[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2010-04-27 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Under Ubuntu Lucid RC : there's definitely progress. A custom .fdi file is not necessary anymore ! One just has to install the joystick input driver and it works, but still controls the mouse pointer as well. (plus some invered axis on the 2nd stick + the need to unplug/replug the first time) Pl

[Bug 571868] [NEW] Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-04-29 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog Using Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64 (also occurs from the LiveCD) : Short form : opening some PNG pictures with transparency (as the one provided here) with eog, with the "date in the status bar" plugin hangs eog. Without this plugin : it works as expected. Lo

[Bug 571868] Re: Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-04-29 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "LogoFSM2009_2couleurs_transparence.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46352761/LogoFSM2009_2couleurs_transparence.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46351851/Dependencies.txt -- Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with s

[Bug 571868] Re: Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-04-29 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hello Pedro. Here's the backtrace you asked for. Are you using an AMD64 or 32 bits distro ? Did you enable the aforementioned plugin ? Here, it occurs everytime, even from the CD (AMD64). I'm gonna check whether it also happens from the i386 CD as well in an hour or so. Thank you ! ** Attachment

[Bug 571868] Re: Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-04-29 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Ok then : it also occurs when booting from the 32 bits 10.04 CD. The steps are : - boot from the CD (64 or 32 bits) - open the device where the .PNG file attached above is stored - open it - preferences -> plugins -> tick "date in statusbar" - close it - reopen the png then, with the very same pi

[Bug 571868] Re: Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-04-29 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Interestingly, if I launch in parallel a very CPU heavy task (i.e. VLC with HD DVB-T channels), the rates above differ significantly. It almost works properly 9 times out of 10... So, depending on the machine, tasks, and so on, one may not be able to reproduce it... -- Eye of Gnome + status bar

[Bug 562027] Re: openoffice: unable to shutdown / reboot / logout when quickstarter is active

2010-04-25 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Well, this used to work properly, and OO.org is one of the most essential pieces of software in the Linux microcosm. It should definitely be fixed properly (but I understand we lack resources and cannot blame anyone). (still happens in RC BTW) -- openoffice: unable to shutdown / reboot / logout

[Bug 571868] Re: Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures

2010-05-04 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hello Sevvas. Well, I somehow doubt it (unless it's a different issue) as it also happens (here) when booting from the CD ! Can you try it as well, please ? Cheers ! -- Eye of Gnome + status bar date plugin hangs with specific PNG pictures https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571868 You received this

[Bug 479868] Re: VLC sound light stuttering every few seconds (pulseaudio, alsa, oss) (video or music file)

2009-11-19 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Thanks, Richard ! This workaround did it for me. Still, I wonder why this is necessary, only for 9.10 (not 9.04) and only for VLC :-) If anyone is interested, here's what I did : I added the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf # Support Temps réel pour le groupe audio @audio - rtprio

[Bug 482439] Re: Moved .odt file to the desktop not visible if ooo thumbnailer installed meanwhile and thumbnail not generated yet

2009-11-19 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Thanks Sebastien. Okay, I made a report upstream. Or actually, I added a comment to an upstream bug report that seemed related. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599475 There seems to be different conditions that lead to invisible files / directory accesses that do not end properly, when

[Bug 479868] Re: VLC sound light stuttering every few seconds (pulseaudio, alsa, oss) (video or music file)

2009-11-19 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Oops, sorry for making noise, but it actually didn't fix it. I should have double-checked before posting. Richard may still give it a try, just in case. Also my bugreport contained a bug : I meant "Thanks Daniel" ;) -- VLC sound light stuttering every few seconds (pulseaudio, alsa, oss) (video

[Bug 479868] Re: VLC sound light stuttering every few seconds (pulseaudio, alsa, oss) (video or music file)

2010-02-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
zajc : You may check out VLC 1.0.5 on getdeb.net. I do not have this issue anymore. -- VLC sound light stuttering every few seconds (pulseaudio, alsa, oss) (video or music file) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2010-02-23 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi, well, sorry for the lack of input ! Actually, if I don't install "xserver-xorg-input-joystick", it seems I cannot get the device detected. Which is probably due to the fact that the .fdi file I *have to* install specifies : joystick To summarize, there seems to be multiple is

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2009-12-10 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Well, I'm a bit lost... I only manage to get it recognized when using the entry joystick in the relevant .fdi file. (one "OK but not perfect fdi file" can be found here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Joystick_lshal_outputs_done?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=acrux-usb-gamepad-8116.fdi )

[Bug 561474] [NEW] Segfault when playing Protracker (.mod) file format (gstreamer-plugins-bad) since 10.04

2010-04-12 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad Short description : playing any .mod file (Amiga - Protracker) with any gstreamer aware app triggers a segmentation fault - which didn't happen before (Ubuntu <10.10). This file format makes use of libmodplug, which is a dependen

[Bug 561474] Re: Segfault when playing Protracker (.mod) file format (gstreamer-plugins-bad) since 10.04

2010-04-12 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "Backtrace" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43918357/Totem%20crash%20with%20mod%20file%20Backtrace.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43917551/Dependencies.txt -- Segfault when playing Protracker (.mod) file format (gstreamer-plug

[Bug 561474] Re: Segfault when playing Protracker (.mod) file format (gstreamer-plugins-bad) since 10.04

2010-04-12 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Note : this even affects Nautilus. When the latter attempts to preview a .mod file, Nautilus crashes / is restarted. Used to work flawlessly with 9.10. It also affects other filetypes that libmodplug can play, like S3M files. -- Segfault when playing Protracker (.mod) file format (gstreamer-plug

[Bug 555104] Re: OOo systray Quickstarter doesn't match system theme

2010-04-05 Thread Mahendra Tallur
This affects my setup as well (Lucid beta 1, AMD64). It can be "worked around" by only using the Canonical notification applet and removing the default one (as the OO.org applet is not drawn there). -- OOo systray Quickstarter doesn't match system theme https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555104 You

[Bug 542002] Re: OpenOffice Quickstarter prevents Ubuntu to restart

2010-04-05 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I have this issue as well. (AMD64 10.04 beta 1) BTW, the quickstart icon lacks transparency as well, thus not integrating properly with the new "Ambiance" lucid GTK theme. -- OpenOffice Quickstarter prevents Ubuntu to restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542002 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 555104] Re: OOo systray Quickstarter doesn't match system theme

2010-04-05 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Matthijs, Actually, this is called "Applet de notification" in French (Notification applet) and is written by Canonical, which is different from the default "Zone de notification" (Notification zone) which can be removed safely. However, there is still one issue : Ubuntu doesn't shutdown unless o

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2010-05-30 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Well, your gamepad may not be useless in all cases (for instance, for fullscreen games that capture the mouse pointer and do not react to double-clicks). Here happens with my both controllers : Speedlink 360 style and Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Analog. Anyway, the problem seems to be that X is n

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2010-03-04 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Thank you Bryce. I haven't tried in Lucid yet, but it turns out the issue is upstream anyway (I just tried and got the very same results in an up to date ArchLinux distro : "works" but fdi required, unplug/replug required, inverted axis, both mouse & stick... Worked with "evdev" instead of "joysti

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2010-03-04 Thread Mahendra Tallur
FYI, there are 2 entries in lshal : udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1a34_802_noserial' info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_1__00_1a_0' (string) info.product = 'USB GAMEPAD 8116' (string) info.subsystem = 'usb

[Bug 1574354] Re: playing .mp4 in VLC freezes machine

2017-12-20 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi everyone ! Considering the potentially very wide scope of a bug that would freeze the X server, could you guys & gals give more details ? - OS / ARCH - GPU - Proprietary or open source driver ? - X or Wayland ? - Any PPA ? - How often the bug occurs ? Is it completely random ? - Does it occur w

[Bug 1767817] Re: Full text search does not work

2018-08-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! I have the same issue as I stated here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1061855/ubuntu-18-04-and-tracker-files- properly-indexed-but-not-searchable-in-gs-naut 1. I installed tracker 2. I indexed all my data (as indicated on the command line by "tracker status" / "tracker daemon") 3. I chec

[Bug 1574049] Re: kdegraphics-thumbnailers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 uses the wrong path for plugin libraries

2016-11-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
(BTW, IMHO, LTS Kubuntu should be synced with LTS versions of Plasma...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574049 Title: kdegraphics-thumbnailers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 uses the wrong path

[Bug 1574049] Re: kdegraphics-thumbnailers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 uses the wrong path for plugin libraries

2016-11-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! I still have this bug under Xenial + official Kubuntu PPAs. Did you guys get the fix ? Thanks ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574049 Title: kdegraphics-thumbnailers 4:15.12.3-0

[Bug 1574354] Re: playing .mp4 in VLC freezes machine

2017-11-18 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! I encounter this issue too (complete X freeze sometimes when seeking too much in videos in VLC). I thought that was related to using Nvidia VDPAU. I saw this behaviour on 2 very different machines. Using KDE Neon based on Ubuntu 16.04. Tried latest NVIDIA drivers & VLC PPA. This PPA is qui

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

2010-12-17 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Lonnie : I agree... In July I kind of said "please guys, let's stop complaining / commenting if no new relevant piece of information is added..." But... This bug has been here for so long it's getting ridiculous (no offense to anyone involved, but this report was created in sept 2009 and almost eve

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

2010-12-17 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Joaquin : TOMA ? Googled it, didn't find :) All : hmm, I'm not sure this is relevant but this seems interesting. Usually I only keep a top panel and corruption appears in the indicators area and disappears with a "killall gnome-panel". I recently started my /home from scratch and kept everything a

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

2010-12-17 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Sorry for polluting this thread even more but : some core GNOME developers do read the upstream bugreport here : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596923 Can we agree on a set of facts that we could forward to them ? For instance, V. Untz is aware that the bug is not triggered by the indi

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

2010-12-17 Thread Mahendra Tallur
One more thing that I find interesting : - earlier I said I could trigger some corruption in the bottom panel, near the "show desktop applet", by invoking "killall gnome-panel" a couple of times : this is true - HOWEVER, I moved the applets and put them back EXACTLY the way they were before and

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

2010-12-18 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Joaquin : this is a serious upstream bug that will continue to affect other distros that don't use Gnome Shell, that will continue to affect users who want to keep the old interface, and that will continue to affect users of the LTS. I really don't see why it wouldn't be fixable ? Now it even seem

[Bug 692651] [NEW] Ark : when creating a zip f ile Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-20 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdeutils Hi ! This bug occurs with a clean Kubuntu 10.10 install. How to reproduce : 1) create a file or a drawer whose filename contains special characters with accents, such as "é" "è" "ê" etc (French accents in this case). 2) with Dolphin, right cl

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-20 Thread Mahendra Tallur
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdeutils in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692651 Title: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. "é" "è" etc.) -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubun

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
OK ! Upstream bug reported here : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260855 (also occurs with KDE 4.5.4 from the Kubuntu PPA BTW) ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #260855 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260855 ** Also affects: kdeutils via http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Another user told me he didn't reproduce it under ArchLinux though (with KDE 4.5.x as well). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692651 Title: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't en

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
One more piece of information : when listing the file with unzip, I get question marks. When listing the file within ark, I get question marks. BUT, when *extracting* the archive I get in the command line, for instance : "extracting : No??l" BUT the extracted file has the correct filename ! --

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
It turned out this bugreport should be closed... Or rather, should be filed differently : when creating a zip file from the command line, with no specific option, the very same behaviour occurs : so Ark is not at fault, but "zip" or some locale settings / env variables I'm not aware of... I'm rea

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
OKAY. I figured out that : - Under Ubuntu, with both File-Roller & zip from the command line, in both 10.10 and 11.04 alpha : accents are replaced by "??" - HOWEVER, after installing p7zip-full, filenames are encoded properly, EVEN WHEN JUST calling "zip" from the command line So it seems zip m

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-21 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Myriam : thanks for your reply. Well, my locale is indeed UTF8. This is a clean Kubuntu 10.10 install. LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-22 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Myriam : meanwhile, I triple checked everything and am very surprised you don't encounter this issue. Here are some more tests I made : [1] When using - Ubuntu 10.10 liveCD (amd64) - Ubuntu 11.04 alpha liveCD (i386) By default : when archiving for instance, a file called "exposé.txt" to a "exposé

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2010-12-22 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Ah, someone figured out why you may have not noticed the problem : If you configured Dolphin to browse archives instead of opening them with Ark, the filenames will appear properly, which is not the case when using Ark or unzip. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of K

[Bug 666942] Re: UbuntuOne client stuck infinitely when processing the metadata of a moved directory

2010-11-16 Thread Mahendra Tallur
John : this solved the issue for me, thanks ! I'll open another bug report though : sync did occur, but even though the sync daemon sent about 3.5 GB during the night, the waiting-content | wc -l still returns the same number. The first entry is a 350 MB avi file. which means it uploaded the equiv

[Bug 666942] Re: UbuntuOne client stuck infinitely when processing the metadata of a moved directory

2010-11-18 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Okay, thank you & sorry for this off-topic. Please tell me if opening a distinct bug report would be useful. BTW, the connection I use uploads at about 100KBytes/second (which I thought was OK a few hundreds of MBytes). What is the timeout value, actually ? (throttling doesn't work either, so the f

[Bug 527912] Re: Wacom Bamboo CTH-661 not recognized

2010-11-20 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Same as mmiicc here (amd64). By the way, I have the same issue with the alsa backports, which is why I still use an older kernel (2.6.35-22). -- Wacom Bamboo CTH-661 not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

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

2010-12-30 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Lonnie : this is definitely not the case. Many of us experienced it on fresh installs, and I even reproduced it yesterday from a Live CD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 Title:

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2011-01-10 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Shunsuke Akagi : thanks for your reply ! Actually, you have to switch to TTY0 : - type "ctrl + left-alt + F1" - log in as the user who logged in under X - ps aux | grep nautilus then kill -9 [nautilus process] It works from a default Ubuntu installation unless you disabled the TTY text consoles.

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2011-01-11 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Omer Akram : sadly, the upstream report didn't yield any result as the (gnome) triager didn't manage to reproduce the issue, which is a real one, as I can reproduce it easily personally, and I know at least one other person who encounters it once in a while Shunsuke Akagi : can you add some more d

[Bug 684343] [NEW] Totem hangs randomly when playing several mp3 with covers in a row

2010-12-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem Hi ! Here's an issue I can easily reproduce + I attached a stack trace. I have to : 1) open totem 2) open a couple of mp3s : in my case : the Machinarium soundtrack, in mp3s, with a cover.jpg file that is displayed while playing 3) play some trac

[Bug 684343] Re: Totem hangs randomly when playing several mp3 with covers in a row

2010-12-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "stack trace obtained when the Totem GUI froze, when changing the track" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684343/+attachment/1753279/+files/gdb-totem.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 684343] Re: Totem hangs randomly when playing several mp3 with covers in a row

2010-12-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
BTW : please tell me if I should report this upstream (if someone here managed to reproduce it, I guess ?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684343 Title: Totem hangs randomly when play

[Bug 684343] Re: Totem hangs randomly when playing several mp3 with covers in a row

2010-12-02 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Oh well... I made an upstream report while I was at it : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636315 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #636315 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636315 ** Also affects: totem via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636315 Importan

[Bug 632206] Re: Wine (& Crossover) cannot activate Securom modules after upgrading to Maverick

2010-09-16 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Okay then : I tested the current beta (all up to date), with a blank home directory. The issue is still the same : with wine 1.2, some apps that work perfectly under Lucid with the very same version of wine do not start. Telltale games complains they "cannot activate securom modules" Starcraft 2

[Bug 1307729] Re: preprocess_layout_info: assertion failed: (!directory->preprocessed)

2014-05-01 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! From a clean Ubuntu 14.04 installation, MenuLibre used to work ; I did a few things meanwhile and it began to crash, likewise. How may I help you debug the issue ? IMHO, this is an important one, especially for an LTS release :) Thanks everyone ! -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 734908] Re: Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps

2012-11-30 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! It seems the bug is partly fixed. In my case : Ubuntu 12.10, Nvidia proprietary drivers, up to date, when I open a fullscreen app on the second monitor, Unity dock & top bar do disappear, but they re-appear as soon as I click on something on the primary monitor. I partly worked around it by

[Bug 734908] Re: Unity is visible on top of fullscreen apps

2012-11-30 Thread Mahendra Tallur
BTW, I noticed the top bar only appears when there's another app open on the main screen, otherwise it's properly hidden on the second one. Actually, It seems there are all kinds of issues with dual-screen. For instance : the height of windows opened on the main screen corresponds to the max heigh

[Bug 1067700] Re: Sound Settings crashes when USB audio mixer selected as input

2012-11-26 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! I encounter this problem with no USB device, but with an M-Audio Delta 44 PCI soundcard (ICE 1724). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067700 Title: Sound Settings crashes when USB

[Bug 632206] Re: Wine (& Crossover) cannot activate Securom modules after upgrading to Maverick

2010-09-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Indeed ! I can work around the issue by editing /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf and setting kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0, but I wonder what are the other consequences... -- Wine (& Crossover) cannot activate Securom modules after upgrading to Maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632206 You recei

[Bug 646798] [NEW] eog window size exceeds screen height

2010-09-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog Hi ! As of 09-24-2010 (eog 2.31.92), when opening a picture with eog, the window size always exceeds the screen height ; which makes it impossible to see its status bar without holding alt and moving the window. Please note it does occur from a fres

[Bug 646798] Re: eog window size exceeds screen height

2010-09-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646798/+attachment/1631090/+files/Dependencies.txt -- eog window size exceeds screen height https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646798 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 646798] Re: eog window size exceeds screen height

2010-09-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #630512 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630512 ** Also affects: eog via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630512 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- eog window size exceeds screen height https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 646798] Re: eog window size exceeds screen height

2010-09-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
It turned out this issue only occurs when Compiz is enabled. Maybe I shouldn't have filed a report against eog upstream then. I still haven't noticed any other app affected by this behaviour though. -- eog window size exceeds screen height https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646798 You received this

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

2010-09-25 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I mentioned upstream that I did manage to reproduce the issue when using only one panel with **no single piece of Canonical applet** (& obviously with Compiz enabled) -- only standard Gnome stuff. So, what else can differ from a regular Gnome setup on another distro ? I tried to switch to Clearlook

[Bug 648867] [NEW] HDA Intel (82801JI ICH10) audio regression in linux-backports-modules-alsa-maverick (no more dmix)

2010-09-27 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: I am not 100% I should report this here, please forgive me if I'm mistaken. In Ubuntu Lucid (and previous versions) I had to install the alsa backports modules in order to get my sound chip to mix alsa and pulseaudio apps properly. (otherwise, playing some alsa stuff would st

[Bug 562027] Re: [ooo-build] OOo QuickStarter: unable to shutdown / reboot / logout when quickstarter is active

2010-06-30 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Please excuse me for stating the obvious but the low priority is probably due to the lack of manpower / the need not to scatter the available resources too much. On the other hand, when I install some Ubuntu machines for friends, associations etc. the first thing I usually do, after applying updat

[Bug 606558] Re: Switching user while Compiz enabled makes OpenOffice.org crawl (extremely slow scrolling)

2011-03-04 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Thanks for your message, Christopher. Indeed, the bug still occurs with LibreOffice 3.3.1 (Ubuntu 10.10, nvidia proprietary drivers). Cheers ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606558 Ti

[Bug 606558] Re: Switching user while Compiz enabled makes OpenOffice.org crawl (extremely slow scrolling)

2011-03-06 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Oops, I overlooked some of your questions. - The issue occurs with *any* document - It occurs even with the latest LibreOffice and Ubuntu versions - It is pretty simple : if an openoffice document is displayed before turning the computer into "sleep" mode, openoffice will be extremely slow (espec

[Bug 305546] Re: Nautilus crashing/freezing when opening folder with svg file

2011-03-08 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I also experience this issue (Ubuntu 10.10, up to date, amd64) when opening a directory containing a svg file embedding many big jpeg pictures. (no tiff at all) Actually, it occurs with 2 similar svg files. The 1st one does embed all jpeg files and the preview doesn't even have the time to be gene

[Bug 305546] Re: Nautilus crashing/freezing when opening folder with svg file

2011-03-08 Thread Mahendra Tallur
FYI, after double checking, the very same issue also occurs under Ubuntu Natty (today's daily) and under the latest Gnome 3 preview liveCD (based on OpenSUSE). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 210472] Re: Timidity daemon doesn't play nice with pulse audio

2011-04-03 Thread Mahendra Tallur
In the PulseAudio wiki, they suggest to switch timidity output mode to "libao" cf. http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#TiMidity However, libao output is not built in the Ubuntu executable. As of Ubuntu Maverick, I worked around this by starting timidity during the GNOME startup. It seems

[Bug 758613] Re: In Firefox and LibreOffice sometimes the global menu does not appear.

2011-09-05 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I figured out the issue is 100% reproducible if you open an .odt which contains some java macros and if your security level is not set at the minimum : in this case, a popup window appears asking whether you want to use the macros (or to warn you that macros are disabled) and consequently, the glo

[Bug 690116] Re: Printing documents with pictures takes minutes or fails with Samsung ML-2250 printer

2011-07-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Thanks for your efforts ! Well, unfortunately, I cannot check this issue anymore as I changed my printer due to those issues. However, this was definitely a printer- driver specific problem that I didn't encounter with other devices (or when using other drivers that didn't fit the model perfectly)

[Bug 773466] Re: libva1 trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so ends with segmentation fault

2011-07-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hmm, I was about to ask "why don't you just update libva1 from the X updates PPA ?" but I figured out you have to get the new nvidia drivers as well and the 175.x nvidia driver from the PPA has some issues (at least in my case, it makes fullscreen apps slower under KDE 4.6.x, GF 9800 GTX). ... iss

[Bug 773466] Re: libva1 trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so ends with segmentation fault

2011-07-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Actually, please ignore my previous post, I misread the thread regarding the benefits of the X Updates PPA. (well, it empasizes the fact it's not such a good idea to update the nvidia drivers at the same time anyway, if you use KDE) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 742335] Re: Totem : impossible to move cursor on MP3 files (Natty - Oneiric)

2011-07-24 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Under natty, the issue can be worked around (and other seeking problems) by using the gstreamer PPA. I wonder why the problem exists under Oneiric, though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2011-08-27 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I'm pleased to announce this issue is *fixed* for me in Ubuntu Natty ! (xserver-xorg-input-joystick must NOT be installed, otherwise the joystick will control the mouse) I have some issues with inverted axis though, but it's a distinct issue ! -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 418470] Re: USB Gamepad detected as mouse (Speedlink 360 style)

2011-08-27 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Well, it's not needed anymore (it was in former Ubuntu releases), apparently, it must be using the xserver-xorg-input-evdev driver... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418470 Title: USB

[Bug 680128] [NEW] UbuntuOne client keeps uploading the same file infinitely due to timeouts

2010-11-22 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Private bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client Hi ! Here is an issue I can reproduce everytime : 1) in my "waiting-content" queue, the first file is a 350 MB .avi file 2) when starting the UbuntuOne sync daemon, it uploads at about 90KB/second (the bandwidth limit is not respected

[Bug 680128] Re: UbuntuOne client keeps uploading the same file infinitely due to timeouts

2010-11-22 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "U1 Debug log produced in an entire day, the sync daemon uploading the very same file infinitely" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680128/+attachment/1741712/+files/ubuntuone-debug.txt ** Visibility changed to: Private -- UbuntuOne client keeps uploading the same file i

[Bug 627134] Re: Cursor position markers are not cleared from rulers

2010-10-20 Thread Mahendra Tallur
It's probably completely unrelated to video drivers -- it even happens with the "nouveau" nvidia driver, for instance. -- Cursor position markers are not cleared from rulers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 692651] Re: Ark : when creating a zip file Ark doesn't encode accents properly (i.e. " é" "è" etc.)

2011-01-05 Thread Mahendra Tallur
An ArchLinux user confirmed that the sample archive I attached above is displayed properly on his system (with both command line unzip and Ark), while it displays some "" under Kubuntu for many users on the French ubuntu board. It may give an additional clue about the problem. -- You receive

[Bug 641712] Re: Not possible to enter password for a new user in KDM (Maverick)

2011-01-06 Thread Mahendra Tallur
This bug still occurs in KDE 4.5.4 (Kubuntu PPA, so maybe it was fixed in the official repos with KDE 4.5.1 meanwhile ?) It was reported upstream here but there are only Kubuntu users so it might not be relevant : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260758 ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking Sy

[Bug 690116] Re: Printing documents with pictures takes minutes or fails with Samsung ML-2250 printer

2011-02-03 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Hi ! Thanks for the reply ! Well, I tried this driver, it seems to work but the colours (greyscales) are definitely not faithful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690116 Title: Printing

[Bug 689599] [NEW] Cheese hangs when recording a video

2010-12-13 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cheese Here's an issue I can reproduce every time, using Ubuntu Maverick AMD64, with no ppa and no "proposed" update. Logitech C300 USB webcam (uvc) 1) launch Cheese 2) the webcam is detected / initialized properly : one can see the video preview and t

[Bug 689599] Re: Cheese hangs when recording a video

2010-12-13 Thread Mahendra Tallur
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689599 Title: Cheese hangs when recording a video -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

[Bug 689599] Re: Cheese hangs when recording a video

2010-12-13 Thread Mahendra Tallur
BTW : I would like to obtain a backtrace, when there is apparently no "cheese-dbg" package in the repositories. If necessary, I will also report the bug upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 689599] Re: Cheese hangs when recording a video

2010-12-13 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Here is an important additional piece of information : it turned out that : - when choosing in the PulseAudio mixer the Logitech Webcam as audio input source (instead of the internal line-in), Cheese doesn't hang anymore - HOWEVER : the first video is recorded properly but if I record 2 videos

[Bug 689599] Re: Cheese hangs when recording a video

2010-12-13 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I think this bugreport should only focus the 1st issue. Can someone change the bug description ? It should rather be : "Cheese hangs when recording a video when the audio input is not set to the Webcam microphone" The relevant Gnome tracker bug being : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6

[Bug 690116] [NEW] Printing documents with pictures takes minutes or fails with Samsung ML-2250 printer

2010-12-14 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cups Hi everyone ! Well, I've had this issue for several Ubuntu releases. I have no idea if it used to work before. By default, my Samsung ML-2250 (laser) printer automagically uses the following driver : "Samsung ML-2250 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended).

[Bug 690116] Re: Printing documents with pictures takes minutes or fails with Samsung ML-2250 printer

2010-12-14 Thread Mahendra Tallur
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690116 Title: Printing documents with pictures takes minutes or fails with Samsung ML-2250 printer -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2010-12-14 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I was about to report this. This is a REALLY tricky bug but I now manage to reproduce it within 30 seconds... 1) open totem 2) play a music file (please use the (public domain) Amiga .mod files I will attach below, for some reason, I manage to reproduce the problem more easily with those -- but

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2010-12-14 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "2 sample Amiga music files you have to alternate to reproduce the bug" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/660222/+attachment/1765872/+files/Sample_Amiga_Modules.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2010-12-14 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #637242 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637242 ** Also affects: totem via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637242 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 660222] Re: Totem freeze when click and drag a folder or folders

2010-12-15 Thread Mahendra Tallur
2 more important pieces of information : - issue also occurs with the Nouveau Nvidia driver and not only the proprietary one - "to unlock the mouse" you actually have to kill the nautilus process from the text console. This way you don't need to restart the X server. -- You received this bug n

[Bug 185600] Re: libreoffice repeatedly freezes after resuming laptop from sleep

2011-06-04 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Indeed, it's happened for several Ubuntu releases already : only when Compiz is enabled (and thus, Unity as well as it's a Compiz plugin), and apparently only with Nvidia cards (proprietary driver). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 772236] [NEW] Totem hangs when seeking within flac files (gstreamer)

2011-04-28 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: This issue occurs with Totem but also with any gstreamer-based player (Banshee, Amarok with Phonon-gstreamer), in Natty and not in Maverick. (they also occur in other distros such as Archlinux) HOW TO REPRODUCE : - play flac files - seek a couple of time inside the files - af

[Bug 772236] Re: Totem hangs when seeking within flac files (gstreamer)

2011-04-28 Thread Mahendra Tallur
** Attachment added: "gdb-totem.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772236/+attachment/2092631/+files/gdb-totem.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772236 Title: Totem hangs when

[Bug 772236] Re: Totem hangs when seeking within flac files (gstreamer)

2011-04-28 Thread Mahendra Tallur
I reported the bug upstream : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648859 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #648859 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648859 ** Also affects: gstreamer via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648859 Importance: Unknown Stat

[Bug 772248] [NEW] VLC crashes when using VA/VDPAU since Natty

2011-04-28 Thread Mahendra Tallur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vlc This issue is very easy to reproduce in Natty : - Install VDPAU / VA - start VLC - enable experimental hardware decoding - play any video file -> it crashes instantly (please see provided backtrace). It used to work properly in Maverick (except with

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