colord[xxxxx]: failed to get session [pid yyyyy]: No data available

2018-02-16 Thread Thomas Vaughan
I've noticed this message about once per day just after midnight. Googling about it did not seem (to me) to produce anything definitive, but perhaps I did not try hard enough. Does anybody here know 1. why this is being printed to the system log 2. whether I should just tell logcheck to ignore

odd message from upowerd and simultaneous death of xfce4-notifyd

2018-01-31 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Logcheck, running on a machine with up-to-date debian unstable, sent me the following in an email yesterday. (Times and machine name removed from beginning of each line.) upowerd[7393]: energy 99.90 bigger than full 91.652700 kernel: [345764.796963] xfce4-notifyd[2202]: segfault at 9 ip

maxima, draw3d, and vtk

2016-08-20 Thread Thomas Vaughan
The 'draw3d' function defined in the 'draw' package for maxima is failing. Before I file a bug report, I'd like to find out what package has the bug. (Or find out if the bug be user error. :-) I am running Debian unstable with maxima, vtk6, and tcl-vtk6 installed, according to documentation here:

Two Graphics Cards and Hardware-Accelerated OpenGL

2014-06-02 Thread Thomas Vaughan
At the moment, I have to reboot to MS Windows in order to take full advantage of all three of the monitors on my desk, but I'd usually rather not boot to MS Windows. I'd like to make it so that my monitor setup works as well under Debian. The dock for my Dell laptop has two DVI ports and a VGA

Re: [Fwd: Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version]

2014-02-24 Thread Thomas Vaughan
What I'm wondering is whether I can get uname to return the desired format by somehow compiling a custom kernel. Yes you can, by getting the source code from kernel.org. If you simply copy the config from the Debians kernel, then IIRC # make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers won't

Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
I have downloaded some proprietary software that I want to install onto a 64-bit Debian machine. The software is written for 64-bit linux, but the kernel version reported, for example, by uname (and perhaps by some system call that the compiled software uses) is not in a format that the software

Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse the string 3.12-1-amd64 they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string 3.12.9-1 then parsing it would yield the expected result. ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR--- Is the reported

Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse the string 3.12-1-amd64 they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string 3.12.9-1 then parsing it would yield the expected result. ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR--- Is the reported

Re: Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
isn't supported per se. But when [the software], or the makefiles, parse the string 3.12-1-amd64 they don't get the expected result. If the uname -r were the string 3.12.9-1 then parsing it would yield the expected result. ---END QUOTE FROM VENDOR--- Is the reported

Re: Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find asm/socket.h

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Thanks! That worked. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2014-01-02 19:22 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to build a project that was building a few weeks ago. ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM

Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find asm/socket.h

2014-01-02 Thread Thomas Vaughan
Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to build a project that was building a few weeks ago. ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM BUILD LOG--- libtool: compile: g++ ... -m32 -fmessage-length=0 -O0 -fPIC -ggdb3 -fvar-tracking-assignments -W -Wall -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wcast-align

Dual-head display with video-intel stopped working on unstable update.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Vaughan
I run unstable and update daily. Last Friday, I happened to log out and log in again---I don't do that every day---and that caused the X server to restart. When it came back up, I noticed that only one of my two monitors had any signal going to it. I'm using the integrated intel video on my

Re: tetex installation bug

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV Thomas, You need to configure tetex-bin and -base at the same MCV time - MCV dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin : $ dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin : Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... : /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the

Re: tetex installation bug

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
GM == Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GM On 20 May 1998, Thomas Vaughan wrote: No, that doesn't solve the problem, which has something to do with an environment variable, TEXMFMAIN. Apparently there is a bug somewhere that causes TEXMFMAIN to be unset when it should be set

segmentation fault with glimpseindex

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
After investigating the segmentation fault that I have observed in the e-mail report from cron.weekly, I ran glimpseindex by hand and observed the following output. : $ glimpseindex -z -H /var/cache/man2html /usr/man/man* /usr/X11R6/man/man* /usr/local/man/man* : : This is glimpseindex version

tetex installation bug

1998-05-20 Thread Thomas Vaughan
I just this morning updated my hamm system with dselect but found the following problem: : Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... : Installing new version of config file /etc/texmf/language.dat ... : /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in texmf.cnf. : dpkg: error