Bug#1001645: pulseaudio: My system has no sound at all, after upgrading

2022-12-19 Thread Ray Dillinger
I have the same issue.  Also caused by upgrade. Causes almost any program that attempts to play sound to freeze. I twigged that it was pulseaudio when a non-pulseaudio using video player was the only sound-playing thing on my system that DIDN'T freeze. And I found a workaround. When you

Bug#1010411: gucharmap installing without required version of libc6 (was: gucharmap displaying characters white on white)

2022-04-30 Thread Ray Dillinger
package: gucharmap version:1:14.0.3 While preparing this bug report for the white-on-white characters, I checked the versions of everything gucharmap depends on and I think I found a packaging error.  Gucharmap wants libc6 version 2.4, but installed without complaint even though I have libc6 versi

Bug#1010288: 'Rotate' rotates entire image regardless of layer or selection.

2022-04-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
package: gimp Version: 2.10.30-1+b1 Severity: Normal The 'rotate' tool in GIMP is now ignoring selection area and layer restrictions, making it impossible to rotate any part of the image relative to other parts. Note, there is a workaround.  Cut to the last paragraph if that's all you're interest

Bug#1000715: dpkg -S fails to identify package for coreutils files: says 'no path found matching pattern' instead

2021-11-28 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 09:48:22 +0100 Niels Thykier wrote: > This is a consequence of the currently incomplete "/usr-merge" > transition, where /bin has been merged into /usr/bin without dpkg's back. > > As such, dpkg knows those paths only by their "officially declared" > paths in /bin. It is obvio

Bug#1000715: dpkg -S fails to identify package for coreutils files: says 'no path found matching pattern' instead

2021-11-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.9 Distribution: Bookworm Architecture: AMD64 Relevant because this could have something to do with which utilities are statically linked to bash or exactly which coreutils we're talking about:  bash is version 5.1-3.1 and coreutils is version 8.32-4.1 At the command l

Bug#986176: openuniverse runs with crippled GUI, then crashes.

2021-05-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
On 5/26/21 8:01 PM, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Testing in a VM with a more reasonable 6GB apparently does not provoke >> the crash. > > I fear the issue might also be specific to the graphics library > because the crash happens in nouveau_dri.so. > Therefore a VM might not show this issue. > I d

Bug#986176: openuniverse runs with crippled GUI, then crashes.

2021-04-19 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:04:33 + Ray Dillinger wrote: > > Warning, a coredump from this system would be immense.  Or, well anyway > pretty darn large.  The machine has over 64G of RAM memory installed and > openuniverse seems to expand to fill available space. I could make

Bug#986176: openuniverse runs with crippled GUI, then crashes.

2021-04-14 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:59:43 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_=c3=9cbelacker?= wrote: > Hello Ray, > from the "Code:" line you supplied I think the segfault happens > in create_cache_trans at ../src/mesa/state_tracker/st_cb_bitmap.c:402. > > https://sources.debian.org/src/mesa/20.3.5-1/src/mesa/state_trac

Bug#986176: openuniverse runs with crippled GUI, then crashes.

2021-03-30 Thread Ray Dillinger
Package: openuniverse version: 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-6.1 When I started openuniverse, it put up a window with no menu items and no other control elements.  It responded to '?' or 'H' keystrokes by putting up a short list of keystroke shortcuts - presumably corresponding to nonexistent menu options.  Th

Bug#730224: The problem is with the nvidia software in debian.

2017-01-08 Thread Ray Dillinger
As expected the problem is something about the interaction with the debian nvidia software, gdm, and my laptop. I have found a workaround. I did # apt-get remove *nvidia* And the configuration went back to the nouveau drivers, and the problem went away. The laptop isn't a gaming machine so I

Bug#730224: This error is happening on a fresh "Stretch" install.

2017-01-08 Thread Ray Dillinger
X-Debbugs-Cc: b...@sonic.net Package: gnome Version: 1:3.20+2 Followup-For: Bug #730224 I installed "Stretch" on my laptop using ISO install snapshot CDs (specifically the image downloaded 6 January 2017). The laptop was working fine with "Jessie" before the (re)install. I did a clean insta

Bug#487946: 'apt-get update' considers connection failures non-transient

2016-05-19 Thread Ray Dillinger
There is no reason to have multiple sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, if apt-get update/upgrade only cares about the first one! I use multiple sources in the hopes that (a) The load should be distributed among those mirrors. (b) Multiple downloads should be happening at once. At leas

Bug#703932: Certificate problem =?= package integrity problem?

2016-05-02 Thread Ray Dillinger
Hmm. On further inspection, it appears that you're right. So I suppose my "bug" is that debian appears not to give a crap about people monitoring who is downloading which packages and isn't providing their repositories via https. Or ftps. Or, really, via *any* confidential mechanism. Signatur

Bug#703932: Certificate problem =?= package integrity problem?

2016-05-02 Thread Ray Dillinger
I'm getting a message that the certificate for "debian.org" is not applicable to "security.debian.org" and therefore none of these packages can be verified. On the one hand, of course that's just a configuration error where the certificate should be for *.debian.org instead of for debian.org. On

Bug#794316: gdm3: had this problem. found something that fixed it in my case.

2016-04-24 Thread Ray Dillinger
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.18.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #794316 Dear Maintainer, I had an issue where login didn't work. The login screen would appear, I'd enter username and password, and then I'd wind up back at the login screen. It may be this bug or one closely related. For a while I thought I

Bug#700946: nouveau module blacklisting bites when upgrading from wheezy to jessie

2016-01-02 Thread Ray Dillinger
I had the proprietary nvidia drivers installed in my Jessie machine when I decided to move to Stretch. During the upgrade process, there was a message that the open-source driver was compatible with my hardware now, and did I want to switch to the nouveau system. I always prefer open-source when

Bug#706874: keyboard-configuration: Support for gaming keyboards (macro keys, mode switches, more than 127 keys)

2013-05-05 Thread Ray Dillinger
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.88 Severity: wishlist * What led up to the situation? I purchased a Corsair Vengeance K90 Keyboard, expecting to be able to configure a keyboard model/layout for it. So far I have been frustrated. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was e

Bug#629868: these man files are missing in libstdc++6-4.6-doc and libstdc++6-4.7-doc also

2012-07-12 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2012 10:13 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 11.07.2012 19:21, Ray Dillinger wrote: >> This is the standard library. It's totally fundamental. We >> can't allow Debian systems for programmers to NOT have man pages >

Bug#629868: these man files are missing in libstdc++6-4.6-doc and libstdc++6-4.7-doc also

2012-07-11 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This bug also affects subsequent versions of this package, libstdc++6-4.6-doc and libstdc++6-4.7-doc Today I typed "man std::mutex" and my system told me there was no man page for something that I know is part of the c++ standard library. So I went

Bug#677216: Further information...

2012-06-14 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, some further information. After I start gnome-terminal from a command line with 'gnome-terminal -x /bin/sh' I can issue a 'w' command (in another terminal) and see that an instance of 'sh' for my account has been started. This has to be the sh

Bug#677126: Found the issue.

2012-06-14 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 During a recent upgrade, a checkbox marked "use colors from system theme" got checked. I was using a black-on-yellow color scheme. The "colors from the system theme" apparently caused gnome-terminal to switch to a black background, but did not change

Bug#677126: Subject: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal: No shell is started inside gnome-terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Ray Dillinger
t seeing this bug; if they were, there would be a furor over it by now because the package in the presence of this bug is completely unusable ('grave'). I am experiencing it as a 'grave' bug, but since it apparently affects relatively few users,maybe it should be 'normal&#

Bug#647768: Workaround.

2011-11-23 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, that was a spectacularly unhelpful answer. I'll try to do better. The reason all these things went away is because they are, by default, disabled in the version of Gnome you've just upgraded to. The "bug" can't be fixed, because evidently it's

Bug#510319: workaround, requires root.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just by the way, this bug is annoying as hell. xscreensaver allowed setting individual options for different screensavers. Replacing it with gnome-screensaver when gnome-screensaver does not, AND gnome-screensaver still had bugs in power management on

Bug#634200: gcc -Wall -Werror -lncurses fails to link wide-character ncursesw functions.

2011-07-18 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/2011 02:31 AM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Ray Dillinger writes: > >> display.c starts with the lines: >> >> >> #define _X_OPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED > > There is an extra underscore after the X.

Bug#634200: #634200 gcc -Wall -Werror -lncurses fails to link wide-character ncursesw functions.

2011-07-18 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> bear@janus:~/src/xxh$ make display.o >> gcc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -Wall -Werror -lncursesw -c -o display.o \ >> display.c >> bear@janus:~/src/xxh$ > > should't the ncursesw headers be used? Sorry, don't understand your message. The ncursesw head

Bug#634200: #634200 gcc -Wall -Werror -lncurses fails to link wide-character ncursesw functions.

2011-07-17 Thread Ray Dillinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/2011 05:10 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > You're seeing implicit for get_wch, since there's no _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED > in the compile line. Okay, after checking: bear@janus:~/src/xxh$ make display.o gcc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -Wall -Werror

Bug#634200: #634200 gcc -Wall -Werror -lncurses fails to link wide-character ncursesw functions.

2011-07-17 Thread Ray Dillinger
On 07/17/2011 05:10 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > fwiw, I routinely build with warnings enabled (and don't have a use for > -Werror). > > For the rest - I'm typically seeing only extra warnings that > you wouldn't see with -Wall (such as const mismatches, which are > problematic). > > That's for ncu

Bug#634200: gcc -Wall -Werror -lncurses fails to link wide-character ncursesw functions.

2011-07-17 Thread Ray Dillinger
Package: gcc Version: 4:4.4.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n In reply to your Fwd: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed!(...) (reportbug fails on my system due to sendmail not being installed. Like most sane people I use Qmail. should I file a bug against reportbug?) original me

Bug#611392: sshd_config should warn against use of RC4.

2011-06-22 Thread Ray Dillinger
C4 or DES by default, and should print a warning to stderr when weak ciphers are enabled explicitly. Do we have any idea how much trouble it would cause for these deprecated insecure ciphers to be completely disabled? Ray Dillinger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#461489: A clarification; X settings for numlock-on not useful on keyboards that lack a numlock key.

2008-04-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
A clarification: This laptop has no numlock key as such - not even in its overlay keyset. The only way to toggle the numlock is to plug in an external (USB) keyboard and press the key on that - or to have the numlock setting inherited from my standard X settings, which is what was happening h

Bug#461489: Wow, that's embarassing...

2008-04-06 Thread Ray Dillinger
Yes, in fact it turns out to be that simple. X regards the num-lock behavior as implying the 'function key' behavior, even for keys that don't have anything to do with the numeric keypad overlay. So the workaround is, turn the numlock off. And the 'fix' that demotes this from regular to nea

Bug#461489: Documentation is nearly useless here

2008-03-03 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 03:23 +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > You're contributing to a solution. I just did not have the time to check > the issue. If you want, you can report the bug directly to upstream > (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ - xkeyboard-config component). That is indeed a good

Bug#461489: Documentation is nearly useless here

2008-02-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
I've spent several days reading man pages, configuration directory README's, configuration files, ISO standards to figure out what the README's were saying, etc And aside from there being no useful mention whatsoever of laptop function keys, as far as I can tell keyboard configuration has b

Bug#461489: sense of laptop 'fn' key reversed on gateway MX6453

2008-01-18 Thread Ray Dillinger
please let me know how. If anyone knows what file to twiddle and how, I'll have a go at seeing if the solution works. Ray Dillinger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]