Bug#979335: gespeaker: Failed to start if package 'python-dbus' not installed

2021-08-22 Thread Nick Daly
Package: gespeaker Version: 0.8.6-1 Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Per xqqy's "gespeaker fails to start" bug report below, I'm attaching a patch that resolves the error for me. On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:27:20 +0800 xqqy wrote: > Install this package with'sudo apt install gespeaker' command and

Bug#578859: No sound output from Rosegarden via timidity ALSA ports

2020-09-06 Thread Nick Daly
Package: timidity Version: 2.14.0-8 Followup-For: Bug #578859 Dear Maintainer, As an addendum to the last email, I realized some of the (working) behavior I experienced disappeared when I restarted my computer. The attached Rosegarden-alsa startup script seems to work after a fresh restart, while

Bug#578859: No sound output from Rosegarden via timidity ALSA ports

2020-09-06 Thread Nick Daly
Package: timidity Version: 2.14.0-8 Followup-For: Bug #578859 Dear Maintainer, Attached is a patch that allows timidity to play via JACK output in v2.14.0-8. This feature was lost at some point in the last few years (at least as far back as 2014). When timidity is broken, attempting to use it p

Bug#789441: freedombox-setup: network setup tries to run /lib/udev/write_net_rules, which no longer exists

2015-07-29 Thread Nick Daly
Sunil Mohan writes: > @Nick, we would like to comment on the following solution: [...] > > I propose that we take advantage of systemd's network name > predictability scheme and fix this properly. That all sounds really reasonable. What do you need from me for this? pgpwtK3d8udjW.pgp Descript

Bug#747373: [Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#747373: Successful BuildBot Builds

2015-01-04 Thread Nick Daly
One last edit, attached: this build'll succeed even when the TTY device is completely unavailable (move "open /dev/tty" into the try block). vmdebootstrap-build-without-tty-1.patch Description:

Bug#747373: [Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#747373: Successful BuildBot Builds

2015-01-03 Thread Nick Daly
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:32:00 +0000 Nick Daly wrote: > > 1. BuildBot Fixes: Attempts to build with a TTY device, and falls > > back to headless mode if TTY device is unavailable. This change > > allows BuildBot builds to complete. > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 11:05 Neil

Bug#747373: Successful BuildBot Builds

2014-12-14 Thread Nick Daly
Hello Neil, apologies for the long delay on this. I've attached a patch that solves this bug and two other bugs: 1. BuildBot Fixes: Attempts to build with a TTY device, and falls back to headless mode if TTY device is unavailable. This change allows BuildBot builds to complete. 2. Add customize

Bug#635711: [monkeysphere] Bug#635711: further analysis of monkeysphere.postinst failures

2014-11-25 Thread Nick Daly
Hi, I'll try to reproduce this again this weekend, I've only been able to reproduce this regularly when attempting to setup MS on my Jessie Raspberry Pi (I believe it was an image produced by Bdale's Freedom-Maker), but I recently hosed my Pi, so I'll have to start it over from scratch again. Nick

Bug#635711: Reproducing Install Error on Freedom-Maker DreamPlug Build

2014-06-28 Thread Nick Daly
As a follow-up, here's a much smaller version of the above patch. Thanks go to Petter for pointing me to the maintainer scripts documentation. diff -r 9e5e6d9f91b1 debian/monkeysphere.postinst --- a/debian/monkeysphere.postinst Sat Jun 28 14:54:59 2014 -0500 +++ b/debian/monkeysphere.postinst Sat

Bug#635711: Reproducing Install Error on Freedom-Maker DreamPlug Build

2014-06-28 Thread Nick Daly
diff -r 9e5e6d9f91b1 debian/monkeysphere.preinst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 + +++ b/debian/monkeysphere.preinst Sat Jun 28 14:55:33 2014 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#! /bin/sh + +# preinst script for monkeysphere. + +# Author: Nick Daly +# Copyright: N/A + +preinstall-monkeysphere-version=`monkeysphere --version` +export preinstall-monkeysphere-version

Bug#749405: Current Status + Moving Forward?

2014-06-22 Thread Nick Daly
Hi folks, What still needs to be done on this bug to resolve it? If I understand correctly, Martin's patch [0] in message #49 resolves the broken behavior, correcting the grave breakage in this bug. If the hotplug-before-resolve bug still needs to be handled, could we open a new bug for that, or

Bug#748477: vmdebootstrap: images should not always be owned by root

2014-05-18 Thread Nick Daly
Antonio Terceiro writes: > What's wrong with running chmod on the built image as part of your > automated build? That was my first thought. However, because root owns the image, I'd have to either: - Build the image as root to chmod the image, or, - Give the building user sudo-chmod privileges

Bug#747373: Previous Patch Incorrect

2014-05-18 Thread Nick Daly
Hi, this is just a note to mention that the previous patch attached to the 2014-05-17 email is somewhat incorrect and was less well tested than it should've been. I'm currently revising and retesting the patch and should submit a corrected patch in the next day or so. Thank you, Nick -- To UNS

Bug#747373: Try interactive mode, fallback to non-interactive mode.

2014-05-17 Thread Nick Daly
The attached vmdebootstrap patch should resolve Pere's concerns: - We now attempt to run in interactive mode, however, if that fails, we fall back to non-interactive mode. - Also, we now run everything inside a chroot to prevent poorly written customize scripts from breaking the host system.

Bug#748477: vmdebootstrap: images should not always be owned by root

2014-05-17 Thread Nick Daly
The previously mentioned patch is attached to this email. Apologies for the noise. Nick --- vmdebootstrap 2014-05-11 13:16:27.948314432 -0500 +++ /usr/sbin/vmdebootstrap 2014-05-10 14:26:22.0 -0500 @@ -100,6 +97,9 @@ self.settings.boolean(['sudo'],

Bug#748477: vmdebootstrap: images should not always be owned by root

2014-05-17 Thread Nick Daly
Package: vmdebootstrap Version: 0.2-2das-boot2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When vmdebootstrap completes, the generated images are always owned by the root user. This is very inconvenient for automated builds which need to be able to operate on the built image file. The attached patch add

Bug#747373: vmdebootstrap: Fails to Build Under buildbot

2014-05-17 Thread Nick Daly
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > How will this patch affect packages trying to ask for answers from the > user using debconf? I suspect it will break in this case. Should packages really be asking interactive debconf questions during the (customize stage of the) build process? I thought packages

Bug#747373: vmdebootstrap: Fails to Build Under buildbot

2014-05-07 Thread Nick Daly
Package: vmdebootstrap Version: 0.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Neil, Lars, and Antonio, When trying to build a Freedom-Maker [0] image with buildbot, the image fails to build without access to `/dev/tty` [1]. If necessary, the buildbot instructions can be provided. The `/dev/tty` access is unneces

Bug#736897: debian-maintainers: Add nick.m.d...@gmail.com as a Debian Maintainer

2014-01-27 Thread Nick Daly
Package: debian-maintainers Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer Maintainers, Please add me as a Debian Maintainer. Jetring changeset attached. Thank you for your time, Nick -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (

Bug#555296: virtualbox-ose-source: kernel panic in virtualbox module after resume from suspend to disk

2013-11-04 Thread Nick Daly
g. If VMs failed to suspend, they # were powered off. If the VMs didn't power off, that user's VirtualBox process # was killed. If VirtualBox processes failed to die, all users' VirtualBox # processes are killed. If even the root user couldn't guarantee all VMs were # stop

Bug#702607: make source code of all Debian projects visible (on gitweb)

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Daly
Why is http://anonscm.debian.org/hg 404ing? It's linked from the main page.

Bug#544683: Duplicate of 649707?

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Daly
I suspect this bug might be a duplicate of bug 649707. For me, there were several (reproducible) instances where StumpWM would crash and be rendered unusable, that seem to have been corrected by updating to the latest Git checkout [0]. StumpWM would crash when I: - Opened a new image in Gimp. -

Bug#575213: Confirming Bug and Fix

2011-11-17 Thread Nick Daly
The fix noted in the loopback-email [0] is correct. I was unable to install mysql-server [1]. However, the mysql-server package installed correctly after running: # ifdown lo # ifup lo # dpkg --configure -a This issue occurred on Wheezy. Should the mysql-server ensure the loopback

Bug#386525: Update or Fix?

2011-08-23 Thread Nick Daly
Hi, this bug has been unattended for 5 years now. Is there any reason uw-imapd still conflicts with the harden-servers package? The Panda-IMAP website suggests that UW-IMAP 2007f has one security fix that vanilla 2007e does not have (but perhaps that fix was packaged in the 4 intervening years?):

Bug#638145: bittorrent: Should Operate as a Background System Service

2011-08-16 Thread Nick Daly
Subject: bittorrent: Should operate as a background system service Package: bittorrent Version: 3.4.2-11.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Dear BitTorrent maintainers, It's not currently possible to run a BitTorrent tracker as a system service, like Ap

Bug#555296: Suspend Virtualbox VMs on Host System Suspend

2011-08-16 Thread Nick Daly
Dear bug 555296 subscribers, Recently, I ran into this bug, where a host system cannot resume from hibernate-to-disk when a VirtualBox VM was running while VT-X is enabled. It's fairly common [0]. So, I decided to patch it. This patch allows the system to successfully suspend while VMs are runn

Bug#532005: Found 532005 in Squeeze Kernel 2.6.32-30

2011-02-09 Thread Nick Daly
Hi Moritz and Matthew, This is an issue with the current release of Debian Squeeze. The issue is actually a boot-time load order issue. If the pcspkr module is inserted into the kernel too early in the boot process (as it is by default, at least on my system) the beep becomes the evil buzzing ho

Bug#610880: org-mode: Cannot Store Org-Links from DocView Mode

2011-02-04 Thread Nick Daly
Sébastien Delafond writes: > So the bug is in 7.01g-1, then, and not in 7.4-2 ? Apologies for the late reply, but you are right. This is a bug in 7.01 and not in 7.4. Doc-view-mode doesn't provide the function that 7.01 was trying to use, while image-mode does. That's the necessary correction

Bug#610880: org-mode: Cannot Store Org-Links from DocView Mode

2011-01-23 Thread Nick Daly
Subject: org-mode: Cannot Store Org-Links from DocView Mode Package: org-mode Version: 7.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** Trying to store a link to a PDF file with Squeeze's org-mode causes org-mode to error instead of storing the link. Sid's versi

Bug#575317: Pony! (again)

2010-12-23 Thread Nick Daly
Francois Marier writes: > Hi Nick, > > Thanks for contributing some ponies. They'll be in the next cowsay upload > (which should happen in a couple of minutes). > > I'm assuming that you are releasing your new "cows" under the same licensing > terms as the rest of cowsay. If that's incorrect, let

Bug#575317: Pony! (again)

2010-12-04 Thread Nick Daly
Apparently PGP signed messages aren't well tolerated. I'm re-sending this without signing it in hopes that it'll be readable on the bug's page. Attached are a pair of files that should make a good start for a pony (one small and one large). They were created with Emacs's Artist mode. Also attac

Bug#575317: Pony!

2010-12-04 Thread Nick Daly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Attached are a pair of files that should make a good start for a pony (one small and one large). They were created with Emacs's Artist mode. The only major difference is that the small pony is a c

Bug#571182: console-data: Add a new keymap, lisp-emacs-us.kmap.gz, to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Daly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was actually working off of old documentation without realizing that console-setup exists at all. That probably takes better care of those needs in a more extensible way better than my proposed patch, so feel free to consider this bug closed. I'll

Bug#571182: Acknowledgement (console-data: Add a new keymap, lisp-emacs-us.kmap.gz, to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty)

2010-02-24 Thread Nick Daly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --=-=-= Because I'm smart, I'll forget to do things like actually attach the file I claim to be submitting. However, I've remembered this time. Enjoy, Nick - --=-=-= Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Disposition: attachment; filename

Bug#571182: console-data: Add a new keymap, lisp-emacs-us.kmap.gz, to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Daly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Subject: console-data: Add a new keymap, lisp-emacs-us.kmap.gz, to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty Package: console-data Version: 2:1.07-11 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** In order to reduce Emacs-based

Bug#551155: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#551155: libssl0.9.8: New Segmentation Fault after installing starttls when signing into emacs-jabber in Lenny

2010-01-17 Thread Nick Daly
Kurt, thanks for looking into this. I'm able to make the bug disappear only by removing starttls (so "emacs-jabber" is forced to use "gnutls-cli" instead of "starttls"). If I could figure out how to configure emacs-jabber to use gnutls-cli instead of starttls, I could work around the problem. As

Bug#551155: Potential Workaround

2009-10-18 Thread Nick Daly
To configure Emacs-Jabber to use "gnutls-cli" instead of "starttls", add the following to your ``~/.emacs``:: (setq starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls") Evaluate the line and you can connect as normal, via ``M-x jabber-connect``. Of course, this still doesn't solve any of the underlying issu

Bug#551155: libssl0.9.8: New Segmentation Fault after installing starttls when signing into emacs-jabber in Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Daly
Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable *** Please type your report below this line *** Intro = I've been using Emacs and Emacs-Jabber for a while now, quite flawlessly and wonderfully. However, since I've installed the starttl

Bug#521987: (no subject)

2009-03-30 Thread Nick Daly
Subject: pida: FileManager doesn't respect user's gtkrc colors. Package: pida Version: 0.5.1-5 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** pida/services/filemanager/filemanager.py doesn't respect user's colors as defined in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. This is odd, as it does a great job a

Bug#519152: pida: NoneType patch

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Daly
This patch /seems/ to fix the NoneType error without unpleasant side-effects. It looks like they missed filtering an event before the gui was displayed. Nick --- /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pida/services/optionsmanager/optionsmanager.py 2008-07-23 00:04:02.0 -0500 +++ o

Bug#519152: (no subject)

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Daly
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Bug#440374: pida: Best Practices for Lenny

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Daly
The best-practice method for using Pida (on Lenny) at this point seems to be: 1. Install pida normally. 2. Install emacs-snapshot from: http://emacs.orebokech.com/ 3. update-alternatives --config emacs Choosing 'emacs-snapshot' Much easier than tampering with the source, thanks Anarcat.

Bug#440374: pida: Patch it yourself.

2008-12-30 Thread Nick Daly
To patch pida myself, I did the following steps. I think it works, as I'm writing this email in Pida with Emacs. 0. Install pida as normal to satisfy all the run-time dependencies. # apt-get install pida 1. Create a pida directory to hack on later. $ mkdir ~/pida $ cd ~/pida 2. Down

Bug#440374: pida: Eventual Fix for Emacs Mode.

2008-12-30 Thread Nick Daly
According to (what I understand of) Pida's Emacs Support page[0], the necessary patches for Emacs have been adopted upstream (and have been released as of Emacs 22.3), though this version hasn't yet percolated into Debian. You could always submit a bug to the Emacs team and ask them to package 22.

Bug#459481: Semi-solution

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Daly
me to design it prettily. This program requires the "wajig" package to be installed. Thanks, Nick Daly apt-busted.tar.bz2 Description: Binary data

Bug#505150: libgl1-mesa-swx11 Fixed It!

2008-11-10 Thread Nick Daly
Thanks for your very informative and extremely quick response on this bug! The network issue seems completely unrelated. It turns out it was caused by 2 still running copies of openarena which refused to release their ports. These were finally killed with signal 9 (after refusing to cooperate

Bug#505150: openarena: Crash when changing any options on System -> Graphics menu: "double free or corruption"

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Daly
am. Thanks so much for your time and help on this issue, Nick Daly -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF

Bug#496244: sear-media: Sear-Media requires update for Sear > 0.6.1

2008-08-23 Thread Nick Daly
Subject: sear-media: Sear-Media requires update for Sear > 0.6.1 Package: sear-media Version: 0.6-20060204-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** Sear requires an updated sear-media package, as sear currently reports: [Error] System: Error opening script file: ${SEA

Bug#496242: openrpg: OpenRPG 1.7.1 Released (2007-03-09)

2008-08-23 Thread Nick Daly
Subject: openrpg: OpenRPG 1.7.1 Released (2007-03-09) Package: openrpg Version: 1.6.3-1.1 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** OpenRPG 1.7.1 was released on March 9, 2007, and it'd be nice to have the most updated version available in Debian. This version also seems

Bug#489891: miro: Miro Segmentation Fault - Gone?

2008-08-08 Thread Nick Daly
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: miro: Miro Segmentation Fault - Gone? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: reportbug 3.44 Date: Thu, 07 Aug

Bug#489891: miro (version 1.2.3-2) segmentation fault

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Daly
I've also had this problem. I noticed however, that it only occurs when the "Miro Guide" is loaded from the internet. If you start Miro while offline and then click off the Guide to another channel (your library for example), then go online, Miro doesn't segfault. Of course, you then have to

Bug#469236: A Better Mouse-aware Autohiding

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Daly
I finally got around to not breaking the autohiding originally in Pypanel. This version of the mouse-aware autohiding will hide CLOCK_DELAY seconds after the mouse leaves the panel. I'll be honest, a 3-second delay really _is_ much nicer than immediately. :) This patch was already submitted upst

Bug#469236: Add untimed autohiding (based on mouse presence) to pypanel

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Daly
me, I may work on a further patch to add this feature, but that'll be in the future. Thank you for your time, Nick Daly -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP

Bug#462648: update-menu: example menufiles giving syntax errors

2008-02-06 Thread Nick Daly
cted token near" the package name... I don't understand how the Debian menu on my system is created at this point... I only stumbled upon this problem because I recently switched from Gnome to fluxbox, and then openbox when I found that the fluxbox menu didn't work. Running

Bug#459481: apt: Wish: A "Test/Repair installed packages" option

2008-01-12 Thread Nick Daly
e at python and bash, but it seems possible... I do realize the main problem is my shoddy hardware, and pipe dream though it may be, my dream is still to have a system that runs well despite, or at least that can recognize, its failures. Your point however, is well taken. Nick Daly --- &quo

Bug#459481: apt: Wish: A "Test/Repair installed packages" option

2008-01-06 Thread Nick Daly
ble. After each run, "apt-busted" would provide a list of packages and files that didn't verify correctly, and then offer the user the option to reinstall the mentioned, possibly broken packages/files. I know this is a crazy pie-in-the-sky idea, but it would give a beautiful verifia

Bug#457232: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#457232: lyx: Fails to fully parse document for display.

2007-12-20 Thread Nick Daly
So sorry for submitting a duplicate report, I realize how valuable a developer's time is. Didn't think of looking upstream. The obvious workaround is just to take the URL it out of the URL object and format it yourself (usually in angled brackets). Thank you so much for looking into this bug

Bug#457232: lyx: Fails to fully parse document for display.

2007-12-20 Thread Nick Daly
o imply that lyx itself bombs out when reading the file and passes the pages that were parsed correctly, before the page with the footnote, to the previewer. The citations are "?" because the bibliography is never processed (on the 8th page). Thank you very much, Nick Daly -- System Inf

Bug#457223: xevil: Xevil always crashes after license screen.

2007-12-20 Thread Nick Daly
Package: xevil Version: 2.02r2-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable *** Please type your report below this line *** When run with no commandline options, after the license screen, regardless of options selected, xevil always crashes with the following output: *** glibc dete