Bug#629983: More old files to look for

2011-06-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
If you see A non-dpkg owned copy of the C library was found in /lib. and if I understand this bug correctly, you might want to check if the following files are on your computer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 182008-07-10 11:41 /lib/ld-linux.so.1 - ld-linux.so.1.9.11 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Bug#622956: RFP: j -- Run-time environment for the high-level array programming language from Jsoftware

2011-04-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'm happy to report that a great application was released under the GPL. Its predecessor, the array programming language named APL, won the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Turing award for its elegant notation that makes it a tool for thought.

Bug#617215: mathomatic: Loops and hags while simplifying

2011-03-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: mathomatic Version: 15.1.1-1 Severity: normal Hi Sandro, Thank you very much for maintaining mathomatic. It's beautiful. The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to notice that it looped and hung while simplifying a certain expression. Simplification normally works just fine

Bug#616062: poppler-utils: pdftotext corrupts - to 2 in tables

2011-03-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.12.4-1.2 Severity: normal I like to idea behind pdftotext, and have been using it a lot. Unfortunately, it seems to me that I recently discovered it corrupting data. It changed the minus sign, -, to 2 in tables in a scientific paper. Maybe we agree that

Bug#611967: csvtool: namedcol should retain heading row

2011-02-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: csvtool Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining the very handy csvtool package. I'm using it, and would like to suggest a modest improvement. Please enhance the namedcol option to also return a first row of the names of the chosen columns. For example $

Bug#611866: littler: Error in library(whatever) : there is no package called 'whatever'

2011-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: littler Version: 0.1.3-1 Severity: normal Hi Dirk, I'm happy to report that r has proven to be a versatile addition to my shell scripts. I'd like to humbly report an anomaly. It seems to me that r is looking for libraries in an old path. I recently upgraded from version 2.10 of R to

Bug#611866: littler: Error in library(whatever) : there is no package called 'whatever'

2011-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
wrote: On 2 February 2011 at 18:29, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: | Package: littler | Version: 0.1.3-1 | Severity: normal | | | Hi Dirk, | | I'm happy to report that r has proven to be a | versatile addition to my shell scripts. Cool. | | I'd like to humbly report an anomaly

Bug#600059: Almost duplicated

2011-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 01/17/11 18:22, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:41, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com wrote: Thanks for maintaining wajig. Thanks. I look forward to using it. Here's what I'm seeing with version 2.0.50.1 of wajig:    $ wajig list-commands

Bug#610291: libgfortran: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran

2011-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 01/17/11 13:07, Matthias Klose wrote: On 17.01.2011 08:19, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Package: libgfortran3 Version: 4.4.5-10 Severity: normal File: libgfortran Thanks for maintaining libgfortran3. I use it. I happened to notice that building some R packages from their source

Bug#600059: Almost duplicated

2011-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 01/18/11 00:13, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 23:51, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com wrote: On 01/17/11 18:22, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:41, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. kings...@loaner.com wrote: Thanks for maintaining wajig

Bug#610195: r-base-core: R.css

2011-01-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
| | Le 2011-01-16 à 07:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org a écrit : | | | On 15 January 2011 at 22:13, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: | | On 01/15/11 23:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | [...] | | That's upstream behaviour. Talk to R Core. | | [...] | | | | Done. | | They may

Bug#610291: libgfortran: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran

2011-01-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: libgfortran3 Version: 4.4.5-10 Severity: normal File: libgfortran Thanks for maintaining libgfortran3. I use it. I happened to notice that building some R packages from their source code elicited an error about not being able to find gfortran's library. Here's one way that I found

Bug#610063: RFP: cran2deb -- Automate conversion of CRAN R packages into Debian packages

2011-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Debian packages of CRAN packages of R code offer at least two advantages: better dependencies and updates. Please package the cran2deb scripts at https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/cran2deb/ It seems to me that this might make it easier for Debian

Bug#610195: r-base-core: R.css

2011-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.12.1-1 Severity: minor Hey Dirk, I like R, and am looking forward to using it to explore gigabytes of data. I happened to notice that several R.css files remained after purging all R packages. They were in ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/,

Bug#610195: r-base-core: R.css

2011-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 01/15/11 23:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [...] That's upstream behaviour. Talk to R Core. [...] Done. ~K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600059: Almost duplicated

2011-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Thanks for maintaining wajig. I look forward to using it. Here's what I'm seeing with version 2.0.50.1 of wajig: $ wajig list-commands /usr/share/wajig/documentation.py:83: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#610053: r-base: Add a new entry record 'Package-Manager: Debian' to the installed DESCRIPTION file of each package

2011-01-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: r-base Version: 2.12.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Dirk, Thank you very much for the Herculean effort you've put into maintaining quantitative packages. I like the prediction in a 2003 draft of Debian's R Policy [As a] defense [against conflicts between apt-get and

Bug#609508: gbrainy: male/female/car puzzle answer should be 40%

2011-01-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gbrainy Version: 1.60-1 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining gbrainy. I like the concept. I happened to notice that one of the logic puzzles seems to me to expect the wrong answer. It asks In a small town, 50% of the inhabitants have a car and 10% have a car and are

Bug#609284: gbrainy: I duplicated the bug in the Lever puzzle.

2011-01-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gbrainy Version: 1.60-1 Severity: normal -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Bug#604184: gnuplot: set logscale should also render logarithmically scaled lines

2010-11-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.2.6-1 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining gnuplot. It's nice to have such a versatile tool. I happened to notice that gnuplot still renders straight lines between data points when an axis is scaled logarithmically with set logscale. It seems to me that when

Bug#599051: gnumeric: Please let the user choose whether to display grids above or below plots

2010-10-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.5-1 Severity: wishlist I agree that gnumeric is a world class spreadsheet, and I use it daily. Please enhance it to let the user choose whether grids are rendered over or under plots. I've been told that grids are always displayed first, but it seems to me that

Bug#588626: vorbis-tools: I more or less duplicated the bug

2010-09-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal When I do $ oggenc -o /tmp/track_10.ogg -q 6.000 /tmp/sw.1.wav I get *** glibc detected *** oggenc: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0907c440 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb751a824]

Bug#588626: vorbis-tools: Fixed by upgrading libvorbisenc2 from 1.1.2-1 to 1.3.1-1

2010-09-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal I seem to have fix it by upgrading the libvorbisenc2 package from version 1.1.2-1 to 1.3.1-1. Suggestion: Make vorbis-tools depend on version 1.3.1-1 or later of libvorbisenc2. Thanks, Kingsley -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#586970: ghostscript: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgs.so.8: undefined symbol: TIFFCleanup

2010-06-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: ghostscript Version: 8.71~dfsg2-3 Severity: normal Thank you for maintaining gs. As I'm sure you know, it's important. I happened to notice a bug. When I do $ gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -r204x196 -dNOPAUSE -dMaxStripSize=0 -dSAFER -sOutputFile=file.ps.%03d -sPAPERSIZE=letter file.ps

Bug#577401: Problem duplicated, but not fix

2010-06-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Thank you for your insightful bug report. Like you, I use gs through efax and originally got the error efax: 41:38 Error: missing offset to TIFF data I tried adding -dMaxStripSize=0 as an option to gs. gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -r204x196 -dNOPAUSE -dMaxStripSize=0 -dSAFER

Bug#583842: gnumeric: Please add a statistical tool for the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-test

2010-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.10.4-1 Severity: wishlist Thanks for maintaining debian's gnumeric package. I think it's great. It seems to me that now that gnumeric can test whether data is normally distributed, it should also provide a menu option for when it isn't. For example:

Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus

2010-05-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
to come... ;-) Best Regards, Jan Am 07.05.2010 um 22:47 schrieb Kingsley G. Morse Jr.: Package: bibus Version: 1.5.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch I'm still using bibus, and would like to humbly suggest another improvement. I happened to notice that it sometimes hangs

Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus

2010-05-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bibus Version: 1.5.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch I'm still using bibus, and would like to humbly suggest another improvement. I happened to notice that it sometimes hangs after trying to finalize a document. Fortunately, a fix is described at

Bug#579302: bibus: Style and Case should be under Styles-Edit-Fields formatting, not under Fields ordering

2010-05-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
begab sich am 26.04.2010 22:54, dass Kingsley G. Morse Jr. schrieb: Package: bibus Version: 1.5.1-3 Severity: minor Thank you for maintaining Debian's bibus package. I like that it lets you specify whether each field in a reference should have a style of italic, bold or underline

Bug#579302: bibus: Style and Case should be under Styles-Edit-Fields formatting, not under Fields ordering

2010-04-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bibus Version: 1.5.1-3 Severity: minor Thank you for maintaining Debian's bibus package. I like that it lets you specify whether each field in a reference should have a style of italic, bold or underline and a case of normal, caps or small caps. However, it seems to me that

Bug#577842: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gpgv.1.gz', which is also in package gnupg 0:1.2.2-1

2010-04-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gpgv Version: 1.4.10-3_i386 Severity: important Thanks for maintaining Debian's gpgv package. I'd like to install it, and happened to notice a problem. It seems to have a file named /usr/share/man/man1/gpgv.1.gz' which is also in versions 0:1.2.2-1 and 1.4.10-3 of package

Bug#567763: Wrong answer for... $ echo 8 - 0.5 | wcalc -EE -P0

2010-01-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: wcalc Version: 2.4-1 Severity: normal wcalc seems handy and I'd like to rely on it in shell scripts. Unfortunately, it seems to me that it returns the wrong answer when 1.) The -EE and -P0 options are used, and 2.) a decimal number, like 0.5, is subtracted by an integer number,

Bug#565600: gsl-bin: gsl-histogram drops data equal to xmax

2010-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gsl-bin Version: 1.13+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Hi Dirk, Thanks for maintaining Debian's gsl-bin package. Its gsl-histogram utility looks like it could be a real time saver. Unfortunately, it seems to me that I may have stumbled upon a circumstance where it drops data. Here's how to

Bug#565600: gsl-bin: gsl-histogram drops data equal to xmax

2010-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Dirk, Thanks for opening my eyes to the history of bin limits. In light of your elucidating reply, I suppose I agree that this bug report should be closed. Maybe I'll replace gsl-histogram with a call to hist() through littler. All the best, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#528163: dpkg-reconfigure drupal6 fixed it

2010-01-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report that doing the following as root $ dpkg-reconfigure drupal6 led me through the questions necessary to configure drupal6's database info, and now pointing my web browser at http://host:port/drupal6/install.php works. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#528163: dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/drupal6.conf

2009-12-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Luigi, As you asked, I installed a more recent version of the drupal6 package: version 6.14-1. I'm happy to report that the bug I originally reported seems to be fixed. The command $ aptitude install drupal6 now reports some boring stuff and Setting up dbconfig-common (1.8.41) ...

Bug#553913: num-utils: numprocess's man page may not need the division warning

2009-11-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: num-utils Version: 0.5-11 Severity: minor Thanks for the handy package. I like applying basic math operations to standard input and output. The man page for numprocess currently says There is currently no way to take the number found in the text stream and use it as the

Bug#403467: Another crash near a read

2009-10-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
After running a different script, and after about the tenth time I reply to: read -n 1 -p Combine $v1 and $v2? [y/n]: /dev/tty I get: script-name: line 47: read: error setting terminal attributes: Interrupted system call Combine text1 and text2? [y/n]: n malloc:

Bug#403467: bash: Booting fixed the bug

2009-10-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Severity: normal For what it's worth, after a power outage and rebooting, the test script now works for me. Thanks, Kingsley -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#549292: ssdeep: No ouput for small files

2009-10-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: ssdeep Version: 2.2-1+b1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining debian's ssdeep package. I'm interested in using it on strings or small files, and happened to notice that it produces no output. Here's how to duplicate: $ echo -e hello\nworld data1 $ cp data1 data2 $

Bug#403467: bash: A smaller script

2009-09-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Version: 4.0-7 Severity: normal Hi, I'm happy to report that I may have duplicated this bug with version 4.0-7 and a much smaller script. I'll try to attach it to this bug report. The error message I get is malloc: ../bash/subst.c:4198: assertion botched realloc: start

Bug#547622: bsdmainutils: Please document which sort LC_COLLATE locale is expected by look -b

2009-09-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 6.1.11 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining Debian's bsdmainutils package. It has some good commands that have stood the test of time. Please document specifically how look -b expects its input to be sorted. For example, the MacOSX man page for look at

Bug#404911: Re: rdiff-backup: Fatal Error: New quoting requirements!

2009-09-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 09/14/09 20:43, Carl Chenet wrote: Hi, Unfortunately, I can not. I replaced the MicroSoft partition that seems to elicit this bug, with a qemu disk image file. For what it's worth, so far, backing up one disk image file seems to be easier than backing up every MicroSoft

Bug#404911: rdiff-backup: Fatal Error: New quoting requirements!

2009-09-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 09/12/09 14:09, Carl Chenet wrote: Could you try with the newest available version in sid? Thanks. Unfortunately, I can not. I replaced the MicroSoft partition that seems to elicit this bug, with a qemu disk image file. For what it's worth, so far, backing up one disk image file seems to

Bug#540991: gawk: Explain that the exit statement returns a status

2009-08-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gawk Version: 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 Severity: minor Thanks for maintaining Debian's gawk package. It's important. It seems to me that awk's man page would be better if it were less terse, and explained that the exit command's expression determines the exit status returned by awk scripts.

Bug#531534: Typos in /etc/dokuwiki/local.php.dist

2009-06-01 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20090214-1 Severity: minor I happened to notice some minor typographical errors in the /etc/dokuwiki/local.php.dist file. They should be easy to fix. 1.) Change This is an example of how a local.php coul look like. to This is an example of

Bug#531270: dokuwiki: Do /etc/init.d/apache2 restart after installing

2009-05-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20090214-1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining debian's dokuwiki package. I'm glad it uses plain text files as a back-end. The main reason I'm writing is to suggest that its install script execute the following command after reconfiguring apache2 $

Bug#531353: cc-by-nd in /etc/dokuwiki/license.php should point to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

2009-05-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20090214-1 Severity: normal Most licenses in /etc/dokuwiki/license.php have pointers to valid URLs. It seems to me that you can fix cc-by-nd's by changing 'url' = 'cc-by-nd', to 'url' = 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/', Thanks,

Bug#530328: mediawiki: opening you have chosen to open which is a: phtml file

2009-05-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: mediawiki Version: 1:1.14.0-1 Severity: normal Greetings. Please consider... When I try to point the iceweasel web browser at http://localhost/mediawiki/ it pops up a little window titled opening which says you have chosen to open which is a: phtml file

Bug#530428: mediawiki-extensions: Depends on version 1.11 or later of MediaWiki?

2009-05-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: mediawiki-extensions Version: 1.6 Severity: normal This command $ aptitude show mediawiki-extensions reports contradictory information. It says mediawiki-extensions does not depend on any particular version of mediawiki, but it also says These extensions are only set

Bug#530319: debsums: can't open mediawiki ...

2009-05-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
: ISO-8859-1 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Kingsley G. Morse Jr. cha...@nas.com' as your from address. Getting status for mediawiki... Verifying package integrity... There may be a problem with your installation of mediawiki; the following files appear

Bug#530322: Nothing at http://www.myserver.org/mediawiki

2009-05-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: mediawiki Version: 1:1.14.0-1 Severity: normal I'm looking forward to using mediawiki, and in the process of setting up this fine software, I noticed that the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.Debian.gz say that mediawiki can be accessed at

Bug#528163: dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/drupal6.conf

2009-05-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: drupal6 Version: 6.11-1 Severity: important Thanks for maintaining debian's drupal6 package. It seems feature packed. Unfortunately, it failed to install with an error that looks similar to 516026 and 513753, but not quite the same. Here's output from trying to re-install it. $

Bug#526402: bash: syntax highlighting would be pretty and useful

2009-04-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: wishlist Thanks for maintaining debian's bash package. It's my preferred language for day to day work. The main reason I'm writing is that it occurred to me that bash's command line could be made a.) prettier and b.) more useful with syntax

Bug#520868: littler: Incomplete Line! Need more code!

2009-03-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: littler Version: 0.1.2-1 Severity: minor littler looks like a lot of fun crammed into a compact package. I tried the following example from its man page echo 'cat(pi^2,0)' | r Unfortunately, it complained with littler: Incomplete Line! Need more code! Perhaps the man page

Bug#518870: gretl needs a more recent version of gnuplot than 4.0.0-5 (4.2.4-4 works)

2009-03-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gretl Version: 1.8.0-2 Severity: normal First of all, thanks for maintaining Debian's gretl package. I think it's fantastic. The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to notice that boxplots didn't work with version 4.0.0-5 of gnuplot. View-graph specified vars-Boxplots... (and

Bug#517963: concalc: tcsetattr fehler: Invalid argument

2009-03-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: concalc Version: 0.9.2-1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining Debian's concalc package. It looks promising. It seems to me to unnecessarily report an error when run as a substituted command in bash's shell. Here's how to duplicate the bug: $ echo $( concalc 1 + 1 )

Bug#517452: coreutils: Punctuate cut's man page.

2009-02-27 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: coreutils Version: 7.1-2 Severity: minor Thanks for maintaining Debian's coreutils package. It's quite handy. Please add punctuation to the man page for the cut command. Specifically, sentences describing options should begin with capital letters, and end with periods. For example,

Bug#512168: Expression 'parameters-channelCount = maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 915

2009-02-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
After 1.) upgrading alsa-base to version 1.0.17.dfsg-4 2.) running audacity and 3.) choosing English, audacity now complains with Expression 'parameters-channelCount = maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 915 Expression 'ValidateParameters(

Bug#514489: /usr/share/doc/ices2/examples/ices-alsa.xml says it uses the oss module

2009-02-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: ices2 Version: 2.0.1-8 Severity: minor Thanks for maintaining Debian's ices2 package. I look forward to using it. While configuring it, I happened to notice a small typo in the file /usr/share/doc/ices2/examples/ices-alsa.xml Line 30 says This example uses the 'oss' module

Bug#510459: duplicated

2009-02-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
It seems to me that I may have duplicated this bug, or a similar bug. A newly installed ogg123 was trying to listen to a stream from a newly installed icecast2 server with the following command: $ ogg123 http://host-name:port/mount-name.ogg (I obscured the host name, port and mount names.)

Bug#510459: gdb back trace

2009-02-07 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I seem to have obtained a modest back trace when ogg123 encountered a segmentation fault. It is Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb79da6d0 (LWP 6358)] 0xb7d25aae in realloc () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7d25aae in

Bug#512168: More details ...

2009-02-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I 1.) purged the pulseaudio package from my computer, 2.) installed version 1.3.6-3 of audacity, 2.5) rebooted my computer, 3.) deleted all audacity files in my home directory (except some that seemed to me to be innocuous menu files), and 4.) ran audacity

Bug#512168: gdb back trace

2009-02-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Matt Rice on Freenode's #audacity channel suggested ratmice__ start it up and get it to hang... ratmice__ gdb --pid `/sbin/pidof audacity` ratmice__ break poll ratmice__ c ratmice__ bt I followed Matt's advice. Here's gdb's back trace ... (gdb) bt #0 0xb71d7df6 in

Bug#513569: ../rfb/zrleDecode.h:146: void rfb::zrleDecode24A(const rfb::Rect, rdr::InStream*, rdr::ZlibInStream*, rdr::U32*, rfb::CMsgHandler*): Assertion `len = end - ptr' failed.

2009-01-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
0x080672a4 in ?? () #12 0x0805cf3c in ?? () #13 0xb7b4e455 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #14 0x0804c8c1 in ?? () Thanks, Kingsley On 01/31/09 00:00, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi Kingsley On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:28:10PM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Hi Ola

Bug#513569: ../rfb/zrleDecode.h:146: void rfb::zrleDecode24A(const rfb::Rect, rdr::InStream*, rdr::ZlibInStream*, rdr::U32*, rfb::CMsgHandler*): Assertion `len = end - ptr' failed.

2009-01-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: xvnc4viewer Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-30 Severity: important Thanks for maintaining xvnc4viewer. It's handy. The main reason I'm writing is that I happened to notice that it crashes intermittently. Here's a script that elicits the crash about half the time I run it ... ssh

Bug#513569: ../rfb/zrleDecode.h:146: void rfb::zrleDecode24A(const rfb::Rect, rdr::InStream*, rdr::ZlibInStream*, rdr::U32*, rfb::CMsgHandler*): Assertion `len = end - ptr' failed.

2009-01-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Ola, Thanks. On 01/30/09 18:06, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Does it also crash if you use other options on the x11vnc? Yes, I experimented with -ncache, -display, -create, -find, and -timeout. What resolution do you have on your x11vnc session (X11 config)? 1680 x 1050 A gdb backtrace would

Bug#512168: Downgrading to version 1.2.4b-2.1 worked around the bug

2009-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Fabian, Thanks for your inquiry. Yes, I added my user to the pulse, pulse-access and pulse-rt groups, and yes, other applications work with pulse audio. Please note that I disabled pulseaudio while testing version 1.3.6-2 of audacity. I wasn't sure if it supported pulseaudio, so I decided

Bug#512168: Thanks

2009-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Steve, Thanks for reassigning my bug report. All the best, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#512168: Downgrading to version 1.2.4b-2.1 worked around the bug

2009-01-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
FYI: I worked around the problem by doing $ aptitude remove audacity which seems to me to have removed audacity1.3.6-2 libsoundtouch1c21.3.1-2 libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.7.1-1.1 libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.7.1-1.1 and installing version 1.2.4b-2.1 of audacity

Bug#512168: aptitude: Hangs without displaying GUI

2009-01-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.4-1 Severity: important Thanks for maintaining audacity. It's useful. I happened to notice that after upgrading from version 1.3.5-2 to 1.3.6-2, it stopped displaying its usual graphical user interface (GUI). The problem persisted after $ rm -r

Bug#510825: octave3.0-htmldoc: Switch and in third argument to t_test_2()

2009-01-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: octave3.0-htmldoc Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining octave. I just used it gain to a statistical insight. However, it seems to me that the t_test_2() function, or its documentation, has reversed the meanings of and in its third argument, named alt.

Bug#497257: Solved with dependencies

2008-09-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I allowed flash to work with iceweasel by upgrading iceweasel from version 2.0.0.14-2 to 3.0.1-1. aptitude install automatically changed other packages too. The complete list is: remove evolution 1.0.5-1 1.0.5-1 remove libcamel0 1.0.5-1

Bug#497257: Specific Instructions Please

2008-09-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, Thanks for maintaining debian's flashplugin-nonfree package. I'd like to use it in unstable's iceweasel, but it's not working for me. Will someone please post explicit, step by step instructions, all the way from $ apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree to what ever else is required?

Bug#498085: tkdesk: dsk_exec shortcuts conflict with date command's options

2008-09-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: tkdesk Version: 2.0-9 Severity: normal Hi, Thanks for maintaining debian's tkdesk package. It's handy. I happened to notice that the shortcuts described in file:///usr/share/doc/tkdesk/tkdesk-doc/guide-9.html conflict with the options used by the date command. The date

Bug#401402: Please enhance dpkg to also list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info

2008-08-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 08/16/08 07:00, Guillem Jover wrote: What would be the use of such an option? [...] Finding installation and removal scripts, especially to debug them. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#493144: Duplicated?

2008-08-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I see the same, or a similar, bug. Every few seconds, the mouse pointer in version 0.9.1-5 of qemu jumps to another spot in qemu's window. However, in my case, it happens with a Windows 98 (first edition) guest operating system and the -usbdevice tablet option didn't help. I think most of

Bug#493144: Duplicated?

2008-08-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
/10/08 05:14, Aurelien Jarno wrote: reassign 493144 qemu severity 227800 grave merge 227800 493144 thanks On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:11:49PM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: I see the same, or a similar, bug. Every few seconds, the mouse pointer in version 0.9.1-5 of qemu jumps

Bug#490984: / is busy causes EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem)

2008-07-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
#490984: linux-image-2.6-686: / is busy causes EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Hi Maks, Thank you for replying quickly. On 07/16/08 10:47, maximilian attems wrote: [...] hmm how is the bug you

Bug#256948: OK to close

2008-07-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report that after upgrading my computer's main board, CPU, RAM, optical drive and various software packages, the bug seems to be fixed. The first time I tried it after upgrading, the following test script successfully looped over a thousand times. counter=0; while echo $counter

Bug#490984: linux-image-2.6-686: / is busy causes EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem

2008-07-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
. I'd agree if I were installing a new system. However, this is an existing system whose various packages have been upgraded over time with apt-get install package-name What do you think? Thanks, Kingsley On 07/16/08 10:47, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Kingsley G. Morse Jr

Bug#490984: linux-image-2.6-686: / is busy causes EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem

2008-07-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.25+14 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining debian's kernel packages. They're a remarkable technology in more ways than one. Here's how I duplicate the bug. 1.) $ shutdown -r now 2.) ctl-alt-F7 3.) look quickly for something like mount: / is

Bug#487440: Caused by missing special directory /dev/.static

2008-07-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
It appears that rdiff-backup is crashing because a special directory is missing ERROR: cannot open `/mnt/backup/debian1/mnt/backup/palace/dev/.static' (No such file or directory) ERROR: cannot open `/mnt/backup/debian1/mnt/backup/palace/rdiff-backup-data/increments/.static' (No such

Bug#487440: rdiff-backup: KeyError strikes again!

2008-06-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: rdiff-backup Version: 1.1.15-2+b1 Severity: important rdiff-backup is based on a good concept, and I've used it for years. However, for no apparent reason, it started crashing three days ago. Its stderr follows... This is probably caused by a bug in versions 1.0.0 and earlier.

Bug#367684: It's still broken

2008-05-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, It's still broken in version 1:2.4.0-5 of oowriter. I duplicated the bug with the simple instructions at the top of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367684 Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#256948: festival: Segmentation fault half the time..

2008-04-27 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, Thanks for asking. The following test still reproduces the bug for me. $ counter=0; while echo $counter | festival --language americanenglish -b --tts ; do counter=$(( counter + 1 )) ; done ; echo Crashed after $(( $counter -1 )) runs. It reports Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Bug#462295: gnumeric: automatic partial recalculation of duplicated sheet fails

2008-01-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.8.0-1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining debian's gnumeric package. I use it often. I happened to notice that duplicating a sheet, and re-entering a cell's value within the new sheet, produces different results, and that recalculating with F9 works around the

Bug#339793: sed -i also removes symbolic links and creates new files

2008-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
FYI: I happened to notice that editing in place with sed's -i option also removes symlinks and creates new, duplciate files. For example: $ # Create a regular file with Hello world in it. $ echo Hello world original_file $ # Create a symbolic link to it. $ ln -s original_file

Bug#339793: sed -i also removes symbolic links and creates new files

2008-01-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 01/15/08 21:24, Clint Adams wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:12:21AM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: FYI: I happened to notice that editing in place with sed's -i option also removes symlinks and creates new, duplciate files. perl -i does the exact same thing. What makes you

Bug#256948: festival: Segmentation fault half the time

2008-01-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
-kdlpc16k [festival-vo 1.4.0-5American English male speaker for -- no debconf information Thanks, Kingsley On 11/25/07 23:23, Kartik Mistry wrote: Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: On 10/25/07 16:45, Kartik Mistry wrote: On 10/25/07, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Bug#447219: Corrupt stack?

2007-11-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
knowledge, nobody ever really got to the bottom of it. Thanks, Kingsley On 10/21/07 22:28, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: Hi Kingsley, On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:31:06 -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: I should mention that Bug Buddy also reported ** (bug-buddy:14719): CRITICAL **: file bug

Bug#256948: festival: Segmentation fault half the time

2007-10-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 10/25/07 16:45, Kartik Mistry wrote: On 10/25/07, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] #8 0xb7f14364 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libestools.so.1.2 Try with latest libestools (I think you have it?) Yes, I tested with version 1:1.2.3-11 of the libestools1.2 package. Thanks

Bug#447978: adduser: No options allowed after names

2007-10-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: festival Version: 1.4.3-22 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining debian's festival package. As I was asked, I'm testing the latest version from unstable. The following command $ apt-get install festival festival-doc festlex-cmu festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k reported this

Bug#447979: festival: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libeststring.so.1.2: undefined symbol: cerr

2007-10-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: festival Version: 1.4.3-22 Severity: normal Thanks for upgrading festival. As I was asked, I installed the latest version to test it. When I tested festival with $ echo hello world | festival --language americanenglish -b --tts it reported festival: symbol lookup error:

Bug#256948: festival: Segmentation fault half the time

2007-10-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, I did as you requested, and installed and tested the latest version of festival in unstable: 1.4.3-22. Then I tested it with the following command $ counter=0; while echo $counter | festival --language americanenglish -b --tts ; do counter=$(( counter + 1 )) ; done ; echo Crashed after

Bug#447219: Corrupt stack?

2007-10-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I should mention that Bug Buddy also reported ** (bug-buddy:14719): CRITICAL **: file bug-buddy.c: line 287 (on_product_toggle_clicked): assertion `druid_data.state == STATE_PRODUCT' failed /usr/share/bug-buddy/gdb-cmd:1: Error in sourced command file: Previous frame identical to

Bug#447219: Another stack trace

2007-10-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm cutting down the spread sheets to try to isolate the problem. After removing 8 of the 11 spread sheets in the file, gnumeric crashed while re-loading the file. Here's the stack trace reported by Bug Buddy Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnumeric' (no debugging symbols

Bug#447219: gnumeric crashes and hangs the entire computer

2007-10-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.7.12-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Thanks for maintaining debian's gnumeric package. It's handy. gnumeric was always slow to add rows to a certain spread sheet, but soon after I specified ranges with the unusual whole row/column

Bug#446021: gnumeric: The count() function returns the wrong result.

2007-10-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.7.12-1 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining gnumeric. I find it very useful. I happened to notice what appears to be a bug in the count() function. Here's how to duplicate the bug. Put 1 in A1 Put 2 in B1 Put =address(1,2) in A3 Put =count(A1:$B$1) in A4

Bug#446021: Acknowledgement (gnumeric: The count() function returns the wrong result.)

2007-10-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
It now seems to me that the following works =count(indirect(a1:address(1,4))) and I find myself wondering whether 1.) my original bug report used the wrong syntax and 2.) somehow gnumeric failed to a.) catch it or b.) warn about it. Thanks, Kingsley On 10/09/07

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