Bug#447526: this should be a rc bug

2011-01-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Julien, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:58:26PM +0100, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: It's been a long time since this did hit experimental, even testing now has a more recent version. Did you have a look at it since then? Thanks for pinging me on this bug. I recently restarted into

Bug#567096: dns2tcpd does not answer NS queries

2010-01-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: dns2tcp Version: 0.4.dfsg-5.1 Severity: grave Does anyone actually use this package? Either it is heavily broken or I am doing something wrong. I set up dns2tcpd and a NS record as described in the documentation. However calling dig -t NS on the subdomain times out for the vast majority

Bug#567655: slimrat-nox: man page example uses options that are not explained

2010-01-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: slimrat-nox Version: 1.0-1 Severity: normal The manpage of slimrat is incomplete. The example uses options that are neither explained in the manpage itself nor in slimrat --help. It would be great if you could add the missing documentation, because the example given seems to be a

Bug#494972: differeing syntax of fcron from vixie cron

2010-01-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
severity 494972 normal thanks Hi, fcron uses a different syntax from fcron. Your issue is explained in the FAQ: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html#AEN2849 Where did you look up the syntax for fcron? Maybe this is a documentation bug. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#567096: Acknowledgement (dns2tcpd does not answer NS queries)

2010-01-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
tags 567096 + patch thanks I created a patch for this issue and verified that it does answer NS request in a manner dig can understand. Unfortunately I was not able to test it in a real use case yet. Helmut diff --git a/common/includes/dns.h b/common/includes/dns.h index 435c57f..eebc4f4 100644

Bug#567096: Acknowledgement (dns2tcpd does not answer NS queries)

2010-02-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
found 567096 0.4.dfsg-5 thanks This affects stable, btw. Rhonda can fix it now. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#568128: leafnode: filedescriptor leak in fetchnews.c in getbody_newno

2010-02-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:leafnode Version: 1.11.7.rel-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch In fetchnews.c in function getbody_newno it looks like f is closed in all circumstances. However this is not the case. This function can therefore leak filedescriptors. When it fails to fopen g it leaves f open, but exits

Bug#558603: tor: frequently closes orport without user interaction

2009-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: tor Version: 0.2.1.20-2 Severity: important My system has limits on the allowed traffic that change during the day. I therefore configure tor in a way producing little traffic and open the ORPort during the happy hours. Unfortunately tor manages to close the ORPort before the happy hours

Bug#558603: tor: frequently closes orport without user interaction

2009-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:18:06PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Why would this defeat the purpose of the *ControlPort*? When I open the ORPort via the ControlPort it is closed by some cron script reloading tor. So the changes made to tor via the ControlPort are not persistent, which is wrong.

Bug#559179: mutextrace: package does not contain any documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mutextrace Version: 0.1-1 Severity: important The mutextrace package does not contain any documentation. According to policy section 12.1. a bug should be reported for a missing manual page which is the case. As there is no other documentation in the package it degrades the usability and

Bug#559190: munin-node: upgrading to 1.4.0-1 lost most data on the df and df_inode plugins

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: munin-node Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: important The df and df_inode plugins lost all history about filesystems on lvm since upgrading to 1.4.0-1. The source of this problem is a change in the naming of rrd files. Previously they would be called

Bug#559189: munin-node: please include the cpufreq_ plugin

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: munin-node Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: whishlist Please include the cpufreq_[1] plugin. In contrast to the cpuspeed plugin it does not take a snapshot of the speed, but uses the stats generated by the kernel. As a result it is far more accurate. Helmut [1]

Bug#559188: munin: 1.4.0 broke graphing of sensors_fan

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: munin Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal Since upgrading to 1.4.0-1 munin-graph.log contains lines like: 2009/12/02 16:50:12 [ERROR] Unable to graph /var/www/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/sensors_fan-day.png : parameter '#00CC00' does not represent a number in line

Bug#559308: base-passwd: the adm group should be named log

2009-12-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.22 Severity: wishlist From /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz: adm Group adm is used for system monitoring tasks. Members of this group can read many log files in /var/log, and can use xconsole. Historically, /var/log was

Bug#559190: munin-node: upgrading to 1.4.0-1 lost most data on the df and df_inode plugins

2009-12-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Tom, thanks for you very quick and helpful answers (- plural). This is a known issue in munin 1.4.0 upgrading from 1.2.6. It is documented in the upstream release notes, and also packaged in the munin package at: /usr/share/doc/munin/UPGRADING I really suggest that a link to this is

Bug#559308: base-passwd: the adm group should be named log

2009-12-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:27:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: While I agree that it doesn't hurt to have it open, FWIW, I have no plans to work on this and think that the sheer pain of the renaming probably outweighs any benefits from the clearer name. That is what wont-fix is for. Feel free

Bug#559188: closed by Tom Feiner feiner....@gmail.com (munin: 1.4.0 broke graphing of sensors_fan)

2009-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
found 559188 1.4.1-1 thanks Tom Feiner wrote: This bug was fixed in munin 1.4.1. Not exactly. The new version changed the log message, so I assume part of the bug was fixed: 2009/12/05 12:50:11 [RRD ERROR] Unable to graph /var/www/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/sensors_fan-day.png :

Bug#559189: Bug #559189,munin-node: please include the cpufreq_ plugin

2009-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Tom, On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:07:57AM +0200, Tom Feiner wrote: From [1]: - The cpuspeed plugin in the distribution has shown the average and not the instant speed of the system for a while now. But the visuals of the plugin you point out is much cooler. I have been using an old

Bug#538822: dash: fails to install overwriting files from bash

2009-07-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Upgrading dash fails: (Reading database ... 181192 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dash 0.5.5.1-2 (using .../dash_0.5.5.1-2.2_amd64.deb) ... Adding `diversion of

Bug#538822: dash: fails to install overwriting files from bash

2009-07-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:14:26AM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: Could you please provide the output of $ dpkg-divert --list /bin/sh, and readlink -f /bin/sh? $ dpkg-divert --list /bin/sh local diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib $ readlink -f /bin/sh /bin/dash $ We tested many

Bug#538822: dash: fails to install overwriting files from bash

2009-07-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Raphael, On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:41:01AM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: And /bin/sh.distrib points to dash? :-/ No: $ readlink -f /bin/sh.distrib /bin/bash $ You probably also want to know my bash version. It is 3.2-6. I'm not quite sure, I'll take a look at this tomorrow. But unless

Bug#538822: dash: fails to install overwriting files from bash

2009-07-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Raphael, On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:09:36AM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: Ah, right; I really need to get some sleep, the diversion looks fine. Although either you added it manually (did you?) or dash used to use local diversions (instead of setting the package name on the call to

Bug#538930: /usr/share/man/man3/strndup.3.gz: strndup is not declared in string.h

2009-07-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.21-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man3/strndup.3.gz $ man strndup ... SYNOPSIS #include string.h ... $ cat test.c #include string.h #include stdlib.h int main() { char *s; s = strndup(foo, (size_t)2); free(s);

Bug#539354: /usr/sbin/chpasswd: regression: chpasswd lost -e option

2009-07-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/chpasswd chpasswd once had an option -e. It enabled passing encrypted passwords to chpasswd. This functionality was somehow lost after the Lenny release. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#503389: kiki-the-nano-bot: segfaults (a bit complex to reproduce)

2008-10-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: kiki-the-nano-bot Version: 1.0.2+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal No, this doesn't make sense, it just makes kiki crash. (Syntax: $ is shell prompt, (gdb) is gdb prompt and # is my comments) $ rm ~/.kiki.hsc $ gdb kiki-the-nano-bot ... (gdb) run ... # select NEW GAME by pressing enter # go to

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs forever breaks upgrade

2008-10-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: chrony Version: 1.23-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable # /etc/init.d/chrony start Starting /usr/sbin/chronyd... Now it will wait forever. $ ps aux OT | grep /chrony root 8811 0.0 0.1 2572 1088 pts/1S+ 12:42 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/chrony start

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-10-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
If you want to get an answer I urge you to also contact the submitter (me) by either by ccing me directly or by ccing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otherwise it is very unlikely that I eventually catch your comment. See #351856. Given that the whole setup works like a charm for me I think the severity is

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-10-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hallo Michael, Sorry, I don't buy into this argument, but it's nitpicking anyway. The bug has to be fixed. ACK It is not empty. And if it was empty, downgrading would not solve the issue. No, that's not necessarily true. There may be a problem in the shell script for example or in

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-10-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hallo Michael, Have you ever tried using the default config? Yes, no change. I also tried to strace chronyd directly. It hangs in a read from filedescriptor 6 which happens to be /dev/rtc according to lsof, so indeed chronyd *is* hung. Hope this helps. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-10-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello John, I had to downgrade, because chrony also broke suspend2disk[1]... Is this a different bug? If so it should be reported seperately. I explained why this affected ... ...so I could as well have tagged it critical because it affects other applications as well. I can find no

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-10-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi John, When I manually start chronyc and then type a command (sourcestats for instance) it keeps waiting forever. This almost certainly means that chronyd is not running (or is hung). Exactly: or is hung. An hung is a bug. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#569227: ncurses-base: break handling of ctrl-c in xterm and rxvt using bash

2010-02-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Joachim, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:26:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Ever thought of upgrading this two years old, totally unsupported kernel? I followed your advise and upgraded my kernel to vanilla 2.6.32.8. The problem persists in all detail (only that I lost all my old xterms). On the

Bug#568741: ingerman: upgrade failure

2010-02-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: ingerman Version: 20091006-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, I was upgrading my unstable system and saw the following message. | Problems rebuilding an ispell hash file (ingerman.hash) | |

Bug#568741: ingerman: upgrade failure

2010-02-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Thanks for your quick reply. On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote: What are the contents of /var/lib/ispell? $ ls -la /var/lib/ispell/ total 3840 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 Feb 7 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 64 root root4096 Feb 7 13:43 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Bug#569028: nagios-plugins-standard: please move some depends to recommends

2010-02-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: nagios-plugins-standard Version: 1.4.14-1 Severity: normal The nagios-plugins-standard package pulls in tons of dependencies that are completely useless to me. This is the depends header: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3), Unavoidable. libldap-2.4-2 (= 2.4.7),

Bug#569030: /usr/bin/snice: snice 1234 goes into an endless loop

2010-02-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.8-6 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/snice Running snice 1234 goes into an endless loop. It doesn't matter whether the specified pid exists or not. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#569227: ncurses-base: break handling of ctrl-c in xterm and rxvt using bash

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.7+20090803-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software ctrl-c does no longer cause SIGINT. Debugging this issue: When I create a new xterm (or rxvt) as a fork from my windowmanager (awesome) the terminal shows the broken behaviour. I have

Bug#569226: netplug: it polls. this violates the package description.

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: netplug Version: 1.2.9.1-2 Severity: important Let me cite the package description: It's similar to ifplugd, but uses NETLINK instead of regularly polling the link status. This improves power-consumption with laptops, but does not work with all network card. This is the theory.

Bug#569227: ncurses-base: break handling of ctrl-c in xterm and rxvt using bash

2010-02-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Sven, thanks for your very quick reply. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:26:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: I have still some xterms that are not affected open. Those were started in 2009. Before or after you upgraded ncurses-base? That package has not been touched for more than five months.

Bug#569314: /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf: startx results in a black screen permanently turned off until reboot

2010-02-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-2 Severity: important File: /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf Starting X results in a black screen, that is the screen is instantly turned off and only a reboot can activate it again. The keyboard however works in some ways. I can still switch vts

Bug#569314: /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf: startx results in a black screen permanently turned off until reboot

2010-02-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Brice, On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Indeed, but a quick google search didn't help much. The intel guys will likely ask you to test a recent kernel anyway, so let's see what 2.6.33 says. Thanks for your investigation. It will take a bit of time for me to

Bug#569314: /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf: startx results in a black screen permanently turned off until reboot

2010-02-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Brice, thanks for your very quick reply. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:32:18PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Can you try with debian's 2.6.32-trunk kernel package instead of your own kernel ? I fear that I will have to answer this question with no, because cryptsetup is so broken that it would

Bug#541174: FTBFS with GCC 4.4: dereferencing pointer 'sa' does break strict-aliasing rules

2010-01-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
tags 541174 +unreproducible severity 541174 normal thanks Hi, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:30:54PM -1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: libtool --mode=compile gcc -Wall -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wl,--as-needed -Werror -I. -c libexplain/fildes_to_address_family.c -o

Bug#547400: Causes FTBFS with GCC 4.4: dereferencing pointer '_SOUP_..' breaks strict-aliasing rules

2010-01-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
tags 547400 +unreproducible severity 547400 normal thanks On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:26:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:344: error: dereferencing pointer '_SOUP_METHOD_GET.27' does break strict-aliasing rules I failed to reproduce this one on i386

Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

2010-01-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, thanks to Manoj for pointing this out and Richard for explaining it. Unfortunately this rc bug is still open after two months. Short summary: sendmail-base.prerm invokes an init script without invoke-rc.d which technically is forbidden by the Debian policy. (report from Manoj) The part

Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

2010-01-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
severity 553135 normal thanks On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: That being said, this is clearly not the problem that either Policy or the Lintian tag were designed to catch, and you should feel free to decrease the severity and add an override. Also, please feel

Bug#555036: upgrading severity

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
severity 542093 important block 555036 by 542093 thanks Thanks to Julien Valroff for pointing out a lack of documentation in this package. In fact it contains no documentation at all which makes it unusable. I ran into this bug while trying to squash #555036. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#546528: [maintainer ping] Re: [PATCH] make dash's preinst a C binary

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Gerrit, as you can see David Riebenbauer provided a patch to convert dash.preinst to something not depending on /bin/sh. As far as I can tell applying this patch would not worsen the situation in any way, but it would make it easier to work on the bash package. Could you somehow answer to this

Bug#566524: src:conky: memory leaks

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:conky Version: 1.7.1.1-1 Severity: normal Leaks pointer allocated in src/mail.c:896 mail=malloc(...) when returning 0 in line 310. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#566603: src:myodbc: memory leak in setup/MYODBCSetupConfigDSNEdit.c

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:myodbc Version: 3.51.27r695-1 Severity: normal In setup/MYODBCSetupConfigDSNEdit.c:86 the variable origdsn gets assigned the result of strdup which doesn't get freed when the function returns on line 100. This branch seems to be an error condition and the variable is later freed, so

Bug#566604: cppcheck: false positive fd leak

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: cppcheck Version: 1.39-1 Severity: normal $ cat confuse_cppcheck.c #include unistd.h #include fcntl.h void confuse(void) { int fd=-1; do { if(fd = 0) close(fd); fd = open(tmp, O_RDONLY); } while(fd = 0); } $

Bug#566605: homepage is outdated, use http://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

2010-01-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: sparse Version: 0.4.1+git20081218-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The site in the Homepage field tells me that the url is old and should be updated to http://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-11-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
It does. This may be related to a known upstream problem with some motherboards. Please try commenting out the rtcfile directive in /etc/chrony/chrony.conf. After commenting out rtcfile upgrading the package again works, so that might at least be a work around. Still I think that this

Bug#504700: does not rotate logfile /var/log/mailman/mischief

2008-11-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-7 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.8 The stable (etch) version of mailman does not rotate the logfile /var/log/mailman/mischief. It is used to record login failures and similar things from the cgi scripts mailman provides. As the log file is not rotated

Bug#504000: Works for me

2008-11-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
I had problems with /dev/rtc before, sometimes related to HPET which in combination with chrony even froze my system. This kernel bug has been fixed recently. Also I had problems when using the wrong module. Are you sure you use the right one? Does hwclock work for you? I don't really know

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
All of the boxes in my company are. Too bad I can't test on more systems. That's quite different from ???a single system???. And it's not like amd64 is an obscure architecture, last time I checked. Did you notice that the bug was reported on i386 initially? So it is even a bit

Bug#505094: chrony: kills random netstat processes

2008-11-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: chrony Version: 1.23-4 Severity: normal The new init script for chrony kills random netstat processes. This introduces a small race condition for systems also running munin. Munin uses netstat to plot the number of network connections. Killing the netstat process results in holes in the

Bug#542159: clive: please add support for extracting video urls

2009-08-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: clive Version: 2.2.4-1 Severity: wishlist clive seems to be like the perfect video downloading application. However extracting video (data) urls does not seem to be among the supported features (not even by parsing debug output). I imagine something like youtube-dl -g URL which just

Bug#542200: xmp: manpage has two explanations for -t

2009-08-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: xmp Version: 2.7.1-1 Severity: normal Hi again, slowly we are getting the xmp manual page into shape. It now lists: -t, --tempo bpm Set the initial tempo in beats per minute (default is 125). -t, --time time Specifies the maximum playing time

Bug#542478: /usr/bin/gpgsigs: --latex produces failing tex: ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .1.eps.

2009-08-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: signing-party Version: 1.1.1-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/gpgsigs Hi, Please support pdflatex with gpgsigs --latex: It currently fails with the following message: ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .1.eps. The failing line is: \includegraphics[height=3cm]{.1.eps}

Bug#514742: texlive-generic-extra: non-commercial license for barr/diagram.tex

2009-02-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: texlive-generic-extra Version: 2007.dfsg.15-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 $ head -n18 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/barr/diagram.tex % This should appear in a file named diagram.tex % Copyright 1988,1989 Michael Barr % Department of Mathematics and

Bug#507616: release-notes: ejabberd is a difficult to upgrade package

2009-02-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, From the bug report it's not clear to me, whether ejabberd has really an upgrade problem or not. If this is realle the case, I will put your text into the release notes, OK? Partly yes: 1) Back up /var/lib/ejabberd *before* upgrading. This is the directory contains all data for

Bug#515074: FTBFS: builddepends db4.6, but links against db4.2 - unresolved symbols

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: bind9 Version: 9.5.1.dfsg.P1-1 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DDIG_SIGCHASE -O2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -o .libs/named .libs/builtin.o .libs/client.o .libs/config.o .libs/control.o .libs/controlconf.o .libs/interfacemgr.o

Bug#515086: texlive-generic-extra: non-commercial license for dvips/aurora/aurora.pro

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: texlive-generic-extra Version: 2007.dfsg.16-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Sorry, I found another one. :-( $ head -n9 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/aurora/aurora.pro %! % Aurora: Colour Separation for Level 1 PostScript. % Copyright: Graham Freeman, 1994. %

Bug#515623: mpd: init script should provide force-reload (9.3.2)

2009-02-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mpd Version: 0.14.1-1 Severity: normal Justification: Policy 9.3.2 $ /etc/init.d/mpd force-reload Usage: /etc/init.d/mpd {start|start-create-db|stop|restart} $ But Policy 9.3.2 says: The start, stop, restart, and force-reload options should be supported by all scripts in /etc/init.d,

Bug#515628: etckeeper: .gitignore should also include .swp for vim (.*.sw? is already present)

2009-02-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: etckeeper Version: 0.30 Tags: patch Severity: wishlist etckeeper provides good .gitignore (or whatever you are using). It especially provides patterns for vim swapfiles. However a swapfile for the commandline vim - or just vim is not ignored. I therefore suggest adding a line ignore

Bug#508043: bugs.debian.org: please use a font/layout where underscore is distinguishable from space

2009-02-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
It's pretty clear to me that there's an underbar there, though it's perhaps not as clear as it could posisbly be... if you can propose a change that would resolve it (while keeping the link underline) I'd be interested in applying it. Sorry for letting you wait for so long. As we seem to

Bug#508043: bugs.debian.org: please use a font/layout where underscore is distinguishable from space

2009-02-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Attached is what I see. That's how it should look. :-) (Remember that I can only observe this for non-visited links.) My screenshot was made using iceweasel 3.0.6-1 on sid/amd64 (which should pretty much be the same as lenny). I'm still interested in making it more clear, so if you can play

Bug#507487: does not rotate logfile /var/log/nagios2/nagios.log

2009-02-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
If you want the original submitter to see your reply, you have to include nnn-submit...@bugs.debian.org in the list of recipients. Otherwise your mail will not be seen until a submitter wonders whether anyone noticed the report and lurks in to the website. Yes, debbugs is strange in this respect,

Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source

2009-02-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: debhelper Version: 7.0.17 Severity: wishlist Rereading the policy I discovered that debian/rules should have get-orig-source. However dh does not provide this command. It should be easy to implement, because uscan can already do all the work (if a watch file is present). On the other

Bug#537234: maildir-utils: mu-find manpage differs from behaviour

2009-07-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: maildir-utils Version: 0.4-2 Severity: normal The manpage says on --format: | The fields corresponding to certain letters are the same as the ones | in search expressions (scroll down for the list). Then later: | s: subject | f: from (sender) | t: to (recipient) | c: cc: (carbon-copy

Bug#537332: liferea: constantly writes 1MB/s to disk

2009-07-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: liferea Version: 1.6.0~rc6-1 Severity: important Recently a constant stream of 1MB/s writes started on my system. It happened twice so far and started around 0:00. I identified liferea as one cpu using task and once I stopped it the stream of writes stopped, too. The next time I observed

Bug#537332: liferea: gdb and strace

2009-07-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
severity 537332 grave thanks justification: involuntary denial of service attack Hi, as announed earlier I tried to run gdb on liferea. Other than the previous times the writes did not start around 0:00. It looks more like 24 hours after being started. gdb does not show anything interesting (at

Bug#537490: kteatime: tray image not updated correctly

2009-07-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: kteatime Version: 4:4.2.4-2 Severity: minor Hi, I noticed that kteatime does not update the tray image correctly when it removes the tea clock. Minor parts at the bottom left are not updated. See attached image. My window manager is fluxbox. usability-feedback param=please ignore if

Bug#537540: mplayer: does not redraw for videos with constant images

2009-07-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mplayer Version: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1 Severity: minor Actions taken: Play a video with long constant images. This property holds for certain music videos on youtube.com. mplayer can nicely be combined with youtube-dl to play such a video. Then do one of the following things: 1) Resize

Bug#498357: ignorance of psi devs

2009-07-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, you have no seen how ignorant the psi developers really are: 1) They did not came up with a solution within the announced week. 2) They released another version without a solution. 3) They still don't care. So please, pretty please, just apply this stupid patch until their ignorance is

Bug#535805: console-setup must Pre-Depend on sharutils

2009-07-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: console-setup Version: 1.38 Severity: serious Justification: 3.9.1 console-setup uses uudecode in preinst or config, so it has to Pre-Depend on sharutils. This is my output for aptitude install console-setup: Preconfiguring packages ... /tmp/console-setup.config.229961: 5390: uudecode:

Bug#536299: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/sshconfig.vim: LocalCommand should be a sshconfigKeyword (syntax)

2009-07-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:7.2.148-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/sshconfig.vim Tags: patch vim does not recognize LocalCommand as a keyword when editing .ssh/config files. It actually is a keyword (see man ssh_config). Adding the following line to the file should

Bug#365884: patch

2009-07-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
tags 365884 +patch thanks A patch for this issue can be found at: http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-devm=124709554726655w=2 Suggestions welcome. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#573066: task: does not emit rfc4122 conforming uuids

2010-03-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
/show/394. As a maintainer reading this, could you link this bug report to the upstream bug report? Thanks Helmut From 54495557addff37ff52df7edc3ff4d30e1182571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:37:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] emit rfc4122 (version

Bug#573133: arbtt: idle time computation does not work as expected

2010-03-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: arbtt Version: 0.4.5.1-1 Severity: important Hi, I finally found some time to try arbtt. It looks like a great tool, but somehow does not produce reasonable stats for me. I tried to use the inactive tag as documented: $idle 60 == tag inactive, However the whole night appears in the

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
severity 573805 normal thanks Hi Seb, [If you are only interested in the results, only read the last three paragraphs.] On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:59:14PM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: [stats] Resolved `localhost' to 127.0.0.1 [stats] Successful bind to 127.0.0.1:6601 [1] Sending

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Seb, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:17:57PM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: Running mpc del 0 doesn't change that behavior whatsoever: it doesn't look like mpdcron is asking the content of the playlist to mpd at all, but instead it's just concerned with the status+currentsong, which is what

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Seb, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:18:12PM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: I see; I assume you *cannot* reproduce the problem if you do *not* wait on the playlist event, right (you can do that by adding for instance events = player;mixer;database;stored_playlist;update to your [mpd] stanza)

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Seb, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:36:36PM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: I understand that, and want to verify that your taking out the playlist event does indeed make the problem go away. I thought that this would have been obvious, but since you asked me again I now verified it. The

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Seb, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:51:02PM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: Good, thanks; I could reproduce your problem by *adding* playlist to my events, but I wanted to be sure there wasn't anything else at play here. Ok. I'll write a patch that doesn't try to do anything at all if an

Bug#577822: cpufreqd: causes hardware damage by ignoring sensor lines after removing libsenors3

2010-04-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: cpufreqd Version: 2.4.1-1 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: causes hardware damage Since no package on my system depends on libsensors3 I removed it. With it the file /etc/sensors.conf went away. This is a file cpufreqd requires to use for the sensors plugin. Without that

Bug#577822: cpufreqd: causes hardware damage by ignoring sensor lines after removing libsenors3

2010-04-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:31:25AM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: severity 577822 normal So damaging hardware is a normal bug... Maybe we should readjust all other bugs to wishlist. Would you mind describing what you're actually experiencing rather than an ipotetical (and quite unlinkely)

Bug#577822: cpufreqd: causes hardware damage by ignoring sensor lines after removing libsenors3

2010-04-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:10:08AM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: you computer will turn off before that happens. If that is not the case then there might be a bios (or sometimes kernel) problem. Relying on userspace to perform this critical function is nonsense, but your concern is

Bug#569227: ncurses-base: break handling of ctrl-c in xterm and rxvt using bash

2010-04-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
reassign 569227 bash thanks Hi Thomas, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:42:27AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: Your shell is not likely using the parts of ncurses which would change the terminal modes. For instance, bash uses only the termcap interface. I'd look at the shell. I finally found some

Bug#577010: xterm: non-eight bit input is completely broken

2010-04-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: xterm Version: 255-1 Severity: important Hi, after rebooting my system I noticed that the XTerm*eightBitInput: false setting is ignored. Pressing alt-1 results in an eight-bit character. This is a bug, that makes irssi almost unusable. Please provide a workaround as soon as possible.

Bug#573133: arbtt: idle time computation does not work as expected

2010-03-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Joachim, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: However the whole night appears in the stats. I therefore had a look at the ouput of arbtt-dump, specifically the cLastActivity numbers. They seem to range between 0 and 14. During the time I was asleep the

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mpdcron Version: 0.3+git20100302-1 Severity: important mpdcron goes into an infinite loop when I delete the currently played song (mpc del 0). If you cannot reproduce it, try enabling the stats module. By the way, the documentation - or should I say lack thereof - is disappointing.

Bug#573805: mpdcron: goes into infinite loop when I mpc del 0

2010-03-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Seb, thanks for your quick reply. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:05:44AM +0100, Sebastien Delafond wrote: can you please set the log level to debug, and include the portion of the log file corresponding to the infinite loop ? I have to say that I failed to see a difference between loglevel=0

Bug#561938: supported buffer size is much too small

2009-12-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: buffer Version: 1.19-10 Severity: wishlist Buffer is supposed to keep the writer side of a pipe busy. So it should be the ideal tool to put between in a pipe like this: $ lzcat maps.osm.lzma | maptool -z9 maps.bin maptools seems to read in chunks of about 16M. However 16M is the maximum

Bug#562112: mbuffer -q segfaults on SIGINT

2009-12-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: mbuffer Version: 20091122-1 Severity: normal Steps to reproduce: $ mbuffer -q # then hit Ctrl-C to send SIGINT It segfaults. Unfortunately gdb does not give a valuable traceback. With strace it looks like this: ... read(0, 0x7f0f01903000, 4096) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be

Bug#604925: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot login to ssh after upgrade from lenny to squeeze

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: libgssapi-krb5-2 Version: 1.8.3+dfsg-2 Severity: grave File: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 My system uses kerberos to authenticate users to ssh. After upgrading a server to squeeze logging in is no longer possible (this could satisfy critical severity). Unfortunately debugging this turned

Bug#604925: krb5.conf

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
I was asked to show a krb5.conf for the ssh server. See it below. Helmut $ cat /etc/krb.conf [libdefaults] default_realm = REALM.DOMAIN.EXAMPLE dns_lookup_realm = false dns_lookup_kdc = false [realms] REALM.DOMAIN.EXAMPLE = { kdc =

Bug#604925: No such file or directory: /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Running strace on ssh revealed the almost immediately before emiting the Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information\nNo such file or directory\n it tries to open a directory /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata which does not exist on my system (and is not contained in any

Bug#604925: No such file or directory: /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 02:56:46PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Running strace on ssh revealed the almost immediately before emiting the Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information\nNo such file or directory\n it tries to open a directory /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata

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