Bug#291461: kppp: wrong error messages on failure

2005-01-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kppp Version: 4:3.3.1-2 Severity: minor Because of some temporary problem at my ISP, I was recently unable to connect. kppp would dial up and then disconnect shortly after connecting. The details button showed an error message complaining about being unable to write to /var/log/syslog,

Bug#291760: woody: bad email address for upstream author

2005-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: woody Version: 0.1.6-10 Severity: minor The README gives upstream maintainer's edress as [EMAIL PROTECTED] That doesn't work anymore. [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host cheerful-com.mr.outblaze.com [205.158.62.33]: 550 <

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 1.0 Severity: normal I may be misunderstanding how things are supposed to work, but when I enter a search pattern of pdesk, with search all descriptions checked and "all" for the installed filter, nothing shows. In contrast $ apt-cache search pdesk mgapdesk - X con

Bug#291760: woody: bad email address for upstream author

2005-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 12:55:07PM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 04:50:45PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Any suggestions for a more active replacement? I noticed someone > > suggested pdesk in the woody forum. pdesk doesn't seem to be pac

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello Ross, > > thanks for your Bug report. > > > I may be misunderstanding how things are supposed to work, but when I > > enter a search pattern of pdesk, with search all descriptions checked > > and "all" for the installed filt

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:59 +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello Ross, > > thanks for your Bug report. > > > I may be misunderstanding how things are supposed to work, but when I > > enter a search pattern of pdesk, with search all descriptions checked > > and "all" for the installed filter, not

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Boylan
If you reenable the debtags plugin afterwards searching should keep > working. > > Greetings Ben > -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 502-4031 530 Parnassus Avenue (Library) rm 115-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostat

Bug#331716: exim4: handling of various system users

2005-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:03:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:29:01PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Thanks to recent local chaos, the system attempted to deliver some > > undeliverable messages to the original sender, logcheck. > > &g

Bug#331716: exim4: handling of various system users

2005-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:11:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:00:04AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:03:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Technically, this is possible, and I am even using this approach on >

Bug#328739: 328739 debtags crash looks fixed

2005-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
This problem seems to have disappeared with packagesearch 2.0.3. In fact, it's been gone for awhile. I hope I replied to your earlier message offlist! I think this is good to close. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected

2005-12-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Knoppix 4.0.2 from 2005-09-23 is able to detect the disk as /dev/sda. This is quite bizarre, since Knoppix is based on Debian and, like the etch installer beta 1, uses the 2.6.12 kernel. The Intel developer who has been putting ICH7 patches into the kernel (the relevant component of the motherboar

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected (lspci output)

2005-12-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:05:14PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Knoppix 4.0.2 from 2005-09-23 is able to detect the disk as /dev/sda. > This is quite bizarre, since Knoppix is based on Debian and, like the > etch installer beta 1, uses the 2.6.12 kernel. > > The Intel develop

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected (lspci and lsmod)

2005-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
This time with lsmod output as well. I didn't see anything that looked like a disk driver; perhaps it's compiled in? Or, I may just not know what to look for. The Knoppix boot has been a little odd; sometimes it can detect my network card and sometimes not. One of the "cards" is on the motherbo

Bug#340390: Installation report: disk detected with daily build

2005-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
The latest (Dec 3) daily build seems able to detect my hard drive. I got it via PXE booting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342061: exim4-config: word choice for configuration questions

2005-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4-config Version: pulled in by etch installer daily build Severity: minor debconf says "Please eneter here the networks of local machines for which you accept to relay mail." I think you "EXPECT to relay mail." But maybe you mean "accept OR relay mail"? Also, the use of "you" vs.

Bug#340390: Installation report: disk detected with daily build

2005-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:01:16AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 05 December 2005 00:39, Ross Boylan wrote: > > The latest (Dec 3) daily build seems able to detect my hard drive. > > I got it via PXE booting. > > Glad to hear that. It was somewhat to be expected as

Bug#340390: 2.6.12 kernel and disk detection

2005-12-05 Thread Ross Boylan
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:41:47 +0100 > From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#340390: Installation report: disk detected with daily build > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ref

Bug#340390: 2.6.12 kernel and disk detection

2005-12-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 05 December 2005 19:49, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Is it possible the installer used an earlier version of the 2.6.12 > > kernel than the one eventually installed? I guess the latter is the > > current one

Bug#342144: fail2ban: Apache(2) features

2005-12-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.6.0-1 Severity: wishlist You might note that the log file location needs to be changed for Apache2. Although it's pretty obvious, I managed to miss it at first! Probably a comment right after the Apache header in the config file would be best. It may be the case that

Bug#342144: fail2ban: Apache(2) features

2005-12-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:23:04AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Ross, > > I'm abroad at the moment so I don't have enough time to look at all the > questions in details - I will get back to it asap (or as soon as there > is no beer on the table, whichever is the first), but regarding > pa

Bug#342482: installation-reports

2005-12-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:09:36PM -0800, Aaron Johnson wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: Netinstall CD > Image version: Beta 1 http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > Date: 05/12/07 20:00 ... > Comments/Problems: > > Unable to detect the HD because of a lack of dri

Bug#342818: libglide3-dev: appears to require lspic

2005-12-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libglide3-dev Severity: normal While installing libglide3-dev (and libglide2-dev, which has the same problem) on testing I get the message Can't exec "lspci": No such file or directory at /tmp/libglide3.config.xxx linne 74, line 2. Use of uninitialized value in spllit at ... line 76,

Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Severity: normal Severity bordering on wishlist, but it seems the packages are mislabelled. The description of some of these packages, particularly the source packages, refers to XFree86. This makes it appear that they will not work with xorg, which will be the d

Bug#342817: No joy in X land

2005-12-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:43:20PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Having managed to get my hard disk detected, I'm on to the next > problem. When I do a regular boot, my system appears dead: > The screen is black. > There is no response to any keyboard or mouse activity, including &

Bug#342830: nvidia-graphics-drivers: clarify scope of package (xorg, 2.6 kernels)

2005-12-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:27:19PM -0800, Randall Donald wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-12 at 17:10 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers > > > The description of some of these packages, particularly the source > > packages, refers to XFree86. This m

Bug#340334: 340334, 343335: Perl upgrade DB_File.pm trouble and spamassassin

2005-12-14 Thread Ross Boylan
aracterizes the message as "apparently harmless" (and then notes that it hangs sa-learn), it's not clear to me whether it affects the basic operation of spamassassin/spamd or not. I'd be grateful if anyone could clarify. A fix would be nice too :) -- Ross Boylan

Bug#342817: 342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2005-12-15 Thread Ross Boylan
> Ross, I've not worked on RC3 mainly because there didn't seem to be a need > for it. I'll try and get RC3 in to the svn repo and uploaded to > experimental ASAP so you can test whether or not it fixes your issue. > - David Nusinow Thanks. Will it be safe to install the debs from experimental,

Bug#343520: zope-cmfplone: "denied removal of product" and other problems on upgrade

2005-12-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope-cmfplone Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: normal I am not at all sure what package or packages are at the root of these problems, nor do I know how serious they are. There may be several distinct issues here. I have zope2.6, 2.8 and 3 installed, along with plone-site and some sandbox pa

Bug#343644: spamassassin: errors in /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm

2005-12-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-1 Severity: normal syslog shows Dec 16 03:05:24 iron spamd[2375]: Can't call method "string" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 376, line 84. Dec 16 03:05:24 iron spamd[2375]: dns: sendto() failed: at /usr/sha

Bug#343835: kicker: application buttons on toolbar lost on 3.3 -> 3.4 upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kicker Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Severity: normal I upgraded from KDE 3.3 to 3.4 in testing. Afterwards, a shortcut button I had on my taskbar disappeared. I created it by clicking on the panel, select "Add to panel", "special button", "non KDE application". I have a feeling I may have lost s

Bug#332369: 332369 [332367]: 3 times asked for manual mouse configuration

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I experienced what seems to be a slight variant of this problem, and the one reported in 332367, when upgrading to xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11. I believe this was an initial install of that package (i.e., upgrade from xfree), and the first time I switched from xfree. I've excerpted parts of the

Bug#229555: 229555: KDE 2->3 upgrade issues may be obsolete

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
It might be appropriate to close this bug as no longer relevant. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:26:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:53:54AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Ross, I've not worked on RC3 mainly because there didn't seem to be a need > > > for it. I'll try and get RC3 in to the svn rep

Bug#343982: debian-reference-en: -G switch unknown for aptitude

2005-12-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-reference-en Version: 1.09-1 Severity: normal 6.2.6 aptitude, apt-get and apt-cache commands has several examples using -G with aptitude. As far as I can tell from the man page and aptitude --help, this option doesn't exist. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstabl

Bug#344065: evms: integrate EVMS with debian-installer

2005-12-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evms Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: wishlist I would like to be able to use the Debian installer to create a system in which all the partitions, including root, were managed by EVMS. The daily builds of the etch installer have support for LVM but not, as far as I can tell, EVMS. I don't hav

Bug#330967: add cross-reference to update-exim4.conf from exim4 man page

2005-12-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:14 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:37:12PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Actually, there's something extra: the indentation in front of SEE ALSO. > > Hm. I don't have too much clue about *roff :-( > > > I use

Bug#344065: evms: integrate EVMS with debian-installer

2005-12-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:07:37AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I would like to be able to use the Debian installer to create a system > > in which all the partitions, including root, were managed by EVMS.

Bug#338282: bind9: automate or clarify key generation

2005-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.3.1-2.0.1 Severity: wishlist This wish comes in a minimal and a maximal form. The minimal form is to correct the documentation, which gives a little recipe for running rndc-confgen. It suggests the recipe is complete, but it is not: additional steps are required, name

Bug#335799: acknowledged by developer (Reproducible?)

2005-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:19 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #335799: spamassassin: man -k (apropos) doesn't turn up all man pages, > which was filed against the spamassassin package. > > It has been closed by one of the devel

Bug#202517: 202517: exim4-doc-info: Some hyperlinks do not function properly

2006-01-06 Thread Ross Boylan
My mail to close_202517 was rejected as "unknown user", so it definitely still needs to be close. Ross Forwarded Message ---- From: Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 202517: exim4-doc-info: Some hyperlinks do not f

Bug#340968: kde: work-around for hanging at session

2006-01-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kde Followup-For: Bug #340968 I'm not sure if this is the same problem as the original report, but the symtoms seem similar. For two different upgrades of KDE, first from 3.3 to 3.4 and then within 3.4 I I had KDE hang partway through restoring session on login from kdm. This did not k

Bug#347839: apt-listbugs: -q option not fully effective

2006-01-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.49 Severity: minor I did apt-get -q dist-upgrade with apt-listbugs installed. The resulting dialogue showed some progress indicators of % done, in a way that doesn't work very well in a log. I didn't see this before adding apt-listbugs. Partial log excerpt: Do

Bug#347865: kword: save causes weird document reformatting, adding a blank page

2006-01-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kword Version: 1:1.4.2-5 Severity: normal I have created a fax from the fax template in kword. It has some text on the cover sheet, but well less than a full page. When I save the document it flashes some alternate box layouts and fonts on the screen briefly. After this the document ha

Bug#230850: python2.4-pexpect: another request for pexpect docs

2006-01-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: python2.4-pexpect Version: 2.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #230850 I also would like to see the docs as part of the package, or as a separate package if space is a concern. They aren't present in python2.4-pexpect either. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers tes

Bug#344598: lynx: Doesn't follow page navigation links in multipage display of lists.debian.org

2005-12-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lynx Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1 Severity: normal I used lynx to go to lists.debian.org | user lists | kde | Nov 2005 This got me the first page of the lists for November; the top line indicated there were 4 pages. However, the navigation links at the top and bottom of the list to get to the

Bug#344598: lynx: Doesn't follow page navigation links in multipage display of lists.debian.org

2005-12-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:39:53PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:50:09AM +0100, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: lynx > > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1 > > Severity: normal > > > > I used lynx to go to lists.debian.org | user lists | kde | N

Bug#289954: emacs terminal causes package installs using ucf/debconf to hang

2005-12-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm still seeing this problem in a current testing system. In the latest incarnation, xserver-xorg was prompting for responses (specifically for the device to use for the mouse) and, no matter what I typed, it just asked again. When I just hit enter, it proceeded. The X stuff has shifted over to

Bug#344598: lynx: Doesn't follow page navigation links in multipage display of lists.debian.org

2005-12-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:57:30AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:13:35PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Thank you for the information. So this report was based on my > > misunderstanding, and I think it would be OK to close. > > > > Howev

Bug#344947: kdm: NEWS file not displayed on upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Severity: normal I recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.4 in testing. There is a NEWS.Debian entry about KDM (and some other things), but it was not displayed. I have enables apt-listchanges, and in the same upgrade I did get NEWS items about other packages. I've seen

Bug#344065: evms: integrate EVMS with debian-installer

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:07:37AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: ... > > > I don't have a good sense of what's involved in making this

Bug#344065: evms: integrate EVMS with debian-installer

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:12:59AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:50:21PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Perhaps a more do-able goal would be to make it possible for someone who > > wanted to setup using evms to shell out of the installer and do the &

Bug#345286: apt-cacher: Clarify/correct man page

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.1 Severity: normal 1. The only outright bugs here are minor: /etc/defaults/apt-cacher should use "default" not "defaults". (see also point 7 for typo bug). 2. For the cache_dir, explain the required subdirectory structure and ownership/permissions. I was using an

Bug#344065: evms: integrate EVMS with debian-installer

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:59:50AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:58:23PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: ... > > The EVMS site lists a number of patches to get all the features > > working, even with a 2.6 kernel (in particular snapshot and bad block

Bug#291989: #291989: latest (2.5.4) from evms patches 2.6.14 kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I also got an error when using the dm-bbr patch from kernel-patch-evms 2.5.3-8 againt linux-source-2.6.14 (2.6.14-7). It's worth noting that the patch doesn't claim to work with this kernel; I overrode it with KPATCH_evms_dm_bbr=2.6.11. I got the latest tarball for EVMS 2.5.4 from the EVMS site a

Bug#344947: kdm: NEWS file not displayed on upgrade

2006-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 22:47 -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: > tags 344947 pending > stop > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 15:35, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: kdm > > Version: 4:3.4.2-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > I recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3

Bug#345819: subversion: README.db4.3 needs to cover ownership issues

2006-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: subversion Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3 Severity: minor Running as root, I followed the instructions in README.db4.3 to upgrade. subversion, via apache, could not read the result. Once I did chown -R www-data on the appropriate directory everything was OK. Since the instructions guide you to

Bug#345844: mirrors: GPG Error: invalid signature on ftp-chi.osuosl.org

2006-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
he problem as being with ftp-chi.osuosl.org. He did some good sleuthing to find it out. Here's the text of our correspondence; I've rearranged it so the oldest bit is first: ---- > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > aptitude update give

Bug#345819: subversion: README.db4.3 needs to cover ownership issues

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 12:56 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Ross Boylan] > > Minimally, the instructions could just say to be aware of ownership > > and permission issues. I know that's pretty obvious, but I managed > > to miss it :) > > I think I would have m

Bug#336266: apt: docs haven't quite caught up with authentication

2005-10-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.6.42.1 Severity: minor Some documents could mention more about the new authentication system. configure-index.gz includes "Authentication" and "GPGV" options under APT that are not mentioned in apt.conf(5). Conversely, configure-index.gz is missing APT::Get::AllowUnauthen

Bug#316274: apt: greater control over authentication (#316274)

2005-10-28 Thread Ross Boylan
loped there for specifying options based on general characteristics of packages and the sources of the packages. On the other hand, maybe you want to leave the annoyance so those of us using other repositories will bug the maintainers to start using the authentication system :)

Bug#337146: plone-site: don't seem to have a plone site

2005-11-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: plone-site Version: 2.1-2 Severity: normal I just installed plone-site on a system that already had zope and zope2.8 on it. There appear to be a number of problems. 1. There is no README.Debian giving a fuller (than the package description) account of what is supposed to happen and what

Bug#337155: zope3-sandbox doesn't start

2005-11-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Sorry, I didn't realize that log was so long. I checked the missing file. It is a symlink Archetypes-configure.zcml -> /usr/share/zope/Products/Archetypes:1.3/.dzconfigure The latter file does not exist. In fact, many of the files are symlinks to .dzconfigure files in the same /usr/share/zope/

Bug#337354: zope3: add pyskel.py

2005-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope3 Version: 3.1.0-3 Severity: normal The package seems to lack pyskel.py, which is present in earlier Zope packages and in the current Zope 3 svn sources. Development is possible without the file, but easier with it. It would be good to document where the file is, or how to access it

Bug#339525: python2.4-svn: incorrect return value documented for pysvn.Client.propget

2005-11-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: python2.4-svn Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: minor file:///usr/share/doc/python2.4-svn/pysvn_prog_ref.html#pysvn_client_propget says "Returns a list of tuples (url_or_path, prop_dict). The prop_dict contains the prop_name and its value if set on the url_or_path." However, the return value is

Bug#333839: lyx blockage

2005-11-17 Thread Ross Boylan
t sure how widespread the effects of that problem are. If a new version could be pushed into testing, that would be great. Failing that, I'm curious what's going on. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700

Bug#339694: k3b: bad out of the box experience

2005-11-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: k3b Version: 0.11.20-1 Severity: normal I installed k3b and started it up. I got a warning that it would be a much better idea for cdrecord to run with root privileges, and a seemingly fatal error that k3b required cdrdao executables. It then asked me if I wanted to proceed with setup, wh

Bug#337155: acknowledged by developer (Bug#337155: fixed in zope-common 0.5.14)

2005-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:33:14AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #337155: zope3-sandbox doesn't start, > which was filed against the zope-common package. > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > Fabio Tranc

Bug#337354: [Pkg-zope-developers] Bug#337354: zope3: add pyskel.py

2005-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:14:11AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Il giorno gio, 03/11/2005 alle 18.59 -0800, Ross Boylan ha scritto: > > Package: zope3 > > Version: 3.1.0-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > The package seems to lack pyskel.py, which is present in

Bug#339694: k3b: bad out of the box experience

2005-11-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:22 -0500, Francois Marier wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:05:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On the other hand, since some people (e.g., me) might not care about > > doing DAO, maybe leaving it as recommends would be best. This seems > > delic

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected

2005-11-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: etch beta1 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/etch_d-i/i386/beta1/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2005-11-22 22:00 Pacific Machine: OmniPro Intel System Processor: P4 630 3GHz Memory: 2G Partitions: one DOS parition fr

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected

2005-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:46:20AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:59:52PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > > > Boot method: CD > > Image version: etch beta1 > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-t

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected (with attachment)

2005-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Sorry, forgot the attachment. 808627700 00088

Bug#340390: Installation report: no disks detected

2005-11-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Increasingly I suspect the motherboard is the problem: it's too new. Intel is now supporting Linux supposedly (http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/187871.htm). I'm not sure whether they are pushing their stuff into the main kernel development. The motherboard has been a challeng

Bug#337354: [Pkg-zope-developers] Bug#337354: zope3: add pyskel.py

2005-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:30:17PM +0100, Igor Stroh wrote: ... > > That's why it's an .in - it's merely a template. Have you tried looking in > $INSTANCE/bin? > I hadn't, at least not for pyskel rather than pyskel.py. The former is there. > Consider this: > $ sudo dzhandle -z3 make-instance te

Bug#312534: apt: new entries in sources.list lead to one-time error

2005-06-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: normal When adding a new entry to sources.list I've noticed I often (always?) get an error the first time I do an update. E.g., I changed my entry for security from woody to sarge, and got this in response to apt-get update W: Couldn't stat source package

Bug#312534: apt: new entries in sources.list lead to one-time error

2005-06-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:06:16AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:10:13AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Package: apt > > Version: 0.5.28.6 > > Severity: normal > > > > When adding a new entry to sources.list I've noticed I o

Bug#312534: apt: new entries in sources.list lead to one-time error

2005-06-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > package aptitude > severity 286974 minor > merge 2869874 312534 > thanks > > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 10:51 am, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:25:12AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: &g

Bug#312534: apt: new entries in sources.list lead to one-time error

2005-06-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:44:21PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:02 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > > >   Ross, are you using the aptitude from Woody or from Sarge? > > > > > >   Daniel > > > > Sarge (testing actually).  Curre

Bug#314301: bacula-doc missing section on FileSet

2005-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-doc Version: 1.36.3-1 Severity: minor As far as I can tell, bacula.pdf does not include a description of FileSet. Judging from http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Contents.html it should appear after the "Technical Notes on Scheduling" section of "Configuring the Director". As far a

Bug#314313: bacula-director-pgsql: FileSet option recurse=no doesn't work as advertised

2005-06-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 1.36.3-1 Severity: normal Filed as upstream bug 348. See it for details: http://bugs.bacula.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=348 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Ar

Bug#247879: tiger: more missing headers?

2005-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-26 Followup-For: Bug #247879 I've now started seeing # Verifying system specific password checks... NEW: --WARN-- [osv004w] Unreleased Debian GNU/Linux version `testing/unstable' I am running testing with a bit of unstable, and recently upgraded past sarge. -- Sy

Bug#310460: apcupsd: killpower issues

2005-05-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apcupsd Version: 3.10.17-2 Severity: normal The distributed killpower script does the first two mounts without a remount, and the others with a remount. This looks as if it might be an oversight. If that's not an issue, it would probably be appropriate to downgrade this to "minor" sever

Bug#310461: apcupsd: UPSTYPE is not one of the listed alternatives

2005-05-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apcupsd Version: 3.10.17-2 Severity: minor The default apcupsd.conf includes # UPSTYPE [ dumb | apcsmart | net | usb | snmp | test] # # defines the type of UPS you have. UPSTYPE smartups The type selected is not one of the previously listed alternatives. Either the type selected or the a

Bug#310460: apcupsd: killpower issues

2005-05-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops, missed one other problem in the writeup. There's an "and" that should be an "or," I believe. So I have moved powerfail file from /var/spool to /etc. Also, there's a new file in /etc/apcupsd which is called killpower. If you have /usr/ or /var is not on the root

Bug#310460: apcupsd: killpower issues

2005-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:11:28AM +0200, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >Package: apcupsd > >Version: 3.10.17-2 > >Severity: normal > > > >The distributed killpower script does the first two mounts without a > >remount, and the othe

Bug#311690: vim-vimoutliner: Warn or correct about default installation lacking color

2005-06-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.3-6 Severity: wishlist After doing a default install of vim and vimoutliner on Debian, syntax coloring is off. This turns off one of the nice features of the outliner, different colors for different levels. It also means that the installation will fail the r

Bug#304956: tiger: devfs is not recognised as a local filesystem

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-22 Severity: wishlist Since the rececent upgrade I've been getting warnings from tiger: --CONFIG-- [con010c] Filesystem devfs used by devfs is not recognised as a local filesystem I am running devfs. The relevant fstab line is devfs /devdevfs defaults 0 0

Bug#304957: tiger: glitches with lin012w explanation

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-22 Severity: minor 1) This finding/bug/warning (not sure what the right word is) get reported without any textual explanation: NEW: --WARN-- [lin012w] 2) tigexp lin012w produces output that includes otherwise remote it since an attacker could send bogus ICMP redir

Bug#304957: tiger: incorrect lin012w report

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
There may be a more substantive problem with this report: iron:~# tigexp lin012w The system is configured to accept ICMP redirects, this might or might not be necessary in your network topology. If you have multiple routers to which connect through to outside locations it might be necessary, other

Bug#304957: tiger: incorrect lin012w report

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 23:32 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:12:58PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > So I think the report is in error. > > Yes, the script should check against '1' and not '0', I've fixed that in &g

Bug#304994: resolvconf: syntax error in generated forwarders

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: resolvconf Version: 1.26 Severity: normal resolvconf seems to generate # more /var/run/bind/named.options // named.conf fragment automatically generated by /etc/resolvconf/update.d/bind // DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. Instead edit /etc/bind/named.conf.options . options { forwarders { ;

Bug#304586: Bug #304586: fetchmail: resolvconf script is missing

2005-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:11:10AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Does fetchmail not install the file unless resolvconf is already > installed? But the files under update.d are from packages also > installed before resolvconf. > No. According to apt-file, the files under update.d

Bug#304994: #304994 apparently solved

2005-04-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:50:58PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Please forgive me if this is a duplicate mail but I don't see my mail > turning up in the BTS. This is the only copy I've received. However, I automatically filter duplicates out. > > Thanks for the bug report. I have confirmed that

Bug#305214: tiger: Mysterious Tiger_Running_Procs error

2005-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-22 Severity: normal My logs show OLD: --FAIL-- [con009e] There are no running process configured. Please add the Tiger_Running_Procs variable to tigerrc. As far as I can tell, this variable is not documented. At first I thought it was a new name for check_runpr

Bug#305214: tiger: Mysterious Tiger_Running_Procs error)

2005-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops: the variable is defined and explained in tigerrc. Still, it would be good to update the man page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#252305: bacula-console-gnome: docs say this should work

2005-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-console-gnome Version: 1.36.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #252305 file:///usr/share/doc/bacula-doc/html-manual/quickstart.html says, of the console program, Normally, for first time users, no change is needed to these files. Reasonable defaults are set. -- System Information: Debian Rel

Bug#305220: bacula-console-gnome help doesn't describe actual syntax

2005-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-console-gnome Version: 1.36.2-1 Severity: minor The program offers this help: Usage: gnome-console [-s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [config_file] My reading of that (the last arg) is that one may specify the config_file without the -c argument. When I do so, I get the help

Bug#305214: 305214 tigerrc info

2005-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
otice the default tigerrc has all of the Tiger_Running_Procs variables commented out (just installed -24). This means someone who installs it is bound to get a warning about that variable being missing. It might be better to turn on some default value (even if empty). -- Ross Boylan

Bug#305591: vim-vimoutliner: README.Debian has reversed the sense of a comparison

2005-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.3-3 Severity: minor README.Debian says The only difference of your concern is that you have to have set in your /etc/vim/vimrc new runtime path (for vim < 6.2, which has these paths apparently set up correctly -

Bug#304242: manpages: hosts(5) wrong or confusing

2005-04-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks. One further change proposed below, and a further query. On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:42:29PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > See the attached patch. > > Regards, > > Joey > > Index: man5/hosts.5 > === > RCS fil

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