Bug#1035891: openjdk-17-jre-headless: Crashes when ulimit -v is in effect

2023-05-10 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: openjdk-17-jre-headless Version: 17.0.6+10-1~deb11u1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, On a certain multi-user system, I have the following lines in /etc/profile ... ulimit -d 99 ulimit -v 389 In other words, almost 4G virtual memory per process, of which 1G

Bug#949335: exim4: Does not allow relay from IPv6 localhost like for IPv4

2020-01-19 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: exim4 Version: 4.92-8+deb10u3 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 Dear Maintainer, I was getting a "Relay not permitted" message from Thunderbird trying to send e-mail. The immediate workaround was to change the "Server Name:" in Server Settings from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1". However, the

Bug#947507: pmw-doc: Examples in manual don't show up properly

2019-12-27 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: pmw-doc Version: 1:4.30-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In the file /usr/share/doc/pmw-doc/spec.pdf.gz, the embedded output samples do not actually format as musical notation. I see a lot of "C", also "7", "5", "6"... but no actual notes/staff. Same problem whether viewed with

Bug#928178: apparmor: thunderbird fails to start, saying that is already running

2019-11-29 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1 Followup-For: Bug #928178 Not sure this is the same bug, but the symptom is similar, and the solution is the same... After upgrade to Debian 10.2 "Buster" (and possibly some additional factors, but see below) Thunderbird would not start. It

Bug#900927: firefox-esr: BOAUnable to disable private browsing

2018-06-06 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: firefox-esr Version: 52.8.0esr-1~deb9u1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, As per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/956224 , I'm supposed to be able to implement various policy contrls by creating a "policy.json" file and putting it in a certain place. I created

Bug#868445: mysql-server: Would like a way to suppress spurious ERROR 1547

2017-07-15 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: mysql-server Version: 5.5.55-0+deb8u1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Some time ago, on my main Debian MySQL server, I added an extra column to the "mysql.user" table of type "timestamp", for auditing purposes. It didn't cause any trouble at the time, but now when I

Bug#645788: openssh-server: /run on tmpfs breaks sshd started from inetd

2016-11-19 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3 Followup-For: Bug #645788 Getting the same behavior on a fresh installation of Jessie (from the netinst ISO). Every time I reboot, sshd doesn't restart until I either `apt-get install --reinstall openssh-server` or `mkdir /var/run/sshd`. I've

Bug#844630: Lighning extension erases colors on Google Calendar items

2016-11-17 Thread David Lee Lambert
"Lightning" touches them, either by dismissing a notification or by any other edit. -- David Lee Lambert * KD8WQF * (cell) +1 586-873-8813 IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!, Skype and Google Talk) "Justicia, Tierra y Libertad"

Bug#844622: samba: assertion failed error when accepting print jobs

2016-11-17 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: samba Version: 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2 Severity: normal Trying to use samba to accept print jobs from Windows clients over a local network from various Windows systems. The printer is an HP DeskJet. The Windows workstation says printing was successful, but nothing gets printed, and `lpq`

Bug#805196: sane: xsane, scanimage -L, etc. hang

2015-11-15 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: sane Version: 1.0.14-9 Severity: important Since upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie, on a certain desktop system to which I had attached a scanner (Epson Perfection 1260), I am no longer able to use the scanner. When I start `xsane`, it hangs forever. Gimp also doesn't start, it hangs

Bug#772554: sane-utils: Broke for me on Jessie update

2015-08-31 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.24-8 Followup-For: Bug #772554 Dear Maintainer, Not sure if this is the same bug. I have an Epson Perfection 1260 scanner. It was working all right on Wheezy (took a while to warm up, but eventually was available). Since the update to Jessie, it doesn't work at

Bug#531695: still present in Jessie

2015-07-28 Thread David Lee Lambert
call from callback /org/gnome/keyring/Prompt/p2@:1.8 -- David Lee Lambert * KD8WQF * (cell) +1 586-873-8813 IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!, Skype and Google Talk) Justicia, Tierra y Libertad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#784600: gnome-applets: multiple applets broken after upgrade to Jessie

2015-05-06 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: gnome-applets Version: 3.8.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Upgraded a system to jessie after the release. After reboot, login, I get a dialog, Error Character Palette has quit unexpectedcly If you reload a panel object, it will automatically be added

Bug#781444: Also fails with recent upstream source

2015-03-30 Thread David Lee Lambert
Control: tag + upstream Built qemu-system-i386 from upstream source (on RHEL6.5 64-bit), tried to run this same ISO image, get a similar but not-quite-the-same error... Your PC needs to restart. Please hold down the power button. Error Code: 0x000A Parameters: 0xFFD0 0x00FF

Bug#781444: qemu: unable to install Win10 Developer Preview (i386)

2015-03-29 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: qemu Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u6 Severity: normal Attempting to install the WIndows 10 Devleoper Preview, file Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x32_ES-MX_10041.iso (MD5:4c5699ab4f2d54b8a4c9e7062f3aa297), the boot process displays the windows logo for a few seconds then stops with the

Bug#773540: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: add option to restrict filenames with dangerous characters

2014-12-19 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n upstream Dear Maintainer, Today's discussion of the Git/Hg security issues led me to http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html . I'd like to see a mount option on Linux's standard filesystems

Bug#769434: base: LLMNR support would be nice

2014-11-13 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: base Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream ipv6 Dear Maintainer, I've sometimes been able to get Windows devices to interoperate with Debian devices knowing each other by thir hostnames on the local link using NetBIOS or Avahi/Bonjour. However, on some Windows 7 devices, even after adding

Bug#764877: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: Failure to suspend

2014-10-11 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since upgrade to Debian 7, I sometimes find that the system is suspended (?) and when I try to wake it up it does not come back up. That is, the power light is flashing, the screen is blank, and it is silent. If I

Bug#744063: konqueror: crash when trying to enable JavaScript

2014-04-09 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.4.5-2 Severity: normal Every time I try to enable JavaScript in Konqueror (go into settings, add a site to the list, hit OK), Konqueror crashes. This happens on two separate systems. $HOME is on NFS. -- Backtrace: Application: Konqueror (konqueror), signal:

Bug#695549: Debian fails to boot during fresh install (in qemu VM)

2012-12-09 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: qemu Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze1 Severity: important Tags: d-i Created an empty raw disk-image for drive C, booted qemu VM from debian-6.0.6-i386-CD-1.iso, mostly chose defaults in debian-installer (selected SQL and Web Server tasks, ext4 partition on LVM, gave it a volume label).

Bug#678009: nut: not listening after start, segfault during shutdown

2012-06-18 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: nut Version: 2.4.3-1.1squeeze1 Severity: important Trying to configure nut with a Back-UPS Pro 900 power supply, with USB cable. Apparently this is a USB-HID device, so the entirety of ups.conf is: [back_ups] driver = usbhid-ups Multiple problems, not sure how closely

Bug#84008: please add long options

2012-01-10 Thread David Lee Lambert
I see this wishlist item has been open without comment for a long time. I would also vote against it, although if someone wants to write a patch for it he's welcome to. OpenSSH already has an alternate long- option syntax, -o ConfigFileSettingX=value -- DLL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#655361: /usr/bin/ssh: Want option to forward Network Audio System traffic

2012-01-10 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:5.5p1-6+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/ssh By installing the nas package on the SSH client machine and the nas-bin package on the SSH server machine, I can play the output of certain programs over the network and even record the client's microphone

Bug#642479: syslog-ng: should print a warning at startup if not configured to log anything

2011-09-22 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: syslog-ng Version: 3.1.3-3 Severity: wishlist So I was frustrated for a while by why /var/log/messages, etc., all had a timestamp of a few months ago (which is when I last installed or reconfigured Syslog-NG on this host). The attached file does work; I'm pretty sure the problem was

Bug#632965: vlc: No audio when playing .3g2 files

2011-07-07 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: vlc Version: 1.1.3-1squeeze5 Severity: normal My wife's cell-phone records .3g2 files. file identifies these as ISO media. VLC displays the video fine, but does not play any audio. The following line from the output of vlc -vvv ... may be relevant: [0x927db8c] mp4 demux debug:

Bug#613212: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X freezes, gdm can't be restarted until reboot

2011-05-02 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny8 Followup-For: Bug #613212 Happened to me on newly installed Debian 5.0 on an IBM ThinkCentre using the on-board graphics adapter. Twice I've been looking at webpages with Epiphany (first time clicked a button, second time used a

Bug#433271: kmail: feature request: Verify DomainKeys signatures

2007-07-15 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: kmail Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 Severity: wishlist Verify DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM, RFC 4871) signatures, if present. Provide visual feedback about whether verification is successful. Optionally treat mail as spam or delete it if it fails verification. -- System

Bug#406984: kmail: fills up .xsession-errors with errors

2007-07-14 Thread David Lee Lambert
, the kio_imap4 processes hang around; just now I had three of them, bringing the system load-average to about 6. -- David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 ; alt. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key at http://www.lmert.com/keyring.txt

Bug#425170: gnome-panel: Some panel items no longer available message keeps showing up

2007-05-19 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.14.3-5 Severity: normal I start gnome-panel from my .fvwm2rc. Every time I log in, since I upgraded to Debian 4.0, an error-dialog pops up that reads: Some panel items are no longer available One or more panel items (also referred to as applets) are no longer

Bug#364895: inn: cron.daily script includes NUL in output

2006-04-26 Thread David Lee Lambert
Eclectic Rubbis ii time1.7-21 The GNU time program for measuring -- no debconf information -- David Lee Lambert . Student, Dept. Computer Science, Wayne State University (lab: 410 State Hall) [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or +1 586-873-8813 Homepage

Bug#343481: error message when header is too big is not very informative

2005-12-21 Thread David Lee Lambert
Severity: minor Submitter: ! Retitle: error message when header is too big is not very informative I was able to get the setup working by changing request_header_max_size 1 KB to request_header_max_size 3 KB Now, in fact the line had read request_header_max_size 1029 B before the

Bug#343481: squid: regression - Invalid Request errors all the time

2005-12-15 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: squid Version: 2.5.9-10 Severity: important After upgrading Squid from 2.4.x to 2.5.x, dynamically-generated websites (slashdot, ebay, etc.) often cause Squid to display an Invalid Request page. Here is an example: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to

Bug#324878: atanks: Game crashes all the time

2005-08-24 Thread David Lee Lambert
Package: atanks Version: 1.1.0-3 Severity: important When using the mouse to select things in the purchase-screen, the game often segfaults. It seems to happen more often when one or more level-3 AIs are playing; problem has been duplicated on multiple systems, even though it seemed like a

Bug#310871: kword: round-trip conversion to .WPD format does not preserve accented characters

2005-05-26 Thread David Lee Lambert
compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- David Lee Lambert (also [EMAIL PROTECTED])cell ph# 586-873-8813 PGP key at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/newmail.htm#GPGKey resume at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/resume.htm