Bug#630791: Wrong sbuild-up* usage in sbuild-adduser - home directory - order by pertinence

Changing user UID:GID

I've changed the default user from a UID:GID of 1000:1000 to 500:500, but the GDM login screen no longer offers the username. Why not? I've just decided to try Ubuntu 11.04. My user UID:GID has always been set to 500:500, because that was the ...

Message posted on the July 9th, 2011 - 6:47 AM ET

Bug#632934: texlive-latex-extra: The achemso class (American Chemical Society) is outdated.

Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2009-10 Severity: wishlist Greetings, the achemso package (upstream http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/submission/general/achemso.tds.zip) is outdated. Present version in testing : [2009/09/01 v3.3a Submission ...

Message posted on the July 7th, 2011 - 3:50 AM ET

Bug#632464: diskless machine probably not added in GOsa

tags 632464 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks Hi, usually this happens when the home directory cannot be mounted. Did you add the diskless machine in GOa and run ldap2bind after that? Whenever I tested that (and added the machine correctly to ...

Message posted on the July 2nd, 2011 - 9:50 AM ET

Bug#630320: obus: FTBFS on several architectures: can't find Dynlink

Package: obus Version: 1.1.2-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Builds of obus are failing on armel, ia64, mips, and s390 with errors about being unable to find Dynlink; the armel build fails with File ...

Message posted on the June 12th, 2011 - 5:40 PM ET

Bug#621833: System user handling in packages: status of discussion

I've just reviewed the discussion so far, here's my best attempt at a summary of the current status: * To create an user, a maintainer script should call "adduser --system foo". It is not necessary to wrap this in a check for whether the ...

Message posted on the June 10th, 2011 - 5:40 AM ET

cpan upgrade : installation errors

Hello, I installed cpan in my home directory. Debian is Lenny. I start it via 'sudo cpan' and try 'upgrade' but got many identical errors : Hereafter I only show error for one module, but all modules got same error. cpan[3]> upgrade .. Running ...

Message posted on the June 7th, 2011 - 3:20 PM ET

Bug#629448: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ecv/: ifpdf Name clash when using ecv

Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2009-10 Severity: important File: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ecv/ /tmp$ pdflatex -recorder test.tex Error while compiling this small test file. test.tex ==documentclass[german]{ecv} begin{document} ...

Message posted on the June 6th, 2011 - 3:40 PM ET

A good post from year 2003

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:46:39 +0100, Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> wrote: >BUT Linux is easy to use. I self taught on Linux and got to grips with >a fair bit of it. Distros already have the font installer sorted >external to KDE. ...

Message posted on the June 4th, 2011 - 5:43 AM ET

Slackware and centralized authentication?

Hi, I've been using Slackware for a few years, between 2001 and 2006 or so, before switching to a personal mix of CentOS and Fedora, for reasons mostly due to work. After that, I've used various blends of distros. But Slackware has been my first ...

Message posted on the May 29th, 2011 - 10:03 AM ET

Bug#621833: What about userdel?

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) I am managing a package that does 'userdel' in a purge. It removes the home directory as that contains config files. I am a bit concerned about disabling the account further, because then I ...

Message posted on the May 29th, 2011 - 7:00 AM ET

I notice we now have postgresql support in Akonadi...

which is wonderful news. I have an existing Akonadi installation from 4.4 which shortly I will upgrade to 4.6. So the question is how do I move from the 4.4 MySql Akonadi to the 4.6 Postgresql support. There is a means of backing up MySql data in ...

Message posted on the May 28th, 2011 - 6:40 AM ET

Bash Completion Problem

A while back I posted about strange errors during bash completion. When I switched to Mageia it disappeared. I took it to be some inherited problem in my system. My home directory is full of gunk left over from previous installs or removed ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2011 - 7:47 PM ET

.pan2 Group folder size?

Checked using baobab where my disk space is being eaten up and I appear to have a group list totally 9.2 Gigs in the "groups" folder of the .pan folder in my home directory. Anyway of purging this and freeing up a considerable amount of ...

Message posted on the May 22nd, 2011 - 3:37 AM ET

Bug#627567: Auto-updates from non-Debian source

Package: vuze Version: 4.3.0.6-2 Severity: serious In the default configuration, Vuze appears to download updates for the packaged plugins from upstream into the user's home directory. Packages should not update themselves automatically but should ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2011 - 8:10 PM ET