Package: debian-installer
Version: Weekly build 20240916-09:57
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
I pulled in the latest weekly build. I then went to install "Debian GNU/Linux
testing "Trixie" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST with firmwa
Package: firewalld
Version: 1.3.3-1~deb12u1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
It would be nice to include notes on why one adds some configuration items.
With services, it is often obvious from the name. Ports, not so obvious. It
would be nice to
Seeing this in bullseye, bookworm, and trixie. And other problems as
well.
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On Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:15 -0600 Charles Curley
wrote:
> Package: amanda-common
> Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3
> Severity: normal
>
> I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails
> complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as
> user
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:43:31 -0600 Charles Curley
wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:19:36 -0700
> Felix Lechner wrote:
>
> Would you mind raising this issue upstream?
> > [1]
>
> Done. https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep/-/issues/31
I have closed the upstream bug. I
On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:24:46 -0600 Charles Curley
wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 2:2.10-12
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
I inadvertently solved this by upgrading the kernel from
linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 to linux-image-6.5.0-0.d
I am seeing similar to what Gerard ROBIN saw. I have
two machines, both using HDMI monitors. I find that the quickest way to
restore sound is Configuration -> Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output ->
Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (unplugged) (unavailable) [or similar]
-> Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output.
Ho
Package: gitolite3
Version: 3.6.12-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I did a normal installation of the gitolite3 package on Bookworm.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffect
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
I took delivery of two Ace Magic T8+ computers recently.
https://www.acemagic.com/products/t8plus I am bringing one up as a router
running Debian 12.2 (Bookworm).
A full hardware probe of
Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 2:2.10-12
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
A new installation on a Lenovo Yoga 13.
https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=019117605e
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was ef
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:41:43 +0200 Pascal Hambourg
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Already fixed in hw-detect 1.155:
> * Fix files removal for non-accepted firmware packages (See:
> #1032377).
>
>
I can confirm that, when running with no preseed, I now see the license
agreement and can accept it. My p
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
Apparently https://www.debian.org/releases/ has some errors. See the discussion
at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/04/msg00602.html and the two (so
far) replies.
Thank you.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 07:57:34 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 04/04/2023 at 01:46, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> >
> > Everything seems to be working as intended…
>
> Yes. The package is found but rejected because of licence issue. This
> is the expected effect of "Fix files removal for non-accept
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
Users can currently preseed wireless connections. A possible enhancement is: if
preseeding included installing Network Manager (NM), to optionally provide the
AP credentials to
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
When using a preseed file to configure one's wireless interface, one usually
needs a password for the access point. Currently, as far as I know, the only
option is to use "d-i n
On the T520, I tried again. This time I had the preseed file (attached)
with all netcfg entries commented out. I got as far as the network
setup stuff. When I told it to try the wireless, it replied that the
passphrase was too short. Well, of course it was too short: d-i never
prompted for a passph
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:31:39 +0100
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Really ? I had the license agreement screen during the package
> selection and installation step.
Yup. In neither of the two experiments I ran this morning did any
license prompt show up. One was preseeded, the other not.
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:39:17 +
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi Charles
>
> Thanks for the bug! Inline are a few questions / things I've seen from
> the log:
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> [...]
>
> I can see that d-i
On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:23:56 +0100
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 12/03/2023 at 22:39, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> [...]
> [...]
> [...]
>
> Warning: as described in bug #1032377, the firmware package
> firmware-ipw2x00 should be reject for requiring license approval.
> Kibi fixed the typo in
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
In a normal installation, one is prompted for information that is highly
confidential, such as passwords and encrypted partitions. In the regular
(non-GUI) installer one moves fro
Package: xfce4-power-manager
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
Presentation mode is very nice for watching movies, etc. However, one can
forget that one has turned it on. And apparently I'm not the only one.
https:
The unattended upgrade of grub failed (due to the fact that I had
replaced the hard drive and used dd to copy sector for sector from the
old one to the new, and that changed the identity of the hard drive).
Per the instructions in the unattended upgrade message, I ran the
following:
root@white:~#
root@grissom:~# cat /etc/debian_version
11.6
root@grissom:~# uname -a
Linux grissom 5.10.0-20-686 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.158-2 (2022-12-13) i586 GNU/Linux
root@grissom:~# free
totalusedfree shared buff/cache available
Mem: 228Mi43Mi63Mi
On Bullseye (11.5), needrestart seems to think that nextcloud-desktop is
using (or trying to use) an obsolete binary. One solution would be to
provide a backport.
With nextcloud-desktop running, needrestart reports that my user is
running an outdated binary. Shut it down, and needrestart no longer
I seem to see the same with ASCII spaces (0x20) in the SSID.
However I can create the connection using nmcli, and then selected it
from the GUI.
root@ideapc:~# pre network-m
network-manager 1.30.0-2amd64
network-manager-gnome 1.20.0-3amd64
root@ideapc:~# cat /etc
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:27:37 +0800
Paul Wise wrote:
> Please test the new version of owncloud-client available in Debian
> experimental and reply to the bug whether this issue is fixed yet.
Really?
After adding experimental to a stable (Bullseye) system, I ran:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:47:09 +0100 Jose M Calhariz
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what is your local mail server? exim4, postfix?
>
> Jose Calhariz
Postfix. But the default on Debian is exim.
Sorry to take so long to answer this.
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Package: xfdesktop4
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Using the Desktop program on Buster, one may set the background to change every
day, and it does so.
* What exactly did you do (or not do)
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:45:17 +0200
Holger Wansing wrote:
> I wonder if "the easiest time to select an alternative init system is
> during the installation process" is correct English.
>
> Maybe better "the best time ... " ?
Much better, although both are literally true. From an native American
Just had the same thing happen with version 3.5.51 on Bullseye.
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Package: xfce4-sensors-plugin
Version: 1.3.0-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
I did a new installation of Debian Bullseye, with xfce4. Upon "apt upgrade", I
got an email from the hddtemp package as follows:
---
Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.49
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I did an upgrade from Buster to Bullseye.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I followed
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:19:36 -0700
Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
>
> Unfortunately, I use sway, a Wayland compositor, where the indicator
> does not appear at all. Would you mind raising this issue upstream?
> [1]
Done. https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep/-/issues/31
You might also
Package: gammastep
Version: 2.0.2-4
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I installed gammastep on my Lenovo T61 to test it.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffe
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:49:06 -0400
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> Well none of the examples ever have spaces before # for comments.
> The documentation page you linked to doesn't even mention comments at
> all. I would agree that perhaps it should. I have certainly
> enc
I am seeing a similar situation on an IBM Thinkpad R51 with Bullseye.
root@dragon:/media/disk/dragon# uname -a
Linux dragon 5.10.0-4-686 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.19-1 (2021-03-02) i686 GNU/Linux
root@dragon:/media/disk/dragon# lspci -s 2:2
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200B
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:02:25 -0400
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: sea7k...@gmail.com
There is a lengthy discussion of the problem on the Debian User list,
starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01089.html
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Begin forwarded message:
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:23:53 -0600
From: Charles Curley
To: Laurent Bonnaud
Subject: Re: Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot
partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot
supports timest
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:10:45 +0100
Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> I did a test installation using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from
> 2021-03-15 (Debian bullseye/11), chose the LVM option, and noticed
> that once the system is installed and boots, the kernel complains
> with this message:
>
>e
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:28:26 +0100
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 1/24/21 4:50 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > OK. This might be a bug in the i386 iso - as you've seen, we can't
> > test all i386 easily. This might just be a regression. Given that
> > we're about to release 10.8
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:50:54 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> These are the machines with Geode but limited to 256M memory? As a
> matter of interest, what are you using them for - what's the use case
> - because 256M is marginal now, I think.
It's actually 223M, the remainder used for the vid
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:07:22 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> > > 8.6 is old - I'd be surprised that 10.7 firmware iso wouldn't
> > > work.
> >
> > I didn't try 10.x. 8.6 was what I had handy, i.e. it came up first
> > in the midden. However, debian-10.4.0-i386-netinst.iso also fails
> > to
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:53:30 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> >
> > * The NIC finding software failed to detect the two NICs. This has
> > worked in the past.
> >
> You'll likely need the firmware .iso including the non-free firmwares
> - though I'm surprised that itr doesn't find the Eth
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
Please see Comments/Problems below.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: DVD
Image version: debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-DVD-1.iso
Date: Jan 20 2021 16:36 MST
Machine: FIT-PC 1 h
I wonder if this is related to a bug I hit -- and I may have solved.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980271#15 for the
details and a workaround.
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I tried a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet adapter, CE38-100BTX, which uses
the xirc2ps_cs driver. It runs, if slowly, on an installed system. But
on installation, the software fails to detect it also.
I noticed in the log on console F4 a message:
pcmcia-socket-startup: chdir to /etc/pcmcia failed: no
I fixed (?) the network issues by putting a 10MB hub between the Tecra
and the rest of the network. Other than the collision light lighting up
the night, it works fine with a data rate of about 1 MB/sec.
That, however, did not fix the detection issue. I still get no network
during installation. On
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD-ROM
Image version: debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 14 January 2021
Machine: Toshiba Tecra 8000
Partitions:
Filesys
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:19:45 +0100
Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 05:55:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On boot, NetworkManager does its thing correctly, and gets the
> > machine on the network. However, I use DHCP with fixed addresses.
> > Getting
Package: src:linux
Version: 5.10.4-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescur...@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Testing the Bullseye installer lead to several installations on this
computer, an IBM R51 Thinkpad, which uses the IPW2200 kernel module and
ass
Also, oddly enough, on a Geode LX 800, specifically a Fit-PC 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fit-PC
From reportbug:
...
-- Package-specific info:
needrestart output:
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date.
Services to be restarted:
systemctl re
Package: amanda-client
Version: 1:3.5.1-2+b2
Severity: normal
File: amanda
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installing amanda clients on a) Debian 10 (buster) systems
upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch), and b) installing Debian 10
fresh.
* What exactly did you
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:06:04 +
"Debian Bug Tracking System" wrote:
> Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian.
More information.
1) This does not appear to be a problem with packagekit, but with
systemd. Removing packaged from the system appears to have solved the
problem for
Package: packagekit
Version: 1.1.12-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch) to 10 (buster) yesterday. Since then
problems with packagekit have affected my ability to use other software.
* What exactly did you do (or n
3.17 has a new API version number, meaning changes in the protocol.
While the new API *should* be transparent to clients, client developers
might care to test their clients.
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the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts
Package: gpsd
Version: 3.16-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
gpsd 3.17-5+b1 is available for buster and sid. Any chance you could
make it available for stretch backports? I maintain a client for gpsd,
and would like to be able to test it against 3.17 without
Package: owncloud-client-cmd
Version: 2.2.4+dfsg-2
On a fresh bare metal installation of Debian 9.4 stretch, with no GUI,
I installed owncloud-client-cmd.
root@dzur:/etc# pre owncloud
libowncloudsync02.2.4+dfsg-2amd64
owncloud-client-cmd 2.2.4+dfsg-2amd64
owncl
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:25:42 +0100
Eduard Bloch wrote:
> >
> > It is not a good idea to draw conclusions where you have no data.
>
> I don't, you have sent all data. The way you run the commands is
> wrong, you need to use the -t option.
OK, here is what I didn't tell you.
Some time ago, I
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:30:04 +
ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:
> Sorry to tell you that but you seriously failed to RTFM. Please follow
> the instructions at
> https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ .
Why do you draw that conclusion? As a matter of fact, I follow
Package: apt-cacher-ng
Version: 2-1~bpo8+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I attempted to do a normal upgrade:
--
root@freeman:~# time apt-get upgrade ; date
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tr
From the logwatch email the next day.
- dpkg status changes Begin
Installed:
linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64:amd64 4.9.2-2~bpo8+1
Upgraded:
libgd3:amd64 2.1.0-5+deb8u8 => 2.1.0-5+deb8u9
linux-image-amd64:amd64 4.8+77~bpo8+1 => 4.9+78~b
Package: src:linux
Followup-For: Bug #853151
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie) lead to installation of
linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I
This may be an upstream bug.
I pulled in the emacs 24.5 source and compiled it. I do not see the
appointment notifications on it.
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.gz
Also, testing in terminal mode ("emacs -nw") does not produce the
notifications.
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Package: emacs
Version: 46.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I have used emacs' appointment capability extensively for years. It
notifies the user of an appointment on jessie (emacs 23) but does not
do so on wheezy (emacs 24).
* What exactly did you do (o
Package: gvfs
Version: 1.22.2-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
After installing Jessie on clean hardware, I installed the gvfs and
libimobiledevice so as to access an iPhone. Instructions on using this software
I found on the Internet indicated I should
Using libreoffice-calc 1:4.3.2-1~bpo70+1 amd64 on Debian 7.7 as updated
(wheezy).
See the attached test case. If you open this as is, you will see
conditional formatting in portions of rows 4 and 6. It should be in all
used rows and columns except rows 1, 2, and 3.
The following should give you a
Package: alarm-clock-applet
Version: 0.3.3-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I upgraded from Debian 6.0.x (Squeeze) to 7.0 (Wheezy). On attempting
to run the applet from the console, I got an error message that it
could not find libnotify.so.1, and it fail
Package: amanda-common
Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3
Severity: normal
I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails
complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as user
backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you never log onto the
user backup lon
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