Bug#762984: initramfs-tools: Alert! /dev/vg0/usr does not exist

2014-09-30 Thread Steven McDonald
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:54:16 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Workaround: > cat /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/vgscan > > #!/bin/sh > vgchange -ay This problem affects me as well, and this workaround worked for me. The message I get at bootup says that /dev/mapper/system-usr does not e

Bug#751958: puppet-common: Unnecessary versioned dependency on sysv-rc

2014-06-18 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: puppet-common Version: 3.6.1-1 Severity: normal Hi there, The commit at [0] introduces a versioned dependency on sysv-rc, in response to a change made to the Debian service provider in [1], effective as of tag debian/2.6.4-2. This change uses the new insserv-style enable/disable commands

Bug#751405: libetpan17: Does not initialise gnutls if caller has done so, even if gnutls versions differ

2014-06-15 Thread Steven McDonald
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:46:23 +0200 Ricardo Mones wrote: > This has been corrected in claws-mail/3.10.1-2 and libetpan/1.5-1 > and should fix the issue without patching. Can you upgrade and check? Confirmed, the bug does not occur with those versions installed. I also tested claws-mail/3.10.1-

Bug#751405: libetpan17: Does not initialise gnutls if caller has done so, even if gnutls versions differ

2014-06-12 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: libetpan17 Version: 1.5-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hi there, Claws Mail (all versions since 3.9.3-2+b3, inclusive) reliably segfaults seconds after startup on my system. I have attached a full backtrace taken after such an event. I have tracked the problem down to a corn

Bug#747945: debconf.conf(5) is misleading as to the default value of Extension for PackageDir

2014-05-13 Thread Steven McDonald
.2-3 ii whiptail 0.52.15-3+b1 -- debconf information excluded >From 1723513e7c0828382ad5f1d58644db5dfbdb27a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven McDonald Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:50:19 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the default setting of Extension for the Pa

Bug#457271: Debconf::DbDriver incorrectly looks up the template for a question

2014-04-28 Thread Steven McDonald
full search through the config database for a template for the question, which makes things work correctly with stacked databases. Please let me know if you need any further information, or if you think this can be done in a better way. Thanks, Steven.>From c8a9435f96947998544056982670e9fe6f39b

Bug#724971: Regenerated patch

2014-04-18 Thread Steven McDonald
Attached is the equivalent patch that was originally submitted, regenerated to apply cleanly to steam 1.0.0.47-2.diff -urN steam-1.0.0.47.orig/debian/README.Debian steam-1.0.0.47/debian/README.Debian --- steam-1.0.0.47.orig/debian/README.Debian 1970-01-01 10:00:00.0 +1000 +++ steam-1.0.0.47

Bug#744303: Additional information

2014-04-12 Thread Steven McDonald
Apologies, my last mail didn't have all the facts. In paragraph 3 of the original bug report, I am referring to line numbers in the file Xi/exevents.c. Also, this bug started happening when I updated my xserver-xorg* packages from 2:1.14.4-1 to 2:1.15.0-2. It seems likely that the update from 1.1

Bug#744303: xserver-xorg-core: Segmentation fault when receiving a SIGIO in DeepCopyDeviceClasses

2014-04-12 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.15.0.901-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hi! I've been seeing sporadic (anywhere from once every few days to 3-4 times a day) crashes and freezes in X. The problematic behaviour isn't always the same, but I chose a particular incident to debug, a

Bug#620375: Reproducible also on Debian wheezy

2014-03-26 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi, This bug is still affecting me on Debian wheezy. Below is my patch to solve the problem; it should be more efficient than the one previously provided (which uses both strlen and memmove) due to the fact that it only processes each byte in the memory being shifted once, as well as not using a

Bug#732186: Updated patch for #732186

2013-12-15 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi, I've attached an updated patch that does things a little more efficiently. I didn't spot this easier solution at first. Thanks, Steven.Treat DNS lookup caches as invalid when the IP address being looked up changes. --- a/ping.c +++ b/ping.c @@ -1244,10 +1244,13 @@ { struct hostent *hp; s

Bug#732186: iputils-ping: Cached DNS lookups are incorrectly used after remote IP address changes

2013-12-15 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20121221-4sjm1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi there, The fix for bug #109709 uses the cached result of a DNS lookup unconditionally, so that when I am pinging 1.2.3.4 and that host goes away, the "Destination Host Unreachable" message appears to come from the hos

Bug#732185: iputils: FTBFS if MAKEFLAGS is set for parallel make

2013-12-15 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: iputils Version: 3:20121221-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi! The Makefiles in the iputils package, particularly the one under doc/, do not play nicely with parallel make. I've attached a log of the output (combined stdout and stderr) from dpkg-buildpackage when attempting to build iputi

Bug#724971: steam: Please make audio driver easily configurable

2013-09-29 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: steam Version: 1.0.0.39-2sjm1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi there, It would be convenient to be able to configure Steam on a system-wide or (at the user's option) per-user basis to use an audio driver other than PulseAudio. Currently, this is possible by manually setting the SDL_AUDI

Bug#696816: patches look good, comments not :)

2013-01-26 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi Holger, Thanks for that! Seems you're right about the wrong comments, don't know how I messed that up. :( I've uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net (didn't bump the version number, since it hasn't reached Debian yet), which should appear shortly once it's been processed: http://me

Bug#696816: jenkins: Security issues were found in Jenkins core

2013-01-25 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi there, The issue was raised on debian-devel[0] that this bug still affects unstable and is causing jenkins to be a candidate for removal from wheezy. I have backported the fixes for these issues from upstream git; they are attached to this e-mail as separate quilt patches for the sake of cleanl

Bug#687829: psmisc: pstree hangs on kfreebsd-amd64

2013-01-05 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi there, Sorry to bring this bug up again, but it's causing the kFreeBSD shutdown process to hang (since it runs pstree to show any processes still hanging around after sending out a SIGTERM), which means the wheezy release of kFreeBSD will be significantly broken if this fix doesn't migrate to t

Bug#655948: visudo: segfault on hurd-i386 due to calling unlink with null pointer

2012-01-14 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.3p1-3sjm1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch User: debian-h...@lists.debian.org Usertags: hurd Hello, After applying the patches in bugs #655883 and #655894, visudo successfully edits /etc/sudoers, but then segfaults after moving the new sudoers file into place. gdb

Bug#655883: visudo: lockf is not implemented on hurd-i386, use flock instead

2012-01-14 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.3p1-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch User: debian-h...@lists.debian.org Usertags: hurd Hello, Currently visudo fails to run on hurd-i386, because it uses lockf which isn't implemented on Hurd. This has been previously tracked on Alioth[1]. The following output i

Bug#655879: sudo: aclocal.m4 has m4_include directives with incorrect paths

2012-01-14 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.3p1-2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream patch Hello! While working on an unrelated problem, I had to regenerate configure with autoconf. The following output is produced when I try to do this: $ autoconf /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:373: cannot open `libtool.m4': No such file o

Bug#643326: ITP: digraphtools -- Python library for working with directed acyclic graphs

2011-10-21 Thread Steven McDonald
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:25:08 +0200 Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, Hello! > this sounds like it would be interesting for Debian Science. > Please coordinate with this team. I will certainly do so, and thanks for the pointer. For general information for anyone reading this ITP, I am currently in th

Bug#643326: ITP: digraphtools -- Python library for working with directed acyclic graphs

2011-09-27 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steven McDonald -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: digraphtools Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : David Basden * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/digraphtools * License : BSD Programming

Bug#632303: Diff to enable OSS4

2011-09-24 Thread Steven McDonald
Hello, I am a user of kFreeBSD. I have tested audacious-plugins without this patch, and the old OSS plugin works just fine with kFreeBSD's OSS implementation. However, it does not build with --enable-oss4: utils.c: In function ‘oss_format_to_text’: utils.c:33:10: error: ‘AFMT_FLOAT’ undeclared (f

Bug#639568: sudo: segfault on startup when running any valid command

2011-08-28 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.2-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hello! After upgrading sudo to 1.8.2-1 today, I received a segfault immediately after startup, no matter what command I tried to run. The only exception to this was if the command didn't exist, in which case sudo would print

Bug#636231: Upstream fix

2011-08-19 Thread Steven McDonald
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:11:38 +0200 Adrian Knoth wrote: > There is a fix in the upstream repo. If you have a second, could you > check > >http://trac.jackaudio.org/changeset/4524 > > and report back if it fixes the problem? Direct link to the patch: > >http://trac.jackaudio.org/changese

Bug#638205: xfce4-utils: man page refers to upstream docs in incorrect location

2011-08-17 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: xfce4-utils Version: 4.8.2-2 Severity: minor Hello! The xfce4-utils(1) man page says: SEE ALSO See /usr/share/xfce4/doc/C/xfce-utils.html for more information But the upstream docs are located at: /usr/share/doc/xfce4-utils/html/C/index.html -- System Information: Debian Releas

Bug#638204: xfce4-panel: man page refers to upstream docs in incorrect location

2011-08-17 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.8.5-1 Severity: minor Hello! The xfce4-panel(1) man page says this: SEE ALSO Upstream documentation in /usr/share/xfce4/doc/C/xfce4-panel.html However, the upstream documentation is actually located at: /usr/share/doc/xfce4-panel/html/C/index.html Thanks

Bug#636921: ardour: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*

2011-08-06 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: ardour Version: 1:2.8.11-6 Severity: important Tags: patch Justification: fails to build from source Hello! As can be seen from the buildd logs, Ardour fails to build on non-Linux ports: I have attached a patch which all

Bug#636231: Does set_period_size() really need to be called from driver_initalise()?

2011-08-05 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi again, I've tried compiling jackd1 after simply removing the call to set_period_size() that causes the segfault, rather than modifying set_period_size() so that it works if driver->engine hasn't been initialised. For clarity, I did this (with my previous patch NOT applied): --- a/drivers/oss/o

Bug#636231: jackd1: segfault on startup with oss driver

2011-08-01 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: jackd1 Version: 1:0.121.0+svn4469-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hello! When I try to start jackd1 with the oss driver, I receive the following output: --- $ /usr/bin/jackd -r -doss -r176400 -p1024 -n2 -w16 -i0 jackd 0.121.0 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jac

Bug#618982: jackd1 will not start on kfreebsd-amd64, expects /dev/shm

2011-03-19 Thread Steven McDonald
(no description available) Versions of packages jackd1 suggests: pn jack-tools (no description available) pn meterbridge(no description available) -- debconf information excluded >From d4bfc8fb41cb2a558a0f7231fa664121e8620558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:0

Bug#600256: ardour-i686: Loud, painful clicking noises immediately after export

2011-02-05 Thread Steven McDonald
wh-plugins, so is there a way this bug can be reassigned to that package, or shall I report it against swh-plugins separately? Thanks for all your work on Debian (I remember your name from numerous changelogs ;-) ) Steven McDonald signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#611826: Bug also present in xfce4-terminal

2011-02-05 Thread Steven McDonald
Hi again, Sorry, I was mistaken. The bug is present with this version of *either* libvte9 or libvte-common installed. Thanks, Steven McDonald signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#611826: Bug also present in xfce4-terminal

2011-02-05 Thread Steven McDonald
works with this version of libvte9 and an earlier version of libvte-common, but not vice versa. Thanks, Steven McDonald signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#595298: Dependency on Linux <=2.6.36?

2011-02-05 Thread Steven McDonald
dependencies work with virtual packages or not, but I just thought I'd make the suggestion as it might help to avoid breaking OSS in testing. Thanks, Steven McDonald signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#600256: Bug present in package ardour also

2010-10-15 Thread Steven McDonald
I just uninstalled ardour-i686 and installed ardour instead, and the bug is in both packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600256: Clarification

2010-10-14 Thread Steven McDonald
Sorry, just to clarify: The noises begin immediately after the export dialogue vanishes. It is the same whether I allow the export to run to completion, or click on Cancel before that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Bug#600256: ardour-i686: Loud, painful clicking noises immediately after export

2010-10-14 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: ardour-i686 Version: 1:2.8.11-3 Severity: important Whenever I go to export an Ardour session with a significant number of LADSPA plugins to an audio file, I hear a loud, repetitive clicking noise that persists until I close Ardour. Playback does start when this noise is present, but proc

Bug#600079: OSS support for jackd2 on GNU/Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.5~dfsg-19 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream While jackd1 uses OSS on Linux kernels just fine, jackd2 does not provide this option. Since Debian makes the installation of OSSv4 quick and painless with DKMS, I think that it would make sense for jackd2 to give users the o

Bug#600055: gedit: Help fails on Xfce 4.6.2

2010-10-13 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: gedit Version: 2.30.4-1 Severity: normal I am an Xfce user who prefers gedit over Mousepad. Whenever I try to view gedit's help file from within gedit (whether by clicking Help->Contents, by pressing F1, or by clicking on Help within the preferences dialogue), gedit responds with a dialog

Bug#321203: libapache-mod-jk doesn't configure properly for use with package tomcat4

2005-08-03 Thread Steven McDonald
Package: libapache-mod-jk Version: 1:1.2.5-2 Severity: important libapache-mod-jk adds the following line to apache.conf: Include /var/lib/tomcat/conf/mod_jk.conf This file doesn't exist if the recommended version of tomcat, tomcat4 is installed, which causes apache to fail to start. No other ve