Bug#886692: kate: crashing when opening a file from the Konsole CLI, when $(PWD) is too long

2018-01-08 Thread a . marmodoro
Package: kate Version: 4:16.08.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, If I try to launch this version of Kate from the command line interface, first reaching the desired directory and then opening the desired file: marmo@e5470:/DEFAULT/home/marmo/Work/NEGF/SPRKKR_LMAT_practice$ kate negf.f

Bug#886541: weborf: Broken support for specific IP address binding?

2018-01-07 Thread a . marmodoro
Package: weborf Version: 0.13.4-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It appears that the ability to bind 'weborf' to a specific IP address is no longer working: $ weborf -h [...] -i, --ip followed by IP address to listen (dotted format) [...] $ weborf -i 127.0.0.1 Weborf This program comes

Bug#886540: isc-dhcp-server: Please modify the example 'dhcpd.conf' to only bind to a specific IP address.

2018-01-07 Thread a . marmodoro
Package: isc-dhcp-server Version: 4.3.5-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I'd like to ask for a trivial improvement in the default '/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf' configuration. For a more selective deployment of the DHCP service, reducing potential attack surface and the chances for network

Bug#886504: firmware-misc-nonfree: Please include Intel GPU firmware supporting 'HuC' (HEVC decoding) and 'GuC' (improved workload scheduling)

2018-01-06 Thread a . marmodoro
Package: firmware-misc-nonfree Version: 20161130-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, In addition to the already provided '/lib/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin' firmware file for the Intel 'Skylake' integrated GPU architecture, please consider including also the 2 additional 'HuC' and 'GuC'

Bug#886327: clblas: Fails on Intel 6th gen. (Skylake) iGPU and Beignet OpenCL driverl works with the Intel one

2018-01-04 Thread a . marmodoro
Source: clblas Version: 2.12-1 Severity: normal The (packaged) testing program 'clblas-client' triggers a failure when testing SGEMM operations on an integrated GPU, Intel 'Skylake': $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA

Bug#839038: konsole crashes when pasting long text snippets

2016-09-27 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: konsole Version: 4:16.04.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Upon pasting a large text buffer (~11Kb), Konsole crashes. The problem did not exist in the Debian 'Stable' version. Thanks a lot, -- Alberto. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate

Bug#839039: kate: crashes when closing with CTRL-w an empty tab among others

2016-09-27 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kate Version: 4:16.04.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Closing with CTRL-w a tab from which all text has been removed leads Kate to crashing. Thanks for your work, -- Alberto. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to

Bug#814056: android-tools-fastboot: fastboot fails to detect Intel device (Asus ZenPad S 8 Z580CA)

2016-02-07 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: android-tools-fastboot Version: 4.2.2+git20130529-5.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The version of 'fastboot' provided within this Debian package fails to detect a tablet powered by an Intel Z3560 Atom SoC. Having enabled 'Developer mode' and 'USB debugging' on the device,

Bug#802774: makedepf90: buffer overflow in makedepf90

2015-10-23 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: makedepf90 Version: 2.8.8-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The program 'makedepf90' from Debian package in subject fails when a hard-coded limit in the length of the '-r' argument is passed, i.e.: $ makedepf90 -r "mpif90.openmpi -fcheck=all -Wall -fbacktrace -fbounds-check

Bug#802774: makedepf90: Security warning; preliminary patch provided.

2015-10-23 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
value to a less easily exceeded maximum. There may be need for further corrections, in order to improve the safety of the code. Thanks for the good work, -- Alberto Marmodoro. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500

Bug#760831: bootcd: Missing dependence on isolinux. Patch for parallel compression.

2014-09-08 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: bootcd Version: 4.04 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch Dear Maintainer, bootcd appears to rely, but not depend, on the isolinux package: root@nb150:~# bootcdwrite [...] --- Building Modifications --- cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin': No such file or directory

Bug#760835: bootcd: Missing ldlinux.c32 support (required for isolinux ver. 5.00 and higher)

2014-09-08 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: bootcd Version: 4.04 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As reported on the IsoLinux wiki page: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems , Ver. 5.00 and higher of such package introduce an additional dependence on an extra ldlinux.??? file which depends on the booting

Bug#749878: squashfs-tools: please add LZMA with swapped field patch

2014-05-30 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: squashfs-tools Version: 1:4.2+20130409-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the default unsquashfs does not support LZMA with swapped fields files, which begin with: shsq rather than the usual hsqs magic header. This is important to access firmware files such as Intenso's Gmbh rt3055

Bug#445820: konqueror: Workaround for fish:// protocol died unexpectedly

2007-11-24 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #445820 Hello, the fish:// ioslave problem is unfortunately still present and it's rather annoying, but I'd like to submit a quick workaround that could hopefully also shed some light on the possible culprits: it is possible to get

Bug#450666: konserve: Empty tip of the day

2007-11-08 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: konserve Version: 0.10.3-3 Severity: minor Hi, it seems that the Tip of the day automatic dialogue comes up empty of any text with the present version of konserve. Maybe documentation was left out by mistake? Thanks a lot, -- a.m. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#449039: xserver-xorg: X slows down and finally crash with too many remote clients

2007-11-02 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+3 Severity: normal I'm experiencing sudden crashes of X when I have too many ( let's say ten or so) different instances of an X client (Wolfram's Mathematica 6.0 for linux) running on different computers and redirected on my machine through ssh tunneling.

Bug#449068: kpdf menu entries overlaps with konqueror ones namespace

2007-11-02 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kpdf Version: 4:3.5.8-1 Severity: minor When opening an online pdf from konqueror through kpdf embedded the File menu will acquire kpdf entries as well. The name of some of them will overlap though, i.e. the menu will show 2 Save as... entries, where the first refers to the html page or

Bug#445820: kdebase-kio-plugins: konqueror - fish ioslave fails

2007-11-01 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kdebase-kio-plugins Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #445820 I confirm the bug, fish fails on connections which were previously OK (and where ssh by itself is also fine). A discussion about it is available at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145123 A workaround is to start

Bug#448588: gmanedit: Help leads to segfault or freeze

2007-10-30 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: gmanedit Version: 0.3.3-12.1+b1 Severity: normal Going to the Help-Help menu entry leads to either a segfault, not always gracefully handled, or to a complete freeze of the program. Starting it from a console the last relevant messages appear to be: Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c:

Bug#448650: /usr/bin/incrontab: Typo in options list

2007-10-30 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: incron Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/incrontab A very, very minor one: the help showed by incrontab when launched without options refers to http:://bts.aiken.cz instead of http://bts.aiken.cz I know, I know ;) Thanks! -- a.m. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#438782: laptop-mode-tools: Add AC97 autosuspend support if available, as suggested by powertop

2007-10-29 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: laptop-mode-tools Version: 1.34-1 Followup-For: Bug #438782 Following up bug #438782, here is attached a simple patch to activate AC97 autosuspend feature via laptop_mode. Thanks! -- a.m. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#439901: preload: Patch for implementing idle ionice rescheduling

2007-10-29 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: preload Version: 0.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #439901 Hi, I'm attaching a simple patch to preload init.d script in order to have it run at idle priority, i.e. so as to exploit the default CFQ scheduler of Linux = 2.6.13 in order to use only idle disk bandwidth. This seems to optimize

Bug#448457: kaddressbook: Add example to Script-Hooks config dialogue for automatic dialing via kphone

2007-10-29 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kaddressbook Version: 4:3.5.8-1 Severity: minor Hi, I've found the autodial by clicking on phone number feature quite useful, but unfortunately both the script-hook configuration hint and my current voip package of choice (kphone) were rather underdocumented. Setting up things required

Bug#448398: findutils: Proposal to add idle I/O priority by default

2007-10-28 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: findutils Version: 4.2.31-1 Severity: wishlist The attached patch suggests how to introduce I/O idle scheduling, by tuning the CFQ scheduler (available since kernel 2.6.13) through the ionice utility provided by the util-linux package (schedutils in Ubuntu). Thanks! -- a.m. -- System

Bug#448399: prelink: Add support for idle I/O scheduling

2007-10-28 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: prelink Version: 0.0.20071009-1 Severity: wishlist The attached patch suggests how to introduce I/O idle scheduling, by tuning the CFQ scheduler (available since kernel 2.6.13) through the ionice utility provided by the util-linux package (schedutils in Ubuntu). Thanks! -- a.m. System

Bug#448400: man-db: Add support for I/O idle operation to lower system load

2007-10-28 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.0-3 Severity: wishlist The attached patch suggests how to introduce I/O idle scheduling, by tuning the CFQ scheduler (available since kernel 2.6.13) through the ionice utility provided by the util-linux package (schedutils in Ubuntu). Thanks! -- a.m. -- System

Bug#448403: kphone: Command line options help

2007-10-28 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kphone Version: 1:4.2-6 Severity: normal Hi, I've found out that kphone can work pretty well with kaddressbook Phone Script-Hook option. It requires starting the program with the -d number option; this and the other available ones are not documented though. Hence I'm attaching a minor

Bug#388382: kdemultimedia-kio-plugins: wrong lame encoding option results in static-like files copying audio CD via konqueror

2006-09-20 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kdemultimedia-kio-plugins Version: 4:3.5.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss The default command line configuration, or any modification of it accessible through kcontrol interface, will spawn lame with the -x option. This results in mp3 files containing

Bug#387535: libgphoto2-2: lock up Canon Powershot A75 after transfer

2006-09-14 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: libgphoto2-2 Version: 2.2.1-3+b1 Severity: normal After connecting, showing thumbnails, transferring and deleting files from a Canon PowerShot A75 camera through digikam interface, the camera is left in a locked up status: power led on, no display image, no response to any control. Need

Bug#377356: kontact: export to mobile phone function depends on gnokii

2006-07-08 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kontact Version: 4:3.5.3-2 Severity: normal The mobile phone sync functions, i.e.: File-Export-Export to Mobile Phone depend on gnokii can fail reporting: kontact: WARNING: Compiled with libgnokii version 0x3 kontact: WARNING: Using libgnokii runtime version 0x3 Couldn't open

Bug#368556: kooka: Crash on startup

2006-05-22 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: kooka Version: 4:3.5.2-1+b2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable *** Please type your report below this line ***line The application crash right at the invocation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kooka *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0cb22654 *** KCrash:

Bug#364484: gammu: wrong homepage in package description

2006-04-23 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: gammu Severity: minor Homepage www.gammu.net is invalid: it leads to a general links/search engine webpage. The correct url appears to be www.gammu.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc

Bug#358753: vym: does not find included documentation via help menu

2006-03-24 Thread Alberto Marmodoro
Package: vym Version: 1.7.0+cvs1.7.4-3 Severity: normal Problem: The Help menu in the map editor window does not find the included documentation file /usr/share/doc/vym/vym.pdf, thus reports a Critical error message Could not find the documentation vym.pdf in various places Suggested Fix: