Bug#899007: bauble: Depends on unmaintained python-gdata

2019-03-18 Thread Mario Frasca
Hi here again! On 18/03/2019 09:17, Mario Frasca wrote: > but let me check and I will come back to you shortly. trying to forget about the point ›0.9.7 is grossly outdated‹, I cloned your repository https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/bauble.git and set the goal "install this bau

Bug#899007: bauble: Depends on unmaintained python-gdata

2019-03-18 Thread Mario Frasca
ini.desktop (may be there is > even a migration path??) > > What do you think? > > Kind regards > >Andreas. > > > [1] https://www.debian.org/blends/ > [2] https://science-team.pages.debian.net/policy/ > [3] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/bauble >

Bug#899007: bauble: Depends on unmaintained python-gdata

2019-03-17 Thread Mario Frasca
to keep it up to date, but the initial steps are far beyond my limited ability to comply with strict rules. Debian Science team?  what is it? buona giornata, grazie, Mario On 17/03/2019 13:05, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > I gave the package to Mario Frasca, which then

Bug#903644: Acknowledgement (O: bauble -- biodiversity collection manager software application)

2018-07-12 Thread Mario Frasca
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898954 python-fibra is the extra dependency in bauble-1.0 since bauble-0.9.7 it is also the software I tried to package for Debian, and where I gave up.

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-07-12 Thread Mario Frasca
I've not been able to satisfy all packaging requirements, and gave up. so I wish to close this issue, there is no candidate package any more.

Bug#903644: O: bauble -- biodiversity collection manager software application

2018-07-12 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the bauble package. The package description is: Bauble is a software application to help you manage a collection of botanical specimens. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection

Bug#898954: thank for reviewing

2018-06-06 Thread Mario Frasca
hi Mattia, give me a couple of days on this, I'm afraid I need a fresh mind for so much information. thanks hugely for your time and input. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#898954: thank for reviewing

2018-06-06 Thread Mario Frasca
> * d/changelog: ok, reduced to a single paragraph; urgency=low. so each time I dput a new one, I simply increment the counter behind the 0.0.x? > * d/compat: I have no reason to use any specific version, I just kept what came in the template.  I moved this to 10. > * d/control: tons of

Bug#755185: consider update, or possibly replace with webapp

2018-05-17 Thread Mario Frasca
https://mentors.debian.net/package/bauble now according to the rules, I trust.

Bug#898966: RFS: bauble/1.0.56-1 (#755185)

2018-05-17 Thread Mario Frasca
about bauble can be obtained from https://bauble.io * Changes since the last upload: (last upload, 0.9.7, was produced almost 10 years ago) updated dependecies added dependencies Regards, Mario Frasca I see from the report at https://mentors.debian.net/package/bauble that your online

Bug#898954: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.18-1 [ITP]

2018-05-17 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'fibra'.   * Package name    : fibra    Version : 0.0.18-1    Upstream Author : Simon Wittber  * URL : http://github.com/mfrasca/fibra  * License : MIT    Section

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-17 Thread Mario Frasca
still has `debuild` warnings I want to solve, - bauble-1.0.56-1 depends on python-fibra. best regards, MF On Tue, 15 May 2018 20:55:52 + Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2018-05-15 14:20:15 -0500 (-0500), Mario Frasca wrote: > [...] > > it was developed betw

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Mario Frasca
> planning to update it to > support Python 3.x in preparation for 2.7 reaching end of life? btw, since my two adopted children `bauble` and `ghini` both depend on `fibra`, and python is reaching end of life for them too, I'm afraid I will port `fibra` to python3 anyway, that it is accepted into

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Mario Frasca
I don't see any inconvenience with this what you suggest. I can import the library (with, if necessary, its history) into a new github project. I already patched upstream so it can be loaded in python3.

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Mario Frasca
dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fibra/fibra_0.0.17-1.dsc More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.example.com. Changes since the last upload: this is my first upload. Regards, Mario Frasca

Bug#898773: RFS: python-fibra/0.0.17-1 [ITP 898736]

2018-05-15 Thread Mario Frasca
of renaming the stable version to 1.0.0. It offers collaborative concurrency, and has been helpful in bauble, avoiding us trouble with threading and real concurrency. friendly regards, Mario Frasca -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#898736: ITP: python-fibra -- Fibra provides advanced cooperative concurrency using Python generators.

2018-05-15 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mario Frasca <ma...@anche.no> * Package name: python-fibra Version : 0.0.17 Upstream Author : Simon Wittber <simonwitt...@gmail.com> * URL : https://pypi.org/project/fibra/ * License : MIT Programming

Bug#885138: bauble: Depends on unmaintained pygtk

2018-05-14 Thread Mario Frasca
yes, upstream is aware of this problem, I've two issues open, one relative to Python3 and one relative to Gtk3. moving to Gtk3 is a bit complicated by the extensive usage that the software makes of ComboBoxEntry, that disappeared in Gtk3. any help very welcome.

Bug#755185: consider update, or possibly replace with webapp

2018-05-14 Thread Mario Frasca
I updated my debian control file ran again the script for producing the debian package installed it successfully on a orange-py with ubuntu 14.04 1) (on 14.04 there is no python-pyqrcode package so I had to first install that manually) dpkg -i python-pyqrcode_1.2.1-1_all.deb 2) (python-fibra

Bug#755185: consider update, or possibly replace with webapp

2018-05-13 Thread Mario Frasca
good day here, as I've been saying, I have close to zero experience with making deb files, and absolutely none with Debian-quality ones. here is a first attempt: https://github.com/Ghini/ghini.desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.82 but is there anybody here?  since the original report almost 4 years ago,

Bug#755185: update from upstream

2018-05-11 Thread Mario Frasca
ges which aren't in Debian any more. I still stand with what I wrote before: »I am interested in including in [this software] a script I can run every time there is a new release, and in documenting the process in [the] documentation.« thank you, Mario Frasca 1] https://github.com/Ghini/ghini.

Bug#799535: Processed: retitle to RFP: bauble-installer -- bauble is a botanic collection manager

2017-01-02 Thread Mario Frasca
collection > manager > Removed annotation that Bug was owned by Mario Frasca <ma...@anche.no>. >> stop > Stopping processing here. > > Please contact me if you need assistance.

Bug#755185: new versions available

2015-09-20 Thread Mario Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 starting April 2015 I have had the chance to dedicate some time to Bauble, more specifically to its desktop version 'bauble.classic'. this is the only currently maintained version. I do not know how to package things in Debian, but I am interested

Bug#799535: ITP: bauble-installer -- bauble is a botanic collection manager

2015-09-19 Thread Mario Frasca
: bauble-installer Version: 1.0-1 Section: base Priority: optional Architecture: all Depends: gettext, git, python-all-dev, python-gtk2, python-virtualenv, libxslt1-dev Maintainer: Mario Frasca <ma...@anche.no> Description: Bauble installer installer script and dependencies for bauble-1.0 to i

Bug#755185: current maintainer

2015-01-31 Thread Mario Frasca
good day, I'm the current maintainer of bauble.classic, which I've forked it at [1]. it is a well working piece of software, and even if the original author does not work at it any more, I would not consider it discontinued. it is quite extensively documented at [2]. the version number is stuck

Bug#697643: workaround

2013-06-17 Thread Mario Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 the main problem with this bug is that you can't start 'ntpd' if the time is not set approximatively correct from the start. take for example a computer without memory of the outside time (for example because its battery is faulty), then you somehow

Bug#697643: openntpd: Does not make large adjustments.

2013-06-16 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: openntpd Followup-For: Bug #697643 Dear Maintainer, I'm running a new installation of the latest debian stable for powerpc. the computer had been switched off for quite some time, so it had not the faintest idea of the fact we do not live in 1970! I am used (on other systems) to

Bug#426414: kernel: time jumps and usb resets

2010-05-13 Thread Mario Frasca
I didn't reply to this yet, did I? I'm seeing the situation change after updates that do not change the kernel. for a short while the bug disappeared, then reappeared and I am not aware of a permanent packages update log to match my logs on reboots and time jumps. I always use aptitude to

Bug#529686: anybody?

2010-05-01 Thread Mario Frasca
we're almost one year later. I am running a modified version of this program which works fine.  I noticed that upstream (http://people.debian.org/~joss/packages/) does not exist any more.  would people at Debian prefer that I revive development of this program on Sourceforge or within Debian?

Bug#577852: proper gtk+ way to define keyboard?

2010-04-28 Thread Mario Frasca
hi here, I'm looking for the proper gtk+ way to define and set keyboard layouts. is it through usage of `setxkbmap`? this is what one uses on Maemo so I assume it is the way to go. well, also using setxkbmap dead_stroke does not work. in the us(mac) layout dead_stroke is associated to the 'S'

Bug#578468: after removing ruby

2010-04-20 Thread Mario Frasca
tried again and I found a workaround... this chashes: ma...@croese:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade this doesn't: ma...@croese:~$ sudo aptitude -vvvsD dist-upgrade adding the D made the difference ma...@croese:~$ sudo aptitude

Bug#578468: aptitude: segmentation fault doing dist-upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2010-0420 10:56:41, Sven Joachim wrote: forcemerge 578344 578468 thanks thanks yourself! I was a bit afraid that without aptitude correctly working I would not be able to update aptitude!!! On 2010-04-20 07:02 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity

Bug#578468: aptitude: segmentation fault doing dist-upgrade

2010-04-19 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: important I did a safe-upgrade yesterday and a few things stopped working, the one which seems to me most serious is aptitude crashing! noticing that it crashed solving sependencies for Ruby, I removed that and hope for the best...

Bug#577852: libgtk2.0-common: dead_stroke has no visible effect

2010-04-16 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2010-0416 09:57:59, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 09:04 +0200, Mario Frasca a écrit : I don't use many gtk applications, just gnome-terminal and sometimes nautilus. this affects both. Emacs and xterm (not gtk) are unaffected. I use dead_stroke in a keymap table

Bug#577852: libgtk2.0-common: dead_stroke has no visible effect

2010-04-15 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: libgtk2.0-common Version: 2.18.9-2 Severity: normal I don't use many gtk applications, just gnome-terminal and sometimes nautilus. this affects both. Emacs and xterm (not gtk) are unaffected. I use dead_stroke in a keymap table file that I pass to xmodmap and I don't manage to obtain

Bug#577392: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#577392: x11-xserver: dead_stroke has no visible effect)

2010-04-13 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2010-0411 19:33:09, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: It has been closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org. I'm sorry, but I don't manage to see the problem as closed. correct me if I'm wrong: I understand that as far as X11 is concerned, there is no bug. ok, so if it is not 'as

Bug#577392: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#577392: x11-xserver: dead_stroke has no visible effect)

2010-04-13 Thread Mario Frasca
isn't it possible to move this bug to gtk? instead of opening a new one? On 2010-0413 18:29:31, Julien Cristau wrote: If dead_stroke is working in Xlib apps, and not in gtk apps, then file a bug against gtk. Cheers, Julien -- La rovina del mondo sara' l'indifferenza. Ma chi se ne

Bug#577392: x11-xserver: dead_stroke has no visible effect

2010-04-11 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2010-0411 12:17:18, Julien Cristau wrote: your xev output shows that this is working correctly, as far as I can tell? that is the curious part about it! I don't see the difference between the two sequences of key hits, in terms of produced keypress event. but one sequence produces l, the

Bug#577392: x11-xserver: dead_stroke has no visible effect

2010-04-11 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.5+1 Severity: normal File: x11-xserver this is related to maemo bug https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2259 I use dead_stroke in a keymap table file and I don't manage to obtain any visible effect. hitting a key associated to dead_stroke followed by l

Bug#543474: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: libwxgtk2.6-0: appending text to TextCtrl crashes in unpredictable ways)

2010-01-27 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2010-0126 21:44:54, Ryan Niebur wrote: [...] you should use wx.CallAfter. it will cause the function to be ran in the main thread in a thread safe way. Here's a wiki page on it: http://wiki.wxpython.org/CallAfter [...] (sorry for taking so long to get back to you) On 2010-0126

Bug#543474: severity of 543474

2009-12-02 Thread Mario Frasca
Ben, I did not know the term 'ffs'... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FFS unfortunately, learning urban language does not help much when it comes to writing GUIs. and admittedly, writing GUIs is not my favourite software development activity. any useful links that might help me

Bug#543474: libwxgtk2.6-0: appending text to TextCtrl crashes in unpredictable ways

2009-12-01 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2009-1129 00:25:06, Ben Hutchings wrote: Does this function run in a different thread from the other GUI code? Most GUI frameworks do not support access to a single widget from multiple threads. in my test program I have two threads, one tread that does almost nothing: after it creates the

Bug#543474: sources for reproducing the bug

2009-12-01 Thread Mario Frasca
-*- #*** #* #*** #* Project: various #* #* $Id: asc.py 7726 2009-08-17 09:44:05Z Mario $ #* #* initial programmer : Mario Frasca #* initial date : 20090819 #** __revision__ = $Rev: 7726 $[6:-2] import wx

Bug#543474: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: libwxgtk2.6-0: appending text to TextCtrl crashes in unpredictable ways)

2009-12-01 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2009-1201 12:54:14, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [...] See http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-faq/stable/x481.html. Ben. hey Ben, thanks for looking into this. I think I would like to reopen this report reassigning it to the

Bug#543474: other error message

2009-09-01 Thread Mario Frasca
*** glibc detected *** python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x0a250bb8 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7f54604] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7f575d2] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x95)[0xb7f589c5] /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1[0xb6d43394]

Bug#543474: third possible crash

2009-09-01 Thread Mario Frasca
(python2.6:19998): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object-ref_count 0' failed (python2.6:19998): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed Segmentation fault -- Vaterland nennt sich der Staat immer dann, wenn er sich anschickt, auf

Bug#543474: one of the error messages

2009-09-01 Thread Mario Frasca
(python2.6:19915): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_layout_real_invalidate: assertion `layout-wrap_loop_count == 0' failed (python2.6:19915): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_layout_real_invalidate: assertion `layout-wrap_loop_count == 0' failed -- Help! The paranoids are out to get me! -- To

Bug#543871: libnetcdf-dev: installs older header files instead of version 4

2009-08-27 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: libnetcdf-dev Version: 1:3.6.2-3.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I'm trying to compile/install the python netcdf4 package, from http://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/. building it requires the -dev packages for hdf5 and netcdf4. I have installed libnetcdf4

Bug#543871: configure options

2009-08-27 Thread Mario Frasca
maybe can be solved by configuring the package like this: ./configure --enable-netcdf-4 --enable-shared (this is the way I configured the upstream library to make it be understood by netcdf4-python) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#543474: libwxgtk2.6-0: appending text to TextCtrl crashes in unpredictable ways

2009-08-25 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: libwxgtk2.6-0 Version: 2.6.3.2.2-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable using wxpython, I am writing a very simple GUI around a command-line program that produces logging. I have written a simple handler class, derived from logging.handler and owning a TextCtrl. this

Bug#498019: Acknowledgement (kernel: random system crashes and restarts (about once every week))

2009-07-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2009-0728 12:14:57, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions? last month I've been using 2.6.29 and 2.6.30, I had one crash (system froze under uncertain circumstances) but no resets. so I assume it's been resolved, thanks! ciao, Mario -- To

Bug#529695: O: abcde -- A Better CD Encoder

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2009-0630 19:52:38, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Colin Tuckley col...@debian.org [2009-06-30 18:28]: I will try emailing him and will also ask upstream if they have had any contact with him but it does look like he's MIA. Just for the record, djmooch is Jesus Climent. I found him on

Bug#531278: webcam: documentation does not cover configuration file

2009-05-31 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: webcam Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-8.1 Severity: important the manual page for webcam does not give much information on how to write a correct webcamrc file. there are pages on the web that state do not use the option input = composite1 as given in the man pages. I think it would be best to

Bug#529695: O: abcde -- A Better CD Encoder

2009-05-21 Thread Mario Frasca
Ciao Sandro, (don't worry, the text is in English!) On 2009-0521 08:14:05, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hello Mario, On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 00:10, Mario Frasca mfra...@zonnet.nl wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the abcde package. [...] I don't think

Bug#529686: O: gnome-swallow -- meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel

2009-05-20 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the gnome-swallow package. the 10th of January 2008 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: » I’m not using gnome-swallow anymore, so I can’t say I’m following it with much interest. If you want to take over its maintenance, please step on. «

Bug#529695: O: abcde -- A Better CD Encoder

2009-05-20 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the abcde package. probably one month ago I tried to contact Jesus Climent jesus.clim...@hispalinux.es, currently registered as maintainer, and did not manage. did he stop following the package or is only his address giving problems? The

Bug#529696: RFP: nonpareil -- nonpareil provides some 20+ classic HP calculators in graphical form

2009-05-20 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I really like this software and the developer made a very nice job to make it easy to compile and install. it depends (at least) on: scons libsdl1.2-dev flex bison I might be able to take up maintainance of this package. * Package name: nonpareil Version

Bug#527573: abcde: maintainer email is not correct

2009-05-08 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: abcde Version: 2.3.99.6-1 Severity: normal I tried to contact the maintainer of the package and the email bounced: Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details 550 5.1.1 jesus.clim...@hispalinux.es... User unknown I don't think the rest of the transcript adds more relevant

Bug#527191: abcde: script contains incorrect dead code

2009-05-05 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: abcde Version: 2.3.99.6-1 Severity: normal in the script there is an environment variable used like this: if [ $USEPIPES = y ]; then REDIR= else REDIR=2 fi ls /dev/null $REDIR the indirect redirection in REDIR does not work: if the test on USEPIPES fails,

Bug#498019: Acknowledgement (kernel: random system crashes and restarts (about once every week))

2008-09-08 Thread Mario Frasca
I am back to 2.6.25: according to my logs, those exceptions only appeared with 2.6.26... I can't be sure about it, but I don't think my system has ever been (so) unstable with previous kernels... (actually I didn't need reboot the system manually: I just set the older kernel as the default one

Bug#498019: kernel: random system crashes and restarts (about once every week)

2008-09-06 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: kernel Severity: normal from time to time I find that my system rebooted without me asking for it. sometimes it happens while I'm using it, most often it simply reboots. I have a look at the /var/log/messages and I find a few recurrent problems: Sep 6 10:49:04 croese kernel:

Bug#426414: upstream report

2008-07-02 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2008-0622 15:27:50, maximilian attems wrote: thanks for quick feedback, please report upstream in bugzilla.kernel.org and let us know the bug number. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11027 ciao, Mario -- tentar non nuoce (Lucifero) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#426414: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: kernel: time jumps and usb resets)

2008-06-22 Thread Mario Frasca
From: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:05:01 +0200 Subject: Re: kernel: time jumps and usb resets To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,VERSION autolearn=no version=3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Version:

Bug#483799: Acknowledgement (gnome-control-center: fails to start gnome settings deamon)

2008-06-14 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2008-0608 21:28:22, Josselin Mouette wrote: It would be nice if you could obtain a full gdb backtrace, by running it in gdb. See http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace sorry for the late reply, I was away from my server for a few days... I'm going to read the instructions in that page and

Bug#483799: Acknowledgement (gnome-control-center: fails to start gnome settings deamon)

2008-06-14 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2008-0614 10:31:46, Mario Frasca wrote: On 2008-0608 21:28:22, Josselin Mouette wrote: It would be nice if you could obtain a full gdb backtrace, by running it in gdb. See http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace sorry for the late reply, I was away from my server for a few days

Bug#483799: more info

2008-06-02 Thread Mario Frasca
after a recent upgrade I now first get an other error message in a slowly flashing message box. flashing box contains: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error

Bug#483799: Acknowledgement (gnome-control-center: fails to start gnome settings deamon)

2008-06-01 Thread Mario Frasca
I don't know, but this sounds a bit like bug #421208: also rhythmbox stopped working... in the hope it may help, I ran the same command gst-launch-0.10 --gst-debug-level=5 2 ~/err.log and the error log ends in a similar way: 0:00:02.079626000 8073 0x100171a8 LOGGST_REFCOUNTING

Bug#483799: gnome-control-center: fails to start gnome settings deamon

2008-05-31 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:2.20.3-3 Severity: important Ciao Marco, a few days ago I rebooted the system and I got the error screen: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes,

Bug#426238: again info from original reporter

2008-04-17 Thread Mario Frasca
I've been using my machine all this time and I had to accept these time jumps / unpredictable skews (these are generated all of a sudden, not gradually)... the machine is kept usable by removing the ntpd package and installing ntpdate, plus the following: $ grep ntp /etc/rc.local nohup sh -c

Bug#400197: confirmation

2008-02-15 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2008-0215 00:24:19, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Does this bug still appear? I'm not any more trying to use it, removed it a time ago... just made a short test and this is what I get after the latest reinstall. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2008-01-13 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-1222 12:10:37, Brice Goglin wrote: Maybe adding Option BusType PCI or Option AGPMode 1 to the Device section of xorg.conf could help? (xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.197 entered unstable yesterday) sorry for the late reaction, holidays and then putting order in house

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2007-11-11 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007- 12:31:43, Brice Goglin wrote: Any news about this? It would be good to test 6.7.195 from experimental since this is where all the work is being done upstream nowadays. tried... Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Bug#400265: wait time...

2007-11-05 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-1104 09:22:18, Mario Frasca wrote: I opened the source and maybe a better idea is in the enclosed patch, which I could not test because of some broken dependencies on my system... I repaired the dependencies and tested the patch. it did not work: I was calling the function 'swallow

Bug#400265: wait time...

2007-11-04 Thread Mario Frasca
wouldn't it be a good idea to add a switch for the time to wait, instead of hard coding those 10 seconds? I opened the source and maybe a better idea is in the enclosed patch, which I could not test because of some broken dependencies on my system... read the paragraph Timeout Functions in the

Bug#448697: aptitude: display not correctly updated

2007-11-01 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-1031 19:59:19, Daniel Burrows wrote: Do you have a multi-core machine? multi core machine? I don't think so, I have a old iMac ... processor : 0 cpu : 750CXe temperature : 14-16 C (uncalibrated) clock : 500.00MHz revision: 34.21 (pvr 0008

Bug#448697: aptitude: display not correctly updated

2007-10-31 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1.1+b1 Severity: normal the display gets messed up after any operation using it. for example, this is what I get after the sequence of actions: update (u), opening the Actions menu, pressing ESC to close the menu: Actions Undo Package Resolver Search

Bug#447019: confirm on different hardware

2007-10-28 Thread Mario Frasca
just a confirm: different hardware, similar configuration... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wmxmms Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 142 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec

2007-10-26 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-1026 10:32:55, Reimar Döffinger wrote: AltiVec runtime detection never worked reliably (compiler dependant) and the way it was detected in libavcodec was an unacceptable hack. Since the PowerPC architecture does not offer a sane way to distinguish between with and without Altivec we

Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec

2007-10-25 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: mplayer Version: 1.0~rc2-4 Severity: important I've downgraded the package to 1.0~rc1-12etch1 and it works, I don't understand all the problems it meets, but the main point is that it works and that's good enough: MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team AltiVec not

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2007-09-18 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0918 08:23:30, Brice Goglin wrote: There's a new xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 and xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.193-3 in unstable, could you give a try? (once they will be built for powerpc, which shouldn't be too long hopefully) I'm on unstable and do regularly (dist-)upgrades... I'll

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2007-08-24 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0811 18:43:44, Brice Goglin wrote: Could you send the output of 'lspci -vvvnn' ? this is the output. sorry for the delay. :00:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP [106b:0027] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-

Bug#426414: extra info

2007-07-23 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0609 19:11:54, Mario Frasca wrote: I'm going to test one kernel at a time and see which is the last I can use without time jumps... 2.6.8 is the latest kernel I tested that does not have time jumps. 2.6.14 is the earliest kernel I tested with time jumps... more hints? thanks, Mario

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2007-06-26 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0625 21:52:26, Brice Goglin wrote: You can grab the package at ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.192-1_powerpc.deb and install it with dpkg -i filename.deb nope. it hangs all the same. I've reinstalled the system from

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start with DRI and nearly hangs machine

2007-06-25 Thread Mario Frasca
Hi Brice, On 2007-0624 01:46:56, Brice Goglin wrote: Does this hang of the machine when using DRI on your ATI board still occurs? If so, could you try xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.192-1 currently in experimental? I'm a bit busy with other thoughts (just to stick to computer problems, time

Bug#426414: extra info

2007-06-09 Thread Mario Frasca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-0605 18:34:26, maximilian attems wrote: Try booting with one of.. nohz=off maxcpus=1 hpet=disable clocksource=acpi_pm I will try, but first I would like to know what these options are... why do you think that any of them could help? I'll try to find

Bug#426414: extra info

2007-06-09 Thread Mario Frasca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it run 6 hours without jumps, I am now running 2.6.21 maxcpus=1 and it's behaving all right for the time being (50 minutes). nope, after 1 more hour, a jump by 150 seconds... I'm going to test one kernel at a time and see which is the last I can use without time

Bug#426414: extra info

2007-06-05 Thread Mario Frasca
I have done a few more tests, to reject some hypothesis... first idea was a bug in ntp, but I disabled it totally and I now run ntpdate in a cronjob. I have the same time jumps. I noticed the usb resets in coincidence with the time jumps and I removed all usb devices (except keyboard and

Bug#426238: not any more the reported error, but not syncing anyway

2007-05-28 Thread Mario Frasca
good morning Kurt, the 'kernel time sync error 0001' messages only appear *before* the reboot with kernel 2.6.21 (May 27 18:04:20)... previously I was running 2.6.18... but the time resets needed are still out of control. I assume that ntpd killed itself after the failing sanity check at (May

Bug#426238: not any more the reported error, but not syncing anyway

2007-05-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0528 13:06:40, Kurt Roeckx wrote: What is also strange is that you get alot no servers reachable, about once an hour, and then a little later it works again. I noticed that too, but I'm not sure I understand your question... you mean, if I notice anything like random interruption of

Bug#426414: kernel: time jumps and usb resets

2007-05-28 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-powerpc Version: 2.6.21-4 Severity: important File: kernel I don't know if this is a hardware problem or a kernel bug. the same hardware had served correctly for years, so I sincerely hope it's a kernel bug... I'm not sure when the problem started to display... a

Bug#410068: random xorg crashes

2007-05-28 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0528 21:13:25, Brice Goglin wrote: A couple months ago, you reported (or replied to) a bug in the Debian BTS regarding some random crash of the X server. Did any of you guys reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest xserver-xorg-core in unstable? I was away from my

Bug#426238: ntp: kernel time sync error 0001

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p0+dfsg-1 Severity: important since quite some time, ntp does not syncronize the internal clock. as far as I can see from the logs, it computes the time reset but then does not manage to completely sync the time. this is an example of such a log: May 27 13:29:16

Bug#426238: Acknowledgement (ntp: kernel time sync error 0001)

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
I read that ntp can have problems when the IP of the machine changes. this box is on a local network, with DHCP managed by a belkin switch. from time to time the switch needs a reset, after which it's not guaranteed that the machines get the same addresses. my global address (the outside address

Bug#426238: ntp: kernel time sync error 0001

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0527 15:25:43, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Maybe you should try something as: ntpdc -c kerninfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpdc -c kerninfo pll offset: 0.078977 s pll frequency:-52.733 ppm maximum error:0.148335 s estimated error: 0.016706 s status: 0001

Bug#426238: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#426238: ntp: kernel time sync error 0001

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0527 15:16:56, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Did you always have this problem, or did this happen since a kernel upgrade? Most of the times I see people complain with such an error, it's a kernel problem. I really can't remember... I was away during more than a month, and could not access my

Bug#426238: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#426238: ntp: kernel time sync error 0001

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0527 16:26:57, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 2.6.21 is in sid. Can you test that? just installed it and rebooted the system. $ uname -or 2.6.21-1-powerpc GNU/Linux but the default 2.6 kernel is still 2.6.18, isn't it? btw: if I remove the packages 2.x.yy, I still have the modules and the kernels

Bug#316044: maybe it's wmWeather triggering it...

2007-05-27 Thread Mario Frasca
I've tried it with my pywmdatetime.py and it doesn't happen meaning this: common ground) I have one instance of pywmdatetime.py and several distinct wmWeather docked apps, all not started, along with various started other docked applications. scenario 1) On logging in, without moving

Bug#422261: iceweasel: smooth scrolling when message bar appears or is clicked away

2007-05-04 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-1 Severity: normal when the message bar is displayed or clicked away, for example because of a missing plugin or a site wanting to open a popup window, the rest of the window is scrolled smoothly, even if the option 'preferences', 'advanced', 'general', 'use

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start and nearly hangs machine

2007-02-25 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0225 10:48:42, Brice Goglin wrote: Mario Frasca wrote: You have a r128 board. So radeon cannot help. I should have said r128 instead. I will give it a try... Section Module [...] Loaddri [...] EndSection Could you try without dri ? YES that was it. Driver

Bug#412228: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fails to start and nearly hangs machine

2007-02-24 Thread Mario Frasca
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.6.3-2 Severity: important I have no idea what to describe... I'm used to start the machine with a graphical prompt (gdm). if I use the ati Driver, the x server does not start, the machine becomes unresponsive and all I can do is go to an other

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