Bug#739380: installation-reports: Install to USB a Mess

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#703555: closed by Rene Engelhard (Re: Bug#703555: libreoffice-calc 3.5.4 Only Basic macros offered by UI)

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
. Debian responds to bug reports. The Document Foundation doesn't. I am most impressed and grateful. Keep up the good work. Regards, -- Paul Bryan Roberts pbronline-deb...@yahoo.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#703555: libreoffice-calc 3.5.4 Only Basic macros offered by UI

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: libreoffice Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have macros written in Python for LibreOffice calc. I cannot run them from the Debian Wheezy build of 3.5.4 but I can from the Document Foundation build when installed under Debian

Bug#698878: installation-reports: Boot from USB stick 1 - install to USB stick 2

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I think the Debian Installer does an excellent job but I have quibbles with: the partitioner's handling of swap the grub installer's handing of USB sticks. See Comments/Problems below. Also my first attempt failed at t

Bug#698877: installation-reports: Install as VM guest - boot from virtual USB stick

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Apart from the grub bit, the installation was fine. Well done. See Comments/Problems below. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB image Image version: 16-Nov-2012 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dis

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
On 24/01/13 12:56, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Thanks Paul, On 24/01/13 12:22, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: # mount | grep cdrom Ah of course, this is netboot... # list-devices cd /dev/sr0 # list-devices maybe-usb-floppy # list-devices usb-partition /dev/sda4 What exactly is sda4; is that

Bug#698854: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: p54 driver fails to reload firmware coming out of suspend to RAM

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.35-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Either: a) request Suspend at the XFCE desktop b) set Power Manager to suspend after a period of inactivty Then: resume from suspend by touchpad or keyboard activity * What exactly di

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
n't think I'm using a 'hybid media on USB'. I threw together a USB image with both 32- and 64-bit mini.iso and a syslinux menu to choose between them. I didn't go anything specific to create a USB/CD hybird. I hope this helps. I'm willing supply more information if

Bug#698712: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Small quibbles with choice of filesystems and grub installation. Issues (not In

Bug#698713: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Small quibbles with choice of filesystems and grub installation. Issues (not In

Bug#698710: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. One quibble with the installation of grub. One issue with the default X configur

Bug#698709: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Deb

Bug#698707: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Debian Squeeze Installer. Slight prob

Bug#698706: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Debian Squeeze Installer. Slight prob

Bug#698699: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Temporary issue with power management and swap but I don't blame the installer.

Bug#698700: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. ISA sound card driver not loaded automatically. -- Package-specific info: Boot

Bug#698688: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Issues with Nvdia graphics controller but these are not installer issues. -- Pa

Bug#653965: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#653965: xfce4-session: Strange desktop behaviour after corruption of xfce4-session cache

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Hi Alex, Thank you for your reply. It is much appreciated. On 02/01/12 06:37, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:ls -l On dim., 2012-01-01 at 22:53 +, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: Package: xfce4-session Version: 4.6.2-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Strange xfce

Bug#653967: python-uno: LibreOffice crashes when creating or opening documents in Python scripts

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
ython-uno suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Paul Bryan Roberts paulbryan.robe...@yahoo.co.uk # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #import socket # only needed on win32-OOo3.0.0 import uno # get the uno component context from the PyUNO runtime localContext = uno.getComponentContext() # crea

Bug#653965: xfce4-session: Strange desktop behaviour after corruption of xfce4-session cache

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
ktop background, icons and ii xfwm4 4.6.2-1 window manager of the Xfce project Versions of packages xfce4-session suggests: ii sudo 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2 Provide limited super user privile -- no debconf information -- Paul Bryan Roberts pbronlin

Bug#608025: [debian-installer] Windows 7 entry is not written to GRUB list

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Hi Colin, Sorry but I've been busy this week and haven't checked this e-mail account for several days. Colin Watson wrote: Paul, could you describe your partitioning setup? Partition set up on old desktop: # sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda1 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id Sys

Bug#608129: KDM Login to KDE fails after Upgrade/Installlation of Squeeze Beta 2)

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Please close this bug report. It confuses two issues neither of which are likely to be Debian specific. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#609072: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#609072: Trials with Squeeze RC2: It does look like a Network Manager Package Issue

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Michael, Thank you for your prompt and considered reply. If you wish to mark this bug report as specious and close it then please do so. It was, after all, only an installation report. I understand now, when I install Debian using the wireless interface, why the Network Manager cannot see a

Bug#609072: Trials with Squeeze RC2: It does look like a Network Manager Package Issue

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Hello again, I have trialled Squeeze RC2 using both wired and wireless installation. After wired installation /etc/network/interfaces reads: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The

Bug#609072: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Processed: Re: Bug#609072: Trials over WLAN: Installation (The Process) Now Successful but Installation (The Result) Not Satisfactory

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Michael Biebl wrote: What's the content of /etc/network/interfaces? # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary

Bug#609072: Trials over WLAN: Installation (The Process) Now Successful but Installation (The Result) Not Satisfactory

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Net Installer Image version: 6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20110101-03:54 Date: a) 4-Jan-2011 b) 4-Jan-2001 Machine:a) Laptop Packard-Bell b) Laptop OEM Processor: a) 800 MHz Celeron, 128 Kb cache b) 2.8 G

Bug#608129: kdm: KDM Login to KDE fails after Upgrade/Installlation of Squeeze Beta 2

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
I've looked at this a bit more and it does not appear to be what it at first seemed. The X server log is a separate issue: this is something to do with terminating the X session and is nothing to do with why KDE crashes on login. This issue is logged, at least once, in BTS against xserver-x

Bug#608025: [debian-installer] Windows 7 entry is not written to GRUB list

2011-01-01 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Hi, I have noted the same issue and workaround as Rafael but I am using Squeeze beta 2: Debian GNU/Linux squeeze-di-beta2 "Squeeze" - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20101203-16:34 I have now tried again with: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Squeeze" - Official Sn

Bug#608129: kdm: KDM Login to KDE fails after Upgrade/Installlation of Squeeze Beta 2

2010-12-27 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: kdm Version: 4:4.4.5-5 Severity: important One upgrade and two installation of Squeeze Beta 2 with the KDE Desktop have now failed. The upgrade and first installation failed on a laptop previously running (upto date lenny). This is i386. The second installation failed on a desktop usi

Bug#511713: Workaround for Etch

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Aaron Valdes wrote: > I installed this package. > libxul-dev > > eclipse is starting up now > > :) libxul-dev is an etch package and appears to have no lenny version. Instead install xulrunner-dev and eclipse 3.2.2-6.1 should start under lenny. ***