Bug#502519: cpio: mt doesn't return text description of drive type or symbolic decode of status (i.e. at BOT etc.).

2008-10-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: cpio Version: 2.9-13 Severity: normal In older versions mt-gnu includes symbolic information, in Lenny it doesn't which risks messing up backup scripts. # /media/old_linux/bin/mt-gnu -f /dev/st1 status drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape drive status = 419430400 sense key error = 0

Bug#422578: qemu: WIndows NT4 shows white box instead of mouse cursor since security update

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
satisfactory since any 2-colour cursors embedded in applications or development tools still show as white boxes. The same obviously applies to desktop/application icons although I've not investigated these to determine the combination that causes the problem. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Bug#428847: linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64: Kernel oops on Ultra-10 serial break

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-sparc64: true -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#507802: silo: Lacks boot-time help

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: silo Version: 1.4.13-1 Severity: wishlist Splack (Slackware for SPARC) has a section in silo.conf reading -8- image=cat /boot/silo.conf label=config -8- Having this makes it easier to see what kernels are available when booting, e.g. because an upgraded

Bug#692069: knotify: knotify crashes during desktop startup or shutdown.

2012-11-01 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: kde-runtime Version: 4:4.8.4-1 Severity: normal File: knotify Dear Maintainer, On an up-to-date Wheezy with KDE desktop, knotify crashes during desktop startup or shutdown. I've not yet tested on other CPUs. Automatic bug report dialogue generates a partial backtrace but suggests

Bug#692069: Acknowledgement (knotify: knotify crashes during desktop startup or shutdown.)

2012-11-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Please install kdelibs5-dbg and try generating the backtrace. Dialogue still says it's NBG. On this run I got a Knotify crash at the start of the session, and another when I told it to logout. Backtrace attached. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Bug#584725: Konsole on Sparc keeps crashing with Bus Errors

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
As of October 2012, this appears to apply to both Squeeze and Wheezy/testing. It also applies irrespective of whether Konsole is invoked from KDE or XFCE. I've not been able to get a useful backtrace etc. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Bug#584725: Konsole on Sparc keeps crashing with Bus Errors

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
stdout and stderr). Thanks for your help, Pino. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3

Bug#688521: SILO first boot after power-on or reset fails on Netra T1 200

2012-09-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: silo Version: 1.4.14+git20120819-1 Severity: normal On a Netra T1 200 with default installation (no desktop packages etc.) and with a serial terminal attached to the LOM port as console, the first boot command after power-on, reset or reboot fails with a watchdog timeout before SILO

Bug#688521: SILO first boot after power-on or reset fails on Netra T1 200

2012-09-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Looking at the output you see, I have doubts that it has anything to do with SILO though. SILO prints letters 'S', 'I', 'L' and 'O' (appearing before the prompt) after it completes execution of different parts of first-stage loader. As you can see in the code (first/first.S), printing 'S' is

Bug#688521: SILO first boot after power-on or reset fails on Netra T1 200

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
different PCB- fail the first boot. This might still be specific to OBP in a Netra T1, both types of disc boot first time in an Ultra-1. It affects Lenny, Squeeze and Wheezy, and possibly other OSes. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Bug#692069: knotify: knotify crashes during desktop startup or shutdown.

2012-11-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Pino Toscano wrote: Alle giovedì 1 novembre 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd ha scritto: Automatic bug report dialogue generates a partial backtrace but suggests installing debug info for knotify4 but does not say what package contains this. Usually, debug packages are named after the names of sources

Bug#693913: kde-plasma-desktop: For a new user, desktop starts with bottom bar and tab at top right but no other content.

2012-11-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: kde-plasma-desktop Version: 5:77 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When KDE first starts for any given newly-created user, it has a background image, a panel/bar at the bottom, and a desktop tab at the top right. However there is no other content: no menu button, no clock display

Bug#688521: SILO first boot after power-on or reset fails on Netra T1 200

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
think it's a Linux or SILO problem. The most that can be done is make sure a warning is available in an appropriate place in platform-specific notes. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Bug#698345: xorg: All attempts at connecting a remote X server to a SPARC host fail, irrespective of its architecture.

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.7+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I run a range of development systems here of different architectures, in most cases headless with connection via X usually using xdmcp. This fails with a SPARC Wheezy host (i.e. the machine being connected to), irrespective of

Bug#698345: xorg: All attempts at connecting a remote X server to a SPARC host fail, irrespective of its architecture.

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Can you get a tcpdump trace? I should be able to: if I bypass XDMCP it should be a manageable size as an attachment (even if I can't make sense of it enough to cut off the earlier part of the session). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Bug#698642: cu with Wheezy is intolerant of line glitches.

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: cu Version: 1.07-20 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Scenario is an Ultra Enterprise 2 connecting using cu to the serial port on a headless E4500. When the E4500 is powered up cu becomes non-responsive to kbd input including the #. abort sequence, the only way to terminate it is to use

Bug#807010: xl2tpd freezes all system

2016-11-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ucible with Linux 4.7.5-1 i686 and xl2tpd 1.3.6+dfsg-4. For general info, we've been running upstream's 1.3.7 reliably here for several months on ARM, compiled to not use the kernel. There might be additional issues on aarch64. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions abo

Bug#842346: xl2tpd: Please upgrade xl2tpd to upstream 1.3.7.

2016-10-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Package: xl2tpd Version: 1.3.6+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Some ISPs allow a customer to connect to an L2TP LNS over an arbitrary link, e.g. 3/4G wireless, and will then route IP6 and fixed IP addresses over this using PPP. Please note that this usage is distinct from IPsec etc.

Bug#859409: kicad: Inconsistent footprint naming

2017-04-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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