Bug#968283: closed by Tobias Frost (Re: Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2)

2020-11-19 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the jack package: #968283: jack: Freedb has closed. Use gnudb instead. It has been closed by Tobias Frost . If jack has been removed from Debian, is

Bug#968283: jack: Freedb has closed. Use gnudb instead.

2020-08-12 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-29.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Jack can query the freedb database, to look up track titles etc for a CD. Freedb has closed, and gnudb is an alternative. The file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jack_freedb.py needs updating with the new

Bug#962036: quodlibet: Ending a call in Microsoft Teams causes Quod Libet to start playing music.

2020-08-06 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Martin wrote: Note, that this happens with other software, too, e.g. linphone. I assume, that most soft phones send (DBus?) signals when one takes or ends a call. Quodlibet pauses and resumes accordingly, which is nice. However, it should probably not resume automatically

Bug#962036: quodlibet: Ending a call in Microsoft Teams causes Quod Libet to start playing music.

2020-06-02 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: quodlibet Version: 4.2.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am forced (due to work) to use Microsoft Teams for video conferences. If Quod Libet is open but paused when I hold a Teams meeting, then when I leave the meeting, Quod Libet starts playing music, as if I had pressed the

Bug#951025: gnupg: GPG tries to get passphrase from wrong place

2020-02-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.18-8~deb9u4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I am logged into an XFCE session on my desktop computer, and that session is locked. I am now working on my laptop, which is at a remote location from my desktop computer, and I am

Bug#805711: Me too, and some additional info.

2019-09-18 Thread Matthew Wakeling
I confirm this bug exists on my laptop, which is an ASUS UX305C. I just upgraded to Buster, and the bug appears. To be specific: If I lock the screen (by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, selecting "Lock Screen", closing the laptop lid, or letting the screensaver time out), then the screen goes

Bug#876477: cryptsetup: Password requested three times on boot, when /root is plaintext, but swap is on LVM on crypt.

2017-09-22 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.7.3-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have set up my system with an unencrypted /root partition, but with /home, /var, /tmp, and swap all in an LVM inside a luks crypt partition. When booting, the system prompts for the crypto password, and then prints the

Bug#844527: xfwm4: Windows without a titlebar raise on click even when "raise on click" option is disabled.

2016-11-16 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: xfwm4 Version: 4.10.1-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The current debian stable version of xfwm4 raises windows on click that do not have a titlebar, even when the "raise on click" option is disabled. To reproduce, disable "raise on click", then open a terminal window, and don't

Bug#743247: [gnuplot:bugs] #1414 Running load destroys arguments from call

2014-06-02 Thread Matthew Wakeling
tags 743247 -unreproducible thanks On Thu, 29 May 2014, Anton Gladky wrote: you are right, I have just tried it and got also flibble1.out, sorry for possible false alarm. Matthew, please confirm whether you still have problems. Yes, bug was reported against Debian wheezy 4.6.0-8, which is

Bug#743247: gnuplot: Running load destroys arguments from call

2014-03-31 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.6.4-1~bpo70+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When running a call command with arguments, if the called file runs a load command, then the arguments are destroyed. For example, if there are three files in the current directory: experiment.plot: set samples 1000

Bug#655334: par2 chooses inefficient block size (algorithm bug)

2012-01-10 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: par2 Version: 0.4-11 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch A bug exists in the algorithm used by par2 to choose the best blocksize for a recovery set. If I request a certain block count, then the software tries to determine the smallest block size that will satisfy this request. It

Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'll have to physically attend the machine to do this, which won't happen until January. Even then, testing will involve crashing my machine a few times, so it won't be the first thing I do. No problem; we can wait. Other tests that would be useful

Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Could you point me in the direction of such a livecd please? It looks like no one is making an official Debian livecd with kFreeBSD any more (alas). But it should be possible to grab par2 and its dependencies and run them in the debian-installer[1]

Bug#652119: Bad pagetable 000f

2011-12-22 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Can you reproduce this on demand? Yes. It seems to take about two hours to fail. Thinking about it, par2 was accessing about 1400 independent areas of memory on a loop, so it would be causing cache thrash and TLB thrash. I'm thinking it might

Bug#652119: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Bad pagetable 000f

2011-12-14 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-38 Severity: normal Running the par2 program causes a bad pagetable fault which has killed the process and killed the machine on two different occasions. The machine is completely stable running other programs. The problem occurs when running par2 to generate

Bug#649487: detex: segfault with argument --version

2011-11-21 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-8 Severity: normal If I run detex with the argument --version, then I get: detex: warning: unknown option ignored - - detex: warning: unknown option ignored - v detex: warning: unknown option ignored - r detex: warning: unknown option ignored - i detex:

Bug#649487: detex: segfault with argument --version

2011-11-21 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Just for the records: I can reproduce the problem using unstable. Thanks. For the record, it appears to be the -e option that causes trouble - it is expecting an argument, and if no further argument exists then there is a segfault. Recompiling

Bug#398224: Re: This is a design flaw

2011-02-07 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: [adding CC to current package maintainer] Thanks. So it's possible that greylistd doesn't provide any real benefit if it's possible to implement similar things without any extra code. It sounds like I should spend a bit of time looking at the

Bug#585152: openoffice.org: Text missing in dialogue boxes

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:3.2.0-9+b1 Severity: normal This bug has been around for a while for me, although I cannot produce a version number where it appeared. When I start OpenOffice Impress from the Gnome menu, the Presentation Wizard window has the text: Empty presentation From

Bug#540729: ffmpeg: Possible regression - fails to decode AAC

2009-08-10 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Fabian Greffrath greffr...@leat.rub.de writes: Reinhard Tartler schrieb: Well, checking this would be helpful. I've extracted the relevant patch, you can find it attached. [...] I've succeeded to reproduce the problem, I'm currently testbuilding

Bug#540729: ffmpeg: Possible regression - fails to decode AAC

2009-08-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: ffmpeg Version: 4:0.5+svn20090609-1 Severity: normal This seems to be a regression, in that the bug did not occur before I upgraded (sorry, I don't know what version I upgraded from), and a bug with identical outcome was fixed earlier this year. The video recorded by my video camera

Bug#533335: alpine: Threaded message index wrongly groups messages with the same subject

2009-06-16 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: alpine Version: 2.00+dfsg-2+b1 Severity: normal I use alpine with my inbox set to threaded mode. Alpine wrongly assumes that two messages with the same subject must belong in the same thread, and so it groups them in the message index. This can be annoying, especially with messages

Bug#520232: See also #532005

2009-06-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
I think that this bug is related to #532005 which I filed a few days ago. I'm trying to do the opposite to the OP - I'm trying to get annoying beeps. The experience on my computer is that the pc speaker is redirected to the sound card when: * pcspkr is NOT loaded * OR pcspkr is loaded

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 17:43 +0100, Matthew Wakeling a écrit : Today I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The console beep no longer works. Some hideous sound now emerges from the sound card instead. There does not seem to be any knob to switch

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: I don’t think this would change anything. ISTR this issue now, and it might be caused by the kernel or X. Does it happen as well in a console login? After doing a little bit of rebooting, it seems that it is the kernel that is redirecting the sound

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 08 juin 2009 à 14:31 +0100, Matthew Wakeling a écrit : After doing a little bit of rebooting, it seems that it is the kernel that is redirecting the sound to the sound card. I'll file a bug there. Feel free to close this one. Let’s just

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matthew Wakeling wrote: Having had a look over the kernel bugs, it appears that this bug is a duplicate of #520232. Okay, scratch that. I'll try blacklisting the pcspkr module. Just tried blacklisting the pcspkr module and rebooting, and the same problem existed. I

Bug#532380: alpine: Please permit viewing of application/octet-stream as text

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: alpine Version: 2.00+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Quite frequently I receive emails that contain test attachments. However, those attachments are usually marked as application/octet-stream, either because the file name has no extension, or because the sending mail program is misconfigured.

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2009-06-05 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: gnome Version: 1:2.24.3~2 Severity: important Today I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The console beep no longer works. Some hideous sound now emerges from the sound card instead. There does not seem to be any knob to switch this back. In any case, changing the behaviour behind the

Bug#507681: gqview: Would be useful to provide handler for MIME type image/pjpeg

2008-12-03 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: gqview Version: 2.0.4-4 Severity: minor Hotmail (and presumably others) have now started sending files marked as MIME type image/pjpeg, so it would be useful if this package would provide an entry for mailcap that handles that MIME type. Obviously this is slightly controversial, as

Bug#426250: I have this problem too, but different cause

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
I have the problem too, where X produces a non-responsive black screen on startup with the nvidia legacy 96xx drivers, but works fine with the nv drivers. However, I have tried this suggestion of neutralising /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx, and that has failed to solve the problem. Any suggestions?

Bug#477643: Progress

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Hi. Just wandering what the progress is on this bug. Thanks, Matthew -- If you're thinking Oh no, this lecturer thinks Turing Machines are a feasible method of computation, where's the door?, then you are in luck. There are some there, there, and by the side there. Oxygen masks will not drop

Bug#394571: Reducing severity to wishlist

2008-06-12 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Hi. I have recently taken over maintenance of greylistd. I'm reducing the severity of the bug Entire database resides in RAM, because fixing it is beyond the scope of the greylistd project. I agree that fixing it is a worthy goal, but such a solution should probably involve a proper database

Bug#480365: greylistd: singleupdate option is broken

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: greylistd Version: 0.8.6-0.1 Severity: normal The singleupdate = true option does not have the proper effect. The following patch solves this problem: --- greylistd_orig 2008-05-09 16:09:24.0 +0100 +++ greylistd 2008-05-09 15:42:31.0 +0100 @@ -472,19 +472,21 @@

Bug#466730: par2: Parallel processing on multiple CPUs (code available)

2008-02-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: par2 Version: 0.4-9 Severity: wishlist Computers with multiple CPU cores are becoming commonly available, and par2 is a utility that uses vast amounts of CPU power but little I/O. Code exists at http://chuchusoft.com/par2_tbb/index.html that implements multi-threaded processing in par2,

Bug#462165: dpkg: Upgrade from 1.13.23-1.14.5 to 1.14.16 onwards is broken

2008-01-22 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.5 Severity: normal dpkg version 1.13.23 introduces the new Breaks header, and rejects it, with the full implementation coming in 1.14.6. The package for 1.14.16 has a Breaks header. Therefore, anyone who is upgrading from any version between 1.13.23 and 1.14.5

Bug#429762: Bug not fixed after all

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Please could you re-open this bug report. I get the same message when I run sauerbraten, then no sound, with libasound 1.0.14a-1 and alsa-base 1.0.14-1 on amd64. Matthew -- X's book explains this very well, but, poor bloke, he did the Cambridge Maths Tripos...

Bug#427841: linux-image-2.6.21-1-amd64: Kernel version 2.6.21-4 breaks USB permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.21-4 Severity: important The latest version of the kernel package breaks the permissions for access to USB devices, causing the nut-usb package to break. Please see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/777580 If I run the nut

Bug#390172: xserver-xorg-core: X hangs on startup with black screen with dual head on amd64

2007-06-03 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Mon, 28 May 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: I am just pinging you about this bug in case there has been any improvement with the latest releases of xserver-xorg-core and/or xserver-xorg-video-nv currently in experimental. If they helped, please let me know. Hi. Sorry it took a while to get round

Bug#390172: xserver-xorg-core: X hangs on startup with black screen with dual head on amd64

2007-06-03 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: From what I see in the log, the ATI board is correctly initialized by the ati driver 6.6.3, but the nvidia driver is not found for the nvidia board. It would mean that the bug is not related to ATI+nvidia/nv dual-head, and actually appears with single-head

Bug#390172: Bug still exists in 1.1.1-17

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Matthew Wakeling wrote: Well, all the interesting stuff is in libint10, so I'll probably limit myself to recompiling that. Okay, done. Most of the time, I get: #0 0x2b0911cbffcd in X86EMU_exec () at ../../../../hw/xfree86/int10/../x86emu/decode.c:121 #1

Bug#390172: Bug still exists in 1.1.1-17

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: You will have to use a server recompiled with debugging symbols to get line numbers. Well, all the interesting stuff is in libint10, so I'll probably limit myself to recompiling that. If you do 'c' for continue, wait a little bit, hit ctrl-c and

Bug#390172: Bug still exists in 1.1.1-17

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: Once the X server is stuck using 99% of CPU, could you try attaching a GDB with something like: *gdb* -p $(*pidof* *X*) (as root). I should help us have an idea what's going on. I have gdb connected now. I'm afraid my experience with gdb is rather

Bug#390172: Bug still exists in 1.1.1-17

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Update: I inserted a log statement before hw/xfree86/x86emu/decode.c:122 to just print on the stderr that it was emulating an instruction at a certain address. The result of running that was that I got a 500MB log file in seconds, with it executing instructions all over the BIOS. I had 12

Bug#168926: xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] 1280th pixel column not drawn on Radeon 7500 QW rev 0

2007-01-15 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: About 4 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding a missing pixel column on a Radeon 7500 board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Thanks. The bug was fixed for my system a few

Bug#402166: apache2.2-common: Upgrade removes my web site, replaces it with a page saying it works

2006-12-08 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.3-3.1 Severity: important This report is very similar to #396782. When I originally installed apache, I replaced the contents of /var/www with my web site, and it worked fine. However, the latest version installed a default site at

Bug#390772: xserver-xorg-core: Server fails to start after upgrade to 1.1.1-9

2006-10-02 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The X server fails to start since upgrade from 1.1.1-8 to 1.1.1-9. I have attached the relevant logs, but in a nutshell it tries to load the pcidata and bitmap modules, and fails. -- System

Bug#390172: xserver-xorg-core: X hangs on startup with black screen with dual head on amd64

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Wakeling
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When starting the X server on a dual-head amd64 system, it fails to initialise the screen, and ends up halting on a black screen. The X server process remains running, but one cannot do