Bug#689748: More info
Hello again,
As of December 21, 2012, with wheezy updated just now, the following still
occurs:
Moving any window (click on the title bar and drag) locks up the system
instantly. As I currently have no other machines connected to a local
network, I can't get in through ssh. All I can do is a hard power off,
holding the off button down for 5-10 seconds.
Starting iceweasel (with many saved tabs) freezes the system instantly.
Gbuffy, that worked perfectly in lenny with the proprietary nvidia driver,
is no longer available in wheezy as it depends on libgtk1.2. Still, I
installed it, along with the necessary libraries (see below for the details)
but the buttons don't resize when the window is resized and the button labels
are almost illegible. This is similar to the random dots issue previously
described. It seems that the fonts are missing half the dots randomly.
Otherwise, gbuffy works fine.
Gbuffy installation:
First, install libgtk1.2 and its dependencies:
sudo dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1_i386.deb
libgtk1.2-common_1.2.10-18.1_all.deb
libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb
The last one had to be downloaded from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/libglib1.2ldbl/download
as it was not available in snapshot.debian.org, or anywhere else that I
could find in debian.
Then install (from aptitude) libcompfaceg1. This is available in wheezy.
Then, install libssl0.9.8 (from the squeeze distribution) and gbuffy:
sudo dpkg -i libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-4squeeze13_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gbuffy_0.2.6-13_i386.deb
If anyone cares to port/repackage gbuffy for wheezy (it would be much
appreciated!) libssl1.0.0 is available in wheezy. This should be a matter
of changing the libssl dependency and re-compiling. Making it work with
the current libgtk will probably require code changes.
I'd be happy to run any requested test. Just let me know. Any workarounds,
at least so I don't have to do a hard power off each time, happily accepted.
Thanks!
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