[Bug 334249] Re: Dell Laptop vostro 1310, Internal Keyboard and Touchpad not working anymore on 9.04 jaunty

2009-08-06 Thread Sean Hodges
Same issue with a Dell Vostro 1710. Changing my #kopt setting in /boot/grub/menu.lst, then running "sudo update-grub" fixed it for me: # kopt=root=UUID=a4b503e2-d661-43dc-ad8c-0b2df4797313 ro i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop -- Dell Laptop vostro 1310, Internal Keyboard and Touc

[Bug 268141] Re: no ssh-agent after resume from hibernate

2009-01-26 Thread Sean Hodges
Work-around works great for me, thanks Felipe. Possibly related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- keyring/+bug/220165. Suggests adjusting the gnome_keyring_hibernate setting in gconf-editor. Related bug at Redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454186 Upstream bu

[Bug 303536] Re: Brasero - wrongly reports insufficient space on media

2008-12-15 Thread Sean Hodges
@PirateNamedNeo: Installing through Windows XP should not make a difference. Remember you can still burn data CD's in Ubuntu using the Places -> "CD/DVD Creator" utility. -- Brasero - wrongly reports insufficient space on media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303536 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-25 Thread Sean Hodges
Let's avoid going in circles here: "Rockwalrus wrote on 2008-09-17: The new p2 update manager does not work in the PPA version. The classic update manager can be enabled in Preferences under General/Capacities." My suggestion would allow the classic update manager to be used instead of the broke

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

2008-11-24 Thread Sean Hodges
And what when a third-party plugin wants to upgrade the JDT? or a similar core plugin that an Eclipse package would need to provide in order to make Eclipse usable out of the box? Eclipse's plugin manager can only "handle itself" correctly on a single- user system, unless you start making system d

[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

2008-09-17 Thread Sean Hodges
Hmm. Perhaps Apache should adopt the EULA idea. Each time you visit a web page powered by Apache HTTP server for the first time, you get a compulsory EULA pop-up before the web site appears... Perhaps you should get an EULA appear for every media player, office application, game and development t

[Bug 212521] Re: [hardy] installation fails even if openjdk-6-jdk is installed

2008-08-18 Thread Sean Hodges
Has the debdiff been created for Intrepid? A fix will definitely be desirable, as OpenJDK is getting very popular these days... An alternative suggestion would be for the init script to prefer the path for javac that is set in the update-alternatives, this has the advantage of allowing a user to c

[Bug 221900] Re: After logging in by thinkfinger, I have to give nm-applet access to keyring by typing in password

2008-08-14 Thread Sean Hodges
Support for PAM in gnome-keyring would be VERY desirable. Not just for thinkfinger, but to support a whole host of authentication methods (USB dongle authentication, bluetooth authentication by proximity of mobile phone...) In my opinion, this should be considered as a high priority enhancement, b

[Bug 250568] Re: music does not play

2008-08-04 Thread Sean Hodges
My problem appears to be related to pulseaudio... The installation is a dist-upgrade from Dapper, there may be something missing in my configuration that a clean Hardy install has set up. The workaround for my problem was to go to: System -> Preferences -> Sound and change all the playback sink

[Bug 208183] Re: bcm4328 chipset not supported by hardy heron

2008-08-01 Thread Sean Hodges
The native Broadcom modules in Linux do not support bcm4328 yet: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-May/007517.html Best to stick with ndiswrapper for now (or buy a supported wireless card...) The following driver is reported to work with ndiswrapper on Dell machines: http://ftp.u

[Bug 250568] [NEW] music does not play

2008-07-21 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox My Rhythmbox has recently decided to stop playing music. My collection is in OGG format, and I have checked that the files exist before attempting to play them. The symptoms are the same as what was reported in #225511: "When I opened Rhythmb

[Bug 250568] Re: music does not play

2008-07-21 Thread Sean Hodges
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16216349/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16216350/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16216351/ProcStatus.txt -- music

[Bug 152978] Re: "fuse: mountpoint is not empty" syncing over ssh

2008-07-11 Thread Sean Hodges
Upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522424 Seems Intrepid is at version 0.11.0 right now. Can anyone confirm if this bug is fixed in a later version? I'm also still experiencing it in 0.10.2-0ubuntu1. -- "fuse: mountpoint is not empty" syncing over ssh https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 242472] Re: Insufficient space on media when direct copying to blank CD

2008-07-03 Thread Sean Hodges
/dev/sdb7 ext3 19G 15G 2.8G 85% / varrun tmpfs 1008M 120K 1008M 1% /var/run varlock tmpfs 1008M 0 1008M 0% /var/lock udev tmpfs 1008M 96K 1008M 1% /dev devshm tmpfs 1008M 60K 1008M 1% /dev/shm lrm tmpfs 1008M 43M 966M 5%

[Bug 242472] Re: Insufficient space on media when direct copying to blank CD

2008-06-23 Thread Sean Hodges
** Attachment added: "bresero log messages" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15545237/brasero-session.log -- Insufficient space on media when direct copying to blank CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 242472] [NEW] Insufficient space on media when direct copying to blank CD

2008-06-23 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: brasero Trying to direct copy an audio CD ejects the CD-R with the "not enough disc space on media" dialog. I have tried this process with 3 CD-R's (all from the same CD bundle). It does not attempt to write anything; as I can burn the audio CD on the sam

[Bug 76567] Re: Use the default Java packages in Tomcat configuration

2008-05-09 Thread Sean Hodges
Workaround for people trying to install tomcat5.5 in Hardy: ~$ sudo apt-get install tomcat5.5 Let it finish, you will get an error message - but it has actually installed. Now add the line below to /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 near the top of the file (just below "DEFAULT=..." is fine): JAVA_HOME=/usr/

[Bug 127315] Re: F-Spot puts photos in Photos folder not Pictures folder

2008-01-30 Thread Sean Hodges
Instead of copying the files, perhaps it should symlink them in it's index? AFAIK there's no overhead to using symlinks; and it would easily be able to identify and action on missing photos as the symlink will be broken. I guess the problem there is platform compatibility, although straight copyi

[Bug 135197] Re: xchat-gnome doesn't update the icon cache at installation

2008-01-24 Thread Sean Hodges
To clarify a workaround until the fix is released: To get the missing icon to appear, you need to run in a terminal: sudo gtk-update-icon-cache --force --quiet /usr/share/icons/hicolor Thanks Tormod for this tip, it worked great for me. -- xchat-gnome doesn't update the icon cache at install

[Bug 150930] Re: Black screen, and bad usplash.conf

2008-01-05 Thread Sean Hodges
the comment by fsstar worked for me as well (thank you!). I've now got a 640x480 usplash, which is much better than a blank screen. Additionally, I found after making the changes the machine failed to shutdown the first time around, it didn't even respond to SysRQ commands. However, this problem h

[Bug 138244] Re: fatal server error, signal 11

2008-01-03 Thread Sean Hodges
Unfortunately I switched to the "nvidia" driver since this bug. I can confirm I haven't had this problem since upgrading to 7.10, but this is tainted since I'm using the proprietory driver now. I will switch to the NV driver this weekend and see if I can reproduce the crash. Thanks for your respon

[Bug 2382] Re: mySQL Query Browser segfaults on AMD64

2007-12-30 Thread Sean Hodges
Same problem here, but only when I attempt to launch: File->New Script Tab ...or... File->Open Script... The query browser crashes with a segmentation fault. I'm also running Gutsy AMD64, my query browser is version 1.2.5beta (from repos). (Attached output from strace) ** Attachment added: "st

[Bug 147866] unzip extracts directories as symlinks

2007-10-01 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unzip Using "zip" to archive a set of directories, where one or more sub sirectories are symlinks, creates an archive that will not extract properly on another machine. Just to clarify this is WITHOUT using the -y switch (retain symlinks). Unzip lists th

[Bug 138244] Re: fatal server error, signal 11

2007-09-08 Thread Sean Hodges
Output from: /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg/script > ~/xserver-xfree86-output.txt 3>&1 ** Attachment added: "xserver-xorg-bugscript-output.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9189504/xserver-xorg-bugscript-output.txt ** Also affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Ne

[Bug 138244] Re: fatal server error, signal 11

2007-09-08 Thread Sean Hodges
** Attachment added: "Failed xorg log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9189503/Xorg.0.log.old -- fatal server error, signal 11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138244 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 138244] fatal server error, signal 11

2007-09-08 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-driver-nv X server hard-restarted back to GDM at seemingly random point of time (I was switching desktops when it happened) I was running the following software at the time: - Firefox (was experimenting with Gnash plug-in for first time...)

[Bug 136874] gksu does not allow multiple commands in an argument

2007-09-02 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gksu If you type: gksudo -k -d xterm; xterm as expected, the first xterm runs as root, whilst the second one runs as yourself. However, if you do the following: gksudo -k -d "xterm; xterm" no xterm's, and the debug output gives you "buffer: -sudo: xte

[Bug 112703] Re: tomboy sometimes starts with search dialog rather than as minimized applet

2007-06-09 Thread Sean Hodges
My guess on this is that you have "Automatically save changes to session" enabled in your Preferences->Sessions. This might mean that if you close your session with a Tomboy note open, it will attempt to re- launch Tomboy when you log-in again. Combined with having the Tomboy panel applet running a

[Bug 63666] Re: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T not recognised in Edgy

2007-05-29 Thread Sean Hodges
Might be late for you, but try using the cx88-dvb module, it works for me in Edgy for the same card: sudo modprobe cx88-dvb You shouldnt even need the firmware (though having it there shouldnt hurt) -- Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T not recognised in Edgy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63666 You recei

[Bug 77486] Re: Driver choice for Conexant CX2388x-based card (Hauppage Nova-T PCI) is not correct

2007-05-29 Thread Sean Hodges
Not sure why this is closed, re-opening due to both Olli's and my own experiences ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Rejected => Confirmed -- Driver choice for Conexant CX2388x-based card (Hauppage Nova-T PCI) is not correct https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77486 You rece

[Bug 77486] Re: Driver choice for Conexant CX2388x-based card (Hauppage Nova-T PCI) is not correct

2007-05-29 Thread Sean Hodges
I have the same problem. My card does not load the cx88-dvb as it used to in Dapper and Edgy. At the moment I'm modprobing it each time i want to watch TV, I havent had time to work out a more permanent solution yet. Will look into a fix soon, unless someone beats me to it. -- Driver choice for

[Bug 99650] Re: compiz cube only has one desktop enabled by default

2007-05-15 Thread Sean Hodges
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89786 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89786 The cube not working issue is a bug that has been reported a number of times: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-effects/+bug/82957 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/111058 https://bugs.launc

[Bug 66085] Re: DVD crashes Kaffeine without libdvdcss

2007-03-17 Thread Sean Hodges
Kaffeine 0.8.2 does not crash, this was my workaround. However, as we are all shipping out Dapper CD's to everyone, with the promise of long-term support, I feel that something needs to be done Kaffeine 0.7.1 is very buggy and a lot of these are fixed in 0.8.2, is it possible to upgrade Kaffeine

[Bug 66085] DVD crashes Kaffeine without libdvdcss

2006-10-14 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kaffeine Before installing libdvdcss2, I attempted to play a number of DVD's in Kaffeine 0.7.1 (Dapper with full updates) All 3 DVD's caused Kaffeine to crash without any warning. Upon installing libdvdcss2, this behaviour stopped, and Kaffeine played t

[Bug 54123] Re: Poor signal DVB crashes Kaffeine

2006-10-14 Thread Sean Hodges
I'm not ready for Edgy yet, but have updated my KDE in Dapper to 3.5.4 using these instructions: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-354.php. I now have Kaffeine 0.8.2, and everything is fixed. Good to know that this will be in Edgy out-of-box as well though, thanks a lot for your input. -- Po

[Bug 55549] No safety from breaking system with Adept

2006-08-07 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept Adept should have failsafe security measures for packages that will cause system to uninstall core packages if removed. An example of this is "avahi-common3" - While attempting to remove a zeroconf installation I had been playing with I attempted t

[Bug 28914] Re: Simple fix for the "mouse & touchpad together" problem

2006-07-31 Thread Sean Hodges
Similar problem for hauppauge remote control. A similar solution is provided here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=222672 The symptoms are quite severe in this case, as the user loses mouse control completely. Not sure how a patch could be provided for more than specific cases that a

[Bug 54123] Poor signal DVB crashes Kaffeine

2006-07-26 Thread Sean Hodges
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kaffeine Some channels in my area are of (variably) poor quality. If I attempt to watch them, or skip through them, they can often cause Kaffeine to freeze or crash. Also, there is no playDVB() in the DCOP API, so I can't tell my remote control to open K