Bug#1069316: network-manager-gnome: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-19 Thread David Christensen
Package: network-manager-gnome Version: 1.20.0-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, Please see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00171.html David -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT

Bug#1064870: thunar: Thunar 100% CPU usage sshfs

2024-02-26 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunar Version: 4.16.8-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, When using Thunar to browse a file system mounted via sshfs, Thunar sometimes triggers 100% usage of all CPU's. This persists until Thunar is killed: 2024-02-26 13:26:03

Bug#1053544: librecad: Unicode Captial Delta U+0394 displays as diamond

2023-10-05 Thread David Christensen
Package: librecad Version: 2.1.3-1.3+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, When I insert MText containing a Unicode Capital Delta U+0394, LibreCAD displays a diamond. David -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates

Bug#964565: freeciv: City governor choices wrong when loading saved game

2023-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Package: freeciv-client-gtk Version: 2.6.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #964565 X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, Bug is still present. Bug has been present for *years*. David -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#1028275: perl: Return value of system()

2023-01-15 Thread David Christensen
Debian Bug 1028275: Here is an updated version of the Perl system() test script per the San Francisco Perl Mongers Raku Study Group meeting of January 15, 2023. HTH, David 2023-01-15 16:21:20 dpchrist@laalaa ~/sandbox/perl $ cat system.t #!/usr/bin/env perl # $Id: system.t,v 1.7

Bug#1028275: perl: Return value of system()

2023-01-15 Thread David Christensen
Debian bug 1028275: I have expanded my test script to test Perl's built-in system() with a single argument and with a list of arguments. HTH, David 2023-01-15 13:07:34 dpchrist@laalaa ~/sandbox/perl $ cat system.t #!/usr/bin/env perl # $Id: system.t,v 1.5 2023/01/15 21:07:33 dpchrist Exp

Bug#1028275: perl: Return value of system()

2023-01-14 Thread David Christensen
Debian bug 1028275: Below please find a more sophisticated test script for Perl system() using one argument and sample runs on Debian and FreeBSD. HTH, David 2023-01-14 20:55:10 dpchrist@laalaa /samba/dpchrist/sandbox/perl $ cat system-one-argument.t #!/usr/bin/env perl # $Id:

Bug#1028275: perl: Return value of system()

2023-01-10 Thread David Christensen
On 1/9/23 11:35, Niko Tyni wrote: Hi, this is about a difference in bash vs. dash as /bin/sh. Thank you for the prompt and detailed reply. I agree that fixing Dash seems like the correct solution. I will investigate the alternatives you suggest. David

Bug#1028275: perl: Return value of system()

2023-01-08 Thread David Christensen
Package: perl Version: 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, I am working on some Perl code with child processes and signals. 'perldoc -f system' says: The return value is the exit status of the program as returned by the "wait"

Bug#1028235: magnus: resize is broken

2023-01-08 Thread David Christensen
Package: magnus Version: 1:1.0.3-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, I use the Xfce desktop. When I attempt to resize the Magnus window, the resize mouse pointer is visible, I can drag an edge or corner of the Magnus window, the window size follows the

Bug#1014148: thunar: Tree Side Pane collapse intermittant failure

2022-06-30 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunar Version: 4.16.8-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, When I collapse an expanded folder in the Tree Side Pane of Thunar, sometimes the folder collapses and sometimes the folder collapses and then immediately expands. David -- System

Bug#1013728: mount: exfat filesystem mtime's are wrong

2022-06-24 Thread David Christensen
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.113-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, Please see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001306 David -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 5.10.0-14-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org)

Bug#1012375: perl: Data::Dumper vs. shared and unshared circular loops

2022-06-05 Thread David Christensen
Package: perl Version: 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, Data::Dumper has problems with data structures built with shared arrays and shared hashes that contain self-referencing loops. See console session, below. I suspect the problem is

Bug#1012238: further information

2022-06-01 Thread David Christensen
bug 1012238: Apparently, Thunderbird confused me and/or vice-versa. After continuing to work with Thunderbird, including closing the application and then opening it again, the PDF attachments are now accessible. My WAG is that Thunderbird was doing work in the background and I was driving

Bug#1012238: thunderbird: Thunderbird is destroying attachments

2022-06-01 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:91.9.0-1~deb11u1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, I double-clicked on a PDF attachment to an e-mail. Thunderbird opened the attachment in another tab. I closed Thunderbird. When I opened Thunderbird again, the tab

Bug#996328: further information

2022-05-10 Thread David Christensen
debian bug 996328. I found my spare mouse and plugged it in last week. The random GUI event storms have disappeared. The old mouse is now on the recycle pile. Please close the bug report. Sorry for the confusion, David

Bug#1010333: linux-image-4.9.0-18-amd64: USB keyboard and mouse erratic behavior and USB ports stop working

2022-04-29 Thread David Christensen
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.303-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The USB keyboard and mouse have been intermittently misbehaving on Debian 9, 10, and 11 for over a year: - Random mouse and/or keyboard event storms when I move the mouse. - Repeating keys when no key is pressed. -

Bug#996328: further information

2022-01-08 Thread David Christensen
debian bug 996328: I have been testing video playback and browser graphics/ javascript (?) issues on Debian 9, 10, and 11 with Xfce on two computers: 1. Dell Latitude E6520 with Intel i7-2720QM processor (Intel HD Graphics 3000) and NVIDIA NVS 4200M (NVIDIA Optimus). 2. Tower desktop

Bug#1001359: linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64: exfat filesystem mtime's are wrong

2021-12-08 Thread David Christensen
+0100 From: Chris Hofstaedtler To: David Christensen , 1001...@bugs.debian.org Hello, * David Christensen [211208 05:12]: > Package: mount > Version: 2.36.1-8 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > Please see: > > https

Bug#1001306: mount: exfat filesystem mtime's are wrong

2021-12-07 Thread David Christensen
Package: mount Version: 2.36.1-8 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Dear Maintainer, Please see: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg776840.html David -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#996328: further information

2021-11-21 Thread David Christensen
Firefox has been causing the most problems recently. I was just browsing eBay and looking at photographs. Firefox crashed, crashed Thunderbird, a pop-up menu appeared on the desktop, and the Xfce panel moved away whenever the mouse pointer got near it. David

Bug#996328: further information

2021-10-16 Thread David Christensen
I moved the Debian 10 disk into the Dell Latitude E6520 laptop with optimus graphics. I logged in and opened my usual set of applications -- Thunderbird, Firefox, 2 Thunderbird, and 6 Terminal. I started the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and started a VM in headless mode and then closed the

Bug#996328: Additional information

2021-10-14 Thread David Christensen
bugs.debian.org: I moved the Debian 10 instance disk from the Dell Latitude E6520 laptop with Optimus graphics to a Intel DQ67SW motherboard desktop with Intel integrated graphics. The Xfce desktop issues remain. I installed a Debian 9 instance disk into the DQ67SW and ran it for several

Bug#996328: xfce: Spurious terminal resize event, stuck size indicator, broken keyboard, right-click, and menu

2021-10-12 Thread David Christensen
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.5 Severity: important File: xfce Dear Maintainer, While working in Terminal Emulator, I moved the mouse pointer out of the window. A spurious window resize event occurred, leaving a size indicator "80x32" on the screen. I minimized the window and the indicator

Bug#995262: thunderbird: Detach All saves 27 bytes of gibberish

2021-10-05 Thread David Christensen
On 10/5/21 01:29, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Control: tags -1 unreproducible Control: forcemerge -1 995264 Hello David, Am 28.09.21 um 18:41 schrieb David Christensen: I received a message with several attachments. When I seleected Detach All, Thunderbird wrote files containing the same

Bug#995264: thunderbird: Save As saves empty file or gibberish

2021-09-28 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:78.14.0-1~deb10u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I received an e-mail with attachments. If I right-click on an attachment and choose Save As, Thunderbird variously writes an empty file or a file containing gibberish: $ hexdump Ameriprise\ Planning.pdf

Bug#995262: thunderbird: Detach All saves 27 bytes of gibberish

2021-09-28 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:78.14.0-1~deb10u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I received a message with several attachments. When I seleected Detach All, Thunderbird wrote files containing the same gibberish: $ hexdump image001.png 4e 18 ac 6e 87 72 a5 aa ed c2 29 65 6d e7

Bug#993481: thunar: tree side pane malfunctions when collapsing and expanding folders

2021-09-01 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunar Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using Thundar, if I collapse a folder in the Side Pane in Tree mode and then expand a different folder, Thunar often (25%?) changes the folder selection to the previously collapsed folder and expands the previously selected

Bug#955329: linux-image-4.9.0-12-amd64 breaks LUKS root

2020-07-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-26 18:15, David wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 09:47, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-03-30 02:58, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955329 I updated/ upgraded the system today and whatever broke LUKS when I 'apt-get

Bug#955329: linux-image-4.9.0-12-amd64 breaks LUKS root

2020-07-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-30 02:58, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955329 I updated/ upgraded the system today and whatever broke LUKS when I 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and installed kernel 4.9.0-12-amd64 several months ago now breaks LUKS when I

Bug#955329: Acknowledgement (linux-image-4.9.0-12-amd64: cryptsetup (sda3_crypt) : unknown fstype, bad password or options)

2020-07-26 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-29 17:15, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please send it to 955...@bugs.debian.org. I have been running kernel 4.9.0-11-amd64 prior to and since filing the subject bug report. I have updated/ upgraded my system via

Bug#964565: freeciv: City governor choices wrong when loading saved game

2020-07-08 Thread David Christensen
Source: freeciv Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I save a game and later restore it, the city governor choices are wrong. The city governor choices should be what they were when the game was saved. David -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.12 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT

Bug#933378: bug report should go upstream

2020-04-05 Thread David Christensen
I purged Thunderbird from my system, moved my .thunderbird folder aside, installed Thunderbird, started Thunderbird, set up my e-mail account, shut down Thunderbird, renamed my profile folder and adjusted profiles.ini, and copied the address books and e-mail files and folders from my old

Bug#933378: bug report should go upstream

2020-04-05 Thread David Christensen
I have created a bug report here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627528 I reinstalled my system on February 2, 2020, using the ext4 filesystem for root (and home). Thunderbird is still misbehaving, Same for Thunar. David

Bug#933378: message gone

2020-04-04 Thread David Christensen
I shutdown and restarted Thunderbird. The message with the pending move is now gone. David

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2020-04-04 Thread David Christensen
The problem continues. I attempted to move a message from my Inbox to a local folder about 10 minutes ago. The message disappear from my inbox, the mouse pointer changed to an arrow with an animated blue swirl, and the tab for the destination folder now has an animated blue swirl. The file

Bug#955329: linux-image-4.9.0-12-amd64: cryptsetup (sda3_crypt) : unknown fstype, bad password or options

2020-03-29 Thread David Christensen
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.210-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I upgrade the kernel: 2020-03-29 16:48:15 root@po ~ # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Bug#951404: zfs-dkms: requires Linux headers

2020-02-15 Thread David Christensen
Package: zfs-dkms Version: 0.6.5.9-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Instation of zfs-dkms fails if Linux headers are not installed: 2020-02-15 19:42:47 root@tinkywinky ~ # apt-get install --reinstall zfs-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2020-01-16 Thread David Christensen
My root filesystem (which contains /home/dpchrist/.thunderbird) is btrfs and several years old. It has been acting funny for a while. STFW I recently discovered that btrfs filesystems require maintenance (balancing). Mine was at 100% usage. Balancing by hand was inadequate, so I wrote a

Bug#932990: freeciv: railroad and transformation in adjacent tiles

2019-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/3/19 5:02 AM, Jacob Nevins wrote: The unwanted terrain transformations are by design. Due to pollution, catastrophic climate change has led to terrain changes. See Cities / Pollution in the built-in help. Thank you for the clarification. :-) David

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2019-08-08 Thread David Christensen
On 8/8/19 11:19 AM, David Christensen wrote: I recall creating a message rule to make copies of received messages, but I deleted it because I did not want to deal with the the extra clutter.  Perhaps I should re-implement the rule, and clean the folder periodically -- say, once a week delete

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2019-08-08 Thread David Christensen
On 8/7/19 10:34 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hello David, On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:33:10PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: It did it again -- VERY ANNOYING. there can be several reasons why this is happen, but I also agree this should not happen. As long it's not reproducible

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2019-08-07 Thread David Christensen
It did it again -- VERY ANNOYING.

Bug#933378: thunderbird: disappearing messages

2019-07-29 Thread David Christensen
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:60.8.0-1~deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I received a message in an IMAP Inbox, tried to print it, and tried to move it to a local folder. The hardcopy printed, but the electronic copy is now gone. David -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9

Bug#932990: freeciv: railroad and transformation in adjacent tiles

2019-07-25 Thread David Christensen
Source: freeciv Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Please see attached game save file freeciv-T0202-Y01510-manual.sav.bz2: 1. Swamp near Kobenhavn with roads being upgraded to railroads. 2. Adjacent swamp tile being transformed to swamp. When "Turn Done" is pressed: 1. Swamp is converted

Bug#878313: lightdm-gtk-greeter: laptop, external monitor, Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce, lock screen -> 100 %CPU

2019-05-18 Thread David Christensen
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:41:58 +0100 "Brian J. Oney" wrote: Dear David, did you try the following workaround? echo 'active-monitor=0' | sudo tee -a /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf # And the restart or: sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service If that doesn't work, please send the output

Bug#921132: lightdm: Laptop with external monitor Xfce lock screen causes 100% CPU

2019-02-01 Thread David Christensen
Package: lightdm Version: 1.18.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with Debian 9.7 amd64 and Xfce. I use an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse via a KVM switch. When I lock the screen, the CPU goes to 100%: 2019-02-01 15:29:57 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $

Bug#915556: samba: Failed to preset unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service is masked.

2018-12-04 Thread David Christensen
Source: samba Version: 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Please see thread on debian-user mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00044.html David -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#894536: vim: Name suggestions for edit command should not include directories

2018-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 04/02/18 18:16, Jason Pleau wrote: Hi On 04/01/2018 01:27 AM, David Christensen wrote: Package: vim Version: 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The 'e' (edit) command of Vim has command-line completion. Items offered include file names and directory names. Directory

Bug#894536: vim: Name suggestions for edit command should not include directories

2018-03-31 Thread David Christensen
Package: vim Version: 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The 'e' (edit) command of Vim has command-line completion. Items offered include file names and directory names. Directory names should not be included by default. TIA, David -- Package-specific info: --- real

Bug#857597: closed by Lukas Schwaighofer <lu...@schwaighofer.name> (Re: Bug#857597: debian-cd: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC)

2017-12-16 Thread David Christensen
Debian Bug Tracking System: debian-9.3.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso on a USB flash drive boots to Debian Installer on computer with Intel D865GBFLK motherboard and Pentium 2.8E GHz processor. Thank you, everybody. :-) David

Bug#879571: apache2: Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_DIR} is not defined

2017-10-22 Thread David Christensen
Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.25-3+deb9u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 2017-10-22 15:57:33 root@tinkywinky ~ # apache2 -V [Sun Oct 22 16:00:22.903369 2017] [core:warn] [pid 4980] AH00111: Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_DIR} is not defined apache2: Syntax error on line 80 of

Bug#857597: debian-cd: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC

2017-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 10/20/17 12:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: the weekly testing ISOs for i386 and amd64 are now equipped with the new MBR: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ... Testers wanted for booting this ISO from USB stick. Boots

Bug#878313: lightdm-gtk-greeter: laptop, external monitor, Debian 9.2 amd64 Xfce, lock screen -> 100 %CPU

2017-10-12 Thread David Christensen
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter Version: 2.0.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Install Debian 9 amd64 Xfce on Dell Inspiron 6400 and update. Connect external monitor, switch screen to external monitor, close laptop lid. Add CPU Graphs and Action Buttons to Xfce

Bug#871834: xfce4: Panel Clock broken

2017-08-11 Thread David Christensen
See Xfce bug report, including source code correction: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11527 David

Bug#871834: xfce4: Panel Clock broken

2017-08-11 Thread David Christensen
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Forwarded Message Subject: Debian 9.1 amd64 Xfce panel clock broken Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 17:13:55 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org debian-user:

Bug#860925: xfce4: laptop external monitor wallpaper stuck in tiled default

2017-04-21 Thread David Christensen
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.10.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 laptop: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/servicetag/C86YXB1/configuration I have upgraded the RAM to 2 @ 1 GB and upgraded the processor to an Intel Core 2 T7400. I am

Bug#857597: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC

2017-03-17 Thread David Christensen
syslinux at zytor.com: I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed. I would like to put Debian on them. I have downloaded:

Bug#857597: debian-cd: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC

2017-03-16 Thread David Christensen
On 03/16/2017 07:53 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: ACK, that sounds most likely from what you're describing. Being honest, there's not much we'll be able to do about that directly I'm afraid. If you're prepared to help debug that, please talk to the syslinux developers? Thanks for the reply. How

Bug#857597: debian-cd: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC

2017-03-12 Thread David Christensen
Package: debian-cd Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed. I would like to put Debian on them. I have downloaded: debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso

Bug#840705: libtest-compile-perl: all_pl_files_ok() fails if blib/ directory missing

2016-10-13 Thread David Christensen
Package: libtest-compile-perl Version: 0.17-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was working on my Perl library when I noticed that Test::Compile::all_pl_files_ok() failed if the blib/ directory did not exist: 2016-10-13 19:47:31 dpchrist@t7400 ~/src/Dpchrist-Lib2 $ cat t/compile_pl.t use

Bug#836568: vlc: short drop-out at start when playing audio file

2016-09-03 Thread David Christensen
Package: vlc Version: 2.1.5-1~bpo70+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Whenever I play an audio file, there is a short drop-out at the start: 1. I hear a short burst of audio (~100 milliseconds?) 2. I hear silence (~1 second) 3. I hear the rest of the audio. A console session follows.

Bug#821334: approx: 'apt-get update' yields 'Err http://approx wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages'

2016-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 04/18/2016 07:14 AM, Eric Cooper wrote: I'm not sure, but due to the way mirrors work, it's often difficult to reproduce some problems, and they often just "go away" when you retry. For example, the ftp.us.debian.org mirror is actually round-robined among multiple sites. A longstanding

Bug#821334: approx: 'apt-get update' yields 'Err http://approx wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages'

2016-04-17 Thread David Christensen
On 04/17/2016 04:28 PM, Eric Cooper wrote: Sorry, I should have noticed sooner that you're running the version from wheezy. Can you try installing the version from wheezy-backports: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/approx and see if that works better? Okay -- I upgraded Approx

Bug#821334: approx: 'apt-get update' yields 'Err http://approx wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages'

2016-04-17 Thread David Christensen
On 04/17/2016 01:51 PM, Eric Cooper wrote: Can you please enable debugging for the approx server (add a "$debug true" line to /etc/approx/approx.conf), and then send me the relevant part of the log (in /var/log/daemon.log for example) when this error occurs. Thanks. Thanks for the prompt

Bug#821334: approx: 'apt-get update' yields 'Err http://approx wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages'

2016-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Package: approx Version: 5.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Apt and/or Approx are having trouble fetching packages for 'wheezy-updates'. Without Approx, Apt is happy: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src

Bug#818311: sysvinit: 'shutdown -h now' and GUI Shutdown result in restart

2016-03-15 Thread David Christensen
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I attempt to power down my system via 'shutdown -h now' or via a desktop or a login manager GUI 'Shutdown' selection, the system restarts. This problem began sometime after March 10, 2016. David -- System

Bug#810474: cups: Unable to clear print queue

2016-01-12 Thread David Christensen
On 01/12/2016 08:15 AM, Brian Potkin wrote: Thank you for your report, David. Thank you for responding. Please post the entry for the printer in /etc/cups/printers.conf. $ sudo cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.5.3 # Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS

Bug#810474: cups: Unable to clear print queue

2016-01-08 Thread David Christensen
Package: cups Version: 1.5.3-5+deb7u6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I print a large job from an application and then discover it is bad, I am unable to stop the job and clear the print queue. - If I power down the printer, the print job restarts when I power up the printer. - If I

Bug#809368: handbrake: Regular -> Normal -> Subtitle List -> Add All -> Encode Failed

2015-12-29 Thread David Christensen
Package: handbrake Version: 0.9.9+svn6422+dfsg1-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I am attempting to rip a DVD movie. There seems to be a problem around chapters 21-22. If I select: Presets List -> Regular -> Normal Subtitle Defaults -> Add All HandBrake stops, the status bar says

Bug#807854: additional information

2015-12-13 Thread David Christensen
I noted the problem when opening a *.txt file. STFW Xfce stores file associations for a given user in: ~/.config/mimeapps.list Mine contained two entries that seem to be the source of the bug: 2015-12-13 13:23:42 dpchrist@i72600s ~/.config $ egrep -i '^\[|devede'

Bug#807854: devede: DeVeDe hijacks file associations in Xfce

2015-12-13 Thread David Christensen
Package: devede Version: 3.23.0-13-gbfd73f3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I installed devede using apt-get. Now whenever I double-click on any file in the Xfce file manager (Thunar), DeVeDe starts. It appears that DeVeDe has hijacked the file associations in Xfce/ Thunar. David --

Bug#807854: Fwd: additional information

2015-12-13 Thread David Christensen
> I noted the problem when opening a *.txt file. After I had configured Thunar to open *.devede files using DeVeDe. David

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Can you please send the complete dmesg output? Attached. Probably something like this would work (see modules-load.d(5)): # echo nouveau > /etc/modules-load.d/nouveau.conf This would hopefully load the nouveau kernel module early enough.

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/2015 10:26 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: I see two notable things here: - There is no sign of the i915 module being loaded, I guess the on-board graphics is disabled in the BIOS/UEFI? These are the only things I see in CMOS setup that seem to be related to graphics: Settings ->

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/2015 11:42 AM, David Christensen wrote: Let me try again, using a stopwatch: 0:00 push power button 0:07 POST displayed 0:12 GRUB menu displayed 0:17 GRUB runs 0:23 LUKS prompt displayed 1:00 LUKS passphrase entered 1:08 login screen displayed 2

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-12 Thread David Christensen
On 11/12/2015 10:13 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Could you please start your system without X? On a standard Jessie installation with systemd as init and gmd3 as display-manager, you can add "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" to the kernel command line to achieve that. When I power-up, 'Debian

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-12 Thread David Christensen
On 11/12/2015 02:05 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: Please press 'e' rather than 'c' in the grub menu and edit the line starting with "linux". Okay: linux /vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt\ ro quiet systemd.unit=multi-user.target Then press Ctrl+x to boot. I arrive at

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-10 Thread David Christensen
On 11/07/2015 12:32 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Fair enough, I won't bother you again then. My apologies for mistakenly thinking you would appreciate help. First, I apologize for my earlier complaint about shipping product with known bugs. Companies that refuse to disclose relevant technical

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-05 Thread David Christensen
On 11/05/2015 10:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Thank you for your reply. :-) Your logs show that the nouveau kernel module loads too late, did you blacklist it? No. This is not going to work, Correct. see #700946. So, the Debian project is shipping "stable" product with known Nvidia

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-05 Thread David Christensen
On 11/05/2015 11:51 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 11/05/2015 10:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Your logs show that the nouveau kernel module loads too late, You need to figure out why it's not loaded earlier by udev then. No, thanks. David

Bug#804110: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: fresh install debian-8.2.0-amd64, Xfce yields black screen at login

2015-11-04 Thread David Christensen
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.11-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Today I did a fresh install of debian-8.2.0-amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6520 with an Nvidia NVS-4200M (N12P-NS2) graphics adapter. After rebooting, the login screen briefly flashes on the screen and then

Bug#783204: libfilter-perl requires gcc

2015-04-23 Thread David Christensen
Package: libfilter-perl Version: 1.45-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I installed libfilter-cpp today on Wheezy. When I attempted to use it: $ head -n 2 filter-cpp.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Filter::cpp ; $ perl filter-cpp.pl Cannot find cpp at filter-cpp.pl line 2 Compilation failed in

Bug#775714: closed by Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org (Re: Bug#775714: pavucontrol: Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s)

2015-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 01/19/2015 05:21 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: The problem is that you do not have pulseaudio installed. Pavucontrol in Wheezy is missing the Recommends on pulseaudio, which is why you did not get it installed automatically (this has been fixed since in the testing distribution).

Bug#775714: pavucontrol: Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s

2015-01-18 Thread David Christensen
Package: pavucontrol Version: 1.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I just installed pavucontrol. Using Xfce and choosing rodent - Multimedia - PulseAudio Volume Control, I get a pop-up: Volume Control Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s In this case this is likely

Bug#760213: apt-get should not install Recommended packages by default

2014-09-01 Thread David Christensen
Package: apt Version: 1.0.6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, It is wasteful for apt-get to install recommended packages by default. For example: 2014-09-01 14:33:26 root@dc86yxb1 ~ # apt-get install kernel-package | grep 'Need to get' Need to get 745 MB of archives. n

Bug#760239: fs/aufs/i_op.c:435:28: error: 'struct mutex' has no member named 'owner'

2014-09-01 Thread David Christensen
Package: linux-source Version: 3.14+59 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am attempting to compile a realtime kernel on and for Jessie i386. I started with the configuration file /boot/config-3.14-2-686-pae and made two changes via menuconfig: Preemption Model= Fully Preemptible

Bug#746804: libipc-run-perl: IPC::Run::_write call to POSIX::write() causes process to exit

2014-05-03 Thread David Christensen
Package: libipc-run-perl Version: 0.92-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am working on a Perl module that uses IPC::Run. During testing, my test script exits without explanation. Using the Perl debugger, I traced it to where IPC::Run::_write() calls POSIX::write():

Bug#746804: demonstration script

2014-05-03 Thread David Christensen
Dear Maintainer, The bug is triggered if the caller uses a STDIN callback that accesses a package or lexical array variable in the caller. Please see demonstration script and console session, below. David 2014-05-03 12:51:49 dpchrist@dev ~/sandbox/perl $ cat

Bug#746804: updated demonstration script

2014-05-03 Thread David Christensen
Dear Maintainer, The bug also occurs if the STDIN callback attempts to return an empty array in it's own scope. David 2014-05-03 13:03:19 dpchrist@dev ~/sandbox/perl $ cat IPC-Run-run_stdin-callback-return-array.t #! /usr/bin/perl # $Id: IPC-Run-run_stdin-callback-return-array.t,v 1.5

Bug#739817: mate-applets: sound does not work OOTB

2014-02-22 Thread David Christensen
Package: mate-applets Version: 1.6.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I've recently started building desktop machines using Debian Wheezy and MATE. Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box (OOTB) settings for the MATE Mixer applet are such that sound does not work (e.g. muted, sliders down,

Bug#738502: freeciv-client-gtk: earth-80x50-v3.sav.gz Unknown savefile format version (10) Failure loading savegame!

2014-02-10 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: Should I expect an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to fix these bugs/ issues in the future, or not? If so, when? If not, why? On 02/10/2014 05:22 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: There are three different options: 1. You could wait for the next stable release, Jessie, which is going

Bug#738502: freeciv-client-gtk: earth-80x50-v3.sav.gz Unknown savefile format version (10) Failure loading savegame!

2014-02-10 Thread David Christensen
Distractions... I wrote: Such a practical is harmful to users, ^ practice David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#738502: freeciv-client-gtk: earth-80x50-v3.sav.gz Unknown savefile format version (10) Failure loading savegame!

2014-02-09 Thread David Christensen
Package: freeciv-client-gtk Version: 2.3.2-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, When I choose Start Scenario Game - Earth (classic/small) - OK, it doesn't work. The console window says: Freeciv is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; See the

Bug#738502: freeciv-client-gtk: earth-80x50-v3.sav.gz Unknown savefile format version (10) Failure loading savegame!

2014-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 02/09/2014 05:45 PM, Jacob Nevins wrote: This is a known upstream bug in 2.3.2 (bug #20050) ... ... open security issues ... CVE-2012-5645, CVE-2012-6083. Should I expect an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to fix these bugs/ issues in the future, or not? If so, when? If not, why?

Bug#731988: libpoet-perl: Error while loading ... app.psgi: Can't locate Plack/Middleware/Debug.pm in @INC

2013-12-11 Thread David Christensen
Package: libpoet-perl Version: 0.11-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I installed libpoet-perl and am attempting to follow along with the example in Poet::Manual::Intro. Creating the application appears to have worked: 2013-12-11 17:03:06 dpchrist@desktop ~/sandbox/perl/poet $ poet new MyApp

Bug#728065: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728065: thunar: USB and eSATA devices not seen by Thunar

2013-11-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/29/2013 09:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: I am in the process of preparing to wipe and rebuild the machine having the eSATA problems. I'll report when I have more information. USB hotplug is working. eSATA hotplug is not working. See console session, below. External drive works

Bug#728065: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728065: Bug#728065: thunar: USB and eSATA devices not seen by Thunar

2013-10-30 Thread David Christensen
On 10/30/2013 12:58 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: It might help to try with a more recent kernel (I assume you're using a stock Debian kernel?). Whenever I start using backports, using CPAN, hand compiling software, etc., my systems start breaking. So, I try to stick with stock Debian Stable

Bug#728065: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728065: thunar: USB and eSATA devices not seen by Thunar

2013-10-29 Thread David Christensen
On 10/29/2013 12:23 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Actually, that's not a good test. Thunar only supports/shows USB Mass Storage devices, which Canon cameras are not (they use some proprietary canon protocol on USB mode, or PTP on PTP mode). You need to interface with it using gphoto2, which is

Bug#728065: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728065: thunar: USB and eSATA devices not seen by Thunar

2013-10-28 Thread David Christensen
On 10/28/13 00:31, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: is udisks2 installed? Apparently not. David 2013-10-28 08:42:11 root@p43200 ~ # apt-get install udisks2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package udisks2 2013-10-28

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