Bug#698470: libblocksruntime-dev: There is no static library.

2013-01-18 Thread Jim Studt
Package: libblocksruntime-dev Version: 0.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The libblocksruntime does not include a static version of the library making it impossible to statically link anything which uses it. It appears that the upstream supports a static library. -- System Information: D

Bug#575199: grub-pc: update-grub fails if /boot is mirrored with LVM

2010-03-24 Thread Jim Studt
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98-1 Severity: important With my /boot partition on a mirrored LVM partition I get... r...@host:/# update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: physical volume pv2 not found. r...@host:/# and no grub.cfg written. Unmirroring the volume

Bug#567867: Crash on launch

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Studt
Package: banshee Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: important Banshee crashes at every launch on my PPC squeeze machine which has never previously had Banshee installed. It produces this output as it dies: [Info 15:14:44.841] Running Banshee 1.5.1: [Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) (linux-gnu, powerpc)

Bug#506582: grub2 will happily make unbootable systems with /boot on LVM

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Studt
Sorry, I can't do that. I sold the company that uses these machines and no longer have access. On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:45:15PM -0600, Jim Studt wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-12 update-grub will happily work with ke

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-06 Thread Jim Studt
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1:1.0.15-2.3 Severity: important Dovecot imapd terminates itself deliberately if the system clock moves backwards. This is the same underlying issue as bug 420175, but that was a laptop after a suspend and was deemed unimportant because of that. This occurs on a

Bug#506582: grub2 will happily make unbootable systems with /boot on LVM

2008-11-22 Thread Jim Studt
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-12 update-grub will happily work with kernels on an LVM partition even though the lvm module is not installed in the MBR. The fix for this may well be to have... GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES=lvm ... in /etc/default/grub and to do a grub-install, but that

Bug#479064: Should be release critical

2008-10-30 Thread Jim Studt
When 503203 was folded in here it got downgraded below release critical. This bug can cause a functioning mail server to fail after being upgraded to lenny. It caused an email outage at one of my sites. 503203 describes a one line fix. -- Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#500734: libmagic1: proper way to use magic_load?

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Studt
I am just the bug chaser here and don't use the library, but... As I understand it, the format of the magic files themselves has changed making the .mime file superfluous. The mime type information is now included in the "normal" magic file. I don't think a program has to do anything specia

Bug#503203: etch->lenny corrupts master.cf if no trailing newline

2008-10-23 Thread Jim Studt
would be to stick a blank line in front of the added line to ensure it can't be extending an existing line. -- Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502762: Simple Fix - more cause and better fix

2008-10-22 Thread Jim Studt
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:43:57 -0500, Jim Studt wrote: This points out a better solution for the Depends: line. It should have Depends: mail-transport-agent | mailx. No, you can't have a virtual package as the first alternati

Bug#502762: Simple Fix - more cause and better fix

2008-10-22 Thread Jim Studt
ds: line. It should have Depends: mail-transport-agent | mailx. I felt a bit bad about the mailx before since the bsd one drags in a bunch of junk if that one is selected, but surely anyone that is using mailcrypt has an mta installed anyway so this solves the dependency issue without actually instal

Bug#502762: Simple Fix

2008-10-22 Thread Jim Studt
I don't think mail-reader is sufficient. Looking at some available mail readers... nail : depends on mailx mew: does not provide a /usr/bin/mail and mailcrypt's configure fails with this installed and no /usr/bin/mail On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:30 AM, Matthew Johnson wrote: Hmm, shoul

Bug#502829: Simple fix

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Studt
Adding a "Depends" on update-inetd resolves this problem. Tested with piuparts (thought cnews causes some trouble because of its config). -- Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502855: Author may be located

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Studt
The copyright holder of batch.c may be located at http://www.academ.com/academ/resume.html . Perhaps a quick email or phone call from a debian developer can get this changed. -- Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#502762: Simple Fix

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Studt
The package fails for the lack of a /usr/bin/mail program. Since it seems unlikely that this package will ever be used without such a program installed, adding "mailx" to the Depends resolves this. -- Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#500734: The man page should change

2008-10-06 Thread Jim Studt
The upstream maintainer, Christos Zoulas responds: I will fix the man page. The mime info is now part of the regular magic file, for example: 0 string MThdStandard MIDI data !:mime audio/midi 8 beshort x (format %d) 10 beshort x

Bug#500734: Analysis and Extent of Afflicted Packages

2008-10-06 Thread Jim Studt
The upstream source changed the way it handles files between etch and lenny. In the process of adding an as yet undocumented feature to process directories of magic files they have made is so the ".mime" suffix must be explicitly put on to the filename when loading .mime files. I pulled t

Bug#499600: A patch to fix this.

2008-09-22 Thread Jim Studt
Attached is a tiny diff to fix this by adding a ulogd.postrm action to delete the contents of /var/log/ulog ulog-purge-fix.diff Description: Binary data

Bug#475036: Remember when deleting this from Lenny.

2008-09-21 Thread Jim Studt
Section 8.6 of the Debian Installation Guide, "Compiling a New Kernel" should be replaced with a statement that Debian does not contain support for installing nonstandard kernels and that people could use the naked linux make targets and learn a bit about initrd construction if they need

Bug#408406: glibc malloc checker can abort deliver resulting in bounced mail

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Studt
Package: deliver Version: 2.1.14-4 Severity: grave Libc version: 2.3.6.ds1-8 The deliver command fails infrequently producing the following log in mail.log... Jan 24 09:22:35 core postfix/local[21837]: 09C0836F28: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0.13, delays=0.04/0/0/0.

Bug#408450: Sporadic abort() when using libnss-ldap

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Studt
Package: libnss-ldap Version: 251-7 Severity: grave I noticed my postfix bouncing mail when 'deliver' failed with a glibc malloc checking memory error. Investigation showed it to always occur in a getpwnam() call. The following test program fails in something like 100-400 calls on my libnss-l

Bug#408406: Culprit and a one line workaround

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Studt
I don't believe a simple putenv() in main() will work, it is probably too late at that point. Furthermore, the problem is somewhere below libc, probably libnss-ldap. I rebuilt with debugging turned on, made a spot for core dumps, and enabled suid core dumping. I've collected four cores so fa