Bug#902897: virtualbox broken by binutils master (new R_X86_64_PLT32 relocation type)

2018-07-13 Thread Steven R. Wright
Ditto.  Had to back-rev to 5.2.14-dfsg-3,  which seems to be operational. -- sRw On 07/13/18 11:45, j P wrote: Hello, currently I have virtualbox 5.2.14-dfsg-4 installed and I still can't start any of my VMs. The error is the same: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine ubuntu.

Bug#902897: virtualbox: fails to start vm (VERR_LDRELF_RELOCATION_NOT_SUPPORTED)

2018-07-09 Thread Steven R Wright
That works. On 07/09/2018 02:55 PM, Evgeny Kapun wrote: To install old package versions, there is snapshot.d.o [1]. Basically, it has a copy of every state Debian repository was ever in. There is also a way to see every version of every package and to find the appropriate snapshot to install

Bug#902897: virtualbox: fails to start vm (VERR_LDRELF_RELOCATION_NOT_SUPPORTED)

2018-07-09 Thread Steven R Wright
elusive. On 07/09/2018 08:56 AM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:01:00 -0500 "Steven R. Wright" <mailto:srwri...@anl.gov>> wrote: > Obviously I merely downgraded to the last functioning version of > virtualbox et. al. (5.2.12-dfsg-3) in unstable But how

Bug#902897: virtualbox: fails to start vm (VERR_LDRELF_RELOCATION_NOT_SUPPORTED)

2018-07-08 Thread Steven R. Wright
is little (or actually no) motivation for it to be in the repos. On 07/08/18 15:23, Evgeny Kapun wrote: On 08.07.2018 22:54, Steven R. Wright wrote: This is a critical enough bug to warrant removing 5.2.14-dfsg-1 from the repos.  I have to do selective upgrades now to avoid pulling it in. Uns

Bug#902897: virtualbox: fails to start vm (VERR_LDRELF_RELOCATION_NOT_SUPPORTED)

2018-07-08 Thread Steven R. Wright
This is a critical enough bug to warrant removing 5.2.14-dfsg-1 from the repos.  I have to do selective upgrades now to avoid pulling it in.

Bug#658579: cups parallel process stuck/very high CPU usage

2012-03-12 Thread Steven R. Wright
Package: cups Version: 1.5.0-16 I also have this issue with an HP 722C connected to a parallel port; a print job will start and after a short time will freeze with the parallel process consuming nearly 100% of the CPU cycles; there is no other option than tho kill parallel with -9. A rollbac

Bug#662855: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs reports FATAL errors on missing but possibly unnecessary modules

2012-03-06 Thread Steven R. Wright
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.101 the following FATAL errors should *possibly* be simply warnings; there are cases where one might roll their own kernels and not waste cycles building modules for filesystems that are unnecessary, or choose to make them part of the kernel as opposed to l

Bug#658064: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg causes errors in totem

2012-01-30 Thread Steven R. Wright
Package: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg Version: 1:0.10.13-0.1 the latest version of this prevents totem from playing video files with the following errors at the terminal: for a WMV: ** Message: Error: Internal data stream error. gstasfdemux.c(1660): gst_asf_demux_loop (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDeco

Bug#652250: libavcodec53 (et al) freeze totem playing .WMV

2011-12-15 Thread Steven R. Wright
package: libavcodec53 (and others) after a recent upgrade, totem could no longer play a .WMV file; it would freeze after what seemed to be a single frame. the culprit appeared to be an upgrade of codecs: ii libavcodec53 5:0.9-0.2 Library to enc

Bug#645949: opera 11.52.1100 seg faults on exit

2011-10-19 Thread Steven R. Wright
Package: opera Version: 11.52.1100 upon each exit of opera, it throws a SIGSEGV; it is easily reproducible, just start up opera, and then exit. #4 decca:/home/srw opera opera [crash logging]: CRASH!! /usr/lib/op

Bug#626076: 626076

2011-08-19 Thread Steven R. Wright
apologies, along with the thunderbird info i I sent, I forgot to mention I am not using iceweasel at all: > dpkg -l iceweasel "libgnomevfs2*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-requir

Bug#626076: 626076

2011-08-19 Thread Steven R. Wright
thunderbird 6.0 also exhibits this problem when attaching a .jpg: /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#633932: 633932

2011-07-24 Thread Steven R. Wright
I tried dump 0.4b43-1 as well as 0.4b44-1 and the errors were identical as long as I was using e2fslibs 1.42~WIP~2011-07-02-1; so it seems success/failure follows e2fslibs and not dump. Not sure this adds any more useful info, but I was using a dump/restore via a pipe and it bombed like so:

Bug#627120: mkrescue in lilo 23.2-1

2011-05-18 Thread Steven R. Wright
looking at this further, if i comment out this # mkdir $tmpbase || { #echo "Could not create temporary directory." #exit 1 # } it goes thru OK. the earlier line tmpbase="`mktemp -dt $(basename $0).XX`" || exit would have already created the directory if there were no errors,

Bug#627120: lilo 23.2-1 mkrescue fails to create temporary directory

2011-05-17 Thread Steven R. Wright
Package: lilo Version: 23.2-1 mkrescue fails to create a temporary directory, claiming it already exists, tho' it in fact does not. mkrescue in the previous version of lilo succeeds. #1 london:/tmp > id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),102(lpadmin) #2 london:/tmp > ls loopstats loop