Bug#984555: Fwd: Bug#984555: gavodachs2-server: fails to install/upgrade. breaks on executing SQL script.

2021-03-11 Thread James Van Zandt
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:08:06 +0100 Markus Demleitner < msdem...@ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > > createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: database "gavo" already exists > > Creation of gavo database failed; assuming it's already there > > and carrying on. > > This means that there has been a

Bug#966509: Info received (Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault)

2020-08-09 Thread James Van Zandt
geeqie with the --disable-clutter option does run here. Thanks! I propose a wishlist item: It would be nice if --help would work even without the --disable-clutter option. (Though there is a man page.) On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 2:39 PM Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-08-08 Thread James Van Zandt
Sounds good. I'll check it out. On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 1:33 PM Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > I am about to upload a git snapshot of geeqie to Debian unstable, in > which I will close 966509, since it adds a --disable-clutter option, > which should make it possible to run with or without clutter. > >

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-08-05 Thread James Van Zandt
Thanks! Though none of the discussion I saw there mentioned the g_strsplit: assertion failed message. I'll hope for the best. On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:19 PM Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:02:43 -0400 James Van Zandt > wrote: > > Package: geeqie > > V

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-07-24 Thread James Van Zandt
Sorry, it already says image.use_clutter_renderer = "false" On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:13 AM Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:21:03 -0400 > James Van Zandt wrote: > > >Alas, no. Same symptom. > > > >FWIW, I'm attaching the t

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-07-24 Thread James Van Zandt
wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:08:26 -0400 > James Van Zandt wrote: > > >Thanks, I'll do that when I get a chance. > > > >In the meantime (since I assume the package is working for you), could > >you compare our shared library versions? If we're out of sync,

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-07-23 Thread James Van Zandt
22 Jul 2020 20:02:43 -0400 James Van Zandt > wrote: > > Package: geeqie > > Version: 1:1.5.1-11 > > Severity: important > > X-Debbugs-Cc: jim.vanza...@gmail.com > > > > /tmp/bug > > > > I cannot do anything with the information you give. >

Bug#966096: geeqie: immediate segfault

2020-07-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.5.1-11 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: jim.vanza...@gmail.com /tmp/bug -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64

Bug#944575: calibre cannot find libGLX_mesa.so.0 and fails to launch

2019-11-12 Thread James Van Zandt
I haven't knowingly tinkered with OpenGL. The plugin dependencies look the same here: home:/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/plugins $ ldd *|grep GL libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x7f561f412000) libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x7f561ec18000)

Bug#944575: calibre cannot find libGLX_mesa.so.0 and fails to launch

2019-11-11 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: calibre Version: 4.3.0+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, calibre won't launch here: home:/usr/lib $ calibre qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig for QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags(), depthBufferSize -1, redBufferSize 1, greenBufferSize

Bug#926787: ghostscript: "filter failed"

2019-04-10 Thread James Van Zandt
Yes, this is the same as #926576. You may merge them.

Bug#926787: "filter failed" in CUPS, error log says "Unable to determine number of pages"

2019-04-10 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: ghostscript Version: 9.27~dfsg-1 Severity: normal Most print jobs fail with "filter failed". Only acroreader is able to print PDF files. The entry in /var/log/cups/error_log is: D [09/Apr/2019:20:17:06 -0400] [Job 1747] GPL Ghostscript 9.27: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 D

Bug#921593: accent translations

2019-02-15 Thread James Van Zandt
I am attaching a patch that does the following: There were translations (HTML or unicode or both) for several specific normal text characters (a, o, n, etc.) with accents. I added translations for rest of the accents on p. 52 of the TeXbook using pre-composed characters where available,

Bug#921593: accent translations

2019-02-11 Thread James Van Zandt
Ack. I see some problems in that last patch. Please hold off implementing it - I'll submit a correction.

Bug#921593: add translations for accents

2019-02-11 Thread James Van Zandt
There were translations (HTML or unicode or both) for several specific accented characters. I discovered how to translate macros using characters with combining class "above", and added those translations as the default. I repeated that for accents \` (grave), \' (acute), \hat (circumflex),

Bug#921593: bibtex2html should transate math characters with overhead accents

2019-02-06 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: bibtex2html Version: 1.99-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I wish bibtex2html could translate math characters that have accents. In my .bib collection, I have a few abstracts with math characters that have accents. One such document is at

Bug#921278: bibtex2html: Lacks several math-related translations

2019-02-03 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: bibtex2html Version: 1.99-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I maintain several large bibtex files, including one devoted to numerical analysis papers, with abstracts that use a lot of math notation. I have collected some of the required translations into a latex

Bug#920136: __gmpz_limbs_write

2019-01-23 Thread James Van Zandt
>I suspect second local installation of gmp/nettle/gnutls in /usr/local. You're right! root@home:/usr/local/lib# ls -l libgmp* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188388 Jul 22 2017 libgmp.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 914 Jul 22 2017 libgmp.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 22 2017

Bug#920136: libgnutls30: symbol lookup error...undefined symbol: __gmpz_limbs_write

2019-01-21 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: libgnutls30 Version: 3.6.5-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, Sun 20 Jan 2019 10:25:49 PM EST I upgraded several packages on Jan 16. Since then, many programs (including cupsd, apt-get, and apt) fail like this: /usr/lib/apt/methods/http:

Bug#914574: xfce: With dual monitors, "extend to the right" setting is lost when monitors are power cycled

2018-11-24 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.4 Severity: normal File: xfce Dear Maintainer, I have a dual monitor setup, normally configured with "extend to the right". I leave the computer running all the time, but I power down the monitors when I'm not using them. Every time I turn them on, or after several

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-24 Thread James Van Zandt
afael Laboissière wrote: > [Moving this discussion from Bug#914373 into debian-octave.] > > * James Van Zandt [2018-11-22 13:34]: > > > > [snip] > > > > Please provide a file /usr/share/doc/octave-statistics/README.Debian > > with a note something like

Bug#914391: octave: "unimplemented function" helper overlooks functions in package subdirectories

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: octave Version: 4.4.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Octave now has a very helpful feature which points the user to functions available in packages: octave:1> help random error: help: the 'random' function belongs to the statistics package from Octave

Bug#914380: octave-geometry: invalid DESCRIPTION lines generate errors when installing or removing any Octave package

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: octave-geometry Version: 3.0.0-6+b2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The DESCRIPTION file for this package has invalid lines - continued lines that do not start with a space. They generate warning messages when any Octave package (not just this one) is installed or removed,

Bug#914377: python3: syntax error in rtupdate hook prevents configuration

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: python3 Version: 3.7.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, python3 fails to configure, as follows: $ sudo dpkg --configure python3 Setting up python3 (3.7.1-2) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python3.7... File "/usr/share/pyzo/pyzo/yoton/clientserver.py", line 81

Bug#914374: function gevrnd mistakenly claimed to be "not yet implemented"

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: octave Version: 4.4.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Octave claims this function has not yet been implemented for Octave: octave:4> help gevrnd error: help: the 'gevrnd' function belongs to the statistics package from Octave Forge but has not yet been implemented.

Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure

2018-11-22 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: octave-statistics Version: 1.4.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm a long-time user of Matlab. One of the things that's always annoyed me is that they put so many functions into toolkits that cost extra. I've appreciated that Octave made the statistics functions available with

Bug#903514: Deadlock in _dl_close join-ing threads accessing TLS (was Re: gimp won't launch)

2018-08-10 Thread James Van Zandt
Awesome, thanks! On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 5:27 PM Alexis Murzeau wrote: > On 09/08/2018 00:22, Alexis Murzeau wrote: > > On 08/08/2018 00:59, Alexis Murzeau wrote: > >> severity 903514 important > >> thanks > >> > >>> Reassigning to glibc with affects on openblas and gimp as this is > caused > >>>

Bug#903879: openblas

2018-08-03 Thread James Van Zandt
The current version of gimp is incompatible with openblas (#903514). julia and libjulia0.6 currently depend on libopenblas-base. I suggest that they should instead depend on the virtual packages libblas.so.3 and liblapack.so.3 (which can also be provided by liblapack3 and libblas3, resp., and

Bug#903514: gimp won't launch

2018-08-03 Thread James Van Zandt
Thanks, Benedict - the same solution worked for me. Specifically: sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base- libopenblas-dev- \ libblas3 liblapack3 libblas-dev liblapack-dev Unfortunately julia and libjulia0.6 were also removed here, since they depend on libopenblas-base. I

Bug#903514: GIMP won't launch

2018-07-18 Thread James Van Zandt
I note that, according to the strace log, gimp successfully read in 138 plugins, but failed on the very first plug-in that was a Python script. That can't be a coincidence. - Jim Van Zandt

Bug#903514:

2018-07-14 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: gimp Version: 2.10.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I may have the same problem. I updated many packages yesterday, and today gimp will not launch. Christoph reported that opening a .png file generated a splash screen then error messages

Bug#860138: scipy handles error messages poorly

2017-04-11 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: python-scipy Version: 0.18.1-2 I was running a program under the debugger pdb, and a bug generated this message: (Pdb) n TypeError: TypeErro...0, 1).",) > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/optimize/minpack.py(212)_root_hybr() -> shape, dtype = _check_func('fsolve', 'func', func,

Bug#860063: fsolve docs should state that it cannot solve over- or under-determined problems

2017-04-10 Thread James Van Zandt
Package: python-scipy Version: 0.18.1 I have a MATLAB program that uses fsolve() from the optimization toolbox. I found that scipy offers a similar function. I spent a fair amount of time translating my program into Python, only to discover that the scipy implementation (unlike the MATLAB one)

Bug#747292: gdm3: unable to log in

2014-07-06 Thread James Van Zandt
I have been running stable. After a power outage, my system came up with VCs but no display manager login screen. Eventually I found that gdm3 was not installed. sudo apt-get install gdm3 failed because due to a missing dependency. I resorted to sudo apt-get install -t unstable gdm3 which