Bug#1065666: Compiz 0.8.18 appears to be broken in testing

2024-03-08 Thread James Bielefeldt
Hi
This address is listed as a maintainer on the Compiz package search page.
0.8.18 black screens on boot after a recent update when building a iso with
livebuild. I have been building the xfce-Compiz iso for about 4 months
without issue. The xfce (testing amd64) iso is built without errors, but it
is unusable with the black screen. Rebuilding the source package does not
fix it. I cant seem to get any more info with the black screen,
ctrl+alt+F(any number) stays a black screen and booting into safe mode also
results in a black screen. Xfce images without compiz build and work fine.

Thanks
Jim


Bug#1065666: Compiz 0.8.18 appears to be broken in testing

2024-03-08 Thread James Bielefeldt
Not sure if this helps, but I keep package lists of each build. Here is 
a diff of 2/24 build (works) vs 3/24 (broken). 
https://spins.tuxfamily.org/package-list-diff.txt I dont know if any 
changes would break compiz, but at least its more info.


Jim

On 3/6/24 11:25, Steve Langasek wrote:

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 06:19:48PM +0100, Colomban Wendling wrote:

Le 06/03/2024 à 17:31, Steve Langasek a écrit :

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 03:46:41PM +0100, Colomban Wendling wrote:

Anyway, I'm CCing Steve (who did the unstable NMU) and Samuel in case they
have extra clues.

The only change in the NMU was to rename the libdecoration0 package to
libdecoration0t64 for the 64-bit time_t transition.  Unless this managed to
break the *contents* of that package (i.e. the library has gone missing),
this should not have had any effect on the behavior of compiz.

So the package has not been rebuilt with different flags or anything?

Not *deliberately* as part of this upload.  The only change to flags should
be on 32-bit architectures, excluding i386.  I have assumed you are not
trying to run compiz on one of these archs!

But the toolchain also evolves over time, so this could certainly be a
misbuild due to underlying changes.


Anyway, I hardly expect this to be an issue, I just wanted to eliminate the
only Compiz-side change that happened in the last months.