[Bug 99044] Re: KDM does not work if disk is full and gives no warning about it

[Adam Porter]

This MUST be fixed, SOON.  I just spent three hours going around in
circles, thinking my video card was damaged somehow, or that the hard
disk had corrupted some binaries, because every time I tried to log in
to KDE with KDM, it simply restarted X!  I booted into Windows, Knoppix,
Ubuntu 7.10, and Kubuntu 7.04, before somehow I realized that there was
no disk space left after I copied a bunch of files last night.  The
computer was fine last night, but when I turned it on today, I couldn't
log in!

And there was still 2GB+ of free space reserved for root, but there was
no space left for users, so KDE failed to log in and there was no error
message of any kind.  I looked through every log there is: kdm, kernel,
messages, syslog, dmesg, Xorg*, but none of them gave any clue at all.

As time goes by, larger and larger files are more and more common, and
users will run out of disk space more often.  This has got to be fixed.

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[Bug 245947] [NEW] bandwidthd fails to preconfigure

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bandwidthd

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bandwidthd
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.2kB of archives. After unpacking 238kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe bandwidthd 
2.0.1+cvs20050208-11 [65.2kB]
Fetched 65.2kB in 8s (7322B/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...

[debconf runs here, seems to work fine, but then...]

cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/doc/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.conf': No such file or 
directory
bandwidthd failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package bandwidthd.
(Reading database ... 289721 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bandwidthd (from .../bandwidthd_2.0.1+cvs20050208-11_i386.deb) ...
Setting up bandwidthd (2.0.1+cvs20050208-11) ...

Creating config file /etc/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.conf with new version
Starting BandwidthD: bandwidthd.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

** Affects: bandwidthd (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 63287] Re: Login screen menu button doesn't look like a menu button

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This problem still exists in Hardy.  There is no visual clue that the
menu button is a clickable button at all, much less an important menu.

I recommend a simple "Menu" with a downward-facing arrow next to it.

Words are superior to hieroglyphics.

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[Bug 224068] Re: OpenOffice Writer scrollbars not displayed; previous screen area displayed

[Adam Porter]

Why was this bug assigned to linux-restricted-modules?  I do not think
it is a video driver problem; the only applications this ever happens in
are OpenOffice apps.  Not only is the scrollbar not displayed properly,
but clicking in the scrollbar area does nothing, even though scrolling
is possible.  I think this is a problem with OpenOffice itself, or the
way it's integrated with KDE/Qt.

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[Bug 241478] Re: OpenOffice autosaves during activity like dragging objects

[Adam Porter]

Your suggestion merely defeats the purpose of AutoSave; it doesn't solve
the problem.  Setting AutoSave to one hour means that it will only
autosave once an hour, so if OO crashes during that time, all changes
will be lost.  The whole point is to autosave often, so that if it
crashes, you won't lose much.

I already explained the problem, and that OO should be smart enough to
avoid the behavior of autosaving while you're moving an object, etc.

Your reply does not address solving the actual problem.

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 219674] Re: Tooltips are not of window type ToolTip

[Adam Porter]

A screenshot would be pointless.  This should be filed in the OpenOffice
bug tracker so they can fix it.

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[Bug 75358] Re: ad-hoc networks don't work with ipw2100/2200

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Also unable to connect to ad-hoc networks with iwl4965, using Hardy on a
Dell XPS M1330.  It shows up in KNetworkManager, but it never connects.

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[Bug 75358] Re: ad-hoc networks don't work with ipw2100/2200

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** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- ad-hoc networks don't work with ipw2100/2200
+ ad-hoc networks don't work with Intel wireless

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: network-manager
  
  On my Samsung X20 notebook (with Ubunut Edgy 6.10), i can't create an ad-hoc 
network using the NetworkManager (0.63). And also I can't join any ad-hoc 
network with the Network Manager. I've tried that with no encryption.
  On the command line, those things work.
  
- This bug is reproducible in both Edgy and Feisty.
+ This bug is reproducible in Edgy, Feisty, and Hardy.

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[Bug 253748] [NEW] NetworkManager very slow to find wireless networks after suspend

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: network-manager

Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 on Dell XPS M1330 with Intel 4965 wireless.

network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5
network-manager-kde 1:0.2.2-1ubuntu2

After resuming from suspend, I can run "sudo iwlist scan" and
immediately see available wireless networks, but KNetworkManager says no
wireless networks are found.  After a minute or two, it will suddenly
find them and connect.

This almost defeats the purpose of being able to quickly resume from
suspend, if you have to wait several minutes to get online again.  And
it doesn't make any sense, since iwlist can see the networks already.

** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 253789] [NEW] Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic

linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic == 2.6.24-19.36

Dell XPS M1330 with Intel 4965 wireless (iwl4965)

After the latest kernel update, I sometimes get a kernel oops when I put
the laptop into suspend-to-RAM mode.  If I don't notice it, the laptop
will just sit there powered on forever.  I have never had these problems
until this last kernel update.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend

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Ah, I didn't realize the oops would make it into the kernel log on-disk.
Here are some relevant parts.  I'll see about the other stuff later.


** Attachment added: "kern.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16462469/kern.log

** Summary changed:

- Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend
+ Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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[Bug 261338] [NEW] networkmanager connects to random open network instead of my encrypted one

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: network-manager

I have a WPA2-secured 802.11g network here, but when I log in or wake up
the computer, network-manager connects to someone else's unsecured wifi
network instead of my secured one that I've already entered the
passphrase for and connected to many times.  I have to manually choose
my own network every time.

Shouldn't it be obvious that I'd rather connect to a remembered, secure
network instead of some random unsecured one?  This is a major usability
flaw that should be trivial to fix.  Please don't make us wait for 8.10
to fix it.

Using Hardy with network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.

** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 261338] Re: networkmanager connects to random open network instead of my encrypted one

[Adam Porter]

Yes, even when I remote the unsecured network from the list of known
networks, it still continues to choose that one over my known, secured
one.  I still have to manually choose it.

I may have noticed another quirk: at the moment, there are two unsecured
networks in range, in addition to my secured network and someone else's
secured network.  This time it automatically chose my secured network,
which makes me wonder if it only chooses an unsecured network if there's
only one of them available.

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => New

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[Bug 152851] Re: Media Key + Rhythmbox + Screensaver

[Adam Porter]

This bug should not have been closed.  It's a feature request, for one
thing, and it's not lacking information from the reporter.  It needs a
developer that knows how things work to look at it.

** Changed in: ubuntu
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[Bug 247381] Re: WLAN connection activation is too slow

[Adam Porter]

After I removed some outdated kernel module packages that were causing
an older version of the iwlagn driver to be loaded, the newer 2.3.5
iwlagn driver was used, and that's significantly helped this problem.  I
don't know if it's as fast as OS X, but it's a lot faster than it used
to be.  Now I can resume from suspend and be connected quickly.

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Adam Porter]

Hi Leann,

I installed that package, but I can't test it because 2.6.27-7 won't
boot; it hangs on a USB HID-related line as it's loading modules, I
think.  *sigh*  I suppose now I have to go file a bug on that, too?

Could we please get a backport to 2.6.24 for Hardy, or some kind of fix?
This bug is affecting me multiple times per day, making suspend/resume
completely unreliable, and forcing me to kill the power on my laptop and
boot up cold, without a proper shutdown.  It's very frustrating.

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[Bug 224068] Re: OpenOffice Writer scrollbars not displayed; previous screen area displayed

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** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log"
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[Bug 224068] Re: OpenOffice Writer scrollbars not displayed; previous screen area displayed

[Adam Porter]

I am using Hardy on my laptop because I still use KDE 3.5, and the
current Intrepid kernel doesn't even boot on this laptop (the latest
update to the kernel causes it to hang while loading a USB
driver...sigh).

Regardless of whether it works on Intrepid, the issue still exists on
Hardy, and has existed for years.  It would be great if it could be
fixed.  Not having scrollbars in our word processor just doesn't seem
like a problem we should have in 2008.  :)

** Attachment added: "lspci.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20224086/lspci.txt

** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
   Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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[Bug 302859] Re: Epiphany: Failed to instantiate LoginManager

[Adam Porter]

I added fta's PPA, which pulled in xul 1.9.1.  But epiphany and
epiphany-data do not depend on xul*.  If they do, should the Depends of
the epiphany package be adjusted to reflect this?

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[Bug 302859] Re: Epiphany: Failed to instantiate LoginManager

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Nevermind.  epiphany-browser is the package.  :)

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[Bug 281526] Re: Firefox freezes with 100% CPU after resuming from suspend

[Adam Porter]

** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Re: [Bug 281526] Re: Firefox freezes with 100% CPU after resuming from suspend

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Gary, can you please make sure that's the case when you have tabs with
Flash open?  I'm using 3.0.10 on Hardy and still have the problem.
I'm not completely sure that it's Flash-related, but I have a strong
suspicion.  It seems like when it happens, if I'm able to close the
tabs that have Flash open, CPU usage goes back to idle.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 06:13, Gary Trakhman  wrote:
> seems to not be a problem anymore for me.  I've been using karmic
> repos.  firefox-3.0.10, newest intel driver and mesa from xorg-edgers.
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Grigory Trakhman
>  wrote:
>> i've been using the native 64-bit flash plugin
>>
>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Adam Porter  wrote:
>>> Hm.  I just checked and saw that Gmail also uses Flash for its chat
>>> sounds.  I've seen this bug when Gmail or Hulu was open in a tab when
>>> I suspended.  Maybe this is caused by Flash.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 09:11, Jarno Suni <8...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> I have experienced this with pages containing Flash objects – e.g. with
>>>> a random youtube.com video page with paused video.
>>>>
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[Bug 342671] Re: Doesn't support installations which require a removal or updates which require additional software

[Adam Porter]

If this is not fixed in Jaunty, how will Kubuntu Jaunty users be able to
apply updates that require removing or adding packages?  How will they
be able to install packages with those requirements?  This seems like a
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[Bug 278361] Re: Persistence install stopped working

[Adam Porter]

Also, I upgraded syslinux to the version from Intrepid, but I noticed
that still, none of the syslinux .cfg files on the USB drive mention
anything about persistance, while the example cfg file from this site
does:

http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar-p2

Am I missing something?  Is that not how it works now?  :/  All I know
is that persistance isn't working at all.

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Re: [Bug 280805] Re: Latest nvidia driver for Interpid (x64) makes my fan spin all the time.

[Adam Porter]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:43, Russell Hedger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following showcaser's post, I installed nvidia-glx-177 version
> 117.80-0ubuntu2 from the repositories together with latest updates.
> Following shutdown and restart, the GPU is now idling at 44 C. Problem
> seems to have been rectified.
>
> This is on Kubuntu Intrepid, XPS M1330 8400M, running dual head with
> external monitor on twinview.

Russell, I don't understand; is your fan still running at full speed?
Or is it back to <=177.76-style, where the fan only runs as needed?

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Re: [Bug 280805] Re: Latest nvidia driver for Interpid (x64) makes my fan spin all the time.

[Adam Porter]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 22:26, bubbalouie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The BIOS update has fixed the problem quite nicely for me, for those
> concerned about the fan being on 'all' of the time, I would subjectively
> say it now make less noise than it did with the A11 BIOS.

How does it compare to the original BIOS, like A09?

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[Bug 282865] [NEW] Firefox keeps file open on external disk, can't unmount

[Adam Porter]

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Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I uploaded a file from my camera's CF card to a web site.  I chose it
with the GTK file picker.  Then a few minutes later I wanted to unmount
the CF card, but kio_umountwrapper couldn't do it, because it said
Firefox still had the file (or maybe the directory) open.

As I write this, Firefox still hasn't released the file.

Firefox should release the file as soon as it has finished uploading it.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
  
  I uploaded a file from my camera's CF card to a web site.  I chose it
  with the GTK file picker.  Then a few minutes later I wanted to unmount
  the CF card, but kio_umountwrapper couldn't do it, because it said
  Firefox still had the file (or maybe the directory) open.
  
- After a few more minutes of browsing and stuff, Firefox finally let go
- and I was able to unmount it.
+ As I write this, Firefox still hasn't released the file.
  
  Firefox should release the file as soon as it has finished uploading it.

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Re: [Bug 280805] Re: Latest nvidia driver for Interpid (x64) makes my fan spin all the time.

[Adam Porter]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:43, Russell Hedger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This bug is a different problem: the GPU temperature increases
> significantly following one of the recent ubuntu/kubuntu updates. The
> fan kicks in because the A12 BIOS senses the higher GPU temperature.
> However, the BIOS is merely trying to stop the GPU overheating, it is
> not the cause of the problem.

I have not upgraded my BIOS, I still have version A09.  I don't think
the BIOS has anything to do with this.

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[Bug 278361] Re: Persistence install stopped working

[Adam Porter]

I looked in /etc/fstab and saw an entry for aufs, but mount shows no
aufs mounted.  I looked through the kernel messages but couldn't find
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[Bug 200509] Re: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000

[Adam Porter]

Will this be fixed in Hardy as well?  I'm not ready for KDE 4 yet (or
perhaps it's not ready for me yet).

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[Bug 241518] Re: Impress doesn't thumbnail slides until scrolled to; makes slide list useless

[Adam Porter]

Well, considering that the version in Intrepid is the same version of
OpenOffice that's in Hardy, there doesn't seem much point in testing it
again... but I installed the packages from Intrepid and tested it
anyway.

I opened a presentation I made this summer, the one that caused me to
discover this behavior.  The problem is still there.   (It's the same
version of Impress; I don't see how it could be solved by Ubuntu
rebuilding the packages.  Why am I asked to test over and over again
when nothing's been changed to address the problem?)

Maybe your presentation is too simple.  Mine is a 200 MB ODP file
consisting of 23 slides, and most slides have multiple images.
Generating a thumbnail of a slide doesn't happen instantly.

Impress makes thumbnails for all the slides that can fit in the list of
slides, and then it stops.  When I scroll down in the list, it starts
making thumbnails for slides that are now visible.  It doesn't make a
thumbnail for a slide until you scroll the list so the slide is visible.

That's all there is to it.  It's really that simple.  The fix is simple
enough in theory: just make Impress generate thumbnails for the other
slides in a low-priority background thread.

(Soapbox: Yet again I am asked to test more packages, when it should
already be clear that nothing has been done to address the stated
problem.  It takes enough time to file a bug report in the first place;
it's a waste of time for me to test packages that haven't changed
anything.  Do you see what I mean?)

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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[Bug 200509] Re: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000

[Adam Porter]

May I propose increasing this to high priority?  Causing lockups is
serious, and many laptops have these chipsets.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 241478] Re: [upstream] OpenOffice autosaves during activity like dragging objects

[Adam Porter]

Please forgive the following, but I think this is another example of
poor bug-tracking and poor end-user relations.  It seems like, instead
of a developer checking the code to see if it has been updated to fix
this problem, I'm asked to download a large new major release.  It seems
like many Ubuntu bug reports are handled this way: instead of the
developer checking the code, the end-user is asked to check a newer
version, over and over again.  Contrast this with Debian, where it seems
like they actually look into the problem and determine whether an
attempt to fix it has been made before asking the user to try a newer
version--unless the user wasn't using the latest release when he filed
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Re: [Bug 241478] Re: [upstream] OpenOffice autosaves during activity like dragging objects

[Adam Porter]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 20:26, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So you believe a 300MB document is a standard use case?

Well, you might be surprised at how many PowerPoint users make
presentations full of large, unresized digital photos.  Theoretically,
if PowerPoint can do it, why not Impress?  :)

> Feel free to put the document somewhere that I can download it and test
> with if you are upset at the request of testing the upstream version.
> They (Sun) refuse any bugs reported to them unless it can be proved to
> happen on their version as well.

I appreciate your offer--that's above and beyond the call of duty--but
I'll try to test it myself.

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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Here you go.  Please let me know if I made any mistakes, or if you need
anything else.  This seems to be happening more often now; I really have
to make sure it goes into suspend, or if it doesn't, I have to do a cold
reboot or cut power, because it won't shut down properly after the oops.

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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** Attachment added: "dmesg.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973511/dmesg.log

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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** Attachment added: "dmidecode.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973525/dmidecode.txt

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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** Attachment added: "kern.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973528/kern.log

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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** Attachment added: "lspci.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973539/lspci.txt

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

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** Attachment added: "uname.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973544/uname.txt

** Attachment removed: "dmesg.log"

   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17973511/dmesg.log

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Re: [Bug 241486] Re: Impress moves objects on its own; can't lock them; throws work away!

[Adam Porter]

Thank you for investigating all that, Tobias.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:38, Tobias Jost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I may have understood the problem and was able to reproduce the
> issue (see attached presentation)
>
> * (Rotated) Images partially outside the canvas generally work well
> * Copy&Pasted Slides move the Image completely inside of the canvas
> * Blank slides with Copy&Pasted content from other slides work well
>
> so instead of copy&pasting the slides, creating a blank slide and
> copy&paste the content is a workaround.
>
> If that's indeed the bug Adam Porter encounters, I can confirm it.
>
> Please bear with me, I'm not an experienced Impress/MS PP user.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Test Presentation (hopefully) describing the bug"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17982598/test.odp
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[Bug 63293] Re: Comments not saved if network test fails

[Adam Porter]

I believe it was the KDE client from Kubuntu.

** Changed in: hwdb-client (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 275721] [NEW] Kernel oops and panic on resume from suspend with Intrepid's 2.6.27

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-4-generic

linux-image-2.6.27-4-generic = 2.6.27-4.6

Dell XPS M1330 with Intel 4965 wireless and Nvidia 8400GS video.

I was testing the Intrepid kernel in Hardy due to iwl4965 SW microcode
errors and oops on suspend in Hardy's kernel.

In this Intrepid kernel, suspending to RAM works fine, but upon resuming
I get screen after screen of oopses and then the kernel panics.  Nothing
was recorded in /var/log/kern.log, and grepping for "oops" in /var/log
didn't find anything about it either.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 246404] [NEW] Akregator crashes viewing a URL, gdb says "exited normally"

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: akregator

In Akregator, I am subscribed to Digg's Linux feed.  When I opened this
URL in a tab in Akregator, at some point after it loaded some of the
page (most of it was already displayed), it crashed, yet there was no
drkonqi to debug it with.  I ran Akregator with gdb and made it crash
again, but gdb said it exited normally.  It crashes on this URL every
time.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Compiz_Fusion_An_Unparalleled_3D_Environment

To get that in Akregator, you can look at this feed:

http://digg.com/rss/indexlinux_unix.xml

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 246864] [NEW] 7zip: Missing files cause failure only if encrypting

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: p7zip

p7zip:
  Installed: 4.57~dfsg.1-1
  Candidate: 4.57~dfsg.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.57~dfsg.1-1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

If using "-p" to encrypt, 7z fails, but if I leave "-p" off, it doesn't
care about these missing directories.


7-Zip (A) 4.57  Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov  2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)
Scanning


/home/me/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook:  WARNING: No such file or directory
/home/me/.kde/share/apps/kontact:  WARNING: No such file or directory


Creating archive /home/me/importantbackup.7z


Enter password (will not be echoed) :

WARNINGS for files:

/home/me/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook : No such file or directory
/home/me/.kde/share/apps/kontact : No such file or directory

WARNING: Cannot find 2 files


** Affects: p7zip (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 246861] [NEW] 7zip fails to encrypt, says "E_FAIL"

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: p7zip

p7zip:
  Installed: 4.57~dfsg.1-1
  Candidate: 4.57~dfsg.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.57~dfsg.1-1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After running this command, 7zip fails:

nice -n 19 7zr u -mhe=on -mx=9 -p [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Misc/Linux/Backup/important-
backup.list -x@/tmp/backup.large-media-files-exclude.list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Misc/Linux/Backup/duplicity/exclude.list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Misc/Linux/Backup/important-backup.exclude.list
~/importantbackup.7z | tee ~/importantbackup.7z.log


The output is simply this, without any other explanation:


7-Zip (A) 4.57  Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov  2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)
Scanning

Creating archive /home/first/importantbackup.7z


Enter password (will not be echoed) :


System error:
E_FAIL

** Affects: p7zip (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 246861] Re: 7zip fails with "E_FAIL", no other explanation

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If, however, I remove "-p" so it doesn't encrypt the archive,
compression proceeds normally.

** Summary changed:

- 7zip fails with "E_FAIL", no other explanation
+ 7zip fails to encrypt, says "E_FAIL"

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Re: [Bug 112498] Re: When last stream on list has empty description, it won't be loaded (after program restart)

[Adam Porter]

Well, the same version of kstreamripper is in both Hardy and Intrepid...

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 14:51, Daniel T Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?
>
> ** Changed in: kstreamripper (Ubuntu)
>   Status: New => Incomplete
>
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** Changed in: kstreamripper (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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[Bug 112498] Re: When last stream on list has empty description, it won't be loaded (after program restart)

[Adam Porter]

I'd like to make a comment real quick about the handling of bugs in
general.  IMHO, if you ask if the bug still exists in a newer (yet to be
released, even) version of Ubuntu, and that's all you say, you should
not mark the bug as incomplete.  Marking it as incomplete will cause it
to be marked Invalid in 60 days if no one responds, but the bug will
still exist.  So instead of being noticed and perhaps fixed, it will
fade away.  That's not a good solution.

Basically, it doesn't matter if it is reproducible in Intrepid, because
even if it's not, the bug still needs to be fixed in Hardy, as long as
Hardy is still supported.  Now maybe a newer, bugless version could be
backported to Hardy, but if so, that needs to be done.  Marking the bug
as Incomplete doesn't accomplish that; it makes it more likely that it
won't happen.

I think Ubuntu should take a page from Debian's bug handling.  Debian
does not frivolously dismiss bugs, even if they are minor.  If the bug
still exists, it's still in the list of bugs.  Sometimes they even sit
there for a year or two if no one bothers to fix them, and sometimes
they get fixed after a long time.  But even if no one fixes a bug, they
don't hide the bug just because no one's responded in a while.

On top of all that, people who care about a bug (like me) have to watch
it carefully and prevent it from being marked Incomplete, which is a
waste of my time.

So please, don't mark bugs as Incomplete unless it's really the right
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[Bug 5823] Re: Recent changes seem to have broken electricsheep

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As mentioned at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/electricsheep/+bug/89088/comments/8
, it just doesn't seem to do anything other than spawn some processes
that strace show doing nothing but waiting.  This is on Hardy.

$ electricsheep
please be patient while the first sheep is downloaded...

I'm not sure that this bug is really a duplicate of #89088.

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 89088
   Doesn't run from gnome-screensaver properly

** Changed in: electricsheep (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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[Bug 281504] [NEW] nvidia-glx-177 177.80 causes fan to always run at max speed

[Adam Porter]

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Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-177

I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop, running Hardy with kernel
2.6.24-19-generic and nvidia-glx-177 177.80-0ubuntu1 from Intrepid, with
the 177.80 nvidia-kernel-source package as well.

The recent upgrade from 177.76 to 177.80 causes my GPU fan to run
continuously at maximum speed while in X's VT.  If I switch to the nv
driver, the fan does not run at max speed all the time.  Here's what I
did to track this down:

1.  Switched to "nv" in xorg.conf and rebooted.
2.  Logged in to X.  Fan was operating normally (i.e. barely running at all).
3.  Checked lsmod, and the nvidia *kernel* module was loaded.
4.  Switched back to "nvidia" in xorg.conf, logged out of X, and restarted KDM. 
 As soon as the screen switched to X's VT, the GPU fan went to max speed.  
After 3-5 seconds, the fan dropped to a lower speed for 0.5-1 second, and then 
went back to max speed.
5.  This fast-slow-fast-slow cycle continued until I switched back to tty2, 
upon which the fan went to idle.  Switching back to X's VT caused the fan to go 
back to max, and switching to tty2 caused it to go back to idle.

Making the problem even worse is the fact that rebooting doesn't slow
down the fan.  I had to shut down the system for the fan to slow down,
and it stayed down until X loaded the nvidia GLX module, then it went
back to max speed.

This is causing the laptop to sound like a vacuum cleaner, and cutting
at least 30 minutes out of my battery life, maybe more.

I'm downgrading to 177.76 for now.  I hope Intrepid is not released with
this bug.

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 281526] [NEW] Firefox freezes with 100% CPU after resuming from suspend

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

firefox-3.0 = 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0

Sometimes when resuming from suspend-to-RAM, Firefox becomes
unresponsive and uses 100% CPU time.  An strace shows it in a cycle like
this:

--- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0xb2503d90) = 240
futex(0xb2503d90, 0x80 /* FUTEX_??? */, 2) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)

This repeats endlessly and uses all available CPU time.  It doesn't
always happen, and I haven't noticed a pattern yet, but it's happened 3
or 4 times in the last week.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox
  
+ firefox-3.0 = 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
+ 
  Sometimes when resuming from suspend-to-RAM, Firefox becomes
- unresponsive while using 100% CPU time.  An strace shows it in a cycle
- like this:
+ unresponsive and uses 100% CPU time.  An strace shows it in a cycle like
+ this:
  
  --- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
  rt_sigreturn(0xb2503d90) = 240
  futex(0xb2503d90, 0x80 /* FUTEX_??? */, 2) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
  
  This repeats endlessly and uses all available CPU time.  It doesn't
  always happen, and I haven't noticed a pattern yet, but it's happened 3
  or 4 times in the last week.

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[Bug 280805] Re: Latest nvidia driver for Interpid (x64) makes my fan spin all the time.

[Adam Porter]

Same with Dell XPS M1330 with GeForce 8400M GS.  Version 177.76 is ok,
but 177.80 exhibits the problem.

Loading just the kernel module doesn't cause it, it's only when X is
running and on the active terminal that it happens.

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[Bug 278386] [NEW] KDE Network Manager in Intrepid is a huge step backwards!

[Adam Porter]

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I'm running the Kubuntu 8.10 amd64 beta LiveCD.  I have Kubuntu 8.04 on
my hard disk and use it as my daily OS.  I can say without a doubt that
the Network Manager applet in Intrepid is a giant step backwards!  Let
me see here:

When I right-click the icon in the tray, instead of getting a list of
wireless networks that are available, I get "eth0: no carrier" in big
bold letters, and "wlan0" below that, and "New connection" below that.
If I click on "New connection" I still don't see a list of wireless
networks, only "eth0" and "wlan0", terms which are completely
meaningless to the average user.  If I click "wlan0" I finally get a
list of wireless networks, but they open in a new window, which wastes
more of my time and attention.  If I then choose my personal
WPA2-secured network and click "Connect and Save", Network Manager
closes that window and tries to connect, but fails of course, because it
never asked me for the passphrase!  So if I then (pretending to be a new
user) manage to figure out how to open the options for the newly-chosen
wifi network, when I click Next enough times and get to the security
page of the wizard (argh, wizards were decried years ago as poor
usability!), it hasn't even automatically chosen to enable WPA2, or
security at all.  I have to choose to turn on security, and then make a
blind guess at which type to use.

In Kubuntu Hardy 8.04, when I right-click the Network Manager tray icon,
I get a simple list of available networks.  If I click one, it starts
connecting to it, and if necessary, asks me for the passphrase, already
using the right kind of encryption.  It doesn't hit me with "ETH0: NO
CARRIER" in big letters, and it doesn't make me jump through invisible
hoops to get connected to a wireless network.  It's simple, and it just
works, like it should.

Is this going to be released as THE Kubuntu 8.10?  If so, it's going to
be a dismal shooting-in-the-foot for Kubuntu's reputation, and will hurt
KDE4's as well.  Why has Network Manager regressed and devolved?  NM
0.6.7's interface just needed some enhancing and refining, but this one
is...unbelievable.

** Affects: knetworkmanager (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 278387] [NEW] nv driver loads in 16-bit mode

[Adam Porter]

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I'm running the Intrepid 8.10 amd64 LiveCD.  I have a Dell XPS M1330
with an Nvidia 8400M video card.  The live CD loaded X in 16-bit mode;
the KDE 4 wallpaper's gradients are very blocky.

** Affects: ubuntu
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 Status: New

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[Bug 112498] Re: When last stream on list has empty description, it won't be loaded (after program restart)

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It'd be nice if this could be fixed.

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[Bug 278361] Re: Persistence install stopped working

[Adam Porter]

I just installed the Kubuntu 8.10 amd64 ISO to a flash drive, but
persistance isn't working at all.  It just doesn't keep any changes
made.  Otherwise it works fine.

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[Bug 242966] Re: snd_pcsp can take precedence of soundcards

[Adam Porter]

I'm using:

alsa-utils:
  Installed: 1.0.17-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.0.17-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.17-0ubuntu2 0
100 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

linux-image-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.5.5
  Candidate: 2.6.27.5.5
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.5.5 0
100 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


I'm running Hardy but am testing the Intrepid kernel because of a few minor 
hardware issues with the Hardy kernel.

I just rebooted twice, and the first time the pcsp device was the
primary ALSA device.  artsd went nuts with CPU usage, causing it to quit
because of CPU overload, and even after restarting artsd, I still
couldn't get any sound out of Amarok.  I rebooted the second time, and
now the Intel HDA device is the primary ALSA device and sound is working
fine.

Maybe this bug isn't completely fixed yet?

** Changed in: alsa-utils (Ubuntu Intrepid)
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[Bug 267913] Re: hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj

[Adam Porter]

I have a Dell M1330, and am running Hardy with the 2.6.27-5 kernel from
Intrepid.  I just noticed this error in my ring buffer after hitting the
eject CD button a couple times; it seemed to show up immediately after
trying to eject the CD, but not the first time, and not every time.
I've been playing sound through Amarok (with ALSA, no PulseAudio) and
have had no sound problems.

(The CD still hasn't ejected, by the way...but that's a separate
problem.)

[ 2325.259251] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card
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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Adam Porter]

I installed linux-image-2.6.27-3-generic=2.6.27-3.4.  After spending an
hour fixing things like video drivers that didn't automatically get
updated, and kernel modules that weren't depended on by that package, I
found this:

1.  The system went into suspend-to-RAM twice without a problem.
2.  The first attempt at waking the system resulted in a blank, powered-off, 
non-backlit screen and an unresponsive system.
3.  The second attempt at waking the system resulted at in least three 
immediate kmem_cache_alloc/null pointer deference kernel Oops'es.

In conclusion, I can't test whether 2.6.27 fixes *this* bug.  I am not
going to reboot a frozen kernel over and over again; at the least, that
risks fs corruption.  But I do know that it introduces new bugs, and I
feel like I've basically wasted an hour and a half on this.  And now I
still have to downgrade all the stuff that I had to upgrade to test this
so my system will work at least as well as it did before I started all
this.

You suggest that I report these new bugs, but how do you recommend I
report pages of kernel oopses?  I can't exactly copy and paste them, and
I don't really have time to take photos of them and type them all in by
hand.

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[Bug 21837] Re: Binary patch updating

[Adam Porter]

It's really a shame that Ubuntu still doesn't have this feature.  Debian
at least has apt indexes, which saves a lot of time updating the package
lists.  Just think about the poor users all over the world on low-
bandwidth connections.  Please make this a higher priority and get it
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[Bug 138194] Re: Closing lid during initial shutdown causes notebook to suspend

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This affects KDE too, not just gnome-session.

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Re: [Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Adam Porter]

Sorry, I overlooked your message asking for that data.  I'm not at
that computer at the moment, but I will send it later.  Thanks.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 14:56, Chris Coulson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Thanks for the response. If you're seeing multiple oopses, then there
> isn't much point in opening a report for each one at this stage. The
> first oops is the most important (it will have a count of ''), and
> any subsequent oopses might be caused by inconsistent state of the
> kernel after the first oops.
>
> Please could you provide the information I requested earlier?
>
> Thanks
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
>   Status: New => Incomplete
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[Bug 243051] [NEW] OpenOffice Writer crashes with STDERR "Logic error 3"

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer

I have a simple document open in Writer, a two-column table with about
30 rows.  I right-click the table and click "Table...", and browse the
tabs looking for some options to adjust.  I don't have to actually
change any of the options, just browse the tabs.  After several seconds,
Writer will crash, popping up a dialog saying the document will be
recovered next time.  If I launch oowriter from a console, it prints
"Logic error 3" when it crashes.

I am attaching the document, though until now I had not actually saved
it to disk.

openoffice.org-writer:
  Installed: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 243051] Re: OpenOffice Writer crashes with STDERR "Logic error 3"

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** Attachment added: "bookmark.odt"
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[Bug 241478] [NEW] OpenOffice autosaves during activity like dragging objects

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-impress

I am working on a large presentation that includes many photos.  It
takes a while to save the presentation to disk because of all the photos
(it's over 300MB right now).  Just now while I was dragging an image
object to another place on a slide, the autosave kicked in, which
stopped me from doing anything until the save completed.  This is quite
annoying.  OO should be smart enough to avoid this.

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 241486] [NEW] Impress moves objects on its own; can't lock them; throws work away!

[Adam Porter]

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Binary package hint: openoffice.org-impress

I am trying to make a presentation of photos.  I have several photo
objects on each page.  Some of them are rotated at angles and partially
off the slide.  And that's fine...except Impress randomly moves them
back onto the middle of the slide on its own!  This throws away all the
time I spent positioning them so they overlap just right!  And it
happens when I'm working on other slides!  I'll be working on a slide,
and then I'll look over to the left at the slide list, and see that
Impress has moved all my objects on all the other slides, all by itself!

To top it off, it's impossible to lock objects in place!!!

Has no one ever used Impress like this before?  Has it been tested at
all?  How can this problem still be around in 2.4.1??  This is about to
force me to switch to PowerPoint!

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 241518] [NEW] Impress doesn't thumbnail slides until scrolled to; makes slide list useless

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-impress

Impress does not generate thumbnails for slides in the slide list until
the slide is visible in the list.  This causes long freezes while
scrolling through the list, and makes it pretty pointless in the first
place, because you can't just scroll down and click on the slide you
want until you have already scrolled to it and waited for the thumbnail
to be created.

This is very, very basic functionality.  Impress will never surpass
PowerPoint as long as it has issues like this.

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 224068] Re: OpenOffice Writer scrollbars not displayed; previous screen area displayed

[Adam Porter]

This also happens in Impress, and I would guess all Openoffice apps.  It
makes scrollbars completely useless.

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[Bug 241486] Re: Impress moves objects on its own; can't lock them; throws work away!

[Adam Porter]

Ok, EVERY TIME I change the background of a slide or change the autofit
of a background on a slide, Impress rearranges all of my photo
objects!!!  This is absurd!  OpenOffice 2.4.1, and it does this?!

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[Bug 230781] [NEW] iriverter fails to launch w/swt error

[Adam Porter]

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Binary package hint: iriverter

$ iriverter
!!! An unhandled exception occured: class java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
--- iriverter 0.16
---
--- Settings:
---
---
!!! no swt-pi-gtk-3236 in java.library.path
!!!
!!! java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1698)
!!! java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:840)
!!! java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1047)
!!! org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:123)
!!! org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.(OS.java:22)
!!! org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63)
!!! org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
!!! org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:126)
!!! org.thestaticvoid.iriverter.ConverterUI.(ConverterUI.java:28)
!!! org.thestaticvoid.iriverter.ConverterUI.main(ConverterUI.java:666)
!!!
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize 
class org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display
at org.thestaticvoid.iriverter.ConverterUI.main(ConverterUI.java:675)

$ locate swt
...
/usr/lib/jni/libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so
...

** Affects: iriverter (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 243051] Re: OpenOffice Writer crashes with STDERR "Logic error 3"

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I just tested the document and was unable to make it crash again.

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[Bug 219192] Re: [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

[Adam Porter]

If only that updated casper had been uploaded to Hardy and released with
8.04.1.  :(

Well, in the meantime, here is an initrd.gz from 8.04.1 with Dafydd
Walters' changes applied to scripts/casper.

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[Bug 63293] Re: Comments not saved if network test fails

[Adam Porter]

With respect, in my opinion, a better way to handle a bug report like
this would be to make sure the developer of the app sees it, because he
should know if he's fixed the bug.  It's enough trouble to report a bug
in the first place; asking me to retest the app a year later, when the
developer hasn't even acknowledged it, is discouraging.  If my first
report didn't get any results, why would a second one?

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Re: [Bug 281526] Re: Firefox freezes with 100% CPU after resuming from suspend

[Adam Porter]

I've also noticed that sometimes on resuming, Firefox doesn't freeze,
but it does use 100% CPU.  When this happens, I think, but am not
sure, that it correlates with having Gmail and/or Google Reader open
in a tab in Firefox.  I think that a few times, closing those tabs has
cut the CPU usage back to normal, after which I could reopen them and
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Re: [Bug 203016] Re: Memory Leak in NetworkManager

[Adam Porter]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 13:06, Alexander Sack  wrote:
> ping ... anyone can confirm that the hardy-proposed package doesnt have
> the memory leak and still is as stable as before!

My system has enough memory that the leak was never a problem for me;
I only noticed it by accident.  But I went ahead and installed the
package from hardy-proposed several days ago, and while I haven't been
checking for the leak, it seems ok right now.  I can definitely
confirm that it's working perfectly, too.

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 05:23, Steve Langasek
 wrote:
> The laptop-mode-tools in hardy already uses 254 by default, so no
> further upload of that package is needed in hardy.

Does that mean that all Hardy users need to do to fix this is to
enable laptop mode on AC and battery?

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 06:10, Steve Langasek
 wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:50:22AM -0000, Adam Porter wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 05:23, Steve Langasek
>>  wrote:
>> > The laptop-mode-tools in hardy already uses 254 by default, so no
>> > further upload of that package is needed in hardy.
>
>> Does that mean that all Hardy users need to do to fix this is to
>> enable laptop mode on AC and battery?
>
> If you were to enable laptop mode, that would address this issue.  We still
> need to provide fixed packages so that this works out-of-the-box, using a
> better approach than suddenly turning laptop mode on for users a year after
> release.

Do you mean that laptop mode has other, undesirable consequences that
should be avoided by default?  Do you know how it will be solved in
Hardy without laptop mode?

Sorry for the questions.  I'm not sure if this is enough of an issue
for my laptop that I should enable laptop mode all the time, but I
think it's worth keeping an eye on it.  The SMART value's percentage
is not changing that quickly, regardless of the raw value.  I'm not
fully convinced, with the variations in individual drives, that anyone
really knows what the best solution is.  But if you have advice, it
would be appreciated.  I will probably be staying with Hardy for a
while.

Thanks for your work on this issue!

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:38, Endolith  wrote:
>> But then it suffers from the unload cycles. Is there another
>> solution to this?
>
> Can't we just let the hard drive park and then stop writing to it for a
> while so it doesn't spin back up again?  The main problem app for
> writing to the hard drive is apparently Network Manager, which craps up
> the system logs with useless messages several times a minute.   (Bug
> #294190)
>
> Surely there's a way to limit the frequency with which logs are written
> to the disk by buffering them in memory first?

That is strange.  I'm on Hardy using wifi and Network Manager goes
hours between log writes.  I checked $(sudo grep network /var/log/*).
I have a Dell M1330 with iwl4965 using the iwlagn 2.3.5kds module.

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 15:06, Steve Langasek
 wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:23:35PM -, Ciso wrote:
>> So to check if the patch works what I need?
>> Only the "proposed" acpi-support package and to enable by hand the
>> laptop-mode?
>
> No.  You need to install the -proposed acpi-support package and restart your
> system for the changed settings to take effect.  You should *not* need to
> enable laptop-mode to see the effects of this bugfix.

Just FYI, when I installed the package from -proposed, I noticed the
postinst script restarting the ACPI stuff in /etc/init.d and saw it
set the PM mode then.  Is a restart still necessary?

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

I'm on Hardy and I've noticed that since installing the new package,
the Start_Stop_Count on my Samsung drive has stopped increasing at
all.  Seems to work fine.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 21:50, Steve Langasek
 wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:33:04AM -, Michał Gołębiowski wrote:
>> > Are there any users following this bug who are using hardy?
>
>> Me, for example. What could I do? Any instructions how to test this
>> update? Thanks. :)
>
> The test case is in the bug description, and instructions on enabling the
> -proposed repo are at .
> Please report back here with the results of your testing (positive or
> negative).
>
> Thanks,
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Re: [Bug 282865] Re: Firefox keeps file open on external disk, can't unmount

[Adam Porter]

Sorry, but I don't have Intrepid or Jaunty installed.  Regardless of
those distros, however, it is a bug in Hardy.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 13:40, Pedro Villavicencio  wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
>   Status: New => Incomplete
>
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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

May I suggest that anyone who still has issues and comments on this
bug should include this information:

Laptop make and model
BIOS version
Hard disk make, model, and firmware revision (available from smartctl)

Perhaps we can discover a pattern of manufacturers or models which
handle certain settings in different ways.

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Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Adam Porter]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 20:19, Nick B.  wrote:
> Oops, I think I found a regression. The proposed version of acpi-support
> seems to break resume from suspend only when invoked from Gnome-power-
> manager. On resume it seems to hang and the screen never turns back on.
> Downgrading to the original version of acpi-support (0.114) has no
> issues with suspend. However suspending it from FUSA or the System menu
> has no problem with either version of acpi-support. This is on Intrepid.

Are you absolutely sure that's caused by this package?  Sometimes my
Hardy system also fails to resume from suspend with the screen never
turning on, but it's always done that, and I still don't know why.

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[Bug 310138] Re: CD/DVD does not eject on M1330, even though eject -v says command succeeded

[Adam Porter]

Oh, and there's this:

$ eject -v
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/scd0'
eject: `/dev/scd0' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/scd0' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/scd0' is not a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/scd0' using CD-ROM eject command
eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/scd0' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject succeeded

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[Bug 310138] [NEW] CD/DVD does not eject on M1330, even though eject -v says command succeeded

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Hardy on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop.

I burned a DVD with K3b.  After burning, K3b said it couldn't verify the
ISO filesystem image size--weird.  I tried to mount the disc and see if
it burned correctly, but nothing happened.  I tried to eject the disc
from KDE, and nothing happened.  I pressed the eject button on the
laptop, and the music I had playing started stuttering and the screen
froze for several seconds.  Then the system resumed playing, but the
disc didn't eject.  I tried running commands like:

eject
sudo eject
sudo eject scd0
etc.

And nothing happened.  dmesg shows this:

[15552.538637] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[15552.538659] ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[15552.538661]  cdb 1b 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[15552.538664]  res 40/00:03:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 
(timeout)
[15552.538670] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
[15557.427251] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[15562.277217] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[15562.277227] ata4: soft resetting link
[15562.758089] ata4.00: configured for PIO3
[15562.758115] ata4: EH complete
[15562.780667] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.780683] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.780694] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9179156
[15562.787502] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.787516] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.787527] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9179812
[15562.791384] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.791397] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.791407] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9178788
[15562.799905] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.799920] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.799931] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9178564
[15562.805910] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.805922] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.805932] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9179804
[15562.809421] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.809435] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.809445] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9178780
[15562.811994] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.812006] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.812017] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 9178556
[15562.814603] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.814616] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.814626] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7532668
[15562.818443] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.818455] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.818466] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7531644
[15562.821277] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.821289] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.821299] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7531420
[15562.824007] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.824019] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.824029] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7532660
[15562.826355] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.826367] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.826376] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7531636
[15562.829045] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.829056] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.829066] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7531412
[15562.839837] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.839852] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.839862] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7532068
[15562.844583] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.844596] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.844606] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7531044
[15562.847178] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[current]
[15562.847192] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not 
present
[15562.847203] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 7530820
[15562.849794] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready 
[curre

[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Adam Porter]

Just as a reference for anyone else that might need help, on Hardy, be
sure to install the backported modules packages, and check dmesg to make
sure that v2.3.5+ of the iwlagn module is being loaded.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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[Bug 253789] Re: Intel wireless iwl4965 oops on suspend: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Adam Porter]

I finally discovered that some other kernel module packages were causing
an old 1.x.x version of the module to be loaded, even though the newer
module was also installed.  After removing all the unnecessary module
packages, the 2.3.5 version of the module loaded, and I've had no more
problems suspending.

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[Bug 63293] Re: Comments not saved if network test fails

[Adam Porter]

(I'm basically repeating myself here...) Respectfully, please do not ask
me to retest a bug like this (again!).   If the developer or maintainer
of the app has made no effort to fix this bug (which is a result of code
that wasn't written), it still exists.  Code must be written to handle
this situation.  Until that happens, it's still a bug.  You're asking me
to download the ISO and boot it up and start an install process just to
test this, when it's apparent that no one's even tried to fix it.

Writing a form-letter "please test this again" response to this bug
after what I've already posted on it is almost insulting.  Debian
doesn't handle bug reports like this.

** Changed in: hwdb-client (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => New

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Re: [Bug 174283] Re: rm does not preserve root by default

[Adam Porter]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 23:25, Andrew Hohenstein  wrote:
> I'm not trying to preserve the 'philosophy of *nix,' I'm trying to
> preserve the functionality of the rm -fr command. I mention the
> 'philosophy' only to point out it's wisdom.

How do you define that philosophy, then?  I don't understand what you
mean.

> My point is that setting a precedent of implementing security features
> that are already proven ineffective is destructive to the whole reason
> Ubuntu exists as an alternative to Windows. Adapting the same failed
> methods just blurs the distinction, compromises security, and deters
> users.

It's hard for me to see how implementing this fix/feature would deter
anyone from using Ubuntu.  :)  To me it's not a security feature at
all; it's more akin to the safeguards in place to prevent accidental
launch of nuclear weapons.  How would it be destructive to Ubuntu's
reason for existence?  I don't understand what you mean.

> There are already other blocks (proven more effective) in place for
> this command (sudo (already requiring a password), the -f switch, etc)
> that more inexperienced users shouldn't be using, or should be
> uncomfortable enough with them not to use them all the time anyway,
> and anyone experienced enough to use them should know when not use
> them, as well as proofread their scripts every time and develop habits
> that don't invite the opportunity for a type-o to delete a partition.

There are many things that people, even good people, should do, but
don't.  Is "they deserve what they get" the kind of attitude Ubuntu
wants to project?  Is that even how we should treat other people?  I
don't understand what your goal is with Ubuntu.  What you're calling
for sounds more like it belongs in a distro like...Slackware?  Gentoo?
 Please explain what you're trying to achieve here.  :)

> That being said, over the years the number of times I've accidentally
> run 'rm -fr /' successfully is zero, and I haven't found anyone I know
> that has either. I would imagine the relative number of experienced
> users affected by accidental invocation of a 'sudo rm -fr /' command
> is pretty low.

I've read some horror stories; they aren't hard to find online.  I am
a very careful driver, with a clean record, but just the other day a
fellow and I backed into each other in the parking lot.  No one is
perfect; mistakes happen to the best of us.  Thankfully the damage was
minor, and both of us were kind and understanding towards the other.
To me, that is the kind of attitude Ubuntu is about.

> Even if I were to do it myself, it wouldn't be all that detrimental to
> me as I do daily backup which, by the way, is also a good habit that
> even inexperienced users develop pretty quick.

Who are these inexperienced-yet-diligent users of which you speak?  :)

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Re: [Bug 174283] Re: rm does not preserve root by default

[Adam Porter]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 22:07, Andrew Hohenstein  wrote:
> I found another bug in Ubuntu... It actually allows you to install the
> system to a hard disk! This means that not only does it leave the system
> open to 'sudo rm -fr /' commands being run accidentally, but anyone
> passing by with an active electro-magnet could corrupt the entire
> system. Other distros (Knoppix, etc) circumvent this by being a live-CD-
> only distribution. Ubuntu already has live-CD functionality, so all we
> need to do is just cut out all the installable stuff, and it's good to
> go! Right? We could also include a requirement of lead shielding in the
> chassis.
>
> ..end sarcastic portion of update..

I can see you're quite passionate about this idea.  I confess that I
don't understand why it's such a big deal to you.  It's very simple to
use --no-preserve-root in your aliases.  Anyway, it might make for
better discussion if we avoided sarcasm.  Let's keep our common goals
in mind: we all want to improve Ubuntu.

> I obviously don't really know what all is involved in the physical act
> of firing a nuke, but if the movies are to be believed, it takes the
> right person giving the proper authorization (sudo) and giving the
> command to fire (rm -fr).. Usually it takes more than one person doing
> it at the same time, but short of forcing two different admin users to
> confirm file deletions so that it lives up to this standard, at some
> point the engineers make the determination that any more safeguards
> preventing execution would be too much (even unsafe), because after all
> the weapons (commands) are there to be used, not look pretty.

I didn't want to mention the movies, because I'm sure they leave a lot
to be desired in the Reality Department.  But even in the movies, it
usually takes multiple physical keys to unlock the Big Red Button.  :)

> This single feature is not destructive by itself, the precedent it sets
> is. Users will expect the system to save them from themselves doing
> anything potentially destructive, citing this 'bug' as 'proof' just like
> everyone here did ("Sun is doing it why shouldn't we?" is, I'm sorry, a
> glaring logical fallacy).

Respectfully, I think your argument in this paragraph is a logical
fallacy, along the lines of a Slippery Slope argument.  Just because
the rm command by default prevents the deletion of / doesn't mean that
users "will expect the system to save them from themselves doing
anything potentially destructive."  Just because a car has seatbelts,
airbags, and anti-lock brakes doesn't mean that people believe they
can safely aim their car towards the edge of a cliff.  We're talking
about one minor option that prevents accidents, an option that can be
easily disabled by anyone who is bothered by it.

> So upon installation, should the disk partitioner not actually allow a
> user to format a partition that has a certain amount of files with 'last
> modified' dates of today's date, for fear that the user is actually
> choosing the wrong partition to format? I bet a lot more people have
> made that mistake than have accidentally run 'sudo rm -fr /'... And the
> answer is still no, the partitioner shouldn't just refuse to format the
> partition it was told to format during install because the user didn't
> run it with the --actually_format_stuff flag, or something.

We're not talking about the partitioner; only the rm command.  Since
you brought up logical fallacies, is this an example of a Red Herring?

> Someone always deserves a broken foot when they ask themselves, "Hmm, I
> wonder what will happen if I drop this bowling ball on my foot?" and
> then does it. Even if they meant to drop it an inch to the left of their
> foot, and not right on it. It's not the bowling ball manufacturer's
> fault for making a bowling ball that hurts your foot when dropped upon
> it. Nail guns don't come with built-in sensors that detect living tissue
> in front of it and refuse to fire if there is. You're just not supposed
> to aim it at yourself, the safety button (sudo, -f, etc) is considered
> to be enough.

If my foot was at risk of being hit by a bowling ball unless I typed
with perfect accuracy and faultless thinking, I would want the system
to prevent the bowling ball from falling onto my foot by accident.
Even nail guns have safeties that prevent discharge unless the gun is
pressed against a surface.  Thankfully, neither is usually controlled
by something as complex as a computer.

> The Ubuntu home page says "Ubuntu is designed with security in mind" and
> that it's made to be easy to install and get up and running on most
> computers, for free. When did Ubuntu become the distro made for
> inexperienced users, or self-proclaimed 'experienced users' who don't
> think things through all the way because it saves people from
> themselves? Where is this claimed? I don't see that in the "Code of
> Conduct," "What is Ubuntu?", anywhere.

What does the word "ubuntu" mean?

> Nowhere does it say "

Re: [Bug 174283] Re: rm does not preserve root by default

[Adam Porter]

I think we all want to keep the "philosophy of *nix" alive and well;
without it, we probably wouldn't even have Ubuntu today.  And we all
want to make Ubuntu better and more useful; we don't want it to
stagnate and become irrelevant.  And we'd hope to gain more users and
build community along the way.

But what exactly is the philosophy of Unix?  Is the real philosophy of
Unix to take no precautions against simple mistakes that anyone, even
the most experienced user, can make?  Mistakes that can have
catastrophic consequences?

Unix is a great foundation, but it isn't rooted in goodness towards
others.  But Ubuntu is intended to be.  Personally, I'm thankful that
I don't always get what I deserve, because I'd be in bad shape if I
did.  Just as we should be forgiving to each other, so should the
systems we design be forgiving to their users.  That doesn't mean
having endless popup boxes; in a case like this, it's a simple fix for
a huge payoff.  And what's the downside?  Non-compliance with a man
page or an old tradition?  We can change both of those.  We have the
technology. :)

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[Bug 241518] Re: Impress doesn't thumbnail slides until scrolled to; makes slide list useless

[Adam Porter]

Yes, it is in the OO version that's in Hardy.

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
   Status: Invalid => New

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[Bug 241486] Re: Impress moves objects on its own; can't lock them; throws work away!

[Adam Porter]

Yes, it is in the OO version that's in Hardy.

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
   Status: Invalid => New

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Re: [Bug 250211] Re: Intrepid: WLAN LED blinks incessantly on iwl3945 | iwl4965 laptop

[Adam Porter]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:45, mac_v wrote:
> @Tom Chiverton:
> Hardware specific issues are not papercuts.
> For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

That page says:

If you prefer a more detailed, itemized definition, a paper cut is:

* A bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing
piece of software,
* the presence of which makes a computer more difficult or less
pleasant to use,
* that is easy to fix,
* that the average user would encounter during his/her first day of using...
* ...Ubuntu Desktop Edition* as configured by a default installation.

If a potential paper cut fails to meet any of the criteria above, it
is not a paper cut.

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Re: [Bug 333127] Re: Firefox 3.5 and above crash on full screen flash video

[Adam Porter]

What video driver are you using?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 01:26, Savvas Radevic wrote:
> I can't reproduce this bug with firefox 3.5 amd64 and the adobe 64-bit
> flash plugin :)
>
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[Bug 282865] Re: Firefox keeps file open on external disk, can't unmount

[Adam Porter]

** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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[Bug 35249] Re: acx firmware are not available for the driver

[Adam Porter]

I just did a clean install of Dapper on my laptop.  My DWL-650+ would
not load the firmware until I ran "sudo ln -s
/lib/firmware/2.6.15-25-386/acx/default/ti* /lib/firmware".  Now it
works fine.

Please don't tell me it's a problem with an old or conflicting package.
It worked without any manual changes in Breezy, but Dapper requires me
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[Bug 63286] Re: hibernate.sh freezes on "modprobe thermal", anacron not started, kernel upgrades don't finish

[Adam Porter]

A couple days ago, after doing a dist-upgrade, I hibernated.  A little
while ago I resumed, and then did another dist-upgrade.  I noticed that
the update-initramfs script was stuck again, so I checked, and sure
enough, "/bin/bash /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh force" is stuck waiting on
"modprobe thermal".  After killing the "modprobe thermal" process, the
hibernate script finished, and now update-initramfs is finishing up.

** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
   Status: Rejected => Confirmed

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hibernate.sh freezes on "modprobe thermal", anacron not started, kernel 
upgrades don't finish
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63286

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[Bug 66872] [Edgy freeze exception requested] Debian update makes backup of image while making new image

[Adam Porter]

Public bug reported:

initramfs-tools (0.83) unstable; urgency=high
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* update-initramfs: Keep an initramfs backup while we are running. Do also
keep the booted initramfs as .bak in /boot. First helps on power cut.
Second is a good conservative approach and demanded feature.
Thanks Thiemo Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for report. (closes: 387780)


I think this is an important change that should be included in Edgy.  Already, 
my laptop causes the hibernate script to freeze on resume waiting for "modprobe 
thermal" to finish, which also causes update-initramfs to freeze.  This 
combination could leave the system in an unbootable state, especially for a 
user that doesn't know how to fix it.  At least this fix would make it easier 
to recover from such a situation.

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: Unconfirmed

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[Edgy freeze exception requested] Debian update makes backup of image while 
making new image
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66872

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