Bug#611326: Further information

2011-02-24 Thread Edmund Eyles
The only XFCE developer who seemed remotely interested in this problem suggested I try installing XFCE 4.8. This is available only as source. I downloaded this and attempted to follow the build instructions provided. After many hours of thrashing about in a state of ignorance, "aided" by a d

Bug#611326: Further information

2011-02-03 Thread Edmund Eyles
In an attempt to get things moving, I have entered this into XFCE's bugzilla system as bug 7231. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#611326: Further information

2011-02-03 Thread Edmund Eyles
I have now discovered that when the panel gets into this spin, it can be stopped by opening the panel properties and changing it from 'Normal height' to 'Full height'. This causes the vertical panel to expand to fit the height of the screen. The juddering stops, and the CPU usage of the panel pr

Bug#611326: Info received (Bug#611326: Acknowledgement (xfce4: Panel's taskbar goes into infinite loop))

2011-01-27 Thread Edmund Eyles
Further information. I have discovered that I can get out of this behaviour by killing the xfce4-panel process, then restarting it. When I do this, I get the following error messages: $ xfce4-panel (xfce4-panel:4800): xfce4-panel-WARNING **: Internal plugins need the "X-XFCE-Module-Path" en

Bug#611326: Acknowledgement (xfce4: Panel's taskbar goes into infinite loop)

2011-01-27 Thread Edmund Eyles
I don't know whether this helps, but the way I start most applications is with keyboard shortcuts I have defined, e.g. Ctrl-Alt-T for Terminal. When I start an application in this way, and it is an application that allows multiple instances of itself to be run (such as Terminal), I will interm

Bug#611326: xfce4: Panel's taskbar goes into infinite loop

2011-01-27 Thread Edmund Eyles
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.6.1.1~bpo50+1 Severity: important I am intermittently getting this problem: when I start an application, the taskbar (i.e. the part of the panel where icons are placed for running applications) starts expanding and contracting at a very high rate. It is then impossible t

Bug#567901: auditd: Logs errors when sent HUP and USR1 signals

2010-01-31 Thread Edmund Eyles
Package: auditd Version: 1.7.13-1+b1 Severity: normal When I send the HUP signal to auditd (to get it to re-read its configuration file), it fails to re-read the configuration file and reports the following error to the audit log: type=DAEMON_CONFIG msg=audit(1264985324.554:4915): auditd error ge