Bug#1059871: alsa-ucm-conf should be a required package by libasound2-data, it's essential on some sound hardware

2024-01-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: libasound2-data Version: 1.2.10-3 As per https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4758 , alsa-ucm-conf is absolutely required for any sound to come out on speakers on a Dell 9730. Without it, you get sound on headphones, but the speakers won't work, and there is nothing you can unmut

Bug#955309: ZM 1.32.3-2 upgrade from 1.30 (i386) broke many monitors

2020-03-29 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: zoneminder Version: 1.32.3-2 I asked for help on ZM forums, lots of details here https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=28830 I tried many things, but at the end of the day the agreement is that the 1.32 debian package is broken, and it's also obsolete as it contains many bu

Bug#888237: Fwd: Re: diffoscope and file renames

2018-01-24 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 05:21:08PM +0530, Chris Lamb wrote: > [Adding m...@merlins.org to CC - please retain all CCs when replying!] > > Hi Marc! > > Thanks again for your bug report. > > > I just installed the debian/unstable version and got version 90, indeed > > a big jump :) > > > > Seems t

Bug#858296: Info received (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so: driver spams log file with page flip failure complaints)

2017-07-17 Thread Marc MERLIN
I have opened this bug to track the issue with the intel folks: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101825 and in my case the workaround was to blacklist the nouveau driver. However, this now prevents me from mirroring my display onto the nvidia chip, which is required to display things on

Bug#858296: Info received (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so: driver spams log file with page flip failure complaints)

2017-07-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
More info: 1) Skylake CPU 2) I've already removed all the module loading options for i915. Now I have: saruman:~# grep . /sys/module/i915/parameters/* /sys/module/i915/parameters/alpha_support:0 /sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_display:N /sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_power_well:1 /sys/mod

Bug#858296: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so: driver spams log file with page flip failure complaints

2017-07-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
I'm also seeing gobs of [ 5031.435] (WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument [ 5031.435] (WW) modeset(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument [ 5031.435] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [ 5031.519] (WW) modeset(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument [ 5031.519] (WW) modeset(0)

Bug#855803: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 improve NEWS.Debian

2017-02-21 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 This is a followup to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854934 which because it's closed, my update seem to have gone nowwhere. NEWS.Debian could definitely be improved. I did read it during upgrade time, and wha

Bug#854934: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 removed intel skylake support?

2017-02-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 I've been using xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160218-1 for quite a while on a thinkpad P70 (skylake) without problems. I've recently upgraded to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 and after doing this, t

Bug#845153: new ifconfig has incompatible output, please revert

2016-11-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
First, thanks for your answer. On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:25:42PM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote: > > Well, never mind, that new ifconfig output is almost entirely different > > from the old one, the one that's been around for 20 years and that > > countless people rely on being that way. > > I am s

Bug#845153: new ifconfig has incompatible output, please revert

2016-11-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: net-tools Version: 1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-2 before: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:ae:c5:e3:33:fa inet addr:192.168.205.3 Bcast:192.168.205.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2603:3024:180d:9900:beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::beae:c5ff:fee3:33fa/64 Scope:Link

Bug#844652: mdadm 3.4-4's new initramfs script location broke my system boot

2016-11-17 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4 Howdy, The old mdadm had scripts/local-top/mdadm Due to maybe random lucky ordering, it was being run on my system before local-top/cryptroot My system's rootfs is an raid1 which used to be detected by the kernel a long time ago, but that's been deprecated and does

Bug#815726: initramfs-tools requires newer coreutils for ln -r

2016-02-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.123 Upgrading initramfs-tools creates non working initrds if you don't upgrade coreutils; Adding config /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume Adding binary-link /sbin/modprobe ln: invalid option -- 'r' Try `ln --help' for more information. Adding binary /bin/kmod A

Bug#783143: docker.io does not need cgroupfs-mount

2015-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:03:25PM -0600, Tianon Gravi wrote: > On 22 April 2015 at 13:32, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > By default apt will install cgroupsfs-mount and mountall (which does nothing > > useful on debian, it was written for ubuntu and upstart), and in turn > > ply

Bug#783143: docker.io does not need cgroupfs-mount

2015-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: docker.io Version: 1.6.0~rc4~dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Bug 782480 was poorly worded, closed, and left closed after I explained what went wrong, so I'm opening a new bug. docker.io recommends cgroupfs-mount which doesn't do anything useful since docker.io already ships cgroupfs_mount in it

Bug#783140: docker.io could help users misconfigured with /sys/fs/cgroup mounted in fstab

2015-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: docker.io Version: 1.6.0~rc4~dfsg1-1 Severity: normal docker.io will not work if you have this in fstab cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup defaults0 0 But the initscript just runs, skips the cgroup mounting and doesn't tell the user that docker will not work, or why. I

Bug#782480: docker.io: Recommends on cgroupfs-mount > mountall > plymouth from ubuntu is very suboptimal

2015-04-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: docker.io Version: 1.6.0~rc4~dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, docker.io recommends cgroupfs-mount which in turn installs ubuntu stuff I don't want full of upstart configs, including plymouth which I really don't want on my system. And from what I can tell this is only because o

Bug#781002: initramfs-tools: no kernel modules are insert into initrd

2015-04-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:29:28PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 06:10:05PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Could I make a few suggestions while we're at it? > > 1) I sometimes build an initrd for a kernel I haven't installed yet. Yes, > >

Bug#781002: initramfs-tools: no kernel modules are insert into initrd

2015-04-01 Thread Marc MERLIN
Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:47 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:10:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: does not support > CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS > > > > > > On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 00:31 -0700, Marc MERLIN wro

Bug#781002: initramfs-tools: no kernel modules are insert into initrd

2015-03-27 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:10:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: does not support CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS > > On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 00:31 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Sure, there you go > > > > > > Now I see the problem.

Bug#781205: initramfs-tools fails to include modules for 3.19 kernel

2015-03-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.119 I have MODULES=most With a 3.16 kernel, the cpio image contains: /lib/modules/3.16.7-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20141114-cm1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 25 16:57 kernel/ modules are here -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2047 Mar 25 16:57 modules.dep

Bug#721857: btrfs-tools should include /sbin/btrfs-zero-log in initramfs

2013-09-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: btrfs-tools Version: 0.19+20130315-5 When a btrfs filesystem is unmounted uncleanly, it can get in a situation where it is not possible to mount it anymore, until you run btrfs-zero-log to clean the log data that the kernel cannot process on its own and will not discard the log because i

Bug#386368: /dev/shm or /run/shm is still not mounted with noexec

2012-05-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On 7 Jun 2010 the last update said shm would be noexec again. Is it still going to happen? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems what McDonalds is to gourmet

Bug#671589: bootlog does not work if the kernel boot command line is too long

2012-05-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-13.1 Courtesy of Maciej Zenczykowski: sysvinit - kernel command lines can be longer than 256 characters. Fix a bug where a kernel commandline option of 'console=ttyS0,115200n8' was not being parsed correctly by bootlogd because it was 253 bytes into the str

Bug#667651: alien does not install deb postinst to fix perms from rpm conversion when rpm had no postinst

2012-04-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: alien Version: 8.86 Alien has some logic that preserves special rpm owner/group/permissions by putting them as shell commands in a debian postinst when called with --scripts However the current logic in the code never fires if the original rpm did not have a postinst. This is a dirty

Bug#659517: latest debian powertop (1.97-2) does not show wattage with 3.0.6 and above (3.1.x and up to today's 3.2.5)

2012-02-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: powertop Version: 1.97-2 Powertop doesn't seem well maintained and many of its source locations (or git tree) have disappeared, but 1.98 seems to be the latest: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/status/powertop/powertop-1.98.tar.bz2 Watts used while on battery does not work anymore with un

Bug#620958: I had to downgrade to dpkg 1.15.5.6

2011-08-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > My recommendation is that you provide a post-install that checks the > syntax of /var/lib/dpkg/status|available and fixes the files. To make your life easier, I tared up my entire /var/lib/dpkg if you want to see what an old DB

Bug#620958: I had to downgrade to dpkg 1.15.5.6

2011-08-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
Raphael, No offense, but I went through the entire bug, tried the ruby script which did not work reliably (added duplicate architecture lines and forgot some), and then I spent >1h trying to fix the file by hand, and the more errors I fixed, the more dpkg --list would report more a few at a time.

Bug#604886: iproute has misbuild tc-bfifo.8.gz due to dh_link problem

2010-11-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 04:34:54PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:37:14AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > > Gotcha. Note that in the package I originally built, tc-bfifo and tc-pfifo > > man pages were both there, but they were copies

Bug#604886: iproute has misbuild tc-bfifo.8.gz due to dh_link problem

2010-11-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:34:05AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:13:37PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Package: iproute > > Version: 20100519-3 > > > > debian rules has: > > dh_link -a > > (...) > > dh_ins

Bug#604885: devpts.sh gets the uname wrong

2010-11-24 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: iproute Version: 20100519-3 debian rules has: dh_link -a (...) dh_installman -a This is a problem because dh_link tries to do: rm -f debian/iproute/usr/share/man/man8/tc-bfifo.8.gz ln -sf tc-pfifo.8.gz debian/iproute/usr/share/man/man8/tc-bfifo.8.g

Bug#557038: list of google domains

2009-12-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
What you want it http://www.google.com/supported_domains Also, a way to check if a domain that somehow wouldn't be in this list is legit, or not, would be to check its SOA record, NS, and MX. If they all point to google, that's a pretty good indication that it's legit :) Marc -- "A mouse is a de

Bug#488497: mc: entering directories with spaces over fish doesnt work

2008-10-21 Thread Marc MERLIN
I'd like to confirm that with mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4_i386.deb Downgrading to mc_4.5.55-1.2_i386.deb fixes the problem, however that version suffers from the 2G file limit problem. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating

Bug#449538: mc: fish hangs when try to copy file with size >2G

2008-10-21 Thread Marc MERLIN
I can confirm the 2G file limit bug is fixed with mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4_i386.deb, however it is replaced by a graver bug which prevents traversing directories with spaces. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488497 Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you wan

Bug#401761: libpam-mount makes cron segfault

2006-12-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc MERLIN schrieb: > > Indeed. 0.12 was the latest in my distro, but I downloaded the latest 0.18 > > from packages.debian.org/testing/ and I sti

Bug#401761: libpam-mount makes cron segfault

2006-12-06 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:22:31PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc MERLIN schrieb: > > cron (Version: 3.0pl1-87ubuntu2) / libpam-mount (0.12.0-1ubuntu1) > Please try a newer version of pam_mount. The current one i

Bug#401761: Acknowledgement (libpam-mount makes cron segfault)

2006-12-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:04:43AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > pam_mount: error trying to retrieve authtok from auth code > > > Dec 5 11:03:01 polgara kernel: [6102582.65878

Bug#401761: Acknowledgement (libpam-mount makes cron segfault)

2006-12-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
More debugging shows that cron dies in do_command.c between 7 and 8: fprintf(stderr, "7\n"); retcode = pam_open_session(pamh, PAM_SILENT); fprintf(stderr, "8\n"); output is: > 7 > pam_mount: error trying to retrieve authtok from auth code > Dec 5 11:03:01 polgara kernel:

Bug#401761: libpam-mount makes cron segfault

2006-12-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-87 libpam-mount makes cron segfault each time it forks off a child to run tasks if it's built with pam support. strace -f cron -f shows [pid 3298] setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 [pid 3298] setrlimit(RLIMIT_LOCKS, {rlim_

Bug#401462: Acknowledgement (Please build exim4-dev package with local_scan-related header files)

2006-12-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:43:27PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 18:21, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:32:20AM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > > One closely related thing: I don't know if you saw it on exim-dev, but > > > > I've noticed that

Bug#401462: Acknowledgement (Please build exim4-dev package with local_scan-related header files)

2006-12-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
> > > I've noticed that LOCAL_SCAN_ABI_VERSION_MAJOR and > > > LOCAL_SCAN_ABI_VERSION_MINOR haven't changed since Exim 4.14 where you > > > introduced the localscan_dlopen patch, even though new functions have > > > been added to the API. > > > > The l

Bug#356090: kernel: Can't access PCMCIA card adapter

2006-08-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
I have to report the exact same bug than Bill. Kernel 2.6.17.6 Dazzle 4 in 1 PCMCIA adapter I used to have a 1G SD card that worked fine I upgraded to a 2G card, and I get this: kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 kernel: cs: memory probe 0xe800-0xefff: excluding 0xe800-0

Bug#379323: mesa-utils: glxinfo does not report library open problems

2006-07-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:44:59PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 15:48 -0400, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > > libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.26.18 fglrx (screen 0) > > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so > > libGL e

Bug#379323: mesa-utils: glxinfo does not report library open problems

2006-07-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: mesa-utils Version: 6.3.2-2.1 Severity: important I unfortunately just spent hours of debugging trying to find why I wasn't getting accelerated GL after installing 3D drivers, and having the right /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and friends. I would have killed for having glxinfo tell me what the p

Bug#375880: initramfs-tools: typo in /scripts/local "Running /scripts/log-bottom" -> local-bottom

2006-06-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.65b Severity: minor Tags: patch At the end of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local , you have: [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/log-bottom" run_scripts /scripts/local-bottom This should be local-bottom, not log-bottom

Bug#296083: xmms 1.2.10-2 still buggy with alsa

2005-03-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:26:37PM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: > > > I included this fix (well, actually, a CVS snapshot of the file in > > > question) with 1.2.10-2, so the bug should no longer be present. If you > > > still have the problem, let me know. > > > > Sorry, that's the one I have

Bug#296083: xmms 1.2.10-2 still buggy with alsa

2005-03-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
I'm not sure how to reopen, could you do this for me? On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:48:31AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Package: xmms > > Version: 1.2.10-2 > > > > The alsa plugin doesn't work right on some sound cards. > > This is a known problem that is already fixed, but there has

Bug#296083: xmms is missing an alsa patch from cvs

2005-02-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
Package: xmms Version: 1.2.10-2 The alsa plugin doesn't work right on some sound cards. This is a known problem that is already fixed, but there hasn't been an xmms release since then, so debian doesn't have the fix. Could you look at http://bugs.xmms.org/long_list.cgi?buglist=1611 and apply this