Bug#1059856: correction to patch

2024-01-03 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, it seems that the folder /etc/environment.d is not honored. So my suggested patch (involving adding a file there) fails. A workaround is to add the following line: MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 to configuration file /etc/environment This method does work. But I ignore if modifying a

Bug#918211: Acknowledgement (ovito: depends on obsolete libnetcdf11)

2019-01-05 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I notice now that ovito has been removed from testing. Apparently the problem is well known then. I think this bug is useless and can be closed at this point. Thanks a lot! Nick

Bug#786962: icedove: overzealous address autocompletion: completes to undesired address

2018-10-28 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello Carsten, I'm happy to report that current thunderbird 1:52.9.1-1 is free from this overzealous address autocompletion bug. 786962 can be closed (well, assuming icedove and thunderbird are the same). Thanx a lot! Nick

Bug#902229: reassign rather than close?

2018-07-04 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I faced this very same issue today. googling this bug report was extremely useful: I deleted timidity, and now sound is back. Obviously this is no solution, as I (or someone else) will need timidity eventually. I understand this is not a kernel related issue, but it is

Bug#851066: flashplugin-nonfree: Download file not available at people.debian.org

2017-01-16 Thread Nicola Manini
I confirm this problem, as reported by Peter Denison. I observed it last week too, but did not report it immediately expecting that the file at http://people.debian.org/~bartm/ would soon be fixed. It has now been missing for about 1 week. This bug can be reproduced equally with

Bug#851246: ovito: missing symbolic links to libQSsh.so and other shared libraries

2017-01-13 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: ovito Version: 2.3.3+dfsg1-2+b5 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable Hello, when invoking ovito from the command line it fails with the following message: ovito: error while loading shared libraries: libQSsh.so: cannot open shared object

Bug#848040: xfig: fails to display imported eps or pdf Pictures

2017-01-03 Thread Nicola Manini
Thank you all! This was quick & effective. All the best for 2017! Nick

Bug#848040: xfig: fails to display imported eps or pdf Pictures

2016-12-13 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.6-1 Severity: normal Hello, xfig has quit showing inserted eps or pdf Pictures. To reproduce: Fire up xfig. Click on the Picture button. Click in the main window and draw a box. In the open dialog, click on Browse and select an arbitrary

Bug#786962: icedove: overzealous address autocompletion: completes to undesired address

2015-05-28 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello Carsten! On 05/28/2015 07:37 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hello Nicola, I tried to reproduce the described behavior of course. But I can't see your issue here on my various installed versions. And I use version from Wheezy, Jessie, testing and experimental. For me it works in *every*

Bug#786962: icedove: overzealous address autocompletion: completes to undesired address

2015-05-27 Thread Nicola Manini
On 05/27/2015 11:46 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: severity 786962 normal thanks Hello Nick, Hello Carsten! You have two posibilities, just type the email adress further you want to use and ignore the suggestions. Or select the correct email adress by the mouse or cursor. If you want to

Bug#763324: task-italian: add dependence on libreoffice-l10n-it

2015-05-09 Thread Nicola Manini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/08/2015 11:35 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: So I guess you want to install task-italian-desktop to get all desktop-related translations? Which would make this bug report a non-bug. :) You are right Cyril! I hadn't realized this

Bug#755492: extra info

2014-10-07 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I confirm this bug in xfig/1:3.2.5.c-3 on a standard up-to-date jessie (pc). I wish to add that: 1) xfig crashes silently (segfaults) when loading .fig files created previously, as soon as they contain at least one line with dot-dashed style; 2) any of the LineStyles

Bug#742761: found also in 3.12.1

2014-07-02 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, this bug affects also the present version of evince-gtk 3.12.1-1 This bug makes evince practically unusable for most purposes. I suggest reverting to an older sane version, such as 3.4.0 until this is fixed upstream. Or squash the darn bug. Maybe a source diff could help

Bug#632850: network-manager: networking is not re-enabled on resume

2014-04-21 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, please disregard my previous report. The problem was consistently present until I did a complete system reboot. After reboot, it is unreproducible. Now network-manager and nm-applet work just fine. Thank you! All the best, Nick On 04/11/2014 09:19

Bug#732440: Bug#736423: libgs9: findfont Can't find font file Times

2014-01-27 Thread Nicola Manini
On 01/27/2014 03:17 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Control: forcemerge 732440 -1 This looks exactly like #732440. I agree. I hadn't realized before, sorry. Indeed, by purging texlive-fonts-extra and its dependencies, especially fonts-font-awesome the problem is solved. Alternative

Bug#729839: network-manager: forgets previously connected network upon sleep/reboot

2013-11-18 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.8.0-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have multiple configurations for both wireless and wired interfaces: since upgrading to jessie, every time my pc reboots or wakes up from sleep it has forgotten which one of them was the last

Bug#641458: found in 4.10.1-1

2013-10-21 Thread Nicola Manini
I reproduce precisely the same misbehavior detected by Torquil in the version currently in testing: 4.10.1-1 Let me add that it is not only nm-applet which produces this misbehavior, but also e.g. the xfce4-power-manager applet. Thanx! Nick dpkg -l network-manager-gnome

Bug#715279: found in 0.9.8.4-1

2013-10-21 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I find a similar behavior in the package currently in testing. Typically on laptop wakeup from sleep, the nm-applet crashes. I see no other way than to restart it manually from a terminal. When it also segfaults, it prints the following error messages: (nm-applet:2327):

Bug#705605: libreoffice-impress: Export to .pptx screws up several formattings

2013-04-18 Thread Nicola Manini
Confirmed (in 4.0.3 rc1, but that shouldn't be worse than the 4.0.2 which is in experimental, so..). Now the question is whether the pptx is screwed up or LO re-imports it badly. I also assume the first, but... I made a little inquiry on this question. I asked a windows-addicted friend,

Bug#705605: the demonstration file: bug_libreoffice.odp

2013-04-17 Thread Nicola Manini
In attachment. Thanx, Nick bug_libreoffice.odp Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation

Bug#699521: sauerbraten: new version available

2013-02-01 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: sauerbraten Version: 0.0.20100728.dfsg+repack-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, a new version of sauerbraten is available for download at its website http://sauerbraten.org/ : Collect Edition (January 4, 2013) Servers are currently switching to the

Bug#674819: indeed it is a regression

2012-10-25 Thread Nicola Manini
I used gimp several times since the current release came out, but I still find this export thing so annoying. The worst is the final message about unsaved changes: it trains users to ignore such kind of message and automatically discard changes, risking to lose data if forgetting to export

Bug#683726: closed by Julien Cristau

2012-08-31 Thread Nicola Manini
As suggested, I replaced the nvidia driver with nouveau: now sleepresume work like breeze (prompter than with nvidia!). Even the glx acceleration is more than fair: I'll stick to nouveau. In conclusion, the kernel is fine, this breakage was a problem of the interaction with the closed-source

Bug#683726: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#683726: additional info)

2012-08-04 Thread Nicola Manini
I will remove the nvidia driver and retest everything under nouveau. However I have little hope that it will work, since prior to installing nvidia I had tested nouveau extensively: suspend-resume had never worked under the open-source driver. This bug is quite likely related to the graphic

Bug#683726: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae: hangup on resume from suspend on dell latitude E6500

2012-08-03 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: src Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, my laptop hangs on resume from suspend to memory, since the upgrade to 3.2.0-3-686-pae With the previous kernel we had in testing until last June, sleep/wakeup was perfect. I attach the syslog from boot (Aug 3 13:27:27) to

Bug#671232: rhythmbox: Mixup informations of different edited mp3 files

2012-05-02 Thread Nicola Manini
On 05/02/2012 06:02 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: On 02.05.2012 17:57, Michael Biebl wrote: On 02.05.2012 17:12, Nick Manini wrote: - Exit from rhythmbox. - Now, reopen both files in rhythmbox (rhythmbox *) or in any other music player, e.g. audacious, and check the album tags of both songs.

Bug#671232: rhythmbox: Mixup informations of different edited mp3 files

2012-05-02 Thread Nicola Manini
, Nicola Manini wrote: On 05/02/2012 06:02 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Even in rhythmbox if you first remove both files from the list, close rhythmbox, then reopen rhythmbox and reload the files from scratch, you get them with the wrong tags (both aa). Yeah, looks like the internal database of rhythmbox

Bug#625624: cannot reproduce

2012-03-26 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I followed exactly the procedure described in Alex' report with grace, but could not reproduce the crash. At the end of the procedure, when releasing the left mouse button, the menu simply reappears, and is fully functional. Here follow the current running versions of the packages

Bug#606231: prboom: cannot select joystick buttons beyond 4

2010-12-07 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: prboom Version: 2:2.5.0+dfsg1-5 Severity: minor Once the joystick is enabled, in the keyboard setup one can select the joystick buttons up to button 4 for actions. In fact, most modern joystick/gamepads have far more than 4 (e.g. mine has 12), but these sdl events are just ignored.

Bug#573429: installation-reports: some characters screwed up in menus + windoze detected but omitted from grub menu

2010-08-30 Thread Nicola Manini
Otavio Salvador wrote: forcemerge 573429 567980 thanks Hello, I re-tested debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso as of today Aug 30, 2010. 1) characters meant for menu boundaries were corrupt, and printed funny-looking ascii characters. Everything was usable, but certainly not as intended by

Bug#583575: emacs: esc-q in LaTeX mode mixes with commented line above

2010-05-28 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: emacs Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: normal Tags: squeeze In LaTeX mode, esc-q has an incorrect behavior on a paragraph preceded by a commented line (starting with %). As an example, create a file a.tex including the 3 following lines: % dog cat Then open it with emacs (either in its

Bug#574614: It's a bug of a nvidia related package, I think

2010-05-24 Thread Nicola Manini
Yes, it mostly is a bug of the nvidia driver package, but there is also a m-a related part, which expects fixing. Indeed the solution suggested by Marco Mattiolo worked for me. I installed nvidia-kernel-dkms from sid. This introduced me to the ease of dkms, which makes m-a much less useful

Bug#574614: /usr/bin/module-assistant: fails building nvidia-kernel module and interface gets confused

2010-03-19 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.11.3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/module-assistant While building nvidia-kernel in squeeze, the kbuild fails as follows: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=gcc-4.3 -C

Bug#574614: additional info

2010-03-19 Thread Nicola Manini
I attach the xterm window snaphot after m-a exited, and the m-a log. All the best, Nick inline: snapshot.png/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules clean make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel' # select which makefile to use. rm -f

Bug#573429: installation-reports: some characters screwed up in menus + windoze detected but omitted from grub menu

2010-03-11 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100309-09:50]/ squeeze main Date: Mar 09 2010, afternoon Machine: laptop Dell Latitude E6500

Bug#428030: fvwm: cursor disappears when secondlife client is running

2009-06-24 Thread Nicola Manini
I have been unable to reproduce this (I do not have a second life client, and the software is non-free), I have not seen this behaviour elsewhere, and I wonder if this still happens with newer versions of fvwm. In any case, unless tehre is a means of reproducing this with, I

Bug#475112: more info: predictable way to reproduce crash

2009-05-08 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I found a predictable and reproducible way to obtain this X crash... admittedly running a non-debian piece of software. I installed the current linux version 1.22.11.113941 of the Secondlife client from http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php , logged to my Secondlife account,

Bug#475112: also found in 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6

2009-04-29 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I also found this bug in 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 running on my intel graphics G33 chipset. I wish to add 2 possibly useful pieces of information: - this week this crash occurred twice in 3 days; before I never had it, and my X session lasted for at least 4 months without a glimpse. So

Bug#448809: galeon: found in Galeon 2.0.6-2+b1

2009-02-10 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: galeon Version: 2.0.6-2+b1 Followup-For: Bug #448809 Hi, as ariana is not responding, let me add a word on this: Indeed, as one navigates, the memory usage of galeon piles up to larger and larger values (easily in eccess of 100 MB after visiting 4 or 5 news sites such as

Bug#359266: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: generates Bad page state at miscellaneous processes, sometime crashes

2008-12-22 Thread Nicola Manini
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:53:04PM +0200, Nicola Manini wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 Version: 2.6.15-8 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Occasionally the kernel broadcasts a message such as: Message from sysl...@localhost

Bug#75403: stiil exists also in latest unstable

2008-10-15 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: gnuplot Found 75403 4.2.4-1 Found 75403 4.2.2-1.2 Severity: serious Justification: could cause data loss Stop Package: texlive-fonts-extra Version: 2007.dfsg.4-1 Severity: serious Justification: nosell license Hello, I find that this bug has not been fixed in 4.2.4-1 ,

Bug#465861: installation-reports

2008-02-15 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD netinstall lenny Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded 2008:02:15 10:51 CET Date: 2008:02:15 11:00 CET Machine: Dell Latitude C810 Processor: Intel

Bug#420354: fixup? this bug has a patch

2008-02-07 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, this important bug remained open for over 9 months now, even though a simple patch is available. Why not generating a patched version 1.0.8776-5 for lenny? Thanx! Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#428030: fvwm: cursor disappears when secondlife client is running

2007-06-08 Thread Nicola Manini
Subject: fvwm: cursor disappears when secondlife client is running Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.18-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hello, when I run the secondlife client, now SecondLife_i686_1_16_0_6 just downloaded from secondlife.com, within fvwm

Bug#319994: reopen Bug#319994 (Well reproducible also in the latest version)

2007-05-30 Thread Nicola Manini
Dear Cyril, I upgraded to the latest 4.2.0-3: dpkg -l gnuplot Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Bug#75403: reopen Bug#75403 (Broken in latest unstable, as well as in stable)

2007-05-30 Thread Nicola Manini
package gnuplot found 75403 4.2.0-3 thanks Hello, this bug is still open for both 4.2.0-3 and the stable snapshot 4.0.0-5. I suspect it is related to #319994: please read specifically the info provided by Chali Ahmul M.P.U [EMAIL PROTECTED] about readline, in

Bug#415638: maybe broken install?

2007-04-27 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, apparently the module gnuplot_x11 is built correctly in /build/buildd/gnuplot-4.2.0/src but it is then not moved into its supposed final destination /usr/lib/gnuplot I know very little of ia64, and have no access to a ia64 machine to experiment here, but for anybody even vaguely

Bug#419930: listarchives: posting frequency units Posts/h inappropriate (frequency==0)

2007-04-18 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: listarchives Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hello, the statistics on debian-devel-announce (see http://murphy.debian.org/lists/debian-devel-announce/details.html ) is reported in counts Posting Frequency in Postings/h, which, as the graph

Bug#415946: bugs.debian.org: bug count inconsistencey among different pages

2007-03-23 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hello, in this moment (Thu Mar 22 08:03:33 UTC 2007), the release-critical bug counts read: 520 in http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ 510 in

Bug#63995: comment in support to Don

2007-03-23 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, it makes me smile to read the first requests, dated back in the good old times when people found it disturbing to receive 1 spam/day (and bug numbers still fitted 5 digits...). My company's spam-killer has moved to /dev/null as many as 4512 messages to my address since Jan 8 2007, i.e.

Bug#415287: quick comment

2007-03-20 Thread Nicola Manini
What's the purpose of this bug that isn't already achieved by #413469? Cheers, Julien, #413469 was correctly downgraded to wishlist, since that bug is only about The package is outdated, i.e. the developer wished to push a fresher snapshot into etch, which is deep frozen and cannot accept

Bug#400311: mozilla was replaced by the iceape suite in etch

2007-03-06 Thread Nicola Manini
Severity: normal Justification: refers to confusing name and likely non-existing issue I suggest that Sect. 5.7 Security status of mozilla products be removed, since mozilla is now just transition package to iceape, see http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/mozilla If the problems it

Bug#219088: this is a very good idea!

2007-03-05 Thread Nicola Manini
the scripts and know where to look at. Thanx, all the best, Nicola Manini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#362072: addition on the effect of OK button

2007-01-29 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, indeed I agree with Mike that network-admin should allow some more in-depth setting-up, and that it often has a sleepy behavior. I'd like to add that when one switches between different Locations, network-admin immediately acts and starts doing the network reconfiguration. After

Bug#385952: fvwm: MenuStyle fontcolor option ignored (Black used instead)

2006-09-04 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.17-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** fvwm ignores the first (foreground) color after MenuStyle in ~/.fvwm2rc , e.g. in: MenuStyle White NavyBlue Grey50 10x20 fvwm It uses Black regardless of what I put there. The following

Bug#385952: merge #383435 #384695

2006-09-04 Thread Nicola Manini
I realize only now that #385952 is yet another version of #383435 #384695 Sorry... Maybe their headers are not specific enough. I suggest to merge the 3 bugs... All the best, Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#319994: reopen Bug#319994 (Well reproducible also in the latest version)

2006-08-25 Thread Nicola Manini
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #319994: gnuplot: filename completion (with tab) does not work, which was filed against the gnuplot package. It has been closed by Cyril Bouthors [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Their explanation is attached

Bug#360893: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell)

2006-05-08 Thread Nicola Manini
try to regnerate your initramfs with latest: update-initramfs -u I did: no change, even with initramfs-tool 0.60 well that will only update newest kernel so to update the 2.6.15, that would have to be specified with -k version aka update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.15-1-686 Hmm, first, before the

Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

2006-05-02 Thread Nicola Manini
could you try out linux-image-2.6-$flavour from unstable if that works for you. Yes, I installed linux-image-2.6.16-1.686 and this one boots fine, no prob. hmm did you check from the shell if udevd is running with ps aux? Yes, back when I booted 2.6.15 within the shell, from ps aux | grep

Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

2006-04-20 Thread Nicola Manini
sure the rescue shell can't fix itself magically ;) Well, if you read my initial bug post, you see that before the upgrade it used to sort of fix itself up after a while. One could eventually boot 2.6.15 bu exiting the shell. Not any more. please post from the busybox shell: * the last

Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

2006-04-06 Thread Nicola Manini
The kernel 2.6.8-2-686 cannot use the current udev but boots fine, except that X does not start, since it finds no mouse. sure there you would need to load mousedev by hand or have it listed in /etc/modules.. The first option works fine, the second option lets X come up, but the mouse is

Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

2006-04-05 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: udev Version: 0.088-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, after a regular upgrade to the present version of udev a new problem occurs: udev claims it discovers the hardware correctly and in particular gives out some messages about my Maxtor,

Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

2006-04-05 Thread Nicola Manini
maximilian attems wrote: reassign 360893 initramfs-tools tags 360893 moreinfo stop are you using grub? Yes: ii grub 0.95+cvs200406 GRand Unified Bootloader I have these 2 main entries in menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686 root(hd0,0) kernel

Bug#359266: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: generates Bad page state at miscellaneous processes, sometime crashes

2006-03-27 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 Version: 2.6.15-8 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Occasionally the kernel broadcasts a message such as: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Mar 27 14:19:59 2006 ... localhost kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in

Bug#347552: nvidia-kernel-2.6.14-2-686: cannot install: no relevant kernel-image available

2006-01-11 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.14-2-686 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hello, I wished to install this package, but the relevant 2.6.14 kernel is now labeled as linux-image, not kernel image any more. Please

Bug#307899: libccaudio-dev: missing config.h and thread.h

2005-05-06 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: libccaudio-dev Version: 1.1.2-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** My sarge system generates the following files out of dpkg -L libccaudio-dev /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libccaudio1.a /usr/include /usr/include/cc++2 /usr/include/cc++2/cc++

Bug#293573: discover: Does not detect my audio card (es1371 on a 686)

2005-02-04 Thread Nicola Manini
Package: discover Version: 2.0.6-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The good old discover 1.5.1 reported correctly my es1371 sound card. Now I upgraded to discover 2, and after a reboot, the sound card died. It is not an hardware failure, since a knoppix reboot