Bug#311436: imo this bug should be downgraded.

2005-06-22 Thread peter green
it seems that this bug was actually in 2.0.0-1 and therefore only effected updates from 2.0.0-1 to 2.0.0-2. imo since 2.0.0-1 was never in testing this bug should not be allowed to keep the current version of freepascal out of testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Bug#404611: the problem is

2006-12-27 Thread Peter Green
that iceweasel replaces that directory with a symlink but it can't do that if another package already has files in it. What i think needs to happen is that any plugins need to be modified to only put the files in the iceweasel directory and then i belive the iceweasel package needs to be made to co

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror url?

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
> For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For > them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the > rest is goobleycook. > Feel free to try to convince me otherwise. imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual

Bug#404972: Minor problems with Notebook HP nc 6000

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
> In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think > is that it > had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I > guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out. is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a floppy

Bug#404990: sort out default page for first start after upgrading

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
package:iceweasel version:2.0.0.1+dfsg-1 severity:minor after upgrading iceweasel i got directed to a nonexistant whats new page, imo it would be sensible to either drop use of a special start page for the first run after upgrading or change this to point to an iceweasel specific page.

Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-01-19 Thread peter green
> However, when booting after the installation, the NPE driver seems to > assume control of the interface name eth0, which causes something to > rename the interface of the USB to ethernet adapter to eth1_rename. it sounds to me like the built in nic is getting detected first before the USB to et

Bug#407602: inappropriate conffile prompts on upgrading from firefox on etch

2007-01-19 Thread peter green
package: iceweasel severity: minor I upgraded my etch system to have iceweasel wirh apt-get install iceweasel (btw it removed firefox but left mozilla-firefox, i don't think that is relavent to this issue though). i got a couple of conffile prompts as below. Configuration file `/etc/iceweasel/

Bug#407696: add a guided partitioning option for resizing an existing partition

2007-01-20 Thread peter green
package: debian-installer currently to use guided partitioning on a system with no unpartitioned free space the user must go into manual partitioning, resize the existing partition and then go back out of manual partitioning and select guided using the largest free space, this is somewhat unint

Bug#407759: Set-up attempt failed.

2007-01-20 Thread peter green
> The install did not find the CDROM drives. As a workarround you might like to try installing using the boot, root, net-drivers 1 and net-drivers 2 floppies.

Bug#407689: tasksel: Please consider adding a Development task for Etch

2007-01-22 Thread peter green
> The problem with adding a development task has always been, and > continues to be, that people do not use the same tools for development, > and that there are no good defaults beyond basic C-style development > tools. mind you a similar thing applies to say the file server task, there are at l

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell LatitudeD400

2007-01-23 Thread peter green
> I'll try them as soon as Etch is out. As Stable. ;) If you do that and the problem is still there then it will be too late for etch to get a fix.

Bug#401051: seems to be a dupe

2006-12-12 Thread peter green
this appears to be a dupe of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402407

Bug#401266: Bug#393422: Contains non-free files

2006-12-14 Thread Peter Green
if you belive that the files used to build debians packages are free then wouldn't the obvious thing to do be to remove everything else from the source packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#402482: tried to reproduce and failed.

2006-12-16 Thread peter green
i've tried to reproduce this bug but failed btw in the process of trying this i discovered that busybox --install doesn't seem to work either i had to manually copy busybox and make a symlink for this test. debian:~/busyboxinstall# cp /bin/busybox . debian:~/busyboxinstall# ln -s gunzip busyb

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD boot with nothing extra typed at boot prompt Image version: Etch RC1 full CD 1 Date: Machine: maxdata PC Processor: celeron D (at least according to the label on the front) Memory: 256MB Partitions: Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:

Bug#403890: oops forgot to finish off the report

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
it should have said and windows still booted fine afterwards.

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
> > This was possible in export installs and this is still possible in > expert installs. The behaviour has not changed with regard to that matter. > i'm pretty sure i've never intentionally booted d-i in expert mode, and when i did a sarge install i'm pretty sure i managed to skip creating a n

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
> Not sure what was wrong here, but it does not seem like something we can > fix in the installer. well ntfsfix cleared up the journal and made it work so it would presumablly be possible to do that, i dunno how safe ntfsfix is though. btw why do you ask for installation reports even on sucess

Bug#196729: old bug, whats the status?

2006-11-06 Thread peter green
you reported this bug over 3 years ago and gaim has changed a lot in that time. If you are still experiancing the crashes with the current version of gaim please provide more recent backtraces, otherwise please close the bug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Bug#264688: looks like an endian screwup, is it still happening?

2006-11-06 Thread peter green
this looks like a UCS2/UTF-16 endian screwup (a-z all map to cjk ideographs when byteswapped and - and . both map to characters from strange languages that you probablly won't have fonts for) is this issue still happening with 2.0.0beta4? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Bug#397593: looks like another instance of sending non utf-8 text to dbus

2006-11-10 Thread peter green
tags 39753 patch thanks note: this reply is to the first message in this bug, the second message looks like it could be a seperate (but most likely similar) issue. from the most recent changelog: * 06_irc-signal-crash.patch: - Add patch to work around crash on receiving non-ASCII charact

Bug#405639: just to let you know

2007-01-05 Thread peter green
i think i've caught wind of a real-life case of this breaking the installtion of a gui from the installer (the guy didn't give very many details but from the symptoms he reports it sure sounds like it) his post can be found at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=11221.

Bug#405639:

2007-01-05 Thread peter green
What is wrong with both having the -all packages in reccomends on thier own (so that reccomends using package managers always pull them in on sarge-etch upgrades) AND also having them as an alternative in depends so that they get pulled in by new installs made using package management tools that

Bug#400621: you might like to note

2007-01-08 Thread peter green
that the bug that is marked as blocking this one has now been resolved.

Bug#406554: woody contents files missing from archive.debian.org

2007-01-11 Thread peter green
package:ftp.debian.org the contents files for woody seem to be missing from archive.debian.org

Bug#405549: installation-reports: Also ATI Rage

2007-01-11 Thread peter green
> My ATI Rage was also not configured after install -- gdm fails and X > reports no devices. Missing input and video drivers. ATI device is > configured as "agp". The desktop package doesn't seems to install the > correct driver or detect it I guess. Easy fix -- I added the video and > inp

Bug#406399: installation-report: Dell Inspiron 6400: X server configuration problems

2007-01-11 Thread peter green
> The initial debootstrap doesn't have download speed reported, but then, > it's only a few dozen megabytes download. thats a pretty long wait for a dialup, isdn bri or very low end "broadband" user.

Bug#399670:

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Green
any chance of an english translation of those error messages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#399670: ok found the issue, fixed preinst script is attatched.

2006-11-24 Thread peter green
tags 399670 patch thanks ok i've done some more investigation the problem appears to be caused by there being something in /etc/firefox/profile that wasn't put there by dpkg and so doesn't get removed by dpkg. The result of this is that dpkg purges the files it installed but leaves the director

Bug#400052: another dupelicate

2006-11-25 Thread peter green
severity 400052 grave reassign 400052 gaim-autoprofile merge 400052 394773 thanks Debian Bug report logs source autoprofile.URL Description: Binary data

Bug#397788: for the benifit of the testing scripts

2006-11-30 Thread peter green
found 397788 1:2.0.0+beta5-1 Thanks the testing scripts seem to think this is not in beta5-1, hopefully this message will fix that problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#395911: error mounting/creating filesystems windowswindow~1.log is 92k, but it has 41 clusters (164k)

2006-10-28 Thread peter green
> windowswindow~1.log is 92k, but it has 41 clusters (164k) > > ERROR !!! > > Ignore > Cancel > > dmesg -c on second console didnt showed anything relevant, only > information that swap was mounted/added. > > Perhaps the fat system there was damaged before and debian tried to > mount it? But if so

Bug#394773: this sounds like an ideal candidate for a nmu

2006-10-31 Thread peter green
retitle 394773 minor change needed for compatibility with gaim2.0.0beta4 thanks this sounds like an ideal candidate for a nmu, i've changed that title as it misleadingly implied that a binnmu would have fixed this.

Bug#396612: please loosen up dependency on gaim-data

2006-11-01 Thread peter green
package:gaim severity:normal right now gaim and gaim-dev use a == dependency on gaim-data. because gaim and gaim-dev are arch any while gaim-data is arch all when a new version of gaim is uploaded gaim becomes temporally uninstallable on most architectures. This causes a LOT of buildd failures

Bug#394773: beta5 now in unstable

2006-11-13 Thread peter green
retitle 394773 support for the gaim 2.0.0beta5 required. thanks just to let you know that what is now needed is beta5 support, since beta5 has replaced beta4 in sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260420: libsilc has now been repackaged

2006-11-15 Thread peter green
and it seems the guy who did it this time understands that libraries have versions.

Bug#399791: about box still uses the term firefox

2006-11-21 Thread peter green
package: iceweasel severity: important the about box still prominantly shows the firefox name under the globe also does the stuff about the firefox trademarks still need to be there now firefox has been rebranded?

Bug#399795: first run takes me to a mozilla page with bad instructions

2006-11-21 Thread peter green
Package: iceweasel Severity: minor when i first ran iceweasel in a sid chroot that had never run firefox before i got taken to http://en-us.www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/2.0/firstrun. this page told me to close the tab to get my homepage but no tab bar was visible. also the page prominently me

Bug#410224: give the user the ability to answer conffile prompts during installation

2007-02-08 Thread peter green
package:debian-installer severity:wishlist conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in packages or other issues. just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way

Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation

2007-02-08 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Wojciech Zareba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 February 2007 16:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation > > > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: CD netinst default install > Image version: > http://

Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation

2007-02-09 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 February 2007 18:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation > > > On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:21, peter green wrote:

Bug#410419: confile prompts should use debconf

2007-02-10 Thread peter green
package:dpkg in situations where a user cannot interact directly with dpkg (debian-installer is one example of this though conffile prompts shouldn't normally happen there) conffile prompts currently result in a hung installation process, this is not a good thing. since debconf seems to be the

Bug#410721: migration from xfree 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 to xorg 1:7.1.0-11 failed to correctly configure swiss german keyboard

2007-02-12 Thread peter green
i think i may have a similar issue on a box that has been tracking etch for a while with a british keyboard and developed the "can't switch out of x with the "CTRL-ALT-Fx" keys sometime while tracking etch (i don't recall exactly when). i mention this because it means the issue of keyboard layou

Bug#412916: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-02-28 Thread peter green
> I want to install the distribution debian for ia64 and when i > restart de the PC with the "bootable" installation CD inside it > does not work, the pc read from CD but the installation doesn't > start. What can i do?. With the distribution for i386 it works perfectly. The core 2 duo is not a

Bug#412982: installation-reports: Enabling 'sudo' in installer skips setting root password and breaks desktop root tasks

2007-03-02 Thread peter green
reopen 412982 reassign 412982 gnome thanks > The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user > password doesn't work. this sounds like a gnome bug then, it really should be able to handle the case with the root account disabled but sudo availible.

Bug#413248: installation-reports: (etch) strangeness with non-ASCII-character filenames on vfat partition

2007-03-03 Thread peter green
> It could also be that there really is an issue with the display of VFAT > filenames if UTF-8 is used, but that would not be my first guess. > Anyway, I doubt this would be an installer issue as there is no real way > for the installer to determine the correct settings. VFAT stores filenames in

Bug#413281: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails

2007-03-03 Thread peter green
> Thanks, I'll add a conflict on hamsoft. > Do you have any idea where hanterm comes from? after doing some initial research and some quick tests in a sarge chroot it seems to be a symlink into /etc/alternatives that is created when either hanterm-classic or hanterm-xf is installed and removed wh

Bug#413248: success with 'utf8' vfat mount option

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
> AFAICT this option is relevant not only for vfat, but also for ntfs and > iso9660, but _not_ for fat16. afaict it is not relavent for partitions mounted as dos (no long filenames) but it *is* relavent for fat12 and fat16 partitions mounted as vfat and using long filenames.

Bug#413574: jigdo really needs to be completed

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
package:jigdo severity:important currently there is no decent method for downloading cd images other than http/ftp. jigdo-lite is virtually unusable (no indication of progress or if its resuming or restarting etc). Bittorrent is only usable on some networks (often throttled or banned) and only

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-06 Thread peter green
> > > I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's > another situation > > > that makes it much worse: > > The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the > > root file system. udev has not much to do with this. > > Which will enable a whole lot of other br

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05 > To: Robert Millan [ackstorm] > Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org > Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug > > > On Mar 07, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[E

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
> > by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap > partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused. > > Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems > cloned with dd. are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to t

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
> I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already > does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from > them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't there (labels in fstab

Bug#413574: jigdo really needs to be completed

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
i'm not going to fight over the severity since but http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities says important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. i'd say this bug fits that definition, the main binary is incapa

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
> I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in > the release > process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself > with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to > manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread peter green
> UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one), > but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like > this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should > only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting > la

Bug#415646: sarge > etch dist-upgrade fails, x11-common fails overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin

2007-03-21 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Raun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 March 2007 21:11 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#415646: sarge > etch dist-upgrade fails, x11-common fails > overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:54:21PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:

Bug#390369: -o is not one option

2007-03-22 Thread peter green
it is a series of options from ssmtps "sendmail" manpage Most sendmail options are irrelevent to sSMTP. Those marked ``ignored'' or ``default'' have no effect on mail transfer. Those marked ``unsup- ported'' are fatal errors. Those marked ``simulated'' are not errors,

Bug#416115: pitfal: no mention of /etc/modules

2007-03-24 Thread peter green
> There is no mention of updating /etc/modules. Without a network driver, > or something else equally critical, you may find your remote dedicated > box happily running while noone can ssh into it. afaict nowadays /etc/modules isn't really nessacery anymore and can even cause upgrade problems. I

Bug#415989: Debootstrap Warning : [...]/packages.gz was corrupt

2007-03-25 Thread peter green
> > PS: Is there a way to fix memory hardware issues ? if you can get the system working well enough to install and compile stuff (say by pulling out some of the memory) you can build a custom kernel with the badram patches. Then put the bad memory back in, run a memory test and use the address

Bug#415379: fixed in testing but what about unstable

2007-03-26 Thread peter green
this bug has been fixed in testing through a TPU upload but there doesn't seem to be any information on if it is still present in unstable. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: 25/03/2007 11:07

Bug#414944:

2007-03-28 Thread peter green
notfound 414944 0.2.3-4 found 414944 0.1.20 sorry seems i messed up on the version in this bug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.20/733 - Release Date: 27/03/2007 00:00

Bug#416788: add a sneakernet source type

2007-03-30 Thread peter green
package: apt severity: wishlist Installing packages on machines with no internet connection currently is a pain. CDs are a partial soloution but only for official free packages and only for users of stable/testing not of unstable. my proposal is to add a sneakernet source type. With this source

Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck

2007-03-31 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Lou Poppler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 March 2007 17:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck > > > Package: installation-reports > > Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well. > I net-installed sarge a coupl

Bug#380552: a possible medium term soloution

2007-02-19 Thread peter green
would it be possible to reduce the test to only cause a warning until it is worked out what about the build environment is causing the false positive?

Bug#48152: installer packages

2007-02-19 Thread peter green
reopen 48152 thanks there seems to be a general issue with "installer packages" like flashplugin-nonfree and msttcorefonts, such packages don't contain any non-free software in the package itself (and hence are placed in contrib) but installing them causes non-free software to be installed on t

Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen

2007-02-19 Thread peter green
> That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly. D-I doesn't touch anything until told to does it? i don't really see how unexpectedly ending up at the first screen of the installer is any worse than unexpectedly ending up at the syslinux boot prompt, either way you just remov

Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen

2007-02-20 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 February 2007 08:36 > To: Robert Millan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen > > > Here are some scenarios to consider: > > * Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD

Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default

2007-02-24 Thread peter green
> Unfortunately, adding good DNS via network-admin doesn't archieve the same > effect, because dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf whenever > it's run the most obvious question would be why doesn't network-admin know this and do something about it? >, > which is going to be quite often if y

Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default

2007-02-24 Thread peter green
> As to what network-admin can do, it could easily alter the order (run > dhclient first, then modify resolv.conf), but that would only archieve > temporary unfuckage (i.e., same situation as if resolvconf was installed). can't it just reconfigure dhclient not to touch dns (i presume dhclient has

Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default

2007-02-25 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Millan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 February 2007 00:57 > To: peter green > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default > > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:30:36AM -, peter

Bug#412387: patch doesn't fix the real issue

2007-02-26 Thread peter green
the real issue is that there is no longer a /etc/init.d/inetd in debian, netkit has been removed and its two replacements use their own init script names, applying the patch would remove the errors but would just mean that inetd would not be restarted. based on initial testing (i'd like a comme

Bug#336054: retitle per remaining part of the request

2007-02-26 Thread peter green
retitle 336054 add auto rejoin on kick support thanks since the confusing text has apparently been removed in 2.0 the only remaining part of this bug is a request to add an auto-rejoin on kick feature, retitling appropriately

Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-09 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Hore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 March 2007 01:40 > To: Frans Pop > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - > Ethernet not detected > > > Hi again Frans, > > > On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:30

Bug#414172: xserver-xorg: on sarge-etch upgrade, fails produce usable xorg.conf

2007-03-09 Thread peter green
> -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') > 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) > > Versions

Bug#407689: tasksel: Please consider adding a Development task for Etch

2007-03-10 Thread peter green
> I've added module-assistant to "forcd1". build-essential was already > included. are the kernel headers for the standard debian kernels on CD1 as well? module assistant isn't going to be much use without those.

Bug#410047: marking as fixed in unstable per info from upstream bugtracker

2007-03-12 Thread peter green
close 410047 0.11-1 according to upstream (http://www.workplaceproxy.com/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/010110A/http/trac.gajim.org/query?status=closed&milestone=0.11 note, there are two bug reports mentioned in this thread but one appears to be a typo, 2038 seems to be the correct one) was fixed in ver

Bug#286213: reopen 286213

2007-03-12 Thread peter green
> > Is the X process consuming lots of CPU when the freeze occur? > > I don't know. I have no access to the system when X freezes. can you setup sshd so you can login from another machine when the interface freezes?

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Green
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will become more and more common. what does the sarge kernel do when plac

Bug#414683: d-i RC2 installation report

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
> I am still not sure my failure was not due to a misconfigured > network/router but the D-Link DI-524 used usually works fine for me. can you check if the default gateway is set and if there is something sane in resolv.conf within the installer environment? failing that try starting the install

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
> Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make > /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should > lead the way > to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be). what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?

Bug#414944: libapt-pkg-perl and hence apt-file are uninstallable on a system that preffers experimental

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
Package: libapt-pkg-perl Version: 0.2.3-4 Severity: important Tags: experimental debian:/# apt-get install apt-file Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible sit

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
> That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem. for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. hda=ide primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs would mean a lot of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to backup a partition by ddin

Bug#408641: asks user to select disk to partition, even if there's only one disk

2007-01-27 Thread peter green
> Partman (guided partitioning) will still ask the user to select > which disk to > partition, even if there's only one disk. personally i think its better that it asks consider the situation where a user has two drives but the one they want to use for debian is not detected. then they select t

Bug#380552: failed again on the same test

2007-02-01 Thread peter green
reopen 380552 thanks looks like this is still an issue. http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=coreutils;ver=5.97-5.3;arch=s390;stamp=1170189620 FAIL: pwd-long

Bug#409685: rebreak seems to have found its way from tpu to unstable

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
reopen 409685 thanks seems that this was fixed in 1.0.9 but broken again by 1.0.10 which was intended for testing but somehow made it into unstable as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#415030: now affects lenny too

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
tags 415030 -sid thanks i get the same errors when building on lenny as were reported for building on sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#415034: now affects lenny too

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
tags 415034 -sid thanks debian:/# apt-get source -b chiark-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 111kB of source archives. Get:1 http://192.168.1.3 lenny/main chiark-utils 4.1.10 (dsc) [787B] Get:2 http://192.168.1.3 lenny/main chiark-utils 4.1.10 (tar)

Bug#406816: also affects lenny

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
retitle 406816 libghc6-missingpy-dev: not installable (wants missingh-0.16, but missingh-0.18 is in lenny and sid) tags 406816 -sid thanks i have just confirmed this bug also happens with lenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Bug#414715: now affects lenny

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
tags 414715 -sid thanks i just tried to build this in lenny and it fails with the same error -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409488: now affects lenny too

2007-04-12 Thread peter green
tags 409488 -sid thanks i've just tested this in lenny and got the same error -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419189: i'd suggest a check

2007-04-15 Thread Peter Green
it seems like it would be a good idea to check for non dpkg owned versions of problem libraries sitting in that directory in the preinst and either aborting the upgrade before the system is left in a badly broken state or moving the files out of the way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#419211: d-i fails in fetching "Release.gpg" in netboot install of etch r0

2007-04-16 Thread peter green
> Of course, while this is the correct default behavior, it seems reasonable > to me that we should allow users to override it with preseeding > or the like, > so that's IMHO a valid wishlist request. a related issue is if you have a cd not loaded through the CD mechanism for whatever reason and

Bug#390352: missing dependency on netbase

2006-09-30 Thread peter green
Package: ftp Version: 0.17-12 Severity: important netbase contains /etc/services which ftp needs to run but ftp doesn't depend on it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391410: guifrications ftbfs on powerpc buildd because of problem installing gij

2006-10-06 Thread peter green
package: gij-4.1 severity: grave the buildd log in question is at http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=guifications&ver=2.13%7Ebeta3-0.1&ar ch=powerpc&stamp=1159970889&file=log&as=raw, the following is an extract from that log Setting up gij-4.1 (4.1.1-15) ... gcj-dbtool-4.1: error while loadi

Bug#391410: guifrications ftbfs on powerpc buildd because of problem installing gij

2006-10-06 Thread peter green
> This one time, at band camp, peter green said: > > i belive the soloution is to make gij-4.1 pre-depend on libgcj7-0 > Surely a simple Depends should do the trick? according to http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gij-4.1 a depends is already there. i thought pre-depends w

Bug#391244: this package is finished with

2006-10-06 Thread peter green
sametime support is now a built in feature of the main gaim package so this package should be reduced to a dummy for ease of upgrading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391242: patch for building on gaim

2006-10-06 Thread peter green
tags 391242 +patch thanks. making this build against 2.0.0beta3.1 in my sid chroot was pretty easy, i just nicked some headers that are no longer in the official public interface of gaim from the gaim source package (yes eliminating the dependance on non public interfaces is a good move long term

Bug#391244: removal from unstable

2006-10-06 Thread peter green
since my previous message i have been advised that because this package already depended on gaim it should be removed from unstable rather than converted into a dummy. i've been told that such removal requests are made by submitting a bug on the ftp.debian.org psudo package, if noone objects withi

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