Bug#1067588: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/lvm2 failed with return 1.

2024-03-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
ly converted. On 03/24/2024 08:30, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 12:04:35AM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > As you can see below, lines 25 and 26 of the hook > > script look in a path starting with "/lib" > > > > [...] > > 25

Bug#1067591: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dmsetup failed with return 1.

2024-03-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dmsetup Version: 2:1.02.196-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's dmsetup package. Please allow me to draw your attention to a possible improvement. It's very similar to one I just reported for the lvm2 package. Eidently they share the same

Bug#1067588: E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/lvm2 failed with return 1.

2024-03-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.03.22-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's lvm2 package. Please allow me to draw your attention to a possible improvement. I humbly suggest reconciling where lvm2 writes its rule files 56-lvm and

Bug#989706: Now it works for me too (Was: [...] DeprecationWarning from csvclean)

2024-02-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
t; Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:37:14 -0800 > From: tony mancill > To: 989706-d...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#989706: csvkit: DeprecationWarning from csvclean > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 04:08:09PM -0

Bug#1043240: pandas 1.5 -> 2.1?

2023-12-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Rebecca, Julian and all science minded pythonistas of debian, great and small! I like your correspondence about upgrading from version 1.5 of pandas to 2.1. It's open, scientific and explores the ideal of proceeding wisely in a matter of public interest. My humble thoughts are: 1.)

Bug#1057439: Thanks for the update (Was: datamash: "antimode"...)

2023-12-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Very good, Erik. Happy holidays, Kingsley On 12/09/2023 18:13, Erik Auerswald wrote: > [...] > I have just pushed a fix for this issue to the datamash development > repository: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=datamash.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4b48a8ac04ea9813fb83952e51ed87af44cbf6a --

Bug#1057439: datamash: "antimode" returns lowest, instead of least common, value

2023-12-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: datamash Version: 1.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining datamash. I like that it lets shell scripts calculate statistics. The main reason I'm writing is datamash's "antimode" statistical grouping operation did not work as I expected. datamash's man page says

Bug#1055815: python3-sympy: nsimplify() fails with: KeyError: 'extended_nonnegative'

2023-11-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python3-sympy Version: 1.12-6 Severity: normal Thanks for maintaining Debian's cool python3-sympy package. If you happen to have the time, and are so inclined, feel free to share any thoughts you may happen to have on whether it might be improved to not crash when asked to nsimplify()

Bug#1052596: Maybe tell user when input to Poly() == 0

2023-09-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report another open source computer algebra system said my input equals zero. You can see this is so at Bash's shell command line with $ mathomatic -e "((a - b) - (((a - b) + (c - d) + (e - f))/3)) + ((c - d) - (((a - b) + (c - d) + (e - f))/3)) + (e - f) - ((a - b) + (c - d) +

Bug#1052596: python3-sympy: sympy.Poly() fails with: GeneratorsNeeded: Cannot initialize from 'dict' without generators

2023-09-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python3-sympy Version: 1.12-6 Severity: normal Thank you very mcuh for maintaining Debian Linux's "python3-sympy" package. It's interesting and sophisticated. Please allow me to draw your attention a possible bug. I can elicit it with just 2 lines of code. Here is how: $

Bug#987185: Upgrading pypy3 fixed it for...

2023-02-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi guys, I had a similar problem. Maybe you'll be interested in how I fixed it. I also got from __future__ import annotations ^ SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined But, mine happened after root$ aptitude reinstall python3-numpy with version

Bug#1029659: AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?

2023-01-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python3-reportbug Version: 11.6.0 Severity: important Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's python3-reportbug package. I love the ideal of freely cooperating. I happened to notice version 11.5.1 crashed with $ reportbug Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#1022740: miller: Maybe versions newer than 5.x siliently drop data

2022-10-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: miller Version: 6.4.0-1 Thank you very much for maintaining miller. I like, use and respect it. The main reason I'm writing is to report a circumstance where miller ignores an empty row of data and moves all subsequent rows up. I don't want to over-react, but I'm worried

Bug#1011255: mathomatic: "Simplify"ing powers can lead to "Complex" results and NaNs

2022-05-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: mathomatic Version: 16.0.5-4 Severity: normal Dear Tony, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's mathomatic package. It's colorful and easy to use. The main reason I'm writing is to give a specific example suggesting, at least to yours truly, that ol' mathomatic might try to

Bug#1010184: miller: Parse error on token "1e+"

2022-04-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: miller Version: 6.2.0-1 Severity: normal Hi Stephen, Thanks again for maintaining a convenient Debian package of John Kerl's cool "mlr". I happened to notice mlr doesn't seem to recognize numbers in scientific notation with explicitly positive exponents. Since awk seems to work with

Bug#1010046: miller: Negative exponent elicits 'cannot parse DSL expression' and 'Parse error on token "-"'

2022-04-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: miller Version: 6.2.0-1 Severity: normal Hi Stephen, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's miller package. I'm so impressed with how practical and sophisticated it is that I'm inclined to describe it as "an intellectual tour de force". The main reason I'm writing

Bug#1003378: More data for Bug 1003378

2022-01-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I tried again. This time, I did $ aptitude install kde-standard and then tried adding the same .mp4 file to Kdenlive's project bin. Kdenlive didn't crash this time, but it 1.) openned an orange error window that says "Cannot open file

Bug#1003378: QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified...

2022-01-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 21.12.1-1 Severity: important Hi Padrick, Thank you for maintaining Debian's kdenlive package. It can be a lot of fun! I seem to have found a bug after upgrading to version 21.12.1-1. I ran kdenlive on the command line user$ kdenlive & then followed the menu

Bug#998363: certbot: Too many flags setting configurators/installers/authenticators

2021-11-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: certbot Version: 1.18.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for generously sharing your time and skill. It's not a crisis, but I humbly suggest improving a certain error message to lead users to faster fixes. When I do root$ certbot certonly --apache --manual

Bug#989706: csvformat has a similar warning

2021-06-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
$ echo -e "1,2,3\n4,5,6\n7,8" | csvformat -d , -D , /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unittest2/compatibility.py:143: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.10 it will stop working 1,2,3 4,5,6

Bug#989706: csvkit: DeprecationWarning from csvclean

2021-06-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: csvkit Version: 1.0.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for sharing your valuable time and skill to maintain Debian's csvkit package. Here's a one-liner that causes its "csvclean" command to complain, at least on my computer. bash$ echo -e "1,2,3\n4,5,6\n7,8"

Bug#988613: gnumeric: SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault from /usr/lib/goffice/0.10.44/plugins/plot_surface/surface.so

2021-05-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.44-1 Severity: normal Dear Dmitry, Thanks again for maintaining the very cool and useful gnumeric package for Debian's epic distribution. * What led up to the situation? A head wind of bugs mightier than a biblical plague of locust swarming through

Bug#988403: gnumeric: http://www.gnumeric.org/v10.dtd and http://www.gnumeric.org/v9.xsd do not exist

2021-05-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.48-1+b2 Severity: minor Hi Dmitry, I happened to notice 2 URLs in the second line of a gnumeric work book do not exist. They are http://www.gnumeric.org/v10.dtd and http://www.gnumeric.org/v9.xsd You can see this is so by using the attached file

Bug#988397: gnumeric: [GOData::get_value] Wrong number of coordinates (given 2 - needed 1)

2021-05-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.48-1+b2 Severity: normal Hi Dmitry, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's gnumeric package! Here's a bug report that gnumeric's developer named Jean asked me to file. He would prefer it is filed at gitlab.gnome.org. Maybe that would be easier for you

Bug#977579: Yes, Andreas helped (Was: Bug#977579: gnumeric: Please ask upstream...)

2020-12-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 12/18/2020 09:58, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Thursday, 17 December 2020 3:22:28 PM AEDT Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > Thank you very much for maintaining gnumeric! > > Thank you for your kind words. You're welcome! And thanks for the links to 1.) Andreas' report of now(

Bug#977579: gnumeric: Please ask upstream to increase the precision of "=now()" to at least milliseconds.

2020-12-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.47-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Dmitry, Thank you very much for maintaining gnumeric! I like it very much and have used it many times. The main reason I'm writing is to politely ask you to please forward something like an enhancement request or bug report to

Bug#973512: RuntimeError: dictionary keys changed during iteration

2020-10-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: onioncircuits Version: 0.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you for maintaining onioncircuits. Much like the tenet of patron privacy that public libraries hold dear, I love the ideal of voters using TOR to privately and safely explore new ideas without fear of repercussion

Bug#972121: ImportError: cannot import name 'load_emacs_shift_selection_bindings' from...

2020-10-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: xonsh Version: 0.9.22+dfsg-1 Severity: important TLDR; Add a dependency on at least version 3.0.7-1 of python3-prompt-toolkit. Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining the cool looking package named "xonsh". I've often wanted to combine python's array math with shell

Bug#969399: bash-completion: Hang completing ~userame inside command substitution solved by upgrading

2020-09-01 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.11-2 Severity: minor * What led up to the situation? 1.) Using version 1:2.9-1 and 2.) Typing $ egrep -i keyword $( find ~kin^I 3.) but bash hung, and didn't respond to pressing control-c.

Bug#967401: ginkgocadx: version `WXU_3.0.5' not found

2020-08-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: ginkgocadx Followup-For: Bug #967401 For what it's worth 1.) version 3.0.4+dfsg-10 of the libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 package seems to have caused ginkgocadx to complain with ginkgocadx: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0: version `WXU_3.0.5' not

Bug#961313: Thanks! (Was: Bug#961313: pyspread: Fix example in package's tutorial?)

2020-05-23 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Dear Andreas, Thank you very much! Sharing your tech skill so quickly and generously are all fine qualities! Kind regards, Kingsley On 05/23/2020 12:45, Andreas Noteng wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Looks like Pyspread is not correctly rendering the markdown

Bug#961313: pyspread: Fix example in package's tutorial?

2020-05-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: pyspread Version: 1.99.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Andreas, Thanks for pyspread. I installed version 1.99.2-2. I tried an example in its tutorial. pyspread->Help->Tutorial says "Select the top-left cell and type: python 1 + 5 * 2" but when I type python 1 + 5

Bug#958280: https://wiki.debian.org/DokuWiki says no farming yet

2020-04-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
At least to me https://wiki.debian.org/DokuWiki seems to make contradictory claims about whether Debain supports farming. https://wiki.debian.org/DokuWiki#Configuration_of_multisite_support_.28farm.29_with_virtual_hosts suggests it works, but

Bug#958280: dokuwiki: Firefox says "404 Not Found" for URL of newly created multisite farm animal

2020-04-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: dokuwiki Version: 0.0.20180422.a-2 Severity: normal Hi Tanguuy, Thanks for maintaining Debian's dokuwiki package. I like the simplicity of not depending on a database. I've been using dokuwiki for years. The main reason I'm writing is I'm worried I may have found a bug. But maybe I

Bug#951561: lyx: Clicking on a cross-reference goes to the wrong page

2020-02-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: lyx Version: 2.3.4.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining lyx! It has been a venerable and trustworthy tool for many years! The main reason I'm writing is I may have discovered a small bug. Basically, some cross-references lead to the wrong pages.

Bug#950524: apt: Please let users specify how deeply to update the dependency tree

2020-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: apt Version: 1.8.4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for helping keep Debian's admin tools so cool! It seems to me that managing software complexity is becoming more important as Debian acquires more packages. The main reason I'm writing is to humbly suggest a

Bug#950467: Maybe upgrading the cython3 package fixed it

2020-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report I'm now looking at a cool sage: prompt. Since the last error message also alluded to cython > ImportError: > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sage/libs/gap/element.cpython-37m-i386-linux-gnu.so: > undefined symbol: GAP_EnterStack_ I tried manually upgrading the

Bug#950467: Nice catch, Tobias! Up for another? (Was: Install, run & crash w/ ...)

2020-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
. > > Best, > Tobias > > On 2/2/20 9:13 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > ImportError: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgsl.so.23: undefined > > symbol: cblas_ctrmv > > > ii libgsl23

Bug#950467: sagemath: Install, run & crash w/ "---> 15 app.initialize()"

2020-02-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: sagemath Version: 9.0-1 Severity: important * What led up to the situation? Trying to run sage immediately after installing it. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? $ sage * What was the outcome of this action?

Bug#946451: +1

2020-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Yes, please upgrade to version 4. So, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#807996: This may still be a bug in 2019

2019-10-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
First of all, thank you very much for maintaining apt. It seems to me that Debian's fine system administration tools, like apt, make the life of system administrators easier. The main reason I'm writing is I may have replicated the bug originally reported here. In 2019. While trying to upgrade

Bug#942357: Unencrypted logical volume and Stable's encrypted worked

2019-10-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Here's more info. 1.) Testing's installer worked when I asked it to create an UNencrypted logical volume. 2.) The 2019-09-08 Stable AMD64 distribution successfully installed an encrypted logical volume. 3.) Similar bug reports are #935973 and #927165. Thanks, Kingsley --

Bug#942357: debian-installer: Install and boot fails with... Volume group "-vg" not found

2019-10-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: debian-installer Version: AMD64 Testing October 7, 2019 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for your efforts to make Debian available to so many people. I've been testing the installer. The main reason I'm writing is that I seem to have uncovered a (wait

Bug#941830: pypy3: "import numpy" complains with: "Original error was: No module named 'numpy.core._multiarray_umath'"

2019-10-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: pypy3 Version: 7.1.1+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Thank you very much for maintaining pypy3. It executes code I wrote 2X as fast as python3. The main reason for this bug report is I happened to notice pypy3 failed to import a math module named "numpy". Here's how I elicited the error:

Bug#901931: Me too after upgrading timidity-daemon from 2.13.2-40.2 to 2.14.0-8

2019-09-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I upgraded the timidity-daemon package. I suspect it ran /var/lib/dpkg/info/timidity-daemon.postinst Line 48 appears to me to add the SERVER_GROUP "timidity" to the "audio" group. The result? No sound! Not even the shrill, bowel constricting voices of Gilbert Gottfried

Bug#939295: kdenlive: Warnings after upgrading to version 19.08.0-1

2019-09-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 19.08.0-1 Severity: normal Hi Patrick, Maybe it'd be helpful if I relay warnings that appear on my console after upgrading from version 18.12.3-1 to 19.08.0-1. Here's how I elicited them: Open a console window and at its bash command line prompt type $ kdenlive

Bug#778357: Yes, I agree that failed "apt-get update"s should not return 0

2019-07-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi guys, Thank you very much for filing this bug report and trying to make Debian more reliable. I agree with Patrick and Philipp. When "apt-get update" fails, it should not return an error status of 0. Scripts routinely check the exit status of command, and assume they worked if 0 was

Bug#928274: python-openopt: Here is a script to test all of the examples

2019-04-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python-openopt Version: 0.38+svn1589-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I tested an example script that comes with the package named "python-openopt". It failed. I emailed the package's maintainer a few days ago. No reply.

Bug#925316: TypeError: type.__new__(metaclass) is not safe

2019-03-22 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: sagemath Version: 8.6-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Thank you for maintaining sage. I look forward to using it. The main reason I'm writing is to report a bug. I typed... root$ aptitude install sagemath on a computer with piecemeal updates from Debian's unstable

Bug#924448: Debug data! (Was: gimp: Bug#924448: segfault when using measuring tool)

2019-03-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
asked yesterday, yes, they do repeat. 8 times. On 03/19/2019 14:28, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Hello Kingsley G. Morse Jr., > > > > My main concern?>> The normal way of eliciting a back trace from> within > > gdb didn't work.> > The non repeating lines were

Bug#924448: gimp: Bug#924448: segfault when using measuring tool

2019-03-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
, the stack traces to have some similar code. Thank you very much for finding the similar bug! So, Kingsley On 03/18/2019 18:22, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Hello Kingsley G. Morse Jr., > the backtrace of the crash you reported seems to be quite > similar to another bug reported in #908549.

Bug#924448: Da stack trace

2019-03-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I elicited a stack trace from gdb by 1.) redirecting output to a file (gdb) set logging on /tmp/gimp.gdb.log 2.) and defining a function that requested a back trace after running gimp (gdb) define mc >file gimp >r >bt 1000 >^d

Bug#924448: Duplicating in gdb blocked key board (mostly)

2019-03-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Another clue: After gimp crashed in gdb, I couldn't type anything in any xterminal. However, pressing ctl-alt-F1, to go to an old school console, worked. That let me kill gdb's process and fix my key baord. Another clue, maybe: gdb reported Thread 1 "gimp" received signal SIGSEGV,

Bug#924448: gimp: Measure tool -> click on image -> Segmentation fault

2019-03-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gimp Version: 2.10.8-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining gimp! It's very, very useful! I seem to have found a way to crash it. Maybe you can too. (And ultimately, fix it.) * What led up to the situation? 1.) Run gimp from the command line

Bug#909935: Now the developer says it looks like a bug

2018-10-01 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Gnumeric's developer dug a little deeper, and wrote "For some reason Gnumeric thinks your symbols differ only in case. That looks like a bug." So, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#909935: exact() fixes/works around it

2018-09-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
A gnumeric maintainer whose name rhymes with "Amadeus" suggested using exact(). On GIMPNet's #gnumeric channel. Like =if(exact("♂","♀"),"The same","different") He seemed to think it's intentional. I dunno. But exact() seems to work for me. So, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we

Bug#909935: gnumeric: =if(...) fails

2018-09-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.43-1 Severity: important Hi Dmitry, 1.) Thanks for maintaining debian's gnuemric package. 2.) It rocks. 3.) Maybe I found a bug. A tiny spread sheet it attached. It has only one cell. It is just an if() statement. It compares the male

Bug#894852: OK, thanks (Was: Here's a URL to that core dump of qemu's segfault)

2018-04-05 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hey Michael, Thanks for your polite and informative email. It all makes sense. I wish us the best of luck with version 2.12! So, Kingsley On 04/05/2018 08:17, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 05.04.2018 07:55, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > It's at > > > >

Bug#894852: Here's a URL to that core dump of qemu's segfault

2018-04-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
It's at http://loaner.com/core_of_qemu_SIGSEGV.1.gz You should be able to decompress it with a command like: $ gunzip kingsleys_stupendous_core_dump.gz So, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#890848: 1.75g -> 0.24g (Was: A smaller test ...)

2018-03-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 03/16/2018 22:38, Dan Dennedy wrote: > [...] > reduced from 1.75g RES to > [...] > 0.24g Looks good, Dan. Thank you very much, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#890848: Well, well, well! (Was: A smaller test case ...)

2018-03-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
nch) and test this > out... > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:20 AM Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <j...@kdenlive.org> > wrote: > > > On 17.02.2018 05:55, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > > I'm happy to provide you with an even smaller and > > > easier test

Bug#884268: Fixed?

2018-02-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
kdenlive's upstream maintainer, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote that he pushed a fix into branch 'Applications/17.12'[1]. That's the good news. The bad news? I tested debian's version 17.12.1-1 and it was still broken. I worked around it again by changing

Bug#889493: tech-ctte: Please review if systemd is reliable enough to be the default

2018-02-04 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Phil, I find I often benefit from other people's point of view. If you happen to have the time, and are so inclined, and it would be comfortable, feel free to elaborate on your comment in bug report #889493. I'm particularly curious why you wrote it had no merit. So, Kingsley -- Time is

Bug#889493: tech-ctte: Please review if systemd is reliable enough to be the default

2018-02-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: tech-ctte Severity: important First of all, thank you very much for sharing your time and expertise with the debian project. I'm happy to report I've been using it 24x7 since 1996. The main reason I'm writing is that it seems to me 1.) the committee decided in 2014 that systemd

Bug#884268: Worked around by editing profiles.xml

2018-01-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hey Patrick, I'm happy to report I worked around the bug by changing line 6 of /usr/share/kdenlive/export/profiles.xml from acodec=vorbis to acodec=libvorbis Someone using the nick name "furq" on freenode's #ffmpeg channel showed me that ffmpeg's web site recommends using

Bug#884268: gdb back trace after installing libavcodec57-dbgsym

2018-01-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Here's gdb's back trace of the seg fault, but with debugging symbols for libavcodec57. -- Time is the fire in which we all burn. #0 move_audio (sf_size=, venc=0x9e40ddc0) at src/libavcodec/vorbisenc.c:1073 save = input = len = cur = 0x0 frame_size =

Bug#884268: Could kdenlive be passing a bad acodec option to melt and libav*?

2018-01-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hey Patrick, When rendering to .webm, kdenlive passes acodec=vorbis to melt. Here's an example $ /usr/bin/melt /tmp/saved.mlt in=0 out=63 -profile atsc_1080p_25 -consumer avformat:/home/kingsley/tmp/test.webm f=webm vcodec=libvpx acodec=vorbis crf=23 vb=0 quality=good aq=6

Bug#885971: libgdal20 depends on version 1:8.300.1+dfsg-1 of libarmadillo8

2017-12-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Patrick, I'm happy to report that upgrading the package named libarmadillo8 from version 1:8.200.0+dfsg-3 to 1:8.300.1+dfsg-1 seems to have fixed it. Why? I suspect because melt uses /usr/lib/frei0r-1/facedetect.so, /usr/lib/frei0r-1/facedetect.so

Bug#885971: melt: Segmentation fault

2017-12-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: melt Version: 6.4.1-6+b1 Severity: normal Hey Patrick, Happy new year. I'm chasing another bug. When I run melt on the command line, it crashes with $ melt Segmentation fault kdenlive does too. gdb's full back trace and valgrind's log for melt are attached. It looks to me

Bug#884268: kdenlive: Rendering to .webm crashes.

2017-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 12/13/2017 10:44, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 13.12.2017 um 10:35 schrieb Kingsley G. Morse Jr.: > > [...] > > $ melt a_color.xml > > [...] > > And there is no crash? Yes. You are correct. I see no crash. > Can you please provide me somewhere the whole (as

Bug#884268: kdenlive: Rendering to .webm crashes.

2017-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 12/13/2017 09:02, Patrick Matthäi wrote: [...] > What happens if you render your project file > directly with melt? => $ melt > /path/to/project/file.xml Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Yes, my project files are XML, but I usually use the file name suffix ".kdenlive". When I

Bug#884267: OK, done

2017-12-13 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On 12/13/2017 09:00, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > [...] > From a grep through the source code, it is not > available anymore. If you want to report > documentation / wishlist bugs, please do it at > the kdenlive bugreport page > [...] OK I reported bug 387867 at

Bug#884268: kdenlive: Rendering to .webm crashes.

2017-12-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 17.08.3-2 Severity: normal Hi Patrick, I like the free .webm video format. kdenlive used to render to it for me. Unfortunately, now it crashes. Here's how: 1.) $ kdenlive 2.) File->New->Full HD 1080->HD 1080p 25 fps 3.) Project->Add color clip->Clip Color = black

Bug#884267: kdenlive: Where is kdenlive_render.log.XXXXXXXX?

2017-12-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: kdenlive Version: 17.08.3-2 Severity: normal Hi Patrick, Happy holidays! I'd like to use kdenlive's render log to find and fix rendering bugs. I followed the instructions in kdenlive_render's man page to create on by setting the environment variable named "KDENLIVE_RENDER_LOG". I

Bug#883050: python-pandas: Also auto-detect datetime data types by default

2017-11-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python-pandas Version: 0.20.3-10 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's pandas package. I say with little fear of contradiction, its very useful! The main reason I'm writing is to humbly suggest improving read_csv() to also automatically

Bug#882384: ffmpeg: Gratuitous valgrind log

2017-11-25 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi James, Yeah, I saw glib and gobject in valgrind's stack traces too. I agree ffmpeg may not have a memory bug. My only doubt? A dynamic library call might hide one. I see "dl-init.c" in valgraind's stack traces. And, I read the following blunt criticism /* Stupid users forced the ELF

Bug#882384: ffmpeg: Gratuitous valgrind log

2017-11-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Carl, > Nearly all messages seem to relate to melt, not FFmpeg. Thanks for your informed thoughts. > Can you reproduce any issues with ffmpeg (the executable)? > > The crc issue surprises me a little: Can you produce different > output files if you use the valgrind option --malloc-fill?

Bug#882384: ffmpeg: Gratuitous valgrind log

2017-11-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: ffmpeg Version: 7:3.4-3 Severity: normal Hey guys, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's ffmpeg package. It's been an enormous source of fun. In the course of chasing down a different bug, I had the opportunity to run "melt" with valgrind. Valgrind reported more ffmpeg

Bug#881777: Upgrading libdap fixed it

2017-11-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I'm happy to report I seem to have found a solution. I'll reveal it, and humbly suggest improvements to debian's package recommendations and suggestions. The important lines in valgring's copious output appear to be ==5040== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc() ==5040==at

Bug#881777: Want any more data before I try a full-upgrade?

2017-11-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hey Patrick, Feel free to let me know if you'd like any more diagnostic data. I'm thinking about trying... root$ aptitude full-upgrade I expect it would destroy data that might otherwise help diagnose the bug. So, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#881777: (gthumb crashed with ... double free or corruption (fasttop))

2017-11-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
An image viewer and browser named "gthumb" crashed with a similar error message... *** Error in `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer1.0/gstreamer-1.0/gst-plugin-scanner': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x81319610 *** Its Backtrace ...

Bug#881777: gdb output

2017-11-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Running melt in the debugger and waiting for it to crash gives... /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6738a)[0xb7dd438a] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6dfc7)[0xb7ddafc7] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6e806)[0xb7ddb806]

Bug#881777: Workaround

2017-11-17 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Check out the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ in ... $ export MALLOC_CHECK_=5 ; /usr/bin/melt /tmp/mandelbrot.mlt in=0 out=149 -profile /tmp/customprofile3 -consumer avformat:/tmp/melt.mkv properties=lossless/HuffYUV MALLOC_CHECK_ controls how glibc responds to programming errors.

Bug#881777: Maybe this bug is related to #847700

2017-11-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Patrick and David, I seem to recall that my bug was initially limited to only the .mkv format. But, now all renders fail. Even kdenlive projects that used to render to .webm fail. Maybe this bug is related to #847700. In it, David wrote Tested with WebM, MP4, MP4-H265, Webm... The

Bug#881461: frei0r-plugins: Breaks frei0r-plugins (<= 1.1.22)

2017-11-12 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Sebastian, Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. It seems to me you asked a reasonable question: > Why should frei0r-plugins break itself? Through no fault of your own, when I filed the bug report, I 1.) was unaware that a source package named just "frei0r" existed,

Bug#881461: frei0r-plugins: Breaks frei0r-plugins (<= 1.1.22)

2017-11-11 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: frei0r-plugins Version: 1.6.1-1+b1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining frei0r's plugins. They look cool. * What led up to the situation? I wondered why ffmpeg failed to use frei0r plugins as ffmpeg sources. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective

Bug#826701: Same error with 5.0.6+dfsg1-1

2017-07-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
e 4.6.6-3 -> 5.0.6+dfsg1-1 is not supported. The only > supported upgrade between stable versions: 4.6.6-3 -> 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1. > > All other combination are not guaranteed. > > Best regards > > Anton > > > 2017-07-24 21:09 GMT+02:00 Kingsley G.

Bug#826701: Same error with 5.0.6+dfsg1-1

2017-07-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hey guys, Thank you very much for maintaining gnuplot. I love how many options it has. I happened to notice this report's bug seems to also be in a newer version. It was originally reported against 5.0.3+dfsg3-1. I see it with 5.0.6+dfsg1-1. Here's some output that aptitude sent to my

Bug#832801: mv ~/.config/kdenliverc tmp works again!

2017-07-02 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
New symptom: Positions within a kdenlive project's timeline and a clip's effects and transitions weren't synchronized. Same solution: $ mv ~/.config/kdenliverc tmp worked again! That's the good news. The bad news? The aptly named "debugger" (gdb) fixes [mlt_pool] out

Bug#864531: systemd: No sound

2017-06-09 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: systemd Version: 232-25 Severity: normal * What led up to the situation? a.) Upgrading systemd and udev from version 231-9 to 232-25. b.) Trying to play sound. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? a.) root$ dmesg | egrep -i

Bug#863847: gnumeric: CPU hog

2017-05-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.32-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi Dmitry, Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's gnumeric package. I like it! Disclaimer: This is a long and inconclusive bug report. So, Kingsley * What led up to the situation? Maybe copying sheets

Bug#863451: veusz: Segmentation fault

2017-05-26 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: veusz Version: 1.21.1-1 Severity: important O' mighty maintainers o' mega math maps! * What led up to the situation? root$ aptitude install veusz The following NEW packages will be installed: veusz veusz-helpers{a} kingsley$ veusz * What

Bug#860449: python-statsmodels: KaplanMeier.fit() crashes

2017-04-16 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: python-statsmodels Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: normal In a secret underground lab, a solitary caped figure kneels in front of a computer screen. Who is this mysterious genius?? And why has he never been photographed together with tall, dark, handsome Kingsley? A lightning bolt blasts

Bug#832801: [mlt_pool] out of memory

2016-08-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Oops! I forgot to mention that [mlt_pool] out of memory also appears on the console when kdenlive hangs. Sorry, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#832801: Moving kdenlive's config file fixed another bug

2016-08-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
For what it's worth, the workaround I described above $ rm .config/kdenliverc basically seems to have fixed another bug. Here's what happened: $ export MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE=-GL_ARB_draw_indirect ; kdenlive kdenlive->File->Open recent->(a kdenlive project)

Bug#832801: $ rm .config/kdenliverc

2016-07-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I tried $ rm .config/kdenliverc and re-ran kdenlive. It worked! Humble suggestion: Keep this bug open for a month or so, in case the bug reappears. Thanks, Kingsley -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.

Bug#832801: gdb trace with symbols

2016-07-31 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi, Julien Cristau very nicely explained that libgl1-mesa-dri-dbgsym is available in the debug archive. So, I'm happy to report the following gdb trace with symbolic offsets in nouveau: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xa2c17e2e in list_del (item=0x48920048) at

Bug#832801: libgl1-mesa-dri: kdenlive->play clip->nouveau_dri.so->segmentation fault

2016-07-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: libgl1-mesa-dri Version: 11.2.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Sorry, I wish I didn't feel the need to mention thia, but I seem to have stumbled upon a way to elicit a SIGSEGV from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so I was using a video editor named "kdenlive" to

Bug#832800: libgl1-mesa-dri-dbgsym: Please release for i386 architecture

2016-07-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: libgl1-mesa-dri-dbgsym Version: 11.2.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Thanks for helping with mesa. I get the impression maintaining it requires an agile mind. The main reason I'm writing is to politely ask for an i386 / 11.2.2-1 version of libgl1-mesa-dri-dbgsym. When I looked

Bug#826290: libc6-i686: Neither "$ aptitude show" or "$ apt-cache show" says libc6-i686 is a virtual package

2016-06-03 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Package: libc6-i686 Version: 2.22-7 Severity: minor Hey guys, I hope you're well. * What led up to the situation? While installing security patches, aptitude asked if it would be OK to remove libc6-i686, and neither $ apt-cache show libc6-i686 or $ aptitude

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