Bug#387078: exim4-config: local_host_whitelist man page entries a bit confusing

2007-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:20:52PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > tags #387078 moreinfo > user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > usertags #387078 close-20070228 > thanks > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Would it be less confusing if that whitelist would be renamed to > > acl_local

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2007-01-17 Thread Ross Boylan
m the menu is starting without a command line argument, so this problem might have broad impact. On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:35:58AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Ross Boylan schrieb: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:34:41AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Ross Boylan wrote: > &g

Bug#407724: iceweasel: about:start -> The URL is not valid

2007-01-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 Severity: minor After upgrading from firefox 1.5 to iceweasel as it entered testing, I got the message box "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded" when I first started up. After clicking OK the browser started. It had two tabs open. One was for abo

Bug#407726: iceweasel: cleanup of reportbug message

2007-01-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 Severity: minor The message printed by reportbug when submitting iceweasel reports has various typos, grammatical problems, and infelicities. I've attached a patch and also the new version of the file. The patch standardizes on "iceweasel" as the name o

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2007-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 13:03 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: . > I'm accessing the system remotely today, so restarting seems not a > good idea. > Because of bug 403136 I'm reluctant to restart. I'm running LVM on a SCSI disk, which seems to be in the scope of the bug, whic

Bug#402665: gnutls13: gnutls and exim work here

2006-12-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gnutls13 Version: 1.4.4-3 Followup-For: Bug #402665 For what it's worth, I tested for this problem on my setup and did not encounter it. I'm running on an Athlon chip, no Xen (2.4 kernel--see below). exim4-daemon-heavy4.63-11 The test consisted of sending a message via /usr

Bug#403548: INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3'

2006-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.7.5-2 Severity: wishlist The most recent upgrade showed INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3' in the log in (apparently) the section for fail2ban. I assume this means fail2ban somehow depends on python 2.3; I believe 2.4 is now the default (for etch). This ma

Bug#403548: INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3'

2006-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 05:53:01PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Ross, > > 0.7.x branch of fail2ban actually can't use 2.3 thus there is no any > dependency I am aware of: > > *$> grep -r '2\.3' * > debian/patches/X00_rigid_python24.dpatch:## DP: Due to currently default > python2.3 we n

Bug#403548: INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3'

2006-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:11:08PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I thought myself that it could have been some transition from > previously using 2.3. And BTW I saw same message with many other > packages. > > > I take it there is no substantive reason the package needs python 2.3 > > as oppo

Bug#403959: debootstrap: suite choices appear to be inaccurate and incomplete

2006-12-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.3.1 Severity: normal If I have not misunderstood how the package operates, this might be something worth fixing before etch release. It appears the legal values for "suite" are determined by the entries in /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/. I notice several things

Bug#396934: vim-vimoutliner: help is inaccessible

2006-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.4-5 Severity: normal :help vo doesn't work anymore. It gets me 'viewoptions' 'vop' in options.txt. The file /usr/share/vim/addons/doc/vo_readme.txt.gz is on my system and appears to have the proper text; I just can't get to it. This used to work, so recent

Bug#396934: vim-vimoutliner: help is inaccessible

2006-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
t; madduck: that time is the time the package was built > > Thanks, James! Thanks everyone. Is there something I can do now to fix this up? e.g., run helpztags as root with some directories (which ones?)? > -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185

Bug#397092: cyrus-imapd-2.2: source package includes CVS directories

2006-11-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-9 Severity: minor apt-get source cyrus-imapd-2.2 produced a directory tree with many CVS subdirectories and the corresponding entries. Unless there's a good reason, it would be cleaner to eliminate them. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unst

Bug#388297: dvdisaster: several minute pause before starting

2006-11-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:27:05PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Hi, > > do you still experience the problem, or is the bug now fixed for you? I just tried with the latest round of stuff in testing, and the problem seems to have gone away. Probably OK to close; I can always let you know if it p

Bug#397808: r-base-core: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)

2006-11-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.4.0-1 Severity: minor > install.packages("adapt", lib="lib") as a regular user appears to mostly work, but there is this error message: Warning message: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) I'm not sure what the significance is

Bug#397956: xserver-xorg-core: Xorg man page claims to be for X11R6

2006-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-10 Severity: minor The first line of the Xorg.1 man page says Name Xorg - X11R6 X Server I take it from this news item xserver-xorg-core (1:1.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low * With the latest updates of Xorg, we have transitioned from X11R6 to X11R7

Bug#398001: kdesvn: problems adding a file

2006-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdesvn Version: 0.11.0-1 Severity: normal Summary === 1) Files in the working copy don't display, even after adding them and committing. This seems to go away on restart. 2) When I select the top directory of the working copy and click the green + icon (or use the menu subversion |

Bug#396668: fail2ban: issues with default from on emails

2006-11-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:18:49PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thank you Ross for reporting the issue. > > Would you consider it to be a reincarnation of > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329722 ? > thus option d) in your list? Then I would like to close/merge them > (unles

Bug#396668: Seeking advice on best practices for sender addresses

2006-11-12 Thread Ross Boylan
handle these cases? Possibly documenting the issues or regarding certain system setups as weird, and therefore not necessary to worry about, are options. I've cc'd the most recent fail2ban bug on this topic. Feel free to leave the cc on your reply if you think it appropriate. Th

Bug#402228: apt-file list shows each file repeatedly

2006-12-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-file Version: 2.0.8.2 Severity: normal $ apt-file list bash bash: bin/bash bash: bin/bash bash: bin/bash bash: bin/rbash bash: bin/rbash bash: bin/rbash bash: bin/sh bash: bin/sh bash: bin/sh Those are all x3. Some at the end are x2 or x1: bash: usr/bin/bashbug bash: usr/bin/bashbug

Bug#402344: /usr/bin/dzhandle: dzhandle ... instance-restart-policy ... manual fails

2006-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope-common Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dzhandle # dzhandle -z 2.8 instance-restart-policy plone-site manual Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/dzhandle", line 2392, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/dzhandle", line 2383, in main if action.check_arg

Bug#402347: zope-common: dzhandle zopectl stop fails on zope3 instance

2006-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope-common Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal # dzhandle -z 3 zopectl upj stop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/zope3/instance/upj/bin/zopectl", line 43, in ? run() File "/var/lib/zope3/instance/upj/bin/zopectl", line 37, in run import zope.app.server.controlle

Bug#402350: fail2ban: NEWS.Debian confusions

2006-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.7.4-3 Severity: minor The NEWS.Debian for the recent changes refers to /etc/defaults/fail2ban. I think that's a typo, and /etc/default/fail2ban is intended. I think even with that correction, the current description is somewhat confusing. First, it mixes a file tha

Bug#402350: fail2ban: NEWS.Debian confusions

2006-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:46:48PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi Ross, > > Thank you for taking a moment to help me with this NEWS entry. > > > The NEWS.Debian for the recent changes refers to > > /etc/defaults/fail2ban. I think that's a typo, and > > /etc/default/fail2ban is intended. >

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

2007-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:01:40PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Maybe just delete the "W: syntax error". > > > that's one of the key messages from ruby, required for reasonable debugging > when the user > doesn't give any debugging output. The message looks as if it's indicating an invalid

Bug#405636: python-xml: unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/utils'

2007-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: python-xml Version: 0.8.4-6 Severity: minor I suspect that, if this is a bug at all, some other package (like python-central) may be the ultimate cause. Feel free to reclassify. Also note the error message is only a warning. I have a testing/etch system with many old versions of python

Bug#405636: python-xml: unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/utils'

2007-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Whatever is going on seems to be specific to python-xml. Here are deletions of 2 older versions of python (these were done after the previous report): # date; apt-get -q remove python2.1 python2.1-doc Thu Jan 4 21:50:47 PST 2007 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... The following p

Bug#405711: zope2.7: cron errors after uninstall

2007-01-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope2.7 Version: 2.7.8-1 Severity: minor After apt-get remove zope2.7 my daily log shows /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error accessing /var/log/zope2.7: No such file or directory error: zope2.7:3 glob failed for /var/log/zope2.7/*/Z2.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited wit

Bug#385541: subcommander: needs debtags

2006-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 12:28:16PM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm not at all sure where debtags come from or who assigns them to > > packages (I had the impression at least some of the process was > > automatic), but it would be nice to use

Bug#400416: fail2ban: Better Documentation

2006-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.7.4-3 Severity: wishlist I'm tempted to give this higher severity. It's very hard to figure out how to use this package, or at least to customize it, with current documentation. Even after reading the provided docs (both man and /usr/share/doc) and visiting the web s

Bug#400416: fail2ban: Better Documentation

2006-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Cyril, One point in this reply of particular relevance to you is a possible feature request, marked with a *** below. I'm hoping it's only a documentation issue. Thanks for your work on fail2ban. Ross Boylan On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 08:56:47PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

Bug#396668: fail2ban: issues with default from on emails

2006-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
email has proper "From" field (must be root@) > > Thank you in advance! > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:29:40AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > Hi Ross, > > > > BTW - given issue is obsolete

Bug#396668: fail2ban: issues with default from on emails

2006-11-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:57:46AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: ... > > Should fail2ban include some kind of dependency on a package that > > provides the mail command (I have mailx, which is priority important, > > and provides mail-reader)? > I will add suggests to mailx I think... mail-reade

Bug#400659: mime-support zeroes /etc/mailcap and then gets stuck

2006-11-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mime-support Version: 3.37-1 Severity: minor I think this problem arises only in weird cases, and so have marked it minor. However, the problem did affect other packages, or at least the log of their installation. If you deem the case too weird, you can just close this. A recent upgrad

Bug#400701: cyrdeliver: ignores -q option

2006-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
's the exim4 transport I use, based on some advice whose source I don't recall: # Deliver to local cyrus IMAP server via LMTP cyrus: debug_print = "T: cyrus for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = lmtp delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add user = cyrus socke

Bug#400835: r-omegahat-ggobi: dead link in copyright + empty package?

2006-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-omegahat-ggobi Version: 2.1.4-2-1 Severity: normal The copyright file refers to http://www.omegahat.org/Rggobi. That link doesn't work for more; I presume it's dead. Hmm, maybe there are bigger problems: The package list doesn't seem to include any "real" files. $ dpkg -L r-omegahat-g

Bug#400835: r-omegahat-ggobi: dead link in copyright + empty package?

2006-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for fixing the big problem. A couple of little problems with the copyright file remain: > | The copyright file refers to http://www.omegahat.org/Rggobi. > | That link doesn't work for more; I presume it's dead. > | Also, the discussion of renaming the file in the copyright file sounded

Bug#401224: ggobi: segfault on reading a csv file

2006-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: ggobi Version: 2.1.4-1 Severity: normal launched ggobi from Konsole. Selected file, open, and chose the attached csv file. The terminal shows Reading csv data Finished parsing [3]+ Segmentation fault ggobi The data are exported from R with the default write.table. Once I switch

Bug#401247: tellico: No Help

2006-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tellico Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: normal When I select "Tellico Handbook" from the help menu of tellico, I get There is no documentation available for /tellico/index.html. This is despite the fact that tellico-data has installed an impressive number of files under /usr/share/doc/kde/HTM

Bug#396488: module-assistant: KVERS undocumented

2006-10-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.7 Severity: normal The option -I takes a "List of kernel version strings (as in KVERS)" according to the man page. The meaning and format of KVERS is never explained. I thought I might find it in the make-kpkg man page, referenced at the bottom of module-a

Bug#396491: module-assistant: apparently spurious "Source not found" error

2006-10-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.7 Severity: normal iron:/usr/local/src/kernel# export MODULE_LOC=/usr/local/src/kernel/modules iron:/usr/local/src/kernel# time module-assistant auto-install nvidia; date . Updated infos about 1 packages Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.16-2-k7-smp Ker

Bug#396668: fail2ban: issues with default from on emails

2006-11-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.6.1-11 Severity: minor The default configuration uses # Option: from # Notes.: e-mail address of the sender. # Values: MAIL Default: fail2ban # from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 issues with this. First, fail2ban is not a user on the system. As a result, the mail may b

Bug#396776: karm: stops timing too readily

2006-11-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: karm Version: 4:3.5.5-1 Severity: minor If one edits a task that is currently timing, and add some time to it, the timer stops. Actually, simply opening the editor and then hitting OK stops the timer. If one selects setttings | configure karm, and then hits OK on the dialogue, the timer

Bug#398499: korganizer: exceptions to recurrences don't seem to work

2006-11-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal I created a new event and enabled recurrences. However, when I attempt to create some exceptions (lower right corner of the recurrence tab) nothing happens. When I choose a date for which an event is scheduled (admittedly, the first d

Bug#396668: fail2ban: issues with default from on emails

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
r of the email, not the recipient. I have some doubts about localhost, as mentioned in earlier messages for this bug. Ross > > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:18:49PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > Thank you Ross for reporting th

Bug#374993: #374993: karm copy to clipboard trouble reported upstream

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
nes and copying the files in .kde/share/apps/karm back and forth. I may have done this when the app was open once or twice. --- Additional Comment #1 From tstaerk 2006-11-14 17:19 --- I can reproduce this. It seems to me that "Copy all Tasks" starts copying the tasks from the

Bug#374993: [Bug 137309] incomplete time reports totals [Patch]

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you! Ross On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:10 +, tstaerk wrote: > --- You are receiving this mail because: --- > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137309 > > > > > --- Additional Comments From dev staerk

Bug#398692: packagesearch: blank lines in file list for uninstalled files

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 2.2.2 Severity: minor When I select an uninstalled package, go to the files tab, and hit show files, the resulting display has every other line blank. I assume it is double spacing because of improper line end handling, though I suppose there are other possibilitie

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
ing by the announcement about upstream tracking). I also tried a deletion; it didn't work either. I've rebooted since the original report; it didn't help. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
forwarded 38499 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137435 thanks Trying again... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
forwarded 398499 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137435 thanks Ugh. 3rd time's a charm? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#357413: confirming close (kword: paste into table fails)

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Sorry about not responding. At the time of the original request, 1.5 was not available in testing, and I lost track of this by the time it got there. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369576: Re #369576: Error messages while installing

2006-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm getting about the same errors with a slightly more recent version: Setting up scm (5e3-6) ... error in control file: `Index' value missing for format `info' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 709, line 9. error in control file: `Index' value missing for format `info' at /usr/sbin/install-docs li

Bug#294266: cdbackup: provide sequence info

2005-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cdbackup Version: 0.6.3-3 Severity: wishlist cdbackup apparently writes the same label to each volume in the backup set. It would be useful if there were a quick way of identifying the sequencing within the set. This might be done by modifying the label (-a) or by adding a small file on

Bug#294277: cdrw-taper: inconsistencies about need for intermediate directory

2005-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cdrw-taper Version: 0.3-4.1 Severity: minor README.Debian says "$DUMP_DIR should be on a large partition; one with enough free space to hold all of your dumped backups." Install.html says "Since the PORT-WRITE command is now supported you no longer need to configure a holding disk." (No

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

2005-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:38:02AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Please, check if running 'faxsetup -server' fixes the problem. And see > the differences to /etc/hylafax/setup.cache > > That didn't seem to help. I got the same notification of attempted email delivery without a recipient. I

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

2005-02-09 Thread Ross Boylan
I just sent a fax without any of the -f to change the sender, and it made no difference--email notification still fails. The command was sendfax -m -n -R -d 123 somefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#294538: postgresql: help bacula maintainer with postgres integration

2005-02-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: postgresql Version: 7.4.7-1 Severity: wishlist Since I tend to use postgres, I'd like to use the flavor of bacula that works with postgres. Unfortunately, there are a couple of RC bugs against the package, and the maintainer has indicated he needs help. I can probably get things working

Bug#294650: libapache2-svn: changes in permissions are obscure and incomplete

2005-02-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libapache2-svn Version: 1.1.3-1 Severity: normal A recent upgrade caused my commits to fail for a day until I realized what was going on. The message at the client was svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of '/svn/!svn/act/48a528a5-b8ef-0310-9939-d2c23b6a7cc5': 500 Intern

Bug#291761: packagesearch: search seems not to work

2005-02-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:40:52PM +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello Ross, > > > Rather than trying to deal with changes, you could just put a lock on > > the database. I assume there's some standard way to do so. That is > > ugly, considering it's read only, but at least it would fix the >

Bug#273287: 273287 documentation

2005-02-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Sorry to catch up late with your earlier (pre-close) message. I don't think policy requires the stuff to be zipped, because this is the first package I've encountered that has this problem. Perhaps the reason is that policy refers to "text" while the files involved are "html." I just checked the

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

2005-02-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I can confirm that I did not see the problematic message on upgrade to 1:4.2.1-2. I take it that not running faxaddmodem was the right thing to do in my case. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-02-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Nothing in this message relates directly to the original bug report. On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi, > here some answers to your questions: > > 1. The setup.cache used to include references to /usr/local. This is the > suggested behaviour from upstream, but I

Bug#294134: hylafax-server: email notification of completed fax fails still needs work for mawk

2005-02-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I haven't had a chance to catch up with this til today. This note is just about the original problem. I think a little more tweaking is in order. The good news is that changing the AWK variable in setup.cache fixed the problem, even without upgrading. The bad news is that the upgrade postinst s

Bug#295441: tiger: Disk device has read access for group root

2005-02-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-19 Severity: minor I keep getting warnings like this: OLD: --WARN-- [perm021w] Disk device /dev/evms/home has read access for group root. OLD: --WARN-- [perm021w] Disk device /dev/evms/local has read access for group root. These are for volumes under control of

Bug#289954: ucf: installation hung up at 3-way merge; input ignored

2005-01-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: ucf Version: 1.13 Severity: normal This may warrant higher severity; the problem has hung up an apt-get dist-ugprade in midstream. (worked around while filing this report). Symptoms During an apt-get -q dist-upgrade, run inside an emacs shell, the installation of lm-sensors re

Bug#289954: ucf: installation hung up at 3-way merge; input ignored

2005-01-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:28:16PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > reassign 289954 emacs21 > retitle 289954 emacs terminal causes package installs using ucf/debconf to > hang > thanks > ... > > Well, since this only happens when it is running under emacs, > this is not something ucf can

Bug#290816: chkrootkit: false positive for j2re1.4? doc issue

2005-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.44-2 Severity: normal I get this report: /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/.systemPrefs /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/.systemPrefs/.system.lock /usr/lib/j2se/1.4

Bug#289838: Thread-safe postgres?

2005-03-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I notice the installation instructions for bacula say Note, if you already have a running MySQL or PostgreSQL on your system, you can skip this phase provided that you have built the thread safe libraries. I don't see anything definitive in the postgresql README.Debian about whether this option w

Bug#297623: 297623: Solution to sa-exim permission problems under Debian

2005-03-10 Thread Ross Boylan
the default MTA for sarge. The choice of Debian-exim4 is deliberate, an attempt to conform to Debian policy. So I think it's the sa-exim package that needs to change. Perhaps this is only an issue for upgraders. cc'ing various lists of people who might want to kn

Bug#299015: packagesearch: display widget for progress doesn't work too well

2005-03-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 1.0.1 Severity: minor I started the gui from root, and did a file search update. A window labelled "RunCommandWidget" appeared. 1. It shows several lines of progress display (a percentage, bytes, download rate, etc). I think these are all from the same download,

Bug#299097: netdiag: statnet consumes 90% CPU

2005-03-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: netdiag Version: 0.7-7 Severity: normal I have repeatedly observed that if I logout and then log back in statnet consumes most of the CPU until I kill it. For example, I currently see $ ps -lC statnet F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 R 1000 25972

Bug#299334: snort: NEWS file not displayed properly

2005-03-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: snort Version: 2.3.0-7 Severity: minor NEWS.Debian.gz is not displayed automatically on upgrade (e.g., by apt-get working with apt-listchanges and appropriate options). Almost certainly the reason is that the file is not in the correct format. I believe it needs a time/version line like

Bug#297082: apcupsd: new config will stop the daemon from running and is not described

2005-02-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apcupsd Version: 3.10.16-6 Severity: minor The new /etc/init.d/apcupsd relies on the new file /etc/default/apcupsd. It appears to me that unless the latter is edited (away from ISCONFIGURED=no) the startup script (/etc/init.d/apcupsd) will fail. I think this should be flagged in a NEWS f

Bug#297452: a bit more info

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
sendmail... Bug report submitted to: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies sent to: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - So it claims to be sending me email. But my exim logs confirm that o

Bug#297452: reportbug: also getting no cc's

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
"Generally, options corresponding to the GNU long options for reportbug are supported", perhaps this absence is significant. -- Package-specific info: ** /home/ross/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "2.10.1" mode standard ui text realname "Ross Boylan" email "[EMA

Bug#297623: sa-exim: permission problems writing logs

2005-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: sa-exim Version: 4.2-1 Severity: normal Subject: sa-exim: permission problems prevent some logging Package: sa-exim Version: 4.2-1 Severity: normal sa-exim is having permission problems that prevent it from writing to areas under /var/spool/sa-exim. I just noticed this, but it has bee

Bug#406676: Re Bug 406676: problems with bug subscription

2007-02-06 Thread Ross Boylan
f the email are ignored by the BTS." If that's not so, and the check happens after message SMTP acceptance, it might be part of the problem. I am also attempting to subscribe to this bug with this message. -- Ross Boylan wk:

Bug#406676: Re Bug 406676: problems with bug subscription

2007-02-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:27 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I too seem to be having trouble subscribing to bugs, though I have been > able to do so in the past. I receive no confirmation message. Here's > my most recent attempt: > 2007-02-05 17:28:49 1HEF85-0003IS-TL => [

Bug#390321: Re #390321: zope3-sandbox removal is also ugly

2007-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
After receiving the same errors reported in this bug on the latest upgrade to zope3-sandbox (3.3.0-6) from 3.3.0-5, I decided the easiest thing was to get rid of it. That produced quite a few errors: # date; apt-get -q --purge remove zope3-sandbox Thu Feb 8 11:18:46 PST 2007 Reading package list

Bug#403136: Re #403136: SCSI/LVM unbootable--any news?

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Boylan
pretty tricky problem. Feel free to cc me, since my efforts to subscribe to the bug failed (#406676, if you're curious). -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostati

Bug#403136: Re #403136: SCSI/LVM unbootable--any news?

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 01:09 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 16, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any news? It would be great to get it nailed down. Thanks to > No. If you can reproduce the bug please work on it. If I do reproduce it, is there a

Bug#403136: Re #403136: SCSI/LVM unbootable--any news?

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 01:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 16, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I do reproduce it, is there a way to get my system back? > Keeping around a working kernel + initrd is a good plan anyway. > (Do not forget a live dist

Bug#412715: gnucash undoes KDE "Show Desktop" on startup

2007-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gnucash Version: 2.0.2-3 Severity: minor Running under KDE I hit the "Show Desktop" icon just to the right of the "K" start button. This minimizes all apps that are open on the screen. Then I started gnucash (from the file menu). All the previously minimized applications are restored.

Bug#413143: wvdial asks for password again on upgrade

2007-03-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: wvdial Version: 1.56-1.2 Severity: minor A recent upgrade of wvdial asked me for my password again, even though it was already configured. Oddly, it did not ask for account name or phone number, and at the end of the setup it gave a message indicating it was skipping stuff because it was

Bug#413145: bacula-director-pgsql: "No such file or directory" message on upgrade

2007-03-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 1.38.11-8 Severity: minor For the latest upgrade I see this: Setting up bacula-director-pgsql (1.38.11-8) ... dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-pgsql.conf Processing configuration .../usr/share/bacula-director/postinst-

Bug#413411: flac: missing user documentation

2007-03-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: flac Version: 1.1.2-5 Severity: minor The bottom of the flac man page says The programs are documented fully by HTML format documentation, available in /usr/share/doc/flac/html on Debian GNU/Linux systems. I have no such directory and see no flac-doc package. libflac-doc has no file

Bug#412129: r-omegahat-ggobi: rggobi seems to be hanging on to a lot of X resources

2007-02-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-omegahat-ggobi Version: 2.1.4-3-1 Severity: minor xrestop showed rggobi was the biggest consumer of resources on my system. Since I didn't even have any ggobi windows open (and hadn't for days), this was quite a surprise: $ xrestop -b -m 1 | grep -A 17 ggobi 0 - rggobi ( PID:30311 ):

Bug#412129: r-omegahat-ggobi: rggobi seems to be hanging on to a lot of X resources

2007-02-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:59 -0600, Michael Lawrence wrote: > How reproducible is this bug? Did you try to rm() the ggobi references > from the R session? start R inside ESS g<-ggobi(data) 4.7M = total reported by interactive xrestop close(g) 4.6M rm(g) 4.6M g2<-ggobi(data) 9.3M play around with it

Bug#229078: old bug, dtill in problem ??

2007-02-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 09:59 -0500, Olivier Vitrat wrote: > tags 229078 +moreinfo > thanks > > Hi, > > the bug you've reported is ~3 years old. Do you still have the > problem ? > If yes please give us a short note, if not, this bug will be closed in > a few weeks (but you are of course free to re

Bug#408263: 408263: ucfr chatter in tex-common--does it matter?

2007-01-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Do these messages indicate that some part of the installation of tex-common failed? My concern is not with the ultimate cause of the bug, which apparently is in ucf, but of its consequences for tex. If everything is not OK, is there anything I can do to clean things up? Thanks. -- Ross Boylan

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-26 Thread Ross Boylan
And I had to wonder whether I should be looking in tex-common, tetex-base, or elsewhere for clues. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 51

Bug#408705: dia: --export-to-format vs --filter

2007-01-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dia Version: 0.95.0-4.1+b1 Severity: normal The export-to-format option, which is documented on the man page, no longer seems to exist: $ dia --export=Coefficient.eps --export-to-format=eps Coefficient.dia Unknown option --export-to-format=eps (also there is no line end after the error

Bug#408263: 408263: ucfr chatter in tex-common--does it matter?

2007-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 12:42 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do these messages indicate that some part of the installation of > > tex-common failed? My concern is not with the ultimate cause of the > > bug, which ap

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
in the document carried over to the post-processing without further intervention. 3) It would be nice if /etc/papersize controlled what happens when there is no explicit papersize setting. This has a neat solution (if #2 is working, it's just a matter of setting the default when the .tex file

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
[Adding the bug back to the cc list; I inadvertently dropped it a message back.] On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:42 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:30 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PRO

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:09:36AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:22:27 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > So I tried with A4, since my default is now letterpaper. The pdf seems > > to be OK, but the result of dvips is letter size according to gv. > >

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:36:56PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: ... > First: dvi format *does*not*support* the paper size This seems to me to be the root of the problem. la/tex knows the paper size, but that information gets lost, and so it has to be put back in or placed in some \special. Are

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-31 Thread Ross Boylan
inally, On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:26:13PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finally, all the remarks about the inappropriateness of specifying a > > system-wide default papersize being improper, because each document > > may have

Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-01-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Third, we've mostly been talking about geometry, a LaTeX package. > > What is a regular TeX user to do? > > If he cares about document-specific

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