On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:12:15 +1200 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 07:18:57PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:04:40 +1200 > > Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > > > > > Hint: unstable does not mean buggy. > > > > > > > In theory. > > And in practice. All software has bugs, and hopefully most of the > showstoppers are caught before the package passes to testing, but that > is not the reason unstable is called unstable. Yes, I know that, I've been using it for years. There is definitely a tendency for it to be buggy, as it takes relatively new upstream releases. > > > LXDE has been uninstallable for weeks after being broken by an > > update and the Iceweasel in the repository has four grave bugs. > > There's a bug somewhere systemy, I think in GTK, which makes a > > number of scroll bars misbehave. > > Unstable was, IIRC, referred to as the developers playground. More so in the months after a stable release... > > > Synaptic has been occasionally freezing, sometimes taking > > the whole X display with it, for some weeks. > > Is this just for you? As an unstable user[1], the onus is on you to > help track down these issues. > > [1] Also, can be misinterpreted. :) > Probably just me, I have reported it but the person looking into it had trouble reproducing it. It isn't a segfault, it leaves nothing in any log, and it only happens after quite a few mouse clicks. I only use Synaptic when there's an upgrade logjam, so I don't see it often. It happened last night, and about four or five days ago. It looks to me, a layman, like some kind of multi-tasking cooperation problem, where Synaptic either refuses to take the baton or refuses to pass it on. Either way, a killall Synaptic from another terminal clears things. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130829090356.7f318...@jretrading.com