Bug#949943: fuzzyocr depends on gifinter from libgif-tools, unavailable

2020-01-27 Thread Chris Bell
Package: fuzzyocr Version: 3.6.0-12 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Causes spamassassin errors, crashes sa-exim on dedicated mail gateway * What exactly did you d

Bug#781538: debian-boot: Total trash on reboot of RAID1 partitions

2015-03-30 Thread Chris Bell
Package: debian-boot Version: jessie rc1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? / was installed on first RAID1 pair of partitions, 2nd RAID1 pair not used at first, /srv on 3rd RAID1 pair. I had a problem during configura

Bug#745819: zoneminder experimental

2014-12-09 Thread Chris Bell
-- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:54:13 + (GMT) From: Chris Bell Subject: zoneminder experimental To: vagr...@debian.org Cc: p...@northern-ridge.com.au I am not a competent programmer, but have been trying to figure out why the experimental version of zoneminder

Bug#758096: Blends in D-I tasksel selection? (Was: Filed Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough)

2014-11-11 Thread Chris Bell
think that some, especially mail-server, were a great help to inexperienced users because they set sensible defaults over all the included packages, and even for those not immediately included such as spamassassin. Could it be made available among the tasks listed by aptitude? -- Chris Bell

Bug#740410: installation-reports

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Bell
report will be useful. > > > Long life to Debian ! > > > Best wishes, > > > Jo. > There used to be a frequent problem with hardware that could not use DMA. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#596598: xorg: (Intel 82852/855GM) Total machine hang as x starts, leaving blank screen

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Bell
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: important This machine is normally updated frequently using aptitude. Machine has often hung after a regular kernel upgrade, but the usual temporary cure using a previous kernel did not work this time so I did a total re-installation. Still suffers a tot

Bug#587388: d-i: fails to install grub-2

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Bell
On Mon 28 Jun, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:12:58AM +, Chris Bell wrote: > > Installer used on 27/06/2010 to install squeeze, which failed to install > > grub-2, then failed to revert to grub-legacy, so I used dd to copy > > /dev/zero to th

Bug#587388: d-i: fails to install grub-2

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Bell
te-grub -y' failed. Full logs available if required. -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk (was www.overview.demon.co.uk) Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#575309: user-setup: Should stop adding first user to device access groups

2010-03-25 Thread Chris Bell
up an initial user account, then often create real users starting from a higher UID with the same UIDs throughout the local network, finally deleting the initial user account. If it is easy to add new users from a list it is also easy to delete the first account when not required. -

Bug#544106: xorg configuration missing from i386 gnome and kde

2009-08-30 Thread Chris Bell
. The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf is created but is empty, and is not changed using "dpkg-reconfigure xorg.conf" The standard text console is configured to en-GB as requested. I tried /etc/X11/xorg,conf from another computer, but then X-windows did not start. -- Chris Bell -- To U

Bug#486168: Success, please close bug report.

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Bell
(correct) 686 kernel was selected. The re-boot continued normally after removing the memory hole and re-installing with the 686 kernel using a recent daily installer. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#486168: Lenny Beta2 Kernel Panic - fails to re-boot on HP Netserver E60

2008-10-11 Thread Chris Bell
On Fri 13 Jun, Chris Bell wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: Lenny Beta2 Businesscard CD for i386 > Image version: debian-LennyBeta2-i386-businesscard.iso > Date: several attempts from 10.06.2008 > > Machine: HP NetServer E60 > Processor: Dual

Bug#486168: Lenny Beta2 Kernel Panic - fails to re-boot on HP Netserver E60

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Bell
On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:49, Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 486168 linux-2.6 2.6.24-7 > thanks > > On Friday 13 June 2008, Chris Bell wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > On re-boot the A channel is identified, but kernel panic while checking > > the B channel. > >

Bug#486168: Lenny Beta2 Kernel Panic - fails to re-boot on HP Netserver E60

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Bell
On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:49, Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 486168 linux-2.6 2.6.24-7 > thanks > > On Friday 13 June 2008, Chris Bell wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > On re-boot the A channel is identified, but kernel panic while checking > > the B channel. > >

Bug#486168: Additional information from Knoppix 5.1.1

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Bell
em with ordered data mode. ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 eth0: no IPv6 routers present [EMAIL

Bug#486168: Lenny Beta2 Kernel Panic - fails to re-boot on HP Netserver E60

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Bell
v 7.0 aic 7895C: UltraWide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ACPI : PCI Interrpt :00:05.1 [B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Kernel Panic - not syncing: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB ff Hangs Details copied to paper from screen display. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#477988: Failed to detect ROM drive after starting installation

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bell
in the standard installation proceedure? I have no further access to the laptop, this report was submitted afterwards. -- Chris Bell NEW alternative address: chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Bug#476897: installation-report: apt-cdrom missing from i386 daily images

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bell
h probing IDE interface ide1, IRQ 15 "Nobody cares, so I will disable it" after which there was a stream of reports about CD-ROM not found, with a final note suggesting a re-boot using "irqpoll". The next installation was started including irqpoll, and it went without a hitch. IB

Bug#465320: CD doesn't boot (Isolinux errors) on 486 with Adaptec SCSI

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bell
I have often found that older disc drives give up if asked to use DMA, so try booting with NODMA (see also the Knoppix disc F2 or F3 from the first screen). Otherwise use floppies to start the installation. -- Chris Bell NEW alternative address: chrisbell at chrisbell.org.uk Microsoft sells y

Bug#452388: "Standard system" is confusing

2007-11-25 Thread Chris Bell
t; > which has much to do with the command line. > > Any suggestions as to which an accurate description would be? > > -- > Robert Millan > Standard system without desktop? -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#441446: Swap partition problem with low memory "expert" floppy install

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Bell
On Tue 02 Oct, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:05:36PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote: > >I then attempted to install a second system on hdb plus hdc, with swap > > plus a single RAID 1 partition on each disc. I tried several times with > > similar parameters, a

Bug#442437: debian-installer: installer keeps probing for non-existent floppy

2007-09-16 Thread Chris Bell
> The system really shouldn't do that more than once or better yet, > detecting that the system doesn't have a floppy and not probing at > all. > There is usually a BIOS setting for "Floppy: NONE" Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole h

Bug#440185: FW: new install won't boot completely

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Bell
to select a different screen size, and if a picture appears you may need to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -- Chris Bell

Bug#418341: turning DMA off

2007-04-14 Thread Chris Bell
On Fri 13 Apr, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Op 13-04-2007 om 18:27 schreef Chris Bell: > > > > I usually find that DMA has been turned on but the drive is unable to > > comply, so I turn DMA off for that drive. > > > How? > > > Please spend some mo

Bug#418341: Reopen 418341

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Bell
On Fri 13 Apr, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > > Frans, > I found more bugs about "CD ROM / HD not recognized": > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418972> > I usually find that DMA has been turned on but the drive is unable to comply, so I turn DMA

Bug#409217: Still problems, but have I found the answer?

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bell
other access allowed, instead of /var/cache/apt-proxy where it does have access permissions. It is therefore unable to provide these files. Not even aptitude running on the box that is also running apt-proxy is able to obtain these files from apt-proxy. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#409217: Apt-proxy Release.gpg now working

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Bell
with apt-proxy. Please close the bug report. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409217: Release.gpg problem

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Bell
-proxy but the etch boxes complain about Release.gpg and give a red warning about an untrusted source when trying to install updated packages. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409217: Still problems with apt-proxy 1.9.35-0.2

2007-02-15 Thread Chris Bell
that are still running sarge seem to be working normally. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409217: apt-proxy now fails to deliver Release.gpg to sarge boxes

2007-02-04 Thread Chris Bell
Apt-proxy-v2 is retrieving and updating the file Release.gpg but not delivering it on demand to boxes running either sarge or etch, although I can see the file in the normal location within apt-proxy cache. I suspect it is not found because apt-proxy is searching in the wrong places. -- Chris

Bug#409217: I forgot one directory layer in the addresses

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Bell
/apt-proxy/debian/dists/etch/contrib/package.name /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/etch/non-free/package.name -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409217: apt-proxy file access problems from etch

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Bell
something wrong? Thanks for all the hard work. -- Chris Bell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]