Bug#876112: fvwm: buffer overflow crash after opening lots of clients

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Hi, Oops, there's a bug in the steps to reproduce there introduced while I sanitized the filename of my png file. The steps should be: 1. start fvwm2 2. find a small png file 3. for x in $(seq 1 2000); do display small.png & done 4. fvwm crashes J.

Bug#876112: fvwm: buffer overflow crash after opening lots of clients

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.6.5.ds-4.1+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/fvwm2 Hi, Testing some stuff just now I opened lots of copies of display(1). As well as getting the expected errors from display that the Maximum number of clients was reached my fvwm2 crashed with a backtrace. Steps to

Bug#622160: rsync: 65000 hard links => assertion failure

2015-12-31 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Paul Slootman wrote: >If you still have problems please reply to the bug report so that I can >investigate further. Otherwise I will close this bug soon. > Hi Paul, I no-longer have the problematic files in my backup-set so haven't been encountering the problem recently; but it is good to hear

Bug#794559: ld.so(8) LD_LIBRARY_PATH also treats ';' as a seperator

2015-08-04 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: manpages Version: 3.44-1 Severity: normal The documentation for LD_LIBRARY_PATH notes that the list is colon-seperated; however ld.so also treats ';' as a seperator (possibly for compatability reasons). The manpage should note this otherwise the results of trying to have a library path

Bug#779947: test/inc/test-deb359167 fails when building

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: nmh Version: 1.6-6 Severity: normal The test test/inc/test-deb359167 is skipped if valgrind isn't installed, meaning that it isn't run on the build servers. However if you build on a system with valgrind the test fails. I have attached test-suite.log J.

Bug#776844: openssh-client: OpenSSH Client appears to try user's keys in wrong order

2015-02-02 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:6.7p1-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In summary: I think readconf.c is adding the default IdentityFiles items in the wrong order; leading to RSA and DSA keys being preferred to elliptic keys. Demonstration: * What led up to the situation? I created a

Bug#775197: uniq: -u -d -D options non-orthogonal and confusing when combined

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: normal I was attempting to use uniq to categorise my data based on the first so many characters and I discover that: a) it is currently impossible to use uniq to output all lines; with lines grouped by initial prefix ( -w N ) and separated by an e

Bug#160390: Fixed in libjpeg8

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Bill Allombert writes: > > Bug 160390 is about the -drop patch, not the -crop patch. Hi, This bug is now over 12 years old, surely this can be considered to be added now? J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Julian Andres Klode writes: > The only time an issue can appear is if you have two or more packages > ending in + or - where one is a prefix of the other. As long as we > do not have such packages in the archive, there is no issue. > I had a quick look in my (not complete) mirror and didn't see a

Bug#766363: irssi fails to sanitise combining and zero-width characters at the start of untrusted input

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: irssi Version: 0.8.15-5 Severity: normal Hi, If an incoming message has a combining or zero-width character as the first code-point (or sequence of code-points) then irssi does nothing about this; causing it to be processed by the terminal as if the combining character applied to the

Bug#622160: rsync: 65000 hard links => assertion failure

2014-10-16 Thread Jonathan David Amery
It appears that this may have improved slightly since 2011 -- there's no longer an assertion failure My backups do: rsync --archive --sparse --numeric-ids --compress \ --fuzzy --hard-links --delete --quiet --one-file-system \ --link-dest=/mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-15 \

Bug#700105: irssi has no option to show server tag even for current server.

2013-08-02 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Oops, while compiling 0.8.15-5 I notice that I'd missed a chunk out of my patch, so here's an updated file. J. diff -urw irssi-0.8.15-orig/debian/changelog irssi-0.8.15/debian/changelog diff -urw irssi-0.8.15-orig/src/fe-common/core/fe-common-core.c irssi-0.8.15/src/fe-common/core/fe-common-cor

Bug#716703: sbuild-createchroot fails to set profile=sbuild

2013-07-11 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: sbuild Version: 0.63.2-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As root I did: sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/var/lib/sbuild/wheezy-amd64.tar.gz wheezy `TMPDIR=/var/tmp mktemp -d` file:///mnt/cleopatra-mirror/debian after setting /etc/schroot/sbuild/fstab to include the lin

Bug#699754: grub core.img too large when using lvm+md

2013-05-21 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Hi, I ran into this issue during my Wheezy upgrade; and it doesn't appear to have made it into the release notes. Would it be possible to get a mention of it into the release notes next time they are revised? J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Bug#709127: mp4v2-utils: mp4tags -P corrupts ALBUMARTIST

2013-05-20 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: mp4v2-utils Version: 2.0.0~dfsg0-1 Severity: normal Running: $ mp4tags foo.png bar.m4a overwrites the Album Artist field in bar.m4a with foo.png. This is a result of a missing break; in the OPT_PICTURE code --- mp4tags.cpp.orig2013-05-21 02:54:12.0 +0100 +++ mp4tags.cpp 20

Bug#700105: irssi has no option to show server tag even for current server.

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: irssi Version: 0.8.15-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch irssi has the hide_server_tags option to never show server tags, but when that is set to off it only shows tags for servers that aren't the current server for the window. This patch adds an option to show the server tag even for the

Bug#699229: udhcpd.conf.5 fails to document static_lease option

2013-01-29 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: udhcpd Severity: minor Tags: patch The manpage for udhcpd.conf doesn't document the static_lease option. The following patch fixes the issue: --- udhcpd.conf.5.orig 2013-01-29 10:51:45.0 + +++ udhcpd.conf.5 2013-01-29 10:58:17.0 + @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ .B

Bug#605657: isc-dhcp-server: The DHCP server fails to start when only alias interfaces have an address

2012-12-31 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Hi, This bug is (as I discovered during a very late lenny->squeeze upgrade on my firewall this weekend) still an issue in squeeze; so I have had to revert the dhcpd (and ntp, which for no apparent reason has a "Breaks" entry for older dhcpds) to the lenny version in order to continue. This i

Bug#123815: bsdgames: uses obsolete, superseded version of BSD license

2012-06-20 Thread Jonathan David Amery
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > While it might be legal to just remove that part of the several copyrights, > > I feel it's best to forward this upstream. Maybe you'll want to forward it > > upstream too.. > > I have no recent information abo

Bug#642539: #642539 Patch to support xterm colour escape sequences in pterm.

2011-09-25 Thread Jonathan David Amery
> that's interesting - but > > + * 90-97 NCD n VT320 emulation `colour pair selection' > + * (see [22]http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~swball/ncd/term_em8.htm) > > a) the document isn't visible (needs authentication) > b) I've never come across a reliable report which documents a

Bug#642539: Patch to support xterm colour escape sequences in pterm.

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: pterm Version: 0.60+2010-02-20-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, Here's the latest version of my patch to support xterm escape sequences OSC 10 and OSC 11 (to set forground and background colour). The patch should apply cleanly to both 0.60 and 0.61. J. diff -r -u putty-0.61-orig

Bug#193352: New patch!

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan David Amery
In a similar vein, updated and with documentation: diff -r -u putty-0.61-orig/config.c putty-0.61/config.c --- putty-0.61-orig/config.c 2011-01-14 19:57:00.0 + +++ putty-0.61/config.c2011-09-23 16:19:14.0 +0100 @@ -1696,9 +1696,13 @@ ctrl_checkbox(s, "Allow termi

Bug#622645: crontab(5) doesn't specify parse order of crontab file

2011-04-13 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, crontab(5) leaves it ambiguous what happens when you interleave environment variables and commands, or repeat environment variables. The following patch clarifies the issue. --- crontab.5.old 2011-04-13 16:42:57.0

Bug#609222: x11-apps: [xeyes] New xeyes produces RenderBadPicture error

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: x11-apps Version: 7.5+5 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, I've just upgraded to squeeze and xeyes is now giving me the following error: X Error of failed request: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 152 (RE

Bug#602531: PowerPC installation report

2010-11-06 Thread Jonathan David Amery
> Hi > > Excerpts from Miguel Figueiredo's message of Fre Nov 05 22:06:39 +0100 20= > 10: > > If the problem was the missing non free firmware i suggest the bug to b= > e closed = > > > as we do not distribute non free firmware. > > There is also the clock-setup issue. It should definitely ask t

Bug#602531: PowerPC installation report

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta1/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso Date: Fri Nov 5 2010 Machine: Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) Processor: 2x G4 500MHz (installer isn't SMP though) Memory: 64

Bug#557124: [xmodmap] Manpage out of date

2009-11-19 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.3+5 Tags: patch Severity: minor With the advent of the ISO_Level3_Shift modifier the xmodmap manpage is out of date. The following patch fixes the problem: --- xmodmap.1.orig 2009-11-19 16:00:03.0 + +++ xmodmap.1 2009-11-19 16:02:26.0

Bug#241923: [xmodmap] manpage sucks

2009-11-19 Thread Jonathan David Amery
The issue at the heart of this bug report is that X essentially supports two mechanisms for dealing with modifier keys on the keyboard. The first of these mechanisms, as handled by the xmodmap 'add', 'remove', and 'clear' commands is that KeyPress and KeyRelease events include a 'state' paramet

Bug#480898: closed by Antonio Diaz Diaz (reply to Antonio Diaz Diaz ) (manpage incorrectly encodes \` and \')

2009-11-09 Thread Jonathan David Amery
unarchive 480898 reopen 480898 thank you Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > I have applied the patch to \` but not to \' because the proposed change > seems not to be portable. See > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457839 > If, as suggested in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Bug#497525: libc6: fgetws treats C locale wrongly

2008-09-02 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 Severity: normal In the C locale all byte sequences are valid, however using the following test programme: #include #include #include #include #include int main() { size_t buflen = 512; wchar_t *p = malloc(buflen*sizeof(wchar_t)); setlocal

Bug#481886: Bugzilla bug report

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan David Amery
The bugzilla bug report is at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434467 J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#481886: iceweasel: Celcius sign is displayed as micro sign in browser window.

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.14-0etch1 Severity: normal Hi! When viewing http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1418 (and other pages in the past that I don't have the URLs for at the moment) the degree signs are replaced by micro signs. A clipped screenshot of this is available here:

Bug#480898: ed: manpage incorrectly encodes \` and \'

2008-05-12 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: ed Version: 0.2-20 Severity: minor The ed(1) manpage causes incorrect quotation marks to appear in unicode locales for the \` and \' options, which the following small patch fixes: --- broke/ed.1 2008-05-12 16:58:37.0 +0100 +++ fixed/ed.1 2008-05-12 17:01:15.0 +0100 @@

Bug#470489: xpdf: Would be nice if displayed original page numbers where present.

2008-03-11 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.01-9etch1 Severity: wishlist Hi, xpdf displays page numbers as physical page numbers (that is the first page it displays is always '1' the next '2' and so on) even if there is page numbering information present in the PDF file. It would be nice if used the in-fi

Bug#462109: uprecords fails to deal with jiffy overrun

2008-01-22 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: uptimed Version: 1:0.3.3-3 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/uprecords Hi, uprecords, when the jiffy counter has overflowed, produces output like this: -> 25 9 days, 18:12:55 | Linux 2.4.32-2 Sat Sep 2 20:21:48 2006 (Where this should, of course, be more like 506 days).

Bug#461070: manpage wrong in UTF-8 locales

2008-01-16 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: ed Version: 0.2-20 Severity: minor (despite the system information below this bug also applies to the 0.2-20 ed in Debian 4.0, but the machine I discovered it on has no working email setup) The \` and \' operators are incorrectly given in the documentation as \ and \. This bug can be

Bug#434769: bash: caused me to have a zombie process as part of the foreground process group

2007-07-26 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: bash Version: 2.05b-26 Severity: normal Hi, If I run the following command line: for x in $(cat nam); do echo "$x" >&2; echo "$x" |sed 's/\(.\)/\1\ /g' | sort | xargs | sed 's/ //g'; done > nam2 (where the end of the first line is a quoted carriage return, and the file nam is the ou

Bug#158983: xdm: Occasionally declares session dead, even for sessions on the local machine

2007-03-02 Thread Jonathan David Amery
> About 4 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding xdm > declaring the session dead occasionaly. Did you reproduce this problem > recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. > The machine which demonstrated the bug hasn't worked for about a year now

Bug#381126: "us" is not a language

2006-08-02 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: fwanalog Version: 0.6.4-5 Severity: normal Hi, I've just installed fwanalog and was slightly surprised to be presented with the question: Select output language us de fr

Bug#375987: mount: bogus extra tmpfs mounted

2006-06-29 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: mount Version: 2.12p-4sarge1 Severity: normal The following is the relevant extract from my /etc/fstab file: tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs tmpfs size=10G,mode=755 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 If I have a directory or file called t

Bug#353980: fortune-mod: patch for part of bug

2006-02-22 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Well, the ./ucam.sigfile varient can be fixed with this simple patch: J. diff -wur fortune-mod-1.99.1/fortune/fortune.c fortune-mod-1.99.1-fixed/fortune/fortune.c --- fortune-mod-1.99.1/fortune/fortune.c2004-03-05 13:29:56.0 + +++ fortune-mod-1.99.1-fixed/fortune/fortune.c

Bug#353980: fortune-mod: Fortune invocation by relative path broken in two different ways.

2006-02-22 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: fortune-mod Version: 1:1.99.1-2 Severity: normal The following command trace is run from ~, which contains ucam.sigfile and ucam.sigfile.dat -- as you can see, either form of relative path doesn't work; with different symptoms. This used to work in woody. : pts/8 bash[25951] ; fortune

Bug#312936: Programmes linked against libacl1 segfault in libacl1 code.

2005-06-10 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: libacl1 Version: 2.2.23-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software I've just upgraded my system from woody to sarge. Among other upgrade problems I noticed that programmes like cp, mv and install were occasionally segfaulting (and the packages that were invoking them

Bug#312394: Followup to initial report

2005-06-07 Thread Jonathan David Amery
OK, so now a new update-menus has installed and my machine isn't suffering segfaults every time it runs it... I've got a copy of the old update-menus and it still segfaults; here is an strace of it: execve("./update-menus", ["./update-menus"], [/* 41 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="ysolde

Bug#312394: menu: update-menus segfaults during dist-upgrade

2005-06-07 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Package: menu Version: 2.1.5-10.1 Severity: important update-menus is segfaulting in the middle of my dist-upgrade. (will try and provide more details once the upgrade has finished) -- System Information Debian Release: 3.1 Kernel Version: Linux ysolde 2.4.18-rmk7 #1 Mon Oct 21 01:21:54 BST 20