Bug#199093: mc: Viewing .gz files

2005-06-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:43:00PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi ! > > I cannot reproduce your bug with latest mc releases (>= 4.6.1pre3). > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199093 > > Can you confirm ? Hello Ludovic, I think you can now close this bug. I have 4.6.1pre3

Bug#319200: pdmenu: Does not respond to control-Z

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pdmenu Version: 1.2.86 Severity: normal Am I mistaken in thinking a program should be capable of being suspended with control-Z? Anyway, pdmenu does not respond to this signal. Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'tes

Bug#319198: pdmenu: Issues with the color:shadow command

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pdmenu Version: 1.2.86 Severity: normal With the intention of having no shadow all my menufiles stipulate a blue backgroung and have color:shadow:blue:blue as a command. Up to the present version of pdmenu this worked. Now the shadow is black and altering the colours in the command has

Bug#331488: fdutils: --verify_later works, but not as documented

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ superformat /dev/fd0 --verify_later superformat: option `--verify_later' requires an argument Usage: superformat [-D char] [-v long] [-f] [--print-drive-deviation] [-B] [-V byte] [-b long] [-e long] [-G long] [-F long

Bug#331489: fdutils: superformat --print-drive-deviation does not work

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal Very simply: superformat --print-drive-deviation /dev/fd0 does not output anything. Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /

Bug#331491: fdutils: --print-drive-deviation not documented

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20050303-1 Severity: normal As part of its output superformat --help has --print-drive-deviation print deviation, do not format This option is not, however, documented in superformat(1). Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT pr

Bug#298865: Terminates when info page not found

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:05:59PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Brian! > > Thanks for your report! > > You wrote: > > > I first came across this with > > pinfo chrony > > and selecting the 'GPL' node. pinfo quits, giving the message > > 'Error: could not open info file' > > > Rather th

Bug#272397: acknowledged by developer (Bug#272397: fixed in workbone 2.40-6)

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Potkin
It might have been better had I got Version: 2.40-6 from unstable rather than waiting it to come into testing as there appears to be an uncorrected spelling lurking at line 467 of workbone.c. It shows up if workbone is invoked with the -a option. Thank you for the time you have already spent on w

Bug#239045: smssend: License not compliant with the DFSG.

2005-03-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: smssend Followup-For: Bug #239045 Today I contacted Christophe Calmejane, the upstream maintainer of smssend, regarding this bug and asked him whether he would consider altering License.txt to allow an smmsend package to be included in Debian. In his reply to me he indicated that he had

Bug#298865: pinfo: Terminates when info page not found

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pinfo Version: 0.6.8-4 Severity: normal I first came across this with pinfo chrony and selecting the 'GPL' node. pinfo quits, giving the message 'Error: could not open info file' As it happens the file is missing (bug #287142) but pinfo exhibits the same behaviour whenever any info f

Bug#733599: cups: Should not load parallel port modules if there are none

2014-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 02 Jan 2014 at 15:29:43 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:50:25AM +0100, Benoît wrote: > > Package: cups > > Version: 1.6.4-2 > > Severity: minor > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I am running cups on my laptop which has no parallel port at all. > > However, the /etc/i

Bug#712719: cups: CUPS printing broken in Wheezy (Unable to get printer status)

2014-02-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Hello Tony, Thank you for the error_log; it is very useful. On Fri 21 Feb 2014 at 15:04:04 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > I am having the same problem as Oriol Mula-Valls, I doubt it. :), Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736942 , where Oriol's issue was resolved

Bug#686653: HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy

2014-01-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 15 Mar 2013 at 22:40:16 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > The bug appears to reside in cups.postinst or the updater files for hpijs > and hpcups. Looking again at this bug from a different perspective: root@desktop3:~# lpadmin -x test root@desktop3:~# lpadmin -p test -v file:/dev/n

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-01-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 19 Jan 2014 at 16:12:27 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > (e) The ppd_updater function in cups.postinst uses lpadmin. That might result in #686653: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686653 and, depending on whether printer-driver-* is regarded as related software, alter

Bug#717862: dma package leaves behind /etc/mailname after purge

2014-01-20 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 25 Jul 2013 at 11:05:41 -0700, Forest wrote: > The dma package creates an /etc/mailname file during install, but does not > register it as belonging to the package, and does not remove it when the > package is purged. Nobody likes packages that leave behind junk like this, > and I'm pretty

Bug#729357: cups: Additional info on parallel port connection.

2014-01-20 Thread Brian Potkin
Hello Sthu. On Sat 23 Nov 2013 at 17:27:26 +0700, Sthu wrote: > Bellow is the info I have collected on your request concerning parallel port > connection: [Snip] > lpinfo > returned empty string. I think 'lpinfo -v' is the command that was wanted. > /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel > returned

Bug#736268: postscript printing from emacs broken again(regression)

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Hi Brent, Thank you for your report. On Tue 21 Jan 2014 at 13:08:20 -0500, Brent S. Elmer wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 1.7.1-2 > Severity: normal > > With one of the last few cups upgrades in jessie, postscript printing from > emacs is broken again. The symptoms are exactly the same as th

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 19 Jan 2014 at 17:18:17 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > and, depending on whether printer-driver-* is regarded as related > software, alter the severity of this bug. Using http://snapshot.debian.org I installed version 1.4.4-7 of cups; this is what Squeeze started with. lpadmin b

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 22 Jan 2014 at 19:38:34 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > FWIW this bug is also present in Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1 (CUPS > 1.5.4) and in the ubuntu-13.10-server-amd64.iso downloaded yesterday. That should have been openSUSE-13.1-KDE-Live-i686.iso, not Fedora. Regards, Brian.

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 22 Jan 2014 at 20:56:40 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Is this already reported upstream on > > http://www.cups.org/str.php I did search previously with the terms 'lpadmin' 'add AND printer'and there doesn't appear to be anything similar. Or am I misunderstanding you? Regards, Brian.

Bug#736378: libgs9-common: replace \r with \n in ps2epsi.ps

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 22 Jan 2014 at 13:25:42 -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi Till, > > Thanks for the instruction. > > > Please report this upstream to Ghostscript's bug tracking system > > > > http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ > > Done. Please provide a link to the upstream report. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSU

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 11:33:43 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Please report this problem upstream at > > http://www.cups.org/str.php https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4353 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#736586: cups printing ignores centering option and printing margins

2014-01-25 Thread Brian Potkin
Hello Wolf-Dieter, Thank you for your report. On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 13:13:04 +0100, Wolf-Dieter Groll wrote: > Thus it doesn't seem to be a problem of the individual printer driver but a > problem of cups or the cups dialog for printing. This could be a problem with the filters used with the jo

Bug#712719: cups: CUPS printing broken in Wheezy (Unable to get printer status)

2014-01-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 15:38:35 +0100, Oriol Mula-Valls wrote: > We are also having the same problem with a Konica Minolta Bizhub > C220. The printer is currently working with Debian squeeze and we > were planning to upgrade systems to wheezy, but we had to postpone > the upgrade. > > > I have tr

Bug#736942: cups: Printing not working with Konica Minolta C220

2014-01-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 28 Jan 2014 at 17:50:48 +0100, Oriol Mula-Valls wrote: > Printing wasn't working and I tried replacing the ipp backend with ipp14 but > didn't work. The ipp backend does not appear to be the problem > Error message in printer job history: Deleted Due To Error This message is on the print

Bug#736942: cups: Printing not working with Konica Minolta C220

2014-01-29 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 736942 cups-filters thanks On Wed 29 Jan 2014 at 14:57:42 +0100, Oriol Mula-Valls wrote: > After changing the renderer it worked perfectly. Nice! Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#727740: installation-reports: wireless and wired network works in the installer but not transfered to the installed system

2013-10-26 Thread Brian Potkin
severity 727740 important merge 727740 694068 thanks Reducing severity because the whole system is not broken. On Fri 25 Oct 2013 at 17:41:52 -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote: > I managed to do the installation successfully but found that after the > installation my network configuration settings we

Bug#727740: installation-reports: wireless and wired network works in the installer but not transfered to the installed system

2013-10-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 27 Oct 2013 at 07:37:40 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Nick Gawronski wrote: > > Overall install:[E network configuration was not transfered to > > installed system so after I booted my system I had no internet access ] > > > Now you are done with a static /etc/network/interface

Bug#744201: installation-reports: successful install of jessie - one problem, and other minor suggestions

2014-04-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 11 Apr 2014 at 11:04:25 +0100, Z wrote: > > 1. It wasn't clear what desktop I was going to get. I was reinstalling Jessie, > and so assumed that I would get what had been the default desktop, gnome. As > it > turned out, I got xfce, and had to manually install many programs, which took >

Bug#744695: x11-common: Xsession.options should accomodate .xsessionrc by default

2014-04-13 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.7+7 Severity: normal tags: security The introduction of $HOME/.xsessionrc was occasioned by #411639: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411639 $HOME/.Xresources and $HOME/.xsession are catered for in Xsession.options so there would appear to be

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 16:46:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As suggested in #739767... > > unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create > USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for > lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. > > If f

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 15:37:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ACK. I'm going to look into that lot again myself. Thanks. I may have gone over the top with a few things like reorganising some things on the page. If I were doing it again today I'd be inclined to pare it down somewhat. > In my expe

Bug#712719: cups: CUPS printing broken in Wheezy (Unable to get printer status)

2014-02-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 23 Feb 2014 at 13:16:37 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > Please try > > ipp14://printserver-ip/printers/printername Hello again Tony. Can we assume that the suggestion above solves your problem? Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.d

Bug#689991: CUPS: error_log flooded due to AllowUser restriction

2014-02-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 15:28:37 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 26 avril 2013, 13.08:22 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta a écrit : > > I'm also experiencing this problem when my print clients were upgraded > > from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 [1]. The CUPS server [2] runs Debian > > Squeeze. > > Albe

Bug#712719: cups: CUPS printing broken in Wheezy (Unable to get printer status)

2014-02-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 27 Feb 2014 at 09:11:44 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > Hi Brian. Hi Tony. Thanks for getting back to us so soon. > 1. Yes, I miswrote. Wheezy, not Squeeze. (Fresh install, why would > it be Squeeze!? Argh.) You wouldn't believe the number of 'Arghs' I have encountered in my Adventures

Bug#656509: closed by Cyril Brulebois (Re: Bug#656509: user-setup-udeb: Please consider amending password advice)

2014-03-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 15:27:46 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > > > d-i says: > > > > > >A good password will contain a mixture of letters, numbers and > > >punctuation

Bug#735563: udev: 70-persistent-net.rules not updated when adding or changing NIC

2014-04-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 16 Jan 2014 at 08:21:35 -0600, dale wrote: > Is this a new intended behavior or is there something wrong with udev? A short discussion on debian-user resulted in this response: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg00152.html Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#735563: Bug #735563: udev: 70-persistent-net.rules not updated when adding or changing NIC

2014-04-05 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 04 Apr 2014 at 06:28:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 4. April 2014 05:43:10 MESZ, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > >You may ship it, but it doesn't actually work. It may be useful during > >installation, but if you erase the file after installation, it does not > >get re-created, and if y

Bug#735563: Bug #735563: udev: 70-persistent-net.rules not updated when adding or changing NIC

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 19:29:51 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > In the past, the init scripts contained a work-around for this problem > by re-directing output to a temporary file. Originally, this file was > called /dev/.udev/tmp-rules--70-persistent-net.rules. In later releases, > the name of th

Bug#735563: Bug #735563: udev: 70-persistent-net.rules not updated when adding or changing NIC

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 07 Apr 2014 at 09:54:37 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > A way to "fix" this bug would be to implement Predictable Network > Interface Names. The case is well made at at And then you remember having read https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00180.ht

Bug#735563: Bug #735563: udev: 70-persistent-net.rules not updated when adding or changing NIC

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 19:29:51 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Thanks for your research, Brian. None of the above surprises me, based It's about all I can do because my understanding of how udev works is sparse. Continuing: 8. Observed there was a file, tmp-rules--70-persistent-net.rules, in

Bug#745838: cups: usb printer stopping printing anything after testing upgrade - Unable to send data to printer

2014-04-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 25 Apr 2014 at 19:14:05 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I have rebooted the machine, both into the current version of the > kernel and the previous version; I have tried downgrading > cups-browsed; I have purged and reinstalled cups, but all to no avail. > > I really don't know what else to

Bug#745381: Unable to retrieve packages from USB flash drive in console mode

2014-04-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 21 Apr 2014 at 02:12:06 -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > I have tried the following steps on the advice of some of my colleagues: > > 1. remove/delete all the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and reboot the > computer > 2. dmesg shows that the USB thumb drive is mounted on /dev/sdb1 >

Bug#742668: /etc/sysctl.conf

2014-06-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 29 May 2014 at 22:23:17 +0200, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > I had the same symptoms after an upgrade that switches to systemd and found > out that in my case it was related to having > > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 > > in /etc/sysctl.conf > > After commenting out this line, cups starts

Bug#751368: cups-daemon: preinst exits prematurely

2014-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cups-daemon Version: 1.7.3-3_i386 Severity: normal The preinst script has a misplaced 'fi' after ListenStream=[::1]:$localport EOF Shouldn't the statement read if elif ... else ... fi ? Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bug#751370: cups-daemon: Matching 'Listen localhost:631' from cupsd.conf.default

2014-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cups-daemon Version: 1.7.3-3_i386 Severity: normal Shouldn't the 'else' statement have ListenStream=127.0.0.1:631 ListenStream=[::1]:631 instead of its present contents? Regards, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Bug#751368: cups-daemon: preinst exits prematurely

2014-06-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 12 Jun 2014 at 10:53:08 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Control: tags -1 +moreinfo > > Le jeudi, 12 juin 2014, 09.02:05 Brian Potkin a écrit : > > The preinst script has a misplaced 'fi' after > > > > ListenStream=[::1]:$localport

Bug#751368: cups-daemon: preinst exits prematurely

2014-06-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 14 Jun 2014 at 15:00:45 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi OdyX, > Thanks for the visual answer ! :) > > Le vendredi, 13 juin 2014, 17.58:28 Brian Potkin a écrit : > > I am assuming that the purpose of "cat default" is to ensure the

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-03-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:28:19 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4353 Mike Sweet writes: Sorry, I tried everything I could to reproduce this and was unable. Even a script that just continuously flipped between two PPDs as fast as possible did not reproduce

Bug#736089: cups-client: Modifying or reinstalling a queue with lpadmin is unreliable

2014-03-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 12 Mar 2014 at 20:23:05 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > Something seems to think the -P option to lpadmin is being used. Moving on to an oddity. The testing machine is as basic as it gets. An install with only the base system and cups with no recommends. We will install and reinstal

Bug#698060:

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 13 Jan 2013 at 22:12:06 -0700, mark anderson wrote: > Brian-- > > The command: > > $ dpkg -l | grep "system-config-printer-udev" > > does in fact return nothing. > > A quick look in aptitude shows that the package does exist but is not > installed. > > Not that I know what I'm doing,

Bug#698491: menu tips wrong

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Potkin
severity 698491 minor merge 688695 698491 thanks On Sat 19 Jan 2013 at 19:30:32 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Using mini.iso, > On "[?]Debian installer main menu" > first the "[?]" is meaningless. > Also we see > moves, selects, activates button > >

Bug#698494: I meant PPPoE

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 19 Jan 2013 at 19:56:56 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I meant PPPoE. Forewarning is given at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_install_via_PPPoE.3F and http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds05.html Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#695787: cups: bad driver recommended for color laserjet 4500

2013-01-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 12 Dec 2012 at 18:09:38 +0100, Jonas Meyer wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > the suggested driver for the HP Color Laserjet are truly awful in comparison > to the foomatic/pxlcolor driver. All of a sudden the printer is faster than I > knew it could be and printing without pausing. Unfortunately

Bug#695787: cups: bad driver recommended for color laserjet 4500

2013-01-21 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 695787 src:foomatic-db tags 695787 + upstream thanks On Sat 19 Jan 2013 at 19:55:50 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > I see no bug here in Debian or its CUPS package. Apologies Jonas, This was a rather hasty statement; I should have taken a look at the changelog for foomatic

Bug#697970: cups: printing gets wrong after some pages on Epson Stylus Photo 750

2013-01-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 12 Jan 2013 at 09:27:45 +0100, Denis Prost wrote: > When I print several documents or on my Epson Stylus Photo 750, after some > pages properly printed, the printing gets wrong : random characters are > printed > on all page (see attached file) > The used printer driver is CUPS+Gutenprint

Bug#697970: cups: printing gets wrong after some pages on Epson Stylus Photo 750

2013-01-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 21 Jan 2013 at 22:33:42 +0100, Denis Prost wrote: > Hello Brian, > > thanks a lot for pointing me to that thread. Indeed, the described > problem looked exactly like mine. > So, I did a full wheezy upgrade and then performed : > "lpadmin -p Stylus_Photo_750 -o usb-unidir-default=true" > an

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-13 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Today's daily netinst image was put on a USB stick together with a second partition to hold firmware. The intention was to test installing Debian over a WPA wireless connection. It turned out to be more interesting than I had anticipated! The wireless d

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 14 Nov 2011 at 12:37:22 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It seems that the wrong guess has been made about which module > requested the isl3887usb firmware file. > > To debug this, you could instrument /lib/udev/firmware.agent > In particular, see what DEVPATH is set to with a change like this: >

Bug#648631: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware fails to reload driver

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 16 Nov 2011 at 14:08:20 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The devpath I got was /sys/devices/platform/orion-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4 > This has a product file containing "USB2.0 WLAN", manufacturer > containing ZyDAS and so on, but its driver/module link points to > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbcore . The

Bug#697449: console-setup-udeb: Configuring the keyboard hangs

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: console-setup-udeb Version: 1.91 Severity: important Tags: d-i The ISO used was from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/i386/ In either install or expert mode with the text or graphical interface the installer hangs at "Configure the keyboard". Replacing

Bug#697449: console-setup-udeb: Configuring the keyboard hangs

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 19:50:25 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 03:58:19PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > > Maybe you can "set -x" the above script *before it's used* (by > > switching to VT2 at the language selection screen, then edit > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-

Bug#697442: better experience with wheezy installer

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 15:20:06 +, Dick Middleton wrote: > Following my rant I zeroed the partition table and started over. > > It all went swimmingly well. Using the net-dist CD. > > No problems with xfs or crypto and errors. Also no finger trouble. Thank you for following up on your expe

Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed

2013-01-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 06 Jan 2013 at 06:53:46 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting de28jihem (de28ji...@scarlet.be): > > > > The user was not in lpadmin group (checked with "id"). > > This caused problem to use the CUPS configuration menu (localhost:631). > > > > Added the user in lpadmin (under root) : >

Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed

2013-01-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 08 Jan 2013 at 07:14:26 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting jswmb01x (jswmb...@mobistarmail.be): > > > > Clarification : > > Adding "user1" to the lpadmin group was required to add the printer in CUPS > > (otherwise after entering the user name and password the operation is > > "fo

Bug#698060: more output

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 13 Jan 2013 at 14:52:51 -0700, mark anderson wrote: > OdyX-- > > I figured it was specific to my printer, anything else would have been > seen by a lot of people. Just a thought: is the output of dpkg -l | grep "system-config-printer-udev" empty or not? Regards, Brian. -- To UNS

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i As 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection says: Unfortunately some computers contain buggy BIOS versions. Booting debian-installer from a USB stick might not work even if there is an appropriate option in the BIOS setup menu and the stick is select

Bug#692310: installation-guide: E.2. Contributing to This Document: README link

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i E.2. Contributing to This Document has a link to a README: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/README?op=file Accessing it, I get An Exception Has Occurred An illegal parameter name was provided. HTTP Response Status 400 Bad Re

Bug#692314: installation-guide: A.3. Installation: A correction or two

2012-11-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i A.3. Installation for en.i386 has: Installation of the base system is followed by setting up user accounts. By default you will need to provide a password for the “root” (administrator) account and information necessary to create

Bug#650819: Worked around

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 19:49:20 -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > severity 650819 normal > close 684265 3.2.29-1 > forcemerge 650819 686314 > thanks > > This is no longer RC. A workaround has finally been applied, namely > the first one, adding fuse. It will take some time before the fix > makes it

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 at 16:36:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brian Potkin, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 13:05:25 +, a écrit : > > Burn plpbt.iso to a CD. > > But then why not simply burn the Debian CD image on the CD? In no particular order of importance: 1. The user has only one

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 at 00:46:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brian Potkin, le Sun 04 Nov 2012 21:24:32 +, a écrit : > > Whatever the reason, some computers will not boot from a USB device, So, > > in addition to the present advice, why not offer something which does > >

Bug#696188: debian-installer: Keyboard not preseeded with auto=true

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i This is using one of today's i386 netinst ISOs from sid_d-i at cdimage.debian.org/, but the beta-4 image behaves in the same way. I remastered the image to have debian-installer/keymap=es and keymap=es on the kernel command line. (O

Bug#692314: installation-guide: A.3. Installation: A correction or two

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 20 Dec 2012 at 12:19:20 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > > > +Setting up your clock and time zone is followed by the creation of user > > accounts. By > > +default you are asked to provide a password for the root > > +(administrator) account and information necessary to create one

Bug#695403: installation-guide: Please point out the limitations of firmware detection

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Dec 2012 at 20:29:29 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Brian Potkin (11/12/2012): > > Very helpful. Thanks. > > > > Here is an ammended patch. > > Looks good to me (modulo a tiny typo), please commit The typo is corrected in the attached patch. I trust some

Bug#696732: installation-guide: Section 6.3.5.1. Configuring apt: Removal of references to 'volatile'

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i I originally submitted this patch in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/10/msg00444.html Mentions of "volatile" remain in Section B.4.9. Regards, Brian. --- manual/en/using-d-i/modules/apt-setup.xml 2012-10-21 15:52:12.582381910

Bug#696755: installation-reports: no network connection after reboot if only tasksel's standard and ssh-server

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 21:14:45 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > 3) I did wanted a standard system with OpenSSH, thus I chose no other >tasks that these two. However, I was quite surprised to discover >that in the end there was no network interface available in >/etc/network/interfaces (on

Bug#696732: installation-guide: Section 6.3.5.1. Configuring apt: Removal of references to 'volatile'

2012-12-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 16:25:22 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > +Security updates help to keep your system secured against attacks. > > “help keep” I think? Either is correct and both are in common use. You could view the "to" as optional. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Bug#696732: installation-guide: Section 6.3.5.1. Configuring apt: Removal of references to 'volatile'

2012-12-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 17:43:00 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > +Release updates provide more current versions for software that changes > > > +relatively frequently and where not having the latest version could > > s/and/,/ > > > > +reduce the usability of the software. It also provides regress

Bug#696857: preseed: Does not re-enable locale and keymap selection

2012-12-28 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: preseed Severity: normal Tags: d-i If on the kernel command line we add auto=true url=file:///mnt/./preseed.cfg priority=low the questions concerning language and keyboard reappear in the main menu after the debconf preconfiguration file is downloaded. The answers are then taken f

Bug#696188: debian-installer: Keyboard not preseeded with auto=true

2012-12-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 21 Dec 2012 at 00:25:47 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello Samuel, > I believe these are the same bugs: preseeding xkb-keymap does not > actually preseeds keyboard-configuration. I'm working on a fix. Although it is highly probable console-setup is not behaving itself with url and file

Bug#687216: installation-reports: Firmware detection beyond an extended partition with Beta-2

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 23:22:49 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > A Beta-2 netinst image was put on a USB stick with cat. A second vfat > partition held needed firmware. The installer does not hang as it did > with Beta-1 but it displayed a message that firmware was missing. This > sho

Bug#688273: Preseed netcfg/use_autoconfig and netcfg/disable_dhcp doesn't work

2012-09-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 22 Sep 2012 at 01:41:44 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:01:52AM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > I preseed like the fellow, > > > > d-i netcfg/use_autoconfig boolean false > > d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true > > > > But it still try dhcp first. > > coul

Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer

2012-09-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 13:44:48 +0300, Gasha wrote: > During installation missing firmware bnx2 was reported. Installer was > unable to copy firmware from EXT2 formatted USB flash. Also, dialog > screen does not mention supported filesystems. Section 6.4. of the Installation Guide points out that

Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer

2012-09-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 20:50:21 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > > > You can use your ext2 formatted flash drive but you have to be sneaky. > > Before detecting the network hardware do "Detect disks", followed

Bug#687488: #687488 debian-installer: LIFEBOOK P7120: association fails with WPA-PSK but works after installation

2012-09-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 27 Sep 2012 at 11:40:20 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Sep 12 19:09:30 check-missing-firmware: copying loose file ipw2200-bss.fw > from '/media' to '/lib/firmware' Firmware is supplied. > Sep 12 19:10:13 apt-install: Queueing package wireless-tools for later > installation > Sep 1

Bug#687488: #687488 debian-installer: LIFEBOOK P7120: association fails with WPA-PSK but works after installation

2012-09-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 27 Sep 2012 at 19:47:31 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > My syslog is attached. Famous last words! syslog.gz Description: Binary data

Bug#687488: #687488 debian-installer: LIFEBOOK P7120: association fails with WPA-PSK but works after installation

2012-09-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 27 Sep 2012 at 23:39:44 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Brian Potkin writes: > > the list would presumably be the ESSID you want to connect to. Here at > > Yeah I tried both entering the ESSID manually and selecting it from the > list. I can reproduce your experi

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 02:09:47 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: > Comments/Problems: This machine started with Win7 installation occupying > the entire disk. I resized the windows partition to 1/2 of the disk, > and installed wheezy into the new partitions [ /boot and / plus swap ], > which I c

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-22 Thread Brian Potkin
2012 11:00:49 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > > : : Did you get that advice from section 6.3.6.1? I'd agree it is > less > : helpful than intended. > > Yes, exactly. The mention of black arts also makes me hesitant to interfere > when the automatic process gets it wrong. The

Bug#694068: netcfg: Wireless connectivity present during an install but absent afterwards

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: netcfg Version: 1.102 Severity: important Tags: d-i I installed in expert mode over a wireless link from Debian GNU/Linux testing "Wheezy" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20121122-21:21 This ISO has netcfg_1.102. Only "Standard system utilities" was selected as a task. Re-b

Bug#694082: mountmedia: Please revert the change made to 0.20

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: mountmedia Version: 0.21 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i This is by way of being a reminder about what was said in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/08/msg00483.html #684293 is marked as done by Ben Hutchings and D-I now has kernel version 3.2.0-4. If I delete the workaround lin

Bug#694247: installation-report: problems with installation from iso-file present on hard drive (loop.ko and pata_amd.ko is absent)

2012-11-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 24 Nov 2012 at 23:51:27 +0700, Vasiliy D. wrote: > When I try install Debian ( > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.6-amd64-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso) > I boot from my hdd with grub: > menuentry 'debian-6.06-amd64.iso' { > loopback loop /debian.iso > linux (l

Bug#693464: installation-reports: Root password not recognized when requested and can run in rescue mode wo password

2012-11-25 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 693464 user-setup-udeb thanks On Sat 24 Nov 2012 at 22:29:39 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > I did the install twice. > > When "shadow password" was *NOT* enabled the problem > > occurred as in my original report. > > When "shadow password" was enabled the pr

Bug#694068: netcfg: Wireless connectivity present during an install but absent afterwards

2012-11-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 25 Nov 2012 at 17:30:28 +0200, Sorina - Gabriela Sandu wrote: Hello Sorina. > For most cases, I think not adding configuration for wireless in > /e/n/i is good, however for the kind a situations you described I > think the best solution would be to have the question asked, at least > with

Bug#684968: debian-installer: requests non-free firmware for a device that works just as well without it

2012-08-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 15 Aug 2012 at 10:30:06 +0200, Stefan Nagy wrote: [I sent to debian-boot and forgot to Cc: the bug] > Package: debian-installer > Severity: wishlist > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have a notebook with a realtek nic which doesn't need any non-free firmware > files to operate. Howe

Bug#445330: (Re: Bug#445330: cupsys: mime.types(5) is confusingly named

2012-08-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 18 Aug 2012 at 19:29:27 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > This bug still exists, and has a simple fix for which there is already > a model in another package: xfm contains xfm_mime.types(5), so why not > rename the cups man page (which still exists in testing and unstable) > to cups_mime.types(

Bug#685367: installation-report: Wheezy beta installed on powermac g4 900 MHz w/ ATI rage graphicscard

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 20 Aug 2012 at 11:46:37 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > The Installation went OK, but the graphical XFCE-Desktop was not usable, > because the > x-server was not workable. I actually had to start the system with the > yaboot-command-line 'Linux init 1' to get a usable VT, once lightdm was

Bug#663712: cups: printing fails with ERROR: undefined (HP LaserJet 4600)

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 663712 cups-filters tags 663712 + moreinfo thanks Hello Sanjoy, Your problem appears to involve the CUPS filtering system so I am moving the report over to what I think is the correct package - cups-filters. >From memory it may be the printer, rather than the printing system. which is

Bug#626271: cups segfault after some time

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 626271 + moreinfo thanks Hello Erwan, Are you stll experiencing this problem with the latest versions of cups, cups-filters etc. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

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