[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586570] Re: openvpn chroot does not have a valid resolv.conf

2017-02-23 Thread Paul Crawford
I am seeing this with 64-bit 14.04.5 (even though 'grheard' did not have this problem with 14.04) using OpenVPN via the network manager. Seems to happen independently of DHCP renewals as several were logged before this last bit: Feb 23 19:31:03 paul-ubuntu dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.100 on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1664520] [NEW] Firefox fails to clear local storage

2017-02-14 Thread Paul Crawford
Public bug reported: I noticed that Firefox is keeping site-specific information even after using the 'Clear Recent History' option. For example, with a new firefox profile (e.g. start a guest session) go to www.youtube.com and view some video, then look in the location: ~/.mozilla/firefox//stora

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1384303] Re: Cannot scan using Canon Lide 25 with simple-scan on 14.04.

2016-04-20 Thread Paul Crawford
Same problem as Ferdinand, scanner not recognised by xsane when on USB 3 port (but seen by lsusb) but worked when put on USB 2. One USB3: $ lsusb Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1309985] Re: nlpsolver doesnt work with libre office

2014-09-02 Thread Paul Crawford
Similar problem with 12.04 x64 system, shows it with "Error: The status of this extension is unknown" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nlpsolver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309985 Title: nlpsolver doesnt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 999191] Re: 10de:0421 X crashes with gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Crawford
Seeing this with a fresh 12.04.4 64-bit installation using ATI graphics. Seems to be triggered by "changing user" and it frequently breaks VM operations. Typical syslog entry looks like this: Apr 29 14:26:59 john-desktop rtkit-daemon[2183]: Successfully made thread 23506 of process 23506 (n/a) ow

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2013-06-24 Thread Paul Crawford
I agree with Jean-Daniel, this is something that must be adressed. While you now see any graphical log-in using 'who' and it lists users both at "tty7" etc, for graphical log-in, and as "pts/2" etc for terminal log- in, only the termianl sessions are seen with the "last" command. That worked corre

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915382] Re: ACPI events to shutdown/reboot don't generate a popup like after logging in

2013-06-24 Thread Paul Crawford
So is anyone addressing the issue of power button function at the log-in screen? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915382 Title: ACPI events to shutdown/reboot don't gene

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
Found the power button issue is already open as bug #915382 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027805 Title: logins are not recorded in wtmp Status in Light Display Mana

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915382] Re: ACPI events to shutdown/reboot don't generate a popup like after logging in

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
There should be no requirement to log-in in order to shut the machine down if you have physical access, the power button should initiate this in an orderly manner (warning/prompting as required). Basically, if the person at the power button wants to, they can hold the button in for 5 sec and power

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
@Sebastien Apologies for the apparent hijacking of this bug, opening a new report for that subject. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027805 Title: logins are not record

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 986289] Re: lightdm shutdown opens a window without focus

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
Realised this is separate issue so opening new bug for it as #1071728 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986289 Title: lightdm shutdown opens a window without focus

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1071728] [NEW] lightdm fails keyboard accessability design

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
Public bug reported: Following on from the issue of bug #986289 to more general issue about the design of the unity greeter and how a person, in particular a newer user, with only keyboard-like access can make proper use of the computer. There is an underlying issue of poor "discoverability" here

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 986289] Re: lightdm shutdown opens a window without focus

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
OK, I just discovered that the up & down arrow keys cycle the user accounts, but they do not cycle the log-in method! For that you need to use the tab key! How do you get access to the accessibility drop-down menu on the to bar? Same for the keyboard/language selection? Also why no 'F1' for help

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 986289] Re: lightdm shutdown opens a window without focus

2012-10-26 Thread Paul Crawford
There is still an underlying issue of "discover-ability" here and it fails, in my view, to be acceptable for a disabled user: (1) Why does the tab key not cycle to the shutdown menu? Where exactly will a user, faced with the log-in screen, find out that the 'F10' key opens that menu? (2) The ta

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Crawford
Really, no logging or blocking of failed log-in attempts? Did no one learn from computing history? Also another failing of lightdm is it fails to respond to the power button, even if you have set it under Gnome, etc, to do an orderly shut- down. There have been times when a keyboard/mouse problem

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Crawford
Sorry about that. I am still seeing the problem with an up-to-date 12.04 system and my bug #1029048 was marked as a duplicate of this one, so I presumed it was still a significant unresolved issue. I guess it is a case of the previous bug-fix not being released yet. -- You received this bug no

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1027805] Re: logins are not recorded in wtmp

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Crawford
I am not sure this bug should be considered a low priority, given that it breaks core utilities such as 'who', 'users', 'top', and similar by fooling them in to saying there is no one else logged in (which might result in a remote reboot being initiated while a user is on the normal keyboard/video/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Just to add to this bug discussion my observation in bug #627648 that the about:support setting for user-modified parameters do not appear to change in any when you alter the global paper size, which may be related to why this is continually reset on version 'upgrades'. This trait makes the lack of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 10910 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10910 In fact, if I use the 'Copy all to clipboard' option to save a text file with the paper size as A4 and as US Letter, diff finds no differences. So basically the user's preference for this is not being saved in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Looking at the modified preferences shown by about:support I don't see anything that appears to be the global page size. There are various printer-specific settings, but as this problem occurs with all printers it is clearly a program-wide problem and not a printer-specific one. -- You receive

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Incidentally my setting is LANG="en_GB.utf8" so it is still an issue and not fixed, as per comment 73 in the above link. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627648 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Looks like this has been known about, but nothing useful done to really fix it, for 10 YEARS now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419 ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #147419 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147419 -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
This bug is STILL not fixed in 10.04 with Firefox 14.0.1 Is this related to bug #627648 that applies to both Firefox and Thunderbird and why, after 8 YEARS is this still an issue for the majority of the world that use A4 paper and not US Letter? Seriously, what is happening here? -- You receive

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
I also looked at the Windows version in a VM and it has no page size preference option, I presume as it is written to always take the selected printer's choice. So this is probably a Linux-only bug (though I can't rule out MacOS since I don't have a Mac to try)/ -- You received this bug notificat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Do you know where they store the page size setting? Also is there any (easy) way to force apt-get or similar to 'upgrade' a package to see what is happening? I wonder if the package comes with a default config file that is clobbering the user-configured file? -- You received this bug notificati

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
Unfortunately (1) moving some machines to 12.04 is not an acceptable option due to the vast differences in user interface, and (2) it is still not right (as far as I can tell) with 12.04 as a recently installed test system when set up for UK preferences with an OKI network printer set for A4, bo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 859315] Re: clicking email address in web browser opens HTML composer, despite default account settings preferring plain text

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Crawford
This is still a problem for me. $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Release:10.04 $ apt-cache policy thunderbird thunderbird: Installed: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Candidate: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Version table: *** 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0 5

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 627648] Re: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Crawford
This bug also causes me problems with machines I support. The default should *always* be the system-wide settings that Ubuntu honour, and at the very least it should not reset during an 'upgrade'. This 'reset to US paper size' arrogance is a major irritation and causes problems for users who print

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 984801] Re: Thunderbird 11 has stupidly high idle CPU usage

2012-04-18 Thread Paul Crawford
Looks like it was probably indexing, as reported here: https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/thunderbird_indexing_hogs_the_cpu CPU load is now normal, and remaind so after re-start, but seems the "Activity Manager" window is volatile so there is no log of what it was originally doi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 984801] Re: Thunderbird 11 has stupidly high idle CPU usage

2012-04-18 Thread Paul Crawford
Maybe it is indexing or something? The old version told you that (bottom - left status bar?) but this one is just saying "No messages to download" although there seems to be a lot of disk activity. However, that is still no excuse for polling the time at sub-millisecond intervals! -- You receive

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 984801] [NEW] Thunderbird 11 has stupidly high idle CPU usage

2012-04-18 Thread Paul Crawford
Public bug reported: Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit and today I got the upgrade from Thunderbird 3.6.X to 11.0.1 and noticed it is using a stupid amount of CPU time when apparently idle. On my quad-core AMD machine it is taking typically 30-50% CPU when doing nothing, and this is much the same wh

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 904594] Re: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Crawford
Yes, it has: [{"location":"/usr/share/ubufox/extensions","addons":[{"id":"{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}","mtime":1326088947000},{"id":"{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}","mtime":1326122353000}],"mtime":1327923707000}] But there is no location '/usr/share/ubufox/extensions' on my sys

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 904594] Re: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Crawford
Yes, I have "ubufox transitional dummy package 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3" installed, which I guess is what comes up as "Ubuntu Firefox modifications" in the Tools->Addons->Extensions pane. Incidentally, is there any way to copy/paste text from the Tools->Addons->Extensions pane? It appears as if the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 904594] Re: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Crawford
We now have Firefox 9.0.1 which is good, but why is the system-wide installed versions of AdblockPlus and Flashblock still on incompatible versions? Of course, firefox then tries to update the versions and fails, as it can't do that locally for system-wide packages. Can we have these packages upd

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 904594] Re: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Crawford
I see the status for adblock is "fix released" but my package manager, even when updated just now, still showing the old version. Is this released only for the 'proposed' updates? If so, why proceed with the main release of the firefox update when the matching packages are not yet ready? ** Attac

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 904594] Re: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Crawford
Forgot to add, using 10.04 64-bit LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904594 Title: Tracking bug for Firefox 9 transition in Lucid/Maverick Status in “adblock-plus” p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 875538] Re: [Firefox 3.6.23] Impossible to open firefox because firefox-bin process is still running

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Crawford
A much easier work-around for most cases is the attached script that runs 'pkill firefox'. Save it to your desktop, check its contents are not malicious (you always do that, right?) and change permissions to be executable. Then if you get the warning about not being able to re-start firefox, just

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 875538] Re: [Firefox 3.6.23] Impossible to open firefox because firefox-bin process is still running

2011-10-29 Thread Paul Crawford
I also see it on my PC (32-bit 10.04, nvidea graphics) but it is not always showing the plugin module running. One time this morning after it happened I got this: paul@paul-ubuntu:~$ ps -Af | grep firefox paul 29536 1 1 19:39 ?00:01:13 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.23/firefox-bin paul

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 787475] Re: Rhythmbox [0.12.8] & [0.12.5] Not Fetching Album Information From MusicBrainz

2011-10-02 Thread Paul Crawford
The reason for my annoyance is not the community that has worked on this, after all there is a patch (even if not completely working?) but that cananonical has done nothing to push this out to users, not even as 'proposed' for testing. And it is not just things like the music player, that you migh

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 787475] Re: Rhythmbox [0.12.8] & [0.12.5] Not Fetching Album Information From MusicBrainz

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Crawford
It is now almost a month after "status: Unknown → Fix Released" was reported for this bug. This still has not been fixed in the 10.04 LTS version. Can anyone tell me when it will be fixed? Can anyone tell me what the "support" in "Long Term Support" version is supposed to mean? Does anyone car

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 787475] Re: Rhythmbox [0.12.8] & [0.12.5] Not Fetching Album Information From MusicBrainz

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Crawford
I am using 10.04 LTS with the "proposed" updates, but it is not fixed for me yet. When you say "status: Unknown → Fix Released", how long until it appears in the LTS updates? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in U