[Bug 446329] Re: udev output at bootup: NAME=%k is superfluous

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Cordes
I see the message too. lvm2 is the wrong package, though. pe...@tesla:~$ dpkg -S /etc/udev/rules.d/50-kvm.rules kvm: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-kvm.rules ** Package changed: lvm2 (Ubuntu) = kvm (Ubuntu) -- udev output at bootup: NAME=%k is superfluous https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446329 You

[Bug 472080] [NEW] Installs symlinks to files in non-dependency libkadm5clnt6

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libkrb5-dev Found with cruft(8). $ find -L $(dpkg -L libkrb5-dev) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 168769880 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 31 15:35 /usr/lib/libkadm5clnt.so - libkadm5clnt.so.6.0 $ apt-file search libkadm5clnt.so.6.0

[Bug 472969] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm found with cruft(8) $ find -L $(dpkg -L qemu-kvm) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31129340 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 15:41 /usr/share/man/man1/kvm-nbd.1 - qemu-nbd.1 correct target is /usr/share/man/man8/qemu-nbd.8.gz ii

Re: [Bug 472080] [NEW] Installs symlinks to files in non-dependency libkadm5clnt6

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:34:23PM -, Sam Hartman wrote: -Source: krb5 +8Source: krb5 Is that a typo? happy hacking, -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(pe...@cor , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who

[Bug 1395269] [NEW] ethtool -t eth0 offline loses routing table

2014-11-21 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: ethtool -t eth0 offline does the tests, but leaves the routing table with only the entry for the local network. I had to sudo route add default gw 10.0.0.1, in my case. The online test didn't do this. Ubuntu 14.04, ethtool 1:3.13-1 Linux tesla 3.13.0-39-generic #66-Ubuntu

[Bug 1095180] Re: incorrect bash-completion for sudo

2014-11-29 Thread Peter Cordes
It's a corner case of a directory in the current directory having the same name as a command. The directory entry is superseding the command completion. If you sudo ettab you get a list of completions. In /etc, the only entry for etckeeper is with a trailing /, rather than having an entry

[Bug 1095180] Re: incorrect bash-completion for sudo

2014-11-29 Thread Peter Cordes
The bug is in the core code of bash_completion, in the functions that handle commands that take other commands as their arguments, e.g. sudo, nice, and so on. Marked invalid for the etckeeper package, but still confirmed for bash-completion. (I hope I'm doing this right. If there's a way to

[Bug 1095180] Re: incorrect bash-completion for sudo

2014-11-29 Thread Peter Cordes
reported upstream as https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=314893group_id=100114atid=413095 ** Bug watch added: alioth.debian.org/ #314893 http://alioth.debian.org/support/tracker.php?aid=314893 ** Changed in: etckeeper (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid --

[Bug 106975] Re: mysqldump lacks bash completion script

2014-11-29 Thread Peter Cordes
reassigning this to mysql. Packages can provide their own completion rules and install them with dh_bash-completion. Not every tool needs to have its completions shipped in bash-completions to be installed on every system regardless of whether the tool is installed or not. There's already a

[Bug 1095180] Re: command / directory mixup for completion of args to meta-commands like sudo

2014-11-30 Thread Peter Cordes
** Summary changed: - incorrect bash-completion for sudo + command / directory mixup for completion of args to meta-commands like sudo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to etckeeper in Ubuntu.

[Bug 66278] Re: Bug#393079: update-grub: savedefault can cause problems

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Cordes
I'm not causing more problems by CC'ing Ubuntu's BTS on this. : Also sorry for the delay; enough computer problems at work that I didn't want to look at this one again :( On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:00:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:08:03PM -0300, Peter Cordes

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-10-24 Thread Peter Cordes
Peter, now that the 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release of Ubuntu is out, we were wondering if you can still reproduce this issue. I haven't tried, since I'm still using the latest git mesa and drm (kernel and userspace). Next time I'm planning to reboot anyway, I'll try to remember to switch back to

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Cordes
I checked out the git trees, ran you script (had to comment out the 64 bit mesa stuff) I'm glad you figured it out, since I created it for my own use and didn't take time to clean it up before posting it. Did your mesa get compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing? It needs that, maybe especially

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Cordes
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so Unless you replaced that file yourself, then your attempt to install mesa from git was not successful... You should be basically applying the changes I make to the 64bit config to your 32bit config, since you're running a 32bit system. I get

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Cordes
this is a hard freeze :-( usually what happens is the X server exits, leaving the video hardware displaying whatever it was at the time. So the mouse doesn't move the cursor, and you can't ctrl+alt+f1 (because no X server is listening for that key combo.) However, it's only X that's affected.

[Bug 124644] Re: mount only uses last fstype from fstab

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Cordes
This is fixed in Gutsy (util-linux 2.13-8ubuntu1). UDF+iso9660 dvds are mounted as udf. iso9660-only discs are mounted as iso9660. -- mount only uses last fstype from fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124644 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Cordes
You could fetch the ut2004 demo The demo only has one level per game type, so I couldn't try the map you suggested... I was able to reproduce the lockups with ut2004 on my system. So although gutsy is much better than feisty or edgy were, it's still not perfect. I got lockups most quickly

[Bug 196076] Re: Seagate ST980813ASG on Dell Vostro 1700 HD stops

2008-10-13 Thread Peter Cordes
I was going to reply on the forum thread I originally started, but it's locked now. sigh. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=625076 Anyway, the solution to my problem was an updated firmware for my WD5000YS hard drive.

[Bug 282425] [NEW] openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us provides en_GB, but not en_CA or anything else

2008-10-12 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: oowriter's thesaurus feature doesn't work well for me. I have to mess with document languages to get it to open. Being in Canada, I run Ubuntu (pre-Intrepid, AMD64) with LANG=en_CA.utf8. I have openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us and ...-en-au installed. (but not

[Bug 112837] Re: funny menu after install of emacs-extra

2008-10-25 Thread Peter Cordes
not fixed in intrepid either, and has no maintainer in Debian. The package doesn't even exist on the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/e /emacs-extra.html - 404). So it's not exactly actively maintained. I like the colour scheme it provides for light on dark, but it's probably pretty

[Bug 112837] Re: funny menu after install of emacs-extra

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Cordes
BTW, happycoders-emacs conflicts with emacs-extra, and is from the same Debian maintainer. It's version number is 2004.08.14, so it's old, too. -- funny menu after install of emacs-extra https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 273601] Re: 8.10 intrepid alpha 6 - root file system mounted read only (XFS) with2.6.27-4-generic

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Leann, thanks for the reply on my bug that's a dup of this. I thought I'd already posted my workaround, but it turns out I only posted it on bug 253786 (/dev/.static/dev is left read-only). Since I found a workaround, this bug hasn't caused me any problems. Anyway, you can convince the init

[Bug 87422] Re: crash on load on AMD64

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Cordes
version 2.02r2-8 works on pre-Intrepid. This might well have been fixed in Hardy, but I didn't check. ** Changed in: xevil (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- crash on load on AMD64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87422 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 278954] Re: read-only bind mounts cause spurious EROFS

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Cordes
looks like this is fixed in Linux 2.6.27.3: commit c068663ae65e507814545b59a8e2090f48a85613 Author: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun Oct 12 14:30:44 2008 +0200 xfs: fix remount rw with unrecognized options [...]otherwise we may skip clearing the xfs-internal read-only

[Bug 229732] Re: USB Keyboard drivers not loaded in initramfs

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Cordes
USB module loading order: Linux 2.6.27.3's changelog says that Linux will now warn if ehci isn't loaded before o/uhci. And that it has always been better to load ehci first. So panic() should load ehci-hcd first, then try the other two, in case the user works around a problem and goes on to boot

[Bug 253786] Re: /dev/.static/dev is mounted ro in intrepid

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Cordes
I was looking into this because it triggered bug 278954. initramfs bind-mounts /dev to /dev/.static/dev before the init scripts remount / read-write. I've been working around the XFS bug with a line in fstab: /dev/dev/.static/dev bind remount,rw 0 0 This has the side-effect

[Bug 287948] [NEW] gawk-doc: example doesn't match actual output

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gawk-doc in (gawk.info.gz)Records, this example is given: $ echo | awk 'BEGIN { RS = a } ; { print NF }' 1 But that's wrong: real results [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo | gawk 'BEGIN { RS = a } ; { print NF }' 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo | gawk --posix

[Bug 219391] [NEW] xv doesn't work on ATI ES1000

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati I'm testing the Hardy beta desktop i386 live cd (from a USB stick wth isotostick.sh) on a Dell Poweredge 1950: dual Harpertown CPUs, Intel 5000X chipset, ATI ES1000 graphics. Everything works fine so far, except Xv. totem just

[Bug 219391] Re: xv doesn't work on ATI ES1000

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
** Attachment added: Xorg log from i386 desktop hardy beta http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13567385/Xorg.0.log -- xv doesn't work on ATI ES1000 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219391 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 207209] Re: {Hardy} Xorg not loading nv driver

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Cordes
I have the same problem, but with a different PCI ID: an AGP 7600GT nv supports this card; putting Driver nv in xorg.conf brings up a 1680x1050 desktop with the size (in mm) detected correctly by DDC. With the default xorg.conf not specifying a driver, X chooses VESA. sudo lspci -vvnn:

[Bug 213040] [NEW] update-manager: spelling errors in hardy.tar.gz

2008-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager I spell-checked the files in hardy.tar.gz that update-manager downloads when upgrading from gutsy to hardy. (I was originally looking at it to see if I was missing anything by just using aptitude, so I could remove instead of upgrade

[Bug 213040] Re: update-manager: spelling errors in hardy.tar.gz

2008-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
** Attachment added: correct spelling in hardy.tar.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13154590/hardy.spellcheck.patch.gz -- update-manager: spelling errors in hardy.tar.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 175918] Re: Automatic mode can be disabled, but not reenabled

2008-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
I think Paul is talking about what Network Manager calls Roaming Mode. In the properties for an interface, there is a tickbox for Roaming Mode, which re-enables that drop-down of nearby wireless networks. So this is fixed at least in Hardy. Haven't tried with Gutsy. -- Automatic mode can be

[Bug 176003] Re: defaults to deactivating NICs that don't support carrier detection

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Cordes
I tried on the same old machine. This time the NIC in it is an old tulip (21140-based Cogent EM-110 or 100), which doesn't support carrier detection either. I used the Hardy i386 beta livecd (nice Heron wallpaper, BTW): Everything is the same as before. The daemon.log messages from

[Bug 215497] [NEW] disable networking leaves ipv6 enabled

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager In Ubuntu Hardy (i386), using the Network Manager applet's Disable Networking button only disables IPv4. I was still able to ping6 another machine using a v6 address received from radvd. Similarly, other machines could make v6 UDP and

[Bug 215497] Re: disable networking leaves ipv6 enabled

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
To clarify, it doesn't leave ipv6 enabled, because the interface does have to get it's autoconfigured addresses again. Even if it doesn't see a router advertisement, it will still get a link-local address. sshd and exim4 both default to listening on a v6 socket, so they could be connected to.

[Bug 125687] Re: Samba does not start on boot.

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Cordes
Upstream has made some adjustments to nmbd in samba 3.0.28a so that it will wait when the interfaces have gone away, but I don't know if this affects the behavior on startup. This doesn't solve the problem for the ntpdate init script, for example. There's a general problem that numbering

[Bug 75726] Re: DRI broken on r128 on dual head r128 + i965 (non Xinerama)

2008-03-07 Thread Peter Cordes
yeah, I submitted it upstream, too. I didn't mention it here, sorry. -- DRI broken on r128 on dual head r128 + i965 (non Xinerama) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75726 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 187552] [NEW] mhwaveedit: can't handle files with spaces

2008-01-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mhwaveedit /usr/bin/mhwaveedit uses an unquoted $@, so the shell word-splits the args. The correct way to pass on args in a wrapper script is $@, not just [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Affects: mhwaveedit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 187552] Re: mhwaveedit: can't handle files with spaces

2008-01-30 Thread Peter Cordes
also, the wrapper should use exec. i.e. exec /usr/lib/mhwaveedit/mhwaveedit.real $@ -- mhwaveedit: can't handle files with spaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187552 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Cordes
This did turn out to look the same as the lockups I had seen before with SPECViewperf. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7962, where I've mentioned this bug, and passed along the info about the ut2004 lockups. -- drm lockups on g965 hardware

Re: [Bug 164486] Re: nfsd oops after a disk disappears

2008-01-05 Thread Peter Cordes
problem). http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=625076 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so

Re: [Bug 165213] Re: ghex truncates large files when saving

2008-01-05 Thread Peter Cordes
this portably with glib. There's a way to do it without changing the UI behaviour but it's not a trivial one-nighter and my school homework + other things got in the way for now so... I don't really have time to spend on this either. :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL

[Bug 164486] nfsd oops after a disk disappears

2007-11-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic I run AMD64 Ubuntu Gutsy on a Core 2 Duo (Intel DG965WH mobo, 4GB RAM) I sometimes see sda stop responding on my machine. (I'm starting to think this may well be a driver bug, not a hardware problem, but I'll report it

[Bug 125687] Re: Samba does not start on boot.

2007-11-22 Thread Peter Cordes
I was just going to report the same bug. I've seen this on Ubuntu Feisty, and I still see it on Gutsy. The problem I've seen seems to be that on DHCP client machines, it can take some time for network interfaces other than loopback to come up. The networking init script (which runs ifup -a)

Re: [Bug 104673] Re: drm lockups on g965 hardware

2007-11-23 Thread Peter Cordes
. ut2004-demo locks up my g965 quite easily. So does SPECviewperf 9.0.3's tcvis. It is better than e.g. Edgy, where even some screensavers could lock it up. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how

[Bug 165213] ghex truncates large files when saving

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ghex I was using ghex2 to look at the beginning of an 8.6GB .wav file. I changed a byte and saved the file, and now it's only 612MB. (I think it's no coincidence that ghex2 is using just a bit more RAM than that: RSS=626MB). I really like ghex2's UI,

[Bug 172479] Re: xxdiff doesn't work when run with stdin and stdout closed

2007-11-27 Thread Peter Cordes
This is on AMD64 Ubuntu Gutsy, BTW. -- xxdiff doesn't work when run with stdin and stdout closed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172479 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 172479] xxdiff doesn't work when run with stdin and stdout closed

2007-11-27 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xxdiff rapidsvn makes you choose a diff tool, so I told it to use xxdiff. It apparently runs xxdiff with stdin and stdout closed, which leads to it running diff with stdin and stdout closed. There's no way that can work, because diff writes the diff to

[Bug 162594] Re: audacity does not play a sound since Gutsy upgrade

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Cordes
Check if anything else has the sound device file open. less /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/info and look at subdevices_avail (at the end of the file) If avail is 0, then something already has your sound card open. (This might not be a problem, depending on the drivers/hardware; e.g. My Intel HDA, w/

[Bug 157457] Re: Cannot trim or export a selection in Audacity 1.3.3.-1build1, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 64-bit

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Cordes
The double gray arrow is not the same as the selection region. Using the selection tool, click+drag over the waveform, not in the time bar. You'd have to read the docs to find out what the gray arrow thing is. -- Cannot trim or export a selection in Audacity 1.3.3.-1build1, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

[Bug 122098] Re: audacity 24bit quantization noise in feisty

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Cordes
What hardware/drivers? And do other recording programs have the same problem? e.g. try with arecord, which is part of ALSA, so it should be using the interface correctly. Sorry if this isn't helpful, but you didn't say anything to rule out sound driver bugs. BTW, audacity is the same package

[Bug 175806] dhclient tries to chmod /etc/resolv.conf only before it creates it

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dhcp3-client I booted the Ubuntu Gutsy i386 livecd on an old machine, and switched to tty1 to run dhclient, because NetworkManager apparently didn't want to bother. This uncovered a funny corner-case in dhclient: ... DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to

[Bug 164507] Re: misleading error message in terminal when trying to chmod on fat32

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Cordes
This is one of those parts of Unix that you're probably just going to have to get used to. Unfortunately, there are standards (e.g. POSIX.1) that say what possible error codes a system call is allowed to return, and what they imply for that system call. run man 2 chmod to see the manual for

[Bug 175960] clock appears to be wrong dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I'm not sure this is the right package: maybe gnome-session is really at fault here. I have an old AMD K7 machine with a probably-dead CMOS battery, so it often boots up with the hw clock set to the year 2000. I just put Ubuntu

[Bug 47848] Re: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
I just installed i386 Gutsy from the desktop livecd on an old AMD K7 650MHz, 256MB RAM, that I use for messing around. 1 IDE hard drive: hda1: win98 hda2: failed installed of winxp hda5: swap hda6: / (XFS) Right after partitioning, the installer warns if you /boot will be on XFS. It pops up a

[Bug 175960] Re: clock appears to be wrong dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
just noticed my .xsession-errors contains: (process:12519): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize

[Bug 163708] Re: n-m doesn't recognize ethernet on bootup

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
It would probably also help to know what hardware you have. Maybe attach a copy of your /var/log/dmesg, which will contain all the messages about your kernel detecting your ethernet hardware. If you can poke around with mii-tool or ethtool (see if they show the NIC has a link when it boots up,

[Bug 176003] defaults to deactivating NICs that don't support carrier detection

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager I just tested i386 Gutsy on an old K7 desktop with an RTL8029 (ne2k-pci) NIC installed. (I was messing around with a win98 game on that machine, and I knew win98 would have drivers for it... heh, it's such a bad NIC that I feel the need

[Bug 176003] Re: defaults to deactivating NICs that don't support carrier detection

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
ok, disabling roaming mode and enabling dhcp in n-m worked on this setup, so it's not terrible, but I'd still rather see the default be to try DHCP before deciding not to use the interface, _esp_ in the live cd. -- defaults to deactivating NICs that don't support carrier detection

Re: [Bug 75726] Re: DRI broken on r128 on dual head r128 + i965 (non Xinerama)

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Cordes
some spare time and I'm rebooting my machine anyway. We definitely will need your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output from lspci -vvnn. ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bug 224507] [NEW] should suggest pdf-viewer

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pdfcrack pdfcrack used to suggest xpdf-reader. Now it suggests on pdf-reader, which doesn't exist and is not a virtual package provided by any Ubuntu packages. pdf-viewer is a virtual package provided by evince, xpdf-reader, and others. This seems

[Bug 224562] [NEW] pdfcrack description/docs should mention other ways to access pdfs

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pdfcrack The pdf encryption key only depends on the user password (and information that is stored in the file, like the hash of the owner pwd.) e.g. see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/anon21jul01-pdf-encryption.txt If it's not illegal[1],

[Bug 224563] [NEW] pdfcrack doesn't try the empty string first for user password

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pdfcrack pdfcrack with no options tries to brute force the user password. It seems to start with 4-character strings. It should try the empty string first! Most pdfs have empty user passwords (so they're publicly viewable), and running pdfcrack with

[Bug 227240] Re: apt-cacher-ng should allow more file types to be downloaded

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Cordes
*(changelog|copyright)$ If that's supposed to be a regex, then you probably mean '.*' instead of '*'. . matches any character, * matches 0 or more of the preceding character. So .* is like the glob wildcard *. -- apt-cacher-ng should allow more file types to be downloaded

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2008-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
Mesa in ia32-libs has the same problem. ~/bin32/gears is /usr/lib/xscreensaver/gears from xscreensaver on an ia32 Debian Etch system, IIRC. Any 32bit openGL program, even medibuntu's googleearth package, is affected. $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose MESA_DEBUG=1 ~/bin32/gears libGL:

[Bug 196076] Re: Seagate ST980813ASG on Dell Vostro 1700 HD stops

2008-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
This problem looks different than what I reported in that forum thread. On my system, I see the problem every few months. On my system, everything will be working fine, and then out of the blue sdb stops responding to SATA commands completely, and not even a shutdown -r now fixes it. A power

[Bug 55706] python-uncertainities python2.3/2.4 breakage.

2006-08-08 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-uncertainities On a fresh install of Dapper Drake (i386), installed from the live DVD: $ sudo aptitude install python-uncertainities ... Setting up python-uncertainities (0.001-3.1ubuntu1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-uncertainities.postinst:

[Bug 13851] ubiquity

2006-08-08 Thread Peter Cordes
ubiquity doesn't handle the grub+xfs thing at all, it just crashes. I booted the i386 live DVD on a laptop, and shrunk the windows partition, then used the install menu item. I don't think I did anything to confuse ubiquity, but I hadn't used it before. (I'm used to installing Debian with the

[Bug 78673] Re: edgy-feisty dist-upgrade only works if ~/.gnupg file is there

2007-04-21 Thread Peter Cordes
BTW, I found that existance of ~/.gnupg isn't enough. I uncommented keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve and then ran gpg --verify /tmp/blah/blah.gpg so by the time I tried update-manager again, my keyring already included the key. This was on an edgy laptop that hadn't been updated for a few

Re: [Bug 75702] Re: ~/.drirc is not read

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Cordes
it. Otherwise, well, maybe. ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info -- ~/.drirc is not read https://launchpad.net/bugs/75702 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how

Re: [Bug 75702] Re: ~/.drirc is not read

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Cordes
340) 9f344b3e (Eric Anholt2006-08-09 19:14:05 + 341) ctx-Const.MaxTextureMaxAnisotropy = 2.0; 9f344b3e (Eric Anholt2006-08-09 19:14:05 + 342) That might be it. Does that help? I'd have to go read the git docs some more to dig any deeper. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes

Re: [Bug 76500] Re: doesn't manage local machine

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Cordes
Xen at all since upgrading to Feisty. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small

Re: [Bug 87422] I think I fixed this.

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
now, and runs fine. I can't install the binary package directly, because Debian's now using a libc version than Feisty's. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too

Re: [Bug 88585] Re: dga corrupts its pagetable

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
on display :0.0. Unable to query video extension version This is even without SubSection extmod Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection So dga still doesn't work, but it isn't a land-mine anymore. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca

Re: [Bug 88585] Re: dga corrupts its pagetable

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
, I can ssh in and reboot. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces

[Bug 64863] Re: It would be nice if k3b could automatically fetch mp3 decoder (package libk3b2-mp3)

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Wait, why can't k3b just recommend libk3b2-mp3. Is it because the library is in universe while k3b is in main? It does already suggest it. And how is it better for k3b to pull it in when you want to run it instead of when you're installing it? I guess that lets it pull it in if you enable a

[Bug 56168] Re: k3b should *not* calculate md5 sum of images by default

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
k3b should now only md5sum an ISO image once, although I guess it still starts doing it by default before burning. See the SVN commit at the end of the thread yamal linked to. -- k3b should *not* calculate md5 sum of images by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56168 You received this bug

[Bug 99715] Re: k3b crash pc

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Cordes
It will crash when an updater like adept synaptics (could be dpkg?) will install ,configure an package and at the same time i start k3b. Ok, now that sounds like it might be bad hardware. Try rebooting to memtest86+, and letting it run overnight. If it finds any memory errors, try relaxing

[Bug 253165] [NEW] mpeg3cat: fails on amd64

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mpeg3-utils AMD64 $ mpeg3cat DEAD_LIKE_ME_S1_D1_US/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB foo64.mpeg Segmentation fault x86 $ mpeg3cat DEAD_LIKE_ME_S1_D1_US/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB foo.mpeg Hit end of data in DEAD_LIKE_ME_S1_D1_US/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1

[Bug 253186] [NEW] user mplayer config file can break ogmrip

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ogmrip my ~/.mplayer/config has afm=hwac3, because I have a digital (TOSLINK) connection to my speakers. I have to comment that line to use ogmrip, otherwise when it runs something like mplayer fifo faac fifo, mplayer fails and faac is left blocked

[Bug 191620] Re: stormbaancoureur segfaults

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Cordes
I think the problem is with libode. A while ago I compiled stormbaan 1.5.2 from source, and I had to compile my own libode. IIRC, Deb/Ubuntu's libode isn't configured with something stormbaan needs. LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libode.so /usr/games/stormbaancoureur worked for me. (AMD64 Ubuntu

[Bug 251002] [NEW] man page wrong about default text encoding for pdftotext

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: The man page for pdftotext(1) says -enc defaults to Latin1, but my testing shows that I get identical output with no -enc and with -enc UTF-8. -enc Latin 1 gives different output. I'm using a French PDF, and viewing the text with less(1). In an LANG=en_CA xterm, the -enc

[Bug 175960] Re: clock appears to be wrong dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Cordes
It's fixed in Hardy. The time-admin gui runs with root privs, so I can set the clock and then get to the normal gnome desktop. -- clock appears to be wrong dialog prevents gnome session from starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175960 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 253194] [NEW] audio encoding inefficient

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ogmrip ogmrip encodes audio by running mplayer -ao pcm:file=named.pipe faac named-pipe... While this is happening, top shows faac using 33% CPU, fluxbox using 20% CPU, and Xorg using ~15% CPU. (This is on a Core 2 Duo E6600, so there's 200% total

[Bug 75174] Re: runaway kacpi_notify

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Cordes
This bug happened for me on an Acer desktop machine: Veriton 7200 (mobo S81M, even after upgrading to latest bios revision: R01-F3). The machine has Debian on its hard drive, and Debian's 2.6.18-6-686 doesn't have the problem. Debian's 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 _does_ have the problem. It's very

[Bug 158976] Re: Casper doesn't wait for USB hard disks to come up

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Cordes
This is a problem for iso-scan/filename=, too. It gets the list of block devs on the system at the start, and goes through that list, then drops you to a shell. On a fast machine, the boot scripts get to /scripts/casper/20iso-scan before USB devices have shown up. Even the internal hard drive

[Bug 219391] Re: xv doesn't work on ATI ES1000

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Cordes
I tried Intrepid alpha 4 (desktop amd64 and i386). xv still gives just a black rectangle. No apparent improvement. :( Much more serious is that compiz needs to be blacklisted: (I just reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/258469). -- xv doesn't work on ATI ES1000

[Bug 258469] Re: need to blacklist software direct rendering, e.g. ATI ES1000

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Cordes
** Attachment added: Xorg log from Intrepid alpha 4 (amd64 desktop) on a Dell PE1950 (ATI ES1000) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16862496/Xorg.0.log -- need to blacklist software direct rendering, e.g. ATI ES1000 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258469 You received this bug notification

[Bug 258469] [NEW] need to blacklist software direct rendering, e.g. ATI ES1000

2008-08-15 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz The ES1000 chipset doesn't support 3D at all. It's found on server mobos, for example. It's not too slow with gnome and firefox, although it (currently?) doesn't support RENDER acceleration. Anyway, Intrepid Alpha 4 (desktop amd64 and i386)

[Bug 261190] [NEW] problems witht cell!=default

2008-08-25 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: I built the Intrepid source packages (6.2~beta2-2) on a Hardy AMD64 system. After installing, I configured with debconf. I chose the cell name equal to my cluster's name. Something must still be assuming SGE_CELL=default, though: $ sudo -u sgeadmin qconf -au peter users

[Bug 261190] Re: problems witht cell!=default

2008-08-25 Thread Peter Cordes
This is probably because gridengine-common.postinst does chown 644 ${TMPFILE} instead of chmod 644 ${TMPFILE} so other tools can't read /etc/default/gridengine -- problems witht cell!=default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 261247] [NEW] gridengine-execd should depend on csh

2008-08-25 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: With gridengine 6.2~beta2-2 (with the chmod bug fixed), compiled on Ubuntu Hardy, I got this error in /var/spool/gridengine/execd/perun02/messages: 08/25/2008 15:27:16| main|perun02|E|08/25/2008 15:27:16 [1054:10399]: unable to find shell /bin/csh So I installed csh and

[Bug 105563] Re: usb stick not mounted after hibernate

2008-05-08 Thread Peter Cordes
On Hardy (2.6.24), there are still problems. CONFIG_USB_PERSIST=y, in /boot/config-2.6.24-16-generic. I don't have time right now to test a lot of stuff, for one thing because my Toshiba A70 is really slow to boot. (kernel seems to stick for a while before before detecting hard drives...) I

[Bug 72886] Re: Burning CD/DVD, starvation, doesn't use burn-proof

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Cordes
newegg doesn't sell that item number anymore. Better to give a model number. Have you had this happen with CDs and DVDs? I thought DVDs were smarter about recovering, and were supposed to be able to. It didn't take a special feature like burn proof. I'm not sure if I've ever had a buffer

[Bug 110484] Re: k3b causes system freeze

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Cordes
I also have a DG965WH motherboard (and a Pioneer DVR-111D, firmware 1.29). It uses the Intel g965 chipset, which doesn't include any IDE ports. The board has a Marvell IDE controller chip, which is driven by the pata_marvell kernel module. This is a relatively new driver in the kernel, and I

[Bug 138760] xdelta 1.1.3-7_i386 has bad md5sums

2007-09-10 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xdelta Ubuntu feisty i386 ships a wrong md5sum for /usr/bin/xdelta. debsums -c xdelta /usr/bin/xdelta The package file is a42682a708e2af3895406977f5100f71 xdelta_1.1.3-7_i386.deb Its control.tar.gz contains an md5sums file:

[Bug 135680] Re: evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Launching from Nautilus shows the same problem for me. You probably need an NFS mount, or maybe even an autofs-mounted NFS mount, to reproduce this. Like I said, it only happens in /net for me. I just tried copying my file to bar.pdf. Then evince /net/llama/home/peter/bar.pdf works. (It

Re: [Bug 135680] Re: evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-09-03 Thread Peter Cordes
copies of things in /tmp. I only have them installed because Ubuntu-desktop depends on them; I'm kind of a crusty command-line curmudgeon, so I use fluxbox on most of my desktops, not metacity+nautilus+... :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) The gods

[Bug 135680] evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince evince './ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' works evince '/net/llama/home/peter/ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' pops up a dialog that says Unable to open document The local file URI 'file:/tmp/evince-8626/document-0-ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' may

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