@mpt yes, this is still an issue on Ubuntu 14.04LTS.
My /home partition fills up nearly every day (bad on an SSD also because of
write amplification).
-rw-r- 3151151104 Feb 4 13:06 gnome-session-Unity.log
The log spam is useuless repetive stuff like:
(putty:29947): GLib-CRITICAL **: Sourc
Public bug reported:
It's been like this for years. Some initialization problem between
driver and printer.
If I print certain types of documents the printer is fine.
If I print a pdf, it's fine.
If I print a second pdf, reams of paper spit out of the machine each with a few
random characters on
This seems to still be an issue: and it's a serious issue when a semi
public computer is involved, as those using the computer won't know the
password.
It is also a problem to train users to enter their password when a
prompt box comes up: that's just ripe for abuse.
See also:
http://askubuntu.co
Still relevant in 16.04 LTS.
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Status in network-manage
Public bug reported:
1. Enter control panel
2. "Add account"
3. Use an invalid charcter, such as an upper case letter.
4. Get a confusing error message:
Failed to add account
running '/usr/sbin/adduser' failed: Child process exited with code 1'
This is an easy fix, and could keep a user from g
Also had to delete .config/monitors.xml to get my system working
again. Not smooth.
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nvidia-331-upd
Swap is the equivalent of main memory: the security issues are no
different. Nobody can complain about swap written to disk, as that's a
risk for any piece of main memory at any time. Why turn things so far
upside down to support an edge case (infinite scrollback left open for long
periods of tim
The oom killer will only come along if some epic long files have been
cat'ed to the terminal,
and infinite scrollback is selected. Speed, battery life, SSD life, energy
use and privacy are all reasons to have the common case be no disk writes.
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(The prior backtrace is under Ubuntu 14.04LTS fully patched) gvfs
Version: 1.20.1-1ubuntu1
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gvfsd-afp consumes 100% of proces
Here's output of "sudo strace -p XX" where X is the process ID
of the misbehaving gvfsd-afp:
recvfrom(7, "", 16, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
recvfrom(7, "", 16, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
r
>How do you think gnome-terminal should handle that? Suppose you have 4
GB of ram, shall it consume up to 3 GB and then >starting using the
disk? Sounds not only hard to implement, but also why should it take
away RAM from other apps?
The Linux virtual memory system is highly adept at swapping out
@Egmont wrote:
"Running out of disk space is much less likely and effects the system less
badly than running out of RAM, and your RAM would eventually make it into the
disk (swap) anyways."
But I run out of ram space very rarely. It's highly elegant to keep
volatile data in RAM unless RAM is fu
Public bug reported:
1) In a gnome-terminal run "sudo fatrace -f W -t" (filter for writes plus
timestamps).
2) In another window cat a file to the screen.
3) Observe the activity. I see large churn on the /tmp partitition:
20:41:24.158837 gnome-terminal(23352): W /tmp/#132835 (deleted)
20:41:24
See also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1830432
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gnome-terminal writes excessively to /tmp (affecting SSD drives)
S
Probably related, here's a small sample as captured by the new "fatrace
--filter W" utility on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
09:35:01.577176 gnome-terminal(8923): RW /tmp/#132358 (deleted)
09:35:01.588323 gnome-terminal(8923): W /tmp/#132359 (deleted)
09:35:01.588323 gnome-terminal(8923): RW /tmp/#132359 (del
Public bug reported:
In Ubuntu 14.04LTS:
In "system settings" there's a control for "Default applications" for "Web".
This does not appear to change the gnome-conf settings.
See attached screenshot.
Note how Firefox is shown in one place, Chrome in the other.
This in turn leads to incorrect beha
On Ubuntu 12.04:
(liferea:20434): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
"DescribeAll" with signature "" on interface "org.gtk.Actions" doesn't
exist
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 795985 ***
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Still true as of Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS,
with US English Locale and 101 Key Keyboard.
Neither the numbers above the keyboard, nor the numeric pad "." work.
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This is NOT a duplicate of #1079953
And 12.04 is a LTS support version, so a fix for 13.10 is not relevant.
The proper URL for the stable release updates is
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
The feature is completely broken in 12.04 LTS due tothe missing
dependency.
** This bug is no
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1251022
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Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubunt
Public bug reported:
While bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1079953 is
closed,
the issue persists. With alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu4 on Ubuntu 12.04, nothing
works.
Pressing *New Item* or *Properties* results in a crash. Checkbox actions don't
take.
And inexplicably "[x
Using 12.04, fresh upgrade, fully patched:
alacarte launches but clicking *Properties* or *New Item* results in a crash.
Checking [x] report this error does nothing apparent.
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And pressing HELP gives: The URI ‘ghelp:user-guide?menu-editor#menu-
editor’ does not point to a valid page.
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Main Menu E
Here's a "gdb attach" backtrace of the hung process:
> pstree -p
─dpkg(24158)───update-notifier(19121)───package-data-do(19123)
│ │
└─{precise}(9759)
(gdb) attach 19123
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7fcdc8074102 in recv () from /lib/x86_64-linu
See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-
center/+bug/919600
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Dist Upgrade from 13.04 to 13
Same here. S tuckarro:
...
extracting fontinst.inf
extracting Licen.TXT
All done, no errors.
All fonts downloaded and installed.
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/
adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.310.orig.tar.gz
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This bug is not "Invalid". It is reproducable, reproduced and verified.
You might decide to ignore it, but is a real one.
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Titl
I'm TRYING to do the steps to get this considered for backporting to 11.04.
Regressions are Ubutu's Achilles heel.
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Title:
[Up
Marcel:
I don't appear to have control to do what you ask. In addiiton "Bug Watch
Updater (bug-watch-updater) " closed the bug as invalid.
What's up?
This feature was fine in my last Ubuntu which was 10.04 LTS.
** Project changed: df-libreoffice => ubuntu
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: I
Here are is /etc/apt/sources.list
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty universe
deb-s
New test file, created from scratch. One hyperlink, saved to rtf.
** Attachment added: "LibreOffice_3.3.3_Test.rtf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/792942/+attachment/2335139/+files/LibreOffice_3.3.3_Test.rtf
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Note upstream note:
Yifan 2011-05-25 22:06:03 PDT
I can confirm this is reproduced in 3.3.1, but cannot reproduced in 3.4 rc1.
Both of my systems are SLED 11 sp1 i586.
Hi Cedric, Did we merged some patches possibly have this already fixed? Than
On 08/30/2011 02:55 PM, Marcel Stimberg wrote:
> Bryce, according to this report, you are not using the most recent
> version of libreoffice-writer for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to
> the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this
> issue. Thanks in advance.
The "syst
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 792942 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792942
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 792942
[Upstream] Writer saving .odt to .rtf duplicates hyperlink
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