Need help with OpenSSH & X authorization

2000-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
severity 59862 normal thanks To the Release Manager: This is an RC bug I cannot reproduce, it seems rare and probably relates to differences in local configuration or something like that. I'm not very enthusiastic about getting this fixed for potato (and Branden se

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. [Note: this need not be a permanent drop, but a temporary measure to get potato out

Bug Reports and Upstream Authors

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
In the course of my job as bugmaster of the BTS, I got this response. (The gentleman was trying to respond to bugs by sending [EMAIL PROTECTED] the comments). I'm not sure what packages he's refering to or who the maintainers are but if one upstream author feels this way...??? The key that I'd l

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Kimball
Ben Collins wrote: > That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract, > which unpacks the tarball itself. > > Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it > down. For the record, I did a clean install yesterday with the standard boot floppies and experien

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. > Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of > the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. > [Note: t

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:48:30PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be > > addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if > > they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are > > supposed

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Galloway
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. > Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of > the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. Yuck. Mo

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Mar-00, 21:33 (CST), Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is > released. Oh, absolutely. However, Wichert wrote "woody+2", which seemed excessive (at current rate of release, that's about 2003.) -- Steve Gre

Uninstallable Task Packages

2000-03-18 Thread Peter Ganten
Hello, I reported the same problem in some different context allready, but since there was no answer, here it is again: After a fresh install of a potato system with boot-floppies 2.2.8 (i386) and no packages installed, besides those in the base-system, it is unpossible to install certain task

[dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
Here is one more response that I got from the gentleman - Forwarded message from "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) D

Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> I noticed that [EMAIL PROTECTED] bot processes the messages you Josip> send to id silently, then processes it again, but this time Josip> mailing the report to you. I have noticed something similar myself, ie I try to reo

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following NEW packages will be installed: libtool 0 >> packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > >> libtool 1.3.3-9 [177kB] Failed to fetch > >> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb > >> Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with > >> --fix-missing? >

Re: Need help with OpenSSH & X authorization

2000-03-18 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:08:34PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 105 > Error: Can't open display: ...:10.0 Did you look at /usr/incluse/asm/errno.h for the error codes? errno = 105 does look like some weird memory problems. The other errno

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Maybe in the time you downloaded the new file your mirror Jason> fixed itself. That error means the .deb it fetched was too Jason> small, ie still being downloaded. I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to insta

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco Ben> wrote: >> [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a >> look at this?] >> >> > Unpacking replacement man-db ... > dpkg-deb: sub

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: >> i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh >> installs of potato from the netboot test cd on >> cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the other

Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-18 Thread Scott Jennings
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:41:11AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:52PM -0800, Bill Jennings wrote: >> Previously Scott Jennings wrote: >>> I've written an M4 file for sendmail 8.9.3, and packaged it up as >>> a debian package. >> >> Configuration on a per-user basis is t

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually Ben> extract, which unpacks the tarball itself. Ben> Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to Ben> track it down. It is easy for me to reproduc

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy > that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. > Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:42:12AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > IIRC, Thomas Dickey is ncurses upstream maintainer... frankly, it has been > practically orphaned for a long time, due to Galen Hazelwood's apparent > AWOLness. And recently Espy offered it for adoption, again... that package > really s

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Erik
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:12:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. > > It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. I doubt it, because i installed on a machine ... and

ITP: texguy

2000-03-18 Thread Ryuichi Arafune
Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy TeX-Guy is a set of DVI file controlling programs for X-Window and printers This package contains: xgdvi --- A simple DVI previewer with GTK+ (the GIMP

Re: nasty slink -> potato upgrade problem

2000-03-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:57 +1100 2000-03-12, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >Also, libc6 tries to restart some NSS-using services, but never seems >to succeed in restarting sshd. I end up with it refusing connections, >although sshd still appears to be running (the original process and >not a new one). I guess that means th

Re: xfs question

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:27:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I think the answer is in the FAQ: Oops. I didn't know there is a FAQ. > zgrep -i unix /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz > Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like > Like the Unix filesystem, windows

Re: ssh & master

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:10:20AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > No, just from you.. > > Mar 17 00:57:44 master named[1815]: bad referral (de.colt.net !< > host.DE.COLT.net) > Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: > can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(h-62.96.162

Re: mod_perl unhappy with libxml-parser-perl

2000-03-18 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Hi! Is there any way I can help you (as maintainer of libxml-parser-perl)? Thanks, Ardo Robert Coie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed a conflict between the versions of Expat in apache-perl > 1.3.9.10-1.21-6 and libxml-parser-perl 2.27-6 that causes memory > corruption. I assume tha

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > try running: > > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir You are aware that that uses a completely different codepath to extract the package, right? Wichert -- / Generally uninteresting signatur

Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, these lists would be split by architecture, and an

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote: > As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, > these lists would be split by architecture, and anyone interested in > more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as > required. I am sure that the overwhelming majori

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted > bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages > installed/uploaded to all architectures. Funny, I don't notice any such messages going to -

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted > > bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages > > installed/uploaded to all architectures.

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Ben Collins
Just some notes to avoid duplication of effort. > Package: freewnn (debian/main) > Maintainer: Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59450 freewnn: fails to build, tries to chown a bin to a non-existant user Already NMU'd > Package: prc-tools (debian/main) > Maintainer: Stephen Zander <[EMAIL P

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which > only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These > are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail > server) and a

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > It's in > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian W

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which > > only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These > > are sorted out using procmail (which is

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all who replied about this. The problem was solved by reducing the dot clock from 75.0 to 65.0. This gave a much better picture than I used to have before I upgraded xserver-svga. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Mar 18, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: mkhybrid (debian/main) > Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60119 mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's Just uploaded with this patch; it's now in Incoming. Chris --

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Robert Ramiega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my > system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( > it's in dpkg-dev. -- (jacob kuntz)[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > > > It's in > > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ > I must have missed it... An

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > > > > > It's in > > > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > During the slink freeze there

Re: ITP: texguy

2000-03-18 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ITP: texguy Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:17:30 +0900 > Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked > on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy It seems TeX-Guy is already packaged or ITP'ed by

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-18 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Seconded, heartily. Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To sum up, what I'm saying is this: I think a Debian window manager policy > should say that window managers should be given higher priority if they > DON'T mangle localized information that they are intended to pass along to > t