Bug#433028: hibernate shouldn't need s2ram -f on UNSURE systems

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:08:30AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.13.2224 +0200]: One solution would be for hibernate to recognize the 0x20 exit status from s2ram -n. There could be an option USuspendRamUnsureOk yes that tells hibernate

Bug#433028: hibernate shouldn't need s2ram -f on UNSURE systems

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:13:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Please try the following patch against the original ususpend scriptlet (the one provided by the package): [snip] + USUSPEND_PROG -n /dev/null You left off a $ here. :-) Other than that, it works fine. Andrew -- To

Bug#433028: hibernate shouldn't need s2ram -f on UNSURE systems

2007-07-13 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: hibernate Version: 1.96~pre-svn.r1136-1 Severity: normal I am using hibernate with the ususpend-ram configuration. When I run s2ram -n, it comes back with ATTENTION: Your machine is in the whitelist but the entry has not been confirmed. and the program exits with status 0x20

Bug#429715: cupsys-client: printing to a remote IPP printer is dang hard

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: cupsys-client Version: 1.2.11-3 Severity: important My friend gave me the IPP URL of his printer. Not knowing much about this newfangled protocol, I installed cupsys-client, thinking (based on the package description) it would be a cinch to access the printer. It turned out to be an

Bug#418910: HOWTO replace dsearch in dc_other_hostnames

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:04:02PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: ... That is correct afaict ( for the non-split-config case.) cu andreas I assume you're not implying that it is incorrect for the split-config case, because that's what I'm using. :-) In other words, it should work for everyone.

Bug#418910: HOWTO replace dsearch in dc_other_hostnames

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Pimlott
NEWS.Debian suggests using the macro mechanism to replace the no-longer-working dsearch entry in dc_other_hostnames. I thought it would be helpful to include an example, since this seems to affect many people. Could someone verify that this is correct, and perhaps include it in the

Bug#421526: gij bug not fixed--wrong upload

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Hi. The upload with which you closed this bug does not include the gij-4.1 package, so the bug is still in fact open in the archive. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding xev -id missing some events. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Thank you again for following

Bug#264016: fvwm: FvwmForm uses bad fonts in utf-8 locale

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:49:40AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding FvwmForm using bad fonts in utf8 locale. Do you still experience this problem today? No. It seems that fonts with the iso8859-1 encoding now display fine in a UTF-8

Bug#264017: iso8859-1 fonts work fine in a UTF-8 locale

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
In following up on bug 264016, I found that this bug no longer occurs (in unstable). A font with an iso8859-1 displays just fine in my UTF-8 locale. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#241423: xserver-xfree86: [nv] fails for GeForce FX Go5200 rev 161

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:40:32PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: About 2 years ago, you reported (or replied to) a bug in the Debian BTS regarding a failure of the X server on a nVidia GeForce RX Go2500 board. Did any of you guys reproduce this problem recently? This hardware is long gone for me.

Bug#216161: xserver-xfree86: font resolution not following the rules

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:59:38AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding font resolution not following the rules. Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Well, I can confirm the same

Bug#366184: libghc6-c2hs-dev: should pre-depend on ghc6

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:05:11PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: Sorry for the long delay and thanks for the extra information, it has been useful. Thanks to you for coming back to this--I meant to and just haven't gotten around to it. So because ghc6 is being upgraded /usr/bin/ghc-pkg is not

Bug#366853: vol_id returns incorrect information for my randomly-encrypted swap device

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I suspect I have a similar problem to the reporter of this bug. I have a swap partition that is set up as an encrypted dm device with a random key, using the cryptsetup package. cryptsetup now has a test that calls vol_id, which thinks that my partition is vfat: % sudo /lib/udev/vol_id

Bug#383581: util-linux: mkswap should zero start of device

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-10 Severity: wishlist mkswap does not touch the first 1k of the device. This means that if the device was formatted before, it may look like it still has the old format. This fools format detection tools, such as vol_id in the udev package. Some responders to

Bug#366853: vol_id returns incorrect information for my randomly-encrypted swap device

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
To follow up, I just filed bug 383581 against util-linux (the package of mkswap). I chose to pick on mkswap because that was the case I could reproduce--indeed, it leaves the first 1k (containing MSDOS5.0) untouched; whereas mke2fs overwrote it. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#366853: vol_id returns incorrect information for my randomly-encrypted swap device

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:13:53PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: It's almost impossible to make libvolume_id stricter, in most cases, even the kernel mounts a mkswap formatted (and obviously corrupt) fat volume just fine and allows writing to it. Ok, thanks for the explanation. It's mkswap which

Bug#383106: libio-socket-ssl-perl: new version breaks Net::HTTPS

2006-08-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: libio-socket-ssl-perl Version: 0.998-1 Severity: important After some recent unstable upgrades, one of my perl programs could no longer connect to SSL servers. The problem appears to be an interaction between IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::SSL, and Net::HTTPS. I believe it was a change

Bug#366184: libghc6-c2hs-dev: should pre-depend on ghc6

2006-07-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Forgive my delay On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:29:17PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: This does not seem to be a bug in libghc6-c2hs-dev. When the postinst script of libghc6-c2hs-dev is called, all the Depends should already be configured and ghc-pkg should be available. I looked more closely

Bug#366184: libghc6-c2hs-dev: should pre-depend on ghc6

2006-07-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I can reproduce this problem. I used packages from snapshot.debian.net: http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/03/27/debian/pool/main/g/ghc6/ghc6_6.4.1-2_i386.deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/03/27/debian/pool/main/g/ghc6/ghc6_6.4.1-2.1_i386.deb

Bug#371135: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#371135: encrypted swap with variable key fails

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 21/06/2006 Andrew Pimlott wrote: True, but this can't be configured in crypttab, which makes it effectively unavailable. Moreover, it wouldn't provide much additional safety. Presumably, a hypothetical luksrandom keyword

Bug#371135: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#371135: encrypted swap with variable key fails

2006-06-21 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:28:57PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 20/06/2006 Andrew Pimlott wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: But as I understand, a randomly keyed partition can't be done with Luks (or can it?). first, LUKS devices with random key

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