Bug#292347: gpsd: remote security problem with format strings

2005-01-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 292347 + patch thanks This patch should fix the problem. The gpsd developers didn't know about the problem before I told them this morning, and just released v2.8 with this problem fixed. Index: gpsd.c === --- gpsd.c (rev

Bug#292614: gpx2shp: Segfaults when called only with -v

2005-01-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: gpx2shp Version: 0.68-1 By accident, I discovered that 'gpx2shp -v' will segfault. This is the backtrace: #0 0x40124c2f in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x080544dd in setOptions (argc=2, argv=0xbcd4, prop=0x8063b28) at main.c:364 #2 0x080545f5 in main (argc=0, arg

Bug#341075: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#341075: Keep 2.86.ds1-6 out of testing

2005-11-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] > pere: Please just close this if you disagree. I'm not sure if I agree or not. :) The version in testing have bugs too, which are fixed by version 2.86.ds1-6. Which bugs in 2.86.ds1-6 are not present in testing, and are serious enough to keep 2.86.ds1-6 from entering testing? -

Bug#341204: RFP: adept - Graphical APT frontend for KDE

2005-11-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: adept Upstream Author : Peter Rockai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://web.ekhis.org/adept.html * License : BSD? Description : Graphical APT frontend for KDE Adept is a successor to Kapture. It is a package manager

Bug#338800: lsdvd: Doesn't seem to report accurate palette information

2005-12-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 338800 + patch thanks I believe this patch solve the issue, by making sure the array size and the array limit used to initialize it is the same. I'm uploading a new version with this fix. --- lsdvd-0.15.orig/lsdvd.c +++ lsdvd-0.15/lsdvd.c @@ -319,8 +319,9 @@ // PALETTE

Bug#220025: Will fix

2005-12-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] > At the end of the initscript sequence for runlevel S we need to know > whether or not we are going to switch to a multi-user runlevel (2 > through 5). (If we are not going to switch to a multi-user runlevel > then we must stop bootlogd; otherwise we leave bootlogd running and > it

Bug#343457: boot_xconf: syntax error in 'let LENGTH=($LENGTH - 1)'

2005-12-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: debian-edu-config Version: 0.399 Severity: important When upgrading debian-edu-config, I get this message from postinst. This did not break the installation of the new package, so I set severity only to important. Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/update-hostname ...

Bug#343457: boot_xconf: syntax error in 'let LENGTH=($LENGTH - 1)'

2005-12-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I assume the code should subtract 1 from the value of LENGTH. > Perhaps a posix shell compliant notation should be used instead? I suspect this patch will solve it, but it is untested. Index: debian/debian-edu-config.boot

Bug#275028: debian-edu-install: We should have a Education-barebone

2005-12-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> The profile should have an option to create an education-barebone, > were you might install a spesific task, like LDAP-server, > backup-server mail-server and such Yes, it would make it easier to install a server for a single service. I believe this option should only be available when in expe

Bug#275028: debian-edu-install: We should have a Education-barebone

2005-12-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Morten Werner Olsen] > I don't understand why you want this in expert mode only? Cant we > have barebone as one of the choises in a normal install too? I want as few options and questions as possible in the normal install, to reduce the cognitive strain on the people doing the installation, and t

Bug#292929: listadmin for mailman 2.1

2005-12-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sam Watkins] > I am using mailman 2.1 (for the site http://nipl.net/) > and I found that listadmin 2.27 does not work with this version of mailman. > So I mangled it to make it work, attached. > > it is also at http://sam.nipl.net/all/listadmin/listadmin-mm2.1 I've successfully used the version

Bug#333057: add support for php5-mapscript

2005-11-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
As far as I can see, the attached patch is just a copy of the mapserver_4.6.1-3.diff file making up the debian specific changes in version 4.6.1-3. Please submit the patches you made to the latest version of the mapserver. Please do not send the complete debian diff, but only the relevant change

Bug#337560: kaffe: Fail to run java version of World Wind (trigger assert)

2005-11-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: kaffe Version: 2:1.1.6-3 Kaffe fail to run the GIS tool World Wind. I get it working using SUN Java by following this howto: 1) download the JOGL and ww2d packages: wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/ww2d-0.99.86.zip wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/JOGL-Inst.jar

Bug#337601: jamvm: Fail to run java version of World Wind (missing libjawt.so)

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: jamvm Version: 1.3.3-2 Jamvm fail to run the GIS tool World Wind. I get it working using SUN Java by following this howto: 1) download the JOGL and ww2d packages: wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/ww2d-0.99.86.zip wget http://download.berlios.de/ww2d/JOGL-Inst.jar 2)

Bug#336172: [PATCH] sysvinit off-by-one error

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I use version 2.86.ds1-1 in sarge, and do not see this issue with the default init. How do I test if the problem exist? I've tried these methods so far, based on the input from openvz bugzilla: % ps -fp 1 UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Nov04 ?

Bug#332823: sysv-rc: Suggest: bum

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 332823 + patch thanks [Thomas Hood] > It might be better if the bum package Provided sysv-rc-conf which is > already suggested by sysv-rc. Not really, as sysv-rc-conf is a real package and not a virtual package, and the two packages bum and sysv-rc-conf do not really behave the same. If I

Bug#336873: /etc/default/rcS is not listed by any package

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The file /etc/default/rcS is inserted by the initscrips package when it is installed for the first time. As far as I know, there is no way to report this relationship to dpkg without also getting upgrade problems when the file is changed by the host administrator and the package maintainers. Thi

Bug#325772: /sbin/halt: mention which machine is going down

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 325772 + patch thanks I believe this patch should solve the issue. Any objections before I include it in a new version of sysvinit? Index: src/dowall.c === --- src/dowall.c(revisjon 100) +++ src/dowall.c(arbeid

Bug#337640: cupsys: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-12 Severity: wishlist To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d header file format useful for thi

Bug#337638: alsa-base: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.8-7 Severity: wishlist To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d header file format useful for th

Bug#337639: aumix: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: aumix Version: 2.8-16 Severity: wishlist To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d header file format useful for this pu

Bug#337644: dbus-1: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: dbus-1 Version: 0.23.4-7 Severity: wishlist To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d header file format useful for this

Bug#337645: fam: Please add LSB formatted dependency info in init.d script

2005-11-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-8 Severity: wishlist To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d header file format useful for this pur

Bug#337573: ITP: preload -- an adaptive readahead daemon

2005-11-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This ITP is similar to my readahead ITP #325885. I suspect only one of these packages is needed in Debian. Do you recommend preload over the ubuntu readahead package? http://bugs.debian.org/325885 > This issue has been discussed a bit on the initscripts-ng mailing list. Are you on this list?

Bug#328582: /etc/init.d/umountfs: swapoff should be called before unmounting localfs and not after?

2005-11-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I believe the swapoff/umount order was changed to solve bug #84782, making sure tmpfs file systems are umounted before swap is turned off and thus improving the chance of not running out of memory for low-memory machines. I'm not sure how to modify umountfs to solve both problems. I agree that i

Bug#338736: mountvirtfs: Succeeds in various cases it should fail

2005-11-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Thank you. Can you modify the patch to use the log_* functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions instead of echo, like the other scripts are doing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#331438: wrong usage of "su" in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest

2005-11-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 331438 + pending thanks > invoking /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest fails with: "sh: - : > invalid option". looking into the script, line 34 tries to "su" to > nobody and executes /usr/sbin/popularity-contest. the following > patch should speak for itself: What version of su is this? Th

Bug#325030: popularity-contest: allow http only

2005-11-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 325030 + pending thanks [Vagrant Cascadian] > attached is a patch which allows forcing http post only, by setting > the MAILTO variable to "" Looks good to me. I'm commited it to CVS, and the change should make it into to the next version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Bug#338966: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#338966: initscripts: "Usage" error message displays during bootup

2005-11-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
severity ? important thanks [Rick Friedman] > After upgrading to version 2.86.ds1-5, bootup displays the following: > > Checking root file system.../: clean, 251249/1690624 files, > 1403373/3405772 blocks > . > Usage: /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload Strange. Do

Bug#338967: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#338967: lsb-base: ugly output

2005-11-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
atches to fix the issue you are complaining about are most welcome, as I am a but unsure what problem you try to adress. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#338966: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#338966: initscripts: "Usage" error message displays during bootup

2005-11-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I suspect it the effect is that the upgraded scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ > are not executed as they should, as they are called without 'start' > as a command line argument. I checked the old version, and luckily, only the .sh scripts are called without t

Bug#339100: gtklookat: assert failure with one OneMap.org VRML model

2005-11-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: gtklookat Version: 0.13.0-4 Severity: important I gave one of the VMRL models available from OneMap.org a try with gtklookat, but it failed with an assertion. This is the test output. I got a window for a short while, but it disappeared when the program crashed. % gtklookat 'http://

Bug#346530: ltsp-client: Fail with /bin/sh -> dash

2006-01-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: ltsp-client Version: 0.58debian4 When booting the LTSP client using dash as /bin/sh, I see this error message: /usr/lib/ltsp/ltsp_functions: 36: Syntax error: Bad substitution I'm trying to see if dash might speed up the boot when compared to the normal bash run. The problematic cod

Bug#346575: gutenbrowser: Fail to download new texts

2006-01-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: gutenbrowser Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: grave When trying to use gutenbrowser, I am unable to download new texts. Here is the output from a test run where I tried to download a text. % gutenbrowser local library is /home/pere/.gutenbrowser Reading font config Setting up slots

Bug#217393: new ispell version (3.2.06, 2001-08-01)

2006-01-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
retitle 217393 new ispell version (3.2.06: 2001-08-01, 3.3.02: 2005-06-12) thanks [David Coe] > so I think I'll just skip 3.2 and package 3.3 when it comes out > ("real soon now") -- and coordinate the rebuilding of all the ispell > dictionary packages, because they'll change for 3.3 (and would f

Bug#334351: netplan: memory errors

2005-12-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 334351 + patch pending thanks I believe the attached patch solve the issue, but dropping the use of NGROUPS_MAX, and instead count the number of groups before allocating the memory needed from the heap. Please test it and let me know if it solve your problem. Unless you tell me it failed t

Bug#345012: jamvm: fail to run JOSM program (missing Java 5 feature java.lang.Enum)

2005-12-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: jamvm Version: 1.3.3-2 Trying to run the Java OpenStreetmap client fail with a NoClassDefFoundError exception. To test, download http://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/josm/josm-rc1.jar>, and run like this: % jamvm -jar josm-rc1.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openstreetmap/josm/data/

Bug#345128: bzr: copyright file is missing URL to upstream source

2005-12-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: bzr Version: 0.6-2 Severity: wishlist The bzr copyright file is missing an URL to the project home page. I suggest adding http://www.bazaar-ng.org/> into it, perhaps close to the upstream author name. Something like this? Source was fetched from http://www.bazaar-ng.org/>. -- Syst

Bug#345148: qgis: uninstallable in unstable (wrong gdal and geos dependency)

2005-12-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: qgis Version: Severity: grave The current package in debian/unstable is not installable, because the gdal and geos library packages have changed name. This is from a installation test using apt-get: The following packages have unmet dependencies: qgis: Depends: libgdal1c2 (>= 1.

Bug#345579: plan: FTBFS: Build dependency on xlibs-dev

2006-01-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kurt Roeckx] > But all those packages have to be fixed sooner or later. I hope > people will go and fix this themself. But I'll file bugs after they > uploaded it and it failed. Yes, a fix need to be inserted. But I have a hard time figuring out how to fix it in a way that make the package sti

Bug#345741: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#345741: Please add INIT_PROG env var to override re-exec'ing from /sbin/init

2006-01-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> However, if /sbin/init is on a read-only filesystem, > or you want to redirect init to be running from a different > filesystem because you need to umount /sbin , > this feature is inadequate. This sounds like a security issue. If the admin made / read-only, and someone is able to gain enough p

Bug#336748: xserver-xorg: Useless update of symlink on read-only partition

2005-11-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Severity: important Tags: patch When trying to do to 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' during the boot of an LTSP thin client, the postinst fail because it tries to update the /etc/X11/X symlink even though it already is pointing to the right location.

Bug#337053: snmptrapd: should support running as non-privileged user

2005-11-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
who to talk to at the moment. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#326600: RFP: ww2d -- Cross-platform version of NASA World Wind software

2005-11-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Will this work with the free java implementations? I believe JOGL is a problem. Perhaps it should be ported to use gljava instead? I believe it is better supported in classpath. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#334351: netplan: memory errors

2005-11-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The problem seem to trigger in this code in netplan.c function main(). '==>' marks line 269. fd_set rd, wr, ex; /* returned fd masks from select */ [...] nclients = sizeof(fd_set)*8; /* max # of clients */ ==> client_list = allocate(nclient

Bug#334351: netplan: memory errors

2005-11-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > Can you try to apply this diff, to get the size of the memory > alloctaion printed, and run the program again: Doh. No need. I see from the backtrace, that the number is very large (268517376). Hm, could this be a signed/unsigned issue? Try to apply this patch a

Bug#337495: friendsd2: Insecure handling of network data

2005-11-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.09-2 Severity: grave Tags: security patch A hole in the gpsd binary friendsd2 has been announced today. Severity grave, as it is a remotely exploitable hole. This is the content of http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/37400>: Date: Fri, 04 No

Bug#339007: php4-mapscript: php_mapscript.so is into incorrect directory

2005-11-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
severity 339007 important thanks > I get this error because php_mapscript.so is into /usr/lib/php4/20020429: > > Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library > '/usr/lib/php4/20050606/php_mapscript.so' - > /usr/lib/php4/20050606/php_mapscript.so: cannot open shared object file > > I have corre

Bug#339850: initscripts: Should check filesystems after an unclean shutdown

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch While reviewing the RedHat boot system, I came across code to detect unclean shutdowns (aka crashes), and optionally run fsck when booted after such crashes. The redhat code will ask during boot, with 5 second timeout to ans

Bug#339862: initscripts: Should SELinux be disabled in fsck recovery mode?

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch While reviewing the RedHat boot system, I discovered that they are disabling SELinux before calling sulogin after a fsck failure. Should we do the same? Here is a patch relative to current CVS to enable this. It uses the /

Bug#338801: umountfs: should use /proc/mounts

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
If you understand you correctly, you want to replace /etc/mtab with /proc/mounts for umountsfs and umountnfs.sh. Here is an untested patch to do this change. Please test it, and let me know if it solves your problem. If it work, this bug should be tagged 'patch'. Index: debian/initscripts/etc/

Bug#339949: checkroot.sh: calling mountvirtfs fails

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
merge 338966 339949 thanks [Brendan O'Dea] > The usage message is actually coming from /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs > (which I suspect was changed to require an argument: #338736). Yes, you are right. This is bug #338966, fixed in version 2.86.ds1-6 uploaded today. > Another minor issue is that "Act

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brendan O'Dea] > Debian Policy states (§9.3.1): > >"Also, if the script name ends `.sh', the script will be sourced >in runlevel `S' rather that being run in a forked subprocess, but >will be explicitly run by `sh' in all other runlevels". What a strange thing for policy to specify.

Bug#323749: Beautify "Rebooting..." message for GNU/kFreeBSD

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Robert Millan] > Any ideas? Not really. Perhaps the FreeBSD kernel should be told to shut up? I welcome tested patches, but am not sure if this is solvable without unwanted side-effects. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brendan O'Dea] > I'm not quite sure what the initial rationale was, although Adam Heath > suggested on IRC that it could be to allow scripts to set environment > variables which would propagate through to subsequent scripts. I'm not sure why it is documented in policy, but the sysv-rc implementat

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > It's perfectly sensible: if the scripts were meant to be run in > parallel, they shouldn't have the ".sh" extension... Eh, are you claiming that policy mention sourcing of .sh scripts to make sure those scripts are not run in paralell? It does not sounds reasonable to me, as th

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > The patch look good, but will be equivalent to a forked subprocess > when running the scripts in parallel. Here is a possible patch to avoid running .sh scripts in the background when using CONCURRENCY=shell. Index: debian/sysv-rc/etc/ini

Bug#336191: nice: FTBFS java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: gnu/bytecode/Type.reset

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
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Bug#339000: bashism in /usr/bin/nicec

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 339000 + patch thanks Here is a patch to fix this issue. -- bin/nicec.orig 2005-11-20 10:00:56.004671430 +0100 +++ bin/nicec 2005-11-20 10:00:40.563175008 +0100 @@ -89,6 +89,6 @@ # Certain JVMs seem to exit by throwing SIGHUP, thus replacing the exit code # with 129. # This happen

Bug#337828: ITP: libjogl-java -- Java bindings for OpenGL

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
block 326600 with 337828 thanks The JOGL library is needed by WW2D, WNPP request #326600. It would be great if JOGL could work with a free java version to get both into debian/main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#340039: Fix build problem on debian/sarge

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: xmoto Version: 0.1.8-2 Tags: patch When trying to build xmoto on debian/sarge, I got this build error: In file included from src/BuiltInFont.h:25, from src/BuiltInFont.cpp:27: src/VCommon.h:53: error: type specifier omitted for parameter `GLsizeiptrARB' src/VCom

Bug#337601: jamvm: Fail to run java version of World Wind (missing libjawt.so)

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Based on input from Michael Koch on IRC, I rebuilt jamvm with "DEB_STRIP_EXCLUDE := jamvm" in debian/rules to get debug symbols, and ran the program again in gdb. This is the output. (gdb) run -jar WW2D.jar Starting program: /usr/bin/jamvm -jar WW2D.jar [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabl

Bug#340081: gpsd: ftbfs [sparc] undefined reference to `floor'

2005-11-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This build problem affect several architectures, not just sparc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340147: /etc/init.d/glibc.sh must use ': exit 0' instead of 'exit 0'

2005-11-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-5 Severity: serious The script /etc/init.d/glibc.sh can not be sourced, as it contain 'exit 0' at the end of the script. This is against policy, specifying that all .sh scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ will be sourced. I discovered this while fixing sysv-rc (bug #339955), as

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I'm not sure how this could happen, but when I enabled sourcing of the .sh scripts in rcS.d/, the boot failed because /etc/rcS.d/S01glibc.sh uses 'exit 0' at the end of the script, and thus terminates the S runlevel. This script was added in glibc version 2.3.5-5 uploaded 2005-08-27. The strange

Bug#295335: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#295335: marked as done (Manpage improvements for lastb)

2005-11-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
found 295335 2.86.ds1-6 thanks [Thomas Hood] > This was done in sysvinit (2.86.ds1-5). And undone in 2.86.ds1-6, as someone claimed the behaviour did not match the suggested manpage change. I see that I forgot to mention this in the changelog. Sorry about that. Reopening. (I'm not if this is

Bug#312574: iso-codes: Incorrect name for language code 'nb'

2005-06-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: iso-codes Version: 0.44-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch i18n I just discovered this line in /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_639.tab: nob nob nb Bøkmal, Norwegian This is a typo. The special Norwegian character should replace the 'a' in bokmål, not the o. nob nob nb

Bug#302887: java-common: Should have the same maintainer as the other java packages

2005-06-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Arnaud Vandyck] > What about Debian Java Maintainers in the uploaders field? That should solve the problem as well, yes. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#313072: discover1: Should support vendor-default configuration

2005-06-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: discover1 Version: 1.7.8 It would be nice if discover1 supported vendor-default device info. This is useful to specify the X driver for all video cards from vendors using the save driver for all their hardware. A patch to make this possible is available from http://people.ubuntulinu

Bug#314640: jhead: Typo in manual page (of->or)

2005-06-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: jhead Version: 2.3-2 Severity: minor I just noticed this typo in the jhead(1) manual page: Adjust time stored in the Exif header by h:mm backwards of forwards. I believe 'of' should be 'or', like this: Adjust time stored in the Exif header by h:mm backwards or forwards. I guess t

Bug#310783: Please teach xtraceroute too fetch IP location from hostip.info

2005-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: xt Version: 0.9.1-6 Severity: wishlist It would be great if xtraceroute could fetch location information from the data sources available from http://www.hostip.info/>. The methods available are listed on http://www.hostip.info/use.html>: Simple GET That said, there is an easy HTTP

Bug#311188: debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with conffiles of other packages

2005-05-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jonas Smedegaard] > It is a violation of Debian Policy to mess with conffiles of other > packages, and http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt section > 3 adds this: Debian policy section 10.7.4 (Sharing configuration files) reads: The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any

Bug#310817: [Help] Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

2005-05-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andreas Tille] > 3. Are there alternatives for this program which are actively maintained? I'm aware of ktouch for practicing touch typing, but have never tried tipptrainer so I do not know if it is an alternative or not. (I'm on debian-edu@, no need to CC me directly. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#175820: lvm2: missing e2fsadm

2005-06-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> I've been testing lvm2 the last few days, and must admit that I > really miss the e2fsadm tool. Yes. We used lvm10 in debian-edu, and a lot of documentation explain how to use e2fsadm, and a lot of system administrators have gotten used to using it. Suddenly it is gone, if we try to use lvm2

Bug#298000: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: airo driver fail to work with AIRONET Wireless Communications PC4800 (rev 01) [PCI 14b9:0350]

2005-06-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I just tested using kernel package kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686_2.6.11-5_i386.deb from ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386/> on the machine in question, and this kernel worked with the wifi card in my machine. Great! :) I guess this can be considered a request to up

Bug#311665: RFP: lsdvd -- read the content info of a DVD

2005-06-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2005-06-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name: lsdvd Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Chris Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip/ * License : GPL Description : read the content in

Bug#311665: RFP: lsdvd -- read the content info of a DVD

2005-06-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
retitle ITP: lsdvd -- read the content info of a DVD tags 311665 + pending thanks I just uploaded version 0.10-1. It is resting in NEW. I repackaged the source from Ubuntu, after updating debian/changelog and debian/control to list me as the maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Bug#302887: java-common: Should have the same maintainer as the other java packages

2005-04-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.java as well. [Arnaud Vandyck] > Why do you want java-common to be listed there? To make it easier to check the status of all java packages maintained by the debian-java group. > Also, not eve

Bug#305268: Please add tool to write EXIF GPS coordinate info to JPEG images

2005-04-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libexif-dev Severity: wishlist I'm looking for a free software tool available on Linux to write GPX coordinate information into my JPEG images. I want something like EXIFutil[1] or gpsphotolinker[2], making it possible to store geographical location into the image, and adding map refere

Bug#305629: ipmitool: Should have a relation to the openipmi packages

2005-04-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.1-1 Severity: minor The ipmitool package should list some relation to the openipmi packages. Not sure if it should use suggest or recommends. At the moment, there are three packages from openipmi: libopenipmi-dev - Intelligent Platform Management Interface - de

Bug#306111: bugs.debian.org: Should include site icon for browsers supporting it

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist It would be nice if the bugs.debian.org web site included a web site icon for those browsers supporting it. If you visit www.debian.org with for example mozilla, you will see a small icon in assosiated with the page (the debian swirl). This is because

Bug#306147: kino: segfaults on startup

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: kino Version: 0.50-3 Severity: important A more correct severity might be 'grave', if this problem affect more then just me. I just upgraded my laptop from Woody to Sarge, and wanted to take the oppurtunity to test kino. But it crashes with a segfault when I start it. I get a dial box

Bug#306171: konsole: fail to regain focus when hovering window disappear

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: konsole Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The konsole program fail to regain focus when it should. I'm using the 'focus over mouse' policy. I'll try to explain the problem. I start a konsole, and use it as normal. Next, I for example

Bug#306172: xresprobe: Broken ddcprobe (edidfail)?

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: xresprobe Version: 0.4.16-1 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/ddcprobe When I run ddcprobe on one of my machines, I do not get the result I expect. xdebconfigurator used to work with the ddcprobe in woody, and it is looking for lines like this: ID: 4538 EISA ID: API4538 Scre

Bug#306194: mapserver: Missing PHP support

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: mapserver Version: 4.4.1-2 Severity: normal The current mapserver package lack support for PHP mapscript. The reason is that the mapserver package refuses to build with the PHP packages in debian, as the latter uses an incompatible regex implementation. Someone need to figure out how t

Bug#309122: thuban: Fail to handle postgis with several geometry entries properly

2005-05-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: thuban Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: important When trying to select a postgis source using thuban, it fail to list the column in the table. This is a problem when one table contain several geometry columns. It would be better if the table list included the name of the geometry column as

Bug#309127: libexif: Should support adding GPS coordinates to pictures

2005-05-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libexif Severity: wishlist Version: 0.6.9-6 I'm looking for a tool to add GPS location to my JPEG images. The exif standard support it, but I'm unable to find any free software capable of adding the GPS tag to my images. The reason seem to be that none of the exif libraries are able to

Bug#309125: libkexif: Should support adding GPS coordinates to pictures

2005-05-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libkexif Severity: wishlist Version: 0.2.1-2 I'm looking for a tool to add GPS location to my JPEG images. The exif standard support it, but I'm unable to find any free software capable of adding the GPS tag to my images. The reason seem to be that none of the exif libraries are able t

Bug#309165: qgis: segfaults when trying to load shapefile

2005-05-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: qgis Version: 0.6.0-2 Severity: important I just tried to extract some points from a postgis database into a shape file, and then tried to load this shape file int qgis. qgis crashed. I believe the problem was that the generated shape file didn't have any features included, only the co

Bug#309165: qgis: segfaults when trying to load shapefile

2005-05-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Halasz] > Can you attach the shapefile please? Sure. Here it is. bad-shapefile.tar.gz Description: Binary data

Bug#305255: gzip: dir traversal bug when using "gunzip -N"

2005-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ulf Harnhammar] > here is a better patch. It removes the directory part of the > filename when it is read from the .gz file, and not when opening it, > so the earlier side effects should disappear now. The patch applies, but do not compile with gzip 1.2.4a. base_name() is an unknown function in

Bug#305255: gzip: dir traversal bug when using "gunzip -N"

2005-05-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
retitle 305255 CAN-2005-1228 gzip: dir traversal bug when using "gunzip -N" thanks Time to tag the CVE number into the title. :) This bug is reported into RedHat as bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156266>. There is no patch available there. It is also reported as solved

Bug#303927: file permissions modification race (CAN-2005-0988)

2005-05-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
retitle 303927 CAN-2005-0988 gzip: file permissions modification race tags 303927 + patch thanks This is the patch from Ubuntu package 1.3.5-9ubuntu3.1. I found it at http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gzip/gzip_1.3.5-9ubuntu3.1.diff.gz > This bug is also listed in RedHat bugzilla,

Bug#310053: gzip: gzip hangs in futex(..., FUTEX_WAIT) indefinetely

2005-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: gzip Version: 1.3.5-9 Tags: patch While looking at the ubuntu patches for gzip, I found some changes which are missing in the debian package. These are the ubuntu changelog entries related to the fixes: gzip (1.3.5-9ubuntu3) warty; urgency=low * Acutually use the abort_gzip_si

Bug#310094: Several lintian warnings and errors when rebuilding package

2005-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libpostgis1-pg74 Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: minor When building postgis from source, lintian report several problems: E: postgis source: build-depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version build-depends: findutils W: postgis source: virtual-package-depends-without-r

Bug#310100: error when installing libpostgis1-pg74 in debian/sarge.

2005-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libpostgis1-pg74 Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: normal When trying to install libpostgis1-pg74 in sarge (after rebuilding it for sarge), I got this error message during installation: Setting up libpostgis1-pg74 (1.0.0-1) ... createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: source database

Bug#310101: createdb.postgis should update ownership of postgis tables

2005-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libpostgis1-pg74 Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: normal When I as the postgres user create a new postgis database using the --owner flag to set the initial owner of the database, the tables created are still owned by the postgres user. I believe it would be more correct to make sure the tabl

Bug#268425: main-menu: backing up at critical priority is confusing

2005-01-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tags 268425 + pending thanks I agree, we need to do something about this. Perhaps the patch isn't perfect, but I just commited it to svn anyway, to get more people to test it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293748: slapd: config script complain about missing /var/lib/ldap/ on first time install

2005-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: slapd Version: 2.1.30-3 Severity: minor When installing slapd for the first time, the config script printed a message from vind about the missing /var/lib/ldap/. This problem might be related to bug #276380, "slapd: config asks to move /var/lib/ldap when it doesn't exist". This is the

Bug#293749: debian-edu-config: Bogus messages during first time install

2005-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: debian-edu-config Version: 0.397 Severity: minor When installing debian-edu-config for the first time, I got two bogus messages from the package: - Message from depmod about unresolved symbols. Is this really useful to display? - Three lines regarding some unknown ethernet/wlan i

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