as FAT16. OTOH, FAT32 partitions on
an external USB hard drive show no warnings, either with or without
dosfstools installed.
I'm uncertain to call the above a bug, but I do think it should be
explained somehow in the documentation.
Kind regards,
Alain Kalker
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On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 08:42 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
tags 483283 + confirmed
thanks
Hi Alains,
On Wed, 28 May 2008 02:59:10 +0200 Alain Kalker wrote:
$ orange mbsetup.exe
produced a single CAB file named 'installer.StrongARM.cab', which,
unfortunately, after installation
Package: orange
Version: 0.3.1-1
Severity: normal
When I tried to extract CAB files from the Magic Button installer for
PocketPC (downloaded from: http://www.trancreative.com/mb.aspx ),
$ orange mbsetup.exe
produced a single CAB file named 'installer.StrongARM.cab', which,
unfortunately, after
this is needed for compatibility
with older Python versions, but anyway, just FYI.
Kind regards,
Alain Kalker
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On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:45 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:39:05 Debian BTS wrote:
Please consider having make-googleearth-package not build (unless
--force'd, ofcourse) newer (4.3 and up) googleearth packages on CPUs
without SSE2 support, since the resulting
Package: apt-cacher-ng
Version: 0.1.10-1
Severity: normal
The postinst script functions gen_mirror_list_* currently only support HTTP
sources. I think it would be trivial to also support FTP. Also, I think
it might be a good idea to install a script containing these functions so that
users can
Package: apt-cacher-ng
Version: 0.1.10-1
Severity: normal
Currently, the postinst script only processes /etc/apt/sources.list, but
synaptic (and I believe many users as well) split out their APT sources
into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.
Kind regards,
Alain
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On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 22:55 -0800, Matthew Mueller wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
When verifying .md5 or .cfv files which contain filenames containing
chars with values 127 (in ISO-8859), cfv reports the corresponding
files as missing.
I don't
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:50 +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 22:55 -0800, Matthew Mueller wrote:
iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 foo.md5 foo.utf8.md5
From iconv's man page I found that in this case you can even omit the -t
parameter, and iconv will convert to the encoding
Package: cfv
Version: 1.18.1-2
Severity: important
When verifying .md5 or .cfv files which contain filenames containing
chars with values 127 (in ISO-8859), cfv reports the corresponding
files as missing.
I don't know if this problem is related to bug #406761, but that bug
suggests a
Package: sl-modem
Version: 2.9.9d+e-pre2-10
Severity: important
Installing the sl-modem-modules package built from sl-modem-source
doesn't run depmod, so module information for the new modules is not
made available.
Regards,
Alain
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Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.0-5
Severity: critical
File: /usr/bin/gksu
Justification: breaks unrelated software
When gksu doesn't ask for a password because the sudo timestamp is
still valid, the command which gksu executes has access to the X
display but any subprocesses started do not.
So far
---[cut here[---
$ sudo -k
$ gksu dpkg-reconfigure -fgnome apt-listchanges
---[gksu asks for password, debconf gnome frontend starts with no
problems]---
$ gksu dpkg-reconfigure -fgnome apt-listchanges # Repeat
---[debconf falls back to dialog frontend, which is unresponsive and
leaves the
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 05:36 +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
Alain Kalker skrev:
Package: wine
Version: 0.9.31-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Currently, Wine has problems launching Windows applications associated
with file types registered by Windows programs, and it also lacks
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:08 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Few days ago, a bug was reported that the i810fb uses mode_option
parameters while other framebuffers uses the mode parameter to set initial
mode. It was spotted later that some drivers uses mode_option, some uses
mode and
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:42 +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
P.S.: Krzysztof, maybe it would be a good idea to update fbmode.txt
too, as there are now many more framebuffer drivers which support video
mode naming.
I have to rephrase that, the situation is much more complicated (sigh).
The only
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:09 +0100, Alain Kalker wrote:
parameter name 'video_mode'
That should be 'mode_option'.
Need More Coffee ASAP
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Alain Kalker napisał:
From Documentation/fb/modedb.txt:
---
When a frame buffer device receives a video= option it doesn't know, it
should consider that to be a video mode option. If no frame buffer
device is specified
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-12
Severity: normal
This is documented in the full upstream info source, but not in the man
page or cmp --help.
Though I understand that the Debian diff package documentation is
maintained separately from upstream because of DFSG issues, I sill like
to consider
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:11 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alain Kalker wrote:
Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the
byte
positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally
bogus.
The output values even contain values that are 255
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-12
Severity: normal
Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte
positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus.
The output values even contain values that are 255. What gives?!
I attach a small test case using files
Obviously I converted all the output from cmp to hexadecimal which was
wat I needed for my application. For convenience, here I attach the same
test case using cmp's native output, with no fancy formatting.
---[cut here]---
Comparing a.dat and b.dat using cmp
5 0 140
24 222 357
65 143
I strongly concur with the abpve. Having apt-get pull in 78 MB of
texlive-latex-extra-doc over a slow link just because the package I try
to build depends on debiandoc-sgml is not exactly what I call 'fun'.
-Alain
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Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-686
Version: 2.6.22-6
Severity: important
The i810fb module depends on agpgart module, but intel-agp module needs
to be loaded before agpgart (and therefore i810fb) will use it. From
searching the Web and the BTS, this seems to apply to intelfb as well.
Relevant
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: important
While all other framebuffer modules use the option mode=... to specify
a modedb-style video mode, i810fb uses the non-standard
mode_option=... This breaks the use of video=i810fb:videomode boot
parameter, such that for instance video=i810fb:1024x768
Package: libprojectm1
Version: 1.01-3
Severity: important
When using projectM as an audacious plugin, it segfaults after switching to
full-screen mode.
A stacktrace follows:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb2becb90 (LWP 9208)]
Package: update-manager
Version: 0.68.debian-2
Severity: grave
In contrast to synaptic, update-manager's Smart Upgrade function
doesn't ask for confirmation of changes when an upgrade would cause
packages which would end up with dependency problems are to be removed.
Cases in point: the update
stopping and restarting the daemons would be a quick fix, but
reliability of this will depend too much on system load and performance.
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Package: gnomebaker
Version: 0.6.2-2
Severity: normal
When /etc/fstab contains long fields for the device node and/or
mountpoint, gnomebaker crashes on startup. I have traced the problem to
function devices_add_device() in the file src/devices.c, Line 114-115:
gchar node[64], mount[64];
Package: opal
Version: 2.2.11~dfsg1-1
Severity: grave
The source tarball for opal ships the file include/codec/ilbccodec.h,
Although it is not used in the build, one can argue that this file is
technically part of the iLBC codec, making the package not DFSG-free.
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Package: opal
Version: 2.2.11~dfsg1
Severity: wishlist
I would like for users to be able to build opal with iLBC support from
upstream source, when they know they are in compliance with the
licensing terms. Since this means strictly local builds, not to be
uploaded to the archive, I believe this
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 00:31 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
Unless I misunderstood bug 418316, it seems this was recently fixed
upstream.
Are you sure #418316 is the right bug number? BTS shows: php4: Should
not be included in Lenny.
Kind regards,
Alain
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On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 01:29 +0200, Alain Kalker wrote:
Are you sure #418316 is the right bug number? BTS shows: php4: Should
not be included in Lenny.
Ok, I got it, the bug # is for the Gnome BugZilla database, not the
Debian BTS.
Kind regards,
Alain
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Package: totem-xine
Version: 2.18.2-2
Severity: normal
Opening an URL like http://example.com/example.mp3; which requires
authorization will pop up the username/password dialog, but even when
valid username and password are entered, Totem gives the error message:
Totem could not play
Package: evolution
Version: 2.10.2-1
Severity: wishlist
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After changing the message sorting order (by clicking on the 'Subject'
column, for example), switching back to one of the provided standard
views ('Messages', 'For Wide view', etc.) defaults
Package: evolution
Version: 2.10.2-1
Severity: wishlist
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When trying to change the sorting order or the width of columns in the
message list, it is too easy to accidentally delete them, in particular
when using the touchpad on a laptop. I would
Package: wine
Version: 0.9.31-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Currently, Wine has problems launching Windows applications associated
with file types registered by Windows programs, and it also lacks
integration with file managers to start a Windows program when a user
opens a file.
The first
This version also supports the options that can be passed to start.exe .
To not introduce the slash problem all over again (this time not being
able to open files in certain directories starting with /m*, /w* and the
like), it also has the extra options '--' and '//' to turn off further
option
Thanks for the info. I sure hope that this problem gets more attention,
but I'm hoping for more than just documentation changes. About a week
after Etch release, my system _again_ got upgraded halfway to Sid
because I happened to update in the middle of my mirror's repository
switchover.
I've
Package: freej
Version: 0.8.1-4
Severity: normal
When adding a text layer, freej comes back with the following message:
no truetype fonts found on your system, dirs searched:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts /usr/share/truetype
This should of course be:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype /usr/share/truetype
which is what I actually tried.
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Package: gparted
Version: 0.2.5-2
Severity: normal
Resizing an ext3 partition on /dev/hdg3 using gparted failed with errors
during e2fsck between the partition resize and filesystem growing steps. The
report (see attachment), 'ls /dev/hd*' and 'cat /proc/partitions' seemed
to indicate
. Thanks for the information.
Please feel free to close this bug report at your discretion.
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Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38
Severity: normal
When booting the kernel with additional option 'debug', the file
/tmp/initramfs.debug gets cleaned away during bootclean, which makes it
impossible to inspect it after buut unless debugging levels with
shell start are used. IMHO
Now I'm not so sure anymore if initramfs.debug actually ends up in /tmp
because of the remounting of the root fs. Anyway, it is gone from my
system after boot.
Maybe we should talk to the people doing mkinitramfs (for the scripts)
or klibc (for the run-init)?
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Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Lately the traffic on debian-boot has reached such levels that it begins
to rival debian-devel.
Please consider my request for a daily digest for this list, so that I
can better keep up with it.
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Package: gnat-gdb
Version: 6.4+2006-2
Severity: important
When enabling the preference 'Debugger-Break on exceptions' in gnat-gps
and subsequently initializing a debugging session, the debugger reports:
(gdb) break exception
Function exception not defined.
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Package: gnat-gps
Version: 4.0.1-3
Severity: normal
Moving the mouse over a procedure name and then selecting any of the
entries from the 'Browsers' submenu crashes gnat-gps with the following
error message:
raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : gtkada-canvas.adb:328 overflow check failed
I'm already
Package: dhcdbd
Version: 2.0-2
Severity: normal
The following warnings appear in my syslog:
Mar 12 08:35:02 miki dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.host_name
Mar 12 08:35:02 miki dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not
On ma, 2007-03-12 at 23:27 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
So, what in particular are you missing resp. do you suggest?
I can see from the log immediately following the warnings that
NetworkManager doesn't list a host name. So my question is: are these
missing message handlers simply unavailable or
the severity to minor because of this simple
workaround, but definitely something worth fixing.
Thanks for the workaround. I will look into this some further when I
have the time.
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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.2-1
Severity: important
On install of gnome-terminal (as default alternative for
'x-terminal-emulator', executing 'x-terminal-emulator actually executes
'/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper' but 'man x-terminal-emulator' still
points to 'gnome-terminal', which
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:48 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Weird. Sure you didn't specify multiple kernel versions there? Did you
have a /usr/src/linux symlink before? Maybe pointing to some
non-existing object, eg. deleted source?
I only specified a single kernel version per build. I'm not sure
Package: module-assistant
Version: 0.10.8
Severity: normal
I noticed on using 'module-assistant prepare' for the first time
(without any source installed), and again when using prepare for a
different kernel version specified with -l, module-assistant reports
Couldn't create .../linux
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 01:57 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
reach etch for a day or two.
Thanks for the info,
Alain
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I tried booting into expertgui and using a different mirror
(ftp://download.xs4all.nl/debian/), which I know has a valid Release.gpg
file, but alas, same problem.
Logfile attached.
syslog1.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
First of all, when trying to boot my system after installing the S-ATA
card and drive, GRUB gave me the (cute?) error: GRUB GRUB GRUB ...,
filling the screen.
Secondly, the first try to write GRUB to (hd0) from the rescue menu
actually succeeded without error, but the system remained unbootable
, which made a usable floppy.
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
(From memory, please forgive minor errors in naming etc.)
After booting into rescue mode and starting a shell in my root
partition from the menu, the grub shell and some other
tools messed up my screen, probably because the terminal type 'bterm'
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+libgtkada2 (2.8.1-4miki1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Local package.
+ * Correctly apply DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS={noopt,nostrip}
+
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+
libgtkada2 (2.8.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Clean up the diff.gz
-4miki1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Local package.
+ * Correctly apply DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS={noopt,nostrip}
+
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+
libgtkada2 (2.8.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Clean up the diff.gz, it was preventing 00-makefiles.patch from
diff
Package: menu
Version: 2.1.33
Severity: important
On systems installed such that root cannot login (users have to use
sudo), menu entries that use su-to-root to start non-X11 programs
cannot work, because su-to-root tries to use su instead of sudo.
Examples are:
alsaconf
deborphan
tasksel
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
The option is valid but is not mentioned as such. It uses the aoss
wrapper from the alsa-oss package and may be important for users
experiencing problems using the other options for ICEWEASEL_DSP.
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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4
Followup-For: Bug #359035
The previous apt-config dump was actually for etch, the one below is
for testing which works as expected.
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
When installing from network doesn't work, I would like to be able to
ping a few hosts to help isolate the problem. However, there seems to be
no 'ping' command available from the shell.
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