Package: libgoffice-0-5
Version: 0.5.0-1
Severity: normal
Thank you for maintaining Debian's libgoffice-0-5
package.
I happened to notice something that may help.
Using version 0.5.0-1 with version 4.5-1.1 of
libpcre3 crashed gnumeric with the following error
while openning a native .gnumeric
Package: spamassassin
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining spamassassin.
It can save users a lot of time.
The main reason I'm writing is to suggest that the
documentation explain that the HELO_LOCALHOST
rule is not only triggered by headers that contain
helo and localhost,
Hi Julien,
Thank you for your thoughtful inquiry.
On 08/24/07 12:41, Julien BLACHE wrote:
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Here's a workaround that allows xsane to function
in spite of a long standing bug that appears to be
in linux's Buslogic SCSI adapter driver
Here's some additional info.
On 07/16/07 08:34, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
On 07/15/07 23:34, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
[...]
Please read the section USERS AND GROUPS in the manpage.
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html#USERS%20AND%20GROUPS
At least on my computer, it seems to me that this
bug turned out to be caused by flaky hardware.
In the interest of possibly helping someone else
who happens to encounter it, here's how I recall
that I worked around, diagnosed and ultimately
fixed my bug.
I worked around it by typing this as
Perhaps all of
/usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian
could be replaced with
$ apt-get install module-assistant
$ module-assistant a-i alsa
Thanks,
Kingsley
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I'd like to check for a certain bug.
Does any ALSA expert happen to know whether
there's an easy way to compile ALSA with the
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG
and
CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK
debugging flags set, ideally so that
$ module-assistant a-i
uses them?
If so, how?
Thanks,
Kingsley
Package: alsa-source
Version: 1.0.14-1
Severity: minor
Thanks for maintaining alsa-source.
It's important.
Please change alsa-source.tar.bz2 in
/usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian to
alsa-driver.tar.bz
Thanks,
Kingsley
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My computer has also started going silent recently.
I currently work around the problem by
1.) Closing audio applications,
2.) typing this as root
rmmod snd_via82xx modprobe snd_via82xx
3.) and restarting the audio application
If anyone happens to know why, I'd appreciate an
On 06/22/07 19:17, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
Your installation seems to be a chaos which
should be sorted by a clean update/upgrade
first!
Dear Elimar,
You're not the first person to recommend an
upgrade, and I'm sure you won't be the last.
Here's the big but.
BUT, apt-get check reports no
FYI,
I noticed that sound occasionally stops working
for me under kernel version 2.6.18-4-k7.
I fixed it by removing and replacing two sound
modules as root
rmmod snd_via82xx
rmmod snd_mpu401
modprobe snd_via82xx
modprobe snd_mpu401
Thanks,
Kingsley
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I seem to have duplicated this bug by trying to archive to a
DVD disk as follows:
$ mondoarchive
Backup to: DVD disks
Compression:Average
How much data (in Megabytes) will each DVD store? 4380
Please specify your
Package: gobby
Version: 0.4.1-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Thanks for maintaining gobby. I'm looking forward
to white-boarding.
I noticed that the first time I ran gobby, it
crashed with:
gobby: symbol lookup error: gobby: undefined symbol:
FYI: Upgrading the linux kernel from version
2.6.12-1-k7 to 2.6.18-4-k7 with version 0.84-2 or
0.99+0.991-2 of xsane seems to agitate the old bug
in the Buslogic driver.
I found two workarounds:
1.) Use lineart instead of gray or color.
2.) Or, Use 10 bit color depth at 215
pixels per inch or
I had the same error message when I tried to run
qemu, even when kqemu was loaded.
In my case, /dev/kqemu wasn't created.
I worked around the problem by doing
modprobe kqemu major=0
and running qemu again.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Package: qemuctl
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: important
Thanks for maintaining qemuctl. It looks
interesting.
When I try to run it as
qemuctl
or as
qemuctl -no-acpi -cdrom /dev/cdrom /dev/hda
it aborts with
Can't locate object method signal_connect via package Gtk2::MenuItem at
Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6
Followup-For: Bug #406259
Thanks for maintaining grep. It's fundamentally
important.
I concur with Justin. It looks like a bug to me
too.
Perhaps the error is in grep's relatively new
code for its -o option.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Package: remind
Version: 03.00.24-4
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's remind package.
It's really useful.
As you may know, the U.S. Congress recently
changed the dates that daylight savings time
starts and ends.
Please fix the definitions for DST in defs.rem.
Perhaps
REM
Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.1.5-4
Severity: important
It seems to me that rdiff-backup is innovative and
useful.
I used it to back up a remote computer onto a
local one, and eventually the remote computer's
hard drive failed.
When I checked the backup copy, I was surprised to
learn that
On 01/17/07 10:01, Brice Goglin wrote:
[...]
Did you reproduce this problem recently?
[...]
The good news is that I haven't.
The bad news is that we seem to have lost the
chance to debug it.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.1.5-4
Severity: normal
After upgrading to version 1.1.5-3 and 1.1.5-4, this command:
rdiff-backup \
--force \
-v9 \
--exclude /mnt/dos/temp \
/mnt/dos \
/mnt/dos_backup \
$logfile \
2 $logfile.err
now
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-5
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's gnuplot package.
It seems to me to be pretty important.
A script and data file that reproduce a modest bug
are attached.
Check for a spurious line a little after 4 AM in
the output graph, and note that there's
Here they are...
Thanks,
Kingsley
export graph_image=/tmp/stn.2.png
export log_file=bug.log
echo set output \$graph_image\
set term png
set timefmt \%m/%d/%Y:%H:%M:%S\
set xdata time
set format x \%H:%M\
set xrange [\12/15/2006:00:00:00\:\12/15/2006:23:59:59\]
plot
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.24
Severity: wishlist
I still find dpkg useful and would like to humbly
suggest adding an option like --listfiles, but
which also lists files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.*
For example, the new option would also list files
like
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Thanks for maintaining Debian's firefox package.
It's great.
I would like to humbly suggest enhancing firefox,
possibly by extension, to allow users to
search the content of the web page they're viewing
with regular expressions.
Package: xsane
Version: 0.99+0.991-1
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining Debian's xsane package.
It's remarkably useful.
Here's a workaround that allows xsane to function
in spite of a long standing bug that appears to be
in linux's Buslogic SCSI adapter driver. The bug
is described at
Perhaps xsane's documentation should mention this
workaround.
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Package: xwrits
Version: 2.21-5
Severity: wishlist
Thanks for maintaining debian's xwrits package.
It seems to me that it's aware of important
information: how long people sit in front of their
computers each day.
Doctors think too much screen time leads to
obesity. See
Very good.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to test it at the
moment, but I expect to someday.
It's OK with me if you close the bug report.
Thanks,
Kingsley
On 06/19/06 14:48, Bruno Cornec wrote:
Andree Leidenfrost said on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:33:35PM +1000:
Just found
Hi,
Yes and no.
When I run lyx, it no longer reports:
Unknown tag `\fax_command'
but /usr/share/lyx/configure still doesn't test
for hylafax and efax.
Thanks,
Kingsley
On 06/12/06 15:55, Per Olofsson wrote:
Hi,
Are you still having this problem with lyx 1.4.1-1?
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On 06/05/06 09:45, Mike Hommey wrote:
Doesn't it add it when you download a .au file
and choose an application to start ?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for asking.
Unless the procedure below isn't what you had in
mind, no.
For what it's worth, it seems to me that firefox's
Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining Debian's firefox package.
It's good.
I happened to notice that
Edit-Preferences-Downloads-View Edit Actions
doesn't allow one to add actions for new mime/file
types.
For example, I'd like to
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 2.0.2-3
Severity: normal
First of all, thanks for maintaining oowriter.
It's remarkable.
I happened to notice that inserting a table of
contents into a document prevents pressing
control-a from selecting the whole document.
Only Table of Contents is
install smtm_1.6.6 and will be fine as it pulls
the now-required png facility in as a Depends:.
I'm wondering if it regressed.
Version 1.6.8 also returns an empty window and
Tk::Error: couldn't recognize image data at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Image.pm line 21.
Tk callback for .toplevel
Tk callback
Hi Dirk,
Thank you for a quick reply.
On 03/10/06 14:31, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
You need Tk::PNG. Do you have it?
There is/was package providing it and newer
perl-tk packages contain it as well.
I have a file named /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/PNG.pm and
perl-tk.
Could this be related to bug number
for ^GSPC that
finance.yahoo.com understands, but smtm does not.
In any case, I'd like to suggest improving smtm's
error handling.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Kingsley
On 03/10/06 15:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:57:14PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
Hi
Package: glark
Version: 1.7.7-1
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining Debian's glark package.
I appreciate how easily it allows one to specify
the color of highlighting.
Please allow multiple and overlapping colors.
For example:
$ echo mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as
[...]
but I didn't see where it mentions adding the
sizes of envp and argv.
The manpage is also in Debian, manpages-dev, and mentions it.
OK. It's good to see that the sum is mentioned
somewhere.
[...]
$ strace -f sh ./bug.1.sh 21 |grep exec |tail -1
[pid 24558] execve(/bin/egrep, [egrep,
On 02/10/06 15:30, Justin Pryzby wrote:
The problem is that ARG_MAX applies to the sum
of envp and argv;
H... I didn't know that.
If you're certain that envp is included in the
sum, then shouldn't the error message reflect that
it is?
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Hi Andree,
Thanks for the update.
I appreciate how generously you share your time
and expertise.
I'll try to test it when I'm less busy, but at
this rate, that make take a while.
All the best,
Kingsley
On 01/12/06 19:11, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
Hi Kingsley,
mindi-1.06-1 and mondo-2.06-1
It still seems to be broken with version 3.4.3 of
kde and vimpart.
gvim is still appears in a separate window.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Package: edict
Version: 2005.12.01-1
Severity: important
Thanks for maintaining debian's edict package.
I'm all in favor of fostering international
understanding and good will.
I happened to notice that setting up edict with
apt-get -f install resulted in
lookup: relocation error:
Upon further inspection, it appears that the
offending package is actually lookup, which is
evidently called during edict's setup.
I can duplicate the bug by simply running lookup
at the command line.
Please reassign this bug to the lookup package.
Thanks,
Kingsley
On 12/11/05 21:48, Debian
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I worked around the error with
$ MALLOC_CHECK_=0 mondoarchive options go here ...
As an aside, the following command doesn't elicit
the error
$ mondoarchive -OVr -d /dev/dvd -9 -I /etc
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Hi,
I've thought more about replacing -I with -J, and
at the moment, it seems to me that I'd have to
write a script to populate -J's file every time
mondoarchive was run.
Furthermore, it seems to me that others might have
the same problem.
Unless I'm mistaken, the few minutes that it would
take
On 10/27/05 23:15, Bob Proulx wrote:
But it seems a fair enough request as a wishlist
item.
Thanks.
I checked and am happy to report that #157008
appears to address the issue with patch.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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First of all, thanks for maintaining debian's
findutils package.
It's really useful.
I agree that redirecting errors to /dev/null is
questionable. It masks all sorts of errors, like
permission denied when LOCALUSER is nobody.
Perhaps a commented out line with stderr
redirected to
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2.1
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's coreutils package.
It has really useful code.
I noticed that typing the following as root:
tail -f -n 100 /var/log/messages | less
and then pressing upper case G in less to go to
the end of the file,
Version 2.04-7 fails too, with
[...]
Boot+data disks were created OK
Done.
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0d8438c0 ***
SIGABRT signal received from OS
Abort - probably failed assertion. I'm sleeping for a few seconds so you
can rea
SIGINT
Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1.ds2-1
Followup-For: Bug #238167
I ran into this bug too.
$ echo abc | egrep -i -o B
I'm told that the egrep in Ubuntu's Hoary
distribution works.
Greg Wooledge (greycat) suggested trying their
patches in
Package: mondo
Version: 2.04-6
Severity: important
Hi,
I noticed that the following command
$ mondoarchive \
-K 10 \
-V \
-O \
Package: mondo
Version: 2.04-6
Severity: normal
Thanks for maintaining debian's mondo package.
It seems to me that mondoarchive would be even
better if its -E option accepted longer lists
(of files and directories) to exclude.
Thanks!
Kingsley
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Package: gobby
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Thanks for packaging gobby.
I've been waiting a lng time for a
whiteboarding application.
I noticed that when I typed
$ apt-get install gobby
it reported
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building
Package: vim-gtk
Version: 1:6.3-078+1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's vim-gtk package. I
like it and use it.
I noticed that gvim occasionally hangs before
opening its X window. Pressing ^C doesn't kill the
process, but typing kill pid does.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Error:
The previous update was after the current date.
Previous update: Sun Jul 10 04:25:30 2005
Current time: Sun Jul 10 03:15:01 2005
Use --force to override this message.
Using the wrong time might explain the impossibly
large spikes in that
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's gnuplot package.
I like it and use it.
I noticed that gnuplot is told the color of
*points* with *line* type, which is confusing.
Please explicitly warn users in style's online
help to define point
Package: vnstat
Version: 1.4-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining vnstat.
I've been using it for three months and have
noticed that on some days, roughly once a week, it
records huge spikes in the traffic received and
transmitted.
The last spike was reported while a script ran
Hi Jose,
[...]
What version of Debian you use ?
A mix of versions.
I just run apt-get install against unstable
whenever I need a new package, so some packages
become old. But, apt-get and dpkg say all package
dependencies are satisfied.
[...]
Are your Debian updated ?
Sorry, I don't
To avoid the bug reported in #307481, whose report
can be found at
http://groups.google.ca/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/cdf77191f84f0060/bdb6e9059d0d7602?q=307481+debian+aspellrnum=1hl=en#bdb6e9059d0d7602
Thanks,
Kingsley
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This was already resolved.
$ dpkg -s zoo | grep Section
now reports
Section: utils
I still get the wrong result.
I tested two ways:
1.) dpkg version 1.10.20
zoo version 2.10-11
and
2.) dpkg version 1.13.10
zoo version 2.10-13
Both ways still report:
Section:
I'm happy to report that changing the versions of
several packages, including going back to an
earlier version of festival, seems to have fixed
the problem.
My test script
counter=0; while echo $counter | festival --language americanenglish -b
--tts ; do counter=$(( counter + 1 )) ; done ;
Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 0.13.4-5
Severity: important
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining debian's rdiff-backup
package.
It's important.
Why would this command:
$ rdiff-backup -v9 --exclude /c \
--exclude /mnt/dos \
--exclude /mnt/dos_backup \
--exclude
Hi Daniel,
My mistake.
You were right. The target directory didn't exist.
I omitted the key word echo after running the
real rdiff-backup command and before reporting
rdiff-backup's return status.
Upshot: I ran it twice, and the second time with a
non-existant target directory.
Feel free to
Package: alien
Version: 8.52
Severity: wishlist
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining alien.
I'm confident that it has contributed to debian's
success by making it easier to import packages.
It seems to me that importing .tgz files would be
even easier if alien used some code from
checkinstall,
On 05/10/05 23:47, Siward de Groot wrote:
Maybe best solution would be to purge and reinstall X.
Although purging and reinstalling xserver-xfree86
and its configuration file seemed plausible, I
tried it and was still able to duplicate the
xserver-xfree86-dbg bug, which reports
no screens
Evidently the package named xserver-xfree86-dbg
has a version of X with debugging information
compiled in.
I hoped to use it on this report's bug and did
$ ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-debug /etc/X11/X
Unfortunately,
1.)
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86-dbg
didn't change
I see in FAQ.gz that package maintainer scripts
won't overwrite XF86Config-4 because I modified
it.
However, I'm still wondering why XFree86-debug
aborted with
no screens found
in /var/log/XFree86.0.log when the unchanged
XF86Config-4 has a Screen section.
Feedback welcome,
Kingsley
The aptitude command has the following options:
--with-recommends
--with-suggests
I haven't tried it yet though.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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[...]
Could you try reinstalling blt, or rather
upgrading to the current version
[...]
You're golden!
It worked!
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Upgrading libfreetype6 didn't fix it either.
However, I found that commenting out
FontPath unix/:7101
in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
stops GIMP-xtns-Script-Fu-Logos-Basic 1
from being able to use an arial font, which caused
X to crash.
Therefore, I suspect this bug is related to the
After installing mscorefonts, the above GIMP
technique crashed X when choosing the fourth font
down in the Script-Fu Font Selection window
named
arial (msttcorefonts)
with its default style of medium italic.
Since X crashes with a different arial font, I
suspect the bug isn't in the font.
Package: tkdesk
Version: 2.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining tkdesk.
It's been a corner stone of my desktop for years.
After upgrading from version 1.0b4-2 to 2.0-2,
when I
1.) right click on the comet at the top of
tkdesk's application bar,
2.) choose open directory,
I just upgraded
ttf-freefont, xfs, freetype2, libttf2, oneko,
procmeter, rxvt, tkdesk, xboing, xtron
and removed
xf86setup, xfonts-pex, xfntil2, xesslite,
oledit, pavuk-x86-linux-glibc1-xt,
pointerlite, rv50-linux20, tk42, wabi,
wordperfect, xesslite, xlib6
and the
X still crashes after upgrading
motifnls
ude
uwm
waimea
x-window-system
x-window-system-core
xbase-clients
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-base
xfonts-cyrillic
xfonts-scalable
xfree86-common
xmbdfed
xutils
to unstable's current
Hi Alec,
Thanks for following up.
rzip is a top performer, and if I recall
correctly, Andrew Tridgell said it shouldn't be
too hard to make rzip forward compressed data to
stdout so it works as a filter!
It seems to me that with its outstanding
performance, if it also became a filter, rzip
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.0.91-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Please change wc to treat , as a word delimiter.
Thanks.
Here's how to duplicate the problem:
$ echo cat,dog | wc -w
1
$ echo cat dog | wc -w
2
Other punctuation characters may have a similar
problem.
A workaround is
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's xserver-xfree86
package.
It's important.
X can be made to crash by doing the following:
1.) run gimp
2.) use your mouse to select
xtns-Script-Fu-Logos-Basic 1
3.) click on
Package: dosfstools
Version: 2.11-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's dosfstools
package.
It would be even more useful if it could create
file systems that are bootable.
A patch that evidently does this is attached.
It's author, Sam Bingner, wrote:
This patch
Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 0.13.4-5
Severity: important
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's rdiff-backup
package.
It's good at backing up linux data.
However, I noticed that it fails when run under
linux to back up one MS Windows file system to
another.
The source and destination
Package: rzip
Version: 2.0-2
Severity: minor
Tags: sid
Thanks for maintaining Debian's rzip package.
It performs great.
Please change the man page to say that rzip's
default compression level is 6. (It currently says
9.)
You can see that 6 is the default by
1.) typing rzip -h,
2.) reading
Package: rzip
Version: 2.0-2
Severity: minor
Tags: sid
I'm happy to report that my testing found that
compression level 0 is about ten times as fast as
the rest.
Compression level 0 was even five times faster
than gzip.
rzip's second stage uses bzip2, which uses
compression levels from 1 to 9.
On 03/13/05 16:26, Alec Berryman wrote:
may I close it?
Yes.
Thanks,
Kingsley
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Hi Ken,
[...]
I'm wondering whether you have the same or a
similar problem with tv_grab_na_dd.
I haven't tested it.
I'd really prefer to close this bug unless we
can come up with a specific plan for a change
that would make you happy.
Thoughts?
It won't personally affect me, as I
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