I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I've been
unable to find a definitive answer to this question.
Probably everyone is familiar with the lengthy discussion that has
revolved around the first stable implementation of ext4, namely that all
data in a file can be zeroed
Taking a page from Redhat's "let's break it if we can" upgrade policy,
Debian appears to be switching from glibc to eglibc:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8i8os/debian_is_switching_to_eglibc/
Of great concern is that this library is not guaranteed to be binary
compatible with glib
After an ongoing now 2-week long discussion with Canonical support
regarding some strange behavior involving the use of the proprietary
Broadcom STA driver documented here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1134631
it occurred to me that I have no idea what is actually going on when
> From: Jeff Hanson
> Subject: Re: The creeping religion of click on this
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
> Mandriva's GUI tool interface has a log option that shows
> what is actually being done.
That would work. Perhaps such a log feature should be a required
standard for U
> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 11:17:04 +0100
> From: Scott James Remnant
> Subject: Re: Usev permissions and USB scanners
> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 16:16 +0300, kohe...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I created a usbdev group and added my user to that group, added a
> > group setting to that line instead of the r
Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>
> Provided they are on the same physical console as the local optical
> drive, this is done automatically.
>
Well, we need to retain the option of people ssh'ing to the machine and
using the optical drive remotely; however even for users logged in on
the console, t
It looks like no one responded to the concern raised below. It makes
sense to me that all applications should be identified by their name as
well as their function in gnome GUI menus. Furthermore, not doing so
frequently increases confusion for naive users. For example, due to
ongoing bugs w
Given that my signal to noise ratio is already at a white noise breaking
point (and that I'm probably not alone here), can we please keep these
kinds of tit-for-tat arguments, rhetoric, ad hominem attacks, and
flirting off the devel-discuss list? Surely facebook, twitter, digg,
etc. should pro
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:45:56 +0200
> From: Soren Hansen
> Subject: Re: Properly identifying applications
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> If you put yourself in the place of someone who is not used to
> Linux: You have a document you want to open (and for some reason
> y
One problem for which I still haven't seen a good solution is how to
handle package extensions in a multi-user environment. Perhaps an
example would explain what I mean:
We use Thunderbird (locale=en-us) as our default email client. There
are lots of .xpi extensions which might be useful, but on
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:07 -0400
From: Asif Youssuff
Subject: Re: about empathy as the default IM application
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss
> I've been playing with Empathy for a while, and it has an extremely
> annoying behavior -- when a message is received from a person
> without an open c
> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:42:07 -0400
> From: Daniel Chen
> Subject: Re: Stable 64-bit flash
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
> Danny Piccirillo wrote:
>> > No exception can be made there? How have exceptions been made
> before? Is
>> > there some way to work around that?
>
Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> Until i got the 64-bit version of flash, YouTube would crash everytime i
> scrolled on a Not to mention it was slowww. All of those things have been
> fixed now that i'm using the native 64-bit version and i've had zero
> problems
>
Let me clarify that we've only t
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:17:46 -0400
> From: "Jorge O. Castro"
> Subject: Re: Plenary videos from uds-karmic?
> To: Scott Ritchie
> 12:50 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>>> It's been over a week now, any updates on when we can see
>>> the plenary videos?
> Just chatted with James Troup this
(Apologies in advance for the length of this message -- if you don't
care about order and manner in which system daemons are launched, please
invoke the Delete key operator immediately.)
Everyone knows the canonical (no pun intended) unix interview question,
namely
Q: how many processes does
> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:01 -0300
> From: Felipe Figueiredo
> Subject: RFC: binary compatibility between short cycles
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Infrastructure could be kept at stable versions for longer cycles, and
> Interface would match the usual 6 month release cycl
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:03:44 -0400
> From: Evan
> Subject: Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think
>
> Again, someone in the Audio
> metaforum (who presumably knows something about audio) tells them it's a
> driver issue, and moves their post a level deeper into the Drivers s
We are currently using Jaunty 9.04 (64 and 32-bit) on our production
desktop systems. A few weeks ago a user asked me for a recommendation
for an easy to use html editor, and I suggested KompoZer. (Suggestions?
I think I've tried most of them and found them lacking; the original
Netscape Co
I've been playing with the dovecot-postfix package currently available
for 9.10 a4 server and have found a few configuration issues worth
discussing as well as one major bug (it appears that postfix doesn't
know anything about rsyslog, preventing the administrator from
controlling SMTP logging)
Am I missing something? It seems that bug reports in launchpad are
categorized by package name but not by distribution. Wouldn't it make
sense to take advantage of the distribution hierarchy in order to make
this system easier to work with?
I.e. I'm specifically trying to get some problems wi
Joshua Timberman wrote:
> "Bugs in The Karmic Koala"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic
>
> Substitute karmic with other release names if desired.
>
I saw this, but this just lists all karmic bugs, although it's easy
enough to search on a package name. This raises the question of ho
Soren Hansen wrote:
> I don't think it would be very useful to assume that any bug in Hardy
> was magically fixed in Intrepid. Hence, dividing bugs by series[1] seems
> like a bad plan to me.
I agree. What I'm suggesting is that the bug report include a field
indicating the series that the bug w
Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> What would the differences be?
>
If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of
discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the
disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for
performance is more or
Martin Owens wrote:
>
> What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it
> behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy
> conservation mode).
>
Based on having spent a few days reading through the massive ext4 debate
that occurred between the 2.6.
Tormod Volden wrote:
>
> By "dev package" you mean the package sources? In general you can get the
> sources for any binary package using: apt-get source
>
No, by dev package he means -dev, as in there is a libc6 package and
there is also a libc6-dev package which contains the stuff needed to
Conrad Knauer wrote:
>
> I'm going to guess, without seeing his machine, that it's something
> with Firefox... it could be a malfunctioning extension, it could be
> some script on an otherwise normal page... I would try backing up my
> ~/.mozilla folder and seeing if running FF fresh solves the pr
Conrad Knauer wrote:
>>give the users at some point during the installation process options of what
>> office suite browser and mail client they would like installed.
>
> Short answer: this is a bad idea.
>
> Longer answer: the whole point of an Ubuntu install is to keep it as
> simple as possib
Siegfried-A. Gevatter wrote:
> GRUB 2 is a special case. It is only (automatically) installed on a
> clean install, and not on upgrades, given the risk of this operation.
>
Speaking of Grub 2, does anyone know if the grub2 automatic boot-through
to default bug has been fixed? I posted it on lau
I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this
has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a
TomsHardware.com review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html
Some of these issues (system freezes when copying large files o
> Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
> From: Scott James Remnant
> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:14:38 +
> To: Danny Piccirillo
>
>
> Speaking as the guy who maintains the boot and plumbing layer, I am
> completely and utterly uninterested in such a port.
>
My question is why are we eve
> Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
> From: John Moser
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:07:44 -0500
>
> you know the microkernel arguments, and they're actually
> pretty considerable. The idea of a system that's easier to maintain
> (face it, operating systems are huge now; smaller chunks are e
> Subject: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development
> From: James Westby
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:40:34 +
> To: ubuntu-devel
>
> The TL;DR version:
>
> 1) Version Control rocks.
> 2) Distributed version control rocks even more.
> 3) Bazaar rocks particularly well.
> 4) Let's
> Subject: Postfix authentication default configuration
> From: Ben Bucksch
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:44 +0100
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> I'm trying to set up a mail server with Ubuntu, Cyrus and Postix, and
> need authentication (via sasldb2)
>
> Cyrus works fine, an
> Subject: Re: Can we get ntfs-3g 2010.1.16 in Lucid?
> From: stephan
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:48:32 -0500
> To: Daniel Chen
>
>
> It looks like Michael will help us all out and do a non-maintainer
> upgrade to get 2010.1.16 into testing:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=56
I just filed a bug against the 64-bit Karmic (9.10) server edition on
bugs.launchpad.net and noticed that the process appears to have
regressed considerably.
First of all, there is no longer any clear indication on the front page
of bugs.launchpad.net about how one goes about filing a bug, even
Last week I tried to upgrade a battered old Debian server running linux
2.6.3 to a sparkling new machine running Ubuntu Karmic 64-bit AMD
server. The old Debian server was working perfectly, but had basically
run out of disk space. After 12 hours, I had to concede defeat, and
rolled back to t
> Subject: Re: Bug reporting for Ubuntu Server? WTF?
> From: Brian Murray
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:49:58 -0800
>
> The ReportingBugs wiki page also has a section about "Filing bugs when
> off-line" which discusses how to use apport-cli to save a report that
> you can then report from another
I'm trying to track down a Lucid AMD64 Server bug to either Upstart or
plymouth, and realized I have no idea how the system decides what vt
console gets focus after boot when no xserver is installed. Can anyone
direct me to some relevant Upstart documentation?
Someone has already (incorrectly,
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> This is a bug that I'm working on.
>
> The problem is there's no code in Plymouth to put the VT back ;-)
>
And probably way to busy to work on documentation. At some point it
would be nice to have a better understanding of how upstart works. The
concept of an eve
The number of replies in this silly thread indicates that you guys have
way too much time on your hands. <:)
SJ Remnant's response is definitive; time to move on and agree to
disagree. The take away message: is thank heavens for choices and a
curse on any gnome/KDE developers who plan to co
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Anyone can emit any event. That's probably the bit of Upstart that
> people find the hardest to get to grips with, so there can never be any
> comprehensive list of every event and every argument - because anyone
> can add a new one.
>
> However there are "recommendat
So, I'm testing samba on a Lucid alpha 3, and I decide to restart the
smbd daemon:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found
Oops, I guess it's a service now?
sudo service samba restart
samba: unrecognized service
So of course it only took a little digging to di
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> You might have forgotten to plug your USB
> mouse in this boot; or maybe your cat has chewed the ethernet cable
> overnight and it won't come up, etc.
>
Actually, it was my gerbil that frequently chewed through the ethernet
cable, but then the cat ate the gerbil, so t
> Subject: Re: Upstart (now, a very modest suggestion)
> From:Tom H
> Date:Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:28:48 -0500
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> I assume that the samba job has been split into two because there was
> a problem with nmbd not starting when smbd and nmbd were l
> Subject: Re: Evolution & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> From:Sebastien Bacher
> Date:Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:02:32 +0100
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Ubuntu has been bitten by upgrading to new versions which were rewritten
> in the past and we have learnt, the decision has bee
Having abandoned Karmic, I've been installing Lucid Alpha 3 on a number
of different systems, mostly for testing, and am finding lots of bugs.
For example, on an old Acer Aspire 3000 laptop, after a completely
generic Alpha 3 install + or - up to March 8 daily updates:
1. The console driver is
Ran across these rather interesting survey results in Infoworld, hence
thought I'd share:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/ubuntu-ready-run-your-business-servers-646?source=IFWNLE_nlt_openenterprise_2010-03-10
At least for Eclipse developers, Ubuntu is slamming everyone except MS
Windows
Now that the 2.6.34 linux kernel is about to be released, does anyone
know if 2.6.33 is going to make it into the final Lucid release, as
previously suggested?
Why this is important: 2.6.33 has better support for SSD storage
(http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-33-933
>
> Subject: Re: lucid and 2.6.33?
> From: Jonathon Fernyhough
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:34:20 +
>
> As far as I am aware the important bits of .33 are being integrated
> into the special sauce for the Lucid .32 kernel.
>
Perhaps someone can explain why this makes more sense than just us
Flávio Etrusco wrote:
>
> Seriously? Ubuntu is not only about techies, it's about general
> use(rs) and businesses too. They have to have a solid and well-tested
> base.
> If you really wanna know what you're actually getting, you have the
> sources and the changelogs.
>
It's not clear to me how
> Subject:
> [Lucid] Thunderbird issues
> From:
> Sebastian Geiger
> Date:
> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:49:50 +0800
> Since I upgraded to Thunderbird I am getting strange notices that a
> mailbox is not available
With thunderbird not running, delete your entire .mozilla-thunderbird
profile (make sure
> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
> From: Brian Vaughan
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700
>
> I'd like to see a good overview of Ubuntu's startup process. I just took
> a class on Unix/Linux system administration, and we spent quite some
> time on system startup and shutdown -- b
>
> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
> From: Florian Diesch
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:18:40 +0200
>
> Any event can be emitted by any program using upstart's DBus API.
>
> IMHO it's not that important to know where a event gets emitted
> (that's an implementation detail) but what i
Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> When is ufw run vis' a vis the /etc/rc2.d scripts?
>>
> Before, after, during, etc. There is no fixed relationship between
> these two things, except that /etc/rcS.d (and thus /etc/rc2.d) will not
> be run until the "lo" device is up.
>
Then this is problematic for
This list is actually cited as the package maintainer in the package
status for libpam-runtime, so I thought I would run this by here first
before filing a bug against the package just in case I'm terribly confused.
Both in the /usr/share/pam/common-auth template and in various
instantiations of t
Here to answer my own question after a little more RTFM. The preceding
common-auth lines are set up using the new-fangled jump feature:
--
auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
# here's the fallba
Since I've run into this problem myself:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tips/7223/1/
This might be something to look for when building the oo3.3 packages for
11.04..
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>> have a file that I want to open with a specific application
If you know the name of the package the application came from, the command
dpkg -L package_name
will show you all the files + locations installed by this package.
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I found this article to be extremely disturbing. Surely the negative PR
of such a move isn't worth $1/yr in revenue? Who's making these
brain-damaged decisions?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/banshee-amazon-store-disabled-by-canonical-in-ubuntu
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should be possible.
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On 02/22/2011 06:00 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
Patrick Goetz [2011-02-21 14:41 -0600]:
> Does the feature freeze include updating binary drivers?
In principle yes, but as the current nvidia/fglrx drivers in Natty are
totally broken (they are currently not available for the current X.org
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:55:06 Martin Pitt wrote [regarding Unity]:
> I couldn't have believed it even two months ago still,
> but today I feel the same. When I switch back to
> classic GNOME it feels inferior now; I'm particularly
> missing the super-fast keyboard shortcuts/search/navigation
> and b
On 04/08/2011 01:05 PM, Remco wrote:
You have a Firefox window with a Terminal just above it. As soon as
you move to the terminal window, focus switches to the terminal. But
the menu is still the Firefox menu for 1 second. After the delay, the
menu switches to Terminal.
Note first that point
On 04/25/2011 07:00 AM, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
2. Update NTFS-3G (Nedas Pekorius)
4. Re: Update NTFS-3G (John McCabe-Dansted)
> While I agree that the latest ntfs-3g is really nice (iirc it gave me
> a 10x performance boost). I don't think we'll see 2011.4.
From: Jeremy Bicha
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 23:24:17 -0400
Unity actually is
customizable, perhaps not to the extent that power users like. I'm
hoping that a simple user-friendly tool will be available in 11.04 to
change the settings without needing to dig around CCSM or dconf-editor.
I think yo
On 05/21/2013 04:53 AM, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
Hopefully, the SSL bug in LDAP libraries is now gone (Bug #423252), so
the first 2 can be used productively on desktops and/or servers. Note
that cached credentials (with nss-updatedb and pam-ccreds) are not
officially
Hi -
I'm bringing this issue to the attention of this list in the hopes of
finding out where it is most appropriately addressed.
I've recently done a number of server installs using mostly the 13.10
64-bit pre-release ISO, but also testing the problem I'm about to
mention using 12.10 and 13.
I must have missed some new revision, as I no longer seem to be able to
post bugs directly to launchpad. I go to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy
and click on "Report a bug" on the top right hand side of the page.
Rather than taking me to a bug report screen, this now takes me to an
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