Bug#1021685: upgrading from 40.1-1 to 43.0-2 breaks xfce

2022-11-09 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Is this bug going to be looked into? This is still a problem preventing me from upgrading the package. If there is additional information that could be collected let me know the steps to collect the information. Brent On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:33:53 -0500 "Brent S. Elmer" wrote: > Package:

Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

2017-04-20 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 17:20 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > > Ok, suspicion confirmed. Run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and drop > ::1 > from the listening interfaces. > > cu Andreas Yes, that fixed it. Thanks

Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

2017-04-19 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 18:45 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2017-04-17 "Brent S. Elmer Ph.D." <webe...@aim.com> wrote: > [...] > > paniclog and mainlog contains this: > > 2017-04-17 14:30:26 IPv6 socket creation failed: Address family not > > supported

Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

2017-04-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 18:50 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2017-04-17 "Brent S. Elmer Ph.D." <webe...@aim.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-04-15 at 13:33 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > On 2017-04-14 "Brent S. Elmer" <webe...@aim.com> wrote: &

Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

2017-04-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Sat, 2017-04-15 at 13:33 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2017-04-14 "Brent S. Elmer" wrote: > > Package: exim4 > > Version: 4.89-1 > > Severity: normal > > I upgraded packages in stretch and there was a problem upgrading > > exim4.  When I > > try to do a reinstall of exim4

Bug#851321: Found the problem

2017-01-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I found the problem. I had LD_LIBRARY_PATH set and it was picking up some libkrb5* libraries from there. After I removed that directory from LD_LIBRARY_PATH, import cv2 worked fine.

Bug#845216: fails to upgrade/install

2016-11-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 14:51 -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Hi, > > A log file is generated that would show the exact error.  Can you > include it please? > > > This file... /tmp/elc_xITXzf.log > Here it is.emacs23 -batch --no-site-file --multibyte --eval (setq load-path (cons "."

Bug#842403: jetty8 install fails on stretch

2016-11-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 11:29 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the report. jetty8 has been removed from stretch and > replaced by jetty9. The jetty9 package is quite similar, could you > give > it a try and see if it's affected by the same issue please? > > Thank you, > >

Bug#842195: patch

2016-11-04 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have found a fix thanks to Tibor Boesze. He fixed an older version of Ubuntu so I applied the fix to debian. The only change is in /auth-dialog/main.c. @@ -997,6 +997,7 @@ static int get_config (GHashTable *optio   if (csd_wrapper && !csd_wrapper[0])  

Bug#822964: Have to click connect twice before login dialogue opens

2016-05-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 15:08 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:23:52 -0500, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > > > > gnome-shell current stretch version 3.18.1-1 > Do you have another desktop environment (e.g. xfce) you can try? > > > > >

Bug#822964: Have to click connect twice before login dialogue opens

2016-04-29 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:37 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: >  > Can you say which graphical tool you are using to connect to the VPN? > If > gnome-shell or gnome-control-center network, which version? Does the > same behavior occur with "nmcli con up VPN-NAME"? When it does occur, > do > you see a

Bug#804183: upgrade to 1.10.4-1 creates circular inclusion

2015-11-23 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I just installed 1.10.4-1 and the circular inclusion came back. Setting up dbus (1.10.4-1) ... A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon. Please reboot the system when convenient. Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Circular inclusion of file '/etc/dbus-1/system.conf.dpkg-bak'

Bug#804183: upgrade to 1.10.4-1 creates circular inclusion

2015-11-23 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 01:13 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 23/11/15 20:11, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: > > My system may have been in an odd state due to this bug causing the > > 1.10.4-1 upgrade to perpetuate the circular dependency.  How do I > > get > > my s

Bug#804183: dbus fails to start, circular inclusion of *.dpkg-bak

2015-11-09 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 15:09 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Control: retitle 804183 downgrading dbus from 1.10.2-1 leads to > circular inclusion of s*.conf.dpkg-bak > > Before upgrading to 1.10.2, had you modified /etc/dbus-1/s*.conf? > No. > Please show me anything relevant to dbus from

Bug#803112: same problem on integrated Intel graphics

2015-10-30 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have the same problem on a machine with integrated Intel graphics.  I have no xorg.conf on that machine. I only have one monitor connected but I get the black screen with mouse cursor in the middle which is unresponsive.  cntl alt f* also does not work.  This only started when upgrading to gdm3

Bug#803256: downgrading to 3.14.2-2 fixes the problem

2015-10-28 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I downgraded gdm3, gir1.2-gdm3, and libgdm1 to 3.14.2-2 and the problem went away.  Gnome starts after logging in without putting the laptop to sleep.

Bug#769942: almost always happens with import pdb;pdb.set_trace()

2015-10-16 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have noticed the bad behavior of loosing the gud window happens almost all of the time on inline debugging breaks.  Because setting breaks in python code really slows the running down, I place inline breaks like the following: import pdb;pdb.set_trace() When debugging in emacs24, the window

Bug#769942: problem still exists in 24.5+1-2

2015-10-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I just tried 24.5+1-2 for kicks.  The problem still occurs.  Going back to emacs23.

Bug#794237: nm upgrade from 9.10.0 to 1.0.6.0-2 breaks my openconnect vpn also

2015-10-13 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
When upgrading my computer, my openconnect vpn broke.  I finally narrowed it down to upgrading network-manager from the version in jessie to the version in stretch.  It is network-manager that is causing the trouble.  When network-manager only is upgraded, when I connect to my openconnect vpn, the

Bug#766900: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#766900: network-manager: postinst fails to restart NM

2015-04-30 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
54d80f8e.4000...@debian.org In-Reply-To: 54d80f8e.4000...@debian.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 02:38:22 +0100 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Is this problem

Bug#776018: filling log directory

2015-02-20 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
This bug is causing me a lot of grief as it is filling my /var/log directory and bringing my system down. Is there some way to set the logging level so that these messages don't show up? I think the bug level needs to be increased because it can bring a system down. Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#774790: setting security.tls.version.min does not stick between restarts

2015-01-12 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
-0600 Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com wrote: Aha, when I start in safe-mode, security.tls.version.min does show as 0 in the icedove config. I guess I need to see what plugins I have and try to figure out which one is causing the problem. Brent It is the plugin HTTPS

Bug#774790: setting security.tls.version.min does not stick between restarts

2015-01-11 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 13:11 +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Hello Brent, On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:53:09AM -0600, Brent S. Elmer wrote: In the README.Debian it tells how to set security.tls.version.min to 0. This works fine until icedove is stopped. Upon restart of icedove,

Bug#772851: hp5550c scanner that used to work now fails

2014-12-11 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
The scanner does not show up in scanimage -L unless I unplug it and plug it back in. When I do get it to show up in scanimage -L and then start simple-scan and go into preferences to make sure it uses the hp, I get the USB-in-USB errors and scanning does not work. After I kill simple scan with

Bug#729750: emacs24: GUD mode doesn't show prompt in several situations it should

2014-11-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 16:43 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com writes: GUD is also giving me problems in emacs24 that I never had in emacs23. I am debugging Python code using pdb and gud in emacs24. GUD usually opens by splitting the window with a pdb

Bug#729750: emacs24: GUD mode doesn't show prompt in several situations it should

2014-11-14 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
87siix4423@trouble.defaultvalue.org In-Reply-To: 87siix4423@trouble.defaultvalue.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit GUD is also giving me problems in emacs24 that I never had in emacs23. I am

Bug#766007: similar issues

2014-10-20 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have recently started getting similar issues. On sites that used to work, I am now getting this error: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to secure.marketwatch.com Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error

Bug#754407: error installing on 32bit jessie

2014-08-28 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 11:24 +0300, Christos Trochalakis wrote: Sorry for that, I meant: $ netstat -ntpl|grep :80 (as root) Also make sure that nginx is purged before installing it: $ apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full Yes, apache2 is already bound to port 80. -- To

Bug#757330: libvirt-daemon-system: fails to install

2014-08-27 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I am also getting an error with installing. I have an up to date jessie i386 system and I am getting the error E: Internal Error, No file name for libvirt-daemon-system:i386 I have not done anything at all with libvirt on my system other than let it upgrade when new versions come out. If I try

Bug#754407: error installing on 32bit jessie

2014-08-27 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 13:26 +0300, Christos Trochalakis wrote: Hello, nginx seems to install correctly for me. Based on your logs, it seems that another process has already binded port 80 when you are trying to install nginx. nginx-full postinst script can't start nginx since the port is

Bug#758148: similar old bug

2014-08-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:38:02 -0400 Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com wrote: I'm guessing that mutter would be a better place for this bug report. On my system, the following were updated on July 23, 2014 which would be the right time frame for when I started seeing the problem

Bug#758148: similar old bug

2014-08-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I found this old bug report and it looks very similar to what I am seeing. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605 In the report, in comment #36, it says to add export CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling to /etc/gdm/Xsession On my Debian jessie computer, I do not

Bug#758148: similar old bug

2014-08-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:40:00 -0400 Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com wrote: I found this old bug report and it looks very similar to what I am seeing. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605 In the report, in comment #36, it says to add export CLUTTER_PAINT=disable

Bug#758148: similar old bug

2014-08-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
1408116336.7040.3.camel@belmer In-Reply-To: 1408116336.7040.3.camel@belmer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.2-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:25:36 -0400 Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com wrote: I created a file

Bug#738702: same problem only different library

2014-05-23 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Is this the same problem: (gdb) run Starting program: /home/brente/atp_home/tests/fix_20140521/input/atp_bin/atp_engine warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1. Do you need set solib-search-path or set sysroot? Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#743220: gnome-backgrounds dies

2014-04-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I ran gnome-control-center from a terminal and clicked on change background and immediately got a segfault. Nothing shows in the terminal except 'Segmentation fault'. I found the following in syslog: kernel: [ 3943.042104] gnome-control-c[4050]: segfault at 9612000 ip b68d9159 sp bfa1ea60 error

Bug#742612: cups: error updating cups on AMD64 wheezy machine

2014-03-25 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: cups Version: 1.5.3-5+deb7u1 Severity: normal I get the following errors when updateing cups on my AMD64 wheezy computer: Setting up cups (1.5.3-5+deb7u1) ... insserv: warning: script 'K99modelersrv' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'rc.modeler' missing LSB tags

Bug#679918: update causing fallback to old gtk theme look

2014-03-20 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 14:19 +, althaser wrote: Hey Brent, this is an old bug report. Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer gnome-shell version like 3.4.2-7+deb7u1 or 3.8.4-5+b1 ? thanks regards althaser The bug has gone away. Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#685804: gnome-shell crash

2014-03-20 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 19:40 +, althaser wrote: Hey Brent, this is an old bug report. Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer gnome-shell version like 3.4.2-7+deb7u1 or 3.8.4-5+b1 ? thanks regards althaser The bug must have been fixed with subsequent

Bug#741550: python2.7:i386 fails to install on wheezy amd-64 system

2014-03-13 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.3-6 Severity: normal I am trying to install an i386 packages that is failing. There is a long string of i386 dependences for the package and when I try to install them one at a time, it comes down to the following: # apt-get install python2.7:i386 Reading package

Bug#728836: patch available upstream

2014-01-11 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
This bug has made evolution useless for me. According to the upstream bug report, this problem has been fixed in the 3.10 version. There is a 3.10 in debian experimental but it won't install due to dependency issues. I have a jessie system. To try and install the 3.10 version from

Bug#734779: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#734779: applet dropdown does not show VPN connected when it is

2014-01-10 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 22:58 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:06:53 -0500, Brent S. Elmer, Ph.D. wrote: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 01:48 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: reassign 734779 gnome-shell thanks Am 09.01.2014 20:03, schrieb Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.: Here is a screen shot

Bug#734779: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#734779: applet dropdown does not show VPN connected when it is

2014-01-09 Thread Brent S. Elmer, Ph.D.
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 01:48 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: reassign 734779 gnome-shell thanks Am 09.01.2014 20:03, schrieb Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.: Here is a screen shot showing what I mean. that screenshot shows gnome-shell, so re-assigning. Please provide the version of gnome-shell you

Bug#722217: legacy304 also

2013-12-19 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I am running legacy304, so it is not just legacy173. Brent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#732072: openafs-modules-dkms: openafs loses connection, backtrace on restart

2013-12-16 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 12:17 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com writes: On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 10:55 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Unfortunately, there's no data here to know why AFS got into an inconsistent state to start with. Are there any symptoms at all

Bug#732072: openafs-modules-dkms: openafs loses connection, backtrace on restart

2013-12-13 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: openafs-modules-dkms Version: 1.6.1-3+deb7u1 Severity: normal I have a recent new install of Debian Wheezy on a 64bit AMD Opteron box and have openafs-client installed. Openafs does work and I can access the afs directories. After a certain amount of timem, the afs directories are not

Bug#732072: openafs-modules-dkms: openafs loses connection, backtrace on restart

2013-12-13 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 10:55 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Unfortunately, there's no data here to know why AFS got into an inconsistent state to start with. Are there any symptoms at all beyond AFS directories not being accessible? Is this consistently reproducible on this system? No, I

Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:48 +, Simon McVittie wrote: On 18/11/13 14:35, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Kernel: Linux 3.10.7.130911 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) That's not a standard Debian kernel. My guess would be that some options required by systemd-logind are not enabled: in particular, it

Bug#729877: Re: Bug#729877: black screen with cursor no greeter

2013-11-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 19:11 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Yes, CONFIG_CGROUPS is needed atm, otherwise logind fails to create a session, then libpam-systemd doesn't set the required env variables (particularly XDG_SESSION_ID) and the greeter fails to run. (see bug #729674). I am

Bug#728836: evolution: imapx messages vanish

2013-11-06 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
The gnome upstream bug report I filed is 711549. On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 22:37 -0500, Brent wrote: Package: evolution Version: 3.8.5-2 Severity: important I have evolution set up to use Imapx. Starting this week, Evolution does not show all messages in my Imap Inbox and then the ones that

Bug#722217: dead in the water

2013-10-08 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 00:16 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:52:01PM -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: emacs, and sensord are segfaulting in libnvidia-tls. And what happens without this weird library? Bastian I don't know

Bug#722217: dead in the water

2013-10-06 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I am trying to recover my system somehow but a lot of applications are segfaulting making it very dificult. emacs, and sensord are segfaulting in libnvidia-tls. I tried to downgrade libc6 but that also required downgrading nvidia so I tried that too. The problem is that trying to downgrade

Bug#722217: same problem on 2 AMD systems

2013-10-04 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I upgraded 2 AMD systems with the upgrades that hit testing yesterday and had the same problem. Both of the systems happen to also be using the Nvidia graphics drivers. Both of the systems are broken today and will not start gdm3. I also see a segfault in at least 1 other process during the

Bug#605434: narrowed it down to version 1.4.4-5

2013-08-19 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 13:18 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: tags 605434 moreinfo thanks On Fri 22 Apr 2011 at 10:06:48 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: Using the debian snapshot repository, I have narrowed the issue down to the breakage occurring in version 1.4.4-5 as version 1.4.4-4

Bug#719761: brltty errors fill daemon.log

2013-08-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 15:26 +0200, Mario Lang wrote: Brent S. Elmer webe...@aim.com writes: Package: brltty Version: 4.5-2 Severity: normal My daemon.log file filled /var/log. The following brltty errors appeared over and over making the file huge: [...] Jun 23 07:37:14

Bug#710172: probably gtk upgrade that breaks Evolution

2013-07-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I just upgraded some packages on another machine. Scrolling was working in the evolution preview window with the mouse wheel before the following upgrade and broken after. I was not able to narrow it down further since it seems like all of these upgrades depend on each other. I'm guessing it is

Bug#714593: same here

2013-07-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
This bug hit me too. This is a really bad bug. This also makes me quite disappointed at how fragile gnome-shell is. How can a seemingly minor application like bluetooth totally break gnome-shell? The first computer this happened on didn't even have a bluetooth device yet if I try to remove

Bug#712668: initramfs-tools broken with latest move to jessie

2013-06-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 13:54 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Control: reassign -1 plymouth When I try and do a reinstall of initramfs-tools in synaptic, I get the following error: E: Internal Error, No file name for initramfs-tools:i386 Something appears to be badly broken. That

Bug#605434: emacs created .ps fine in ps viewers

2012-11-12 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
The emacs created .ps file not only works fine in ps2pdf, it also views fine in .ps file viewers like Evince and emacs docview. It seems that cups is the only place where it doesn't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#685764: black title bar on windows after metacity upgrade

2012-08-24 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:36 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: metacity Version: 1:2.34.3-3 Severity: important I upgraded metacity on my wheezy box yesterday. After the upgrade and after rebooting, all of my windows in gnome have black title bars and I can't see the minimize or

Bug#685764: black title bar on windows after metacity upgrade

2012-08-24 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 15:40 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 24.08.2012 15:32, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:36 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: metacity Version: 1:2.34.3-3 Severity: important Which version of gnome-shell and (lib)mutter do you have

Bug#685764: black title bar on windows after metacity upgrade

2012-08-24 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 16:10 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 24.08.2012 16:07, Michael Biebl wrote: I would suggest you upgrade mutter/gnome-shell (i.e. everything) to 3.4. That didn't work too well. When I upgraded everything to 3.4 and reboot the computer just to make sure, when I log into

Bug#685764: fixed ugly gnome

2012-08-24 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I found a way to fix the ugly old gtk look as from this link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/88154/how-can-i-restore-a-broken-theme-in-gnome-shell I removed ~/.config/dconf/ and re logged in and gnome looked right again. Now hopefully gnome-shell won't freeze as it was before when I tried 3.4.

Bug#679918: Revertinig to gnome-shell 3.2.2.1 fixes it

2012-07-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I reverted back to gnome-shell 3.2.2.1 and I no longer get the Oh no! message or the old gtk look. There is some kind of problem with the newer gnome-shell or its dependencies with the radeon X driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#676984: exim 4 upgrade breaks Python smtplib

2012-06-19 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I upgraded exim4 in wheezy this morning and I am getting the same gnome-keyring error as in this bug report. I am getting the error in a Python program that uses smtplib to send email. I used the snapshot directory to downgrade the exim4 packages in wheezy before today and the problem went away.

Bug#674026: Links in plain text emails still work

2012-06-05 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I noticed that links that are in plain text emails still work in evolution. Most email is not plain text anymore though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#670097: downgrading gnome-shell seems to help

2012-05-18 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On May 15 I upgraded gnome-shell and dependent modules. That corresponds to when gnome-shell started freezing. gnome-shell was freezing several times a day on my laptop. It has been a day and a half since downgrading and I have not had any freezes so far. Here is what I had to do to downgrade

Bug#670097: gnome-shell: random hang causes data loss

2012-05-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have had this problem on two different computers starting in the last day or two. Both are running Wheezy and I generally apply updates daily. One of the computers is a Lenovo w500 laptop with a radeon video card and I am using the free radeon video driver. The other is a desktop with an

Bug#659029: duplicate/outdated icons in applications menu

2012-02-07 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I have gotten rid of the .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications/menu-xdg. I had already uninstalled menu-xdg as postings on the web had said that that would help with the duplicate icons. I never intentionally put any of these .desktop files in these

Bug#659029: duplicate/outdated icons in applications menu

2012-02-07 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 16:21 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Do you have outdated desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications/? I removed all ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications/menu-xdg Do you have the Debian menu enabled (which would

Bug#653467: gtkpod: cannot mount ipod(Critical error)

2012-01-09 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:41 +0100, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: tags 653467 + unreproducible thanks -- Hi! Any news? I've asked a friend of mine to test the same situation with an iPod Shuffle like yours and he didn't get that weird message. Let me know something, or I'll consider

Bug#638012: still a problem

2011-12-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
This is still a problem. Is it going to be addressed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#563682: [shutter] window screenshot fails

2011-12-12 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:04:57AM -0500, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: Taking a screenshot of a window fails in shutter. When I try to take a screenshot of a window the shutter window just goes away. Here is the information in the terminal when I run shutter from the command line and try

Bug#642312: unhandled exception importing SHA26

2011-09-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:58 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: winpdb Version: 1.4.8-1 Severity: grave When I try to debug a python program in winpdb, I get an unhandled exception importing SHA26. The following line is causing the problem: from Crypto.Hash import SHA256 in the

Bug#642312: unhandled exception importing SHA26

2011-09-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:14 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: severity 642312 normal tags 642312 unreproducible moreinfo thanks On 09/21/2011 02:58 PM, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: winpdb Version: 1.4.8-1 Severity: grave When I try to debug a python program in winpdb, I get an

Bug#642312: unhandled exception importing SHA26

2011-09-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:14 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Works all fine here. You'll have to explain why you think there is a bug. Cheers, Bernd Try creating a python program with the following: from Crypto import Random Then run winpdb on that python program and see if you can

Bug#640046: [Evolution] Bug#640046: FAILED message when Migrating local user data

2011-09-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 23:55 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 15:13 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: evolution Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: normal When I start evolution from the command line, I get the following failure message: Migrating cached data

Bug#640043: [Evolution] Bug#640043: missing dependency libcanberra-gtk-module

2011-09-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 23:58 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 15:09 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: When I run evolution from the command line, I get the following error: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module And does it prevent evolution to start?

Bug#640043: [Evolution] Bug#640043: missing dependency libcanberra-gtk-module

2011-09-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 14:36 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On ven., 2011-09-02 at 08:35 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: Maybe the library is needed by evolution-plugins which I have installed. I have it installed too and it doesn't show the message, but you may be right

Bug#640000: NEWS or README might be a good idea

2011-09-01 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Sure I read the message. I don't recall anything about having duplicate folders or which one is the good one and what to do after verifying the conversion went okay. I also looked in the README and NEWS files. Nothing was mentioned there either. It would probably be a good idea to put something

Bug#640043: missing dependency libcanberra-gtk-module(Correction)

2011-09-01 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:09 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: evolution Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: normal When I run evolution from the command line, I get the following error: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module Installing libcanberra-gtk-module makes the error

Bug#631997: linux-image-2.6.39-2-486: black screen after grub menu

2011-06-29 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 04:22 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 23:12 -0400, Wendy Elmer wrote: [...] I will try the earlier versions when I get a chance. It may not be very soon since that computer is at my church and I will be on vacation for a week. By the way, since I

Bug#631294: [udev] upgrade from udev 167-3 to 170-1 broke system(no mouse or keyboard)

2011-06-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: udev Version: 170-1 Severity: critical --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I have a wheezy box that I upgraded udev from 167-3 to 170-1 last week when the new udev package hit testing. After the upgrade, I have no mouse or keyboard when X starts. Now that the new udev is

Bug#631294: [udev] upgrade from udev 167-3 to 170-1 broke system(no mouse or keyboard)

2011-06-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: retitle 631294 in some situations, preinst does not check the required kernel version severity 631294 important thanks On Jun 22, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com wrote: The 167 version required kernel version 2.6.27. I have

Bug#630513: [Evolution] Bug#630513: two Inboxs for imap, messages not staying marked read

2011-06-17 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:30 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: It might be worth trying with IMAP+ backend (or IMAP, in case you already uses IMAP+). It doesn't sound familiar, but you might want to check on bugzilla.gnome.org, on evolution and evolution-data-server components. Regards,

Bug#630513: [Evolution] Bug#630513: two Inboxs for imap, messages not staying marked read

2011-06-16 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:30 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: It might be worth trying with IMAP+ backend (or IMAP, in case you already uses IMAP+). It doesn't sound familiar, but you might want to check on bugzilla.gnome.org, on evolution and evolution-data-server components. Regards, I

Bug#628968: [reportbug] reportbug crashes with assertion failed

2011-06-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: reportbug Version: 5.1.1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- reportbug won't let me submit a bug report. It crashes with the following: Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd-gtk+2.0_2.24.4-3-i386-ouUeDk/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gdk/gdkregion-generic.c:1114:miUnionNonO: assertion

Bug#628969: [python-gtk2] frequent glibc crashes

2011-06-02 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Package: python-gtk2 Version: 2.24.0-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I have been starting to get glibc errors lately in a python-gtk application. Usually it has been a *** glibc detected *** ... double free with no backtrace. This time it is a corrupted

Bug#618861: always hangs on initial startup if proxy on

2011-05-10 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
It looks like the proxy can't be on at all when initially starting evolution. If the proxy is on on initial evolution startup, evolution will hang forever saying 0% complete on retrieving and displaying messages. It seems that if evolution is started without the proxy and everything starts up,

Bug#605434: narrowed it down to version 1.4.4-5

2011-04-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Using the debian snapshot repository, I have narrowed the issue down to the breakage occurring in version 1.4.4-5 as version 1.4.4-4 works. There are only two changes in that version according to the changelog: cups (1.4.4-5) unstable; urgency=low [ Martin Pitt ] * ubuntu-upstart.dpatch:

Bug#623612: narrowed it down to version 1.4.4-5 of cups

2011-04-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
See bug report 605434. I don't know if this is an emacs problem only showing up when this version of cups is installed or it is a problem with one of the two changes in this version of cups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#623606: removed offending files, okay now

2011-04-22 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
I looked at the error messages and found the *ITMAgents1 files and removed them from /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc*.d/. After that, updates worked fine. I reinstalled the package that those files belong to and it didn't put the offending files back into /etc/. I'm not sure what put the files there

Bug#623612: related to cups upgrade

2011-04-21 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
Actually, the page does print even with the error message. The problem is that the output is garbage. I submitted bug 605434 a while back for the garbage output. The emacs ps-print started failing when cups was update for the versions in that bug report. Note that only the cups package breaks

Bug#622260: fails to build for 2.6.38 kernel

2011-04-11 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 12:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Brent S. Elmer webe...@aim.com writes: I am trying to build a 2.6.38 kernel and openafs modules for the kernel. I get the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/modules/openafs' sh debian/prep-modules

Bug#622260: fails to build for 2.6.38 kernel

2011-04-11 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 12:51 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com writes: The way I normally build my kernels and modules. time fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.110411 --initrd kernel-image modules-image Could you try editing /usr/src/modules/openafs

Bug#618861: [Evolution] Bug#618861: Narrowed the problem down

2011-04-05 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 07:45 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On lun., 2011-04-04 at 19:34 -0400, Wendy Elmer wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 07:25 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On dim., 2011-04-03 at 21:08 -0400, Wendy Elmer wrote: Thanks for your debugging session, it really helps.

Bug#620166: [Evolution] Bug#620166: imap+ Unable to retrieve message

2011-03-31 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 16:11 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On mer., 2011-03-30 at 13:12 -0400, Brent S. Elmer wrote: Package: evolution Version: 2.32.2-1 Severity: normal I have been trying to use imap+ instead of imap in evolution because some say imap+ works better. When using

Bug#586226: started failing again

2011-01-06 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Aha! I was working under the incorrect assumption that dnsmasq was all that was needed after boot to enable networking, but actually NetworkManager is involved in getting basic connectivity. Yes, I don't think there's anything that

Bug#586226: started failing again

2010-12-15 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:30 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. webe...@aim.com writes: There may not be a good fix for this other than to add a sleep statement somewhere in the startup with a ping similar to what you describe, unless there's some way to get dnsmasq to report

Bug#586226: started failing again

2010-12-14 Thread Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.
The suggestion to do the following in /etc/init.d/openafs-client had been working great until some update in squeeze a few weeks ago. Try changing this line # Should-Start: $syslog to look like this # Should-Start: $syslog $named I believe that will solve your problem.

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