Bug#497339: gdm: Login disappears when switching user

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

I'm unsure that this is actually a gdm problem, but it does seem
relevant.

The situation I have found is that I have two users who switch between
VT7 and VT8.  Since changing to Lenny, I have found that VT7 appears to
be stable, but the user who logs into VT8 can run the session for a
period of time, however if the users xscreensaver comes on and locks the
screen and the switch user button is clicked the VT8 session will
disappear.

This has the potential to lose data for the second user and, of course,
potential marital disharmony (which I would like to avoid as much as
possible...)

A similar situation I have also seen when using vnc4server, however it
occurred with VT7.  VT7 became unusable, however switching users and
using VT10 was possible.

If this bug should be pointed elsewhere, please let me know.

Regards,

Russell.

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Bug#497353: Bogus warnings from intltool-update

Package: intltool
Version: 0.40.0-1
Severity: normal

When running intltool-update it prints lots (that is many terminal
screens) of warnings like the following:

Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at /usr/bin/intltool-update line 305, <FILE> line 147.
Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at /usr/bin/intltool-update line 305, <FILE> line 882.
Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at /usr/bin/intltool-update line 305, <FILE> line 882.
Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation at /usr/bin/intltool-update line 305, <FILE> line 2597.

and

mismatched quotes at line 41 in ../moo/moopython/codegen/argtypes.py

The latter is about python triple-quoted strings (I believe). I "fix" 
the former by removing -w from intltool-update's shebang, and the 
latter by commenting out the line that prints it. Both are useless 
IMO: I, the intltool user not knowing perl, don't fix intltool; and 
mismatched quotes one is just bogus, there aren't mismatched quotes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#335916: Removing netmon-applet

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 00:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 15:43 -0300, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit :
> > Are you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters?
> > If so, please could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me?
> > 
> > If there is no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package
> > from Debian after a month.
> 
> I’d recommend to drop this package. We already have netspeed which is
> decently maintained upstream and in Debian, plus netstatus. I don’t
> think we need three applets doing almost exactly the same thing.

Looking at popcon netmon-applet is still being used by some people.
Also, both netspeed and netstatus are a bit 'heavier' on the UI code,
as netmon-applet uses text-only displaying.

It is true however that upstream seems to have dropped this package,
so on the other hand orphaning it might be a good idea.

Maybe there should be an alternative for this package though, providing
the same clean, text-only display method.

Having had a deeper look into the upstream activity dropping this
package seems like a good idea though. I am going to put this package
in orphaned status again.

Regards,

Stephan

Bug#497370: gdesklets includes shared mime info files

Package: gdesklets
Version: 0.36-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel <at> lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch

Hi,

gdesklets includes in the package a number of shared mime info files:

/usr/share/mime/packages/gdesklets.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/x-gdesklets-display.xml
/usr/share/mime/globs2
/usr/share/mime/types
/usr/share/mime/generic-icons
/usr/share/mime/icons
/usr/share/mime/treemagic

Only /usr/share/mime/packages/gdesklets.xml should be included, all others are 
created by running update-mime-database during build.
Note that in the package there are a number of rm calls in debian/rules to 
remove some shared mime info files. Instead of updating these I think it 
would be better to remove alltogether the calls to update-mime-database; this 
way the package should be future-proof.
I have patched it this way in Ubuntu, I thought you may want to do the same 
(patch attached).

I hope this helps,

Bug#497375: [evince] Form input not visible after leaving editing mode

Package: evince
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: important

--- Please enter the report below this line. ---
Editing PDF documents with forms works fine, but I am not able to see
the text I entered into form fields after leaving the editing mode.
However, this worked just fine before.

I think this is related to the latest version of libpoppler (0.8.6-1)
but I was not able to verify this since the previous version (0.8.5-1)
ist not available anywhere anymore. (Not even on snapshot.debian.net
which, in fact, was very outdated.) The version from Testing makes
Evince die with a Segfault.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.uni-kl.de
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org
  500 testing         ftp.uni-kl.de
  500 testing         ftp.de.debian.org
  500 stable          dl.google.com
  500 experimental    sadleder.de
  500 experimental    ftp.uni-kl.de
    1 experimental    ftp.de.debian.org

Bug#380730: Seems to be fixed in lenny

Hello,

I can no longer reproduce this problem in lenny (v 0.2.3-2), so this 
problem may be fixed.

Thanks,
Arne

Bug#482322: gossip: considering incresing severity

Hi,

is anybody considering looking at this very important
bug? It make my gossip instalation completly usless.
I was thinking about incresing severity, but can one
verify this bug?

Probably manual deletion of ./.gnome2/Gossip (with logs! which
i want to preserver), will resolve problem, but it breaks on
etch->lenny upgrade.

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Bug#497339: gdm: Login disappears when switching user

Le lundi 01 septembre 2008 à 10:18 +1000, Russell Weatherburn a écrit :
> The situation I have found is that I have two users who switch between
> VT7 and VT8.  Since changing to Lenny, I have found that VT7 appears to
> be stable, but the user who logs into VT8 can run the session for a
> period of time, however if the users xscreensaver comes on and locks the
> screen and the switch user button is clicked the VT8 session will
> disappear.

In this case, are there errors in the /var/log/gdm/:1.log
and /var/log/Xorg.1.log files ?

> A similar situation I have also seen when using vnc4server, however it
> occurred with VT7.  VT7 became unusable, however switching users and
> using VT10 was possible.

What do you mean by unusable?

> If this bug should be pointed elsewhere, please let me know.

It is probably a bug in your graphics driver causing a crash when you
switch to or from another VT.

Cheers,
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Bug#489874: evince: saving a pdf file produces bad pdf

>> $ wget http://www.dvb-h.org/PDF/Implementation%20Guidelines%20TR102377.V1.2.1.pdf
>> $ evince "Implementation Guidelines TR102377.V1.2.1.pdf"
>>   File / Save a copy / a.pdf
>> 
>> $ ls -l "Implementation Guidelines TR102377.V1.2.1.pdf" a.pdf
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 pot pot 830181 Jul 18  2006 Implementation Guidelines TR102377.V1.2.1.pdf
>> -rw------- 1 pot pot 873986 Jul  8 15:20 a.pdf
>> 
>> $ evince a.pdf
>> Error (832218): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (834466): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (836761): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (838641): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (840739): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (842602): Unknown compression method in flate stream
>> Error (843998): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>> ... (many more messages)
>>   You see a document with all blank pages
>
>Hi,
>
>Do you still experience this bug? 

No.  The copy saved by evince is now identical to the original pdf, and
as expected no errors are signaled.

Thank you.

Bug#497422: netspeed: non RFC 2822 date in debian/changelog

Package: netspeed
Version: 0.14-3
Severity: normal

Hi lool,

The date of the last changelog entry is not RFC 2822.

 -- Loic Minier <lool <at> dooz.org>  dim, 29 jun 2008 21:05:16 +0200
                                ^^^^    ^^^
Should be Jun instead of jun and Sun instead of dim.

cheers,

    Gonéri

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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