Bug#1087640: Work-around, test files, full error message

2024-11-16 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Just so that my example code can be used as written I attach minimal spreadsheets blah.xls and blah.xlsx. I note that a work-around is to uninstall the debian package of python3-xlrd, install python3-pip (if you do not have it already) and to do: pip3 install --break-system-packages --user xlrd

Bug#1087640: python3-pandas: versions of python3-pandas and python3-xlrd not compatible

2024-11-16 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
das requires version '2.0.1' or newer of 'xlrd' (version '1.2.0' currently installed). So this is not really a bug in either python3-pandas or python3-xlrd; it is a problem that Stable contains a version of xlrd which cannot be used by the version of pandas in Stable.

Bug#1052458: elpa-ess: ESS mode in Emacs fails with many errors on startup

2023-09-22 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Package: elpa-ess Version: 18.10.2+git20220915.f45542e-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: hugh.pumph...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I (as a long time user of R and the Emacs ESS mode) upgraded from bullseye to bookworm.

Bug#993293: Bug now affects stable (bookworm)

2023-08-11 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
is particularly annoying as xscanimage in bookworm crashes with a segfault. I am off to look for the apropriate package to report this. Hugh Pumphrey The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th'

Bug#1043450: sane: xscanimage segfaults

2023-08-11 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
n access it with the Xsane command-line program, save the resulting.pnm file, and open that in gimp. But it is clunky. Thanks in advance, and thanks for being a Debian maintainer, Hugh Pumphrey -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#1043326: emacs-gtk: Scroll bar flickers annoyingly during typing

2023-08-09 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
nd using X rather than Wayland. Yours puzzledly, Hugh Pumphrey -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Loca

Bug#1018756: libcoarrays-openmpi-dev: test program compiles but fails with runtime error

2022-08-30 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
mpi_errors_are_fatal [holly:321674] Set MCA parameter "orte_base_help_aggregate" to 0 to see all help / error messages Error: Command: `/usr/bin/mpiexec -n 2 ./a.out` failed to run. Apologies if I have assigned this error to the wrong package: it might really belong to libcaf-openmpi

Bug#994079: python3-matplotlib: TkAgg backend emits errors on savefig() with tight option

2022-07-19 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
plain text file. (As run, the example had five extra blank/comment lines at the start including a #! line, compared to the text posted in the original bug report. But the error messages do not seem to refer to any line numbers in my own file.) Best wishes Hugh Pumphrey On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 02:47

Bug#994079: python3-matplotlib: TkAgg backend emits errors on savefig() with tight option

2021-09-11 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
t which is simple enough to submit in a bug report. It appears that to trigger the error messages you need to (*) Use plt.ion() as you would in ipython3 (rather than using plt.show() as you would from the shell). (*) Use plt.savefig(bbox_inches="tight") Best wishes Hugh Pumphre

Bug#992023: latexdiff: with \cite commands -->source with mismatched braces

2021-08-09 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
why the bug occurs. It also suggests work-arounds. Best wishes Hugh Pumphrey -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Lo

Bug#889321: Also fails in python3

2019-01-21 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Coming back to this a year later. The only reason I am adding to the thread is that I am moving over to python3. I can report that the bug exists in python3 as well as python 2; the only difference is that when it crashes in python 3 it just says "Segmentation fault". In python 2 it says *** Error

Bug#889321: python-grib: Segmentation fault reading NCEP grib file

2018-02-03 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
have two different amd64/Debian9.3 machines; the same thing happens on both. I have tried other files from the same dataset, so the problem is not a single corrupt data file. Also, my script still works on my employer's machines, which are running Python 2.7.5. Yours puzzledly, Hugh Pumphre

Bug#786825: usb-modeswitch: Interferes with mass storage mode of HuaWei Y300

2015-05-27 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Dear Josua, On 26/05/15 22:33, Josua Dietze wrote: With this USB attribute listing we can try to exclude Android phones from the mode-switching trigger rule. You can help once more if you re-install usb_modeswitch (and its data package) and then modify a line in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/40-u

Bug#786825: usb-modeswitch: Interferes with mass storage mode of HuaWei Y300

2015-05-25 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
ust go away with the passage of time. Best wishes Hugh Pumphrey -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Bug#701547: libgrib2c-dev: Package does not contain static library libgrib2c.a

2013-02-24 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
at utility expect static versions of all the libraries which it uses. I hope this report is useful Best wishes Hugh Pumphrey hcp@holly:~/wrk/R$ dpkg -L libgrib2c-dev /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libgrib2c-dev /usr/share/doc/libgrib2c-dev/ch

Bug#663339: Maybe related to flashplugin-nonfree

2012-05-08 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
This problem is very likely to be related to flashplugin-nonfree rather than epiphany itself. Currently, flashplugin-nonfree installs flashplayer 11 which on many linux machines causes unexplained browser crashes on certain websites (You can't use it to download stuff for BBC iPlayer desktop,

Bug#352841: Unchanged in 3.00-13.6

2006-03-03 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
This bug is unchanged by the upgrade from 3.00-13.5 to 3.00-13.6 (tested on x86 hardware only) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352841: Same behaviour on Sparc hardware

2006-02-20 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Just to report that exactly the same behaviour occurs on sparc hardware and that it started at exactly the same point, i.e. on upgrading from 3.00-13.4 to 3.00-13.5 Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352841: xpdf: background colour ignored

2006-02-14 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.00-13.5 Severity: normal Following a security update from 3.00-13.4 to 3.00-13.5, xpdf no longer displays the background colour of a document correctly. A test file can be constructed by processing the following LaTeX source using pdflatex: \documentclass[landscap

Bug#304506: pvm[d] fails to start: /tmp/pvm./sock: No such file ...

2005-04-13 Thread Hugh Pumphrey
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Hugh C. Pumphrey wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pvm > > libpvm [pid6045] /tmp/pvm.4222/sock: No such file or directory > > libpvm [pid6045]: Console: Can't start pvmd > > Just a hunch; what does your /etc