Bug#372077: Scary message on new installations
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:19:59PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > IME, it only lists NEWS.Debian files on upgrades... > > Mine as well. I had a ton of clueless users early on in the transition to > 7.0 because I had documented things in NEWS.Debian, which they were never > shown because the package was new. I don't want to go down that road again. > > - David Nusinow Now in #372077 also. hth gst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#372077: Scary message on new installations
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:53:56PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > Right, but it might be a sufficient hint so that aptitude, and maybe apt, > > will do the right thing. > > This change *will* be sufficient to allow aptitude and apt to do the right > thing *in a greater number of cases*. Just how large a coverage this will > give, I can't say -- the only good way to find out is to try it and see what > upgrade testers have to say about it. > > > Ok... I'll lower the priority of the note to medium and add the > > xserver-xfree86 dummy package. Hopefully that'll be sufficient. As > > discussed elsewhere, I'd prefer to use NEWS.Debian, but it won't be shown > > to the user in this case, so a medium priority debconf abusing note should > > suffice. > > What do you mean, "in this case"? I don't see why NEWS.Debian is any less > appropriate here than in other cases. Is there some concern about > apt-listchanges not listing NEWS files for newly-installed packages? > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#372077: Scary message on new installations
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > appropriate here than in other cases. Is there some concern about > > apt-listchanges not listing NEWS files for newly-installed packages? > > IME, it only lists NEWS.Debian files on upgrades... > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scary message on new installations
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:06:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:48:31AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > Would putting back xserver-xfree86 as a transitional package suffice? Since > > I don't know how to reproduce this problem locally, my best guess is that > > the server gets removed due to the conflict with x11-common and then > > nothing is able to install the new one because xserver-xorg doesn't exist > > to be marked for upgrade. Putting back an empty xserver-xfree86 that pulls > > in xserver-xorg should suffice in this corner case, letting us remove the > > note all together. > > It is still valid for aptitude to remove xserver-xfree86, even as a > transitional package, if the old version is conflicted with. There's > nothing in our packaging system that lets you mark a particular package as > "not to be removed on upgrade". A dummy xserver-xfree86 package may fix > this for most users, though. Bugreport #372077 has now this information also. I hope this helps, Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#372077: untested idea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 23 June 2006 18:34, Geert Stappers wrote: > > +# (ugly?) workaround for #372077 > > +##x-org x-server/remove/warning/note seen > > This is a possible (but not optimal workaround for in Debian Installer). > We may implement something like this, but it does not really belong in > this bug report. Please ignore. Yes, it is intented for d-i. Sorry to the X-org people for the invinieance (and spell errors ;- ) Cheers Geert Stappers -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEnCNkOSINbgwa/7sRAvgHAJ4tqMLyDqb711cUfFStEnjLrzfDLACgrD6g sYxj1cDUFSs5O1RYIsruuTs= =poBm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#372077: untested idea
Index: installer/build/unstable.cfg === --- installer/build/unstable.cfg(revision 38374) +++ installer/build/unstable.cfg(working copy) @@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ # builds and development builds. d-i mirror/udeb/suite string unstable d-i mirror/udeb/suite seen false + +# (ugly?) workaround for #372077 +##x-org x-server/remove/warning/note seen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#286135: Are you sure it's not a mesa related bug?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:31:05PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > I tried setting the RADEON_NO_VTXFMT environment variable, as mentioned > in #273651, and it worked. > > Try executing: > RADEON_NO_VTXFMT=1 blender > And hopefully this should work. > > There is also a mention of the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT environment > variable in that report too. You could try this if the other variable > does not help you. LIBGL_DEBUG=1 LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 RADEON_NO_VTXFMT=1 blender does also crash the X-server. I'm not sure if also did get the grey screen (blender background?) without any environment variable setting. So it could be an improvement. Cheers Geert Stappers signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#286135: x-server information
Hello, Attachment xserver information Cheers Geert This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs). XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 20040709050738 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.25-powerpc-smp ppc [ELF] Build Date: 09 July 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.25-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (version gcc 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 13 23:10:16 2005 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No symbols found Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No symbols found Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No symbols found Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No symbols found Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0 SESSION_MANAGER=local/bahrain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6300 GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 65000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1048 hend: 1184 httl: 1344 vdsp: 768 vbeg: 771 vend: 777 vttl: 806 flags: 10 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 6314, errno = 0 The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 6353, errno = 0 The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'gnome-cups-icon' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'gnome-terminal' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. xinit: connection to X server lost.
Re: Bug#286135: hardware info from the submitter
Hello X-server maintainers. Here hardware information from the bug submitter. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 745/755 temperature : 15-17 C (uncalibrated) clock : 600MHz revision: 51.17 (pvr 0008 3311) bogomips: 1196.03 machine : PowerBook4,1 motherboard : PowerBook4,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : 0003 detected as : 257 (iBook 2) pmac flags : 000b L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 640MB pmac-generation : NewWorld [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ (lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort :00:0b.0 0600: 106b:0027 :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP :00:10.0 0300: 1002:4c46 (rev 02) :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) :10:0b.0 0600: 106b:0028 :10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI :10:17.0 ff00: 106b:0025 :10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O :10:18.0 0c03: 106b:0026 :10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB :10:19.0 0c03: 106b:0026 :10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB :20:0b.0 0600: 106b:0029 :20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI :20:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0030 :20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire :20:0f.0 0200: 106b:0024 :20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ lspci -vvs 0:10.0 :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ lspci -nvvs 0:10.0 :00:10.0 0300: 1002:4c46 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1002:4c46 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ Cheers Geert Stappers (next info is from the X-server) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
