[Bug 1376832] Re: gpu-manager still deletes xorg.conf

2015-05-03 Thread David Finch
This started happening to me when I upgraded to 15.04 (from 14.04 stepping through 14.10). After several deletions (seemed like every update or every couple boots), I ended up disabling the gpu-manager service and making xorg.conf read-only and sticky for added measure. gpu-manager only caught my

[Bug 711996] Re: [natty] Selecting "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" comes up with blank

2011-04-11 Thread David Finch
Installing "virtualbox-ose-guest-utils" and rebooting seemed solve it for me, and got compiz working at the same time, though I had already installed the guest additions that came with virtualbox with no errors reported. It's still odd that "try ubuntu" worked for me without needing compiz but it d

[Bug 711996] Re: [natty] Selecting "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" comes up with blank

2011-04-11 Thread David Finch
I get a blank desktop (wallpaper + icons only) with beta 1. Tested on virtualbox 4.0.4. Everything worked with "try ubuntu", but after installing to disk, it would boot to the blank desktop. Alt-F2 works to open a terminal. Trying to run either unity or gnome-panel manually gives "Cannot register

[Bug 624229] Re: dpkg hangs while unpacking replacement

2010-12-10 Thread David Finch
My root / was on an sd card (ext4), which would count as usb, though the only other disk access besides dpkg at the time was rsync writing to physical disks (ext4 mounted to /backup on lvm on md raid 1 made of two sata disks connected to an lsi 1068e sas controller). If not for dpkg's reliance on s

[Bug 624229] Re: dpkg hangs while unpacking replacement

2010-10-01 Thread David Finch
I also get entries like this in /var/log/messages after dpkg's hang on sync(): kernel: [ 4918.834150] dpkg D 0 6043 6022 0x kernel: [ 4918.834156] 880108747d38 0082 00015bc0 00015bc0 kernel: [ 4918.834161] 88011e0d4890

[Bug 624229] Re: dpkg hangs while unpacking replacement

2010-10-01 Thread David Finch
I get this too when I install something while copying files over the network with rsync, to a raid which was on different drives than the root partition. dpkg freezes at the unpacking step for many minutes, even though the file copying is happening on different drives. dpkg should not be waiting on

[Bug 607117] Re: dnspython-1.7* uses /dev/random which might block on lucid

2010-09-29 Thread David Finch
In case anyone runs into the same problem, I was getting several-minute freezes using python-xmpp (xmpppy), even with a single line program "import xmpp" and nothing else, and this turned out to be the cause. -- dnspython-1.7* uses /dev/random which might block on lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 539267] Re: [Lucid] Empathy notifications don't seem to work

2010-05-08 Thread David Finch
I get this too on Lucid. I tried to give Empathy a week because it's the default, but it's unusable without notifications. Someone could be trying to talk to me for hours, and I'd have little way of knowing. I don't find out until I manually bring the contact list to the foreground and notice the

[Bug 303609] Re: declining the license during installation causes an error

2010-05-01 Thread David Finch
I would have accepted it if I could. In my case the only symptom was that the installation had frozen with zero cpu or io activity, and I had to kill something to resume it (it's been a year so I don't remember details), and I got that problem. Then hours later, as I was shutting the computer down,

[Bug 463413] Re: package sun-java6-jre (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128

2009-11-08 Thread David Finch
This seems like the same problem I had. I was installing "Ubuntu restricted extras" through "Ubuntu Software Center", and the installer stopped progressing at 54%, with zero indication as to what was going on. I ran "ps -A" and noticed there was a "preinst" process holding up the install. I was pre

[Bug 145796] Re: dvdnav not supported by mplayer-nogui

2008-01-02 Thread David Finch
It looks like mplayer depends on their own fork of libdvdnav: http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav/ Theirs differs significantly from the one in Gutsy (presumably from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvd/, last updated in 2004). -- dvdnav not supported by mplayer-nogui https://bugs.lau

[Bug 164709] Re: gmplayer fails to play a file whose filename contains spaces

2007-12-19 Thread David Finch
Debian bug #449298 posted on November 4th: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2007-November/039535.html A reply with the fix was posted 11 hours later. This is dated November 16th: http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/extracted/debian/m/mplayer/1.0~rc2-6/24mplayer.deskt

[Bug 164709] Re: gmplayer fails to play a file whose filename contains spaces

2007-12-16 Thread David Finch
Open /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop change "Exec=gmplayer %U" to "Exec=gmplayer %f" That'll make it pass mplayer the local path rather than constructing a url. -- gmplayer fails to play a file whose filename contains spaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164709 You received this bug no

[Bug 109605] Re: Dell Dimension 2400 splash screen is blank

2007-11-24 Thread David Finch
I think I've experienced this since Dapper on my 2400. usplash was working fine in previous releases going back to Warty. Perhaps worse is that the default text mode has become 40x25 with the bottom half cut off instead of the normal 80x25, if I press ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a text login. -- Dell

[Bug 44023] Re: Equalizer not working

2007-03-07 Thread David Finch
Not sure why this was changed to "Fix Released". There was never a fix. -- Equalizer not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/44023 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 81798] Re: [apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__()

2007-02-21 Thread David Finch
If I install python 2.4, download the upstream Democracy Player 0.9.5.1 deb, modify its dependencies to install on feisty, comment out the crashing portions of "onetime.py", and remove MozillaBrowser references from "frontend.py" and "frontend_implementation/HTMLDisplay.py", I can get it to start u

[Bug 73265] Wrong approach to file type identification

2006-11-25 Thread David Finch
Public bug reported: When gnome checks a file's type, it looks at the file extension and also sniffs the file. If both methods yield different results, which is probably half the time, it'll refuse to open the file. For example, I double clicked a .planner file, and instead of opening it, it war

[Bug 67632] gnome-panel-screenshot crashed after saving png - Edgy

2006-10-22 Thread David Finch
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-utils I pressed the printscreen key, saved a screenshot, and after the screenshot was saved, it crashed and a Bug Buddy window popped up. It happened once, and could not be reproduced on 14 subsequent attempts. Bug Buddy output: Memory status: size

[Bug 61306] Re: performance issue in Edgy with i810 driver

2006-10-18 Thread David Finch
With my i845, I lost direct rendering after upgrading to Edgy. My desktop resolution is 1280x1024, but I was able to solve my problem by removing "1600x1200" from the resolution lines in my xorg.conf. It seems possible that if it can't get direct rendering in the highest resolution, it won't try in

[Bug 44023] Re: Equalizer not working

2006-07-25 Thread David Finch
Known bug since 2001: http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149 The equalizer only supports mp3's. -- Equalizer not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/44023 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs