Bug#672972: Wheezy: VLC player can't play videos

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Hobley
FWIW: I noticed a similar problem on a third party Hewlett Packard machine using an Intel based graphics chipset. Again other video players work fine on the same machine.

Bug#672972: Wheezy: VLC player can't play videos

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Hobley
I am having a similar problem here using Debian (Sid/Unstable) using an ATI Radeon 9000 on a 32 bit IBM compatible computer. The VLC player shows the first frame and does not proceed any further. On the same machine mplayer2 works just fine and plays the same video. There must be something

Bug#693622: Cursor is below bottom of window using web forms

2012-11-18 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 16.0.1-1 Severity: normal When filling in a web form, when the cursor reaches the bottom of the window, it moves below the range of the visible window, rather than scrolling to reveal the line being typed. Resizing the window and moving the scrollbars has no effect

Bug#692106: No option to warn before storing cookies

2012-11-02 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 16.0.1-1 Severity: normal The iceweasel browser has no option to warn before storing cookies. Menu, Edit, Preferences, Privacy, Pulldown: Iceweasel will: Use custom settings for history, tickbox: Accept cookies from sites: ticked There should be a Ask for

Bug#690486: twidge: gives a user error (Bad response: 404)

2012-10-14 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: twidge Version: 1.0.8.1+nmu1 Severity: grave Since 13th October 2012, the twidge client gives a user error (Bad response: 404) and is unable to tweet via the update command. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50,

Bug#688526: The proxy is blocking a website not on the filter list

2012-09-23 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: tinyproxy Severity: normal The tinyproxy filter appears to be blocking a website not on the filter list: keepmusicalive.com -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#685187: Miscellaneous facebook problems / Missing controls

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 14.0.1-2 Severity: normal The browser does not always provide windowmotion controls on frames and windows. The attached screenshot demonstrates the problems. There should be options to force controls and scrollbars to appear in all circumstances. --

Bug#683787: Missing horizontal scrollbar

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 12.0-4 Severity: normal Sometimes the iceweasel browser does not produce a horizontal scrollbar even though the page being viewed is wider than the browser window. At other times the scrollbar will appear when viewing the same website. Point the browser at

Bug#679656: RFP: vget -- veoh downloader

2012-06-30 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vget Version : 0.3.5 Upstream Author : Zapotek zapo...@segfault.gr * URL : https://launchpad.net/vget * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : veoh downloader This is a high resolution video

Bug#657041: Fails to restart following a filename encoding error

2012-01-29 Thread Mark Hobley
More information: The geeqie tool appears to be scanning unrelated directories: The current directory is /usr/empty which contains no files. However, there appears to be some sort of scan going on in an unrelated directory: gettimeofday({1327840818, 798941}, NULL) = 0 read(7, , 65536)

Bug#657041: Fails to restart following a filename encoding error

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Hobley
Here is another error which occured when attempting to revive geeqie: XMP Toolkit error 203: Top level typedNode not allowed I was in the /tmp directory which contained no image files when this error occured. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#657041: Fails to restart following a filename encoding error

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.0-10 Severity: normal The geeqie thumbnail view may fail to restart following a Filename encoding error. A system trace reveals: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1325266, 807019897}) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN},

Bug#656941: Grey film appears after right clicking an image

2012-01-22 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0~b4-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid When browsing a page containing images, a right click event against an image should bring up a context menu. However, sometimes a grey film appears over the remainder of the page. The grey film remains on the page until the page

Bug#623114: middleclick on an application window does not cause focus

2012-01-18 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Wed, 18/1/12, Mark Hobley markhob...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Mark Hobley markhob...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: Bug#623114: middleclick on an application window does not cause focus To: Eduard Bloch e...@gmx.de Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 16:33 --- On Sun, 15/1/12, Eduard

Bug#655998: Cannot stop unresponsive script

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 6.0.2-1 Severity: normal The iceweasel browser randomly pops up a warning box whilst idling as follows: Warning: Unresponsive script A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stopt the script now, or you can continue to see if the

Bug#653810: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-12-31 Thread Mark Hobley
Hi Jonathan. I installed libtext-iconv-perl, and this fixes the problem. It is strange that libtext-iconv-perl was not installed as an indirect dependency somewhere. Cheers, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#653810: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: important Tags: sid The dpkg tool gives a symbol lookup error, when an attempt is made to remove a package manually using dpkg: # dpkg -r ibritish-insane (Reading database ... 109559 files and

Bug#645536: RFP: utelnetd -- a small and efficient stand alone telnet server daemon

2011-10-16 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: utelnetd Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Mark Hobley markhob...@yahoo.deletethisbit.co.uk * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/utelnetd/files/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#638024: [apt] APT::Default-Release considers equivalent suite

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Hobley
There is another oddity occuring. When an attempt is made to remove a package, the sources are being evaluated and removal of the package is denied: # apt-get remove epiphany-browser Reading package lists... Done E: The value 'squeeze' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is

Bug#641990: Clean never option does not work

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: apt Version: 0.8.16~exp6 Severity: normal When apt has finished installing a package, it asks a question as follows: Do you wish to delete previously downloaded .deb files? Accidentally answering Yes will cause all .deb files to be deleted, even if they are being shared across the

Bug#638024: [apt] APT::Default-Release considers equivalent suite

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Hobley
Here is some very suspicious output from apt-get update. I suspect that this may be related to bug 638024: Get:18 ftp://ftp.debian.org experimental/non-free TranslationIndex Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org squeeze Release Err ftp://ftp.debian.org

Bug#511827: cannot paste into leafpad from same instance of leafpad using primary buffer

2011-09-10 Thread Mark Hobley
What seems to be happening is this: Select a piece of text for copying. Now a middle click paste will work only if the text is still highlighted. Unclicking the selected text appears to clear the buffer, making the middle click paste not work. The buffer should not be cleared unless another

Bug#640892: Feature request: Provide an option to invert the tablature

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: etktab Version: 3.2-4 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if there was an option to invert the string order for producing French style tablature (ie the strings drawn EADGBE from top to bottom, with the low E string drawn at the top). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#640843: Save image option missing from right click menu in some circumstances

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 5.0-2 Severity: normal Disable image loading as follows: Edit, Preferences, Content, Load images automatically: Unticked, Button: Close Now visit the following website: http://www.houstonguitar.com/freearticles/majorscale.html There are little boxes on the screen

Bug#640865: Images load automatically, even though image loading is disabled

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 7.0~b4-1 Severity: important There is a bug in the beta version of iceweasel 7, which causes images to be downloaded, even though image loading is disabled. This can be a problem for people on metered internet, who have to pay extra for image downloading. Edit,

Bug#638024: [apt] APT::Default-Release considers equivalent suite

2011-09-04 Thread Mark Hobley
FWIW, if I change /etc/apt/apt.conf to read: APT::Default-Release squeeze ; This causes an error as follows: # apt-get install lilypond Reading package lists... Done E: The value 'squeeze' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources -- To

Bug#638024: [apt] APT::Default-Release considers equivalent suite

2011-09-03 Thread Mark Hobley
Here is a sample /etc/apt/apt.conf // /// // // apt.conf - Apt configuration file // // This file contains configuration entries for the Debian Apt package. // // This file did not exist following installation, so has been

Bug#636960: Enhancement: facility to run didiwiki via the internet superserver daemon

2011-08-07 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: didiwiki Severity: wishlist The didiwiki server currently runs as a stand alone forking server. It would be useful if this could be configured to run via the inetd internet superserver daemon. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (50,

Bug#636908: Add a menubar for improved accessibility

2011-08-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: rox-filer Version: 2.10-1.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream It would be useful if the rox-filer utility provided a menubar in addition to the iconic toolbar. The following accessibility enhancements to the user interface are suggested as part of this proposal: * Provide a menubar in

Bug#634794: cdrom eject button has stopped working

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-2 Severity: normal File: linux The cdrom eject button appears to have stopped working and the eject command does not work either. eject /dev/cdrom This just returns to a prompt, and the drive stays closed. It used to work before when the drives all had

Bug#634794: cdrom eject button has stopped working

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Wed, 20/7/11, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Could you attach full output from dmesg (so we can see what model of CD-ROM we are talking about)? There is nothing in dmesg about the drive, but the system has been up a while. Is there some way I can query for the cdrom drive

Bug#634266: RFP: konstruktor -- A fully featured plastic brick modelling system

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: konstruktor Version : 0.9-beta1 Upstream Author : Park Joon Kyu masterm...@planetmono.org * URL : http://konstruktor.influx.kr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A fully featured plastic

Bug#553311: Issues with LeoCAD

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Hobley
Is there any news on the pieces library? Does it look like this will be a runner? It would be great to see leocad in Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#634108: part of window appears below task bar on 800 x 600 display

2011-07-16 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: merkaartor Version: 0.16.3-1 Severity: normal Part of the main window appears below the task bar on 800 x 600 display. This was observed whilst using the icewm window manager. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (50, 'unstable'), (1,

Bug#633844: geeqie: zoom in or out on full screen also affects combined frames

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.0-8 Severity: normal When an image is viewed full screen (or in an isolated frame), zoom in and out (using the plus or minus keys) also affects the zoom level on the combined frame. This means that before selecting the next image, it is necessary to zoom back out

Bug#633679: lsfollowers gives user error (Bad response: 403)

2011-07-12 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: twidge Version: 1.0.8.1 Severity: normal An error occurs, when an attempt is used to list followers from twitter as follows: twidge lsfollowers twidge: user error (Bad response: 403) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (50,

Bug#618993: option to display menubar on all windows

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Hobley
The iceweasel browser also exhibits this bug. (Tested with iceweasel version 4.0.1). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#606374: The tile stack does not fit on an 800x600 display

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Hobley
I found some command line options to change the layouts and tileset options. Some of the alternative layouts fit ok. We could probably do with two more buttons on the screen: one to cycle the tileset, and the other to cycle through the layouts. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Hobley
Hi Julian. Did you or anybody manage to look at the tcpdump file that I had captured against this bug? FWIW, This problem occurs on all machines that use FTP, not just this one. I think wget also has problem with retrieval of some of the packages over ftp (bug reported pending), so I am not

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Hobley
FWIW, This problem is still occuring with experimental package 0.8.15~exp3: Get:63 ftp://ftp.debian.org experimental/non-free i386 Packages [13.2 kB] Err ftp://ftp.debian.org experimental/non-free i386 Packages Could not connect passive socket. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#631773: RFP: siagoffice -- A lightweight office suite

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: siagoffice Version : 3.6.1 Upstream Author : Ulric Eriksson ul...@siag.nu * URL : http://siag.nu/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A lightweight office suite This is a lightweight office

Bug#525220: Bluetooth problem caused by fake dongles?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Wed, 22/6/11, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: There is a standard USB 'device class' for Bluetooth adapters, which are all handled by the 'btusb' driver. Right. So does that mean that there is a chance that these devices might work in future? Or do we need to be shopping

Bug#525220: Nano Tiny USB 2.0 Bluetooth Adapter

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Hobley
There are some mass market USB Bluetooth Dongles available, which are badged as NANO TINY USB 2.0 BLUETOOTH ADAPTER DONGLE EDR WIRELESS. These adapters have a part number 500792110001, and a package barcode of 200529837. These devices are available from Ebay, and from large online retailers

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Hobley
A strange thing has just happened. I plugged the dongle in to get some information from it, and when I ran hciconfig, it showed as up running: hciconfig -a hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:1F:81:00:01:1C ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 180:1 UP RUNNING PSCAN RX

Bug#525220: Bluetooth problem caused by fake dongles?

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Alexander Heinz mailsanm...@gmx.li wrote: I also have a problem with Bluetooth. I have recently bought a new USB dongle in the store (instead of on ebay) that does not seem to have this problem. The funny thing is that the USB IDs are identical, so the two devices claim

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Hobley
I attached a system trace against #628454, so hopefully, someone can interpret this and tell us what is going wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#525220: Bluetooth problem caused by fake dongles?

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Alexander Heinz mailsanm...@gmx.li wrote: The USB IDs corresponds to CSR but the chip label says ASC AS3620QA. This is a counterfeit. Is very easy to tell. Just open your dongle and check the label on the chip. Bloody hell Alex. I just took your advise and opened the

Bug#628454: Cambridge Silicon Radio - HCI Timeout

2011-06-12 Thread Mark Hobley
I am now using Linux kernel version 2.6.39-2-486 (Debian 2.6.39-2) and bluez version 4.94-1. The HCI timeout is still occuring as I attempt to make the bluetooth system operational: lsusb -v Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Device Descriptor: bLength

Bug#529880: bluez-utils: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Hobley
Ticket number #628454 may be related to this one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#628454: Cambridge Silicon Radio - HCI Timeout following bluez upgrade

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Hobley
Ticket number #529880 may be related to this issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#629402: Add support for joystick devices

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: xgalaga Version: 2.1.1.0-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream We currently have options for keyboard and mouse control. We could do with an additional option for joystick devices here. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50,

Bug#628454: Cambridge Silicon Radio - HCI Timeout following bluez upgrade

2011-06-04 Thread Mark Hobley
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: I am tested on Cambridge Silicon Radio. Work fine. Linux xps-iwamatsu 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 8 13:51:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux I noticed that some of the 2.6.38 release candidates partially worked with the older bluez, and so did 2.6.39-1. As I upgraded

Bug#628454: Cambridge Silicon Radio - HCI Timeout following bluez upgrade

2011-06-04 Thread Mark Hobley
Using lsusb -v, I get a different output to Nobuhiro in some places. Here is my output: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass

Bug#628627: Wrong MSS value listed via -ne options

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-23 Severity: normal Configure the Maximum Transmission Unit and Maximum Segment Size using the ip command as follows: ip route change default via 10.0.0.1 mtu lock 1412 advmss 1372 Now, try to display the kernel routing table with the route command: route -ne

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-05-28 Thread Mark Hobley
I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.39-1 from experimental and rebooted the system. Initially, After typing hcitool inq, the system showed that my mobile phone was present, so it appeared as though bluetooth was at least momentarily partially working. However, from the mobile phone, the computer was

Bug#628438: Make .love files executable via traditional mechanisms ./foobar.love

2011-05-28 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: love Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: wishlist It would be useful, if the resultant .love files could be treated as a normal executable file that worked via the ./foobar.love mechanism. At the moment, attempting to run the file gives an error: ../foobar.love: ./test.love: cannot execute

Bug#628454: Cambridge Silicon Radio - HCI Timeout following bluez upgrade

2011-05-28 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: bluez Version: 4.93-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid There has been a long term problem (approx 3 years) using bluetooth, due to a timeout error occuring when an attempt is made to initialize the bluetooth device. (Debian #525220) However, I recently upgraded the kernel to 2.6.39-1 from

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Hobley
I have done a tcpdump of an attempt to install a file when this error occured. The command was as follows: apt-get install -t unstable linux-image-2.6.39-1-486 FWIW: If I repeat this command ten times, it will eventually work. Mark. ftpcrap.dump Description: Binary data

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Hobley
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release stable ; APT::Cache-Limit 33554432 ; APT::Install-Recommends 0 ; APT::Install-Suggests 0 ; // See Debian bug 613068 Acquire::FTP::Passive ; apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Hobley
I have just tested this again with experimental kernel 2.6.39-rc4-486 (Debian 2.6.39~rc4-1~experimental.1). The problem is still occuring with that kernel build: # hciconfig -a hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:1F:81:00:01:1C ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 180:1 DOWN

Bug#624799: kompozer: sometimes styles table cells with navy dashed outline

2011-05-01 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream If you frequently use kompozer to edit tables, you will notice that occasionally and randomly, kompozer will suddenly decide to style part of the table with a navy dashed outline. Once this occurs, there is no undo

Bug#624728: kompozer: passing a new document name at command line fails

2011-04-30 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream There is a bug in the kompozer editor, which causes a failure as follows: kompozer newfoo.html This should create a new document named newfoo.html and open it ready for editing. However, the following behaviour is

Bug#624251: RFP: joyce -- Amstrad PCW Emulator

2011-04-26 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: joyce Version : 2.2.4 Upstream Author : j...@seasip.demon.co.uk (John Elliot) * URL : http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/Joyce/ * License : Mixed licences Programming Lang: Description : Amstrad PCW

Bug#623983: gambas2: development environment no longer fits on 800 x 600 display

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Hobley
It is not working at 1024 x 768 either. The bottom of the project selector is behind the taskbar, and I appear to be unable to open any projects. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#623966: obexpushd fails to spawn a listening daemon

2011-04-24 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: obexpushd Version: 0.11.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: experimental The obexpushd tool fails to spawn a listening daemon for bluetooth: Here is a system trace: $ strace -f obexpushd execve(/usr/bin/obexpushd, [obexpushd], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) =

Bug#623983: gambas2: development environment no longer fits on 800 x 600 display

2011-04-24 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: gambas2-ide Version: 2.21.0-2 Severity: normal The integrated development environment no longer fits on an 800x600 display. Start up gambas on an 800x600 display and select create new project. The taskbar is missing from the top of the display, and the project type icons straddle the

Bug#623104: RFP: jamvm -- A tiny blue book compatible Java virtual machine

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: jamvm Version : 1.5.4 Upstream Author : Robert Lougher * URL : http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A tiny blue book compatible Java virtual machine This is an

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Hobley
I tried updating apt to a newer version in unstable, and this broke apt altogether: # apt-get install -t unstable apt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done apt is already the newest version. You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to

Bug#623114: middleclick on an application window does not cause focus

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: icewm Version: 1.3.7~pre2-1 Severity: normal There is a bug in the icewm window manager that results in a middleclick event on an application does not cause focus. This causes the bizarre effect that typing additional text following a middleclick paste, causes the text to go to the

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 17/4/11, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Huh! I am trying to install apt, not iceweasel - Why is it doing this crap? You broke your system. Your system must not be broken. Maybe we need a switch here to say only do the task at hand. (Don't try fixing other packages

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 17/4/11, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: PS. Please wrap your lines after about 70 characters, I normally wrap at 76, but this is Yahoo mail. I have now upgraded to apt version 0.8.14.1: apt-get --version apt 0.8.14.1 for i386 compiled on Apr 16 2011 13:14:24 I tried

Bug#619292: browser bombs out when attempting to access google fonts page

2011-03-22 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.11-3 Severity: normal The iceape-browser terminates unexpectedly when an attempt is made to access the google webfonts page. I have made a system trace, and the problem appears to be caused by a floating point exception. I will attach the trace via

Bug#618993: option to display menubar on all windows

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.11-3 Severity: wishlist The iceape browser requires an option to display a menubar on all windows. Visit the following url: ¤http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=21PFid=48Level=5Conn=4DownTypeID=3GetDown=falseDownloads=true

Bug#514846: UK AT keyboard does not work on IBM compatible computers

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 6/3/11, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: what's the status with squeeze or higher? Hi Cyril. I am running on the current version of the package, and the keyboard appears to be working ok for me, so I guess that this is fixed. If noone else claims a problem, then I suggest

Bug#617246: Enhancement: provide facility to import from a flatbed scanner

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: mtpaint Version: 3.31-2+b1 Severity: wishlist There are currently no facilities for interfacing to a flatbed scanner. It might be useful to have a scanning facility. For example, we could have a new menu option: Edit, Import clipboard from scanner. This could provide the typical

Bug#617281: Enhancement: support reading .pnm images in portable anymap format

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: mtpaint Version: 3.31-2+b1 Severity: minor It would be useful for the mtpaint utility to be able to open files in portable anymap format (.pnm, .pgm, .pbm, .ppm), etc, because these are the formats that are produced by the flatbed scanner utilities. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#514846: UK AT keyboard does not work on IBM compatible computers

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 6/3/11, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: what's the status with squeeze or higher? I am not sure. I pinned this package down to prevent upgrade. I'll knock the pin out and try some tests over the next couple of weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#616687: The webserver is listening on blacklisted ipv6

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: thttpd Severity: normal The thttpd web server appears to be listening for ipv6 traffic even though the ipv6 kernel module is blacklisted and not loaded. netstat -a|grep www tcp6 0 0 [::]:www[::]:* LISTEN ^ This protocol is not supported on

Bug#616719: client connections not possible if running as non-root

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: dictd Severity: normal Tags: squeeze The dictionary server no longer accepts client connections, if run as non-root (even from localhost). A tail on a system trace reveals: 13478 read(21, # Internet (IP) protocols\n#\n# Upd..., 1024) = 1024 13478 close(21) = 0

Bug#616719: client connections not possible if running as non-root

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Hobley
Here is the tail end of a system strace when the dictionary server is running from inetd: 13738 open(/usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 19 13738 fstat64(19, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10757105, ...}) = 0 13738 mmap2(NULL, 10757105, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 19, 0)

Bug#616537: right hand edge of toolbars missing on an 800x600 display

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: k3d Version: 0.8.0.2-6 Severity: normal The right hand edge of the toolbars are positioned off screen on an 800x600 display. In the default configuration, this means that the NURBS hyperboloid button and the animation fast forward buttons are not available to 800x600 users. -- System

Bug#616602: Display goes black after using this program

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: zgv Version: 5.9-2+b1 Severity: important The display goes black after using zgv to view a jpg image, and it is not possible to return to a working console. Switching virtual consoles will not revive the display, making it necessary to telnet the machine from a remote for rebooting.

Bug#607683: Video does not stretch to frame on Debian Squeeze

2011-03-04 Thread Mark Hobley
Reinhard Tartler siret...@tauware.de (27/02/2011) wrote: Wild guess, missing firmware-linux* packages? I have just installed fimware-linux-nonfree and restarted the X server. This makes no difference: xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present Mark. -- To

Bug#607683: Video does not stretch to frame on Debian Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Hobley
It looks like there are some differences between Debian Lenny and Debian Squeeze. On Debian Lenny: xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adapter #0: ATI Radeon Video Overlay On Debian Squeeze: xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present The video card is an

Bug#607683: Video does not stretch to frame on Debian Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Hobley
Reinhard Tartler wrote: please attach the full output of the mplayer messages From the broken system: The following messages went to stderr: mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Bug#462866: apt-get stalls on large packages using ftp

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Hobley
This is occuring on my system too. I used to use ftp back in the days of sarge and lenny without issue, so I reckon that there has been some bugs introduced as Debian has evolved. This may be related to the passive socket issue (#613068). Are you getting any of the symptoms shown on that

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Hobley
I am getting another problem with apt that may relate to these ftp issues: apt-get -t experimental install linux-image-2.6.38-rc6-486 The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-2.6.38-rc6-486 : Depends: linux-base (= 2.6.38~rc6-1~experimental.1) but 2.6.37~rc5-1~experimental.1

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Hobley
I have just tested this again with kernel version 2.6.38-rc6-486. This time, no timeout occurs with hciconfig: hciconfig -a hci0 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:1F:81:00:01:1C ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 180:1 DOWN RX bytes:342 acl:0 sco:0 events:10

Bug#525220: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Hobley
A! When I try to bring the device into operational mode, the timeout error occurs, so I guess this is still not fixed in 2.6.38-rc6-486: hciconfig hci0 up Can't init device hci0: Connection timed out (110) Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#613819: problems synchronising time on PII-266 with 2.6.38-rc? kernels

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Hobley
Hi Arthur! Where did you get the kernel from? AFAIK This kernel has not hit experimental yet. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Hobley
I have added Acquire::FTP::Passive to /etc/apt/apt.conf as follows: // /// // // apt.conf - Apt configuration file // /// APT::Default-Release stable ;

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Hobley
I meant to say. I have upgraded apt to version 0.8.10.3 (as installed in squeeze), but the problem still occurs: qqq Up-to-date Important packages in section admin qqq *** Imp adminapt 0.8.10.30.8.10.3Advanced front-end for dp *** Imp adminapt-utils

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-02-14 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Mon, 14/2/11, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Is were some reason for using 0.8.0 version which is somewhere between hell and purgatory? Squeeze released with 0.8.10.3 for example… I don't know what is happening. I think the version keeps going up and down. I

Bug#613068: Could not connect, passive socket

2011-02-12 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: apt Version: 0.8.0 Severity: normal Current versions of apt frequently fail to obtain updates from official Debian ftp archives: Get: 1 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main bluez i386 4.87-2 [560kB] Err ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main bluez i386 4.87-2 Could not

Bug#500459: #500459 debian-installer: ide-floppy module is missing from /dev on installer

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 6/2/11, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org wrote: Since the bug was filled in 2008 there was no activity/patches so i guess there's no interest. Can this be closed? Well, I still use these drives and I installed them on many third party machines. If it is only a case of

Bug#500459: #500459 debian-installer: ide-floppy module is missing from /dev on installer

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sun, 6/2/11, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org wrote: I meant to say. We probably only need this for i386 (32bit) images. This probably would not apply to other architectures. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#525220: Fw: Re: Bluetooth Device: hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Sat, 11/12/10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Please report this bug upstream at https://bugzilla.kernel.org under product 'Drivers', component 'Bluetooth'.  Let us know the bug number or URL so we can track it. Issue tracking numbers relating to this bug are: Linux kernel

Bug#597182: 597182: Foreign addresses are truncated by netstat

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Hobley
--- On Wed, 29/12/10, Jan Engelhardt jeng...@medozas.de wrote: Use ss(8) (with -r option for DNS resolution) from iproute2 instead and the problem won't exist. However, ss is a different tool, and the output is not in the same format as that produced by netstat. I still think we should fix

Bug#607683: Video does not stretch to frame on Debian Squeeze

2010-12-20 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 Severity: normal When mplayer is being used on Debian Lenny, if I resize the window or maximize the player, then the video becomes suitably enlarged to match the frame, allowing the videos to be played full screen, or at an appropriate size.

Bug#583476: ITP: openscad (updates)

2010-12-19 Thread Mark Hobley
I got a couple of compilation errors when I tried to build this (against libqt4-dev): In file included from src/render-opencsg.cc:2: src/polyset.h:8:17: error: qgl.h: No such file or directory In file included from src/render-opencsg.cc:2: src/polyset.h:29: error: field 'polygons' has incomplete

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