Package: hal
Version: 0.4.7-3sarge1
Severity: normal
README.Debian for package hal implies that to get fstab-sync rewriting
/etc/fstab it is enough to remove the '--drop-privileges' option from
the value of DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/default/hal. This is not enough.
Consulting the fstab-sync man page,
Your premise that:
he shouldn't need his local named to resolve the name of the time
server.
is right; one does not need a local named in order to resolve the
name of a remote time server. But ...
... running a local name server with resolv.conf containing 127.0.0.1
is quite a common and
Your premise that:
he shouldn't need his local named to resolve the name of the time
server.
is right; one does not need a local named in order to resolve the
name of a remote time server. But ...
... running a local name server with resolv.conf containing 127.0.0.1
is quite a common and
I have experienced this same problem with two Dell systems (XPS T600 and
Inspiron 8100).
It seems that chronyd doesn't like the RTC driver and is doing sort-of
exponential backoff of something; I say this because having restarted
chronyd I see the glitches coming at the following intervals: 15,
for packaging chrony!
Alexis Huxley
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored
Package: samba
Version: 2:3.2.3-1
Severity: normal
During installation of Samba I was presented with the following question:
... If you do not create it, you will have to reconfigure
Samba (and probably your client machines) to use
plaintext passwords ... Create samba
What I eventually did on my system to clean up was the following, which
could easily replace what is in the post-install script:
UID_MIN=$(sed -n 's/^UID_MIN[\t ]*//p' /etc/login.defs)
UID_MAX=$(sed -n 's/^UID_MAX[\t ]*//p' /etc/login.defs)
# 'sort -u' needed 'cos if NIS
Package: nullidentd
Version: 1.0-4
Severity: normal
1. I make a new OS installation with a minimal set of packages
2. I install nullidentd
3. I run:
penne# echo fbloggs | nc -q 1 penne 113
penne.pasta.net [192.168.1.42] 113 (auth) : Connection refused
-bash: echo: write
Package: xfce4-session
Version: 4.4.2-6
Severity: minor
If /usr/games is not in the $PATH, as it is not for root, then xfce4-tips
does not work.
If root logs in to a newly installed machine then xfce4-tips runs automatically
and it is somewhat disconcerting to have a blank tip window displayed.
Hi Simon,
Whilst I can see your point, the correct solution would really be not to
run X as root which is never a good idea.
If you need to run a graphical program as root (which I wouldn't
recommend) then you could use sudo from a normal session.
I wondered if you would say this :-)
Package: luvcview
Version: 1:0.2.4-2
Severity: normal
I've install luvcview and uvccapture as a means of testing a webcam.
Out of the box uvccapture works. But luvcview does not. The errmsgs
are:
penne# luvcview -d /dev/video0
luvcview 0.2.4
===| DirectFB 1.0.1
Hi Avi,
In any case please run the following (as root) after the daemon is
started:
noip2 -D pid
(get the pid from the log) - this may provide some more info.
Okay, I've been running noip2 again for ten days with no problems
at all. I suggest to close the bug with user error. Sorry for
Package: bitchx
Followup-For: Bug #167695
Just to report that I also experienced this bug for quite some time,
but that 1.1-4 seems - to me at least - not to suffer from it any
more.
Alexis
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Package: synaptic
Version: 0.57.11.1+b1
Severity: normal
installing packages which want to launch a dialog triggers debconf reporting
that it is unable to launch the dialogue and even suggests is libgnome2-perl
installed?. Sounds to me like it should be prerequisite package for synaptic.
Let me
Package: nis
Version: 3.17-6
Severity: minor
/var/yp/Makefile contains the following settings related to AMD:
AMD_HOME= $(YPSRCDIR)/amd.home
The path to amd.home and auto.master is not compatible with
what is suggested in the 'Sample map' section of /etc/am-utils/amd.conf,
which suggests
AMD_HOME= $(YPSRCDIR)/amd.home
The path to amd.home and auto.master is not compatible with
what is suggested in the 'Sample map' section of /etc/am-utils/amd.conf,
which suggests $(YPSRCDIR)/am-utils/amd.{home,master}.
Secondly, can I suggest that the Makefile is expanded with
So just to clarify I'm looking at the same documetnation that you are
and there are no examples other than auto.home in the documentation in
there?
Correct.
The second point is simply that /var/yp/Makefile contains entries
for the kernel automounter for mountpoints defined by AUTO_MASTER,
-time dependency on build-essential should be backed
out.
If I can be of further assistance (trying to build packages with modified
dpkg-dev), then let me know. Thanks.
Alexis Huxley
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Architecture
Package: libqt4-gui
Version: 4.4.0~rc1-5
Severity: normal
(I discovered this problem when stellarium stopped work following
an upgrade to the latest 'testing'.)
apt-file indicates that libQtOpenGL.so.4 is provided by libqt4-gui:
lasagne# apt-file search libQtOpenGL.so.4
severity 480638 normal
tag 480638 + wontfix
thanks
Ok, accepting that I disagree that making gcc a prerequisite for building
shell script packages is acceptable for a moment, ...
... in that case could you:
1) split the bug
2) assign one half to the build-essential people so that the text:
Package: slrn
Version: 0.9.9~pre97-1
Severity: normal
Make a config setting in the distributed /etc/news/slrn.rc and
it will have no effect.
Run:
mkdir /etc/news/slrn
mv /etc/news/* /etc/news/slrn/
Then try again, now the config setting is applied.
The following seems to
Package: gcc-4.1
Version: 4.1.2-19
Severity: normal
gcc-4.2 gets installed with the current 'testing' by default, but it is
not the compiler used to compile the latest 2.6 series kernel package.
Therefore gcc-4.2 is no good for compiling other modules from source
(e.g. VMware modules, uvc-video,
Hi Arthur,
It has been closed by Arthur Loiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply to [EMAIL
PROTECTED]).
/usr/bin/gcc symlink is provided by `gcc' package from `gcc-default' source
package, not by `gcc-4.2'.
Fine, you are right, the package name might be wrong, but the bug exists.
If I try to
Hi Arthur and Thiemo,
gcc-4.2 is the default on i386, you have to switch back the default compiler
to gcc-4.1 by hand updating /usr/bin/{cpp,gcc,g++} symlinks, etc. But you
don't have to uninstall gcc-4.2.
Indeed; I do not have to uninstall gcc-4.2. But keeping software installed
which I and
Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.2.8-5
Followup-For: Bug #445323
Hi, I thought the following might help you track down this bug.
I made a mirror of 'testing' on 5 May 2008. I installed the nVidia
driver from NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run. I did *not* have the
xfce-terminal problem discussed
I can't go back in time and run that before I did the upgrade :-) but
I do have backups of /var/lib/dpkg/status, from before the upgrade, so,
if it helps, let me know if you want them.
It'd be nice, especially the vte stuff. It seems it may be a
xfce4-terminal+vte bug (gnome-terminal
Package: googleearth-package
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important
[ Feel free to change severity: the program is totally unusable by any local
user, but as for other people on other computers ... ]
On 04/05/2008 I mirrored testing and installed my system, using nVidia
driver
Sorry - user error, close this bug - or treat it as a documentation/
wishlist item (see below).
I did not read /usr/share/doc/googleearth/README.linux. Once I did
then it gave me an idea, which worked.
I was already at the latest version of the nVidia driver, but
recompiling it fixed the
Package: masqmail
Version: 0.2.21-4
Followup-For: Bug #427095
If, like me, you're using masqmail only for local-to-local delivery, then
the following workaround may help you:
edit /etc/default/masqmail and put the following at the bottom of it:
# Workaround for BTS#427095
There's a large xorg upgrade in these. Maybe that's the point. I guess
you'can really revert to this version?
:-) Sorry, that I can't really do.
Alexis
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this is a
change rather than a bug :-)
Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Regards
Alexis Huxley
PS Debian's bashbug sends to debian site as well as bash's. I adjusted
the Debian address to be that of the already posted bug report, but
I'm not sure if bash's and Debian's bug report handlers
Description:
[[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted
from http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/CHANGES :
f. Quoting the string argument to the [[ command's =~ operator now forces
string matching, as with the other pattern-matching operators.
Hmmm ... ok, thanks, I
And this is how. Quoting any part of the rhs forces it to be matched
as a string.
Okay, that's very clear. Maybe the man page could be updated?
Patch 39, which you appear to have applied, introduces a `compat31' shell
option which you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior.
Ah! And
Package: noip2
Version: 2.1.7-7
Severity: normal
Quite simply noip2 is exiting with no message.
This seems to happen around the time that my provide regularly cuts my link
(every 24 hours) so I suspect that noip2 is not dealing with this properly.
The logs contain useful:
May 6 18:23:29
Package: linux-doc-2.6.24
Version: 2.6.24-6
Severity: normal
When I install the packages:
linux-image-2.6-686
linux-headers-2.6-686
then the right thing happens; these depend on the latest 2.6 kernels and
headers.
But when I install:
linux-doc-2.6
the corresponding
Package: masqmail
Version: 0.2.21-4
Severity: minor
masqmail(8) says, in the FILES section:
/etc/aliases is the alias file, if not set differently in
/etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf.
This is wrong. It should say:
/dev/null is the alias file, if not set differently in
Package: masqmail
Version: 0.2.21-1.2
Severity: normal
If /etc/aliases exists but is empty, then masqmail will queue mail
but not actually deliver it (irrespective of whether sent from inside
or outside, or going to inside or outside).
Masqmail should not simply silently only queue mails
Package: phpwiki
Version: 1.3.12p2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi, Just installed phpwiki. Followed the debconf screens. Visited the wiki
page. It looked fine until I tried to edit the front page and then got:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608
Package: bandwidthd
Version: 2.0.1+cvs20050208-6
Followup-For: Bug #328577
It looks very much like this bug is still present.
It seems to me that it is caused by incorrect formatting of PPP
interfaces' subnets in the config file at debconf-time.
PPP interfaces have no '/number-of-bits' when
Package: ganglia-webfrontend
Version: 3.1.7-1
Severity: normal
The Grid and cluster-name level web pages (but not the node-name
level screens accessible from the Choose A Node pull-down menu)
include a link Legend near the bottom of these pages. This link
leads to node_legend.html. This file is
variables
and their values. Once there, I just search for 'br' and found the
name of the preseed variables that were set to this value. Yahoo! :)
HTH
Alexis Huxley
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Package: hw-detect
Version: testing on 03 July 2010
Followup-For: Bug #582044
I have the same issue when trying to install squeeze/testing/03-July-2010
in a Xen HVM domU running on a stable/lenny Xen dom0. I read a few reports of
seeing this problem on low memory systems but doubled the VM's RAM
Package: alien
Version: 8.81
Severity: normal
Lenny's alien correctly does this:
fiori$ alien -r mondsk_3.1.3-1_all.deb
Warning: alien is not running as root!
Warning: Ownerships of files in the generated packages will probably be wrong.
mondsk-3.1.3-2.noarch.rpm generated
fiori$ echo $?
0
Package: module-assistant
Version: 0.11.3
Severity: normal
I install a squeeze system from a mirror which has not been
updated for few months. Then I add security repository info to
/etc/apt/sources.list and then run 'apt-get update apt-get
dist-upgrade' and I think this upgrades the kernel, so
Package: flite
Version: 1.4-release-2
Severity: normal
at 4, 9, 14, 19 ... 54, 59 minutes past each hour, flite_time generates the
wrong text, which it then goes on to say. For example:
nb016161# flite_time 12:04
The time is now, exactly five past twelve, in the afternoon.
nb016161# flite_time
I had a quick look at the code, and I think the error is in
main/flite_time_main.c in function time_approx().
It looks like there was an old way to work out if the word exaclty
should be used, which was to compare the minutes against 0 and 5,
but then a new way was used, which worked out the
Package: sqlite3
Version: 3.7.3-1
Severity: normal
The documentation states:
The sqlite3 program is able to show the results of a query in
eight different formats: csv, column, html, insert,
line, list, tabs, and tcl. You can use the .mode
dot command to switch
According to Alexis, the original reporter, flite actually used to say
exactly only for 0, but I can't find a trace of that, Alexis?
Not quite; I said that, by examining the code, it looked as if there
had been (at some earlier time) a different method of working out if
rhe word exactly should
Package: virt-top
Version: 1.0.4-2
Severity: normal
'virt-top -2' is listing the same host several times:
virt-top 08:15:04 - x86_64 4/4CPU 2000MHz 3965MB
11 domains, 5 active, 5 running, 0 sleeping, 0 paused, 6 inactive D:0 O:0 X:0
CPU: 51.8% Mem: 1152 MB (1152 MB by guests)
ID S RXBY TXBY
Obviously (though I checked of course) noodle is not running three times.
This only affects the '-2' screen; the others are fine.
Looking at the manpage this is expected since it lists network
interfaces by default so I'd say that's not a bug but a feature.
Err ... could you tell me which
Err ... could you tell me which bit of the man page you are referring to?
Thanks.
Display network interfaces by default (instead of domains).
Okay, then we have a misunderstanding:
'virt-top -2' displays the NICs instead of the domains; sure, that's fine,
and is what is in the man page.
Doh ... please close the ticket; user error. My apologies.
Alexis
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Package: alien
Version: 8.86
Severity: normal
I'm running alien in a directory where I have just unpacked a source tar.gz file
and made it into deb. This means the directory program-name-source-version
exists. As in this simulation:
fettuce$ mkdir paa-1
fettuce$ alien -r paa_1-2_all.deb
Package: libfinance-quote-perl
Version: 1.17-1
Severity: normal
Here's a little script demonstrate the issue:
torchio$ cat demobug
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Finance::Quote;
$currency = EUR;
$exchange = europe;
$stock = NONEXISTENTSTOCK;
#$stock = CBK.DE;
$quote_handle = Finance::Quote-new;
Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.7-2
Severity: minor
Rsync has an option '--remove-sent-files', as seen here:
torchio$ strings /usr/bin/rsync | grep remove-sent-files
--remove-sent-files
torchio$
But
torchio$ rsync --help 21 | grep remove-sent-files
/Contents-amd64.gz.
HTH
Alexis Huxley
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Sorry, this is quite long and I know how hard it can be to follow these
things, but please stick with it, because I think (1) I show there is
a problem with debmirror (also in wheezy) with the new repo layout,
and also (2) makes me wonder if something is amiss with the upstream
repo layout.
debmirror is not only used for mirroring debian's archives,
but users may also user it for mirroring other deb package
archives (e.g. virtualbox, site-specific repos), which means
that it may well talk to servers where rsyncd is not running.
But, as OP pointed out, trace files are always
Package: urlwatch
Version: 1.15-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
With jessie's urlwatch (and prerequisite python-concurrent.futures):
torchio$ egrep -v '^($|#)' ~/.urlwatch/urls.txt
http://www.kayser-threde.de/en/jobs/
torchio$ urlwatch
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
created
Segmentation fault
fiori$
If I remove .config/dconf/user then it works again (albeit with settings
reset to factory defaults). If you'd like further info, or that I test
a new version, please let me know.
Alexis Huxley
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Package: drbd8-utils
Version: 2:8.3.13-2
Followup-For: Bug #476545
Hi, just to add that this bug is also preventing ocfs2 filesystems
on drbd devices from being mounted automatically.
I tried using Wiebe's workaround (mentioned earlier in this BTS thread):
My problem is that drbd is started
Package: debfoster
Version: 2.7-1.2
Followup-For: Bug #539340
I didn't notice any actual report of debfoster behaviour with multiarch
so far, so thought it might be useful (for maintainers, but mainly for
querybtsers/googlers, to report it:
fiori# arch
x86_64
fiori# debfoster
Package: xfce4-weather-plugin
Version: 0.8.10-1
Followup-For: Bug #969747
Dear Maintainer,
I confirm this bug.
Reportbug's suggestion to try the version in testing is not possible
due to dependency issues (i.e. can't install newer xfce4-weather-plugin
without also installing a lot of new
Package: chromium
Version: 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I've got Debian 10 and apply nightly updates as they become
available. I was running chromium version 80.0.3987.162 but
that was upgraded to 83.0.4103.116 a couple of nights ago. Since
then CPU load at page
Package: chromium
Version: 80.0.3987.162-1~deb10u1
Followup-For: Bug #964177
probably a duplicate of #964167.
Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 2.0.5-1~bpo10+1+b1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
in rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 (buster) the man page synposis states:
rdiff-backup [options] [[[user@]host1.foo]::source_directory]
[[[user@]host2.foo]::destination_directory]
i.e. *if* a destination is
Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
Version: 7.0.0-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
A Debian 11 RC2 container running on a Debian 11 RC2 hosts responds
to the reboot command by shutting down services and then powering
off, *not* by rebooting, which is what I would expect.
This applies
Package: libvirt-daemon
Version: 5.0.0-4+deb10u1
Followup-For: Bug #905350
Dear Maintainer,
Markus is quite right regarding this bug and it is documented at
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/memory-limits-no-longer-being-applied/7429
However, I recently upgraded to Debian 11 and the bug is
Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:3.2.0-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
here's the recipe:
1) start virt-manager
2) go the 'Edit' menu and then choose 'Preferences'
3) enable 'Enable XML editing' and then click 'Close'
4) from the list of VMs, double-click on any VM
5) in the panel on the
Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:3.2.0-3
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
under Debian 10, virt-manager's 'OS information' config area allows
the OS 'Debian 10' to be specified.
However, under Debian 11, virt-manager's 'OS information' config area
*does not* allow 'Debian 11' to be specified.
Package: exiftran
Version: 2.10-4
Followup-For: Bug #960882
Dear Maintainer,
I have the stock version of package fgallery installed:
farfalle$ dpkg -l fgallery
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/
> It's funny, I had this exact same problem earlier, and now it's
> gone. Maybe it's a transient issue with speedtest.net itself?
I have the same result. The ticket can be closed. Thanks!
Regards,
Alexis
the kernel command line is:
sugo$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-18-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro ipv6.disable=1
amdgpu.dc=0 swapaccount=1
sugo$
where obviously 18 is 19 when booting the bad kernel.
Package: src:linux
Version: 5.10.149-2
Severity: serious
Justification: 1022025, 1022051, 1022062, 1022070, 1022097, 1022147 marked
serious so this marked serious too
Dear Maintainer,
Following other reports of post-grub kernel hangs on systems with
amdgpu, I waited for new release of
Hi All,
> Would you be able to start own kenel builds, confirming it does not
> happen with 5.10.140 upstream but with 5.10.149, and isolate the
> breaking change?
>
> (Are you able to boot the kernel from bullseye-backports?)
I will try to do this, but owing to my schedule, it will
be only
Package: speedtest-cli
Version: 2.1.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
Attempts to run the package from several Debian 11.4 systems produces:
farfalle$ speedtest --csv
Cannot retrieve speedtest configuration
ERROR: HTTP Error
Package: fgallery
Version: 1.8.2-2.1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Running fgallery on files containing unicode-but-not-ascii characters in
their names (e.g. éüöãťúèóêŵñïēȇà.jpg) triggers error or warning:
Wide character in print at /usr/bin/fgallery line 236.
Here's a shell
> I will try to do this, but owing to my schedule, it will
> be only Tuesday before I can try.
everything slipped. Building ten kernel packages today. Further
feedback some time over the weekend.
Alexis
Hi All,
Bernhard informed me that you might no longer want me to
do the kernel building, due to messages on the bug's mailing
list that didn't get sent to me.
Please advise; ideally "please test deb at " :-)
Regards,
Alexis
Package: initramfs-tools-core
Version: 0.142
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
With a root filesystem on ZFS then mkinitramfs builds an initrd that
lacks fsck.zfs:
testaroli# mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)
W: Couldn't identify type of root file system for fsck hook
Package: debian-installer
Version: bookworm-DI-alpha2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
tell DI to create a partition, allocate it to LVM, create a VG, within
that VG create an LV of size '1G'. Having done that, flip to ALT-F2,
wake up the shell and run 'lvs'. lvs reports the size as 952.00m.
Package: cryptsetup-bin
Version: 2:2.6.1-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: alexishux...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
Allocate a volume (in my case my only Debian 12 system uses
ZFS, but the result is the same with Debian 11 on LVM):
testaroli# zfs create -V 100m zpool0/test
> All 3 work for me in a bookworm VM, please try with `--debug` (with and
> without `-v`).
and it works for me *if* - as you did - I format the device.
But if I *don't* format it then I still get the same result,
even with newer packages:
testaroli# dpkg -l | grep cryptsetup
ii cryptsetup-bin
Hi Otto,
> Please test if this issue still exists in latest rdiff-backup 2.2.2-1
> in Debian. If it still exists, please report the issue upstream at
> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup and mark this Debian bug
> report as forwarded.
I see there are a lot of changes in the new
Package: libgeo-gpx-perl
Version: 1.09-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
According to the man page, Geo::Gpx's new() method can be passed a file
name or an already-opened file handle, but when passed a filehandle it
can fail to detect that it *is* a filehandle and attempts to treat it
like a
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