Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:31:03AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Jonny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Can you try 800x600x32 and 640x480x8 ? Since my machine is't supporting a 32-bit color, 800x600x32 can't be used. If it's 800x600x24, it works

Bug#423104: grub-pc not installing

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
broken device.map. What contents does it have? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#423268: Finding whether /boot is on its own partition.

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:41:09PM +0100, Paul Martin wrote: In shell: if [ $( stat -c %d /boot ) -eq $( stat -c %d / ) ] Thanks for the tip. Please, can someone with separate /boot and/or separate /boot/grub try this patch and tell if it works? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL

Bug#423268: grub-pc: system unbootable when /boot and separate partion, doesnt detect other installed OSes.

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Millan
retains /boot/vmlinuz-* as the location for the kernel and similarly for initrd. This renders the system unbootable. This bug has already been fixed on development version. Are you sure? I don't see any updates in SVN or CVS that indicate this is fixed. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL

Bug#422794: gfxterm and vesa

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:31:03AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Jonny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Can you try 800x600x32 and 640x480x8 ? Since my machine is't supporting a 32-bit color, 800x600x32 can't be used. If it's 800x600x24, it works

Bug#423268: grub-pc: system unbootable when /boot and separate partion, doesnt detect other installed OSes.

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:15:57PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:06:12AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading to the newer version of Grub2, postinst runs update

Bug#423268: grub-pc: system unbootable when /boot and separate partion, doesnt detect other installed OSes.

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:06:12AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading to the newer version of Grub2, postinst runs update-grub which uses hooks in /etc/grub.d/. If /boot is mounted on separate partition the grub.cfg still retains

Bug#423104: grub-pc not installing

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
to 002 |grub-probe: info: changing current directory to 001 |cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/hda1. Try: grub-probe -t device -v /boot/grub -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black

Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
set gfxmode=640x480x32 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe terminal gfxterm Otavio pointed that you could test the order, but gfxmode also differs. Can you try 800x600x32 and 640x480x8 ? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters

Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Millan
wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please do not perform update-grub compulsorily by postinst. It is very unpleasant to overwrite grub.cfg freely. I suppose it doesn't harm to add an option to disable it; perhaps we could even reuse /etc/kernel-img.conf. Could you file

Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Millan
. Thanks -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#422729: [ppc] recent snapshot doesn't work at all and drops me to OF

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Millan
it with upstream. They tend to be more clued than us ;-). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#422729: [ppc] recent snapshot doesn't work at all and drops me to OF

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:57:40AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:24:00PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Do you have any guess about the problem? grub-probe claimed my drive had a zero-length so that might be the root of everything? Yes, probably. -- Robert Millan

Bug#422794: Starting is impossible

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Millan
support vesa? Please do not perform update-grub compulsorily by postinst. It is very unpleasant to overwrite grub.cfg freely. I suppose it doesn't harm to add an option to disable it; perhaps we could even reuse /etc/kernel-img.conf. Could you file a separate bug for this? -- Robert Millan

Bug#422459: grub2: After current update update-grub messes up device names, making the system unbootable.

2007-05-07 Thread Robert Millan
clarify? Is /dev/sda1 your root partition? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#422309: [amd64] missing 32-bit libgcc.a

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.2-5 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated packages gcc-4.1 4.1.1-21 had this file: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/32/libgcc.a which gcc-4.1 4.1.2-5 no longer provides. This breaks build of every package building biarch 32-bit stuff that relies

Bug#419597: please remove twolame (patent infringement)

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Millan
implement algorithms covered by Fraunhofer's patents. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#419597: please remove twolame (patent infringement)

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: serious twolame contains code (MP3 encoding algorithm) which infringes patents of the Fraunhofer Institute. This falls in the Software that can't be packaged cathegory in WNPP: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package and I don't see any discussion

Bug#418718: X suddenly died after installing ntp

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Millan
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.6.3-2 Severity: grave Justification: may cause data loss Installing ntp on my system, and running it for first time made X die. I suppose there's code somewhere written with the assumption that time always goes forwards :-). No idea how to find it

Bug#415775: RC-ness (AddDefaultCharset)

2007-03-28 Thread Robert Millan
for etch, though. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#415775: RC-ness (AddDefaultCharset)

2007-03-26 Thread Robert Millan
discouraging its use. Followed by stuff like: AddDefaultCharset considered harmful http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Sep/0176.html AddDefaultCharset is bad, bad, bad http://ungwe.org/blog/2004/01/26/22:52/ -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note

Bug#414575: reassign

2007-03-14 Thread Robert Millan
reassign 414575 nvidia-glx thanks wine is working for everyone else, and the error clearly points at nvidia non-free GLX replacement (NV-GLX). Phil, unless you can reproduce the error with indirect rendering, this is clearly not a wine bug. I'm reassigning. -- Robert Millan My spam trap

Bug#398421: argh

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Millan
and seem to be the root of the problem, although they don't always generate segfault due to pseudo-random conditions. If you ask me, I wouldn't feel safe shipping with this bug. -m32 is not such a bad solution (compared to a binary that segfaults randomly). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL

Bug#398421: reopen

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Millan
the current state of this package wrt 64-bit support, maybe it'd be a good idea to ship the i386 version only. After all, for a developer it's not a big problem to use a chroot for building her installers. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended

Bug#398421: reopen

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:40:02PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Given the current state of this package wrt 64-bit support, maybe it'd be a good idea to ship the i386 version only. After all, for a developer it's not a big problem to use a chroot for building her installers. (or building

Bug#406455: [Debian-ia32-libs] Bug#394230: oops, even more libs

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
. Is 1.14.8-5 going to migrate into etch? I don't see request for allowing it in -release. Thanks, -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#406455: [Debian-ia32-libs] Bug#394230: oops, even more libs

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:46:58PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi! On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:27:00AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: They're ok. wine runs and all the linker dependencies of its plugins are satisfied. Great :) I'll upload today. Finally! Thank you. -- Robert

Bug#398421: still segfaults

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Millan
, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b2e58093000 -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#401006: fixed upstream

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
tags 401006 fixed-upstream thanks #401006: mm/msync leading to filesystem corruption This has been fixed in Linux 2.6.19.2. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list

Bug#406691: fails to upgrade

2007-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
Package: firebird2-super-server Severity: serious Missconfiguration can break package upgrade (at least on sarge): Preparing to replace firebird2-super-server 1.5.1-4 (using .../firebird2-super-server_1.5.1-4sarge1_i386.deb) ... Stopping Firebird server: Your user name and password are not

Bug#383336: fixed patch

2006-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
into account that when pasting patches into mail they're likely to end screwed for this and other causes. It's better to send them as a file attachment. (and thanks for the patch btw ;) -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters

Bug#383336: fixed patch

2006-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:31:34PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Andreas, please take into account that when pasting patches into mail they're likely to end screwed for this and other causes. It's better to send them as a file attachment. Grm. But, of course, that won't help if you forget

Bug#398421: segfaults on startup (amd64)

2006-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: nsis Version: 2.19-1 Severity: grave Note: I'm now using 2.19 with patch from #383336, but I hit this segfault under similar conditions in 2.18 as well. $ makensis /dev/null MakeNSIS v2.19-1 - Copyright 1999-2006 Nullsoft, Inc. [...] Processing config: Processing plugin dlls:

Bug#392767: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#392767: parted and GNU/kFreeBSD (Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.)

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:26:29AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:48:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'm sorry. Please feel free

Bug#392767: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

2006-11-07 Thread Robert Millan
the responsible patch. Friendly, Sven Luther -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#392767: parted and GNU/kFreeBSD (Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.)

2006-11-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'm sorry. Please feel free to disable the patch; I'm thinking it was not a good idea to apply it in the package before it was merged upstream (as it was about

Bug#395019: unhandled numbering scheme transition

2006-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
Package: grub2 Version: 1.95-1 Severity: grave Tags: sid We forgot that hard disk numbering scheme has changed in 1.95 and: - update-grub wasn't updated accordingly. - Even if it were, the version of update-grub we're running could be out of sync with the grub version in boot record.

Bug#345931: wishlist

2006-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
retitle 345931 please maintain backwards compatibility for unsynced versions of MBR / stage files tags 345931 upstream wontfix severity 345931 wishlist thanks -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get

Bug#354622: gnuzilla / iceweasel

2006-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
that the Iceweasel maintainers are concerned with awareness of their effort within the Debian community (or so say in their mailing list). So for the sake of people reading this thread: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only

Bug#390473: grub2: menuentry stanza doesn't accept $ { } in variable substitutions

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
GNU/Hurd is a platform we expect them to support. Please, could you resend your report to them ? (grub-devel@gnu.org). Thanks, -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list

Bug#384904: Not fixed.

2006-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
segfault when foo.flv cannot be opened, but this is fixed upstream. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#384904: Not fixed.

2006-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:43:20PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: This backtrace is not useful. Please could you provide a backtrace with debugging symbols or and strace run? Btw, I suggest you try with CVS version too. Maybe it's a problem that's already been fixed. -- Robert Millan My

Bug#384904: close?

2006-09-30 Thread Robert Millan
Shouldn't this bug be closed? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#345931: A patch closing #345931, verified against debian testing

2006-09-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:58:52PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:51:55AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: This code also looks great for upstream subimition. I would like if you could send it to bug-grub@gnu.org and talk

Bug#389881: SCSI device renaming breaks install

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
, and then detection happens in a different order: /dev/sda is the SCSI RAID and /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are USB drives. - System won't boot because /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab point to the wrong paths. I'm not sure what the right fix is. Perhaps disabling the USB-SCSI emulation ? -- Robert

Bug#345931: A patch closing #345931, verified against debian testing

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
, is this compatibility between different versions of MBR and stage files? I don't think having version disparity between MBR and stage was meant to be supported. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black

Bug#345931: A patch solving #345931

2006-09-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:52:28AM -0400, Leandro Dorileo wrote: Hi Robert On Monday 25 September 2006 10:17, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Venerable Maintainers of Grub, I offer you a patch that should close bug report

Bug#345931: A patch solving #345931

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
(stage2_first_buffer, SECTOR_SIZE) != SECTOR_SIZE) -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#345931: A patch solving #345931

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
Also please send your input to bug report addresses (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Otherwise it gets lost here. On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:17:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Venerable Maintainers of Grub, I offer you

Bug#295595: etch-backports

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Although etch hasn't been released, there are people using it (like me). Please could you consider putting vegastrike in etch-backports already? Thanks -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get

Bug#345931: grub 0.97 doesn't work on several machines

2006-08-28 Thread Robert Millan
Why don't we move [/usr]/sbin/grub to /usr/lib ? Then we could even have a stub that echoes Use grub-install in /usr/sbin/grub. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list

Bug#384285: Version?

2006-08-24 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:04:40PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Please mention which version this bug applies to. 1:7.0.22. -- Robert Millan ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#383759: Another backtrace

2006-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
to be something related to the CPU. The file extra/yassl/taocrypt/src/integer.cpp contains some logic about it, but I'm not a programmer so I can't figure it out. It seems that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip didn't suffice. Perhaps debian/rules doesn't export a CFLAGS with -g ? -- Robert Millan My

Bug#383759: exim4-config: Fails to upgrade/install

2006-08-19 Thread Robert Millan
This is the whole output (exim4-daemon-heavy 4.62-4). Can you provide a gdb backtrace? (with debugging symbols; see exim4-dbg) -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list

Bug#381919: Failed to reproduce this bug

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Millan
1:1.0.0-4 libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qt-x11-free/news/20060723T180249Z.html -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list

Bug#381919: qgo crash fixed

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Millan
/qgo_1.5.1-1_amd64.deb (x86_64) I just built latest upstream (1.5-r1-2) and it seems to work here. Thanks! -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#374996: kills all your processes

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Millan
); signal(SIGTERM, oldhandler); I think there's another signal that is sent automaticaly to all its children when a process dies. Can't this be used for cleanup instead? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing

Bug#361929: status update

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Millan
supports relative paths properly, I think nothing prevents us from fixing this bug anymore. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#381919: segfaults on startup

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: qgo Version: 1.5-r1-2 Severity: grave On amd64: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/games/qgo [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47153582413040 (LWP 11823)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 47153582413040 (LWP 11823)]

Bug#361929: status update

2006-08-06 Thread Robert Millan
ourselves, though. I think something like this would be safe enough: sed -i /etc/kernel-img.conf -e s,\(.*\) */sbin/update-grub$,\1 update-grub,g -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black

Bug#361929: grub and /usr

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
. Use /usr/sbin/update-grub instead! (fortunately, default $PATH gives preference to /usr, so this won't bother the user during shell invokations). As for grub-installer, can't it just ensure PATH gives preference to /usr, and then invoke the commands without an absolute path? -- Robert Millan

Bug#361929: grub and /usr

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Btw, I hope this serves as a good example to everyone on how hardcoding absolute paths is a BAD thing. On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:48:01PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: - Can we edit /etc/kernel-img.conf during postinst? A simple sed rule could turn all /sbin/update-grub into /usr/sbin/update

Bug#380338: forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Package: kernel-package Severity: grave Tags: patch Hi Manoj, Using absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables can have horrid consequences when things like this happen: - the command (in /usr) turns out to be in FHS violation and must be moved to /. - the command (in /) turns

Bug#380338: forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
equivalent is) On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:28:35PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Using absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables can have horrid consequences when things like this happen: - the command (in /usr) turns out to be in FHS violation and must be moved

Bug#380351: hardcodes paths to grub-install and update-grub, rending them unmovable

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Package: grub-installer Severity: grave Tags: patch Using absolute paths can have horrid consequences as you've seen in #361929. Now grub commands are trapped into violating FHS and being unable to move at the same time. Please find attached patch to switch to relative paths when invoking

Bug#380338: forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
about it, IMHO. In any event, I am not sure this is RC, but I'll let manoj deal with that. It's release critical only on the basis that, without fixing this, a release critical bug in another package (#361929) can't be properly addressed. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#380338: forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook variables

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:52:28PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:15:27PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: And then use constructs like if (which($postinst_hook)) { ... } I can't remember if you use taint

Bug#369479: udev and linux 2.6.8

2006-07-27 Thread Robert Millan
the same as 2.4? I.e., when detecting linux 2.6.8 is running, udev installs itself, but in disabled form. Also note that if the debconf question defaults to no, you're gratuitously breaking install path for users whose debconf priority is too high. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#378324: local root hole (race condition in /proc)

2006-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge3 Severity: critical Tags: security See: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-July/047907.html Workaround is simple: mount /proc as nosuid The linux-2.6 packages in unstable are not affected (since they don't include

Bug#374181: leaks potentialy sensitive information (e.g. passwords) to www.google.com

2006-06-17 Thread Robert Millan
Package: firefox Severity: grave Tags: security When pasting using X11 clipboard to a firefox window, unless the focus is in a specific place like the navigation bar or an edit box, it'll assume you want to go to keyword:$clipboard, which happens to be an alias for google I'm feeling lucky

Bug#374181: leaks potentialy sensitive information (e.g. passwords) to www.google.com

2006-06-17 Thread Robert Millan
make this the default? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#373787: FTBFS: invokes su during build!!

2006-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
Package: libmail-spf-query-perl Severity: serious [...] fakeroot debian/rules binary dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k /usr/bin/make test make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/spf/libmail-spf-query-perl-1.999.1' PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e test_harness(0, 'blib/lib',

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Robert Millan
it unless you rule a formal decision or a consensus is reached. I think the latter is impossible, and therefore I ask you to consider the issue. Thank you. On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 11:34 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Feb 19, Robert Millan

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Robert Millan
makes me laugh. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Robert Millan
for it. Just don't use them as excuse to turn warez wrappers into generic driver interfaces. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Robert Millan
-toy, non-POC driver that would prove otherwise. (That is a rhetorical question. Lack of any answer will probably help you understand why contrib exists.) -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:49:48PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:40:26AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'll ask again: Is the purpose of ndiswrapper running non-free drivers? If it isn't, show me a free, non-toy, non-POC driver that would prove otherwise. Does

Bug#353277: should be in contrib

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ndiswrapper Severity: serious This package should be in contrib, not main. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#353278: should be in contrib

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ndiswrapper-modules-i386 Severity: serious This package should be in contrib, not main. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel:

Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:49:10AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Package: ndiswrapper Severity: serious This package should be in contrib, not main. We've had this discussion. We're not having it again. Check

Bug#338855: fails to bootstrap

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:35:42AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: For some reason, this didn't happen before, but the problem appears clear now: when makehurddir.sh attempts to extract packages, it fails when changing cwd

Bug#338715: nvidia-glx is not in Debian

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Millan
, -- Robert Millan it's about trust... i don't trust them. that's all i need to know. (wrt Digital Restriction Management, seen in Slashdot) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318567: new patch

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I'm providing an updated version of this patch for upstream CVS. There's also replacement of the -mcpu=pentium flag to -march=i686, which is the optimal for Xbox's celeron AFAIK, and also shuts up a gcc4 warning. -- Robert Millan diff -ur cromwell.old/Makefile cromwell/Makefile

Bug#340960: --delete-input-file ate my data

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Millan
Package: flac Severity: grave $ flac --delete-input-file -V --best 1_orig.wav [...] 1_orig.wav: 46% complete, ratio=0.3691_orig.wav: WARNING: unexpected EOF; expected 536869888 samples, got 246564864 samples 1_orig.wav: 46% complete, ratio=0.369 After this, 1_orig.wav was deleted. The

Bug#340704: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ark Severity: serious Justification: DFSG #4 This package has a Suggests: rar tag. If it has the functionality to create rar archives via rar, this is a serious problem, because it is encouraging users to create trap archives that can't be extracted with free software. I believe this

Bug#340705: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Millan
Package: guitar Severity: serious Justification: DFSG #4 This package has a Suggests: rar tag. If it has the functionality to create rar archives via rar, this is a serious problem, because it is encouraging users to create trap archives that can't be extracted with free software. I believe

Bug#340707: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Millan
Package: xmms-modplug Severity: serious Justification: DFSG #4 This package has a Suggests: rar tag. If it has the functionality to create rar archives via rar, this is a serious problem, because it is encouraging users to create trap archives that can't be extracted with free software. I

Bug#338855: fails to bootstrap

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: crosshurd Version: 1.7.22 Severity: grave Tags: patch For some reason, this didn't happen before, but the problem appears clear now: when makehurddir.sh attempts to extract packages, it fails when changing cwd to $TARGET. This is because the TARGET variable contains a relative path, but

Bug#334228: reopen

2005-10-17 Thread Robert Millan
reopen 334228 thanks As discussed on IRC, -mtune didn't do it. I've tested and can confirm that the following cflags (suggested by Aurelien) work: -pipe -O -march= -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#334228: renders network unusable

2005-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
Package: kfreebsd-5 Severity: critical There's a critical usability problem with version 5.4-2. See: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/glibc-bsd-devel/2005-October/000563.html I have verified that 5.4-1 is not affected. Since the differences between these versions are minimal: *

Bug#331696: FTBFS when upx-ucl-beta is installed

2005-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
Package: dar Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: serious [...] strip: debian/dar-static/usr/bin/dar_static: File format not recognized dh_strip: command returned error code 256 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 dar's configure script detects upx is installed and uses it to generate compressed (but broken)

Bug#312618: reopen

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Millan
-nox_3.08.3-7_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323338: pmount object not linked in

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Millan
Package: libpmount Severity: grave Hi! From build log: cc -Wall -g -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -c -o src/kerndep.lo src/kerndep.c cc -Wall -g -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -c -o src/mtab.lo src/mtab.c cc -Wall -g -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -c -o src/pmount.lo src/pmount.c cc -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-soname,libpmount.so.0.0

Bug#309367: non-bug

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:45:27PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: (Please cc submitter when updating a bug) On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:27:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I have verified that gnome-applets debian/control file is correct. The broken lines you pasted

Bug#306533: FTBFS: conflict with libGL.a

2005-04-27 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wine Version: 0.0.20041019-1 Severity: serious Fails to build from source: [...] checking for XF86VidModeQueryExtension in -lXxf86vm... yes checking for XRenderSetPictureTransform in -lXrender... yes configure: error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a is present on your system. This prevents

Bug#306533: FTBFS: conflict with libGL.a

2005-04-27 Thread Robert Millan
reopen 306533 reassign 306533 nvidia-glx retitle 306533 causes wine (and probably others) to FTBFS thanks On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:53:04AM -0400, Ove Kaaven wrote: ons, 27,.04.2005 kl. 10.30 +0200, skrev Robert Millan: Package: wine Version: 0.0.20041019-1 Severity: serious Fails

Bug#297269: type-handling build-depends on itself

2005-04-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 04:30:47PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: reopen 297269 thanks Hi, The package is now failing to build because it doesn't build-depend on itself while it currently needs that. When it's not installed, I get: dh_clean debian/rules build make: type-handling:

Bug#304766: Fwd: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf

2005-04-15 Thread Robert Millan
Package: kfreebsd5-source Severity: grave Tags: security patch On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:58:06AM +, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = FreeBSD-SA-05:04.ifconf

Bug#304043: weird internal syntax error

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: dpkg-sig Version: 0.11 Severity: grave This error also happens on normal operation (when using the dpkg patch from #280559). It seems that somewhere it is passing -m'Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]' without enough scape characters, and something recieves separate -m'Robert and [EMAIL

Bug#304043: devscripts is in fault

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Millan
severity 304043 important thanks Seems like having this line in ~/.devscripts is causing the problem: DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS=-m'Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Obviously it doesn't affect everyone, so i'm resetting severity. -- .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

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