. I modify the section of the file I was looking at,
restart a service, and then discover 3 months later that something is not
working right because the file contains:
11;rgb:// on some random line.
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Tim Connors wrote:
This bug still exists in emacs23. (although it doesn't always translate
to ;0c - sometimes I get things like: 11;rgb://.
Apologies. It really is a different bug.
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Package: emacs23-lucid
Version: 23.2+1-7
Severity: normal
(I am strongly debating to myself whether this is a Grave
functionality bug because of the data corruption in config files that
go unnoticed because C-s directed the user to a different part of the
file)
This bug looks similar to #608417
Package: emacs23-lucid
Version: 23.3+1-4
Severity: normal
Could you please incorporate either of the patches from 24.1 .2
relevant to this upstream bug:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6585
Specifically, emacs is quite often locking up for me now that I have
switched over from
Package: emacs23-lucid
Version: 23.3+1-4
Severity: important
I am in an utf8 environment ($LANG=$LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8) with
default emacs settings as far as encodings are concerned. I've
reproduced this on both lucid and gtk, and with pretty minimal elisp
init config.
If I use xcb
to whichever
package really is at fault. Has the maintainer of libnet-snmp-perl
noticed the bug filed against their package?
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Package: xauth
Version: 1:1.0.6-1
Severity: normal
for run in `seq 1 10`
do
ssh -X -l my user server xload
done
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
A sleep 0.1 though lets it through (most of the
, and is one of the few applications
I've seen do that.
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:50:19PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
It seems that relatively recently there has been a regression where
the keyboard reading from /dev/stdin doesn't do appropriate error
checking. If /dev/stdin is redirected from /dev
Package: mplayer
Version: 3:1.0~rc4+svn20110505-0.2
Severity: normal
It seems that relatively recently there has been a regression where
the keyboard reading from /dev/stdin doesn't do appropriate error
checking. If /dev/stdin is redirected from /dev/null (eg, when
mplayer is run from a
reopen #508867
thanks
Didn't realise the bug was marked as moreinfo.
As much as the kernel is claimed to be fixed, I'm pretty sure I was still
seeing this bug with 2.6.32. I have quit the job with the machine I
encountered this on, and my other machines are in storage, so I can't
verify for
The manpage states that 'pqiv -q' acts mostly like qiv. But then
debian/patches/03_binary_name.diff attempts to go and make it write to
files such as .pqiv-select (instead of .qiv-select) and run pqiv-command
instead of qiv-command.
I think the most sensible thing to do is just remove those
Package: pqiv
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal
pqiv -q does not invoke pqiv-command n file when n is
pressed.
Instead, if I press 1, it tries to run:
19673 execve(/bin/sh, [sh, -c, BINARY_NAME-dommand 0 '51174605],
[/* 105 vars */]) = 0
or if I press 5, it runs:
19717 execve(/bin/sh,
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi,
Tim Connors t...@aaocbn.aao.gov.au (02/06/2010):
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6
Severity: important
could you please tell us how it goes with squeeze or sid?
Unfortunately, I can't say for now. I'm leaving
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi,
Tim Connors t...@aao.gov.au (23/02/2011):
Unfortunately, I can't say for now. I'm leaving that job in 2 days
time, and can't test the hardware in question (particularly since
the critical piece of equipment in question is in use, and can't
it silently fails to do anything useful. Who thought that would
be a good idea?
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Package: open-vm-source
Version: 1:8.4.2-261024-1
Severity: critical
I need the vmxnet module since we only have ESXi 3.5 here, but open-vm-source
won't compile with the squeeze kernel:
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
rm -rf .pc
I imagine this patch fixes it, although I can't seem to compile at all
right now...
Easy enough to test:
Does 'echo asd | grep --color s | cat' show color?
--- main.c.old 2011-02-04 01:58:04.0 +1100
+++ main.c 2011-02-04 02:06:24.0 +1100
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@
Package: gxmms2
Version: 0.7.0+git20090608-3
Severity: normal
Other xmms2 clients such as promoe and esperanza detect that a client
(not necessarily themselves) has changed the playlist, and refreshes
their own listing appropriately, immediately.
gxmms2 doesn't do this, instead having a refresh
Actually, it's not pine per se that's killing the children, but the fact
that they're in the same session with pine as the session leader.
If I just fire up pine in a pre-existing xterm then get it to open up an
attachment, then close pine, the viewing program remains open.
If I run 'xterm -e
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7.2
Severity: grave
Any calls to system() invokes
sh -c prog args
When /bin/sh is linked to dash, if prog is a shell script (/bin/sh
or /bin/bash), that shell script sees $PPID as being the sh -c process.
If /bin/sh is linked to bash, prog sees $PPID as being
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
severity 604993 normal
quit
Hi Tim,
Tim Connors wrote:
When /bin/sh is linked to dash, if prog is a shell script (/bin/sh
or /bin/bash), that shell script sees $PPID as being the sh -c process.
Could you give an example? I tried
reopen 599941
thanks
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:13:24 +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.3+5
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xset
My xorg.conf is set up to have dpms enabled on one screen (:0.1 -- I'm
using
Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Because dhcp was once installed on this machine,
/var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp exists.
Ntp uses this regardless, completely ignoring /etc/ntp.conf.
Is this in any way sane?
Who generated /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp? Why wasn't it removed
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.3+5
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xset
My xorg.conf is set up to have dpms enabled on one screen (:0.1 -- I'm
using zaphod mode, so :0.0 is a separate screen to :0.1), but disable
on another screen (:0.0, a status screen that must always remain on).
This
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest?
Perhaps your '' ought to be ''?
Whoops, yes indeed. I had some debugging prints like starting session
on $(date) there and forgot
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
[I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...]
Tim Connors report...@rather.puzzling.org writes:
before the user gets to review them, they can always log into the
console and review the errors before they restart X.
Always
Package: xauth
Version: 1:1.0.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
If I have a non zero ~/.Xauthority file, then create a file in my home
directory that fills the disk, and ssh in again (not closing the original X or
ssh session so the Xauthority entries for those are
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.5+6
Severity: important
Is there any reason why /etc/X11/Xsession appends to the logfile
instead of creating it:
exec $ERRFILE 21
If the argument is that you want to be able to see what errors
happened in the last session, so you don't want to clear them out
Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.72-1
Severity: normal
The contents on /etc/aliases seems to be completely ignored for me
with the current setup ( 'mail sent by smarthost; no local mail' and
possibly 'mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail') - I
want any mail sent to root (eg, the
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
Is this problem still reproducible with current kernel (2.6.32-5-*), X.org
and NVIDIA driver 195.36.31-2?
I'm not brave enough to upgrade right now given that I have the
rare circumstance of a working system, but I can say that it works on an
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.2-2
Severity: normal
By placing a script in /etc/profile.d/, setting up of bash-completion
becomes completely non-optional. Previously, it was up to the user to
source /etc/bash_completion, but now it is not.
If a user has their own copy of
Package: xine-ui
Version: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2.1
Severity: normal
Can we have an option to not have xine touch the mixer at all? If I
start up xine and find innapropriate sound volume levels, I change the
volume. Xine helfully restores the mixer volume to what it was
beforehand when I leave
Can we get this trivial patch applied? I know squeeze is frozen, but this
is a bug fix for a problem that is otherwise going to leave squeeze with
an Xserver that can't change the bell properties at all, and we've had the
patch for ages now, and it's relatively well tested.
I have personally
Package: pqiv
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal
Some useful features from qiv that haven't made it into pqiv:
fullscreen can't be toggled when you press 'f' in the window - only
makes it go into fullscreen (still with window decorations though, so
it's not the same as being invoked with '-f')
Package: nagstamon
Version: 0.9.4-1
Severity: normal
I'm using the statusbar floating option since I don't have a
systray, and the statusbar eventually lowers itself below all other
windows and can't be brought back to the front (haven't worked out
when - it starts out on top, and you can start
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.7.7-2
Severity: normal
It's 2010, and we still can't open more than about 194 clients (My
ulimit is for 1024 open fds). Meanwhile, it is clear that the
tradeoff that was made to only allow 256 connections is heavily
lopsided towards allowing those clients
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Tim Connors wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Michael Biebl wrote:
pm-powersave should only be run, when you plug/unplug your ac adapater.
Did you repeatedly unplug power?
No.
Do you get those messages when you don't change between battery and ac?
Try to monitor the log
Package: pm-utils
Version: 1.3.0-2
Severity: normal
A few days ago (hmmm, probably corresponding to a reboot to
2.6.32-5-amd64), my /var/log/pm-powersave.log started growing rapidly
with an entry per second of:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sched-powersave false: **sched policy powersave OFF
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Michael Biebl wrote:
On 27.07.2010 01:41, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: pm-utils
Version: 1.3.0-2
Severity: normal
A few days ago (hmmm, probably corresponding to a reboot to
2.6.32-5-amd64), my /var/log/pm-powersave.log started growing rapidly
with an entry per
This bug may still be getting some love yet.
I wonder if the patch here fixes it:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27926
I'm not up to compiling this myself right now, but does it look right?
That patch works for me in addressing this bug.
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Package: libxine1
Version: 1.1.18.1-1+b2
Severity: normal
Given that playing a DVD and CD shouldn't require a datarate much
beyond 1x by definition, playing such a video or music with xine
usually has the motor and disk spinning much much faster than
necessary, contributing to wear, noise, heat
I never got back about whether I was using kbd or evdev: I'm using kbd.
I'm not using gnome or pulseaudio or any of that crap, and all parameters
(vol, pitch, and dur) are recorded by xset and are returned by xset q.
But are ignored by the bell rung by xterm and emacs, and both code paths
in the
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Tim Connors wrote:
I never got back about whether I was using kbd or evdev: I'm using kbd.
I'm not using gnome or pulseaudio or any of that crap, and all parameters
(vol, pitch, and dur) are recorded by xset and are returned by xset q.
But are ignored by the bell rung
Package: v4l-conf
Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-8.1
Severity: normal
X11 now seems to require xawtv to run with -nodga for all/most drivers
(I'm using the intel driver), but xawtv still needs v4l-conf which
fails. I suspect v4l-conf needs to be compiled without dga, but then
it's going to need to run as
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6
Severity: important
I've got a workstation with an intel chipset Q45/Q43 plugged connected
through a video extender. I've verified that the video extender propogates
DDC/EDID data, and 'get-edid | parse-edid' returns the params for
Package: tvtime
Version: 1.0.2-6
Severity: normal
There's a --geometry arg which doesn't accept standard X -geometry
WxH+x+y style arguments.
It should accept --geometry WxH as currently accepted, along with
the more usual -geometry WxH+x+y.
Without this, I cannot supply an X and Y offset.
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Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.38~r46659-2
Severity: normal
The main scrollbar for the chrome window is very low contrast (I can
barely see it, and I have no eyesight difficulties). Light grey
against slightly darker grey, with 3 small ticks in the centre of the
scrollbar thumb. I
Package: google-chrome-unstable
Version: 6.0.401.1-r47050
Severity: normal
The main scrollbar for the chrome window is very low contrast. Light
grey against slightly darker grey, with 3 small ticks in the centre of
the scrollbar thumb. I can't usually find where I am in a page based
on the
Package: grep
Version: 2.6.3-2
Severity: normal
If I pipe the output of `grep --color` to something like `less -R`
then I expect '--color' to be obeyed. Instead, it seems that
'--color' by itself implies '--color=auto', and the output isn't
colorised because it's not outputting to a tty.
If I
close 575599
thanks
Sven Joachim wrote:
Can you please try version 5.7+20100313-2 and see if it fixes your
problem?
TIA,
Sven
Yes it fixes it for me, thanks.
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Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: normal
I have the following xterm definitions in order to allow my
environment to be UTF8.
.Xdefaults:XTerm*VT100.eightBitInput: false
.Xdefaults:XTerm*VT100.eightBitControl: false
.Xdefaults:XTerm*VT100.eightBitOutput: true
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
Change XTerm*metaSendsEscape to true as a workaround or use a better
shell. With zsh, the above settings work fine.
That seems the best advice for people expecting to have an escape character
sent
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2010-03-24 09:30:38 +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
The *correct* fix for #513379 would be to fix the manpage to say e.g.:
usage: crontab [ -u user ] [ -i ] [file | { -l | -r | -e }]
Yes, but IMHO, in such a case, -i should prompt the user
| { -l | -r | -e }]
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Package: promoe
Version: 0.1.1-2
Severity: normal
When I start up promoe, it overrides window manager policy (never a
good idea) and starts up in some random location. Usually on another
virtual page. Of course, when you try to drag it back to the page you
were on, you can't because it
Package: esperanza
Version: 0.4.0+git20091017-1
Severity: normal
When I start up esperenza, it overrides window manager policy (never a
good idea) and starts up in some random location. Usually on another
virtual page.
My window manager is FVWM.
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Brice Goglin wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:58:23PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
Alas, when I have an external USB mouse plugged in, it only ever goes
blank. If I xset force dpms off, then it will turn the backlights off
on the internal monitor, and an external LCD
This seems to be the upstream bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24503
No idea whether the 'xset b' parameters are obeyed though with the
proposed fix. I get a beep already (echo -e '\a' works as desired),
it's just the 'xset b' parameters that were ignored as of 1.7.
I haven't
reassign 564464 xserver-xorg-core
thanks
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
As of the last update to xserver-xorg*, 'xset b vol pitch
duration' no longer changes anything - it's ignored.
Actually, xset in x11-xserver-utils
Package: postr
Version: 0.12.3-1
Severity: normal
I've set emacs keybindings for all gtk apps with the following in
~/.gtkrc-2.0 (and ~/.gtkrc):
include /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs
And yet, ctrl-d select delete (very much the wrong thing to do when
I
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
As of the last update to xserver-xorg*, 'xset b vol pitch
duration' no longer changes anything - it's ignored.
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Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500,
Package: x11-apps
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
Using 'xclock -digital', the text is now offset from the left of the
window, and is entirely displayed outside of the window area for small
windows, presumably since the changelog entry:
x11-apps (7.5+1) unstable; urgency=low
* xclock 1.0.4.
Package: icedove
Version: 2.0.0.22-1.1
Severity: normal
If .signature happens to be a named pipe with a program feeding text
into that named pipe, then icedove does *cough* interesting *cough*
things:
[pid 20697] lseek(47, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
[pid 20697] lseek(47, 0,
Package: backuppc
Version: 3.1.0-9
Severity: normal
I get the following logs after backuppc was upgraded containing the
fix to 556729:
2009-11-29 00:26:35 Started incr backup on dirac (pid=20633, share=/)
2009-11-29 00:35:45 ERROR: opendir
(/var/lib/backuppc/pc/dirac/132/f%2f/fetc/fpolkit-1)
...
File descriptor 51 (/var/lib/debtags/vocabulary.idx) leaked on vgchange
invocation. Parent PID 32047: /bin/sh
...
This is the standard and pointless message that lvm outputs whenever one
of its commands are invoked by a process that just didn't happen to close
file descriptors (such as bash
The symptoms:
a...@lacapelle:~$ emacs
Wrong type argument: keymapp, (DEAD . 17614028)
Have you tried `emacs -q' or `emacs --no-site-file' to try and find
where the source of the error lies?
I get it too, trying to open a .tex file.
emacs -q VisitorCompAccount20091109.tex
Wrong type
Package: nut
Version: 2.4.1-3.1
Severity: normal
Upon every upgrade of nut and/or udev, the permissions on my powerware
usb device go back to being root owned. Is nut screwing up, or is
udev screwing up?
lsusb | grep -i powerware
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0592:0002 Powerware Corp. UPS (X-Slot)
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.23.1
Severity: normal
I just noticed apt was ignoring my proxy settings. They're included
in a file that had been #included into apt.conf and had been working
relatively recently.
strace -f reveals that it just completely ignores the #include
statement:
12716
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:32:51PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.23.1
Severity: normal
I just noticed apt was ignoring my proxy settings. They're included
in a file that had been #included into apt.conf and had
It seems the i8k module is at fault.
With the i8kmon process running, the machine crashes in a small number of
minutes (it stutters and pauses for a few seconds at a time and gets worse
and worse until it panics).
If I instead run at the console:
while cat /proc/i8kmon ; do : ; done,
it outputs
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Michael Meskes wrote:
Does the bug still exist? I still cannot see how acpid itself can cause this
problem. However, I could see a module being the culprit, although it should
not stop when acpid is stopped then.
Still exists (kernel 2.6.30)
Anyway, if the problem is
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.30-5
Severity: important
Within 10 minutes of restarting my laptop (dell Vostro 1710) with
2.6.30 (it had been running 2.6.27.10, but various crashes and X
problems had previously stopped me from upgrading), logging in but not
running anything, my
reassign 535156 mount
thanks
Fixed in upstream and also detailed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501350
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Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.02-1.4+lenny1
Severity: normal
I've got some presentation pdfs created with pdflatex that have
FullScreen, GoToPage and Close hrefs in them that just result in xpdf
issuing:
Error: Unknown named action: 'GoToPage'
Error: Unknown named action: 'FullScreen'
Error:
severity 507224 grave
reassign 507224 linux-image-amd64 2.6.26+17+lenny1
thanks
I got another oops (of our webserver running 2.6.26-2 in stable! Gah! (I
know it shouldn't be using autofs, but it does))
This time it appears I have stumbled across the resolution to the
problem -- discussion here:
Package: procmeter3
Version: 3.5b-1
Severity: normal
debian 2.6.30 (and probably before) no longer has /proc/acpi/battery
so the acpi module can't read battery stats.
They've been moved to /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*
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APT prefers unstable
Package: libusb-dev
Version: 2:0.1.12-13
Severity: wishlist
Could we have manpage documentation in the style of manpages-dev, for
each of the functions otherwise documented in the html directory? A
simple conversion would presumably be pretty easy to automate.
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Package: mount
Version: 2.15.1~rc1-1
Severity: normal
The braindead relatime option to mount not only is enabled by default
in 2.6.30 as expected, but it is not overridable at all. Some of us
like accurate POSIX compliant atimes, thanks very much.
grep /home /etc/fstab
severity 446332 grave
thanks
In trying to track down why imap accounts at work (using UW-imapd, which
uses c-client, which alpine uses), are getting screwed up when being
accessed multiple times, I got reminded of this ancient bug that still
exists.
To reproduce, open up pine on your inbox, open
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Antos Andras wrote:
Your script can be summarized into this (simplier) script:
Yes, I just wanted to keep the generality of the original script.
The problem is that the user might already have LESSOPEN defined. I do
not think using LESSOPEN is a good idea because it
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On ven, 2009-05-01 at 11:25 +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: evolution
Version: 2.24.5-3
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole
tconn...@denman:~$ l /home/maree/.evolution/mail/local/Sent
-rw-r--r-- 1 maree
Package: evolution
Version: 2.24.5-3
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole
tconn...@denman:~$ l /home/maree/.evolution/mail/local/Sent
-rw-r--r-- 1 maree maree 118474734 2009-05-01 08:16
/home/maree/.evolution/mail/local/Sent
Hmmm. Would it be a good idea to set
This has been fixed in FVWM 2.5.26
I'm not sure that it has (or I can't see the option in the manpage). I
can see EdgeMoveResistance, which deals with moving windows (and I seem to
recall some activity on the mailing list around that time, regarding a bug
in xinerama handling there).
But what
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/4/21 Tim Connors report...@rather.puzzling.org:
This has been fixed in FVWM 2.5.26
I'm not sure that it has (or I can't see the option in the manpage). I
can see EdgeMoveResistance, which deals with moving windows (and I seem to
recall some
severity grave
tags 508867 security
thanks
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Tim Connors wrote:
Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel,
implying that since userland can work around it, it should:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557
Would it be possible
Package: checksecurity
Version: 2.0.11
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
It is not very useful to be told every morning that my cdrom is 100%
full, so a first pass at stopping this is included below. It is
arguable that you would want any mounted filesystem in /media to be
checked, so that's what the
Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel,
implying that since userland can work around it, it should:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557
Would it be possible to, upon an ESTALE return result from the acccess()
call, to open() the file instead, and
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:03:39PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.26-10
Severity: normal
Identical to ubuntu bug 269954:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
Package: colordiff
Version: 1.0.7-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
If one writes a shell fragment like:
find . -type f | while read a ; do colordiff -u $a
/home/aatlxz/twc/public_html/$a ; done
then colordiff tries to slurp all of find's stdout, rather than
letting the shell slurp it.
The
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:03:39PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.26-10
Severity: normal
Identical to ubuntu bug 269954:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
I've got
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:03:29PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
Version: 2.6.25-4
Severity: normal
There's an upstream bug that has started affecting me. stty gets
backgrounded, and you can only kill -9
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:17:31PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
Notice the time missing between between 11 and 64 seconds. I haven't
rebooted my amd64 machine yet with the kernel compiled with timing
information, but I think it was happening
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:56:03PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
dmesg still shows it is still recognising that the adaptor has a
keyboard and mouse capability:
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote:
Hi,
Tim Connors wrote:
it updates fine, and dist-upgrade finally works.
From what to what? Both a test dist-upgrade etch-lenny and lenny-sid
do work for me.
sid-sid, somewhere between dec 1 and dec 19, ie, when there were no
dictionaries-common
Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.4-3
Severity: normal
It would be nice if rsync had a flag to rsync to and/or from raw
devices (as it just rsyncs the device file otherwise, with --devices).
It would imply --inplace if the destination was a raw device file.
This would make backups of medium sized
Package: openoffice.org-common
Version: 1:2.4.1-14
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I can't configure openoffice.org-common, either with the version in
testing (1:2.4.1-14), or with unstable (1:2.4.1-15, and the dependencies):
Setting up openoffice.org-common (1:2.4.1-14)
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote:
tag 509404 + unreproducible
tag 509404 + moreinfo
thanks
Rene Engelhard wrote:
Tim Connors wrote:
I can't configure openoffice.org-common, either with the version in
testing (1:2.4.1-14), or with unstable (1:2.4.1-15, and the dependencies
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.26-10
Severity: normal
Identical to ubuntu bug 269954:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
I've got a 2.6.26-1-amd64 box that is getting the occasional stale
return result from an stat() access for .Xauthority, which is a
Package: libxau6
Version: 1:1.0.3-3
Severity: normal
There is a bug in = 2.6.24 kernels[1], where a stat() in the nfs client
may return -ESTALE on an .Xauthority file that has been atomically
renamed from another host (ie, .Xauthority now has a different inode;
this happens when sshing to another
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