Bug#714899: An alternate approach

2013-07-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, An alternate approach would be to have the intramfs-tools hook try to copy the default host keys before it goes ahead and creates new keys. It's hard to say whether this makes sense. The only time there would be a difference between this alternate approach and the patch submitted is if the

Bug#614173: release-notes: chainload to grub2 once is a good option for people with remote boxes

2013-03-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, On 03/30/2013 11:21:59 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:23:02AM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: People who do not have immediate physical access to their boxes may be nervous about testing the chainloading of grub2. Is this issue still relevant for Wheezy? I suspect

Bug#533266: release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages

2013-03-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, On 03/30/2013 11:30:45 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13:09AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal I think that after upgrade it could be useful to look for packages that should be installed. aptitude search

Bug#533266: release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages

2013-03-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/30/2013 12:01:35 PM, David Prévot wrote: Le 30/03/2013 12:39, Karl O. Pinc a écrit : On 03/30/2013 11:30:45 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13:09AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I think that after upgrade it could be useful to look for packages that should

Bug#619431: closed by Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org (Re: Bug#619431: release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.)

2013-03-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Closing this makes sense to me. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#627357: gnome-desktop-environment: I would like to remove avahi-daemon because mdns slows down PTR lookup

2012-10-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/01/2012 02:26:25 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 16:11:07 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which, eventually, depends on avahi-daemon. MDNS greatly slows down reverse dns (PTR) lookups You should be able to address

Bug#686223: /etc/cron.d/foo lines are silently truncated

2012-08-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, Lines in crontabs in /etc/cron.d/ are silently truncated before command execution. Having a line length limit is not in itself a bad thing, but the program should complain when the limit is exceeded instead of silently truncating. As it

Bug#630440: Using the web interface to search for bugs in stable

2012-06-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/26/2012 10:48:04 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/25/2012 02:10:18 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/25/2012 12:48:41 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I don't

Bug#630440: Using the web interface to search for bugs in stable

2012-06-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I don't see how to use the Misc option to set dist=stable. Perhaps the include bugs option could set dist? (or have another drop-down in the Misc section?) Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#630440: Using the web interface to search for bugs in stable

2012-06-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/25/2012 12:48:41 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I don't see how to use the Misc option to set dist=stable. There is a drop down in the Misc section which you can use to set dist=stable. It is set to unstable by default. I'm sorry, I don't see

Bug#630440: Using the web interface to search for bugs in stable

2012-06-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/25/2012 02:10:18 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/25/2012 12:48:41 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I don't see how to use the Misc option to set dist=stable. There is a drop down in the Misc section

Bug#663606: mount(1) does not make the default mount options clear

2012-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mount Version: 2.17.2-9 Severity: minor Hi, The mount(1) page does not make clear what mount options are used by default. Likewise, it does not document what is omitted from the output of mount because it is a default mount option. The closest mount(1) comes is in the strictatime

Bug#661152: puttygen 2048 bit rsa keys have 2047 bit fingerprints

2012-02-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: putty Version: 0.60+2010-02-20-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, When making 2048 bit rsa keys with puttygen about half the time puttygen reports the key to be 2047 bits in the fingerprint. I tried this with the putty snapshot putty-0.62-2012-02-24.tar.gz as well (from

Bug#661152: IT seems the key itself is 2047 bits

2012-02-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Looking at the keys with openssl (after converting to openssh-private with puttygen) it seems some of the keys themselves are 2047 bits. for f in $(ls) ; do puttygen $f -O private-openssh -o /dev/stdout \ | openssl rsa -text done Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay

Bug#659200: qpopper: Directory /var/spool/popbull does not exist

2012-02-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: qpopper Version: 4.0.9.dfsg-1.2 Severity: minor Hi, qpopper is generating messages in the mail log like: in.qpopper[1760]: Unable to open bulletin directory '/var/spool/popbull': No such file or directory (2) [pop_bull.c:386] There's nothing in the docs about how to turn off the

Bug#658028: usbmount: Udev should not wait for mounting

2012-01-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: usbmount Version: 0.0.21 Severity: important Hello, Usbmount is run directly from the udev rule engine and the rule engine must wait for usbmount to complete. This is wrong. If usbmount is not going to run as a daemon I imagine it should at least detach before doing any work. From

Bug#557175: pushed too much to the right side on the man page

2011-11-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: lsof Version: 4.81.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal This seems the same bug as #520587. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,

Bug#647939: The /etc/cron.daily/certwatch script looks useful too

2011-11-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, The RH cron.daily script queries httpd (apache) for certificates to check. So this is handy too -- if the only certs are for apache. Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#647939: RFP: certwatch -- generate SSL certificate expiry warnings

2011-11-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist This is handy. I wrote my own, but why re-invent the wheel? DESCRIPTION The certwatch program is used to issue warning mail when an SSL certificate is about to expire. It's part of the RH crypto-utils package. This includes genkey: DESCRIPTION

Bug#49682: Logrotate now has a dateext directive

2011-10-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I believe that the dateext directive closes this bug. Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#539607: Dateext may close this bug

2011-10-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, The addition of the dateext directive may or may not be enough to close this bug. Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#551888: Yes, please make dateext the default

2011-10-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I agree completely. dateext should be the default. Look at all the wishlist bugs regarding sorting that would not be filed if dateext was the default. FWIW it's now the default on RH systems. (If necessary allow %H and %S to be used in dateformat to better support more frequent rotation and

Bug#620043: Duplicate bug, might be closed now that dateext exists

2011-10-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, There's other bugs with the same complaint. This bug might be closed now that dateext exists, or not. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#256275: This should either be reopened or closed

2011-10-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, This may be referring to an old logrotate written in shell, in which case it should be closed. Otherwise, since dash, a posix shell, not bash is now the default system shell you might want to consider re-opening and fixing this. Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay

Bug#644221: iptables-restore man page out of date

2011-10-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: iptables Version: 1.4.8-3 Severity: normal Hi, The iptables-restore man page is out of date. iptables-restore -h says Usage: iptables-restore [-b] [-c] [-v] [-t] [-h] [ --binary ] [ --counters ] [ --verbose ] [ --test ] [ --help ] [ --noflush ]

Bug#630401: udev: Multi-function printers need their own group

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: udev Version: 164-3 Severity: normal Hi, Some (many? most?) multi-function usb printers, those that both scan and print and perhaps do something else expose only a single usb device. Therefore when udev rules assign permissions to the device based on function the alternate

Bug#630402: libhpmud0: Multi-function printers need their own group

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: libhpmud0 Version: 3.10.6-2 Severity: normal Hi, Some (many? most?) multi-function usb printers, those that both scan and print and perhaps do something else expose only a single usb device. Therefore when udev rules assign permissions to the device based on function the alternate

Bug#630403: sane-utils: Multi-function printers need their own group

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.21-9 Severity: normal Hi, Some (many? most?) multi-function usb printers, those that both scan and print and perhaps do something else expose only a single usb device. Therefore when udev rules assign permissions to the device based on function the alternate

Bug#630401: Bug# refs for bugs filed against MFP udev related packages

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Here are the bug numbers against the packages I know of that have this problem. (I hope that filing multiple bugs was the right thing to do.) udev: Bug#630401 libhpmud0 (aka hplip): Bug#630402 sane-utils: Bug#630403 Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software:

Bug#630401: udev: Multi-function printers need their own group

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/13/2011 02:10:34 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: reassign libhpmud0 630401 thanks On Jun 13, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com wrote: I believe the right solution is to create a new group (say, an 'mfp' group) for such multi-function devices and give the relavant daemons membership

Bug#630440: bugs.debian.org: BTS cannot easily search for bugs in stable/oldstable/etc.

2011-06-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, I run stable, and oldstable until I get around to upgrading. When I have a problem I search the BTS for workarounds, more info, and to know whether I should file a bug. My practice is to search all bugs, both archived and unarchived, for the

Bug#627434: The package name and short description is terrible

2011-05-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: emacs23-common-non-dfsg Version: 23.2+1-1 Severity: normal Hi, The name and description of this package does not describe the package content in any useful sense. The typical user does not care why the documentation was separated into a non-free package -- and has already enabled the

Bug#627357: gnome-desktop-environment: I would like to remove avahi-daemon because mdns slows down PTR lookup

2011-05-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: gnome-desktop-environment Version: 1:2.30+7 Severity: wishlist Alternate subject: Make gnome-user-share optional Hi, gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which, eventually, depends on avahi-daemon. MDNS greatly slows down reverse dns (PTR) lookups when there is no PTR

Bug#612316: Sid version of ppa is not supported upstream either

2011-05-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, The version of PPA in sid is not supported upstream. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#625498: cron: Cron does not check permissions of linked file when symlink is first created

2011-05-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
You can close and discard this bug report. It's wrong, and what's not wrong is covered by other bug reports. Thanks for your patience. On 05/07/2011 06:32:14 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: tag 625498 + unreproducible moreinfo On 05/03/2011 11:06 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Files in /etc/cron.d

Bug#625498: cron: Cron does not check permissions of linked file when symlink is first created

2011-05-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/07/2011 06:32:14 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: tag 625498 + unreproducible moreinfo On 05/03/2011 11:06 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Files in /etc/cron.d that have group write permissions will not have their cronjobs run but if /etc/cron.d/ contains a symlink to a file with group write

Bug#625456: 'debtags tagcat' does not output the set of valid tags

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debtags Version: 1.7.11 Severity: normal Hi, man debtags says: tagcat output the tag vocabulary but tagcat does not seem to output all the tags. Instead it just outputs facets like so: snip Facet: accessibility Description:

Bug#625483: rsyslog: Improve default cron logging

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: rsyslog Version: 4.6.4-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, It would be nice if /var/log/cron.log would log everything more significant than cronjob start/stop times. It's annoying to have to go into /var/log/syslog to find problems with cron. Attached is a patch that works with the

Bug#625491: Requirement that cron.d entries be chmod g-w is undocumented or unnecessary

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, It appears that files in /etc/cron.d must not be group writable. This is not documented and does not seem to be necessary. It would be nice if the requirement did not exist. (Note: I did not check to see if this problem exists with

Bug#625492: Errors preventing crontab execution should be logged at higher priority

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, Files in /etc/cron.d that have group write permissions will not have their cronjobs run. I configured /etc/rsyslog.conf with the line: cron.notice /var/log/cron.log and the log message that indicates there is a problem

Bug#625493: cron: Error message regarding group write permission is not clear

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, Files in /etc/cron.d that have group write permissions will not have their cronjobs run. The log message which results provides no guideance as to exactly what is wrong with the

Bug#625495: cron: Cron does not recover well from a BAD INODE INFO error

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, When cron finds a crontab file has the wrong permissions (and perhaps the wrong owner, I didn't check) it refuses to execute the cronjobs in that file until the file is deleted and re-created. It is not enough to correct the problem and

Bug#625498: cron: Cron does not check permissions of linked file when symlink is first created

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Hi, Files in /etc/cron.d that have group write permissions will not have their cronjobs run but if /etc/cron.d/ contains a symlink to a file with group write permissions the cron jobs in that file are run. After the content of the file is

Bug#625483: Acknowledgement (rsyslog: Improve default cron logging)

2011-05-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
For more info on cron's syslog priority levels see Bug #625492 Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#610826: Headless servers can waste a core of CPU due to this bug

2011-04-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I have also experienced this problem, on a headless server; one that has gdm3 installed so that someone clueless can plug in a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and be comfortable. A sample Xlog is attached. Debian Squeeze (6.0.1). The design I would like to see is one where a simple Press

Bug#621626: balsa: Impossible to use mouse to paste additional text into To: address

2011-04-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.4.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, If I type text into the To: address it is then impossible to use the mouse to paste additional text into the box. I use the mouse to select text from the email body and when I click back on the To: address the entire text of

Bug#499805: I find this super annoying as well

2011-04-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
It would be nice if the [truncated...] text could be clicked on to toggle display of all the addresses. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#619869: Order reported is after automated re-ordering

2011-03-28 Thread Karl O. Pinc
FYI. The ordering for md assembly, lvm, and checkroot.sh is after switching to the new automated/parallel boot system. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#619431: release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.

2011-03-28 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/28/2011 05:46:05 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:26:26PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: In any case after installing dash and using it as the default sh I found that a number of users in /etc/passwd had /bin/sh as their shell. Needless to say this did

Bug#552030: Seems fixed in squeeze

2011-03-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, As near as I can figure out this problem is not present in squeeze because both md and lvm are activated before checkroot.sh. I've not looked at fuse or anything odd like that but someone might consider looking at this bug and seeing if it should be closed. Karl k...@meme.com Free

Bug#619867: sysvinit: Wrong error message about lvm swap sent when fsck-ing the root fs

2011-03-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.88dsf-13.1 Severity: minor Hi, /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh has a message that says: Not activating swap on logical volume. However having upgraded to squeeze I see /etc/rcS.d/S07lvm and /etc/rcS.d/S08checkroot, so lvm should always be activated when the root fs is

Bug#619869: sysvinit: Remarks on optimizing swapon

2011-03-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.88dsf-13.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Having upgraded to squeeze I notice that mdadm and lvm are always turned on before checkroot.sh is run. This means that the swapon -a run in checkroot.sh will activate all md and lvm swap partitions. (Right?) In this case

Bug#619509: iceweasel: After allowing cookies preferences can no longer be set to reject cookies

2011-03-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.16-6 Severity: normal Hi, I went to preferences-privacy and checked the button to allow all sites to set cookies. After that calling up preferences-privacy the check boxes regarding cookies went away and was replaced with Iceweasel will remember your browsing,

Bug#619509: iceweasel: After allowing cookies preferences can no longer be set to reject cookies

2011-03-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/24/2011 12:40:02 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: So, to summarize, as long as the set of checkboxes you chose matches the default behaviour for Remember history, then it switches back to Remember history when you come back to the pref box. This is indeed an upstream issue, but I'm not sure

Bug#619431: release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.

2011-03-23 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, It's bit a little while since I did the upgrade to sqeeuze in question so I'm unclear on the details at the moment. I'll do another soon and may be able to report more. In any case after installing dash and using it as the default sh I found that a

Bug#619354: uswsusp: README.Debian can be updated with: update-initramfs -u -k all

2011-03-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.7-1.2 Severity: minor Hi, The README.Debian file can now tell users to use: update-initramfs -u -k all to update the initramfs for all their kernels instead of update-initramfs -u which is what it says now. (With a warning about having to update other

Bug#455593: I have the same problem on squeeze

2011-03-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.7-1.2 Hi, I've the same problem on squeeze. I suspect the problem is that there are no regular swap partitions, only lvm swap partitions. It does not seem to matter if I tell uswswap to use /dev/dm-3 (which for reasons I don't understand is what 'swapon -s' reports)

Bug#617756: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: Bug#617756: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: NMI received for unknown reason 3d on CPU 0.)

2011-03-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
, 2011-03-11 at 00:22 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I don't know whether this is a hardware problem or a kernel problem but figured I'd report it. I just upgraded to squeeze

Bug#617981: release-notes: Leftover configured packages take up space

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, After upgrade there are a number of leftover packages from the old release that are removed but not purged. The linux-image-* packages, in particular, take up space in /boot. Potentially quite a large porportion of /boot. The upgrade guide should

Bug#617982: release-notes: Before beginning the upgrade remove old debconf files

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, It makes sense to cleanup from the last upgrade before starting a new one. The files that debconf leaves when packages are upgraded should be found and removed by the admin so that there is no possiblity of confusion after upgrade as to what changes

Bug#617984: release-notes: The default choice is reset in menu.lst when choosing to chainload grub2

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, I don't know if this is a bug in the squeeze release notes or the grub2 package. When grub2 (I assume) updates /boot/grub/menu.lst to chainload grub2 it resets the default boot choice to 0. This more or less breaks things if the user has included

Bug#617987: release-notes: Note that grub2 does not covert existing grub1 config file

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, It's may be worth noting that grub2 does not seamlessly convert grub's menu.lst file. A sentence like the following should be enough added the end of of the first paragraph of 4.8.1 Upgrade to GRUB2: Note that GRUB2 builds its menu by autodetection

Bug#617756: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: NMI received for unknown reason 3d on CPU 0.

2011-03-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I don't know whether this is a hardware problem or a kernel problem but figured I'd report it. I just upgraded to squeeze and am getting these messages on the console and in dmesg:

Bug#617463: release-notes: 'aptitude search ~ahold' does not require a grep

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, I see that in the squeeze release notes section 4.2.3. Checking packages status it says the following identifies packages on hold with aptitude: aptitude search ~ahold | grep ^.h The pipe to grep is unnecessary. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#617466: release-notes: Instructions do not restart script after reboot.

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, I see no instructions in the squeeze release notes that say to restart 'script' after reboot, so the script only records the first half of the upgrade. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#617466: Appending to the timing information

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, As part of this you may wish to consider using instead of in the script invocation. script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script instead of script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script Although I don't know what sort of strange replay timing you'd then

Bug#614173: release-notes: chainload to grub2 once is a good option for people with remote boxes

2011-02-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Hi, People who do not have immediate physical access to their boxes may be nervous about testing the chainloading of grub2. It'd be nice to have something in an appendix that tells them how to use grub1 to chainload boot grub2 only once, and fallback to

Bug#612349: Patch that mentions release notes

2011-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is a patch that mentions installing firmware. I've not verified that apt-file is usable or installable at this point in the upgrade process, but I'm not sure what else to recommend. I am also presuming that free firmware is installed automatically, which now that I think of it is

Bug#539611: Please remove these files on future upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
If this isn't going to get fixed in lenny, then it'd be nice if a squeeze version, or _some_ version, of the postgresql package removes these files/directories. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 01:48:39 AM, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: On 7 February 2011 07:27, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com wrote: During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen.  The second time this occurred neither the keyboard or mouse would respond.  Unplugging

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 11:30:53 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 00:27:06 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen. The second time this occurred neither

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 12:33:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:29:19 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 02/07/2011 11:48:49 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:42:33 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: A log of the upgrade being the script output and the kernel log

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen. The second time this occurred neither the keyboard or mouse would respond. Unplugging and replugging each of these USB devices resovled the problem. The

Bug#581729: FYI, Debian wiki has a page on user private groups

2011-01-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Regarding the umask change in squeeze. There is a Debian wiki web page on user private groups that could be referenced if desired. http://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroup Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Squeeze is about to be released, in a few weeks at best (or worse). So, I don't really see by which magic this would happen (considering that any change now to the installation guide triggers a need for translation updates). I do not wish

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
software resources would enhance the Debian experience and further this goal. (Ideally this change would be made before the squeeze release so as not to lose years of new users.) Regards, Karl O. Pinc -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos. Chapter 8, next steps, should either include the content of or point users toward a resource like

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 04:27:46 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos. So, indeed, thanks in advance for the upcoming

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 04:43:43 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 04:27:46 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos

Bug#584134: Perhaps the command executes but fails

2010-08-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Unlike cron, incron does not report stderr or failure. This makes it hard to debug, which is the subject of another outstanding bug report. The enviornment in which the incron job executes is not the login environment, AFAICT. That could account for a command failing to execute. Try wrapping

Bug#592691: incron: Incron needs a new symbol to track files by path

2010-08-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: incron Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: wishlist Incron exhibits somewhat inconsistent behavior in that it tracks files by inode (I assume) but these files are specified by path in the incrontab. So, if you delete a file and re-create it, as some commonly used editors do as part of the

Bug#592692: incron: Root receives undocumented IN_IGNORED event

2010-08-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: incron Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Root, via /etc/incron.d/foo, received an IN_IGNORED event when monitoring file foo when emacs (I believe) deleted foo~ in a second editing session after, in an initial editing session, changing the

Bug#552029: closed by Petter Reinholdtsen p...@debian.org (Bug#552029: fixed in sysvinit 2.87dsf-9)

2010-03-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/21/2010 02:51:17 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the initscripts package: #552029: initscripts: checkfs.sh fsck fails because lvm (and md?) swap is not on Thanks for taking the patch. Sorry

Bug#569344: balsa: To address lost when send pressed without changing focus

2010-02-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.25-1 Severity: normal Hi, If my mail has multiple recipients if I type the final recipient in the textbox but don't press enter or tab or click elsewhere to move the focus but instead click on the send button then the last recipient never registers and no mail is sent

Bug#568710: manpages-dev: The GNU regex manual does not seem to exist

2010-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: minor /usr/share/man/man3/regexec.3.gz references the GNU regex manual in it's See also section, but this manual seems to be obsolete. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#568298: balsa: Infinite loop with empty quoted text regexp

2010-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/05/2010 08:23:50 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: On 02/03/2010 01:08:00 PM Wed, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I want to turn off balsa's colorization and change bars and other frobbing of quoted text. Setting the regexp to the empty string _should_ do this, but does not. Yes, it should

Bug#568298: balsa: Infinite loop with empty quoted text regexp

2010-02-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.25-1 Severity: normal Hello, File-Preferences Message display format (iirc) Setting the regexp for quoted text to nothing seems to put balsa into an infinite loop. (At least when the current message has quoted text.) I want to turn off balsa's colorization and

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/22/2010 07:18:22 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:08:01PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Security support will be dis-continued for etch on Feb 15th. It'd be nice to fix the upgrade document while people are still upgrading. Could you elaborate what part

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/22/2010 07:50:02 AM, Nicolas François wrote: The problem with this bug is that there are no generic upgrade path. The upgrade may fail with apt-get or with aptitude. I made tested with the various default Debian installs, and I could not find a generic upgrade path that always work.

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Security support will be dis-continued for etch on Feb 15th. It'd be nice to fix the upgrade document while people are still upgrading. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#564944: initscripts: /forcefsck overflows bootlogd

2010-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal Hi, I notice that if I touch /forcefsck that /var/log/boot is, essentially, truncated to what comes after the filesystem checks. Dunno if there's a fix. Perhaps fsck could be less verbose if bootlogd is turned on? -- System

Bug#552029: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#552029: What needs to be done to get a response here?

2010-01-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Thanks very much for the reply On 01/06/2010 02:34:21 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: You could test the 100% untested patch and report it 100% working and that may help :) Well, ok. The patch is braindead, just a few new lines with a function moved into a library. But I see your point. (I did

Bug#552029: What needs to be done to get a response here?

2010-01-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, It's been close to 3 months now and there's been no response on this at all. Is this the right place for this report? If not is there somewhere upstream or some such where I should submit this? Thanks. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Bug#553213: Backtraces

2009-12-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 12/18/2009 07:58:38 AM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: Hi Karl: On 12/17/2009 09:09:43 PM Thu, Karl O. Pinc wrote: FWIW: the code to detect and warn about the issue, avoiding the crash, was installed in August last year, so the possibility of a NULL pointer was known back

Bug#553213: Backtraces

2009-12-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I finally figured out how to use gdb with the balsa-dbg package. Here are two backtraces. The first is a crash when pressing the reply-to-all button. The second is from the first core dump I captured: the bts says I said this happened when pressing the reply button. In both cases I think a

Bug#553213: Backtraces

2009-12-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 12/17/2009 06:13:56 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: Hi Karl! On 12/17/2009 12:17:06 PM Thu, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I finally figured out how to use gdb with the balsa-dbg package. Here are two backtraces. The first is a crash when pressing the reply-to-all button. The second is from

Bug#553213: Getting a backtrace out of a core dump

2009-11-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I finally got another crash while pressing the reply button while mail was arriving. (I think that's what did it.) So, now I've a core file but gdb -c core bt does not get me anything. I suspect that I'm not running the right image. When starting gdb I get: (no debugging symbols found)

Bug#553213: balsa: Balsa crashes when opening a window as mail arrives

2009-11-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/07/2009 05:05:49 AM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: Sorry, I should have been clearer: --g-fatal-warnings is an argument for any Gtk-based app. You can use it like this: o at the console, enter: gdb path/to/balsa r --g-fatal-warnings o when Balsa issues the CRITICAL warning, it

Bug#553213: balsa: Balsa crashes when opening a window as mail arrives

2009-11-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/11/2009 02:22:52 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: BTW: if you do go the terminal route, and you may be running in gdb for quite a while, it's worth handling broken pipes, as (for me) they also occur once or twice a day, and they stop gdb unless you handle them; at the gdb prompt:

Bug#555526: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: 2.6.26-19lenny2 with serial console hangs on boot

2009-11-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/10/2009 10:30:54 AM, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:15:40AM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 Version: 2.6.26-19lenny2 Severity: normal Hello, I upgraded from (I think) 2.6.26-19lenny1 to 2.6.26-19lenny2 with the latest security

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