Bug#799849: NUT turns off the UPS when shutting down or rebooting the computer

2017-04-22 Thread James Stark
Hi Laurent, I recently encountered and addressed/worked around this problem. So I cn provide some additional information that will hopefully enable you to actually fix it. > The UPS should only be shutdown only in case of power loss. Is it > happening to you at every reboot/shutdown? Yes. > Co

Bug#811941: Please package kdeconnect 0.9

2016-01-19 Thread James Stark
Package: kdeconnect Version: 0.8-1 Severity: wishlist kdeconnect 0.9, which supports plasma 5, was released in November 2015, with an update on January 2. Could you please consider packaging the new version? Thanks, James

Bug#786896: Error in dependancies

2015-05-26 Thread James Stark
severity: normal bah, I really shouldn't be cutting and pasting pseudo-headers. James

Bug#786896: Error in dependancies

2015-05-26 Thread James Stark
Package: kde-telepathy-call-ui Version: 0.9.0-1 Severity: grave There is a typo in one of the dependencies for kde-telepathy-call-ui 0.9. The dependency: pulseaudio | gstreamer1.10-alsa should probably be: pulseaudio | gstreamer1.0-alsa James

Bug#744345: Inclusion of German debconf template translation possible?

2014-09-15 Thread James Stark
Hi Helge, The update to the distributed-net package managed to slip off of my todo list. Sorry about that. I have now prepared an update to the package containing all of the translations. It should appear in the archive shortly. James On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

Bug#740849: distributed-net: configuration fails - needs dpkg-reconfigure distributed-net after install

2014-03-05 Thread James Stark
Hi Ralph, To figure out why distributed-net isn't working for you, could you please answer the following questions: How exactly did you attempt to install distributed-net? (dpkg -i, apt-get install, aptitude, synaptic, something else?) Were you prompted to run the configuration utility? If so,

Bug#739667: distributed-net: Binary fails to start

2014-02-21 Thread James Stark
Forwarded: http://bugs.distributed.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4570 thanks This is a bug in the upstream distributed.net client. It appears to have been fixed in the current pre-release version. James On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:29 AM, James Healy wrote: > Package: distributed-net > Version: 2.9110.5

Bug#734719: distributed-net (2.9110.519-1) still fails

2014-02-07 Thread James Stark
Tags: +patch Hi Ralph, Your problem is a result of the change of the default shell for user daemon. I missed one of the su calls when I fixed #734719. As a temporary workaround apply the following patch to /usr/sbin/distributed-net-config (or edit the script by hand): I will get a new version

Bug#734719: distributed-net: fails to install due to change in daemon's shell

2014-01-11 Thread James Stark
Hi Tony, I have no objections to an NMU on this one, however I think that I may be able to deal with it today or tomorrow. I have been planning an update for a while now, but I've been distracted by writing a thesis. I'll look at getting this bug fixed, and bringing the package up to date, along

Bug#714556: wine-bin-unstable: failed to update wineprefix, wine.inf: no such file or directory

2013-07-08 Thread James Stark
The problem is that the path that wine is trying to use to access wine.inf is wrong. Wine is trying to access the file: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine-unstable/wine/../share/wine-unstable/wine.inf for which the path can be shortened to: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine-unstable/share/wine-unstable/wi

Bug#578781: distributed-net: Network update not available

2010-05-04 Thread James Stark
Hi Alex, So far I haven't been able to observe similar behaviour. Could you please post the contents of /var/log/distributed-net.log if you run distributed-net as a daemon (the default), or the output of distributed-net if run interactively. Ideally the log would contain the error messages an

Bug#575191: RM: distributed-net [hppa] -- RoM; ANAIS

2010-03-23 Thread James Stark
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: Normal distributed-net's upstream binary for hppa is so far out-of-date that it can not possibly run on any current version of Debian. Given the non-free nature of distributed-net it is not possible to correct this, so we would like the hppa binary removed fro

Bug#425344: forwarded to distributed.net

2007-06-03 Thread James Stark
forwarded 425344 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks This bug is now bug number 4002 in the distributed.net Bugzilla (http://bugs.distributed.net). My intuition right now is that libnss-mdns isn't playing nice with whatever version of libc that the distributed.net client is linked against. Until I get m

Bug#427417: ifupdown fails to bring up tap interfaces at boot

2007-06-03 Thread James Stark
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.8 Severity: Normal ifupdown fails to bring up the tap interface during boot. If "ifup tap0" is run after the boot has completed, it works properly all of the time, including when the tun driver isn't already loaded, so that is only a problem during boot. Using a

Bug#407884: distributed-net: logrotate script restarts a stopped daemon

2007-01-21 Thread James Stark
You have a valid point and I will look into addressing the issue. My current thinking is that the change to the logrotate script will be non-trivial, since it must reliably detect a running client. Also I believe that most users of the package opt to let start on boot and leave it running all

Bug#389618: ktimemon incorrectly reports slab usage

2006-09-26 Thread James Stark
Package: kdeaddons Version: 3.5.4-1 Tags: patch, upstream Forwarded: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ktimemon is reporting memory used by the slab twice. Once as kernel memory and once as user memory. For small slab sizes the effect of this is not noticeable, however once the slab is allowed to grow (runni

Bug#386457: updatedb consumes almost all available memory and never releases it

2006-09-08 Thread James Stark
A process doesn't use any memory after it's done; the memory is freed by the kernel. If not, that would be a kernel bug. Usually that's true, however there have been cases where the kernel has bled memory like that the the blame was put on the process. So is updatedb the cause, or just the t

Bug#382970: distributed-net: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on 'dpatch'

2006-08-14 Thread James Stark
This was an error on my part during the last upload. Your patch looks good, so I will apply it and look at getting it uploaded shortly. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#235152: distributed-net: fails with 'segmentation failed'

2006-08-06 Thread James Stark
Hi, I'm the maintainer for distributed-net in Debian. Looking at Bug #235152 that you filed against distributed-net, I have notices that both the version that you have filed the bug against and the version that you quoted as the current version at the time are now out of date. The current u

Bug#346168: distributed-net: Uses 5% CPU when other processes are active

2006-07-12 Thread James Stark
Severity: wishlist thanks While you raise a valid concern, this is not a bug in distributed-net. It is a feature of the Linux kernel. Distributed.net runs with a nice level on 19. This is the lowest possible priority that a process can run at on a UNIX system. So in theory while any other

Bug#259418: distributed-net: would like to run as seperate user, 'dnetc' instead of 'daemon'

2006-07-12 Thread James Stark
tag: wontfix thanks There isn't any point to giving distributed-net its own user. As user daemon it already has full access to the /var/lib/distributed-net directory. Usually daemons are given their own user id when they are exposed to the world and there is a danger that they could be comp

Bug#168238: distributed-net: NetBSD client calls itself as dnetc

2006-06-26 Thread James Stark
Newer versions of the client show up as dnetc in the process list under linux 2.6 as well. So far this hasn't caused any noticeable problems. Given the age of this bug, and that fact that there have been a number of new upstream versions since it was filed, I need to ask: It this still a probl

Bug#369166: ITA: distributed-net -- donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net [non-free]

2006-05-27 Thread James Stark
package: wnpp retitle: 363503 ITA: distributed-net -- donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net [non-free] owner: ! stop I will adopt this package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354158: kdevelop3: Crashes on startup when loading a project with open files and subversion support

2006-02-23 Thread James Stark
Package: kdevelop3 Version: 4:3.3.0-2 Severity: important Hi, Kdevelop segfaults on startup when it loads a project that has any open files, and uses the subversion module. It loads completely opens up all of the files, and a few seconds later is crashes with signal 11. This behaviour started a

Bug#334614: Support for reading temperatures from SCSI Hard Disks

2005-10-18 Thread James Stark
Package: ksensors Version: 0.7.3-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I'm including a patch for ksensors that will allow it to read temperatures for SCSI hard disks. To do this ksensors has to look in /sys/block for the device name instead of /proc/ide. If it fails to open /sys/block it wi

Bug#300989: The Makefile is still broken

2005-03-29 Thread James Stark
Hi, It looks like something went wrong when you applied the last patch that I submitted, as it appears to have done some strange things to that section of the Makefile. I'm attaching a new patch which should remedy the problem. For the sake of clarity, this new patch was generated against vers

Bug#300989: Does not Build the atiusb driver properly.

2005-03-22 Thread James Stark
Package: lirc-modules-source Version: 0.7.1pre2-2 The current package fails to build the atiusb driver. The following patch to the Makefile corrects the problem. James --- Makefile.old2005-03-11 23:01:39.0 + +++ Makefile2005-03-23 02:22:22.0 + @@ -84,11 +84,11