Bug#549691:

2014-01-01 Thread James Robertson
I have been using my own backported version of LVM2 from testing on all my Wheezy systems and the problem is gone for me. I created a guide here if you want to backport yourself until someone from Debian resolves the issue Wheezy. http://wiki.bitbinary.com/index.php/LVM2_Backport_Debian_Wheezy

Bug#549691:

2013-09-29 Thread James Robertson
I just wanted to add some more information to this report. My previous report was based on a VMware VM. I re-tested again on this server with and without VMware tools installed and got the same results. I recently installed a physical server with Debian Wheezy configured with a software RAID10

Bug#549691:

2013-08-20 Thread James Robertson
I am using a new up to date Wheezy system and was having very poor success with lvmremove - specifically with mylvmbackup. I needed this to be reliable and it was probably failing roughly 70-80% of the time. As a test I built the version in Sid (as of 21/08/2013) on my Wheezy machine and this

Bug#716740: bumblebee: primus or virtualgl not available in wheezy-backports

2013-07-11 Thread James Robertson
Package: bumblebee Version: 3.2.1-1~bpo70+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installed bumblebee from wheezy-backports * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? try and start an application using optirun * What

Bug#713843: steam: Steam install dependancy issues

2013-06-23 Thread James Robertson
Package: steam Version: 1.0.0.39-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Attempted to install steam:i386 on Debian Unstable amd64 bit system. The following error occurs about unmet dependencies. # apt-get install steam Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Bug#695645: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695645: xen-utils-common: xm block-attach does not create /dev/xvd* devices on dom0

2012-12-12 Thread James Robertson
Thanks, I have reviewed tap-ctl and it should provide what I need. Bug report can be closed. Thanks again.

Bug#695645: xen-utils-common: xm block-attach does not create /dev/xvd* devices on dom0

2012-12-10 Thread James Robertson
Package: xen-utils-common Version: 4.1.3-6 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I am trying to run the following command on a dom0 Debian server in order to mount a vmware vmdk. I don't want to use kpartx or losetup as they have poor write performance and I'm hoping blktap will provide better

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-26 Thread James Robertson
Can you try a newer kernel? 3.6 or 3.7? That may help with the modesettings. As for the acceleration, corruption, you might try a newer version of mesa. I cheated a little and tried the latest aptosid kernel linux-image-aptosid-amd64_3.6-12_amd64 - same screen corruption issues. I

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-10-24 Thread James Robertson
The only other option I was going to try was using a Display port to DVI adapter from the side of my laptop to replace the VGA from the docking station. If I purchase one to try that I'll let you know. I bought a an Active display port adapter for my laptop. That won't even work with

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-08-15 Thread James Robertson
Update... Setting option Option NoAccel true Has fixed the problem. I haven't noticed any problems having this enabled in the way I use my computer, videos, glxgears etc. all work ok. So I suppose this bug report can be closed if desired. The only other option I was going to try was using a

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-08-08 Thread James Robertson
On 2 August 2012 20:31, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: Thanks. That's not what we generally call 'tearing' but looks like some kind of intermittent display corruption. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas offhand what could cause that. I did some more testing and it seems as though

Bug#682099: xserver-xorg-video-ati: EXAPixmaps=On screen tearing at high resolution under certain configurations

2012-07-23 Thread James Robertson
On 22 July 2012 13:20, James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: On 21 July 2012 03:45, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: Can you elaborate on what exactly 'tearing and corruption' means? I have created a brief video to show the tearing. It occurs when basically any input occurs

Bug#682093: reportbug fails with SOAPpy.Errors.HTTPError using IPV6

2012-07-19 Thread James Robertson
change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com' as your from address. Getting status for reportbug... Checking for newer versions at madison... Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release). Querying Debian BTS for reports on reportbug (source)... Traceback

Bug#660734: firmware-linux-nonfree: Debian Desktop Installation unusable because radeon firmware is missing

2012-02-22 Thread James Robertson
After a fresh debian installation on my laptop, all the screen goes black and grey after a restart, because the radeon-firmware is missing. This also happens in recovery mode. I had to manually fix this by copiing the firmware files after starting from a debian CD ROM. I first tried to fix

Bug#656824: Reinstalling GRUB did not help

2012-01-25 Thread James Robertson
I upgraded to 3.2.1-2 and it booted fine. So whatever the issue was seems to have been fixed in the update. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#656824: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 Boot Failure

2012-01-21 Thread James Robertson
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.2.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After installing this kernel I was not able to boot to it and received the following error on the console. Loading Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 ... error: cannot read the Linux header. Loading intitial ramdisk ... error: you need to

Bug#656824: Reinstalling GRUB did not help

2012-01-21 Thread James Robertson
I re-installed grub-pc and grub2 using the following commands: apt-get install --reinstall grub2 apt-get install --reinstall grub-pc. This did not help. I then purged the following packages and answered yes to the debconf prompt about removing /boot/grub and reinstalled them: apt-get

Bug#641197: patch submitted

2012-01-04 Thread James Robertson
It appears as though a patch has been submitted for this. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXft/commit/?id=6f1d7bcdd461b1f6cc64370793f52d7c170187d0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#641197: libxft2: Include Ubuntu LCD filter patch

2011-09-11 Thread James Robertson
Package: libxft2 Version: 2.2.0-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, xft does not utilise the lcdfilter option. An example is when using Openbox and GTK2 based apps with the following configuration in ~/fonts.conf. match target=font edit mode=assign name=lcdfilter constlcddefault/const

Bug#597937: Is now working...

2011-04-12 Thread James Robertson
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ck-list-sessions Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'James Robertson' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = '' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '/dev

Bug#597937: Is now working...

2011-04-12 Thread James Robertson
OK I have figured out what is different and can reproduce this bug. When I first submitted this bug report I did not have the recommended package libpam-ck-connector installed however the problem did not exist in consolekit version 0.4.1-4 without this package installed. When I did this most

Bug#622360: pm-utils scripts not executed on power state change

2011-04-12 Thread James Robertson
Package: pm-utils Version: 1.4.1-7 Severity: normal I am using an Lenovo R500 and if I pull the power out to run on battery (and visa versa) the scripts under /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d and /etc/pm/power.d do not run and power saving options do not start or stop. I am not sure if it has something

Bug#622360: pm-utils scripts not executed on power state change

2011-04-12 Thread James Robertson
Do you use a program like gnome-power-manager, that does this for you? How do you know btw, that pm-powersave is not run? Michael Thanks. I was testing this from the console with no X running and from X without a power manager running mistakenly thinking that I did not need one. I also

Bug#612139: xdg-utils: xdg-open should check if $DE is already set

2011-02-06 Thread James Robertson
Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.0~rc1-1 Severity: minor I use Openbox on Debian Sid with mostly GTK/Gnome Apps and more specifically Nautilus is what I will refer to in this report. I do not use a login manager and start openbox from .xinitrc with exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch

Bug#612139: xdg-utils: xdg-open should check if $DE is already set

2011-02-06 Thread James Robertson
Have you tried installing libfile-mimeinfo-perl which is recommended by xdg-utils? Then the URL should open in Nautilus. -- Pelle Hi Pelle, I installed the package and this has fixed the problem. I will know in future to check on recommends before submitting a bug report. Thanks for

Bug#597937:

2010-09-28 Thread James Robertson
a Not Authorized error. Here is the requested output. I only tried restart to provide some output but can provide further examples if required. $ ck-list-sessions Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'James Robertson' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = '' x11-display

Bug#597937: consolekit: Power Management: Error org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.NotPrivileged: Not Authorized

2010-09-24 Thread James Robertson
Package: consolekit Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: important I am using the following options in Openbox via a menu to control various options such as Reboot and Poweroff. dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager

Bug#576673: closed by Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org (Re: Bug#576673: lvm2: unmount lvm snapshot takes a long time - high disk I/O)

2010-04-07 Thread James Robertson
I realise this bug is closed but I have discovered how to resolve this problem and i'm replying here for the benefit of anyone who is researching the same problem. I found that if I mounted the snapshot read only e.g. mount -o ro /dev/vg00/home-snapshot /mnt/home-snapshot I did not encounter the

Bug#576673: lvm2: unmount lvm snapshot takes a long time - high disk I/O

2010-04-06 Thread James Robertson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.62-1 Severity: normal I am using EXT4 on LVM and have noticed that when I unmount a snapshot created with lvm that it takes a few minutes to unmount and also causes alot of Disk activity. I am not sure if this bug should be submitted against lvm, ext4 or mount for

Bug#568877: small correction to command

2010-03-10 Thread James Robertson
I came across this bug report after experiencing the same problem and wanted to ensure anyone who finds this uses the correct command in case it's not obvious. It should be... echo RESUME=/dev/mapper/vg-lv /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#569720: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Mute toggle conflict

2010-02-13 Thread James Robertson
Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts Version: 1.1.9 Severity: normal When using FN+F10 on an Asus 1000HE to toggle mute it would double toggle and the mute state would end up the same as it started. I disovered that if I comment out the following line from /etc/acpi/actions/volume.sh it resolved the

Bug#547661: mutt-patched: sidebar-next key bound to Return

2009-09-21 Thread James Robertson
Package: mutt-patched Version: 1.5.20-4 Severity: important Using mutt-patched sidebar I find that if I try so set keybindings for sidebar-next it says it is using Return. my keybinding for sidebar-next still works however I like to use Return for opening mail items and therefore this is

Bug#525483: libclamav5: clamd segfault libclamav.so.5.0.4

2009-04-26 Thread James Robertson
Package: libclamav5 Version: 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2 Followup-For: Bug #525483 Not sure if unofficial-clamav-sigs.sh has anything to do with it? This is the only occurance of unofficial-clamav-sigs.sh being close to the time of the segfault. I generally experience this about once a day. Apr 27

Bug#505548: installation-reports: Blank Screen using Graphical Normal Installer

2008-11-13 Thread James Robertson
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system When booting the Lenny RC1 installer from the normal install or graphical installer the screen goes blank and the PC becomes unresponsive. Cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot and have to reset the PC. Tried

Bug#505548: Resolved using noapic

2008-11-13 Thread James Robertson
This is to let you know that booting with noapic fixes the issue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503427: audacious: dbus-x11 audtool dependancy

2008-10-25 Thread James Robertson
Package: audacious Version: 1.5.1-4 Severity: important When attempting to use audtool (which is part of audacious) to issue commands to audacious the following error is output e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ audtool --help In program audtool: * While attempting to connect to the D-Bus session