Bug#930622: xserver-xorg-video-intel: sddm doesn't start. (EE) Failed to open authorization file

2019-06-16 Thread eclectic
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.917+git20180925-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Fresh install with mkfs of the whole disk. After reboot sddm doesn't

Bug#691138: This is a real bug, not a wishlist item.

2014-02-03 Thread eclectic 923
I'd like to politely agree, and disagree with the handling of this bug. YES, you're absolutely right the bridge helper is a security hole. NO, you're absolutely wrong to remove the bridge helper from the package. A proper solution would have been to include it, and make it not a threat by

Bug#730745: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-96xx: Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0), kernel module works.

2013-11-28 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-96xx Version: 96.43.23-90 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Brand new install of jessie on a machine with an nvidia GeForce4 MX 420, which requires the nvidia-legacy-96xx driver. It appears that the 96xx drivers have not migrated to jessie from sid

Bug#699402: Please close this bug - it was actually hardware-related.

2013-08-16 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, Upon further investigation, I did find that it appeared that the LCD inverter was involved (had this error message from the BIOS diagnostics: LCD inverter detection FAIL 1000-0323) but that turned out not to be the real cause of the problem. The real problem was the lid switch, which

Bug#689748: More info nouveau.noaccel=1 makes it much worse.

2013-03-11 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, With the system updated today (03/09/13), standard wheezy kernel, with /etc/default/grub changed as follows: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nouveau.noaccel=1 and after running update-grub, the screens became totally unreadable. Both the main display and the secondary screen

Bug#689748: More info, lock-ups sometimes not as severe

2013-02-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Something has changed after the latest upgrade of the nouveau driver. Whereas before the machine wouldn't even turn off unless the power button was held for about 10 seconds, it is now the case that (sometimes) a quick press of the off button is caught and the machine shuts down

Bug#699402: Xorg.0.log

2013-02-02 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, I enclose the Xorg.0.log of the nvidia driver run. This was done by: Uncommenting blacklist nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf Commenting #blaclist nvidia in /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf (I had to create this file) using the previously provided /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Bug#689748: More info: unknown LVDS configuration bits, please report

2013-02-02 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Just noticed, on reboot after a lock up, the message in the subject line. Looking back at the original bug report, dmesg data was included by reportbug, but it was garbled (no new lines) so might have escaped notice. This is the complete line, with the 2 previous ones: [

Bug#699402: nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source: display a gradual fuzzy white after boot, display unusable

2013-01-30 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source Version: 96.43.23-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Having noticed that the legaxy-96xx packages have been upgraded in the last few days, I tried the old nvidia binary driver that used to work fine in lenny on

Bug#689748: More info: glx failed, new Xorg.0.log

2013-01-16 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of January 15, 2013, with a totally up-to-date wheezy system, tried to run openscad and it didn't work Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.

Bug#689748: More info, another backtrace

2013-01-12 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, On January 12, 2013, after an update (that upgraded dozens of kde libraries) and a reboot, I was quickly paging through a pdf document with evince and the system locked up again. After a hard power-off (holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds - the only way to regain access)

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-27 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of December 26, 2012, with up-to-the-minute wheezy, installed xtide, which is available in a wheezy package. It has the same illegible font problem as gbuffy (as reported in the previous bug report addendum). So, this is not a gbuffy or old library problem... Any further test

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-21 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of December 21, 2012, with wheezy updated just now, the following still occurs: Moving any window (click on the title bar and drag) locks up the system instantly. As I currently have no other machines connected to a local network, I can't get in through ssh. All I can do is a

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-13 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven't been able to continue testing for the last few weeks. I recently did an upgrade where about 500 packages were updated, including xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and the kernel. Something has been fixed as the problem is now not

Bug#689748: Additional info, another backtrace.

2012-10-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, More symptoms: When an application puts out text to the console (in my case fsck on a usb drive reporting I/O errors) random dots appear, sometimes all over the screen. Sometimes, the text on the screen is totally unreadable. Shifting consoles (ctl-alt-Fn) redraws the screen and the

Bug#690008: sl-modem-daemon: wrong kernel driver loaded (snd_asiixp_modem) when slamr is needed

2012-10-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: sl-modem-daemon Version: 2.9.11~20110321-8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) on a new HD. In Lenny the modem was working fine. It was used mostly as an answering machine. The packages sl-modem-daemon-daemon,

Bug#689748: More info, sid dbg package.

2012-10-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, Per this page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#How_do_I_backport_a_sid_package_to_testing_or_stable.3F I did the following: added deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list then: apt-get update apt-get build-dep

Bug#660035: dynamic marquee fails to scroll in iceweasel

2012-02-17 Thread eclectic 923
- Original Message - From: Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org Can you try a newer version from http://mozilla.debian.net/, then? Mike Since a work around has been found for the problem, the best I could do is create a tarball to provide an example (jquery based). However, with the

Bug#660035: dynamic marquee fails to scroll in iceweasel

2012-02-15 Thread eclectic 923
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.16-11 I'm working on developing web pages using Debian Squeeze. I was using the marquee element when I discovered it didn't scroll. I did some digging. 1) The marquee element needs to be dynamically created to stop it from    scrolling. If the marquee element is

Bug#563677: dhcp3-client: dhclient should not override default routing

2010-07-29 Thread eclectic 923
the same fashion that my patch configured DHCP to do what I needed. Let's find a solution, any solution, rather than leaving this problem to continue. - Original Message From: Andrew Pollock apoll...@debian.org To: eclectic 923 eclectic...@yahoo.com; 563...@bugs.debian.org Cc: sub

Bug#563677: dhcp3-client: dhclient should not override default routing

2010-04-13 Thread eclectic 923
Setting up the network, and setting up a network interface are really different things. The interface is an IP {address, mask, broadcast}. The network is default route and /etc/resolv.conf. As this bug illustrates, setting both without the ability to separate them is a flaw in DHCP. Realizing

Bug#563677: dhcp3-client: dhclient should not override default routing

2010-01-04 Thread eclectic 923
Package: dhcp3-client Version: 3.1.1-6+lenny3 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** As I watched the various wireless security protocols get cracked, I decided to give up on wireless security, there's a better and simpler solution, openvpn. It takes a whole lot less

Bug#563677: dhcp3-client: dhclient should not override default routing

2010-01-04 Thread eclectic 923
--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Andrew Pollock apoll...@debian.org wrote: What is supposed to happen when the DHCP administrator wants to roll out a change to the default route? I think at best I could add what you're asking for only in the case of initial lease acquisition and not renewal. Even

Bug#520971: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx: Click and drag misbehavior

2009-03-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx Version: 96.43.07-2 Severity: important This problem is repeatable with 2 applications: kbarcode and korganizer. Both applications work in the predictable way on another X server (neomagic driver on a Thinkpad 600E). The problem also manifests itself when

Bug#520972: kbarcode: Label editor: text input does not respect line breaks

2009-03-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: kbarcode Version: 2.0.6-1 Severity: important In label editor (Avery letter, 5371), once in the properties dialog: When entering multiple lines of text, after exiting the dialog via OK, the text that appears in the label editor's main window does not reflect the line breaks in the

Bug#520973: kbarcode: Label editor: font and other changes not reflected in main label

2009-03-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: kbarcode Version: 2.0.6-1 Severity: important In label editor (Avery letter, 5371), once in the properties dialog: When entering text Insert - Text, after exiting the dialog via OK, any changes made in the dialog: font size, bold/italic/underline, etc is not reflected in the main label

Bug#518694: sl-modem-source: No RING messages sent when the phone is ringing

2009-03-07 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: sl-modem-source Version: 2.9.9d+e-pre2-12 Severity: important This is new behavior in the new Lenny installation. Under Etch it worked fine. With this problem, the modem is unusable with vgetty. I have restored the same configuration files that worked before, but now the modem never

Bug#513769: dpkg-reconfigure lirc always fails

2009-01-31 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: lirc Version: 0.8.3-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable # dpkg-reconfigure lirc Stopping lirc daemon: irexec lircmd lircd. .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. ## ## LIRC IS NOT

Bug#511054: inn2: permissions problem after lenny install

2009-01-07 Thread The Eclectic One
Quoting: m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) retitle 511054 inncheck suggests insecure permissions severity 511054 minor tag 511054 help thanks On Jan 07, The Eclectic One eclec...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: The inn system doesn't even start after installation. There are plenty Mmm... Re-reading what

Bug#511054: inn2: permissions problem after lenny install

2009-01-06 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.5-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The inn system doesn't even start after installation. There are plenty of files with the wrong ownership and permissions per inncheck (see output below). Running inncheck -f -perm | sh fixes it and then inn

Bug#510178: xserver-xorg: xserver crashes on exit (with nvidia binary driver)

2008-12-29 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: important When logging off, the server crashes and a kdm restart is necessary to get back the kdm screen. The options specific to the nvidia driver present in the xorg.conf file used to work in Etch and Sarge. The nvidia driver used is the

Bug#509238: panic backtrace

2008-12-24 Thread The Eclectic One
Quoting: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org So, in short, in regular mode, it crashes (always at the same place) but in vga=771 mode, it doesn't, right? Correct. And I assume that you get no crash as well if you're using the graphical installer. I had not tried the graphical installer,

Bug#509238: panic backtrace

2008-12-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Quoting: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org Quoting The Eclectic One (eclec...@sdf.lonestar.org): First thought: race condition (the panic message contained a backtrace of different threads), so then I tried multiple times with only one change at at time: expert mode, regular mode

Bug#509238: panic backtrace

2008-12-22 Thread The Eclectic One
Quoting Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org Ok, tried a few more times. I usually get the same kernel panic screen, Did you try in expert mode, ie choosing it from the Advanced options in the boot menu. Yes, I tried expert as well as regular. In expert mode, when you reach the HW detection

Bug#509238: panic backtrace

2008-12-21 Thread The Eclectic One
Quoting Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org OK. Are you in the position of testing with something else than a USB stick boot? Actually, before I gave up on CDs (ruined 11 CD-Rs, probably marginal media, drive or wodim problems) I had a CD made on a windows machine of the lenny installer RC1.

Bug#509238: panic backtrace

2008-12-20 Thread The Eclectic One
First of all, it would be nice if you could precise what exact version you tested. I tried both the rc1 debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and the daily build as of a few days ago. Same result. The version we would like to see tested at this moment is: - RC1, which you can download from:

Bug#509238: debian-installer: lenny installer (daily build) locks up after net hw detection screen

2008-12-19 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: debian-installer Version: lenny installer Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 --- Not really. It's the lenny installer APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#508322: wodim: Cannot load media. Cannot init drive.

2008-12-09 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: wodim Version: 9:1.1.9-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The first error: Cannot load media happens when wodim is invoked as a regular user that is a member of the cdrom group, so permissions should not be a problem. The second error: Cannot init drive happens

Bug#508120: linux-source-2.6.26: RTL8139 ethernet (8139too driver) doesn't work in 10Mb/s half duplex

2008-12-07 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: linux-source-2.6.26 Version: 2.6.26-10 Severity: important Hardware involved: RealTek RTL8139D ethernet card (10/100Mb/s). Markings on the chip: 63122S1 L622E TAIWAN. Linksys 8-port Workgroup hub Netgear router/gateway RP-614 Debugging info: When installed, the RTL8139D card is

Bug#507220: problem seemss to be corrrected in 2.6.26

2008-11-30 Thread The Eclectic One
Just compiled a new kernel 2.6.26 (from backports.org) and lshw now seems to talk correctly to the scsi system and the panic doesn't occur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#507220: linux-source-2.6.24: Kernel panic when accessing Adaptec 1542CF SCSI controller (aha1542 driver)

2008-11-28 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: linux-source-2.6.24 Version: 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I've moved an Adaptec 1542CF with a SCSI chain of: scanner, tape drive and CD writer into a P3. This hardware worked just fine in a pentium 133 years ago under 2.4 kernels. On

Bug#361532: thinkpad-source: fails to compile with linux-source-2.6.16_2.6.16-5_all.deb

2006-04-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: thinkpad-source Version: 5.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Tags: experimental Trying the latest experimental kernel on sarge in an attemp to solve a usb issue on a thinkpad 600E. The same problem occurs with thinkpad-source-5.8.4. Looks like a macro

Bug#348463: linux-source-2.6.15: bad acpi irq routing

2006-01-16 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: linux-source-2.6.15 Version: 2.6.15-2 Severity: normal Tags: experimental *** Please type your report below this line *** Created a local binary kernel from the source on this sarge box. Whereas the standard 2.6.8 kernel works fine, 2.6.15 doesn't seem to respect that irq 10 is

Bug#306320: make: RANLIB is not defined by default

2005-04-25 Thread eclectic 923
Subject: make: RANLIB is not defined by default Package: make Version: 3.80-9 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8_jfg8