Bug#656695: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem

2012-01-20 Thread JOHN HUNTER
can I get back to the previous kernel suite? John Hunter

Bug#600320: Installation: set password for root; did not create a user; could not login after 1st reboot.

2010-10-15 Thread John Hunter
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.42 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Unknown I was installing squeeze over an old version of Ubuntu which had users already set up in /home. I set up the root password but declined to create any [more] users. The install apparently finished OK and

Bug#600322: kde-full: There does not seem to be a way of getting kde to rum instead of gnome

2010-10-15 Thread John Hunter
Package: kde-full Version: 5:64 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The title says it all. the kde-base install does not make any attempt to undo the gnome spaghetti so that kdm can run. The Debian soft links and other indirections for the start up of gnome are so baroque that

Bug#593826: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Lilo reports kernal stack overlap on boot then hangs.

2010-08-21 Thread John Hunter
or sometimes after /sbin/halt. N.B. my e-mail address is now: jmd...@btinternet.com John Hunter -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached ** Model information not available ** Network interface configuration: # This file describes the network interfaces

Bug#537407: installer: Manual Disc Partitioning

2009-07-17 Thread John Hunter
, commit to disc and then abort the installation. The installation was then repeated and then I was able to edit the created partitions manually and the installation was completed normally. 3. This is not really slick! (No such problems were encountered with Ubuntu or Slackware 12.2) John Hunter

Bug#492732: python-spinx 0.4.1 show-inheritance in automodule broken in testing and lenny

2008-07-28 Thread John Hunter
Package: python-sphinx Version: 0.4.1-2 Severity: serious When trying to package a bugfix release of python-matplotlib for testing and lenny, the documentation build generates a error in the python-sphinx dependency. Build command: ( cd doc ; MATPLOTLIBDATA=../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/ \

Bug#492735: memory leak and doc omission in python-matplotlib 0.98.1-1

2008-07-28 Thread John Hunter
Package: python-matplotlib Version: 0.98.1-1 Severity: serious The current version of python-matplotlib in debian testing and lenny has a number of serious bugs and omissions * Bug: memory leak using shared axes (attached script looptest.py shows the leak) * Bug: transforms method offset_copy