Bug#855486: libkf5purpose-bin: inappropriate install dependency on nodejs for some architectures

2017-02-18 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: libkf5purpose-bin Version: 1.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, For several architectures, including at least alpha and hppa, there is no "nodejs" package available. For those architectures, "libkf5purpose-bin" has an installation dependency on "nodejs" that needs to be removed.

Bug#648994: qt4-x11: g++-4.4 optimizer broken on Alpha

2011-11-16 Thread Bob Tracy
Source: qt4-x11 Version: 4:4.7.3-8 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Due to a bug in the g++-4.4 optimizer, the normal "-O2" build of "qt4-x11" binary packages results in segfaults on the alpha architecture when apps are run that use the "qt4" libraries. This includes "kdm" and th

KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-09 Thread Bob Tracy
Armed with nearly three times the RAM I used to have, I screwed up my courage and tried a plasma-desktop session on the console. It locked up the machine as it did on all prior attempts, but now that the machine isn't paging itself to death, it seems easier to start narrowing down cause and effect

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > If it's the virtuoso process to create issue, you can try disabling the > semantic desktop (which uses the virtuoso DB): either you uninstall the > virtuoso packages, or disable nepomuk for your user in a console with: > $ kwriteconf

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:34:05PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Bob, I've just recompiled iceweasel and icedove with gcc-4.6 and full > optimisation (other than --no-relax in the linker) and the crashes in > those two packages have disappeared. I am sending this message with > icedove from my A

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:02:32PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On 13/12/11 01:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of > > our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile > > exercise. &

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:04:11PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > (KDE4 causing hard system lockups/freezes during console > > sessions, but not FreeNX sessions.) > > Hm I see. > My next hint would be try to disable the compositing of kwin (the window > manager), maybe it somehow detects it is ava

Bug#541402: alpha: plasma segfault on kde4 startup

2009-08-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Package: kdebase-workspace-bin Version: 4:4.2.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Since the upgrade from KDE3 to KDE4 on the Alpha platform, KDE has been unusable. "/usr/bin/plasma" consistently segfaults on startup. This may or may not be related to #519518: the reporte

Bug#541402: alpha: plasma segfault on kde4 startup

2009-08-30 Thread Bob Tracy
ACK on the below indicated packages. I won't have any free time to devote to this until this coming Thursday, but I *will* do what I can to help. Thanks! --Bob On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:55:35AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > tag 541402 +help > thanks > > On Thursday 13 August