Bug#347167: Bug#344110: xserver locks up and uses almost all cpu (99%)

2007-05-28 Thread Matt R Hall
On 5/28/07, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Brice, About a year ago, you reported (or replied to) a bug in the Debian BTS regarding the X server using almost all CPU. Did any of you guys reproduce this problem recently with a *free* driver? With Xorg/Etch? With latest

Bug#348639: xfs preinst and postinst scripts stop daemon but fail to restart it

2007-02-19 Thread Matt R Hall
Salutations, I must say this bug is not the sort of thing you get an error message for. Basically what happens is if you perform an upgrade to Debian which upgrades the font server, the font server is stopped by the preinst script, then the new files are extracted, but then it appears that the

Bug#387429: wodim: Upload has been pending 50 days

2006-11-04 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: wodim Followup-For: Bug #387429 tags 387429 - pending thanks Since this has not been uploaded yet in 50 days, I assume perhaps the patch has been delayed. Meanwhile, for those needing a workaround, install the original cdrecord from stable:

Bug#376219: Status Check

2006-10-10 Thread Matt R Hall
Hello, Is there anything I can do to help speed the release of Eclipse 3.2 packages (besides asking about the release ;-) ? Thanks, Matthew Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386249: opendchub: program requires update to resolve incompatibility with new DC clients

2006-09-06 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: opendchub Version: 0.7.14-2 Severity: important This packages requires an update to version 0.7.15 of the upstream source code to fix a bug which causes newer DC clients to forcibly disconnect from the server. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#368423: xfsprogs: xfs_fsr prints unreasonable error when XFS filesystem path argument ends in '/'

2006-05-22 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: xfsprogs Version: 2.7.16-1 Severity: minor xfs_fsr responds to its command-line arguments inconsistently: Executing the following command fails: $ sudo xfs_fsr -v /mnt/ /fileshare/: Directory defragmentation not supported Executing the following command succeeds: $ sudo xfs_fsr -v /mnt

Bug#368423: xfsprogs: xfs_fsr prints unreasonable error when XFS filesystem path argument ends in '/'

2006-05-22 Thread Matt R Hall
reassign 368423 xfsdump thanks Mr. Scott, Thank you for your rapid reply! I greatly appreciate your dedication to your work. On 5/21/06, Nathan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a filesystem mounted at /mnt? (can you include your /etc/mtab file please). This example was sanitized from

Bug#365955: tray icons for non-KDE apps detach from kicker system tray after kicker restart

2006-05-03 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: kicker Version: 4:3.5.2-2 Severity: minor Restarting kicker using dcop kicker kicker restart or other methods (KDE crash handler) causes non-KDE tray icons used by such apps as Gaim, aMule and Azureus to remove themselves from the tray and re-appear at the upper left of the screen in

Bug#365526: coreutils: cp, mv, and rm should have a dry run or test mode option

2006-04-30 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: coreutils Version: 5.94-1 Severity: wishlist Too many times, new Linux UN*X users accidentally run cp, mv, and rm incorrectly and screw up their systems. It would be wonderful if these commands had a mode in which they would just output what they would have done on the filesystem if

Bug#365263: k3b misreports that audio files with no read permission are in unsupported formats

2006-04-28 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: k3b Version: 0.12.15-1 Severity: normal When you attempt to add a track to a k3b audio CD layout window with (for example) 000 permissions or other unreadable permissions, the error Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format dialog box appears. This is

Bug#273724: kdm: improper handling of XkbOptions in xorg.conf

2006-04-20 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.5.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #273724 I am writing to confirm the existence of this bug and further document the behavior described by the other user who reported it two years ago. setxkbmap -print shows the following output: xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include

Bug#362807: kaffeine: fails to properly play files with names containing '#' character

2006-04-15 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: kaffeine Version: 0.8.1-2 Severity: normal Attempting to play files with a '#' in their name in this version of kaffeine sometimes results in the following error message: 'The specified file or url was not found. Please check it.' After locating the problem, I tried the following two

Bug#360417: kernel-patch-bootsplash: Package description refers to missing userland tools package named 'bootsplash'

2006-04-01 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: kernel-patch-bootsplash Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable As seen below, the package description refers to a userland package that does not exist, hence making this code essentially useless. The repository mentioned as a workaround in previous bug reports is no

Bug#359871: python2.4: Confirmation of report.

2006-03-29 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #359871 Happens to me also. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.4_2.4.2+2.4.3c1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/pwd.so', which is also in package python2.4-minimal +1, Matt --

Bug#358499: irssi attempts to free() invalid pointer on exit

2006-03-22 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: irssi Version: 0.8.10-1 Severity: normal Starting irssi, doing anything you want in it, then exiting with /quit causes the following: $ irssi *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x081293b8 *** Aborted (core dumped) $ Seems to be continuously reproducible on my

Bug#350298: libxft-dev: Confirmation

2006-03-21 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: libxft-dev Version: 2.1.8.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #350298 I experience this same bug as follows on sid+experimental. My two conflicting packages are versioned as follows: libxft-dev version 2.1.8.2-3 x11-common version 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5 Therefore, I can confirm the veracity of the earlier

Bug#350839: pdftotext: program overwrites pre-existing output file without warning

2006-01-31 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: xpdf-utils Version: 3.01-5 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss pdftotext unexpectedly deletes the default .txt target even if something was there already. This caused me to lose a .txt file related to the PDF of the same name. Perhaps this should output a

Bug#348639: xfs preinst and postinst scripts stop daemon but fail to restart it

2006-01-18 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: xfs Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: normal I noticed that the xfs installation script stopped the daemon, but the restart message was missing. Presuming it may have been restarted silently, I attempted to start X afterwards, but X crashed because the only font path was through the font

Bug#347167: xserver-xorg: 'X' server process consumes 100% CPU; apparent infinite loop

2006-01-08 Thread Matt R Hall
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 Severity: important As per #debian IRC conversation with gravity (XSF head), I switched from the SiS driver to the VESA driver and the problem went away. The following logs are from X run in VESA mode. Regards, Matt R Hall -- Package-specific info