Public bug reported:
Upgrading from 14.04.5 to 16.04.4.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: shared-mime-info 1.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-124.148~14.04.1-generic 4.4.117
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-124-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
Architecture:
Indeed, that did the trick. Is this explained anywhere?
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Title:
IptablesHowTo typo
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Public bug reported:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo has at least one typo:
"abanonded" instead of "abandoned". The page is immutable, even after
I've joined the Ubuntu Wiki Editors group, so filing a bug seems to be
the only means remaining.
** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Public bug reported:
Feature request: the addition of a poptStringFromArgv that does the
opposite of poptParseArgvString: that is, turn a supplied argv, argc
pair into a canonically-equivalent string.
** Affects: popt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: featurerequ
Public bug reported:
Error in popt man pages: the e-address e...@redhat.com is invalid
(probably has been for quite some time)
Omissions in popt man pages:
1) poptParseArgvString has an undocumented return int value. What does
it return and what does it mean?
2) poptGetArg recovers “leftover ar
Public bug reported:
If you use shares-admin to share a folder via NFS (Shared Folders:
Shared Folders: Add) and you pick out a path that includes embedded
spaces, the string is included verbatim (that is, without escaping the
spaces) in the configuration (/etc/exports in particular), and thus the
Christopher, I did test the latest mainline kernel
(4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64). Unless there's
been another release over the last five days?
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I've just run into this related error (or discrepancy, at least) in the
`unix(7)` man page:
"When the address of the socket is returned by getsockname(2),
getpeername(2), and accept(2), its length is offsetof(struct
sockaddr_un, sun_path) + strlen(sun_path) + 1, and sun_path contains the
null-term
« Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug
as "Confirmed". »
As the reporter, I'm not allowed to do that. Besides, it's already
marked as Confirmed.
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https:/
Tried it under kernel
4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64, still there.
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
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Title:
accep
Public bug reported:
Under kernel 3.2.0-54 and 3.9.3 (at least), the accept() system call in
a PF_LOCAL, AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM context returns an addrlen for the
sockaddr_un structure that is too large by one.
As the SUN_LEN macro of the sys/un.h header shows, the "length" of the
structure is exp
Public bug reported:
The watershed package's description currently reads:
watershed may be run around a command such that any further attempts to
run the command while another copy is running will only result in one
initial further attempt.
It is hard to tell what watershed is actually trying to
Rolf Leggewie seems to be in the same camp as Theodore Ts'o, author of
the infamous resize2fs man pages. Where Theodore also finds the
IEC/IEEE terminology "ridiculous", he at least spells out what units
resize2fs does use. Not so with system-config-lvm and its command-line
counterparts (lvreduce
Public bug reported:
On http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace, a line reads
"An advertised 500Gb drive doesn't format to 500GB."
Besides the missing space between the number and symbol in each
measurement instance (e.g. it should read "An advertised 500 Gb drive
doesn't format to
** Description changed:
Starting from a command-line (non-GUI) Ubuntu installation, adding
ubuntu-desktop is supposed to be enough. But it is missing some
dependencies. In particular, the indicator-* packages (indicator-
application, indicator-appmenu, indicator-datetime, indicator-messa
Public bug reported:
Starting from a command-line (non-GUI) Ubuntu installation, adding
ubuntu-desktop is supposed to be enough. But it is missing some
dependencies. In particular, the indicator-* packages (indicator-
application, indicator-appmenu, indicator-datetime, indicator-messages,
indica
Public bug reported:
If you select a previously installed untrusted package for re-
installation, you are presented with an authentication failure warning
("You are about to install software that can't be authenticated!"). If
you hit Cancel, Synaptic nevertheless marks the package for re-
install
Public bug reported:
Ubuntu release: 12.04.2 LTS
Package version: 0.75.9ubuntu1
What I expected to happen:
After invoking Settings: Preferences: General and turning OFF "Consider
recommended packages as dependencies", I expected recommendations to not
be treated as dependencies.
What happened i
The bug is still occurring with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (3.2.0-41.49-virtual),
synaptic 0.75.9ubuntu1
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Title:
Synaptic won't import key files
To manage
The userspace-rcu deb which the tarball depends on.
** Attachment added: "userspace-rcu_0.7.6-23_amd64.deb"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/1172711/+attachment/3654725/+files/userspace-rcu_0.7.6-23_amd64.deb
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In order for the compilation to succeed, a few prerequisites exist. On
my 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 virtual system (3.2.0-40-virtual), the packages I
needed were:
automake, libtool, openjdk-7-jdk
A later attachment is the deb package (prepared by checkconfig) on which
the attached tarball is dependent
Public bug reported:
Under some very peculiar circumstances (I can supply a tar.gz of a
package that will cause this bug), checkinstall ends up including the
file ./proc/self/coredump_filter in its output deb. This will cause any
installation attempt to fail, obviously.
checkinstall should autom
Public bug reported:
For some unfathomable reason, my Unity launcher has become unusable: it
still occupies the left edge of the screen, but only a sliver of some
unknown icon shows at the top, and the mouse is confused as to what's
lying in the apparently blank area. I'm forced to use the Window
It's really a sad state of affairs that this bug reveals. The Linux
community seems to be disintegrating, each clan blaming the others for
whatever. Ubuntu looked like a viable alternative to the big guys, but
with flat-out failures like this one, it's beginning to look doomed.
Forget clannishne
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Title:
Synaptic won't offer to install unauthenticated packages
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Public bug reported:
Unlike with the command line, where 'apt-get install somepackage' can
yield:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
somepackage
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Synaptic does not offer to install the unauthenticated package.
In the pa
I think it's worse than just an "opinion", as it actually made bug
reporting impossible for me. I gave the only answer that made sense to
the first question, and ubuntu-bug then shut down. If you suddenly find
no bugs being reported, maybe this will be the cause.
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Public bug reported:
Under Unity, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs explains,
at the "Filing a general bug against no particular package" heading,
that one should "type ubuntu-bug in the Run Application window and click
Run." Ubuntu-bug is then supposed to "guide you through a seri
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Title:
Unity has no group management
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Public bug reported:
As stated in various blogs and web pages, under Unity there is no
graphical way to edit user groups like there was under previous gnome
desktops. Group membership is critical for some applications (e.g.,
VirtualBox shared folders), and the user naturally expects System
Settin
Public bug reported:
Wanting to see which updates were recently installed on my system, I
went to System: Administration: Synaptic Package Manager and did File:
History. The History window proudly proclaims it displays a "History of
installed, upgraded and removed software packages". I was flabb
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Title:
Update manager does not update Synaptic's History
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Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1ubuntu3.2
Linux applications that have a "help" or "usage" option almost
universally print the requested help to stdout and return with an exit
code of zero. There was, after all, no error since the user explicitly
requested this output.
'su --help', for
Public bug reported:
I have this PGP key file (armored ASCII) which I know works, 'cause
"sudo apt-key add file" works fine. But when I pick the same file from
Synaptic's Settings: Repositories: Authentication: Import Key File file
picker, I get absolutely no response and no new key in the listing
Running Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bits, 2.6.38-11-generic kernel) in a virtual
machine guest, the host being Windows XP Pro.
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Title:
Synaptic becomes unusa
Public bug reported:
If one enters a malformed repository into Synaptic's software sources
list (say you mistype the path, for example), Syanptic becomes unusable
because the first it does when launched is look up the software sources,
which generates the error:
E: Malformed line xx in source lis
Public bug reported:
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open Launchpad's bug-reporting form in your favourite Web browser
2) Under "In what package did you find this bug?", click "Choose..."
3) Type in "linux-image-2.6.38-10" and click the search icon (looking glass)
4) Select the "linux-image-2.6.38-10-lttng
Public bug reported:
The package descriptions of the various linux-image-*-lttng packages
(found in ppa.launchpad.net/lttng/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/)
conclude with:
"You likely do not want to install this package directly. Instead, install
the linux-lttng meta-package, which will ensure that
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
(Possibly a Samba bug rather than a Nautilus one)
When copying a file from a window opened on a remote share (using Samba)
and then pasting into some other (local) location, if the file already
exists the usual Cancel/Skip/Replace dialog pops up
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
Ubuntu 10.10
Using Nautilus, one can select multiple files (or folders) and obtain
their combined Properties. On the Permissions tab of the Properties
window, there is an "Execute" checkbox, which one can check (or
uncheck). So I selected seve
Dictionaries are not normative, particularly not modern ones: they just
report on observed usage. I was referring to standard-setting documents
such as those put out by ISO, IEEE, ANSI, and so on. They can't afford
to introduce ambiguities between distance and speed ---otherwise you end
up with dis
Clearly the original text suffers from a copy-paste mistake (wouldn't be
the first time a standard suffers from dumb errors like this). The
'knot' is *not* a unit of distance; it is only in informal usage (See
for instance http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictK.html) that the
nautical mile is made
Public bug reported:
The text reads:
"Indicates the unit used to express the distance to the destination point. 'K',
'M' and 'N' represent kilometers, miles and knots."
But should be:
"Indicates the unit used to express the distance to the destination point. 'K',
'M' and 'N' represent kilometers
I was sure I had seen someone explaining the problem as arising from
xarchiver, but I seem to have been mistaken. I now understand (I'm new
to this bugs.launchpad) that this bug had been assigned to multiple
applications (file-roller and xarchiver). In that sense, xarchiver is
possibly blameless
Charlie is mincing words to get around the problem of facing the issue.
The bug is valid, because xarchiver is NOT unzipping the contents of the
archive: it is copying its contents to seemingly randomly-named other
files. The original zipped files are NOT recovered: you get other-named
files with
Definitely not "invalid", inasmuch as the original (Unicode-named) files
are NOT recreated by xarchiver.
** Changed in: xarchiver (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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I can confirm the problem in a French environment : the accented
characters are not dealt with correctly by file-roller (they become
question marks). I'm aware that the problem lies with the zip format
itself; invoking unzip directly from the command line does extract the
"badly named" files, albe
My display configuration(virtual desktop) consists of two monitors. From left
to right:
* 1600x1200, rotated left (hence 1200x1600 really) (secondary monitor)
* 1920x1200 (main monitor)
The virtual desktop thus measures 3120x1600 (with a dent taken out of it
in the lower right hand corner). The
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 521492 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521492
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 521492
Dual Monitor wallpaper is not scaling across both monitors, same background
is repeated on both monitors instead
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"Usually" implies more than 50% of the time, which is incorrect.
Palindromic years do NOT occur at 11 year intervals "at the end of each
millennium". They only do so during the first century of the calendar.
(In rewriting this answer, it finally dawned on me what this was trying
to say...Poorly ex
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654742/+attachment/1671771/+files/Dependencies.txt
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gbrainy
games.xml.h includes the answer:
Palindrome years occur usually at 110 year intervals except for the end
of each millennium that occur at a 11 years interval.
This is grossly false. Palindromic years occur at 11 year intervals at
the *beginning
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654702/+attachment/1671704/+files/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "usr_lib_nautilus.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654702/+attachment/1671705/+files/usr_lib_nautilus.txt
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https
Public bug reported:
When trying to paste a physical link that crosses a partition boundary,
the error message reads:
Une erreur s’est produite :
ln: création d'un lien direct de «...somefilepath...» vers
«...someotherfilepath...»: Lien croisé de périphéque invalide
But should be instead:
Une
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