Bug#411690: bash: it seems that the semantic of symlinks is not respected while copying or moving files across folders

2007-02-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
# user [EMAIL PROTECTED] # usertag 411690 not-a-bug user [EMAIL PROTECTED] usertag 411690 not-a-bug thanks On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:55:17PM +0100, ste wrote: Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** if you have a folder tree

Bug#391023: new version of the patch (documenting XS-Vcs-Browser as well)

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:44:44PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: The attached patch for the developers reference document the support for the Vcs-* family of fields. I attach a new version of the patch for the

Bug#411571: comments on daily etch installation cd

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: installation-reports I burned a business card install CD (20070219-09:08), and installed onto a swap partition for testing. Is it intended that my pentium4 ends up with not only libc6-i686 but also libc6-amd64? Regarding the prompt one receives after ssh to the install machine: o

Bug#408879: /bin/ps: TIME drifted

2007-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:29:05PM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote: Justin, does this happen to you on a laptop machine, or otherwise? I do not have Debian laptops. So it is otherwise: on my main departmental login server Same for us. You mentioned bug #161633, in which the submitter is

Bug#411369: nmap: hangs if sigint during startup

2007-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: nmap Version: 4.11-1 I started nmap, decided to use a different set of option flags, and immediately hit ^C to send sigint. I got the Caught SIGINT message, and instead of exiting in some small fraction of a second, nmap continued running for some minutes until I hit ^\ to send it

Bug#411404: iceape: continually resizing text when cursor is positioned at the edge

2007-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: iceape Version: 1.0.7-3 Many websites have text that resizes, by CSS,JS,etc. The cursor can end up at the edge of the text, causing the text to resize, causing the cursor to no longer be at the edge of the text, causing the text to size back, causing thr cursor to end up back at the

Bug#408879: /bin/ps: TIME drifted

2007-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:41:24AM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote: Justin, ... Do you suspect some particular cause here, too? Yes, I blame ntpd. I only guess that it uses suspend to slow things down. (No, I wouldn't manually suspend my server.) I'm of the understanding that ntp uses adjtimex()

Bug#369255: This Bug/#369255: libc6: inconsistent argp_parse environment variables can cause crashes; or, Now tar includes a copy of argp_parse too

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
found 369255 2.3.6.ds1-11 found 369255 2.5-0exp3 thanks Strangely now tar seems to include a personal copy of argp_parse, and so doesn't crash anymore. Fortunately for this bug, cpio uses the libc6 copy, and still crashes. Why does tar do such? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403178: This Bug/#403178: archived link should be archive

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
ping? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#327419: this bug/#327419: cgiirc: clients can't type '+' character; encoding issue?

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
found 327419 0.5.9-2 thanks This still happens for folks on #aavso. It seems likely to be a browser detection bug. I can't reproduce it, so isn't easy for me to follow the code path. Several people report it happens with IE7, so I'm going to guess that it introduces support for NPH/XML HTTP or

Bug#408879: /bin/ps: TIME drifted

2007-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote: Again looking at BTS, this bug seems similar to #161633. me too; Paul, does this happen to you on a laptop machine, or otherwise? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#411122: iceape: interactivity sucks when someones webserver is slow

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: iceape-browser Version: 1.0.7-2 I'm not using a new machine, but it isn't a CPU problem. When someone's webserver is slow, firefox seems to select() on the socket or something. This is better than polling with read(). But I expect to be able to continue interacting with the browser

Bug#362864: 2 bugs related: apt-get and extra cmd line args

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
These 2 bugs are related: #215856: /usr/bin/apt-get: give error for invalid arguments #362864: apt: apt-get dist-upgrade should reject extra cmd line arguments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#411152: aptitude: should reject *all* extra cmd line arguments

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: minor $ time aptitude update asdf E: The update command takes no arguments While dist-upgrade notices extra arguments, but they don't seem to have any effect on behavior or exit status. But upgrade asdf doesn't seem to even notice them. See also apt

Bug#411158: aptitude: 'q' can bring up a quit box when it is already shown

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: normal If you press 'q' multiple times, you apparently have multiple quit prompts, so in order to return to aptitude you have to say no N times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#402401: firefox^Wiceape, emacs, and word [re]move

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
retitle 402401 iceape: please provide forward/backward word [re]move reassign 402401 iceape-browser found 402401 1.0.7-2 thanks Hi Mike, Sorry for the delay in response. I enabled emacs keybindings, but they don't do what I want. There's no way of [re]moving convenient, small components of a

Bug#411177: manpages-dev: faccessat(2) wrong title and wrong information (was://Re: fchownat.3 unbalanced paranthesis, bogus return)

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. .\ .\ This manpage is Copyright (C) 2006, Michael Kerrisk +.\ Fixes copyright (C) 2007 Justin Pryzby .\ .\ Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\ manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are @@ -23,12 +24,14

Bug#411067: xmms: freezes in a futex

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: xmms Version: 1.2.10+20061101-1 I've lately been listening to radio streams with some regularity, and a handful of times now xmms has frozen in a futex call: futex(0xb6694bf8, FUTEX_WAIT, 4544, NULL This is similar to #260754 and #308991. ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.18+5

Bug#411072: pidentd: sets groupship to :nogroup

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: pidentd Version: 3.0.18.ds1-1 Severity: minor It used to be the recommendation that daemon's would run as nobody:nogroup; this is no longer the case. Now, they are supposed to have a dedicated/exclusive user. But, many don't, and still run with at least one of UID nobody or GID

Bug#411097: grep -A1 -m1 segfaults with multiple line matches

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 Severity: normal { echo h; echo yz; } |grep -A1 -m1 `echo h; echo zz` sh: line 1: 8560 Done{ echo h; echo yz; } 8561 Segmentation fault | grep -A1 -m1 `echo h; echo zz` -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#410969: console_codes(4): typo s/v(between)/\1/

2007-02-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:20:45PM +0100, Jonas Klker wrote: Package: manpages Version: 2.39-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch 399c399 as being `VT100-compatible'. Here we discuss differences between the --- as being `VT100-compatible'. Here we discuss differences vbetween the I

Bug#410366: [Adduser-devel] Bug#410366: adduser: adduser --group --gid GID GROUP advertised but fails

2007-02-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:31:16AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: severity 410366 wishlist tags 410366 +wontfix tags 410366 -patch thanks This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: /usr/sbin/adduser --group --gid 12345 foo adduser: The --group, --ingroup, and --gid options are mutually

Bug#410366: adduser: adduser --group --gid GID GROUP advertised but fails

2007-02-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: adduser Version: 3.102 Severity: normal Tags: patch /usr/sbin/adduser -h adduser --group [--gid ID] GROUP addgroup [--gid ID] GROUP Add a user group /usr/sbin/adduser --group --gid 12345 foo adduser: The --group, --ingroup, and --gid options are mutually exclusive. Included is a

Bug#409498: outdated bug graph

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
reassign 409498 qa.debian.org,www.debian.org thanks http://www.debian.org/devel/ also links to ajs bug graph. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410221: noshell: obsoleted by nologin?

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: noshell Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The essential package login now includes /usr/sbin/nologin, which is essentially the same as noshell. Assuming it is here to stay [0], I would suggest to have the noshell binary package removed from the archive

Bug#410268: passwd: check for extra arguments

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: passwd $ sudo passwd -S root daemon |wc -l 1 Passwd should test that exactly one non-option argument is given, unless -a (or -h?) is given, in which case no non-option arguments are given. If not, set $? -ne 0. passwd -l foo bar returns 0 but hasn't locked bar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#409653: mutt crash again while sorting a pops mailbox

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Mutt crashed again, connected to a pop3 mailbox, when I tried to do order by: thread. The last visible action was to display Sorting mailbox I've never experienced this before; I've just recently been using the pops:// mailbox as a temporary measure, so it seems likely that it is specific to

Bug#319829: mutt sorting crash and #319829: garbled screen

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
This is perhaps related to #319829? It isn't clear to me whether, for the first report of that bug, I was using pops://. I suspect that if I had been, I would have reported that. BTW, before the most recent crash, I had saved messages to a local mailbox, and deleted them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#410042: lintian: please warn on effectively-empty maintscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Please warn on maintainer scripts which contain only shebang line #! empty line^$ shell attribute manipulation set exit builtin exit On a machine without much cruft: $ for f in

Bug#192978: grepping a directory

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
Actually, there is some evidence that this is a bug, and that current behaviour is not intentional. $ grep . . ; echo $? 1 open(., O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 read(3, 0x8061000, 32768) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory) close(3)= 0 So there was a

Bug#410030: grep: regex with '\t' fails

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:01:49AM +0100, Paolo wrote: Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 Severity: wishlist hi, at first it lokked like a bug, but then after digging into the docs I'm rating it a wishlist item. What docs changed your mind? Seems that grep fails on simple basic regex:

Bug#409883: firefox-dbg: It should be removed from repository

2007-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:45:29PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Package: firefox-dbg Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I suggest you to remove firefox-dbg package from repository. - transition from firefox to iceweasel seems fine. now

Bug#219010: On the cooperation between sleuthkit and tct

2007-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
retitle 219010 tct: please cooperate with sleuthkit severity 219010 important thanks sleuthkit and tct no longer conflict. Sleuthkit includes an alternatives mechanism for those files which used to exist in both packages. But, alternatives are only useful when there are multiple cooperating

Bug#177180: this bug: #177180/grep: option to stay on the filesystem

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:20:20PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:36:36PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:05:55PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:30:28AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: The accepted way of doing

Bug#177180: this bug: #177180/grep: option to stay on the filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
The accepted way of doing this is with find . -xdev -print0 |xargs -0 grep foo Indeed, even grep -r is considered to be bloat, since find supports many options which don't each need to be implemented in grep, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#405837: fixed bug not done, II

2007-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi, Please see #280187: grep: unusually high memory use with '-o' option, which I forwarded to -done with a Version: pseudoheader. The bug isn't marked as done. It was my understanding that this can happen when a bug against one package is marked as fixed in another package. Is there another

Bug#409653: mutt: segfault sorting pop3 mailbox after saving/removing tagged messages

2007-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1.1 Sorting mailbox...Segmentation fault $ echo $? 139 I did: mutt -f pops://[EMAIL PROTECTED] 't'agged some spam, 's'aved it to a (local) mailbox, causing it to be marked as 'd'eleted, 'q'uit, responded that, yes, I wanted the tagged+saved mail to be removed, mutt

Bug#177180: this bug: #177180/grep: option to stay on the filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:05:55PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:30:28AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: The accepted way of doing this is with find . -xdev -print0 |xargs -0 grep foo Indeed, even grep -r is considered to be bloat, since find supports many

Bug#409498: qa.debian.org: outdated Evolution of the number of bugs

2007-02-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: qa.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qa.debian.org/ links to http://master.debian.org/~ajt/graph.png Evolution of the number of bugs But that image is at least 2 years old. Ideally it would be generated on qa/merkel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#406137: ssh: upgrade causes etch dpkg to segv

2007-02-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
severity 406137 important thanks On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:03:24AM +, Colin Watson wrote: tags 406137 moreinfo thanks On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: ssh Severity: grave Version: 1:4.3p2-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fg sudo apt-get dist

Bug#409233: aegis-virus-scanner: doesn't notice when definition update fails

2007-01-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: aegis-virus-scanner Version: 0.1.1-1 Severity: normal The About/Update button launches a gnome-terminal, and doesn't notice if the command fails. It should probably use just /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator, and/or depend/recommend g-t-e. Also, it should test $? or || die and fail if the

Bug#409137: devscripts: [uscan] Berlios rejects query calls

2007-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.27 Severity: normal watch file: version=3 http://mpy-svn-stats.berlios.de/ .*([\d.]).*bz2 Response: $ uscan --report-status uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading

Bug#408304: man 3 strtof: wrong #define directive

2007-01-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:45:15AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Second, none of these two defines activate the strtof() and strtold() protos. According to stdlib.h, __USE_ISOC99 should be defined instead, as specified in features.h, i.e.: No; Michael corrected me

Bug#408478: apt-listchanges: test for existence of script from conffile

2007-01-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.72 As with init.d scripts (those which are conffiles), packages including entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ need to check for existence of their executables. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#408304: man 3 strtof: wrong #define directive

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
tag 408304 patch thanks On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:02:16PM +0100, Oliver Lange wrote: Package: manpages Version: 2.39-1 Hello everyone, The manpage (3) for strtof (strtod) says: #define _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 /* or #define _ISOC99_SOURCE */ #include stdlib.h First, the former define

Bug#408114: xorg: xorg.conf comment advises user to use full path to read manpage

2007-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 7.1.0-10 # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page. # (Type man /etc/X11/xorg.conf at the shell prompt.) This shell command causes man to attempt to pass the xorg config file through the manpage formatting pipeline. -- To

Bug#407207: memtester: thrashes machine trying to test small ammounts of memory

2007-01-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: memtester Severity: important Tags: patch To Whom It May Concern: When attempting to test a range of memory smaller than the pagesize, membytes is underflowed, and the software attempts to memlock 4GB, thrashing the machine for several minutes until it is killed. Find attached a patch

Bug#406981: sextractor: New upstream release

2007-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:40:50PM +0100, John Swinbank wrote: Package: sextractor Version: 2.4.4-1 Severity: wishlist Version 2.5.0 was released by upstream last July. It contains bug fixes and provides VOTable-compliant outputs. Hi John, Thanks for the heads up. I hadn't even noticed

Bug#222641: close? dpkg already prompts about locally removed conffiles

2007-01-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
It is my recollection that etch dpkg will prompt (Configuration file .. has been removed by you or by a script ...) in this case, so this bug can be closed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#406493: initscripts: /lib/init/rw/.ramfs is flaged by chkrootkit as a suspicious file

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-36 mountkernfs.sh creates the file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs; chkrootkit notices this dotfile, and flags it as suspicious. (It seems to search just {/usr,}/lib and /usr/man). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#343423: apt-listchanges spawns browsers with stdin a pipe

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
tag 343423 patch thanks To reproduce this problem: echo |apt-listchanges -f browser -a /var/cache/apt/archives/bar.deb where browser runs lynx (not links/lynx-cur/...). Note that it works without the echo |. The pipe causes lynx to read(0)=0, causing it to exit. apt-listchanges is launched

Bug#356122: lynx is unusable in sid

2007-01-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:38:16AM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: This bug appears to be related to in my case at least a $HOME/.mime.types file installed by some version of Crossover Office. Removing the file for me anyways solves the issue. Are you the original submitter? Is it okay to

Bug#335276: openssh conffile prompt: /etc/ssh/moduli

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:16:55AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:33:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: 2006-12-14 11:36:32 upgrade openssh

Bug#406219: gsfonts: error scanning while upgrading to etch/testing

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: gsfonts Version: 8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1 Setting up gsfonts (8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/defoma/hints/gsfonts.hints ... (Re-)registering PostScript fonts... /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d: error scanning done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#406236: gdm: conffile prompt during testing upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: gdm Version: 2.16.4-1 I was presented with this diff while upgrading from gdm 2.14.5-1, but since I didn't make any of the changes, I shouldn't have been. --- /etc/gdm/gdm.conf 2006-06-21 16:43:42.0 -0400 +++ /etc/gdm/gdm.conf.dpkg-new 2006-12-16 06:24:36.0 -0500 @@

Bug#406246: dupload: confile prompt during testing upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: dupload Version: 2.6.3.3 I was prompted with the following patch while upgrading to current testing; but, I didn't make any of the changes, so should not have been prompted. --- /etc/dupload.conf 2005-10-07 20:14:42.0 -0400 +++ /etc/dupload.conf.dpkg-new 2006-11-15

Bug#406250: ignores errors from (invoke|update)-rc.d

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: lintian,at,exim4,initscripts,udev,gdm # Clone+Reassign soon These packages all ignore errors from (invoke|update)-rc.d. The History === Due to debhelper bug #337664, dh_installinit inserted calls to packages maintainer scripts which had || exit 0 rather than || exit $? (due to

Bug#406259: { echo foo; echo bar; } |grep -o ^. matches every letter

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-6 Tags: upstream $ { echo foo; echo bar; } |grep -o ^. f o o b a r This can't be right, since only the first character of a line should match (and only if the line is not blank). I expect to see just: f b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#377763: bash: here document fails with read-only root fs?

2007-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
tag 377763 confirmed upstream thanks On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:22:43PM -0700, t takahashi wrote: On 1/8/07, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean, mount set? just the set of mounts i was using. it does not seem to respect that variable. Did you do eg: TMPDIR=/foo bash

Bug#406137: ssh: upgrade causes etch dpkg to segv

2007-01-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: ssh Severity: grave Version: 1:4.3p2-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fg sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Preparing to replace libtorrent9 0.10.2-1 (using .../libtorrent9_0.10.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libtorrent9 ... Preparing to replace lm-sensors 1:2.10.0-9 (using

Bug#377763: bash: here document fails with read-only root fs?

2007-01-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:05:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal is /tmp hardcoded? it seems unlikely that it would be, but: for me, at least with my mount set, fails when the root fs is ro: What do you mean, mount set? -su: cannot

Bug#406069: bash does not find commands every now and then

2007-01-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:12:04PM +0100, Olaf Zaplinski wrote: Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 After upgrading from sarge to etch, bash sometimes does not find commands: ridcully:/var/backups# less dpkg.status.0 -su: less: command not found Why does this say: -su:? What if you rehash

Bug#121701: patch close.2 to refer to errors from write

2007-01-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:57:30PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Hello Justin, Linux 2.6.5 fs/open.c source indicates that close() can return essentially any file error: |int filp_close(struct file *filp, fl_owner_t id) | /* Report and clear outstanding errors */ |asmlinkage

Bug#368749: man-db: apropos leaks memory

2007-01-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 09:04:54PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal apropos leaks ~100KB for each query. I've dealt with this upstream now; thanks. Sorry for the delay. I

Bug#121701: patch close.2 to refer to errors from write

2007-01-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:27:07AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:57:30PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Hello Justin, Linux 2.6.5 fs/open.c source indicates that close() can return essentially any file error: |int filp_close(struct

Bug#405837: BDO: done bug categorized as outstanding

2007-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
-dev (1.48-2; fixed: manpages-dev 2.22-1); Done: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Perhaps it is because of Tags: wontfix ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#121701: patch close.2 to refer to errors from write

2007-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
-07-22 by Nicol?s Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] .\ added note about close(2) not guaranteeing that data is safe on close. +.\ Modified 2007-01-07 by Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] +.\ Reference errno values from write() in ERRORS .\ -.TH CLOSE 2 2001-12-13 Linux Programmer's Manual +.TH CLOSE 2

Bug#405863: dict: default server doesn't respond

2007-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: dict Version: 1.10.2-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, Rickard E. Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debbugs-Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, Rickard E. Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] The default conffile /etc/dictd/dict.conf uses server dict.org, which recently

Bug#289507: this bug/289507: vlc-config output is broken

2007-01-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
severity 289507 important thanks I found that the latest version of libvlc0-dev to contain any static libraries was 0.8.5.debian-2. for v in `apt-cache policy libvlc0-dev |grep -Eo '^ {5}[a-z0-9.+-]+' |uniq |sed -e 's/^ */vlc=/' |tail -n +2`; do echo $v; apt-get source --print-uris $v |sed

Bug#403798: this bug/#403798: john: please don't clobber ./restore

2007-01-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
. Otherwise, it will + periodically save its state to that filename. + + -- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 1 Jan 2007 18:27:40 -0500 + john (1.6-33) unstable; urgency=medium * Fixed cronjob so that it doesn't send empty e-mails when no only in patch2: unchanged: --- john-1.6.orig

Bug#350345: pstack bug: crashes backtracing valgrind process

2007-01-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi, and sorry for the massive delay. I ran the given command, and used ps or some other mechanism to discover its PID. Then, I ran pstack with the given PID as the first and only argument (pstack always takes PIDs as arguments). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#289355: bash.bash_logout patch

2007-01-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
tag 289355 patch thanks Included is a patch which fixes the remaining occurence of the incorrect filename in the Debian diff; the user filename in ~/ is correct, and remaining occurrence is a previous changelog entry for this bug. --- - 2007-01-02 02:25:12.964506000 -0500 +++

Bug#405063: procps: ps and w show sometimes instead of the username the uid

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:58:16PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-3 Severity: important ps shows sometimes the uids instead of the username in the first field (here an example) [...] 10262 6899 0.0 0.0 57124 2704 ?S12:55 0:00

Bug#337284: invoke-rc.d nfs-user-server restart fails if service not running

2006-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:29:59AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: severity 337284 normal thanks Hi, *iff* the stop) exits with a failure, start) shall not be executed intentionally. note that stop) doesn't fail if the daemon was not running previously, so there is a real error when stop)

Bug#229712: debconf was missing depency version on dialog?

2006-12-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
reassign 229712 debconf retitle 229712 debconf: missing dependency version on dialog found 229712 1.3.22 thanks This looks like a missing dependency version between debconf and dialog. I think this can be closed, since the dialog version in sarge is sufficient. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#376543: this bug/ #376543: slidentd does not remove it's inetd entry on removal

2006-12-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
I can confirm this bug; the correct update-inetd command for the given entry is: update-inetd --remove ident The maintscripts should probably be generated from scratch by debhelper. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#404973: mutt: returns [ $? -eq 0 ] composing a message with ENOSPC

2006-12-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1.1 Severity: normal execve(/usr/bin/mutt, [mutt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0 [...] mkdir(/tmp/.mutt0H1D71, 0700) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) write(1, \7, 1) = 1 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400

Bug#302924: closed by Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: wmcalc: Improper copyright file)

2006-12-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
of: Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Justin Pryzby foo is distributed under the terms of which may be found at -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#375850: patching john

2006-12-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
: silence gcc warnings with s/-mcpu/-march/ + + -- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:03:17 -0500 + john (1.6-40) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: updated my e-mail address. diff -u john-1.6/debian/README john-1.6/debian/README --- john-1.6/debian/README +++ john-1.6

Bug#404475: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please differentiate CSS titlelink class

2006-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: minor Usertags: pts The Source files section of each packages' PTS page is actually a hyperlink, although I just noticed this by accident. It is very convenient, since it saves me from munging the URL for the dsc of the unstable version, to download the

Bug#375850: john removed from testing: modifies conffile

2006-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
You are aware that this bug has resulted in package 'john' from being removed from testing, and isn't presently being considered for inclusion in etch? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397312: this bug: #397312/xchat: segfault on amd64 (japanese po/ja.po)

2006-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Thanks to Masami for his work tracking down this bug. I'm concerned about the patch applied to resolve this bug; the code should not segfault just because of bad datafiles; as long as the API is followed, errors should be detected (indeed, this will help detect invalid datafiles in a nicer way).

Bug#403798: john: please don't clobber ./restore, unless it is passes a syntax check

2006-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: john Version: 1.6-40 Severity: important John writes a restore file to a location settable at compile-time; the upstream default is ~/ (ugh!), and the Debian value is (which means the same as ./). john should exit with [ $? -ne 0 ] if that file exists, is nonempty, and doesn't pass a

Bug#403855: john: please add any necessary maintscript foo to hide cracked passwords not corrected since old versions

2006-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: john Version: 1.6-40 Severity: important Tags: security I note the following changelog entry: - Added /var/run/john to DEB_FIXPERMS_EXCLUDE: the location needs to be safe from normal user reading If any versions were uploaded to unstable which had /var/lib/john set to any

Bug#403859: BTS: does owner have a functional effect, or doesn't it?

2006-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: bugs.debian.org,devscripts People are of the impression that owner has a functional effect, and is not just an annotation. It seems pretty likely that this is a result of the BTS documentation saying so; not only the semi-official /usr/bin/bts helper command, but the online bugs.d.o

Bug#264985: fixing checkrestart

2006-12-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
# This was already so tagged, but I don't know why. # Jeers to the fool that did it. tag 264985 patch thanks Attached is a patch fixing checkrestart; I'm not particularly proud of the gratuitous loops, but I haven't claimed to know python... --- /usr/sbin/checkrestart 2006-11-02

Bug#264985: fixing checkrestart

2006-12-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi Sam, I created a patch to fix Debian's checkrestart tool. I would very much like to continue using lsof, since it includes things besides from the maps file (like fd's, exe's, and working directories). On the other hand, it takes multiple cases to handle the different ways that a pathname

Bug#335276: openssh conffile prompt: /etc/ssh/moduli

2006-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
reopen 335276 found 335276 1:4.3p2-7 thanks I'm afraid this just happened again, this time with /etc/ssh/moduli. I don't know what this file does. Should it be included with the package? It it modified somehow, somewhen? 2006-12-14 11:36:32 upgrade openssh-server 1:4.3p2-6 1:4.3p2-7 $ md5sum

Bug#335276: openssh conffile prompt: /etc/ssh/moduli

2006-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: reopen 335276 found 335276 1:4.3p2-7 thanks I'm afraid this just happened again, this time with /etc/ssh/moduli. I don't know what this file does. Should it be included with the package? It it modified somehow, somewhen

Bug#399726: molly-guard: broken copyright file, and copy of /u/s/c-l/Artistic

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:00:19PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: tags 399726 pending confirmed thanks also sprach Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.11.21.1717 +0100]: Additionally, a copy of some incarnation of the Artistic license exists in /usr/share/common-licenses/. If this copy

Bug#402855: xchat: (generated?) config file line causes BadAlloc crash

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: xchat Version: 2.6.8-0.2 Severiy: important The following line was found in my .xchat/xchat.conf: gui_win_height = 65528 It causes the following message to stderr after selecting a server to which to connect: |The program 'xchat' received an X Window System error. |This probably

Bug#402401: firefox: please provide ^Esc erase, minimally in the address bar

2006-12-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2 0 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Other browsers provide the ability to delete a word at a time with control+escape and control+backspace. This is especially useful in the address bar, for munging hostnames and web paths. In firefox, this just

Bug#339978: ssh: upgrades from sarge stop due to conffile changes - Re: Bug#339978: marked as done ()

2006-12-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:52:58PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: You have to use sarge dpkg while updating ssh, I did so. dpkg wasn't upgraded at all in my tests. Did you also purge ssh{-{client,server}} and rm -fr /etc/ssh? In my tests regarding conffiles/transition names, I had to dpkg -i

Bug#339978: marked as done (ssh: upgrades from sarge stop due to conffile changes)

2006-12-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
You have to use sarge dpkg while updating ssh, since the etch dpkg suffixes the conffile fields with obsolete when they're no longer owned by a package. Then, packages including that pathname automatically take over the files. But, I don't know if anything guarantees that etch dpkg will be both

Bug#400998: ddclient: fails to preserve local config

2006-11-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: ddclient Version: 3.6.7-2 Severity: serious Justification: 10.7.3. I have a custom-written /etc/ddclient.conf, since the debconf interface didn't support things I needed, but which are supported by ddclient (or, I figured out how to do it without debconf before I figured out how to do it

Bug#361303: firefox still can't reliably rearrange tabs remotely

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
retitle 361303 firefox: rearranging tabs when run over SSH forwarding freezes the window and makes the X server unusable found 361303 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2 thanks I wanted to add that this could be a GTK problem, but I tried drag+drop in gaim without any trouble. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#399902: gaim: v2 IRC should display channel list, server window, or allow autojoin

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: gaim Version: 1:2.0.0+beta5-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream The current interface for IRC connections is highly confusing. The Accounts window no longer has an Online checkbox, so it isn't clear to me how to initiate a connection. And the Connection Status progress window seems to

Bug#398942: www.debian.org: packages.d.o to serve files included in packages

2006-11-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist It would be great if individual files within [source|binary] packages could be accessed by visiting some PDO URL pkg=foopath=bar. The search_contents.pl left-hand side should be hyperlinks to that URL. This would be useful for accessing eg. a TODO list

Bug#382312: apt-file patch (Re: Processed: reopening 382312, retitle 382312 to apt-file: please apply more complete patch to fix output ...)

2006-11-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:58:03PM -0600, Kevin Glynn wrote: Justin, It is not clear to me what the intent of this reopening/retitling is. Do you mean that the fuller patch attached to this report should be applied? If so, then I would like to see that too. I am planning to rewrite the

Bug#398658: lintian: Please detect unconditional use of some nonessential pkgs during purge

2006-11-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:13:42PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:07:27PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Here is a list of packages that fail when all packages except

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