Bug#405621: I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this

2008-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I too wasted a lot of time becuase of this. My install was successful (4.0r4), but attempting aptitude update aptitude upgrade I got warnings about untrusted packages. It took at least 2 hours to notice the system time was bad. Some thing, somewhere, knows that the problem is that the creation

Bug#497806: Installer's clock related behvior is lame

2008-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Now that I've sent in the report... Perhaps I should have sent two reports. One for the bug Clock question worded incorrectly. and another for the enhancement request. Is there something I should do to fix this? Also. My implementation note that suggests waiting to set the time is stupid. The

Bug#497806: UTC clock prompt wording alternatives

2008-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
An alternative to the clock question proposed: Should this system's hardware keep UTC time from now on? is: Should this system's hardware keep UTC time starting now? I'm not sure if from now on is an idiom and not understood everywhere. (I like the word henceforward, but am afraid that it's

Bug#457641: openoffice.org-calc: Paste of one formula into multiple cells fails

2007-12-23 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: openoffice.org-calc Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch4 Severity: normal I can no longer cut a formula from one cell and paste it into multiple cells. Instead a dialog comes up labled Text Import - [Pasted Data] in the title bar. To reproduce: Open new spreadsheet Put formula =A1 - B1 in

Bug#458288: slocate: updatedb runs as the wrong user

2007-12-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: slocate Severity: important In etch, /etc/updatedb.conf (in the findutils package) has: LOCALUSER=nobody This is bad because the directories in /home are chmod xx0, so the program never indexes user's files. See also: bug #457084 and #457565 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#458288: It's also /etc/cron.daily/find that sets the user to nobody

2007-12-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On my box the /etc/cron.daily/find script also sets the user to nobody, causing home directories to be missed. Now that I think about it, the home directory policy will vary by system. The stock debian might be more permissive and allow read and traverse rights on home directories. That means

Bug#310668: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner

2005-05-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-13 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi, I have an old HP ScanJet 6100C scanner. Either the lamp is dim, the mirrors or dirty, or the scanner is broken. It once worked with more or less the current hardware

Bug#310668: (kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner)

2005-05-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I've removed the yahama cd drive from the aha1524 scsi chain, so now the only device on the bus is the scanner. I now have to modprobe sg before the modprobe that loads the aha152x driver, but otherwise behavior is as before. (The scsi chain was and is terminated btw. Is now terminated

Bug#310668: 310668 isn't RC, downgrading

2005-05-26 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/25/2005 03:20:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: severity 310668 important thanks I see where I went wrong. Sorry you had to re- classify. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#298971: synaptic: Synaptic incompatitable with aptitude's markauto feature

2005-03-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: synaptic Version: 0.55+cvs20050218-1 Severity: wishlist The aptitude markauto feature keeps a system from accumulating unwanted packages, leftover cruft that is unused by anything but installed anyway. Synaptic should operate in a fashion that's compatible with aptitude so that

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Now, after reboot the device special files are fine. ? I tried both cold and warm booting, with both a usb and a ps2 keyboard attached (just in case). The device special files came up right each time. However, once when using the 'halt' command the machine crashed and I got this on the

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
You can forget all about the messing up of the device special files. The problem is me mis-using the mdadm command and forgetting to put a name after the --create. So, it uses the first device name it finds, which is the name of one of the devices I want to make array out of, and messes up that

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
FYI, making a JFS filesystem with the journal on an external device seems to fail. At first I thought it was because I made the journal too big, but I reduced the size to 32MB and still got the error. # mkfs.jfs -L mythtv -j /dev/vg00/mythtvjournal /dev/vg00/mythtv mkfs.jfs version 1.1.11,

Bug#434660: debian-reference-en: how to specify source IP when there are virtual interfaces

2007-07-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Patch describes how to control which IP address is used as the source IP for locally initiated traffic. This is an issue when virtual interfaces are assigned IP addresses on the same subnet, as might be needed for

Bug#434927: spamassassin: spamd bug (fixed upstream #5313) borks email

2007-07-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.7-2 Severity: normal Hi, I'm being bit by upsteam bug #5313. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-commits/200704.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages like this: prefork: select returned -1, recovering: Bad file descriptor' error show up in my

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/07/2007 11:41:02 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/04/2007 07:59:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I didn't want to expand this section to re-create the definitive list, but I also think it could be useful to list the 'scanner' group

Bug#441459: mirrors: anonftpsync does not allow lockfile timeout to vary

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch It is nice to allow the lockfile timeout to vary, especially over a slow link or when deciding to mirror additional architectures, etc. The attached patch provides control over the lockfile timeout. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#441460: mirrors: anonftpsync sucks bandwidth from more important tasks

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When mirroring from a fast mirror over a slow link anonftpsync can hog all the bandwith, to the detriment of more important tasks. Attached is a patch which uses the rsync --bwlimit option to address this problem. This patch is ment to be applied

Bug#441461: mirrors: anonftpsync does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The anonftpsync program does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used. This is annoying when it comes to mirroring more than one archive. (e.g. the regular debian archive and volatile.debian.org, or whatever.) Attached is a patch that

Bug#441462: mirrors: It'd be nice if anonftpsync could include archs rather than exclude them

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist It'd be nice if anonftpsync could include archs rather than exclude them. Otherwise when there's new arches the size of the mirror expands unexpectedly. (Of course you'd probably want to keep being able to exclude them as well, but you would only ever be able

Bug#363349: The advantages of packaging anonftpsync

2007-09-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I want anonftpsync packaged so that I can easily get fixes, updates, etc. I might be able to come up with a man page if somebody indicated interest in packaging it. Regards, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#440763: usbutils: lsusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
to the lsusb maintainer? Aurelien Jarno a écrit : On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:50:14PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: lsusb should display permission errors when enumerating those devices to which the user has no access. There is now way to do that. If the device is unreadable, you can't get

Bug#441461: mirrors: anonftpsync does not take arguments, it must be edited to be used

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/12/2007 10:36:56 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:25:37PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The anonftpsync program does not take arguments, Attached is a patch that fixes this problem. It does so in the most painless way possible -- necessary variables are taken from

Bug#441460: mirrors: anonftpsync sucks bandwidth from more important tasks

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/12/2007 10:23:31 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:16:12PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: mirrors Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When mirroring from a fast mirror over a slow link anonftpsync can hog all the bandwith, to the detriment of more important tasks

Bug#442091: iceweasel: Security problem, clipboard content is sent to google

2007-09-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.6-0etch1 Severity: normal Middle clicking on something that's not a link or text widget sends the content of the clipboard to Google. This is slightly bad when you accidently middle click and especially bad when the clipboard content contains a password you're

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which there are no permissions. I have it on the authority of the Debian lsusb maintainter that this cannot be fixed in the application. Therefore there is a problem in the kernel or the USB

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which there are no permissions. As already explained, lsusb does not parse /dev, but uses libusb

Bug#440763: lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-13 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/13/2007 05:59:13 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:34:02PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which

Bug#440763: [linux-usb-devel] lsusb omits some devices and (apparently) cannot be fixed

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/14/2007 09:31:03 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 09/13/2007 05:17:17 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Karl O. Pinc a écrit : lsusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, resulting in no output for the device to which

Bug#440763: libusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I apologize if this has already been discussed. The sourceforge page with the archive for this mailing list seems to be down. Apparently libusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, and there is nothing in the API which allows such errors to be reported back to applications.

Bug#440763: [Libusb-devel] libusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-14 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/14/2007 06:57:48 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: On 9/15/07, Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently libusb silently ignores at least some permission errors, and there is nothing in the API which allows such errors to be reported back to applications. As a result applications, like

Bug#440104: debian-reference-en: Update nic interface name assignments for udev/etch

2007-08-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Section on nic interface naming is wrong for etch/udev. See attached patch. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There's a regular problem on irc with newbies who've not got permission to access various hardware devices. The reference manual should get this out of the way early, and explain groups and that it's the job of the

Bug#440763: usbutils: lsusb silently ignores permission errors

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: usbutils Version: 0.72-7 Severity: normal Users without permissions to usb devices don't know that they don't have permission and don't know that the device actually exists. It is a hassle to have to run lsusb as root all the time to be sure that devices are not silently ignored. lsusb

Bug#440769: libgphoto2-port0: usbfs kernel message says: ... did not claim interface N before use

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: libgphoto2-port0 Version: 2.2.1-16 Severity: normal I don't know that this is the right package. If not please reassign to the proper package. When using gtkam and gphoto I get messages like this from the kernel (dmesg) when trying to delete images from the camera. usb 1-2: usbfs:

Bug#440769: Another bug report gets the same kernel message

2007-09-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian Bug report #433129 contains the same kernel message, but I don't imagine it will be helpful because it was never resolved. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#440760: debian-reference-en: Explain groups, and permission to access devices, early

2007-09-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/04/2007 07:59:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Thanks for your interest. You're welcome. I've a couple of other patches submitted as wishlist bugs too. On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:32:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: debian-reference-en Version: CVS HEAD -sect1Purposes

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/04/2007 07:19:14 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:06:23PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: This is something of an FYI. Maybe the kernel.org people want to hear about 2.6.23-rc9? yo, us too, I don't know the right way to contact the kernel people, or what they want

Bug#445314: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Kernel hang with ASUS P5KC mobo apparently fixed with Linux 2.6.23-rc9

2007-10-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 10/04/2007 07:19:14 PM, maximilian attems wrote: please report, back on it, thanks A problem came up with the SATA drives I can't reproduce. I am using an IDE disk for my regular partitions. I've 2 SATA disks attached to the mobo's chipset SATA. The IDE and the unused (single) internal

Bug#288910: dpkg -L functionality

2007-07-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/05/2007 10:36:33 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: All you have to do is bind some key and menu to run dpkg -L %s with the currently highlighted installed package name with system command or so and pipe its output to the scrolling internal viewer(PAGER). That would be fine for interactive use, but

Bug#318822: docbook: Fails to generate PDF output

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: docbook Version: 4.3-1.1 Severity: normal This may be a problem in passivetex, or not. I cannot generate PDF output. Although I get the I/O error below when generating text, the text seems to generate fine. I just submitted this as a separate bug to 'xsltproc' in case the I/O error

Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: xsltproc Version: 1.1.12-8 Severity: minor When I generate any sort of output from docbook I get the message: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd I see that xsltproc is called with '--nonet' so I would not expect to see

Bug#318817: Related bug # for Can't make PDF

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian bug #318822 Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318822: Related bug # for I/O error

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Debian bug #318817 Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:58:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: What do return the two commands : xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:14:37 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:22:49PM +, Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works without error here, you definitely have a problem with your xml catalog. Which version of the docbook package do you have ? I'm running sarge

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 02:14:37 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: It works without error here, you definitely have a problem with your xml catalog. Which version of the docbook package do you have ? I just ran debsums on the docbook-xml package and it all checks out. (This is me, poking about looking for

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 12:33:22 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: It has been closed by one of the developers, namely Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Here's output directly from xsltproc that shows the problem using the sample file previously supplied. If this is not an xsltproc problem then

Bug#318817: Sample file exhibiting problem

2005-07-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Here is a sample file, bug.xml, that exhibits the problem. ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE article PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd; article parafoo/para /article Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/18/2005 04:07:36 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/18/2005 02:58:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: What do return the two commands : xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN [EMAIL

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/21/2005 10:02:03 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: All I can tell you is to check out your catalog files, since you seem to have a trouble there, or try reinstalling docbook. I can't do any more for you. Ok. Thanks. You've been very helpful. I tried reinstalling docbook, and no joy. (aptitude

Bug#318817: acknowledged by developer (Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318817: xsltproc: Trys to access network entity when --nonet is specified)

2005-07-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/21/2005 02:26:08 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: Could you try again the two xmlcatalog commands trying with the -v option ? it might give a little help. Thanks. $ xmlcatalog -v /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd Resolve sysID

Bug#318817: Still broken -- Reassigned closed bug without re-opening it

2005-07-28 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Thanks very much for reassigning this bug to the right people, but you forgot to re-open it. Could somebody re-open this please, it's still unresolved. Thanks. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To

Bug#316448: argus-client: ragraph broken with OpenBSD tcpdump/BPF output

2005-06-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: argus-client Version: 2.0.6.fixes.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, OpenBSD has started reporting packet timestamps with subsecond precision. ragraph fails when given tcpdumps with this extra precision. Debian Sarge argus-client Version: 2.0.6.fixes.1-2 librrds-perl Version: 1.0.49-1 $

Bug#457641: #457641: openoffice.org-calc: Paste of one formula into multiple cells fails

2008-04-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5 Package: openoffice-calc Still not fixed. Am I the only one with this problem, or is this not really a problem and I've broken something? I find it disturbing that an update to stable, that breaks a package in such a significant way as to make the stable version

Bug#478122: It happened after a mirror went down

2008-05-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Version: 1.5.3 (on etch) I'm getting the same messages: # /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-lib.pl line 136, $listpipe line 1841. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: linux-image-2.6 Severity: wishlist Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. It's part of the stock linux.org kernel. I've an Edgeport/4 (4 port) and an Edgeport/416 (16 port) serial RS-232 to

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/08/2008 02:38:19 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:10:50PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. thank you reenabled for upcoming 2.6.26

Bug#480195: linux-image-2.6: Please include the io_ti module in the debian kernel

2008-05-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 05/08/2008 02:38:19 PM, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:10:50PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Please include the io_ti module (drivers/usb/serial), .config symbol name CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_EDGEPORT_TI in the default Debian kernel. thank you reenabled for upcoming

Bug#333081: I too want pam_abl

2006-07-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #333081 And somebody else does too. See Bug #356733. Pam seems the sane place to do authorization. And the good thing about it, in comparison with iptables for instance, is that the attacker is not told that his attacks are failing. Thanks. -- System

Bug#381486: kernel: Kernel reports lost interrupt when ext3 fs runs out of inodes?

2006-08-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: kernel Severity: normal Hi, I am not 100% certain this is what happened and am not able to take the time/hardware to try to reproduce this error but figured you might want to know about it. I'm pretty sure about the inode usage but not positive. I believe I ran out of inodes on hdc3

Bug#272753: RFP: sqlgrey -- Greylisting implementation for Postfix that uses SQL

2006-07-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
I also would like to see sqlgrey in debian. Both it and postgrey have evolved since the original request and they are not the same in either functionality or the underlying infrastructure needed to support them. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Bug#548237: darcs-load-dirs: Please provide a way to timestamp commits.

2009-09-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: darcs-load-dirs Version: 1.1.6+nmu2 Severity: wishlist I would like a way to timestamp commits. Darcs supports this via 'darcs record --pipe'. I would like to write a shell script to go through a directory of tarballs, untar them, and use the timestamp on the tarball to run

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
software resources would enhance the Debian experience and further this goal. (Ideally this change would be made before the squeeze release so as not to lose years of new users.) Regards, Karl O. Pinc -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos. Chapter 8, next steps, should either include the content of or point users toward a resource like

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 04:27:46 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos. So, indeed, thanks in advance for the upcoming

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 04:43:43 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 04:27:46 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Karl O. Pinc (k...@meme.com): Many users expect that their system have software that's not in the stock Debian stable repos

Bug#608828: installation-guide: Users need direction to the functionality they expect

2011-01-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/03/2011 02:31:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Squeeze is about to be released, in a few weeks at best (or worse). So, I don't really see by which magic this would happen (considering that any change now to the installation guide triggers a need for translation updates). I do not wish

Bug#581729: FYI, Debian wiki has a page on user private groups

2011-01-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Regarding the umask change in squeeze. There is a Debian wiki web page on user private groups that could be referenced if desired. http://wiki.debian.org/UserPrivateGroup Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen. The second time this occurred neither the keyboard or mouse would respond. Unplugging and replugging each of these USB devices resovled the problem. The

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 01:48:39 AM, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: On 7 February 2011 07:27, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com wrote: During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen.  The second time this occurred neither the keyboard or mouse would respond.  Unplugging

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 11:30:53 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 00:27:06 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch During upgrade the text console was lost and replaced with a gdm login screen. The second time this occurred neither

Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade

2011-02-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/07/2011 12:33:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:29:19 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 02/07/2011 11:48:49 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:42:33 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: A log of the upgrade being the script output and the kernel log

Bug#612349: Patch that mentions release notes

2011-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is a patch that mentions installing firmware. I've not verified that apt-file is usable or installable at this point in the upgrade process, but I'm not sure what else to recommend. I am also presuming that free firmware is installed automatically, which now that I think of it is

Bug#539611: Please remove these files on future upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
If this isn't going to get fixed in lenny, then it'd be nice if a squeeze version, or _some_ version, of the postgresql package removes these files/directories. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#617463: release-notes: 'aptitude search ~ahold' does not require a grep

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, I see that in the squeeze release notes section 4.2.3. Checking packages status it says the following identifies packages on hold with aptitude: aptitude search ~ahold | grep ^.h The pipe to grep is unnecessary. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#617466: release-notes: Instructions do not restart script after reboot.

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, I see no instructions in the squeeze release notes that say to restart 'script' after reboot, so the script only records the first half of the upgrade. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#617466: Appending to the timing information

2011-03-08 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, As part of this you may wish to consider using instead of in the script invocation. script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script instead of script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script Although I don't know what sort of strange replay timing you'd then

Bug#617756: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: NMI received for unknown reason 3d on CPU 0.

2011-03-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I don't know whether this is a hardware problem or a kernel problem but figured I'd report it. I just upgraded to squeeze and am getting these messages on the console and in dmesg:

Bug#617981: release-notes: Leftover configured packages take up space

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, After upgrade there are a number of leftover packages from the old release that are removed but not purged. The linux-image-* packages, in particular, take up space in /boot. Potentially quite a large porportion of /boot. The upgrade guide should

Bug#617982: release-notes: Before beginning the upgrade remove old debconf files

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, It makes sense to cleanup from the last upgrade before starting a new one. The files that debconf leaves when packages are upgraded should be found and removed by the admin so that there is no possiblity of confusion after upgrade as to what changes

Bug#617984: release-notes: The default choice is reset in menu.lst when choosing to chainload grub2

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, I don't know if this is a bug in the squeeze release notes or the grub2 package. When grub2 (I assume) updates /boot/grub/menu.lst to chainload grub2 it resets the default boot choice to 0. This more or less breaks things if the user has included

Bug#617987: release-notes: Note that grub2 does not covert existing grub1 config file

2011-03-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Hi, It's may be worth noting that grub2 does not seamlessly convert grub's menu.lst file. A sentence like the following should be enough added the end of of the first paragraph of 4.8.1 Upgrade to GRUB2: Note that GRUB2 builds its menu by autodetection

Bug#506121: lcd4linux: Please include Pertelian driver

2008-11-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: lcd4linux Version: 0.10.1~rc2-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, Please include the Pertelian driver. The version of lcd4linux packaged for lenny/sid does not contain the driver, but the driver is in the current svn. Thank you. P.S. This report should probably be filed against lenny or

Bug#506370: Allow user control over lcd4linux args

2008-11-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: lcd4linux Version: 0.10.0+cvs20060825-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello. Attached is a patch to /etc/init.d/lcd4linux which allows the administrator to put lcd4linux arguments into /etc/default/lcd4linux. (I found the splash screen annoying, this allows it to be turned off.)

Bug#506509: dpkg packaging does not preserve $ARG_if in /etc/default/ifplugd

2008-11-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: ifplugd Version: 0.28-2.3 Severity: normal Hello, Reading /etc/init.d/ifplugd I see that it supports config variables containing names that end in _if, like $ARGS_eth0. These are used to tailor arguments to the ifplugd daemon monitoring specific interfaces. The debian packaging does

Bug#506509: Looks like a policy violation

2008-11-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
As I read Debian policy this is a violation, which would mean the bug severity is 'serious'. Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#394097: Put AuthType Basic at the top to get libapache2-mod-auth-pam to work

2008-11-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hello, I may be wrong, but I believe I had to put the AuthType Basic directive above the other auth directives in the config file before libapache2-mod-auth-pam worked on Etch. Regards, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A.

Bug#503438: cupsys: ipp printing leaves job in queue

2008-10-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.7-4etch5 Severity: normal Hi, I'm running a thin-client. The box running the apps sends print jobs (and graphics to the Xserver) to the box on my desk. The box on my desk has a hp laserjet 1100 connected via parallel port. The box running the apps is running the

Bug#564944: initscripts: /forcefsck overflows bootlogd

2010-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal Hi, I notice that if I touch /forcefsck that /var/log/boot is, essentially, truncated to what comes after the filesystem checks. Dunno if there's a fix. Perhaps fsck could be less verbose if bootlogd is turned on? -- System

Bug#568298: balsa: Infinite loop with empty quoted text regexp

2010-02-03 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.25-1 Severity: normal Hello, File-Preferences Message display format (iirc) Setting the regexp for quoted text to nothing seems to put balsa into an infinite loop. (At least when the current message has quoted text.) I want to turn off balsa's colorization and

Bug#568710: manpages-dev: The GNU regex manual does not seem to exist

2010-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: minor /usr/share/man/man3/regexec.3.gz references the GNU regex manual in it's See also section, but this manual seems to be obsolete. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#568298: balsa: Infinite loop with empty quoted text regexp

2010-02-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 02/05/2010 08:23:50 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: On 02/03/2010 01:08:00 PM Wed, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I want to turn off balsa's colorization and change bars and other frobbing of quoted text. Setting the regexp to the empty string _should_ do this, but does not. Yes, it should

Bug#569344: balsa: To address lost when send pressed without changing focus

2010-02-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.25-1 Severity: normal Hi, If my mail has multiple recipients if I type the final recipient in the textbox but don't press enter or tab or click elsewhere to move the focus but instead click on the send button then the last recipient never registers and no mail is sent

Bug#552029: What needs to be done to get a response here?

2010-01-04 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, It's been close to 3 months now and there's been no response on this at all. Is this the right place for this report? If not is there somewhere upstream or some such where I should submit this? Thanks. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Bug#552029: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#552029: What needs to be done to get a response here?

2010-01-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Thanks very much for the reply On 01/06/2010 02:34:21 AM, Kel Modderman wrote: You could test the 100% untested patch and report it 100% working and that may help :) Well, ok. The patch is braindead, just a few new lines with a function moved into a library. But I see your point. (I did

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Security support will be dis-continued for etch on Feb 15th. It'd be nice to fix the upgrade document while people are still upgrading. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/22/2010 07:18:22 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:08:01PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Security support will be dis-continued for etch on Feb 15th. It'd be nice to fix the upgrade document while people are still upgrading. Could you elaborate what part

Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

2010-01-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/22/2010 07:50:02 AM, Nicolas François wrote: The problem with this bug is that there are no generic upgrade path. The upgrade may fail with apt-get or with aptitude. I made tested with the various default Debian installs, and I could not find a generic upgrade path that always work.

Bug#541231: konqueror won't print to printer or pdf file -- kdeprint-lpd lib problem

2009-08-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 Severity: normal Konqueror won't print, at least not to a printer or to a saved pdf. The dialog that pops up says: There was an error loading kdeprint_lpd. The diagnostic is: Library files for kdeprint_lpd.la not found in paths. FWIW, here's some

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