Re: Announcing release 3.48 of reposurgeon

2019-10-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Jeremy Bicha :
> > Is there any specific notification channel you would recommend?
> 
> It's unnecessary. reposurgeon like many Ubuntu packages is maintained
> in Debian. The Debian packaging includes a "watch" file which is used
> in several places in Debian to allow interested people to easily see
> which packages are out of date.
> 
> See for instance: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/reposurgeon

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Announcing release 3.48 of reposurgeon

2019-10-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.48 of reposurgeon is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon

Here are the most recent changes:

 Last Python release.  4.0 will ship in Go.
 Corrected a minor error in Hg branch coloring.
 Subversion write support has been deemed too weak to live and removed.

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Announcing release 3.47 of reposurgeon

2019-09-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.47 of reposurgeon is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon

Here are the most recent changes:

 Fix for a crash bug when backing out of a script failure.
 Fix for an error that caused premature exit from the divide command.
 Repositories created by expunge command now have correct ancestor marks.
 Insert newly created blobs after front events.
 Minor repair to translation of Subversion default ignores. 
 Add --noignores read option to suppress filling in default Subversion 
ignores.
 Results of reorder and reparent ae no longer toposorted. 
 Fix: repocutter was not patching Node-copyfrom-rev fields as it should.

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Announcing release 3.0.0 of gif2png

2019-06-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.0.0 of gif2png is now available at:

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Here are the most recent changes:

  Code ported to Go.

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Announcing release 2.5.14 of gif2png

2019-06-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.5.14 of gif2png is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png

Here are the most recent changes:

  Redirect segfault to a graceful exit. Tired of meaningless fuzzer bugs.

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Announcing release 2.10 of imgsizer

2019-06-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.10 of imgsizer is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/imgsizer

Here are the most recent changes:

  Forward-ported to run under either current Python 2 or Python 3.

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Announcing release 3.46 of reposurgeon

2019-05-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.46 of reposurgeon is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon

Here are the most recent changes:

 Added 'relax' no-op command.
 Added bug warning about repocutter not handling Mac line terminations.
 Fix for GitLab issue #117: malformed attribution.
 Repocutter help command has been repaired.
 Command renames: mailbox_in - msgin, mailbox_out - msgout.
 The exec and eval commands have been removed.
 Scripts now bail out on error; "relax" suppresses this.
 Fixes for repocutter strip and patherename (GitLab issues #18  #142)
 Document some limitations of repocutter sift and expunge.

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Announcing release 1.8 of open-adventure

2019-04-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 1.8 of open-adventure is now available at:

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Here are the most recent changes:

  Minor typo and capitalization glitches in user-visible text fixed  
documented.
  Save format has changed.

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Announcing release 2.5.13 of gif2png

2019-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.5.13 of gif2png is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png

Here are the most recent changes:

  Include NEWS and test directory in distributed tarball.

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Announcing release 2.5.13 of gif2png

2019-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.5.13 of gif2png is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png

Here are the most recent changes:

  Include NEWS and test directory in distributed tarball.

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Announcing release 2.19 of doclifter

2019-03-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.19 of doclifter is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter

Here are the most recent changes:

  Handle .Bf/.Ef in mdoc. 

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Announcing release 2.19 of doclifter

2019-03-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.19 of doclifter is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter

Here are the most recent changes:

  Handle .Bf/.Ef in mdoc. 

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Announcing release 2.5.12 of gif2png

2019-03-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.5.12 of gif2png is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png

Here are the most recent changes:

  Fix a memory leak that could be triggered by a corrupt or crafted file.

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Request for bison refresh

2019-02-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
This is a nudge about the Bison package in bionic.  The NTPsec project
(which I lead) needs a warning suppression that made it into Bison
3.0.5.  Bionic presently packages 3.0.4. Upgrade please?
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Announcing release 3.18 of ascii

2017-08-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.18 of ascii is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii

Here are the most recent changes:

  Fix a packaging error, include NEWS in the tarball.

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Announcing release 3.16 of ascii

2017-07-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 3.16 of ascii is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii

Here are the most recent changes:

  Add -a option to print in 4-column mode.
  0-fill fix and octal code-point literals.

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[Bug 1006676] Re: showkey fails with "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console"

2017-01-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I am the author of showkey.

I only just became aware of this bug myself, by trying to run showkey in
the terminal emulator under i3.  The curious thing about it is that
"Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" does not occur
as a string in the program source.

I think something else is emitting it, possibly the shell.  When I
googled to try to figure out what, I found this big thread.

The code ran fine under xfce, so there is likely some window-manager
specific thing going on.

I confirm that going root works around the problem.

I think it would be annoying to force users to go root in environments
where it's not necessary, so I'm going to document this as a known
problem on the man page and give the workaround.

The 1,8 release has been shipped.

My apologies for not catching this sooner.  It's not a program I use
often.

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Announcing release 2.18 of irker

2016-06-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.18 of irker is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker

Here are the most recent changes:

  Add the ability to set the notification-message template (Debian bug #824512)

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Announcing release 2.17 of irker

2016-03-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.17 of irker is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker

Here are the most recent changes:

  Add a reconnect delay (Debian bug #749650).
  Add proxy support (requres setting some variables in the source file).
  Use git abbreviated hash to address Debian complaints.

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Announcing release 2.17 of doclifter

2016-03-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.17 of doclifter is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter

Here are the most recent changes:

  Add role mapping for bold highlights.
  Fix list syntax not being terminated by PP.
  Fix a bug that caused pages containing PIC diagrams to get clobbered.
  Fix a bug introduced in 2.16 that caused spurious failures under Python 2.
  Error messages for command and function syntax parse failures have improved.

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[Bug 1554715] [NEW] rmt and rmt-tar should not be autoinstalled

2016-03-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

A "remote magtape protocol module? On PCs? In 2016?

The are potential users for this thing, maybe, on Z-series mainframes,
but having it be autoinstalled  on vanilla desktop machines, or even
ordinary servers, is deeply silly.

Recommendation: split the package.  Yes, tar is essential; rmt is not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: tar 1.27.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-25.30-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Tue Mar  8 15:23:17 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-02 (65 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: tar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: tar (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wily

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Announcing release 2.16 of doclifter

2016-02-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.16 of doclifter is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter

Here are the most recent changes:

  Code now runs under either Python 2 or Python 3.
  Possible input encodings can be specified with the -i option.
  Change default output encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
  Handle .de co and .de au in NAME sections; the groff suite needs this.

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Announcing release 2.16 of irker

2016-02-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.16 of irker is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker

Here are the most recent changes:

  Code now runs under either Python 2 or Python 3

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Announcing release 2.15 of irker

2016-01-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.15 of irker is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker

Here are the most recent changes:

  Emergency backout of getaddrinfo, it randomly hanges.

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Announcing release 2.13 of irker

2015-06-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Release 2.13 of irker is now available at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker

Here are the most recent changes:

  SSL validation fix.
  Hardening agains Unicode decode errors.
  irk becomes a library so it can be re-used.

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Re: [Bug 1189310] Re: Broken markup in tar.1 manual page

2013-08-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Matthew Fischer 1189...@bugs.launchpad.net:
 Eric, before I file this upstream, whats the version of tar you're
 seeing this with?

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[Bug 1189310] [NEW] Broken markup in tar.1 manual page

2013-06-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

tar.1 has the following error codes in my database of manpage glitches:

C   Broken command synopsis syntax.  This may mean you're using a 
construction in the command synopsis other than the standard 
[ ] | { }, or it may mean you have running text in the command synopsis
section (the latter is not technically an error, but most cases of it
are impossible to translate into DocBook markup), or it may mean the 
command syntax fails to match the description.

V   Missing body content in list trips up doclifter and is likely to
cause rendering problems in non-troff viewers.  I have been able to fill
in what was missing except for what should be under TAR_LONGLINK_100.

A fix patch is attached.

** Affects: tar-doc (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Attachment added: Fix patch for markup errors
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189310/+attachment/3699445/+files/tar.1.patch

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[Bug 924861] Re: doclifter does not recognise mm macro files

2013-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I'm doclifter's author.

doclifter doesn't use file extensions to identify macro sets, that isn't 
reliable enough.  Instead it looks for macros that are unique to the set.  To 
trigger mm processing, it wants to see one
of the following: .MT, .SA, or .COVER.

Try adding one of these to each document you want to convert.

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[Bug 1174599] Re: Suspend issue: battery drains; can't resume; must do hard reboot

2013-05-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Not replicating on a Thinkpad X220 running a fresh 13.04.

I think this must be specic to your model and possibly BIOS settings.

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[Bug 1099355] [NEW] cvsps 2.x silently mangles CVS repository translations

2013-01-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

cvsps 2.x deduces incorrect root locations in branchy CVS repositories,
leading to incorrect imports when used with git-cvsimport and other
tools relying on cvsps.  This is a serious bug that can produce silently
damaged repositories.  Recovery from it, though possible, is quite
difficult, requiring manual intervention with a repository-editing tool
such as reposurgeon.

I am the new maintainer of cvsps and have shipped a 3.x release that
solves this problem.  I have written a replacement git-cvsimport that
works with 3.x and am working with the git maintainers to get it merged.
I have arranged for new cvsps to fail with an informative error message
when called by the existing git-cvsimport.

The cvsps 3.x project page is at http://www.catb.org/esr/cvsps/.
Please replace 2.x in the repositories as soon as possible; it is too
buggy to be safely used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cvsps (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 14 05:24:02 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cvsps
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (258 days ago)

** Affects: cvsps (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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[Bug 656517] Re: launcher should allow to start several instances of an application

2011-10-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The cluster of problems with multiple terminal instances in Unity is
*not* fixed, and it is severe enough that it may force me off Ubuntu (I
just upgraded, or I'd have noticed the lossage sooner).

For my workflow, multiple terminals manageable as separate instances are
essential. Yes, I can middle-click to start another instance, and I can
minimize the first one, but if I click the launcher icon *both instances
unminimize*!   This is unacceptable - it's a showstopper.

I want multiple terminal icons in my launcher, one for each instance.

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[Bug 870472] Re: 2048x1536 max resolution worked in 10.04, fails in 11.04

2011-10-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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[Bug 870472] [NEW] 2048x1536 max resolution worked in 10.04, fails in 11.04

2011-10-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

The Samsung 1100DF supports a maximum resolution of 2048x1536.  This was
supported in 10.04, but selecting that resolution produces a garbaged
screen in 11.04.

Based on results of a web search, I tried adding nomodeset to grub's
options.  This had no effect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for 
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Oct  8 01:18:05 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] 
(rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5KPL-VM Motherboard [1043:82b0]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic 
root=UUID=064b9f88-58f4-438d-8ecf-5901c3f378af ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/07/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0608
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P5KPL-CM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0608:bd05/07/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5KPL-CM:rvrx.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 
1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 natty performance regression-update ubuntu

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[Bug 574519] Re: [lucid]gpspipe -f file says invalid option -- 'f'

2010-05-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I'm GPSD's lead. The -f option was renamed to -o last year.  I don't
remember doing it, but it's pretty obvious why somebody did; -o is a
much more common and specific choice for specify output file than -f
is.

I apologize, because our policy is normally to avoid such cosmetic
option renames.  Somebody (possibly me) let that one slip by.

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[Bug 555673] Re: xgps crashed with IndexError in set_satlist_field()

2010-05-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
GPSD lead speaking.  The fix for this one went in on 2010-04-10; should
be present in 2.93 and later public releases.

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[Bug 162410] Re: No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

2009-10-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Doesn't reproduce on 9.04.  I think you can mark this Fixed.

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[Bug 381868] [NEW] [needs-packaging] VASSAL

2009-05-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

The VASSAL Engine is a set of general-purpose Java libraries for
creating online versions of traditional board and card games, with a
strong focus on hex-and-counter wargames. It provides support for game
piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a
live connection.  Several hundred games are supported by downloadable
modules, and there is a very active module-developer community. Play on
vassalengine.com, the principal online community using this software, is
free.

URL: http://www.vassalengine.org
License: LGPL and Creative Commons
Notes: Works with Sun Java 6.

** Affects: ubuntu
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


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[Bug 254669] [NEW] DNS panel of gnome-network-admin is perversely broken

2008-08-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

This may be related to #14328, but I'm seeing different symptoms.  I
believe it's new in Gutsy Gibbon.  Context: I have a laptop with a
static IP set up for my house network.  I have seen similar breakage on
my wife's desktop machine, also configured with static IP.

I cannot add a single nameserver IP to an empty configuration.  Clicking
+Add allows me to enter an address, but after clicking Close the
address does not show up in resolv.conf.

Adding two different nameserver addresses in the same session sometimes
saves the first one, only, to resolv.conf.

Data in the nameserver IP list window sometimes disappears if you move
the mouse outside that window.

** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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Re: [Bug 254669] Re: DNS panel of gnome-network-admin is perversely broken

2008-08-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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 Did you happen to hit enter right after putting the nameserver in?

I don't believe so.
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[Bug 234384] Re: aisleriot scheme crash

2008-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond

** Attachment added: aisleriot-bugreport.txt
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[Bug 234384] [NEW] aisleriot scheme crash

2008-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-games

The state data reported by aisleriot itself is enclosed.  This was under
an up-to-date Gutsy.  This bug should probably go upstream, but I have
not been able to find the right bugtracker for aisleriot itself.

** Affects: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 204691] Re: kubuntu hardy beta upgrade malformed release file error

2008-05-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
This error can be caused by a malformed /etc/apt/sources.list file.
I've seen it in stock Ubuntu.

I think my instance may have got stepped on by some weird bug in the
Python distribution upgrader; when I looked, the last group of lines
duplicated a bunch of multiverse entries earlier in the file, and the
last line ended with a single quote and the word main (rather
obviously malformed).

I removed the malformed last line and the duplicative entries before it
and re-ran the upgrade.  Problem solved.

It is no wonder you were puzzled by Michael Vogt's reply: he should slap
himself, hard.  He pretty clearly had the right information, but his
reply was about as unhelpful as it could possibly have been.  This is a
bug tracker, people come here for help; cryptic and elliptical and
making lots of assumptions about what the user knows is not the right
way to be.

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[Bug 162410] Re: No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

2007-11-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The device has PCI ID [8086:284b] (rev 02).

This appears to be an Ubuntu-specific error.  At
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/intel-dq965gf-mobo-front-sound-jacks-not-working-510302/
I found a post implying that at least the rear jacks on the mobo are
active under Fedora Core 6.

This also appears to be a very hardware-configuration-specific error.
I have an Intel HDA audio device on my X61 laptop with PCI ID
[8086:284b] (rev 03) that works just fine.  Note the 03 as opposed to
02 subrev.

aplay -l, which is supposed to list sound playback devices, returns no
listing on the DQ965GF.  As a check, on the laptop where it works it
returns this:

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lsmod also returns suggestively different results.  On the laptop, its
output includes this line.

snd_hda_intel 337192  1

On the DQ965GF, here are the sound device lines:

snd_hda_intel 337192  0 
snd_usb_audio  96640  1 
snd_pcm_oss50048  0 
snd_mixer_oss  20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm94344  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_usb_lib20352  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_dummy   5380  0 
snd_seq_oss36864  0 
snd_seq_midi   11008  0 
snd_seq_midi_event  9984  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq62496  6 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer  27272  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_rawmidi29824  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 10260  5 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep  12168  1 snd_usb_audio
snd69288  13 
snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore  10272  1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12560  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbcore   161584  8 
usbhid,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,xpad,gspca,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Note that snd_hda_intel has no users and that snd_usb_audio has 1.

On the DQ965GF, the Sound Preferences tab on my Gnome toolbar thinks
the sound device is USB Device 0x46d:0x8ad (ALsa mixer).  I don't
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[Bug 162410] No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

2007-11-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

No sound from Intel DQ965GF motherboard.  The motherboard uses an 8201H
ICH8 audio chip identical to the one actually working in the Lenovo
Thinkpad X61 sitting next to it; both are running Gutsy. both load the
sound_hda_intel module which is correct for the chip.

The difference is that on the DQ965GF motherboard Gutsy loads a second
sound module, snd_usb_audio, and uses that as the default.

aplay -l on the Thinkpad lists card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0:
AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog].  On the DQ965GF it lists no playback
devices.

** Affects: ubuntu
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 162410] Re: No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

2007-11-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond

** Attachment added: lsmod output on the DQ965GF
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[Bug 146993] Re: Games entry has disappeared from my Applications pulldown

2007-11-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I was able to fix the broken menu with dpkg-reconfigure, but I still
don't know why it broke.

This bug is not present in Gutsy final, and can therefore probably be
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Re: [Bug 131983] Re: [gutsy] trackerd kills disk io

2007-11-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
gcc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On our first Gutsy system I discovered trackerd eating 100% cpu... by
 sitting in a loop of continuous SIGSEGV. Catching SIGSEGV is usually a
 bad idea, and then reinstalling the signal handler is even worse. Please
 fix that.

I had the same experience.  trackerd is a nasty hog, and it's a pain
having to kill it every time I boot.  Even turning off every coverage
option I can find doesn't stop it from overwhelming my CPU -- and the
fact that I can't find whatever way there may be to disable it is
itself a bug.

Yes, this is under 7.10 kept current.
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[Bug 3731] Virtual size default can be a problem

2007-09-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I've seen misbehavior similar to this bug that turned out to have a
cause not listed here.

If you have a monitor capable of 20048x1536 resolution, X 7.3 will
ignore the high-res modelines it gets from EDID complaining that the
vertical size of the mode is too large for the virtual desktop size.
This problem is due to a poor choice of default virtual-desktop size and
can be fixes with an explicit Virtual declaration; I use Virtual
2048 1536.

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[Bug 146699] Support for CD-ROM-eject button, Fn-F9

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

The Fn-F9 event is passed through to ACPI properly.  All this needs to
work is the following two trivial scripts:

/etc/acpi/thinkpad-eject.sh:
--
#!/bin/sh
eject cdrom
--

/etc/acpi/events/thinkpad-eject:
--
# Fn-F9 to eject CD-ROM
event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 0080 1009
action=/etc/acpi/thinkpad-eject.sh
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** Affects: acpi-support (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 129125] Re: Please upgrade Thinkpad_acpi to 0.15-20070723 to solve problems for recent Thinkpads (X61's and T61's)

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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[Bug 146993] Games entry has disappeared from my Applications pulldown

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Public bug reported:

After update-manager -d, performed on 28 September 2007, the Games
entry mysteriously vanished from the Applications pulldown in my upper
panel.  All other entries remained.

If there's any sort of log analysis or diagnostic that could help pin
this down, I'm willing -- but I have no idea where to start looking

** Affects: ubuntu
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 146993] Re: Games entry has disappeared from my Applications pulldown

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
After discussion on the #ubuntu-bugs channel, it seems likely this is
due to a bug in alacarte/mainmenu, which was described to me as
busted.

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Re: [Bug 146699] Re: Support for CD-ROM-eject button, Fn-F9

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 As far as I can tell, that's a dock eject button not a CD eject button?

I don't think so.  The UltraBay can't be ejected under software or
firmware control, because it's held on with a purely mechanical latch.
You have to pull a big honkin' lever...

Besides, that's a media-eject button on the graphic, the same one used
on tape and CD players.

To be fair, you're not the only person to be confused by the
misleading dock eject terminology.  Some guy on the IRC channel, not
you, was quite obnoxious about it.
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Re: [Bug 146699] Re: Support for CD-ROM-eject button, Fn-F9

2007-09-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I've checked this - Lenovo document it as being for dock management.
 It's a software request for the platform to stop using any resources in
 the dock (such as unmounting filesystems if you have a hard drive in the
 bay) so that the laptop can be ejected safely. The media eject icon is
 commonly used on docking stations. The Dell and HP docking stations I
 have to hand both use it in this way.

The UltraBase on a Thinkpad *is* the dock.  It's been at least three
generations of ThinkPad that I've sen since there were hard drives in
the media slice.  And I believe it's the case that USB and Firewire
mass storage connected through the UltraBase will autodismount itself
then the UltraBase connectors don't see signal from the device.

So, in a Linux context on this hardware, I'm not sure there's a lot of
daylight between CD-ROM eject and dock management.  What else would
one want that button to do?
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[Bug 131983] Re: [gutsy] trackerd kills disk io

2007-09-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I installed Gutsy Beta on a Thinkpad X61 today and noticed slow booting
and fairly constant disk activity.  Yes, top(1) revealed that it was
trackerd both eating the CPU *and* hammering my disk -- I was relieved
and not too surprised to find this bug report.

trackerd is a pig.  If it can't be made an order of magnitude faster it
should be disabled by default or (better) outright removed.

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Re: Preparing the way for emacs22 with many individual package updates

2007-07-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 They are usually placed into /etc/apt/sources.list, or a
 file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. After updating this file, you will need
 to update the cache, by running apt-get update.

Done.  Is the incantation to follow with apt upgrade emacs22?
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Re: Preparing the way for emacs22 with many individual package updates

2007-07-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Thanks for including me in the discussion, I appreciate it.
 
 Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I'm not sure what Romain's plans are for emacs-snapshot, but this
  sounds reasonable.
 
 The plan for emacs-snapshot is to continue to follow the Emacs 22
 release branch until the 22.2 release, then switch back to the trunk
 to benefit from the emacs-unicode and/or emacs-multi-tty merge(s).

Note: I tried emacs-snapshot, and would be using it now except that
it doesn't seem to play nice with emacsclient.  Consider this a 
minor bug report.
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Re: Preparing the way for emacs22 with many individual package updates

2007-07-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:08 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
  Note: I tried emacs-snapshot, and would be using it now except that
  it doesn't seem to play nice with emacsclient.  Consider this a 
  minor bug report.
 
 Well, I'm sure you know the rationale (mailing lists not good
 bug-trackers, etc), so - if you haven't already - could you file a bug
 report at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/+filebug

Thanks, that's the prompt I was looking for.  Will do.
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Re: Preparing the way for emacs22 with many individual package updates

2007-07-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Michael Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
 
  Note: I tried emacs-snapshot, and would be using it now except that
  it doesn't seem to play nice with emacsclient.  Consider this a
  minor bug report.
 
 Make sure that the /etc/alternatives/emacsclient points to
 /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot (and likewise for emacsclient.1.gz).
 This can also be achieved by running the following as root:
 
   update-alternatives --config emacsclient
 
 If it gives a message like Nothing to configure (which happens if you
 have only one variant of emacs on your system), then do the following
 to double-check the link:
 
   update-alternatives --auto emacsclient
 
 This updates both emacsclient and emacsclient.1.gz.

Thanks for the tip; this may well resolve my problem.  Is this procedure
documented anywhere?  I'm still an Ubuntu- and Debian-world novice, where
would I learn when something like this is advisable?

I'll file a bug report through the tracker previously suggested if
this doesn't work.

More generally, I'm a fairly heavyweight Emacs expert (author of a
couple of the standard-library packages, among other things).  
Please consider me available for package testing.
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