Package: dict-jargon
Version: 4.4.4-7
Severity: wishlist
Hi. Sorry it's been orphaned; some of us out here do appreciate it
exists.
I would like it to keep up with the times, and it should be fairly
simple to automate the process. reportbug may be a bit too
heavyweight an interface for the typi
Incoming from Craig Small:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:51:00PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > I would really appreciate it if you would institute an
> > /etc/default/print which would specify "this system's" preferred
> > printing system, and serve as a &
Sorry.
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:16:17 -0700
> From: "s. keeling"
> To: Roger Leigh
> Subject: Re: Bug#616174: lprng: Why the war between CUPS and lpr*? I hate
> having to re-install lpr*.
> Message-I
Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.B-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi. I'm actually reporting for my sandbox machine which runs aptosid,
so sid downstream (formerly Sidux). It's up to date. I've recently
run into updates that have successively blown away about four manual
installs of lprng. "This'
Incoming from Rene Engelhard:
> tag 504221 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 02:16:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > I've just fired up my resume in OO for the first time in about a year.
> > Don't you find it annoying to see !...@#$ near every m
Incoming from Jamieson Becker:
>
> As you have guessed, this actually does not also appear to be a postfix
> bug at all. It appears that your upstream provider is having issues and
> you don't have enough information to resolve it, short of helpful tech
> support at your provider.
This (from my I
Package: postfix
Version: 2.5.5-1.1
Severity: normal
Hi. I fetchmail down and postfix up to my ISP's Smarthost. Often
this works fine. Too often, it doesn't. I suspected over-aggressive
greylisting, but that appears not to be the case. And now, I see it's
not. Within an hour's time, mails go
Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 07:15:21PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> ...
> > > One thing you may want to check is if the configuration is preventing
> > > higher freq/voltages when the cpu temperature is to
Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
>
> One thing you may want to check is if the configuration is preventing
> higher freq/voltages when the cpu temperature is too high.
/etc/cpufreqd.conf looks stock from where I sit.
"profile=Conservative Low" (CPU too hot!) looks pretty appealing from
here too. I
Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:02:10PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:07:36PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > > > Package: cpufreqd
> > > > Version: 2.3.3-4
> > &g
Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:02:10PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Mattia Dongili:
> > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:07:36PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > > > Package: cpufreqd
> > > > Version: 2.3.3-4
> > &g
Package: cpufreqd
Version: 2.3.3-4
Severity: important
Yo. This is an HP Pavilion dv4. I'm running fluxbox, CPU's barely
ticking over at 0-1%, yet this (it's presently at C 80):
---
HP Pavilion is primary (AMD 64).
Package: catdoc
Followup-For: Bug #600882
To be clear, sorry, I've also saved it to .doc format, and that's
what's sent to recruiter and parsed by mutt+catdoc.
(1) infidel /home/keeling_ grep -i doc mutt/mailcap
application/msword ; /usr/bin/catdoc %s |
/usr/bin/less ; needster
Package: catdoc
Version: 0.94.2-1
Severity: normal
Hey. I've been fiddling with my resume, in .odt format. I mail it off
to a recruiter/headhunter, then look at the copy I sent using mutt's "v"
(view attachments) feature. My resume has:
Stephen Keeling - Programmer/Analyst & System Administ
Incoming from Debian Bug Tracking System:
> Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian.
And thanks for the pointer to syslog-summary. Lookin' forward to
seeing the results.
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Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.69
Severity: wishlist
Hi. Thanks for your efforts.
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2009-11-17 11:32 cracking.d/
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2009-11-17 11:32 cracking.ignore.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root logcheck 188 2008-12-09 02:37
Package: manpages
Version: 3.05-1
Followup-For: Bug #485990
Sorry if this's noise, but reading through the discussion, I didn't see
this mentioned. I'm talking about apostrophe's getting mangled in utf-8
reading manpages in less or most.
Xman's formatting isn't mangled.
Thanks for all your effo
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.1.10
Severity: minor
Hi. I hope this helps. Do with it what you will. Thanks. I try to
comment, then list the offending entry.
I'm just trying to help. Hope it makes sense. I may may be a
Consistency freak too. Little of calendar's data files appear
consist
Package: gconf-editor
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: minor
>From "aptitude show gconf-editor":
This is not the recommended way of setting desktop
preferences, ...
"That's not very helpful," is the upshot of this report. :-)
... but it might be useful when the proper
configuration ut
Package: gkrellm
Version: 2.3.1-8
Followup-For: Bug #487275
Hi. This all worked in Etch, and still does on an Etch desktop
since upgraded to Lenny. Doesn't work on my bare install Lenny
laptop (no graphical login or "Desktop environment"; startx -->
fluxbox. Works great, mostly).
My Gkrellm "M
Package: dict-gcide
Version: 0.48-4.3
Severity: minor
Add a "d" to "churc ", is all.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.iso885915,
This is gftp-text session.
---
(0) phreaque /home/keeling_ gftp-text ftp://ftp.nucleus.com/~keeling
Could not change local directory to /home/keeling/dwn': No such file or
directory
gFTP 2.0.18, Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Brian Masney . If you
have any questions, comments, or suggest
Er, that was using the GUI gftp. Sorry, didn't know there was a cli
ver. I'll look into it. Sorry for the noise and I will report back.
FYI:
(0) phreaque /home/keeling_ grep write .gftp/gftprc
# Overwrite files by default or set to resume file transfers
overwrite_default=1
Incom
Package: gftp
Version: 2.0.18-16
Severity: normal
This may well be suckage on the part of my ISP. They do have smart
Debian guys on staff, but also do a lot of stuff with Windows (so all
bets are off :-).
gftp always pops up the dialog insisting I verify that transfers should
be done, even with
Sorry. I dropped the ball on this.
Incoming from Rene Engelhard:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > I've just fired up my resume in OO for the first time in about a year.
> > Don't you find it annoying to see !...@#$ near every mainstream
> > tech. item with pink wavy lines u
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Followup-For: Bug #493182
*** Please type your report below this line *** "pinfo hostid" does
nothing useful (displays the manpage). "man hostid" says to "info
hostid" instead of "info coreutils".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stabl
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch6
Severity: wishlist
Hi. I'm not much of an OO user. Interfacing with
headhunters/recruiters is pretty much all I use it for.
I've just fired up my resume in OO for the first time in about a year.
Don't you find it annoying to see [EMAIL
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I apologise if this is already fixed. It's tough to parse that RB
bug list.
I see:
-
- (hyphen) do not pad the field _ (underscore) pad with
spaces 0 (zero) pad with
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.1.6
Severity: minor
Hi. I once asked the maintainer how they wanted calendar typos
reported. I've since accumulated a list going back to '96. It's 3Kb
gzipped html, attached.
BTW, ignore my complaints about fictional calendar entries. You
helped me solve that
A separate OT list fragments d-u, pointlessly. If OT is your problem,
learn to use your mail tools instead.
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Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.13-1.1etch1
Severity: wishlist
Hi. I am surprised not to see this in the buglist (or maybe I missed
it, sorry).
When I'm saving a message, I type "s", I'm presented with a dialogue
that responds to tab completion. "=fa" returns "=family".
Why doesn't this work in the
Package: dict
Version: 1.10.2-3.1
Severity: minor
Hi. This is stock Debian etch. I've not fiddled with anything
involved before this (to my knowledge).
% dict orthogonal
...
>From English - German Dictionary 1.4 [english-german]:
orthogonal
orthogonal {
One minor error in my report: "aptin" is really only "aptitude
install", and not update as well.
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Package: doc-base
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: normal
"aptin" is alias aptitude update && aptitude install.
-
(0) phreaque [root] /usr/share/calendar_ aptin doc-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initia
Package: dict-moby-thesaurus
Version: 1.0-6
Severity: wishlist
Hi John. Look at this:
>From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thesaurus]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "entropy":
EDP, abeyance, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness,
anarchy, apathy, bit, blurriness,
Package: slrn
Version: 0.9.8.1pl1-28
Severity: wishlist
Just what the subject says. Why doesn't "F" strip the existing .sig
(as it usually does) then append mine as .slrnrc has been configured
to do it? "f" and "F" styles of behaviour clash.
I was forwarding from rec.humour.funny, fwiw.
-- Sys
Incoming from Sven Arvidsson:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 08:20 -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > lprng is installed, yet libgnomeprint refuses to use it and drags in
> > CUPS to replace it, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid.
> >
> > linuxprinting.org says I should be able
Hi dwn. #363532 was filed 19 Apr., 2006, and it's still extant. Now,
it's causing me some trouble too. My old ISP went belly-up a while
back. I've got a non-functional password here for wiki.debian.org,
and the "I've forgotten my password. Please mail it to me." button
sends it to my old (non-
Indeed, and this is a problem for me at the moment.
My old ISP went belly-up recently. I'm now at a new email address,
and what I have written down for a password doesn't work. Asking the
wiki to send me my password sends it to my old email address.
The page wiki.debian.org/StephenKeeling conta
Package: libgnomeprint2.2-0
Version: 2.12.1-7
Severity: normal
lprng is installed, yet libgnomeprint refuses to use it and drags in
CUPS to replace it, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid.
linuxprinting.org says I should be able to use any spooler with my
printer. apt* (or aptitude, at least
Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.28dfsg.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist
Hi. I realize this probably shouldn't be filed against lprng, but I
can't by myself determine which is the real culprit. Hopefully,
you can better determine where it ought to go. For reference,
perhaps Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-10sarge1
Severity: wishlist
File: cups
Hi. I hate CUPS. You have my sympathies. :-P
I've been trying to help a friend with his system. I point a web
browser at http://127.0.0.1:631, and it asks me for a password.
Neither my user acct. password, nor root's passw
no telling what that would
prove.
Incoming from Eric Dorland:
> Have you had a chance to try any later version of Firefox (or rather
> Iceweasel now)? Any improvement in leakiness?
>
> * s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Package: mozilla-firefox
> > Versi
Adding:
englishen_CA.ISO-8859-15
to /etc/locale.alias, then re-running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" makes
the problem disappear.
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Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4
Severity: normal
Hi. Wow, that bug list rivals Firefox's. :-P My sympathies ...
I've already been through this once before. That time, I changed the
locale settings, perl bitched, and the maintainer walked me through
the necessary locale-gen (or wh
Package: epiphany
Severity: normal
When attempting to download a procmail log file (ASCII text) from my
ISP's OpenWebMail 2.51, I get this:
-
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://global/content/nsHelperAppDlg.xul
Line
Incoming from Debian Bug Tracking System:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #330624: mysql-server: Why does install not configure passwords?,
> which was filed against the mysql-server-5.0 package.
>
> It has been closed by sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> Their
Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.4-2sarge11
Severity: normal
Hi. Sorry to add to your troubles. There sure are a lot of things on
your plate. :-( It seems upstream ought to consider a complete re-
write.
This morning, I sat down to a machine that (momentarily, about five
minutes) wouldn
Incoming from Christian Hammers:
> severity 367789 normal
> thanks
>
> On 2006-05-17 s. keeling wrote:
> >(0) heretic [root] /root_ /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '___'
> >/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
&g
Package: mysql-server
Version: 4.0.24-10sarge1
Severity: important
I've already reported this. I installed mysql-server with aptitude. I
read /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian:
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* PASSWORDS:
It is strongly recommended to set a pa
Package: openbox
Version: 3.2-7
Followup-For: Bug #353178
The OpenBox FAQ says this is a *feature*! Here I thought it was a
guaranteed way to unknowingly corrupt your text files.
Feel free to close this. 'Sounds like the solution is upstream if
anywhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release:
Incoming from Graham Wilson:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:18:40PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > If other entries also relate to other fictional dates, I'd like them
>
> If you can find a fair number of events in the calendar files that are
> fiction, I might co
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.0.17
Severity: wishlist
Hi. I just wanted to ask if you care to see reports of erroneous
calendar data. I run the thing daily from cron. If I spot typos (I'm
a Hell of a proof reader :-) or other errors, do you want me to report
them? How, reportbug? Or should
Package: openbox
Version: 3.2-7
Severity: normal
When I "roll up" the emacs window (via -3/Right Click menu on
window title bar), then type into another window, emacs continues to
receive the keystrokes, leading to corruption of the file being
edited.
ii emacs2121.4a-1 The GNU Emacs edi
Package: modconf
Version: 0.2.48
Severity: normal
I found that modconf was missing from my system, so I used aptitude to
get it. Once installed I found X wouldn't work (dri module), mouse
didn't exist (psaux), & etc. Running modconf, manually selecting them
fixed them, but that shouldn't have be
Package: whereami
Version: 0.3.27
Severity: minor
This is on a Dell i4k w adsl, no pppoe. I'm not using wireless (yet).
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(0) infidel root ~_ aptitude install whereami
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extend
Incoming from Chris Lawrence:
> On 10/21/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Package: foomatic-db-engine
> > Version: 3.0.2-20050720-1
> > Followup-For: Bug #261662
> >
> > I did a dist-upgrade the other day and ever since printing has been
>
Incoming from Adam Majer:
> s. keeling wrote:
>
> >Package: lpr
> >Version: 1:2005.05.01
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >I've just reported a likely related problem wrt foomatic-gui, however
> >lpr reports in my XConsole:
> >
> > -
Incoming from Adam Majer:
> s. keeling wrote:
>
> >Package: lpr
> >Version: 1:2005.05.01
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >I've just reported a likely related problem wrt foomatic-gui, however
> >lpr reports in my XConsole:
> >
> > -
Package: foomatic-db-engine
Version: 3.0.2-20050720-1
Followup-For: Bug #261662
I did a dist-upgrade the other day and ever since printing has been
broken. Running foomatic-configure to recover, I see:
foomatic-configure -n lp -N 'Lexmark Z52' -L infidel -c /dev/lp0 -p \
gi
Package: lpr
Version: 1:2005.05.01
Severity: normal
I've just reported a likely related problem wrt foomatic-gui, however
lpr reports in my XConsole:
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Oct 20 16:42:14 infidel lpd[23789]: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=13
prog=/usr/bin/foomati
Package: foomatic-gui
Severity: normal
(0) infidel /home/keeling/dox/cuug_ dpkg -l | grep foom
ii foomatic-db20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer
support - database
ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer
support - programs
ii
Package: mysql-server
Version: 4.0.24-10
Severity: important
I ran into this same problem when installing Sarge. Why isn't
configuring a root and user password part of the mysql-server install?
I went through all this with Sarge, figured it out and eventually
managed to make it work. Now I have
Package: exim4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I installed Etch/Testing which came with ... something. I installed
exim3 since I was more familiar with it. Then I tried ssmtp, then
replaced that with exim4. It's been an interesting week. :-P
Neither ssmtp nor exim4 did anything about the entries
Package: ssmtp
Version: 2.61-3
Severity: normal
I installed Etch/Testing, it came with exim3, I replaced that with
ssmtp and found I still have /etc/cron.d/exim running commands to run
"exim -q" and "/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb". Those should at least be
commented out. It's not a big problem, but it l
Package: gnupg
Version: 1.2.2-1woody1
Severity: normal
Tags: security
It's apparently easy to not notice that a key has expired. One I just
looked at was renewed in June and I'd not noticed until now that my
copy had expired. gpg should notice and go out and check for a new
copy. I did that man
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