[Bug 1640632] [NEW] Libreoffice Word uses 100% cpu after font change

2016-11-09 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: On a fully patched 16.04 Ubuntu 11/9/2016, running a default Libreoffice installation (1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) with just a browser running, start the system monitor. Open the Libreoffice Word icon in the Dash, and type in two lines in different fonts: Liberation serif originally

[Bug 1640632] Re: Libreoffice Word uses 100% cpu after font change

2016-11-12 Thread Ubfan
Adding the 5.2 PPA has resolved the problem of CPU usage when switching fonts. I retested both writer and calc, and neither displayed the problem they had with the default install of Libreoffice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1173457] Re: Ubuntu Installer uses wrong bootloader location for USB UEFI installs

2017-01-22 Thread Ubfan
Those Debian bugs refer to the creation of the /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi bootloader, implemented these days with the --removable qualifier on grub-install, and addressed in bug 1453980 for still ignoring the --uefi-secure-boot which should force the use of shimx64.efi instead of grubx64.efi. This bug

[Bug 1490349] Re: 15:10 and 16.04: bluetoothd reports "Not enough handles to register service" at start

2016-12-29 Thread Ubfan
On Lenovo w520, Ubuntu 16.04, kernel 4.4.0-57-generic, bluez 5.37-0ubuntu5, unity desktop. Same error messages relating to "Not enough free handles to register service". Resuming from suspend results in bluetooth icon in title bar grayed out, bluetooth switch is OFF, and bt mouse non-functional.

[Bug 334170] Re: GParted's DEB package dependencies appear to be incomplete

2017-03-06 Thread Ubfan
The e2fsprogs is still not a dependency in gparted 0.25.0-1 The resize2fs which expands the filesystem when a partition is enlarged is a part of e2fsprogs. This automatic ext filesystem resizing is a feature gparted offers over other partition managers like fdisk, but is not mentioned in the ma

[Bug 1481136] Re: Bluetooth mouse fails to reconnect after suspend + resume

2017-03-09 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 16.04 patched to date. Below is the sequence of re-enabling the bluetooth mouse after suspend. Note that either of two different things being blocked, tpacpi_bluetooth_sw, and hci0, will keep the mouse from working. After a resume from suspend, the title bar bluetooth icon is greyed out.

[Bug 1683512] Re: No libcuda.so.1 after upgrading to 381-driver

2017-10-21 Thread Ubfan
The Nvidia driver 375.66 fixed the window artifact problems, so use that version to avoid the missing link problem. You can use apt-file search libcuda.so.1 to find which nvidia driver packages contain the file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 1661898] Re: Terminal window too small while updating.

2017-05-14 Thread Ubfan
The non-expansion of the text/data area when the software updater window is expanded has carried over to Ubuntu 17.04. Fortunately, the initial size is now bigger than the previous one line, but extending the window to the bottom of the screen does not result in any increase in the text area size.

[Bug 1666938] Re: Software update window doesn't shows properly the downloading files progress bars, and the terminal window when installing the packages.

2017-05-14 Thread Ubfan
The non-expansion of the text/data area when the software updater window is expanded has carried over to Ubuntu 17.04. Fortunately, the initial size is now bigger than the previous one line, but extending the window to the bottom of the screen does not result in any increase in the text area size.

[Bug 1661898] Re: Terminal window too small while updating.

2017-05-14 Thread Ubfan
See bug 1640717 and 1666938 for possible additional issues with this software updater window. My hardware is a UEFI machine, Nvidia Quadro 1000M running either nouveau or Nvidia drivers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1666938] Re: Software update window doesn't shows properly the downloading files progress bars, and the terminal window when installing the packages.

2017-05-14 Thread Ubfan
See bug 1640717 and 1661898 for possible additional issues with this software updater window. My hardware is a UEFI machine, Nvidia Quadro 1000M running either nouveau or Nvidia drivers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1668465] Re: weird color display after suspend.

2017-03-24 Thread Ubfan
This week, I started getting 1 cm boarders around windows after a suspend. The boarders are white with colored speckles and lines. Hardware is Nvidia Quadro 1000m, with the nvidia 375.39 driver. This driver must have just been updated from the 367.57 driver which never had any problems. Restarti

[Bug 1616609] [NEW] ldd reports incorrectly "not a dynamic executable" when the executable's loader is not present

2016-08-24 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: system:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Linux leno 4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux package in use: libc-bin 2.23-0ubuntu3 The ldd script comes with wired in paths for the 64 bit and 32 bit loaders, but other architectures are ig

[Bug 1467588] Re: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. (process:17035): GLib-CR

2016-09-23 Thread Ubfan
** Also affects: zenity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467588 Title: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. Th

[Bug 1467588] Re: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. (process:17035): GLib-CR

2016-09-23 Thread Ubfan
** Changed in: zenity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467588 Title: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discou

[Bug 1467588] Re: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. (process:17035): GLib-CR

2016-09-23 Thread Ubfan
This warning started showing up in 2013 when the gtk devs decided to push for the standard usage of requiring a parent -- maybe they have future modifications in mind which require this. Anyway, the march goes: "discouraged", "deprecated", and finally "removed", so this warning shouldn't be ign

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2012-04-02 Thread Ubfan
This bug also affects Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2. With all the other window controls on the left by default, the left-scrollbar should not be that unusual a choice. Since finding the left scrollbar is so difficult (scroll length is set to 2048, so the invisible red indicator is pretty small), a workaro

[Bug 608508] Re: usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove

2010-11-16 Thread Ubfan
The remount does not occur until after the first time update-manager is run on a new Maverick install. -- usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1256414] Re: evince rotion bug with postscript files

2014-07-05 Thread Ubfan
Yes, this bug is still present in 14.04 as of July 4, 2014. a2ps output 2 up will print, but not display until rotated (left or right) once, whereupon it looks like the page portrait view (two pages on their sides). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 1286388] Re: changes to the boot order made via efibootmgr are not sticking

2015-07-09 Thread Ubfan
BIOS Insyd 6.60 EFI version 2.31 by INSYDE Firmware 6.10 Toshiba Satellite S955, UEFI with Secure boot disabled. OS 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.2, running kernel 3.19.8-992-generic Dual boot with Windows 8.1 After a Windows 8.1 update 7/8/2015 (two important updates, all optional (2) ignored, the EFI boo

[Bug 1385665] Re: utopic upgrade lost the 'ubuntu' EFI variable

2015-07-09 Thread Ubfan
I have lost ubuntu...shim boot entries when installing/updating USB flash sticks. Updating 14.04 last week, on a USB3 8G stick caused a nvram ram entry for the hard disk Ubuntu installation to be deleted. This entry was for the shim bootloader, unused since secure boot was disabled, but previously

[Bug 1286388] Re: changes to the boot order made via efibootmgr are not sticking

2015-07-09 Thread Ubfan
After the Software Updater run of 7/9/2015, a new 3.13.0-57 kernel (signed and unsigned) was added, and something added the "Boot, ubuntu, shim" bootloader entry again, at the first position (where it originally was). I did nothing explicit to add this shim entry, and the machine is running wi

[Bug 1278585] Re: Evolution / GLib problem

2014-02-20 Thread Ubfan
Same crash with the Nvidia 340.108 driver: ***snip*** [000:037] Cpu: 15.72.2, x2, 1600Mhz, 1937MB [000:037] Computer model: Not available *** Error in `evolution': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x7f0baf9ef8e6 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7f4c6)[0x7f0bf

[Bug 1453980] [NEW] grub-install installs wrong bootloader when --removable and --uefi-secure-boot are used.

2015-05-11 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 15.04 With the --removable switch, grub-install will now correctly install grubx64.efi as the default bootloader in the EFI partition's /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi file, but with the addition of --uefi-secure-boot, it still uses grubx64.efi as bootx64.efi instead of shimx64

[Bug 1453980] Re: grub-install installs wrong bootloader when --removable and --uefi-secure-boot are used.

2015-05-12 Thread Ubfan
** Tags added: 15.04 grub-installer -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453980 Title: grub-install installs wrong bootloader when --removable and --uefi- secure-boot are used. To manag

[Bug 956610] Re: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.14-gdb.py is not an ELF file

2015-03-18 Thread Ubfan
Well, since libstdc++.so.6.0.14-gdb.py is a Python script, it certainly is NOT an ELF file, so the error message is correct. Now since the file is not a part of Ubuntu, what third party package did you install to get it? On my system, Sage installs a copy, but I did install the Sage files in thei

[Bug 1418357] Re: gnome-system-log auto-scrolls away from entry being viewed

2015-03-18 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 14.04 gnome-system-log does have the option to turn on/off autoscrolling, under the menu item "System Log". It is the first item in the menu list, and has a function key, F8 assigned. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-09-22 Thread Ubfan
Downloaded the Sept 20 desktop 64 bit ISO, and on a Secure Boot UEFI laptop running 13.04, created USB install media, and installed to another USB set up with gpt and an EFI partition. Booting the target USB worked in secure mode, with the signed kernel being used, but the symlink for the kernel i

[Bug 1229488] [NEW] 13.10 USB to USB Install on UEFI Secure Boot Machine Left Host Unbootable

2013-09-23 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Downloaded Sept. 20 daily build of 13.10, 64 bit, desktop ISO, md5sum checked it, used "create startup disk" on 13.04 secure boot host to make USB live media, rebooted from it, and successfully installed 13.10 to another USB. Target USB had gpt partitioning, had an EFI partiti

[Bug 1229488] Re: 13.10 USB to USB Install on UEFI Secure Boot Machine Left Host Unbootable

2013-09-24 Thread Ubfan
Oops, just checked the USB target again after fixing the host machine and found that it had nothing in its EFI partition, so It would not boot either. I thought that specifying the explicit paritition /dev/sdc1 (vs the device /dev/sdc) would work for "removable media" bootlaoder locations on an EF

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2013-12-05 Thread Ubfan
** Description changed: - Under Unity and Unity-2D, selecting left scroll for a gnome-terminal - scroll bar position results in the little red bar, indicating where the - scroll elevator will appear , being invisible, making it difficult to - find, since random clicks must be applied along the lef

[Bug 1159590] Re: E-mail software Evolution Mail Sorting Bug

2013-12-09 Thread Ubfan
You can click on the column headers to change the sort too. One thing to check is the View/"Group By Thread", which will override the name order for instance, making it seem like the sort had a few glitches. Turn it off for a true name sort. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1208993] Re: Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB

2015-09-29 Thread Ubfan
The default cache setup on Ubuntu 14.04 (no explicit settings in sysctl.conf) seems to use bytes instead of a ratio: $ cat /proc/vmstat | egrep "dirty|writeback" nr_dirty 43 nr_writeback 0 nr_writeback_temp 0 nr_dirty_threshold 169462 nr_dirty_background_threshold 84731 This default is for a syst

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer uses device name instead of UUID, leading to unbootable system

2012-05-07 Thread Ubfan
The problem is still present with the 12.04 release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384633 Title: Grub Installer uses device name instead of UUID, leading to unbootable system To m

[Bug 1543345] [NEW] nautilus ignores the --geometry= positions unless sudo is used

2016-02-08 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 14.04, patched to Feb 7, 2016, running nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.10 , starting nautilus from a terminal using the --geometry=800x300+200+100 will ignore the '+200+100' positioning part unless sudo is used, in which case, the positioning is correctly used. The size o

[Bug 1543345] Re: nautilus ignores the --geometry= positions unless sudo is used

2016-02-08 Thread Ubfan
Neither position nor size works for either user or sudo in the 16.04 alpha. for nautilus 3.14.3 (package nautilus 1:3.18.4-0ubuntu1 is nautilus 1:3.14.3-0ubuntu1) Package seems odd. Running off persistent ISO, but updated the nautilus package. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distr

[Bug 879120] Re: 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2014-10-31 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 14.04.1 using the open source firmware in /lib/firmware/b43-open, without the /lib/firmware/b43 files no longer displays the 60 second delay on shutdown (on the same hardware with the original problem). Looks like this has been fixed sometime in the last two years. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2014-12-16 Thread Ubfan
Trying to use the BT mouse on the Toshiba S855-5378 without the laptop battery resulted in periodic mouse freezes after several minutes of use, usually a second or so after a popup notification of "low BT mouse battery" (batteries were new). I have similar errors in syslog that altimonin posted

[Bug 1229488] Re: 13.10 USB to USB Install on UEFI Secure Boot Machine Left Host Unbootable

2014-06-05 Thread Ubfan
This affects Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit also. Booting live media off USB2, installing to USB3 enclosure, resulted in an empty EFI partition on the target, and the new grub.cfg file copied to the host's internal EFI partition, leaving both target and host unbootable. Same machine as above with secure b

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2014-04-29 Thread Ubfan
Same problem seen on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on a Toshiba Satellite S855-5378 (different machine, same generic bt mouse) with built-in bluetooth. The bt mouse will connect, but status never shows "paired". The mouse works maybe 30 seconds while the bt mouse battery is discovered, then mouse stops wor

[Bug 1307265] Re: installation hangs if postgres is not listening on default port

2014-07-26 Thread Ubfan
The Postgresql 9.3 update to Ubuntu 14.04 improperly changed the default port from 5432 to 5433. Historically, port 5432 has been the default Postgresql port. Some update in 14.04 of Postgresql to 9.3.4-1 apparently decided to use 5433 as the default port. This change breaks things because hea

[Bug 1307265] Re: installation hangs if postgres is not listening on default port

2014-07-26 Thread Ubfan
** Also affects: postgresql (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307265 Title: installation hangs if postgres is not listening on defau

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2014-01-29 Thread Ubfan
I also confirm that turning off secure boot on a Toshiba S855 S5378 allows grub to boot Windows 8.1 normally, avoiding the error. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1091464 Title: Unable

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2014-01-05 Thread Ubfan
A forums question http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2197141 indicated that the bug could be made to go away in secure boot by "putting the os I wanted to boot on on the top of the list of bootable drives". Now my UEFI Settings for devices does NOT contain OSes, just devices. When I select

[Bug 1278585] Re: Evolution / GLib problem

2014-02-11 Thread Ubfan
On a fresh install (updated to Feb 7 ?) of Ubuntu 13.10 on an HP Presario V3000, 2G memory, SSD root, evolution (when invoked from the gnome-terminal starts with hundreds of lines of complaints similar to the above and usually (but not always) crashes. A dump of the crash is below: $ evolution

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-11-15 Thread Ubfan
On a just updated 13.10 (Nov 15) getting shim-signed 1.5 and a new signed grubx64.efi 2.00..-19 I see no change in the error. The UnknownMessage (hex 12) or decimal 18 is indeed an invalid subtype for the messaging type (last valid subtype is decimal 15), so looks like leftover garbage in the p

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2014-10-17 Thread Ubfan
On the Toshiba Satellire S855-5378, running 14.04, when the laptop battery is removed, running on AC, the battery indicator does not show up in the title bar, the bt mouse will successfully connect with a warning (incorrect) of 0% mouse battery, and continues to run. Some additional details on

[Bug 1382882] [NEW] Package linux-firmware-nonfree:i386 is missing the b43 firmware

2014-10-18 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: The 64 bit version of linux-firmware-nonfree contains the b43 (Broadcom wireless firmware) files, but they are missing in the 32 bit version of this package. Doing a 14.04.1 Ubuntu install on a 32 bit system resulted in a non-function Broadcom wireless (4311) after installing

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2014-10-24 Thread Ubfan
On 14.04.1 fully patched to Oct 22, 2014, on the original HP V3000, the bluetooth mouse now works. The battery indicator however now shows as a red battery icon, the mouse battery at 0% (new batteries), and no laptop battery is shown at all, even when the laptop battery is present. Looks like the

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer uses device name instead of UUID, leading to unbootable system

2013-01-11 Thread Ubfan
There is still a problem in the 12.10 release, but a different wrong device is now used -- sda instead of sdc. The target is now assigned sda (or hd0), the install media sdb (or hd1), and the hard disk sdc (or hd2). At the first reboot, the disk assignment is: hard disk is sda, and usb target is

[Bug 879120] Re: 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2013-01-11 Thread Ubfan
At some point, the open source firmware was no longer installed from the firmware-b43-*installer packages, which now download the Broadcom drivers and use b43-fwcutter to install the firmware.I'm not sure what happens when the Broadcom STA driver is used, since it contains the firmware within t

[Bug 1061639] Re: Upstartification of /etc/init.d/networking has lost deconfiguring-networking event causing bad side-effects

2013-01-11 Thread Ubfan
See bug 879120 for a case in which dbus pauses 60 seconds in shutting down the network. Jan 11, 2013 I am still seeing "/ busy" messages at shutdown on a USB ext2 file system (no errors found from external check). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 1098959] [NEW] 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-12 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: A fully updated (Jan 11, 2013) Ubuntu 12.10 allows the bluetooth mouse to "connect" but fails to move the cursor. The bluetooth battery indicator is created and works. If bluetooth is turned on just before mouse connection is attempted (before the battery indicator show

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-13 Thread Ubfan
I have found a more reliable way to turn the mouse on: Shutdown a running system with bluetooth turned off. Reboot, and kill upowerd before enabling bluetooth, then turn on bluetooth and insert mouse batteries -- the mouse will work. Maybe the package with the problem is not the indicator package,

[Bug 817145] Re: Unable to find a medium containing live file system

2013-02-18 Thread Ubfan
The "init line7... /dev/sdb" part of the error message appeared on a Ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit 2G install media created on a 32 bit Ubunti 12.04 up to date system. Startup disk creator was used, the iso was md5sumed and sha1sumed with no errors. The "try" action was requested and the message was r

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-17 Thread Ubfan
Running system is a 4G USB, booted with bluetooth off, no battery indicator displayed, killed the upowerd process, then turned bluetooth on, then turned on the mouse, which immediately worked, resulting in the following dmesg messages: [ 1542.188059] usb 2-4: new full-speed USB device number 4

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-19 Thread Ubfan
Cycling mouse and/or bluetooth never crashes the upowerd for me. I do get some null pointer stack dump from the bluetoothd at some point. Closest complaint was : quanta4g kernel: [ 211.852064] power_supply hid-00:60:D1:00:C3:15-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: 4294967291

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-21 Thread Ubfan
** Also affects: gnome-power Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098959 Title: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mous

[Bug 706795] Re: [All releases] Suspend/Resume with rootfs on USB, causes filesystem corruptions and kernel panic on mount attempt, leaving system unbootable with data lost.

2011-09-20 Thread Ubfan
I started seeing disk checks at boot time 25% of the time on a new 8G USB Maverick installation, currently running kernel 2.6.35.30. I noticed that at shutdown, the usb light blinks right up to the fraction of a second that power is cut to the laptop, so I assumed that some fileysystem buffer had

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2011-10-17 Thread Ubfan
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876734 Title: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 876734] [NEW] gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2011-10-17 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Under Unity and Unity-2D, selecting left scroll for a gnome-terminal scroll bar position results in the little red bar, indicating where the scroll elevator will appear , being invisible, making it difficult to find, since random clicks must be applied along the left window bo

[Bug 970040] Re: When set to autohide, launcher often won't show

2012-09-28 Thread Ubfan
Running 12.04, Unity 2D, Ndivia 6150 chip, Nvidia driver 304.51, running on an external monitor, with the laptop monitor disabled. After a recent update on 9/25 or 9/26, the launcher, which is set to autohide, does not appear when moving the mouse to the left side. Workaround is to use the left

[Bug 992744] [NEW] Unity 2D top bar menu items do not appear when Dragging a Firefox 12 URL

2012-05-01 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 12.04, fresh install. The dragging of the current url favicon to the top bar "bookmark" menu item should make it drop down, allowing dropping the icon into a folder. No bookmark toolbar is involved. The firefox menu items do not appear when dragging the icon to th

[Bug 1159016] [NEW] 12.10 64bit live-USB successfully boots, but without persistence on UEFI pc

2013-03-22 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: The 64but 12.10 2G live USB was set up on a 32bit 12.04.1 non-UEFI host with 1G persistence. The USB boots and persistence works on the non-UEFI host. The USB boots in Secure boot mode but without persistence on a UEFI host. The /proc/cmdline on the running live media shows t

[Bug 840146] Re: colord crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

2013-04-09 Thread Ubfan
Happens regularly on 12.04, colord0.1.16-2ubuntu0.1, i386, nonfree=nvidia, /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord, kernel 3.2.0-39.62-generic-pae 3.2.39, signal =6. fully updated system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1086289] Re: Wrong grub-efi resolution during OS boot menu selection

2013-05-01 Thread Ubfan
I have seen the reduced grub resolution, but only after an EFI boot failure and its subsequent fallback to the /Boot/bootx64.efi. My machine is a Toshiba Satellite S855, and it boots off USB with a correctly set up ESP at full resolution, but when I select the hard disk's ubuntu choice, I got th

[Bug 1170150] [NEW] vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-17 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Kernel updates on a UEFI pc with secure boot enabled have the vmlinuz and initrd.img symlinks updated, but they point to the unsigned versions of the kernel instead of the signed ones. The pc was set up with secure boot on, has never been booted with secure boot off, and no r

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-18 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 12.10, updated several times, getting kernels ...17, ...26, and ...27. The symlinks in / were examined with "ls -l" and the output indicated that the link was to the /boot/vmlinuz-generic file, NOT the /boot/vmlinuz...-generic.efi.signed file. Applying the sbattach command to the /

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-19 Thread Ubfan
Bug 1091464 affects me (grub unable to chainload Windows), so as a workaround, I have a separate ESP on a USB stick. The stick boots Ubuntu 12.10 off the hard disk, and the stick is not mounted in the filesystem. I had been updating the stick's EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg as each kernel update occurre

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-04-23 Thread Ubfan
@yannubuntu re: #34: Yes, I too see the efi firmware path ubuntu/grubx64.efi when it should be ...shim.efi . Looks like grub- install defaulted to that when the path test for shim failed. I haven't done much except get rid of the usb boot for Ubuntu -- I was surprised the F12/select HDD/select u

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-24 Thread Ubfan
How I corrupted the ubuntu directory: On a Toshiba Satellite S855 with Windows 8 preinstalled and Secure boot enabled, successfully installed 12.10 64b to a 4G stick, without making a efi partition on it. This created a good EFI/ubuntu directory on the hard disk, but left the EFI/Boot directory

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-24 Thread Ubfan
@yannbuntu: My issue is the same as yours: the underlying bad EFI/ubuntu directory. I think I can narrow the cause to grub-efi itself: 1) I have never booted the pc with Secure boot disabled. 2) I have never run any third party tools like your boot-repair. 3) I have never added, changed or rena

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-25 Thread Ubfan
I see lots of Input/Output errors when accessing the EFI/ubuntu directory, and see a (bogus?) read only filesystem message in dmesg: dmesg lines (probably caused by the ls command): FAT-fs (sda2); error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) FAT-fs (sda2): Filesystem has been set read o

Re: [Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-26 Thread Ubfan
@yannubuntu: Sorry, bug 1159016 had me running non-persistent on my live media. At the time I didn't remember to capture any log files on another usb. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-03-29 Thread Ubfan
I have the same error on a Toshiba Satellite S855 S5378 with Windows 8 preinstalled. My workaround is to use a (full install) thumbdrive to boot Ubuntu 12.10 on the hard disk, and to pull the thumbdrive to boot windows -- all in secure mode. Windows boots attempted from the thumbdrive, give the er

[Bug 1173457] [NEW] Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop 64 bit install uses wrong ESP for secure boot laptop

2013-04-26 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: On a secure boot pc (secure boot enabled, Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 64bit installed with Win 8), installing from live media Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit desktop to a target thumbdrive (pre partitioned with gpt, and a bootable FAT32 partition 1 of 250M labeled EFI) properly identifies the

[Bug 1159016] Re: 12.10 64bit live-USB successfully boots, but without persistence on UEFI pc

2013-04-28 Thread Ubfan
Thanks Fred. Yes the fix is simple enough, add the word "persistent" to the /boot/grub/grub.cfg vmlinuz kernel lines. This bug still affects 13.04 also. I find persistence useful for setting up my install media with additional wireless/ethernet packages which may be needed on some machines

[Bug 1170183] Re: can not boot up in uefi secure boot mode unbuntu 13.04, can run in a live from cd uefi secure mode. will boot non secure boot mode

2013-05-09 Thread Ubfan
I too wound up with \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi as a uefi boot entry on a machine which had always had secure boot enabled. This was caused by an earlier grub-install which left a corrupt /EFI/ubuntu directory, which gave an IO error on any attempted access. After fixing the corrupted directory, reru

[Bug 1129524] Re: Precise & Quantal won't boot in UEFI

2013-05-11 Thread Ubfan
There have been some reports of corrupted /EFI/ubuntu directories, so could you confirm that you can see the files in this directory -- either from a legacy boot (where you will have to mount the EFI partition somewhere), or live boot? If the directory is unreadable, uefi boots cannot find the nec

[Bug 463920] Re: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space

2012-11-11 Thread Ubfan
** Changed in: enchant (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463920 Title: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space To manage no

[Bug 970040] Re: When set to autohide, launcher often won't show

2012-11-13 Thread Ubfan
@om26er -- I'm not running Unit 3D. Nvidia 304.60 fixed the problem for me, but it takes 2 sec for the launch bar to appear -- too slow for me, so I leave it visible now. Driver 304.63 worked too, after some initial problem which had the GUI login stuck in a loop -- looked like some old .X* files

[Bug 729045] Re: [needs-packaging] fltk-1.3.0

2012-02-04 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 11.10 does have some fltk13 packages now. The ...-dev package was fine, but the fltk13 package itself seems useless since it does not have the (four I needed) libfltk... libraries. The workaround is to add links to /usr/lib pointing to the necessary libraries in the tarball download. --

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-05-26 Thread Ubfan
A second workaround, more convienent than the USB boot is to invoke the EFI device select menu, select HDD, then select ubuntu or Windows (both of which work). The ubuntu selection starts grub, but from grub, the Windows boot still fails with the above chainloader error. With the number of

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-07-30 Thread Ubfan
Boot Speed = Normal as the default on the Toshiba S55 5378. Bios InsyderH2o Ver 3.7. Firmware 6.6, EC ver 6.10 I never changed the Boot Speed from it "normal" selection. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-07-31 Thread Ubfan
Well, since "Boot Speed = normal" appeared in my UEFI/BIOS settings, I assumed it was a ...BIOS setting, but maybe there is another Windows setting I should track down. The corruption just happened once though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-07-31 Thread Ubfan
The Windows setting on this Toshiba S855 is a checkbox labeled "Fast Startup", and it is not checked by default, and is not even active until another link for additional settings is clicked. Definitely not the cause my situation. Not to say that others may have only disabled one of multiple place

[Bug 817145] Re: Unable to find a medium containing live file system

2013-06-23 Thread Ubfan
Straightforward 12.04.2 USB install to hard disk -- no other disks present, still got the "init line 7...sdb" message. While error message was presenting, pulled the USB and reinserted, then the install proceeded normally. The error occurs on an Compaq Presario V3000 and a Toshiba Satellite S855.

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-06-23 Thread Ubfan
A frech install of 12.04.2 also displays the mouse problem with the mouse battery indicator. The mouse might move a few pixels when first turned on, but then stops and never moves again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-09-10 Thread Ubfan
I just confirmed that this is still a problem in 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495131 Title: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk To manage notifications about th

[Bug 816062] Re: When opening up FireFox 5 screen goes white

2011-09-30 Thread Ubfan
I sometimes see a white screen in firefox when running 11.04, but only with the Unity interface, not the classical. The "whiteness" is size dependent, it comes and goes as the screen is resized (showing the normal web page when not present). The resizing may be done with the corner resizer or by

[Bug 879120] [NEW] 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2011-10-20 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: The Broadcom 4311/12 wireless chips require firmware when using the b43 driver. This firmware is available from Broadcom (which is put into /lib/firmware/b43) or as open source (which is put into /lib/firmware/b43-open). Either firmware works, but when the proprietary Broadco

[Bug 879120] Re: 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2011-10-20 Thread Ubfan
The open source firmware is available in packages firmware-b43-installer and firmware-b43-lpphy-installer. It is not certain that the system with the problem had used those packages, however. The firmware may have been compiled directly, or copied from another system. -- You received this bug n

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-08-26 Thread Ubfan
This is still an issue with 10.04 and 11.04. Probably 10.10 too, but I'll have to wait until some more updates are available to test. Suggested fix: Use the size= option in the fstab line, which the mount command will report. Use the amount of free space in ram. Use the needed download size. Figu

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-08-27 Thread Ubfan
Edit your /etc/fstab to add a line putting /tmp into a ramfs device. See the below excerpt of fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name #

[Bug 762203] Re: Computer is not turned off at shutdown

2011-09-18 Thread Ubfan
After upgrading to kernel 2.6.38-11-generic, shutdown now completes properly on my MSI 135 laptop running 11.04 off a 4G usb stick. An 8G stick with 10.10 will shutdown with a dirty filesystem 25% of the time. Never had problems with 10.10 on 4G sticks, so maybe the speed of the root media is a

[Bug 615938] Re: mousepointer invisible, but seems to be there

2011-01-26 Thread Ubfan
Problem solved by using the Nvidia drivers. I would prefer to use the open drivers however, since I boot off a USB thumbdrive, and now I cannot successfully boot on a machine without Nvidia chips. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-10-19 Thread Ubfan
Maverick usb install media, whether created from Lucid or Maverick will still create a non-booting target usb device (thumbdrive or usb hdd) because the wrong device (sdc instead of sdb) is used. To recap, at install time, the Windows internal hard disk gets sda, the boot media gets sdb, and t

[Bug 70317] Re: constant kernel errors about unknown multimedia keys

2010-10-20 Thread Ubfan
Running Maverick Linux Maverick 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux on an Compaq Presario v3000 lsptop, I saw this message in my dmesg output: [ 12.793811] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 34.742043] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated

[Bug 608508] Re: usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove

2010-10-22 Thread Ubfan
Maverick remounts the "Safely removed" usb device before it can be pulled out (< 1/2 sec) at the first remove. The second remove attempt works properly on the usb device. Fully patched 32 bit Maverick to 20-Oct-2010, Running Linux Maverick 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC

[Bug 655111] Re: BCM4312 not supported by "Additional drivers". B43 is proposed, fails w/o useful message, "Not supported low-power chip"

2010-10-23 Thread Ubfan
Has anyone tried the b43-open firmware with this LP chip? http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 claims it's partially supported: 14e4:4315partially supported 2.6.33 and later (PIO mode)BCM4312 b/gLP b43/wl I just copy in a b43-open directory to /lib/firmware with the 3 fi

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