Bug#347389: aptitude: Unscrollable error display on unavailable public key.

2006-01-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Severity: normal When I aptitude -u I get a red error window saying quote W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.no.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F /quote and

Bug#347545: login crashes when trying to use nis

2006-01-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: nis Version: 3.15-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (arguably critical; when installed, renders login unusable) When root tried to su - eddy it got this response on stderr: -su: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size

Bug#342650: pike7.6: The pike package is present in sarge but missing from etch.

2005-12-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: pike7.6 Version: 7.6.24-1 Severity: important Some months ago I upgraded from sarge to etch by simply editing sources.list and running aptitude -u; consequently, I kept the pike7.6 from before the switch. (I'm told a dist-upgrade would have removed it.) This week, I got a new machine,

Bug#342650: pike7.6: The pike package is present in sarge but missing from etch.

2005-12-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Thanks for your prompt reply. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/pike7.6 http://www.debian.org/releases/ says that unstable is sid, testing is etch. See bug summary: the problem is with etch. On http://packages.debian.org/testing/interpreters/ I see the alphabetical list go

Bug#342650: pike7.6: The pike package is present in sarge but missing from etch.

2005-12-16 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hello Marek, You're right, I misread your initial message heh - I deal with bug reports too - misreading is all too easy. It's an unavoidable problem of knowing enough to usually be right ... please see http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=pike7.6 though. I like the url; it has a pleasing

Bug#342650: pike7.6: The pike package is present in sarge but missing from etch.

2006-01-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
I note with glee, upon my return from mid-winter holidays, that the pike package set now shows up among etch's New Packages (as reported by aptitude) - bug fixed, thank you :-) Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#397310: How do I repair my config ?

2006-11-08 Thread Edward Welbourne
This bug sounds like why my intraweb site's AuthLDAP stopped working. Some password-protected documents became 500: Internal Server Error. I'm using AuthLDAP with require valid-user. First, error.log reported Invalid command 'AuthLDAPEnabled', which doesn't have any visible equivalent in the

Bug#397310: How do I repair my config ?

2006-11-08 Thread Edward Welbourne
This bug sounds like why my intraweb site's AuthLDAP stopped working. What else do I need to change to make this work ? I forgot to mention: I *did* shuffle the symlinks in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ to include authnz_ldap.load and ldap.load but not auth_ldap.load (since it's empty). Are

Bug#397310: How do I repair my config ?

2006-11-08 Thread Edward Welbourne
What else do I need to change to make this work ? I forgot to mention: I *did* shuffle the symlinks and when I symlinked *all* auth* into enabled, and restarted, I got: quote src=error.log [Wed Nov 08 19:50:26 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Nov 08 19:50:35 2006] [notice]

Bug#397310: our workaround

2006-11-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Thank you Joseph - that fixed mine, too :-) Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#347545: acknowledged by developer (Bug#322011: fixed in glibc 2.3.5-12)

2006-01-16 Thread Edward Welbourne
hmm ... etch is still on 2.3.5-8 and the fix is in 2.3.5-12. Is etch likely to pick up the fix any time soon ? Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Followup-For: Bug #494267 A month or three ago I turned my flat Dell screen on its side, from landscape mode to portrait mode; the last two lines of my .xsession are now: xrandr -o left exec fvwm This initially worked very nicely. Notably, xscreensaver

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Please try 5.07. Marvelously terse and imperative ;-) I've looked at the change-logs and, indeed, find: quote src=http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html; 5.0710-Aug-2008 Xinerama/RANDR tweaks for old-style multi-screen. ... 5.0616-Jul-2008 Xinerama/RANDR fixes: this time for

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Please find a 5.07-1 prelease (i386 binaries) at http://alioth.debian.org/~tormod-guest/xscreensaver/ Thank you - I've fetched and installed all five packages. Restarted xscreensaver, opened config panel to confirm it's now 5.07: but my wrong-orientation variant of the bug is still there. I

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-13 Thread Edward Welbourne
I'm afraid that someone who actually has access to a system with RANDR and a rotatey monitor is gonna have to debug this and send me a patch... OK, that'd be me then, since I can definitely reproduce the bug. (If you try to debug this, please start with 5.07, not a multiply- patched

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-13 Thread Edward Welbourne
apt-get build-dep xscreensaver should help you. after that ./configure; make worked nicely, thank you. I exited my existing xscreensaver and fired up the one built in driver/; it promptly said: xscreensaver: WARNING: RANDR and Xinerama report different xscreensaver: screen layouts!

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Well, for you maybe, but not for others I'm afraid. indeed - last thing before going home at the end of the day, I'm not at my brightest ! One way or another, the randr code is clearly getting it wrong. I'll see if I can help work out why. Can you send the output of the test-xinerama and

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
When I previously 0'd out the rotate code, else if (0 rot (RR_Rotate_90|RR_Rotate_270)) I failed to notice a matching piece of code in the HAVE_RANDR_12 stanza further down; a few judicious fputs revealed to me that the latter is the one being executed. When I 0 *it* out,

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Sorry, last mail's output from test-randr and test-xinerama was bogus; I'd forgotten to go into dieplay/ and re-make them. quote src=driver/test-randr test-randr: 10:28:56: XRRQueryExtension(dpy, ...) == 115, 186 test-randr: 10:28:56: XRRQueryVersion(dpy, ...) == 1, 2 test-randr: 10:28:56:

Bug#494267: xscreensaver forgot how to grok xrandr -o left

2008-08-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Does that sound right? To the extent of my limited grasp of the matter, yes ;-) Thanks for making and maintaining xscreensaver, Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#495557: Various packages claim to depend on emacs21 when they really depend on emacs

2008-08-18 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: emacs21 Severity: minor Well, reportbug asked me which package it related to and I tried saying it was general: quote Enter a package: 7 Are you sure this bug doesn't apply to a specific package? [y|N|q|?]? /quote but it *does* apply to a specific package, it's just that that package

Bug#496025: linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7: New kernels always ruminate about removing the same dangling symlink

2008-08-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-k7 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2 Severity: minor Every time a new kernel installs, I get a warning message about a dangling symbolic link that it decides to remove. This is produced by the linux-image-*.postinst function fix_build_link when it finds a dangling link

Bug#495047: xscreensaver: Crying wolf undermines the value of the failed login attempt warning

2008-08-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Followup-For: Bug #495047 This warning should only be produced when someone has actually attempted to log in - that is, hit return while the password field is displayed and selected, optionally after having modified the input fields. Merely prompting the

Bug#465427: libc6: strftime gets confused by the invalid format specifier %20#%

2008-02-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: libc6 Version: 2.7-6 Severity: minor I used the following program to probe the behaviour of strftime: file src=strftime.c #include time.h #include stdio.h const int bufsize = 4096; int main(int count, char *args[]) { char buf[bufsize]; time_t now = time(NULL);

Bug#459591: apache2.2-common: Please include NameWidth=* in default IndexOptions

2008-01-07 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.6-2 Severity: wishlist I sporadically run into web sites with directory listing enabled but can't read large parts of the file names because the site hasn't configured IndexOptions NameWidth=* or some specific value for NameWidth. The problem is

Bug#456904: w3c-markup-validator: Broken HOMEPAGE support (Debian addition to upstream)

2007-12-18 Thread Edward Welbourne
Subject: w3c-markup-validator: Broken HOMEPAGE support (Debian addition to upstream) Package: w3c-markup-validator Version: 0.7.4-4 Severity: minor I noticed some warnings in my apache error logs, which contained many repeats of each of: error.log.22.gz:[Wed Jul 18 08:15:45 2007] check: Use of

Bug#436704: java-gcj-compat: Undeclared (and unresolved) dependency on libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2007-08-08 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: java-gcj-compat Version: 1.0.65-10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable $ cd /usr/opt/j2sdk1.4.0_01/jre/lib/i386/client $ ldd libjvm.so libnsl.so.1 = /lib/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7aae000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7aaa000)

Bug#432847: /usr/bin/xload: xload needs a way to limit range of values it can display

2007-08-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Unfortunately, most tiny X programs like this one usually don't get much maintenance. So you should probably try to come with a patch if you really want this to be implemented :/ Fair enough. If I find the time ... Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#434556: css-mode in emacs22 is making other modes think /* ... */ delimit comments

2007-07-24 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.1+1-1 Severity: normal Run: emacs22 dummy.css -q dummy.mk In dummy.mk, type: /* this looks like a comment Observe that the statement is true. css-mode is causing other modes, including the html-mode provided by sgml-mode (but the above shows it for

Bug#434556: css-mode in emacs22 is making other modes think /* ... */ delimit comments

2007-07-24 Thread Edward Welbourne
For: Run: emacs22 dummy.css -q dummy.mk Read: Run: emacs22 -q dummy.css dummy.mk ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434556: css-mode in emacs22 is making other modes think /* ... */ delimit comments

2007-07-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
I've now heard back from martin rudalics: quote Apparently, Zaitseff's modifications are too persistent but I can't tell anything because I don't have the sources. Source follows, Thanks. Basically, the problem is here (defun css-mode() ... ; Setting up syntax table

Bug#435246: python-software-properties: Package uploaded to lenny before Required: version of python-apt is available

2007-07-30 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: python-software-properties Version: 0.59.4-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package has been added to lenny, specifying that it Requires: python-apt 0.7.2 This is premature: lenny is still on 0.7.2 ! Consequently, the package cannot install (thus is

Bug#435252: icecc provides no way to report ICECC_VERSION's underlying gcc version

2007-07-30 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: icecc Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: wishlist If I invoke icecc --version it tells me (very sensibly) the version of icecc I'm using. If I invoke icecc -- --version I get a report of my primary native gcc's version, regardless of the value of ICECC_VERSION, along with an error message about

Bug#422651: libapache2-mod-auth-sys-group: lack of documentation on authorization for group

2007-09-13 Thread Edward Welbourne
... but now this has stopped working, without any recent config change (but maybe apache got updated in etch). Since it failed, I've tried adding the PAM config (and removing the AuthGROUP_Enabled line) but this didn't help any :-( Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#445104: xscreensaver: aborts X session if I let the log-back-in screen time out while switched to a virtual console

2007-10-03 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.03-2 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Ever since switching to a Dell flat-screen (2007FPb - I was previously using a CRT) I've experienced a problem where: * I lock my X session, * I switch to a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.),

Bug#445104: xscreensaver: aborts X session if I let the log-back-in screen time out while switched to a virtual console

2007-10-04 Thread Edward Welbourne
Sounds like X is dying on vt switch. I guess so. I assume this doesn't happen when xscreensaver isn't running? Indeed. If X is indeed crashing, can you attach your X log after the crash? (should be /var/log/Xorg.0.log, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after X has been restarted) In the interests

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-10-04 Thread Edward Welbourne
Incidentally, this bug has become unreproducible since I switched from using the old CRT to using a shiny new flat screen. Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#445104: xscreensaver: aborts X session if I let the log-back-in screen time out while switched to a virtual console

2007-10-04 Thread Edward Welbourne
Thanks, I'm reassigning this bug to the X server. The complete log and your xorg.conf would be useful. OK. file src=/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-10-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Strange, I am not sure what to do with this bug then. Understandable. Will you have a chance to try the old CRT again? No - it's been junked (see below for why), that's why I replaced it. This might justify closing the bug as hardware fault. Are you sure the bug disappeared because you

Bug#410740: x11-common: please conflict with opera ( 9.10-20061214.6)

2007-02-27 Thread Edward Welbourne
on the correct release version. If it's a bug I didn't notice myself fixing, I may need to port it to newer branches of the packaging scripts ! Edward Welbourne, for the Opera packaging team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#410740: x11-common: please conflict with opera ( 9.10-20061214.6)

2007-02-27 Thread Edward Welbourne
be Conflicts: opera ( 9.00-20060616) Let us know if you run into any similar problems in future, we're always eager to make our packages fit in better with distributions, Edward Welbourne, for the Opera packaging team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#413095: libc6: Typo in ldd script: refers to file_magic_regex but filename_magix_regex was set

2007-03-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-11 Severity: normal In /usr/bin/ldd there is a variable, filename_magic_regex, which is set before argument parsing and passed to egrep when checking the name of a non-executable file. Later, when checking the output of file -L, a variable file_magic_regex is

Bug#413095: libc6: Typo in ldd script: refers to file_magic_regex but filename_magix_regex was set

2007-03-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
this is already fixed in experimental along with bug 165417 in fact. OK, good to hear. I'm on etch, so behind the curve on updates. Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.4-3 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: breaks unrelated software When I start up xdm, the console starts to imagine that there are three more lines available than actually exist. The console actually has 25 lines; but the console ttys think it has 28

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Section Device Identifier Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Driver vesa BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Did you try the i810 driver instead of vesa? Also, do you use a fb console? This is the point where I should point out that I am not a sysadmin. (I *have* been

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi again Julien, Everone else went home, so I have a chance to break things^W^W experiment. Upon re-booting and actually checking what resize and $LINES say when the X server hasn't messed things up, I find that I've mis-described this bug. The normal state does in fact have 28 lines; when the

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Interestingly, when aptitude fires up the console-graphical package configuration tool, during installation of new packages, it manages to put the OK selector where I *can* see it, even though aptitude itself fails to show me its last three lines. (For example, when asking me to hit return to

Bug#421615: gimp-help-no: Package description claims it's Korean; but it's actually Norwegian !

2007-04-30 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: gimp-help-no Severity: minor Tags: l10n The packages gimp-help-ko and gimp-help-no were released in parallel. The description for -no is a duplicate of the one for -ko; which overtly says it's a Korean localisation. The -no one needs s/Korean/Norwegian/ ! I should also note that the

Bug#422651: AuthPAM parts not needed

2007-07-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
I found that a .htaccess of form AuthType Basic AuthName Group xxx only AuthGROUP_Enabled on require group xxx AuthBasicAuthoritative off worked fine, without needing the AuthPAM directives given in this patch. It was, however, necessary to include the last line (which is what had me stumped).

Bug#432847: /usr/bin/xload: xload needs a way to limit range of values it can display

2007-07-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: x11-apps Version: 0.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/xload The vertical scale of xload adjusts to accommodate the highest load level. It has horizontal lines to indicate the vertical scale. A high enough load shall cause these lines to be so closely spaced that there is no space

Bug#432847: /usr/bin/xload: xload needs a way to limit range of values it can display

2007-07-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
This could readilly enough be remedied by providing a command-line option, --clip-at=n, to tell xload to not try to display any load level above n. More fancy solutions are possible. closer inspection of the man page suggests this could be implemented as an optional second value for -scale:

Bug#433113: sun-java5-plugin: package depends on explicit |-list of browsers instead of web-browser virtual package

2007-07-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: sun-java5-plugin Version: 1.5.0-10-3 I'm using the Opera web browser. Although sun-java5-plugin doesn't overtly say that it supports all NPP-compatible browsers, I'm guessing it does from the list of browsers it Depends: on. However, that list doesn't inlucde Opera, so I'm obliged to

Bug#433113: Acknowledgement (sun-java5-plugin: package depends on explicit |-list of browsers instead of web-browser virtual package)

2007-07-15 Thread Edward Welbourne
minor correction to previous: for web-browser read www-browser. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298097: /usr/bin/ar: same elfcode.h internal error happens with ar

2005-08-15 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: binutils Version: 2.15-6 Followup-For: Bug #298097 When running ar crs to add a large number of files to an existing large .a I got: quote BFD: BFD 2.15 internal error, aborting at ../../bfd/elfcode.h line 188 in bfd_elf32_swap_symbol_in BFD: Please report this bug. /quote I see a

Bug#294350: coreutils: sort(1)'s +$num flag is not mentioned in the man page

2005-08-17 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #294350 I am used to sort historically supporting a +$num option. This would appear to be supported by the present coreutils sort. It is not, however, mentioned in the manual page. This is related to #294350: having now done some experiments,

Bug#294350: coreutils: sort(1)'s +$num flag is not mentioned in the man page

2005-08-18 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi Jim, Thanks for the quick response - so much for those (typically among the proprietary suppliers whose support is worst) who say Free Software lacks support ;^) The main trick is knowing that the `real' documentation ... ah, I see. I guess that's why the COPYRIGHT notice is (mildly

Bug#484780: Documentation needs to mention bind and server's nisdomainname

2008-06-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: nis Version: 3.17-14 Severity: minor In nis.debian.howto.gz it says: quote 1. HOW TO SETUP A LOCAL NIS CLIENT 1.1 Install the netbase, portmap and nis packages 1.2 The installation procedure will ask for your NIS domainname. This is just a name which describes the group of

Bug#484780: Documentation needs to mention bind and server's nisdomainname

2008-06-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
The point here is just that a valid NIS domainname needn't be a valid hostname I realize that's what the present text is saying; I was drawing attention to what it *doesn't* say. - the expectation is that your network administrator will tell you what it is On the other hand, it's always

Bug#476885: mercurial-common: The inotify import error breaks tailor's git-hg support

2008-06-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: mercurial-common Version: 1.0.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #476885 The initially reported bug can be reduced to: quote Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32) [GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import hgext.inotify

Bug#484780: Documentation needs to mention bind and server's nisdomainname

2008-06-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
I've thought this over a bit and I'm really not comfortbale with doing anything more than adding a generalised Please consult your network administrator statement. That would suffice. The present wording, the first time I met it, lead me to think the name I was supplying was something I could

Bug#475534: x11-apps: oclock fails to show updated time, apparently because repainting hands in wrong colour

2008-06-16 Thread Edward Welbourne
I've rotated my screen using xrandr -o left to use it in portrait mode and, to my pleasant surprise, the oclock now works as it always used to. There doesn't appear to have been an upgrade to x11-apps since I reported the bug, but it has been some weeks since I last rebooted or even restarted my

Bug#366695: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Depends on unavailable xserver-xorg-core on etch.

2006-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810 Version: 1:1.5.1.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Due to a power outage, I had to re-boot my etch box after some months, during which I'd updated it, so am now using the modern xserver-xorg-* package fragments, where I was using a more

Bug#366695: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Depends on unavailable xserver-xorg-core on etch.

2006-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Remove the individual i810 driver package, it wouldn't install, so that was be a no-op ! the xserver-xorg package in testing includes the driver you want. when I dpkg-reconfigure it, it starts by asking whether I want to let it autodetect: and says that it can't recognize what it finds. If

Bug#366695: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Depends on unavailable xserver-xorg-core on etch.

2006-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
http://packages.debian.org/xserver-xorg-core Yes, I know that package is not available on testing. That's why I submitted the bug against xserver-xorg-video-i810, not against xserver-xorg-core. http://packages.debian.org/xserver-xorg-video-i810 says it's available on testing. It * appears to

Bug#366695: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Depends on unavailable xserver-xorg-core on etch.

2006-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365134 It still failed, now saying that it couldn't make sense of the hardware ... Then I remembered that xorg had recently gone into many-package form, so went looking for a suitable xserver-xorg-video-* for the hardware reported to

Bug#340690: flashplugin-nonfree: All update-flashplugin.conf.rb URLs now fail

2006-03-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
When I run update-flashplugin I get told quote Checking new upstream release... I: checking http://macromedia.rediris.es/tarball/debian/... No new version is detected. ( = not installed) /quote because, as I've now found by visiting all sites by hand, all of the entries in

Bug#340690: flashplugin-nonfree: All update-flashplugin.conf.rb URLs now fail

2006-03-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
It is important that Debian pulls from Macromedia, because we need to show the true size of the Linux desktop userbase. Macromedia will [cease] to put resources into developing software for Linux if they think we are smaller than we really are. fair point. Debian should modify their

Bug#338317: setiathome: More details on failing install

2006-02-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: setiathome Version: 3.08-4 Followup-For: Bug #338317 On etch I'm getting quote Errors were encountered while processing: setiathome E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up setiathome (3.08-4) ...

Bug#349503: locales doesn't leave dpkg knowing it owns /etc/environment

2006-01-23 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: locales Version: 2.3.5-8 Severity: normal During a major upgrade, I got skads of errors like quote perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_NO:en_US:en_GB:en, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US

Bug#186100: Possibly more helpful data on bug #186100

2006-01-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi, I have some build robots running, whose logs showed this up; so switched them to use -t for a day or so and caught another example of the bug. First, here's a successful cvs log: quote - main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]domain:/var/cvs/cvsroot - Connecting to cvs.domain(IP

Bug#377635: coreutils: man install sends me to non-extant (in etch) info pages

2006-07-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: coreutils Version: 5.96-3 Severity: important The man page for install(1) tells me that: The full documentation for install is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info

Bug#377635: coreutils: man install sends me to non-extant (in etch) info pages

2006-07-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Severity: important That's a bit of bug inflation. when I began writing it, it was documentation is not available, making program unusable - by the time I'd finished writing the details I'd checked enough to find my way round it: but forgot to revise the severity - sorry. dpkg-installinfo is

Bug#377635: coreutils: man install sends me to non-extant (in etch) info pages

2006-07-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
info coreutils program isn't a reliable fix either. That's a pity - why not ? Let's say you want info on the 'pr' command. So you try: info coreutils pr But instead of the pr invocation page you get the Printing text page instead. ah - I see. It may still be worth adjusting the man

Bug#369662: fortunes: typo in Brandeis quote: fortune -m 'mean of zeal'

2006-05-31 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: fortunes Version: 1:1.99.1-3 Severity: minor fortune -m 'mean of zeal' returns: (cookie) % The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis O. Brandeis (Olmstead vs. United States) %

Bug#345035: coreutils: nc man page tells me how to get info, but emacs C-h i can't find it.

2006-03-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Followup-For: Bug #345035 man dd ends by telling me that quote info coreutils dd should give you access to the complete manual. /quote which I find *does* work from the command-line; however, the info visible in emacs (C-h i) does not

Bug#475534: x11-apps: oclock fails to show updated time, apparently because repainting hands in wrong colour

2008-04-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Interesting. My X session tanked, forcing a re-start. My new oclock remained frozen in time until I switched to a virtual console and back, at which point the frozen hands went black, except for a triangle of yellow where one of them intersects the position it should be in. -- To

Bug#468358: w3c-markup-validator: Despite config, it looks in /usr/local/validator/ for templates, so fails.

2008-02-28 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: w3c-markup-validator Version: 0.7.4-5 Severity: important Tags: patch When I first tried to use http://localhost/cgi-bin/check it failed, saying: quote Software error: Does not exist or is not a directory: /usr/local/validator/templates BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at

Bug#475534: x11-apps: oclock fails to show updated time, apparently because repainting hands in wrong colour

2008-04-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: x11-apps Version: 7.3+1 Severity: normal A power-cut just forced me to reboot into 2.6.24-1-686, having previously been on a 2.6.18. Most X-related things were restarted within the last two weeks when I did an /etc/init.d/xdm restart, but some have doubtless been updated since. After

Bug#467004: apache2: Apply IfModule to the internationalized error messages stanza of config

2008-02-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.8-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The shipped apache2.conf ends (before the last two include directives) with a section dealing with internationalized error responses. This is commented out but preceded by a comment saying # The internationalized error documents

Bug#467480: apache2: default autoindex.conf uses bomb icon for file called score

2008-02-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.8-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch I saw occasional files and directories showing up with a bomb icon; I guessed they were broken symlinks or some such glitch, but closer investigation revealed no problem. Eventually, I noticed their names all ended in core and

Bug#524854: python-lunar fails to install in squeeze; update-python-modules fails

2009-04-20 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: python-lunar Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When aptitude tried to install python-lunar, it said: quote Errors were encountered while processing: python-lunar E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install.

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-21 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: nis Version: 3.17-18 Severity: normal As it stands, on a first install of nis, postinst is running /etc/init.d/nis start (or invoke-rc.d nis start) before there is anything at all useful in /etc/yp.conf; this leaves me waiting for a pointless attempt to bind when no server is set. Even

Bug#317928: Makes aptitude hard to use when accessing via ssh from console

2009-04-21 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 Severity: normal I routinely admin a satellite box to my workstation using ssh to the box and screen on the box; this combination gets really messed up graphics from aptitude (and from the config tool some packages fire up during installation to ask

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
Since ypbind is able to discover servers automatically What needs to be set up to make that work ? Getting that configured (presumably on the local network) would indeed make this a non-problem, at least for me. Describing these details in the package's README.Debian might help, too ... I'm

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
I'll have a look when I'm not at work. OK, thanks - I'll, meanwhile, ask our sysadmins to have a look while they *are* ;-) Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-22 Thread Edward Welbourne
It should Just Work with no setup required if the server is on the same subnet ... is this just some detail of the NIS server config, e.g. making it listen for broadcast ? The server not listening for broadcast is the most likely explanation. and, sure enough, our sysasmins found that the

Bug#607012: Work-around: purge nscd

2011-01-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: unscd Version: 0.47-1 Severity: normal When I initially selected unscd for installation, I got a conflict with nscd, so (in aptitude: typed M) marked nscd as only wanted if needed by something else. When it came time to install, I got essentially the same problem as this bug. Exiting

Bug#506331: g++-4.3: Misleading warning claims to ignore spurious qualifiers on return type

2008-11-20 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: g++-4.3 Version: 4.3.2-1 Severity: minor Put the following ridiculous code in a .cpp file: text struct Base { virtual const int stupid() = 0; }; struct Derived : public Base { virtual int stupid() { return 1; } }; /text and run the compiler on it, with warnings. I get: quote $ g++

Bug#559142: reproduced and fixed on x86_64: patch included :-)

2010-01-28 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi again Guillem, It should be under one of the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directories, as the server does chdir to them when scanning. Sure enough, found in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/ Could you check if there's a broken symlink somewhere there? The same directory contained a

Bug#559142: reproduced and fixed on x86_64: patch included :-)

2010-01-23 Thread Edward Welbourne
Subject: reproduced and fixed on x86_64: patch included :-) Followup-For: Bug #559142 Package: xfstt Version: 1.7-5 *** Please type your report below this line *** I get xfstt[3155]: segfault at 4 ip 4085e4 sp 7fffbe604f50 error 4 in xfstt[40+19000] on start-up.

Bug#559142: reproduced and fixed on x86_64: patch included :-)

2010-01-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
/quote have you any idea where the core dump went ? I need to find it to tidy it away ! It should be under one of the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directories, as the server does chdir to them when scanning. I don't know what's allegedly corrupt about /usr/share/fonts/truetype/; it looks

Bug#519382: python-ropemacs: Also can't uninstall or purge :-(

2009-05-19 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: python-ropemacs Version: 0.6c2-3 Severity: normal When I tried to purge the package, I got quote Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring

Bug#530535: apache2: Apache fails to follow symlinks via other symlinks

2009-05-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.11-3 Severity: normal In my userdir, I did (some time ago, inter alia): kbd ln -s ../work .w ln -s .w/mine/toys code /kbd and I used to be able to visit /~eddy/code/ to see the code fragments therein. I have today run into this not working: I got 403

Bug#530535: apache2: Apache fails to follow symlinks via other symlinks

2009-05-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
I forgot to mention: the error.log reports the error as quote Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /disk/home/eddy/whorlweb/edoc /quote Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#530535: apache2: Apache fails to follow symlinks via other symlinks

2009-05-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
It occurred to me that the problem might be related to one of the symlinks having a name, .w/, to which Apache normally wouldn't allow access, so I tested with: ln -s ../work w; ln -s w/mine/toys toys but /~eddy/toys/ was also 403. However, /~eddy/code/ has become inaccessible too ! Yet, half

Bug#553206: libc6: Similar fail for %llu on 0x200000-long string of '9's

2010-03-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: libc6 Version: 2.10.2-6 Severity: normal Here's a stack-trace: quote src=gdb (gdb) run Starting program: /disk/home/eddy/work/mine/toys/sscanferange Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7ee1d2d in _IO_vfscanf_internal (s=0xbfdff2dc, format=0x8048540 %llu,

Bug#553206: libc6: Similar fail for %llu on 0x200000-long string of '9's

2010-03-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
OK, I've now built glibc (overnight - it took nearly four hours) in debug and caught the crash in gdb. We're in ADDW (L_('\0')), right after the comment /* Convert the number. */ quote src=gdb (gdb) run Starting program: /disk/home/eddy/work/mine/toys/sscanferange Program received signal

Bug#594334: git-rm after conflict spams me about the files being removed needing resolved

2010-08-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: git Version: 1:1.7.1-1.1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream When I've done a merge that got conflicts, I fix up the conflicts, then git add and git rm files as appropriate; git add is silent (even if there are further files in need of attention) but git rm nags me about files that still

Bug#594334: git-rm after conflict spams me about the files being removed needing resolved

2010-08-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
Could you provide some sample output? Yes, I know I can do it myself, but I am lazy. :) quote e...@pool:work$ git merge origin/topic-branch-blah Renaming stuff/parts/foobar.txt = stuff/parts/burble.txt Auto-merging stuff/parts/burble.txt CONFLICT (rename/modify): Merge conflict in

Bug#514983: sun-java6-plugin: browser dependency list incomplete: should recommend a virtual package

2009-03-24 Thread Edward Welbourne
Followup-For: Bug #514983 Package: sun-java6-plugin Version: 6-12-1 (Reporting via another machine, so sending the file reportbug created; not sure whether its headers belong in mail's headers or body, sorry for the duplication.) sun-java6-plugin states that it Depends: on a long list of

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