Joseph, thanks for the cc. Glad to see cmph getting some love.
I'm too busy at the moment to return to working on Debian.
I'd like that to change, but for now that's it.
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I'm interested in helping, with thoughts of becoming a DM.
Any pointers or tips on next steps welcome.
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On 18/04/11 01:41, Rob Browning wrote:
> Jeff Abrahamson writes:
>
>> Emacs starts with -nw, but otherwise (without -nw) fails to find X
>> fonts for startup.
>>
>>jeff@aragorn:~ $ emacs
>>Font `10x20' is not defined
>>jeff@aragorn:~ $
Any response possible on this?
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Package: geeqie
Version: 1:1.0~beta2-8
Severity: normal
I'm pointed to gqview, but gqview is now geeqie.
j...@aragorn:geeqie $ cat README.Debian
geeqie for Debian
-
Please note that this package is still not considered stable, if you are
looking for stable viewer, use
Package: geeqie
Version: 1:1.0~beta2-8
Severity: important
Commands that worked in gqview no longer work, and my attempts to
control a running geeqie process via the commandline often report
errors and don't always do what I expect from the documentation.
Some examples perhaps illustrate best.
Package: mpg123
Version: 1.9.1-2
Severity: important
After a dist-upgrade, mpg123 no longer works. I suspect mpg123 rather
than sound configuration in genral because ogg123 plays music just
fine and saying
$ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
predictably produces noise.
Example:
j...@aragor
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> Le lundi 30 novembre 2009 à 20:03 +, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> [19 lines, 138 words, 855 characters] Top characters: etiorsnu
>
> Le dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 18:01 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > Gdm comes up in single-head mode, but I have two monitors. Using
>
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: normal
Gdm comes up in single-head mode, but I have two monitors. Using
/usr/bin/gnome-display-properties, I can uncheck the mirror display
button, but am told "required virtual size does not fit available
size: requested=(3840, 1200), minimum=(320, 200)
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:22:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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>
> Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 22:38 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > On logging in from gdm, I'm dropped in a default session (no w
Package: emacs
Version: 23.1+1-4
Severity: important
Emacs starts with -nw, but otherwise (without -nw) fails to find X
fonts for startup.
j...@aragorn:~ $ emacs
Font `10x20' is not defined
j...@aragorn:~ $
Seems like a config problem, but xfonts-base is installed and
/usr/share/fonts
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:45:37PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> [14 lines, 64 words, 388 characters] Top characters: e0rsoidh
>
> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Nov 22 12:13:33 aragorn kernel: [ 198.416261] mtrr: no MTRR for
> > e000,1000 found
> >
>
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: important
On logging in from gdm, I'm dropped in a default session (no wm, no
gnome, etc.) It appears that /etc/gdm/Xsession is not trying to
execute a gnome-session. (See attached .xsession-errors, in
particular the line 'echo "$0: Executing $command f
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:04:15PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> [20 lines, 81 words, 589 characters] Top characters: etino\nal
>
> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
> > Version: 1.2.5-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> &
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
Version: 1.2.5-1
Severity: normal
Same problem, additional info.
My system broke on dist-upgrade from (what's now stable) to (what's
now testing). Same breakage: all works except X. I had been using
the proprietary ati driver. I've attached the original co
Package: eog
Version: 2.22.3-1
Severity: minor
When spawning a new eog instance on an image small enough to fit
easily on my monitor, thus
$ eog foo.jpg
the app claims to show the image at 99% magnification instead of 100%.
Not sure if rounding error in the magnification computation or if i
Package: eog
Version: 2.20.4-1
Severity: important
If an eog instance already exists, a new invocation of eog asks the
existing instance to handle its requests, then quits. But this makes
eog unusable as an image viewer with mutt, which deletes the image
after viewing is done.
A program like eo
Package: texlive-common
Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
texlive-common won't install because tetex-bin-upgrade isn't
available. Maybe this is a bug against tex-common instead?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install texlive-common
Readin
Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.1.1-11
Severity: normal
On running ogg123 on a newly built machine (with home directory, in
case it matters, from a different machine: old machine was 32-bit, new
is 64-bit), ogg123 fails to run:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Philadelphia_Chickens $ ogg123
06.Snuggle_Pupp
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
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>
> Jeff Abrahamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Package: tetex-extra
> > Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-5
> > Severity: normal
>
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-5
Severity: normal
The files algorithm.sty and algorithmic.sty are out of date.
The current files appear to be maintained and available at this URL:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3442
(For completeness, here are two more
then jpilot-backup would report the above
> message.
That fixes it. Thanks.
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e HotSync button now
****
Username is "Jeff Abrahamson"
User ID is 20081
lastSyncPC = 1422842609
This PC = 1422842609
Doing a fast sync.
Syncing DatebookDB
Syncing AddressDB
Syncing ToDoDB
Syncing MemoDB
Backup: Can't get last backup ti
Package: glpk
Version: 4.11-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
python-glpk seems to be a decent set of python bindings to glpk.
It would be helpful to add it to the debian glpk package.
Thanks.
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:10:35PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> [19 lines, 105 words, 633 characters] Top characters: eatsorui
>
> forwarded 398870 http://bugs.jpilot.org/1764
> tags 398870 upstream
> thank
>
> Le 16.11.2006, à 22:53:35, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
>
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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>
> Le 15.11.2006, à 23:52:12, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > I choose "restore handheld" to restore data to a Palm V. Then I
> >
00]
pref port=[/dev/ttyS0]
num_backups=2
forking sync process
Syncing on device /dev/ttyS0
Press the HotSync button now
paned pos = 943
jp_pref_write_rc_file()
output height = 249
lastSyncPC = 0
This PC = 1422842609
Package: ratpoison
Version: 1.4.0.dfsg-7
Severity: minor
The info doc for ratpoison is copyright under the GNU FDL, which does
not permit modification of the source. This appears to be a violation
of DFSG.
Mind you, I have no desire at all to lose the docs.
(If I'm wrong and this isn't a viola
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 05:02:55PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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>
> Le 04.11.2006, à 15:16:49, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > On further tracing, the error occurs in dlp_request_write:
> >
> >
for (i = 0; i < req->argc; i++) {
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is -200.
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>
> Le 04.11.2006, à 08:23:01, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:24:26AM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > > Wh
original bug report, I can "cat < /dev/ttyS0" and
confirm that the handheld is talking there.
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:36:35PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> [36 lines, 194 words, 1236 characters] Top characters: etanrosh
>
> Le 02.11.2006, à 13:36:57, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > Package: jpilot
> > Version: 0.99.9.1-2
> > Severity: important
> >
I've duplicated this bug with a second palm device and a second
cradle.
Additionally, if I first hit sync on the cradle, the palm device waits
for jpilot. When I hit sync on jpilot, the palm briefly says
"cleaning up" and then shows a "connection lost" dialog.
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Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.9.1-2
Severity: important
After an upgrade && dist-upgrade, jpilot no longer syncs with
handheld. On pressing "sync" in jpilot, the app waits for the
handheld. When I press the cradle button, the handheld immediately
reports that the connection was lost. Jpilot co
Package: python-scipy
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: wishlist
At line 233 of pilutil.py the image viewer xv is hard-coded.
It would be better to check an environment variable first, such as
SCIPY_PIL_IMAGE_VIEWER. In particular, it's reasonable on a Debian
system not even to have xv installed.
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Package: sfs-client
Version: 1:0.8-0+pre20060720.1-1
Severity: normal
At lines 120-121 of /etc/init.d/sfs-client one finds
$0 stop
$0 start
But at line 25, the script executes
cd /var/lib/sfs/
This potentially allows an incorrect script to be run if (for example)
an attacker insta
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1
Severity: normal
When preferences --> advanced --> Allow text to be selected with the keyboard
is checked, scrolling with the keyboard's page-up/down keys doesn't
work as expected. Page-down + page-up, for example, scrolls down one
screenful, then mov
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:52:09AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> [18 lines, 87 words, 484 characters] Top characters: se0nob-i
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:08:26AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Package: e2fsprogs
> > Version: 1.39-1
> >
>
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.39-1
Severity: normal
$ mkfs -c -v /dev/sdc1
...
Running command: badblocks -b 1024 -X -s /dev/sdc1 500440
...
And ps confirms that this is what was run:
4708 pts/15 R+ 0:00 badblocks -b 1024 -X -s /dev/sdc1 500440
But "man badblocks" doe
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #338264
Attached is a simple example on which w3m fails. It should render
'a"b' but it renders 'a?b'.
The economist.com is a rich source of pages that w3m has trouble
rendering for this reason. Mozilla/firefox does just fine, by
contrast, as do l
Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: wishlist
gnome-dictionary-applet used to open a window which could be resized
and moved. It now opens a docked window that is thus not resiable or
movable. It would be very helpful at least to have an option to have
the window be resizeable and m
This bug appears to have been fixed with the xserver-xorg 7.0.20.
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:59:02AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> [33 lines, 275 words, 1445 characters] Top characters: eotansi>
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:08:01PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:13:24PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:13:24PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
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>
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Package: firefox
> > Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
> > Severity: nor
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-3
Severity: important
The following command sequence to gnuplot causes a segfault. Omitting
the size parameter avoids the crash.
Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot> set output 'foo.png'
gnuplot> set terminal png
Terminal type set to 'png'
Opti
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:30:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> [16 lines, 106 words, 641 characters] Top characters: teiosal\n
>
> Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 10:18 -0400, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:58:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >
Package: xorg-server
Severity: normal
If I request 2048x1536 resolution in xorg.conf, X fails on startup
with a backtrace that is not output to Xorg.log for reporting here.
If I request 1920x1440, X runs, but leaves the display in an unusable
state (a version of a blank screen) when X exits. Th
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
Severity: normal
The "page down" key sometimes fails to page to the bottom of a
document if the last page down action moves only a partial page.
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Package: libgts-0.7-1
Version: 0.7.3-2
Severity: normal
apt-get install source provides an examples directory.
The binary install should also provide this in /usr/share/doc/libgts-0.7-1/
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Package: python-pyvtk
Version: 0.4.66-3
Severity: normal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:examples $ pwd
/usr/share/doc/python-pyvtk/examples
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:examples $ python example1.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example1.py", line 8, in ?
from lib import *
I
Package: nautilus
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: normal
Insert a blank CD. A CD burner window opens. Drag a folder to the
window and burn a CD. The CD ejects when done and the progress dialog
says that it's done. Don't close any windows. The burner window will
offer to burn the same thing next
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.1-12
Severity: important
Some files initially display but apparently at the end of the paint
are repainted white. On such files, xpdf displays the file correctly.
I have attached to this bug report a small sample file that causes the
described behavior.
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Package: mozilla
Version: 2:1.7.12-1
Severity: important
Choosing "Save Page as..." either from the file menu or from the right
mouse button's pop-up menu (or typing ctrl-S) does nothing. It should
offer a file save dialog box.
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Package: mozilla
Version: 2:1.7.12-1
Severity: important
Selecting "View->Page Source" (or ctrl-U) shows an error dialog with
"Gecko" in the window title:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://navigator/content/viewSource.xul
Line Number 52, Column 1:
http://www
Package: octave-forge
Version: octave-forge appears uninstallable
Severity: normal
Octave-forge has become uninstallable. This may be a matter of broken
dependencies: libcln3c2 vs libcln3, etc. An immediate user
work-around is unclear to me.
astra:/home/jeff# apt-get install octave-forge
Package: udev
Version: 0.056-3
Followup-For: Bug #328875
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I seem to be in an infinite loop.
I can't finish the udev upgrade without kernel >= 2.6.12, but I can't
upgrade my kernel until the udev problem is fixed.
astra:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-get -f install
Package: octaviz
Version: 0.4.0-10
Severity: important
This is perhaps a vtk bug, but I am unable to file it intelligibly
against vtk.
In octave, execute one of the octaviz demos, say
octave:1> ClipCow
Resize the resulting window to be larger than the displayed figure, a
factor of three se
Package: pkg-config
Version: 0.19-1
Severity: normal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:gqview-2.1.1 $ pkg-config --help
Usage: pkg-config [OPTION...]
--version output version of pkg-config
--modversion output version for package
Package: libgnomeprint2.2-0
Version: 2.10.3-2
Severity: normal
Print a gnumeric spreadsheet, select the "Create a PDF" option in the
print dialog, the resulting PDF file, when viewed with ghostscript
reports the following error in the generated PDF:
Warning: Embedded symbolic TT fonts mu
Package: debconf
Version: 1.4.52
Severity: important
Debconf offers several interfaces, including gnome. But when it tries
to use the gnome interface, it finds that it can't and wonders if
libgnome2-perl is not installed. (It is not.) But it neither offers
to install it nor (better) switches b
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-11
Severity: minor
At the end of the "cmp" man page, one is referred to the info page
and told to type "info diff". But one must type "info cmp".
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Package: exiftags
Version: 0.98-1
Severity: normal
Images from this particular Canon camera cause the following error:
exiftags: Custom function unsupported for %s; please report to author
(Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL)
Another EOS camera works fine.
Two errors: (1) unsupported camera, and (2)
Package: eog
Version: 2.8.2-0.1
Severity: wishlist
It would be very helpful to be able to have the currently selected
image's file name copiable to the X copy buffer so that it can be used
(pasted) in another application.
A "copy" menu item would probably make the most sense, since merely
select
Package: eog
Version: 2.8.2-0.1
Severity: wishlist
It would be helpful to have a command-line option to choose the
collection or single window display of several images rather than
being asked in a dialog. This would also be helpful for those
instances where the default results in the user not b
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.1-5
Severity: minor
gv sometimes displays apparently empty postscript errors. That is,
the error dialog will come up while a page is being displayed but the
dialog will show no errors. If the error message contains no
displayable text, it should not be displayed.
Alt
Upgrading kernel (to 2.6.8-2-686) solved the problem. Weird as this
was, it's probably therefore kernel-related and not jpilot-related.
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Package: gxine
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: minor
On the first run, gxine offers to do some configuration. I get a
window saying "Welcome!" with some checkboxes. I'm told the check for
a cdrom drive failed, so I click on details. I get two dialogs:
(1) FAILED - could not access cdrom:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:01:07AM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> [15 lines, 105 words, 623 characters] Top characters: etoiasnd
>
> Le Wednesday 19 January 2005 à 22:47:42, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > Jpilot hasn't changed configuration since the dist-upgrade, alth
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> [21 lines, 96 words, 626 characters] Top characters: erotsian
>
> Le Tuesday 18 January 2005 à 22:23:24, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit:
> > Running pilot-xfer -l appears to accurately list the pilot's
> >
s.
Thanks, that works. I also found that launching it inside a dot
directory effectively solved the problem.
It would be a nice feature to have a checkbox instead of a relatively
hidden menu. I'm not sure where that should go as a minor feature
request, though. Gtk+ ?
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Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.7-0.99.8-pre6-1
Followup-For: Bug #287940
I'm seeing similar problems since upgrading to kernel 2.4.27-6
yesterday. I didn't see problems with kernel 2.4.27-4 (I think:
anyway a previous 2.4.27 kernel-image package).
Running pilot-xfer -l appears to accurately list
Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.8.1-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gnome-background-properties
Use gnome-background-properties to (try to) choose a wallpaper pattern in
~/.gnome2/.
But the file selection dialog apparently filters out files beginning with dot.
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:24:21PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:
> [14 lines, 90 words, 553 characters] Top characters: enrol:\np
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:18:21PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > (Log output from first call is below, second call never returns, no
Package: mount
Version: 2.12-10
Severity: normal
Summary:
krypton:~# mount /jeff
Segmentation fault
krypton:~# mount /jeff
(Log output from first call is below, second call never returns, no
log output.)
Here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /jeff ext3errors=remou
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