Bug#502502: librsvg2-bin: does not position text correctly for rsvg-view

2008-10-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.22.2-2 Severity: important I have just finished debugging the SVG device for PLplot, and it produces SVG-1.1 results that validate at http://validator.w3.org/check and which view fine (i.e. have perfect text positioning and good graphics) on firefox and

Bug#502502: (no subject)

2008-10-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Promised attachment of simple SVG file that shows the text positioning issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Bug#502502: librsvg2-bin: does not position text correctly for rsvg-view

2008-10-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-17 08:45+0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: reassign 502502 librsvg2-2 2.22.2-2 thanks Le jeudi 16 octobre 2008 � 23:19 -0700, Alan W. Irwin a �crit : If you do decide to boot this upstream rather than attempt to fix the problem yourself, please tell me where you do so since I would like

Bug#496571: konqueror: configures javascript incorrectly for sourceforge.net domain

2008-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal This happens for all SourceForge project sites I have tried, but just to be specific I report the problem for http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot. That web page works fine if you configure javascript globally with the default

Bug#496571: konqueror: configures javascript incorrectly for sourceforge.net domain

2008-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
) for javascript. That option would help those users who don't have sufficient html expertise to figure out which domains to configure from the html source to get javascript to work. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bug#496970: konqueror: makes it difficult to configure the domains used for javascript

2008-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 Severity: wishlist This is a wish-list follow up to bug 496571 which I have now closed. The issue there was you had to go into the source code of SourceForge project pages (e.g., sourceforge.net/projects/plplot and many others I tried) to figure out

Bug#497067: gnat-4.3: 64-bit raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow (or erroneous memory access)

2008-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
in Ada so I lean toward the latter explanation. If there is no obvious 64-bit coding issue in the simple example, the first thing we need is confirmation that the simple test case does raise the error on all 64-bit platforms that are tried, and causes no problems on 32-bit platforms. Alan W

Bug#497067: gnat-4.3: 64-bit raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow (or erroneous memory access)

2008-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
The simple test case referred to in the initial bug report is attached as a compressed tarball. __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Bug#495486: udev: recently changed /dev/disk/by-id names

2008-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
consequences of this renaming as well since generally it is a bad idea to rename something that normally is used for persistent hardware identification. So this issue may need a higher bug Severity than normal. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d

Bug#451917: xserver-xorg-video-intel: upgrade from 2:2.1.1-4 to 2:2.2.0-1 breaks X for g33 chipset

2007-11-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-19 11:11+0100 Brice Goglin wrote: Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.2.0-1 Severity: normal X -probeonly completely locks up the keyboard with the monitor immediately put into its low-power state (as close to turned off as possible without quite

Bug#451917: xserver-xorg-video-intel: continued report for XAA possibility

2007-11-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.2.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #451917 XAA was a nice idea, which I thought might work, but it didn't help. X -probeonly still gives complete lockup for version 2:2.2.0-1 of xserver-xorg-video-intel while there are no X problems for version 2.1.1-4 of that

Bug#452053: The LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit_wrapper workaround works for me as well!

2007-11-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is not such an occasion (it's just a general result of using Debian testing) but I am so glad to see this workaround, that I felt moved to make some general remarks. Also, my thanks to all the Debian volunteers that make this such a good community. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Bug#451917: xserver-xorg-video-intel: upgrade from 2:2.1.1-4 to 2:2.2.0-1 breaks X for g33 chipset

2007-11-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
:2.1.1-4 of xserver-xorg-video-intel X works fine in combination with the new xserver-xorg-core. What's the next step? Is there a debianized latest git version of xserver-xorg-video-intel that I could try for you? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#349302: itcl3-dev: Trouble finding itcl.tcl confirmed for Debian testing

2007-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
?) introduced between tcl8.4-dev/tcl8.4 version 8.4.9-1 on Debian oldstable and tcl8.4-dev/tcl8.4 version 8.4.16-4 on Debian testing. Note, the run-time error for tcl3 also occurred for tcl8.4-dev/tcl8.4 version 8.4.16-3. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#453718: libcairo2: rangecheck error in PostScript xyshow results

2007-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to render. For example, it makes it impossible to view many of the postscript examples you can make with the PLplot pscairo device which is how I discovered the bug. Please apply this one-line patch to the Debian version of libcairo until the fix becomes part of an upstream release Alan W. Irwin

Bug#416571: vlc: Confirm hot keys continue not to work

2007-11-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
probable cause, and I hope you are going to carefully check this possibility in any case. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores

Bug#451565: jed-extra: no Suggests dependency on ispell

2007-11-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is the reason I am filing this bug. BTW, I am pleased to see ispell_region working so nicely. (My previous install was Ubuntu dapper where it did not work.) Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable

Bug#451565: jed-extra: no Suggests dependency on ispell

2007-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
message Jörg suggests above? (See /http://bugs.debian.org/451565 for the context of this message.) I agree this solution would be better than the Suggests I originally proposed. And thanks, Rafael, for suggesting the aspell alternative to ispell. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Bug#451859: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: snd_hda_intel gives poor sound quality for Intel g33/ich9 chipset

2007-11-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to inform others of the status of snd_hda_intel for g33/ich9 for debian testing (nothing but hum), and debian unstable (intelligible sound for the first time, but with some hum). Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.22-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.22-4) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc

Bug#451917: xserver-xorg-video-intel: upgrade from 2:2.1.1-4 to 2:2.2.0-1 breaks X for g33 chipset

2007-11-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
X to normalcy would be much appreciated. For example, is there any way for me to get back to 2:2.1.1-4? Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster: xserver-xorg /etc/X11/X target does not match checksum in /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum. X server symlink status

Bug#451917: xserver-xorg-video-intel: upgrade from 2:2.1.1-4 to 2:2.2.0-1 breaks X for g33 chipset

2007-11-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.2.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #451917 Brice said: Anyway, could you try changing your modeline into something else? For instance [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead? (use gtf to get the corresponding modeline). Hi Brice: I was also

Bug#451859: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: snd_hda_intel gives poor sound quality for Intel g33/ich9 chipset

2007-11-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-19 13:50-0700 dann frazier wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:31:01PM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64 Version: 2.6.22-4 Severity: normal For the Debian testing version of the snd_hda_intel kernel module, there was nothing but a hum from the speakers

Bug#451859: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: snd_hda_intel gives poor sound quality for Intel g33/ich9 chipset

2007-12-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
reporting system. I plan to report back here from time to time on the upstream response to this issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Bug#293509: sablevm: NumberFormat now results in a java.lang.NullPointerException

2005-02-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for the Debian version of sablevm please implement it since it may be a long wait for a new version of sablevm that fixes this bug, and it would be a shame if NumberFormat continues not to work for the version of sablevm that makes it into the forthcoming Debian release. Alan W. Irwin -- System

Bug#297491: Please use repeat_type=none in default /etc/gpm.conf file

2005-02-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
desktop newbie who is trying to get the X mouse to work a whole lot less painful. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968

Bug#448983: xserver-xorg-video-intel: ignores Modes and minimum VertRefresh to always choose [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Intel g33 chipset

2007-11-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
which screwed me up completely with regard to adding a special modeline and using the PreferredMode option. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Bug#448983: xserver-xorg-video-intel: ignores Modes and minimum VertRefresh to always choose [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Intel g33 chipset

2007-11-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-03 09:24+0100 Brice Goglin wrote: Alan W. Irwin wrote: Worse yet, only the VGA one is documented in the intel man page. However, when I tried Option Monitor-VGA-1 Sony CPD-15SF2 encouraged by your remark above but contrary to the man page that (finally) solved the issue

Bug#448983: xserver-xorg-video-intel: ignores Modes and minimum VertRefresh to always choose [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Intel g33 chipset

2007-11-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
at the internal and external connector list from the ASUS P5K-V MB manual). Let me know if there is any other information you need to track this VGA-1 problem down. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bug#414556: [autoconf-archive: ac_python_devel.m4 sets useless -L in PYTHON_LDFLAGS]

2007-03-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I discovered CMake, and now all my projects have been converted from autotools to CMake with excellent results. Thus, from now on feel free from my perspective to make any change you feel is correct to ac_python_devel.m4. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Bug#326775: libxine1: hangs when encountering media (i/o) errors

2005-09-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
encounters an i/o error like this it should report the problem to the calling routine and move on, and when libxine1 receives such a report it should also do the same instead of hanging. Alan W. Irwin Note added by AWI about system information. For what it is worth, I am also using package

Bug#323460: nfs-kernel-server: produces large garbage UID by default for root_squash

2005-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
libra ii nfs-common 1:1.0.7-3 NFS support files common to client ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-1System-V like init -- no debconf information __ Alan W. Irwin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#323483: reportbug: the -o option puts in initial lines in the output file which screw up bug submission to the Debian Bug Tracking System

2005-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
shouldn't have to always remember to trim the interfering initial lines from the file that is output with the -o option. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR=jed ** /home/irwin/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 3.2 mode standard ui text realname Alan W. Irwin email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#311357: Upgrade of 386 version of the 2.6.8 kernel breaks via-rhine

2005-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
immediately quit working. This card/via-rhine module pair has been working for me without problems for 5 years under Debian until now. Since this is such a heavily used networking module, I consider it is critical to fix this recently introduced problem before the release. Alan W. Irwin

Bug#311357: Upgrade of 386 version of the 2.6.8 kernel breaks via-rhine

2005-06-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2005-06-07 17:48+0900 Horms wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 01:11:54PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: severity 311357 grave thanks * Alan W. Irwin wrote: This is a confirmation of the bad problem with the via-rhine module for the latest version of the 386 version of the 2.6.8 kernel

Bug#483893: wesnoth-thot: has misplaced tunnel door

2008-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: wesnoth-thot Version: 1:1.4.2-1 Severity: minor The tunnel door currently at 53,34 should be at 55,33 in THoT-The Underlevels. I will follow up with a compressed screenshot showing the exact problem. Now this could be some slightly artful misdirection, but it has the feel of a position

Bug#490597: yorick-dev: make debug generates undefined reference to main error

2008-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: yorick-dev Version: 2.1.05+dfsg-5 Severity: important yplot is a compiled extension of Yorick which uses the PLplot library for plotting. I am currently porting the build of yplot from Yorick 1.5 to Yorick 2.1.x because of the latter's different mechanism for creating extensions. My

Bug#490597: Further investigation shows strip should not be applied to main.o

2008-07-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is just a compiled object where the symbols should not be stripped since symbols are actually needed in order to link a viable executable using main.o Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Bug#473647: gcc-3.4: no g77

2008-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
, please reverse this arbitrary decision and put g77 back into the gcc-3.4 source package until you decide to drop gcc-3.4 legacy support altogether. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Bug#479410: djvulibre-plugin: has bad encoding for /usr/share/man/ja/man1/nsdejavu.1.gz

2008-05-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: djvulibre-plugin Version: 3.5.20-6 Severity: minor A recent update of my Debian testing system automatically installed djvulibre-plugin for the first time. Since that installation I get the following daily annoying e-mail message from the anacron daemon /etc/cron.daily/man-db:

Bug#375898: htcheck: does not work with mysql-5.0

2006-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
that is why I am reporting it here to warn other Debian users they almost certainly must stick with mysql-4.1 until the htcheck fix for mysql-5.0 propagates from upstream. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE

Bug#611053: gv can no longer find fonts

2011-01-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: gv Version: 1:3.7.1-1 Severity: normal When I use gv to view a PostScript file I get the following warning messages: software@raven gv x01c.psc Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
in the output from xlsfonts related to Helvetica; irwin@raven xlsfonts |grep -i hel |wc -l 0 Can you confirm that on your testing system as well or is there some additional package I should install to resolve this issue? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 18:41+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca [110125 18:21]: irwin@raven xlsfonts |wc -l 1600 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. Also

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 21:40+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: package gv close 611053 thanks * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca [110125 20:15]: To recap, in my original message I said quote Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather old advice to install xfonts-100dpi

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Bernhard: I agree with most/all of your points, and I appreciate your help in clarifying the issues (especially with the good point that these are server-side fonts so the suggests/recommends are the X server package responsibility). Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

2011-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, one solution to the issue which I think would justify closing this bug report would be to warn users about the reboot requirement with an install warning message for xserver-xorg-video-intel. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2011-02-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
on the missing dependency issue for the legacy approach. Please fix that! Also, please remove the moreinfo tag. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-02-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
need guidance on which component of the X stack is responsible for filling before I do such propagation. Finally, I am not sure exactly how to attach screenshots to Debian bugs using reportbug so I may have to do that later if it does not work with this initial report. Alan W. Irwin -- Package

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-02-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-02-28 14:15+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sam, 2011-02-26 at 13:52 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-11 Severity: normal The PLplot development team have just implemented a demanding 2D fill rendering test for the X stack where we modify our

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-03-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-03-01 13:04+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:03 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Following your suggestion, I tried the EvenOddRule fill rule case for both fbdev and vesa, and the results were consistent (i.e., many fill rendering errors) with what happens for the intel

Bug#615491: Please close this bug report

2011-03-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
were not duplicated and the last boundary segment was small both the even-odd and non-zero winding rule fill rules produced correct results for the self-intersecting boundary case that also looked obviously correct. Therefore, please close this bug report. Alan __ Alan W

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2011-03-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-03-06 03:24+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca (26/02/2011): I do plan to give inputattach a quick try once I move from Debian Squeeze to Debian testing (probably in 6-12 months after testing has had a chance to settle down for a while

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

2011-01-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is not a permanent solution. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#563850: xserver-xorg-video-sis: X server crashes when logging out from KDE via xdm

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(since I am logging out anyway), but I thought I should report them for the record. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 5 00:56 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr

Bug#563850: test

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Just checking for whether I am subscribed to this bug or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530005: libphobos-4.1-dev: libgphobos cannot be linked by a shared library

2009-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tests are necessary to help you figure out this linking issue, I would be happy to perform them. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG

Bug#595662: sed: incorrectly concatanates next line to pattern space

2010-09-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: sed Version: 4.2.1-7 Severity: important I illustrate the bug by two examples. In each case I have a file called bookmarks.html with a particular line in it containing the string 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. I pipeline the result to diff to find out the exact effect of the given sed one-line

Bug#594384: gnat-4.4-doc: gnat_rm appears with the wrong version number in the top-level info index

2010-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
fine. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Bug#518816: python-uniconvertor: Cannot load plugin module cgmloader

2009-03-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions

Bug#518816: copying .sfd files to ~/.uniconvertor/fonts still give an empty fntlst when *.cgm files are being converted to other formats

2009-03-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2010-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
on mlock or suggest or recommend it. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing FATAL: Module fbcon not found. message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the web says. So therefore, please just remove this useless and confusing message! Also, if this is the wrong package to report this bug (say if this is caused by the X server rather than intel driver), please forward this bug to the appropriate X package. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info

Bug#579910: vmware video driver breaks X configure

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
configuration for a vastly changed X configuration landscape. Therefore, if the workaround were not available I would have requested classifying this bug at a much higher severity level. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
think they affect it at all unless the user specifically is requesting kbd and mouse drivers as I outlined above. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2

Bug#588571: tvtime: generates incorrect mute unavailable message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to work fine for Squeeze.) I suppose I could also write another formal bug report about a volume control being missing in tvtime, but I am reasonably satisfied with kmix to handle the overall volume so I will only mention that issue in passing here. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing FATAL: Module fbcon not found. message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-09 18:40+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:12:20 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-4 Severity: minor There is plenty of advice on the internet to ignore this message which is why I have classified this as a minor bug

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-09 19:32+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:04:19 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: normal The default hot plugging X input system implemented using evdev did not detect my serial mouse so I turned hot

Bug#588670: installation-reports: generated grub.cfg has off-by-one error in --fs-uuid index in the search command

2010-07-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded on 2010-07-05 with size of 177694720 Date: Date and time of the install Just after I downloaded, probably late 2010-07-05 or early

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined System Monitor applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

2010-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Bug#588983: python-feedvalidator: errors out with ImportError: No module named ....

2010-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: python-feedvalidator Version: 0~svn1022-1 Severity: grave Tags: l10n Justification: renders package unusable The issue is that with Debian squeeze /etc/default/locale now defines LANGUAGE. On my system that file looks like this # File generated by update-locale #LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I initially thought so despite the above tag, I currently have no patch for this issue. N.B. this undefined symbol issue kills my build of a pyqt4 module which actually needed one of those missing symbols so I judged this to be an important issue. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-22 01:59+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: tags 589893 - patch thanks Thanks for your bug report. * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca, 2010-07-21, 16:37: ldd -r /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/PyQt4/Qt.so You obtain the following (abbreviated) results: linux-vdso.so.1

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-22 11:34+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca, 2010-07-21, 18:40: softw...@raven ldd -r /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so 21 |grep -i codec undefined symbol: _ZN10QTextCodec11validCodecsEv (/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so) I

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined System Monitor applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

2010-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(probably send it upstream) would be immediately useful. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

Bug#623758: emacs23: edt-find-next is unreliable on rare occasions

2011-04-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-7 Severity: normal These fairly rare symptoms occur for EDT mode which is invoked using ; ; edt emulation invoked automatically at start ; (add-hook 'term-setup-hook 'edt-emulation-on) in the .emacs file. edt-find-next is

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2012-07-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-45 Severity: important In March 2011 I noticed our two-user home-office desktop system (one user accessing the system directly from its keyboard, one user accessing the system via a thin client/X-terminal) was showing all the classic signs of a memory leak (a

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2012-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
application mix and a heavier application mix might trigger the issue. On the other hand, the problem might be limited just to 64-bit hardware. So monitoring /proc/slabinfo on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines running 2.6.32 is required to help pin this down. Alan __ Alan W

Bug#644809: Yes, please!

2012-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
covered by bug 644809. It is time for action to put this irritating issue to rest. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Bug#688674: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for PS2 to USB adapter

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. I use an ordinary PS2 to USB converter with two sockets for keyboard and mouse and one USB socket that is plugged into my computer. So I presume the device looks

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso 2012-09-06 Date: Date and time of the install 2012-09-19 Machine: ASUS Eee box B202

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
-ROM image on USB drive when that is appropriate rather than the above messages explicitly assuming that CD-ROM image is located on an actual CD drive. For experts this doesn't matter, but that wrong assumption is just confusing to newbies. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Bug#688812: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Reapplying the same Outline desktop effect slows GMA 950 graphics core to a permanent crawl

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal For this particular Intel GMA500 graphics core, the KDE desktop is normally quite responsive. However, during initial configuration of KDE I was trying to get rid of a colored halo that appears for window that happens to have

Bug#688818: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 500 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 playing of 3D games

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 500 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env

Bug#688822: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 950 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 950 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env

Bug#688818: I am going to close this bug report

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Because I stated in the subject line and body that it was GMA 500 rather than the correct GMA 950. Important difference! I have resubmited this bug report again with correct subject line and body GMA id. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2013-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to continue to be an issue for those remaining Debian users who have not done that upgrade yet. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Bug#666761: Still an important issue for those who build modern wine versions

2013-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is good, I would hope the implementation would not be too difficult for someone with the required packaging skills and libfreetype knowledge. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Bug#688812: Substitute GMA950 everywhere I said GMA500 in the text

2012-09-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Subject line says it all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#689377: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for a serial mouse

2012-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. This bug is closely related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688674, but for a completely different system (64-bit for this report versus 32-bit

Bug#716798: cmake: fails to download SSL URL's

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: cmake Version: 2.8.9-1 Severity: normal I have recently discovered that CMake support for SSL downloads is fragile, and the Debian version does not work correctly because of that issue. Here is a simple script to illustrate this issue for the Debian version of cmake. software@raven cat

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

2013-10-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: libhpdf-2.2.1 Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch PLplot implements a plot device for creating pdf plots that depends on libhpdf, and when that pdf plot device is linked to the Debian wheezy version of libhpdf, all our standard examples work fine except for one with large fonts

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-11 16:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I did try the obvious step of building the Debian packages for libhpdf using apt-src build libhpdf. All seemed well with that build, but when I installed the corresponding debs, none of the critical symbols for the library as revealed by objdump

Bug#720624: dblatex: errors out with Undefined control sequence \Epsilon, etc., when rendering the Greek alphabet

2013-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: dblatex Version: 0.3.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The following simple docbook example: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE book PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd; [ !ENTITY Alpha#913; !ENTITY Beta #914;

Bug#721366: xmlto: craps out if DESTDIR is specified

2013-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xmlto Version: 0.0.25-2 Severity: normal My use case is I am building and installing a particular package (PLplot) using make DESTDIR=whatever install where the install target depends on the all target which builds part of the package documentation using xmlto --with-fop. The

Bug#752274: liblasi-dev: has packaging issues with the files that are included

2014-06-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: liblasi-dev Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: minor The list of files for this package include the following two files in error: /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/CMakeLists.txt /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/Makefile.examples.in The first of these is a small part of the CMake-based

Bug#761057: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-09-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for docbook using that slightly modified BSD documentation license (subject to Rafael's agreement as author of those man pages) and also for the doxygen-generated files. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bug#768105: smoke-dev-tools: smokegen does not parse -I options correctly

2014-11-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: smoke-dev-tools Version: 4:4.8.4-1 Severity: normal I am helping to generate some smoke bindings for the PLplot library. The command I first used to generate the source code was /usr/bin/smokegen -config /usr/share/smokegen/qt-config.xml \ -smokeconfig \

Bug#774118: libc6:amd64: strspn generates compiler warning

2014-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-38+deb7u4 Severity: normal A compiler warning message is generated by the following test code and compiler options. irwin@raven cat test_strspn.c #include stdio.h #include string.h int main(void) { strcmp( 8998797857586fasdfljf, ); strspn(

Bug#774118: Additional information

2014-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
apply it. __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net

Bug#774118: closed by Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org (Re: Bug#774118: Additional information)

2014-12-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
software project. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

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