Bug#641867: screen version bump (4.1.0 20101110git066b098)

2011-09-17 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Axel, hi Brian, Since the current maintainer of screen in Debian is quite busy in real life at the moment, I'm thinking about doing an Non-Maintainer Upload (NMU) for screen. Your packaging work comes in quite handy there, thanks! :-) thanks to both of you for your work on getting the

Bug#600228: byte order bug in afsconf_LookupServer()

2010-10-14 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: openafs-krb5 Severity: normal Hi, found while using aklog, so reporting against -krb5... = src/auth/cellconfig.c: ] int ] afsconf_GetAfsdbInfo(char *acellName, char *aservice, ] struct afsconf_cell *acellInfo) ] { ] [...] ] code = afsconf_LookupServer((const

Bug#600228: byte order bug in afsconf_LookupServer()

2010-10-14 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, found while using aklog, so reporting against -krb5... This code doesn't exist in the current version of openafs in unstable or testing, so I assume you're using the version from experimental? oh right, forgot the tag (and the Version: header, sorry). It's the current experimental

Bug#591075: glib2.0 segv

2010-08-04 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, probably an optimization problem? Given the test program extern void g_type_init(void); int main(int an, char **ac) { (void)g_type_init(); return 0; } I get this backtrace: #0 g_bsearch_array_create () at

Bug#543024: pam-shield: FTBFS

2009-09-07 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
. + + -- Jan Christoph Nordholz he...@pool.math.tu-berlin.de Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:01:50 +0200 + pam-shield (0.9.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. diff -u pam-shield-0.9.2/debian/patches/automake.patch pam-shield-0.9.2/debian/patches/automake.patch --- pam-shield-0.9.2

Bug#540059: udev segfaults

2009-09-06 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Marco, it seems the kernel is at fault and not udev. Have a look at this commit, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8442edc18843491978f7820f87dbdf293461290e especially the third blob - the unfixed version rounded even a -name_len == 0 up to

Bug#540059: udev segfaults

2009-09-04 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Marco, I've seen this, too. I couldn't reproduce the hang-on-boot yet after experiencing it once, but the segfaults are pretty reliable. Here's an exemplary crash and the accompanying debug log (attached). I'm away over the weekend, but I'll gladly help when I get back if you need core dumps

Bug#541349: autofs: Incorrect init.d dependency info make script start to early

2009-08-16 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 541349 + pending clone 541349 -1 reassign -1 autofs5 kthxbye Hi Petter, Here is an updated patch. It occured to me that for systems using LDAP (libnss-ldapd) instead of NIS, autofs should probably start after the nslcd daemon too. This patch make sure it does. thanks for collecting

Bug#541160: #541160 xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Thomas, This one is hard to reproduce (here). valgrind is not showing me any problems as I resize the screen in various ways. There are several special cases in the resizing logic, depending on resource-settings, as well as the amount of text that has been scrolled off onto the

Bug#541160: #541160 xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Thomas, Here's a fix for the positioning problem that I've been seeing (attached). thank you very much, the malloc corruption is gone now, too. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#541160: xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-11 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: xterm Version: 244-1 Severity: normal Hi, I just noticed that xterm doesn't like it very much to be resized: when I grab a window edge and make a circular motion (i.e. enlarge and shrink again in both dimensions), I usually get it to segfault within fractions of a second. Here are a few

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

2009-08-01 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Michael, No idea. If I were knew, I'd attach a patch for this issue. The code is quite.. funny and fragile, I tried to understand it right before submitting a bugreport but that wasn't quite successful. I ran it under strace - pure automountd, without any startu scripts but with the

Bug#539453: [P-a-s] Please exclude autofs{,5} from kfreebsd-*

2009-07-31 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: buildd.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, please mark the source packages autofs and autofs5 as Linux-specific. Both could theoretically be adjusted to build on other architectures, but the daemons are useless without the Linux autofs kernel module anyway. Best regards,

Bug#527545: autofs5-ldap: kerberos update causes automount with GSSAPI authetication to segfault

2009-07-30 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Package: autofs5-ldap Version: 5.0.4-1 Severity: normal restarting automount gave a segfault (/var/log/syslog): sorry that it took a while until I had time to prepare a new version of the Debian package. Could you please confirm that the segfault problem persists with 5.0.4-2? I cannot

Bug#471763: screen diverted by screen-profiles

2009-07-29 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Stephane, in screen-profiles preinst : aah, thanks for the hint, I did not know that screen-profiles had entered Debian and was diverting the screen binary. I'll check back how soon the package will be replaced by byobu (cf. #531791) and whether it still makes sense to change the screen init

Bug#531791: screen-profiles - byobu migration?

2009-07-29 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Dustin, I had seen quite some time ago that the screen-profiles package had entered Ubuntu, but I had no idea that it had made it to Debian in the meantime and that it was diverting the binary. A notification would have been great, as I've responded to the increasing number of reports of

Bug#496180: screen: hardstatus causes trouble after window resize

2009-07-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Christoph, sorry this has been lying around for so long - I'm just catching up on all bug reports... Maximize the terminal. The size of screen does not change, only the area avaible before is used. Sadly it does change here and always did. Do you still see that behaviour with your terminal

Bug#471763: /var/run/screen permission weirdness

2009-07-26 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Sorry, I don't have an upgrade path. I only do the sporadic apt-get upgrade and an apt-get dist-upgrade once in a blue moon. Sometimes things don't work out and when I report that they just say upgrading from xxx to yyy is not supported even though I have no intention to nor would I have

Bug#533866: I get similar message

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, but I gat a similar message: I've seen this happen for a couple of times now, yet there has never been a single reproducible test case. But because I still hope I might see one someday I don't want to swap those lines. I've already documented screen's requirements regarding the permissions

Bug#317450: Not to be picky but..

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Not to be picky, but the label is unchanged on the 4.0.3-11 screen package (the latest in current Debian testing). have you tried to start screen in a small terminal (i.e. with 10 rows)? The bottom line reads Press Space for next page or Return to end then, and in this context it is

Bug#471763: /var/run/screen permission weirdness

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi. I'm still looking for an upgrade path that reproduces this bug. Up to 4.0.3-0.3 /var/run/screen was part of the package tarball (and mode 0775 root:utmp), then it got moved out of it and its creation postponed to the initscript (for volatile /var/run mounts) or postinst - also root:utmp and

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

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Michael, (the following holds for both autofs v4 and v5) usually the daemon creates these directories on startup and removes them on exit. If you do not want that to happen, it suffices to mark the directory as u-w: ] r...@apocatequil:/etc# grep ^/misc /etc/auto.master ] /misc

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

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, As I mentioned before, the ONLY way to stop it from removing the top-level dir is to chattr+i it. ah, autofs4 indeed removes the directory even without write permission (v5 doesn't), I thought I'd checked that, too. But this behaviour has been around for ages, and I still don't understand

Bug#506499: autofs: bad key parseing (oh the horrors of our past have come back and bitten us)

2009-07-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, automount[18849]: cache_ghost: entry in file:/etc/auto.direct not valid map format, key /... It appears that someone was trying sanity tests (disallow /. and /..), but didn't contemplate their being anything after /.. (like another ., or any other character)... Clearly, the length

Bug#534732: nvi: expansion of numbered backups is incorrect

2009-06-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 534732 = confirmed thankyou Hi again, I can't reproduce that here with 1.81.6-7... ok, I take that back, it does indeed produce strange expansions sometimes. Will investigate. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#534732: nvi: expansion of numbered backups is incorrect

2009-06-26 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Jeffrey, The expansion of numbered backups is incorrect. The actual expansion that nvi produces is somewhat random. I get the weirdest results when editing from the linux console, logged in as root. The expansion of numbered backups used to work correctly with nvi 1.79 version. I can't

Bug#453348: SSL client certificate support

2009-06-14 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Emmanuel, It would be nice if you could attach your patch to this bug report even if it is not fully functionnal. It could help upstream developers to add this feature more quickly. ah, I see there has been another 0.2.6 release. I thought that branch would die soon now that 0.3

Bug#453348: SSL client certificate support

2009-06-14 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, i think that the code you produced for 0.2.x branch could helped to add this feature in one of the next release. ah ok, I believed 0.3 was written (almost) from scratch, so I wasn't sure whether there would be any benefit. I've attached my patch, but there are a few remarks: * The gnutls

Bug#527952: system-tools-backends: CVE-2008-6792 limiting effective password length to 8 characters

2009-05-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, NMU is about to hit unstable and s-p-u. I've added the attached patch to the quilt series. Regards, Jan Add fix for CVE 2008-6792 and another related bug in do_get_use_md5(). -- James Westby james.wes...@canonical.com -- Jan Christoph Nordholz he...@pool.math.tu-berlin.de --- system

Bug#527997: nmap: links against embedded copy of liblua

2009-05-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Thanks Jan. Our current svn does not have an nselibs-bin directory anyway. I've applied your patch to our configure.ac and regenerated configure in our latest SVN. All the better. SVN checkout works great here, too, system lua5.1 is detected and linked into nmap instead of the internal

Bug#527997: nmap: links against embedded copy of liblua

2009-05-17 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Thanks Jan. But if you get a chance, I'd love to see a patch which checks for both the plain lua and lua5.1 versions. That way it would still work on platforms which just use plain lua and so it would be appropriate for upstream integration. If we add it to an Nmap release, Debian

Bug#528639: wpasupplicant: buffer overflow in _wpa_hexdump

2009-05-14 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 0.6.9-2 Severity: important Tags: security Hi, your syslog patch changes _wpa_hexdump() to create the debug string in a local buffer on the stack before emitting it - however you boldly assume that 2048B should be enough for everyone. When connecting to a WPA-EAP

Bug#527997: nmap: links against embedded copy of liblua

2009-05-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 527997 = patch thankyou I might as well attach the appropriate patch... (autoconf is called from the upstream Makefile, which makes the build process a bit cumbersome now that we're patching configure.ac - you might choose to patch configure itself instead, or call autoconf early in the

Bug#527997: nmap: links against embedded copy of liblua

2009-05-10 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: nmap Severity: important Hi, nmap has an internal copy of liblua and uses it instead of the system library because the configure script fails to detect the header files: } (package build log) ] checking lua.h usability... no ] checking lua.h presence... no ] checking for lua.h... no ]

Bug#527952: system-tools-backends: CVE-2008-6792

2009-05-09 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, while you're at it, there is another bug in that small perl function: do_get_use_md5() recurses when it encounters an '@include' line and overwrites its $use_md5 variable with the result. Therefore the following /etc/pam.d/passwd would make the function return 0: requiredpam_unix.so

Bug#526160: ksh: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386

2009-04-29 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 526160 + patch thankyou Hi, ksh is failing because libc0.1-dev does not provide TAB{0,1,2,3}, but only TAB{0,3} (= bits/termios.h). As this seems to be intentional (see http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/coreutils/ for the corresponding changes to the BSD coreutils), ksh should probably

Bug#522693: ksh: job control broken on kfreebsd

2009-04-29 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, this was a bug in libc0.1-dev, not in ksh itself, cf. #522686. ksh simply needs to be rebuilt on kfreebsd-*. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#524211: gkrellweather: build cleanup

2009-04-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 524211 + patch thankyou Hi, attached is a patch that fixes the /usr/local problem and also adjusts the build dependencies (libxaw7 is not necessary at all, and libglib1.2-dev should be replaced by libglib2.0-dev). A debhelper upgrade might be in order, too, but I didn't want to be too

Bug#522686: bash: job control broken on kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64

2009-04-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Christoph Nordholz he...@pool.math.tu-berlin.de 2009-04-13 + +--- jobs.c.orig2009-01-29 23:09:49.0 +0100 jobs.c 2009-04-13 01:55:54.019583928 +0200 +@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ + #if !defined (WIFCONTINUED) + # define WIFCONTINUED(s) (0) + #endif ++#if defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__

Bug#522689: screen: doesn't pass signals to programs running inside screen on kfreebsd

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Axel, screen on kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 doesn't seem to pass any signals (at least STOP, INT and WINCH) to text applications or shells running inside that screen. thanks for bringing the kfreebsd port to my attention. The buildd log looks a bit suspicious, too. I'll debug this,

Bug#522689: screen: doesn't pass signals to programs running inside screen on kfreebsd

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Axel, There are DD accessible kfreebsd machines: I'm well aware of that. But I don't have that status (yet). ;) If you happen to know of other kfreebsd machines where I could get temporary access, that would be great - otherwise I'll just get that VM running, might come in handy to have one

Bug#474128: O: libdumbnet -- A dumb, portable networking library

2009-03-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
retitle 474128 ITA: libdumbnet -- A dumb, portable networking library owner 474128 ! kthxbye Hi, I'll take this one. Upstream's build system is quite straightforward (once you've updated all those ancient autotools files), and getting C networking code into shape is one of my favourite tasks

Bug#516222: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-27 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Stefanos, if you need help, I could lend a hand now and then. I don't have the time to maintain the package on my own, but I have a faible for old and/or undocumented C code and some experience in delving through networking code in particular, so I could e.g. help hunting bugs. Regards, Jan

Bug#407667: dhclient not requesting ntp-servers by default

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
unarchive 407667 reopen 407667 ! found 407667 3.0.5-2 kthxbye Hi, when you brought the request list back in 3.0.5-2's debian/dhclient.conf, the 'ntp-servers' parameter was again missing in it and still is. Would you please add it to the list? Thanks, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#398752: nvi and the virtual package editor

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 398752 + wontfix close 399913 kthxbye Hi, as there's been no activity at all and as I'm on final consideration joining Steve's opinion, I'm tagging my bug wontfix and closing the corresponding policy bug again. Sorry for the noise, guys. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#319268: insecure

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Kevin, For anybody who falls on this bug, PHP MUST BE disabled where hypermail outputs its files, or i guess someone can hack you by sending php files to the list and you will host those backdoors..! how is this going to work? The first line that hypermail writes contains ?xml, and if

Bug#520317: /var/run/screen requires mode 777

2009-03-19 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, ls -las /usr/bin/screen 328 -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 328448 Mar 6 16:36 /usr/bin/screen ok, then there are a couple of other reasons why this could be the case. I've just added a new QA pair to the upcoming version because there's often confusion about this: Q: screen always complains

Bug#520317: /var/run/screen requires mode 777

2009-03-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Brian, when I first start screen after the system boots, it refuses to start, with a message that /var/run/screen must have permissoins 777. I chmod it, and it runs. I guess you removed all setid bits from /usr/bin/screen? The expected mode of /var/run/screen depends on the setid bits

Bug#520359: screen: fixes from ubuntu: file-not-found-warning, invoke-with-command, winmsg-color-limit

2009-03-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Dustin, thanks for the patches. I'm not satisfied with the fix for #323756 though: It would suppress all errors of the 'source' command, even if a user expli- citly does {^A:source nonexistent} - and I'd expect that to display a flashy warning message if the file isn't there. Regards, Jan

Bug#518245: please remove /etc/modprobe.d/mt-st

2009-03-13 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
severity 518245 minor tags 518245 + pending thankyou Hi Marco, /etc/modprobe.d/mt-st should be removed because it duplicates the functionality of the udev rules but at an higher cost. I'm not very fond of this idea for several reasons: * We're talking about 36 files in /etc/modprobe.d/

Bug#496305: nvi cannot handle characters with the top bit set

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 496305 + pending thanks Hi, When I edit /var/lib/dpkg/status using nvi and then search for a string (or page down a few times), I get: Conversion error on line 428 I then can't 428G, but 427G reveals: nvi with USE_WIDECHAR enabled is just being strict: US-ASCII is a 7-bit charset, so

Bug#518289: Using bash-completion makes shell crash

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tag 518289 + patch kthxbye Hi, I guess this has already been fixed upstream, but for the impatient: gen_shell_function_matches() is trying to restore a parser state that has never been saved. My fix is simple and pragmatic as I don't have any in-depth knowledge regarding whether it's necessary

Bug#518397: Broken ^A (search word) handling

2009-03-07 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 518397 + pending thanks Hi Al, ^A handling is broken; it doesn't generate [[::]] in the end of resulting pattern, so e.g. after thanks for your detailed report! I've simplified your patch a little (there's a widechar-aware STRLEN macro available, and re_compile null-terminates its

Bug#491812: Can not use terminfo-entry screen-256color-bce-s

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Steve, The following patch makes this use permissible: I'm reluctant to apply this patch as-is because the value 20 is hardcoded for $TERM-related buffers all over the place, and I'd rather double-check these things than simply inflate it at one single spot. I'll hurry to get things done,

Bug#502490: No ncurses (?) support in screen sessions

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I fail to start aptitude and also Midnight Commander (mc) from inside a screen session. Whenever I start screen -U and in it mc or aptitude I just get a blank screen, no color, no text, nothing (but the cursor is repositioned). I cannot even interrupt mc via Ctrl+C (works with aptitude).

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Changing the group to utmp is what the screen-cleanup script does indeed, but only when there was no /var/run/screen before (line 25 of /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup). Maybe it should be inforced generally by swapping lines 25 and 26? Reproduced on the freshly stable lenny. this

Bug#502293: Bugreport Package: Screen

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Rene, package: screen version: 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06 which Debian version are you reporting this bug against? command: screen $pid -X hardcopy $filename Hm, doesn't fail here: ] j...@apocatequil:~$ screen -dmS test ] j...@apocatequil:~$ screen -ls ] There is a screen on: ]

Bug#509361: invalid SHELL variable in screen sessions

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Some things fails to run in a screen session: $ sg floppy Cannot execute bash: No such file or directory $ echo $SHELL bash I don't believe this is a bug in screen. Are you sure all your startup files behave as they are meant to (both for login- and non-login shells: .profile,

Bug#507817: screen -r still sometimes fails with WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I still sometimes get the error WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor when running screen -r with 4.0.3-11. This is obviously related to #477739, however the conditions seem somewhat different so I decided to open a different bug. Hm. I haven't

Bug#515803: screen: Add debian/control::Homepage header

2009-02-17 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 515803 + pending thankyou Hi, I've already done so, but the upload is still pending. Freshmeat is not the real homepage, though, I'd rather list www.gnu.org. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#497349: nvi Increment Command (#) Erases to End of Line

2008-09-01 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 497349 + pending upstream thankyou Hi, Withing nvi, placing the cursor over a number and pressing the # plus #, +, or - should increment or decrement that number, but now it erases everything from the cursor to the end of the line. yep, you're right - the v_increment command is not

Bug#497342: nvi No Longer Opens Files with O_NONBLOCK, Causing XTXTBSY Errors

2008-08-31 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi David, Performing the following steps on the Debian nvi packages 1.79-26 and 1.81.6-3 produces different results. that's strange - I can reproduce it with both versions here. Note however that the behaviour is different if the file in question was not executable when the editor opened it

Bug#496462: nvi: security vulnerability in creation of shared directory in postinst

2008-08-24 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Raphael, your report is correct, but if /var/tmp/vi.recover was really a symlink to some existing directory (like /), mkdir -p won't fail at all - in fact, it won't even be executed because the [ -d ] test will already succeed. I'll fix it properly - thanks for catching it. Regards, Jan

Bug#495806: Locked screen accepts any password to unlock

2008-08-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 495806 + unreproducible thankyou Hi Troy, I can't reproduce the problem, no matter which PAM version I have installed (0.99.7 or 1.0.1). You are referring to the password prompt that screen shows upon resumption of a screen session that has been locked with the 'lockscreen' command, right?

Bug#490361: Please let nvi depend on newer DB.

2008-07-11 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, 1.81.6-3 depends on libdb4.2, but the latest libdb in Debian is libdb4.7. The default libdb-dev depends on libdb4.6 currently. I build a nvi for libdb4.6, and it works fine. (I did not test it for libdb4.7.) I did indeed try a build against libdb4.6, and the results didn't satisfy me.

Bug#489037: audacious: Illegal instruction at start on i386 systems

2008-07-05 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I've done a bit of backtracking: * Offending instruction(s): ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb /usr/bin/audacious core.11650 ] GNU gdb 6.8-debian ] (gdb) disass $eip $eip+32 ] Dump of assembler code from 0x80a4122 to 0x80a4142: ] 0x080a4122 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:movsd -0x18(%ebp),%xmm0 ]

Bug#485996: ITA: ircii -- Internet Relay Chat client (update)

2008-07-03 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Bernd, I'm currently working with upstream to re-enable UTF support for ircii - they have reverted the old UTF patch in 2006 for performance reasons. As IMHO it doesn't make sense to upload a new Debian package that lacks UTF support, I won't change this package in the near future (read: at

Bug#488296: ^a ^\ kills all screens without actually asking

2008-06-27 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, If the user accidentally pressed ^a ^\, screen will ask Do you really want to kill all screens and exit? (y/n). but it will go on and kill everything without actually waiting for the user to press n. I cannot reproduce this - screen waits at the prompt and properly accepts a 'n'o answer.

Bug#330782: nvi: segfault when trailing tab hits end of line

2008-06-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
severity 330782 grave tags 330782 + help thankyou (bumping the severity up to grave because of possible data loss) Ok, this one has been lying around for far too long. If anyone feels like diving into ancient sourcecode, I'd highly appreciate that. Here's a little teaser: = Core was

Bug#330782: nvi: segfault when trailing tab hits end of line

2008-06-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 330782 = pending thankyou Heh, tagging such a bug 'help' sometimes adds that bit of extra motivation that helps you find the problem yourself in the end. ;) A patched (a one-liner in a very innocent-looking part of the code) version is ready and will be uploaded in the next days. Regards,

Bug#484336: inform: Upgrade to Inform 6.31N

2008-06-03 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, In the meantime, I noticed the bug report requesting the upgrade to 6.31. Actually, I think the latest version is 6.31N. Ah, that link is alive again? It has been dead for some time... According to the site, it contains a set of patches for bug fixes known not to cause problems and

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-06-02 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I checked /var/run/screen and it is owned by user root group root, so it is not group utmp. Since this used to work, maybe the pre- install script should enforce the group? so changing the group to utmp fixed the problem? I'm at a loss how that directory has ended up with group root on

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-06-01 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, any news on this? Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#474469: screen: fails to connect in multiusermode

2008-06-01 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Andreas, did you check the suid bits on the screen binary? What is the status of this bugreport? Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#478884: screen: 40cjk_eastasian.dpatch breaks terminal layout

2008-06-01 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, is the interval structure and the bisearch function necessary? I can't find a code path that calls it. Besides that the patch looks good and I'll include it in the next upload. Thanks! Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#468427: strange lockups of aptitude and m-a in screen

2008-05-08 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, When I start aptitude in screen, the cursor goes to the top left position and just stays there, aptitude UI is now drawn until I resize the terminal that holds the screen. After that aptitude works OK. I can't reproduce this one either (using a standard xterm and a ISO8859 locale). What

Bug#399913: status of virtual package 'editor'

2008-05-03 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, what's the current public opinion on this? The responses I got in November 2006[1] indicated that this metapackage is not desired and should not be re-added to the list - however it's still in widespread use... ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for DEP in Provides Depends Recommends Suggests; do \ ]

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-30 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ PS1=$ 134$ 134 is still there... (my terminal is in Tranditional-Chinese UTF-8 charset. Does that matter?) ok, we'll have to dig a bit deeper. Could you please install strace (if you haven't already) and do the following: * start a screen session as usual * do a

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-30 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, hmm, that's interesting. Here's what it should look like (or what it looks like when I just press Return in screen)... # screen forwards the keypress to the shell... read(3, \r, 4096) = 1 write(6, \r, 1) = 1 # ... and the shell moves the cursor to

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-29 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, and yes, the prompt colour is correct.. any suggestion to fix it? you keep forgetting to answer *all* my questions. ;) I'll make a list... * Is the 134 coloured, too? * If you do 'echo -e $PS1', does it result in some strange extra characters, too? (Besides printing \u for your username

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sending your answers to submit@ will result in every message generating a new report.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -something like this Yes, that's what I suspected it to look like - but this doesn't answer my questions. Did you try any of my suggestions?

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, 1.shell (csh instead of bash, for example) this does workbut I could'nt change my shell...plz I mean for daily use, I need bash... 2.terminal emulator (xterm / eterm / one of the *xvt series) this does'nt help the 134 is still there ok, these two suggest that there's

Bug#478332: screen: new window shows strange message at prompt line

2008-04-28 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, (should I reply to the bug reply system? sorry if I reply to the wrong address) just respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so your mail gets automatically appended to the bug report log. here is my $PS1 Ah ok, you are using the coloured prompt. Does the colour work (i.e. is the prompt inside

Bug#477739: Screen -r fails with WriteMessage: bad file descriptor

2008-04-26 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tag 477739 + confirmed thankyou Hi Aaron and Jason, I am also experiencing this bug on my dual-cpu (quad-core) Intel Xeon 5140 system with 4gb RAM. However, on my laptop (single-core AMD Athlon64 CPU, 1.8ghz, 1gb RAM) with exactly the same kernel and screen 4.0.3-8, I can't reproduce it. I

Bug#477739: #477739: resuming the only session may lead to race condition

2008-04-26 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
tags 477739 = patch pending thankyou Hi, could you try this updated package[1] and report back whether it fixes the race? If it does, I'll add a few more fixes and arrange for having it uploaded during the next days. Regards, Jan [1]:

Bug#447210: screen: chdir command doesn't expand tilde

2008-04-26 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I'm not the maintainer, so I'm not sure if there is any chance of changing screen/screen upstream to have a new build dependency. If there is then that is obviously preferred. I don't like the idea of introducing additional build dependencies, and I don't think upstream would be very

Bug#477455: screen: backspace key viewed as nul character with some terminals (e.g. xfce4-terminal)

2008-04-24 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
reassign 477455 vte retitle 477455 vte: backspace-autodetect mode uses c_cc[VERASE] even when ICANON|ECHOE unset thankyou Hi, With some terminals, such as xfce4-terminal (Debian package) and osso-xterm (not in Debian), screen views the Backspace key as the nul character (^@), so that it is

Bug#477728: screen: strange number display after C-a C-c creating new window

2008-04-24 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, a number like 134 shows before my bash prompt after I create a new window in screen... have you followed the usual procedure to make sure this is screen-related? (Some commands in your shell rc files might run haywire, probably depending on $TERM or similar...) - Is it a part of the

Bug#477739: screen: resuming fails with WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor

2008-04-24 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Aaron, As of version 4.0.3-8, resuming a detached screen session (with screen -r) fails with the cryptic error WriteMessage: Bad file descriptor 4.0.3-7 has no such trouble, and can even resume sessions started with 4.0.3-8. can you spot a pattern? (Happens only when several sessions

Bug#445360: rxvt+mutt crash - solved?

2008-04-23 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, It's fixed. Thanks! (What was it? There is no description.) thanks for verifying. I wanted to be sure that I'd found the right place before elaborating what the problem was. The bug could be triggered by making rxvt execute the following escape sequence: '\e[1;19r\e[10S' This reduces the

Bug#206572: screen: -ls should list sessons sorted chronologically

2008-04-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Ben, Doesn't the ctime value from fstat(2) give the time the session was created? That seems like a more useful criterion. all three timestamps are modified by detach/attach. Writing messages to the fifo changes mtime and ctime (the latter being quite strange), receiving changes atime, and

Bug#206572: screen: -ls should list sessons sorted chronologically

2008-04-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, all three timestamps are modified by detach/attach. Writing messages to the fifo changes mtime and ctime (the latter being quite strange), That is strange. Perhaps it warrants another bug report? This bug could then depend on that one. no, that observation wasn't even related to

Bug#445360: rxvt+mutt crash - solved?

2008-04-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Josip, Okay, I would be happy to try and narrow it down some more - just give me more hints where to look... what would be next - terminfo? locales? good news: I think I've found it. Could you please verify that this update[1] fixes the bug? Thanks! Jan [1]:

Bug#206572: screen: -ls should list sessons sorted chronologically

2008-04-20 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, Further investigation shows this is defined behaviour for Unix (and correctly implemented in Linux). yes, I suspected that, but couldn't find anything myself - bad google-fu tonight. Thanks for looking it up. So it seem that there is currently no useful file-status time field to order

Bug#206572: screen: -ls should list sessons sorted chronologically

2008-04-19 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, the only timestamp we have is the time of last attachment/detachment (and we can't even tell them apart), and I don't think that sorting by that criterion is incredibly useful... so I'd like to tag this bug 'wontfix' if no-one objects. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#468427: vim stock on initialiaing in screen for no reson recently

2008-04-19 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I've report it to vim maintainer and I don't know if this is a vim bug or a screen bug. However vim got an update yesterday and this situation got even worse. So I report this to screen maintainer as well. thanks if you can find the conflict part. It will be great if anyone'd like to

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-04-19 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, The current permissions of /var/run/screen would be useless, because I have changed it manually to the correct permissions already; otherwise I can't run screen at all, and I use it every day and I only reboot this machine for equipment upgrades or kernel upgrades. The current

Bug#187811: ^G or bell emits about 5 blank lines.

2008-04-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I cannot reproduce this bug (with and without vbell, using gnome-terminal, xterm and other terminal emulators) - could you please affirm that the problem still exists? Otherwise I'm going to close this bug in a few weeks, given that the report is five years old... Regards, Jan

Bug#466437: Weird output when using any shortcuts in Vim in screen session

2008-04-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, When i try to use any of commands in vim (i to insert mod, : to write :q and so on), I got strange message, but vim is still running, no crash, only this text: :*** debug [lib/liblow.c(212)]: VC: 0 I cannot reproduce this bug with the current versions of

Bug#471763: /var/run/screens permissions inconsistency causes screen to refuse to start up

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, The /etc/init.d/screen-cleanup script, provided by package screen, chmod's /var/run/screen to a mode that will cause the screen command itself, also provided by the same package, to refuse to start up. would you please show me the current permissions of both /usr/bin/screen and

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