Bug#1016917: dvdbackup: has really clunky way of dealing with i/o errors

Package: dvdbackup Version: 0.4.2-4+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, vlc plays my old scratched dvd's without ANY viewing issues while dvdbackup creates a disk image with lots of remarks in the log about i/o errors, e.g., Error reading VTS_06_1.VOB at block 34304, read

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

such quick fixes for this issue, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

cussed on this thread! Anyhow, thanks for drawing this patch to my attention, and I hope I have time to take a close look at in in the coming week or so. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC,

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

lement any of those topics (or any other libcsironn development topic that interested you), I would be happy to comprehensively test that patch in a timely manner and (assuming that was a success) push that commit to make sure your work gets into the next release of PLplot. Best wishes, Alan

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

I will likely conclude this problem has been completely solved, and I will close this bug report. Meanwhile, I hope if you decide as a last resort to try updating your own BIOS (after careful consideration of the known risks), that will completely solve this issue for you. Alan _

Bug#918774: This bug now fixed upstream

t.cgi?bug=921139> should automatically address this current bug report as well. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplo

Bug#921139: lasi: is two important bug fix releases behind upstream

Source: lasi Version: 1.1.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, As primary maintainer of upstream libLASi I note that lasi version 1.1.0 was released in 2008-02-08 and has been superseded since by three important bug fix releases, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and most recently (see

Bug#918774: Simple method of verifying this bug

that deals with this issue. But just in case I cannot find them at all please let me know if you have some ideas about how to fix this libLASi bug. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.

Bug#918774: liblasi0: response to missing system glyphs no longer works correctly

Package: liblasi0 Version: 1.1.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Since one of my recent Debian Buster upgrades I have been getting the following run-time errors with libLASi when a missing system glyph is encountered: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'

Bug#916474: emacs-gtk: does not render certain UTF-8 symbols that other applications (both GTK and Qt based) render without problems

Package: emacs-gtk Version: 1:25.2+1-11 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, What led up to this situation is a correspondent sent me an e-mail containing a UTF-8 emoticon which rendered without problems under the konsole application for KDE, but when I edited my reply to him using emacs I noticed

Bug#913682: quilt: fails to document QUILT_PC environment variable

Package: quilt Version: 0.65-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Sometimes quilt users must be able to switch between completely different patch series. For example, I ran into this issue when dealing with applying an extra patch in debian/patches (to configure both RCU_EXPERT and RCU_NOCB_CPU

Bug#911496: linux-image-4.18.0-2-amd64: e1000e module locks up the system for Intel 82574L ethernet controller

Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.10-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The uptimes I can achieve with kernel 4.18.x and my particular hardware box (Ryzen 7 1700, with 8 cores and 64GB with Intel 82574L ethernet controller and AMDGPU RX 550 expansion cards attached) range from several hours to

Bug#910482: libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra: SVG error messages and/or rendering errors if inkscape not installed

Package: libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra Version: 8:6.9.10.8+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra installed, "display" (symlinked to display-im6.q16) renders validated SVG files incorrectly or not at all (exited with "display-im6.q16: non-conforming drawing

Bug#807418: This bug applies to the Debian Buster firefox-esr package as well

standing bugs for firefox-esr. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the li

Bug#909773: alsa-utils: alsamixer Master configured improperly for line-in of Realtek ALC887-VD

Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, To give some background I have a TV card whose line-out is connected to sound card line-in. As far as I can tell for Debian Testing = Buster line-in for this sound chip (and possibly all others although I can find no

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

5.3.5 version also solves the run-time issue with PLplot that started me on this bug hunt. So clearly this is an upstream bug for 5.3.3 that has been fixed by upstream 5.3.5, and the Debian solution for this bug should be simply to package 5.3.5. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

+00 @Maintainer: Please update the Debian package from 5.3.3 to 5.3.5 to see whether that fixes the issue demonstrated by the script. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

__ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org

Bug#907506: kinit: "Add to panel (Widget)" does not work

Package: kinit Version: 5.47.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With the latest version of the KDE desktop available for Debian Buster it appears to be impossible to launch multiple instances of applications from the panel. For example, if I explore klauncher -> applications -> internet I

Bug#907504: kinit: "type to search" has quit working

Package: kinit Version: 5.47.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For the KDE launcher (klauncher) that is available on the panel, if you search for an application by typing its name a search bar comes up as per usual, but that search bar no longer finds any applications no matter what you type

Bug#906538: Possibly still not fixed

r quickly fixing this severe bug once a Debian Buster user had reported it. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot sci

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

On 2018-06-02 10:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching 3 days since I switched to 4.16.12 from 4.16.5) and may have completely solved it. [...] Well, further

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithmetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

Attached script demonstrates the bug. __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

Package: lua5.3 Version: 5.3.3-1 Severity: important Based on a more complex script that was generating incorrect numerical results, I have created a fairly simple example lua script (which I will subsequently attach to this bug report) which demonstrates the bug. In this script I initialize 9

Bug#902148: xfce4: interferes with XKB interpretation of the PageUp key

Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When running emacs on the XFCE desktop I discovered that hitting the PageUp key did not scroll up the text by a page as expected and instead invoked the edt help page that normally you get in emacs edt mode by hitting the keypad

Bug#902050: kde-plasma-desktop: has severe keyboard latency when displaying remote KDE desktop

Package: kde-plasma-desktop Version: 5:102 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Because of I currently cannot run this fast box (Ryzen 7 1700, 8 cores, 64GB) very long with direct X display before it locks up. So until that bug is fixed

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

671>. I would like to see what sort of maximum uptime I can now achieve with this card without lock ups and report that here for the benefit of other Debian users of AMD RX 550 graphics cards so please leave this bug open for at least several more months. Alan __ Alan W.

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides p

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Version: 18.0.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The lock ups for the AMD RX 550 graphics card I have been experiencing occur on time scales of a few hours after a boot to up to a maximum of two days after a reboot. The frequency of those backups is the

Bug#899086: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: completely fails to detect AMD RX 550 (which uses the Polaris 12 chipset) unless firmware-amd-graphics package installed

Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Version: 18.0.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently performed a successful text install of Debian Buster using a snapshot from . That install was minimal,

Bug#864200: Problem solved with cold reboot!

__ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project

Bug#864200: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: sound card line-in for Intel chipset has quit working

Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.43-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For some time I have been watching TV (available via a Hauppauge WinTV card) with Debian Jessie using the tvtime application without issues. But after updating Debian Jessie this morning with apt-get dist-upgrade the TV

Bug#845497: liblasi-dev: has packaging issues with dependencies

Package: liblasi-dev Version: 1.1.0-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The Depends: line for liblasi-dev is incomplete, i.e., only the corresponding library package is mentioned now. Although, I only have the Debian stable version installed, I notice this bad situation persists in the

Bug#833677: gnat-4.9: last call to the put procedure incorrectly appends a newline character to the string

Package: gnat-4.9 Version: 4.9.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a use case where I need an Ada program to emit a single string to stdout _without_ a trailing newline character. According to Ada documentation I have read, the put procedure (as opposed to put_line) is the one to use

Bug#823384: git: checkout-index --all sometimes gives only partial results

Package: git Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Within scripts I have been using the --work-tree and --git-dir git options as follows to help "export" my working directory regardless of the last cd command executed by script invoker or within the script: git

Bug#821317: calligrasheets: fails to save money attribute for a cell

Package: calligrasheets Version: 1:2.8.5+dfsg-1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I start with a blank worksheet and fill any cell with a number, say, 123.45, then use ctrl-alt-f to format that cell with the money attribute, the cell is displayed (as expected) as "$123.45". But that money

Bug#810656: ifupdown: deadlocks: A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces

Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.53.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am reporting from a different computer because the affected computer is still deadlocked, but the system information below is largely the same because both (64-bit Intel) computers have been updated today to the latest

Bug#804387: ksysguard: hogs bandwidth if system load results displayed using a thin client

Package: ksysguard Version: 4:4.11.13-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I run ksysguard (a.k.a system monitor) directly on my fast box with KDE desktop it takes very little bandwidth, but if I display that KDE desktop (including the system monitor GUI) running on the fast box using a thin

Bug#803885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: glxgears segfaults for g33 chipset

. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Bug#803885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: glxgears segfaults for g33 chipset

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.21.15-2+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For my Intel g33 video chipset glxgears ran without issues on Debian Wheezy, but for Debian Jessie it segfaults on startup. I also find that glxgears works fine for that identical Debian Jessie box if

Bug#774118: closed by Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org (Re: Bug#774118: Additional information)

software project. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#774118: libc6:amd64: strspn generates compiler warning

Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-38+deb7u4 Severity: normal A compiler warning message is generated by the following test code and compiler options. irwin@raven cat test_strspn.c #include stdio.h #include string.h int main(void) { strcmp( 8998797857586fasdfljf, ); strspn(

Bug#774118: Additional information

apply it. __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net

Bug#768105: smoke-dev-tools: smokegen does not parse -I options correctly

Package: smoke-dev-tools Version: 4:4.8.4-1 Severity: normal I am helping to generate some smoke bindings for the PLplot library. The command I first used to generate the source code was /usr/bin/smokegen -config /usr/share/smokegen/qt-config.xml \ -smokeconfig \

Bug#761057: missing license in debian/copyright

for docbook using that slightly modified BSD documentation license (subject to Rafael's agreement as author of those man pages) and also for the doxygen-generated files. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bug#752274: liblasi-dev: has packaging issues with the files that are included

Package: liblasi-dev Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: minor The list of files for this package include the following two files in error: /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/CMakeLists.txt /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/Makefile.examples.in The first of these is a small part of the CMake-based

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

On 2013-10-11 16:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I did try the obvious step of building the Debian packages for libhpdf using apt-src build libhpdf. All seemed well with that build, but when I installed the corresponding debs, none of the critical symbols for the library as revealed by objdump

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

Package: libhpdf-2.2.1 Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch PLplot implements a plot device for creating pdf plots that depends on libhpdf, and when that pdf plot device is linked to the Debian wheezy version of libhpdf, all our standard examples work fine except for one with large fonts

Bug#721366: xmlto: craps out if DESTDIR is specified

Package: xmlto Version: 0.0.25-2 Severity: normal My use case is I am building and installing a particular package (PLplot) using make DESTDIR=whatever install where the install target depends on the all target which builds part of the package documentation using xmlto --with-fop. The

Bug#720624: dblatex: errors out with Undefined control sequence \Epsilon, etc., when rendering the Greek alphabet

Package: dblatex Version: 0.3.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The following simple docbook example: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE book PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd; [ !ENTITY Alpha#913; !ENTITY Beta #914;

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

to continue to be an issue for those remaining Debian users who have not done that upgrade yet. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Bug#716798: cmake: fails to download SSL URL's

Package: cmake Version: 2.8.9-1 Severity: normal I have recently discovered that CMake support for SSL downloads is fragile, and the Debian version does not work correctly because of that issue. Here is a simple script to illustrate this issue for the Debian version of cmake. software@raven cat

Bug#666761: Still an important issue for those who build modern wine versions

is good, I would hope the implementation would not be too difficult for someone with the required packaging skills and libfreetype knowledge. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Bug#644809: Yes, please!

covered by bug 644809. It is time for action to put this irritating issue to rest. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Bug#689377: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for a serial mouse

Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. This bug is closely related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688674, but for a completely different system (64-bit for this report versus 32-bit

Bug#688812: Substitute GMA950 everywhere I said GMA500 in the text

Subject line says it all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#688812: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Reapplying the same Outline desktop effect slows GMA 950 graphics core to a permanent crawl

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal For this particular Intel GMA500 graphics core, the KDE desktop is normally quite responsive. However, during initial configuration of KDE I was trying to get rid of a colored halo that appears for window that happens to have

Bug#688818: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 500 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 playing of 3D games

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 500 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env

Bug#688822: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 950 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 950 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env

Bug#688818: I am going to close this bug report

Because I stated in the subject line and body that it was GMA 500 rather than the correct GMA 950. Important difference! I have resubmited this bug report again with correct subject line and body GMA id. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#688674: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for PS2 to USB adapter

Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. I use an ordinary PS2 to USB converter with two sockets for keyboard and mouse and one USB socket that is plugged into my computer. So I presume the device looks

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

Package: installation-reports Severity: minor -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso 2012-09-06 Date: Date and time of the install 2012-09-19 Machine: ASUS Eee box B202

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

-ROM image on USB drive when that is appropriate rather than the above messages explicitly assuming that CD-ROM image is located on an actual CD drive. For experts this doesn't matter, but that wrong assumption is just confusing to newbies. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

application mix and a heavier application mix might trigger the issue. On the other hand, the problem might be limited just to 64-bit hardware. So monitoring /proc/slabinfo on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines running 2.6.32 is required to help pin this down. Alan __ Alan W

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-45 Severity: important In March 2011 I noticed our two-user home-office desktop system (one user accessing the system directly from its keyboard, one user accessing the system via a thin client/X-terminal) was showing all the classic signs of a memory leak (a

Bug#623758: emacs23: edt-find-next is unreliable on rare occasions

Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-7 Severity: normal These fairly rare symptoms occur for EDT mode which is invoked using ; ; edt emulation invoked automatically at start ; (add-hook 'term-setup-hook 'edt-emulation-on) in the .emacs file. edt-find-next is

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

On 2011-03-06 03:24+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca (26/02/2011): I do plan to give inputattach a quick try once I move from Debian Squeeze to Debian testing (probably in 6-12 months after testing has had a chance to settle down for a while

Bug#615491: Please close this bug report

were not duplicated and the last boundary segment was small both the even-odd and non-zero winding rule fill rules produced correct results for the self-intersecting boundary case that also looked obviously correct. Therefore, please close this bug report. Alan __ Alan W

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

On 2011-03-01 13:04+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:03 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Following your suggestion, I tried the EvenOddRule fill rule case for both fbdev and vesa, and the results were consistent (i.e., many fill rendering errors) with what happens for the intel

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

On 2011-02-28 14:15+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sam, 2011-02-26 at 13:52 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-11 Severity: normal The PLplot development team have just implemented a demanding 2D fill rendering test for the X stack where we modify our

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

on the missing dependency issue for the legacy approach. Please fix that! Also, please remove the moreinfo tag. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

need guidance on which component of the X stack is responsible for filling before I do such propagation. Finally, I am not sure exactly how to attach screenshots to Debian bugs using reportbug so I may have to do that later if it does not work with this initial report. Alan W. Irwin -- Package

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, one solution to the issue which I think would justify closing this bug report would be to warn users about the reboot requirement with an install warning message for xserver-xorg-video-intel. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

Hi Bernhard: I agree with most/all of your points, and I appreciate your help in clarifying the issues (especially with the good point that these are server-side fonts so the suggests/recommends are the X server package responsibility). Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

in the output from xlsfonts related to Helvetica; irwin@raven xlsfonts |grep -i hel |wc -l 0 Can you confirm that on your testing system as well or is there some additional package I should install to resolve this issue? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

On 2011-01-25 18:41+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca [110125 18:21]: irwin@raven xlsfonts |wc -l 1600 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. Also

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

On 2011-01-25 21:40+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: package gv close 611053 thanks * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca [110125 20:15]: To recap, in my original message I said quote Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather old advice to install xfonts-100dpi

Bug#611053: gv can no longer find fonts

Package: gv Version: 1:3.7.1-1 Severity: normal When I use gv to view a PostScript file I get the following warning messages: software@raven gv x01c.psc Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

is not a permanent solution. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#595662: sed: incorrectly concatanates next line to pattern space

Package: sed Version: 4.2.1-7 Severity: important I illustrate the bug by two examples. In each case I have a file called bookmarks.html with a particular line in it containing the string 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. I pipeline the result to diff to find out the exact effect of the given sed one-line

Bug#594384: gnat-4.4-doc: gnat_rm appears with the wrong version number in the top-level info index

fine. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined System Monitor applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

(probably send it upstream) would be immediately useful. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

On 2010-07-22 11:34+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca, 2010-07-21, 18:40: softw...@raven ldd -r /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so 21 |grep -i codec undefined symbol: _ZN10QTextCodec11validCodecsEv (/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so) I

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

I initially thought so despite the above tag, I currently have no patch for this issue. N.B. this undefined symbol issue kills my build of a pyqt4 module which actually needed one of those missing symbols so I judged this to be an important issue. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

On 2010-07-22 01:59+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: tags 589893 - patch thanks Thanks for your bug report. * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca, 2010-07-21, 16:37: ldd -r /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/PyQt4/Qt.so You obtain the following (abbreviated) results: linux-vdso.so.1

Bug#588983: python-feedvalidator: errors out with ImportError: No module named ....

Package: python-feedvalidator Version: 0~svn1022-1 Severity: grave Tags: l10n Justification: renders package unusable The issue is that with Debian squeeze /etc/default/locale now defines LANGUAGE. On my system that file looks like this # File generated by update-locale #LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined System Monitor applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Bug#588670: installation-reports: generated grub.cfg has off-by-one error in --fs-uuid index in the search command

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded on 2010-07-05 with size of 177694720 Date: Date and time of the install Just after I downloaded, probably late 2010-07-05 or early

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing FATAL: Module fbcon not found. message

the web says. So therefore, please just remove this useless and confusing message! Also, if this is the wrong package to report this bug (say if this is caused by the X server rather than intel driver), please forward this bug to the appropriate X package. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info

Bug#579910: vmware video driver breaks X configure

configuration for a vastly changed X configuration landscape. Therefore, if the workaround were not available I would have requested classifying this bug at a much higher severity level. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

think they affect it at all unless the user specifically is requesting kbd and mouse drivers as I outlined above. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2

Bug#588571: tvtime: generates incorrect mute unavailable message

to work fine for Squeeze.) I suppose I could also write another formal bug report about a volume control being missing in tvtime, but I am reasonably satisfied with kmix to handle the overall volume so I will only mention that issue in passing here. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing FATAL: Module fbcon not found. message

On 2010-07-09 18:40+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:12:20 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-4 Severity: minor There is plenty of advice on the internet to ignore this message which is why I have classified this as a minor bug

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

On 2010-07-09 19:32+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:04:19 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: normal The default hot plugging X input system implemented using evdev did not detect my serial mouse so I turned hot

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

on mlock or suggest or recommend it. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#563850: xserver-xorg-video-sis: X server crashes when logging out from KDE via xdm

(since I am logging out anyway), but I thought I should report them for the record. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 5 00:56 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr

Bug#563850: test

Just checking for whether I am subscribed to this bug or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530005: libphobos-4.1-dev: libgphobos cannot be linked by a shared library

tests are necessary to help you figure out this linking issue, I would be happy to perform them. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG

Bug#518816: copying .sfd files to ~/.uniconvertor/fonts still give an empty fntlst when *.cgm files are being converted to other formats

__ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software

Bug#518816: python-uniconvertor: Cannot load plugin module cgmloader

. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions

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