Bug#875721: sddm: auth file passed to Xserver doesn't allow tcp connections

2017-09-13 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: sddm Version: 0.14.0-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm running testing (buster) on one of my PCs. This uses sddm instead of the previous kdm. kdm generates an auth file for passing to the Xserver that uses the wildcard value for connection method. e.g. ###: MIT-MAGIC-C

Bug#805803: frozen-bubble: frozen-buuble doesn't start; crashes in [Sound Init]

2015-11-22 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: frozen-bubble Version: 2.212-4+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, frozen-bubble crashes during startup about the time the last loading dot is reached. If I start running it from the command line the following is shown $ /usr/games/frozen-bubble [[ Frozen-Bubble-2.2.1beta1 ]]

Bug#740541: i2c-tools: using i2c-tools may need package read-edid

2014-03-02 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: i2c-tools Version: 3.1.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The program 'decode-edid' in package i2c-tools needs the program 'parse-edid' from package read-edid but package i2c-tools doesn't depend on, recommend or suggest package read-edid. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4

Bug#625502: Inquiry re: adopting qt3

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Robson
The Trinity Desktop (continuation of KDE 3) project state that they have taken over maintenance of Qt3 from Nokia/Trolltech. http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Bug#653476: iputils-ping: ping6 -I option not working with numeric IPv6 address

2011-12-28 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20101006-1+b1 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 Dear Maintainer, I only have link local IPv6 addresses on my network and have been trying to communicate between computers using IPv6 addresses. ifconfig shows the following for wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Bug#653029: xserver-xorg-video-r128: r128 Idle timed out, resetting engine... messages when starting x.org

2011-12-22 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: xserver-xorg-video-r128 Version: 6.8.1-5+b2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I had been succesfully running lenny (and before that Etch) on this computer and have now wiped my root partion (keeping the /home partition) and installed the 19th Dec 2011 Wheezy/testing weekly build. I in

Bug#605925: noscript ABE prevents the use of CUPS web interface

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: xul-ext-noscript Version: 1.9.9.69-1 I have installed CUPS 1.4.4-7 on a computer named "advance9" I have changed cupsd.conf to allow access to printers over the ethernet interface (but not wireless interface) of "advance9". diff cupsd.conf.default cupsd.conf 2d1 < # "$Id: cupsd.conf.in 8

Bug#332942: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: fails to insert floppy.ko claiming "io-port 0x03f2 in use"

2009-11-13 Thread Bruce Robson
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Version: 2.6.8-99+rm > > You reported a bug against the Linux kernel (version 2.6.8) that was > shipped with Debian 3.1 (sarge). Since Debian 3.1 is no longer > supported and the kernel has changed so much that it would be very > difficult to verify every outstanding bug

Bug#450742: installation: sound driver problem - no sound on Dell Optiplex GX1

2009-01-26 Thread bruce robson
> Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions? > > If the problem persists and since the cs423x drivers have seen hardly > any recent changes please report this bug upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org > and tell us the bug number. > > Cheers, > Moritz My Dell OptiPlex GXa is runn

Bug#500706: Incorrect usb.ids information for Netgear WG111 0846:4240

2008-09-30 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: usbutils Version: 0.73-10 Netgear manufacture a 54Mbps USB wireless adapter called the WG111 (they also produced 108 Mbps adapters called the WG111U/WG111T but this bug report is not about them). See http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/wg111.asp The Netgear WG111 was initially based on

Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

2008-08-12 Thread Bruce Robson
> Hi Bruce, > > it's not fetchmail losing mail, but Exim rejecting it. It's Exim that rejects the email, but it's fetchmail that loses the email by deleting it from the pop3 mailbox when fetchmail knows it hasn't successfully passed it on to Exim. > > If fetchmail made up addresses, that in it

Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

2008-08-11 Thread bruce robson
I said I would post the output from fetchmail -vvv when I lost another mail. It has happened again and I've attached extracts from the logs _ Get more from your digital life. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?oci

Bug#494418: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

2008-08-09 Thread bruce robson
> > severity 494418 important > # downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions > thanks I don't understand why you have downgraded the severity. >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities grave: makes the package in question unusab

Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

2008-08-09 Thread bruce robson
Hotmail corrupted the extracts I posted from mail.err and mail.log I'm now attaching the extracts instead of including their text. _ Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer Games Trivia Contest http://www.gow

Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

2008-08-09 Thread bruce robson
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.9~rc2-3 Severity: grave I'm running lenny/testing and have fetchmail fetching mail from pop3 mailboxes and passing it to exim (packages exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config and exim4-daemon-light all version 4.69-6). fetchmail has just lost 3 out of 10 messages. I th

Bug#493170: Lenny/Testing out of date iceweasel-dom-inspector prevents update of Lenny/Testing out of date iceweasel-dom-inspector prevents update of Lenny/Testing out of date iceweasel-dom-inspecto

2008-07-31 Thread bruce robson
Package: iceweasel-dom-inspector Version: 2.0.0.14-2 Severity: important Aptitude reports that an upgrade to iceweasel from 2.0.0.14-2 to 3.x is available. However, installing this would break iceweasel-dom-inspector at there is no upgrade to iceweasel-dom-inspector available. -- System Informa

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2008-07-30 Thread bruce robson
I've now been running git. I started with git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git I did a git bisect and found that the commit that introduced the bug is commit 94aa6550e8668fab1997e2d57a48b22cf68090b2 Author: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue May 13 12:31:0

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2008-07-29 Thread bruce robson
I've tried compiling various official kernel.org releases. The bug was not in official release v2.6.25.5 but is in v2.6.25.6. _ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overvie

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2008-07-26 Thread bruce robson
> try acpi=off nohz=off noapic nolapic I tried the following at the lilo boot prompt Linux ide-core.options=hda=remap acpi=off nohz=off noapic nolapic I still got the BUG: Int 6: CR2 message. p.s. The ide-core.options=hda=remap is because the BIOS doesn't support disks over 500MB a

Bug#488022: linux-image-2.6.25-2-486: Does not boot on Vortex86SX (BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000)

2008-07-25 Thread bruce robson
It doesn't work on an Intel ClassicR+ either. This is a computer with a 486 processor, ISA bus, the BIOS doesn't support ACPI, APM or pnp. 2.6.24-1-486 does work on this computer. The last few lines shown when attempting to boot 2.6.25-2-486 are (lilo is my boot loader) loading Linux .

Bug#465320: CD doesn't boot (Isolinux errors) on 486 with Adaptec SCSI

2008-03-10 Thread bruce robson
H. Peter Anvin (the upstream maintainer) accepted my patch and it is included in syslinux-3.62 I've made a CD based on debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso dated 2008-03-03 but with the isolinux replaced by the one from syslinux-3.62. This CD boots on all 5 computers I've tried it on (the 486 that ha

Bug#468180: /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get download only changed package state

2008-02-27 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: apt Version: 0.7.11 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-get I ran the command apt-get -d install openssh-client to download the .deb file for openssh-client The output from the command was Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information..

Bug#465320: CD doesn't boot (Isolinux errors) on 486 with Adaptec SCSI

2008-02-13 Thread bruce robson
I've now managed to get a CD to boot on my computer. This CD is based on debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso dated 2008-01-28 bu with the isolinux replaced by a different one. The isolinux is one I made by starting with the latest upstream version (syslinux-3.61) and then making a change to cope wi

Bug#465320: CD doesn't boot (Isolinux errors) on 486 with Adaptec SCSI

2008-02-11 Thread bruce robson
Package: installation-reports Version: 20070308 Severity: important I have attempted to install Debian testing using a CD created from debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso dated 2008-01-28 and the CD failed to boot. I was attempting the installation on an old Intel Classic R+ computer that uses

Bug#450742: installation: sound driver problem - no sound on Dell Optiplex GX1

2008-01-07 Thread bruce robson
I had this problem on the previous model - Dell Optiplex GXa The problem is that the wrong driver is being loaded. From the dmesg output you see 1) isapnp: Card 'CS4236B' 2) error messages from the driver for the CS4232 (snd-cs4232.ko) The correct driver is the snd-cs4236 driver. The contents

Bug#445810: ocamlbrowser: cannot load shared library dlllabltk

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: ocaml-nox Version: 3.08.3-3 I'm running sarge and wanted to compile a OCAML program. I used aptitude to install the ocaml-native-compilers packages. This also installed these dependencies ledit, ocaml-base-nox, ocaml-interp, ocaml-nox As a result of this installation I now have the p

Bug#415770: dvdbackup documentation refers to mkisofs which has been replaced by genisoimage

2007-03-21 Thread bruce robson
Package: dvdbackup Version: 0.1.1-10 Both the manual page and /usr/share/doc/dvdbackup/README refer to the command mkisofs. I've just installed etch RC2 and I don't have this command. I looked at packages.debian.org and found page http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/mkisofs This tel

Bug#301780: base: Device nodes are not created for IOMEGA ZIP ATAPI

2007-03-19 Thread Bruce Robson
I've got a similar problem with an IOMEGA 100MB SCSI ZIP drive. I've installed Etch RC2 using a CD burnt from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.jigdo My computer has an Adaptec 1542CP SCSI card to which the ZIP drive is connected. After

Bug#411101: exim4 not using /etc/mailname during SMTP connections

2007-02-15 Thread Bruce Robson
Package: exim4 Version: 4.50-8sarge2 I have set a mailname in /etc/mailname that is different from my hostname. I set the mailname to the dns record for my IP address. advance9:~# host 82.69.45.180 180.45.69.82.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 82-69-45-180.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. advance9:~#

Bug#377677: No sound from Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI with 2.6 kernel

2007-01-30 Thread Bruce Robson
I have discovered that this problem was caused by my system loading two different modules for my sound card (es1371 and snd_ens1371). I have deleted snd_ens1371 from the /lib/modules directory so that only the es1371 module is loaded. I now get sound again. Once I had cured the fault I was abl

Bug#381262: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: TCP bug introduced in 2.6.17

2006-11-24 Thread Bruce Robson
The URLs in the comment made by Andreas Barth on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 are wrong. They should be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381262 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395066 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Bug#377677: No sound from Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI with 2.6 kernel

2006-10-26 Thread Bruce Robson
I've found there is a bug report in the Linux kernel bug database that may refer to this bug. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2521 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#377677: No sound from Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI with 2.6 kernel

2006-07-10 Thread bruce robson
Package: kernel Version: 2.6.8-2-686 Severity: important I have installed Debian 3.1 r2. I initially installed the 2.4 kernel and I got sound from my soundcard. I then added the 2.6 kernel and configured LILO so I can boot either the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. I still get sound when I boot the 2.4 ker