Bug#688792: mysql-server-5.5: error in SQL syntax in postinst

2012-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mysql-server-5.5 Version: 5.5.24+dfsg-8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? An upgrade in aptitude. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Nothing. mysql appears to be running. However, the failed change looks

Bug#688792: syntax error

2012-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:07 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > tag 688792 +moreinfo > thanks I'm not sure what more info you want. The host mysql was shut down when I ran the install; in fact, I've disabled the host start up script mysql, although I haven't touch mysql-ndb and mysql-ndb-mgm (I don't

Bug#688792: syntax error

2012-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:07 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > > > > That said I have not yet managaed to get the postinst script to run > > that SQL. Given that the code is there that should just be a matter of > > me studying precisely what is needed to trigger it. > > The error is no

Bug#688792: syntax error

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 21:51 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Ross, > Actually would it be possible for you to send the output of "use mysql; > show create table user;" for both the external and chrooted databases? Here it is for the chroot: +---+---

Bug#693734: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: keyboards don't work with USB 3.0

2012-11-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.32-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Like many others, I'm having trouble with USB 3.0. Since the problems render the keyboards completely inoperative all the time, this is potentially quite serious. Fortunately I have USB 2.0 ports and SSH, and so am able to

Bug#658820: confusing and contradictory documentation and behavior

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: noweb Version: 2.11b-7 Severity: normal man noweb says the first documentation chunk must contain a LaTeX \documentclass command, it must contain \usepackage{noweb} in the preamble, and finally it must also contain a LaTeX \begin{document} command. So I tried this (simplified exam

Bug#686703: [Fwd: mdadm: --uuid never overrides --homehost]

2012-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mdadm Version: 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1+squeeze1 Severity: normal The man page says "Also, using --uuid= when creating a v0.90 array will silently override any --homehost= setting." This is not true: root@squeeze00:~# date; mdadm --create /dev/md1 --uuid=6f05ff4e:b4d49c1f:7fa21d88:ad0c50a9 --hom

Bug#705790: Installation hangs starting up the partitioner

2013-04-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB stick Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded yesterday Date: 2013-04-18 21:45 Pacific Time (-7:00?) Machine: Puget Systems Echo II Processor: Intel Core i3 3225 Memory: 8G (2 x Kingston DDR3-1600 4GB) Partitions: /dev/sdb does not

Bug#705851: libparted0debian1: Assertion in dos.c:662 in probe_partition_for_geom()

2013-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libparted0debian1 Version: 2.3-12 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Note that this bug may affect the wheezy installer; see Bug#705790: Installation hangs starting up the partitioner. I do not know the two are related, but I'd guess they are. * What led up to the situation? ran gpart

Bug#705790: Installation hangs starting up the partitioner [maybe related 705851]

2013-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I ran the installer from a Debian live wheezy USB boot; it failed at the same part but I noticed that gparted fails on /dev/sda. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705851 for details. It seems likely that is the cause of the failure here. To be clear, I don't know whether the i

Bug#706362: [bacula-director-pgsql] upgrade scripts may not set permissions

2013-04-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bacula-director-pgsql Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-8 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- This was a non-standard useage for debian, since I reached inside some of the package management scripts, but I thought I'd report it just in case. The tables added by the scrip

Bug#706421: reportbug-ng will not send bugs: fails invoking mail client

2013-04-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: reportbug-ng Version: 1.27 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This warrants higher severity if it's not caused by something weird on my system. May be related to 699169 and 440568. * What led up to the situation? Launched reportbug from KDE4, selected kdesvn, report a new bug. Dialog

Bug#603115: vim-vimoutliner: vimoutliner doesn't load automatically after apply README instructions

2013-05-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.4+pristine-9 Followup-For: Bug #603115 I can confirm that this bug still exists in wheezy and that the suggestion to put "filetype plugin on" (without the quotes) in .vimrc gets it working. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing

Bug#706783: kmail scrolls too far in message list

2013-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With kmail open in the usual 3-pane view the upper right panel has a message list. There is a scroll bar to its right. When I click on the scroll bar above the slider the message list jumps forward a bit too much. I

Bug#706878: vim-vimoutliner: colors don't work

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: vim-vimoutliner Version: 0.3.4+pristine-9 Severity: normal Colors don't seem to work either out of the box or with some tweaks. I am running in a KDE Konsole, though xterm showed the same results. This is at least a two-part problem. 1) No colors after default install. The documentation

Bug#706878: vim-vimoutliner: colors don't work

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
After setting .vimrc to have "syntax on" the colors appear. They work even if there is not .vimoutlinerrc file. I'm not sure what the ideal behavior is here; the minimal fix would be to mention this in a help file. If there's a way to enable the highlighting only for vo files, that would probabl

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal >From the top menu selecting message shows a list of commands including reply all. "A" is indicated as a shortcut. However, whether focus is on the message list or the message, "A" acts like a reply. Lowercase "a" does do a reply all.

Bug#704412: composer: search repient in addressbook not working

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Followup-For: Bug #704412 I'm seeing the same misbehavior here. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=e

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sunday, May 05, 2013 02:17:43 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Package: kmail > > > Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > >

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Monday, May 06, 2013 10:00:12 AM Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2013-05-06, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Are you saying it's a KDE standard to always use capital letters? That's > > quite confusing to me, since lower and upper case letters often do > > different th

Bug#710287: kvpm: bad handling of bad partition table

2013-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kvpm Version: 0.8.6-2+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have a disk that apparently has a slightly corrupted GPT layout; the backup partition is not exactly at the end. Possibly this is a result of having been formatted with an earlier versio

Bug#710837: prolog-el: emacs warnings on installation

2013-06-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: prolog-el Version: 1.23-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I don't know if the warnings indicate any actual problems for using the package, but here's a report just in case. I haven't tried to use prolog in emacs--nor

Bug#707910: qemu-kvm: README.Debian obsolete material

2013-05-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/qemu-kvm/README.Debian.gz says, near the end, Miscellaneous ~ The recommended qemu package contains the script /usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root, which uses debootstrap to build a Debian disk image. The reference t

Bug#708086: korganizer: import ics fails with unescapable loop

2013-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Fresh install, but copied .kde/share/apps/korganizer from the KDE 3 directory used by the earlier version of Korganizer. Started korganizer for first time and tried to import std

Bug#572603: samba: build-depends for libtalloc needs updating

2010-03-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: samba Version: 2:3.4.6~dfsg-1 Severity: normal I attempted to build the latest samba package on a mostly stable (Lenny) system. It met all the build-dependencies, as verified by dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -D However, initial configuration failed: checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-19 Severity: normal During upgrade from lenny to squeeze debconf said Configuring cyrus-common-2.2 Modified database backends Comparison between /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.txt and /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.active shows that database backends

Bug#629601: grub-pc: warns against partition install on lenny->sqeeze

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Severity: normal I upgraded a system from lenny to squeeze, accepting the chain loading option (Im pretty sure; also seems consistent with debconf setting below). The disk filled during the upgrade, either after or during the grub update (see transcript

Bug#593648: grub-pc install fails on RAID1

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
> Since md0 isn't partitioned it seems like the problem is the > manifestation of another issue of GRUB accepting metadata at the end of > last partition as metadata for the whole disk. This is fixed for 1.x > metadata but is still a problem with 0.9 one due to 0.9 data sector not > containing eno

Bug#629610: exim4: misleading (?) "failed" message after paniclog warning

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: exim4 Version: 4.72-6 Severity: normal # /etc/init.d/exim4 restart Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener. Restarting MTA: exim4. ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken ... failed! I read the "... failed!" as meaning that the non-

Bug#629575: psql: FATAL: could not write init file on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Boylan
It's possible that my problems stem from incomplete migration to the new name on the VM. bacula's conf files still referred to the old (vm-lenny00) name at the time of this error, and I have not touched postgres's configuration since snapshotting it. Partly offsetting this was the fact that the I

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-08 Thread Ross Boylan
ebian/cyrus-upgrade-db;h=c7d8d55b99982b5df97e5a875d3809a9d593228c;hb=HEAD > > > > I'll keep this bug open until wheezy is out, so everybody can find it. > > > > We'll also welcome any patches to documentation for wheezy version, > > since with the upgrade script

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:13 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:02, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 08:54 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > >> Slight correction, better use always the latest version of the script: > >> > >> http://an

Bug#629610: exim4: misleading (?) "failed" message after paniclog warning

2011-06-09 Thread Ross Boylan
# date; EX4DEBUG=1 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart Thu Jun 9 09:51:22 PDT 2011 now debugging /etc/init.d/exim4 restart + LANG=C + export LANG + QUEUERUNNER=combined + QUEUEINTERVAL=30m + UPEX4OPTS= + PIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/exim.pid + QRPIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid + [ -f /etc/default/exim4 ] + . /e

Bug#629610: exim4: misleading (?) "failed" message after paniclog warning

2011-06-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 21:23 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > tags #629610 confirmed > end > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:01:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > # /etc/init.d/exim4 restart > > Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener. > > Restarting MTA: exim

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 10:01 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:10, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:13 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: , [Ross wrote] > > The main problem is that the convert script says to install db4.2-util, > > but it is not

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On the minor matter of getting the update script: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 10:01 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > 1. I had some trouble retrieving the file; > > wget > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-2.4.git;a=blob;f=debian/cyrus-upgrade-db > > > > got me a web page. lynx

Bug#629592: cyrus-common-2.2: confusing/contradictory information on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-06-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:31 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:03, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > It looks to me as if there are still problems. Here's what mail.info > > shows when I started cyrus after running the upgrade script: > > > >

Bug#81829: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6.0 segfaults even after rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin

2011-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Followup-For: Bug #81829 A couple of days ago I started getting messages like aptitude[3460]: segfault at 7eff79ada000 ip 7eff7bb3a405 sp 7fff011be790 error 7 in libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6.0[7eff7bb13000+bd000] associated with cron jobs for debtags a

Bug#81829: Ilibapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6.0 segfaults even after rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin [SOLVED]

2011-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
The problem was that I had exceeded the cache limit. Increasing it with APT::Cache-Limit "30"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local cured the problem. Thanks to Richard Tabor for spotting this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#714878: iceweasel: how to use java (obsolete README.Debian)

2013-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: iceweasel Version: 17.0.7esr-1~deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, README.Debian has instructions for installing java that do not apply to the current version. None of the packages referred to are even present in wheezy. It would be very helpful to have a discussion of what to do t

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: skanlite Version: 0.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After a brief period in which it worked, skanlite is no longer able to access my scanner. Since this makes it completely unusable for me, I have raised the severity. * What led up to the situation? Installed skanlite. Start

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I installed xsane; it can not locate a scanner either. It seems likely the ultimate cause is in some lower-level component. Please reassign as appropriate. I have disks connected via a usb interface. While that may contribute to the problem, it also means that I can't just disable the subsyste

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I disconnected the USB cable and reconnected it. skanlite is working again. I waited several minutes between scans, leaving the program running, and it still worked. I also got red boxes on my preview again; apparently it automatically tries to identify interesting regions. It wasn't close, and

Bug#720721: skanlite: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'skanlite' sets config #1

2013-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's a recipe for creating the problem. It is not completely deterministic, but it seems to do it about half the time. This at least suggests the failure may be partly skanlite specific, though it may be in interaction with other systems. 1. Preview a document after enabling "automatic selecti

Bug#720721: skanlite scan interrupted makes scanner inaccessible

2013-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's a simpler recipe. 1. Check "disable automatic selections". 2. Preview document. 3. Select the active document area (not sure if this is necessary). 4. click scan. 5. While the progress bar is intermediate and scanner is physically scanning, hit the red button next to the progress bar but ab

Bug#721530: evolution: corrupt message list

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: important Forwarded-To: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707235 I have upped the severity because this is effectively a loss of data. However, something unusual must be required to trigger it because I've used this version of evolution for

Bug#721535: evolution: Please don't ask submitter to report bug upstream

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Your reportbug template asks that bugs be submitted directly upstream on the grounds of being understaffed. There are a number of problems with that; I'm filing this bug because upstream is not supporting the version in wheezy

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your response. On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:27:16PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 28.09.2013 06:18, Ross Boylan wrote: >> Package: qemu-kvm >> Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 >> Severity: important >> > [] >> The first time I booted of a virtual CD with th

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-10-10 Thread Ross Boylan
e the postgres install worked, as has everything else. I didn't realize the kernels were at all aware of being a kvm guest; your diagnosis looks exactly correct. Since the problem with the kernel is fixed, I think it's OK to close this bug. Thanks for your help. Ross Boylan -- To UNS

Bug#721530: evolution: corrupt message list

2013-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried stopping evolution (and later --force-shutdown, but it said nothing was running) and deleting ross@tempserver:~/.local/share/evolution/mail/13755x.1xxx.24@tempserver$ ls -l total 1120 -rw-r--r-- 1 ross ross 1129472 Sep 1 14:45 folders.db -rw-r--r-- 1 ross ross 13 Sep 1 14:45 IN

Bug#718646: kde-runtime: knotify4 using over 2G

2013-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kde-runtime Version: 4:4.8.4-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have been logged in to KDE for 59 days. knotify4 has been steadily taking up more memory over time. I have done aptitude updates during this time. * What exactly did

Bug#724714: qemu-kvm: document network setup

2013-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: wishlist Although this is wishlist, it would make a big difference in the useablity of the package for non-gurus like myself. It would be very helpful if README.Debian, or perhaps customized man page or documentation, explained how to setup networ

Bug#724714: Acknowledgement (qemu-kvm: document network setup)

2013-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
For the record, I copied this from https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU#Host_and_guests_on_same_network into my interfaces file: auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp pre-up ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap user root pre-up ip link set tap0 up bridge_ports all tap0 bridge_stp off bridge_maxwait 0

Bug#724798: qemu-kvm: kvm hangs using high CPU

2013-09-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have just started using kvm on this system, and twice in the last couple of days the VM (though not the qemu console) became unresponsive and use of the host CPU maxed out. The first time useage was consistent with 2

Bug#714560: kmail loses place in message list

2013-06-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, kmail's message list for a large folder keeps returning to the same message, even though I have selected a different message. * What led up to the situation? Accessing a remote IMAP folder with ~65,000 unread messag

Bug#661635: noweb: patches for python

2012-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
99_touch #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 15_python_dpatch by Ross Boylan ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ## DP: Add python #line-like handling @DPATCH@ diff -Naur noweb-2.11b/CHANGES noweb-2.12rb/CHANGES --- noweb-2.11b/CHANGES 2006-06-12

Bug#495375: Newer noweb-mode.el

2012-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: noweb Version: 2.11b-7 Followup-For: Bug #495375 The ESS people said their version of noweb-mode.el is not the official one, and pointed me to http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/noweb.el. See https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2012-February/007544.html for context. -- Sys

Bug#661655: noweb: support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2012-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: noweb Version: 2.11b-7 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if the package supported DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. As it stands, the Makefiles appear to have the build options wired in, so that they don't even use, e.g., CFLAGS if it is set. Probably closely related to #657656. My main concern i

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

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Boylan
found 412715 2.2.6-2 thanks On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 03:57 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the gnucash package: > > #412715: gnucash undoes KDE "Show Desktop" on startup > > It has been closed by Dmitry

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

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:49 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > tags 412715 wontfix > severity 412715 minor > > -- > > On Wednesday 07 March 2012 04:04:43 Ross Boylan wrote: > > Unless you know this is fixed in current KDE, it seems to me it should > > remain open.

Bug#629575: [pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#629575: psql: FATAL: could not write init file on lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-10-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 19:31 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Version: 5.0.2-2.2 > > Hi Ross! > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:22:40 +0200, Ross Boylan wrote: > > It's possible that my problems stem from incomplete migration to the new > > name on the VM. bacula's

Bug#661635: noweb: patches for python

2012-03-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 15:09 -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: > Ross, > > I am delighted that someone wants to improve noweb's support for > Python, and I took a quick look at your patches. I'm sorry to report > that I am not very happy with the decisions that you have made. > Perhaps we can work toget

Bug#653249: cyrus-imapd-2.2: IDLE not working?

2011-12-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-14+lenny4 Severity: normal Using imtest localhost, IDLE does not seem to send any information until I tell it to quit. I waited c 20 minutes. $ imtest localhost S: * OK corn Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-14+lenny4 server ready C: C01 CAPABILITY S: *

Bug#665850: lvcreate: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!

2012-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-29 Severity: normal Since I applied the following updates [UPGRADE] base-files 5lenny10 -> 5lenny11 [UPGRADE] libapr1 1.2.12-5+lenny4 -> 1.2.12-5+lenny5 [UPGRADE] libapr1-dev 1.2.12-5+lenny4 -> 1.2.12-5+lenny5 [UPGRADE] libpq-dev 8.3.16-0lenny1 -> 8.3.17-0lenny1

Bug#672325: cyrus-common-2.2: expand logcheck patterns

2012-05-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-14+lenny6 Severity: minor I know this is an old version, but it may still be relevant. Logcheck keeps reporting lines like these: May 9 08:14:21 markov cyrus/lmtpunix[14919]: Delivered: <4FA882720008B165@> (added by postmas...@resmaa13.ono.com) to mailbo

Bug#826252: virtualbox: VM hangs when switching to graphical mode, locking up the VirtualBox GUI for all VMs

2016-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: virtualbox Version: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org Dear Maintainer, Thank you for making VirtualBox available for Debian. * What led up to the situation? My host and guest are both running Debian. After some recent updates (on

Bug#754430: redshift: clarify package purpose and use

2014-07-10 Thread Ross Boylan
and/or /etc/init.d/ scripts would be useful. 4. The man page should describe the files that provide configuration and their priority. This would alleviate some of the uncertainty in 2. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy

Bug#781283: libvirt-bin: Permission denied with 9p file system

2015-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
ive for me (host and guest are pretty vanilla). Expected behavior: that the 9p mount should behave exactly the same as the underlying file system. This include root on guest being root on host, though I can see there might be reasons to avoid this. Ross Boylan -- System Information: Debian Release: 7

Bug#766403: cyrus-common: Restarting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmasterfind: `/run/cyrus/lock': No such file or directory

2014-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cyrus-common Version: 2.4.16-4+deb7u2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Before installation of cyrus I created a filesystem on a device, mkdir /var/spool/cyrus, and then mounted the device on that mount point. Installed cyrus. Terminal shows: Setting

Bug#763005: installation-guide-amd64: website for wheezy leads to jessie installation guide

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
, jessie. See, e.g., the 2nd page. Unless I've got some cache problems (I think I did look at the jessie guide, though I don't think it was the pdf version), this is likely a problem with the website or build process, not the manual itself. Ross Boylan Currently running on an old syste

Bug#763008: installation-reports: wheezy installer (partman?) wants to write to lots of "swap" partition

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
new 4TB disks are 1802GB (from memory); the partitioning tools seem to recognize their full size. The bios reports the older 2TB drives as 2TB. Ross Boylan -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this repor

Bug#860779: smbclient: installation of smbclient appears to install and run samba server

2017-04-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: smbclient Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5 Severity: normal I do not think that installing client software should, without much notice, install and activate the associated server. But that seems to be what happens with smbclient. Among other things, this seems an unnecessary security ris

Bug#839188: pdftk: NullPointerException for combining forms

2016-09-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: pdftk Version: 2.02-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I created some pdf's with OpenTax, which fills in pdf's for US taxes. Those pdf's have forms in them so they can be filled out. It's possible that OpenTax added additional annotations to

Bug#1023834: shared-mime-info: update-mime-database takes 30-40 minutes to run

2022-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: shared-mime-info Version: 2.0-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Steps to Reproduce == 1. btrfs on top of encrypted partition on a spinning disk. btrfs subvolumes in use. 2. sour

Bug#409272: nfsmount: incompatible with nfsv4--workaround fails

2022-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: klibc-utils Version: 2.0.8-6.1 Followup-For: Bug #409272 X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Earlier in this bug, Trent Buck suggested an initramfs hook zz-nfs4 to work around the problem. I tried it, but I still can't get an NFS 4

Bug#1025138: mariadb-server-10.5: editing config files has no apparent effect on bind-address

2022-11-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mariadb-server-10.5 Version: 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is actually a pretty severe impact on usability for me, since I can't contact the server from other machines. Since I think

Bug#1025138: Acknowledgement (mariadb-server-10.5: editing config files has no apparent effect on bind-address)

2022-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
More diagnostics and a working work-around. One more item from the logs that went with my previous attempts: Nov 29 15:48:26 barley /etc/mysql/debian-start[109190]: /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: unknown variable 'bind_address=192.168.1.10' In my input there were spaces around the `=`, and so I don't thi

Bug#1032220: multipath-tools: reports job failed on upgrade

2023-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.8.5-2+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org, t...@security.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Running on Debian 11.6 and applying the latest security update results in some reported failures. It is unclear

Bug#1034787: reportbug: -k -> Invalid bug report message: No pseudoheaders found.

2023-04-24 Thread Ross Boylan
and (without recipient address) instead. Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Ross Boylan ' as your from address. Getting status for libmariadb3... Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release). Maintainer for libmariadb3 is 'Debi

Bug#1019947: tortoisehg: thg fails on session restore: -s not recognized

2022-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tortoisehg Version: 5.6.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 thg threw the error shown in the attachment and asked me to report it upstream. This happened when logging into KDE after a system restart. When I las

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: acpi-support Version: 0.95-2 Severity: minor This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" rather than "depends" relations? I'm also puzzled by the presence of xbase-clients, and wonder if laptop-detec

Bug#380520: 352512, 380520: hal vs acpi -- any resolution in sight?

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
It would be great if someone(s) could solve this problem. I tried to install acpid, but, as these bugs show, it won't install. I tried stopping hal before installing. First problem: -- # aptitude install acpid Reading package lists... Done Build

Bug#434910: evolution sporadically becomes unresponsive, uses all CPU

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:21 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Freitag, den 27.07.2007, 10:01 -0700 schrieb Ross Boylan: > > > This problem significant affects usability and the performance of my > > entire system. It is new since the 2.10 upgrade. > > > > When I&

Bug#434910: evolution sporadically becomes unresponsive, uses all CPU

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the strace. evo.strace.bz2 Description: application/bzip

Bug#429005: FTBS Bug

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
This has been pending for quite awhile. Has something gone astray? I love packagesearch, and would love to get it back :) Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:15 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > Hi Ross, > > > This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages > > (radeontool, toshset). Shouldn't those be "recommends" or "suggests" > > rather than "depends" relations? > > No, not really. The trouble is that this package

Bug#438665: acpi-support appears to have excess dependencies

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 12:26 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:15 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > >> Hi Ross, > >> > >>> This package depends on a number of hardware-specific packages > >>> (radeontool, tosh

Bug#383600: behaviour of update-initramfs -u has changed, only updates latest kernel initrd

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
everyone can have their own opinions :) Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435704: 435705: vo not working

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
The following NEWS item probably explains the problem; I don't know much about vim. It's not clear to me if this policy means that vim addon packages are not supposed to enable themselves (which seems perverse), or just that they need to run a new tool to enable themselves. Ross vim (1:7.1-022+1

Bug#435704: 435705: vo not working [solution]

2007-08-19 Thread Ross Boylan
As root, # aptitude install vim-addon-manager # vim-addons -w install vimoutliner seems to have cured the problem in a way consistent with the new scheme. I also have a "matchit" addon that is part of vim-runtime. It appears to have nothing to do with VO, and it is not enabled. :help matchit sa

Bug#197103: 197103: evolution paper size

2007-08-20 Thread Ross Boylan
committed. This is a real nuisance, since it means I can't print my mail (one printer rejects it; another cuts off the top and bottom if I attempt to force it). -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROT

Bug#425432: python-support: 'import site' failed on upgrade

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:55 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 09:30 -0700, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > Package: python-support > > Version: 0.6.4 > > Severity: normal > > > > In a recent upgrade I got this: > > Setting up python-suppo

Bug#374714: closed by Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#374714: fixed in spamassassin 3.2.0-1)

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
e dirs under Configuration Files, > which was filed against the spamassassin package. > . > >* Stop pointing to the README for mail stream integration help in > > README.Debian (Closes: > > #374714) -- Ross Boylan wk: (41

Bug#425432: python-support: 'import site' failed on upgrade

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 19:39 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 10:15 -0700, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > > > In a recent upgrade I got this: > > > > Setting up python-support (0.6.4) ... > > > > 'import site' failed; use -v for

Bug#425432: python-support: 'import site' failed on upgrade

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 20:27 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 10:54 -0700, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > > Yes, this definitely looks like the cause. Was python2.5 installed in > > > the same run python-support was upgraded, or was it installed earlier

Bug#232466: closed by "Olivier Vitrat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#232466: arts: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting)

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 18:48 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #232466: arts: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting, > which was filed against the arts package. > For the record, there is a very similar looking bug up

Bug#342817: closed by Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver)

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
the chance that it might have a fix, and I do not think it is reasonable to expect me to do so. Testing a new version is non-trivial, since I have to shut everything down to do so. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#426488: evolution-data-server: package description is misleading

2007-05-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution-data-server Version: 1.6.3-5 Severity: minor The Debian package description says that the data server manages address books and calendars. There are parts of this package (e.g., camel) that manage the main email functionality of evolution. I'm not sure exactly what the scope o

Bug#427117: /usr/bin/debian-reference: references to obsolete woody and sarge

2007-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-reference-common Version: 1.11 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debian-reference The chapter on tuning a Debian system has several references to woody and sarge (and none to etch). It also describes older versions of X. It would be nice to bring it up to the present. It's also a b

Bug#427400: dhcp3-server: how to ignore an interface

2007-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dhcp3-server Version: 3.0.4-14 Severity: minor There seems to be some contradictory information about how to ignore an interface. /usr/share/doc/dhcp3-server/examples/dhcpd.conf has --- # No service will be given on this subnet, but declari

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