[Bug 56306] Installer: No quick keys in Choose keyboard dialog

2006-08-13 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-live Steps to repro: 1. Boot the Dapper i386 Live CD 2. Select the Install icon on the desktop Bug description: In the third dialog box, where you select your keboard language, pressing an alphabetic key doesn't seem to have any effect. Desired

[Bug 56306] Re: Installer: No quick keys in Choose keyboard dialog

2006-08-14 Thread era
(Carthik's comment was after I started typing in mine above. OK, fine, Ubiquity it is then.) -- Installer: No quick keys in Choose keyboard dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/56306 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 56306] Re: Installer: No quick keys in Choose keyboard dialog

2006-08-14 Thread era
Like 47499, this might belong in ubuntu-express. Again, sorry if I'm reporting this against the wroing package -- it's not obvious to me which package the Dapper LiveCD installer belongs in -- Installer: No quick keys in Choose keyboard dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/56306 -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 56742] aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-08-17 Thread era
Public bug reported: I'm afraid I find the semantics of --without-recommends rather unintuitive, if not even useless. Pretty please could you provide an option which means "I don't want to install the Recommends: packages but if they are already on my system, don't remove them"? For example, jus

[Bug 56742] Re: aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-08-17 Thread era
Actually, for completeness, merely installing those packages had no effect; the actual workaround for me was "aptitude install --without- recommends miscfiles openssl postfix resolvconf ssl-cert wamerican xli language-pack-en" (yeah, I let go of libjpeg-progs) -- aptitude: install --without-recom

[Bug 57052] /dev/toshiba created cmod 660 root:root

2006-08-21 Thread era
Public bug reported: Running wmtuxtime as myself produces the helpful error message about the kernel not having the necessary module, even though the toshiba module is shown by lsmod. (The documentation is also somewhat lacking here, as it only talks about "the kernel module" a lot, without mentio

[Bug 57086] Uninformative package description

2006-08-21 Thread era
Public bug reported: Unless you know the historical connection to a once-popular screensaver called "After Dark", it is basically impossible to figure out what this package is. ** Affects: beforelight (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- Uninformative package desc

[Bug 56742] Re: aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-08-21 Thread era
I created a VMware image so I could repro this ... good thing I took notes while installing that machine (-: I believe a minimal repro scenario for this would be to set up a plain server install, then install anacron, which pulls in postfix and other useful packages, and then install language-pack

[Bug 57188] segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
Public bug reported: w3m https://nonesvch.example.com => Segmentation fault With plain http, there is simply an error message "w3m: Can't load http://nonesvch.example.com."; The segmentation fault also happens if you start up w3m -B and then press U to enter a https URL to a nonexistent site. P

[Bug 57189] Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems

2006-08-22 Thread era
Public bug reported: Through trial and error I have found this to be the apparent right place for bug reports about installation problems in Dapper. However, there are various other places where people are reporting bugs against the installer, including "ubuntu-express", "debian-installer", and "u

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
-- segfault for https+unknown domain https://launchpad.net/bugs/57188 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
The backtrace looked rather uninformative to me, so here's a strace dump as well. It looks like it's desperately looking for libnss_mdns and failing just before it gags. FWIW I noticed that the strace included some stuff from my bookmarks etc. so I moved away ~/.w3m and reran: vnix$ mv ~/.w3m ~/

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
Haven't touched nsswitch.conf, attaching it anyway. vnix$ dlocate -S /etc/nsswitch.conf base-files: /etc/nsswitch.conf vnix$ dpkg -s libnss-mdns Package `libnss-mdns' is not installed and no info is available. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dp

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
I think it's a red herring, it's not directly related to mdns, just that the crash happens after it tries mdns, but before /etc/services (which is what happens next in the strace if I run with http instead of https). ... Indeed, if I remove mdns from nsswitch.conf, it crashes just the same, only t

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
Sorry, my skis got crossed while I was writing that. It's probably obvious but just to make it explicit, what I was going to write was that "when I run with http instead of https, the SIGSEGV is still there, but ..." -- segfault for https+unknown domain https://launchpad.net/bugs/57188 -- ubunt

[Bug 57189] Re: Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems

2006-08-22 Thread era
"Fix released"? Come on, even if that guide was changed, the problem would not be fixed. I have enumerated a bunch of things you could do to rectify the situation at least slightly, most of which only incidentally involve a little documentation. For the most part, you should assume that people will

[Bug 57284] examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh: Funny shell error

2006-08-22 Thread era
Public bug reported: The pbuilder-distribution.sh script contains a shell scripting error which just coincidentally happens to work anyway. I know, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but it's kind of embarrassing, or amusing, depending on how you look at it. PROCEED=true ... if ( $PROCEED == true

[Bug 57284] Re: examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh: Funny shell error

2006-08-22 Thread era
The diff would probably be bigger than the script itself so I'm simply attaching my updated version which changes the flow of the script, rather than just making the minimal fix. -- examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh: Funny shell error https://launchpad.net/bugs/57284 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 55042] Re: /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au.

2006-08-22 Thread era
... or ubiquity? -- /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au. https://launchpad.net/bugs/55042 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-08-22 Thread era
Sorry for the delay, I decided to figure out how to do it with pbuilder while I was at it. (Note for posterity: add 'export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug nostrip noopt"' to ~/.pbuilderrc and ignore the similar-sounding DEBBUILDOPTS which is unrelated.) -- segfault for https+unknown domain https://laun

[Bug 57052] Re: /dev/toshiba created chmod 660 root:root

2006-08-22 Thread era
** Summary changed: - /dev/toshiba created cmod 660 root:root + /dev/toshiba created chmod 660 root:root ** Description changed: Running wmtuxtime as myself produces the helpful error message about the kernel not having the necessary module, even though the toshiba module is shown by lsmod

[Bug 57189] Re: Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems

2006-08-23 Thread era
Excellent progress; the audience cheers! -- Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems https://launchpad.net/bugs/57189 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57189] Re: Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems

2006-08-23 Thread era
Might want to go over the ubuntu-meta bugs also, there's a number there which would seem to belong somewhere else, and maybe think about adding a hint or a description to the ubuntu-meta package like you did for the ubuntu-installer team, if possible. -- Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installat

[Bug 55042] Re: /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au.

2006-08-23 Thread era
** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au. https://launchpad.net/bugs/55042 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57189] Re: Unobvious where to report Ubuntu installation problems

2006-08-23 Thread era
The dominating problem is making sure that reporting a bug is not so frustrating that it doesn't happen in the first place. The threshold is already rather high among users (look in the forums for examples, every day; ubuntuforums.org is a good place to start) and the problem is exacerbated if addi

[Bug 55042] Re: /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au.

2006-08-24 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 40107 *** Yes, definitely, as you can see it was posted before 6.06.1 was out and I have only ever downloaded the original 6.06 CD for AMD64 -- /etc/apt/sources.list defaults to .au. https://launchpad.net/bugs/55042 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lis

[Bug 57562] Keystrokes lost in unlock dialog

2006-08-24 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 56352 *** Public bug reported: Unlike (ahem) xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver loses any keystrokes you press before the password dialog comes up. If the screen is switched off, I usually press shift, pause a moment (probably on the order of half a second or less)

[Bug 57562] Re: Keystrokes lost in unlock dialog

2006-08-24 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 56352 *** Sorry, I honestly tried to look for an existing report of this problem, but somehow missed #56352 -- Keystrokes lost in unlock dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/57562 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

[Bug 56352] Re: Unlock dialog no longer pays attention to keypresses before it appears

2006-08-24 Thread era
** Bug 57562 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- Unlock dialog no longer pays attention to keypresses before it appears https://launchpad.net/bugs/56352 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 57631] Dapper 6.06.1 installer: Can't undo LVM partition?

2006-08-24 Thread era
Public bug reported: I am installing from the Dapper 6.06.1 i386 "server" CD on a low-memory system. When I mistakenly selected hda6 (actually by BIOS hibernation area) as "use as LVM physical disk", I could no longer change it. At first I tried to change it to "don't use this partition" but to n

[Bug 57912] Confusing manual page indirection

2006-08-27 Thread era
Public bug reported: The manual page suggests you read "info grub" instead, but unless the package "grub-doc" is installed, the result is no different (and in fact, the footer of the info page suggest you should read the info page "instead"). An easy fix might be to add an explanation of the situ

[Bug 56742] Re: aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-10-22 Thread era
Sorry, dunno why I originally reported this against "apt" instead of "aptitude", could you please move the "Confirmed" tag and remove (or somehow invalidate) the "apt" package? ** Also affects: aptitude (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tr

[Bug 56742] Re: aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-10-24 Thread era
I think I got something which looks sort of like an upstream confirmation in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=143532;msg=68;att=0 -- aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages https://launchpad.net/bugs/56742 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 33331] Re: moving the clock 1 h forward starts the screensaver

2006-09-05 Thread era
In xscreensaver, this bug has existed like forever. I used to see it a lot when my laptop's CMOS battery was failing and I had to tweak the time by hand every time I rebooted. This was like a year ago, then on a Woody installation (thankfully now also running Dapper, still on xscreensaver). -- mo

[Bug 56352] Re: Unlock dialog no longer pays attention to keypresses before it appears

2006-09-05 Thread era
On a related note, the focus is also lost when you get "Denied". So if you mistype your password and start typing it in again, typically the start of the password will be lost because the screensaver is doing random "denied" gyrations (bug #44263) instead of paying attention to the keyboard ... and

[Bug 56742] Re: aptitude: install --without-recommends removes packages

2006-09-07 Thread era
Like I wrote in the initial comment, I cannot come up with a case where it would be useful for "install" to actually "remove" some (often, apparently unrelated) packages. For "upgrade", I can somehow see how at least sometimes this would not be surprising (if you have an auto-installed package whi

[Bug 57052] Re: /dev/toshiba created chmod 660 root:root

2006-09-08 Thread era
I don't reboot that often (-: so I didn't notice until now, but actually, /dev/toshiba is (of course) recreated each time you load the toshiba module, and removed when it is rmmodded. Every time, you have to go chmod or chgrp it in order for e.g. wmtuxtime to work. I plan to set up a local rc.scrip

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-08 Thread era
Just for clarification, this is with the "Script-Fu" > "Alpha to Logo" > "Alien Glow" thingy. I noticed there is another copy of it with slightly different parameters in "Xtns" > "Script-Fu" > "Logos" which seems to work just fine. It asks you to input the text and font to create the logo from, and

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-08 Thread era
Since the sample at laku19 is intermittently unavailable, and I found a way to create a correct example, I'm uploading new samples. This one is correct, and was created by typing in "fnord" and selecting 128-pixel Sans Bold in the Xtns > Script-Fu > Logos > Alien Glow ... dialog ** Attachment add

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-08 Thread era
This one was created by opening a 454x214 pixel new document, typing in "fnord" with the text tool in 128-pixel Sans Bold, and running the Script-Fu > Alpha to Logo > Alien Glow ... thingy. You'll notice it was cropped down to 390x150 and that the nice glow effect is thus "gnawed" from the edges.

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-08 Thread era
Ahem, sorry, here's another attempt. Edited to have absolute paths to the first two attachments. ** Attachment added: "Corrected fnord.html" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4201902/fnord.html -- "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly https://launchpad.net/bugs/41759 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-08 Thread era
To complete the picture, here is a HTML file to display them both at the same time. See how the lower image is cropped from the edges. ** Attachment added: "Hope this works in Launchpad directly ..." http://librarian.launchpad.net/4201863/fnord.html -- "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly ht

[Bug 57188] Re: segfault for https+unknown domain

2006-09-08 Thread era
Do you still need something from me? I looked at url.c and I think I would expect the code to not fall through all the way to line 500 -- I was wondering why the https stuff wasn't handled higher up, where there was code for https, but I didn't pursue that further. -- segfault for https+unknown

[Bug 40769] Re: Page that crashes firefox

2006-09-08 Thread era
I'm seeing this on a Dapper amd64 box too. For what it's worth, the workaround is to not close the pop-up window; just minimize it and continue to browse in another tab/window. Or, alternatively, find the offending tab and reload the offending page, but this can often result in yet another pop-up,

[Bug 44016] Re: grep: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/*[^~]: No such file or directory

2006-09-08 Thread era
Is this fixed already? On my copy the line numbers are way different but here's the only match on /var/lib/locales: vnix$ egrep -nC2 /var/lib/locales /usr/bin/firefox /dev/null /usr/bin/firefox-63-if [ "x${MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO}" = x ]; then /usr/bin/firefox-64-if egrep '^(bn|gu|hi|kn|ml|mr|ne|pa

[Bug 40769] Re: Page that crashes firefox

2006-09-12 Thread era
Before I forget: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51858.html Sorry, haven't had the time to investigate properly if this page is enough to repro the problem. -- Page that crashes firefox https://launchpad.net/bugs/40769 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 60511] Creates too small swap for hibernate

2006-09-14 Thread era
Public bug reported: I have two different installations from the Ubuntu 6.06 i386 Live CD. Both of them suffered from the same problem: the swap space was too small for the hibernate function to work properly. Case #1: IBM ThinkPad 600E with 6.5Gb drive, with all old partitions removed before (re

[Bug 60513] Disable zooming in timezone widget on slow systems

2006-09-14 Thread era
Public bug reported: This is a wishlist item: Would it be possible to turn off the spiffy graphical zoom effect in the timezone picker if it's clear after a few frames that completing the effect will take several seconds and not look spiffy at all? Ref: #60512 ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)

[Bug 60512] Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

2006-09-14 Thread era
Public bug reported: Installing on an IBM ThinkPad 600E (pretty old hardware, 266MHz??), I got the timezone picker to crash by double-clicking on Helsinki while it wasn't yet zoomed. It started zooming, frightfully slowly, and then crashed when the second click actually arrived. This is my off th

[Bug 60512] Re: Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

2006-09-14 Thread era
Oh, forgot to mention: I went over all the "installer crashed" bugs in Ubiquity looking for a duplicate of this one, but it's hard to tell from all the raw Python backtraces if any of them are actually a report of this same bug. -- Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system https://laun

[Bug 60516] Time zone & locale should also affect Gnome time applet 12/24 preference

2006-09-14 Thread era
Public bug reported: Sorry if this is the wrong place for this report. I noticed after freshly installing from the Live CD 6.06 i386 installer CD that while the time zone in the Gnome time applet was correct, it was still displaying 12h AM/PM. For Europe/Helsinki, the correct choice whould be 24h

[Bug 60514] Propagate selected timezone to running LiveCD session

2006-09-14 Thread era
Public bug reported: In the Live CD installer, when you have picked your location, it would be nice if the currently running Live CD session could already display the time in the selected time zone while you are finishing the installation. I mainly noticed because I thought I had mistakenly faile

[Bug 60514] Re: Propagate selected timezone to running LiveCD session

2006-09-14 Thread era
Ubuntu 6.06 i386 Live CD installer, for the record. -- Propagate selected timezone to running LiveCD session https://launchpad.net/bugs/60514 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 60512] Re: Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

2006-09-14 Thread era
This was the 6.06 Live CD i386 installer, by the way; sorry for failing to mention that. -- Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system https://launchpad.net/bugs/60512 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 60517] LiveCD thrashes if hard disk malformatted

2006-09-15 Thread era
Public bug reported: I ran the Ubuntu 6.06 i386 Live CD on a system with a 6.5GB hard drive which had previously been in use on another system. I don't know if the disk was physically bad or what, but I got insane amounts of errors from /dev/hda6 for about half an hour, until I simply stopped tryi

[Bug 60517] Re: LiveCD thrashes if hard disk malformatted

2006-09-15 Thread era
Just to make this a little more specific: I find it a bit surprising that the supposedly autonomous Live CD should care one bit what's on the hard drive of the host system, at least during initial bootstrapping. Argh, this is probably not an Ubiquity bug, sorry about that. Could you please refile

[Bug 60517] Re: LiveCD thrashes if hard disk malformatted

2006-09-18 Thread era
Sorry, I don't have the means to try to repro this any longer; as a workaround, I removed the partitions which caused this. The hard disk now has a regular Dapper installation which does not thrash. The hard disk had been in use on a different computer, I guess probably with different hard disk ge

[Bug 60516] Re: Time zone & locale should also affect Gnome time applet 12/24 preference

2006-09-18 Thread era
Language English, location (as indicated) Europe/Helsinki, i.e. Finland. -- Time zone & locale should also affect Gnome time applet 12/24 preference https://launchpad.net/bugs/60516 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 61054] Show sizes of created partitions

2006-09-18 Thread era
Public bug reported: When you select "use entire disk", it would be useful if at the end, the installer would tell you the sizes of the partitions it is going to create. Several times I have found myself going back to change what the installer did (see e.g. #60511) and it would have been appreciat

[Bug 60512] Re: Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

2006-09-18 Thread era
Here's /var/log/installer/syslog -- the first run is very short and ends with a traceback; then, you get the whole log from a successful install. ** Attachment added: "/var/log/installer/syslog as requested" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4303811/syslog -- Timezone picker crash on double-clic

[Bug 60511] Re: Creates too small swap for hibernate

2006-09-18 Thread era
Here's the current dmesg from the Thinkpad (case #1). I have resized partitions and installed linux-686 and a few user packages (sawfish, emacs, subversion, dlocate, ssh, apt-file, cvs; some of them obviously from universe) but other than that, this is still by and large freshly installed. ** Atta

[Bug 60511] Re: Creates too small swap for hibernate

2006-09-18 Thread era
Here's the log from the original partitioning. I have since resized the swap to around 1 Gb (just to be on the safe side ...) and hibernating now works, at least roughtly. (Just tested for the first time. The fan kept on running until I gave up on waiting and rebooted -- but I digress.) ** Attachm

[Bug 60511] Re: Creates too small swap for hibernate

2006-09-18 Thread era
Small correction to the original report: As is obvious from the log, the created swap was even smaller than I remembered; just roughly equal to the amount of RAM in the system (223MB RAM [sic], about 290MB swap) -- Creates too small swap for hibernate https://launchpad.net/bugs/60511 -- ubuntu-

[Bug 60511] Re: Creates too small swap for hibernate

2006-09-18 Thread era
And here is the installation-time syslog. There is also a file /var/log/installer/version but it only contains "ubiquity 1.0.12" so I won't bother to upload that separately. ** Attachment added: "/var/log/installer/syslog" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4303859/syslog -- Creates too small swa

[Bug 60512] Re: Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system

2006-09-18 Thread era
For the record, the system is actually a 400MHz Pentium II -- Timezone picker crash on double-click on slow system https://launchpad.net/bugs/60512 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 60516] Re: Time zone & locale should also affect Gnome time applet 12/24 preference

2006-09-18 Thread era
Oh yes, there's also this bozotic locale bug from 6.06 which ends up selecting "no particular locale but if you have to have one, let's just say Australia". So /etc/apt/sources.list had the .au mirror (changed by hand now that I noticed) and /etc/environment contains this: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/u

[Bug 41759] Re: "Alien Glow" effect crops too tightly

2006-09-19 Thread era
It's a workaround, but I would still consider this a bug. I was in fact toying with the idea of changing the code so it doesn't crop. I'm not a seasoned Scheme hacker but it doesn't seem too hard at all. (a) change the core function so it accepts an additional parameter "nocrop". For backward comp

[Bug 61360] Email message identified as "Bio-Rad .PIC"

2006-09-19 Thread era
Public bug reported: It seems the magic string for Bio-Rad .PIC is a tad too relaxed. I received a number of email messages which happened to have an IP number containing the octet 90 in a suitable position to produce a false detection. Those messages were private, but I managed to pare down one

[Bug 61360] Re: Email message identified as "Bio-Rad .PIC"

2006-09-19 Thread era
Here is a sample to repro this with: vnix$ file file-bug.msg file-bug.msg: Bio-Rad .PIC Image File 25938 x 25955, 30313 images in file The message was obviously heavily edited. The important factor seems to be that the string "90" (little-endian 0x3039, decimal 12345) occurs at offset 54. ** At

[Bug 61360] Re: Email message identified as "Bio-Rad .PIC"

2006-09-19 Thread era
Just for fun, I constructed a simple text file with the same problem. vnix$ file file-bug.txt file-bug.txt: Bio-Rad .PIC Image File 28483 x 27765, 8292 images in file ** Attachment added: "Simple text file containing the number 90" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4319989/file-bug.txt -- Emai

[Bug 57052] Re: /dev/toshiba created chmod 660 root:root

2006-09-20 Thread era
The workaround turned out to be a textbook example of the modprobe "install" directive. Including here just in case I need to remember what I did ... The solution hinges on the assumption that a particular group (in this case, admin) corresponds to the users who are granted privilege to run wmtuxt

[Bug 61624] Please Recommend: or Suggest: idn

2006-09-21 Thread era
Public bug reported: Gnus has optional International Domain Name support, but it requires the idn package to be installed. In today's day and age, at least mentioning this in README.Debian.gz or the package description or something would be helpful. vnix$ dlocate -S /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gn

[Bug 61629] SSL stuff in description -- red herring?

2006-09-21 Thread era
Public bug reported: I am running Gnus against several SSL IMAP servers here without w3m- el-e21 without problems. I guess the package description is out of date. vnix$ dlocate -s gnus | tail -5 A note for people using the nnimap backend: SSL support requires w3-el-e2X; and even otherwise w3

[Bug 33331] Re: moving the clock 1 h forward starts the screensaver

2006-10-05 Thread era
Oh, that's with a reboot before starting X, just to make sure the kernel and X were indeed the newest version. -- moving the clock 1 h forward starts the screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listin

[Bug 33331] Re: moving the clock 1 h forward starts the screensaver

2006-10-05 Thread era
On Dapper you mean? I haven't seen any upgrades to libc6 or xscreensaver so why should it have gone away? OK, maybe the recent kernel or X upgrades would have been compiled with the new glibc ...? Okay, I grabbed a VMware Dapper image which I made when I installed this system, installed all securi

[Bug 155559] If LiveCD user already set time zone, don't ask again

2007-10-21 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity Typing this from the Gutsy LiveCD, with the installer open in another window. Kind of funny, because I set the time zone and then started the install. It's the first thing it asks. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 94821] Re: dd fills up kern.log, syslog and messages

2007-10-21 Thread era
... Actually if that is the explanation then I guess dd(1) is actually only the messenger, and those messages are coming from the kernel? -- dd fills up kern.log, syslog and messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94821 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 94821] Re: dd fills up kern.log, syslog and messages

2007-10-21 Thread era
I guess this is probably the culprit. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps wallx | (IFS=''; read h; echo "$h"; fgrep -w dd) F UID PID PPID PRI NIVSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTYTIME COMMAND 4 0 11485 1 15 0 1836 536 syslog S? 0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/k

[Bug 155926] New notification-area icon in Gutsy sucks

2007-10-22 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox I don't think a lot of people would associate a 16x16 pixel mutant alien TV with feet to a music player. Now that I consciously started thinking about what it's supposed to look like, I guess it tries to depict an iPod, but that doesn't particu

[Bug 153631] Re: internal data flow error with Radio in Rhythmbox

2007-10-22 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 97720 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97720 Wha's with the attachment in comment #2? It's just a text file with a bunch of null bytes at the start, but it's tagged here as application /octet-stream. Ah heck, I'll just upload a cleaned, text-only version

[Bug 153631] Re: internal data flow error with Radio in Rhythmbox

2007-10-22 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 97720 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97720 Happens here too, Gutsy installer running with "persistent" from a USB stick, Rhythmbox gets stuck every time Virgin changes tracks. It doesn't actually seem to crash for me, just stops playing. -- internal d

[Bug 155926] Re: New notification-area icon in Gutsy not as good as in Feisty

2007-10-22 Thread era
Bad Keyboard Day, huh? (-: ** Summary changed: - New notification-area icon in Gutsy not as good as Fiesty Notificaiton + New notification-area icon in Gutsy not as good as in Feisty -- New notification-area icon in Gutsy not as good as in Feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155926 You recei

[Bug 136774] Toshiba Libretto U105 Gutsy fresh install, same problem

2007-10-24 Thread era
I can confirm this here as well. I do hope this is the correct bug report for following up on this. Because nobody here posted very exact symptoms, I take the liberty to elaborate on that topic. This is a clean install of Gutsy on a Toshiba Libretto U105 laptop, Intel X driver, absolutely no add

[Bug 96240] Re: [nvidia-glx][nvidia-glx-new] black/blank screen on resume after suspend/hibernate/vt switch when using compiz/beryl/desktop effects unless sync to vblank is disabled

2007-10-24 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 88152 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/88152 This is marked as a duplicate of #88152, but their descriptions look fairly disparate. I do not have any problems switching between virtual terminals, nor do I have the nvidia driver. I wrote a comment in #136

[Bug 96240] Re: [nvidia-glx][nvidia-glx-new] black/blank screen on resume after suspend/hibernate/vt switch when using compiz/beryl/desktop effects unless sync to vblank is disabled

2007-10-24 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 88152 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/88152 ... And I guess I should mention for those who don't follow the link to my other comment that disabling Compiz solved the problem for me as a workaround, but it would of course be nice to have the option of havi

[Bug 136774] Re: Gutsy: Suspend doesn't work on a ASUS A6K

2007-10-24 Thread era
On closer examination, maybe I should go to bug #96240 instead. I haven't managed to find anybody who is not reporting this for Nvidia, which I'm not on, though. Should I issue a separate bug report, even? -- Gutsy: Suspend doesn't work on a ASUS A6K https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136774 You r

[Bug 136774] Re: Gutsy: Suspend doesn't work on a ASUS A6K

2007-10-24 Thread era
And now finally I came across bug #133118 which sounds like mine. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. Sorry for the intrusion. -- Gutsy: Suspend doesn't work on a ASUS A6K https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 133118] Re: very corrupt X after suspend/resume

2007-10-24 Thread era
So am I correct in assuming that for me, with Toshiba Libretto U105, intel driver (lspci sez 82852/855GM), I should be able to turn Compiz back on when/if xserver-xorg-video-intel is upgraded, without breaking suspend/hibernate (assuming this goes in)? -- very corrupt X after suspend/resume https

[Bug 148118] Re: tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0"

2007-10-25 Thread era
This is pretty severe. On a fresh Gutsy install, opening Applications - Accessories - Tracker Search Tool and typing in a random search phrase displays this error dialog. There is no way a new user would know not to panic at this, and there is certainly no useful information for a non-technical u

[Bug 157183] stemming language setting problematic

2007-10-25 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tracker System - Preferences - Indexing preferences - General tab - Stemming has a short list of languages ... but you have to pick one. This is not a realistic scenario in many locales; for example, I routinely handle stuff in three languages (English;

[Bug 104407] Re: CPU frequency selector menu is not available in preferences dialog; missing kernel support?

2007-10-25 Thread era
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 23768 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23768 If I understand the situation correctly, there are actually two bugs here: 1. CPU frequency selection requires root or suid privileges (this is bug #23768) 2. The documentation fails to mention that the menu w

[Bug 148118] Re: tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0"

2007-10-25 Thread era
No NFS here. Like I wrote above, pretty much out of the box Gutsy fresh install. -- tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148118 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 148118] Re: tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0"

2007-10-25 Thread era
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .local/share/tracker/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 era era 4096 2007-10-25 22:16 data -rw--- 1 era era0 2007-10-24 08:33 era_tracker_lock -rw--- 1 era era 780 2007-10-25 20:57 tracker.log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ps wallx | fgrep tracker [sudo] password for era: 0

[Bug 148118] Re: tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0"

2007-10-25 Thread era
I don't imagine the log will be useful, but attaching it just in case. ** Attachment added: "/home/era/.local/share/tracker/tracker.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10171893/tracker.log -- tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/track

[Bug 39136] Re: firefox should render unrecognized text/* as text/plain

2007-10-25 Thread era
Just a quick note that bug #25830 is very similar. I don't think they should be merged, but half the time, I end up picking the wrong one from my subscribed bugs, so having a link here that one can click to be taken to the other one seems useful. -- firefox should render unrecognized text/* as t

[Bug 25830] Re: Option to display file in browser, treat as text/plain

2007-10-25 Thread era
See also bug #39136 -- Option to display file in browser, treat as text/plain https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25830 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

[Bug 157525] Scary error dialog when trackerd can't be started

2007-10-26 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tracker Like I alluded in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/148118/comments/14, the error message when you type in a search but trackerd can't be started probably violates a good olde imperial tonne of Human Interface Guidelines. I c

[Bug 148118] Re: tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0"

2007-10-26 Thread era
FWIW, I posted a separate bug about making the error message a little less intimidating. Bug #157525 -- tracker searches sometimes don't work, reporting "Process /usr/bin/trackerd exited with status 0" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148118 You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 158131] Tomboy no longer starts; where do I get my notes?

2007-10-28 Thread era
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tomboy I tried installing Gutsy persistent on a USB stick. I guess the session crashed at some point, or I removed the stick before shutdown was complete, or something, but now, Tomboy refuses to start, and what's worse, I can't find the notes I created.

[Bug 158131] Re: Tomboy no longer starts; where do I get my notes?

2007-10-28 Thread era
I meant to add the .xsession-errors from the stick here, but it looks like it got overwritten :-( A note I had left for myself on the stick might add some detail, and correct some details from above. Tomboy notes lost During initial playing around, I created some notes in Tomboy. Now it refuses

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