Bug#834149: emacs24-common: org-mode's LaTeX preview unusable on HiDPI screens

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: emacs24-common Version: 24.5+1-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream One of the nice features of org-mode is the ability to write LaTeX in-line. When there is a lot of LaTeX in a document, the preview enabled with org-preview-latex-fragment comes in handy. Unfortunately, the preview is

Bug#826045: systemd: New kernels are not booted

2016-06-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: systemd Version: 229-6 Severity: important After gummiboot has been integrated into systemd as systemd-boot, I decided to give this new feature a try and installed a new machine with systemd, not installing gummiboot or any other boot loader. The machine is capable of booting an UEFI

Bug#813379: xfce4-settings: Please also set DPI via RandR extension

2016-02-05 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Hello, On 02/05/16 11:02, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > As far as I know it's not “some graphics hardware”. Xorg explicitely sets DPI > to 96x96. I have a machine at home where the resolution is set to the correct value (ie not 96x96) without any further configuration (ie no xorg.conf etc). But I

Bug#813379: xfce4-settings: Please also set DPI via RandR extension

2016-02-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xfce4-settings Version: 4.12.0-2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream XFCE comes with a configuration setting for adjusting the DPI of a monitor. However, this setting only has effects on Gtk, X itself is not affected. You can easily check this by selecting a non-default DPI setting in the

Bug#810076: network-manager: NM does not honor "push route" any more

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: network-manager Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have just upgraded network-manager from 1.0.6 to 1.0.10 just to determine that my OpenVPN connection stopped working. Downgrading to 1.0.6 fixes the connection again. In my configuration, the central OpenVPN server

Bug#810138: zim: Journal plugin does no longer work with LC_ALL unset

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zim Version: 0.65-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently upgraded zim from version 0.63 to 0.65. Unfortunately, on one of my machines zim showed weird behaviour: It could no longer display the calendar widget of the Journal plugin, and switching to the page for the current day

Bug#769282: mupdf: Fullscreen is not fullscreen

2014-12-03 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mupdf Version: 1.5-1 Followup-For: Bug #769282 Attached patch fixes the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture:

Bug#728113: smartmontools still broken

2014-12-02 Thread Thomas Prokosch
I have just tried running smartctl with the updated binutils version 2.24.90.20141201-1, however the bug is still there. $ smartctl -a /dev/sda Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed! br, Thomas -- To

Bug#769282: mupdf: Fullscreen is not fullscreen

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mupdf Version: 1.5-1+b2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream mupdf allows only zoom sizes between 0.25 and 4 (x11/pdfapp.h line 13ff) #define MINRES 18 #define MAXRES 288 These settings are too conservative, as LaTeX beamer slides cannot be presented full-screen on large monitors.

Bug#763014: geeqie: Version number wrong

2014-09-27 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Hello, in geeqie version 1.2 the Help/About dialog box says Geequie 1.1. This can result in confusion when checking patches, reporting bugs etc. br, Thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#762493: ruby-jekyll-watch: Package should suggest ruby-rb-inotify

2014-09-22 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: ruby-jekyll-watch Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: minor Jekyll is crashing under the following conditions: 1. ruby-jekyll-watch is installed 2. ruby-rb-inotify is not installed 3. The user runs jekyll build -w or jekyll serve -w without the --force_polling command line option. The error

Bug#750724: mupdf-tools: Document mudraw -F command line switch in man page

2014-06-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mupdf-tools Version: 1.3-2 Severity: minor The man page for mudraw does not document the -F command line switch. However, it would be really nice if one could read about the SVG export capabilities of mupdf. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#746607: jekyll: Needs dependency on ruby-colored

2014-05-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: jekyll Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Jekyll always aborts with the following error message: /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- colored (LoadError) from

Bug#736493: mupdf: Please make mouse behaviour configurable

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mupdf Version: 1.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I really like mupdf very much, as it is lightweight and does everything what I want a PDF viewer to do. However, I cannot accustom myself to the behaviour of the mouse: Panning switches pages, using the scroll wheel does not. Given

Bug#658905: gajim fails to start

2013-11-25 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Hello Tanguy, On 11/24/2013 06:48 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: First of all, sorry for the very high delay of response, I have taken over the maintenance of the package gajim and this bug is anterior to that. thank you for coming back to me. Thomas Prokosch, 2012-02-06 18:33+0100: In case

Bug#695536: libpaper1: Does not configure properly on unitialized systems

2012-12-09 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: libpaper1 Version: 1.1.24+nmu2 Severity: normal libpaper1 does not configure properly on newly set up systems: I am using multistrap to build an ARM image from scratch on i386 hardware. However, during unpacking on the real ARM hardware with dpkg --configure -a, libpaper1 fails to unpack

Bug#658905: gajim fails to start

2012-02-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gajim Version: 0.14.4-2 Severity: important In case gajim cannot create a subdirectory share within directory $HOME/.local, it fails to start with the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File gajim.py, line 145, in module import common.configpaths File

Bug#620216: linux-image-2.6.38-1-686: kernel hangs with XFS

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.38-1 Severity: important Since the big XFS refacturing, kernels tend to hang on one particular machine. It is not a hardware problem, since the very same machine works flawlessly with the very same configuration, by just using an older (=2.6.26) kernel.

Bug#620216: bugzilla.kernel.org

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Kernel bug number is 32342 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#619333: vnstatd does not honour the CheckDiskSpace config option

2011-03-22 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: vnstat Severity: normal Tags: upstream There is an unexpected difference between the vnstat and the vnstatd binaries: In a low diskspace scenario, the CheckDiskSpace option set to 0 comes in handy. Setting this option to 0 updates the database file even if the remaining diskspace is

Bug#615629: zim misses the emphasis

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zim Version: 0.48-1 Severity: normal When printing to the browser, zim embeds a snippet of CSS for proper formatting. While doing this zim seems to miss the attributes for an emphasis tag. In my style.conf file I do have the following entry: [Tag emphasis] style=italic

Bug#615629: zim misses the emphasis

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas Prokosch
On Monday 28 February 2011 12:11 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: I'm sorry but zim does no translation at all from properties in style.conf to CSS. The config file is for the style of the user interface, the CSS is hardcoded in the HTML template used. Oh, I see. I am glad I used the same spelling

Bug#615251: jabref: Jabref opens maximized

2011-02-26 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: jabref Version: 2.6+ds-4 Severity: normal Starting with this version, Jabref always opens in a maximized state, despite the following entry in the config file: entry key=windowMaximised value=false/ This new behaviour is pretty annoying on a large screen. -- System Information:

Bug#615251: jabref: Jabref opens maximized

2011-02-26 Thread Thomas Prokosch
On Saturday 26 February 2011 05:36 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:30:47 -0800, tony mancill wrote: Starting with this version, Jabref always opens in a maximized state, despite the following entry in the config file: entry key=windowMaximised value=false/ This new

Bug#614280: xfce4-battery-plugin: Does not show time estimate with recent kernels

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xfce4-battery-plugin Version: 0.5.1-1+b1 Severity: normal xfce4-battery-plugin has a problem with recent (2.6.36) kernels: It does no longer show time estimates of the remaining run time/charging time. The charging state (given in percent) is fine, however. IMHO would also be

Bug#542114: acpitool: Segfault on 2.6.30

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: acpitool Version: 0.5-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable acpitools segfaults on linux-image-2.6.30 on i386 when called with -B option. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#539194: mercurial: hgrc config file syntax changed

2009-07-29 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mercurial Version: 1.3-2 Severity: normal hgrc manpage states: A configuration file consists of sections, led by a [section] header and followed by name: value entries; name=value is also accepted. This means that the primary way of specifying config file entries is using colons.

Bug#526765: xfwm4: workspace names do not get saved

2009-05-03 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xfwm4 Version: 4.6.1-1 Severity: normal xfce 4.6 does not remember the names of the workspaces any more, except for the first workspace. It also does not help to make the config file readonly, since xfce resets the permission of the file on next restart (how weird is that??). The

Bug#522175: gxine and invalid checksum

2009-04-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gxine Version: 0.5.903-4 Severity: normal gxine changes the desktop file during installation (updates MIME type). Therefore, the checksum provided by debsums becomes invalid: debsums: checksum mismatch gxine file /var/lib/xine/gxine.desktop -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#513848: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good: Please put plugin dependent on gconf in an extra package

2009-02-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Version: 0.10.8-4 Severity: normal As the title suggests, having an extra package for the plugin dependant on gconf2 would be a good idea. Neither gstr-pl-base nor gstr-pl-bad are dependent upon gconf. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers

Bug#503231: Please provide inkscape-nognome

2008-10-23 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: inkscape Severity: wishlist An inkscape-nognome package (without the dependencies on libgconf2 and libgnomevfs2) would be very helpful. Not everybody wants the GConf bloat, and Inkscape works fine without it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#495706: gxine: screensaver starts although turned off

2008-08-19 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gxine Version: 0.5.903-2 Severity: normal When explicitely disabling the screensaver through the preference window within xine, it starts nevertheless when GNOME is not installed (in case of XFCE). The error message tells why: can't poke gnome-screensaver: Failed to execute child

Bug#438969: libxrandr2: Restoring the backlight uses inadequate values

2007-08-21 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: libxrandr2 Version: 2:1.2.1-1 Severity: normal I do have a Sony laptop, and I have mapped the function keys controlling the brightness of the display to a script setting values in /sys/class/backlight/sony. This works fine both in the console and within X up to the point where

Bug#403557: xscreensaver does not lock when there are network problems

2006-12-17 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.24-5 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole I do have set up xscreensaver so that it locks the screen after a certain timeout. This is a handy security feature which is the main reason for using the screensaver. However today the screen

Bug#397301: ink: Not possible to specify alternate device path

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: ink Version: 0.3.2~rc3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On my system there is no /dev/usb directory - the USB device files are found in another location. Ink does not provide the possiblity to support a filename as a parameter, so this program is unusable in its

Bug#386623: hibernate: Incorrect error message when GRUB configuration rewrites are disabled

2006-09-08 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: hibernate Version: 1.93-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch My laptop boots off a separate, XFS formatted /boot partition. I do not let hibernate rewrite GRUB's configuration files (at least not now) and so I was able to spot an incorrect short cicuit evaluation which leads to the following

Bug#386483: yaird: Troubles when resuming from LUKS-encrypted swap partition

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.12-17 Severity: important I am using the Suspend2 patches together with LUKS-encrypted root and swap. Yaird writes the init file in a way so that the root disk is opened first, then the resume happens, and after resuming the swap partition is LUKS-opened. It is clear

Bug#384125: RFP: truetypeviewer -- viewer for TrueType and OpenType fonts

2006-08-21 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: truetypeviewer Version : 20030318 Upstream Author : Rogier van Dalen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/truetypeviewer.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Bug#291120: xfce4-battery-plugin: Plugin still displays wrong timing

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xfce4-battery-plugin Version: 0.4.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #291120 I can confirm that when running on AC the plugin still displays the time which would be left if I was not running on AC. For example when the battery is 40% full, the battery panel plugin displays 40 minutes, however

Bug#381681: zim: v0.16 available upstream

2006-08-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zim Version: 0.15-1 Severity: normal There is a new version available (v0.16) and I'd really love to try it... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#381683: yaird fails because of changed output in new mdadm

2006-08-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.12-16 Severity: important Tags: patch The output of mdadm --detail has changed in the new version 2.5.2, and yaird 0.0.12 has problems with parsing the new output format. To be more precise, mdadm offers a new key/value pair with the key Name in its output. The

Bug#379845: zile: Feature request: truncate-lines

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zile Version: 2.2.13-1 Severity: wishlist For editing text files with longer paragraphs I would appreciate something like a buffer variable truncate-lines or a function toggle-truncate-lines which are present in GNU Emacs. This feature would be especially useful when writing prose text

Bug#377535: pengupop: glibc free() with invalid pointer

2006-07-09 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: pengupop Version: 2.0.2-1 Severity: important After some joyful time playing the game, pengupop crashes with the following error: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x087afd08 *** -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#374172: xfce4: Recommends instead of Depends

2006-06-17 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.3.90.1-2 Severity: normal In my opinion it is a bit harsh for xfce4 to depend on thunar since the XFCE desktop runs fine without it. Either xfce4 should depend on all orage, xfce4-terminal, xfmedia and thunar, or it should recommend them. Having a mix does not feel

Bug#329657: cupsys-driver-gutenprint: rc3 shows no change

2006-06-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint Followup-For: Bug #329657 I have tried the package from unstable (version 4.3.99+cvs20060521-2) but there is no improvement as far as the color density on this particular model is concerned. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#369367: zim: New upstream version available

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zim Version: 0.14-1 Severity: normal There is a new version available which offers some exciting new features (v0.15). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#369373: New upstream version available

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: le Version: 1.9.1-4.1 Severity: normal At the time of writing this bug report, version 1.13.2 is already available from the upstream server ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/source/le/ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990,

Bug#369383: [Resend] Offer le to be an editor alternative

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: le Version: 1.9.1-4.1 Followup-For: Bug #369383 The last message was not readable due to an error in the bug report - the file contained an improperly escaped character, sorry. The bug report should read: le should integrate itself into the alternatives system, in particular le should

Bug#367663: No support for large files in GDMap

2006-05-17 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gdmap Version: 0.7.5-1 Severity: important gdmap does not support large files which are bigger than 2G. I had a look at the source code which uses large ints for the size information. The problem simply is that LFS support is not enabled in the build system, ie. the lstat call is mapped

Bug#357677: zim: Suggest or recommend packages

2006-03-18 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: zim Version: 0.13-1 Severity: normal In my opinion the dependencies of the zim package are too strong. Particularly it is not necessary to depend on the packages libgtk2-trayicon-perl, libgtk2-spell-perl Zim v0.13 runs fine without these packages, so instead of depending on these

Bug#352831: sleepd does not put laptop into sleep mode any longer

2006-02-14 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: sleepd Version: 1.3.0 Severity: important After upgrading from 1.2.16 to 1.3.0 my laptop does no longer sleep. I have no idea why, I am using the --ac-unused option which does not help. Calling apm -s manually works as expected. The syslog and daemon.log do not indicate different

Bug#338326: wget: does not provide adequate information in non-verbose spider mode

2005-11-09 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: wget Version: 1.10.2-1 Severity: normal When using wget in non-verbose mode, it prints out each file transferred: $ wget -nv someurl 14:35:19 URL:someurl [2838/2838] - localfilename [1] When using spider mode I expect to get a similar output, because I want to see which files are still

Bug#337845: ijsgutenprint: Package description is not useful

2005-11-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: ijsgutenprint Severity: normal The package description says: This package contains the ijsgutenprint binary which provides Ghostscript with a Gutenprint driver, including all printers supported by Gutenprint. I just found this package and have asked myself what it does. I do have

Bug#329263: psi: Introduced by Debian patch

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: psi Version: 0.9.3-2 Followup-For: Bug #329263 I can confirm that this bug did not occur with version 0.9.3-1, so I am quite confident that it has been introduced by one of the Debian patches. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#336646: mercurial: Mercurial does not handle daylight saving time

2005-10-31 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mercurial Version: 0.7-4 Severity: minor Mercurial always uses DST if current time zone specifies one. Please apply the patch from the Mercurial mailing list with the patch id d6159d08ad1633b891b89de611cabddc83fd9625 The error is very annoying, I would be glad if it could be corrected by

Bug#336646: mercurial: Correction to bug report

2005-10-31 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mercurial Version: 0.7-4 Followup-For: Bug #336646 In the bug report I copied the wrong id, sorry for that. The original bug report points to the manifest - the changeset id for the timezone patch is 4d38b85e60aa03be29c0e3ba30349fd405c80470 It is already available from upstream

Bug#332583: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 Severity: normal I am running the stable kernel on a production server, leading to the following message during this night's backup of an XFS partition via xfsdump: Oct 7 04:56:18 rt2 kernel: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages Oct 7 04:56:18 rt2 last

Bug#330627: rkhunter daily cron script is open to symlink attacks

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: rkhunter Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole The rkhunter daily cron script version 1.2.7-13 uses the following command to create a file in the /tmp directory: $RKHUNTER --cronjob --report-warnings-only /tmp/$$ If I am not mistaken this command poses a

Bug#330384: rkhunter: Depending on wget is bad for security

2005-09-27 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: rkhunter Severity: wishlist Depending on wget is bad for security. As it is well known security related bugs are often exploited by providing shell code when input sanitizing is missing. That is why I do not install wget or curl on systems which need to be well protected. This is the

Bug#330127: rkhunter: Do not send mail when there is no output

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: rkhunter Severity: normal Rkhunter sends an email on the daily invocation even if there are no warnings or errors. The sent mail is empty which in turn makes /usr/bin/mail complain about the null message body. As a result there are two messages, one confusing, when there should be none.

Bug#318273: guessnet: Bug status?

2005-09-25 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: guessnet Version: 0.36-1 Followup-For: Bug #318273 What is the status of this bug? I experience it too, it is rather annoying because one always has to bring up the network interface by hand (ifup eth0=somesetting) which kind of defeats the purpose of guessnet. What can I do to help

Bug#329657: cupsys-driver-gutenprint: Canon BJC-250 printout too light

2005-09-22 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint Severity: normal I own a Canon BJC-250 and never cared to use the printer under Linux because the printout quality is too bad. Now I have no other choice and therefore filing this bug report. My print server runs Gutenprint 5.0rc1 but this bugreport also applies

Bug#326849: qiv: Stops working after Xorg upgrade

2005-09-11 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: qiv Version: 2.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #326849 I wanted to add that this bug happens also with my installation, but only after upgrading from XFree to Xorg. The error message and the behaviour is completely the same. I don't know whether it is of any importance but I am using X in

Bug#317945: le: background drawing errors on framebuffer

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: le Version: 1.9.1-4.1 Severity: normal I am not quite sure whether this bug has its origin in le or in libncurses5 but since le is the only curses bases program with with I experience this problem I file the bug report here. In case the console is in framebuffer mode le erases its

Bug#317280: darcs calls less instead of pager

2005-07-07 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: darcs Version: 1.0.3-1 Severity: normal When piping output through a pager darcs calls the less binary directly instead of relying on the pager symlink. This is confusing when no less binary is installed (yes, there are machines) or the user prefers another pager over less (such as me).

Bug#317284: RFP: courier-pythonfilter -- Filter suite for the Courier MTA

2005-07-07 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: courier-pythonfilter Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Gordon Messner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://phantom.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/courier-patches/courier-pythonfilter/ * License : GPL Description :

Bug#316490: courier-mta: Courier filters

2005-07-01 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: courier-mta Severity: wishlist Hello, After searching for a greylisting solution for Courier I found http://phantom.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/courier-patches/courier-pythonfilter/ on the net. I would like to see this in Debian. Before I go and file an RFP I would like to know whether a

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

2005-06-30 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: at Version: 3.1.8-11 Severity: important When root installs an at command the command is run but the results are not mailed. User IDs other than 0 work as expected. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#311357: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Different problem?

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 Version: 2.6.8-16 Followup-For: Bug #311357 Dan, your problems seems to me to be a different one. I only experienced the network card problems after upgrading from 2.6.8-13 to 2.6.8-16, not with earlier kernels. It also happens with only one Via Rhine card

Bug#311357: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7: Confirmed

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 Followup-For: Bug #311357 I can confirm this problem. Please revert the latest VIA Rhine patches introduced between 2.6.8-15 and 2.6.8-16. The latest kernel is completely unusable. There is a big difference between a few not properly handled IRQs and a machine not

Bug#305018: torsmo: Torsmo fails to show Xft text

2005-04-17 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: torsmo Version: 0.18-5 Severity: important I am using torsmo in a window, double-buffered with a Xft font. After some time the text goes away leaving only the bars and horizontal lines on the screen. This bug makes torsmo unusable without a restart since information is no longer

Bug#304612: libgtk2.0-0: Mouse cursor flickers in combination with the unclutter package

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Prokosch
the r128 module) I am filing this bug to the Gtk library since the bug manifests only when using Gtk 2.6 applications - Gtk 1.2 applications as well as Motif/Athena/whatever applications are perfectly fine. Ask if you need more information on hardware or software. Thanks. Thomas Prokosch -- System

Bug#304623: gqview: Use Gimp file format plugins

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: gqview Version: 2.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist It would be really nice if gqview would use the Gimp file format plugins if they are detected. I know this is a major feature request but writing an interface to the Gimp plugins would really pay off in the long term for gqview and the whole

Bug#304478: Possibility to change slapd/dump_database_destdir without dpkg-reconfigure

2005-04-13 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: slapd Severity: normal Yesterday I upgraded from slapd 2.1 to version 2.2. I was asked where I wanted to store the database dump. However I misinterpreted the question, the VERSION hint made me think that I was asked for a filename template within an already existing directory. Later I

Bug#304485: slapd: No backup of configuration files made on upgrade

2005-04-13 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: slapd Severity: normal During the upgrade from slapd version 2.1 to 2.2 I noticed that the configuration file /etc/ldap/slapd.conf is altered. It is a nice feature to have the configuration altered to match a new slapd version (kudos to the implementor), it works really well. However I

Bug#304406: xscreensaver: New Login button without gdmflexiserver

2005-04-12 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.21-2 Severity: normal On my Xfce powered laptop I am seeing a New Login button in xscreensaver's password dialog even though no gdmflexiserver is present. Clicking on the button leaves the screensaver running with an error message saying that gdmflexiserver exited

Bug#302825: mlterm: PAGE_UP does not start backscroll mode

2005-04-03 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mlterm Version: 2.9.2-2 Severity: normal Perhaps it is just me or I am doing something wrong, but I have deeply looked into it (read the man page etc) and cannot find the reason. The problem is that PAGE_UP (the default Shift+Prior) does not start backscroll mode any more (SCROLL_UP,

Bug#298621: Critical Buffer Overflow in mlterm

2005-03-08 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: mlterm Version: 2.8.0.cvs20040403-2 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole According to Secunia the version of mlterm which is currently in testing and unstable has a serious buffer overflow. See http://secunia.com/advisories/14509/ for details. -- System

Bug#295839: fbpanel: menu image is too small

2005-02-18 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: fbpanel Version: 4.0-1 Severity: normal I am using fbpanel with the menu plugin. I have set the panel height to 26 pixel. I wanted to use an image file sized 80x26 pixels. While this works great with the image plugin the menu plugin shows the image far too small. -- System Information:

Bug#294589: torsmo consumes too much resources when drawing on background

2005-02-10 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: torsmo Version: 0.18-1 Severity: minor When starting torsmo with the option to draw on the root window my window manager slows down incredibly. I did not look at the source code closely but from what I have seen torsmo grabs the background pixmap *every time* the display is updated. A

Bug#294164: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-386: kernel oops when launching jvm

2005-02-08 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-386 Version: 2.6.10-4 Severity: important I experienced an oops when launching a Java Virtual Machine. I cannot reproduce this bug since it oopsed only once, it worked when I tried again. However I have the feeling the kernel should never oops :) The JVM is the

Bug#294293: qiv should support the new background setting mechanism

2005-02-08 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: qiv Version: 2.0-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch qiv is my favourite application for setting the desktop background. However, there is one disadvantage: qiv sets the background in a way so that terminals with transparency support cannot grab the pixmap. To support this the only thing to

Bug#293941: perlpanel does not start without hicolor-icon-theme

2005-02-06 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: perlpanel Version: 1:0.9.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I just installed perlpanel on a machine without Gnome or similar stuff, in particular a machine without hicolor-icon-theme installed. When starting up perlpanel I just get the following error message,

Bug#291529: xscreensaver is broken on kernel 2.6

2005-01-21 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.16-1 Severity: important With kernel 2.6, specifically 2.6.10 in my case, xscreensaver does not work anymore. It blanks (and locks) the screen randomly, even if I use the mouse and keyboard continuously. When trying to unblank (by pressing a key on the keyboard)

Bug#291029: unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Prokosch
Package: kernel-source-2.6.10 Severity: important I am still experiencing in kernel 2.6.10 what seems to be bug #277934. When I try to poweroff the machine it hangs with the error message given in the subject. The syslog is already shut down so the message is printed to the console. -- System