I'm working on it. I think I'll just remove the initscript without
replacing it by a systemd unit.
When using systemd, reniced is partly redundant because a unit
override is better suited to change nice level and IO priority of a
service as this will automatically work on service restarts as
Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.221
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
in the newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc we recently had a call for
help because keyboard-configuration did not actually set the keyboard
(see news:uaom6s$2daf5$1...@dont-email.me et seq.).
The fact that
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:32:55PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I've prepared an NMU for reniced (versioned as 1.21-1.2) and uploaded
> it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it.
Dear Adrian,
I really appreciate your NMU.
I neither had the time nor the endurance to look
Package: zfs-dkms
Version: 0.8.6-1~bpo10+1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
The kernel in stretch-backports was updated from 5.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64
to 5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64. After rebooting, I was dropped to the
initramfs rescue shell because my ZFS root file
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> The debian policy recommends that packages build verbosely by default.
FTR: Based on this bug, the next upstream version of gbsplay will
feature the new configure flag --enable-verbosebuild to enable full
debug output in the
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 04:48:45PM +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> Package: reniced
> Version: 1.21-1
> Severity: normal
>
> In daemon.log I read:
>
> Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano reniced[3522]: Starting reniced:
> Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano reniced[3552]: Starting reniced:
> Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano
Package: initramfs-tools-core
Version: 0.133+deb10u1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I have a system using Root on ZFS that failed to boot after a kernel
update, because the ZFS modules were not contained in the initramfs.
The source for the problem seems to be located in the DKMS handling
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 02:08:20PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2019-07-27 Christian Garbs wrote:
> > Package: exim4-base
> > Version: 4.92-8+deb10u1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: ipv6
>
> > After the update from Stretch to Buster, on one of my sy
Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.92-8+deb10u1
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6
After the update from Stretch to Buster, on one of my systems
/etc/cron.daily/exim4-base failed on every run with just
hostname: Name or service not known
as an error message.
I could trace this to the usage of "hostname
I just ran into the same problem and wanted to add that the lock file
was _not_ automatically unlinked on a restart. My hourly get-news
cronjob failed for multiple days in a row.
Manually removing the lockfile fixed the stack-smash error, so thanks for
pointing that out.
Regards
Christian
--
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:26:34AM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 07:00:32PM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote:
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "reniced"
>
> o/
>
> I can do it.
Great! :-)
> > dget -x
> > http://me
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "reniced"
* Package name: reniced
Version : 1.20-1
Upstream Author : Christian Garbs <mi...@cgarbs.de>
* URL : https://github.com/mmitch/r
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:34:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I am not sure where the upstream code sits for this package so I am
> reporting it to distribution. Let me know if I should post the patch
> somewhere else.
> Anyway oom_adj is long deprecated and shouldn't be used. The attached
>
Upstream's guess was not an endianess bug, but rather subtle
differences in floating point math (gbsplay unfortunately has not yet
been rewritten to use fixed point calculations).
After finally getting a MIPS system running under QEMU (with Debian
Etch, I can't find any newer installation
/GPL
That's a problem.
Upstream does not say _which_ GPL version in the README:
| gbsplay - A Gameboy sound player
|
| (C) 2003-2006,2008 by Tobias Diedrich ranma+gbsp...@tdiedrich.de
| Christian Garbs mi...@cgarbs.de
| Maximilian Rehkopf ota...@gmx.net
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:02:15PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
Dear maintainer,
I've prepared an NMU for gbsplay (versioned as 0.0.91-1.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I
should delay it longer.
Hello Sebastian,
thanks for the NMU!
We've done a new
:
gbsplay (0.0.92-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* add debian/watch
-- Christian Garbs deb...@cgarbs.de Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:34:37 +0200
gbsplay (0.0.92-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release (Closes: #715944, #777862).
* Ship contrib/gbs2ogg.sh again, license is now provided
Thanks for the patch!
It has been included upstream, but no new version of gbsplay has been
released yet:
https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/commit/71acdd75a662d6b98bf8837c8578a498d9fee278
Regards
Christian
--
Christian.Garbs.http://www.cgarbs.de
In
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
chapter 2.2 of the Jessie release notes mentions that the version of
the maradns package has been updated from 1.4.12 to 2.0.09
But maradns has not been updated, it's completely missing from
Jessie. The package database lists no version
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
This package is no longer useful since the underlying service (freecode.com)
has now shut down and is no longer accepting new submissions:
The Freecode site has been moved to a static state
Thanks for the info!
I think the whatsnewfm package should thus be removed completely.
I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org for the removal.
(I'm unsure if I should just reassign this bug instead, but I think
I'll just reference it instead.)
Regards
Christian
--
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily newsletter from Freecode.com
(once Freshmeat.net), a repository for free and open source software.
The whatsnewfm project started in 08/2000 and since 04/2004 it has
been an official Debian package. On 2014-06-18
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
On Sun, 4 May 2014, Christian Garbs wrote:
This probably is an upstream bug.
Could this be fixed or forwarded?
I can try, but I don't think there is much development upstream.
Quick hack: When I add -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS
Package: uucp
Version: 1.07-20
Severity: normal
Tags: lfs
Dear Maintainer,
I move backup files via UUCP between my machines. Recently, one of
the backups got larger than 2 GB. I am not longer able to receive the
file via uupick - smaller files still work.
See this example:
Package: inn2
Version: 2.5.3-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
having done a fresh installation of a new inn2 site, I ran into some
small problems with the default installation concerning actsync and
simpleftp.
### symptoms
When actsync tries to get a remote active file via FTP, it
Hello,
the bug has been fixed upstream, but no new version has been released
yet:
https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/commit/983b5f13cfe06c16534f6bd64fb0075388e77ccb
The problem was a large number of songs within a GBS file and a
signed/unsigned mixup: The song number ended up negative and thus
Hi Francois,
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:37:17PM +1300, Francois Marier wrote:
On 2011-11-01 at 13:51:25, Christian Garbs wrote:
Now I'm looking for somebody to sponsor my upload.
I'm happy to sponsor this upload, but I think you might want to fix a few
minor things first:
Ooops, I ran
A new upstream version of whatsnewfm has been released:
http://www.cgarbs.de/whatsnewfm.en.html
Inofficial Debian packages are available from my repository:
http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff/deb-repository.html#whatsnewfm
deb http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff ./
deb-src
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:47:30PM +, Debian bug at v.nix.is wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 20:15, Christian Garbs mi...@cgarbs.de wrote:
To sum it up:
* ps -e should be chosen automatically when you are root
* changing other users' processes as non-root should throw errors
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:56:43PM +, Debian bug at v.nix.is wrote:
I looked at the source code for the 1.18 tarball and it doesn't work
as expected because you're using the --user option to ps:
$ ps H -o lwp,cmd --user 0|wc -l
110
$ ps H -o lwp,cmd --user 1001|wc -l
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:02:09PM +, v.nix.is wrote:
This is hardcoded in the reniced source code:
my $debug = 0;
The debug output is really helpful to find if your rules are taking
effect. I use this hacky wrapper to do this:
perl -0777 -pe 's[debug = \K0][1]'
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:00:01PM +, v.nix.is wrote:
The reniced program is really limited by the hardcoded use of a
`comm' argument to ps(1). It should optionally allow for using
`cmd'. Or any other ps option with a command-line argument.
I've extended the upstream version to include
Package: hugin
Version: 0.8.0-1~1
Severity: wishlist
Yesterday hugin 0.8.0 was released. I've already prepared Debian
packages for the preceding release candidates and now there is a
package of version 0.8.0 as well.
Feel free to have a look at the package from my repository to update
the
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +1200, Francois Marier wrote:
Package: whatsnewfm
Version: 0.7.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
(I was a little bit hesitant to mark this bug as grave, so feel free
to bump the severity down if I'm the only one affected by
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +1200, Francois Marier wrote:
Could this have been caused by a Perl upgrade of some sort in unstable?
This is caused by a change in the newsletter format.
See this bug on sourceforge:
https
-override file
+- remove dpatch invocations
+ * debian/lintian-overrides:
+- add override for desktop-command-not-in-package
+ * debian/dirs:
+- remove unneeded dirs
+- add /usr/share/lintian/overrides/
+ * debian/nekobee.desktop:
+ - fix invalid category
+
+ -- Christian Garbs
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: network boot (CD-ROM did just hang)
Image version:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/mini.iso
Date: 2009-02-16 22:00h
Machine: IBM 43P Model 140 / 7043 (RS/6000 PReP)
Processor: 604e 233
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:09:22PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 16 February 2009, Christian Garbs wrote:
Comments/Problems:
I used http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en
to set up the netboot environment. It does not clearly state which
file to use
Hi there,
I've already packaged ditz 0.4 for Debian.
As I'm only using Etch, the package is(?) only Standards-Version 3.7.2
compliant and I don't know if it works out on the box on unstable or
testing.
It's available either via apt-get[¹] or by direct download links[²].
Feel free to use this
Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote:
There needs to be a distinction between the typographical apostrophe
and the ASCII apostrophe.
I don't know if this can be distinguished in POD at all (then propably
lots of Perl packages would need to be fixed), if the pod2man
Package: libimage-exiftool-perl
Version: 7.30-1
Severity: normal
The manpage exiftool.1p.gz contains (especially in the EXAMPLES
sections) lots of ’ that should be ' instead.
If you copy a line like
exiftool ’-DateTimeOriginalFileModifyDate’ dir
to your shell you will get an error message:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Christian Garbs wrote:
I've just set up a UUCP node and now I want to make it work with
exim4. README.exim4 contains this text:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/uucp/README.exim4
How to put exim4 and uucp together is documented in the
/usr
Package: uucp
Version: 1.07-19.1
Severity: normal
(I am unsure if this classifies as a bug in uucp or exim4)
I've just set up a UUCP node and now I want to make it work with
exim4. README.exim4 contains this text:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/uucp/README.exim4
How to put exim4 and
Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.06-4
Severity: normal
I have 4 volume groups on my system named vg0, sw1, sw2 and sw3.
When I use vgcfgbackup with a template filename like this, I get
errors:
yggdrasil:~# vgcfgbackup -f /tmp/vgbackup-%s
Volume group sw3 successfully backed up.
VGs must be
Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-8
Severity: normal
bash's builtin test function does not honor ACLs.
I have a test file which my user can read, but only because of the
ACLs:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Mail$ ls -l testdatei
-rw-r-+ 1 root root 0 2007-07-01 12:51 testdatei
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Mail$
Package: at
Version: 3.1.10
Severity: normal
After updating to Etch, some of my scripts stopped working because the
batch command no longer understands the -f parameter. In Sarge this
parameter did work (I did not see a note about this during the update,
shouldn't there be a message for
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:17:04AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
How come procmail is recommended by whatsnewfm? I don't see any
explanation for this.
whatsnewfm recommends procmail because procmail is used in the example
configuration (and that's mainly because the author - that's me - only
knows
Package: mimms
Version: 0.0.9-1
Severity: minor
I knew I had a tool to download MMS:// URLs, but I forgot it's name.
So I decided to use `apropos mms` to find the program. This is my
output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos mms
WMXMMS (1) [wmxmms] - a dockable XMMS control applet.
XMMS (1) [xmms]
Package: apt-proxy
Version: 1.9.29
Followup-For: Bug #275658
You can set the nice value for apt-proxy quite easily:
Just add a line like renice 20 $$ to /etc/default/apt-proxy.
This will renice the current process to 20. /etc/default/apt-proxy is
sourced from /etc/init.d/apt-proxy so this also
Package: gphpedit
Severity: minor
There is a typo in the package description line that is visible in
aptitude:
developemnt environment for PHP/HTML/CSS
This should be development instead of developemnt
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500,
tags 193883 + unreproducible
thanks
I can't reproduce this bug any more. (In the meantime, I've changed to
NFS, made several kernel upgrades and switched from woody to sarge.)
If nobody else has encountered this bug then I think it should be closed.
Regardsm
Christian
--
tags 269650 + unreproducible
thanks
I can't reproduce this error any more.
If nobody else has the same problem, I think this bug should be
closed.
Regards,
Christian
--
Christian.Garbs.http://www.cgarbs.de
Mother Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
tags 172271 + patch
thanks
Current status: I'm still looking for a sponsor.
Packages (currently 2.0.5-2) can still be found here:
deb http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./
deb-src http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./
--
Package: bwm
Version: 1.1.0-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Long device names are not cut off properly. I've got a device named
tun6to4_ppp0 for IPv6 which gives me 3 garbled characters and moves
the tables two spaces to the right as shown here:
- snip -
Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.0
Package: tin
Version: 1:1.7.6+rel-1
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
In the German filter menu (scoring for articles) the item
Wähle Msg-Id has four values:
* Nur
* Nein
* Voll
* Letzte
Letzte is too long and always wrapped around to the next line,
regardless of screen width. It looks to me like
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:15:18PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
in the bogofilter manpage (except for an extra -l for syslog output
and an explicit -d ~/.bogofilter to point to my directory).
What's the output of bogoutil -p ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT ?
Thanks, this was a huge push into the
Package: bogofilter
Version: 0.93.3.1-1
Severity: important
I had some problems with the upgrade from 0.93.1 bogofilter version,
so I just removed my old wordlist and started new with a clean and
empty ~/.bogofilter directory.
I'm using procmail to classify my mail, the receipt looks like the
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