Bug#681646: gnuplot: somtimes forgets previous command (can't see it in history either)

2012-07-14 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.6.0-8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, now and then gnuplot seems to fail to store the command in its history, so I can't recall it by ^P or up-arrow or any history command. In my typical use, I recall previous command, make an edit and push . It usually works fine, b

Bug#681646: Test example

2012-07-27 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
The following is an example of this bug by a very small session, after having removed ~/.gnuplot_history before starting gnuplot. I have added my own numbering of the commands. 1: gnuplot> a=5;plot x 2: gnuplot> plot x 3: gnuplot> history 1 history 4: gnuplot> plot x 5:

Bug#684111: wicd gui doesn't update pre/post connection script settings

2012-08-06 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: wicd Version: 1.7.2.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I had the problem that the wicd GUI did not keep any changes that I made to the pre/post connection script settings, via the property window for an interface. After some digging, it appears that the ConsoleManager int

Bug#650234: More information

2021-03-06 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.19-3.2 Commenting out the lines mentioning fakechroot_chroot_paths_ldsoconf in /usr/sbin/chroot.fakechroot, and the resulting spurious "fi", avoids this problem. Ralph.

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: libuuid1 Version: 2.34-0.1 The package is declared to replace e2fsprogs, which it doesn't do. Rather, installing it has a fair few ramifications on the installed system. The package belongs to the util-linux source, and it seems to be the same issue with uuid-runtime and uuid-dev. Ralph

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
stallation :( So "harmless" is probably not the right word. Ralph. Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote on 2/8/19 1:41 pm: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 11:25:10AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: >> Package: libuuid1 >> Version: 2.34-0.1 >> >> The package is declared

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
On a second try, with a fresh live ISO, I had to mess around quite a bit before arriving at that warning. So perhaps my previous system was a bit too far from pristine. Ralph. Ralph Ronnquist wrote on 2/8/19 2:09 pm: > Well, > > when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386"

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-02 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
his particular thing is rather a non-issue. Ralph. Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote on 3/8/19 1:46 am: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:09:03PM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: >> Well, >> >> when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386" (on this multiarch) >> I g

Bug#1029603: emacsen-common fails to install due to attempted chmod of /proc/self/fd/4

2023-01-25 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: emacsen-common Version: 3.0.5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: ralph.ronnqu...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? this problem came up when I tried installing emacs-nox, with # apt-get install --no-install-recommends emacs-n

Bug#1029603: ...

2023-01-25 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
This is a debootstrap filesystem; I just repeated it with a new debootstrapped sid filesystem. Since you think this might be a kernel related issue I'll check it out with a qemu as well. Ralph.

Bug#1029603: ...

2023-01-25 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
I have now tried this on qemu using kernel 6.1.0-1-amd64. Same result. Test sequence is: # debootstrap --variant=minbase sid FS http://deb.debian.org/debian # chroot FS apt-get install emacs-nox Results in: emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs >>Error occurred processing /usr/

Bug#1029603: ...

2023-01-25 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Thanks. As it turns out, I only need to have the pathname /proc/self/fd/5 exist to be chmod-able, and then emacs-nox installs without isse. Thus, the commands: # mkdir -p /proc/self/fd # touch /proc/self/fd/5 are enough to set the scene for the successful installation of emacs-nox. It does see

Bug#1003856: fatal rendering error

2022-01-16 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: debtree Version: 1.1.0 Some graph renderings fail with the error message: --- Can't use string ("") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/bin/debtree line 329. --- Example: debtree g++ regards, Ralph.

Bug#1013916: missing dependency

2022-06-27 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: cron-daemon-common Version: 3.0pl1-144 This package seems to have a dependency fault in that it needs "addgroup" as part of its postinst but doesn't declare a dependency on the package "adduser" that provides "addgroup". This e.g. causes debootstrap to fail in some configurations: # deb

Bug#1039062: RFS: fusefile/1.0 [ITP] -- This package provides "fusefile"; a FUSE file mount that

2023-06-25 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
sefile (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium . * Version change for submission to debian Regards, -- Ralph Ronnquist signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1039687: RFS: fusefile/1.0 [ITP] -- Using FUSE to combine file fragments into a single file.

2023-06-28 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fusefile": * Package name : fusefile Version : 1.0 Upstream contact : Ralph Ronnquist * URL : https://git.devuan.org/rrq/fusefile.git

Bug#831382: mplayer2: keyboard shortcuts fail for up/down/left/right arrows.. program hangs in "seek" (apparently)

2016-07-15 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: mplayer2 Version: Jessie stable Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the out

Bug#831382: closed by Sebastian Ramacher (Re: Bug#831382: mplayer2: keyboard shortcuts fail for up/down/left/right arrows.. program hangs in "seek" (apparently))

2016-07-16 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
I'll take this as an impolite way of aking "Does this happen on Debian 8 Jessie as well?", and the answer is "Yes, it does indeed." On 15/07/16 20:42, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the mplayer2 package: #83

Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video

2013-01-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: general Severity: important I just installed a fresh Debian 6.0, and got the problem that video doesn't show, specifically in skype (neither preview nor call) and cheese (preview). The webcam appears to work fine, since it shows up at the remote end on skype call (but I see nothing here)

Bug#697854: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video)

2013-01-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Well, as far as I can see it's a problem with the X server software rather than anything else, or the particular collection of packages I got on that installation. It happens with both cheese and skype, which are the things I've tried, while guvcview fails to run completely, with the note "Fata

Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video

2013-01-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
x27;t have that set up) This leads me to believe there's something with the X server subsystem. In any case I need help to dig into it. Ralph. On 11/01/13 01:43, Abou Al Montacir wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 00:44 +1100, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: Package: general Severity: important I j

Bug#697854: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video)

2013-01-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
wrote: reopen 697854 reassign 697854 cheese thanks # dear cheese maintainers, # below is some context, please read the full bug log for full context ;) Hi Ralph, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: Well, as far as I can see it's a problem with the X server software rathe

Bug#697854: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video)

2013-01-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
crossed :-) cheers, Ralph. On 11/01/13 11:50, Michael Biebl wrote: On 10.01.2013 19:15, Holger Levsen wrote: reopen 697854 reassign 697854 cheese thanks # dear cheese maintainers, # below is some context, please read the full bug log for full context ;) Hi Ralph, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2

Bug#698099: lyx: The shortcut sequence Alt-E, M, F, D for an inlined formula box doesn't work

2013-01-13 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: lyx Version: 2.0.3-3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, for some reason the shortcut sequence Alt-E,M,F,D for changing an inlined formula box into a displayed formula box doesn't work, but the last two keys must be repeated; i.e., Alt-E,M,F,D,F,D works, and so does the direct shortcut Alt-

Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video

2014-02-20 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
I'm afraid that machine now lives its busy life as ubuntu 12.04 so I can't reproduce it very easily. Though, if I can get a couple of hours access to the h/w again, I can probably give it a try. But, since I do have limited access to the machine, it would be useful if perhaps you could email m

Bug#1051445: syslinux.efi crashes on isohybrid boot as cdrom

2023-09-22 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Note that a debian package patch on 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3 is available at: https://git.devuan.org/devuan/syslinux/raw/branch/suites/experimental/debian/patches/0020-fix-cdrom-on-uefi.patch That's the patch used for the Devuan experimental release package. Presumably it can be used d

Bug#1051445: syslinux.efi crashes on isohybrid boot as cdrom

2023-09-07 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: syslinux-efi Version: 6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1 The use case of a hybrid ISO where an EFI partition with syslinux.efi is set up as El Torrito boot option, all duly equipped. works fine when the media is provided as disk drive, but not when the same media is provided as cdrom drive.