Bug#694068: wireless fail after stretch^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbuster^H^H^H^H^H^Hbullseye installation

2021-12-13 Thread David Wright
Having just swatted away this bug while installing bullseye on a laptop that has 1xUSB3, 2xUSB-C and no ethernet, I thought I should share the workaround here. This is only necessary, I'm led to believe, when installing by WiFi without the installation of a Desktop. Before tearing down the WiFi in

Bug#791835: PDF document's headings are gibberish ROT(-1)

2015-07-08 Thread David Wright
Package: release-notes The PDF file at https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/release-notes.en.pdf has headings which have letter substitutions a->thorn b->a c->b etc. The french version is similar. I haven't checked other languages. The data on page one is July 5, 2015. (256492 bytes.) Che

Bug#778881: binfmt-support.service activating (start) for ever, no console

2015-02-20 Thread David Wright
Package: binfmt-support Version: 2.1.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Booting up; now happening about once in four times. One reads that: [ Cylon eye ] A start job is running for Enable support for additional executable binary formats (3h 7min 57s / no l

Bug#731804: apt-cacher-ng stable version

2015-02-15 Thread David Wright
I'm not clear about the status of this bug. Will it ever be closed in wheezy? If not, what is the workaround? My cache just grows and grows, and there appears to be no way of expiring it bacause of this bug. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Bug#777558: tex-common: Redundant function in postinst

2015-02-09 Thread David Wright
Package: tex-common Version: 5.03 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The following lines (50--55) in the postinst script appear to be redundant since the removal of a large chunk of postinst. --8> cleanup() { rc=$? [ -n "$tempdir" ] && rm -rf "$tempdir" exit $rc } --8> cle

Bug#777474: Saving logs to first-user account just installed (wishlist)

2015-02-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > David Wright (2015-02-08): > > Wishlist: I would like to be able to copy the installation logs to > > /target/home// (using the option "Mounted Filesystem") so > > that when first-user reboots the system, the logs are al

Bug#777474: Saving logs to first-user account just installed (wishlist)

2015-02-08 Thread David Wright
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB image Image version: CD Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20150126-04:46 Date: 20150129-12:00 Machine: OptiPlex GX520 A11 (11/30/06) Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Memory: 2.0 GB 533 MHz Dual I

Bug#776233: openclipart: Some images, particularly PNGs, are far too large

2015-01-25 Thread David Wright
Package: openclipart Version: 1:0.18+dfsg-14 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Some of the images in this package are far too large. For example -rw-r--r-- 1 3769493 Jun 4 2012 microchip_v.2_havok_redh_01.png -rw-r--r-- 1 3055767 Jun 4 2012 salad_mateya_01.png -rw-r--r-- 1 2829335 Jun 6 201

Bug#767163: util-linux: root partition not being fsck'd

2014-10-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Phillip Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com): [...] > Let me make sure I've got this right: you have two different entries > in /etc/fstab that correspond to the same partition, and one of them > says it is fat? Yes. Years ago, it contained: # root filesystem /dev/hda1 / ext2 ... 0 1 ... some lines ..

Bug#767163: util-linux: root partition not being fsck'd

2014-10-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Phillip Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com): > > That is very odd... what happens if you manually try running fsck -N > on this partition? Well, that revealed what's going on. west ~# fsck -N /dev/sda1 fsck from util-linux 2.25.1 [/sbin/fsck.vfat (1) -- /media/vfat-a1] fsck.vfat /dev/sda1 west ~# f

Bug#767163: util-linux: root partition not being fsck'd

2014-10-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andreas Henriksson (andr...@fatal.se): > [...] > > # udevadm info -n /dev/whatever1 -q property | grep ID_FS_TYPE > > ...and... > > # blkid -p /dev/whatever1 west ~# udevadm info -n /dev/sda1 -q property | grep ID_FS_TYPE ID_FS_TYPE=ext3 west ~# blkid -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: LABEL="john

Bug#767163: util-linux: root partition not being fsck'd

2014-10-28 Thread David Wright
Package: util-linux Version: 2.25.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, My jessie/sid laptop's root filesystem, partition 1, is no longer fsck'd at reboot. After issuing a message, fsck then appears to try and run a FAT fsck on what is an ext3 filesystem that mounts as such. This started happenin

Bug#547329: update-manager-core: Crash after selecting 'No' to safe upgrade question

2009-10-24 Thread david wright
by 'purging' update-manager, I assume you mean removing update-manager-gnome I preformed the following: $ sudo apt-get remove update-manager-gnome $ sudo apt-get install update-manager-gnome $ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core however I still recieve a similiar experience to the one descri

Bug#552247: update-manager-gnome: fatal error if select 'No' to safe upgrade question

2009-10-24 Thread david wright
Package: update-manager-gnome Version: 0.200.0~rc4-1 Severity: important run: gksudo update-manager Prompted for password: -> enter password GUI popup: Upgrading may require removal or installation of new packages. Do you want to perform a safe-upgrade, which does not remove packages or install

Bug#548991: ITP: libcriticism-perl -- Perl pragma to enforce coding standards and best-practices

2009-09-29 Thread david wright
Package build can be found here http://www.dwright.us/misc/libcriticism-perl_1.02.tar.gz # tar ztvf libcriticism-perl_1.02.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- dwright/dwright 17608 2009-09-30 00:35:11 libcriticism-perl_1.02-1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- dwright/dwright 9551 2009-09-30 00:35:05 libcriticism-perl_1.02-1.

Bug#548991: ITP: libcriticism-perl -- Perl pragma to enforce coding standards and best-practices

2009-09-29 Thread david wright
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: david wright * Package name: libcriticism-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Thalhammer * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/criticism/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#548618: ITP: libdeclare-constraints-simple-perl -- Perl module to validate data structures

2009-09-29 Thread david wright
>- Original Message >From: Jonathan Yu >To: david wright ; 548...@bugs.debian.org >Sent: Tue, September 29, 2009 6:24:52 AM >Subject: Re: Bug#548618: ITP: libdeclare-constraints-simple-perl -- Perl >module to validate data > >On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:43

Bug#548618: ITP: libdeclare-constraints-simple-perl -- Perl module to validate data structures

2009-09-29 Thread david wright
I am confused by the RT bug filed against this ITP. >WAITS for copyright clarification from upstream. >https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50049 >* Initial Release (Closes: #548618) At the bottom of the module it states: http://search.cpan.org/~phaylon/Declare-Constraints-Simple-0.03/lib/D

Bug#533435: [pida] cannot start, undefined sumbol db

2009-09-28 Thread david wright
FWIW. I use this package, runs fine for me, I have a vanilla squeeze/sid system. $ uname -a Linux debian 2.6.30-1-486 #1 Sat Aug 15 18:14:04 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version squeeze/sid $ apt-cache showpkg pida Package: pida Versions: 0.5.1-5 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.or

Bug#428013: I have built and tested a new version, (current upstream version)

2009-04-17 Thread david wright
I have built and tested a new version, (current upstream version) I also submitted a RFS, details on both here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/03/msg00547.html +David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#507014: I would expect a 'git' package to represent "Git - Fast Version Control System"

2009-03-08 Thread david wright
Package: git Version: 4.9.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #507014 I would expect apt-get install git would be the equilivent of 'sudo aptitude install git-core git-buildpackage pristine-tar' dwri...@debian:~/$ which git dwri...@debian:~/$ sudo apt-get install git dwri...@debian:~/$ which git dwri...@debia