Bug#665995: installer: RAMTMP=no doesn't work still get /tmp as ramfs

2012-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120328_103231, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:10:42AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On a wheezy machine changing /etc/default/rcS from RANTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no and rebooting still gives /tmp as a ramfs. The wheezy host is i686 pentium. Wheezy was installed

Bug#665995: installer: RAMTMP=no doesn't work still get /tmp as ramfs

2012-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i On a wheezy machine changing /etc/default/rcS from RANTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no and rebooting still gives /tmp as a ramfs. The wheezy host is i686 pentium. Wheezy was installed. not upgraded. I don't have email properly installed so this report is

Bug#666035: Wish: sort defaults to /tmp; ?should? default to /var/tmp in Debian

2012-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i lfs This report concerning wheezy is being submitted on a squeeze host. Current situation in wheezy installer is to make /tmp default to ramfs. Coreutils sort uses /tmp for scratch files. Having 'sort' use only ram for scratch

Bug#633811: restore the list of all default configuration values approx.conf

2011-07-13 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: approx Version: newly released to wheezy in the past few days Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There was, long ago, a great long list of default values in the approx.conf that ships in approx.deb. In particular it declared the default port number, which I could not recall from memory

Bug#620012: installation-report: wishlist feature suggestion in re hard disk configuration

2011-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i This wish concerns how hard disks are prepared for an installation. The expert user interface should be kept basically the same, but the install program should use something like blkid to determine what is already on

Bug#436338: df: df rounds sizes incorrectly

2010-12-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101223_002101, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I rather like the idea of having a 5% safety allowance, and having %use report 100% when there is still 25GB available on a 500GB disk. That is explained somewhere and is easy to understand and appreciate. But rm id SLOW

Bug#436338: df: df rounds sizes incorrectly

2010-12-23 Thread Paul E Condon
find useful, and produce, from more basic data, output that is more to ones liking. As I mentioned this is already being done with certain time-stamps by coreutils developers. Cheers, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#436338: df: df rounds sizes incorrectly

2010-12-22 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal I am seeing incorrect %use when displaying data from a 500GB USB external drive -- Example output: /dev/sde1480040596 310726424 144929512 69% /media/wdp7 Precise calc. (on HP11C) is Use% = 68.193% which should not round upward I am doing a

Bug#436338: df: df rounds sizes incorrectly

2010-12-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101222_135350, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I am seeing incorrect %use when displaying data from a 500GB USB external drive -- Example output: /dev/sde1480040596 310726424 144929512 69% /media/wdp7 Precise calc. (on HP11C) is Use% = 68.193% which should not round

Bug#605856: /usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not found

2010-12-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.7 Severity: important many warnings during link phase of package construction construction finally terminates with a claim of success, so I do #dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.0.1735+0.5.7-1_i386.deb this seems to work correctly, but: pec$ googleearth

Bug#573522: qpopper: error msg.: fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)

2010-11-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101124_154740, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 19:44:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: qpopper is running on a recent, clean install of squeeze. Lenny, Etch, Sarge ... This is likely a duplicate of bug #548383, you can adjust /etc/pam.d/qpopper as indicated

Bug#590534: ctrl+alt+bksp does not work when X is started by gdm3, and does work when X is started by startx

2010-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: gdm3 Version: 2.30.2-4 Severity: normal I enabled ctrl+alt+bksp per a recent email from Andrei Popescu on debian- u...@lists.debian.org. I tested the change. I could not kill X, even after rebooting. I used startx to start X. The command worked correctly for startx initiated X session. I

Bug#552162: A similar problem to that of Celejar.

2010-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: chrony Version: 1.23-7 Severity: normal Recently reinstalled squeeze with business card. Installed chrony after the usual install drill. The install script reported that the package failed to install, but I tried to set it up anyway because I really like chrony. It seems to work, but

Bug#552162: A similar problem to that of Celejar.

2010-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
Sorry for this second complaint after the one in April. I completely forgot making that earlier report. The need for a total reinstall got me somewhat rattled. Anyway, I hope the new script will be ready for the grand release of Squeeze. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Bug#584941: emacs23: In gnome/squeeze, mouse click on scroll bar wipes out and replaces text selection. Makes mouse cut and paste very useless.

2010-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: important The subject line: In gnome/squeeze, mouse click on scroll bar wipes out and replaces text selection. Makes mouse cut and paste very useless. This is not the behavior of earlier emacs under etch(?). System is running squeeze updated within

Bug#580179: lshal

2010-05-05 Thread Paul E Condon
is going on re. USB now. Thanks and Cheers, Paul -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#580179: lshal

2010-05-05 Thread Paul E Condon
A revision of my earlier suggestion, below. On 20100505_103429, Paul E Condon wrote: On the hosts on which pmount-hal works I get: gq:~# lshal | grep -B1 /dev/sda gq:~# r...@big:~# lshal | grep -B1 /dev/sda r...@big:~# but on the other two I get: cmn:~# lshal | grep -B1 /dev/sda

Bug#580179: Can't mount USB hard drive with pmount-hal, but can with pmount

2010-05-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: pmount Version: 0.9.20-2 Severity: normal This happens on both of my USB external hard drives. Both are 500GB and contain two partitions with ext3. All partitions have partition labels. For example: cmpq:~# pmount /dev/sda1 wdp5 works with no errors,but cmpq:~# pmount-hal /dev/sda1

Bug#552162: (no subject)

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
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Bug#552162: I have slightly different symptoms on a nearly fresh install today

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
, which might not happen if I don't bring it to your attention ;-). (Also, I have installed the various sleep.s and they do not clear this. ) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#552162: (no subject)

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
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Bug#573522: more information

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
correctly, and qpopper in the squeeze install continues to fail quite reproducibly. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#573522: qpopper: error msg.: fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)

2010-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: qpopper Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomeno Update on gdb work...

2009-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
think that not much more needs to be done after that, except the return to waiting for the next interrupt. But --- I don't speak with any authority. How can a return from interrupt become bollixed? And only if there has actually been a change to record? -- Paul E Condon pecon

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
that issue that my old installation of Gnome/Lenny collapsed and died. I have established to my satisfaction that I can survive such a collapse, and rise again from the dead. I can try again to install bug-buddy, but only as part of a rational plan. Can you suggest a rational plan? -- Paul E Condon

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomeno Update on gdb work...

2009-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
someone cranky. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-24_16:46:31, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 mars 2009 ? 09:38 -0600, Paul E Condon a ?crit : Per your instructions I did that. At the time, I had already started sixteen extra gnome-terminal windows, because I already suspect that having a large number ot windows open

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-24_16:46:31, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 mars 2009 ? 09:38 -0600, Paul E Condon a ?crit : Per your instructions I did that. At the time, I had already started sixteen extra gnome-terminal windows, because I already suspect that having a large number ot windows open

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-24_10:33:18, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-24_16:46:31, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 mars 2009 ? 09:38 -0600, Paul E Condon a ?crit : Per your instructions I did that. At the time, I had already started sixteen extra gnome-terminal windows, because I already

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-24_18:20:27, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 24 mars 2009 ?? 10:33 -0600, Paul E Condon a ??crit : Now that I am getting into explicitly trying to trigger this bug, I see that I really don't know how to trigger it for certain. I'm coming to believe that long time running may

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-03-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-23_19:32:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 28 f?vrier 2009 ? 20:00 -0700, Paul E Condon a ?crit : In my experience, gnome-terminal crashes when I alter the color selections in many different ways. I regularly have a dozen windows instantiated by gnome-terminal. When I make

Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

2009-02-28 Thread Paul E Condon
, within my limited skills, so just ask. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#460338: I see this in version 1.9.36.3+nmul

2008-11-13 Thread Paul E Condon
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Bug#449213: gdm: When I configure a custom login greeting, the screen flips out and repaints

2007-11-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:18:28AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Hi, Le samedi 03 novembre 2007 à 22:18 -0600, Paul E Condon a écrit : Package: gdm Version: 2.16.4-1 Severity: normal When I configure a custom login greeting, the screen flips out and repaints. thecursor

Bug#449213: gdm: When I configure a custom login greeting, the screen flips out and repaints

2007-11-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: gdm Version: 2.16.4-1 Severity: normal When I configure a custom login greeting, the screen flips out and repaints. thecursor is repositioned outside the input box each time a key is pressed. The cursor must be repositioned in the input box in order to type the next character. Very

Bug#449213: more info

2007-11-03 Thread Paul E Condon
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Bug#447633: gv: centered page printing doesn't work for pdf file

2007-10-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:58:00AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071022 19:49]: A pdf that I got from the web (and that you can have for testing, if desired) prints all pages in lower left corner of page. If the pdf is converted to .ps, it can

Bug#447633: gv: centered page printing doesn't work for pdf file

2007-10-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:11:57PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071023 18:23]: To make the .ps version, that I refer to in my bug report, I used the 'print to file' facility in xpdf. To make sure that it is a problem in gs-* and not in gv, you could

Bug#447633: gv: centered page printing doesn't work for pdf file

2007-10-22 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: gv Version: 1:3.6.2-3 Severity: normal A pdf that I got from the web (and that you can have for testing, if desired) prints all pages in lower left corner of page. If the pdf is converted to .ps, it can be printed with text blocks centered without difficulty. I rate this somewhere

Bug#418567: close

2007-04-13 Thread Paul E Condon
My problem was a serious lack of understanding of features that are new-to-me in anacron. Please close this bug report. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#418567: extra clue as to source of problem

2007-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
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Bug#418567: crond: cron.daily run at wrong time

2007-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: crond Version: cron Severity: normal crontab is configured to start run of cron.daily at 0625 (which is the Debian default) but it is actually started at 0725 local time. I think this may have something to do with local day-light saving in USA. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#404527: jhead: typo in error message for option -ts

2006-12-25 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: jhead Version: 2.60-3 Severity: normal I attempted the following command: jhead -ts 2002:07:25-21:56:56 20020725_215656fm.jp and got the following error message: Error : -ts option must be followed by time in format \ :mmm:dd-hh:mm:ss Example: jhead -ts2001:01:01-12:00:00 foo.jpg

Bug#354495: samba: One word correction to comments header of smb.conf

2006-02-26 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: samba Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 Severity: minor Tags: patch --- smb.conf.old2006-02-26 13:38:03.628087530 -0700 +++ smb.conf2006-02-26 13:38:37.936791574 -0700 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command -#

Bug#340797: hal: fuji camera causes hung linux, can only clear by reboot

2005-11-25 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: hal Version: 0.4.7-3sarge1 Severity: wishlist The fujifinepix a345 can be connected OK, but sometimes when I disconnect, it causes a bad condition wherein /dev/sda continues to exist and only /dev/sda1 is gone. I have not found any way to clear this condition except to reboot. I would

Bug#298259: base: Suggest improvement to man pages for resolv.conf and hosts

2005-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
Package: base Severity: normal I have just noticed a problem with the man pages for hosts and resolv.conf: /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, and /etc/resolve.conf are all important in name resolution. All have their own man pages, which is good. But only the man page for /etc/host.conf mentions the

Bug#290177: hot sync doesn't work when jpilot launched from Debian menu

2005-02-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:05:10AM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: Le Friday 14 January 2005 ? 09:46:41, Paul E Condon a ?crit: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:27:22PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: Le Wednesday 12 January 2005 ? 15:20:58, Paul E Condon a ?crit: -- debconf information

Bug#290177: hot sync doesn't work when jpilot launched from Debian menu

2005-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:27:22PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: Le Wednesday 12 January 2005 ? 15:20:58, Paul E Condon a ?crit: -- debconf information: ...snip... I don't know how the USB port is attributed. If you think it is USB1 you can change the jpilot configuration. It is in File