Bug#367443: procmeter3: The inbox count only goes up, never down

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop) wrote:

> Thanks for the patch, but I don't like it.

[laugh] I'm not surprised; my C skills are extremely rusty through long
neglect. My apologies for applying my dull axe to your code. :)

> Can I propose a different patch that only causes the file to be
> re-read if the modification time or the access time or the size of the
> file changes.  For this particular problem the file size does change,
> so this should pick it up.

Looks like it would work just fine. If this gets folded into the next
update, I think we can call this bug closed.

Thanks for your effort!


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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Bug#366680: linux-image: snd_intel8x0 module randomly fails to initialize sound hardware

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Since I didn't get copied on this reply (I just saw it after searching
the BTS), I didn't get a chance to follow up to it earlier. I'd
appreciate being CCd in the future, thanks.

Cesare Leonardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> > The frequency of how often this happens varies: sometimes, it's every
> > single boot until I remove the laptop battery; at other times, it's only
> > about one boot out of every five. It seems to be related to IRQ problems
> > (booting the laptop without its battery, and inserting it after the
> > boot, results in the problem nearly disappearing - it only happens in ~1
> > of every 20 boots.)
> 
> I think you are excluding an hardware problem because on the same 
> machine you also run Wind0ws (or something else) and it sounds good, right?

This machine initially came with Wind0ws, and I used it that way for a
two-week long road trip, until I could get to a high-speed connection.
The sound worked fine during that time.
 
> The sporadic nature of the problem seems suspicious, in particular 
> because your machine has a very common (and tested) chipset. As you can 
> see on http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html, people using your 
> laptop seems to have audio that just works.
> I have a Sony laptop with a i855 chipset that works too.
> 
> Have you tried to upgrade your Acer BIOS?

Yes - that was one of the first things I looked for when I discovered
this problem.

> And, do the problem comes indifferently (and with similar probability) 
> after a reboot or a complete poweroff?

At this point, rebooting or cold-booting produces a problem about 80% of
the time. The only "cure" (works ~99% of the time) is to remove the
battery and disconnect the adapter from the machine for a few seconds.

> Have you tryed with some linux live CD (Ubuntu, Knoppix) to see if 
> something behaves differently? But i suspect it is not a 
> kernel/distibution problem...

If you believe that this would give you usable data, I'll be happy to
download a few of these and try them out. Since I have a relatively slow
connection, I'll have to get to a fast one somewhere which is a bit of a
hassle, so I'm a bit reluctant to just do so without an explicit
request.

> Have you contacted the Acer support or visited their website to see if 
> there are some broken model or some known problem?

Acer's tech support's brains instantly freeze up solid as soon as I
mention Linux. I have not found any definite reports of similar
behavior, but I suspect that this is due to a) the vague definition of
what constitutes this problem (i.e., it's hard to come up with a
definitive set of strings to describe the problem uniquely for a Web
search) and b) the low numbers of these laptops out there. What little I
have found in this regard pointed in the general direction of ACPI
problems; I got an ACPI data compiler, fixed the errors in the ACPI
data, and recompiled it, but this does not appear to have helped.

Incidentally, I have recently run 'lspci' with the sound hardware both
working and not working; here's the diff:


--
r !diff /tmp/lspci_sound /tmp/lspci_no_sound
109c109
<   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
---
>   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
111d110
<   Latency: 0
119c118
<   Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
---
>   Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+
--

Here it is with a '-p' added for more context:

--
*** /tmp/lspci_sound2006-08-29 22:19:28.0 -0400
--- /tmp/lspci_no_sound 2006-08-29 18:15:08.0 -0400
***
*** 106,114 
  
  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0061
!   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- TAbort- 
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Bug#377980: ucf: Broken manpage for ucfq

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: ucf
Version: 2.0012
Severity: normal


Running 'mandb -t'/'lexgrog' shows the 'ucfq' manpage to be mis-formatted:

``
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/man1# mandb -t
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ucfq.1.gz: whatis parse for ucfq(1) failed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/man1# lexgrog /usr/share/man/man1/ucfq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ucfq.1.gz: parse failed
''


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *


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Bug#367443: procmeter3: The inbox count only goes up, never down

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: procmeter3
Version: 3.4e-1
Followup-For: Bug #367443


Following up on the previous report with this subject:

It appears that Mutt does not change the mtime of the mailbox when deleting
email; therefore, the 'Update' function in the 'biff' module, which checks
for a changed mtime, never triggers. The included patch will simply check
the mailbox every 'update' seconds (the value is hard-wired in the module,
and can be re-defined in the ~/.procmeterrc file) and reset the email count
regardless of the mbox mtime.


*** biff.c.orig 2006-07-10 16:03:48.0 -0400
--- biff.c  2006-07-10 16:19:58.0 -0400
*** int Update(time_t now,ProcMeterOutput *o
*** 173,180 
 count=size=0;
  else
{
!if(mtimehttp://linuxgazette.net *


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Versions of packages procmeter3 depends on:
ii  libc6   2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pi  libglib1.2  1.2.10-ximian.2  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk1.2   1.2.10-ximian.31 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libice6 1:1.0.0-3X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6  1:1.0.0-4X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-62:1.0.0-6X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext61:1.0.0-4X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6  1:1.0.0-5X11 Input extension library
ii  libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6  1:1.0.0-5X11 toolkit intrinsics library

procmeter3 recommends no packages.

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Bug#372171: w3m: Searching causes a segfault

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #372171


w3m segfaults (about 70% of the time, based on my informal testing) when
searching either forward (/) or in reverse (?). Like the previous reporter,
I'm marking this one grave for the same reasons: it's my primary means of
navigation within long pages, and I believe that this is true for most
users as well.

Relevant part of an strace dump (I'm opening a file, "foo.html", that has
no content beyond the basic HTML structure):


stat64("/tmp/foo.html", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=60, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/foo.html", O_RDONLY) = 5
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8058ef0, [], SA_RESTART}, {0x8091640, [], SA_RESTART}, 
8) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) 
= 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) 
= 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8058ef0, [], SA_RESTART}, {0x8058ef0, [], SA_RESTART}, 
8) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_START or TCSETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon -echo ...}) = 0
read(5, "\nhttp://linuxgazette.net *


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Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6 2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgc1c2  1:6.7-1conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpmg1  1.19.6-22  General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5   5.5-2  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.7   0.9.7i-1   SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages w3m recommends:
ii  ca-certificates   20050804   Common CA Certificates PEM files

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Bug#367443: procmeter3: The inbox count only goes up, never down

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: procmeter3
Version: 3.4e-1
Severity: normal


The inbox count displayed in procmeter3 does not decrease when the
emails are deleted from the inbox, although it does increase when new
email arrives. Relevant ~/.procmeterrc configuration:

--
[Biff]
# label-foreground = blue
text-font = neep-alt-bold-14
foreground = white
run = rmutt
# update = 5

[Biff.Inbox_Count]
label = 
--

Just FYI, here's what the file looks like before and after email
deletion:

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/mail/ben
-rw-rw 1 ben mail 136069 2006-05-15 19:52 /var/mail/ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -c '^From ' /var/mail/ben
18
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/mail/ben
-rw-rw 1 ben mail 131318 2006-05-15 19:52 /var/mail/ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -c '^From ' /var/mail/ben
17
--

The first 'ls -l' was executed just before deletion with Mutt; the
second was several minutes after. In both cases, procmeter3 showed '18
emails'.


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *


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Versions of packages procmeter3 depends on:
ii  libc6   2.3.6-7  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pi  libglib1.2  1.2.10-ximian.2  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk1.2   1.2.10-ximian.31 :he GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libice6 1:1.0.0-3X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6  1:1.0.0-4X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-62:1.0.0-6X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext61:1.0.0-4X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6  1:1.0.0-5X11 Input extension library
ii  libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6  1:1.0.0-4X11 toolkit intrinsics library

procmeter3 recommends no packages.

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Bug#366680: linux-image: snd_intel8x0 module randomly fails to initialize sound hardware

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: linux-image
Version: /linux-2.6.16.1
Severity: normal


Normally, I would not report this kind of problem using the BTS - audio
problems are common enough, and not what I consider critical problems -
but this one has persisted through a long series of kernel changes, all
the way from the early ones in the 2.4 series until now (2.6.16.1).
After this long, it's earned the status of Bug Emeritus, and I figure
you folks deserve a chance at shooting it down. :)

Over the last two years, I've experimented with a number of possible
solutions to this problem, including trying to tweak the code in
snd_intel8x0.c (unfortunately, it seems that my C-fu is not quite up to
kernel hacking.) I'm hoping that you can offer some suggestions; you're
also welcome to ask me to test out any patches or experimental code
you'd care to try.

The problem is that when I boot this laptop (Acer 2012, see included
'lspci' report), the sound hardware often fails to initialize and
reports the following error:

``
codec_ready: codec is not ready [0x870]
''

and, of course, ALSA follows that up with a 'no soundcards found' error.
'/var/log/kern.log' has the following to say at those times:

``
Apr 22 19:40:53 Fenrir kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 
(level, low) -> IRQ 21
Apr 22 19:40:53 Fenrir kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 
:00:1f.5 to 64
Apr 22 19:40:53 Fenrir kernel: codec_ready: codec is not ready [0x870]
Apr 22 19:40:53 Fenrir kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1f.5 
disabled
Apr 22 19:40:53 Fenrir kernel: Intel ICH: probe of :00:1f.5 failed with 
error -5
''

and

``
Apr 22 07:40:59 Fenrir kernel: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 
1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).
Apr 22 07:40:59 Fenrir kernel: ALSA device list:
Apr 22 07:40:59 Fenrir kernel:   No soundcards found.
''

The frequency of how often this happens varies: sometimes, it's every
single boot until I remove the laptop battery; at other times, it's only
about one boot out of every five. It seems to be related to IRQ problems
(booting the laptop without its battery, and inserting it after the
boot, results in the problem nearly disappearing - it only happens in ~1
of every 20 boots.)

I've tried setting the module options -

``
options snd-intel8x0 buggy_irq=1 buggy_semaphore=1
''

but this does not help. Also, once the hardware has failed to be
detected, nothing will fix the problem other than rebooting - unloading
and reloading all the relevant modules has no effect.

Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated.

lspci output:

'''
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor 
to I/O Controller (rev 02)
:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor 
to AGP Controller (rev 02)
:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 03)
:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller 
(rev 03)
:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility 
Radeon 9600 M10]
:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 
Controller (PHY/Link)
:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX 
(rev 02)
:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 
01)
:03:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
:03:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
'''


Sincerely,
Ben Okopnik, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette
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Bug#359624: linux-image: Kernel OOPS in 'ide-scsi' when trying to write a CD

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:10:54AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> reassign 359624 linux-2.6
> thanks
> 
> * Benjamin A. Okopnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-27 21:51]:
> > Package: linux-image
> > Version: 2.6.13.3
> > Severity: important
> 
> Can you please try with 2.6.16 from unstable?

Hi, Martin -

Heh. I'm a bit ashamed of myself for not having done so before filing a
bug; I've advised countless people to test using the latest version...
Thanks for your help/wake-up call. :)

Despite the fact that the problem is a long-standing one (it's stayed
with me through the entire range of 2.5 and 2.6 kernels until now),
installing 2.6.16.1 appears to have fixed it. Please mark this one as
closed.


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *


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Bug#359624: linux-image: Kernel OOPS in 'ide-scsi' when trying to write a CD

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: linux-image
Version: 2.6.13.3
Severity: important


After trying to write a CD with 'cdrecord', I have the following in my
'dmesg' output:


ide-scsi: unsup command: dev hdc: flags = REQ_CMD REQ_STARTED 
sector 64, nr/cnr 2/2
bio cf701200, biotail cf701200, buffer cfda, data , len 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 
 printing eip:
c01e46c6
*pde = 
Oops:  [#1]
Modules linked in: snd_pcm_oss fglrx agpgart snd_mixer_oss lp parport button 
processor ac battery pcmcia eth1394 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core 
ipw2200 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt ohci1394 ieee1394 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec 
snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc ehci_hcd uhci_hcd sg b44 usb_storage ide_scsi 
scsi_mod
CPU:0
EIP:0060:[]Tainted: P  VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.13.3) 
EIP is at get_kobj_path_length+0x26/0x40
eax:    ebx:    ecx:    edx: dfc0c4cc
esi: 0001   edi:    ebp:    esp: cf967dd0
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process mount (pid: 3891, threadinfo=cf966000 task=cf248a80)
Stack: cfda1e40 00d0 fff4 dfc0c4cc c01e476f dfc0c4cc d5728000 0020 
   cfda1e40 00d0 fff4  c01e5040 dfc0c4cc 00d0 d3d13a80 
   d5728140 0010 0020 cfda1e40 d5728000 ffea 0020 c01e5158 
Call Trace:
 [] kobject_get_path+0x1f/0x80
 [] do_kobject_uevent+0x30/0x120
 [] kobject_uevent+0x28/0x30
 [] bdev_uevent+0x4a/0x50
 [] kill_block_super+0x26/0x50
 [] deactivate_super+0x48/0x70
 [] get_sb_bdev+0x15a/0x160
 [] alloc_vfsmnt+0x9c/0xe0
 [] isofs_get_sb+0x30/0x40
 [] isofs_fill_super+0x0/0x6e0
 [] do_kern_mount+0x52/0xe0
 [] do_new_mount+0x99/0xe0
 [] do_mount+0x159/0x1b0
 [] remove_vm_struct+0x5e/0x70
 [] copy_mount_options+0x77/0xc0
 [] sys_mount+0x98/0xe0
 [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
Code: 27 00 00 00 00 55 bd ff ff ff ff 57 56 be 01 00 00 00 53 31 db 8b 54 24 
14 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 8b 3a 89 e9 89 d8  ae f7 d1 49 8b 52 
24 8d 74 31 01 85 d2 75 ea 5b 89 f0 5e 5f 
 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: Hmm, seems the drive doesn't support multisession CD's
hdc: DMA disabled


Just FYI, here's some other info relevant to the problem:


hdc: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-820S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: DVD-RAM UJ-820S   Rev: 1.00
  Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02


Please let me know if there's any further information I can provide.


Regards,
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Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:22:13PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Le Friday 10 February 2006 à 16:49:13, Benjamin A. Okopnik a écrit:
> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:53:18PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > > 
> > > I can't find your bug report in the pilot-link upstream bug system.
> > > I guess/hope you opened a bug there. Could you give me the bug number if
> > > you have it so I can add it here?
> > 
> > Debian already lists a very similar bug against pilot-link, #335474, in
> > the "Important bugs" section. Thanks very much for your time.
> 
> The bug #335474 is now solved by pilot-link from experimental.

I'd somehow managed to miss that; thank you.

> You said your bug is _not_ solved by using pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4.
> You should open a bug in the upstream bug tracker at
> http://bugs.pilot-link.org/ so your problem will be corrected.

Done; it's listed as

[pilot-link 1633]: Fails to download several DBs, causes Tungsten E2 to crash


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Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:53:18PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 
> I can't find your bug report in the pilot-link upstream bug system.
> I guess/hope you opened a bug there. Could you give me the bug number if
> you have it so I can add it here?

Debian already lists a very similar bug against pilot-link, #335474, in
the "Important bugs" section. Thanks very much for your time.


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Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:35:06PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Le Tuesday 01 November 2005 à 19:57:01, Benjamin A. Okopnik a écrit:
> > Fetching 'NetFrontLib' (Creator ID 'AcBC')... Failed, unable to back up 
> > database NetFrontLib
> > Fetching 'HTTP Library' (Creator ID 'AsHT')... 
> > ''
> > 
> > 
> > [1] After a couple of minutes of the last line appearing in the Jpilot
> > log window, the Palm displays a message that says:
> 
> Try to debug the situation using "pilot-xfer --backup ".

``

[ lines elided ]

Backing up Palm/CalendarLocationsDB-PDat.pdb  
Backing up Palm/NetFrontLib.prc   Failed, unable to back up database
Backing up Palm/HTTP Library.prc  Segmentation fault
''

> You should also open a bug in http://bugs.pilot-link.org/ to talk to the
> upstream authors directly.

So, I take it that the problem is _not_ in Jpilot itself, but is in the
pilot-link library? If so, I'll happily consider this bug closed and go
bother those folks. :)

Thanks for all your help so far!


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Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Hi -

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Le Tuesday 01 November 2005 à 13:48:06, Benjamin A. Okopnik a écrit:
> > > Maybe I should also provide in experimental a version of jpilot compiled
> > > with pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4?
> > 
> > I'll be more than happy to beta-test whatever updates you provide.
> > Meanwhile, I will pull down and compile both pilot-link and the jpilot
> > source, and report when I get a chance (I'm in the middle of teaching a
> > class, and my students are busy doing a lab. [grin] This bunch is too
> > quiet; normally, I wouldn't have even a second to write this.)
> 
> Just install libpisock-dev from experimental and rebuild jpilot with it.

Done. There's some improvement - the Blazer* files now transfer without
any problem - but the link still dies [1] on "HTTP Library", after
failing to retrieve "NetFrontLib":

``

 Syncing on device /dev/ttyUSB1
 Press the HotSync button now

Username is "Ben Okopnik"
User ID is 1000
lastSyncPC = 0
This PC = 1032939803
Doing a slow sync.
Syncing DatebookDB
Syncing AddressDB
Syncing ToDoDB
Syncing MemoDB
Fetching 'Background-Fave' (Creator ID 'Fave')... OK
Fetching 'BackgroundThumb-Fave' (Creator ID 'Fave')... OK
Fetching 'Blazer Bookmarks' (Creator ID 'BLZ5')... OK
Fetching 'ProFile-CatList' (Creator ID 'PZDa')... OK
Fetching 'Datebk5DB' (Creator ID 'CESE')... OK
Fetching 'DatebookHistoryDB' (Creator ID 'CESK')... OK
Fetching 'CICEnglish' (Creator ID 'DENG')... OK
Fetching 'LauncherIII Database' (Creator ID 'MjBb')... OK
Fetching 'ContactsDB-PAdd' (Creator ID 'PAdd')... OK
Fetching 'CalendarDB-PDat' (Creator ID 'PDat')... OK
Fetching 'MemosDB-PMem' (Creator ID 'PMem')... OK
Fetching 'ContactsSimDB-PAdd' (Creator ID 'PSim')... OK
Fetching 'TasksDB-PTod' (Creator ID 'PTod')... OK
Fetching 'Queries' (Creator ID 'QRYS')... OK
Fetching 'RNWKDB' (Creator ID 'RNWK')... OK
Fetching 'TealScript_App_List' (Creator ID 'TlSc')... OK
Fetching 'AddressDB' (Creator ID 'addr')... OK
Fetching 'Bluetooth Trusted Devices' (Creator ID 'blth')... OK
Fetching 'Bluetooth Device Cache' (Creator ID 'btch')... OK
Fetching 'DatebookDB' (Creator ID 'date')... OK
Fetching 'History1.0_dilP' (Creator ID 'dilP')... OK
Fetching 'Speed1.0_dilP' (Creator ID 'dilP')... OK
Fetching 'ExpenseDB' (Creator ID 'exps')... OK
Fetching 'locLDefLocationDB' (Creator ID 'locL')... OK
Fetching 'MemoDB' (Creator ID 'memo')... OK
Skipping ConnectionMgr50DB (Creator ID 'modm')
Fetching 'NetworkDB' (Creator ID 'netw')... OK
Fetching 'npadDB' (Creator ID 'npad')... OK
Fetching 'PIMsSupportStatus-pdmE' (Creator ID 'pdmE')... OK
Fetching 'PhoneRegistryDB' (Creator ID 'phop')... OK
Fetching 'Memo32DB' (Creator ID 'pn32')... OK
Fetching 'CalculusDB' (Creator ID 'sciC')... OK
Fetching 'wcCityDB' (Creator ID 'ssWC')... OK
Fetching 'ToDoDB' (Creator ID 'todo')... OK
Fetching 'locLCusLocationDB' (Creator ID 'locL')... OK
Fetching 'locLTimeZoneDB' (Creator ID 'locL')... OK
Fetching 'CICUserDict' (Creator ID 'WDT1')... OK
Fetching 'PTDB' (Creator ID 'Cks3')... OK
Fetching 'CalcDB-OpCl' (Creator ID 'OpCl')... OK
Fetching 'CalcDB-H-OpCl' (Creator ID 'OpCl')... OK
Fetching 'Shim Logs' (Creator ID 'Shim')... OK
Fetching 'TS Std Profile' (Creator ID 'TlSc')... OK
Fetching 'FavoritesDB-Fave' (Creator ID 'Fave')... OK
Fetching 'Blazer CacheHistory' (Creator ID 'BLZ5')... OK
Fetching 'TS Match Library' (Creator ID 'TlSc')... OK
Fetching 'Airport Codes - U.S. Only' (Creator ID 'Mdb1')... OK
Fetching 'Month Information' (Creator ID 'Mdb1')... OK
Fetching 'Web Acronyms' (Creator ID 'Mdb1')... OK
Fetching 'World Information' (Creator ID 'Mdb1')... OK
Fetching 'PLANISNEW PLANISPHERIC MAP' (Creator ID 'ANIS')... OK
Skipping PMHDB (Creator ID 'PMHa')
Skipping PMNDB (Creator ID 'PMNe')
Fetching '

Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:22:43PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 
> pilot-link 0.11 does not support files bigger than 32 KB. pilot-link
> 0.12.0-pre4 does but is still beta.

``
r!ls -l ~/tmp/Palm_problem_children
total 1568
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben 509 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer Bookmarks.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben  84 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer CacheHistory.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben  80 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer Cookies.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben   31928 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer_enUS.prc
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben 144 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer Field Autofill.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben  80 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer Find Autofill.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben  80 2005-11-01 13:38 Blazer URL Autofill.pdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben  239081 2005-11-01 13:38 HTTP Library.prc
-rw-rw-r--  1 ben ben 1296377 2005-11-01 13:39 NetFrontLib.prc
''

It looks like only the last two files are >32k. Perhaps there's also a
format problem of some sort?

> You can get pilot-link 0.11.8-0.12.0-pre4-1 from Debian experimental if
> you want. You will have to recompile jpilot with it to -- possibly --
> avoid the jpilot crash you have.

``
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -t experimental install pilot-link
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
pilot-link is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
''

It seems that I already have that version. Perhaps my "jpilot" isn't
compiled with that lib version, though?

``
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jpilot -v

J-Pilot version 0.99.8-pre11
 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Judd Montgomery
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://jpilot.org
J-Pilot comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file
COPYING included with the source code, or in /usr/docs/jpilot/.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

Date compiled Oct  8 2005 00:09:24
Compiled with these options:
 Installed Path - /usr
 pilot-link version - 0.11.8
 USB support - yes
 Private record support - yes
 Datebk support - yes
 Plugin support - yes
 Manana support - yes
 NLS support (foreign languages) - yes
 GTK2 support - yes
''

> Maybe I should also provide in experimental a version of jpilot compiled
> with pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4?

I'll be more than happy to beta-test whatever updates you provide.
Meanwhile, I will pull down and compile both pilot-link and the jpilot
source, and report when I get a chance (I'm in the middle of teaching a
class, and my students are busy doing a lab. [grin] This bunch is too
quiet; normally, I wouldn't have even a second to write this.)


Regards,
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Bug#336379: jpilot locks up when synchronizing Tungsten E2

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.7-0.99.8-pre11-2
Severity: important


When I try to synchronize my Tungsten E2, JPilot locks up "reliably" as
soon as it hits one of the "Blazer" files. I assume that this has
something to do with the format of the PDBs - the same errors occurs
with "pilot-xfer"; however, "pilot-xfer" supports a "--exclude "
option, which allows me to get past the problem. Perhaps including a
similar feature in JPilot would be the simplest answer?

The list of files that causes "pilot-xfer" to crash (presumably, JPilot
would react the same way) is -

Blazer
Blazer CacheHistory
Blazer Cookies
Blazer_enUS
Blazer Field Autofill
Blazer Find Autofill
Blazer URL Autofill
HTTP Library
NetFrontLib

I've also seen reports of similar behavior by other people on the Net.

I'm attaching several of these files (retrieved by copying them to the
Tungsten's memory card) to this email in the hope that you'll find them
useful.


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *


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  APT prefers unstable
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.3
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages jpilot depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.10.3-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6 2.3.5-7GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.8.3-1The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.6.10-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libncurses5   5.5-1  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock80.11.8-12  Library for communicating with a P
ii  libreadline5  5.0-11 GNU readline and history libraries

Versions of packages jpilot recommends:
pn  jpilot-plugins (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded


Blazer CacheHistory.pdb
Description: Binary data


Blazer_enUS.prc
Description: Binary data


Blazer Cookies.pdb
Description: Binary data

Bug#305721: /sbin/hwclock: [hwclock] Incorrect command-line option parsing

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:19:11PM +0200, Mike Dornberger wrote:
> Hi,
 
Hi -

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:08:46PM -0400, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --set --date="04-21-2005 13:58:00"
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
> > Sat Feb 26 13:58:05 2011  -0.675597 seconds
> 
> > When '-' is used as the date delimiter, 'hwclock' sets some weird future
> > day, month, and year - without any warning. It should either a) use the
> > option correctly, or b) fail with an error message.
> 
> man hwclock refers to date(1), which prints the same date/time given
> --date"04-...". I think the expected form with dashes is [yy]yy-mm-dd (IIRC
> it's some ISO norm).
 
Ah - I see what you mean. It seems like both 'hwclock' and 'date' should
require a '--iso' option (or something like that) to use that format;
having it produce a result that's wildly different from the obviously
expected one - and several people to whom I've spoken about it have
_all_ run into a problem with this - seems really wrong.

> Though "info date" states, that month should be 1-12 and day 1-31, it's no
> error giving bigger values. Maybe it is some glibc feature.

Heh. That's the alternate spelling of 'bug', I believe?

> It seems, there
> are 21 month added to 2004-01-01 and then 2005 days, but I can't reproduce
> the exact date (Feb 26 2011) myself (i.e. no "date") yet.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date --date="04-21-2005 13:58:00"
Sat Feb 26 13:58:00 EST 2011
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date --version
date (coreutils) 5.2.1
Written by David MacKenzie.


Yep, seems to be repeatable. I guess it's a bug against 'glibc' -
although both 'hwclock' and date _should_ have an option to
differentiate between these two (very subtle but with a large difference
in the result) options.


Sincere regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *


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Bug#305723: xterm: Odd behavior in Ctrl-click menu invocation

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1
Severity: normal


This is actually a long-standing bug (several years, at least) that I'm
just now reporting... I guess I'm getting more picky as time goes on. :)

When I hold down the Ctrl key and click (either right- or left-) on the
xterm, I'm supposed to get a menu. Instead, what I get is this:



Unless I click on the pixel-wide on the bottom of this "micro-menu",
there's no way to get to the other items. Just to show the extent of
this "clipped" area, I've set 'Secure Keyboard' (i.e., highlighted the
background) and tried it again:



Once I _have_ clicked that "microbar", the menu (for that button; each
of the two menus requires the above procedure to become accessible)
appears.



Please let me know if I can help with any troubleshooting or feedback.


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *

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Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc62.3.2.ds1-20GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat11.95.8-1XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1   2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6  4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5  5.4-4   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6   4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7  4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2  2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6  4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4  4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1  0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6   4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xlibs-data   4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Window System client data

-- debconf information:
  xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
  xterm/xterm_needs_devpts:


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Bug#305721: /sbin/hwclock: [hwclock] Incorrect command-line option parsing

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-4
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/hwclock


Copy'n'pasted from a console:

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Thu Apr 21 13:57:19 2005  -0.594461 seconds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --set --date="04-21-2005 13:58:00"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Sat Feb 26 13:58:05 2011  -0.675597 seconds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --set --date="04/21/2005 13:58:30"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Thu Apr 21 13:58:35 2005  -0.624175 seconds
--

When '-' is used as the date delimiter, 'hwclock' sets some weird future
day, month, and year - without any warning. It should either a) use the
option correctly, or b) fail with an error message.


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *

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Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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ii  libc6   2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5 5.4-4Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libuuid11.37-2   universally unique id library
ii  slang1a-utf81.4.9dbs-8   The S-Lang programming library wit
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.2-4compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information


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Bug#301533: hotplug: Hotplug sets STATIC_MODULE_LIST to ', ' which results in a 'Fatal error' on boot

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Package: hotplug
Version: 0.0.20040329-21
Severity: minor


Does not create a problem, simply a nasty message during boot. :) The
error, from what I can see, is in hotplug.inst:

---
  db_get hotplug/static_module_list
  STATIC_MODULE_LIST=$(echo "$RET" | sed -e 's/, / /g')
---


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *

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Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-rc3-bk4
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages hotplug depends on:
ii  bash 3.0-14  The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  debconf  1.4.46  Debian configuration management sy
ii  grep 2.5.1.ds1-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  module-init-tools3.2-pre1-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils 2.4.26-1.2  Linux module utilities
ii  procps   1:3.2.5-1   /proc file system utilities
ii  sed  4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor

-- debconf information:
* hotplug/ignore_pci_class_display: true
* hotplug/net_agent_policy: hotplug
* hotplug/static_module_list: , , , ,
* hotplug/usbd_enable: true
* hotplug/usb_keyboard:
  hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: false


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