[Bug 1336794] Re: 9pfs does not honor open file handles on unlinked files

2018-11-28 Thread Alexander Gretha
hi greg, thanks very much for you answer. i saw the proposed kernel patch from eric van hensbergen - even tried to build my own kernel with the patch applied, i was ready to run this on a custom kernel with a custom built qemu, but although the patch can be applied, there have been too many

[Bug 1336794] Re: 9pfs does not honor open file handles on unlinked files

2018-11-26 Thread Alexander Gretha
hi, i am probably trying to ride a dead horse here, but is there any chance this patch will make its way into master? thanks, alex -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336794 Title:

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-12-22 Thread Gretha
Christopher I make two observations. First, I am sorry to have to note that you repeatedly digress and go off-topic. Issues such as, first, apport (which clearly does not work properly) and, then, Microsoft Office are entirely besides the point. The point is the incompetence of the Compare

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-12-22 Thread Gretha
** Attachment added: LibreOffice Writer -- Compare Document Flaws (png) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782406/+attachment/2644041/+files/01-LibreOffice-Writer--Compare-Document-Flaws.png ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed --

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-12-22 Thread Gretha
Key points ... (continued from #19) (3) LibreOffice Compare Document is badly in need of fundamental overhaul, radical improvement and proper fine-graining, and this also includes the removal of its implicit exclusion of frames, footnotes, headers, fields and other essential items of information

[Bug 880528] Re: Pocedure to remove the side pane in Thunar is not documented

2011-12-19 Thread Gretha
@ Charlie (#2) First a correction of a mistake: The key which toggles Side Pane show / no show in Thunar is F9. I would suggest amendments the following three places: In Thunar View Side Pane (menu): add an entry in this menu with tick box as follows: [ ] Show Side Pane F9 In Thunar

[Bug 796872] Re: Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband

2011-12-19 Thread Gretha
NOTE as regards the need repeatedly physically to unplug and reconnect the 3G USB dongle before a functioning internet connection is established: As noted in #1, one of the issues with 3G USB dongles under Ubuntu is the erratic and unpredictable need physically to unplug the dongle and to plug

[Bug 796872] Re: Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband

2011-12-19 Thread Gretha
** Also affects: network-manager-applet (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796872 Title: Serious Network Manager Issues with

[Bug 880555] Re: KPatience (kpat) Menu Bar Missing

2011-12-08 Thread Gretha
Hi Rohan Thanks for your reply. I tried Ctrl+M, and just about any other keyboard combination with Ctrl and with Alt, but none restores the menu bar. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report.

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-29 Thread Gretha
Christopher, re #12: The apport issue is not important here, so I fully agree. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782406 Title: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-28 Thread Gretha
Christopher, re #7 and #8 - terminal command apport-collect 782406 In Application Preferences, I changed the preferred browser from Opera to Firefox. The terminal command, however, ignores this, even after a full system restart, and stubbornly opens Opera. So I'm stuck there. I then set Opera

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-28 Thread Gretha
Christopher, re #9 (1) The same Document Compare options in OOo are still found in LO at Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - Changes. This is not quite correct. If I remember well, the ability to choose the more fine-grained comparison option was in what in LO now is Tools - Options -

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-27 Thread Gretha
Dear Christopher, I am attaching 3 documents which together illustrate the comparison problem. Version-1 is the original as submitted by the author to the editor. Version-2 is the final version after the editor has made some minor changes. Version-1-to-2 is the result of LibreOffice Document

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-27 Thread Gretha
** Attachment added: Thee Demonstration Documents together illustrating the Incompetence of LibreOffice Document Compare https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782406/+attachment/2610679/+files/LibreOffice-CompareDoc-Version-1.odt -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-27 Thread Gretha
** Attachment added: Second Attachment of Three https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782406/+attachment/2610680/+files/LibreOffice-CompareDoc-Version-2.odt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-27 Thread Gretha
** Attachment added: Third Attachment of Three https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782406/+attachment/2610681/+files/LibreOffice-CompareDoc-Version-1-to-2.odt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-11-27 Thread Gretha
Christopher, the terminal command apport-collect 782406 opens Opera which then displays a page saying Invalid OpenID transaction. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782406 Title:

[Bug 880509] Re: Xfce panel drag + drop

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
It is useful and efficient in a production environment to have links in the panel to clearly-identified folders with active documents or with frequently-used documents. In this manner, these documents are readily available at a single click. It avoids having to use a time-consuming search

[Bug 880504] Re: Pixel bugs in xfce panel

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Dear Lionel I am attaching a screenshot (not magnified or reduced) of the top right- hand corner of the desktop with the panel in its autohide position. If you open the png image and zoom in sufficiently, then you will see that there are actually three pixels missing (not one as I wrote above).

[Bug 880521] Re: Thunar file copy through ctrl+drag fails

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Dear Lionel Well-spotted: The behaviour as described does indeed concern making a copy of a file within the same folder. I should have mentioned this above. Within the same folder, dragging and pressing Ctrl to copy a file is simply ignored by Thunar. Just to be on the safe side, I have

[Bug 880518] Re: Xfce desktop - Nautilus takes over

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Dear Lionel Clearly, then, Nautilus violates the principle of subsidiarity. It appears entirely beyond its authority and remit autonomously to change the complete Xubuntu desktop from xfce to gnome without user consent or even warning. Maybe you should refer this as a matter of system design

[Bug 880498] [NEW] Orage process takes 100% CPU but does not launch

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome desktop and with xfce desktop, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu with the xfce desktop Press Applications Office Orage Calendar Orage process starts, it goes on to occupy 100% CPU, but the user application does not launch. System

[Bug 880504] [NEW] Pixel bugs in xfce panel

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome desktop and with xfce desktop, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu with the xfce desktop xfce panels (1 at top of screen, 1 at bottom of screen) set to autohide and 100% length - Panels when minimized miss 1 pixel at the bottom, about

[Bug 880509] [NEW] Xfce panel drag + drop

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome desktop and with xfce desktop, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu with the xfce desktop If I drag a short-cut (launcher) -- eg of a folder -- from the desktop to the xfce panel, then it fails to drop into the panel as a copy. (Note:

[Bug 880518] [NEW] Xfce desktop - Nautilus takes over

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 installed with both the gnome desktop and the xfce desktop, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu, that is, with the xfce desktop If, at any time during the xfce session, the Nautilus file browser is launched, then instantly the xfce desktop is

[Bug 880521] [NEW] Thunar file copy through ctrl+drag fails

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with both gnome desktop and xfce desktop installed, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu, with the xfce desktop When I click a file in the Thunar file browser, then press and hold the control (ctrl) key and drag the file, Thunar fails to make a

[Bug 880533] [NEW] Thunar reports Trash Empty when it is not

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Xubuntu 11.10, fully updated The Thunar Trash icon in the xfce panel shows mouse-hover-balloon: Wastebasket is empty, and the trash icon is displayed as the empty icon. Yet, the waste bin does contains one deleted file. ** Affects: thunar (Ubuntu)

[Bug 880528] [NEW] Pocedure to remove the side pane in Thunar is not documented

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Xubuntu, fully updated The procedure to remove the side pane in Thunar (the side panel holding either Places or the File Tree structure) is not documented, nor is it facilitated through any of the Thunar menus. In Nautilus, F12 does the job, and this appears to

[Bug 880555] [NEW] KPatience (kpat) Menu Bar Missing

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with both the gnome desktop and the xfce desktop installed, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu, that is, with the xfce desktop Since upgrading Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10, KPatience (kpat) is missing its Menu bar. As a result, things like

[Bug 880563] [NEW] Gnomine corrupted

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: System: Ubuntu 11.10 with both gnome desktop and xfce desktop installed, fully updated Start the system as Xubuntu, that is, with the xfce desktop When selecting Applications Menu Games Mines (gnomine) - two instances of the gnomine process are launched simultaneously

[Bug 796872] Re: Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
A Note of Disappointment I am not a programmer. So I cannot solve the above issues. I do however, try to contribute by (1) exploring and reporting real bugs if they appear to affect not just my own installations, and by (2) promoting the use of Ubuntu and its flavours professionally through my

[Bug 782406] Re: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-10-23 Thread Gretha
Nearly six months down the road, and this issue is still listed as Status: New, receiving zero attention. Yet, this is perhaps the most important drawback of LibreOffice in practice in a professional production environment, where documents are edited and updated on a routine basis and where

[Bug 782401] Re: Error in Undo Button (Writer) (Regression)

2011-06-14 Thread Gretha
Dear Christopher I am sorry for the delay (away from the office). Here is a png screenshot combo of the Undo behaviour in LibreOffice Writer (see attachment). At the time of the two screenshots, the document was 308 possible undo actions long. I touched nothing in LibreOffice between the two

[Bug 796872] [NEW] Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband

2011-06-13 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband There are several serious (and partially related) issues regarding the Network Manager Applet and Mobile Broadband using a USB Mobile Broadband dongle. They occur on a

[Bug 796872] Re: Serious Network Manager Issues with Mobile Broadband

2011-06-13 Thread Gretha
** Attachment added: Network Manager Applet Bugs when using Mobile Broadband https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/796872/+attachment/2167824/+files/Network%20Manager%20and%20Mobile%20Broadband.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 796879] [NEW] Update Manager Ignores Its Own Mobile Broadband Warning

2011-06-13 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Update Manager and Mobile Broadband: Update Manager Ignores Its Own Warning and Takes Control Update Manager (Ubuntu 11.04, fully updated) duly announces when my netbook is connected to the internet via a wireless modem (Mobile

[Bug 792804] [NEW] Evolution Preferences Panel Cannot Be Resized, Evolution Wastes Space on Netbooks

2011-06-04 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution The Edit Preferences panel in Evolution cannot be resized to fit within a standard netbook screen (1024x600). The bottom of the panel remains off-screen. The width of the panel can be resized, but not the height. Thus, the settings and

[Bug 792804] Re: Evolution Preferences Panel Cannot Be Resized, Evolution Wastes Space on Netbooks

2011-06-04 Thread Gretha
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[Bug 782396] [NEW] Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 removed Kbarcode

2011-05-13 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-center The upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 (using Update Manager) has automatically removed my installed Kbarcode application. No reason was given. This is a valuable application. It has never caused any problems. It is no longer in the Ubuntu

[Bug 782396] Re: Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 removed Kbarcode

2011-05-13 Thread Gretha
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[Bug 782401] [NEW] Error in Undo Button (Writer) (Regression)

2011-05-13 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libreoffice When hovering with the mouse over the undo button in the toolbar in LibreOffice Writer, the little descriptive undo balloon pop-up box is sometimes faulty. If this occurs, then the descriptive pop-up contains either a partial description of

[Bug 782401] Re: Error in Undo Button (Writer) (Regression)

2011-05-13 Thread Gretha
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[Bug 782406] [NEW] LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

2011-05-13 Thread Gretha
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libreoffice OpenOffice 3.2 Writer contained one major improvement over earlier versions, which had been overdue for years: It offered for the first time the ability to fine-tune the options when comparing two documents (Edit Compare Documents...).

[Bug 593226] Re: gnome panels suddenly have a 25 second delay after session load

2010-06-22 Thread Gretha
This might indeed be some a password-related issue. Since recently, some time after I log in as a user, an unexpected authorization dialogue box pops up, saying that an application (it eerily does not say which) asks for authorization; and my two (standard) desktop panels are very very slow to

[Bug 311869] Re: Add driver for Sentelic Touch pad

2010-06-11 Thread Gretha
@ Phil A directly related question about how to configure Sentelic touchpads for non-tech users is on: https://answers.launchpad.net/null/+question/113601 Thus far, the issue appears unresolved. -- Add driver for Sentelic Touch pad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311869 You received this bug