package: vlc
severity: serious
vlc is run during it's own build process as a test and during that test
it segfaults on mips and mipsel.
I have tried moddin the wrapper script to run vlc under gdb and
therefore get a backtrace (note: i'm using a libavcodec patched to fix
the issue that was
Could you add -vvv and retry ?
Could you also try with ffmpeg-dbg installed ?
Ok i've reverted to the libavcodec package from the repositry and
installed ffmpeg-dbg and libc6-dbg. Results of run with -vvv under those
conditions
debian-mips:~/vlc-0.8.6.h# ./vlc -vvv --reset-plugins-cache
I can't believe you're actually arguing that the solution against blindly
trusting a website is blindly trusting a binary blob.
I would rather use a secure free plugin than a secure non-free plugin,
but apparently that doesn't exist. Since the choice is between a secure
non-free plugin and an
Could you try to build vlc-0.8.6.h-1 (the one in lenny)?
That segfaulted too.
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106: void av_free_static(void)
107: {
108:while(last_static){
109:av_freep(array_static[--last_static]);
110:}
111:av_freep(array_static);
112: }
A segfault in line 108 is, uhm, strange.
Agreed, either gdb is misbehaving or something very weired is going on.
Either
package: libavcodec-dev
severity: serious
justification: probable cause of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498397
donothing.c contains the following code (the segfault also happens
without the printf statement I just added it to test if it happened
before or after main ran)
tag 46 +patch
thanks
the submitter included a patch, tag as patch to mark as such.
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retitle 458717 bitlbee: FTBFS if $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) contains stuff
that configure doesn't recognise
It built fine in my sid chroot.
The key difference seems to be:
grid 5000:
./configure --debug=0 --prefix=/usr --etcdir=/etc/bitlbee parallel=8
BitlBee configure
Usage: ./configure
package: iceweasel
version: 2.0.0.9-1
severity: serious
I noticed a build failure on the mips buildd build and it appeared to
be to be much the same issue that broke other mozilla related apps.
I tried to reproduce in my amd64 sid chroot but instead of the failure
from the buildd I got a
package: cronosii
version: 0.2.2.23.1-3.2
severity: serious
tags: patch
dpkg-source: building cronosii using existing
cronosii_0.2.2.23.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: building cronosii in cronosii_0.2.2.23.1-3.2.diff.gz
dpkg-source: cannot represent change to po/de.gmo: binary file contents
tags 450472 +patch
thanks
This package needs the automake command to point to automake 1.4 for the
package to build successfully. There is a conflict on automake1.9 but
not on any other version of automake.
the automake package (which contains automake1.10) will break the build
simply by
While preparing this, I noticed that there is no hint in
the manual, that in such cases man should use the defrag
program to put all data on the ntfs partition together to
one block.
(defrag program is only mentioned in chapter about
non-debian partitioning, but using defrag is also
It's not that easy in the swi-prolog case. The two headers are included
in two separate headers, which are then included into the .c file. The
order cannot be switched around, because the former header includes
config.h, which is needed for the second header to work at all (IIRC).
Can't you
severity 454118 serious
tags 454118 +patch
thanks
Changing --enable-caca to --disable-caca in debian/rules and removing
usr/lib/vlc/video_output/libcaca_plugin.so from debian/vlc.install gives
a successfull build.
I agree with the submitter that ascii art output is really a gimmik and
reassign 456390 vlc
forcemerge 456390 456403
block 456390 by 454118
A rebuild was enough to fix this. Unfortunately i386 failed to build in
the last round of binnmus due to 454118
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severity 454118 normal
retitle 454118 relies on structure fields in caca that upstream has removed
thanks
this no longer causes a FTBFS in debian because the patched libcaca has
been built on all architectures but still relying on an interface that
upstream has got rid of doesn't seem like a
Package: libperl-dev
Version: 5.10.0-1
Severity: important
The name of the libperl package has been changed to libperl5.10 in experimental
but the dependency in the libperl-dev package has not been changed to match.
This renders experimentals version of libperl-dev uninstallable.
-- System
package: libpod-simple-perl
severity: important
While trying to rebuild your package against the version of perl and
associated packages from experimental I got the following error:
rmdir: failed to remove
`/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/libpod-simple-perl/usr/lib/perl5': No
such file or
package: libxml-parser-perl
version: libxml-parser-perl_2.34-4.3
severity: important
I was trying to rebuild your package against the version of perl in
experimental.
While doing this I discovered that libxml-parser-perl build-depends on
libxml-encoding-perl which in turn depends on
Well I took another look at this bug and it looks like the build-dep
issue was introduced with the previous NMU so I went back to the
previous version but then ran into another problem with the testsuite
failing.
t/encodingmy variable $p masks earlier declaration in same
scope at
I did some build tests with the following results:
sid's version on sid: fails with this error
sid's version on lenny: success
lenny (with security)'s version on lenny: success
lenny (with security)'s version on sid (with ecj-bootstrap from lenny):
success
On first impression it looks like
re-running the command manually with -lXrender added seemed to succeed but
I have no idea how to integrate this into the build system.
See bug #451431
I tried applying the patch from that bug report (a dpatch version of it
is attatched) but I got the following error when trying to
+++-==-==-
un libc6-i686 none (no description available)
The file comes from libc6-i686 version 2.6.1-1. According to the symlink
it has been installed on 2007-08-21 (ie the date it migrates to
testing).
After a
It looks like the easy way to fix this would be to modify the libungif4g
package to not contain libgif but unstead depend on the libgif4 package
for it and version the conflict in the libgif package to reflect that
change.
Then once that change has reached testing the build-deps of packages
tags 441160 +patch
thanks
the problem appears to be that the openssl headers are not c++ clean.
The macros in them seem to rely on implicit conversion from void * to
char * which are permitted in C but not C++.
A workarround is to add the following line to CASignature.cpp below the
includes
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.14.7~newshlib.1
Severity: important
debian:/gfire-trunk# LANG=C linux32 dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package gaim-xfire
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.7.0-trunk0
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Peter Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg-buildpackage
package: axiom
version: 20050901-9
severity: serious
justification: violates section 3.5 of debian policy
all shlibs dependencies are missing from the i386 build of axiom. This
seems to have been a build environment related problem so a binnmu
should fix it.
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firstly this is also present in the version in lenny.
secondly is there a correct way of managing system users using only
essential packages? If not then imo there should be!
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reopen 409687
thanks
as per the message a couple of months ago this was fixed but then
rebroken through a tpu upload. Please re-upload what you uploaded as
0.8.7 with a version number higher than the version in testing/unstable.
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Neil Williams wrote:
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.2-5
Severity: normal
With the proposed changes to apt behaviour:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg0.html
xserver-xorg would bring in a massive range of extra packages via the
Recommends: on
found 431524 1.0.36-1
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package:pidgin
severity:wishlist
mozilla nss is currently blocking pidgins migration to testing and has
been for some time.
switching to gnutls is a simple matter of changing some settings in
debian/rules and adjusting build-deps to match. Doing so should allow
pidgin to migrate to testing.
It appears that gtk-update-icon-cache now errors if there is a png file
placed directly in /usr/share/icons/hicolor, this is a regression from
the version currently in testing.
steps to reproduce:
apt-get install pidgin-data libgtk2.0-bin hicolor-icon-theme
cp
package: pidgin
version: 2.2.1-1
trying to build using the version of libnspr4-dev currently in testing
results in the configure script not seeing mozilla nss due to the
absense of nspr.pc . This results in the package building on testing but
the binaries that result lacking ssl support (and
Package: gtk+2.0
Severity: serious
I tried to build gtk+2.0 in my i386 sid chroot but it failed with the following
error.
creating autotestfilechooser
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link -o autotestkeywords
libtool: unrecognized option `-o'
Try `libtool --help' for more information.
Er, the libnspr4-dev in testing has xulrunner-nspr.pc, which is the same
as in unstable.
unstable has both xulrunner-nspr.pc and nspr.pc. Testing only has
xulrunner-nspr.pc .
What is the actual build error?
The build doesn't error as such but it reports that it can't find nss and is being
That still doesn't make any sense, since configure (as patched by cdbs)
should be looking for xulrunner-nss first:
the nss check checks for nspr as well as nss. It is nspr that seems to cause
the problem.
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Once again, that doesn't make any sense. Pidgin's configure only looks
for nss
You are indeed correct, I was misinformed by the pidgin developers on
irc, I have now worked out what really happened.
nss was forciblly updated in testing because it was blocking so many
I notice gcc 3.3 and 3.4 are still availible in testing/unstable, could
one of those be used to build xulrunner for mips?
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package:ftp.debian.org
the contents files for woody seem to be missing from archive.debian.org
My ATI Rage was also not configured after install -- gdm fails and X
reports no devices. Missing input and video drivers. ATI device is
configured as agp. The desktop package doesn't seems to install the
correct driver or detect it I guess. Easy fix -- I added the video and
input
The initial debootstrap doesn't have download speed reported, but then,
it's only a few dozen megabytes download.
thats a pretty long wait for a dialup, isdn bri or very low end broadband
user.
However, when booting after the installation, the NPE driver seems to
assume control of the interface name eth0, which causes something to
rename the interface of the USB to ethernet adapter to eth1_rename.
it sounds to me like the built in nic is getting detected first before the USB
to
package: iceweasel
severity: minor
I upgraded my etch system to have iceweasel wirh apt-get install iceweasel (btw
it removed firefox but left mozilla-firefox, i don't think that is relavent to
this issue though).
i got a couple of conffile prompts as below.
Configuration file
package: debian-installer
currently to use guided partitioning on a system with no unpartitioned free
space the user must go into manual partitioning, resize the existing partition
and then go back out of manual partitioning and select guided using the largest
free space, this is somewhat
The install did not find the CDROM drives.
As a workarround you might like to try installing using the boot, root,
net-drivers 1 and net-drivers 2 floppies.
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a
question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror
url?
For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For
them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the
rest is goobleycook.
Feel free to try to convince me otherwise.
imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual
In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think
is that it
had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I
guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out.
is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a
floppy
package:iceweasel
version:2.0.0.1+dfsg-1
severity:minor
after upgrading iceweasel i got directed to a nonexistant whats new page, imo
it would be sensible to either drop use of a special start page for the first
run after upgrading or change this to point to an iceweasel specific page.
i think i've caught wind of a real-life case of this breaking the installtion
of a gui from the installer (the guy didn't give very many details but from the
symptoms he reports it sure sounds like it)
his post can be found at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=11221.
What is wrong with both having the -all packages in reccomends on thier own (so
that reccomends using package managers always pull them in on sarge-etch
upgrades) AND also having them as an alternative in depends so that they get
pulled in by new installs made using package management tools
that the bug that is marked as blocking this one has now been resolved.
i've tried to reproduce this bug but failed
btw in the process of trying this i discovered that busybox --install
doesn't seem to work either i had to manually copy busybox and make a
symlink for this test.
debian:~/busyboxinstall# cp /bin/busybox .
debian:~/busyboxinstall# ln -s gunzip
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD boot with nothing extra typed at boot prompt
Image version: Etch RC1 full CD 1
Date: Date and time of the install
Machine: maxdata PC
Processor: celeron D (at least according to the label on the front)
Memory: 256MB
Partitions: df -Tl
it should have said and windows still booted fine afterwards.
This was possible in export installs and this is still possible in
expert installs. The behaviour has not changed with regard to that matter.
i'm pretty sure i've never intentionally booted d-i in expert mode, and when i
did a sarge install i'm pretty sure i managed to skip creating a
Not sure what was wrong here, but it does not seem like something we can
fix in the installer.
well ntfsfix cleared up the journal and made it work so it would presumablly be
possible to do that, i dunno how safe ntfsfix is though.
btw why do you ask for installation reports even on
that iceweasel replaces that directory with a symlink but it can't do that
if another package already has files in it. What i think needs to happen
is that any plugins need to be modified to only put the files in the
iceweasel directory and then i belive the iceweasel package needs to be
made to
-Original Message-
From: Robert Millan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 February 2007 00:57
To: peter green
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:30:36AM -, peter green wrote:
As to what
the real issue is that there is no longer a /etc/init.d/inetd in debian, netkit
has been removed and its two replacements use their own init script names,
applying the patch would remove the errors but would just mean that inetd would
not be restarted.
based on initial testing (i'd like a
retitle 336054 add auto rejoin on kick support
thanks
since the confusing text has apparently been removed in 2.0 the only remaining
part of this bug is a request to add an auto-rejoin on kick feature, retitling
appropriately
I want to install the distribution debian for ia64 and when i
restart de the PC with the bootable installation CD inside it
does not work, the pc read from CD but the installation doesn't
start. What can i do?. With the distribution for i386 it works perfectly.
The core 2 duo is not an
reopen 412982
reassign 412982 gnome
thanks
The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user
password doesn't work.
this sounds like a gnome bug then, it really should be able to handle the case
with the root account disabled but sudo availible.
It could also be that there really is an issue with the display of VFAT
filenames if UTF-8 is used, but that would not be my first guess.
Anyway, I doubt this would be an installer issue as there is no real way
for the installer to determine the correct settings.
VFAT stores filenames in
Thanks, I'll add a conflict on hamsoft.
Do you have any idea where hanterm comes from?
after doing some initial research and some quick tests in a sarge chroot it
seems to be a symlink into /etc/alternatives that is created when either
hanterm-classic or hanterm-xf is installed and removed
AFAICT this option is relevant not only for vfat, but also for ntfs and
iso9660, but _not_ for fat16.
afaict it is not relavent for partitions mounted as dos (no long filenames) but
it *is* relavent for fat12 and fat16 partitions mounted as vfat and using long
filenames.
package:jigdo
severity:important
currently there is no decent method for downloading cd images other than
http/ftp. jigdo-lite is virtually unusable (no indication of progress or if its
resuming or restarting etc). Bittorrent is only usable on some networks (often
throttled or banned) and only
I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's
another situation
that makes it much worse:
The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the
root file system. udev has not much to do with this.
Which will enable a whole lot of other broken setups.
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From: Scott Raun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 March 2007 21:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#415646: sarge etch dist-upgrade fails, x11-common fails
overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:54:21PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
Scott
it is a series of options
from ssmtps sendmail manpage
Most sendmail options are irrelevent to sSMTP. Those marked ``ignored''
or ``default'' have no effect on mail transfer. Those marked ``unsup-
ported'' are fatal errors. Those marked ``simulated'' are not errors,
There is no mention of updating /etc/modules. Without a network driver,
or something else equally critical, you may find your remote dedicated
box happily running while noone can ssh into it.
afaict nowadays /etc/modules isn't really nessacery anymore and can even cause
upgrade problems. If
PS: Is there a way to fix memory hardware issues ?
if you can get the system working well enough to install and compile stuff (say
by pulling out some of the memory) you can build a custom kernel with the
badram patches. Then put the bad memory back in, run a memory test and use the
this bug has been fixed in testing through a TPU upload but there doesn't seem
to be any information on if it is still present in unstable.
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package: apt
severity: wishlist
Installing packages on machines with no internet connection currently is a
pain. CDs are a partial soloution but only for official free packages and only
for users of stable/testing not of unstable.
my proposal is to add a sneakernet source type. With this
-Original Message-
From: Lou Poppler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 March 2007 17:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck
Package: installation-reports
Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well.
I net-installed sarge a couple weeks
package:debian-installer
severity:wishlist
conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the
admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in
packages or other issues.
just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way
-Original Message-
From: Wojciech Zareba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 February 2007 16:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD netinst default install
Image version:
-Original Message-
From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 February 2007 18:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation
On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:21, peter green wrote:
if so you are probablly hitting
package:dpkg
in situations where a user cannot interact directly with dpkg (debian-installer
is one example of this though conffile prompts shouldn't normally happen there)
conffile prompts currently result in a hung installation process, this is not a
good thing.
since debconf seems to be
i think i may have a similar issue on a box that has been tracking etch for a
while with a british keyboard and developed the can't switch out of x with the
CTRL-ALT-Fx keys sometime while tracking etch (i don't recall exactly when).
i mention this because it means the issue of keyboard layout
-Original Message-
From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05
To: Robert Millan [ackstorm]
Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug
On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL
by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap
partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused.
Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems
cloned with dd.
are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to to a
I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already
does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from
them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :(
ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't
there (labels in fstab
i'm not going to fight over the severity since but
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities says
important
a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering
it completely unusable to everyone.
i'd say this bug fits that definition, the main binary is
I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in
the release
process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself
with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to
manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer
UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one),
but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like
this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should
only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting
labels
-Original Message-
From: Mike Hore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 March 2007 01:40
To: Frans Pop
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 -
Ethernet not detected
Hi again Frans,
On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:30, Mike Hore
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of
I've added module-assistant to forcd1. build-essential was already
included.
are the kernel headers for the standard debian kernels on CD1 as well? module
assistant isn't going to be much use without those.
close 410047 0.11-1
according to upstream
(http://www.workplaceproxy.com/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/010110A/http/trac.gajim.org/query?status=closedmilestone=0.11
note, there are two bug reports mentioned in this thread but one appears to be
a typo, 2038 seems to be the correct one) was fixed in
Is the X process consuming lots of CPU when the freeze occur?
I don't know. I have no access to the system when X freezes.
can you setup sshd so you can login from another machine when the interface
freezes?
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will
not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release
having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of
memory will become more and more common.
what does the sarge kernel do when
I am still not sure my failure was not due to a misconfigured
network/router but the D-Link DI-524 used usually works fine for me.
can you check if the default gateway is set and if there is something sane in
resolv.conf within the installer environment?
failing that try starting the
Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make
/etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should
lead the way
to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be).
what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?
Package: libapt-pkg-perl
Version: 0.2.3-4
Severity: important
Tags: experimental
debian:/# apt-get install apt-file
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible
That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem.
for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. hda=ide
primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs would mean a lot
of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to backup a partition by
would it be possible to reduce the test to only cause a warning until it is
worked out what about the build environment is causing the false positive?
reopen 48152
thanks
there seems to be a general issue with installer packages like
flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts, such packages don't contain any non-free
software in the package itself (and hence are placed in contrib) but installing
them causes non-free software to be installed on to
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