Bug#795381: mate-control-center: mate-display-properties crashes as soon as called

2015-08-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: mate-control-center Version: 1.8.3+dfsg1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when mate-display-properties is called, a window flashes and the program crashes. The message only says there is a segment violation, and gdb says the program is stopped in _start. This problem prevents me

Bug#548190: xz-utils: --force not compatible with gzip and bzip2

2009-09-24 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.8beta-1 Severity: normal Xz does not implement a very useful feature found in gzip and bzip2 when using the --force option. This is the relevant bzip2 doc: bzip2 normally declines to decompress files which don't have the correct magic header bytes.

Bug#532189: aptitude: 'hold' does not work

2009-09-18 Thread Francesco Potorti`
# aptitude hold storebackup Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
#541192: smartmontools: does not send mail It has been closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it. I think the bug should not be closed. As I stated in a previous message, there are two issues: one is with the program itself, and one with the packaging. Please reopen this bug. -- To

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
1) smartd problem: if a 'mail' program is not found, smartd does not signal any error with the above DEVICESCAN line This is not a bug, it is intentional: # Send mail if /usr/bin/mail exists or exit silently [ -x /usr/bin/mail ] || exit 0 I think this is a bug. If I explicitely ask for a

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
If the mailer or the shell running it produces any STDERR/STDOUT output, then a snippet of that output will be copied to SYSLOG. The remainder of the output is discarded. If problems are encountered in sending mail, this should help you to understand and fix them. So you

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
If you use -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner this is expected. It is a specific Debian script and it launches every script in /etc/smartmontools/run.d/ instead of the hardcoded /usr/bin/mail. Try to remove the -M exec option, and you will get a warning in your syslog. Yes! Okay, so

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
No, that *is* *intentional*. script under /etc/smartmontools/run.d/ must not return errors. I see. However, even if it intentional, I think it is a bug. If something goes wrong, for whatever reason, and you conceal the error message that enables the user to understand what's going on, then this

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
No, that *is* *intentional*. script under /etc/smartmontools/run.d/ must not return errors. I see. However, even if it intentional, I think it is a bug. If something goes wrong, for whatever reason, and you conceal the error message that enables the user to understand what's going on,

Bug#541192: closed by Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it (Fixed)

2009-09-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I agree with this criticism. If the user has included a '-M' option and /usr/bin/mail does NOT exist, the script should NOT exit silently; it should generate visible error messages explaining what is wrong. Do you mean also -M exec script ? The main problem, maybe, is with -M test. It is

Bug#543422: storebackup: cannot backup in the same place where an old backup resides

2009-08-31 Thread Francesco Potorti`
this seems to work for me. Can you please double-check? Indeed, it works with the version you sent me. For some reason, Debian's libraries are different. Here is a diff: ===File /tmp/diff=== tucano:~# for f in /tmp/storeBackup/lib/*; do diff -u $f

Bug#543422: storebackup: cannot backup in the same place where an old backup resides

2009-08-24 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: storebackup Version: 3.2-1 Severity: normal I wanted to make a backup in a remote dir where I had a single old backup from 2006. However, storebackup gives an error while reading the old backup's info file. I had to purge it from some variables in order to have storebackup working. It

Bug#543422: Acknowledgement (storebackup: cannot backup in the same place where an old backup resides)

2009-08-24 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I should add that I would have found the reason for the bug more easily if the logs contained lines like 'reading the info file ' 'info file read successfully' Since I at it, one more suggestion: at the end of the log, it would be helpful if the warning summary were divided into categories.

Bug#541541: xz-utils: should conflict with lzip

2009-08-14 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.8beta-1 Severity: normal tucano:/var/log# dpkg -i /tmp/xz-utils_4.999.8beta-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package xz-utils. dpkg: considering removing lzma in favour of xz-utils ... dpkg: yes, will remove lzma in favour of xz-utils. (Reading

Bug#541320: gnome-media: no mixer with pulseaudio

2009-08-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnome-media Version: 2.26.0-1 Severity: normal I have pulseaudio installed and working on a Gnome environment. When I try to get a mixer for changing PCM volume and so on, I have to resort to the command line by calling gnome-volume-control.gstreamer. In fact, I have the volume control

Bug#541192: smartmontools: does not send mail

2009-08-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
DEVICESCAN -a -n standby -s (S/../.././00|L/../../6/07) -m root -M test -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner In the non-working machine, the daemon log says that smartmontoools succesfully sent the test mails, but in fact nothing was sent. Curiously, if I just call smartd -d

Bug#541192: smartmontools: does not send mail

2009-08-12 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-3 Severity: normal smartmontools does not send mail to root even if it believes it does so. I have two boxes, with the same version of smartmontools and the same configure file (but different disk arrangements). In one everything works as expected, while in

Bug#541217: pulseaudio: pulseaudio does not use real-time scheduling

2009-08-12 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.15-4.1 Severity: normal Since I experience glitches in the sound output while using Rhythmbox, I set realtime-scheduling = yes in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. My user is part of the pulse-rt group. However, when the gnome session starts pulseaudio, it cannot get

Bug#519284: smartmontools: does not start any more after upgrade

2009-08-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-3 Severity: normal After the last testing upgrade, smartmontools refuses to start: Please have a look at syslog or run smartd from the commandline to find out what causes the problem. Sorry for the delay. It turned out it was an error in the

Bug#519284: smartmontools: does not start any more after upgrade

2009-08-06 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-3 Severity: normal After the last testing upgrade, smartmontools refuses to start: Please have a look at syslog or run smartd from the commandline to find out what causes the problem. Sorry for the delay. It turned out it was an error in the previous

Bug#412291: closed by Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org (reply to dan...@debian.org) (Re: linuxlogo: installation instructions missing for upstart)

2009-07-28 Thread Francesco Potorti`
For installations (liku Ubuntu's) using the upstart package, instructions in the Readme should not mention /etc/inittab for modifying getty options, but rather /etc/event.d/tty[1-6]. Ok, sorry for the delay. Here is the requested info. This piece in the README:

Bug#523111: Check

2009-07-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Could you check this bug on the soon ekiga 3.2.5 please? That would be difficult: I would have to save my address book somehow, downgrade to Ekiga 2, restere my address book by hand, and then upgrade to 3.2.5. Sorry, I cannot do that :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#535080: octave3.2: imfinfo not working

2009-06-29 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave3.2 Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: normal octave imfinfo(/home/work/tabatinga/tmp/00-01b.ppm) error: `__magick_finfo__' undefined near line 129 column 12 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#533196: a2ps: integer padding with '0' impossible

2009-06-15 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.14-1 Severity: normal I found no way of using escapes with integer padding on the left with the character '0'. If I use --footer=2007/%+06p. I get padding with spaces, apparently because 0 is taken as part of the field width specification. If I got the explanation

Bug#532899: bash: problem with for loop in process substitution with function

2009-06-12 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: bash Version: 3.2-5 Severity: normal I may well be missing something, but this does not look normal to me: $ function mmmtest { echo $1; cat $1; } $ mmmtest (for i in {1..3}; do echo K; done) /dev/fd/63 K $ I was expecting three rows with 'K'. This one works: $ mmmtest (eval for i in

Bug#532909: ffmpeg: ffplay crashes on a corrupted TS stream

2009-06-12 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: ffmpeg Version: 5:0.5+svn20090508-0.1 Severity: normal ffplay http://fly.isti.cnr.it/tmp/bad.ts crashes after a while. THe TS is indeed corrupt, but this should not justify a core dump. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990,

Bug#532911: mplayer: crashes on a corrupted TS stream

2009-06-12 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: mplayer Version: 1:1.0.rc2svn20090508-0.0 Severity: normal mplayer http://fly.isti.cnr.it/tmp/bad.ts crashes after a while. The TS stream is indeed corrupted, but this should not justify a segment violation. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#532175: closed by Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com (Bug#532175: fixed in storebackup 3.1-2)

2009-06-10 Thread Francesco Potorti`
The developers reference says this: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-news-debian Important news about changes in a package can also be put in NEWS.Debian files. and It is better than using debconf notes since it is less annoying and the user

Bug#532175: closed by Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com (Bug#532175: fixed in storebackup 3.1-2)

2009-06-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I think that the current solution is not enough. The NEWS file sits there, but people do not usually read the NEWS files of all packages when they upgrade them. This change is important enough to grant a warning that requires user interaction during upgrade, asking if user wants to continue with

Bug#532435: closed by maximilian attems m...@stro.at (Re: Bug#532435: initramfs-tools: dpkg warning during update)

2009-06-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
next time check for existing reports. Once in a while I report duplicated bugs (maybe once in ten reports). If I had to always check for duplicates, I'd probably give up with most reports, because that takes time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#532175: closed by Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com (Bug#532175: fixed in storebackup 3.1-2)

2009-06-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I think that the current solution is not enough. The NEWS file sits there, but people do not usually read the NEWS files of all packages when they upgrade them. no, it doesn't have to just sit there. install apt-listchanges. I did not know about it, thanks. I installed it now, and I see

Bug#532342: timeout: does not exit until timeout when launched in a cgi

2009-06-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: timeout Version: 1.18-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/timeout I have a cgi which ends like this: /usr/bin/timeout 60 /usr/bin/octave --quiet --norc --no-history cgi.m as a safety net against the octave process going astray. It used to work until some time back. Now it just sits

Bug#532342: timeout: does not exit until timeout when launched in a cgi

2009-06-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I can confirm that downgrading to 1.18-2 solves the problem. -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore)Voice: +39 050 315 3058 (op.2111) ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Fax: +39 050 315 2040 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Email: poto...@isti.cnr.it (entrance 20, 1st floor, room

Bug#532179: storebackup: should require libcompress-bzip2-perl

2009-06-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: storebackup Version: 3.1-1 Severity: important Storebackup should now require libcompress-bzip2-perl -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#532175: storebackup: should not upgrade by default

2009-06-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: storebackup Version: 3.1-1 Severity: important The syntax of storebackup has changed, so old configurations do not work any more. Storebackup should not be upgraded without warning. The users should be required to confirm that they indeed want to install the new, incompatible package.

Bug#532176: storebackup: precommand cannot be given no value

2009-06-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: storebackup Version: 3.1-1 Severity: normal Form the isntructions it appears that precommand= should work in the conf file, as it gives no value ot precommand. Unfortunatly, this generates an error. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#532189: aptitude: 'hold' does not work

2009-06-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b1 Severity: normal I do # aptitude hold storebackup Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No

Bug#532179: storebackup: should require libcompress-bzip2-perl

2009-06-07 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: storebackup Version: 3.1-1 Severity: important Storebackup should now require libcompress-bzip2-perl you mean libio-compress-bzip2-perl, yes? Ok, that explains something I could not understand :) Anyway, this should be a recommend, rather than require. And consequently the

Bug#221636: new version of localepurge

2009-05-29 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I wrote a new version of localepurge which should close all these bugs. Find it at http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/software/unix/localepurge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#528547: videolan-doc: please add an index file at the root

2009-05-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: videolan-doc Version: 20070626-1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice to have an index.html file under the html directory, made from the original index.php file. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#195839: gnupg: no docs on how trust chains are computed

2009-05-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Are you satisfied with the current documentation, so I can close this bug report? THe info I was looking for is now in gnupg-doc. If not: Can you please send an update to your report (I guess, documentation has changed since gnupg 1.2.x). I'll send a new bug report for gnupg-doc, as I think

Bug#527582: gnupg-doc: suspect errors in the web of trust description

2009-05-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnupg-doc Version: 2003.04.06+dak1-0.1 Severity: normal In the GNU Privacy Handbook, in the table following Figure 3-1 in the Using trust to vavlidate keys chapter, there is one error and one thing to clarify. The error is that, in the last case, Dharma's key is fully valid, but its

Bug#527608: eog: all black display with small svg file

2009-05-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: eog Version: 2.24.3.1-1 Severity: normal Eog shows an all black display with this svg file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=no? !-- Generated by dot version 2.2.1 (Wed Aug 2 14:46:35 UTC 2006) For user: (nobody) The Anonymous One Title: mpegPages: 1 -- svg

Bug#526319: udev: gives to names to the same eth interface

2009-04-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: udev Version: 0.141-1 Severity: normal ===File /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules=== # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules # program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file. # # You can modify it, as long as you

Bug#520501: downgrading gnome-volume-manager

2009-04-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I cannot get automount. I downgraded gnome-volume-manager from 2.24.1-2 to 2.22.1-1. Now I can mount a removeable device from Nautilus' contextual menu by chooing the Mount volume entry, but no automount. With 2.24.1-2 chhosing the Mount volume entry does nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#519754: solved in 2.1.2

2009-04-28 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Apparently 2.1.2-1 has solved the problem. It works now for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#520255: gnome-user-guide: too big -- 50 MB is too much

2009-04-28 Thread Francesco Potorti`
This is a version of localepurge that behaves like the previous version plus: - purges locale files under /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML - has undergone some cleanup - is faster. I do not currently plan to make more improvements. I suggest that this version replace the one currently distributed with

Bug#524473: gnome-terminal: Open link does not work for me

2009-04-27 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Update: after opening the preferred application dialog (gnome-default-applications-properties), changing the web browser preference and changing it back again, the problem disappears. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#520255: gnome-user-guide: too big -- 50 MB is too much

2009-04-22 Thread Francesco Potorti`
This is a partly rewritten version of localepurge. It is more modular and thus much more readable. Still needs modularisation and optimisation, but it is better than the previous version I sent. Still does not purge Kde files. I see that multilingual help files are under

Bug#524473: gnome-terminal: Open link does not work for me

2009-04-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.24.3-3 Severity: normal The Open link entry does nothing any more. Looking at ~/.xsession-errors I see that each time I use it this line is produced: Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid

Bug#524473: gnome-terminal: Open link does not work for me

2009-04-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I corrected the problem by resetting the Preferred Applications for web browser. For some reason, the old setting did not work any more with icewasel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#523081: gnumeric: cannot enter a line break into a text cell

2009-04-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
This glyph should only be visible in the data entry widget (where it indicates the newline character), not in the regular workbook cells (where the text should be displayed with line breaks). Is that not the case for you? Apparently, it depends. I attach a Gnumerica spreadsheet where I can

Bug#519754: me too

2009-04-16 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: timer-applet Version: 2.0.1-4 Severity: important I can confirm the bug report. This renders timer-applet useless, I am forced to remove it from the panel :( Downgrading to 2.0.1-3 does not solve the problem, and version 1.3.1-1 does not load, but gives an error. -- System

Bug#205214: Bug#520255: gnome-user-guide: too big -- 50 MB is too much

2009-04-10 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I added omf purging to the localepurge script. It now deletes files under /usr/share/locale /usr/share/man /usr/share/gnome/help /usr/share/omf The script is vastly inefficient, and it would be easy to make it more efficient using bash pattern matching rather than grep. I can do that, if

Bug#523081: gnumeric: cannot enter a line break into a text cell

2009-04-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.9.4-1 Severity: wishlist I found no way to enter a line break into a cell, maybe there is not one, or it is not documented. The obvious way should be Alt+Enter. However, this introduces an unknown character (one whose glyph is a square with four symbols within). --

Bug#523082: gnumeric: bad resize on paste for wrapping style

2009-04-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.9.4-1 Severity: normal To reproduce: - open a new sheet - select row 1 - apply the wrap text format to it - in A1 write aaa - select A1 and copy - in B1 write aaa b: the rwo height adapts to accommodate two lines of text - select C1 and paste After

Bug#523111: ekiga: forgets previous calls and address book addresses

2009-04-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: ekiga Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: important After upgrading from Ekiga 2 to Ekiga 3, I found myself filling the initial forms that pop up for an unconfigured Ekiga. When opening the address book, I see that my contacts are all there, but they are all empty. Which means that only the

Bug#520255: gnome-user-guide: too big -- 50 MB is too much

2009-04-06 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I enhanced the localpurge script. Now it deletes .po files in /usr/share/locale, which were previously left alone, and deletes locale files under /usr/share/gnome/help. ===File /usr/sbin/localepurge=== #!/bin/sh # Deleting all locale files and localized man pages

Bug#521867: xorg: double shift does not change layout

2009-03-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: normal Using the keyboard preference tool, I set both shift keys together to change layout. In fact, I always had this setting working for me until maybe one month ago. Now both shift keys do nothing. Same if I enable both alt keys to do the job.

Bug#518011: evince: crashes when overwritng a read-only file

2009-03-11 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Can you also test with 2.24 from experimental? I installed: libgtk2.0-0_2.14.7-4_amd64.deb libgnome-keyring0_2.24.1-1_amd64.deb evince_2.24.2-1_amd64.deb evince-dbg_2.24.2-1_amd64.deb and now I get: $ /usr/bin/evince ** (evince:13014): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for

Bug#518011: evince: crashes when overwritng a read-only file

2009-03-11 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I discovered that I had a 2.22.2 evince still running. I closed it and reinstalled everything. I still get the same dbus warning as before. I tried reading a pdf file and saving it overwriting a differnet 444 mode pdf file and I got correct results: a warning dialog and no crash. -- Francesco

Bug#519284: smartmontools: does not start any more after upgrade

2009-03-11 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-3 Severity: normal After the last testing upgrade, smartmontools refuses to start: ... Errors were encountered while processing: smartmontools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up

Bug#519090: gnuplot: please package gnuplot 4.3.0

2009-03-10 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.2.4-4 Severity: wishlist Get it from http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/gnuplot-4.3.0-2008-11-21.tar.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture:

Bug#519090: Gnuplot mouse half-working

2009-03-10 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Sergei Steshenko: One has to use this: http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/ - http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/gnuplot-4.3.0-2008-11-21.tar.gz - works for me. Good, for me too, thanks. By the way, if anyone wants an amd64 build for Debian testing, I can send it. Or else the src

Bug#518011: evince: crashes when overwritng a read-only file

2009-03-03 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: evince Version: 2.22.2-4 Severity: normal While displaying a PDF file, I save a copy trying to overwrite a read-only PDF file (mode 444) owned by me on a directory owned by me. After asking if I really want to overwrite the file, evince dumps core. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#515743: octave3.1: 3.1.51 and 3.1.52

2009-02-23 Thread Francesco Potorti`
3.1.52-1 and 3.1.52-2 have problems with plotting when printing to png or svg. In the former, antialising apparently does not work, so both lines and numbers are ugly. We have already explained this, apparently it is not a bug. About the title size to be different from before, it is in fact

Bug#516772: octave3.1: does not see installed packages

2009-02-23 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave3.1 Version: 3.1.52-4 Severity: normal $ mv ~/.octaverc /tmp $ octave -qf octave:1 pkg load statistics octave:2 quit $ octave -q octave:1 pkg load statistics error: package statistics is not installed error: called from: error: /usr/share/octave/3.1.52/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 2008,

Bug#516136: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516136: Bug#516136: octave3.1: crash

2009-02-20 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Well, it is much simpler than I expected, you do not need to load any data. This is what I observe: error: fclose: invalid stream number = -1 error: called from: error: /usr/share/octave/3.1.52/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 365, column 1

Bug#516131: aptitude: unmarkauto not working?

2009-02-20 Thread Francesco Potorti`
If you show those packages (e.g., with aptitude show, do they show as being automatically installed? Yes: tucano:/tmp# dpkg --purge glpk (Reading database ... 342694 files and directories currently installed.) Removing glpk ... tucano:/tmp# dpkg --purge libglpk-dev (Reading database ...

Bug#516136: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516136: Bug#516136: Bug#516136: octave3.1: crash

2009-02-20 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I checked in the following change. Does it fix the problem for you? http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/71742f45571e Thank you. Unfortunately I do not currently have the time to compile Octave myself. Unless things change, I'll wait for the next Debian package by Rafael. --

Bug#516125: octave3.1-info: No such node or anchor: Variable Index

2009-02-19 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave3.1-info Version: 3.1.52-2 Severity: normal In the info, when looking in the index for 'split' I get: No such node or anchor: Variable Index -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')

Bug#516136: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516136: octave3.1: crash

2009-02-19 Thread Francesco Potorti`
* Francesco Potortì poto...@isti.cnr.it [2009-02-19 14:36]: Package: octave3.1 Version: 3.1.52-2 Severity: normal panic: impossible state reached in file `pt-bp.cc' at line 171 panic: Aborted -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core'

Bug#516125: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#516125: octave3.1-info: No such node or anchor: Variable Index

2009-02-19 Thread Francesco Potorti`
At any rate, it is very strange that you are getting this Variable Index message. The variable index has been dropped in Mercurial changeset 674d00f5e072. I am puzzled. Apparently is a bug with Emacs. There must be some variable which does not get cleaned up when deleting the info buffer,

Bug#515743: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#515743: octave3.1: 3.1.51 and 3.1.52

2009-02-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
3.1.52-1 and 3.1.52-2 have problems with plotting when printing to png or svg. In the former, antialising apparently does not work, so both lines and numbers are ugly. In both, symbols are maybe twice as big as they used to be, this is true at least for circles and stars. I can only confirm

Bug#417345: iceweasel: a page causing never ending memory conumption

2008-10-27 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Are you still seeing this problem? The page you link to appears to no longer function. It never happened before nor after, it was a problem for that specific page. I have no idea how to reproduce without that page. I fear we should close the bug :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#502110: octave3.0: errorbar fails because of bug, with patch

2008-10-13 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave3.0 Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream errobar fails on some inputs because of a bug in __errplot__.m, where an if statement makes string comparison checks using ==. I corrected that by using a switch statement instead. I am sending this to the Debian bug

Bug#492078: octave3.0: cannot change axes location in pcolor

2008-10-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Current consensus by Octave upstream seems to be that this needs to be fixed on gnuplot's side: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.bugs/9628/match=cannot+change+axes+location+pcolor I'm deliberately not re-assingning it to Debian's gnuplot package, though: this is a problem with

Bug#492078: octave3.0: cannot change axes location in pcolor

2008-10-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Ok, here are two trimmed-down gnuplot sources that show the problem. I obtained them using the debug file option of drawnow and removing the useless lines by trial and error, so I don't really know what I did. In fact, since I know too little about gnuplot, I am no even able to explain what's

Bug#501016: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501016: octave3.0: sumskipnan undefined?

2008-10-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:19:50PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote: Package: octave3.0 Version: 1:3.0.2-3 Severity: normal Eh, were did you get this version with your apt settings below? I downloaded it from the Debian repository. So, the nan package is loaded, the help string

Bug#501016: octave3.0: sumskipnan undefined?

2008-10-03 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave3.0 Version: 1:3.0.2-3 Severity: normal $ octave -qf octave version ans = 3.0.2 octave pkg load nan octave help sumskipnan sumskipnan is the file /usr/share/octave/packages/nan-1.0.6/sumskipnan.m SUMSKIPNAN adds all non-NaN values. [ rest of hel pstring deleted] octave

Bug#500783: octave-nan: the nan package should not be autoloaded

2008-10-01 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave-nan Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal The nan package overloads many functions, which means it should not be autoloaded. It currently is, which I think is wrong. Mabe the same is true of other packages as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#500783: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#500783: octave-nan: the nan package should not be autoloaded

2008-10-01 Thread Francesco Potorti`
My current opinion is that an octave add-on package should _*always_* autoload its functions. Packages in Debian should work out of the box after installation. If the user do not want the overload, she just does apt-get remove octave-nan. Easy, simple, period. There is wisodm in these words :)

Bug#500668: reportbug: problem with overlong log files

2008-09-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: reportbug Version: 3.45 Severity: normal I recently reported a problem with xserver-xorg, which in certain circumstances creates an overlong log file. In my case, it was about 130MB long. The problem is that reportbug appeared to hang on this, because it was trying to include the log

Bug#500673: qemuctl: usb disconnect command does not work

2008-09-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: qemuctl Version: 0.2-2 Severity: normal The Connect / USB / Disconnct command does not work, because the command fed to the qemu console is usb_del 0.2, Speed 480 Mb/s rather than usb_del 0.2 i.e., the comma and everything after it should go away. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#500668: Acknowledgement (reportbug: problem with overlong log files)

2008-09-30 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I will add something. As far as I recontructed, the bug happened because I uninstalled the uswsusp package. This probably killed acpid and caused problems. However, even in this case, the X server should not keep generating a new message each second... When shutting down the X server, I got

Bug#500140: closed by Serafeim Zanikolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: [Python-apps-team] Bug#500140: mercurial: does not accept anything other than ascii7 in ~/.hgrc)

2008-09-29 Thread Francesco Potorti`
With non-ascii characters you're expected to set the appropriate encoding, in your locale, via the environment variable HGENCODING, or via the --encoding switch -- see hg(1). Thank you. Sorry for not spotting this, but before submitting I looked for documentation on this issue and even asked

Bug#500575: swftools: png2swf has an arbitrary file number limit (with patch)

2008-09-29 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: swftools Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: normal The png2swf program cannot handle more than 1024 files on the command line. This limit is arbitrary and easily removed. Here is a patch which does so: --- png2swf.c.orig 2008-09-29 15:30:54.0 +0200 +++ png2swf.c 2008-09-29

Bug#498049: spamassassin: fills the logs with messages about redefined functions

2008-09-29 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Francesco, thanks for all that config! I was able to repro and fix the bug (in 3.3.0 at least). Can you try out the patch at https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5989 and tell me if it works for your site? It works, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#500490: qemuctl: commit does not work, with patch

2008-09-28 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: qemuctl Version: 0.2-2 Severity: normal The Commit entry from the Signal menu does nothing. It should commit an image when the snapshot options is used. However, this is implemented by sending the 'commit' string to the qemu console, while the correct command to send is 'commit all' or

Bug#500252: octave-nan: std should accept an empty second arg

2008-09-26 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave-nan Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal The following patch is needed to respect the syntax of Octave 3.0 std: diff -pu /usr/share/octave/packages/nan-1.0.6/std.m\~ /usr/share/octave/packages/nan-1.0.6/std.m --- /usr/share/octave/packages/nan-1.0.6/std.m~ 2008-05-16

Bug#500140: mercurial: does not accept anything other than ascii7 in ~/.hgrc

2008-09-25 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: mercurial Version: 1.0.1-5 Severity: normal I set up my ~/.hgrc like this: [ui] username = Francesco Potortì [EMAIL PROTECTED] but 'hg commit' barfs on the non-ascii7 character. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#499910: mercurial: hg diff should accept the -u option as a nop

2008-09-23 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: mercurial Version: 1.0.1-5 Severity: wishlist In order to be compatible with option settings of diff of rcs and cvs, hg could simply ignore the -u option when given after 'diff' rather than signaling an error. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#499301: gnash-common-opengl: slowness

2008-09-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: gnash-common-opengl Version: 0.8.3-6 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/gnash While playing http://fly.isti.cnr.it/tmp/a.swf, gnash is very slow, taking more than 5 seconds to display each frame on an amd64, while consuming 100% cpu. swfdec-player displays it at 5 frames/s, as it should.

Bug#498374: tgif: pstoepsi barfs on line 80

2008-09-09 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: tgif Version: 1:4.1.45-1.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/pstoepsi pstoepsi does not work. Here is a patch: --- pstoepsi~ 2008-04-24 23:11:32.0 +0200 +++ pstoepsi2008-09-09 16:43:28.0 +0200 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ esac done -BASE=`basename $1` .ps

Bug#498049: spamassassin: fills the logs with messages about redefined functions

2008-09-06 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.2.5-1 Severity: normal For each mail received, spamassassin logs 58 kB of errors of this type: Sep 5 18:25:04 tucano spamd[7793]: Subroutine __VBOUNCE_VALERT_one_line_body_test redefined at

Bug#411681: iceweasel: cannot change action for PDF files

2008-09-04 Thread Francesco Potorti`
This should be fixed in Iceweasel 3.0. Can you try it? Yes, it is fixed. THank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#497818: octave-ftp: crashes after clear all

2008-09-04 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: octave-ftp Version: 1.0-1 Severity: normal $ octave -fq octave:1 version ans = 3.0.1 octave:2 pkg load ftp octave:3 clear all panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core' complete Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Bug#497649: wordnet: wnb does not show all synonims any more

2008-09-03 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: wordnet Version: 1:3.0-11+lenny1 Severity: normal In the wordnet browser, after looking for a name, I ask for its synonims. However, I only get a line saying that there are N senses. I can only get the synonims one at a time, by writing a sense number in the sense box and then asking

Bug#478478: me too...

2008-09-03 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I can reproduce the bug. Specifically, copy does not work in gnome-terminal. Neither using the keyboard shortcut nor the contextual menu, nor by simply highlighting the text. Going to restart the X server... ok, now it works. Who knows why... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#497357: debconf: can't restart services in an Emacs shell buffer

2008-09-01 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.22 Severity: normal Every time a package, such as libpam0g, wants to display a list of services to be restarted in an Emacs shell buffer, the list is empty. From inside an Emacs shell buffer, I use to run aptitude -r dist-upgrade and I get this: ===

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