[Bug 1907706] [NEW] Backspace only affects one character in track changes mode

2020-12-10 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: To reproduce: 1. Open Libreoffice 2. Type "Hello World" 3. Enable track changes 4. Press backspace twice Expected behaviour: "ld" of "World" are marked as deleted. Actual behaviour: "d" of "World" is marked as deleted. Backspace can be pressed many times with the same effe

[Bug 1594166] Re: tramp loading stalls several seconds on DNS resolution

2016-08-31 Thread David Sterratt
I've also posted the patch on the relevant Debian emacs24 bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810640 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #810640 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810640 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 1594166] Re: tramp loading stalls several seconds on DNS resolution

2016-08-25 Thread David Sterratt
The fix referred to earlier is against emacs 25. There appears to be no backport of the patch in the emacs24 tree, so I have rolled my own patch, based on the fix for emacs 25: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20015. I've created a deb and checked that it works. If the emacs package ma

[Bug 1594166] Re: tramp loading stalls several seconds on DNS resolution

2016-08-25 Thread David Sterratt
** Also affects: ess (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1594166 Title: tramp loading stalls several seconds on DNS resolution To mana

[Bug 751453] Re: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

2013-09-09 Thread David Sterratt
Sorry for not responding to the comments sooner. I'm not now using the R600 to connect to external displays, and I haven't got much time to try out the latest ISO (especially if it would need to be installed on disk - I could run live it might be OK). So I'm happy to let this bug lie. -- You rec

[Bug 751453] Re: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

2012-01-06 Thread David Sterratt
I can confirm that this workaround works. Thanks very much for working on this Jon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751453 Title: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

[Bug 878460] Re: evolution can't create directories on imap (not imapx) accounts

2011-12-19 Thread David Sterratt
There is now a one-line patch that fixes this issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665253#c5 It would be great to apply it to evolution in Oneric. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 878460] Re: evolution can't create directories on imap (not imapx) accounts

2011-11-30 Thread David Sterratt
This bug affects me and I've reported this on the gnome bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665253 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #665253 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665253 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 360399] Re: Tracker does not index Evolution mails

2011-09-19 Thread David Sterratt
I have the same problem in Natty. It does look as if a file is missing in /usr/lib/tracker-0.8/push-modules/daemon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360399 Title: Tracker does not index

[Bug 760842] Re: Natty Narwhal/Sandy Bridge Suspend Fails

2011-06-29 Thread David Sterratt
I have this problem too, and a separate problem with my graphics under Sandybridge: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/761065 There is a kernel available that fixes my graphics problem at comment #38 in the above bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/76106

[Bug 761065] Re: [Sandybridge] Spurious "*ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... blt ring idle" messages in dmesg when using compiz

2011-06-29 Thread David Sterratt
The kernel at #38 works for me too. Thank-you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761065 Title: [Sandybridge] Spurious "*ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... blt ring idle" messages in dme

[Bug 465318] Re: intel graphics laptop crashes with external monitor

2011-04-05 Thread David Sterratt
Following the earlier suggestions, I have posted a bug report specific to the Toshiba Portege R600 at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/751453 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 751453] [NEW] External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

2011-04-05 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: In summary, when an external monitor is not connected at boot, I can't get the laptop to drive an external monitor. This is a problem in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) but it was not a problem in the Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). This appears to be a problem with the mainline kernel. I have su

[Bug 751453] Re: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

2011-04-05 Thread David Sterratt
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751453 Title: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

[Bug 690576] [NEW] Evolution webdav and couchdb addressbooks not visible in OOo

2010-12-15 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org I have been trying to print labels from Writer using my evolution address book, which uses the evolution-data-server webdav backend. However, tables in the webdav backend aren't visible in evolution; only the file, ldap and groupwise backen

[Bug 210222] Re: Special Laptop Keys don't work anymore (Toshiba M200)

2009-02-16 Thread David Sterratt
P.P.S. An invocation of sudo toshset -video both may be necessary in the script... Hmmm... come to think of it, the need to sudo may be why the script doesn't exist... Perhaps there is a way of achieving the same effect by writing to the /proc filesystem (see e.g. the tosh brightness scripts). --

[Bug 210222] Re: Special Laptop Keys don't work anymore (Toshiba M200)

2009-02-16 Thread David Sterratt
P.S. I think this bug really belongs to acpi-support, as that is the package that supplies the existing tosh helper scripts. -- Special Laptop Keys don't work anymore (Toshiba M200) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210222 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 210222] Re: Special Laptop Keys don't work anymore (Toshiba M200)

2009-02-16 Thread David Sterratt
I can report that this is still an issue with intrepid ibex. I particularly would like the hotkey for switching screens to work. It looks like it should be fairly straightforward. It is a question of creating scripts in /etc/acpi and registering the key codes in /etc/acpi/events. See the example

[Bug 210222] Re: Special Laptop Keys don't work anymore (Toshiba M200)

2009-02-16 Thread David Sterratt
I can report that this is still an issue with intrepid ibex. I particularly would like the hotkey for switching screens to work. It looks like it should be fairly straightforward. It is a question of creating scripts in /etc/acpi and registering the key codes in /etc/acpi/events. See the example

[Bug 322268] Re: "Change the name of your computer" documentation incorrect

2009-01-28 Thread David Sterratt
Should I file a separate bug about there being no way apparent to edit /etc/hosts graphically? Under Hardy, this could be done in the "Hosts" tab of System->Administration->Network (network-admin), but it's not installed in Intrepid. I see that it's possible to install gnome- network-admin, but sho

[Bug 322268] [NEW] "Change the name of your computer" documentation incorrect

2009-01-28 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: I have just installed Intrepid Ibex, and am trying to change the name of the computer. I have looked at the "Internet and Networks"->"Home Networks"->"Change the name of your computer" documentation in yelp. It says: Open System ▸ Administration ▸ Network. System ▸ Administ

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2008-10-14 Thread David Sterratt
I have done a clean install of Hardy on the laptop, and the VESA driver now works. Still need to work out how to get the external video working, but I think if there is a problem there, it would be a separate bug. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 228525] Re: googleearth-package 0.5.4 required from Debian

2008-08-25 Thread David Sterratt
I've marked this as a duplicate of #243155, as using the 0.5.4 package fixes that bug. -- googleearth-package 0.5.4 required from Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 243155] Re: Fails to find libbase.so and fails to load /lib/libIGGfx.so

2008-08-25 Thread David Sterratt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 228525 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228525 I've marked this as a duplicate of #228525, as using the 0.5.4 package from debian (as suggested in that report) fixes this problem for me. The debian package can be found at: http://packages.debian.org/lenny

[Bug 77359] Re: Pointer arrow it not displayed in the game

2008-08-19 Thread David Sterratt
When I start frozen-bubble in Ubuntu Hardy, the mouse cursor disappears within the game. I asked the maintainers frozen-bubble about this and received the reply: "Yes, this is on purpose, as the mouse is not used. The mouse is shown again when using the level editor though." I do have other prob

[Bug 178575] Re: bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value

2008-08-18 Thread David Sterratt
According to this debian bug report, the problem is fixed in version 6.4.0.1 of ImageMagick (Hardy is on 6.3.7.9): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468692 -- bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178575 You received this bug notif

[Bug 178575] Re: bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value

2008-08-17 Thread David Sterratt
I agree, this may be a duplicate of #247147 -- bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.u

[Bug 178575] Re: bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value

2008-08-17 Thread David Sterratt
** Attachment added: "Original exif information" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16889658/dscf1350.exif -- bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 178575] Re: bad orientation tag causes gthumb to show strange value

2008-08-17 Thread David Sterratt
I have exactly the same problem: In the exif file after using convert, the Orientation lines say: Orientation |Project-Id-Version: libexif I notice that there are two of these Orientation lines saying the same thing (though separated by lines of other info). This is also true in my sourc

[Bug 247147] Re: mogrify or convert (imagemagick) delete exif orientation field

2008-08-17 Thread David Sterratt
This may be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/libexif/+bug/178575 (though the title of this bug may be more appropriate). -- mogrify or convert (imagemagick) delete exif orientation field https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247147 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 239890] Re: gnome-system-monitor crashes when trying to kill another user's process

2008-06-23 Thread David Sterratt
I can confirm this problem in an up-to-date hardy. It seems very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/206583 -- gnome-system-monitor crashes when trying to kill another user's process https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239890 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2008-01-04 Thread David Sterratt
I've tried (in Edgy) with the splash option to the kernel disabled (and no vga=791 arguement) and get the same problem (X goes into an infinite loop while trying to set the write-combining range). The Xorg.0.log is attached. The PhysBasePtr is still set to 0x ** Attachment added: "X log fo

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2008-01-04 Thread David Sterratt
I've tried (in Edgy) with the splash option to the kernel disabled (and no vga=791 arguement) and get the same problem (X goes into an infinite loop). The Xorg.0.log is attached. The PhysBasePtr is still set to 0x ** Attachment added: "X log for the vesa driver with no splash option given

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2007-06-03 Thread David Sterratt
This is on my TODO list - but so are too many other things! I'll need to make an extra partition on my laptop and do a fresh feisty install. I will most definetly update the bug when I get the chance to install feisty. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://bugs.launch

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2007-03-15 Thread David Sterratt
I'm attaching some notes I took while trying to debug this problem. They are very sketchy, and I haven't got round to finding out what the origin of the problem is, but perhaps they might make sense to someone. ** Attachment added: "Debugging notes" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6820886/NOTES

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2007-03-15 Thread David Sterratt
Thanks for your information manu. I have a very similar xorg.conf that uses the trident driver like the one posted by manu, and X more-or-less works with some glitches mentioned in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=301082 I may try the vga=791 option to see if that fixes the glitches. Ho

[Bug 62210] Re: Evolution crashes opening a png picture with "View Inline"

2007-01-29 Thread David Sterratt
Will the upstream patch be applied to the edgy version of evolution? Perhaps there is a policy FAQ that answer this question? -- Evolution crashes opening a png picture with "View Inline" https://launchpad.net/bugs/62210 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

[Bug 57862] Re: Display is unusable with default settings

2006-12-05 Thread David Sterratt
After using these settings for a while, I have noticed one problem. The resolution changes to a very low resolution (so only about a quarter of the screen is visible) when the screen comes back on after the screensaver. I use Ctrl-Alt-F1, pause a bit, Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the proper resolutio

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-16 Thread David Sterratt
I've created a bug report for this at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9050 and linked it back to here. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

[Bug 62432] Re: Crash when copying text from OpenOffice to other applications

2006-11-04 Thread David Sterratt
The updated packages seem to work for me too. I would have thought this should be fixed in Edgy, even if it isn't intended for newbies. Would it be likely to appear in edgy-proposed or edgy-backports? -- Crash when copying text from OpenOffice to other applications https://launchpad.net/bugs/6243

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-02 Thread David Sterratt
I thought that this bug might be similar to Bug #61981 or Bug #61979, but disabling the option "hotkeys_over_acpi" in /etc/modprobe.d/toshiba_acpi.modprobe does *not* work as suggested in those bugs. Nor does booting with acpi=off I attach the syslog, lpsci and Xorg.0.log for acpi=off ** Attac

[Bug 61981] Re: toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd initialisation failed

2006-11-02 Thread David Sterratt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 61979 *** Just a pointer to anyone with an apparently similar problem, for whom the advice and fix in this bug doesn't work: take a look at Bug #68814 -- toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd initialisation failed https://launchpad.net/bugs/61981 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-02 Thread David Sterratt
** Attachment added: "lspci" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4941899/lspci -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-02 Thread David Sterratt
Here's the Xorg.0.log ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log with vesa 1.0.1 and acpi=off" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4941898/Xorg.0.log -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-01 Thread David Sterratt
I've built the deb for the last version of the vesa driver in the dapper repository (1.0.1), and tried this, but with no success. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-01 Thread David Sterratt
I also tried an earlier kernel (2.6.15-27) but to no avail. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-11-01 Thread David Sterratt
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4941900/xorg.conf -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-10-30 Thread David Sterratt
This problem may be specific to ubuntu. Under fedora core 6, the vesa driver from xorg 7.1.1 does seem to work on a friend's R100 with the same graphics card. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-10-29 Thread David Sterratt
I've tried turning off many of the modules including dri and glx, but this doesn't seem to make any difference. Indeed, they are reported as being loaded in the Xorg.log. -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun

[Bug 57862] Re: Display is unusable with default settings

2006-10-29 Thread David Sterratt
I seem to be having some success with the "EXA" acceleration method; see xorg.conf device section below. It seems to be important to have ShadowFB off with EXA enabled. Section "Device" Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP4m32" Driver "trident" BusID

[Bug 57862] Re: Display is unusable with default settings

2006-10-29 Thread David Sterratt
I seem to be having some success with the "EXA" acceleration method; see xorg.conf device section below. It seems to be important to have ShadowFB off with EXA enabled. Section "Device" Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP4m32" Driver "trident" BusID

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-10-28 Thread David Sterratt
Here's the Xorg.0.log ** Attachment added: "The Xorg.0.log produced with the above xorg.conf" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4939511/Xorg.0.log -- Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100 https://launchpad.net/bugs/68814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 68814] Re: Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-10-28 Thread David Sterratt
I forgot to mention that the keyboard is unresponsive when the screen is blank, so I either have to press the off button or ssh in from another machine. Incidentally, when I ssh in, X is taking up 99% of the CPU. I'm also attaching an Xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf gene

[Bug 68814] Edgy X vesa driver blank screen on Toshiba Portege R100

2006-10-28 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: I have just upgraded to Edgy, and the vesa driver no longer appears to be working. I have created a new xorg.conf with dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. This selects trident, and gives an X that just about works, but is not satisfactory. (See https://launchpad.net/dist

[Bug 53403] Re: Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A

2006-09-26 Thread David Sterratt
After the latest kernel upgrade (to 2.6.15-27) this problem seems to have been fixed for my machine. -- Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A https://launchpad.net/bugs/53403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

[Bug 53403] Re: Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A

2006-07-18 Thread David Sterratt
I should have said: this is happening in a clean install of Dapper. I didn't have this problem with Breezy, but I did have a custom asound.conf file to get dmix working. -- Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A https://launchpad.net/bugs/53403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubu

[Bug 53403] Re: Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A

2006-07-18 Thread David Sterratt
I'm including the output of lspci -nv && lsmod && cat /proc/asound/cards && amixer -- Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A https://launchpad.net/bugs/53403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53403] Repeating sounds in second virtual terminal with Via 8233A

2006-07-18 Thread David Sterratt
Public bug reported: I have a Via 8233A soundcard. When there is just one virtual terminal, sound seems to work fine. However, when I open a second terminal by locking the screen, and then clicking on "Switch User", when gdm starts, it repeats the Ubuntu drumbeat ad infinitum. If I switch back t

[Bug 13101] Re: Problems with Trident CyberBlade XP4m32 on Toshiba Tecra M1

2006-07-13 Thread David Sterratt
The problem is fixed for me after an upgrade (not reinstall) to Dapper on my Toshiba R100. I think that should mean it really is fixed since the details of any X11 config files that might have hung around during the upgrade were irrelevant for the problem. Also, the patch has now been committed

[Bug 49366] Re: Printer not detected HP no_device_found

2006-07-11 Thread David Sterratt
I've encountered this problem with a Samsung ML-1210 on a parallel port (/dev/lp0) from a fresh install of dapper. It seems others have too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199214 In my case the solution has been to run: sudo lpadmin -p ML-1210 -v parallel:/dev/lp0 but it would be good t