Bug#888025: gpgsm: UI asks insane, unanswerable trust questions

2023-11-18 Thread Brendon Higgins
I'm using kmail and am getting hit by this. It seems to be someone has sent me an email signed with some weird (internal?) certificate. What can I as a user even do if I *don't* trust the certificate? There is no "No, and please stop asking" option... Best, Brendon

Bug#1053857: cups: CVE-2023-32360 instructions in NEWS have a typo and are unclear

2023-10-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:22:27 -0400 Jonathan Kamens wrote: > In addition, after reading the NEWS entry and reviewing the contents > of my cupsd.conf file, I'm left completely clueless about whether I > actually need to change anything, or if doing so will break cups. I'm in exactly the same boat.

Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users

2022-01-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, I just noticed the symptoms of this on my own system. Does every installation affected by this bug need manual intervention to undo the automatically-enabled user unit, or should the fixed package do that itself? If the former, for those not familiar (myself included), could you suggest

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, Thanks for the pointer to the official site. Looks like the OpenPrinting mirror has been corrected by now. Is it normal that hp-plugin tries to download from OpenPrinting instead of the official site? On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 1:52:43 P.M. EDT Brian Potkin wrote: > You are are not

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-26 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:13:01 A.M. EDT Brian Potkin wrote: > On Mon 25 Oct 2021 at 16:07:36 -0400, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > Perhaps I was unclear in my description. You responded: > > > You want to replace hp-plugin > >

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-25 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, Perhaps I was unclear in my description. You responded: > You want to replace hp-plugin On the contrary, I would think the proposed hplip-plugin-installer package would pre-depend on hplip and essentially just run hp-plugin in its postinst. It's complementary, not a replacement. >

Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package

2021-10-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
Source: hplip Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, As I understand it, licensing restrictions mean that the HP plugin, necessary for some printers/scanners (including the MFC I own), cannot be packaged in the ordinary Debian way. Instead, currently, if the

Bug#960593: hplip: Requires login as root instead of as user

2021-04-11 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:01:06 +0200 Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Note that this bug can be mitigated by adding the two lines below to > ~/.hplip/hplip.conf: > > -*- > [authentication] > su_sudo=sudo > -*- Good tip, thanks for that. Evidently it only works on a per-user basis - i.e., adding those

Bug#981679: kdevelop: Clang plugin breaks when clang package bumps version

2021-02-02 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kdevelop Version: 4:5.6.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, The Clang plugin seems to be responsible for advanced syntax highlighting and probably other features. I just updated packages on my system and noticed these features no longer work. I

Bug#980945: chromium: Text displayed without subpixel antialiasing

2021-01-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: chromium Version: 88.0.4324.96-0.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, On my systems, Chromium draws text with only grayscale antialiasing, and does not use any subpixel (LCD, RGB) antialiasing. I actually found this trying to determine why

Bug#975902: octave-gui always shows "undecodable token: \001b(hex)[?2004h" in the prompt

2020-12-05 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Saturday, December 5, 2020 2:36:35 A.M. EST Rafael Laboissière wrote: > As Michael Miller pointed out, this problem is fixed in version 6.1.0-1 > of the octave package, which is now in experimental. There is an ongoing > transition octave 5 ⇒ 6 (or liboctave 7 ⇒ 8, or octave-abi 53 ⇒ 55) [1].

Bug#975902: octave-gui always shows "undecodable token: \001b(hex)[?2004h" in the prompt

2020-12-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Friday, November 27, 2020 3:06:12 P.M. EST Rafael Laboissière wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix I'm getting bitten by this bug on my workstation. I also tried it from within a fresh user account: same issue there, so it's not a user configuration mistake. From a user perspective, wontfix

Bug#975337: kdevelop: Fails to parse gdb 10 version string, won't debug programs

2020-11-20 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kdevelop Version: 4:5.6.0-3+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, Evidently the version string returned from GDB has changed since the major version switch from 9 to 10, and now kdevelop cannot interpret it. When I try to run a

Bug#973567: kmail cannot create Exchange EWS sending account without kmailtransport-akonadi package installed

2020-11-01 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kmail Version: 4:20.08.2-3 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, My organization recently migrated to Exchange for email service (oh joy). Long story short, a kmail user can't create a EWS sending account until they install kmailtransport-akonadi -

Bug#943585: kwin-x11: kwin (?) causes extreme flickering and tear on login

2019-11-16 Thread Brendon Higgins
are gone! Stefan, I don't suppose you might have something similar going on with your system? Peace, Brendon On Sunday, October 27, 2019 12:06:25 P.M. EST Brendon Higgins wrote: > Hi, > > I've encountered similar behaviour: black/residual/flickering windows > making the d

Bug#943585: kwin-x11: kwin (?) causes extreme flickering and tear on login

2019-10-27 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, I've encountered similar behaviour: black/residual/flickering windows making the desktop unusable after login. I also noticed some minor (white) flickering in SDDM prior to login, although it was still quite usable at that point. I'm running a mixed testing/unstable system, and am also

Bug#575469: texlive-base: dvips fails to include font characters used in eps figure created by PyX

2019-08-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
in Okular when viewing the DVI file. The "Hello, world!" is about a centimeter too far left...) Anyway, this bug can be closed. Best, Brendon On Sunday, August 4, 2019 4:47:58 AM EDT Hilmar Preuße wrote: > Am 26.03.2010 um 04:15 teilte Brendon Higgins mit: > > Hi, > > I

Bug#825383: /usr/share/hplip/doctor.py: hp-doctor will not accept sudo password and there is no root account

2019-01-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Saturday, 5 January 2019 1:49:47 PM EST Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 11:58:53 -0500, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > hp-plugin, too. Do you have your upstream bug number handy? I'd like to > > follow progress (if any). > > It is referenced as a duplicate in the

Bug#825383: /usr/share/hplip/doctor.py: hp-doctor will not accept sudo password and there is no root account

2019-01-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Monday, 29 January 2018 2:46:40 PM EST Brian Potkin wrote: > Without any change to password.py the plugin will install with > > sudo hp-plugin -i > > So what was chrysn referring to? Perhaps my case can serve as an illustrative example: Every time hplip package updates, the next time I go

Bug#901148: severity of 901148 is important

2018-06-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:42:05 +0200 Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > # definitely not RC, sorry. Forgive my ignorance, but I don't see what reasoning drove reducing this bug's severity. https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt says "[A]n issue is release critical if it: [...] * makes unrelated

Bug#845346: fixed in qupzilla 2.2.0~dfsg1-1

2017-10-31 Thread Brendon Higgins
t > Closes: 845346 859674 868789 > Changes: > qupzilla (2.2.0~dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=medium > . > * New upstream release >* changed the build dependency libssl1.0-dev => libssl-dev. > Closes: #859674 >* applied Brendon Higgins' patch. Closes: #845346

Bug#878074: Update virtualbox-guest-* will remove a well running ntp

2017-10-10 Thread Brendon Higgins
With the theme that every change breaks someone's workflow*, my workflow has it that I usually run my Debian partition in a real environment, but sometimes I have to run Windows, so when that's the case I run my Debian partition as as VirtualBox guest. I expect this conflict against ntp will

Bug#845346: qupzilla: QupZilla is built without kwallet support

2017-04-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, This was bugging me as well, so I made some changes to the Debian package source, and the KWallet plugin seems to be working for me now with KDE 5's KWallet. Patch attached. Hope it's helpful. Peace, Brendon diff -Naur qupzilla-2.0.2~dfsg1.orig/debian/control

Bug#849352: gimp: Saving overtop existing BZ2 compressesd XCF files does not truncate them

2016-12-25 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Monday, December 26, 2016 1:03:49 AM EST Ari Pollak wrote: > Is the undo history saved too, which should contain the original layers? I considered that, too, but the undo history is blank (except for the single "Base Image" item) when I load the file. Also, that wouldn't explain bunzip2

Bug#846389: plasma-workspace: To every moment it cracks the plasmashell.

2016-12-16 Thread Brendon Higgins
Does switching to the VT console (e.g. ctrl+alt+f1) and back again (ctrl+alt +f7) unfreeze things? If so, this might be the same bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1399396 I'm experiencing this on two different machines, one using the radeon driver and another using the nouveau

Bug#766426: Dolphin search displays "Invalid protocol" error.

2015-10-15 Thread Brendon Higgins
For the benefit of those, like me, who encounter this problem with a recent install, note that the solution has changed since the transition in Testing to KDE Frameworks 5: don't install baloo4, it won't work with current dolphin. Instead, install baloo-kf5. Maintainers, please consider making

Bug#793026: kwin-x11: kwin is not started

2015-07-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
This doesn't seem to be fixed. I now have three separate machines, all tracking testing with a sprinkle of unstable packages (which includes those for kwin and kde-window-manager), none of which run kwin_x11 at login. They do all have the correct x-window-manager alternative set, and I can

Bug#763281: konqueror: Session management does not work for Konqueror

2014-10-02 Thread Brendon Higgins
I'm also experiencing this, on three different computers. For me, upon login, the same number of konqueror windows will appear as there was when I logged out, but they are all blank/show the default page. Problem occurs whether using KHTML or WebKit renderer, so that doesn't seem to be it...

Bug#743297: plasma-widgets-addons: fuzzy clock should say 'X til T' instead of 'X to T'

2014-04-29 Thread Brendon Higgins
This suggestion seems to be very subjective and/or region specific. E.g. I've personally only ever heard it as X to Y, and never X til Y. If it were til I would be at least as justified in filing a similar bug to change it to to - if not more justified, as I suspect to is actually more common

Bug#727555: python-qt4: Crashes plasma-desktop on startup

2013-10-26 Thread Brendon Higgins
I've been running into this crash, also. I'm currently working around it by uninstalling plasma-scriptengine-python, but of course that breaks python- based plasma widgets. In my case, I don't use veromix, but I have a small python plasma widget I wrote myself. So with

Bug#577854: ipe: Editing circular arcs can lead to unrestrained memory allocation, eventual crash

2011-08-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
Steve M. Robbins wrote (August 30, 2011): Before I report this again, could you kindly verify it still happens with the current ipe in testing/unstable (7.0.14)? I have just tried, and failed, to reproduce the issue. Hi Steve, It does seem that the behavior in the current version has

Bug#597676: Export options vanish every other time

2010-10-05 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, (Original reporter here.) I just tried with a clean ~/.lyx, and things seem to behave themselves. So there's something in my .lyx that lyx does not like. It turns out that it's certainly my preferences file. I narrowed it down after comparing the two folders recursively and moving things

Bug#597676: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#597676: Bug#597676: [lyx] Export to PDF requires texlive-fonts-extra package

2010-09-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
. \default_papersize a4 \serverpipe /home/brendon/.lyx/lyxpipe \user_name Brendon Higgins \user_email \preview on # # SCREEN FONTS SECTION # \screen_font_roman Times New Roman \screen_font_sans Arial \screen_font_typewriter Courier New # # COLOR SECTION

Bug#597676: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#597676: [lyx] Export to PDF requires texlive-fonts-extra package

2010-09-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
Sven Hoexter wrote (Wednesday 22 September 2010): On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:04:24PM +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: Hi. I noticed that you cannot export to PDF file from the File-Export menu unless texlive-fonts-extra is installed. Otherwise, there is no PDF output option listed. You don't

Bug#597676: [lyx] Export to PDF requires texlive-fonts-extra package

2010-09-21 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: lyx Version: 1.6.7-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi. I noticed that you cannot export to PDF file from the File-Export menu unless texlive-fonts-extra is installed. Otherwise, there is no PDF output option listed. You don't need to be writing any

Bug#586554: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 in Debian testing when upgrading from 0.96 to 0.97

2010-07-05 Thread Brendon Higgins
Alesh Slovak wrote (Mon, 5 Jul 2010): On 07/05/2010 09:22 AM, Brendon Higgins wrote: The test -e command is protected by an , so a failure will not trigger an early exit and all files will be correctly removed. I guess you're right. But I tried the script with exit 0 added at the last

Bug#586554: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 in Debian testing when upgrading from 0.96 to 0.97

2010-07-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
Alesh Slovak wrote (2010-07-05 09:18): On 07/03/2010 10:24 AM, Brendon Higgins wrote: Hi Alesh, Alesh Slovak wrote (Thursday 01 July 2010): If the very last file that iscan's hook script checks for in DESTDIR doesn't exist, the `test -e` call fails and the script ends with a failed

Bug#586554: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 in Debian testing when upgrading from 0.96 to 0.97

2010-07-02 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Alesh, Alesh Slovak wrote (Thursday 01 July 2010): If the very last file that iscan's hook script checks for in DESTDIR doesn't exist, the `test -e` call fails and the script ends with a failed status even though nothing really went wrong. A simple `exit 0` on the last line fixes this.

Bug#572837: continued anyway after pressing ESC at a prompt

2010-05-01 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: dar Severity: normal Hi again, This bug is really only half fixed. The wording of the message is a bit clearer now, though it could be improved if the answer was Yes | No, for example, rather than OK | Cancel. Cancel implies cancelling an operation in progress (i.e. the program

Bug#577854: ipe: Editing circular arcs can lead to unrestrained memory allocation, eventual crash

2010-04-15 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: ipe Version: 7.0.10-2 Severity: normal Hi, I'd recommend disabling swap before you try this. Steps to reproduce: 1. Enable snapping to the grid. 2. Create a circular arc using the centre and two points tool. Make it so the two points are spaced along a vertical line. 3. Edit the arc

Bug#575469: texlive-base: dvips fails to include font characters used in eps figure created by PyX

2010-03-25 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: texlive-base Version: 2009-8 Severity: normal The ghost of bug #266718 seems to be haunting me. I can't reproduce it using the examples given in that original bug, but I am getting behaviour that sounds basically identical if I generate EPS figures using PyX. The figures themselves look

Bug#572837: dar_xform continued anyway after pressing ESC at a prompt

2010-03-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: dar Version: 2.3.9-2 Severity: normal Hi, I had a dar archive example.1.dar, and moved it to example.large.1.dar. I wanted to use dar_xform to split the archive across multiple files (to fit on an optical medium). When I tried to use dar_xform (as in dar_xform -S 850M -s 1G

Bug#570169: network-manager-gnome: nm-applet insists on re-enabling wireless networking when resuming from suspend to ram

2010-02-16 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: network-manager-gnome Version: 0.7.999-2 Severity: normal Hi, Before suspending my laptop to ram I manually disable wireless networking using the nm-applet RMB menu. Upon resuming the machine later, nm-applet immediately re-enables wireless networking and proceeds to connect to the

Bug#551833: psmisc: pstree segfaults when given long options it doesn't recognise (e.g. --help)

2009-10-20 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: psmisc Version: 22.8-1 Severity: normal Hi, I ran pstree --help and was greeted with a friendly segfault. Turns out this happens for any long option that pstree doesn't recognise. (I'd suggest it ought to recognise --help, but anyway...) I've had a poke around the code, and is seems

Bug#550022: wxmaxima: Should recommend or suggest ttf-jsmath

2009-10-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: wxmaxima Version: 0.8.3a-1 Severity: wishlist It seems this version of wxmaxima does something different with fonts. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/forums/forum/435775/topic/3381999 and http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/forums/forum/435775/topic/3363783 Once I

Bug#546271: phonon-backend-xine: Filenames with '#' won't play

2009-09-11 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: phonon-backend-xine Version: 4:4.3.1-4 Severity: normal Seems * Backport a bugfix from upstream to fix encoding issues with filenames. didn't quite catch everything, as I'm experiencing this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194889 I would've expected this was fixed in KDE

Bug#533616: occasional ext3 filesystem corruption

2009-08-12 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Twice in the space of a week I've seen behaviour identical to what's described in this bug report. I'm using 2.6.30. It might be triggered by sleeping the machine (a MacBook Pro, 2nd gen). No logs as it all happens with root (re)mounted read-only, and I'm afraid to test it much further

Bug#527121: printer-applet: error message client-error-bad-request pops up on every startup

2009-05-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: printer-applet Version: 4:4.2.2-1 Severity: normal I'm seeing the same problem every time I log in, only in English. :-) I'm using a UTF-8 locale, AFAICT, so I don't think it's that. I have seen some strange lines in /var/log/cups/error_log: E [30/May/2009:21:11:41 +1000] Bad request

Bug#524961: bash-completion: Tab completion of svk command line forgets to escape filenames

2009-04-21 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.0-2 Severity: normal Hi, Try this: touch filename with spaces svk add filenTAB The completion I get is svk add filename with spaces. Note that the completion does not escape the spaces in the filename. When you try to run the command, svk looks for the

Bug#521528: libsane-extras: Please don't remove epkowa.conf if iscan package is installed

2009-03-28 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: libsane-extras Version: 1.0.19.15 Severity: minor Here I am trying to figure out why my scanner doesn't work *again*, and I discover that the recent upgrade of libsane-extras probably (from what I can ascertain from the changelog) removed the epkowa.conf config file that iscan needed to

Bug#521528: libsane-extras: Please don't remove epkowa.conf if iscan package is installed

2009-03-28 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Julien BLACHE wrote (Saturday 28 March 2009): Brendon Higgins blhigg...@gmail.com wrote: It's like rubbing salt in the wound. Could you *please* check that another package, i.e. iscan, doesn't already claim epkowa.conf before removing that file, or at least check that iscan isn't

Bug#516537: wacom: X does not automatically translate tablet coords to screen coords in core events

2009-02-21 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.8.1.6-1 Severity: normal File: wacom Hi, This report is a result of an investigation into weird tablet behaviour using Krita and other Qt tablet software: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184485 I'm running most packages from testing, except

Bug#512362: runvdr crash handler does not handle the module dependency tree

2009-01-19 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: vdr Version: 1.6.0-8 Severity: normal I came across this while debugging a separate problem (which was being triggered by this) with my dvb modules. The runvdr script attempts to reload the dvb modules in the event that vdr crashes. It does this by using lsmod to determine which

Bug#507956: findimagedupes: Use of glob means folders with whitespace in their names are dropped

2008-12-05 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: findimagedupes Version: 2.11-2 Severity: normal Hi there, Line 365 of findimagedupes perl script makes a call to glob that fails when the path contains whitespace. find -type d -print0 | findimagedupes -0 - will ignore files in those directories because of this. The immediate solution

Bug#497482: okular: Printing a PDF causes the file to be overwritten with a PS conversion, nothing printed

2008-11-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Pino, Pino Toscano wrote (2008-11-07 7:12 am): Confirming that the cause was the Qt 4.4.0 bug. the behaviour is fixed in 4.4.1. (Though now my printer seems to complain about syntax errors in what Okular sends it. I may get to searching for/submitting that bug at some stage.) Now

Bug#501006: kdelibs5 requires libpcre3 = 7.8

2008-10-03 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kdelibs5 Version: 4:4.1.2-1 Severity: normal Hi, Currently kdelibs5 in experimental requires libpcre3 = 7.4, but this is insufficient. One symptom I discovered is that in Konqueror JavaScript /xyzzy/ type regexps all fail with an uninformative error as soon as they are declared. This

Bug#494162: Reproducible with nVidia MCP55 HDA, mplayer + stress

2008-09-26 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, I find this problem completely reproducible by running the stress program (from the stress package). Do this: (1) Open a terminal, run mplayer SOMEaudioFILE.ogg Audio output is typically okay at this point (at least for me). (2) Open another terminal, run stress -c [noOFtotalCPUcores] In

Bug#497482: okular: Printing a PDF causes the file to be overwritten with a PS conversion, nothing printed

2008-09-05 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi again, Confirming that the cause was the Qt 4.4.0 bug. the behaviour is fixed in 4.4.1. (Though now my printer seems to complain about syntax errors in what Okular sends it. I may get to searching for/submitting that bug at some stage.) Peace, Brendon Brendon Higgins wrote (2008-09-03 10

Bug#497482: okular: Printing a PDF causes the file to be overwritten with a PS conversion, nothing printed

2008-09-02 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Pino Toscano wrote (2008-09-03 1:00 am): Trying to print a PDF document fails. There is no error message, but after clicking Print, Okular spends a bit of time doing some processing, after which no job is sent to the print queue. If you open the print dialog and select your printer,

Bug#494162: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Sound stuttering in 2.6.26 ruins desktop experience

2008-09-01 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-4 Followup-For: Bug #494162 Ah, so this is why Amarok skips and stutters whenever I switch tabs (or do anything, really), today. Sure enough, in 2.6.25 all is fine. Any chance more attention (higher severity?) might be put on this? It's

Bug#497482: okular: Printing a PDF causes the file to be overwritten with a PS conversion, nothing printed

2008-09-01 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: okular Version: 0.7-2 Severity: normal FWIW, I'm running Okular on a primarily KDE 3 host, so this might be some kind of incompatibility thing. I'm not sure. Trying to print a PDF document fails. There is no error message, but after clicking Print, Okular spends a bit of time doing

Bug#477665: aptitude: --download-only (or -d) not honoured in interactive mode

2008-07-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #477665 I just installed KDE 4 prematurely because of this bug. I did not expect that running 'sudo aptitude -d install -t experimental kde4-minimal', then pressing 'e' to massage some package versions manually in interactive mode, would

Bug#491983: koffice: experimental packages attempt to overwrite files in old *-data packages

2008-07-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: koffice Version: 1:1.9.96.0~that.is.really.1.9.95.9-1 Severity: normal In the process of installing KDE 4 stuff, I got this: Preparing to replace kivio 1:1.6.3-7 (using .../kivio_1%3a1.9.96.0~that.is.really.1.9.95.9-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kivio ... dpkg: error

Bug#489987: kpdf: KPDF refuses to open files that do not have the correct extension

2008-07-08 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kpdf Version: 4:3.5.9-1+b2 Severity: minor Take any pdf file that already works in KPDF. Rename it to change its extension from .pdf to something else; for example, file.pdf.bak works. Start KPDF and attempt to open the file (the file dialog won't list it, so you have to force it a bit

Bug#475170: #475170: Unuseable on amd64 - Intel chipset vs AMD chipset?

2008-06-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: axiom Version: 20050901-10 Followup-For: Bug #475170 Hi, I tried to run axiom and ran into this bug. I've tested it on three machines. The first is an Intel Core2 Duo. The other two are AMD Athlon64s. I found that on the Athlons Axiom starts without any problems, but on the Core2 it

Bug#480657: python-opengl: Using glutDisplayFunc and glutKeyboardFunc causes Segmentation Fault in glutMainLoop

2008-06-01 Thread Brendon Higgins
Good news. After updating the python2.5 package to 2.5.2-6 I can no longer reproduce this problem. It seems something between 2.5.2-1 and 2.5.2-6 fixed whatever was causing this. Peace, Brendon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#480657: python-opengl: Using glutDisplayFunc and glutKeyboardFunc causes Segmentation Fault in glutMainLoop

2008-05-21 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Some more information I've discovered about this bug: 1) A test on a friend's 32-bit PowerPC machine didn't reproduce it. (Maybe a 64-bit issue?) 2) The following equivalent C code does not reproduce it: #include GL/glut.h #include stdio.h void disFunc() { printf(disFunc\n);

Bug#481994: Uninstalled, purged usplash still displays splash on boot

2008-05-20 Thread Brendon Higgins
maximilian attems wrote (2008-05-20 8:59 pm): My uneducated guess is that postinst might have to trigger a rebuild of the initrd image. it does it: [snip] So it does. FYI, I have a clearer idea what was actually happening: Even though linux 2.6.25-2 was installed, I was running 2.6.25-1

Bug#481994: Uninstalled, purged usplash still displays splash on boot

2008-05-19 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: usplash Version: 0.5.19-1 Severity: normal I purged usplash (due to bugs #468735 and #478296), but on next boot the same splash screen came up during the initial boot stage, before going back to text mode to complete the boot process (start services, etc). My uneducated guess is

Bug#481291: kate: Spellcheck replacing words at the static word wrap limit with longer corrections causes havoc

2008-05-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kate Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 Severity: normal To reproduce: Start kate. Turn on static word wrapping at 80 columns. Duplicate the following line several times (5 or so is sufficient): test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test a tes That line should

Bug#480657: python-opengl: Using glutDisplayFunc and glutKeyboardFunc causes Segmentation Fault in glutMainLoop

2008-05-11 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: python-opengl Version: 3.0.0~b1-2 Severity: normal When the default python version in testing changed to 2.5 I found a program I had written failed with segmentation faults. I've narrowed down the bug. The following is the smallest reasonable piece of code which will cause the

Bug#479520: qtiplot failure to start is caused by missing dependencies

2008-05-08 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: qtiplot Version: 0.9.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #479520 Hi there, I have also encountered the problem with qtiplot not starting since libqt4-gui was updated. You can fix this problem by installing the libqt4-assistant package. (I also had to install the libqt4-opengl package, same reason.)

Bug#476135: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: strange screen size calculations

2008-04-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd Version: 1.2.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #476135 Hi, I noticed a similar weird DPI result in my Xorg.0.log, and I suspect the Virtual setting (Framebuffer size). My guess is that the driver is assuming the entire framebuffer is viewable on screen, which is not

Bug#476198: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: Cannot turn on a secondary screen without restarting X (xrandr-related problem)

2008-04-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: normal Hi, Not sure if this is a driver issue or a problem with xrandr itself. Please help point it in the right direction. In order to utilise a secondary screen I find that it must be plugged in at the point that the X server

Bug#457903: linux-uvc-source: Makefile should really not call depmod

2008-03-13 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: linux-uvc-source Version: 0.1.0.svn193-1 Followup-For: Bug #457903 Makefile is still calling depmod, even in 0.1.0.svn193-1. If it really must call depmod, could it at least be an absolute path /sbin/depmod instead? Normal users don't have this in PATH, so despite fakeroot, m-a fails

Bug#466174: inkscape: Inkscape blocks when launching konqueror to view the manual and other help items

2008-02-16 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: inkscape Version: 0.45.1-1 Severity: normal Hi. My default web browser is set to Konqueror. When I go to the help menu in Inkscape and select, for example, Manual, Inkscape launches Konqueror to display the manual. If I then minimise Konqueror and go back to Inkscape, Inkscape has

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-15 Thread Brendon Higgins
Luke, I'm sorry, but I believe you don't fully appreciate what the issue actually is. That is the only explanation I've come up with that might account for the amount of irrelevant verbiage in your last email (assuming you're not a troll - big assumption, considering the rather grand claims

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, It doesn't appear to be the case that the cron script is actually doing any updating by default. I think this bug boils down to this: The apt cron script conflicts with an already running apt (or aptitude) process. If the user is running apt, this situation is not at all an error, the

Bug#454568: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Bug#454568: xserver-xorg-input-wacom + ksmserver = X crash

2007-12-07 Thread Brendon Higgins
forwarded it there for comment. Cheers, Ron On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:48:01PM +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.7.9.3-2 Severity: normal (Wasn't sure whether to report here or to KDE devs. Here goes...) I've got a weird problem. If I

Bug#454570: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Bug#454570: xserver-xorg-input-wacom: KeepShape doesn't work properly

2007-12-07 Thread Brendon Higgins
, Brendon Higgins wrote: Subject: xserver-xorg-input-wacom: KeepShape doesn't work properly Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.7.9.3-2 Severity: normal I have a largish 16:10 display and a smallish Graphire4 (4x5). I used to use the KeepShape option, however

Bug#454568: xserver-xorg-input-wacom + ksmserver = X crash

2007-12-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.7.9.3-2 Severity: normal (Wasn't sure whether to report here or to KDE devs. Here goes...) I've got a weird problem. If I have the wacom drivers enabled in Xorg.conf and login to KDE (4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-3) as normal the X server will crash near the end

Bug#454570: xserver-xorg-input-wacom: KeepShape doesn't work properly

2007-12-06 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.7.9.3-2 Severity: normal Subject: xserver-xorg-input-wacom: KeepShape doesn't work properly Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom Version: 0.7.9.3-2 Severity: normal I have a largish 16:10 display and a smallish Graphire4 (4x5). I used to use the

Bug#444489: dosage_1.5.8-1.diff.gz reverts the .orig.tar.gz to 1.5.7!

2007-11-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: dosage Version: 1.5.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #89 Hi. I found the reason that the 1.5.8 package appears to contain 1.5.7 code. dosage_1.5.8.orig.tar.gz is indeed 1.5.8, however dosage_1.5.8-1.diff.gz reverts the entire hierarchy back to 1.5.7. That diff is pretty seriously broken.

Bug#444489: Package version 1.5.8-1 is still dosage version 1.5.7

2007-09-28 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: dosage Version: 1.5.8-1 Severity: normal Hi, It looks like the version uploaded as 1.5.8-1 is actually dosage version 1.5.7. You can tell by the number in /usr/share/pycentral/dosage/site-packages/dosage/version.py, and also comparing the comics modules to 1.5.8 from upstream (for

Bug#377447: appletouch trackpad is ignored (internal USB, 5 mo 14 iBook)

2007-08-07 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi there, I'm still having this problem but I noticed something weird today. I haven't had a chance to look into it in much detail yet, and won't for at least another few days, but I thought it'd be worth mentioning now. Occasionally when I put the machine to sleep, then open it up again, the

Bug#400481: mol-source doesn't build modules on current kernels

2007-07-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, mol-source *still* doesn't build on recent kernels. 2.6.21 has entered testing now, necessitating recompilation of mol modules, but also making mol-source unusable. This is hardly acceptable considering a patch has been available for 8 months. Can someone please apply the patch? Peace,

Bug#414243: arts: First start resets Treble/Bass settings of the sound card

2007-03-10 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: arts Version: 1.5.5-1 Severity: normal When I switch my machine on for the first time and login to KDE, as soon as arts starts it resets Treble and Bass settings to the default 50/50, no matter what I've set them to before. This only happens the first time arts is started on the

Bug#410373: kde-style-polyester: Yellow window buttons

2007-02-10 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: kde-style-polyester Version: 1.0~beta1-1 Severity: normal The buttons on the top of windows using the polyester style are bright yellow, except for the icons on the buttons themselves. Example attached. It happens on all windows. Changing the button style in the polyester settings

Bug#377447: closed by Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#377447: fixed in pbbuttonsd 0.7.9-1)

2006-11-17 Thread Brendon Higgins
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote (Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:03 am): This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #377447: appletouch trackpad is ignored (internal USB, 5 mo 14 iBook), which was filed against the pbbuttonsd package. It has been closed by Frank Lichtenheld

Bug#377447: closed by Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#377447: fixed in pbbuttonsd 0.7.9-1)

2006-10-27 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote (Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:03 am): This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #377447: appletouch trackpad is ignored (internal USB, 5 mo 14 iBook), which was filed against the pbbuttonsd package. It has been closed by Frank

Bug#377447: appletouch trackpad is ignored (internal USB, 5 mo 14 iBook)

2006-07-31 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Matthias, On 31/07/06, Matthias Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use the XOrg with the synaptics trackpad driver? Yes, I do. This driver has a known problem. It opens the event device for the trackpad exclusively and block it for any other application. In this case pbbuttonsd can't

Bug#380705: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: opens event device exclusively, blocking other apps

2006-07-31 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.6-1 Severity: normal This presented itself to me originally as a problem with pbbuttonsd (see bug #377447), as that daemon seemed to not notice when I moved the trackpad, so it would suspend the machine even while I was using it. The maintainer

Bug#377751: aptitude crashes when retrieving packages from multiple DVDs

2006-07-19 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #377751 I've also seen this, on both of my own machines: a powerpc (iBook) and an amd64. If for example I install libgamin-dev, which lives on DVD3, it depends on libgamin0 and gamin, which live on DVD1. Reading the first DVD and install

Bug#377447: appletouch trackpad is ignored (internal USB, 5 mo 14 iBook)

2006-07-08 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: pbbuttonsd Version: 0.7.5-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** This sounds a lot like problems people have had in the past with external mouses. Moving the pointer with the internal trackpad does nothing to stop pbbuttonsd darkening the screen and

Bug#311802: #311802: nvidia-kernel-source: had to run depmod manually after reboot

2006-07-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.8762-2 Followup-For: Bug #311802 Closely related to this is the fact that newer kernels no longer run depmod on boot. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg00535.html;. nvidia-kernel packages should run depmod in postinst. Attached is a

Bug#373646: compiling em8300 with module-assistant would be nice

2006-06-18 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Lance, What you have there looks like problems em8300 0.15.1 has with recent kernels, rather than a problem with module-assistant. I think 0.15.1 has problems with anything beyond 2.6.13 linux. (Which is why I'd like to have it updated ASAP. Unfortunately, I'm not a Debian dev, so I'm

Bug#373646: compiling em8300 with module-assistant would be nice

2006-06-16 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi! I'm helping the maintainer Nicolas update of this package. (I ought to prod him about it again, actually ;-) ) Lance Simmons wrote (Thursday 15 June 2006 5:14 am): I've noticed that more and more modules can be compiled using module-assistant. It would be great if em8300 were one of them.

Bug#373141: pinball: 0.3.1-5+b1 uninstallable

2006-06-12 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: pinball Version: 0.3.1-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable pinball has a source-versioned depends on pinball data. Thus, pinball 0.3.1-5+b1 depends on pinball-data 0.3.1-5+b1, which doesn't exist (wasn't rebuilt along with pinball, apparently), thus rendering

Bug#367447: kpdf: Crashes on Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology PDFs

2006-05-26 Thread Brendon Higgins
Howdy, Something interesting happened. I was reading another unrelated PDF in KPDF, then tried loading one of my bad PDFs in KPDF after forgetting that it crashes. KPDF didn't crash. The bad PDF worked fine. The contents list seems to work, though when clicking on a topic not in the current

Bug#338537: #338537: mffm-fftw: file conflict between mffm-fftw1c2 and mffm-fftw1

2006-05-20 Thread Brendon Higgins
Package: mffm-fftw1c2 Version: 1.6-1 Followup-For: Bug #338537 I just upgraded wsola, which now depends on mffm-fftw1c2. Breakage ensues. The right way to fix it is probably the same way the other c2 packages fixed this sort of thing; with a Conflict: mffm-fftw1 in mffm-fftw1c2 control.

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