Bug#1016917: dvdbackup: has really clunky way of dealing with i/o errors

2022-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: dvdbackup Version: 0.4.2-4+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, vlc plays my old scratched dvd's without ANY viewing issues while dvdbackup creates a disk image with lots of remarks in the log about i/o errors, e.g., Error reading VTS_06_1.VOB at block 34304, read error

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
such quick fixes for this issue, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar inte

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
iscussed on this thread! Anyhow, thanks for drawing this patch to my attention, and I hope I have time to take a close look at in in the coming week or so. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Vict

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
create a patch to implement any of those topics (or any other libcsironn development topic that interested you), I would be happy to comprehensively test that patch in a timely manner and (assuming that was a success) push that commit to make sure your work gets into the next release of PLplot. Be

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2019-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
at kernel, I will likely conclude this problem has been completely solved, and I will close this bug report. Meanwhile, I hope if you decide as a last resort to try updating your own BIOS (after careful consideration of the known risks), that will completely solve this issue for you. Alan ___

Bug#918774: This bug now fixed upstream

2019-02-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t.cgi?bug=921139> should automatically address this current bug report as well. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplo

Bug#921139: lasi: is two important bug fix releases behind upstream

2019-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Source: lasi Version: 1.1.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, As primary maintainer of upstream libLASi I note that lasi version 1.1.0 was released in 2008-02-08 and has been superseded since by three important bug fix releases, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and most recently (see

Bug#918774: Simple method of verifying this bug

2019-01-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t deals with this issue. But just in case I cannot find them at all please let me know if you have some ideas about how to fix this libLASi bug. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.

Bug#918774: liblasi0: response to missing system glyphs no longer works correctly

2019-01-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: liblasi0 Version: 1.1.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Since one of my recent Debian Buster upgrades I have been getting the following run-time errors with libLASi when a missing system glyph is encountered: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' w

Bug#916474: emacs-gtk: does not render certain UTF-8 symbols that other applications (both GTK and Qt based) render without problems

2018-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: emacs-gtk Version: 1:25.2+1-11 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, What led up to this situation is a correspondent sent me an e-mail containing a UTF-8 emoticon which rendered without problems under the konsole application for KDE, but when I edited my reply to him using emacs I noticed a

Bug#913682: quilt: fails to document QUILT_PC environment variable

2018-11-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: quilt Version: 0.65-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Sometimes quilt users must be able to switch between completely different patch series. For example, I ran into this issue when dealing with applying an extra patch in debian/patches (to configure both RCU_EXPERT and RCU_NOCB_CPU to

Bug#911496: linux-image-4.18.0-2-amd64: e1000e module locks up the system for Intel 82574L ethernet controller

2018-10-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.10-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The uptimes I can achieve with kernel 4.18.x and my particular hardware box (Ryzen 7 1700, with 8 cores and 64GB with Intel 82574L ethernet controller and AMDGPU RX 550 expansion cards attached) range from several hours to

Bug#910482: libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra: SVG error messages and/or rendering errors if inkscape not installed

2018-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra Version: 8:6.9.10.8+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra installed, "display" (symlinked to display-im6.q16) renders validated SVG files incorrectly or not at all (exited with "display-im6.q16: non-conforming drawing primi

Bug#807418: This bug applies to the Debian Buster firefox-esr package as well

2018-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ding bugs for firefox-esr. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the li

Bug#909773: alsa-utils: alsamixer Master configured improperly for line-in of Realtek ALC887-VD

2018-09-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, To give some background I have a TV card whose line-out is connected to sound card line-in. As far as I can tell for Debian Testing = Buster line-in for this sound chip (and possibly all others although I can find no document

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

2018-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
5.3.5 version also solves the run-time issue with PLplot that started me on this bug hunt. So clearly this is an upstream bug for 5.3.3 that has been fixed by upstream 5.3.5, and the Debian solution for this bug should be simply to package 5.3.5. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

2018-09-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
+00 @Maintainer: Please update the Debian package from 5.3.3 to 5.3.5 to see whether that fixes the issue demonstrated by the script. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net);

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org

Bug#907506: kinit: "Add to panel (Widget)" does not work

2018-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: kinit Version: 5.47.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With the latest version of the KDE desktop available for Debian Buster it appears to be impossible to launch multiple instances of applications from the panel. For example, if I explore klauncher -> applications -> internet I fin

Bug#907504: kinit: "type to search" has quit working

2018-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: kinit Version: 5.47.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For the KDE launcher (klauncher) that is available on the panel, if you search for an application by typing its name a search bar comes up as per usual, but that search bar no longer finds any applications no matter what you type

Bug#906538: Possibly still not fixed

2018-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ckly fixing this severe bug once a Debian Buster user had reported it. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot sci

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-06-02 10:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching 3 days since I switched to 4.16.12 from 4.16.5) and may have completely solved it. [...] Well, further

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithmetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

2018-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Attached script demonstrates the bug. __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package

Bug#902238: lua5.3: arithemetic operations fail to give correct results if too many arrays are initialized

2018-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: lua5.3 Version: 5.3.3-1 Severity: important Based on a more complex script that was generating incorrect numerical results, I have created a fairly simple example lua script (which I will subsequently attach to this bug report) which demonstrates the bug. In this script I initialize 9 d

Bug#902148: xfce4: interferes with XKB interpretation of the PageUp key

2018-06-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When running emacs on the XFCE desktop I discovered that hitting the PageUp key did not scroll up the text by a page as expected and instead invoked the edt help page that normally you get in emacs edt mode by hitting the keypad key

Bug#902050: kde-plasma-desktop: has severe keyboard latency when displaying remote KDE desktop

2018-06-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: kde-plasma-desktop Version: 5:102 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Because of I currently cannot run this fast box (Ryzen 7 1700, 8 cores, 64GB) very long with direct X display before it locks up. So until that bug is fixed (li

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
671>. I would like to see what sort of maximum uptime I can now achieve with this card without lock ups and report that here for the benefit of other Debian users of AMD RX 550 graphics cards so please leave this bug open for at least several more months. Alan __ Alan W.

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-05-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides p

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Version: 18.0.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The lock ups for the AMD RX 550 graphics card I have been experiencing occur on time scales of a few hours after a boot to up to a maximum of two days after a reboot. The frequency of those backups is the r

Bug#899086: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: completely fails to detect AMD RX 550 (which uses the Polaris 12 chipset) unless firmware-amd-graphics package installed

2018-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Version: 18.0.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently performed a successful text install of Debian Buster using a snapshot from . That install was minimal,

Bug#864200: Problem solved with cold reboot!

2017-06-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project

Bug#864200: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: sound card line-in for Intel chipset has quit working

2017-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.43-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For some time I have been watching TV (available via a Hauppauge WinTV card) with Debian Jessie using the tvtime application without issues. But after updating Debian Jessie this morning with apt-get dist-upgrade the TV sou

Bug#845497: liblasi-dev: has packaging issues with dependencies

2016-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: liblasi-dev Version: 1.1.0-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The Depends: line for liblasi-dev is incomplete, i.e., only the corresponding library package is mentioned now. Although, I only have the Debian stable version installed, I notice this bad situation persists in the unstabl

Bug#833677: gnat-4.9: last call to the put procedure incorrectly appends a newline character to the string

2016-08-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: gnat-4.9 Version: 4.9.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a use case where I need an Ada program to emit a single string to stdout _without_ a trailing newline character. According to Ada documentation I have read, the put procedure (as opposed to put_line) is the one to use f

Bug#823384: git: checkout-index --all sometimes gives only partial results

2016-05-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: git Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Within scripts I have been using the --work-tree and --git-dir git options as follows to help "export" my working directory regardless of the last cd command executed by script invoker or within the script: git --work-tre

Bug#821317: calligrasheets: fails to save money attribute for a cell

2016-04-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: calligrasheets Version: 1:2.8.5+dfsg-1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I start with a blank worksheet and fill any cell with a number, say, 123.45, then use ctrl-alt-f to format that cell with the money attribute, the cell is displayed (as expected) as "$123.45". But that money

Bug#810656: ifupdown: deadlocks: A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces

2016-01-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.53.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am reporting from a different computer because the affected computer is still deadlocked, but the system information below is largely the same because both (64-bit Intel) computers have been updated today to the latest versio

Bug#804387: ksysguard: hogs bandwidth if system load results displayed using a thin client

2015-11-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: ksysguard Version: 4:4.11.13-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I run ksysguard (a.k.a system monitor) directly on my fast box with KDE desktop it takes very little bandwidth, but if I display that KDE desktop (including the system monitor GUI) running on the fast box using a thin cl

Bug#803885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: glxgears segfaults for g33 chipset

2015-11-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Bug#803885: xserver-xorg-video-intel: glxgears segfaults for g33 chipset

2015-11-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.21.15-2+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, For my Intel g33 video chipset glxgears ran without issues on Debian Wheezy, but for Debian Jessie it segfaults on startup. I also find that glxgears works fine for that identical Debian Jessie box if the

Bug#774118: closed by Bastian Blank (Re: Bug#774118: Additional information)

2014-12-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ephem software project. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar inte

Bug#774118: Additional information

2014-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ase apply it. __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net);

Bug#774118: libc6:amd64: strspn generates compiler warning

2014-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-38+deb7u4 Severity: normal A compiler warning message is generated by the following test code and compiler options. irwin@raven> cat >test_strspn.c #include #include int main(void) { strcmp(" 8998797857586fasdfljf", " "); strspn(" 8998797857586fasdfljf", " ");

Bug#768105: smoke-dev-tools: smokegen does not parse -I options correctly

2014-11-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: smoke-dev-tools Version: 4:4.8.4-1 Severity: normal I am helping to generate some smoke bindings for the PLplot library. The command I first used to generate the source code was /usr/bin/smokegen -config /usr/share/smokegen/qt-config.xml \ -smokeconfig \ /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot

Bug#761057: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-09-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
r the man pages following what is done for docbook using that slightly modified BSD documentation license (subject to Rafael's agreement as author of those man pages) and also for the doxygen-generated files. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Bug#752274: liblasi-dev: has packaging issues with the files that are included

2014-06-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: liblasi-dev Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: minor The list of files for this package include the following two files in error: /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/CMakeLists.txt /usr/share/doc/liblasi-dev/examples/Makefile.examples.in The first of these is a small part of the CMake-based bui

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-11 16:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I did try the obvious step of building the Debian packages for libhpdf using "apt-src build libhpdf". All seemed well with that build, but when I installed the corresponding debs, none of the critical symbols for the library as revealed b

Bug#726069: libhpdf-2.2.1: fails to support large fonts

2013-10-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: libhpdf-2.2.1 Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch PLplot implements a plot device for creating pdf plots that depends on libhpdf, and when that pdf plot device is linked to the Debian wheezy version of libhpdf, all our standard examples work fine except for one with large fonts

Bug#721366: xmlto: craps out if DESTDIR is specified

2013-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xmlto Version: 0.0.25-2 Severity: normal My use case is I am building and installing a particular package (PLplot) using make DESTDIR= install where the install target depends on the all target which builds part of the package documentation using xmlto --with-fop. The underlying fop co

Bug#720624: dblatex: errors out with Undefined control sequence \Epsilon, etc., when rendering the Greek alphabet

2013-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: dblatex Version: 0.3.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The following simple docbook example: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"; [ ] > A Simple Book Example A Simple Chapter Example Is a G

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2013-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
likely to continue to be an issue for those remaining Debian users who have not done that upgrade yet. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliation

Bug#716798: cmake: fails to download SSL URL's

2013-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: cmake Version: 2.8.9-1 Severity: normal I have recently discovered that CMake support for SSL downloads is fragile, and the Debian version does not work correctly because of that issue. Here is a simple script to illustrate this issue for the Debian version of cmake. software@raven> cat

Bug#666761: Still an important issue for those who build modern wine versions

2013-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ve idea is good, I would hope the implementation would not be too difficult for someone with the required packaging skills and libfreetype knowledge. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University o

Bug#644809: Yes, please!

2012-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. It is time for action to put this irritating issue to rest. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state

Bug#689377: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for a serial mouse

2012-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. This bug is closely related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688674, but for a completely different system (64-bit for this report versus 32-bit for

Bug#688812: Substitute GMA950 everywhere I said GMA500 in the text

2012-09-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Subject line says it all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#688818: I am going to close this bug report

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Because I stated in the subject line and body that it was GMA 500 rather than the correct GMA 950. Important difference! I have resubmited this bug report again with correct subject line and body GMA id. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with

Bug#688822: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 950 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 950 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env LIBGL_

Bug#688818: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GMA 500 regression for LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 playing of 3D games

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal When Debian stable was installed on this ASUS Eee box (b202) with 945GM chipset (GMA 500 graphics core), I could ssh in to a remote box and play the low-end 3D game foobillard without problems with this incantation: env LIBGL_

Bug#688812: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Reapplying the same "Outline" desktop effect slows GMA 950 graphics core to a "permanent" crawl

2012-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-5 Severity: normal For this particular Intel GMA500 graphics core, the KDE desktop is normally quite responsive. However, during initial configuration of KDE I was trying to get rid of a colored halo that appears for window that happens to have

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
CD-ROM image, not a CD-ROM. Fair enough, but the point is the installer should refer to "CD-ROM image on USB drive" when that is appropriate rather than the above messages explicitly assuming that CD-ROM image is located on an actual CD drive. For experts this doesn't matter,

Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor -- Package-specific info: Boot method: usb stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso 2012-09-06 Date: 2012-09-19 Machine: ASUS Eee box B202 Partitions: I will give bot

Bug#688674: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: emits non-fatal but concerning (EE) errors in the X log for PS2 to USB adapter

2012-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.7.0-1+b1 Severity: normal The principal issue is as described in the subject line. I use an ordinary PS2 to USB converter with two sockets for keyboard and mouse and one USB socket that is plugged into my computer. So I presume the device looks like

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2012-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time E

Bug#680550: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kmalloc-32 memory leak for kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64

2012-07-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-45 Severity: important In March 2011 I noticed our two-user home-office desktop system (one user accessing the system directly from its keyboard, one user accessing the system via a thin client/X-terminal) was showing all the classic signs of a memory leak (a la

Bug#623758: emacs23: edt-find-next is unreliable on rare occasions

2011-04-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-7 Severity: normal These fairly rare symptoms occur for EDT mode which is invoked using ; ; edt emulation invoked automatically at start ; (add-hook 'term-setup-hook 'edt-emulation-on) in the .emacs file. edt-find-next is

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2011-03-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-03-06 03:24+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin (26/02/2011): I do plan to give inputattach a quick try once I move from Debian Squeeze to Debian testing (probably in 6-12 months after testing has had a chance to settle down for a while), but if the inputattach method

Bug#615491: Please close this bug report

2011-03-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the boundaries were not duplicated and the last boundary segment was small both the even-odd and non-zero winding rule fill rules produced correct results for the self-intersecting boundary case that also looked obviously correct. Therefore, please close this bug report. Alan __

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-03-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-03-01 13:04+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:03 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Following your suggestion, I tried the EvenOddRule fill rule case for both fbdev and vesa, and the results were consistent (i.e., many fill rendering errors) with what happens for the intel

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-02-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-02-28 14:15+0100 Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sam, 2011-02-26 at 13:52 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-11 Severity: normal The PLplot development team have just implemented a demanding 2D fill rendering test for the X stack where we modify our

Bug#615491: xserver-xorg-core: does not fill correctly for complex boundaries

2011-02-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hemselves), but I need guidance on which component of the X stack is responsible for filling before I do such propagation. Finally, I am not sure exactly how to attach screenshots to Debian bugs using reportbug so I may have to do that later if it does not work with this initial report. Alan W. Ir

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2011-02-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
l just a side issue to my original bug report on the missing dependency issue for the legacy approach. Please fix that! Also, please remove the moreinfo tag. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

2011-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ves it, then that would confirm the hypothesis. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, one solution to the issue which I think would justify closing this bug report would be to warn users about the reboot requirement with an install warning message for xserver-xorg-video-intel. Alan ___

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Bernhard: I agree with most/all of your points, and I appreciate your help in clarifying the issues (especially with the good point that these are server-side fonts so the suggests/recommends are the X server package responsibility). Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 21:40+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: package gv close 611053 thanks * Alan W. Irwin [110125 20:15]: To recap, in my original message I said Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather old advice to install xfonts-100dpi and gsfonts-x11. I have done

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 18:41+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Alan W. Irwin [110125 18:21]: irwin@raven> xlsfonts |wc -l 1600 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. Also, there is nothing in

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the output from xlsfonts related to Helvetica; irwin@raven> xlsfonts |grep -i hel |wc -l 0 Can you confirm that on your testing system as well or is there some additional package I should install to resolve this issue? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliatio

Bug#611053: gv can no longer find fonts

2011-01-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: gv Version: 1:3.7.1-1 Severity: normal When I use gv to view a PostScript file I get the following warning messages: software@raven> gv x01c.psc Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-

Bug#606340: This bug not completely fixed in 2:2.13.0-5

2011-01-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
around is not a permanent solution. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for st

Bug#595662: sed: incorrectly concatanates next line to pattern space

2010-09-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: sed Version: 4.2.1-7 Severity: important I illustrate the bug by two examples. In each case I have a file called bookmarks.html with a particular line in it containing the string 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. I pipeline the result to diff to find out the exact effect of the given sed one-line sc

Bug#594384: gnat-4.4-doc: gnat_rm appears with the wrong version number in the top-level info index

2010-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
gnat_ugn") are not affected by the bug and therefore work fine. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_C

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined "System Monitor" applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

2010-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(probably send it upstream) would be immediately useful. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-22 11:34+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Alan W. Irwin , 2010-07-21, 18:40: softw...@raven> ldd -r /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so 2>&1 |grep -i codec undefined symbol: _ZN10QTextCodec11validCodecsEv (/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/QtCore.so) I can't rep

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-22 01:59+0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: tags 589893 - patch thanks Thanks for your bug report. * Alan W. Irwin , 2010-07-21, 16:37: ldd -r /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/PyQt4/Qt.so You obtain the following (abbreviated) results: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x7fffcc7ff

Bug#589893: python-qt4: has bad linking for shared objects

2010-07-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
issing -lpython flag, but that turned out to be more difficult than I initially thought so despite the above tag, I currently have no patch for this issue. N.B. this undefined symbol issue kills my build of a pyqt4 module which actually needed one of those missing symbols so I judged this to be an imp

Bug#588983: python-feedvalidator: errors out with ImportError: No module named ....

2010-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: python-feedvalidator Version: 0~svn1022-1 Severity: grave Tags: l10n Justification: renders package unusable The issue is that with Debian squeeze /etc/default/locale now defines LANGUAGE. On my system that file looks like this # File generated by update-locale #LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LANGUA

Bug#588841: ksysguard: Combined "System Monitor" applet fails to work correctly after logout/login cycle

2010-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
gets fixed with some urgency. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#588670: installation-reports: generated grub.cfg has off-by-one error in --fs-uuid index in the search command

2010-07-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded on 2010-07-05 with size of 177694720 Date: Just after I downloaded, probably late 2010-07-05 or early 2010-07-06 Machine: Intel core

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-09 19:32+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:04:19 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: normal The default hot plugging X input system implemented using evdev did not detect my serial mouse so I turned hot

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing "FATAL: Module fbcon not found." message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-09 18:40+0100 Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:12:20 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-4 Severity: minor There is plenty of advice on the internet to ignore this message which is why I have classified this as a minor bug

Bug#588571: tvtime: generates incorrect "mute unavailable" message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
so appears to work fine for Squeeze.) I suppose I could also write another formal bug report about a volume control being missing in tvtime, but I am reasonably satisfied with kmix to handle the overall volume so I will only mention that issue in passing here. Alan W. Irwin -- System Informati

Bug#588566: xserver-xorg-input-all: For amd64 should depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with evdev, that is a different story, but I don't think they affect it at all unless the user specifically is requesting kbd and mouse drivers as I outlined above. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'

Bug#579910: vmware video driver breaks X configure

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
configuration for a vastly changed X configuration landscape. Therefore, if the workaround were not available I would have requested classifying this bug at a much higher severity level. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and

Bug#588560: xserver-xorg-video-intel: generates confusing "FATAL: Module fbcon not found." message

2010-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
just like the web says. So therefore, please just remove this useless and confusing message! Also, if this is the wrong package to report this bug (say if this is caused by the X server rather than intel driver), please forward this bug to the appropriate X package. Alan W. Irwin -- Package-spe

Bug#414264: alpine: 'Folder vulnerable' warning about /var/spool/mail

2010-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nd on mlock or suggest or recommend it. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar inte

Bug#563850: test

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Just checking for whether I am subscribed to this bug or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#563850: xserver-xorg-video-sis: X server crashes when logging out from KDE via xdm

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(since I am logging out anyway), but I thought I should report them "for the record". Alan W. Irwin -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 5 00:56 /etc/X11/X ->

Bug#530005: libphobos-4.1-dev: libgphobos cannot be linked by a shared library

2009-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
c. If any additional tests are necessary to help you figure out this linking issue, I would be happy to perform them. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (

Bug#518816: copying .sfd files to ~/.uniconvertor/fonts still give an empty fntlst when *.cgm files are being converted to other formats

2009-03-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
y. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting

Bug#518816: python-uniconvertor: Cannot load plugin module cgmloader

2009-03-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lly stuck. For this reason, it is important to get transformation of *.cgm to other formats (such as *.svg which has lots of viewers) working properly with Debian uniconvertor. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Arch

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