Bug#1030938: os-prober: Does not detect OpenSuse Tumbleweed

2023-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: os-prober Version: 1.81 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: bea...@videotron.ca Debian Sid updated Grub today and when os-prober ran via update-grub it did not detect my OpenSuse Tumbleweed partition. The update had installed the new Grub so I could not boot into Tumbleweed. Now I have

Bug#989839: gmail problem

2021-06-15 Thread Frank McCormick
This will fix the problem tgemporarily. Discovered by some folks over at the Mozilla-Thunderbird forum. Type into the search bar: network.http.spdy.enabled.http2 Double-click the entry to toggle from true to false I have no idea whether this has any side effects, but it will allow a

Bug#966806: Newer libnss3 works

2020-08-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Installing the version of libnss3 from unstable works.

Bug#966806: thunderbird: New version of Thunderbird refuses to connect to gmail.

2020-08-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:68.11.0-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: bea...@videotron.ca New version of Tnunderbird refuses to connect to Gmail. This happened immediately after new version was installed by Apt. Also warns it can't connect to live.thunderbird.net because of a security

Bug#956661: PEBKAC

2020-04-15 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry for this misleading report. The problem lay elsewhere and had no direct relationship to initramfs-tools.

Bug#956661: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: update-initramfs hangs forever when trying to update

2020-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.136 Severity: grave File: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Not much to report. Update-initramfs hangs forever when trying to create a new file or update a current one. This happened after this afternoons

Bug#949875: olive-editor: Black square on screen at startup

2020-01-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 09:05:04 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: Package: olive-editor Version: 20200121-1 Severity: important New version puts a black square in the middle of the screen on startup. It cannot be closed minimized or removed. Sorry. This was caused by a video problem at my

Bug#949875: olive-editor: Black square on screen at startup

2020-01-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: olive-editor Version: 20200121-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, New version puts a black square in the middle of the screen on startup. It cannot be closed minimized or removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#947732: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: Update-grub puts kernels in wrong order on another partition.

2019-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: grub-common Version: 2.04-5 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig I have two distros on my machine Debian and Fedora. If the Debian-version of Grub is installed, then update-grub finds all kernels on both partitions, but in the case of Fedora, it lists the kernels in wrong

Bug#945780: I think we can close this

2019-11-28 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry sent from the wrong address. For some unknown reasons, it seems to be running fine now. Perhaps the reboot after the new X, or another pebkac. I would close it but I don't know how. Sorry for the noise.

Bug#945780: I think we can close this

2019-11-28 Thread Frank McCormick
For some unknown reasons, it seems to be running fine now. Perhaps the reboot after the new X, or another pebkac. I would close it but I don't know how. Sorry for the noise.

Bug#945780: gnome-font-viewer: Program crashes immediately with a Gdk-error

2019-11-28 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:29:10 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I rebooted because I trink I got a new X version a day or two ago. The font-viewer runs now..sometimes...at other times it locks up with just the initial screen of fonts displayed. It seem it will only run when run from the desktop

Bug#945780: gnome-font-viewer: Program crashes immediately with a Gdk-error

2019-11-28 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: gnome-font-viewer Version: 3.34.0-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, View crashes immediately. This is the result when run from the cli (gnome-font-viewer:40249): Gdk-ERROR **: 09:23:17.351: The program 'gnome-font- viewer' received an X Window System error. This probably

Bug#941675: Same thing here

2019-10-15 Thread Frank McCormick
One has to wait until it times out before desktop will appear.

Bug#923360: mate-desktop: Xorg under mate consuming cpu

2019-02-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-desktop Version: 1.20.4-2 Severity: normal After an 82 package update today xorg is consuming updare of 20-25% of cpu time. This happens ONLY under Mate, Cinnamon is not affected and when I log into my IceWm, xorg load is normal. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#923361: caja: Caja unable to start from command line , multiple errors

2019-02-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: caja Version: 1.20.3-1+b1 Severity: important There are several problems I am encoutering after an 82 item update on Debian Sid today. Caja is spamming the .xsession-errors file with this Initializing caja-image-converter extension Initializing caja-xattr-tags extension Initializing

Bug#923334: I suspect it's not an xorg problem

2019-02-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I went into IceWm after reporting this this morning and xorg is acting normally under that windown manager. I now suspect it's a Mate problem. Sorry for the noise.

Bug#919108: wbar crashes

2019-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian sid fully updated. Wbar is the latest Sid version. It only crashes when the task bar option is enabled. I get similar messages in journal log.

Bug#915645: xorg log

2018-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Xorg.0.log.old Description: application/trash

Bug#915645: linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64: Kernel 4.18-0-3 boots to a blank screen

2018-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.20-2 Severity: important This kernel leaves my screen completely blank as it boots. Can not see anything at any point. -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached ** Model information sys_vendor: LENOVO product_name: 5536E2F

Bug#912763: libasound2: Total loss of sound on Debian Sid with Intel sound

2018-11-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: libasound2 Version: 1.1.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After libasound2 and libasound2-data were updated on my Sid installation, I suffered a total loss of sound. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#910612: (no subject)

2018-10-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Apparently not on my machine. I usually put symlinks into /home/Picturestoday when I changed the symlinks to point to another dorectory, it started looking for the pics in the old directory for several starts in a row. I had to go into /home/frank/.cache and clean out the

Bug#910612: xscreensaver should clean out it's pic cache

2018-10-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.40-1 Severity: normal run xscreensaver glslideshow. change selection of pics in /home/Pictures xscreensaver tries to find old pics it's getting info from /home/.cache/xscreensaver Those files should be deleted after changing pic selection -- System

Bug#909041: xorg: Xorg log filling up with (EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front.

2018-09-17 Thread Frank McCormick
Source: xorg Severity: normal Just noticed this today when xorg.log grew to over 2 gb in size. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#906817: mate-screensaver: Screensaver has stopped working.

2018-08-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-screensaver Version: 1.20.1-1 Severity: important Using mate-screensaver with the glslideshow module. Pictures are in the Pictures directory in home. Screen blanks after a while but slideshow never shows. Tried other modules they don't work either. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#906587: linux-image-4.17.0-3-amd64: Long delay before desktop loads

2018-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.15-1 Severity: normal This kernel has the same problem as the last three on my machine. There is a long (upwards of 2 mins) before desktop loads from lightdm. I am told the problem has to do with a randomizer function as moving the mouse actively during the wait

Bug#906571: linux-image-4.17.0-3-amd64: Long delay before desktop loads

2018-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.15-1 Severity: normal This kernel has the same problem as the last three on my machine. There is a long (upwards of 2 mins) before desktop loads from lightdm. I am told the problem has to do with a randomizer function as moving the mouse actively during the

Bug#904970: apparmor: Setting up is broken after update

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: apparmor Version: 2.13-5 Severity: normal Setting up apparmor (2.13-5) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/freedesktop.org ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/kde ... Installing new version of config file

Bug#904956: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Long (2 minute) delay before kernel connects Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: src:linux Version: 4.17.8-1 Severity: important This is an extract from my systemd log after booting this kernel ul 29 12:04:42 franklin ntpd[652]: Soliciting pool server 158.69.125.231 Jul 29 12:04:42 franklin ntpd[652]: Soliciting pool server 67.215.197.149 Jul 29 12:04:43 franklin

Bug#895474: fontconfig: Fontconfig filling .xsession-errors file with errors

2018-04-11 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.13.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Latest version of fontconfig filling my .xsession-errors file with errors Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:rules" Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: unknown

Bug#894625: cinnamon: Menu applet cannot be configured

2018-04-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: cinnamon Version: 3.6.7-5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I am running Cinnamon version 3.6.7 on Debian Sid. The menu applet is not configurable as right-clicking on configure just closes the menu with nothing happening. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#876546: caja: Does not retain compact view between logins and logouts

2017-09-23 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: caja Version: 1.18.4-2 Severity: normal If the compact view is set as a default in caja, it does not retain between logins. On my system this results in the text under desktop icons reverting to messiness as opposed to the neatness compact view provides. As an example the control center

Bug#852503: gthumb: Slideshow option from command line does nothing

2017-01-24 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: gthumb Version: 3:3.3.1-2+b2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Running gthumb from the command line with -s for a slideshow does nothing except spew a variety op GTK errors. A slideshow is available when running full screen -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers

Bug#848007: Fixed it temporarily

2016-12-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Purged the initscripts package ( as I use systemd) and now manpages installs properly. Thanks to Michael Biebl

Bug#848007: manpages: Installation of latest manpages 4.09-1 fails

2016-12-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: manpages Version: 4.08-1 Severity: important Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: python-urllib3 python3-urllib3 The following packages will be upgraded: manpages 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2

Bug#843002: More on the pointer error

2016-11-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Forgot to include log extract. Attached. Nov 2 10:45:52 frank org.a11y.Bus[2805]: *** Error in `/usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher': free(): invalid pointer: 0x006b5070 *** Nov 2 10:45:52 frank org.a11y.Bus[2805]: === Backtrace: = Nov 2 10:45:52 frank

Bug#843002: at-spi-bus-launcher: Invalid pointer error in user.log

2016-11-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: at-spi2-core Version: 2.22.0-3 Severity: normal File: at-spi-bus-launcher Dear Maintainer, Found this error in user.log. I don't use any of the applications this supports so it had no side effects on me or my machine. Reporting it only because of the pointer error. -- System

Bug#837171: synaptic: Closes with weird error message

2016-10-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: synaptic Version: 0.83+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #837171 When Synaptic closes it deliver a weird error message: root@frank:/home/frank# synaptic cannot open /etc/aptapt.conf.d/99synaptic to write APT::Install-Recommends I think there should be a forward slash in between the two "apt".

Bug#836908: nemo: desktop not properly redrawn

2016-09-14 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: nemo Version: 3.0.6-2 Followup-For: Bug #836908 Weird things happening with Cinnamon deaktop icons. When you move one it's image remains behind. You can draw boxes on the desktop with the mouse which can't be removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers

Bug#836669: More

2016-09-10 Thread Frank McCormick
I filed basically this same bug at the GIT site for mate. This was their reply: This is with Caja 1.14 as shipped b Debian? That version is not compatable with GTK 3.21.5. Debian updated GNOME to version 3.21.91, which pulls in GTK 3.21.5 but did not update MATE, in which Caja and

Bug#836669: Mate developers blame Debian

2016-09-10 Thread Frank McCormick
I filed basiclally this same bug at the GIT site for mate. This was their reply: This is with Caja 1.14 as shipped b Debian? That version is not compatable with GTK 3.21.5. Debian updated GNOME to version 3.21.91, which pulls in GTK 3.21.5 but did not update MATE, in which Caja and

Bug#836669: caja: Crashes due to theme errors

2016-09-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: caja Version: 1.14.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #836669 Caja just stated doing this: click on home icon on desktop...all desktop icons disappear for a moment, then return but caja never opens directory. Syslog and kernel log show segfault. .xsessions-error file is full of gtk errors. Change

Bug#837171: synaptic: Closes with error message about not being able to update

2016-09-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: synaptic Version: 0.83+b1 Severity: normal When closing Synaptic, it spew out an error message like this: cannot open /etc/aptapt.conf.d/99synaptic to write APT::Install-Recommends Seems to me there is a missing forward slash ( /etc/aptapt.conf should be /etc/apt/apt.conf ) --

Bug#836782: Brian Bidulock has changed desktop files in GIT

2016-09-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Just to let you know that Brian Bidulock has changed the fields in the desktop files in /usr/share/xsession to "false" to allow lightdm to load and display Icewm. I only have lightdm installed so I don't know whether this mini-bug affects other display managers.

Bug#836782: icewm: Icewm install incorrect desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions

2016-09-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: icewm Version: 1.3.8+mod+20160825-1 Severity: normal The latest version of Icewm version 1.3.8+mod+20160825-1 apparently installs an incorrect desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions. The result is icewm is no longer offered as an option in the lightdm menu. I changed two fields in the

Bug#836137: mate-panel: On startup, mate-panel spews hundreds of errors into .xsession-errors.

2016-08-30 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-panel Version: 1.14.2-1 Severity: normal Like this: (mate-panel:26256): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture:

Bug#836006: mate-terminal: Mate-terminal on Mate desktop does not show transparency and ignores setting of window size

2016-08-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-terminal Version: 1.14.1-1 Severity: minor It appears this edeveloped over the last several weeks. Mate-terminal could be set to transparency and obeyed window sizes set in the profile. The version now on my machine cannot be made transparent and ignores window size settings.

Bug#832807: mate-accountsdialog: Mate-accountsdialog won't run on my updated AMD64 machine

2016-07-28 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-accountsdialog Version: 1.8.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on my 64 bit machine and discovered a few days ago that mate-accountssdialog crashes on startup. it complains about mixed GTK 2.0 and 3.0. It seems the developer at Github has

Bug#826171: (no subject)

2016-06-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Subject: mate-panel: todays updates break clock and weather Package: mate-panel Version: 1.12.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Todays updates on Debian Stretch of mate-panel-applets removed the clock and weather applets from mate-panel. Syslog reports some sort of conflict between gtk2

Bug#816848: pepperflashplugin-nonfree: Doesn't update pepperflash

2016-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree Version: 1.8.2 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The pepperflashplugin-nonfree doesn't update or install pepperflash. I suspect the reason is Google has dropped support for 32 bit Google-Chrome, so the

Bug#809296: config file example

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
I have attached a sample of what wbar-config does to my $HOME/.wbar file after I hit reload. .wbar Description: Binary data

Bug#809296: Thanks for the quick action!

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Appreciate it...even if I am one of the few running wbar :) -- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Heinlein--Time Enough For Love--

Bug#809296: wbar-config in same package garbles the config file.

2015-12-28 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: wbar Version: 2.3.4-4 Severity: normal Making changes to the wbar configuration using wbar-config garbles the second line of the $HOME/.wbar file which normally contains the parameters to wbar. Running wbar after that places the wbar image in a seemingly arbitrary manner on the screen.

Bug#804165: lightdm: Options reboot,suspend,hibernate are all greyed out

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: lightdm Version: 1.16.3-1 Severity: normal Updated Debian Sid a few days ago after not updating for a week. Now all the options on the Lightdm screen such as reboot, hibernate, suspend are greyed out. Have to reboot and halt from a terminal in the window manager -- System Information:

Bug#804165: Additional info

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Forgot to add this is happening under sysvinit not under systemd

Bug#747414: libmatedict6: Selecting previously unselected package libmatedict6.

2014-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: libmatedict6 Version: libmatedict6_1.8.0+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Installing updates with apt-get. Unpacking gir1.2-vte-2.90 (1:0.36.1-1) over (1:0.36.0-2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libmatedict6. Preparing to unpack

Bug#747414: libmatedict6: Selecting previously unselected package libmatedict6.

2014-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/05/14 09:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Frank! On 05/08/2014 02:20 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmatedict6_1.8.0+dfsg1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libmatedict.so.6.0.7', which is also

Bug#739444: Me too. 32 bit

2014-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
My .xsessions-error contains this: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 The mailing list says : For the reference, the message is in sysdeps/linux/open.c in the libgtop2 source code: , | if (sscanf(uts.release,

Bug#733636: libtxc-dxtn-s2tc: Package is uninstallable on i386

2013-12-30 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: libtxc-dxtn-s2tc Severity: normal Package will nbot install as alternatives path does not exist. Setting up libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386 (0~git20131104-1) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtxc_dxtn_s2tc.so.0 doesn't exist dpkg: error processing

Bug#733636: sorry wrong package name

2013-12-30 Thread Frank McCormick
This should have been filed under a different package name...missing 0 --

Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

2013-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: mate-polkit-common Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream Justification: aborts update Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Updating via apt-get * What was the outcome of this

Bug#720466: This version of Cinnamon is useless to me.

2013-11-23 Thread Frank McCormick
Locks up whenever anything is tried. ctrl-alt-backsp will kill the x-server so I can get out and into something that works :) -- Frank in Montreal

Bug#696672: gdm3: Greeter display appears twice...briefly the 1st time..then the real display pops up

2012-12-25 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-5 Severity: normal When the greeter appears the first time...it seems to be only part of the display...it's on the screen for less than a second..than after a brief delay, the real greeter display pops up. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers

Bug#696362: sylpheed: IMAP connections fail often to one site.

2012-12-19 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: sylpheed Version: 3.3.0-1 Severity: important If I leave Sylpheed idle then click on one particular IMAP connection, Sylpheed sends a NOOP. The connection is down as Sylpheed discovers 60 secs later when an IO timeout occurs. Then it setsup the connection again and proceeds. But this

Bug#679558: Found the cause of the segfault

2012-07-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Yiou can close this bug report. The segfault was caused by a bad theme. Strange thing is it looks fine. But once it was removed obconf stopped segfaulting. However it still spews errors from gdk-pixbuf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#679558: obconf: Crashes with segfault after numerous complaints from gdf-pixbuf

2012-06-29 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: obconf Version: 1:2.0.3+20110805+debian-1 Severity: normal This is what I get today running obconf: (obconf:17951): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non- zro page size is deprecated (obconf:17951): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_new: assertion `height 0'

Bug#673521: Similar problem

2012-05-28 Thread Frank McCormick
I am having a similar problem...except the second time I run aptitude full-upgrade it runs without an error. However I am not sure I am getting all the updates. This started about 3 weeks ago. -- Cheers Frank McCormick Montreal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#669198: aptitude: Aptitude dies with internal error

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.6-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I did an aptitude update..and aptitude fill-upgrade This is what I got: Need to get 0 B/59.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 354 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] E: Internal error:

Bug#669198: Please close

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
Please close this bug report - two packages had not been updated on my machine because of a previous error and that was cuasing aptitude to die. Sorry for the noise. -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#658565: I agree

2012-02-13 Thread Frank McCormick
There are already too many dependencies. It's getting to the point where you can't remove anything without killing Gnome. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#656893: xorg: Video corruption

2012-01-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.6+10 Severity: important Since the last xorg update, I see video corrruption on an irregular basis. In Google-chrome it affactes the toolbar rendering it unreadable, but a reload of the current page seems to clear it. In Thunderbird it sometimes smears the text on the

Bug#656893: xorg: Video corruption

2012-01-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/01/12 01:32 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi. Frank McCormickbea...@videotron.ca (22/01/2012): Package: xorg Version: 1:7.6+10 Severity: important Since the last xorg update […] Which packages got upgraded? Aptitude 0.6.4: log report Thu, Jan 19 2012 10:37:23 -0500 IMPORTANT: this

Bug#645365: gnome-shell: After a full upgrade gnome desktop fails to load wth many errors

2011-10-14 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.0.2-4 Severity: important Aptitude full-upgrade to Sid on my system resulted in Gnome desktop not loading. This is my .xsession-errors file. Xorg.log does not show any errors. /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...

Bug#643017: There are no config files in fte-docs

2011-09-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: fte-docs Version: 0.50.2b6-1 Severity: normal The readme explains how to config FTE but the config file archive is missing. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686

Bug#642542: brasero: Brasero refuses to burn large files 2 gigs

2011-09-23 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: brasero Version: 2.30.3-3 Severity: important Tags: lfs I tried to burn a single file 2.7 gig to a DVD. Brasero suggests I change the ISO9660 file system to the 1999 version. I do and Brasero crashes with an undetermined error. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT

Bug#637907: gnome-panel: Transparency slider can't be moved

2011-08-15 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.30.2-4 Severity: important The transparcny slider is locked at transparent and can't be moved, . It doesn't matter what background is selected, system or custom color -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990,

Bug#632734: Strange

2011-07-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/07/11 02:04 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 21/07/11 08:10 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please always cc the bug address when replying to bug-related mails. On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 09:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/07/11 12:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:29

Bug#632734: Strange

2011-07-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/07/11 08:10 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please always cc the bug address when replying to bug-related mails. On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 09:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 11/07/11 12:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:29 -0400, Frank wrote: On 05/07/11 04:23 PM, Ben

Bug#632734: linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae: Kernel boots but OOPs found in syslog

2011-07-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-3 Severity: normal Tags: sid I tried the pae kernel again this morning after having had problems with it 3 or 4 weeks ago. It still OOP'es but at least the first time it booted and computer operation **seems** normal. This time there are 2 OOPS in syslog, after

Bug#632734: additional info on second oops

2011-07-05 Thread Frank McCormick
syslog extact 5.851221] ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle Jul 5 08:57:58 sid kernel: [5.854922] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) Jul 5 08:57:58 sid kernel: [5.855056] IP: [ (null)] (null) Jul 5 08:57:58 sid kernel: [5.855137] *pdpt

Bug#631146: file-roller: File-roller shows wrong dates in deb files

2011-06-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: file-roller Version: 2.30.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: sid Opening deb files usually shows wrong month..one month ahead...today's updates should be dated June 20th...they showed up in file roller as July 20th. Looking at them with Midnight Commander shows the date as June 20th. --

Bug#630031: linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae: Kernel boots, but dmesg contains kernel bug trace

2011-06-10 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-2 Severity: important Tags: sid Kernel would not boot first thing this morning (June 10) but yesterday it seemed OK after aptitude upgrade. Now after another upgrade it boots, but there is a bug trace in logs -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux

Bug#627612: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: Kernel boots but syslog contains references to kernel null pointer

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid Kernel eventually boots...and **seems** to operate normally but I found this in syslog. May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.626206] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input2 May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [

Bug#606348: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X refuses to load this driver with an xorg.conf, without it loads Vesa on my LCD monitor

2010-12-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.13.0-4 Severity: important Tags: sid My system was fine with the previous driver - now without an xorg.conf, X instead loads Vesa instead of Intel. With xorg.conf it refuses to load anything saying no screens found. modeset 1 or modeset 0 makes no

Bug#578765: icewm: Icewm apparently doesn't close some open files as it loads.

2010-04-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: icewm Version: 1.3.6-3 Severity: normal The xsession.errors file contains a list of files Icewm doesn't close as it loads. This has been going on for years now. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386

Bug#578765: My xsession errors file

2010-04-22 Thread Frank McCormick
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... icewm-session: Warning: icewm-session: using /home/frank/.icewm for private configuration files File still open: fd=7, target='pipe:[4940]' (missing FD_CLOEXEC?) icewm-session: Warning: Closing file descriptor: 7 icewm-session: Warning: File still

Bug#577957: [CRASH] Uncaught exception AttributeError in Frontend/Gtk/ui.py:616

2010-04-15 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: update-manager-gnome Version: 0.200.3-1 Severity: grave File: /usr/share/pyshared/UpdateManager/Frontend/Gtk/ui.py Tags: squeeze Justification: renders package unusable *** /tmp/update-manager-bugkE55Z1 The information below has been automatically generated. Please do not remove this

Bug#577675: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X locks up tight at random

2010-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-3 Severity: important Tags: squeeze On-board video Intel 865 - X and the computer locks up at random - I have tried various window managers ( Gnome. Icewm and Fluxbox) but it happens with all three at random. Cannot switch VT's- Have ti do the

Bug#577675: Fixed!

2010-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I have since discovered my computer has been booting a 6 month old Kernel, and that is the reason for the lockups! -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#569213: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Black bars across screen when using various browsers such as Firefox and Chrome

2010-02-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:45:18 +0100 Brice Goglin brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-2 Severity: important The last intel driver produces random black bars across the screen when using Firefox or Chrome

Bug#544222: (no subject)

2010-01-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Solved my artifact problem by downgrading Icewm to 1.2.35. It runs all themes without a problem. I have now pinned Icewm to ensure it doesn't get upgraded at l;east until I switch to another WM. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#544222: Artifacts

2010-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On my machine running testing it's not only window titles which have the artifacts...they also appear in the taskbar, and on the menu. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#517687: installation report

2009-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Imageversion:http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily.new/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso 28-Feb-2009 10:08 151M Date: February 28 2009 Machine: CLone Intel 82865 board Processor:2.6 mhz dual

Bug#465599: Audacious suck up 100% of cpu but doesn''t play

2008-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
Audacious has suddenly ( maybe update related ) started taking up 100% of cpu time but doesn't play music or anything else. I have to kill it every time. When it first loads it sits idle..but when asked to play an mp3 it just starts sucking up cpu time. I am running version 1.5.1-3 on

Bug#491611: libgtk2.0: Latest causes Seg fault with Sylpheed

2008-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.12.11-2 Severity: important File: libgtk2.0 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA

Bug#491611: more

2008-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I can run Sylpheed as root but not as a user. strace output: open(/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/xterm, O_RDONLY) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=15776, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6d39000 read(8,

Bug#480307: fp-ide: Crashes on startup...still.

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: fp-ide Version: 2.2.0-dfsg1-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable : Internal SIGFPE Error caught -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP

Bug#480307: closed by Mazen NEIFER [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dupplicate (#480192): fp-ide: Crashes on startup...still.)

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480307 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with problems Hello I files the second bug because after I filed the first onethe fpc package including fp-ide was updated again...but still shows the bug. -- Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#480192: fp-ide

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
OK my bad. Moved the old FPC config files out of the way...and the crashing stopped. First time that's ever happened. Uusually new versions run fine on tghe old config files. Is there a note in the readme or somewhere ? Frank McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#470771: Not fixed.

2008-03-17 Thread Frank McCormick
failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done -- Frank McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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