Bug#1052990: libc6: snprintf counts unwritten bytes in %n

2023-09-26 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: libc6 Version: 2.36-9+deb12u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: tim.ba...@hitachivantara.com Dear Maintainer, Consider this test case: #include int main(void) { char buf[3]; int n; snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s%n", "foobar", ); printf("%d\n", n); } I

Bug#870369: xfig: window not deleted when quitting via menu

2017-08-03 Thread Tim Bagot
any X client is started. Actually, maybe this is a bug in Xorg in stretch... Yes: this looks very similar to #855206. Sorry for blaming xfig! -- Tim Bagot

Bug#870369: xfig: window not deleted when quitting via menu

2017-08-01 Thread Tim Bagot
e dead window around, the File menu (which is still displayed) does not move with it, but stays fixed in the same position on the screen. This only affects quitting via the menu, not quitting using the Meta-Q keyboard shortcut or by closing the window. Tim Bagot -- System Information: Debian Releas

Bug#870316: sawfish-merlin-ugliness: almost completely broken after upgrade to stretch

2017-07-31 Thread Tim Bagot
lly happened a long time ago upstream.) I assume this causes the loading of merlin.uglicon in ugliness.jl to fail, losing that file's functionality too. The attached patch seems to fix it. Tim Bagot -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (

Bug#784572: file: weak magic for Embedded OpenType (EOT)

2016-07-08 Thread Tim Bagot
> For a quick and dirty fix you can replace > > > # EOT > > 34 string LP Embedded OpenType (EOT) > > with > > 0x40string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 > >0x22 string LP Embedded OpenType (EOT) > > by exploiting the fact these 16

Bug#655741: apcupsd: SNMP driver crash with AP9606 management card

2016-01-08 Thread Tim Bagot
I no longer see this bug in version 3.14.12-1.1. I suspect it has been fixed by other changes to the snmplite driver upstream. -- Tim Bagot

Bug#810257: virtualbox-qt: Keyboard capture doesn't

2016-01-07 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: virtualbox-qt Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, To reproduce: 1. Capture the keyboard for a running guest (or just give the guest window focus if auto capture is enabled). 2. Press a key combination bound by the host system's window manager (e.g.

Bug#784572: file: weak magic for Embedded OpenType (EOT)

2015-05-06 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: file Version: 1:5.22+15-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, A colleague was surprised to find a C++ source file misdetected as Embedded OpenType (EOT). Surprisingly, the magic definition for that type relies on just 2 ASCII bytes: # EOT 34 string LP Embedded

Bug#741960: gcc-4.7: [C++] Bogus narrowing conversion warning when initializing bit-field in union

2014-03-17 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: gcc-4.7 Version: 4.7.2-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Compiling the following as C++ with -Wall: unsigned int n; union U { unsigned int x:8; } u = { n }; results in: $ gcc-4.7 -Wall -c test.cpp test.cpp:2:39: warning: narrowing conversion of 'n' from 'unsigned int' to 'unsigned

Bug#737155: ntp: ntpq: peers command truncates hosts to 15 characters

2014-01-30 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When printing names/addresses of remote hosts, ntpq peers truncates them to 15 characters. This is enough for any IPv4 address, but is often not enough for a DNS name or an IPv6 address. It would be useful to have an

Bug#697944: ifupdown: inet6 manual does not work

2013-01-11 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.5 Severity: normal The manual method for IPv6 does not work. When I try to use it, the interface still comes up with an IPv6 link-local address and, if there is an IPv6 router and autoconf has not previously been disabled, an autoconf address. When 'inet6 manual' is

Bug#697946: ifupdown: inet6 static sometimes gets autoconf address on boot

2013-01-11 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.5 Severity: normal My /etc/network/interfaces configures eth0 like this: iface eth0 inet static # ... iface eth0 inet6 static address ... netmask 64 With static config, IPv6 autoconf should (per interfaces(5)) be disabled by default.

Bug#682772: vpim: does not support ruby1.9

2012-07-25 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: vpim Version: 0.695-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The vpim package installs its modules in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/. This makes it essentially unusable when /usr/bin/ruby is ruby 1.9, which is now the default in wheezy/sid. E.g.: $ itip --help

Bug#678141: nis: group.bygid generation's duplicate handling differs from getgrgid()

2012-06-19 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: nis Version: 3.17-31 Severity: normal Unfortunately, we have some groups containing enough users to exceed NIS's 1024-byte limit on the size of a map entry. (glibc no longer enforces this limit, but we have other NIS implementations on our network that do.) There is a workaround for

Bug#661175: sawfish-merlin-ugliness: Loads unconditionally for all users

2012-02-24 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: sawfish-merlin-ugliness Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, /etc/X11/sawfish/site-init.d/50merlin.jl causes merlin.placement, merlin.sawlet-placement and merlin.ugliness to be loaded automatically for all sawfish users. This makes the package inappropriate for multi-user

Bug#658878: exim4: does not use other smarthost when one fails to resolve

2012-02-17 Thread Tim Bagot
. Thanks. I have since tested this modification on a non-production system, and it does appear to do exactly the right thing, for a single smarthost, for multiple smarthosts all unresolvable, and for multiple smarthosts with at least one still available. -- Tim Bagot BlueArc Engineering, now part

Bug#658878: exim4: does not use other smarthost when one fails to resolve

2012-02-06 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: exim4 Version: 4.72-6+squeeze2 Severity: normal We have Exim configured with 2 smarthosts, for redundancy: dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' [...] dc_smarthost='mailhost.uk.bluearc.com:mailhost.us.bluearc.com' [...] This morning, unfortunately, the second name in that list stopped

Bug#655741: apcupsd: SNMP driver crash with AP9606 management card

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: apcupsd Version: 3.14.10-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After an upgrade, I found that apcupsd would consistently die within a few seconds of starting. I use it to monitor a Smart-UPS 700 with an old AP9606 management card over SNMP. The init script did not report an error, and

Bug#520095: removes the toplevel mountpoint directories and fails to start the next time

2011-09-01 Thread Tim Bagot
! (Normally, of course, it would be a useful addition.) -- Tim Bagot, BlueArc Engineering

Bug#584567: Not a bug.

2011-02-24 Thread Tim Bagot
for Shift+KP_Add and Shift+KP_Subtract (misinterpreted by sawfish as XF86_Next_VMode and XF86_Prev_VMode, respectively). -- Tim Bagot, BlueArc Engineering

Bug#584567: sawfish: Key bindings using shift-backspace no longer work

2010-06-04 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.3.5.2-1 Severity: normal (I am not absolutely certain this bug is in sawfish itself. It could be in one of the xorg packages.) I have a window-scope key binding on S-W-BS. Following a recent upgrade, this has stopped working. Using the Grab... function in the

Bug#567539: initscripts: overflowtmp is too small

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Bagot
in the real /tmp. In other words, if you set MINTMPKB higher than the default value, then this feature is worse than useless. -- Tim Bagot, BlueArc Engineering -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#511781: munin-plugins-extra: apc_nis: line_volt.max is too low for most countries

2009-01-14 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: munin-plugins-extra Version: 1.2.6-8 Severity: normal The config output by the apc_nis plugin includes: line_volt.max 200 Where the normal mains voltage is higher (most of the world), this has the effect of excluding the quantity from the generated graphs. The value should be increased

Bug#466422: gcc-4.2: broken alternatives for amd64 cross target

2008-02-18 Thread Tim Bagot
Source: gcc-4.2 Version: 4.2.2-7 Severity: normal When building a cross compiler targeting Debian-amd64, the executable prefix is x86_64-linux-gnu, but the alternatives are installed using the prefix x86-64-linux-gnu, i.e. with a hyphen instead of the underscore. e.g.:

Bug#466432: bugs.debian.org: source package bugs are shown against binary package

2008-02-18 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I reported bugs #464365 and #466422 against the gcc-4.2 source package, using the Source: pseudoheader instead of Package:, as described at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#additionalpseudoheaders. I did this because the problems I encountered: (a)

Bug#464365: gcc-4.2: patch doesn't solve the problem

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Bagot
resolution (which is how this can work), it's only on the last path component and not recursive, and one of the libX directories for biarch targets will already be a symlink.) This patch needs a bit of tidying, as it won't clean properly. -- Tim Bagot, BlueArc Engineering --- debian/rules.d/binary

Bug#464365: gcc-4.2: amd64 cross-target libstdc++ packaging errors

2008-02-06 Thread Tim Bagot
Source: gcc-4.2 Version: 4.2.2-7 Severity: normal Tags: patch I am trying to build a cross compiler targeting amd64, using the method described at http://www.emdebian.org/tools/crossdev.html: * Build and install cross-binutils * Convert and install libc etc. with dpkg-cross [ NB: libc6-i386,

Bug#463588: dpkg-cross: -a amd64 should search /emul/ia32-linux

2008-02-01 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: dpkg-cross Version: 2.1.0 Severity: normal Suppose I want a cross-compiling environment targeting Debian-amd64. By default, the gcc-4.2 package builds a biarch compiler (which is after all needed to replicate properly the build environment available on an amd64 host), and therefore

Bug#463251: tar: --transform does not apply to symlink targets when creating or listing

2008-01-30 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: tar Version: 1.19-1 Severity: normal tar's --transform option seems to apply to symlink targets when extracting an archive, but not when creating or listing one. (I haven't checked other operations.) # Create an archive with a symlink in $ mkdir d $ cd d $ touch foo $ ln -s foo bar $

Bug#461117: phpbb3: PostgreSQL chokes on schema_data.sql

2008-01-16 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.0~RC7-1 Severity: important /usr/share/phpbb3/schemas/schema_data.sql.gz contains sh-style # comments, which psql doesn't like. phpBB's own installer includes DBMS-specific code to strip them out, and to convert the magic comments # POSTGRES BEGIN # and # POSTGRES

Bug#460931: phpbb3: dbconfig gets wrong schema for MySQL 5

2008-01-15 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.0~RC7-1 Severity: normal This is a fresh install of phpbb3 with MySQL 5 (i.e. the version installed by the mysql-server package), using dbconfig. After applying the workaround for bug #450696, the next problem I noticed was when testing user registration. It returns

Bug#373975: mailutils-mh: send segfaults sending to Debian BTS

2007-11-07 Thread Tim Bagot
; mu_address_t exaddr = NULL; = -- Tim Bagot, BlueArc Engineering

Bug#450429: binutils: Cross install target should remove /usr/lib64 as well as /usr/lib

2007-11-07 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: binutils Version: 2.18-1 Severity: normal If you try to install two different cross-binutils packages on an amd64 host, the second fails because they both contain /usr/lib64/libiberty.a. The install-$(TARGET)-stamp target in binutils's debian/rules includes this line: rm -rf

Bug#373970: munin-node: Overly restrictive regexps in sensors plugin

2006-06-16 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: munin-node Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: normal The sensors plugin incorrectly assumes that in the output of sensors(1) there will always be whitespace after the colon separating label from value. This can cause it to ignore some items. Patch attached. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#373975: mailutils-mh: send segfaults sending to Debian BTS

2006-06-16 Thread Tim Bagot
mailutils-mh recommends no packages. -- no debconf information To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Debbugs-CC: Tim Bagot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: munin-node: Overly restrictive regexps in sensors plugin Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=1804289383-1150467570=:17247 MIME

Bug#353123: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp: initrd thinks root device doesn't exist following upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Tim Bagot
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.15-6 Severity: grave Having got the usual message about upgrading to the same kernel version and having to reboot, I did so, and got this: ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! From the shell it dropped me into, I was able to