Bug#1027130: Bug may still be open

2023-02-21 Thread Stephen Lyons
issue will also arise for Debian Stable "Bulleye". Regards Stephen Lyons

Bug#982743: Hurd: grub-probe returning invalid HDD numbers for several --target options

2021-02-13 Thread Stephen Lyons
nds for the other relevant -t targets shows the same defect. Obviously I would have expected the outcome for this command to have been that the output was "hd0,msdos1" rather than "hd-49.msdos1". It seems fair to assume that this is specifically a Hurd issue and only affecting "

Bug#959221: [hurd] install UI slow to point of unusable, even text UI for me too

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Lyons
If I refer you back to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959221#15 it was the Debian Sid DVD image: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/current/debian-sid-hurd-i386-DVD-1.iso which report that it is: "DVD Binary-1 20200731-17:45". signature.asc

Bug#959221: [hurd] install UI slow to point of unusable, even text UI for me too

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Lyons
I guess that was the case - I resorted to jurying rigging the disk and DVD-ROM in my main system which had all the other drives disconnected and that one worked fine - though it did have a PS/2 keyboard. After returning them to the original system; booting from a Knoppix thumb-drive to correct the

Bug#959221: [hurd] install UI slow to point of unusable, even text UI for me too

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Lyons
be the "Windows" or equivalent key if that can be handled. Sorry that I can not be more specific about the details about what is going on - however I am not giving up just yet! 8-P Regards Stephen On 2021-02-06 09:38, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Stephen Lyons, le sa

Bug#959221: [hurd] install UI slow to point of unusable, even text UI for me too

2021-02-05 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: hurd Version: DVD Binary-1 20200731-17:45 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Having been aware of the GNU/HURD for some years and seeing that Debian offered it (and being subject to the general slow down in life in the era of COVID-19) I though it was worth having a go and

Bug#960026: [release-notes] KDE is no longer supported as a Desktop Environment without systemd as init-system (PID 1)

2020-05-08 Thread Stephen Lyons
E to operate without libpam-systemd but this seems to have been rejected for Debian. As a consequence it looks like I will have to switch my main PC to Devuan "Beowulf" if I want to keep using KDE. Stephen Lyons --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 De

Bug#944382: [xscreensaver-data-extra] /usr/share/application/screensavers/glitchpeg.desktop file error

2020-04-02 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: xscreensaver-data-extra Version: 5.42+dfsg1-1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The problem seems to be a spurious line-feed part way through the "Comment" entry for that file which then appears to break something when it tries to parse that glitchpeg.desktop file. It is

Bug#935304: [libpam-systemd] This bug also prevents KDE Plasma5 Desktop from being used in Buster for SysV init users

2019-08-31 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: libpam-systemd Version: 241-5 Control: severity -1 important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I was using the KDE Plasma 5 Desktop in Stretch but during the upgrade process to Buster this dependency broke things for me as a SysV init user as the following dependency

Bug#928778: [libqt5core5a] System Qt version no longer supported upstream

2019-05-10 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: libqt5core5a Version: 5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u1 Severity: normal Tags: security X-Debbugs-CC: secure-testing-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I was aware that Qt 5.6.3 (LTS) has recently reached end-of-support (2019/03/16) but I hadn't stopped to

Bug#925484: [plasma-workspace] /usr/start/startkde not exporting correct XDG_DATA_DIR

2019-03-25 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: plasma-workspace Version: 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- It appears that plasma-workspace is replicating the bug recorded as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782285 for the package from an old Debian version of

Bug#880053: [plasma-widgets-addons] Error has corrected itself following the end of the extra Wall-clock hour

2017-10-28 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: plasma-widgets-addons Version: 4:5.8.5-2 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- It seems that the defect only persists for the duration of the time when the wall clock is back at the end of DST, at the *end* of the hour the time zone has been corrected to the expected "GMT"

Bug#880053: [plasma-widgets-addons] Ending of DST not updating TimeZone display

2017-10-28 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: plasma-widgets-addons Version: 4:5.8.5-2 Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- With the ending of Daylight Saving Time for the TimeZone of Europe/London at 01:00:00 UTC on 2017/10/29 I noted the displayed time jumping back from 01:59:50 to 01:00:00 as

Bug#870208: [Mudlet] Bug in Version 3.2.0 and (3.3.0) causes loss of user created content

2017-07-30 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: Mudlet Version: 1:3.2.0-1 Severity: grave --- Please enter the report below this line. --- ADVISORY FROM UPSTREAM: A defect present in the Mudlet Version currently included in "Testing" and "Unstable" causes user created content ("Triggers"/"Aliases"/"Buttons"/"Keys"/"Scripts") to be

Bug#835649: [flashplugin-nonfree] OldStable (Wheezy) version of package is critically out of date

2016-08-29 Thread Stephen Lyons
ies... I hope that helps! Regards Stephen On 28/08/16 07:05, Bart Martens wrote: > Control tags 835649 moreinfo > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:41:02PM +0100, Stephen Lyons wrote: >> I believe the version of this package for Debian 7 installations >> ("OldStable")

Bug#835649: [flashplugin-nonfree] OldStable (Wheezy) version of package is critically out of date

2016-08-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.2+wheezy1 Severity: critical Tags: security X-Debbugs-CC: secure-testing-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I believe the version of this package for Debian 7 installations ("OldStable") is *critically* out of

Bug#820645: [flashplugin-nonfree] Still not done on OldStable

2016-08-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.2+wheezy1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- As I am speaking about OldStable the message "We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of flashplugin-nonfree, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive."

Bug#820645: [flashplugin-nonfree] Bug closure incorrect - still present on reported (Old-stable) version

2016-08-04 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.2+wheezy1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 Debian Release: 7.11 500 wheezy-backports mozilla.debian.net 500 stable apt.spideroak.com 500

Bug#820645: [flashplugin-nonfree] With reversion to Firefox from Iceweasel flashplugin-nonfree should have both as "suggests"

2016-04-10 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.2+wheezy1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Whilst trying to fix a report that my flashplayer plug-in was vulnerable (from the plug-in checker within FireFox) I spotted in aptitude that although *IceWeasel* is something

Bug#774046: [adduser] weak username check provided by --force-badname does not match useradd capability

2014-12-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: adduser Version: 3.113+nmu3 Severity: normal Tags: patch --- Please enter the report below this line. --- In the man page for this command is written: --force-badname By default, user and group names are checked against the configurable regular expression

Bug#762194: An end-users perspective on an automatic switch to systemd on wheezy-jessie upgrades

2014-12-17 Thread Stephen Lyons
way to backout from does not seem the optimum choice! A concerned Debian Wheezy(-backports) User Stephen Lyons P.S. I'm speaking also as someone who got clobbered by an Xorg server upgrade earlier this week - still not entirely sure what went wrong but glad I only upgraded one machine at a time

Bug#733249: [libreoffice-writer] Variable type field with NNNN, NNN and NN date format codes return day name one day in advance

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: libreoffice-writer Version: 1:4.1.2-2~bpo70+1 Severity: minor --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I was updating a form I created to produce a report every couple of weeks with many fields containing calculated dates set from a single hidden field variable I set at the start

Bug#733249: [libreoffice-writer] Bug appears to affect both Show Variable and Insert Formula field types

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
Package: libreoffice-writer Version: 1:4.1.2-2~bpo70+1 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Upon checking I find that both the Show Variable field, where a previously entered value is displayed and the Inserted formula where additional maths can be done on previously entered values,

Bug#733249: [libreoffice-writer] Variable type field with NNNN, NNN and NN date format codes return day name one day in advance

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Lyons
On 27/12/13 20:02, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Stephen, On Friday, 2013-12-27 19:28:37 +, Stephen Lyons wrote: one displayed field to include a DD/MM/YY format code to show the name of the day so I could cross-check I had entered the raw date correctly but instead of the Friday, 27/12

Bug#722489: [xfce4-fsguard-plugin] Tooltip does not handle FS 1GB size

2013-09-11 Thread Stephen Lyons
(= 4.7.7) | 4.8.6-4 xfce4-panel ( 4.9) | 4.8.6-4 Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. commit 7f8c65afe0d7cc658ac453a46c0f4f3bf15d7fb9 Author: Stephen Lyons slys...@virginmedia.com Date: Mon Sep 9 22:05:21 2013 +0100 BugFix: Tool-tip