[Bug 231811] Re: freedom is a dependancy for prboom... but shouldn't

2008-07-25 Thread Jon Dowland
I've just uploaded -5 to debian which moves the wad dependencies to Recommends:. I received one comment on the games list which was an affirmative. Whether or not ubuntu decides to use game-data-packager or not is up to you folks, of course. If you opt not to, there's a patch in -5 which adds some

[Bug 328127] Re: gnome-keyring-daemon returns Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
I'd say once the bug was confirmed upstream it would make sense to perform further work there. -- gnome-keyring-daemon returns Agent admitted failure to sign using the key. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328127 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 348126] Re: ssh are using ssh-userauth but ignores private key

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Also (just for tracking) Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524018 -- ssh are using ssh-userauth but ignores private key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 348126] Re: ssh are using ssh-userauth but ignores private key

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Dowland
I think, but I am not sure, that this is reported upstream already at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576700 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #576700 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576700 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #524018 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

[Bug 339097] Re: ssh keys only work if manually added with 'ssh-add' not if seahorse prompts for them

2009-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
I bet your laptop is running i386. I think this is an amd64 and BE issue, but it's reported all over LP already (348126, 328127, 328445...) -- ssh keys only work if manually added with 'ssh-add' not if seahorse prompts for them https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339097 You received this bug notific

[Bug 18864] Re: docking/undocking support isn't included

2009-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, sorry for the delay, I rarely check launchpad... afaik this still is not implemented and I will be persuing it again soon. -- docking/undocking support isn't included https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18864 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a d

[Bug 231811] Re: freedom is a dependancy for prboom... but shouldn't

2008-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
You do need a wad file and prboom is useless without one. I guess you are suggesting that the wad file should be seen as similar to e.g. a JPEG used in conjunction with the GIMP: you don't need to provide a JPEG in a package for GIMP to be in the archive. The difference of course is the GIMP can be

[Bug 231811] Re: freedom is a dependancy for prboom... but shouldn't

2008-07-21 Thread Jon Dowland
> The name prboom is misleading enough as it is, so if someone was installing > it > they probably already read the description and know what they're doing. I think this bug report is evidence that people *aren't* reading the package description, or they'd know about doom-package and how to avoi

[Bug 146859] Re: No dri for virtual screen greater than 2048x2048

2008-09-16 Thread Jon Dowland
Mesa 7.1 has now been released. I'm not sure whether the patch has gone in or not. -- No dri for virtual screen greater than 2048x2048 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 232004] Re: qemu alsa support is broken

2008-08-09 Thread Jon Dowland
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #494462 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494462 ** Also affects: qemu (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494462 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- qemu alsa support is broken https://bugs.launch

[Bug 175508] Re: Please remove reportbug-ng from Intrepid

2008-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
Amazing. So if the diff was applied properly, it would do the wrong thing (mail ubuntu-users), and without, it files it in the Debian bugtracker? Why on earth was this package imported? -- Please remove reportbug-ng from Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175508 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 176363] Re: i cant find teh games i downloaded from synaptic package manager

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Games go in /usr/games. The PATH above does not include /usr/games. It does include /usr/sbin though. Root, by default, does not include /usr/games but does include /usr/sbin. The user is most likely running as root. I suggest running as a normal user. You can see the list of files installed by a

[Bug 231811] yes it should.

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
If you read the prboom package's description, you should see "PrBoom requires an IWAD to play. A free IWAD is available in the freedoom package. You can install your commercial Doom IWADs using doom-package. ". The reason for using Depends: is that prboom cannot be used without an IWAD. In Debian

[Bug 101936] Re: [apport] prboom crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
It's a problem with MIDI playback and some hardware, not all. Timidity fixes it because that makes prboom use software MIDI playback rather than hardware. It shouldn't be a dependency because not all hardware MIDI is affected. I think it's a bug in the SDL mixer library. You can get around it by

[Bug 101936] Re: [apport] prboom crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Penguin command apparently might behave the same: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298982 It was a while ago but in the libsdl1.2-mixer documentation it says "do not do ", I think if you are using it asynchronously, prboom does. When I stopped it doing that (patch not available bu

[Bug 298992] Re: ROTT freezes after a short while

2009-07-08 Thread Jon Dowland
This sounds like exactly the same issue as #101936 LP in prboom (debbugs #472087), penguin command (debian #298982)... -- ROTT freezes after a short while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298992 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 370661] Re: bugs out when using dash as /bin/sh

2009-07-11 Thread Jon Dowland
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 370609 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370609 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 370609 "/usr/games/game-data-packager: 31: source: not found" -- bugs out when using dash as /bin/sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370661 You received this

[Bug 370609] Re: "/usr/games/game-data-packager: 31: source: not found"

2009-07-11 Thread Jon Dowland
This was fixed in Debian in January '09, with version 19. The current version in Debian is 22. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #501173 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501173 ** Also affects: game-data-packager (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

[Bug 358391] Re: Window games should start in the centre of the screen

2009-07-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Even aside from the issue of responsibility (game or WM), freedoom is merely a lump of world data and does not draw any windows at all. The window drawing is performed by an engine, most likely "prboom". ** Changed in: freedoom (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Window games should start

[Bug 358391] Re: Window games should start in the centre of the screen

2009-07-11 Thread Jon Dowland
My comments: definitely a window manager issue, although maybe some games could provide "hints" to the WM. The concept of "centered" doesn't even make sense in some environments (tiled awesome, ion2, ion3, etc.). If a game does try to position itself centrally, it would no doubt suffer from many bu

[Bug 61855] Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2006-09-22 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: I attempted a fairly basic install using Edgy Knot 3 powerpc desktop CD. I had to manually edit partitions to create a swap and ext3 partition: the disk was previously partitioned using mac os x installer's disk utility to have 10GB HFS+ partition first, then 10GB free space a

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2006-09-22 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "/var/log/syslog" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4396585/syslog -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61855 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2006-09-22 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "the installer crash dialogue" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4396555/installer_crash.png -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61855 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2006-09-22 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "/var/log/partman" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4396581/partman -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61855 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2006-09-22 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "the yaboot error dialogue" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4396554/yaboot_error.png -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://launchpad.net/bugs/61855 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 60618] Re: Can't use some MMC cards

2006-10-02 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi: just a general pointer, this bug report would be a lot easier to read if you attached the big dmesg output as an attachment rather than in-line and only provided the relevant line from lspci (at least for me: I'm not sure what the kernel team or general launchpad etiquette is). Regarding upstr

[Bug 18864] Re: docking/undocking support isn't included

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
Oh, if the button isn't generating events, the unmask to do is echo enable,0x > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- docking/undocking support isn't included https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18864 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 18864] Re: docking/undocking support isn't included

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
that was for /etc/acpi/events; here's the shellscript ** Attachment added: "acpi dock script" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10169534/thinkpad-dock.sh -- docking/undocking support isn't included https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18864 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 18864] Re: docking/undocking support isn't included

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
Here's a preliminary script for acpi-support to support hot docking/undocking. For the thinkpad "undock please" button to work, you need to unmask it in /proc/acpi/ibm/event; I'm not sure if acpi-support or hotkey-support do this already. You'll need thinkpad-acpi loaded for that /proc bit to be

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2007-07-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, I haven't the faintest unfortunately. I'm not likely to get around to investigating Ubuntu on the PPC again for a long time -- I'm too busy with other things :( -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61855 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 87870] Re: Cannot connect (terminating on signal 15)

2007-06-06 Thread Jon Dowland
This package has stopped working for me today since I've upgraded from Edgy to Feisty. No diagnostic info yet, but I'll have a go today. -- Cannot connect (terminating on signal 15) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 570697] [NEW] non-sensical items in context menu for DVD-ROM icons

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus the icon for my DVD drive / an inserted DVD within the "Computer" menu includes an item "Rename..." which purports to allow me to rename it. This is nonsensical. If I attempt it, I am greeted with a dialogue "Sorry, could not rename "CD/DVD Drive

[Bug 570697] Re: non-sensical items in context menu for DVD-ROM icons

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45719452/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45719453/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45719454/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 570697] Re: non-sensical items in context menu for DVD-ROM icons

2010-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #617056 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617056 ** Also affects: nautilus via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617056 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- non-sensical items in context menu for DVD-ROM icons https://bugs

[Bug 570590] Re: empathy can be running without a visible UI

2010-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I do not see an icon for empathy in the notification area. I've just added a new notification area to confirm this. -- empathy can be running without a visible UI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570590 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 570590] Re: empathy can be running without a visible UI

2010-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I've just checked to see what happens with no notification area or indicator applet: without either, empathy disappears in just the same manner as already described. -- empathy can be running without a visible UI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570590 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 570590] Re: empathy can be running without a visible UI

2010-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
With no indicator applet, this causes empathy to draw an icon in the notification area. so the bug can be restated as: With no indicator applet in gnome-panel and with the default options set (i.e. "show incoming messages in the messaging menu"), on clicking the 'close' button on the empathy main

[Bug 225862] Re: Handling large list of wallpaper images in Appearance Preferences dialog freezes the window

2010-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #578758 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578758 ** Also affects: debian via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578758 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Handling large list of wallpaper images in Appearance

[Bug 570209] [NEW] muine about page links to a domain squatter homepage

2010-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: muine Muine 0.8.11 the about dialog links to http://www.muine-player.org/ as of the time of this report, the above URL is being domain-squatted http://muine.gooeylinux.org/ might be more appropriate ** Affects: muine (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecide

[Bug 570209] Re: muine about page links to a domain squatter homepage

2010-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
** Patch added: "fix" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45523011/muine_homepage.diff -- muine about page links to a domain squatter homepage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 553724] Re: gnome-appearance-properties show incorrect previews about window controls position

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 532754 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532754 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 532754 gnome-appearance does not reflect order of metacity buttons correctly -- gnome-appearance-properties show incorrect previews about window controls po

[Bug 570577] [NEW] fixed-width font sometimes mis-aligns

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: chromium-browser An odd one this. Perhaps not chromium's fault, but that is where I've witnessed the problem. Whilst editing a wiki page (http://ikiwiki.info/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/) I noticed that some vertical bar characters did not align cor

[Bug 570577] Re: fixed-width font sometimes mis-aligns

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "bizarre alignment issue.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45685373/bizarre%20alignment%20issue.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45685236/Dependencies.txt -- fixed-width font sometimes mis-aligns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 570590] [NEW] empathy can be running without a visible UI

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: empathy The default behaviour for empathy with the indicator applet present on gnome-panel is to hide the UI when you click the close button but keep running. The UI can be brought back to life by selecting "Chat" under the indicator applet. If you remo

[Bug 570590] Re: empathy can be running without a visible UI

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45690412/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45690420/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45690425/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 576873] [NEW] logout/shutdown icon has become invisible

2010-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: indicator-applet The lock screen / logout / etc. button within the indicator applet has become invisible. The main icon (set status etc.) is still visible. I do not know what has triggered this. Screenshot attached. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu

[Bug 576873] Re: logout/shutdown icon has become invisible

2010-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "screenshot showing the invisible icon activated" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47986280/indicator_applet_invisible.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47985950/Dependencies.txt -- logout/shutdown icon has become invisible https:/

[Bug 576873] Re: logout/shutdown icon has become invisible

2010-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 568360 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568360 Hi, are you sure? That bug's description is totally different. The screenshot in that other report shows the relevant icon rendering correctly. Have you marked the wrong bug as duplicate? -- logout/shutdown

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Chad, reading the bug notes I can't understand why the bug is invalid. Can you please explain? -- visual corruption affecting several panel applets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 61855] Re: Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3)

2010-01-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Przemyslaw, you (Ubuntu) do not even support PowerPC in 9.10, so If I followed your advice I would be totally wasting my time. (Oh, how I *hate* copy-and-paste triage texts...) -- Installer crashed (powerpc,edgy knot 3) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61855 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 513688] Re: FTBFS in Lucid (2 clause open(2) with O_CREAT)

2010-01-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Oh, Daniel T Chen has already done this for 0.5.4-1ubuntu1, I hadn't seen the patch... -- FTBFS in Lucid (2 clause open(2) with O_CREAT) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 513688] Re: FTBFS in Lucid (2 clause open(2) with O_CREAT)

2010-01-30 Thread Jon Dowland
** Changed in: archfs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- FTBFS in Lucid (2 clause open(2) with O_CREAT) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubunt

[Bug 514454] Re: freedm crashes after starting

2010-02-01 Thread Jon Dowland
"freedm" is calling whatever is providing "/usr/games/boom" on your system, most likely prboom, and that is crashing. Freedoom and freedm are essentially just game data, but they also carry a small shell script (/usr/games/freed{oom,m}), a .desktop file, icon etc. Please confirm which package is p

[Bug 514454] Re: freedm crashes after starting

2010-02-01 Thread Jon Dowland
P.S. I'd wager that you are experiencing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/prboom/+bug/375498 -- freedm crashes after starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/514454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8

2010-02-03 Thread Jon Dowland
** Summary changed: - prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic + prboom exits with signal 8 -- prboom exits with signal 8 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 516368] Re: Prboom crash after play new game

2010-02-03 Thread Jon Dowland
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 375498 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375498 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 375498 prboom exits with signal 8 -- Prboom crash after play new game https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516368 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 511810] Re: possibility to use full version data files

2010-02-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At the moment, Fabian and I are working on implementing rott support in game-data-packager. It should be quite trivial for us to extend that support to the commercial data. One issue though is I do not currently own a copy of the game. It looks like it can be bought from 3drealms.com for about 5.5

[Bug 452706] Re: rott wouldnt install

2010-02-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Relevant log excerpt: Setting up rott (1.0+dfsg-2) ... Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory 256x256/emblems of theme Industrial has no size field dpkg: error processing rott (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 If the Gtk-WARNING has been ca

[Bug 415720] Re: prboom crashes when starting a game with freedoom

2009-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
Can you tell us a bit more about your VM? What CPU type (x86? amd64?) how much memory have you given it? can you also try prboom with -nosound? -- prboom crashes when starting a game with freedoom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415720 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-11-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Thanks. Unfortunately we need a backtrace with debugging symbols which means one from a rebuilt package (there is no seperate debugging symbols package for prboom at the moment) I've passed this onto upstream who suggest just disabling all asm. I don't kNow who is responsible for the ubuntu packag

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Robert J Lee, thanks for your offer. For info, in general, if you define the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable to include "nostrip", then the package build process will not strip debugging symbols from binaries. However, I passed this onto the upstream author, who suggested that there was no

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Greg, Did you read the bug report? We already know that. -- prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375498 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.ubunt

[Bug 570209] Re: muine about page links to a domain squatter homepage

2010-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
My patch was against upstream git HEAD. Adapting it for Ubuntu is trivial; to be honest, running find . -type f | perl -p -i -e 's,muine- player.org,muine.gooeylinux.org,g' (or similar) would be quicker than adjusting and applying a patch. But, since you insist, find an adjusted one for Ubun

[Bug 435949] Re: should Conflicts and Provides metacity

2010-06-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Erm... a) the OPs suggestion would prevent you from installing mutter alongside metacity, which is pretty important for curious people who might want to perhaps evaluate mutter, but not commit to using it, and need an exit strategy. Especially since mutter fails to start for many people right now.

[Bug 592683] [NEW] mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.)

2010-06-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mutter >From within a standard GNOME session (inc metacity), with desktop effects disabled (running inside a vbox VM): j...@ra:~$ mutter --replace OpenGL Warning: glXChooseFBConfigSGIX not implemented by Chromium Window manager error: Unable to initializ

[Bug 592683] Re: mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.)

2010-06-11 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50135348/Dependencies.txt -- mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 592683] Re: mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.)

2010-06-11 Thread Jon Dowland
I just attempted to start mutter from a failsafe terminal session (no gnome-session or any composite or window managers running) and received the same error. -- mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592683 You received this bug

[Bug 215008] Re: at least baobab is missing the lpi menu items

2010-05-14 Thread Jon Dowland
@Neal, thanks for the clarification: that's helped me file a duplicate of this bug. -- at least baobab is missing the lpi menu items https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 513688] [NEW] FTBFS in Lucid (2 clause open(2) with O_CREAT)

2010-01-28 Thread Jon Dowland
. Fix is to add a third argument with a mode. This patch should fix it (unsure: my local gcc doesn't fail with the 2 clause version): commit 02c13984d720ddfe6a5fe654d8e0e8242884276e Author: Jon Dowland Date: Thu Jan 28 09:31:44 2010 + use 3-clause open(2) with O_CREAT diff --git a/l

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Could someone who is experiencing this bug please provide a backtrace? It looks like some of the assembler in prboom is not liked by the version of gcc being used by Ubuntu. I'm guessing this is a more recent version than Debian (or some feature or patch applied is missing on Debian) so the proble

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Thanks to ferrazrafael for your efforts in providing a "fixed" package, but I don't think it's a good idea to advise people to install unsigned packages. -- prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8 on karmic

2009-09-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Ok I can confirm this using karmic's prboom package on a Debian sid i386 machine. Using the latest version of the package in Debian (-5 rather than -4) is fine. I suspect a bad build or something. Someone who looks after this stuff in Ubuntu should either schedule a rebuild or pull in the more re

[Bug 1731680] Re: quake3 demo shows 8-10 fps only

2017-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, thanks for the report. This is likely a local configuration with your quake3 engine of choice (ioquake3) and not an issue with your data package nor with game-data-packager. It would be helpful for further diagnosis if you could report whether you get a different framerate with different data,

[Bug 1714787] Re: Launching chocolate-doom or prboom-plus crashes Wayland session

2017-11-27 Thread Jon Dowland
Can you try either prboom or chocolate-doom with the '-nofullscreen' command-line option? My hunch is the problem is related to trying to change the display resolution whilst entering fullscreen mode. It's likely actually an SDL1 bug. In Chocolate Doom's case, we are moving to SDL2 with the next r

[Bug 608806] Re: wrong version is packaged: 1.8 not 1.9

2010-12-17 Thread Jon Dowland
The fixed package is in Natty at least. I've marked the bug "fix released" accordingly. ** Tags added: maverick ** Changed in: doom-wad-shareware (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 375498] Re: prboom exits with signal 8

2010-12-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Tony, that's because that isn't the fixed package. As the last message said, the fixed package is 2:2.5.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu1, which is currently in maverick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 610896] Re: attempts to mount with allow_other set, even when you don't ask

2010-12-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Which newest virtualbox-ose? Do you mean the latest in Maverick, which is what I have tested with, or a newer one e.g. the one in Natty? Can I safely upgrade virtualbox to the natty version on a Maverick system? Or downgrade again? Have you tried to reproduce this bug? ** Changed in: virtualbo

[Bug 648609] Re: unable to unmount broken cifs mount

2010-12-23 Thread Jon Dowland
I mount by hand via "mount" with the following line in /etc/fstab //tower3/home13/njd33 /home/jon/h cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,username=CAMPUS\njd33,user,noauto 0 0 ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 620323] Re: attempts to spawn infinite number of file manager windows

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
When this happens, I think the nautilus process is segfaulting and being autorestarted (thanks drs305 for the hint). I've finally managed to capture a backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 0xb71d8b96 in cairo_set_source_surface () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 #1 0xb73a8993 in gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf ()

[Bug 620323] Re: attempts to spawn infinite number of file manager windows

2010-11-17 Thread Jon Dowland
I've tweaked autorestart as suggested. Next time this happens, hopefully I will be able to determine whether nautilus is the chicken or the egg. -- attempts to spawn infinite number of file manager windows https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620323 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 686609] [NEW] the fuse filesystem for gvfs has got "stuck"

2010-12-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gvfs $ df -h | grep gvfs gvfs-fuse-daemon 92G 87G 960M 99% /home/jon/.gvfs /dev/fuse 92G 87G 960M 99% /home/jon/.gvfs j...@sobek:~$ fusermount -u .gvfs fusermount: /home/jon/.gvfs not mounted j...@sobek:~$ umount .gvfs umount:

[Bug 686609] Re: the fuse filesystem for gvfs has got "stuck"

2010-12-07 Thread Jon Dowland
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686609 Title: the fuse filesystem for gvfs has got "stuck" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

[Bug 592683] Re: mutter will not start (Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.)

2010-12-08 Thread Jon Dowland
I'm unclear why the status was "Incomplete" (and thus now "Expired"). What further information do you want? Shouldn't this be "Confirmed"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592683 Title:

[Bug 656313] Re: update libsdl-mixer1.2 and libsdl-mixer1.2-dev

2010-12-08 Thread Jon Dowland
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 502634 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502634 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 502634 Upgrade sdl-mixer to 1.2.11 for lucid * You can subscribe to bug 502634 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sdl-mixer1.2

[Bug 682629] [NEW] occasionally moves to occupy 50% hoz space of screen

2010-11-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel I have a single gnome-panel at the top of my screen. Occasionally, the panel moves to occupy the right-hand 50% of the screen, horizontally. The panel also stretches off past the visible edge on the RHS. It's as if the panel hasn't changed

[Bug 682629] Re: occasionally moves to occupy 50% hoz space of screen

2010-11-29 Thread Jon Dowland
-- occasionally moves to occupy 50% hoz space of screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682629 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/li

[Bug 524064] Re: "Maximum number of clients reached" with few windows open

2010-11-29 Thread Jon Dowland
** Tags added: maverick ** Tags removed: amd64 -- "Maximum number of clients reached" with few windows open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@

[Bug 684641] [NEW] periodic segfaults, not respawning

2010-12-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon Yet more core GNOME desktop components failing! gnome-settings-daemon now joins nautilus and gnome-panel as apps that just can't keep running for very long. j...@sobek:~$ gdb gnome-settings-daemon GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-ubuntu Copyrig

[Bug 684641] Re: periodic segfaults, not respawning

2010-12-03 Thread Jon Dowland
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684641 Title: periodic segfaults, not respawning -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

[Bug 666217] Re: backlight controls on a toshiba r700 don't change backlight after resume from suspend

2010-12-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, I have no reason to believe that the bug has been fixed (two minor revisions in the kernel since I filed) but unfortunately I cannot confirm as the mainboard in the R100 I was using has died. We have another R100 that I will be putting the HDD into, but I won't recover that for another wee

[Bug 641134] [NEW] upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: thunderbird If I upgrade my system using upgrade-manager and thunderbird is amongst those packages upgraded, my running instance will occasionally stop working (noticed this twice so far). I've seen similar things happen to Firefox in Debian. I suspect

[Bug 641134] Re: upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641134/+attachment/1597335/+files/Dependencies.txt -- upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 641134] Re: upgrades cause chrome errors in running instances

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Possible duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/345834 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/478279 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/602672/comments/11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/615

[Bug 1341766] [NEW] nfs-utils source package in Trusty contains compiled objects

2014-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: $ tar tf nfs-utils_1.2.8.orig.tar.bz2|grep '\.o$'|wc -l 109 also .a, .deps and .libs dirs, etc. ** Affects: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 778872] Re: vte use causes /tmp file writing during text scrolling

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, sorry for the noise. I can't see this patch applied to the vte3 package. Should it be? Is there a separate bug to track for that package? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778872 Title

[Bug 751453] Re: External monitor doesn't work on Toshiba Portege R600

2011-12-29 Thread Jon Dowland
I think I've figured this out. In my BIOS (hit esc and/or f1 repeatedly at boot to get to it), there's an option "Power on Display". It's not visible on the first page; I had to hit page down to bring up the second page. My laptop was set to "auto-selected", if I switch it to the only other op

[Bug 1077531] Re: debhelper lacks example rules files

2013-04-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Those files were removed on purpose in 2011-04-01 (here's the commit: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debhelper/debhelper.git;a=commitdiff;h=54fbbed4eb8bf4086e12f4c22204ab75729a4f65) I think the reason is that the old, long-form way of writing rules files is deprecated, at least from the debhe

[Bug 1174635] [NEW] gnome-shell "Power Off" menu item confusing, incongruous with GDMs

2013-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Public bug reported: Hi, gdm 3.6.1-0ubuntu4 gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6 When logged into GNOME 3, the right-hand menu has an item "Power Off" at the bottom. Clicking it brings up a context menu which gives you the option of logging out or suspending as well. This is confusing as the men

[Bug 682629] Re: occasionally moves to occupy 50% hoz space of screen

2011-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
I no longer use Ubuntu regularly, nor have access to an Ubuntu machine with which to attempt to reproduce this. Please do with the report what you wish. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6

[Bug 620323] Re: attempts to spawn infinite number of file manager windows

2011-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
I no longer use Ubuntu regularly, nor have access to an Ubuntu machine with which to attempt to reproduce this. Please do with the report what you wish. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6

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