Bug#345931: grub 0.97 doesn't work on several machines

2006-01-05 Thread John Hughes
, 2006 at 01:58:23PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: When the system random garbage gets printed on the screen. # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) #grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), #grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub #and /usr/share/doc/grub

Bug#346080: grub says depends on automake1.9 but debian/rules wants 1.8

2006-01-05 Thread John Hughes
Package: grub Version: 0.97-2 debian/control: Source: grub [...] Build-Depends: debhelper (= 4.0.0), automake1.9, autoconf, texinfo, libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, type-handling (= 0.2.1), ia32-libs-dev [amd64 darwin-amd64 freebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-amd64 knetbsd-amd64 netbsd-amd64

Bug#345931: grub 0.97 doesn't work on several machines

2006-01-04 Thread John Hughes
Package: grub Version: 0.97-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system After installing grub 0.97 and doing a simple setup the system is unbootable. The same behaviour was observed on an old Dell Dimension 4100 and a new Dell Optiplex GX270. This may be the same as bug

Bug#397681: wineconsole curses backend puts cursor in wrong place

2006-11-08 Thread John Hughes
Package: wine Version: 0.9.20-1 Severity: normal do wineconsole wcmd on text mode console or from a xterm - notice that the cursor is on the line above the prompt, type dir, hit enter, notice that now there is a d on the prompt line but no dir listing, type enter again, see the dir listing, but

Bug#492451: cryptsetup doesn't work with encrypted root and splashy in initramfs

2008-07-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-3-jh1 Severity: important Tags: patch The askpass program, used to get the passphrase for decryption, doesn't know how to talk to splashy. If splashy is configured in the initramfs then the boot hangs at the point where crypsetup prompts for the

Bug#492451: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#492451: Bug#492451: cryptsetup doesn't work with encrypted root and splashy in initramfs

2008-07-28 Thread John Hughes
Jonas Meurer wrote: On 27/07/2008 Jonas Meurer wrote: On 26/07/2008 John Hughes wrote: A simple patch to make askpass work with splashy is attached. thanks for your work on support for splashy with cryptsetup/askpass. I now discovered that the patch works without any

Bug#492643: [Splashy-devel] Bug#492643: Can reproduce!

2008-07-30 Thread John Hughes
Matthijs Kooijman wrote: after some more fiddling, I can reproduce this after all! It turns out that the don't start splashy in initramfs when resume is set was preventing me from reproducing the problem. When splashy is indeed started in initramfs, splashy freezes for me as well. It turns out

Bug#493288: libdirectfb-1.0-0: directfb doesn't work when used by splashy from initramfs

2008-08-01 Thread John Hughes
Package: libdirectfb-1.0-0 Version: 1.0.1-9 Severity: important Tags: patch splashy is now launched from the initramfs, i.e. before init. Because init does horrible things when moving into multiuser mode directfb loses it's connection to the keyboard. This breaks splashy. I attach a patch

Bug#493288: Acknowledgement (libdirectfb-1.0-0: directfb doesn't work when used by splashy from initramfs)

2008-08-07 Thread John Hughes
Colour me stupid. The patch *is* included in 1.0.1-9, I missed it. Please close this report. Sorry for the confusion, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397681: This bug seems to be fixed.

2008-09-04 Thread John Hughes
At least as of wine 1.0.0-1 in Lenny. Please close it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#457837: opensync: Bug in cmake/modules/FindLIB2.cmake

2007-12-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: opensync Version: 0.34+r2932 Severity: important Tags: patch $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot [...] -- checking for one of the modules 'glib-2.0' -- found glib-2.0, version 2.12.4 The end of a CMakeLists file was reached with an IF statement that was not closed properly. Within the

Bug#457837: Odd, that patch should already be present, but not applied.

2007-12-26 Thread John Hughes
In opensync_0.34+r2932-2.diff.gz we have: --- opensync-0.34+r2932.orig/cmake/modules/FindGLIB2.cmake.patch +++ opensync-0.34+r2932/cmake/modules/FindGLIB2.cmake.patch @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- FindGLIB2.cmake2007-12-10 18:12:06.0 +0100

Bug#441237: asterisk: crash in ast_translator_free_path after hangup of capi call

2007-09-07 Thread John Hughes
Package: asterisk Version: 1:1.4.11~dfsg-1 Severity: normal Call my test asterisk setup from ISDN (via chan_capi 1.0.1-1). On call hangup it SEGV's:Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1081850192 (LWP 4165)] ast_translator_free_path (p=0x80008) at

Bug#441237:

2007-09-10 Thread John Hughes
Tried recompiling asterisk-chan-capi, bug went away, something wrong with asterisk-chan-capi 1.0.1-1? I guess problem is that asterisk-chan-capi is compiled against 1.2, but I'm using 1.4. A versioning bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#441237:

2007-09-11 Thread John Hughes
Faidon Liambotis wrote: reassign 441237 asterisk-chan-capi 1.0.1-1 severity 441237 grave retitle 441237 compiled with asterisk-dev 1.2 and segfaults with 1.4 thanks John Hughes wrote: Tried recompiling asterisk-chan-capi, bug went away, something wrong with asterisk-chan-capi 1.0.1-1? I

Bug#410466: Stupid lp64 bug - undeclared func returns int and sizeof (int) sizeof (char*)

2007-03-27 Thread John Hughes
Bug 410466 happens on lp64 platforms (e.g. amd64). Code is: 181 snprintf(id, sizeof(id), %d.%d.%d.%s, (int) getuid(), (int) getpid(), (int) time(0), getmyname()); But getmyname() is not defined, so defaults to returning int. However sizeof (char*) sizeof (int) so 32 bits of the

Bug#416774: asterisk-chan-capi: Doesn't work with asterisk 1.4 (from experimental)

2007-03-30 Thread John Hughes
Package: asterisk-chan-capi Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: important [Mar 30 11:05:52] WARNING[7414]: loader.c:375 load_dynamic_module: Module 'chan_capi.so' did not register itself during load [Mar 30 11:05:52] WARNING[7414]: loader.c:614 load_resource: Module 'chan_capi.so' could not be loaded.

Bug#406404: Missing dependencies

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
configure reports that needs glib-2.0 = 2.8.0, gthread-2.0 = 2.8.0 and gobject-2.0 = 2.8.0 (aka libglib-2-dev) also dbus-1 = 0.36 (aka libdbus-1-dev) and dbus-glib-1 = 0.36 (aka libdbus-glib-1-dev) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#406404: Where is sbc.h?

2007-01-22 Thread John Hughes
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is bluetooth-alsa [...] if i486-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..-I/usr/include -pthread -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -Wall -g -O2 -MT

Bug#408530: libcapi20-3: buffer overflow in printbuf called from capi_cmsg2str

2007-01-26 Thread John Hughes
Package: libcapi20-3 Version: 1:3.9.20060704-2.2 Severity: important the bufprint routine used by capi_cmsg2str does an unbounded vsprintf into a 8192 byte buffer, perhaps hoping it's big enough. It isn't. Looks like someone needs some vsnprintf like training wheels. (around line 898 in

Bug#354846: xserver-xorg: Dual Head broken on Intel 810 and Radeon 9200 (PCI)

2007-05-28 Thread John Hughes
Brice Goglin wrote: Hi, About a year ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding dual-head related problems when using both an intel and a radeon board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest xserver-xorg-core and drivers? If not, I will close this bug

Bug#434071: vde2: vdeq/vdeqemu uses uninitialised variable for socket mode

2007-07-21 Thread John Hughes
Package: vde2 Version: 2.1.6+r154-1+b1 Severity: normal In vdeq.c we have: mode_t mode; [...] if (argc 2 ( (strcmp(argv[1],--mod)==0) || (strcmp(argv[1],-m)==0)) ){ sscanf(argv[2],%o,mode); argv+=2; argc-=2; } [...]

Bug#477827: am-utils fails to build if change configure.in and autoconf 2.61 installed

2008-04-25 Thread John Hughes
Package: am-utils Version: 6.1.5-3 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: no longer builds from source If, for some reason or other, one changes the configure.in file and tries to rebuild the am-utils package, and a newer version of autconf is installed then am-utils fails to build at

Bug#480959: [Splashy-devel] Bug#480959: splashy doesn't allow you to enter LUKS password at boot up

2008-05-21 Thread John Hughes
Alex Samad wrote: I did a fresh install of debian using an encrypted file system, during the boot up sequence it asks for a LUKS password. when I run splashy it 1) doesn't show any info on the graphical screen, it stop and doesn't prompt for a LUKS password. I have to esc out and goto VT2 to

Bug#478305: [Splashy-devel] Bug#478305: splashy: splash screen not removed

2008-05-21 Thread John Hughes
Marc Haber wrote: retitle #478305 splash screen not removed thanks On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:40:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: when bootup finishes on a system that does not start an X server after booting, the splash screen remains on display, and no key is accepted to switch back to

Bug#358165: Seems to be fixed now.

2006-03-22 Thread John Hughes
Works now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372096: See also bug #253280

2006-06-08 Thread John Hughes
Which is questioning why the X cursor theme industrial is included in the GTK2 theme of the same name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253280: See also bug #372096

2006-06-08 Thread John Hughes
(and its many duplicates) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372096: http://people.debian.org/~joss/industrial-cursor-theme_0.6.1_all.deb

2006-06-08 Thread John Hughes
Yay! Works for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372277: xcursor-themes doesn't make the symlinks for left_ptr_watch wanted by thunderbird/firefox

2006-06-09 Thread John Hughes
Package: xcursor-themes Version: 1.0.1-4 Severity: minor Thunderbird/Firefox c seem to want some crazy aliases for cursor names, e.g. 08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd for left_ptr_watch. Maybe this is a bug in the mozilla stuff, but some cursor themes, e.g. Industrial, seem to make a symlink to

Bug#354846: What's going on

2006-03-21 Thread John Hughes
This is realy two seperate problems. 1. i810 won't work if it's not the primary video - this may be impossible to fix as it needs the bios to work. 2. in Xorg 6.9 the memory map initialisation of Radeon cards is screwy, Benjamin Herrenschmidt is working on fixing it on Xorg 7.0 -- To

Bug#358165: Can't build xserver-xorg-video-i810 from source

2006-03-21 Thread John Hughes
Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810 Version: 1:1.4.1.3-1 Severity: important Tags: experimental Justification: fails to build from source # apt-get -t experimental build-dep xserver-xorg-video-i810 $ apt-get -t experimental source xserver-xorg-video-i810 $ cd xserver-xorg-video-i810-1.4.1.3/ $

Bug#462626: init breaks splashy's connection to the keyboard.

2008-03-30 Thread John Hughes
Here's a little program I've extracted from the code to init that demonstrates the problem. (To build sabotage just cc -o sabotage sabotage.c). Whooops, forgot to attach prog, here it is: /* * Init A System-V Init Clone. * * Usage: /sbin/init * init [0123456SsQqAaBbCc] *

Bug#462626: init breaks splashy's connection to the keyboard.

2008-03-30 Thread John Hughes
Here's a little program I've extracted from the code to init that demonstrates the problem. 1. launch splashy 2. see that the F2 key works ok. 3. launch sabotage 4. now the F2 and ESC keys do nothing. (To build sabotage just cc -o sabotage sabotage.c). I'll keep looking to try and narrow

Bug#462626: partial solution to init kills ESC/F2 bug

2008-03-31 Thread John Hughes
Just sticking stty -icanon -clocal /dev/console into the /etc/init.d/splashy script makes the ESC/F2 keys work at least until the end of /etc/init.d/rcS. Unfortunately things then get even worse. Someone (init again?) does something to the console that completely breaks the connection with

Bug#462626: Init is a dirty low-down no good cattle rustler.

2008-04-01 Thread John Hughes
So the problem is that init steals the controlling terminal when it's finished running the rcS script. I attach a little program thief that can be used to demonstrate the same effect - 1. launch splashy 2. run thief /dev/console Splashy now gets eof on all reads from the keyboard, and can't set

Bug#462626: Yay! fixed it!

2008-04-03 Thread John Hughes
Ok, so working on my theory that the problems were caused by init interfering with splashy's use of the console I tried patching directfb to close and reopen the console if it gets a zero length read. This works in testing, but when I tried it on a real boot things failed again, strace showed:

Bug#473230: How is this supposed to work?

2008-04-04 Thread John Hughes
In keyevent_loop we have: 1077else if (key == DIKS_F2) 1078{ 1079/* 1080 * when F2 is pressed we display a 1081 * small theme-defined

Bug#459447: [Splashy-devel] Bug#459447: Splashy Udev problem - one fix

2008-04-07 Thread John Hughes
joshua shaw wrote: Yesterday I installed Splashy 0.3.8-1 after upgrading from Stable to Testing. Installation went well, but when I rebooted I had no mouse control in X. If I started without passing the splash to the Kernel then everything worked fine, except no splash. After some fiddling

Bug#472612: Can't reproduce - probably operator error

2008-04-09 Thread John Hughes
I can't reproduce this, I must of screwed something up. I think this bug should be closed. Sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472497: Fixed by fixes to bug #462626 (splashy being zapped by init)

2008-04-09 Thread John Hughes
'cos splashy couldn't reset the console back to text mode X couldn't start. So fixing bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462626 fixes this one too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#471047: vobcopy reports a write error if it gets a read error

2008-03-15 Thread John Hughes
Package: vobcopy Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Around line 1736 in vobcopy.c the return of DVDReadBlocks is not checked. If an error occurs the the -1 return is passed unchecked to write, which fails. A confusing error message is displayed. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#471050: vobcopy: vopbcopy fails to overwrite existing .vob.partial file

2008-03-15 Thread John Hughes
Package: vobcopy Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: normal If vobcopy is run with the .vob.partial file already existing (after a previous failure for example) it prompts to overwite the existing file, but it doesn't work: [Info] Outputting to /usr/local/src/vobcopy-1.1.0/MNT0EFM116-1.vob [Error]

Bug#472318: gdmgreeter pops up a authentication failed box before I can log in

2008-03-23 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdm Version: 2.20.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Can't log in because gdmgreeter pops up a authentication failed window *before* I type my login/password. Pressing the OK button closes the window but it reappears immediately. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#472318: Looks like a bug in my PAM configuration:

2008-03-23 Thread John Hughes
Mar 23 14:18:13 carbon gdm[882]: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open /etc/pam.d/common-pamkeyring Mar 23 14:18:13 carbon gdm[882]: PAM unable to dlopen(*unknown module path*) Mar 23 14:18:13 carbon gdm[882]: PAM [error: *unknown module path*: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Bug#472455: initramfs-tools: initramfs doesn't include grep, printf, basename, tr, sed, needed by splashy

2008-03-24 Thread John Hughes
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.91e Severity: important Splashy 0.3.8-1 fails to start from initramfs because many busybox provided functions are missing from /bin. Maybe something to do with bug #338405 -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/mapper/VG1-root ro single --

Bug#472455: bug #472455 is bug #338405

2008-03-24 Thread John Hughes
Since it seems traditional to provide one's own patch here is mine: --- /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.orig 2008-01-22 16:36:28.0 +0100 +++ /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs 2008-03-24 13:38:45.0 +0100 @@ -264,9 +264,18 @@ fi else rm -f ${DESTDIR}/bin/sh - rm -f

Bug#472495: splashy works badly with luks

2008-03-24 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: important My root disk is luks encrypted, I have to enter the decryption key on boot. When splashy is used the boot stops when it gets to the point I should enter the key. No message is displayed. Hitting ESC, then ALT-F2 gets me to a console where

Bug#472494: splashy doesn't work from initramfs because of bug #338405

2008-03-24 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: normal Without a fix for initramfs bug #338405 splashy won't work from an initramfs. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 (SMP w/1 CPU

Bug#472497: splashy breaks X

2008-03-24 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: important Ony my system splashy breaks X. This is NOT bug #455685, which I have a workaround for (any chance of fixing that?) In the Xorg.0.log I have: (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 7932 KB (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression enabled (**) intel(0):

Bug#472612: splashy test leaks memory, killed by oom

2008-03-25 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: normal Like I said, splashy test leaks memory at an extraordinary rate, gets killed by OOM. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 (SMP

Bug#472495: Acknowledgement (splashy works badly with luks)

2008-03-25 Thread John Hughes
Seems like it should be quite easy to fix, in the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot script I add: elif [ -x /sbin/splashy_update ] [ ! -z `pidof splashy` ] ; then echo Ask splashy for password

Bug#473101: splashy: getpass/getstring don't work

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When this simple test is run (on a single cpu system): splashy boot sleep 5 splashy_update getstring enter your name splashy_update exit splashy appears to hang. The getstring prompt is not printed

Bug#472495: This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472495: This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
John Hughes wrote: This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2 Oh no it isn't. Sorry, wrong bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472494: This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
This bug is fixed by busybox 1:1.9.2-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472495: This bug is should be assigned to cryptroot.

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
This bug is should be assigned to cryptroot. The patch in my message #10 above works, assuming that splashy bug #473101 (getstring/getpass) is fixed. A better patch (no need to stick password in variable): elif [ -x /sbin/splashy_update ] [ ! -z $(pidof splashy) ] ; then

Bug#473109: initramfs needs splashy_update for luks encrypted rootdisk

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch In /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/splashy we see: # Luis Mondesi # we don't need splashy_update in initramfs yet #copy_exec /sbin/splashy_update /sbin If we want splashy to handle luks encrypted root disks

Bug#473129: console-common: /etc/init.d/keymap.sh screws up boot with splashy

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
Package: console-common Version: 0.7.74 Severity: normal Tags: patch As noted in the splasy wiki http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq /etc/init.d/keymap.sh has to be hacked to avoid hangs during boot when splashy is being used: Add: pidof splashy /dev/null touch

Bug#473112: [Splashy-devel] Bug#473112: splashy: breaks udev - log_daemon_msg does not play well with -e switch from udev script

2008-03-28 Thread John Hughes
Alban Browaeys wrote: udev use sh -e and fails in log_daemon_msg because pidof splashy fails . The patch fix it (this only happens when splashy is started from initramfs though the fix is rational in any case). the patch: --- lsb-base-logging.sh.orig2008-03-28 13:28:53.0 +0100

Bug#462626: splashy loses connection to keyboard when /sbin/init starts

2008-03-29 Thread John Hughes
The problem happens somewhere between the exec /sbin/init in kinit's run-init prog and the start of the /etc/init.d/rcS script. So it seems it must be in init itself. More news as it arrives. (consequences of bug - F2/ESC stop working, also splashy can't properly clean up the console).

Bug#548058: kernel-package: amd64.mk contains obvious typo kelfimagesrc in place of kelfimagedest

2009-09-23 Thread John Hughes
Package: kernel-package Version: 11.015 Severity: normal In /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/arches/amd64.mk we find: kelfimagesrc = vmlinux ifeq ($(strip $(CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST)),) kelfimagedest = $(INT_IMAGE_DESTDIR)/xenu-linux-$(KERNELRELEASE) else

Bug#591031: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-686: suspend works for a while (once?) then stops working)

2010-12-13 Thread John Hughes
This bug is still present in linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#608133: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521

2010-12-29 Thread John Hughes
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-27 19:41 +0100, John Hughes wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 Severity: normal Just get multicolored nonsense; machine maybe hung You could try to ssh into it to find out. Speaking of hangs, your GPU

Bug#611743: openssl smime -verify can't verify binary messages without CRLF

2011-02-01 Thread John Hughes
Package: openssl Version: 0.9.8o-4 Severity: normal If I make a simple message: ---cut here 8--- Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit BINARY DATA ---cut here 8--- (note lines end in LF, not CRLF) and sign it as so: openssl smime -sign -binary -in zz-in

Bug#611743: Acknowledgement (openssl smime -verify can't verify binary messages without CRLF)

2011-02-01 Thread John Hughes
OpenSSL tickets: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=828 and http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1261 seem relevant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#614573: openoffice.org: oo.o seems to ignore SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=0

2011-02-22 Thread John Hughes
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 Severity: normal I'm running into a typical file locking problem: oo.o opens files on gnome-vfs sftp shares read only. So I try SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=0 as suggested. But it has no effect. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT

Bug#615110: linux-image-2.6.37-1-686: tpm_tis prevents suspend working more than once

2011-02-25 Thread John Hughes
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.37-1 Severity: normal On a sony vaio tx3 when tpm_tis is loaded suspend only works once. This is the same behaviour as bug #591031 which was closed. dmesg shows [ 1859.244142] legacy_suspend(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0x57 returns 38 [ 1859.244150] PM: Device

Bug#615564: libsyncml2: osynctool gives assert error syncing file to Nokia 5230

2011-02-27 Thread John Hughes
Package: libsyncml2 Version: 0.5.4-2 Severity: normal osynctool works for syncing my Nokia 5230 to the filesystem, but attempts to sync in the other direction fail. 1. sync 5230 2. create a new contact card in the filesytem 3. re sync: $ osynctool --sync Flo's Nokia Synchronizing group Flo's

Bug#615565: opensync-format-xmlformat: Attempts to sync from filesystem to Nokia 93000 fail with assertion

2011-02-27 Thread John Hughes
Package: opensync-format-xmlformat Version: 0.39-1 Severity: normal Syncing contacts from my Nokia 9300 to the filesystem works. Attempts to add new contacts from the filesystem to the Nokia fail with: Assertion *size == osync_xmlformat_size() failed Full log: osynctool --sync nokia-9300

Bug#615568: osynctool can't sync Nokia E90 to file - XMLFormat validation failed

2011-02-27 Thread John Hughes
Package: osynctool Version: 0.39-1 Severity: normal It almost works, but it doesn't seme to like a Note field in one of my contacts. $ osynctool --discover E90 Discovered Objtypes: contact Format: file Discovered Objtypes: contact Format: vcard21

Bug#591031: Bug still in 2.6.37-rc5-686

2010-12-18 Thread John Hughes
j...@carbon:~$ uname -a Linux carbon 2.6.37-rc5-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 11 20:11:38 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-2.6.37-rc5-686 2.6.37~rc5-1~experimental.3 Linux 2.6.37-rc5 for modern PCs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#607439: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: sony_laptop doesn't handle some keys on vaio tx3

2010-12-18 Thread John Hughes
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-29 Severity: normal On my aging sony vaio tx3 sony_laptop doesn't tell anyone about the EJECT key and gets the VOLUME UP/VOLUME DOWN buttons wrong. For the EJECT key the sony_laptop debugging info shows: sony-laptop: event ([32] [21]) at port 0x1080(+0x12)

Bug#608133: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521

2010-12-27 Thread John Hughes
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 Severity: normal Just get multicolored nonsense; machine maybe hung -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Bug#616329: gnome-terminal: Sometimes shift/insert stops working.

2011-03-03 Thread John Hughes
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal Under some unknown circumstance shift/insert stops working. Seems to happen on a per-window basis. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#616328: gnome-terminal: control/shift/c control/shift/v don't work any more

2011-03-03 Thread John Hughes
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal Subject says it all. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
A further piece of info. This bug only happens on 64 bit systems. If I install the 32 bit (x86) version of Debian I get no problem. Will try changing kernel now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#608133: Info received (Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521))

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
More info - the system is not dead, I can SSH into it. What syslog dmesg show: Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492354] [drm] nouveau :00:05.0: Allocating FIFO number 1 Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492898] [drm] nouveau :00:05.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised

Bug#608133: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
On 28/12/10 21:29, Sven Joachim wrote: Speaking of hangs, your GPU locks up even before X starts, as can be seen from the kernel logs: [6.998089] [drm] nouveau :00:05.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon Yes, this error happens at the moment the screen goes

Bug#608133: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521

2011-03-09 Thread John Hughes
On 28/12/10 21:29, Sven Joachim wrote: Could you test a newer kernel, say 2.6.37-rc7 from experimental? With 2.6.37-2-amd64 from unstable the screen is trashed at the moment it goes into tiny print mode. I'm not starting X at all. Syslog shows: Mar 9 13:14:02 slender kernel: [

Bug#615565: opensync-format-xmlformat: Attempts to sync from filesystem to Nokia 93000 fail with assertion

2011-03-10 Thread John Hughes
Okeydoke. The assert is: /build/mbanck-libopensync-plugin-xmlformat_0.39-1-i386-TPPFvF/libopensync-plugin-xmlformat-0.39/src/xmlformat_merge.c:191:E:demerge_xmlformat: Assertion *size == osync_xmlformat_size() failed Turning on tracing we get: demerge_xmlformat(0xb6f3dbdc, 0xb6f3dbd8:0,

Bug#615565: opensync-format-xmlformat: Attempts to sync from filesystem to Nokia 93000 fail with assertion

2011-03-10 Thread John Hughes
So the code in opensync_obj_engine.c (_osync_obj_engine_clone_and_demerge_change) looks like: - if (!osync_caps_converter_invoke(caps_converter, caps, NULL /* config */, error)) goto error; //

Bug#609673: xen-tools creates bad domU.cfg with root disk not listed first(pyGrub related?).

2011-01-11 Thread John Hughes
Package: xen-tools Version: 4.2.1 (Also, previous versions) When creating a new domU with xen-create-image the template '/etc/xen-tools/xm.tmpl' does not ensure that the root[/] file system/drive occurs first in the disk stanza in the domU.cfg that is created at '/etc/xen/domU.cfg'. Often(always)

Bug#518600: sccs2rcs contains off-by-one error in translating dates

2010-02-02 Thread John Hughes
The actual bug in sccs2rcs is not that is gets the test the wrong way round, the problem is that it is testing the wrong part of the string: set date = `sccs prs -r$rev $file | @AWK@ '/^D / {print (substr($3,0,2)+070?20:19) $3, $4; exit}'` It's testing the two character substring of the date

Bug#559301: e2fsprogs: tune2fs -f option appears to do nothing

2009-12-03 Thread John Hughes
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal man tune2fs says: -f Force the tune2fs operation to complete even in the face of errors. This option is useful when removing the has_journal filesystem feature from a filesystem which has an

Bug#559315: e2fsprogs: e2fsck -j option doesn't take LABEL= or UUID=

2009-12-03 Thread John Hughes
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: wishlist e2fsck -j option insists on a real device name, unlike almost every other program or option. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#559317: mount should translate ext3 journal_dev option into device number

2009-12-03 Thread John Hughes
Package: mount Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist ext3 mount(2) allows specification of journal device by -o journal_dev=0x, but the device number has to be worked out by hand as mount(8) won't do the translation for us. (The underlying problem is that ext3 writes the device number

Bug#568631: iceweasel can't connect to https://cfspart.impots.gouv.fr

2010-02-06 Thread John Hughes
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.6-2 Severity: important Get: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to cfspart.impots.gouv.fr. * The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. * Please

Bug#568631: iceweasel can't connect to https://cfspart.impots.gouv.fr

2010-02-07 Thread John Hughes
Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:38:01PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.6-2 Severity: important Get: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to cfspart.impots.gouv.fr. Can you check with the following workaround: http

Bug#513678: gdb segfaults if set hardware watchpoints when target remote

2009-01-31 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdb Version: 6.8-3 Severity: normal On one terminal: $ gdbserver localhost:1234 /bin/bash On another: $ gdb GNU gdb 6.8 This GDB was configured as i686-pc-linux-gnu. (gdb) target remote localhost:1234 Remote debugging using

Bug#513678: Acknowledgement (gdb segfaults if set hardware watchpoints when target remote)

2009-01-31 Thread John Hughes
Here's a patch that fixes it for me (obviously it needs generalising for os's/cpu configurations other than Linux/i386). (The last time I submitted a patch for gdb's watchpoint code was november 2000!) --- gdb-6.8/gdb/config/i386/nm-i386.h 2008-01-01 23:53:14.0 +0100 +++

Bug#513678: Acknowledgement (gdb segfaults if set hardware watchpoints when target remote)

2009-01-31 Thread John Hughes
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:34:08PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: Here's a patch that fixes it for me (obviously it needs generalising for os's/cpu configurations other than Linux/i386). Thanks, but could you first try the GDB package in experimental? That one

Bug#513816: Some clues?

2009-02-02 Thread John Hughes
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:17:26PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: It looks like 6.8.50 is loading the symtab for init/main.c automatically and somehow refusing to look at other stuff on the list. Right. I can reproduce the error with your binary; this is probably

Bug#513816: Acknowledgement (gdb sometimes doesn't find line numbers (on very large executables?))

2009-02-02 Thread John Hughes
This is a regression in 6.8.50.20090106-cvs, it works in lenny's gdb-6.8: j...@f:/usr/local/src/gdb/gdb-6.8.50.20090116.python$ gdb/gdb /usr/local/src/openssi-future-build/linux-ssi/vmlinux GNU gdb (GDB) 6.8.50.20090106-cvs Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU

Bug#513816: Some clues?

2009-02-02 Thread John Hughes
With 6.8.50.20090106-cvs: $ gdb vmlinux (gdb) list sys_execve No line number known for sys_execve. (gdb) maintenance info symtabs { objfile /usr/local/src/openssi-future-build/linux-ssi/vmlinux ((struct objfile *) 0x845d050) { symtab init/main.c ((struct symtab *)

Bug#192834: Bug 192834 - Glibc's method of resetting getopt different, causes interoperability problems

2009-07-06 Thread John Hughes
Seems to be fixed (in Lenny at least) $ dpkg -l libc6 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version

Bug#536024: gdb gets wrong address for glibc optind variable

2009-07-06 Thread John Hughes
Package: gdb Version: 6.8-3 Severity: important debugging a program that uses the glibc getopt function shows the wrong address and value for the optind variable. For example: Script started on Mon 06 Jul 2009 22:46:37 CEST j...@cedric:~$ cat optind-bug.c #include stdio.h #include unistd.h

Bug#536024: gdb gets wrong address for glibc optind variable

2009-07-07 Thread John Hughes
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:59:56PM +0200, John Hughes wrote: debugging a program that uses the glibc getopt function shows the wrong address and value for the optind variable. (gdb) info var optind All variables matching regular expression optind: File /usr

Bug#536024: gdb gets wrong address for glibc optind variable

2009-07-07 Thread John Hughes
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:38:24AM +0200, John Hughes wrote: I don't get the static version with gcc 4.3 and gdb 6.8 on lenny (x86-64): (gdb) info var optind All variables matching regular expression optind: File /usr/include/getopt.h: int optind; Non-debugging

Bug#571242: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: running 8 copies of bonnie deadlocks(?) in sync

2010-03-02 Thread John Hughes
maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:00:17PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0100, John Hughes wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-8 Severity: normal Running 8 copies of bonnie++ on 8 different filesystems on 8 disks seems

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