Bug#319755: Not necessarily initrd problem!

2007-05-21 Thread David Baron
I have had this for a while and do not use an initrd. I can rmmod genrtc and modprobe rtc afterwards. However, certain thing have already loaded which depend upon the rtc.ko and produce errors with genrtc.ko loaded. I had a blacklist entry which had been successful in surpressing genrtc. I

Bug#423628: /usr/sbin/clamd: Would like ability to run niced

2007-05-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Baron said: I tried renicing. Indeed, now top shows clamd running with the specified nice value and could probably be started from init.d script with a nice value. However, the kde system monitor applet does

Bug#423628: /usr/sbin/clamd: Would like ability to run niced

2007-05-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Baron said: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: I'm sorry, maybe I'm not reading this clearly. Is the bug report about clamd not being niceable (preferabl in some automated way, via an init script

Bug#423628: /usr/sbin/clamd: Would like ability to run niced

2007-05-15 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Baron said: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -elF | egrep '(ADDR|clam)' F S UIDPID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHANRSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD 1 S clamav

Bug#423628: /usr/sbin/clamd: Would like ability to run niced

2007-05-13 Thread David Baron
Package: clamav-daemon Version: 0.90.2-1+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/clamd I tried renicing. Indeed, now top shows clamd running with the specified nice value and could probably be started from init.d script with a nice value. However, the kde system monitor applet does not show clamd

Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned Relaying not allowed

2007-05-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:10:03PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007, you wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0300, David Baron wrote: In outlook express, one would check authentification required and enter simply 'v

Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned Relaying not allowed

2007-05-03 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:04:36PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did not change it. I am sending this as I had to do the original submission from the provider's online mail site. What do your logs say? I bet that your host is failing to

Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned Relaying not allowed

2007-05-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 May 2007, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:08:32PM +0300, David Baron wrote: The logs show the message being sent smarthost, completed. Unfortunately, exim logs do not show whether exim did authenticate. Then show the return with the error message which does cite

Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned Relaying not allowed

2007-05-03 Thread David Baron
If it is OK bypassing the smarthost, then either: Exim4 is doing something different now that the provider is not pleased with, I suspect that it is not authenticating. or the provider has made some little changes and has not documented them to the subscribers (would not be the

Bug#421980: exim4: ALL outgoing mail returned Relaying not allowed

2007-05-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 May 2007, you wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0300, David Baron wrote: In outlook express, one would check authentification required and enter simply 'v'. (Usually there will be fields for username and password) What would v mean? Good question. How much more

Bug#421605: enigma: Fails with undefined libzipios symbol

2007-04-30 Thread David Baron
Package: enigma Version: 1.00-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable After latest Sid upgrades (including libc6), enigma will fail after completing one board with an undefined libzipios symbol. Leaves screen at wrong setting if played full screen and mouse is eaten whether full

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-28 Thread David Baron
Any news about that? Could we close the bug? My Debian box is working 100% OK. Can upgrade other stuff as well. However: After a recent post about libc6 upgrade trashing someone's sarge, I recommend the following: 1. Pre-configure: Check running kernel. If not new enough, STOP NOW. Check

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: David Baron a écrit : On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: Aurelien Jarno a écrit : d_bron a écrit : Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-4 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Once again, with feeling. 1. Attempt to fix

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: Aurelien Jarno a écrit : d_bron a écrit : Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-4 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Once again, with feeling. 1. Attempt to fix up dependencies and upgrade using apt -4 install. As soon as it

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
Some more odities that may or may not be relevant: With the downgraded (allbeit dependency-problematic) to 2.3*: sh run from kpackage fails looking for an .so.# library. sh run from anywhere else works fine bash (sh is simply a symlink to bash) runs fine. Opera run from a command line works fine.

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: David Baron a écrit : Some more odities that may or may not be relevant: With the downgraded (allbeit dependency-problematic) to 2.3*: sh run from kpackage fails looking for an .so.# library. Which one? Can't get back there but might

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.6.1 /lib/ld-2.5.so /lib/libc.so.6 I have a LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in /etc/profile which was put there for jackd. Maybe I should get rid of that! Tried that with the upgrade and actually got into a bash login from the console but kdm would not restart to test it there. Had

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.6.1 /lib/ld-2.5.so /lib/libc.so.6 I have a LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in /etc/profile which was put there for jackd. Maybe I should get rid of that! Tried that with the upgrade and actually got into a bash login from the console but kdm would not restart to test it there. Had

Bug#420667: libc6 breaks bash, renders all compiles unusable

2007-04-24 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: David Baron a écrit : Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software 1. Upgrade -- balks at symlinks in /usr/lib, asks user to remove them. BAD BAD BAD! What do you mean exactly? Could you

Bug#420667: libc6 breaks bash, renders all compiles unusable

2007-04-23 Thread David Baron
Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software 1. Upgrade -- balks at symlinks in /usr/lib, asks user to remove them. BAD BAD BAD! 2. Once these removed, installs. Bash is now unusable--problem is in calls from bashrc, bash.bashrc, et al. bash -norc, sh

Bug#419394: sudo: Sudo not using $PATH or some $PATH items

2007-04-15 Thread David Baron
Package: sudo Version: 1.6.8p12-5 Severity: important Most recent upgrade of sudo no longer can execute something on the path, for example, $KDEDIR/bin/some-kde-app. If I explicitely give it this path string, it works just fine. May be related to #383389 (Bug or feature? If feature, one might

Bug#419394: sudo: Sudo not using $PATH or some $PATH items

2007-04-15 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 15 April 2007, Bdale Garbee wrote: tags 419394 +moreinfo severity 419394 normal thanks On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 17:38 +0300, David Baron wrote: Most recent upgrade of sudo no longer can execute something on the path, for example, $KDEDIR/bin/some-kde-app. If I explicitely give

Bug#416694: gsambad: Assert on startup

2007-03-29 Thread David Baron
Package: gsambad Version: 0.1.5-2 Severity: important Get the following on startup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ** (gsambad:11320): WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file: gsambad.png (gsambad:11320): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed The program does

Bug#416307: Nope! (reopen)

2007-03-28 Thread David Baron
The installation of kqemu does still place option major=0 in /etc/modprobe.d/kqemu. Should be major=250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#416300: kqemu-source: Undefine Symbols

2007-03-26 Thread David Baron
Package: kqemu-source Version: 1.3.0~pre11-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The following from dmesg | grep kqemu: kqemu: Unknown symbol kqemu_init kqemu: Unknown symbol kqemu_exec kqemu: Unknown symbol kqemu_delete kqemu: Unknown symbol kqemu_global_init kqemu: Unknown

Bug#416307: kqemu-common: modprobe.d major

2007-03-26 Thread David Baron
Package: kqemu-common Version: 1.3.0~pre11-2 Severity: important The kqemu node is major=250 The package places /etc/modprobe.d/kqemu with major=0 Since this apparently overrides specified options, qemu reports cannot open /dev/kqemu. Changing the contents of modprobe.d/kqemu to major=250 fixes

Bug#415702: Cannot open /dev/kqemu

2007-03-21 Thread David Baron
Package: qemu Version: 0.8.2-5 Severity: normal Always get Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated. This message may or may not be true. I have experimented with the permissions of /dev/kqemu and sudoing the qemu run to no avail. Set up a kqemu group for such

Bug#415702: /etc/modprobe.d/kqemu

2007-03-21 Thread David Baron
This file had an option of major=0. This apparently overrode any attempt to do it explicitely modprobe kqemu major=250. This may be the cause of the problem. If so, the bug may be switched the kqemu-source if this install placed this file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#413671: jackd: Cannot Open Jack Client 44100 vs 44099 khz !

2007-03-06 Thread David Baron
Package: jackd Version: 0.101.1-2 Severity: important I have seen this one in several application, most recently aldrin. The app detects the jackd server and tries to connect to an audio output device. Something returns this error. Code using floating point for the sample rate must be rounded

Bug#409645: fuse-utils: Installation unusable for many reasons

2007-02-06 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, you wrote: severity 409645 important thanks On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:46:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Fuse got installed, probably as a dependency from something else. All of a sudden, I get on my bootup a failure started fuse module. I never elected

Bug#409645: fuse-utils: Installation unusable for many reasons

2007-02-04 Thread David Baron
Package: fuse-utils Version: 2.6.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Fuse got installed, probably as a dependency from something else. All of a sudden, I get on my bootup a failure started fuse module. I never elected to start this. Maybe initscripts activated it. However:

Bug#408711: kqemu-source: Depends on non-existant linux-modules package so will not install

2007-01-28 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 27 January 2007 23:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: severity 408711 normal tags 408711 +moreinfo thanks David Baron wrote: I can install it by using --force-all or appropriate --ignore-dependencies but this will cripple further apt upgrading. no clue what you are talking about. can

Bug#408711: kqemu-source: Depends on non-existant linux-modules package so will not install

2007-01-28 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:18, Daniel Baumann wrote: reopen 408711 reassign 408711 kernel-package thanks David Baron wrote: Run sudo m-a install kqemu-source which I assume simply is doing dpkg -i kqemu-module-..deb This fails with an unment dependency on a missing linux-modules

Bug#408711: kqemu-source: Depends on non-existant linux-modules package so will not install

2007-01-28 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: David Baron wrote: kqemu is contributed, non-free and while nice to have a package in Sid, this is outside the overall Debian realm. Having unneeded dependencies is such a package is not really so nice. you did not understand, please

Bug#408711: kqemu-source: Depends on non-existant linux-modules package so will not install

2007-01-27 Thread David Baron
Package: kqemu-source Version: 1.3.0~pre9-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I can install it by using --force-all or appropriate --ignore-dependencies but this will cripple further apt upgrading. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#405955: module-assistant: kqemu-source does not show up on modules list

2007-01-07 Thread David Baron
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.8 Severity: normal kqemu-source does not appear on the modules list, even after update. I can, of course, specify in the command line. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing')

Bug#405954: module-assistant: Severe problems with inappropriate linux symlink

2007-01-07 Thread David Baron
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.8 Severity: normal The following scenarios render further builds quite problematic, usually necessistating reuntar of kernel source (note that building against source, not installed headers): 1. build for current running kernel, linux-another kernel source

Bug#405954: module-assistant: Severe problems with inappropriate linux symlink

2007-01-07 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:11, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * David Baron [Sun, Jan 07 2007, 05:49:00PM]: Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.8 Severity: normal The following scenarios render further builds quite problematic, usually necessistating reuntar of kernel

Bug#405178: kqemu-source: Looking for udev config directories, no dependency and does not need it

2007-01-01 Thread David Baron
Package: kqemu-source Version: 1.3.0~pre9-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Attempted to install the latest and greatest kqemu using m-a. This failed trying to write to a /etc/udev.d subdirectory. I am not using udev so obviously do not have this. There is no dependency

Bug#404479: kernel-patch-openvz: Strange messages at end of shutdown sequence

2006-12-25 Thread David Baron
Package: kernel-patch-openvz Version: 028test007.1 Severity: normal Near end of shutdown sequence, get a series of messages of form: Uncharging ... too many ... They are apparently harmless. Not preserved in logcheck items. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#403712: [Debian] Re: Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-25 Thread David Baron
Get the following harmless quip on boot: Dec 23 18:26:18 d_baron kernel: Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (0-0)! This means that on your motherboard/CPUs kernel was unable to setup NMI watchdog. nothing bad, except for kernel won't be able to detect it's hard

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-23 Thread David Baron
Compiled and booted!! I apparently will work with voluntary preemption as well as no premption. No oopses, flags. Next week I will start to play with it! Caveat: Unionfs will not compile against the patched sources (not using it yet so it can wait). Get the following harmless quip on boot:

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-22 Thread David Baron
Compiled and booted!! I apparently will work with voluntary preemption as well as no premption. No oopses, flags. Next week I will start to play with it! Caveat: Unionfs will not compile against the patched sources (not using it yet so it can wait). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:16, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi David When I compiled the kernel yesterday using the same version of the kernel and the openvz patch I did not need to do anything with symlinking. My compile line look something like this: export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=true untar

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-21 Thread David Baron
Got it to build and even attempt to boot--no undefineds! The thing listed a lot of oops codes, many involving the journaling, so I panicked and stopped it. Additionally, there were items like: BUG: Using SMP with preemptive (or something like that.) (I do not have multiple processors but

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-20 Thread David Baron
as of that date would not patch. The current version patched but produced the errors on compile. Regards, // Ola On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:58:40AM +0200, David Baron wrote: Package: kernel-patch-openvz Version: 028test007.1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Here

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-20 Thread David Baron
Hi I have built it now and I have no problem building. Not at least with make-kpkg. I use this. According to upstream you did not run make oldconfig for some reason? It does this anyway. I compied to .config from the non-patched kernel and was asked to fill in various new items inserted

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-20 Thread David Baron
Hi I have built it now and I have no problem building. Not at least with make-kpkg. I use this. According to upstream you did not run make oldconfig for some reason? It does this anyway. I compied to .config from the non-patched kernel and was asked to fill in various new items inserted

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-20 Thread David Baron
Hi I have built it now and I have no problem building. Not at least with make-kpkg. I use this. According to upstream you did not run make oldconfig for some reason? It does this anyway. I compied to .config from the non-patched kernel and was asked to fill in various new items inserted

Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

2006-12-19 Thread David Baron
Package: kernel-patch-openvz Version: 028test007.1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Here they are: (May be others as well.) kernel/built-in.o: In function `do_env_create': vecalls.c:(.text+0x349a7): undefined reference to `ve_snmp_proc_init'

Bug#401529: need more info

2006-12-05 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:21, Roland Marcus Rutschmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:33, David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:24, Roland Marcus Rutschmann wrote: Hi, just checked with all available DICOM files available to me. Could you please send me

Bug#401529: medicon: Segmentation fault!

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
Package: medicon Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Medicon and Xmedicon both segfault on recent DICOM files. I would assume the problem is in the common library rather than either of these individually. DICOM is an ongoing, developing standard and apparently new codes are

Bug#401529: medicon: Segmentation fault!

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
On Monday 04 December 2006 15:18, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-04 11:34]: Package: medicon I don't see this package in Debian. What does dpkg -p medicon | grep Maintainer say? OK it's medcon and xmedcon. Maintainer is Roland Marchus Rutschmann. He

Bug#400385: dansguardian: Virus files in /tmp take too much space

2006-11-25 Thread David Baron
Package: dansguardian Version: 2.8.0.6-antivirus-6.4.4-1 Severity: important All of a sudden, my main partition was full up. Since the complaining program was trying to write /tmp, I listed /tmp contents and found several hundred megabytes of stuff in /tmp/dgvirus. I removed two of the largest

Bug#388727: squashfs-module: Kernel module source apprently for 2.6.18

2006-11-16 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 16 November 2006 17:45, Daniel Baumann wrote: Hi, please note that this was for both, unionfs and squashfs, requested by waldi. Hence, this bug is a non-issue, actually. Regards, Daniel Since current kernel is 2.6.18 and these compile just fine, certainly close it already :-)

Bug#391180: Israeili Provider's NetCache causing unreliable SOAP download

2006-10-16 Thread David Baron
Yesterday, my 1.5M ADSL ran at full 195kbs. Not one single failure getting SOAP information download Today, I was running at 60-80kbs and got repeated failures. This thing needs fixing at the provider 012.net.il due to the sporadic slowness download from the US. The reason that a slower

Bug#391180: apt-listbugs: Sporadic failures

2006-10-15 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 15 October 2006 03:00, Junichi Uekawa wrote: retitle 391180 ISP in Israel uses NetApp NetCache, and it's unable to serve Proxy requests reliably. What can I do? thanks I'm retitling the bug report accordingly so that others don't get confused about what the problem is. Hi, I

Bug#391180: Problems with apt-listbugs

2006-10-14 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 14 October 2006 08:46, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: unsupported proxy `false' Your apt.conf is wrong, and broken due to broken and now fixed apt-setup. Your proxy is called 'false' which shouldn't be. Another posting instructed this poster to take out

Bug#391180: Problems with apt-listbugs

2006-10-13 Thread David Baron
On Friday 13 October 2006 07:57, Michael Ott wrote: Hi! I got the following error during upgrade: Fetched 7301kB in 54s (134kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: unsupported proxy `false' Error retrieving bug reports Retry

Bug#392597: nvidia-glx: Half Nvidia's own frame rate on ppracer, flightgear crashes

2006-10-13 Thread David Baron
On Friday 13 October 2006 04:53, Steve Langasek wrote: severity 392597 important thanks On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:38:49PM +0200, David Baron wrote: The Debian nvidia packages do not work as well as nvidia's own (even though the code would be mostly the same). Planet Penguin Racer reports

Bug#391180: apt-listbugs: Sporadic failures

2006-10-12 Thread David Baron
I spoke with the provider who is indeed running NetCache which is a default transfer proxy for most Israeli ADSL. He informed me that the proxy is only active on port 80 and that any other port bypasses it. This might be another settable option? It is now, tried -p 81. Did not change anything.

Bug#392597: nvidia-glx: Half Nvidia's own frame rate on ppracer, flightgear crashes

2006-10-12 Thread David Baron
Package: nvidia-glx Severity: serious Justification: 4 The Debian nvidia packages do not work as well as nvidia's own (even though the code would be mostly the same). Planet Penguin Racer reports half the frame rate. FlightGear will not run. Kernel Module was built using m-a. -- System

Bug#387928: fontconfig: Cannot write cache files

2006-10-10 Thread David Baron
I do not believe this is still a problem. Probably can close unless someone had this happen again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391180: apt-listbugs: Sporadic failures

2006-10-10 Thread David Baron
0.62 installed. Network problematic today so get frequent empty soap ... do you want to retry Can keep saying yes, will work after a few retries. An idea would be to silently retry within the timeout (30 seconds, not 999 seconds or something I can set somewhere), then ask. This would rarely

Bug#391180: apt-listbugs: Sporadic failures

2006-10-09 Thread David Baron
Sorry to bother you again but it might be useful: Not one failure today. None. What is different--network was functioning at full rated transferspeed rather than the fluctuation and such of the past few days. So maybe the timing is relevant or some problem on the provider's server? -- To

Bug#391367: Running soffice.bin manually

2006-10-07 Thread David Baron
Since top reveals that this is being run when trying to run OO, I did so manually. Once the program has crashed and any further run attempts yield this error: pure virtual method called terminate called without an active exception This may be of interest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#391367: openoffice.org: RTF import broken

2006-10-06 Thread David Baron
Package: openoffice.org Version: 2.0.4~rc3-1 Severity: important RTF import is broken. May touch upon the following and other previous bugs: #250005, #326091, #302073. RTF produced by OO MAY (or may not) in fact come in OK. RTF produced by other programs will not. After the crash, further

Bug#391180: apt-listbugs: Sporadic failures

2006-10-05 Thread David Baron
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.58 Severity: important Usually works just fine. Every few runs, get: E: Sub-process if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit

Bug#391180: More Information

2006-10-05 Thread David Baron
1. May be related to a very short timeout trying to get the information! 2. This is the exact same error message I get if I answer no to whether to procede with the upgrade, it seems. Kpackage seems to need to generate and error to abort the upgrade process (and afterwards does not handle the

Bug#323626: Fixed?

2006-10-02 Thread David Baron
Version 0.57 still has the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388727: squashfs-module: Kernel module source apprently for 2.6.18

2006-09-22 Thread David Baron
Package: squashfs-module Version: squashfs Severity: normal Will not compile against 2.6.17 sources. Same problem with unionfs so this was also prematurely posted. Dependencies on 2.6.18 not flagged. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Bug#388621: unionfs-source: Compilation error in main.c

2006-09-21 Thread David Baron
Package: unionfs-source Version: 1.3.20060918.2217+debian-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Compilation error on main.c, get_sb_nodev() too many arguments. I cannot find a prototype for this function in the unionfs sources to try to fix it so must be part of the kernel.

Bug#387928: fontconfig: Cannot write cache files

2006-09-17 Thread David Baron
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.4.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Recent Sid versions cannot write font caches. Will report scanning of # directories, # fonts in log or using -v option, but will not write caches. This renders X very slow (such a bug reported) and KDE

Bug#386984: (no subject)

2006-09-11 Thread David Baron
Subject: exim4: Spurious? paniclog error Package: exim4 Version: 4.63-3 Severity: normal At each system start, I get a system email with: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on d_baron has non-zero size, mail system might be broken It's not :-) The paniclog will contain a few entries like:

Bug#386979: prelink: Prelink fails with invalid free, failure 134

2006-09-11 Thread David Baron
Package: prelink Version: 0.0.20060712-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Prelink does indeed prelink, missing many binaries due to problems outside its scope. However, it eventually fails with: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f9ac08 *** Prelink failed

Bug#380455: sgt-puzzles: Solo (Sudoku) game: Many level choices crash program

2006-07-30 Thread David Baron
Package: sgt-puzzles Version: 6739-1 Severity: important Game has various levels such as intermediate, extreme, etc. Many of these (extreme, unreasonable, others) but NOT all of them crash the program. The usual backtrace box does NOT come up so I have no trace data. -- System Information:

Bug#370162: Problem is in Kernel or X11R6 includes

2006-06-18 Thread David Baron
Simply recompiling the Nvidia (closed--from their site) driver fixed it! Recommend others who have such problems: Try recompiling the driver/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#370335: foomatic-db: Problems generating the driver database

2006-06-04 Thread David Baron
Package: foomatic-db Version: 20060530-1 Severity: normal Since the foomatic package changelog suggested reinstalling the printer PPDs, I set out to do so. Building the driver database produced a lot of errors. In the KDE shell, got several unable to create databse error boxes and the console

Bug#370162: freeglut3: DRI non-functional on latest freeglut from Sid

2006-06-03 Thread David Baron
Package: freeglut3 Version: 2.4.0-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Latest upgrade from Sid caused the following error--console output from flightgeear but planet-penguine and others also inoperative: freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window

Bug#369412: libasound2: 1.0.11-5, 1.0.11-6 Broken, disables alsa

2006-05-29 Thread David Baron
Package: libasound2 Version: 1.0.11-5,6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Alsa is unable to find any of its hw:# devices. Disables all sound Hangs up artsd Error messages on bootup, however not recorded in any logs. Easy enough to reproduce. I downgraded to 1.0.11-3

Bug#359264: Corrected by latest python upgrades

2006-04-05 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:44, you wrote: reassign 359264 libgconf2-4 thanks On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:17:32PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Python2.4 upgrades today on Sid apparently corrected the problem. I had to install python2.4_2.4.2+2.4.3c1-1_i386.deb with a dpkg --force-all

Bug#360484: Working again

2006-04-04 Thread David Baron
I had somehow lost the main database file. Once regenerated, program could once again test and update. Program should protect itself against missing or invalid data rather than proceed and segfault out. I now get the following which I never got before: ### Warning: File system error. ###

Bug#360484: tripwire: Tripwire requires is policy text files on line--security problem

2006-04-02 Thread David Baron
Package: tripwire Version: 2.3.1.2.0-7 Severity: important Tripwire now requires its policy text files on line and will segfault and crash with it/them. For security reasons, it was recommended to keep these off line in safe storage. Requiring them on line is not secure behavior and it always

Bug#360484: Might not be requiring the txt file!

2006-04-02 Thread David Baron
I saw this in an error message somewhere but did not repeat. I reconfigured, regenerated the binary files. Still get the segfault, however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#359264: Corrected by latest python upgrades

2006-03-29 Thread David Baron
Python2.4 upgrades today on Sid apparently corrected the problem. I had to install python2.4_2.4.2+2.4.3c1-1_i386.deb with a dpkg --force-all because of duplicated files. Running apt-get -f install afterwards to complete the aborted upgrades completed all the gnome/pango incompletes as well! I

Bug#359264: upgrades-reports: Undefine symbol disables upgrade installation and dependent programs

2006-03-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 05:40, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:44:00PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Package: upgrades-reports Version: gnome libraries 2.14.0-1, libpango1.0-common 1.12.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable An undefined symbol in the gnome

Bug#359264: upgrades-reports: Undefine symbol disables upgrade installation and dependent programs

2006-03-27 Thread David Baron
Package: upgrades-reports Version: gnome libraries 2.14.0-1, libpango1.0-common 1.12.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable An undefined symbol in the gnome, pango libraries renders the upgrades uninstallable and disables programs now dependent on them: undefined symbol:

Bug#348342: libgtk-x11-2.0: Undefine symbol g_object_compat_control

2006-01-16 Thread David Baron
Package: libgtk-x11-2.0 Version: 2.0 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software The following error message was produced after recent upgrade (solo is a sudoku game): solo: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_compat_control -- System

Bug#293287: Atempt to restart X or reboot system with /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk active in XF86Config-4 hang system with blank screen.

2005-02-02 Thread David Baron
Package: dri-trunk Version: 2005.01.26-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system When system is hung with blank screen, impossible to escape to shell and the only way out is to reboot. File systems (ext3) seem uneffected and journals were not restored. Commenting out the line in

Bug#293287: Atempt to restart X or reboot system with /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk active in XF86Config-4 hang system with blank screen.

2005-02-02 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:00, you wrote: * David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-02 10:14]: Package: dri-trunk Version: 2005.01.26-2 I cannot find such a package in the Debian archive. Do you know where you obtained in? If not, what does dpkg -p dri-trunk | grep Maintainer

Bug#293287: Attempt to restart X or reboot system with /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk active in XF86Config-4 hang system with blank screen.

2005-02-02 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:00, you wrote: * David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-02 10:14]: Package: dri-trunk Version: 2005.01.26-2 I cannot find such a package in the Debian archive. Do you know where you obtained in? If not, what does dpkg -p dri-trunk | grep Maintainer

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