Bug#1070236: python3-samba: SyntaxError during configuration phase of package on upgrade

2024-05-02 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: python3-samba Version: 2:4.19.6+dfsg-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu Dear Maintainer, During an `apt-get upgrade` this morning, the configuration phase of python3-samba emitted this error due to a missing colon:

Bug#1066830: xfig: Ignores "print only active" checkbox in print dialog

2024-03-13 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.9-2+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu Dear Maintainer, Disabling a layer by unchecking it in the right column, then entering the print dialog and checking "print only active", produces a print that includes the disabled layer. If I instead export to

Bug#1005146: firefox-esr: History list weirdness

2022-02-07 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: firefox-esr Version: 91.5.1esr-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu On about 2022-01-24, I updated firefox esr from 78.11.0esr-1 to 91.5.0esr-1. A new misbehavior appeared. Starting with a freshly launched browser, if I visit four pages in succession without backing up (three

Bug#1004526: gr-osmosdr: Failure due to removal pf pyqwidget in gnuradio 3.9/3.10

2022-01-29 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: gr-osmosdr Version: 0.2.3-5+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu Changes to qtgui in gnuradio 3.9/3.10 break at least one of the osmocom_* tools: ozymandias 1835 # osmocom_fft -a hackrf -v gr-osmosdr 0.2.0.0 (0.2.0) gnuradio 3.10.0.0 built-in source types: file fcd rtl rtl_tcp

Bug#989576: cura crashes at exit due to Qt version mismatch

2021-06-07 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: cura Version: 4.8-4 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu Cura crashes at exit, every time. This doesn't seem to cause operational problems, but it does leave a lot of coredumps lying around. In a github issue discussion, a maintainer indicated that this is because it needs Qt

Bug#989433: tcpdump: -Z doesn't seem to work properly

2021-06-03 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: tcpdump Version: 4.99.0-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@msu.edu According to the manpage, if run as root, tcpdump switches to the tcpdump user. It's supposed to be possible to override this behavior by using the "-Z root" command line option. The following session was executed as

Bug#986296: i7z generates two kernel messages per second while running

2021-04-02 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: i7z Version: 0.27.2+git2013.10.12-g5023138-7 Severity: important While i7z is running, the syslog receives 60 messages every 30 seconds: Apr 2 11:47:58 ozymandias kernel: [319599.175688] msr: Write to unrecognized MSR 0x38f by i7z (pid: 180370). Please report to x...@kernel.org. Apr

Bug#950670: suck: lmove incorrectly fails to recognize listed newsgroup in some messages

2020-02-04 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: suck Version: 4.3.4-1 Severity: normal The lmove helper tool fails to find newsgroups which are listed in the active and newsrc files in some messages. So far, all the examples I've examined have the group which should match listed last, and on a continuation line. The tarball contains

Bug#888529: memcached: Systemd private tmp breaks unix socket access to memcached

2018-01-26 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: memcached Version: 1.5.4-1 Severity: important After applying this version the other night, our application was no longer able to connect to memcached via its unix socket. (Since the systemd private tmp functionality is a damned rootkit, it too a while to diagnose this problem.) The

Bug#858583: trace-summary appears to need a dependency on python-subnettree

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: trace-summary Version: 0.84-1 Severity: normal After installing bro, bro-aux, bro-common and broctl via apt-get and doing basic configuration, the hourly reports contain the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/trace-summary", line 19, in import

Bug#858062: systemd: rc.local should depend on network-online.target

2017-03-17 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u6 Severity: normal The rc.local service currently depends on network.target. In at least some cases, that means that e.g. domain name resolution doesn't work, other servers can't be contacted by commands in rc.local, etc. The rc.local service should

Bug#848270: iceweasel: When iceweasel restarts it forgets the active profile

2016-12-15 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: iceweasel Version: 45.5.0esr-1 Severity: normal If iceweasel is restarted due to e.g. an update, a setting change that requires a restart, or installation of a new plugin, it doesn't start the correct profile. That is, an iceweasel window using my slack profile, when it restarts, may

Bug#695664: OTRS now _also_ expects to OTRS-supplied ckeditor plugins

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Boone
> thanks for your report. Do you have got some more information for me, > e.g. if they are available in ckeditor upstream or anywhere else > outside of otrs now? The installed version of OTRS is 5.0.9+dfsg1-1. Ckeditor is 4.5.7+dfsg-2. The skin is available either from upstream otrs, or from

Bug#695664: OTRS now _also_ expects to OTRS-supplied ckeditor plugins

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Boone
OTRS now supplies two of its own plugins inside the embedded ckeditor kit. These are splitquote and preventimagepaste, and neither is present in the Debian ckeditor package. The reply editor literally can't be used in the shipped state, as the text box is missing. De

Bug#695664: OTRS now expects the bootstrapck skin

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Boone
This seems related, but let me know if you want me to open a separate ticket. I just updated OTRS. The editor now doesn't work because OTRS expects the bootstrapck skin by default, yet it is not included in the Debian ckeditor package or the Debian otrs2 package. De

Bug#806674: wkhtmltopdf ignores /etc/papersize

2015-11-29 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: wkhtmltopdf Version: 0.12.2.4-1 Severity: normal wkhtmltopdf ignores /etc/papersize, and defaults to A4. It should respect the system default paper size. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64

Bug#806263: otrs2: OTRS attempts to phone home to cloud.otrs.com without warning or asking permission

2015-11-25 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: otrs2 Version: 5.0.3-1 Severity: normal OTRS attempts to "phone home" to cloud.otrs.com by default, without giving warning or asking permission. This is a privacy concern. It should not do this. -- System Information: Versions of packages otrs2 depends on: ii adduser

Bug#656340: Don't close

2015-05-04 Thread Dennis Boone
Manual page claims notwithstanding, the program does not behave like gzip. It behaves like tar. Further, it does not have a 7zcat or a command line option equivalent to gzip's -c. As such, removing source files is disastrously non-compliant with the principle of least surprise, as well as being

Bug#781836: systemd: Systemd fails to notice services have died,

2015-04-03 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: systemd Version: 215-5+b1 Severity: important Systemd fails to notice a service has died. Thereafter, when asked to start it, it reports success, but the service still isn't running. It is necessary to manually stop and then start the service. Example follows. In this case, it was

Bug#755103: amavisd-new: Taint errors with $forward_method = 'smtp:*:10025'

2014-10-23 Thread Dennis Boone
Updates applied last night overwrote my local patch, put us back into broken state, and reminded me that this ticket is still open. The patch has been running successfully for some months now. Given that the configuration file is under admin control (right?), I don't _think_ there are any

Bug#751633: Breaks installer

2014-08-27 Thread Dennis Boone
It appears that bzcat is no longer available in the installer environment, as the installer now errors out complaining that acl can't be unpacked due to the absence of bzcat. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#755103: amavisd-new: Taint errors with $forward_method = 'smtp:*:10025'

2014-07-17 Thread Dennis Boone
What do you expect perl/libc to do when you tell it to connect to host *? See, for example, the RELEASE_NOTES file, around line 10800: To make it possible for several hosts to share one content checking daemon, the IP address and/or the port number in $forward_method and $notify_method

Bug#755103: amavisd-new: Taint errors with $forward_method = 'smtp:*:10025'

2014-07-17 Thread Dennis Boone
indeed. There is code for that feature, but it will take time to debug this. FWIW, I notice the netbsd folks are reporting new taint problems with postgrey and perl 5.18 too, so perl probably turned up the taint checking a bit. I've hacked an experimental change (diff below) into my local

Bug#739996: bacula-director-mysql: Bacula chooses youngest, not oldest, available tape

2014-02-24 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: bacula-director-mysql Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-9.1 Severity: normal Our bacula is asking for additional tape this morning to complete a full dump. Full dumps are run weekly. We have a few more tapes than are needed to do three weeks of full dumps. Our retention period is set to 18 days.

Bug#688907: postfix: Postfix ignores strict_8bitmime_body=no

2012-09-26 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: postfix Version: 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 Severity: normal With: strict_8bitmime = no strict_8bitmime_body = no strict_7bit_headers = yes in main.cf, postfix rejects messages with 8bit text in the body. The sample message which follows shows the typical case, which is a nested message/rfc822.

Bug#687567: linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64: Patch to support D-Link DUB-E100 variant

2012-09-13 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.15-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Any chance the patch at http://grinkin.ru/dlink-DUB-E100.html could get rolled in? It appears D-Link is now building a variant of this ethernet dongle with a different USB id (1a02 vs 1a00) and chipset. Thanks, De --

Bug#676972: 5.4.6 issues, also drupal7 weirdness

2012-09-06 Thread Dennis Boone
Additional data points that may or may not be related: For all of the following, the host system is sid i386. I'm having Drupal7 weirdness since applying updates and ending up at (I think) 5.4.4-7 on 8/22. Drupal is at 7.14-1. This setup runs under nginx. The error logs look like this: Sep

Bug#670336: texlive-latex-extra: isodoc.cls requires package isodocsymbols, but the latter does not exist

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2011.20120322-1 Severity: normal isodoc.cls requires package isodocsymbols, but the latter does not exist. This is a regression from the 2009-10 version of the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#664895: Continued issues for forward

2012-04-06 Thread Dennis Boone
I was hoping today's patches would solve what seemed like a related problem: When Replying to or Forwarding some messages, the constructed starter message does not contain any of the body of the source message. I've attached an example. The only log errors I'm seeing are these two: Apr 6

Bug#664016: mon: imap.monitor uses hardcoded username/password, LOGIN auth, does not support SSL

2012-03-14 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: mon Version: 1.2.0-6 Severity: normal Following a recent update (it had been a while), mon started reporting an IMAP server to be down. Investigating, I discovered that the new version of imap.monitor now attempts to log into the IMAP server using the LOGIN protocol and a hardcoded

Bug#664016: patch adding command line options for username / password

2012-03-14 Thread Dennis Boone
I've attached a patch which adds command line options for username and password. De --- /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/imap.monitor 2005-08-20 11:27:56.0 -0400 +++ /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/imap_local.monitor 2012-03-14 18:13:48.0 -0400 @@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ use Getopt::Std; use English;

Bug#664016: Patch for SSL

2012-03-14 Thread Dennis Boone
I've attached a patch which adds SSL support. It depends on the module Net::SSLeay::Handle, so I don't know if it's acceptable to Debian or upstream. De --- imap_local.monitor 2012-03-14 18:01:02.0 -0400 +++ imap_local_ssl.monitor 2012-03-14 19:13:05.0 -0400 @@ -36,8 +36,9

Bug#644211: installation-reports: d-i daily 2011-10-03 kfreebsd-amd64 missing bzcat

2011-10-06 Thread Dennis Boone
You don't say what filesystem you used. zfs? ufs? UFS. Linux file systems don't have any restrictions on label contents and probably the partman code for whatever filesystem you used was copied from them. Yup, that was my guess. I would need to see a log file to say for sure, but the

Bug#644211: installation-reports: d-i daily 2011-10-03 kfreebsd-amd64 missing bzcat

2011-10-03 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: installation-reports: d-i daily 2011-10-03 kfreebsd-amd64 missing bzcat Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: cd Image version: 2011-10-03

Bug#631077: typo in /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs

2011-07-27 Thread Dennis Boone
Note that one result of this bug is long delays in mounting nfs file systems at boot, because the test never lists any interfaces to test for up-ness. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#632919: nanourl install fails under sid

2011-07-06 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: nanourl install fails under sid Package: nanourl Version: 0.1-7.1 Severity: important Tags: sid Installation fails on a fairly generic sid system. The postinst script attempts to use the command 'apache-modconf', which does not exist, so it crashes. Since postinst has previously

Bug#604394: Note to save the next guy

2010-12-12 Thread Dennis Boone
Note that this bug seems to break amanda dumps, since it uses the two options in question. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#602146: simh: h316 emu LDX instruction bug -- ea decoding performs indexing

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: simh: h316 emu LDX instruction bug -- ea decoding performs indexing Package: simh Version: 3.8.1-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream squeeze sid patch On the H316, the opcode for the LDX and STX instructions is the same. The differentiation is made by setting or resetting the do indexing

Bug#590554: mixed grub versions

2010-08-03 Thread Dennis Boone
More specifically, at least in our case, 1.97 grub-probe returns (hd0,msdos1). Legacy grub-install isn't prepared to handle that format. I hacked the update-grub script on my problem-du-jour machine to rewrite msdos1 into 0 (actually, it does the math on the supplied digits), and that seems to

Bug#565865: gscan2pdf: please retain bookmarks when importing pdf

2010-01-18 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: gscan2pdf: please retain bookmarks when importing pdf Package: gscan2pdf Version: 0.9.29-1 Severity: wishlist The PDF import and OCR features are very handy for retrofitting text-under-image into existing PDFs. The catch is a lot of the PDFs I'd like to do have bookmarks. Since

Bug#559220: libsnmp-base: NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB appears to be missing

2009-12-02 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: libsnmp-base Version: 5.4.2.1~dfsg-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB file appears to be missing from the binary package. I see it in the source tree. It's _entirely_ possible that I fail to understand some subtlety here.

Bug#547978: lmodern doesn't fix

2009-10-01 Thread Dennis Boone
In case it helps the next guy, a workaround, suggested by the author of the envlab package: For each problem character, place a line like this in the preamble: \PrerenderUnicode{\o} and enclose each such character in {} where it is used in the body of the document: Gr{\o}nstr We

Bug#547978: lmodern doesn't fix

2009-09-28 Thread Dennis Boone
I tried using lmodern instead of ae, but the same problem still occurs: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lm/ot1lmss.fd) ! Argument of ? has an extra }. inserted text \par l.13 ...\Neue Gr?nstr. 18\\Berlin 10179\\Germany} De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#547978: lmodern doesn't fix

2009-09-28 Thread Dennis Boone
This is also not fixed with TL2009, so it might be useful to forward that to the author of the envlabl package. Since the package was last touched around 1997 I would not expect too much, and better suggest using a different package for label making, or trying to fix it yourself, this

Bug#547978: texlive-latex-extra: envlab + utf-8 result in ! Argument of has an extra }

2009-09-23 Thread Dennis Boone
Seems to be a problem in ae. That was the other possibility, but the same input characters work fine in the newlfm document. Is there a reason why you use the ae package instead of lmodern to get real T1 support? Because we don't know what we're doing? :) Seriously, though, we'll look

Bug#547978: texlive-latex-extra: envlab + utf-8 result in ! Argument of has an extra }

2009-09-22 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: texlive-latex-extra: envlab + utf-8 result in ! Argument of �has an extra } Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2007.dfsg.17-2 Severity: normal We have a system which automatically generates latex input files to generate letters and envelopes. The system operates entirely on utf-8

Bug#536385: Workaround, dainbramage

2009-07-14 Thread Dennis Boone
The new syntax appears to be linux-swap(old) or linux-swap(new). This is brain damaged for two reasons: first, it breaks various systems which use parted in script mode (fai, for example); and second, the syntax is pretty much designed to bite anyone wrapping a command in a shell script at least

Bug#535846: closed by Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org (Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#535846: virtualbox-ose-source: virtualbox module version mismatch)

2009-07-06 Thread Dennis Boone
reopen 535486 thanks No, please read the docs. You are supposed to build your own modules. The -modules package is *not* built by the virtualbox-ose source package. Yes, the virtualbox-ose-source contains the source to build the modules. (virtualbox-ose-source - x86 virtualization solution

Bug#535846: closed by Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org (Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#535846: virtualbox-ose-source: virtualbox module version mismatch)

2009-07-06 Thread Dennis Boone
which is your fault then - you're supposed to have all debian binary packages build by the debian source package named virtualbox-ose at the same version. a simple update of your system will do this. So the package whose apt description SAYS ITS WHAT YOU SHOULD USE for building your kernel

Bug#535846: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#535846: closed by Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org (Re: Bug#535846: virtualbox-ose-source: virtualbox module version mismatch)

2009-07-06 Thread Dennis Boone
close 535846 thanks Yes, this is a normal and temporary problem until the autobuilders have build the srchitecture dependant packages. Please give the system some time to build the package for you before reporting a bug. AFAICT the i386 package has been build but still needs uploading and

Bug#535846: virtualbox-ose-source: virtualbox module version mismatch

2009-07-05 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: virtualbox-ose-source: virtualbox module version mismatch Package: virtualbox-ose-source Version: 3.0.0-dfsg-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** virtualbox-ose package and virtualbox-ose-source package versions do not match: ii virtualbox-ose

Bug#502123: Debian patch breaks paravirtualized guest initrd

2009-05-28 Thread Dennis Boone
Is there any update on this? Something which prevents applying the patch? Thanks, De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#525917: tin incorrectly reports posting is not allowed

2009-04-27 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: tin incorrectly reports posting is not allowed Package: tin Version: 1:1.9.4-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** After authenticating to giganews, tin reports: *** Posting not allowed *** Followup and Write then refuse to allow posting. If I

Bug#525917: tin incorrectly reports posting is not allowed

2009-04-27 Thread Dennis Boone
this is due giganews not announcing reader, mode-reader or post (and till two weeks ago not even which auth methods are available) _before_ autheticating. this has been discussed in news.software.readers and IMHO is a missinterpretation of RFC 3977 on the giganews side, but I have fixed

Bug#511334: debian-installer: S390 boot fails on Flex-ES machine

2009-02-13 Thread Dennis Boone
Also hangs on Hercules. I'm using a D-I daily from about 1/29, though it looks like the kernel was built 1/10. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#502123: xen-hypervisor-unstable-amd64: Post update from 3.2 - 3.3, initrd which previously worked fails

2008-10-13 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: xen-hypervisor-unstable-amd64: Post update from 3.2 - 3.3, initrd which previously worked failes Package: xen-hypervisor-unstable-amd64 Version: 3.3-unstable+hg17961-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** System was running hypervisor 3.2, and domUs were

Bug#496550: bip confuses channels/msgs from different servers

2008-08-25 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: bip confuses channels/msgs from different servers Package: bip Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When opening several different sessions to the same bip instance and the same bip user, but with different connections, bip sometimes confuses

Bug#495576: aufs-modules-2.6-amd64: Please package -xen-amd64 version

2008-08-18 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: aufs-modules-2.6-amd64: Please package -xen-amd64 version Package: aufs-modules-2.6-amd64 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** This seems to be one of the few remaining pieces needed to be able to netboot xen domUs. We're trying to use FAI on both real

Bug#495590: linux-2.6: Please package -xen-amd64 linux-images in sid

2008-08-18 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: linux-2.6: Please package -xen-amd64 linux-images in sid Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Please provide linux-image-*-xen-amd64 packages in sid. It's getting fairly unreasonable to run multiple guests in so little ram. 64 bit CPUs

Bug#490094: mysql-server-5.0: CREATE INDEX falsely reports BLOB/TEXT column 'fn' used in key specification without a key length

2008-07-09 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: mysql-server-5.0: CREATE INDEX falsely reports BLOB/TEXT column 'fn' used in key specification without a key length Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.45-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** CREATE INDEX with a key length is falsely reported to lack

Bug#488146: installation-reports: d-i daily 20080626 amd64 fails to detect bcm5708 gb ethernet on dell 6950 (reinstall)

2008-06-26 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: installation-reports: d-i daily 20080626 amd64 fails to detect bcm5708 gb ethernet on dell 6950 (reinstall) Package: installation-reports Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version:

Bug#488146: installation-reports: d-i daily 20080626 amd64 fails to detect bcm5708 gb ethernet on dell 6950 (reinstall)

2008-06-26 Thread Dennis Boone
Please provide output of 'lspci -knn' instead. If this hardware uses the bnx2 driver, then the problem is missing firmware. See http://bugs.debian.org/487228#10 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:164c] (rev 12)

Bug#485961: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)

2008-06-17 Thread Dennis Boone
After looking at this again I'm fairly certain that this is the real problem, so I've gone ahead and made the necessary changes. These changes I made should become effective in daily built installer images as soon as we switch over to the 2.6.25 kernel. A confirmation that loading

Bug#485961: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)

2008-06-17 Thread Dennis Boone
As a possibly separate issue, I'm now having trouble getting the installer to recognize the hard disk. There are several things I need to try, including moving that drive to SCSI ID 0. False alarm: now that I can get that far, I can see that I seem to have hard disk hardware problems. From

Bug#485961: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)

2008-06-15 Thread Dennis Boone
Hmm. There is also a sun_esp module, which depends on esp_scsi. I wonder if that's the missing link here. I've attached that module. It should be compatible with the current 2.6.24-1 kernel used in the installer. Can you try copying that in place

Bug#485961: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)

2008-06-12 Thread Dennis Boone
Subject: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc) Package: installation-reports Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version:

Bug#485961: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)

2008-06-12 Thread Dennis Boone
Two things that may yet help: - the output of lsmod after hardware detection (to see if anything obvious is not loaded) After modifying the hw-detect list and having the installer try to find a CD-ROM, here's the lsmod: ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ide_generic

Bug#463295: VMware can't be installed

2008-03-21 Thread Dennis Boone
Note that this issue prevents the installation of VMware, which (perfectly reasonably) compares compiler versions used to build the kernel against those installed on the system. IMO, the severity of this bug should be much higher. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#453357: fai-kernels not replaced by debian-kernels

2007-11-28 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: fai-kernels Severity: wishlist Since the stock Debian kernels build NFS support as a module, they are not suitable for nfsroot setups. Thus, they do not completely replace fai-kernels. It would be nice if the fai-kernels package could continue. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#446267: Missing libtic.so.5

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Boone
This morning's update fixed this issue for me, but just in case it helps the next guy identify his problem... In addition to all of the binaries which couldn't run due to the missing library (tic, tset, clear, etc.), the less binary was throwing segfaults. It shouldn't - less

Bug#446267: Missing libtic.so.5

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Boone
This morning's update fixed this issue for me, but just in case it helps the next guy identify his problem... In addition to all of the binaries which couldn't run due to the missing library (tic, tset, clear, etc.), the less binary was throwing segfaults. De -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#441258: traceroute package doesn't include traceroute!

2007-09-07 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: traceroute Version: 2.0.8~rc2-1 Severity: important The traceroute package no longer includes a traceroute command: yagi 102 $ traceroute www.fcc.gov traceroute: Command not found. Tracing the problem, it appears that an invalid alternative is set: yagi 104 $

Bug#410766: grace6: Broken or incomplete installation, again

2007-03-23 Thread Dennis Boone
There's another way to reproduce this, and I just found it the hard way. Something somewhere in the inscrutable defoma mess, or in grace, expects that /usr/lib/X11/fonts is a symlink pointing into /usr/share/fonts. If you have a system that predates this layout, you may well have an actual

Bug#405597: cobc fails with internal compiler error

2007-01-04 Thread Dennis Boone
dumped) === test.cob: === IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. DRBTEST. *AUTHOR. Dennis Boone

Bug#354544: Recovering from this problem

2006-08-20 Thread Dennis Boone
Since apt-get will _not_, contrary to the previous comments on this bug, install mysql-server-4.1 (it insists on choosing the newer 5.0), this bug can be a serious problem. The following ugly hack may help rescue some people: Copy the directory containing the offending database

Bug#320245: mc: Through SSH, gets X_QueryPointer failure when run with -d

2005-07-27 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: mc Version: 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre3-3 Severity: important When logged in through ssh, if I run mc, nearly any action will result in the following error: X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) opcode of failed request: 38 (X_QueryPointer)

Bug#305413: libfreetype6: Many packages which use freetype now segfault

2005-04-19 Thread Dennis Boone
Package: libfreetype6 Version: 2.1.7-2.3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable A number of packages which were previously working now segfault. The ones I've found so far include Mozilla and Firefox downloaded from mozilla.org, the Firefox installer from the same source, gaim,