Bug#713943: X,org is going to garbage and freezing

Yep, it happens everytime. GNU/Linux is totally unusable in its current state. P.S. But X.org mouse pointer issue doesn't have anything with kernel.

Bug#713943: linux kernel drivers/macintosh: windfarm module is not working any more

.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x, and 3.8.x. That's how we can find a working one ("good") kernel very fast. Then we can bisect kernel git source repo for first "bad" commit. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 12:25 -0400, Douglas Mencken wro

Bug#713943: linux kernel drivers/macintosh: windfarm module is not working any more

Nor with 3.10. It's actually an upstream issue, because vanilla kernels >3.8 do also render G5 mac systems (incl. pm112) noisy, power overconsuming and thus unusable. The total lack of reaction from Debian Kernel Team

Bug#713943: linux-image-3.9-1-powerpc64: windfarm module is not working any more

I confirm. Fans are crazy with Debian's 3.9-1 kernel.

Bug#692779: [mplayer] [regression] Re: ffmp3 and ffmp3float do not decode sample properly on ppc

Just to mention: mplayer works perfectly with current upstream checkout (mplayer-svn35368). It is Debian problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#692779: [mplayer] [regression] ffmp3 and ffmp3float do not decode sample properly on ppc

Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 Platform: PowerPC See also: http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=2103 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#683420: Some earlier info (may 28) from ##linux@freenode

Here's chat log related to this issue: --- Log opened Mon May 28 10:40:31 2012 10:40 < dougmencken> hi guys; since some time, I lost capability to auto-mount SD card 10:40 < mcloy> can anyone tell how much ram and cpu does kde takes including system (fresh install) and how much a bare system of co

Bug#683420: Bug #682447 looks like related to this one

Bug #682447 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682447 ) looks like related to this one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?

> Can you please build and test the 1:1.0.1-2 package > available at http://alioth.debian.org/~joachim-guest/ ? Wow. Wow! WOW!!! It works very well. More than, now text-scrolling in tilda (terminal emulator) is 1 times faster! (It was fast in non-so-near past, but started to be *very slow* sin

Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?

> Nice that it works for you. It doesn't work for me and for many (most?) > other people, though. So maybe it's time to work on solution which would satisfy all of us, even me? > There are lots of artifacts on NV30 cards, especially on the popular > NV34 (GeForce FX 5200/5500)[1]. On NV40, whic

Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?

> Alternatively, just install the package from testing. It is not really > usable, however [1,2]. You didn't get the idea. That commit (ab7291d368ddc66ad21c5ad5caa0faeee42ccaf1) works absolutely perfectly on my side, with full 2D and 3D acceleration, w/o any gotchas, w/o any artifacts, etc. But i

Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?

> I don't care about upgrade logs, please show me how to build nouveau git > master with libdrm 2.4.33 (or earlier), which is what you claimed you > have done. I didn't said "master". # git describe --always ab7291d (ab7291d368ddc66ad21c5ad5caa0faeee42ccaf1) That's what I have built (as was sugg

Bug#680306: How have you managed to do that?

> How have you managed to do that? Any version newer than commit ab7291d (the one in testing) requires a newer libdrm than available in Debian, It is Debian. I didn't changed anything. I just upgraded, here's my upgrade log — http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;filename=history.l

Bug#679127: bug relationship

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680306 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#680306: nouveau_drv.so is not linked, causing "no text, no icons, ..."

Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.1-1 Severity: important I found a solution to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679127 by manually building git://anongit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau The problem is linking, in Debian's /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

Bug#679127: it is nouveau, not x.org

As guys on #nouveau @ freenode suggested, I rebooted with ``nouveau.noaccel=1'' added to kernel arg list. It works well after that, only it's not accelerated, glxinfo | grep -i "renderer" shows "Software Rasterizer". Thanks again for ignoring this bug. I'll bisect git://anongit.freedesktop.org/no

Bug#679127: No text, no icons, no menus in X.org

Oh, I forgot to say why I'm so sure it's "Start-Date: 2012-06-24 03:37:12" upgrade... Just because I met it, and then tried to re-install libfreetype. Then I shat down the machine, and waited for some time (just to be sure it's not "zero-day" bug which will be found and fixed immediately), it was ~

Bug#679127: No text, no icons, no menus in X.org

Package: xorg Version: 1:7.6+13 Severity: important I updated my Debian Sid with dist-upgrade, and got that a lot of stuff is no longer displayed. That's what I have in gdm after boot sequence finished: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6307/01gdmchooseuser.jpg I still can click, so I chose my u

Bug#668882: Still cannot use LaTeX with cyrillic symbols

Looks like just a problem with dependencies between tex-common and scalable-cyrfonts-tex. I tried to apt-get remove tex-common, rm -rf /var/lib/texmf, and rm -rf /etc/texmf (update log said "Warning: Old configuration style found in /etc/texmf/updmap.d. For now these files have been included, but

Bug#671836: powertop: Segfault on launch

Package: powertop Version: 1.97-2 Severity: important I installed `powertop', but it does segfault on launch: # powertop Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop Segmentation fault GDB gives me: (gdb) ru

Bug#671103: [powerpc] [ATi Rage 128 Pro AGP] x.org doesn't work with R128 at all

Without that xorg.conf, I'm getting: [ 237.807] X.Org X Server 1.11.3 Release Date: 2011-12-16 [ 237.808] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 237.808] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.35-30-powerpc64-smp ppc Ub

Bug#671103: [powerpc] [ATi Rage 128 Pro AGP] x.org doesn't work with xf86-video-r128 driver, calling sigbus'ing useless on non-bios-driven hardware int10 routine

Package: xorg Version: 1:7.6+12 X.org doesn't work with xf86-video-r128 driver. With the following /etc/X11/xorg.conf (made manually from scratch) Section "Device" Identifier "r128" Driver "r128" Option "

Bug#669130: closed by Michael Biebl (Bug#669130: fixed in glib2.0 2.32.1-1)

I do confirm the issue is now fixed in current Sid. Thanks very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#669130: April 22: Still not fixed

> No, you don't Of course. So it was not me who reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667529 being absolutely ignorant. It was not me who reported https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674220 Yes, that's me who don't care, not you, Debian maintainers. Sorry. I love to kiss

Bug#669130: April 22: Still not fixed

> This bug has been filed just a few days ago? Can you follow the bug? ``Michel Dänzer [reporter] 2012-04-03 07:29:45 UT'' (~20 days ago) Can you follow it has been fixed in upstream? (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673409#c17) No, I don't think it would speed up anything. But I have a

Bug#669130: April 22: Still not fixed

April 22: Still not fixed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#669640: Fwd: Bug#669640: Unknown symbol in module (Error: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-powerpc64/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Douglas Mencken Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM Subject: Re: Bug#669640: Unknown symbol in module (Error: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-powerpc64/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko) To: Bastian Blank > This means you have to reboot. And ple

Bug#669640: Unknown symbol in module (Error: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-powerpc64/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko)

Package: linux-image-3.2.0-2-powerpc64 Version: 3.2.15-1 I cannot mount USB Flash storage device. From GUI, I'm getting ``Error mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'." ``mount'' command gives me: >> # mount /dev/sdh1 /mnt/usb_flash/ >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat' >> # cat /p

Bug#669283: Other apt-get commands don't work too

Other apt-get commands don't work too. For example, I met the problem with vfat module: # mount /dev/sdh1 /mnt/usb_flash/ mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat' # modprobe vfat ERROR: could not insert 'vfat': No such f

Bug#669283: Error with apt-get dist-upgrade (Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for grep:powerpc, aborting)

Package: apt Version: 0.9.0 (apt 0.9.0 for powerpc compiled on Apr 16 2012 17:31:19) I can't do daily dist-upgrade today, it says "Internal Error" after downloading a lot of packages: $ apt-get clean && apt-get updat

Bug#669130: [Sid] [glib-gio] Invalid resource handling on big endian architectures

> Which version of libglib2.0-0 do you have? Current Sid's one, I'm updating every day. apt-cache show libglib2.0-0 shows: Package: libglib2.0-0 Source: glib2.0 Version: 2.32.0-4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#669130: [Sid] [glib-gio] Invalid resource handling on big endian architectures

Package: libgnome2-0 Version: 2.32.1-2 Severity: important I'm not sure 'glib' and '/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0' are 'libgnome' and '/usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0' in Debian, but I suppose they are. If not, please re-direct this bug to the proper package. I got his problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Bug#667529: still not working; current version is 3.4.0.1-1

Current Sid's version 3.4.0.1-1 still doesn't work. *Any* control character (home key, ^W, any arrow) is still just a box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#668882: [Sid] [scalable-cyrfonts-tex] E: Broken packages (Depends: tex-common (>= 2.00) but it is not going to be installed)

Package: scalable-cyrfonts-tex Version: 4.15 # apt-get install scalable-cyrfonts-tex Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the

Bug#667553: now it works! bugs is fixed

I updated, and now have Eye Of Gnome version 3.2.2-3, which does work. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#667553: eye of gnome doesn't want to launch

Package: eog Version: 3.2.2-2+b1 I updated to current Sid, and got a problem with eog. When I'm trying to open a picture, I'm getting nothing. When I'm trying to launch eog from terminal, I'm getting: $ eog (eog:5888): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: Timeout was reached Reproductible: always I am usin

Bug#667529: gnome-terminal can't handle delete key

Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.2.1-2 I updated gnome-terminal in Sid, and it now can't handle most of control keys. For example, two screenshots of incorrect handling of "backward delete" key are attached (yes, all these boxes are just "backward delete"). <><>

Bug#667036: [Reportbug-maint] Processed (with 1 errors): Re: reportbug package doesn't work (still)

> it has nothing to do with reportbug but *only* with your client/network/setup Even if so. User will want more user-like error message. With information what to do, how to try to resolve it, and so. And no. My network connection is perfect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...

Bug#667047: [Debian Sid] unmet dependencies

tag 667047 - wontfix tag 667047 + upstream tag 667047 + help retitle 667047 no Base on powerpc (yet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#667047: [Debian Sid] unmet dependencies

> None. There is none for 3.5. "Disabled." means disabled. "Disabled" means "not for you"? Okay. > As said, disabled since 3.5.0~rc1-1 because the database tests fail: > > [...] > : &&     > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/build/buildd-libreoffice_3.5.0~beta3-1-powerpc-DuEdKp/libreoffice-3.5.0~beta3/smoketesto

Bug#667047: [Debian Sid] unmet dependencies

> > Sure.. No, this is *NOT* a free text field. "unknown" isn't recognized > by the BTS BTS isn't recognized by me either ;) And okay, which version shall I use? From apt-cache show? # apt-cache show libreoffice-base Package: libreoffice-base Source: libreoffice Version: 1:3.4.6-2 Installed-Size:

Bug#667036: closed by Sandro Tosi (Re: Bug#667036: reportbug package doesn't work)

Please re-open. Issue is not solved. > 667036: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667036 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sandro Tosi > To: Douglas Mencken , 667

Bug#667047: [Debian Sid] unmet dependencies

Package: libreoffice-base Version: unknown I'm trying to install libreoffice-base after successfully dealing with http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667041 using apt-get -f install. What I got: # apt-cache search libreoffice-base libreoffice - office productivity suite libreoffice-

Bug#667041: [Debian Sid] unmet dependencies: libreoffice-core (= 1:3.5.2~rc2-1) but 1:3.4.6-2 is installed

Package: libreoffice-core Version: 1:3.5.2~rc2-1 What I got: ... Get:19 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main powerpc 2012-04-03-0811.35.pdiff [4,338 B] Get:20 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main powerpc 2012-04-03-0811.35.pdiff [4,338 B] Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en_US Ign h

Bug#667036: reportbug package doesn't work

Package: reportbug Version: 6.3.1 I got this when trying to reportbug about unmet dependencies for libreoffice-core in current debian sid. $ reportbug Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2199, in main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1077, in main retu

Bug#446515: [RESOLVED FIXED] Alien Arena crashes on Big Endian machines

Fixed in upstream. These patches are explicitly related: http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/source/ref_gl/r_iqm.c?r1=2774&r2=2830&pathrev=2830 http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/source/ref_gl/r_iqm.c?r1=2830&r2=2835&pathrev=2835 http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/source/ref_gl/r_iq

Bug#446515: I do confirm the crash

Version: 7.53+dfsg-1 Can't start a game. It does segfault: InitGame Master server at 69.136.224.226:27900 Sending ping to 69.136.224.226:27900 --- Server Initialization --- name is not a field 0 entities inhibited ACEND_LoadNodes: not found: ��ܨ

Bug#659658: Fwd: Bug#659658: Re: Bug#659658: It was my mistake

I must mention that I started to play with building glib, gtk+3, goffice, and apps (abiword, gnumeric) only *after* I got this bug, not before. Also, that's interesting that manually-installed deb-s are not being over-written. So if I want to *keep* the exact build against many upgrades, that'd be

Bug#659658: Re: Bug#659658: It was my mistake

> Well, you're speaking of "sid" AKA "unstable" as if it were something which have a particular release when in fact it is a fast moving target, always changing. Oh, I supposed to mean "yesterday's time when you packaged the version which is currently in repo". > You may check and identify corrup

Bug#659658: It was my mistake

I did apt-get install --reinstall libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-dev, and got abiword_2.9.2+svn20120213-1_powerpc.deb abiword-dbg_2.9.2+svn20120213-1_powerpc.deb abiword-plugin-mathview_2.9.2+svn20120213-1_powerpc.deb libabiword-2.9-dev_2.9.2+svn20120213-1_powerpc.deb abiw

Bug#659658: Reporting on progress

Symlinking debian's /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libabiword-2.9.so to /usr/lib doesn't fix anything, as you already guessed. And no, I never used debian build system's devscripts before, so thanks for the info on how to begin dealing with them. An attempt to 'debuild -us -uc -b' (after 'dget -ux ...

Bug#659658: This is not upstream bug

Oops, more news. I got that my self-built abiword still links with debian-provided /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libabiword-2.9.so. Removing this file allowed /usr/lib/libabiword-2.9.so to be linked instead, and it works. With my libabiword-2.9.so, it doesn't segfault. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#659658: Additional comments

> could you please try most recent abiword 2.9.2+svn20120131-1 which was > uploaded just yesterday Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that the "more detailed backtrace" in my previous post is actually related to version 2.9.2+svn20120131-1 (I'm on sid). > It might be a problem with GTK-3 so it may b

Bug#659658: more detailed backtrace (after installing -dbg packages)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xf7fe9a3c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xf7fe9a3c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #1 0xf7fe992c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #2 0xf7ff16c8 in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #3 0xf7fec310 in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #4 0xf7ff0c80 in ?? () from /l

Bug#659658: additional comments

Just starting abiword leads to the crash. abiword 2.8.6 works well, gnumeric 1.10.x works well; but not abiword 2.9.x, nor gnumeric 1.11.x, maybe due to some bug in Gtk+ 3 on x86_32 and x86_64 abiword works well -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#659658: backtrace log

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xf7fe9a3c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 (gdb) backtrace #0 0xf7fe9a3c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #1 0xf7fe992c in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #2 0xf7ff16c8 in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #3 0xf7fec310 in ?? () from /lib/ld.so.1 #4 0xf7ff0c80 in ?? ()