Bug#338828: Is this a race condition / timing problem

2006-03-19 Thread Markus E Leypold

Hi all,

I had the same problem (some, sometimes all, applets on the
bottom panel dying "unexpectedly" on login) with a machine I'll call
Box-1 for now.

Originally I thought that Box-1's mainboard or processor was faulty
(thus leading to spurious segementation faults killing the applets).

But today I installed a totally different machine (call it Box-2) on
which the problem occurs not only sometimes on login, but is, so far,
100% reproducible (i.e. occurs on all logins).

Both, Box-1 and Box-2 have been installed with Debian Sarge 3.1.0a /
i386 by booting from CD-1 and pulling the rest of the packages over the
internet.

Since both machines are somewhat older and slower (700 Mhz Athlon and
350 Mhz Amd/K6_2) than the average, I keep wondering wether this might
be a timing problem (i.e. the applets crash because some other part of
gnome is slow in starting and is not yet providing some required
functionality at the moment).

Anyway: I'd would be happy to help to resolve that issue.

Correction: Just discovered, it does not occur on all logins, but on
almost all. Can't see a pattern yet.

Regards -- Markus E Leypold.


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Bug#308968: severity 308968 grave

2005-05-31 Thread Markus E Leypold


severity 308968 grave

If I understand the severities right, grave is 'makes the package in
question unusable or mostly so ..'. OK. No De-localization makes the
package unusable (at least for my users :-). They won't even be able
to read or understand the error message 'The language of Enigmail does
not correspond to the language of your application!  Enigmail can
therefore NOT work.'. 

I'm not sure, wether enigmail then actually refuses to do anything or
wether it will work (albeit with an english user
interface). Regardless: It makes no difference. An application, whose
dialogs cannot be understood by the users might as well be considered
as not working for all practical purposes.

I'd be really, really thankful to the maintainers, if the localization
package found it's way into sarge. Thanks for your work, guys (and
please make it available :-).

Regards -- markus




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Bug#308968: It makes mozilla unusable ...

2005-05-31 Thread Markus E Leypold

Alexander Sack schrieb:
> Is enigmail really unusable for you or is the messages just not appropriate?

It makes mozilla unusable ...  
... in circumstances, where you (1) insist that your users use
encryption and (2) you got english speaking users. And believe me: The
prototypical "user" usually doesn't speak english well, and in former
eastern germany he/she usually doesn't understand it at all (this are
~ 10-20 Million pontential users ...).

Personally I'd absolutely NEED the german locale for my german
speaking users. No locale - no encryption. I'd have to backport it on
my own. 

A bad beginning with sarge, since I'd consider mozilla (and enigmail,
if we are ever serious about security) rather a core desktop
application.

Getting users to use encryption is hard enough. Without a german user
interface to the encryption in their favorite mail client it's just
impossible.

Regards -- markus




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