Bug#959044: Just ran into this one myself after squeeze to buster upgrade

2021-03-03 Thread Tim Day
I was vaguely aware there was something newly leaky about gnome-shell in buster, but hadn't looked into it in any detail as logging out and logging in again every few days would fix it. However, I just upgraded my last stretch machine to buster. That has a "power user" with a densely populated de

Bug#877307: upgrade-reports: Jessie -> Stretch: Gnome tweak tool would not enable desktop icons until "Files" removed from "Startup Applications"

2017-09-30 Thread Tim Day
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I just did a Debian8 to Debian9 upgrade on a particularly old and crufty (initial install back in days of Potato?) machine. No significant issues (just the usual handful of /etc files to update with minor local mods after accepting the

Bug#785782: False sighting (will re-close) - problem was actually an invisible primary display

2017-09-27 Thread Tim Day
OK it turned out the gmd3 login prompt dialog wasn't actually absent... the issue was due to my install actually thinking the machine had two heads, when it didn't (7700K i7; CPU's integrated graphics on an Asrock H270 Pro4 mobo, one monitor attached to VGA port... but the freshly installed system

Bug#785782: Issue re-sighted: gdm3 starts but no login prompt after fresh installs

2017-09-26 Thread Tim Day
I have a sighting of this. Interested in helping to diagnose it... but someone more expert than I about PAM and systemd etc will have to tell me what to type to generate any useful logging! In fact I realise I've seen it twice now: a few weeks ago I was using the 32bit Debian9 installer to nuke t

Bug#724884: Upstream no longer supports spamc/spamd - maintainer please close

2016-05-26 Thread Tim Day
Just got around upgrading my "email home" from wheezy to jessie and revisited this issue... It seems upstream has ditched Evolution's support for spamc/spamd and now only supports invoking spamassassin directly... https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2013-July/msg02156.html A dig through

Bug#754483: Additional information: issue specific to Gnome Flashback?

2015-05-26 Thread Tim Day
Investigating this in a bit more depth on one of my Jessie laptops, I note that if I switch the desktop session from Gnome Flashback to Gnome Classic (or, after installing it, Mate), then attempting to join a new wifi network does throw up the expected dialog prompting for a password, and generally

Bug#754483: Further observations

2015-05-18 Thread Tim Day
I also experienced these errors after upgrading a couple of laptops from Wheezy to Jessie (basically, when attempting to connect to established access points which have been used without issue for ages, a connection failed dialog appears with the original report's libnm-glib error). I seem to have

Bug#724884: evolution: Evolution Spamassassin integration doesn't detect system spamd

2013-09-29 Thread Tim Day
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, > What led up to the situation? I'm a long time user of both Spamassassin and Evolution. Until now, all my Spamassassin processing has been done by some scripting in the getmail setup I use to pull email from vario

Bug#708268: gnome-keyring: Evolution run over ssh -X cannot communicate with gnome-keyring-daemon to create passwords

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Day
Package: gnome-keyring Version: 3.4.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was uncertain whether to file this as an evolution issue or a gnome-keyring one. Googling the problem suggests the latter, or that it may be more of a system level thing involving e.g the order of startup of dBus and the

Bug#673426: Yes please

2013-05-13 Thread Tim Day
Just a vote in favour of this one. One the unexpected consequences (to me) of the Squeeze-to-Wheezy upgrade of my home machine was no longer being able run Evolution in a tightvncserver (to VNC-over-SSH into it from offsite)... because Evolution now appears to be built on the clutter toolkit (whic

Bug#699037: evolvotron: In-app user manual content missing

2013-01-27 Thread Tim Day
Alex Becjert wrote in various emails: > Since we're already in deep freeze, it's very likely too late to > fix such an issue for the upcoming stable release. Thought that might be the case; no worries, the app itself works fine and has been around long enough that one Debian "cycle" with missing i

Bug#699037: evolvotron: In-app user manual content missing

2013-01-26 Thread Tim Day
Package: evolvotron Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I note the last couple of evolvotrons ie 0.6.1 on wheezy and 0.6.2 currently on unstable are missing the intended content from the built-in user manual (accessed from Help->User Manual), although the 0.6.1 on Squeeze includes t

Bug#683465: yafaray: Can't set yafaray plugins path

2012-08-01 Thread Tim Day
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 16:44 +0200, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: > The correct parameter to use is -pp and: > $ yafaray-xml -pp /usr/lib/yafaray/plugins /yafarayRender.xml > works fine here. > So, closing. Ah, thanks! In that case the real problem is with the man page which says -p path

Bug#658882: iceweasel: Check spelling state not persistent

2012-02-06 Thread Tim Day
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0-1~bpo60+1 Severity: normal NB I'm running the Debian Mozilla team's release. I was on such a bpo release before bpo60, but I noticed the bpo60 upgrade a few days ago and that's when this problem started. As I remember previous versions, you'd enable spell checkin

Bug#600060: Seems to be fixed by upgrade to a backported iceweasel

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Day
A fairly ordinary squeeze install with the regular squeeze iceweasel and flashplugin-nonfree was also experiencing intermittent crashes which seemed to be associated with closing pages (tabs or whole windows) with flash content (video or game type content). It recently became a lot more reproducib

Bug#618665: Missing mouse pointer

2011-03-23 Thread Tim Day
Just a "me too": the original squeeze release's X11 was working great on my IBM X40 lappy. But first reboot after the upgrade to 6.0.1 packages (and presumably linux 2.6.32-31)... no mouse pointer visible (although mouse working apart from that). Working round it for now by doing the Fn-F4 hibern

Bug#598941: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#598941: libasound2: No sound on Intel DX58SO motherboard

2010-10-03 Thread Tim Day
Issue resolved locally, please close. Sorry for wasting your time. I'll 'fess up to the gory details: The system is raid zero-ed, except for a conventional /boot on one disk. However, the corresponding partition on the other disk seems to have had a snapshot copy of /boot made onto it at s

Bug#598941: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#598941: libasound2: No sound on Intel DX58SO motherboard

2010-10-03 Thread Tim Day
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 14:34 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Did you reboot after kernel update? Yes, absolutely! And after installing the new libasound2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Bug#598941: libasound2: No sound on Intel DX58SO motherboard

2010-10-03 Thread Tim Day
Package: libasound2 Version: 1.0.16-2 Severity: important I'm running lenny, amd64 on a DX58SO motherboard. Sound (alsa) has worked well in the past (on Lenny), but I don't use it that often so I'm not sure when it broke; suspect one of the security kernel updates recently. Anyway, I tried to g

Bug#590515: googlecl: Package should specify an explicit python-gdata version ?

2010-07-26 Thread Tim Day
Package: googlecl Version: 0.9.8-1 Severity: normal I installed googlecl from testing on a lenny system. aptitude rightly observed the package needed a more recent python-support (I used it's second suggestion of the 1.0.3~bpo50+1 one from backports rather than testing). Seemed to install OK, bu

Bug#533708: Any .debs ?

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Day
I'm interested in trying libhugetlbfs out myself, and a search for a Debianized version led here. I did try git-clone http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libhugetlbfs.git but it fails with warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout (although since this is the first t

Bug#542209: virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.30-1-686: Blank screen with 2.6.30 kernel + 2.6.30 ose-guest-modules

2009-08-18 Thread Tim Day
Package: virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30+3.0.2-dfsg-3 Severity: normal I have a lenny (amd64) machine running lenny's virtualbox-ose (1.6.6.-dfsg-3) I track squeeze in one of the VMs (I'm running reportbug in that VM). Today the kernel upgraded to 2.6.30. After reboot

Bug#539450: mt-daapd: Would be nice to have easy way of transcoding to something other than .wav

2009-08-01 Thread Tim Day
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 14:27 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote (out of order): > What I can tell you is that I have no problem with my SoundBridge > (Roku), and I'm streaming WAV *only* due to my library being > FLAC-only. But then one thing I had to do was to find a channel that > was a bit less crowded t

Bug#539450: mt-daapd: Would be nice to have easy way of transcoding to something other than .wav

2009-08-01 Thread Tim Day
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:49 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Tim Day wrote: > > By default mt-daapd transcodes things like .flac and .ogg to .wav. > > This works well enough, but when a client is device is connected > > by 802.11b (as my Roku devices are) they simply don't

Bug#539450: mt-daapd: Would be nice to have easy way of transcoding to something other than .wav

2009-07-31 Thread Tim Day
Package: mt-daapd Version: 0.9~r1696.dfsg-6lenny2 Severity: wishlist By default mt-daapd transcodes things like .flac and .ogg to .wav. This works well enough, but when a client is device is connected by 802.11b (as my Roku devices are) they simply don't have enough bandwidth to stream the .wavs w

Bug#527165: xserver-xorg-video-sunffb: X fails to start on Creator3D graphics

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Day
Just a note confirming reverting to xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.2-10_sparc.deb restored X11 via sunffb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#518806: lts.conf LDM_DIRECTX parameter not documented in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/lts-parameters.txt

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Day
Package: ltsp-server Version: 5.1.10-2 Severity: minor LTSP's lts.conf LDM_DIRECTX option appears to work as expected, (bypasses ssh for post-login X11 network traffic) but isn't listed in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/lts-parameters.txt.gz Alternatively it might be argued the LDM_DIRECTX mode is h

Bug#482683: Fixed by 173 in sid

2008-06-26 Thread Tim Day
I m-a a-i-ed the nvidia module and nvidia-glx from the 173.14-09-2 packages in sid and my 9600GT is running OpenGL very nicely now. Keeping the nvidia-glx-dev GL.h etc includes somewhere separate is a nice improvement too. Thanks Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Bug#485512: Fix

2008-06-09 Thread Tim Day
Aha: the problem can be resolved by changing line 124 in /usr/include/boost/gil/bit_aligned_pixel_reference.hpp from typedef bit_range bit_range_t; to typedef boost::gil::bit_range bit_range_t; Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#485512: libboost1.35-dev: boost::gil incompatible with g++-4.3 ?

2008-06-09 Thread Tim Day
Package: libboost1.35-dev Version: 1.35.0-5 Severity: important If I create the 2-line file giltest.cpp containing: #include #include And compile it with g++-4.2 -c giltest.cpp then there are no errors reported. However g++-4.3 -c giltest.cpp emits: --- In file included from /usr/inclu

Bug#482683: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#482683: nvidia-kernel-source: Hangs machine while starting X

2008-05-27 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 16:15 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > None of the 9xxx cards are supported in the latest stable driver release > from nvidia. Thanks for the clarification. (I was somewhat mislead by, on http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12.html a "Supported products

Bug#482683: nvidia-kernel-source: Hangs machine while starting X

2008-05-24 Thread Tim Day
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 169.12-1 Severity: important I've got two machines here running lenny. The only things from sid are nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-dev, nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-kernel-source One of them is an old AthlonXP 1600 with Nvidia 7600 in an AGP slot. Runs 2.6.24-1-

Bug#456804: rt2x00-source: Connection stops working after a while under load

2008-02-14 Thread Tim Day
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 17:30 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is a known bug that should be fixed in later versions of the > driver. A fixed version of the driver is included in Linux 2.6.24. > Please try installing that, if you can. I am still working on an update > to rt2x00-source for use in

Bug#406457: Me too

2007-09-23 Thread Tim Day
Just saw this myself. Standard etch install (upgraded from sarge), 2.6.18-5-686 kernel, gdm. I added console=ttyS0,9600n8 and later console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 to the boot options in the hope of getting some info to diagnose an infrequent system freeze. In both cases, When gdm came up a

Bug#436231: Fixed in upstream CVS

2007-08-14 Thread Tim Day
ned to let me get away with it) which are now fixed in the CVS head (ie there might be other 0.4.0 exit-cleanup issues besides the one mentioned here). Regards Tim Day (upstream evolvotron developer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#418974: Something similar seen here...

2007-04-28 Thread Tim Day
I was adding a printer to my system (first time it's had a local printer, first time I've added a printer under Etch; I'd previously, under Sarge, successfully added a remote SMB printer on a windows machine). System was successfully upgraded Sarge->stable Etch recently following release notes' in

Bug#421324: ldm: NETWORK_COMPRESSION=False in client /etc/lts.conf not honoured

2007-04-27 Thread Tim Day
Package: ldm Version: 0.99debian11 Severity: normal Tags: patch While debian doesn't include much ltsp docs, googling leads me to believe that putting NETWORK_COMPRESSION=False into my client's /etc/lts.conf should disable ssh compression. However, ssh is always being invoked with the -C option.

Bug#419878: yada: update-menus not being called on postinst configure in generated debs

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Day
ines later (which is presumably the correct escaping of $1; but I'm no perl expert). Hope this is useful Tim Day -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Li

Bug#396034: closed by Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#396034: qmake-qt4: CONFIG+=opengl doesn't add QtOpenGL include path or link -lQtOpenGL)

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:48 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > Use "QT += opengl", not CONFIG. See the Qt4 qmake documentation for > > more info. Thanks for the tip; QT += opengl (instead of CONFIG += opengl) does exactly what I was expecting. However, the current

Bug#396034: qmake-qt4: CONFIG+=opengl doesn't add QtOpenGL include path or link -lQtOpenGL

2006-10-29 Thread Tim Day
Package: qt4-dev-tools Version: 4.1.4-1.1 Severity: minor I have a Qt4 app built from a qmake-qt4 / .pro generated Makefile. Builds and works fine. I wanted to add some OpenGL code to it, using QGLWidget. I changed the CONFIG line of the .pro file from CONFIG+= qt thread stl exceptions precomp

Bug#389416: My identical symptoms fixed by 1:0.2.1-5

2006-10-02 Thread Tim Day
I was getting identical symptoms to the original poster (blank screen, but system up) with an EPIA M1 (CLE266) based thin client (ltsp booted). It could be worked round by specifying Option "NoAccel" Option "SwCursor" for the via driver but this seemed to give n

Bug#386773: Is this bug blocking migration of 2.6.17 prebuilt modules into testing ?

2006-09-24 Thread Tim Day
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 05:43 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:38:46PM +0100, Tim Day wrote: > > [A load of nonsense about > > nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.17 packages > > deleted] > > nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy (1.0.7174-4 to 1.0.7184-2) >

Bug#386773: Is this bug blocking migration of 2.6.17 prebuilt modules into testing ?

2006-09-24 Thread Tim Day
There seem to be prebuilt modules for 2.6.17 in sid ready to migrate into testing, at least according to the "Why is package X not in testing yet?" page, but the way I read it they're being blocked by a release critical bug on nvidia-graphics-legacy-modules-i386, which is presumably this grave seve

Bug#382830: Try this...

2006-08-19 Thread Tim Day
> module-assistant auto-build nvidia-kernel-legacy Try m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel-legacy-source ^^^ instead (see http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers ) This will at least get you some module-building action, but unfortunately, with the vers

Bug#305691: Me too

2006-04-20 Thread Tim Day
Just a "me too"... Someone gave me an ultra1 (my first piece of sparc kit and first non i386 debian install) with CG6 (TGX) graphics. I installed basic sarge. I upgraded to the 2.6.8 kernel immediately (and dpkg-reconfigured console-data to pc). I tried to get xserver-xfree86 up and running (marve

Bug#326908: mono-mcs: mcs writes zero sized .exe in NFS mounted directory

2005-09-06 Thread Tim Day
Package: mono-mcs Version: 1.1.8.2-1 Severity: important I have a program trivial.cs (basically "HelloWorld"). When I compile it as a user with their home directory NFS mounted from a remote machine (working in that home directory) I get: mcs -out:trivial.exe trivial.cs ** ERROR **: WriteFile

Bug#278256: Just ran into this again, so just a note to confirm it's still a problem...

2005-04-27 Thread Tim Day
On a Sarge machine (set up with tasksel desktop a while ago, little touched since) with apt-show-versions | grep -E "mesa|nvidia|qt" showing: libqt3c102-mt/testing uptodate 3:3.3.4-3 nvidia-kernel-common/testing uptodate 1.0.7174-1 xlibmesa-dri/testing uptodate 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 xlibme

Bug#303349: Remoting performance - test code

2005-04-06 Thread Tim Day
This demonstrates the problem. Build and run the attached code with: mcs -t:library -out:thing.dll thing.cs mcs -r:thing.dll -r:System.Runtime.Remoting server.cs mcs -r:thing.dll -r:System.Runtime.Remoting client.cs xterm -e mono server.exe & time mono client.exe to time 200 calls. It ta

Bug#303349: mono-jit: Remoting very slow

2005-04-06 Thread Tim Day
Package: mono-jit Version: 1.0.5-2 Severity: normal I'm on a sarge system with mono 1.0.5 from sid (it's the only stuff from sid). Following a remoting example in the O'Reilly "Programming C#" book I created a client making trivial (no arguments) calls to a server (will attach the code in a fol

Bug#294332: Would be nice if configuration gave the option of not starting openvpn on system init

2005-02-09 Thread Tim Day
Package: openvpn Version: 1.99+2.rc6-1 Severity: wishlist I have openvpn running very well over wifi between a laptop (802.11b pcmcia card) and the site server. However, the init order (S16openvpn, S20pcmcia) means that on the laptop openvpn is started before there is any actual net connectivity.