Bug#598097: [Debian-eeepc-commits] [SCM] Maintenance of eeepc-acpi-scripts debian package branch, master, updated. 1.1.5-80-ge23230d

2010-11-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
for me. Ben On 14/11/10 10:22 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit e23230db7f3e299d65b3d6259606638c333ac5ff Author: Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org Date: Sun Nov 14 10:22:33 2010 -0400 Document alternate acpi_fakekey handlers

Bug#603430: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#603430: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Suspend to RAM takes several minutes since switch to acpi-support

2010-11-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 13/11/10 10:19 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Well, first Axel should check that the kernel itself does the right thing: echo mem /sys/power/state I agree with Ben's judgement that eeepc-acpi-scripts should be minimised, though I would go further and say that ACPI quirks should

Bug#598991: live-build 3.0a4 exits with error when using option --source true

2010-10-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/10/10 09:48 AM, Mark Schneider wrote: lb build stopped with the following error message: W: Failed to fetch file:/live/image/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz File not found What, in your config, would create a Packages.gz in this location? I could find no option in the

Bug#599820: Please depend on libterm-ansicolor-ruby1.8

2010-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: libcoderay-ruby1.8 Version: 0.9.1-1 Severity: normal In libterm-ansicolor-1.8 1.0.4-3, (just uploaded, closing #599764), I specified the required Breaks/Replaces as suggested by Aaron Ucko u...@debian.org (thanks, btw; forgot to acknowledge in the changelog). It would be better (i.e.

Bug#600364: aisleriot: include popular games in package description

2010-10-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: gnome-games Version: 1:2.30.2-2 Severity: minor Please include popular games in the package description for aisleriot to make it easier for users to locate this package when they are looking for a particular game. While there are too many solitaire games to list them all, we sometimes

Bug#522756: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#522756: After resume, acpid dies: too many errors reading input layer - aborting

2009-05-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:08:54 +0200 Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org wrote: Can it be that those devices (/dev/input/event*) do not exist anymore after resume? Or do they somehow get recreated? I'm pretty sure that at 17:28 I unplugged my USB mouse to test something, as I have a corresponding

Bug#527601: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#527601: eeepc-acpi-scripts: PCI hotplug error in wireless startup (901)

2009-05-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:02:33 +0100 Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: NAK, since it'll break things with (some) later kernels. Anyway, that module should already be loaded with exactly those options (see /etc/init.d/eeepc-acpi-scripts and /sys/module/pciehp/parameters/*); if

Bug#509411: lynx-cur-wrapper: Defaults to Japanese font when LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

2008-12-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: lynx-cur-wrapper Severity: normal We first found this problem when visiting http://www.google.ca/ in Lynx while on the console. The display was messed up because we do not have console fonts for Japanese. Many characters were just blank or blocks. The result was an unreadable page.

Bug#506586: linux-2.6: Kernel BUG, possibly related

2008-12-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-9 Followup-For: Bug #506586 This morning my system partially froze. Before it completely froze, I was able to see the SMB errors in the log like this: Dec 11 06:25:40 bgpc kernel: [3720740.218089] Bad SMB: : dump of 48 bytes of data at 0xf77c6500 Dec 11

Bug#514023: create debian-blends list

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: lists.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #514023 Yes, please create this list. I would join it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#522707: Does not test for /dev/MAKEDEV before using it

2009-04-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.8-1.1+b1 Severity: normal Just noticed in my latest live-helper image build this error installing uswsusp: Setting up uswsusp (0.8-1.1+b1) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) /var/lib/dpkg/info/uswsusp.postinst: line 138: ./MAKEDEV: No such file

Bug#522756: After resume, acpid dies: too many errors reading input layer - aborting

2009-04-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: acpid Version: 1.0.8-6 Severity: normal On my Asus Eee PC model 4G (aka 701) sometimes after I resume, acpid dies with the following errors: Apr 6 05:59:52 dove acpid: input layer read error: No such device (19) Apr 6 05:59:52 dove last message repeated 4 times Apr 6 05:59:52 dove

Bug#586413: RFA: a lot of packages

2010-06-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/06/10 11:55 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Bug#586413: RFA: tightvnc -- virtual network computing server software Bug#586414: RFA: vnc4 -- Virtual network computing server software Although I cannot take on sole maintainership, I'm interested in the survival of the best VNC server and

Bug#585932: Wrong PATH in live image maybe caused by slim?

2010-07-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
If your image uses slim, you may be experiencing #581775. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#580590: Bug#515489: fixed in xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1.1

2010-06-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/02/2010 03:45 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: The log entry is written wrong. Unfortunately the messages was mistakenly left in the changelog. Please disregard. The changelog is documentation for the package. I can't just disregard it. The wrong changelog has so far cost several people time

Bug#580590: Bug#515489: fixed in xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1.1

2010-06-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/02/2010 02:25 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: Ok, I see it, the debian/patches/debian-changes-1:4.7.3-2 which was generated by the 3.0 format automatically in previous cycles, but not used in any way because the package was NMUd as *-1.1 I've handled the #515489 separately by sending proper BTS

Bug#584122: closed by Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org (reply to dan...@debian.org) (Re: Bug#584122: [live-magic] Can`t get Packages)

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Roman, This looks like a case of user error to me, not a bug ... On 06/03/2010 08:07 AM, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote: Bug in live-magic because it`s can`t correct work with repository (or mirrors). I try to create image from http://ftp2.fr.debian.org. And I get: ... E: Failed getting release

Bug#580590: Bug#515489: fixed in xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1.1

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/03/2010 02:03 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: xpilot-ng (1:4.7.3-1.2) unstable; urgency=low [ Jari Aalto ] * Non-maintainer upload. * debian/changelog - (1:4.7.3-1.1 entries): Delete bogus Closes line for #515489. Delete bogus Build-Depends message.

Bug#584123: [live-magic] Error not show if keyboard layout not set

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Roman, On 06/01/2010 10:03 AM, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote: I try to create new image but not set keyboard layout (All other settings are set). I come to end of master dialog and try to push Apply. Nothing to happen. Then I come back and set keyboard layout, go to end page and press Apply. All ok.

Bug#584123: [live-magic] Error not show if keyboard layout not set

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Oh, also this may give us a clue about the keyboard: grep XKBLAYOUT /etc/default/console-setup I have found that if this is set to some value not present in /usr/share/live-magic/keyboard-layouts.txt, then no default will be set for the keyboard. Ben p.s. Although I don't think it's

Bug#580590: Bug#515489: fixed in xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1.1

2010-06-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/04/2010 03:20 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: As I reviewd the 3.0[*] results, I noticed that the sources did not have any of our own manual changes. Therefore the automatic patch generation was not relevant here. The diff was mostly product of ./configure and the build process: Makefile.in

Bug#584887: Next/prev tab key shortcuts leave garbage characters in window

2010-06-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: lxterminal Version: 0.1.7-1 Severity: normal Pressing ctrl-pgup to go to the previous tab sometimes leaves the garbage characters ;~5 in the window you just switched to. Similarly, ctrl-pgdn sometimes leaves ~5 in the window. The problem is not 100% reproducible and there's no

Bug#584890: Alt-number key mappings aren't reordered when a window is deleted

2010-06-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: lxterminal Version: 0.1.7-1 Severity: normal Contrary to my expectations, if I open three windows and close the second one, alt-2 now no longer goes to the second window. They key binding is unmapped and it is passed through to the window instead. What I expected is that window three

Bug#584988: xpilot-ng: NMU version 1:4.7.3-1.2

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
Tony, On 08/06/10 02:42 AM, tony mancill wrote: Based on email correspondence with Jari, you two have discussed a follow-on upload to clean up some of the packaging changes in the 1:4.7.3-1.1 upload. I've uploaded that NMU for xpilot-ng (versioned as 1:4.7.3-1.2) to DELAYED/10. Please feel

Bug#593241: flavours 486 686 by default for i386 needs testing

2010-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
When I talked to Mark about this, I thought he had tested the default (i.e. no --linux-flavours specified). It turns out he had not. He had explicitly specified 486 686. But my reading of /usr/share/live/build/functions/defaults.sh at line 554 (live-build 2.0~a23-1) is that the wrong

Bug#593258: Supplemental info: error message in /live/installer/var/log/syslog

2010-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
I had the same problem as Mark using the daily installer with the gui interface. I don't think the cdebconf errors are fatal, as the install seems to proceed after that point, but then it subsequently fails at the same point as it did for him with a similar dialog box. The error near the end

Bug#550744: WPA support in installer: netcfg and wpasupplicant patches

2010-06-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
Will the Squeeze installer support WPA? For some time, Glenn Saberton's patches have been available to support WPA, but discussing this with Otavio on irc, he reminded me that we need changes not only to netcfg, but also wpasupplicant. Here's the last message I could find dealing with the

Bug#539952: Passes alt-number keys inconsistently

2010-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: lxterminal Version: 0.1.8-2 Severity: normal Well, now what I'm seeing in 0.1.8-2 is that alt-number keys are passed inconsistently. As before we have alt-1 not being passed in the first terminal, even if it is the only terminal open. Also, if I have two terminals open and alternate

Bug#559578: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#559578: Fwd: Bug#559578: eeepc-acpi-scripts: EeePC 701 freezes with garbled screen while booting

2009-12-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:54:54 + Alan Jenkins sourcejedi.l...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Corentin It looks like it's not just my 701 which has problems with SHE. Given that Asus don't support it on the pre-installed OS, I think we should disable it for the 701.

Bug#559578: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#559578: Fwd: Bug#559578: eeepc-acpi-scripts: EeePC 701 freezes with garbled screen while booting

2009-12-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:48:09 + Alan Jenkins sourcejedi.l...@googlemail.com wrote: I think the kernel should disable SHE by default on the 701 models. I don't mind if it provides a force_cpufv option with an appropriate warning. That's a reasonable approach. I don't think it should be

Bug#560728: wavemon: new version available upstream

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wavemon Severity: wishlist The latest stable release 0.6.10 has been available for a couple of months now. In particular, this commit included in this release looks relevant to a problem I'm having with ath5k in the new 2.6.32 kernel in sid: commit

Bug#591978: tasksel: lxde-desktop install includes gnome (non-d-i invocation)

2010-08-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: normal Calling tasksel from the command-line (as live-helper does in chroot_tasks) instead of via d-i, if you try to install lxde-desktop, it will include gnome. While not a serious problem for most users, it is very serious for debian-live, since lxde is

Bug#592477: squeeze directory overwrites symlink causing upgrade failure

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: live-build Version: 2.0~a22-1 Severity: grave A package upgrade from 2.0~a21-1 to 2.0~a22-1 fails with: Preparing to replace live-build 2.0~a21-1 (using .../live-build_2.0~a22-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement live-build ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#580590: Bug#515489: fixed in xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1.1

2010-05-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/31/2010 06:49 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:12:05 +, Jari Aalto wrote: * debian/control - (Build-Depends): Add nvidia-glx and remove libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev (FTBFS; Closes: #580590). This is utterly wrong.

Bug#522078: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#522078: Bug#522078: rt2860-source: 2.6.31-0.slh.3-sidux either

2009-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:45:22 +0200 Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org wrote: FYI, rt2860 is included in Linux 2.6.31, so you don't need to compile additional modules. AFAIR, we keep it only for the sake of users of Lenny. Yes. Although I should point out that you now need firmware-ralink (from

Bug#631208: ack-grep: Support diversion better

2011-06-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ack-grep Version: 1.92-1 Severity: wishlist Upstream helpfully suggests[0]: To install ack-grep as ack instead of ack-grep, use this command: sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/bin/ack --rename --add /usr/bin/ack-grep Since I can't imagine ever wanting to install: ack - Kanji

Bug#622094: Handle Exec format error executing bad maintainer script

2011-04-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: normal Today, we were assisting a user on #debian at irc.oftc.net. He had installed a package from a third-party source that included a bad .postrm maintainer script. The script was executable, yet completely empty. The package was therefore not

Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in Debian, instead of hunting for it upstream. If it rots in Debian, then it can easily be removed again (or left in Unstable). Wrong. Every additional package costs the whole

Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? A: How about zero? Not exactly helpful. When developers are passionately opposed to a particular technology (and not without reason here, I think,) they can be a bit

Bug#626141: Missing CONFIG_EEEPC_WMI, needed for hotkey support

2011-05-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39~rc6-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal In the 2.6.39-rc* series of kernels, CONFIG_EEEPC_WMI seems to have gone away. This module is needed to support hotkeys on the Eee PC. $ grep CONFIG_EEE /boot/config-2.6.38-2-amd64 /boot/config-2.6.39-rc*-amd64

Bug#613594: planet.debian.org: Folding only applies to first article by an author

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal When you click - by an author's name to fold their articles, only the first article by that author is folded. Any others remain unfolded. (Hard one to find, as most others post at most one article per day.) Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#613598: planet.debian.org: large images can overflow into the sidebar, obscuring its content

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal This is particularly problematic on smaller displays (e.g. netbook 1024x600). If an image is too large, it will overflow into the sidebar, obscuring the sidebar content (sidebar text is printed on top of the image). The image should be constrained to the

Bug#606137: a problem with debian-live-6.0.0-i386-lxde-desktop

2011-02-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/02/11 03:21 AM, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: I recently tested debian-live-6.0.0-i386-lxde-desktop on qemu. It seems to have some problems with its window manager (openbox). The prolem is that when you open any window (pcmanfm, iceweasel, ...) everything but the desktop background starts

Bug#614370: live-build: sysllinux failes with: mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
The large # of Skipping messages indicates you did not build in a clean build tree (maybe a prior build failed, leaving the build tree broken?) You should always build from a clean tree before filing bugs, as per: http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/bugs.html#562 For future bug filings,

Bug#606268: Nuke /etc/network/interfaces wifi config later in d-i when a script is provided by NM

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
I had a discussion with Michael and others on #debian-gnome, in which we discussed the difficulty of implementing an ideal solution, and the outcome of which was: 10:44 SynrG mbiebl: around? just wondering if joeyh's proposal for #606268 is reasonable. ... 11:41 mbiebl SynrG: back to your

Bug#637979: live-build: Assumes gzipped initrd although the default is lzma

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 16/08/11 05:16 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: Unfortunately file does not (yet?) recognize an lzma stream, so perhaps this should do a case statement based on $LB_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION, and use zcat vs. lzcat? Similar to lb_chroot_hacks, I guess. Though the duplication gets tedious after a while (I

Bug#638684: live-build: touchpad scrolling and tapig not working

2011-08-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
I sent this reply earlier, before the bug closing, but some hours later it is not in the BTS, so I'm resending it in case it went astray. It provides a bit more explanation: On 20/08/11 06:25 PM, Yasen Atanasov wrote: Touchpad special actions like taping and scroling are not working. Tested

Bug#638750: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#638750: eeepc-acpi-scripts does not show OSD

2011-08-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 21/08/11 12:20 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: it seems, OSD is not running any more on my EEEPC 1005 HGO. You should also know, that I must still use the acpi_osi=Linux option at boot, otherwise fancontrol will not work (just to tell you, that eeepc-wmi can still not be used here, as those

Bug#640357: Provide python SWIG bindings

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: sword Severity: wishlist Please provide a libsword-python package of the python SWIG bindings for libsword. I have two purposes in mind: First, I wanted to evaluate the GPL'd, python-based BPBible package, which is not yet in Debian (see http://bpbible.com/) but looks like a suitable

Bug#641441: Comparing a DateTime object with None segfaults

2011-09-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: python-egenix-mxdatetime Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: normal When I compare a DateTime object with None, it causes a segfault. Here is a minimal reproducer: python -c from mx.DateTime import DateTime; DateTime(2011) None Reverting to the Squeeze version works around the issue. I have

Bug#636547: Recent YouTube site changes apparently make all downloads fail

2011-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2011.02.25b-1 Severity: normal As of today, YouTube downloads the previously worked with the same version of youtube-dl now fail. This pretty clearly points at recent YouTube site changes, e.g. $ youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V3588lNWVg' [youtube]

Bug#627628: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#627628: add timestamps to /var/log/pm-powersave.log

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/05/11 06:31 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts Version: 1.1.11 Severity: wishlist What kind of a logfile is /var/log/pm-powersave.log ? With no concept of timestamps included, it is a very different file from its brothers there in /var/log/ . It's not a

Bug#635177: live-build: live wheezy usb-hdd - isolinux insted of syslinux will be installed

2011-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
You just need to use syslinux-themes-debian and syslinux-themes-debian-squeeze from sid (i.e. version 10-1) which fix this. They just haven't been in the archive long enough to migrate to wheezy. The easiest way to do this is to download the packages and drop them in config/chroot_local-packages/

Bug#635177: live-build: live wheezy usb-hdd - isolinux insted of syslinux will be installed

2011-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/07/11 08:29 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: put in config/chroot_local-packages/, created new usb-hdd image, but still doesn't work: Did you 'lb clean' before doing 'lb build' again? If not, then the new packages will not be picked up, as stages that you built before will be skipped. Did

Bug#635177: live-build: live wheezy usb-hdd - isolinux insted of syslinux will be installed

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/24/2011 10:43 AM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Yep, I've done 'lb clean' and 'lb clean --purge' before and it doesn't work. On the basis of what do you say it doesn't work, actually booting the image, or just examining the contents afterwards? I think your expectations for what should be in

Bug#635177: live-build: live wheezy usb-hdd - isolinux insted of syslinux will be installed

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/24/2011 11:33 AM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Sorry for missunderstanding, but my main problem is I cannot boot from this binary.img file, for example using qemu: # qemu binary.img or # qemu -drive file=binary.img I get a message *no bootable device*. Aha. And this is why you

Bug#635177: live-build: live wheezy usb-hdd - isolinux insted of syslinux will be installed

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/24/2011 12:28 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Here is a mounted binary.img from squeeze, booting without any problems: That's useful info (probably even more useful to Daniel, who knows the code better than me). Thanks. syslinux.bin and syslinux.cfg are missing, there are isolinux.bin,

Bug#679240: live-build: lb_chroot_hacks tries to install unavailable package smbfs

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
Gerben, On 06/27/2012 07:46 AM, Gerben van Ek wrote: Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a50-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I tried to make a new build of a Debian Live image. It fails on trying to install the smbfs package, which is no longer

Bug#680261: putty: Application keypad no longer works properly

2012-07-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: putty Version: 0.62-8 Severity: normal In a recent upgrade of putty, application keypad mode keys PF2, PF3 and PF4 stop working. They generate the symbols for normal mode instead: /, * and - respectively. Example use case: When I press NumLock Keypad-*, which should generate the PF1PF3

Bug#680650: USB install method fails on wheezy alpha1

2012-07-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/07/12 02:18 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: I have tried the install method described here with the Debian Wheezy alpha1 d-i: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html#howto-getting-images-usb First, this is not the official doc, but is an internal site used to track

Bug#677993: wpa_cli: Can no longer clear screen

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 1.0-2 Severity: normal wpa_cli output can get very verbose. As an aid to seeing only the changes to the output since I last looked, I am in the habit of using ctrl-L to clear the screen. However, ever since 1.0, ctrl-L no longer does this. Nor can I find a command

Bug#678077: wpa_cli: Up-arrow skips over previous line in history

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 1.0-2 Severity: normal Up-arrow skips over the previous line in the command history and shows the one before that (but only the first time). Steps to reproduce: help scan_results up-arrow help - help is now shown, whereas scan_results was expected

Bug#677993: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#677993: wpa_cli: Can no longer clear screen

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 18/06/12 08:46 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: I'm lowering the severity to minor, because in my opinion this doesn't impose a significant impact on wpa_cli's usability. Sure. As a workaround, I'll just press and hold the enter key periodically. A bit ugly, but serves the same function.

Bug#678077: What I meant by but only the first time

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
To clarify what I meant by but only the first time, follow this example: 1 2 3 4 up-arrow 3 up-arrow 2 That is, if you press two consecutive up-arrows, the line before last, and the line before that are retrieved from the history. The bug only occurs on the first of the up-arrows. Ben

Bug#678327: wpa_cli: new 'blacklist BSSID' always returns FAIL

2012-06-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wpasupplicant Version: 1.0-2 Severity: normal I was excited to see in the changelog that 1.0 adds a 'blacklist BSSID' command, something I've long wanted for congested areas where I am accepting connections for any open network with any ESSID, but many are not free and therefore not

Bug#682504: Kernel panic booting live iso hybrid image as USB: quirk_usb_early_handoff

2012-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: normal I built a fresh sid live i386 image using no special customization (just includes kde-full builtin package list) and 686-pae kernel. I cannot boot this image on an Atom N450 system due to the following kernel panic

Bug#645996: VNC plugin crashes on amd64: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: remmina-plugin-vnc Version: 0.9.2-3 Severity: important All VNC connections crash. RDP connections are fine. See attached output. Rebuilding remmina-plugins fixes the problem for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800,

Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
Entada, On 10/20/2011 01:14 PM, Entada Scandens wrote: In Debian Squeeze: If working directory of BitTorrent client (rtorrent, ktorrent, flush) located at USB-HDD, after 1−40 hours of downloading/seeding USB-HDD disconnects. In Debian Lenny: All works fine. Not all clients seeding a

Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
Furthermore, please 1. Confirm my guess that what you really mean is that the torrent just stopped downloading after a while. If that's not what happened, please explain the problem better. 2. Confirm which torrent(s) are having this problem (indicate URL to the torrent or its Hash) and if it is

Bug#691931: Bug #691931 has to be reopened

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 31/10/12 12:42 PM, Frank Gard wrote: Why are some of the vars named LB_* while others aren't. Bugs like this one will happen... I just had a look at this too. Near as I can figure, the ones named LB_ are considered options of live-build itself, whereas the other ones belong to the

Bug#692054: installation-report: xfce CD installs gnome

2012-11-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/11/12 04:47 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Luka Rahne luka.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb made with unetbootin from iso This is suspect. There's no need to do this, as d-i images are isohybrid and

Bug#685752: unblock: live-tools/3.0.9-1

2012-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/10/12 05:12 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:17 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: Please unblock package live-tools Primarily to fix diversion conflicts. Also includes doc updates and other fixes needed for the release. In the meantime, the package is now up to 3.0.12

Bug#685754: unblock: live-config/3.0.4-1

2012-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/10/12 05:21 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: We're now up to 3.0.8, including four uploads within the space of a week (one for an entirely pointless standards-version tweak). :-( Would it be possible to have a cleaned up version of the diff that skips the translation changes and the noise

Bug#685810: marked as done (live-tools: fails to upgrade from testing - diversion conflict)

2012-10-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
New steps to reproduce. In a clean wheezy chroot: # apt-get install live-tools Selecting previously unselected package live-tools. (Reading database ... 9863 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking live-tools (from .../live-tools_3.0.3-1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db

Bug#685810: marked as done (live-tools: fails to upgrade from testing - diversion conflict)

2012-10-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
get things released. All that matters is to get things to a releasable state. Regardless of how this bug is marked, I am not satisfied with the state it is in. On 10/23/2012 11:27 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: New steps to reproduce. In a clean wheezy chroot: 'clean' as in 'no procps installed

Bug#581039: oy -- is 2.x only for windows?

2011-11-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 08/11/11 02:46 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi Yaroslav As you may know I'm looking for a new maintainer. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586413 Ben and Timo have been interested before but have not yet taken over the maintenance yet. So if you could help them or take

Bug#622838: should embedd syslinux-themes in live-build

2011-11-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: live-build Followup-For: Bug #622838 Version: 3.0~a38-1 Because people seem to have trouble finding the workaround, and it is now out of date wrt the latest version, here's the one proposed by Michal Suchanek in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636217#10 with the

Bug#685240: [live-build] init respawing too fast - unable to cd to '/home/user'

2012-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 18/08/12 02:59 PM, LeJacq, Jean Pierre wrote: Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a57-1 Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Configuring debian-live using the git rescue configuration and building an hdd image, results in an usable system. Sounds like

Bug#685801: Wheezy can't boot on netbook

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 24/08/12 01:22 PM, os.n...@gmx.de wrote: Package: installation-reports I built the following live iso-hybrid from http://live-build.debian.net: distribution: wheezy package-lists: kde architectures: i386 bootstrap-flavour: standard linux-flavours: 486 bootappend: locales=de_DE.UTF-8

Bug#685801: Wheezy can't boot on netbook

2012-08-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 25/08/12 07:29 AM, os.n...@gmx.de wrote: please have a look at bug 655505. I reported the same or similar bug at 11. January 2012 with the installer. Now I wanted to try out if the bug is solved. Sure, no problem with that. But in that case, since you did an actual install, an

Bug#686203: live-build: binary image hdd is broken

2012-08-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
Unreproducible. Unfortunately, since you only excerpted the build.log and didn't show the whole thing, we have no way of knowing if there were earlier problems that led to the failure at the end that you included in your bug report. Please try a fresh build in a new directory again, and this

Bug#686203: live-build: binary image hdd is broken

2012-08-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 08/30/2012 12:03 PM, George Bak wrote: I tried to reproduce this bug again. Strange, but I cannot reproduce it anymore. May be aptitude upgrade removed it? I doubt it. There are so few dependencies of live-build. Most things happen inside the chroot which is populated from a debootstrap,

Bug#682504: Vanilla standard live image kernel panics: init killed

2012-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
I retested with a simpler config, just the 'standard' list this time, but otherwise the same as before. Also, I turned on 'set -x' in the init script in initramfs to see what was happening. It turns out the crash occurs in the middle of live-bottom scripts, and that's when I began to suspect

Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/30/2012 08:19 PM, Bob Bib wrote: please don't force the gdm3 dependency; I have had some discussion this morning with the Debian lxde maintainers and we agree the gdm3 dependency explosion (a fairly recent thing, looking at gdm3's Debian changelog) renders it much less desirable to use

Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/31/2012 11:42 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: While my brief testing of lightdm indicates it is a possible candidate, but there is also slim to consider. We're considering the merits of each before requesting a change to task-lxde-desktop. We have concluded our testing and discussion

Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

2012-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/31/2012 05:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Committed. Last word, right? :-) Damn, I sure hope so. :) Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#693242: live-build: apt-get autoclean doesn't remove old versions

2012-11-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 11/14/2012 04:51 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: tag 693242 - patch thanks On 11/14/2012 05:02 PM, Thanatermesis wrote: The apt-get autoclean command removes extra packages in the chroot but the cache has an incremental and growing size the current assumption is that the cache of lb is

Bug#693242: live-build: apt-get autoclean doesn't remove old versions

2012-11-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 15/11/12 06:38 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: You can typically upgrade the bootstrap. There is an upgrade step anyway in case the bootstrap is stale due to updates to the current distribution. And it can be cleared manually quite easily. Please explain how, as I was under the impression

Bug#693242: live-build: apt-get autoclean doesn't remove old versions

2012-11-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 11/16/2012 07:27 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: When you do squeeze build a squeeze bootstrap is cached. If you do wheezy build after the bootstrap is restored form cache and upgrade is run after restore. That may bring the bootstrap up to date to wheezy version or fail if some dependencies in

Bug#686819: simpler presentation of iso downloads

2012-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/11/12 05:31 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Hi again Ben, any chance you can review and/or apply this patch? Sorry for bothering again, but I'm about to prepare a related patch to document how to get Debian on public clouds (bug report

Bug#661879: libbluetooth-dev: FTBFS patch not found in svn

2012-03-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: libbluetooth-dev Version: 4.99-1 Followup-For: Bug #661879 I encountered these same errors when trying to build dolphin-emu (not yet in Debian), so I wanted to test your patch. I see you claim to have fixed this in svn, and the svn log does indicate this: r1183 | iwamatsu | 2012-03-07

Bug#660584: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (reply to daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net) (Re: Bug#660584: live-build: cannot remove Debian Installer icon on

2012-02-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
p.s. Also, I know live-config has a script to configure debian-installer-launcher, but that is triggered only if the package exists in your image. Check: - The .packages file generated by your build (is debian-installer-launcher in it?) - The version of live-config included in your image (again,

Bug#660584: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (reply to daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net) (Re: Bug#660584: live-build: cannot remove Debian Installer icon on

2012-02-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/02/12 08:16 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Thx, but I didn't include it, but the icon of debian-installer-launcher it was installed on the desktop. How To exclude debian-installer-launcher completely from the installation? I cannot find in the manual:

Bug#660584: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (reply to daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net) (Re: Bug#660584: live-build: cannot remove Debian Installer icon on

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
Aha, live-config Recommends live-tools, live-tools Recommends debian-installer-launcher, so by this chain of dependencies, anyone with recommends enabled (which is the default) will get debian-installer-launcher installed now. Daniel, since recommends are enabled by default, shouldn't live-tools

Bug#660584: closed by Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net (reply to daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net) (Re: Bug#660584: live-build: cannot remove Debian Installer icon on

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 24/02/12 07:00 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Ben, can you pls give some more details howto set -1 pin priority for debian-installer-launcher? I cannot find this option in the config configuratons. As I said, see live-manual: apt-get install live-manual You want 8.4.5 APT Pinning Ben

Bug#661369: live-build: cannot change hostname

2012-02-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 26/02/12 07:15 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Thx Ben, but lb config --hostname my_name doesn't work, perhaps due to the syslinux and I'm using syslinux as a boot loader. Any other idea to solve this problem? Only the one that both Daniel *and* I have already given you, to use the

Bug#661369: Setting the hostname via --bootappend-live spelled out in excruciating detail

2012-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 26/02/12 09:33 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Thx again, but still cannot find out howto pass them through lb_config --bootappend-live. I've read the live manual, but still this is not clear. I can't see how it is not clear, after I led you directly to the relevant doc sections! Although

Bug#649545: live-build: cannot create live usb-hdd because of mkdir: missing operand

2011-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 11/21/11 22:38, Piotr wrote: Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a38-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I try to build wheezy usb-hdd using this config: # lb config -a i386 --mode debian --distribution wheezy --linux-flavours 686 -b usb-hdd --bootloader syslinux --memtest none

Bug#661815: mksquashfs: man page out of date, missing options

2012-03-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: squashfs-tools Version: 1:4.2-4+b1 Severity: normal The man page appears to be missing some newer options like -comp. Please update. Thanks, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture:

Bug#659199: live-build: live wheezy - cp: cannot stat `/root/syslinux/vesamenu.c32': No such file or directory

2012-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 12/02/12 08:00 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: Thx a lot Daniel, but where can I download 3.0~a44-1 to install on wheezy? It has been uploaded to unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/live-build.html As usual, wait until it appears at your archive mirror. You should have no problem

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