Bug#945444: apt: Man page for apt-helper missing

2019-11-24 Thread James Blanford
Package: apt Version: 1.8.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I noticed that my system was trying to run apt-helper on a daily basis and wanted to know what apt-helper does and peruse descriptions of command line switches and options. * What exactly did

Bug#863114: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#863114: policykit-1: pkttyagent does not acquire authentication

2017-05-21 Thread James Blanford
On Mon, 22 May 2017 02:40:55 +0200 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 22.05.2017 um 02:31 schrieb James Blanford: > > The failure has an auth.log entry "Operator of unix-session:1 > > FAILED to authenticate Error executing command as anothe

Bug#863114: policykit-1: pkttyagent does not acquire authentication

2017-05-21 Thread James Blanford
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-17 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Regression - update from 0.105-11 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Installed gui agent * What was the outcome of this

Bug#743439: lxsession: All work arounds fail

2014-06-30 Thread James Blanford
Package: lxsession Version: 0.4.9.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #743439 Dear Maintainer, I tried the listed work arounds, but none worked. I tried Asho Yeh's patch. I got a popup box asking for my password. I entered it and it seemed to accept it, but nothing happened. The errors in my run.log were

Bug#748523: lxpanel: RAM monitor shows no RAM use with kernel 3.14

2014-05-17 Thread James Blanford
Package: lxpanel Version: 0.5.12-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I boot into kernel 3.14.4-1-amd64 and startx to lxde. I glance at the RAM monitor and see it is blank. I hover the pointer over the monitor and its tooltip reads RAM usage: 0.0 MB (0.00%). I click on the

Bug#745888: libmtp9: jmtpfs hangs on directory listing

2014-04-30 Thread James Blanford
Package: libmtp9 Version: 1.1.6-51-g1a2669c~ds0-1 Followup-For: Bug #745888 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? *

Bug#721311: Digikam loads no images from albums reporting an undefined symbol

2013-09-10 Thread James Blanford
This bug is the same as bug #721442. The problem is that when the kde libraries are updated, the kde init services are not restarted, so they don't know where to look for the properly versioned libraries. The solution is to reload the kde services. This bug should not be closed, it should be

Bug#721792: mtr fails without IPv6 socket

2013-09-04 Thread James Blanford
Package: mtr Version: 0.85-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On a system without IPv6 support, mtr fails on invocation, such as, mtr localhost or mtr example.com issuing the error, Unable to allocate IPv6 socket for nameserver communication: Address family not supported by protocol I would

Bug#721311: digikam: Digikam loads no images from albums reporting an undefined symbol

2013-08-30 Thread James Blanford
Package: digikam Version: 4:3.1.0-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I started digikam, no images were loaded into the default album. Selecting a different album resulted in the failure to load images. At the terminal I noticed the following error messages: Could not open library

Bug#708359: Spice-vdagentd will not start, failing to find .service file

2013-05-15 Thread James Blanford
Package: spice-vdagent Version: 0.10.1-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, This bug was found on a system running as a qemu-kvm virtual machine. The system does not have systemd or a desktop environment. It has the fluxbox window manager. When I would run invoke-rc.d

Bug#524112: qc-usb-source: linux-2.6.29 provides an equivalent

2009-08-26 Thread James Blanford
Back again, This version of the patch adapts the driver to the new v4l file system operations API to all versions of the kernel 2.6.29 and above. The change to the way /proc entry ownership is established is applied only to kernels 2.6.30 and above. No changes were necessary for 2.6.31. I've

Bug#524112: qc-usb-source: linux-2.6.29 provides an equivalent

2009-08-25 Thread James Blanford
Howdy, While it's important that the linux kernel developers develop generalized driver frameworks to replace out-of-tree drivers, some still don't fully support all their target hardware. gspca_stv06xx is one of those. I'm working with the kernel maintainer to try improve support for a webcam

Bug#524112: qc-usb-source: linux-2.6.29 provides an equivalent

2009-08-25 Thread James Blanford
Oops. Here's the patch: - Jim--- qc-usb-0.6.6.orig/qc-driver.c 2009-08-25 23:17:04.0 -0400 +++ qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c 2009-08-25 23:38:31.0 -0400 @@ -996,7 +996,9 @@ PRINTK(KERN_WARNING,Could not register procfs file entry); return -ENXIO; } +#if

Bug#432793: Masqmail shouldn't call update-inetd during shutdown

2007-07-11 Thread James Blanford
Package: masqmail Version: 0.2.21-1.2 During system shutdown, I get a warning (that I can't trap, because the screen goes blank a second after I see it) something like Masqmail: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown - ignoring. This is caused by line 73 in /etc/init.d/masqmail: update-inetd

Bug#419344: Debconf script incorrectly returns an error on cancellation

2007-04-15 Thread James Blanford
Package: tzdata Version: 2007e-3 When I run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata but decide to cancel the operation, an error is returned: echo $? 1 But there was no error. I decided to cancel the operation and nothing was changed. That's a success. It should have returned 0. For example, if I run

Bug#398851: Close bug

2006-11-17 Thread James Blanford
Howdy folks, Well, the mozilla developers, after closing the bug with WORKSFORME, promptly fixed it in seamonkey 1.0.6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#398851: fc-cache adds . to search path with null local.conf

2006-11-15 Thread James Blanford
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.4.1-2 I had this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: fontconfig dir/dir /fontconfig It was essentially a template. Starting with the 2.4 series of fontconfig, upgrading stalled at Regenerating fonts cache... while fc-cache tried to search all the devices in /dev for fonts.

Bug#398639: Segfault in FcCharSetDestroy () when called by seamonkey-1.0.5 print tasks

2006-11-14 Thread James Blanford
Package: libfontconfig1 Version: 2.4.1-2 I get a segfault in seamonkey-1.0.5 _after_ print related tasks, such as print preview, print and page setup. There may be a bug in seamonkey (see bugzilla.mozilla.org #353712), but see the following backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV,

Bug#373977: Python can't be installed nor upgraded from etch - circular dependency

2006-06-16 Thread James Blanford
package: python version: 2.3.5-9 I uninstalled and then attempted to reinstall all my python packages. I got the following error: :/home/xxx# apt-get install python Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: python

Bug#372957: private kernel data type outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ block

2006-06-12 Thread James Blanford
Package: linux-kernel-headers Version: 2.6.16.20-1 I was building libsdl1.2debian from Debian sources when the compilation stopped with the error: gcc -g -O2 -Iinclude -I../../include -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_LINUX_VERSION_H -c ../../src/joystick/linux/SDL_sysjoystick.c

Bug#364832: Upgrading fuse-utils fails on dpkg-statoverride --add in postinst

2006-04-25 Thread James Blanford
Package: fuse-utils Version: 2.5.3-1 An attempt at upgrading fuse-utils failed with the following error message: Setting up fuse-utils (2.5.3-1) ... creating fuse device... creating fuse group... The group `fuse' already exists as a system group. Exiting... An override for /usr/bin/fusermount

Bug#363579: No, gnome-icon-theme isn't needed

2006-04-23 Thread James Blanford
On 20 Apr, Josselin Mouette wrote: libgnomeprintui relies on gnome-icon-theme being present for the icons it uses. The configure.in explicitly checks the presence of this package, that's why I think it is needed. It is probably needed as a build-depends, so that it can take advantage of

Bug#363579: No, gnome-icon-theme isn't needed

2006-04-19 Thread James Blanford
Package: libgnomeprintui2.2-common Version: 2.12.1-3 While upgrading to the latet version of libgnomeprintui2.2-common, I was informed that I would need to install four new packages, with a total installed size of about 12 megabytes. I looked at the changelog and noticed the entry (referring to

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread James Blanford
On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly. I think

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-12 Thread James Blanford
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 When I upgraded to this version of xserver-xorg, I was required to also install discover1, discover1-data, libdiscover1, mdetect, xresprobe laptop-detect and dmidecode as dependencies. Debian policy states, The Depends field should be used if the

Bug#327435: Seg fault when trying to play CD-audio

2006-01-11 Thread James Blanford
I finally got around to building a debian packages of alsaplayer from the debian sources and it works fine with and without 06_cdda_input.dpatch. So, I agree. That's not the problem. I then installed the official alsaplayer -7 packages and I get the same segfault. I'm still using gcc-3.4 for

Bug#346342: tzconfig should create a copy of timezone data in localtime rather than a symlink

2006-01-06 Thread James Blanford
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-11 The kernel, init and boot-up processes don't have access to timezone data until /usr is mounted, thereby creating havoc with file system checks and boot logs. Please see bug #342887 filed against util-linux. The filesystem hierarchy standard requires essential

Bug#330630: rootok module broken by SELinux checks

2005-09-30 Thread James Blanford
On 29 Sep, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:46:57PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: OK, I was trying to goad you into checking and failed. So I reverted the patch myself and rootok is still broken. I hereby change the bug to rootok module is broken and I don't know why. Going

Bug#330855: Bug#330630: rootok module broken by SELinux checks

2005-09-30 Thread James Blanford
On 30 Sep, Steve Langasek wrote: If you two can confirm that this bug is fixable by adding root to the specified group (adm, foo, whatever), *and* that it is fixable by listing 'auth sufficient pam_rootok.so' *before* pam_wheel, then I'll go ahead and reassign these bugs to the login package,

Bug#330630: rootok module broken by SELinux checks

2005-09-28 Thread James Blanford
Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.79-1 I used to be able to su from root to any other account without entering a password. Now a password is requested. This breaks at least the updatedb script. Please revert the SELinux passwd class permissions check. You see, security is better when a task

Bug#330630: rootok module broken by SELinux checks

2005-09-28 Thread James Blanford
On 28 Sep, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:14:31PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.79-1 I used to be able to su from root to any other account without entering a password. Now a password is requested. This breaks at least the updatedb

Bug#328371: Bug#327760: missing dependency on gconf2

2005-09-15 Thread James Blanford
This problem is a mistaken fix for bug #327760. Instead of adding an unneeded dependency,libgsf-1 should be built _without_ gconf2 support. Leave the gconf support for the libgsf-gnome-1 package. It can be done. Look at the upstream changelog for version 1.12.3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#327435: Seg fault when trying to play CD-audio

2005-09-09 Thread James Blanford
Package: alsaplayer-common Version: 0.99.76-7 alsaplayer --verbose Left click on left button, select CD Player (CDDA), instead of playing the cd, I get a seg fault. AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 (C) 1999-2003 Andy Lo A Foe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others. Output plugin: OSS output v1.0 Loading reader

Bug#326087: Removing debian init script would be better than conflicting with alsa-base and aumix

2005-09-01 Thread James Blanford
Package: setmixer Version: 27DEC94ds1-1 Severity: Wishlist I have yet to find any sound mixer application that can properly control all my sound devices. With setmixer conflicting with alsa-base and aumix, I loose functionality. Removing the functionality that saves and restores mixer settings

Bug#302498: Should suggest not depend on wget or lynx

2005-03-31 Thread James Blanford
Package: usbutils Version: 0.70-4 Usbutils works perfectly well without wget or lynx, in fact I never knew that a script existed to update the usbids. Certainly it could be said that usbutils retains a significant amount of functionality without wget or lynx. Therefore the relationship should

Bug#296006: Cryptsetup not installable on sid - missing dependency

2005-02-19 Thread James Blanford
Package: cryptsetup Version: 20050111-2 Severity: serious Cryptsetup depends on libdevmapper1.00, which is no longer available in sid. Looks like cryptsetup needs to be rebuilt against libdevmapper1.01. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?