Bug#434596: grub-reboot gets stuck on its entry

2007-07-25 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Here's a bit more info relating to this continuing problem. After I get stuck with the entry that should have been only 'savedefault --once' (which is windows in this case), I manually select Linux within the grub boot menu and go look inside of /boot/grub/default to see what it notes. Its conten

Bug#434596: grub-reboot gets stuck on its entry and doesn't revert back to default

2007-07-24 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: grub Version: 0.97-27 Severity: normal I have two OSes which I'd like access to via 'grub-reboot' ordered within my menu.lst file as, entry #0 - WinXP entry #1 - Debian's etch I'd like to be able to switch from one OS to the other remotely via 'grub-reboot' (ie. to reboot into the

Bug#434258: netinst needs `apt-key update`

2007-07-24 Thread Nadim Shaikli
--- Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today > is not noticed in the past five weeks ... Might have been an earlier version then - I was just going by what is noted on the burned CD. The idea and the problems which arise whenever the GPG k

Bug#434258: installation-reports: Installation fails - base system install as well as grub do NOT install

2007-07-22 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: installation-reports Version: d-i from a netinst (etch dated June 13th) Severity: normal A netinst CD from June 13th (post etch release) wouldn't install a base system nor grub (various odd messages were noted - it wasn't very intuitive in what was going wrong). After looking into the pr

Bug#419594: mlterm: anti-aliasing is enabled by default (contrary to manpage)

2007-04-16 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: mlterm Version: 2.9.3-5 Severity: minor The mlterm manpage for '-A, --aa' notes, Use anti-aliased fonts. This option works only with Xft for now. The default is false. while in fact I'm seeing this enabled by default. One can easily test whether this is enabled or not via the usage

Bug#418969: rstatd: can't redirect useless syslog status data or run package in quiet mode

2007-04-12 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: rstatd Version: 4.0.1-2 Severity: normal Whenever 'rpc.rstatd' is run (command-line or via inetd) it fills the syslog file (/var/log/syslog) with alot of seemingly useless data - such as, Apr 12 06:26:36 mickey rpc.rstatd: interface: lo: 1676716 1985200 0 0 0

Bug#392007: flpsed: can't open password protected PDF files

2006-10-09 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: flpsed Version: 0.3.7-1 Severity: important I was interested in this package due to its ability to allows users to "fill-in" PDF files (though this was a secondary feature of the package as no other options exist out there). The problem stems from the fact that I'm unable to open any pas

Bug#385664: freenx: NXClient doesn't start properly

2006-09-03 Thread Nadim Shaikli
--- Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since these packages aren't in debian and won't become ready for debian in > the etch timeframe (if it will be possible to get them into a releasable > state for etch+1 remains to be seen [1]), the debian BTS is probably not > the best pla

Bug#385664: freenx: NXClient doesn't start properly

2006-09-02 Thread Nadim Shaikli
--- Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nadim Shaikli [2006-09-01 17:05]: > > Package: freenx > > This package doesn't appear to be in Debian. Do you know where you > obtained it from? What does > dpkg -p freenx | grep Maintainer > say? I

Bug#385664: freenx: NXClient doesn't start properly

2006-09-01 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: freenx Version: 0.4.4+0.4.5-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch My NXClient starts, authenticates, talks to the remote freenx and seems to have gone through all the necessary steps yet I didn't get connected and got timed-out or "lost connection" errors [1] (the NXClient doesn't start a new w

Bug#354187: Info received (libX11-6 : locales)

2006-06-16 Thread Nadim Shaikli
As an work-around attempt I tried the following which seems to have fixed all the "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C" problems on testing/Etch as well as keyboard input on affected applications. $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib $ mv X11 X11.new $ ln -s /usr/share/X11 . Note that the fo

Bug#354187: libX11-6 : locales

2006-06-16 Thread Nadim Shaikli
I too was getting that locale error (latest testing/Etch) which I was able to get rid of via creating a symbolic link in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ln -s /usr/share/X11/locale . but I continue to not be able to write anything in the above affected applications (no errors or warnings) which leads me to

Bug#364698: ia32-libs: GLIBC_2.0 is not defined (used to be)

2006-04-25 Thread Nadim Shaikli
--- Steve Langasek wrote: > Please post the full error message instead of paraphrasing. Unfortunately I don't have immediate access to the laptop in order to reinstall version-1.6 of the lib (to break things again :-) - I should have saved-off the message, oops. I'll attempt to get access to the

Bug#364698: ia32-libs: GLIBC_2.0 is not defined (used to be)

2006-04-24 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: ia32-libs Version: 1.5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I had installed an amd64 system (debian unstable) a few weeks back (this is the system I am on now), I got most of my applications (both 32 and 64) working (using ia32-libs version-1.5). When I tried to do the

Bug#306892: 'frm' failure on sparc (avoidable)

2005-10-21 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: mailutils Version: 1:0.6.1-4sarge1 Severity: important I've had the failure that multiple people have noted on this bug yet I was able to work around it by changing my LANG (locale) settings. The failure occured when my locale was noted as 'POSIX', I then changed it to 'en_US.utf8' and a

Bug#289780: dclock: Ability to disable external audio player

2005-01-10 Thread Nadim Shaikli
Package: dclock Version: 2.1.2-5.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch This addresses PR-#266359. Since the debian package specifies a default 'bellFile' in the Dclock.ad system file, a user is left with no means to disable the spawning of an external audio player (if the user doesn't have root access