Bug#653324: site down

2011-12-26 Thread jamesb
Package: libraw1394-11 Version: 2.0.5-2 Severity: normal http://www.linux1394.org no longer in service technically it is, but it's got no content but just ad-links -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Ar

Bug#653323: dead site

2011-12-26 Thread jamesb
Package: libraw1394-8 Version: 1.3.0-4 Severity: normal http://www.linux1394.org no longer in service technically it is, but it's got no content but just ad-links of course this goes for libraw1394-11 as well -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy:

Bug#651254: logging out changes tty#

2011-12-06 Thread jamesb
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.10-3 Severity: normal I do not know which package to report this because this happens with both kdm and gdm, i'm guessing xdm is a core default so i'm reporting it here Apparently when i logout, the X listener changes tty#.. it hops from tty7->tty8, then alternates be

Bug#651253: gdm3 freeze-- policykit error logs

2011-12-06 Thread jamesb
Package: policykit-1-gnome Version: 0.96-3 Severity: important dmesg " [ 236.131842] polkit-gnome-au[5754]: segfault at 7fee0013ad8d ip 7fee078771 26 sp 7fff93745918 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[7fee077fd000+158000] " tail ~/.xsession-error

Bug#628446: legend fails to show

2011-05-28 Thread jamesb
Package: nautilus-actions Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Legends show only once from the command tab. -If the legends window is reopened a second time, no text shows on the window. (a window with just a grey background shows up) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1

Bug#607308: nautilus actions not working for multiple files

2010-12-16 Thread jamesb
Package: nautilus Version: 2.20.0-7 Severity: normal nautilus-actions-config was used to set gedit (arguments %M to pass selected multiple files) nautilus works with its new context menu item 'Editor' (for gedit) on a single select item.. however not for multiple items.. (selecting multiple tex

Bug#607154: make-kpkg --initrd does not work

2010-12-14 Thread jamesb
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: important make-kpkg --initrd apparently there's no hook script installed for making the initrd.img in /etc/kernel/conf.d/postinst.d or did the location for this script/conf changed? i downloaded the deb(initramfs-tools) and extracted it includ

Bug#607150: tar fails to copy symlinks from hfsplus

2010-12-14 Thread jamesb
Package: tar Version: 1.20-1+lenny1 Severity: normal I don't know if this problem is due to hfsplus so i posted about the following tar command with them.. apparently the procedure losetup -o 827510784 /dev/loop0 /dev/sr0 (apple 10.6.3 dvd)(am pointing to hfs+ volume) mount -t hfsplus /dev/lo

Bug#607149: filename/filesize showing "?", file not accessible

2010-12-14 Thread jamesb
Package: hfsplus Version: 1.0.4-12 Severity: important losetup -o 827510784 /dev/loop0 /dev/sr0 (apple 10.6.3 dvd)(am pointing to hfs+ volume) mount -t hfsplus /dev/loop0 /mnt/loopbmnt/ ls /mnt/loopbmnt/Instructions.localized/Installation\ Instructions.app/Contents/Resources/ko.lproj/ -sho

Bug#605334: wish feature quicklook parameter

2010-11-28 Thread jamesb
Package: eog Version: 2.22.3-2 Severity: wishlist Just thinking about this.. not just for eog but for many other filetypes.. If a filemanager and application are eccentric and a universal quicklook option implementable, let it be so limitted with little change of the underlying code.. The idea

Bug#605003: loss of data

2010-11-25 Thread jamesb
Package: kernel Severity: critical It appears that after doing some heavy compiling and filling up the entire filesystem, my xchat settings completely vanished when i decided to reuse it. (decided to clear out all the made up object files and have XX megs space free). I was stunned to see "zero"

Bug#507953: kbasic -- what's happening to this package?

2010-10-18 Thread jamesb
Is this package ever being worked on? What's very attractive to this radkit is that it's gpl and you can run your work on basically any platform of the top desktop platforms (lin/mac/and u know what:) I checked out dependencies and they all seem available on debian..However i'm having proble

Bug#600619: gambas2-doc html invalid

2010-10-18 Thread jamesb
Package: gambas2-doc Version: 2.7-1 Severity: normal There's alot of good documentation within /usr/share/gambas2/help but it isn't accessible from the main index page that opens up from the gambas program as there are broken html links.. (/usr/share/gambas2/help/tree/index.html) gb.gui notably

Bug#598640: gambas2 fails to pass first dialog screen

2010-09-30 Thread jamesb
Package: gambas2 Version: 2.7-1 Severity: critical The gambas2 app fails to pass the first dialog screen, even after the debian upgrade. (However on my amd64 debian lenny 5.xx it works absolutely 100% perfect.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (50

Bug#77828: epiphany-browser

2010-09-29 Thread jamesb
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.29 Followup-For: Bug #77828 I quite shocked to learn that this was filed 10 years ago and realized that at least two people have offered solutions to this problem. Apparently this is a very common problem I've had with debian for a longtime and am sure many other peo

Bug#598540: aptitude fails to display install status 'package already installed'

2010-09-29 Thread jamesb
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: important 'No packages will be installed,upgraded, or removed." There's about a dozen lines.. but not one line says that libncurses-dev has been installed or has already been installed.. apt-get install libncurses-dev successful mentions t

Bug#590754: apt-cache search

2010-07-28 Thread jamesb
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: wishlist Is it possible to have 'aptitude search' show a long list of matches like apt-cache search? I find it frustrating that i have to use apt-cache search, even in the light of eventually using aptitude install.. apt-cache search seem

Bug#590522: etc setup

2010-07-26 Thread jamesb
Package: mpop Severity: normal It would be really nice if there was an /etc and /etc/init.d example.. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CT

Bug#581594: error 17 source

2010-05-13 Thread jamesb
Package: grub Version: 0.97-47lenny2 Severity: critical I'm setting this critical because this is a very common error i see reported. I noticed I can generate this error (grub boots up and this error displays). I also noticed that attempting to repair grub like the following may explain somethin

Bug#579575: fat does not sync after cp

2010-04-28 Thread jamesb
Package: mount Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: serious i did a mount with a usb stick (kingston 1gig), mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 cp /path/foobar.zip . ls (while under /mnt/sda1) shows the newly copied /mnt/sda1/foobar.zip cd / umount /mnt/sda1 i remount the stick on another system and not

Bug#576391: error loading secondary file

2010-04-03 Thread jamesb
Package: cheesetracker Version: 0.9.15.3-4 Severity: normal Not always duplicable but happens time to time.(~/.cheestracker_QT may have to be empty) without any .cheesetracker_QT, open a sample file play it, while it's playing open a secondary sample file.. symptom: while opening the second

Bug#576363: gnome volume applet works, keyboard shortcuts do not

2010-04-03 Thread jamesb
Package: gnome-media Version: 2.22.0-3 Severity: normal There are two sound devices. One onboard and one offboard. The offboard one was installed after having used the onboard for a simpl e sound speaker capability, no microphone or other capture needed. The offboard one was installed for the sam

Bug#570911: single instance

2010-02-21 Thread jamesb
Package: smplayer Version: 0.6.1-1 Severity: wishlist can there be a routine set for smplayer to have it run as only a single window? , single instance option (eg: if user double clicks on a video file, it will play not in another smplayer window) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3

Bug#570333: RFA: mathml

2010-02-17 Thread jamesb
Package: wnpp Severity: normal i thought a metapackge for installing mathml (fonts for iceweasal/firefox) would be a convenience to have mathml fonts display. also I'd like to report that there are rendering issues with this page http://cnx.org/content/m18192/latest/?collection=col10624 I mail

Bug#565042: very *old bug, very benign

2010-01-12 Thread jamesb
Package: lynx Version: 2.8.7dev9-2.1 Severity: minor if i should bother to mention, i reported this bug to bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486070 about a year ago and noticed that this bug can be duplicated on debian.. chmod g+w lynx_bookmarks.html (you then won't be able to add/delete fil

Bug#557896: Package QA is getting

2009-11-24 Thread jamesb
Package: complaint Version: stability package:gambas2 Severity: normal I'm very dissapointed with the QA team letting packages like gambas2 and opencascade getting into the stable branch. Gambas is absolutely not functional and as well as opencascade. Sorry to say QA for debian is getting horrib

Bug#556380: replace cat, an alternatives in script?

2009-11-15 Thread jamesb
Package: supercat Version: 0.5.5-3 Severity: normal this app looks good, shouldn't there be an alternatives for cat? (/etc/alternatives/cat?) just a thought.. isn't it about time debian's default console apps be a little more colorful? just kidding ;) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0

Bug#555700: RFP: songbird -- Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

2009-11-11 Thread jamesb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://www.getsongbird.com license is gplv2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software) * Package name: songbird Version : 1.2.0-1146 Upstream Author : * URL : http://getsongbird.com * License : (GPLv2) Programming L

Bug#555675: example from dialog fails

2009-11-10 Thread jamesb
Package: gambas2 Version: 2.7-1 Severity: normal example Treeview mentions dirview fails. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (

Bug#552286: kicad: missing dependency zlib-bin

2009-10-24 Thread jamesb
Package: kicad Version: 0.0.20071129a-1 Severity: important trying to "save project files" , says minizip not found.. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: L

Bug#550445: opencascade-tools: pload ALL causes problem -- following doc

2009-10-09 Thread jamesb
Package: opencascade-tools Version: 6.2-7 Severity: important Draw[1]> Draw[2]> pload ALL An exception was caught 0xb7edc033 : Draw_Failure: Could not open: TKTopTest; reason: libTKTopTest.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ** Exception ** 0xb7edc033 : Draw_Failure:

Bug#545121: ircd-ircu: getcwd install script error

2009-09-05 Thread jamesb
Package: ircd-ircu Version: 2.10.12.10 Severity: important apt-get installing functions but displays "shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory" a few times... but server can run.. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#542800: klinkstatus: crashes while quitting & performing a sort list

2009-08-21 Thread jamesb
Package: klinkstatus Version: 4:3.5.9-3 Severity: important not very occasionally, but i sort of experimented with klinkstatus and found it crashes by performing the following.. i did 'http://www.yahoo.com' in the url. it completed to 100%. i then clicked on the 'status' column and while it was

Bug#541495: xchat: url handling bug

2009-08-14 Thread jamesb
Package: xchat Version: 2.8.6-2.1 Severity: important i consider url handling important as i use it alot. the url handling seems defective if your webbrowser has already started. part of the problem probably lies that - i have iceweasal to open new tabs in its settings, instead of new windows..

Bug#412879: rdesktop: issue with xinerama still

2009-08-11 Thread jamesb
Package: rdesktop Version: 1.6.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #412879 with or with using -f, if someone uses xinerama the application in full screen greys out one of the monitors. (this occurs with the ctl-alt-enter which was used for switching to full screen) what i do, is use -g (to set geometry of c

Bug#540995: extremetuxracer: no mouse cursor

2009-08-11 Thread jamesb
Package: extremetuxracer Version: 0.4-1 Severity: important no mouse cursor -the mouse clicks work i deleted rm -rf ~/.etracer.. and still couldn't get a mouse cursor. when this happened? -i got this behaviour after adding a secondary monitor (xinerama) other opengl games display their in

Bug#540743: totem-plugins: plugin crashes iceweasel browser

2009-08-09 Thread jamesb
Package: totem-plugins Version: 2.22.2-5 Severity: important to test, i check out an apple.com/trailers site to click on a video. when clicking on a trailer video(by the way the site works, after clicking a trailer link, the webpage darkens, and a little rectangle pops by javascript-- the totem

Bug#539711: zsnes: sdl initialization failure

2009-08-03 Thread jamesb
Package: zsnes Version: 1.510-2.2 Severity: important i got sound working only after running this sdl game demo, (and no other sound option works with zsnes but sdl) i did sequentially.(ran zsnes to load a game and see if sound came out, apt-get install a demo, ran the demo and heard sdl soun

Bug#523403: yelp: same issue on lenny stable

2009-07-26 Thread jamesb
Package: yelp Followup-For: Bug #523403 occurs on my system (opened yelp, i typed-search a manual- i clicked on it, i click 'Back', then 'Forward' then immediately exists on itself) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i

Bug#537662: xchat: selection order not in sequence

2009-07-19 Thread jamesb
Package: xchat Version: 2.8.6-2.1 Severity: minor after connecting to an irc server, a dialog box pops Nothing .. Join ... Open.. by default the focus is on the 'Nothing, I'll join a channel later'. The problem is noticeable when hitting the down arrow key, the focus jumps to 'Open' inste

Bug#537655: sorry just testing

2009-07-19 Thread jamesb
Package: test Version: 1 Severity: normal sorry just testing -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shel