Bug#1013958: Context menu prefers Chromium over x-www-browser

2024-07-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: xfce4-terminal Version: 1.0.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #1013958 I think this bug is considerably more complicated that the OP suggests: there are numerous suggestions on the web about how to workaround it, none of which work for everybody, none of which worked for me, and most of which don't w

Bug#1072565: pcregrep: fails to open very long filenames

2024-06-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: pcregrep Version: 2:8.39-15 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, pcregrep can recurse through directories with filenames up to 128 characters long: farfalle$ mkdir x farfalle$ cd x farfalle$ # create 128-char-long filename farfalle$ perl -e 'open $fh, ">", sprintf "a" x 128;' farfalle$ p

Bug#1056346: libgeo-gpx-perl: error "can't open file GLOB(...)"

2023-11-21 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: libgeo-gpx-perl Version: 1.09-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, According to the man page, Geo::Gpx's new() method can be passed a file name or an already-opened file handle, but when passed a filehandle it can fail to detect that it *is* a filehandle and attempts to treat it like a fi

Bug#960882: exiftran: Exiftran corrupts image

2023-10-23 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: exiftran Version: 2.10-4 Followup-For: Bug #960882 Dear Maintainer, I have the stock version of package fgallery installed: farfalle$ dpkg -l fgallery Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/

Bug#1033551: cryptsetup-bin: cryptsetup -v isLuks: doesn't work as documented

2023-03-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
> All 3 work for me in a bookworm VM, please try with `--debug` (with and > without `-v`). and it works for me *if* - as you did - I format the device. But if I *don't* format it then I still get the same result, even with newer packages: testaroli# dpkg -l | grep cryptsetup ii cryptsetup-bin

Bug#1033551: cryptsetup-bin: cryptsetup -v isLuks: doesn't work as documented

2023-03-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: cryptsetup-bin Version: 2:2.6.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: alexishux...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Allocate a volume (in my case my only Debian 12 system uses ZFS, but the result is the same with Debian 11 on LVM): testaroli# zfs create -V 100m zpool0/test testaroli

Bug#1033321: initramfs-tools-core: fsck.zfs missing from initrd when root filesystem on ZFS

2023-03-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.142 Severity: normal Tags: patch With a root filesystem on ZFS then mkinitramfs builds an initrd that lacks fsck.zfs: testaroli# mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) W: Couldn't identify type of root file system for fsck hook

Bug#1031820: debian-installer: DI and LVS disgree on LVM volume size units by default

2023-02-23 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: debian-installer Version: bookworm-DI-alpha2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, tell DI to create a partition, allocate it to LVM, create a VG, within that VG create an LV of size '1G'. Having done that, flip to ALT-F2, wake up the shell and run 'lvs'. lvs reports the size as 952.00m.

Bug#992325: rdiff-backup: '::' prefix on target directory causes crash - contrary to documentation (and earlier versions) version graph

2023-02-06 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi Otto, > Please test if this issue still exists in latest rdiff-backup 2.2.2-1 > in Debian. If it still exists, please report the issue upstream at > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup and mark this Debian bug > report as forwarded. I see there are a lot of changes in the new rdiff-ba

Bug#1028287: fgallery: "Wide character in print at /usr/bin/fgallery line 236"

2023-01-09 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: fgallery Version: 1.8.2-2.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Running fgallery on files containing unicode-but-not-ascii characters in their names (e.g. éüöãťúèóêŵñïēȇà.jpg) triggers error or warning: Wide character in print at /usr/bin/fgallery line 236. Here's a shell session/

Bug#1022806: linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64: amggpu unbootable problem persists

2022-11-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi All, Bernhard informed me that you might no longer want me to do the kernel building, due to messages on the bug's mailing list that didn't get sent to me. Please advise; ideally "please test deb at " :-) Regards, Alexis

Bug#1022806: linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64: amggpu unbootable problem persists

2022-11-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I will try to do this, but owing to my schedule, it will > be only Tuesday before I can try. everything slipped. Building ten kernel packages today. Further feedback some time over the weekend. Alexis

Bug#1022806: linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64: amggpu unbootable problem persists

2022-10-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi All, > Would you be able to start own kenel builds, confirming it does not > happen with 5.10.140 upstream but with 5.10.149, and isolate the > breaking change? > > (Are you able to boot the kernel from bullseye-backports?) I will try to do this, but owing to my schedule, it will be only Tues

Bug#1022806: further info

2022-10-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
the kernel command line is: sugo$ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-18-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro ipv6.disable=1 amdgpu.dc=0 swapaccount=1 sugo$ where obviously 18 is 19 when booting the bad kernel.

Bug#1022806: linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64: amggpu unbootable problem persists

2022-10-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.149-2 Severity: serious Justification: 1022025, 1022051, 1022062, 1022070, 1022097, 1022147 marked serious so this marked serious too Dear Maintainer, Following other reports of post-grub kernel hangs on systems with amdgpu, I waited for new release of linux-imag

Bug#1017434: speedtest-cli: error message "Cannot retrieve speedtest configuration"

2022-08-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
> It's funny, I had this exact same problem earlier, and now it's > gone. Maybe it's a transient issue with speedtest.net itself? I have the same result. The ticket can be closed. Thanks! Regards, Alexis

Bug#1017434: speedtest-cli: error message "Cannot retrieve speedtest configuration"

2022-08-16 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: speedtest-cli Version: 2.1.3-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Attempts to run the package from several Debian 11.4 systems produces: farfalle$ speedtest --csv Cannot retrieve speedtest configuration ERROR: HTTP Error 403:

Bug#905350: libvirt-daemon: LXC Memory limit dosent work

2021-10-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: libvirt-daemon Version: 5.0.0-4+deb10u1 Followup-For: Bug #905350 Dear Maintainer, Markus is quite right regarding this bug and it is documented at https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/memory-limits-no-longer-being-applied/7429 However, I recently upgraded to Debian 11 and the bug is n

Bug#997996: virt-manager: XML editing: option doesn't work and is not persistent

2021-10-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: virt-manager Version: 1:3.2.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, here's the recipe: 1) start virt-manager 2) go the 'Edit' menu and then choose 'Preferences' 3) enable 'Enable XML editing' and then click 'Close' 4) from the list of VMs, double-click on any VM 5) in the panel on the rig

Bug#997928: virt-manager: 'Debian 11' not an option under 'OS information'

2021-10-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: virt-manager Version: 1:3.2.0-3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, under Debian 10, virt-manager's 'OS information' config area allows the OS 'Debian 10' to be specified. However, under Debian 11, virt-manager's 'OS information' config area *does not* allow 'Debian 11' to be specified. I

Bug#992325: rdiff-backup: '::' prefix on target directory causes crash - contrary to documentation (and earlier versions)

2021-08-17 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: rdiff-backup Version: 2.0.5-1~bpo10+1+b1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, in rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 (buster) the man page synposis states: rdiff-backup [options] [[[user@]host1.foo]::source_directory] [[[user@]host2.foo]::destination_directory] i.e. *if* a destination is specifi

Bug#991773: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc: container reboot done from inside or outside container shuts container down

2021-08-01 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc Version: 7.0.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, A Debian 11 RC2 container running on a Debian 11 RC2 hosts responds to the reboot command by shutting down services and then powering off, *not* by rebooting, which is what I would expect. This applies regardle

Bug#969747: xfce4-weather-plugin: bug confirmation plus more details

2020-09-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: xfce4-weather-plugin Version: 0.8.10-1 Followup-For: Bug #969747 Dear Maintainer, I confirm this bug. Reportbug's suggestion to try the version in testing is not possible due to dependency issues (i.e. can't install newer xfce4-weather-plugin without also installing a lot of new versio

Bug#964177: chromium: high cpu load and frequent crashes

2020-07-03 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: chromium Version: 80.0.3987.162-1~deb10u1 Followup-For: Bug #964177 probably a duplicate of #964167.

Bug#964177: chromium: high cpu load and frequent crashes

2020-07-03 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: chromium Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I've got Debian 10 and apply nightly updates as they become available. I was running chromium version 80.0.3987.162 but that was upgraded to 83.0.4103.116 a couple of nights ago. Since then CPU load at page l

Bug#731931: urlwatch: http://www.kayser-threde.de/en/jobs/ gives python stack dump

2013-12-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: urlwatch Version: 1.15-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With jessie's urlwatch (and prerequisite python-concurrent.futures): torchio$ egrep -v '^($|#)' ~/.urlwatch/urls.txt http://www.kayser-threde.de/en/jobs/ torchio$ urlwatch Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ur

Bug#539340: debfoster: bug confirmation

2013-09-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: debfoster Version: 2.7-1.2 Followup-For: Bug #539340 I didn't notice any actual report of debfoster behaviour with multiarch so far, so thought it might be useful (for maintainers, but mainly for querybtsers/googlers, to report it: fiori# arch x86_64 fiori# debfoster libcanberra-gtk-mod

Bug#476545: drbd8-utils: drbd should start before mountnfs.sh mounts ocfs2 filesystems

2013-06-10 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: drbd8-utils Version: 2:8.3.13-2 Followup-For: Bug #476545 Hi, just to add that this bug is also preventing ocfs2 filesystems on drbd devices from being mounted automatically. I tried using Wiebe's workaround (mentioned earlier in this BTS thread): > My problem is that drbd is started af

Bug#711748: totem: enabling 'bemused' plugin causes immediate crash and inability to restart totem

2013-06-09 Thread Alexis Huxley
ge: socket created Segmentation fault fiori$ If I remove .config/dconf/user then it works again (albeit with settings reset to factory defaults). If you'd like further info, or that I test a new version, please let me know. Alexis Huxley -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.

Bug#625696: more info

2013-03-27 Thread Alexis Huxley
debmirror is not only used for mirroring debian's archives, but users may also user it for mirroring other deb package archives (e.g. virtualbox, site-specific repos), which means that it may well talk to servers where rsyncd is not running. But, as OP pointed out, trace files are always transfer

Bug#637442: squeeze debmirror can't mirror wheezy

2013-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
Sorry, this is quite long and I know how hard it can be to follow these things, but please stick with it, because I think (1) I show there is a problem with debmirror (also in wheezy) with the new repo layout, and also (2) makes me wonder if something is amiss with the upstream repo layout. Firstl

Bug#637442: squeeze debmirror can't mirror wheezy

2013-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
ns is failing to download the likes of .../debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz. HTH Alexis Huxley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#655682: virt-top: same VM displayed on several rows of NIC page

2012-01-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Doh ... please close the ticket; user error. My apologies. Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#655682: virt-top: same VM displayed on several rows of NIC page

2012-01-13 Thread Alexis Huxley
> > Err ... could you tell me which bit of the man page you are referring to? > > Thanks. > > Display network interfaces by default (instead of domains). Okay, then we have a misunderstanding: 'virt-top -2' displays the NICs instead of the domains; sure, that's fine, and is what is in the man pa

Bug#655682: virt-top: same VM displayed on several rows of NIC page

2012-01-13 Thread Alexis Huxley
> > Obviously (though I checked of course) "noodle" is not running three times. > > This only affects the '-2' screen; the others are fine. > > Looking at the manpage this is expected since it lists network > interfaces by default so I'd say that's not a bug but a feature. Err ... could you tell

Bug#655682: virt-top: same VM displayed on several rows of NIC page

2012-01-12 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: virt-top Version: 1.0.4-2 Severity: normal 'virt-top -2' is listing the same host several times: virt-top 08:15:04 - x86_64 4/4CPU 2000MHz 3965MB 11 domains, 5 active, 5 running, 0 sleeping, 0 paused, 6 inactive D:0 O:0 X:0 CPU: 51.8% Mem: 1152 MB (1152 MB by guests) ID S RXBY TXBY

Bug#652673: rsync: man page and --help option don't document --remove-sent-files options

2011-12-19 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.7-2 Severity: minor Rsync has an option '--remove-sent-files', as seen here: torchio$ strings /usr/bin/rsync | grep remove-sent-files --remove-sent-files torchio$ But torchio$ rsync --help 2>&1 | grep remove-sent-files to

Bug#651689: libfinance-quote-perl: inconsistent error messages when looking up non-existent stocks

2011-12-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: libfinance-quote-perl Version: 1.17-1 Severity: normal Here's a little script demonstrate the issue: torchio$ cat demobug #!/usr/bin/perl use Finance::Quote; $currency = "EUR"; $exchange = "europe"; $stock = "NONEXISTENTSTOCK"; #$stock = "CBK.DE"; $quote_handle = Finance::Quote->new;

Bug#651321: make alien work in a mktemp'd directory

2011-12-07 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: alien Version: 8.86 Severity: normal I'm running alien in a directory where I have just unpacked a source tar.gz file and made it into deb. This means the directory - exists. As in this simulation: fettuce$ mkdir paa-1 fettuce$ alien -r paa_1-2_all.deb Warning: alien is not running as r

Bug#645594: This is not a bug, it's a feature!

2011-11-13 Thread Alexis Huxley
> According to Alexis, the original reporter, flite actually used to say > "exactly" only for 0, but I can't find a trace of that, Alexis? Not quite; I said that, by examining the code, it looked as if there had been (at some earlier time) a different method of working out if rhe word "exactly" sh

Bug#648071: sqlite3: .mode tcl output format varies according to previous selected .mode

2011-11-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: sqlite3 Version: 3.7.3-1 Severity: normal The documentation states: The sqlite3 program is able to show the results of a query in eight different formats: "csv", "column", "html", "insert", "line", "list", "tabs", and "tcl". You can use the ".mode" dot com

Bug#645594: Acknowledgement (flite_time says wrong time at xx:x4 and xx:x9)

2011-10-17 Thread Alexis Huxley
I had a quick look at the code, and I think the error is in main/flite_time_main.c in function time_approx(). It looks like there was an old way to work out if the word "exaclty" should be used, which was to compare the minutes against 0 and 5, but then a new way was used, which worked out the mi

Bug#645594: flite_time says wrong time at xx:x4 and xx:x9

2011-10-17 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: flite Version: 1.4-release-2 Severity: normal at 4, 9, 14, 19 ... 54, 59 minutes past each hour, flite_time generates the wrong text, which it then goes on to say. For example: nb016161# flite_time 12:04 The time is now, exactly five past twelve, in the afternoon. nb016161# flite_time 12

Bug#640009: module-assistant: after replacing kernel but before reboot, m-a wrongly reports it has failed

2011-09-01 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.11.3 Severity: normal I install a squeeze system from a mirror which has not been updated for few months. Then I add security repository info to /etc/apt/sources.list and then run 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and I think this upgrades the kernel, so

Bug#622846: alien: error message: find: `-': No such file or directory

2011-04-14 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: alien Version: 8.81 Severity: normal Lenny's alien correctly does this: fiori$ alien -r mondsk_3.1.3-1_all.deb Warning: alien is not running as root! Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong. mondsk-3.1.3-2.noarch.rpm generated fiori$ echo $? 0 fiori

Bug#608949: ganglia-webfrontend: "Legend" link to node_legend.html broken

2011-01-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: ganglia-webfrontend Version: 3.1.7-1 Severity: normal The "Grid" and level web pages (but not the level screens accessible from the "Choose A Node" pull-down menu) include a link "Legend" near the bottom of these pages. This link leads to node_legend.html. This file is not included in t

Bug#607449: zabbix-server-mysql: .: 3: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.mysql

2010-12-18 Thread Alexis Huxley
on, please let me know. Thanks. Regards, Alexis Huxley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#599772: SOLVED

2010-12-13 Thread Alexis Huxley
/cdebconf/questions.dat, which is a text file which contains the names of the preseed variables and their values. Once there, I just search for 'br' and found the name of the preseed variables that were set to this value. Yahoo! :) HTH Alexis Huxley ahux...@gmx.net -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#582044: hw-detect: same issue with squeeze xen domU running on lenny xen dom0

2010-07-03 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: hw-detect Version: testing on 03 July 2010 Followup-For: Bug #582044 I have the same issue when trying to install squeeze/testing/03-July-2010 in a Xen HVM domU running on a stable/lenny Xen dom0. I read a few reports of seeing this problem on low memory systems but doubled the VM's RAM f

Bug#502801: possible patch for post-install script

2008-10-19 Thread Alexis Huxley
What I eventually did on my system to clean up was the following, which could easily replace what is in the post-install script: UID_MIN=$(sed -n 's/^UID_MIN[\t ]*//p' /etc/login.defs) UID_MAX=$(sed -n 's/^UID_MAX[\t ]*//p' /etc/login.defs) # 'sort -u' needed 'cos if NIS

Bug#502801: samba: system accounts copied from /etc/passwd to /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb

2008-10-19 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: samba Version: 2:3.2.3-1 Severity: normal During installation of Samba I was presented with the following question: ... If you do not create it, you will have to reconfigure Samba (and probably your client machines) to use plaintext passwords ... Create samba pass

Bug#497573: luvcview: broken or just missing documentation?

2008-09-02 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: luvcview Version: 1:0.2.4-2 Severity: normal I've install luvcview and uvccapture as a means of testing a webcam. Out of the box uvccapture works. But luvcview does not. The errmsgs are: penne# luvcview -d /dev/video0 luvcview 0.2.4 ===| DirectFB 1.0.1 |===

Bug#497199: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#497199: xfce4-session: xfce4-tips doesn't work for root

2008-08-31 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi Simon, > Whilst I can see your point, the correct solution would really be not to > run X as root which is never a good idea. > > If you need to run a graphical program as root (which I wouldn't > recommend) then you could use sudo from a normal session. I wondered if you would say this :-)

Bug#497199: xfce4-session: xfce4-tips doesn't work for root

2008-08-30 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: xfce4-session Version: 4.4.2-6 Severity: minor If /usr/games is not in the $PATH, as it is not for root, then xfce4-tips does not work. If root logs in to a newly installed machine then xfce4-tips runs automatically and it is somewhat disconcerting to have a blank tip window displayed.

Bug#497193: nullidentd: should depend on inetd otherwise will not run

2008-08-30 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: nullidentd Version: 1.0-4 Severity: normal 1. I make a new OS installation with a minimal set of packages 2. I install nullidentd 3. I run: penne# echo fbloggs | nc -q 1 penne 113 penne.pasta.net [192.168.1.42] 113 (auth) : Connection refused -bash: echo: write error

Bug#480047: please run noip2 -D

2008-07-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi Avi, > In any case please run the following (as root) after the daemon is > started: > > noip2 -D > > (get the pid from the log) - this may provide some more info. Okay, I've been running noip2 again for ten days with no problems at all. I suggest to close the bug with "user error". Sorry f

Bug#487387: [[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted

2008-06-24 Thread Alexis Huxley
> And this is how. Quoting any part of the rhs forces it to be matched > as a string. Okay, that's very clear. Maybe the man page could be updated? > Patch 39, which you appear to have applied, introduces a `compat31' shell > option which you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior. Ah! And

Bug#487387: [[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted

2008-06-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
> > Description: > >[[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted > > from http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/CHANGES : > > f. Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces > string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators. Hmmm ... ok, than

Bug#487387: [[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted

2008-06-22 Thread Alexis Huxley
bash 3.2-4 dpkg.log:2008-06-17 06:25:34 status installed bash 3.2-4 So I'm almost certain this is a bug introduced in bash 3.2. The COMPAT and CHANGES files don't list anything that might mean this is a change rather than a bug :-) Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Regar

Bug#445323: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#445323: Bug#445323: xfce4-terminal: worked then broke again (no X driver change)

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
> There's a large xorg upgrade in these. Maybe that's the point. I guess > you'can really revert to this version? :-) Sorry, that I can't really do. Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#427095: masqmail: possible workaround

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: masqmail Version: 0.2.21-4 Followup-For: Bug #427095 If, like me, you're using masqmail only for local-to-local delivery, then the following workaround may help you: edit /etc/default/masqmail and put the following at the bottom of it: # Workaround for BTS#427095 MODE=s

Bug#482822: Acknowledgement (googleearth-package: crashes X after splashscreen)

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
Sorry - user error, close this bug - or treat it as a documentation/ wishlist item (see below). I did not read /usr/share/doc/googleearth/README.linux. Once I did then it gave me an idea, which worked. I was already at the latest version of the nVidia driver, but recompiling it fixed the problem

Bug#482822: googleearth-package: crashes X after splashscreen

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important [ Feel free to change severity: the program is totally unusable by any local user, but as for other people on other computers ... ] On 04/05/2008 I mirrored testing and installed my system, using nVidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12

Bug#445323: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#445323: xfce4-terminal: worked then broke again (no X driver change)

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
> > I can't go back in time and run that before I did the upgrade :-) but > > I do have backups of /var/lib/dpkg/status, from before the upgrade, so, > > if it helps, let me know if you want them. > > It'd be nice, especially the vte stuff. It seems it may be a > xfce4-terminal+vte bug (gnome-term

Bug#445323: xfce4-terminal: worked then broke again (no X driver change)

2008-05-25 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: xfce4-terminal Version: 0.2.8-5 Followup-For: Bug #445323 Hi, I thought the following might help you track down this bug. I made a mirror of 'testing' on 5 May 2008. I installed the nVidia driver from NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run. I did *not* have the xfce-terminal problem discussed

Bug#481403: closed: please reopen!

2008-05-16 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi Arthur and Thiemo, > gcc-4.2 is the default on i386, you have to switch back the default compiler > to gcc-4.1 by hand updating /usr/bin/{cpp,gcc,g++} symlinks, etc. But you > don't have to uninstall gcc-4.2. Indeed; I do not have to uninstall gcc-4.2. But keeping software installed which I an

Bug#481403: closed: please reopen!

2008-05-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi Arthur, > It has been closed by Arthur Loiret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reply to [EMAIL > PROTECTED]). > /usr/bin/gcc symlink is provided by `gcc' package from `gcc-default' source > package, not by `gcc-4.2'. Fine, you are right, the package name might be wrong, but the bug exists. If I try to i

Bug#481403: gcc-4.1 creates no gcc symlink, gcc-4.2 does

2008-05-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.2-19 Severity: normal gcc-4.2 gets installed with the current 'testing' by default, but it is not the compiler used to compile the latest 2.6 series kernel package. Therefore gcc-4.2 is no good for compiling other modules from source (e.g. VMware modules, uvc-video,

Bug#480681: slrn is looking in /etc/news/slrn/ for slrn.rc, not in /etc/news/

2008-05-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: slrn Version: 0.9.9~pre97-1 Severity: normal Make a config setting in the distributed /etc/news/slrn.rc and it will have no effect. Run: mkdir /etc/news/slrn mv /etc/news/* /etc/news/slrn/ Then try again, now the config setting is applied. The following seems to indica

Bug#480638: dpkg-dev: unreasonable dependency on build-essential

2008-05-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
> severity 480638 normal > tag 480638 + wontfix > thanks Ok, accepting that I disagree that making gcc a prerequisite for building shell script packages is acceptable for a moment, ... ... in that case could you: 1) split the bug 2) assign one half to the build-essential people so that the text:

Bug#480650: libqt4-gui: libQtOpenGL.so.4 missing

2008-05-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: libqt4-gui Version: 4.4.0~rc1-5 Severity: normal (I discovered this problem when stellarium stopped work following an upgrade to the latest 'testing'.) apt-file indicates that libQtOpenGL.so.4 is provided by libqt4-gui: lasagne# apt-file search libQtOpenGL.so.4 libqt4-de

Bug#480638: dpkg-dev: unreasonable dependency on build-essential

2008-05-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
ildpackage's run-time dependency on build-essential should be backed out. If I can be of further assistance (trying to build packages with modified dpkg-dev), then let me know. Thanks. Alexis Huxley -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, &#

Bug#480477: masqmail(8), section FILES, wrong info on /etc/aliases

2008-05-10 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: masqmail Version: 0.2.21-4 Severity: minor masqmail(8) says, in the FILES section: /etc/aliases is the alias file, if not set differently in /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf. This is wrong. It should say: /dev/null is the alias file, if not set differently in /etc/masqmail

Bug#480060: linux-doc-2.6.24: inconsistency between image/headers virtual package and doc virtual package

2008-05-07 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: linux-doc-2.6.24 Version: 2.6.24-6 Severity: normal When I install the packages: linux-image-2.6-686 linux-headers-2.6-686 then the right thing happens; these depend on the latest 2.6 kernels and headers. But when I install: linux-doc-2.6 the corresponding thi

Bug#480047: noip2: dies silently after some time (maybe on DSL link reconnection)

2008-05-07 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: noip2 Version: 2.1.7-7 Severity: normal Quite simply noip2 is exiting with no message. This seems to happen around the time that my provide regularly cuts my link (every 24 hours) so I suspect that noip2 is not dealing with this properly. The logs contain useful: May 6 18:23:29 lasag

Bug#419412: nis: wrong and incomplete settings for AMD in /var/yp/Makefile

2007-04-16 Thread Alexis Huxley
> So just to clarify I'm looking at the same documetnation that you are > and there are no examples other than auto.home in the documentation in > there? Correct. > > The second point is simply that /var/yp/Makefile contains entries > > for the kernel automounter for mountpoints defined by AUTO_M

Bug#419412: nis: wrong and incomplete settings for AMD in /var/yp/Makefile

2007-04-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
> > AMD_HOME= $(YPSRCDIR)/amd.home > > > The path to amd.home and auto.master is not compatible with > > what is suggested in the 'Sample map' section of /etc/am-utils/amd.conf, > > which suggests $(YPSRCDIR)/am-utils/amd.{home,master}. > > > Secondly, can I suggest that the Makefile is expan

Bug#419412: nis: wrong and incomplete settings for AMD in /var/yp/Makefile

2007-04-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: nis Version: 3.17-6 Severity: minor /var/yp/Makefile contains the following settings related to AMD: AMD_HOME= $(YPSRCDIR)/amd.home The path to amd.home and auto.master is not compatible with what is suggested in the 'Sample map' section of /etc/am-utils/amd.conf, which suggests $(

Bug#419264: synaptic: libgnome2-perl not prerequisite - results in a lot of debconf warnings

2007-04-14 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: synaptic Version: 0.57.11.1+b1 Severity: normal installing packages which want to launch a dialog triggers debconf reporting that it is unable to launch the dialogue and even suggests "is libgnome2-perl installed?". Sounds to me like it should be prerequisite package for synaptic. Let m

Bug#167695: bitchx: may be fixed

2007-04-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: bitchx Followup-For: Bug #167695 Just to report that I also experienced this bug for quite some time, but that 1.1-4 seems - to me at least - not to suffer from it any more. Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architect

Bug#417842: masqmail: silently dies if /etc/aliases empty

2007-04-04 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: masqmail Version: 0.2.21-1.2 Severity: normal If /etc/aliases exists but is empty, then masqmail will queue mail but not actually deliver it (irrespective of whether sent from inside or outside, or going to inside or outside). Masqmail should not simply silently only queue mails witho

Bug#397161: rdiff-backup: no space on dest device can be irrecoverable

2006-11-05 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: rdiff-backup Version: 1.1.5-3 Severity: normal It's no problem once the destination device is full because there exists the '--check-destination-dir' option which should back out the last backup. Unfortunately it doesn't work, leading to a backup which is - using the recommended tools

Bug#389961: /etc/network/if-*.d/chrony wanted for transient LAN/WLAN connection

2006-09-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
keys` and that hardlinks to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/chrony are made from /etc/network/if-{up,down}.d/chrony (respectively, obviously :-). If I can be of any further assistance please let me know. Regards and thanks for packaging chrony! Alexis Huxley -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/u

Bug#328577: bandwidthd: bug looks still present

2006-08-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: bandwidthd Version: 2.0.1+cvs20050208-6 Followup-For: Bug #328577 It looks very much like this bug is still present. It seems to me that it is caused by incorrect formatting of PPP interfaces' subnets in the config file at debconf-time. PPP interfaces have no '/number-of-bits' when t

Bug#377692: phpwiki: edit any page impossible (PhotoAlbum.php complains)

2006-07-10 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: phpwiki Version: 1.3.12p2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, Just installed phpwiki. Followed the debconf screens. Visited the wiki page. It looked fine until I tried to edit the front page and then got: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 byte

Bug#245338: Yes, you missed something!

2005-10-31 Thread Alexis Huxley
Your premise that: > he shouldn't need his local named to resolve the name of the time > server. is right; one does not need a local named in order to resolve the name of a remote time server. But ... ... running a local name server with resolv.conf containing 127.0.0.1 is quite a common and acc

Bug#245338: Yes, you missed something!

2005-10-31 Thread Alexis Huxley
Your premise that: > he shouldn't need his local named to resolve the name of the time > server. is right; one does not need a local named in order to resolve the name of a remote time server. But ... ... running a local name server with resolv.conf containing 127.0.0.1 is quite a common and acc

Bug#335527: hal: fstab-sync still won't run even after instructions in README.Debian

2005-10-24 Thread Alexis Huxley
Package: hal Version: 0.4.7-3sarge1 Severity: normal README.Debian for package hal implies that to get fstab-sync rewriting /etc/fstab it is enough to remove the '--drop-privileges' option from the value of DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/default/hal. This is not enough. Consulting the fstab-sync man page,

Bug#294030: more information on this bug

2005-10-21 Thread Alexis Huxley
I have experienced this same problem with two Dell systems (XPS T600 and Inspiron 8100). It seems that chronyd doesn't like the RTC driver and is doing sort-of exponential backoff of something; I say this because having restarted chronyd I see the glitches coming at the following intervals: 15, 30