Bug#406929: [Pkg-dia-team] Bug#406929: dia: Dia escapes Latex formulas during pstricks export

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:09:13PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: A textbox with $\GlucoseUptakeFunction$ turns into \rput(9.10,-5.56){\scalebox{1 -1}{(\$\textbackslash{}GlucoseUptakeFunction\$)}} when exported to pstricks macros. Yes. What you see is what you get ;)

Bug#403002: findutils: Find man page mentions metacharacters but never defines them

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Webb
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:21:36PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Given the task of finding how -wholename pattern matching works, I would start by reading the manpage description of the test: Wondering what shell pattern exactly means, I would simply search the manpage for shell pattern und

Bug#403002: findutils: Find man page mentions metacharacters but never defines them

2007-04-24 Thread Daniel Webb
I tend to disagree with your report. I am no native speaker of the English language, but to me it is rather clear that metacharacters are simply the characters which have a special meaning in the context and are not taken literally. The context is specified: match shell pattern pattern.

Bug#408015: vnc4server: -IdleTimeout 10000000 causes delayed screen updates

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Webb
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:14:07AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Quite strange. I can not see any obvious reasons in the code. However in some places with timeouts the code is in milliseconds but that should not matter actually. We do not have an integer overflow either. Do you know where the

Bug#408209: openoffice.org: PDF export has letters that are too close together

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-2 Severity: normal When exporting to PDF, some of the letters are very close together (touching in some cases). I haven't made any changes to the openoffice settings, this is a fresh install. I have seen this with DejaVu Sans and another font that

Bug#408209: Workaround

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Webb
For anyone who finds this bug and is having this problem, a workaround I'm currently using (assuming you have the CUPS printing system set up) is to use the the cups-pdf printer and print to that instead of doing a PDF export. So far it seems to work much better than the OpenOffice PDF export.

Bug#408015: vnc4server: -IdleTimeout 10000000 causes delayed screen updates

2007-01-22 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-20 Severity: normal When I use -IdleTimeout 4, everything works normally. When I use -IdleTimeout 1000, the vnc viewer only updates the screen when I move the mouse (I can type at a console for example, and the typing only shows up once I move

Bug#407223: Error during post-install: spampdInsecure $ENV{BASH_ENV} while running with -T switch at /usr/sbin/spampd line 814

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: spampd Version: 2.30-15 Severity: grave $ aptitude install spampd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically

Bug#407223: Error during post-install: spampdInsecure $ENV{BASH_ENV} while running with -T switch at /usr/sbin/spampd line 814

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Webb
It may be a out of memory problem. I have a Xen instance with low memory, and I have discovered that many (well... make that most) applications don't properly report out of memory errors. A nice exception is anything written in Python; the reason I realized this was the culprit was when I ran

Bug#407074: More information

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Webb
I tried downgrading libsane and sane-utils to the Sarge version and got the exact same response. Then I tried downgrading libusb too (a pain) and got a different, but similar response where it alternated between working and not every other time I ran scanimage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#407074: Even more information

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel Webb
All these commands were run consecutively, although the timing between them varied between 10 and 60 seconds. I tried this plugged directly into the USB port of my computer (IBM Thinkpad 600E) and it didn't seem to make a difference relative to plugging it into the USB hub. $ scanadf

Bug#406929: dia: Dia escapes Latex formulas during pstricks export

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: dia Version: 0.95.0-4.1+b1 Severity: normal A textbox with $\GlucoseUptakeFunction$ turns into \rput(9.10,-5.56){\scalebox{1 -1}{(\$\textbackslash{}GlucoseUptakeFunction\$)}} when exported to pstricks macros. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing

Bug#406930: dia: scalebox command in pstricks exports should be changed to psscalebox

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: dia Version: 0.95.0-4.1+b1 Severity: normal Not sure the reason, but pstricks exports fail (during latex compile) with ERROR: Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). unless \scalebox commands are changed to \psscalebox commands. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers

Bug#405637: postgrey: Postgrey hangs after several days, which blocks all mail delivery

2007-01-05 Thread Daniel Webb
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:38:06AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I'm not quite sure what the solution was, but I *think* it had something to do with BerkeleyDB not always liking NFS or Xen or anything of the sort, but I'm not sure anymore. Could that be an issue for you? I don't have the

Bug#405637: postgrey: Postgrey hangs after several days, which blocks all mail delivery

2007-01-04 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: postgrey Version: 1.27-3 Severity: important I don't know how to track this down, but postgrey has been hanging after several days of use and can only be stopped with kill -9. My mail log looks like this: Jan 4 23:11:09 sly postfix/smtpd[10391]: connect from

Bug#404551: coreutils: ls man page: -l option is not fully described

2006-12-26 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5 Severity: minor The man page for ls says: -l use a long listing format What long listing format means is never described. Since this format is not obvious should be described briefly in the man page. An example of where it is not obvious is for

Bug#403676: bash: declare -ax SOMETHING within function leads to unbound variable later

2006-12-18 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 Severity: normal I'm not sure how to make a test case out of this because it only happens for one case out of many in a program. The summary is: I have a function 'global_getopt_scan' I use to parse arguments, and return the array GLOBAL_ARGS to the caller. 1)

Bug#403467: bash: Unknown part of script causes assertion failure

2006-12-17 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 Severity: normal I'm not sure how to make a test case for this one, but the script that will cause the error is at http://danielwebb.us/misc/bash_bug.tar.gz Run: $ ./unixy-backup.restore_metadata . .unixy-backup.meta_filelist And I get: malloc:

Bug#403406: grep: Clarification of single-character regular expression in man page - newline isn't included

2006-12-16 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 Severity: minor Man page says: The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. Most characters, including all letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves. Any metacharacter with special

Bug#403184: sysklogd: syslog.conf man page not clear: describe effect of '; ' operator more clearly

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: sysklogd Version: 1.4.1-18 Severity: minor From the man page: Multiple selectors may be specified for a single action using the semicolon (``;'') separator. Remember that each selector in the selector field is capable to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this behavior you

Bug#403002: findutils: Find man page mentions metacharacters but never defines them

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: findutils Version: 4.2.28-1 Severity: minor It mentions metacharacters, but does not define them and is not precise about how they work, for example with --wholename. Also, it is not clear if it is possible to escape metacharacters. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#403005: coreutils: stat man page refers to backslash escapes but never describes them

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5 Severity: minor The stat man page refers to backslash escapes but never describes them. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to

Bug#333160: Requesting change of severity to grave

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Webb
I found this bug on accident, while using setfacl -R in the same way I was using chmod -R. The behavior should be the same, and the man page describes it as the same, but it isn't. I was fortunate in that I found out when a symbolic link in a user directory pointed to the root partition which

Bug#333160: Requesting change of severity to grave

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Webb
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:51:53PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: Please do... actions speak alot louder than words. [I'm CCing security because I already wrote them about this] I've never used any of these libraries, so bear with me... (looking at the Debian stable version) setfacl.c line 341:

Bug#356977: python2.3-psycopg: psycopg.BOOLEAN(True) segfaults

2006-03-14 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: python2.3-psycopg Version: 1.1.18-1 Severity: normal $ python import psycopg a=psycopg.BOOLEAN(True) Segmentation fault -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1

Bug#353976: scponly: scp fails with unknown user even if all system libraries installed

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: scponly Severity: normal When I use scponly in chroot mode, I can see with debug on that the scp in the chroot is saying: unknown user 1030 (or whatever the user is) The user exists in /etc/passwd, /chroot_dir/etc/passwd. I copied my entire /lib, /usr/lib, and /etc trees to the

Bug#347266: Debian packages development branch of rdiff-backup instead of stable branch

2006-01-09 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: rdiff-backup Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** I'm confused why the versions in sarge and unstable are both from Ben's development branches of rdiff-backup? The current stable version of rdiff-backup is 1.0.3. Ben also wondered why Debian is doing this

Bug#347266: Debian packages development branch of rdiff-backup instead of stable branch

2006-01-09 Thread Daniel Webb
In sarge, we have 0.13.4-5. This version is not a development version, it is just horribly outdated. Oh, ok I was probably just confused about it, I thought Ben was using an odd second number in the version to indicate the development branch. I would image you know better than me on that.

Bug#343568: fakeroot: Fakeroot doesn't work at all on Linux 2.6.12

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:10:32PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: $ fakeroot $ whoami webb I verified that SysV IPC is on in my kernel options. On a 2.4.22 system I have also running Debian stable, I get the expected root. Does fakeroot-tcp exhibit the same behavior? Yes. I can

Bug#343568: fakeroot: Fakeroot doesn't work at all on Linux 2.6.12

2005-12-16 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: fakeroot Version: 1.2.10 Severity: normal $ fakeroot $ whoami webb I verified that SysV IPC is on in my kernel options. On a 2.4.22 system I have also running Debian stable, I get the expected root. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#267484: please provide moreinfo about your bug report

2005-06-10 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:14:17AM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Did you check that the recipient get your PID? or that's something that only goes for the log? I sent a fax and verified that the line at the top of the fax looks exactly like the line in the log (and thus, includes my calling-card

Bug#267484: please provide moreinfo about your bug report

2005-06-04 Thread Daniel Webb
session 196lpi 14.4kbps 8.5/215mm any 1D- - 0ms efax: 36:36 sent TSI - caller ID efax: 36:36 sent DCS - session format efax: 36:40 sent TCF - channel check of 2700 bytes efax: 36:44 received CFR - channel OK efax: 36:45 header:[Sat 04-Jun-2005 17:35From Daniel Webb ( 0

Bug#295167: libglib2.0-0: Either autoconf macro AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0() or binary version broken

2005-02-13 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.6.2-1 Severity: normal # Autoconf snip: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0([1.2.0],,[AC_MSG_ERROR([glib 1.2 or newer is required])]) $ autoreconf $ ./configure snip checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.0... *** 'pkg-config

Bug#295167: Cancel this bug

2005-02-13 Thread Daniel Webb
Ugh! I spend nearly an hour trying to track down why this was happening so as not to file a frivolous bug report, but here I've gone and done it anyway. Turned out I have a /usr/local version of glib I had forgotten about. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#295028: xmms-liveice: Unusual bitrate option (196000 bps) doesn't work

2005-02-12 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: xmms-liveice Version: 1.0.0-6 Severity: normal One of the bitrate options in xmms-liveice is 196000. I'm guessing this should be 192000. xmms-liveice doesn't work with this setting (nothing is streamed to liveice), but 16 and 256000 work fine. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#228064: Still a bug

2005-01-31 Thread Daniel Webb
This should still be at least a wishlist to change the man page to clarify that -g only works for -L port forwarding. In the SSH docs, port forwarding is pretty much described the same for -L and -R forwarding, so the -g description in the manual should make clear that it is only for -L

Bug#291364: afio: During install operation, files are listed as uncompressed even if they weren't

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Webb
Package: afio Version: 2.5-2 Severity: minor When using afio -i with the -Z option, files that have errors and don't uncompress are still listed as being uncompressed in the -v output. For example, I intentionally corrupted backup/D1.gz in the afio file, and tried to install it. This is the