Bug#706885: update-rc.d arguments should end with "."

2013-06-15 Thread dj_palindrome
Debian maintainers, Might you consider increasing the severity somewhat. I have a virtualized instance of sid on which the package will not update, leaving the system in a precarious state. The work-arounds are easy, but so is fixing the package.

Bug#679687: plymouth: initramfs hook fails to find renderers with multi-arch

2012-06-30 Thread dj_palindrome
This package seems to have similar initramfs-hooks problems on amd64, and the only solution I've found is to revert to plymouth 0.8.5.1-1. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than myself would consider whether this warrants escalation to grave. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activa

Bug#664991: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2012-03-22 Thread dj_palindrome
Marc, You nailed it. Thank you very much! Evidently the March 21 update of libpcre is what is completely breaking systems. Meelis, Your bug might be reassigned to libpcre, since desktop-file-utils is evidently an innocent victim of the above package maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#650995: causes dependency loop in boot sequence (according to insserv)

2011-12-04 Thread dj_palindrome
Whatever it is, it can hardly be described as an isolated incident, since at least two related bug reports have already been merged. Downgrading console-common from 0.7.86 to 0.7.85 allows me to get on with my work. root@aptosidbox:~# dpkg --configure --pending Setting up console-common (0.7

Bug#639811: broken dependencies seem to result in neither open-vm-toolbox nor open-vm-tools-dbg being uninstallable

2011-08-30 Thread dj_palindrome
Package: open-vm-toolbox Version: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 Severity: important open-vm-tools-dbg (=2.8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1) depends on equal-versioned open-vm-tools and open-vm-toolbox. I thought the GUI toolbox had been dropped by upstream, so I was kind of glad to have it back. Kano

Bug#608823: open-vm-source: newer upstream (snapshot) version

2011-08-27 Thread dj_palindrome
It's no longer a wish; it's a necessity. DKMS has been yanked, and other alternative build methods, such as module-assistant, fail to build kernel modules on any recent kernel, because the source tree is now more than a year old. All bug reports against the source package seem to be perpetual

Bug#637738: daptup: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Pre-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/daptup ];,then /usr/bin/daptup --pre; fi'Sub-process returned an error code (again)

2011-08-13 Thread dj_palindrome
Package: daptup Version: 0.12.1 Severity: Normal As usual, this only occurs when refreshing packages via Synaptic (0.70). Aptitude and apt-get, as usual, are unaffected: "Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Pre-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/daptup ]; then /usr/bin/daptup --pre; fi'Sub-process

Bug#630772: RE dkms: "Use of uninitialized value" perl warning when removing a, kernel with virtualbox modules

2011-08-05 Thread dj_palindrome
Dear Mr. Hertzog, I don't know the source of the issue either, but I'm pretty sure it isn't confined in scope to VirtualBox, since I get an even longer, more annoying, and more time-consuming cascade of such messages when dkms removes other modules (in this case, xtables-addons), also while pu