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
Whoops. Sorry. Hit the send button by accident. 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

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

2009-11-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
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 update and I found my system would hang during the boot. By 'hang' I mean that the boot process seems to stop -- no further

Bug#554439: util-linux: [sfdisk] no way to get rid of dos/linux warning

2009-11-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: util-linux Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: minor Hi, There seems to be no way to get rid of the warning message: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. sent to stderr. Neither -L nor -q make it go away.

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

2009-10-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.25-1 Severity: normal Hi, Balsa has been crashing a lot on me lately. It appears to happen when new mail arrives at the same time I do something that opens a window, like replying to an email or, perhaps, composing a new email. This started when I upgraded to Lenny.

Bug#553213: It may have to do with selection, or not

2009-10-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I just noticed that when I'm reading the last email in the inbox and new mail comes in the mail I'm reading is unselected in the list of messages. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#552019: xserver-xorg: Package description implies dpkg-reconfigure sets config

2009-10-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+20 Severity: minor Hi, The package description says: as well as providing a configuration infrastructure to manage xorg.conf. I took this to mean that dpkg-reconfigure could be used to configure X, whereas it seems that X mostly configures itself now (or X

Bug#552030: initscripts: checkroot.sh can unnecessarly run out of ram

2009-10-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: wishlist Hi, My reading of checkroot.sh is that it will not turn swap on if it detects _any_ lvm or swapfile swap partitions. If there are also regular swap partitions they will not be activated and the fsck of the root filesystem will have

Bug#552029: initscripts: checkfs.sh fsck fails because lvm (and md?) swap is not on

2009-10-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I've a system where fsck fails at boot because swap is on lvm and fsck runs out of RAM. Consequently, after an fs fsck limit is reached the system won't boot. Please have checkfs.sh run swapon again before fsck to pick

Bug#550164: openvpn: README.Debian does a poor job of explaining multiple connections

2009-10-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: openvpn Version: 2.1~rc11-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The README.Debian file does a poor job of explaining how Debian manages openvpn startup. This is particularly important when automatically starting mulitple client openvpn connections. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3

Bug#548237: darcs-load-dirs: Please provide a way to timestamp commits.

2009-09-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: darcs-load-dirs Version: 1.1.6+nmu2 Severity: wishlist I would like a way to timestamp commits. Darcs supports this via 'darcs record --pipe'. I would like to write a shell script to go through a directory of tarballs, untar them, and use the timestamp on the tarball to run

Bug#543777: arch2darcs: Fails when multiple files are moved

2009-08-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: arch2darcs Version: 1.0.13 Severity: normal Hi, I've run arch2darcs to convert a arch repo to darcs. It seems to fail when I've moved multiple files in the same tla commit. Note that this is a guess. All I know is that when it fails there are files that need to be moved. The

Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/24/2009 02:16:10 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get rather than aptitude. Fine for me. You can also include both

Bug#541231: konqueror won't print to printer or pdf file -- kdeprint-lpd lib problem

2009-08-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 Severity: normal Konqueror won't print, at least not to a printer or to a saved pdf. The dialog that pops up says: There was an error loading kdeprint_lpd. The diagnostic is: Library files for kdeprint_lpd.la not found in paths. FWIW, here's some

Bug#535093: apt-cacher: Hangs, leaving processes about

2009-07-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/01/2009 02:34:00 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:33:14AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.6.4 Severity: normal Could you upgrade to 1.6.8 and see if that is better. Checksum database handling was changed in 1.6.5. What is the right way

Bug#535093: apt-cacher: Hangs, leaving processes about

2009-07-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/01/2009 02:34:00 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:33:14AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.6.4 Severity: normal Could you upgrade to 1.6.8 and see if that is better. Checksum database handling was changed in 1.6.5. I think it is related

Bug#535093: apt-cacher: Hangs, leaving processes about

2009-07-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/01/2009 01:01:52 PM, Mark Hindley wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/01/2009 02:34:00 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:33:14AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.6.4 Severity: normal Could you

Bug#535093: The problems started with Lenny

2009-06-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
FWIW, the problems started when I upgraded the system running apt-cacher to Lenny. Before that everything was running fine on etch. (Excepting the warning messages: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-lib.pl line 136, $listpipe line

Bug#533264: release-notes: aptitude unhold is broken in etch

2009-06-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal Section 4.2.3. Checking packages status says: ---snip--- It is desirable to remove any holds before upgrading. snip package state for aptitude can be changed using: # aptitude hold package_name Replace hold with unhold to

Bug#533265: release-notes: Initial aptitude upgrade unclear

2009-06-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal Hello, 4.5.4. Upgrade apt and/or aptitude first It is not clear from the text of this section that if you have aptitude installed you should do the: # aptitude install aptitude and not the: # apt-get install apt I've done a few

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

2009-06-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
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 '(~prequired|~pimportant)!~i' When what's important or required changes the upgrade instructions (afaik) don't say how to install

Bug#533267: release-notes: Purging uninstalled packages

2009-06-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal Hi, It almost goes without saying, but at the end of the upgrade process it can be a good idea to purge the configuration files of those packages that are no longer installed. Something like: Examine leftover config files: aptitude

Bug#532948: /usr/lib/sqlgrey home dir does not exist

2009-06-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: sqlgrey Version: 1.6.8-1 Severity: normal reportbug -o /tmp/sqlgreybug -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Bug#532950: /var/lib/sqlgrey dir warning

2009-06-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: sqlgrey Version: 1.6.8-1 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** I get the following warning when installing sqlgrey: Warning: The home dir /var/lib/sqlgrey you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory See the transcript below:

Bug#532948: Please delete this bug report

2009-06-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I pressed the wrong button. Please delete this bug report, a valid one follows. Thank you. 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#394097: AuthUserFile /dev/null makes the pcfg_openfile() called with NULL filename go away

2009-03-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
AuthUserFile /dev/null makes the pcfg_openfile() called with NULL filename error in the logs go away. AuthBasicAuthoritative off didn't do the job. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#310668: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner

2008-12-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 12/04/2008 04:41:32 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:43:23AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-13 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi, I have an old HP ScanJet 6100C scanner. Either

Bug#394097: Put AuthType Basic at the top to get libapache2-mod-auth-pam to work

2008-11-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I may be wrong, but I believe I had to put the AuthType Basic directive above the other auth directives in the config file before libapache2-mod-auth-pam worked on Etch. Regards, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A.

Bug#506509: dpkg packaging does not preserve $ARG_if in /etc/default/ifplugd

2008-11-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: ifplugd Version: 0.28-2.3 Severity: normal Hello, Reading /etc/init.d/ifplugd I see that it supports config variables containing names that end in _if, like $ARGS_eth0. These are used to tailor arguments to the ifplugd daemon monitoring specific interfaces. The debian packaging does

Bug#506509: Looks like a policy violation

2008-11-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
As I read Debian policy this is a violation, which would mean the bug severity is 'serious'. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#506370: Allow user control over lcd4linux args

2008-11-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: lcd4linux Version: 0.10.0+cvs20060825-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello. Attached is a patch to /etc/init.d/lcd4linux which allows the administrator to put lcd4linux arguments into /etc/default/lcd4linux. (I found the splash screen annoying, this allows it to be turned off.)

Bug#506121: lcd4linux: Please include Pertelian driver

2008-11-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: lcd4linux Version: 0.10.1~rc2-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, Please include the Pertelian driver. The version of lcd4linux packaged for lenny/sid does not contain the driver, but the driver is in the current svn. Thank you. P.S. This report should probably be filed against lenny or

Bug#503438: cupsys: ipp printing leaves job in queue

2008-10-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.7-4etch5 Severity: normal Hi, I'm running a thin-client. The box running the apps sends print jobs (and graphics to the Xserver) to the box on my desk. The box on my desk has a hp laserjet 1100 connected via parallel port. The box running the apps is running the

Bug#497806: Installer's clock related behvior is lame

2008-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Now that I've sent in the report... Perhaps I should have sent two reports. One for the bug Clock question worded incorrectly. and another for the enhancement request. Is there something I should do to fix this? Also. My implementation note that suggests waiting to set the time is stupid. The

Bug#497806: UTC clock prompt wording alternatives

2008-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
An alternative to the clock question proposed: Should this system's hardware keep UTC time from now on? is: Should this system's hardware keep UTC time starting now? I'm not sure if from now on is an idiom and not understood everywhere. (I like the word henceforward, but am afraid that it's

Bug#405621: I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this

2008-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this. My install was successful (4.0r4), but attempting aptitude update aptitude upgrade I got warnings about untrusted packages. It took at least 2 hours to notice the system time was bad. Some thing, somewhere, knows that the problem is that the creation

Bug#478122: It happened after a mirror went down

2008-05-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Version: 1.5.3 (on etch) I'm getting the same messages: # /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-lib.pl line 136, $listpipe line 1841. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/08/2008 02:38:19 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:10:50PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. thank you reenabled for upcoming 2.6.26

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/08/2008 02:38:19 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:10:50PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. thank you reenabled for upcoming

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: linux-image-2.6 Severity: wishlist Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. It's part of the stock linux.org kernel. I've an Edgeport/4 (4 port) and an Edgeport/416 (16 port) serial RS-232 to

Bug#457641: #457641: openoffice.org-calc: Paste of one formula into multiple cells fails

2008-04-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5 Package: openoffice-calc Still not fixed. Am I the only one with this problem, or is this not really a problem and I've broken something? I find it disturbing that an update to stable, that breaks a package in such a significant way as to make the stable version

Bug#458288: slocate: updatedb runs as the wrong user

2007-12-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: slocate Severity: important In etch, /etc/updatedb.conf (in the findutils package) has: LOCALUSER=nobody This is bad because the directories in /home are chmod xx0, so the program never indexes user's files. See also: bug #457084 and #457565 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#458288: It's also /etc/cron.daily/find that sets the user to nobody

2007-12-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On my box the /etc/cron.daily/find script also sets the user to nobody, causing home directories to be missed. Now that I think about it, the home directory policy will vary by system. The stock debian might be more permissive and allow read and traverse rights on home directories. That means

Bug#457641: openoffice.org-calc: Paste of one formula into multiple cells fails

2007-12-23 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: openoffice.org-calc Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch4 Severity: normal I can no longer cut a formula from one cell and paste it into multiple cells. Instead a dialog comes up labled Text Import - [Pasted Data] in the title bar. To reproduce: Open new spreadsheet Put formula =A1 - B1 in

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
FYI, making a JFS filesystem with the journal on an external device seems to fail. At first I thought it was because I made the journal too big, but I reduced the size to 32MB and still got the error. # mkfs.jfs -L mythtv -j /dev/vg00/mythtvjournal /dev/vg00/mythtv mkfs.jfs version 1.1.11,

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Now, after reboot the device special files are fine. ? I tried both cold and warm booting, with both a usb and a ps2 keyboard attached (just in case). The device special files came up right each time. However, once when using the 'halt' command the machine crashed and I got this on the

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
You can forget all about the messing up of the device special files. The problem is me mis-using the mdadm command and forgetting to put a name after the --create. So, it uses the first device name it finds, which is the name of one of the devices I want to make array out of, and messes up that

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/04/2007 07:19:14 PM, maximilian attems wrote: please report, back on it, thanks A problem came up with the SATA drives I can't reproduce. I am using an IDE disk for my regular partitions. I've 2 SATA disks attached to the mobo's chipset SATA. The IDE and the unused (single) internal

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/04/2007 07:19:14 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:06:23PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: This is something of an FYI. Maybe the kernel.org people want to hear about 2.6.23-rc9? yo, us too, I don't know the right way to contact the kernel people, or what they want

Bug#440763: [linux-usb-devel] lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/14/2007 09:31:03 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which

Bug#440763: libusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I apologize if this has already been discussed. The sourceforge page with the archive for this mailing list seems to be down. Apparently libusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, and there is nothing in the API which allows such errors to be reported back to applications.

Bug#440763: [Libusb-devel] libusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/14/2007 06:57:48 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: On 9/15/07, Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently libusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, and there is nothing in the API which allows such errors to be reported back to applications. As a result applications, like

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which there are no permissions. I have it on the authority of the Debian lsusb maintainter that this cannot be fixed in the application. Therefore there is a problem in the kernel or the USB

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which there are no permissions. As already explained, lsusb does not parse /dev, but uses libusb

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/13/2007 05:59:13 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:34:02PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which

Bug#440763: usbutils: lsusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
to the lsusb maintainer? Aurelien Jarno a écrit : On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:50:14PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: lsusb should display permission errors when enumerating those devices to which the user has no access. There is now way to do that. If the device is unreadable, you can't get

Bug#441461: mirrors: anonftpsync does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/12/2007 10:36:56 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:25:37PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The anonftpsync program does not take arguments, Attached is a patch that fixes this problem. It does so in the most painless way possible -- necessary variables are taken from

Bug#441460: mirrors: anonftpsync sucks bandwidth from more important tasks

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/12/2007 10:23:31 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:16:12PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When mirroring from a fast mirror over a slow link anonftpsync can hog all the bandwith, to the detriment of more important tasks

Bug#442091: iceweasel: Security problem, clipboard content is sent to google

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.6-0etch1 Severity: normal Middle clicking on something that's not a link or text widget sends the content of the clipboard to Google. This is slightly bad when you accidently middle click and especially bad when the clipboard content contains a password you're

Bug#441459: mirrors: anonftpsync does not allow lockfile timeout to vary

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch It is nice to allow the lockfile timeout to vary, especially over a slow link or when deciding to mirror additional architectures, etc. The attached patch provides control over the lockfile timeout. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#441460: mirrors: anonftpsync sucks bandwidth from more important tasks

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When mirroring from a fast mirror over a slow link anonftpsync can hog all the bandwith, to the detriment of more important tasks. Attached is a patch which uses the rsync --bwlimit option to address this problem. This patch is ment to be applied

Bug#441461: mirrors: anonftpsync does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The anonftpsync program does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used. This is annoying when it comes to mirroring more than one archive. (e.g. the regular debian archive and volatile.debian.org, or whatever.) Attached is a patch that

Bug#441462: mirrors: It'd be nice if anonftpsync could include archs rather than exclude them

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist It'd be nice if anonftpsync could include archs rather than exclude them. Otherwise when there's new arches the size of the mirror expands unexpectedly. (Of course you'd probably want to keep being able to exclude them as well, but you would only ever be able

Bug#363349: The advantages of packaging anonftpsync

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I want anonftpsync packaged so that I can easily get fixes, updates, etc. I might be able to come up with a man page if somebody indicated interest in packaging it. Regards, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/07/2007 11:41:02 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/04/2007 07:59:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I didn't want to expand this section to re-create the definitive list, but I also think it could be useful to list the 'scanner' group

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/04/2007 07:59:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Thanks for your interest. You're welcome. I've a couple of other patches submitted as wishlist bugs too. On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:32:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD -sect1Purposes

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There's a regular problem on irc with newbies who've not got permission to access various hardware devices. The reference manual should get this out of the way early, and explain groups and that it's the job of the

Bug#440763: usbutils: lsusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: usbutils Version: 0.72-7 Severity: normal Users without permissions to usb devices don't know that they don't have permission and don't know that the device actually exists. It is a hassle to have to run lsusb as root all the time to be sure that devices are not silently ignored. lsusb

Bug#440769: libgphoto2-port0: usbfs kernel message says: ... did not claim interface N before use

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: libgphoto2-port0 Version: 2.2.1-16 Severity: normal I don't know that this is the right package. If not please reassign to the proper package. When using gtkam and gphoto I get messages like this from the kernel (dmesg) when trying to delete images from the camera. usb 1-2: usbfs:

Bug#440769: Another bug report gets the same kernel message

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian Bug report #433129 contains the same kernel message, but I don't imagine it will be helpful because it was never resolved. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#440104: debian-reference-en: Update nic interface name assignments for udev/etch

2007-08-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Section on nic interface naming is wrong for etch/udev. See attached patch. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#434927: spamassassin: spamd bug (fixed upstream #5313) borks email

2007-07-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.7-2 Severity: normal Hi, I'm being bit by upsteam bug #5313. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-commits/200704.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages like this: prefork: select returned -1, recovering: Bad file descriptor' error show up in my

Bug#434660: debian-reference-en: how to specify source IP when there are virtual interfaces

2007-07-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Patch describes how to control which IP address is used as the source IP for locally initiated traffic. This is an issue when virtual interfaces are assigned IP addresses on the same subnet, as might be needed for

Bug#288910: dpkg -L functionality

2007-07-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/05/2007 10:36:33 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: All you have to do is bind some key and menu to run dpkg -L %s with the currently highlighted installed package name with system command or so and pipe its output to the scrolling internal viewer(PAGER). That would be fine for interactive use, but

Bug#381486: kernel: Kernel reports lost interrupt when ext3 fs runs out of inodes?

2006-08-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: kernel Severity: normal Hi, I am not 100% certain this is what happened and am not able to take the time/hardware to try to reproduce this error but figured you might want to know about it. I'm pretty sure about the inode usage but not positive. I believe I ran out of inodes on hdc3

Bug#272753: RFP: sqlgrey -- Greylisting implementation for Postfix that uses SQL

2006-07-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I also would like to see sqlgrey in debian. Both it and postgrey have evolved since the original request and they are not the same in either functionality or the underlying infrastructure needed to support them. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Bug#333081: I too want pam_abl

2006-07-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #333081 And somebody else does too. See Bug #356733. Pam seems the sane place to do authorization. And the good thing about it, in comparison with iptables for instance, is that the attacker is not told that his attacks are failing. Thanks. -- System

Bug#318817: Still broken -- Reassigned closed bug without re-opening it

2005-07-28 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Thanks very much for reassigning this bug to the right people, but you forgot to re-open it. Could somebody re-open this please, it's still unresolved. Thanks. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 04:07:36 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/18/2005 02:58:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: What do return the two commands : xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN [EMAIL

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/21/2005 10:02:03 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: All I can tell you is to check out your catalog files, since you seem to have a trouble there, or try reinstalling docbook. I can't do any more for you. Ok. Thanks. You've been very helpful. I tried reinstalling docbook, and no joy. (aptitude

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/21/2005 02:26:08 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: Could you try again the two xmlcatalog commands trying with the -v option ? it might give a little help. Thanks. $ xmlcatalog -v /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd Resolve sysID

Bug#318822: docbook: Fails to generate PDF output

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: docbook Version: 4.3-1.1 Severity: normal This may be a problem in passivetex, or not. I cannot generate PDF output. Although I get the I/O error below when generating text, the text seems to generate fine. I just submitted this as a separate bug to 'xsltproc' in case the I/O error

Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: xsltproc Version: 1.1.12-8 Severity: minor When I generate any sort of output from docbook I get the message: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd I see that xsltproc is called with '--nonet' so I would not expect to see

Bug#318817: Related bug # for Can't make PDF

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian bug #318822 Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318822: Related bug # for I/O error

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian bug #318817 Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:58:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: What do return the two commands : xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:14:37 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:22:49PM +, Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works without error here, you definitely have a problem with your xml catalog. Which version of the docbook package do you have ? I'm running sarge

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:14:37 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: It works without error here, you definitely have a problem with your xml catalog. Which version of the docbook package do you have ? I just ran debsums on the docbook-xml package and it all checks out. (This is me, poking about looking for

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 12:33:22 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: It has been closed by one of the developers, namely Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Here's output directly from xsltproc that shows the problem using the sample file previously supplied. If this is not an xsltproc problem then

Bug#318817: Sample file exhibiting problem

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Here is a sample file, bug.xml, that exhibits the problem. ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE article PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd; article parafoo/para /article Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You

Bug#316448: argus-client: ragraph broken with OpenBSD tcpdump/BPF output

2005-06-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: argus-client Version: 2.0.6.fixes.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, OpenBSD has started reporting packet timestamps with subsecond precision. ragraph fails when given tcpdumps with this extra precision. Debian Sarge argus-client Version: 2.0.6.fixes.1-2 librrds-perl Version: 1.0.49-1 $

Bug#310668: 310668 isn't RC, downgrading

2005-05-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/25/2005 03:20:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: severity 310668 important thanks I see where I went wrong. Sorry you had to re- classify. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#310668: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner

2005-05-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-13 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi, I have an old HP ScanJet 6100C scanner. Either the lamp is dim, the mirrors or dirty, or the scanner is broken. It once worked with more or less the current hardware

Bug#310668: (kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner)

2005-05-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I've removed the yahama cd drive from the aha1524 scsi chain, so now the only device on the bus is the scanner. I now have to modprobe sg before the modprobe that loads the aha152x driver, but otherwise behavior is as before. (The scsi chain was and is terminated btw. Is now terminated

Bug#298971: synaptic: Synaptic incompatitable with aptitude's markauto feature

2005-03-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: synaptic Version: 0.55+cvs20050218-1 Severity: wishlist The aptitude markauto feature keeps a system from accumulating unwanted packages, leftover cruft that is unused by anything but installed anyway. Synaptic should operate in a fashion that's compatible with aptitude so that

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