knockd package long-standing bug

2019-05-13 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
Hello, Bug #868015 has been open since Jul 2017 and the fix consists in 3 lines added to the system unit file. I.e. knockd.service lacks the [Install] section and thus the service can't be made to auto-start after a reboot. Since the maintainer doesn't seem interested in fixing it (so

Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug

2019-05-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-11, Esteban L wrote: > Thanks for the Reply Curt, > > Sorry in advance to the rest of the group, with my lack of > "professionalism" and lack of Subject line =) I was very tired, as I am > sure many can appreciate. Perpetual stage of tiredness. > > I have tried editing the file, by rem

Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug

2019-05-11 Thread Esteban L
Thanks for the Reply Curt, Sorry in advance to the rest of the group, with my lack of "professionalism" and lack of Subject line =) I was very tired, as I am sure many can appreciate. Perpetual stage of tiredness. I have tried editing the file, by removing the -F, then re-activating the -F and r

Bug? Can not set clock in plasma5

2019-05-01 Thread Hans
not saved. This appears also, when running plasma5 as root, except that it does (of course) not ask for the root password. It looks like a bug for me. I believe, that maybe the setting may be also done in the command line with a systemd-command, but I am not sure about this. Before I make

Re: Bug with Eclipse on debian stretch (with logs attached)

2019-04-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2019-04-25, morgan wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Eclipse on my debian stretch but it crashes when launching. > I attached the logs, I don't understand if I could do anything, nor in > which package(s) are the issues. Sorry for not using reportbug for this > report. > > Feel free to contact me fo

Bug with Eclipse on debian stretch (with logs attached)

2019-04-25 Thread morgan
- Hi, I installed Eclipse on my debian stretch but it crashes when launching. I attached the logs, I don't understand if I could do anything, nor in which package(s) are the issues. Sorry for not using reportbug for this report. Feel free to contact me for more informations, I'll make my best to

Re: bug-report help : whole user input events freeze: doubts about the right package to submit against

2019-04-22 Thread bw
The problem vanishes, Since the workaround is changing an a11y feature, you could try one or more of the suggestions here to eliminate some of your list of possible pkgs for the bug report? https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Troubleshooting

bug-report help : whole user input events freeze: doubts about the right package to submit against

2019-04-21 Thread Ludovic Pouzenc
Hi, I'm a french sysadmin in a school with ~250 computers (labs) running Debian 9 + Wayland. I am testing Debian 10 and I hit an annoying problem that persists (present in D9+ Wayland, and D10 default config), I can't find an already open bug for it, I have doubts about the right

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I was going to document here the work-a-round I successfully used > yesterday to install desired additional packages. There's a bug report concerning this from 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745381 In that threa

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market > penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane > incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator > error". This is a good way to not get any help. -- John Ha

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 8:26 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market > penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane > incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator > error". > This is a misperc

Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Richard Owlett
Rather than quote my original post, I'll restate the underlying problem. In the beginning, Joe Average would obtain Debian on a set of physical installation CDs. He boots from it. The installer does it's thing. Later, desiring additional software, he inserts the same CD and allows Synaptic to

kernel policy vs bug handling (how to followup #919227 ?)

2019-03-27 Thread Andrea Borgia
current "testing" branch is concerned, this bug is still present, unless you install a kernel from "experimental"[4] or upstream. 2) maybe I am not using the proper keywords but I can't seem to find information on Debian kernel policy, specifically: when does a new k

Re: Caja's file search --- BUG or Feature?

2019-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Mar 2019 at 09:21:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch with MATE desktop. > > If I submit a sub-string of a filename to "MATE Search Tool", *ANY* > hit reports the full path to the target. That is *GOOD*! > > HOWEVER, if I'm exploring a specific directory with Caja an

Re: Caja's file search --- BUG or Feature?

2019-03-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
er type file name such as /readme.md or /make comes to mind as an example there. Since *your experience* is that Caja does only reach deeper into [child] directories and not back up overhead, is there maybe something explicitly expressed in their documentation that covers that feature? If no docum

Caja's file search --- BUG or Feature?

2019-03-10 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Stretch with MATE desktop. If I submit a sub-string of a filename to "MATE Search Tool", *ANY* hit reports the full path to the target. That is *GOOD*! HOWEVER, if I'm exploring a specific directory with Caja and then search for the *IDENTICAL* sub-string I get a "hit" with ABSOLU

Re: Bug#922270: kmail - "Name" column in message window can not made smaller

2019-03-04 Thread Hans
Hi Sandro, great! This did the trick. I deleted the line beginning with "Headerstate" and everything is working fine again. However, I knew, that the entry must have been in kmail2rc, but I could not really understand the values in this line. I can only confirm what you said: not really reada

Re: Failed to sign email. Thunderbird or enigmail bug?

2019-03-03 Thread Teemu Likonen
Georgios [2019-03-03 10:02:01+02] wrote: > After i send my email to the list I found a forum discussion that led > nowhere. I solved my problem by changing enigmail settings. I changed > "prefer s/mime" to "prefer enigmail(openpgp)" S/MIME format is for X.509 certificates signed by certificate au

Re: Failed to sign email. Thunderbird or enigmail bug?

2019-03-03 Thread Georgios
Thanks for your reply. After i send my email to the list I found a forum discussion that led nowhere. I solved my problem by changing enigmail settings. I changed "prefer s/mime" to "prefer enigmail(openpgp)" On 3/2/19 11:27 PM, riveravaldez wrote: >> I want to repo

Re: Failed to sign email. Thunderbird or enigmail bug?

2019-03-03 Thread Georgios
I found a discussion in a forum that led nowhere. I "solve" the problem by changing my settings by choosing "prefer enigmail(openpgp)" vs "prefer s/mime". On 3/2/19 11:27 PM, riveravaldez wrote: >> I want to report it as a bug. How should i report it

Re: Failed to sign email. Thunderbird or enigmail bug?

2019-03-02 Thread riveravaldez
> I want to report it as a bug. How should i report it as a thunderbird or > enigmail bug? Have you checked upstream on Thunderbird [1,2,3] and Enigmail [4,5] sites/communities? [1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird [3]

need help to report a bug : In which module is it present . The kernel ?

2019-03-02 Thread Luc
Hi, I am a Debian user for at least 12 years and I love it. 1- Since I use Debian to run my flight simulator  I had problems with the Saitek rudder pedals. When I come back from a suspend I have to unplug and replug this rudder pedal device for it to work. 2- Now since the 2  last kernel upd

Failed to sign email. Thunderbird or enigmail bug?

2019-03-02 Thread GP
ified in your Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, or the certificate has expired." If i press encryption button twice (encryption on encryption off) the problem is solved. Any ideas how to solve it? I want to report it as a bug. How should i report it as a thunderbird or enigmail bug? T

[Bug - Thinkpad X240] Touchpad not responding after a sospension

2019-02-28 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, for a few days the touchpad of my Thinkpad X240 does not work after resuming from a sospension to ram and I need to restart the computer: it worked well in past years. So I think this is a bug due to some upgrade but I cannot understand the package to report the bug. What could be

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:37:58AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas. As an aside, I do this all the time and it works fine. The logical volumes are exported to virtual machines as their main disk, so they may appear as /dev/vgname

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/02/2019 à 18:53, Richard Hector a écrit : On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote: A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN. Or any other partitionable block device, such as a software RAID array or a loop device. A LABEL= is a filesystem attribute, it's

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: >> Reco wrote: >> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas >> >> Sure! >> >> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has >> the

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > Reco wrote: > Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas > > Sure! > > My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the > LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) termin

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
Reco wrote: Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas Sure! My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD world, seems to be an avoidable confusion.

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
And the space between "disk" and "label" hardly helps any!

Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:02:24PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > My question: In his parted output he has > > Error: /dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-home: unrecognised disk label > > In which sense is this 'label' used?? In this context, a disklabel is a "partition table type", like "msdos"

Label multimeanings : doc bug?

2019-02-26 Thread Rusi Mody
Ref: This stackexchange post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/503241/323121 Context: Theres this guy who's really struggling with disk partitioning LVM etc concepts.  That point is not directly relevant to this question. My answer on that post tries to clarify that 'label' can mean 3 things

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-20 Thread steve
Hello Andy, Thank you very much for your lengthy and very informative answer. After some investigation, I discovered that it was /dev/sdc that had some problems. So I took it out of the Rais 1 array. But this didn't really help since I got other freeze. grep "120 seconds" kern.log Feb 18 16:16:

Reporting success info and a bug against a help request from Bits From Debian

2019-02-16 Thread Erkki Lintunen
talled system, Debian Buster/Unstable, and with Buster Installer weekly build dated 11.2.2019. Some minor (I think) quirks encountered * the detailed instructions told to use up-to-date Unstable, but hit the bug below and used instead shim-signed from Buster <https://bugs.debian.or

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Steve, On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:35:27AM +0100, steve wrote: > >for i in /dev/sd{b..f}; do echo "DISK: ${i}"; smartctl -l scterc "${i}"; > >sleep 3; done > > I get this for sdb and sdc > > SCT Error Recovery Control: > Read: Disabled > Write: Disabled > > and this for sd

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-15 Thread Andrea Borgia
. Regards, Andrea. Il giorno ven 15 feb 2019 alle ore 00:28 ha scritto: > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under > certain circumstances. > > I've been testing Debian Buster off and on with Steam games. I have noted > that using the AMD ope

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-15 Thread steve
Hi all, Thank you for your answers. Was busy so couldn't answer before. My system disk (with /, /usr, /boot and /boot/efi) is on a separate (non-RAID) disk sda. Maybe this works for you, too? You can try: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread t . j . duchene
Thank you, David and Felix. Your comments have been very helpful. I'll look into those as soon as I get some free time! T.J.

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:20:54 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > t.j.duch...@gmail.com writes: > > > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under > > certain circumstances. > > Thank you for taking t

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Felix Miata
t.j.duch...@gmail.com composed on 2019-02-14 17:27 (UTC-0600): > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under > certain circumstances. > I've been testing Debian Buster off and on with Steam games. I have > noted that using the AMD open driver and

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
t.j.duch...@gmail.com writes: > I spend most of my time working on Windows, so debugging Linux will be > something new.  Thanks for helping me on that!  If you don't mind, > I'll post back on what I find so I can do this the right way. You're welcome here to ask about using Debian, especially sin

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2019-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
scribe> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:07:27 + (UTC) On 2010-04-12 11:19 +0200, Vincent L --Add_By_Label_Mail_Nextpart_001 Content-Type: text/plain; efevre wrote: > There's something broken in the design of Debian&

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread t . j . duchene
On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 11:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > t.j.duch...@gmail.com writes: > > > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report > > under > > certain circumstances. > > Thank you for taking the care to find out what information is ne

Re: How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
t.j.duch...@gmail.com writes: > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under > certain circumstances. Thank you for taking the care to find out what information is needed for a good bug report. Your specific use cases seem to involve non-free software (Steam gam

How to file a proper bug report

2019-02-14 Thread t . j . duchene
I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under certain circumstances. I've been testing Debian Buster off and on with Steam games. I have noted that using the AMD open driver and Buster with Alien Isolation seems to suffer some graphics regressions, specifically &quo

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-13 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
Hello Steve, As some of the other responders already said, check your drives' SMART values. But a disk may fail without any indication in the SMART table. I've seen this a couple of years ago and documented it here: https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/301/disk-failure-not-detected-by-smart-ata1-f

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/19 12:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: I had a Linux md RAID0 (mirror) ... Correction -- RAID1 is mirror. David

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
12 box kernel: [ 7734.562529]  do_writepages+0x1a/0x60 > Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562533]  > __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xc8/0x100 > Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562552]  ext4_rename+0x676/0x900 > [ext4] > > > and so one. > > The system blocks for about

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/19 11:37 AM, Tom Bachreier wrote: Feb 12, 2019, 12:08 PM by dl...@bluewin.ch: The system blocks for about 3 minutes and then I get back a hand on it. I have a similar - maybe the same - problem in buster - see the thread "Software RAID blocks" on this list about a month ago. Unfortun

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread Tom Bachreier
Feb 12, 2019, 12:08 PM by dl...@bluewin.ch: > Hi There, > > Here is what I get on my up to date stretch box: > > Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562060] INFO: task md0_raid1:461 blocked > for more than 120 seconds. > [...] > Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562192] INFO: task md1_raid1:4

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/19 3:08 AM, steve wrote: Hi There, Here is what I get on my up to date stretch box: Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562060] INFO: task md0_raid1:461 blocked for more than 120 seconds. and so one. The system blocks for about 3 minutes and then I get back a hand on it. I'm no s

Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread steve
Hi There, Here is what I get on my up to date stretch box: Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562060] INFO: task md0_raid1:461 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Feb 10 12:19:12 box kernel: [ 7734.562068] Tainted: P OE 4.19.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 Debian 4.19.12-1~bpo9+1 Feb 10

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-03 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 03/02/19 17:53, Jude DaShiell ha scritto: That being the case, maybe the best option would be to run report-bug if your machine can send out e-mail. Yup, reportbug works fine here and I can see how that might be an option, however the error message was fairly specific: "write t

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 11:30:10 > From: Andrea Borgia > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link > Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 16:30:26 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-03 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 02/02/19 23:25, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: Error 500 on the bugs page for src:linux is unfortunately common. In this case, it's a timeout on the backend retrieving and formatting all the bugs. There are *lots*... Yup, I saw that, when it worked. Thanks for the explanation. Basically, it's

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
jdash...@panix.com wrote: >On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, David Wright wrote: >> >> Maybe it's been fixed. When I click on that link, I arrive at >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux >> which looks like: >> >> Debian Bug report logs: Bugs i

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, David Wright wrote: > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 10:44:23 > From: David Wright > Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link > Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 15:44:42 + (

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Curt
On 2019-02-02, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/02/19 16:44, David Wright ha scritto: > > >> Maybe it's been fixed. When I click on that link, I arrive at >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux >> which looks like: > > Now, that's quite some timing! I retested right before sending

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 02/02/19 16:44, David Wright ha scritto: Maybe it's been fixed. When I click on that link, I arrive at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux which looks like: Now, that's quite some timing! I retested right before sending the mail and it was still crashing. Either that o

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread David Wright
ltrato > To: ow...@bugs.debian.org > From: Andrea Borgia > Subject: error 500 when clicking bug link > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:38:47 +0100 > From this report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919227 > > I clicked the link next to "Package:&

Re: Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

2019-02-02 Thread rhkramer
I don't understand the point of this email -- are you advocating for some change, or to avoid some change? (I looked at the bug report and skimmed some of the messages -- it seems like by posting this to the debian-user list you are looking for comments or support here, but the issue i

Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Andrea Borgia
orgia Subject: error 500 when clicking bug link Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:38:47 +0100 Hi. From this report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919227 I clicked the link next to "Package:" at the top: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux and I get repeat

Re: Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

2019-02-02 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Thorsten Glaser: > Just accept that this idea, originating from the systemd people at Fedora/Freedesktop, is NOT welcome to classical Unix people. Ahem! We classical Unix people experienced this idea in the late 1980s, from where it *really* originated, Sun and AT&T. * https://groups.googl

Bug#132542: Info received (Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile)

2019-02-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this Bug report. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been received. Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other interested parties for their attention; they will

Re: report bug

2019-01-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:59:16 + Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I have set up report-bug however upon running I am informs me that  > gir1.2-vte-2.91 >  is missing, this is required to run the program with the GUI.  > > I have no problem installing this (and have don

report bug

2019-01-25 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I have set up report-bug however upon running I am informs me that  gir1.2-vte-2.91  is missing, this is required to run the program with the GUI.  I have no problem installing this (and have done) but just thought I would mention it.  report bug defaults to the CLI version anyway. Paul

Help filing a bug report

2019-01-23 Thread Chris Talbot
. As this is a rather odd bug, I am unsure how to gather more information, nor am I sure what is causing it, as I have a feeling that it is a compilation of issues. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Respectfully, Chris Talbot

Re: Apt bug & redirects

2019-01-23 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-23, Richard Hector wrote: > > Ok, it seems if I go through the list on the dsa page above, I can then > download the packages from their respective pages on > packages.debian.org, where they're listed along with checksums. Tedious, > but should work :-) > > Richard > > Not certain why

Bug In Unknown Package

2019-01-22 Thread Cole Creps
Hello, I recently upgraded to Debian Buster and now experience severe graphical lag(10-15FPS on a blank desktop, less with a window open according to KDE's built in FPS monitor) after resuming from suspend.  Reportbug said to contact this address because I don't know which package is causing th

Re: Apt bug & redirects

2019-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/01/19 5:05 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I just read about the current apt security update on The Register: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/debian_package_manager_flaws/ > > It suggests running apt update with redirects disallowed ... but > security.debian.org appear

Apt bug & redirects

2019-01-22 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I just read about the current apt security update on The Register: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/debian_package_manager_flaws/ It suggests running apt update with redirects disallowed ... but security.debian.org appears to do a redirect. There's a tip at https://www.debian.or

Bug regarding audio in "stable" branch

2019-01-06 Thread Jul'
afterwards); it is important to note that it does not happen after every boot) - I do not know whether it can be linked to GNOME or any other package down to pulseaudio - I do not know which details could be useful ; I would be happy to submit a much more detailed bug report as soon as I know how I

Re: digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

2019-01-06 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 06/01/19 12:41, Étienne Mollier ha scritto: Since you can reproduce the bug in Debian, I guess it is worth a report, with a mention to the upstream bug page and, if possible the patch fixing it. Put information necessary to the context, but no need to copy the entire thread on KDE bug

Re: digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

2019-01-06 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 1/6/19 12:26 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi. > > Case in point: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395875 > > There is no corresponding bugreport for the Debian package; had I not found > the upstream bug, I would have filed a report with nearly the same > information,

digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

2019-01-06 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. Case in point: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395875 There is no corresponding bugreport for the Debian package; had I not found the upstream bug, I would have filed a report with nearly the same information, since my tests match the issue perfectly. Question is, for tracking

Possible bug: "safely remove drive" freeze the system

2018-12-13 Thread Daniele Gervasoni
Hello, I have the issue in the subject when a right click on a USB drive and click on "safely remove drive". I am on Debian 9.6 with gnome. It happen with different drives and different usb ports. Looking on the www it was an old 2.6 kernel bug. Below hostnamectl output concerning ar

Re: How do I report a bug to Debian? ... as ReportBug has bugs.

2018-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Howard writes: > The URL for the Debian Bug project apparently isn't working or has > changed.  I've found two links that are not working.  The first one is > here in ReportBug, where the blue link for "Homepage of reportbug > project" is broken.  (The yellow

Re: How do I report a bug to Debian? ... as ReportBug has bugs.

2018-12-06 Thread john doe
On 12/6/2018 8:22 AM, Howard Johnson wrote: > Aloha, > > The URL for the Debian Bug project apparently isn't working or has > changed.  I've found two links that are not working.  The first one is > here in ReportBug, where the blue link for "Homepage of reportb

How do I report a bug to Debian? ... as ReportBug has bugs.

2018-12-06 Thread Howard Johnson
Aloha, The URL for the Debian Bug project apparently isn't working or has changed.  I've found two links that are not working.  The first one is here in ReportBug, where the blue link for "Homepage of reportbug project" is broken.  (The yellow tool tip shows the bad URL

Re: I'd like help reporting an anomaly/bug with wifi and NetworkManager under Buster

2018-12-04 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:41:21 -0600 craig macdonald wrote: > Hello all, > > I've discovered a small bug in linux (wifi?) networking, but I haven't > been able to report it because I don't seem to know the correct package > to report the bug against. > > I

Re: I'd like help reporting an anomaly/bug with wifi and NetworkManager under Buster

2018-12-03 Thread Reco
Hi. Here, at debian-user, we reply to the list so the whole community would benefit from the answers. Writing to a list participant directly can be OK as long as something private is discussed. Which is clearly not the case here. On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 01:26:10PM -0600, craig macdonald w

Re: I'd like help reporting an anomaly/bug with wifi and NetworkManager under Buster

2018-12-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:41:21AM -0600, craig macdonald wrote: > Hello all, > > I've discovered a small bug in linux (wifi?) networking, but I haven't > been able to report it because I don't seem to know the correct > package to report the bug agains

I'd like help reporting an anomaly/bug with wifi and NetworkManager under Buster

2018-12-03 Thread craig macdonald
Hello all, I've discovered a small bug in linux (wifi?) networking, but I haven't been able to report it because I don't seem to know the correct package to report the bug against. I bought an older, "obsolete" usb wifi adapter (D-Link DWA-130, Rev. F) after reading

[SOLVED] Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

2018-11-29 Thread local10
as, say, ~/.config/KVIrc and try to load this > one configuration directory instead? > I actually noticed it too and tried the trick with renaming directories before I filed the bug, it did not work for me. Now trying different things I found the winning combination I think that solves the issue

Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

2018-11-29 Thread Étienne Mollier
local10, on 2018-11-29: > Nov 27, 2018, 7:24 PM by loca...@tutanota.com: > > Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of > > annoying and there's no response from the maintenance team: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

2018-11-29 Thread local10
Nov 27, 2018, 7:24 PM by loca...@tutanota.com: > Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of annoying and there's > no response from the maintenance team: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420 > <https://bugs.debian.org

Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

2018-11-27 Thread local10
Hi, Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of annoying and there's no response from the maintenance team: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420> Regards,

Re: Possible BUG: Unable to change the ip of network interfaces without reboot in text mode

2018-11-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:39:48AM -0200, Luciano Andress Martini wrote: > 2- Try to change the ip in /etc/network/interfaces > 3- Run ifdown enp0s3 > 4- Run ifup enp0s3 Perhaps you want to do it this way instead: 2- ifdown enp0s3 3- edit /etc/network/interfaces 4- ifup enp0s3

Possible BUG: Unable to change the ip of network interfaces without reboot in text mode

2018-11-23 Thread Luciano Andress Martini
I am not sure if my answers are reaching the users because i did not received it back so sorry to creating a new thread, but i think this is very important, please follow this steps to emulate it: 1- Install Debian 9.6 without graphical interface. 2- Try to change the ip in /etc/network/interfaces

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-05 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > In this case, he probably "told it to run in a terminal", and whether > the terminal uses a login shell or not is irrelevant. The fact that > now it's running the program inside a terminal (or possibly a terminal > plus a shell), instead of directly executi

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 12:31:11PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > - You have a launcher file that references an executable. In normal > cases calling the launcher from your desktop environment (I don't > know if this is by menu or button or something else) causes the > binary to run. I'm assuming

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-05 Thread Andy Smith
e as you so it would be a lot of work to try this out. I'm only trying to help you file the right bug against the right software, but if that is not welcome just say so and I am happy to leave you to it. If I understand correctly: - You have a launcher file that references an executable.

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/04/2018 07:34 AM, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:24:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Turns out there was a *YUCKY* choice for a default setting. In the default profile for mate-terminal there is a choice titled "Run command as a login shell". The option is *not* enabled.

Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
have spewed some error into some log file, but did not pop up a dialog saying "That isn't a valid binary" or whatever. I don't think that you would get different results no matter what setting you had for running terminals as login or not. So if it bothers you that trying to

IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-11-04 Thread Richard Owlett
custom MATE launcher pointed the corrupted file. When the launcher icon was clicked there was no response whatsoever. Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* Is this a bug or a feature? If a feature, why? Turns out there was a *YUCKY* choice for a default setting. In the default profile for mate-terminal there

Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-10-31 Thread Curt
On 2018-10-31, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over >> >> written by the contents of a man page in pure text format. >> > >> > Just to (maybe?) help with the proper focus, was this a human error or >> > something that seeme

Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-10-31 Thread Richard Owlett
ailed PEBKAC ;< " Ok, then, it doesn't seem to indicate a disk problem (as some seemed to suspect). Reco's comment that it could be a "(mis)feature" and Greg's response led me to investigate further. I'm personally convinced there is a bug having some aspect

Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-10-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:45:15 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/31/2018 10:31 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 10:14:40 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. > >> > >> Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary

Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-10-31 Thread Richard Owlett
r pointed the corrupted file. When the launcher icon was clicked there was no response whatsoever. Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* Is this a bug or a feature? If a feature, why?

Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

2018-10-31 Thread rhkramer
whatsoever. > Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* > Is this a bug or a feature? > If a feature, why?

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