Bug#213470: querybts terminal problems: LANG envariable involved

2009-07-28 Thread Matt Swift
I did a quick check right now with Etch, and I don't see the problem on console. Looks like queryBTS isn't even taking over the terminal with a curses-like approach any more. So I think you can close -- I'll let you do it, I'm out of practice with the bugs interface. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#459972: winbind: want to limit libnss_wins checks to WINS (no broadcasting)

2008-01-10 Thread Matt Swift
I tested a little more carefully, and the results are below Summary of test environment: Debian host Corax running Samba (version, dependencies, etc. in initial report). smb.conf globals included below. key settings are wins support = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy =

Bug#459972: winbind: want to limit libnss_wins checks to WINS (no broadcasting)

2008-01-09 Thread Matt Swift
Package: winbind Version: 3.0.24-6etch9 Severity: wishlist I have some Windows hosts connected to a Debian host via a routed OpenVPN interface. The names of these hosts can be resolved through WINS (Samba running on the Debian host), but not through the Debian name resolution sequence unless I

Bug#459972: winbind: want to limit libnss_wins checks to WINS (no broadcasting)

2008-01-09 Thread Matt Swift
On Wed Jan 9 17:44:00 2008 -0500, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S Just to confirm, are you saying that setting name resolve order = wins in S /etc/samba/smb.conf does not fix this timeout problem for you? S I don't think it makes sense to have nss_wins exposing different

Bug#459972: winbind: want to limit libnss_wins checks to WINS (no broadcasting)

2008-01-09 Thread Matt Swift
Yes, and as I alluded in mail just sent, a recursion loop seems possible with dns proxy=yes as well, unless that check is not going to use the NSS layer. On a related note, you might want to document that you don't actually have to run windbindd to get the hosts: wins NSS service, you just need

Bug#409938: wget: missing a check for Subject Alternative Name (TLS cert.)

2007-02-06 Thread Matt Swift
Package: wget Version: 1.10.2-2 Severity: normal When accessing an https server, wget does not appear to check the Subject Alternative Name field of the server certificate and in cases where wget is connecting to a name listed in that field, wget declines to connect to the server without the

Bug#408819: mantis: garbage in mantis.templates?

2007-01-28 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mantis Version: 1.0.6+dfsg-4.1 Severity: important I may be confused, but I think the following entry in /var/lib/dpkg/info/mantis.templates has some garbage in the Default: field. As you can see it shows up in the debconf database, and later the postinst fails because it's expecting

Bug#408822: mantis: reinstall fails

2007-01-28 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mantis Version: 1.0.6+dfsg-4.1 Severity: normal The command %apt-get --reinstall install mantis with this version reinstalling over the same version seems to call the preinst script with an argument of upgrade. That script fails if the file /etc/mantis/config.php does not exist --

Bug#408823: mantis: dpkg-reconfigure deletes config_defaults_inc.php

2007-01-28 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mantis Version: 1.0.6+dfsg-4.1 Severity: normal I cannot explain why this happens, but it's reproducible, and happens whether or not I choose to re-install the database (first debconf question). Other files do not seem to be affected. My debconf selections are defaults. I did edit

Bug#395560: sysvconfig: /usr/sbin/service disappeared without notice

2006-10-27 Thread Matt Swift
Package: sysvconfig Version: 0.60.2 Severity: important The /usr/sbin/service script has disappeared without notice from this package (/usr/share/doc/sysvconfig/README is zero length). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'),

Bug#386273: qps: runs in KDE system tray

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Swift
Package: qps Version: 1.9.15-1 Severity: normal Qps does not behave like a normal application on the KDE desktop (3.5.4), but instead runs in the KDE systemtray. Also, the application iconizes to the systemtray whenever the user leaves the current KDE desktop (qps is still running, so it's not

Bug#386283: khelpcenter: important searches not available; available searches are broken

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Swift
Package: khelpcenter Version: 4:3.5.4-2 Severity: important The components of Khelpcenter's search facility are all either broken or incomplete. Users cannot search numerous categories of documentation that can nevertheless be browsed, including (perhaps most importantly) Info pages, the KDE

Bug#386286: khelpcenter: user-defined menu items appear as application manuals

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Swift
Package: khelpcenter Version: 4:3.5.4-2 Severity: normal I have used the KMenuEdit application (via the KDE Control Panel) to add a few items to my applications menu. I have some top-level items and a couple of folders (e.g., Emacsen, VNCs) containing additional items. In KHelpcenter, the

Bug#386157: kcron: marking any task silent causes error

2006-09-05 Thread Matt Swift
Package: kcron Version: 4:3.5.4-1 Severity: normal Marking any enabled task silent causes an error when trying to save the crontab. ~/.xsession-errors reads: /tmp/kde-swift/kcronc1mQMa.tmp:3: bad minute errors in crontab file, can't install. When you disable a non-silent job, kcron

Bug#385904: bugzilla: fails to install with debconf/dbconfig

2006-09-03 Thread Matt Swift
Package: bugzilla Version: 2.22-2 Severity: normal I am unable to install bugzilla. The problem may be with dbconfig-common, I don't know. Here is a shell session that illustrates the problem: [corax] incoming# apt-get install bugzilla Reading package lists... Done Building

Bug#384046: clamav-base: distributed clamd.conf not debconf defaults

2006-08-21 Thread Matt Swift
Package: clamav-base Version: 0.88.3-1 Severity: normal The package installs one version of /etc/clamav/clamd.conf. If I run dpkg-reconfigure clamav-base and accept all the default options, then clamd.conf is replaced with a different version: six lines are deleted. According to the

Bug#383382: fails to build

2006-08-16 Thread Matt Swift
Package: xorg-server-1.0.2 Severity: normal dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc in xorg-server-1.0.2 sources fails. Here are the last few lines of the build. Let me know if other information would be helpful. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../GL/glx -I../../include -I../../include -I../../include

Bug#383245: mailagent: false warning about bad host

2006-08-15 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mailagent Version: 3.73-21 Severity: normal Tags: patch The following patched code in mailagent examines strings in Received: headers and makes three decisions based on whether the string appears to be a FQDN. The first two decisions help Mailagent construct an accurate list of hosts

Bug#383257: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive: does not read default configuration file

2006-08-15 Thread Matt Swift
Package: apt-utils Version: 0.6.45 Severity: normal The shell transcript below seems to demonstrate that apt-ftparchive does not heed the various APT::FTPArchive::Release configuration values I have set up in /etc/apt/apt.conf, which are documented in the apt-ftparchive man page. If I point

Bug#379917: model microsoft is in base.lst but not base

2006-08-03 Thread Matt Swift
The layout microsoft is listed in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst but it's not in the actual rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base. The workaround is to use an equivalent layout, e.g., microsoftpro that is properly listed in both files. Phil, I don't think you should actually have

Bug#367929: jack: fails to load plugins

2006-05-19 Thread Matt Swift
M == Martin wrote: M * Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-18 14:00]: The jack_utils.in_path checks whether the value (a filename) is in the operating system environment's $PATH and whether it is executable. M Ah, yeah, right. Thanks. The test should

Bug#367929: jack: fails to load plugins

2006-05-19 Thread Matt Swift
M == Martin wrote: M * Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-19 12:11]: The current test looks for the file in os.environ.get(PATH, ). The test should look for the file in sys.path, which is different. This is the load path for Python modules. M Right, but I'm

Bug#367929: jack: fails to load plugins

2006-05-19 Thread Matt Swift
-Original Message- From: Martin Michlmayr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:38 PM To: Matt Swift Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#367929: jack: fails to load plugins * Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-19 14:20]: This is jack 3.1.1 (C)2004

Bug#367929: jack: fails to load plugins

2006-05-18 Thread Matt Swift
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-9 Severity: normal In jack_checkopts.py is the following code: for t in (ripper, encoder): if t in userdef_keys and not jack_utils.in_path(cf[t][val]): error(Helper %s '%s' not found on your system. % (t, cf[t][val])) The

Bug#337519: reportbug: querybts fails with ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Swift
Package: reportbug Version: 3.8 Severity: important For the last few weeks on a sarge machine, I've been getting the following when I try to use querybts: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/querybts, line 203, in ? main() File /usr/bin/querybts, line 193,

Bug#312420: mailscanner: i/o error when invoking clamav

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mailscanner Version: 4.41.3-2 Severity: normal The following entries appeared in my log today as I tried to send out an email with a password-protected zip file as an attachment (zanger-mireille.zip). The email did not leave my machine. I have repeated and gotten the same error. I am

Bug#311709: smbfs: UNC names are looked up with DNS, not via samba

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Swift
Package: smbfs Version: 3.0.14a-3 Severity: normal When mount.cifs takes a UNC name such as //server/share and tries to find the host server, it uses gethostbyname() on server. This works fine if CIFS hosts can be resolved by DNS, but when the name needs to be resolved by another means, it

Bug#309641: mailscanner: superfluous file /etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mailscanner Version: 4.41.3-2 Severity: normal The file /etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf is distributed but seems to be superfluous. The file /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf is also distributed; it is different than the one in /etc and seems to be the one that the mailscanner

Bug#274969: (no subject)

2005-04-06 Thread Matt Swift
After another day, I can happily report that smbd seems cured by the purge of the files (all normal-sized, but many obsolete, and some with case-significant names) in /var/cache/samba/printing. As I said, it seems to me that the need for the manual purge indicates that some kind of bug remains,

Bug#274969: Processed: your mail

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Swift
S == Steve wrote: S Matt, S On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:33:07PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 274969 Bug#274969: smbd consumes available CPU cycles Bug#286818: /var/run/samba/messages.tdb growing up

Bug#274969: Processed: your mail

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Swift
On Tue Apr 5 12:06:48 2005 -0400, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these files large? S Indeed not; these are typically sized cache files. Can I simply delete all these .tdb files while samba is not running and they will be recreated when samba restarts? S

Bug#298563: wordpress: incompatible with mysql-server-4.1

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Swift
rather than the mysql packages. From: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#298087: mysql-dfsg-4.1: mysql-4.1 packages should provide mysql-server etc. Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:54:47 -0500 hi matt, On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:54:31AM -0500, Matt Swift wrote: The mysql

Bug#298087: mysql-dfsg-4.1: mysql-4.1 packages should provide mysql-server etc.

2005-03-04 Thread Matt Swift
Package: mysql-dfsg-4.1 Severity: normal The mysql-{server,common,client}-4.1 packages do not satisfy packages that depend on mysql-{server,common,client} even when the version number is acceptable. For example, wordpress dependends on mysql-server (= 4.0.20-8), but installing wordpress causes

Bug#297745: kscreensaver: add control to select screensavers

2005-03-02 Thread Matt Swift
Package: kscreensaver Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: wishlist Presently, in order to reduce the pool of screensavers from which kscreensaver will randomly select, a root user has to rename files in /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers from foo.desktop to something else. This is inconvenient. It

Bug#297747: kscreensaver: add control to identify running screensaver

2005-03-02 Thread Matt Swift
Package: kscreensaver Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: wishlist Suppose I look at my screen and see a screensaver that I particularly like or dislike. There's no easy way to find out what its name is. Therefore, I suggest an option to enable a key (say, F1 by default) which when pressed while a

Bug#297812: sitebar: upgrade fails if mysqld not running

2005-03-02 Thread Matt Swift
Package: sitebar Version: 3.2.6-7 Severity: normal Upgrade to this version failed to configure because mysqld was not running: Errors were encountered while processing: sitebar E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing

Bug#291027: knoda: still there in 0.7.2

2005-02-04 Thread Matt Swift
On Fri Feb 4 04:45:57 2005 -0500, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ii libhk-kdeclasses6 0.7-1 visual widget library for database P This package is part of the knoda sources. You have to upgrade P everything to make the bug disappear. OK, I understand now. It seems

Bug#291027: knoda: still there in 0.7.2

2005-02-04 Thread Matt Swift
OK, I'll try it -- but then doesn't knoda have an incorrect dependency, or shouldn't this bug be reassigned? I guess you've taken care of that with the sarge tag. Don't bother replying -- you seem to know exactly what's going on, and that's all I wanted to ensure. I saw fixed in 0.7.2 and it

Bug#293247: correction

2005-02-04 Thread Matt Swift
I realize now that it is possible that the problem is simply that in the modify printer sequence, the user:pass information is not displayed in the web form as the default value. It is also possible that in some other circumstances, the result of sanitizing the DeviceURI is mistakenly written

Bug#291027: knoda: still there in 0.7.2

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Swift
I reopened this bug because of the following: [beth] debian# dpkg -s knoda Package: knoda Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 696 Maintainer: Mike Schacht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.7.2-1

Bug#293247: correction

2005-02-02 Thread Matt Swift
I wrote: printer stops working because the user and password information has been stripped from the Samba URL: instead of smb://user:pass/host/share, the URL has become just smb://host/share. Please ignore what I wrote after the colon above. I was temporarily confused about this detail.

Bug#293384: ijsgimpprint: obsolete dependency on gs-aladdin

2005-02-02 Thread Matt Swift
Package: ijsgimpprint Severity: normal The dependency on gs-aladdin should be revised to reflect the new name gs-afpl. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-beth.12 Locale: LANG=en_US,

Bug#293247: cupsys: cupsys loses samba user-password information

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Swift
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-2 Severity: normal I print from a Debian machine running Samba and cupsys to a shared printer on a Windows machine. If I configure a cupsys printer with an smb:// URL that includes user and password, e.g., smb://Matt:password/host/share, the cupsys printer works

Bug#274969: problem persist after reverting to lpr

2005-01-25 Thread Matt Swift
Thanks. Will try to try this today. FYI meantime, I found that I could work around the problem by attaching my (non-PostScript) printer to a Windows machine and changing the cupsys backend to the printer shared from that machine. I submit print jobs to the Linux machine running Samba; if the

Bug#274969: problem persist after reverting to lpr

2005-01-25 Thread Matt Swift
backtrace below. On Tue Jan 25 13:49:13 2005 -0500, Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M Thanks. Will try to try this today. M FYI meantime, I found that I could work around the problem by M attaching my (non-PostScript) printer to a Windows machine and M changing the cupsys

Bug#292075: smbfs: MTU, rsize, wsize

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Swift
Package: smbfs Version: 3.0.10-1 Severity: normal Documentation and/or functionality of the rsize and wsize options to mount.cifs is faulty. Rsize and wsize are documented just as network read/write size without reference to units or any explanation of what this really means. Trawling through

Bug#292088: bridge-utils: further documentation of MTU issues wanted

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Swift
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.0.4-1 Severity: wishlist The documentation for bridge-utils does not address the topic of MTU values for the bridge and its interfaces. My limited experiments seem to show that the MTU of the bridge interface is hardwired to be the minimum MTU of the bridged

Bug#274969: problem persist after reverting to lpr

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Swift
More information: I switched from cupsys back to the lpr package for printing. I was hoping the simpler package would avoid the problem, but the problem persists. I am using a current testing distribution. Please let me know how I can help. I'm willing to put time into this bug, since until