[Bug 1649075] [NEW] ftp client does not honor .netrc macro definitions

2016-12-11 Thread Alessandro Selli
Public bug reported: Ubuntu version info: Description:Ubuntu 16.10 Release:16.10 Codename: yakkety ftp client from: Package: ftp Version: 0.17-28 ftp client does not honor macro definitions in users' ~/.netrc file. According to man ftp(1) it should. Example: [alessandro@wkstn

[Bug 232051] Re: talkd does not work

2016-07-14 Thread Alessandro Selli
I run into this problem when running in.talkd daemons between Debian 8.5 and Fedora 24. I'm letting everyone know about how I could make the two work even though not one of the involved machined was an Ubuntu one, because I guess the issue other people experienced years ago could be caused by the s

[Bug 1594073] [NEW] 16.04 - initrd fails to decrypt and mount /usr directory when it's on it's own cryptsetup partition

2016-06-19 Thread Alessandro Selli
Public bug reported: Running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, upgraded from a 15.10 that did not show the issue. Initramd fails at setting up the encrypted /usr partition. At the (initramfs) prompt the following command is accepted and succeeds at decrypting the partition: cryptsetup --key-file /root/etc/keys

Re: [Bug 943195] Re: xpdf.real crashed with SIGSEGV in GooHash::hash()

2014-01-19 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 19/01/2014 05:18, C. Jeffery Small wrote: > I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 13.10 with the xpdf package > 3.03-11ubuntu6. > > As TBeholder reported above, xpdf now runs without crashing, but the > font display in the menus and index is abominable looking. It looks to > me as if antialiasing of t

[Bug 943195] Re: xpdf.real crashed with SIGSEGV in GooHash::hash()

2013-08-19 Thread Alessandro Selli
Just to add some more chaff to keep the bug alive: 1) to this day the bug persists in Ubuntu 13.04 raring; 2) a manual solution consists in downgrading to xpdf_3.02-21build2 as of comment #55 by Ronny Cardona (rcart) dated 2012-11-23; 3) to install this xpdf package I had to apt-get install libti