Re: xsesssion-errors
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:40:50 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>> > Camaleón wrote:
>> >> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> >>> I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I
>> >>> haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging
>> >>> around from those days ??
>
> I have much egregious noise in that file. It would be good if there was
> a campaign to clean it up. But it is a distributed culture of sloppy
> programming over years that has contributed to it. It would take a
> large effort to clean it up.
Yes, it gets filled very easyly and with doubtful content. I mean, hardly
decipherable.
>> >>> (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry
>> >>> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
>> >>> object file: No such file or directory
>> >> Sounds like this bug report:
>> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631555
>> > Yes, it does...that bug report is at least 6 or 7 months old.
>>
>> Yup, and what is worse, it's tagged as "archived" but it seems still
>> present ;-(
>
> The bug was merged by the original poster with Bug#617940 and that bug
> was marked as fixed.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617940
Yes, I already noticed the merge but is still the same :-(
***
Bug No longer marked as fixed in versions 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2.
(...)
Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request
***
But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was
archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=35;bug=617940
> At this point if the bug is still active it might be more effective to
> open a fresh bug on it with all of the current details.
Can't tell what would be best proceeding (reopening or a new report). It
will depend on the humour of the developer in charge >;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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