Re: Recommended way to use Debian?
On 07/15/2013 01:14 PM, Shervin Emami wrote:
Hi,
Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really
want to stick with Debian KDE for long-term.
As far as iceweasel crashing, I think that's really bizarre.. I use it
everyday for years on lots of different hardware and it's *never*
crashed for me. To add to that, the Mozilla/Iceweasel/Firefox team have
been very good at "blacklisting" graphics drivers that don't support
hardware accelerated webgl, etc. So you really shouldn't be getting
crashes for any reason. I would suggest investigating the possibility
of hardware failure (memtest86+, cpu/gpu stress tests, etc).
I've also found repeatable bugs that crash apps such as Kate and
Inkscape but when I start to file bug reports I realize I shouldn't
because Debian Stable is using old versions of the software and these
bugs were fixed in later versions
Yes, I've had repeatable crashes with Kate related to
collapsing/expanding sections of code in .patch files which I found and
reported to upstream back before Debian Wheezy was even frozen. It took
almost a year and 50+ duplicate bug reports before it was fixed by Kate
devs, and the fix missed the Wheezy freeze window. That's just the way
things are sometimes with upstream, you either learn to use the software
in a way that doesn't cause it to crash until they fix it, you learn to
fix it yourself and submit a patch, or you use something else because
there are about a million great alternatives to Kate.
As a Debian user for 10+ years, I would suggest just running Debian
stable for now and grab newer versions of software if you need it from
wheezy-backports (if available).
Sometimes you can "apt-get source" the package source from unstable and
recompile it yourself for stable. I did that just now for Inkscape
0.48.4-1 (unstable) and the package installs and runs perfectly fine on
Wheezy. If your troubles in inkscape still aren't fixed, make sure you
get them reported to upstream.
-David
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