Package: xmlcopyeditor
Version: 1.0.7.6-getdeb1
Severity: normal
Package is 2-1/2 years out of date.
Upstream version: 1.2.0.4 2009-04-10
Package version 1.0.7.6 2006-09-25
Note that there is ubuntu/getdeb package on sourceforge.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers
Package: argyll
Version: 1.0.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I followed the directions here for calibrating the camera:
http://www.neilandtheresa.co.uk/Wiki/Colour%20Calibration/
s/profile/colprof/
s/targen/argyll-targen/
argyll-targen -v -d3 -f4560 Camera
printtarg -v
Package: worldwind
Version: 0.5.0-5
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
rldwind
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad
version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at
java.lang.Class
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Version: 1:1.6.3
Severity: important
Web sites are demanding flash 9 and the package is back at 7.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Ker
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.9
Severity: normal
apt-get install has repeatedly shown a propensity to remove packages
rather than upgrading them. In the following example, it tries to
remove openoffice, kde, gnome, and konqueror at least the first three of
which are common targets.
apt-get install
Package: dvb-apps
Version: 1.1.1+rev1207-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/azap
Azap incorrectly does block level rather than line level buffering on
its output messaging. This only happens when output is redirected.
Looks like you forgot to call setbuf() and the stdio library is
automatically s
Package: libavcodec-dev
Version: 0.cvs20070307-6
Severity: normal
Attempting to upgrade libavcodec results in mass removal of applications:
apt-get install libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED
democracyplayer ekiga fast-user-switch-applet foo
Package: sox
Version: 14.0.0-5
Severity: important
SOX was compiled without OSS support. SOX is frequently used in conjuction
with audio devices.
For example, using TVtime with some USB TV tuners requires:
sox -r 48000 -w -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
-- System Information:
D
Package: zapping
Version: 0.10~cvs6-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I ran zapping and it killed the X server and I had to log back in and lost all
my applications (which fortunately were few).Ran it again to see if it was
repeatable. It was. This can lead to da
Package: djview
Version: 3.5.20-7
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Every time I run apt-get, it reports errors because this package's
install script apparently fails and keeps rerunning. Since this
causes apt-get to fail, which can cause other side effects for
programs
You may be able to install both antlr v3 and antlrworks by installing
one jar file, plus 2 wrapper scripts in /usr/bin/, plus docfiles, plus
any language specific support stuff, antlrworks includes antlr and you
can run antlr from the included jar.
wget http://www.antlr.org/download/antlrworks-1.1
V3 is a major rewrite. V3 is the version documented by the book.
V3 has been out for about 7 months, now. Who wants to write a grammar
only to find out that it needs to be changed due to API differences that
were introduced before they started? I do agree that keeping
the old version as well
Workaround:
Options -> Mule -> Set Font/Fontset
(click on it, don't let the unreadable tooltip fool you
into thinking you are stuck)
Fontset -> Standard: 16 dot medium
This will temporarily change the font so you can read the
customization menus. Tooltips still
it doesn't include info on reporting bugs on the software.
Bugs numbered for ease of cloning.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="scite"
VISUAL="scite"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/whitis/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.8"
mod
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Eric Dorland wrote:
Whenever firefox/iceweasel crashes, bug-buddy doesn't know where to send the
bug report
/usr/lib/bug-buddy/gecko: No such file or directory.
Sounds like a bug in bug-buddy, reassigning.
Got anything to support that assertion? Bug reporting appli
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.11-1
Severity: normal
Load page in iceweasel:
http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/electronics/jtag/index.html
File -> Print Preview.
The SVG image obscures most of the print preview.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT
Mark, can you please confirm whether tellico works fine with a complete
logout and log back in ?
logout and log back in isn't going to happen. I don't do that, ever.
Got, that? I am not going to shut down two or three different CAD
software packages, firefox, a dozen emacs sessions, a bunch
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Colin Watson wrote:
Where did this "NoneEnabled yes" come from? The openssh packages didn't
put it there; I've double-checked by searching everything back to
version 1:3.6.1p2-9 from September 2003, which is the oldest I have
It is there because you ship a substandard versi
frame-parameters is a function, but not interactive, so you cannot
invoke it with M-x. You could paste the following line
(last (frame-parameters))
(last (frame-parameters))
((font . "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard"))
But that is after, I switched fonts. Lets try
Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
hal went splat on dist-upgrade making other packages (gnome, etc) uninstallable.
apt-get dist-upgade
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
gnome-power-manager
gnome-desktop-environment
gnome
E
Package: openssh-server
Version: 1:4.6p1-7
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
This bug is rated critical because it breaks "apt-get upgrade" and
leaves the system in a dangerously unstable state.
apt-get upgrade aborts:
Setting up libsnmp-session-perl (1.11-1) ...
Setting u
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Sven Joachim wrote:
There is apparently no command, but you can find out the default font
with the frame-parameters function. The font is the last element of the
returned list, so you have to evaluate (last (frame-parameters)), which
on my system returns
Well, I tried M
thanks for the quick reply, output below.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 18-Dec-07, 12:06 (CST), Mark Whitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- there is a set-default-font command but no show-default-font command.
There don't seem to be any emacs commands that I can
Thanks for the quick reply.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Keith Packard wrote:
It looks like one of the old cache files is breaking fontconfig somehow,
but it's hard to know precisely where the issue is. If you could run
this under strace and see which file was failing, then carefully save
that file and
Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.3-1
Severity: normal
Whenever firefox/iceweasel crashes, bug-buddy doesn't know where to send the
bug report
/usr/lib/bug-buddy/gecko: No such file or directory.
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Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unsta
debian unstable, fairly up to date
I rebooted the system and now I am seeing this problem.
- Buffer content displayed as misssing character boxes
- Menu bar displays correctly
- Status bar and mini-buffer are broken
- tooltips on the toolbar are broken
- pulldown menus are working but t
Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.5.0-2
Severity: important
apt-get install fontconfig
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
fontconfig
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1589 not upgraded.
Need to get 43.0kB of archives
Package: wx-common
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.5
Severity: normal
I went to install a program that was 15 months old and it complained about the
absence of wx widgets 2.7. The latest version available as a debian package
is 2.6.x
wget
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mahogany/mahoga
Oh, I forgot:
$MAILCONF_SMTPSERVER
$MAILCONF_USERNAME
$MAILCONF_PASSWORD
$MAILCONF_IMAPSERVER
$MAILCONF_POPSERVER
$MAILCONF_SENDMAIL
$MAILCONF_USE_SENDMAIL
$MAILCONF_FETCHMAIL
$MAILCOONF_USE_FETCHMAIL
etc.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsu
just updating README.debian, while it helps, doesn't fix the underlying
problem that there is no system wide (or actually user controlled)
policy for these things.
One attempt to resolve this is at:
http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/proposal/delivery_1.html
Unfortunately, this proposal requires a lot
Package: tellico
Version: 1.2.14-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Just installed tellico, which also updated a bunch of KDE stuff.
When starting tellico pops up a window "Could not find mime type
application/octet-stream", the following error messages appear on stderr/std
Package: audacity
Version: 1.2.4b-2.1
Severity: normal
Audacity as packaged does not work well with ALSA. You can run
audacity with "aoss audacity" but you may find, as I did, that certain
Audio I/O settings such as "Play other tracks while recording new one"
or "software playthrough" that use t
Package: varkon
Version: 1.18A-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
cd ~/foo
varkon
select project: test1
Project does not exist, do you wish to create? y
select job: job1
Now click left or right mouse button in middle of drawing window,
program crashes
Can't run in gdb beca
Package: varkon
Version: 1.18A-3
Severity: normal
varkon
The directory where varkon stores the project information does not exist.
/home/whitis/varkon/pid
Shall I create it? [Y|n] y
The directory where varkon stores the application data does not exist.
/home/whitis/varkon/app
Shal
Package: democracyplayer
Version: 0.9.6-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
[...]
INFO got https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/
AFD changed from -2 to -1
AFD changed from -2 to -1
AFD changed from -2 to -1
AFD changed from -2 to -1
AFD changed from -2 to -1
AFD
Package: ffmpeg
Version: 0.cvs20060823-4
Severity: normal
ffplay -i ~/.democracy/Movies/nova-v-20060315.m4v
no audio played.
wget http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/media/nova-v-20060315.m4v
ffmpeg -i ~/.democracy/Movies/nova-v-20060315.m4v junk.asf
[...]
Duration: 00:02:30.8, start: 0.00
Package: interchange-cat-standard
Version: 5.4.2-1
Severity: normal
This package fails to create a catalog and the README.debian doesn't help.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/ic/standard:
Undefined catalog: /cgi-bin/ic/standard
http://localhost/shops/standard
just has images directory
These do
Package: totem
Version: 2.16.5-2
Severity: normal
totem
"mms://a244.v264199.c26419.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/244/26419/v0001/screenplay1.download.akamai.com/26417/streaming/117/e117883t.asf?eclipid=e11788=10=102="
&
Totem could not play
'mms://a244.v264199.c26419.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/244/26419
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-9
Severity: normal
My system was getting sluggish and X was using 635MB virtual and 395MB
physical even after I closed all windows. I also killed and restarted
wnck-applet and at-spi-registry, as they seem to have memory leaks of their
own.
This is unus
Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-8
Severity: normal
File: /etc/skel/.bashrc
The PROMPT_COMMAND definition in /etc/skel/.bashrc is missing "export".
Ramifications:
- If you type sh to get a subshell (or shell out of another program)
you lose all the extra stuff in your prompt and the termina
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/sort
The following is a snipet of the output from sort with no options (which
should sort the entire line):
"\x1B[D","cub1","visa50"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1","ims_ansi"
"\x1BD","cud1",
Package: at-spi
Version: 1.7.12-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd
Process Virtual Resident
at-spi-registryd 443.6MiB 17.6MiB
at-spi-registryd 110.3MiB 27.6MiB
I noticed this because my system was freezing, so I was looking for
ill behaved processes. I don't
Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.3-4
Severity: important
While investigating embarasing multisecond pauses of the entire desktop,
I noticed that wnck-applet was using 330MB of virtual memory and 200MB
of resident memory. After killing and restarting, it was down to
20MB/12.7MB (which still se
Package: gnopernicus
Version: 1.0.5-1.1
Severity: normal
The keypad does not function to issue commands to gnopernicus. Instead
it issues digits manually. For example, if I enter the command to
repeat the last utterance here: 005 those digits were typed on the numeric
pad with gnopernicus runnin
Package: dhelp
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: wishlist
You were smart enough to search the debian package database but should
have done more with what you found there.
dhelp is a good start but it needs to integrate the different document
systems. One search box should search all sources
You shoul
Package: xml-twig-tools
Version: 1:3.26-2
Severity: important
xml-twig-tools is missing man pages or doc files. Yes, there are
problems upstream but at least three of the files have upstream html
docs that are written in the style of manpages.
formatted manpages
http://standards.ieee.org/reso
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2.2
Severity: important
lynx http://www.google.com/
google reports browser issued malformed request and does not show the
search page.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'sta
This report is invalid. As you state yourself, "Actually, you can
compile them but you can't load them because of the kernel
version difference."
That does not invalidate the report. The two packages do not work
together properly, though there may be people who need to use them
together. gc
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.24
Severity: normal
This is a debian policy bug report. I am filing against dpkg since it
is the package that most directly implements that policy.
I think the debian packaging system needs to be able to record certain
types of conflicts that should not prevent insta
2.6.16-12 is not in unstable but 2.6.18-3, which is compiled with gcc
4.1. I suggest you upgrade to that version.
Thanks for the quick response.
Unfortunately, apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't know that 2.6.18-3 replaces
2.6.16-1. Since I managed to get things working by reverting to gcc 4.0
Package: sane
Version: 1.0.14-1
Severity: normal
I just did a dist-upgrade from stable to unstable in the last 24 hours.
Xsane says not to run as root or to report problems encountered as root.
But Xsane only recognizes the scanner if I am root.
This is true even if I unplug the scanner and reco
Package: firefox
Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
just did a dist-upgrade from stable to unstable today.
Firefox initial display updates result in much of the web page being
invisible text, particularly links. For example, on google search results,
you usually see only the underlines
Package: foomatic-gui
Version: 0.7.6
Severity: normal
foomatic-gui fails to properly install splix for the samsung ml-1710.
lpq reports printer is ready but jobs just sit in queue.
probable cause:
www.linuxprinting.org says:
"As the PPD files are contained in the driver package we will not
Package: cupsys-bsd
Version: 1.2.7-1
Severity: normal
lprm asks for a password. Asks for the wrong password (whitis vs root)
and doesn't accept either password. Can't control-c, either.
ml1710 is ready and printing
RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size
active root
Forgot to mention:
Video Card: XFX GF 6600 256MB DDR2 DUAL DVI TV PCI-E Ver F.5
After some more adventures, which included making X hang the machine,
reverting to vesa (and losing my second monitor and glx accelleration),
etc. I found a workaround:
workaround (from console, not X11):
- Inst
Package: gcc-4.1
Version: 4.1.1-21
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Perhaps I should have said it breaks the entire system because depending
on what drivers you need, most GUI applications are severely affected
and you have no reasonable way to try new driver versions.
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-1-686
Followup-For: Bug #282183
I am experiencing similar problems after doing a dist-upgrade today.
The problems severely affect the usability of most applications.
They do not affect the login prompt, instead the affects were noticed on:
- gnome-panel application
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
Version: 2.6.16-12
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
The current versions of kernel and gcc in unstable conflict, though
not detected at package load time. This means that it is not possible
to compile loadable kernel modules, which most en
Package: libxrender1
Version: 1:0.9.1-3
Severity: important
Similar to #362777 but that is listed as resolved and the issue
is NOT resolved. There is also some confusion in that report
about whether the issue is with libXcursor or libXrender. No such
confusion here.
when compiling mjpegtools-
Package: rtai
Version: 3.2-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source
System is a Knoppix 5.0.1EN installed to hard drive as debian.
###
### RTAI (realtime extensions)
###
apt-get install rtai rtai-doc rtai-source
apt-get install kernel-patch-adeos
apt-get install linux-sou
Package: kernel-patch-adeos
Version: 20060329-1
Severity: important
Patches are availible upstream for 2.6.17.
2.6.17 is the default kernel on knoppix 5.0.1 and the lack of patches
interferes with installing RTAI and EMC.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers test
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Ron wrote:
This is disabled by default (and consensus) upstream, since it accrues
additional external dependencies. What do you need it for?
Well, I am writing an application that displays images from a high
resolution webcam so it may or may not be useful, but without
Package: libwxgtk2.6-dbg
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.1
Severity: normal
Even with libwxgtk2.6-dbg installed and
g++ `wx-config --debug --cxxflags` `wx-config --debug --libs` ...
it does not create a working wxdebug environment with things like
wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING defined.
/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unic
Package: wx2.6-examples
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Program fails to compile because the makefile does not enable debugging
and the program can't compile without it.
--- Makefile2006-07-10 00:34:15.0 -0400
+++ Makefile.orig 2006-07-10 00:33:53.0 -04
Package: wx-common
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.1
Severity: normal
The sample mediaplayer.cpp application cannot be compiled.
Probably due to failure to define wxUSE_MEDIACTRL when building the package.
g++ `wx-config --cxxflags` `wx-config --libs` mediaplayer.cpp
mediaplayer.cpp:87:2: error: #error "Not
Package: xcal
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
apt-get -t unstable install xcal
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstab
Install the -dev package, needed to compile most programs... ;-)
There is no wx-dev or wx2.6-dev package.Not only that, the debian
package search tool says that wx-config does not exist in any package
in the stable or unstable distributions.
turns out wx-config is somewhere in libwxbase*
Package: wx-common
Version: 2.6.3.2.1.1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Package is missing wx-config, which is needed to compile most programs
which require wxwidgets, including the examples.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy
Package: evince
Version: 0.4.0-2
Severity: important
When every I try to print, evince crashes.
(evince:5224): GnomePrint-WARNING **: Could not create filter from description
'frgba': filter 'frgba' is unknown
/usr/bin/evince: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/libgnomeprint/2.12.1/modules/libgnomepr
Package: pidentd
Version: 3.0.18-2
Severity: critical
postgresql was failing due to identd failures
telnet localhost 113
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
113,59699
113 , 59699 : ERROR : UNKNOWN-ERROR
59699 is the port number of the telnet connecti
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/emacs21-x
There are two serious problems with vertical scrolling as installed.
- Mouse wheel is disabled
Options -> Customize -> Editing -> Mouse -> Mouse Wheel Mode
- Scrolling when, for example, you are marking a block wi
Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.14.3-1
Severity: important
On a dual monitor system (nvidia geforce 6600 with twinview) windows
open on the wrong monitor. I.E. mouse is on left monitor but windows
appear on right monitor.This is a serious problem because the second
monitor is often switched to
Package: nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.8756-4_i386
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
After upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel, this package no longer works.
It produces an nvidia.o file instead of an nvidia.ko file needed by
newer kernels.
workaround: run nvidia's installer, but then apt
Package: foomatic-gui
Version: 0.7.4.14
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
# foomatic-gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/foomatic-gui", line 66, in ?
import gtk
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in
?from
Package: dspam
Version: 3.6.4-4
Severity: important
Ok, I installed dspam, dspam-webfrontend, dspam-doc, libdspam7-drv-sqlite3.
Now what?Understand that I have experience using an older version of dspam
on a redhat box, but I am at a loss as to how to proceed in the debian (sarge +
some sid)
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