Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On June 28, 2012 12:58:09 AM Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012, Thomas Koch wrote: Thus having said, I believe that the world (and Debians archive) does have all the window managers it needs. :-) I beg to differ. To say it mildy :) +1 (says the guy building UDE from source)

Bug#674039: no delay, but imports not mounted

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I've installed the packages at ~rleigh/sysvinit and the system doesn't pause waiting for mount.nfs to timeout anymore, but the NFS imports are not mounted when the boot finishes either. # mount -a -tnfs # is required to set things right - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#649491: boot fails when libnfsidmap.so.0 not found...

2011-11-21 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libnfsidmap2 Version: 0.24-1 Severity: critical ...because /usr is an NFS mount! Please move everything under /usr/lib to /lib. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#640210: ssh doesn't shutdown after running kmail

2011-09-03 Thread Bruce Sass
When I run kmail from a ssh session I can't log out of the ssh session afterwards. The only symptom in the logs is .xsession-errors having the same SSLv2 messages mentioned above. * When run from the command line (login via SSH, then start kmail) the session hangs when logging out; closing the

Bug#639558: playonlinux: version 3.8 no longer supported

2011-08-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: playonlinux Version: 3.8.8-1 Severity: important When installing I get the following message from the PlayOnLinux Wizard... Sorry, PlayOnMac 2.5 and PlayOnLinux 3.8 are no longer supported. Please update to 4.0 http://www.playonlinux.com http://www.playonmac.com ...which makes the

Bug#638621: forget that patch...

2011-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
tags 638621 - patch stop I found this issue at bugs.kde.org and it turns out there is more wrong here than just the escaped single quotes. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265730 If the 4.6.5 packages are going to have a life in Debian I suggest backporting at least the fix to get

Bug#638621: error parsing /usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/externaltools

2011-08-20 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: kate Version: 4:4.6.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch While running kate from the command line, with all messages disabled via kdebugdialog, I noticed this error repeated a few times: KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/externaltools, line 8: Invalid escape sequence \'.

Bug#452412: libfuse2: mount.ntfs fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-20 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libfuse2 Version: 2.8.5-4 Followup-For: Bug #452412 Wed Jul 20 00:18:43 2011: Will now mount local filesystems:/sbin/mount.ntfs: error while loading shared libraries: l ibfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Wed Jul 20 00:18:43 2011: failed! . . . Wed

Bug#633019: libtirpc1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On July 7, 2011 05:41:57 PM Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: found 633019 0.2.0-2 thanks On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:27:25PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and I am left without a /usr

Bug#633019: libtirpc1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libtirpc1 Version: 0.2.2-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and I am left without a /usr partition. I have worked around the problem by booting with a

Bug#633021: libgssglue1: boot fails when /usr is an NFS mount

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libgssglue1 Version: 0.3-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Since the lib resides under /usr/lib, and /usr on this box is an NFS mount, mount.nfs fails during boot up and I am left without a /usr partition. I have worked around the problem by booting with a

Bug#626450: if you can't remount /root

2011-05-12 Thread Bruce Sass
[maybe I'm just naive wrt how the initramfs works shrug] (initramfs) mount -o remount,rw /root mount: can't read '/proc/mounts': no such file or directory So I changed the ro kernel arg to rw, booted, then created the symlink. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#607528: installation-guide: LSB website URL out of date

2010-12-19 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: installation-guide Severity: minor Tags: squeeze 1.1. What is Debian? ... Debian developers are also involved in... * The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/)... the current URL is: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#599671: freeciv-server: intermittent segfault

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: freeciv-server Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: important The only strangeness I can see is a pile of... Invalid string conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. ...messages in the gtk client's display. Here is the client's output. Lost connection to server! messages appear after the server

Bug#593653: bittornado: using deprecated sha module

2010-08-19 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: bittornado Version: 0.3.18-10 Severity: normal I don't know if this affects BitTornado itself, but it is causing unnecessary output when using command line apps importing BitTornado code. e.g.: $ cfv /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/BitTornado/__init__.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the sha

Bug#592361: libssl0.9.8: libcrypto.so.0.9.8 accessed before /usr is mounted

2010-08-09 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8g-16 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system /usr on my unstable box is an NFS import. When networking is being brought up /sbin/dhclient fails because it can't find libcrypto.so.0.9.8--which lives under /usr/lib--consequently eth0 doesn't

Bug#589683: reportbug: spews useless information messages when spawing editor

2010-07-20 Thread Bruce Sass
), but I understand the startup of kate is really verbose. I'm assigning this bug to the kate package. Regards, Sandro On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 00:42, Bruce Sass bms...@shaw.ca wrote: Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.4 Severity: wishlist It would be really nice if reportbug sent

Bug#589682: chkrootkit: $egrep used unset

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.49-4 Severity: normal There are 4 instances of $egrep in 3 lines of code (line numbers: 106, Slapper check; 1135, PHP files check; and 1638, chk_crontab function) but it doesn't appear that egrep is ever set to a value. ${egrep} is what is being used in lots of

Bug#589683: reportbug: spews useless information messages when spawing editor

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
ugly the current behaviour is: bs...@onegee:~$ reportbug chkrootkit *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Detected character set: us-ascii Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Bruce Sass bms...@shaw.ca' as your from address. Getting status for chkrootkit

Bug#589123: ethtool: tries /usr/bin/* before /usr mounted

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: ethtool Version: 1:2.6.34-2 Severity: important This transcript from /var/log/boot says it all: Wed Jul 14 21:55:02 2010: Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Wed Jul 14 21:55:03 2010: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Wed Jul 14

Bug#518698: open with `ktorrent' fails

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: ktorrent Version: 3.1.6+dfsg.4-1 Severity: normal When clicking on a link to a .torrent file I get a popup with the options Save As, Open with `KTorrent', and Cancel. Selecting Open with `KTorrent' results in KTorrent poping up a error window containing, An error occurred while loading

Bug#518698: sample .torrent file

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Here is a downloaded .torrent file that could not be opened with KTorrent, but worked once saved to the HDD. Underworld.Rise.Of.The.Lycans.R5.DVDR-COALiTiON.torrent Description: application/bittorrent

Bug#463190: possible solution for 24-bit FLAC problem

2008-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
It appears that Debian's K3b can handle 24-bit FLAC files if the libsndfile plugin is included in the build. I have tested this by: 1. installing libsndfile1-dev (a missing Build-Depends?) 2. adding debian/tmp/usr/lib/kde3/libk3blibsndfiledecoder* to

Bug#492781: update: ssh hangs after upgrade

2008-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
I'm still having this problem. Here is some information I didn't notice when I first reported the bug: While I did confirm that unsetting SSH_AUTH_SOCK does restore connectivity, I was not aware that: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XnTwx31250/agent.31250 with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tmp total 0

Bug#496839: k3b: burns too fast

2008-08-27 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: k3b Version: 1.0.5-3 Severity: wishlist Since the number of speeds writable was reduced I've been struggling to write any media without running the buffers down to 0% full. The main problem is that all data comes from NFS mounted boxes over a 100Mbps LAN. With CDs, 16x works as long as

Bug#496150: xserver-xorg-core: shutting off monitor messes up display

2008-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.2-4 Severity: normal After the most recent upgrades of xserver-xorg-core and xserver-utils my LCD display started breaking up (like the vertical sync was really messed up) resulting in a screen full of coloured lines if the system was left untouched for

Bug#492781: ssh hangs after upgrades

2008-07-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue July 29 2008 03:58:06 am Colin Watson wrote: As a workaround, unsetting SSH_AUTH_SOCK might help? $ SSH_AUTH_SOCK= ssh ... does bypass the problem. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492781: ssh hangs after upgrades

2008-07-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: ssh Version: 1:5.1p1-1 Severity: important With one of the three Unstable boxes I run ssh consistently stops working (hangs without giving me a password prompt) after an upgrade (via dselect, using the APT method) until the system is rebooted. Upgrades appear to go smoothly, and there

Bug#491246: tor: fails to upgrade properly

2008-07-17 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: tor Version: 0.2.0.30-1 Severity: normal While unpacking this message appears: Preparing to replace tor 0.2.0.29-rc-2 (using .../tor_0.2.0.30-1_i386.deb) ... Stopping tor daemon: FAILED (Is 2697 not tor? Is /usr/sbin/tor a different binary now?). Unpacking replacement tor ... Yet:

Bug#463814: Hplip fails to recognize correctly installed devices

2008-07-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 11:12:29 pm David Baron wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2008 01:08:18 Bruce Sass wrote: That is the setup (the one with an hp: type device URI) we need to see the hp-check.log and actual error messages/reports for. It may well be something as simple as a missing underscore

Bug#490640: hp-scan: Aborts with a traceback when trying to scan.

2008-07-13 Thread Bruce Sass
severity 490640 important tag 490640 confirmed On Sun July 13 2008 03:59:43 am Andrew Ruthven wrote: Package: hplip Version: 2.8.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have downgraded the reportfrom grave to important because only scanning is affected, although

Bug#483205: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] hplip: group scanner requirements.

2008-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 06:40:30 am Mark Purcell wrote: Thanks for the comment. The other suggestion is to use lp.plugdev But the downside of that is there is then no way to distinguish between plugged in printers and other devices such as cameras. Another downside is the combination of wild

Bug#483205: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] hplip: group scanner requirements.

2008-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 08:32:49 am Till Kamppeter wrote: Mark Purcell wrote: Thanks for the comment. The other suggestion is to use lp.plugdev But the downside of that is there is then no way to distinguish between plugged in printers and other devices such as cameras. So the group

Bug#483843: still fails to find SIP with hplip 2.8.6

2008-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 05:27:52 am Mark Purcell wrote: Arthur, Thanks for the update. I haven't had a detailed look into hp-check but I suspect it doesn't check in a way compatible with the way Debian has set things up. However at this stage I think it is diagnostic only and doesn't actually

Bug#463814: Hplip fails to recognize correctly installed devices

2008-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 01:44:41 pm David Baron wrote: On Friday 11 July 2008 22:42:01 Bruce Sass wrote: Hi, The title of this bug is a little misleading. According to this hp-check.log, the device is _not_ correctly installed. hp-check[9601]: info: :| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES | hp

Bug#463814: Hplip fails to recognize correctly installed devices

2008-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat July 12 2008 02:19:33 pm David Baron wrote: The 2.4* and newer packages from Debian Sid do not find the printer at all so are not working correctly. I am a bit confused... The hp-check.log you sent on June 15th showed that HPLIP did indeed find the printer, and that log was generated

Bug#484801: automatically got a systray app which I don't need

2008-07-11 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello Chris, Could you have a look at bug #484801. printconf automatically drags in hplip (and hence the useless and annoying to some HP systray applet) because of this chain of Depends: printconf -- foomatic-db-hpijs -- hpijs -- hplip I think that either printconf's dependency on

Bug#490212: hplip: wrong placing of hp-systray icons on kde4

2008-07-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu July 10 2008 01:05:00 pm Eric Valette wrote: Fo some reasons, this systray applet is wrongly located when other are still at they normal place (Krandrtray, kmix, korganizer, ...) So I do not konw if the bug is in the hplip python code or kde code but it is annoying. Try stopping any

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed May 14 2008 01:36:10 pm you wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: This bug is now closed with the new dpkg; could you upgrade and confirm you still have the hal bug? I can confirm the hal package fails to configure (via dpkg-reconfigure) if /var/run/hal/hald.pid

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu May 15 2008 01:52:40 pm you wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: IMO, something is horribly broken if a PID file can disappear yet the daemon is left running- Yes, but please assume that this horribly broken thing only happened with older dpkg and try fixing the system

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-14 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon May 12 2008 01:00:52 pm Loïc Minier wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: The exim Maintainer called it a heisenbug, see #396944, he also filed #440657 shortly after but I don't know if it is related to the problem I was having or just something

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat May 10 2008 03:54:33 pm Loïc Minier wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote: Most likely we are being bitten by a start-stop-daemon bug and you may want to see how the exim Maintainer worked around the problem. Yes; there are many bugs in ssd in particular conditions. Could

Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

2008-05-10 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software ...which causes dpkg to err out, halting the upgrade process. Since neither dpkg or upgrading explicitly depends on hal, its failure is breaking unrelated software/processes. Investigation reveals that

Bug#447860: work-around

2007-11-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I've been having the `start failed' problem and after snooping around I noticed there was no pidfile yet hald was running. After manually stopping and starting hald (/etc/init.d/hal stop or start) then rerunning dselect (to clear up the failed-config status, which failed) I noticed the

Bug#452348: HPLIP doesn't mention new user-in-scanner-group requirement, other issues

2007-11-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri November 23 2007 02:08:09 am Josselin Mouette wrote: Is the hplip-gui package part of the default installation? Is there something within the HPLIP suite which would need to change in order for it to be excluded from the default installation? I don't understand why hplip is part of the

Bug#415048: Fwd: Accepted hplip 2.7.10-2 (source i386 all)

2007-11-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed November 21 2007 03:59:55 pm Fabian Greffrath wrote: The icon in the System-Settings Menu in Gnome is still the ugly b/w one. There are colorful icons under Applications-Office though. Are you suggesting using /usr/share/pixmaps/HPmenu.xpm instead of /usr/share/pixmaps/hp-logo.xpm? If

Bug#451502: hplip is NON-FREE as of 2.7.10

2007-11-17 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat November 17 2007 12:30:16 pm Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I'd just remove the auto-download functionality, and *package* the plugins in non-free. One can make hplip suggest (but not recommend or depend) on the plugin package, even if it is in non-free, AFAIK.. The plugin package

Bug#451502: hplip is NON-FREE as of 2.7.10

2007-11-16 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri November 16 2007 05:25:01 am Rick Richardson wrote: Package: hplip Version: 2.7.10 Note: HPLIP is free, open source software distributed under the MIT, BSD, and GPL licenses. HP does not provide formal consumer or commercial support for this software. Unfortunately, this statement

Bug#413225: hplip 2.7.7-0ubuntu4

2007-09-18 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Attention everyone who has expressed an interest in getting a newer HPLIP into Debian. I have built, installed, and done some basic testing (except for faxing) of this Ubuntu HPLIP package[1] on an up to date sid box. It seems to be working OK. It would be great if you could find the

Bug#396944: start-stop-daemon can't stop process

2007-08-28 Thread Bruce Sass
[for anyone reading this in the BTS, Ian is responding to http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/08/msg00024.html] On Tue August 28 2007 05:27:52 am Ian Jackson wrote: Bruce Sass writes (start-stop-daemon can't stop process): I have an exim4 daemon (bug #396944) which doesn't stop

Bug#433133: ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no

2007-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu July 19 2007 03:01:30 am you wrote: I can manually start rpc.statd, then mount the missing nfs imports, but since /usr was missing during the boot there is bound to be stuff which didn't start properly. Is there a way to ensure everything is in order besides manually discovering

Bug#433133: init.d/portmap hack still the only one working

2007-07-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu July 19 2007 03:58:58 am I wrote: On Thu July 19 2007 03:01:30 am you wrote: or try the patch in #433386 against initscripts. I'll give it a try, and I expect it will work because so far the only success I've had is with this hack: - --- /etc/init.d/portmap.orig

Bug#433133: ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no

2007-07-18 Thread Bruce Sass
Try setting ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no in /etc/default/rcS. I'm currently talking to the initscripts maintainers to try to find a good solution; it seems like the fix in 1:1.1.0-10 introduced a race condition. This doesn't work for me, it kinda makes things worse because now the messages telling me

Bug#433290: dpkg: /usr/bin/man not found

2007-07-16 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon July 16 2007 01:05:01 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not found package man? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# dpkg -S /usr/bin/man dpkg: /usr/bin/man not found. Because /usr/bin/man is a symlink and doesn't exist as a file in any package. dpkg -S searches through the contents of the

Bug#396944: exim4 giving me problems again (#396944)

2007-06-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri June 29 2007 10:26:40 am you wrote: [Please Cc: the BTS on all correspondence, in hard-to-debug cases it is vital that the BTS has complete information.] Please allow me to bounce your message and the ones following into the BTS. sure I neglected sending to the BTS so that you would

Bug#396944: exim4 giving me problems again (#396944)

2007-06-29 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi Marc, It happened again! The panic log has an entry at 23:13:21 for a failed start (23:08:50 in mainlog); pidwatch.log shows the pid disappearing between 22:50:01 and 23:00:02; dpkg.log shows an upgrade of exim4 starting with the -config package at 22:54:22 (dpkg started logging at

Bug#426752: Ubuntu-specific Maintainer: field processing, safety check

2007-05-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed May 30 2007 12:42:07 pm you wrote: If you have any comments regarding our approach we'd of course be happy to hear about them. I don't think it is a good idea to hard-code downstream specific bits into the source... How about creating a framework for hooking code into the build

Bug#396944: exim4 giving me problems again (#396944)

2007-01-22 Thread Bruce Sass
Hello Marc, I monitored the next two or three upgrades after the problem I was having disappeared, all went well so I removed the flag which was causing exim to spew debugging info out during the install... a few more upgrades later and the problem has reappeared. Exim is running, has no pid

Bug#396944: exim4 giving me problems again (#396944)

2007-01-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon January 22 2007 01:01, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:21:10PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: I monitored the next two or three upgrades after the problem I was having disappeared, all went well so I removed the flag which was causing exim to spew debugging info out during

Bug#117783: acknowledged by developer (doesn't appear to be a bug)

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Sass
to react within a month. Am I supposed to monitor each of the bugs I submit? Ever heard of CC? I did CC you, a few hours later: --- From: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: lines in dselect are cut off Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:48:08 -0700 Message

Bug#396797: updated GIT-DPKG commands, with docs

2006-12-09 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Here is: an expanded set of DPKG commands for GIT, a diff to the current texinfo docs, and a brief help file for the commands. - Bruce --- git.texinfo 2006-11-13 14:10:55.0 -0700 +++ git-bms.texinfo 2006-12-08 05:15:41.0 -0700 @@ -1250,6 +1250,7 @@ * Wiping Files::

Bug#397073: Fwd: Re: Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-29 Thread Bruce Sass
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc Date: Wed November 29 2006 15:56 From: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Carsten Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, On Wed November 29 2006 13:14, you wrote: Sorry for spamming you, Bruce, You've

Bug#394551: Manual pages empty

2006-11-17 Thread Bruce Sass
tags 394551 patch stop Hi, The cause is a missing notangle command... make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/noweb-2.11b/src/xdoc' notangle -t8 -Rnotangle.1 manpage.nw ../shell/noweave.nw docdate.nw | ./doversion notangle.1 /bin/sh: notangle: command not found notangle -t8 -Rcpif.1

Bug#394551: Manual pages empty

2006-11-17 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri November 17 2006 20:18, you wrote: ...the attached dpatch file fixes the problem by replicating what notangle does using the just built markup and nt executables. Does anybody know at what point this got broken? I thought Joey and I had everything straightened out in 2.11b-1.3.

Bug#397073: something deeper going on

2006-11-14 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, .bashrc is read as expected from the documented behaviour when I start Konsole outside of KDE (specifically, UDE) then start a GIT session. Compare this diff with the one attached to a previous message... - --- env.cmdline 2006-11-14 15:19:42.985477511 -0700 +++ env.session

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 03:11, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 05:33, Bruce Sass wrote: Is it something for konsole to run _instead_ of bash? or? hmmm, ya, sure... hmm... so you expect konsole to read conffiles for bash when it is actually running another shell/program

Bug#396797: GIT: where to document distro specific pkg management commands

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I am trying to get some DEB specific commands added to Debian's GIT package... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396797 ...but am unsure as to the best place to document them in the git.html file. Adding DEB Packages to the end of the File operations section is most

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 14:50, Sune Vuorela wrote: #first step on unversioned close: tag 397073 +wontfix thanks On Monday 13 November 2006 13:20, Bruce Sass wrote: That makes little sense to me---Konsole is a fancy x-terminal and should be doing the equivalent of bash -c someprogram

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 16:13, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 23:38, Bruce Sass wrote: You seem to be doing a lot of guessing... :-/ which is why I am sending a copy to your Application Manager. Thank you. You are most welcome to show my application manager that I do

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 17:27, Clint Adams wrote: An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments and without the -c option whose standard input and error are both connected to terminals (as determined by isatty(3)), or one started with the -i option. PS1 is

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 17:35, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 00:55, Bruce Sass wrote: Perhaps the underlying bug is that konsole is not properly identifying itself as a terminal. Maybe. xterm behaves same way. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo TESTVAR=brucesass .bashrc

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 18:02, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 01:35, Sune Vuorela wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo TESTVAR=brucesass .bashrc woops. Typo here - it should have been echo export TESTVAR=brucesass shrug So, does that change the outcome? I don't see it as

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 18:34, you wrote: That is not correct; Konsole is for interactive use so -i should not be necessary. Furthermore... You are misunderstanding the bash man page. The '-c' makes bash non-interactive. I understand that, it turns out I was wrong in assuming a Konsole

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 13 2006 20:00, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:10, Bruce Sass wrote: help:/konsole/sessions.html, point 4. clearly states: Enter a command just as you normally would if you opened a new shell and were going to issue that command. Maybe this line has been

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-12 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, A konsole shell is fine, but session programs are not. I have a session which starts GNU Interactive Tools (apt-get install git) using the command gitfm. The output of env from within that session is... - KDE_FULL_SESSION=true GS_LIB=/home/bsass/.fonts DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-12 Thread Bruce Sass
hmm.. What is a session program? A program started via the Session menu, maybe I should be calling them Konsole Applications. How do I set up a session program? - start konsole - select Configure Konsole from the Settings menu - select the Session tab - put a descriptive name in the Name

Bug#117783: lines in dselect are cut off

2006-11-08 Thread Bruce Sass
tags unreproducible moreinfo thanks I am not seeing the described behaviour... any info not on the screen is made available via cursor-right. The lack of a newline could indicate that the rest of the line was available but just not visible, and the cut'n'paste behaviour seen could depend on

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 6 2006 01:58, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:47:45AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /var/run/exim4 total 1 drwxr-x--- 2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 48 Nov 5 21:22 . drwxr-xr-x 22 rootroot1048 Nov 5 21:31 .. That looks

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-06 Thread Bruce Sass
oops, too fast on the send with that last message On Mon November 6 2006 01:58, Marc Haber wrote: Does cp /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template /var/run/exim4 (done as Debian-exim) work? Maybe I'm not getting what you mean by done as Debian-exim. The su command I used is all I can think of, but I

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 6 2006 03:26, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:55:52AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: Now, let's see the output of # EX4DEBUG=1 /etc/init.d/exim4 stop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps aux|grep exim 102 13135 0.0 0.1 5352 1000 ?Ss 02:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 6 2006 04:32, Marc Haber wrote: Now, kill all running exims manually, Do you mean with killall (leaving a stale pidfile in /var/run/exim4), or /etc/init.d/exim4 stop? I have confirmed that rm-ing the pidfile and reinstalling exim4-daemon-light results in a paniclog entry, which

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-05 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Here is what I saw during the last upgrade... /etc/passwd: Debian-exim:x:102:102::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep exim 102 26817 0.0 0.1 5348 1000 ?Ss Nov04 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m bsass 2312 0.0 0.0 1640 472 pts/5R+

Bug#396944: running exim4 not found

2006-11-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon November 6 2006 00:21, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:38:28PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: Stopping MTA:No /usr/sbin/exim4 found running; none killed. /etc/default/exim4 Strange. I'd like to see the contents of your /etc/default/exim4 and an ls -al /var/run/exim4

Bug#396944: exim4-daemon-light: upgrading causes panic

2006-11-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat November 4 2006 02:29, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: ...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused by the upgrade process. Probably. Did killing the existing daemon manually help with starting the new daemon? I

Bug#396944: exim4-daemon-light: upgrading causes panic

2006-11-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat November 4 2006 05:09, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:40:01AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: On Sat November 4 2006 02:29, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: ...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused

Bug#397073: konsole: not reading ~/.bashrc

2006-11-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: konsole Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important When starting session programs ~/.bashrc is not being read, which results in some programs not operating as configured. For example... My ~/.bashrc contains: eval `lesspipe` export GIT_PAGER=less which tells gitfm to use less as

Bug#396944: exim4-daemon-light: upgrading causes panic

2006-11-03 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: exim4-daemon-light Version: 4.63-9 Severity: normal The last couple of upgrades have resulted in the following being sent to the paniclog... 2006-11-03 02:05:38 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address alre ady in use: daemon abandoned ...about the time an

Bug#396794: git: ^Xh help documentation broken

2006-11-02 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: git Version: 4.3.20-10 Severity: normal Tags: patch /usr/share/git/.gitrc.common contains: ^Xh = HTML; $GIT_BROWSER /usr/doc/git-4.3.20/git.html;;n should be: ^Xh = HTML; $GIT_BROWSER /usr/share/doc/git/git.html;;n -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers

Bug#396797: git: supports RPM but not DPKG

2006-11-02 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: git Version: 4.3.20-10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch GIT ships with key command support for RPM based systems but does not include commands supporting common dpkg operations. To remedy this I suggest adding at least the following to the [GITFM-Keys] section of

Bug#392570: dselect hard locks the kernel when scrolling thru package names

2006-10-23 Thread Bruce Sass
-- Forwarded Message -- Date: Fri October 20 2006 04:59 From: Lindsay Washusen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:49:38 Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tags 392570 moreinfo thanks I think it more likely the /var/lib/dpkg/status or /var/lib/dpkg

Bug#388084: dselect freezes upon pressing CTRL+S

2006-10-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed October 18 2006 23:27, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Guillem Jover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No, this is a setting configurable in the terminal, with termios would be just a matter of disabling IXON. So this bug can be fixed, the question is if it should be fixed. As I don't use

Bug#21659: dselect doesn't show descriptions for obsolete packages

2006-10-18 Thread Bruce Sass
reopen 21659 severity 21659 wishlist tags 21659 patch thanks Hi, sorry for the delay Bernd wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: dselect only shows installed control info for obsolete packages, and given that this report has been ignored for 8+

Bug#9085: String freeze for dselect

2006-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed October 4 2006 23:17, Christian Perrier wrote: Considering the very recent discussions in the maling list, I hereby consider that translatable strings are now frozen in dpkg. That means that I urge you fellow developers to please coordinate with me in case you plan to introduce changes

Bug#390737: reprepro: mangled --export=force paragraph in man page

2006-10-02 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: reprepro Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: minor The man page says: --export=force P, but exporting also happens for distributions where some Like normal ^^ error occurred. should probably be:

Bug#390734: reprepro: weather vs. whether

2006-10-02 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: reprepro Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: minor The man page says: --export=(never|changed|normal|force) This option specify weather and how should be: This option specifies whether and how

Bug#130798: obsolete bug

2006-09-08 Thread Bruce Sass
It appears that this bug got fixed at some point and the report didn't get closed. The problem was that dselect would loop forever when it received an EOF after spitting out an error message. By inspection, the current code should not suffer from this problem, compare... original code: if

Bug#353116: why is this an important dselect bug?

2006-09-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I can see why #351406 was cloned to dselect... Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:53:46 +0100 From: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gary Koskenmaki [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rhythmbox: No volume slider, does not play radio stations or library

Bug#21400: this bug is obsolete

2006-09-04 Thread Bruce Sass
[runs dselect, chooses access method - disk, no Distribution top level] --- Enter _main_ binary dir. [] ? /var/cache/apt-build/repository Using `/var/cache/apt-build/repository' as main binary dir. Using `/var/cache/apt-build/repository/Packages.gz' for main. --- I am using Unstable

Bug#383383: /usr/share/menu/apollon broken

2006-08-16 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: apollon Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# update-menus ... In file /usr/share/menu/apollon, at (or in the definition that ends at) line 1: [...]sharing daemon giFT command=/usr/bin/apollon icon=icon=/usr/share/pixma ps/apollon.xpm

Bug#383412: kappfinder: LyX provides its own .desktop files

2006-08-16 Thread Bruce Sass
Package: kappfinder Version: 4:3.5.4-2 Severity: wishlist The lyx-qt and lyx-xforms packages include .desktop files in /usr/share/applications (shows up in K-Office), making /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Office/lyx.desktop unnecessary and maybe confusing (most likely to execute lyx-qt, could

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