Bug#918754: PATH missing sbin

2019-09-11 Thread David Lawyer
in the last message I should have wrote that /etc/profile is never read by the root user and thus the paths ending in sbin are not in the PATH variable. /etc/profile might be read by the ordinary (non-root) user but I don't know how it would happen when one logs into the GUI with no shell explicit

Bug#918754: PATH is missing sbin

2019-09-06 Thread David Lawyer
I installed Debian 10 from a usb drive, had this problem, and solved it.. The PATH environment variable is set in /etc/profile but since /etc/profile is only run by a login shell and there is no login shell, /etc/profile never runs and it never has a chance to set PATH. I use the lxde GUI. Booting

Bug#910830: Downloading: gives up too soon on broken internet connection

2018-10-11 Thread David Lawyer
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a free dial-up connection to the inernet and do long (like overnight) unattended downloads. When the connection is lost my wvdial program redials and a few minutes later reestablises a connection of my computer with the

Bug#908789: console-setup: Doesn't boot up with my large font specified in /etc/default/console-setup

2018-09-13 Thread David Lawyer
Package: console-setup Version: 1.185 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I copied linux from a 20-yr old disk to a brand new one 100 times as large in GB. But what I copied is only 2-3 years old so I updated it using aptitude and have several problems, one of which I'll describe here. The old

Bug#908770: lprng: Will not cofigure on systemd init

2018-09-13 Thread David Lawyer
Package: lprng Version: 3.8.B-2.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I used aptitude to upgrade packages and it somehow converted sysv init to systemd init. Most updated packages installed OK except lprng failed to configure. I tried installing it on another drive (that has some unknown corru

Bug#907292: Can't find package list on server

2018-08-27 Thread David Lawyer
t from a flash drive. I'm connecting via free dial-up provided by Southern California Freenet (I think it's the last FreeNet left in the USA). Slow but I'm willing to wait days for upgrading. > > Cheers > Stuart > > -- > Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net > Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org > GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 David Lawyer

Bug#907292: Can't find package list on server

2018-08-25 Thread David Lawyer
F0F382A1A7B6500) I: Retrieving Packages E: Couldn't download http://debian.usu.edu/debian/dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Packages debootstrap needs to find one of the compressed files. download it, and unconpress it. But it doesn't. David Lawyer

Bug#898474: timedatectl can't determine if NTP is enabled

2018-05-12 Thread David Lawyer
Package:systemd Version:237-4 My ISP blocks ntp and the ntp package isn't installed. When I type: timedatectl I see "Failed to determine whether NTP is enabled:" and don't see the info nomally displayed. David Lawyer

Bug#878197: Mutt destroys colors I set as default

2017-10-10 Thread David Lawyer
Package: mutt Version: 1.7.1-5 Here's the /etc/rc.local script I use to set colors. Note that I send ESC[8] to set as default. Other programs such as vim restore the default colors after exiting but mutt doesn't nor does it use these colors. # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of e

Bug#869931: Fixed: Re: Bug#869931: (Retrying Login to lxde fails)

2017-08-18 Thread David Lawyer
The problem is fixed. I found some very old .x.. configuration files in my home directory and root directory. They said to use icewm which is in conflict with the lxde/lightdm setup I'm now using. I removed them and the problem is gone. David Lawyer

Bug#872465: lxterminal fonts overlap

2017-08-17 Thread David Lawyer
display is fixed-space (mono-spaced) but the font is variable-width (non-mono spaced). One fix is just to not provide variable-width fonts for lxterminal.. David Lawyer

Bug#869931: Retrying Login to lxde fails

2017-07-27 Thread David Lawyer
Package: lxde_9_all Version: no versioning I don't know what part of lxde (or other program) is causing this problem. lxde_commom is v. .99.2-3. When I make a mistake loging into lxde, it asks me to try again but will not log me in. David Lawyer

Bug#867489: pulseaudio boottime error: no .config/pulse

2017-07-20 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > (Please always keep the bug in CC). > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:11 AM, David Lawyer wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:15:34PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > &g

Bug#867489: pulseaudio boottime error: no .config/pulse

2017-07-06 Thread David Lawyer
4.9.30-2 (2017-06-12) i686 GNU/Linux. Process root (#1) is init and not systemd. pulse starts up at boottime since "pulseaudio.desktop" is found in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and X starts at boottime which apparently executes the files in the above autostart directory.. David Lawyer

Bug#867330: mutt doesn't display mailboxes

2017-07-05 Thread David Lawyer
Package: mutt Version:1.8.3+neomutt20170609-2 When I type c to change mailboxes , I see the message ('?' for list). Yet if I type ? I don't see the long list of my mailboxes but instead see my incoming mailbox dave (path: /var/spool/mail/dave). I want to see the mailboxes in ~/Mail. I had to re

Bug#864402: lxde "No session for pid ...." on screen after login.

2017-06-07 Thread David Lawyer
or someone else. The pid always maps to lxpolkit. You have to click "OK" on this error message to get rid of it. David Lawyer

Bug#863452: xterm fonts too small

2017-05-26 Thread David Lawyer
On my console I use 16x32 font which is large. Should xterm give the option of using the same fonts as for the console? This would be of value if one has already set up the fonts for the console, (as I have) since the default console fonts seem to also be way too small. David Lawyer

Bug#862382: message of allocation of "very large block" is a small block

2017-05-11 Thread David Lawyer
haps it just shouldn't be displayed at all or possibly only if over 50% of free memory is allocated, etc. David Lawyer

Bug#862148: Lynx: Long search strings to Google get truncated.

2017-05-09 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 07:48:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 09:17:22PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: lynx > > Varsion: 2.8.9dev13-l > > > > When I type in a search string (in English) to Google or Bing and the > > length

Bug#862217: initscript does fsck on empty floppy drive and stops booting

2017-05-09 Thread David Lawyer
rw,noauto,user,noexec, 0 1 David Lawyer

Bug#862148: Lynx: Long search strings to Google get truncated.

2017-05-08 Thread David Lawyer
oed to the screen). This problem was not present in dev11-1. I suspect that this bug is due to the fix for another bug involving the echoing of multi-byte characters #841155 which dev13-1 fixed. But it seems that this fix has resulted in a new bug. David Lawyer

Bug#862147: Lynx: Long search strings to Google get truncated.

2017-05-08 Thread David Lawyer
oed to the screen). This problem was not present in dev11-1. I suspect that this bug is due to the fix for another bug involving the echoing of multi-byte characters #841155 which dev13-1 fixed. But it seems that this fix has resulted in a new bug. David Lawyer

Bug#855907: lynx COLOR system has washed-out colors (too light)

2017-02-23 Thread David Lawyer
t if I type "setterm -foreground blue I get a a significantly deeper blue. David Lawyer

Bug#855003: ATA HD race conditions at boot-time

2017-02-12 Thread David Lawyer
nstalled about a couple of months ago and may have booted the PC with it perhaps 60 times with no delay like this. However, I upgraded the kernel to -pae perhaps a couple of weeks ago. There are now 2 HD's on my PC, one SATA (ata30) and the other a slower PATA with a ribbon cable.

Bug#853020: lilo falsely claims inconsistent CHS on hard-drive

2017-01-28 Thread David Lawyer
ation anymore but uses lba addressing. So either have -P ignore by default in lilo or change fdisk so that it creates the obsolete CHS format on the disk. David Lawyer

Bug#842760: localectl documentation bad, many problems

2016-10-31 Thread David Lawyer
d to change layouts within a variant (assuming that a switch_latch is like a toggle). For example the rus variant of the us layout includes both a latin and Cyrillic (Russian) character set with level 3 being the latin characters. This is tantamount to a variant within a variants. David Lawyer

Bug#842396: Lynx browser: Can't set margins

2016-10-28 Thread David Lawyer
oted in the documentation. David Lawyer

Bug#842320: apt-spy tries mostly FTP sites. My ISP blocks FTP

2016-10-27 Thread David Lawyer
HTTP sites that I can use, Today I tried again I it did find one HTTP site out of 10 tested. David Lawyer

Bug#841155: Lynx browser: Typing utf-8 2-byte characters only diplays first

2016-10-17 Thread David Lawyer
UTF-8" CODESET="Uni3" FONTFACE="Terminus" FONTSIZE="16x32" David Lawyer

Bug#826695: chrony stopped working

2016-06-07 Thread David Lawyer
it does show the burst running for awhile (a minute or two). So why isn't it working? I'm running Debian 4.2.3 on an old Pentium I PC. And I updated using aptitude in Nov. 2015 which might be about when problems with chrony started (but I failed to investigate them then). David Lawyer

Bug#803980: Aptitude text interface has poor color contrast on overall progress bar (when downloadng)

2015-11-03 Thread David Lawyer
shown in white on blue, there's no need for a moving overall progress bar which is much less accurate to read than the numerical value in %. David Lawyer

Bug#742901: exim4 didn't send authentication: fixed

2014-04-04 Thread David Lawyer
> On 2014-03-28 David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: exim4_4.82-5_all > > Version: 4.82-5 > > > I have 4 exim4 packages installed for each version. When I updated > > exim4 from 4.80-4 to 4.82-5, exim broke since it would not output > > email to my smart-host

Bug#742901: exim4 doesn't send authentication: broken

2014-03-28 Thread David Lawyer
fter repeating the TO: address says "Relaying denied. Proper authentation required." It's obvious this is happening because of the failure of 4.82 to send any authentication to the server. David Lawyer Diff results (wdiff) for debugging exim4 4.80 (blue) and 4

Bug#710429: NFS: kernel sends 2 identical mount requests

2013-05-30 Thread David Lawyer
booting something to the effect of IP-Config: no response after 2 sec., giving up but the messages flash by so fast I can't read them well. The server is i586 and the client is i686 both running the same OS which should work on both. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#706776: fetchmail documentation typo

2013-05-04 Thread David Lawyer
Package:fetchmail Version: 6.3.21-4 In the FAQ "you could up" should be replaced with "you could end up" or "you could wind up" David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Bug#702938: Xwindow crashes due to vgahw

2013-03-12 Thread David Lawyer
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 1.12.4-5_i386 When I type startx, the xserver crashes. I found on the internet that others report a crash due to the vgahw module (actually libvgahw.so). Note that this module is part of the core package. Heres the log: [ 13059.599] X.Org X Server 1.12.4 Rel

Bug#685711: lynx: typing 2-byte utf8 unicode characters sometimes doesn't display them

2012-08-27 Thread David Lawyer
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:37:26PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:16:55AM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: lynx-cur > > Version: 2.88dev.12-2 > > > > When I go to the website yandex.ru (Russian search engine) and type in > > 2-byte

Bug#685711: lynx: typing 2-byte utf8 unicode characters sometimes doesn't display them

2012-08-23 Thread David Lawyer
is erratic (tabs spaced 2-20 chars. apart, etc.). David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#685045: exim complains about my PC's name not being fully qualified name

2012-08-15 Thread David Lawyer
etc/email-addresses to rewrite From's (F flag) but not To's (T flag) which I need so I had to add this. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#684340: exim tls fails: Diffie-Hellman prime too short

2012-08-08 Thread David Lawyer
e sent by the server is not acceptable (not long enough). Here's how I fixed it based on what someone else did per the Internet: Create file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros and add the line: TLS_DH_MIN_BITS = 512 David Lawyer -- To UNS

Bug#657950: extundelete will not install due to unmet dependencies

2012-01-29 Thread David Lawyer
Package: extundelete Version: 0.2.0-2 When I update the testing package list for i-386 (done today) and then use aptitude to try to install extundelete I get the following message: David Lawyer Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information

Bug#648157: Correction: bytes being > 80 hex likely not cause of problem.

2011-11-12 Thread David Lawyer
tes at the end or beginning of lines, it's useful. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#648157: ncurses might be causing the problem

2011-11-09 Thread David Lawyer
don't understand why ncurses would cause half of the alphabet to be eaten. My $TERM variable is putty. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#648157: lynx-cur: Using utf-8 display, lynx eats bytes of value >= 80hex. Corruption results.

2011-11-09 Thread David Lawyer
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.8-1 Severity: normal Using unicode utf-8 is broken. Looking a a Russian site which is utf-8 results in about half of the Russian characters missing (and replaced by escaped codes like ~B, ~D, etc. I use a utf-8 terminal (using the Putty program on a laptop) co

Bug#599373: Installing kernel changes hard drive hda to sda, etc.

2010-10-06 Thread David Lawyer
simple like it was before it was messed up with long UUIDs. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#564743: 3c509 ethernet driver doesn't accept the xcvr parameter

2010-01-11 Thread David Lawyer
Is this a bug in the software or documentation? David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#365266: Kernel 2.6.15 probes ide0 after being told there is no ide0

2008-12-26 Thread David Lawyer
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:31:50AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:39:02PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 > > Version: 2.6.15-8_i386 > > > > While booting version 2.6.15 on a Pentium 1, there is a long

Bug#439870: closed by Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#439870: Bug#439870: Bug#439870: aplay fails to load my driver module snd-sb16)

2008-11-05 Thread David Lawyer
ED]> > Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#439870: Bug#439870: Bug#439870: aplay > fails to load my driver module snd-sb16 > To: David Lawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Elimar Riesebieter [070916 22:30 +0200] > > On Sat,

Bug#504427: exim gives error message: hostname --fqdn did not return ...

2008-11-03 Thread David Lawyer
y not understand the meaning of this message which will make them think something is wrong when it probably isn't. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#296687: closed by Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Kernel from Debian 3.1 no longer supported)

2008-06-21 Thread David Lawyer
happy > to reopen this bug report. > > Thanks. > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:54:21 -0800 > From: David Lawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Parallel port too fast for old printer > To: [EMAIL PROT

Bug#60673: closed by "Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (closing this bug)

2008-03-19 Thread David Lawyer
than it previously was due to the workaround, but "most" still fails to utilize the full number of lines on the terminal. So perhaps it's now only "wishlist" item. I suggest that the scrolling region specified by the terminfo (type "infocmp" on th

Bug#463487: Kernel 2.6.22 hangs at boot (hardware-software prob.)

2008-01-31 Thread David Lawyer
ition that happens if the hardware is somewhat degraded in some way. Also, I've noticed a long pause of a few seconds after this initramfs... message and think that something wrong is going on at this point. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#462916: Acknowledgement (apt-get changes dumb terminal parity)

2008-01-28 Thread David Lawyer
lus parity) to 8 bits) and icanon becomes -icanon (one doesn't need to type or to send a character to the program). There could be other changes too, I didn't check. I tried strace but since strace controls the terminal interface, parity doesn't get disabled.

Bug#462916: apt-get changes dumb terminal parity

2008-01-28 Thread David Lawyer
rity (It likely saved the original settings and then restores them). The fix is to just not to change the parity setting of the interface. It could be some program that apt-get calls that is the culprit. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#401939: closed by Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: od dumps byte-swapped words instead of bytes)

2008-01-26 Thread David Lawyer
D] > > Command is behaving as expected, no documentation changes have been > proposed. Not so. I just tried it again and got the same results with coreutils 5.97. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#462675: locate command is destroyed when findutils upgraded

2008-01-26 Thread David Lawyer
it took a lot of needless effort to figure out what had happened, including searching the Internet. It was also annoying when I needed to use locate but couldn't since it was missing. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#457114: Iceape browser will not install due to configuration script error

2007-12-19 Thread David Lawyer
Since I wanted to finish installing my iceape-browser, I patched the code myself and it seems to work OK. I just edited /usr/sbin/update-iceape-chrome and replaced the two "ls"s with "command ls". David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Bug#457114: Iceape browser will not install due to configuration script error

2007-12-19 Thread David Lawyer
ut the color escapes (\033 is the escape character). David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#450886: lynx gets "network read error" at some https sites

2007-11-11 Thread David Lawyer
7;t access startfile -- This also happens for some other https connections, but not on all https connections. Other browsers will connect to these sites. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#439870: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#439870: Bug#439870: aplay fails to load my driver module snd-sb16

2007-09-16 Thread David Lawyer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 the mental interface of > David Lawyer told: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:18:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 the mental interface of >

Bug#439870: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#439870: Bug#439870: aplay fails to load my driver module snd-sb16

2007-09-14 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:18:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 the mental interface of > Elimar Riesebieter told: > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 the mental interface of > > David Lawyer told: > > > > >Package:alsa-utils > > >V

Bug#439870: aplay fails to load my driver module snd-sb16

2007-08-27 Thread David Lawyer
t load the sound modules until I'm ready to start sound and don't want to auto-load them at boot time. I've only got 32 MB of memory and aplay is supposed to load the modules by loading snd-sb16 which then loads a lot more sound moudules per the dependency tree.

Bug#434573: modprobe -v fails to show module inserted

2007-08-06 Thread David Lawyer
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 the mental interface of > David Lawyer told: > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:17:26PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 the mental interface of

Bug#434573: modprobe -v fails to show module inserted

2007-08-03 Thread David Lawyer
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:17:26PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 the mental interface of > David Lawyer told: > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:00:53PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > > > On Tue, 24 Ju

Bug#434572: Modprobe reports fatal error inserting module, but error non-fatal

2007-07-24 Thread David Lawyer
ound works OK with *.wav files (I've yet to get it to work with other formats and there are problems with interrupt conflicts, etc. but that's another story for which I'll file bug reports against the snd-sb16 module.) David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#434573: modprobe -v fails to show module inserted

2007-07-24 Thread David Lawyer
neric scsi_mod 133644 1 libata piix9476 0 [permanent] generic 4868 0 [permanent] ide_core 113316 3 ide_disk,piix,generic David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434571: Module snd-sb16 set interrupts wrong

2007-07-24 Thread David Lawyer
hat the default irq 5 is set it the card, overriding what may be set by jumpers. If the driver has such limitations, they need to be either fixed or documented. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#434534: lsmod shows wrong module names

2007-07-24 Thread David Lawyer
locate" command, it will not find it since it's really named snd-sb16. This type of situation is true for all modules that have - in their names. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#406708: Bug#426562: linuxdoc-tools should have a shorter description

2007-05-30 Thread David Lawyer
Regarding changing the current package description of the linuxdoc-tools package (David Lawyer suggested a shorter description). On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:18:31PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > I have been looking at this, and since I agree that a shorter description is > preferrable,

Bug#425199: Mounting local filesystems... Failed!

2007-05-19 Thread David Lawyer
ne to mount proc). So a fix is needed: either use noproc or have upgrades modify /etc/fstab. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#422060: vim: cursor jumps over bracketed text on text terminal

2007-05-03 Thread David Lawyer
be by default since I never asked to use a plugin. But even if I can disable the plugin, it shouldn't behave this way. I've installed the vim-runtime package so something in that may be causing the problem. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419324: (Bug#419324: fixed in linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.7)

2007-04-28 Thread David Lawyer
line, should have > a similar effect. I had the same thought. I hope that the -bou covers all cases of overstiking. I think it does but ... David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419324: closed by Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#419324: fixed in linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.7)

2007-04-27 Thread David Lawyer
>sequences unless explicitely desired. Thanks David Lawyer >for the hint (closes: #175575, #419324). You mean that -c is passed to grotty by default by passing "-P-c" to groff. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-18 Thread David Lawyer
en it can be readily read by a text editor like vim and emacs. So I think that if you don't hear from Sano, it OK to go with option 1. > Since the overstrikes look nice in less and mc, I admit my personal > preference goes to (1), but I am not alone here. Sano? > > Agustin

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-18 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:47:14PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > Hi, David and Sano, > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: linuxdoc-tools > > Version 0.9.21-0.5 > > > > Please merge bug 175575 into this bug report since

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-14 Thread David Lawyer
uot;-P-bcou". See "man grotty" for how these 4 options (bcou) work together. To make this the default, one could modify: /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools/dist/fmt_txt.pl For example, this seems to work although I've never studied Perl: create_temp("$global->{tmpbase}.tx

Bug#409011: When booting: 38 sec. delay at "Attempting manual resume"

2007-01-29 Thread David Lawyer
esg output. Yet I don't see S1SUSPEND on hdd3 which is the SWSUSP_SIG (sinature). There is a document, swsusp, in the power directory of the kernel documentation and it says that it's not good to use suspend if the ide driver is a module (as it is with this pa

Bug#406708: Package description has errors.

2007-01-13 Thread David Lawyer
, use::checking, > use::converting, works-with::text:docbook, works-with::text:sgml ERROR: linuxdoc-tools doesn't work with text:docbook Improvements: I think the above description is too long and should be shortened. Let me know and I'll write you a shorter one. But the most urgent

Bug#401939: od dumps byte-swapped words instead of bytes

2006-12-06 Thread David Lawyer
ure of the computer (actually of the Pentium CPU) is little endian (least significant byte first). But od is supposed to report byte values, not word values. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#370790: submitter address changed (Re: Bug#370790: Debian README for exim4 misleading re TLS.)

2006-06-06 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:18:54PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > The submitter address recorded for your Bug report > #370790: Debian README for exim4 misleading re TLS. > has been changed. > > The old submitter address for this report was > David Lawyer <[EMA

Bug#370790: Debian README for exim4 misleading re TLS.

2006-06-06 Thread David Lawyer
Package:exim4-base Version:4.60-3 My ISP started requiring TLS authentication so I checked the exim document supplied by Debian: README.Debian.gz. It reads: 2.2. Using TLS 2.2.1. Exim 4 as TLS/SSL client Both exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-light support TLS/SSL using the GnuTLS libr

Bug#369326: erroneous messages from pppd when wvdial started

2006-05-28 Thread David Lawyer
--- (Then I stopped wvdial with ^C) --> Terminating on signal 15 --> pppd: mote Name --> Connect time 4.8 minutes. --> pppd: mote Name --> pppd: mote Name --> Disconnecting at Sun May 28 11:40:45 2006 Caught signal #15! Att

Bug#367551: No software to net-install over a ppp modem connection

2006-05-16 Thread David Lawyer
include dialup software such as wvdial. David Lawyer PS: Below is a text copy of the netinst page: http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/netinst [1]Debian Project Select a

Bug#365266: Kernel 2.6.15 probes ide0 after being told there is no ide0

2006-04-28 Thread David Lawyer
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 Version: 2.6.15-8_i386 While booting version 2.6.15 on a Pentium 1, there is a long pause while the kernel probes ide0. There is no such pause in version 2.6.12. The kernel command line has: hda=none, hdb=none and ide0=none so it should know there is no ide0 (mi

Bug#365118: modprobe 2.4.27 will not load ppp module for kernel 2.2.20

2006-04-27 Thread David Lawyer
for kernel 2.2 I'm saying this because I filed a bug report similar to this one against module-init-tools and it was rejected since it was claimed that 2.2.20 is no longer supported. But lack of support shouldn't mean introducing a bug into it, which has been done by the transition from mo

Bug#364723: modprobe 2.4.27 will not load ppp module for kernel 2.2.20

2006-04-25 Thread David Lawyer
ould check uname -r to find out I'm running 2.2.20. I sometimes use kernel 2.2.20 since it loads about 3 times faster than 2.6.15 (but I hoping to improve 2.6.15 booting speed by finding the causes of it's slowness on my PC). David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#361764: netkit-inetd will not configure

2006-04-09 Thread David Lawyer
le cases where the inetd program is missing. There's a couple of other bug reports related to this problem. I don't know why my inetd is missing since it's in the runlevel.conf file. Could netkit-inetd have removed it? Perhaps I could download a copy of the inetd script from th

Bug#353237: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#353237: Can't get mutt from "testing")

2006-02-28 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:12:06AM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * David Lawyer [Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:07:29 -0800]: > > Hi, > > > > I'm closing this bug, please write back if you need more information. > > No. I went to the Debian website and couldn't

Bug#353242: exim-doc package is obsolete ?

2006-02-16 Thread David Lawyer
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Bug#353237: Can't get mutt from "testing"

2006-02-16 Thread David Lawyer
ot; or it is a different version in "testing" from what is claimed by the package list. David Lawyer David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353234: package netkit-inetd 0.10-10.2 will not configure

2006-02-16 Thread David Lawyer
but same problem. Several other packages depend on this one and thus don't get configured. I don't know how much lack of functionality my system has as a result. Perhaps the old configuration still works on the new software versions ?? David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345605: Dillo crashes

2006-01-01 Thread David Lawyer
the icewm bottom bar). Dillo works OK for about 95% of websites I go to. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345485: hwclock scripts don't support adjust time

2005-12-31 Thread David Lawyer
n the Internet. If the adjust time utility is working OK, it doesn't need to be set often since systematic drift of the hw clock is automatically compensated for. So there needs to be a documented option of using the adjust utility and a variable in the script to set or comment out if one wants to us

Bug#340644: m4 outputs quotes if ` is used in the quote string.

2005-11-24 Thread David Lawyer
give the error message: ... ERROR EOF in string `$ `% `` ^^ `% "^ `ab %" Using a number of pairs (non alpha-numberic) without any ` worked OK. PS: I wrote the above years ago but don't think I submitted it. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#338402: elinks doesn't work on dumb terminal with odd parity

2005-11-09 Thread David Lawyer
nged these stty settings. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#175575: [discuss] linuxdoc text backend

2005-10-17 Thread David Lawyer
utput with neither escape sequences for dumb electronic terminals nor overstrikes for hard-copy terminals (which are now museum pieces)? So perhaps the fix is for someone to patch groff instead of linuxdoc. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#175575: Cause of problem; possible fix

2005-10-16 Thread David Lawyer
solutions. David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293927: More information about lprng bug

2005-07-20 Thread David Lawyer
t; -- > Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 > Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer > csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org > > David Lawyer -- T

Bug#318670: exim4 stops delivery after 10 messages from fetchmail

2005-07-16 Thread David Lawyer
reload) echo "Reloading $NAME configuration files" # regenerate exim4.conf upex4conf isconfigvalid reload_exim ;; status) exiwhat ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 # vim:tabstop=2:expandtab:shiftwidth=2 David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#225105: acknowledged by developer (procps 3.1.14 probably fixes it)

2005-05-18 Thread David Lawyer
version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > X-Spam-Level: > > procps 3.1.14 probably fixes this, no further notification from > submitter. > -- > Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 > Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIE

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