Bug#909085: ispell: Sequoia & ispell's /usr/bin/sq

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: ispell
Version: 3.4.00-5
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

Along with Justus and Kai (in cc), I'm developing Sequoia, which is a new 
OpenPGP implementation (think of GnuPG).  Although Sequoia is firstly a 
library, we also offer a command-line tool, which we named 'sq'.  
Unfortunately, and this is the reason that I'm reaching out, the debian 
ispell package also ships an sq binary.  It seems to me that ispell's sq is 
just an internal ispell tool.  Do you know whether other programs use sq? 
Would you be open to shipping sq as e.g. /usr/lib/ispell/sq?

Thanks!

:) Neal

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Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ispell depends on:
ii  libc6  2.27-6
ii  libtinfo5  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2

Versions of packages ispell recommends:
ii  iamerican [ispell-dictionary]  3.4.00-5
ii  ibritish [ispell-dictionary]   3.4.00-5
ii  ingerman [ispell-dictionary]   20161207-1
ii  wamerican [wordlist]   7.1-1

Versions of packages ispell suggests:
pn  spell  

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Bug#842015: [PINENTRY PATCH v2] gnome3: Test if Gcr System Prompter is available at startup.

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for fixing this!  As discussed offline, I made a few minor
tweaks before comitting (2e17565).

:) Neal

At Thu,  3 Nov 2016 12:31:40 -0400,
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 
> * gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c (gcr_system_prompt_available): New. Tests
> whether it is possible to create a GcrSystemPrompt.
> (main): Use gcr_system_prompt_available() to decide whether to fall
> back to curses or not.
> 
> Debian-bug-id: 842015
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor 
> ---
>  gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c | 39 +++
>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c b/gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c
> index d6d7d16..37c7a44 100644
> --- a/gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c
> +++ b/gnome3/pinentry-gnome3.c
> @@ -258,6 +258,39 @@ gnome3_cmd_handler (pinentry_t pe)
>  
>  pinentry_cmd_handler_t pinentry_cmd_handler = gnome3_cmd_handler;
>  
> +
> +/* test whether we can create a system prompt or not.  This briefly
> +   does create a system prompt, which blocks other tools from making
> +   the same concurrent request, so we just create it to test if it is
> +   available, and quickly close it.
> +*/
> +int gcr_system_prompt_available ()
> +{
> +  GcrSystemPrompt *prompt;
> +  GError *error = NULL;
> +  int ret = 0;
> +  
> +  prompt = gcr_system_prompt_open (0, NULL, );
> +  if (prompt)
> +{
> +  ret = 1;
> +  if (!gcr_system_prompt_close (prompt, NULL, ))
> +  fprintf (stderr, "failed to close test Gcr System Prompt (%d): 
> %s\n",
> +   error ? error->code : -1, error ? error->message : " GError>");
> +  g_clear_object ();
> +}
> +  else
> +  /* This one particular failure is OK; we're clearly capable of
> + making a system prompt, even though someone else has the
> + system prompter right now: */
> +if (error && error->code == GCR_SYSTEM_PROMPT_IN_PROGRESS)
> +  ret = 1;
> +
> +  if (error)
> +g_error_free (error);
> +  return ret;
> +}
> +
>  int
>  main (int argc, char *argv[])
>  {
> @@ -270,6 +303,12 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
> " falling back to curses\n");
>pinentry_cmd_handler = curses_cmd_handler;
>  }
> +  else if (!gcr_system_prompt_available ())
> +{
> +  fprintf (stderr, "No Gcr System Prompter available,"
> +   " falling back to curses\n");
> +  pinentry_cmd_handler = curses_cmd_handler;
> +}  
>  #endif
>  
>pinentry_parse_opts (argc, argv);
> -- 
> 2.10.1
> 
> 
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> 

Bug#830479: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#830479: Bug#830479: gnupg2: new trust level "poisoned"

[Neal H. Walfield]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:18:50 +0200,
Simon Richter wrote:
> On 08.07.2016 14:54, Werner Koch wrote:
> 2. mark the key as invalid/unusable.
> 
> If someone I trust signs the fake key, that key is marked as "valid", so
> signatures will be accepted and the key becomes a candidate for
> encryption. As this is a result of updating the key and checking the
> trustdb (which both happens noninteractively and automatically in many
> contexts), the user does not have any notification, and since usually
> the date is newer, that key is even preferred.
> 
> For the user to notice, they would have to compare the long key ID
> before sending a mail, which is exactly what we want to avoid.

You can do this part using the new TOFU functionality.  Specificaly,
you just need to set the TOFU policy for the key to bad (gpg2
--tofu-policy bad KEYID).

For this to work, you'll need to enable the TOFU trust model.  Since
it sounds like you actively use the WoT, you should enable the
tofu+pgp model, which combines the WoT and TOFU.  If you don't want
the trust of first use part of TOFU, you can set the default trust to
unknown using --tofu-default-policy.  In this case, the TOFU TM will
only be used for explicitly set policies.

:) Neal

Bug#760102: gnome keyring gpg agent

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi Stef,

At Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:37:26 +0200,
Stef Walter wrote:
 Confirming that I'll be ready to remove the code once the new pinentry
 makes it into a release. Removing code always makes me smile :)

A new pinentry with the code has already been released (0.9.3).

:) Neal


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Bug#787639: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787639: [PATCH] pinentry_setbufferlen returns pin when already large enough

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:24:14 +0200,
Werner Koch wrote:
 On Thu,  4 Jun 2015 17:47, n...@walfield.org said:
 
  I've applied this with a slightly different change log.
 
 Shall I do a new release tomorrow?

It's a pretty significant bug in that it renders the curses backend
completely unusable.

How about a 0.93.1 release rather 0.94 given that it is the only
change?

:) Neal


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Bug#787639: [PATCH] pinentry_setbufferlen returns pin when already large enough

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi Daniel,

At Wed,  3 Jun 2015 13:27:26 -0400,
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
 
 * pinentry/pinentry.c (pinentry_setbufferlen): when pin buffer is
   already large enough, return the buffer instead of NULL.
   pinentry-curses.c is the only place that checks this return value
   now, and it expects this behavior.

I've applied this with a slightly different change log.

Thanks!

:) Neal


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Bug#781916: xul-ext-torbutton: Installing xul-ext-torbutton forces removal of iceweasel

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: xul-ext-torbutton
Version: 1.4.6.3-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to install xul-ext-torbutton (1.4.6.3-1) using apt-get on a
Debian Jessie system (current as of today) with Iceweasel Beta
(version 37.0~b1-1) from experimental installed (everything else is
from Jessie), however, apt-get would only install it if it could also
remove iceweasel.

  us@chu:~$ sudo apt-get install xul-ext-torbutton
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree   
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
icedove
  Suggested packages:
fonts-lyx privoxy
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
iceweasel xul-ext-https-finder xul-ext-itsalltext xul-ext-noscript
xul-ext-nosquint xul-ext-perspectives
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
icedove xul-ext-torbutton
  0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 29.9 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 7,704 kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

There is also a minor issue, which is: why does installing
xul-ext-torbutton pull in icedove?

Thanks,

Neal

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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)


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Bug#747085: mbuffer: can't shut mbuffer up

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: mbuffer
Version: 20110119-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'd like mbuffer to be quiet.  It insists, however, on printing out 
statistics if I also suppress error messages.  Consider:

Plain:

  us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer


  summary:  0.0 kByte in  0.0 sec - average of  0.0 kB/s

-q suppresses statistics:

  us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -q


But used in combination with -l /dev/null, the statistics are again 
shown:

  us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -q -l /dev/null

  summary:  0.0 kByte in  0.0 sec - average of  0.0 kB/s

Just using -l /dev/null doesn't help either:

  us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -l /dev/null


  summary:  0.0 kByte in  0.0 sec - average of  0.0 kB/s

Nor does redirecting stderr:

  us@forster:~$ echo | mbuffer -l /dev/null 2/dev/null


  summary:  0.0 kByte in  0.0 sec - average of  0.0 kB/s

(The reason I want -q and -l is that I want to suppress both the 
statistics and the possible broken pipe error message, which isn't 
really an error message.  Perhaps the broken pipe error message could be 
suppressed some other way.)

Thanks,

Neal

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Debian Release: 7.5
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  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mbuffer depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libmhash2  0.9.9.9-1.1

mbuffer recommends no packages.

mbuffer suggests no packages.

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Bug#745613: dictionaries-common: emacs's ispell-change-dictionary displays unavailable (and invalid?) dictionaries

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.12.11
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

On Debian Squeeze, I would run ispell-change-dictionary in emacs to 
toggle between my default dictionary (american) and german-new8.  
Despite installing many dictionary packages, I couldn't get 
'german-new8' back in the menu on Wheezy.  What is present, however, is 
german and german8.  Unfortunately, when I select, say, german, I get 
'/usr/lib/aspell/german' can not be opened for reading.  Looking on 
packages.debian.org:

  
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezyarch=anymode=filenamesearchon=contentskeywords=%2Fusr%2Flib%2Faspell%2Fgerman

I get:

  Sorry, your search gave no results

I eventually figured out that I should be using de-neu after looking at 
the 91 options available when using tab completion on 
ispell-change-dictionary.  Given that I only have aspell-de and 
aspell-en:

$ dpkg -l \*spell\* | grep '^ii'
ii  aspell0.60.7~20110707-1  
amd64GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  aspell-de 20120607-1 
all  German dictionary for aspell
ii  aspell-en 7.1-0-1
all  English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii  hunspell-en-us20070829-6 
all  English_american dictionary for hunspell
ii  ispell3.3.02-6   
amd64International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)
ii  libaspell15   0.60.7~20110707-1  
amd64GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime library
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0:amd64   1.3.2-4
amd64spell checker and morphological analyzer (shared library)

it seems to me that not only should dictionaries not included in Debian 
be pruned, but not-installed dictionaries should be pruned as well.

The list of dictionaries appears to be generated by 
ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries (from ispell.el).  This function merges 
entries from the output of 'aspell dicts' with 
ispell-dictionary-base-alist, which is a static list.  Likely, the 
intersection should be taken instead of the union.  However, my elisp-fu 
is not good enough to come up with a patch.

Thanks,

Neal

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Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5

dictionaries-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dictionaries-common suggests:
ii  emacsen-common  2.0.7
ii  ispell  3.3.02-6
pn  jed-extra   none

-- debconf information:
* dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: american (American English)
  dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value:
  dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message:
  dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default:
  dictionaries-common/default-ispell: american (American English)
  dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true
  dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true
  dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false


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Bug#691081: pulseaudio: Pulse audio is unable to play samples encoded at non-44.1khz bit rates

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm using an openrd-client.  I installed pulseaudio in daemon mode and 
disabled autospawn for normal users.  Initially, audio appeared to be 
working fine: I could play some flac files using mplayer (with 
PULSE_SERVER=localhost) and mpd.

When I then tried to use espeak and flite, I would get a pop when the 
sample started playing, some very soft static and then another pop when 
the sample was finished.  Espeak and flite gave no indication that there 
was an error.  The produced wav file worked fine on other systems and 
even when played from the openrd with PULSE_SERVER set appropriately.  

At some point, I tried using mplayer and resampling to 44.1khz.  This 
worked.  This led me to the following bug report: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speex/+bug/528524 Apparently, 
speex has problems on arm if compiled with certain flags.  I changed 
pulseaudio's resample method to trivial and now espeak and flite work.

Thanks,

Neal


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  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser   3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound21.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins1.0.25-2
ii  libc6 2.13-35
ii  libcap2   1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.6.8-1
ii  libfftw3-33.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1   1:4.7.1-7
ii  libice6   2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7  2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0 2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate00.1.8-5
ii  libsm62:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1  1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++64.7.1-7
ii  libsystemd-daemon044-4
ii  libsystemd-login0 44-4
ii  libtdb1   1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0  175-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcb1   1.8.1-1
ii  libxtst6  2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian7
ii  udev  175-7

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11 2.0-6
ii  rtkit 0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman none
pn  paprefs   none
pn  pavucontrol   none
pn  pavumeter none
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/pulseaudio changed:
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1
DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0

/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed:
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 
MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11
; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
; resample-method = speex-float-3
resample-method = trivial
; enable-remixing = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
; flat-volumes = yes
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 100
; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0

/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
..nofail
..fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
..ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
..else
load-module module-detect
..endif
..ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
..nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
..fail
..endif
..ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
..endif
..ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
..endif

Bug#660724: texlive-pictures: new version of pgfplots available

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: texlive-pictures
Version: 2009-15
Severity: wishlist


There is a new version of pgfplots available.

I'd like to be able to use a box-and-whiskers plot, as described here:

  
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3983/can-i-use-pgfplots-to-make-a-boxplot

Here is the example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{testdata.dat}
0 1 1.2 0.4 1.5 0.2
1 2 2.3 1.5 2.7 1
2 0.7 1.4 0.5 1.9 0.1
\end{filecontents}

\pgfplotsset{
box plot/.style={
/pgfplots/.cd,
black,
only marks,
mark=-,
mark size=1em,
/pgfplots/error bars/.cd,
y dir=plus,
y explicit,
},
box plot box/.style={
/pgfplots/error bars/draw error bar/.code 2 args={%
\draw  ##1 -- ++(1em,0pt) |- ##2 -- ++(-1em,0pt) |- ##1 -- cycle;
},
/pgfplots/table/.cd,
y index=2,
y error expr={\thisrowno{3}-\thisrowno{2}},
/pgfplots/box plot
},
box plot top whisker/.style={
/pgfplots/error bars/draw error bar/.code 2 args={%
\pgfkeysgetvalue{/pgfplots/error bars/error mark}%
{\pgfplotserrorbarsmark}%
\pgfkeysgetvalue{/pgfplots/error bars/error mark options}%
{\pgfplotserrorbarsmarkopts}%
\path ##1 -- ##2;
},
/pgfplots/table/.cd,
y index=4,
y error expr={\thisrowno{2}-\thisrowno{4}},
/pgfplots/box plot
},
box plot bottom whisker/.style={
/pgfplots/error bars/draw error bar/.code 2 args={%
\pgfkeysgetvalue{/pgfplots/error bars/error mark}%
{\pgfplotserrorbarsmark}%
\pgfkeysgetvalue{/pgfplots/error bars/error mark options}%
{\pgfplotserrorbarsmarkopts}%
\path ##1 -- ##2;
},
/pgfplots/table/.cd,
y index=5,
y error expr={\thisrowno{3}-\thisrowno{5}},
/pgfplots/box plot
},
box plot median/.style={
/pgfplots/box plot
}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis} [enlarge x limits=0.5,xtick=data]
\addplot [box plot median] table {testdata.dat};
\addplot [box plot box] table {testdata.dat};
\addplot [box plot top whisker] table {testdata.dat};
\addplot [box plot bottom whisker] table {testdata.dat};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

This doesn't work (at least) because version 1.2.2 of pgfplots doesn't
have support for 'y error expr'.  I found reference to this in version
1.5.1 of the pgfplots manual:

  It is also possible to use mathematical expressions together with
  ‘plot table’. This is documented in all detail in Section 4.2.5, but
  the key idea is to use one of x expr, y expr, z expr or meta expr as
  in ‘plot table[x expr=\thisrow{maxlevel}+3,y=L2]’.

Thanks,

Neal


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(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. 

Please run your example with
(pdf)latex -recorder ...
(or any other program that supports -recorder) and send us the generated
file with the extension .fls, it lists all the files loaded during
the run and can easily explain problems induced by outdated files in
your home directory.

Don't forget to also include minimal examples of other files that are 
needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!

If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)

or 

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)

##
minimal input file


##
other files

##
 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1153 Feb 14 13:59 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Feb 14 13:59 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 30  2011 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R - 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 12  2011 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R - 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 12  2011 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R - 
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
##
 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 30  2011 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf - 
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5097 Feb 14 13:59 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10219 Feb 14 13:59 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3110 Feb 14 13:59 
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
##
 Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jun  8  

Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table - unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: texlive-pictures
Version: 2009-15
Severity: important

I'm trying to call gnuplot from pgfplots.  It doesn't work.  Here is a
minimal example:

  \documentclass{article}
  
  \usepackage{pgfplots} 
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
   \addplot plot[id=plot,raw gnuplot] function{plot x};
\end{axis}
  \end{picture}
  
  \end{document}

Here is pdflatex's output:

  $ pdflatex -shell-escape a.tex 
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
   \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode
  ...
  Package pgfplots: loading complementary code for your PGF version...
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsup
  p_misc.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsup
  p_pgfkeysfiltered.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsup
  p_pgfmathfloat.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsup
  p_pgflibraryplothandlers.code.tex)
  Package pgfplots: loading FPU library which doesn't appear to exist in your 
PGF
   version...
  
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsup
  p_pgflibraryfpu.code.tex))
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/liststructure/pgfplotsliststruct
  ure.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/liststructure/pgfplotsliststruct
  ureext.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/liststructure/pgfplotsarray.code
  .tex)
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/numtable/pgfplotstable.code.tex
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/numtable/pgfplotstable.coltype.c
  ode.tex)))
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotscolormap.code.tex)
  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.stackedplots.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/pgfplotscoordprocessing.code.tex
  ) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/pgfplots/pgfplotsticks.code.tex)
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibrarydecor
  ations.code.tex
  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmoduledecorations.code.tex))
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibrarydecor
  ations.pathmorphing.code.tex
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibrarydecorations.pathmorphing.
  code.tex))
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibrarydecor
  ations.pathreplacing.code.tex
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibrarydecorations.pathreplacing
  .code.tex)))
  
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibraryplotm
  arks.code.tex
  (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryplotmarks.code.tex)))
  (./a.aux) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
  [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
  )
  set terminal table; set output a.plot.table; set format %.5f
   ^
  a.plot.gnuplot, line 1: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set 
terminal' for a list
  
  ! Package pgfplots Error: Sorry, the gnuplot-result file 'a.plot.table' could 
n
  ot be found. Maybe you need to enable the shell-escape feature? For pdflatex, 
t
  his is ' pdflatex -shell-escape'. You can also invoke ' gnuplot 
file.gnup
  lot' manually on the respective gnuplot file..
  
  See the pgfplots package documentation for explanation.
  Type  H return  for immediate help.
   ...  

  l.9 ...plot[id=plot,raw gnuplot] function{plot x};

  ? ^C! Interruption.
  \GenericError  ...
\endgroup 
  l.9 ...plot[id=plot,raw gnuplot] function{plot x};


The problem is that gnuplot no longer supports 'set terminal table'.
To use the table terminal, one has to use: 'set table'.  (I'm using
version 4.4.0-1.1 of gnuplot).

The workaround described here:

  
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23900/a-problem-with-tikz-gnuplot-set-terminal-table

doesn't work for me either.  dpkg -L texlive-pictures | grep pgfbaseplot
returns nothing.  I tried grepping the sources for 'set terminal table',
but I didn't find the offending line of code.

Thanks.


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Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table - unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi, Hilmar,

Thanks for the quick reply.

At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:37:17 +0100,
Hilmar Preusse wrote:
 The minimal example does not compile, it tells me somthing about an
 missing endgroup. After replacing \end{picture} by \end{tikzpicture}
 at least it builds fine.

Sorry.  That is the correct fix.

 But it does not even try to run gnuplot. I
 have gnuplot-nox and gnuplot-x11 installed. My command line is
 
 hille@sid:~ $ pdflatex -shell-escape a.tex

Can you try running:

  rm -f a.plot.table a.plot.gnuplot
  pdflatex a.tex

This should result in the following error:

  ! Package pgfplots Error: Sorry, the gnuplot-result file
  'a.plot.table' could not be found. Maybe you need to enable the
  shell-escape feature? For pdflatex, this is ' pdflatex
  -shell-escape'. You can also invoke ' gnuplot file.gnuplot'
  manually on the respective gnuplot file..
  
  See the pgfplots package documentation for explanation.
  Type  H return  for immediate help.
   ...  

  l.9 ...plot[id=plot,raw gnuplot] function{plot x};

  ? 
  ! Emergency stop.
   ...  

  l.9 ...plot[id=plot,raw gnuplot] function{plot x};

  !  == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
  Transcript written on a.log.

This means that pdflatex is indeed trying to run gnuplot, but
shell-escape is not enabled.

What version of texlive-pictures are you using and what version of
gnuplot do you have installed?

Thanks,

Neal



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Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table - unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:34:46 +0100,
Hilmar Preusse wrote:
 OK, I run again pdflatex using shell-escape and the minimal example.
 Indeed I have an (intermediate) a.plot.gnuplot file. The content is
 
 set table a.plot.table; set format %.5f
 plot x

In my file, I see:

set terminal table; set output a.plot.table; set format %.5f
plot x

 This is a pure Debian installation, no local modified files. Could you
 add \listfile to the beginning of your TeX file and compare the
 output to my one:

I guess you mean to add it to the preamble to use \listfiles (with an
s).

Unfortunately, I don't see a similar listing, either on pdflatex's
stdout or in the generated log file.  Am I looking in the wrong place?
Did you format the list?

Thanks,

Neal



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Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table - unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:33:19 +0100,
Hilmar Preusse wrote:
 
 [1  text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)]
 On 13.02.12 Neal H. Walfield (n...@walfield.org) wrote:
  Hilmar Preusse wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
   This is a pure Debian installation, no local modified files. Could you
   add \listfile to the beginning of your TeX file and compare the
   output to my one:
  
  I guess you mean to add it to the preamble to use \listfiles (with an
  s).
  
 Yes, \listfiles (sorry for the typo), like this:
 
 \listfiles
 \documentclass{article}

Ah, I didn't realize that it had to be before the documentclass.
Thanks.

Here is the diff:

$ diff -u hilmar neal 
--- hilmar   2012-02-13 15:53:03.0 +0100
+++ neal 2012-02-13 15:51:55.0 +0100
@@ -2,32 +2,27 @@
  article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 pgfplots.sty2009/02/14 Version 1.2.2
-tikz.sty2010/10/13 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.76)
- pgf.sty2008/01/15 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.12)
-  pgfrcs.sty2010/10/25 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.24)
-everyshi.sty2001/05/15 v3.00 EveryShipout Package (MS)
+tikz.sty2008/02/13 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.27)
+ pgf.sty2008/01/15 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.12)
+  pgfrcs.sty2008/02/20 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.21)
   pgfrcs.code.tex
- pgfcore.sty2010/04/11 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)
+ pgfcore.sty2008/01/15 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.6)
 graphicx.sty1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
   keyval.sty1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
 graphics.sty2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
 trig.sty1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
 graphics.cfg2009/08/28 v1.8 graphics configuration of TeX Live
   pdftex.def2010/03/12 v0.04p Graphics/color for pdfTeX
-  pgfsys.sty2010/06/30 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.37)
+  pgfsys.sty2008/02/07 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.31)
   pgfsys.code.tex
-pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex2008/07/18  (rcs-revision 1.7)
+pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex2008/01/23  (rcs-revision 1.6)
 pgfsysprotocol.code.tex2006/10/16  (rcs-revision 1.4)
   xcolor.sty2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
color.cfg2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pgfcore.code.tex
-pgfcomp-version-0-65.sty2007/07/03 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)
-pgfcomp-version-1-18.sty2007/07/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.1)
-  pgffor.sty2010/03/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.18)
- pgfkeys.sty
- pgfkeys.code.tex
-  pgffor.code.tex
- pgfkeys.code.tex
+pgfcomp-version-0-65.sty2007/07/03 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.7)
+pgfcomp-version-1-18.sty2007/07/23 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.1)
+  pgffor.sty2007/11/07 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.8)
   pgffor.code.tex
 tikz.code.tex
 supp-pdf.mkii

My raw output follows:

 *File List*
 article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
pgfplots.sty2009/02/14 Version 1.2.2
tikz.sty2008/02/13 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.27)
 pgf.sty2008/01/15 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.12)
  pgfrcs.sty2008/02/20 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.21)
  pgfrcs.code.tex
 pgfcore.sty2008/01/15 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.6)
graphicx.sty1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
  keyval.sty1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
trig.sty1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg2009/08/28 v1.8 graphics configuration of TeX Live
  pdftex.def2010/03/12 v0.04p Graphics/color for pdfTeX
  pgfsys.sty2008/02/07 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.31)
  pgfsys.code.tex
pgfsyssoftpath.code.tex2008/01/23  (rcs-revision 1.6)
pgfsysprotocol.code.tex2006/10/16  (rcs-revision 1.4)
  xcolor.sty2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
   color.cfg2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
 pgfcore.code.tex
pgfcomp-version-0-65.sty2007/07/03 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.7)
pgfcomp-version-1-18.sty2007/07/23 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.1)
  pgffor.sty2007/11/07 v2.00 (rcs-revision 1.8)
  pgffor.code.tex
tikz.code.tex
supp-pdf.mkii
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Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table - unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

reassign pgf
thanks

At Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:13:42 +0100,
Hilmar Preusse wrote:
  Ah, I didn't realize that it had to be before the documentclass.
  Thanks.
  
  Here is the diff:
  
 Bamm. Yes, I should have noticed that earlier: the pgf package is
 maintained separately in Debian. Please install the Debian package
 pgf to get the fix.
 
 hille@sid:~ $ dpkg -l pgf
 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
 |Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
 |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
 ||/ Name   VersionDescription
 +++-==-==-
 ii  pgf2.10-1 TeX Portable Graphic Format

This fixes the problem.  I had 2.00-1 installed, which is in stable,
along with the incompatible version of gnuplot.

Perhaps pgf should change make the use of set table and set
terminal table dependent on the version of gnuplot, e.g.:

if (substr(system(gnuplot --version), strlen (gnuplot ), 100) =4.4) set 
table; else set terminal table;

Thanks,

Neal



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Bug#622160: rsync: 65000 hard links = assertion failure

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.7-2
Severity: normal

I use storebackup to create daily backups and I mirror these backups
to a report machine using:

  rsync --stats -a -z -H --numeric-ids --link-dest=/backup \
/backup/ bruckner.vpn.huenfield.org:/home/backup/

During today's run, rsync reported the following errors:

ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: link 
/home/backup/forster/2011.04.10_06.36.53/neal/src/temp/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/build_i386_none_486/include/config/dvb/s5h1409.h
 = forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock failed: Too many links (31)
ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: link 
/home/backup/forster/2011.04.10_06.36.53/neal/src/temp/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/build_i386_none_486/include/config/early/printk.h
 = forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock failed: Too many links (31)
...
ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: hlink.c:537: finish_hard_link: 
Assertion `(((unsigned char *)(node-data))[0]) == 0' failed.

Looking at .gksu.lock, we see that it indeed has the maximum number of
allowed hard links (it also has 0 size):

$ ls -l /home/backup/forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock
-rw-r--r-- 65000 neal neal 0 Sep 28  2007 
/home/backup/forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock

I'd like rsync to not fail.  Perhaps it should create an additional
copy of the content.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  base-files  6.0  Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii  libc6   2.11.2-10Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8GCC support library
ii  libpopt01.16-1   lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lsb-base3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client1:5.5p1-6  secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii  openssh-server1:5.5p1-6  secure shell (SSH) server, for sec

-- no debconf information




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Bug#601416: newer firmware works with RT3072

[Neal H. Walfield]

I'm using linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.38+33 and an RT3072-based USB stick.
In particular, the one here http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003TRTBLU/).
lsusb describes it as:

  Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3072 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3072 Wireless 
Adapter


Using the firmware package version 0.29, I get:

 sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/24ghz.conf
 Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/24ghz.conf
 ctrl_interface_group=0
 [  313.419902] phy1 - rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Current
 firmware does not support detected chipset.
 ioctl[SIOCSIFFLAGS]: No such file or directory
 nl80211 driver initialization failed.
 wlan2: Unable to setup interface.

Purging the firmware (dpkg -P firmware-ralink) and then copying
rt2870.bin from 2011_0107_RT3070_RT3370_Linux_STA_v2.5.0.1_DPO to
/lib/firmware allows hostapd to start.

Neal





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Bug#601416: ralink firmware

[Neal H. Walfield]

I've also tried the firmware in the v22 zip file on ralink's web site.

Either version (and they are different) allows hostapd to load.  When
terminating hostapd, I see the following error message:

  phy1 - rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed
  for offset 0x7010 with error -71.
  ...
  eloop: could not process SIGINT or SIGTERM in two seconds. Looks
  like there is a bug that ends up in a busy loop that prevents clean
  shutdown.  Killing program forcefully.


This is repeated for a while.  Otherwise, AP mode seems to work fine.

Thanks.



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Bug#518182: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang in 2.6.32-27: not fixed? regression?

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Squeeze (using the Beta1 d-i, amd64).  I
encountered this bug using 2.6.32-27, although the bug was allegedly
fixed in 2.6.32-25.

My machine has exactly 4 GB of RAM and an AMD 64 X2 5200+ CPU.
Additional details follow.

Thanks,
Neal

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version  
Description
+++---==
un  linux-image-2.6  none   
(no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6-amd642.6.32+28
Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
un  linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64 none   
(no description available)
un  linux-image-2.6-vserver-amd64none   
(no description available)
un  linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64none   
(no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64   2.6.32-27
Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs



Nov 15 09:51:18 maurice kernel: [66202.176123] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Down
Nov 15 09:53:23 maurice kernel: [66326.613674] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 
Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805168] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: 
Detected Tx Unit Hang
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805172]   Tx Queue 0
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805174]   TDH  a
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805176]   TDT  22
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805178]   next_to_use  22
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805180]   next_to_cleana
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805182] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805184]   time_stamp   
100fdd9de
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805186]   next_to_watcha
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805188]   jiffies  
100fddb1d
Nov 15 10:02:03 maurice kernel: [66846.805190]   next_to_watch.status 0
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805058] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: 
Detected Tx Unit Hang
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805062]   Tx Queue 0
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805064]   TDH  a
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805066]   TDT  22
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805068]   next_to_use  22
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805070]   next_to_cleana
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805072] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805074]   time_stamp   
100fdd9de
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805076]   next_to_watcha
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805078]   jiffies  
100fddd11
Nov 15 10:02:05 maurice kernel: [66848.805080]   next_to_watch.status 0
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804156] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: 
Detected Tx Unit Hang
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804161]   Tx Queue 0
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804163]   TDH  a
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804165]   TDT  22
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804167]   next_to_use  22
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804169]   next_to_cleana
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804171] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804173]   time_stamp   
100fdd9de
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804175]   next_to_watcha
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804177]   jiffies  
100fddf05
Nov 15 10:02:07 maurice kernel: [66850.804179]   next_to_watch.status 0
Nov 15 10:02:08 maurice kernel: [66851.804025] [ cut here 
]
Nov 15 10:02:08 maurice kernel: [66851.804045] WARNING: at 
/build/mattems-linux-2.6_2.6.32-27-amd64-IsDpkI/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/net/sched/sch_generic.c:261
 dev_watchdog+0xe2/0x194()
Nov 15 10:02:08 maurice kernel: [66851.804052] Hardware name: To Be Filled By 
O.E.M.
Nov 15 10:02:08 maurice kernel: [66851.804057] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (e1000): 
transmit queue 0 timed out
Nov 15 10:02:08 maurice kernel: [66851.804061] Modules linked in: des_generic 
cbc ppdev lp sco bridge stp bnep l2cap bluetooth rfkill powernow_k8 
cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_conservative 
binfmt_misc fuse rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsd exportfs nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl 
auth_rpcgss sunrpc loop usb_storage snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth 
snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus 

Bug#528581: libevent-dev: event.h does not include sys/types.h but depends on it.

[Neal H. Walfield]

Subject: libevent-dev: event.h does not include sys/types.h but depends on it.
Package: libevent-dev
Version: 1.3e-3
Severity: normal

*** Please type your report below this line ***

Consider the following program:

  #include event.h

  int
  main (int argc, char *argv[])
  {
return 0;
  }

Compiling this yields:

gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\\ 
-DPACKAGE_STRING=\\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\\ -DPACKAGE=\foobar\ 
-DVERSION=\2.7.0\ -DHAVE_LIBEVENT=1 -I. -I../../src -g -O2 -MT 
main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o ../../src/main.c
In file included from ../../src/main.c:1:
/usr/include/event.h:214: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list 
before ‘u_char’
/usr/include/event.h:237: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list 
before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:267: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:269: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘bufferevent_read’
/usr/include/event.h:282: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:283: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:284: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:289: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:292: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or 
‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
/usr/include/event.h:293: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:293: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
/usr/include/event.h:328: error: expected declaration specifiers or 
‘...’ before ‘size_t’
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1


The problem is that event.h uses u_char, which is defined in 
sys/types.h, however, event.h does not include the appropriate header 
file.  Including sys/types.h fixes the problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libevent-dev depends on:
ii  libevent1 1.3e-3 An asynchronous event notification

libevent-dev recommends no packages.

libevent-dev suggests no packages.

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Bug#428529: Starting nstx at arbitary times

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: nstx
Version: 1.1-beta6-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch


I don't need nstxcd to run all the time.  In particular, it doesn't need 
to start at boot time.  However, I'd like to be able to use the normal 
start up mechanism to start it on demand from the command line by, e.g., 
running the following:

  /etc/init.d/nstxcd start

Taking inspiration form openvpn, which allows you to start arbitary 
interfaces using the form:

  /etc/init.d/openvpn start vpn-name

I'd propose that /etc/init.d nstxcd take an additional argument, force, 
which indicates whether to respect the start_nstxcd variable.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages nstx depends on:
ii  adduser 3.102Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6   2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

nstx recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
--- nstxcd.orig 2007-06-12 10:51:05.0 +0200
+++ nstxcd  2007-06-12 10:48:09.0 +0200
@@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ fi
 
 set -e
 
+FORCE=$2
+
 check_start_nstxcd_option() {
+# Force it to start.
+if [ x$FORCE = xforce ]; then
+return 0
+fi
+
 if [ ! $start_nstxcd = yes ]; then
-   echo Not starting nstx client, disabled via /etc/default/nstx
+   echo Not starting, disabled via /etc/default/nstx; try $0 start force
return 1
 else
return 0

Bug#79358: is select still broken on hurd ?

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:15:20 +0200,
Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Neal H. Walfield, le Sat 09 Jun 2007 00:29:38 +0200, a écrit :
  The theory is that we don't trust the server to honor the timeout: it
  may be malicious and trick the client into waiting forever.
 
 Or it may be buggued and hung.

Of course.

  However, there are enough ways in which we rely on the server for
  correct operation that using the Mach timeout mechanism to preempt
  the server doesn't bring any additional safety.
 
 Mmm, maybe, but is it really the way we want to go? (i.e. trusting
 the server for such operations).  Server hangs do happen, and having
 applications hung just because of this is not pleasant.

Almost every fs operation can hang and we have no functionality to
detect this except for the user.  Application have come to rely on
this being implemented by its TCB.  Why is select an exception?

Neal

Bug#79358: is select still broken on hurd ?

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:30:49 +0800,
Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Actually, on the Hurd, a timeout of 0 probably doesn't make sense (since
 we at least need to give back cpu to the server). What I'd propose is
 the attached patch (not tested), that rounds up the timeout value, and
 in the case of 0, uses 1 (so as to give the server an opportunity to
 answer).
 
 Comments?

The problem is quite suble.  Here is how SUS describes select:

  If none of the selected descriptors are ready for the requested
  operation, the pselect() or select() function shall block until at
  least one of the requested operations becomes ready, until the timeout
  occurs, or until interrupted by a signal. The timeout parameter
  controls how long the pselect() or select() function shall take before
  timing out. 

The theory is that we don't trust the server to honor the timeout: it
may be malicious and trick the client into waiting forever.  However,
there are enough ways in which we rely on the server for correct
operation that using the Mach timeout mechanism to preempt the server
doesn't bring any additional safety.  Instead, I think, we should pass
the timeout directly to the server and rely on it to honor the timeout
according to the specification.

Neal


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Bug#336524: cgilib: cgi variable names not decoded

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: cgilib
Version: 0.5-4
Severity: normal


Cgi variable names as well as variable values need to have escape
sequences decoded.  cglib currently does not do this, however, it
should.  I've attached a patch to correct this.  I've tested it and it
appears to work.

Thanks,
Neal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
en_US)

-- no debconf information
--- cgi.c.orig	1999-08-20 22:14:07.0 +0100
+++ cgi.c	2005-10-30 22:17:10.66428 +
@@ -248,38 +250,58 @@ s_var **cgiReadVariables ()
 i=0;
 while (*cp) {
 	if ((ip = (char *)strchr(cp, '')) != NULL) {
+	/* Replace the  with a NUL to make parsing easier.  */
 	*ip = '\0';
 	}else
+	/* This is the last variable set IP to the real trailing
+	   NUL.  */
 	ip = cp + strlen(cp);
 
 	if ((esp=(char *)strchr(cp, '=')) == NULL) {
+	/* The value of the variable is the empty string.  */
 	cp = ++ip;
 	continue;
 	}
 
 	if (!strlen(esp)) {
+	/* Variable has no value.  */
 	cp = ++ip;
 	continue;
 	}
 
+	/* Squash the = as well.  */
+	*esp = '\0';
+	esp ++;
+
+	/* CP names the start of variable name; ESP names the value;
+	   and IP points to the final NUL.  */
+
 	if (inumargs) {
+	char *name;
+	char *value;
+
+	name = strdup (cp);
+	if (! name)
+		return NULL;
+	cgiDecodeString (name);
+
+	value = strdup (esp);
+	if (! value) {
+		free (name);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	cgiDecodeString (value);
 
 	/* try to find out if there's already such a variable */
-	for (k=0; ki  (strncmp (result[k]-name,cp, esp-cp) || !(strlen (result[k]-name) == esp-cp)); k++);
+	for (k=0; ki  strcmp (result[k]-name, name); k++)
+		;
 
 	if (k == i) {	/* No such variable yet */
 		if ((result[i] = (s_var *)malloc(sizeof(s_var))) == NULL)
 		return NULL;
-		if ((result[i]-name = (char *)malloc((esp-cp+1) * sizeof(char))) == NULL)
-		return NULL;
-		memset (result[i]-name, 0, esp-cp+1);
-		strncpy(result[i]-name, cp, esp-cp);
-		cp = ++esp;
-		if ((result[i]-value = (char *)malloc((ip-esp+1) * sizeof(char))) == NULL)
-		return NULL;
-		memset (result[i]-value, 0, ip-esp+1);
-		strncpy(result[i]-value, cp, ip-esp);
-		result[i]-value = cgiDecodeString(result[i]-value);
+		result[i]-name = name;
+		result[i]-value = value;
+
 		if (cgiDebugLevel) {
 		if (cgiDebugStderr)
 			fprintf (stderr, %s: %s\n, result[i]-name, result[i]-value);
@@ -288,15 +310,14 @@ s_var **cgiReadVariables ()
 		}
 		i++;
 	} else {	/* There is already such a name, suppose a mutiple field */
-		cp = ++esp;
-		len = (strlen(result[k]-value)+(ip-esp)+2) * sizeof (char);
-		if ((sptr = (char *)malloc(len)) == NULL)
+		int len = strlen (result[k]-value);
+		if ((sptr = realloc (result[k]-value,
+ len + 1 + strlen (value) + 1)) == NULL)
 		return NULL;
-		memset (sptr, 0, len);
-		sprintf (sptr, %s\n, result[k]-value);
-		strncat(sptr, cp, ip-esp);
-		free(result[k]-value);
-		result[k]-value = cgiDecodeString (sptr);
+
+		result[k]-value[len] = '\n';
+		memcpy (result[k]-value + len + 1, value, strlen (value) + 1);
+		free (value);
 	}
 	}
 	cp = ++ip;

Bug#313560: /dev/{null,zero,full} should not be run as root

[Neal H. Walfield]

Package: Hurd

/dev/{null,zero,full} should not be run as root: they don't need root
access to operate correctly.  Because they are translators and the
node is owned by root, the file system starts them with root
permission.  Ideally, they should be run with no user ids but as an
interim measure, they can be run as nobody.

Thanks,
Neal


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