Bug#996907: xfce4-power-manager: Screen blank is active but not configurable when xfce4-power-manager is NOT installed

2021-10-20 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: xfce4-power-manager Version: 4.16.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I did a miminal install of xfce, i.e. "apt-get install xfce4", which did NOT install xfce4-power-manager. The resulting system had screen blank configured to activate after 10 minutes, but there was no settings

Bug#996773: barrier: man pages lack description of crypto mode

2021-10-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: barrier Version: 2.3.3+dfsg-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The man pages for barriers and barrierc don't say anything about how to use the --enable-crypto mode. This time I was setting up a new client. By looking at the output when run with -d DEBUG -f, I determined that on

Bug#869535: lightdm: service fails to start due to incorrect data dir perms

2021-10-17 Thread Phil Endecott
I've also seem this warning message and the root.root permissions on /var/lib/lightdm/data/ This system previously had a very minimal (debootstrap'd) Debian Bullseye installation. I then did: # apt-get install openbox lightdm and rebooted. X starts and shows a background image but there are

Bug#947319: lightdm: fails during startup (no invite)

2021-10-17 Thread Phil Endecott
I have also seen this message in the lightdm log: [+0.06s] WARNING: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files This went away when I installed

Bug#996489: awscli: Cryptic error if awscli and boto versions mismatch

2021-10-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: awscli Version: 1.20.53-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On a system running bullseye (11.1), I wanted to install a newer version of awscli. So I added sources.list entries for testing, set APT::Default-Release "bullseye"; and then # apt-get install -t testing install awscli This

Bug#990242: libapache2-mod-xsendfile: /usr/share/doc/libapache2-mod-xsendfile/Readme.html contains Google Analytics tracking script

2021-06-23 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: libapache2-mod-xsendfile Version: 0.12-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, /usr/share/doc/libapache2-mod-xsendfile/Readme.html has the following at the end: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount',

Bug#988060: barrier: misleading error when too many open files

2021-05-04 Thread Phil Endecott
The reason for the too-many-open-files appears to be that sockets are leaked when client connections fail due to SSL errors. The particular SSL error in my case seemed to be due to the server certificate having expired. Barrier seems to automagically create SSL certs that are valid for one

Bug#988060: barrier: misleading error when too many open files

2021-05-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: barrier Version: 2.1.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have Barrier server version 2.1.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1 on a Debian box and Barrier client version 2.3.3 on a Mac (from Homebrew). After restarting the Mac, Barrier failed to start. Its log says repeatedly: ERROR: ssl

Bug#966575: Symbol `grub_calloc' not found: AWS instance

2020-08-12 Thread Phil Endecott
I've been affected by this issue on an AWS EC2 instance. The particular issue with AWS is that the device names may depend on the particular instance types; on newer hardware disks appear as NVMe devices, and on older hardware as /dev/xvd? or /dev/sd?. The Debian cloud instances have

Bug#915127: cloud.debian.org: Please add AWS image for new ARM instances

2018-11-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Noah Meyerhans wrote: It's on its way. Glad to hear it, many thanks!

Bug#915127: cloud.debian.org: Please add AWS image for new ARM instances

2018-11-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: cloud.debian.org Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, AWS have recently announced new instance types that use the 64-bit ARM (aka aarch64) architecture. Machine images are currently available for "Amazon Linux 2", RHEL, Ubuntu and Fedora. It would be great to also have official

Bug#839961: Upstream is now at v5.7.0

2018-09-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi, libjs-d3 in Debian has not been updated for more than 2 years. Version 3.5.17 isn't really very useful. Please consider updating it, or perhaps officially orphan it if you are no longer able to maintain it. Thanks, Phil.

Bug#851099: "auto-apt update" tries to fetch wrong URL

2017-01-12 Thread Phil Endecott
I think this would have worked in Wheezy, but not since Jessie. I.e. this is OK: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Contents-armhf.gz But since Jessie it needs "main" or whatever between the Debian version and the "Contents-ARCH.gz" bit:

Bug#851099: "auto-apt update" tries to fetch wrong URL

2017-01-11 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: auto-apt Version: 0.3.24 I believe that the first thing I must do after installing auto-apt is "auto-apt update", right? # auto-apt update Downloading http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch Contents-arm64.gz ... 2017-01-11 23:47:13 ERROR 404: Not Found. My /etc/apt/sources.list

Bug#848152: Please add Multi-Arch: foreign to ntopng-data

2016-12-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: ntopng-data Version: 2.2+dfsg1-2 Hi, Currently ntopng doesn't install properly on a multi-arch system (e.g. arm64/armhf). I believe that the fix for this is to add Multi-Arch: foreign to ntopng-data in debian/control. (If you want to read my tale of woe about this, see:

Bug#843896: Logging issues fixed in new upstream version

2016-11-22 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi, I believe that these issues are fixed in the new upstream version, 1.1.0. Thanks, Phil.

Bug#840061: Enable I2C/IPMI and EDAC for X-Gene

2016-11-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings wrote: It went into 4.8.7. I'll enable the drivers for the next upload, which includes 4.8.7. Thanks. Have you also enabled the xgene EDAC and DMA configs that I mentioned towards the end of the original report? Also, I'm confused by the changelog; have you

Bug#843896: Fix logging and merge config in mod_authnz_pam

2016-11-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: libapache2-mod-authnz-pam Version: 1.0.1-1 Tags: patch I have fixed a couple of issues with mod_authnz_pam's logging: 1. I've changed the log level for the "passed" message from notice to info. "Notice" is special in Apache; it is included in the log irrespective of the LogLevel

Bug#840061: Enable I2C/IPMI and EDAC for X-Gene

2016-11-02 Thread Phil Endecott
The buffer overflow fix is now upstream here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git/commit/drivers/i2c?id=603616017c35f4d0fbdbcace72adf9bf949c4a65 I expect it to be in 4.10, and also some stable updates.

Bug#840061: Enable I2C/IPMI and EDAC for X-Gene

2016-10-08 Thread Phil Endecott
I've now tested the same changes on 4.8~rc8-1~exp1 and they work there too.

Bug#840061: Enable I2C/IPMI and EDAC for X-Gene

2016-10-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Source: linux Version: 4.7.5-1 Hi, I have a Gigabyte MP30-AR1 board with an ARM64 X-Gene1 processor. To access its temperature, fan and voltage sensors using IPMI the following kernel configs are needed: CONFIG_MAILBOX=y CONFIG_XGENE_SLIMPRO_MBOX=m CONFIG_I2C_XGENE_SLIMPRO=m

Bug#838297: man page for make-kpgs should refer to nproc --all, not grep /proc/cpuinfo

2016-09-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: kernel-package Version: 13.018 man make-kpkg says: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL If defined, this environment variable sets the concurrency level of make used to compile the kernel and the modules set using -j flags to the sub make in the build

Bug#838292: kernel-package/README.gz refers to module-init-tools, not kmod

2016-09-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: kernel-package Version: 13.018 /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz says: The packages suggested are: devel:gcc, libc5-dev/libc6-dev, binutils, make, and, for intel x86 platforms, bin86 (non-Intel platforms don't need this), modutils (or

Bug#838036: Postgis package has very many GUI dependencies

2016-09-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: postgresql-9.5-postgis-2.2 Version: 2.2.2+dfsg-5 Attempting to install postgis on a headless server, i.e. a system that doesn't have X or any sort of desktop environment installed, wants to bring in vast numbers of dependencies. The issue seems to be that the postgis package depends on

Bug#837715: Debain installer fails on Gigabyte MP30-AR1 (ARM64 X-Gene1)

2016-09-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: debian-installer I've been asked to file this bug to track my attempts to install Debian on my MP30-AR1. This is an ARM64 board with an X-Gene 1 processor. Please see this mailing list thread for more details: https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2016/09/msg00022.html In summary,

Bug#827079: triggerhappy: Generated event tables are empty, so nothing works.

2016-06-11 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: triggerhappy Version: 0.3.4-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Triggerhappy is entirely non-functional, because it doesn't recognise any key names: # thd --dump /dev/input/event4(a keyboard) Unknown (null) event id on /dev/input/event4: 28

Bug#602424: elmerfem: More armel qreal trouble

2010-11-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Adam, I saw your message to debian-arm, a list which I sometimes read but am not subscribed to, hence this off-list reply. I don't know anything about qt but I have been learning OpenGL recently. Here's my suggestion: inline void glGetQrealv(GLenum e, GLfloat* data) {

Bug#399911: Still need to use lynx to enable remote administration

2010-10-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Four years later, and I'm installing CUPS for only the second time ever. And I still need to use lynx to turn on remote administration. Am I the only one who runs CUPS on something that's not a full-featured desktop machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#527973: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#527973: initscripts needs a newish ifupdown else mountnfs fails

2009-10-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Phil Endecott 2009-05-19] Hmmm, maybe that's not the (only) problem; NFS mounts now seem to come up most but not all of the time. I need to investigate some more. What did you find out. Without more information, I believe this report should be closed as not a bug

Bug#535952: xprint: Xprt can't find symbol PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions and fails to start

2009-07-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: xprint Version: 2:1.4.2-11 Severity: normal Hi, I've just installed xprint 2:1.4.2-11 and it fails to start: # /etc/init.d/xprint start /etc/init.d/xprint: Old server registry found, cleaning-up... Stopping Xprint servers: Xprt. Starting Xprint servers: Xprt. No error message there,

Bug#535952: xprint: Xprt can't find symbol PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions and fails to start

2009-07-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: xprint support was removed from libXfont. I see. I guess I should work out why; there have obviously been some developments that I have not been following carefully enough. (This machine has been in not broken don't fix it mode for a long time, and now

Bug#510441: fcgi_frontend.py lacks execute permission

2009-07-05 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi, I've also found that the trac.cgi file installed by the deploy command is not executable. I think it should be, and trac (in CGI mode) didn't work until I made it executable, though I suppose this requirement could be something to do with my Apache config. Phil. -- To

Bug#527973: initscripts needs a newish ifupdown else mountnfs fails

2009-05-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Hmmm, maybe that's not the (only) problem; NFS mounts now seem to come up most but not all of the time. I need to investigate some more. Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#527955: console-setup: ckbcomp manpage typo

2009-05-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: console-setup Version: 1.34 Severity: minor man ckbcomp says: ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console font That should surely say: ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console KEYMAP While you're there, a XKB = an XKB. Cheers, Phil. -- System

Bug#527958: mount doesn't try libblkid's SEC_TYPE when guessing fs type

2009-05-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: mount Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: normal When mount has to guess a filesystem type it asks libblkid. libblkid may know both a TYPE and a SEC_TYPE. mount tries the TYPE but ignores the SEC_TYPE. I suggest that mount should try the SEC_TYPE if the TYPE fails for some reason.

Bug#402087: Would be nice to fix this...

2009-05-09 Thread Phil Endecott
I've just installed a new system and hit this confusing no error message if $HOME doesn't exist problem again. It would be great if the code I proposed before, i.e. # Warn if the user's home directory does not exist. # It seems that $HOME is set to / after this script # is executed, so we

Bug#527973: initscripts needs a newish ifupdown else mountnfs fails

2009-05-09 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal I installed some other package that required a new initscripts. Afterwards my NFS filesystems stopped getting mounted at boot. It turns out that /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs looks in /etc/network/run/ifstate, and if the interface is

Bug#527619: xdm should depend on x11-xserver-utils

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.8-5 Severity: normal Currently xdm suggests xutils, which depends on x11-xserver-utils. x11-xserver-utils includes the xrdb program. If xrdb is not installed, xdm only just works. Specifically, it will not be able to read the contents of its configuration files in

Bug#501503: udev: Griffin Powermate USB knob doesn't get /dev/input/by-id|path links

2009-04-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Kay Sievers wrote: Does the input subsystem tell us anything specific we might want to use to classify the device? What does: grep . /sys/class/input/inputX/capabilities/* print? $ grep . /sys/class/input/input10/capabilities/* /sys/class/input/input10/capabilities/abs:0

Bug#501503: udev: Griffin Powermate USB knob doesn't get /dev/input/by-id|path links

2009-04-26 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Kay, Sorry for the delay; the email address that I used originally for this bug is now spam-filtered. I seem to get mountains of spam to Debian bug addresses, for some reason. Any random string @ chezphil.org will reach me. SUBSYSTEMS==usb, \ ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}==03,

Bug#501503: udev: Griffin Powermate USB knob doesn't get /dev/input/by-id|path links

2009-04-26 Thread Phil Endecott
Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 00:31, Phil Endecott phil_cmcsb_endec...@chezphil.org wrote: So protocol==0 is not specific to this unusual device; even a keyboard or mouse will have 0 for its non-boot interfaces.  So the current logic will only create /dev/by-id|path nodes

Bug#187021: Preventing less from believing a compressed file is empty.

2009-04-19 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi, Can you confirm whether Steve's patch in bug 187021 message #21 was applied unchanged, or has it somehow been modified to eliminate the side-effects? Regards, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#510491: pngcrush sets timestamps on output file

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Endecott
I've just tried the new version; it looks like the --help output is corrupt for the new option: -ster [0 or 1] -text b[efore_IDAT]|a[fter_IDAT] keyword text -time_stamp -trns_array n trns[0] trns[1] .. trns[n-1] -trns index red green blue gray I would

Bug#514904: proj: Examples in man page and readme broken, in one case due to curly-quote

2009-02-14 Thread Phil Endecott
I have installed proj from the upstream source and I can confirm that the examples all do what they say they should do. I'm pretty sure the problem is that, contrary to the note in README.Debian, you have not unpacked the proj-datumgrid-*.zip file in the source tree before building. Phil.

Bug#514904: /usr/share/proj/conus missing

2009-02-11 Thread Phil Endecott
Some more info: According to /usr/share/doc/proj/README.Debian, The Debian proj package includes built-in datum conversion. (It was compiled with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip unpacked in the nad source directory.) According to the proj.4 FAQ (http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/FAQ): Verify that you

Bug#495349: Dependency symlink problems

2009-01-30 Thread Phil Endecott
I've also just encountered this bug. Having installed geotiff-bin, when I try to run listgeo I get the error listgeo: error while loading shared libraries: libgeotiff.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. If I understand correctly - and it's quite possible that I

Bug#510491: pngcrush sets timestamps on output file

2009-01-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.6.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, It seems that pngcrush sets the timestamps on the file that it creates to be the same as the input file. I've confirmed this by looking at the output of strace. There is no rationale for this behaviour in the documentation nor any way to

Bug#502122: closed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steinar H. Gunderson) (Bug#502122: fixed in nfs-utils 1:1.1.4-1)

2008-11-07 Thread Phil Endecott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Source: nfs-utils Source-Version: 1:1.1.4-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of nfs-utils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: Be careful, there was some debate about whether the fix was actually correct:

Bug#501847: kexec-tools: Please document the changed reboot behaviour.

2008-10-20 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Khalid, My request was that the behaviour be documented somewhere. For example, man kexec tells me to kexec -l and then kexec -e. But actually I should, depending on a debconf setting, do something like kexec -l; reboot. The kexec man page might not be the right place to say that, but

Bug#327584: hwclock.sh hwclockfirst.sh clarifications

2008-10-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi LaMont, thanks for your reply. LaMont Jones wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:18:56PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I'm also curious to know why reading the clock takes a second anyway. Note that we have to use --directisa on this hardware to avoid a random lock-up. It looks

Bug#327584: hwclock.sh hwclockfirst.sh clarifications

2008-10-13 Thread Phil Endecott
the documentation should explain more or less verbosely, why two scripts doing virtually the same in short distance are needed. Yes please! I'm currently trying to improve the boot time on my ASUS Eee; you may have heard of Arjan van de Ven's demo where he gets this machine to boot in only 5

Bug#502122: nfs-utils: Patch to make sm-notify faster when there's no-one to notify

2008-10-13 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: nfs-utils Version: 1.1.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I use NFS only rarely on my laptop. During boot, sm-notify takes several seconds to run - whether or not I'm using NFS. On investigation, this is because sm-notify indirectly calls sync(): /* Get and update the NSM

Bug#501847: kexec-tools: Please document the changed reboot behaviour.

2008-10-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: kexec-tools Version: 20080324-2 Severity: normal I've just installed kexec-tools and was surprised to find that, rather than just packaging the kexec executable, you have installed a script so that kexec is used when I reboot. I didn't want that. This feature - and how to disable it

Bug#501503: udev: Griffin Powermate USB knob doesn't get /dev/input/by-id|path links

2008-10-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: udev Version: 0.103-1 Severity: normal Hi, I have a Griffin Powermate, which is a USB knob that can be used as e.g. a volume control, for scrolling through video/audio, etc. No /dev/input/by-* links are created for it. This is because persistent-input.rules only sets ENV{ID_CLASS}

Bug#499459: glabels: New card type request

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: glabels Version: 2.1.3-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, I have some business cards that describe themselves as DECAdry OCC-3342 which glabels doesn't seem to know about. However, as far as I can see they have the same dimensions as type OCB-3327, so you could duplicate that menu entry for

Bug#497220: acpi-support-base: Needs to depend on finger

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Bart Samwel wrote: Hi Phil, Phil Endecott wrote: I am trying to get the lid event to suspend on my Eee 901 and have encountered the following problems: 1. getXuser() in /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs uses finger, but the package does not depend on finger (and I didn't have it installed

Bug#497220: acpi-support-base: Needs to depend on finger

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Bart Samwel wrote: getXuser() { w -hs | while read -r THIS_USER THIS_TTY THIS_DISPLAY DUMMY_REMAINDER; do if [ $THIS_DISPLAY = $displaynum ] ; then user=$THIS_USER break fi done if [ x$user =

Bug#497220: acpi-support-base: Needs to depend on finger

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 15:04:14 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: No this doesn't work for me. You're looking for :0 in the FROM column, right? I have it in the TTY column: $ w -hs phil tty1 -17:19 -bash root tty2 -15:31

Bug#497220: acpi-support-base: Needs to depend on finger

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Bart Samwel wrote: Nope. I use gdm, and I get: $ w -hs root tty1 - 2:19 -bash root tty2 - 2:19 -bash bsamwel tty7 :00.00s x-session-manager root pts/1:0.0 2:09m gnome-terminal bsamwel pts/2:0.0

Bug#496690: xdm: want to use Tab to switch from Login to Password field

2008-09-01 Thread Phil Endecott
I have also configured Tab to have the finish-field behaviour. A mis-feature of this configuration, however, is that pressing tab while in the Password field will not swap back to the username field, but will instead try to logon. So if the goal is consistency with other logon screens or

Bug#497200: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#497200: ITP: rt2860-source -- source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module

2008-08-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Damyan Ivanov wrote: There may be some licensing problems and this is why I CC debian-legal. All the sources are licensed under GPL-2+, except one file, include/firmware.h, which is generated from a binary blob and contains the following notice: [snip] Looks bad to me. I did not yet check

Bug#497220: acpi-support-base: Needs to depend on finger

2008-08-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: acpi-support-base Version: 0.109-5 Severity: normal I am trying to get the lid event to suspend on my Eee 901 and have encountered the following problems: 1. getXuser() in /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs uses finger, but the package does not depend on finger (and I didn't have it

Bug#426294: anacron: fails to start if on battery

2008-08-29 Thread Phil Endecott
anacron deliberately doesn't run if the machine is running on battery power. This is fine if the only jobs are housekeeping tasks that it's safe to skip, but if you have critical jobs like backups then it's not so good. This is a dangerous situation as users are unlikely to notice that this

Bug#495932: gpsbabel: man page formatting snag

2008-08-21 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: gpsbabel Version: 1.3.5-1.1 Severity: normal /usr/share/man/man1/gpsbabel.1 contains this, near the start: br INTYPE and OUTTYPE must be one of the file types listed below, and br may include options valid for that file type. For example: br 'gpx', 'gpx,snlen=10' and

Bug#495842: Starting gpsd on hotplug seems broken

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: gpsd Version: 2.37-6 Severity: normal Please forgive me if I have misunderstood how this is supposed to work. I want gpsd to start when I plug in the USB device. debconf asks me this question: Start gpsd automatically on boot? This isn't what I want so I say no. It asks no other

Bug#485994: latencytop: Wish package description mentioned kernel config requirement

2008-06-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: latencytop Version: 0.4 Severity: wishlist I just installed latencytop and discovered the kernel configuration requirement. I only installed it out of curiosity and I'm not going to build a new kernel just to try it out. Maybe next time that I'm building a kernel anyway... It

Bug#482273: initscripts: mountall.sh doesn't wait for kernel to scan for USB storage devices

2008-05-21 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-13 Severity: normal My machine has its root filesystem on an IDE disk and a second filesystem on a USB device. At boot, the kernel scans for and finds the USB device concurrently with other activities; this process includes a deliberate pause waiting

Bug#477838: bluez-utils: hidd is deprecated, use input service instead

2008-04-25 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: bluez-utils Version: 3.30-3 Severity: wishlist This report is based on the following message from the bluez users mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.user/13828/focus=13831 I had set up my bluetooth keyboard based on the instructions in

Bug#477335: bluez-utils: Suggested changes to README.Debian

2008-04-22 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: bluez-utils Version: 3.30-3 Severity: wishlist I'm typing this using a Bluetooth keyboard which it has taken me a long time to get working. Here are a couple of suggestions for README.Debian that could have saved me a bit of time: hidd --connect bdaddr ... For

Bug#439284: closed by Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#439284: munin-node: Suggest default plugin timeout is 10 secs)

2008-03-10 Thread Phil Endecott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:13:49PM +0100, phil wrote: It seems that by default the munin-node program waits for 10 seconds for a plugin to respond. This value is present in the source of munin-node and can be over-ridden by a setting in munin-node.conf. I suggest that

Bug#469914: scrot: Wish man page said screenshot

2008-03-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: scrot Version: 0.8-7 Severity: wishlist I need a screenshot about once a year or so, and I can never remember the name of this program. But when I type man -k screenshot, nothing is found. It would be great if the word screenshot were included in the header of the man page, e.g. NAME

Bug#443767: libstdc++6-4.1-dev: libstdc++-dev doesn't need to depend on g++; recommend or suggest is sufficient

2008-01-23 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Matthias, Matthias Klose wrote: won't change that. Would you like to explain why? Regards, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#457654: Should be fixed in 1.35

2008-01-02 Thread Phil Endecott
I am told that this will not be a problem in Boost version 1.35 - due real soon now - as a result of a redesign of Boost.Serialization. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/169668 Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#458743: boost: Please fix thread safety bug

2008-01-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: boost Version: 1.34.1-4 Severity: normal Hi, Apparently, Boost.Function is not thread safe in 1.34.*. Boost.Thread uses Boost.Function, and so Boost.Thread is itself not thread-safe. Since a non-thread-safe threads library is about as useful as the proverbial chocloate teapot, it

Bug#446668: genisoimage: Please add option to not cross filesystems

2007-10-18 Thread Phil Endecott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original mkisofs includes the feature you like via the build in find(1) since 1.5 years: Thanks Joerg, that's useful to know. Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#446821: libjpeg: Decoding faster with -Os

2007-10-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: libjpeg Version: 6b Severity: minor Hi, Playing around with the upstream libjpeg, it seems to me that decoding is about 15% faster when the library is compiled with -Os than with -O4. I think that's significant enough to consider mentioning, since jpeg can be the bottleneck in some

Bug#446668: genisoimage: Please add option to not cross filesystems

2007-10-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Many tools that recurse through directory structures have an option to not cross filesystems. As far as I can see, genisoimage does not have such an option. Could one be added? I have been trying to backup a system and found that

Bug#443767: libstdc++6-4.1-dev: libstdc++-dev doesn't need to depend on g++; recommend or suggest is sufficient

2007-09-23 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: libstdc++6-4.1-dev Version: 4.1.1-14 Severity: normal Hi, Currently libstdc++6-4.1-dev depends on g++-4.1, and vice-versa. While I think it's reasonable for g++ to depend on libstdc++-dev, I don't see a good reason why libstdc++-dev must depend on g++, and I suggest that this is

Bug#443576: Strict aliasing problem

2007-09-22 Thread Phil Endecott
I think I found a bug in gcc-4.2 int i, j; printf(%d %d\n, j, (void *)(j)); This looks like a strict-aliasing issue to me; you're casting from an int to a void*, which is undefined. Did you get any warnings? (Did you compile with warnings enabled? -Wstrict-aliasing?) Investigate the

Bug#436695: libagg-dev: Copyright file needs updating as agg is now GPL

2007-08-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: libagg-dev Version: 2.5-1 Severity: normal Hi, According to http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/agg/agg_2.5-1/libagg-dev.copyright agg is licensed as: Anti-Grain Geometry - Version 2.0 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Maxim Shemanarev (McSeem) Permission to copy, use,

Bug#429269: cpufrequtils: Please support VIA C7-M e_powersaver in /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq

2007-06-18 Thread Phil Endecott
Mattia Dongili wrote: By the way, did the e_powersaver module appear recently? Quite likely, but not sure. Should I also test for some particular kernel version or there was simply no support for VIA C7 before? I suspect that there was no support. Is it ok to default to longhaul for

Bug#429269: cpufrequtils: Please support VIA C7-M e_powersaver in /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq

2007-06-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: cpufrequtils Version: 002-4 Severity: normal Hi, /etc/init.d/loadcpufreq includes some logic to guess the appropriate frequency scaling module for the current CPU. For VIA CPUs it has: CentaurHauls*) # VIA if [ $CPU_FAMILY == 6 ]; then

Bug#426944: apt-cross: Silently fails with -S stable without --update

2007-05-31 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: apt-cross Version: 0.1.0 Severity: normal Hi, I've just tried apt-cross for the first time having previously used dpkg-cross. It looks like it should be a very helpful tool, and my first attempt worked: # apt-cross -a arm --install librecode-dev (One suggestion is that it could

Bug#423888: dhcp3-relay: dhcrelay not listed in man -k DHCP

2007-05-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: dhcp3-relay Version: 3.0.4-12 Severity: minor Hi, It would be helpful if man -k DHCP listed dhcrelay. It doesn't, because the man page begins NAME dhcrelay - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay Agent I suggest changing this to: dhcrelay - Dynamic Host

Bug#416911: Please let me know if I can help

2007-05-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi, Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help get DirectFB 1.0 into Debian. Many thanks, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#402087: xdm: no home directory test for Xstartup

2007-04-05 Thread Phil Endecott
Brice Goglin wrote: Hi Phil, Did you have a chance to look at this bug? Julien provided an url to look at the current code of /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup. Yes, see my message with Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:30:15 + (You posted a URL for the current Xstartup first; I replied to that message;

Bug#416911: directfb: DirectFB 1.0 is available

2007-03-31 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: directfb Severity: wishlist Hi, DirectFB version 1.0 has been available for a few weeks now. It would be great to see a Debian package. Many thanks, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#413657: dns-browse seems to need wish, not tcl|wish

2007-03-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: dns-browse Version: 1.9-4 Severity: normal I have tcl installed but not wish. This satisfies dns-browse's dependecy: Depends: tcl8.4 | wish, dnsutils However, I believe that wish really is needed: $ dns_browse bash: /usr/bin/dns_browse: /usr/bin/wish: bad interpreter: No such

Bug#413371: directfb: Please package ++dfb

2007-03-04 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: directfb Severity: wishlist Hi, I look forward to diretfb 1.0 packages soon! It would be great if we could also have Debian packages for ++dfb, the alternative C++ binding for directfb, as well as dfb++. (I thought that I had already made this request, but searching the bug

Bug#402087: xdm: no home directory test for Xstartup

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Brice Goglin wrote: Hi Phil, It might be too late for my eyes to work fine, but I can't find the lines your talking about in /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup (in 1:1.0.5-2). Does your proposal still apply with this version of xdm? Hi Brice, I don't want to update xdm just to see how the file has

Bug#402087: xdm: no home directory test for Xstartup

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Brice Goglin wrote: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/app/xdm.git;a=blob;h=7e775a3de2fe86d8011f5f5d22ee006e8dba1739;hb=dd2c9398e08e8539d82533207a5eddfffa4ea694;f=debian/local/Xstartup Thanks. Hmm, I suspect that the lines that I described were actually ones that I added in an earlier attempt

Bug#394058: xserver-xorg-core: X mouse manpage is in section 4x

2007-01-17 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 1:1.0.2-9 Followup-For: Bug #394058 I was going to report the same issue. mouse(4) is a man page describing the pinout and protocol used by serial mice. The page relevent to the X mouse driver is mouse(4x) which you can view using man 4x mouse. The

Bug#407126: hugin-tools: nona and nona_gui binaries are very large

2007-01-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: hugin-tools Version: 0.6.1-1 Severity: normal Hi, The nona and nona_gui binaries are some of the largest on my system: $ ls -l /usr/bin | sort -rn -k 5|head -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root8689772 2006-08-28 22:33 hugin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root7599308 2006-03-18 20:00 AbiWord-2.4

Bug#407125: inkscape and inkview binaries are very large

2007-01-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: inkscape Version: 0.44.1-1 Severity: normal Hi, The inkscape and inkview binaries are some of the largest on my machine: $ ls -l /usr/bin | sort -rn -k 5 | head -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root8689772 2006-08-28 22:33 hugin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root7599308 2006-03-18 20:00 AbiWord-2.4

Bug#402142: flash-kernel: Minor correction to comment in source code

2006-12-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: flash-kernel Version: 0.7 Severity: minor Current comment: # See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Info/BootFlash -- the NSLU2 uses a # 16 byte MTD header, the first two bytes (big endian) give the length of # the remainder of the image, and the remaining bytes are zero. Generate # this

Bug#118677: How to fix xdm and /etc/nologin

2006-12-07 Thread Phil Endecott
In order to make xdm work with /etc/nologin, there are two issues to fix: First, by default, nologin is checked by PAM thanks to this line in /etc/pam.d/xdm: authrequisite pam_nologin.so Presumably xdm just gets a no! reply from PAM, with the result that the user sees an

Bug#402087: xdm: no home directory test for Xstartup

2006-12-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.0.4-1 Severity: normal /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup includes a couple of commented-out lines that seem to have been intended to report a no home directory condition to the user. I propose the following in their place: # Warn if the user's home directory does not exist. #

Bug#401288: tftpd: Suggest mentioning no tsize in package description

2006-12-02 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: tftpd Severity: minor tftpd does not support tsize. I don't know what that is, but it is needed by the PXE network bootloader. atftpd and tftpd-hpa do have this feature. Since network booting is the most common application of tftp, I suggest that it is worth mentioning this in the

Bug#401175: debian-installer: Could offer to set a label on swap partitions

2006-12-01 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The partition disks dialog presents an option to set a partition label if use as is set to ext3 filesystem. If use as is set to swap area the label field is not included. It is possible to set partition labels on swap partitions using mkswap -L.

Bug#400262: cupsys: Cannot rename printer from the web interface

2006-11-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: normal The CUPS web interface does not provide a way to rename a printer. So, having added a printer using this interface, I am stuck with the cryptic name that it chose based on the make and model. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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