But some more googling indicates this is a known bug in glib2 that the
developers were very actively working from Jan-Feb 2018, but maybe not
finalised by Mar 2018.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761102#c53
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I can add a few notes, as it's happened a few times since I wrote the above.
On each occasion, I've had:
- several documents open in Writer
- one is moderately large (93k words)
- at least one has changes needing to be saved.
If I save the modified doc, CPU usage stays at 100% for soffice.
If I cl
FWIW, I had a few documents open, but none being actively edited. One very
long (about 300k words).
I closed several of them (including the very long one).
One that had changes needing saving, I simply saved.
CPU load dropped to almost nothing.
Sorry I didn't think to check load before saving, an
I'm sorry, no, I don't. It hasn't happened since, and it took me a
while to notice it had happened.
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Title:
gnome-flashback crashed with SIGSEGV
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I noted that for some reason, there is no information about changes
provided for this critical piece of software (grub2), and worse than
that, the link provided in the Software Updater leads you to a page that
does not exist. E.g. it reports:
Installed version: 1.66.6+2.02~b
I've installed it, but it's not convenient today to logout to restart
metacity.
Note that the problem with the undisplayable firefox window is probably
a separate bug. I think it relates to a similar problem: I keep an xcb
window at the bottom of the left screen. It has started vanishing off-
sc
I moved aside the file it was complaining about, which I just mentioned,
so I could attach it here. However, by the end of this report, it had
been removed by the package system. I had done this, thinking kit would
keep it safe:
# mv /var/lib/apt/lists/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-
The link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed talks about
Ubuntu 14.04 and something called Softwatre & Updates:
"To enable the proposed archive for Ubuntu 14.04 use the Software &
Updates program and ensure that Pre-release updates (trusty-proposed) is
ticked in the Updates tab."
Is "S
Hmm, that was weird: similarly to comment #4, I just noticed a Firefox
window lose all its decorations, so to hide it I had to use its icon in
the dock. But when I unhid it, the decorations were back. So: weird.
I just thought I'd mention it.
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I'm just reporting in that since upgrading metacity using Alberts' PPA,
I have not experienced a further crash. The nearest I came was a screen-
lock which I'm pretty sure I accidentally triggered via a Ctrl+Shift+L.
:-) Since the frequency was something like every hour or two, I think
that's a ve
Okay, I've done that. I'll log out and back in again.
Actually, I rebooted, as I saw there was a kernel update I hadn't
rebooted after applying. The reboot turned into the scary kind, for
this Intel NUC, where I had to unplug not only all USB3 drives, but also
the HDMI display before it would di
Okay, I've done that. I'll log out and back in again.
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Possibly-related: I currently have one Firefox window (only: of 14 FF
windows) that spontaneously lost its canvas management area - all the
outside bits that have the icons to close it, minimise it, resize it
etc. I'll attach a screenshot. In addition, when I turned on power to
my secondary monit
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After an update 2 or 3 days ago, at random times mid-session, all window
decorations vanish, then the desktop goes to black (just time/date stamp
showing IIRC, as at a screen lock), and then I'm presented with a login
screen again.
I was logging in with Gnome Flashback. It's
Public bug reported:
Without me doing anything peculiar, my Ubuntu 14.04 system started pulling in
packages from Xenial. 1st symptom was a broken dependency in plymouth. After a
big apt-get update, many packages were broken.
Various packages were removed (like synaptic), and it was recommended
Regarding the comment:
"As an aside, I'm not sure what commands you ran within synaptic to get
your system in this situation, but recovering from a manually-installed
package's unsatisfiable dependencies should not involve installing
packages from xenial onto a trusty system."
I installed the .de
Public bug reported:
First, I tried to install gnome-inform7_6L38-0ubuntu1_i386.deb via dpkg.
That reported:
Selecting previously unselected package gnome-inform7.
(Reading database ... 1202020 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gnome-inform7_6L38-0ubuntu1_i386.de
I started having exactly this problem when I moved the connection to the
printer to be direct through my computer (connected via USB), instead of
via the network to another older computer (where it was connected via
USB). Up until then it printed flawlessly, after connecting it directly
I basicall
Public bug reported:
fsck.vfat's non-interactive mode is interactive, which leads to serious
confusion and frustration for the user.
When you run fsck on a vfat partition, fsck.vfat runs interactively, prompting
the user to make various choices, and acting on them. then, at the end, it
reports
Public bug reported:
If I have a file of size less than 1k, and use:
find -size -1k
to try to find it, it doesn't.
If I use
find -size -1000c
it does find it. If I use
find -size -2k
to find it, it does. It seems like the parsing of units is wrong when you use
'k' for the size unit
This one, the bug 'ubuntu-bug can't always report bugs against "no
particular package"',
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/902714.
Unfortunately, no mention of an ID for the above transferred apparently
to apport appears in the above note by micahg in 2011, so I can't follow
up
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The purpose of the psbook command is to allow you to print booklets:
e.g. a typical use is to place 2 pages per sheet and to do the
impositioning so that you can print booklets, stapled or sewn together.
E.g. see http://marcelm.nl/making_books.html.
However, if you have a dup
... I meant to say in the workaround, that after feeding the one-side
printed sheets back in, you then print the odd pages, of course.
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Title:
Ca
So, what happened? I see that 3 years later, the exact same problem
exists.
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I fetched the latest sortmail source from oneiric:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sortmail/1:2.4-1ubuntu1
1eceebf76c5f9a2f237b809649380fc534c2a32f sortmail_2.4.orig.tar.gz
950478be4125eae7f914adc670528d4428bc5a1c sortmail_2.4-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
and tried to build it.
(I
I can try using .SA 0 or .SA 1 as appropriate. .MT I can't use as I
don't want any of its settings interfering with my own settings. I
don't know what .COVER does (all my docs and experience with mm is old-
school).
Re-reading the doclifter man page, I see that it only implies that it
uses the f
I recently bought a new printer, and added it to the server (a laptop running
Ubuntu 8.04).
At first I added it with the Lexmark-supplied install.sh script, but that
didn't work so well.
But when I used cups to Add Printer, it worked fine.
The main client is a Ubuntu 10.04 system, and after I add
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Thanks again, Matthias. Yes, it still works fine with, after adding the
sslcertck; I ran it manually and saw the mail host state that the
fingerprints matched.
Re running fetchmail as root - I suspect the Ub
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So far so good.
Previously I had a poll line like:
poll ISPP-FQDN proto POP3:
user luke here is lukekendall there with password not-this
Changed it to:
poll ISPP-FQDN proto pop3 uidl no dns
user
:19 posher fetchmail[31210]: starting fetchmail 6.3.9-rc2 daemon
Sep 20 21:51:20 posher fetchmail[31210]: 41 messages for lukekendall at
mail.optusnet.com.au (877741 octets).
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Sep 21 15:57
Re that post, above: I should add that when I said it's been happening
"for the last month or so", the behaviour started when I set up a new PC
to replace an older one that had died. So, it's been happening ever
since I commissioned this new low-end HP machine.
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I'm having a similar problem.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with kernel 2.6.38-14-generic-pae.
I use growisofs nightly for incremental backups, and call eject for the device
upon successful completion.
For the last month or so, the eject I call from the nightly backup script (from
root) seemed to
I've just done a better search and found that the backtrace looks similar to
that of bug 553789.
I also clicked through to submit the bug report before I noticed the text
listing the extra information.
E.g. the kernel was 2.6.32-41-generic.
Anyway, I suspect this bug is a known bug, possibly even
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Title:
crash i
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Recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit on a new machine. I tried out the
nouveau driver.
Dual monitor configuration.
Occasionally I'd come turn on the monitors only to have each displaying "No
signal".
Unable to switch to a text console.
Occasionally the X screen would
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.4, and kernel 2.6.32-40-generic-pae. I use an external USB
DVD writer for nightly incremental backups, and when that overflows I use an
external USB drive to do a full backup onto. That happens about every month or
two.
This time, for the first time ever, I could not mount
Public bug reported:
I have a lot of troff/mm files. doclifter recognises none of them as mm files.
All are named with a .mm suffx. It always reports this error:
doclifter: no macro set recognized
It does it even for extremely simple mm-macro files. e.g this one called
simple.mm:
.S 14 16
.H
Public bug reported:
If you use the -mm option on troffcvt, it always outputs wrong \point-size
definitions: most of them seem to end up computed as 1. (I think, point size N
gets gets turned into point size 1 if N < 12; otherwise gets turned into point
size N - 10.)
I suspect that it's the .H
I followed up the 10.04 installation a couple of days with another
update, which grabbed kernel 2.6.32-37, and it tried to do the same
again - a diff of my version versus the package-maintainer's version
tried to provide root /dev/sda6 for every stanza, again, instead of
(hd0,5). So it wasn't a on
I should add, if there is a way to test a grub menu.lst to find if it
will certainly fail, that should be run as part of the menu.lst creation
step. There are certain syntax errors, and semantic errors, which could
be checked in advance.
Perhaps grub has such a facility - lilo used to - but if gr
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Title:
Invalid menu.lst file was created
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Over Sun 4th - Wed 7th I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. I chose
the option "use the package-provider's menu.lst". It created a menu.lst
that could not boot. The problem was that it consistently used invalid
syntax for each "root" stanza, e.g.:
title Ubuntu 1
I should add, it seems to me that there's no way to report a bug if you don't
know what package the bug is in. In my case, I don't know the name of the
package that handles a system update.
I don't know how a novice would find that out. From some thinking and poking
about, I've guessed that it
Public bug reported:
If you choose the option in ubuntu-bug to report a bug against "no particular
package", if you follow the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs you will fail if the bug is not
within a currently-running process.
In my case, I wanted to report a bug
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I had a similar problem.
Thunderbird (3) has options to set the application to use to open links. I had
this set to the correct Firefox installed when I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04.
It did not work: links (http or https) would not open.
IMO the bug is that there is more than one place to set th
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Title:
package texlive-bas
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: texlive-base
I had previously removed tex completely (via Synaptic) because it had developed
a problem so that every package upgrade, there would be an error for the TeX
package. Anyway, I thought I'd try a clean install. No good.
1)
Description:U
Yes, you're right: it's okay if I use LANG set to C, en_AU or
en_IE.utf8. But I'm actually using en_AU.utf8, fr which it is badly
misaligned.
Also, doing the same test for df -h, for en_AU.utf8 they're almost
aligned (out by 1), and for all the other above locales they align
perfectly.
HTH,
lu
If it's of any help to know, the output is almost correctly aligned on an
English system if you use the human (-h) option of df. (It's only off by one
space, starting from the"Size" column).
Perhaps the alignment code for that case could be factored out and used more
generally?
luke
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: texlive-base
Ubuntu 9.10.
texlive has failed to upgrade for any update over the last 4~6 months.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 3 19:20:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script
I rebooted, and my problem hasn't changed. Still nothing from the BIOS
or grub. Nor could I get the BIOS to start by hitting the Del key (I
tried for a minute or so).
I just noticed, though, that if I Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a console
window, that too is blank.
Also during the reboot I had the
I should have said, the nVidia card is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]
(rev a1)
and there is also a motherboard graphics controller (but I disabled that in the
BIOS as just
about the first thing I did during the install).
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. uname
Could my problem be related? I get a completely blank screen until X starts,
when I boot. I mean completely blank.
In other words, no BIOS messages, no SplashTop, no grub menu, nothing.
This happened while I was finalising my install on a new PC, and changed
from using a CRT monitor on DVI dire
I can confirm the same is true even within English variants. Speaking
to one of the coreutils developers about it, he said:
"It's to do with your locale:
$ head -n1 /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
$ dpkg -s coreutils | grep Version
Version: 7.4-2ubuntu1
$for LANG in en_AU.utf8 en_IE.utf8; do df |
The file nvi-prob can be edited with nvi to reproduce the problem.
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Binary package hint: nvi
I have a large text file (that contains some non-ascii characters). The
same problem occurs on a much shorter file, of the problem lines, which
I'll attach. My Ubuntu version:
Description:Ubuntu 8.10
Release:8.10
If I search within my
I checked out the Adobe Flash plugin - I had version 10.0.15.something
installed.
After downloading the latest for Linux (10.0.22.87) and installing via debconf,
it didn't seem to get installed. So I ran update manager and updated 309
various packages, one of which included the Adobe flashplaye
It's still happening. :-)
I'm using FF 3.0.5 under Ubuntu 8.10 and upgraded to flashblock 1.5.8,
at which point youtube videos would not play after clicking on the
"play" icon provided by flashblock - the viewport simply cleared to all
black and stayed that way. I upgraded to flashblock 1.5.9 and
I should add, this is Tellico v 1.3.2.1 using KDE 3.5.10 on Ubuntu 8.10.
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Binary package hint: tellico
I can't get searches to return any items. The same ISBN (0-553-56273-8) which
in GCstar returns all the expected info from ISBNdb.com, in tellico returns
nothing. Ditto for library of congress. I found via google a response to this
problem t
Same for me after my upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, doing a similar simple check to the
above.
Installing the non-free unrar allowed the simple test .rar to be
unpacked.
luke
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Okay, all looks good now. The dist-upgrade appears to have
worked, mail is being sent and received, and my manual
fixes to grub's menu.lst seemed to work well until it got to the point of
starting the Gnome Display Manager. An alert
panel (text mode) popped saying:
Server Authorization directo
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System
-> About Ubuntu.
Release is 8.04, despite the above tips returning 8.10, because it
happened during a distribution upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10
2) The version of the pac
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I'm planning to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on the weekend of 15th, after
giving things a chance to settle down. I'm still shaking things down
from things like cdrecord device name changes, ATA drive name changes,
etc.
When I do, I'll let you know if the problem has been fixed.
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I'm planning to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on the weekend of 15th, after
giving things a chance to settle down. I'm still shaking things down
from things like cdrecord device name changes, ATA drive name changes,
etc.
When I do, I'll let you know if the problem has been fixed.
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Note also that I reported one other problem - that when samba asked me
to confirm whether to keep my own smb.conf file, I chose the option to
run a shell, and the update manager seemed to block, and no shell window
that I could see was available to do my own diffs (note that a request
for a side-by
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Binary package hint: update-manager
I was using the system update manager to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. At
the end, it said update manager had failed to install or upgrade and
would I like to report it. I said okay.
1) I can't tell you much more than that, as since the sys
I have a modified smb.conf. I did the diff, but found it confusing, so
I requested a side by side diff. That didn't do as requested, it just
showed the plain diff again.
So I chose the option to run a shell to examine the situation, but
nothing happened. In fact my whole system update stopped a
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tetex-base
Failed to upgrade as part of system upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.0.4.
ProblemType: Package
Date: Sun Sep 23 01:54:24 2007
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: tetex-base
Source
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tetex-bin
Failed to upgrade as part of system upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.0.4.
ProblemType: Package
Date: Sun Sep 23 00:41:42 2007
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: tetex-bin
SourcePackage: tetex-bin
** A
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dvipng
Failed to upgrade as part of system upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.0.4.
ProblemType: Package
Date: Sun Sep 23 00:42:34 2007
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: dvipng
SourcePackage: dvipng
** Affects: d
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnumeric
Crashed after system upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.0.4.
ssindex version 1.7.8
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Sep 17 13:17:57 2007
Disassembly: 0xb7bd7593:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ssind
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: meld
I tried using meld to diff the config files for dovecot (an imap server) during
a system
upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 and it failed.
I assume this was because some dependent package was not available.
Later, "meld" ran okay.
I don't think this
Public bug reported:
Upgrading system from 6.10 to 7.04
ProblemType: Package
Date: Sun Sep 23 01:09:58 2007
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Package: monodoc-browser
SourcePackage: mono-tools
** Affects: mono-tools (Ubuntu)
Import
I just noticed this comment on
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061101081125696
"I had the problem of "dead" USB mouse particularly with thin cables and
dual CRT monitor setups (Mac, Windows or Linux), and I have this problem
still occasionally on any OS (Mac, Windows or Linux).
"It
The same applies to Edgy. Each day when I return to the computer, the
cursor is missing from the display, the mouse has stopped working, and I
have to unplug it and replug it for it to be redetected.
Here is some dmesg output, presumably showing the results of me unplugging and
replugging a day
Yes, thanks, that's great. Very helpful!
luke
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For me, the download web pages don't explain clearly enough the
difference between 6.06 and 6.10 to allow me to make a decision about
which to download and install.
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2072997&posted=1#post2072997
for the thread explaining my confusio
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