[Bug 209448] Re: emerald crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-11-29 Thread James Tait
I don't recall any further instances of this since the upgrade. More often than not, when I have problems with desktop effects the whole computer hangs. I don't seem to have a core file lying around either, so I don't think I'll be able to provide any further info. Unless any suggestions are for

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-06-22 Thread James Tait
I've been running Jaunty from a fresh install since Alpha 6 and haven't seen this problem. I don't recall whether or not I upgraded the kernel prior to reinstalling. Sorry I couldn't be more help. -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32454

[Bug 382575] [NEW] [Acer, inc. Ferrari 4000] suspend/resume failure

2009-06-01 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: I don't quite know what went wrong here. The only symptom I can report is that although I suspended my machine (by closing the lid), I had to do a full boot when I came to use it again. ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: This occured during a previous suspend and prevented

[Bug 382575] Re: [Acer, inc. Ferrari 4000] suspend/resume failure

2009-06-01 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27383868/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27383869/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27383870/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 146866] Re: package gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:

2008-11-07 Thread James Tait
I certainly didn't see any similar instances on the upgrade to Hardy. I won't pretend to understand what might have caused it, but any chance of getting logs has long since passed. I'm happy to close this. -- package gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4

2008-06-27 Thread James Tait
+1 for upgrading to Eclipse 3.4. I'd be happy to help with testing. I'd also be happy to attempt packaging and upload to a PPA if someone could offer guidance. One question -- should we be looking to get this addressed at the Debian level rather than doing it locally and duplicating the effort?

[Bug 214667] Re: [needs-upgrading] Plone 2.5.2 to Plone 3.0.6

2008-06-19 Thread James Tait
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 131238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131238 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 131238 Please package latest plone version - 3.0.6 -- [needs-upgrading] Plone 2.5.2 to Plone 3.0.6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214667 You received this b

[Bug 69026] Re: BCM43xx failing on Edgy AMD64 kernel

2008-07-14 Thread James Tait
The bcm4318 card is certainly functional for me using the b43 driver under Hardy, although it does seem to hang for several seconds every so often. I have no hard evidence to support this, just personal observations. -- BCM43xx failing on Edgy AMD64 kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69026 Y

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4

2008-07-14 Thread James Tait
I'm not familiar with PPAs etc, but it looks like the build is failing because the process hangs up. What can I be doing to assist here, if anything? I've installed several packages from the PPA and at first blush they appear to be functional, but I haven't yet used them in anger. What I have is

[Bug 69026] Re: BCM43xx failing on Edgy AMD64 kernel

2008-06-06 Thread James Tait
While the frequency of the message has certainly decreased significantly under Hardy for me, I am still seeing at least a couple of instances most days. -- BCM43xx failing on Edgy AMD64 kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/69026 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 324549] [NEW] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: I haven't been able to narrow this down to any particular activity, but it is definitely 2.6.24-23 that's the problem -- dropping back to 2.6.24-22 resolves this. Ubuntu Hardy, fully patched, on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi, AMD Turion 64 ML-37, 2GB RAM, BIOS revision 3A23. The fre

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "syslog with lockup reports -- more likely to be useful than dmesg currently" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21913149/syslog.0 -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324549 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "lspci output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21913057/lspci-vnvn.log -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324549 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
jt...@ferrari:~$ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 8.04.2 Release:8.04 jt...@ferrari:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image linux-image: Installed: 2.6.24.23.25 Candidate: 2.6.24.23.25 Version table: *** 2.6.24.23.25 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Package

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "Correct uname output for the affected kernel version" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21915175/uname-a.log -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324549 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 324549] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23

2009-02-02 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "Correct version output for the affected kernel version" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21915188/version.log -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s in linux 2.6.24-23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324549 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 310104] [NEW] sun-java5-jdk provides bogus "java5-sdk." virtual package

2008-12-20 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sun-java5-jdk Ubuntu 8.04.1 sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-15-0ubuntu1 Should provide "java5-sdk", as per java-gcj-compat-dev, openjdk-6-jdk, sun-java6-jdk; instead it provides "java5-sdk." -- note the trailing dot. ** Affects: sun-java5 (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2008-06-16 Thread James Tait
And for those of us experiencing this on a machine other than an Acer Aspire 7720? I note that Acer appear to have a new BIOS available for the Ferrari 4005WLMi (version 3A27 I think, see ftp://ftp.work.acer- euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/vista/BIOS/BIOS.zip) but it is labelled as "Bios for MS Wi

[Bug 50923] Re: Firewire camera not found with ekiga 1394avc plugin

2009-03-27 Thread James Tait
In a word: yes. I'm running currently on Ubuntu 9.04 alpha6 from a Live CD, although I intend to perform a clean installation on this machine over the weekend. Out of the box, neither Kino nor Ekiga works. If I do a chmod o+rw /dev/raw1394 then Kino immediately springs into life. Unfortunately I

[Bug 50923] Re: Firewire camera not found with ekiga 1394avc plugin

2009-03-27 Thread James Tait
I'm guessing this line from syslog is relevant: Mar 27 22:50:08 ubuntu kernel: [13448.905478] raw1394: old iso ABI has been removed -- Firewire camera not found with ekiga 1394avc plugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50923 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 408943] Re: [Acer, inc. Aspire 3000] suspend/resume failure

2009-08-12 Thread James Tait
I seem to be getting a the same problem on an Acer Ferrari 4004WLMi. I don't recall having used USB storage on any of the occasions I've seen the problem, but the black, unresponsive screen on resume definitely resonates. I left it for a couple of minutes the last time it happened and the CPU fan

[Bug 53216] Re: BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup

2006-10-23 Thread James Tait
Jerome wrote: > BTW, I just noticed that a newer skype version is available. > http://skype.com/download/skype/linux/changelog.html > > Let us know if it stops triggering the bug. This is the version I've been running and it hasn't solved the problem. gst wrote: > I disabled audio notification f

[Bug 53216] Re: BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup

2006-10-25 Thread James Tait
I've been running Skype through strace for almost two days now and although similar conditions to those that triggered the lockup before have been experienced, the lockup hasn't occurred. The worst I've seen is choppy audio and a delay in displaying IM messages. I think someone already suggested

[Bug 53216] Re: BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup

2006-10-09 Thread James Tait
Similar, but not identical problem here. It seems to happen mainly when Skype has been idle for some time, when someone sends me a chat message everything hangs for up to five minutes. Software: Ubuntu Dapper running: Kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8 Skype 1.3.0.53_API installed in a 32-bit ch

[Bug 46771] Re: Incomplete installation of heroes-common

2006-11-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching heroes.info-1 from Sourceforge download. ** Attachment added: "Sourceforge download of heroes.info-1" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4948903/heroes.info-1 -- Incomplete installation of heroes-common https://launchpad.net/bugs/46771 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 46771] Re: Incomplete installation of heroes-common

2006-11-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching heroes.info-2 from Sourceforge download. ** Attachment added: "Sourceforge download of heroes.info-2" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4948927/heroes.info-2 -- Incomplete installation of heroes-common https://launchpad.net/bugs/46771 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 46771] Re: Incomplete installation of heroes-common

2006-11-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching heroes.info from Sourceforge download. ** Attachment added: "Sourceforge download of heroes.info" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4948902/heroes.info -- Incomplete installation of heroes-common https://launchpad.net/bugs/46771 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 70232] Error opening preferences dialogue

2006-11-04 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: I just tried to open the Preferences dialogue: Edit -> Preferences. The window opened, but was empty, and the firefox process hung, including the main browser window. I had to close the main window, but it didn't close cleanly. I was trying to log into the National Lottery

[Bug 70232] Re: Error opening preferences dialogue

2006-11-06 Thread James Tait
I'm having no luck attaching the crash report, I keep getting HTTP 500 errors: 500 Internal Server Error An internal server error occurred. Please try again later. The full report is 48.3MB though. I'll try the reduced report. ** Attachment added: "Reduced crash report" http://librarian.la

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-09 Thread James Tait
Panda_N_Shark said: > I only think that people with need to connect to universities > connect throw a pix, I disagree. I know more people who connect to business networks through PIX appliances than University networks. The technology is equally applicable in either situation. > and to do that

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-10 Thread James Tait
The vpnc patch pointed out by TomasHnyk (thanks for the pointers!) is actually a better solution than I'd proposed -- allowing users to configure the DPD timeout with a default value of 300 seconds, rather than a hard-coded timeout. Setting the timeout to 0 disables DPD. Much cleaner. I wonder i

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-11 Thread James Tait
I consulted #ubuntu-motu and merged the upstream change referenced above. The only change I made was to set the DPD idle timeout to 0 by default, to disable DPD unless explicitly set by the user. This means users don't get disconnected by DPD as the default behaviour. ** Attachment added: "Patch

[Bug 151041] Re: Broadcom firmware not copied to updated kernels (Ubuntu 7.10 beta)

2007-10-12 Thread James Tait
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 138400 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138400 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 138400 bcm43xx: firmware needs to be cut again if user upgrades kernel -- Broadcom firmware not copied to updated kernels (Ubuntu 7.10 beta) https://bugs.lau

[Bug 151370] Re: Latest upgrade from 2.6.22-13 to 2.6.22-14 Ubuntu Gutsy Beta makes Broadcom WLAN stop working

2007-10-12 Thread James Tait
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 138400 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138400 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 138400 bcm43xx: firmware needs to be cut again if user upgrades kernel -- Latest upgrade from 2.6.22-13 to 2.6.22-14 Ubuntu Gutsy Beta makes Broadcom WLAN s

[Bug 146866] package gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:

2007-09-29 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gcc-4.2 Apport reported that the package failed to upgrade or install following reboot after upgrade to Gutsy beta using "upgrade-manager -c -d" ProblemType: Package Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 29 08:44:43 2007 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu

[Bug 146866] Re: package gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:

2007-09-30 Thread James Tait
This didn't get reported in quite the way I'd intended -- the AppPort report happened to come to my attention just after I'd done something else to cause something to crash and I initially thought this would be that crash report. Nonetheless, I feel this report still has some merit even if the des

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-22 Thread James Tait
Works for me in Feisty. -- vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93413 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-09 Thread James Tait
Well my wireless stopped working altogether, which I managed to narrow down to NM wanting me to supply a passphrase but no dialogue box ever appearing. I've now got it working by hard-coding my wireless key into the source code, having had to fix some breakage in my build environment. This has al

[Bug 151536] Re: [MASTER] E-D-S hangs on login and uses 100% cpu

2008-05-05 Thread James Tait
Disabling Evolution Alarm Notifier in Session Startup works around the problem. Re-ordering it to priority 60 instead of 50 only delays it. -- [MASTER] E-D-S hangs on login and uses 100% cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 151536] Re: [MASTER] E-D-S hangs on login and uses 100% cpu

2008-04-26 Thread James Tait
{linux64, AMD64, 1 (single-core) CPU} Linux ferrari 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux AMD64 doesn't appear to prevent this from happening, at least not for me -- this hits me after every reboot. I actually haven't tried logging out then back in without a rebo

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-12 Thread James Tait
Since applying some new updates yesterday evening this appears to have gone away. I still get an annoying series of beeps on resume, but the wireless works flawlessly through NM. Linux ferrari 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm not sure if there's a way to

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-12 Thread James Tait
I should probably also add that I'm still on pm-utils 0.99.2-3ubuntu8 -- I have the update to -3ubuntu9 still in my available updates, so it wasn't that update that fixed the problem. -- NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43] https:

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2008-02-08 Thread James Tait
Now operating on Gutsy, still on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi, BIOS 3A23. $ uname -a Linux ferrari 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 31 23:33:13 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 36 model name

[Bug 172648] Re: CCMP: decrypt failed with BCM43xx

2007-12-14 Thread James Tait
I see the same behaviour. Linux ferrari 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Dec 14 21:52:26 ferrari kernel: [11058.509103] CCMP: decrypt failed: STA=00:18:4d:09:5f:54 However, the address listed in the messages is not that of my AP but of another in the area (K

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-17 Thread James Tait
I think I should clarify my previous, probably too brief, comment. I asked on #ubuntu-motu for guidance on how to proceed with this ticket. It was agreed that 06_stolen_from_head.dpatch was too large to back out, so the http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc- devel/2007-April/001498.html pa

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-21 Thread James Tait
I see the new version in Gutsy, but not in feisty-proposed. I'm hoping this will automatically happen by setting the status to Fix Committed as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU. ** Changed in: vpnc (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Committed -- vpnc dead peer detection disconnects i

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-05 Thread James Tait
I'll verify the symptoms, although I suspect it has more to do with the b43 driver not coping with re-initialising the card after suspend/hibernate. I'm using an Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux ferrari 2.6.24

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-05 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "dmesg output on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13129591/dmesg.txt -- NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209970 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-05 Thread James Tait
Agreed Petr. I did a little more digging earlier today and managed to get scan results immediately after resuming from suspend. When I can get physical access to my AP to reset the WPA2 key, which I've forgotten as I let the Gnome keyring remember it for me, I'll verify whether or not I'm able to

[Bug 209970] Re: NetworkManager stops working for wireless after going to sleep (both ram and disk) [newest Hardy; b43]

2008-04-07 Thread James Tait
1) I wasn't aware of that feature, is it new? Nonetheless, the value displayed in the dialogue box does not resemble any passphrase I would have entered -- at the very least it contains hex values for non-printable characters. Nor does it match the output from iwconfig. 2) I spent some time br

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-23 Thread James Tait
I'm working on a patch to allow a config option to disable RFC3706 Dead Peer Detection. All being well should be available in the next day or so. -- vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93413 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-23 Thread James Tait
I'm attaching above-mentioned patch for someone with greater knowledge than me to test. The patch is completely untested as I currently have no idea about building and packaging in Ubuntu. I'm sure I'll get up to speed eventually, but in the meantime if someone else is able to apply the patch and

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-24 Thread James Tait
aoyoyo, I think you need to add universe to the deb-src line, thus: deb-src http://th.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe -- vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93413 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-04-25 Thread James Tait
Certainly. When you first boot, before the Ubuntu splash/progress screen, GRUB should present you with a list of options. The first should be something along the lines of "Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic Default" (I believe it will be 2.6.17 for Edgy). Press 'e' to edit the boot configuration.

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-25 Thread James Tait
But doesn't removing the 06 patch completely disable DPD and some other functionality even for those devices with which it works? -- vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93413 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 50923] Re: Firewire camera not found with ekiga 1394avc plugin

2007-06-08 Thread James Tait
Jérôme Guelfucci said 8 hours ago: > > So this is an Ekiga problem (as it works out of the box with kino) or a pwlib > problem? I just did the following: $ apt-get source pwlib ekiga $ grep -R -i 1394 pwlib-1.10.3/ ekiga-2.0.3/ The only lines in the output that showed up for Ekiga were: ekiga

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-20 Thread James Tait
I have currently rolled back to 0.3.3 but I'm willing to help out with fixing 0.4.0. While I can't offer unrestricted access to our production PIX, I'm quite happy to supply debug output where it will help. Note that I'm not really familiar with the Debian/Ubuntu build process, so I'd need to get

[Bug 73266] Re: regression: Incorrect battery status reported on Acer laptops in edgy

2007-04-20 Thread James Tait
Also now working for me in Feisty. -- regression: Incorrect battery status reported on Acer laptops in edgy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73266 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-27 Thread James Tait
If I understand DevenPhillips' last message correctly, this is no longer required, but I'm attaching the corrected, tested patch to allow disabling of Dead Peer Detection. I have an AMD64 package available if others would like to test it. If you wish to build your own package: - place this fil

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-04-30 Thread James Tait
I think there are two issues here -- the first, that DPD doesn't work in some circumstances, can be worked around with the ability to disable DPD in those circumstances. In fact perhaps it should be disabled by default so that those with appliances with which DPD would cause problems get the bette

[Bug 50923] Re: Firewire camera not found with ekiga 1394avc plugin

2007-05-04 Thread James Tait
For me, on Feisty, Ekiga looks to /dev/raw1394 for Firewire cameras, not /dev/dv1394/0 as Kino does. I had to change the permissions on /dev/raw1394 (chmod o+rw /dev/raw1394) for my camera to be detected. Also, I get kernel messages thus: May 3 16:23:43 ferrari kernel: [66474.165171] ieee1394: T

[Bug 93413] Re: vpnc dead peer detection disconnects immediately

2007-05-08 Thread James Tait
OK folks, how do we need to move forward on this? - Firstly, should the patch I submitted be "reversed" so that DPD disabled is the default behaviour and users can enable DPD by using an "Enable Dead Peer Detection" config option? - I guess whichever way it goes I'll need to edit documentatio

[Bug 53216] Re: BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup

2007-04-17 Thread James Tait
John McPherson said on 2007-04-10: > this lockup does not occur for me any more using skype on ubuntu 7.04 betas > that come with kernel 2.6.20. Thanks for the heads-up. I've re-enabled sound and the problem seems to have gone away. I'm running Feisty, kernel "Linux ferrari 2.6.20-15-generic #2

[Bug 69872] Re: "Unknown or unsupported Excel file format." with embedded Excel document

2007-04-17 Thread James Tait
I seem to have mislaid my copy of the document, so I'm trying to get hold of a copy. The contents of both the Word document and the embedded Excel spreadsheet include confidential details of our and one of our clients' production environments, so I cannot make them available for general viewing.

[Bug 69872] Re: "Unknown or unsupported Excel file format." with embedded Excel document

2007-04-18 Thread James Tait
I got a copy of the document and downgraded to OOo 2.0.4 from Edgy to test. I still got the error message as expected, so I moved back up to OOo 2.2.0 from Feisty (I'm running Feisty anyway) and now I don't get the error message. The embedded spreadsheet isn't displayed inline -- I get a rectang

[Bug 65159] Re: [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0

2006-10-27 Thread James Tait
I have the same here. Roughly 3-4 instances of this message per second in syslog. I noticed something in the boot log: Oct 27 09:57:09 ferrari kernel: [ 20.545479] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller :00:14.1 Oct 27 09:57:09 ferrari kernel: [ 20.546417] PCI: Transparent bridge - 000

[Bug 65159] Re: [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0

2006-10-27 Thread James Tait
Just rebooted and getting the same error. The error I was trying to find was in dmesg output: [ 20.014050] irq 233: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 20.014055] [ 20.014056] Call Trace: {ret_from_intr+0} [ 20.014065]{__report_bad_irq+53} {note_interrupt+544

[Bug 65159] Re: [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0

2006-10-27 Thread James Tait
Booting with the "irqpoll" option gives a significant reduction in the number of these messages, although they're not completely eliminated. Also, plugging in the DV camcorder via the IEEE1394 socket, I now get entries in dmesg, although I can't currently capture the video playback from the camera

[Bug 69872] "Unknown or unsupported Excel file format." with embedded Excel document

2006-11-02 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org I have been sent a Word document with an embedded Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately I am not able to attach a copy of the document as the contents are sensitive. When I open the document using OpenOffice.org Writer, I get an error dialog:

[Bug 69872] Re: "Unknown or unsupported Excel file format." with embedded Excel document

2006-11-02 Thread James Tait
The standalone Excel file was saved from the embedded original using Excel 2002. -- "Unknown or unsupported Excel file format." with embedded Excel document https://launchpad.net/bugs/69872 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

[Bug 22985] Re: [x700] fails to infer lvds for primary connector on acer ferrari 4005 | card detected, but driver fails to use right output port

2007-03-08 Thread James Tait
I've upgraded my running system (Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi with BIOS 3A23) to Feisty and removed the workaround lines from the xorg.conf. After restarting Xorg and even rebooting, the correct (LVDS) display is used. This was not the case in Ubuntu 6.10. I don't currently have access to a CDRW to wri

[Bug 90709] lshw uses deprecated PCMCIA ioctl interface

2007-03-08 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lshw When using the lshw tool to get a list of the hardware in my system, I get the following warning in /var/log/syslog: Mar 8 15:18:13 ferrari kernel: [25713.197235] pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: lshw. Mar 8 15:18:13 f

[Bug 80969] Re: PCMCIA serial card fails to initialise correctly

2007-03-08 Thread James Tait
I'm not sure if mine is the same card as Stefano's but I also have an Option UMTS/GPRS data card marked "Model: GT 3G Quad" (packaged as a Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS data card). This currently works for me on the Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi, BIOS 3A23, kernel "linux- image-2.6.20-9-generic" (Linux

[Bug 80969] Re: PCMCIA serial card fails to initialise correctly

2007-03-09 Thread James Tait
> I have a Option Fusion, as well, which works fine, because it presents USB HCD and USB serial ports. I'll bet that your GT Quad does the same thing. Absolutely correct. Apologies for the bogus information. -- PCMCIA serial card fails to initialise correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/80969 -

[Bug 88907] [apport] package bcm43xx-fwcutter failed to install/upgrade: "

2007-03-01 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager During upgrade from Edgy to Feisty via "gksudo update-manager -c -d" bcm43xx-fwcutter failed to upgrade. ProblemType: Package Date: Thu Mar 1 10:44:06 2007 ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error ex

[Bug 89055] Re: [apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()"

2007-03-01 Thread James Tait
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6583505/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6583506/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6583507/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 89055] [apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()"

2007-03-01 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel This could be a duplicate of any one of the similar apport logs that have already been reported, but I don't currently have the necessary knowledge to make that call. I wasn't doing anything special when the crash occurred, I think I may just

[Bug 77634] Re: IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-03-07 Thread James Tait
Upgrading to Feisty (linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic) has resolved this issue for me. -- IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77634 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-03-07 Thread James Tait
I have recently upgraded to Feisty (linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic) and the frequency of these messages is greatly reduced, although they are not eliminated completely. I intend to take a look at the Linux Firmware Kit suggested by Cristian above, but something has clearly changed in the kernel that

[Bug 65159] Re: [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0

2007-03-07 Thread James Tait
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 66900 *** Upgrading to Feisty (linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic) greatly reduces the frequency of these messages. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 66900 APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) -- [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0 https://launchpad.net/bugs/65159 --

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-03-07 Thread James Tait
I have submitted a Linux Firmware Kit report for the Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi with BIOS 3A23. It is currently awaiting moderator approval, but should be available via the archives at http://www.bughost.org/pipermail /firmwarekit-results/ soon. -- APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) https://launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 92339] Re: Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups'

2007-03-14 Thread James Tait
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 92205 *** The symlinks don't appear to be necessary -- simply creating /usr/share/cups/mime seems to solve the problem. -- Unable to load MIME database from '/usr/share/cups/mime:/etc/cups' https://launchpad.net/bugs/92339 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 54334] Re: vlc give segmentation fault on amd64 when playin dvd

2007-02-08 Thread James Tait
Freshly-burned DVD of a friend's wedding (so no CSS etc) caused VLC to crash with the message: Feb 8 17:03:51 ferrari kernel: [326815.987262] vlc[15097]: segfault at b2b19803 rip 2fd56937 rsp 43004750 error 4 in /var/log/syslog. Crash dump (sadly without debug symbols) a

[Bug 77638] Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: When booting from an Edgy Live DVD on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (BIOS v S3A19), the Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter is not functional. I have installed the firmware in /lib/firmware/2.6.17-10-generic/ as extracted using bcm43xx-fwcutter, but the device doesn't work. However, bo

[Bug 77638] Re: Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching dmesg output. ** Attachment added: "dmesg output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5575581/dmesg -- Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77638 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

[Bug 77638] Re: Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching lspci -vv output. ** Attachment added: "lspci -vv output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5575582/lspci_vv_output.txt ** Description changed: When booting from an Edgy Live DVD on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (BIOS v S3A19), the Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter is not functional. I hav

[Bug 77634] Re: IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching dmesg output. ** Attachment added: "dmesg output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5575538/dmesg -- IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77634 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

[Bug 77634] IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Public bug reported: When booting from an Edgy Live DVD on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (BIOS v S3A19), the IEEE1394 adapter is not functional. I get a message in dmesg "irq 233: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option)". I have tried booting with irqpoll and pci=assign-busses and the IEEE

[Bug 77634] Re: IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Attaching lspci output. ** Attachment added: "lspci output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5575539/lspci -- IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77634 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

[Bug 77634] Re: IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
I realised that lspci -vv might be more useful. Output attached. ** Attachment added: "lspci -vv output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5575577/lspci_vv_output.txt ** Tags added: 6.10 acer edgy firewire ieee1394 ** Also affects: linux (upstream) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconf

[Bug 73266] Re: regression: Incorrect battery status reported on Acer laptops in edgy

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi, BIOS 3A19, running Edgy. With standard kernel boot options (command line is root=UUID=e9c019e5 -d78a-4cc0-8c4a-129eadbe0e3b ro quiet splash), g-p-m applet never displays. Battery Charge Monitor applet always shows AC power, even with no AC connected. However, CPU frequenc

[Bug 73266] Re: regression: Incorrect battery status reported on Acer laptops in edgy

2007-01-03 Thread James Tait
With the aforementioned kernel boot options (command line is root=UUID=e9c019e5-d78a-4cc0-8c4a-129eadbe0e3b ro quiet splash irqpoll pci=routeirq) I get the correct icon in Battery Charge Monitor, g-p-m applet displays and gives me a notification when I remove AC power, and I get the following outpu

[Bug 47971] Re: synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to

2007-01-04 Thread James Tait
I had a similar problem on my Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi. I added the FingerHigh and FingerLow options to the InputDevice section as follows: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents""true"

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-01-10 Thread James Tait
I'm willing to add my experience as to whether the BIOS update fixes the problem, but I need to get a bootable DOS medium in order to flash the BIOS. I've had no luck so far getting my USB key to boot into FreeDOS and I don't have a floppy drive available. As soon as I figure it out I'll post the

[Bug 70232] Re: Error opening preferences dialogue

2007-01-19 Thread James Tait
Unfortunately not. I think it's only happened the one time, so I was really hoping that the crash report would have enough information to explain why. I don't appear to have the full crash report in /var/crash any longer, so I suppose there's not much more to add -- it was probably just a transie

[Bug 65159] Re: [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0

2007-01-22 Thread James Tait
For what it's worth, I just upgraded my (Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi) laptop's BIOS from 3A19 to 3A23 and it had no effect on this. -- [Edgy] APIC error on CPU0 https://launchpad.net/bugs/65159 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-01-22 Thread James Tait
Ben, Cristian: As Alvin pointed out above, updating the BIOS on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi does not solve this problem. I just updated from BIOS 3A19 to 3A23 and still have as many of these messages in my dmesg output. Upgrading the BIOS is not the answer. -- APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) https://laun

[Bug 77634] Re: IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

2007-01-22 Thread James Tait
Updating the laptop BIOS from 3A19 to 3A23 did not solve this problem. -- IEEE1394 not working on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77634 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 77638] Re: Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi

2007-01-22 Thread James Tait
Updating the laptop BIOS from 3A19 to 3A23 did not solve this problem. -- Broadcom 4318 Wireless NIC not working on Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi https://launchpad.net/bugs/77638 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 66900] Re: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2007-01-22 Thread James Tait
Output of lspci -vv with irqpoll after BIOS update to 3A23. ** Attachment added: "Output of lspci -vv with irqpoll" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5822038/lspic-vv.out -- APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66900 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com htt

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