Bug#1070336: avahi-utils: avahi-resolve-address returns success exit code on failure

2024-05-03 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: avahi-utils Version: 0.8-10 Severity: minor Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, avahi-resolve-address and avahi-resolve --address should return a non-zero exit code on failure: if avahi-resolve-address 192.162.1.99; then echo success; else

Bug#1050813: Danubian-installer: no option to skip configuring network

2023-08-29 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: webinar-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, The debian 12 installer does not appear to support an option to skip connecting to a network. I'm installing on a laptop and using a large DVD and do not have access to any wireless

Bug#1049919: Also: /bin/sh: auto: not found

2023-08-16 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
When executing a shell, there is no "auto" command as documented : The "auto" command launches the installation in the automated mode, where > the configuration of hostname, locale and keymap

Bug#1049919: d-i: pressing ESC in graphical installer does nothing, unable to preseed installation

2023-08-16 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: d-i Version: debian-installer Severity: minor Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, The docs for preseeding debian recommend pressing ESC after entering the graphical installer menu: > Loading the preseeding file from a webserver > Most install methods you can

Bug#1039612: libtool: Incorrect check for += operator causes func_append to fail

2023-06-27 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: libtool Version: 2.4.6-15 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, While building isc-dhcpd-server, I tried using autoreconf as per instructions to generate the ./configure file. But running `autoreconf -i` on

Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-06-14 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
at 6:58 PM Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ernesto, > > Ernesto Alfonso (2023-05-13): > > I'm attempting to setup Debian on a Dell Inspiron All-in-One system, > > either as dual boot or replacing the existing windows 10 OS. > > > > The installer hangs after entering e

Bug#1036038: PXE boot on bookworm, "boot" hangs with --- debug. Ubuntu works

2023-06-14 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Thanks for following up. I tried the bookworm netinstall and the PXE boot, but the install failed in the same way: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/SHA256SUMS I used the netbot.tar.gz as well as the USB

Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-05-13 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I'm attempting to setup Debian on a Dell Inspiron All-in-One system, either as dual boot or replacing the existing windows 10 OS. The installer hangs after entering either the "graphical

Bug#963936: inspircd: Problematic "lazy" + banana reference in inspircd example motd

2020-06-28 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Source: inspircd Severity: normal The example inspircd motd (inspircd/docs/conf/motd.txt.example) contains a reference to "lazy" and "bannana" together, which is considered racially offensive. I pointed this out in the upstream issuetracker, but the maintainers promptly dismissed the issue and

Bug#920397: shutter: "Keyboard could not be grabbed" when taking fullscreen screenshot

2019-01-24 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: shutter Version: 0.93.1-1.3 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? "shutter -e -f -o -n -s" * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#901254: gnome-terminal: unable to init server, failed with result 'signal', segfault at 8

2018-06-10 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
I'm not aware of using broadway. I don't have a broadway service based on service --status-all, a broadwayd executable, nor either of the packages libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-0-dbg installed in my system. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 7:27 PM Jason Crain wrote: > On 2018-06-10, Ernesto Alfonso wr

Bug#901254: gnome-terminal: unable to init server, failed with result 'signal', segfault at 8

2018-06-10 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.22.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm suddenly unable to start gnome terminal after an unexpected shutdown due to a hard-disk being removed while the system was running. Looking at the logs, I see the following: >Jun 10 09:26:21 debian-x1

Bug#900742: iwlist: argument list too long

2018-06-05 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Do you have more information about this limitation so that someone can report it to the appropriate package? On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote: > tags 900742 + wontfix > thanks > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 09:27:18PM -0700, Ernesto Alfonso wrote: > > > Pa

Bug#900742: iwlist: argument list too long

2018-06-03 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: wireless-tools Version: 30~pre9-12+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, iwlist fails with the error "Failed to read scan data : Argument list too long" when there are too many reachable access points. I've encountered this issue consistently at certain hotels, and I've had to

Bug#899416: x11-common: several problems starting X server on fresh stretch netinstall

2018-05-23 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.7+19 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I faced several problems when trying to start the x-server via either xinit or startx 1. first, clients could not connect to the x-server. when I tried starting via service x11-common start or via systemctl, I got

Bug#664905: 10 second timeout makes notification useless to me

2018-04-28 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
I'm trying to use using notify-osd to log events in my window manager to debug an issue. The time between events is at most 2 seconds. By the time the hard-coded 10-second timeout expires the notification, all relevant events have already happened, making it impossible to discern when. It

Bug#897131: notify-osd: totally black bubble, unable to read any messages

2018-04-28 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: notify-osd Version: 0.9.35+15.04.20150126-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I start notify-osd manually (after manually looking for the executable which was hard to find), as shown below, then use "notify-send hello hello". I get a black box at the top-right corner, and I'm