Bug#641773: Doing 'man file', with output to file, shows error: 'Usage: .Ek (does not take arguments) (#20)'

2011-09-15 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: file Version: 5.04-5 Severity: minor Line 20 of the file '/usr/share/man/man1/file.1.gz', when uncompressed, is: .Ek -words All other man1 pages (searched [a-z]*) have just '.Ek'. (The period in both versions is in column 1.) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#605751: apt autoremove (still) tries to remove essential packages

2010-12-02 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: apt Version: 0.8.8 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Bug 598452 fixes a problem like mine, but with that present, apt is trying to remove grub-pc and others that I'm sure I need. I've marked ones I think I still need with a '*' prefix in the apt-get autoremove

Bug#566501: switching virtual consoles during boot or when using setupcon/

2010-09-11 Thread Paul Higgins
/consolechars' is also used by /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh (package: console-tools) which might explain the behavior in bug #566501. I found it is also used by '/usr/bin/charset' and '/usr/bin/unicode_start' (also package: console-tools). Hope this helps Paul Higgins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#543304: /usr/bin/X: Options -showDefaultModulePath and -showDefaultLibPath return extraneous text

2009-08-23 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+19 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/X I was installing an updated video driver on my system. (Nvidia's: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.20-pkg1.run) It complained about not being able to retrieve the module and lib paths for the installed configuration.

Bug#503694: problems again today

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Higgins
I tried twice - same result both times. Info#5-503694.txt Description: Binary data

Bug#503694: Problems again today - five different out of sync mirrors.

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Higgins
I can't tell, as I neglected to save the complete version of stdout... It worked on the second try today. The first try got the following error message without Err on any lines: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/PackagesIndex MD5Sum mismatch

Bug#503694: Problems again today - five different out of sync mirrors.

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Higgins
villa.debian.org. ftp-chi.osuosl.org. ftp-atl.osuosl.org. lobos.debian.org. rocky-mountain.csail.mit.edu. See attached file... Info#3-503694.txt Description: Binary data

Bug#503694: Requested information

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Higgins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get update Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org

Bug#503694: Another failure - different mirrors....

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Higgins
Info#2-503694.txt Description: Binary data

Bug#503694: upgrade-reports: apt-get update gets frequent Hash sum mismatches

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: important 9 times out ten in the last few weeks, when I do the apt-get update, prior to upgrading, I get messages such as the following: -- W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.bz2

Bug#501865: Missing dependancy - fontconfig.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.6.0-1 Severity: normal debuian-bug-report -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)

Bug#501866: Missing dependancy - libpango1.0-common.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: libpango1.0-common Version: 1.20.5-2 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each

Bug#501868: libpng12-0: I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007.

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: libpng12-0 Version: 1.2.27-2 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#501872: Missing dependancy - libtiff4.prerm (now libtif-doc.prerm?) uses install-docs in pkg doc-base

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: libtiff4 Version: 3.8.2-11 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#501871: Missing dependancy - libwmf0.2-7.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: libwmf0.2-7 Version: 0.2.8.4-6 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#501873: Missing dependancy - base-passwd.postinst uses install-docs in pkg doc-base

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.19 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#501874: Missing dependancy - cupsys.prerm uses install-docs in pkg doc-base

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: cupsys Version: 1.3.8-1lenny1 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#501875: Missing dependancy - shared-mime-info.prerm uses install-docs in pkg doc-base

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: shared-mime-info Version: 0.30-2 Severity: normal I dusted off a system that hasn't been upgraded since Oct of 2007. Upgrading it required a big leap in package versions. The upgrade of perl, perl-base, and perl-modules caused several problems. (I'm filing this report for each package

Bug#494477: Additional info on failure...

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Higgins
I've upgraded three systems to use 2.6.26 kernels. (2.6.26-5 or 2.6.25-6) and see this problem on all of them. (One has a P2, another a P3, and the last a P4 CPU.) Booting an old 2.6.25-5 kernel from grub makes the problem go away. The insert key is a mode.. On odd presses it disables the

Bug#470115: apt-get dist-upgrade tries to remove 60+ packages (including apt)

2008-03-15 Thread Paul Higgins
This updated apt from 0.7.6 to 0.7.11, but the problem was the same when I tried the apt-get -u dist-upgrade again. Thanks Paul Higgins -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ; APT::Architecture i386; APT::Build-Essential ; APT::Build-Essential:: build-essential; APT::Install

Bug#425590: doc-base: Error In upgrade: 'Index' value missing for format info

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: doc-base Version: 0.8.4 Severity: normal apt-get update produced the following message: Setting up doc-base (0.8.4) ... Registering 55 installed documents Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/ispell-manual', line 16: `Index' value missing for format info (Previous version was 0.8.3)

Bug#418804: procps: example for enabling ip_forward in sysctl.conf seems to be incorrect

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-3 Severity: normal The file shows: # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 #net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1 which didn't work on my system. Instead I found the following works: net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 -- System

Bug#418811: samba-common: man page for smb.conf still has unicode(?) problems

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Higgins
Package: samba-common Version: 3.0.24-6 Severity: minor Bug 266230 (supposedly fixed) reports problems with the man page for smb.conf. When I do man smb.conf, the listing shows artifacts, such as: Any line ending in a #8220;#8221; is continued on the next line in the customary UNIX