Bug#915641: linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64: driver i915 crashed on GM45 chipset.

2018-12-05 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.20-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The screen of my ThinkPad X200s becomes blank with nothing displayed when graphic driver is taking over, and it even prevents the computer from shutdown properly. On my ThinkPad T430s (which uses Ivy Bridge), linux-image-

Bug#888806: pidgin: Please add xmpp-receipts plugin

2018-01-29 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: pidgin Version: 2.12.0-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Several other xmpp clients natively support XEP-0184, and there has been a thread discussing it officially: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6940 Currently, several other distributions have already included this plugin,

Bug#760451: Please add xmpp-receipts plugin

2017-12-27 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: pidgin-plugin-pack Version: 2.7.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #760451 Dear Maintainer, Several other xmpp clients natively support XEP-0184, and there has been a thread discussing it officially: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6940 Currently, several other distributions have already include

Bug#834697: modem-manager-gui gets stalled when closing due to connection to akonadi server.

2016-08-17 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: modem-manager-gui Version: 0.0.18-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-09 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: virtualbox Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As far as I know, the reason why virtualbox is moved to contrib is the toolchain to build the guest BIOS is non-free. The source code of the BIOS itself is viewable. So is it possible to reimplement the guest bios atop Coreboot, which alread

Bug#808889: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: The bug may lay on the firmware side.

2016-01-28 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-7 Followup-For: Bug #808889 Dear Maintainer, According to http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.libreboot/453 , I applied the patch https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/11853/ (attached) atop the last stable version. of libreboot's source code, rebuilt and refla

Bug#809710: mpv can never load external subtitle file.

2016-01-03 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: mpv Version: 0.14.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After upgraded to the current version, mpv can never load external ASS subtitle file any more, neither a subtitle file located beside the corresponding video file, which may be loaded automatically when opening the video file, nor e

Bug#808889: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: rtc_cmos unable to read the hardware clock on a Thinkpad x200 with libreboot firmware.

2015-12-23 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: src:linux Version: 4.3.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The current version of linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64 failed to retrieve hardware time on a Thinkpad x200 with the latest libreboot firmware stable release, and thus the system clock is reset to the unix epoch (plus offset of the

Bug#805633: amule: Update to amule 2.4.0

2015-11-20 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: amule Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Is it possible to update debian's amule to 2.4.0? The official group of amule has created a repository on https://github.com/amule-project/amule.git And information within arch's PKGBUILD may be useful, as they use some existing patches from debi

Bug#804834: gdm3 may fail to light the screen up after closing it down for power-saving on my acer aspire s3-371

2015-11-11 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.18.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Recent version of gdm3 uses gnome-shell in wayland mode to display its interface. On my acer aspire s3-371 Ultrabook, if I log out from an X session to gdm3's login interface, or locks the x-session down and switches to gdm3's wayl

Bug#802429: modem-manager-gui: Program crash for ABI mismatch.

2015-10-19 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: modem-manager-gui Version: 0.0.18-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Recently, I bought a "Fibocom L810 LTE Module (http://www.fibocom.com/product/2-1-5-4.html)" modem in the form of a mini pci-e card, with usb id 1519:0443 and recognized as "Comneon Telit LN930". It can be powered by t

Bug#799367: libwxbase2.8-0: wx2.8 needs to be rebuilt with gcc-5 for amule.

2015-09-18 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: libwxbase2.8-0 Version: 2.8.12.1+dfsg2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, libcrypto++-dev 5.6.1-9 has entered testing repository, which causes a conflict to the current version of wx2.8 on amule (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799347). since wx2.8 is built a

Bug#799347: amule: libcrypto++ starts to conflict to the current version of amule.

2015-09-18 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: amule Version: 2.3.1+git1a369e47-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, libcrypto++-dev 5.6.1-9 has entered testing repository, which causes a conflict to the current version of amule. since amule depends on wx2.8, which is built against the ABI (mainly std::string) of gcc-4, and can

Bug#797151: gcc-4.9: Spurious warnings about pointer to array -> const pointer to array conversion.

2015-08-27 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gcc-4.9 Version: 4.9.3-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This bug may affect all gcc-4, but has been fixed on gcc-5 upstream: (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16602). When compiling the attached code, gcc-4 always warns " ex_ptrtoarr.c: In function ‘main’: ex_ptrtoarr.c:1

Bug#795061: amule: Lack a rule to generate Scanner.h, may break build procedure.

2015-08-09 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: amule Version: 2.3.1+git1a369e47-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When building amule from source code, it may happen that building the first time (that is, no file to generate has been generated yet) fails, for unable to find a way to generate Scanner.h, but a second time mak

Bug#794243: grub-common: Add support for F2FS to grub-probe

2015-07-31 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: grub-common Version: 2.02~beta2-26 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the o

Bug#786655: libvdpau1: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2015-05-23 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: libvdpau1 Version: 1.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I am testing vdpau on this machine with i965-compatible GPU. But vdpauinfo on this platform says: "Failed to open VDPAU backend : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" And I have check all packages (free

Bug#783332: apt-p2p: IPv6 is not supported in apt-p2p

2015-04-25 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: apt-p2p Version: 0.1.8 Severity: wishlist (referenced from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-p2p/+bug/363337) I took a quick look in the python sources of the apt-p2p and it seems like there is only IPv4 support in this program. IPv6 would be a nice enhancement. -- System I

Bug#772717: bluez: A2DP cannot work immediately after boot.

2014-12-10 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: bluez Version: 5.23-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On my computers, bluetooth mice work fine, but a2dp devices can only be paired and connected to host's bluetooth stack, after which the new audio sink cannot be added to pulseaudio. The phenomenon can only occur aft

Bug#766010: linux: Booting from efi will hang kernel while loading nouveau on macbook5, 2

2014-10-20 Thread Tianming Xie
Source: linux Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After upgrade linux kernel to 3.1x, I have to boot debian with nouveau disabled (by option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau") from macbook5,2's efi, or the kernel will hang out during boot. If I boot without "quiet" option, the following log will b

Bug#740953: [xserver-xorg-video-nouveau]: No devices detected. (anymore)

2014-03-17 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.10-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #740953 Dear Maintainer, The same phenomena Paul reported also take place on my laptop (a macbook5,2) with MCP79 chipset, after update the kernel to ver. 3.13. And I tried the minimal xorg.conf Sven provided, which resu

Bug#737421: amule: Sometimes amule cannot get peers' modstring.

2014-02-02 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: amule Version: 2.3.1-11 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I was working on an amule 2.3.1's fork which relies on precisely checking peers' modstring, I found amule(both the fork and the official one) somtimes cannot get them from some (not all) connected peers, and those peers are

Bug#710094: gnome-panel: Top panel became a black blank bar after last libgnome upgrade in jessie./testing

2013-07-15 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gnome-panel Version: 3.4.2.1-5 Followup-For: Bug #710094 Dear Maintainer, After last upgrade of libgnome-menu-3-0, the top panel became a black blank bar, with application menu, clock, and applets disappeared. When "gnome-panel --replace" is invoked, it produces outputs as below: (gn

Bug#714345: linux-image-3.9-1-powerpc: linux-image-3.9-1 lost control of sound card "KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O" of MacMini g4.

2013-07-10 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: src:linux Version: 3.9.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #714345 Dear Maintainer, This report is generated by a MacMini G4 running Debian GNU/Linux testing. If this box is booted with linux-image-3.2.0-4, the sound card "KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O" can be recognized easily and works fine, but canno

Bug#714037: linux-image-3.9-1-amd64: Display subsystem runs mad when using Xorg atop linux-image-3.9-1-amd64.

2013-06-24 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: src:linux Version: 3.9.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have a well-working Debian GNU/Linux System with linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 on my MacBook5,2 laptop. Yesterday, linux-image-3.9-1-amd64 came with upgrades. From then on, the gdm3 seems launching Xorg and showing login

Bug#709806: gnome-shell: More info about my MacBook5,2

2013-05-25 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.4.2-7+b1 Followup-For: Bug #709806 Dear Maintainer, Hardware info about my machine is listed below: cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @

Bug#709806: gnome-shell: Gnome-shell occasionally freezes Xorg on MacBook5,2.

2013-05-25 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.4.2-7+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I had a well-working Debian GNU/Linux System on a GPT hard disk migrated from a ordinary PC laptop to a MacBook5,2 machine(which uses Nvidia north and south bridge chips,and an NV GeForce 9400M G GPU), by adjustin

Bug#679581: tracker-miner-fs uses up all available virtual memory

2013-02-01 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: tracker-miner-fs Version: 0.14.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #679581 Dear Maintainer, Every time lately after I've logged in my gnome3 desktop, tracker-miner-fs starts to eat up all possible available memory, including swap space, and I usually have to run `tracker-control -r` to regain control

Bug#682509: mplayer: Mplayer crashed when invoked by gnome-mplayer.

2012-07-23 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Mplayer crashed on my box with command line below (invoked by gnome-mplayer): mplayer -vo gl -vf-add screenshot -ao alsa -channels 2 -af-add export=/tmp/mplayer-af_exportcqeoad:512 -noidle -noconsolecontr

Bug#682316: gnome-mplayer: mplayer2 works fine.

2012-07-21 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gnome-mplayer Version: 1.0.6-1 Followup-For: Bug #682316 Dear Maintainer, I replaced mplayer with mplayer2. Gnome-mplayer seems to work fine with this fork. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-

Bug#682316: gnome-mplayer: Mplayer interrupted by signal 6.

2012-07-21 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: gnome-mplayer Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I got a report "MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: filter video" when I try to use gnome-mplayer to play every video with all configure I could try. But I am able to play them with smplayer normally. Now gno

Bug#682094: nautilus: report 'readonly' when trying to write to an unjournaled writable hfsplus volume in an SD card.

2012-07-19 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: nautilus Version: 3.4.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I try to write (eg. mkdir, copying files) to an unjournaled writable hfsplus volume in an SD card, on which I have write-permission, Nautilus says 'target is readonly' titled 'Error when copying to $MOUNTPOINT' (Both in

Bug#649494: linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64: unable to mount an hfsplus volume

2011-11-21 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.0.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this actio

Bug#646719: gnome-system-monitor: "cannot be closed normally on amd64 platform"

2011-10-26 Thread Tianming Xie
right end of its title bar. The only way to close it less violently is to terminate itself within it. How can I help to fix this problem? Best Regard! Tianming Xie -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates&#x