[Bug 523241] [NEW] mouse motion_acceleration key

2010-02-17 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gconf-editor setting to 0 by double-clicking on the key and getting the *dialog box* turns into 1.1754943508222875e-38 etc setting to -1 in the dialog is reset to 0 both work correctly if edited directly into the value column "short description" is "si

[Bug 523241] Re: mouse motion_acceleration key

2010-02-17 Thread arQon
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39305095/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39305096/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39305097/ProcStatus.txt -- mouse

[Bug 526925] [NEW] delete does not work

2010-02-24 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog (no apport - it failed to ever complete after over a minute, and btw, the cancel button on it doesn't work) not a dupe of #42571, since that's supposedly fixed - despite reports to the contrary since the claimed fix... also not a dupe of #192629, si

[Bug 521343] [NEW] package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-02-13 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 grub crashed during 9.10 auto-update after first reboot after installing to a new machine. apparently (faict) because after diffing my+upgrade /etc/default/grub, i clicked "back" and it wanted me to click "forward" instead, as ridiculous as that sou

[Bug 521343] Re: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-02-13 Thread arQon
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39141543/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39141544/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39141545/Dmesg.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 522714] [NEW] gdm simple-greeter ignores gconf settings

2010-02-16 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: gconf-editor / apps / gdm / simple-greeter / settings-manager-plugins / sound / active: unchecked gdm still plays the incredibly annoying drums when showing the login panel after a logout (it may also play them on first-logins, but i can't tell because of pulse/alsa auto-mu

[Bug 522714] Re: gdm simple-greeter ignores gconf settings

2010-02-16 Thread arQon
** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Invalid => New -- gdm simple-greeter ignores gconf settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522714 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 522714] Re: gdm simple-greeter ignores gconf settings

2010-02-16 Thread arQon
jep, that's why i set it to invalid. then i reopened it to put the right key in for the next of the 5000 people looking for a way to disable it, but it took 20 minutes to find it. $ sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds --type bool false sorry to have wasted your time -

[Bug 1847479] Re: update-manager window expands off-screen (which effectively stops distribution upgrade)

2021-04-30 Thread arQon
Just happened with 21.04 (on a pi4), albeit with a minor variation: this time, the suggestion was "change the home directory of user irc?" (the pi was a server install originally, with the desktop packages added later). When I clicked "Help" it resized the window to fill the desktop, and I can JU

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2021-07-29 Thread arQon
I take it Victor is no longer involved with the project. For whoever picks this up: when I discussed this with him at the time, he knew exactly what had caused the bug: he'd "hacked the window borders wider so that they could still be grabbed properly after gtk3 broke that" - I assume by padding t

[Bug 1760401] [NEW] caja counts files on cifs mount despite being set to "Count Local Files Only"

2018-04-01 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: With a cifs device (a NAS, in my case) mounted via a "normal" mount, caja counts the files in subdirectories despite being set not to. This destroys the performance of the NAS if you have a few hundred directories at any given level in an open caja window, and takes forever to

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-18 Thread arQon
> prior to the transfer [on the buggy versions] the link quality is 62-64 and the signal similarly weaker because of power saving, but once packets are in flight it looks perfect -32 doesn't seem to have that problem: it's been 70/70 every time i've looked, even with the link speed showing as 15Mb

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-21 Thread arQon
the machine is usually ~20 feet away from the router, through multiple walls and a floor. i moved it last night so it was 6 feet away with LOS, and the results from that are very interesting: Linux brix 4.15.0-36-generic #39~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 25 08:59:23 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-28 Thread arQon
given the link quality observations in #11 and the behavior in #12, it's pretty clear that the problem is with the radio power management. since it isn't improved at all via any of the PM settings, that suggests it's simply broken rather than overly-aggressive. for reference, the head for the las

[Bug 1795116] [NEW] large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-09-29 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: 16.04 install using the HWE stack. after several weeks of uptime on -32, an update to -34 showed a major drop in wifi throughput, dependent solely on the kernel chosen: $ uname -a && ./wifibench.sh Linux brix 4.15.0-32-generic #35~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 10 21:54:34 UTC

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-09-29 Thread arQon
obviously i've tested this with 32/33/34 a dozen or so times, but the performance regression shows up in all of them, so i've only copied that particular one. the best (i.e. "least bad for the bugged kernel") result so far was "only" -18%, and most runs are down by 25-30%. ** Package changed: ubun

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-09-29 Thread arQon
unfortunately, the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs don't seem to work: >> If this is to be added to an existing bug report, also use the -u option: ubuntu-bug -c FILENAME.apport -u BUGNUMBER << $ ubuntu-bug -c /mnt/nas/wifi.apport -u 1795116 Usage: ubuntu-bug [op

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-01 Thread arQon
marked as confirmed per #3 and #4. i have the apport file stashed away and can upload it as an attachment upon request if anyone's interested. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-02 Thread arQon
sure, i'll try. sidenote, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds is missing any reference to kernel modules, which seem like they might be kind of important for bugs like this. is that a failure in the doc, or is the goal here just to test e.g. the tcp changes in -33 rather than any changes

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-03 Thread arQon
ok - it's a failure in the doc, since the kernel image can't be installed without them. also note that the headers package can't be installed on 16.04 because of a change in the ?libssl? dependency. (from memory: might be the wrong dependency). that aside, the results with 4.19 are ... odd, so fa

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-03 Thread arQon
so, the methodology is, reboot, wait for things to settle (i.e. for the initial "performance" cpu period ubuntu uses to pass), run a simple script that dumps out some diags and rsyncs that 400MB iso. -- Linux brix 4.19.0-041900rc6-generic #201809301631 SMP Sun Sep 30 16:32:51 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2018-10-07 Thread arQon
> on channel 8(+4), 4.19 typically performed on par with -32 and older. apparently only because of some fluke. the router switched to 4(+8) some time in the past couple of days, and the newer kernels are certainly sucking hard on that too: --- Linux brix 4.15.0-32-generic #35~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP

[Bug 1803782] [NEW] autoremoval of kernels breaks unless other packages need updating

2018-11-16 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: after updating multiple packages including the kernel, choose "restart later". note: in this particular case i deferred the update for a specific package (thunderbird) - no idea if that's required to trigger this bug or not. when update manager pops up again after about 10s

[Bug 1847892] [NEW] large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-12 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: Probably relevant: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1795116 Card is an RTL8723BE. On 16.04 with the HWE stack, after 1795116 was fixed performance was a stable 75-80Mb/s. Linux 4.15.0-55-generic #60~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 4 09:03:09 UTC 2019 x86_64

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-17 Thread arQon
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847892 Title: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kern

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-17 Thread arQon
That machine doesn't have access to launchpad, so until someone fixes the bugs (referenced out in the other thread) so that "ubuntu-bug -c" works, I can't provide that info. Kai - this is a low-power HTPC, with very little disk space. Assuming it can even clone the kernel, it will likely take week

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-12-19 Thread arQon
Sorry Kai - I got swamped by real-life issues. I finally got the time to look into this a few days ago, and when I went to check on it then in case a kernel update had fixed things already, it looks like it has (or at least, mostly so) - peaks are back to 80+, so that's within wifi variance again.

[Bug 1756933] [NEW] mate-screensaver fails to disable X dpms and blanking

2018-03-19 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: as a result, X blanks the screen after 10 minutes regardless of what the screensaver is told to do (ie "don't blank the screen"). $ ps ax |grep screensa 1478 ?Sl 0:00 mate-screensaver $ xset q [snip] Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yesallow exposures: yes

[Bug 1758642] [NEW] eom incorrectly fails with unrecognised format on TGA collections

2018-03-25 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: When a directory of TGAs is opened in eom, either from caja or via "eom ", it displays the first image correctly. Advancing to the next image then fails with "Unrecognized image file format", and returning to the first image at that point also then fails. PNG and JPEG collect

[Bug 1758642] Re: eom incorrectly fails with unrecognised format on TGA collections

2018-03-25 Thread arQon
** Description changed: When a directory of TGAs is opened in eom, either from caja or via "eom ", it displays the first image correctly. Advancing to the next image then fails with "Unrecognized image file format", and returning to the first image at that point also then fails. + + 14.04

[Bug 1842757] [NEW] update-manager does not follow settings and fails to update packages on time

2019-09-04 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: With "Security" and "Other" updates both set to "Display Immediately", Update Manager simply ignores any "Other" updates. It's done this for all of 16.04, IIRC, and certainly for months even if not that long. Today, for example: $ apt list --upgradable Listing... Done bsduti

[Bug 1842757] Re: update-manager does not follow settings and fails to update packages on time

2019-09-04 Thread arQon
Thanks for the link. It's a bit hard to defend it as "not technically a bug, because we're *deliberately* ignoring what you said to do", but I do understand the position (and even mostly agree with it, for what that's worth). It's very confusing when you have multiple machines though, with some ra

[Bug 1842757] Re: update-manager does not follow settings and fails to update packages on time

2019-09-06 Thread arQon
> We'll eventually add phased updates to APT too, but we're not there yet. I'm not sure it's a good idea to go out of your way to make it impossible for users to get the current version of a package by any means. The update-manager behavior is defensible, and even sensible; but there's enormous va

[Bug 1758642] Re: eom incorrectly fails with unrecognised format on TGA collections

2019-08-26 Thread arQon
This bug is still present in 16.04, but seems to be fixed in 19.04. I don't see an explicit commit for it though, which makes me wonder if it's a memory corruption issue in the GTK layer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1846474] [NEW] Distribution Upgrade unusable on low-res displays

2019-10-03 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: When performing a distribution upgrade, update-manager initially presents a usable (though badly-sized) window. Clicking the "Details" button though resizes that window (by, I'm guessing, the vertical space needed for the new information) and pushes the window's buttons off th

[Bug 1846474] Re: Distribution Upgrade unusable on low-res displays

2019-10-03 Thread arQon
Also note that the window doesn't even have a Close button, so they can't exit it that way either. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1846474 Title: Distribution Upgrade unusable on low-r

[Bug 1846474] Re: Distribution Upgrade unusable on low-res displays

2019-10-04 Thread arQon
IDK why launchpad insists on filling in the Package field incorrectly every time I file a bug! I expect firefox is actually to blame and has decided to autofill things. Sorry about that. ** Package changed: marco (Ubuntu) => update-manager (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 1664006] Re: I wish window control buttons scaled in size with window title font size

2019-10-04 Thread arQon
Don't know if this has been fixed at some point, but *with the theme I use* on 19.10 the buttons resize correctly. So either it's fixed, or the problem is with the specific theme (Ambient-Dark or whatever) that you're using. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1847479] Re: update-manager window expands off-screen (which effectively stops distribution upgrade)

2019-11-15 Thread arQon
No, you can't. The window EXPANDS to where it's unusable, but then doesn't resize back DOWN when you toggle details back off. The only way out is to kill update-manager (which doesn't even have a Close icon, so you also have to know that you can do it from the main menu, which some distros are now

[Bug 1847479] Re: update-manager window expands off-screen (which effectively stops distribution upgrade)

2019-11-15 Thread arQon
I wonder what the thought process was that led to disabling user resize of this window in the first place. As with the absence of the other window controls there's no reason for it at all, and simply not doing so would have prevented this bug from being application-breaking. -- You received this

[Bug 1849004] Re: update-manager stopped loading update descriptions / changelog

2019-11-19 Thread arQon
The package update-manager/xenial-proposed 1:16.04.17 fixes the bug for me as well. enabled -proposed and pulled in those files via synaptic, leaving the other packages as is. ran update-manager and changelogs show properly again on those packages. -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-25 Thread arQon
The dist-upgrades have wiped out all the previous kernels, of course. The only one left on the machine at all was the 5.0 from 19.04, and that's no good either. :( Linux 5.0.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 13:05:32 UTC 2019 x86_64 Wed 23-Oct-19 04:47 sent 459,277,171 bytes received 35 by

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-26 Thread arQon
I expect so. I don't usually have a machine available to run as a server though, hence the preference for rsync. If you're concerned that the NAS might be the bottleneck, don't be. That's a sensible point to raise, but it's GbE and saturates it wired. (To say nothing of the months during which the

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-30 Thread arQon
Any specific params you want for iperf BTW? I ran some basic tests against a VM after all: it might have lost a few %, but wireless is so slow that it's not going to make any meaningful difference. [ ID] IntervalTransferBandwidth Reads Dist(bin=16.0K) [ 4] 0.-11.4354

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-01 Thread arQon
16.04.6 turned out to have 4.15.0-45, which is one of the known-broken releases. Unsurprisingly, it delivered the same poor results as 5.3. I'm running low on sensible options here. I no longer have the bootable 18.04 stick I used before, but I can create a new one easily enough (as long as I rem

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-02 Thread arQon
Okay - the 18.04.3 release I tested in September, which was fine, has 5.0.0-23. -29 is broken, as mentioned above. That's a pretty narrow window to work with. I'd prefer it if someone from Canonical took it from here. (Heck, there are probably few enough commits to that driver in that timeframe t

[Bug 1845822] [NEW] marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2019-09-28 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: In the 19.10 Beta: session restore is moving all windows placed at the bottom of the screen up by ~8 pixels, and moving all windows placed at the right-hand edge of the screen left by ?about? the same amount. 19.04 didn't have this problem. A window that was "docked" in the

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2019-09-28 Thread arQon
Launchpad made a bad guess on the package, and ignored my change to it on the submission. :) ** Package changed: mate-screensaver (Ubuntu) => marco (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2019-09-28 Thread arQon
** Attachment added: "session-restore-position-bug.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/marco/+bug/1845822/+attachment/5292438/+files/session-restore-position-bug.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2019-09-28 Thread arQon
Some more info, without which that session file isn't much use: The display is 1920x1200. Ignore the bottom edge, since that has a panel on it. The caja window is @ 791 x, + w = 1,902. The x="-10" for a window on the LHS means the borders are that wide (even though they clearly aren't, so th

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2019-09-29 Thread arQon
I got tired of putting them back in the right place, and after the next reboot I noticed that they actually KEEP moving up (and left, when possible) each time. Funky. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1841854] Re: netspeed applet icon not correctly sized

2019-09-29 Thread arQon
Just to confirm, the bug is still present in 19.10 Beta. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841854 Title: netspeed applet icon not correctly sized To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1841854] Re: netspeed applet icon not correctly sized

2019-09-29 Thread arQon
Both bugs, that is. (Sorry, forgot to check the second one before). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841854 Title: netspeed applet icon not correctly sized To manage notifications abo

[Bug 1718658] Re: ecryptfs-mount-private fails to initialize ecryptfs keys

2020-10-22 Thread arQon
One additional note for anyone still stuck using this trainwreck for whatever reason: Even if you use the keyctl hack to get mounting your private data to work, you will be unable to UNmount it because of bugs in ecryptfs- umount-private. The workaround for THAT bug is to just call "/sbin/umount.e

[Bug 1758642] Re: eom incorrectly fails with unrecognised format on TGA collections

2021-04-04 Thread arQon
Also still broken in 18.04. I should have some free time in the next couple of months, so I'll see if i can turn it into an ACE. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758642 Title: eom

[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-17 Thread arQon
This appears to have either gone too far or not far enough, since the current xenial of: 4.4.0-143-generic #169-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 07:56:38 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux now fails to build the virtualbox client modules with: --- /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c

[Bug 1818049] Re: virtualbox dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

2019-03-17 Thread arQon
Just reverted to the -142 to double-check, and that does indeed build just fine. 5.1.38 is of course the version in the Ubuntu repository for xenial, so the obsolescence issues have to be ignored. I don't know what the process for resolving the conflict is here, but -143 breaks xenial guests, and

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2019-04-26 Thread arQon
Although, I see what appears to be an unrelated (to ant_sel) + if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_btc_status()) + rtlpriv->btcoexist.btc_ops->btc_power_on_setting(rtlpriv); added in that commit as well. I can't go digging into the source right now to see what that's doing, but since

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2019-04-26 Thread arQon
Thanks, but that seems unlikely: I'm aware of the ant_sel issue on HP laptops etc, but this machine isn't one and has never benefitted from it. If it was using the wrong one of two antennae, it wouldn't hit 70/70 at 20ft away through walls, nor would the throughput be almost half of what it was wit

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2019-04-28 Thread arQon
Hooray, it seems that it has - but possibly only partially. Peak and Avg throughput were both a few % down compared to -32, but well within the sort of variance wifi suffers from. High-70s for download is certainly good enough to use. What's less encouraging, to the point of being an outright con

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2019-04-30 Thread arQon
That bad run was an outlier. No idea what caused it, but cron'd tests over the past couple of days have all shown results similar to the pre-33 breakage. So it looks like this is finally fixed, thanks. It's a shame testing didn't catch it, but understandable. It's a bit more worrying that the regr

[Bug 1827727] Re: All plugins disabled due to expired cert

2019-05-07 Thread arQon
This shouldn't be marked as "Fix Released" when the LTS's still don't have an update available. I realise the "real" work is done, but we can't have LTS's being treated as second-class citizens to the extent that this crippling defect doesn't even show up as an active issue to their users in Launch

[Bug 1795116] Re: large performance regression (~20-40%) in wifi with 4.15.0-33 and later

2019-04-21 Thread arQon
Still hopelessly broken. :( Throughput with the latest kernel was down to about 45Mb/s when I tested it a few days ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795116 Title: large performan

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-28 Thread arQon
other way around sebastien: those are all added lines. which i guess means the files were diffed the wrong way round, sigh - i'm used to real sccs's, not diffpatches. thanks for spotting it: re-uploaded with the inversion fixed ** Patch removed: "eog-bug-551171.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-28 Thread arQon
** Patch added: "eog-bug-551171.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/255030/+attachment/1949305/+files/eog-bug-551171.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255030 Title: Eog

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
It's not about "paranoia" Mike: it's that a user who has explicitly stated that they don't want thumbnails, ever; in the only place they *can* specify that preference, is given the impression that their decision is being ignored. I don't think you can blame them for considering it to be a bug. eog

[Bug 565722] Re: eog fails to start

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
note that the "GLib-GIO-CRITICAL" errors in the OP are red herrings caused by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/578061 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565722 Title: eo

[Bug 635506] Re: Repeated "(eog:21535): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_app_info_equal: assertion `G_IS_APP_INFO (appinfo1)' failed" every time I open a file in eog

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/578061 , but this identifies the root of the problem and that one doesn't luis: debian introduced the bug, so installing from the GNOME repository will fix it, though you'll probably have to compile it yourself. -- You received this

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
> There is no gnome-wide disable-thumbnail setting, and I doubt you'll convince anyone that it is worth having one. Exactly so Mike: except that piece appears to have been oversnipped from my notes, yay 4am editing... > gThumb has a disable-thumbnail setting, although it can only be enabled throu

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
** Attachment removed: "foo" https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/255030/+attachment/1939623/+files/foo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255030 Title: Eog creates thumbnails even when

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-25 Thread arQon
replaced the patch with a debdiff (was rcs) and used the gnome bug id rather than a distro-specific one. semi-pointless i know, but it'll be easier for anyone who wants to patch eog themselves. ** Patch added: "eog-bug-551171.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/255030/+attachment/19422

[Bug 255030] Re: Eog creates thumbnails even when deactivated in gnome

2011-03-26 Thread arQon
and sent to the mailing list, which is what i actually came here to post but forgot... heh - i'm not going to redesign and rewrite *that*, Mike: it's so integral it would probably be quicker to just start again from (near-)scratch. it's not ideal, but it seems to work for everything outside of the

[Bug 1718658] Re: ecryptfs-mount-private fails to initialize ecryptfs keys

2019-11-06 Thread arQon
#34 said: This bug affects a cryptographic (read: highly sensitive) feature, is 15 months old, a patch was proposed 12 months ago, but it is still of "Undecided" importance and still "Unassigned"? Come on! Are the ecryptfs-utils and systemd packages unmaintained at Ubuntu? Well, this bug is now

[Bug 1851974] [NEW] changelogs not displayed

2019-11-09 Thread arQon
Public bug reported: For the last few weeks, update-manager fails to show the changes for new packages. Running it from a terminal, I see: ~ $ update-manager /usr/bin/update-manager:28: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') befor

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-10 Thread arQon
Had the affected machine in here (i.e. "where the router is") for other reasons, so I was able to check those conditions too. As expected, it's a power / antenna / etc issue: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 Fri 08-Nov-19 03:29 sent 459,277,171 bytes recei

[Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-12 Thread arQon
Thanks Kai. Yes, I really want to use Ubuntu kernel to bisect: or at least, I need the option to be able to - because if the problem is coming from the Ubuntu patchset, I could spend weeks bisecting mainline and never find it, whereas if I bisect the Ubuntu tree I'm guaranteed to find it and that

[Bug 1872255] Re: mate-tweak doesn't save custom panels correctly 20.04 beta

2022-06-03 Thread arQon
Sorry Wimpy - I just did fresh installs of two machines with 20.04.4, and the bug triggered on one of them, i.e. the fix is incomplete. Examining the .panel and .layout files in pluma, I can see that the problem element (mate-control-center) is listed in the files twice (elements 2 and 15) - which

[Bug 1845822] Re: marco / mate-session-restore misplaces windows

2021-08-20 Thread arQon
wb. :) I'll try to tackle it, but my health's not that great right now. IMO one should really prioritize fixing "easy" bugs ahead of doing massive rewrites to things, but you don't work for me, so... :) The bug's already made it into one LTS. It would be pretty ridiculous for it to still be the

[Bug 2078555] Re: Upgrading from 22.04 to 24.04.01 breaks dnsmasq

2025-02-07 Thread arQon
Just a quick note that I got hit by this a week or two ago, months after moving from 22.04 to 24.04 and disabling sd-resolved by hand way back then. IOW, it apparently happens on 24.04.0 -> 24.04.1 as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su