[Bug 1872207] Re: grub could not write to /dev/sda

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Teuben
While installing Ubuntu 18 in the same manner, had the same problem. So this is clearly a local Thinkpad problem, possibly related to me adding a new hard drive and perhaps not 100% making it UEFI compatible. The "bug" can stay for historic purposes, but unless I hear of better solutions how to gr

[Bug 1872207] [NEW] grub could not write to /dev/sda

2020-04-11 Thread Peter Teuben
Public bug reported: I don't know if this is a new problem, I guess I could try installing Ubuntu18 again. On this THinkpad T480 I had a hard time with grub (UEFI related), eventually resorting to a 'dd' from the original disk, when I changed the hard drive. So perhaps it's relted to this. But i

[Bug 1072206] Re: [nvidia] Window content is black or transparent

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Teuben
I've been affected by this for quite some time now. I have a NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [NVS 5400M] (rev a1) on a Thinkpad T530 with i915,nouveau and U14.04. On an earlier ubuntu same problem. I *think* the problem gets worse as the session ages (many windows open). Some apps (tkdiff) do it a l

Re: [Bug 1215733] Re: cups config files cannot deal with symlinks and/or other filesystems

2013-09-03 Thread Peter Teuben
On 09/03/2013 05:44 PM, Ivar Mossin wrote: > Thank you Peter for posting this bug. I've spent two evenings tracking > this. > > I was on to the same thing, saw the same errors, but it never occured to > me that the symlink would be an obstacle. As you, I had made a symlink > from /usr/share to /hom

[Bug 1215733] [NEW] cups config files cannot deal with symlinks and/or other filesystems

2013-08-22 Thread Peter Teuben
Public bug reported: I needed to make space on / to upgrade my ubuntu, and since /usr/share is huge (4GB in my case), decided to clone this on /home/share and let /usr/share -> /home/share. I then found cups failed to work, there were messages such as Unable to open "/usr/share/cups/mime": P

[Bug 993221] Re: installer silently overwrote existing partition

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Teuben
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 998492 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998492 I don't see yet how 998492 can be a duplicate of this bug, they really appear to be very different, unless there's something hidden in the attached logfiles that I didn't pay attention to, since in my case ev

[Bug 993212] Re: installation can silently reformat other partitions

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Teuben
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 998492 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998492 Whoever marked this as a duplicate of bug #998492 should explain that. This bug does not crash, instead it silently overwrites precious user partitions. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 993212] Re: installation can silently reformat other partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Teuben
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 993221 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993221 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 993221 installer silently overwrote existing partition -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 993221] Re: installer silently overwrote existing partition

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Teuben
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993221 Title: installer silently overwrote existing partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ub

[Bug 993221] [NEW] installer silently overwrote existing partition

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Teuben
Public bug reported: During a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 on an old system partition, i decided to already use my existing /home partition so it would be mounted when booting back. My laptop in this case is triple boot, and I decided I wanted to keep the Ubuntu 10.10 until happy with 12.04. For

[Bug 993212] [NEW] installation can silently reformat other partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Teuben
Public bug reported: During a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 on an old system partition, i decided to already use my existing /home partition so it would be mounted when booting back. My laptop in this case is triple boot, and I decided I wanted to keep the Ubuntu 10.10 until happy with 12.04. For