Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

2016-04-20 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Vincent. I was just about to update this bug after purging wicd today. On 20 April 2016 at 19:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Probably the same bug as bug 557156 (from 2009!). The problem is that > wicd-daemon tries to reconfigure the ethernet interface even though > it is

Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

2016-03-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On 7 March 2016 at 04:16, Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Vaughan wrote: >> My home server is a headless box, administered from a vnc session tunnelled >> over ssh. It has no wifi adaptor, just a single ethernet port that is >> stati

Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

2016-02-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.4+tb2-1 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, My home server is a headless box, administered from a vnc session tunnelled over ssh. It has no wifi adaptor, just a single ethernet port that is statically configured via /etc/network/interfaces. During today's

Bug#535239: grub-pc: Multiple kernel root= paramaters

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.97~beta3-1 Severity: normal Hi Time for another variation on this bug. I was asked the debconf dialog about kopt, however the extracted value was empty. I copied and pasted root=/dev/hda5 ro into the dialog. Next came the defoptions question. Old value was #

Bug#548667: please add libclamunrar6 to non-free buildd network

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: libclamunrar6 Version: 0.95.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Please add libclamunrar6 to the non-free buildd network. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html Thanks Andrew V. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#545335: FTBFS on at least powerpc and sparc

2009-09-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Package: vtk Version: 5.2.1-9 Severity: serious Hi Please look into why vtk fails to build from source on at least the powerpc and sparc buildds. There are quite some java packages waiting on vtk to be able to migrate to testing. Cheers Luk The

Bug#526489: Fwd: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?)

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Forwarded from -devel -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#526489: Time to orphan eclipse? (Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned?) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 From: Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org To: Jerry Haltom was...@larvalstage.net, Michael Koch

Bug#520620: ITP: kplayer -- media player

2009-03-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi David Package name: kplayer Version: 0.7 Just in case you don't know, Christian Marillat maintains kplayer packages as part of his Debian Multimedia repository. http://debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/k/kplayer/kplayer.php Cheers Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#519558: dar crash report *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/dar: double free or corruption

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: dar Version: 2.3.8-3 Severity: normal Hi Whilst backing up a partition today dar crashed. (backtrace below) The only unusual thing I did was some tidying up of /mnt. (Mounted and umounted an old filesystem, rm an obsolete logical volume and volume group, rm some obsolete mount

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Philipp Apologies for not following up earlier. On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Philipp Hübner wrote: I tried, it's definetly not needed. Furthermore I installed system-config-lvm and lvm2 on a clean lenny-system: dm_mod get's loaded instantly after the installation, system-config-lvm works out of

Bug#502635: Differences between Sarge and Etch installed machines.

2008-10-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Whilst looking at #502625 I discovered info relevant to this bug. On my desktop (which was installed mid 2005, from what looks like Sarge media [install log shows kernel 2.6.8-2-386]), the dm_* modules aren't loaded automatically. (/etc/init.d/lvm2 loads dm_mod, nothing loads dm_mirror,

Bug#502813: dhelp: /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp fails to rebuild index

2008-10-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: dhelp Version: 0.6.13 Severity: serious Hi /etc/cron.weekly/dhelp fails to rebuild /var/lib/dhelp/documents.index, after deleting it. Running it manually produces no error message. Severity serious since this a significant regression from 0.6.12. Downgrading to 0.6.12 fixes the

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: system-config-lvm Version: 1.1.4-2 Severity: important Hi $ sudo system-config-lvm Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/system-config-lvm/system-config-lvm.py, line 173, in module runFullGUI() File /usr/share/system-config-lvm/system-config-lvm.py, line 158, in

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
package system-config-lvm severity 502625 normal retitle 502625 system-config-lvm crashes if dm_mod not loaded thanks On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Philipp Hübner wrote: Hello, thank you for reporting the bug. So far I was unable to reproduce it. I've managed to track this down. The problem seems to

Bug#502635: lvcreate: Please provide better error message if dm_mod not loaded

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.39-2 Severity: wishlist Hi During installation of lvm2, dm_mod isn't loaded. This means that lvcreate will fail. # lvcreate --name foo --size 1G bar /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Failure to

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Andrew Vaughan wrote: I've managed to track this down. The problem seems to be that dm_mod wasn't loaded. Rebooting after creating a VG was enough to get dm_mod autoloaded. (I didn't reboot earlier, so I'm not sure whether a reboot after installing lvm2 would be enough

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Philipp Hübner wrote: Thank you for this very interesting information and your work. I noticed that lvm2 only suggests dmsetup. If system-config-lvm really crashes without dmsetup, I should add dmsetup as a dependency and install the wrapper-script you mentioned. dm_mod

Bug#502625: system-config-lvm crashes immediately

2008-10-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Andrew Vaughan wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Philipp Hübner wrote: Thank you for this very interesting information and your work. I noticed that lvm2 only suggests dmsetup. If system-config-lvm really crashes without dmsetup, I should add dmsetup as a dependency

Bug#487722: 487722: dhelp still getting hung up

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice... Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially *hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone upgrades from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a

Bug#487722: #487722 dhelp index times

2008-09-14 Thread Andrew Vaughan
hi Ross wrote I see at least these possibilities: 1) The indexing process really does take a very long time. 2) One or more of the index programs being invoked is messed up, resulting in the long times. Likely only some documents trigger the problem. 3) Something in dhelp (or whatever is

Bug#497139: doc-base's trigger seems to sometimes cause dhelp to reindex the entire cache

2008-09-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
[cc-ed to dhelp's maintainers in case they have any suggestions as to how to debug this/what might be causing this]. Hi This has happened again today. I'm considering upgrading this to serious, a 2+ hour stall in the middle of a simple update is not acceptable imo. I'm also getting the GPL

Bug#498430: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx: logout-end session crashes xserver

2008-09-09 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx Version: 96.43.07-1 Severity: normal Hi I'm using the nvidia drivers from unstable on an up to date Lenny system. Logout-end session crashes the xserver. Switching to the vesa driver solves the problem, so I'm guessing it's a nvidia driver issue. The end of

Bug#497626: libparted1.8-i18n: copy paste error in long description

2008-09-03 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: libparted1.8-i18n Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-9 Severity: minor Hi From the long description. ... This package contains the Parted binary and manual page. This package contains the i18n message catalogs for libparted and parted... Looks like you copied just a little too much

Bug#497139: doc-base's trigger seems to sometimes reindex the entire cache

2008-08-30 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: doc-base Version: 0.8.16 Severity: important Hi I'm not sure why, but sometimes doc-base seems to cause dhelp to reindex the entire cache. This means a simple daily upgrade sometimes takes 2+ hours on my Pentium 4 desktop. (I'm not sure which package is to blame, this could easily

Bug#494785: kmail: segsegv in KMFolder::open

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: kmail Version: 4:3.5.9-5 Severity: important Hi Whilst attempting to move a message from a remote imap (connected) folder to a local folder kmail crashed. This crash is reproducible for me (at least for the moment). Note that kmail regularly seems to corrupt its internal state.

Bug#493294: ITP: eventxx -- a simple, direct, one-header inline C++ libevent wrapper

2008-08-10 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Leandro On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leandro Lucarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: eventxx Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Leandro Lucarella [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Bug#493307: swfdec-mozilla breaks flashplayer-mozilla

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Vaughan
severity 493307 serious thanks Hi So I guess just disabling that plugin, and keeping anotherone installed should solve the problem. Unfortunately that doesn't work. Even after disabling the plugin (and restarting ice-weasel), Christian Marillat's flashplayer-mozilla plugin still wouldn't

Bug#492824: kipi-plugins: please reduce your recommends to suggests

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: kipi-plugins Version: 0.1.5-1 Severity: normal Hi [I considered filing this against gwenview, but gwenview recommending kipi-plugins seem reasonable. The problem is that kipi-plugins acts too much like a meta-package, pulling in too many apps for a package that otther normal packages

Bug#489216: cupsys: Turning off printer hangs system.

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.7-4etch3 Severity: important Hi Turning off my laser printer (connected via parallel port) effectively hangs my home server. Whilst hung, the system will respond to pings (reply times in the 20-30 ms range, verses a normal 0.2ms response), but running jobs are

Bug#481597: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config does not recognize changed hostname

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thursday 12 June 2008 21:00, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:27:34PM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: ... I wasn't even aware that the local machine should be listed in /etc/hosts. It should. A lot of daemons rely on the local host name being resolveable before the network

Bug#486016: gc_approx fails with Not_found, exits with return code 1

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: approx Version: 3.0.0~bpo40+1 Severity: normal Hi Today gc_approx started failing. This is reproducible for me. Any ideas? (Other than filesystem corruption? I will try an fsck later). Thanks for your work in Debian. Andrew V # /usr/sbin/gc_approx -v -f #

Bug#486020: umount: please refuse to umount /a when /a/b is bind mounted elsewhere.

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: mount Version: 2.12r-19etch1 Severity: normal File: /bin/mount Hi I have a directory tree like /a /a/b /a/c where /a/b and /a/c mount --bind to /srv/b and /srv/c That normally works fine. Today I unmounted /a and tried to fsck the partition. $ sudo umount /dev/sda1 $ sudo fsck

Bug#486016: gc_approx fails with Not_found, exits with return code 1

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 13 June 2008 10:27, Andrew Vaughan wrote: Any ideas? (Other than filesystem corruption?  I will try an fsck later). The fsck didn't report any problems. I can still reproduce this bug. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#481597: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config does not recognize changed hostname

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sunday 25 May 2008 18:42, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:44:27AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008 02:43, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 07:34:22PM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: I changed the hostname on my home server. I changed /etc

Bug#481597: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config does not recognize changed hostname

2008-05-23 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Saturday 24 May 2008 02:43, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 07:34:22PM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: I changed the hostname on my home server. I changed /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, rebooted and ran dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config thinking that that should be enough to get

Bug#481597: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config does not recognize changed hostname

2008-05-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.63-17 Severity: important Hi I changed the hostname on my home server. I changed /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, rebooted and ran dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config thinking that that should be enough to get exim configured for the new hostname. 3 days later

Bug#427697: Fwd: Re: Bug#427697: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Forgot to cc the bug report. Apologies to anyone who gets this twice. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#427697: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do? Date: Friday 16 May 2008 13:07 From: Andrew Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 16 May 2008

Bug#466387: Need to add pioneers-{foo} dummy packages to help etch-lenny upgrades

2008-04-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Ping. Any progress with this bug? Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#417673: All acronis images on my FAT32 are truncated to from 4294966784 bytes 0 after running dosfsck

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Peter On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:30, Peter Koek wrote: I am searching for an update for the dosfstools in which this bug is fixed. I am using dosfstools-2.11-8.fc7. I have a FAT32 partition on which I keep all my acronis disk images, however after using dosfsck all my images are now

Bug#471367: RFE: reformat The ... RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed paragraph

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: wishlist Hi Daniel Aptitude foo output often includes The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: courier-mta esmtp-run exim4 exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-light libfribidi0 libgpmg1 libsasl2-modules masqmail msmtp-mta

Bug#471347: aptitude-create-state-bundle should tolerate missing $HOME/.aptitude directory

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Daniel When running chrooted $HOME/.aptitude may not exist. aptitude-create-state-bundle shouldn't fail in that case. Thanks Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#471347: aptitude-create-state-bundle should tolerate missing $HOME/.aptitude directory

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Daniel On Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:19, Daniel Burrows wrote: When running chrooted $HOME/.aptitude may not exist. aptitude-create-state-bundle shouldn't fail in that case. I agree. Could you please describe how it's failing? I just created a test state bundle on a system where I

Bug#470115: aptitude upgrade can remove recommended packages rather than upgrading them

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1+b2 Severity: important Hi Daniel During an interactive session I noticed that upgrading kdebase results in kdm being marked for removal. As near as I can determine, the relevant info is Installed State: kdebase_4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2 Depends: kdebase-bin

Bug#470118: tetex-base: Transitional package that should depend and/or recommend tex-foo.

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: tetex-base Version: 2007-13 Severity: serious Hi From the description teTeX is no longer developed upstream, and has been replaced by the TeX Live collection. This is a transitional package to bring former teTeX users a decent selection of TeX Live packages. It can be safely

Bug#470118: tetex-base: Transitional package that should depend and/or recommend tex-foo.

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sunday 09 March 2008 21:53, Ralf Stubner wrote: I am not sure if this is really a bug, let alone a serious one. Let me try to explain this: The dependencies for the teTeX packages where such that tetex-base formed the basis of everything, but it did not provide any useful functinality

Bug#470115: aptitude upgrade can remove recommended packages rather than upgrading them

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 10 March 2008 04:38, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:24:54PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: If you need more info, let me know. (I have run aptitude-create-state-bundle, and will hold off doing the upgrade for several days). Do you

Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:07, Noah Slater wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying if you don't know what this is, you don't need this defeats the purpose of packages descriptions.

Bug#467217: RFP: python-pypdf -- Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sunday 24 February 2008 07:09, Luciano Bello wrote: Description : pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of: That sounds like someone has managed to code a Python interpreter as part of a PDF document. May I suggest

Bug#466374: Subject: aptitude: Resolver should score conflicts+provides+replaces better

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Additionally, if the kword document is saved in Microsoft Word format, the bullets are imported by OpenOffice.org Writer. -- Tim Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 610 899 815 The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#466036: lmodern: etch-lenny upgrade fails

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Frank On Sunday 17 February 2008 05:14, Frank Küster wrote: Andrew Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During aptitude upgrade, lmodern 1.010x-4 fails to install. The relevant output is quoted below. I have snapshotted the vm, so let me know if you need help tracking this down

Bug#466232: libopenssl-ruby1.8: Fails to install (etch-lenny upgrade)

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: libopenssl-ruby1.8 Version: 1.8.6.111-4 Severity: serious Justification: Fails to install Hi During a test dist-upgrade etch-lenny (on a different machine) Unpacking replacement libopenssl-ruby1.8 ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#466036: lmodern: etch-lenny upgrade fails

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: lmodern Version: 1.010x-4 Severity: serious Hi I'm starting to test upgrades etch - lenny in a virtual machine. During aptitude upgrade, lmodern 1.010x-4 fails to install. The relevant output is quoted below. I have snapshotted the vm, so let me know if you need help tracking this

Bug#465597: virtualbox-ose: misleading error message (device /dev/vboxdrv ...)

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: virtualbox-ose Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-4 Severity: normal Hi I just spent some time fiddling with virtualbox-ose on Lenny. $ VirtualBox WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and load

Bug#465450: approx start: does not report error when port 9999 is already in use

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:13, Eric Cooper wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:20:52AM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: As the following sequence shows, approx failed to give an error message, (and appeared to start) even though port was already in use. (apt-cacher-ng

Bug#465473: gc_approx: would be nice to keep unneeded packages X days before deletion

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: approx Version: 3.0.0~bpo40+1 Severity: wishlist Hi It would be nice to be able to configure gc_approx to keep superceded/ removed packages for a month or so before deleting them. This would be useful for those occasions when you upgrade to a broken package, and don't realise for a

Bug#465450: approx start: does not report error when port 9999 is already in use

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: approx Version: 2.8.0 Severity: normal As the following sequence shows, approx failed to give an error message, (and appeared to start) even though port was already in use. (apt-cacher-ng was configured to use port ) $ sudo invoke-rc.d approx stop Stopping proxy server for

Bug#447601: fdupes: Ping

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sunday 30 December 2007 04:06, Adrian Bridgett wrote: I've had to renew my GPG key - no idea how long it'll take I'm afraid - I'm awaiting a reply from the keyring maintainers. Fair enough. I was mainly concerned because http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested you have

Bug#447601: fdupes: Ping

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Any on my suggested patch? Should I contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ask someone to NMU? TIA Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447601: fdupes: working LFS patch

2007-10-23 Thread Andrew Vaughan
. + + -- Andrew Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:13:10 +1000 + fdupes (1.40-4) unstable; urgency=low * applied Peter Harvey's speed up (sped that up too!) (closes: #213385) only in patch2: unchanged: --- fdupes-1.40.orig/Makefile +++ fdupes-1.40/Makefile @@ -35,7 +35,7

Bug#447601: fdupes: Needs LFS, silently 'skips' files 2GB

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: fdupes Version: 1.40-4 Severity: important fdupes silently skips large files ( 2GB). Adding -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to the compile options gets it correctly comparing large files. However that's only a partial fix, as it leaves the --size output format broken for files. fdupes.c:

Bug#446623: gdebi should support installing multiple debs from one commandline

2007-10-14 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: gdebi Version: 0.1.6 Severity: wishlist Hi gdebi should support installing multi packages simultaneously from one commandline. eg gdebi package1.deb package2.deb This is useful for updating 2 or more mutually related-dependent packages. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#400189: xserver-xorg-video-nv: garbage output (6800 GS); renders vt1-6 unusable

2007-08-14 Thread Andrew Vaughan
found 400189 1:2.1.2-2 thanks Hi Brice On Sunday 12 August 2007 17:11, Brice Goglin wrote: Andrew, The upstream developer would like you to try the latest driver, xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.2-2 currently in testing. I had a quick try with 2.1.2-2. (Clean install of Lenny over the

Bug#400189: xserver-xorg-video-nv: garbage output (6800 GS); renders vt1-6 unusable

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
found 400189 1:1.2.0-3 found 400189 1:2.0.2-1 thanks On Wednesday 09 May 2007 07:01, Brice Goglin wrote: Hi Andrew, Several months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the nv driver and X server making virtual terminals unusable on a nVidia 6800GS board. Did you reproduce this

Bug#422206: ITP: soprano -- A Qt interface for RDF storage

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 04 May 2007 19:23, Sune Vuorela wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: soprano Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Sebastian Trueg and others * URL : http://www.kde.org/ * License : LGPL-2

Bug#420289: ITP: ilf -- InfoNode Look and Feel

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Saturday 21 April 2007 21:53, Torsten Werner wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Torsten Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: ilf Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : NNL Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.infonode.net/ * License

Bug#417673: /sbin/fsck.vfat incorrectly truncates files

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew Vaughan
tags 417673 + patch thanks Hi The attached patch stolen from http://patches.ubuntu.com/d/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11-2.1ubuntu3.patch fixes #417673 for me. Release team is this too late for etch r0? Andrew V. diff -pruN 2.11-2.1/debian/changelog 2.11-2.1ubuntu3/debian/changelog ---

Bug#417673: /sbin/fsck.vfat not fixed by binNMU + Sarge _is_ affected

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Vaughan
reopen 417673 found 417673 2.11-2 thanks Hi Firstly apologies for incorrectly stating that sarge isn't affected in my initial report. I realise that this has caused people to waste time focusing on the differences between the sarge and etch versions. On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:32, Florian

Bug#417673: /sbin/fsck.vfat: Incorrectly truncates files of 4294966784 bytes length during boot.

2007-04-04 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: dosfstools Version: 2.11-2.1 Severity: critical File: /sbin/fsck.vfat Justification: causes serious data loss /sbin/fsck.vfat truncates files of 4294966784 bytes length. The file system on /dev/hda8 was checked immediately before reboot using the GUI tool in Windows 2000. As the

Bug#413527: Merge 413527 398182

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
merge 413527 398182 thanks Hi Bob This is same as bug http://bugs.debian.org/398182 which has recently been fixed upstream (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126715). Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#416176: ITP: qtiplot -- A user friendly graphical plotting program

2007-03-25 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:53, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Qtiplot is a GPL licensed fully fledged plotting program similar to the Origin program. It can make two and three dimensional plots of publication quality, both from datasets and functions. It can do non-linear fitting and multi-peak

Bug#398217: apt-proxy: 15 months later, still happening

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:24, Chris Halls wrote: Hi Andrew Thanks for your ping. Actually, I already fixed this bug in subversion but have not had time to finish testing and preparing a release. Here's the current changelog: apt-proxy (1.9.36~svn) unstable; urgency=low [ Chris Halls

Bug#415533: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- PANIC: Invalid argument

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35-0.3 Severity: normal Hi Apt-proxy died today. The following exception seems to be the cause. 2007/03/20 10:26 EST [Channel,1127,192.168.1.23] [CacheEntry] file_sent:/var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1 _1.19.6-25_i386.deb 2007/03/20 10:26

Bug#398217: apt-proxy: 15 months later, still happening

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35-0.3 Followup-For: Bug #398217 Hi After 15 months without a maintainer response, I've decided to send another log extract, just to let you know that apt-proxy still dies regularly. Thanks Andrew V. 2007/03/20 13:26 EST [Channel,586,192.168.1.23]

Bug#413961: Upgrading udev only updates initrd of running kernel.

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: udev Version: 0.105-3 Severity: serious Justification: Possibility of breakage after udev upgrade, reboot to different kernel. Hi Upgrading a system with multiple kernels installed I noticed that only the running kernel has its initrd rebuilt. Setting up udev (0.105-3) ...

Bug#409901: java-common: update-java-alternatives cannot find alternative `/usr/lib/gcj-4.1/libgcjwebplugin.so'

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: java-common Version: 0.25 Severity: important Hi I have multiple jdks installed, including gcj-4.1, sun-java5 (from non-free), Sun and IBM java 1.4 (via sarge's java-package). When I use update-java-alternatives --set java-gcj to switch to gjc, I get ... Using

Bug#409302: update-java-alternatives is broken

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
retitle 409302 update-java-alternatives: wrong syntax in README.alternatives clone 409302 -1 reassign 409302 sun-java5 reassign -1 sun-java6 thanks On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:43, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:32:24PM +0100, Nicolas DEGAND wrote: After migrating from

Bug#407172: closed by Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#407172: wodim: Bad driver opts 'burnfree')

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Vaughan
severity 407172 serious thanks On Friday 19 January 2007 19:03, Eduard Bloch wrote: Severity: serios Version: 1.1.2 This glitch has been dealt with in the current version. Eduard. Bump the severity as Eduard intended to do in his message to 407172-done. This bug is still in etch, which

Bug#408295: kde-extras: should recommend rosegarden, not rosegarden4.

2007-01-24 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: kde-extras Version: 5:52 Severity: normal Hi kde-extras recommends rosegarden4. However rosegarden4 appears to be a dummy package provided as an upgrade path to the rosegarden package. Thanks for your work in Debian Andrew V. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#407172: wodim: Bad driver opts 'burnfree'

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: wodim Version: 9:1.1.1-1 Severity: normal Hi When attempting to burn a 4128 MB dvd from the command line $ wodim KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso wodim: No write mode specified. wodim: Asuming -tao mode. wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.

Bug#401318: strigi-plugins: long description incomplete

2006-12-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: strigi-plugins Version: 0.3.9-1 Severity: minor Hi The long description doesn't provide any useful information to a user trying to decide whether to install the package. I think that it should include answers to the following questions: - which plugins? - what are they useful for?

Bug#400189: xserver-xorg-video-nv: garbage output (6800 GS); renders vt1-6 unusable

2006-11-24 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv Version: 1:1.2.0-3 Severity: normal Hi The nv driver renders thin green vertical stripes approx 6mm apart against a grey background with my nvidia 6800 GS (256 MB) card. Attempting to switch to a vt, results in a black screen. Switching back to vt7 normally

Bug#400202: nvidia-kernel-common: shouldn't recommend nvidia-kernel-source

2006-11-24 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: nvidia-kernel-common Version: 20051028+1 Severity: minor Hi Randall Afer reporting #400129, I thought I'd check the legacy packages. From a clean state, aptitude install nvidia-glx-legacy wants to install kernel-package nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-1-486

Bug#400129: nvidia-glx: fails to uninstall: dpkg-divert error

2006-11-24 Thread Andrew Vaughan
severity 400129 normal tag 400129 + unreproducible thanks On Friday 24 November 2006 11:10, Randall Donald wrote: $ sudo dpkg --purge nvidia-glx (Reading database ... 291706 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-glx ... dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting

Bug#400129: nvidia-glx: fails to uninstall: dpkg-divert error

2006-11-23 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.8776-2 Severity: serious Hi When attempting to remove or purge nvidia-glx. $ sudo dpkg --purge nvidia-glx (Reading database ... 291706 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-glx ... dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting

Bug#398182: Crash: Probably during connected imap autopoll

2006-11-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: kmail Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important Kmail sometimes crashes. It seems to be happening if I click on a new (ie red) message whilst kmail is auto polling my home imap server. I'm using the connected imap protocol). It seems more likely to happen (maybe only happen) if

Bug#398217: apt-proxy: Downloads the same file twice, then dies.

2006-11-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Severity: normal Hi Apt-proxy lacks adequate protection against multiple simultaneous downloads of the same file. From my logs, $ sudo grep kdenetwork-dbg /var/log/apt-proxy.log 2006/11/11 14:34 EST [Channel,3,192.168.1.23] [CacheEntry] start

Bug#363324: (no subject)

2006-11-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Randall, Hi Phillipe Philippe Cloutier wrote I'm not sure what you mean by since there won't be any modules in testing, but I hope the following answers your question. There are two things that would make me close this report: 1) linux-2.6 is updated, and both nvidia-graphics-modules-i386

Bug#397399: apt-proxy: Exceptions handling overlapping multiple requests for the same file

2006-11-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Severity: normal Hi If apt-proxy is already downloading a file when another client requests the same file I get the exception below. The client aptitude instance reports [ERROR] Connection failed. Needless to say this is an issue for when attempting to

Bug#397403: apt-proxy: Apt-proxy sometimes fails to download a file for no apparent reason

2006-11-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Severity: normal I needed multiple attempts to download korn_3.5.5.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb today. From the log: $ sudo grep korn /var/log/apt-proxy.log 2006/11/07 16:00 EST [Channel,11,192.168.1.23] [CacheEntry] start

Bug#392590: zeroconf: changes network settings without permission

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 02:10, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:47:33PM +0100, Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've missed the crucial steps: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache

Bug#392590: zeroconf: changes network settings without permission

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 03:19, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:11:06AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libnss-mdns recommnends zeroconf libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf That was bug #353131 and was fixed in libnss-mdns 0.8-4.2. Mike The changelog

Bug#388617: tomcat5.5: fails to start

2006-09-22 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 22 September 2006 20:58, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Shobhit Jindal wrote: [...] /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08: tomcat5.5. It's a strange location... /usr/lib/jvm is used a couple debian packages on my mixed testing/unstable system. Seems a fairly logical place to group jvm

Bug#382830: Building Nvidia-kernel-legacy-modules.

2006-08-20 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi I am using the latest sid nvidia-legacy packages with kernel 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6.16-2-486 in etch. I am not using module assistant, instead I built using Method #1 in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-legacy-source/README.Debian Possible that the module-assistant method is broken, it's also

Bug#383860: x86 binary packages built from pre-release source package

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy Version: 1.0.7182-1 Severity: serious Hi Donald The x86 binary packages aren't built from the uploaded source package. They appear to have been built from a pre-release version of the package that was available for testing before the final version was

Bug#382510: gdmflexiserver : reproducible Segfault under kde

2006-08-11 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: gdm Version: 2.14.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver Segfaults when run under kde. From the output, it seems that gdmflexiserver requires a running gdm. I'm using kdm. The kde menu exposes gdmflexiserver as a menu item, New Login - Comment

Bug#375393: aptitude show package-name can list wrong version as installed.

2006-06-30 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 30 June 2006 14:59, Daniel Burrows wrote: The basic problem here is that the State line just refers to the state of the package in general, not the version being displayed. A Hmm. I don't feel that's a problem. To me that's the expected behaviour. secondary problem is that we

Bug#376160: ktorrent sometimes ignores upload speed limit.

2006-06-30 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: ktorrent Version: 1.2-1 Severity: important Hi Ktorrent sometimes ignores the upload speed limit and saturates the link. This causes ping times to blow out to 8000ms, and makes other internet use virtually impossible. Thanks for your work on debian. Andrew V. ps Any chance of

Bug#375386: nvidia-settings: Not compatible with nvidia-glx-legacy 1.0.7174-4

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: nvidia-settings Version: 1.0+20060516-1 Severity: normal Hi The subject says it all. nvidia-settings 1.0+20060516-1 is not compatible with nvidia-glx-legacy 1.0.7174-4. $ nvidia-settings ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension version 1.6 is too old; the minimimum required version is 1.9.

Bug#375393: aptitude show package-name can list wrong version as installed.

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Severity: minor After using dpkg --purge, dpkg -i to manually downgrade a package, aptitude show package-name | grep Version still shows the original version as installed. This behaviour continues even after an interactive available package-list update,

Bug#374774: graveman: Fails to burn cd if cdrecord not installed suid.

2006-06-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Package: graveman Version: 0.3.12-5-1 Severity: normal Hi If cdrecord is not installed suid: - graveman crashes (Segmentation fault) when trying to burn .iso images; - displays an error message (without any useful info) when trying to burn data CDs. suggested fixes include: - check for suid

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