Bug#798136: wmbattery does not update display after launching

2015-09-05 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: wmbattery Version: 2.48-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, After a recent upgrade from wheezy to jessie, wmbattery no longer tracks battery information in real time. The time remaining and charge percentage are accurate when launched, but they don

Bug#785650: mpv will not launch

2015-05-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: mpv Version: 0.6.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I wanted to play a video. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? At a shell prompt, I typed /usr/bin/mpv followe

Bug#588643: cupsd fails at launch with symbol lookup error

2010-07-10 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: cups Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I'm maintaining a lenny system, and during the normal upgrade process, something went very wrong with CUPS. The daemon won't launch: : n...@homedog 10073 ; sudo /etc/init.d/cups start Starting Commo

Bug#534584: sam user interface paints gibberish to the screen

2009-06-25 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: sam Version: 4.3-18.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The sam user interface is painting very strange things to the screen and is crashing unexpectedly. Screen shot attached. sam -d is still usable but without its GUI, the package is crippled. Norman -- Syste

Bug#528687: googleearth-package: googleearth binary fails with undefined symbol EVP_idea_cbc

2009-05-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Nice. I missed that from the headers... N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#528687: googleearth-package: googleearth binary fails with undefined symbol EVP_idea_cbc

2009-05-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I love this package! It is a great service. Unfortunately, the googleearth it builds at the moment does not run: : n...@labrador 3466 ; /usr/bin/googleearth /usr/lib/goog

Bug#507408: liblua5.1-posix-dev: fails to build from source

2008-11-30 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: liblua5.1-posix-dev Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Transcript attached. Dunno if my rich shell environment is throwing it off or what. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')

Bug#478785: followup - LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2008-04-30 Thread Norman Ramsey
Adding ../usr/lib/googleearth to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH *before* running make-googleearth-package results in a slew of different error messages about shared libraries, but it does produce a /usr/bin/googleearth that starts and runs. It segfaults every time I exit, however. Norman a -- To UNSUBS

Bug#478785: make-googleearth-package creates binary that fails to link at run time

2008-04-30 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable After running /usr/bin/make-googleearth-package and getting a long list of complaints about shared libraries, I get a package which behaves badly when installed. Note in particular the absolute pat

Bug#476444: many errors on attempting to install package djview, especially /etc/alternatives

2008-04-16 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: djview Version: 3.5.20-7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable djview won't install on my system. I attempted to install 3.5.20-7 so I could go back to the old viewer. The result was a cascade of errors. Could be a problem with postinst or maybe the dependencies are w

Bug#462021: autoconf: autconf must depend on automaken, not just recommend it

2008-01-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: autoconf Version: 2.61-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 Policy 3.5 says: Every package must specify the dependency information about other packages that are required for the first to work correctly. autoconf merely 'recommends' automake, which is not a sufficiently s

Bug#433001: Acknowledgement (libghc6-mtl-dev: package unusable; installation in wrong directories)

2007-07-13 Thread Norman Ramsey
Followup: I seemed to have fixed the problem by changing the configuration step in the debian/rules for the build-stamp target: ./setup-ghc configure --ghc --with-compiler=$(GHC) --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/cabal_libraries

Bug#433001: libghc6-mtl-dev: package unusable; installation in wrong directories

2007-07-13 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: libghc6-mtl-dev Version: 1.0.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package installs files into the wrong directories. Most of what goes into /usr/lib/mtl-1.0.1/ghc-6.6.1 needs to go into /usr/lib/ghc-6.6.1/imports instead. The .a file needs to go into /usr/lib

Bug#384261: nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-1-k7: cannot install: depends on unavailable kernel image

2006-08-22 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-1-k7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package depends on linux-kernel-2.6.17-1-k7, which is unavailable. There is a package available called linux-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers te