[Bug 678322] [NEW] Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence

2010-11-21 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xterm I used to be able to change the titlebar inside an xterm window with: echo 'ESC]2;New titleESC' (substitute ^V and the ESC key to insert escape characters; I used a shell alias). This no longer works, and does nothing; the title remains 'xterm'. A

[Bug 678322] Re: Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence

2010-11-21 Thread Akkana Peck
-- Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubun

[Bug 678322] Re: Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence

2010-11-21 Thread Akkana Peck
Sorry, not that simple. I tried: xterm.utf8Title: false xterm.allowTitleOps: true xterm.title: blah The xterm.title line was to make sure it was actually checking my .Xdefaults, and it was -- the initial title was "blah", but I still couldn't change it with the escape sequence. Tried both true and

[Bug 678322] Re: Can't set titlebar text with ESC sequence

2010-11-22 Thread Akkana Peck
First, yes, I was using a ^G in the original tests and not a second ESC -- sorry, my typo there. I just tried it in a vanilla Lucid in a vm, and now I'm even more confused. The standard user's .bashrc can change the titlebar, and here's what it does: PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}

[Bug 627890] Re: My Laptop special buttons doesnt work

2011-05-02 Thread Akkana Peck
Is the fix in natty now? I'm having trouble getting my brightness keys (Fn-F5 and F6) to be seen on a Vaio TX650. They worked great in lucid and before. Wondering if I should file a new bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 782855] [NEW] missing pixels (horizontal lines) in font rendering

2011-05-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel Since upgrading from Lucid to Natty, font rendering in firefox and some other apps is buggy. Certain letters in certain fonts will be missing pixels from horizontal lines through certain letters. For instance, in the screenshot I'

[Bug 782855] Re: missing pixels (horizontal lines) in font rendering

2011-05-14 Thread Akkana Peck
** Attachment added: "screenshot.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782855/+attachment/2128925/+files/screenshot.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782855 Title: missing pixels

[Bug 780911] Re: epdfview crashes on startup on some PDFs

2011-05-16 Thread Akkana Peck
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 783109 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/783109 Bug 783109 seems to be "private", whatever that means. If I click on the link Launchpad is giving me, it tells me: There’s no page with this address in Launchpad. and the note at the bottom of the bug says "R

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Marcel: unfortunately bug 783109 isn't public (and my attempt to file a public one was duped to the private bug), so those of us experiencing problems with epdfview can't see that bug or add comments there. (Sorry for the spam, I'll shut up about epdfview now.) Thanks, Alexander, for the mupdf reco

[Bug 370735] Re: terminated on stack smashing detected message

2011-06-01 Thread Akkana Peck
** Patch added: "debdiff of the patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gmemusage/+bug/370735/+attachment/2151093/+files/gmemusage_0.2-11ubuntu1.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems

2011-04-29 Thread Akkana Peck
I installed from an alternate installer ISO (ubuntu-11.04-beta2-alternate-i386.iso), and chose the server option, so it was installed as a commandline system. After installation, I installed X and various X clients, but not gdm -- for now I'm still booting into the console login prompt (except ther

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-09 Thread Akkana Peck
epdfview also crashes on startup on every PDF file, on natty. Or should that be filed as a separate bug? I'm guessing it's the same problem, and there doesn't seem to be an epdfview-specific bug filed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-10 Thread Akkana Peck
I don't know if a stack trace from libs without symbols is useful, but here's epdfview: #0 0xb775b706 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0xb7f5777b in g_strdup () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x0011a56e in ?? () #3 0x0011fe93 in ?? () #4 0x00120684 in ?? () #5 0x0

[Bug 780911] [NEW] epdfview crashes on startup on some PDFs

2011-05-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libpoppler13 Split off from bug 669211 since I was told this was a different issue: In Natty, many PDFs cause epdfview to crash on startup. Unhelpful stack trace (no symbols): #0 0xb775b706 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0xb7f5777b in

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Split off the epdfview issue to bug 780911. I don't see debug symbols even with poppler-dbg, though. Compiling from source is working with xpdf, so maybe I'll try that with epdfview too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems

2011-05-25 Thread Akkana Peck
I chose "Install a command-line system" from the alt installer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761830 Title: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only syst

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems

2011-04-25 Thread Akkana Peck
I see this problem with a fresh Ubuntu server install from about a week ago. Every time I boot, I end up at a blank screen with a blinking cursor, and I have to type ctrl-alt-F1 to get my login prompt. Took me a while the first time to figure out that my install wasn't broken and the boot had actua

[Bug 553415] Re: mouse trapped in box for Open Motif

2010-11-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Thanks! Working well here so far on two Lucid machines, and right-clicks in xephem are working again. -- mouse trapped in box for Open Motif https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553415 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2010-10-07 Thread Akkana Peck
WPA2 home network, Lenovo X201, Intel 6000 (according to lshw), both /etc/network/interfaces and wicd were failing. Disabling NetworkManager fixed it. I didn't have to apt-get remove it (though I probably will now); I just moved aside /etc/init/network-manager.conf and /etc/init.d /network-manager

[Bug 105863] Re: tftpd package broken

2010-08-20 Thread Akkana Peck
Still not working in 10.04, three years later. If tftp only works with xinetd and doesn't work with openbsd-inetd, shouldn't its dependencies be adjusted accordingly? On Lucid, installing tftp installs openbsd- inetd which doesn't work at all. -- tftpd package broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 663082] Re: Stores session every 10 seconds, causing high disk-usage

2010-10-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Reducing this time does sound warranted. But there might be some other places as well where firefox is doing a lot of disk activity for no reason, hurting SSDs and power use. On my system, sessionstore.js isn't being written to if I'm not loading new pages/tabs in the browser. However, places.sql

[Bug 553415] Re: mouse trapped in box for Open Motif

2010-06-18 Thread Akkana Peck
There's an easier workaround than recompiling the X server, posted on the Xephem yahoo group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xephem/message/3103 -- may require group membership to read, but it says: "I am using xephem 3.7.4 debs for 64bit Ubuntu from http://e2rd.piekielko.pl/debian/ Thes

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-21 Thread Akkana Peck
A week ago I wrote about un-blacklisting the module. But even with the pcspkr module loaded (lsmod shows it), most of the time there's no beep, either in or out of X. The pcspkr module seems very flaky in Ubuntu kernels. I've never figured out why; if I build my own kernel, pcspkr works fine, wheth

[Bug 486154] Re: System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it

2010-06-13 Thread Akkana Peck
A lot of the discussion in this bug has to do with metacity and pulse, but for people who don't use gnome, metacity, pulse or any of that stuff, and just want their pcspkr module to beep when asked under lucid, I just posted a blog article: http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/kernel/pcspkr-lucid.ht

[Bug 452763] Re: facebook problems

2010-08-23 Thread Akkana Peck
I get the scrolling problem very reproducibly on Facebook. Load the FB news/status page. Page with space/shift-space or page up/down: verify it works. Now enter a new status in the textarea at the top. After you've added your status, hit space or page down: no scrolling. Changing focus by clicking

[Bug 553415] Re: mouse trapped in box for Open Motif

2010-08-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Chris: did you follow all the "Procedure" steps for SRU in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ? I just looked for people to ping so we can get this in, but it looks like it doesn't have the needed info in the bug description, or ubuntu-sru subscribed to the bug. -- mouse trapped in box

[Bug 1864061] Re: PCI/internal sound card not detected

2020-03-19 Thread Akkana Peck
> Please add "options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0" in the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, then the legacy hda driver will work as before. That workaround doesn't work on my Lenovo Carbon X1 gen7. It does let pavucontrol see the audio card again, but no adjustment in pavucontrol, alsamixergui or am

[Bug 1864061] Re: PCI/internal sound card not detected

2020-03-20 Thread Akkana Peck
Here's dmesg after booting with 5.3.0-42-generic, with options snd-hda- intel dmic_detect=0 appended to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa- base.conf. If I reboot into 5.3.0-40-generic, sound plays fine (of course the mic isn't detected, which I think is a well known bug). Where would I get the 5.3.

[Bug 1864061] Re: PCI/internal sound card not detected

2020-03-21 Thread Akkana Peck
Thanks -- looks like it's working! For anyone else with this problem, I enabled proposed (as found in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed), then ran apt install for: linux-generic/eoan-proposed linux-headers-generic/eoan-proposed linux- image-generic/eoan-proposed linux-libc-dev/eoan-p

[Bug 1421808] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort() from AbortServer() from FatalError("EnterVT failed for screen %d\n") from xf86VTEnter() from WakeupHandler()

2019-12-06 Thread Akkana Peck
** Tags added: eoan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421808 Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort() from AbortServer() from FatalError("EnterVT failed for screen %d\n") from xf

[Bug 1421808] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort() from AbortServer() from FatalError("EnterVT failed for screen %d\n") from xf86VTEnter() from WakeupHandler()

2019-12-06 Thread Akkana Peck
This is happening pretty often to me in Eoan (system info uploaded in bug 1852158 if it might help). I do often use an external monitor, but the crash seldom happens if I suspend with the external monitor as Vlad described. For me, it's more common that I sleep with the external monitor connected,

[Bug 1842116] Re: jpegexiforient does not reliably detect EXIF orientation

2020-08-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Still a problem in 20.04. I'm not using -perfect. A way to reproduce this is to start with a JPG image from a camera, then scale it down using GraphicsMagick (this happens starting with JPGs from either a Sony or Canon camera). Like this: $ convert dsc00902.jpg -scale 1024 dsc00902sm.jpg $ jhead

[Bug 1842116] Re: jpegexiforient does not reliably detect EXIF orientation

2020-08-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Interesting. But my images still have the Orientation tag, as shown by the jhead | egrep commands I listed. So maybe imagemagick and graphicsmagick (I tried both, same result) are writing the Orientation tag in the wrong place, and if jpegexiforient isn't going to be fixed, maybe I should be filing

[Bug 1893289] [NEW] convert -scale makes file with EXIF in a place that exifautotran can't read

2020-08-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: This comes from Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg9/+bug/1842116 which references Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947182 Start with a JPEG image, say from a camera, that has an Orientation tag other than 0: $ jhead dsc

[Bug 1842116] Re: jpegexiforient does not reliably detect EXIF orientation

2020-08-29 Thread Akkana Peck
I filed bug 1842116 on graphicsmagick, haven't yet filed a similar bug on imagemagick. But it turns out (after rewriting my resizing script) that this also applies to files scaled by PIL. I wonder if there's any way of scaling a JPG programmatically that results in a file that the new exifautotran

[Bug 1852158] [NEW] Xorg black screen on resume, and VT switch crashes with "EnterVT failed for screen 0"

2019-11-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: Every now and then, maybe one time out of 8, resuming from suspend gives me a black screen, no X. If I try ctrl-alt-F7, I see a VT with a _ on it, no X or login prompt. If I try ctrl-alt-F1, F2, F2 or F4, X crashes, every time. I've collected X logs from the last two times t

[Bug 1951491] Re: Can't run snaps: .slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup

2021-12-06 Thread Akkana Peck
$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is: unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-rBFSkTtKSd,guid=9839721c1a52b5cd5e2e0d6961ae292d ls -l of that gives No such file or directory My window manager is openbox, started with /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit- with-session openbox -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 1951491] [NEW] Can't run snaps: .slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup

2021-11-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Public bug reported: I just upgraded from hirsute to impish using do-release-upgrade. On the upgraded system, I can't run either firefox or chromium (both of which worked fine under hirsute). Both fail with: /user.slice/user-NNN.slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup where NNN is my uid With

[Bug 1951491] Re: Can't run snaps: .slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup

2021-12-13 Thread Akkana Peck
Sure. Do you want the full output (162 lines)? Or maybe just the output of systemctl --user | grep snap, or something? I'm not sure what you're looking for. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 1951491] Re: Can't run snaps: .slice/session-1.scope is not a snap cgroup

2021-12-18 Thread Akkana Peck
$ journalctl --user No journal files were found. -- No entries -- Does it need to be configured to show snap information somehow? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951491 Title: Can't

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