Bug#1034787: reportbug: -k -> Invalid bug report message: No pseudoheaders found.

2023-04-24 Thread Ross Boylan
) instead. Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Ross Boylan ' as your from address. Getting status for libmariadb3... Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release). Maintainer for libmariadb3 is 'Debian MySQL Maintainers '. Rewriting subject

Bug#1032220: multipath-tools: reports job failed on upgrade

2023-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.8.5-2+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org, t...@security.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Running on Debian 11.6 and applying the latest security update results in some reported failures. It is

Bug#1025138: Acknowledgement (mariadb-server-10.5: editing config files has no apparent effect on bind-address)

2022-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
More diagnostics and a working work-around. One more item from the logs that went with my previous attempts: Nov 29 15:48:26 barley /etc/mysql/debian-start[109190]: /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: unknown variable 'bind_address=192.168.1.10' In my input there were spaces around the `=`, and so I don't

Bug#1025138: mariadb-server-10.5: editing config files has no apparent effect on bind-address

2022-11-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mariadb-server-10.5 Version: 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is actually a pretty severe impact on usability for me, since I can't contact the server from other machines. Since I think

Bug#409272: nfsmount: incompatible with nfsv4--workaround fails

2022-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: klibc-utils Version: 2.0.8-6.1 Followup-For: Bug #409272 X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Earlier in this bug, Trent Buck suggested an initramfs hook zz-nfs4 to work around the problem. I tried it, but I still can't get an NFS

Bug#1023834: shared-mime-info: update-mime-database takes 30-40 minutes to run

2022-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: shared-mime-info Version: 2.0-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Steps to Reproduce == 1. btrfs on top of encrypted partition on a spinning disk. btrfs subvolumes in use. 2.

Bug#1019947: tortoisehg: thg fails on session restore: -s not recognized

2022-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tortoisehg Version: 5.6.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 thg threw the error shown in the attachment and asked me to report it upstream. This happened when logging into KDE after a system restart. When I

Bug#1016970: resolvconf: update README to reflect current bind9

2022-08-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: resolvconf Version: 1.87 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is about section 3.5 (bind9) of the README and the resolvconf-update-bind script it references. The current documentation (including v1.91, which I

Bug#1016943: bind9: /etc/default/named undocumented, esp RESOLVCONF

2022-08-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.16.27-1~deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This issue is about missing documentation. As far as I can tell, the existence and function of /etc/default/named is undocumented in the man

Bug#1015731: plocate database gaps after upgrade from mlocate

2022-07-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I had read the man page, but none of my key partitions is mounted with a bind option, and so the bind mount exclusion did not seem to apply. Could you add a warning, like "btrfs may accomplish a subvolume mount with a bind mount even if you do not explicitly request it." Also, it would be nice

Bug#1015731: plocate database gaps after upgrade from mlocate

2022-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Update on other failed solution: On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 5:46 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > > Maybe if I added some of these duplicates, e.g., /root/btr02/root, to > the prunepaths list it would let the remaining one to be indexed? No. I added "/root/btr02/root /root/btr02/u

Bug#1015731: plocate database gaps after upgrade from mlocate

2022-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your quick response. On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 2:46 PM Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > . > > > 2. Delete /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db. But perhaps at least an empty file > > with > > the right permissions is required? Then rerun updatedb. > > Yes, you should just rm

Bug#1015731: plocate database gaps after upgrade from mlocate

2022-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: plocate Version: 1.1.8-2+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 ORIGINAL PROBLEM I was using mlocate 0.26-5, but it was missing files on btrfs partitions.

Bug#1013463: dmsetup create --table doesn't seem to work

2022-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dmsetup Version: 2:1.02.175-2.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 **Problem** Some of the docs indicate --table can take a filename as an argument. It didn't work for me, even though sending the contents of the

Bug#1013252: FTBS: source package format '3.0 (gitarchive)' is not supported

2022-06-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.03.11-2.1 Severity: normal Tags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org ** Summary ** The source package does not declare a build dependency on dpkg-source- gitarchive and so fails to build in stable. Probably it should declare such a dependency, because it

Bug#1013188: packagesearch: doesn't seem to search descriptions

2022-06-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 2.7.11+b2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 packagesearch says it is searching the descriptions, but it doesn't seem to. **To Reproduce** 1. Start packagesearch in the GUI (KDE for me) 2.

Bug#669704: autopsy: package upstream now 4.19, sort of linux ready, moved

2022-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: autopsy Version: 2.24-5 Followup-For: Bug #669704 X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The current version is 4.19, and has a new home, https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy. There is a downloadable version for Linux at

Bug#1000176: bacula-director-pgsql: setup suggests no password and then rejects it

2022-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 1:01 AM Paul Gevers wrote: > > Hi Ross, > > On 15-06-2022 23:46, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On rereading, I notice an additional ambiguity. I believe I read > > "postgres account with which this package should perform > > administrative a

Bug#1012649: Acknowledgement (software-properties-common: add-apt-repository fails: no valid OpenPGP data (with diagnosis and solution))

2022-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
ebian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 22af59f..c3a2736 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +software-properties (0.96.20.2-2.1rb1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Use exported key when adding to approved keys (Closes: #1012649). + + -- Ross Boylan Tue, 14

Bug#1012873: qnetstatview: crashes every time on startup

2022-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qnetstatview Version: 1.5.6-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 If it behaves this way for everyone, severity should be higher because the package is completely unusable. I am unable to launch the program

Bug#1012872: software-properties-common: add-apt-repository man page appears garbled, confusing and incomplete

2022-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.96.20.2-2.1rb1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 **Garbled** The REPOSITORY STRING section of the man page refers to 3 forms. Usually I would expect a "form" to be a

Bug#1000174: 1000174: bacula-director-pgsql: setup fails with "Unrecognized role option"

2022-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Exactly what is the "long standing and nasty problem"? If my theory about ' being a problem is right (and I did get past this problem when I omitted it), a stop gap would be to tell people not to use that character in their password. It does seem odd that the \' isn't working to quote it. Ross

Bug#1000176: bacula-director-pgsql: setup suggests no password and then rejects it

2022-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your response. It's not clear to me what more information you want; you seem to be following what I did pretty well. On rereading, I notice an additional ambiguity. I believe I read "postgres account with which this package should perform administrative actions." as meaning the sql

Bug#1012833: software-properties-common: links to VCS on tracker.debian.org broken

2022-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.96.20.2-2.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 **Problem** https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/software-properties has links to VCS on the upper left box. They resolve to

Bug#1012499: tortoisehg: Missing iniparse parser without which you can't edit settings

2022-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tortoisehg Version: 5.6.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #1012499 X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can confirm this problem also exists in stable; manually installing python3-iniparse cures the problem in stable also. I believe the root

Bug#1012649: software-properties-common: add-apt-repository fails: no valid OpenPGP data (with diagnosis and solution)

2022-06-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.96.20.2-2.1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is a bit involved; it took several days of debugging to get to the bottom of it. After discussing severity I'll

Bug#1000176: bacula-director-pgsql: setup suggests no password and then rejects it

2021-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 9.4.2-2+deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? My 2nd attempt to install bacula after initial failure of Bug#1000174. Because of that, configuration asks lower-priority questions. I requested password based

Bug#1000174: bacula-director-pgsql: setup fails with "Unrecognized role option"

2021-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 9.4.2-2+deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I left the severity at normal because I suspect there is an easy work-around; the problem actually leaves the package uninstalled or at least not operable, and so it might be considered more serious. *

Bug#991798: closed by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (Re: Bug#991798: Acknowledgement (qtcreator: No suitable kits found) [worked around])

2021-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
ot necessarily have to be used > to code Qt stuff, in fact I use it for coding microcontrollers. So no, > it will not "work out the box" in the way you expected. > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:42:07 -0700 Ross Boylan > wrote: > > I seem to have got things working on b

Bug#991798: Acknowledgement (qtcreator: No suitable kits found) [worked around]

2021-08-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I seem to have got things working on bullseye. I'm not sure how many of the following steps are essential, except the last one! Also, though this may solve my immediate problem, the issue that qtcreator doesn't work "out of the box" remains. If something about the interrelations between packages

Bug#991798: qtcreator: No suitable kits found

2021-08-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qtcreator Version: 4.14.1-1 Severity: important Justification: Unable to use package Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Install qtcreator and launch it. File | New File or Project Application (Qt Quick) | Qt Quick Application - Scroll Hit choose Enter

Bug#991796: packagesearch: excessive line separation in package list

2021-08-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 2.7.11+b2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The baseline separation between rows in the package list for packagesearch in bullseye seems excessive. Although I've tagged this as minor, it affects the usability of the tool because it reduces the number of packages

Bug#989182: apt-listbugs fails to detect a fix an unpin

2021-05-30 Thread Ross Boylan
I checked all proposed solutions in aptitude. I think the reason exim4-daemon-heavy wasn't proposed was that I didn't have the exim4 binary (meta) package, which lists both daemons as dependents. exim4-base just has a breaks: versioned dependency on both daemons, but nothing to pull them in.

Bug#989182: apt-listbugs fails to detect a fix an unpin

2021-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.35 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Early this month apt-listbugs reported a significant error in newer versions of exim4, bug 988086. I told it to hold the upgrade. This pinned exim4-daemon-light, but upgraded a

Bug#987839: apt-listbugs: daily cleanup runs hourly

2021-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
This bug is still tagged "need more info". Is there anything more you need? Also, I submitted a bug against logcheck to add additional patterns: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988389. I think these would cover apt-listbugs as well as other packages. I've made similar changes

Bug#856273: vim: Presence/absence of a personal vimrc -> big behavior changes

2021-05-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim Version: 2:8.1.0875-5 Followup-For: Bug #856273 Since I just spent several hours tracking down a vimrc-related problem, I thought I'd add a couple of comments. Short Version: It would be good if there were a README.Debian, and it would be good if it noted that a personal vimrc will

Bug#988471: logcheck-database: README.logcheck-database.gz misleading/erroneous

2021-05-13 Thread Ross Boylan
temd would be a good choice, but then I noticed the apparent claim above that these would only filter out stuff from, e.g., violations.d/systemd. Ross Boylan * In this situation the alarm can be overruled by a violations.ignore rulefile named "fooserver" which filters "none

Bug#988391: reportbug: X-Debbugs-CC problems

2021-05-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: reportbug Version: 7.10.3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? ross@debtest:~$ reportbug logcheck-database -H 'X-Debbugs-CC: 987...@bugs.debian.org' *** Warning: Your ~/.reportbugrc is setting an

Bug#988389: logcheck-database: systemd ignore patterns miss some cases

2021-05-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.3.23 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Running logcheck on testing/bullseye with reportlevel workstation it reports various messages that would be screened out except that the package name includes a "-". Here's a sample of some of the lines

Bug#987839: apt-listbugs: daily cleanup runs hourly

2021-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
A couple comments below. On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:24 PM Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sun, 2 May 2021 14:11:59 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > > [...] > > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:08 AM Francesco Poli > > wrote: > [...] > > > I wonder why logcheck does

Bug#987839: apt-listbugs: daily cleanup runs hourly

2021-05-02 Thread Ross Boylan
See below. On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:08 AM Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sat, 1 May 2021 11:31:19 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > > [...] > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 2:47 PM Francesco Poli > > wrote: > [...] > > > Does logcheck send e-mail messages for all the othe

Bug#987839: apt-listbugs: daily cleanup runs hourly

2021-05-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the quick response. Answers interspersed below. On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 2:47 PM Francesco Poli wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:46:04 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > > [...] > > Dear Maintainer, > > Hello R

Bug#987839: apt-listbugs: daily cleanup runs hourly

2021-04-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.35 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, It would be nice to clean up this minor annoyance before buster's release. * What led up to the situation? Installed apt-listbugs and logcheck on a debian testing system.

Bug#974109: initramfs-tools: dhcp integration for nfs root

2020-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.133+deb10u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? PXE booting a system with NFS root using isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa, most of the options passed by the dhcp server to the

Bug#974106: initramfs-tools: No hostname for nfs root

2020-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.133+deb10u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? PXE booting a system with NFS root using isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa, the initrd environment does not know the hostname and

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-08-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Removing systemd-timesyncd from chrony's Conflicts directive worked. Some comments and details below, with more in the attached log. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:44 PM Vincent Blut wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:18:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > >Here are some tests I wasn't

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:25 PM Vincent Blut wrote: > I seriously doubt that the issue you’re facing is due to /usr being not > yet mounted. But we will know more when you’ll find time to test what I > asked at the beginning of the thread. > I think I just sent those results (in a message

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Here are some tests I wasn't able to get to earlier. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM Vincent Blut wrote: . > > Nevertheless, I would like you to test some things. > To begin with, I have an updated chrony unit file in a private git > branch targeting a future revision (not the next one)

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 3:03 AM Vincent Blut wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 05:35:52PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > >[Ross] > >> >I've run into other problems with services starting before all > >> >filesystems were mounted; I wonder if that's an issue here

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
[Ross] > >I've run into other problems with services starting before all > >filesystems were mounted; I wonder if that's an issue here (not on the > >machine right now). > >i.e., /usr isn't mounted when timesync first checks for chrony, and so > >it thinks things are OK. > [Vincent] > I don’t

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:57 PM Vincent Blut wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:05:23AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > >See below. > > > >On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM Vincent Blut wrote: > > > >> Hello Ross, > >> > >> On

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
See below. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM Vincent Blut wrote: > Hello Ross, > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:13:16PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > >It looks as if systemd-timesyncd is creating a stop job for chrony > >even though the former includes > > W

Bug#933370: chrony won't start

2019-07-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: chrony Version: 3.4-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, There's a good chance this is the same problem as bug 826695, but since I don't know that, and this is on buster, I'm making this a separate report. May warrant higher severity since it means the program doesn't run by default.

Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind

2019-07-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I think I fixed the problem. I added the RequiresMountsFor=/var to resolvconf, deleted everything below /var on the root partition, and changed /etc/resolvconf/update.d/bind9 to use /run/named instead of /var/run/named (the actual reference in named.conf.options already used /run without the /var

Bug#933139: Fwd: Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind

2019-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
And for the bug report: -- Forwarded message - From: Ross Boylan Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind To: Bernhard Schmidt On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:36 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2

Bug#933139: Fwd: Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind

2019-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops, forgot to cc the bug. -- Forwarded message - From: Ross Boylan Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind To: Bernhard Schmidt Cc: Ross Boylan Thank you for your response. Answers interpolated below

Bug#930030: several errors on vim startup

2019-07-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.4+pristine-9.3 Followup-For: Bug #930030 Same problem here, also while opening an existing .otl file: Error detected while processing /var/lib/vim/addons/ftplugin/vo_base.vim: line 668: E121: Undefined variable: g:vo_modules_load line 669: E121: Undefined

Bug#933139: bind9 fails on startup: can't find /var/cache/bind

2019-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Severity is import for me, but obviously this isn't happening to everyone. Every time I start bind9 fails, and all the other startup services that require working DNS end up in various semi-broken states. I can fix

Bug#929907: implications for libgnutls-openssl27?

2019-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
See below. On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 9:42 PM Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2019-06-15 Ross Boylan wrote: > > I've been following this bug because it came up as an issue for a > > security upgrade to libgnutls-openssl27 in buster. I'm still seeing > > 3.6.7-3 as the upgrad

Bug#929907: implications for libgnutls-openssl27?

2019-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been following this bug because it came up as an issue for a security upgrade to libgnutls-openssl27 in buster. I'm still seeing 3.6.7-3 as the upgrade target. Will an openssl27 variant be coming? Or perhaps this problem never applied to -openssl27 and apt-listbugs just got over-eager? I

Bug#920664: unable to decrypt drive from grub after alpha4 setup)

2019-02-04 Thread Ross Boylan
ard kernel. But if the initrd doesn't have all the modules it needs, that might explain the problem. Ross On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 5:24 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 22:56 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I am able to decrypt the partition outside of a VM without the rescue >

Bug#920664: unable to decrypt drive from grub after alpha4 setup)

2019-02-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I am able to decrypt the partition outside of a VM without the rescue "CD". Since I can also decrypt using the installer CD as rescue, this means the failure is specific to booting via grub and initrd. This seems to indicate the installer created the encrypted partition properly but the boot

Bug#920664: installation-reports: unable to decrypt drive from grub after alpha4 setup

2019-01-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal [email not working from system. This is cut and pasted from reportbug] Dear Maintainer, Since the system is unbootable, this may warrant higher severity. After a seemingly successful installation the system would not start because the pass phrase

Bug#860779: smbclient: installation of smbclient appears to install and run samba server

2017-04-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: smbclient Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5 Severity: normal I do not think that installing client software should, without much notice, install and activate the associated server. But that seems to be what happens with smbclient. Among other things, this seems an unnecessary security

Bug#839188: pdftk: NullPointerException for combining forms

2016-09-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: pdftk Version: 2.02-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I created some pdf's with OpenTax, which fills in pdf's for US taxes. Those pdf's have forms in them so they can be filled out. It's possible that OpenTax added additional annotations to

Bug#826252: virtualbox: VM hangs when switching to graphical mode, locking up the VirtualBox GUI for all VMs

2016-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: virtualbox Version: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, Thank you for making VirtualBox available for Debian. * What led up to the situation? My host and guest are both running Debian. After some recent updates

Bug#781283: libvirt-bin: Permission denied with 9p file system

2015-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
. This include root on guest being root on host, though I can see there might be reasons to avoid this. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture

Bug#766403: cyrus-common: Restarting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmasterfind: `/run/cyrus/lock': No such file or directory

2014-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common Version: 2.4.16-4+deb7u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Before installation of cyrus I created a filesystem on a device, mkdir /var/spool/cyrus, and then mounted the device on that mount point. Installed cyrus. Terminal shows: Setting

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
, jessie. See, e.g., the 2nd page. Unless I've got some cache problems (I think I did look at the jessie guide, though I don't think it was the pdf version), this is likely a problem with the website or build process, not the manual itself. Ross Boylan Currently running on an old system

Bug#763008: installation-reports: wheezy installer (partman?) wants to write to lots of swap partition

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
seem to recognize their full size. The bios reports the older 2TB drives as 2TB. Ross Boylan -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have

Bug#754430: redshift: clarify package purpose and use

2014-07-10 Thread Ross Boylan
and/or /etc/init.d/ scripts would be useful. 4. The man page should describe the files that provide configuration and their priority. This would alleviate some of the uncertainty in 2. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy

Bug#728836: evolution: imapx messages vanish may not be fixed upstream

2014-04-13 Thread Ross Boylan
unintentionally selected display of unread messages only. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Bug#743552: swi-prolog: package 7.x

2014-04-03 Thread Ross Boylan
is still having releases. The 7.x release was somewhat controversial; I think it has some significant new features but also significant departures from the standard. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500

Bug#739362: skanlite can't find scanner in sux session

2014-02-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: skanlite Version: 0.8-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Opened a Konsole and did sux to another account. Typed skanlite on the terminal. The application launched and, after a brief pause, reported it could not find any scanners. * What exactly

Bug#732334: reportbug: after viewing configuration file there is no way to proceed

2014-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 21:37 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hello, this report is rather confusing and lack a lot of precise details to investigate it further. I suspect you were running reportbug against another package (by either typing reportbug pkg on the command-line or entering the package

Bug#732334: reportbug: after viewing configuration file there is no way to proceed

2013-12-16 Thread Ross Boylan
and restarted the report. * What was the outcome of this action? Quit caused a quit. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected that after viewing the file contents I could return to the previous menu. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE=gtk2

Bug#732335: dosemu: dosmu crash

2013-12-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dosemu Version: 1.4.0+svn.2080-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I was running Managing Your Money (MYM), a DOS application, under xdosemu (in a separate window). I requested a report; dosemu crashed as MYM was generating the report. MYM is full

Bug#694721: gimp: Gimp help not working

2013-12-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gimp Version: 2.8.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #694721 Dear Maintainer, Even after installing gimp-help-en I am unable to get any help in gimp, local or remote. This seems more than a trivial problem, though perhaps it was triggered by the exact sequence of my actions. * What led up to the

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-10-10 Thread Ross Boylan
the postgres install worked, as has everything else. I didn't realize the kernels were at all aware of being a kvm guest; your diagnosis looks exactly correct. Since the problem with the kernel is fixed, I think it's OK to close this bug. Thanks for your help. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your response. On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:27:16PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: 28.09.2013 06:18, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: important [] The first time I booted of a virtual CD with the Lenny installer.[] The second time I started

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-09-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have just started using kvm on this system, and twice in the last couple of days the VM (though not the qemu console) became unresponsive and use of the host CPU maxed out. The first time useage was consistent with 2

Bug#724714: qemu-kvm: document network setup

2013-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: wishlist Although this is wishlist, it would make a big difference in the useablity of the package for non-gurus like myself. It would be very helpful if README.Debian, or perhaps customized man page or documentation, explained how to setup

Bug#724714: Acknowledgement (qemu-kvm: document network setup)

2013-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
For the record, I copied this from https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU#Host_and_guests_on_same_network into my interfaces file: auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp pre-up ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap user root pre-up ip link set tap0 up bridge_ports all tap0 bridge_stp off bridge_maxwait 0

Bug#721530: evolution: corrupt message list

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: important Forwarded-To: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707235 I have upped the severity because this is effectively a loss of data. However, something unusual must be required to trigger it because I've used this version of evolution for

Bug#721535: evolution: Please don't ask submitter to report bug upstream

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Your reportbug template asks that bugs be submitted directly upstream on the grounds of being understaffed. There are a number of problems with that; I'm filing this bug because upstream is not supporting the version in

Bug#721530: evolution: corrupt message list

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried stopping evolution (and later --force-shutdown, but it said nothing was running) and deleting ross@tempserver:~/.local/share/evolution/mail/13755x.1xxx.24@tempserver$ ls -l total 1120 -rw-r--r-- 1 ross ross 1129472 Sep 1 14:45 folders.db -rw-r--r-- 1 ross ross 13 Sep 1 14:45

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's a recipe for creating the problem. It is not completely deterministic, but it seems to do it about half the time. This at least suggests the failure may be partly skanlite specific, though it may be in interaction with other systems. 1. Preview a document after enabling automatic

Bug#720721: skanlite scan interrupted makes scanner inaccessible

2013-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's a simpler recipe. 1. Check disable automatic selections. 2. Preview document. 3. Select the active document area (not sure if this is necessary). 4. click scan. 5. While the progress bar is intermediate and scanner is physically scanning, hit the red button next to the progress bar but

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: skanlite Version: 0.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After a brief period in which it worked, skanlite is no longer able to access my scanner. Since this makes it completely unusable for me, I have raised the severity. * What led up to the situation? Installed skanlite.

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I installed xsane; it can not locate a scanner either. It seems likely the ultimate cause is in some lower-level component. Please reassign as appropriate. I have disks connected via a usb interface. While that may contribute to the problem, it also means that I can't just disable the

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I disconnected the USB cable and reconnected it. skanlite is working again. I waited several minutes between scans, leaving the program running, and it still worked. I also got red boxes on my preview again; apparently it automatically tries to identify interesting regions. It wasn't close, and

Bug#718646: kde-runtime: knotify4 using over 2G

2013-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kde-runtime Version: 4:4.8.4-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have been logged in to KDE for 59 days. knotify4 has been steadily taking up more memory over time. I have done aptitude updates during this time. * What exactly

Bug#714878: iceweasel: how to use java (obsolete README.Debian)

2013-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: iceweasel Version: 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, README.Debian has instructions for installing java that do not apply to the current version. None of the packages referred to are even present in wheezy. It would be very helpful to have a discussion of what to do

Bug#714560: kmail loses place in message list

2013-06-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, kmail's message list for a large folder keeps returning to the same message, even though I have selected a different message. * What led up to the situation? Accessing a remote IMAP folder with ~65,000 unread

Bug#710837: prolog-el: emacs warnings on installation

2013-06-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: prolog-el Version: 1.23-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I don't know if the warnings indicate any actual problems for using the package, but here's a report just in case. I haven't tried to use prolog in emacs--nor

Bug#710287: kvpm: bad handling of bad partition table

2013-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kvpm Version: 0.8.6-2+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have a disk that apparently has a slightly corrupted GPT layout; the backup partition is not exactly at the end. Possibly this is a result of having been formatted with an earlier

Bug#708086: korganizer: import ics fails with unescapable loop

2013-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Fresh install, but copied .kde/share/apps/korganizer from the KDE 3 directory used by the earlier version of Korganizer. Started korganizer for first time and tried to import

Bug#707910: qemu-kvm: README.Debian obsolete material

2013-05-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.Debian.gz says, near the end, Miscellaneous ~ The recommended qemu package contains the script /usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root, which uses debootstrap to build a Debian disk image. The reference

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sunday, May 05, 2013 02:17:43 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal From the top menu selecting message shows a list of commands including

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Monday, May 06, 2013 10:00:12 AM Kevin Krammer wrote: On Monday, 2013-05-06, Ross Boylan wrote: Are you saying it's a KDE standard to always use capital letters? That's quite confusing to me, since lower and upper case letters often do different things--in fact they do different things

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