Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

On Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:15 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Package: amanda-common > Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3 > Severity: normal > > I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails > complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as > user

Bug#986597: Screen Capture of gammastep-indicator

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:43:31 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:19:36 -0700 > Felix Lechner wrote: > > Would you mind raising this issue upstream? > > [1] > > Done. https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep/-/issues/31 I have closed the upstream bug. I'l

Bug#1052362: wpasupplicant: Fails to authenticate to iPhone 14 Personal Hotspot

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:24:46 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Package: wpasupplicant > Version: 2:2.10-12 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com I inadvertently solved this by upgrading the kernel from linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 to linux-image-6.5.0-0.d

Bug#724014: pavucontrol: Output settings are forgotten and must be set again: Bookworm

I am seeing similar to what Gerard ROBIN saw. I have two machines, both using HDMI monitors. I find that the quickest way to restore sound is Configuration -> Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output -> Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (unplugged) (unavailable) [or similar] -> Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output.

Bug#1057482: gitolite3: Installation proceedure could be better documented.

Package: gitolite3 Version: 3.6.12-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I did a normal installation of the gitolite3 package on Bookworm. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#1057237: debian-installer: Debian 12 (Bookworm) on Ace Magic T8Plus: Installation Report

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, I took delivery of two Ace Magic T8+ computers recently. https://www.acemagic.com/products/t8plus I am bringing one up as a router running Debian 12.2 (Bookworm). A full hardware probe of

Bug#1052362: wpasupplicant: Fails to authenticate to iPhone 14 Personal Hotspot

Package: wpasupplicant Version: 2:2.10-12 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? A new installation on a Lenovo Yoga 13. https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=019117605e * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was

Bug#1032852: Error message clue:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:41:43 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > > Already fixed in hw-detect 1.155: > * Fix files removal for non-accepted firmware packages (See: > #1032377). > > I can confirm that, when running with no preseed, I now see the license agreement and can accept it. My

Bug#1034444: www.debian.org: Incorrect information in https://www.debian.org/releases/

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, Apparently https://www.debian.org/releases/ has some errors. See the discussion at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/04/msg00602.html and the two (so far) replies. Thank you.

Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 07:57:34 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 04/04/2023 at 01:46, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > Everything seems to be working as intended… > > Yes. The package is found but rejected because of licence issue. This > is the expected effect of "Fix files removal for

Bug#1032964: Enhancement: Option to have d-i install a connection for Network Manager

Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, Users can currently preseed wireless connections. A possible enhancement is: if preseeding included installing Network Manager (NM), to optionally provide the AP credentials to

Bug#1032963: debian-installer: Option to encrypt wireless passwords in preseed file, please.

Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, When using a preseed file to configure one's wireless interface, one usually needs a password for the access point. Currently, as far as I know, the only option is to use "d-i

Bug#1032852: Partial preseed: no netcfg entries.

On the T520, I tried again. This time I had the preseed file (attached) with all netcfg entries commented out. I got as far as the network setup stuff. When I told it to try the wireless, it replied that the passphrase was too short. Well, of course it was too short: d-i never prompted for a

Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:31:39 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Really ? I had the license agreement screen during the package > selection and installation step. Yup. In neither of the two experiments I ran this morning did any license prompt show up. One was preseeded, the other not. -- Does

Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:39:17 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Charles > > Thanks for the bug! Inline are a few questions / things I've seen from > the log: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > I can see that d-i's firm

Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:23:56 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 12/03/2023 at 22:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > > Warning: as described in bug #1032377, the firmware package > firmware-ipw2x00 should be reject for requiring license approval. > Kibi fixed the typo

Bug#1032473: debian-installer: Put the Show Password in Clear prompt above the Password prompt

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, In a normal installation, one is prompted for information that is highly confidential, such as passwords and encrypted partitions. In the regular (non-GUI) installer one moves

Bug#1031704: Wish: Timeout for presentation mode

Package: xfce4-power-manager Version: 4.16.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, Presentation mode is very nice for watching movies, etc. However, one can forget that one has turned it on. And apparently I'm not the only one.

Bug#592834: Seeing this under bookworm/sid

The unattended upgrade of grub failed (due to the fact that I had replaced the hard drive and used dd to copy sector for sector from the old one to the new, and that changed the identity of the hard drive). Per the instructions in the unattended upgrade message, I ran the following: root@white:~#

Bug#592834: Seeing the same thing.

root@grissom:~# cat /etc/debian_version 11.6 root@grissom:~# uname -a Linux grissom 5.10.0-20-686 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.158-2 (2022-12-13) i586 GNU/Linux root@grissom:~# free totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem: 228Mi43Mi63Mi

Bug#959972: Obsolete binaries?

On Bullseye (11.5), needrestart seems to think that nextcloud-desktop is using (or trying to use) an obsolete binary. One solution would be to provide a backport. With nextcloud-desktop running, needrestart reports that my user is running an outdated binary. Shut it down, and needrestart no

Bug#845166: Seeing similar with spaces

I seem to see the same with ASCII spaces (0x20) in the SSID. However I can create the connection using nmcli, and then selected it from the GUI. root@ideapc:~# pre network-m network-manager 1.30.0-2amd64 network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3amd64 root@ideapc:~# cat

Bug#900287: owncloud-client-cmd requires /etc/owncloud-client/sync-exclude.lst and ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:27:37 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > Please test the new version of owncloud-client available in Debian > experimental and reply to the bug whether this issue is fixed yet. Really? After adding experimental to a stable (Bullseye) system, I ran:

Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:47:09 +0100 Jose M Calhariz wrote: > > Hi, > > what is your local mail server? exim4, postfix? > > Jose Calhariz Postfix. But the default on Debian is exim. Sorry to take so long to answer this. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Bug#993634: xfdesktop4 doesn't always change backgrounds at specified intervals. Regression?

Package: xfdesktop4 Version: 4.16.0-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Using the Desktop program on Buster, one may set the background to change every day, and it does so. * What exactly did you do (or not

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:45:17 +0200 Holger Wansing wrote: > I wonder if "the easiest time to select an alternative init system is > during the installation process" is correct English. > > Maybe better "the best time ... " ? Much better, although both are literally true. From an native American

Bug#988530: Again...

Just had the same thing happen with version 3.5.51 on Bullseye. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Bug#990051: xfce4-sensors-plugin tries to run hddtemp, complains when it cannot find it.

Package: xfce4-sensors-plugin Version: 1.3.0-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, I did a new installation of Debian Bullseye, with xfce4. Upon "apt upgrade", I got an email from the hddtemp package as follows:

Bug#988530: base-passwd breaks amanda over SSH.

Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.49 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I did an upgrade from Buster to Bullseye. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I followed

Bug#986597: Screen Capture of gammastep-indicator

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:19:36 -0700 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Charles, > > > Unfortunately, I use sway, a Wayland compositor, where the indicator > does not appear at all. Would you mind raising this issue upstream? > [1] Done. https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep/-/issues/31 You might

Bug#986597: gammastep-indicator fails to report status

Package: gammastep Version: 2.0.2-4 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I installed gammastep on my Lenovo T61 to test it. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#985853: debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:49:06 -0400 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > Well none of the examples ever have spaces before # for comments. > The documentation page you linked to doesn't even mention comments at > all. I would agree that perhaps it should. I have certainly >

Bug#985755: Similar situation: IBM Thinkpad R51

I am seeing a similar situation on an IBM Thinkpad R51 with Bullseye. root@dragon:/media/disk/dragon# uname -a Linux dragon 5.10.0-4-686 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.19-1 (2021-03-02) i686 GNU/Linux root@dragon:/media/disk/dragon# lspci -s 2:2 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless

Bug#985755: debian-installer: Bullseye netinst Installer doesn't find RTL8723DE Network Hardware

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:02:25 -0400 Kenneth Parker wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: sea7k...@gmail.com There is a lengthy discussion of the problem on the Debian User list, starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01089.html -- Does

Bug#985463: Fw: Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038)

Forgot to hit "Reply All". Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:23:53 -0600 From: Charles Curley To: Laurent Bonnaud Subject: Re: Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timest

Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038)

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:10:45 +0100 Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > I did a test installation using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from > 2021-03-15 (Debian bullseye/11), chose the LVM option, and noticed > that once the system is installed and boots, the kernel complains > with this message: > >

Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:28:26 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On 1/24/21 4:50 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > OK. This might be a bug in the i386 iso - as you've seen, we can't > > test all i386 easily. This might just be a regression. Given that > > we're about to release 10.8

Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:50:54 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > These are the machines with Geode but limited to 256M memory? As a > matter of interest, what are you using them for - what's the use case > - because 256M is marginal now, I think. It's actually 223M, the remainder used for the

Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:07:22 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > 8.6 is old - I'd be surprised that 10.7 firmware iso wouldn't > > > work. > > > > I didn't try 10.x. 8.6 was what I had handy, i.e. it came up first > > in the midden. However, debian-10.4.0-i386-netinst.iso also fails > > to

Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:53:30 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > * The NIC finding software failed to detect the two NICs. This has > > worked in the past. > > > You'll likely need the firmware .iso including the non-free firmwares > - though I'm surprised that itr doesn't find the

Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, Please see Comments/Problems below. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: DVD Image version: debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-DVD-1.iso Date: Jan 20 2021 16:36 MST Machine: FIT-PC 1

Bug#892082: Related bug??

I wonder if this is related to a bug I hit -- and I may have solved. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980271#15 for the details and a workaround. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Bug#980271: More network issues, cardbus issue??

I tried a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet adapter, CE38-100BTX, which uses the xirc2ps_cs driver. It runs, if slowly, on an installed system. But on installation, the software fails to detect it also. I noticed in the log on console F4 a message: pcmcia-socket-startup: chdir to /etc/pcmcia failed: no

Bug#980271: Addendum: network issues

I fixed (?) the network issues by putting a 10MB hub between the Tecra and the rest of the network. Other than the collision light lighting up the night, it works fine with a data rate of about 1 MB/sec. That, however, did not fix the detection issue. I still get no network during installation.

Bug#980271: installation-reports: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Installation report Bullseye

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD-ROM Image version: debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-netinst.iso Date: 14 January 2021 Machine: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Partitions:

Bug#980203: linux-image-5.10.0-1-686:i386 ipw2200 returns bogus MAC address. Security implications????

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:19:45 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 05:55:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On boot, NetworkManager does its thing correctly, and gets the > > machine on the network. However, I use DHCP with fixed addresses. > > Getting

Bug#980203: linux-image-5.10.0-1-686:i386 ipw2200 returns bogus MAC address. Security implications????

Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.4-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Testing the Bullseye installer lead to several installations on this computer, an IBM R51 Thinkpad, which uses the IPW2200 kernel module and

Bug#973050: Another instance, on needrestart 3.5-2

Also, oddly enough, on a Geode LX 800, specifically a Fit-PC 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fit-PC From reportbug: ... -- Package-specific info: needrestart output: Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date. Services to be restarted: systemctl

Bug#939411: amanda: merged /usr and tar path problem in /etc/amanda-security.conf

Package: amanda-client Version: 1:3.5.1-2+b2 Severity: normal File: amanda Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installing amanda clients on a) Debian 10 (buster) systems upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch), and b) installing Debian 10 fresh. * What exactly did

Bug#934250: Solved, I think.

On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:06:04 + "Debian Bug Tracking System" wrote: > Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. More information. 1) This does not appear to be a problem with packagekit, but with systemd. Removing packaged from the system appears to have solved the problem

Bug#934250: packagekit broken, blocks Apache2, gives error message in apt

Package: packagekit Version: 1.1.12-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch) to 10 (buster) yesterday. Since then problems with packagekit have affected my ability to use other software. * What exactly did you do (or

Bug#902243: Additional reason for request

3.17 has a new API version number, meaning changes in the protocol. While the new API *should* be transparent to clients, client developers might care to test their clients. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts

Bug#902243: gpsd 3.17 in stretch backports?

Package: gpsd Version: 3.16-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? gpsd 3.17-5+b1 is available for buster and sid. Any chance you could make it available for stretch backports? I maintain a client for gpsd, and would like to be able to test it against 3.17

Bug#900287: owncloud-client-cmd requires /etc/owncloud-client/sync-exclude.lst and ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/

Package: owncloud-client-cmd Version: 2.2.4+dfsg-2 On a fresh bare metal installation of Debian 9.4 stretch, with no GUI, I installed owncloud-client-cmd. root@dzur:/etc# pre owncloud libowncloudsync02.2.4+dfsg-2amd64 owncloud-client-cmd 2.2.4+dfsg-2amd64

Bug#857569: closed by Eduard Bloch <e...@gmx.de> (Re: Bug#857569: apt-cacher-ng: Upgrading failed on jessie using backports)

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:25:42 +0100 Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > It is not a good idea to draw conclusions where you have no data. > > I don't, you have sent all data. The way you run the commands is > wrong, you need to use the -t option. OK, here is what I didn't tell you.

Bug#857569: closed by Eduard Bloch <e...@gmx.de> (Re: Bug#857569: apt-cacher-ng: Upgrading failed on jessie using backports)

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:30:04 + ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > Sorry to tell you that but you seriously failed to RTFM. Please follow > the instructions at > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ . Why do you draw that conclusion? As a matter of fact, I

Bug#857569: apt-cacher-ng: Upgrading failed on jessie using backports

Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 2-1~bpo8+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I attempted to do a normal upgrade: -- root@freeman:~# time apt-get upgrade ; date Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Bug#853151: dpkg status changes prior to seeing this problem

From the logwatch email the next day. - dpkg status changes Begin Installed: linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64:amd64 4.9.2-2~bpo8+1 Upgraded: libgd3:amd64 2.1.0-5+deb8u8 => 2.1.0-5+deb8u9 linux-image-amd64:amd64 4.8+77~bpo8+1 =>

Bug#853151: linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: Also on linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #853151 Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie) lead to installation of linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I

Bug#801349: This Bug May be Upstream.

This may be an upstream bug. I pulled in the emacs 24.5 source and compiled it. I do not see the appointment notifications on it. wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.gz Also, testing in terminal mode ("emacs -nw") does not produce the notifications. -- The right of the people to

Bug#801349: emacs does not notify for appointments. appt mode.

Package: emacs Version: 46.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have used emacs' appointment capability extensively for years. It notifies the user of an appointment on jessie (emacs 23) but does not do so on wheezy (emacs 24). * What exactly did you do

Bug#797591: gvfs: Installation did not set up group fuse, possibly other setup.

Package: gvfs Version: 1.22.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? After installing Jessie on clean hardware, I installed the gvfs and libimobiledevice so as to access an iPhone. Instructions on using this software I found on the Internet indicated I

Bug#763957: Confirm 763957. More information, and a test case.

Using libreoffice-calc 1:4.3.2-1~bpo70+1 amd64 on Debian 7.7 as updated (wheezy). See the attached test case. If you open this as is, you will see conditional formatting in portions of rows 4 and 6. It should be in all used rows and columns except rows 1, 2, and 3. The following should give you

Bug#716878: alarm-clock-applet: Requires an old version of libnotify

Package: alarm-clock-applet Version: 0.3.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I upgraded from Debian 6.0.x (Squeeze) to 7.0 (Wheezy). On attempting to run the applet from the console, I got an error message that it could not find libnotify.so.1, and it

Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

Package: amanda-common Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3 Severity: normal I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as user backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you never log onto the user backup