Re: Bug in new ext2 ??

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:09:18PM -0400, R. Ransbottom wrote: > > I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. > > After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 > the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it > with the message: > > EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount bec

RE: Bug in new ext2 ??

On 15-May-2000 R. Ransbottom wrote: > > I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. > > After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 > the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it > with the message: > > EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported option

Re: bug!!!!

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:26:44PM +0530, vipin Aravind wrote > potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am > using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and > the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found > that the ps -el >still

Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- break s system

Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a stupid clueless idea, but what if we start the xserver from the > inittab, or at least have some line in the inittab saying that the > Xserver/gdm/whatever will use the vtxx, in the same way that init starts > getty's on his specific vt's ? This is

Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- break s system

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:53:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:33:38AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Note to the other two maintainers. Branden has closed the bug I > > submitted. Based on the information he provided to me in his message I > > feel that you als

Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- break s system

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:33:38AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Note to the other two maintainers. Branden has closed the bug I > submitted. Based on the information he provided to me in his message I > feel that you also should close the bugs I submitted against gdm and > wdm. They should pos

Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- break s system

Note to the other two maintainers. Branden has closed the bug I submitted. Based on the information he provided to me in his message I feel that you also should close the bugs I submitted against gdm and wdm. They should possibly be re-submitted at a lesser severity, but not as critical. Please re

Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- breaks system

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:11:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: xdm > Version: N/A > Severity: critical I don't appreciate critical bug reports that reveal such profound ignorance of the Debian system in general, and of the xdm package specifically. > When installed with apt-get xdm

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

Hi all, Thanks to everyone who vented opinions. I fsck'ed the partition and df and du -s now agree to within a couple of kilobytes (7 in case it matters, with df reporting the larger value). -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yesterday I got an I/O error telling me that the /home file system was > full. Bummer! Checked with df and sure 0% free in /home. Looked all > over /home to find disk hogs and removed a really big .xsession-errors > file---still have to find out

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

Have you changed your partition table? When I did this, I first did a cp -a /usr /newusr on a seperate partition. Then I editted fstab and rebooted. The system worked fine but the old usr directory was still there just not visible. I rebooted using Toms Repair Disk and it showed the "missing" f

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:34:29PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Uhm, the figures concerned are 0.6, 1, 1.6 and 2 gigabytes. I see no > (sensible) way of getting 5% out of those even without doing any math. > Closest I come is 20% ;-) well i said i was too lazy to bother with any calculation

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > > a look at the typescript below: > > > > bash-2.03$ df /home > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday I got an I/O error telling me that the /home file system was > full. Bummer! Checked with df and sure 0% free in /home. Looked all > over /home to find disk hogs and removed a really big .xsession-errors >

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen spoke, and we > listened to: > > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > > a look at the typescript below: > > > > bash-2.03$ df /home > > Filesystem

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen spoke, and we listened to: > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > a look at the typescript below: > > bash-2.03$ df /home > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/

Re: Bug#59683: xdm: when upgrading xdm to gdm xdm daemon fails to shutdown.

> > probably just needs a package script change... :) > You did not provide me with nearly enough information to know what you're > talking about. > I suspect you're assuming that gdm and xdm cannot coexist. They can, but > they need to be careful that don't both try to manage the same server

Re: [bug] Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Do we have a generic way to test whether a daemon is enabled for > > a given runlevel? That is -- one that works with filerc as well > > as sysvinit? > Not yet. At some point debconf will provide that information. I don't see, how debconf can r

Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > When I had this problem, I read the relevant docs ;). Removing the > /etc/cram-md5.pwd file caused authentication to work in the old > (insecure) way. A better solution is to add the appropriate users to > this file. > Stuart: I hope it's something as

Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Eaton wrote: > > > Package: imap > > Version: 4.7-1 > > > > With the new imapd 4.7, it no longer authenticates correctly. All the > > other services still work fine, but imap 4.7 no longer authenticates > > users, all logins are failures.

Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Eaton wrote: > Package: imap > Version: 4.7-1 > > With the new imapd 4.7, it no longer authenticates correctly. All the > other services still work fine, but imap 4.7 no longer authenticates > users, all logins are failures. > > Let me know if there's anything else I

Re: Bug submission

Jordi writes: > As you might guess, bug is still using that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > address. Any more clues? It's reading it from /etc/mailname: vi `which bug` . If you don't want to change /etc/mailname set the environment variable EMAIL to what you want 'bug' to use. man bug . -- John Hasler

Re: Bug submission

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:03:20PM +, David Wright wrote: > > > > Where does "bug" get my email address? (hint, no $EMAIL in profile or > > > > whatever, at least it's not set atm) > > > > > > Well this message that I'm responding to has a Message-ID: > > > which reads Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug submission

Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:15:40PM +, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one > > > old > > > email address. > > > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and n

Re: Bug submission

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:15:40PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one old > > email address. > > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now it's > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > bug sent the

Re: Bug submission

Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one old > email address. > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now it's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > bug sent the bug report as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have looked around to see > where it go

RE: bug 34449 workaround

On 09-Nov-99 Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I'm running into the same problems as reported in bug 34449. Man fails when > I'm not root with "man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted". Is > there a workaround??? Does anyone know if there is a scheduled or already > known fix

Re: Bug in smbmount?

Thu, 04 Nov skrev Debian Mail: > I again have an > ls: n: Input/output error > Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone > experienced similar problems with smbmount? We have the same problems with several linux-boxes here. umount once a day keep the problem away... -- Åsmun

Re: Bug in smbmount?

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Debian Mail wrote: debian >I again have an debian >ls: n: Input/output error debian >Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone debian >experienced similar problems with smbmount? debian > yes, i experienced that problem often when using smbmount, i attribu

Solved! (WAS: Re: problems with "mirror" /// Re: BUG: wu-ftp 2.6.0 !? (was: Mirror bug)

Mirror was the problem. There is a new version of mirror available in potato that fixes the problem. Read the docs for more info... In short: upgrade mirror Thank you all for the help, Regards, Onno

RE: BUG

L PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 8:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: BUG On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > redo the

Re: BUG

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Daniel Haude wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > > would f

Re: BUG

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > would fix the problem rather than reinstall, but a newbie fr

Re: BUG: wu-ftp 2.6.0 !? (was: Mirror bug)

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Onno wrote: > The wu-ftp 2.6.0 server seems to have a serious bug, at least in > combination with mirror. How odd, I just got a mail about this too. mirror doesn't properly implement the FTP protocol, you have to upgrade it. Jason

Re: BUG

raymond ferrari wrote: > > I am utterly disappointed. After two weeks of dealing with installing > debian and trying to learn, my Linux machine has crashed or should I say > frozen. YES. > While trying to read the Debian online help for ethernet 3com cards , my > machine suddenly froze without any

Re: BUG

hi, your problems sound like you may actually have some broken hardware, more than a problem with debian. in my personal experience of using debian since august 1996 the only time it has ever gone wrong on a stable release is when the hardware of the computer i was using was broken somehow (bad r

Re: Bug in gnuplot in the pslatex.trm still exists :-(

This bug in the pslatex driver should be fixed in the latest beta. Wojciech Zabolotny writes: > Dear gnuplot developers, > > I'm very amused, that the old bug, which I've found ca one year ago (and > reported to you) still exists. > Below I attach my bug report. The line numbers has changed in

Re: Bug in XEmacs-20.4 ?

* Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just noticed sth odd with XEmacs-20.4 on slink. > Occasionally, things freeze up in XEmacs. It doesn't > matter what I am doing. Everything freezes. However, > if I hit Ctrl+, its normal. Any keystrokes that > I might have made while it was frozen seem

Re: Bug#44109: root access to xserver

Branden Robinson wrote: > > I just saw no reason to disallow (e.g. not to I'm sorry, I meant i.e., not e.g. > > allow by default) root to connect to the xserver of "it's" maschine. And > > it really annoys me and I'm sure, there're a lot of newbies who feel the > > same. > It's not a matter of b

Re: Bug # 38205?

I've got a set of unofficial slink installation disksets, specificaly for the Adaptec SCSI cards. You can find it at . On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:55:16AM -0500, Nowan wrote: > Is there a work-around for this bug -- e.g., a rescue image that contains >

Re: Bug#42675: Debian install problem on new machine

This would be much better asked on debian-user (bigger audience), so I'm forwarding it there for you. Julian > I have just taken delivery of a shiny new Gateway PIII machine on which I > am trying to install Debian. I have done many debian installs before, so I > am not a raw novice. > > For

Re: BUG ??

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:13:38PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote: > Sami Dalouche wrote: > > > see http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/www/lexique.html and http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/ > > to have more infos (sorry, french links) > > > > the UTC time IS THE reference but the GMT acronym is used in 99% of the > > cases

Re: BUG ??

Sami Dalouche wrote: > see http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/www/lexique.html and http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/ > to have more infos (sorry, french links) > > the UTC time IS THE reference but the GMT acronym is used in 99% of the > cases to say UTC. > > So, wouldn't it be better to use UTC in the install and in t

Re: Bug in slink's dosemu?

Johann Spies wrote: [about dosemu problems] don´t know, what´s going wrong. but i wouldn´t bother. i´ve just ´slinked´ dosemu 0.98.7, installed and am on the way of customizing. i recommend that you forget your version and get the new stable one. hafi

Re: BUG: /dev/null 0600 was: Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jon Marler wrote: > > > I figured it out ... > > > > The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set > > them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. > > Whatever did this is a bug. /d

Re: Bug#34594: Problems with Enlightenment

[ I'm Cc'ing this to all the places I posted, so that this won't happen again ] On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Packages: enlightenment-conf enlightenment-nosound dox enlightenment > > I have Debian Slink with many not-so-system-critical packages from Potato.

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:21:21PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > > > > when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:21:21PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > > > when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar to > > > this > > > (exact wording not known): En

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > > when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar to > > this > > (exact wording not known): Enlightenment cannot find the directory > > /usr/share/enlightenment/conf

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar to this > (exact wording not known): Enlightenment cannot find the directory > /usr/share/enlightenment/config. > > I've checked the directory for proper permissio

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

> As I've already responded, this is not true. D'oh! I've just heard from the author differently, saying an exploit is possible with a little coding. I'll have a fixed version up by tonight. *sigh* Sorry for the confusion. pgpBa2Fq5ceEM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

To hopefully allay any fears, here: > any title command in .Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN will be executed > with rootprivileges: As I've already responded, this is not true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt ls: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory In the MAIN file: title `touch /t

Re: Bug in free?

> free -tos 300 >free.log > > I never get any output while it works fine to the screen. > > Does this work for anyone else? I tried it on my machine with the same result. Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\_

Re: Bug in free?

George Bonser wrote: > > On my system the following command does not work: > > free -tos 300 >free.log > > I never get any output while it works fine to the screen. > > Does this work for anyone else? I tried it and no go. I left off the -s 300 and it worked. What is the delay supposed to acco

Re: Bug in CD-ROM modules ???

ivan wrote: > > Hello, > > This is further to my post last titled "THIRD TIME - please help". I am > sorry but I haven't got a copy because I had to format my Win95 partition > and re-install. > Hey I know the feeling. > No doubt you are all bored of this but I have tried all of the suggestion

Re: Bug#27697: auto-include-dependency failure case

Hi, To cut a long story short, you have some .c files that depend on a .h file. Initially, that .h file does not depend on anything. You have set it up so that the dependency files are created for the .c files, and, sure enough, the dependency files are created for the .c files when th

Re: bug in "make-kpkg modules_image"

Hi, >>"Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> It seems that "make-kpkg modules_image" runs the pcmcia Richard> config script, with a string of \n's to take the Richard> defaults--forcing the package defaults, rather than the Richard> current config. I had to ed

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Pat Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just from the point of view of a typical user, eg, me just doing > a quick scan of the debian-user archives doesn't take all that long. > They're very up-to-date, usually just a day or so behind. Browsing > the archives with navigator presents a nice thr

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -- M.C. Escher On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, I disagree with this point of view. Yes, Debian wishes to support > > > newcomers to Linux. That is why we have

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

gt; >Cc: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, > debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new li

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, I disagree with this point of view. Yes, Debian wishes to support > > newcomers to Linux. That is why we have debian-user. We have a > > responsibility to those new users to "train" them to be "free" users. > > They can only do that if they become

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Suggesting, even strongly, that it is proper proceedure when submitting a > bug, to research the bug reporting system first, and provide useful > information second, doesn't seem onerous to me, and has several practical > uses for the bug submitter, as we

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I disagree with this point of view. Yes, Debian wishes to support > newcomers to Linux. That is why we have debian-user. We have a > responsibility to those new users to "train" them to be "free" users. > They can only do that if they become familia

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Larry Walewski wrote: > > I think your ideas are great. I too am a newbie to Linux. First tried > installing > Caldera's OpenLinux Lite, but couldn't get it to work on my machine with > only 5 megs (probably could've with a little more work). Someone then > pointed me, thankfully, to Debian!

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

On 30 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> I never said "demand" anything. I am talking about "higher > Dale> education" for users, not binding them to a post in the town > Dale> square and giving them 20 lashes. > > ;-

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Hi, >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I never said "demand" anything. I am talking about "higher Dale> education" for users, not binding them to a post in the town Dale> square and giving them 20 lashes. ;-) Well said. I agree with this post, completely. (If yo

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

On 30 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> Umm, no. It would be nice if they did it, but a novce user is > >> perfectly free to just file a bug report. I know I often do. I find

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Rob> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in > > >> exchange for the time the

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Geeze, the crossposting is horrendous. I don't see this as a policy issue, so followups to debian-devel or debian-user only please. Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Make bug reporting any more onerous than it is, and peole > > merely sto

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Hi, >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Umm, no. It would be nice if they did it, but a novce user is >> perfectly free to just file a bug report. I know I often do. I find >> an error, usually that by itself is a frustrating e

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in > >> exchange for the time they expect from the maintainer, and veri

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make bug reporting any more onerous than it is, and peole > merely stop filing reports. I suppose there is something to that. > For the most part the maintainer knows the bugs on a package > better than anyone else, and the maintainers

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Hi, >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in >> exchange for the time they expect from the maintainer, and verify that the >> bug has not been reported already. If

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in > exchange for the time they expect from the maintainer, and verify that the > bug has not been reported already. If it has, it is appropriate to send > the maintainer a confirmation t

Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

Before I start whining ;-) I want to thank Steve for the useful information in his bug report, and although his bug report is a duplicate report, and that is what I am here to complain about, I appreciate his report and am not directing this at him specifically. I have never experienced this probe

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > Package: fvwm2 > > Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing > > at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twic

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

Branden Robinson writes: > Package: fvwm2 > Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 > Severity: normal > > After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing > at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the > attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected th

Re: Bug in Gnome panel command?

No, the panel is compied against an older gtk/gdk. Those packages are rather out of date. Mike Orr wrote: > > I just installed Gnome (0.12-1), and when I try to run panel it says: > > _kruto[p1]:~/exp% panel > panel: error in loading shared libraries > /usr//lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: X

Re: Bug in su or mc ?

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > Hi, > > If I do the followings in X: > > 1. start an xterm; > 2. in xterm give an su > 3. as root (under su) start mc > 4. close the xterm > > I end up with a 100% CPU usage, even when I do nothing. If I give top, I > discover that mc is st

Re: Bug#22557: bo-unstable dir: missing deb file.

Martin Schulze wrote: > > reassign 22557 ftp.debian.org > thanks Oops, I didn't know I could assign the bug to debian.org itself. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#21412: tob deletes system files

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > Please chill out a little and read the emails you got yesterday. I released > tob_0.14-5 yesterday which added the following test > > cleanup () > { > message 'Cleaning up.' > # add a safety check here --edd 20 Apr 98, reg

Re: Bug#21412: tob deletes system files

[ You edited citations and appended/deleted material without showing that you did so. That is considered to be very Bad Taste (TM) as it implies that the person who you cited (ie, me) said things in a different context or order. That is bad style. And I am not amused. --edd ] Tim> With

Re: Bug#21412: tob deletes system files

> Tim> 2. I notice there is currently no mention of bug#21412 in the > Tim> bug-tracking system. Will this bug be considered closed? > > Yes, I closed it via a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please chill out a little and read the emails you got yesterday. I released > tob_0.14-5 yesterday

Re: Bug#21412: tob deletes system files

Tim, Tim> Thanks for looking into this. Well, that's what we're here for ;-) Tim> You are correct that my system is Debian 1.3. I went to Tim> "http://www.debian.org/packages.html";, did a search for tob, found Tim> tob_0.14-4 at Tim> "http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/P

Re: Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854. On 11 Dec 1997 > the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix > it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4. > > My rex system contai

Re: bug in new smail?

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I upgraded to the new smail, and got the message "unexpected end of attribute > in /etc/smail/config" when sending messages. This completely eliminated the > { (really [$sender_host_addr])}} }\ > else {${if def:sender_hos

Re: Bug#9766: magicfilter and (pdf => postscript) problems

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, J.Sigbrandt wrote: > > Hi, > > Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. > The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) [SKIP] > > > use gs to print .pdf > [SKIP] Hi, first of all, thank you very much for yo

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)

On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(259, 15, 63) logical=(64, 63, 63) > > Have you changed your BIOS settings - LBA <-> Large <-> CHS? This might > have messed something up. > > Adrian > I never changed anything in t

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)

On Oct 02, G. Crimp wrote > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(259, 15, 63) logical=(64, 63, 63) Have you changed your BIOS settings - LBA <-> Large <-> CHS? This might have messed something up. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the h

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)

e: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:04:50 -0700 (PDT) From: G. Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lazaro Salem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Lazaro Salem wrote: > If you haven't fixe

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Lazaro Salem wrote: > If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what > your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with > cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present > the same information as far as I remembe

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

On Sep 19, Lazaro Salem wrote > FYI, I also had several primary DOS partitions. MS-DOS sees them all. > I've done it on my system with both versions 5.0 and 6.x of MS-DOS. > If your unseable DOS partitions were primary (just check what cfdisk > sees as DOS partitions: if they are on /dev/?daN with

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present the same information as far as I remember). Just a comment to what Bruce said: > I think

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

There are some dos-compatibility switches in the "expert menu" of fdisk. I think you type "x" to get there. You should BACK UP EVERYTHING (from Linux, since DOS can't read the partitions) before doing this. Write down all of the details of your partitions - their start address, length, etc. Turn on

Re: bug: dpkg/dselect on latex

"G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently installed Debian/Linux 1.1 on my Pentium 100, from the > InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource 6 CD set, Sept 1996 release. [snip] > Setting out to discover what was taking up the 530 Mb of my Linux > partition I discovered the file "/usr/

NEVER MIND: Re: bug?: /etc/init.d/kerneld can't find start-stop-daemon and grep

I wrote: > I just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, and am having a problem > with the scripts that are supposed to start kerneld. > > The script /etc/init.d/kerneld doesn't start kerneld (when it is run > automatically boot time). > ... > So, have I misinstalled 1.3, or ...

Re: bug or feature?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : That said, there are many cases where more than 8 chars would be desirable. : IIRC, using PAM (http://parc.power.net/morgan/Linux-PAM/) would free us from : this limit. AFAIK we have the basis for PAM, but no applications are : PAM-aware yet. I don't know anything about

Re: bug or feature?

On 3 Aug 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : That said, there are many cases where more than 8 chars would be desirable. > : IIRC, using PAM (http://parc.power.net/morgan/Linux-PAM/) would free us from > : this limit. AFAIK we have the basis for PAM, but no applications ar

Re: bug or feature?

Hi, >>"Shaya" == Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaya> Just to get in a point about pam, I've been talking to a person Shaya> here at NRL who is involved with linux, and networking security Shaya> in general, and he feels PAM is flawed in some serious ways. Shaya> He feels that a PAM bas

Re: bug or feature?

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote: > The point of shadow passwords is that the file containing the encrypted > list is not readable without privelege. /etc/passwd which must be > world-readable merely contains x in the password field. > > The documentation on a shadowed system does not sugge

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