Bug#553981: dovecot-common: Fails to install - broken postinst - exit status 10

2009-11-02 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: dovecot-common Version: 1:1.2.6-1 Severity: normal Attempting either to upgrade or install afresh after removing the dovecot packages this package fails to configure giving the following error: Setting up dovecot-common (1:1.2.6-1) ... dpkg: error processing dovecot-common (--configure):

Bug#548824: nbd-client: Init scripts fail when no devices configured

2009-09-28 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: nbd-client Version: 1:2.9.13-4 Severity: normal I have nbd-client installed for occasional use with qemu and qcow2 images and don't have any nbd devices mounted at boot or dismounted a shutdown. The init scripts for nbd-client seem fooled by this as on startup there is a error message a

Bug#370692:

2009-08-08 Thread Steve Fosdick
The latest problem with DPMS not being activated as reported in my last message only occurs inside GNOME (DPMS activates correctly from the gdm login screen) and occurs when gnome-power-manager 2.24.4 is used with: gnome-screensaver: 2.26.1-2 gnome-session: 2.26.2-1 Upgrading to gnome-power-m

Bug#370692: gnome-power-manager: DPMS not working again

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.24.4-2 Severity: normal In response to bug 536653 against gnome-screensaver I updated xserver-xorg and associated packages to the versions from unstable and now the screen gets blanked after the correct amount of idle time however DPMS power saving is not a

Bug#315318: bogofilter: Please use alternatives for the different flavours

2009-04-18 Thread Steve Fosdick
I'd like to add a vote for using alternatives. Evolution offers a bogofilter plugin but the pathname for bogofilter appears to be hard coded. Without using alternaives this effectively forces the use of the bdb version. Surely the point of having multiple versions is to offer choice and alternat

Bug#519338: libsndfile1: FTB - When building on AMD64 built in test suite fails for vorbis audio

2009-03-11 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: libsndfile1 Version: 1.0.19-1 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Attempting to build this from source the built in test suite fails. Here is the last few lines: ogg_seek_test : vorbis_double.oga ... ok ogg_stereo_seek_test

Bug#511856: rzip: Corruption

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Fosdick
Looking back over the logs files from the test runs in my last message I noticed that some included an error message from stream.c relating to the bzip compression layer. There are two messages and sometimes both messages are given for the same file: Failed to decompress buffer - bzerr=-8 Failed

Bug#511856: rzip: Corruption

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 21:28 -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: > That's the error when it's decompressing a chunk. How far in the file > did it get? One chunk, I think. For the original example which had been compressed with --best the chunk size appears to be 900M. I have tried some further testing l

Bug#511856: rzip: Corruption

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: rzip Version: 2.1-1 Severity: important I had previously compressed a hard disk image with rzip with a command simiar to the following: rzip -k --best -o dir/disk.img.rz disk.img This produced no error message. I attempted to unzip using a command similar to the following: rzip -d -o

Bug#490851: bluez-utils: Incorrect startup/shutdown message: dund described as pand

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: bluez-utils Version: 3.30-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Having enabled dund in the /etc/default/bluetooth file the startup log message prints pand as the name of the daemon being started which is slighly confusing, all the more so if pand is also enabled in which case the log message sug

Bug#486809: gnome-control-center: Sound Preferences, Multiple Sound Cards and Card Order

2008-06-18 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:2.22.1-1 Severity: normal I have a machine with two sound cards - the integrated one and an external studio-grade one. The gnome-sound-properties component of gnome-control-center allowed me to see the sound cards by a descriptive name, e.g "RME Hammerfal

Bug#473754: dovecot: Build failure when aclocal 1.10 is installed

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: dovecot Version: 1.0.13-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: no longer builds from source This package fails to build on my system, complaining first about aclocal version then about a missing Makefile.in file. Here is the sequence of events: 1. Fetch the package in the norm

Bug#455685: Splashy makes GDM initscript fail (and hence, leaves system on VT1)

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Fosdick
I have had the same issue with gdm not starting when splashy is installed. I have checked line 178 of /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh but in the version installed on my system this line is a comment so I can not see how, in my case, that line could be causing the error. The failure mechanism seems to

Bug#431615: dovecot-imapd: File descriptor leak with dbox

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1:1.0.0-1+b1 Severity: normal There is a file descriptor leak which shows up when copying mail into an IMAP folder when the underlying storage type within dovecot is dbox. The 'index' file in the dbox directory is opened (and kept open) once for each message wri

Bug#409182: gkermit: 100% CPU usage during send

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Fosdick
I have done some further research into this. The problem is indeed a busy wait loop in the ttol function in gunixio.c see the following lines: 824 while (n > 0) { 825 i = write(1,&s[m],n); 826 if (i < 0) { 827 if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK) 828 continue; 829 logerr("ttol write"); 8

Bug#409182: gkermit: 100% CPU usage during send

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Fosdick
I now have a patch for this bug which detects when we have enabled non-blocking mode on stdout because it shares the file table entry with stdin and closes and reopens stdout to get it back to blocking mode. I have tested this and it appears to solve the problem so I attach it. Common subdirect

Bug#409182: gkermit: 100% CPU usage during send

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: gkermit Version: 1.0-5 Severity: normal I have been observing 100% and near 100% CPU usage by the gkermit process while sending a file. Given what gkermit should be doing, the power of the CPU it is running on and the fact that most of the CPU use is system time rather than user time

Bug#393272: Patch - gtkrc file to use clearlooks

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Fosdick
I used to like the DebianRed theme too and have also noticed the problem with the dispappearing lighthouseblue engine. >From what I can see this engine has been dropped upstream. In an attempt to get something similar to the old DebianRed theme I have tried applying the DebianRed colours to th

Bug#393457: mpd: Lockup when attempting to Pause and Resume

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: mpd Version: 0.12.1-1 Severity: normal Since the most recent upgrade I have been having problems with MPD locking up when I attempt to pause a song and then resume it. I am using gmpc as the client. When I click the play/pause button the music is indeed paused. When I click the play/pa

Bug#386167: (no subject)

2006-09-15 Thread Steve Fosdick
This bug appears to have been independently logged in GNOME bugzilla as bug 347318 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347318). Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374619: evolution-exchange: Not responding to evolution, excessive memory consuption

2006-06-20 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: evolution-exchange Version: 2.6.2-2 Severity: important I have evolution set up to talk to an exchange server at work. This used to work but with the current version of exchange-storage it is unusable. >From the evolution GUI, opening the mailbox on the exchange server shows the "Loadi

Bug#370692: gnome-power-manager: DPMS Power Saving States Not Activated

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:51:33 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sjoerd Simons) wrote: > Does it work with the latest version of gnome-power-manager and > gnome-screensaver ? Yes is does. Thanks. Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#370692: gnome-power-manager: DPMS Power Saving States Not Activated

2006-06-06 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.14.0-1 Severity: normal It would appear from this discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/screensaver-list/2006-January/msg00016.html that the intention is that DPMS functionality should be in gnome-power-manager rather than gnome-screensaver but with t

Bug#358468: evolution: glibc detected double free or corruption (out)

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: evolution Version: 2.4.2.1-2 Severity: important For me this is still not fixed. I have tried upgrading evolution to the latest version available from unstable and still an error message from glibc about memory management along with a couple of others: adding hook target 'source' (evolu

Bug#343836: Security: DoS attack possible - crashes on empty message

2005-12-17 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.2.5.4-1 Severity: important Wondering why only local mail had arrived in my mailbox for several days I found from the syslog that whenever fetchmail was started it got as far as message 46 from my ISPs POP3 server then crashed. I used telnet to log in to the POP3 ser

Bug#329150: balsa: Does not remember regular expressions in filter rules

2005-09-19 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.4-1 Severity: normal Attempting to create a filter with a regular expression rule does not work. Here's what I did: Chose "Edit/Filters" Clicked "New" under the list of filters and give the filter a name. Clicked "New" under the list of conditions. Changed the pull-d

Bug#320678: (no subject)

2005-09-02 Thread Steve Fosdick
I too had noticed that indexing new songs is very slow, especially compared to mpd. I hadn't taken the trouble to profile it though and had assumed that the time was spent updating the library display. With this in mind I tried indexing with a playlist displayed rather than the library and this d

Bug#286317: Problem Not Fixed and More Information

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Fosdick
Package: nautilus Version: 2.8.2-2 Severity: normal I am having a very similar problem with using nautilus to edit launchers. Having chosen Start Here/Applications and then created some sub-directories, if I open one of the subdirectories, right click, pick "Create Launcher" fill in the fields