Bug#101002: xserver-xfree86: [ati/atimisc] pointer leaves trails on Mach64 GI rev 92

[Michael D Schleif]

* Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007:06:20:19:43:19+0200] scribed:
> Hi,
> 
> About 6 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding Xorg
> with the ATI driver making pointer trails on a mach64 board. Did you
> reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest
> xserver-xorg-core and drivers? If not, I will close this bug in the next
> weeks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brice

No, I have not witnessed this problem recently.  I have not run such
hardware in several years.

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Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D. Schleif]

Package: gnotepad+-help
Version: 1:1.2.0-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software


Last night, I tried to dist-upgrade and/or install x11-common/xorg on
this system.  At some point, I entered Catch-22:

# sudo aptitude -P install kde kde-amusements kde-core kdm
 . . .
Removing gnotepad+-help ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html 
to /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub by gnotepad+-help'
  found `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.gnotepad+ by gnotepad+-help'
dpkg: error processing gnotepad+-help (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnotepad+-help
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


# dpkg -l gnotepad+-help
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version  Description

+++---
rH  gnotepad+-help   1.2.0-2  gnotepad+ User's Manual


Now, I am unable to install, remove and purge gnotepad+-help; and EVERYTHING 
else is stuck!!!

What do you think?


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Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D Schleif]

* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:18:27:59+0200] scribed:
> severity 371151 serious
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> > Now, I am unable to install, remove and purge gnotepad+-help; and
> > EVERYTHING else is stuck!!!
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I think that installing gnotepad+-help in the past was the critical
> mistake you made.

I did NOT intentionally install it -- I do NOT even know what it is, or
was ;>

Unfortunately, it must have come along for the ride during some other
installation, or some other [dist-]upgrade.  Is it a dependency of some
other package?

> I'm preparing an update that will fix this.

I know that you may want to trivialize this bug; but, in my current
state, I have NO X, and I am pretty much only able to use this box via
ssh sessions ...

Please, advise me of anything that I can do to facilitate this.

Thank you.

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Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D Schleif]

* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:18:34:52+0200] scribed:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> >> Now, I am unable to install, remove and purge gnotepad+-help; and
> >> EVERYTHING else is stuck!!!
> 
> >> What do you think?
> 
> > I'm preparing an update that will fix this.
> 
> Actually, you seem to have upgraded gnotepad+-help from a
> pre-1:1.2.0-1 version to 1:1.2.0-1 or later. I have been unable to put
> my grubby paws on a pre-1:1.2.0-1 version of gnotepad+-help, and I
> could then indeed not handle upgrades gracefully. Do you still have
> the old version? Then please send it to me.

No.  Due to the problems that I have been having on this box, I ran both
autoclean & clean; which has left me with nothing of that in my
/var/cache.

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Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D Schleif]

* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:19:02:13+0200] scribed:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:46:25AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> > * Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:18:34:52+0200] scribed:
> >> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> >>>> Now, I am unable to install, remove and purge gnotepad+-help; and
> >>>> EVERYTHING else is stuck!!!
> 
> >>>> What do you think?
> 
> >>> I'm preparing an update that will fix this.
> 
> >> Actually, you seem to have upgraded gnotepad+-help from a
> >> pre-1:1.2.0-1 version to 1:1.2.0-1 or later. I have been unable to
> >> put my grubby paws on a pre-1:1.2.0-1 version of gnotepad+-help,
> >> and I could then indeed not handle upgrades gracefully. Do you
> >> still have the old version? Then please send it to me.
> 
> > No.  Due to the problems that I have been having on this box, I ran both
> > autoclean & clean; which has left me with nothing of that in my
> > /var/cache.
> 
> These commands:
> 
> dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --add --rename \
> --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
> dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --remove --rename \
> --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.gnotepad+ 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
> 
> should get you rid of the exact error message you are getting; without
> access to the older versions, I don't know whether you will have other
> ones.

Apparently not?

# sudo dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --add --rename --divert 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub by gnotepad+-help'

# sudo dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --remove --rename --divert 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.gnotepad+ 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html 
to /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.gnotepad+ by gnotepad+-help'
  found `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub by gnotepad+-help'

# sudo aptitude -P purge gnotepad+-help
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  gnotepad+-help
The following packages have been kept back:
  apt apt-spy apt-utils aptitude bash bibtool build-essential curl dnsutils
  docbook docbook-xml e2fslibs e2fsprogs g++ gcc gij-4.0 irb1.8
  libapt-pkg-perl libbind9-0 libblkid1 libcurl3 libdbd-mysql-perl
  libdbd-pg-perl libdmx-dev libdmx1 libfam0c102 libgcj6
  libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libmime-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libqcad0-dev libreadline-ruby1.8 librpm4
  libruby1.8 libsm-dev libsm6 libttf-dev libttf2 libxau-dev libxau6
  libxdmcp-dev libxdmcp6 libxfixes3 lilo lshw lvm2 manpages-dev
  mysql-client mysql-common nagios-plugins octave2.1 passwd postgresql
  postgresql-common proftpd pydb python-apt python-netcdf python2.3-mysqldb
  render-dev rpm ruby1.8 sablotron subversion sysutils tasksel tetex-base
  texinfo vim vim-common x-dev xpdf-common xpdf-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnotepad+-help
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 75 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 114297 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnotepad+-help ...
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub by gnotepad+-help'
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnp by gnotepad+-help'
  found `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnotepad+ by gnotepad+-help'
dpkg: error processing gnotepad+-help (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 

Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D Schleif]

* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:18:34:52+0200] scribed:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> >> Now, I am unable to install, remove and purge gnotepad+-help; and
> >> EVERYTHING else is stuck!!!
> 
> >> What do you think?
> 
> > I'm preparing an update that will fix this.
> 
> Actually, you seem to have upgraded gnotepad+-help from a
> pre-1:1.2.0-1 version to 1:1.2.0-1 or later. I have been unable to put
> my grubby paws on a pre-1:1.2.0-1 version of gnotepad+-help, and I
> could then indeed not handle upgrades gracefully. Do you still have
> the old version? Then please send it to me.

OK, let's be reasonable about this.  Not only do I not know how this got
onto this system; I do not find it on any of my dozen other debian
boxen.

I am the one and only person to ever file a bug against this package;
and I do not even want it.

# dpkg -l gnotepad+-help
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version  Description

+++---
rH  gnotepad+-help   1.2.0-2  gnotepad+ User's Manual

# dpkg -L gnotepad+-help
Package `gnotepad+-help' does not contain any files (!)


At this point, I will be perfectly satisfied when you simply tell me how
to purge ALL files, and to get apt database to know NOTHING about this
package.

Yes, I am willing to do this manually.

What do you think?

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Bug#371151: gnotepad+-help `diversion' breaks other installations

[Michael D Schleif]

* Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:19:35:18+0200] scribed:
> reopen 371151
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> > * Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:19:02:13+0200] scribed:
> >> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:46:25AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> >>> * Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:06:07:18:34:52+0200] 
> >>> scribed:
> >>>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:27:59PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> >> These commands:
> 
> >> dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --add --rename \
> >> --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub 
> >> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
> >> dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --remove --rename \
> >> --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.gnotepad+ 
> >> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html
> 
> >> should get you rid of the exact error message you are getting; without
> >> access to the older versions, I don't know whether you will have other
> >> ones.
> 
> > Apparently not?
> 
> Yes! You get a _different_ error message now. As I said, the exact
> error you were getting is solved, but you are getting another one. We
> are making progress.
> 
> > dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
> >   when removing `diversion of 
> > /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
> > /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnp by gnotepad+-help'
> >   found `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
> > /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnotepad+ by gnotepad+-help'
> 
> So you need to do:
> 
>  dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --remove --rename \
>  --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnotepad+ 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html
>  dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --add --rename \
>  --divert /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.stub 
> /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html

O, iterative processes ;>

Still b0rk3n:

# sudo dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --remove --rename --divert 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnotepad+ 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.gnotepad+ by gnotepad+-help'

# sudo dpkg-divert --package gnotepad+-help --add --rename --divert 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.stub 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.stub by gnotepad+-help'

# sudo aptitude -P purge gnotepad+-help
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apt apt-spy apt-utils aptitude bash bibtool build-essential curl dnsutils
  docbook docbook-xml e2fslibs e2fsprogs g++ gcc gij-4.0 irb1.8
  libapt-pkg-perl libbind9-0 libblkid1 libcurl3 libdbd-mysql-perl
  libdbd-pg-perl libdmx-dev libdmx1 libfam0c102 libgcj6
  libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libmime-perl
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl libqcad0-dev libreadline-ruby1.8 librpm4
  libruby1.8 libsm-dev libsm6 libttf-dev libttf2 libxau-dev libxau6
  libxdmcp-dev libxdmcp6 libxfixes3 lilo lshw lvm2 manpages-dev
  mysql-client mysql-common nagios-plugins octave2.1 passwd postgresql
  postgresql-common proftpd pydb python-apt python-netcdf python2.3-mysqldb
  render-dev rpm ruby1.8 sablotron subversion sysutils tasksel tetex-base
  texinfo vim vim-common x-dev xpdf-common xpdf-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnotepad+-help
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 75 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 114295 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnotepad+-help ...
No diversion `diversion of /usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index.html.stub by gnotepad+-help', none 
removed
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html to 
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnotepad+/C/index-5.html.g

Bug#370499: ntp-server: Installation failed: action "start" failed

[michael d. schleif]

Package: ntp-server
Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


ntp-server (1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1) is running on this box.

Every time that I try to install another package, (dist-)upgrade the
system, or reinstall ntp-server, it throws error, and causes other
installations to show as IN-complete:

# sudo aptitude -P reinstall ntp-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  diff ed ifupdown libart-2.0-2 libatm1 libaudiofile0 libcap1 
libdigest-sha1-perl libieee1284-3
  libjasper-1.701-1 libpopt0 libraw1394-5 libxml-parser-perl mawk ncompress 
nvi talk time
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  ntp-server
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 18 
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up ntp-server (4.2.0a+stable-8.1) ...
Starting NTP server: ntpdinvoke-rc.d: initscript ntp-server, action "start" 
failed.
dpkg: error processing ntp-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ntp-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up ntp-server (4.2.0a+stable-8.1) ...
Starting NTP server: ntpdinvoke-rc.d: initscript ntp-server, action "start" 
failed.
dpkg: error processing ntp-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ntp-server


Yes, I know that this is partially a result of the way my apt,
preferences and pinning are configured.  Nevertheless, this particular
version of ntp0-server is broken; and I do not know how to fix it; nor
to avoid these nasty ramifications.

What do you think?


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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp
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Versions of packages ntp-server depends on:
ii  ntp  1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1 Network Time Protocol: network uti
ii  ntp-simple   1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1 Network Time Protocol: daemon for 

ntp-server recommends no packages.

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Bug#307832: freewrl: NO plugin file included

[Michael D. Schleif]

Package: freewrl
Version: 1.07-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


[1]  This is what aptitude says is included with thie package:

# aptitude show freewrl
Package: freewrl
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.07-1
 ...
Description: VRML browser and netscape plugin

[2] When the plugin does NOT work, I goto the project homepage, and
there it says this:


1. Is the Plugin installed?

"After installing FreeWRL, restart your browser. The file "npfreewrl.so"
is the FreeWRL Plugin; it should reside in a directory where your
browser can find it."

[3] Neither of the following quries find "npfreewrl.so" on my systems:

dpkg -L freewrl

find / | grep npfreewrl


What do you think?


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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages freewrl depends on:
ii  libc62.3.2.ds1-20GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libjpeg626b-9The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libperl5.8   5.8.4-6 Shared Perl library
ii  libpng12-0   1.2.8rel-1  PNG library - runtime
ii  libwww-perl  5.803-3 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  perl 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.8.4 5.8.4-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii  xlibmesa-glu [libglu1]   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii  xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.2-3   compression library - runtime

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