Bug#436416: any workarounds?

2008-05-22 Thread Alex Roitman
Sorry for asking the silly question here. But what's a dvrgab user to do in this situation? Is there any workaround? Can I compile some modules to get DV camera working again? Any help is greatly appreciated, Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://gramps-project.org signature.asc Description:

Bug#447948: debhelper should be in Build-depends not in Build-depends-indep

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Roitman
James, Do you think you can fix this so that gramps 2.2.9 moves to testing? Thanks, Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#426547: extra space in the tooltip of the longitude GtkEntry

2007-10-19 Thread Alex Roitman
tags 426547 + fixed-upstream thanks On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:13 +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: JFYI: The extra space is still present in GRAMPS 2.2.9-1. This is now fixed in SVN and should appear correctly in 2.2.10. -- Alexander Roitman http://gramps-project.org signature.asc Description:

Bug#445864: gramps: crashes on start

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Roitman
FWIW, this seems like a gtkspell problem. This was reported under Ubuntu and was recently looked at: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkspell/+bug/120569 The workaround is here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9503542/gramps_2.2.8-1ubuntu1_2.2.8-1ubuntu2.debdiff This workaround will

Bug#402387: ttf-freefont: FreeMono uses Negreta and Cursiva instead of Bold and Italic/Oblique

2007-10-01 Thread Alex Roitman
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 22:49 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Considering that gnomeprint now is deprecated in favour of cairo and gtk, is this bug still a problem for you, or can it be closed? It is not a problem for me any longer. We are switching to gtkprint in gramps. Thanks, Alex --

Bug#432409: gramps: Handling of unknown gender.

2007-07-09 Thread Alex Roitman
severity 432409 minor tags 432409 + upstream thanks On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:38 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: - Importing a gedcom file with a line 1 SEX MF gets you a male person. This is not valid gedcom: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gcch2.htm#SEX_VALUE The fact that

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2007-01-31 Thread Alex Roitman
retitle 401110 New Family and Father/Mother labels seem confusing severity 401110 wishlist tags 401110 + upstream thanks You seem to indicate that things do work in the current version, and your concern is that the labels are not exact and that some buttons could be re-arranged and/or renamed.

Bug#400666: gtkam doesn't recognize my camera (ptp class device)

2006-12-17 Thread Alex Roitman
Same problem here, on two different computers running sid. Same applications were working with this camera before. Now, both gtkam and gphoto2 see the camera just fine if I work as root. I belong to the 'camera' group, so this is not a problem. Please let me know if I can be of assistance in

Bug#402387: ttf-freefont: FreeMono uses Negreta and Cursiva instead of Bold and Italic/Oblique

2006-12-09 Thread Alex Roitman
Package: ttf-freefont Version: 20060501cvs-10 Severity: normal For some reason, the latest version of ttf-freefont calls the FreeMono fonts the following names: 'FreeMono Negreta', 'FreeMono Cursiva', 'FreeMono Negreta cursiva' For example, in gramps we rely on ttf-freefonts being called:

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Roitman
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:40 -0500, A. Costa wrote: Suggested fix: either a selection button for marriage should be added, (but why have more than one selection button when a button can be made state-smart?), or help 3.6.2 should be made less vague. BTW if that interface cannot select for

Bug#401212: gramps: Children shouldn't be older than their parents.

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Roitman
severity 401212 wishlist tags 401212 + upstream thanks On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:26 -0500, A. Costa wrote: Attached is an impossible family I invented with 'gramps'. A minor point: if you would like to send/attach a testcase, please export into XML format. The file you attached is not

Bug#401101: 'man gramps' typos: geneology, invokation, succesfully, etc.

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Roitman
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:34 -0500, A. Costa wrote: Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gramps.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Thanks! Committed to the SVN and will appear in 2.2.4. Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Roitman
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:08 -0500, A. Costa wrote: Now a question: Does the person who will form the relationship with the Active person already exist in the database? If yes, click the Select button to the other person. You'll then be able to browse through the

Bug#378486: gtk.FileChooserDialog

2006-11-27 Thread Alex Roitman
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:12 -0500, Anthon Pang wrote: In DbLoader.py (DbLoader.open_file), the filename returned from choose.get_filename() is returned in the character set specified by sys.getfilesystemencoding() -- in Simon's case, iso8859-15. Could it be as simple as adding this after

Bug#378486: gramps: python backtrace of an iso8859 file opening

2006-11-04 Thread Alex Roitman
Simon, Is this still an issue with gramps 2.2? Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#392915: server-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-29 Thread Alex Roitman
When starting xserver, screen is blank (black) and the systems is frozen (SysRq not working). I have same problem ever since upgrading to 1:6.6.3-2. The 1:6.6.3-1 works fine for me. So does the 1:6.6.2-2 This is on IBM ThinkPad R32. When the system freezes, I can still ssh to it and run

Bug#378486: gramps: python backtrace of an iso8859 file opening

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Roitman
Simon, So you are running under UTF8 locale and everything is fine. But things break under @euro locale. I am not up to speed on what @euro exactly is. Most importantly, what is the on-disk encoding for the filenames that your filesystem uses? You say it's iso8859-15, but is this the same as

Bug#381910: python-gtk2: humbly asking to build test packages with python2.5

2006-08-07 Thread Alex Roitman
Package: python-gtk2 Version: 2.8.6-4 Severity: wishlist I know this is early and python2.5 is not released upstream yet, but the betas for python2.5 and python2.5-dev are already packaged in sid. I would like to humbly ask you to build python-gtk2 and python-gnome2 packages with python2.5.

Bug#373869: python-central: prevens postinst on python2.3 and python2.4

2006-06-15 Thread Alex Roitman
Subject: python-central: prevens postinst on python2.3 and python2.4 Package: python-central Version: 0.4.16 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** The set_default_runtime_from_version_info() function in

Bug#364950: A definition for the MIME-type application/X-gramps could not be found

2006-05-12 Thread Alex Roitman
I think this bug should be closed, because even in stable the python-gnome2 is 2.6. If kanotix ships that old a package, I don't see how this is a debian problem. In any distribution supported at the moment (stable, testing, or unstable) gramps should not have a problem with python-gnome2. Alex

Bug#364950: A definition for the MIME-type application/X-gramps could not be found

2006-04-26 Thread Alex Roitman
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:29 -0400, John L Hancock wrote: I upgraded python2.3-gnome2 to 2.6.1-1 (from Debian Sarge 3.1 DVD) and then gramps 2.0.10-1 started OK. Seems that the older python-gnome2 had broken gnomevfs module. Maybe we should depend on a higher python-gnome2 version than 2.0.3?

Bug#360321: gramps: Fails to start: rd_object called with exception set

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Roitman
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:08 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: This is curious. What version of python? I have exact same version of python2.3 as you do. I get: $ python2.3 Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar 6 2006, 10:12:24) [GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2 Type help,

Bug#360321: gramps: Fails to start: rd_object called with exception set

2006-04-04 Thread Alex Roitman
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:28 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: No. That did not help. The problem seems to be with Spell. If I comment out the line in Sources.py that imports Spell (just before the import of DdTargets), gramps at least starts up. In fact, if I comment out in Spell.py just:

Bug#360321: gramps: Fails to start: rd_object called with exception set

2006-04-03 Thread Alex Roitman
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:32 +1100, Graham Williams wrote: On starting up gramps: XXX rd_object called with exception set Is this exactly what is printed in the terminal? Do you start gramps with anything else, besides typing gramps on the command line? Traceback (most recent call last):

Bug#360321: gramps: Fails to start: rd_object called with exception set

2006-04-03 Thread Alex Roitman
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 20:30 -0700, Alex Roitman wrote: Can you try this: $ cd /usr/share/gramps from DdTargets import DdTargets My apologies: forgot to insert the line to start python: $ cd /usr/share/gramps $ python from DdTargets import DdTargets -- Alexander Roitman

Bug#352692: [Gramps-users] Debian upgrade woes

2006-02-19 Thread Alex Roitman
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:47 +1100, Michael Lightfoot wrote: $ python import gnome This is now working 'cos I upgraded python-gnome2 to the unstable 2.12 version. I am now getting the following: $ gramps Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/gramps/gramps.py, line

Bug#352692: [Gramps-users] Debian upgrade woes

2006-02-18 Thread Alex Roitman
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 13:32 +1100, Michael Lightfoot wrote: I am also having this problem. I have tried installing python-gnome2 2.12 but I am still getting a segfault. Could you please post your result of executing this: $ python import gnome If this produces the segfault then this is

Bug#352692: segfault when trying to run gramps

2006-02-13 Thread Alex Roitman
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 01:06 +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: eve:[~]% python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Aug 30 2005, 15:50:26) [GCC 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import gnome zsh: segmentation fault python This

Bug#322017: gnomebaker: Status bar in for extracting an audio CD doesn't show the percentage correctly

2006-01-04 Thread Alex Roitman
Version 0.5.0 have improved a lot the progress dialog and now correctly displays the progress of audio extraction. Not quite. With version 0.5.0-6 I still see the percentage go to zero when new track is started to be extracted. At the same time, the label under the progress bar says:

Bug#346046: gnomebaker: does not pause to insert the blank when copying audio CD

2006-01-04 Thread Alex Roitman
Subject: gnomebaker: does not pause to insert the blank when copying audio CD Package: gnomebaker Version: 0.5.0-6 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When I use Copy audio CD action, and I only have a single CD drive on the box, I would expect the program to pause

Bug#322017: reopen 322017 !

2006-01-04 Thread Alex Roitman
reopen 322017 ! thanks Reopening the bug as it still exists in sid. Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342262: Gramps fails to launch

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Roitman
Just curious, on that machine can you start python and import gtk, gnome, and similar modules? $ python import gtk import gnome import gtk.gdk import gnomeprint, gnomeprint.ui Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org signature.asc Description: This is a

Bug#342262: Gramps fails to launch

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Roitman
OK, then this seems to be a bug with python2.3-gnome2-extras since that package ships python bindings for gnomeprint. For gramps though, you should be able to get around it by deleting /usr/share/gramps/docgen/LPRDoc.py* files (py, pyc and pyo). You will not be able to directly print from within

Bug#338518: at-spi: libatk-bridge module cannot be found

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Roitman
Package: at-spi Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When the accessibility is enabled, any gnome application (using gedit as an example below) produces this message on startup: (gedit:12489): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libatk-bridge'

Bug#335968: gramps: Segmentation fault

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Roitman
Turns out that this is a problem with python bindings for the gtkspell. Not related to the kernel in any way :-) This will be forwarded to python-gnome2-extras. The workaround will be placed in gramps and the new deb should be in the archive tomorrow. In the meantime, running with defined locale

Bug#335968: gramps: Segmentation fault

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Roitman
Here's the minimal testcase to reproduce the problem: $ python import gtkspell import gtk text_view = gtk.TextView() spell = gtkspell.Spell(text_view) spell.set_language(None) Segmentation fault Seems that the gtkspell module needs to define an exception to raise when

Bug#335968: gramps: Segmentation fault

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Roitman
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 21:33 -0500, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1210210624 (LWP 10033)] 0xb7e49b2b in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 [snip] Since it segfaulted in the i686 libraries I'll include this one too:

Bug#335968: gramps: Segmentation fault

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Roitman
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 23:17 -0500, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: Have you built your own python? No, this is the Debian Python: ii python 2.3.5-3 An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version) Does the issue go away if you remove libc6-i686 package? Nope, I

Bug#327297: gramps 2.0.8-1 segfaults on startup on AMD64

2005-09-09 Thread Alex Roitman
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:19 -0700, Larry McCarthy wrote: (gdb) backtrace #0 0x2b0d69d0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0043c6ab in PyString_FromString () #2 0x004368fe in PyDict_GetItemString () #3 0x0044a749 in PyType_Ready () #4 0x2aaab22de3f0

Bug#327297: gramps 2.0.8-1 segfaults on startup on AMD64

2005-09-09 Thread Alex Roitman
Larry, On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:19 -0700, Larry McCarthy wrote: rio:/home/lmm# apt-get remove python2.3-gnome2-extras [snip] And gramps comes up fine. Thanks for confirming. Now, if you could come up with a simple testcase showing gtkspell problem it would be great. What if you install

Bug#327297: gramps 2.0.8-1 segfaults on startup on AMD64

2005-09-09 Thread Alex Roitman
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:31 -0700, Larry McCarthy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Aug 31 2005, 03:10:40) [GCC 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import gtkspell Segmentation fault

Bug#312016: gramps: no desktop icon installed

2005-06-04 Thread Alex Roitman
James, Why not use the same gramps.xpm that was shipped with 1.0.11? Seems that xpm is still a must for the Application menu. -- Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org pgpQB1eNOEdZm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#309930: /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Window manager icon is not set

2005-05-25 Thread Alex Roitman
On 05/25/2005 02:14:27 AM, Jérôme Marant wrote: I'm a it reluctant to adding such ugliness. Maybe could we find another way? The man page says that X resources can set bitmapIcon:on but I did not succeed in doing that. Don't know if that's any better :-) Maybe, ask upstream? Alex --

Bug#309930: /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Window manager icon is not set

2005-05-23 Thread Alex Roitman
On 05/23/2005 04:54:37 PM, Jérôme Marant wrote: OK, it works. But doesn't the icon look ugly for you? It doesn't look the same as the one shown in menus. I does look uglier, I must admit :-) Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of

Bug#309930: /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Window manager icon is not set

2005-05-22 Thread Alex Roitman
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:11:32AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: OK, but where do we need to set this up? And how? I just found that 'emacs -i' starts emacs with the shown icon. Maybe this should be the default mode in at least GNOME application menu? All other apps start with the window manager

Bug#309930: /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Window manager icon is not set

2005-05-21 Thread Alex Roitman
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:42:06PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: I can't see what icon you are talking about. Both the 'Applications' and 'Programs' (Debian) entries show the correct icon. Could you please give details? I'm using GNOME desktop environment, and both the window manager, the

Bug#309930: /usr/bin/emacs21-x: Window manager icon is not set

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Roitman
Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/emacs21-x The window manager icon is not displayed, at least when running with GNOME desktop. Instead a generic icon is shown. It seems that the emacs icon (e.g. the one used in the Applications menu) should be used. Thanks, Alex

Bug#288729: gramps: Don't refresh the tabs in the People view when adding people in Family view

2005-05-01 Thread Alex Roitman
tags 288729 + fixed-upstream thanks Seems like this bug is fixed in 1.0.11. James, I'm tagging it as fixed-upstream so far, but please feel free to close it if you agree. Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research

Bug#298579: balsa: default icon missing

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Roitman
Package: balsa Version: 2.3.0-1 Severity: minor Since upgrading to 2.3, all Balsa windows don't show balsa icon (upper left corner, task list, window menu, etc). Seems like the default icon of gnome application is not set. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance, Alex -- System

Bug#296155: Error on opening file: 'module' object has no attribute 'expat'

2005-02-20 Thread Alex Roitman
tag 296155 + fixed-upstream thanks Matt, On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:56:36AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/gramps/ReadXML.py, line 291, in loadData parser.parse(xml_file) File /usr/share/gramps/GrampsParser.py, line 194, in

Bug#288732: gramps: Use of a deprecated GTK function

2005-02-14 Thread Alex Roitman
The recently released 1.0.10 has only part of the fix. The whole thing is now fixed in CVS, and the 1.0.11 will have it correct. Alex -- Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research Building 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN

Bug#288642: libglade2 toolbar problems should be fixed in applications

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Roitman
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:29:27AM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: , | libglade-2.4.1 is building toolbars using the new GtkToolbar API. | Meld is then adding some buttons to the toolbar with the old API | (append_element). If you use the new toolbar APIs, things should | work fine. |

Bug#288642: more toolbar issues

2005-01-24 Thread Alex Roitman
Just wanted to let you know about similar issue filed in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163322 I have uploaded a bunch of very simple testcases demonstrating the problem without any praticular application. I see this problem with gramps, ever since libglade has been