Bug#425452: klash: The problem persists, and is actually quite serious

2010-08-22 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Hi, it is hard to say exactly - I have developed a habit of avoiding pages with flash elements, especially when I leave the computer to the screensaver. But I have made a few trials at reproducing the problem - displaying a web page with flash elements and turning on KDE screensa

Bug#548851: Used to work but now segfault at startup

2009-09-29 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Julien Danjou wrote: > At 1254204787 time_t, Julien Danjou wrote: > > Since today, I cannot start X anymore. I tried with 2.6.30 and 31, and > > it just segfaults. It used to work up to a couple of days ago without > > any problem. AFAIK I did not change anything, so t

Bug#374544: Tentative solution provided.

2007-05-10 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
package binutils tags 274544 + patch thanks I have found what looks like a solution to this problem. Please see attached patch. The error is actually quite obvious when spotted; the function bfd_demangle, according to its documentation, is perfectly able to return NULL. I think it might be

Bug#374544: Bug has become worse in the 2.17cvs20070426 releases

2007-05-07 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
This is to inform that the bug reported for 2.17 almost a year ago - that the --cref option to "ld" fails - has become worse in the most recent releases. In the early 2.17 releases the --cref just produced garbage output. Now it causes the linking process itself to fail: gcc -Xlinker --cre

Bug#416365: genkdmconf mangles "ServerArgsLocal"

2007-03-27 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 Severity: important The subject says it all. On my installation I modify /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc by commenting out the ServerArgsLocal entry, because I, in this case, don't want the "-nolisten tcp" option. But the invocation of genkdmconf in /etc/init.d/kdm ch

Bug#400004: More information about the problem

2006-12-04 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Hello maintainers. I wrote in my first report on this topic: - it could be a problem with Iceweasel not cleaning up properly when it receives the killing signal from a KDE shutdown That is exactly what it is. In my home directory is found a file: ~/.mozilla/firefox/pq

Bug#400004: iceweasel: On KDE login, Iceweasel fails to restart: "Your last .. session closed unexpectedly"

2006-11-23 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0+dfsg-1 Severity: important I am using KDE as my desktop environmenti, with firefox as an often-used WEB browser. With the new release of iceweasel, a problem cropped up that I never saw before. When I login after having logged out from a session where iceweasel is

Bug#399046: parted: Assertion failed (block < EXT2_SUPER_BLOCKS_COUNT(fs->sb))

2006-11-17 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: parted Version: 1.7.1-2.1 Severity: normal This is data about the device: (parted) unit co (parted) print Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 32.3kB 15.4GB 15.4GB p

Bug#388713: python2.4-dev: Duplicated declaration of PyCallable_Check causes warnings in C programs

2006-09-22 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: python2.4-dev Version: 2.4.3-8 Severity: minor Tags: patch The subject says it all - the other declaration is found in object.h. The problem is a bit annoying for us, as we use Python in an environment where we wish to consider warnings as errors to be fixed. Fortunately, the problem is

Bug#383076: A likely solution - the subject of the bug report is probably misleading

2006-08-31 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Hello. I was hit by the very same error, and have found at least one possible explanation, why it hits some people and not others. My fix is simply to allow the udevcontrol call to fail, just as all the other calls may fail: if [ -x /sbin/udevcontrol ]; then /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rule

Bug#377076: nfs-kernel-server: automounter cannot cooperate with new nfs-utils: "Unsupported nfs mount option: grpid"

2006-07-10 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:04:01PM +0200, Peder Chr. Norgaard wrote: When upgrading til version 1:1.0.8+1.0.9pre1-1, my NIS-driven automounter stopped working. The log files had hundreds of entries from automounter: "Unsupported nfs

Bug#377076: nfs-kernel-server: automounter cannot cooperate with new nfs-utils: "Unsupported nfs mount option: grpid"

2006-07-07 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: reassign 377076 nfs-common forcemerge 377076 377024 thanks On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:04:01PM +0200, Peder Chr. Norgaard wrote: When upgrading til version 1:1.0.8+1.0.9pre1-1, my NIS-driven automounter stopped working. The log files had

Bug#377076: nfs-kernel-server: automounter cannot cooperate with new nfs-utils: "Unsupported nfs mount option: grpid"

2006-07-06 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.8+1.0.9pre1-1 Severity: important When upgrading til version 1:1.0.8+1.0.9pre1-1, my NIS-driven automounter stopped working. The log files had hundreds of entries from automounter: "Unsupported nfs mount option: grpid". I had to roll back to 1:1.0.8-8 to

Bug#375359: cupsys-client: sid cups client, sarge cups server >> printing does not work anymore

2006-07-03 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Hello. I may have supplementary information on this bug. I have a similar setup, with debian sid cupsys 1.2.1 and a server (non-debian) running cupsys 1.1. Instead of printing from command line I am using a graphical tool (acroread). Here printing always works, *but* with really large de

Bug#366817: snmp: The -Z option does not accept zero values

2006-05-11 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: snmp Version: 5.2.2-3ted1 Severity: normal Tags: patch This is really a bug that should be forwarded to upstream; I choose to send it via Debian in the hope that I will not have to maintain my own version for a very long time. The option for setting engineBoot and engineTime does not acc

Bug#353844: gnomemeeting: package does not install on etch, neither does it build

2006-02-21 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Peder Chr. Norgaard wrote: > > The library mentioned is not available in unstable, nor can it be found > > in experimental. > > It's in NEW. > Thank you for a quick answer. Now, I am a Debian user

Bug#353844: gnomemeeting: package does not install on etch, neither does it build

2006-02-21 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: gnomemeeting Version: 1.2.3-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The package depends on a version of libopenh323 that is not available in etch. Therefore it fails to install, and the consequences are pretty dire: the packages gnome and gnome-desktop-environment fai

Bug#267527: Proposal for solution

2006-01-31 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
I think I have figured out why this bug has popped up again. It is actually a new variant of the bug which in all likelihood has been lurking for years. The problem is in etc/a2ps-cfg.in, line 433: Variable: lp #{lp.hook} a2ps-lpr-wrapper #{lp.options} @LPR_QUEUE_OPTION@ See? the option to a2p

Bug#348644: kdeedu: kalzium/klettres/kstars fail to install/upgrade because binary-only upload conflicts with -data packages

2006-01-18 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: kdeedu Version: 4:3.5.0-3 Severity: serious The subject says it all. Incidentally, exactly the same bug hit koffice just a week ago. See bug report 347694. I suppose the same fix will solve this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable

Bug#325840: libsnmp5-dev: Package should depend and build-depend on package procps for /bin/ps

2005-08-31 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: libsnmp5-dev Version: 5.2.1.2-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Technically, I guess this is a policy violation. In practice, almost all systems have package procps installed. But in my project I rebuild packages using "pbuilder" as a matter of policy - and when I did that to net-snmp, the

Bug#312300: iperf: The 2.0.1-1 version is not IPv6-capable

2005-06-07 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: iperf Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: important Tags: patch This is, I think, an upstream problem - it has been mentioned in http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lists/iperf-users/apr05/msg00013.html I have tried out the 2.0.2 upstream release from May 3rd - combining it with the "debian" directory

Bug#296611: openswan: "man -S 5 ipsec.conf" fails to mention the parameter "connaddrfamily"

2005-02-23 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: openswan Severity: normal Well, the subject says most of it. I tried to set up an IPv6 based tunnel between two security gateways - and I did not succeed until I browsed the source code and figured out that the "connaddrfamily=ipv6" is mandatory to get this to work. Please add this to t

Bug#290503: cmucl: Request to add facilities for datagram networking to CMUCL

2005-01-14 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: cmucl Version: 19a-release-20040728-9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This is a simple request to add packaging of certain POSIX socket operations to CMUCL. The packaging is perfectly straightforward, and has been tested extensively in the application for which I developed them. I post t

Bug#290504: cmucl: Request ability to modify "whostate" of mp:process

2005-01-14 Thread Peder Chr. Norgaard
Package: cmucl Version: 19a-release-20040728-9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The background for this request is that I needed to port a semaphore logic on top of the CMUCL multiprocessing system. The semaphore logic was running on top of Allegro Common Lisp from Franz Inc. Doing that I discover