Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Odd Martin Baanrud, le Sun 09 Mar 2014 00:23:17 +0100, a écrit : When the clock was beeing configured, brltty crashed. It seems to me that this is a problem on amd64. I did a install on a i386 machine earlier that day, and it worked without any problems. Mmm, I'd tend to guess that

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2014-03-14): Hello, Odd Martin Baanrud, le Sun 09 Mar 2014 00:23:17 +0100, a écrit : When the clock was beeing configured, brltty crashed. It seems to me that this is a problem on amd64. I did a install on a i386 machine earlier that day, and it

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello Dave, We have a bug report in Debian where brltty crashes during clock configuration, see http://bugs.debian.org/741136 I believe what happens is that brltty is disturbed by the sudden clock change. Indeed, I can see uses of getCurrentTime() where getMonotonicTime() should probably be

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Mielke, le Thu 13 Mar 2014 19:57:55 -0400, a écrit : getCurrentTime() is no longer being called in async. This is new in 5.0. Perhaps the problem is happening in an older release. Yes, we have it in 4.5. I'm building a package with this fix to try to reproduce the issue and let Odd

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Mielke
Hi: getCurrentTime() is no longer being called in async. This is new in 5.0. Perhaps the problem is happening in an older release. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail:

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Mielke
Hi: So do you need me to do anything, or is fixed in 5.0 good enough? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.com/ --

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Mielke, le Thu 13 Mar 2014 20:11:34 -0400, a écrit : So do you need me to do anything, or is fixed in 5.0 good enough? Fixed in 5.0 will probably be good enough. The changes seem too invasive to be backported to brltty 4.4 used in debian 7.4. I'll just make sure we indeed see it fixed in

Bug#741136: brltty: Very unstable in Debian Installer 7.4

2014-03-08 Thread Odd Martin Baanrud
Package: brltty Version: 4.4-10+deb7u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I did a fresh install of Debian 7.4, in text mode. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or