Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1327632] UPDATE: Re: package chromium-browser (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/chromium-browser/l

2014-07-24 Thread Harvey Partridge
Thanks for this very useful email. Having checked all of my memory I found that one of my RAM sticks, capable of being 1Mb was actually 256 Kb. When I replaced that most of my problems went away. Firefox only crashes about once a month now. Update manager works without problems now. Bootup blank s

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1327632] [NEW] package chromium-browser (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libbli

2014-06-07 Thread Harvey Partridge
Public bug reported: I have asked for support, but none has been forthcoming. http://askubuntu.com/questions/477721/package-management-system-corrupted-cannot-install-or-remove-packages-u12-04lt";> The fault seems to be with dpkg; gzip and corrupt compressed data are regular messages on my box.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 920936] Re: SiS 65x/M650/740 works strangely on high resolution

2014-05-31 Thread Harvey Partridge
@SignedAdam -I have the same vid card and the same problem on U12.04LTS. Did you find a fix or workaround? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-sis in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/920936 Title:

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1176819] Re: FR Keyboard layout not retained

2013-06-06 Thread Harvey Partridge
For this test I select à or @ and get 0. The à is selected without modifier keypress. In my defense, I do use @ more often than à ... In each case, the display changes to qwerty, your diagnostics give ... $ . kbtest rules: evdev model: pc105 layout: fr variant:latin9 xkb_keymap

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1176819] [NEW] FR Keyboard layout not retained

2013-05-06 Thread Harvey Partridge
Public bug reported: Whenever I shift or AltGr in order to select from that set, the layout reverts from azerty to qwerty and cannot be restored to azerty until restarted. When selecting AT, zero, closing square bracket, o, plus, closing suare bracket, etc. requiring Shift or AltGr the qwerty