Bug#581809: not fixed

2012-02-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
notfixed 581809 3.1.1 retitle 581809 gcm-apply no longer exists, remove its autostart file on upgrades thanks This was marked as fixed in version 3.1.1, but I think that must have been a typoed bug number -- there is no 3.1.1 in the changelog. Anyway, the remaining problem here is that, according

Bug#656564: I *was* seeing this too...

2012-02-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
I was seeing this problem about once every two hours on my computer, so I restarted my session and immediately attached gdb to the gnome-settings-daemon process (and continued it). It has not crashed since. The computer's been up for about 16 hours (not counting time in suspend) now. zw -- T

Bug#656948: GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

2012-01-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: gnome-settings-daemon Version: 3.2.2-2 Severity: normal I always get six copies of this GLib assertion failure message in my ..xsession-errors immediately upon logging in. (gnome-settings-daemon:16016): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed -- Syst

Bug#656800: aisleriot: card numbers not drawn properly

2012-01-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: aisleriot Version: 1:3.2.2-1 Severity: minor The numbers at the corners of some (not all) cards are being drawn improperly since an X server upgrade (please feel free to reassign this to X if appropriate; I have seen no visual errors in other programs, hence I'm filing the bug here). I a

Bug#653764: [Monotone-debian] Bug#653764: FTBFS with Boost 1.48: lgamma_small.hpp:483:38: error: expected primary-expression before 'do'

2011-12-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > This package failed to build using the newest Boost version 1.48: ... > /usr/include/boost/math/special_functions/detail/lgamma_small.hpp: In > function 'T boost::math::detail::lgamma_small_imp(T, T, T, const > mpl_::int_<0>&, const Poli

Bug#570018:

2011-12-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
Just a note that the existing biblatex package Recommends "biber >= 0.9.6" (but, alas, there is no such package) -- if you mean to upload biber under the binary package name "biblatex-biber", you should coordinate with the biblatex maintainer to get the recommendation changed. I would like to offe

Bug#649039: packagekit-gtk3-module: pk-gtk-module.desktop is read by gtk2 apps inappropriately

2011-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Have you updated to the latest version of PackageKit (in Debian unstable)? > I don't get this warning anymore and cannot reproduce the error. No > Gtk2 app tries to load the Gtk3 plugin. > If you still can reproduce the issue, please tell m

Bug#649039: packagekit-gtk3-module: pk-gtk-module.desktop is read by gtk2 apps inappropriately

2011-11-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: packagekit-gtk3-module Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: minor There is no longer any packagekit module for gtk2, but many of us still use many gtk2 apps (iceweasel and reportbug, for instance). If we have packagekit-gtk3-module installed, we get a complaint every time we run a gtk2 app: Gtk-M

Bug#629563: I seem to have been wrong about the cause of #629563

2011-10-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
severity 629563 important merge 629563 634174 retitle 629563 apt-listchanges: only shows changes for packages that will be configured early tags 629563 patch quit It turns out that this bug has nothing to do with apt-listbugs; I just happened to install apt-listbugs around the same time apt was ch

Bug#629563: apt-listchanges: only shows changes for packages about which apt-listbugs complained

2011-06-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.8 Severity: normal I have both apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs installed and set up to run automatically before upgrades, using the standard mechanism (apt.conf.d files adding entries to DPkg::Pre-Install-Packages). apt-listchanges happens after apt-listbug

Bug#620908: libclutter-1.0-0: clutter-using programs refuse to start on an X server that uses software Mesa

2011-04-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libclutter-1.0-0 Version: 1.6.10-3 Severity: normal My desktop machine does not have hardware 3D acceleration, but it does have the Mesa software rasterizer (glxinfo output appended). Clutter- using programs fail to start with an obscure error message, e.g. $ empathy failed to create dr

Bug#582282: yasm update also needed for mozilla

2011-03-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
Mozilla development trunk just picked up a requirement for yasm >=1.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#499206: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: R580 + EXA = screen flicker

2011-02-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
Once again y'all have delayed doing anything about an X server bug so long that I no longer have the hardware that was causing the problem. :-( zw On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Zack, > > Zack Weinberg (06/03/2010): >> That computer is off r

Bug#613695: listarchives: spam-report.pl success message poorly worded

2011-02-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: listarchives Severity: minor If you click on the "Report as spam" button on a message in the list archives, you get taken to a page with this text: | Report accepted | | Thank you for reporting this email as a potential spam message. | Scores are reviewed regularly, and are used to mark

Bug#494923: xvfb-run: feature request: option to isolate processes from parent environment

2011-02-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:18:14 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> I'd welcome your forwarding/discussing your patch to/with upstream >> directly: >>   http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>   http://bugs.freede

Bug#611584: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#611584: /bin/su: not quite aggressive enough about cleaning the environment

2011-02-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
I can see I'm not going to persuade you (nor are you going to persuade me) and su has another behavior that makes it useless for the thing I was trying to do anyway, so I'm not going to argue this bug report any more, but please consider the impression you are making by taking the kind of tone that

Bug#611584: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#611584: /bin/su: not quite aggressive enough about cleaning the environment

2011-02-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > suing to root and claiming security issues makes no sense.  think > about it for all of three seconds. I have. If you do "su -" instead of "su" you expect that to isolate you from (for instance) hostile clients on the same X session. I r

Bug#611584: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#611584: /bin/su: not quite aggressive enough about cleaning the environment

2011-01-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> "su -" is supposed to produce the same set of environment variables that >> you'd >> get if the destination user had logged in directly, but i

Bug#611584: /bin/su: not quite aggressive enough about cleaning the environment

2011-01-30 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: login Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2 Severity: normal File: /bin/su "su -" is supposed to produce the same set of environment variables that you'd get if the destination user had logged in directly, but it misses at least a few variables that should be unset: $ su - root -c printenv | sort

Bug#600528: linux-image-2.6.36-rc6-amd64: 2.6.36-rc6 EDAC driver causes oops on boot

2010-10-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This was fixed upstream in 2.6.36-rc7, so will be fixed in our next > upload to experimental. I'm delighted to hear that! zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Bug#600528: linux-image-2.6.36-rc6-amd64: 2.6.36-rc6 EDAC driver causes oops on boot

2010-10-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.36~rc6-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal Tags: experimental Trying out 2.6.36-rc6 as packaged (I need the experimental Nvidia Xorg driver, so 2.6.32 won't do, and 2.6.35 packages seem to have been abandoned). On boot, I get an oops (during "wait for /dev to be full

Bug#598553: [Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#598553: r-cran-rmpi: slave processes eat CPU when they have nothing to do

2010-10-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Manuel Prinz wrote: > > I did some reading and it seems the Open MPI indeed does support two modes > of waiting: aggressive and degraded. The default behavior is "aggressive", > but you can switch them by setting the mpi_yield_when_idle MCA parameter. > See the fol

Bug#598553: r-cran-rmpi: slave processes eat CPU when they have nothing to do

2010-10-02 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Manuel Prinz wrote: >> On 29 September 2010 at 18:22, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> | (on an 8-core machine), CPU utilization jumps *immediately* from 98% idle >> | to 20% user, 70% system, 12% idle.  strace reveals that each slave is >> | spinn

Bug#598553: r-cran-rmpi: slave processes eat CPU when they have nothing to do

2010-09-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: r-cran-rmpi Version: 0.5-8-2 Severity: normal Upon > library(snow) > cl = makeCluster(7, type="MPI") (on an 8-core machine), CPU utilization jumps *immediately* from 98% idle to 20% user, 70% system, 12% idle. strace reveals that each slave is spinning through poll() calls with timeout

Bug#598166: http://code.google.com/webfonts crashes Iceweasel inside libpangoft2-1.0.so.0

2010-09-26 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libpango1.0-0 Version: 1.28.1-1 Severity: important Attempting to load http://code.google.com/webfonts in Iceweasel (3.6.10 from experimental) causes a crash deep inside libpango: Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. (gdb) bt #0 0x7185abf8 in _hb_sanitize_array

Bug#597971: deja-dup: always says "no connection found, postponing backup"

2010-09-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: deja-dup Version: 14.2-1 Severity: normal I have deja-dup set to back up daily to a smb:// path. (I would prefer to use an rsync:// path - the native rsync protocol, that is, *not* rsync over ssh - but it doesn't seem to support that. But that's not the bug.) The automatic backup never

Bug#588498: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#588498: alsa-base: Thinkpad T61 internal mic does not work

2010-07-10 Thread Zack Weinberg
I made all the mixer changes you suggested - no effect, microphone still doesn't work. I doubt it matters, but this is a base model T61, not a T61p. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Bug#588498: alsa-base: Thinkpad T61 internal mic does not work

2010-07-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Severity: normal My Thinkpad T61's internal microphone will not capture sound, no matter what I do to the various sliders and switches in alsamixer. In particular, in the "Capture" screen I have 'capture' and 'capture 1' both maxed out and with CAPTURE in

Bug#586803: debian-installer: partitioner should create a "BIOS boot" partition when GPT is requested

2010-06-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal When you use the new "GPT" partition table format, there is no gap between the master boot record and the first partition for the boot loader (e.g. GRUB) to install itself into. Therefore, when GPT format is requested, the partitioner should create a "BI

Bug#559893: [Monotone-debian] Bug#559893: monotone-server: hooks.lua.base is outdated

2010-03-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > As of monotone 0.47 I do not see any file named hooks.lua.base either in > the upstream sources or in the Debian packaging scripts. > > Is this an upstream bug? > Is it fixed in 0.47-1? If not, 0.47-1 which I am about to upload will > not m

Bug#559893: [Monotone-debian] Bug#559893: monotone-server: hooks.lua.base is outdated

2010-03-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > It does not look like 0.47-1 addressed any of the several other > outstanding Debian bugs :-( I take that back - there are only two others and both of them *may* have been addressed by the upstream changes. zw -- To UN

Bug#437321: Xpress improvements in upstream ati git

2010-03-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: >> The upstream bug[1] has been closed because DRI is supposed to work >> fine. I just uploaded radeon 6.10.99.0 to experimental, and we have >> mesa 7.3 there as well. It would be nice if you test all this. > > Still no luck with latest X packag

Bug#499206: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: R580 + EXA = screen flicker

2010-03-06 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > > Still problems with all this on radeon 6.12.5 or 6.12.191? That computer is off right now, so I'm not sure exactly what version of the driver I have on it - whatever's current in unstable. Anyway, I haven't seen most of the problems in some

Bug#571248: Bug#571138: iceweasel: random crashes at page/tab close of Iceweasel and iceape

2010-02-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Can you all try to downgrade libcairo2 to the version in testing ? > http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/cairo Did that and have not yet been able to crash the browser; will advise if it comes back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#571237: iceweasel: Reproducible for me with no plugins or extensions

2010-02-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.8-1 Severity: important I'm getting the same crash. I manually disabled all plugins and extensions by renaming directories, and the crash still happens. When the crash happens, this error message appears in .xsession-errors: The program 'firefox-bin' received an

Bug#566870: xserver-xorg: gnome-power-manager complains about broken IDLETIME counter

2010-01-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Since this morning, gnome-power-manager has put an alert in my notification >> area with this text: >> >> Session active, not inhibited, screen idle. >> If you can see this text,

Bug#565814: python3.1: _pickle.so is missing

2010-01-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: python3.1 Version: 3.1.1-2 Severity: normal Python 3 renamed cPickle to _pickle, and the regular pickle module transparently uses it to speed up pickling; however, _pickle.so is nowhere to be found in the python3.1 or python3.1-minimal packages (for 2.x it's in the pythonX.Y package). -

Bug#559893: [Monotone-debian] Bug#559893: monotone-server: hooks.lua.base is outdated

2009-12-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 559893 + help thanks I am not going to get to this bug until January. NMUs welcome. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#557983: [Monotone-debian] Bug#557983: FTBFS [hppa]

2009-11-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM, dann frazier wrote: > > monotone has been reliably failing to build on hppa. > > Here are logs of the all the build attemps so far: >  https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=monotone&ver=0.45-2&arch=hppa&file=log I think this is libstdc++ bug #554574, which has

Bug#554574: libstdc++: small test program

2009-11-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libstdc++6 Severity: normal It sounds like this bug is the cause of a FTBFS in one of my packages. In case it's helpful, here is a small self-contained test program that currently crashes when run on the hppa buildd: #include #include int main(void) { std::ofstream ofs("_conftest.da

Bug#556384: closed by Joey Hess (Bug#556384: fixed in debhelper 7.4.4)

2009-11-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >   * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make >     it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders. >     Closes: #556384 I just wanted to say thank you for the quick turnaround on this; be

Bug#557248: Further details

2009-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
Petr Salinger pointed me at freebsd-hackedutils, which allows me to decode a ktrace and report that my suspicions as to the cause are correct. Here's the behavior of remove() under kfreebsd: 10316 testerCALL unlink(0x6dae88) 10316 testerNAMI "/home/zack/monotone/monotone-0.45/tester_dir/t

Bug#557248:

2009-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
I need to make a slight correction. It is POSIX, not the C standard, that requires remove() shall remove both files and directories. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537919: Cause diagnosed - bug is in libc

2009-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
block 537919 by 557248 thanks I installed Debian kFreeBSD in a virtual machine and was able to debug the problem (with some difficulty - programs crash with SIGILL on the first instruction of main if run under gdb, strace hasn't been ported, ktrace exists but kdump is missing). It's a bug in the

Bug#557248: libc0.1: [kfreebsd] remove() fails to remove directories

2009-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libc0.1 Version: 2.10.1-7 Severity: normal The C standard requires remove() to delete both files and directories. This works correctly with the Linux kernel, but under kFreeBSD, remove() fails with "Operation not permitted" when applied to a directory. I'm not able to debug this in det

Bug#557247: freebsd-utils: please add kdump (ktrace is useless without it)

2009-11-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: freebsd-utils Version: 7.2-9 Severity: normal Please add the kdump(1) utility to freebsd-utils. This program renders the binary log files produced by ktrace(1) into human-readable format; I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that ktrace is useless without kdump. (In the alternative

Bug#556405: emacs23: vc-hg barfs on file load/save if .hg exists but is not a repository

2009-11-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: normal In Emacs 23, if you try to visit or save a file which is not under Mercurial version control, but one of its parent directories contains a directory named '.hg' that is not a well-formed Mercurial repository, the vc-hg module will throw one of th

Bug#556384: dh_auto_configure: dump config.log to stdout if configure fails

2009-11-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.3 Severity: wishlist For debugging problems that only show up on a particular architecture's buildd, it would be handy for dh_auto_configure to dump config.log to its stdout if configure returned a nonzero exit status. Case in point: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch

Bug#542287: Spoke too soon about new official monotone package - please go ahead with NMU

2009-10-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Due to a hardware failure on monotone upstream's VCS servers, I am not going to be able to upload the new release for a while. Please go ahead with an NMU for bug 542287 and any other bugs you feel like picking off. I apologize for claiming to have a new package nearly done. zw -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#542287: [Monotone-debian] Bug#542287: monotone-server: Incorrect runlevels and dependencies in init.d script

2009-10-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
I would rather you did not, as I have almost completed packaging work on the new upstream release; I just need to find the time to finish testing it. This should happen in no more than a week. Thanks for the updated patch though, I will probably use it. zw On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Pett

Bug#548756: epiphany-browser: Downloads silently lost if target directory is un-writable

2009-09-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.28.0-3 Severity: normal If the download directory in epiphany's preferences is set to a location that you don't have write privileges on (e.g. "File System" aka /) epiphany will transfer the entire file over the network and throw it away, without giving any err

Bug#548396: epiphany-browser: large blank area, missing entries in location bar dropdown

2009-09-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.28.0-3 Severity: normal Since the GNOME 2.28 libraries started hitting the system, epiphany's location bar dropdown has started showing a very large blank area instead of (most of) the entries it should display. I'm attaching a screen shot. Depending on what

Bug#542287: [Monotone-debian] Bug#542287: monotone-server: Incorrect runlevels and dependencies in init.d script

2009-09-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > With dependency based boot sequencing, I discovered what I believe is > a bug in the init.d script. Thanks for this bug report. I am going to fix it in the next upload, but I could use a little help. I've merged your changes to the

Bug#444153:

2009-09-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 444153 + pending fixed-upstream thanks This bug has been fixed in upstream release 0.45, which will be uploaded to Debian sometime next week. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Bug#545777: gnome-games: sol-clutter unusably slow despite hardware GL acceleration

2009-09-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
2009/9/9 Josselin Mouette : > > Do you have any trouble with other OpenGL games, such as crack-attack? > Do you have any trouble with other Clutter games, such as gnometris? > > Are you using a composited window manager? gnometris is also unplayably slow, but crack-attack is fine. I am using plai

Bug#545777: gnome-games: sol-clutter unusably slow despite hardware GL acceleration

2009-09-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: gnome-games Version: 1:2.26.3-1 Severity: normal I have this graphics hardware per glxinfo: OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.5.1 OpenGL shading language version string:

Bug#541758: Thanks for the translation!

2009-09-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 541758 + pending thanks I have merged your translation, it will be in the next upload. Thanks for doing this work! I wonder if you would consider translating the upstream message catalog as well; there is currently no Russian translation for the program itself. zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch

2009-09-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > forcemerge 229357 545081 > thanks > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> As is well known, dpkg-buildpackage -B does not know whether it can > > If you knew well, you would have known that this bug already

Bug#545081: dpkg-dev: dpkg-buildpackage -B should UNCONDITIONALLY invoke debian/rules build-arch

2009-09-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.3.1 Severity: wishlist As is well known, dpkg-buildpackage -B does not know whether it can safely use the 'build-arch' target to debian/rules, so it always uses 'build', which makes the Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep distinction useless unless you bend the rules

Bug#541167: libc6: all DNS lookups fail when getting null responses for AAAA queries

2009-08-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-23 Severity: normal Recently I was in a cafe (with ghod knows what brand wireless router) and could not make any external connections with either ssh or Iceweasel. Packet traces suggest that getaddrinfo() is failing when it gets a null response to an query, even i

Bug#540013: botan1.8 - FTBFS: Guessing target processor is a s390x/s390x

2009-08-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'd like to provide a patch for this bug, but I'm not sure the obvious approach of changing the existing check of DEB_BUILD_ARCH in debian/rules to ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),i386) CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --cpu=i486 else CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --cpu=$(DEB_BUILD_ARCH) endif is going to work for

Bug#464884: maybe fixed now

2009-08-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 525916 - help tags 525916 + fixed-upstream moreinfo tags 464884 - help tags 464884 + fixed-upstream moreinfo quit Monotone 0.44-2 built successfully on alpha and sparc - not having done anything in particular to fix it, I can only guess that the problems have been resolved by newer compiler a

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
This problem has gone away again as mysteriously as it came, possibly with a video driver upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
I've since discovered that to trigger the bug you have to start virtualbox-ose-qt, and start a virtual machine (it doesn't seem to matter what's installed inside the VM -- even a blank one will do it).  The VM window will show the bug but nothing else will.  Then if you quit the VM and the virt

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Modestas Vainius wrote: >> Unfortunately I can't try this version of virtualbox against the older Qt. > > You can. I'm 90% sure it will work if you force install it (either qt libs or > virtual box as needed) with # dpkg --force-depends -i. Once you are done > test

Bug#537919: [Monotone-debian] Bug#537919: monotone: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > there's a quick patch for the FTBFS I've seen on kfreebsd-* (I didn't > really investigate why that's fine for Linux, but well, I think it's > better to explicitly include what is used in a given file). *shrug* glibc's header files are s

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Modestas Vainius wrote: >> kcachegrind does not show the problem with 4.5.1 Qt libraries.  I >> would have liked to try the other Qt-based application I use >> frequently, virtualbox-ose-qt, but it has been recompiled against >> 4.5.2 so apt-get insisted on deletin

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Fathi Boudra wrote: > tags 537801 + unreproducible > > I tried kcachegrind 4.2.4 with Qt 4.5.2 and I can't reproduce the bug using > intel or nvidia driver. As you can see from the X server log attached to this bug, my graphics card is ATI. > which desktop enviro

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Modestas Vainius wrote: >> On antradienis 21 Liepa 2009 03:58:56 Zack Weinberg wrote: >>> Package: libqtgui4 >>> Version: 4:4.5.2-1 >>> Severity: grave >>

Bug#537801: libqtgui4: mangled color maps

2009-07-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Modestas Vainius wrote: > On antradienis 21 Liepa 2009 03:58:56 Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Package: libqtgui4 >> Version: 4:4.5.2-1 >> Severity: grave >> Justification: renders package unusable >> >> Starting abruptly today, Q

Bug#537119: Don't do that, then [was: FTBFS as root]

2009-07-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
The test suite assumes extensively that it is not being run as root - for instance, it expects to be able to chmod a-w a file and then have a subsequent attempt to modify that file be refused by the kernel. I doubt it is possible to find alternative ways to test some of the things that are taking

Bug#537719: Don't do that, then [was: FTBFS as root]

2009-07-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
The test suite assumes extensively that it is not being run as root - for instance, it expects to be able to chmod a-w a file and then have a subsequent attempt to modify that file be refused by the kernel. I doubt it is possible to find alternative ways to test some of the things that are taking

Bug#537119: Don't do that, then [was: FTBFS as root]

2009-07-20 Thread Zack Weinberg
*sigh* Once again I mistype the bug number. Please ignore the previous message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#527314: Bug#527461: monotone: Monotone needs recompile against libbotan 1.8.2

2009-07-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Great. I'll watch for it and get a fixed monotone uploaded as soon as it clears NEW. zw

Bug#527461: monotone: Monotone needs recompile against libbotan 1.8.2

2009-07-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Marc Lütolf wrote: > Greetings, > > Any ETA for resolution of this bug? > Thanks for any feedback. I can do nothing until the botan packages are fixed (bug 527461). Daniel refused my offer of help and said that fixed packages would be uploaded "in about a week".

Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM, David Paleino wrote: > > 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: automatically detected wired interface wlan0 > 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: did not find wired_interface in configuration, setting > default wlan0 > 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: setting wired interface wlan0 > > Ok, this is becaus

Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Paleino wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:33 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > > Should it not rather remain open and be marked as upstream and to be > > fixed in 2.0? > > Nope. It was using wlan0 as wired because you set it so

Bug#525893: closed by David Paleino (Re: Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless)

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM, David Paleino wrote: > > > An update: it appears here indeed, but the code is really looking > > > for /sys/class/net//wireless . And I *don't* have that. > > > So my wlan0 should've been reco

Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM, David Paleino wrote: > An update: it appears here indeed, but the code is really looking > for /sys/class/net//wireless . And I *don't* have that. > So my wlan0 should've been recognized as a wired connection: it isn't because > I > set it as Wireless interface in

Bug#534234: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary false positive on 'res.size'

2009-06-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The spelling check appears to strip punctuation, so "res.size" >> becomes "ressize" and spelling-error-in-binary fires. > > It should only be stripping periods and similar characters from the end > of words.  This will be fixed in the next rel

Bug#534234: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary false positive on 'res.size'

2009-06-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.12 Severity: minor The binary /usr/bin/mtn (provided by the "monotone" package) contains a bunch of instances of the string "res.size", e.g. res.size() == static_cast(w) database.cc:2122: I(res.size() <= 1) database.cc:3789: I(res.size() == 1) (These are debu

Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless

2009-06-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, David Paleino wrote: > > Would you please test the package from experimental? I didn't see this > behaviour with 1.5.9-5, and am not seeing it in 1.6.0-2~pre1. Maybe > something's > wrong in your setup? > > Before asking more, please try out the new package. It mig

Bug#533232: read(2): document behavior when count=0 but fd is not open

2009-06-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.21-1 Severity: minor The read(2) manpage currently says If _count_ is zero, read() returns zero and has no other results. but this does not explain what happens if the _fd_ or _buf_ parameters are invalid (== would cause an error return or a segmentation fa

Bug#527314: Bug#527461: considering preparing NMU of botan-devel for bug 527461

2009-05-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Zack Weinberg wrote: >> 1) Would an NMU of botan-devel to be welcome? > > no; it will get fixed today by me anyway (i did other changes to the > package as well since it has to go through NEW anyway). That was over a wee

Bug#527461: considering preparing NMU of botan-devel for bug 527461

2009-05-12 Thread Zack Weinberg
It's been a week or so and there's been no fix for botan-devel bug 527461 (SONAME bumped without binary package name change). Meanwhile there *has* been a new upstream release of my package, monotone, which depends on botan. 1) Would an NMU of botan-devel to be welcome? The fix seems pretty strai

Bug#527314: please binNMU monotone for botan transition

2009-05-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > monotone and keysafe certainly need to be rebuilt against the new > version of botan, since the SONAME has changed. However, the libbotan1.8 > binary package name should have been renamed in the process of bumping > the SONAME (Bug#527461),

Bug#526981: debianutils: tempfile -n always crashes

2009-05-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: debianutils Version: 3.1.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch debianutils 3.1.1 broke tempfile -n: any use of this option will cause tempfile to segfault. There is a one-line fix, attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstab

Bug#503544: ath5k: after suspend to RAM, requires cold boot to work again

2009-04-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM, maximilian attems wrote: > > please as already told several times report upstream on > bugzilla.kernel.org so that the guys working on it can fix it. > let us know the bug number. I have done this now (upstream bug 13199, this bug should be marked forwarded as soo

Bug#525916: monotone: FTBFS [sparc] -- libsqlite provokes bus errors

2009-04-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: monotone Version: 0.43-3 Severity: important monotone cannot currently be built on sparc because of libsqlite3-0 bug #524140. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-am

Bug#525893: wicd: claims to be connected to wired network when actually on wireless

2009-04-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: wicd Version: 1.5.9-5 Severity: normal Recently, wicd has started claiming that the active network is wired, even when it isn't. It's very obvious - you pick a wireless network, and it goes through the entire connection sequence correctly, and then it says "ok! I'm connected to the wired

Bug#503544: ath5k: after suspend to RAM, requires cold boot to work again

2009-04-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >> I don't have the slightest idea how to report a bug to the kernel >> upstream. > > It's a standard Bugzilla installation: http://bugzilla.kernel.org Do they mind receiving bug reports for distribution-modified kernels? (i.e. do I need t

Bug#503544: ath5k: after suspend to RAM, requires cold boot to work again

2009-04-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
This is just to say that after an interval of working well, my ath5k is now completely nonfunctional in both 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. (I'm going to try backing all the way down to 2.6.27 next.) Cold boot doesn't help. Rebooting into Windows doesn't help (it used to). This isn't a hardware failure, b

Bug#524141: yes, it's only one day old, but ...

2009-04-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
tags 524141 - moreinfo thanks Yes, the present package (0.43-3) is only one day old; however, 0.43-1 failed to build in exactly the same manner that 0.43-3 has, and I'm pretty sure 0.43-2 did the same (the buildd log never showed up, thanks to some ill-considered debugging logic I stuck in the pac

Bug#524140: libsqlite3-0: [sparc] triggers bus errors in libpthread from monotone testsuite

2009-04-15 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On sparc, monotone fails to build because every last test of the main program > triggers a bus error.  As far as I can tell from the limited information I've > managed to extract from the build daemon, this is actually a bu

Bug#524141: RM: monotone [sparc] -- ROM; cannot be built due to libsqlite3-0 bug #524140

2009-04-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal The current monotone package (0.43-3) cannot be built on sparc until libsqlite3-0 bug #524140 is fixed. Please remove the old (0.40-7) package so that this does not block testing propagation. As far as I know there are no users of this package on sparc.

Bug#524140: libsqlite3-0: [sparc] triggers bus errors in libpthread from monotone testsuite

2009-04-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: libsqlite3-0 Version: 3.6.12-1 Severity: normal On sparc, monotone fails to build because every last test of the main program triggers a bus error. As far as I can tell from the limited information I've managed to extract from the build daemon, this is actually a bug in libsqlite. When

Bug#523648: empathy: "New message from ..." notifications need to HTML-escape message text

2009-04-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Package: empathy Version: 2.26.0-1 Severity: normal empathy generates a desktop notification when someone sends me an instant message and I don't already have a chat window open for them. That's good. But the desktop notification mechanism honors some subset of HTML tags, e.g. if the message sen

Bug#523261: [Monotone-debian] Bug#523261: monotone segfaulting on any invocation

2009-04-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Gary Kramlich wrote: > $ which mtn; sudo which mtn > /usr/bin/mtn > /usr/bin/mtn > > But it does get weirder, it works fine for other users on my machine. > Just not me.  So this is obviously some crazy config problem.  However, > I did move ~/.monotone out of the w

Bug#523261: [Monotone-debian] Bug#523261: monotone segfaulting on any invocation

2009-04-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary Kramlich wrote: >  Also, works fine as root under X. > > $ mtn --version > Segmentation fault > $ sudo mtn --version > monotone 0.43 (base revision: ddc6546051abf6475c40a3fdba272e2f82a40e94) That plus the other output you posted does suggest a path problem - m

Bug#523261: [Monotone-debian] Bug#523261: monotone segfaulting on any invocation

2009-04-09 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Gary Kramlich wrote: > > debsums found nothing.  all my filesystems were in pretty bad shape, > somehow the journals kept them alive.  They're all clean now, problem > persists. Ok. > g...@cloak:~$ LD_DEBUG=files mtn --version >      8031: >      8031:     file=li

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