Joseph, thanks for the cc. Glad to see cmph getting some love.
I'm too busy at the moment to return to working on Debian.
I'd like that to change, but for now that's it.
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I'm interested in helping, with thoughts of becoming a DM.
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Jeff Abrahamson j...@purple.com writes:
Emacs starts with -nw, but otherwise (without -nw) fails to find X
fonts for startup.
jeff@aragorn:~ $ emacs
Font `10x20' is not defined
jeff@aragorn:~ $
Seems like a config problem, but xfonts-base
Any response possible on this?
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Package: geeqie
Version: 1:1.0~beta2-8
Severity: important
Commands that worked in gqview no longer work, and my attempts to
control a running geeqie process via the commandline often report
errors and don't always do what I expect from the documentation.
Some examples perhaps illustrate best.
Package: geeqie
Version: 1:1.0~beta2-8
Severity: normal
I'm pointed to gqview, but gqview is now geeqie.
j...@aragorn:geeqie $ cat README.Debian
geeqie for Debian
-
Please note that this package is still not considered stable, if you are
looking for stable viewer,
Package: mpg123
Version: 1.9.1-2
Severity: important
After a dist-upgrade, mpg123 no longer works. I suspect mpg123 rather
than sound configuration in genral because ogg123 plays music just
fine and saying
$ cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp
predictably produces noise.
Example:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:37:27AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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Le lundi 30 novembre 2009 à 20:03 +, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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Le dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 18:01 +, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
Gdm comes up in single-head mode, but I have two monitors. Using
/usr/bin/gnome
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: normal
Gdm comes up in single-head mode, but I have two monitors. Using
/usr/bin/gnome-display-properties, I can uncheck the mirror display
button, but am told required virtual size does not fit available
size: requested=(3840, 1200), minimum=(320,
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: important
On logging in from gdm, I'm dropped in a default session (no wm, no
gnome, etc.) It appears that /etc/gdm/Xsession is not trying to
execute a gnome-session. (See attached .xsession-errors, in
particular the line 'echo $0: Executing $command
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:45:37PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
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Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
Nov 22 12:13:33 aragorn kernel: [ 198.416261] mtrr: no MTRR for
e000,1000 found
Odd, that address range (e000,1000
Package: emacs
Version: 23.1+1-4
Severity: important
Emacs starts with -nw, but otherwise (without -nw) fails to find X
fonts for startup.
j...@aragorn:~ $ emacs
Font `10x20' is not defined
j...@aragorn:~ $
Seems like a config problem, but xfonts-base is installed and
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:22:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 22:38 +, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
On logging in from gdm, I'm dropped in a default session (no wm, no
gnome, etc
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:04:15PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
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Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
Version: 1.2.5-1
Severity: normal
Further details. I suspect that, despite claiming
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
Version: 1.2.5-1
Severity: normal
Same problem, additional info.
My system broke on dist-upgrade from (what's now stable) to (what's
now testing). Same breakage: all works except X. I had been using
the proprietary ati driver. I've attached the original
Package: eog
Version: 2.22.3-1
Severity: minor
When spawning a new eog instance on an image small enough to fit
easily on my monitor, thus
$ eog foo.jpg
the app claims to show the image at 99% magnification instead of 100%.
Not sure if rounding error in the magnification computation or if
Package: eog
Version: 2.20.4-1
Severity: important
If an eog instance already exists, a new invocation of eog asks the
existing instance to handle its requests, then quits. But this makes
eog unusable as an image viewer with mutt, which deletes the image
after viewing is done.
A program like
Package: texlive-common
Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
texlive-common won't install because tetex-bin-upgrade isn't
available. Maybe this is a bug against tex-common instead?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install texlive-common
Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.1.1-11
Severity: normal
On running ogg123 on a newly built machine (with home directory, in
case it matters, from a different machine: old machine was 32-bit, new
is 64-bit), ogg123 fails to run:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Philadelphia_Chickens $ ogg123
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
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Jeff Abrahamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-5
Severity: normal
The files algorithm.sty and algorithmic.sty
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-5
Severity: normal
The files algorithm.sty and algorithmic.sty are out of date.
The current files appear to be maintained and available at this URL:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3442
(For completeness, here are two
would report the above
message.
That fixes it. Thanks.
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Username is Jeff Abrahamson
User ID is 20081
lastSyncPC = 1422842609
This PC = 1422842609
Doing a fast sync.
Syncing DatebookDB
Syncing AddressDB
Syncing ToDoDB
Syncing MemoDB
Backup: Can't get last backup time.
Backup: Fetching 'AddressDB'... OK
Package: glpk
Version: 4.11-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
python-glpk seems to be a decent set of python bindings to glpk.
It would be helpful to add it to the debian glpk package.
Thanks.
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:10:35PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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forwarded 398870 http://bugs.jpilot.org/1764
tags 398870 upstream
thank
Le 16.11.2006, à 22:53:35, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:34
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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Le 15.11.2006, à 23:52:12, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
I choose restore handheld to restore data to a Palm V. Then I
choose sync. During the sync operation
process
Syncing on device /dev/ttyS0
Press the HotSync button now
paned pos = 943
jp_pref_write_rc_file()
output height = 249
lastSyncPC = 0
This PC = 1422842609
Last Username = [Jeff Abrahamson]
Last UserID = 20081
Package: ratpoison
Version: 1.4.0.dfsg-7
Severity: minor
The info doc for ratpoison is copyright under the GNU FDL, which does
not permit modification of the source. This appears to be a violation
of DFSG.
Mind you, I have no desire at all to lose the docs.
(If I'm wrong and this isn't a
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 05:02:55PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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Le 04.11.2006, à 15:16:49, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
On further tracing, the error occurs in dlp_request_write:
int
dlp_exec(int sd, struct
, I can cat /dev/ttyS0 and
confirm that the handheld is talking there.
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Le 04.11.2006, à 08:23:01, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:24:26AM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
What communication port is configured
. (Perhaps it will eventually time out.) On return, the error
is -200.
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I've duplicated this bug with a second palm device and a second
cradle.
Additionally, if I first hit sync on the cradle, the palm device waits
for jpilot. When I hit sync on jpilot, the palm briefly says
cleaning up and then shows a connection lost dialog.
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:36:35PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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Le 02.11.2006, à 13:36:57, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.9.1-2
Severity: important
After an upgrade dist-upgrade, jpilot
Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.9.1-2
Severity: important
After an upgrade dist-upgrade, jpilot no longer syncs with
handheld. On pressing sync in jpilot, the app waits for the
handheld. When I press the cradle button, the handheld immediately
reports that the connection was lost. Jpilot
Package: python-scipy
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: wishlist
At line 233 of pilutil.py the image viewer xv is hard-coded.
It would be better to check an environment variable first, such as
SCIPY_PIL_IMAGE_VIEWER. In particular, it's reasonable on a Debian
system not even to have xv installed.
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Package: sfs-client
Version: 1:0.8-0+pre20060720.1-1
Severity: normal
At lines 120-121 of /etc/init.d/sfs-client one finds
$0 stop
$0 start
But at line 25, the script executes
cd /var/lib/sfs/
This potentially allows an incorrect script to be run if (for example)
an attacker
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1
Severity: normal
When preferences -- advanced -- Allow text to be selected with the keyboard
is checked, scrolling with the keyboard's page-up/down keys doesn't
work as expected. Page-down + page-up, for example, scrolls down one
screenful, then
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:52:09AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:08:26AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.39-1
$ mkfs -c -v /dev/sdc1
...
Running command
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.39-1
Severity: normal
$ mkfs -c -v /dev/sdc1
...
Running command: badblocks -b 1024 -X -s /dev/sdc1 500440
...
And ps confirms that this is what was run:
4708 pts/15 R+ 0:00 badblocks -b 1024 -X -s /dev/sdc1 500440
But man badblocks
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #338264
Attached is a simple example on which w3m fails. It should render
'ab' but it renders 'a?b'.
The economist.com is a rich source of pages that w3m has trouble
rendering for this reason. Mozilla/firefox does just fine, by
contrast, as do
Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: wishlist
gnome-dictionary-applet used to open a window which could be resized
and moved. It now opens a docked window that is thus not resiable or
movable. It would be very helpful at least to have an option to have
the window be resizeable and
This bug appears to have been fixed with the xserver-xorg 7.0.20.
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:59:02AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:08:01PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:13:24PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
[9 lines, 56 words, 320
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:13:24PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
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On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
Severity: normal
The page down key sometimes
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-3
Severity: important
The following command sequence to gnuplot causes a segfault. Omitting
the size parameter avoids the crash.
Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot set output 'foo.png'
gnuplot set terminal png
Terminal type set to 'png'
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:30:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 10:18 -0400, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:58:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
do you still experience
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
Severity: normal
The page down key sometimes fails to page to the bottom of a
document if the last page down action moves only a partial page.
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Package: xorg-server
Severity: normal
If I request 2048x1536 resolution in xorg.conf, X fails on startup
with a backtrace that is not output to Xorg.log for reporting here.
If I request 1920x1440, X runs, but leaves the display in an unusable
state (a version of a blank screen) when X exits.
Package: libgts-0.7-1
Version: 0.7.3-2
Severity: normal
apt-get install source provides an examples directory.
The binary install should also provide this in /usr/share/doc/libgts-0.7-1/
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Package: python-pyvtk
Version: 0.4.66-3
Severity: normal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:examples $ pwd
/usr/share/doc/python-pyvtk/examples
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:examples $ python example1.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File example1.py, line 8, in ?
from lib import *
Package: nautilus
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: normal
Insert a blank CD. A CD burner window opens. Drag a folder to the
window and burn a CD. The CD ejects when done and the progress dialog
says that it's done. Don't close any windows. The burner window will
offer to burn the same thing next
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.1-12
Severity: important
Some files initially display but apparently at the end of the paint
are repainted white. On such files, xpdf displays the file correctly.
I have attached to this bug report a small sample file that causes the
described behavior.
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Package: mozilla
Version: 2:1.7.12-1
Severity: important
Selecting View-Page Source (or ctrl-U) shows an error dialog with
Gecko in the window title:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://navigator/content/viewSource.xul
Line Number 52, Column 1:
window
Package: mozilla
Version: 2:1.7.12-1
Severity: important
Choosing Save Page as... either from the file menu or from the right
mouse button's pop-up menu (or typing ctrl-S) does nothing. It should
offer a file save dialog box.
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Package: udev
Version: 0.056-3
Followup-For: Bug #328875
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I seem to be in an infinite loop.
I can't finish the udev upgrade without kernel = 2.6.12, but I can't
upgrade my kernel until the udev problem is fixed.
astra:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-get -f install
Package: octave-forge
Version: octave-forge appears uninstallable
Severity: normal
Octave-forge has become uninstallable. This may be a matter of broken
dependencies: libcln3c2 vs libcln3, etc. An immediate user
work-around is unclear to me.
astra:/home/jeff# apt-get install octave-forge
Package: octaviz
Version: 0.4.0-10
Severity: important
This is perhaps a vtk bug, but I am unable to file it intelligibly
against vtk.
In octave, execute one of the octaviz demos, say
octave:1 ClipCow
Resize the resulting window to be larger than the displayed figure, a
factor of three
Package: pkg-config
Version: 0.19-1
Severity: normal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:gqview-2.1.1 $ pkg-config --help
Usage: pkg-config [OPTION...]
--version output version of pkg-config
--modversion output version for package
Package: libgnomeprint2.2-0
Version: 2.10.3-2
Severity: normal
Print a gnumeric spreadsheet, select the Create a PDF option in the
print dialog, the resulting PDF file, when viewed with ghostscript
reports the following error in the generated PDF:
Warning: Embedded symbolic TT fonts
Package: debconf
Version: 1.4.52
Severity: important
Debconf offers several interfaces, including gnome. But when it tries
to use the gnome interface, it finds that it can't and wonders if
libgnome2-perl is not installed. (It is not.) But it neither offers
to install it nor (better) switches
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-11
Severity: minor
At the end of the cmp man page, one is referred to the info page
and told to type info diff. But one must type info cmp.
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Package: exiftags
Version: 0.98-1
Severity: normal
Images from this particular Canon camera cause the following error:
exiftags: Custom function unsupported for %s; please report to author
(Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL)
Another EOS camera works fine.
Two errors: (1) unsupported camera, and (2)
Package: eog
Version: 2.8.2-0.1
Severity: wishlist
It would be helpful to have a command-line option to choose the
collection or single window display of several images rather than
being asked in a dialog. This would also be helpful for those
instances where the default results in the user not
Package: eog
Version: 2.8.2-0.1
Severity: wishlist
It would be very helpful to be able to have the currently selected
image's file name copiable to the X copy buffer so that it can be used
(pasted) in another application.
A copy menu item would probably make the most sense, since merely
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.1-5
Severity: minor
gv sometimes displays apparently empty postscript errors. That is,
the error dialog will come up while a page is being displayed but the
dialog will show no errors. If the error message contains no
displayable text, it should not be displayed.
Upgrading kernel (to 2.6.8-2-686) solved the problem. Weird as this
was, it's probably therefore kernel-related and not jpilot-related.
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also found that launching it inside a dot
directory effectively solved the problem.
It would be a nice feature to have a checkbox instead of a relatively
hidden menu. I'm not sure where that should go as a minor feature
request, though. Gtk+ ?
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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Le Tuesday 18 January 2005 à 22:23:24, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
Running pilot-xfer -l appears to accurately list the pilot's
databases.
If pilot-xfer -l
Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.7-0.99.8-pre6-1
Followup-For: Bug #287940
I'm seeing similar problems since upgrading to kernel 2.4.27-6
yesterday. I didn't see problems with kernel 2.4.27-4 (I think:
anyway a previous 2.4.27 kernel-image package).
Running pilot-xfer -l appears to accurately
Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.8.1-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gnome-background-properties
Use gnome-background-properties to (try to) choose a wallpaper pattern in
~/.gnome2/.
But the file selection dialog apparently filters out files beginning with dot.
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Package: mount
Version: 2.12-10
Severity: normal
Summary:
krypton:~# mount /jeff
Segmentation fault
krypton:~# mount /jeff
(Log output from first call is below, second call never returns, no
log output.)
Here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /jeff ext3
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