Bug#1009864: xscreensaver: firefox stops (inhibits) xscreensaver from firing. Needs option to ignore firefox

2024-11-14 Thread Tim Connors
hdog that monitors for "inhibited by" | grep "$prohibited_items" per my config here: https://github.com/spacelama/ansible-initial-server-setup/blob/master/files/homes.desktop/bin/runxscreensaver-monitor ) -- Tim Connors

Bug#1082653: directvnc: gets stuck in a loop when remote connection dies

2024-09-23 Thread Tim Connors
Package: directvnc Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal My remote connection died hard, and rebooted. When it came back up, I discovered my directvnc display was still stuck on the last image prior to the connection dying. This display didn't time out and die. strace revealed an endless non-thr

Bug#980555: closing 980555

2024-08-13 Thread Tim Connors
reopen 980555 thanks Was closed with no explanation and no answer to my last question. -- Tim Connors

Bug#980555: closing 980555

2024-08-10 Thread Tim Connors
till does not exist in the latest debian kernel, but can be obtained when using other third party kernels, so there's no technical reason stopping it being compiled. -- Tim Connors

Bug#1070783: python3-gpumodules: fails to parse kernel version for +bpo debian backport kernels

2024-05-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: python3-gpumodules Version: 3.8.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch > uname -a Linux dirac 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1 (2024-02-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux This seems to fix the problem and basic functionality appears to work: --- /usr/lib/python3/dist-package

Bug#1069674: openssh-client: multiplexed connections use incorrect DISPLAY etc, but no TOKENS exist to modify the connection socket

2024-04-22 Thread Tim Connors
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u2 Severity: normal With .ssh/config: ControlMaster auto ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm_master/%r@%h:%p ControlPersist yes Set up the mux master on host a to host c: > echo $DISPLAY :0 > ssh c xterm xterm fires up on host a. Kill that Now,

Bug#1069660: directvnc: Allow password file to be supplied vs just commandline

2024-04-22 Thread Tim Connors
Package: directvnc Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal man 1 directvnc: -p, --password password string to be passed to the server for authentication. Use this with care! OK, so what's care? Well, the password is available for all system users and crackers to view with just `ps

Bug#1066090: psmisc: killall --older-than doesn't work as documented in a container

2024-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: psmisc Version: 23.6-1 Severity: normal killall --older-than 30s restartx11vnc x11vnc vncserver x0tigervncserver websockify doesn't kill any processes inside my container, whereas it always used to work on a VM and on hardware. Removing '--older-than 30s' kills all such processes. I s

Bug#1014625: xterm: screen corruption of scrollback buffer

2024-02-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 02:39:41PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > This has happened ever since I changed my hardware -- mostly updating > > my video card to a radeon RX570 -- necessitating new versions of some > > drivers and k

Bug#1057843: Guidelines for affected users

2023-12-10 Thread Tim Connors
1562895f803 is not in 6.1.55-1 that anyone who last updated 3 weeks ago would have encountered, nor in the current bookworm-security version. -- Tim Connors

Bug#1014625: xterm: screen corruption of scrollback buffer

2022-07-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xterm Version: 372-1 Severity: normal I'm getting screen corruption (scattered blocks of blackness) over text in the xterm display when scrolling back. The blocks move with the contents of the scrollback when scrolling. When that text is eventually scrolled off the screen, scrolling bac

Bug#964090: Still getting security policy `PDF' error in 2022

2022-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
ized/421. This makes the package rather useless for the vast majority of uses, which is converting trusted data. We're not all running public facing webservers accepting unsanitised data from the public. Some of us use our computers to do useful things too. -- Tim Connors

Bug#1009864: xscreensaver: firefox stops (inhibits) xscreensaver from firing. Needs option to ignore firefox

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.45+dfsg1-2 Severity: normal All the search results on the internet are for doing the opposite of what I want - people want firefox, when playing a video, to inhibit xscreensaver. It already does that for me. xscreensaver -verbose: xscreensaver-systemd: 23:28:03

Bug#1009264: hddtemp wakes up non ATA drives

2022-04-10 Thread Tim Connors
Package: hddtemp Version: 0.3-beta15-54 Severity: normal hddtemp(1) shows that --wake-up is only relevant for ATA drives. My testing confirms this - hddtemp /dev/sdb first returns an incorrect error, but spins up the drive anyway, then it starts to succeed: tconnors@pve:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdb

Bug#1004649: needrestart: painfully slow, but just seems to be doing loops over and over again of dpkg-query --search /bin/dash

2022-01-30 Thread Tim Connors
Package: needrestart Version: 3.5-4 Severity: normal After an upgrade of `xdg-desktop-portal/bullseye-backports` (which needrestart didn't detect should be restarted, BTW: tconnors4388 0.0 0.0 617848 5372 ?Sl2021 2:14 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal tconnors4396 0.0 0.

Bug#1003607: luminance-hdr 2.6.0 almost always crashes on startup on files that worked with 2.4.0

2022-01-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: luminance-hdr Version: 2.6.0+dfsg-2+b8 Severity: important On bullseye, luminance-hdr almost always crashes on startup on my machine with the following failure (but does succeed in starting up on the occasional old .exr file I still have lying around): ===

Bug#980555: Missing ec_sys module

2022-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
Package: linux-image-amd64 Version: 5.10.84-1 Followup-For: Bug #980555 X-Debbugs-Cc: Bastian Blank , GengYu Rao >> What would you need this module for? It's described as debugging and >> development aid, not something a user wants to use. > EC stands for embedded controller, which can be used t

Bug#954159: pavucontrol: allow multiple instances

2021-11-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: pavucontrol Version: 4.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #954159 Upstream bug here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/-/issues/75 Attracting the usual level of developer interest for a freedesktop project. This seems to be the patch that introduced the broken behaviour: https:/

Bug#998389: mlocate systemd timer appears to force execution at midnight, and the obvious override doesn't appear to be working

2021-11-03 Thread Tim Connors
Package: mlocate Version: 0.26-5 Severity: normal The new systemd mlocate.timer causes all of my machines to run mlocate exactly at midnight. Neglecting that the stated rationale for the change to a 24hour splay is a silly idea (the vast majority of people are neither running a cluster, nor aren'

Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

2021-10-22 Thread Tim Connors
orks for basic usage of `pidof find`, `pidof dd`, etc, but I can't confirm nor deny whether it breaks system shutdown for people using sysvinit in the presence of broken remote mounts. -- Tim Connors

Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

2021-10-19 Thread Tim Connors
Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.96-7 Followup-For: Bug #926896 The broken behaviour introduced by the fix to #719273 is the assumption that all D state processes are stuck. D is indeed "uninterruptable sleep", but uninterruptable in the sense that the process can't respond to a signal until th

Bug#990069: Still broken in ssh 8.4p1-5, libc6 2.31-13

2021-10-04 Thread Tim Connors
t root 3939 Feb 1 2020 /etc/init.d/ssh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4056 Mar 13 2021 /etc/init.d/ssh.dpkg-new and ssh isn't yet started - I did that manually because I knew the problem was going to arise. -- Tim Connors

Bug#995430: qemu-user-static: creates /core dump spontaneously upon upgrade, even when not in use?

2021-10-01 Thread Tim Connors
Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11 Severity: normal I noticed a /core file in the root directory, dated around about when my machine was upgraded to bullseye. I checked another machine, and it too had the same core file, dated from the upgrade: 24606,4> ls -lA /core -rw--- 1

Bug#992121: linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64: kernel oops and subsequent hard crash in bluetooth bt_sock_poll, regression, upstream patch

2021-08-18 Thread Tim Connors
f68151a80b024f7bf5f388d1fbdea > fixes the issue? > > It was not yet queued for the 5.10.y series, but if yes, this should > go to stable@ so that we then can pick it up for either cherry-picking > for the next bullseye upload (or a rebase to the latest 5.10.y in a > point release). I've been running it for a few days now, and it seems good to me! -- Tim Connors

Bug#971428: xloadimage: -rotate 0 exhausts memory

2020-09-30 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xloadimage Version: 4.1-25 Severity: important Pick a random image that's obviously small and can't possibly exhaust any of your resources (eg, 320x240 pixels in size). I marked this as severity important, because if you didn't already know to run xloadimage under ulimit for safety, now

Bug#471112: optional no warn upon when falling through to a default net

2020-06-08 Thread Tim Connors
;fallback = yes", or keep "fallback = no". If they set it to "nowarn", then they know that tsocks only tunnels for those networks defined in .tsocks.conf. -- Tim ConnorsDescription: this patch accepts fallback = nowarn to suppress the warning that we're going offne

Bug#935373: gpsbabel: workaround for "garmin_fit" files that occasionally have "Bad endian field"

2019-09-14 Thread Tim Connors
psbabel > > Thanks > > Jochen > > * Tim Connors [2019-08-22 12:22]: > > Package: gpsbabel > > Version: 1.6.0+ds-5 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch upstream > > > > I have a device that occasionally seems to forget to initialise parts > > of itse

Bug#935373: gpsbabel: workaround for "garmin_fit" files that occasionally have "Bad endian field"

2019-08-21 Thread Tim Connors
Package: gpsbabel Version: 1.6.0+ds-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream I have a device that occasionally seems to forget to initialise parts of itself. When it does this, the "garmin_fit" tracks it save aren't readable by gpsbabel. Normally they are. The symptom is: 24874,32> gpsbabel -i

Bug#808836: dependency on polkit

2019-01-23 Thread Tim Connors
on my webserver. If it was a recommends or a suggest instead, and the code had an option to use sudo for the service restarting (the standard way of handling privileges in portable trusted code), then this would be good. -- Tim Connors

Bug#901831: ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(161)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed

2018-10-25 Thread Tim Connors
d how people can write software this shit and still live with themselves. -- Tim Connors

Bug#911037: blank display at startup: [GFX1-]: Failed to lock new back buffer

2018-10-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hi, > > Am 15.10.18 um 03:21 schrieb Tim Connors: > > Package: thunderbird > > Version: 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 > > Severity: important > > > > At thunderbird startup, I get a completely blank display, associated >

Bug#911037: blank display at startup: [GFX1-]: Failed to lock new back buffer

2018-10-14 Thread Tim Connors
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends: ii hunspell-en-au [hunspell-dictionary] 1:5.2.5-1 ii hunspell-en-gb [hunspell-dictionary] 1:5.2.5-1 ii lightning 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 Versions of packages thunderbird suggests: ii apparmor 2.11.0-3+deb9u2 ii fonts-lyx 2.3.1-2-1~bpo9+1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.15-1+deb9u1 -- no debconf information -- Tim Connors

Bug#905694: chromium: *** version in stable/security-updates still has video/ffmpeg bug that was closed 2 months ago

2018-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: chromium Version: 68.0.3440.75-1~deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, bugs 900533, 902909 have been long closed, but unforuntately that is completely irrelevant for those of us who are running stable and had a security update pushed on us that has broken most the the www's functional

Bug#892080: bash-completion: cvs log ($mode=log) case disappeared?

2018-03-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.1-4.3 Severity: normal I'm sure 'cvs log ' use to tab-complete , but it's clear why it doesn't: log|lo|rlog|rl) mode=log ;; But then no corresponding case for $mode=log. -- System Information: Debian R

Bug#494060: htop: Feature Request: All CPUs display split across left/right

2018-02-08 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Steve Cotton wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:37:48AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: htop > > Version: 0.7-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > It would be nice if there was an option with "All CPUs" that could let > >

Bug#862136: Please add dm-cache/dm-cache-smq if using lvm

2018-01-04 Thread Tim Connors
> Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.128 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi > > I use dmcache in order to speed up a RAID device. > > Please add this module if using lvm If I understand this correctly, this bug should be critical, not wishlist. A user does the obvious thing of adding an lvmcache in f

Bug#886299: /run/lvm/lvmpolld.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory

2018-01-03 Thread Tim Connors
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 Severity: normal 498368,50> sudo pvmove -n dirac/home /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 /run/lvm/lvmpolld.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmpolld. Proceeding with polling without using lvmpolld. WARNING: Check global/use_l

Bug#797036: iproute2: ss not reporting any listening udp sockets

2017-12-29 Thread Tim Connors
000 00: 1100 8573 2 dadf7b80 0 143: 0000:14E9 : 07 : 00: 1100 8571 2 dadf78c0 0 167: :0801 : 07 : 00: 00 7237 2 dadf6b00 0 183: :E411 : 07 : 00: 00 7246 2 dadf6dc0 0 0-0-18:25:21, Sat Dec 30 tconnors@pi:~ (bash) 9234,6> sudo ss -anu State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port -- Tim Connors

Bug#881892: perl-base: File::Glob(3perl) bsd_glob does not document DEFAULT_FLAGS

2017-11-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: perl-base Version: 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 Severity: normal In the one argument form of File::Glob::bsd_glob, the default flags are not documented. They appear to be GLOB_CSH, although the documentation for GLOB_NOCASE talks about different behaviour on OSX, ie the one argument form looks to be

Bug#816872: wmbattery: memory leak in wmbattery

2017-10-19 Thread Tim Connors
(wmbattery) total-vm:20361464kB, anon-rss:12105144kB, file-rss:728kB, shmem-rss:0kB Since there's no activity on this bug since March 2016, could the maintainers please arrange for this to be removed from debian? -- Tim Connors

Bug#683772: gpscorrelate: provide a --force option to overwrite existing GPS tags

2017-10-16 Thread Tim Connors
Hi Mònica, A patch has been supplied for this bug a long time ago, but hasn't been acknowledged yet. Are you able to look at this please? -- Tim Connors

Bug#873495: xmms2-scrobbler: Better usage in the manpage

2017-08-28 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xmms2-scrobbler Version: 0.4.0-4 Severity: normal It would be nice if the manpage showed how to use it, rather than requiring the user to in order 1) google, 2) read the README (it's been a few years since I had to resort to upstream's README, since that information is not usually relevan

Bug#865841: smartmontools: induces kernel message: "FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE"

2017-06-25 Thread Tim Connors
Package: smartmontools Version: 6.5+svn4324-1~bpo8+1 Severity: normal smartd and manual invocations of smartctl on my external Seagate Momentus 5400.5 controller cause this kernel message to spam my syslogs: Jun 25 16:55:28 fs kernel: [1443893.546323] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf] tag#0 FAILED Result: host

Bug#844285: pidgin: steals (warps) mouse cursor (not just focus) when new message comes in [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2017-06-07 Thread Tim Connors
dgin (on XFCE4) for years. > Never observed the mentioned bug. > >* What was the outcome of this action? >* What outcome did you expect instead? > > *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- Tim Connors

Bug#849373: xmms2: doesn't start: libglib version dependencies

2016-12-26 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xmms2 Version: 0.8+dfsg-17 Severity: normal Like bug #522280: 446069,40> xmms2d xmms2d is build against version 2.50, but is (runtime) linked against 2.48. Refusing to start. But what's most annoying other than the grammatical error is the complete lack of statement of what it's failed

Bug#844285: pidgin: steals (warps) mouse cursor (not just focus) when new message comes in [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2016-11-13 Thread Tim Connors
Package: pidgin Version: 2.11.0-0+deb8u1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Dear Maintainer, Like bugs #399786 and #518339, the mouse is warped to an open conversation window when a new message comes into that conversation. Typing a password at the time, and your pas

Bug#837997: novnc: launch.sh missing

2016-09-16 Thread Tim Connors
Package: novnc Version: 1:0.4+dfsg+1+20131010+gitf68af8af3d-4 Severity: important utils/launch.sh isn't included in the debian package. Justification for important tag: /usr/share/doc/novnc/README.md.gz refers to launch.sh. All documentation on the web refers to launch.sh. Without it, I don't s

Bug#805355: Garmin edge 510/810 in gpsbabel

2016-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
that date in the changelog, but maybe it's implicit in there already being a 1.5.3 already available. -- Tim Connors

Bug#830687: linux-image-4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: livelock on reading /proc/mounts

2016-07-10 Thread Tim Connors
Package: src:linux Version: 4.5.4-1~bpo8+1 Severity: normal NFS seems to have been getting progressively less and less reliable in kernels>~4.0. The latest manifestation on that for me is that having an remote NFS machine go down today, and even after it came back up, 50 instances of /usr/lib/sys

Bug#826994: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#826994: Missing init-script(s)?

2016-07-03 Thread Tim Connors
/ are: 168691,5> dpkg -L zfsutils-linux | grep /etc/ /etc/cron.d /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux /etc/default /etc/default/zfs /etc/zfs /etc/zfs/zfs-functions (we've also lost: -rw-r--r-- root/root 11305 2016-05-20 08:52 ./etc/bash_completion.d/zfs ) -- Tim Connors

Bug#734688: Logs are not rotated for a month

2016-05-09 Thread Tim Connors
st, when logrotate finds a base file whose .gz already exists, recursively call itself again to start rotating down to the current file, which can then be compressed and resume where we were? Sorry no patches, already after my bedtime, and this has already been languishing in my todo list for a couple of weeks. -- Tim Connors

Bug#642204: xmms2-plugin-pls: File names in m3u playlist to be imported containing parenthesis will cause an abort of import.

2016-04-30 Thread Tim Connors
he 00:03:40 DEBUG: ../src/plugins/curl/curl_http.c:492: icy-metaint: 16384 00:03:40 DEBUG: ../src/plugins/curl/curl_http.c:492: 00:03:40 DEBUG: ../src/plugins/curl/curl_http.c:300: icy-metadata detected 00:03:40 DEBUG: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1248: Not in one of 4 goal-types 00:03:40 DEBUG: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1158: Trying plugin 'visualization' -- Tim Connors

Bug#798830: dmucs: race condition in start scripts prevents loadavg starting

2015-09-13 Thread Tim Connors
Package: dmucs Version: 0.6.1-2.1 Severity: important I've been wondering for years why dmucs never worked in my network. Finally traced the start scripts: if start_server && server_running ; then ... if start_loadavg && running ; then start_server and start_loadavg don

Bug#795970: systemd is a ridiculous tentacled mess that breaks the rest of the system when it inevitably falls over

2015-08-20 Thread Tim Connors
was already broken, because the kernel was too old and didn't have the required features. Possibly nothing wrong with the kernel here, however I have to wonder if systemd was already broken for some reason. Maybe it failed to start up correctly because something else was broken. -- Tim Connors

Bug#783096: fixed in ieee-data 20150531.1

2015-06-30 Thread Tim Connors
le; urgency=medium > . >* New iab.txt url updated. >* SSL connections disable, since standards.ieee.org uses TLS AIA and > many dowloaders do not support it. Closes: #783096, #779543. >* Files mam.txt and oui36.txt added. Hi, Shouldn't this be pushed to jess

Bug#787820: chromium: Menus appear on wrong xinerama screen (possibly primary screen, unconditionally?)

2015-06-05 Thread Tim Connors
Package: chromium Version: 43.0.2357.65-1 Severity: normal On a laptop with "main" display being an external screen, but the internal display still referred to as the primary screen, chromium menus appear unconditionally on the primary (laptop internal) screen, regardless of where the mouse is, wh

Bug#784108: grep: optional non-blocking IO

2015-05-03 Thread Tim Connors
Package: grep Version: 2.10-1 Severity: normal It'd be nice if grep has a non-blocking IO flag, so one could do eg this: tail -F /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep --non-blocking /tmp/ and have it filter in real-time rather than when the output buffer fills up. -- System Information: Debian Rel

Bug#783706: openshot forcefully keeps screensaver from triggering

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Connors
Package: openshot Version: 1.4.3-1.1 Severity: normal While I had openshot open, not necessarily rendering or with a project open, I wasn't able to shut off my screen and keep it shut off for more than a few seconds with normal DPMS commands (eg, 'xset dpms force off'). Once I closed openshot, my

Bug#773575: ntp: CERT VU#852879

2014-12-19 Thread Tim Connors
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: security Remotely exploitable, ntp user account only: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/852879 Debian listed as unknown here, but the versions checks out as vulnerable: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byvendor?searchview&Query=FIELD+Refere

Bug#765430: ldd: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20)

2014-10-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2014-10-15 Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: libgcrypt20 > > Version: 1.6.2-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > Looks like dependencies on libgpg-error not specified correctly? > [...] > > This breaks the like o

Bug#765430: ldd: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20)

2014-10-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Tim Connors wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > On 10/14/2014 11:17 PM, Tim Connors wrote: > > > Package: libgcrypt20 > > > Version: 1.6.2-4 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Looks

Bug#765430: ldd: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20)

2014-10-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:17 PM, Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: libgcrypt20 > > Version: 1.6.2-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > Looks like dependencies on libgpg-error not specified correctly? > > > > 361711,

Bug#765430: ldd: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20)

2014-10-14 Thread Tim Connors
Package: libgcrypt20 Version: 1.6.2-4 Severity: normal Looks like dependencies on libgpg-error not specified correctly? 361711,14> ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0: no version information available (required

Bug#765331: xserver-xorg-video-intel: occasional hangs in read from /dev/dri/card0 with "AccelMethod" "sna"

2014-10-14 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.916-1~exp1 Severity: important I'm running xserver-xorg-video-intel/experimental with Option "AccelMethod" "sna" because otherwise operation on haswell is incredibly unreliable (my latest problem being horible display corruption on webbrowser

Bug#758288: libkrb5support0 should conflict libk5crypto3 from stable?

2014-08-16 Thread Tim Connors
Package: libkrb5support0 Version: 1.12.1+dfsg-7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On a somewhat unstable system with pinning back to stable (yes I know, sue me), with libkrb5support0 from unstable, libk5crypto3 from stable/updates and libapache2-mod-php5 from stable/updates: > apt-cache policy l

Bug#715367: postr removes photo from list before verifying upload was successful

2014-07-23 Thread Tim Connors
a bunch of photos lastnight with the new version, and one errored out. This time it kept the failed item in the list. I presume the bug has been fixed (or maybe it was just a different kind of connection error). -- Tim Connors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#753133: postr: flickr API went SSL only today

2014-06-29 Thread Tim Connors
Package: postr Version: 0.13-1 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable API went SSL only today: https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157645440333073/ My basic little patch seems to work for the handful of things I've tried, but I've probably missed something. Als

Bug#691130: kaffeine: recording times appear to be encoded as UTC and are out by an hour every DST change

2014-04-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Tim Connors wrote: > Package: kaffeine > Version: 1.2.2-1 > Severity: normal > > At the last daylight saving change, my programs scheduled for > recording in kaffeine have all been adjusted forward by an hour from > where I set them. This would imply the

Bug#738708: rsync: please include modern --noatime patch

2014-02-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: rsync Version: 3.1.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7249#c5 That patch uses the kernel's O_NOATIME feature that has been part of debian since ancient times now. Has none of the drawbacks of the horrible kludges proposed in the past, such as tho

Bug#738143: pulseaudio: restart clause faulty in init script

2014-02-07 Thread Tim Connors
Package: pulseaudio Version: 4.0-6~bpo7+1 Severity: normal The restart clause tests for the existence of the pid file, then and only then restarts. pulseaudio_start should be called unconditionally - it's only stop that wants to test for whether the pidfile and process exists. This only affects

Bug#508867: Ping

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Connors
Hi, I still see the bug, running -stable. On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Solveig wrote: > Hi! > Do you still encounter this bug with latest versions? If yes, please > provide up-to-date data, and if not, this bug report might be closed, so > let us know :) > Cheers, > > Solveig

Bug#732823: xmms2-client-cli: segfault when dealing with long pathnames

2013-12-21 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xmms2-client-cli Version: 0.8+dfsg-4 Severity: normal I originally thought this was a UTF-8 bug, but now it looks like a pathname length issue to me: > xmms2 add "/home/tconnors/mp3/Classical/Benjamin Godard, Chloë Hanslip > (violin), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor - Godar

Bug#714139: and ntp_states too (Was Re: Bug#714139: munin-plugins-core: ntp plugin takes too long when no reserve DNS for one of the peers, causing subsequent plugins to not be queried)

2013-11-10 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Kenyon Ralph wrote: > On 2013-06-26T18:00:47+1000, Tim Connors > wrote: > > Package: munin-plugins-core > > Version: 2.0.6-4+deb7u1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Investigating why uptime plugin wasn't running, logs were showing t

Bug#722127: slrn: description points to wrong upstream

2013-09-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: slrn Version: 1.0.0~pre18-1.3 Severity: normal the package description still refers to slrn.org, which appears to be an outdated version that still refers to version 0.9.9 The real upstream appears to be http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ BTW, there is a new version - it would be nice to dete

Bug#721303: udisks: breaks LVM and deadlocks LVM related IO to system [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2013-08-29 Thread Tim Connors
Package: udisks Version: 1.0.4-7 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software lvm snapshot removal has been broken in debian for a few years now. lvremove has a good chance at any moment to deadlock IO to a box. If you happen to be lucky enough to have dmsetup still in cache, you m

Bug#715367: postr removes photo from list before verifying upload was successful

2013-07-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: postr Version: 0.12.4-2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Don't remove photo from upload list until upload successful: diff -ru postr-0.12.4.orig/src//postr.py postr-0.12.4/src//postr.py --- postr-0.12.4.orig/src//postr.py 2009-11-05 12:26:54.0 +1100 +++ postr-0.12.4/src//postr.

Bug#564565: patch for hardcoded keybindings

2013-07-08 Thread Tim Connors
True - True @@ -121,7 +120,6 @@ _Select All True - True

Bug#714139: munin-plugins-core: ntp plugin takes too long when no reserve DNS for one of the peers, causing subsequent plugins to not be queried

2013-06-26 Thread Tim Connors
Package: munin-plugins-core Version: 2.0.6-4+deb7u1 Severity: normal Investigating why uptime plugin wasn't running, logs were showing the ntp_state was timing out. Running manually, I find one of the dynamic peers isn't returning reverse DNS, and this simple patch fixes it (only 1 second because

Bug#712573: regression: ctrl key continually pressed

2013-06-17 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.7-1 Severity: normal Looks like bug 506001 (dup with 374644) is back! (I would file this under grave just like it was back then, but I'm actually starting to question my sanity and might wait until confirmation before I do so - how can this bug be back when the prob

Bug#711465: munin-plugins-core: diskstats_latency doesn't handle wraparounds correctly

2013-06-06 Thread Tim Connors
Package: munin-plugins-core Version: 2.0.6-4 Severity: normal With mail notifications turned on, I frequently get these notifications for latency on all devices: To: munin Subject: Munin notification weinberg weinberg :: weinberg :: Disk latency per device :: Average latency for /dev/base/root

Bug#628843: Bug#659878: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Tim Connors wrote: > Actually, the other thing you lose (I presuming caused by acting on bug > #628843) is tty resizing by SIGWINCH. ttys are really useful, it turns > out. > > I have shedloads of up-to-date security patched RHEL5/6 machines, and I've

Bug#663200: Bug#659878: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Connors
severity 663200 grave thanks On Fri, 10 May 2013, Tim Connors wrote: > > I currently can't find any idea how to fix this issue. > > > > The security issue had to be solved by dropping the controlling > > terminal, so you cannot start a command that would interact wit

Bug#663200: Bug#659878: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Connors
> I currently can't find any idea how to fix this issue. > > The security issue had to be solved by dropping the controlling > terminal, so you cannot start a command that would interact with the > current terminal. I don't have enough terminal handling skills to find > other way to fix the securit

Bug#419940: old procmail bug for continued fields in message headers

2013-04-10 Thread Tim Connors
ese two entries in formail, and they aren't deduplicated: Maintainer: Could you kindly forward this bug upstream? I know procmail is ... very mature (this bug was first mentioned on the mailing list in 2000, applying to a 1994 version of the code): http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procm

Bug#689595: xine-ui: 0.99.7-1 pulls in libvdpau1, which crashes upon startup on non nvidia hardware

2013-03-31 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Tim Connors wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Tim Connors wrote: > > > gzread? > > > Seems to be a timing issue (yay!) > > In one of the other Important "did not start" bugs against xine-ui (this > is a dup of all of them), mention is m

Bug#689595: xine-ui: 0.99.7-1 pulls in libvdpau1, which crashes upon startup on non nvidia hardware

2013-03-31 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Tim Connors wrote: > Didn't work :( But it might not be in vdpau after all: > > (gdb) run -f > /home/tconnors/movies/kaffeine/Videos_Play_SBS_Cycling_Central_Cycling_News_and_Results_Vid.flv > Starting program: /usr/bin/xine -f > /home/t

Bug#562178: icedove: does unnecessary seek without error checking on .signature

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello Tim, > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:59:26AM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: icedove > > Version: 2.0.0.22-1.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > If .signature happens to be a named pipe with a progra

Bug#624364: Reproduced bug #624364

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
t correct values for kerberos > get_credentials can't succeed. Reopening this bug because it seems to have gotten auto-archived after you unarchived it. In my case, it's a stock install of samba4 from /testing left in its default unconfigured state (I should get around to it one day

Bug#700157: ibam: doesn't work if battery isn't BAT0

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Connors
Package: ibam Version: 1:0.5.2-2.1 Severity: normal On this machine, there's only /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1, but ibam only looks for BAT0 according to strace: strace: ... open("/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/present", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... Thus it fails with: >

Bug#690201: xine-ui: xine --enqueue can't cope with filename with comma "," in it

2012-10-27 Thread Tim Connors
tags 690201 patch thanks. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Tim Connors wrote: > Package: xine-ui > Version: 0.99.6-1 > Severity: normal > > xine --enqueue splits any filename provided on the commandline if they > have a comma in the filename. > > It does this because --enq

Bug#689595: xine-ui: 0.99.7-1 pulls in libvdpau1, which crashes upon startup on non nvidia hardware

2012-10-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Tim Connors may or may not have written... > > > I don't have any nvidia hardware (plain old Intel, TYVM), but xine-ui > > insists on pulling in some nvidia specific vdpau crap and crashing anyway: > > It pul

Bug#691130: kaffeine: recording times appear to be encoded as UTC and are out by an hour every DST change

2012-10-21 Thread Tim Connors
Package: kaffeine Version: 1.2.2-1 Severity: normal At the last daylight saving change, my programs scheduled for recording in kaffeine have all been adjusted forward by an hour from where I set them. This would imply they have been stored in UTC rather than local time. Since TV programs are sho

Bug#690201: xine-ui: xine --enqueue can't cope with filename with comma "," in it

2012-10-10 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.6-1 Severity: normal xine --enqueue splits any filename provided on the commandline if they have a comma in the filename. It does this because --enqueue gets transformed in main.c:main() to allocate a session_argv array with mrl=%s and passes that off to the session

Bug#689595: xine-ui: 0.99.7-1 pulls in libvdpau1, which crashes upon startup on non nvidia hardware

2012-10-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.7-1 Severity: important I don't have any nvidia hardware (plain old Intel, TYVM), but xine-ui insists on pulling in some nvidia specific vdpau crap and crashing anyway: 231985,31> sudo aptitude install xine-ui/stable The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: xine

Bug#688508: ccache: new upstream version, 3.1.8

2012-09-23 Thread Tim Connors
Package: ccache Version: 3.1.6-1 Severity: normal New release: http://ccache.samba.org/releasenotes.html#_ccache_3_1_8 might fix #656022, #672570, and might help increase cache hits for dependency files. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500

Bug#659762: LVM locks up, can't do anything.

2012-06-02 Thread Tim Connors
severity 659762 important thanks Don't quite know when it's acceptable to mark a bug as critical, but "makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package." is probably satisfied whe

Bug#508866: still stale filehandles in 3.2 for atomically renamed files

2012-06-01 Thread Tim Connors
unarchive 508866 reassign 508866 linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 unarchive 508866 reopen 508866 thanks . I failed to notice that this bug had been closed/archived, but indeed not yet really fixed. See later comments on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557#c15 -- Tim Connors -- To

Bug#508866: still stale filehandles in 3.2 for atomically renamed files

2012-06-01 Thread Tim Connors
unarchive 508866 reassign 508866 linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 unarchive 508866 reopen 508866 thanks . I failed to notice that this bug had been closed/archived, but indeed not yet really fixed. See later comments on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557#c15 -- Tim Connors -- To

Bug#307827: wdiff / colordiff: word highlighting would also be good

2012-05-22 Thread Tim Connors
aracters such that less (maybe you need a real terminal like xterm rather than something crappy like gnome-terminal) colourises it correctly. -- Tim Connors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#670260: libxine1: fullscreen in some xinerama configs not right. Seems to be overriding window manager policy

2012-04-24 Thread Tim Connors
Package: libxine1 Version: 1:1.1.20-0.1 Severity: normal Xine seems to be wilfully overriding window manager policy to the detriment of xinerama setups. On a 2 head display, with each monitor 1680x1050, (adapt values as appropriate on your monitors), I set up the left hand monitor to be the full

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