Bug#540073: Normal behaviour

Actually, this is normal behaviour for netcat-openbsd. The man page is quite specific that -l and -p cannot be used together: -l Used to specify that nc should listen for an incoming connection rather than initi‐ ate a connection to a remote host. It is an error to use

Bug#440516: patch for pam_otpw session module

The pam_otpw.so session module version 1.3-2 in Wheezy does not print out the number of passwords reminder as expected. I think this is because the function pam_sm_open_session trying to get the challenge data from the handle provided, but that handle does not contain the challenge (which had

Bug#681176: live-boot: persistence mounting fails if live-persistence.conf contains source=. stanza

Package: live-boot Version: 3.0~a35-1 Severity: important live-boot fails to mount a persistence volume if the volume's live- persistence.conf contains the source=. stanza. It wrongly reports an unsafe custom mount. Since that stanza is also automatically used for compatibility- mode mounting of

Bug#678302: tangerine assigns duplicate IDs to tracks newly added to existing database

Package: tangerine Version: 0.3.4-3 Starting from scratch, tangerine correctly scans and imports all the tracks from my library folder. However, if I quit tangerine, add new tracks (or folders of tracks) to my library, and start tangerine again, the new tracks do not show up or do not play in

Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console, leaves screen blank

I had the same problem on an older machine. I was able to work around it by adding the NVreg_UseVBios=0 option to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf and rebooting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#646622: debian-maintainers: Changelog for new upstream release should include summary of upstream changelog

Package: debian-maintainers Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, (first thank you all for the tremendous job you are doing!) I have a suggestion from an end-user point of view: All too often when checking incoming updates (in Synaptic or other tools) the Debian changelog includes a mere mention

Bug#707678: gnome-system-tools: users-admin fails silently to delete a user if a process is running with that uid

Package: gnome-system-tools Version: 3.0.0-2 Severity: important When trying to delete a user, users-admin appeared to have worked: the user was removed from the list shown by users-admin, and no error message was displayed. However, a quick command-line check showed the user was still there.

Bug#701841: mp3fs: version 0.32 was released last year

Package: mp3fs Version: 0.31-28-g7b30a54-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, version 0.32 was released 2012-06-18: Important changes in 0.32 (2012-06-18) This release has a lot of bug fixes and some code cleanup. Changes in this release: * The file size calculation should always be correct.

Bug#715285: gksu man page reference to sudo(1) should be sudo(8)

Package: gksu Version: 2.0.2-6 Severity: minor The man page for gksu refers to sudo(1). On Debian, that should be sudo(8). This breaks w3mman's and manpages.debian.net's ability to traverse links to the corresponding man page. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers

Bug#686192: Please add more flexible excluding options

I think the tag issue is available nowadays via --exclude-caches and adding CACHEDIR.TAG files which conform to http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html However I still think obnam needs more flexible excluding options. In particular: -the ability to INCLUDE files to backup via config

Bug#740361: zenity: please update to new version 3.10 available upstream

Package: zenity Version: 3.8.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, sid and jessie are still on 3.8.0-1 but version 3.10 has been available for some time, with fixes for some annoying bugs such as debian bug #739248 (702535 upstream), etc... Can we please update? thanks! -- System

Bug#744329: x2goclient: Please add user comment field to session preferences

Package: x2goclient Version: 4.0.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Would it be possible for x2goclient to store a multi-line comment field in each session preferences? It is a convenient place for the user to store some info as to why/how some prefs were set, some target host info (for

Bug#741968: closed by Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi (Bug#741968: fixed in obnam 1.7.2-1)

Hi Lars, I don't think the problem is fully fixed. I'm still getting weird errors depending how I read the backed up files from the fuse-mounted repository. As an example, I've attached an annoted terminal session showing how if I try to read an epub (with Calibre's ebook-viewer) from a

Bug#741236: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#741236: lightdm-gtk-greeter: Randomly I cannot log into my systems since the 1.8.2-1 update happened

when stuck during login, doing this on the console: kill -SIGUSR1 $(pgrep -x lightdm-gtk-greeter) ...gets it going and login proceeds successfully. The lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.8.2 seems to be stuck on a mutex (race condition maybe??): Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6236880 (LWP 2261)): #0 0xb6d6629d in

Bug#741236: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#741236: lightdm-gtk-greeter: Randomly I cannot log into my systems since the 1.8.2-1 update happened

Sorry pgrep has a 15-char limit to that command in message #107 should be kill -SIGUSR1 $(pgrep -x lightdm-gtk-gre) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#741968: closed by Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi (Bug#741968: fixed in obnam 1.7.2-1)

On 30/03/14 09:39 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I've applied a patch from Valery to fix this, I hope. If you can try Obnam from git master, could you do so and tell me if obnam mount now works for you? You don't need to run a new backup. That seems to have fixed it; I've tried various ways to get

Bug#750498: cups: server keeps timing out after 30secs idling with no way to change that

Package: cups Version: 1.7.2-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Ever since cups 1.7.2-2, which contains a patch for bug #742666, and my switch to systemd, the cups server exits after 30 seconds idling without a configuration option to prevent that. In my case, that means: - when I'm using

Bug#750498: cups: server keeps timing out after 30secs idling with no way to change that

On 04/06/14 12:37 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: That's not entirely accurate: both the Debian NEWS file [0] and the README.Debian [1] (but that one is installed in a bizarre place, arguably) contain instructions on how to disable this behaviour, quoting the first: - Automatic exit

Bug#741968: obnam mount fails to retrieve files over 64KB (obnam restore works fine)

Package: obnam Version: 1.7-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I upgraded to obnam 1.7.1 (digression here: the Debian changelog for 1.7.1 should have carried the same mention of possible repository corruption that website News did carry. As a debian user, the Debian changelog/alert mechanism

Bug#796817: font-manager: version 0.7.2 is available

Package: font-manager Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The version of font-manager in Debian, 0.5.7-4, is years out of date. Version 0.7.2 is available from the developers. Please consider packaging it. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#798591: libreoffice: Long click closes Libre Office 5

Package: libreoffice Version: 1:5.0.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #798591 I can reproduce this here. Backtrace is identical to Junior Polegato's (except different hex addresses.) All packages freshly updated from stretch. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#809082: Linux kernel 4.3.3 PAE causes disk errors

Package: linux-image-686-pae Version: 4.3+70: i386 Severity: grave Package: linux-image-4.3.0-1-686-pae Version: 4.3.3-2 This is an FYI to update this kernel as soon as the fix is released. Linux kernel 4.3.3 has a serious bug in its PAE support, which causes all kinds of disk access errors.

Bug#816852: flashplugin-nonfree: missing gnupg2 dependency

Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.6.1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, flashplugin-nonfree has a "Depends: gnupg" clause, which makes it depend on GnuPG v1 only. The clause should be "Depends: gnupg | gnupg2" to allow for systems with GnuPG v2 only. -- Package-specific info:

Bug#813335: mdadm: Upgrade from jessie to testing breaks boot with raid on lvm2

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:49:08 +0100 Lennart Weller wrote: > Try reversing the patch locally and see if it fixes your problem: Reversing the patch fixed the problem for me. Thanks, Lennart!

Bug#825235: obnam: make --exclude work during restore

Package: obnam Version: 1.19.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I wanted to restore (from scratch) a system where / and /home are mounted on separate partitions, but backed into the same obnam repository. First try was to mount /dev/newdrive1 on /target, /dev/newdrive2 on /target/home,

Bug#851626: sogo.service specifies wrong RuntimeDirectory

Package: sogo Version: 3.2.5-2 Severity: important (also affects 3.2.4 in testing) sogo.service specifies /run/sogo as the RuntimeDirectory. The service fails to start because systemd expects a simple name not a path. See man 5 systemd.exec

Bug#842521: ecryptfs-utils: Private directory mount count is wrong if first login is via ssh

Package: ecryptfs-utils Version: 111-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 0) Use ecryptfs-setup-private to setup a Private directory in a user account. 1) After a fresh boot, if the first login to that user account is via ssh instead of via GUI (lightdm), then the Private dir is not mounted;

Bug#842521: More Information

My bug report is clear as mud without the following information: - the ssh logins I mention are with public key authentication, which does explain why Private is not mounted (there is no user login password to unwrap the passphrase with) - the bug is really in the fact that a logout of an ssh

Bug#841498: also affects exposure tone curve widgets

Just FYI for anyone googling for a reason for symptoms: This bug (i.e., rawtherapee 4.2.1241 is incompatible with GTK 3.22) also makes the rawtherapee exposure tone curve widgets unusable: they don't refresh properly, so the curves become unreadable. Best to downgrade to 4.2.0 until support

Bug#845944: gddrescue: ddrescue 1.19 --direct option fails

Package: gddrescue Version: 1.19-2+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the --direct option (-d) of gddrescue 1.19-2+b1 fails on all (32-bit) machines I have tried it on, kernels 4.5, 4.7. or 4.8. strace shows that it's getting thousands of EINVAL while trying to read: access("/dev/sdb",

Bug#847415: easy-rsa fails if its path contains spaces

Package: easy-rsa Version: 2.2.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, easy-rsa fails if the path to it (when copied to a user directory as recommended, or the path created by make-cadir) contains a space. At the very least, the following scripts aren't space-safe: vars, whichopensslcnf,

Bug#847280: qpdfview: Debian version is 3 releases behind, missing important features

Package: qpdfview Version: 0.4.14-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, qpdfview 0.4.17 has been released. Could we replace the 0.4.14 version we have in Debian? Thanks for great work! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')

Bug#893166: libexo-helpers: i386 helpers refer to wrong arch path /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/

Package: libexo-helpers Version: 0.12.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The following helpers installed in /usr/share/xfce4/helpers by libexo- helpers_0.12.0-1 all refer to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/exo-compose-mail-1 which does not exist on i386 installations: balsa.desktop

Bug#908924: possible fix

I have not tried it, though. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200709#c6 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/14/62

Bug#908924: possible fix

> Is someone could tell us the good way in debian to patch our kernel to > fix this issue? There is some info in the debian wiki. Or you can wait: that commit is in kernel 4.19.1, the next LTS kernel, according to:

Bug#916297: reportbug: crash after using "Display modified configuration files"

n -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="vi" PAGER="less -iXE" INTERFACE="gtk2" ** /home/jpd/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "6.2.1" mode novice ui gtk2 realname "Nemo Inis" email "nemoi...@hotmail.com" no-cc header "X-D

Bug#916296: apt-cacher-ng: distkill.pl script referred in documentation is not included

Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 3.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Sections 7.2 and 8.2 refer to a distkill.pl script which allows hand-pruning unneeded distribution releases from the archive. That script is not included in the current version of apt-cacher-ng. -- Package-specific info:

Bug#916297: reportbug: crash after using "Display modified configuration files"

That. IS. the. Full. Traceback. And speaking of making lives much easier, get off my back. On 13/12/2018 15.57, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Just. Report. The. Full. Traceback. > > That would make our lives so much easier > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 18:45 nemo Inis

Bug#916297: reportbug: crash after using "Display modified configuration files"

Sandro, 1) that one 'TypeError' line IS the 'unaltered, complete reportbug traceback' 2) I don't think the specific package matters, only that it had a modified config file. e.g. in my case apt-cacher-ng, or apache2, or 3) the bug is in reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py, in the class 'SystemPage(Page)'

Bug#916968: w3mman support for section number during keyword search

Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-36+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I've noticed that w3mman does not support specifying a section number during a keyword search, i.e., the equivalent of 'man -s N -k keyword' Here's a little patch that does that. It is now possible to type: w3mman

Bug#784968: temporary workaround

Filing bugs against colord is currently disabled at and it's not listed either in freedesktop's gitlab instance at . So for people desperate to get these warnings off their journals, you can limit the

Bug#771545: Possible cause

I just hit this (with reportbug 7.5.0). I had started reportbug from a terminal inside my XFCE session, and after the GUI froze, I found this on the terminal: Use sudo to read the kernel log? I replied "y", and sudo prompted me for my password. After giving it, reportbug worked normally. So

Bug#908924: dma_direct_map_sg: overflow on USB access after upgrade to kernel 4.18

Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Plugged my Kobo eReader's USB plug into a machine just upgraded from kernel 4.17 (4.17.17-1) to 4.18 (4.18.6-1), and got 112,738,316 kernel messages in the the system log: kernel: ehci-pci :00:1a.7: dma_direct_map_sg:

Bug#908924: dma_direct_map_sg: overflow on USB access after upgrade to kernel 4.18

On 2018-09-16 01:16, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Does the issue still happens with the current version in experimental > (4.19~rc3-1~exp1)? Yes, same exact behavior. I think we need a fix for the kernel bug I linked to above.

Bug#926509: Package orphaned?

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:25:35 -0400 John Scott wrote: > On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 9:20:13 PM EDT you wrote: > > I'm not being snarky here - this is a safety issue. > How so? It doesn't seem to have any security issues Quick excerpt from the release notes for the versions unavailable on

Bug#926509: Package orphaned?

Has this package been orphaned? It seems unlikely that a security tool such as a password manager would lag one year behind upstream's current version? Should we just call it quit and switch to the upstream AppImage? I'm not being snarky here - this is a safety issue. A word of reassurance (or