[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Atkinson
Further to my 2009-04-25 comment, no statistical picture has emerged. It is difficult to be sure of anything with such an intermittent problem but I have been getting very good results from cleaning the DVD since starting to use a micro-fibre cloth (sold for cleaning LCD screens) even when the DVD

[Bug 34165] Re: Cannot enable boot log

2009-08-25 Thread Charles Atkinson
If this is the right report for no boot logging in ubuntu then it is the right place to comment on Scott James Remnant's explanation of why bootlogd cannot be used as a workaround for this problem. In a comment on bug 328881 init: support logging of job output

[Bug 34165] Re: No boot log available

2009-08-25 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello Scott :-) Regards If you want it done more urgently, *you're going to do need to do it yourself*, it's already done. Sergei Ivanov's workaround described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/98955/ from comment #29 onwards and in

[Bug 34165] Re: No boot log available

2009-08-25 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello Scott :-) I understand you're thinking of a standalone syslogd .deb for ubuntu only, built either from the ubuntu sysvinit source plus unspecified fixes or by merging the probably already fixed Debian source into the ubuntu sysvinit source. I'm ignorant but willing and have a little

[Bug 69771] Re: shutdown console messages are lost

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 AFAIK shutdown messages have never been logged so this bug report is an enhancement request unlike the others which are about lost functionality. -- shutdown console messages are lost

[Bug 69771] Re: shutdown console messages are lost

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 Thank you Scott :) most succinctly makes sense but cannatella's subject is _shutdown_ console messages are lost so I do not understand how this bug can be a duplicate of any bug report that is about _boot_

[Bug 98955] Re: logd not running

2009-08-09 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 Thanks Dimitrios Symeonidis That makes sense. If it were applied in this case then this bug report (with 74 comments) would be the master rather than https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/328881 (with

[Bug 98955] Re: logd not running

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 This bug report, started on 2007-03-30, has been marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/328881, started on 2009-02-13. I understood that later bugs were marked as duplicates of

[Bug 69771] Re: shutdown console messages are lost

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 This bug report, started on 2006-11-01, has been marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/328881, started on 2009-02-13. I understood that later bugs were marked as duplicates of

[Bug 137254] Re: No boot-time logs exists at this time in Hardy

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Atkinson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 This bug report, started on 2006-11-01, has been marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/328881, started on 2009-02-13. I understood that later bugs were marked as duplicates of

[Bug 306998] Re: Bootlogd doesn't log boot messages

2009-06-18 Thread Charles Atkinson
Sorry -- I forgot to point out that https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 has two workarounds, one being an (unsupported but widely used) bootlogd installation and the other being a way to stop init script processing and get a login prompt during boot that allows you to and see (and scroll back

[Bug 306998] Re: Bootlogd doesn't log boot messages

2009-06-18 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello schnauzer :-) If Intrepid is like Hardy then the issue is that bootlogd itself is not installed, despite the existence of /etc/default/bootlogd. Have you got a /sbin/bootlogd executable? If not, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328881 for an (unsupported) workaround that may also work

[Bug 378943] Re: Manpage filename enhancement request

2009-06-09 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello Chris :-) To answer your question I installed OOo_3.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US (from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/, so the generic .debs, not ubuntu-specific). I was still able to run the following from the command line: soffice

[Bug 378943] Re: Manpage filename enhancement request

2009-05-23 Thread Charles Atkinson
Thanks for your attention Chris :-) AIUI, URIs are supported by OOo, not by Gnome, so they work independently of both desktop and OS; the same syntax works on non-Gnome desktops and on Windows. If my understanding is correct then disabling OOo's Gnome VFS and GVFS support would not result in

[Bug 378943] [NEW] Manpage filename enhancement request

2009-05-21 Thread Charles Atkinson
Public bug reported: Hello :-) The openoffice man page installed with 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 describes filename as filename... Files to operate on. Please consider adding a description of their format which may, I believe, be a URL in which case it would begin with file:/// or macro:///. Maybe

[Bug 98955] Re: logd not running

2009-04-27 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello (especially Sergei) :-) I'm trying to go further, running bootlogd on ubuntu 8.04.02 running in a VirtualBox virtual machine with / mounted read-only and a writeable /var/log mounted later. Isn't it always the way -- the code works perfectly well and then someone shifts the goal posts?! I

[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello Andrew :-) Interesting analysis. You are correct to write The OP's report does not have the 'attempt to access beyond end of device' error message. That message was not reported here until https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/228624/comments/14 . I have seen a bewildering

[Bug 98955] Re: logd not running

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Atkinson
Hello :-) Subject: bootlogd 2.86.02 boot script link change to capture more boot messages Regards the workaround for this bug ('cos it ain't going away any time soon!). After installing bootlogd 2.86.02 from the package Sergei attached to this bug report (thanks Sergei) ... bootlogd is started

[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2009-02-22 Thread Charles Atkinson
I may have found a workaround. It's difficult to be sure because the problem is intermittent on my system. The change disables auto-mount for all removable media. The technique was posted at http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.live/2007-11/msg00070.html. In the 4 days since making this

[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Atkinson
Quote: Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information.

[Bug 44067] Re: Sessions preferences help outdated

2008-08-03 Thread Charles Atkinson
This bug is still present in Hardy. A little more information from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351086#c2 === excerpt begins === Here's the relevant part in the code: GnomeUIInfo state_data[] = { GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM_STOCK(N_(Inactive), N_(Waiting to start