Public bug reported: Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha5 using LiveCD - Some external HDD partition icons should not disappear from the Desktop when screen resolution is reduced
Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid-alpha-5, using LiveCD, Linux version 2.6.27-2-generic, GNOME Panel 2.23.91 How to reproduce: Cold boot the Ibex Live CD to the Ubuntu Desktop on a computer with no installed version of Ubuntu. Attach an external five-partition (vfat) hard drive (HDD) via a ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter to a USB port. Attach a USB flash drive to another USB port. System > Preferences > Monitor Resolution Settings: Dell 16", 1600x1200, 65Hz - bootup default for this Dell D1025HT. Icons for the six attached external USB media partitions appear in a column on the Desktop under the Install icon. These external drives all auto mount when they are attached. Change the screen resolution to a more readable 800x600, 75Hz. Click Apply. Wait ~20 seconds, about 10 seconds with a black screen. Result: The bottom GNOME Panel moves to the very top of the screen on top of the top GNOME panel. At this point, only three and 1/2 icons for the HDD are visible on the desktop. Grab the Monitor Resolution Settings window and move it left to expose [X] > click [X] to close it. Easy workaround: Click and hold down the mouse button on the bottom panel and move it back to the bottom of the screen where it was before the screen resolution was reduced after bootup. The mouse can move the 50% visible icon further up on the Desktop to where it is fully visible. In other words, icons for the two partitions that were on the bottom of the column when the resolution was 1600x1200, are no longer visible on the Desktop. (If you do not attach the USB flash drive, there is only one missing icon.) The missing icons can, however, be seen by Places > Removable Media > clicking any drive > Places > a person can right-click on any external drive partition under Places to unmount it. If you go back to the 1600x1200 resolution, the icons that are missing from the 800x600 resolution are visible on the Desktop, but a first-time Live CD user may be too flummoxed to do this. A crash report window did not appear on the Desktop. No ~/.xsession- errors file and no file in /var/crash. I’m going to try to find the additional information that you need for this bug report from the following URLs, but it may take me 4 to 7 days to report back. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage#Find the program executable In case the package with the bug is the X window system, if the instructions on the following URL are the same for people using a Live CD on a computer that does not have a version of Ubuntu installed on it, please state this in the instructions. (Maybe you state this, but it should be mentioned at the top.) LiveCD only users might become unhappy campers should they invest a lot of time in trying to follow the steps only to discover that the last step, for example, cannot be executed when using a Live CD. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration The Good News: ============== The Genesys Logic IDE to USB2 adapter works fine, at least with a HDD, with alpha-5 per the expectations of one of the Ubuntu team members on a bug report. This fellow wanted feedback on the functionality or non- functionality of this adapter. Thank you for looking into this. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- icons disappear when screen resolution reduced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269208 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
