Bug#507851: reportbug: please allow replying to an item in a thread easier

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: reportbug Version: 3.47 Severity: normal When looking at an email in a thread, and I want to reply to that particular email (rather than the thread in general), I find I have to press b to invoke the browser, manually find the mbox file, manually save it, manually open it in the mailer,

Bug#507688: pdnsd: interval=ontimeout behaviour

2008-12-03 Thread Tim Connors
Package: pdnsd Version: 1.2.6-par-11 Severity: normal The manpage implies that with interval=ontimeout, once a server times out, it is disabled. What would be ideal is that once all servers were disabled, pdnsd would automatically start from a state of having them all enabled again, just to

Bug#506820: openoffice.org: old profiles cause problems in heterogeneous environments

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote: [ Hmm, WTF did this not arrive on -openoffice so I just right now see it by chance? ] Hi, Tim Connors wrote: In running debian sid's openoffice for the first time, it always insisted on popping up errors about: Error when loading BASIC

Bug#405285: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:50:28PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64 Version: 2.6.18-8 Severity: important Upon installing either of the sarge 2.6.8 or sid 2.6.18 kernels on my Sun Ultra10 with a Creator 3D

Bug#507224: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: oops in autofs4

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Connors
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.26-10 Severity: normal I got an oops when autofs4 tried to mount a directory that it had mounted successfully many times previously. It may be the same race condition reported here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/3/76 , although at least one of those

Bug#471121: xli: resource leaks leads to denial of service of X

2008-11-27 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:41:36PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: Hello, I believe I have fixed this bug, but I want you to test before I get it uploaded to Debian. Could you please test with the package

Bug#471121: xli: resource leaks leads to denial of service of X

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: Hello, I believe I have fixed this bug, but I want you to test before I get it uploaded to Debian. Could you please test with the package here? http://alioth.debian.org/~ryan52-guest/xli_1.17.0+20061110-3_i386.deb download that file, and run dpkg -i

Bug#374644: xine-ui: xine causes left ctrl keyup events every 20 seconds

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Connors
merge 506001 374644 thanks On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Tim Connors wrote: If I use xine to view a DVB stream or any video files (but not when it is not actively playing anything), then every 20 seconds, if I have the left control key (but not right ctrl key) down at that point in time

Bug#500330: totem-xine: when totem plays video, the oowriter menu keeps comming down

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Connors
presses fake keypresses every 20-30 seconds. See also bugs 506001, 374644 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595976 -- Tim Connors | Anglo-Australian Observatory http://site.aao.gov.au/twc | Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia | Tel: +61 2

Bug#506001: xine-ui: xine causes left ctrl keyup events every 20 seconds

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Connors
xine presses and releases the control key for me, and then a series of gs come out into my xterm. -- Tim Connors | Anglo-Australian Observatory http://site.aao.gov.au/twc | Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia | Tel: +61 2 6842 6286

Bug#506817: openoffice.org: do not invoke menu option on lone alt keypress

2008-11-24 Thread Tim Connors
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:2.4.1-12 Severity: normal Reported upstream: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80604 openoffice takes a single alt keypress to focus the menu bar. This is pointless, because each of the menu options have accelerators that can be invoked with

Bug#390984: state of #390984

2008-11-23 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Hello Tim! Can you reproduce this in apt 0.7.18? If yes, does running 'apt-get update' fix it? It's not still happening on those specific packages (already updated to latest sid). I wonder if there is any chance it might have been trying to

Bug#471121: (no subject)

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: tag 471121 moreinfo tag 471121 unreproducible thanks Hello, I cannot reproduce this bug on either of my Debian Sid systems. There may have been a change in X that makes this bug not noticable since this bug was reported, so I will try with an Etch

Bug#325689: xloadimage denial of service

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Connors
severity 325689 grave thanks (There are insufficient guidelines as to whether I can mark this critical or not - I believe it should be because it does break unrelated software on the system, in that if you run xloadimage multiple times in an X session, you break X and any clients that want to run

Bug#471121: (no subject)

2008-11-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Tim Connors wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: tag 471121 moreinfo tag 471121 unreproducible thanks Hello, I cannot reproduce this bug on either of my Debian Sid systems. There may have been a change in X that makes this bug not noticable since

Bug#505963: emacs22: sdfs

2008-11-17 Thread Tim Connors
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.2+2-5 Severity: important In a buffer with UTF-8 (Finnish) characters, when I try to kill a section of text, I get the following assertion failure: emacs .followup Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x7f151b16197c] #1

Bug#506001: xine-ui: xine causes left ctrl keyup events every 20 seconds

2008-11-17 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2 Severity: normal If I use xine to view a DVB stream or any video files (but not when it is not actively playing anything), then every 20 seconds, if I have the left control key (but not right ctrl key) down at that point in time, then the ctrl key

Bug#325644: SSH_ASKPASS

2008-11-11 Thread Tim Connors
of keychain. -- Tim Connors | Anglo-Australian Observatory http://site.aao.gov.au/twc | Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia | Tel: +61 2 6842 6286 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#400207: beep in gbuffy

2008-11-02 Thread Tim Connors
Hi Adeodato, I'm still using 0.2.6-11 with my own set of patches, so please excuse me if you've already done this, but judging from the changelog for 0.2.6-13, it hasn't been done yet -- have you considered including the patch included with 400207 yet? Thanks. -- TimC GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

Bug#499823: no beep with snd-hda-intel

2008-10-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Tim Connors wrote: bug 499823 is the same as 460410. It has not been resolved yet, but it looks like they are finally working on it upstream after more than a year: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17a_v1.0.18rc1 I just tried to compile and load

Bug#460410: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#460410: no beep with snd-hda-intel

2008-10-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Tim Connors [081022 11:30 +0200] On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Tim Connors wrote: [...] If you decide to compile alsa 1.0.18rc3, you need to apply this patch to avoid oopses: http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg17103.html Thanks

Bug#460410: no beep with snd-hda-intel

2008-10-21 Thread Tim Connors
bug 499823 is the same as 460410. It has not been resolved yet, but it looks like they are finally working on it upstream after more than a year: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17a_v1.0.18rc1 I just tried to compile and load it, but it caused an oops (perhaps there was

Bug#501992: rsnapshot: new upstream version 1.3.1

2008-10-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: rsnapshot Version: 1.3.0-2 Severity: normal There is a new version at http://www.rsnapshot.org/downloads.html It includes taking a snapshot of an lvm snapshot, and is thus atomic. It needs a small patch that will make it shortly onto the mailing list (hopefully), as otherwise the

Bug#497888: [BackupPC-users] Bug#497888: backuppc: please make use of the rsync algorithm, particularly in resuming interrupted backups

2008-09-13 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Ludovic Drolez wrote on 2008-09-11 16:55:18 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug#497888: backuppc: please make use of the rsync algorithm, particularly in resuming interrupted backups]: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 05:09:19PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote

Bug#497888: backuppc: please make use of the rsync algorithm, particularly in resuming interrupted backups

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
Package: backuppc Version: 3.1.0-3 Severity: normal (I'm basing my conclusions of how backuppc communicates with the rsync server, based on my observations, so I might be misinterpreting things badly here) backuppc doesn't appear to make use of any of the smarts of the rsync algorithm, such that

Bug#497924: ekiga: hang when trying to access v4l2 uvcvideo camera

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
Package: ekiga Version: 2.0.12-1+nmu1 Severity: important There has been a recent regression in the package which I can't pin down, which has caused ekiga to hang upon trying to access the v4l2 capable uvcvideo device. It was working about a month or maybe 2, ago. Now, the echo test to [EMAIL

Bug#497924: ekiga: hang when trying to access v4l2 uvcvideo camera

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Just found out about the gdb thread apply all bt option. This is as of it being locked up and I ctrl-C it within gdb - I don't know whether I can obtain any useful backtrace as to why it's not opening a connection or displaying the video

Bug#491394: acpid causes CPUfreq to be limited to 800MHz - 800Mhz

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Brendan Sleight wrote: I now suspect the hardware to be at fault - insufficient power to run process at higher speeds rather then acpid My normal power supply connector is not operating and I have to power the laptop via a docking station. The cheap generic (non-dell)

Bug#491394: hardware?

2008-08-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:15:16 +0200, Marco Cogoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked on my thinkpad X31 and this does not happen, everything works as expected. I am using pure testing. so it should be some interaction with other packages. I have deliberately never installed anything from

Bug#487815: conffile

2008-08-09 Thread Tim Connors
It seems /etc/logrotate.d/acpid was marked as a conffile from a previous version, and no postrm script has dealt with it now that it is no longer in the package. And pkill (apart from being a dangerous thing to use IMHO -- should be using pidfiles such as through start-stop-daemon or

Bug#487815: conffile

2008-08-09 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Tim Connors wrote: It seems /etc/logrotate.d/acpid was marked as a conffile from a previous version, and no postrm script has dealt with it now that it is no longer in the package. And pkill (apart from being a dangerous thing to use IMHO -- should be using pidfiles

Bug#493980: aptitude: regression in http proxy handling in aptitude changelog

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Connors
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: normal There seems to have been a recent regression in http proxy handling for 'aptitude changelog'. I had set in apt.conf: Acquire::http::Proxy http://proxy:8081;; Acquire::http::Proxy::bugs.debian.org DIRECT; where http://proxy:8081 was an

Bug#494057: htop: If more CPUs selected than exist on current system, get strange bargraphs

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Connors
Package: htop Version: 0.7-1 Severity: normal If I want to select the display of individual CPUs in the header (see the next bug I am about to report), then run htop on another system with fewer displays (eg, create .htoprc on an 8 cpu system, then run htop on a 2 cpu system), then the extra CPUs

Bug#494060: htop: Feature Request: All CPUs display split across left/right

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Connors
Package: htop Version: 0.7-1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if there was an option with All CPUs that could let it split horizontally between the left and right displays (even CPUs on left, odd on right) in order to minimise wasted blank space in that area at the top. As it is, I define all

Bug#472006: slrn now nags user about too long reference header in reply to groups.google messages

2008-08-04 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Tim Connors wrote: Package: slrn Version: 0.9.9~pre97-1 Severity: normal I don't know whether this is a new feature, or one that has been exposed by a recent change at google, but slrn now nags with: Your message is not acceptable for the following reason(s

Bug#493193: wine: upstream fix for etax2008

2008-08-01 Thread Tim Connors
Package: wine Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: normal Upstream contains a fix for etax2008, which is best included soon so that Australian users can fill out their tax by October this year: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14260 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#492580: collectd: acpi thermal zone

2008-07-27 Thread Tim Connors
Package: collectd Version: 4.4.1-2 Severity: normal There appears to exist a patch upstream to log acpi thermal zone stuff that would be nice to include here: http://mailman.verplant.org/pipermail/collectd/2008-June/thread.html#1883 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#491457: bash-completion: trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Luk Claes wrote: tags 491457 +unreproducible thanks On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:37:55AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: Package: bash-completion Version: 20080705 I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest bash-completion, with: sudo apt-get

Bug#491526: xserver-xorg: Work around the DIX losing mmWidth/mmHeight for RandR 1.1 DDXen

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+14 Severity: normal There is a bug that affects the proprietry crap^Wnvidia driver that causes the DPI settings to be screwed when monitors are plugged/unplugged, which fortunately may actually be a bug in the xserver code rather than the unfixable nvidia

Bug#491393: gv Error: incompatible resources.

2008-07-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080719 07:35]: The last couple of gv changelog entries look suspicious, and if my ~/.gv file contains any entries whatsoever (no matter what they are), I get the following: gv year-Trange.eps gv Error

Bug#491457: bash-completion: trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash

2008-07-19 Thread Tim Connors
Package: bash-completion Version: 20080705 Severity: normal I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest bash-completion, with: sudo apt-get install bash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bash is already the

Bug#491394: acpid causes CPUfreq to be limited to 800MHz - 800Mhz

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Connors
Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Even with hal turned off and gnome-power and all that crap not being installed, I have up until recently had laptop-mode-tools as the sole controller of my laptop's power management. laptop_mode is of course

Bug#491393: gv Error: incompatible resources.

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Connors
Package: gv Version: 1:3.6.5-1 Severity: normal The last couple of gv changelog entries look suspicious, and if my ~/.gv file contains any entries whatsoever (no matter what they are), I get the following: gv year-Trange.eps gv Error: incompatible resources. One of the files

Bug#491392: coreutils: mention date %D considered harmful in manpage

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Connors
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal On one system I log into (alas, I can't find which one it was!), the date manpage mentions that date %D is considered bad because of internationalisation issues. America is the only country to use %m/%d/%y. Since American programmers seem to

Bug#488366: javac and others from sun-java5-jdk aren't in /etc/alternatives

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: tag 488366 + unreproducible thanks this works for me. I added a 'set -xv' to /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-jdk.postinst, then sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow sun-java5-jdk /tmp/sun-java5-jdk.out /tmp/sun-java5-jdk.out attached The

Bug#484594: linux-source-2.6.25: console output?

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Connors
Package: linux-source-2.6.25 Version: 2.6.25-6 Followup-For: Bug #484594 Sorry, I didn't seem to get the reply to this... Doesn't the BTS automatically respond to the submitter without a CC: needing to be set? On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:17:31PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: 2.6.25 is very slow

Bug#330069: please allow /etc/fstab to be ignored

2008-07-03 Thread Tim Connors
Not having a rescue disk handy (working in a remote location for the next week), I almost was very stuck -- having added data=writeback to my mount options of /, when data=writeback caused the mount boot scripts to fail with: EXT3-fs: cannot change data mode on remount So / was mounted ro, and

Bug#488366: javac and others from sun-java5-jdk aren't in /etc/alternatives

2008-06-28 Thread Tim Connors
Package: sun-java5-jdk Version: 1.5.0-15-1 Severity: normal Whereas sun-java5-bin now contains[1] the correct symlinks in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/ to /etc/alternatives, javac amongst other binaries from sun-java5-jdk aren't in the alternatives system: for i in `dpkg -L sun-java5-jdk

Bug#487674: reportbug: locks up on non 8-bit chars in subject line

2008-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED]' as your from address. Getting status for xine-ui... Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org, incoming.debian.org and http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html Will send report to Debian (per request). Querying

Bug#487676: xine-ui: please allow the ignoring of display DPI settings

2008-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2 Severity: normal I'm limited to running the sucky proprietry nvidia driver with buggy calculation of DPI settings when I plug in external monitors, and I end up with stupid DPI settings like the following: resolution:64x128 dots per inch

Bug#487674: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#487674: reportbug: locks up on non 8-bit chars in subject line

2008-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Chris Lawrence wrote: This one's a bit odd; Tim's locale is being detected as an ISO-8859-1 locale (see the log), not UTF-8. I'd imagine spewing ISO-8859-1 to a terminal that's expecting UTF-8 will make things explode rather in all sorts of interesting ways, no matter

Bug#436526: New maintainer; more info?

2008-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Jeff Licquia wrote: I'm having trouble reproducing your problem. I'm using synergy with the server on etch (1.3.1-2) and the client on lenny (1.3.1-3), and I see the focus outline clearly switch off when I move the mouse cursor from one screen to the other. Both of

Bug#486222: dpkg: inhibits backgrounding gratuitously

2008-06-14 Thread Tim Connors
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.19 Severity: normal I originally thought this was bug #411979, but that was for when within an interactive aptitude session. For some time now, dpkg has inhibited ctrl-z when run under aptitude or apt-get (haven't yet checked whether it also inhibits by itself). If I

Bug#411979: dpkg?

2008-06-12 Thread Tim Connors
I'm wondering whether this is a dpkg bug. Should it be assigned accordingly? I've been frustrated by this being a permanent feature for quite some months now, and it's 100% reproducable with my setups, whatever they are. I had just backgrounded an apt-get run after downloading the packages, and

Bug#485146: rsync like support for apt{-get,itude} install

2008-06-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: normal Now that bug 128818 has been dealt with, can we get an rsync like method for packages themselves? For everyone outside the US, bandwidth is still more important than CPU. Bandwidth costs money; cpu doesn't. I'm thinking in particular of tracking

Bug#484593: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: su gets stuck for root -- stty getting stuck in T state

2008-06-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-4 Severity: normal There's an upstream bug that has started affecting me. stty gets backgrounded, and you can only kill -9 it to get your shell back. A thread titled su gets stuck for root is on LKML with all the details, and when there's an

Bug#484594: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: 2.6.25 (and possibly before) very slow to boot around devicemapper/s2disk initialisation stage

2008-06-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-4 Severity: normal 2.6.25 is very slow to boot on both my i686 (debian 2.6.25-2-686) and amd64 (debian source 2.6.25-4) machines. I suspect this may have been happening for 2.6.24 as well, but I will need to go back and check. I don't think the

Bug#483571: nvidia-kernel-source: new upstream version 173.14.05 might not suck so badly on screen cycling

2008-05-29 Thread Tim Connors
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 169.12-4 Severity: normal New version at locations like: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.05.html (linked from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) What is the relationship between the dpkg version numbers and the nvidia versions

Bug#483121: findutils: duplicated cron.daily functions

2008-05-28 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2008-05-28 Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2008-05-27 Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: findutils Version: 4.4.0-2 Severity: normal Is there any reason why findutils

Bug#483378: nvidia-kernel-source: wrong patch direction?

2008-05-28 Thread Tim Connors
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 169.12-4 Severity: normal In the latest 2 versions, the xen and other patches seem to be applied in the wrong direction. This is from a fresh rm -rf modules/ ; tar xvf ... ; make-kpkg clean with both the clean and configure steps wanting to apply the

Bug#483121: findutils: duplicated cron.daily functions

2008-05-27 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2008-05-27 Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: findutils Version: 4.4.0-2 Severity: normal Is there any reason why findutils (which is depended on by mlocate and locate) includes updatedb. Hello, It does not, afaict: SID

Bug#482798: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: please support differing x and y scales

2008-05-25 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.7~git20070706-2 Severity: normal When I draw circles on my touchpad, they come out as rather tall ellipses (perhaps twice as high as wide). If a full scroll from top to bottom of the touchpad goes the full vertical distance on the screen, then

Bug#482949: apt-cacher: support for rpm as well

2008-05-25 Thread Tim Connors
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.6.1 Severity: normal It would be nice if apt-cacher could cache the necessary repository details for redhat/rpm/yum etc, as well. Looking through /usr/sbin/apt-cacher, it seems to already support .rpm files[1]. Perhaps it would be nice if .hdr files, and

Bug#482695: grip: digital playback

2008-05-24 Thread Tim Connors
Package: grip Version: 3.3.1-15+b2 Severity: normal I have a laptop where the cdrom doesn't seem to be connected through to the soundcard as far as the snd-hda-intel driver is concerned. xmms's cdreader plugin has the option to playback using digital audio extraction, presumably using the

Bug#469166: frequency

2008-05-16 Thread Tim Connors
Note that on my machine, syndaemon itself shows up as waking up the kernel 50 times a second, but when syndaemon is running, kernel IPI : Rescheduling interrupts comes in at 140 times a second -- something that doesn't exist when syndaemon goes away. When I kill syndaemon, my power usage goes

Bug#480573: libvte9: no manpage for suid binary gnome-pty-helper

2008-05-10 Thread Tim Connors
Package: libvte9 Version: 1:0.16.13-1+b1 Severity: normal Debian Policy 12.1 states that all binaries *should* have a manual (and it is a bug not to have one). /usr/lib/libvte9/gnome-pty-helper, being a suid program, should be documented better than most other programs (something gnome related

Bug#428105: buffer broken on amd64: buffer (writer): write of data failed: Bad address

2008-05-10 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Martin Buck wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:10:15PM +0200, Martin Buck wrote: Pointers to these buffers are also stored inside the shared memory segment, so it looks like they somehow get corrupted. I just don't understand how and why this happens only on amd64 under

Bug#428105: strace and kernel config

2008-05-07 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Martin Buck wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:27:22PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: It's more likely to crash with bigger input files, when running under strace. strace and kernel config are attached. Weird, still doesn't happen here. Could you please try again

Bug#478487: less: ti termcap strings used too often?

2008-04-29 Thread Tim Connors
Package: less Version: 418-1 Severity: normal Is there any reason to use the ti termcap strings when the user presses F or G? It may be a way of gauranteeing that the screen is clear, but this only needs to be done once, and is already done at startup if -X isn't supplied -- just a normal

Bug#477623: xemacs21-bin: fix to bug 177236 is bogus -- please do not disable inet connections

2008-04-23 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xemacs21-bin Version: 21.4.21-3 Severity: normal The fix to 177236 is completely bogus (and yes, I do use connection over the net, because, well, it works over the net[1]). For a start, the manpage still states that you can use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and GNU_PORT and GNU_HOST environment

Bug#475950: hotkeys: support for more than one mixer on default /dev/mixer

2008-04-13 Thread Tim Connors
Package: hotkeys Version: 0.5.7.4-0.1 Severity: normal It would be nice if the use of /dev/mixer was not hardcoded into hotkeys. Ideally, many mixers could be supplied (in the conf file or on the commandline), and hotkeys wouldn't care if all of them existed at any one time -- it would just try

Bug#474190: sun-java6-jdk: /etc/alternatives/* links to non-existant /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/*

2008-04-04 Thread Tim Connors
reopen 474190 thanks. On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: Tim Connors schrieb: Package: sun-java6-jdk Version: 6-05-1 Severity: normal The etc/alternatives comes by default linked to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/* instead of /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.05/bin

Bug#474190: sun-java6-jdk: /etc/alternatives/* links to non-existant /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/*

2008-04-04 Thread Tim Connors
reopen 474190 notfixed 474190 6-05-1 thanks On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: Tim Connors schrieb: reopen 474190 thanks. On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Matthias Klose wrote: Tim Connors schrieb: Package: sun-java6-jdk Version: 6-05-1 Severity: normal The etc/alternatives

Bug#474190: sun-java6-jdk: /etc/alternatives/* links to non-existant /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/*

2008-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
Package: sun-java6-jdk Version: 6-05-1 Severity: normal The etc/alternatives comes by default linked to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/* instead of /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.05/bin/* -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#471510: acpi-support: getXuser doesn't work if using startx

2008-03-26 Thread Tim Connors
+ if [ x$user = x ]; then + startx=`pgrep startx` Minor nit: if it's possible to have multiple startx instances running (is there anything that prevents this?), I think this should be either pgrep -o startx or pgrep -n startx (oldest or newest). Nothing to prevent it:

Bug#466044: xserver-xorg-core: internal screen of laptop with external screen attached not blanked when laptop closed but still in use

2008-03-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Brice Goglin wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:28:52PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 Severity: normal Laptop screens backlights are turned off these days by getting acpi to intercept the lid button

Bug#472006: slrn now nags user about too long reference header in reply to groups.google messages

2008-03-21 Thread Tim Connors
Package: slrn Version: 0.9.9~pre97-1 Severity: normal I don't know whether this is a new feature, or one that has been exposed by a recent change at google, but slrn now nags with: Your message is not acceptable for the following reason(s): One word of the header is too long to get folded.

Bug#471882: e2fsprogs: tune2fs -T seems to get time wrong in DST

2008-03-20 Thread Tim Connors
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.8-2 Severity: normal We are in DST currently, and the manpage doesn't clarify what timezone is used when setting the time of last fsckage using tune2fs -T. I suspect it is local time, and there may be a calculation somewhere that assumes non DST time input, and

Bug#471112: closed by Tamas SZERB [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#471112: fixed in tsocks 1.8beta5-9)

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Connors
reopen 471112 thanks. tsocks (1.8beta5-9) unstable; urgency=low . * Applied `fallback' patch to allow to fall back to establish direct connection instead of sockified if the fallback = yes option found in the tsocks.conf to make sure that the user won't open a direct one

Bug#471699: lvm2: restrictions in validate_name are not documented in lvcreate manpage

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Connors
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.33-2 Severity: normal Trying to encode a human readable date format in a snapshot, lead to the following error message: lvcreate -L1G -s -n '2008-03-20:01:51:45'-shared_home_etc-snapshot /dev/laptop_250gb/shared_home_etc Logical volume name

Bug#471112: closed by Tamas SZERB [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#471112: fixed in tsocks 1.8beta5-9)

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Tamas SZERB wrote: If I understand you correctly, you're saying that your only concern is the warning/error message. Am I right? Correct. I don't think that it'd be a good idea to surpress the fact that you're currently falling back to direct, unless the user can find

Bug#471126: x11-utils: doesn't list some ghost windows that xrestop shows

2008-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-utils Version: 7.3+1 Severity: normal Due to a resource leak in both xloadimage -onroot and xli -onroot (bugs 325689, 387030, and 471121), I have been left with the dreaded: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached xterm Xt error: Can't open

Bug#325689: resource leaks leading to denial of service

2008-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
Has this bug been looked at recently? Other distribs claimed to have fixed it: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72589 This is a denial of service, whether self inflicted or not, and there are fixes out there. There seems to be no way to clear those resources once they are allocated by

Bug#471126: x11-utils: doesn't list some ghost windows that xrestop shows

2008-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Brice Goglin wrote: The reason is probably that xlsclients only lists actual clients (using XQueryTree()) while xrestop shows resources (with XResQueryClients()). So your ghost windows may be part of the latter but not of the former. By the way, did you actually found

Bug#471112: tsocks: annoying error message when default is left unspecified

2008-03-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: tsocks Version: 1.8beta5-8 Severity: normal I think the fix to bug 373642 is working for me, except that every connection to a host:port that is desired to fall through to the real connect method issues a warning message: telnet www.google.com.au 80 Trying 64.233.189.147... 12:25:36

Bug#471121: xli: resource leaks leads to denial of service of X

2008-03-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xli Version: 1.17.0+20061110-2 Severity: important Invoking xli multiple times eventually leads to a denial of service of X, and the only way to overcome this is to kill X and restart: xli -geometry ${HORSIZE}x${VERTSIZE}+0+0 -onroot -zoom auto -center AV/Tas/IMG0001.JPG

Bug#307827: wdiff

2008-03-13 Thread Tim Connors
Also give wdiff a shot 'wdiff -a' can be used perhaps to highlight those words. -- TimC The thing I love most about deadlines is the wonderful WHOOSHing sound they make as they go past - DNA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#470835: colordiff: return exit code resulting from diff so can be used as drop in replacement

2008-03-13 Thread Tim Connors
Package: colordiff Version: 1.0.7-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6 --- colordiff 22 Nov 2006 12:13:42 - 1.5 +++ colordiff 4 Mar 2008 02:59:25 - 1.6 @@ -164,11 +164,14 @@ my @inputstream; +my $exitcode=0; if (defined $ARGV[0]) { # More

Bug#175820: lvm2: What about e2fsadm?

2008-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Andres Salomon wrote: Thanks for pointing this out. The new version of lvm2 removes all undocumented symlinks, so the fact that there was a symlink for a non-existent binary is taken care of. I would have of course preferred for upstream to have added the binary rather

Bug#470714: fvwm: please provide configurable mouse resistance at the edge of xinerama screens

2008-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.24-1 Severity: normal On multiple screens using xinerama (or otherwise), one typically has applications maximised or positioned near the edge of one screen. There is also typically a physical border between screens of several centimetres. It is not that easy to

Bug#407336: Not just ntp

2008-03-01 Thread Tim Connors
retitle 407336 dhclient3: adopts dhcp server's settings despite them not being requested thanks I have cut down the settings I want to accept from the server to a bare minimum: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, interface-mtu, domain-name-servers; As well as trying

Bug#226031: not just runcommand at start

2008-02-25 Thread Tim Connors
I actually wanted a pre-up and post-down for the entire mapping, but that doesn't work. Am I going completely down the wrong track and am insane to ask for this ability? auto bond0 mapping bond0 script guessnet-ifupdown map timeout: 30 map verbose: true map debug: true map default:

Bug#467299: checksecurity: suid script searches fuse filesystems by default

2008-02-24 Thread Tim Connors
Package: checksecurity Version: 2.0.7-11 Severity: normal Since shfs, nfs etc mounts aren't searched by the suid checker by default, I don't think fuse filesystems should be searched as well. In my case, the fuse filesystem is an sshfs filesystem, which I certainly dont want to be recursively

Bug#460410: upstream bug

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Connors
The upstream bug is lodged here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3716 -- TimC The other day I overheard that a friend of the family had called their new kid Noah. I thinks Noah? I 'ardly - and then I bursts out laughing.. -- Screwtape in RHOD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#467195: sg3-utils: code samples include missing .h file

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Connors
Package: sg3-utils Version: 1.24-2 Severity: normal bug 372610 hasn't really been fixed, and unfortunately, sg_io_linux.h sg_lib.h sg_linux_inc.h sg_pt.h only include the same named files in the parent directory, which still don't exist. This then of course means we can't compile any of the

Bug#466806: Please implement readline in aptitude when reading lines interactively

2008-02-20 Thread Tim Connors
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Please implement readline when reading lines from the terminal interactively (aptitude upgrade/install packages/etc). When trying to resolve dependencies etc (+ slocate -dlocate), one often has to type similar lines, and be able to edit

Bug#459044: dictionaries-common: flyspell-mode does not behave buffer local in xemacs

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Agustin Martin wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:21:29PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Bugger. I was premature. When I do the following: (autoload 'flyspell-mode-on flyspell On-the-fly ispell. t) (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode-on) ; encompases LaTeX-mode

Bug#454072: xmms2-plugin-all not sufficient

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Anders Waldenborg wrote: Tim Connors wrote: xmms2-plugin-all, which includes xmms2-plugin-curl, xmms2-plugin-icymetaint, xmms2-plugin-pls, xmms2-plugin-m3u, xmms2-plugin-mms is not sufficient here to get it working: ERROR: ../src/xmms/xform.c:1273: Couldn't set up

Bug#466104: xinit: please use sessreg like in xdm, to log startx in the wtmp database

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Connors
reassign 466104 x11-common thanks On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: severity 466104 wishlist kthxbye On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:51:53 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: For those of us who choose not to start X every boot using xdm, we don't get the X session being logged in the wtmp

Bug#450845: slrn: infinite loop on losing tty

2008-02-16 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Tim Connors wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi Tim, Tim Connors schrieb am Mon 12. Nov, 03:19 (+1100): I have verified that manually sending a SIGHUP to slrn does indeed make it quit correctly. Can you reporduce this bug with the slrn version

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