Bug#314988: geomview: Another undefined option

2006-09-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Version 1.8.2 compiles and works! Unfortunately, that's not the end of the story. The gui starts and the program seems functional, when geomview is launched without command line arguments. But when providing a gcl script as argument, the program crashes: $ ./geomview cmd.gcl

Bug#378062: cupsys: Still does not work

2006-09-21 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #378062 Hello. Using the last version available on Debian, lppasswd still exhibits the same problem. Regards, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#487565: [grub-pc] Failed to install

2008-07-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080704-2 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi. I also upgraded to grub2 and got the same problem. As suggested in the reply to the first report I then also tried to upgrade grub-common but it results in that the related packages grub-pc and grub2

Bug#492490: [reportbug] Crash

2008-07-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: reportbug Version: 3.43 Severity: critical --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi. Trying to run the program: $ reportbug Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/reportbug, line 1823, in ? main() File /usr/bin/reportbug, line 832, in main lib_package

Bug#492490: [Reportbug-maint] Bug#492490: [reportbug] Crash

2008-07-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. That was a quick reply; thanks! [And it was too quick a report too (see below).] --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =-+-=== python (= 2.4) | 2.4.4-6 Is this version the default on your machine?

Bug#494135: roundcube: PHP mail() failing silently

2008-08-07 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: roundcube Version: 0.1.1-7 Severity: important Hello. I did only minimal changes to the config file. Namely relying on the following excerpt from main.inc.php: // use this host for sending mails. // to use SSL connection, set ssl://smtp.host.com // if left blank, the PHP mail()

Bug#494145: [Solved]

2008-08-07 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. When I first tried to delete a message, there was no trash folder. I created one name trash, but it didn't help because the the t was lower-case! I've now renamed trash into Trash and now the Move message to trash button works. Nevertheless please note that the following is fairly misleading:

Bug#462266: mutt: Segmentation when connecting IMAP server

2008-08-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.18-4 Followup-For: Bug #462266 Hello. I also have this problem that when pressing 'c' and entering the name of the IMAP server, mutt dies. I have run it with option -d 5 but the output does not really show much (to me at least). Here is is the end of .muttdebug0:

Bug#463385: libmath-numbercruncher-perl: Some methods hanging after a while

2008-02-01 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Thanks for the quick reply. Well, if the program continues running, that sounds more like you're looping on a condition that's never met. Could you please send us a snippet of code that can reproduce this problem? If you can also send the alternative, working version too, great. I've

Bug#463385: libmath-numbercruncher-perl: Some methods hanging after a while

2008-01-31 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: libmath-numbercruncher-perl Version: 5.00-7 Severity: important Hi. (1) First, there is a bug at line 159: for ( $i = 0 ; $i = @$a_ref ; $i++ ) { should be: '' (2) Then (less easy to find out what is going on) some methods apparently hang when

Bug#454315: xaralx: Problems with SVG

2007-12-04 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: xaralx Version: 0.7r1692-2 Severity: important Hello. Upon importing an SVG file that contains a UML diagram (created with the BOUML software), xaralx doesn't display the *text* items. [The other elements such as rectangles and arrows are imported correctly.] Moreover, when trying to

Bug#439347: sun-java6-jdk: Unexpected performance (in a numerical application)

2007-08-24 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: sun-java6-jdk Version: 6-02-1 Severity: normal Hello. When running a medium-size simulation program, I get contradictory performances if java is launched with the -Xint option or not. Let me elaborate: At some point of the simulation, the same quantity Q can be computed in 2 different

Bug#439347: sun-java6-jdk: Unexpected performance (in a numerical application)

2007-08-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Let me elaborate: At some point of the simulation, the same quantity Q can be computed in 2 different ways, say QH and QL. When using QL, the program is about twice as fast as when using QL. This is confirmed when using -Xint. Leaving out -Xint (for maximum performance), the

Bug#439347: sun-java6-jdk: Unexpected performance (in a numerical application)

2007-08-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. Here are some (approximate) numbers (time in minutes) to give an idea of the problem: QL | QH +--- 1.6 -Xint 60 | 120 1.6 JIT 15 | 10 Something wrong here, I think. 1.5 JIT6 | 12 Okay, this seems to

Bug#446088: sun-java5-jdk: Program runs but does not make any progress

2007-10-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: sun-java5-jdk Version: 1.5.0-13-1 Severity: important Hello. I'm running a simulation program that loops on several sets of input parameters. [Hence the same statements are executed but the value of the parameters differ.] The 5 first iterations of the loop are performed, as I can see

Bug#446088: My bad

2007-10-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. I've just discovered that my code enters an infinite loop. It's kind of strange since that doesn't happen when I run the program only once, i.e. with a single set of parameters (not in a loop). But that's probably some side-effect which I overlooked. Sorry for the false report. Bes

Bug#342368: culmus lilypond

2006-12-22 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. P.S. I'm waiting for the debian package of the new version of lilypond (v2.8) now out for more than a month... Maybe this will go away by itself :-{ Any news? Well, lilypond 2.8 has just reached the repositories today! Now, at least, the behaviour is consistent on

Bug#400335: lilypond: New stable version 2.10 is available

2006-11-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: lilypond Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: normal Hello. As it happens, shortly after the problems have been solved[1] for producing the package of version 2.8, the new version of lilypond is out! Best, Gilles [1] Although not yet for AMD64, it seems :-( -- System Information: Debian

Bug#331435: xserver-xorg: Same problem after recent upgrade(s)

2007-06-06 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #331435 Hello. The last reply about this bug is fairly old. Was the cause found? I recently upgraded many packages (including the nvidia driver). Now, sometimes, after the session has been locked (using xlock), the mouse pointer does not

Bug#439330: subversion: Unusable command-line to access remote repository

2008-06-20 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: subversion Version: 1.4.6dfsg1-4 Followup-For: Bug #439330 Hello. I noticed the same symptom as described in the first report: Below are the times obtained from alternating these 2 commands: $ time strace svn list http://remote_repository 2 SVN.strace $ time svn list

Bug#363096: firefox: Inconsistent display of math (PNG) on wikipedia.org

2006-04-17 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Severity: normal Hello. When viewing pages with figures and mathematical formulas on Wikipedia, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_motion they are not correctly displayed. Some are, but most of the LaTeX code is not

Bug#363096: firefox: Inconsistent display of math (PNG) on wikipedia.org

2006-04-17 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Sounds like bug #361183. No, it doesn't seem so; I tried the suggestion indicated there: It didn't help. [The code on the page is LaTeX, not MathML.] And there is a PNG image behind it, i.e. when right-clicking on the displayed LaTeX, there is a View image entry which does indeed

Bug#363096: firefox: Inconsistent display of math (PNG) on wikipedia.org

2006-04-17 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Can you show a screenshot of your issue ? I'm afraid to not understand your problem. Is it that the alternate text for the images is displayed instead of the images or they are displayed on top of the images ? The alternate text is displayed. My mistake, sorry! I misinterpreted the

Bug#363096: firefox: Inconsistent display of math (PNG) on wikipedia.org

2006-04-17 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Did you try *.wikipedia.org ? I did it now; it doesn't work. [The site containing the images is actually upload.wikimedia.org. I didn't notice the p-m switch.] Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#363096: firefox: Inconsistent display of math (PNG) on wikipedia.org

2006-04-17 Thread Gilles Sadowski
I thought that setting an exception like .wikipedia.org would allow any subdomain of wikipedia, but it turns out that it's not the case. After setting upload.wikipedia.org, it works. Do you mean by explicitly allowing it? Yes, the web site full name must be given. But, is it the

Bug#342368: #342368 culmus: Versions and architectures (Incoherent behaviour)

2006-04-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Operand stack: CenturySchL-Bold CIDFont CenturySchL-Bold Culmus package does't provide these fonts (nor did it ever had). I didn't say it did. How did you create this ps file ? Maybe it is something in the process ? As I explained in my initial report, the

Bug#359805: apt-proxy: exception caught at restart

2006-03-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.33 Severity: normal Hello. I run apt-proxy under runit supervision (I mention it because I don't use the provided /etc/init.d script, in case it is relevant ot the problem). When issuing a restart (or stop for that matter), an exception is generated, the shutting

Bug#360501: libtext-csv-perl: Fails to parse non-ASCII encoding (?)

2006-04-02 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: libtext-csv-perl Version: 0.23-5 Severity: important Hi. For every entry that contains accented characters, the parse method returns failure. Does the module only deal with the ASCII character encoding? Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#360502: libtext-csv-perl: No perldoc output

2006-04-02 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: libtext-csv-perl Version: 0.23-5 Severity: minor Hi. Running $ perldoc Text::CSV produces No documentation found for Text::CSV. But the documentation shows up with $ man Text::CSV [And it is actually Text::CSV_XS that is documented.] Best, Gilles -- System Information:

Bug#360501: libtext-csv-perl: Fails to parse non-ASCII encoding (?)

2006-04-02 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. yes, it only deals with ASCII. This is upstream bug #1760 on CPAN, http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=1760. The workaround is to use the 'binary' attribute. Thanks for the tip; now it works with a UTF8 file! As this is also documented behaviour (see the CAVEATS section

Bug#314988: geomview: Another undefined option

2006-08-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I did not. But I don't have an AMD64 machine with which to test in any case. Since you do, perhaps you could do the experiment? OK. I've downloaded the source. Could you send me the necessary files to build the deb package? You needn't build a package to see whether the bug

Bug#384973: wengophone: Segmentation fault

2006-08-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: wengophone Version: 0.99+svn4511-4 Severity: important On AMD64, the program craches just after login into the Wengo server. Regards, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')

Bug#314988: geomview: Another undefined option

2006-08-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: geomview Version: 1.8.1-14 Followup-For: Bug #314988 Starting geomview, I get this message: InstCreate: Undefined option: 6870976 Geomview: internal error: Segmentation violation; dump core now (y/n) [n] ? And it does nothing else. Could it be related to the AMD64 platform? I used it

Bug#314988: geomview: Another undefined option

2006-08-26 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Could be: so far AMD64 is the only platform where users have reported this problem. But I have no real idea what the cause is. There is a new version (test release 1.8.2) available from their web site. Did you try it to see whether it shows the sam behaviour? Best regards, Gilles

Bug#359098: runit-run: Default gettys not always welcome

2006-07-24 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Of course, from my point of view, The sysadmin should be given the opportunity to refuse the automatic creation of the services. Could it be possible to add the necessary configuration in the install scripts? Hi Gilles, I can understand your concern, but I'm currently not sure how

Bug#612660: CVE-2010-4476 Trivial DoS when parsing strings into Java Double objects

2011-02-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: openjdk-6-jre Version: 6b18-1.8.5-1 Severity: important Hello. I just wanted to mention that the bug is not limited to remote access. It is triggered by any attempt to parse the decimal representation of the problematic numbers. In particular, when such a representation appears in

Bug#559894: mutt: Mutt hangs authenticating with an IMAPS server

2009-12-07 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.20-5 Severity: important Hi. I've just upgraded to this version from 1.5.20-4 because of the bug #546760 (failing to view html mails), but now I cannot access my mail anymore :-{. Mutt connects to the Cyrus IMAP server, but after I enter the password, it hangs forever

Bug#559894: Please discard the report

2009-12-07 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. The upgrade was probably a coincidence, as a return to the previous verion did not solve the problem. [But a restart of the server did.] Sorry for the noise, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#524554: skencil: Skencil is crashing

2009-06-09 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: skencil Version: 0.6.17-16 Followup-For: Bug #524554 Hi. I see that no follow-up has been provided to the original report; is this software still maintained in Debian? Best, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#508573: Icedove crashing on Local to IMAP copy

2008-12-21 Thread Gilles Sadowski
First, let me comment that Icedove is Thunderbird renamed because of some conflict between debian and mozilla licensing. I have the same problem with Thunderbird copy/move of Local Folder messages to a Sun IMAP server, with the exception that after the error popup, my client does not crash.

Bug#511676: lilypond: Version 2.12 available

2009-01-13 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: lilypond Version: 2.10.33-2.3 Severity: wishlist Hello. Could we have the new stable version in Debian? Best, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Bug#587625: beid-tools: Daemon fails to start

2010-06-30 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: beid-tools Version: 3.5.2.dfsg-10 Severity: important Hello. All the latest packages related to beid card reader being installed, no application is working: * beidgui reports ---CUT--- No card readers are detected. Please check the card readers are connected and/or verify the pcsc

Bug#524554: Sorry!

2009-06-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I must apologize for my previous post: I was using reportbug and it didn't show the full history of the bug which I had selected (which led me to believe that the original report hadn't been taken care of...). [Nevertheless it's fairly misleading that reportbug doesn't provide the full

Bug#535270: Waiting for root file system [FIXED]

2009-07-01 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. After a dist-upgrade with aptitude, the problem magically disappeared. [I could neither do a safe-upgrade nor an upgrade because of one conflict which those 2 actions wouldn't resolve...] Best, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#508573: Icedove crashing on Local to IMAP copy

2012-06-12 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:19:08PM +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Could you give me a hint on how to achieve this import? [There is a page on the Cyrus wiki about MBOX migration but all

Bug#779851: cryptmount: Cannot mount as non-root user

2015-03-06 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:08:40PM +, R.Penney wrote: Hello Gilles, Thanks for your bug report about cryptmount, and the helpful reference to bug #759263. I've just re-run the cryptmount test-suite on my Jessie test system, and all the tests seem to pass. I suspect

Bug#779851: cryptmount: Cannot mount as non-root user

2015-03-05 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: cryptmount Version: 5.0-2 Severity: important Hello. After taking the steps, as root, required to prepare the encrypted filesystem (using a file as virtual device), root can issue the cryptmount command and it works as expected (filesystem mounted, with approporiate permissions). As a

Bug#807598: xserver-xorg-video-intel: [i915] No hardware acceleration

2015-12-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:22:56 +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:05:38AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 18:28:53 +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: >

Bug#807598: xserver-xorg-video-intel: [i915] No hardware acceleration

2015-12-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:05:38AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 18:28:53 +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > > > [ 2716.870] Current Operating System: Linux night 4.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP > > Debian 4.2.6-3 (2015-12-06) x86_64 > > SKL isn't supporte

Bug#807598: xserver-xorg-video-intel: [i915] No hardware acceleration

2015-12-10 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.917-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Motherboard Asus Z170-A with Intel integrated graphics. * What exactly did you do

Bug#807598: [SOLVED] xserver-xorg-video-intel: [i915] No hardware acceleration

2015-12-11 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. Among the boot messages, there were the following lines: ---CUT--- [drm] This hardware requires preliminary hardware support See CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT, and/or modparam preliminary_hw_support ---CUT--- Then, a web search easily revealed this page:

Bug#808555: xserver-xorg-video-intel: [i915] DRM-related call crashes the xserver

2015-12-20 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.917+git20151217-1~exp1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, As you advised here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807598 I upgraded to the kernel 4.3, and removed the i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 kernel command-line

Bug#808341: plasma-workspace: ksmserver uses 100% CPU

2015-12-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: plasma-workspace Version: 4:5.4.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After killing the "startkde" script of an unresponsive KDE session, a process "ksmserver" remains that uses 100% CPU. Thanks, Gilles -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#808339: kwin-x11: 100% CPU hog by unused session (in multisession setup)

2015-12-18 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: kwin-x11 Version: 4:5.4.3-1.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? KDE (kdm) si configured to enable 3 sessions at startup. Switching to another session makes the kwin_x11 of the now unused session use 100% CPU. This consistently happens by switching

Bug#808479: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: Machine becomes unresponsive after about 10 hours: hard shutdown needed

2015-12-20 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Since the upgrade to kernel 4.3, the machine becomes unresponsive after a few hours (keyborad frozen, blank screen) necessitating a hard reboot. * What exactly did you do (or not do)

Bug#818280: upgrade-reports: System is unusable after "aptitute safe-upgrade"

2016-03-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I first ran # aptitude safe-upgrade which completed successfully. ["aptitude" automatically selected packages related to "console".] I then installed the

Bug#818280: upgrade-reports: System is unusable after "aptitute safe-upgrade" [SOLVED]

2016-03-19 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. It turned out that the problem was related to LVM partitions not being "available" while "systemd" was trying to run "fsck" on them. In maintenance mode, I just ran # vgchange -a y theVolumeGroupName and they were automatically detected, and mounted. Then the boot sequence could proceed

Bug#870523: 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 broken too (Was: [...] linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64 [...] broken [...])

2017-08-12 Thread Gilles Sadowski
On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 08:53:24PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 08:22:36PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > > I've just upgraded another computer from "jessie" to "stretch"; this > > installed 4.11.0-1 by default, and on that machine the p

Bug#870523: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64 confirmed broken on another computer

2017-08-05 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I've just upgraded another computer from "jessie" to "stretch"; this installed 4.11.0-1 by default, and on that machine the problem immediately showed up: * load average going up within seconds after the boot * trying to install "nvidia-legacy-check" led to "apt" hanging (and and next