Yes, I finally got around to the dist-upgrade on my workstation, from Debian v7 to v8. Started the process around noon yesterday. After observing the pace of downloading, I interrupted the process and restarted it with -d, so it would continue downloading into the night and then stop, awaiting manual intervention this morning to do the actual installation.
Installation took all freaking morning. Well, actually I don't know how long it was awaiting a response while I was out doing my laundry, but it certainly did take a long time. Probably something to do with the vast number of packages I have installed.
Curiously, kdm didn't come up when I rebooted; I had to do a manual restart of kdm to get the X login screen.
Apart from that... so far, it looks healthy, and I can finally run the current version of Google Chrome.
Except...
As with the laptop, EAGLE seems to have lost the font metrics for the Proportional font. Fixed and Vector are both OK, but xref-style labels using Proportional are of minimum length, with the text protruding from the box. And, in EAGLE v7 (but not v6), rotated text (again, only in Proportional) is seriously mis-rendered.
I need to dig out my notes: didn't I create a clean Debian 8 VM, install EAGLE v7, and have the text come out right? Or was that a test I didn't get around to?
Aside from that, all the indispensable development tools seem to be OK, at least on basic testing.
Update: Yeah, so I install EAGLE 7.6.0 on the Debian 8.1 VM, show it a copy of the schematic that's currently not having its text rendered properly, and it's fine.
Ergo, something to do with History. Foo.
Guess I'll experiment with the laptop first, to see if I can make the historical whatever go bye-bye.
Hmmm... a quick test (launch a session on the workstation as the guest user; start EAGLE; create a schematic; place some Proportional text) reveals that the problem is at the system level, not the user level. Probably means doing a complete friggin' re-install of the OS and all the software, right? Phooey.
Update 2: Thinking it might - possibly - be related to doing the OS upgrade after EAGLE was installed, I did a new install of 7.7.0 on the workstation. Doesn't fix the problem.
Um. If memory serves, a design I'd imported from Olimex didn't have the font-metrics problem when viewed on the laptop. Now, where'd I leave that...? Oho! No font-metrics problem, because it's set for always vector font, that's why. So I guess there's a workaround, though the schematics come out kinda ugly that way.
I wonder if Autodesk (they're the new owners, right?) will give us the long-requested capability of using normal system fonts in the schematic. Though, last time I used AutoCAD, I think it was still using pen-plotter fonts. And we had to keep a flock of geese, to keep the plotter supplied with pens.
Oh, and one other revolting development: somehow, the audio volume keeps getting set to 100% while I'm not watching. Could, for all I know, be one of the cats standing on the "🔈+" button.
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