Bug#341610: python-matplotlib: should suggest the -doc package

2005-12-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: python-matplotlib Version: 0.82-5 Severity: minor Hello, it would be nice if the python-matplotlib package could suggest python-matplotlib-doc. This way the documentation would be easier to find. All the best, Jochen -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefer

Bug#337361: bug #337361: the problem still persists

2005-12-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, the attempt to fix bug #337361 unfortunately failed. The package python-matplotlib now suggests "latex" as promised. But, since "latex" is not the name of a debian package, this has no effect at all. Probably you should suggest tetex-bin or so instead. I hope this helps, Jochen

Bug#337668: FTBFS: broken build-dependency on xlibmesa-dev

2005-11-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Lawrence, On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:50:17PM -0330, Lawrence Williams wrote: > This bug will be fixed in the next libsdl1.2 package release (currently > available on mentors.debian.net) if i can ever get a sponser :) What is the current state of these lintian errors? If you have a package wh

Bug#347991: python-id3lib: upstream project name is hard to find

2006-01-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: python-id3lib Version: 0.5.1-6 Severity: wishlist Hello, when googling python-id3lib I get mostly links to the Debian package and the package description also gives no hint which Python id3 library is packaged here. I think it would make sense to include a sentence like "The upstream ve

Bug#345294: sanduhr: [INTL:sv] Swedish PO translation

2005-12-30 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Daniel, On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:05:33AM +0100, Daniel Nylander wrote: > Here is the swedish translation of sanduhr. Excellent! Thank you very much for your work. I will include this into the next upload. Many thanks, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Bug#335689: libsdl1.2: Please add big-endian arm (armeb) support

2005-10-31 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Lawrence, On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:11:46PM -0230, Lawrence Williams wrote: > This support is forthcoming in the next version of libsdl1.2, which will be > uploaded as soon as I can find a sponsor with time :) Does the current version still have these linitan errors? Otherwise I would be happ

Bug#337223: fail2ban: leaves garbage around after purge

2005-11-03 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.5.4-7 Severity: normal Hi, when I install and then purge fail2ban, some files are left lying around in /usr/share/fail2ban: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] sudo aptitude purge fail2ban Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading exten

Bug#311128: gcc-3.3: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2175

2005-05-28 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3.6-5 Severity: normal Hello, I encountered an internal compiler error in gcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/compier] gcc -O -c kaputt.c kaputt.c: In function `unionfs_readdir': kaputt.c:9166: error: unrecognizable insn: (insn 365 362 368 21 0x31389d40 (set (

Bug#311128: bug #311128 is also present in gcc-3.4

2005-05-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, I got a chance to check my test case with gcc-3.4 instead of gcc-3.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] gcc-3.4 -O -c kaputt.c kaputt.c: In function `unionfs_readdir': kaputt.c:9166: error: unrecognizable insn: (insn 362 359 365 21 (set (mem:QI (subreg:SI (reg:DI 175) 4) [0 S1 A8])

Bug#311128: gcc-3.3: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2175

2005-05-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Matthias, On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:48:10PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > unreproducible. 3.3, 3.4 and 4.0 (experimental) show: > > $ gcc -c kaputt.c > kaputt.c:1983: error: invalid register name for 'current' The internal compiler error occurs for me only on powerpc. On an i386 system I ge

Bug#212033: status query for /usr/share/doc/python-imaging-doc-html/README.Debian

2005-04-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, in 2003 I reported that the file /usr/share/doc/python-imaging-doc-html/README.Debian is all gibberish. As far as I can see the file contents did not change since then. What is the current status of this? If the file is ment to communicate some information to the user or system administrator

Bug#129014: status of bug #129014 ?

2005-04-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, in January 2002 I reported a problem with bfdtester which is now bug #129014 in the BTS. I checked again and the problem still persists. What is the current status of this? Since bfbtester looks like a potentially useful tool, I think that it would be worth the effort to make it actually wor

Bug#292759: gettext-base: installs weird file /usr/bin/gettext.sh

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: gettext-base Version: 0.14.1-8 Severity: normal Hello, the gettext-base package installs the file gettext.sh into the /usr/bin/ directory. The file looks like a shell script first, but it has the executable bit not set and starts with the line #! /bin/false Therefore the file is n

Bug#292761: /usr/bin/mpereconfig.mpich: broken symlink

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: mpich Version: 1.2.5.3-1.2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/mpereconfig.mpich Hello, the mpich package contains a broken symlink: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] ls -l /usr/bin/mpereconfig.mpich lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Jan 29 15:18 /usr/bin/mpereconfig.mpich -> ../lib/mpich/bin/mpereco

Bug#292759: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread Jochen Voss
/ On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: > Package: gettext-base > Version: 0.14.1-8 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > the gettext-base package installs the file gettext.sh into the > /usr/bin/ directory. The file looks like a shell sc

Bug#307330: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] sound does not work on new powerbooks

2005-05-02 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, with release 2.6.11-1 of kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc sound does not work on post-February-2005 powerbooks. The problem was discussed on the debian-powerpc mailing list, for example in the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org

Bug#307328: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] CPU runs only with half speed on new powerbooks

2005-05-02 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Severity: normal Hello, with release 2.6.11-1 of kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc the CPU runs only at half of the advertised speed. The problem is hard to notice, because /proc/cpuinfo contains the lines cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-05-02 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Severity: normal Hello, with release 2.6.11-1 of kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc the fn-key does not work on post-February-2005 powerbooks. It does neither emit a scan code on its own, nor does it change the behaviour of other keys. The problem can be fixed with the Jo

Bug#299864: libsdl1.2: problem looking up keysyms under X11

2005-03-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libsdl1.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, the SDL-library does not properly lookup keysyms under X11. Each key has a list of four keysyms assigned to it, which are interpreted as "group 1 without shift", "group 1 with shift", "group 2 without shift", and "group 2 with shift". The S

Bug#314987: pbuilder: creating base.tgz for sid fails with weird error message

2005-06-19 Thread Jochen Voss
ache for APT APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache/" APTCACHEHARDLINK="yes" REMOVEPACKAGES="lilo" #HOOKDIR="/usr/lib/pbuilder/hooks" HOOKDIR="" # make debconf not interact with user export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" DEBEMAIL="J

Bug#314987: pbuilder: creating base.tgz for sid fails with weird error message

2005-06-20 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello dear debootstrap maintainer, On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:14:00AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Thanks for your report; it's debootstrap giving you this error. I tried debootstrap on my system and indeed something seems to be wrong with it: quiche:~# debootstrap sid /root/sid-rooot http

Bug#314987: pbuilder: creating base.tgz for sid fails with weird error message

2005-06-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi! On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:11:32PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > At this point the process seems to hang (no output for at least 30 > minutes). Maybe this is related to the original problem? This seems to be a separate issue. The current bug is really the same problem as #314858 and #

Bug#315856: debootstrap: hangs during package configuration phase

2005-06-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.1.3 Severity: important Hello, debootstrap does not work for me. When I try to follow the example in the manual page, the process hangs somewhere in or directly after the package configuration phase: quiche:~# cd / ; mkdir /sid-root quiche:/# debootstra

Bug#319082: libstdc++6-4.0-dev: mistakes in the long package description

2005-07-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libstdc++6-4.0-dev Version: 4.0.1-2 Severity: minor Hello, the long package description of libstdc++6-4.0-dev, revision 4.0.1-2, contains the paragraph This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. Be advi

Bug#319261: libsdl1.2: new upstream available

2005-07-20 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libsdl1.2 Severity: wishlist Hello, on the SDL web page at http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php you can find a new version (version 1.2.8) of the SDL library. A diff between the tarball from the debian package and SDL-1.2.8.tar.gz seems to indicate that the changes are mostly bug fixe

Bug#302422: python2.3-numeric-ext: typos in linear_least_squares doc string

2005-03-31 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: python2.3-numeric-ext Version: 23.8-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello, the doc string of the linear_least_squares function in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric/LinearAlgebra.py contains several typos. These can be fixed with the following patch: ---

Bug#302558: chbg: Cannot launch from Gnome Applications Menu

2005-04-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Andrew, On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:02:48PM +0100, Andrew Swan wrote: > The following error message is given when launching from the > application menu in Gnome(starting from command line works fine): Thanks for spotting this. I will upload a new version with your fix incorporated. All the

Bug#317676: pdnsd: Failed to open socket: Bad file descriptor

2005-07-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: pdnsd Version: 1.2.2par-1 Severity: minor Hello, pdnsd gives me the following error message on shutdown: Failed to open socket: Bad file descriptor. Status readback will be impossible I do not know whether this indicates a real problem, but either the problem (if there is one) or

Bug#318081: gdb segfaults before program is even started (powerpc)

2005-07-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: gdb Version: 6.3-6 Severity: normal Hello, when trying to debug one of my programs I encountered a case where gdb crashed on the command "break main" before my programm was even started. The problem occurs on a powerpc machine. Since the files are largish, I put them up on my web page

Bug#129550: glibc-doc: umount() description does not match real behaviour

2005-07-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, just now I stumbled across this old bug report. The issue was: (1) the glibc manual states that umount("/dev/fd0") works, but (2) in reality it does not. I still think that this constitutes a bug either in the C library or in the manual. Otherwise, what would be the use of the manual if it

Bug#330686: gnupg: Errors running --check-trustdb in 1.4.2-1

2005-09-29 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, just for the records, I see this problem, too: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] gpg --update-trustdb gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes) gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet gpg: keyring_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring gpg: failed to rebuild keyring

Bug#206691: Sponsoring python-matplotlib

2005-09-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:02:43AM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote: > I was helping Vittorio last yaer to prepare it for upload. At the time > we had worked out all major problems and were only dealing with very > minor issues. I believe Jochen Voss had some more issues as well. I did

Bug#328789: wml: segmentation fault in pass 3

2005-09-17 Thread Jochen Voss
sr/share/wml" "-dWML_LOC_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/wml" "-dWML_LOC_BINDIR=/usr/bin" "-dWML_LOC_PREFIX=/usr" "-dWML_GEN_HOSTNAME=quiche" "-dWML_GEN_REALNAME=Jochen Voss" "-dWML_GEN_USERNAME=voss" "-dWML_GEN_GMT_ISOTIME=2005-09-17 13:39:43" &

Bug#328789: problem occurs on ppc but not on i386

2005-09-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I just found out the wml on i386 processes the file in question just fine. I can see the problem only on my powerpc system. I hope this helps, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#328789: segfault vanishes after recompilation

2005-09-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, recompiling eperl fixed the segfault for me. The file from my original email processes fine, now. Maybe the problem is related to one of the many transitions in unstable? I hope this helps, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > SHORTEN SOFTWARE LICENSE > > This software is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Tony Robinson > and SoftSound under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or > copying this software, you agree that you have r

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:08:50AM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > what't the state of that in linux image 2.6.12? > any progress.. Upstream 2.6.12 still needs the patch from http://localhost/~voss/comp/powerbook/index.html#fnkey-patch As I compile my own kernels, I did not check whether

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Maximilian, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:37:28AM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > but acpi generic hotkey support will still need some more release cycles > in order to get working. What is "acpi generic hotkey support"? Note that Apple PowerBooks don't use ACPI and that the fn key is not

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Horms, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:56:42PM +0900, Horms wrote: > whats the correct hostname for that URL? Sorry, the link should have been http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/index.html#fnkey-patch I hope this helps, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:09:55PM +0900, Horms wrote: > [the fn key patch] seems fine enough to me, has is been submitted upstream? I don't know. In http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/07/msg00370.html Stelian Pop (CCed) asked whether he should push this into the mainstream

Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

2005-08-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Stelian, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:20:56PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote: > The current state is ... Thank you for clarifying this. > The only (big) downside is that the FN keycode will not be understood by > the classic X keyboard driver (no events in xev for example), unless the > new (and no

Bug#396958: /usr/bin/X: several off-by-one errors in debian/local/xserver-wrapper.c

2006-11-03 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.1.0-5 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/X Hello, recently I discovered the following bits of code in the source file debian/local/xserver-wrapper.c (function 'main', starting at line 172): int main(int argc, char **argv) { ... char line[1024

Bug#397151: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: logic error in X509 policy checking

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8c-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file openssl-0.9.8c/crypto/x509v3/pcy_tree.c (function tree_init, around line 200): if (!(x->ex_flags && EXFLAG_

Bug#397174: apache2: logic error in source file "pcre.c"

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.3-3 Severity: normal Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file apache2-2.2.3/srclib/pcre/pcre.c (function compile_branch, around line 3366): /* Condition to test for a numbered subpattern match. We know that if a digi

Bug#397176: exim4: logic error in pcre.c and pcre_compile.c

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: exim4 Version: 4.63-8 Severity: normal Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file exim4-4.63/src/pcre/pcre.c (function compile_branch, around line 3355): /* Condition to test for a numbered subpattern match. We know that if a digit follows

Bug#397183: nmap: logic errors in regular expression parsing code

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: nmap Version: 4.11-1 Severity: normal Hello, recently I found some logic errors in nmap's copy of the pcre library. 1) in the file nmap-4.11/libpcre/pcre_dfa_exec.c (function internal_dfa_exec, around line 1120) I find the following statement: int otherd = -1; if ((ims

Bug#397188: noshell: please update license file (is titantool still free?)

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: noshell Version: 4.0.11-4 Severity: normal Hello, it seems that the noshell license file in /usr/share/doc/noshell/copyright is out of date: The differences between the file in the source package and in the Debian directory are as follows: --- cs 2006-11-05 18:04:27.0 +

Bug#397174: closed by Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#397174: apache2: logic error in source file "pcre.c")

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Peter, On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:48:33AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This code is a copy of the pcre3 library, bundled by upstream for > convenience. Debian does not use it. Oh, I missed this. Sorry for the noise and thanks for answering quickly. All the best, Jochen -- htt

Bug#397183: nmap: logic errors in regular expression parsing code

2006-11-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Fyodor, On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:47:23AM -0800, Fyodor wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 05:15:55PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote: > > recently I found some logic errors in nmap's copy of the pcre library. > > Thanks for the report. Nmap currently uses LibPCRE 6.4. The

Bug#397176: exim4: logic error in pcre.c and pcre_compile.c

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Marc, On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:41:03PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > This bug is not relevant to Debian's exim4 anyway ... Oh, sorry about that, I am always tricked by these unused bits of code. I will try to check more careful in the future. > Thanks for spotting this, upstream was able t

Bug#397151: logic error in X509 policy checking

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Kurt, On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:14:47PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > It seems upstream already fixed this in HEAD/0.9.9: Great! Will we get a fixed version in Etch or is it too late for this? All the best, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#397536: format string vulnerability in eperl_perl5.c

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: eperl Version: 2.2.14-14 Severity: normal Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file eperl-2.2.14/eperl_perl5.c (function 'Perl5_Run', around line 215): if ((cpBuf = ePerl_ReadErrorFile(perlstderr, perlscript, source)) != NULL) {

Bug#397833: /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/snmp: programming error in snmp.c

2006-11-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/snmp Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file cupsys-1.2.6/backend/snmp.c (function probe_device, around line 1755): if (http); { /* * IPP is supported...

Bug#397858: /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock: off-by-one error in mutt_dotlock.c

2006-11-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock Hello, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file mutt-1.5.13/mutt_dotlock.c (function dotlock_deference_symlink, around line 557): if ((len = readlink (pathptr, linkfile, sizeof (linkfile

Bug#400131: /usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2: logic error in qam_verify.c

2006-11-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libdb3 Version: 3.2.9+dfsg-0.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/libdb3.so.3.0.2 Hi, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file db-3.2.9+dfsg/qam/qam_verify.c (function __qam_vrfy_data, around line 129): qflags = qp->flags; qflags &

Bug#400831: logic error in mutt-1.5.13/account.c

2006-11-28 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.13-1 Severity: normal Hi, recently I came across the following bit of code in the source file mutt-1.5.13/account.c (near the end of the file): void mutt_account_unsetpass (ACCOUNT* account) { account->flags &= !M_ACCT_PASS; } Since the flags field i

Bug#290087: chbg: Fails to list GPL disclaimer

2005-01-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Justin, thank you for your bug report about chbg. On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:36:18PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Lists copyright holder, and license, but doesn't include the GPL > disclaimer. I'm not sure if this is necessary. Sorry, I am not completely sure what you mean here. The /us

Bug#290087: chbg: Fails to list GPL disclaimer

2005-01-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Justin, On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:17:24PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I'm not sure if this is required; I was filing other reports for > packages that have "Copyright: GPL" and similar mistakes (see my > recent post to -devel). > > Anyways, ideally, I think, there would be the 3 paragrap

Bug#290087: chbg: Fails to list GPL disclaimer

2005-01-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Justin, On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:22:01PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Well, I'm not sure if the paragraphs *should* be there, accourding to > Debian's policy. But the GPL recommends it, I think; ... Are you refering to the following clause? To do so, attach the following notices to the

Bug#290087: how to mention GPL in the debian/copyright file

2005-01-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Don, thank you for your advice. It is much appreciated. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:55:21PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Currently the debian/copyright file of chbg contains the paragraph > > > > Chbg is copyrigthed by Ondrejicka Stefan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It is > > license un

Bug#298551: xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1

2005-03-08 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 Severity: normal Hello, on my shiny new Apple Powerbook G4 I encounter the problem described in (closed) bug #105874. The problem is the following: When I try to start xterm with eightBitInput set to false, I opens a window for a fraction of a second but

Bug#298551: xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1

2005-03-08 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Thomas, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > thanks. Actually I had forgotten the TCSETA detail, but noticed the > hardware platform which seems to be relevant as well. Is the TCSETA ioctl documented in some publicly accessible place? Just for reference: In the

Bug#298758: O: fdutils -- Linux floppy utilities

2005-03-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Since I no longer own a computer with a floppy drive (the old machine died, and the new one has none), i intend to orphan the fdutils package. The package description is: This package contains utilities for formatting extra capacity disks, for automatic floppy dis

Bug#298551: xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1

2005-03-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Thomas, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:06:03AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:46:56PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Hello Thomas, > > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > thanks. Actually I had fo

Bug#299175: poor package description for svn-workbench

2005-03-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I agree that the package description for svn-workbench is poor. I can't parse it either. Is the program just a grpahical frontend for svn? Do I want to install it on my machine? Another thing to consider: the developers reference (section 6.2.4) suggests that you add the homepage URL to

Bug#299175: poor package description for svn-workbench

2005-03-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Matthias, On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:43:51PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > I agree that the package description for svn-workbench is poor. I > > can't parse it either. Is the program just a grpahical frontend for > > svn? Do I want to install it on my machine? > send a patch I am very wil

Bug#299175: poor package description for svn-workbench

2005-03-13 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Jochen Voss writes: > > I am very willing to do so, if I only find out what the package is > > doing. The homepage was not of much help. What is the package doing? > > Is the program just a graphical f

Bug#411286: oprofile: does not work on AMD64, kernel 2.6.19.2

2007-02-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: oprofile Version: 0.9.2-3 Severity: normal Hello, oprofile does not work for me on an AMD64 system with vanilla 2.6.19.2 kernel. It fails with the following error message: tarte:~# opcontrol --start Using default event: CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:10:0:1:1 /usr/bin/opcontrol: line

Bug#411286: patch for oprofile bug #411286

2007-02-17 Thread Jochen Voss
+ @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +oprofile (0.9.2-3.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Apply the patches from http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/22/170 +and http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/22/172 to make oprofile +work on newer kernels. + + -- Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:54:00

Bug#416303: upgrade-reports: upgrade report: success on a simple mail/web server

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Hi, as requested by Frans Pop on dda, here is a Sarge->Etch upgrade report. Everything worked ok, details are below. I hope this helps, Jochen The machine --- a Qemu based virtual server, i386, 160MB of RAM running up to date sarge kernel-ima

Bug#416303: upgrade-reports: upgrade report: success on a simple mail/web server

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Frans, On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:39:34PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > First of all, thanks! You are welcome! > No, it says "advantage of doing the _next_ step early" would result in > glibc being upgraded early. I understand your confusion though. Ok, I did not read carefully. > That must mean

Bug#416303: upgrade-reports: upgrade report: success on a simple mail/web server

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Frans, On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:39:34PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > 4) During install the symbolic link > >"/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default" appeared. This broke my > >common web server setup, because it slipped in between my own > >"0-redir" and the virtual host definitio

Bug#392258: python2.3: memset arguments swapped in Modules/binascii.c

2006-10-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: python2.3 Version: 2.3.5-15 Severity: normal Hi, in the source file python2.3-2.3.5/Modules/binascii.c I notice the following bits of code (starting at line 1048): /* We allocate the output same size as input, this is overkill. * The previou

Bug#392263: net-tools: buffer overflow in ipmaddr

2006-10-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-17 Severity: normal Hello, recently I noticed the following bits of code in the source file net-tools-1.60/ipmaddr.c: ... char filter_dev[16]; ... static int multiaddr_list(int argc, char **argv) { struct ma_info *list = NULL;

Bug#392271: dhcp-client: buffer overflow in dhclient

2006-10-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: dhcp-client Version: 2.0pl5-19.4 Severity: normal Hi, recently I noticed the following bits of code in the source file dhcp-2.0pl5/client/dhclient.c: int main (argc, argv, envp) int argc; char **argv, **envp; { ... for (i = 1; i <

Bug#392275: logic error in dhcp3-3.0.4/common/discover.c

2006-10-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: dhcp3 Version: 3.0.4-8 Severity: normal Hello, recently I discovered the following bit of code in the source file dhcp3-3.0.4/common/discover.c (around line 941): isc_result_t dhcp_interface_stuff_values (omapi_object_t *c, omapi_object_

Bug#392455: /usr/sbin/p0f: buffer overflow in p0f.c

2006-10-11 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: p0f Version: 2.0.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/p0f Hello, recently I discovered the following bit of code in the source file p0f-2.0.5/p0f.c (function main): _u8 buf[MAXLINE*4]; ... if (argv[optind] && *(argv[optind])) { sprintf(buf,"(%s) and (%3000s)",use_rule,argv[opt

Bug#392651: emacs21: bug in 'xbm_read_bitmap_data' (file "xfns.c")

2006-10-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a-6.2 Severity: normal Hello, recently I discovered the following bit of code in the source file "src/xfns.c" (function 'xbm_read_bitmap_data', starting at line 6705): if (LA1 == XBM_TK_NUMBER); { char *p = strrchr (buffer, '_'); p

Bug#392656: netkit-base: off-by-one error in rpcgen

2006-10-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: netkit-base Version: 0.10-10.3 Severity: normal Hello, recently I noticed the following bit of code in the source file "rpc_cout.c" (near the end): static char *upcase(const char *str) { char *ptr, *hptr; ptr = malloc(strlen(str)); if (ptr == NULL) {

Bug#392669: /usr/sbin/sshd: off-by-one error in function 'xmmap'

2006-10-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:4.3p2-5 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/sshd Hello, recently I discovered the following bit of code in the source file "openssh-4.3p2/openbsd-compat/xmmap.c" (function 'xmmap', around line 51): #define MM_SWAP_TEMPLATE "/var/run/sshd.mm." i

Bug#392663: apt: off-by-one errors in "extracttar.cc"

2006-10-12 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.2 Severity: normal Hello, recently I discovered the following bits of code in apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc: // The on disk header for a tar file. struct ExtractTar::TarHeader { char Name[100]; cha

Bug#392866: squid: buffer overflow in src/tools.c

2006-10-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: squid Version: 2.6.4-1 Severity: normal Hello, recently I discovered the following bit of code in the source file src/tools.c (function 'parseEtcHosts', around line 1169): void parseEtcHosts(void) { FILE *fp; char buf[1024]; char buf2[512]; ..

Bug#392880: gcc-4.1: off-by-one error for string initialiser warnings

2006-10-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-16 Severity: normal Hello, one very useful feature of gcc is, that it warns you when you produce unterminated strings by using too long initialisers. Unfortunately the warning only kicks in, if the initialiser is at least two bytes longer than the string buffer.

Bug#364635: Debian bug #364635: possible workaround

2006-09-11 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Darren, thank you for your message. On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:48:24PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote: > I came across the Debian bug that you reported and have a suggestion: > [...] Did you see the patch I appended to the bug report log at http://bugs.debian.org/364635 ? It seems that the proble

Bug#426796: fix newvserver in the presence of a local name server

2007-08-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, this is a suggested fix for bug #426796: if the host uses 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver, this cannot be used as a nameserver inside the container. One (partial) solution would be, to replace 127.0.0.1 with the host address on the interface given for the vserver subnet. This mewthod could be impl

Bug#392452: /usr/sbin/exim_dbmbuild: buffer overflow in exim_dbmbuild

2007-06-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Marc, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 03:19:23PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Probably the following crash is a symptom of this: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] touch xxx > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] /usr/sbin/exim_dbmbuild xxx $(python -c 'print > > "a"*') > > Segmentation fault > > It n

Bug#365512: atlas3: FTBFS on amd64 (relocation problem with sqrtf)

2006-04-30 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: atlas3 Version: 3.6.0-20 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Hi, release 3.6.0-20 of atlas3 fails to build on up-to-date amd64 unstable system. The error message, when compiled with pbuilder, is as follows: [...] ln -snf $(basename debian/tmp/usr/lib/a

Bug#365512: atlas3: FTBFS on amd64 (relocation problem with sqrtf)

2006-05-07 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Camm, On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:48:56PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > semop(1): encountered an error: Invalid argument > [...] > Just wondering if you happen to be aware of > this issue or similar and might know of a workaround. No, I have never encountered something like this. But if you som

Bug#369545: octave: crashes (glibc detected double free or corruption)

2006-05-30 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: octave Version: 1:2.1.73-8 Severity: normal Hello, if I place the following script (needs ocatave-forge) in the current directory == laplace1.m starts here function L = laplace1(n,du,alpha) % LAPLACE1 Laplace operator with one-step Dirichlet

Bug#431295: /usr/bin/setterm: buffer overflow in parse_snapfile()

2007-07-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-19 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/setterm Hi, the setterm source in util-linux-2.12r/misc-utils/setterm.c, function parse_snapfile, around line 513, contains the following bit of code: if (argc == 1) strcpy((char *)opt_all, argv[0]); S

Bug#442908: valgrind: thousands of false positives on powerpc

2007-09-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.2.3-3 Severity: normal Hi, valgrind on my powerbook G4 reports several thousands of false (?) positives even for trivial programs. This makes valgrind unusable because any real problem reports will be drowned in the generated noise. Example: compile the following

Bug#444868: /usr/sbin/newvserver: allow to configure non-US and security mirrors

2007-10-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: vserver-debiantools Version: 0.3.6.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/newvserver Tags: patch Hi, in my VServer setup the clients initially don't have proper network access and thus need to use a mirror to download packages. To make this work I had to change newvserver to allow customi

Bug#444886: /usr/sbin/newvserver: try to get --ip or --hostname/--domain from name server information

2007-10-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: vserver-debiantools Version: 0.3.6.2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/newvserver Tags: patch Hi, if you are creating many VServers using the newvserver script, it is a bit cumbersome to always give the correct combination of --hostname and --ip. An alternative strategy would be to set

Bug#444886: updated patch for #444886

2007-10-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, unfortunately my previous patch for bug #444886 contained a bug on its own: I forgot to define IP_ADDR and consequently newvserver generated a broken /etc/hosts file. The appended patch, a full replacement for the original one, fixes this problem. Changes since the previous version of the pa

Bug#445554: /usr/sbin/newvserver: allow for unattended install

2007-10-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: vserver-debiantools Version: 0.4.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/newvserver Tags: patch [ Reportbug crashed on me while trying to send this the first time. I apologise, if you receive this twice. ] Hi, the appended patch modifies the newvserver script to allow for installs withou

Bug#348758: aptitude: confuses "purge" with "install" in error message

2006-01-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Severity: minor Hi, currently the firestarted package fails to purge. This exposes a minor bug in aptitude. The corresponding aptitude error message states that the packages failed to *install*: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aptitude purge firestarter Reading pac

Bug#339482: /etc/init.d/glibc.sh: /etc/rcS.d/S01glibc.sh: line 153: dpkg: command not found

2006-01-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-12 Followup-For: Bug #339482 Hello, during startup of my system I get the following error message: /etc/rcS.d/S01glibc.sh: line 153: dpkg: command not found This is caused by the fact that the S01glibc.sh script tries to execute the command if [ "$realarch

Bug#364635: ssh: keyboard-interactive authentification does not work

2006-04-24 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: ssh Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4 Severity: normal Tags: sarge Hello, recently the keyboard-interactive authentification method of the ssh version in Sarge stopped working for me. The login process is just aborted with a "Connection closed by [ip address]" message. There seems to be no

Bug#360264: O: chbg -- tool for changing the desktop background image in X11

2006-03-31 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I hereby orphan the chbg package. I do not have time to work on this right now, the programm is still Gnome 1, and upstream seems to have vanished. A version with the maintainer set to the QA group was uploaded just now. The package description is: A GTK+ based p

Bug#360266: O: compilercache -- a caching wrapper around compilers to speed up compilations

2006-03-31 Thread Jochen Voss
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I hereby orphan the compilercache package: I do not have time to work on this, and the program is probably superseded by the ccache package. The package description is: Compilercache is a wrapper around your C and C++ compilers. Each time you compile something, th

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