Bug#665741: freevo: fails to install due to insserv rejecting the script header

2012-03-26 Thread A. Costa
Package: freevo
Version: 1.9.2b2-3
Followup-For: Bug #665741

Confirm.  Among other messages, my upgrade shows:

update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header

HTH...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freevo depends on:
ii  adduser3.113+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  freevo-data1.9.2b2-3
ii  kbd1.15.3-7
ii  lsdvd  0.16-3+b1
ii  mplayer3:1.0~rc4+svn20120313-0.0
ii  mplayer2 [mplayer] 1:2.0~git20120313-0.1
ii  python 2.7.2-10
ii  python-freevo  1.9.2b2-3
ii  xinit  1.3.1-1

Versions of packages freevo recommends:
ii  cdparanoia 3.10.2+debian-10.1
ii  libxmltv-perl  0.5.61-1
ii  xine-ui0.99.7~hg20120125-1
ii  xmltv-util 0.5.61-1

Versions of packages freevo suggests:
ii  fbset  2.1-25
ii  fbxine 
ii  flac   1.2.1-6
ii  fonts-liberation [ttf-liberation]  1.07.2-2
ii  lame   1:3.99.5-0.0
ii  libdvdcss2 1.2.12-0.0
ii  matrox-tools   
ii  mencoder   3:1.0~rc4+svn20120313-0.0
ii  nvram-wakeup   
ii  ttf-liberation 1.07.2-2
ii  ttf-mscorefonts-installer  3.4
ii  vorbis-tools   1.4.0-1

-- debconf information:
* freevo/display: x11
  freevo/path_to_audio: /var/lib/freevo/audio
  freevo/path_to_image: /var/lib/freevo/image
* freevo/norm: ntsc
  freevo/title_image: Image folder
* freevo/chanlist: us-bcast
* freevo/geometry: 640x480
  freevo/title_audio: Audio folder
  freevo/path_to_recordings: /var/lib/freevo/recordings
  freevo/path_to_video: /var/lib/freevo/video
  freevo/title_video: Video folder
* freevo/services:



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Bug#589796: [gscan2pdf-help] Can't save PDF with gscan2pdf

2010-07-25 Thread A. Costa
Package: gscan2pdf
Version: 0.9.32~1
Severity: normal


I have the same bug on my system, currently can save as .PNG, but not .PDFs.  
As advised here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589796#70

...I installed the log-able version, then ran:

gscan2pdf --log=/tmp/gscan2pdf_wont_save.log

Scanned a blank page, tried to save as a .PDF and quit.  The log
is attached.

Hope this helps...



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gscan2pdf depends on:
ii  imagemagick  7:6.6.2.6-1 image manipulation programs
ii  libconfig-general-perl   2.48-1  Generic Configuration Module
ii  libforks-perl0.34-1  Perl module to emulate threads wit
ii  libgoo-canvas-perl   0.06-1  Perl interface to the GooCanvas
ii  libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl  0.50-2  simple interface to Gtk2's complex
ii  libgtk2-imageview-perl   0.05-1  Perl bindings for the GtkImageView
ii  libhtml-parser-perl  3.65-1  collection of modules that parse H
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl   1.05-6  Using libc functions for internati
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl 1.28-1  A Perl port of the widely popular 
ii  libpdf-api2-perl 0.73-1  module for creating or modifying P
ii  libproc-processtable-perl0.45-1  Perl library for accessing process
ii  libreadonly-perl 1.03-2  Facility for creating read-only sc
ii  librsvg2-common  2.26.3-1SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsane-perl 0.03-1  Perl bindings for the SANE (Scanne
ii  libset-intspan-perl  1.14-1  Perl module to manage sets of inte
ii  libtiff-tools3.9.4-1 TIFF manipulation and conversion t
ii  perl-modules [libarchive-tar 5.10.1-13   Core Perl modules
ii  perlmagick   7:6.6.0.4-2 Perl interface to the ImageMagick 
ii  sane-utils   1.0.21-1API library for scanners -- utilit

Versions of packages gscan2pdf recommends:
pn  cuneiform  (no description available)
ii  djvulibre-bin3.5.22-9Utilities for the DjVu image forma
ii  gocr 0.48-1  A command line OCR
ii  libgtk2-ex-podviewer 0.18-1  Perl Gtk2 widget for displaying Pl
ii  sane 1.0.14-9scanner graphical frontends
pn  tesseract-ocr  (no description available)
ii  unpaper  0.3-1   post-processing tool for scanned p
ii  xdg-utils1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from

gscan2pdf suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


gscan2pdf_wont_save.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data


Bug#578026: should not migrate to testing before linux-2.6

2010-05-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-3
Severity: normal


"Me too."  I read the new package list in 'Debian Project News', then
eagerly installed 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau', and was chagrined to
read:

zgrep -m 1 -B 3 -A 1 -n support 
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/README.Debian
5-with the libdrm-nouveau package in Debian.  Unfortunately,
6-libdrm-nouveau and the kernel module are coupled very tightly, and you
7-may not be able to upgrade one without the other.  As of this writing,
8:supported kernels are the Debian 2.6.32 kernel, starting with
9-linux-image-2.6.32-4-$arch versions, and any 2.6.33 kernel.  Upstream

Supposing there are good reasons (not obvious to users) to have the
package not depend on a newer kernel; perhaps the Suggests or
Recommends fields could mention a newer kernel.

HTH...

-- Package-specific info:
/var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist.

/var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist.

X server symlink status:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 14  2006 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1725368 Apr 19 14:17 /usr/bin/Xorg

/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster does not exist.

VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15DDR [GeForce2 Ti] 
(rev a4)

/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum does not exist.

Xorg X server configuration file status:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 929 Mar  9 20:50 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeis...@builder63)  Thu Jan 28 16:14:36 
PST 2010



Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Sony Multiscan 300sf"
HorizSync   30.0 - 86.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 150.0
ModeLine   "1280x...@85hz(VESA)" 148.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 960 961 964 
1011 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine   "1024x...@85hz(VESA)" 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 
808 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine   "800x...@85hz(VESA)" 563.0 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 
+hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia"
 Driver "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia"
Monitor"Sony Multiscan 300sf"
SubSection "Display"
Modes  "1280x...@85hz(VESA)" "1024x...@85hz(VESA)" 
"800x...@85hz(VESA)"
EndSubSection
EndSection



Kernel version (/proc/version):
Linux version 2.6.32-3-686 (Debian 2.6.32-9) (m...@debian.org) (gcc version 
4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-8) ) #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 06:14:20 UTC 2010

Xorg X server log files on system:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32757 Jul  2  2009 /var/log/Xorg.1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45869 May  3 16:59 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X.Org X Server 1.7.6.901 (1.7.7 RC 1)
Release Date: 2010-04-12
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux Arf.obligatory.org 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 
25 06:14:20 UTC 2010 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686 
root=UUID=43a9899e-2b04-11d3-889e-a2b694121295 ro quiet
Build Date: 19 April 2010  06:12:31PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.6.901-3 (Cyril Brulebois ) 
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May  3 15:15:55 2010
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Sony Multiscan 300sf"
(**) |   |-->Device "nVidia"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) The server relies

Bug#483650: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: 'Xen kernel' breaks 'nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source'.

2008-06-27 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:50:12 -0400, Len Sorensen wrote:

> I am making a patch to fix the legacy driver.  Not a kernel problem.

About that patch, over on the 96xx branch, your patch is being used:

nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source: Fails to compile with kernel 2.6.25
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477643

...so I was curious if a 71xx version was pending.

To anybody, I notice upstream has a patch:

Using NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers with Linux 2.6.25
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110088

...but it's not clear from the instructions there what the proper
'Debian way' to apply it is.   On the 96xx bug (#477643) L. Sorensen
put two patches, one for 'xen' and another for 96xx:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477643#12

...where the 96xx patch is identical to upstream's 96xx patch, and the 
'xen' is a general tweak for a Debian nv setup script 'usr/src/nv/conftest.sh'.

Therefore, upstream's 71xx and Sorensen's 'xen' patch together should
probably work.  But I'm not sure of what the "Debian way" to apply
those is... preferably it should be in the form of a foolproof
one-liner that any user can cut n' paste, but no complex 10-step
recipes that requires checking version numbers, deciding where to put
files, yadda yadda yadda.

Pseudo-code might look something like:

PATCHDIR=/tmp/foo; cd $PATCHDIR && wget  && m-a 
 && patch  && m-a 



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Bug#483650: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: 'Xen kernel' breaks 'nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source'.

2008-05-30 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 30 May 2008 11:21:18 +0200
maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> reassign nvidia-kernel-source
> stop

Sorry, too slow:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=483650

>  boaah not again, wrong package.
>  please next time to a *little* reasearch, thanks

I sympathize, it gotta be annoying to get so many repeats.  Yet it was
done in good faith -- I always check the BTS for the package in
question:  in this case the page for 'linux-image-2.6.25-2-686' didn't
mention those other bugs.  OTOH, I don't always search the web for a
given Debian bug, as upstream (or other distos) bugs might not be
applicable to Debian.

It might be a question of how cross references should work, kinda like
the late 1970s M. Adler Britannica, which had no index; after
complaints they added an index in the '80s.  Maybe there's some
preventative way the BTS could be changed to warn users of recent
sweeping bugs like this one that are likely to effect a whole lot of
packages.  Or the BTS pages for packages with many variants like
'linux-image*' could make special mention of where to look for general
bugs.

> also you are no longer running a free os with the nvdia blob.
> sold your soul over and out

Sad but true, periodically recompiling buggy proprietary drivers is
like some Sisyphean task assigned by vengeful devils.

Note to fellow purgatorians.  The kludges here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481485#26

...soothed my sinful system.  



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Bug#475924: Me too: console-data uninstallable when upgrading from 2:1.06-2 to 2:1.07-1

2008-04-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: console-data
Version: 2:1.07-1
Followup-For: Bug #475924


Same bug here.  'apt-get install console-data' reports:

Setting up console-data (2:1.07-1) ...
no template type specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 34, 
 chunk 10.
dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  console-data
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(Doesn't seem "grave" though, as everything else still seems to work.)

HTH...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-data depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages console-data recommends:
ii  console-common 0.7.75basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  console-tools  1:0.2.3dbs-65 Linux console and font utilities
ii  kbd-compat [kbd]   1:0.2.3dbs-65 Wrappers around console-tools for 

-- debconf information:
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/swedish/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/serbian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/azerty/layout: French
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/portugese/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/variant: Standard
  console-keymaps-at/keymap:
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/french/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovene/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/with_euro__latin_9_/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/slovak/variant: Standard
  console-keymaps-usb/keymap:
  console-keymaps-acorn/keymap:
  console-keymaps-sun/keymap:
  console-data/keymap/ignored:
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/wang/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/czech/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hungarian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/standard/keymap: Diacritics with AltGr and 
Alt
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/variant: us
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/apple_usb/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/danish/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/byelorussian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/dutch/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/japanese/pc_110/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/with_euro__latin_15_/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/azerty/belgian/variant: Standard
* console-data/keymap/policy: Don't touch keymap
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/with_euro__latin_0_/keymap: Standard
  console-data/bootmap-md5sum: e6846fb67d9af04637910b4e7b7edc60
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/same_as_x11__latin_9_/keymap:
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/estonian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/german/apple_usb/keymap: latin1
  console-data/keymap/azerty/french/variant: With Euro (latin 9)
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap: latin4
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/czech/variant: Standard
* console-data/keymap/family: qwerty
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/french/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/layout: Unknown
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/italian/apple_usb/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/british/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/icelandic/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/polish/standard/keymap:
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/us_american/apple_usb/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/serbian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/template/variant:
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/greek/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/polish/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/dvorak/unknown/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/hebrew/variant: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwertz/hungarian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/norwegian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/norvegian/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/standard/keymap: unicode
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/spanish/standard/keymap: Standard
  console-data/keymap/qwerty/finnish/old__obsolete_/keymap: Standard
  console-data

Bug#474060: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx: uninstallable package version 71.86.04-1

2008-04-04 Thread A. Costa
Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
Version: 71.86.01-1
Followup-For: Bug #474060


Seconded.  Starting form a system with working GLX, I upgraded and did
all the right(?) stuff as described here:

http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt

...the result is that 'nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx' won't install:

% apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
{ ... }
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx: Depends: nvidia-glx but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
specify a solution).

% apt-get -f install
{ ... }
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9916kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

The 'X' start message may help web searchers find this bug:

Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 71.86.04,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 71.86.01.  Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.

My 'nvidia' related version info:

% for x in `dglob nvid` ; do printf "%-39s" $x ; dlocate -s $x | grep Vers 
; done
nvidia-xconfig Version: 1.0+20070502-1
nvidia-kernel-source   Version: 169.09-1
nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx Version: 71.86.01-1
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-2.6.24-1-686 Version: 71.86.04-1+2.6.24-5
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source   Version: 71.86.04-1
nvidia-kernel-common   Version: 20051028+1-0.1

HTH...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx depends on:
ii  libc6  2.7-10GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6   2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6   2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
pn  nvidia-kernel-lega (no description available)
ii  x11-common 1:7.3+10  X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  xserver-xorg-core  2:1.4.1~git20080131-3 Xorg X server - core server

nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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Bug#453160: Whither debram?

2008-03-11 Thread A. Costa
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:57:39 +
"Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This message is copied to A. Costa, who has a
> long-outstanding bug filed against the package and might
> be interested in the package's future (or, conceivably,
> might wish to take over its maintenance himself)

Flattering, but I'm not a Debian maintainer -- for me the whole brick &
mortar handshake "web of trust" thing won't work, I'm not a "joiner",
don't know anybody "in person", and live in a small town.  If it were
up to me I'd revise Debian to have a "web of doubt", but that's another
matter entirely...

On maintaining 'debram':  you've done a good job, but dropping it is
the wrong approach, since it's your baby & credit.  In particular
'debram' isn't a finished work that only needs to be "maintained",
it's a work in progress that requires authorial oversight, sculpting,
and steering -- Noah Webster, Roget, Bartlett, Brewer, et al, weren't
exactly creative artists, but their projects probably would have
fizzled without their respective tastes and good judgements.

Perhaps what's needed are ways of making the maintenance less work, or
virtually no work.  Maybe have some email server or 'wiki'-like
interface that users contributed to, scripts ran sanity checks on, then
the prospective data would be vetted sequentially by a series of
volunteers to guarantee the data was sound.  Disregarding for the moment
whatever time it would take to implement such measures...

Operations such an interface ("invitation only" at first) would do:

1) add new things, (items, cross refs).
2) move things around.
3) delete (or "archive") things.
4) periodically monitor Debian packages and make a 'todo' list.

Sequential vetting model:

1) Pool of volunteer reviewers.  Maybe 9 or 10.  An
   upper limit to this number might prevent many 
   diverging opinions.

2) Changes are checked by three random reviewers, 'Y/N', sequentially.  
   (No reviewer vets their own stuff, except the maintainer.)

3) All three have backups, if they don't vote after 'n' days,
   their "second" votes.  Possibly "thirds" might be needed.

4) It passes that, it's in.  Scripts update 'debram' & post it.

5) Maintainer has retroactive veto, if desired.  

I'm modeling this after a dictionary/encyclopedia staff, with the
redundancy thrown in because nobody can do it full time. Later, if it
worked, more functions and fields could be added, e.g. stats, ratings,
etc.

Rule '2)' above might be too arbitrary.  Maybe multiple choice
questions like this:

package 'foo' most belongs in:

a) file utils
b) net utils
c) games
d) 

Where one of the above is the proposed answer, and the other
two are picked at random.  I'm less sure if unanimity is as necessary
for such a method -- random users might even be good at succesive
iteratons of the above.

All this assumes the main time sink is the 'debram' catalog itself,
if Debian is growing too large for one man to survey.  If the time
problems are just for ordinary of maintenance, then AFAIK you could
deputize users as "co-maintainers", to do little jobs.

HTH...



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Bug#462069: #462069 cupsys: enabling printer sharing breaks the server config file

2008-02-17 Thread A. Costa
Seconded (or 3rd'ed or whatever).  After tweaking a few things with the CUPS
web server today, my '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' had:

% grep DefaultAuthType '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'
DefaultAuthType �c

...restarting the server failed:

% /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sun Feb 17 18:06:30 2008 ...
Arf cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - 
exiting!
cupsd: Child exited with status 1!

Did something in the web based config engine add the garbage?

NB: there's two bugs here.

1) Something adds garbage to 'cupsd.conf'

2) Vague error message.  Suggested revision:

Foobar cupsd: Garbage characters on line #11 of 
'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!

   A web search shows many users have been confused by the current 
   error message; I should open a new bug.

More detail:

% grep DefaultAuthType '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' | hexdump -C
  44 65 66 61 75 6c 74 41  75 74 68 54 79 70 65 20  
|DefaultAuthType |
0010  90 ec 05 08 63 0a |c.|
0016

Commenting out the line allows CUPS to restart.

HTH...

(cupsys v 1.3.5-1+b1)





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Bug#425803: #425803 [FIXED 2007-11]: upgrade fails ... (still fails here)

2007-07-22 Thread A. Costa
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:28:15 +0200
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm not sure what the latest advice in this report is, but it seems
> you need to put texlive-base first (which provides modes.mf),

...tried it, didn't work.

> or to
> run dpkg -i --force-confmiss on the packages separately, starting with
> texlive-base. 

Also that:

% for f in texlive-base_2007-10_all.deb 
texlive-base-bin_2007-12_i386.deb texlive-latex-base_2007-10_all.deb ; do dpkg 
-i --force-confmiss $f ; done

But no luck.
 
> Or simply try removing the packages for which the postinst was already
> run (even if it failed).

Which packages are these, (some or all)?  And what if I need them, do I
reinstall only to fail again?

Thanks for the advice, though I'm not a fan of the "try this" school of
help; in the long run it's better to know the reason why something
should work, why it fails, or how it's supposed to work, what it does.
Not coincidentally that information is more useful for the BTS public
record -- others may read this looking for clues to the same or similar
problems.  Even when "try this" advice works, it tends to expire
quickly, whereas the theory and underlying mechanics of a program
usually has a longer shelf life.



Bug#425803: #425803 [FIXED 2007-11]: upgrade fails ... (still fails here)

2007-07-07 Thread A. Costa
Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-12
Followup-For: Bug #425803


Though I've tried the fixing advice here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425803

...the package won't install:

% cd /var/cache/apt/archives
% dpkg --force-confmiss -i texlive-base-bin_2007-12_i386.deb 
texlive-base_2007-10_all.deb  texlive-latex-base_2007-10_all.deb(Reading 
database ... 197544 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace texlive-base-bin 2007-12 (using 
texlive-base-bin_2007-12_i386.deb) ...
{ etc...}
Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007-12) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time... 
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.nae14327
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-base-bin (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-base:
 texlive-base depends on texlive-base-bin (>= 2007-8); however:
  Package texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base:
 texlive-latex-base depends on texlive-base (>= 2007-7); however:
  Package texlive-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-base-bin
 texlive-base
 texlive-latex-base
% echo $?
1

Attached is the '/tmp/fmtutil.nae14327' file from the above output.

Hope this helps...


-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries 
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!

If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)

or 

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)

##
minimal input file


##
other files

##
 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 648 Jul  7 10:41 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 25 Oct 17  2005 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -> 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 21 12:04 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul  7 10:13 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul  7 10:13 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
##
 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 21 12:04 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> 
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6036 Jul  7 10:41 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3128 Jul  7 10:41 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1835 Jul  7 10:41 
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
##
 Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Aug 16  2006 mktex.cnf
##
 md5sums of texmf.d
25bf3a257a0bedb5c67349c3eaff74af  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
8a26468004b5ebc7ae9884740356c1d0  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
595ef1ea9fb3389b97c04ab819cbc795  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf.dpkg-old
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
e36faa13563bdb46303b91ab3f6ea638  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
7e8f87acdeba48edac16d851c77b9e75  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf

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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
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ii  libc6   2.5-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libkpathsea42007-12  TeX Live: path search libr

Bug#430079: 'scantv -h': Segmentation fault

2007-06-21 Thread A. Costa
Package: scantv
Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


% scantv ; echo $?
Segmentation fault
139
% scantv -h ; echo $?
Segmentation fault
139

Attached is the output of:

% strace -o /tmp/scantv.log scantv -h

Hope this helps...


-- System Information:
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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages scantv depends on:
ii  libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libjpeg62 6b-13  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-01.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libzvbi0  0.2.25-1   Vertical Blanking Interval decoder
ii  xawtv-plugins 3.95.dfsg.1-3  plugins for xawtv and motv
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime

scantv recommends no packages.

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Bug#386737: #386737: crashs on startup with syntax error in /usr/bin/reportbug

2006-09-09 Thread A. Costa
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.29.4
Followup-For: Bug #386737


I have the same bug... Jacob's fix works though.  In case the
maintainer is busy, attached is a perhaps superfluous patch for any
users who don't feel like typing.  HTH.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="mcedit"
EMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/alfie/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.2"
mode standard
ui text
realname "A Costa"
email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  python2.3.5-11   An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central0.5.5  register and build utility for Pyt

Versions of packages reportbug recommends:
pn  python-cjkcodecs | python-ico  (no description available)

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--- /tmp/reportbug  2006-09-10 01:11:25.0 -0400
+++ /usr/bin/reportbug  2006-09-10 01:25:13.0 -0400
@@ -480,8 +480,8 @@
 if email_name != def_realname:
 print >> fp, rn % email_name.encode(charset, 'replace')
 else:
-print >> fp, '# '+(rn % email_name.encode(charset, 'replace')
-
+print >> fp, '# '+(rn % email_name.encode(charset, 'replace'))
+
 if email_addy != def_email:
 print >> fp, em % email_addy
 else:



Bug#373939: python2.3: Confirm #373939: Python2.3 Upgrading problem

2006-06-16 Thread A. Costa
Package: python2.3
Version: 2.3.5-14
Followup-For: Bug #373939


Confirmed here.  The same bug shows up on my system:

% dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.5-14_i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 180261 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.3 2.3.5-14 (using 
.../python2.3_2.3.5-14_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.3 ...
Setting up python2.3 (2.3.5-14) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1365, in ?
main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1359, in main
rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1008, in run
pkg.set_default_runtime_from_version_info()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 575, in 
set_default_runtime_from_version_info
self.default_runtime = get_runtime_for_version(versions[0])
TypeError: unindexable object
dpkg: error processing python2.3 (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.3

% echo $?
1

Here's something odd -- if I downgrade one version the error
is still there:

% dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.5-13_i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 180261 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.3 2.3.5-14 (using 
.../python2.3_2.3.5-13_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.3 ...
Setting up python2.3 (2.3.5-13) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1365, in ?
main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1359, in main
rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1008, in run
pkg.set_default_runtime_from_version_info()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 575, in 
set_default_runtime_from_version_info
self.default_runtime = get_runtime_for_version(versions[0])
TypeError: unindexable object
dpkg: error processing python2.3 (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.3

Usually downgrading fixes such things, but not in this instance.

Hope this helps...


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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages python2.3 depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.01.0.3-2high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6 2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.3  4.3.29-5   Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii  libncurses5   5.5-2  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5  5.1-7  GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8   0.9.8b-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  python-central0.4.16 register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages python2.3 recommends:
ii  python2.3-iconvcodec  1.1.2-2.2  Python universal Unicode codec, us

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Bug#352177: Confirm: relocation error: symbol png_read_data, version PNG12_0 not defined in file l

2006-02-20 Thread A Costa
Package: pngcrush
Version: 1.5.10-2
Followup-For: Bug #352177


The same bug manifests itself on my system:

% pngcrush figger.png figger2.png ; echo $?
Warning: versions are different between png.h and png.c
  png.h version: 1.2.7
  png.c version: 1.2.8


 | pngcrush 1.5.10, Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
{ ...etc... }

pngcrush: relocation error: pngcrush: symbol png_read_data, version PNG12_0 
not defined in file libpng12.so.0 with link time reference
127

Hope this helps...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages pngcrush depends on:
ii  libc6 2.3.6-1GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpng12-01.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-9  compression library - runtime

pngcrush recommends no packages.

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Bug#335958: #335958: drip segfaults

2005-10-27 Thread A Costa
Package: drip
Version: 0.8.3.2+0.9.0-rc3-7
Followup-For: Bug #335958


Same here:

% drip ; echo $?
Segmentation fault
139

(C. Thomas suggestion for downgrading results in a working 'drip' though.)

HTH...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages drip depends on:
ii  gdk-imlib11   1.9.14-24  imaging library for use with gtk
ii  liba52-0.7.4  0.7.4-1Library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii  libaa11.4p5-29   ascii art library
ii  libart2   1.4.2-25   The GNOME canvas widget - runtime 
ii  libartsc0 1.4.2-5aRts sound system C support librar
ii  libasound21.0.9-3ALSA library
ii  libaudio2 1.7-3  The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libavifile-0. 1:0.7.44.20051021-1shared libraries for AVI read/writ
ii  libbz2-1.01.0.2-10   high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6 2.3.5-7GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb33.2.9-22   Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii  libdps1   6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libdvdread3   0.9.4-5.1  Simple foundation for reading DVDs
ii  libesd-alsa0  0.2.36-1   Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libfontconfig 2.3.2-1.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6  2.1.10-1   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1   1:4.0.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libgdk-pixbuf 0.22.0-10  The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+ 
ii  libglib1.21.2.10-10  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.8.3-1The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome321.4.2-25   The GNOME libraries
ii  libgnomesuppo 1.4.2-25   The GNOME libraries (Support libra
ii  libgnomeui32  1.4.2-25   The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgtk1.2 1.2.10-18  The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libice6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper-1.7 1.701.0-2  The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62 6b-10  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1  1.13-1 Color management library
ii  libmad0   0.15.1b-2.1MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libmagick96:6.2.4.5-0.2  Image manipulation library
ii  libmpeg2-40.4.0b-2.3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr
ii  libncurses5   5.5-1  Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-01.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0  1.7-5  lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsdl1.2debi 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-5.3 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libslang2 2.0.4-7The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  libsm66.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++64.0.2-3The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1  1:1.4.3-22 console SVGA display libraries
ii  libtiff4  3.7.4-1Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2   2.1.7-1FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi66.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1  6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2   2.6.22-1   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.0-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt66.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  libxv16.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System video extension li
ii  libxxf86dga1  6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Direct Graphics Access extension
ii  libxxf86vm1   6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Video Mode selection library
ii  xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-6  compression library - runtime

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Bug#325188: libflash-mozplugin: firefox pops off

2005-10-24 Thread A Costa
Package: libflash-mozplugin
Version: 0.4.13-4
Followup-For: Bug #325188


I installed 'libflash-mozplugin' today and started getting this bug, and
NOT just in 'firefox' -- also 'mozilla', 'galeon', and 'epiphany' too. 
In every instance (see below), I'd get the imdb home page, type anything
in its search box, hit enter, and then the browser would "pop off",
cease, or crash:

% galeon www.imdb.com

(galeon:4708): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped 
in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
NP_Initialize
New
open dsp: Device or resource busy
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
Destroy
The program 'galeon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 30 error_code 169 request_code 148 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

% firefox www.imdb.com
NP_Initialize
New
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
NewStream
WriteReady
Write
DestroyStream
Destroy
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 30 error_code 169 request_code 148 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

% mozilla www.imdb.com

(Gecko:6518): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped 
in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
NP_Initialize
New
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
NewStream
WriteReady
Write
DestroyStream
Destroy
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 30 error_code 169 request_code 148 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

% epiphany www.imdb.com

(epiphany:6595): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has 
wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
NP_Initialize
New
open dsp: Device or resource busy
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
NewStream
WriteReady
Write
DestroyStream
Destroy
The program 'epiphany' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 30 error_code 169 request_code 148 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

After the above errors, I unstalled, (purged) 'libflash-mozplugin', and
then every browser worked fine.

Just to test it, I installed 'libflash-mozplugin' again, and every browser
crashed just as before.


Hope this helps...


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Bug#326507: The plugin makes Firefox crash very often

2005-10-22 Thread A Costa
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Version: 3.05-1
Followup-For: Bug #326507


Just a note to confirm that I see the same bug on this system (not my
usual one).  Nothing new to add other than its system data below.

HTH...

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Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
en_US)

Versions of packages mozilla-mplayer depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0  1.10.3-1The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc62.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1  1:4.0.2-2   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.6.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-01.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++6   4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxpm4  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X pixmap library
ii  libxt6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mozilla-firefox  1.0.6-5 lightweight web browser based on M
ii  mplayer-nogui [mplayer]  1:1.0-pre6-0.1  The Ultimate Movie Player For Linu
ii  xlibs6.8.2.dfsg.1-7  X Window System client libraries m

mozilla-mplayer recommends no packages.

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Bug#328704: libexif-gtk5: dependency problem with libexif-gtk4

2005-09-26 Thread A Costa
Package: libexif-gtk5
Followup-For: Bug #328704


Said Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Removing libexif-gtk4 (which gtkam depends on) and then reinstalling
> gtkam brings things to rights.

That didn't work on my system, I had to remove 'gtkam' too.
This works:

% apt-get remove libexif-gtk4 gtkam ; apt-get install gtkam


Hope this helps...

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Bug#303352: trouble with 'apropos' & 'tea'

2005-05-11 Thread A Costa
Package: tea
Version: 9.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #303352


It's the curse of 'dak'.  The man page still thinks 'teaed' is called 'tea'.

  % apropos "^tea" | grep text
  tea (1)  - small text editor for gnome2
  teaed (1)- small text editor for gnome2

Any 'tea' page?

  % man tea | wc
  No manual entry for tea
0   0   0

Howbout 'teaed'?

  % man teaed | wc
  33 1261214

And how does it start?

  man teaed | head | nl | sed '/^ *$/d'
   1  TEA(1)
  TEA(1)
   2  NAME
   3 tea - small text editor for gnome2
   4  SYNOPSIS
   5 tea  files

...which is why 'apropos' still lists 'tea'.  It's a pity too, 
"tea" is a much nicer name than "teaed".  Maybe a separator 
or some capitals would improve its look:  "tea.ed", 
"tea-ed", "teaED", "teaEd", "teaE", "tea-argh", ... 

HTH...

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Versions of packages tea depends on:
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ii  libatk1.0-01.8.0-4   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6  2.3.2.ds1-21  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.6.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-02.6.4-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0  1.8.1-1   Layout and rendering of internatio

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