Bug#564327: a solution

2018-12-28 Thread niku
Hi I don't know about OP, but at least the later poster will likely find the following useful. I got the commands working as desired by clearing Control and Mod1 _after_ resetting the code. I too got the error message [1] when I ran `xmodmap .Xmodmap', and I too got it working correctly when

Bug#712467: msmtp: missing man8/msmtp.8.gz

2014-03-21 Thread niku
Hello I can now access the man page in Wheezy (with latest updates). Thanks for your attention to the issue. ~niku. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:41:59AM +0100, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: niku, On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 02:26:53PM +0530, niku wrote: [...] --- man: can't resolve /usr

Bug#712555: not a bug

2013-06-17 Thread niku
I noticed that while the size of Contents-amd64.gz is around 20 MB, the size of Packages.gz -- which I had assumed was the file apt-file wanted to access -- is only about 300 KB. Thus the current issue is not a bug. I would be good, though, if the man page has a line or two about this issue. In

Bug#712467: msmtp: missing man8/msmtp.8.gz

2013-06-16 Thread niku
Package: msmtp Version: 1.4.28-1 Severity: minor When looking for `man msmtp`, man complains: --- man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man8/msmtp.8.gz: No such file or directory --- msmtp has registered the availability of a section 8 man page, but the file itself is missing. `accessdb | grep

Bug#712467:

2013-06-16 Thread niku
For completion: I can correctly open the section 1 man page. (`man msmtp` shows the sec. 1 man page; it complains on stderr about a missing sec. 8 man page.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712555: apt-file: `apt-file update` searches for wrong file in the optical media

2013-06-16 Thread niku
Package: apt-file Version: 2.5.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, `apt-file update` searches for a Contents-ARCH.gz, but the file does not exist on the optical media. It can find the file on internet. Perhaps a necessary simlink is missing on the optical media? root@debian:/home/niku

Bug#712306: libp11-kit0: if gnome-keyring is not installed p11-kit complains on stderr

2013-06-15 Thread Vaibhav Niku
Package: libp11-kit0 Version: 0.12-3 Severity: minor Hello If I try using mpop (with SSL) to download mail, the terminal is clobbered the error: --- p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring- pkcs11.so:

Bug#712306: libp11-kit0: if gnome-keyring is not installed p11-kit complains on stderr

2013-06-15 Thread Vaibhav Niku
You are right. On purging the gnome-keyring package, the message goes away. Thanks! I guess you have got got gnome-keyring uninstalled, but not purged, therefore /etc/pkcs11/modules/gnome-keyring-module which tells p11-kit to try loading gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so is present. How about purging

Bug#711543: Info received (additional info: related to another bug?)

2013-06-08 Thread niku
[|-- NOTE: that all this had not done by the package installer till now. That, when the postinstallation script was obviously read, as that is where the installation failed. Actually, I don’t know where the installation of colord failed. The postinstallation script for every other package

Bug#711543: bug #711543: Some good news

2013-06-08 Thread niku
Some good news. After a system restart: Reinstalling colord via synaptic: --- (Reading database ... 172176 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace colord 0.1.21-1 (using .../colord_0.1.21-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement colord ... Processing triggers for man-db ...

Bug#711510: ranger: typo in a command name

2013-06-08 Thread niku
The same typo is present in the rifle file too. So, it is present in three files: ./ranger/ranger/__init__.py:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper' ./ranger/ranger/ext/rifle.py:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper' ./ranger/rifle:DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#711543: Info received (bug #711543: Some good news)

2013-06-08 Thread niku
SUMMARY: All my problems are solved. The package maintainer still has to look for why command 3 below (and possibly others) were not run during colord installation. RELATED BUG: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648287 FOR OTHERS: The colord postinstallation script, `postinst',

Bug#711543: Info received (Bug#711543: Info received (bug #711543: Some good news))

2013-06-08 Thread niku
I have found out what is wrong. If a group scanner already exists, and it is a non-system group, the command: addgroup --system scanners exits with an error message: addgroup: The group `scanner' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting. and _with a 1_ (NOT 0). The script thus fails at

Bug#648287: resolution

2013-06-08 Thread niku
Please check the following page for a resolution: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711543 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#711543: Info received (Bug#711543: Info received (Bug#711543: Info received (bug #711543: Some good news)))

2013-06-08 Thread niku
FINAL SUMMARY: If you already had a non-system group named `scanner', then of the four commands in the postinstallation script (*.deb/DEBIAN/postinst) three were never executed. To solve the problem, run the commands 2, 3, and 4 of message#30 as the superuser and restart the system. You may wish

Bug#711508: gnome-terminal: man page is outdated

2013-06-07 Thread niku
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.4.1.1-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Gnome-terminal’s lead developer Christian Persch tells on the linked page that Debian man’s page of the project (which is in turn used by other distributions) is outdated. In particular, he reports two

Bug#711510: ranger: typo in a command name

2013-06-07 Thread niku
Package: ranger Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The ext/rifle.py and __init__.py files (and their compiled versions) say: DEFAULT_PAGER = 'sensible-paper' Note the typo: ‘paper’ for ‘pager’. This breaks the pager feature for all users who have not separately set the PAGER

Bug#711510: ranger: typo in a command name

2013-06-07 Thread niku
The issue on the upstream bug-page: http://ranger.carina.uberspace.de/qa/80/bug-in-v-1-6-0-default_pager-sensible-paper-not-pager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#711543: E: Internal Error, No file name for colord:amd64

2013-06-07 Thread niku
Package: colord Version: 0.1.21-1 Severity: normal I installed Debian from debian-7.0.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso, and I got errors mentioning colord after the very first packages I installed via synaptic. I did not note the error messages, but it said something about multiarch, i386, amd64, and package

Bug#711543: additional info: related to another bug?

2013-06-07 Thread niku
Is this issue related to another bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648287 As the superuser, Command: addgroup --system scanner Result: addgroup: The group `scanner' already exists and is not a system group. Exiting. Command: adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/colord

Bug#705016: Frontaccounting dependency error in Debian

2013-04-08 Thread niku
Package: frontaccounting Hello libgnome2-perl is a dependency of frontaccounting, but it is not mentioned as such in frontaccounting v. 2.2.10-2. When the installation of frontaccounting fails due to this unsatisfied dependency, there is an explicit error message from the frontaccounting

Bug#696539: ghostscript: Ghostscript's parent company claims copyright for all PostScript files produced by GS

2012-12-22 Thread Vaibhav Niku
Package: ghostscript Version: 8.71~dfsg2-9 Severity: important pdf2ps, which is a frontend to gs, inserts a copyright notice in all PS files it produces. Files look like this: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 871 (pswrite) %%BeginProlog % This copyright applies to everything

Bug#696542: pdfedit: text description of 'Page metrics' options is wrong

2012-12-22 Thread Vaibhav Niku
Package: pdfedit Version: 0.4.5-1 Severity: minor The 'Page metrics' option window (via Page Edit page metrics) has wrong text descriptions. The upper/bottom and right/left are jumbled. The first two options correspond to the left _lower_ corner, and the next two correspond to the right