Bug#342323: [amd64] [etch] [beta1] successful

2005-12-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: etch beta1 (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso) md5sum ab2d19daaddd8616b189f8ca1dce3626 uname -a: Linux delphinus 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic #1 Wed Sep 28

Bug#308497: [i386][rc3][netinst] success on Dell Latitude C400

2005-05-10 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image uname -a: Linux shambles 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Thu Jan 20 10:55:08 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2005-05-10T11:00:00 UT Method: Boot off sarge-i386-netinst.rc3.iso cdrom Most

Bug#308497: [i386][rc3][netinst] success on Dell Latitude C400

2005-05-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I had to remove 'gs' and 'gs-common' I believe. This was during package installation after the boot I assume? AFAICT the file should be owned by gs-common. I think it happened when I was installing a pile of packages, using the package list from another host, viz foo$ dpkg --get-selections

Bug#308497: [i386][rc3][netinst] success on Dell Latitude C400

2005-05-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
There seemed to be a conflict over which package owns this file - /usr/share/man/man1/gsnd.1.gz gs-common, or some other package. I can't remember, think it was 'gs'. I had to remove 'gs' and 'gs-common' I believe. I went over to packages.d.o and ran a few queries. dist package

Bug#339290: additional info

2005-12-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: update-flashplugin Hi a little more info, hope this helps. I have a sarge system in which I tried hacking /etc/update-flashplugin.conf.rb as noted above. This was the result. # cat /etc/update-flashplugin.conf.rb # -*- ruby -*- # module UpdateFlashPluginConf SITES = { #

Bug#344020: ssh client segmentation fault (sparc64)

2005-12-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: ssh Version: 1:4.2p1-5 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** This may be another incidence of #328568, #328606. I can ssh to localhost fine. I can ssh to a remote debian host fine. But when I ssh to an external host running sun's openssh I get a segv: - the

Bug#344020: ssh client segmentation fault (sparc64)

2005-12-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I'd rather have 'ssh -vvv' output, if you could. gladly: $ ssh -vvv [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21 | tee log.ssh OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2sarge5 Followup-For: Bug #322239 Hi I think I am seeing this too. It was reported in #316824 (for 'mozilla') but I did not cross-report to 'mozilla-firefox'. The patch below should fix the issue, see #316824 for why I think it fixes it. PLEASE can you

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-05 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I think I am seeing this too. It was reported in #316824 (for 'mozilla') but I did not cross-report to 'mozilla-firefox'. The patch below should fix the issue, see #316824 for why I think it fixes it. I don't see why the firefox script should circumvent YOUR broken LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If your

Bug#322239: mozilla-firefox: [patch] incorrectly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /usr/bin/firefox wrapper

2005-11-06 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
And what about people that actually intend to use libraries from other locations instead of those in /lib, without breaking firefox ? Sorry, but I'm not following you. How would that come about? The library in question is libgcc_s.so.1. When would someone running a 'stable' system need to

Bug#345901: [doc] unclear whether contents of apt.conf are case-sensitive

2006-01-03 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: minor Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** When I come to upgrade some of my machines from woody to sarge, and want to upgrade aptitude as the first step, in some cases aptitude wants to remove over 100 packages, in other cases,

Bug#333099: please support xprint if it is installed

2005-10-10 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2sarge5 Severity: normal Hi we run our systems with plain old 'lpr' as the print subsystem, so we rely on the xprint package for printing direct from the browser to the printer of choice (it's possible you want to print some things to a b/w printer, and

Bug#333871: improved(?) description of nsswitch.conf semantics

2005-10-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: base-files Version: 3.1.2 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi The nsswitch.conf(5) manpage does not explain how to override some fields in /etc/passwd, with the compat option. In fact I could not easily find any reference to the full +/- semantics

Bug#401977: mysql-client: suggests mysql-doc which is not in sarge

2006-12-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: mysql-client Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hello, I was about to install mysql-client and saw that mysql-doc was suggested, so I thought I'd install that too. Is this a bug? # apt-get install mysql-client Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package

Bug#401977: mysql-client: suggests mysql-doc which is not in sarge

2006-12-07 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
The package not in main but in non-free due to license restrictions. Most probably you don't non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list. The docs are available on http://dev.mysql.com anyway so it's no big problem if you don't want non-free stuff on your computer. thanks for your response. In my

Bug#402851: [i386][netinst][daily 20061212] (mostly successful)

2006-12-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: etch i386 netinst daily 2006.12.12 md5sum 135db969cce6d94c64adb9f42764581a uname -a: Linux testhost 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2006.12.13 Method: How did you install? netinst

Bug#402857: please document changes to installer handling of exim4

2006-12-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-guide Hi, in the installation guide, at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html there is a discussion of Configuring Your Mail Transport Agent that no longer reflects the debian installer (at least as of rc1 or later). In the d-i tree the text is at

Bug#402851: (no subject)

2006-12-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
retitle 402851 [i386][netinst][daily 20061212] Dell Optiplex 745 (mostly successful) thanks mate it helps googlers if the machine model name is in the title... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#387377: coreutils: df -text3 output includes other file system types

2006-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** This is a pure 'etch' system. This seemed a somewhat intermittent problem, but I'm sure it's real. Below is a transcript that shows it occurring. Observations: * The problem seems to be

Bug#387377: coreutils: df -text3 output includes other file system types

2006-09-14 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
What does type -all df(assuming bash) or which df(other shell) say when run from your root account? # echo $SHELL /bin/bash # which df /bin/df # type -all df df is a function df () { /bin/df -k } df is /bin/df ah. fascinating. how the blue blazes did that get there? It's not a symlink

Bug#388073: [i386][netinst][beta3] failure: Dell Inspiron i7000

2006-09-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux tinsley 2.6.16-2-686 #1 Fri Aug 18 19:01:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2006-08-23T22_00_00+1000 Method: How

Bug#388075: [i386][netinst][beta3] failure: Dell Inspiron i7000 (2nd attempt)

2006-09-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux tinsley 2.6.16-2-686 #1 Fri Aug 18 19:01:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2006-08-23T22_00_00+1000 Method: How

Bug#388077: [i386][netinst][beta3] (eventual) success: Dell Inspiron i7000

2006-09-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux tinsley 2.6.16-2-686 #1 Fri Aug 18 19:01:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2006-09-09T22_00_00+1000 Method: How

Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

2006-10-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.13-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Please adjust severity as you see fit, it might be important. This is a pure 'etch' system, with Maestro card (lspci output below). I am trying to get some sound output (from the headphone

Bug#393686: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

2006-10-18 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Steps to reproduce: user$ /usr/sbin/alsactl names User can not write to /etc/asound.names same occurs if I run as root. What tells $ ls -al /etc/asound.names ? user$ ls -al /etc/asound.names ls: /etc/asound.names: No such file or directory user$ ls -la /etc/as* ls: /etc/as*: No

Bug#393686: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

2006-10-20 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
[...] I still get a hard lockup. The file ~/asound_user.names is not created. I checked around in /var/log, all I could find were boot-time messages in /var/log/messages, eg Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel: es1968: not attempting power management. Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel:

Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

2006-10-22 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: That seems to be ok. Are you able to play your known good mp3 with alsaplayer, mpg321 or similar? Make sure nothing is muted in alsamixer. alsaplayer - very faint and muffled sound. mpg321 - no discernable sound Are you a member of group

Bug#397246: unable to dist-upgrade unixodbc

2006-11-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: unixodbc Version: 2.2.11-13 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, not sure this is a bug but here goes. Feel free to close or reassign. This occurred on a pure etch machine. I just did a normal update/upgrade cycle, then a dist-upgrade, and a couple of

Bug#391869: apt-proxy: calls to bunzip2 fail

2006-10-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, Not sure what priority is appropriate here, since it's semi-related to verification of security updates. I just installed apt-proxy on a pure etch machine, and tried running in debug mode.

Bug#393154: xfonts-base: possible incorrect font paths?

2006-10-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: xfonts-base Version: 1:1.0.0-4 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, not sure if this is a bug or a transition issue around xorg 7.0. I just upgraded a pure-etch system and got these warnings: Setting up xfonts-base (1.0.0-4) ... warning:

Bug#390677: wifi-radar: manpage incorrectly states location of config file

2006-10-02 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: wifi-radar Version: 1.9.6-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** As a normal user I typed: $ /usr/sbin/wifi-radar and was rewarded with: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/wifi-radar, line 1357, in ? confFile.write( open( CONF_FILE,

Bug#388337: systemimager-server: getimage fails in Server.pm with missing autoinstallscript.conf

2006-09-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: systemimager-server Version: 3.2.3-6sarge2 Severity: normal Hi, I was using getimage to make a backup of a woody host before upgrading to sarge. This is what happened: foo# prepareclient finishes normally master# getimage -golden-client foo -image foo -exclude /data/ creates

Bug#389331: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686: confirm fault with serial console

2006-09-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Followup-For: Bug #386497 Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 *** Please type your report below this line *** See also bugs 380188, 383264 I attempted to boot linux-image-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem and also had this failure. This kernel was from backports.org, _but_ only these changes had been made:

Bug#280692: this is reproducible

2006-11-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: offlineimap Version: 4.0.9 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** I can reproduce this, though not always at the same point in the transfer. My setup is as follows server: ms exchange 2000 version 6.0.6603.0 On the server I have two folders in the listed

Bug#280692: this is reproducible

2006-11-26 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hi John I was just interested in helping confirm the problem is localised to Tk. If that's not necessary I'll shut up. .. sounds exactly like that sort of thing I've seen. You might try the console blinkenlights interface. I suspect it will work fine for you, and that the bug is really in

Bug#401007: [i386][rc1][etch] (mostly) success: Dell Poweredge 1850

2006-11-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Boot method: cdrom, with command install Image version: Etch RC1 netinst http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2006 Nov 30 0500 GMT Machine: Dell Poweredge 1850, no raid controller BIOS A05, MPT

Bug#401220: exim4 auto-configuration assumes short hostnames

2006-12-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: exim4 Op 30-11-2006 om 15:39 schreef Vincent McIntyre: It looks pretty good otherwise. Okay, closing installation-reports #401007 Bug: exim4 auto-configuration assumes short hostnames - When prompted for the hostname

Bug#401221: time zone change - Western Australia, Australia

2006-12-01 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-8 Severity: normal Hi, I checked but could not see this filed, apologies if it's done already. The WA government made a very late decision to start daylight saving this weekend, 2/3 Dec 2006. This means the timezone data for Australia need yet another update.

Bug#401007: The installer should mention ...

2006-12-01 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Please understand that I think the default config you've arrived at is good. I was just a bit surprised that the exim4 step was missing; when it didn't show up I thought something was amiss. I understand the wish not to bother people with the questions about MTA configuration, these can be

Bug#475958: document procedure to recover from /dev/hda became /dev/sda boot failure

2008-10-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Please let me know if something is wrong or badly written. It's a great idea to document this problem and ways to deal with it. It's an extremely unsettling experience to have it occur unexpectedly. Could I suggest taking your notes one step further, and explaining how to fix it permanently,

Bug#332782: Your contribution to the Debian release notes (re-post)

2008-09-28 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hello, I allow that my contribution to the Debian GNU/Linux release notes can be distributed under any DFSG-free license. Good luck with the next release notes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#491813: Acknowledgement ([lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721] fails to boot)

2008-07-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi Jeremy [ for some reason I did not get an email with your question, only the bug did... Should I have gotten one if you sent mail just to the bug? This may have been a transitory problem in our email system. ] Is this also the last message you see when using Expert Installation? Yes,

Bug#492828: preseeding filesystem labels (patch)

2008-07-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
package: debian-installer Version: Debian GNU/Linux installer 4.0 (installer build 20070308etch2) severity: minor I was wondering how to set a label on a partition (not a partition table, but a label that e2label could read). I couldn't see this documented in [1] so I wrote a patch, attached.

Bug#492937: apt-setup: inconsistent path handling for 'security' and 'volatile' services

2008-07-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
package: debian-installer severity: wishlist Hi, I was looking at packages/apt-setup/generators/and noticed a difference between the way that 91security and 92volatile add lines to the new sources.list file (subversion, r54582): 91security does this - echo deb http://$host/

Bug#491813: [lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721] fails to boot

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: lenny i386 hd-media daily 2008.07.21 (see comments for details) uname -a: (does not boot) Date: 2008.07.22 Method: How did you install? Boot from USB key. What did you boot off? USB key If network install, from

Bug#491813: followup - LennyBeta2 boots ok

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I tried lenny beta 2, that booted successfully. http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz md5: 6d3bb654070a821de94774f89dd5d11d http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso md5:

Bug#491813: Acknowledgement ([lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721] fails to boot)

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I tried 20080721 again, to be sure I hadn't muffed the usb install. I redid the setup of the key, as described in the initial report, double-checking I did not have the think mounted by usbmount or whatever while I was zcatting to it. Same result. I see 'linux' and 'initrd.gz' all

Bug#414117: [i386][netinst][daily 20070211] success: Dell PE1950, no raid

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Vincent, have you made another Debian installation on the same system since your original installation report (9 Mar 2007)? Did you experencie a similar issue? If you have not, would you take the time to boot a recent build of d-i (netboot mini.iso will do) and see if the problem is still

Bug#414117: [i386][netinst][daily 20070211] success: Dell PE1950, no raid

2008-07-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
addendum: see also bug #439462 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439462 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#300584: seeing this reliably on etch

2008-02-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello, I see this issue reliably on etch systems. In /var/log/daemon.log I see lines like: automount[21298]: cache_ghost: entry in yp:auto-pks.direct not valid map format, key /applic This occurs for all items in the map. The entries all look like: /applic -hard,intr,grpid

Bug#459664: host.conf: multi on appears to be default

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: base-config Version: 2.73 Severity: normal Hi, not sure what the severity is, please adjust to suit. I was examining the /etc/host.conf file on some etch boxes. host.conf(5) explains that multi Valid values are on and off. If set to on, the resolv+ library will return

Bug#453076: vlc: dies with corrupted double-linked list when scanning SAP sources

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: vlc Version: 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-5etch1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** This system is running pure etch, with no backports. $ strace -o /tmp/vlc.strace vlc View-Playlist Manage-Services Discovery -Manage Playlists-SAP Announcements The

Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create mcop directory, then dies

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: totem-xine Version: 2.16.5-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** This system is straight etch with no backports. totem appears to be looking for some file that it is expecting kde to have created for it, and is completely unable to cope if it's not there.

Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create mcop directory, then dies

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hi Josselin Is artsd started when you see this error? I don't think so. % ps -fade|grep arts nothing % dpkg -S artsd libkdepim1a: /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/designer/kpartsdesignerplugin.so libarts1c2a: /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0 libarts1c2a: /usr/bin/artsdsp libarts1c2a: /usr/bin/artsd

Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create mcop directory, then dies

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I tried democracyplayer as well, this may help to narrow things down. It opens the gui, takes me through the config dialog (I said no) to all questions and then dies again. On the second invocation (see below) it skips the setup and dies immediately after completing the drawing of the

Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create mcop directory, then dies

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Then it is a bug in libxine1. I'll let the xine maintainers tell us whether this is fixed in the unstable version. ok, thanks. To work around this issue, you can set audio.driver: alsa in .gnome2/totem_config. I tried this, perhaps I got it wrong. % cat ~/.gnome2/totem_config cat:

Bug#453079: totem-xine: fails to create mcop directory, then dies

2007-11-27 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
To work around this issue, you can set audio.driver: alsa in .gnome2/totem_config. Either that, or you can also remove the arts plugin from the filesystem, if you don't use it: sudo rm /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.2/xineplug_ao_out_arts.so I first tried renaming, but totem still managed to

Bug#453076: vlc: dies with corrupted double-linked list when scanning SAP sources

2007-11-30 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hi Lo, thanks for your prompt reply. On Tue, Nov 27, 2007, Vincent McIntyre wrote: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x08373888 *** This is what you should try to fix first; anything happening afterwards is uninteresting to research as this is a memory corruption

Bug#438864: hit this too

2007-12-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, ouch, this is annoying when you hit it. I found just adding a README file to the svn repo was sufficient, without having to patch the code. Also, I'll voice my support for this to be patched in the stable release, either via security or a point release. thanks for your work on trac,

Bug#391869: still busted in 1.9.36

2007-12-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, attached is a patch against 1.9.36, the version currently in unstable. Please consider applying this. I did check that bzip2 haven't changed locations again. Vince --- usr/share/pycentral/apt-proxy/site-packages/apt_proxy/cache.py.orig 2007-12-07 14:12:28.354666060 +1100 +++

Bug#391869: Info received (still busted in 1.9.36)

2007-12-06 Thread Vincent McIntyre
oops, just in case there is any confusion, that patch was against 1.9.36.1 not 1.9.36 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#301478: [sparc][rc3][netinst] installation fails on u1/140

2005-03-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC3 netinst http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso md5 sum 95042ee7c74ce5a512ecaba41cea225d uname -a: unable to boot. attempted to boot 2.4.27 (default) Date: 26 Mar 2005 Method: Boot

Bug#301480: [sparc][rc3][netinst] installation fails on sb100

2005-03-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC3 netinst http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso md5 sum 95042ee7c74ce5a512ecaba41cea225d uname -a: 2.4.27-2-sparc64 Date: 26 Mar 2005 Method: Boot from netinst cdrom Machine: Sun

Bug#301482: please consider displaying current priority level

2005-03-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debconf Severity: wishlist I think this is the right package to file against... Would it be possible to display, in the corner of the debian installer dialogs, the current verbosity (I think it is called priority) setting? e.g. | |

Bug#301299: sun xkb mapping

2005-03-26 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi Blars The xkb problem has been fixed, both /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/sun/{us,se} have the semicolons removed in the latest xlibs package. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299370 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#301478: [sparc][rc3][netinst] installation fails on u1/140

2005-03-27 Thread Vincent McIntyre
A bit more digging on the gentoo lists reveals this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1766279.html#1766279 The problem is basically related to the recoding of isofs starting at silo 1.3.0, it seems some kit (newer specially) doesn't like the new iso first. This affects up to

Bug#278887: more /proc data

2005-03-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
from a Dell PowerEdge 1850. # cat /proc/megaraid/hba0/config v2.10.3 (Release Date: Thu Apr 8 16:16:05 EDT 2004) PERC 4e/Si Controller Type: 438/466/467/471/493/518/520/531/532 Controller Supports 40 Logical Drives Controller capable of 64-bit memory addressing Controller is not using 64-bit

Bug#306118: [sparc][rc3-unofficial][netinst] installation report

2005-04-24 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: netinst from http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/iso.img MD5 sum: 03f1445c82c80e51254b55616eb99479 'file' output: Sun disk label 'CD-ROM Disc with Sun sparc boot created by mkisofs' 768 alts/cyl, 768 data cyls,

Bug#442189: additional info

2007-09-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
This problem has now occurred on a third machine with very similar configuration to that shown above. Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#444102: mysql-server-5.0: bad argument handling in mysqld_safe:parse_arguments()

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.32-7etch1 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, Background -- I had reason to want to move the location of the binary logs and I think this may have uncovered a small bug. I was able to move the

Bug#446977: debian-goodies: please suggest or depend on 'iproute'

2007-10-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.27 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** not sure about the severity. # apt-get install debian-goodies Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: curl Suggested

Bug#432612: also too late for NIS clients

2007-10-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi it would be helpful to me also to have ifplugd working earlier in the boot, so that a machine that wants to ypbind can do that: % ls /etc/rc2.d/*{nis,ifplugd}* /etc/rc2.d/S19nis /etc/rc2.d/S20ifplugd It's helpful to have ifplugd because if the machine is unplugged then there is no

Bug#442189: infinite(?) loop during update, possible race condition

2007-09-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I could not see an existing report of this problem, e.g. I don't think this is #409336. Background -- I have a nightly cron job that installs security updates only, using a short

Bug#447114: is hotplug still recommended?

2007-10-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-reference Version: CVS, Sun Jan 14 18:30:35 UTC 2007 Severity: wishlist The network chapter is really useful. However I wondered about the subsection on hotplug[1] - I thought udev was supposed to replace hotplug in all its uses, but it's difficult to get unambigous information

Bug#354989: wget: confirm largefile problems

2007-01-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Followup-For: Bug #354989 Package: wget Version: 1.9.1-12 *** Please type your report below this line *** I was attempting to download this large file from mirror.linux.org.au (server was ProFTPD 1.2.10) ftp ls 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list

Bug#402857: please document changes to installer handling of exim4

2007-01-01 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: apologies for the late response... I've written a new section explaining the default configuration and how to configure exim4 after the installation. The new section is intended to be included in chapter 8 which has some post-installation information. A

Bug#403696: more info

2006-12-18 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I can confirm this bug. This might be related to some compatibility with libgtk2.0-0 ? % script log.gtk % strace gtkdialog % exit % grep ^open /tmp/log.gtk | grep -v ENOENT | \ sed -e 's/^.*\(.*\),.*/\1/' |xargs grep -li gtkdialog /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#409733: kernel-source-2.6.8: large numbers of __find_get_block_slow() errors

2007-02-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge6 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, Hope I'm reporting this to the correct place... This is a straight sarge system. Hardware info below. The problem I observe is that - when /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd runs,

Bug#414117: [i386][netinst][daily 20070211] success: Dell PE1950, no raid

2007-03-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD, with the command 'install' Image version: Netinst daily image http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso, version 20070211-2.iso md5sum: 045f122cd20090fca10772c72f61ab57 Date:

Bug#414640: initramfs-tools: message printed when root timeout exceeded is too terse

2007-03-12 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85f Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I found the message printed by /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local if it can't get a root filesystem helpful, but I think it could be better. A suggested patch is attached for your

Bug#414640: initramfs-tools: message printed when root timeout exceeded is too terse

2007-03-12 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
it is terse on purpose, it is a 2 liner in the sense that not too much info scrolls off, we need it for the bug report. it has been shown that user think that those last lines are _bug_ relevant!? if you enhance current text in 2 lines i'd be happy to reconsider. Thanks for your reply, I was

Bug#415299: xsane-common: some documentation files missing or mis-linked

2007-03-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: xsane-common Version: 0.99+0.991-2 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, kudos for the xsane etc packages; worked first time for me! However as I was reading the documentation I noticed the file usr/share/doc/xsane/html/sane-xsane-doc.html refers to

Bug#409733: reassigning

2007-02-20 Thread Vincent McIntyre
reassign kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 thanks Hi, I don't know why I filed this against kernel-source-2.6.8. I've received no response at all, so let's try reassigning. I looked through the existing reports and could not see any that correspond to this exactly. The closest is #342387. -- System

Bug#246296: a2ps: #246296 still exists in 4.13b.dfsg.1-1

2007-02-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Followup-For: Bug #246296 Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, is the version that fixed this (a2ps_4.13b-5) going to get into etch? For people who hit this, there is a simple workaround to the problem: # apt-get --purge remove a2ps #

Bug#423699: libquota-perl: new upstream version

2007-05-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: libquota-perl Version: 1.4.9-2 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, the upstream for this package has updated four times in the last few years (since 1.4.9 in 2003), admittedly with only small changes. However there are notes in 1.5.1 relating to 64-bit

Bug#417396: quotatool: sometimes fail to read correct block device

2007-05-14 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
just to folow up on this. I did some tests with real filesystems on block devices, instead of loopback devices, on an etch system that previously exhibited the bug. (nis 3.17-6, libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13) While the system still showed the bug with ext3 filesystem images mounted via /dev/loopN, it did

Bug#428108: nfs-kernel-server: autofs clients kill rpc.mountd

2007-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.10-6 Severity: important Perhaps this is a bug in the NIS package but since the fault affects rpc.mountd I am filing here first. Feel free to reassign... Summary --- I have a system which exports one filesystem. Access to the export is controlled

Bug#428108: nfs-kernel-server: autofs clients kill rpc.mountd

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Run strace with -s 5000 or similar, and you'll see the entire error message. This smells _very_ much like a NIS bug. :-) here's the output, not quite sure what it means. 7538 write(2, rpc.mountd: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:78: _nss_nis_setnetgrent:

Bug#428139: [amd64][etch][4.0r0] success: Sun X2200 server

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: etch amd64 netinst 4.0r0 (20070308) uname -a: Linux testhost.atnf.CSIRO.AU 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4 00:37:33 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Date: 2007.06.05 Method: How did you install? netinst cdrom, with 'install'

Bug#417396: quotatool: sometimes fail to read correct block device

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
I plan to wait for a new upstream version before uplaoding a new package, but I could provide you with an updated version if you want. that's ok. It only affects the test rig, not production use. Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#428769: debian-installer: double hyphens in LVM names (partman-lvm)

2007-06-13 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-installer Version: etch 4.0r0 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, This issue did not cause any problems during the installation, but I don't think it is intended behaviour, so I've guessed minor severity. This seems to be the same problem as

Bug#428913: debian-installer-manual: improve partman-auto/expert_recipe example

2007-06-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I have been looking into preseeding and partitioning, and noticed what appears to be an omission in the example code. The example shows a nice expert recipe but does not include the

Bug#428915: debian-installer-manual: reference to further info on preseeding

2007-06-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, The coverage of partitioning in the preseeding appendix is quite brief and I think it would be helpful to point people to the additional information available in

Bug#428913: Acknowledgement (debian-installer-manual: improve partman-auto/expert_recipe example)

2007-06-14 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I've just found something in my preseeding file that seems to change the story here. For some reason I had this as the first line of the expert recipe item: partman-auto/expert_recipe string boot-root instead of d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string boot-root Argh. I commented out the

Bug#428108: assertion failure in nss_nis when using netgroups

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, It's been almost a month now since I filed this, with no response apart from Steinar kindly forwarding it to the right place. Can you give any indication of when it is likely to be addressed? How can I help resolve it? This bug is a serious blocker for us moving our systems to etch. Cheers

Bug#425106: texlive-pdfetex: upgrade fails, can't find /usr/bin/etex?

2007-05-19 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: texlive-pdfetex Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, this is probably a duplicate but I have no idea how to divine the root cause. Bugs that look similar are #419893 and #421969. I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get

Bug#425106: texlive-pdfetex: upgrade fails, can't find /usr/bin/etex?

2007-05-19 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Hi Norbert, thanks for the quick reply. On Sam, 19 Mai 2007, Vincent McIntyre wrote: I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and got stuck over the package 'tipa'. I've tried removing it and get clobbered by texlive-pdfetex trying to configure itself, so I'm filing here

Bug#425106: texlive-pdfetex: upgrade fails, can't find /usr/bin/etex?

2007-05-21 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
Greetings, Hm, is the right fmtutil.cnf used? kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf run as root (or however you do the upgrade) should output /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf % su # kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf # wc

Bug#410886: postgresql-8.1: I had a similar problem

2007-07-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I was upgrading from sarge to etch and had this symptom well. My problems appear to be self-inflicted but there may actually be a problem in the postinst. So the information below is for your perusal, in case it helps resolve things. The root cause in my case was the existing database was

Bug#434159: 'ifp upload' not working

2007-07-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: ifp-line-libifp Version: 1.0.0.2-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, after upgrading from 'sarge' to 'etch' I found that the 'ifp' command line program appears not to be working properly. I took a look at the changelog and README - can't see anything

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