Bug#561681: crashes on startup

Package: ardour-i686 Version: 1:2.8.4-2 Severity: grave the last time I used ardour two days ago. I believe it was 1:2.8.4-1 - today after updating to 1:2.8.4-2 I can no longer launch the application. A downgrade does not help. Maybe its because a file changed that ardour uses but that is in

Bug#552185: read/write access to the /dev/rfkill device is required

Package: gnome-bluetooth Version: 2.28.3-2 Severity: normal Here bluetooth-properties behaves the same as Fabian describes in the previous message. Additional information: - previously paired devices will work fine - trying to pair a new device will fail no agent in syslog - the gnome/dbus

Bug#544341: with character wrongly decoded from playlist

Package: audacious Severity: normal As of today, I can no longer reproduce the bug: $ audacious2 -v Audacious 2.1.0 [UNSUPPORTED VERSION] I do not know, whether there actually have been any updates since then. Anyways, please close. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#544339: Segfaults when reading my timidity configuration

Package: audacious Version: 2.1-1+b1 Severity: important Audacious2 cannot handle my timidity configuration. From looking at strace, when it reads /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg, it follows the include /etc/timidity/eawpats.cfg until it encounters the source gravis.cfg. The file is not found and

Bug#544341: Filenames with character wrongly decoded from playlist

Package: audacious Version: 2.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Audacious stores a default playlist in xspf format, which is based on XML. Ampersand characters in filenames though properly escaped, eg this line: locationfile:///.../Teenage%20Jesus%20amp;%20The%20Jerks%20-%20Orphans.m4a/location are not

Bug#539283: package uninstallable, fails in first_install

Package: ca-certificates-java Version: 20090629 Severity: important [Read to end for why install fails. If it looks like some previous error of mine breaks keytool, please close this bug.] This system here trusts the A-Cert root authority. I dont remember how I did install the certificate back

Bug#510686: gmpc will not start

Package: gmpc Version: 0.17.0-1 Severity: grave just did the apt-update, now gmpc will not start, please see below message it gives for a reason. Thank you. Peter = $ gmpc --version Gnome Music Player Client ♯♪ + ♭♪ = ☺ Copyright 2003-2008 Qball Cow Version:0.17.0

Bug#504282: program aborts due to assertion

Package: oxine Version: 0.7.1-3 Severity: grave hello, (bug tagged grave, though maybe its only happening here.) on this system I cannot play anything. the initial menu comes up fine. then I select eg. Watch Films, for a split second Please Wait appears, then oxine quits. Console reads:

Bug#502995: jar is missing too

Package: sun-java6-jdk Followup-For: Bug #502995 there is also no link to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/bin/jar neither in /etc/alternatives/ nor in /usr/bin/ regards. peter -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#503882: not necessary to add?

Package: libgphoto2-2 Followup-For: Bug #503882 sorry for the noise: adding the camera identification to the rules file proved not necessary for my goal: to allow a user in group plugdev to get photos from the ptp-device. for that, I just had to copy libgphoto2.rules from /etc/udev to

Bug#503882: its hv30

Package: libgphoto2-2 Followup-For: Bug #503882 sorry, the camera with usb-id 04a9:3198 is called hv30. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#503882: canon nv30 missing from udev.rules

Package: libgphoto2-2 Version: 2.4.1-3 Severity: normal File: /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules the canon nv30 (pal) is missing from the udev.rules. lsusb: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04a9:3198 Canon, Inc. HTH -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#500512: how to have linphone use the real local address

Package: linphone Version: 2.1.1-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #500512 Nicolas: if you modify the kernel routing table, linphone uses the correct local address (use tap0 or whatever this side of your vpn has for an interface): route add 217.12.3.11 tap0 -- peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#500512: wrong local address

Package: linphone Version: 2.1.1-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #500512 hello! there is a newer upstream version available, this is with the one in debian unstable: I too want linphone to connect via the vpn behind tap0, as there is an openser router on the other end, which is setup in linphone as

Bug#462734: possible fix

Package: apt Version: 0.7.11 Followup-For: Bug #462734 I too experience this bug on a machine, where I forcibly installed the sun-java-plugin, that for weeks now is uninstallable in unstable, because it depends on a package that does not exist. therefore apt-get check fails in the apt cron.

Bug#473417: more info, workaround

Package: sun-java5-plugin Version: 1.5.0-15-1 Followup-For: Bug #473417 I downloaded the package and installed it with dpkg --force-depends. All it does is create directories, if they arent already there, which should be, if you had it before, and run this script, that links the plugin from the

Bug#360575: how to get rid of the messages

Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.0~rc1-2 Followup-For: Bug #360575 the messages are about a user macro package. I did not install those ever, must have been done by a previous installation of openoffice. - go to menu: Tools-Macros-Organize Macros-Openoffice.org Basic - delete the

Bug#462460: fix

Package: exim4-config Version: 4.69-1 Followup-For: Bug #462460 the sed error is due to the way, UPEX4C_macros are constructed in the script, with bare embedded newlines, that should be escapes instead, patch the preprocess_macro() function like this: --- /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf-debian

Bug#462460: fix

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:31:02PM +0100, hungerburg wrote: - echo -n .ifndef $macroname\n$macroname=$contents\n.endif\n + echo -n .ifndef $macroname\\\n$macroname=$contents\\\n.endif\\\n of course this is due to the fact, that echo is a builtin of dash, which is linked as the posix /bin/sh

Bug#462847: wrong handling of double qoutes

Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-6 Severity: critical the handling of double quotes does not conform to posix spex: quote from http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html The backslash shall retain its special meaning as an escape character (see Escape Character

Bug#440138: update truncates available file

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:15:14AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: reassign 440138 dpkg thanks It has been now for quite some time that this does not happen anymore - maybe it got fixed by some other update. Thank you. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#448359: window list applet hangs

Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.20.0.1-3 Severity: normal hello there :) this is since about two upgrades to gnome-panel in sid/unstable; it took me some time to find out how to get it generally: opening more than nine windows on a single workspace HERE makes the panel hang in a busy loop

Bug#445779: good work

Package: rdesktop Followup-For: Bug #445779 thank you Felix and Laszlo! peter -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8

Bug#445779: gdb trace

Package: rdesktop Version: 1.5.0-2+cvs20071006 Followup-For: Bug #445779 I apt-get-built from source and set gdb on a non-stripped binary: running with DE_AT locale, crash soon: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation

Bug#445779: changing environment language helps a little

Package: rdesktop Version: 1.5.0-2+cvs20071006 Followup-For: Bug #445779 Try this in the terminal: LANG=C rdesktop some.host. you may get the remote display - now hitting enter will kill the session, beware! The last call before the segfault in ltrace output always is for XKeysymToKeycode.

Bug#280629: bugs still there

Package: ttylog Version: 0.1.b-4 Followup-For: Bug #280629 both the CRLF bug and the memory leak are still in the executable. is this package maintained? the fix was submitted three years ago? peter -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#402477: suspect file is false positive

Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.47-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #402477 The suspect file that chkrootkit reports after above patch applied is ~/.kino-history. This is where the kino video editor stores backup information. So its a false positive. As its a directory it will always have two links, if

Bug#440698: how to stop creation of those tmprules files

Package: icedove Version: 2.0.0.4.dfsg1-2 Followup-For: Bug #440698 turning off the trust spamassassin option, that was on on one of my imap accounts, fixed it for me immediately. regards. peter -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#440138: update truncates available file

Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: important recently it happens sometimes, that after an update dpkg stops with the message, that the available file is corrupt. its output looks like this: --- Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: parse error,

Bug#402477: patch to report symlinks in shell history anomaly check

Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.47-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #402477 I saw the same problem as the first reporter. from reportbug tool I do not see the promised attached patch, however. so here is mine; inline below. still curious what the suspicious file might be... right now, nothing gets

Bug#425378: display latest reports

: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE=text ** /home/dub/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 2.10 mode expert ui text realname hungerburg email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#425302: Memory fault (due to missing font)

Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-2 Severity: important Hello, today msttcorefonts was updated; later iceweasel crashed, and would not start again: in a terminal, the message was Memory Fault strace showed me that iceweasel wanted to open /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/T/Tahoma.ttf which was a

Bug#405173: runs as group root

Package: mldonkey-server Version: 2.8.2-1 Severity: important Tags: patch I found, that files the mldonkey server downloaded, belonged to the root group. /proc/pid/status of the mlnet process showed it running with group id 0. That looks suspicious to me. below patch to make it chuid mldonkey on

Bug#393530: Openoffice versioning breaks apt-move

Dear Petr Vandrovec, I just patched cmpversion.awk with your first suggestion. From following apt-move, it seemed to perform ok - for me. regards, peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#394397: packages wrongly named

Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4-1 Severity: normal Please see bug report #393530 against apt-move: it says so there and if the reasoning is right, its actually against openoffice - ooo packages versioning breaks apt-move (2.0.4~rc3-1 comes after 2.0.4-1). apt-move is a convenient way to

Bug#389540: missing dependency pyxml

Package: inkscape Version: 0.44.1-1 Severity: normal Hello, just apt upgraded inkscape - the new filters require pyxml, otherwise (some, all, one of them) fail with a message to install it. I apt installed python-xml, now they work. Sorry if this is the wrong place - reportbug showed this:

Bug#387312: suggest change for showtee test

Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.46a-3 Followup-For: Bug #387312 hello, how about modifying the showtee test like that [ -f /usr/lib/libfl.so -a ! -x /usr/bin/flex ] so the warning gets only emitted when there is no flex executable. I am not up to date on the specifics of this rootkit, so this

Bug#314789: still /usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev remains a stale dir

Package: libglade2-dev Followup-For: Bug #314789 as there is a link to /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ inside that purging of libglade2-dev cannot/does not remove tx -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#359868: missing image in documentation

Package: graphviz Version: 2.8-0.2 Severity: minor in the documentation, file /usr/share/graphviz/doc/html/info/shapes.html there is an image missing /usr/share/graphviz/doc/html/info/none.gif and also /usr/share/graphviz/doc/html/info/sdlshapes.jpg /usr/share/graphviz/doc/html/info/html3.gif

Bug#359870: nop utility memory fault

Package: graphviz Version: 2.8-0.2 Severity: normal when running a graph thru the nop utility in the package, it breaks likte that: Error: libag error -- aginit() was not called Error: libag error -- aginit() was not called Memory fault sounds to me like an upstream bug, still reporting

Bug#359808: dot reports missing layout modules

Package: graphviz Version: 2.8-0.2 Severity: important hello Stephen, when installing graphviz (probably, only when doing so for the first time) dot claims missing layout modules the simple fix is to run dot -c once as root (write permission to /usr/share/graph...) and voilà it works. thank

Bug#358536: x11-common does not install

Package: x11-common Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: grave Tags: experimental x11-common will not install here; dpkg complains: Unpacking replacement x11-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Bug#344573: same here, solved

Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.10-1 Followup-For: Bug #344573 hello, my system showed the same missing alsa rule. I pulled it from the package (thanks mc) - and then it worked and I looked a this bug - and followed the advise of thomas dpkg -P alsa-utils dpkg -i

Bug#345292: me too, unless OGLE_USE_XV=0

Package: ogle-mmx Version: 0.9.2-2.2 Followup-For: Bug #345292 I get the same behaviour, must be sth. with xv $ OGLE_USE_XV=0 ogle dvd.iso works ok, but then it wont scale the video :( kernel is stock linux.org 2.6.15, display driver is nvidia 8178 or so (currently latest) peter -- System

Bug#342355: cannot write on LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S

Package: cdrdao Version: 1:1.2.1+cvs20051109.00-0.0 Severity: important dear mike, cdrdao cannot use the named dvd rw device (LITE ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S w/ firmware rev KS09). the failing command is: cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc cd.cue the cuefile was created with vcdimager this also does not

Bug#336358: conflicts with files in icc-profiles

Package: scribus-icc Version: version from scribus.net Severity: grave the scribus-icc package wants to install a file in /usr/share/color that is also in the package icc-profiles (the one required by lprof) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/scribus-icc_0.1-1_all.deb

Bug#329887: update changes settings

Package: mpd Version: 0.11.5-5.1 Severity: normal On updating mpd, the changes made to the settings file /etc/mpd.conf with a text editor are reverted to the ones, done with the config utility. So after an update, I have to start dpkg-reconfigure mpd. If the install script cannot keep these

Bug#327844: ps2pdf breaks some images

Package: gs-esp Version: 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2 Severity: normal converting from ps (output by inkscape) to pdf breaks some grayscale (only?) images (acrobat says so, gv displays garbage in parts of the image) workaround: use gs-gpl tx, peter -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#323450: cupsys-driver-gutenprint: perl warnings

Package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint Version: 4.3.99+cvs20050813-1 Severity: minor when installing, package prints these warnings to stdout Setting up cupsys-driver-gutenprint (4.3.99+cvs20050813-1) ... Subroutine wprintw redefined at (eval 105) line 1. Subroutine mvprintw redefined at (eval 105)