Bug#1100765: gnome-shell: `g_variant_get_string: assertion 'value != NULL' failed`

2025-03-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gnome-shell Version: 47.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Due to a regression [1], I downgraded from unstable to testing, and put *gnome-shell* on hold. run0 apt-mark hold gnome-shell Now after working again, the user reported again the GNOME fail screen: Mär 18 11:

Bug#1099791: fwupd: fwupd crashes with SIGTRAP and logs `GLib g_ptr_array_set_size: assertion 'rarray' failed`

2025-03-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: fwupd Version: 2.0.6-4 Severity: normal Forwarded: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/8518 Dear Debian folks, Please see the upstream issue, the developers fixed instantly. Unfortunately, no new version has been released until now, so should you do another upload, it’d be great i

Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!`

2025-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Salvatore, Thank you for your prompt reply. Am 21.02.25 um 19:13 schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso: Control: forcemerge 1088747 1098512 On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 06:04:40PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Package: linux-perf Version: 6.12.15-1 Severity: normal With $ LANG= dpkg -l linux

Bug#1098512: linux-perf: `perf report` shows `Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!`

2025-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: linux-perf Version: 6.12.15-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, With $ LANG= dpkg -l linux-perf […] ii linux-perf 6.12.15-1amd64Performance analysis tools for Linux recording a profile and trying to show it $ sudo perf record -a -g -F 999 ^C

Bug#1098465: libreoffice-common: Upgrade fails with `trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/.registry/hsqldb.xcd', which is also ,in package libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb (4:24.8.5-1)`

2025-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libreoffice-common Version: 24.8.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, `apt upgrade` failed. $ LANG= sudo apt --fix-broken install Correcting dependencies... Done Upgrading: libreoffice-common Summary: Upgrading: 1, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrad

Bug#1095750: linux-image: 6.9 to 6.12 in backports does not boot in QEMU: `Invalid ELF header magic: != ⌂ELF`

2025-02-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: linux-image-amd64 Version: 6.12.9+1~bpo12+1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, After upgrading a virtual system from Debian 10/buster (oldoldstable) to Debian 11/bullseye (oldstable) and then Debian 12/bookworm (stable), installing a Linux kernel from the suite *bookworm-backports*

Bug#1093057: alsa-utils: udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules:16 GOTO="alsa_restore_std" has no matching label, ignoring

2025-02-08 Thread Paul Menzel
forwarded 1093057 https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/issues/280 quit Dear Ryutaroh, dear Arthur, dear Debian folks, Am 15.01.25 um 00:17 schrieb Ryutaroh Matsumoto: Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.2.13-1 Severity: minor Tags: fixed-upstream Dear Maintainer, When I boot RaspberryPi 4B

Bug#1083115: closed by Jeremy Bícha (Re: gtk4: cursor too large with scaled display)

2025-02-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht, die ich wahrscheinlich erst nach dem 9. Februar lesen werde. Freundliche Grüße Paul Menzel

Bug#1093497: evince: Presentation mode does not adjust correctly when scale is different than 100%

2025-01-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: evince Version: 46.3.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/1600 Dear Debian folks, On a HiDPI display with scaling set to 200 % in GNOME’s control center, starting presentation mode in Evince, the document does not fill out the screen but

Bug#1088736: Window manager warning: Failed to parse saved session file: File »/var/lib/gdm3/.config/mutter/sessions/10f7604922d498c71b173283016097308600000008880000.ms« cannot be opened

2024-11-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gdm3 Version: 47.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Looking through `journalctl -b` I see the warning below: Nov 28 22:42:43 abreu org.gnome.Shell.desktop[912]: Window manager warning: Failed to parse saved session file: Datei »/var/lib/gdm3/.config/mutter/sessions/10f7604

Bug#1087367: gvfs: Unable to mount phone as mass storage device: VmData … exceed data ulimit …. Update limits or use boot option ignore_rlimit_data

2024-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gvfs Version: 1.56.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Sorry, if this is the wrong package. It’d be great if you reassigned as fit. I was unable to access my phone as a mass storage medium – it didn’t show up in Nautilus –, and the line below were logged: -- Boot 81cdf6840

Bug#1086644: libexiv2-data: Locale files make up package size

2024-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libexiv2-data Version: 0.28.3+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian folks, The installed size of the package *inkscape* is 12 MB, and all of it seems to be locale files. $ LANG= du -ch /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/exiv2.mo | tail -1 12M total Two biggest files: $ L

Bug#1086642: inkscape: Language files take up 44 MB

2024-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: inkscape Version: 1.2.2-4+b3 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian folks, The installed size of the package *inkscape* is 103 MB, and 40 % of it is used by locale files. $ LANG= du -ch /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo | tail -1 44M total Two biggest files: $ du -h

Bug#1085977: eog: Zooming in/out with Ctrl + mouse wheel does not work

2024-10-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: eog Version: 47.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Zooming in/out with Ctrl + mouse wheel scroll does not work since a while. Ctrl + +/-, and touchscreen pinch/stretch works. Touchpad pinch/stretch often only works after clicking on the image. Kind regards, Paul

Bug#1085317: acpica-tools: acpixtract fails to extract SSDT: `Table [SSDT] was not found in …`

2024-10-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: acpica-tools Version: 20240827-1 Severity: important Forwarded: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/issues/978 Dear Debian folks, Release 20240827 regressed and `acpixtract` fails to extract the SSDT: Table [SSDT] was not found in … I bisected the issue to commit ad5755dd8 (acpixtr

Bug#1084862: python3-uno: `/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/officehelper.py:94: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\P'`

2024-10-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rene, I am sorry for not checking for existing bug reports. Thank you for your answer, and merging my report with the existing one, and fixing the issue. Kind regards, Paul

Bug#1084862: python3-uno: `/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/officehelper.py:94: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\P'`

2024-10-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: python3-uno Version: 4:24.8.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Upgrading *python3-uno* 2024-10-10 08:51:14 upgrade python3-uno:amd64 4:24.8.2-1 4:24.8.2-2 the SyntaxWarning warning below was logged: Setting up python3-uno (4:24.8.2-2) ... /usr/lib/libreoffice/progr

Bug#1083115: closed by Jeremy Bícha (Re: libgtk-4-1: Cursor too big when over certain windows)

2024-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht, die ich wahrscheinlich erst nach dem 7. Oktober lesen werde. Freundliche Grüße Paul Menzel

Bug#1083115: Acknowledgement (libgtk-4-1: Cursor too big when over certain windows)

2024-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht, die ich wahrscheinlich erst nach dem 7. Oktober lesen werde. Freundliche Grüße Paul Menzel

Bug#1083115: libgtk-4-1: Cursor too big when over certain windows

2024-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libgtk-4-1 Version: 4.16.2+ds-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On the Intel Kaby Lake laptop Dell XPS 13 with HiDPI display and GNOME Shell (Wayland) with 200 % scaling, with *libgtk-4-1* 4.16.2+ds-4 the cursor is too big when being over a gnome-control-center window or pavucon

Bug#1081501: musescore3: Buttons too big

2024-09-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: musescore3 Version: 3.2.3+dfsg2-17 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Using Debian sid/unstable with *gnome-shell* 47~rc-3 from the suite *experimental*, and scaling the screen content to 200 %, the buttons are too big in MuseScore as seen in the attachment. Kind regards, Paul

Bug#1078201: thunderbird: Unable to open developer tools

2024-08-09 Thread Paul Menzel
forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1912424 quit Dear Carsten, Am 09.08.24 um 08:47 schrieb Carsten Schoenert: Am 08.08.24 um 09:33 schrieb Paul Menzel: In the hamburger menu going to *Tools* and then clicking on *Developer tools* nothing opens – neither does Ctrl

Bug#1078201: thunderbird: Unable to open developer tools

2024-08-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:128.1.0esr-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, In the hamburger menu going to *Tools* and then clicking on *Developer tools* nothing opens – neither does Ctrl + Shift + i. I think it once worked. Can you reproduce this issue? Kind regards, Paul

Bug#1074308: firmware-atheros: QCA 6174: Newest version 309 missing

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Debian folks, Am 26.06.24 um 12:43 schrieb Paul Menzel: […] On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with     $ lspci -nn -s 3a:00     3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)     $ dpkg -l firmware-atheros     […]     ii

Bug#1074308: firmware-atheros: QCA 6174: Newest version 309 missing

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: firmware-atheros Version: 20230625-2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with $ lspci -nn -s 3a:00 3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32) $ dpkg -l firmware-atheros [

Bug#1071429: dpkg: `dpkg-db-backup.timer` starts `dpkg-db-backup.service` in hot path of boot

2024-05-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: dpkg Version: 1.22.6 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Trying to decrease the boot time of a desktop system (pressing the power button to GDM login screen), I noticed `dpkg-db-backup.service` in the hotpath: May 19 06:18:53.272044 abreu systemd[1]: Started dpkg-db-backup.ti

Bug#1071141: gnome-remote-desktop: `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gnome-remote-desktop-tmpfiles.conf:2: Failed to resolve user 'gnome-remote-desktop': No such process`

2024-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gnome-remote-desktop Version: 46.1-3 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Upgrading to *gnome-shell* from the suite *experimental* sudo apt install -t experimental gnome-shell also upgrades *gnome-remote-desktop* from 44.2-8 to 46.1-3. The lines below were printed to the console

Bug#1061445: linux-image-6.7-cloud-amd64: Built CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK into kernel

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bastian, Am 03.04.24 um 18:26 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 01.04.24 um 22:29 schrieb Bastian Blank: On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: $ grep UUID /etc/default/grub # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" par

Bug#1061445: linux-image-6.7-cloud-amd64: Built CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK into kernel

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bastian, Am 01.04.24 um 22:29 schrieb Bastian Blank: On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:44:44PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: $ grep UUID /etc/default/grub # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true I

Bug#1067001: gdm3: Unable to log in after upgrade to 46~rc-1, works after reboot

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gdm3 Version: 46~rc-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Using Debian sid/unstable, I had a GNOME Shell Wayland session running, and *gdm3* was upgraded: 2024-03-16 16:30:46 upgrade gdm3:amd64 45.0.1-3+b1 46~rc-1 Then logging out, and wanting to log in again it hung indefinit

Bug#1065642: nvidia-driver: Fails to build module due to outdated *nvidia-settings*

2024-03-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: nvidia-driver Version: 535.104.12-2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Upgrading from 525.147.05-1 to 535.104.12-2 with apt install -t experimental nvidia-driver` the DKMS build failed because nvidia-settings was still at 525.147.05-1, and a newer version is required. I wonder

Bug#1065035: mkosi: Fails with `flock: failed to execute newuidmap: No such file or directory`

2024-02-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: mkosi Version: 20.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I tried to use mkosi, but it fails with the error below. $ mkosi --output-dir=/scratch/local2/pmenzel/mkosi flock: failed to execute newuidmap: No such file or directory flock: failed to execute newgidmap: No such

Bug#1065033: debootstrap: Fails for *sid* with `cannot move /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpam.so.0 as its destination exists as a symlink`

2024-02-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.134 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I am unable to bootstrap Debian sid/unstable. It worked some weeks ago. $ sudo debootstrap --arch amd64 sid /scratch/local2/pmenzel/debootstrap-test http://ftp.gwdg.de/debian/ W: Cannot check Release signature;

Bug#1061445: linux-image-6.7-cloud-amd64: Built CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK into kernel

2024-01-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bastian, Thank you for your reply. Am 24.01.24 um 21:01 schrieb Bastian Blank: Control: tags -1 wontfix On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:13:05PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Trying to quickly start a VM, it’d be great to not use an initrd image, and also use the Virtio features, for example

Bug#1061445: linux-image-6.7-cloud-amd64: Built CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK into kernel

2024-01-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: linux-image-6.7-cloud-amd64 Version: 6.6.13-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Trying to quickly start a VM, it’d be great to not use an initrd image, and also use the Virtio features, for example with the command below: qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 32G -enable-kvm -cpu host

Bug#1059015: crocus: Immediate glitches and GPU hangs in GNOME Shell since 23.3

2023-12-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libgl1-mesa-dri Version: 23.3.1-3 Tags: upstream Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10308 Dear Debian folks, Updating from 23.2.1-1 to 23.3.1-3 there is a regression on several systems causing glitches [1] or even crashes [2]. (I think these all use Crocus

Bug#1055838: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Simon McVittie ) (Bug#1055838: fixed in gnome-session 43.0-1+deb12u1)

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht, die ich nach dem 26. November lesen werde. Freundliche Grüße Paul Menzel

Bug#1055838: gnome: GNOME Text Editor not chosen or listed for text files

2023-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
package: gnome version: 1:44+1 severity: normal Dear Debian folks, With Debian sid/unstable and *gnome* 1:44+1, text files, for example with the suffix .txt, are opened with LibreOffice Writer and not GNOME Text Editor (*gnome-text-editor* 45.0-1). It’s not even listed in the application ch

Bug#1051514: grub-common: Please remove grub-common.service from boot hot path

2023-09-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andres, Thank you for your reply. Am 10.09.23 um 13:54 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 12:21:29AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Package: grub-common Version: 2.12~rc1-9 Severity: normal The unit `grub-common.service` is installed to the multi-user.target and

Bug#1051514: grub-common: Please remove grub-common.service from boot hot path

2023-09-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: grub-common Version: 2.12~rc1-9 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, The unit `grub-common.service` is installed to the multi-user.target and therefore run during boot-up, slowing down the boot, especially as shell commands are used. ``` $ systemctl cat grub-common.service # /lib/s

Bug#1050642: mutter: Xwaylands crashes due to `(EE) Unrecognized option: -byteswappedclients`

2023-08-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: mutter Version: 44.3-7 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, After upgrading *mutter* from 43.6-1 to 44.3-7, Firefox does not start anymore as Xwayland terminates with SIGABRT. The journal contains gnome-shell[3416]: (EE) Unrecognized option: -byteswappedclients Starting Firefox

Bug#1050193: gnome-shell: `/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-shell-overrides-migration.desktop: not generating unit, error parsing Exec= line: No such file or directory`

2023-08-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gnome-shell Version: 44.3-4 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, `journalctl -b` contains the lines below: Aug 21 16:04:16 ersatz systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[293649]: Exec binary '/usr/libexec/gnome-shell-overrides-migration.sh' does not exist: No such file or directory A

Bug#1043355: linux: Select MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING

2023-08-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: src:linux Version: 6.5~rc4-1~exp1 Severity: Normal Dear Debian folks, Currently, Debian’s Linux kernel does not allow late loading microcode updates. Although discouraged, there are environments where that is preferred to rebooting/kexec’ing the system. It’d be great, if you could

Bug#1043057: thunderbird: `[GFX1-]: FireTestProcess failed: Abspalten des Kindprozesses »/usr/lib/thunderbird/glxtest« gescheitert (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)`

2023-08-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:115.1.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Upgrading *thunderbird* from 1:102.13.1-1 to 115.1.0-1 the messages below are printed to the terminal: [GFX1-]: FireTestProcess failed: Abspalten des Kindprozesses »/usr/lib/thunderbird/glxtest« gescheitert (

Bug#1039060: unattended-upgrades: No package upgrades in Debian sid/unstable depsite `o=Debian,n=sid`

2023-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 2.9.1+nmu3 Dear Debian folks, *unattended-upgrade* does not upgrade some packages, but `apt upgrade` can. $ LANG=C sudo unattended-upgrade -v -d […] Erlaubte Ursprünge sind: origin=Debian,codename=trixie,label=Debian, origin=Debian,codena

Bug#1039059: fonts-liberation2: `dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation2': Directory not empty`

2023-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: fonts-liberation2 Version: 1:2.1.5-2 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, Upgrading *fonts-liberation2*, the warning below is shown. ``` USER@ersatz:~$ sudo LANG=C apt full-upgrade […] Unpacking fonts-liberation2 (1:2.1.5-2) over (2.1.5-1) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old direct

Bug#1031396: Unable to upgrade to *gnome* 1:43+1 with `apt full-upgrade`

2023-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gnome Version: 1:43+1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On Debian sid/unstable trying to upgrade *gnome{,-core}*, in this case from 1:42+8 to 1:43+1, does not work with `apt upgrade`, pt full-upgrade` or `apt-get dist-upgrade`. The packages are kept back. $ sudo apt full-upg

Bug#923080: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Sebastian Ramacher ) (Bug#923080: fixed in libva 2.17.0-1)

2022-12-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht, die ich nach dem 1. Januar 2023 lesen werde. Freundliche Grüße Paul Menzel

Bug#1025942: Client crashes when connecting to session

2022-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: x2goclient Version: 4.1.2.2-2+b1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Using Debian sid/unstable with GNOME Shell and Wayland, starting x2goclient, it shows the configured sessions, but selecting one and connecting to it, x2goclient crashes: (gdb) bt #0 0x7f21b3bdfec2 in XDefau

Bug#1017719: Broken symlink in build directory

2022-08-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libdvd-pkg Version: 1.4.3-1-1 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, There is a broken symbolic link in the build directory $ ls -l /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/build/debian/libdvdcss-dev/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 15 18:36 libdvdcss.so -> lib

Bug#1016896: firmware-sof-signed: Extend description to clarify why it’s in non-free

2022-08-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: firmware-sof-signed Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, Despite the word *Open* in the project *Sound Open Firwmare*, a users wonders why it’s in the non-free section of Debian. I assume, it’s because the files are signed with a private key, but it’d be great if that

Bug#1014576: firefox: Crashes on startup (@0x0 | vl_compositor_cleanup_state)

2022-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: firefox Version: 102.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Two days ago upgrading the packages in Debian sid/unstable also updated *firefox* to version 102.0-1. Firefox under GNOME (Wayland) then failed to start with a segmentation fault: ``` $ firefox ATTENTION: default value o

Bug#1011235: wpasupplicant: WLAN connection stop working after a while

2022-05-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 2:2.10-9+b1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, With a Dell Latitude E7250 with Debian sid/unstable with Linux 5.17.6 (and also 5.17.3) $ cat /proc/version Linux version 5.17.0-2-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-1) 11.3.0, GN

Bug#1010893: Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 142.

2022-05-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: docker.io Version: 20.10.14+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On Debian sid/unstable installing *docker.io* the error below is shown: Setting up docker.io (20.10.14+dfsg1-1+b1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/default/docker ... Installing new versi

Bug#1009224: Using different R versions in parallel with Debian

2022-04-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dirk, Am 11.04.22 um 16:13 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: On 11 April 2022 at 16:00, Paul Menzel wrote: | Thank you very much for these suggestions. It looks like schroot | requires root privileges. But it’s a nice fallback alternative to still | use the Debian packages. So does Docker if

Bug#1009224: Using different R versions in parallel with Debian

2022-04-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Charles, dear Dirk, Thank you very much for your answers. Am 09.04.22 um 14:16 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: On 9 April 2022 at 17:30, Charles Plessy wrote: | Le Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Paul Menzel a écrit : | > | > Thank you very much for packaging and maintaining

Bug#1009224: Using different R versions in parallel with Debian

2022-04-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: r-base-core Version: 4.1.3.20220324-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian R maintainer, Thank you very much for packaging and maintaining R and related software in Debian. Some of our scientists use Debian and its R packages. Sometimes they’d like to use different R versions, for example

Bug#1008297: totem: Does not play DVD

2022-03-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: totem Version: 42.0-1 Dear Debian folks, Trying to play a DVD with Totem/Videos there is an error that the DVD is not accessible, and coredumpctl shows a crash with signal SIGABRT. Unfortunately, debugging symbols and gdb cannot be installed on the system, so I uploaded the core du

Bug#1007992: libigdgmm12: new version causes segfaults

2022-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/issues/95 Dear Debian folks, Am 20.03.22 um 07:07 schrieb Paul Menzel: Control: forward -1 https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/issues/95 I thought it was `forwarded`, but changed after reading the example in *How to report a bug in Debian

Bug#1007992: libigdgmm12: new version causes segfaults

2022-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Control: forward -1 https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/issues/95 Dear Debian folks, Am 20.03.22 um 04:35 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: […] This version breaks e.g. video playback with mpv (also vlc): $ mpv test.mp4 (+) Video --vid=1 (h264 720x300 23.976fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 (aac 2ch 44

Bug#1004475: mdadm: `dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/mdadm': Directory not empty`

2022-01-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: mdadm Version: 4.2-1 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, Doing `sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade` on an outdated Debian sid/unstable system, I wondered about the message below: Unpacking mdadm (4.2-1) over (4.1-11) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/

Bug#998799: linux-image-5.14.0-4-amd64: Regression causing graphics slowness (`amdgpu: failed to write reg`)

2021-11-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: linux-image-5.14.0-4-amd64 Version: 5.14.16-1 Severity: important Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1770 Tag: fixed-upstream Dear Linux folks, The upgrade from 5.14.12 to 5.14.16 makes systems with AMD graphics devices unusable caused by a regression in 5.14.

Bug#992848: pam_unix: Treats SHA256 and older hashes as expired

2021-08-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mattias, Thank you for the analysis. I hit this too, and GDM autologin did not work anymore [1], so users thought Debian crashed during startup. Switching to tty2 and logging in and changing the password there, fixed the issue. I asked for a Linux PAM point release, so distributions ca

Bug#992251: Select `CONFIG_X86_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_DELL` for Dell devices (regression)

2021-08-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: linux-image-5.13.0-trunk-amd64 Version: 5.13.9-1~exp2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Linux commit f1e1ea5167 (platform/x86: Move all dell drivers to their own subdirectory), present since v5.12-rc1, refactored Dell device related code, introducing the new Kconfig option `X86_P

Bug#977346: unattended-upgrades: Does not find packages, that can be upgraded

2021-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Balint, I am sorry for the late reply. Am 14.12.20 um 12:22 schrieb Balint Reczey: On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:06 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Am 14.12.20 um 11:58 schrieb Balint Reczey: On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:03 AM Paul Menzel wrote: […] On one user laptop with Debian sid

Bug#989724: debootstrap: `--extra-suites=A,B` not showing up in `/etc/apt/sources.list`

2021-06-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.123 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Ubuntu uses several suites for installations, but adding these with `--extra-suites=` sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 --keyring /scratch/tmp/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg --extra-suites=focal-updates,focal-

Bug#989414: gnome-software: High memory usage

2021-06-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: gnome-software Version: 3.38.1-1 Severity: normal Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/941 Dear Debian folks, After 13 days of uptime, gnome-software used almost 2 GB of memory. XXX 1396 0.0 12.1 3093792 1974280 ? Sl Mai21 3:18 | \_ /us

Bug#845658: linux: Bad(?) USB device crashes USB system

2021-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ritesh, Am 11.12.16 um 19:23 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: Were you able to find a solution to your problem ? And curiously, were you able to verify the buggy behavior on a more recent kernel ? Sorry, for not replying and leaving the bug open. I wasn’t told about any occurrences afterward

Bug#988392: Impossible to install grub-pc and grub-efi-amd64 in parallel

2021-05-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Colin, Am 11.05.21 um 23:37 schrieb Colin Watson: On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 09:19:28PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: I have a Debian installation on a disk, I carry around, and I want to boot on BIOS and (U)EFI systems. This would be possible with the switch `--target`. sudo grub-install

Bug#988392: Impossible to install grub-pc and grub-efi-amd64 in parallel

2021-05-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: src:grub Version: 2.04-18 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I have a Debian installation on a disk, I carry around, and I want to boot on BIOS and (U)EFI systems. This would be possible with the switch `--target`. sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot /de

Bug#988337: weston: Fails to start with `environment variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.`

2021-05-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: weston Version: 9.0.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Installing a minimal Debian system, then installing Weston with `sudo apt install weston`, then trying to start it, it fails to start (even with the user added to the group `weston-launch`, Weston fails to start and shows

Bug#947795: weston fails to start on one machine.

2021-05-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Peter, Am 30.12.19 um 21:20 schrieb Peter Easthope: Package: weston Version: 5.0.0-3 Severity: important * What led up to the situation? Installed weston on two machines. Works on one; not on the other. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffe

Bug#988227: nis: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator

2021-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Francesco, Am 08.05.21 um 14:19 schrieb Francesco P. Lovergine: Thanks for the report, but I can't see why a line like: if [ ! -z "$PREV_VER" -a $(dpkg --compare-versions "$PREV_VER" lt '4~'; echo $?) -eq 0 ] should fail under dash (which is even the default shell on Debian). You are

Bug#988227: nis: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nis.postinst: 76: [: -eq: unexpected operator

2021-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: nis Version: 4.2 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, I encountered this in Ubuntu [1], but they use the Debian package. With `/bin/sh` being dash and not Bash, the postinst script fails. ``` $ sudo apt reinstall nis Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Readi

Bug#986395: sympa: Update `apache2/conf-available/sympa{,-soap}.conf`

2021-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stefan, Am 23.04.21 um 13:27 schrieb Stefan Hornburg (Racke): On 4/5/21 8:24 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: The shipped Apache HTTPD drop-in still uses the removed FCGI wrappers. That is indeed true, but your change will only replace the 404 with an internal server error due to missing

Bug#987127: sympa: `apache2/conf-available/sympa.conf` not updated

2021-04-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: sympa Version: 6.2.60~dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Upgrading *sympa* from 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1 to 6.2.60~dfsg-4 the Apache HTTPD configuration file `/etc/apache2/conf-available/sympa.conf` wasn’t updated, and there is also no `/etc/apache2/conf-available/sympa.conf.d

Bug#986388: sympa: Migrate lines with backticks

2021-04-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stefan, Am 05.04.21 um 12:13 schrieb Stefan Hornburg (Racke): On 4/5/21 12:37 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: Package: sympa Version: 6.2.60~dfsg-4 Severity: normal Sympa fails to start, if `sympa.conf` has lines with backticks in it. It’d be great, if these could be migrated automatically

Bug#986395: sympa: Update `apache2/conf-available/sympa{,-soap}.conf`

2021-04-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: sympa Version: 6.2.60~dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, The shipped Apache HTTPD drop-in still uses the removed FCGI wrappers. ``` $ dpkg -S apache2/conf-available/sympa sympa: /etc/apache2/conf-available/sympa-soap.conf sympa: /etc/apache2/conf-available/sympa.conf ``` ```

Bug#986388: sympa: Migrate lines with backticks

2021-04-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: sympa Version: 6.2.60~dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Sympa fails to start, if `sympa.conf` has lines with backticks in it. It’d be great, if these could be migrated automatically, or the `NEWS.Debian` would list the change, so users reading the NEWS files before upgradi

Bug#986385: sympa: Package `wwsympa.service`

2021-04-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: sympa Version: 6.2.60~dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Thank you for maintaining the package *sympa*. It’d be great, if you packaged the systemd service unit `wwsympa.service` so the template [1] does not need to be adapted. ``` [Unit] Description=WWSympa - Web interface

Bug#986165: libcupsimage2: Upgrade fails with `m: cannot remove '/usr/share/doc/libcupsimage2': Directory not empty`

2021-03-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Didier, Am 30.03.21 um 19:59 schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud: Control: tags -1 +pending Le mardi, 30 mars 2021, 19.11:07 h CEST Paul Menzel a écrit : In a Debian 10 (buster) Docker container upgrading the package *libcupsimage2* fails with the error below. Thanks for your

Bug#986165: libcupsimage2: Upgrade fails with `m: cannot remove '/usr/share/doc/libcupsimage2': Directory not empty`

2021-03-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libcupsimage2 Version: 2.2.10-6+deb10u4 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, In a Debian 10 (buster) Docker container upgrading the package *libcupsimage2* fails with the error below. ``` # apt full-upgrade […] Preparing to unpack .../066-libcupsimage2_2.2.10-6+deb10u4_amd64.deb ...

Bug#985129: musescore3: /usr/bin/mscore3 terminated with SIGSEGV

2021-03-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thorsten, Thank you for your quick reply. Am 13.03.21 um 17:48 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: […] Today *musescore-general-soundfont* was upgraded, and opening a file in MuseScore 3, and changing the sound font of a voice/part to *Oboe* MuseScore 3 crashed with a segmentation fault. this i

Bug#985129: musescore3: /usr/bin/mscore3 terminated with SIGSEGV

2021-03-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: musescore3 Version: 3.2.3+dfsg2-10 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Today *musescore-general-soundfont* was upgraded, and opening a file in MuseScore 3, and changing the sound font of a voice/part to *Oboe* MuseScore 3 crashed with a segmentation fault. I am unable to reproduce t

Bug#985041: portaudio19: Outdated package git repository

2021-03-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: src:portaudio19 Version: 19.6.0-1.1 Severity: minor Dear Debian folks, ``` $ LANG=C debcheckout libportaudio2 declared git repository at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-voip/portaudio19.git git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-voip/portaudio19.git libportaudio2 ... Clo

Bug#895055: ITP: python-sounddevice -- Python module to play and record sound

2021-03-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Yaroslav, Am 06.04.18 um 21:47 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: python-sounddevice Version : 0.3.10 Upstream Author : Matthias Geier * URL : http://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/ * Li

Bug#984893: python3-setuptools: Depends on uninstallable python3.7

2021-03-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: python3-setuptools Version: 20.3.4-1 Severity: normal Control: affects -1 python3-pip Dear Debian folks, Trying to install the package *python3-pip* it fails with the error below. ``` $ sudo LANG=C apt install python3-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done

Bug#981558: grub2: Do not remove `/etc/default/grub` when purging grub-pc

2021-02-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-10 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, Last year in December, I had installed a system with grub-pc, and then switched to grub-efi. Now purging *grub-pc*, and checking to *not* remove GRUB configuration files, at least `/etc/default/grub` was removed. ``` $ dp

Bug#981379: parted: Package `NEWS` instead of `changelog.gz`

2021-01-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Colin, As always thank you for your prompt reaction. Am 30.01.21 um 14:07 schrieb Colin Watson: On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:51:53AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Currently Debian ships `/usr/share/doc/parted/changelog.gz`. It’d be great if instead the file `NEWS` could be packaged. Would

Bug#981379: parted: Package `NEWS` instead of `changelog.gz`

2021-01-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: parted Version: 3.4-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian folks, Currently Debian ships `/usr/share/doc/parted/changelog.gz`. It’d be great if instead the file `NEWS` could be packaged. Kind regards, Paul

Bug#978162: ntfs-3g: Do not install initramfs hook by default

2020-12-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: ntfs-3g Version: 1:2017.3.23AR.3-3 Severity: minor Control: affects -1 initramfs-tools Dear Debian folks, The package *ntfs-3g* ships a hook for initramfs-tools by default, copying the 151 KB binary `/bin/ntfs-3g` into the initrd. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/ntfs_3g But,

Bug#978159: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs with `MODULES=dep` includes unneeded `crc32-pclmul`

2020-12-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.139 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On an Acer TravelMate 5735Z/BA51_MV, BIOS V1.14 07/26/2011 with Intel Pentium T4500 (family: 0x6, model: 0x17, stepping: 0xa), the PCLMUL instruction is not supported, and the two modules below cannot be loaded.

Bug#977346: unattended-upgrades: Does not find packages, that can be upgraded

2020-12-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Balint, Thank you very much for the quick response. Am 14.12.20 um 11:58 schrieb Balint Reczey: On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:03 AM Paul Menzel wrote: […] On one user laptop with Debian sid/unstable, unattended-upgrades does not find upgradable packages. From a dry run: ``` 2020

Bug#977347: xl2tpd: Update to version 1.3.16

2020-12-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: xl2tpd Version: 1.3.12-1.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian folks, xl2tpd 1.3.16 was tagged in October 2020. It’d be great to have this version in Debian. Kind regards, Paul

Bug#977346: unattended-upgrades: Does not find packages, that can be upgraded

2020-12-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 2.7 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On one user laptop with Debian sid/unstable, unattended-upgrades does not find upgradable packages. From a dry run: ``` 2020-12-14 09:51:17,335 INFO Checking if system is running on battery is skipped. Please in

Bug#976986: Dell Precision 3540: Unable to use gfxterm

2020-12-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: grub-efi Version: 2.04-11 Severity: normal Dear Debian folks, On the Dell Precision 3540/0M14W7, BIOS 1.9.1 07/06/2020, I only see the GRUB console menu and the gfxterm one. `/etc/default/grub` is the default. Entering the GRUB command line, I get the results below. ``` > videoinf

Bug#976881: Allow to configure compression algorithms other than GZIP

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: tiny-initramfs-core Version: 0.1-5+b10 Severity: wishlist Dear Debian folks, I only learned about tiny-initramfs today, when Ben Hutchings told me about it. What a great program! Thank you for packaging it for Debian. On my test device, the resulting initrd is 1.3 MB big: -rw-

Bug#976850: libsane1: Split out udev rules and hwdb files

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jörg, Am 08.12.20 um 19:16 schrieb Jörg Frings-Fürst: thank you for spending your time helping to make Debian better with this bug report. Thank you for actually doing the work and maintaining a package. The udev - Rules are an existential component in the package libsane1. So moving

Bug#976850: libsane1: Split out udev rules and hwdb files

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: libsane1 Version: 1.0.31-4 Severity: minor Dear Debian, Packages like *colord*, part of the default desktop environment, depend on libsane1, so it’s installed on systems without a scanner. On these systems udev rules are parsed nevertheless at each startup, as they are part of the

Bug#976671: grub: Funny characters appended to file names in `/boot/grub/i386-pc`

2020-12-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.04-10 Severity: important Dear Debian folks, This creates a bug report for the issue below, first reported to linux-e...@vger.kernel.org. Am 06.12.20 um 15:44 schrieb Colin Watson: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:34:34PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: [Cc: +Colin

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