Bug#821157: virtualbox: Critical Error Failed to create the VirtualBoxClient COM object

2016-04-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Gianfranco, > [...] > please try to rename the file (under > .config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml IIRC) Sorry, I already deleted it. The good news? It seemed to solve my problem. > [...] > and also please report the output of > # ls -l /dev/vbox* km:~ ls -l /dev/vbox* crw-rw 1 root

Bug#821157: virtualbox: Critical Error Failed to create the VirtualBoxClient COM object

2016-04-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
i, I would say you hit this bug > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14296can you please help upstream in fixing > it if it is the case? > > > (also trying upstream workaround fixes might help you and them) > > thanks! > Gianfranco > > > > > Il Sabato 16 Aprile 2

Bug#820970: Sorry, but it looks like a bug to me

2016-04-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Michael, Please accept my apology. I started the bug report by saying that it "may be" a bug, but I failed to end it by saying I think it "is". Sorry! As long as I'm apologizing, I suppose I might as well also apologize in case qemu really can run the 64 bit version of Windows 10 as a

Bug#820970: 32 bit Windows 10 seems to have worked

2016-04-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
At least for me, qemu seems to have worked after switching from trying to install a 64 bit guest to 32 bits. The command I used was: user$ qemu-system-i386 -m 2000 -drive file=empty.raw,format=raw -cdrom 32BIT.ISO -boot d -localtime -enable-kvm I suspect a bug in qemu's ability to run a

Bug#820970: 625716 fix fail

2016-04-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Bug report 625716 suggests kvm -usb \ -drive file=filename,if=none,id=b,boot=on \ -device usb-storage,drive=b (the key point is boot=on subparameter) So I tried root:~ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2000 -usb -drive file=/dev/sde,if=none,id=b,boot=on -device

Bug#820970: Windows 10 tells qemu-system-x86_64 it's 32 bit

2016-04-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
When I tried to boot Windows 10 on a USB flash drive with $ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2000 -drive file=/home/kingsley/empty.raw,format=raw -hdb /dev/sde -boot menu=on -enable-kvm it failed with a MicroSoft blue screen of death that says "your PC doesn't have a 64 bit processor" A

Bug#820970: -cpu core2duo didn't work either

2016-04-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Adding the command line option -cpu core2duo also returned the error driver_irql_not_less_or_equal -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#819290: Stack trace with symbols

2016-03-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Yuriy, OK, that all makes sense. Here's the full trace with symbols: #0 0xb7769be0 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt full #0 0xb7769be0 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7444126 in kill () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 No symbol table info

Bug#807978: kdenlive: Please package new upstream version for crash when deleting tracks

2015-12-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 15.08.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi Patrick, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's packages of kdenlive. Evidently Jean-Baptiste Mardelle fixed a crash while deleting tracks a few days ago. It is reported at

Bug#803528: kdenlive stack trace with debugging symbols

2015-11-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Here's a stack trace with debugging symbols of when kdenlive froze. It seems to me to be the same bug that freezes glxgears. (gdb) bt #0 0xb7fddbe0 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb4eb6e2b in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81 #2 0xb4abe86d in poll (__timeout=-1,

Bug#803528: This looks like #803528

2015-11-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Sven, Thanks for your thoughts. On 11/08/15 22:14, Sven Joachim wrote: > [...] > It's currently not, but probably should be > reassigned to it. I agree. > Could you please provide information about your > graphics card and the version of libgl1-mesa-dri > that's installed on your system?

Bug#803205: Duplicated

2015-11-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Yes, I believe I duplicated the bug. Here's my System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell:

Bug#803528: It worked (Was: Bug#803528: This looks like #803528)

2015-11-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Sven, I'm happy to report that appending nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 to grub2's boot line seems to have worked. Thank you very much for saving me time, Kingsley On 11/08/15 23:34, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: reassign -1 libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.4-1 > > On 2015-11-08 22:38 +0100, K

Bug#803528: kdenlive: Freezes after upgrading from version 0.9.10-2 to 15.08.2+git20151026-1

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Patrick, Thanks. I tried your very reasonable and nice advice. kdenlive still froze after upgrading everything, moving configuration files, and restarting. Here's the big but. BUT, I think you may have correctly guessed a problem with 3d functions. I tried running the 3d program named

Bug#803528: Stack trace for glxgears

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Here's a stack trace from when glxgears hangs (gdb) bt #0 0xb7fddbe0 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7b81e03 in __poll_nocancel () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81 #2 0xb784586d in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 #3 0xb784766b in ?? () from

Bug#803528: glxgears works with x64 and an AMD card

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, someone with the nick name "Sc0rpius" on OFTC's #debian-next channel said glxgears works with the same versions of the libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libx11-6:i386 and libxcb1:i386 packages. However, Sc0rpius was using x64 and an AMD card. glxgears fails for me

Bug#803528: This looks like #803528

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
It seems to me that bugs #784641 and #803528 are similar. 1.) Both say glxgears has static gears. 2.) Both point at libgl1-mesa-dri The stack traces above includes /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so which is in libgl1-mesa-dri. #803528 is

Bug#784641: Looks like bug #803528

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Andreas, 2 days ago, you very politely and nicely asked if bug #784641 was still an issue. Yes, glxgears shows static gears for me too, and the stack trace has /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so which is in libgl1-mesa-dri. I filed the bug report at

Bug#803528: glxgears stack trace with debugging symbols

2015-11-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I just learned that someone had the foresight to provide versions of the packages involved with debugging symbols conveniently included. So I 1.) installed libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg libx11-6-dbg libxcb1-dbg libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg 2.) run

Bug#804120: pulseaudio: iceweasel->Tools->Add-ons ... (silence)

2015-11-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
to have fixed it. A few humble comments are inserted below... On 11/05/15 09:39, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > On 5 November 2015 at 02:17, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. <kings...@loaner.com> > wrote: > > Package: pulseaudio > > Version: 7.0-1+b1 >

Bug#804120: pulseaudio: iceweasel->Tools->Add-ons ... (silence)

2015-11-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: pulseaudio Version: 7.0-1+b1 Severity: important I seem to have found a bug. Here's how: 1.) Use Debian's unstable repository 2.) $ apt-get dist-upgrade # On November 4, 2015 3.) Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf to not autospawn pulseaudio #;

Bug#803528: dist-upgrade didn't work, more clues, and now what?

2015-11-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, > With a little luck, I should soon get a chance to > > 1.) do a full-upgrade and > > 2.) report what happend. So I did $ apt-get dist-upgrade It didn't fix kdenlive, but I have more clues to report... 1.) kdenlive issued a few warnings at the command line:

Bug#803528: kdenlive: Freezes after upgrading from version 0.9.10-2 to 15.08.2+git20151026-1

2015-10-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 15.08.2+git20151026-1 Severity: important Thanks for maintaining kdenlive! Version 0.9.10-2 was much stabler than OpenShot. The main reason I'm writing is to report that, at least for me, version 15.08.2+git20151026-1 freezes. I tried running the new version at the

Bug#787233: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled

2015-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 05/30/15 09:58, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2015-05-30 08:56 +0200, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.11-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining Debian's nouveau driver. It's great to have an open alternative

Bug#787226: openshot: Workarounds

2015-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: openshot Version: 1.4.3-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #787226 Dear Maintainer, openshot has been fun, and productive. I happened to notice in Debian unstable, that after doing $ aptitude full-upgrade $ openshot importing images or video clips and either

Bug#787233: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled

2015-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.11-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining Debian's nouveau driver. It's great to have an open alternative. The main reason I'm writing is that a recent $ aptitude full-upgrade and reboot, failed to run X. xorg's

Bug#787231: mktemp: failed to create directory via template ‘/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_XXXXXX

2015-05-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, First of all, thank you very much for maintaining Debain's initramfs-tools package. I love to see generous and civic minded people. When I was upgrading the kernel with $ aptitude install

Bug#773413: bash: $ declare -p variable doesn't find it

2014-12-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+b1 Severity: normal Hi Matthias, Happy holidays, and thanks for maintaining debian's bash package. I happened to notice that an old script that does declare -p seems to have stopped finding variables. If you agree, please tell Chet. Here's how to duplicate the

Bug#770223: nmap: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_vers...

2014-11-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: nmap Version: 6.47-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining Debian's nmap package. I like using it to report the IP addresses assigned on my private network. My understanding is this can be done with $ nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 and $ nmap -sn

Bug#770223: nmap: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_vers...

2014-11-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Hilko, Thank you for your quick and polite reply. I like your observation that my computer does not have the latest versions of some of nmap's dependencies. It seems to me that package dependencies occasionally need to be updated. I'm happy to report that upgrading just the package named

Bug#753890: Depends: mencoder which is a virtual package.

2014-07-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: photofilmstrip Version: 1.9.92+dfsg-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, photofilmstrip looks like fun. I'd like to install it. When I tried, I got: root:~ aptitude install photofilmstrip The following NEW packages will be installed: photofilmstrip{b} 0 packages

Bug#744342: qemu: We apologize for the inconvenience but Windows did not start ...

2014-04-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: qemu Version: 1.7.0+dfsg-8 Severity: normal Hi, Thank you for maintaining qemu. It can be handy when you need to run a program compiled for a different operating system. I happened to notice that after upgrading from 1.6.0+dfsg-1+b1 to 1.7.0+dfsg-8

Bug#744342: qemu: We apologize for the inconvenience but Windows did not start ...

2014-04-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Michael, Thank you for your quick reply. It was reasonable and easy to read. On 04/13/14 18:45, Michael Tokarev wrote: [...] So, have you found which version broke? Sorry, I have not. Unfortunately, I expect to be busy for at least a few days. I like your idea of specifying the command

Bug#668325: Unplugging a USB flash card stopped colord-sane from eating CPU

2014-02-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, I'm happy to report that colord-sane stopped consuming too much CPU when I unplugged a USB flash drive/card from a USB port. Reinserting the USB device and writing to it failed to make colord-sane resume consuming too much CPU. I'm using version 0.1.21-2 of the colord package. For what

Bug#737348: column: line too long

2014-02-01 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I really like the column command. I humbly suggest improving it to work with longer lines. Here's a simple example that elicits the bug for me $ ( for i in {1..205} ; do echo -n 123456789, ; done ; echo ) | column -t

Bug#736140: bash: set -v and appending to /dev/stderr in a file looses a little data

2014-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Version: 4.2+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's bash package. It's important. People using the nicknames geirha and ormaaj in the #bash channel at freenode's IRC network and I happened to notice bash doing something we didn't

Bug#733195: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#733195: gnupg: quoted printable character in armor

2014-01-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Thijs, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. They are much clearer than gnupg's error message. You very nicely asked What is the bug? I can think of two: 1.) Not undoing quoted-printable encoding. It seems to me that gnupg might ask the user if he or she would like it

Bug#733195: gnupg: quoted printable character in armor

2013-12-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.15-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining gnupg. It seems like privacy is in the news more and more these days. The main reason I'm writing is that I stumbled upon a few more clues about an old bug. Here's what I found. Someone I know uses an

Bug#729550: warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1.

2013-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Lisandro, Thank you for your quick and thoughtful reply. I like your idea of getting a better backtrace. I installed libqt4-dbg. Then I duplicated the bug by running kdenlive by itself, and then in gdb. Both times, I did kdenlive - Project - Add clip -

Bug#729550: warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1.

2013-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Lisandro, I think I've done everything you asked, and more. At the moment, it looks to me like code called projectlist and profilesdialog in kdenlive is involved. I added Patrick back to the Cc: list. Details of my research follow. I hope that helps, Kingsley On 12/13/13 20:40, Lisandro

Bug#729550: warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1.

2013-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
2013 18:59:47 Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Hi Lisandro, I think I've done everything you asked, and more. Thanks :) At the moment, it looks to me like code called projectlist and profilesdialog in kdenlive is involved. I added Patrick back to the Cc: list. Details of my

Bug#731027: gimp-plugin-registry: Letter Drop fails with... substring: end out of bounds: 1

2013-11-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gimp-plugin-registry Version: 5.20120621 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you for maintaining gimp-plugin-registry. More than one person loves its dropping letters. * What led up to the situation? GIMP - File - Create - FX-Foundry - Animation - Letter Drop * What

Bug#729469: libav-tools: Add This package replaces ffmpeg. to the description.

2013-11-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: libav-tools Version: 6:9.10-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you for maintaining libav-tools. Video is a good way to communicate over the net. * What led up to the situation? How tos on the web advise using ffmpeg, and it's still nominally in Debian. * What

Bug#729550: warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1.

2013-11-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 0.9.6-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Thank you for maintaining kdenlive. It looks good. * What led up to the situation? Adding a .png file with transparency as the first clip in a project. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective

Bug#712712: Good News! (Was: Bug#712712: gnash: Doesn't play YouTube...)

2013-10-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com wrote: 2.) if not, do you happen to know if there's a way to verify that gnash actually uses gstreamer? Right click - Help - About. Media field in About window says what media handler is active. libavutil52:i3869:1.2.4

Bug#712712: gnash: Doesn't play YouTube's video of RMS singing the Free Software Song (or any other)

2013-10-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 10/06/13 17:59, Gabriele Giacone wrote: [...] Have you full-upgraded your system lately? Good question. Indeed, I have not. I wonder if I stumbled upon an unknown dependency. Does it work if you switch to gstreamer media handler (default is ffmpeg)? Unfortunately, no. What would you

Bug#712712: gnash: Doesn't play YouTube's video of RMS singing the Free Software Song (or any other)

2013-10-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
=9sJUDx7iEJw for you? 2.) What would you think of me emailing the compressed log file to you? Thanks, Kingsley On 09/07/13 19:47, Gabriele Giacone wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:24:23AM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: 4.) The first few frames are rendered

Bug#712712: gnash: Doesn't play YouTube's video of RMS singing the Free Software Song (or any other)

2013-10-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
/watch?v=zXfN7iNbbho 2.) and whether you'd like the big log file now. Thanks, Kingsley On 10/05/13 00:42, Gabriele Giacone wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com wrote: I enabled gnash's logging. The log file is 1.2 GB, or 20 MB compressed. Two

Bug#724705: hplip-data depends on python:any (= 2.6.6-7~)

2013-09-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: hplip-data Version: 3.13.9-1 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining hplip-data. I happened to notice dpkg and aptitude complained about configuring it with dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hplip-data: hplip-data depends on python:any (= 2.6.6-7~). I

Bug#720748: Migrate known configuration files

2013-08-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Oops! My last message about migrating configuration files belongs in bug report #720747. I sent a copy to it. Sorry, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#720748: Migrate known configuration files

2013-08-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Someone with the nick name Ningal on #debian-apache at OFTC's IRC network very nicely brought http://sources.debian.net/src/apache2/2.4.6-3/debian/apache2.NEWS to my attention. It says The upgrade tries to migrate known configuration files from /etc/apache2/conf.d/ to

Bug#720747: Migrate known configuration files

2013-08-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Someone with the nick name Ningal on #debian-apache at OFTC's IRC network very nicely brought http://sources.debian.net/src/apache2/2.4.6-3/debian/apache2.NEWS to my attention. It says The upgrade tries to migrate known configuration files from /etc/apache2/conf.d/ to

Bug#720747: Migrate known configuration files

2013-08-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Ningal on #debian-apache also brought my attention to bug report #710934, which requests a way to automatically move conf.d files to conf-available. I like it. I will only humbly suggest 1.) checking when upgrading to 2.4 if any files exist in conf.d/, 2.) if any do

Bug#720747: apache2: After upgrading to version 2.4.6-3, The requested URL bla bla bla was not found on this server

2013-08-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.6-3 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining apache2. It's important. After upgrading from version 2.2.22-13 to 2.4.6-3, trying to GET a page fails with The requested URL bla bla bla was not found on this server in the web browser and 127.0.0.1 - -

Bug#720748: Report 404 (Not Found) errors in /var/log/apache2/error.log

2013-08-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.6-3 Severity: minor Thanks again for maintaining apache2. I happened to notice that a 404 (Not Found) error was reported in access.log instead of error.log. It seems to me that being unable to GET a page is 1.) an error and 2.) should be reported in

Bug#719840: csvtool: Recognize ` as an input separator char, or say it fails in --help

2013-08-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: csvtool Version: 1.3.0-3 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining csvtool. I use it. I happened to notice that, at least for me, it does not seem to recognize the ` character as an input separator. For example: $ echo 'a`b' | csvtool -t \` col 2 returns nothing. If you

Bug#714220: num-utils: numround doesn't recognize the -n factor option

2013-06-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: num-utils Version: 0.5-11 Severity: normal My last email was a month ago, so I thought I should contact you again to make sure you're not doing anything immoral, illegal, or possibly fattening. ;-) The main reason I'm writing is to humbly suggest that numrounds -n option doesn't seem

Bug#713018: Occasionally complains with fetchmail: socket error while fetching from...

2013-06-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.26-1 Severity: normal 99% of the time, fetchmail seems to work A-OK for me. Thank you very much for maintaining it. A cron job ran fetchmail every minute for years. Maybe about soon after I upgraded some gnutls packages, about 1% of the times cron ran

Bug#709419: E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'gcj-4.7-jre'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under ...

2013-05-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gcj-4.7-jre Severity: normal I happened to notice that Debian's often easy $ apt-get dist-upgrade was briefly interrupted by E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'gcj-4.7-jre'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. I worked around

Bug#708308: Workaround

2013-05-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, Daniel Mills on Freenode's #bash channel (e36freak) suggested the following alternative: awk -v min=1 -v max=10 '{for (f=1; f=NF; f++) if (+$f = min +$f = max) {print; found=1; next}} END {exit !found}' It read text containing numbers on standard input. Thanks,

Bug#708308: num-utils: Please return status from numgrep

2013-05-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: num-utils Version: 0.5-11 Severity: normal I like the idea of enhancing our old friend grep to handle numbers. numgrep is a good start. I happened to notice that when numgrep didn't find a number, it still returned a status of 0. It seems to me that 0 usually means grep found a

Bug#705642: k3b: Please say when there is not enough room on the disk

2013-04-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: k3b Version: 2.0.2-6 Severity: wishlist Thank you very much for maintaining k3b. It's beautiful and handy. I humbly suggest that it 1.) compare a.) how much data is to be written to b.) the capacity of the disk, and

Bug#695869: Try replacing the video card

2013-04-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
My theory is video cards have more transisitors than other componenets, which 1.) increases the chance of them failing first, and 2.) suggests some transitors might keep working after one failed. I humbly suggest replacing the video card. It worked for me. I found a used

Bug#696360: Try replacing the video card

2013-04-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
My theory is video cards have more transistors than other components, which 1.) increases the chance of them failing first, and 2.) suggests some transistors might keep working after one failed. I humbly suggest replacing the video card. It worked for me. I found a used

Bug#701520: Solved: Upgrading libxi6 fixed memory corruption abort

2013-02-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's gnumeric package. I like it. I happened to notice that, after I upgraded seemingly unrelated packages, gnumeric started aborting immediately with $

Bug#696293: dokuwiki: indexer.php depends on php5-suhosin, but...

2012-12-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20120125b-1 Severity: normal Hi Tanguy, Thanks for maintaining Debian's dokuwiki package. I like it. I happened to notice that /usr/share/dokuwiki/bin/indexer.php complained PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

Bug#244724: Seems to work these days, at least partially

2012-12-07 Thread kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Much like Marcin in 2009, I'm not seeing a problem with reverse DNS lookups in 2012. The warning is in the man page for exim4_passwd_client. It says, in part This goes inevitably wrong if [...] the reverse lookup does not fit the forward one. I was worried that since the reverse DNS of

Bug#692180: Passing file names with the extension .JPG on the command line hangs openshot

2012-11-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: openshot Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining Debian's openshot package. I like it. I happened to notice that running openshot on the command line and passing it a file ending with the uppercase extension .JPG throws openshot into a loop. For example $

Bug#692180: PS: My workaround stopped working

2012-11-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
PS: My workaround stopped working. Changing the file's base name also worked temporarily. I hope that helps, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#686534: gnumeric: if() function silently miscalculates

2012-09-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.17-1.1 Severity: important Thank you very much for maintaining gnumeric. If I ask you nicely, will you please see if you can reproduce what seems to me to be a bug? I'm a little tired, but I'll attach a small spread sheet that shows what I'm worried about. I'll

Bug#686534: Acknowledgement (gnumeric: if() function silently miscalculates)

2012-09-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Morten Welinder quickly and keenly noticed that my problematic zero data cell had a leading single quote. That's important because it caused the if() function to mistakenly treat the zero as text. I think gnumeric automatically added it when I reformatted the data cell from text to number, which

Bug#586970: Unreproducible please supply file.ps

2012-07-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Bastien, Thanks for using my new email address. I (guess) I'm happy to report that I don't get the bug now. I now use version 9.02~dfsg-3 of ghostscript. It's OK with me if you close this bug report. Thanks, Kingsley On 07/23/12 22:23, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Dear Kingsley G. Morse Jr

Bug#675750: gnumeric: Please enhance the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test to allow TWO input data ranges

2012-06-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.17-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, Thank you very much for maintaining gnumeric. I like it better than oocalc. I happened to notice that the documentation titled Comparing Medians of Two Populations at

Bug#675751: gnumeric: Please enhance the Wilcoxon-Mann_Whitney test to ignore blank cells

2012-06-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.17-1 Severity: normal I humbly submitted enhancement request #675750 about an hour ago. Maybe now would be a convenient time to implement a second enhancement to the Wilcoxon-Mann_Whitney code. Please enhance it to ignore blank cells. A small spread sheet

Bug#616062: Please at least exit with an error status

2012-04-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Humble suggestion: If the bug isn't be fixed, at least exit with an error status. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#616062: Other locales failed to fix it too

2012-04-27 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Unless I'm mistaken, other locales didn't solve the problem. Here's how I tested them: $ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 POSIX $ for encoding in $(pdftotext -listenc | sed 1d) ; do echo Trying encoding $encoding ; for loc in $(locale -a) ; do

Bug#616062: No encoding fixed it

2012-04-27 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I tested whether a different encoding would fix it in version 0.16.7-3. Done did. Here's how I tested all the available encodings: $ for encoding in $(pdftotext -listenc | sed 1d) ; do pdftotext -enc $encoding -layout -nopgbrk /tmp/pone.0009339.pdf - ; done | egrep Atractylodes japonica

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
wrote: tags 582487 - moreinfo merge 582088 582487 quit Hi Kingsley, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: For what it's worth, I seem to have found a way to work around this bug. Having the same error message does not imply having the same bug. The bug you're responding to looks like

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
) to says Eee PC 1000HG, fuse. At the moment, it seems to me that bug#582487 and #582088 are different, and I humbly suggest un-merging them. Thanks, Kingsley On 12/22/11 14:49, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: I happened to notice it has a different stack trace than bug

Bug#582487: FYI: A workaround

2011-12-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, I seem to have found a way to work around this bug. Here are the details. I have an MSI (Micro Star) MS-6712 (KT4V) motherboard. It was running version 2.6.32-35 of package linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 in squeeze. I wanted to upgrade its RAM from about half a gigabyte on two

Bug#638341: initscripts: Boot fails: Permission denied (Read-only file system)

2011-11-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Roger, Thank you for your conscientious follow up. You very reasonably asked if I identified how the scripts lost execute permission. Unfortunately, I have not. I agree that since no similar bug reports have been forthcoming, the problem seems to have been limited to my system. Do you

Bug#638876: gnumeric: indirect() fails in Insert_a_Chart-Pie-Forward-Series1-Values

2011-08-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.17-1 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining gnumeric. It seems to me to be an excellent piece of code. I happened to notice a problem. When I tried to have a pie chart's values indirectly use an array, it failed. Here's how I elicited the bug: 1.) Run

Bug#630770: Solved by upgrading many other packages

2011-08-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, upgrading many other packages fixed this. I wish I knew which one helped. Maybe it was X. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#638691: festival hangs, flite does not

2011-08-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: festival Version: 1:2.1~release-1 Severity: normal Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's festival package. It's impressive and handy. I happened to notice that it hangs on the following, at least for me: $ echo team ... them. Tonight? 3? and. Knicks? SILENTLY HANGS HERE |

Bug#638341: initscripts: Boot fails: Permission denied (Read-only file system)

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-13.11 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The initscripts package normally does a fine job of orchestrating many diverse and important resources. The main reason I'm writing is that after upgrading and re-booting, many, many errors

Bug#638344: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: /dev/sdb2 renamed to /dev/sda2

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.0.0-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Thanks for the new kernel. I tested it. Booting gave ALERT! /dev/sdb2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! which left the computer almost completely unusable. It seems to me that 3.0.0-1

Bug#558318: How I worked around emulation of scrolling and a middle button for a Logitech Marble mouse

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Upgrading X broke my mouse. It's a Logitech Marble. It stopped: a.) Pasting the X selection when I pressed both of it's big buttons simultaneously. No pasting is a big inconvenience. b.) Emulating a scroll wheel. Here's how I worked around the problem: 1.) I created a

Bug#638349: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Fails with nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS] (rev a1)

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 2.4.26-1 Severity: normal Thanks for trying to provide an open source driver for nVidia graphics cards. I tested nouveau with a G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS] (rev a1). I installed the package, changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf's driver to

Bug#638349: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: Fails with nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS] (rev a1)

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 08/18/11 21:18, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com (18/08/2011): Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 2.4.26-1 Severity: normal surely that's libdrm's version? Oops! Thanks. I should have written 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1+b1

Bug#630556: Solved

2011-08-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report that I seem to have found a way for my HP Color LaserJet 2550L to work with version 1.4.8-2 of cups. I basically a.) deleted the existing printer at Cups' administration web page, and b.) added it back with the utility named hp-setup. Here are

Bug#630556: This looks like a bug reported at cups.org

2011-08-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm having trouble with an HP printer too, after upgrading to version 1.4.8-2 of cups. You might be interested in a similar looking, and current, bug report at http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3884+Qversion:1.5 Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#620958: What if?

2011-07-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
In the interest of considering all possibilities, it seems to me that it might also be possible to a.) make issuing these warnings configurable, or b.) back them out altogether. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#632927: More diagnostics

2011-07-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
The post-installation script which reports the error is /var/lib/dpkg/info/dokuwiki.postinst It seems to me that the relevant code in it is a function named write_htaccess(), which starts as... # Create a .htaccess sample file for dokuwiki write_htaccess() { # Restore

Bug#620958: Add all missing Architecture: lines?

2011-07-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
dpkg has been an enormous time saver for me over the years. Thank you very much for maintaining it. Unfortunately, I ran into this bug too. At least for me, the above ruby script only fixed a small fraction of /var/lib/dpkg/status. I'm considering various fixes. Would it be OK if every entry

Bug#620958: Add Architecture: all or (in my case) i386?

2011-07-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
If it's OK for every entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status to end up having an Architecture: line, then how would one know whether to specify an architecture of all or (in my case) i386? Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#632901: lprm: The printer or class was not found.

2011-07-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: cups-bsd Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: important Thank you for maintaing cups-bsd. It seems to me to be a hard and important job. The main reason I'm writing is that $ lprm 3848 fails with lprm: The printer or class was not found. However, the cancel command in the

Bug#632927: sed: can't read /etc/dokuwiki/htaccess: No such file or directory

2011-07-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20110525a-1 Severity: normal Thank you very much for maintaining dokuwiki. I like the simplicity of using a file system instead of a database. The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to notice an error while upgrading from version 0.0.20090214-1 to

Bug#607224: Warning: The command '/usr/bin/unhide.rb' has been replaced by a script: /usr/bin/unhide.rb: a /usr/bin/ruby -w script text executable

2011-07-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Julien, Thank you for maintaining rkhunter. Rootkit protection is good. The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to notice that version 1.3.8-6 reported a warning similar to the bug reported in 607224. Maybe my email will help you improve rkhunter. Here's how I got the warning:

Bug#632599: rkhunter: Unknown configuration file option:

2011-07-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: rkhunter Version: 1.3.8-6 Severity: normal Hi Julien, Thanks again for maintaining rkhunter. Humble suggestion: Improve the -C' command line option (for checking the configuration file) to allow leading spaces before options in /etc/rkhunter.conf, like the examples documented in it.

Bug#630770: tkdesk: special:date text border too tall

2011-06-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: tkdesk Version: 2.0-9.1 Severity: minor Thank you very much for maintaining tkdesk. It has been useful for years. The main reason I'm writing is to report a relatively minor cosmetic flaw. The application bar's special:date now seems to place an inordinately tall border above text

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