Bug#836675: sinntp: Unable to download news because of error

2016-09-04 Thread David Creelman
Package: sinntp Version: 1.5-1.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have a small bash script that runs sinntp to download NNTP news in batch. It failed to download several of my newsgroups with the following errors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sinntp", line 351, in

Bug#799686: This is now working

2016-01-11 Thread David Creelman
Hi, I am now able to run glx apps. My screensavers work, freecad, etc. I'm not exactly sure when the fix happened, but it is now no longer an issue. Please feel free to close the log. Regards, David

Bug#799686: nouveau: Unable to launch any glx based exes

2015-09-21 Thread David Creelman
Hi Sven, Thanks for the info. Nice to know it's not a module bug. Any idea when llvm3.5v5 will come to testing? Regards David On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 3:10 AM Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: reassign -1 libgl1-mesa-dri 10.6.3-1 > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On 2015-09-21 1

Bug#799686: nouveau: Unable to launch any glx based exes

2015-09-21 Thread David Creelman
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.11-1+b1 Severity: important File: nouveau Dear Maintainer, This started happening about a month ago. May be because of nouveau, may be a glx bug? Please forgive if it's not nouveau. Any idea how I can find out more about what is not working ? H

Bug#791475: bup: Unable to restore an emacs autosave file #.fetchmailrc#

2015-07-07 Thread David Creelman
# The file is a racket (scheme IDE) file. It's contents are just text. It's scheme script with some extra annotation. Nothing particularly special. I've not included it because it's a bit long, but I can later if you want Let me know if you need other stuff. Regards, David

Bug#791475: bup: Unable to restore an emacs autosave file #.fetchmailrc#

2015-07-06 Thread David Creelman
Hi Rob, I ran as root. I had previously tried to run as my normal user, but I got an error about not being able to access my own home dir, so I (perhaps a little heavy handedly) simply did it all as root. I'll try the --exclude and I'll do a bup ls too. I can't get to it right now (external drive a

Bug#791475: bup: Unable to restore an emacs autosave file #.fetchmailrc#

2015-07-05 Thread David Creelman
Package: bup Version: 0.27-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Have successfully done a backup via index and then save. export BUP=/media/me/some-drive/backups bup index /home/redacted bup save -n home-dir /home/redacted Have then done an incremental backup bup index /home/redacted bup save

Bug#749563: brandy: Would be nice to not automatically go into graphics mode

2014-05-27 Thread David Creelman
Package: brandy Version: 1.20-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Hi, I've been trying to get some old basic language stuff going and trying to find a working interpreter has not been easy. It seems that Brandy is pretty good and works where others don't. The programs I'm using need to scroll

Bug#745850: grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

2014-04-27 Thread David Creelman
Package: grive Version: 0.2.0-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #745850 Dear Maintainer, Hi, this is still an error on my machine. Just thought I'd mention it again. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Lin

Bug#742476: xfce4-power-manager: Using slim instead of xdm fixes this issue

2014-03-23 Thread David Creelman
Package: xfce4-power-manager Followup-For: Bug #742476 Dear Maintainer, On a whim, tried using slim for the login management rather than xdm and found that now I can suspend/hibernate correctly. Somehow xdm must not initialise policy in the same way as slim. Still a bit of an issue I would thi

Bug#742476: xfce4-power-manager: Suspend/Hibernate are disabled, cannot find how to reenable them

2014-03-23 Thread David Creelman
Package: xfce4-power-manager Version: 1.2.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Had to uninstall gnome as gnome-shell (I think) was locking up on startup of the machine. Once gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-shell were purged, my startup did not lock up, but all of my power settings seem to

Bug#742474: xfce4: Panel show/hide stops working intermittently

2014-03-23 Thread David Creelman
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.10.1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** Had been using the system normally day in/day out. Have not been able to detect what it is that I've done diff

Bug#706921: gnome-desktop-environment: Unable to start (even xdm) after gnome-desktop-environment installed

2014-03-19 Thread David Creelman
Package: gnome-desktop-environment Version: 1:3.8+4 Followup-For: Bug #706921 Dear Maintainer, Needed to install gnome to get policy stuff for xfce4. installed gnome, restarted machine and got rubbish for what I assume is gnome login screen. When trying to kill off gnome-session, machine almost

Bug#728297: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728297: xfce: Fonts are corrupted after restoring from sleep or hibernate

2013-11-01 Thread David Creelman
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:52:32AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > [please keep the bug on CC:, the BTS is not a private help system, any > information can benefit other people reading the bug log] > > On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 08:35 +1100, David Creelman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct

Bug#728297: xfce: Fonts are corrupted after restoring from sleep or hibernate

2013-10-30 Thread David Creelman
Package: xfdesktop4 Version: 4.10.2-3 Severity: important File: xfce Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? This occurs after restarting from a hibernated session or from a suspended session. * What exactly did

Bug#705470: 0ad: lock up after getting in to play screen. Need to power off to get out

2013-04-15 Thread David Creelman
Package: 0ad Version: 0~r11863-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Firstly, this looks like it has potential to be a great game. The soundtrack and graphics look great. To reproduce start 0ad choose quick match (or something like this, can't remember exact option) game screen starts, clicking o

Bug#575026: update-manager-gnome: Administration spelling incorrect on main screen

2010-09-09 Thread David Creelman
Package: update-manager-gnome Severity: normal Would also suggest fixing the formatting of the text before the "If" of the 2nd sentence to include a space. Administration is spelt as Administraion. Regards David -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT poli

Bug#580062: mpg321 crashes when playing any mp3

2010-05-03 Thread David Creelman
Package: mpg321 Version: 0.2.11-2+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When trying to run a valid MP3 file which has previously played correctly, got the following error. High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.2.11 (2009/06/16). Writ

Bug#576792: gnome: Unable to automount a vfat formatted USB stick

2010-04-07 Thread David Creelman
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 07 avril 2010 à 22:45 +1000, David Creelman a écrit : > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > reassign 576792 nautilus > > > thanks > > > >

Bug#576792: gnome: Unable to automount a vfat formatted USB stick

2010-04-07 Thread David Creelman
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > reassign 576792 nautilus > thanks > > Le mercredi 07 avril 2010 à 17:51 +1000, David Creelman a écrit : > > Not sure if this is the right place to report this. > > Before the last apt-get update; apt-get

Bug#576792: gnome: Unable to automount a vfat formatted USB stick

2010-04-07 Thread David Creelman
Package: gnome-system-tools Version: 2.28.2-1 Severity: normal File: gnome Not sure if this is the right place to report this. Before the last apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade I was able to automount my Medion 8Gb USB stick. Now, when I plug it in, there is a small spike of CPU and then no Na

Bug#565872: grub2-splashimages: Incoorect instructions in README

2010-01-18 Thread David Creelman
Package: grub2-splashimages Version: 1.0.0 Severity: normal The new grub looks like it has a nice future, well done with it so far. I have a problem setting a splash image and the doco didn't seem to help me. In README, there is an instruction as follows ... convert_system_path_to_grub_pat

Bug#548119: latex-xft-fonts: Error when trying to run update

2009-09-23 Thread David Creelman
Package: latex-xft-fonts Version: 0.1-8 Severity: important File: latex-xft-fonts Get this error when trying to do apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade (Reading database ... 202992 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking latex-xft-fonts (from .../latex-xft-fonts_1.6.4-1_all.deb) ..

Bug#535305: How do I revert to the old file setup and restart the controller?

2009-07-05 Thread David Creelman
Hi Frederik, I made the change in place to the file you mentioned in the email, however I'm not quite sure how to get it to read the changes/restart. Could I get some hints for that? Any help appreciated. Thanks and Regards David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#535305: common-lisp-controller: update fails rebuilding sb-grovel, asdf broken as a result

2009-07-01 Thread David Creelman
Package: common-lisp-controller Version: 6.18 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The results of an upgrade on this machine is as below. I now can't use sbcl if I want to use asdf, which makes sbcl pretty much broken for me. sudo apt-get install common-lisp-controller --re

Bug#497386: sbcl: sometimes unable to hibernate PC from gnome while SBCL repl running

2008-09-01 Thread David Creelman
Package: sbcl Version: 1:1.0.18.0-1 Severity: normal I use SBCL on the go and sometimes (seems more frequent of late, but that's a subjective call) when I'm hibernating the PC (laptop DELL C640) s2disk starts, but fails to hibernate and returns me back to X11. If I quit out of the SBCL repl and

Bug#484476: xserver-xorg: suspend/resume leaves coloured vertical lines down screen, display unintelligible

2008-06-04 Thread David Creelman
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+10 Severity: important Using a Dell Latitude C640. Previously suspend/resume worked very nicely on this machine. Now, whenever the screen is closed/opened, the screen is unintelligible. Need to reboot to get back a screen. Would prefer to not have to do this

Bug#306537: iceweasel: Iceweasel unexpectedly quits

2007-10-01 Thread David Creelman
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.7-2 Followup-For: Bug #306537 If run from Debian menu, iceweasel crashes about 20 seconds after startup. Two pages being displayed, slashdot.org in 1, www.smh.com.au in the other. 2nd tab is current displayed tab. If run from command prompt with --sync option, th

Bug#343400: Still unable to reinstall cupsys after failed port configuration

2005-12-18 Thread David Creelman
ease correct this by running 'dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'. dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cupsys E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Regards David

Bug#343400: cupsys: can't correct a malformed URI if entered incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread David Creelman
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-13 Severity: important I mistakenly misformatted the URI describing the host and port that I would use for admin and now debconf loops over the following text. The wrong value is found in the input. The error occurred while parsing the port number or the host name.

Bug#274685: wxvlc: Opening xvid in firefox crashes firefox and seems to crash ion3 too

2005-11-24 Thread David Creelman
Package: wxvlc Version: 0.8.4-test2-2 Followup-For: Bug #274685 In Firefox, downloaded the following xvid http://files.myeburg.net/work/progressbar_anim/progressbar_anim2_h264.avi It seemed to play to the end, but then mouse and keyboard movement was lost in ion3. Tried to restart X with ctrl-a

Bug#338943: installation-reports: powerpc-

2005-11-14 Thread David Creelman
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 01:24 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 14 November 2005 00:37, David Creelman wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > Could not get past the language chooser. > > Selected English and got a red screen error "An installation step > > failed. You

Bug#339104: PowerPC business card d-i won't boot kernel on original iMac

2005-11-14 Thread David Creelman
7; produces the same crash and dump. Entering 'install video=ofonly' produces the same crash and dump. Would you like more information ? Are there other kernel parameters that need to be entered for original iMacs ? -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D37A 4B9C 5C65 AB63 5B18 7F99 7D77 9CA5

Bug#338943: installation-reports: powerpc-

2005-11-13 Thread David Creelman
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 01:24 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 14 November 2005 00:37, David Creelman wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > Could not get past the language chooser. > > Selected English and got a red screen error "An installation step > > failed. You

Bug#338948: installation reports: powerpc netinst image is 235M ?

2005-11-13 Thread David Creelman
boot. Download page says netinst image is ~100M, but downloaded iso is 235M ? Hope this helps. -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D37A 4B9C 5C65 AB63 5B18 7F99 7D77 9CA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#338943: installation-reports: powerpc-

2005-11-13 Thread David Creelman
r "An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again." Tried again and it still failed. Thought there might be a problem with English, so tried French, but same error appeared. Could not progress any further through install. -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D37A 4B9C

Bug#338941: installation-reports

2005-11-13 Thread David Creelman
rives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D37A 4B9C 5C65 AB63 5B18 7F99 7D77 9CA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Bug#338940: installation-reports

2005-11-13 Thread David Creelman
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 13/11/2005 mini.iso uname -a: not available Date: 14/11/2005 Method: mini iso boot cd. Machine: iMac (G3 ?) Processor: PowerPC 2.4 Memory: not sure... Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci and lspci -n: Base System Insta

Bug#333011: xserver-xorg will not upgrade

2005-10-09 Thread David Creelman
borted apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing -f [09:00 0.85] [gauss 2] ~ > Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg Not only can I not update xserver, I can't update anything else !!! Help!!! Debian unstable kernel 2.6.12, k7. Regards David -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D3

Bug#326425: Unable to upgrade libopenthreads1c2_0.9.9-6_i386

2005-09-03 Thread David Creelman
Package: libopenthreads Version: 0.9.9-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, While doing an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade I got the following error. Unpacking libopenthreads1c2 (from .../libopenthreads1c2_0.9.9-6_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt

Bug#323854: base-config: syntax error near db_fset

2005-08-18 Thread David Creelman
Package: base-config Version: 2.70 Followup-For: Bug #323854 After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up base-config (2.70) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: line 59: syntax error near unexpected token `db_fset' dpkg: error processing base-config (--configure)

Bug#323488: libsnmpkit2: dpkg returns error code 1 on upgrade from previous version

2005-08-16 Thread David Creelman
Package: libsnmpkit2 Version: 2c2_0.9-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Did apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade and get the following error:- Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libsnmpkit2c2_0.9-9_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returne

Bug#303696: grisbi: Unable to change away from Euro to $AU from preferences

2005-04-08 Thread David Creelman
Package: grisbi Version: 0.5.5-2 Severity: normal Hi, Noted your mention of this tool on planet.debian.net and thought I'd give it a go. First problem was when I tried to run it from X ssh'ed in from a cygwin box, I got an immediate error saying that there was probably a problem with X protoc

Bug#297236: evolution: Help shows contact groups can be created, but they can't.

2005-02-27 Thread David Creelman
Package: evolution Version: 2.0.3-1.2 Severity: minor Click on Help Go to Contacts->Organizing Your Contacts->Contact Groups Mentions a concept of Contact Groups that doesn't seem to exist in the software. Suggest removing this concept from the help as it is misleading to users. Is the concept

Bug#296198: debian.org: problem navigating software search

2005-02-20 Thread David Creelman
Package: debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, When searching for software in the packages page it is annoying to have to move back up to the top of the page to get to the next page of software. Why not duplicate the back (<<) forward (>>) links on the page at the bottom of the page? That way th

Bug#291921: gcj: Selfcert website java applet crashes on startup missing class snifferSimple

2005-01-23 Thread David Creelman
Package: libgcj5 Version: 3.4.3-7 Severity: normal File: gcj When trying to use the gcjwebplugin for http://selfcert.skillport.com, the console brought up the error below :- Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: snifferSimple at java.lang.VMClassLo