Bug#926366: Allow /etc/default/grub.local.pre and .post

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02+dfsg1-16 Severity: wishlist I am trying to get the "final word" in how these grub variables are appended. Can you please specify a files, e.g., /etc/default/grub.local.pre /etc/default/grub.local.post that are initially absent, and guaranteed never to be written by

Bug#926365: Network location provider at 'https://www.googleapis.com/' : Returned error code 403.

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: chromium Version: 73.0.3683.75-1 Please see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=753242#c31

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
And lo and behold, in /etc/grub.d/10_linux : if [ "$ubuntu_recovery" = 1 ]; then GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY nomodeset" fi

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> The installer normally uses a dumb framebuffer driver (probably efifb BH> on this system) that is built into the kernel. This is too low- BH> performance for a proper desktop. OK, the installer could first double check that the framebuffer driver it

Bug#926361: Mention --width in paragraph

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Severity: minor --cols option may be used to exactly determine the width in this case. The w or -w option may be also be used to adjust width. Also mention --width in that sentence. And mention if --width is the same

Bug#926360: Add word "positive"

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor $ ps -e --columns 33 -o pid,start_time,cputimes:0,comm error: column widths must be unsigned decimal numbers ^positive

Bug#926362: No stime entry on man page

2019-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Severity: minor On the man page it says lstart STARTED time the command started. See also bsdstart, start, start_time, and stime. but there is no stime entry.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
So the question becomes why does that installer ISO know how to properly deal with the BH> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev e6) BH> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8719] giving nice splash screens, a

Bug#926245: Clarify that netinst can indeed still install without net

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: b...@decadent.org.uk Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: minor On e.g., http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ At What is a netinst image? The netinst CD here is a small CD image that contains just the core

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
BH> Please send the output of "lspci -vnn" for the system that shows this BH> problem. Would lspci -knn be good enough for now?: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=0;bug=925556;filename=logs.gz;msg=50

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK. The package is actually installed. It is just the message about that being buffered until the next interaction probably.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is I researched what ISO I could put on a USB stick and take to my mountain for a minimal install with no network. It worked fine, after I added that nomodeset line. It is a shame if officially debian no longer can be installed without a network.

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Actually try this: When you get to the popularity-contest question, wait a few moments, then answer "no". Later examine the logs. You will see actual installation (and then removal) indeed occurs *after* the user has answered "no". So the user's eyes didn't fool him after all.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I'll be very happy to help you test this week. Next week I wish to proceed with final installation though. BH> Was the firmware (firmware-amd-graphics package) installed on your test BH> system? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925556#25 mentions what ISO I used, and all logs

Bug#925556: use UUIDs 100% in grub, not /dev/sdX

2019-04-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
retitle 925556 Use UUID, not sdX on grub linux lines thanks The problem simply turns out to be: grub lines like linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 root=/dev/sdb2 ro quiet are simply bound to fail: When the computer boots, no matter when for the installer, or later, the

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports With the latest AMD CPUs the kernel will attempt to use the AMDGPU kernel driver. Alas this will result in a black screen on the minimal system installed by the installer. Therefore on all three of these lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-...

Bug#849509: Can't blame the user for trying to read the messages

2019-03-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I suppose in the logs, of Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../popularity-contest_1.64_all.deb ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Unpacking popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Setting up popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Removing

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Trying again with expert install and some different choices, and putting nomodeset in the grub finally booted it. I'll send new logs soon.

Bug#925991: Show version on splash screen

2019-03-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The Installer splash screen should show the version number.

Bug#925887: Users fooled by Busybox boilerplate

2019-03-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Maybe just have a message: "press TAB to see all available commands." That would show both built-ins and non builtins. (Hope TAB works.)

Bug#925897: Always also offer UTC when asking timezone

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Let's say you are asking the user what time zone he is in for some country: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain Time Zone Other Well I recall in expert mode installation, UTC is also always present: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain

Bug#925896: tasksel_first: Give examples of "Standard system utilities" when asking

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor In tasksel_first_0.png the user is totally helpless trying to figure out what you mean by "Standard system utilities" So give some examples. Say "Standard system utilities (cat, ls...)" or "Standard system utilities (gnome, kde...)" or something,

Bug#925895: partman_choose_partition: mention that there will be one more screen with a list of proposed changes

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Here on partman_choose_partition_0.png we see both things that are about to be changed, and things that will stay the same, but we can't tell which are which. So right after the words "write changes to disk" you need to add "(You will be first shown a

Bug#925893: Also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Please also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network. Not only after, and failing. That way users installing offline wouldn't need to answer several futile questions and have futile DHCP packets sent to

Bug#925892: Add version name next to number

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Users often hear "Stretch", "Buster", but on the installer, they see just "Debian 9". Therefore please make it say "Debian 9 (Stretch)" or "Debian 9 Stretch". In fact much wiser would be to do what iOS does, and keep them a top secret.

Bug#925891: Debian Black Screen of Death worse than Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist In bug #925556, I showed you what a failed install looks like to a user who has booted via grub's "(recovery mode)" entries. If the user hadn't touched the keyboard, a normal boot would instead proceed, whereupon the user would just end up on a black

Bug#925889: Add "exit" or "Reboot" to the menus

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist The menus are great, But you forgot one item. "Reboot". You see, no matter how the user scours the menus, he cannot find the proper way to exit (reboot). "Well he is supposed to know how to do that himself!" Yes, but he wants the "proper" way to

Bug#925888: Add Quick rescue mode

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Today let's discuss Rescue Mode. I think you should offer a second rescue mode choice. Call it "Quick Rescue Mode". List it right after Rescue Mode. Quick Rescue Mode would drop the user into a shell right away. No questions about languages. Yup, unfair. Sorry. No

Bug#925886: Rescue mode: When asking device to use as root file system, give more detailed choices

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Here there is a high chance the user will chose the wrong item, because he does not recall which of his disks are which. Therefore you need to present more details, which yes, can fit on the same line. Add sizes and partition types and disk label stuff

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
logs.gz Description: application/gzip

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I tried installing again. (This time with no network.) The normal graphical install. All goes fine, but in the logs there is one "Failed to get": $ grep -A 2 'Failed to get' syslog |cut -c 17- base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "SM" == Steve McIntyre writes: SM> Please attach the installer syslog so we have a chance to see what SM> happened. On the installed system, that's in /var/log/installer/syslog What should I give at that initramfs prompt you see that would put it on the screen? Then I could take a

Bug#925582: Allow telling installer about local deb and Package list locations

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer User has a USB drive, loaded with $ mount /dev/sdg2 on /var/cache/apt/archives type ext4 /dev/sdg1 on /var/lib/apt/lists type ext4 He takes this drive, along with another drive, containing a Debian installation ISO, to a remote mountain (offline) computer, intending to

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
LS> Clearly the initramfs was able to mount /dev and run fsck, but mounting LS> it to /root/dev to transfer to the real rootfs failed due to a missing LS> directory. So it booted, meaning it is not a https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI problem...

Bug#925580: Never leave the user staring at an empty screen, even for a second

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Here the user is left staring at an empty screen. (Many look that way for a while at the beginning. Even with the latest fastest hardware.) Not for long you might say. But long enough for the user to scratch his head, and then casually get out his cellphone and take a

Bug#925579: User could have just as easily clicked the UEFI or non-UEFI...

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer In https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI We read "debian-installer's support for UEFI is mostly contained in two modules. First comes the partman-efi module, and this will be loaded automatically if d-i recognises it has been booted in UEFI mode." The problem here is that on

Bug#925439: Add option to limit parallel download

2019-03-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 1.8.0 Severity: minor Here we observe parallel download: # aptitude full-upgrade ... 35% [5 firefox 33.9 MB/44.5 MB 76%] [1 google-earth-pro-stable 2,215 kB/56.5 MB 4%] What if we don't want parallel download? I.e., just download one server at a time? Well the closest

Bug#925438: Normal default output mistakenly documented as having an "e"

2019-03-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Man page says the normal default output can be produced with this: ps -eo "%p %y %x %c" # ps|wc 5 20 140 # ps -eo "%p %y %x %c"|wc 134 5364783 # ps -o "%p %y %x %c"|wc 5

Bug#925437: Add --show-format

2019-03-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz All of these, OUTPUT FORMAT CONTROL -c Show different scheduler information for the -l option. --context Display security context format (for SELinux). -f Do

Bug#924566: Invalid author address

2019-03-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: lshw Version: 02.18.85-0.1 File: /usr/share/doc/lshw/copyright Author address listed is no longer valid. : host mail1.ec-lyon.fr[156.18.19.129] said: 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: ec-lyon.fr (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Bug#923936: cannot contact lshw project

2019-03-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Alas, as https://ezix.org/src/issues account activation mail never comes, there is no way, just looking at http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter to contact the author.

Bug#923936: Disk model: INTEL SSDPEKKW128G7

2019-03-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
As you can see on https://sourceforge.net/p/hdparm/bugs/82/ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 119.2 GiB, ... Disk model: INTEL SSDPEKKW128G7 I attempted to report this at https://ezix.org/src/issues alas, account activation mail never comes.

Bug#924541: Can't complete journalctl > file

2019-03-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: systemd Version: 241-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/journalctl It's not happy about me wanting to do # journalctl > file See: # journalctl > AVAILABLE= AVAILABLE_PRETTY= CODE_FILE= ... # journalctl > / /bin/su /dev/ /lib/systemd/systemd

Bug#924528: /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/manual/index.html missing

2019-03-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ffmpeg-doc Version: 7:4.1.1-1 Severity: minor $ cat /usr/share/doc-base/ffmpeg-doc Document: ffmpeg-doc Title: FFmpeg API Documentation Author: FFmpeg Developers Abstract: This is the API documentation for FFmpeg. Section: Programming Format: HTML Index:

Bug#924527: Mention -all/non -all versions on those versions

2019-03-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ffmpeg-doc Version: 7:4.1.1-1 Kindly at the top of each of ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg-all.1.gz ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffplay-all.1.gz ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffprobe-all.1.gz ffmpeg-doc: /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/manual/ffmpeg-all.html ffmpeg-doc:

Bug#922277: su: write errors to STDERR not STDOUT

2019-03-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well it might as well write it to both STDOUT and STDERR then.

Bug#919833: 90% of shell scripts probably don't have a .sh extension

2019-03-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "GFTG" == Gabriel F T Gomes writes: GFTG> You could be right (specially since bash completes any filename), GFTG> however, where did you get this statistic from? OK, maybe even less, $ file /usr/bin/*|grep -c shell\ script 194 $ ls /usr/bin/*.sh /usr/bin/gettext.sh But that's just my

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK I let it run, and indeed now it is getting packages from snapshot.debian.org/archive/ ... at rate 24.3KB/s... So nevermind, instead of $ jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo and selecting a local Taiwan mirror, I'll just

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Also when jigdo-lite is asking us questions, it can first mention "don't worry about 404s"

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
SM> You don't show to the end of the log. Jigdo will switch to grabbing SM> missing files from snapshot.d.o once it has finished with all the SM> files it can find on the mirrors you've told it about. GREAT: BUT: The user will start seeing these 404s interspersed with the 200s and think: "Yup,

Bug#924164: Don't say use Jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd : See my comment at the end of bug #639937. Jigdo will not build 100% correct CDs due to the index files often not being in 100% sync. So please don't recommend it as a way to download Debian CDs. Else one will take such CD to some

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
So jigdo will build defective CDs with missing files, that one will only discover when one tries to use them? Some files will be present, others missing? --2019-03-10 07:45:52--

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well all I know is we think they must be in contrast to the other items listed. >>>>> "HW" == Holger Wansing writes: HW> Hi, HW> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Package: www.debian.org >> >> On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >>

Bug#924122: Users' eyes are drawn to "USB stick"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ users see: "other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.)" But in fact many of the other places above and below that can also be used for USB sticks. In fact they are the more primary places...

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ After "Current daily snapshots" say "netinst multi-arch CD images" Not just "multi-arch CD images".

Bug#924108: Mention BD = Blu-ray disk

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: minor User gets as far as https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ whereupon entering https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/ he sees a "bd" not explained where CD and DVD were earlier. He must check

Bug#853016: here is more polite libpam0g dialog

2019-03-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
See how this other package takes a more cautions approach: ──┤ Configuring libpam0g:amd64 ├─── │ Most services that use PAM need to be restarted to use modules built for this new version of libpam. Please review the following space-separated │ │ list of init.d scripts for services to be

Bug#923939: .uuid file persists

2019-03-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: fonts-lyx Version: 2.3.2-1 Removing fonts-lyx (2.3.2-1) ... dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-lyx, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx' not empty so not removed Due to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx/.uuid

Bug#923938: E: namespace:121: cannot remove /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/backports/__init__.py

2019-03-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: python-backports.functools-lru-cache Version: 1.5-1 Removing python-backports.functools-lru-cache (1.5-1) ... E: namespace:121: cannot remove /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/backports/__init__.py

Bug#923936: Mention that solid state drives are not detected

2019-03-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-cc: lyo...@ezix.org Package: lshw Version: 02.18.85-0.1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/lshw.1.gz Man page says: BUGS lshw currently does not detect Firewire(IEEE1394) devices. Not all architectures supported by GNU/Linux are fully supported (e.g. CPU

Bug#922730: cannot browse anything

2019-03-05 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
AG> Attached is a backtrace Glad you found the bug.

Bug#922730: cannot browse anything

2019-03-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I'm instead going to give up on 32 bit completely, and buy a new computer. So feel free to close this bug (if you confirm you can't reproduce it on 32 bit.)

Bug#923700: can't even find the file should be an error

2019-03-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: perl Version: 5.28.1-4 Severity: wishlist Please make perl return a reasonable exit status like sed in this case: $ sed 's/a/b/' /tmp/z; echo $? sed: can't read /tmp/z: No such file or directory 2 $ perl -pwe 's/a/b/' /tmp/z; echo $? Can't open /tmp/z: No such file or directory. 0 $

Bug#853016: No such release notes

2019-03-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well, a fix would be to take the cautions route of: If pidof nodm is found, that means they currently running it, so abandon all attempts to restart it. If the user is so smart that they want to restart it, they can do it themselves. (Equivalent of them rebooting the system themselves.)

Bug#853016: No such release notes

2019-03-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
P.S., there are no such "release notes", $ dlocate --filename-only -L nodm|xargs grep -ic 'not upgrade' 2>&- and even if there were... don't you think it is silly if one cannot upgrade a package when using the package lest disaster. Does upgrading the kernel trigger reboot?

Bug#853016: Even ruins apt upgrade for all packages

2019-03-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
severity 853016 critical thanks Not only is all the users work in all his windows thrown away, thanks a lot, but even the apt upgrade session is cut short... hence critical. You might think that people with nodm on their disks might be saving it for a rainy day, but some of us are actually using

Bug#923623: jobs run from .bash_profile are appended to the wrong sub-tree

2019-03-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: psmisc Version: 23.2-1 File: /usr/bin/pstree $ pstree -al systemd |-nodm | |-Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp vt7 | | `-{Xorg} | `-nodm | `-bash /home/jidanni/.xsession | |-bash /home/jidanni/.xsession | | `-sleep 4m | |-icewm-session

Bug#922730: cannot browse anything

2019-03-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
https://www.google.com/search?q=gobject/gtype.c:4265:+type+id+'0'+is+invalid

Bug#922730: cannot browse anything

2019-03-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Here's the situation on i686. Be sure to test on i686, not amd64, where it works fine. libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: Installed: 2.23.91-1 epiphany-browser: Installed: 3.31.91-2 $ mkdir /tmp/p; HOME=/tmp/p epiphany-browser You'll see it just shows it is loading about:overview, and it just loops

Bug#923504: cause of this particular message

2019-02-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
By the way, such mysteries happen not due to user error, e.g., #923505. But that is only one cause of at accidents...

Bug#923505: Be sure locales are available even during updates

2019-02-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: locales Version: 2.28-8 Severity: wishlist You know, there is a slight gap in time when updating locales, that all locales disappear. This causes e.g., an at(1) job that happens to run during that time to give e.g., > Subject: Output from your job 866 > sh: line 48: warning:

Bug#923504: add --also-include-job-in-mail

2019-02-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: at Version: 3.1.23-1 Severity: wishlist It is rather hard to debug when something bad happens. All you get is a mail e.g., > sh: line 48: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale > (zh_TW.UTF-8): No such file or directory You have no idea what caused it. You might say

Bug#923089: pod2html: rev should be rel

2019-02-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: perl Version: 5.28.1-4 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/pod2html $ pod2html /dev/null| tidy -eq line 7 column 1 - Warning: lacks "rel" attribute So mailto:root@localhost; /> should be mailto:root@localhost; /> P.S., https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Html "Issues" leads to

Bug#923088: make upstream link https

2019-02-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: libssh2-1 Version: 1.8.0-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/libssh2-1/copyright Say < Source: http://libssh2.org/ > Source: https://libssh2.org/ Else it seems kind of funny not using https when discussing this package :-)

Bug#922914: Check also on storing item

2019-02-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=33 xdg-mime default .desktop text/html make_default_kde: No kde runtime detected make_default_generic .desktop text/html Updating /home/jidanni/.config/mimeapps.list $ cat /home/jidanni/.config/mimeapps.list [Default Applications] text/html=.desktop $

Bug#922917: Non-standard man page ruins apropos(1) view

2019-02-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: gvfs-common Version: 1.39.90-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/gvfs-open.1.gz $ apropos bzcat bzcat (1)- decompresses files to stdout $ apropos gvfs-open gvfs-open (1)- (unknown subject)

Bug#922914: If cannot change default, then at least return an error

2019-02-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.3-1 File: /usr/bin/xdg-mime $ xdg-mime default .desktop text/html; echo $? 0 $ xdg-mime query default text/html org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop Or make a sixth exit code to say what happened in this case. EXIT CODES An exit code of 0 indicates success while

Bug#922912: Update project URL

2019-02-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.3-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/xdg-utils/copyright The project URL needs to be changed to https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/ from http://portland.freedesktop.org .

Bug#922730: i686 only

2019-02-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
i686 only. Works fine on x86_64.

Bug#922763: Half of INSTALL.md belongs in PERMISSIONS.md

2019-02-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: beep Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/beep/INSTALL.md NEWS.Debian.gz only mentions INSTALL.md, which doesn't mention PERMISSIONS.md . which in turn doesn't mention INSTALL.md. In fact the latter two should be combined... or put all permission discussion into

Bug#922730: cannot browse anything

2019-02-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 3.31.91-2 Severity: grave $ mkdir /tmp/p $ HOME=/tmp/p epiphany /etc/motd ** (epiphany:11842): WARNING **: 06:53:40.412: Web process crashed (WebKitWebProcess:12106): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 06:53:41.133: ../../../gobject/gtype.c:4265: type id '0' is invalid

Bug#922657: Misfires when variable is put in a string

2019-02-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-5 $ set apt-show-versions $ zless /usr/share/doc/$@/ch $ zless /usr/share/doc/$@/ch chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox chromium-shell $ zless /usr/share/doc/\$@/chromium Huh? OK, now shortening the last string sitting on my terminal,

Bug#922441: Always allow user to quit/break out/suspend back to his shell

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-37 When w3m is connecting to a (malfunctioning) site, the user sees "Opening socket..." If for some reason there is no further response from the site, the user has no way to stop w3m, and return to his shell. Let's compare the same thing with lynx. Making HTTPS

Bug#922440: Needed a space before >

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-5 Severity: minor $ dpkg -l *grub*> /tmp/ #Failed to complete. Had to use $ dpkg -l *grub* > /tmp/

Bug#922415: Zap /var/lib/dpkg/available* and save the user four megabytes

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 Severity: minor How about removing /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available-old or at least zapping them to zero bytes. They haven't been updated in five years, and you could save the user four megabytes. OK maybe they still update on some people's systems,

Bug#685439: I pinpointed the source: One certain status entry

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Yes, your program will just have to accept the fact that maybe Architecture will be empty, $ dpkg -l \*|grep empty|tr -s ' ' un modutils (no description available) despite #922410. Fortunately I'm sure a single line of code probably is all that needs to be adjusted... Thanks.

Bug#922410: Forgot to --forget-old-unavail on state "unknown"

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 man dpkg says: --forget-old-unavail Now obsolete and a no-op as dpkg will automatically forget uninstalled unavailable packages (since dpkg 1.15.4), but only those that do not contain user information such as

Bug#922407: [PATCH] man page elucidation plus missing unknown state

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz (In fact the unknown state is the majority state of dpkg -l \* Anyway, there it is: $ dpkg -l|sed q Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold ^^^ ) --- dpkg.1 2019-01-23 20:06:39.0 +0800

Bug#922406: man Perl::Tidy disaster

2019-02-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: perltidy Version: 20180220-1 File: /usr/share/man/man3/Perl::Tidy.3pm.gz Why is this so short? $ man Perl::Tidy|wc -l 21 And it says: POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 8631: =pod directives

Bug#685439: Can you please not use an uninitialized value

2019-02-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
found 685439 0.22.10 thanks # su -c 'apt-show-versions -r -p "^linux-(doc|image)-[0-9]+\."' jidanni Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 578, line 26850. linux-doc-4.19:all/unstable 4.19.20-1 uptodate linux-image-4.19.0-2-686-pae:i386 4.19.16-1

Bug#922315: "set " pulls in -o/+o names too

2019-02-14 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-5 # ls m* my.rc.local # set m monitor my.rc.local So what good is doing # set monitor for? Oh, I see # mkdir /tmp/n # cd /tmp/n # set allexport hashall monitor nounset verbose braceexpand

Bug#922276: ss man page: add example of how to get maximal output

2019-02-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: iproute2 Version: 4.20.0-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/ss.8.gz Add example(s) of how to absolutely print out everything (all options on at the same time) about everything.

Bug#922277: su: write errors to STDERR not STDOUT

2019-02-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: util-linux Version: 2.33.1-0.1 Can you believe this error message is written to STDOUT # su -c : nobody|wc 1 6 41 # su -c : nobody This account is currently not available. instead of STDERR!

Bug#922178: Try reboot

2019-02-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Advise users to try rebooting...

Bug#922178: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2019-02-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.3.1-1 User does aptitude upgrade. Upgrade finishes normally. But user notes cronjobs no longer fire on time... Looking in the logs, Feb 13 05:59:01 jidanni5 cron[485]: Authentication failure Feb 13 05:59:01 jidanni5 CRON[5596]: Authentication failure Feb 13

Bug#922103: Add example of columns -s

2019-02-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 11.1.2+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/column.1.gz Please add an example of -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.

Bug#921929: Mismatching header version 58.12.100

2019-02-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: mencoder Version: 2:1.3.0-8+b4 Severity: minor mencoder and mplayer both say: libavformat version 58.20.100 (external) Mismatching header version 58.12.100 Versions of packages mencoder depends on: ii libavformat58 7:4.1-1 ...

Bug#921860: alsamixer: add Restore default

2019-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.7-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/alsamixer Maybe alsamixer should add some keystrokes: "Restore default for this control" and "Restore default for all controls" (but then Undo, also, to fix accidents.)

Bug#921859: alsa-info --no-upload's first line says upload=true

2019-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.7-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/sbin/alsa-info If one does alsa-info --no-upload the first line says "upload=true" !: # alsa-info --no-upload # sed q /tmp/alsa-info.txt.* upload=true=true=

Bug#921670: alsabat-test: use a subdirectory in /tmp

2019-02-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.7-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/sbin/alsabat-test Instead of putting all 20+ files in /tmp/bat.wav.* put them in /tmp/alsabat-test/bat.wav.* to keep /tmp more tidy. Just like /usr/sbin/alsa-info already does.

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