Bug#948288: A workaround ...

2020-02-02 Thread Md Ayquassar
... that circumvents both problems but does not solve them turns out to be disabling Wayland and sticking with Xorg by means of changing #WaylandEnable=false to WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf and rebooting. The original problems didn't go away, of course; the bugs still persist in

Bug#948288: bugs 948288 and 950504 are related but not the same

2020-02-02 Thread Md Ayquassar
affects 948288 gdm3 affects 950504 gnome-shell -- In http://bugs.debian.org/948288 , we deal with a segfault of gnome-shell and Mesa issues using the default kernel command line without nomodeset. In http://bugs.debian.org/950504, we deal with the boot process getting stuck when nomodeset

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-02-02 Thread Md Ayquassar
Dear Bernhard, As to what happens with nomodeset, I posted another bug report against gdm3: http://bugs.debian.org/950504. There, we probably won't have to deal with a gnome-shell segfault and Mesa issues that we have to deal with here. Best regards, Md Ayquassar

Bug#950504: gdm3 reproducibly gets stuck upon boot with nomodeset kernel setting: boot photos 1

2020-02-02 Thread Md Ayquassar
Here are some initial boot photos.

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-02-01 Thread Md Ayquassar
I added nomodeset as described in https://askubuntu.com/a/38834 . Then, the boot process displayed some error concerning UMS and radeon early in the process, and the screen resolution is different. The boot process still gets stuck, and switching with Ctrl+Alt+F1 followed by Ctrl+Alt+F2 makes it

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-02-01 Thread Md Ayquassar
In the attachment you find /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It contains some error message. Concerning nomodeset: can I add it during boot process when the grub screen pops up? [37.930] X.Org X Server 1.20.4 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [37.931] Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 i686

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-01-30 Thread Md Ayquassar
unless someone has a deterministic concurrent access to that data. Fourth, I apologize for long delays.I don’t always have the laptop at my direct disposal. 31.01.2020, 02:09, Bernhard Übelacker Hello Md Ayquassar, sorry, I did not recognize that you seem to have a usrmerge'd system. Then I

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-01-30 Thread Md Ayquassar
Dear Bernhard: In the attachment you find the output again and file generated, namely, /tmp/reportbug-gnome-shell-backup-20200130-3154-vovyhuqk. (I think the attachments might be easier to view due to line breaks at proper places.) Best regards, Md Ayquassar reportbug-gnome-shell-backup

Bug#948288: gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck

2020-01-30 Thread Md Ayquassar
Below you find the output of guest@T42-LAPTOP:~$ reportbug --template gnome-shell 1>>/tmp/reportbug_output.log 2>&1 copied and pasted from the file repotbug_output.log: Warning: no reportbug configuration found. Proceeding in novice mode. Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your

Bug#948288: Acknowledgement (gnome-shell reproducibly crashes on boot, and the boot process gets stuck)

2020-01-06 Thread Md Ayquassar
Below you find is the dmesg output. [ 0.00] Linux version 4.19.0-6-686 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) [ 0.00] Disabled fast string operations [ 0.00] x86/fpu: x87 FPU will use FXSAVE [ 0.00]

Bug#932375: Re: Bug#932375: How to make UXterm use reverse colors automatically?

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
Thank you! The new title describes the issue pretty well. As for me personally, I'm more interested in a slightly different question of how to have white-on-black uxterm by default. (Naturally, one could hack /usr/bin/uxterm, but this is likely to break on the next package update).

Bug#932375: How to make UXterm use reverse colors automatically?

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
reassign 932375 mutter severity 932375 wishlist thanks Reassign reason: as suggested by Sven, the issue is apparently more related to the window/display manager rather than to UXTerm itself, cf. http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/677

Bug#932375: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
ood* bug report or a wishlist issue for mutter, since it's not a user-level application that I interact with directly: I know nothing about mutter. However, I may reassign the current bug report there. 20.07.2019, 19:32, Sven Joachim On 2019-07-20 19:56 +0300, Md Ayquassar wrote: > So,

Bug#932375: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
So, would $ cat .Xdefaults UXTerm*reverseVideo: true and a reboot be sufficient? Without rebooting, there is no effect so far. As for the startup files, I am not aware of any user-level user ones beyond .xinitrc, ~/.Xresources and ~/.config/autostart/*desktop, and all of them seem to be ignored

Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
Nnow with more newlines for proper html formatting: The following doesn't help either: $ cat .config/autostart/source_Xresources.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name=Source Xresources Comment=Source local

Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
The following doesn't help either: $ cat .config/autostart/source_Xresources.desktop [Desktop Entry]Type=Application Exec=xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name=Source Xresources Comment=Source local .Xresources $ cat ~/.Xresources UXTerm*reverseVideo: true

Bug#932375: RE: RE: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-20 Thread Md Ayquassar
I know about the -rv option. It's one-off, i.e., you have to provide it again and again. As for .xinitrc, I thought that wayland doesn't source it on startup. > > Anyway, having said all that, what's the "official" way to have the uxterm > > default colors *automatically* white-on-black now?

Bug#932375: RE: RE: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-19 Thread Md Ayquassar
Now properly formatted such that the html output is ok. $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE wayland $ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION gnome $ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager /usr/sbin/gdm3 After taking a look at the reason why they dropped support for loading .Xresources by default (cf.

Bug#932375: RE: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-19 Thread Md Ayquassar
$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE wayland$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION gnome$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager /usr/sbin/gdm3 After taking a look at the reason why they dropped support for loading .Xresources by default (cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225384), I decided to test whether

Bug#932375: Re: Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-18 Thread Md Ayquassar
Do you use Gnome with Wayland? I don't know; probably it's still xorg after upgrading from Debian stretch. I'll double-check and post here in short.

Bug#932375: UXTerm: reversion of colors won't work

2019-07-18 Thread Md Ayquassar
Package: xterm Version: 344-1 By default, the color of a uxterm is black foreground and white background. However, I'd like to have it reverse: white text on black background. To this end, I put UXTerm*reverseVideo: true into my ~/.Xresources, run xrdb ~/.Xresources, and reboot. I observe no

Bug#915570: Thunderbird: Sent mail stays in the draft folder

2018-12-04 Thread Md Ayquassar
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:60.3.0-1~deb9u1 For several (all?) IMAP e-mail accounts of mine in Thunderbird, whenever I write a long mail and send it, the autosaved copies in the "Drafts" folder won't disappear. However, the expected behavior is that after sending an e-mail, all draft copies

Bug#915070: wodim ignores -dummy

2018-11-29 Thread Md Ayquassar
Package: wodim Version: 9:1.1.11-3+b2 Severity: critical Starting with a blank 4.7 Gb DVD-R in the optical drive "HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GS30N", my_file.iso containing a freshly downloaded copy of Windows 10 (US English, x64), and issuing $ sudo wodim -v driver=mmc_cd_dvd dev=/dev/sg1 -dummy -dao

Bug#903293: Re: Bug#903293: Please update elsarticle

2018-07-10 Thread Md Ayquassar
Thank you, Norbert. Notice that this bugreport intentionally doesn't insist on a particular version to be included into Debian, leavong the choice to you: - 2.0 (from http://support.river-valley.com/wiki/index.php?title=Elsarticle.cls) is mildly buggy (as usual) and very stable. I did try it out.

Bug#903293: Please update elsarticle

2018-07-08 Thread Md Ayquassar
Package: texlive-publishers Version: 2016.20170123-5 Severity: wishlist Please update elsarticle to a newer version. The elsarticle version shipped with Debian stable (and, to the best of my knowledge, 2018.20180505-1 from Debian testing), is 1.2.0 from 2009. In the meantime, I saw version 2.0

Bug#509574: stable-proposed-updates erwartet, aber stretch-proposed-updates bekommen

2018-05-06 Thread Md Ayquassar
severity 509574 normalthanks Similar problem for me here: the lines deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stable-proposed-updates main non-free contrib deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stable-proposed-updates main non-free contrib in /etc/apt/sources.list lead to W: Konflikt bei