Bug#689420: Re: Bug#689420: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64, version 3.2.35-2 sometimes succeeds booting

2012-12-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
gnome might work better without the vga=780 bit in your cmdline. It does not, independently on which of two kernels - 3.2.0-4-amd64, version 3.2.35-2 (with boot_delay=100 to be able to boot with a higher probability) - 3.6-trunk-amd64, version 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 (boots most often without a

Bug#689420: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64, version 3.2.35-2 sometimes succeeds booting

2012-12-29 Thread jaakov jaakov
Just keeping a log of what happens while kernels get updated. linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64, version 3.2.35-2, sometimes succeeds booting. Dmesg (attached) still shows some errors and gnome still starts in fail-safe mode despite an installed firmware-linux-nonfree. dmesg.gz Description: GNU Zip co

Bug#694060: Re: Bug#694060: Pressing the numlock key makes HDD LED blink shortly

2012-11-23 Thread jaakov jaakov
You mean you expect that your setting is not saved? I would expect the opposite. You have all the time in the world to wait with saving until logout. And if your system crashes before logout, you have much more serious problems than the unsaved numlock state. Jaakov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#694060: Pressing the numlock key makes HDD LED blink shortly

2012-11-23 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+6 Severity: normal How to reproduce: If your Numlock LED is lighted: 1. Press the Numlock key. 2. Release the Numlock key, observing that the HDD LED flashes. The flash time does not exceed 1/3 s. If your Numlock LED is not lighted: 1. Press the Numlock key, obse

Bug#694056: Pressing the numlock key makes HDD LED blink shortly

2012-11-23 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+6 Severity: normal How to reproduce: If your Numlock led is lighted: 1. Press the Numlock key. 2. Release the Numlock key, observing that the HDD LED flashes (on and off) shortly, for less than 1/3 s. If your Numlock key is not lighted: 1. Press the Numlock key,

Bug#689420: A succeeding boot with errors

2012-11-14 Thread jaakov jaakov
Upon inserting a delay I (unexpectedly pleasantly) got a succeeding boot. Three log files (/var/log/boot, /var/log/dmesg, /var/log/messages) are attached; dmesg shows diverse errors which were (luckily) not critical for this startup. logs.tar.bz2 Description: application/bzip

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-11-04 Thread jaakov jaakov
Hi Ben: I appreciate your debugging attempts a lot. Unfortunately I have no idea about the kernel internals like cache_alloc_refill(). I'm sending you two fotos from different boot attempts in hope that this will give you more information. One (BUG_acpi_off.jpg) shows the first serious error

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Please beg my pardon for multiple email copies: an error on my side. Jaakov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom th

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom the

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom th

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom the

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom th

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom th

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-31 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thank you for a fast reply. Can you provide a kernel log for a successful boot (/var/log/dmesg.log)? Attached.  'grave' would mean the package is broken for most users, which it isn't. The official description of grave from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html does not say for whom th

Bug#598089: Really fixed?

2012-10-29 Thread jaakov jaakov
Dear maintainer: Now you are saying that displaying a number is a UNIX/POSIX standard. This did not show up in the discussion earlier and is news to me. If displaying a number is really a standard, then I don't see why names should be truncated instead. I'm not opposing or favoring this or the

Bug#689420: cont...@bugs.debian.org

2012-10-29 Thread jaakov jaakov
severity 689420 grave thanks Now the system does not boot even when acpi=off. It always stops booting somewhere in the middle. To make it sometimes (!) boot, one has, in addition to acpi=off, to make grub wait more than the obligatory 4 seconds. And even after that, some connected hardware does

Bug#689661: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88022142a4f0

2012-10-08 Thread jaakov jaakov
For whatever reason, the acpidump does not make it to the web page despite sending it twice. Probably, it has made its way to you, Jonathan. If not, please complain. Jaakov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#689416: Re: Bug#689416: Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card

2012-10-05 Thread jaakov jaakov
severity 689416 important retitle 689416 Nonexistant files are asked for on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card thanks Well, now the files firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode are in the root direct

Bug#689416: Re: Bug#689416: Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card

2012-10-04 Thread jaakov jaakov
The files you have written have different names, namely, g2a is a part of the file names. The installer asks for files without g2a. Are you asking me to try the files as they are or to rename them before? Jaakov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Bug#689661: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88022142a4f0

2012-10-04 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Version: 3.2.30-1 During boot with acpi=off the following message is logged: [ BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 88022142a4f0 ... ] The full dmesg output is attached. Related is the bug 689420: with acpi=on it is impossible to boot. Currently

Bug#689420: (no subject)

2012-10-04 Thread jaakov jaakov
I did a reinstallation, which did not help. During the reinstallation I have chosen a generic kernel version, with a partially installed Intel Wireless driver (see bug 689416): only the iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode file was used. After that, I went into the rescue mode from a boot medium (USB stick).

Bug#689416: Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card

2012-10-02 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: cdrom Version: 7.0.2 The wireless network card Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card is detected and the following firmware files are asked for: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode However, only the "-4" file can be found online.

Bug#638915: (no subject)

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
found 638915 libreoffice-impress/1:3.5.4+dfsg-2 thanks The overwave is still displayed as an overline. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#638915:

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
found 638915 libreoffice-impress/1:3.5.4+dfsg-2 thanks The overwave is still displayed as an overline. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#652513: (no subject)

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
The web page redirects to another web page, which does not close unexpectedly. Thus, the bug is, strictly speaking, not reproducible at the moment. However, the following messages are printed to console from which epiphany-browser was started: (epiphany-browser:6650): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_dev

Bug#603472: (no subject)

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
Not found in libreoffice-impress 1:3.5.4+dfsg-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#603460: Connector hatch area is not properly displayed.

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
On libreoffice-impress 1:3.5.4+dfsg-2 the hatch is displayed, but the border of the hatched area is not a circle, but an octagon that contains the circle. Thus, the bug continues to exist in a different form. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#668473: Not found on amd64

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
While uninstalling and installing libreoffice-writer2xhtml version 1.0.2-8 on amd64, the erroneous behaviour does not occur. However, the default-jre (1:1.6-47) for that architecture is openjdk-6-jre (6b24-1.11.4-3). Alas, I cannot test other JREs now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-

Bug#668473: Not found in current openclipart2

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
When installing openclipart2 version 2.0-2 with parts -libreoffice, -png, and -svg, the behaviour does not occur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#595694: Not found in current libreoffice in testing

2012-09-30 Thread jaakov jaakov
Libreoffice-impress version 1:3.5.4+dfsg-2 does not have exactly this behavior for whatever reason. If the maintainers are sure that the bug no more exists, they may feel free to close this bug report. -- Jaakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#684912: please update pstricks-add.sty to version 3.57 or above

2012-08-14 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: texlive-pstricks Version: 2012.20120611-2 Severity: wishlist The older versions lack \psparallelogrambox, the never one has it! We need it to draw flowcharts, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Bug#659772: Re: landscape sciposter + hyperref + latex + dvips = center-mirrored image

2012-07-12 Thread jaakov jaakov
Thanks, great! Let me notice that if you add setpagesize=false, the output is ok, but additionally providing -t landscape to dvips makes the output wrong again. Probably, plain users should not care of such details or be guessing. By the way, why does hyperref have to set the page size by defa

Bug#659772: landscape sciposter + hyperref + latex + dvips = center-mirrored image

2012-07-12 Thread jaakov jaakov
Dear maintainers of hyperref and sciposter! We have found an incompatibility problem between both packages and are not able to address it ourselves. We wonder whether you could do that? Please see the debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/659772 Regards Jaakov. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#681087: Re: Bug#681087: An attempt to remove background picture results in a failure to start gdm.

2012-07-11 Thread jaakov jaakov
> 2. Restart gdm3 by issuing > /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart > or by rebooting the machine. Were you logged on X11 when doing that? In this case it is a very bad idea. X11 was running, but no users were logged in in gdm. However, rebooting the machine had reproduced the bug. Jul 10 15:36:14 loca

Bug#678067: gnome should not depend on gnome-games

2012-06-18 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.0+9 Severity: wishlist Currently, gnome depends on gnome-games. I, probably as well as other users in the office environments, would like to be able to remove games completely and retain the standard functionality. I suggest putting gnome

Bug#644269: Re: Bug#644269: spoils contents of other windows while overlapping

2012-06-13 Thread jaakov jaakov
Can't reproduce on gv 1:3.7.3-1 included into the current debian testing. Jaakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#655330: Re: Bug#655330: installation of ca-certificates-java silently fails

2012-05-25 Thread jaakov jaakov
Neither can I reproduce it on a new machine now. Thanks, good job! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#655328: the removal of the background picture just took time...

2012-05-21 Thread jaakov jaakov
Right now the background is black as I wished, without additional explicit configuration changes from my side. I have no idea why. I suspect that the combination of several events after the changes of configuration that were described in the previous reports has helped: - rebooting (at least t

Bug#655328: FWD: background picture can't be removed again

2012-05-09 Thread jaakov jaakov
Below you find the information on another system where the background removal fails. Executing two following lines does not help either: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options 'none' gconf

Bug#655328: background picture can't be removed again

2012-05-09 Thread jaakov jaakov
After doing an installation of gdm3 version 3.0.4-4, the background cannot be removed by the method in the bug report. I'm searching for a solution... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Bug#595256: Emacs aborts with maximized windows, small font size, large resolution: line-number-display-limit-width triggers the bug

2010-11-29 Thread jaakov jaakov
The bug is triggered if .emacs contains only the following line, and nothing else: (setq line-number-display-limit-width 999) If .emacs is empty or missing, the bug doesn't occur. I think I inserted the line (long ago), since I wanted the position to always get computed, even if that woul

Bug#595256: Emacs aborts with maximized windows, small font size, large resolution

2010-11-28 Thread jaakov jaakov
What font are you selecting? i.e. size 6 of what font? Of "Monospace", Regular style. I'm using the latest version available from debian today, which a version ending with -5.1. ... if emacs still crashes if you run it with -q No, emacs 23.2+1-5.1 behaves ok with -q option. and/or --no-si

Bug#604054: log files

2010-11-22 Thread jaakov jaakov
Odd indeed. Have you tried loading hyperref after glossaries? Loading hyperref after glossaries produces right fonts at the cost of functionaility. Namely, the hyperlinks from the text items to the glossary are gone then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#604054: log files

2010-11-22 Thread jaakov jaakov
The log files are attached along with the original files. In my case, the text is italics without hyperref and normal with hyperref. I've posted to usenet with a reference to here, without_hyperref.tex Description: Binary data with_hyperref.tex Description: Binary data without_hyperref.log

Bug#604054: My output is different - see the attachments.

2010-11-21 Thread jaakov jaakov
I've attached the corresponding output dvi and ps files where both N have the same size. The commands were latex q.tex dvips -o q.ps where q.tex contains the code above. How can I help debugging? q.ps Description: PostScript document q.dvi Description: Binary data

Bug#604054: if hyperref is loaded before glossaries then text size is adapted wrongly

2010-11-19 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2009-10 Consider the following latex code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage[style=long3colheader]{glossaries} \newglossaryentry{N}{name={N}, description={N}} \begin{document} $\gls{N}_{\gls{N}}$ \end{document} Both occurencies of N

Bug#603460: Connector area hatch not displayed

2010-11-14 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: openoffice.org-impress Version: 1:3.2.1-7 Reproduce: 1. Create an empty presentation 2. Using the drawing toolbar, create the flowchart "connector" (circle, not a usual one, but from the flowchart menu button) 3. Right-Click on it, select "Area..." 4. In tab "Hatching", select the any ha

Bug#598089: closed by Craig Small (Re: Bug#598089: "ps aux" shows 1000 instead of user name)

2010-10-11 Thread jaakov jaakov
I reject this kind of bug handling. The documentation is really defective with respect to this issue. Have a look at the euser entry. It doesnt say the length but it does say it happens. The restriction to 8 is nowhere mentioned in the man pages. This might or might not be a defective progra

Bug#598089: "ps aux" shows 1000 instead of user name

2010-10-06 Thread jaakov jaakov
10 characters. I see that the 8 characters limit is not mentioned in the manpages, at least not explicitly. However, the ww option should provide an unlimited width output. But ps auxww doesn't print the name either, only the number. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@li

Bug#598089: "ps aux" shows 1000 instead of user name

2010-09-26 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.8-9 When I type "ps aux" into the console, a list of processes appears like this: ... root 3252 0.0 0.0 2620 1100 ?S< 11:02 0:00 udevd --daemon 1000 3400 1.0 0.5 172700 47436 ?Sl 11:18 0:21 skype 1000 3552 0.0 0.0

Bug#595694: openoffice impress displays fonts correctly in normal view and incorrectly in slide show

2010-09-05 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: openoffice.org-impress Version: 1:3.2.1-6 Severity: important 1. Create an empty presentation. 2. Choose the "Centered Text" layout. 3. Click the box and type into it: a||b where || is a symbol with code U+2551 which is inserted via the "Insert -> Special Character ..." menu. 4

Bug#595472: When the external microphone is turned on, the internal is still used instead

2010-09-04 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: gnome-media Version: 2.30.0-1 Severity: important On the laptop Lenovo X201, when an external microphone is plugged in, the sound is still recorded by the internal one. The external microphone should record exactly at times it is plugged into the laptop or the docking station. If the

Bug#595256: Emacs aborts with maximized windows, small font size, large resolution

2010-09-02 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: emacs Version: 23.2+1-4 Severity: important 1. Set screen resolution to 1680x1050 or larger. 2. Start gnome terminal. 3. Start emacs from the terminal, set font size 6 via menu Options -> Set Default Font ... . 4. Maximize the emacs window. 5. Do whatever you wish to produce more lines t

Bug#595255: Emacs aborts with maximized windows, small font size, large resolution

2010-09-02 Thread jaakov jaakov
Package: emacs Version: 23.2+1-4 Severity: important 1. Set screen resolution to 1680x1050 or larger. 2. Start gnome terminal. 3. Start emacs from the terminal, set font size 6 via menu Options -> Set Default Font ... . 4. Maximize the emacs window. 5. Do whatever you wish to produce more lines