[Bug 1596133] Re: package grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2016-08-05 Thread Alastair Carey
In my case, it was the init.d script for the Samsung Unified Print Driver that was causing the loop. Since the init.d script for that driver is only necessary when using an LPT port, I simply removed the script and the grub installation completed normally. -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 1479945] Re: fglrx module fails to build with 3.19.0-26

2015-08-18 Thread Alastair Carey
Possible cause and solution here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/655906/broken-fglrx-dkms-module-on- latest-ubuntu-updates -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479945 Title: fglrx module

[Bug 1129409] Re: Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers should indicate whether they provide libcuda.so.1, libOpenCL.so.1, etc.

2014-10-22 Thread Alastair Carey
"Medium" importance? That users can't install fglrx and wine together? That's a game-breaker for a lot of people, I'd say. A lot more important than merely "medium". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 1376587] Re: wine and fglrx packages are mutually exclusive

2014-10-22 Thread Alastair Carey
Hi guys, I'm affected by this too. The bug status says "fixed released", what does this mean? I'm running 14.10 with everything up to date and I still can't install wine without removing fglrx. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

Re: [Bug 1306804] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050

2014-04-14 Thread Alastair Carey
Many thanks. Both packages installed, but no change in behaviour unfortunately. Cheers A. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:02 AM, John Johansen wrote: > Can you please install and try the following test kernel and verify that > it fixes this issue > > > http://people.canonical.com/~jj/linux-image-3.1

[Bug 1306804] [NEW] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050

2014-04-11 Thread Alastair Carey
Public bug reported: Happens most logins. "A system problem has been detected" message box appears immediately on log in to gnome shell. Currently running 3.10, but it's been happening since at least 3.8. ProblemType: KernelOops DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: linux-image-3.13.0-23-generic 3

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-10-20 Thread Alastair Carey
s/Elemental/Elementary/ -- Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-10-20 Thread Alastair Carey
Ah, now here's something that might be of interest. I upgraded to Nautilus Elemental today, and the bug is gone: I can plug in an external storage device and drag-and-drop to it immediately without any additional clicks. Terrific! This is Nautilus version 2.32.0, with embedded terminal and clutter

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-10-17 Thread Alastair Carey
I'm afraid so. On Ubuntu 10.10, upgraded from 10.04, fully patched as at 17 Oct 10 1734 GMT, the problem persists. When Nautilus is open, and an external hard disk is then plugged in, the disk appears in Nautilus's tree view, but no content can be dropped on it until it is clicked or expanded. If y

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-04-28 Thread Alastair Carey
Oh, I agree it's not directly relevant to the bug. But it does demonstrate the lengths to which I had to resort to work around this (and other) Nautilus problems. I plug an external, two-partition USB disk in, both partitions appear in Nautilus (neither is available as a drop target), but I don't

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-04-28 Thread Alastair Carey
(And, just as a quick follow-up - Dolphin under KDE handles this situation absolutely perfectly.) -- Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2010-04-28 Thread Alastair Carey
Yes, still an issue. Exactly the same steps as described above. I actually don't use Gnome any more (massive Nautilus performance problems and crashiness around the turn of the year pushed me over to KDE and it's GREAT!), but I just logged into a session there on a fully patched Lucid beta and yes,

[Bug 353387] Re: [Dell Inc. Inspiron 910] suspend/resume failure

2009-12-28 Thread Alastair Carey
Is that script really a work-around? On my system, unmounting and remounting isn't enough to solve the problem; the problem is that I can't remount after resume, it's like the kernel no longer sees the hardware. I actually have to physically eject and reinsert the card in order to be able to remoun

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2009-12-28 Thread Alastair Carey
I really don't understand the papercut thing... it seems to me, based on Vish's criteria, that this is actually a perfect example (it is easily reproducible, is in the default install [has been since 8.04!], would affect everybody, and [I'm guessing] is easy to fix). But anyway, I don't really want

[Bug 454297] Re: drag and drop images or video into subfolder will prevent folder from loading

2009-11-23 Thread Alastair Carey
I'd suggest caution before applying this patch. I did so and starting the new nautilus apparently destroyed all data that was on my desktop. Not a great start. -- drag and drop images or video into subfolder will prevent folder from loading https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454297 You received this

[Bug 383927] Re: endless loading in nautilus / some files missing

2009-11-21 Thread Alastair Carey
Possibly a duplicate of #454297? -- endless loading in nautilus / some files missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383927 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:/

[Bug 383927] Re: endless loading in nautilus / some files missing

2009-11-21 Thread Alastair Carey
Same problem here, never happened prior to Karmic but now it's very common in Nautilus - any time I move a file that is represented by a thumbnail from one folder to another, Nautilus can't show the entire contents of the destination folder - sometimes Nautilus won't show anything, other times it s

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2009-11-19 Thread Alastair Carey
Problem still exists in Karmic release fully patched as at 19-Nov-09 -- Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 455740] Re: convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage()

2009-11-17 Thread Alastair Carey
Confirmed, problem has gone! -- convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

[Bug 455740] Re: convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage()

2009-11-17 Thread Alastair Carey
Ok, I see it at http://packages.ubuntu.com/lt/lucid/amd64/imagemagick/download etc. I'm going to try applying those packages and seeing if it fixes my problem (segfault while converting multiple jpgs to pdf). -- convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455740 Y

[Bug 455740] Re: convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage()

2009-11-17 Thread Alastair Carey
What's the procedure for upgrading the karmic imagemagick packages to the lucid ones? I assume you can download them from launchpad somewhere, but I can't see where. -- convert crashed with SIGSEGV in CloneImage() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455740 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 440059] Re: USB hard drive not remounted after resume from suspend

2009-10-17 Thread Alastair Carey
Also happens on karmic beta with a filesystem mounted from an sdcard. Prior to suspend, the filesystem (ext3fs on TrueCrypt) is available; after suspend, it still shows as mounted, but any attempt to access any files or directories results in an i/o error. -- USB hard drive not remounted after re

[Bug 367012] Re: evolution doesn't show all day events from Google Sync

2009-10-12 Thread Alastair Carey
Importance low? The flagship calendar application for Ubuntu doesn't work properly, and that's a low priority? Who gets to decide that? I for one would beg to differ :) -- evolution doesn't show all day events from Google Sync https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367012 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2009-09-29 Thread Alastair Carey
Confirmed in Karmic Alpha 6 fully patched -- Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2009-06-27 Thread Alastair Carey
Well, I don't have Karmic, so can't test it there. All I can tell you is that it is present in 9.04, has been since the days of 8.04, and has been noticeable since my first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu :) If it's fixed in 9.10, great. I can't test that until Karmic gets to at least a

Re: [Bug 387836] Re: Nautilus won't accept a newly-mounted disk as a drop target until it has been viewed

2009-06-24 Thread Alastair Carey
Hi Sebastian, this is on 9.04 fully patched. I use external USB hard disks, the problem is very reproducible. If you don't have any luck seeing it, let me know and I'll give you exact steps (or, if there's an easy way of doing so, record a desktop video) for you. Cheers A. -Original Message---

[Bug 319426] Re: package python-bluez 0.15-1build1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2009-01-20 Thread Alastair Carey
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21489298/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "DpkgTerminalLog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21489299/DpkgTerminalLog.gz -- package python-bluez 0.15-1build1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation

[Bug 319426] [NEW] package python-bluez 0.15-1build1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2009-01-20 Thread Alastair Carey
Public bug reported: Failure from synaptic when attempting to install package python-bluez. The error message is package python-bluez 0.15-1build1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Dependent packages (e.g. opensync-plugin-moto) fail to in