gt;
>On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:02:02PM -0800, Ben Wong wrote:
>> I read that mesg and write were removed recently because "people use
>> more secure methods of chatting nowadays." I am guessing this is
>> related to the recent security problem where Debian defaulted to
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.40.2-11
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
I read that mesg and write were removed recently because "people use
more secure methods of chatting nowadays." I am guessing this is
related to the recent security problem where Debia
Package: gawk
Version: 1:5.2.1-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
Please upgrade this package to version 5.3. As of 2023, GNU's gawk has
support for the Comma Separated Values format by use of the `-k`
switch. This is a major improvement for people who mus
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.39.2-5
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
Ever since Bookworm, fdformat, the floppy disk low-level format
program has been missing. This is because upstream no longer
configures it by default in order to save disk space. Howeve
ctually works in the
--keep-utf16 section. It is good to see that unix2dos actually does what I
wanted rather than what it claims it does.
Thank you.
Ben Wong
Package: dos2unix
Version: 7.5.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
The dos2unix man page claims that the default mode is "ASCII" and that
in ASCII mode only line endings will be changed. This is no longer
true. In the default mode, UTF-16 is converted to
Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.37-7
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/iconv
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
The iconv program, following POSIX, allows charmap files to be used
directly for conversion without having to be compiled into a gconv
module. For example,
"echo $'foo\nbar\n\cp\cu\cp\cu\cn\cj' | ./rlgets"
prompt> foo
prompt> bar
prompt>
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
bash: line 1: 556449 Doneecho 'foo
bar
'
556450 Aborted (core dumped) | ./rlgets
make: *** [Makefil
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-6
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
Currently, if a file with '$' (dollar sign) in it exists, Bash
completion will quote a leading '~' (tilde) and not quote the tilde.
To reproduce (where '^I' represents hitting the
Package: bash-completion
Followup-For: Bug #521406
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
Shouldn't this bug be closed since it was fixed? Or, if it is closed,
why is reportbug suggesting it to me in the bugs list?
Thanks.
--Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
Package: bash-completion
Followup-For: Bug #653837
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
This bug can be closed as it no longer occurs, at least as of version
1:2.11-6 which I just tested.
In the following, "^I" represents where I hit the Tab key and the line
after "->" shows
Package: bash
Version: 5.2.15-2+b2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
Using history-search-backward and -forward can cause bash to die with
an error:
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
Aborted (core dumped)
This is easily replicated b
Package: groff
Version: 1.22.4-9
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
The gropdf Perl script has a few bugs.
1. It does not include /etc/papersize as the first place to check for
the default paper size. The problem is that the "papersize"
di
Package: bsdextrautils
Version: 2.38.1-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
The -l (--table-column-limit) option to the "column" utility does not
work correctly for data that has more than one space in a row. It is
supposed to specify a maximum number of col
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 08:55:26AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> It does not happen very often that somebody replies to an over 20 years
> old bug, and this seems to have escaped both my and upstream's
> attention.
Thank you, Sven. I realize this is unusual and I hope you do not mind. As a
user, I
Package: luit
Version: 2.0.20221028-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net
Dear Maintainer,
It appears that luit does not handle UTF-8 beyond U+. For example:
printf "Nabla (U+2207): \U2207\nBold Nabla (U+1D6C1): \U1D6C1\n" \
| luit -encoding UTF-8
Package: ncurses-bin
Version: 6.3+20220423-2
Followup-For: Bug #60377
Control: tags -1 patch
Control: tags -1 patch
Dear Maintainer,
This is still a problem. It causes my VT340 serial terminal to hang,
but not immediately. It happens the next time a program tries to open
/dev/ttyUSB0, for example
Package: wavemon
Version: 0.9.1-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Despite what the NEWS file says, Wavemon does not actually use the
curtail() function it defines to prevent long lines from spilling into
the next line. While this is noticeable mostly on the rx/tx rate line
-- whi
Package: rsyslog
Version: 8.2102.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
My Debian box's hard disk filled up due to a single buggy user
application spewing messages at syslog. While I blame the application,
Debian's rsyslog should be more robust by default.
This is something I've seen happening
Package: go-mtpfs
Version: 0.0~git20180209.d6f8f3c-1
Followup-For: Bug #952796
Dear Maintainer,
Upstream has patched the bug.
https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/issues/103
https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/commit/1e01fd2b9a423ad0ad8fd06a1f3e2d8cf8f23e5a
I suggest updating go-mtpfs to
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 11.1.2+b1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/ncal
Dear Maintainer,
According to the man page for ncal, its strangely compact output was
designed specifically so it will fit an entire year on an 80 column by
25 row screen. At some point somebody made an "improvement" to
Package: acpitool
Version: 0.5.1-4+b4
Followup-For: Bug #712176
Dear Maintainer,
'acpitool -c' seems to work fine without /proc/acpi/processor, but it
still complains about it being missing. Could we simply remove the
spurious warning in Show_CPU_Info()?
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Re
it even if the documentation is
not improved.
Thank you for your consideration,
Ben
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 5:48 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:24:58 -0800 Ben Wong
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Maintainer,
>
> Hello,
>
> [...]
> >
> > It turns out
Oh! I'm sorry. I had expected Debian's official "PRETTY NAME" in
/etc/os-release to be the preferred name for showing to users.
To show it without the code name, but to have it automatically update
whenever /etc/os-release is changed, this works:
\S{NAME} \S{VERSION_ID} \n \l
Thanks,
—Ben
Hi, I know this is low-priority and everyone is busy on important matters,
but I was wondering if anybody had looked at this yet. The fix I included
is simple and easily verified. I'm hoping that it can be included in Debian
11 (Bullseye).
Thanks,
—Ben
Package: base-files
Version: 10.3+deb10u1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/issue
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
When upgrading to Debian Buster, I noticed that Debian had updated
/etc/issue to include the version number ("Debian GNU/Linux 10").
There is no reason for this since that data is already incl
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 60.6.1esr-1~deb9u1
Followup-For: Bug #928415
Dear Maintainer,
What is Debian's recommendation for users and administrators dealing
with this major snafu?
I've got a bunch of Debian Stable boxes with Firefox-esr and
installing the STUDIES "hotfix" from Mozilla by han
Package: vice
Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
When a local administrator wishes to install the VICE ROMs for all
users on the local machine, the usual and recommended practice would
be to put them under /usr/local/.
VICE does not look there by default, howeve
Package: vice
Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
The vice-getroms script installs ROMs in a location that VICE-3.0 does
not look, $HOME/lib/vice/. The patch for this is trivial as the new
location is simply $HOME/.vice/.
--- debian/vice-getroms.orig2011-04-23
Package: vice
Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Although Debian does not distribute the ROMs, it does have some pointers
to help people find them. Currently the README.ROMs file and
vice-getroms shell script both refer to getting the VICE-1.5 ROMs
here:
ftp://ftp.zimmers.ne
Package: vice
Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I notice that VICE-3.3 was released last year but Debian still has
VICE-3.0. When you get the time, it'd be nice if Debian's package was
updated to the newest version.
Thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.22+3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking
on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know
that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am
looking for.
Whenever I i
Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.22+3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking
on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know
that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am
looking for.
Whenever I i
Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.22+3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking
on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know
that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am
looking for.
Whenever I i
Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.22+3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking
on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know
that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am
looking for.
Whenever I i
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3-36build2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
w3m ought to obey the MarkAllPages option from the command line (or the
config file) and automatically mark all URL-like strings as links.
Instead, it currently does nothing. This is a problem because w3m is
intend
Package: youtube-dl
Version: 2017.05.18.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #904619
Dear Maintainer,
This particular package becomes obsolete very quickly and the version
in Stretch hasn't been updated in over a year. Is there some way to
alert users to not bother with it on a stable system and what they can
d
Package: xfonts-jmk
Version: 3.0-21
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
The neep font has surprisingly good Unicode coverage, but it is
missing some characters. In particular, I noticed it is missing the
eight RUNIC LETTERS, U+16F1 to U+16F8, that were added in Unicode 7.0
a few years a
Package: sox
Version: 14.4.1-5+b2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
There is a bug in the man page of sox that causes the font to switch
midway to Courier instead of Times Roman. You can see this problem by
viewing the man page as a PDF:
cd /usr/share/man/man1
zcat sox.1.gz | tbl -Tpdf |
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Paride Legovini wrote:
> On 2018-02-17 18:30, Ben Wong wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:43:45 +0100 Steffen Nurpmeso > <mailto:stef...@sdaoden.eu>> wrote:
> >>
> >> So here i as the maintainer of the subject jump in and
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:43:45 +0100 Steffen Nurpmeso
wrote:
>
> So here i as the maintainer of the subject jump in and remark that
> the problem of the bug report you pointed to was a non-standard
> option of the Debian bsd-mail, our command line is a superset of
> POSIX mailx. (Unfortunately v14.
Package: gzip
Version: 1.6-5+b1
Followup-For: Bug #854878
Dear Maintainer,
I can confirm what the previous bug reporter said. It is definitely a
bug. You can test it like so:
$ touch binary-star
$ zgrep signal binary-star
/bin/zgrep: 75: /bin/zgrep: 1: binary-star option requires an
It's been a decade since I fixed it, so my memory is hazy, but Google shows up
a patch as Debian Bug #388036 .
Ben
On December 23, 2017, at 3:41 AM, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017年12月22日星期五 CST 下午5:03:59 Ben Wong wrote:
> Wait, that bug again? I fixed that a long
Wait, that bug again? I fixed that a long time ago. Why did I not get messages
about it?
Ben
On December 21, 2017, at 11:39 PM, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote:
Control: tag -1 confirmed stretch buster sid
Control: severity -1 grave
This bug essentially made zssh unusable; raising the
Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.98
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, in the the section
labeled "Unattended-Upgrades::Origins-Pattern, there are two problems.
1) The release name is hardcoded to "jessie" in the commented out
example of how to
Package: glances
Version: 2.7.1.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
When glances is not the latest version, it prints a message upon
quitting suggesting one should upgrade using 'pip'. While I trust the
Debian project enough to install upgrades, I do not trust pip. (In
fact, I think it raises
Package: bsdgames
Version: 2.17-22
Severity: normal
File: /usr/games/trek
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
The manpage for trek(6) is extremely brief. This is by design as there
is full documentation in a troff file. Unfortunately, the manpage
neglects to explain how to read that documentation.
This
Package: radio
Version: 3.103-3+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
The radio program incorrectly changes the frequency on startup under
certain circumstances because it does not correctly calculate the band.
To recreate:
1. Create a file called "~/.radio" with contents like this:
Package: radio
Version: 3.103-3+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
To replicate: Run 'radio -f 107.7'
Expected result: Frequency should be 107.7.
Actual result: Frequency is 107.69.
The 'radio' program uses floating point when reading in the frequency
from the user. (E.g. "107
Package: dictionary-el
Version: 1.10-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Since emacs can handle nice variable width fonts, it makes sense to
have dictionary.el use them by default. While there is support for
changing some of the font faces, such as the buttons at the top, the
packag
I can confirm that this bug exists as it affects me as well.
Note that, because there are some sites that now require adblock to be
disabled, this bug makes parts of the web inaccessible until the package is
removed.
It does seem like an update to the latest adblock would be in order. What
is req
Weird. I thought I had patched that bug seven years ago. Yeah, it was bug
#388036. I'll look into it again.
Ben
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could also confirm that the latest NMU of 1.5c.debian.1-3.2 caused the
> bug.
>
> @YunQiang, any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Bend
Package: fbi
Version: 2.09-1+b1
Followup-For: Bug #780649
Dear Maintainer,
Since the upstream already has color fixed, here is the antialiasing patch
without that part.
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Package: fbi
Version: 2.09-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
PDF documents can be hard to read using fbgs because text is not being
antialiased. Some documents are so unpleasant to
read that the program is essentially unusable.
Fortunately, it is a simple matter to enable anti
Package: fbi
Version: 2.09-1+b1
Followup-For: Bug #780643
Oops, last patch I sent used the -m flag, which I had not noticed was already
being passed to fbi to set the mode. I've
changed it to -M now and updated the documentation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
Package: fbi
Version: 2.09-1+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
The fbgs wrapper for fbi is great for viewing PDF files from the Linux console,
however it shows them in black and white
by default. There is a command line option to enable color, but it would make
more sense to defa
Gosh, that was a lifetime ago. Please close. Thank you.
--Ben
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Pedro Beja wrote:
> Hey Ben,
>
> this is an old bug.
>
> Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer
> gnome-system-monitor version like 3.4.1-2+b1 or 3.14.0-1 ?
>
> thanks
> regards
> al
Package: itop
Version: 0.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #443798
Dear Maintainer,
Just confirming that itop is still broken for amd64 with multiple
cores. For example, on an Intel i5 processor with four cores, I get
output that looks like this:
INTNAME RATE MAX
19 [
Package: netselect
Version: 0.3.ds1-25
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I know the issue of corruption due to parsing ping responses from DNS
roundrobin has come up in the past, and been fixed, but it appears to
have reappeared.
When running netselect through the netselect-apt script, netsel
Package: netselect-apt
Version: 0.3.ds1-25
Followup-For: Bug #750952
Dear Maintainer,
Please find attached a patch that should close this bug. While I was
at it, I fixed #713838 as well.
The problem is actually a bug in the netselect package (I'll file
another bug report for that). However, a s
Using the source I was finally able to figure out a method to
repeatably trigger this heisenbug.
HOW TO REPEAT:
1. echo "set revert-all-at-newline on" > bug.inputrc
2. INPUTRC=bug.inputrc bash
3. ^P^U^N^M [Hold down control and type "punm".]
Bash should die immediately with SIGABRT.
DISCUSSI
Okay, I've compiled my own version of bash for debugging and managed
to get it to crash with a usable backtrace. It seems to be a problem
with the readline library built into bash-4.3. Just out of curiousity,
why is it we compile bash using its own readline instead of using the
shared library (./co
Okay, I ran bash under gdb and got a backtrace which perhaps points to
readline. While it's hard to lay blame with a malloc error, this fits
with my experience as bash would often crash immediately after exiting
a command and returning to the prompt.
Josh: Do you have a specialized ~/.inputrc? I d
I can confirm that this bug is affecting bash-4.3-7. At least once a day
I'll see bash crash due to this. It's been going on for a while, but It was
rather mysterious since I never saw the error message until I set up
gnome-terminal to not close when bash exits. By the way, it may or may not
be imp
Package: bash
Version: 4.2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Dear Bash Maintainer,
Bash seems to have a bug in which it cannot reset the signal handler
(using 'trap') when already within a signal handler. Here is a sample
script that demonstrates the problem:
--
Package: anki
Version: 1.2.11-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Anki 2 has been released and the upstream maintainer will be shutting
off the AnkiWeb 1.2 server on February 4, 2013. That means that users
that have not upgraded to Anki 2 will no longer be able to sync their
decks. This could
:
> On 2013-01-02 11:04:35 -0800, Ben Wong wrote:
> > Fortunately, a quick fix (at least for w3m) is easy. One can comment out
> > the broken lines in /etc/mailcap:
> >
> > # It is better to not pretend to know how to deal with archives.
> > #application/x-tar; /
This wishlist item may be more important than it seems as the bug also
breaks the w3m text browser. More than once, I've left a huge download
running and came back to find nothing but a list of files splatted to my
screen.
It just doesn't make sense that Debian's default method of handling
archive
> For your information, you can use reportbug with path to a file as argument,
> it
> will check the owner packgage.
>
> $ dpkg -S hostname.1
> hostname: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz
Did I misfile this bug? My apologies.
>> More likely, the author meant that using 'hostname' is not the
>> *
Package: ddclient
Version: 3.8.0-11.5
Followup-For: Bug #334437
This bug still exists in version 3.8.0. The solution proposed over six
years ago by Dave Dykstra, commenting out the buggy lines, works fine.
Here is a patch that does simply that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.6+3
Followup-For: Bug #579185
Dear Maintainer,
I managed to get xkeystone to work by commenting out a couple lines.
--- xkeystone~ 2011-07-02 11:25:46.0 -0700
+++ xkeystone 2012-04-03 07:52:18.0 -0700
@@ -496,8 +496,8 @@
text =
Package: sidplay
Version: 2.0.9-6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The documentation does not mention that sidplay uses the HVSC's
SongLength.txt file to end songs at the proper time nor does it
describe how to configure it. (As shipped by Debian, sidplay currently
plays sid tunes forever, but that's
I can confirm that Debian's current gstreamer-0.10 has a problem
recording from some microphones. I have an Ensoniq 5880B PCI audio
card which records fine with ALSA but does not work with gstreamer
when specified as "hw:1,0". Oddly, it *does* work with gstreamer
when specified as "default:CARD=
Package: texinfo
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
This bug is easy to reproduce. Simply run "info" in a terminal, then
resize the terminal to have a height smaller than 6. The info program
immediately exits with a segmentation fault.
The problem is that window.c:window_line_of_point()
This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug.
Package: cpuburn
Version: 1.4-37
Severity: minor
The man page for the cpuburn collection of programs is missing essential
information necessary for using them. For example, it does not mention
that the programs print no error messages, or a
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The xgamma man page should have a link in the SEE ALSO section to the
xrandr man page which also supports changing the display gamma.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500
t break no matter what gvfs does.
--Ben
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> severity 600767 important
> tag 600767 unreproducible
> thanks
>
> Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 15:11 -0700, Ben Wong a écrit :
>> Gnome-system-monitor has always been a CPU pig, es
Package: id3v2
Version: 0.1.12-1
Severity: normal
Unfortunately, this five year old bug still exists in id3v2. As much as we had
hoped the world would have completed its transition to patent free media
formats by now (go WEBM!),
sadly I was confronted with an mp3 file today and id3v2 couldn't
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Can you try upgrading xserver-xorg-video-radeon to 6.12.5 in unstable
> or even 6.12.191 in experimental with a recent kernel and KMS ?
Retested. The bug still exists in xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.12.6
(latest in testing)
and 6.13.0 (in un
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Ben Wong wrote:
>> Is that all with the same radeon dri driver (from libgl1-mesa-dri)?
>
> WORKS
>
> Ubuntu/karmic: DRI works perfectly
> Linux-2.6.31.14.27
> libgl1-mesa-dri-7.6.0-1ubuntu4
>
I just want to mention that, despite my r
Package: manpages
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The hostname(1) manual page is needlessly obtuse when it comes to
Fully Qualified Domain Names. For example, the introductory sentence
to the FQDN section states,
You can't change the FQDN (as returned by hostname --fqdn) or the D
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Ben Wong wrote:
> Next I tried copying the entire driver/gpu/drm/radeon directory from
> Ubuntu and compiled that kernel module under Debian. I was surprised
> to find that the bug still manifested using that kernel module as
> well.
Just for comple
n
__
¹ The 15% uncertainty is because I have only tested this a few times.
Occasionally the filesystem would become so corrupted it had to be
completely wiped and reinstalled, which makes for slow debugging.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 04:30
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ben Wong wrote:
>> Mesa 7.6 is not the problem. I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena)
>> that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems. I also installed it to hard
>> disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor. Again, no problems.
>
As a t
> Mesa 7.6 is not the problem. I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena)
> that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems. I also installed it to hard
> disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor. Again, no problems.
As a test, I've installed libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Ben Wong wrote:
> On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload of mesa 7.6 to
>> unstable, so it's possible this is a long-standing kernel bug being
>> triggered by a new bug in mesa 7
On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:30:18 -0800, Ben Wong wrote:
>
> FWIW, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550977 was
> reported on r100, not r200.
Good to know. Thanks.
> The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload
>> firmware when it is separated from the kernel. (Could it be that the
>> binary blob didn't get copied correctly when it was split?)
> I've compared them again - they're identical to the blobs previously
> embedded in the driver (except for byteswapping).
That makes some sense, since DRI actua
I have organized this bug report so that the most important information
is at the top so that you can stop reading as soon as you get bored.
This bug, #550562, should be reclassified as a critical bug and possibly
merged with #560126.
This bug causes severe filesystem corruption and catastrophic
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: wishlist
When a user installs the package "git" she will likely be surprised to
be told "Selecting gnuit instead of virtual package git". I request
that the "git" virtual package be changed to install git-core. If
that is not possible, there sho
Package: fdutils
Version: 5.5-20060227-3
Severity: minor
The manual page for setfdprm, auto generated from the texinfo, refers
the user to a non-existent file for the list of media geometry
descriptions. The man page says "/etc/fdprm", but the correct file is
"/etc/mediaprm". A quick search
Hi, I believe this bug is a duplicate of Bug#408456 and should be
closed. Note that the stable distribution (Etch) still manifests this
bug, as it uses cdrkit-1.1.2.
--Ben
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Additional information: I have attempted to submit my patch to the
upstream maintainer at the only public contact address available,
http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html. Sadly, their bug reporting CGI
script appears to have a bug. Every attempt I made was responded to
with the message "Error: Spam
Package: mirrors
Severity: important
When using aptitude to download packages for the powerpc, one of the
mirrors in the pool consistently gives me "404 Not Found" errors for
certain packages.
The malfunctioning mirror is: 206.246.124.8
The problem is that some files and directories are missing
ls, I believe that dpkg itself
should not be so brittle. Why should dpkg be completely hosed if a
package misuses dpkg-statoverride?
Ben Wong
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