Bug#823558: synaptics stopped being used on Lenovo Yoga laptop

2016-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 1.8.3-1+b1 Severity: normal I rebooted today with the touchpad working fine and it came back up with it messed up (bad accelleration, no tap click). For some reason, X stopped using the synaptics driver for it and fell back to libinput instead. Reboot

Bug#595183: $HOME/.xsessionrc is started too early to be used to start programs

2010-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michelle Konzack (03/09/2010): > > I use the ~/.xsession file and it works with XDM, WDM, GDM and KDM. > > Joey, does that suit your needs? .xsession is not used when gnome is the session manager. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#595183: $HOME/.xsessionrc is started too early to be used to start programs

2010-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: wishlist I'm using gdm and gnome, but I would like to be able to run a shell script as part of session startup, in order to a) Set environment variables etc. b) Start a lot of programs that I don't want to have to manually configure gnome to start

Bug#582427: screen corruption

2010-05-20 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.9.1-4 Severity: normal With this version and also experimental 2:2.11.0-1, on not one, but *two* Dell Mini 9 laptops, I have started seeing multiple types of screen corruption. * Twice, a blue screen of death, that appeared without warning while I

Bug#535892: X semi-freeze with Mobile 945GME

2010-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I fear the following message didn't reach you. Could you please tell > us what the situation currently is? I have not seen these weird problems in some time. When using current unstable xorg and 2.6.32, I do get the problem where sometimes the screen just goes black. IIRC

Bug#556261: Info received (Bug#556261: Acknowledgement (flicker of doom))

2009-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 556261 acpid tag 556261 patch thanks I've isolated this bug to acpid 1.0.10-3. After downgrading to 1.0.10-2, I no longer see the problem. Pressing the video switch key now causes the screen to flicker exactly once, not an infinite number of times. Thank goodness! I will try to bisect th

Bug#556261: Acknowledgement (flicker of doom)

2009-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
This is actually triggered by accidentially pressing the display switch button. Also, if I do that w/o X running, I get a repeated sequence of ^...@^@^@ output to the console, that does not stop. So this may be a hardware problem. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#543512: update-fonts-alias should skip removed fonts

2009-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > The latter choice would be too complicated if the font package ships more > than one alias file. So, I take the former. > > debhelper patch looks cleaner, and I hope the added options are OK for > xfonts-utils. This patch is fine by me for debhelper; of course

Bug#543512: update-fonts-alias should skip removed fonts

2009-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > + push @alias_postinst, "\tsed -i > \',/etc/X11/fonts/$f/$package.alias,d\' $alias_exclude"; > + push @alias_postrm, "\tsed -i > \',/etc/X11/fonts/$f/$package.alias,d\' $alias_exclude"; I h

Bug#535892: X semi-freeze with Mobile 945GME

2009-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.7.1-1 Severity: important I tried upgrading again from the testing version after seeing hangs with the unstable version this spring and using the testing version of X to avoid them. But within days I was experiencing similar symptoms to those reported

Bug#525231: also seeing this bug

2009-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > Does it happen reproducibly on a particular web page? No. > Versions of xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-video-intel and kernel? 2:1.6.1.901-2. 2:2.7.1-1, 2.6.29-5 -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#525231: also seeing this bug

2009-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
I've also been getting freezes of X where the cursor still works. It **always** happens to me when iceweasel is loading a new web page. I had one last night, one this afternoon, and before that it had been I think 20 days since the last one. I was able to ssh in, but stopping gdm did not stop X, a

Bug#527490: man page typo

2009-05-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xvfb Version: 2:1.6.1-1 Severity: normal The man page for xvfb-run contains at least one typo of the command name as "xfvb-run" -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel

Bug#523718: keysym changes on upgrade break gnome volume control, etc

2009-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Since X did not report correct keysyms until recently, the default keys > for some shortcuts used to be overridden in GNOME. The problem should be > fixed by this upload: > > control-center (1:2.24.0.1-3) unstable; urgency=low > . >* capplets-data.gconf-defaults: rem

Bug#523718: keysym changes on upgrade break gnome volume control, etc

2009-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Severity: normal Apologies for the innaccurate choice of packages, but I'm pretty sure this problem was caused by my upgrade from xorg 7.3 to 7.4 in general, though it might turn out to be a gnome bug somehow. After this upgrade, I noticed two weird things about the

Bug#497523: NEWS?

2009-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
If upstream is really going to disable tapping by default, and Debian is not going to see fit to override them, then at the very least this needs to be well documented in the NEWS file. It's very disconcerting to have tapping just stop working after an upgrade, as happened to me today (to 1.1.0-1)

Bug#492120: README.Debian doesn't document current xorg.conf

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.7~git20070706-2.1 Severity: normal Trying to follow README.Debian to make the necessary changes to the xorg.conf of a freshly installed system is a harder than it should be. (Of course, it shouldn't be necessary at all, but that's bug #486524.)

Bug#292388: started seeing this bug today

2008-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
I've been using xdm and qemu for ages w/o problems, but today I began seeing this bug when using qemu. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>qemu -boot a -fda boot_70.img -fdb root.img XDM authorization key matches an existing client!Could not initialize SDL - exiting ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-

reassign 483618 to xserver-xorg

2008-05-29 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.28 reassign 483618 xserver-xorg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#472081: seems to be fixed by version in experimental

2008-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
I've been using version 2:2.2.99.902-1 since April 1st, with no crashes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#472081: me too

2008-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.2.1-1 I've been seeing this crash for a month or so too. Unlike the original reporter, I don't think I just see it when mplayer switches to full screen mode. I've seen mplayer crash X the same way when just starting up in a window. I probably see the

Bug#439399: bevel issue

2008-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > I don't see this anymore with 1:1.1.6-4. Do you still see this bug? I don't see the bevel problem anymore. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#347790: #347790 ignores boldMode setting

2008-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Dickey wrote: > If I add these lines to the "XTerm" resources that you supplied: > > *VT100.utf8Fonts.boldFont: 9x15 > *XTerm*VT100.utf8Fonts.boldFont:9x15 > That should be enough - however in testing this, I see a code change needed > to make this path work properly: > > dif

Bug#347790: #347790 ignores boldMode setting

2008-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Dickey wrote: > I'm puzzled, since the boldMode/alwaysBoldMode resources do produce the > result that I tabulated in the manpage. > > However, since you're not seeing it work, it's likely that I'm not using > the same resource-settings and/or locale. > > "appres XTerm" and "appres UXTerm"

Bug#347790: updated patch

2008-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Updated patch for version 232 is attached. (Not sure why but the xtermCloseFont line, which is identical to that in the preceeding code block, now causes a BadFont error. So I commented it out. -- see shy jo diff -ur old/xterm-232/fontutils.c xterm-232/fontutils.c --- old/xterm-232/fontutils.c 2

Bug#347790: reminder, this bug was fixed, the fix reverted, and is currently open with patch

2008-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 19:48:01 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I'm getting tired of having to build my own xterm for over a year.. > > > The fix wasn't reverted, it was modified in 225 with the addition of the > "alwaysBoldMode"

Bug#347790: reminder, this bug was fixed, the fix reverted, and is currently open with patch

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
I'm getting tired of having to build my own xterm for over a year.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#464947: add Vcs- fields

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 231-2boldmode1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Unlike most XSF maintained packages, this one is missing Vcs fields. From 65828168ef5c88a337895338aee2ed602a5a785e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:39:39 -0500 Subject:

Bug#464898: suboptimal cursor hiding

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 231-2 Severity: normal xterm has grown a cursor hiding feature. It has much to learn from unclutter IMHO, including: * unclutter exists. Why bloat the RSS of every individual X program with their own cursor hiding code? * Turning the cursor into a black dot is not a very

Bug#448290: acknowledged by developer (#448290 - display glitch: hidden tab at end of line)

2007-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Dickey: > http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/chapter4.html#S4.6.14 (It's helpful to cc the bug sumbitter if you want them to see your comments.) Well, I've learned something about vt100 terminals. Namely, that I want a terminal emulator that emulates something else, since that behavior is insa

Bug#439744: 2:2.1.1-4 seems ok

2007-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
I was asked to follow up on this. On my laptop, I'm using version 2:2.1.1-4 and xbacklight works ok. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#448290: display glitch: hidden tab at end of line

2007-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 229-1 Severity: normal In an 80 column xterm, run this command: perl -e 'print "LABEL=kodama-root /\t\text3\tnoatime,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 00\t1\n"' The output is displayed like this: LABEL=kodama-root / ext3noatime,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 001

Bug#439744: reversion in Legacy Backlight Brightness support

2007-08-28 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > A different backlight regression has been reported in 2.1.1 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11527 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438969 I'm seeing similar behavior to those with 2.1.0, but only if I use the bios-controlled backlight

Bug#439399: bevel issue

2007-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.5-2 Severity: minor The xdm greeter window is quite a bit larger now than it used to be. This might relate to a display glitch. Along the bottom of the window, there is a bevel. About 3/4 of the way across, the bevel is gone, and I think it just displays flat grey inste

Bug#435604: actually

2007-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
I don't understand why xserver-xorg Depends: xserver-xorg-input-all | xserver-xorg-input Recommends: xserver-xorg-video-all The Depends seems to handle all the cases. If you install xserver-xorg plus a specific xserver-xorg-input-*, the -all package is skipped. Otherwise it's installed by defaul

Bug#347790: reopen

2007-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
reopen 347790 thanks Guess I need to reopen this, the bts still has it marked as fixed despite the fix having been reverted. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#423921: crash when starting xgalaga

2007-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > Hi Joey, > > Could you try the latest xserver-xorg-video-intel package (2:2.0.0-5 > currently in experimental) and report back whether it fixes this crash > in xgalaga? It's hard for me to say, since as noted I've only e

Bug#420402: blobwars crashes the X server

2007-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > I can't reproduce this crash with latest xserver-xorg-video-intel > currently in experimental (2:2.0.0-4). I think I tried in the right > conditions as explained earlier (16bits depth and so). Could you confirm? I'm not seeing it with an X server built from sources keithp gav

Bug#424899: reproducing..

2007-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > I've found a fairly reliable way to reproduce this, I think. If I start > a movie in mplayer, pause it, suspend, resume, suspend, and resume > again, it seems to crash on that second resume (it crash on resume 50% > of the time or so). Confirmed, and it'

Bug#424899: reproducing..

2007-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
I've found a fairly reliable way to reproduce this, I think. If I start a movie in mplayer, pause it, suspend, resume, suspend, and resume again, it seems to crash on that second resume (it crash on resume 50% of the time or so). -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#381952: being worked on?

2007-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson: > I've talked to the X maintainers, and been told that the patch for > #381952 (laptop multimedia key detection) will go into experimental > quite soon, and possibly from there to unstable if the results are good. That was last August, is this bug being worked on? -- see sh

Bug#423921: crash when starting xgalaga

2007-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Joey wrote: > > This is the second regular X app I've seen crash the X server, this time > > it's xgalaga, which crashed it once when it was starting up in > > fullscreen mode, which switches to a smaller video mode. > > > Confirmed, crashes hard every time for me. Crashes

Bug#420402: Getting a better backtrace.

2007-05-02 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I do have a useful bit of info though. The crash only happens with my > > old xorg.conf. I let a new one be generated, and blobwars runs ok. > > > > The relevant change seems to be running at 24 bpp. If I switch it back > >

Bug#420402: Getting a better backtrace.

2007-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: > That backtrace doesn't seem very meaningful, maybe using a core dump > backtrace would be better. How could a core dump backtrace be different or better? It seems pretty clear that it's jumping the the xf86SigHandler and losing all prior stack info before that. I do

Bug#420402: blobwars crashes the X server

2007-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Backtrace: > > > 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c20e4] > > > 1: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 [0xb7d23828] > > > 2: [0x49004900] > > > > > could you install the xserver-xorg-core package and try to either get a > ^ > I meant

Bug#420402: blobwars crashes the X server

2007-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.0.0-1 Severity: important I can crash X by just running blobwars (1.06-2-1). This was not the case with the old version of the X server. This is what shows up in the log after I start blobwars. Then xdm restarts. Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHand

Bug#420400: comments

2007-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
#418256 is similar to #420400, in workaround if not cause/symptoms. To work around that bug, I came up with a hibernate patch that provides a SwitchToTextModeOnResume option. The patch is in bug #420401. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#420349: init script doesn't stop xdm after ctrl-alt-backspace

2007-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.4-3 Severity: normal If I ctrl-alt-backspace in X, xdm is restarted, and must be running at a different pid than what the init script expects, since /etc/init.d/xdm stop fails to stop it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT pol

Bug#419143: please use lsb init functions in /etc/init.d/xterm

2007-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > close 419143 1:1.1.4-1 > forcemerge 335388 419143 > thanks > Already fixed :) No, I'm not talking about the lsb comments, which are there. I'm asking for it to use log_daemon_msg, log_end_msg, etc from /lib/lsb/init-functions. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Bug#347790: bold mode broken again 225-1

2007-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
found 347790 225-1 thanks Due to the boldmode patch being aparently reverted in version 225-1, this bug has resurfaced. Using 225-1, I cannot disable bold mode again. My configuration remains as documented in this bug report. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#419143: please use lsb init functions in /etc/init.d/xterm

2007-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 18:49:59 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Package: xterm > > Version: 1:222-1 > > There is no such version of xterm, etch has 222-1etch2 (without the > epoch), lenny and sid have 225-1. > > > Severity: normal &g

Bug#419145: selecting xterm as x-terminal-emulator alternative breaks man page link

2007-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 1:222-1 Severity: normal If I have x-terminal-emulator set to gnome-terminal, the x-terminal-emulator man page works. If I then use update-alternatives --config to set it to xterm, the link is broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/man/man1>man x-terminal-emulator man: warni

Bug#419143: please use lsb init functions in /etc/init.d/xterm

2007-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 1:222-1 Severity: normal /etc/init.d/xterm doesn't use lsb init functions, and so it's one of the few scripts left in my startup sequence whose output can't be understood by usplash, etc. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Bug#76337: xdm: can leave behind garbage files in current directory if interrupted while generating auth token

2007-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > About 6 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding xdm > generating garbage files if interrupted while generating auth token. Did > you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I will > close this bug in the next weeks. This would be difficult t

Bug#13884: xdm: localhost appears in chooser when route is -net 127.0.0.0

2007-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > About 9 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding > localhost appearing in chooser when route is -net 127.0.0.0. You didn't > reply to Branden's ping 7 years ago. But you change the submitter's > address later. > So, did you reproduce this problem recently? Wit

Bug#407342: postinst fails when run within d-i

2007-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > Would the following patch fix this for you? Looks like it would. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#407342: postinst fails when run within d-i

2007-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.0.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i I'd like to include xdm in the xfce task, but I can't since it fails as follows: Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing. cat: /var/run/xdm.pid: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure); subproces

Bug#226180: xserver-xfree86: [debconf] readline frontend requires explicit default answers for every question

2007-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Brice Goglin wrote: > About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding > missing default answers for X configuration questions. Did you reproduce > this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. The only ones that I can find that still seems to be missing

Bug#405639: missing package in desktop installation?

2007-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But when I booted into the new system, X wouldn't com up, and complained > that it could not load modules 'kbd' or 'mouse' because "module does not > exist" > > starting aptitude and installiny packages >xserver-xorg-input-kbd > and >xserver-xorg-input-mouse >

Bug#363005: Bug#362820: using update-fonts-dir --x11r7-layout in maintainer scripts breaks partial upgrades

2006-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Berg wrote: > Adding ${misc:Depends} adds the (previously missing) dependency on > xfonts-utils, but does not make it versioned. Why does it need to be versioned? There has not been any version of xfonts-utils that did not support --x11r7-layout. -- see shy jo signature.asc Descripti

Re: Please use PTS for commit mails

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Currently the debian-x list is getting heavily spammed with commit mails, > both from SVN and from git. IMO this is not necessary. The git ones are especially annoying, since they don't contain any diff to read. Why get commit mails if there's no diff.. -- see shy jo signat

Bug#347790: unfixed..

2006-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Well, I upgraded 222-1 today, and this bug is back for me. I tried applying the xterm-boldmode-2.patch, and with some updates to work with changed variables in the new version, it works! I've attached an updated version of the patch. Please consider applying this.. -- see shy jo diff -ur old/xt

Bug#349462: xterm: wrong update-alternatives man page x-terminal-emulator.1.gz

2006-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
Julien Cristau wrote: > I tried to reproduce this by upgrading xterm from sarge to etch and > didn't get any dangling symlink. I tried an upgrade with xterm as the > only x-terminal-emulator package installed, as well as with xterm and > rxvt, and I also tried setting the link to uxterm manually b

Bug#396160: missing conflict with opera-static (and opera?)

2006-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.1.0-5 Severity: normal The following report is for Ubuntu, not Debian, but the first bug encountered seems to affect us too: x11-common is missing a conflict on an opera-static package which at some version installed files in /usr/X11R6/bin. (Possibly on opera too?

re: last chance to do something about discover1 etc: I give up

2006-09-20 Thread Joey Hess
David Nusinow > Will tasksel still be able to ensure that > xresprobe and discover are installed prior to the > scripts being run in this case? Yes, tasksel can arrange for all necessary hardware detection tools to be installed by the time the postinst runs. Or you can just depend on them, your ch

Re: prospective NMU diff

2006-09-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > tags 368582 patch > tags 384057 patch > tags 384282 patch > tags 386185 patch > tags 369895 patch > thanks I think that this NMU will also fix #359328, won't it? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

re: last chance to do something about discover1 etc: I give up

2006-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
David Nusinow wrote: >I didn't realize that this was a pressing issue. > Since it worked for sarge, I figured that the kludge > could remain until we can get a proper solution in > place. There have been large changes to the installer since sarge that broke the old solution. >My plan for

last chance to do something about discover1 etc: I give up

2006-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
For years and years, X has had a unique special case: It needs to have discover1 and some other software (currently also xresprobe[1]) installed before it is preconfigured. If the software is not installed then X's config script will silently not use it during hardware detection, and will do a wors

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Unfortunately it's happened against, this time with the upload of > xorg-server (xserver-xorg-core) 1:1.1.1-3, accidentally uploaded to > unstable instead of experimental. An easy enough mistake, it's only > one little field in a changelog file. '2:' is not any worse than '1

Bug#349462: still open..

2006-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
This bug is annoying, and still open. /etc/cron.weekly/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink That file points to a /etc/alternatives file that is not there; one with "1x" in the name is there. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digi

Bug#372077: use NEWS.Debian

2006-06-23 Thread Joey Hess
One way to fix this would be to promote apt-listchanges to standard priority so it's available everywhere and add a NEWS.Debian entry for the issue. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Annoying warning note in fresh installs

2006-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
David Nusinow wrote: > Right, I don't like it but I don't have a clean fix for it yet. The reason > being that x11-common didn't exist in sarge so I can't simply check for an > upgrade. Ideally I would look for xserver-common being on the system and > put the note up in that case, but that package

Bug#371874: x11-common postinst error: trouble with /usr/include/X11

2006-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
David Nusinow wrote: > Ok, this is an extremely troubling bug. The previous x11-common's postinst > gets called when the new x11-common's postinst fails with the /usr/bin/X11 > switch. No the problem is not that the new postinst is failing (nor does dpkg do any error-unwind involving the old posti

Bug#372077: re the debconf note on upgrade

2006-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: wishlist I have an idea.. why not check early if an X server is installed, then in the postinst check again and if there's no X server installed anymore, display an error message about it. It's disconcerting to get this debconf note displayed during

Bug#371874: x11-common postinst error: trouble with /usr/include/X11

2006-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: x11-common > Version: 1:7.0.20 > Severity: grave > X-Debbugs-CC: "Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > x11-common postinst error: trouble with /usr/include/X11 > > > We get this problem on two different systems -- an etch AMD-64 (installed > as Debian-AMD64,

Bug#371163: no provision made for any kind of upgrade path for third-party packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin

2006-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: normal I have a small apt repository at work containing some third-party packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin. How am I supposed to provide a clean upgrade path for my users? If x11-common is upgraded first, it will flame out and die. But there's no way

Bug#371152: upgrade failure determining smoking_guns

2006-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: normal _smoking_guns=$(grep -l "$1" $_possible_culprits) It's possible for this grep to not turn up anything, and if it does, the postinst will crash here, exiting with 1 and no indication of the problem. If || true is added to the end, it b

Bug#371161: error unwind for postinst fails because it checks for symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: normal The system I am trying to upgrade has third-party packages that installed stuff in /usr/X11R6/bin. Since that caused the upgrade to fail, I have moved everything out of /usr/X11R6/bin and am trying to pick up the peices. adsdebian:/usr/lib# l

Re: Need to purge xprint-common to get xorg 7 working

2006-04-23 Thread Joey Hess
Dominique Dumont wrote: > I've upgraded from Xork 6.9 to Xorg 7.0. While updating, aptitude > insisted on removing xprint. Then xprint-common was removed by > aptitude as it was no longer used. > > Unfortunately, I couldn't get Xorg to start with startx. Long story > short, I found this error mess

Bug#362713: fails to upgrade since /usr/X11R6/bin/X still exists

2006-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Hmm, this was supposed to have been fixed in xserver-xorg 1:7.0.11 by > removing the symlink in question. :/ So there are two bugs here -- > xserver-xorg needs to drop the symlink, and x11-common needs to bump its > versioned conflict with xserver-xorg... Just to add to th

Bug#362713: fails to upgrade since /usr/X11R6/bin/X still exists

2006-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.11 Severity: serious Setting up x11-common (7.0.11) ... rmdir: /usr/X11R6/bin: Directory not empty x11-common postinst error: Could not remove /usr/X11R6/bin. Is not yet empty dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script r

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r1772 - trunk/debian/xorg/debian

2006-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:32:36AM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > > This commit seems likely to break upgrades from stable. Nothing will > > guarantee that x11-common will be upgraded before everything else that > > uses /usr/X11R6/bin in stable. > >

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r1772 - trunk/debian/xorg/debian

2006-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
This commit seems likely to break upgrades from stable. Nothing will guarantee that x11-common will be upgraded before everything else that uses /usr/X11R6/bin in stable. X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > Author: dnusinow > Date: 2006-04-13 20:18:48 -0400 (Thu, 13 Apr 2006) > New Revisi

Bug#362149: reopened

2006-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've reopened this bug because xdm 1:1.0.1-5 remains broken exactly as before; xdm-config refers to a nonexistant Xsetup_0, and if I fix that xdm still fails on login with this in the log: error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy (Note: I purged xdm and reinstalled it, t

Bug#347790: fixed

2006-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Somehow, upgrading to modular x.org and to version 210-2 of xterm fixed this problem for me. I'm leaving the bug open since it has (unrelated?) patches in it. -- see shy jo

Re: font directories?

2006-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've done a minor mass-bug filing (85 bugs) on packages that still use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. I hope that I captured everything that needs to be done to transition: * Modify rules or Makefile to install the fonts to the new directory. * Build-depend on debhelper version 5.0.29, which supports

Bug#362312: junk left in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts after upgrade

2006-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xfonts-utils Version: 1:1.0.0-3 Severity: normal With the fonts dirs moving, a system that is upgraded from an old version of X will have /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directories left hanging around with fonts.dir, fonts.cache-1, fonts.alias, and encodings.dir left in them. Since these old di

font directories?

2006-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Erm, am I currect that X now only looks for fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/? What is everything that hardcodes /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ (dh_installxfonts, font packages, etc) supposed to do? Any kind of a transition plan here? -- see shy jo

Bug#362246: error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy

2006-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: normal On startup, X gives the message given in the subject. This doesn't seem to keep it from working, but dunno if it's seeing the copy of the file in /etc. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT pol

Bug#362247: no longer current regarding X font paths

2006-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.2 Severity: normal Section 11.8.5. is no longer current regarding the font paths used by the new modular version of X. Packages providing fonts need to drop them into /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, I guess. It would probably help if the X maintainers sent in a pat

Bug#362244: moves fonts etc around w/o warning, breaking previously working configs

2006-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: important I have a custom xorg.conf. On upgrade, X stopped working since all the paths in it were pointing to stuff in /usr/X11R6/ that doesn't exist anymore. X should detect this and fix/warn on upgrade. -- System Information: Debian Release: tes

Bug#362223: broken symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/X

2006-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: normal lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-11 04:16:27 ./usr/X11R6/bin/X -> ../../bin/X This is a broken link since /usr/X does not exist.. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'un

Bug#362222: needs to document that upgrading breaks PATH of /usr/bin/X11

2006-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: normal Now that /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/bin/X11 do not point to the same place, if a system has /usr/bin/X11 in its PATH, it will miss anything left in /usr/X11R6/bin. This should at least be documented in NEWS.Debian although it's easy to be bit by

Bug#234556: it's baaaaackk..

2006-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:52 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This bug has reared its ugly head again for me today, when I rebooted > > and came up in xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6. Sigh, I thought it was dead. > > Installing the -dbg package to work around it a

Bug#234556: it's baaaaackk..

2006-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
This bug has reared its ugly head again for me today, when I rebooted and came up in xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6. Sigh, I thought it was dead. Installing the -dbg package to work around it again. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#347790: also..

2006-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
It also seems to be ignoring color settings like these: *XTerm*VT100*color0: black *XTerm*VT100*color1: red3 *XTerm*VT100*color2: green4 *XTerm*VT100*color3: yellow4 *XTerm*VT100*color4: blue4 *XTerm*VT100*color5: magenta3 *XTerm*VT100*color6: cyan4 *XTerm*VT100*color7: gray55 *XTerm*VT100*color8:

Bug#347791: upgrade resets x-terminal-emulator alternative

2006-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xterm Version: 208-3.1 Severity: normal (Hmm, I see I already filed a bug on this once, so I'll just follow up with this second, more detailed bug report since I typed it up..) My system was configured via update-alternatives --edit so that xterm was the alternative used for x-terminal-e

Bug#349251: CVE-2006-0197: XClientMessageEvent struct issue on 64 bit

2006-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xorg-x11 Severity: normal Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Tags: security CVE-2006-0197 describes a potential security problem as follows: The XClientMessageEvent struct used in certain components of X.Org 6.8.2 and earlier, possibly including (1) the X server and (2) Xlib, uses a "long" sp

Bug#216933: Workaround for the CMS bug

2006-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
David Martínez Moreno wrote: > What happened about the nasty Transmeta bug with X? > Did you see any changes with new 6.9 packages and/or gcc-4.0? I haven't been seeing it with x.org 6.9 packages built with recent gcc's, but I assume this just means the code has stopped tickling the underlying bu

Re: [pkgsel] Add xresprobe, discover and laptop detect for hw detection

2006-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Free Ekanayaka wrote: > I'm wondering if it would make sense to add > > xresprobe > discver > laptop-detect > > to the list of packages which get installed before the X server. As > far a I know, if available, they are used by the postinst scripts of > xserver-xorg. laptop-detect is already

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