Bug#306340: /usr/bin/mpatrol: package description needs to explain mpatrol vs mpatrolc102

2005-04-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mpatrolc102 Version: 1.4.8-9 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/mpatrol It is not apparent in the package descriptions how mpatrol and mpatrolc102 differ. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')

Bug#306353: pptview: can't start up

2005-04-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: pptview Severity: normal When I tried to view a file with pptview, I got the messages Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin /usr/lib/pptview/pptview c:\HIPAA_Security_Rule_Basic_Modified_042505.ppt ... Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels to set the screen

Bug#306461: mpatrolc102: documentation refers to obsolete gcc -fcheck-memory=usage

2005-04-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mpatrolc102 Version: 1.4.8-9 Severity: minor Section 4.1 (Integration : Adding mpatrol) of the docs, point 3, says "This first step is only available when using gcc. You can make use of the gcc option -fcheck-memory-usage which instructs the compiler to place calls to error-checking func

Bug#306353: pptview: can't start up

2005-05-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:05 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I just checked that pptview does work with wine 0.0.20050310-1.1. I > also get the ITypeInfo, register_ifstub, and RtlCompactHeap messages, > so I wouldn't worry about those. The long file name didn't cause me > any trouble either. If you st

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a possible clue: maybe this is some interaction with package installation. I had the problem happen again, and it was while I was doing an apt-get dist-upgrade (specifically, while it was doing all the installs). I had a tag selected (ftp). Search in description was off. I entered jade i

Bug#292804: hylafax-server: run faxaddmodem after upgrade?!

2005-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hylafax-server Version: 1:4.2.1-1 Severity: normal After a recent upgrade of hylafax-server I discovered the following message had been emailed to me: -- Subject: Debconf: HylaFAX Server -- Don't forget to setup a modem line From: root

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-01-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:32:45PM +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a possible clue: maybe this is some interaction with package > > installation. I had the problem happen again, and it was while I was > > doing an apt-get dist-upgrade (specifically, while it was doing all > >

Bug#281788: mozilla-firefox: repeatable crash at one site debug info

2005-02-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:53:48AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:02:21PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:11:57PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > I upgraded to mozill

Bug#294134: hylafax-server: email notification of completed fax fails

2005-02-07 Thread Ross Boylan
nt but pretends to be from another. It is that other account that should receive the notification. The command line executed on account boylan was sendfax -f "Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" -m -R -n -d "..." That command, which is in a shell script, used to work f

Bug#306985: akregator: crashes on startup after session end

2005-04-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: akregator Version: 1.0-beta10-1 Severity: normal I am unable to start akregator. When I do so, it comes up with the message - The standard feed list is corrupted (invalid XML). A backup was created: /home/ross/.kde/share/apps/akregator/data/feeds.opml-backup.1

Bug#307114: anacron: Clarify relation to cron

2005-04-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: anacron Version: 2.3-11 Severity: wishlist See #14931 for some related issues. I was a bit confused by README.Debian. That file says "you should never be aware that anacron and not cron is taking care of your cron jobs. Jobs registered via cron are run by anacron instead. To avoid cro

Bug#230850: python-pexpect: the docs are pretty good

2005-05-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: python-pexpect Version: 0.999-5 Followup-For: Bug #230850 It would be great to include this stuff; the documentation is actually very helpful and thorough, though its format is unusual (so perfect to go under /usr/share/doc/). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers te

Bug#299334: wording issues with NEWS and the install script

2005-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Also, the NEWS.Debian file refers to /etc/snort/common.parameters. The correct file name is /etc/snort/snort.common.parameters. That name is given correctly by the installation script. Also, the install script message says "Until you do this, the init.d script will not use the new configuration a

Bug#299334: wording issues with NEWS and the install script

2005-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 21:32 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Also, the NEWS.Debian file refers to /etc/snort/common.parameters. > > The correct file name is /etc/snort/snort.common.parameters. > &g

Bug#299334: wording issues with NEWS and the install script

2005-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:13 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 21:32 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Also, the NEWS.Debian file refers to /etc/snort/common.parameters. > > &g

Bug#300985: kernel-patch-evms: depends on non-existent kernel-patch-device-mapper

2005-03-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kernel-patch-evms Version: 2.5.1-1 Severity: normal kernel-patch-device-mapper is no longer present in stable, unstable or testing, having been incorporated into the standard Debian kernel sources (I gather). However, kernel-patch-evms depends on it. Probably the dependency needs to go.

Bug#315435: tiger: Spurious warning about EVMS snapshot volume

2005-06-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-26 Severity: minor tiger gives me the following warning --CONFIG-- [con010c] Filesystem type used by /dev/evms/Backup is not recognised as a local filesystem # ls -l /dev/evms/Bac* brw-r- 1 root root 254, 5 Jun 22 01:05 /dev/evms/Backup Snapshot Possible cau

Bug#317283: evolution: another pin approach and some info

2005-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 2.2.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #317283 You can also put this in your preferences: Package: libgnomecanvas2-0 Pin: version 2.8.0-1 Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: libgnomecanvas2-common Pin: version 2.8.0-1 Pin-Priority: 1001

Bug#207381: 207381: crash behavior

2005-03-24 Thread Ross Boylan
r any automatic bug reporting, or even a hint how to report the bug. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 502-4031 530 Parnassus Avenue (Library) rm 115-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 476-9856 University of Cali

Bug#289838: 289838 success report and lingering questions

2005-03-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I just installed 1.36.2-1 and everything appears to have worked. Of course, I haven't done a backup yet... I had done an abortive earlier install, and then purged it. There remained a bacula user on the system, but not in postgres. However, there were a number of questions in the setup that we

Bug#301449: libboost-dev: files vanish on upgrade to 1.32.0-2

2005-03-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libboost-dev Version: 1.32.0-4 Severity: important I've had libboost-dev installed for awhile, and recently went through an upgrade to 1.32 (I think directly to 1.32.0-2). With version 1.32.0-2 installed, I was misssing at least the following two files under /usr/include/boost: config.hp

Bug#301449: libboost-dev: also vanish on direct upgrade to 1.32.0-4; Work-around

2005-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libboost-dev Version: 1.32.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #301449 Unfortunately, this is to confirm that the problem still exists with the latest libboost. So apparently it was the 2 upgrades that fixed it. I just upgraded another system from 1.31.0-9 directly to 1.32.0-4. Once again, there are

Bug#154872: mozilla-browser: Visiting site hangs entire X session

2005-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I do not see this problem anymore. I have a feeling earthlink has changed their screens (dialup and DSL are now together), but at any rate it works without incident. So, OK to close. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#301449: libboost-dev: also vanish on direct upgrade to 1.32.0-4; Work-around

2005-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > tags 301449 + sarge > thanks > > hi :) > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:13:22PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, this is to confirm that the problem still exists with > > th

Bug#317050: debtags segfaults toward end of processing

2005-07-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debtags Version: 0.99.4 Severity: normal # debtags update Get:1 http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/tags-current.gz [139kB] Get:2 http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/vocabulary.gz [7598B] Fetched 147kB in 0s (231kB/s) Reading tag data and vocabulary for http://people.debian.org/~enric

Bug#317050: debtags segfaults toward end of processing

2005-07-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:17 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:04:38PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Package: debtags > > Version: 0.99.4 > > Severity: normal > > # debtags update > > Get:1 http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/ta

Bug#317050: debtags segfaults toward end of processing

2005-07-12 Thread Ross Boylan
I saw this failure again in my weekly cron job. I reexecuted under gdb; naturally, everything was fine I reexecuted outside of gdb; everything fine there too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#271233: sample file

2005-04-04 Thread Ross Boylan
cdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout My Address Ross Boylan \newline 11 Panorama Dr \newline San Francisco, CA 94131--1243 \layout Send To Address Repair Shop \newline Bit L

Bug#303435: pgaccess can't access databases

2005-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: pgaccess Version: 1:0.98.8.20030520-1 Severity: normal I used pgaccess to create a database, but the it did not show up on the list of databases. Thinking this was a display problem, I exited and restarted the program. No luck. Then I tried to explicitly open it. I got authentication

Bug#303435: #303435 pgaccess authentication problem solved

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
The problem was mostly related to my system setup. However, it might be worth adding a little info to the README.Debian. The two key points I missed were 1) leave the hostname blank when making a connection to use sockets (for this package) 2) if not using sockets, you need a properly running ident

Bug#293233: knoda startup problems

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: knoda Version: 0.7.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #293233 I also see the problem. .xsession-errors shows the following knoda: '' missing. knoda: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. I got it to work by changing the menu entry from knoda -b %u to knoda -- System Information

Bug#303767: knoda: Help unavailable

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: knoda Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: normal Run knoda. Select Help | knoda handbook. The help browser comes up with this message: The requested help file could not be found. Check that you have installed the documentation. The package appears to ship with some docs; perhaps they need to

Bug#303768: knoda: only driver is mysql

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: knoda Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: normal Although I gather the program is supposed to work with a variety of servers, the only driver it shows is for mysql. There is no indication of how to get others, nor do there seem to be suggested packages that would help. I have $ dpkg -l 'libhk*'

Bug#303773: mergeant: no way to edit data

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mergeant Version: 0.12.1-3 Severity: normal As far as I can tell, when I create a query I should be able to run it and see the results. I can't (for example, hitting execute on the query does nothing visible). I attempted defining output fields several ways, without luck. Since the doc

Bug#303771: mergeant: docs and app don't match

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mergeant Version: 0.12.1-3 Severity: minor The documentation differs significantly from the application. The docs also lack graphics. Since the app doesn't really work (separate bug), the discrepancy is not surprising. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing

Bug#303770: pgadmin3: characters cut off in view data

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: pgadmin3 Version: 1.2.0-2 Severity: minor When viewing a table of data in the window that lets you edit the data, not alll the characters are fully visible. This is actually the result of 3 different problems. 1. The headers are cut off vertically and horizontally. 2. The column widths

Bug#173879: also interested in Leo

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
a) is likely to change the files, resulting in lots of security warnings also maybe c) if the .pyc files are from a different version of python than the one on your system, there might be trouble. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#303435: #303435 pgaccess authentication problem solved

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:15:07PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:54 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > ... > > Here's the fuller explanation I sent to debian-user: > > -- > > I am trying to use a G

Bug#303768: knoda: only driver is mysql

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:52:18PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Although I gather the program is supposed to work with a variety of > > servers, the only driver it shows is for mysql. There is no > > indication of how to get others, nor do there

Bug#303768: knoda: only driver is mysql

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:52:24PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I think it would be good to add these to the suggests lists of the > > package, and/or the alternatives (which only give the mysql driver > > right now). > > Look harder:

Bug#303809: kdirstat: help unreadable

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdirstat Version: 2.4.0-2 Severity: normal Help | Kdirstat handbook opens a browser with The requested help file could not be found. Check that you have installed the documentation. Perhaps it needs to be uncompressed? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing

Bug#303809: kdirstat: help unreadable [FIX]

2005-04-08 Thread Ross Boylan
After doing gunzip /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdirstat/index.docbook.gz the help was readable. kdirstat and knoda were the only compressed index.docbooks in that tree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#303976: kdissert: invalid references in docs

2005-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdissert Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: minor UPSTREAM EMAIL The copyright file gives the upstream author as Thomas Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@fr>, That's not a valid email address. The online help has lots of very strange looking edresses for the upstream author too: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Th

Bug#303977: kdissert: latex output references mystery packages

2005-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdissert Version: 0.3.8-1 Severity: normal When I generate output using LaTeX, article style, I get errors at \usepackage{ucs} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} which are automatically inserted in the output. Both files it wants seem to be in the latex-ucs package. I think I have a fairly c

Bug#303978: gjots2: help inaccessible

2005-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gjots2 Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: normal Start program Select Help | Read manual A second window opens up, but above it this error appears: jgots2.gjots is not readable. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Arc

Bug#304076: bacula: provide additional configuration information

2005-04-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula Severity: wishlist It would be helpful to indicate what users the various bacula components run as, since this is configurable. From what I can tell, fd runs as root and the rest run as bacula. The upstream docs could be clearer on this: I was trying to figure out what environmen

Bug#303770: pgadmin3: characters cut off in view data

2005-04-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:01:32PM +0200, Raphaël Enrici wrote: > Hello Ross, > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > When viewing a table of data in the window that lets you edit the > > data, not alll the characters are fully visible. This is actually the > > result of

Bug#303770: pgadmin3: characters cut off in view data

2005-04-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Raphaël Enrici wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:01:32PM +0200, Raphaël Enrici wrote: > > > >>Hello Ross, > >> > >>Ross Boylan wrote: > >>>When viewing a table of data in the

Bug#304212: please add evms_metadata_{backup,restore} utilities

2005-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evms Version: 2.5.1-1 Severity: wishlist The current EVMS User Guide, section 24, mentions 2 command line utilities to backup and restore evms metadata: evms_metadata_backup and evms_metadata_restore. Apparently they were added in 2.5.0. It would be helpful to add those to the Debian pac

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

2005-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: manpages Version: 1.70-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The description of /etc/hosts says "The format of the host table is described in RFC 952." But that format is not at all close to the format given in this man page. 3 possibilities occur to me: 1) My interpretati

Bug#303976: kdissert: invalid references in docs

2005-04-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:40:45PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The copyright file says > > "The source code was downloaded from > > <http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12725>." > > That site's l

Bug#304586: fetchmail: resolvconf script is missing

2005-04-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.2.5-12 Severity: normal dpkg -L fetchmail shows /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/fetchmail but it's not on my system. In fact nothing is in the update-libc.d directory, though some things are under update.d. This has the unfortunate effect that fetchmail no longer run

Bug#329163: fail2ban: fails to handle missing chain

2005-10-18 Thread Ross Boylan
5,663 WARNING: No 'maxreinits' defined in 'DEFAULT' fail2ban. " It wasn't entirely clear to me whether fail2ban was running in this case, though I think it was (since it's only a warning). To clarify this, you might add "defaulting to maxreinits = -1" or

Bug#335794: spamassassin: UPGRADE.gz documentation has wrong heading

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-1 Severity: minor The file UPGRADE.gz includes this heading: Note for Users Upgrading from SpamAssassin 3.0.x However, the material that follows seems to be for people upgrading *to* 3.0.x. Otherwise, it woul

Bug#335799: spamassassin: man -k (apropos) doesn't turn up all man pages

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-1 Severity: minor man -k spamassin lists only some of the relevant pages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ man -k SpamAssassin Mail::SpamAssassin (3pm) - Spam detector and markup engine Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator (3pm) - find and process messages one at a ti

Bug#335829: bacula-director-common: BackupCatalog example doesn't work, at least for Postgres

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-common Version: 1.36.3-1b Severity: wishlist When I activated the BackupCatalog job in bacula-dir.conf, I got this: 25-Oct 01:40 wheat-dir: RunBefore: Password: 25-Oct 01:40 wheat-dir: RunBefore: pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "bacula" failed: fe_sendauth

Bug#304076: bacula: expanding on the information request

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula Followup-For: Bug #304076 First, my apologies for having overlooked this for so long. > >More generally, it might be good to show the config options you used > >in building the package. > > > > > This seems like a candidate for README.Debian, doesn't it? Yes. > >Still more gen

Bug#280662: evolution: similar problem when creating a pop account

2005-09-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 2.2.3-4 Followup-For: Bug #280662 I think I've run into the same problem, and since I ran into it while creating a POP account, and another report mentioned that too, I'm hoping this will provide a clue about where the problem lies. I have evolution configured with abo

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

2005-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-2 Severity: wishlist It would be nice to add a "See also" referring to update-exim4.conf from the exim4 man page. Perhaps references to other exim commands would be appropriate as well. Not all installations will have update-exim4.conf; that might be an argument, or

Bug#330975: update-exim4.conf: "sensible" on man page

2005-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-2 Severity: minor The man page for update-exim4.conf, in the "Notes" section, says "if you're keeping sensible information". I think you mean "sensitive," not "sensible." sensitive = precious, delicate, info that shouldn't be public sensible = rational -- Package-s

Bug#330980: update-exim4.conf: undocumented DEBCONF variable

2005-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-2 Severity: minor main/01_exim4-config_listmacrodefs uses DEBCONFlocal_domainsDEBCONF but the variable does not seem to be listed on the man page for update-exim4.conf. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.52 #1 built 21-Aug-2005 09:46:54 Copyright (c) Universit

Bug#331695: fail2ban: Note possible need to modify firewall rules

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.5.2-4 Severity: wishlist It would be good to note that if the user has or modifies the INPUT chain they will need to include rules (and their names) to keep fail2ban working. I didn't appreciate this and accidentally disabled it. Also, I'm not sure if the rules will

Bug#331695: fail2ban: Note possible need to modify firewall rules

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:17:29PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Would you mind me merging this bug with > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329163 > ? > they seems to be about the same problem > or I misinterpreted it? It's in the same neighborhood, but a different building.

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

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 19:18 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:04:05AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > It would be nice to add a "See also" referring to update-exim4.conf > > from the exim4 man page. Perhaps references to other exim commands > &g

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

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 13:37 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 19:18 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:04:05AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > It would be nice to add a "See also" referring to update-exim4.conf > > > from th

Bug#331716: exim4: handling of various system users

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-2 Severity: wishlist [2nd attempt to submit this bug] Thanks to recent local chaos, the system attempted to deliver some undeliverable messages to the original sender, logcheck. /etc/aliases on my system needed logcheck: root as an entry. When I checked, I discove

Bug#331721: www.debian.org: http://lists.alioth.debian.org directs you to a moderated list for help

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor lists.alioth.debian.org says "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]" As I discovered when I posted there, it's a moderated list. I suggest either 1) turn off moderation 2) direct people to an unmoderated list or, le

Bug#331695: fail2ban: Note possible need to modify firewall rules

2005-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:18:27PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:29:45AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > concerns the program operation and endless loop. This one concerns > > primarily user information (which may have been addressed) and the >

Bug#329722: email trouble with unqualified fail2ban sender

2005-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
is root, but From: is fail2ban. This raises other issues (e.g., are you allowed to set the envelope sender?). -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Bug#332520: update-exim4.conf manpage more undocumented variables

2005-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-2 Severity: minor dc_mailname_in_oh='true' appears in my update-exim4.conf.conf file, but is not documented on the corresponding man page. The following DEBCONF variables are also undocumented: DEBCONFheaders_rewriteDEBCONF DEBCONFreturn_pathDEBCONF These appear i

Bug#328361: exim4-config: update web reference for pkg-exim4

2005-09-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.52-2 Severity: minor The current README.Debian for the configuration says "The development web page can be found on http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/"; As I discovered when I tried it, that's moved to http://wiki.debian.net/?PkgExim4 It would be good to update

Bug#328739: packagesearch: crashes at end of "loading debtags plugin"

2005-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 1.2 Severity: important For a few months I've been unable to start packagesearch on one system I use (but not the other!). I keep hoping the misbehavior will go away, but it hasn't. $ packagesearch & [1] 12326 $ Loaded plugin: Apt Plugins Loaded plugin: Debtags

Bug#323840: fail2ban: fuller documentation would be helpful

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.5.2-2 Severity: wishlist Thanks for making this available; I've been wanting something like this. 1. It would be good to include the upstream README. 2. The main page for fail2ban should have "See also" section for the conf file, and vice-versa. Or you could just d

Bug#323849: locales: error on install: double free or corruption

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: locales Version: 2.3.5-3 Severity: normal My system is mostly testing, but I upgraded parts to unstable, including glibc. During that same upgrade, I got the error: - Setting up locales (2.3.5-3) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)

Bug#323856: packagesearch: provide ability to check off packages of interest

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 1.2 Severity: wishlist This is definitely a wishlist item. I'm using packagesearch to identify possible packages of interest. It would be nice if I could build up a list of ones that looked good, and then narrow the focus to just those items. One way to do this w

Bug#323859: unison-gtk: man page refers to non-existent documentation

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: unison-gtk Version: 2.9.1-2sarge2 Severity: minor man unison-gtk says See Also The program is documented fully in the in-built documentation and the manual, available as HTML, PostScript and text in /usr/share/doc/unison/. In fact, only the text file is prese

Bug#323866: apt-get man page synopsis should list dist-upgrade

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: minor Oddly, the top of the man page for apt-get doesn't include the dist-upgrade command, though it is described further down. -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not

Bug#323871: apt-get man: wrong example text

2005-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: minor The apt-get man page says The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions belonging to any release whose Archive name is "stable" and whose release Version number is "3.0".

Bug#324200: rsync: man page contradictory on use of ssh

2005-08-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: rsync Version: 2.6.5-1 Severity: minor The man page says "a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications" (while noting it may have been configure otherwise, but then goes on to say (about remote shells) "One common substitute is to use ssh", which makes it sound as if ssh is not the def

Bug#322746: package configuration blocked by double free error

2005-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:47 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Every time an install or upgrade attempts to configure I get this error: > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x089a79c8 *** > > The problems this is causing are rapidly spreading. debconf in now not

Bug#325039: tkman: Problems in component paths of MANPATH environment variable

2005-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tkman Version: 2.2-1 Severity: normal When tkman starts, the first page it shows ("A Bird? A Plane?..") shows this message above the headline: Warnings Problems in component paths of MANPATH environment variable... /usr/share/man -- no `whatis' file for apropos => generate `whatis'

Bug#332679: debian-reference-en: describe how to set FQDN

2005-10-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-reference-en Version: 1.08-4 Severity: wishlist The discussion of network setup doesn't explain how to setup the FQDN. The only explanation of where it comes from is in 10.4 (DNS): "To see what domain name is associated with the local host, use the hostname --fqdn command. This p

Bug#229089: lyx-qt crashes on maximization after table manipulations

2005-10-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:26 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:41:44PM -0800, Ross Boylan said > > Package: lyx > > Version: 1.3.1-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > Newly installed lyx-qt. Created new document. Inserted 25 row x 3 > > colum

Bug#325336: quanta: help unavailable from new project wizard

2005-08-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: quanta Version: 1:3.3.2-6 Severity: normal Start a new project. Hit the help button at the lower left of the window that comes up. Nothing happens. It's repeatable. .xsession-errors shows, apparently at the same time meinproc: ERROR: File '/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en//quanta/introducti

Bug#325339: quanta: Can't get new project to work with a remote site

2005-08-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: quanta Version: 1:3.3.2-6 Severity: normal There appear to be two problems relating to new projects. First, the mental model of them is not clear. Second, I seem to get hung up at the point of file retrieval. Both problems may arise from my poor understanding, but minimally I think the

Bug#282137: Fwd: Possible patch for kprof/gprof totals interpretation

2005-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:24:32 +0100 > From: Jeremy Laine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Jeremy Laine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Possible patch for kprof/gprof totals interpretation > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I agree with Ross, kprof does consider the "cumulative" time/perc

Bug#326837: leafnode: Unable to read config file after dpkg-reconfigure

2005-09-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: leafnode Version: 1.11.3.rel-4 Severity: normal I was running leafnode on a system with sporadic ppp connections. After getting a permanent connection, I ran dpkg-reconfigure to tell it I had one. Things didn't work after that, and the log show lots of entries like Sep 5 20:41:27 local

Bug#317283: Has this bug disappeared?

2005-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
The bug is still present in testing for me. Upgrade->crash downgrade->working. Here was the upgrade: Inst libgnomecanvas2-0 [2.8.0-1] (2.10.2-2 Debian:testing) [] Inst libgnomecanvas2-common [2.8.0-1] (2.10.2-2 Debian:testing) Strictly speaking, this is probably not a bug in evolution, but I don't

Bug#320707: i2c-source: explain what's up with gcc-3.3

2005-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: i2c-source Version: 1:2.9.1-2 Severity: wishlist The latest changelog says this (and lm-sensors, I think) are built with gcc-3.3. I assume the default alternative in unstable is gcc-4.x. Other than the changelog, I didn't see anything in /usr/share/doc/i2c-source/ explaining this. I as

Bug#404446: postinst: messages misleading + very slow

2006-12-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-10 Severity: minor On upgrade, postint runs cyrus-makedirs. The latter says Creating cyrus control directories in /var/lib/cyrus... Creating partition spool /var/spool/cyrus/mail... Creating partition spool /var/spool/cyrus/news... Trying to optimize Cyr

Bug#405097: postgresql-doc-8.1 references apparently dated pgdocs-pdf

2006-12-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: postgresql-doc-8.1 Version: 8.1.5-2 Severity: minor The package description says, in part, "The manual is in HTML format. See the packages pgdocs-pdf and pgdocs-pdf-a4 for other printable formats." But those packages are available only in the 7.4 versions. Probably the references should

Bug#405256: apt-listbugs: undefined method `each'

2007-01-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.69 Severity: normal While running aptitude, installing just the package darcs, I get Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: undefined method `each' for # Error retrieving bug reports Retry downloading bug i

Bug#405256: Re #405256: apt-listbugs error

2007-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Error retrieving bug reports The preceding was with the unstable apt-listbugs 0.0.71 running within apt-get on a 2.6 kernel. My original report was with the testing version running within aptitude on a 2.4 kernel. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St

Bug#404446: Re 404446: cyrus-common-2.2 postinst and squat

2007-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I speculate, to the error messages. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Fran

Bug#405256: Re #405256: apt-listbugs error

2007-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
tem, the one with the original error or the one with the error reported below? Thanks. Ross > > At Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:56:40 -0800, > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > I got somewhat different error messages after my initial report, and am > > getting the same messages (

Bug#405256: Re #405256: apt-listbugs error

2007-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:21:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > At Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:58:48 -0800, > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:41:14AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > dupe of 405298 > > Are you saying my original report

Bug#405575: libglade2-0: Grammatical error in package description

2007-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libglade2-0 Version: 1:2.6.0-4 Severity: minor The current package description includes This library allows you to load user interfaces in your program, which are stored externally. The antecedent of "which" is "your program," which is clearly not the intent. I suggest This library a

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2007-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 03:33 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: kdesvn > > Version: 0.11.0-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Summary > > === > > > > 1) Files in the working copy don't display, even after adding th

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2007-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 02:53 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I was able to reproduce this using the following steps. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir test1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date; svn mkdir http://localhost/svn/scratch -m "play > > a

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2007-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:34:41AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > Hmm, 2.6.18 is installed, but either I haven't rebooted or I need to > > update something. > > > > Could the problem be further up the stack, e.g. fam? I vaguely

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