Bug#716058: [Mayhem] Bug report on hebcal: hebcal crashes with exit status 139

2021-03-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, I noticed this bug in upstream (https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal/issues/173) but the original "full report" on forallsecure is now a 404. Does anyone have a saved copy of the original crash report? -- Ambrose Li | Time zone: GMT-4 (Eastern) ambroseli.ca “Any organization which

Bug#436696: iceweasel: Intermittent problems with 304 HTTP redirects

2009-12-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the delayed answer. > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:23:59AM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:27:40AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Do you hav

Bug#368642: gtkam not setting the date/timestamps correctly

2009-09-21 Thread Ambrose Li
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:26:04AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > tag 368642 unreproducible moreinfo > thanks > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:02:58PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > > I think this should count as a regression, since this happened some > > long time ago, was fix

Bug#471763: /var/run/screen permission weirdness

2009-07-25 Thread Ambrose Li
that before and people had not agreed with me, though I cannot understand why. > > > Regards, > > Jan Regards, -- Ambrose Li Webmaster & de-facto in-house graphic artist Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto / http://www.cccgt.org/ 5183-5193 Sheppard Avenue East,

Bug#377858: galeon: auto-complete remembering non-existant page but not remembering the correct page

2009-07-14 Thread Ambrose Li
t; a 404, > > and not "http://gmail.google.com"; which exists. > > It seems to be fixed in 2.0.7-1, can you confirm that? My Debian setup is screwed up right now; I won't be able to confirm it until I can fix it. > > -- > Fabio Bonelli > gpg fingerprint: 6

Bug#433363: iceweasel: Restoring crashed session should not re-download downloaded files

2008-10-28 Thread Ambrose Li
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:03:33PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Ambrose Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Package: iceweasel > > Version: 2.0.0.3-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > [Note: reportbug claims that the newest version in unstable is 2.0.0.4-1

Bug#488296: ^a ^\ kills all screens without actually asking

2008-06-27 Thread Ambrose Li
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:21:14PM +0200, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > > > If the user accidentally pressed ^a ^\, screen will ask "Do you really > > want to kill all screens and exit? (y/n)". but it will go on and kill > > everything without actually waiting for the user to press n. > >

Bug#488296: ^a ^\ kills all screens without actually asking

2008-06-27 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-7 Severity: normal If the user accidentally pressed ^a ^\, screen will ask "Do you really want to kill all screens and exit? (y/n)". but it will go on and kill everything without actually waiting for the user to press n. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenn

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-06-02 Thread Ambrose Li
:47 status unpacked screen 4.0.3-7 /var/log/dpkg.log.7.gz:2007-12-07 11:53:47 status half-configured screen 4.0.3-7 /var/log/dpkg.log.7.gz:2007-12-07 11:53:47 status installed screen 4.0.3-7 > Regards, > > Jan -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webmaster & de-facto in

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-06-02 Thread Ambrose Li
d > 'nosuid'?). I checked /var/run/screen and it is owned by user root group root, so it is not group utmp. Since this used to work, maybe the pre- install script should enforce the group? Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webmaster & de-facto in-house graphic artist

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-04-18 Thread Ambrose Li
-+ > (both owned by user root, group utmp) > > > Regards, > > Jan -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webmaster & de-facto in-house graphic artist Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto / http://www.cccgt.org/ 5183-5193 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontari

Bug#474007: pidgin: Packaging or build problem - missing dependency on SSL library

2008-04-02 Thread Ambrose Li
ed] - cut here - 8< - > Does 2.4.1 fix the problem? I'll try later. 2.4.1 for i386 is not yet in unstable. Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webmaster & de-facto in-house graphic artist Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto / http:

Bug#474007: pidgin: Packaging or build problem - missing dependency on SSL library

2008-04-02 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: pidgin Version: 2.4.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable A simple apt-get install fails to install the correct dependent SSL library, rendering the MSN plugin unusable. This has happened even though the MSN plugin was working before (i.e., the old .deb detects the

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-03-19 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-7 Severity: important The /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup script, provided by package screen, chmod's /var/run/screen to a mode that will cause the screen command itself, also provided by the same package, to refuse to start up. This is after a system reboot: [EMAIL PR

Bug#378267: Info received and FILED only (Bug#378267: The 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage - bug #378267)

2008-02-22 Thread Ambrose Li
My comment was too quick. Writer will now disregard CJK text most of the time. However, sometimes (I don't know when and there doesn't seem to be a pattern) it will still attempt to spellcheck CJK words. So the bug is still there, only improved. -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#467056: lm-sensors detects "local changes" to a generated file

2008-02-22 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: lm-sensors Version: 1:3.0.1-1 Severity: normal apt-get upgrade results in lm-sensors detecting a "locally modified version" of /etc/sensors3.conf. However, that is a generated file and lm-sensors never provided the "expected" version of that file. So it is almost impossible for the user

Bug#466893: openoffice.org: Autofit doesn't work if table contains merged cells

2008-02-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.0~rc1-2 Severity: normal If a table contains merged cells, any of the Autofit functions produces very bizzare results. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i38

Bug#466891: openoffice.org: Impossible to right-click CJK text without selecting it

2008-02-21 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.0~rc1-2 Severity: important Tags: l10n If you need to right-click on some CJK text (e.g., to access the "Edit Paragraph Style" function that is *only* available in the context menu), OOo will highlight the text for no reason. The result is that you can only

Bug#432865: initscripts: Allow option to always fsck serially in checkfs.sh

2008-01-08 Thread Ambrose Li
grading programs on Debian sometimes fails to automatically upgrade its associated libraries. I have been told not to upgrade my system piecemeal, but it sounds philosophically wrong to require the user to know what program requires what libraries and manually specify everything in an apt-get install

Bug#432865: initscripts: Allow option to always fsck serially in checkfs.sh

2008-01-03 Thread Ambrose Li
How could I have forgetten about that? Thanks! Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Webmaster & de-facto in-house graphic artist Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto / http://www.cccgt.org/ 5183-5193 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1B 5Z5 +1 416 292 9293

Bug#452007: cupsys-bsd: Cannot print anything if LANG is set to zh_TW.Big5

2007-11-19 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: cupsys-bsd Version: 1.3.4-1 Severity: important Tags: l10n Printing anything from almost any program causes the unintuitive error message lpr: Unsupported character set "windows-950"! Printing from OpenOffice.org causes the even more unintuitive error message "Error while printing". T

Bug#436696: iceweasel: Intermittent problems with 304 HTTP redirects

2007-11-12 Thread Ambrose Li
pen with any other browser. I don't really think this is an iceweasel (i.e., Debian-specific) thing, but I haven't used non-Debian firefox on Linux for so long that I don't know if I should file the bug upstream or not. -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Cen

Bug#441098: pidgin packaging error or bug in apt

2007-09-06 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:42:10PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > Is stable being chosen instead of unstable? What does apt-cache policy > pidgin-data output? I just did the upgrade (by explicitly specifying pidgin-data), so the version numbers will be wrong, but it seems that the apt policy is correc

Bug#441098: pidgin packaging error or bug in apt

2007-09-06 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: pidgin Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: normal This is either a packaging error in pidgin, or a bug in apt. Summary: apt-get install pidgin causes apt-get to claim that it requires pidgin-data both >= 2.1.1 and < 2.1.1, which obviously can't be met; but if you apt-get install pidgin pidgin-d

Bug#438410: libgphoto2-2: gphoto2 --delete-file deletes only the photo but not the thumbnail

2007-08-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: libgphoto2-2 Version: 2.4.0-2 Severity: normal Note: This problem has occurred for some months now, but in old versions of gphoto2 this problem DID NOT EXIST. It was introduced some months ago. In current (and recent) versions of gphoto2, using --delete-file on a Canon G2 camera results

Bug#428447: rcsdiff --unified option has no effect

2007-08-14 Thread Ambrose Li
uld not work in rcsdiff. -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#436696: iceweasel: Intermittent problems with 304 HTTP redirects

2007-08-08 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-1 Severity: normal This has been a problem for some years already so this is not new. After an indeterminate amount of time (usually several days, sometimes shorter but sometimes longer), firefox/iceweasel will suddenly stop processing 304 HTTP redirects corre

Bug#378062: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS

2007-08-01 Thread Ambrose Li
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:18:06PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > ii cupsys 1.2.12-1Common UNIX > Printing System(tm) - server > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~}$ ls -l /usr/bin/lppasswd > -rwsr-xr-x 1 lp lpadmin 9056 2006-06-21 11:02 /usr/bin/lppasswd > [

Bug#378063: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS

2007-08-01 Thread Ambrose Li
at least one letter and number. tea:~# LANG=C lppasswd -a root Enter password: (user enters xyz123) Enter password again: (user re-enters xyz123) tea:~# lppasswd's password quality check still favours relatively easier passwords over really difficult-to-guess passwords. -- Ambrose Li

Bug#378062: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS

2007-08-01 Thread Ambrose Li
-l would have reconfirmed that the bug still exists.) -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435461: zmailer: Memory corruption bug from 2004

2007-07-31 Thread Ambrose Li
t won't overwrite my own. > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ Cheers, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435461: zmailer: Memory corruption bug from 2004

2007-07-31 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: zmailer Version: 2.99.56-2 Severity: normal After some heavy use, messages similar to the following will appear in the log: search_gdbm: cannot open /etc/zmailer/db/routes.gdbm! Google reveals that this should be a pointer / memory corruption bug dating back to 2003 and which was disc

Bug#380153: closed by "Olivier Vitrat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ()

2007-07-23 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:34:35AM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > > Since Debian falsely claims this to be wontfix, I have filed the > bug upstream as bug 146165. It has been accepted and is being > investigated. Upstream has fixed the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#433365: flashplugin-nonfree: error message "md5sum mismatch" should be more helpful

2007-07-16 Thread Ambrose Li
821cc72359a937caef85bb4cc74ef5cd install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz I guess I'll just have to remember that "md5sum mismatch" means "your file is outdated"; I just thought this should be a little bit more explicit. Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chin

Bug#433365: flashplugin-nonfree: error message "md5sum mismatch" should be more helpful

2007-07-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 9.0.48.0.2 Severity: wishlist apt-upgrade produces the following result: Installing from local file [stuff deleted] md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz The Flash plugin is NOT installed. The file is correct, but it fa

Bug#433363: iceweasel: Restoring crashed session should not re-download downloaded files

2007-07-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-1 Severity: normal [Note: reportbug claims that the newest version in unstable is 2.0.0.4-1; that version is uninstallable due to dependency problems] When iceweasel crashes, it will attempt to re-download files that are already downloaded completely and succe

Bug#432865: initscripts: Allow option to always fsck serially in checkfs.sh

2007-07-12 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-38 Severity: normal The checkfs.sh script currently does not use the -s option, so fsck will try to check more than one filesystem at a time. Checkfs.sh also uses -C to display a progress bar. However, from fsck's manpage, fsck only displays one progress ba

Bug#329235: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
The bug still exists in the version on unstable, with identical symptoms. PS: "warning" should be "reminder". The word "warning" gives a very threatening tone to the reminder letter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#330232: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
The bug still affects the latest Ooo in unstable. As soon as anchor is changed to page, the image is homed to the top-left corner (i.e., not even the horizontal position is reset to zero, the VERTICAL position also changes for no reason). PS: I don't understand this request. I have included a very

Bug#328140: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
This seems to be fixed in the version in unstable. PS: I don't understand this request; this took me one minute to verify, even though I have to take the trouble to log in remotely, through ssh, over a WAN link. PS: I also would have expected that either the severity be changed or a note posted e

Bug#332685: Please update your Debian openoffice.org bug report

2007-07-01 Thread Ambrose Li
Yes, the bug still exists in the latest OpenOffice on unstable, with the same symptoms (no line spacing under 7.1pt or over 283.5pt). And this is not a minor problem. Since Microsoft Office does not have these restrictons, this means that OOo Writer is not compatible with Microsoft Office even if

Bug#428709: gimp: Font names not backwards compatible

2007-06-13 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: gimp Version: 2.2.15-2 Severity: normal The new gimp tacks "Not-Rotated" to all font names, but doesn't know how to interpret font names without this spurious "Not-Rotated". This makes font names in old xcf files disappear, making editing of text layers very difficult if not impossible.

Bug#428447: rcsdiff --unified option has no effect

2007-06-11 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: rcs Version: 5.7-18 Severity: normal The "--unified" option is recognized but has no effect. Specifying a value for --unified does not change the number of lines for context; the number of lines remains at 3 irrespective of the number specified after --unified. -- System Information: De

Bug#428445: rcsdiff usage text claims existence of unrecognized option -U

2007-06-11 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: rcs Version: 5.7-18 Severity: normal "rcsdiff -H foo" claims the following: -u -U NUM --unified[=NUM] Output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context. However, "rcsdiff -U 10 foo" produces: rcsdiff: unknown option: -U ("rcsdiff --unified 10 foo" does exist, as claimed.) -- Sy

Bug#427844: hlatex-fonts-base: updmap-sys tries to find non-existent bsr-interpolated.map

2007-06-06 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: hlatex-fonts-base Version: 1.0-5 Severity: normal apt-get upgrade results in a fatal error while running updmap-sys. It says Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dis

Bug#380153: closed by "Olivier Vitrat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ()

2007-05-31 Thread Ambrose Li
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:14:22AM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:30:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Closing this wontfix bug report. > > menu tag is not supported in html 4.01 > > This is false. According to section 10.4 of the HTML

Bug#380153: closed by "Olivier Vitrat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ()

2007-05-30 Thread Ambrose Li
ivier Vitrat -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#421827: gtkam: Thumbnails do not appear

2007-05-01 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: gtkam Version: 0.1.12-2.2 Severity: normal In the first directory, a few random thumbnails are shown. However, for the rest of the files (including any directory that is not the first one), thumbnails no longer appear in the gtkam window, whether "View Thumbnails" is checked or not. -

Bug#418733: openoffice.org: CJK characters shifted in the new Writer

2007-04-12 Thread Ambrose Li
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > tag 418733 + moreinfo > thanks > > Ambrose Li wrote: > > After doing an apt-get upgrade, all CJK characters are now shifted upwards > > (or perhaps all non-CJK character are shifted downwards; it's impo

Bug#418733: openoffice.org: CJK characters shifted in the new Writer

2007-04-11 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7 Severity: important Tags: l10n After doing an apt-get upgrade, all CJK characters are now shifted upwards (or perhaps all non-CJK character are shifted downwards; it's impossible to tell), and this affects both on-screen viewing and actual printed o

Bug#416865: Acknowledgement (openoffice.org-writer: Insert Symbol causes oowriter to hang)

2007-04-02 Thread Ambrose Li
I am postulating that this might have to do with the new OpenOffice trying to find fonts to display characters that does not exist in the chosen font. For font that is causing the strange behaviour has only a few characters defined. But in OOo's "Insert symbol" dialog (which takes several minutes

Bug#416865: openoffice.org-writer: Insert Symbol causes oowriter to hang

2007-03-30 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-6 Severity: important I have a custom font (made with fontforge) that had been working in previous builds of openoffice.org-writer, and which works in both Windows and OS X, but in the latest build, if I go to Insert Symbol and choose that font

Bug#416841: mysql-server-5.0 hangs trying to do postinst

2007-03-30 Thread Ambrose Li
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:22:53PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > > On 2007-03-30 Ambrose Li wrote: > > > Please mail me the output of: > > > > > > grep mysql /var/log/syslog > > > > This is roughly 8 minutes after the postinst script got

Bug#416841: mysql-server-5.0 hangs trying to do postinst

2007-03-30 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.36-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable After an apt-get upgrade, any apt-get operation hangs while mysql-server-5.0 tries to configure itself. Adding a "set -x" at the top of the postinst script produces the following output: (Note: zh

Bug#415860: openoffice.org: Writer does not close its files properly

2007-03-22 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Scenario 1: 1. Open/create a document 2. Save as Word 3. Close the document 4. Try to copy the document from a Mac (through Samba) 5. The Mac copies some part of the file, then errors out w

Bug#411735: libcgi-perl: path_info crashes with Unmatched regex on valid input

2007-02-22 Thread Ambrose Li
ibcgi-pm-perl doesn't exist. Did you mean libtemplate-perl? At > least this package contains a CGI.pm file. > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ Sorry to have entered the wrong package at first. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~}$ dpkg -S /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/CGI.pm perl-mod

Bug#411735: libcgi-perl: path_info crashes with Unmatched regex on valid input

2007-02-20 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: libcgi-perl Version: 2.76-24 Severity: normal If the path info part of a URL happens to be a malformed regex, calling path_info will crash with a regex error. The following test case illustrates the problem: $ env REQUEST_METHOD=GET \ REQUEST_URI='/foo.cgi/(bar' \ PATH

Bug#411735: libcgi-perl: path_info crashes with Unmatched regex on valid input

2007-02-20 Thread Ambrose Li
th_info_re$//; } my @uri_double_slashes = $uri =~ m^(/{2,}?)^g; -- cut here ----- 8< --- Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#370516: mutt: piped "less" command produces bizzare output

2007-02-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Yes, I just managed to update my mutt package. It (mutt 1.5.13-1.1) is still acting up for me. I usually see this behaviour with spams, usually the kind that are text + html + image. Perhaps somehow this kind of structure is confusing mutt? Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chine

Bug#403642: whois: Truncation of output not overridable

2006-12-18 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: whois Version: 4.7.20 Severity: important If the whois server produces alledgely-excessively-long output, whois truncates the output and produces a Answer from RIR truncated message. This behaviour cannot be overridden by any command-line option or any other means. Nor is the

Bug#402027: mutt: Display of GB2312 should be treated as GB18030 by default

2006-12-12 Thread Ambrose Li
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:48:03PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote: > > Unfortunately static aliasing doesn't seem to be able to solve > cleanly this one: Big5-HKSCS apparently lacks some hundreds of Big5 > characters, and some of the common chars are coded differently. > Something more sophisticated

Bug#402027: mutt: Display of GB2312 should be treated as GB18030 by default

2006-12-08 Thread Ambrose Li
ias it: > | charset-hook ^gb2312$ gb18030 > > I'm not for upstream inclusion, because I'm not sure if every iconv > library out there knows GB18030. But I'll probably begin to advice it. Thanks for your detailed explanation. Cheers, -- Ambrose Li <

Bug#402035:

2006-12-07 Thread Ambrose Li
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:01:58PM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote: > When the same message is piped to w3m with an argument explicitly > telling it that the input is GB2312 (as incorrectly tagged), it > correctly renders it as: > > 聽講貴處逢週二有乒乓毬活動,但網頁上??唔到 Correction: w3m -I gb2312 renders

Bug#402035: mutt: Mutt's internal text viewer confused by out-of-range GB2312 characters

2006-12-07 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1 Severity: important Tags: l10n (The following is in the Big5 charset) Consider the following byte sequence, a GB18030 message incorrectly tagged as GB2312 (see wishlist item #402027): 000 c2 a0 d6 76 d9 46 cc 8e b7 ea df 4c b6 fe d3 d0 020 c6 b9 c5 d2 9a

Bug#402027: mutt: Display of GB2312 should be treated as GB18030 by default

2006-12-07 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n In practice, GB-based Chinese emails with traditional characters are tagged as "GB2312" even though technically speaking they are in GB18030. This results in the bizzare situation where certain Chinese mails are displayed as garbage (b

Bug#291520: cvs: This should not be always done

2006-12-05 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.13-5 Followup-For: Bug #291520 Please see also bug 292202, which I reported almost 2 years ago. It is sometimes WRONG to check for existence of the file before contacting the server. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500

Bug#292202: cvs: Still buggy in 1.12.13-5

2006-12-05 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.13-5 Followup-For: Bug #292202 It has been almost 2 years since I filed the report. I wish to report that the bug still exists in the 1.12.13-5 version of cvs. To summarize again, 1. If a file has been removed (from local and the repository) using "cvs rm", doing

Bug#401095: galeon: Copy-and-paste of non-ASCII text completely broken

2006-11-30 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: galeon Version: 2.0.2-4 Severity: important Tags: l10n When pasting non-ASCII text (including non-ASCII English punctuation marks) using the GTK method (^V; Edit|Paste; or right-click,Paste), the pasted text becomes unreadable codes lime \u201c and galeon does not know how to convert

Bug#400821: inkscape: Cannot select some layers from the button at the bottom

2006-11-28 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: inkscape Version: 0.44.1-1 Severity: important In the newest version of inkscape, it is sometimes not possible to select certain layers (esp. invisible layers) using the layers button at the bottom of the window. I have to use the menu to go up/down layers one by one. -- System Inform

Bug#399140: flashplugin-nonfree: Upgrade fails with misleading error message

2006-11-18 Thread Ambrose Li
ther there's still something "grave" wrong in > 9.0.21.55.3. Therefor I will lower the severity of this bug to > "important", to allow 9.0.21.55.3 to enter testing, and to allow further > discussion of this bug to see if anything remaining is to be fixed in >

Bug#399140: flashplugin-nonfree: Upgrade fails with misleading error message

2006-11-17 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 9.0.21.55.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This report is for: flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.21.55.2 (NOT 7.0.68.0.1) The package (9.0.21.55.2) cannot be installed due to the following reasons: - It asks the user to locate the tar.gz from

Bug#367963: squid: "No address records" error for www.microsoft.com, etc.

2006-11-16 Thread Ambrose Li
the > last months, I'd close this bug as not related to squid but caused by > resolver or DNS server issues. > > Regards, > > L -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSU

Bug#393967: gs-cjk-resource: installation needs /usr/bin/mkcfm but does not check for its existence

2006-10-18 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: gs-cjk-resource Version: 1.20021122-2 Severity: normal [The following is in the Big5 charset] # apt-get install gs-cjk-resource hpijs [stuff deleted] 選中了曾被取消選擇的套件 gs-cjk-resource。 (正在讀取資料庫 ... 系統目前總共安裝有 137989 個檔案和目錄。) 正在解壓縮 gs-cjk-resource (從 .../gs-cjk-resource_1.20021122-2_all.deb) .

Bug#322499: at(1) / atd(8) completely broken

2006-10-17 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: at Version: 3.1.10 Followup-For: Bug #322499 The exact same problem occurs to me too. The at/atd system seems to be completely broken on debian. I am using the debian package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'

Bug#380652: squid fails to start because of "Function not implemented" error

2006-08-01 Thread Ambrose Li
ther bug. Perhaps it was Monday or maybe I just didn't spend enough time to check. Regards, -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto +1 416 292 9293 http://www.cccgt.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Bug#367963: squid: "No address records" error for www.microsoft.com, etc.

2006-07-31 Thread Ambrose Li
WIW, this happened last week. But only for a minute. When I tried to reproduce it the problem disappeared. I don't know what the cause is; it is intermittent but it is definitely there. Very weird. Perhaps there's something very subtly wrong with the way Microsoft sets up their DNS. Rega

Bug#380652: squid fails to start because of "Function not implemented" error

2006-07-31 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: squid Version: 2.6.1-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On my kernel (2.4.28), starting the updated squid results in a crash with the following logged in the syslog: Jul 31 11:30:58 tea (squid): comm_select_init: epoll_create(): (38) Function not implemented Run

Bug#380153: konqueror: Konqueror not applying CSS to MENU elements correctly

2006-07-27 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.3-2 Severity: normal Given identical HTML and identical CSS, except for the difference that one uses the MENU tag and the other uses the UL tag, Konqueror will render the one that uses MENU in a very inconsistent way. The following HTML snippet illustrates the p

Bug#376227: Unknown error executing gpgv

2006-07-25 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:30:31AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:51:28PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > > Package: apt > > Version: 0.6.44.2 > > Severity: normal > > Thanks for your bugreport. > > > apt-get update produces the fol

Bug#379631: nautilus: Unable to rename symlinks if link destination is read-only

2006-07-24 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: nautilus Version: 2.14.1-5 Severity: normal For example, suppose I make a symlink from /usr/bin/xterm to the Desktop so that I can access it even if something goes wrong and only the Desktop is on the screen (i.e., no panels, etc.). Now, in nautilus, it is impossible to rename this syml

Bug#378902: konqueror: upgrade of GB2312 charset to GB18030 when necessary

2006-07-19 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.3-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n See http://www.chinesecj.com The page identifies itself as GB2312, but it's actually in GB18030, which is a superset of GB2312. The result is that the page is partially garbled. For the GB2312-compatible encodings, Konqueror on

Bug#378267: openoffice.org: "Check spelling as you type" should ignore irrelevant words

2006-07-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.3-2 Severity: normal Tags: l10n In Writer, enabling "Check spelling as you type" will cause all Chinese words (i.e., words that are completely impossible to be English because they contain no Latin charactersat all) to be highlighted as misspelled. -- System

Bug#378248: closed by Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#378248: openoffice.org: Text overlapping checkboxes in Paragraph Styles dialog)

2006-07-14 Thread Ambrose Li
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:33:27AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Version: 2.0.3-2 > > Ambrose Li wrote: > > Name Default [ ][X][AutoUpdate > > Fixed in 2.0.3-2 already... > > > ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.3-1 OpenOffice.org office

Bug#378248: openoffice.org: Text overlapping checkboxes in Paragraph Styles dialog

2006-07-14 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.2.99.2.0.3rc6-1 Severity: important In the Chinese locale, the Organizer tab in the Paragraph Styles dialog in Writer looks like this: Name Default [ ][X][AutoUpdate The third checkbox is covered by the "AutoUpdate" label. If I click the second checkbox

Bug#378158: scim: Input of full-width symbols broken for Changjei vers. 3 table

2006-07-13 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: scim Version: 1.4.4-4 Severity: normal Tags: l10n 1. Switch input method to Changjei vers. 3 (a table method) 2. Switch to full-width mode either by clicking shift-space or clicking the icon 3. Type some symbol, or try to type some uppercase letter Result: (a) The symbols are still ha

Bug#378063: cupsys: lppasswd's password quality check encourages bad passwords

2006-07-12 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-3 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~}# lppasswd -a root Enter password: (user types super long and hard to guess password with symbols etc.) Enter password again: (user repeats the password) lppasswd: Sorry, password rejected. Your password must be at least 6 cha

Bug#378062: cupsys: lppasswd does not work

2006-07-12 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-3 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~}# lppasswd -a root Enter password: Enter password again: lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~}# stracing lppasswd reveals that it is trying to create /etc/cups/passwd.new Temporarily c

Bug#377858: galeon: auto-complete remembering non-existant page but not remembering the correct page

2006-07-11 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: galeon Version: 2.0.1-3 Severity: normal If I go to http://gmail.example.org, Galeon remembers this URL (which does not exist), The next time I type "gm", it offers me "http://gmail.example.org";. Now I go to http://gmail.google.com, which is the correct URL. Even though this page loads

Bug#376227: Unknown error executing gpgv

2006-06-30 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: apt Version: 0.6.44.2 Severity: normal apt-get update produces the following error message: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems (The given suggesti

Bug#358039: scim: Chinese input with * does not work well.

2006-06-19 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:42:47AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I see. But which Chinese input rule set do you use? Pinyin, Chewing, ... > or any of the table method. I tried Kantonese pinyin and alas, * is > processed funny way. I usually use Changjei and Cantonese (both table methods), so

Bug#358039: scim: What kind of wild card key?

2006-06-18 Thread Ambrose Li
Hi, Wildcard key is a feature in Chinese input methods. (This has nothing to do with entering asterisks.) For example, to decompose the traditional character for "country", using the Changjei input method, the decomposition is "wirm". Suppose the user forgot the decomposition, but is sure that it

Bug#374068: gnome-media-common: strange non-fatal xml errors during apt-get upgrade

2006-06-16 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: gnome-media-common Version: 2.14.2-1 Severity: minor During apt-get upgrade, there were several non-fatal errors about eu/planner.xml: 正在設定 gnome-media-common (2.14.2-1) ... /usr/share/gnome/help/planner/eu/planner.xml:1624: parser error : Comment not terminated ^ /usr/share/gnome/he

Bug#371694: galeon: Wrong translation of "View source" in zh_TW locale

2006-06-07 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: galeon Version: 2.0.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: l10n "View source" is currently mistranslated as "檢查來源" ("source" as in a water source, etc.); it should be "檢查原始碼" (source code). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable

Bug#370551: apt: "%s" in traditional Chinese translation

2006-06-05 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: apt Version: 0.6.44.1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n The current Chinese (traditional) translation produces error messages such as gnome-control-center: $(X(�&sC�+Y(B: libgnome-window-settings1 (= 1:2.14.1-1) $(X&�,O!y(B%s$(X!z+oA�(S&�&w8�!C(B (Sorry for the weird encoding, screen

Bug#370516: mutt: piped "less" command produces bizzare output

2006-06-05 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.11+cvs20060403-1 Severity: normal I am not sure if this is a bug in mutt, less, or the curses library and is posting this as a mutt bug for now. Please reassign as appropriate. Within mutt, when piping a message to less(1), sometimes less produces a "staircase effect

Bug#369836: w3m: Bizzare intermittent freezes on startup

2006-06-02 Thread Ambrose Li
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > V??derleden 9 4:98 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 97633 Lule?? | VoIP: sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sweden | sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Tel:+4918015855857712 -- Ambrose Li <[EMAIL PRO

Bug#369836: w3m: Bizzare intermittent freezes on startup

2006-06-01 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.1-4 Severity: normal w3m sometimes hangs on startup, even without supplying any arguments and not feeding it any input. Example: $ gdb w3m GNU gdb 6.4-debian Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,

Bug#368642: gtkam not setting the date/timestamps correctly

2006-05-23 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: gtkam Version: 0.1.12-2.2 Severity: normal I think this should count as a regression, since this happened some long time ago, was fixed, and is now happening again. It is now saving photos with today's date, not the date in the EXIF data. This makes the photos look really recent and i

Bug#367963: squid: "No address records" error for www.microsoft.com, etc.

2006-05-18 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: squid Version: 2.5.13-2 Severity: important Trying to get to www.microsoft.com results in a "No address records" error. $ host www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com CNAME toggle.www.ms.akadns.net toggle.www.ms.akadns.netCNAME g.www.ms.akadns.net g.www.ms.akadns.net C

Bug#366983: apcupsd: /etc/init.d/apcupsd restart exits with status 1 if apcupsd is not running

2006-05-12 Thread Ambrose Li
Package: apcupsd Version: 3.8.5-1.1.1 Severity: normal /etc/init.d/apcupsd restart exits with status 1 if apcupsd is not running. This breaks the daily cron job (or, rather, causes false positives with logcheck). cvs:~# sh -x /etc/cron.daily/apcupsd + cd /var/log + LOG=apcupsd.log + '[' -f apcup

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