UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

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UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by clem »

Update Pack 7 is now in incoming.

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    deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian main upstream import incoming
    deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free
    deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
    deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/multimedia testing main non-free
NOTE THE PRESENCE OF "incoming" at the end of "deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian main upstream import"

Rules:

- Expect things to break.
- Don't look for support in this thread
- Be concise in your feedback and try to identify breakages, regressions and package conflicts.

Any post not following these rules will be deleted.

Good luck. Thanks for helping out getting this UP into latest!
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by killer de bug »

Clem,

It looks like Libre office is creating problem !

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apt dist-upgrade

Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Vous pouvez lancer « apt-get -f install » pour corriger ces problèmes.
Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
 libreoffice : Dépend: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:4.0.3~) mais 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 est installé
 libreoffice-base : Dépend: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:4.0.3~) mais 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 est installé
                    Dépend: libhsqldb1.8.0-java mais il n'est pas installé
 libreoffice-core : Dépend: libboost-date-time1.53.0 mais il n'est pas installé
                    Dépend: libcmis-0.3-3 (>= 0.3.1) mais il n'est pas installé
                    Dépend: libexttextcat-2.0-0 (>= 2.2-8) mais il n'est pas installé
                    Dépend: liblangtag1 (>= 0.4.0) mais il n'est pas installé
                    Dépend: librdf0 (>= 1.0.16) mais 1.0.15-1+b1 est installé
 libreoffice-draw : Dépend: libcdr-0.0-0 mais il n'est pas installé
                    Dépend: libmspub-0.0-0 mais il n'est pas installé
E: Dépendances manquantes. Essayez d'utiliser l'option -f.

edit : it's possible that

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sudo apt-get - f install
has solved the problem for Libre Office.
I'm now upgrading the other package with

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apt dist-upgrade
.


Edit 2 : Upgrade finished. The system is booting.

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***@***-laptop ~ $ inxi -F
System:    Host ****-laptop Kernel 3.10-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T5900 (-MCP-) cache 2048 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips 8781.84 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card NVIDIA G96M [GeForce GT 130M] X.Org 1.12.4 Res: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer GeForce GT 130M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.88 Direct Rendering Yes

It seems that libreoffice is working.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by roger64 »

Hi

Install report

I could not resist trying. 1346 recommended updates (729 Mo) that's something... some minutes later, I was advised to get 175 more packages. I expected the worse. :D The install went smoothly. Towards the end, Cinnamon crashed and provided me a fall-back mode that I kept till the end. Before installing the packages, I have been advised that there were some bugs:

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 Récupération des rapports de bogue… Fait    
Analyse des informations Trouvé/Corrigé… Fait    
Bogues de gravité serious sur plymouth (0.8.5.1-5 -> 0.8.8-6+deb8u1) <marqué comme corrigé dans une version donnée>
 #702040 - needs update for pango 1.7 from experimental (Corrigé : plymouth/0.8.8-7)
   Fusionné avec : 702900 704872
Bogues de gravité serious sur procps (1:3.3.3-2 -> 1:3.3.4-2) <marqué comme corrigé dans une version donnée>
 #708967 - top man page is non free (GFDL with invariant) (Corrigé : procps/1:3.3.8-1)
   Fusionné avec : 708968
Bogues de gravité serious sur ant (-> 1.9.1-1) <marqué comme corrigé dans une version donnée>
 #713381 - ant-junit artefact not mapping to 4.x version of junit (Corrigé : ant/1.9.1-2)
Bogues de gravité serious sur glx-diversions (0.2.2 -> 0.3.0) <marqué comme corrigé dans une version donnée>
 #712304 - glx-diversions: broken symlinks with libgl1-mesa-glx 9.1.3-6 (Corrigé : glx-alternatives/0.4.0)
Bogues de gravité critical sur grub-pc (1.99-23 -> 1.99-27+deb7u1) <non corrigé>
 #707831 - Broken UUID detection code makes LVM systems unbootable after adding a new PV
Bogues de gravité grave sur python3.3 (-> 3.3.2-5) <non corrigé>
 #719567 - python3.3: CVE-2013-4238: Python SSL module does not handle certificates that contain hostnames with NULL bytes
Bogues de gravité grave sur sysvinit (2.88dsf-34 -> 2.88dsf-43) <non corrigé>
 #718930 - sysvinit: poweroff does no poweroff, it does reboot
Bogues de gravité grave sur python3.2 (3.2.3-2 -> 3.2.4-1) <non corrigé>
 #719568 - python3.2: CVE-2013-4238: Python SSL module does not handle certificates that contain hostnames with NULL bytes
Bogues de gravité grave sur seahorse (3.4.1-2 -> 3.8.2-1) <non corrigé>
 #714585 - seahorse: Seahorse consistently crashes after selecting to view by keyring once
Bogues de gravité grave sur gzip (1.5-1.1 -> 1.6-1) <non corrigé>
 #720917 - upgrade failure
Bogues de gravité grave sur gnome-terminal (3.4.1.1-2 -> 3.8.3-1) <non corrigé>
 #721489 - gnome-terminal: window is blank (no output nor echo) but works
Bogues de gravité serious sur automake (1:1.11.6-1 -> 1:1.13.3-1.1) <non corrigé>
 #715204 - automake: Doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT with parallel test
Bogues de gravité serious sur apt (0.9.7.6 -> 0.9.9.4) <non corrigé>
 #706641 - apt, libgd-text-perl: fails to upgrade from squeeze: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgd-gd2-perl'. [i386]
Bogues de gravité serious sur libnewt0.52 (0.52.14-10 -> 0.52.15-2+b1) <non corrigé>
 #718635 - libnewt0.52: improper alternative handling in M-A:same package
Bogues de gravité serious sur libgpgme11 (1.2.0-1.4 -> 1.4.2-0.1) <non corrigé>
 #710140 - [Fwd: About gpgme1.0 (1.4.1-0.1) and libpth-dev]
Bogues de gravité serious sur libfftw3-3 (3.3.2-3.1 -> 3.3.3-5+b1) <non corrigé>
 #710890 - libfftw3-3 transitional package also has to depend on libfftw3-long3
Bogues de gravité serious sur mount (2.20.1-5.2 -> 2.20.1-5.5) <non corrigé>
 #702935 - 'mount -f' does not update /run/mount/utab
Bogues de gravité serious sur fontconfig-config (2.9.0-7 -> 2.10.2-2) <non corrigé>
 #714279 - fontconfig-config: Not correct view anti-aliasing fonts and incorrect visualization.
Bogues de gravité serious sur util-linux (2.20.1-5.2 -> 2.20.1-5.5) <non corrigé>
 #707996 - util-linux: Needs rebuild against new glibc; causes other packages to FTBFS
Bogues de gravité serious sur initramfs-tools (0.109 -> 0.113) <non corrigé>
 #707040 - initramfs-tools: missing busybox package creates unbootable initramfs missing /bin/sh
Bogues de gravité serious sur system-config-printer (1.3.7-3 -> 1.4.1-3) <non corrigé>
 #717153 - system-config-printer: Missing dependency on python-gi
Bogues de gravité serious sur gcc-4.4 (4.4.7-2 -> 4.4.7-3) <non corrigé>
 #707276 - gcc-4.4: gcc-4.4 is targeted for removal in unstable
Bogues de gravité serious sur alsa-utils (1.0.25-3 -> 1.0.27.1-1) <non corrigé>
 #712980 - alsa-utils startup script creates /.pulse files ("Failed to create secure directory") when pulseaudio is installed
   Fusionné avec : 720678
Résumé :
 grub-pc(1 bogue), python3.3(1 bogue), automake(1 bogue), sysvinit(1 bogue), apt(1 bogue), libnewt0.52(1 bogue), python3.2(1 bogue), plymouth(1 bogue), libgpgme11(1 bogue), procps(1 bogue), libfftw3-3(1 bogue), mount(1 bogue), seahorse(1 bogue), ant(1 bogue), fontconfig-config(1 bogue), gzip(1 bogue), util-linux(1 bogue), initramfs-tools(1 bogue), system-config-printer(1 bogue), gcc-4.4(1 bogue), alsa-utils(1 bogue), glx-diversions(1 bogue), gnome-terminal(1 bogue)
Êtes-vous certain de vouloir installer/mettre à jour les paquets ci-dessus ? [Y/n/?/...] 
I answered yes. After restarting, I was still on kernel 3.2, so I updated grub and rebooted to launch kernel 3.10. but I could not try it because X could not be launched. It provided me with a lot of explanations but I understood nothing and do not know how to copy it.

Other small thing that could be of interest: it would like to update libjack-jack2d-0 but for this it would uninstall wine-unstable and lots of other software, so I decided not to update this thing.

I also noticed that Dropbox and Skype have been uninstalled and did not reappear. nemo-dropbox cannot be installed because the package is reported "broken". Only caja-dropbox can be installed (???)

I still can use normally my computer with the old kernel. Still alive.

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roger@lmde64:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host lmde64 Kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-2330M (-HT-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips 8780.64 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz (3) 800.00 MHz (4) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 525M] X.Org 1.12.4 Res: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer GeForce GT 525M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 302.17 Direct Rendering Yes
[url=http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=264641ddm.png][img]http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_264641ddm.png[/img][/url]
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by Monsta »

Testing in VirtualBox (can't test on a real system right now), MATE 64-bit.
No bugs during upgrade. After reboot, kernel 3.10.2 works fine.

Here are a few bugs we inherited from Testing:
  1. A [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706330]bug in gtk3-engines-unico[/url] prevents any GTK+3 app (synaptic 0.80, nm-applet and others) from running.
    Solution: make a newer mint-themes package available for LMDE users. IIRC it's not using unico anymore. In the meanwhile, you can switch to clearlooks or some other non-unico theme.
  2. A [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707768]bug in aptdaemon[/url] prevents software-properties-gtk from starting.
    Solution: get version 1.1.1 straight from Testing.
  3. A [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719263]bug in apt[/url] makes mintUpdate "forget" the authentication of packages. This one even got honored with mentioning in the Update Pack info after I've reported it to Clem :) To be honest, I hoped it would be worked around somehow, considering that it has been done already in SolydXK. Or maybe I'm just thinking too much about the amount of work I've put in researching and reporting it to Debian bug tracker :)
    Solution: pay no mind to the warning or get version 0.9.11 from Unstable.
  4. The old [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638262]problem with ugly fonts[/url] has not been solved yet.
    Solution: since things like appearance and stuff are not considered important in Debian (judging by their bug tracker), I propose making an additional package with symlinks like in [url=http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=112789#p630351]the script I've made a while ago[/url]. They just need to be changed in order to be valid, because fontconfig-config now stores files in

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    /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
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    /etc/fonts/conf.avail
    In the meanwhile, you can create the symlinks yourself.
killer de bug

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Post by killer de bug »

roger64 wrote:
Other small thing that could be of interest: it would like to update libjack-jack2d-0 but for this it would uninstall wine-unstable and lots of other software, so I decided not to update this thing.

I also noticed that Dropbox and Skype have been uninstalled and did not reappear. nemo-dropbox cannot be installed because the package is reported "broken". Only caja-dropbox can be installed (???)
I think that you should upgrade everything and not choose. It could help your system to boot on the 3.10 Kernel.

For me it's normal that Wine and Skype have been uninstalled. It's comming from the fact that Debian is now multiarch. It has uninstalled the 64bits version and you can now install the new multiarch version.
Monsta wrote: [*]The old [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638262]problem with ugly fonts[/url] has not been solved yet.
Solution: since things like appearance and stuff are not considered important in Debian (judging by their bug tracker), I propose making an additional package with symlinks like in [url=http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=112789#p630351]the script I've made a while ago[/url]. They just need to be changed in order to be valid, because fontconfig-config now stores files in

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/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
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/etc/fonts/conf.avail
In the meanwhile, you can create the symlinks yourself.[/list]
If you have already made the change it's still active.




Clem, using XFCE 4.10 my system is fine. But I think it's broken with Cinnamon. I can't launch Nemo for instance. All the gnome related tool wont launch. Good luck with that. --> Maybe bug 1 described by monsta.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

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killer de bug wrote: I think that you should upgrade everything and not choose. It could help your system to boot on the 3.10 Kernel.
This named package is the only one out of over 1200 that I did not update. It was not part of the BIG update and of its sequel and came later isolated. So, I think this is not the reason why X broke down. One possible reason however comes to my mind: I had blocked the update of seven packages, among them the NVIDIA driver. After the update, I relented and unblocked all these seven packages. The new NVIDIA driver (304.88) is now installed. Mystery.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by rknize »

My upgrade was problematic in that I was coming from UP6+wheezy. I had to move up to wheezy to get working multiarch support on amd64. I was a little surprised that I had to downgrade a fair number of packages in order to get UP7 installed. Are we still not even caught up to the current stable?

There were a lot of conflicts after that. I think I traced them down to two main problems. The first was that gnome-shell and friends all depend on libgjs0c, but it conflicts with libgjs0b, upon which cinnamon depends. So I can't have cinnamon and gnome-shell installed at the same time. The other problem is a lack of multiarch support in libopus0. This is now needed for audio in certain 3rd party apps. I had to remove ia32-libs and friends in order to relieve the conflicts on the i386 side of this.

Additionally, mint-meta-debian-cinnamon had to go because it depends on ttf-droid (which is now fonts-droid).
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

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rknize wrote:The other problem is a lack of multiarch support in libopus0. This is now needed for audio in certain 3rd party apps. I had to remove ia32-libs and friends in order to relieve the conflicts on the i386 side of this.
Right... another upstream blocker. This one in particular can be used as a perfect example showing how lazy developers can be. Look how old [url=http://bugs.debian.org/674467]this bug[/url] is! and there's even [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674467#81]a simple patch[/url] to make the package multiarch-compliant, but it hasn't been accepted yet.

In the meanwhile, the Mint team can use that patch to make their own version of libopus0.
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The glib stack was fairly broken and gdm3 didn't work at all, so I ended up forcing everything to incoming with some apt pins. After some trial and error, I reached this steady-state:

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The following packages have been kept back:
  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gjs gnome-bluetooth gnome-shell gnome-shell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Now I am up and running again. The above conflict is due to the before-mentioned libgjs0c/libgjs0b problem. Some of the mint-meta packages are still rather broken:

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 mint-meta-debian-cinnamon : Depends: pidgin-facebookchat but it is not installable
                             Depends: ttf-droid but it is not installable

 mint-meta-debian-mate : Depends: pidgin-facebookchat but it is not installable
                         Depends: ttf-droid but it is not installable
                         Depends: mate-conf but it is not installable
                         Depends: mate-control-center but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-corba but it is not installable
                         Depends: mate-panel but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-session-manager but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-settings-daemon-pulse but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-settings-daemon but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-vfs but it is not installable
                         Depends: mate-terminal but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: mate-conf-editor but it is not installable
                         Depends: python-corba but it is not installable
                         Depends: python-mate but it is not installable
                         Depends: python-mate-desktop but it is not installable
                         Depends: mintmenu-keybinder but it is not installable

 mint-meta-codecs : Depends: gstreamer0.10-esd but it is not installable
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Post by Monsta »

Both metapackages depending on pidgin-facebookchat have been not installable for about [url=http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=113036#p631164]a year[/url]. Additionally, mint-meta-debian-mate depends on some obsolete packages not present in MATE 1.6. Never mind them: they are just metapackages, after all.
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Post by rknize »

Yeah, you are right about the metas. It's been a while since I paid attention to them, as they got uninstalled long ago. They would have been really handy when I was bringing my system back, though. I knew about the mate 1.6 changes too, as I use mate at work and somehow picked-up 1.6 before clem had fully-pushed the rest of UP7. It was nice to see, as it fixed some bugs (though the switch from mate-conf was a bit annoying).

Quite a few folks did the wheezy update, from what I can tell. It was a fairly painless process that brought the much-needed multiarch support. Maybe this is a good time to fix the meta packages, Clem? It may be helpful to those that have strayed away from LMDE over the past year.
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Post by dumas777 »

Are the meta packages liable to get fixed before release to latest? If not I am going to upgrade right away. I hate losing meta packages though because I forget and it can bite me later. That said I did have to shed the codec meta package because running flash outside of a google chrome sandbox (latest greatest version always built into chrome, so always remove the generic OS install version) even on linux is asking for ownage.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by Tim-int »

Testing in VirtualBox, Cinnamon 32-bit with also MATE installed, today.

During the installation, there were 4 questions whether to replace conf. files. In 3 cases I chose to keep existing files: /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /etc/os-release because for example "-Linux Mint Debian Edition \n \l" was supposed to be replaced with "+Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid \n \l". Please change.
After the installation, Cinnamon works but:
- I cannot run Gnome Classic
- I cannot run Terminal or Root Terminal or Synaptic in Cinnamon or Gnome; I can run only MATE Terminal
- click on "Quit" in Cinnamon doesn't bring the menu, and only logs out Cinnamon; click on "Shut Down" in MATE brings the menu properly

LibreOffice was upgraded from 3.5.4 (UP6) to 4.0.3-3 (UP7). Current stable LO is 3.6.7. Even LO 4.0.5 has a lot of new bugs, not to mention LO 4.1.1. As a LO user, I'd pick last supported release which is 3.6.7. now, and switch to 3-0-6 once it's available. LO in http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/ is currently 4.1.0-5 and there is no LO in http://packages.debian.org/experimental/editors/. LO 4.1.x is not a good choice for everyday use, so it's good it's not in UP7.
My question is: what's the logic for choosing LO version for UP? Will LO remain at 4.0.3-3 until UP8? Will the next LO be 4.0.6 or 4.1.x?
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by GeneC »

Tim-int wrote:Testing in VirtualBox, Cinnamon 32-bit with also MATE installed, today.
[....]
- I cannot run Terminal or Root Terminal or Synaptic in Cinnamon or Gnome; I can run only MATE Terminal
Monsta addressed this here...
Postby Monsta on Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:24 pm

Testing in VirtualBox (can't test on a real system right now), MATE 64-bit.
No bugs during upgrade. After reboot, kernel 3.10.2 works fine.

Here are a few bugs we inherited from Testing:

A bug in gtk3-engines-unico prevents any GTK+3 app (synaptic 0.80, nm-applet and others) from running.
Solution: make a newer mint-themes package available for LMDE user
s. IIRC it's not using unico anymore. In the meanwhile, you can switch to clearlooks or some other non-unico theme.
Try another theme
Adwaita
Bluebird
Greybird
Mediterranean (series)
I believe all work...
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Post by maxic »

$ system-config-printer

(system-config-printer.py:5084): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:56:16: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(system-config-printer.py:5084): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GoaVolumeMonitor is not supported

(system-config-printer.py:5084): Gtk-WARNING **: Style property "border-top-left-radius" is not gettable
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py:113: Warning: /build/glib2.0-Ot8bbC/glib2.0-2.36.4/./gobject/gtype.c:4239: type id `0' is invalid
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py:113: Warning: can't peek value table for type `<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)

P.S. Mate
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by GeneBenson »

Hi Tim-int,
During the installation, there were 4 questions whether to replace conf. files. In 3 cases I chose to keep existing files: /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /etc/os-release because for example "-Linux Mint Debian Edition \n \l" was supposed to be replaced with "+Debian GNU/Linux jessie/sid \n \l". Please change.
Every time you start LMDE 4 files are overwritten by MintSystem with values specific to LMDE.

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2013-09-10 03:24:35 - /etc/os-release overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/adjustments/base-files/os-release
2013-09-10 03:24:36 - /etc/lsb-release overwritten
2013-09-10 03:24:36 - /etc/issue overwritten
2013-09-10 03:24:36 - /etc/issue.net overwritten
Although this can be confusing it doesn't really matter what you answer because they are overwritten at each boot. :wink:
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD [new info]

Post by BrunoMiranda »

My results, so far I've noticed:

- swsusp produced errors during install (exit code 128). (purged it, the system wasn't hibernating anyway)
- synaptic is not starting up (even with Alt+F2 - gksu synaptic)
- The network applet on the panel has disappeared
- I am using LMDE MATE and I had nemo also installed, now nemo is not starting up


Restoring backup... :mrgreen:


New info:

I've restored my previous LMDE backup and tried the thing over again. To report:
Processing 'triggers' for hicolor-icon-theme ...

(gtk-update-icon-cache:21238): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

This likely means that your installation is broken.
Try running the command
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
to make things work again for the time being.
I didn't have permissions to run the above command, not even as root. :shock:


More:

- During the installation, I had to choose between old and new configuration files for a few programs. At one stage, I couldn't go on because the keyboard locked and didn't accept any input. (but the keyboard was alive as the Caps Lock LED would light on and off at keypress).
I had to press CTRL + Alt + F1 and order a reboot (the keyboard worked). Rebooted to recovery mode and dpkg --configure -a finished install.
Note: When UP5 came out, it did the same keyboard jam thing.

- After reboot, I couldn't mount a partition on another HDD using caja, I had no permissions to do it.
Solved this by going to the Control Center, Startup Applications, and enabled the Certificate and Key Storage.
Suggestion: Make sure UP7, when upgrading MATE from 1.4 to 1.6, does not disable the Certificate and Key Storage.

- Also here, the network applet on the panel has disappeared. This is my most critical thing because I use a USB broadband modem to go online and I need this.

- I haven't tried hibernation but I'm sure it's not working again even this time... :(




Restoring backup again... :mrgreen: Will wait for the final release of UP7 and retry again later.

Thanks Clem & Team, kudos for all your efforts and keep up the good work! :wink:
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Bye for now,
Bruno


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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

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GeneC wrote:
Tim-int wrote:Testing in VirtualBox, Cinnamon 32-bit with also MATE installed, today.
[....]
- I cannot run Terminal or Root Terminal or Synaptic in Cinnamon or Gnome; I can run only MATE Terminal
Monsta addressed this here...
Postby Monsta on Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:24 pm

Testing in VirtualBox (can't test on a real system right now), MATE 64-bit.
No bugs during upgrade. After reboot, kernel 3.10.2 works fine.

Here are a few bugs we inherited from Testing:

A bug in gtk3-engines-unico prevents any GTK+3 app (synaptic 0.80, nm-applet and others) from running.
Solution: make a newer mint-themes package available for LMDE user
s. IIRC it's not using unico anymore. In the meanwhile, you can switch to clearlooks or some other non-unico theme.
Try another theme
Adwaita
Bluebird
Greybird
Mediterranean (series)
I believe all work...
I changed it with gnome-tweak-tool. OK, all is working now, including Quit menu.
Please explain about LibreOffice versions. I myself use Mint latest. But, for others that ask me to install them "Windows", LMDE is my preferred choice. LO is the most important issue because it and it's bugs are most visible to the user.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by dumas777 »

I did notice when it upgraded that it uninstalled a 3rd party vnc like app called teamviewer (like pc anywhere, etc). Teamviewer (64 bit version) seems to have a dependency on lib32asound2 which is now gone due to multiarch. This is also why the meta package ia32-libs can no longer be installed (as mentioned above). If you bypass the install dependency the program crashes when run (will post error message when get home later but seems to be some wine errors). I understand this is more a Teamviewer issue but just an fyi to anybody upgrading.

Edit: It turns out the problem is only with the 64 bit version (which has 32 bit lib dependency - fail). The 32 bit version is actually multiarch and installs and run fine so there is the workaround. The 64 bit version was asking to run as root to start a daemon which wouldn't start.
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Re: UPDATE PACK 7 FEEDBACK THREAD

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Hi guys,

The meta will be updated yes.. it's normal for them to break here, they always get fixed before we update latest though.
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