Bug#774329: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#774329: libvirt-bin: Doesn't gracefully shutdown guests on upgrade restart

2015-02-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> >> >> On 01/01/15 05:11 AM, Guido Günther wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:27:03PM -0500, Daniel Dickinson >>> wrote: >>>> Package: libvirt-bin Version: 1.2.9-7 Seve

Bug#774329: Duplicate and kernel bug

2015-02-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe, despite this difference in effect that this is a duplicate of #775612, which is also a permissions issue. The thing is that the issues are intermittent and therefore either the permissions are getting changed (unlikely as I have no processe

Bug#776680: shorewall: dpkg-reconfigure shorewall gets the firewall to start

2015-01-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: shorewall Version: 4.6.4.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #776680 The issue appears to be with debconf settings as dpkg-reconfigure shorewall and then /etc/init.d/shorewall restart works even dpkg-reconfigure doesn't actually do any prompts. Perhaps it is because shorewall packaging labels the co

Bug#776680: shorewall: invalid_config is not true

2015-01-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: shorewall Version: 4.6.4.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #776680 Despite the debconf setting of invalid_config the config is in fact correct as evidenced by the fact that the shorewall compile and shorewall safe-restart commands compile and restart the firewall with no complaints or issues. -- S

Bug#776680: shorewall: Fails to start/restart on jessie; systemctl complains no shorewall.service

2015-01-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: shorewall Version: 4.6.4.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable A firewall that is never applied is useless hence a bug that stops shorewall from being applied under the default init system (systemd) is RC. In this case the issue is that /etc/init.d/shorewall restar

Bug#775612: amanda-server: Intermittently occurring

2015-01-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: amanda-server Version: 1:3.3.6-4 Followup-For: Bug #775612 This bug is rather strange as I have rerun using the exact commandline and now the command succeeds with no error message. I have been getting these messages in some but not all of my emails from amanda. There is something dis

Bug#775612: amanda-server: Depends on Tie/StdHash.pm which exists on NO package in debian

2015-01-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: amanda-server Version: 1:3.3.6-4 Severity: serious Justification: depends on software not in debian Seen when attemping to do amrmtape, but also occurs when doing a flush: an't locate Tie/StdHash.pm: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.20/base.pm line 97. ...propagated at /

Bug#774329: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#774329: libvirt-bin: Doesn't gracefully shutdown guests on upgrade restart

2015-01-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 01/01/15 05:11 AM, Guido Günther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:27:03PM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> Package: libvirt-bin >> Version: 1.2.9-7 >> Severity: grave >> Justification: causes non-serious data loss >> >> If libvirt-bin has an upgr

Bug#774329: libvirt-bin: Doesn't gracefully shutdown guests on upgrade restart

2014-12-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: libvirt-bin Version: 1.2.9-7 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss If libvirt-bin has an upgrade requiring a restart it restarts and kills currently active guests without first gracefully shutting them down. This can result in data loss due to damaged filesystems

Bug#773750: nut-client: Fails to install

2014-12-22 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: nut-client Version: 2.7.2-1+b3 Severity: serious Justification: Fails to install due to failing to start The package fails to configure on install due to ups-monitor service failing to start due to lack of configuration and failed to gracefully handle case of no valid configuration. This

Bug#756224: libnss-myhostname: Causes apps that need FQDN to fail

2014-07-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Yeah but the guy claiming FQDN broken is the same Lennart who seems hell bent on destroying every *nix idiom. I wouldn't go by his opinion. Regards, Daniel On 28/07/14 09:40 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Montag, den 28.07.2014, 09:21 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dicki

Bug#756224: libnss-myhostname: Causes apps that need FQDN to fail

2014-07-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 27/07/14 02:25 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2014, 13:53 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson: >> Package: libnss-myhostname >> Version: 0.3-6 >> Severity: serious >> >> Takes over names resolution of local host's na

Bug#756224: libnss-myhostname: Causes apps that need FQDN to fail

2014-07-27 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: libnss-myhostname Version: 0.3-6 Severity: serious Takes over names resolution of local host's name and causes apps that need FQDN instead of just hostname to fail (becuase myhostname fails to include a domain). This is now pulled in by Gnome which means it's bad behviour will break a l

Bug#751940: mozilla-plugin-vlc: Iceweasel/firefox reports vlc plugin is insecurity and should be disabled

2014-06-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: mozilla-plugin-vlc Version: wheezy Severity: serious Tags: security Justification: security Wheezy's vlc mozilla plugin is reported by Iceweasel/firefox as having known vulnerabilities that render it unsafe to use. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#742771: dovecot-sieve: Sieve plugin dir missing causes sieve to fail to start

2014-03-27 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: dovecot-sieve Version: 1:2.2.9-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable dovecot-sieve is unusable because the /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve is missing in jessie. sievec(root): Fatal: opendir(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve) failed: No such file or directory -- Packag

Bug#742770: dovecot-managesieved: Dovecot fails to start with managesieved installed

2014-03-27 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: dovecot-managesieved Version: 1:2.2.9-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable dovecot-managesieved is unusable because dovecot fails to start when dovecot-managesieved is installed. and yes, dovecot-sieve is installed and latest version in jessie (rest of dovecot is a

Bug#738701: xul-ext-firebug: According to 'compatibility list' Firefox 24 is only compatible with Firebug 1.12

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xul-ext-firebug Version: 1.9.2~b2-1 Followup-For: Bug #738701 I have observed the same behavior and thought I would add that I noticed that in the compatibility table shown when you click on the 'More' for firebug in 'Extensions' that Firefox 24 (i.e. the version wheezy's Iceweasel (v24)

Bug#717301: frontaccounting: Fails to install interactively (and according to another bug non-interactively as well)

2013-07-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: frontaccounting Version: 2.2.10-3.1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to install Package fails to install interactively if you do not skip database creation. This combined with the previously reported bug that the package fails to install non-interactively (which for some bizarre

Bug#701952: devscripts-el: Also devscript-el (bad heredoc)

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: devscripts-el Version: 35.2+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #701952 Heredoc problem is also present in devscripts-el and using echo makes it work. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-a

Bug#701952: dpkg-dev-el: Also dpkg-dev-el fails for same reason (bad heredoc)

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: dpkg-dev-el Version: 35.2+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #701952 dpkg-dev-el exhibits the same problem (heredoc fails), with same solution (replace heredoc with echo and quoting any quotes). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architec

Bug#701952: debian-el: fails to install due to heredoc failing; lazy evaluation and parentheses the culprit?

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: debian-el Version: 35.2+nmu1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to install Like elserv debian-el fails to install, complaining that cat: -: No such file. Also like elserv, replacing the heredoc (cat << EOF >path.el (setq ... ) EOF) with echo " (setq ... ) " >path.el works. -- Sys

Bug#701949: elserv: heredocs are lazy evaluated which means parantheses are a problem

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: elserv Version: 0.4.0+0.20011203cvs-17.1 Followup-For: Bug #701949 Upon googling (well really duckduckgo) I discovered that heredocs (e.g the cat << EOF >path.el) are lazy evaluated in bash, which I think means the parentheses get evaluated before the cat, which screws up the heredoc (e

Bug#701949: elserv: fails to install with emacs33; cat -: No such file or directory during byte-compilation

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: elserv Version: 0.4.0+0.20011203cvs-17.1 Severity: serious Justification: Fails to install elserv's install script is broken: Install elserv for emacs Install elserv for emacs23 install/elserv: Handling emacs23, logged in /tmp/elc_xMv5B7.log <-- which file is empty cat: -: No such fil

Bug#701945: ccrypt fails to install with emac23 due to /etc/emacs23/site-start.d does not exist

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: ccrypt Version: 1.9-4 Severity: serious Justification: Fails to install due to wrong path /etc/emacs/site-start.d exists /etc/emacs23/stie-start.d does not. This breaks ccrypt's install script and ccrypt fails to install. emacs23 is successfully installed (after removed; it could not i

Bug#683705: Looks like SATA motherboard issue

2012-08-02 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi, I've done some checking and the problems so far have all occurred on motherboards with SATA. The most current motherboard has both SATA and IDE and puts the CD which is on IDE as primary (Drive0) on primary controller and the SATA HD as slave on secondary IDE controller (which this board

Bug#683705: installation-report: Installer failing to boot from known-good media on known-good hardware

2012-08-02 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.47 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable I have been having issues with debian's installer and ubuntu installer for alternate CD's which is based on the debian's installer on various machines. The media is known to be good in e

Bug#666420: orage goes wild when alarms go off

2012-03-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: orage Version: 4.8.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When an alarm goes off and the play sound and pop up event and notifications are enabled, all the alarms pop up/sound at least once per second and 'silence' on the notification or 'stop' on the dialog, have n

Bug#616367: linphone segfaults on receiving call

2012-02-19 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:19:01 +0100 manuk7 wrote: > Hello, > > Some new versions have been released since your bug report. Could you > check whether you're still confronted with this problem with either > testing (3.3.2-4.1+b1) and experimental (3.5.0-2) versions ? > I'll try to find some time

Bug#648465: kazehakase: Crashes trying to print

2011-11-11 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: kazehakase Version: 0.5.8-4 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss If you try to print (e.g. a receipt for transaction, which is only available once), then kazhakase crashes and you lose your session (and therefore any data in it). This is more about too-buggy-for

Bug#641647: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#641647: aide: Aide consumes all memory and swap

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:55:26 +0200 Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > tags 641647 + unreproducible moreinfo > thanks > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 05:28:36PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Aide's daily run consumes all available and memory and swap. This > > renders

Bug#641647: aide: Aide consumes all memory and swap

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: aide Version: 0.15.1-2+squeeze1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Aide's daily run consumes all available and memory and swap. This renders the system unusable until you are able to get enough of a shell to kill aide. This is with a default install except that

Bug#636560: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package

2011-08-03 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-118 Severity: serious Justification: debconf failure When doing dpkg-reconfigure cron I get the message: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package. Because this is a package breakage it's a violation of debian policy (generally package bugs are

Bug#633930: with multiple clients /etc/init.d/boxbackup-server stop only stops one bbstored process

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: boxbackup-server Version: 0.11~rc8~r2714-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss With more than one client connected at a given time, if you want to stop the backup server (e.g. to shutdown, or to do disk maintenance or whatever), then you can't because init.d/

Bug#632698: iceweasel has configuration data in /usr/share that should be in /etc (and not /etc override)

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.19-2 Severity: serious Justification: Violates the FHS /usr/share/iceweasel/searchplugins has the default search engines for the search box in the upper right of the browser windows. Unfortunately there is no merging with /etc like with preferences that would a

Bug#581950: This is now RC

2011-06-02 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hey, any chance on getting the fix in soon? Perl 5.12 is in wheezy now, which means that backuppc isn't, because it depends on 5.10 through perl-suid, which is gone. -- hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apa

Bug#616647: patch has removed --unified-reject-files option but quilt tries to use it

2011-03-06 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: quilt Version: 0.48-7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when doing quilt push, patch fails with unrecognized option --unified-reject-files, and a perusal of patch's changelog reveals that the lenny compatibility option --unified-reject-files has been removed from

Bug#616367: linphone segfaults on receiving call

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: linphone Version: 3.3.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Daniel Dickinson To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: linphone: segfaults when receiv

Bug#610099: git-daemon-run: doesn't stop logging when service stopped

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:20:54 -0600 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > severity 610099 serious > quit > > Hi Daniel, > > Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > > [Subject: Re: Bug#610099: git-daemon-run: me too] > > For the future: please keep in mind that these appear as emai

Bug#602148: amanda-server: amreport segfaults resulting in failure to backup or flush

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: amanda-server Version: 1:3.1.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss I'm not sure if this belongs as grave or serious, but either way it is showstopper segfault and thus RC. amreport is updated throughout the backup process so when amreport segfaults it interrup

Bug#563742: aespipe: Missing dependency for uuencode (e.g. sharutils)

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:36:35 +0100 Max Vozeler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:10:12AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Package: aespipe > > Version: 2.3d-2 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: required dependences must be listed > > > > aespip

Bug#563742: aespipe: Missing dependency for uuencode (e.g. sharutils)

2010-01-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: aespipe Version: 2.3d-2 Severity: serious Justification: required dependences must be listed aespipe with a Standard system emits warnings that uuencode is missing (line 84) sharutils supplies uuencode. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500

Bug#563220: gkrellm failing to connect to previously used host causes xfce4-panel to abort with an error

2009-12-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: gkrellm Version: 2.3.1-8 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software On Lenny with some backports, 1) GKrellM is an 'Autostarted Application' in XFCE4 2) GKrellM has connected to a certain remote host on previous occaison and worked fine 3) The host is take offline and

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-11-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:28:21 -0430 Jose Luis Rivas wrote: > > Plus, is the intended behavior, the package was made on that sense, > that's what the screensaver is supposed to do. So it's not a bug but a > feature! Just because I think the issue of what consistutes intended behaviours is an issue

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-10-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss The fake crash screensaver causes users who don't know about it to panic and reboot the system, without necessarily hit other keys first, thereby potentially causing data loss. It's really a bad ide

Bug#522354: Fixed upstream

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I have reported this and it has been fixed upstream. It was due using a data file that had used a later version, then a lower version, and .9 . It caused invalid chart type which crashed kmymoney. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of

Bug#531220: nut.conf overwritten during reinstall with not prompting

2009-05-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: nut Version: 2.4.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: not sure nut.conf is a conffile (or should be) and is overwritten during apt-get --reinstall install nut and overwriting conffiles without prompting is a violation of policy. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#522354: kmymoney2: Crashes when opening a custom report

2009-04-02 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: kmymoney2 Version: 0.9.3-1 Severity: serious When I press right-click and press Open on a custom Income/Expense Report KMM crashes losing all changes -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#513071: Regression: for some hosts etch can connect but lenny can't (password auth)

2009-01-26 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:42:22 + Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:23:15AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Package: openssh-client > > Version: 1:5.1p1-5 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: regression from etch > > > > > > I

Bug#513071: Regression: for some hosts etch can connect but lenny can't (password auth)

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:5.1p1-5 Severity: serious Justification: regression from etch I can connect to my router using ssh inside an etch chroot but cannot connect using lenny's etch. ssh -vvv ad...@router follows: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 debug1: Reading

Bug#506058: Possible patch

2008-11-21 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:06:53 +0100 Patrick Matthäi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > does the attached patch maybe help for your init script? Yes, it works. > It would be also interestend if var/run is a part of your / partition. No, i

Bug#506058: Tested

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:59:47 +0100 Patrick Matthäi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I tried to reproduce it with a pure Lenny/i386 without success, could > you maybe give more informations on this? Hmmm... I did a fresh install (standa

Bug#506059: /etc/init.d/gkrellmd start fails if gkrellmd already started

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: gkrellmd Version: 2.3.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: not sure - my manual is packed for a move; check -devel archives /etc/init.d/gkrellmd fails (no started messages) and in fact doesn't even report failure but rather just bails out in middle of the script This is a policy violat

Bug#506058: Fails to start after install probably due to missing /var/run/gkrellmd.pid

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: gkrellmd Version: 2.3.1-7 Severity: serious Justification: policy violation gkrellmd doesn't start even with a manual /etc/init.d/gkrellmd start after install is reported to be successful. Running gkrellmd manually once with gkrellmd fixes this. It is likely that /var/run/gkrellmd.

Bug#506057: splashy: Splashy fails to install due to missing default theme

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.10-2.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Installing splashy results in the following error message: Splashy ERROR: Setting XML file to <> failed. XML File not found Splashy ERROR: Setting XML file to <> failed. XML File not found cp: cannot s

Bug#498770: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#498770: xfce4-mpc-plugin: Segfaults on mouseover after song change

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:53:42 +0100 Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't send additional information to -quiet it's useful to see > it here. > > At some point you wrote: > > It may be because I'm using authentication to another computer > > rather than local (which one is suppose

Bug#498770: Unable to reproduce

2008-10-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 13:59:47 -0400 Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tags 498770 unreproducible > tags 498770 moreinfo > thanks > > I'm also unable to reproduce this bug, > > Daniel, > > Can you still reproduce it? Can you rebuild the package with Yes. It may be because I'm using au

Bug#498770: And the forgotten attachment (backtrace)

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Dickinson
#0 0x0804aee7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x094d8ca8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7e70cfc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #3 0xbfb03088 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x0804b835 in ?? () No symbol table i

Bug#498770: xfce4-mpc-plugin: Segfaults on mouseover after song change

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xfce4-mpc-plugin Version: 0.3.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Using xfce4-mpc-plugin is imposible because, as soon as the song changes, mousing over the panel causes a segfault. I attach a backtrace, but without debugging symbols (I don't see one built with

Bug#497297: [aptitude] This can safely be downgraded

2008-09-06 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.8-1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- It turns out non-starting part of the bug only appears when using using a $HOME that had GNOME on it at one time, then XFCE and doing a fresh install of the system (e.g. only $HOME is the same). So aptitude

Bug#497297: [xfce4] Summary of problem

2008-09-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:18:59 -0700 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:22:27AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > It appears that selecting the task (+ on the task) selects gdm > > before x

Bug#497297: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#497297: gdm starts gnome-settings-manager which block mcs and xfce4 won't start

2008-09-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:46:05 +0100 Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:11:26PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > If you install the xfce task, you can't start xfce4 because gdm > > depends on gnome-session which pulls in gnome-setting

Bug#497297: [xfce4] Summary of problem

2008-09-04 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.4.2.1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Okay, I'm going to clarify by being more organized and coherent. Using the XFCE4 Desktop Task results in a system that does not start the XFCE4 Desktop (gdm starts and the session tries to start, but fails) This is

Bug#497297: gdm starts gnome-settings-manager which block mcs and xfce4 won't start

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.4.2.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable If you install the xfce task, you can't start xfce4 because gdm depends on gnome-session which pulls in gnome-settings-manager, which block mcs and therefore xfce4 can't start. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#493081: gkrellmd: Fails to to start of already started

2008-07-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: gkrellmd Version: 2.3.1-6 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 9.3.2 /etc/init.d/gkrellmd start fails if gkrellmd is already started. Recent discussions on the interpretation of section 9.3.2 have stated that start must succeed if already started, therefore this is a violation of p

Bug#451303: Control message

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I hope the control message isn't a repeat. I didn't see it in the bug log so I'm assuming I messed up when I did it before. If not sorry. This is an important security bug that needs fixing so I'm made it RC and a security bug. If you disagree please state why in the bug log. -- To UNS

Bug#481481: amanda-server: Cannot restore files; amrestore missing

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: amanda-server Version: 1:2.5.1p1-2.1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss With the current version of amanda it is impossible to restore data from backup because amrestore is missing (that is the 1:2.5.1p1-3 version; I downgraded so that I would continue to have

Bug#375035: The requested error messages and some lines from above them

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following are the same for kernel 2.6.16-2-powerpc 2.6.16-16 and 2.6.17-1-powerpc 2.6.17-3 - I tried to get around #364637 (pmac_zilog serial conflict when using a serial console) but was unsuccessful, so the following is hand-copied: TCP: Hash t

Bug#375035: Ignore last message

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please ignore the last message; It a) should have gone to control, and b) It is unconfirmed (the success may have been with 2.6.15). Must be less quick with bts... - -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I ha

Bug#375035: (no subject)

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 severity important thanks This, apparently, does not affect all systems, therefore, while it limits my ability to test etch (after reboot), it is not severity grave. - -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I h

Bug#361019: portmap: Portmap man page claims use of tcp_wrappers, however /hosts.deny has no effect

2006-04-05 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: portmap Version: 5-9 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole The following hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /

Bug#322352: pdns and pdns-doc both contain /usr/share/doc-base/pdns (sarge security update version)

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: pdns Version: 2.9.17-13sarge1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 6.5.4 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-mornir-smp-1.4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages pdns depends on: ii pdns-recurs

Bug#315802: partimage in stable requires libnewt0 which is not available anywhere

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: partimage Version: 0.6.4-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages partimage depends on:

Bug#315803: partimage-server uninstallable in sarge

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: partimage-server Version: 0.6.4-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages partimage-serve

Bug#308395: smbldap-groupmod does not correctly handle adding users to new groups

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: smbldap-tools Version: 0.8.7-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Since updating smbldap-tools I have been unable to add more than one user to newly created groups user smbldap-modify. Adding to existing groups succeeds as does adding to the group by using ldapmodi

Bug#291348: kernel-image-2.6.8: SiS USB 1.0 Controller Fails in Bulk Transport with, 2.6.8, fixed in 2.6.10

2005-01-19 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 Version: 2.6.8-10 Severity: critical File: kernel-image-2.6.8 Justification: breaks unrelated software The USB controller on my board doesn't work with 2.6.8 but does with 2.6.10. I've called this critical but you may only consider it grave sicne not too many peop

Bug#291347: debian-installer: SiS5513 IDE Module doesn't work,, must use ide-generic or ide based systems won't work

2005-01-19 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: debian-installer Severity: critical Justification: breaks system unless you can boot another way and apply workaround This is also a kernel bug, but I don't know how to send the report to both debian-installer (which needs to work around the problem or get questions on why an affected syst