Bug#448577: all videos display as patterns of lines

2007-10-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: totem-gstreamer Version: 2.20.0-3 Severity: important For about a week - I'm not sure what upgrade did it, but it definitely started with an upgrade - all video content is completely mangled. For example, this: http://partiwm.org/static/screenshots/demo-2.ogg (which should have no

Bug#439584: [Monotone-debian] Bug#439584: monotone - FTBFS: 1 of 3 tests failed

2007-10-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 10/26/07, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | runcmd: /build/waldi/temp/monotone-0.36/mtn, local_redir = false, requested = nil | add_executable:5: /build/waldi/temp/monotone-0.36/mtn --norc --root=/build/waldi/temp/monotone-0.36/tester_dir/add_executable

Bug#439584: [Monotone-debian] Bug#439584: monotone - FTBFS: 1 of 3 tests failed

2007-10-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 10/26/07, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:59:49AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: I need more information to debug this. Is there any chance you can tar up the contents of the tester_dir subdirectory of the build tree (after the failure happens) and send

Bug#447528: if audacity is running, cannot open a second project from file browser

2007-10-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: audacity Version: 1.3.3-1+b1 Severity: normal If audacity is already running and one tries to open a second project from a file browser (e.g. Nautilus) you get an error dialog saying that it's not safe to run two instances of audacity at the same time and one should use File-Open from

Bug#447532: repeat amplify does not do the same thing as selecting amplify again from the menu

2007-10-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: audacity Version: 1.3.3-1+b1 Severity: normal Most of the operations in audacity's effects menu, if repeated with Ctrl-R on a different segment of a track, do exactly the same thing as they would have done if chosen again from the menu. The Amplify... plugin is a glaring exception. If

Bug#447532: repeat amplify does not do the same thing as selecting amplify again from the menu

2007-10-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 10/21/07, Thomas de Grivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much more user-friendly behavior would be to remember the user's chosen peak volume in decibels, and adjust the amplification factor to hit that peak volume with each successive segment. I would call that Normalize but there is already

Bug#446853: /bin/dd: inconsistent records out and bytes copied

2007-10-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.4 Severity: minor File: /bin/dd In this example, /dev/sde1 is a Flash card with, indeed, 2.1GB of space. $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde1 bs=512b count=4013650 dd: writing `/dev/sde1': No space left on device 7840+0 records in 7839+0 records out 2054988800

Bug#446663: audacity: crash on undo in an as-yet-unsaved project

2007-10-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: audacity Version: 1.3.3-1+b1 Severity: normal If you create a project in any way (e.g. File-New, File-Open of a non-.aup file) and make some changes without saving it, Audacity will crash instantly if you attempt to undo a change. This does not happen if you save the project in .aup

Bug#445018: blacklist for useless auto-detected IPP printers

2007-10-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: gnome-cups-manager Version: 0.31-3 Severity: wishlist Depending on where I am, my laptop sometimes picks up on a whole bunch of IPP printers that I don't actually have any business using. For instance, right now it's showing two printers with .harvard.edu domain names -- I'm nowhere

Bug#444153: [Monotone-debian] Bug#444153: monotone: 'list unknown' command fails with '\' on filenames

2007-09-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
forwarded 444153 https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?21171 thanks On 9/26/07, Vlad Shakhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ touch \\ $ mtn list unknown mtn: fatal: std::logic_error: paths.cc:415: invariant 'I(utf8_validate(utf8(data)) !has_bad_component_chars(data) data != . data !=

Bug#441870: not a libdb bug

2007-09-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
reassign 441870 libc6 merge 441870 441763 thanks libdb should NOT be linked against libpthread, as it does not create and used threads internally. The bug is that libc's thread-locking stubs are missing a few interfaces. Please see my explanation in #441763. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#441763: actually, no.

2007-09-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
reassign 441763 libc6 retitle 441763 /lib/libc.so.6 is missing several stub pthread interfaces thanks Brian Carlson is seriously mistaken in all of his statements about this bug. It is possible to write correct C++ code that does not need any of the libraries that g++ adds to the link, and in

Bug#441763: actually, no.

2007-09-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
clone 441763 -1 severity -1 wishlist reassign -1 libc6 thanks What the fuck? Do you have in mind that you rely on a feature that does not exists, and you are shouting because it does not exists? I was not shouting, and even if I were, this level of abuse is inappropriate. libc.so.6's has

Bug#440205: irc chatrooms do not see messages from other users

2007-08-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/31/07, Ari Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which IRC server channel are you using? I see this for all channels on irc.darkmyst.org. I should add that the pane for other nicks in the chat is always empty, too. I have just now tried irc.freenode.net and see both filled-out nick panes and

Bug#440205: irc chatrooms do not see messages from other users

2007-08-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: pidgin Version: 2.1.1-2 Severity: normal If I establish an IRC account in Gamin and enter an IRC channel using Buddies - Join a Chat..., the chat window reports everything I type but nothing that anyone else types. System NOTICEs do appear. This, naturally, renders the IRC mode

Bug#439584: [Monotone-debian] Bug#439584: monotone - FTBFS: 1 of 3 tests failed

2007-08-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 439584 + moreinfo thanks On 8/25/07, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was an error while trying to autobuild your package: [...] Of 446 tests run: 0 succeeded 444 failed 2 had expected failures 0 succeeded unexpectedly 0 were skipped

Bug#437321: incompatible with kernel =2.6.22 (Radeon Xpress 200M)

2007-08-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/12/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now he wants you to do echo 1 /sys/modules/drm/parameters/debug before starting X, then start X and send the output of dmesg. Nothing in here looks obviously like a failure, but here it is ... [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 NET:

Bug#319388: [libglu1-xorg] should hide C++ interfaces

2007-08-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/10/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are still interested in fixing this problem, I would appreciate if you could send an updated patch. But please do not prepare it against Mesa 6.5.1 in Etch (such a change won't be accepted in Etch anyway). You should prepare it

Bug#437528: should be able to have an xorg.conf with no ServerLayout, Device, or Screen

2007-08-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.2-5 Severity: wishlist If there is no xorg.conf at all, X automatically deduces default settings that work in a lot of cases (including my own). However, if there *is* an xorg.conf, but it does not contain ServerLayout, Device, or Screen sections, X refuses to

Bug#435280: #435280: black screen after X starts (Radeon Xpress 200M)

2007-08-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
clone 435280 -1 reassign -1 xserver-xorg-video-ati notfound -1 2.6.22-3 found -1 1:6.6.192-1 retitle -1 incompatible with kernel =2.6.22 (Radeon Xpress 200M) retitle 435280 incompatible with experimental xserver-xorg-video-ati thanks I realized that I had the experimental version of the X-server

Bug#435250: #435280: black screen after X starts (Radeon Xpress 200M)

2007-08-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
2.6.23-rc2 has this bug too. I would really appreciate some attention paid to this bug. It makes kernels =2.6.22 unusable for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#432468: does not resume from suspend-to-RAM on toshiba satellite m70

2007-08-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
2.6.23-rc2 shows exactly the same bug. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435250:

2007-08-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
Please ignore my previous message, I sent it to the wrong bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435280: #435280: black screen after X starts (Radeon Xpress 200M)

2007-08-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
2.6.23-rc2 has this bug too. I would really appreciate some attention paid to this bug. It makes kernels =2.6.22 unusable for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#389260: debian bug: patch to icu to avoid unnecessary linkage with pthread

2007-08-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/4/07, Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, checking ICU 3.8, there is an --enable-weak-threads configure flag that appears to do exactly what you are looking for. Was this your patch? It might have been. I talked to them about it a while back but I came away with the

Bug#432468: does not resume from suspend-to-RAM on toshiba satellite m70

2007-08-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/4/07, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you try against 2.6.22 from unstable? linux images install just fine in testing. sure, i'll try that soonish. however, 2.6.22 has other problems on this laptop (it completely broke X, for instance). did you try to ssh to the box?

Bug#432468: just for the record

2007-08-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
I said 2.6.22 completely broke X on this box. That is bug #435280. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435779: ripit: trim silence from ends of track

2007-08-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: ripit Version: 3.6.0-1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if ripit would trim silence from the ends of each track. I think the existing logic for identifying ghost songs (two songs in one track) should be adaptable to the purpose. (My perl-fu is inadequate or I would send a patch.) --

Bug#434604: monotone depends on non-essential package ucf in postrm

2007-08-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 8/2/07, Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack, debconf is priority: required, just like libc6. You can pretty much rely on it being present. That turned out not to be the problem. :- piuparts is not so silly. The debhelper additions were trying to talk to debconf after db_stop. I

Bug#435280: black screen after X starts (Radeon Xpress 200M)

2007-07-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686 Version: 2.6.22-3 Severity: normal With kernel 2.6.22-1-686, my laptop's screen goes black when X starts and stays that way. I can reboot by pressing the power button. This does not happen with 2.6.21-2 (2.6.21-6). I am appending Xorg.0.log to the bug report

Bug#435250:

2007-07-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
Yes, user applications should be allowed to mmap() from /dev/zero with PROT_EXEC. (There should be *no* visible difference between using /dev/zero and using MAP_ANON(YMOUS).) However, it also seems to me that it is appropriate for udev to mount its tmpfs with noexec set -- there's no legitimate

Bug#435250: /dev mounted with option noexec: breaks nvidia-glx and applications mmapping /dev/zero with PROT_EXEC

2007-07-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 7/30/07, Wolfgang Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this is the right thing to do, and I really doubt the kernel will be changed. Ignoring the noexec option for device files is not only a visible change for userspace but it is a rather dangerous one. Could you expand on that,

Bug#432658: plan

2007-07-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 7/22/07, Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so imminent. [...] Imminent was perhaps the wrong word, but nonetheless, I don't see much value in trying to isolate a bug in g++-4.1 when 4.2 should be live in the near future, especially when, as you say Monotone 0.35-2 is now 8 days

Bug#432658: plan

2007-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
For the record - since I'm pretty sure this is a compiler bug and the g++ 4.2 transition is imminent, I'm going to wait and see if the package builds with 4.2, and if it does, I'll downgrade this to normal and reassign it to g++-4.1. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#432658: [Monotone-debian] Bug#432658: #432658: monotone: FTBFS: internal compiler error on arm in database_check.cc

2007-07-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 7/15/07, Ludovic Brenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I crudely measured, using top(1) and a sampling period of 0.5 s, that g++ uses as much as 474 Mb of virtual memory when compiling the largest file in monotone (revision.cc). That might explain why g++ seems to have run out of memory on two

Bug#432657: ... buildd bug???

2007-07-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
texi2dvi is provided by the texinfo package, which is in the Build-Depends-Indep list. This might not be correct, but if it's wrong, it's because of the use of makeinfo in building the main monotone package; not because of the use of texi2dvi in building the monotone-doc package. The buildd

Bug#432659: monotone: FTBFS on alpha, configure fails mysteriously

2007-07-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
If you look carefully at the buildd log for this one, you see it went off the rails a long time before that... checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether g++ accepts -g... no checking dependency style of g++... none checking for C++ compiler warning flags...

Bug#432659: monotone: FTBFS on alpha, configure fails mysteriously

2007-07-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 7/11/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most recent upload of glibc to unstable has introduced a libc-dev dependency which is in conflict with the sbuild configuration on multiple buildds. As a result, libstdc++-dev has gone missing from these chroots, and the buildd admin will

Bug#421058: xserver-xorg-core: with no xorg.conf, selects a resolution higher than the monitor supports

2007-07-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 7/10/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack Weinberg wrote: 1) xrandr.out.1600x1200 is the output of this command when run under X with an xorg.conf forcing the max to be 1600x1200. 2) xrandr.out.1920x1200 is the output of this command when run under X with no xorg.conf at all

Bug#432468: does not resume from suspend-to-RAM on toshiba satellite m70

2007-07-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 Version: 2.6.21-5 Severity: normal My laptop - a Toshiba Satellite M70 [I believe this was a model sold only in Canada, not that that stopped Newegg from selling it to me ;-)] suspends to RAM just fine, but never comes back. I have experimented extensively with

Bug#415496: pending for 0.36-(0.)1

2007-07-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags + pending I did not notice this in time to include it in the NMU that I have just prepared, but I've added the file to upstream's cache of the Debian package structure. It will appear in the first package of version 0.36, which is due in a couple weeks. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#324717: ATI R9100 DRI drivers lock up computer to hardware reset

2007-06-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/19/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding a lockup of the computer when using ati drivers on a R9100 board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest xserver-xorg-core and drivers? If not, I will

Bug#429771: improper handling of gnome-keyring-daemon keys with in name

2007-06-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: seahorse Version: 1.0.1-5 Severity: minor I have a gnome-keyring-daemon key that happens to have a in its name. (It is the WPA key for a wireless network named plato M kashy - long story.) If I right-click on that key in seahorse's Passwords tab and select Properties, I get a slightly

Bug#424135: does not resume from uswsusp suspend-to-disk image on encrypted swap partition

2007-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Hm, I thought I made clear that the problem has gone away with 2.6.21... On 6/13/07, Jonas Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/06/2007 Marcus Better wrote: I have seen the same effect several times. My system has encrypted root and swap, and I use uswsusp (without its encryption). I never

Bug#428898: emacs22-gtk: bogus Local variables entry is missing the prefix complaint

2007-06-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: emacs22-gtk Version: 22.0.99+1-1 Severity: normal I am working on a project that has this local variables block at the end of every file: // Local Variables: // mode: C++ // fill-column: 76 // c-file-style: gnu // indent-tabs-mode: nil // End: // vim:

Bug#428631: hyperref should autodetect pdftex even with a driver option

2007-06-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/12/07, Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be much better to behave the way geometry does: even if given [dvips], that package checks for pdftex, and overrides the driver option if it finds it. The simple solution is to leave out the driver. As you already noticed, pdftex is

Bug#428631: hyperref should autodetect pdftex even with a driver option

2007-06-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/13/07, Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check my configuration, but hyperref certainly wasn't doing anything useful for xdvi until I put the [dvips] in there. ... And of course now it works just fine without the [dvips]. Sorry for the noise. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#428631: hyperref should autodetect pdftex even with a driver option

2007-06-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: texlive-latex-base Version: 2007-9 Severity: minor The hyperref package has to generate different \specials for different DVI drivers; in particular, xdvi and dvips want dvips specials, and pdftex wants pdftex specials. These correspond to package options. If you don't give hyperref

Bug#424071: evince: printing produces blank pages

2007-05-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 5/28/07, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was this pdftops from the poppler-utils package, or from xpdf-utils? xpdf-utils. I can install poppler-utils and see if it has the same problem as evince, if that would be helpful. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#424071: evince: printing produces blank pages

2007-05-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 5/23/07, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evince 0.9.0 is available in the experimental archive. Before I forward this bug upstream, it would be great if you could confirm if the bug apply to this version also. Yes, evince 0.9 shows the same problem. I should mention, however, that

Bug#425203: r-base-core: 0.37 + epsilon prints as 0.37 even with digits=20

2007-05-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm happy to take this to r-devel if you think that is the best way of resolving the question, but I cannot agree with your assessment of the issue. This is not a philosophical complaint, this is a genuine bug in R. I am, deliberately and with full knowledge of the issues, working right down

Bug#425203: r-base-core: 0.37 + epsilon prints as 0.37 even with digits=20

2007-05-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.5.1~20070513-1 Severity: normal R's format function (and all other means of printing numbers) seem to round off at 14 decimal places, even if specifically asked for more precision. This is a problem when trying to work with numerical algorithms that require things

Bug#424135: does not resume from uswsusp suspend-to-disk image on encrypted swap partition

2007-05-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.87b Severity: important I have all partitions (except a very small /boot) in an encrypted dm container. If I suspend the computer to disk (using either 's2disk' or the hibernate button in GNOME), it appears to write out the image successfully, but when I boot

Bug#423900: duplex + collate + multiple copies = mangled print job

2007-05-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.7-4 Severity: normal When printing to an HP LaserJet 4200 in duplex mode with multiple copies and collation enabled, the printer prints the same page on both sides of each sheet (I'm not sure exactly what the pattern is - I canceled the print job after the first bad

Bug#423582: referencer: package should not claim to own shared files in /usr/share/mime

2007-05-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: referencer Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal A number of shared files in /usr/share/mime, rewritten on every installation by update-mime-database, appear in referencer's .list and .md5sums metadata. This causes spurious warnings from debsums: debsums: checksum mismatch referencer file

Bug#423584: referencer: crossref.org should not be sole source of information

2007-05-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: referencer Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal Referencer relies on citation information from crossref.org, but (for at least some journals) this provides seriously incomplete information. Consider the following crossref.org query result: ?xml version = 1.0 encoding = UTF-8?

Bug#423587: referencer: should not overwrite user-supplied metadata with data from online sources

2007-05-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: referencer Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal Presently, if I manually correct the errors in the information Referencer downloads from crossref.org (see bug #423584) and then accidentally select 'get metadata' for an article that needed correcting, Referencer will wipe out my corrections

Bug#423586: referencer: PDF-scraping for DOIs sometimes cuts them off in the middle

2007-05-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: referencer Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal I have a number of PDFs with DOIs appearing in the text, but that Referencer cannot properly scrape out. There is no true metadata in the PDF, so it's going for text extraction from the page body. The complete BT/ET block containing the DOI

Bug#423454: way to mark (esp. with ':' or '=') all binaries from the same source package

2007-05-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: wishlist I regularly want to be able to cancel an upgrade of all binary packages from one source package. A key like ':' but acting on everything from the same source as the currently selected binary would be ideal. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#421058: xserver-xorg-core: with no xorg.conf, selects a resolution higher than the monitor supports

2007-04-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 4/26/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack Weinberg wrote: This is probably related to #418377, but the situation is slightly different. I have a flat-panel monitor which is not designed for resolutions higher than 1600x1200, and says so in its DDC readout. There's no 1600x1200

Bug#414417: closed by Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#414417: fixed in hal 0.5.8.1-8)

2007-03-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Thank you for the quick fix! I have not tried it yet but I will as soon as the package shows up on the mirror I use. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#414417: gnome-vfs-daemon prompts for passphrase for already-unlocked encrypted partitions

2007-03-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libhal-storage1 Version: 0.5.8.1-7 Severity: normal Since a very recent update to HAL (or possibly gnome-vfs or udev, I'm not sure) after I log in from the gdm screen, I get a dialog box asking me to enter a pass phrase to decrypt /dev/hda5. This is a container partition for LVM. It's

Bug#319388: [libglu1-xorg] should hide C++ interfaces

2007-02-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2/17/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are still interested in fixing this problem, I would appreciate if you could send an updated patch. But please do not prepare it against Mesa 6.5.1 in Etch (such a change won't be accepted in Etch anyway). You should prepare it against

Bug#406147: mono-jit: fails to find System assembly

2007-01-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: mono-jit Version: 1.2.2.1-1 Severity: normal [This may well be more serious than normal, but I don't know if it is something with the particular application I'm trying to run, or if it would affect *any* .net binary.] I am trying to run the 13th Labour distributed computation client

Bug#404616: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#404616: monotone: Segmentation fault

2007-01-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Thanks for the symbol-ful backtrace. I regret to say I don't know what is going on there, but I have this bad feeling it's a Boost bug. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#404616: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#404616: monotone: Segmentation fault

2007-01-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 1/4/07, Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/07, Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the symbol-ful backtrace. I regret to say I don't know what is going on there, but I have this bad feeling it's a Boost bug. I get the same impression. Or, perhaps a difference

Bug#404616: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#404616: monotone: Segmentation fault

2007-01-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 12/31/06, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack 2) Run the crashing command under valgrind - valgrind does support PPC Zack now, I believe - and get us a backtrace from that. ==6046== Memcheck, a memory error detector. ==6046== Copyright (C) 2002-2006, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward

Bug#404616: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#404616: monotone: Segmentation fault

2006-12-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
(gdb) bt #0 0x0fe35ecc in __dynamic_cast () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #1 0x100c1ef0 in std::out_of_range::~out_of_range () #2 0x10209214 in boost::detail::shared_count::~shared_count () #3 0x1012a674 in boost::gregorian::bad_month::~bad_month () #4 0x1012b060 in

Bug#389260: note upstream #5416

2006-11-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 11/18/06, Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but how about this: I'll contact upstream and ask whether they have an opinion about whether we should include this in the debian version of the package. If they don't have a serious objection, I can go ahead and stick it in. Upstream

Bug#389260: note upstream #5416

2006-11-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
I can understand where you're coming from on this one. Do you have any sense of how likely upstream is to pick up this patch? Unnecessary thread overhead is a serious problem for a (downstream x2) project I'm involved in, and if there's no progress likely anytime soon, we need to be looking for

Bug#389260: icu: please apply patch to avoid unnecessary linkage with libpthread

2006-09-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: icu Version: 3.6-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The ICU shared libraries are all linked against libpthread, but the only pthread functions ICU actually uses are: libicuuc.so: U pthread_mutex_destroy libicuuc.so: U pthread_mutex_init libicuuc.so: U

Bug#389259: reportbug: crashes attempting to file a bug on icu

2006-09-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: reportbug Version: 3.29.5 Severity: normal $ reportbug libicu34 *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as your from address. Getting status

Bug#389260: note upstream #5416

2006-09-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
FYI, I've filed an enhancement request with upstream ICU including a patch that fixes this properly, i.e. not with clever config.site hacks. See http://source.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/icu-bugs/incoming?findid=5416 I don't know how long it will take to get that into upstream, though, so I'm still

Bug#388126: closed by Ondřej Surý [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#388126: fixed in startup-notification 0.8-2)

2006-09-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Thank you for fixing this so quickly! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388126: libstartup-notification0: still depends on xlibs

2006-09-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libstartup-notification0 Version: 0.8-1 Severity: normal libstartup-notification0 still depends on xlibs; it should be rebuilt to drop this obsolete dependency. (It might need to depend on xlibs-data instead.) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#388126: this bug makes the package uninstallable in both unstable and testing

2006-09-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
severity 388126 grave thanks Despite what packages.debian.org says, xlibs is not in the Packages file for either unstable or testing (and in fact, pool/main/x/xlibs does not exist on one of the http.us.debian.org servers) Therefore, libstartup-notification0 (and everything that depends on it,

Bug#387329: mawk: this is isatty(), which should be allowed

2006-09-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: mawk Version: 1.3.3-11 Followup-For: Bug #387329 Calling ioctl(TCGETS) on random fds is characteristic of a program that uses isatty() to determine whether fds are terminals or not; libc implements this operation by trying TCGETS and seeing if it succeeds. Here's a little program that

Bug#339085: coreutils: You can't make this change. Not now, and quite probably never.

2006-06-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
I could say that I think you're seriously underestimating the problem here, but you probably think I'm seriously overestimating it, and we're not going to get anywhere playing is-not, is-so games. Instead, I'll ask again: What do you see as the advantage of removing support for these older

Bug#339085: coreutils: You can't make this change. Not now, and quite probably never.

2006-06-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/3/06, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a detail clarification... HP-UX 10.20, arguably the oldest HP-UX version still in active use anywhere, supports the 'tail -n#' syntax. Are you absolutely certain that the version of tail in /bin or /usr/bin supports that syntax? I have this

Bug#339085: coreutils: You can't make this change. Not now, and quite probably never.

2006-06-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/3/06, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:35:07PM -0700, you wrote: detail, as of POSIX-1992. I know for a fact that this is the case for releases of Solaris up to and including (2.)8, and I strongly suspect That's simply not true. Solaris has obsolete syntax

Bug#339085: coreutils: You can't make this change. Not now, and quite probably never.

2006-06-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 6/3/06, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: [And, for the record, official end-of-life dates have approximately zero effect on whether or not GCC drops support for a system, and are therefore not useful evidence

Bug#339085: coreutils: You can't make this change. Not now, and quite probably never.

2006-06-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: coreutils Version: 5.96-3 Followup-For: Bug #339085 I want to add emphasis and additional justification to Josh Triplett's request that the old (POSIX-1992) command line syntax continue to work. On this issue, I speak primarily as a (semi-retired) GCC maintainer. Every other month or so

Bug#367165: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#367165: octave2.1: please put runtime libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib/octave-VERSION

2006-05-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:07:21AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: What do you mean by it causes prelink to barf? This: # prelink -mR /usr/bin/octave /usr/sbin/prelink.bin: /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73/liboctinterp.so: Could not find one of the dependencies # A workaround is to set

Bug#367165: octave2.1: please put runtime libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib/octave-VERSION

2006-05-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: octave2.1 Version: 1:2.1.73-8 Severity: wishlist octave puts three shared libraries in /usr/lib/octave-VERSION rather than give them proper sonames. $ ldd /usr/bin/octave-2.1.73 linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) liboctinterp.so = /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73/liboctinterp.so

Bug#367167: prelink: should follow RPATH/RUNPATH

2006-05-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: prelink Version: 0.0.20050901-1 Severity: wishlist If you have a binary with a DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH tag pointing at a particular directory, prelink should look in that directory for libraries when processing that binary. For example: consider /usr/bin/octave-2.1.73 from the current

Bug#367140: beagle: poor handling of very large home directory

2006-05-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: beagle Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: normal I have a very large home directory: $ find . -type f | wc -l 547269 $ find . -type d | wc -l 24091 On an otherwise idle system, if invoked with BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG, Beagle's file system indexer takes *twenty hours* of 100% CPU and continual

Bug#366782: beagle: indexer hangs forever in the middle of its run

2006-05-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: beagle Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: important I'm experiencing a semi-reproducible beagle hang. The symptoms are that it will get 'stuck' in the middle of an indexing run and never proceed, even if the system is totally idle. It doesn't always trigger on the same file, hence

Bug#365905: gnucash: displays no text in menus and other chrome unless LC_ALL=C

2006-05-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: gnucash Version: 1.8.12-8 Severity: normal Since some upgrade or other - it was either the move to X 7.0, or a C library update that messed with the locales, I'm not sure - gnucash spews error messages (to console) on startup and then displays no text in any chrome (menus, toolbars,

Bug#355815: bad interaction: .bash_logout, su - root, clear_console, xterm

2006-03-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: bash Version: 3.1-3 Severity: normal .bash_logout now invokes clear_console to get rid of any history in the scrollback. This is good, but there's a cute interaction effect which means that logging out of a su - root session in an xterm causes the entire screen to go black for a second,

Bug#349301: quodlibet-plugins: random album plugin doesn't respect one-song mode

2006-01-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: quodlibet-plugins Version: 20051218-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch If you have the random album plugin enabled, you're in the album view, and you ask for one-song playback, quodlibet finishes the current song (if any) and then proceeds to play track 1 of a random album. When that track

Bug#348378: smart-notifier: does not start (DBus policy error)

2006-01-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: smart-notifier Version: 0.23-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Per instructions, I set up smartd, started my usual X session, and then ran smart-notifier from within the session. It immediately quit with errors: $ smart-notifier Traceback (most recent call

Bug#348378: smart-notifier: does not start (DBus policy error)

2006-01-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm not sure what's wrong here, but if I had to guess, I would be guessing that it oughta be asking for the session bus, not the system bus...? Only maybe then it doesn't work? Yeah, it is meant to be on the system bus, because it needs to communicate from a process running as root to a

Bug#343687: status from upstream

2006-01-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Upstream has incorporated my patch into their development trunk. They are willing to consider putting it on release branches too, but request that we report whether it works first. Wouter, you're in the best position to find that out...? I think they'd like to know that it runs properly as well

Bug#343687: forwarded to upstream

2006-01-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
I filed upstream bug #323114 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323114 to increase the odds of the patch getting incorporated into the official sources. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#343687: More bug #343687

2006-01-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
Here's a patch-format suggested fix. I am trying to get people on #debian-devel to help me test it. zw --- xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/xptcstubs_linux_m68k.cpp.old 2006-01-08 14:16:57.0 -0800 +++ xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/xptcstubs_linux_m68k.cpp 2006-01-08

Bug#324717: status?

2006-01-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
It has been quite some time since there was any activity on this bug. Meanwhile the X 6.9 packages have hit unstable. Is there any reason to believe that the bug might have been fixed in that version? I am willing to turn DRI back on and see what happens, but not if there's no chance the bug has

Bug#341623: quodlibet: randomly hangs (spinning), requiring kill -9, in between tracks

2005-12-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Here's the patch I worked out following the discussion on IRC yesterday. It includes a single retry if the initial set_state(NULL) fails in __load_song, and some streamlining of control flow. I also have init() bump the GStreamer default debug level from NONE to ERROR, so that future problems of

Bug#341623: quodlibet: randomly hangs (spinning), requiring kill -9, in between tracks

2005-12-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:15:49PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:27 -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:27:03PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Can you download the SVN version (http://svn.sacredchao.net/svn/quodlibet/trunk/quodlibet) and see

Bug#341623: quodlibet: randomly hangs (spinning), requiring kill -9, in between tracks

2005-12-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: quodlibet Version: 0.15-3 Quodlibet will occasionally get to the end of a track and then freeze. When this happens, one or both of its two processes will be spinning through some sort of thread synchronization primitive [strace shows an endless stream of calls to futex()], consuming 100%

Bug#338907: binutils: shared libopcodes should depend on shared libbfd

2005-11-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: binutils Version: 2.16.1cvs20051109-1 Severity: minor libopcodes.so references a few symbols from libbfd (the exact set will vary by architecture, but bfd_get_arch should appear always): $ nm --dynamic /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.16.91.so | grep ' U ' U abort U bfd_get_arch

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