Bug#1050714: wget: Missing metalink support

2023-08-28 Thread Paul Millar
Package: wget Version: 1.21-1+deb11u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Metalink is a standard format (see RFC 5854) for describing how to download a collection of files. There is also a standard way to link to a metalink description (see RFC 6249). Seemingly upstream wget supports metalink;

Bug#1018816: Timeline for including the fix?

2023-01-04 Thread Paul Millar
Hi, My thanks for investigating this problem and putting together a patch to resolve it. I was wondering when you imagine the fix will be available in Debian? Cheers, Paul.

Bug#1018700: thunderbird: Lost configuration after upgrading

2022-09-28 Thread Paul Millar
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1 Followup-For: Bug #1018700 X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@security.debian.org Dear Maintainer, I ran `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` as usual. This pulled in an upgrade to 'thunderbird' from version '1:91.13.0-1~deb11u1' to `1:102.3.0-1~deb11u1`.

Bug#1018816: podman operations generate warnings from bad parsing of DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

2022-08-31 Thread Paul Millar
Package: podman Version: 3.0.1+dfsg1-3+deb11u1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I have noticed that operations, such as 'podman ps' occationally print warning messages. Here is an example of this: paul@celebrimbor:~/git/podman (main)$ podman ps WARN[] The cgroupv2

Bug#810681: heimdal-clients: installing package forces krb5-user to be removed

2016-01-26 Thread Paul Millar
Hi all, Thanks for your helpful comments. yafc is working fine for my use-case, so please feel free to close this ticket. On 11/01/16 22:24, Brian May wrote: > I would recommend another protocol, e.g. SFTP over SSH using Kerberos. That's certainly an interesting thought. Our software

Bug#810681: heimdal-clients: installing package forces krb5-user to be removed

2016-01-11 Thread Paul Millar
Package: heimdal-clients Version: 1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I am trying to install the heimdal-clients package because it contains some "kerberised" applications that do not exist in the MIT equivalent package: krb5-user. However, installing heimdal-clients would force

Bug#810681: heimdal-clients: installing package forces krb5-user to be removed

2016-01-11 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Jelmer, On 11/01/16 13:34, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Are you referring to kftp ? That's the only application for which this is the case as far as I can tell. Yes, that's exactly it. To give the full story, I have an FTP server that accepts Kerberose-based authentication (amongst others) and

Bug#766322: circular dependencies causes dpkg --configure -a to go into a tight loop

2014-10-22 Thread Paul Millar
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.19 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, The problem is manifest when I run the command dpkg --configure -a. Doing this, the command produces no output but I see that it running flat-out on a single core, consuming 100% of that

Bug#764811: libvirt-bin: USB Host Device not available

2014-10-11 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libvirt-bin Version: 1.2.8-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I believe there is a regression in support for attaching USB host devices to a virtual machine. Some update seems to have broken this support --- possible the switch to systemd, but I cannot say for sure. As I have found a

Bug#761521: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#761521: libvirt-daemon: fails to restart domain with error 'CreateMachine: File exists'

2014-09-20 Thread Paul Millar
Hi, On 16/09/14 09:16, Guido Günther wrote: However VMs create a machine.slice here: ./cpuset/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2dmachinename.scope/ Could you check if this gets properly removed when you shut down the domain? Cheers, I have a couple of bits of information that could prove useful.

Bug#761521: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#761521: libvirt-daemon: fails to restart domain with error 'CreateMachine: File exists'

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Guido, Thanks for the info. On 16/09/14 09:16, Guido Günther wrote: However VMs create a machine.slice here: ./cpuset/machine.slice/machine-qemu\x2dmachinename.scope/ Could you check if this gets properly removed when you shut down the domain? This could be it. It looks like that's

Bug#761521: libvirt-daemon: fails to restart domain with error 'CreateMachine: File exists'

2014-09-14 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libvirt-daemon Version: 1.2.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After booting my laptop (vedrfolnir) I am able to start a domain (xanadu) using the GUI client (virt-manager). Logging in to the domain as root and using the 'shutdown -h now' command, the domain halts (apparently

Bug#645788: openssh-server: /run on tmpfs breaks sshd started, from inetd

2014-09-01 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Colin, Apologies for hijacking this ticket with an unrelated problem. You're quite correct in saying openssh-server package does the right thing. For the record, my problem was (or appears to have been) triggered by a failure to mount an unrelated tmpfs file-system (/var/spool/cups/tmp)

Bug#645788: openssh-server: /run on tmpfs breaks sshd started from inetd

2014-08-27 Thread Paul Millar
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:6.6p1-7 Followup-For: Bug #645788 I've noticed the same problem. I had inetd running, but did *not* have sshd running via inetd. I have also verified that uninstalling (dpkg --purge) inetd does not fix the problem. Therefore, I'm sure that the inetd is not

Bug#752146: [cups-filters] Missing rastertopdf filter

2014-06-20 Thread Paul Millar
Package: cups-filters Version: 1.0.54-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I'm trying to hunt down a problem where the printer is listed as Processing - Waiting for printer to become available. despite the printer being available. The file

Bug#752161: psutils: Home page returns 404

2014-06-20 Thread Paul Millar
Package: psutils Version: 1.17.dfsg-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, apt-cache reported a home page associated with psutils: paul@zitpcx6184:~$ apt-cache show psutils|grep Homepage Homepage: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/ paul@zitpcx6184:~$ However, the server does not

Bug#635383: dnsmasq no longer replies to DHCP requests

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Simon, On Wednesday 31 August 2011 22:46:24 Simon Kelley wrote: I'm not aware of this bug having been manifest anywhere except here and I can't progress it without further information from the submitter. Since the package is working fine for almost everyone, I'm downgrading this to normal.

Bug#636878: libcgsi-gsoap-dev: cgsi-plugin fails to register correctly within gSOAP

2011-08-06 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libcgsi-gsoap-dev Version: 1.3.4.0-1 Severity: important While trying to use the packaged cgsi_plugin library, I found that gSOAP was behaving as if the plugin was not registered. After some debugging, I discovered that this was due to the package plugin failing to hook itself

Bug#636878: Further info about cgsi-plugin

2011-08-06 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Mattias, Here's a further datum for you: simple rebuilding the debian packages from source fixes the problem. If I run the following command: apt-get -b source cgsi-gsoap \ sudo dpkg -i libcgsi-gsoap1_1.3.4.0-1_i386.deb \

Bug#635383: dnsmasq no longer replies to DHCP requests

2011-07-25 Thread Paul Millar
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.57-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I am using dnsmasq to answer DHCP requests from virtual machines as they power up. The requests are sent over an (internal) bridge (called br0) on the host machine. When watching the incoming packets on the

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Thursday 21 July 2011 01:01:19 Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] How about we start by enabling NFSv4.1 starting with release candidates for Linux 3.1, and see what feedback we get for that? That sounds OK, I guess, but it does introduce a significant delay. BTW, will the release

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Thursday 21 July 2011 12:51:11 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:13 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: [..] but it does introduce a significant delay. Linux 3.1-rc1 should be out in 3 weeks or less. Ah! OK, that's not too bad. I thought it would be longer. BTW

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-07-18 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, Thanks for the update. On Friday 15 July 2011 16:32:41 Ben Hutchings wrote: No news. The question remains, what the cost may be to other NFS users. Certainly NFS v4.1 is not a minor change, and it adds a lot of new code to the nfs module. I guess the question is how do we go forward

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Monday 23 May 2011 18:48:56 Ben Hutchings wrote: [wishlist: NFS-4.1 / pNFS support] Anyway, I have no objection to enabling this unless it is likely to cause regressions for other NFS users. Is there any news on enabling NFS v4.1? Can I do anything to help? Cheers, Paul. --

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Monday 23 May 2011 18:48:56 Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe this is a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. [...] Well, not really. I agree this is an important feature, but generally feature requests are still

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Millar
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-1 Severity: important Recent kernels include support for NFS v4.1. More recently still, the kernel has included support for NFS v4.1's parallel NFS or pNFS. These options (CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 and CONFIG_PNFS_FILE_LAYOUT) may be built as modules, so are loaded on

Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Bastian, On Monday 23 May 2011 12:17:00 Bastian Blank wrote: severity 627655 wishlist thanks On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Severity: important Please specify, why this is appropriate. Sure. Some scientific communities require access to huge amounts

Bug#617792: network-manager-kde: always prompts for access credentials when access to AP fails

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Millar
Package: network-manager-kde Version: 1:0.9~svn1175124-1 Severity: normal I use the network-manager framework for managing the WiFi and VPN connections on my laptop and, as I'm using KDE as my desktop, I'm using network-manager-kde to provide the interface. Sometimes, after establishing

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0 crashing

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libhunspell-1.2-0 Version: 1.2.14-3 Severity: normal The problem is still present with with current sid (libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.14-3) Also, I am seeing the problem with kopete and kmail. Here is the stack-trace for a kopete crash: #6 0xab2cc516 in mkallcap(char*, cs_info const*) ()

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0 crashing

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Millar
On Thursday 10 February 2011 12:58:41 Rene Engelhard wrote: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612542#43 OK. Do you have 32-bit binaries; or the source package I could build from? This problem really is important: it makes applications like kopete and kmail very much

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0 crashing

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Rene, On Thursday 10 February 2011 14:03:18 Rene Engelhard wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:08:41PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2011 12:58:41 Rene Engelhard wrote: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612542#43 OK. Do you have 32-bit

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0 crashing

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Rene, On Thursday 10 February 2011 14:03:18 Rene Engelhard wrote: Anyway, Ian confirmed it fixes it: Yes. I downloaded and installed libhunspell-1.2-0_1.2.14-4_amd64.deb and all appears to be well in evolution. I've compiled the package for x86-32 platform and deployed it on my desktop.

Bug#604002: network-manager-vpnc: vpnc always crashes when enabled

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Millar
Package: network-manager-vpnc Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream I am running Debain Sid. The KDE system tray utility knetworkmanager (package as network-manager-kde) provides the ability to control a computer's network connections via the network-manager framework. One

Bug#604002: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604002: network-manager-vpnc: vpnc always crashes when enabled

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Michael, On Friday 19 November 2010 10:57:38 Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.11.2010 10:45, Paul Millar wrote: It is unclear to me whether the problem is with the network-manager-kde package or the network-manager-vpnc package. Please test nm-applet and see if that work for you Thanks

Bug#604002: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604002: network-manager-vpnc: vpnc always crashes when enabled

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Millar
On Friday 19 November 2010 10:57:38 Michael Biebl wrote: Please test nm-applet and see if that work for you The problem is not present with nm-applet. Using that software I was able to establish a VPN connection without any problem. I guess the problem is with knetworkmanager. Cheers, Paul.

Bug#604002: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604002: Bug#604002: network-manager-vpnc: vpnc always crashes when enabled

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Millar
On Friday 19 November 2010 22:53:52 Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.11.2010 22:27, Paul Millar wrote: I guess the problem is with knetworkmanager. Could you please tell me the exact version of knetworkmanager so I can reassign the bug properly. Here's the info: p...@vedrfolnir:~$ dpkg-query -W

Bug#590433: xserver-xorg-video-intel: fade-to-black as system locks up

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Millar
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-4 Severity: important I've noticed that a moderately recent update to sid has introduced a bug. The symptoms are that, whilst using an X session, the system no longer responds to keyboard or mouse input. At the same time, the screen fades to

Bug#582003: nfs-common: nfs client ignores port=2049 option when mounting

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Wednesday 19 May 2010 05:44:56 Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] However, what isn't clear is why the client is calling the Portmapper service since the port number has been supplied in the mount options (port=2049) [...] Right. For whatever reason, mount.nfs processes the

Bug#582226: virtualbox-ose: PXE stack provides 0.0.0.0 as address for TFTP server for WDS' wdsnbp.com

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Millar
Package: virtualbox-ose Version: 3.1.6-dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: sid I'm trying to use Windows Deployment Service (WDS) to auto-deploy Windows to a VirtualBox image via network PXE boot. As part of this installation process, the central server will attempt to wipe the virtual machine's

Bug#582003: nfs-common: nfs client ignores port=2049 option when mounting

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Millar
Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.2.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid Hi, I'm trying to mount an NFS server that isn't registered in the portmapper. I believe this has worked in the past and something changed moderately recently (probably between 2009-11-19 and 2010-5-1) that broke this behaviour.

Bug#549678: kaddressbook is not installable on sid due to missing libgnokii4 dependency

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Millar
Package: kaddressbook Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The kaddressbook package is currently not installable with Debian sid. When I attempt to do so, I get the following error message: zitpcx6184:~# apt-get install kaddressbook Reading package lists... Done Building

Bug#544773: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Jonas, On Sunday 06 September 2009 02:39:46 Jonas Meurer wrote: On 05/09/2009 Paul Millar wrote: vedrfolnir:~# ls -l /dev/mapper [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-09-04 19:06 vedrfolnir-home - ../dm-6 [...] vedrfolnir:~# cat /etc/mtab [...] /dev/dm-6 /home ext3 rw 0 0

Bug#544773: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Jonas, On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:23:12 Jonas Meurer wrote: please try the attached (yet untested) patch and see whether that fixes your problem. Thanks for the patch. As mentioned in the previous email, the immediate problem seems to be fixed by lvm2 package reverting their policy on

Bug#544773: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Millar
On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:50:35 Jonas Meurer wrote: thanks. please also send me the output of the following commands: # ls -l /dev/mapper vedrfolnir:~# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 crw-rw 1 root root 10, 60 2009-09-04 19:06 control lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-09-04 19:06

Bug#544773: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Millar
On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:50:35 Jonas Meurer wrote: could you try downgrading to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-1, regenerating the initramfs and see whether the bug disappears? if it's related to device files in /dev/mapper being links to /dev/dm-* then the bug should be reproducible with old

Bug#544773: Update to cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-2 breaks booting

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Millar
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.7-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I upgraded my laptop this morning. The following packages were upgraded: p...@vedrfolnir:~$ grep 2009-09-02\ 10 /var/log/dpkg.log|grep upgrade 2009-09-02 10:00:13 upgrade ant-optional 1.7.1-3

Bug#526257: libqtgui4: major gfx mem corruption

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Millar
On Sunday 03 May 2009 19:30:38 Didier Raboud wrote: I had such corruptions and I just upgraded my xserver-xorg-video-intel to 2:2.7.99.1-1 from experimental and they seem to have disappeared. Do you use Intel Graphics hardware ? It might be worth trying this version… Thanks for the hint.

Bug#526257: libqtgui4: major gfx mem corruption

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libqtgui4 Version: 4.5.1-1 Severity: important I have noticed display corruption with many KDE applications; including kontact and konqueror. This corruption is shared with the virtualbox-ose-qt GUI, so I believe either QT or X is the common factor, not KDE. Although I run mostly

Bug#526087: java-wrappers: locate_jar has broken support for abs. filenames

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Millar
Package: java-wrappers Version: 0.1.13 Severity: important Tags: patch The java_wrappers script includes support for building a Java classpath using the locate_jar function. This searches a number of locations to locate an appropriate jar file, given the name of the jar file as an argument.

Bug#526092: fop wrapper script doesn't easily support hyphenation jar

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Millar
Package: fop Version: 1:0.95.dfsg-4 Severity: important Fop includes support for hyphenation using the hyphenation information taken from the TeX project; however, for licensing issues, the Apache FOP project is unable to redistribute the hyphenation information within their releases of fop.

Bug#526092: fop wrapper script doesn't easily support hyphenation jar

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Vincent, On Wednesday 29 April 2009 10:28:22 Vincent Fourmond wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paul Millar paul.mil...@desy.de wrote: Previous versions of fop deb package contained /usr/bin/fop as some fop-specific script that allowed it's behaviour to be tailored through

Bug#488776: libc6-dev: Headers are broken if /usr/include/linux is in include path

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.7-12 Severity: important I'm trying to compile Sun GridEngine from source (current CVS HEAD). This fails when trying to compile the first source-code file. After playing with this first compilation, I find I can compile this first source-code file if I copy the

Bug#444422: mysql_library_end() complains about threads not exiting

2007-09-28 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libmysqlclient15off Version: 5.0.45-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- When a multi-threaded MySQL client makes more than one connection to the DB, mysql_library_end() pauses for about 5 seconds, then gives an error message on stderr. The exact error

Bug#422141: (no subject)

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Millar
I can confirm this problem exists with etch. This bug makes the ViewCVS package useless within etch. Perhaps either the CommitID parsing patch is applied to 0.9.2+cvs... version or a new up-stream version should be added to etch. Cheers, Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#337011: installation-guide: Please document the new ways to preseed root and user passwords

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Millar
Hi all, On Wednesday 02 Nov 2005 10:30, Holger Levsen wrote: Looked good to me, besides this: Three remarks about the 2nd paragraph: (quoted now for easier reference) +para condition=etch +The passwords can also be preseeded as MD5 emphasishashes/emphasis +by using the

Bug#293538: doesn't understand TZ Europe/London

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Millar
Package: libkcal2a Version: 3.3.2-1 Running kmail from a shell returns (more or less) straight away after spawning the kmail program. I have an iCal invitation in my INBOX. Selecting the [Accept] link does not cause an equivalent entry to be added to korganiser. Instead, in the originating

Bug#293538: doesn't understand TZ Europe/London

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Millar
On Friday 04 February 2005 13:00, Josh Metzler wrote: It looks like your system is messed up. Did you try to purge some packages but then stop the operation part way through? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --list libkcal2a pi libkcal2a 3.3.2-1KDE calendaring library [EMAIL