Package: eclipse
Version: 3.1.2-2
Severity: normal
Eclipse includes various tutorials with step-by-step instructions
for various tasks. Sadly the various modal dialogs required for
the tasks (create project, import archive, ...) prevent scrolling
of the help viewer (although they don't prevent
Package: netsed
Version: 0.01c-2
Severity: normal
I can't even guess why this is happening, unless netsed is special-casing
the hostname localhost. In my environment, /etc/hosts contains 127.0.0.1
localhost and, say, ping resolves this correctly, but netsed attempts to
forward to 255.255.255.255
Package: zope
Version: 2.6.4-1.8
Severity: normal
/etc/logrotate.d/zope correctly specifies missingok, but as the
postrotate script (zopectl logrotate) is run unconditionally and
as zopectl chokes on performing a logrotate for instances that
are not running at the time, useless emails about zope
severity 382029 normal
retitle 382029 gnome-gv gratuitously opens URLs from .recently-used
stop
Hi Christian,
gnome-gv couldn't display the file here, too, but I did not notice any FTP
connections.
Which process exactly was it that you attached the strace to? Firefox or a
still running
Package: gnome-gv
Version: 1:2.8.2-3
Severity: critical
Justification: root security hole
{{ note that the Severity: _may_ be overstated, I simply don't know; but
if gnome-gv can be made to open outbound FTP connections by the contents
of a postscript file, then this is potentially a very serious
Package: dhcp-client
Version: 2.0pl5-19.1
Severity: normal
The problem arises when /etc/dhclient.conf contains a
supersede domain-name suffix.1 suffix.2;
directive which, like the supplied sample, contains two or more
domain names. The problem arises because dhclient-script does not
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:20 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
Could you try again with ALSA (Debian kernels don't support OSS
anymore)? You can swithc to ALSA by using gstreamer-properties from
the gnome-media package.
That's an interesting assertion. As far as I can tell, Debian kernels
support
Package: gnupg-doc
Version: 2003.04.06-4
Severity: normal
The last example in the table at the bottom of
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/GNU_Privacy_Handbook/html/x335.htm
states that Dharma's key is not valid. Given that Alice has
signed Dharm's key directly, this would appear to be an
error.
--
Package: pmount
Version: 0.8-2
Severity: wishlist
This is largely to bring it in line with pumount, eject and the
principle of least surprise. It need not even be as promsicuous
as eject (which tries /dev, /media and /mnt), merely checking
/dev will do. (Apart from which, being in /dev is a
Package: dvd+rw-tools
Version: 5.21.4.10.8-1
Severity: normal
When writing to a DL DVD, growisofs checks whether the data to be
written will occupy 50% of the disk and, if not, refuses the
write operation with the message:
use single layer media for this recording
This is good advice
Package: console-common
Version: 0.7.49
Severity: normal
- Add '-x' to the end of the first line in install-keymap
- Run, say, 'install-keymap us'
- The end of the output will show:
+ /bin/loadkeys /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' 1 ']'
++ '[' -z '' ']'
Package: cron-apt
Version: 0.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Pretty much as per the subject. While an administrator can make
pretty much any configuration (s)he wishes, the default is daily,
but as this is implemented in /etc/cron.d instead of
/etc/cron.daily, it simply doesn't happen on machines running
Package: nautilus-cd-burner
Version: 2.8.7-3
Severity: wishlist
.iso is a widespread, but meaningless (which ISO format?) extension for
CD images; as it stands, Nautilus penalises users of the more
descriptive .iso9660 suffix. Please consider supporting this one
too. (By support I mean have
Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.8.0-0.4
Severity: normal
I'm not clear on whose responsibility it is to save/restore
volume settings, but somewhere gnome is getting this wrong. The
above two are my best guess.
When I reboot, the Volume setting is retained, but the PCM
setting is not, rendering
Package: syslog-ng
Version: 1.6.5-2.2
Followup-For: Bug #332796
Apologies, I need to withdraw some of my earlier report.
start-stop-daemon provides no means to distinguish between a
failure to stop a running instance (which is a problem for a
restart) and there being no instance to stop (which
Package: syslog-ng
Version: 1.6.5-2.2
Severity: normal
As per /etc/init.d/skeleton (from which /etc/init.d/syslog-ng is created), -e
should always be set in init.d scripts. In syslog-ng's case, it
is not. This has been work around for failres to start by having
lots of '|| exit 1', but no
Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.00-13
Severity: normal
I have some reservations about changethis.com's stance on
document presentation, and no way of knowing where fault lies
in this case, but notice that the below symptom does not
appear with gpdf or Acrobat reader. This problem is either an
Package: postgresql
Version: 7.4.7-6sarge1
Severity: normal
46: if ($method eq ident or $method = pam) {
The = should be eq.
As it stands, not only does this test always succeed (so the
test later in the script which verifies that the parameter is
only set in the ident or pam always determines
Package: irda-utils
Version: 0.9.16-9
Severity: normal
The manpage says -v is verbose.
Using -v gives a version message and exits.
irdadump's usage message fails to mention -v at all.
I suspect that the rational course here is to assume that the documentation
is in error and so update the
Package: gpdf
Version: 2.8.2-1.2
Followup-For: Bug #293988
I note that Ctrl- _does_ work in fullscreen mode, but ctrl+ does not.
Is it reasonable to elevate this above wishlist?
- Raz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale:
Package: gedit
Version: 2.8.3-3
Severity: normal
Gedit used to open new documents as tabs on an existing gedit
instance. Since an upgrade a month or two ago, this has ceased
being the case. Even attempts to force it to do so explicitly
with --new-document appear to have no effect. This was a
Whether or not this workaround is a simple administrative action does
not make it a non-bug. In order to fix the problem I had to work out
that
You should have read README.Debian instead, or just installed alsa-base
which does everything needed to load snd-pcm-oss.
Apologies for not being
Package: udev
Version: 0.056-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
{{ unrelated in this instance means all packages that use /dev/dsp
for audio I/O; these packages number in the hundreds at least }}
workaround: manually add snd-pcm-oss to /etc/modules
Whether or not this
Package: speex
Version: 1.1.6-2
Severity: normal
On attempting to play a file[1]:
$ speexdec female_scrub.spx
Decoding 8000 Hz audio using narrowband mode (stereo)
Encoded with Sweep 0.5.8-spx1 (metadecks.org)
speexdec: relocation error: speexdec: undefined symbol: speex_decode_int
$
1:
Hi Andrew,
Are you using the extension .glabels on the end of your files? If so,
(embarrassment) Apparently Nautilus is case-sensitive wrt filename
extensions, the extension on the file in question was .gLabels which
wasn't matching. Not a glabels bug.
Thanks.
- Raz
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Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal
I'm not even sure where to report this, but in the limited sense that
nautilus is opening an unreasonable application, it seems an
appropriate place to file the report, at least initially.
The Subject: line is pretty self explanatory, all I'd
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