Unanswered problem reports
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up'
by a message to debian-bugs-done@pixar.com.
OVER 9 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
379 mount Repeatable mount(1) problem wi Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
416 wenglish perl doesn't flush output auto jimr@simons-rock.edu (Robinson,
421 term unreasonable restriction on te Jim Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.
OVER 8 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
563 tar tar -x fails to overwrite or c Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
579 image (?) missing /usr/man/man8 manpages Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
660 gdb GDB gets address of structure Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
662 procps top doesn't behave sensibly if Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
OVER 7 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
691 textutils textutils package, fmt(1) prog Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
702 findutils locate crash with large db Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
710 xs3 X server problem with hardware (unknown -- `xs')
713 mh mh should pause after printing Jim Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.
723 xconfig X server default configuration (unknown -- `xconfig')
725 xbase twm places windows incorrectly Stephen Early <sde1000@hermes.c
729 procps Bizarre corrupted output from Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
731 ncurses ncurses wgetnstr doesn't work (unknown -- `ncurses')
737 gawk gawk references to `$0' in END Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
740 xbase xclock leaves `droppings' in i Stephen Early <sde1000@hermes.c
746 cpio mt doesn't support setblk (and Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
759 kbd, xbase /usr/bin/X11/showfont conflict Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
773 xbase xmh falls over if mh is not in Stephen Early <sde1000@hermes.c
775 xbase twm reports errors on incorrec Stephen Early <sde1000@hermes.c
783 tar tar --same-order doesn't work Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
784 manpages Infelicities in fopen manpage Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
785 cpio mt problems Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
786 syslogd syslogd gone awol Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.n
797 (base) /etc/termcap console keydefs f (unknown)
798 svgalib svgalib gets control key mucke Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.mic
808 emacs Info anchors not active in ema Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
817 tar tar -T /dev/null extracts whol Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
818 bash bash builtin `echo' doesn't ch Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
819 tar tar should have null-separated Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
820 tcsh tcsh builtin `echo' doesn't ch Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au
821 shellutils /bin/echo doesn't check write Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
822 tar tar -t doesn't check write err Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
824 cpio cpio should have non-verbose, Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
825 trn trn warning messages corrupt t Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.u
827 libc or sh who reports wrong hostname (wa Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
835 sysklogd syslogd dies, leaves system un (unknown -- `sysklogd')
836 (base) Possible bugs in termcap syste (unknown)
OVER 6 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
841 ncurses dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says (unknown -- `ncurses')
844 manpages readdir(3) should document str Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
845 manpages access(2) is ambiguous Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
850 indent [indent] option mentioned in d mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill
853 shellutils `nice' does not do anything Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
857 gs_both gs (2.6.1pl4-4) doesn't use /e (unknown -- `gs_both')
860 mount `only root can mount' can mean Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
864 make make gets MAKEFLAGS wrong Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
887 xarchieR6 xarchie barfs when ftp closes (unknown -- `xarchier')
889 info Info 3.1-6 Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.u
902 lpr lpr can't print a PostScript f Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho
903 (base) /dev miscellaney (unknown)
911 libc libc causes rsh to fail on com Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
918 miscutils mkboot and image packages Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
OVER 5 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
923 xbase xdm failed with `unknown sessi Stephen Early <sde1000@hermes.c
927 ncurses? dselect display bug (unknown -- `ncurses')
932 pine Pine over-encodes files and au Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.mic
933 pine Pine wants to post my email re Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.mic
934 pine Pine `Full Header Mode' when r Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.mic
944 sysvinit clock (-u) question Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
945 (base) clock (-u) question (unknown)
957 dpkg dpkg should automatically log Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.u
981 ircii irc package should ask for def Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wis
985 manpages struct dirent is not documente Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
988 bsdutils `script' is insecure, and gene Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
991 libc libc unknown server error Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
997 (base) Root Help Information Scrolls (unknown)
998 (base) Can't Configure DOS Partitions (unknown)
1000 (base) Reconfiguring and Duplicate En (unknown)
1002 (base) Shell Help Text: / vs. /root d (unknown)
1003 (base) Entry Not Added to fstab (unknown)
1004 miscutils 720/1200 Disk Format? Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
1009 bash bash problem with quoting/comp Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1016 procps top has 3's in vt100 Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1017 modules Kernel Module Errors on Upgrad Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1020 image kernel image hangs scsi contro Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
1022 (base) No message for 'easy' pasword (unknown)
1028 image image package doesn't remove i Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
1029 kbd compile failed (both a.out and Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1031 modules problem w/ gcc-2.7.0? Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1032 (base) Linux Counter Project Info Not (unknown)
1037 dpkg dselect user interface (was Re Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.u
1041 (base) Debian printing problem (unknown)
1045 libc tgetflag("hc") segfaults (fwd) Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
1048 kbd kbd reinstall breaks console s Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.or
OVER 4 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
1061 lpr /etc/printcap vs. /usr/man/man Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho
1064 (base) cfdisk problems with large dri (unknown)
1065 (From <@mongo.pixar.com:debian-devel-request@Pixar.com> Fri Nov 24 12:11:39 1995
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From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
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Subject: "/usr/local" refs in docs
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Yesterday, I said I'd counted 1300+ and info and man files which
referred to /usr/local. It later struck me that this number is
totally unreasonable. I think I reversed the sense of the test.
I've redone the test on what I currently have installed, and found
61 files, a more believable number. I've looked at some of these
files, and would consider some of them OK because it's clear that
they're speaking about /usr/local either in an example or as a
"normal default" which may be different on a specific system
(e.g., debian). Other of these files make flat statements such
as "look in file /usr/local/xyz" which are incorrect on a debian
system.
These are the files I identified:
/usr/info/bash.info /usr/man/man1/bison.1
/usr/info/cfengine.info-1 /usr/man/man1/cc.1
/usr/info/cfengine.info-2 /usr/man/man1/gawk.1
/usr/info/cfengine.info-3 /usr/man/man1/gcc.1
/usr/info/cfengine.info-4 /usr/man/man1/gitaction.1
/usr/info/cpp.info-1 /usr/man/man1/kermit.1
/usr/info/dvips.info-2 /usr/man/man1/login.1
/usr/info/find.info-1 /usr/man/man1/perl.1
/usr/info/find.info-2 /usr/man/man1/perldiag.1
/usr/info/gawk.info-6 /usr/man/man1/perlfunc.1
/usr/info/gawk.info-7 /usr/man/man1/perlop.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-10 /usr/man/man1/perlvar.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-11 /usr/man/man1/pgp-us.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-19 /usr/man/man1/pgp.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-4 /usr/man/man1/rdist.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-5 /usr/man/man1/saoimage.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-6 /usr/man/man1/tf.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-7 /usr/man/man1/xdvi.1
/usr/info/gcc.info-8 /usr/man/man3/newctime.3
/usr/info/git.info-2 /usr/man/man3/newtzset.3
/usr/info/kpathsea.info /usr/man/man5/adduser.conf.5
/usr/info/libc.info-17 /usr/man/man5/manpath.5
/usr/info/libc.info-22 /usr/man/man5/nfs.5
/usr/info/make.info-1 /usr/man/man7/hier.7
/usr/info/make.info-2 /usr/man/man7/man.7
/usr/info/make.info-7 /usr/man/man8/fping.8
/usr/info/make.info-8 /usr/man/man8/pathalias.8
/usr/info/texinfo-5 /usr/man/man8/pcnfsd.8
/usr/info/texinfo-8 /usr/man/man8/tcpd.8
/usr/man/man1/awk.1 /usr/man/man8/zic.8
/usr/man/man1/bash.1
mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
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