Re: Automatix Team-Ubuntu Developer Collaboration

2007-10-08 Thread Matthew East
Hi, On 08/10/2007, Jared B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people have been asking us, members of the Automatix Team, for a long > time to collaborate with the Ubuntu Developers. We have decided that things > need to change. So starting with the Hardy development cycle, we hope to > start wor

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

2007-10-08 Thread Phillip Susi
Jan Claeys wrote: > Ext2/ext3 suffer from fragmentation too, when available disk space gets > low enough. Yea that's why the defrag package was written. > But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or > "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion... As

kernel: Removing modules do not turn off devices

2007-10-08 Thread Paulo da Silva
Hi! I am testing kubuntu gutsy (next 7.10). I noticed that removing usb wireless modules, for example, does not turn off the devices. This is important for laptops. Devices, when not in use, should be turned off. I think this is caused by kernel not being built with devices->USB support->USB selec

Synaptic X Bug

2007-10-08 Thread Darren Mansell
Hello everyone. I would just like to raise awareness of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/68370 It's currently only marked as medium but should be critical. Basically if anyone using a Synaptics touchpad (any laptop user?) tries to switch user

Re: Automatix Team-Ubuntu Developer Collaboration

2007-10-08 Thread Jared B.
I have updated the wiki page adding information on how to handle proprietary software, I will also add to it changes that need to be made to the ubuntu-restricted-extras package. There are still three things which need to be implemented or improved in Common Customizations. The first is improved m

Re: kernel: Removing modules do not turn off devices

2007-10-08 Thread Todd Deshane
I think power management issues are important to take into account, it is getting a lot of attention recently. Is this option still marked as experimental? Is there a strict policy on it or can sufficient testing be done to allow it to be enabled by default? Here is the bug that was filed to tra

evince crash

2007-10-08 Thread Todd Deshane
Hi All, I think crashes are not a good sign, so I was hoping to raise some awareness of this problem. I am getting a crash trying to go to page 11 or 15 of: http://www.acm.org/acmqueue/digital/Queuevol5no6_September2007.pdf I was hoping that someone with access to an ACM account could try it to

Re: evince crash

2007-10-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> I think crashes are not a good sign, so I was hoping to raise some > awareness of this problem. Quite a few people have been "raising awareness" about bugs that they have filed. I too have filed some seriously nasty bugs that make Gutsy close to unusable for me (mostly to do with compiz and the

Re: Launchpad bug statuses

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 07-10-2007 om 20:25 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Stefan Potyra: > hehe. Well I didn't say it was an easy taks to make bug statusses > self-explanatory, and I'm convinced that it's indeed a very tough one. Making (a link to) an explanation of those always *PLAINLY* visible in the UI mig

Re: evince crash

2007-10-08 Thread Todd Deshane
Hi All, On 10/8/07, Aaron Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think crashes are not a good sign, so I was hoping to raise some > > awareness of this problem. > > Quite a few people have been "raising awareness" about bugs that they > have filed. I too have filed some seriously nasty bugs t

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 08-10-2007 om 13:16 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip Susi: > Jan Claeys wrote: > > But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or > > "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion... > > As I said, there is no need to make such an effort because

Re: evince crash

2007-10-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> It seems to me that if users, developers and testers that are > following this list care about a particular issue or bug they can > raise it here. If it generates no discussion and others simply ignore, > then it is probably not a big issue. I see your point. The same rationale, however, would s

cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-08 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Having noticed that the update manager of my Gutsy installation had not seen any updates for about one week, I changed the occurrences of cn.archive.ubuntu.com in sources.list to archive.ubuntu.com. After checking again, the Update Manager prompted that there are 406 updates. This means that c

Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-10-08 Thread Todd Deshane
On 10/8/07, Aaron Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to me that if users, developers and testers that are > > following this list care about a particular issue or bug they can > > raise it here. If it generates no discussion and others simply ignore, > > then it is probably not a bi

Re: cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
> cn.archive.ubuntu.com has been outdated for about one week. > Is there any mechanism on the part of the ubuntu project to make sure the > country level mirrors are updated timely? You can find the status of the archive mirrors here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors You should find

Re: Automatix Team-Ubuntu Developer Collaboration

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2007, 19:41 -0500 schrieb Jared B.: > So starting with the Hardy development cycle, we hope to start working > with the Ubuntu Developers to improve both Ubuntu and Automatix. Thanks a lot for that initiative! I think it'd help to add each problem that Automatix addresses at