Bug#157089: sysutils: procinfo: doesn't run from cron

2005-11-29 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
rminal type. > > Unfortunately this is true. However, you can still put procinfo in > your crontab if you specify the terminal type to use, e.g. > | TERM=vt100 procinfo > will work just fine. > Hi Florian, Thanks, the workaround suggested works just fine for me. I think

Bug#316396: vm-delete-message: redundantly renders mime messages

2005-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
annoying on my "slow" 333MHZ processor. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-5 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages vm depends on: ii emacs21 21.4a-1

Bug#269504: hdparm: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: bogus error message printed for SCSI devices

2005-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
used to be that some checks were just > > categorically not done for XT and SCSI disks. Now all checks are done, > > and the function just continues after printing what is supposed to be an > > informational message. > > The handling of this has gotten smarter in

Bug#315616: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#315616: debootstrap: setserial missing for sarge)

2005-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
-assign it or clone it to the debian-boot people. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410569: fsck.ext2: fails on /dev/fd0

2007-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
-L 'flop_bkup' /dev/fd0 ; echo $? 0 # fsck.ext2 -f -p -C 0 /dev/fd0 ; echo $? flop_bkup: Error determining size of the physical device: Device or resource busy 8 # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Informati

Bug#604398: rsync: hard links messed up on local to local copy

2010-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
s again to sdb6 and sda9, which cleaned up the pax symlink discrepancies, but rsync did *not* re-create the discrepancy that I have described above. Then I ran the rsync backup again to sdb9, and the discrepancy as described above again occurred just as described above. So, maybe the copying o

Bug#604398: rsync: hard links messed up on local to local copy

2010-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 21 Nov 2010, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > > > and rsync is run (using make) like this, > > > > env time sh -c "set -e ; set -u ; cd / ; rsync -rlptgoDH -x --del > > --inplace ./

Bug#731477: sysvinit: Hangs when booted into "-b" (emergency) mode

2013-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
enario a few times, and I noticed a strange occurrance at "step 7." - While I was typing the root password the numlock led on the keyboard was flickering at a low intensity whenever a character of the root password was entered. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Re

Bug#731477: sysvinit: Hangs when booted into "-b" (emergency) mode

2013-12-08 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 07:03:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:18:58PM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > I regularly boot into "-b" (emergency) at least once a week, in order to > > perform backups of my root partition while it is in a read-on

Bug#731477: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#731477: sysvinit: Hangs when booted into "-b" (emergency) mode

2013-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:51:17PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 08 Dec 2013, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 07:03:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:18:58PM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > >

Bug#735326: flashplugin-nonfree: fails to update to latest version

2014-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Debian versi

Bug#729376: flashplugin-nonfree: does not update / install latest version 11.2.202.327

2013-11-12 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
rity 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Debian version: 7.2 Architecture: amd64 Package version: 1:3.2 Adobe Flash Player version: LNX 11,2,202,310 MD5 checksums: 40

Bug#748363: whois: Catastrophic error: disclaimer text has been changed.

2014-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 10-feb-2012 Creation Date: 13-feb-2001 Expiration Date: 13-feb-2017 ... Catastrophic error: disclaimer text has been changed. Please upgrade this program. --> exit status 2 Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Sys

Bug#661056: please re-open Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2012-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
this bug. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#696932: dselect: doesn't show extended description in lower pane

2012-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
any of the cycled through displays. The only locale that I have installed is en_us.utf8, and I have not made any other configuration changes after the install. Note, I am submitting this bug from my squeeze system, however, this bug is against the wheezy version. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg

Bug#645421: xfce4-terminal: does not work with w3m-img

2013-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Hi, I also lost all images under w3m / w3m-img after I upgraded from squeeze to wheezy, running w3m / w3m-img from xfce4-terminal or lxterminal. When I use rxvt-term or xterm, then this problem does not mainfest. I would venture a guess that this is a libvte9 problem. Thanks, -- Jeffrey

Bug#705638: mutt: wrapped lines in the pager interfere with URL detection

2013-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
) that mutt supports, however, to send a single URL to the x-www-browser, it is much easier to be able to just click on it with the mouse. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Bug#706359: apt-get download --no-act does not honor --no-act

2013-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
no-act gcc Get:1 Downloading gcc 4:4.7.2-1 [5,064 B] Fetched 5,064 B in 0s (108 kB/s) $ ls *.deb gcc_4.7.2-1_amd64.deb I get the same results when run from a root (uid=0) terminal, also same results when run as 'apt-get --no-act download gcc'. Thanks, Jeffrey Shein

Bug#661073: xorg: crashes running: emacs, gv, various web pages

2013-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > Hi Julien, > > 1. Yes, this is intentional. > > 2. Because this was the easiest for me way to disable the framebuffer. > > I don't like the framebuffer because I find it to be visually disturbin

Bug#700209: bugs.debian.org: Handling of links in search response page has changed (for the worst)

2013-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
MO, this is a change for the worst. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.

Bug#661056: please re-open Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2013-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ackage installed on my production system, it may be running different up / down scripts then those that are being run in the D-I environment. In closing, I am able to reliably reproduce this reported bug at will. Can't you just print something like "ip addr show" *after* netcfg has been

Bug#636416: rsync: truncates time fraction for local mirroring on ext4 filesystem

2011-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
see, the contents of srcd/ and ddir/ are identical, however, the timestamps for all files in ddir/ have had their fractional part set to zero. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (

Bug#722416: flashplugin-nonfree: installs old version (11.2.202.297) rather than latest (11.2.202.310)

2013-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. -- Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Debian version: 7.1 Architecture:

Bug#661056: please re-open Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2012-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ally obtain the lease using busybox udhcpc, and then manually bring it up using ifconfig / route. This demonstrates that the impediment to bringing up of eth0 via dhcp was due to debian-installer not releasing the lease prior to shutting down and rebooting into the newly installed system. -- Thanks, Je

Bug#661073: xorg: crashes running: emacs, gv, various web pages

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:37:59PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:52:12 -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > > The result - started up emacs, instant crash in the x-server. > > > > Attached is the xorg log file from just after the above >

Bug#661844: please respect sys admin set perms in /var/lib/shorewall

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Plain file /var/lib/shorewall/proxyarp had permission 600, changed it to 640 Plain file /var/lib/shorewall6/proxyndp had permission 600, changed it to 640 Plain file /var/lib/shorewall6/.start had permission 700, changed i t to 740 Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information

Bug#661848: please respect sys admin set perms in /var/log/apt

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
runs, other than on initial install or re-install. /var/log/apt/term.log had permission 600, changed it to 644 It appears that /var/log/history.log in not affected by this bug. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture &

Bug#645880: [Patch] Re: Cannot open '/var/run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr'

2011-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ortmap.xdr ] || \ + [ -e $STATEDIR/rpcbind.xdr ] +then +set -- -w ${1+"$@"} +fi fi if [ ! -O $STATEDIR ] ; then log_begin_msg "$STATEDIR not owned by root" =====

Bug#664579: nvi: versioned backups are broken for vi

2012-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
core. Curiously, the correct backups are written when I invoke 'nex' using the same set backup values as above. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates&#

Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER

2012-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
wly launched xterm so that getlogin() works properly. As long as the uid of the user database entry for the USER environmental variable is the same as the value returned by getuid(), then USER should be set in the utmp entry for the xterm. Otherwise, the same logic would apply for the LOGNAME va

Bug#636416: rsync: truncates time fraction for local mirroring on ext4 filesystem

2012-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ingle process copying from one local directory to another. I have implemented a workaround where the meta-data comparison uses the truncated mtime values. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#636416: rsync: truncates time fraction for local mirroring on ext4 filesystem

2012-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Hi, On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:30:27PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 15 Apr 2012, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > Cc: Jeffrey Sheinberg , 636...@bugs.debian.org, Debian Bug > > Tracking System > > Please don't resend things about an existing big report to submit@

Bug#661844: please respect sys admin set perms in /var/lib/shorewall

2012-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
s that shorewall is deleting these files, then creating them, rather than just opening with O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC flags. This is a bug in shorewall. Please re-open. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Bug#825866: using "=" to hold a package is not interoperable with apt-get

2016-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
titude, but the hold is not honored by either apt-get or by dselect. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39 Compiler: g++ 4.9.1 Compiled

Bug#825956: policykit-1: greyed out reboot, shutdown, hibernate with 0.105-15~deb8u1, but 0.105-8 is ok

2016-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
mework for managing administra Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.

Bug#825956: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#825956: policykit-1: greyed out reboot, shutdown, hibernate with 0.105-15~deb8u1, but 0.105-8 is ok

2016-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:13:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.05.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg: > > Package: policykit-1 > > Version: 0.105-8 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > The LXDE and lightdm "logout&q

Bug#825956: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#825956: policykit-1: greyed out reboot, shutdown, hibernate with 0.105-15~deb8u1, but 0.105-8 is ok

2016-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:14:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.05.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg: > > Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/da

Bug#819279: mksh: re-loading a large ENV file takes about 250 times longer

2016-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
file 14 41276 .pro_usr 9069 31066 240027 .sh_env 9726 33072 256805 total 19:28 10 jeff ~ mkshR50-$ grep -F -e '()' -c .sh_env 517 -- Thank you, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500

Bug#772753: pepperflashplugin-nonfree: --status says: 15.0.0.239, adobe says: 16.0.0.235, chrome has: 16.0.0.235

2014-12-10 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
, and reinstall Adobe flash to cleanup the mess there. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Ke

Bug#772754: pepperflashplugin-nonfree: skip download of google-chrome*.deb and use package in /var/cache/apt if available

2014-12-10 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
/cache/apt/available, then after it has been downloaded by update-pepperflash-nonfree it should be placed into /var/cache/apt/available to save another redundant download by apt-get. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500

Bug#779150: uif/pings: false - accepts pings from non-trusted networks.

2015-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ged traffic. This was my usual configuration before ipv6 support was added to uif. Thanks for working on Debian. -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#764365: dash: assignment from "$@" uses "$*" instead

2014-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The following typescript shows that a shell variable assignment from "$@" uses "$*" instead, $ dash -c ' IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; aa="$@" ; echo "$aa" '

Bug#779150: uif/pings: false - accepts pings from non-trusted networks.

2015-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Here is the debconf configuration information, # debconf-show uif * uif/workstation: * uif/traceroute: false * uif/pings: false * uif/trusted: 127.0.0.1 * uif/conf_method: workstation uif/error: I have attached the uif generated "uif.conf" file to this repo

Bug#779150: uif/pings: false - accepts pings from non-trusted networks.

2015-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
es not respond to ping from external host, unlike uif. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination STATEINPUT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT all -- localhostanywhere

Bug#763277: debian-security-support: cannot create temp file error during postinst

2014-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
red (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= iF debian-securit 2014.09.07~b all Debian security support coverage Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Sys

Bug#825956: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#825956: Bug#825956: policykit-1: greyed out reboot, shutdown, hibernate with 0.105-15~deb8u1, but 0.105-8 is ok

2016-07-25 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:09:08PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.05.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg: > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:14:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 31.05.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Jeffrey Sheinberg: > >>> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.

Bug#768559: bootlogd not rotating log files

2016-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
-u root -g adm -t -c 10 boot +cat "$TMPLOG" >> boot +rm -f "$TMPLOG" } ES=$? [ "$VERBOSE" = no ] || log_action_end_msg $ES Regards, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg

Bug#367256: syslog-ng: some pppd output is misdirected to all logged-in users

2006-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
daemon.none;\ # mail,news.none -/var/log/messages log { source(s_all); filter(f_messages); destination(df_messages); }; # *.emerg * log { source(s_all); filter(f_emerg); destination(du_all); }; #

Bug#367256: syslog-ng: some pppd output is misdirected to all logged-in users

2006-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
*all* of the pppd messages are sent to the syslog with local2.debug, however, only *some* of them are being misdirected by syslog-ng. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374056: syslog-ng: pppd output to local2.{info, notice} still missing with complex xconsole filter.

2006-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
acket filter generated messages # /var/log/iptables.log log { source(s_all); filter(f_iptables); destination(df_iptables); }; # all the sysadmin users log { source(s_all); filter(f_sysadmin); destination(du_root); destination(du_jsroot); destination

Bug#374059: xserver-xorg-video-s3: missing man page: /usr/share/man/man4/s3.4.gz

2006-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
nd in the *.deb file, $ strings ./usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so | grep 526 IBMramdac526SetBppWeak IBMramdac526SetBppWeak IBMramdac526CalculateMNPCForClock Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/etch APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#378611: file-rc: /etc/init.d/rc - it is not a conffile, but it should be

2006-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
achieve this behavior is to make the configuration file a `conffile'. I discovered this issue after the upgrade to file-rc 0.8.10, when my locally modified version of "/etc/init.d/rc" had been overwritten - and my local changes had not been preserved. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Shein

Bug#536706: ~/.spamassassin/bayes_journal cannot be a symlink (it is deleted)

2009-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
/spamassassin/local.cf:bayes_path ~/.spamassassin/bayes/bayes where ~/.spamassassin/bayes/ is a symlink. However, this workaround is a bit heavy handed, since it forces all user's bayes_* files to be located in the ~/.spamassassin/bayes/ directory. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: D

Bug#534732: nvi: expansion of numbered backups is incorrect

2009-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
to the pathname of the file being edited, ie, the expansion of "%". Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Li

Bug#548093: nethogs: does not run under super, nor suid root

2009-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:30:10PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:08:17PM -0400, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > Nethogs refuses to run from a non-root user under super (an suid root > > program), it also refuses to run as a non-root user if it is

Bug#539675: mutt: tag-prefix function not available in pager

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
pass over incoming mail in the pager. I tag all non-spam, and dispose of each message as I read it, as appropriate to each message. At the end of the pass, I would like to use tag-prefix to dispose of the tagged non-spam. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Mutt

Bug#540715: less: display of shorter line preceeded by longer line is padded with longer line

2009-08-09 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
displayed as being 80 columns wide. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Bug#547343: initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountall.sh "failed" when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts

2009-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
a symlink to /proc/mounts. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charm

Bug#548093: nethogs: does not run under super, nor suid root

2009-09-23 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /b

Bug#547343: initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountall.sh "failed" when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts

2009-09-23 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:41:28PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Jeffrey Sheinberg] > > I tried it both ways, with /etc/mtab as a regular file, and as a > > symlink to /proc/mounts - this error only occurs when /etc/mtab is a > > symlink to /proc/mounts. >

Bug#543399: tmpreaper: shell script uses brace {x,y} expansion, not a posix feature

2009-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
t '/tmp/.X*-{lock,unix,unix/*}' \ --protect '/tmp/.ICE-{unix,unix/*}' \ --protect '/tmp/.iroha_{unix,unix/*}' \ --protect '/tmp/.ki2-{unix,unix/*}' \ Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers prop

Bug#350040: acknowledged by developer (Bug definitely not a bug)

2006-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
estored. At the very least, please leave this bug open, even if you don't yet have plans to fix it. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350040: Please provide the requested information

2006-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
lly terminated. I feel that giving an initial 1-week time limit is not enough - 1-month is more realistic, what is the hurry anyway? Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350040: exec login no longer works, while -f option from root is okay

2006-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
login -f jsroot which gives me the working environment that I wanted in the first place, but without having to authenticate with jsroot's password. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/etch APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'

Bug#357055: udev: creates fd0, but does not create fd0u* (eg fd0u1722)

2006-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
es for the alternate format types (/dev/fd0u*) are not being created. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 17 13:05 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Fe

Bug#357055: udev: creates fd0, but does not create fd0u* (eg fd0u1722)

2006-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Mar 15, Jeffrey Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a single floppy drive, connected to the motherboard FDC. > > It works great with udev, I can acess it as 'dev/fd0', > > > > $ ls -l /dev/fd0

Bug#357055: udev: creates fd0, but does not create fd0u* (eg fd0u1722)

2006-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Mar 15, Jeffrey Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a single floppy drive, connected to the motherboard FDC. > > It works great with udev, I can acess it as 'dev/fd0', > > > > $ ls -l /dev/fd0

Bug#357055: udev: creates fd0, but does not create fd0u* (eg fd0u1722)

2006-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Mar 15, Jeffrey Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a single floppy drive, connected to the motherboard FDC. > > It works great with udev, I can acess it as 'dev/fd0', > > > > $ ls -l /dev/fd0

Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2011-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
uction Debian "lenny" and "squeeze" systems, the DHCP lease is always released when the network is deconfigured. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,

Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER

2011-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ff pts/1Feb 13 14:52 (:0.0) jsroot pts/2Feb 13 14:52 (:0.0) jeff pts/3Feb 13 14:52 (:0.0) jsroot pts/4Feb 13 14:52 (:0.0) jeff pts/5 Feb 13 14:59 (:0.0) ;--- If you can think of any other scenarios that you would

Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER

2011-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Jan 29 16:13 (:0.0) jss pts/3Jan 29 16:28 (:0.0) jsroot pts/4Jan 29 16:13 (:0.0) jeff pts/5Jan 29 16:16 (:0.0) Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500

Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER

2011-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > From: Cyril Brulebois > To: Jeffrey Sheinberg , 611...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:41:26 +0100 > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) > Subject: Re: Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon runn

Bug#611487: xterm: immediately exits upon running: exec login USER

2011-02-03 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
s: No, score=0.683 tagged_above=-99 required=5 > tests=[AWL=-0.261, > BAYES_40=-0.185, DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS=1.13, SPF_PASS=-0.001] > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > > >>This is a bug in xterm Vers

Bug#614844: postfix: smarthost smtp.live.com:submission gets: ..warning: TLS library problem:..

2011-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
t response first. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w

Bug#115620: emacs20: ediff: does not remove auto-save file when given merge-file-buffer argument

2009-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
t;*merge*" buffer at > > all, then the auto-save file is not left hanging around. > > Should not have been created in the first place then. > > > It is not relevant if the file "file-prefix" was an existing file, > > or was created by "ediff&

Bug#607307: cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab ...

2010-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
ed it as a bug, and mount was fixed in this respect. Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda6 ro -b SUSHELL=/root/-sh -- /etc/crypttab # -- /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # These files must all be ke

Bug#599360: installation-reports: official 5.0.6 netinst.iso: no support for sc92031 network interface module

2010-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
(very minimal) lenny installation, and I was suprised that the sc92031 module was automatically detected and loaded during the boot process (initrd). So it appears to me that somehow the sc92031 kernel module was not included in the official 5.0.6 netinst.iso kernel/initrd loaded by isolinux at boot tim

Bug#601040: /usr/src/linux-kbuild-2.6.32: installed as dangling symlink

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
/lib /usr/lib Here is how the symlinks command reports it, dangling: /fs/dc/usr-src/linux-kbuild-2.6.32 -> ../lib/linux-kbuild-2.6.32 Please install as an absolute symlink, eg, # ln -s /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-2.6.32 /usr/src/linux-kbuild-2.6.32 Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinb

Bug#600022: gzip: zcmp & zdiff: does not set exit status correctly

2010-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
status 1 I setup my shell to print the exit status just before the prompt, but only when the exit status of the last command is not zero. One can easily see that diff and cmp return the correct exit status, while zdiff and zcmp do not. -- Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information:

Bug#631565: grub-pc: Windows menu entry does not set the chainloaded partition active

2011-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
-no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9a0286ed0286cda7 chainloader +1 } -- Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: *** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/sda7 / ext3 rw,relatime,grpid,data=ordered,jqfmt=vfsv0,usrjquota=aquota.user 0 0 /dev/sda8 /fs/dc ext3 rw,relatim

Bug#631853: grub-install: allowable targets for embedding are unnecessarily restrictive

2011-06-27 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
one additional observation - with grub-legacy it is currently possible to embed grub-legacy within a logical partition as described above, by using /bin/dd and the expert's grub install command. However, I can find no such work-around available to embed grub-pc within a logical partition.

Bug#622883: man-db: stale entry in cache is confusing

2011-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
regain_effective_privs() hash_free: 2 entries, 2 (100%) unique Found 1 man pages drop_effective_privs() ++priv_drop_count = 1 hash_free: 13 entries, 13 (100%) unique I would like to request that when man-db finds an entry in its cache with a non-existent source, then i