Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

2007-02-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:47:58AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > I think I'm repeating myself, but the intent may be to have a document > > (.tex

Bug#409344: hylafax-doc: some links in documentation don't work

2007-02-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hylafax-doc Version: 2:4.3.1-6 Severity: minor Some of the web pages in hylafax-doc include links that don't work. For example, on file:///usr/share/doc/hylafax-doc/html/operation.html the first link, for "init" is file:///cgi-bin/man/man2html?init. That doesn't work. Most of the links

Bug#409345: hylafax-server: Clarify accounts, privileges, and file ownership and modes

2007-02-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hylafax-server Version: 2:4.3.1-6 Severity: wishlist I ran into a problem that I believe was the result of bad ownership/permissions of some configuration files. To verify that, I attempted to determine what the intended ownership and mode of the file was and what user hylafax (in partic

Bug#409345: hylafax-server: Clarify accounts, privileges, and file ownership and modes

2007-02-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:58:54AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] > > Background: I attempted to send a fax and got (on the client matchine) > > Service not available, remote server closed connection > > 421 Timeout (900 seconds): closing control connection. > > Document transfer failed: 421 Ti

Bug#409532: hylafax-server: notifications lack retry time

2007-02-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hylafax-server Version: 2:4.3.1-7 Severity: minor I sent a job with the -R option. An intermediate failure notification came back via email (number obscured): Your job to 1 xxx xxx- was not sent because: No local dialtone The job will be retried at and that's the end. I think th

Bug#409532: hylafax-server: notifications lack retry time

2007-02-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:41:18PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno sab, 03/02/2007 alle 12.20 -0800, Ross Boylan ha scritto: > [...] > > Actually, faxstat also did not show a time, > > $ faxstat -h corn -s > > HylaFAX scheduler on corn.xxx.xxx: Running > &g

Bug#418440: tiger: invalid options warning on cron job

2007-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-35 Severity: normal I've attached some odd errors from tigercron. I suspect this is the job that usually mails me a report of files on my system that have changed since baseline. I've had no problems with this before. It is possible the problem lies outside of t

Bug#418440: 418440 tiger: invalid options warning on cron job attachment

2007-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the promised message with the errors. -- 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 Francisc

Bug#418498: bacula-common: README.Debian issues

2007-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-common Version: 2.0.3-2 Severity: normal A narrow issue and a broader one: The changelog refers to README.Debian, but I do not see it in /usr/share/doc/bacula-{doc,common}, the only two packages I have installed. More broadly, I am trying to find out what issues, if any, await me

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 2.0.3-2 Severity: normal May warrant higher severity; I don't know what shape bacula is in, and my current dist-upgrade appears to be hung (though during the setup of a different package). I would appreciate knowing if my installation is OK and, if not, wha

Bug#420202: dist-upgrade hangs completely on "Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1)"

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.38-1 Severity: normal May warrant critical severity, since it blocks dist-upgrade. I typed ctl-C and things seem to be proceeding. I may have stopped mysqld before running the dist-upgrade. There were also problems with an earlier package (that uses dbcon

Bug#420202: dist-upgrade hangs completely on "Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.38-1)"

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:18:00PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > On 2007-04-20 Ross Boylan wrote: > > I may have stopped mysqld before running the dist-upgrade. There were > > also problems with an earlier package (that uses dbconfig), so this > > may be a dbc

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 02:34:02PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:11:07AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Ok. > > Stopping Bacula Director: bacula-dir. > > Starting Bacula Director: 20-Apr 10:35 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at > > parse_conf.c:88

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:51:18PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:07:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > All of this is reminding me of why I held off on the upgrade. Is it > > to late for me to downgrade back to the version I was using? > > If the

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
The first error is Setting up bacula-director-pgsql (2.0.3-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup ... dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-pgsql.conf Replacing config file /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-pgsql.c

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:59:33PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:51:18PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:07:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > All of this is reminding me of why I held off on the upgrade. Is it > > >

Bug#416841: 416841: MySql etch version + 2.4 kernel fails

2007-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
o to a 2.6 kernel. No, I don't think the package needs to support 2.4 kernels. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#416841: 416841: MySql etch version + 2.4 kernel fails

2007-04-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:47:23PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > > On 2007-04-20 Ross Boylan wrote: > > Since there seem to be contradictory reports or claims about whether > > the released version of mysql 5.0 worked with 2.4 kernels, I thought > > I'

Bug#420197: bacula-director-pgsql: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884 and other errors on upgrade

2007-04-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:31:07AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:51:12PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > There are at least two problems that might thwart an automatic > > upgrade: > > 1) configuration files contain invalid parameters. > > Th

Bug#352809: 352809: More on iceweasel "remote" behavior

2007-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
lot of the discussion on these bugs centers on the fact that starting a new instance is not safe (or maybe even possible?) if there is already a running instance for the current user and machine. I'd appreciate cc's on followup, since the bug subscription system is not working reliably.

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: texlive Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal Warrants higher severity if I have not put my system into some idiosyncratic, oddball state. I think there's some kind of circular dependency among the the texlive packages; I'm too sleepy to get to the bottom of it. The various tex's hav

Bug#384945: Acknowledgement (texlive system will not install)

2006-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried removing all the packages again, and reinstalling. Still no dice. The message suggests I need a purge, so I tried purging. Here's the log: --- (Reading database ... 165488 files and directories currently installed.) Removing dvipdfmx ... /var/lib/dp

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear Ross! > > Did you see this: > > On Son, 27 Aug 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > corn:~# date; aptitude -q install texlive-base > ... > > Unpacking texlive-doc-base (from .../texlive-doc-base_2005-2

Bug#384265: cyrus-common-2.2: other logcheck warnings

2006-08-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 19:35 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote on 24/08/2006 20:58: > > While I'm at it, here are 2 more messages that probably should be > > screened out (each was originally a single line): > > > > Aug 23 16:56:08 iron cyrus/imap[15676

Bug#385541: subcommander: needs debtags

2006-08-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: subcommander Version: 1.1.1-4 Severity: wishlist The current package doesn't seem to have any debtags, as a result of which it is easy to miss when using, e.g., packagesearch. I'm not at all sure where debtags come from or who assigns them to packages (I had the impression at least some

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:13:10PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi Ross, > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:25:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Yes, but as I showed in the subsequent message, I'm also unable to > > purge the packages. Seems I can neither go forward or b

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal Severity note: the system experiencing this problem is currently unable to install or upgrade any packages (at least with aptitude). This error arose in connection with that problem, and this error may have contributed to the problem. So the bug

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:20:11PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:21:00PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Package: aptitude > > Version: 0.4.2-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Severity note: the sys

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Hmm, while tring to install the build dependencies for aptitude I got the same message, though I used apt-get: corn:~# apt-get -q build-dep aptitude Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: preview-latex-style texlive texlive-context texlive-do

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the stack trace, which seems to indicate something going wrong in libc (or the kernel?), with libstdc++ possibly adding another layer of error on top of that. I don't know if the low-level exception is considered normal enough that it should be caught and dealt with. An excerpt from the gd

Bug#385923: apt: -q still produces some output not suitable for logging

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.6.45 Severity: minor apt-get -q still produces some progress reports that aren't suitable for logging. These are generally percentage completion indicators which update the percentage complete in place on the screen (using KDE's Konsole, if that matters). Some of these ar

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [better stacktrace]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:43:43PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: ... > If it's not too much trouble, I wonder if I could suggest that you > build a debug apt too? I believe you can do this by fetching the source > and running "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt,nostrip dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" > in the

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [more on error]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
In vector &states = PackageOps[pkg]; pkg = 0, and is of type char *. It is created by this code further up; note the comments in the original: /* dpkg sends strings like this: 'status: : ' errors look like this:

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [patch]

2006-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > In > > vector &states = PackageOps[pkg]; > > pkg = 0, and is of type char *. It is created

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
for a diagnosis and 2 possible solutions to the apparent aptitude error (which was actually in the apt libraries). On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:38:41AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: texlive > > Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [patch]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:25:07AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:25:52PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:41:42PM

Bug#386067: boson: error on upgrade: libbomeshrendererplugin.so owned by 2 packages

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: boson Version: 0.11-4 Severity: normal While doing aptitude dist-upgrade I get -- Preparing to replace boson 0.11-4 (using .../boson_0.12dfsg1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement boson ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/boson_0.12d

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I tested installing and removing texlive and some associated packages, not including texlive-full. The basics went without incident. However, auctex suggests catdvi, and the latter depends on tetex-base without texlive as an alternate. The problem that caused me to file this report is solved for

Bug#386071: hylafax-server: sender of notification emails is non-existent user

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hylafax-server Version: 2:4.3.0-7 Severity: minor emails notifying the submitter of job status appear to be sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This caused the mails to be rejected by my newly careful email setup, as sender verification failed. There is no fax user on the system. hylafax is in

Bug#319005: apt-proxy: import not working here either

2006-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Followup-For: Bug #319005 I think I've run into the same problem; absolute nothing got imported. Also, the apt-proxy-import man page says to use apt-proxy-import /var/cache/apt/archives Should that include the "-r" option? I tried it both ways. I thought I wou

Bug#319005: apt-proxy: import not working here either--some reasons?

2006-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
At least some of my problems seem to have been from a bad entry in the conf file. I had squeak http:box2.squeakfoundation.org/files/debian which I have since corrected to (was missing //) squeak http://box2.squeakfoundation.org/files/debian That server is currently unreachable.

Bug#319005: apt-proxy: import not working here either--some reasons?

2006-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:23:46AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > At least some of my problems seem to have been from a bad entry in the > conf file. I had > squeakhttp:box2.squeakfoundation.org/files/debian > which I have since corrected to (was missing

Bug#387928: Re 387928 fontconfig Cannot write cache files

2006-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
t clear to me that this setting was relevant to "This problem stems from user-modified fonts.conf files which renders fontconfig unable to replace it," but later posts to this bug suggest it might be. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Bug#388416: 388416 fontconfig "error scanning"

2006-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
because I wondered if this were a sign of, or were related to, #387928: fontconfig: Cannot write cache files. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388708: 388708: might want to hurry this along

2006-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
migration? Thanks to all involved in the diagnosis and fix. -- 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

Bug#388708: 388708: Might want to help/hurry this fix into testing

2006-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=apt says trying to update apt from 0.6.46 to 0.6.46.1 (candidate is 2 days old) * apt is only 2 days old. It must be 10 days old to go in. * apt is in freeze; contact debian-release if update is needed -- Ross Boylan

Bug#374757: Solfege and python

2006-08-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been seeing this problem too for quite awhile, and would be glad if it were fixed. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.62-4 Severity: minor 1. NEWS.Debian is not displaying the item saying that SPF is available. I reviewed the logs of the upgrade to 4.62-2 to verify this ( my latest upgrade was to 4.62-4). Speculation: Sometimes this is caused by a syntax error; perhaps the omiss

Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:59:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > tags 383708 pending > thanks > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:21:12PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: exim4-config > > Version: 4.62-4 > > Severity: minor > > > > > > 1. NEWS.D

Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:26:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'm afraid I don't know apt-listchanges. > > Buggy as a june meadow and suboptimally maintained. Things can change > soon, as apt-listchanges has just gotten a new maint

Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

2006-08-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 07:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:34:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:26:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > I'm

Bug#384265: cyrus-common-2.2: logcheck warning on redirect

2006-08-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-6 Severity: minor After the most recent upgrade, logcheck is showing entries like Aug 22 17:48:19 iron cyrus/lmtpunix[20056]: Delivered: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to mailbox: user.ross.subversion Aug 22 17:48:19 iron cyrus/lmtpunix[20056]: sieve redirected: <[E

Bug#384265: cyrus-common-2.2: logcheck warning on redirect

2006-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
complete line, to keep them as specific as possible. The pattern above fits that rule, and I think it would be good to modify the existing patterns to do so as well. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROT

Bug#384265: cyrus-common-2.2: other logcheck warnings

2006-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
While I'm at it, here are 2 more messages that probably should be screened out (each was originally a single line): Aug 23 16:56:08 iron cyrus/imap[15676]: OTP unavailable because can't read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory Aug 23 16:57:32 iron cyrus/imap[15676]: Expung

Bug#384833: maint-guide: Discussion of rules references wrong section of policy

2006-08-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: maint-guide Version: 1.2.7 Severity: minor Section 4.4, on the rules file, says The lines 11 through 16 are a skeleton of support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parameters, described in the Policy section 11.1 "Binaries". I believe the intended reference is to Policy section 10.1. -- System I

Bug#387928: fontconfig: Cannot write cache files

2006-10-09 Thread Ross Boylan
for the release notes now. > Could someone clarify the meaning of the above statements? I am not sure if they refer to 1) the debconf setting 2) actual user edits of fonts.conf 3) user modification of the permission of fonts.conf 4) some combination of the above. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- T

Bug#392636: tiger triggers chkrootkit warning

2006-10-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-33 Severity: minor chkrootkit gives the following warning: /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: The following suspicious files and directories were found: /usr/lib/tiger/bin/.bintype Ordinarily I'd say it's chkrootkit's problem if it gives a false positive, but in view of t

Bug#229089: Does this bug still exist?

2006-10-13 Thread Ross Boylan
y recipe in lyx-qt 1.4.2-4. So I think it's OK to close. I'd send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I'm not sure if things are that simple :) Sorry for the slow response. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700

Bug#386758: uw-mailutils: mailutil documentation is incomplete

2006-09-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: uw-mailutils Version: 7:2002edebian1-13 Severity: minor The mailutil man page says, in the Arguments section The arguments are standard c-client mailbox names. A variety of mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are supported by c-client; examples of the most common fo

Bug#386758: uw-mailutils: mailutil documentation is incomplete

2006-09-09 Thread Ross Boylan
The two additional documentation files were drivers.txt and formats.txt. I gave the main one, naming.txt, twice in my original message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-09-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.63-3 Severity: minor The man page describing local_host_whitelist could be a little clearer. First, there is no subhead in the DESCRIPTION section for local_host_whitelist. Second, the fact that this file was only mentioned under local_host_blacklist, along with

Bug#385784: aptitude: crash with basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid [stacktrace]

2006-09-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:03:53PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > [..] > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > Writing extended state information... Done > > Reading package fields... Done > >

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

2006-09-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:39:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:15:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > The man page describing local_host_whitelist could be a little clearer. > > > > First, there is no subhead in the DESCRIPTION section for >

Bug#387561: gnucash/libffi: upgrade renders system non-functional

2006-09-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gnucash Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal May warrant severity critical, but it's unclear what package is responsible. gnucash may be able to work around it with appropriate dependencies. And maybe my system is unusual. This report includes a work-around at the bottom. PROBLEM I track

Bug#387561: gnucash/libffi: upgrade renders system non-functional

2006-09-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: gnucash > > Version: 2.0.1-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > May warrant severity critical, but it's unclear what package i

Bug#384265: cyrus-common-2.2: other logcheck warnings--still need tweaking

2006-09-15 Thread Ross Boylan
equence of non-space characters. I'm currently running cyrus-imapd-2.2 (2.2.13-6). This implies I do not have the latest round of logcheck patterns; however, I believe I did have them in my ignore.d.server/local file and they matched what was in release -7. On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:42 -0700

Bug#387561: libffi package is long since obsolete, but libffi4-dev could Conflict: with it

2006-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:30:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ...note that 2001 was before the release of woody. This package is so > > old that it shouldn't still be on anyone's system and Debian doesn't > > actually need to support i

Bug#365871: dosemu: VGA window no longer resizes [Progress]

2006-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
While reading up on the suggested settings of $_X_fixed_aspect and $_X_aspect_43, I ran into this (dosemu-HOWTO.txt.gz): 7.6. The vga font is very small on my high resolution display Set $_X_font="vga11x19". I tried it (in my local .dosemurc), and it works. Specifically: 1) the window resize

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

2006-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:39:08AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:15:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The man page describing local_host_whitelist could be a little clearer. > > >

Bug#388297: dvdisaster: several minute pause before starting

2006-09-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dvdisaster Version: 0.70.1-1 Severity: normal Whether I operate from the command line or the GUI there is a 4-5 minute pause between when I initiate an operation (scan or read) and when it appears to start. During this time if I push stop on the GUI it is ineffective, and the status show

Bug#388297: dvdisaster: several minute pause before starting

2006-09-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:30:08PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I suspect dvdisaster is fighting some daemon on my system for access, > > but I don't know which one or how to find it. I'm running KDE. > > Do you have some automounter en

Bug#388304: dvdisaster: double free or corruption error on exit

2006-09-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dvdisaster Version: 0.70.1-1 Severity: minor On closing the gui (by clicking the x on the window) I get the error *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x080e6798 *** on the terminal. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT

Bug#388115: Re 388115: tetex-base postinst fails

2006-09-22 Thread Ross Boylan
this broken state for a little while, if someone wants more info or experiments. Otherwise, I'll try one of the fixes/workarounds listed earlier in the bug logs. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL

Bug#388115: Re 388115: tetex-base postinst fails

2006-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I modified tetex-base.postinst as indicated in the patch above to postinst.in. The problem remains. Ross Boylan Here's the end of postinst after my changes: # Update language.dat (update-language is in tex-common on which we depend) #update-language # if tetex-base is upgraded while

Bug#389462: packagesearch: Missing tag database index /var/lib/debtags/package-tags.idx

2006-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: packagesearch Version: 2.1 Severity: normal When I run packagesearch I get the error indicated in the subject, and a similar message in a pop-up as the program starts (it says debtags will be unavailable). This looks a lot like 355625, and may be the same problem (though that was marked

Bug#388115: Re 388115: tetex-base postinst fails

2006-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > clone 388115 -1 > reassign -1 jadetex > retitle -1 40jadetex.cnf is missing magic header > tags -1 -pending > stop > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And some more questions. > > No more answers needed. The bug was

Bug#388115: Re 388115: tetex-base postinst fails

2006-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 18:37 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for looking into this. Is there some work-around that will get > > past the jadetex problem (as I guess you found, it was precisely the > > same error messa

Bug#389462: packagesearch: Missing tag database index /var/lib/debtags/package-tags.idx

2006-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 08:39 +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello and thanks for the report. > > > When I run packagesearch I get the error indicated in the subject, and > > a similar message in a pop-up as the program starts (it says debtags > > will be unavailable). > I've heard about such prob

Bug#388297: dvdisaster: several minute pause before starting

2006-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:10:18PM +0200, Carsten Gnörlich wrote: > Hi Ross, > > > Whether I operate from the command line or the GUI there is a 4-5 > > minute pause between when I initiate an operation (scan or read) and > > when it appears to start. [..] > > If this is the expected behavior, it

Bug#389678: kernel-package: link_in_boot produces symlinks that are insufficiently relative

2006-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.054 Severity: minor With link_in_boot = Yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf, I ended up with symlinks like /boot/vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-nn.yy (sorry, that's from memory; maybe ../boot/vmlinuz-nn.yy. The important thing is that /boot was in the path.). This didn't wo

Bug#393596: cyrus-common-2.2: Parts of old installation still active

2006-10-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-7 Severity: minor Severity note: I don't think this problem is doing any harm, except perhaps some wasted effort. If my analysis is wrong/incomplete, a higher severity might be appropriate. Scope: Fixing this may involve changes to other versions (e.g.,

Bug#393596: (cyrus-common-2.2: Parts of old installation still active) WARNING

2006-10-16 Thread Ross Boylan
> WORK-AROUND > dpkg --purge cyrus21-common > seems to have worked for me. NO--DON'T LISTEN TO THAT! It rendered cyrus inoperable. /var/run/cyrus and /var/run/cyrus/socket got zapped, although the former remained in the dpkg-statoverride database. I seem to have recovered by doing (some false

Bug#393596: (cyrus-common-2.2: Parts of old installation still active) WARNING

2006-10-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 00:53 +, Ross Boylan wrote: > > WORK-AROUND > > dpkg --purge cyrus21-common > > seems to have worked for me. > > NO--DON'T LISTEN TO THAT! It rendered cyrus inoperable. > /var/run/cyrus and /var/run/cyrus/socket got zapped, although t

Bug#393596: (cyrus-common-2.2: Parts of old installation still active) WARNING

2006-10-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 00:53 +0000, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > WORK-AROUND > > > > dpkg --purge cyrus21-common > > > > seems to have wor

Bug#395063: cyrus-imapd-2.2: squatter documentation incomplete

2006-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-8 Severity: minor Also affects cyrus-doc-2.2 (squatter.8.html). An upstream issue. 1. command line arguments The man page for squatter say SYNOPSIS squatter [ -C config-file ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -a ] [ -v ] mailbox... The mailbox argument is never exp

Bug#395063: Re 395063: cyrus-imapd-2.2: squatter documentation incomplete--ignore part

2006-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
ink this is solved to, so only the pure documentation issues of this buglet remain. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 Unive

Bug#395115: r-base-core: prompt("foo") produces data documentation when foo is a generic

2006-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.4.0-1 Severity: minor setGeneric("foo", function(calc) standardGeneric("foo")) setMethod("foo", signature(calc = "numeric"), function(calc) calc[2]) prompt("foo") produces a file that is setup as if foo were a piece of data.

Bug#395115: Re Bug#395115: r-base-core: prompt("foo") produces data documentation when foo is a generic

2006-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
retitle 395115 r-base-core: prompt thinks everything is data thanks The problem is not limited to generics: > foo <- function(a) 3 > prompt("foo") produces a template for data. The docs say it does this when it doesn't recognize what something is. Weird, I don't see anything about this problem

Bug#395115: Re Bug#395115: r-base-core: prompt("foo") produces data documentation when foo is a generic

2006-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 18:47 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: > On 10/24/06, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > retitle 395115 r-base-core: prompt thinks everything is data > > thanks > > > > The problem is not limited to generics: > > > foo <

Bug#732334: reportbug: after viewing configuration file there is no way to proceed

2014-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 21:37 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > this report is rather confusing and lack a lot of precise details to > investigate it further. > > I suspect you were running reportbug against another package (by > either typing "reportbug " on the command-line or entering the > pa

Bug#739362: skanlite can't find scanner in sux session

2014-02-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: skanlite Version: 0.8-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Opened a Konsole and did sux to another account. Typed "skanlite &" on the terminal. The application launched and, after a brief pause, reported it could not find any scanners. * What exactly

Bug#694721: gimp: Gimp help not working

2013-12-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: gimp Version: 2.8.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #694721 Dear Maintainer, Even after installing gimp-help-en I am unable to get any help in gimp, local or remote. This seems more than a trivial problem, though perhaps it was triggered by the exact sequence of my actions. * What led up to the s

Bug#732334: reportbug: after viewing configuration file there is no way to proceed

2013-12-16 Thread Ross Boylan
licked quit and restarted the report. * What was the outcome of this action? Quit caused a quit. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected that after viewing the file contents I could return to the previous menu. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- Package-specific info: ** Environment sett

Bug#732335: dosemu: dosmu crash

2013-12-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dosemu Version: 1.4.0+svn.2080-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I was running Managing Your Money (MYM), a DOS application, under xdosemu (in a separate window). I requested a report; dosemu crashed as MYM was generating the report. MYM is full scree

Bug#728836: evolution: imapx messages vanish may not be fixed upstream

2014-04-13 Thread Ross Boylan
unintentionally selected display of unread messages only. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Loca

Bug#743552: swi-prolog: package 7.x

2014-04-03 Thread Ross Boylan
.x is still having releases. The 7.x release was somewhat controversial; I think it has some significant new features but also significant departures from the standard. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updat

Bug#611583: openoffice.org-emailmerge: still seeing this problem

2011-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: openoffice.org-emailmerge Version: 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny12 Followup-For: Bug #611583 I'm still on lenny. During a recent security update I see Preparing to replace openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny11 (using .../openoffice.org-emailmerge_1%3a2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny12_all.deb) ...

Bug#697022: system-config-printer: Xfce4 print manager can not use remote CUPS printer

2012-12-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: system-config-printer Version: 1.3.7-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This bug makes it impossible for me to print from this system, and thus is important at least to me. I believe the bug is in this package; I am experiencing it from the GUI for system settings for Xfce. Of course,

Bug#688792: syntax error

2012-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 23:28 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Hi. I've just experienced this problem on a fresh wheezy install using > the beta3 installer. The installation was performed using the netboot > image (that is, PXE and downloading the installer components from a TFTP > server) on a physica

Bug#688792: syntax error

2012-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 11:19 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > The desktop tasks install various mysql related packages > (libmysqlclient18, mysql-server-core-5.5, etc). I've been trying to test > installations on a base system (no desktop task) to see if one of these > packages, when installed before

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