Bug#462976: libghc6-stream-doc: installation error: cat: libraries-header.txt: No such file or directory

2008-01-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libghc6-stream-doc Version: 0.2.2-1 Severity: normal The failure of package installation might mess up the installation of unrelated packages also. In the latest upgrade with aptitude the terminal shows: Setting up libghc6-stream-doc (0.2.2-1) ... cat: libraries-header.txt: No such file

Bug#460261: hp-setup: unknown printer at end of setup

2008-01-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: hplip Version: 2.7.10-5 Severity: minor I ran hp-setup for a USB-connected HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-one. A GUI came up; it detected the printer; I accepted all the defaults, including print a test page. When I exited the GUI, the terminal showed lpr: Photosmart_C3100: unknown printer

Bug#460436: snort: upgrade oddities

2008-01-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: snort Version: 2.7.0-9 Severity: normal Severity note: this may be mostly a cosmetic issue, i.e., minor. When upgrading snort in testing 1) some configuration questions were asked twice 2) there was a warning about deprecated options, and a statement that snort would not start. 3) Desp

Bug#416484: kdebluetooth: bluetooth connection works as root

2008-01-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdebluetooth Version: 1.0~beta8-3 Followup-For: Bug #416484 I encountered the "Failed to create input device" problem with a Dell BT travel mouse. I then did, as a normal user, $ hidd --search Searching ... Connecting to device 00:07:61:8D:19:61 HID create error 13 (Permission de

Bug#460916: libsensors4: on upgrade, side-by-side comparison hangs up

2008-01-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libsensors4 Version: 1:3.0.0-5 Severity: normal This may be a problem in something in the Debian packaging system (ucf?) rather than libsensors itself; please reassign if appropriate. Since the problem messes up installation it might warrant higher severity; however it is easy to work ar

Bug#461004: fontconfig: invalid cache file on upgrade

2008-01-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.5.0-2 Severity: normal I don't know how serious this is. It looks a little different from the other bug reports, so I thought I'd submit it. It may have the same underlying cause. If anyone could say whether the errors indicate I'll have problems, or what I can

Bug#461502: network-manager-kde: knetworkmanager hangs kicker, blocks shutdown on first use

2008-01-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: network-manager-kde Version: 1:0.2-2 Severity: normal This bug reports a severe, but not reproducible, problem. Given the severity, and the resemblance to some existing bugs, I thought it would be useful to report anyway. I am quite unsure what package is the ultimate cause of the probl

Bug#461502: network-manager-kde: knetworkmanager hangs kicker, blocks shutdown on first use [related bugs]

2008-01-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Here are some bugs that look somewhat related: Bug#406162: network-manager-kde: KNetworkManager hangs on first ... #427171: knetworkmanager hangs when querying kwallet during ... #422752 network-manager: DHCPRELEASE sent *after* interface is disconnected. (only on the timing of dchp requests) #46

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue

2007-11-22 Thread Ross Boylan
reopen 369433 found 369433 1.5.5 thanks I'm getting these errors fairly regularly (more than half the days I try to update) despite the new version and a new choice of mirror. - sources.list deb http://debian.betterworld.us:3142/security etch/update

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [logs + analysis]

2007-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
The apt-cacher logs clearly show much different last-modified times from the http headers for Release and Release.gpg, consistent with my somehow having gotten an old Release file. But why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [logs + analysis]

2007-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
While trying to create a fresh Debian system, using apt-cacher as a proxy for ftp.us.debian.org, I got a GPG error. Since this is an official archive, and since there aren't the usual blizzard or requests, the debug log of apt-cacher is much easier to see. It is attached. I notice some "read 0"

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue

2007-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 09:09 +, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:46:42AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > reopen 369433 > > found 369433 1.5.5 > > thanks > > > > I'm getting these errors fairly regularly (more than half the days I try > &

Bug#423322: 423322: swi prolog availability

2007-11-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm interested in this too, and am glad to see some movement on getting this package back in action. I'd like to thank the maintainers, and encourage them to get a new package out. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [logs + analysis]

2007-11-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 23:51 +, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:46:22PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > The apt-cacher logs clearly show much different last-modified times from > > the http headers for Release and Release.gpg, consistent with my somehow > >

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [logs + analysis]

2007-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I've installed the patch; the one update I've done since has been fine. I'll have to use it for awhile to see how it works. I notice 1.5.5 has this changelog entry: * Respect no-cache directives in request and pass through to upstream. Does the patch do anything different? I'm not http expert.

Bug#452889: lyx: upgrade zaps recent file list

2007-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lyx Version: 1.5.2-1 Severity: minor After upgrading to the 1.5 series, lyx shows an empty recent file list. It would be nice to preserve it. If fixing this is non-trivial, it's fine with me if you close this or mark it will not fix. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid

Bug#452888: lyx-qt obsolete?

2007-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lyx Version: 1.5.2-1 Severity: minor I think the main lyx package now incorporates what used to be in lyx-qt, and the latter is obsolete. The latest upgrade deleted lyx-qt; there is no version of it in unstable; and http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html does not list it. Upstream cha

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [upstream server problems]

2007-11-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I switched another machine over to using mirror.peer1.net. I am NOT running apt-cacher on the other machine. However, this is the same upstream server I pointed apt-cacher to on my other machine, for which I reported the recent GPG errors. Two interesting things happened. First, I got a bad sign

Bug#369433: problems with your Debian mirrors

2007-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
A 69.90.213.248 cache.peer1.net.60 IN A 69.90.42.232 If you have any ideas about what's going on, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for making the mirror available. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700

Bug#342817: 342817: nvidia hangs system continues

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
found 342817 1:2.1.3-1 retitle 342817 nv open source driver hangs system with GeForce 6600 PCIe thanks I thought I'd give this another try, since the proprietary drivers (as packaged for Debian) are unavailable for the 2.6.22 kernels. As before, it hangs the system so badly that only a manual pow

Bug#453890: lvm2 produces unbootable initramfs with some boot paths

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.26-1+b1 Severity: normal Severity note: Since the problem renders the system unbootable, and is very hard to recover from without expertise, this might warrant higher severity. Since the current behavior seems to be by design, it might warrant wishlist severity (or bei

Bug#394275: 394275: bash info

2007-12-23 Thread Ross Boylan
ut it does mean the examples that were in bash-doc now disappear. The info'ized version seems to be working fine. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#445861: 445861: HAL problem

2007-12-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks to everyone who tracked down and fixed this problem. HAL's a pretty basic component; it's good to have it back in action. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342817: 342817: nvidia hangs system continues

2007-12-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:19 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > found 342817 1:2.1.3-1 > > retitle 342817 nv open source driver hangs system with GeForce 6600 PCIe > > thanks > > > > I thought I'd give this another try, since the proprietary dr

Bug#369433: 369433: apt-cacher GPG errors continue [upstream server problems]

2007-12-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 10:59 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:44 +, Mark Hindley wrote: > > All very interesting. It really doesn't look like apt-cacher is the > > problem here. Certainly the patch I posted should make apt-cacher play > > more n

Bug#448510: logcheck-database: revised pattern for spamd

2007-10-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.63 Severity: normal Tags: patch spamassassin is now reporting Unix domain sockets in the rport field. I'm not exactly sure what changed to cause this to happen; it started after an upgrade whose only remotely relevant package was razor. I think the followin

Bug#446939: closed by LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#446939: fixed in util-linux 2.13-10)

2007-10-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 21:21 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the bsdutils package: > > #446939: col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > > It has been closed by LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PRO

Bug#281788: Debian Firefox/Iceweasel bug triage - bug #281788

2007-10-30 Thread Ross Boylan
When I visit http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39173518,00.htm iceweasel no longer crashes. The apparent ultimate cause of the problem was a a bad reaction to mis-specified css (e.g., null fonts and 5 digit colors). The page reerenced above no longer has such problems. First,

Bug#425191: more on PNG problems

2007-07-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I notice the latest version hylafax-client (2:4.3.4-2) ships with a rule that starts 0 string PNG ps This can't possibly work, since both the rule I use successfully and the old erroneous rule started PNG in position 1 (the old rule tried to match a hex character at

Bug#434911: evolution: folder selection pop-up window has move disabled

2007-07-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 2.10.2-1 Severity: normal When I right click on a message (or group of messages) and select "Move to Folder" a pop-up window comes up allowing me to select a target. Sometimes the "Move" button at the bottom of the pop-up is greyed out. Neither clicking on it nor doub

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

2007-07-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: evolution Version: 2.10.2-1 Severity: normal This problem significant affects usability and the performance of my entire system. It is new since the 2.10 upgrade. When I'm using evolution, as often as every few minutes, it locks up for awhile (10 seconds?) and becomes unresponsive. It

Bug#435044: mutt: Can't open IMAP INBOX that has subfolders

2007-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.16-2 Severity: normal Might warrant higher severity, as it makes some mail (my main mailbox) inaccessible. My mail is on a local Cyrus server. My primary INBOX contains both mail messages and folders. When I open that mailbox, I see the subfolders displayed, but there

Bug#435961: emacs22: no problems here

2007-09-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.1+1-2 Followup-For: Bug #435961 Installation seems to have worked OK for me. See dependencies below. I used aptitude. Here are the packages installed together: Will install 11 packages, and remove 0 packages. 119MB of disk space will be used ===

Bug#440589: cupsys seems to work OK here

2007-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: cupsys Version: 1.3.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #440589 FWIW, after the recent upgrade I am able to access the localhost:631 fine from both iceweasel and konqueror. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'u

Bug#440589: cupsys seems to work OK here

2007-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
It may be relevant that I used the stock cupsd.conf with one change: in place of Listen localhost:631 I used Port 631 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#440600: named: *** POKED TIMER ***

2007-09-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.4.1-P1-1 Severity: normal Might be minor; I'm not sure what the significance is. Since this morning my logs show frequent entries like Sep 2 17:03:24 corn named[3794]: *** POKED TIMER *** named appears to continue to run and work. Googling turned up some emails on B

Bug#440677: sbcl: tag as lang:lisp

2007-09-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: sbcl Version: 1:0.9.16.0-1 Severity: wishlist It would be good to give this (and related) packages a debtag of devel:language:lisp. I almost missed it because the tag was missing! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (9

Bug#449465: fail2ban misses repeated ssh cracking attempt

2007-11-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.1-2 Severity: normal Might warrant higher severity if my analysis is correct and the problem is general. However, it only arises when clocks change. On Nov 4 my logs show the same rhost attempting to login via ssh every 3 seconds from 01:44:30 through 02:00:09. At

Bug#450812: installation-reports: partitioning confusion, manual archive failure, GUI breakage

2007-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz dated 10 Nov (I thought it was 04 Nov when I got it earlier today). http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso da

Bug#349297: dvd+rw-tools: Version 6 available upstream

2006-01-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dvd+rw-tools Severity: wishlist It would be great if you could package the latest release from upstream. I've been advised to try it because I'm having problems burning data DVD's, along the lines of a number of other bug reports here. I have a Pioneer drive, which seems to have particu

Bug#352569: fmtutil: Error. Apparent jadetex involvement. packages left unconfigured.

2006-02-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: > > `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed > >

Bug#352725: 'No such file or directory' error on upgrade zope-archetypes and many others

2006-02-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope-archetypes Version: 1.3.7-1 Severity: normal My log from apt-get dist-upgrade shows Preparing to replace zope-archetypes 1.3.5-1 (using .../zope-archetypes_1.3.7-1_all.deb) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dzhandle", line 2060, in ? main() File "/usr/sb

Bug#349550: r-cran-nlme: related uninstall problem, probably OK

2006-02-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-cran-nlme Version: 3.1.68-2 Followup-For: Bug #349550 I think I ran into the same problem as reported in this bug, but am reporting it just in case: Preparing to replace r-cran-nlme 3.1.62-1 (using .../r-cran-nlme_3.1.68-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement r-cran-nlme ... Can't open

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

2006-02-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:31:56AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:52:01AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I got the latest tarball for EVMS 2.5.4 from the EVMS site and applied > > the dm-bbr patch from there. That seems to work. > > Could you

Bug#233925: exim4-doc-info: missing or damaged index entries

2006-02-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:45:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > tags #233925 unreproducible > thanks > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:16:53AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > In emacs21 I tried looking for index entries for match, matches, > > begins. None of these turned up

Bug#233925: exim4-doc-info: missing or damaged index entries

2006-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:03:14PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > As far as I can tell, i followed by anything produces this response. > > exim4-doc-info is now 4.60-2 > > Can you please retry with 4.60a-1 from u

Bug#233925: exim4-doc-info: missing or damaged index entries

2006-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:05:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:54:42AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:49:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > I can reproduce this. Upstream bugzilla #81. Thanks for helping. > > Does this m

Bug#233925: exim4-doc-info: missing or damaged index entries

2006-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:49:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > I can reproduce this. Upstream bugzilla #81. Thanks for helping. Does this mean you can reproduce it in the 4.60a1, so it's not yet fixed? I'm a bit surprised; I thought the texinfo always produced the index as a side effect. R

Bug#353799: /usr/bin/dvips: dvips -pp option fails with multiple ranges

2006-02-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-13 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dvips I gave this command dvips -p 48-51,101-105 -f < mspath.dvi | lp This produced every page from 48 on, violating the documented behavior of this option in info and dvips --help, unless I'm misunderstanding. I cut the printout

Bug#353152: apt-cacher: same error on lots of packages

2006-02-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.1 Followup-For: Bug #353152 I just upgraded to fix the flock() problem, and now see the same error as reported in this bug on lots of _Packages.bz2. Something is definitely funny; it's hard to believe there are so many corrupt files. Hmm, the names files don't ev

Bug#354428: apt-cacher: apparently persistent damaged Packages.bz2 file

2006-02-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.1 Severity: normal For at least several days I've been getting errors from aptitude and apt-get about missing packages files; unfortunately testing/main is one of them. apt doesn't seem to write the packages into its spots (/var/lib/apt/lists). testing/non-free is

Bug#354428: apt-cacher: apparently persistent damaged Packages.bz2 file [workaround]

2006-02-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Deleting /usr/local/var/mirrors/apt-cacher/packages/linux.csua.berkeley.edu_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2 and then doing an update seems to have fixed the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#354428: apt-cacher: apparently persistent damaged Packages.bz2 file

2006-02-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:39:12AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > tags 354428 + moreinfo > thanks > > #include > * Ross Boylan [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:39:52PM]: > > Package: apt-cacher > > Version: 1.5.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > For at least severa

Bug#344919: 344919: pdf not dvi with new tetex

2006-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for leaving this here. I ran into the same problem, and fixed it with the advice here. I'm pretty sure I got the idiom that led to the trouble from some HowTo; unfortunately, I can't remember the source. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 18

Bug#338106: libboost-doc: still missing boost docs in 1.33.1-2

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libboost-doc Version: 1.33.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #338106 I'm still seeing most of the links on the page of the original report missing. I notice the bug is tagged as fixed in 1.33.1-1 in experimental; I'm past that version number, though I'm not sure if this is the same update stream. dp

Bug#354775: r-base-core: R CMD config doesn't reflect new file locations

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.2.1-6 Severity: normal For example, $ R CMD config --cppflags -I/usr/lib/R/include $ ls /usr/lib/R AUTHORS COPYING.LIB FAQ RESOURCES THANKS etc library share COPYING COPYRIGHTS NEWS SVN-REVISION bin lib modules site-library The file has moved

Bug#354775: r-base-core: R CMD config doesn't reflect new file locations

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:25 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Hi Ross, > > On 28 February 2006 at 16:37, Ross Boylan wrote: > | Package: r-base-core > | Version: 2.2.1-6 > | Severity: normal > | > | For example, > | $ R CMD config --cppflags > | -I/usr/lib/R/include

Bug#354775: r-base-core: R CMD config doesn't reflect new file locations

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:25 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > | A symlink should provide a temporary work-around. > > Probably. On the other hand, if code fails because it assumes > > includedir == $R_HOME/include > > then this needs to be fixed _in that code_ as R no longer guara

Bug#354775: r-base-core: R CMD config doesn't reflect new file locations

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:57 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > | relief (I think; I'm getting some weird errors in libstdc++, but I don't > | think they have anything to do with this). Certainly sounds like an > | upstream issue. > > Are these CRAN packages? If so, which? (Just curious as

Bug#355350: debian-reference-en: refers to apparently non-existent dhcp-dns package

2006-03-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-reference-en Version: 1.09-2 Severity: normal Section 10.4.4 says "If you configure interfaces using DHCP then you may find this package useful: dhcp-dns." I don't think that package is in Debian now. Perhaps autodns-dhcp? The latter refers to bind8, so I'm not entirely sure it

Bug#355350: debian-reference-en: refers to apparently non-existent dhcp-dns package

2006-03-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I still have the package installed; it has the following interesting description: dhcp-dns uses bind's dynamic update features to update a zonefile with hostnames from the dhcp leases file. . Note that this feature is now built in dchp3-server and that this package is abandoned upstream so you

Bug#355489: autodns-dhcp: /var/lib directories left on removal

2006-03-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: autodns-dhcp Version: 0.6 Severity: minor After removing, but not purging, this package, the directory /var/lib/autodns-dhcp/ and its contents remains. Shouldn't it be removed? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'),

Bug#361731: postgresql-client-8.1: createuser man page missing some options

2006-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: postgresql-client-8.1 Version: 8.1.3-3 Severity: minor -A is not documented on the man page for createuser. I noticed this because it's used in the README.Debian quickstart instructions. createuser --help does explain the option. I have 7.4 installed as well, but my symlinks indicate I'

Bug#243766: pgaccess: import wizard does work

2006-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm still seeing this behavior. I notice I never reported the success of the import wizard; it does work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361759: rekall: improper handling of money fields

2006-04-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: rekall Version: 2.2.6-4 Severity: normal rekall appears to be using the formatted value of the money fields when it operates on them, producing errors. In one case this left me in a seemingly infinite loop with error dialogs popping up warning of invalid values. Steps: I had a table in

Bug#347865: kword: printing also has this effect

2006-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kword Version: 1:1.4.2-7 Followup-For: Bug #347865 I'm also seeing the extra pages added when I print. I get one extra page when I print, but 4 when I save. Again, this is a fax document. This time is has a few frame breaks in it; perhaps each one generates and extra page on save? --

Bug#362037: postgresql-client-common: psql gets the old client

2006-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: postgresql-client-common Version: 48 Severity: minor I have clients and servers installed for 7.4 and 8.1. psql gets me the 7.4 client, which surprised me. Further the man page provided no obvious way to change that. Using --cluster, documented in pg_wrapper, did work to get the newer v

Bug#362799: mirrors: linux.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU has no debian directory

2006-04-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: mirrors Severity: normal >From Thursday, 13 Apr 2006 2:40 -0700 through today I have been getting 404 Not found errors when trying to do http access to the Berkeley Debian repository. It was working Tuesday (and before that). I did not attempt a fetch on Wed. I've been using apt-cacher

Bug#357025: udev and ethernet

2006-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
and poorly--it raises the question of why network devices are being handled differently from other ones. Perhaps this is an historical vestige that should be stripped away? Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#362963: udev: handling of multiple rules

2006-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: udev Version: 0.088-2 Severity: normal What happens if several rules match an event? The man page seems to say they will all apply. For example, the last paragraph of the DESCRIPTION section refers to "Rules [plural] that match". Some of the options refer to cutting off rules applicati

Bug#357025: Bug#350183: udev and ethernet

2006-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:59:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:23:26AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > The handling of ethernet devices seems to be unusual in that there are > > entries for them in /sys but not, as far as I can tell, in /dev (by >

Bug#362963: udev: handling of multiple rules

2006-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
> On Apr 16, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What happens if several rules match an event? The man page seems to > > say they will all apply. > Unsurprisingly, it's true. > > > This does not seem to be the behavior I'm getting. I

Bug#362799: 362799: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Your Debian archive seems to have vanished

2006-04-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's an update from the archive maintainers. They are aware of the problem and plan to have it fixed in a few days. - Forwarded message from Lin Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Lin Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#351479: Acknowledgement (evms prone to segfaults, esp when getting info)

2006-02-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried upgrading my libevms-2.5 to unstable, and was able to get the info after doing so. So perhaps that was the problem. Maybe the dependencies need to be tightened up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#351612: debian-installer: Appendix D needs to describe how to make secure apt happy

2006-02-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I was following the instructions on installing from an existing *nix system in Appendix D, but at the point I tried to aptitude install locales (docs said apt-get) I got a complaint about an untrusted source. Probably the instructions need to describe ho

Bug#351938: flock() on closed filehandle $fromfile at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl line 200

2006-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5 Severity: normal My cron daily logs have been showing many entries like that of the subject line each day: flock() on closed filehandle $fromfile at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl line 200 I've been running v 1.4.1, but upgraded to 1.5 as I filed th

Bug#351938: Acknowledgement (flock() on closed filehandle $fromfile at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl line 200)

2006-02-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Wow, that's fast! Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352564: tetex-bin NEWS refers to non-existent tex-common NEWS.Debian

2006-02-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-13 Severity: normal The NEWS.Debian file for tetex-bin refers the reader to the NEWS.Debian file of tex-common. There is no such file in /usr/share/doc/tex-common. My tex-common version is 0.15 (same version in testing and unstable). -- System Information: Debian

Bug#364361: apt-cacher: clarify path_map

2006-04-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: wishlist I couldn't figure out exactly how to use path_map or what it does from the current man page and distributed apt.conf. In particular, it sounded as if this would work path_map = linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian mir

Bug#364500: debian-reference: 10.7 "inconsistent naming of interfaces by kernel" needs update

2006-04-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: debian-reference Version: 1.09-3 Severity: normal Section 10.7 discusses how to deal with inconsistent device naming by the kernel. This problem has become more acute with newer kernels and modern hardware (firewire typically gets an ethernet driver, so more people have 2 eth*). The ude

Bug#364542: dnsutils: nsupdate man page seems missing critical text

2006-04-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: dnsutils Version: 1:9.3.2-2 Severity: minor The nsupdate man page looks as if some material got stripped out in intermediate processing. If that is the case, it would be good to add it back. If it's not the case, it would be good to reword so it's clearer. For example " The comman

Bug#357538: further analysis points to possible failure to pass root= parameter

2006-03-19 Thread Ross Boylan
in my initial post includes a line consisting only of ,pimt" Something must have hit the keyboard; ignore it. Second, On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:40:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Having looked more closely at some of the internals of the package, I > want to highlight one fact: the de

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through > execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, > but here's what I noticed. In short, it looks as if the root > parame

Bug#357538: grub is a work-around

2006-03-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I can now confirm that I can start the 2.6.15 kernel after switching the loader to grub. Note that the default setup of grub (with update-grub) uses raw disk devices for the name of the root partition. I modified it as in the second line below # kopt=root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 r

Bug#358651: update-grub: make menu.lst world-readable (security?)

2006-03-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: grub Version: 0.97-5 Severity: normal I created a grub installation with update-grub, and got the following report from tiger: # Verifying system specific password checks... NEW: --FAIL-- [boot02] The configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst has world permissions. Should be 0600 NEW: --WAR

Bug#358987: apt-cacher: repeated connection failed

2006-03-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: normal This is an important problem for me, but seemingly idiosyncratic. Earlier today aptitude update failed with Failed to fetch http://localhost:3142/linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/dists/testing/Release.gpg Connection failed Failed to fetch http

Bug#358988: apt-cacher: typos

2006-03-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: minor Some of these I reported at the end of 354428, but may have been overlooked there: While looking at the apt-cacher-cleanup.pl code I noticed a few small items in the comments: 1) # add one argument like 1 to make it verbose I tried this, but it d

Bug#358987: apt-cacher: repeated connection failed

2006-03-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I just got this: Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on wheat Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:43:37 -0800 /etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher: zcat: /usr/local/var/mirrors/apt-cacher/temp/linux.csua.berkeley.edu_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz: unexpected end of file Error processing linux.csua

Bug#358987: apt-cacher: repeated connection failed

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
The nightly run this AM of apt-get went fine, and there were no errors in apt-cacher's daily refresh run either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354941: zope3-sandbox: problem seems caused by default values; suggest fixing

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zope3-sandbox Version: 3.2.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #354941 I ran into this too, and suggest reopening this bug for several reasons: 1. The problematic setting appears to be the default value. Earlier in this bug report you suggest that the submitter had set the value, but if I understand

Bug#347431: zeroconf: suggested fix

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: zeroconf Followup-For: Bug #347431 I ran into this too after doing aptitude remove zeroconf. I'm not sure if the suggestion that the file is a holdover from an old version is still live, but I'll note this was on a system created in the last month or two. I believe that previous analys

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > hello ross, > > adding the evms maintainer on cc. Trimming Mark Garey, our sysadmin, from the distribution, as I doubt he wants the blow-by-blow. > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On

Bug#347431: zeroconf: suggested fix

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:32:05PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Package: zeroconf > Followup-For: Bug #347431 > > I ran into this too after doing aptitude remove zeroconf. > > I'm not sure if the suggestion that the file is a holdover from an old > version is still live

Bug#359335: ssh/openssh-server dependency problems prevent installation

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: ssh Version: 1:4.2p1-7 Severity: normal Since this renders the package uninstallable, and may have broken my previously working sshd, this may warrant higher severity. However, I don't see other reports of this, so it may be some local peculiarity. On the last dist-upgrade I get this:

Bug#359338: lam-runtime: remove dependence on ssh

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: lam-runtime Version: 7.1.1a-1 Severity: wishlist ssh appears to be on the way out, replaced by openssh-server and openssh-client. It might be a good idea to update the dependencies of this package accordingly. >From the description of ssh: Version: 1:4.2p1-7 Config-Version: 1:4.2p1-5 De

Bug#359335: ssh/openssh-server dependency problems prevent installation--maybe local goof

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
init.d/ssh includes these lines restart) check_config echo -n "Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry 30 --pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid We made some changes to get a 2nd sshd running, and may have edited this by mista

Bug#359335: ssh/openssh-server dependency problems prevent installation

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 18:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:10:53PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Package: ssh > > Version: 1:4.2p1-7 > > Severity: normal > > > > Since this renders the package uninstallable, and may have broken my >

Bug#359015: 359015: sa-exim greylist clean problem here too

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm seeing the same thing since upgrade earlier today. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California

Bug#359335: ssh/openssh-server dependency problems prevent installation--maybe local goof

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 18:57 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:12:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > init.d/ssh includes these lines > > > > restart) > > check_config > > echo -n "Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server:

Bug#357538: nearly done

2006-03-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 22:19 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > One of the evms developers suggested checking if lilo was properly > patched, and that the behavior I saw suggested it wasn't. Debian's > lilo sounds as if it has the right patch, but maybe it doesn't. Also >

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