Re: multiple KDE segfault issues

2011-11-15 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: (...) kdm currently segfaults during kdm-greeting. To reproduce, enter your login name and tab to the password entry field: kdm will immediately segfault and reinitialize. Using gdm3 to access the KDE4 environment

Bug#648761: webkit: FTBFS on Alpha: arch missing from 01_double-conversion.patch

2011-11-14 Thread Bob Tracy
Source: webkit Version: 1.6.1-5 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Dear Maintainer, This actually applies to 1.6.1-4 as well. The Alpha architecture passes the test mentioned in

multiple KDE segfault issues

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Tracy
I figured the subject was probably as good a summary of what I'm seeing as anything else... Here's the observed current state of the major graphical environments on Alpha: (1) Gnome-3 gdm3 works. After login, screen is black except for mouse pointer. Logging in remotely and looking at

webkit 1.6.1-4

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Just an update for those who have been following along and maybe waiting for news... Successfully built the subject package over the course of the past two weeks. Huge amount of disk space required, not to mention RAM + swap. The process put my poor old 433au to the test in many ways :-(. The

[FTBFS] epiphany-browser 3.0.4-1

2011-10-31 Thread Bob Tracy
(Just a heads-up here because the problem is being worked upstream.) See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643376 for details. Summary: dpkg upgrades have turned on format string security for some builds, and the subject version of epiphany-browser got speared. This applies to

Re: [FTBFS] epiphany-browser 3.0.4-1

2011-10-31 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:27:59AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: (...) epiphany-browser depends on webkit and the new version of webkit FTBFS too. (...) #$%@! I guess I'm just about to run into that problem, then. Just got done upgrading glib2.0, which was another epiphany-browser

Re: [FTBFS] epiphany-browser 3.0.4-1

2011-10-31 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:53:25PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Thanks for the additional detail on the webkit build failure. I'll take a closer look and see if a likely solution presents itself. Could the webkit fix *really* be this easy? Here's a modified version of the current webkit debian

desktop reset

2011-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
I know this isn't the place to ask, but the amount of dreck returned by Google on the subject is generally either incomplete or just plain wrong. I also figure fellow Alpha users have been here :-(. Recent upgrades to KDE (now KDE4) and Gnome (now Gnome 3) have left me without a working GUI. I

Re: gcc default

2011-10-26 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:29:36PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: (...) Does anyone object to me requesting the gcc maintainers to default gcc to gcc-4.6 on Alpha? Might as well increase the number of testers, eh? :-) Go for it. Besides, I was beginning to wonder when I could safely reduce the

[BUG] console-kit-daemon

2011-10-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Maybe... Might not be consolekit at all... I used ssh to login on my alpha this morning, and a simple ps -ef triggered the following (retrieved from the physical console when the ps hung): Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0010 console-kit-dae(2477): Oops 0

Re: new X server doesn't find input devices

2011-10-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:51:47AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Perhaps a stupid question, but does it then follow that the Xserver AutoAddDevices functionality depends only on things entirely within X? That would at least narrow down the target audience for a bug report... Never mind: I

Re: new X server doesn't find input devices

2011-10-10 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:06:23AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 21:08:11 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Dunno... Something in the hal -- dbus -- udev chain might be broken, or maybe the mechanism Xserver uses to access what hal knows about isn't quite right. Regardless

new X server doesn't find input devices

2011-10-09 Thread Bob Tracy
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Re: new X server doesn't find input devices

2011-10-09 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:57:47AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On 10/10/11 07:18, Bob Tracy wrote: Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see the following I think I remember seeing in older X server releases: [59.191] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices

iceweasel-6.0.2

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Tracy
Woo-HOO! I'm pleased to announce a successful Alpha build of iceweasel 6.0.2-1, xulrunner-6.0 6.0.2-1, and libmozjs6d 6.0.2-1. I would *like* to make the .deb packages available for interested parties to download and test, but I don't have the bandwidth locally. Assuming someone offers me an

Re: iceweasel-6.0.2

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:04:24PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: I presume there are patches to make it all work? Posting those is a good place to start. Need to get in touch with the package maintainer to determine how to proceed. I fear the odds of a workable solution are slim. Among other

Re: iceweasel-6.0.2

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:04:07AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On 30/09/2011, at 7:47 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: (broken optimizer) Which compiler version? The default gcc-4.4? Maybe gcc-4.5 or gcc-4.6 would be better? There is a bug report of bad optimisation in gcc-4.4 (#566195) which

telepathy-glib test issues

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Tracy
Gr... The telepathy-glib package appears to be building correctly, but the tests are time-sensitive and some of them fail randomly based on whether the package is being built on the console (relatively fast I/O) or over a remote network connection (somewhat slower I/O). The problem is that

Re: telepathy-glib test issues

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:47:21AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Gr... The telepathy-glib package appears to be building correctly, but the tests are time-sensitive and some of them fail randomly based on whether the package is being built on the console (relatively fast I/O) or over a remote

Re: telepathy-glib 0.15.5-1 test issues

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On the Alpha platform, the telepathy-glib package appears to be building correctly, but the tests are time-sensitive and some of them fail randomly based on whether the package is being built on the console (relatively fast I/O

Re: toolchain updates

2011-09-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:55:04AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: I would check that you have perl version 5.12.x installed. I still recommend running 'apt-get install build-essential' as that may upgrade other stuff such as make, dpkg, etc. Since you are building packages yourself you should

toolchain updates

2011-09-08 Thread Bob Tracy
The piecemeal upgrade approach I've tried seems to have paid off, at least slightly... apt-get install gcc-4.4 libc6.1 libc6.1-dev resulted in only seven package removals: libgnome2-perl, libgnome2-vfs-perl, libperl5.10, libpurple0, libsvn-perl, pidgin, and svn-buildpackage. None seem critical.

[BUG] libgcc1 1:4.5.3-8

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Tracy
No idea how it got missed, but simple hello world C programs wouldn't compile due to a missing libgcc_s.so -- libgcc_s.so.1 symlink. If ldconfig is responsible for creating that symlink, then ldconfig is broken. libc-bin on my system is version 2.11.2-13. I'm guessing some kind of multi-arch

Re: [BUG] libgcc1 1:4.5.3-8

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:39:47AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 08/09/11 04:39, Bob Tracy wrote: (...) libgcc_s.so -- libgcc_s.so.1 symlink (missing). (...) Indeed. You need to update libc and gcc. (...) Make sure that you have libc6.1, libc-bin, etc., at version 2.13-18, gcc-4.4

Re: [BUG] libgcc1 1:4.5.3-8

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:55:45AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: It's good to see you giving this all a go! We need more people who are prepared to get their hands dirty and start trying out the unstable alpha distribution and make reports on how it is going. Something about fools rushing in

Re: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:21:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: (...) Many have failed because of a broken ghostscript install. Unfortunately the newest ghostscript failed to build but I plan to have a closer look at that in the next couple of days. So ignore any packages with the error: Can't

Re: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:22:27AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 06/09/11 04:07, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:21:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: (...) Many have failed because of a broken ghostscript install. Unfortunately the newest ghostscript failed to build but I plan

Re: more Alpha package updates

2011-08-06 Thread Bob Tracy
Started down the rabbit hole that is gnome package building :-(. Eventually ran into a build dependency conflict that required forcing the configuration of a built and installed-but-unconfigured package (libgtk-3-dev) to allow one of its dependencies (dconf-gsettings-backend) to be built. Not

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:05:02PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:32:11AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: We'll see how the ghostscript build goes today. Done. I'll give it a cursory going-over this evening, i.e., try to print something. (...) Couldn't wait: logged

more Alpha package updates

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Tracy
(The original subject header was getting old...) Python 2.6.7-4 built successfully. Here's the resulting package list: idle-python2.6_2.6.7-4_all.deb libpython2.6_2.6.7-4_alpha.deb python2.6_2.6.7-4_alpha.deb python2.6-dbg_2.6.7-4_alpha.deb python2.6-dev_2.6.7-4_alpha.deb

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-08-03 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:33:45PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: (...) So, I would not be surprised if building ghostscript is still two week's away. ACK. Current backlog of packages on my system that are upgradable but being kept back (according to apt-get) currently numbers 120. Mostly, if

Re: ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-08-03 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:32:11AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: We'll see how the ghostscript build goes today. Done. I'll give it a cursory going-over this evening, i.e., try to print something. Here's the list of binary packages: ghostscript_9.02~dfsg-3_alpha.deb ghostscript-cups_9.02~dfsg

ghostscript packages for Alpha

2011-07-21 Thread Bob Tracy
So... As it turns out, printing on my alpha has been broken for a while. Tracing back through the logs, the root cause is a missing gs_init.ps file, which really isn't missing: there's a version mismatch between the package providing the file, and the package needing the file. Here are the

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-07-15 Thread Bob Tracy
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Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:52PM +0200, 'Aurelien Jarno' wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: (...) So there seem to be some files/packages missing? The build daemons on alpha have been shutdown for more than a month, so a lot of packages are out of

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:28:42PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: I had some time today to try again an upgrade of my AlphaStation 500 to linux-image-2.6.38-2-alpha-generic. I got again an error on loading the xfs.ko module from initrd (I typed it manually from the boot screen to this

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:49:33AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 19/05/2011, at 12:51 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: Has anyone stepped forward to provide alpha build daemons? Yes, Bill and Witold have set up build daemons and we have communicated with the debian-ports maintainer (off list

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-16 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:36:37AM +0200, Witold Baryluk wrote: Good work! Keep testing, run some benchmarks please. I im interested about improvements from interpreted JS from 3.6 to interpreted JS in 4.0 :) I don't have anything formal in the way of benchmarks. However, a web site I visit

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:02:06PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: Nice! Thanks... Could you send through those patches to get 4.0.1 working please? Attached. They're small enough to risk offending the few debian-alpha subscribers who might not be interested :-). (...) But as Witold has pointed

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool chain updates and the huge size of the mozilla code base makes for tedious debugging. --Bob -- To

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool chain updates and the huge size

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:12:36AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also on iceweasel in experimental? Just

firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-06 Thread Bob Tracy
and install, just for the sake of having the yasm documentation available. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

2011-03-29 Thread Bob Tracy
(Recipient list is getting a bit unwieldy. That's not necessarily a bad thing :-). Delighted to see all the interest in Alpha, even if it took the community a while to wake up.) Agreed that Steve Langasek is a logical/necessary person to contact if this revival has a chance of succeeding. As

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-02-24 Thread Bob Tracy
49-or-so packages). That's more excitement than I wanted this evening: local time is now 0424 and I've been up since 0700 yesterday :-(. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r

recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-02-23 Thread Bob Tracy
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Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-02-23 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:02:03AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Running dpkg --configure udev gives me the following: udevd[pid]: inotify_init failed: Function not implemented udevd[pid]: error initializing inotify and the post-installation script fails. So... What's missing

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:44:10PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 12/08/10 07:14, Bob Tracy wrote: firefox-3.5.4 build with gcc/g++-4.2.4 completed moments ago, and it works. On to 3.5.5: not going to mess with gcc/g++-4.4.5 for the time being -- each build is taking somewhere in the vicinity

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:08:32AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Well, 3.5.5 is where the problem seems to have been introduced. Regardless of the toolchain and firefox version, the stack backtrace looks something like this (for the illegal instruction fault in libxul.so): nsComponentManagerImpl

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:22:41AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: The few intermediate functions (in case they're significant in this context) are: CallGetService() nsGetServiceByCIDWithError::operator()() nsCOMPtr_base::assign_from_gs_cid_with_error() nsCOMPtrnsIProxyObjectManager::nsCOMPtr

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:25:00PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Some impactful (yet minor looking) changes were made to xpcom/glue/nsThreadUtils.[cpp,h]. Replacing the 3.5.5 versions of these two files with their 3.5.4 counterparts and rebuilding yielded a functional 3.5.5. The same workaround

Re: firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:57:37PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: There's icedtea6-plugin, but it looks like it's not available for alpha at the moment. Thanks for the pointer: I'll look into it. firefox-3.5.4 build with gcc/g++-4.2.4 completed moments ago, and it works. On to 3.5.5: not

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-09 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 10:28:58PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: And another to add to the list discovered while trying to send emails to the Debian bug tracker (how ironic): 9) Icedove regularly crashes while composing emails. On a positive note I see that OpenOffice.org is now in the Alpha

firefox-3.6.8

2010-08-05 Thread Bob Tracy
Having successfully upgraded to sid, I'm in the process of trying a firefox-3.6.8 build from the mozilla source tree (modulo the usual small patches for alpha). I was pleased to find that a 3.5.3 build I made before my primary hard disk died works with an up-to-date sid: symbol reference errors

Re: current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:14:02PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told the following so far: Thinking about that list further we should add: 8) Xorg only works on bwx capable Alphas. I did

current state of sid (unstable)

2010-08-03 Thread Bob Tracy
Long time, no involvement :-(. A primary hard disk failure a number of months ago took the wind out of my sails, and I wasn't sure I wanted to reengage on this particular battlefield. In the final analysis, I don't have the time I once did, but in a perverse kind of way, it's kinda fun. So...

Lenny installation successful

2010-02-26 Thread Bob Tracy
with 1024x768x24 if I really needed to run at that depth. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin

CD tray won't stay closed

2010-02-25 Thread Bob Tracy
some kind of weird Linux+controller issue. If that's the case, anyone got an idea how I might work around it? (I'll provide the controller error messages from syslog if the problem persists with the new drive.) -- Bob Tracy

Re: CD tray won't stay closed

2010-02-25 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:22:28PM +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote: I installed Lenny on my PWS500au a while agao - without CD drive trouble. On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:46, Bob Tracy wrote: (...) Found a Toshiba IDE CD-RW drive for $9 that I'll try this evening. If the problem

Does SRM care what IDE optical drive it sees?

2010-02-25 Thread Bob Tracy
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advanced debian-installer interaction

2010-02-25 Thread Bob Tracy
consoles, did a ps to get the process ID of aptitude, and did the following: # cd /proc/pid/fd # echo Yes 0 Lo and behold, that did the trick. I *do* love /proc :-). -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must

rebuilding PWS 433au

2010-02-23 Thread Bob Tracy
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Miata boot drive dead

2010-02-21 Thread Bob Tracy
. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

Re: Re: /debian/dists/testing/Contents-alpha* missing

2009-10-30 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:50:29PM +0100, Uwe Schindler wrote: But unstable should still work? Or is it even broken therefore? :/ Unstable still works: thanks for the reminder. However, Alpha users will, of necessity, have to get a bit more involved in troubleshooting and/or fixing problems. I

Re: /debian/dists/testing/Contents-alpha* missing

2009-10-30 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:04:38AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: (...) But I really don't have the time to become a Debian Alpha porter which is what I think is really needed if we are to score another official Alpha release. (...) Such is the lot of many of us, I'm afraid :-(. I don't mind

/debian/dists/testing/Contents-alpha* missing

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Tracy
Has testing officially gone bye-bye for Alpha? Or is the unavailability of the index files a temporary glitch? Thanks... --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[BUG] 2.6.32-rc5 build failure on Alpha

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds:241: undefined symbol `THREAD_SIZE' referenced in expression make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must

Re: [BUG] 2.6.32-rc5 build failure on Alpha

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:53:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Mainline 2.6.32-rc5 kernel build failure. The last few lines of the kernel build output are: LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: saved_config [vmlinux] is COMMON symbol GEN .version CHK include/linux

Re: [BUG] 2.6.32-rc5 build failure on Alpha

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:53:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Mainline 2.6.32-rc5 kernel build failure. The last few lines of the kernel build output are: LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: saved_config [vmlinux] is COMMON symbol GEN .version CHK include/linux

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-27 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:23:25AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: (...) There is an x86 emulator in the Xserver and it can read and use the video BIOS. On my Radeon 9200 the int10 code loads fine and I get the message: (II) RADEON(0): Legacy BIOS detected The Xserver can now POST video

Xserver working on Alpha - finally

2009-10-27 Thread Bob Tracy
(Thought it was time for a new subject...) Brief synopsis of story thus far... Upgraded X11 infrastructure in the hope of fixing whatever the updates to Testing broke several months ago. The new server and radeon driver almost worked: mouse cursor was normal brightness, but the rest of the

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-26 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:05:10PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Bob Tracy wrote: Long story short: 1.7.0.902 fixed the problems with modules not loading because of undefined symbols, but the end result is no better than what I reported for the earlier 1.7.0 version. The mouse cursor is normal

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
Long story short: 1.7.0.902 fixed the problems with modules not loading because of undefined symbols, but the end result is no better than what I reported for the earlier 1.7.0 version. The mouse cursor is normal brightness, but the display is otherwise extremely dim: it's so dim it appears to be

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-20 Thread Bob Tracy
. In that spirit, 1.7.0.902 (which includes your patch) was announced hot on the heels of your posting. I'll give it a spin later today when I've got time to build it. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 02:56:49PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:38:11AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38:33PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Unfortunately Alpha disappears from Debian testing just before we get a working Xserver... That has

Re: X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38:33PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: Unfortunately Alpha disappears from Debian testing just before we get a working Xserver... That has been the most frustrating aspect of this whole journey. Xserver has been broken in testing for over a month and a half. I assure

X11 server on alpha -- update

2009-10-15 Thread Bob Tracy
:-). -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

Re: current status of alpha in squeeze

2009-10-08 Thread Bob Tracy
of unstable and experimental packages. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats

gnome-settings-daemon fixed in testing

2009-09-25 Thread Bob Tracy
. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

[BUG] recent squeeze X11 updates causing SIGSEGV on startup

2009-09-14 Thread Bob Tracy
? -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

Re: [BUG] recent squeeze X11 updates causing SIGSEGV on startup

2009-09-14 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:27:28 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: Hi, Thanks for the report. I was getting the exact same failure as you. The crash

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-04 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:50 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:08:00PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: I'd like to drop support for non-BWX Alphas

Re: [RFC] Dropping Alpha sparse mapping support from X

2009-09-03 Thread Bob Tracy
. -- Bob Tracy | Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit r...@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken

Re: Bug#541402: alpha: plasma segfault on kde4 startup

2009-08-30 Thread Bob Tracy
ACK on the below indicated packages. I won't have any free time to devote to this until this coming Thursday, but I *will* do what I can to help. Thanks! --Bob On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:55:35AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: tag 541402 +help thanks On Thursday 13 August 2009 23:24:38 Bob

anyone successfully using KDE4 on Alpha?

2009-08-13 Thread Bob Tracy
mean to imply otherwise. -- Bob Tracy | Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

squeeze: graphical environment broken

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Tracy
... -- Bob Tracy | Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ

followup: squeeze: graphical environment broken

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Tracy
is, the terminal window in the hung gnome session continues to function when the window manager dies. -- Bob Tracy | Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy

Re: squeeze: graphical environment broken

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Tracy
on and how. -- Bob Tracy | Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Installing on a Alpha XL 300

2009-04-14 Thread Bob Tracy
... -- Bob Tracy | Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. r...@frus.com | -- Bill Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ

man-db_2.5.4-1 broken on Alpha

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Tracy
) = ? -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did r...@frus.com | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew on /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: man-db_2.5.4-1 broken on Alpha

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:02:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:54:34PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Fix by upgrading to man-db_2.5.4-2 (currently in the unstable repository). If it's fixed by upgrading to the unstable version, I don't see that there's anything

Re: man-db_2.5.4-1 broken on Alpha

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:36:44PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I think you mean 'squeeze' here. :) You reported that this was a problem with 2.5.4-1, not 2.5.2-4; 2.5.4-1 is not in lenny. I'm an idiot... I'll go away now :-). When lenny went live, I stayed with testing and a dist-upgrade to

Re: The State of Alpha Linux

2009-01-09 Thread Bob Tracy
, that :-). -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did r...@frus.com | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew on /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Iceweasel fully working again with xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1 upgrade

2008-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
difficulties due to previously reported compiler optimization and ld relax issues. -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew

Re: Iceweasel fully working again with xulrunner-1.9.0.4-1 upgrade

2008-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:39:49AM -0600, Bob Tracy r...@gherkin.frus.com wrote: Same results here. One of my problem web pages is associated with an on-line banking site (Java and flash used somewhat gratuitously): iceweasel

Re: Bug#492488: Reproduction of the Iceweasel crashes.

2008-11-02 Thread Bob Tracy
, tracking down optimizer bugs is not my idea of fun... -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew

cacao package issues

2008-10-23 Thread Bob Tracy
the build. Later today I'll get around to doing a bit of testing to see if I've got a working setup. In the meantime, I opened a bug against cacao (503164) to report the probable packaging error. -- Bob Tracy | I

Re: firefox-3.0.3 working on alphaev56

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:35:10AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: I finished the no debug, no optimization build last night, but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Well, crud... I ended up with something that wasn't quite a debug build, but wasn't quite no debug either. A couple of shared libraries

Re: firefox-3.0.3 working on alphaev56

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:45:41AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:35:10AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: I finished the no debug, no optimization build last night, but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Well, crud... I ended up with something that wasn't quite a debug build

Re: firefox-3.0.3 working on alphaev56

2008-10-20 Thread Bob Tracy
. -- Bob Tracy | I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did [EMAIL PROTECTED] | get all the bugs out. - Steve McGrew on /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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