[Bug 554737] Re: ply_boot_client_flush() does not read replies (plymouth stuck during/after filesystem check or error)

2010-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
I have the identical problem on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v running Lucid with latest updates. Currently I'm getting round the problem using GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic, nolapic, noacpi" in /etc/default/grub followed by sudo update-grub. I don't really understand why or how this is working or what co

Re: [Bug 554737] Re: ply_boot_client_flush() does not read replies (plymouth stuck during/after filesystem check or error)

2010-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
7;m a bit lost on kernel and other low-level stuff. I'm not yet certain that the grub setting has got rid of the problem, but fsck has now run twice as part of the boot sequence and completed OK. Thanks for your reply. Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the

[Bug 217920] Re: Computer hangs up (freeze) and reports SATA errors during disk checking after reboot

2010-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
Right. This seems to be the closest to what I'm experiencing. I'm using a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v running Lucid Netbook version (up to date today). When a forced disk check (fsck) ran at boot time, the system froze with a value of 71% on the splash screen. Disabling the splash showed that fsck c

[Bug 567972] [NEW] CJ took out packages I needed ...

2010-04-21 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: computer-janitor Not strictly a 'bug' but can I report this anyhow? Dell Inspiron Mini 10v running Lucid updated today. Package: Computer janitor 1.13.3 Ran computer janitor. Marked drivers I knew I needed as 'not to be removed'. After the cleanup,

Re: [Bug 554737] Re: ply_boot_client_flush() does not read replies (plymouth stuck during/after filesystem check or error)

2010-04-28 Thread Barry Drake
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 05:40 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > You're seeing bug #570289, a regression that seems to have been > introduced in the latest upload. Investigation is ongoing. By way of information. Dell Inspiron Mini 10v. Lucid updates yesterday and today. After updating yesterday, se

Re: [Bug 554737] Re: ply_boot_client_flush() does not read replies (plymouth stuck during/after filesystem check or error)

2010-04-29 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 04:50 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > That doesn't sound like this bug, and the behavior you describe is not > reproducible here. It's possible that fsck is running longer than it > should due to a backed-up queue of messages being sent to plymouth, but > this would not be a h

[Bug 571707] Re: fsck at bootstrap is too slow

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
Dell Inspiron Mini 10v 8Gb SSD running Lucid 10.4 with latest updates. I have exactly the same fault. As with the other reports, three or so updates back, the boot process froze completely. Taking out quiet splash showed that it froze after fsck had completed. The last two updates have stopped

[Bug 571707] Re: fsck at bootstrap is too slow

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
Forgot to say: I'm running an ext2 partition!!! -- fsck at bootstrap is too slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707 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://lis

[Bug 571707] Re: fsck at bootstrap is too slow

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
Here is the picture from bootchart. Again, boot process completed after some 20mins or so. Bootchart also produces a compressed archive containing some logs - do you need this as well? ** Attachment added: "netbook-lucid-20100430-2.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46562807/netbook-lucid-201

[Bug 571707] Re: fsck at bootstrap is too slow

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
Just to confirm - with quiet splash removed from grub, my netbook boots in seconds rather than minutes when fsck is forced. -- fsck at bootstrap is too slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

Re: [Bug 571707] Re: fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU

2010-05-03 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:34 +, letstrynl wrote: > People, can everyone (with or without problems) run the two hwinfo > commands mentioned (with grep please) , so we can see if there's a > connection between hardware and the behavior of plymouth ? I looked at this, and hwinfo doesn't seem to ex

Re: [Bug 571707] Re: fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU

2010-05-06 Thread Barry Drake
I've been at a conference and only had time last night to look at the patched binaries. I installed the patched mountall, but both libplymouth and plymouth i386 binaries that I got were faulty (looking inside the packages, the two executables were only 20 bytes). Taking a fresh download got the s

Re: [Bug 571707] Re: fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU

2010-05-07 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:28 +, arand wrote: > I do not see that, when downloading the .deb files I get e.g. ~54k for the > plymouthd executable, so that sounds like some kind of corruption in the > download on your side, I think. Just tried again from: https://edge.launchpad.net/~arand/+arch

[Bug 554737] Re: ply_boot_client_flush() does not read replies (plymouth stuck during/after filesystem check or error)

2010-04-23 Thread Barry Drake
I did some more testing this morning. I think my trial of "noapic nolapic noacpi" might have been co-incidental with your last fix. I've taken them out of grub and the problem has not shown. I created /forcefsck three times and re-booted since with no sign of the earlier problem. (Dell Inspiron

Re: [Bug 571707] Re: fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU

2010-05-10 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:53 +, Michael Hampson wrote: > @ Sitsofe Wheeler, Steve Langasek etc: you are, of course, heroes all. Can I add my praise?? I've done a bit of development and know how time consuming and exasperating debugging can be. I've been following the process and am sooo impre

[Bug 578286] [NEW] Launcher disappears after Evolution session ....

2010-05-10 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: netbook-launcher-efl Dell Inspiron Mini 10v running Lucid Netbook Remix. (Updated today). I quite like the Netbook 2d option which gives a Netbook style desktop on desk1 along with the gnome panels and multiple desktops. When I use Evolution, this en

[Bug 1595862] Re: update-grub - command not found

2016-06-24 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Steve The bug is there - I've attached a screenshot of /usr/sbin/, and update-grub doesn't seem to be there. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2016-01-06 17_35_03.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/1595862/+attachment/4690005/+files/Screenshot%20from%202016-

[Bug 1595862] Re: update-grub - command not found

2016-06-27 Thread Barry Drake
Here it is I tried copying update-grub from my wily installation. It is dependent on another grub file - grub-mkconfig - also missing. So far, I haven't got that to work. ** Attachment added: "Te term.log as requested." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/1595862/+attach

[Bug 1595862] Re: update-grub - command not found

2016-06-28 Thread Barry Drake
Steve ... I just want to offer my thanks - and an apology. I'm going to look at the date, and see what happened, I just can't understand why I purged it, and why I didn't re-install. Bless you, Barry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1554967] [NEW] Default installation fails because it cannot delete swap partition

2016-03-09 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Yesterday, I re-installed Xenial giving the instruction 'use entire hard drive'. It failed because it could not remove the swap partition. I tried gparted, and saw the error. I had to drop into a terminal and use fdisk to get rid of the swap partition before I could make th

[Bug 1555633] Re: unity command hangs on ubuntu 16.04

2016-03-11 Thread Barry Drake
I re-installed at the beginning of this week. The iso is dated Monday, so I installed either Monday or Tuesday. I re-formatted the drive, and did a complete re-install following the defaults. If you re-installed using any other method without clearing the drive first, you will find the problem t

[Bug 1264543] Re: Trusty boots spasmodically with inactive keyboard .....

2013-12-27 Thread Barry Drake
I get no problem when booting into Saucy which I have as a dual-boot installation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264543 Title: Trusty boots spasmodically with inactive keyboard

[Bug 1264543] [NEW] Trusty boots spasmodically with inactive keyboard .....

2013-12-27 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Every third or fourth boot, the keyboard is not found although it is accessible by grub2 and by pressing ++F2 and withing the terminal. Logout and login from the terminal followed by ++F7 to reaccess X does not bring back the keyboard. My current workaround is to use suspend

[Bug 1262373] Re: Wine fails to work in Trusty after today's updates ....

2013-12-27 Thread Barry Drake
Uninstalling Wine and completely removing then re-installing has now fixed this problem. Please mark as 'fixed' in Trusty. 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/1262373 Title: W

[Bug 1325394] [NEW] Thunderbird freezes, greys out and sometimes does not recover and crashes

2014-06-01 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I suspect that the problem has to do with large numbers of downloads demanded by gmail accounts. I have two gmail accounts and one which uses gmail as the carrier. When large attachments are received, the entire Thunderbird window greys out for a number of seconde (dependin

[Bug 1132479] Re: No text visible after recent updates in Raring

2013-09-07 Thread Barry Drake
I find the last comment a little odd as the problem has been fixed in the Saucy 11.10 package - update included about a week ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132479 Title: No text

[Bug 1595862] [NEW] update-grub - command not found

2016-06-24 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: The following is what happened: barry@yakkety:~$ sudo update-grub [sudo] password for barry: sudo: update-grub: command not found ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: grub (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-25.44-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linux 4

[Bug 1614159] [NEW] install from live dvd - yakkety grub install fails

2016-08-17 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: When installing yakkety and xenial the installer fails when attempting to install grub. These are both on ssd drives. 14.04 seems to be happy with the same ssd on which yakkety failed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubiquity 2.21.63 ProcVersionSignatu

[Bug 1614552] [NEW] Software center gives no information

2016-08-18 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I'm reporting this as a bug. Usually, I use the terminal to install. On dome deb packages, I get a message 'unknown ..etc. cannot install.' I find that very annoying. I have to use the software center, which fails to install (presumably because of unmet dependencies). But wh

[Bug 1614552] Re: Software center gives no information

2016-08-18 Thread Barry Drake
Sorry about the typo. I hope I've made it clear that the software center gives information as to EXACTLY why it fails to install a package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614552 Titl

[Bug 11958] Re: Unable to show hidden files

2016-08-18 Thread Barry Drake
Yess, I cannot use yakkety without this feature. Please urge it's re- incorporation ASAP. I'm just trying to paste .thunderbird into my home directory. How can I achieve that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report.

[Bug 11958] Re: Unable to show hidden files

2016-08-18 Thread Barry Drake
It needs fixing. Re-open th issue ASAP. I strong;y disagree. Please act! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11958 Title: Unable to show hidden files To manage notifications ab

[Bug 704763] Re: boot loader not installed to target disk

2016-05-22 Thread Barry Drake
The release version of xenial trashed the boot sector on the target disk. I've re-installed from the late April testing version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704763 Title: boot loa

[Bug 704763] Re: boot loader not installed to target disk

2016-05-23 Thread Barry Drake
It gets worse After trying all the suggested ways of restoring the boot sector and failing, I used the live cd to re-install xenial, with the other two internal drives I have, disconnected. Ubiquity on the lat April testing version) - showed grub being installed, and update-grub being run. BU

[Bug 1558024] Re: nautilus crashed during normal use

2016-03-19 Thread Barry Drake
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 963743 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963743 I've had a 'duplicate bug message' (above). When I try to see the duplicate, I find this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963743 Lost something? This page does not exist, or you may not have permission to s

[Bug 1554967] Re: Default installation fails because it cannot delete swap partition

2016-03-21 Thread Barry Drake
You wouldn't see anything there, as I used fdisk from a CD (not the live CD; another boot disk that boots straight into a terminal. It was quicker for me, as I'd already ejected the live-CD. The error was from gparted, and it simply said 'Failed to delete swap partition'. I then tried to use gpa

[Bug 11958] Re: Unable to show hidden files

2016-08-21 Thread Barry Drake
I found a workaround for .thunderbird. I put a character before the dot, copied it into the home directory, then renamed it after the transfer had completed the copy. No problem, as Thunderbird had never been fired up, so I didin't need to rename/delete an existing directory. Now I have to find a

[Bug 11958] Re: Unable to show hidden files

2016-08-21 Thread Barry Drake
Krusader shows hidden files by default. i got all my templates in using that. Canonical, please observe! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11958 Title: Unable to show hidden fi

[Bug 1635862] [NEW] Always says 'no such file or directory'

2016-10-22 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Thunderbird always 'no such file or directory', and asks me to close Thunderbird down. killall reports that thunderbird is not running. Rebooting does not take the problem away. It is still there when I try to fire up the app. The version is: 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu4. Prob

[Bug 1561903] [NEW] Keyboard does not display in top panel.

2016-03-25 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I added the Greek keyboard to the English keyboards. I can switch keyboards using super+space, but have to type something to discover which keyboard is in operation. The same seems to happen on 15.10 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: unity-control-center

[Bug 1539939] Re: missing menu in top panel

2016-03-25 Thread Barry Drake
It must be hardware specific. It is working on my installation right now. It is up-to-date around a couple of hours ago. I'm on UK time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539939 Title:

[Bug 1539939] Re: missing menu in top panel

2016-03-25 Thread Barry Drake
I'm replying to: suslikk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539939 Title: missing menu in top panel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour

[Bug 1561903] Re: Keyboard does not display in top panel.

2016-03-26 Thread Barry Drake
Please close this bug - the icon came back after yesterday's updates. Barry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1561903 Title: Keyboard does not display in top panel. To manage notificati

[Bug 1535579] Re: Libreoffice no longer shows menu in top panel

2016-03-29 Thread Barry Drake
During the last couple of weeks, there have been enormous numbers of updates. The menus disappeared three or four times, but came back after one or two updates. If they don't come back for you, you may have to wait for the stable version.sc ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2016-03-29 11-31-

[Bug 1539939] Re: missing menu in top panel

2016-03-31 Thread Barry Drake
Hopefully, here is the syslog ** Attachment added: "syslog.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1539939/+attachment/4618278/+files/syslog.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1554967] Re: Default installation fails because it cannot delete swap partition

2016-03-31 Thread Barry Drake
Here is the syslog attached. ** Attachment added: "Taken from the live CD during attempted installation to a drive with Ubuntu installed." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1554967/+attachment/4618316/+files/syslog.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1539939] Re: missing menu in top panel

2016-03-31 Thread Barry Drake
Sorry - wrong bug. Please remove the syslog. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539939 Title: missing menu in top panel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launc

[Bug 1539939] Re: missing menu in top panel

2016-03-31 Thread Barry Drake
Mine went missing for the last three days - they came bace again with this morning's updates. There are still a lot of updates every day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539939 Title:

[Bug 1585895] [NEW] this version does not use an older .thunderbird directory

2016-05-25 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: It was normal to set up a new installation by copying the .thunderbird directory from the previous installation. This new version requires each email account to be re-installed. As I have seven imap accounts, it is really annoying. I expect I'll move over to a different cli

[Bug 1588541] [NEW] Calendar no longer accepts event start and end times

2016-06-02 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Since recent updates, the opportunity to insert start and end time for any event no longer exists. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: thunderbird 1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-g

[Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-04-21 Thread Barry Drake
The problem is back for me ater this morning's updates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532226 Title: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot To manage notifications about this bug go

Re: [Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-04-21 Thread Barry Drake
On 21/04/16 18:13, Doug McMahon wrote: The fix described above; stopping and re-starting Unity worked OK for me. > You possibly should take what I posted above with a large grain of salt > as it appears that with the ppa debug version one can't get unity panel > menus. ( or at the least menus tha

[Bug 1589212] [NEW] Installer crashed part way through installation

2016-06-05 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I was installing 16.10 testing when the installer - ubiquity crashed fatally after loading the files, while installing them. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: ubiquity 16.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-generic 4.4.10 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-ge

[Bug 1589409] [NEW] Ubiquity on Yakkety daily build comes up witth an error

2016-06-06 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: On trying to install the daily build, ubiquity shows an error message - code 1. If I choose to 'continue', ubiquity crashes. I will try again in a few days. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: ubiquity 16.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-gener

[Bug 1590652] [NEW] ubiquity crashes when installing

2016-06-08 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: when installing Yakkety, ubiquity crashes ** Affects: evolution (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/1590652 Ti

[Bug 40666] Re: Installer crashes after name setup

2016-06-08 Thread Barry Drake
This is the bug I'm trying to report in Ubuntu - not Kubuntu. Both amd64 and i386 isos are affected in Yakkety. I reported it a few days ago, but no one confirmed it, hence I'm reporting it now I've found this confirmed bug with the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1459235] Re: Google Address book: Unable to open address book

2016-06-11 Thread Barry Drake
" Maybe when 16.04 LTS stabilizes later this year this will be fixed..." Not so far. If it is fixed, please can we have the working version put into 16.04, AND Yakkety too! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 1459235] Re: Google Address book: Unable to open address book

2016-06-11 Thread Barry Drake
The call is in camel-sasl-oauth2-google.c, but I don't know where it gets the URL string that needs changing. I guess I'd do the fix, if I understood a bit more! How long is that going to take someone who knows their way around the code? When you go to the reported URL, you see this message: Im

[Bug 933059] Re: Num Lock stucks on makes keyboard unusable

2012-02-16 Thread Barry Drake
Exactly the behaviour I get. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933059 Title: Num Lock stucks on makes keyboard unusable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launc

[Bug 922310] Re: update-manager crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2012-02-17 Thread Barry Drake
I just tried to update Precise, and got the message telling me I could do a 'Partial Upgrade'. I tried to do that, and upgrade manager said there was a problem with the desktop due to broken a gnome package. I tried to do: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^ and was met with this: The followi

Re: [Bug 578286] Re: Launcher disappears after Evolution session ....

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 19:18 +, Steinar Bang wrote: > What makes the network-launcher-efl disappear for me is adding and > removing widgets on the gnome taskbar. This an old, really annoying and non-active problem!! I don't think anyone is working on it. I have this shell script (attached) th

[Bug 683775] Re: Natty Alpha 1, i915 has blank screen after boot

2010-12-30 Thread Barry Drake
I think this is probably the same bug? After clean install from the iso - 64bit desktop downloaded yesterday, it booted into the Unity desktop which seemed to run very slowly and finally stopped responding. On re- boot, the panels had disappeared, and I couldn't make anything happen. I got the st

[Bug 692905] Re: unity is broken in multihead configuration

2011-01-01 Thread Barry Drake
I think this may be the bug that I'm seeing. On installing 64 bit 11.04 from the liveCD, Unity worked. After allowing the updates to complete and re-booting, all I got was the background and an active mouse cursor. This is a single monitor installation, so I suspect the multihead configuration is

[Bug 692905] Re: unity is broken in multihead configuration

2011-01-08 Thread Barry Drake
After the latest updates this morning, the gnome desktop seemed a lot more responsive and some of the tiny niggles such as dropdown menus taking ages before they would work had gone. Unity would not work at all, and starting with the unity desktop gave a whole lot of things that failed to start be

[Bug 683065] Re: Menu bar becomes blank periodically

2011-01-09 Thread Barry Drake
Some of what is reported her is exactly what I see in bug 692905 - I think they may be the same. I've posted lots of information to that bug; maybe you could take a quick look? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 687660] Re: Empty desktop after login

2011-01-09 Thread Barry Drake
Posted my problem (similar to the above) under #692905 I have not installed the AMD/ATI driver since I re-installed Natty yesterday, but still get all the same problems. It seems to me that there is a lot of common ground between #683065, #692905 and this bug. Can do any tests you want, but diff

[Bug 693073] Re: Panel and application Menus working but not visible

2011-01-10 Thread Barry Drake
As far as I can see, I have exactly the same problem. The workaround that John describes (unity --restart) works for me. I originally reported this under #692905. I think it's the same problem. It crops up in a couple of other bugs - I've noted it there as well. Happy to do further tests if as

[Bug 693073] Re: Panel and application Menus working but not visible

2011-01-10 Thread Barry Drake
Further information - Kalle's workaround does not work for me. However, if I start up and wait around for several minutes, the menus are accessible. Also, the menus are not accessible when an application is running. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 682142] [NEW] ink levels not reported

2010-11-27 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cups Epson Stylus Color 66C photo printer. Ink levels are not reported in printer properties. I installed mtink which is able to report ink levels. Needs support in Lucid 10.04 - system-config-printer 1.2.0. Most HP printers seem to report ink levels '

[Bug 1462359] [NEW] wine currently can not be installed in wily - 15.10

2015-06-05 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: $ sudo apt-get install wine [sudo] password for barry: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Wine currently cannot be installed: log as follows: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have reques

[Bug 1462650] [NEW] Incorrect installation behaviour on multi-drive system

2015-06-06 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I have a PC which has two internal hard drives. One of them (sda) currently has an installation of Mint, and the other (sdb) contained an installation of 15.04 at the time of this problem. I made a DVD from the testing iso of 15.10 last Wednesday. On booting from this DVD,

[Bug 1462650] Re: Incorrect installation behaviour on multi-drive system

2015-06-06 Thread Barry Drake
The installation described in detail was made to a removable spare disk in a caddy, so I ended up with two Ubuntu installaions; the second being a temporary experiment to try to find out what had happened. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 1462650] Re: Incorrect installation behaviour on multi-drive system

2015-06-07 Thread Barry Drake
I've checked that out. I have a choice on my boot menu and when I choose EFI boot, I get the grub menu. I'm going to try this later today and re-install to my spare drive. I hope to collect more information as to why I can't boot from it. It still leaves the problem that when I do a BIOS instal

[Bug 1462650] Re: Incorrect installation behaviour on multi-drive system

2015-06-08 Thread Barry Drake
Ok. That works fine in the BIOS boot mode - I think there ought to be a warning though! I didn't expect that kind of behaviour - and was surprised by it. However, yesterday, I spent a long time experimenting with EFI install to my spare drive. The components of grub are installed to sdc, but sd

[Bug 1462650] Re: Incorrect installation behaviour on multi-drive system

2015-06-09 Thread Barry Drake
I understand far better now. What the installer had done was overwritten the BIOS boot sector on sda with the efi information that it would have correctly written to a UEFI bootable disk. I have now tried re-installing with the two internal drives disconnected physically. This made my spare drive

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2015-05-23 Thread Barry Drake
There is a hardware platform - it's called Lenovo. It is built to be totally compatible with Linux, and sold as a Linux machine in many parts of the world. AFAIK every Lenovo machine works totally out of the box with Ubuntu. I just upgraded my Lenovo Netbook from 14.04 to 15.04 and will shortly

[Bug 1490277] [NEW] Unity dash fails to show applications

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Immediately after removing interaction with all Google accounts (settings->online accounts), the Unity dash no longer showed any applications, only files recently accessed. The launcher sidebar is unaffected, and the dash appears as normal but without access to applications.

[Bug 1490277] Re: Unity dash fails to show applications

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
Maybe some explanation as to exactly what I did to the Ubuntu Unity settings might help. In the Online Account settings, it lists access by Ubuntu to the following Google online accounts for these apps: Evolution Data Server (if Evolution is installed) for Contacts, for Calendar and for Gmail.

[Bug 1490277] Re: Unity dash fails to show applications

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
It's been pointed out to me that Wily does not integrate anything Google by default. Checking back, I set up the Google account in my Online Accounts, when I installed evolution, so I could import my google contacts. Google contacts don't export in a format which the Thunderbird address- book can

[Bug 1490277] Re: Unity dash fails to show applications

2015-08-31 Thread Barry Drake
I have now tried setting up another account on the same installation of Wily. The problem is there as well. I've been trying to get friends to run Wily, and try the steps that I found caused the problem. So far with little success. The steps are: Open an online account with Google, and use i

[Bug 1490277] Re: Unity dash fails to show applications

2015-09-02 Thread Barry Drake
End of bug - please close this one. But please consider making it a Unity wishlist item. No one I was in contact with could repeat the problem. I downloaded the latest daily-build of Wily, and tried everything I could in the live session to break Unity. I conclude that the problem occurred duri

[Bug 1255558] Re: Can't type my password after cold boot

2014-02-24 Thread Barry Drake
>From all of the above, I believe that this is motheboard dependent. Michael Murphy doesn't have the problem on 'any of his AMD machines' Great! I'm running and AMD motherboard and processor and I do have the problem. Please can someone collate the motherboard details that have been uploaded and

[Bug 1255558] Re: Can't type my password after cold boot

2014-02-24 Thread Barry Drake
For me (answering John Ferrier) it is round about every second or third boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128 Title: Can't type my password after cold boot To manage notificat

[Bug 1407192] Re: firefox icon frequently replaced by placeholder

2015-01-12 Thread Barry Drake
I get exactly this. The icons affected are: Thunderbird, Firefox, BibleTime, Calibre, and occasionally, other ones. The problem never occurs on the first launch of a particular program, but frequently on the second use of the same program during a session. After re-boot, all icons are restored.

[Bug 1436684] Re: cups-browsed crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

2015-03-30 Thread Barry Drake
Cannot reproduce crash - and crash has never occurred since that one instance. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436684 Title: cups-browsed crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispat

[Bug 1241416] [NEW] No action after clicking 'report crash' button

2013-10-18 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Starting Ubuntu Saucy this morning, four separate system problem reports appeared. On clicking the 'report problem' button, no further action occurred. This seems to have happened for the last three or four days. I assume it is an apport problem but can't be sure as no infor

[Bug 1242912] [NEW] Software and updates does not work

2013-10-21 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Nothing happens at all when trying to launch software-properties-gtk. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.27 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubun

[Bug 1262373] [NEW] Wine fails to work in Trusty after today's updates ....

2013-12-18 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: Yesterday, Wine was working OK. Tonight, after updates, Wine will neither operate as an .exe file loader, nor as a program launcher. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: wine 1.4.1-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4 Uname: Linux

[Bug 1242912] Re: Software and updates does not work

2013-12-05 Thread Barry Drake
Oh - sorry about this - I'd forgotten I'd posted the bug. A couple of weeks after I posted it, I did sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, and received an update for the software updeter gui. After that, it's worked OK. Please can you mark the bug as 'fixed'? Regards, Barry. -- You re

[Bug 1515744] [NEW] Calibre starts with an error message, and crashes on any operation

2015-11-12 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: On startup, Calibre throws the following message about a problem. The report is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 273, in initialize_db_stage2 self.start_gui(db) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line

[Bug 1462359] Re: wine currently can not be installed in wily - 15.10

2015-11-14 Thread Barry Drake
Did you try to install the proposed version, and in doing so, did you try to download and install the missing dependencies? If so, you have a broken system, and can only get it back if you purge all the 'missing dependencies' that you installed already. It might be quicker to completely re-instal

[Bug 1511292] Re: Online address book can't be set up due to keyring request

2015-11-03 Thread Barry Drake
I have now purged Seahorse. I then purged and re-installed Evolution. I also removed ~/.config/evolution Then attempted to set up Evolution. There is an error message in the terminal as follows: barry@wily:~$ evolution (evolution:11958): camel-WARNING **: Failed to initialize NSS SQL database

[Bug 1462359] Re: wine currently can not be installed in wily - 15.10

2015-11-08 Thread Barry Drake
$sudo apt-get install wine should work. Have you tried sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure your version of wily really is completely up to date. Do that first, then try installing wine without any version numbers. I've had wine working in wily for months now.

[Bug 1462359] Re: wine currently can not be installed in wily - 15.10

2015-10-28 Thread Barry Drake
I installed wine yesterday on a new machine with a fresh install of Wily. Installed OK. Worked out of the box straight from the Ubuntu repo. The problem no longer exists, and has not for a while. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1462359] Re: wine currently can not be installed in wily - 15.10

2015-10-28 Thread Barry Drake
Just a thought - if you tried to install the latest version instead of the one in the Wily repo. This is not yet possible. Wine has been held back until a whole lot of dependencies can be satisfied. It will appear in Xenial before it is backported to Wily. Be patient! This is not a bug. -- Y

[Bug 1511292] [NEW] Online address book can't be set up due to keyring request

2015-10-29 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I use Evolution only for the address-book. I use it to sync my Google address book which has extensive information from my Android phone. There was no problem on 15.04, or on 15.10 up until the beta of early September. My desktop PC and my laptop both operate the Evolution a

[Bug 1511292] Re: Online address book can't be set up due to keyring request

2015-10-29 Thread Barry Drake
A bit more information I ought to have included. The only difference between the two previous installations is the password/seahorse password requirement. In the new installation, Evolution is unable to access the Google account even though this is made available to Evolution in 'Online Accounts'

[Bug 1511292] Re: Online address book can't be set up due to keyring request

2015-10-30 Thread Barry Drake
I'm going round in circles on this one. The system on the above link tells me to report the problem as an Ubuntu bug doing exactly what I have done already (ubuntu-bug Evolution). I don't seem to be able to report a new bug. It seems that the Ubuntu bug team must make the report. Sorry! -- Yo

[Bug 1511292] Re: Online address book can't be set up due to keyring request

2015-10-30 Thread Barry Drake
To repeat the problem: Set up a Google gmail account, and create a test address book. Set up the 'Online Accounts' in Ubuntu Wily to allow access to programs for Evolution. Install Evolution, and find a way of accessing the address book on line. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1512083] [NEW] checkbox on password request popup window has no effect

2015-11-01 Thread Barry Drake
Public bug reported: I think this is the root problem with the bug I reported as bug #1511292 as an Evolution bug. I tested the problem out by creating a dummy email address and allowing the password to be stored by the password manager with the box unchecked. I now have a request for the dummy

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