Re: [Bug 151325] Re: scrollback gesture should be disabled

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Mai writes ("[Bug 151325] Re: scrollback gesture should be disabled"): > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been > any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue >

Re: [Bug 41624] Re: Replaying journals of other OS's filesystems, by mounting them, is unsafe

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Phillip Susi writes ("[Bug 41624] Re: Replaying journals of other OS's filesystems, by mounting them, is unsafe"): > Which kernel you are using does not really matter because the linux > kernel developers consider this to be working as intended. I have tried > arguing with the on the LKML a f

Re: [Bug 64490] Re: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 46530 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/46530 Matt Zimmerman writes ("[Bug 64490] Re: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed."): > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 46530 *** > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/46530 It is not normally correct to mark bugs a

[Bug 107028] Re: reinstall grub option makes other installs unbootable

2009-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
There is no reason to think that this bug does not exist in current Ubuntu releases. As I understand it the design has not changed, and the problem is caused by the design. ** Changed in: rescue (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- reinstall grub option makes other installs unboot

[Bug 107032] Re: iso image search repetition unavoidable (expert mode)

2009-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
There is no reason to think that this bug is not also present in current Ubuntu releases. I don't have the facilities for reproducing it here right now (I'm at Debconf) but the information I provided should be sufficient to either reproduce (and hence confirm) the bug, or to demonstrate that it ha

[Bug 145225] Re: searches for codecs when none can be found and not necessary

2009-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
There is no reason to think that this bug is not also present in current Ubuntu releases. I don't have the facilities for reproducing it here right now (I'm at Debconf) but the information I provided should be sufficient to either reproduce (and hence confirm) the bug, or to demonstrate that it has

[Bug 145247] Re: manual partitoning resize lvm lv does not work

2009-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
There is no reason to think that this bug is not also present in current Ubuntu releases. I don't have the facilities for reproducing it here right now (I'm at Debconf) but the information I provided should be sufficient to either reproduce (and hence confirm) the bug, or to demonstrate that it has

[Bug 54809] X server cannot find default font `fixed'

2006-08-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xserver-xorg NOTE: This bug report is about the fact that the server terminates due to not finding the font. I will file separate reports about the two other problems. When the system starts up, the X

[Bug 54812] X server garbled display

2006-08-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xserver-xorg NOTE: This bug report is about the fact that the server displays (in this case briefly, due to #54809) a garbled image. I'm filing separate reports about the two other problems. When the

[Bug 54813] X server failure dialogue garbled (UTF-8 problem)

2006-08-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xserver-xorg NOTE: This bug report is about the fact that the dialogue about the server failure is garbled. When the system starts up, the X server starts and briefly shows a garbled display: it looks

[Bug 54923] ping provides vague message `Packet filtered'

2006-08-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/tcpdump [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tcpdump -x -vvs500 -lnivif16.0 tcpdump: listening on vif16.0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 500 byt es 12:35:41.462555 arp who-has 172.18.45.41 tell 172.18.45.66

[Bug 54925] ping provides vague message `Packet filtered'

2006-08-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/iputils [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ping 172.18.45.41 PING 172.18.45.41 (172.18.45.41) 56(84) bytes of data. - From 172.18.45.41 icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tcpdump -x -vvs500 -lnivif16.0 tc

[Bug 54923] Re: tcpdump is unclear/inaccurate about icmp unreachable

2006-08-02 Thread Ian Jackson
** Summary changed: - ping provides vague message `Packet filtered' + tcpdump is unclear/inaccurate about icmp unreachable -- tcpdump is unclear/inaccurate about icmp unreachable https://launchpad.net/bugs/54923 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

[Bug 55216] xen hotplug scripts performance: overuse of xenstore-read

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xen-3.0 I straced udevd while running `xm restore' and found a lot of this kind of thing: t.29048:17:32:17.199376 execve("/usr/bin/xenstore-read", ["xenstore-read", "backend/vbd/7/769/type"], [/* 15 var

[Bug 55218] xen hotplug scripts performance improvements

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xen-3.0 There are various things that can be done to improve the performance of the xen hotplug scripts, including replacing uses of dirname, expr, etc., with uses of case and shell pattern matching. Cha

[Bug 55220] xen hotplug scripts crazy performance changes

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xen-3.0 This is my final submission today regarding the xen hotplug scripts. I found that there was a significant amount of redundant faffing going on in the hotplug scripts. The changes below removes th

[Bug 55219] xen hotplug locking change (controversial)

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xen-3.0 Below are a series of changes which go halfway to replacing the hideous mkdir-based locking scheme in some of the xen hotplug scripts with an fcntl/exec-based scheme using with-lock-ex from chiark

[Bug 55217] set -e in xen-script-common.sh is insufficient

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/xen-3.0 The `set -e' which detects errors in the various scripts in /etc/xen/scripts is in xen-script-common.sh. This is not sufficient because an installation error or filesystem problem might prevent t

[Bug 55641] Re: [Bug 55641] dpky - process_queue: Assertion 'dependtry <=4' failed. error

2006-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
danson writes ("[Bug 55641] dpky - process_queue: Assertion 'dependtry <=4' failed. error"): > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion 'dependtry <=4' > failed. > Aborted Can you please attach your /var/lib/dpkg/status to the bug repo

[Bug 55641] Re: [Bug 55641] Re: [Bug 55641] dpky - process_queue: Assertion 'dependtry <=4' failed. error

2006-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("[Bug 55641] Re: [Bug 55641] dpky - process_queue: Assertion'dependtry <=4' failed. error"): > Can you please attach your /var/lib/dpkg/status to the bug report ? Oh, and any files in /var/lib/dpkg/updates too, please. Ian. -- dpky

[Bug 56020] gnome-cups-add crashes

2006-08-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/gnome-cups-manager My X is broken on this machine, so I use a different display: - -davenant:~> ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last login: Fri Aug 11 11:36:04 2006 from davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk Linu

[Bug 56085] Re: [Bug 56085] Re: [Bug 56085] Re: Error popup after successful playback in Firefox

2006-08-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Matt Zimmerman writes ("[Bug 56085] Re: [Bug 56085] Re: Error popup after successful playback in Firefox"): > OK, symlinking the totem plugin from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins gets the plugin loaded and visible in > about:plugins again (Ian, why is /usr/lib/mozi

[Bug 53414] Re: [Bug 53414] Re: Realplayer file type associations

2006-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 53414] Re: Realplayer file type associations"): > I subscribed Ian to to help with the firefox integration. Ian, how can > we add the supported mime-type for realplay to ff? Is it a matter of > adding a description file to the right dir? Firefox uses the Gnome MIME datab

[Bug 50766] Re: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)

2006-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dpkg => apt -- Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) https://launchpad.net/bugs/50766 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 51446] please sync tar from sid

2006-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tar please sync tar from 1.15.91-1 in sid to edgy dropping ubuntu changes thanks ** Affects: tar (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- please sync tar from sid https://launchpad.net/bugs/51446 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 51448] please sync tcp-wrappers 7.6.dbs-9

2006-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/tcp-wrappers subscribe ubuntu-archive Sync request: * Source package name:tcp-wrappers * Source version number to sync: 7.6.dbs-9 * Where to sync from: sid * OK to override any

[Bug 51737] please sync psutils 1.17-23

2006-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/psutils subscribe ubuntu-archive Sync request: * Source package name:psutils * Source version number to sync: 1.17-23 * Where to sync from: sid * OK to override any Ubuntu chang

[Bug 51468] Re: dpkg-source doesn't respect group sticky bit

2006-07-04 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- dpkg-source doesn't respect group sticky bit https://launchpad.net/bugs/51468 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 52040] Re: Error updating ubuntu-docs with update manager

2006-07-06 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dpkg => ubuntu-docs -- Error updating ubuntu-docs with update manager https://launchpad.net/bugs/52040 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 56761] Re: dselect aborts on select

2006-08-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks for the report and sorry about that. Fixed in 1.13.22ubuntu6 which is uploading as I write. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- dselect aborts on select https://launchpad.net/bugs/56761 -- ubunt

[Bug 57125] Re: misdisplays ordinary pbm

2006-08-21 Thread Ian Jackson
-- misdisplays ordinary pbm https://launchpad.net/bugs/57125 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57125] misdisplays ordinary pbm

2006-08-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: See attached screenshot showing strange diagonal stripy artefacts. bug.png is the screenshot of my whole screen showing eog misbehaving but ImageMagick working. t.pbm is the file in question. Here is the output of xdpyinfo: liberator:~> xdpyinfo name of display::0.0 ve

[Bug 57125] Re: misdisplays ordinary pbm

2006-08-21 Thread Ian Jackson
-- misdisplays ordinary pbm https://launchpad.net/bugs/57125 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57205] MimeType values in .desktop files are not regexps

2006-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: DesktopEntry.py says: def getMimeType(self): return self.get('MimeType', list=True, type="regex") However, the MimeType field is not a regexp according to eg http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.5/ar01s07.html Callers will have to h

[Bug 48918] Re: shadow passwords not enabled (no rootpw)

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: kickseed (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Medium Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- shadow passwords not enabled (no rootpw) https://launchpad.net/bugs/48918 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 48997] Re: argument "credentials=..." doesn't work any more in fstab

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
I diffed the relevant bits of the samba source and nothing relevant appears to have changed between breezy and dapper. It is likely that the symptoms are caused by something else. -- argument "credentials=..." doesn't work any more in fstab https://launchpad.net/bugs/48997 -- ubuntu-bugs maili

[Bug 52751] Re: juk should be built with gstreamer output

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Simply adding a build-depends would have the effect wanted by the submitter and it seems like a reasonable request. It's not clear that _all_ of the libraries specified by the submitter are necessary; the MOTU making this change should check which are needed perhaps by looking at the kdemultimedia

[Bug 52763] Re: enigmail doesn't work: "Enigmime module not available"

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks for the report. I'm afraid it's probably not possible now to determine what the cause of the problem was; it seems to have affected only your system. If it recurs, please file a new report. ** Changed in: enigmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Medium Status: Unconfirmed => R

[Bug 52790] Re: Samba Security Upgrade Removes Winbind

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
This problem doesn't seem to exist in edgy. Note that winbind comes from the samba source so it's possible that this problem was the result of mirror skew or accidental failure to update winbind as well as samba in the security update. ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => R

[Bug 52776] Re: PHP5 / libxml issues

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
The bug report on the PHP site clearly indicates that the PHP developers believe there is a real problem. However, edgy is now past upstream version freeze. Unless this bug is particularly important (and worth backporting the fix), we will probably simply wait until upstream release php5 5.2.x an

[Bug 52812] Re: warning messages on upgrade of xfonts-scalable to 1.0.0-4

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
IIRC this problem has been fixed now. If not please let us know. ** Changed in: xfonts-scalable (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Medium Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- warning messages on upgrade of xfonts-scalable to 1.0.0-4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/52812 -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 52809] Re: KDM dies after logging out

2006-08-23 Thread Ian Jackson
The supplied kdm.log shows the X server getting a segfault. This is probably due to a bug in the binary driver you are using. ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: kdebase => xserver-xorg-driver-ati Importance: Untriaged => Medium Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- KDM di

[Bug 57528] Re: [Edgy] Missing dependency on python-gdbm

2006-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Fixed in gnome-app-install 0.2.7 (currently uploading, will be in the archive shortly). Thanks for the report. ** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- [Edgy] Missing dependency on python-gdbm https://launchpad.net/bugs/57528 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 66621] Re: update-alternatives doesn't update java plugin

2006-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
I doubt this is actually a bug in update-alternatives. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dpkg => java-gcj-compat -- update-alternatives doesn't update java plugin https://launchpad.net/bugs/66621 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

[Bug 68011] need to reload to see smb workgroup information

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: I have an SMB network, which at the time of this test consists only of two samba servers running Debian sarge and etch. When I try to browse the `windows network' with the file browser, I have to say `reload' to get my workgroup to stop being a plain document icon which I can

[Bug 56977] Re: Non HIG waiting popup

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Furthermore, when obscured and re-exposed, the window does not refresh properly either. ** Changed in: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Non HIG waiting popup https://launchpad.net/bugs/56977 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://

[Bug 68022] reading printer database is too slow

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: I selected System Administrartion / Printing and then in the Printers window, double clicked on New Printer. The machine then sat there for _three minutes_! This is a recent 2.8G Celeron with 512Mb of RAM and a reasonably fast and recent disk and there is no excuse at all fo

[Bug 68049] codeset question in expert mode does not fit on page

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: I'm testing 20041024.1 d-i i386 edgy. I select expert mode by pressing escape on the splash menu, and then typing `expert' at the prompt. I asked to select language, and after various sensible questions (which I answered with values for the UK) I'm asked about `Codeset for y

[Bug 68011] Re: need to reload to see smb workgroup information

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- need to reload to see smb workgroup information https://launchpad.net/bugs/68011 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 68055] spell check doesn't work on drawings

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: 1. Install edgy alternate 20041024.1 2. Copy oo-cd-cover.odg from the examples folder to the desktop 3. Double-click to open it in oo.o 4. Double-click on the word Ubuntu at the start of the main text to start editing the text 5. Use the bottom of screen scrollbar with the mo

[Bug 68056] yelp crashed when sent SIGTERM

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: yelp I asked edgy 20061024.1 alternate to reboot and then prevented it from doing so by answering `cancel' to oo.o's `save?' question. yelp evidently crashed as a result of being sent a SIGTERM. ** Affects: yelp (upstream) Importance: Unknown

[Bug 52309] Re: Specific text file viewed in firefox crashes X reliably

2006-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 46034 *** ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: firefox => nvidia-glx -- Specific text file viewed in firefox crashes X reliably https://launchpad.net/bugs/52309 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

[Bug 18917] Re: dc doesn't consider a directory an error, e.g. `dc /'.

2006-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
** Summary changed: - Upstream | dc doesn't consider a directory an error, e.g. `dc /'. + dc doesn't consider a directory an error, e.g. `dc /'. ** Description changed: - - Bug Status 21st July '06 by T. Six: - Fix in Ubuntu package has been released - Bug has be

[Bug 54041] grub does not boot for me (!)

2006-07-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/grub If I install dapper from the i386 alternate install CD, the installed bootloader reboots the machine as soon as it is entered. My existing dapper install on the same machine, which hasn't had grub-i

[Bug 54041] Re: [Bug 54041] grub does not boot for me (!)

2006-07-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("[Bug 54041] grub does not boot for me (!)"): > affects /distros/ubuntu/grub This bug also exists in knot-1. Some guideance on the proper approach to debugging it would be very helpful :-). Thanks, Ian. -- grub does not boot for me (!) https://launchpad.n

[Bug 54041] Re: grub stage2 crashes if too many menu entries

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot/grub# grep title menu.lst | wc -l 1211 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot/grub# wc menu.lst 11028 47216 351671 menu.lst [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot/grub# grep title menu.lst | tail +500 | head -3 title Ubuntu, memtest86+ (on /dev/hda4) (on /dev/hda7) (on /dev/hda8) (on /dev/hd

[Bug 26031] can cause system not to be bootable

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 subscribe This bug affects me too and is present in dapper and in knot-1. In the extreme case affecting me it causes the generation of a 350Kby menu.lst file containing >1k entries, which grub cannot boot. This is a separate bug, Malone 54041, but i

[Bug 26031] Re: [Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains "combinatorial expansion" of existing installations

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Come to think of it, can this bug cause existing installations to become unbootable after a while ? Consider a machine with only two installs, each of which runs update-grub occasionally. Each time update-grub is run in install A, A's menu.list is made to be twice the size of B's, and vice versa.

[Bug 26031] Re: [Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains "combinatorial expansion" of existing installations

2006-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes ("[Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains "combinatorial expansion" of existing installations"): > No, this bug isn't in update-grub, it's in the installer component that > generates the initial menu.lst. update-grub only looks at kernels in its > own installation. > > Note that

[Bug 54234] update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg early on

2006-07-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Public bug reported: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 affects /distros/ubuntu/update-manager importance high As I write in ubuntu-devel-announce: The dpkg in edgy now supports a new kind of dependency relationship, `Breaks'. This is like `Conflicts' but doesn't cause the d

[Bug 54234] Re: [Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg early on

2006-09-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg early on"): > The problem is essentially the same, i.e. the libapt implementation that > calculates the upgrade from dapper->edgy will not know about breaks > (yet). Downloading/install dpkg early does not help her

[Bug 32561] Re: [Bug 32561] Re: Pango-enabled firefox is much slower

2006-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [Bug 32561] Re: Pango-enabled firefox is much slower"): > I'll check to see if the latest betas have the patch discussed there > included; I'm not sure, because it's listed as `Trunk'. If so then we > could turn off our hack (

[Bug 59282] Re: dpkg does not honour --root option

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
The bug seems to be that dpkg-query isn't passed --admindir. (I wonder why dpkg-query was invented and will have to read the changelog to find out ...) ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Medium Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson Status:

[Bug 51468] Re: dpkg-source doesn't respect group sticky bit

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
I'll take mdz's comments as confirmation. If it does do this then it is wrong; the permissions should be sane and in particular g+s on directories should take effect and be inherited. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Low Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- dpkg-so

[Bug 47042] Re: Should not segfault with corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/available

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Happens to me too. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Low Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- Should not segfault with corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/available https://launchpad.net/bugs/47042 -

[Bug 49756] Re: manpage does not mention '-Z' to select gzip/bzip2/none compression

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- manpage does not mention '-Z' to select gzip/bzip2/none compression https://launchpad.net/bugs/49756 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 4504] Re: dpkg: multiple fixes required for Nexenta OS

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Wishlist -- dpkg: multiple fixes required for Nexenta OS https://launchpad.net/bugs/4504 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 55641] Re: dpkg - process_queue: Assertion 'dependtry <=4' failed. error

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
This was fixed in edgy's dpkg. The problem is the weird and broken dependencies in python-subversion, which trigger a dpkg bug. You can probably work around it by removing the python-subversion package. Alternatively, if you feel brave, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, search for the entry for python-

[Bug 46116] Re: Postinstall gunzip failure doesn't stop package install

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Can you please provide a transcript of this behaviour ? I suspect that the problem is in some package script, rather than in dpkg, and a transcript would show where. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- Postinstall gunzip failure doesn't stop package install

[Bug 57102] Re: Kubuntu 6.06 locale problem: package doesn't get installed when it is in a directory with spaces on its name

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
This is probably a bug in some wrapper program but I'll try to find out which one. It's far from clear that we ought to go around installing packages with double-clicks anyway! ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- Kubuntu 6.06 locale pro

[Bug 12880] Re: Answering "No" to the replace file prompt closes the save dialog

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Answering "No" to the replace file prompt closes the save dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/12880 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 26706] Re: Several seconds of 100% cpu usage when dragging tab for first time

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Several seconds of 100% cpu usage when dragging tab for first time https://launchpad.net/bugs/26706 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 26354] Re: Firefox put a blank line aat the top

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Firefox put a blank line aat the top https://launchpad.net/bugs/26354 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 19365] Re: Firefox broken dialogs, blank buttons

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
This should be fixed and is due to the language packages being out of date. We will endeavour to improve the dependencies for the next release. ** Changed in: mozilla-firefox-locale-all (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- Firefox broken dialogs, blank buttons https://launchpa

[Bug 15166] Re: Firefox high cpu when downloading a fle of an "unknown file size"

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Firefox high cpu when downloading a fle of an "unknown file size" https://launchpad.net/bugs/15166 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 19250] Re: HTML link "tooltips" (A element's title attribute) with newlines in them render incorrectly

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- HTML link "tooltips" (A element's title attribute) with newlines in them render incorrectly https://launchpad.net/bugs/19250 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 14911] Re: Flash plugin problem with ARGB visuals causes crash

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Flash plugin problem with ARGB visuals causes crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/14911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 16465] Re: Firefox eats up all the CPU with certain pages

2006-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Firefox eats up all the CPU with certain pages https://launchpad.net/bugs/16465 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 3127] Re: Firefox language settings incorrect for NZ users

2006-09-20 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Firefox language settings incorrect for NZ users https://launchpad.net/bugs/3127 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 54234] Re: [Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks"

2006-09-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks""): > The alternative is of course to not use breaks until edgy+1 (which would > be unfortunate, but given the current situation with the lack o

[Bug 54234] Re: [Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks"

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks""): > While looking at the issue again today I noticed another thing that > complicates the matters. The new apt in backports would have a diffe

[Bug 23392] Re: firefox crash when loading page

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 14911 *** ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- firefox crash when loading page https://launchpad.net/bugs/23392 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubu

[Bug 25681] Re: Mozilla Firefox hangs when loading most macromedia flash files

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 14911 *** ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Mozilla Firefox hangs when loading most macromedia flash files https://launchpad.net/bugs/25681 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com ht

[Bug 61160] Re: totem cannot be build (xpidl compiler not found)

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
This will be fixed in firefox. ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => High Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress -- totem cannot be build (xp

[Bug 61160] Re: totem cannot be build (xpidl compiler not found)

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
This is fixed in firefox_1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1ubuntu2_source and I've verified that totem builds for me now. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- totem cannot be build (xpidl compiler not found) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61160 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list u

[Bug 61804] Re: autogeneration of grub's menu.lst is invalid

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
This is nothing to do with dpkg. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dpkg => grub -- autogeneration of grub's menu.lst is invalid https://launchpad.net/bugs/61804 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 61825] Re: [Bug 61825] Firefox start page still says '6.06 Dapper Drake'

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Pitt writes ("[Bug 61825] Firefox start page still says '6.06 Dapper Drake'"): > $ dpkg -S /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html > dpkg: /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html not found. That file is managed by update-alternatives. Ian. -- Firefox start page still says '6.06 Da

[Bug 27093] Re: Firefox hangs when flash tries to play a sound

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- Firefox hangs when flash tries to play a sound https://launchpad.net/bugs/27093 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 54234] Re: [Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks" - otherwise the upgrade may fail

2006-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
So, following discussion on IRC, as I understand it the things that still need to be done are: * Put apt/dpkg/python-apt into dapper-backports; AIUI we have the appropriate sources for these packages ready and we have (or can easily have) binary builds for testing - for now, the upda

[Bug 45898] Re: 2 Georgian letters are confused. You can Notice that from the screenshot.

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
This was fixed and released as part of dapper. ** Changed in: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- 2 Georgian letters are confused. You can Notice that from the screenshot. https://launchpad.net/bugs/45898 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 63744] Re: describedepcon() is not l10n friendly

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- describedepcon() is not l10n friendly https://launchpad.net/bugs/63744 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 26610] Re: firefox doesn't update the desktop background at the second time

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ian Jackson => (unassigned) -- firefox doesn't update the desktop background at the second time https://launchpad.net/bugs/26610 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 46116] Re: Postinstall gunzip failure doesn't stop package install

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
As noted, this is almost certainly not a dpkg bug. Feel free to report again (preferably against a more appropriate package), with a transcript, if it recurs. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- Postinstall gunzip failure doesn't stop package install https://la

[Bug 38538] Re: man pages suggest info pages that don't exist.

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian Jackson -- man pages suggest info pages that don't exist. https://launchpad.net/bugs/38538 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 29729] Re: dpkg: error message is missing trailing newline and punctuation

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress -- dpkg: error message is missing trailing newline and punctuation https://launchpad.net/bugs/29729 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 57923] Re: Opening firefox by clicking on links in thunderbird breaks https

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
James Troup writes ("[Bug 57923] Re: Opening firefox by clicking on links in thunderbirdbreaks https"): > I've managed to track this down to the fact that thunderbird spawns > firebird with /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird at the front of > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a result the copy of libnss in t

[Bug 59282] Re: dpkg does not honour --root option

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
This was fixed by Debian in 1.13.18 and is in Ubuntu edgy. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- dpkg does not honour --root option https://launchpad.net/bugs/59282 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

[Bug 47042] Re: Should not segfault with corrupt /var/lib/dpkg/available

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
This seems to be fixed in edgy. Now I get: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: EOF after field name `' which while perhaps not the best error message isn't unreasonable. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Should not segfault w

[Bug 60596] Re: dpkg-source -b -i autocomplete regression?

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
-source version 1.13.22. Copyright (C) 1996 Ian Jackson and Klee Dienes. This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/work/Dpkg-edgy-1$ ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) =>

[Bug 63744] Re: describedepcon() is not l10n friendly

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress -- describedepcon() is not l10n friendly https://launchpad.net/bugs/63744 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

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