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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1840

Today's Topics:

  Re: which program can read M$ Access  [ Andrew Sackville-West  ]
  Re: how to exclude a package          [ Jose Luis Rivas Contreras  ]
  Re: Dual Boot With Win XP - Debian F  [ Kumar Appaiah  ]
  Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade   [ Florian Kulzer  ]

Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:18:17 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:18:49PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> So many software I have never heard of!
> I'd rather install a pirated version of M$ Office
> Thanks anyway!

Do you need help?

are you freakin' serious? you ask for help from this list on how to use all this great free software and then when its possibly a little inconvenient spout off about pirating MS Office?=20

did you even try any of this?=20

Do you even understand the concept of free software? or are you just using it because it doesn't cost any money? And you'll use whatever so long as it doesn't cost you anything?

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:51:38 +0930
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: reportbug emails submit@bugs.debian.org but no response

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Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996.

Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email, there was no acknowlegement from the Debian Bug Tracking System, nor did the reports appear on bugs.debian.org.

The last bug I can find on bugs.debian.org is #430392:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430392

Is anyone else having troubles with the Debian Bug Tracking System?

Regards,

Arthur.

Can we help you?

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:01:34 -0000
From: rocky <rocky2winnie@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade Message-ID: <1182744094.075900.209980@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Jun 15, 5:30 pm, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:15:13 -0000, rocky wrote:
> > Hey,
>
> > I updated my debian box to the latest stable release which is etch.
> > And the xserver stop working. I start the machine with a knoppix live
> > CD version 2.78 runing on 2.4.27 kernel. At start up I see the below
> > lines
> > [QUOTE]Mouse is Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse at /dev/psaux
> > Soundcard: VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]
> > driver=via82cxxx_audio
> > Video is nVidia GeForce 4, using XFree86(nv) Server
> > Monitor is KTC1700,H;28.0-96.0kHz, V:50.0-75.0Hz
> > Using Modes "1024x768""800x600""640x400"[/QUOTE]
>
> > Wile boot from the hard disk which has upgraded Debian etch and starx
> > get the below error
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
> > No such device.
> > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> > xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
> > xkb_types { include "complete" };
> > xkb_compatibility { include "complete" };
> > xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us" };
> > xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
> > No core pointer
>
> > Fatal server error:
> > failed to initialize core devices
> > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > [/QUOTE]
>
> [...]
>
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "CorePointer"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "70"
> > EndSection
>
> [...]
>
> Try "modprobe psmouse" and check if /dev/psaux is created then. If this
> does not make it work then you might have a problem with udev. In that
> case I would like to see the output of the following two commands:
>
> dpkg -l hotplug udev | grep -v '^[D|+]'
>
> ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
>
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Hey Florian,

Thanks a lot for your reply!

According to your email, I think I'm having a udev problem. Below are the output of the commands you asked me to input

$$$$$---------------------quote begin------------------------$$$
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rc  hotplug        0.0.20040329-26 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  udev           0.105-4         /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

LIJIANG:~# ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
ls: /dev/input/by-path/: No such file or directory

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What shold I do now?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Don't know where to look next?

Blessings,
Rocky

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:45:26 -0400
From: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to exclude a package

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Chuck Payne wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim=
.
> I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
> exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
> sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.

aptitude hold postfix

You must say to aptitude or apt-get that holds postfix, not that don't install exim ;)

I don't know if you can do this using apt-get.

Confused? Frustrated?

Regards,
Jose Luis.
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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:24:00 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: reportbug emails submit@bugs.debian.org but no response Message-ID: <20070625052400.GG12527@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:51:38PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996.

on June 21...

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>=20
> Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I=
=20
> received my cc: email, there was no acknowlegement from the Debian Bug=20
> Tracking System, nor did the reports appear on bugs.debian.org.
>=20
> The last bug I can find on bugs.debian.org is #430392:

submitted on june 24, about 99 bugs per day over those 4 days and none since then, right? this assumes that the numbers are sequentially assigned, which seems reasonable to me.=20

So, yeah, I'd say something is fishy there as the BTS is reporting its now been about 24 horus since that last bug was submitted.

OT: this sent me ona n interesting search for the earliest bug in BTS. It is not 1. it is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D50004

"gs breaks valid postscript" from november 12, 1999. that puts it at an average of 136 bugs submitted per day.=20

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:29:04 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to exclude a package
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> Chuck Payne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim.
> > I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
> > exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
> > sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.
>=20
> aptitude hold postfix

will that not prevent him from getting postfix updates?

so far as I know, postfix provides "mail-transport-agent" so if postfix is installed, anything that depends on "mta" should be happy. There may be something else going on there with some packages in your install specifying exim instead of mta

Do you need more help?

=20

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:31:29 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software? Message-ID: <20070625053129.GI12527@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +0000, Prismatic Plasma wrote:
> I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even full=
y=20
> diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are:
> 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and=
=20
> annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message=20
> instead, complaining about unknown variables or junk at end of line. In t=
he=20
> error message it's often apparent that something got corrupted by one=20
> character. The file is usually a header and it isn't corrupted on disk.

memory.

>=20
> 2) occasionally the system goes wild and thrashing, sucking up nearly all=
cpu.=20
> Sometimes it causes the machine to lock up, but usually I can kill the=20
> process that triggered the problem and everything settles down after 10=
=20
> seconds or so. If I restart the process, sometimes everything's okay,=20
> sometimes it goes wild again.

maybe memory.

>=20
> Is this a familiar problem? Is it the mobo or ram? Or is it a software is=
sue=20
> messing up virtual memory? My bios is updated, and I've tried several ker=
nels=20
> in the 2.6 line, including a couple of custom compiles. The problem exist=
s=20
> even in single-user mode, so it doesn't have anything to do with the=20
> windowing system. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.21, etch amd-64, ext3 fs=
,=20
> and sata disk (WD Cavalier, I think).

definitely memory.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:35:19 -0400
From: Chuck Payne <cepayne@magidesign.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to exclude a package

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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
>
>> Chuck Payne wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim.
>>> I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
>>> exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
>>> sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.
>>>
>> aptitude hold postfix
>>
>
> will that not prevent him from getting postfix updates?
>
> so far as I know, postfix provides "mail-transport-agent" so if
> postfix is installed, anything that depends on "mta" should be
> happy. There may be something else going on there with some packages
> in your install specifying exim instead of mta
>
> A
>
>
>
>

Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not doing the install. It's cpanel.

Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:57:57 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to exclude a package
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:35:19AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

> >>Chuck Payne wrote:
> >> =20
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exi=
m.
> >>>I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
> >>>exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
> >>>sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.
> >>> =20
> > =20
> Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it=20
> replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was=20
> hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by=20
> editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not=20
> doing the install. It's cpanel.

I don't know cpanel, but it must be interfacing with the apt system somehow. The other suggestion will probably work, but use dpkg.=20

dpkg --set-selections postfix hold

prior to whatever cpanel is doing should hold postfix. or another option that just occured to me: use equivs

http://www.wickle.com/wiki/index.php/Install_a_dummy_package_to_satisfy_dep= endencies_on_debian

Confused? Frustrated?

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:54:42 +0200
From: Magnus Pedersen <bofhenator@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to exclude a package

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Chuck Payne wrote:
> Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it
> replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was
> hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by
> editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not
> doing the install. It's cpanel.
>
>

That dosn't make sense, cpanel dosn't depend on any mta, not exim, not postfix.

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What happends when your do:
aptitude install cpanel

aptitude update

aptitude upgrade

I don't think cpanel is the culprit...

/Magnus

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:27:07 +0530
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:33:31 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

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On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:56:44 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

>> The Xorg glx module is loaded instead of the one from nvidia. How did
>> you install the nvidia driver, from the Debian packages or with the
>> installer from nvidia's website?
>
> The driver could have been clobbered, because I didn't install the
> nvidia driver the "Debian Way". I just ran the nvidia *run file from
> their website.
>
> But the libglx*9755 file is still there, and the file date seems to
> match when I installed the nvidia driver. Would a simple relink,
> changing libglx.so to point to the nvidia file, work here?

It is worth a try; if that doesn't work then you can also try to run the nvidia installer script again. When I was still using the nvidia installer I had to run it again whenever xserver-xorg-core was upgraded. (The Debian nvidida packages avoid this by using the dpkg-divert mechanism to protect the libglx.so symlink against being overwritten by xserver-xorg-core.)

However, I am currently not using any nvidia cards, so there might new issues of which I am not aware; the links mentioned by Sam Leon are definitely worth checking out.

> dfox@m206-157:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
> total 3771
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19355 2007-06-01 06:28 libdbe.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35862 2007-06-01 06:28 libdri.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147972 2007-06-01 06:28 libextmod.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460192 2007-06-01 06:28 libGLcore.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424173 2007-06-01 06:28 libglx.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 691852 2007-05-06 15:42 libglx.so.1.0.9755
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28021 2007-06-01 06:28 librecord.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40017 2007-06-01 06:28 libxtrap.so

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:41:38 +0530 From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot With Win XP - Debian First? Message-ID: <20070625081138.GA13524@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:50AM -0400, russ421@aol.com wrote:
> I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian.? I've seen the guides,
> but they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first,
> and then install Debian.? This allows you to set it up with the
> default Debian installation to use GRUB / etc. and dual boot.?
Just leave some free space for a FAT/NTFS partition at the beginning of the physical drive.
> Is it possible to install Debian first and then Windows XP later
> on?? Can you change the Debian configurations?? Is it not too
> difficult?? Impossible?
You can later install Debian, but recovering Grub (the boot loader) will be the issue. But this can usually be done easily with a live CD (or the rescue option of the Debian first CD). But ensure that you don't allow Windows to touch the space of the Debian installation. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:44:59 +0530 From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot With Win XP - Debian First? Message-ID: <20070625081459.GC13524@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:41:38PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:46:50AM -0400, russ421@aol.com wrote:
> > I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian.? I've seen the guides,
> > but they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first,
> > and then install Debian.? This allows you to set it up with the
> > default Debian installation to use GRUB / etc. and dual boot.?
>
> Just leave some free space for a FAT/NTFS partition at the beginning
> of the physical drive.
What I actually mean is, create one or more FAT partition for Windows to take over, then create the remaining partitions for Debian. Sorry if that wasn't clear earlier! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:56:15 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade Message-ID: <20070625075615.GB23172@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:01:34 -0000, rocky wrote:
> On Jun 15, 5:30 pm, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:15:13 -0000, rocky wrote:
> > > Hey,
> >
> > > I updated my debian box to the latest stable release which is etch.
> > > And the xserver stop working. I start the machine with a knoppix live
> > > CD version 2.78 runing on 2.4.27 kernel. At start up I see the below
> > > lines
> > > [QUOTE]Mouse is Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse at /dev/psaux
> > > Soundcard: VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]
> > > driver=via82cxxx_audio
> > > Video is nVidia GeForce 4, using XFree86(nv) Server
> > > Monitor is KTC1700,H;28.0-96.0kHz, V:50.0-75.0Hz
> > > Using Modes "1024x768""800x600""640x400"[/QUOTE]
> >
> > > Wile boot from the hard disk which has upgraded Debian etch and starx
> > > get the below error
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >
> > > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
> > > No such device.
> > > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> > > xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
> > > xkb_types { include "complete" };
> > > xkb_compatibility { include "complete" };
> > > xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us" };
> > > xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
> > > No core pointer
> >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > failed to initialize core devices
> > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > > [/QUOTE]
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > > Driver "mouse"
> > > Option "CorePointer"
> > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "70"
> > > EndSection
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Try "modprobe psmouse" and check if /dev/psaux is created then. If this
> > does not make it work then you might have a problem with udev. In that
> > case I would like to see the output of the following two commands:
> >
> > dpkg -l hotplug udev | grep -v '^[D|+]'
> >
> > ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
>
> Hey Florian,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply!
>
> According to your email, I think I'm having a udev problem. Below are
> the output of the commands you asked me to input
>
> $$$$$---------------------quote begin------------------------$$$
> LIJIANG:~# dpkg -l hotplug udev | grep -v '^[D|+]'
> rc hotplug 0.0.20040329-26 Linux Hotplug Scripts
> ii udev 0.105-4 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
> LIJIANG:~# ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
> ls: /dev/input/by-path/: No such file or directory
> $$$$$---------------------quote end------------------------$$$
>
> What shold I do now?
You need to purge the hotplug package; it has been removed when your kernel and udev were upgraded, but its configuration files are still present and they are known to cause problems with the new udev. (There should have been a message about this, but it is easy to overlook it when you are doing an upgrade of many packages.) Run dpkg --purge hotplug as root. After that the status of hotplug should be "pn" instead of "rc". Reboot and see if the mouse works. (Check with "lsmod" if the psmouse module has been loaded.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:37:45 +0200 From: Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Xorg crashes when playing video with totem? Message-ID: <467F7ED9.7090306@noctus.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig26FD8E04830318F5EDA2DF9A" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig26FD8E04830318F5EDA2DF9A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Carl. Carl Fink, 25.06.2007 03:18:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:14:40PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Carl Fink, 24.06.2007 22:37:
>>> Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is run=
ning?=20
>>> I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. =20
>> Any errors? What about ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Doe=
s
>> totem-gstreamer work? What version are you running?
>=20
> No errors in any log, just suddenly finding myself looking at tty1.
Hm, you sure that you checked ~/.xsession-errors before restarting X? Oth= erwise it will be overwritten. (Just want to make sure, I happened to stumble up= on this myself.)
> Haven't
> tried totem-gstreamer, because the last time I did that, it crashed alm=
ost
> immediately on any video. Version 2.16.5-3.
Does gxine work? Not sure what could be wrong at your side. Regards, Mathias --=20 debian/rules --------------enig26FD8E04830318F5EDA2DF9A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGf37ZYfUFJ3ewsJgRAtsNAJ9vcZp0iMM5vSwFkmNGKT0nPrNwrwCcDcmR Gn6ga5+KUG4NlB1VMjzJK5E= =Xsp5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig26FD8E04830318F5EDA2DF9A-- End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #1840 ************************************************** Received on Mon Jun 25 04:51:45 2007

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