Bug#331488: fdutils: --verify_later works, but not as documented

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ superformat /dev/fd0 --verify_later superformat: option `--verify_later' requires an argument Usage: superformat [-D char] [-v long] [-f] [--print-drive-deviation] [-B] [-V byte] [-b long] [-e long] [-G long] [-F

Bug#331489: fdutils: superformat --print-drive-deviation does not work

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal Very simply: superformat --print-drive-deviation /dev/fd0 does not output anything. Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:

Bug#331491: fdutils: --print-drive-deviation not documented

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal As part of its output superformat --help has --print-drive-deviation print deviation, do not format This option is not, however, documented in superformat(1). Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT

Bug#298865: Terminates when info page not found

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:05:59PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Brian! Thanks for your report! You wrote: I first came across this with pinfo chrony and selecting the 'GPL' node. pinfo quits, giving the message 'Error: could not open info file' Rather than terminating

Bug#460278: Add shuffle.crm to /usr/share/crm114?

2008-01-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: crm114 Version: 20070810-2~bpo40+1 Severity: normal /usr/share/crm114 contains a nice set of files which can be linked to or copied to get crm114 working. However, mailtrainer.crm with the random option gives an error if shuffle.crm is not used. Ok, it can be copied from

Bug#298865: pinfo: Terminates when info page not found

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pinfo Version: 0.6.8-4 Severity: normal I first came across this with pinfo chrony and selecting the 'GPL' node. pinfo quits, giving the message 'Error: could not open info file' As it happens the file is missing (bug #287142) but pinfo exhibits the same behaviour whenever any info

Bug#272397: acknowledged by developer (Bug#272397: fixed in workbone 2.40-6)

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Potkin
It might have been better had I got Version: 2.40-6 from unstable rather than waiting it to come into testing as there appears to be an uncorrected spelling lurking at line 467 of workbone.c. It shows up if workbone is invoked with the -a option. Thank you for the time you have already spent on

Bug#239045: smssend: License not compliant with the DFSG.

2005-03-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: smssend Followup-For: Bug #239045 Today I contacted Christophe Calmejane, the upstream maintainer of smssend, regarding this bug and asked him whether he would consider altering License.txt to allow an smmsend package to be included in Debian. In his reply to me he indicated that he had

Bug#319200: pdmenu: Does not respond to control-Z

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pdmenu Version: 1.2.86 Severity: normal Am I mistaken in thinking a program should be capable of being suspended with control-Z? Anyway, pdmenu does not respond to this signal. Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500,

Bug#319198: pdmenu: Issues with the color:shadow command

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pdmenu Version: 1.2.86 Severity: normal With the intention of having no shadow all my menufiles stipulate a blue backgroung and have color:shadow:blue:blue as a command. Up to the present version of pdmenu this worked. Now the shadow is black and altering the colours in the command has

Bug#199093: mc: Viewing .gz files

2005-06-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:43:00PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: Hi ! I cannot reproduce your bug with latest mc releases (= 4.6.1pre3). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199093 Can you confirm ? Hello Ludovic, I think you can now close this bug. I have 4.6.1pre3 and it

Bug#198904: acknowledged by developer (closing bug 198904)

2006-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:04:02AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Hi ! The bug you reported seems to be fixed in the latest mc release, so I close the bug. Hello Ludovic, The -h flag is in the USAGE section of mc(1) but there is still no mention in OPTIONS of it giving some help

Bug#606756: dash: Relies on /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz existing

2010-12-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.3 Severity: important I have Lenny on a thin client with a limited amount of disk space. All documentation has been removed. The upgrade to Squeeze stops with cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2010-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: grub-pc Severity: important I have a machine running unstable. The background image is moreblue-orbit-grub.png which is in /boot/grub. The image was copied from desktop-base but the package itself has never been installed on the system and, due to space restrictions, never will be. The

Bug#608519: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Severity raised to 'grave' because data loss occurs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 17:03:56 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: Unfortunately I can't think of any way to fix this. 05_debian_theme is already comparing filenames AND checksums to make sure it doesn't delete user-generated files. I was also thinking about comparing the timestamps so that

Bug#608519: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 18:06:33 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: What data did you lose? Normally 05_debian_theme should only delete files which match both in filename and checksum to a list of files desktop-base provided. It did exactly what is was designed to do - except the file had not been

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 21:23:42 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: Hi, I am sorry for the discomfort my script has caused. I'll try to explain my intentions: [Snip] Your comprehensive explanation is very much appreciated. Like you I don't see any way to have 05_debian_theme discover where a file

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: important Could be a temporary problem - but past history indicates it probably won't be. No fix at infradead.org yet. Regards, Brian. - br...@desktop:~$ getiplayer -g 537 --mode

Bug#609143: get-iplayer: Should this package be part of Squeeze

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: wishlist For a number of months now get-iplayer has been behaving very well, for me at least, but in my mind has been the question of what happens to the package when it is in stable and it breaks, as it inevitably will. Has any thought been given to

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Followup-For: Bug #609142 As | previously said: RTMPDump v2.2c Switching to flvstreamer solves the problem. There is a few of these ERROR: HandleCtrl: Ignoring SWFVerification request, no CRYPTO support! Resuming download at: 559977.734 kB / 3050.440 sec (86.1%)

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 07 Jan 2011 at 00:14:14 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: get-iplayer in Squeeze already Recommends flvstreamer, which is also in main, so no action is needed as far as the package is concerned. After realising rtmpdump and not flvstreamer was being used on my machine I should have made

Bug#612968: extra-xdg-menus: Spelling - package description

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: extra-xdg-menus Severity: minor In the package description: disbled -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#613121: /usr/share/doc/vlc is empty

2011-02-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: vlc Version: 1.1.7-2 Severity: normal In replacing the previous version of vlc a day or so ago the directory /usr/share/doc/vlc was left in place and is empty. It looks as though it should be replaced with a link to /usr/share/doc/vlc-nox but this didn't happen until vlc was purged and

Bug#613122: vlc: Video coordinates/window decorations

2011-02-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: vlc Version: 1.1.7-2 Severity: normal I have 'Embedded video' unticked. Setting the Video X coordinate and the Video Y coordinate to 20 (or any other value) doesn't produce a window in the desired position. Furthermore, unticking 'Window decorations' has no effect. A nondecorated,

Bug#609672: get-iplayer: This package's suitability for being in a stable release is questionable

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: important I'd tag this bug as release-critical except as an end-user it is not encouraged. Within a day of the release of Squeeze it is not unlikely get-iplayer could be completely broken. Please see bug #608176. I would suggest it takes a view

Bug#537901: cowdancer: Debian Changelog: suggestion for a very minor fix

2009-07-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 26 Jul 2009 at 23:50:21 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Is this a bugreport? It was intended as such but being such a very minor point I was endeavouring to make light of it. Apologies. * minor fix to grammer in cowbuilder.README.Debian (closes: #528559) 'grammer' should be 'grammar'.

Bug#537901: cowdancer: Debian Changelog: suggestion for a very minor fix

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cowdancer Version: 0.56 Severity: minor I know I shouldn't, but couldn't resist! cowdancer (0.56) unstable; urgency=low * minor fix to grammer in cowbuilder.README.Debian (closes: #528559) I have a patch for the speling if you want it. Cheers, Brian. -- System Information:

Bug#537947: pbuilder create fails

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.181 Severity: normal This is a new pbuilder setup with a ~/.pbuilderrc containing OTHERMIRROR=deb file:/var/cache/pbuilder/result ./ BINDMOUNTS=/var/cache/pbuilder/result - jo...@laptop:~$ sudo

Bug#582659: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed

2010-05-22 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-1 Severity: important br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer -g 71 --mode flashhigh get_iplayer v2.76, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Bug#576574: xpdf: An appreciation

2010-04-05 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.02-1.4+lenny2 Severity: wishlist Many thanks to the xpdf developers for getting the package back on track and keeping it in Debian. Lenny updated today. Hopefully the unstable version will transition to squeeze. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4

Bug#602293: mupdf requires a file

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: mupdf Version: 0.7-2 Severity: normal Thanks for packaging mupdf. Whether it will replace my use of xpdf remains to be seen but it is certainly fast with the files I have used it for. I'm using xfce4 and the install puts a menu entry in the Graphics section. But clicking on it results

Bug#601164: sflphoned: Uniformative SFLPHONED(1)

2010-10-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sflphone-daemon Version: 0.9.8.4-1 Severity: normal File: sflphoned SYNOPSIS sflphoned [OPTION]... I'd expect better of Debian when it comes to documentation. The -h option comes to the rescue. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#519083: sendemail/sendEmail: symlink

2009-03-10 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sendemail Severity: wishlist Very often the command name is the same as the package name so it can be confusing for people when they find 'sendemail' does not work. Would symlinking '/usr/bin/sendEmail' to '/usr/bin/sendemail' be appropriate? -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#586040: dpkg-awk: Option -rs doesn't work

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: dpkg-awk Version: 1.0.3 Severity: normal br...@testbox:~$ dpkg-awk -rs --- Priority:important -- Package illegal short option! 'rs' / [args] --rec_sep works ok. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#587146: get-iplayer: Fails to stream BBC One

2010-06-25 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: normal br...@testbox:~$ get_iplayer --stream 80002 get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: important 'get-iplayer --type liveradio' followed by an attempt to stream Radio 4 results in: br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer --stream 80135 get_iplayer v2.76, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: normal The github version of get_iplayer may very well allow live streaming of all radio stations but when it comes to live TV: br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer --stream 80001 WARNING: Ignoring invalid option in /var/lib/get_iplayer/options:

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: normal The version of get_iplayer at http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/commit/eff725157ed3570fa0a83f61144f22e19d3867a2 appears to be ok for streaming of live radio and TV. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful

2009-11-17 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.19-23 Severity: normal Part of the 'Enable saned as a standalone server?' section of the sane-utils template says: When run in standalone mode, saned advertises itself on the network and can be detected automatically by the SANE clients with no configuration

Bug#556912: libsane: Tidying up dll.conf

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: libsane Version: 1.0.19-23 Severity: minor Some guidance in dll.conf is: # enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network: It's not particularily confusing but the net backend is already uncommented. Regards, Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#556912: Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 12:36:13 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: The mDNS support is unfinished in a number of ways, so unless I can get back to working on it, I'm probably going to disable it for Squeeze. I'd suggest altering the template then to reflect this. Currently the discovery in the net

Bug#556912: libsane: Tidying up dll.conf

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 12:31:25 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: It highlights the net backend, which I don't think is a bad thing. I don't see what needs fixing here, honestly; if you can come up with something you think is better, we can discuss it. Drawing attention to the net backend I

Bug#630519: isc-dhcp-client: /sbin/route may not be on the system

2011-06-14 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.1.1-P1-17 Severity: important When booting or using ifup: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:60:b3:f5:80:c4 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:60:b3:f5:80:c4 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.7.1

Bug#630519: /sbin/route may not be on the system

2011-06-18 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: isc-dhcp-client Followup-For: Bug #630519 ifupdown_0.7~alpha5+really0.6.10_i386.deb (the previous version was uploaded to unstable by mistake) has net-tools as a dependency. The bug no longer manifests itself. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#625199: debian-reference: An addition to the list of network configuration tools

2011-05-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: debian-reference Severity: wishlist Wouldn't wpagui be worth a mention in Table 5.1? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#605037: Iceweasel uses wrong default print resolution

2011-06-28 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.19-2 Followup-For: Bug #605037 My printer is an HP LaserJet 2200. Iceweasel honours all the print queue settings apart from Resolution when used with some drivers, where it always gives 300dpi. The ppd produced by the CUPS+Gutenprint v6.2.6 has *Resolution

Bug#605037: iceweasel: Iceweasel uses wrong default print resolution

2011-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 07 Aug 2011 at 14:59:47 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Hi, Sorry for the late answer. And my apologies for a tardy response, too. Did it get any better with version 5.0 from either unstable or http://mozilla.debian.net/ ? I have a fresh unstable install to hand on which I put cups and

Bug#639297: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639297: xfdesktop4: No desktop icon with USB device

2011-09-07 Thread Brian Potkin
debian-6.0.2.1-i386-netinst.iso was put on a USB stick as described. The output of udisks --show-info /dev/sdh1 is below and has 0x17 as the partition type and 'presentation hide: 1'. Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdh1 native-path:

Bug#639296: consolekit: Authorisation and startx

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
'Failed to mount Not Authorized'. A data CD/DVD will get mounted but cannot be ejected with the 'Eject Volume' option. ck-list-sessions says: Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'Brian Potkin' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11

Bug#639297: xfdesktop4: No desktop icon with USB device

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: xfdesktop4 Severity: normal I am unsure whether this is an xfce4.8 bug and, if not, which package is responsible. Please reassign if necessary. My installation is an up-to-date Sid. Inserted USB sticks produce a desktop icon - with one exception. A USB stick which holds a hybrid iso

Bug#639297: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639297: xfdesktop4: No desktop icon with USB device

2011-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 25 Aug 2011 at 22:04:49 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Please use reportbug. Sorry, I don't understand this. I did use reportbug on a Lenny machine. Regards, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#639297: xfdesktop4: No desktop icon with USB device

2011-08-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: xfdesktop4 Version: 4.8.2-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #639297 Thanks for your previous help. A Debian install iso can be put a usb stick with: cat iso /dev/sdX The device is recognised by udisks and in dmesg and can be mounted with, say, pmount. However, there is no icon shown on the

Bug#662999: cups: stopped printing (to parallel HP LaserJet 1320 printer) after 1.5.0-13

2012-06-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 22:23:48 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:12:41 +0100 Brian Potkin wrote: Hello Francesco, I think you are sending PostScript to the printer and it possible the interpreter on it is misbehaving. That has certainly been the focus of a number

Bug#662999: cups: stopped printing (to parallel HP LaserJet 1320 printer) after 1.5.0-13

2012-06-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 24 Jun 2012 at 17:06:49 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:50:22 +0100 Brian Potkin wrote: I'm not too sure this isn't more of a way to work round the problem rather than a fix. There may be value in leaving the bug open. As you prefer, no problem. I hope

Bug#662999: cups: stopped printing (to parallel HP LaserJet 1320 printer) after 1.5.0-13

2012-06-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 25 Jun 2012 at 22:34:58 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: I searched for instructions on how to set up a print queue with CUPS so that Poppler is used to send Postscript to the printer, but I failed to find any detail in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README.txt.gz ... Were you referring to

Bug#662999: cups: stopped printing (to parallel HP LaserJet 1320 printer) after 1.5.0-13

2012-06-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 22:04:12 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: Hello, is there any progress on this bug? I am still able to reproduce it on an updated Debian testing box with the HP LaserJet 1320 printer (even connected through network, rather than through the parallel port). Other printers

Bug#666877: Unable to add document to print job

2012-06-22 Thread Brian Potkin
severity 666877 important thanks On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 10:12:03 +0200, Anders Boström wrote: I can confirm this bug with version 1.5.3-1 when running testing and printing over ipp to a cups-server. I only get an message Unable to add document to print job, and then the job disappers without

Bug#662780: cups: new version causes printer to hang for ages, then only print a blank page

2012-05-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 17 May 2012 at 16:14:45 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: I think I experienced that problem today with `cups` 1.5.2-11 and cups-filter 1.0.16-2 and 1.0.18-1. Although when printed to PDF from the GNOME printing dialog the file with the image is just 400 kB big, the print job took forever.

Bug#662780: cups: new version causes printer to hang for ages, then only print a blank page

2012-05-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 18 May 2012 at 10:49:21 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am Freitag, den 18.05.2012, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Brian Potkin: Were you printing to PDF using 'Print to file' or cups-pdf? The first one »Print to file«. Probably that does not use CUPS at all, does it? I will try with CUPS-pdf

Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

2012-04-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 27 Apr 2012 at 10:09:14 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Ad 1) I didn't realize that I still had another font installed, the Opentype Cantarell font. I was so focussed on Truetype fonts and gsfonts-x11 that I simply overlooked it. When I removed this one, I've got the exact same

Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

2012-04-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 27 Apr 2012 at 16:38:37 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Please try actual printing with the patched cups-filters package! ;) Ye of little faith! The file gets as far as the backend; it actually has to print . . . . . doesn't it? Ok, done. Success! Cheers, Brian.q -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

2012-04-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 27 Apr 2012 at 19:57:09 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Does it print or not? Does this small patch fix the issue for you, even if only fonts-liberation and gsfonts-x11 are installed? Sorry for being obscure. Yes, it prints on a real printer in the circumstances you describe. Regards,

Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

2012-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 30 Apr 2012 at 11:20:01 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Could you please apply the attached patch against a clean source code copy of cups-filters and see if printing will work with this one under the given circumstances (i.e. only gsfonts-x11 and fonts-liberation installed)?

Bug#605037: iceweasel: Iceweasel uses wrong default print resolution

2011-10-15 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: iceweasel Version: 7.0.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #605037 This behaviour still exists. Also, today I downloaded Firefox 7.0.1 from the Mozilla website and ran it from my home directory. This makes no difference. However. I also installed Ubuntu 11-10 which uses Firefox 7.0.1. The correct

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i As 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection says: Unfortunately some computers contain buggy BIOS versions. Booting debian-installer from a USB stick might not work even if there is an appropriate option in the BIOS setup menu and the stick is

Bug#692310: installation-guide: E.2. Contributing to This Document: README link

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i E.2. Contributing to This Document has a link to a README: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/README?op=file Accessing it, I get An Exception Has Occurred An illegal parameter name was provided. HTTP Response Status 400 Bad

Bug#692314: installation-guide: A.3. Installation: A correction or two

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i A.3. Installation for en.i386 has: Installation of the base system is followed by setting up user accounts. By default you will need to provide a password for the “root” (administrator) account and information necessary to create

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-13 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Today's daily netinst image was put on a USB stick together with a second partition to hold firmware. The intention was to test installing Debian over a WPA wireless connection. It turned out to be more interesting than I had anticipated! The wireless

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 14 Nov 2011 at 12:37:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It seems that the wrong guess has been made about which module requested the isl3887usb firmware file. To debug this, you could instrument /lib/udev/firmware.agent In particular, see what DEVPATH is set to with a change like this:

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 16 Nov 2011 at 14:08:20 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: The devpath I got was /sys/devices/platform/orion-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4 This has a product file containing USB2.0 WLAN, manufacturer containing ZyDAS and so on, but its driver/module link points to /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbcore . The

Bug#445330: (Re: Bug#445330: cupsys: mime.types(5) is confusingly named

2012-08-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 18 Aug 2012 at 19:29:27 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: This bug still exists, and has a simple fix for which there is already a model in another package: xfm contains xfm_mime.types(5), so why not rename the cups man page (which still exists in testing and unstable) to cups_mime.types(5)?

Bug#685367: installation-report: Wheezy beta installed on powermac g4 900 MHz w/ ATI rage graphicscard

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 20 Aug 2012 at 11:46:37 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: The Installation went OK, but the graphical XFCE-Desktop was not usable, because the x-server was not workable. I actually had to start the system with the yaboot-command-line 'Linux init 1' to get a usable VT, once lightdm was

Bug#663712: cups: printing fails with ERROR: undefined (HP LaserJet 4600)

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 663712 cups-filters tags 663712 + moreinfo thanks Hello Sanjoy, Your problem appears to involve the CUPS filtering system so I am moving the report over to what I think is the correct package - cups-filters. From memory it may be the printer, rather than the printing system. which is

Bug#626271: cups segfault after some time

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 626271 + moreinfo thanks Hello Erwan, Are you stll experiencing this problem with the latest versions of cups, cups-filters etc. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#638934: libcupsmime.so.1: undefined symbol: _cups_strcasecmp

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 638934 + moreinfo thanks On Tue 23 Aug 2011 at 13:55:07 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.4.8-2 Severity: normal I had problems with cups from unstable so I tried to install the version from testing and found that it failed to start, giving the error: Hello

Bug#612975: cups: gs run by pdftopdf filter gives floating point exception

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 612975 moreinfo thanks On Fri 11 Feb 2011 at 16:21:51 -0500, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.4.5-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf [I'm not sure whether this bug belongs to cups or to ghostscript.] When I printed the first attached PDF file to

Bug#612285: cups: Clarify relationship between BrowseProtocols and BrowseLocalProtocols, BrowseRemoteProtocols documentation

2012-08-23 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 612285 + upstream thanks On Mon 07 Feb 2011 at 12:32:30 +, Sam Morris wrote: The documentation says: The BrowseProtocols directive specifies the protocols to use when showing and advertising shared printers on the local network. The BrowseRemoteProtocols directive

Bug#650365: cups: CUP at localhost web page dose not show printers.

2012-08-23 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 650365 moreinfo thanks On Tue 29 Nov 2011 at 15:26:57 +0700, Shtu wrote: I have edited few printers and it is gone from the printer list, yet when I print w/ LO.Writer- I see some of the printers missing, and at the jobs page I can see the jobs processed by the printers. How are you

Bug#523269: cups-pdf: please change default output to embedded text rather than rasterized graphics

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Potkin
severity 523269 wishlist reassign 523269 cups-filters thanks I cannot see why the severity of this bug is important. The cups and cups-filters packages are intended to put ink or toner on paper so whether the output from them leads to a searchable PDF with extractable text appears immaterial.

Bug#616718: cups: Attempting to add a printer gives a forbidden error

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 616718 + moreinfo thanks On Sun 06 Mar 2011 at 13:28:13 -0800, Aaron Barany wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.4.4-7 Severity: important After a fresh install of cups, if I attempt to add a printer from http://localhost:631; I get a forbidden error. This occurs on the first page

Bug#658633: cups: I can't print only ONE specific pdf file.

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 658633 + moreinfo thanks On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 19:20:47 +0100, Edo wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.5.0-15 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Try to print a pdf file but it

Bug#550226: German webinterface: Auftrüge instead of Aufträge in the main menu

2012-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
I'll add http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3409 as a reference. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#676824: cups: Upgrade to 1.5.3-1 broke printing with HP printer (at least)

2012-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 676824 hpijs-ppds severity 676824 normal thanks On Sat 09 Jun 2012 at 18:51:58 +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote: Since upgrading from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, I now get the following error: hp[1325]: prnt/backend/hp.c 839: ERROR: null print job total=0 whenever I try to print

Bug#674440: cups: CUPS (or related, sorry) fails to print full job, gives ERROR: invalidaccess printout

2012-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 674440 cups-filters thanks On Thu 24 May 2012 at 11:35:44 -0500, Jeffrey G Thomas wrote: Trying to print in CUPS has been giving issues, currently I can only get a part of the top of one ODF file and then the page printout ends; the duplexer then flips my incomplete page and prints

Bug#614283: Aaz. Debian 6.0 Printer Epson C4200 rebooting

2012-08-26 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 614283 moreinfo thanks On Sun 20 Feb 2011 at 22:44:31 +0300, Anayoliy Orkas wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.4.4-7 When I send to printer Epson EL C4200 document with two-sides mode, printers is not responding, or rebooting, and not responding after reboot. It can work only after

Bug#664538: cups: Printing is very slow (100% CPU usage by gs)

2012-08-26 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 664538 cups-filters thanks On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 19:24:43 +0100, Witold Baryluk wrote: Package: cups Version: 1.5.2-8 Severity: important There is similar problem repoerted, but do not know how releated. On my CUPS server (Pentium 3 700MHz, with 512MB of RAM), any documents

Bug#642221: cups: After upgrading to wheezy /dev/usn/lp0 disappeared

2012-08-26 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 642221 moreinfo thanks On Tue 20 Sep 2011 at 20:56:56 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: after absolute/full upgrade to wheezy device /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared. After some investigations I have found that kernel module usb lp does not loaded by udev any more. Threfore if You suppose that it is

Bug#663712: cups: printing fails with ERROR: undefined (HP LaserJet 4600)

2012-08-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 27 Aug 2012 at 09:02:04 -0400, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: try printing again with the latest package versions and let us know how you go on. I retried the three methods of printing, each of which had problems before. Here's what happened with each one: 1. lp -o fitplot file.pdf

Bug#663995: cups: Kerberos authentication doesn't work for admin interface

2012-08-30 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 663995 upstream thanks On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 16:22:22 +, Sam Morris wrote: I'm trying to access the CUPS admin interface via a web browser. I can see the browser correctly getting a ticket for HTTP/host.example.com, and a corresponding entry is available in the server's keytab,

Bug#687687: Installation was mostly successfully on Acer Aspire One D150

2012-09-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 16 Sep 2012 at 12:56:28 +0300, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: Presseding the ESSID should be allowed, the problem here seems to be that one question is not preseeded. There is anothere question: netcfg/wireless_show_essids (the one that gets shown) which shows a list of available

Bug#688273: Preseed netcfg/use_autoconfig and netcfg/disable_dhcp doesn't work

2012-09-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 22 Sep 2012 at 01:41:44 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:01:52AM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: I preseed like the fellow, d-i netcfg/use_autoconfig boolean false d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true But it still try dhcp first. could you try this,

Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer

2012-09-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 13:44:48 +0300, Gasha wrote: During installation missing firmware bnx2 was reported. Installer was unable to copy firmware from EXT2 formatted USB flash. Also, dialog screen does not mention supported filesystems. Section 6.4. of the Installation Guide points out that a

Bug#650819: Worked around

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 19:49:20 -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: severity 650819 normal close 684265 3.2.29-1 forcemerge 650819 686314 thanks This is no longer RC. A workaround has finally been applied, namely the first one, adding fuse. It will take some time before the fix makes it to

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 at 16:36:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Brian Potkin, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 13:05:25 +, a écrit : Burn plpbt.iso to a CD. But then why not simply burn the Debian CD image on the CD? In no particular order of importance: 1. The user has only one CD and no money to buy

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 at 00:46:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Brian Potkin, le Sun 04 Nov 2012 21:24:32 +, a écrit : Whatever the reason, some computers will not boot from a USB device, So, in addition to the present advice, why not offer something which does not involve fiddling, very

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 02:09:47 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: Comments/Problems: This machine started with Win7 installation occupying the entire disk. I resized the windows partition to 1/2 of the disk, and installed wheezy into the new partitions [ /boot and / plus swap ], which I

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-22 Thread Brian Potkin
, Brian Potkin wrote: : : Did you get that advice from section 6.3.6.1? I'd agree it is less : helpful than intended. Yes, exactly. The mention of black arts also makes me hesitant to interfere when the automatic process gets it wrong. The GRUB ecosystem seems more complicated, the more I

Bug#694068: netcfg: Wireless connectivity present during an install but absent afterwards

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: netcfg Version: 1.102 Severity: important Tags: d-i I installed in expert mode over a wireless link from Debian GNU/Linux testing Wheezy - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20121122-21:21 This ISO has netcfg_1.102. Only Standard system utilities was selected as a task.

Bug#694082: mountmedia: Please revert the change made to 0.20

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: mountmedia Version: 0.21 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i This is by way of being a reminder about what was said in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/08/msg00483.html #684293 is marked as done by Ben Hutchings and D-I now has kernel version 3.2.0-4. If I delete the workaround

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