Bug#944771: GNOME Shell crashes when selecting "About" from top bar menu in Midori

2019-12-08 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On 12/8/19 2:42 PM, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Hello Andrew, > I tried to reproduce this crash but it did not show up for me. > > Maybe you could install systemd-coredump, then a backtrace > would be written automatically into the journal: > > journalctl --no-pager Hello Bernhard, I was ab

Bug#944771: GNOME Shell crashes when selecting "About" from top bar menu in Midori

2019-11-14 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.30.2-9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, In GNOME Shell, I opened Midori, then clicked on "Midori" in the top left menu in the black bar at the top of the Screen. I then selected "About" from that menu, and gnome shell crashed, leading to the GDM login window. I

Bug#819206: linux-image-amd64 jessie backport not in i386 repos

2016-03-24 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: linux-image-amd64 Version: 4.3+70~bpo8+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, in debian jessie i can install linux-image-amd64 even if i386 is the only architecture that is being used by apt/dpkg. however this metapackage is not available to i386 users of jessie-backports unless they add th

Bug#807722: xaos: i386 illegal instruction

2015-12-11 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: xaos Version: 3.5+ds1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, on an i368 system, i get an illegal instruction segmentation fault during program startup. to work around this, i built the the .deb from source using dpkg-buildpackage, which allows xaos to run on this system. i am using the

Bug#801910: fixed in version 46.0.2490.71-1~deb8u1

2015-10-21 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
this issue has been fixed in the latest version of chromium in jessie/updates: 46.0.2490.71-1~deb8u1 thanks for uploading : ) andrew On 10/17/2015 06:42 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding > this Bug report. > > This is a

Bug#801910: version 44.0.2403.89-1~deb8u1 also affected

2015-10-17 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
i tested verion 44.0.2403.89-1~deb8u1 of chromium. it appears that this version is also affected by the bug.

Bug#801910: chromium hangs ~8 sec when opening some new urls; hangs when switching beteen tabs

2015-10-15 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: chromium Version: 45.0.2454.85-1~deb8u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after moving ~/.config/chromium to another location (which is an optional step) then opening chromium, enter a url such as: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&ia=meanings -or- https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/

Bug#799306: zoneminder installation doc incomplete

2015-09-17 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: zoneminder Version: 1.28.1-6~bpo8+1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I was at first unable to run zoneminder because the instructions in /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian.gz were apparently incomplete. Until I chown'd /etc/zm/zm.conf and created a modified version of the zonemdind

Bug#772437: xwayland is very slow launching and drawing windows; my custom build was ok

2014-12-06 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: xwayland Version: 2:1.16.1.901-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, i launched weston from a tty and then opened a terminal, typed "xman", then hit enter. the cursor froze and i could see shadow regions and a window border slowly being drawn over the next several seconds. eventually,

Bug#767391: mupdf: version 1.6 is now available

2014-10-30 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: mupdf Version: 1.5-1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, version 1.6 of mupdf is now available. would you please consider packaging it before the jessie freeze? thanks, -andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testi

Bug#761673: dwb: two-finger scroll is laggy on slow computer

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: dwb Version: 20140702hg-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, if i open a page in dwb and use two finger scrolling, the scrolling is laggy, choppy and irregular. it takes a couple seconds to complete a long scrolling motion. i don't mind choppiness and would prefer to see very choppy (uns

Bug#758254: python-wxglade: adding window to frame, etc. causes python backtrace

2014-08-15 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: python-wxglade Version: 0.6.8-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, i created a frame with the new frame button, clicked the new window button, then clicked the frame area. then a python error backtrace window popped up. output in the terminal is something like this: (wxglade.py:15093

Bug#754651: Fwd: Re: Bug#754651: xwayland: window resizing and scrolling is extremely slow. (upstream works)

2014-07-27 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
i meant to send the following message to the bug tracker. -andrew Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:40:32 -0400 On 07/25/2014 04:14 PM, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: > i'll let you know how the binary version of xwayland/jessie compares to > the locally compi

Bug#754651: xwayland: window resizing and scrolling is extremely slow. (upstream works)

2014-07-25 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On 07/15/2014 04:44 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On Du, 13 iul 14, 02:12:54, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: >>> would you please make sure that this is not an issue when packaging the >>> future xwayland 1.16 release? > > When 1.16 is uploaded, it will have be

Bug#754651: xwayland: window resizing and scrolling is extremely slow. (upstream works)

2014-07-15 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On 07/15/2014 04:44 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 15/07/14 10:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Control: reassign -1 xwayland 2:1.15.99.904-1 >> >> On Du, 13 iul 14, 02:12:54, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: >>> Source: xwayland >>> Version: 2:1.15.99.9

Bug#754651: the freedesktop.org tracker link, etc.

2014-07-12 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
here is the bug i'd opened about this on the upstream tracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81275 i used instructions from the following link to build xwayland: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver $ cd xserver $ ./

Bug#754651: xwayland: window resizing and scrolling is extremely slow. (upstream works)

2014-07-12 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Source: xwayland Version: 2:1.15.99.904 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, using jessie, with xserver-common and xwayland from sid, i opened weston/weston-launch. then i opened a terminal and ran xman. i resized the window by dragging the corner, but it was very slow, and a thick black border

Bug#754570: weston: please add debug symbols package

2014-07-12 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: weston Version: 1.5.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, weston crashed. i reported it on the upstream bugzilla and uploaded the resulting core file. they asked that i try again with debug symbols. since weston is still unstable, would you please include debug symbols for weston in some

Bug#484336: inform 6 library now free software

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
it appears that the library you were waiting on is now free software (as pointed out to me by jxself): https://github.com/DavidGriffith/inform6lib/commit/c676cda8a96829afb58f4660e1392dbae9d732bc https://github.com/DavidGriffith/inform6unix/commit/0088b76941a2c5b44b7491fb239730259dd6974d hopefull

Bug#742062: flare: flare-engine is now modular and separate from flare-game

2014-03-18 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: flare Version: 0.18-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the debian package description has some out-of-date info: > Rather than building a very abstract, robust game engine, the goal of > this project is to build several real games and harvest an engine from > the common, reusable code.

Bug#652706: cheese: Webcam output is red with some effects

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
i don't see this issue with version 3.10.1-1sid1 : ) -andrew On 02/27/2014 11:13 AM, althaser wrote: > Hey, > > Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer version of cheese > like 3.4.2-2 or 3.10.1-1sid1 ? > > here it is working fine with 3.10.1-1sid1. > > thanks > regards > altha

Bug#703990: crawl-tiles: monitor turns and stays black when game starts

2013-03-27 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:18:27PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:16:14AM -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: > > > when i start the game crawl-tiles, my laptop screen goes to sleep. if > > the screen were merely drawing a black rectangle, then i would

Bug#703990: crawl-tiles: monitor turns and stays black when game starts

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: crawl-tiles Version: 2:0.10.3-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when i start the game crawl-tiles, my laptop screen goes to sleep. if the screen were merely drawing a black rectangle, then i would see some light coming from the screen. this sleeping of the screen is accievable by xs

Bug#679199: chipmunk-dev: please upgrade old version of chipmunk to newer version

2012-06-26 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: chipmunk-dev Version: 5.3.4-1 Severity: normal Hello, Would you please upgrade chipmunk to version 6.1.1? The current version in debian wheezy is quite old, and it would be nice to get a recent version in before the freeze. If not, getting it in ustable would land it in Ubuntu some day.

Bug#668220: gnome: playing naev in fullscreen mode screws up gnome desktop until log-out. xfce is fine.

2012-04-09 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.0+7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This is about graphics corruption that occurs whenever playing a particular game in full screen mode in gnome3, but never in xfce: I built and installed naev 0.5.2 and its associated ndata file: (It is free software.) http://s

Bug#666456: Fwd: cmake: cpack -G ZIP segfaults on CP 6.0.3 souce, but not with -G TGZ. Works for other software

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: cmake Version: 2.8.7-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, To reproduce this bug, please download this source code: http://chipmunk-physics.net/release/ChipmunkLatest.tgz I tested it on version 6.0.3. Unfortunately, I did not find a link for persistent versions of the source code on the

Bug#666139: minetest: font size is very tiny

2012-03-28 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: minetest Version: 0.3.1+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Whever I run the game, all of the font is too small. (Including input font, object count font and system message font.) When I'm trying to read the server address in the login page, or if i want to know how

Bug#659302: gnash: Youtube videos are shrunken. Fixed upstream (?)

2012-02-11 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On 02/09/2012 07:35 PM, Gabriele Giacone wrote: On 02/10/2012 12:57 AM, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: Package: gnash Version: 0.8.10~git20111001-1.1 Please try gnash 0.8.10-2 in unstable since yesterday. It should fix such issue. Yes, this version fixes the problem. Thank you. -Andrew -- To

Bug#659266: nethack-x11: big font size normally makes the dungeon screen scroll up and down

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: nethack-x11 Version: 3.4.3-12.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I open a new xnethack game on a laptop with 1366 x 768 resolution, the window is vertically maximized, and the dungeon map section is shrunken so that moving the character up and down on the map makes the map to scrol

Bug#658977: rhythmbox: crashes when re-checking an option in the preference pane

2012-02-06 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: rhythmbox Version: 2.95-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Opening the preference pane in rhythmbox and then checking the "Watch my library for new files" option twice, so it turns off and then back on again, causes the program to crash every time for me. When it starts back up again, t

Bug#569035: minor correction

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Ok, so the command I mentioned to remove extra configuration files is not sufficient by itself. First you need to remove the extra configuration file manually, and then do: sudo apt-get --reinstall install system-tools-backends The --purge option is unnecessary. Also, there may be a more effiecei

Bug#569035: deleting old config file solves problem

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
I tried removing /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf, and found that it solves the problem. Doing this lets an admin launch the *-admin programs, and authenticate to make any changes, as normal. This way, you don't have to manually add yourself and every new admin account to the stb-adm

Bug#569035: possibly useful errors

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
I've been trying to get some hints on what's stopping the *-admin programs from launching as an admin user (when not using sudo.) I dont' know perl, but I found that I get this error when I run the following command: sudoman@powerbook:~$ perl /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToo

Bug#611149: general and model-specific patches for pommed

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Yes, my keyboard is QWERTY. -Andrew On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Your patches look good! > > The fadeval typo was a nice catch, it's also evidence that not a lot of > people use p

Bug#611149: general and model-specific patches for pommed

2011-02-03 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Hello Julien, I've been having some fun diving into your code and making a few adjustments. I've attached four very small patches (plus an alternative) to this email. I'll also print them below and describe my reasoning for their content; I hope you don't mind my doing so. --- pommed/evdev.h.orig

Bug#611149: backlit keyboard works on powerbook for ~16 seconds after login or installation of pommed

2011-01-25 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: pommed Version: 1.35~dfsg-1 Severity: normal When I boot up my powerbook G4 1.5GHz computer, the backlit keyboard comes on around when X starts, if I am in a dark room. The keyboard controls for the brightness setting work mostly. (more on that below.) It seems as if the backlight remain

Bug#610497: closing then opening lid causes powerbook to re-enter sleep mode only if pbbuttonsd is installed

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: pbbuttonsd Version: 0.7.9-2 Severity: normal If I close the lid to my powerbook and wait for the sleep light to turn on, and then reopen it, some text is displayed, as usual and then, if there's enough time, the password field is displayed, but then the computer goes back to sleep again.

Bug#553672: Still having this issue

2011-01-16 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Hi, I upgraded my system from lenny to squeeze. I am having the same issue with the *-admin packages. I cannot fix this by upgrading to unstable, as the packages are the same version in both testing and unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Bug#610158: magicrescue: magicsort can't handle quotation marks from file(1) output.

2011-01-15 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: magicrescue Version: 1.1.8-1 Severity: normal the magicrescue command sometimes gives errors saying "cannot remove : no such file or directory." i tested one of the files with the file command and saw that the output was: JPEG, some description, and then a caption in quotation marks.

Bug#610020: gnome-system-tools: network-admin does not show the first "Connections" pane, so cannot modify interfaces

2011-01-14 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: gnome-system-tools Version: 2.30.2-2 Severity: important When I open network-admin (with gksudo) I see no "Connections" pane which would allow me to edit/enable the connections I would like to use. My system is upgraded from lenny to squeeze. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0

Bug#609058: xserver-xorg-input-all: mouse and keyboard became unresponsive after reboot. workaround: set "AutoAddDevices" to False

2011-01-05 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: xserver-xorg-input-all Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: normal Today when I boot-up my PowerBook G4, the mouse and keyboard would not work. I tried rebooting several times, with no luck. The workaround for the issue was to set "AutoAddDevices" to "False" in the "ServerFlags" section of my o

Bug#607474: gtk2-engines: Weird icon colors with any "Controls" settings other than Aramanth, except when using Xephyr.

2010-12-18 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Package: gtk2-engines Version: 1:2.20.1-1 Severity: normal Since my upgrade to squeeze, many menu icons, some icons in gdm3, scrollbars, and some images displayed in browsers have been displaying funky colors. In addition, sometimes images don't appear or are very faint. Rolling over a bad im