Bug#978646: regression: %Y option fails to mark broken symlinks as "N"(nonexistent)

2020-12-29 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: findutils Version: 4.6.0+git+20161106-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This is a regression as it worked in Jessie and works again in Buster, but fails in Stretch: (note: i have a script to remove dangling symlinks that relied on 'find ... -printf %Y' returning 'N' for broke

Bug#977904: nfs-common: start-statd calls 'systemctl start rpc-statd' which can hang dbus-daemon/systemd at boot

2020-12-22 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.3.4-2.1+deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, FYI: /usr/share/bug/nfs-common/script warns of error. in my case: 'cat /etc/fstab|grep nfs >&3' returns 1 due to 'grep' fail (my nfs is all in autofs). should probably '|| true' that. to avoid user confus

Bug#953066: libpciaccess0: nVidia driver finds no devices, sddm dies with ABRT

2020-03-03 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: libpciaccess0 Version: 0.13.4-1+b2 Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.12 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-0.bpo.6-amd64 (SM

Bug#950894: Acknowledgement (mawk: numeric comparison on 'sub()' resulted ${n} vars does not work properly)

2020-02-08 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 2/7/20 2:15 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. You can follow progress on this Bug here: 950894: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950894. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been rec

Bug#950894: mawk: numeric comparison on 'sub()' resulted ${n} vars does not work properly

2020-02-07 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: mawk Version: 1.3.3-17+b3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, NOTE: this affects both 'mawk' and 'gawk' equally, so i'm not sure if this is some utterly esoteric behavior i'm just not "getting", but my expectations are definitely not being met. (i also am unaware if a bug can be co-assig

Bug#900210: Thunderbird AppArmor config breaks stuff with custom $TMPDIR

2018-11-20 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 8/8/18 2:21 PM, Christian Boltz wrote: Helllo, Stephen, while we are discussing this, I'd like to give you an easy workaround: If you need a solution that works for all users (and is a bit less strict because it only enforces that the directory name has to start with a digit) alia

Bug#855632: Info received (Bug#883217: linux: open on NFSv4 exported file on nfs server: "Resource temporarily unavailable" under reproducible conditions when client has granted read delegation on fil

2018-07-05 Thread Stephen Dowdy
running: gizmo:/var/log# uname -a Linux gizmo 3.16.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 (2018-05-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux so, i think you can close this side of the bug. Thanks for the feedback/follow-through! --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.

Bug#900210: thunderbird: Thunderbird AppArmor config disables ability to send entirely

2018-05-27 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:52.8.0-1~deb9u1 Severity: important Attempting to send e-mail results in a popup: [ Send Message Error ] Sending of the message failed. # aa-status --enabled && echo "AppArmor Enabled" AppArmor Enabled # aa-status | egrep '(profiles|thunder

Bug#855632: Bug#883217: linux: open on NFSv4 exported file on nfs server: "Resource temporarily unavailable" under reproducible conditions when client has granted read delegation on file

2017-12-14 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 12/14/2017 12:51 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:24:55PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 03:35:40PM -0700, Stephen Dowdy wrote: >>> On 11/30/2017 01:39 PM, Salvatore

Bug#883217: linux: open on NFSv4 exported file on nfs server: "Resource temporarily unavailable" under reproducible conditions when client has granted read delegation on file

2017-11-30 Thread Stephen Dowdy
it in April, 2015. It's a 10 NIC NFS server for the department, and often throws the error when i update files that are likely being read/open by client systems. (it doesn't have a huge resource consumption load ever and i get that failure) So, i vote yeah ;) --stephen -- Stephen Dowd

Bug#868658: plasma-desktop: autohide panel fails

2017-08-22 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 08/22/2017 10:20 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > When thunderbird is opened it displays a dialogue to ask for the email > account password. > > While this popup is shown in thunderbird the panel does not autohide > when changing to another application. Heinrich, i *believe* this is expected

Bug#868065: powerdevil-data: Energy Savings KCM config window is too large for screen and has no scrollbars

2017-07-11 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: powerdevil-data Version: 4:5.8.4-1 Severity: normal /usr/bin/kcmshell5 powerdevilprofilesconfig.desktop generates a window which is: $ xwininfo -name 'Energy Saving — System Settings Module' | grep geometry -geometry 719x904+37+29 904 pixels tall. However, my laptop screen

Bug#862124: systemd: systemctl {stop|start} nis ypbind... errors with "out of memory"

2017-05-08 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 05/08/2017 04:17 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > This looks like a duplicate of > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831894 > which is fixed in newer version of systemd. Ack, missed that. i usually use something like: $ apt-listbugs -s all list systemd | grep -i memory to searc

Bug#857961: Acknowledgement (qemu-system-x86: memory configs > 16GB create bad DMI configs (last slot empty) and wrong mem size)

2017-03-16 Thread Stephen Dowdy
yeah, i'm beginning to think this is 'seabios' I mistakenly used the memory size reports from my own tool which sums the DIMM slots, rather than getting 'MemTotal' out of '/proc/meminfo', which reports the correct value. So, please re-assign this to 'seabios' (i think) thanks, --stephen

Bug#857961: qemu-system-x86: memory configs > 16GB create bad DMI configs (last slot empty) and wrong mem size

2017-03-16 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Qemu-KVM Memory allocations > 16GB don't work right. I don't know exactly where this bug resides (qemu-system-x86, qemu-kvm, seabios???) Any configuration > 16GB lead to an unpopulated final DIMM slot and

Bug#857235: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#857235: bash-completion: /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh can't be forcibly re-run

2017-03-09 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On 03/09/2017 02:48 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > I don't know what the reason for making the variable read only is. But > I think you could work around it by setting BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR > to a fake value, e.g. /prevent/sourcing in your rc files before the > profile.d snippet is sourced (thus p

Bug#857235: bash-completion: /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh can't be forcibly re-run

2017-03-08 Thread Stephen Dowdy (resonance)
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For my root .bashrc i have the following introduction block that is designed to help ensure i don't inherit bad/unexpected values from somewhere else (sshd, /etc/profile.d/, etc...) and the root interactive bash enviro

Bug#857095: apt-file: bad warning message

2017-03-07 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: apt-file Version: 3.1.4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, gtgn:~# apt-file search pdfsig E: The cache is empty. You need to run "apt update" first. ^^^ I think that should say "apt-file" and not "apt" thanks, --stephen -- System Information: Deb

Bug#849621: libc-bin: 'zdump -c' can't properly handle leap-second insertion at last second of year

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Dowdy (resonance)
Package: libc-bin Version: 2.19-18+deb8u7 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, using year limit boundaries of 2016 minimum (inclusive) and 2017 maximum (non-inclusive), then including 2018 maximum, yields: $ zdump -V -c2016,2017 right/America/Denver | grep ':60 ' $ zdump -V -c2016,20

Bug#845387: jessie-pu: package glibc/2.19-18+deb8u7

2016-11-22 Thread Stephen Dowdy
sorry to butt-in here, but: FYI: typo alert? fqsrt -> fsqrt ?? (transposition of q & s) I know it's just in the e-mail twice and the patch changelog once, but it'd be good if the changelog was typographically correct, esp for searches. --stephen

Bug#831033: libc6: NSS (compat/nis) randomly fails for getent*

2016-07-13 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: libc6 Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/64 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTY

Bug#775158: policykit-1: memory leak in polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish DBUS call results handler

2016-05-21 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:22:30 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 16.10.2015 um 01:35 schrieb Stephen Dowdy: > > Is this fix going to be released for Jessie? I don't see it in > > jessie-proposed-updates, and it (i presume) is SEVERELY affecting some of > &

Bug#783212: nfs-kernel-server: exportfs fails to set rw, ro, [no_]root_squash or [no_]squash_all flags in some cases

2016-03-30 Thread Stephen Dowdy
IMHO. Now i have to create multiple exports records with different "-{defaults}", or put '({options})' on every single host export creating a more complex exports environment prone to errors. thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/

Bug#775158: policykit-1: memory leak in polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish DBUS call results handler

2016-03-09 Thread Stephen Dowdy
FWIW, for anybody else having this issue, attached is an as-needed restart script for 'kded' that seems to work.​ ​(less onerous than the powerdevil disabler script, 'kded' seems to be restartable w/o incident from what i can tell)​ -- ​stephen​ -- Stephen Dowdy - S

Bug#775158: policykit-1: memory leak in polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish DBUS call results handler

2016-03-07 Thread Stephen Dowdy
, which i'm not thrilled with, i'm going to have to globally deploy that, with the negative side-effects) thanks, --stephen On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > Status ping > > Given Jessie 8.3 update coming soon, what's the chance this will be fixed?

Bug#803249: needrestart: Restarts services in debconf noninteractive

2016-01-22 Thread Stephen Dowdy
The Right Thing(tm)"if stdin redirected from /dev/null. Just would be nice if it did NOT prompt if it's non-interactive (even in verbose mode). --stephen On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Thomas Liske wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Stephe

Bug#803249: needrestart: Restarts services in debconf noninteractive

2016-01-22 Thread Stephen Dowdy
I believe the Felix is saying that 'needrestart' appears to be unaware of the common explicit DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive setting used to indicate that package management should be non-interactive (and if not, then *I* am) I will often use 'pdsh' to run forced package updates like so: $ cut -d

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-12-13 Thread Stephen Dowdy
("security support" SLA type stuff) with apt configurations that target specific packages from the backports repo. Thanks, again! --stephen On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Control: fixed -1 7.0-1 > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > Hi Stephen, >

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-12-13 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > I have not re-installed stock packages, rebooted, and confirmed that the > bass "disappearance" bug reverts. I'll check that later. Felipe, Still didn't get around to backing out to stock, but while i was thin

Bug#775158: policykit-1: memory leak in polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish DBUS call results handler

2015-12-13 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Status ping Given Jessie 8.3 update coming soon, what's the chance this will be fixed? thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/

Bug#783594: openssh-server: sshd -T does not show actual kexchange and ciphers

2015-11-25 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:6.7p1-5 Followup-For: Bug #783594 Dear Maintainer, The bug appears only if the Ciphers directive is missing and implied from program defaults: (i'm guessing that -T runs prior to proper full initialization of 'sshd') $ grep -i ciphers /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Bug#775158: policykit-1: memory leak in polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish DBUS call results handler

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Dowdy
stem level) in case anyone is interested. Dunno if this is the best way for users to disable powerdevil, but "It Works For Me(tm)" thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ disable-powerdevil.sh Description: Bourne shell script

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-10-12 Thread Stephen Dowdy
with personally, but thought i'd add that bit. (i don't know if it was working or not in stock pulseaudio). I have not re-installed stock packages, rebooted, and confirmed that the bass "disappearance" bug reverts. I'll check that later. thanks, --stephen On Sat, Oc

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-10-10 Thread Stephen Dowdy
all manually from here: > > > http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#jessie-backports/pulseaudio/7.0-1~bpo8+1 > > > > Please report if the problem also occurs there. > ​Felipe, Cool, i will give this a try when i get back into the office, Monday. Thanks for the prom

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-10-10 Thread Stephen Dowdy
t jack, the automatic jack selection code reverts to the "No Bass" situation. (but, again, i can manually "fix" it, by selecting the headphone port in pavucontrol. I'd *expect* that to route the sound through the headphone jack, and i should hear *nothing* at that point, but t

Bug#801428: pulseaudio: on stock workstation with normal left/right speakers, bass is stripped, unless using headphones jack

2015-10-09 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: pulseaudio Version: 5.0-13 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have several systems of users, including my own, where bass is stripped/subdued/remixed/whatever making it really hard to enjoy listening. I have discovered that if i plug my external speakers into the headphone jack, or

Bug#797952: libc6: getpwnam() returns a malformed /etc/passwd entry as valid

2015-09-03 Thread Stephen Dowdy
ormed NIS passwd entry (NIS is not relevant in bug) where the field-separator (:) was missing between homedir and shell fields. E.g: # grep sdowdy2 /etc/passwd sdowdy2:x:8859:1500:Stephen Dowdy:/home/sdowdy/bin/bash --^ (missing : deli

Bug#787191: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1

2015-08-28 Thread Stephen Dowdy
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > The system DOES boot successfully, after a long pause (as expected)... > but it DOES boot. I am going to reboot a few more times with this setup > (test1) to make sure it's consistent, and then try installing the 'tes

Bug#787191: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1

2015-08-28 Thread Stephen Dowdy
going to reboot a few more times with this setup (test1) to make sure it's consistent, and then try installing the 'test0' pair of .debs and get back to you, but i wanted to confirm that at least on initial glance, the 'test1' .debs solve my problem. --stephen On Fri, Aug 28, 2

Bug#787191: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1

2015-08-28 Thread Stephen Dowdy
what i need to do to if it involves something more complex than either a pgk->disk extraction or 'dpkg -i' thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/

Bug#787191: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Please, oh please, oh, please, can you get this in before 8.2 ?? I'm dealing with this problem yet again today, as another failed Jessie install was done by someone else on an affected system (it's now currently non-booting with no known workaround using stock Jessie). --stephen -

Bug#787130: policykit-1: man page for pklocalauthority.8.gz contains 8-bit chars that don't work well with 'man' kioslave

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-8 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, using command line 'man' doesn't show the problem in a normal terminal, but kman () { kfmclient newTab man:"$@" ;} kman pklocalauthority shows that the ascii graphic representation of the filesystem hierarchies in s

Bug#785060: kprinter4.desktop file should use 'Exec=kprinter4 --openfiledialog'

2015-05-11 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: kprinter4 Version: 12-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Because users searching in 'kickoff' for 'print' ("hey, what do i use to print my files? Maybe searching for 'print' will tell me") will see 'kprinter4' and attempting to launch it will result in seeing nothing appear but 'boun

Bug#776192: mptsas probe failure and crash, probably related to udev timeout

2015-05-06 Thread Stephen Dowdy
g an audience of people stuck with non-optimal drivers/hardware that were working perfectly well (enough) prior to these changes. thanks --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/

Bug#780738: netfilter-persistent: failure to shortcircuit on ipv6.disabled=1 results in "degraded" systemd system

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: netfilter-persistent Version: 1.0.3 Followup-For: Bug #780738 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2

Bug#782507: libxrender1: i386/amd64 packages not co-installable

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Interestingly, 'aptitude upgrade' installs both these packages w/o as much as a warning. (i have unattended-upgrades failing over this. Unfortunately, unattended-upgrades isn't e-mailing me on this failure as i would expect) Does this mean that 'aptitude' is not fully Multi-Arch aware/compliant?

Bug#776904: please mark chromium as unsupported in wheezy

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Dowdy
OR/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status # grep -i chromium /usr/share/debian-security-support/* # thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-10 Thread Stephen Dowdy
itively that /mnt is indeed a core component/requirement of Debian's package management, i'd appreciate it) thanks, again, --stephen On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 20:55:33 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: base-files Version: 7.1wheezy6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they go stale (nfs), a package (in this case 'base-files') that includes /mnt in the files section will re

Bug#760521: (emacs23: opening file by name *.sout* results in readonly buffer)

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Dowdy
-mode' for SAS." (interactive) (SAS-mode) (setq mode-name "ESS[LOG]") (ess-transcript-minor-mode 1) (toggle-read-only t)) ;; to protect the buffer. Note that there is no anchor matching for end-of-string with '\'' as there are for many other file

Bug#760521: emacs23: opening file by name *.sout* results in readonly buffer

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.4+1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, reproduce: emacs .sout # minimal string required for bug emacs ARBITRARY.soutARBITRARY result: buffer being unconditionally READONLY (independent of file permissions or existence) I can not find that literal string i

Bug#733816: khotkeys launches actions with SIGHUP blocked, leading to unclosable xterms

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Anthony DeRobertis wrote, On 12/31/2013 02:47 PM: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 02:10:42PM -0700, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > >> for i in /proc/[0-9]*/status; do >> if sb=$(grep SigBlk ${i}|sed -e 's/^SigBlk:[ \t]//' | grep -v -e '^' >> -e 0

Bug#703005: Additional Info in my environment for kscreenlocker exit delays

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Dowdy
/topic/638521/linux/gnome-terminal-problems-ctrl-c-and-exit/ I've run one day with the nVidia 325.15 driver w/o any screen blanker delays. -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#733816: khotkeys launches actions with SIGHUP blocked, leading to unclosable xterms

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Dowdy
07f847f809a10 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent--identifierakonadi_maildispatcher_agent 7f88024886d0 /usr/bin/krunner 7f3048d08e80 /usr/bin/kmix-session107a696113675493530070530010_1388190742_119017 7f7e384a86d0 /usr/bin/lancelot-session107a6961138782471101648

Bug#703005: Additional Info in my environment for kscreenlocker exit delays

2013-12-14 Thread Stephen Dowdy
I'm not sure if this is the same bug... Summary: occasional/random screen remains blank for ~10 seconds after typing unlock password (password dialog disappears, screen is completely blank) (for me, i'd say it happens 90% + of the time) often followed by up to 30

Bug#727706: distro-info: feature request: cmdline options to report columnar field data from csv

2013-10-25 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: distro-info Version: 0.10 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, ISTM that 'debian-distro-info' would greatly benefit from a mode where it prints all/any of the csv fields for a selected codename. e.g. *option* = currently unsupported/desired command line option $ debian-distro-info --st

Bug#707014: file: 'file' misreports #!/bin/sh as 'data'

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: file Version: 5.11-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In some cases, 'file' misreports an explicitly declared '#!/bin/sh' POSIX shell script as 'data'. My best guess is that these large files contain self-extracting binary payload which is being found by 'file', but they are most certa

Bug#704627: dash: export -p and dot-source inherited from csh via kdm import hack results in logout

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen Dowdy
ring issue resolved. --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#704627: dash: export -p and dot-source inherited from csh via kdm import hack results in logout

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen Dowdy
port BAD-VAR=value'. It wasn't clear to me that that is expected behavior. It's certainly not necessarily desireable. thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UN

Bug#704627: dash: export -p and dot-source inherited from csh via kdm import hack results in logout

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4 Severity: normal I'm not really quite sure exactly how to file this report, as it involves interactions between 'csh', 'kdm', and 'dash', but 'dash' seems the obvious place to initially file the report, as it appears to me that there may be a POSIX compliance is

Bug#525018: recoll indexer subtasks never completing

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Dowdy
inal poster: ps -awwl -s ${pid-of-offending-process} and possible 'lsof' output would be helpful. --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#624524: specific visualization defect using Inconsolata-10 with colors

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Dowdy
I see this issue, but it's not obvious except when using 'Inconsolata' at 10pt. If i do: $ type ls ls is a function ls () { command -p ls -ACF "$@" } $ ls lost+found/ Music/ src/ $ ls --color lost+found/ Music/ src/ HOWEVER, it *appears* on screen as: lost+foun/Musi/ sr/

Bug#668133: dash:incorrect behaviour for builtin test -w operator on readonly mounts

2012-04-18 Thread Stephen Dowdy
;Not Writeable"' Not Writeable Let me know if you need the output from doing this with 'bash' for comparison. (I'm not doing it until you ask, 'cause i'm lazy, too ;) ) thanks, --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR

Bug#668133: dash:incorrect behaviour for builtin test -w operator on readonly mounts

2012-04-08 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4 Severity: normal While DASH properly reports that a *file* on a READONLY mount is not writeable through its builtin 'test' function, it does not properly detect that a *directory* is not writeable. (filesystem type is not important, as this is true on NFS and E

Bug#543815: Establishing a "Severity" rating

2009-08-30 Thread Stephen Dowdy
RE: [ Severity set to 'important' from 'critical' Request was from maximilian attems ] I just wanted to point out that i had difficulty determining HOW to address the severity field in reportbug. Because i *do* have a workaround to the "problem", it's not critical to *me* anymore, and wasn't at

Bug#543815: initramfs-tools: Having "/lib64" in /etc/ld.so.conf results in unusable initrd image

2009-08-26 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85i Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- Summary: This problem is in essence (AFAICT) the same as #337176, #420754 I think the solution is to fix the hook-functions to not just catch a few well known optimized locations, but