Bug#538725: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#538725: checkroot.sh: fails if root not in fstab

2009-07-26 Thread Robert Hart
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:37:18PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > As fstab is the correct and standardized way to specify mount points, > I do not see the advantages of adding confusion by providing another > way to specify which device to check for the root file system to > handle a broken c

Bug#538725: checkroot.sh: fails if root not in fstab

2009-07-26 Thread Robert Hart
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-1 Severity: normal If the root fs isn't in /etc/fstab, then when checkroot.sh runs I see an fsck usage message, and get dropped to a maintenance shell because fsck returns an error code. Would be nice to get a meaningful error message. The strange thing is

Bug#512107: rhythmbox: Duplicate items in library due to case insensitive filesystem (VFAT)

2009-01-17 Thread Robert Hart
Package: rhythmbox Version: 0.11.6-1 Severity: normal I have a number of folders in my music library that have been renamed to fix incorrect capitalisation. When this happens rhythmbox ends up with duplicate items. The music library is on a case insensitive filesystem, so both the old name and

Bug#493441: ia32-libs: vmware-server-console fails to start

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Hart
Package: ia32-libs Version: 2.5 Severity: normal vmware-server-console fails to start with the latest version. Downgrading to the previous version fixes the issue. See #486507 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486507 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefer

Bug#482874: firmware-iwlwifi: interface ends up being called wlan0_rename

2008-05-25 Thread Robert Hart
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 0.10 Severity: important I have an intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop, and since upgrading to the iwlwifi driver from the older ipw3945, I get a long pause during boot up, whilst udev claims to be renaming the interface from wmaster0 to eth2. This fai

Bug#439973: boson: Segmentation Fault on startup

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hart
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 04:05 +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > Which release of libgl1-mesa-dri is installed on your system? > > Regards, > > Gonéri $ apt-cache show libgl1-mesa-dri | grep Version: Version: 7.0.2-2 I hacked boson to skip the call to glGetString at bogl.cpp:48 (and

Bug#439973: boson: Segmentation Fault on startup

2007-09-09 Thread Robert Hart
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:24:39AM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:14:59PM +0100, Robert Hart wrote: > > Hello, > > Thank you for your report and sorry for the delay, I was too busy the > last weeks to write an anwser. > > I think you'v

Bug#440121: prints many duplicate anagrams

2007-08-29 Thread Robert Hart
Package: an Version: 0.95-3 Severity: minor On my system the output of anagram tends to contain many duplicates, particularly if the input contains the same characters more than once $ an a a a $ an aa a a a a a a a a $ for i in `seq 1 10` ; do a=${a}a ; an $a | wc -l ; done 2 4 8 16 32 64 1

Bug#439973: boson: Segmentation Fault on startup

2007-08-28 Thread Robert Hart
Package: boson Version: 0.13-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Running boson on my system gives the following output: $ boson [int main(int, char**)] Boson 0.13 is starting... [int main(int, char**)] resolving GL, GLX and GLU symbols Segmentation fault An strace finishes

Bug#375555: juk: get covers from internet no longer works

2006-06-26 Thread Robert Hart
Package: juk Version: 4:3.5.3-2 Severity: minor Juk no longer seems capable of finding covers on the internet. I assume whatever search engine it uses behind the scenes has changed. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#375055: map: colours are not very distinct

2006-06-22 Thread Robert Hart
Package: sgt-puzzles Version: 6616-1 Severity: minor I am slightly colour-blind (in a way that is rarely an issue) however I find the "brown" and "red" colour used in the map game hard to distinguish unless they are actually adjacent, which is often not the case at many time during the game. I'm

Bug#363995:

2006-05-29 Thread Robert Hart
reassign 363995 libgl1-mesa-dri 6.4.1-0.4 thanks Yes, patching mesa fixes this problem (specifically src/mesa/drivers/dri/r200/r200_state.c for me, but presumeably r300 and radeon as well for others) --- mesa-6.4.1/src/mesa/drivers/dri/r200/r200_state.c 2005-09-10 17:44:26.0 +0100 +++ m

Bug#366264: xdvik-ja: rotated text no longer appears correctly

2006-05-06 Thread Robert Hart
Package: xdvik-ja Version: 22.84.8-j1.22-2 Severity: minor The current unstable version of xdvik-ja (22.84.8-j1.22-2) does not display rotated text correctly - a small grey "smudge" appears at the location of each character. The previous version 22.84.8-j1.22-1 works fine, and I cannot see anythi

Bug#366255: auctex: bug in font-lock for << within math mode

2006-05-06 Thread Robert Hart
Package: auctex Version: 11.82-1 Severity: minor If I use << within math mode (to mean much less than), then the remainder of the document appears grey. e.g. some text $1 << 100$ some more text I believe this occurs because << is considered to be a form of double quotes, and because there isn'

Bug#363995: xserver-xorg-video-ati: OpenGL view out of alignm ent with window

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Hart
This seems to be fixed now. I guess I hadn't restarted the xserver since the most recent update, so perhaps the bug was only in the experimental packages. Rob This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl - www.mailcontrol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#363995: xserver-xorg-video-ati: OpenGL view out of alignment with window

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Hart
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.5.7.3-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Since upgrading to 7.0 I've noticed a problem with the contents of any GL viewport shifting roughly half the viewport width to the left. This seems to occur when some other windo

Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails

2005-12-15 Thread Robert Hart
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 00:06 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +0000, Robert Hart wrote: > > Package: bibtex2html > > Version: 1.77-1 > > Severity: important > > This is certainly not of severity "important". Set to "wishlis

Bug#343433: bibtex2html: attemps to parse comment fields and fails

2005-12-15 Thread Robert Hart
Package: bibtex2html Version: 1.77-1 Severity: important Some bibtex editors such as Pybliographer put comment lines like this: @comment{This file has been generated by Pybliographer} into .bib files. AFAICT bibtex2html treats this as a regular entry, and is looking for a comma after "@commen

Bug#342235: libsvn0 should warn about bdb upgrade or conflict with old subversion

2005-12-06 Thread Robert Hart
Package: libsvn0 Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-2 Severity: important An apt-get upgrade allows libsvn0 to be upgraded but not subversion (which depends on new db4.3-utils). libsvn0 does not contain the News file or README.db4.3 that warns a user about the required db transition, and so svn breaks unexpectd

Bug#336783: Acknowledgement (xdvik-ja: segfault with hyperref)

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Hart
oh, I should have mentioned. This is only a problem with the breaklinks option of hyperref. It occurs in the tetex-bin version of xdvi too. Rob This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system

Bug#336743: try the breaklinks option

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Hart
If you use the breaklinks option of hyperref this should fix this problem, but *might* cause others, especially of links break across pages. Rob This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system

Bug#336807: xdvi: crashes with (breaklinks) hyperrefs

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Hart
Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-10.1 Severity: normal I have experience srgfaults with xdvi on a file containing hyperrefs. The page that causes the crash contains a (landscape) table, which happens to contain links (but I don't believe they are part of the problem. The following page starts with

Bug#336783: xdvik-ja: segfault with hyperref

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Hart
Package: xdvik-ja Version: 22.84.8-j1.22-1 Severity: normal I've had a problem with xdvi crashing on a particular file. The segfault occurs in the xstrdup call htex_prescan_carry_over apparently because m_prescan_info.pagelist[] is full of NULLs The page of the dvi file that causes the crash co

Bug#334886: rubber: crashes on too many errors (missing graphics)

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Hart
Package: rubber Version: 1.0-1 Severity: normal When I run rubber on my thesis document (which runs just fine through LaTeX) rubber crashes (See below). The reason for all the "graphics not found" messages (I think) is that I repeatedly redefine the graphicspath (via a macro) throughout my docume

Bug#325935: Unofficial packages

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Hart
might have a lot of work ahead. Rob -- Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Nottingham This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks.

Bug#316977: vino: Problem with "shift" key

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Hart
Package: vino Version: 2.10.0-2 Severity: important I've had problems with the shift key not affecting all keys - it works for most alphabet letters, but not numbers or punctuation keys. The problem has been a little bit sporadic. I looked through upstream CVS and there are a few fixes applied to

Bug#311842:

2005-06-03 Thread Robert Hart
://ftp.task.gda.pl/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz I think there's something fishy with the content-encoding header. There seems to be a null byte after the word zip. -- Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Nottingham This message has been checked for viruses but the

Bug#277335: fix

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Hart
This brings it inline with put_rule. Rob On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:55 +0900, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote: > >> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:48:14 +0100 > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hart) said as follows: > > >Who wrote the rotated hline stuff? It's not in upst

Bug#277335: fix

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Hart
, and in that case it works without error. I will try and look into it later. Who wrote the rotated hline stuff? It's not in upstream. Rob -- Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Nottingham This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may

Bug#302374: cupsys: no example URI for smb printers

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Hart
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-7 Severity: minor I have had a great deal of difficulty setting up SAMBA printers using the web interface to cups. The problem turned out to be that the URI needs to be in the form: smb://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/printer even when no password is required. i.e. I

Bug#277335: fix

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Hart
GONE) { /* fprintf(stderr, "longjmp1!\n"); */ longjmp(globals.ev.canit, 1); } } to be consistent with the way read_events is used elsewhere. This fixes the problem for me. Please can you apply this fix, the bug is very old. Rob -- Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Univ