Bug#988120: Patch for broken cache-entry deserialization

2022-07-10 Thread Mike Paul
Tags: patch I've also observed this problem, that Jigdo ignores the cache and re- scans all the files every time. I did some debugging and tracked it down to a one-line mistake that's easy to fix: diff --git a/src/scan.cc b/src/scan.cc index 9ce598e..b031680 100644 --- a/src/scan.cc +++

Bug#853827: tracker-extract: Could not insert metadata for item

2019-08-05 Thread Mike Paul
Package: tracker-extract Version: 2.1.6-1 Followup-For: Bug #853827 This happens to me as well, and it fills up my /var partition with endless syslog errors from repeatedly trying to index .ogg files. My /var/log/messages is full of lines like: Aug 6 00:33:50 magus tracker-extract[27409]:

Bug#776711: openjdk-8-jre: .desktop file does not launch the Java version that it says it does

2015-01-31 Thread Mike Paul
Package: openjdk-8-jre Version: 8u40~b22-2 Severity: normal I have both openjdk-7-jre and openjdk-8-jre installed on my system, and when I right-click on a JAR file (e.g. in Nautilus), I have two options under the Open With submenu: OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime and OpenJDK Java 8 Runtime. I'd expect

Bug#755565: quodlibet: Crashes when notification tray is opened in gnome-shell 3.12

2014-07-21 Thread Mike Paul
Package: quodlibet Version: 3.0.2-3 Severity: important Following some recent GNOME package updates in sid -- I'm not certain exactly which caused the problem, but I suspect it was the upgrade of gnome-shell from version 3.8.4-8.1 to 3.12.2-3 -- Quod Libet now crashes when the GNOME Shell's

Bug#741628: Additional info

2014-04-09 Thread Mike Paul
I ran into this bug today while copying a tree of files from one Debian amd64 system to another, both running sid and with the rsync package version 3.1.0-2 installed. The options used were -avzh, plus --progress and some --exclude options that I doubt are relevant. The first file that failed

Bug#726781: openjdk-7-jre: OpenJDK does not appear in GNOME Open With menu for JAR files

2013-10-18 Thread Mike Paul
Package: openjdk-7-jre Version: 7u25-2.3.12-4 Severity: normal Since the recent update to GNOME 3.8 in sid, OpenJDK no longer appears in GNOME's Open With menu for JAR files. When I right-click a JAR file in Nautilus, the only choice is Open With Archive Manager (which runs file- roller). If I

Bug#647280: iceweasel: Trademark violation?

2012-08-22 Thread Mike Paul
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.6esr-2 Followup-For: Bug #647280 This is still present in Iceweasel 10, and I'm concerned that it may be a policy violation. Wasn't the Iceweasel rebranding done because use of the Firefox trademark is incompatible with DFSG#3? I don't think the browser should

Bug#644950: gedit: Print preview incorrectly handles n-up printing

2011-10-10 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gedit Version: 3.0.6-2 Severity: normal On the Page Setup tab of the GNOME Print dialog, there's a pages per side setting that places multiple pages of output into a grid layout on a single sheet of paper. Each page of the document is scaled down and possibly rotated to fit into its

Bug#635469: Not installable due to unmet ghc dependency

2011-07-25 Thread Mike Paul
Package: haskell-platform Severity: grave Tags: sid Since ghc was recently updated to version 7.0.4 in sid, it's no longer possible to install haskell-platform, which depends on ghc 7.0.3 specifically, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#628861: gnome-disk-utility: improve description of extended SMART self-test

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gnome-disk-utility Version: 2.32.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream In the window for choosing which type of SMART self-test to perform, the option for the extended self-test says usually tens of minutes. That description is a bit misleading: on modern high-capacity drives it usually

Bug#628862: gnome-disk-utility: add option to unregister a drive from the kernel

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gnome-disk-utility Version: 2.32.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream On Linux, a disk's /sys/block/*/device/ directory contains a file called delete, and writing a 1 to this file makes the kernel perform any necessary cleanup and then forget about the device, causing udev to remove its

Bug#597962: Seems to have resolved itself

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Paul
by version 2.21.4+is.2.21.3-1. -- Mike Paul m...@wyzardry.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#597962: Can't reproduce with G_DEBUG=gc-friendly

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Paul
seems to work correctly in all cases now. I've done these tests on both the i386 and amd64 ports of Debian, running up-to-date sid in both cases. -- Mike Paul m...@wyzardry.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#597962: Seems to have resolved itself

2010-11-14 Thread Mike Paul
know which of the many package updates between then and now was responsible for the change. I also don't have a system running squeeze, so I can't test whether it works there. But it's working for me in sid. -- Mike Paul m...@wyzardry.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#588737: Seems to be resolved

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Paul
This problem seems to have been resolved by the recent upload of genisoimage version 9:1.1.11-1, though it wasn't noted in the changelog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588737: genisoimage mangles filenames of length 24 or 25 when -graft-points is used

2010-07-11 Thread Mike Paul
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.10-1 Severity: normal If genisoimage is given a filename that is 24 or 25 characters long using the graft point syntax, its name in the resulting .iso file has character 23 replaced with a copy of character 24. For example: genisoimage -r -graft-points -o

Bug#588737: Found the cause

2010-07-11 Thread Mike Paul
tag 588737 patch thanks I traced the problem to a strcpy() call in genisoimage whose arguments are overlapping in memory, which isn't allowed but apparently worked anyway with the strcpy() implementation in older versions of glibc. The overlap is intentional, so memmove() should be used instead

Bug#588598: gdm3: Starts xorg on vt7 even when something else is configured to run there

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gdm3 Version: 2.30.2-4 Severity: normal If /etc/inittab has been modified to run something (e.g. another getty) on vt7, when gdm3 runs during system startup, it runs the X server on vt7 anyway, creating a conflict that makes Xorg peg the CPU (though it's still possible to log in and use

Bug#536212: libapache2-mod-dnssd: Please do not depend on apache2.2-common

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Paul
I'm interested in seeing this fixed as well. I've been holding back the upgrade of gnome-desktop-environment for several months because I don't want Apache running on my desktop machine. -- Mike Paul m...@wyzardry.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#515547: release-notes: lenny release notes claim that selinux-basics is now priority standard, but it isn't

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Paul
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Section 2.2 (System Improvements) of the lenny release notes contains the following statement: The packages needed for SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) support have been promoted to priority standard. This means that they will be installed by

Bug#471783: openexr: exrdisplay missing on some architectures

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Paul
Package: openexr Version: 1.6.1-2 Severity: important The new 1.6.1 openexr package is missing /usr/bin/exrdisplay on several architectures. According to the list of files links on packages.debian.org, exrdisplay is present on i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and s390, but missing on alpha, amd64,

Bug#471783: openexr: Might actually be missing on all architectures

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Paul
Package: openexr Version: 1.6.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #471783 Actually, it looks like exrdisplay might be missing on all architectures, and the listings on p.d.o are just out-of-date or something. It's missing on my i386 laptop as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#471783: openexr: Oops, exrdisplay has been moved upstream

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Paul
Package: openexr Version: 1.6.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #471783 Looks like I reported this before I'd researched it enough. It turns out that exrdisplay has been removed from the upstream openexr release, and put into a separate openexr_viewers release which doesn't seem to be packaged in Debian

Bug#458895: maven2: commons-cli.jar is the culprit

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Paul
Package: maven2 Version: 2.0.8-3 Followup-For: Bug #458895 Comparing the Java commands run by Debian's /usr/bin/mvn script and the one in Apache's release, it turns out that the problem occurs if the -Dmaven.home= option is set to /usr/share/maven2, but not if it refers to Apache's distribution.

Bug#459365: epiphany-browser: Doesn't honor Content-Encoding: gzip when doing Save Link As...

2008-01-05 Thread Mike Paul
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.20.2-1 Severity: normal When downloading a file by right-clicking on a link and choosing Save Link As..., Epiphany saves gzipped data to disk if the webserver uses the gzip content-encoding for sending the file over the network. Downloading the file by

Bug#214741: More info on this bug

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Paul
enough to skip asking for the domain name when an FQDN is entered as the hostname. But this causes problems of its own: the Postfix Debconf stuff thinks the machine's FQDN is foo.bar.com.bar.com.) -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#431932: vmware-package: Application icons don't show up on system menus

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Paul
Package: vmware-package Version: 0.7 Severity: minor After making and installing packages of VMware Workstation 6.0 (build 45731), I have entries for VMware Workstation and VMware Player on my GNOME Applications menu, but neither entry displays an icon. The .desktop files reference the icons

Bug#409596: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Closing and re-opening laptop lid results in corrupted display

2007-06-22 Thread Mike Paul
, but it's also been fixed by the latest driver. -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#428087: Looks like an ABI change in SWT's native library

2007-06-12 Thread Mike Paul
-3236.so instead. -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#410882: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a: gtkmm 2.10 needed by VMware Workstation 6

2007-05-05 Thread Mike Paul
Package: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a Version: 1:2.8.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #410882 I'd like to note that VMware Workstation 6 (currently in release-candidate beta status) requires gtkmm 2.10, and fails with unresolved-symbol errors in gtkmm when run on a Debian system with version 2.8. -- System

Bug#418661: lvm2: Remnants of /sbin/lvm-200 confuse mkinitramfs

2007-04-10 Thread Mike Paul
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.24-4 Severity: important On a system whose root filesystem is on LVM, running update-initramfs (which invokes mkinitramfs) results in a warning message: cpio: ./sbin/vgchange: Cannot stat: No such file or directory It turns out that the initramfs's sbin/vgchange is

Bug#408358: python-turbogears: Tries to use SQLObject transaction support with SQLAlchemy, resulting in broken autocommit

2007-01-25 Thread Mike Paul
Package: python-turbogears Version: 1.0-1 Severity: important After executing a controller method to handle a page request, TurboGears is supposed to commit any changes that the controller made to the database. When using SQLAlchemy, it fails to do this. It's possible to work around this by

Bug#345554: lighttpd: Seems to be related to the use of += with alias.url

2006-11-30 Thread Mike Paul
Package: lighttpd Version: 1.4.13-4 Followup-For: Bug #345554 I encountered this bug while trying to use lighttpd with dwww; http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww returns a 404 error. I ran lighttpd under strace and found the following: stat64(/usr/lib/cgi-bin/, /usr/lib/cgi-bin/dwww, 0xbfb4ca68) = -1

Bug#397872: debian-installer: Encryption on top of software RAID broken in daily build

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Paul
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:09 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 10, 2006 8:25, Miroslav Kure said: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:47:25PM -0500, Mike Paul wrote: Problem description: The partitioner treats the resulting encrypted volume like a raw hard drive -- it wants to put

Bug#397872: debian-installer: Encryption on top of software RAID broken in daily build

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Paul
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Steps to reproduce: * Boot D-I and select manual partitioning. * Create and activate a software RAID array. * Choose Use as: physical volume for encryption for the array. * Activate the encrypted volume. Problem description: The partitioner

Bug#385979: It shouldn't be trying to load that library

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Paul
. libgphoto2_port.so, the symlink, is provided by the libgphoto2-2-dev package, and indeed, installing that package makes F-Spot work. -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#386500: Upgrade to 0.100-1 removes links from /etc/rcS.d; udev doesn't start

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Paul
Package: udev Version: 0.100-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system After upgrading udev from 0.098-2 to 0.100-1, I found that udev no longer started automatically at boot time, because the /etc/rcS.d/S03udev and /etc/rcS.d/S36udev-mtab symlinks were no longer present. This

Bug#378178: Wrong path for seahorse-ssh-askpass

2006-07-13 Thread Mike Paul
Package: seahorse Version: 0.9.1-2 Severity: normal When using Seahorse to copy an SSH public key to another computer, after providing the username and hostname of the target system and clicking OK, I get an error message containing the following message repeated three times: ssh_askpass:

Bug#374996: mozilla-plugin-gnash: It kills my entire session, not just the browser

2006-06-25 Thread Mike Paul
Package: mozilla-plugin-gnash Version: 0.7.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #374996 On my system, using this plugin with the Galeon browser, it actually kills my entire session and dumps me back to the login screen. My SSH logins from other systems get terminated too. Running Galeon under strace, I found

Bug#354796: Still happens

2006-05-02 Thread Mike Paul
of the same bug. It's only supposed to show volumes that are either removable or defined as user-mountable in fstab, right? (Volumes that are pmountable, that is.) -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#364486: Looks like an effect of another known bug

2006-04-30 Thread Mike Paul
This might be caused by #361048 -- check whether your LANG setting has gone missing. -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#319449: Yes, panic

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Paul
your comments and this reply. I had sent this message last September, but evidently it was eaten by my mail configuration at the time, because I just noticed now that it wasn't in the BTS.) -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#364337: gnome-volume-manager: Fails to mount volume whose name contains a slash character

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gnome-volume-manager Version: 1.4.0-4 Severity: normal I recently burned a copy of the Fedore Core 5 DVD, and was surprised to find that gnome-volume-manager didn't automatically mount it like it does for other discs I insert. The icon in the GNOME Disk Mounter applet didn't even

Bug#355246: WPA still doesn't work :-/

2006-04-14 Thread Mike Paul
Oops... typo. I am in fact running kernel 2.6.16, despite saying 2.6.15 in my previous message. :-) I'm using a custom-configured kernel built from Debian's linux-source-2.6.16 package. Just to be safe, I recompiled it today since linux-source-2.6.16 was updated a few days ago to include the

Bug#355246: Problem seems to be ipw2200-specific

2006-04-14 Thread Mike Paul
OK, this is apparently an ipw2200 problem, not a NetworkManager problem. I installed NM on my other laptop, which has ndiswrapper set up for that prism54 card I mentioned, and it worked perfectly. On the WPA network, it prompted for a password and WPA was the *only* option in the security

Bug#356373: Updated ipw2200-source would be very helpful

2006-04-14 Thread Mike Paul
what options to pass to make), it fails because ieee80211-source 1.1.6-3 doesn't define WLAN_AUTH_LEAP. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-March/msg00120.html -- Mike Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#355246: WPA still doesn't work :-/

2006-04-13 Thread Mike Paul
I upgraded network-manager and network-manager-gnome to version 0.6.2-1 today, along with wpasupplicant 0.5.2-2 from experimental, and WPA still isn't working with NM. I have two available secured wireless networks: a WPA-PSK network from a D-Link DI-504 running its latest firmware, and a

Bug#355246: network-manager: Upload to experimental?

2006-03-27 Thread Mike Paul
Package: network-manager Followup-For: Bug #355246 wpasupplicant 0.5.1 is in experimental now... maybe you could upload NM 0.6 to experimental as well? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#357407: gnome-power-manager: Does not respond to status events from HAL

2006-03-16 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.13.91-2 Severity: important Tags: experimental This version of gnome-power-manager has a bug when used with dbus 0.61 (the current version in unstable) which causes it to fail to recognize events from HAL, such as changes in the battery's charge level and

Bug#354796: gnome-volume-manager: Prompts for password for already-unlocked encrypted hard drive

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Paul
Package: gnome-volume-manager Version: 1.4.0-4 Severity: normal When I log into GNOME on my laptop, whose hard drive is encrypted, I get a password prompt because gnome-volume-manager has noticed an encrypted partition and wants to mount it. This is inappropriate since the hard drive

Bug#341027: udev: ide.agent breaks on drives past hdf

2005-11-27 Thread Mike Paul
Package: udev Version: 0.076-2 Severity: important Tags: patch udev's ide.agent script currently calculates a number for the device, adds ten, and uses printf's %x (print hexadecimal number) option to construct the device name. Unfortunately, this only works for devices named hda through hdf --

Bug#316212: netapplet: Ubuntu has a fix for this

2005-10-06 Thread Mike Paul
Package: netapplet Version: 1.0.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #316212 Ubuntu Breezy seems to have resolved this bug already; they have a netapplet package which is built against libiw28. The Ubuntu diff can be found at http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/netapplet/netapplet_1.0.0-1ubuntu4.patch

Bug#319449: vtun: Extremely insecure; false-sense-of-security risk

2005-07-22 Thread Mike Paul
Package: vtun Severity: important vtun uses a home-grown cryptographic protocol which is exteremely insecure. See the analysis at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/linux_vpn.txt Users of this package are likely to believe their communication is well-protected, when in fact it is

Bug#319291: libgnutls12: Wrong soversion in shlibs file; breaks dependencies on this library

2005-07-20 Thread Mike Paul
Package: libgnutls12 Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 8.6.3 The shlibs file for libgnutls12 contains the number 11 as the SONAME version, rather than 12. This causes packages which should Depend on libgnutls12 to not do so, because dpkg-shlibdeps can't find an entry for

Bug#256617: ifplugd: Use wpa_supplicant for this

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Paul
Package: ifplugd Followup-For: Bug #256617 You can use the wpa_supplicant daemon (packaged as wpasupplicant) for this. Despite the name, it's not limited to configuring WPA. It handles the task of selecting an available wireless network (either managed or ad-hoc) and associating to it

Bug#315591: fam: This is due to libgamin0 dependencies

2005-06-25 Thread Mike Paul
Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-7 Followup-For: Bug #315591 After discussing this bug with the submitter in IRC, it turns out that the cause was that he had gamin installed, and therefore libgamin0 which Provides/Conflicts/Replaces libfam0c102. Installing fam caused removal of gamin and libgamin0,

Bug#313137: zsnes should be in main, not contrib

2005-06-11 Thread Mike Paul
Package: zsnes Version: 1.400-1 Severity: wishlist I think zsnes should be in the main section, not contrib, because all of the packages it depends on are free. I'm guessing it was placed in contrib because most SNES game ROMs are non-free. But those ROMs are not dependencies; it's perfectly

Bug#276046: exult-studio: Missing line break isn't the only problem

2005-04-08 Thread Mike Paul
Package: exult-studio Version: 1.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #276046 The real problem is that the formatting of the package description violates the established (and expected) conventions. It looks fine when viewed as-is in a terminal, but the page on packages.debian.org has parts of the text enclosed

Bug#299569: nvidia-kernel-source: Also happens with 6629, but much less often

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Paul
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.7174-1 Followup-For: Bug #299569 I've had this problem occur on occasion with 1.0.6629 as well, but far less often -- maybe once a week rather than many times per day. That only started happening after I downgraded back to 1.0.6629 after experiencing

Bug#299569: nvidia-kernel-source: Not just Thunderbird

2005-03-17 Thread Mike Paul
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.7167-1 Followup-For: Bug #299569 This happens to me too, using Galeon 1.3.20, also in sid. The whole system isn't hung though; I can log in with SSH and kill -9 the X server. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT