The Debian BTS has a related report [1] which suggests to me this issue should have been fixed way back in v1.11. But even if installing wasn’t broken, with the legacy databases discontinued, it’s not much use in the long term.

Geoip-database-contrib has already been removed from Debian entirely [2] due to deprecation by upstream, apparently in favor of geoipupdate [3].

(I’m not affiliated with either package and have no solutions; I’m just documenting the connections here.)

* [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666063
* [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900400
* [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885441

Yep, retrying does work.

I’ve now reported this to Mozilla and linked to it. Thanks, Olivier!

Tested all combinations of both (Ctrl-s/context menu in safe mode and normal mode), all with the same results. Could this be locale-dependent? The UI is in English in safe mode though, so I’m guessing safe mode should be locale-independent, as I’m on fi_FI.UTF-8 otherwise.

And just to clarify: my testing of Bionic was on real hardware as well, and I ran these latest tests on Cosmic on another computer (real hardware).

== Steps to reproduce ==
1. Open https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/what-is-the-actually-difference-between-udimm-and-dimm.1575984/
2. Right-click and select ’Save page as’. Point the dialog to your directory of choice.

== What I expect to happen ==
For the directory to contain a downloaded copy of the page.

== What happens ==
There’s no copy of the page in the target directory. Going to about:downloads reveals that the download has failed, without further details.

== Other info ==
I’m reporting this from up-to-date Disco, albeit with a 4.* kernel (as gdm currently fails to start in my VirtualBox VM with 5.*) but it’s equally reproducible in Bionic.

Any page under https://forums.tomshardware.com/ seems to trigger this, but I have yet to come across other sites that do. Pages can even be saved from the main Tom’s Hardware domain (https://www.tomshardware.com/) without issues.

Another option missing from the man page is -ow (for overwriting the input file in-place), available since version 1.7.22.

$ pngcrush 2>&1 | grep -- -ow
    pngcrush -ow [other options] file.png [tempfile.png]
        -ow (Overwrite)

Fixed for me by the latest -proposed package. I’m running Bionic, non-EFI, and was affected by the issue with the earlier package.

A new log; still nothing useful from colord AFAICT, despite the –verbose.

…except that –debug isn’t one of gsd-color’s recognized parameters, and adding it caused GDM to fail to start. I changed it to –verbose which is available.

10.08 jani@saegusa:~$ LC_ALL=C /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-color –help-all
Usage:
gsd-color [OPTION?] color

Help Options:
-h, –help Show help options
–help-all Show all help options
–help-gtk Show GTK+ Options

GTK+ Options
–class=CLASS Program class as used by the window manager
–name=NAME Program name as used by the window manager
–gdk-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to set
–gdk-no-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to unset
–gtk-module=MODULES Load additional GTK+ modules
–g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal
–gtk-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to set
–gtk-no-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to unset

Application Options:
–exit-time Exit after n seconds time
–dummy-name Name when using the dummy daemon
-v, –verbose Verbose
–display=DISPLAY X display to use

There’s also –gtk-debug and –gdk-debug, but I could do with a little help for what to select for those, as just giving ’all’ seems a little counterproductive (for instance, ”touchscreen” and ”interactive” don’t seem very useful here).

10.03 jani@saegusa:~$ LC_ALL=C /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-color –gtk-debug help
Supported debug values: misc plugsocket text tree updates keybindings multihead modules geometry icontheme printing builder size-request no-css-cache baselines pixel-cache no-pixel-cache interactive touchscreen actions resize layout all help

10.04 jani@saegusa:~$ LC_ALL=C /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-color –gdk-debug help
Supported debug values: events misc dnd xim nograbs input cursor multihead xinerama draw eventloop frames settings opengl all help
Error parsing option –gdk-debug

(Looks like –gdk-debug reports an error with ’help’, despite having just listed it as one of the options.)

Sure, I’ve now set it up thus and will post the results once I hit this again (it seems pretty unpredictable, so could be anything from days to weeks).

Here you go. Had this occur twice in a row just now, so my original theory of the second login never failing was false.