Bug#792746: linux: Upgrading to thinkpad T440s laptop to 4.0.8-1 kernel causes external monitors to stop working, with "fifo underrun" error

2015-07-17 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
Source: linux Version: 4.0.8-1 Severity: important On my thinkpad T440s (Intel graphics), I often use an external (HDMI) monitor via a docking station. With the 3.16.7-ckt11 version of the kernel, this works great. With 4.0.8-1 (current in testing), it doesn't work at all -- it detects that the mo

Bug#774742: linux: Screen intermittently goes black while dmesg fills with WARNINGs from intel DRM driver

2015-01-06 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
Source: linux Version: 3.16.0-4-amd64 Severity: important After running a dist-upgrade yesterday (for the first time in a few weeks), the intel graphics driver on my laptop (Thinkpad T440s) has started spewing tons of WARNINGs into my kernel logs, e.g. at suspend/resume (but also other times). An

Bug#751264: awscli: Unconditionally crashes at startup

2014-06-11 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
Package: awscli Version: 1.2.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Any attempt to run 'aws' crashes with the following traceback: ~$ aws --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/aws", line 23, in sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/aws", line 19, in m

Bug#745984: linux: CrashPlan (proprietary backup software) malfunctions when "uname -r" does not contain a 3-part version number

2014-04-26 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
Source: linux Severity: normal CrashPlan is a backup product: http://crashplan.com They're unusual in this space in that their "cloud" backup hosting service is a bazillion times cheaper than everyone else's, and they have full Linux support. The downside is that you have to use their proprieta