[Bug 2041751] Re: RM: Remove dangerously insecure MPPE PPTP from Ubuntu

2024-04-26 Thread James Cameron
I'm upstream. I saw the removal first in the release notes. Yet I'm not surprised by removal. The contributions to pptp and pptpd have declined, so the release cadence has slowed as well (1.4.0 in 2013, but a few commits in git since). Number of people asking for help has also declined. Some

Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2018-03-18 Thread James Cameron
by setting GTK_THEME to adwaita in the package sugar-write-activity. This perturbs the timing just enough to prevent the problem on our supported hardware. For our upcoming Bionic build, the abiword 3.0.2-6 package doesn't show the problem. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ -- You received

Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2018-01-10 Thread James Cameron
Any chance of a fix in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial? As a derivative, I'm carrying a custom package, which is fine technically, but is hard to explain. Ubuntu 18.04 beta is unaffected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1622293] Re: rtl8821ae WiFI does not work

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Summary; my own rtl8821ae frequent connection lost problem was fixed by upstream patch b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem") merged for 4.14-rc4. I've recently fixed a problem very much like the problems reported in this bug. In particular the loss of WiFi scan

[Bug 1618267] Re: RTL8821AE abruptly halts all network traffic

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Summary; my own rtl8821ae frequent connection lost problem was fixed by upstream patch b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem") merged for 4.14-rc4. I've recently fixed a problem very much like the problems reported in this bug; and during my tests I saw the cycling ping

[Bug 1653012] Re: 10ec:8821 [Asus X555L] RTL8821AE doesn't work after some minutes.

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
This bug should close because the configuration has been disassembled, we can hardly expect hotellina to change the wireless card back to what it was just so that the bug can be solved. ;-) However, several of the problems in this bug were fixed by upstream patches, in particular b8b8b16352cd

[Bug 1707185] Re: I wish “Firmware Package” had the RTL8821AE wireless network adaptor driver.

2017-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Dave, Lwfinger is Larry Finger, the maintainer of the rtl8821ae driver already in Ubuntu 16.04. When you used his GitHub driver, you had undone a change by Realtek, and that's why it worked. The Realtek change was 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues") and caused the connection loss.

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-09-24 Thread James Cameron
Sorry Simon, I had already tested my patch with my own local package, I didn't think you'd need me to test your package of it, and I'm hoping to hear if anybody else has tested it. ;-) On a 17.10 Artful VM with Sugar, the Sugar desktop does not appear, some other problem, so I'm not able to test

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-09-24 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. Reviewed abiword_3.0.2-3_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1.diff.gz ... looks right to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-09-24 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the bump, I'd forgotten to update this bug. I found the cause of the problem and fixed it for systems using Xorg. It was a race condition, and is affected by speed of computer, speed of graphics, other processes, and theme drawing. That's why it may not happen for some people. You

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-08-06 Thread James Cameron
> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering Does not solve for me on Artful 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker

[Bug 1691180] Re: linux: 4.4.0-79.100 -proposed tracker

2017-06-06 Thread James Cameron
For your interest, the package dropped the reiserfs module. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691180 Title: linux: 4.4.0-79.100 -proposed tracker To manage notifications about this

Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-05-06 Thread James Cameron
G'day Brian. Good to hear. For local testing, the signing can be ignored; there's an option to skip it. The warnings sound familiar, but are normal. For me, the patch did fix the flickering of the whole screen, but did not fix the flickering cursor. Guess next steps upstream involve reproducing

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-05-05 Thread James Cameron
G'day Brian. The patch command automatically applies a patch to a set of files. The particular patch has a sacrificial path element so the --strip 1 option should be used. The --dry-run option is also useful for testing. So it would be "patch --strip 1 --dry-run < file.patch", where file.patch

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-05-05 Thread James Cameron
G'day Brian. Yes, it needs to be compiled in. Download the Ubuntu source package, apply the patch, build the package, then install it. If you've not done that before, you may find it quite complicated. You might enable deb-src entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then "apt-get update",

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2017-05-03 Thread James Cameron
G'day Brian! Yes, the theme workaround began not working for me with 17.04. Yes, the problem can come and go with any changes to the hardware, kernel, X server, or libraries. There is a fix that makes the situation a lot better, see my post last week on the upstream bug

[Bug 1406810] Re: [iMac11,1] Unable to boot

2017-04-18 Thread James Cameron
Bug also affects me. I've isolated it to a specific kernel patch and updated the upstream bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406810 Title: [iMac11,1] Unable to boot To manage

[Bug 1643467] Re: Firefox 50 blocks Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 LTS's version of libavcodec

2016-12-09 Thread James Cameron
I'm having problems playing videos after this fix. (LP: #1648721) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643467 Title: Firefox 50 blocks Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 LTS's version of libavcodec

[Bug 1648721] Re: does not read mpeg transport streams since #1643467

2016-12-09 Thread James Cameron
I'll attach a stream that causes the problem. It is from a DVB-T card, filtered by pid. The package with regression is libavcodec54. Previous working version before updates was https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/libavcodec54/6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 A workaround, downgrade only this

[Bug 1648721] [NEW] does not read mpeg transport streams since #1643467

2016-12-09 Thread James Cameron
Public bug reported: Since the security update to 6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 triggered today by #1643467, vlc and mplayer do not play mpeg transport streams that were previously playable. Other types of stream are unaffected. Description:Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release:14.04 libav-tools

[Bug 681617] Re: pptp stops receiving packets when bandwidth spike

2016-11-28 Thread James Cameron
@asavah, you wrote "It's a SHAME that such a good fix is not yet in the "official" package." I'm laughing like anything. I'm the upstream and I make the official package, yet this fix has NEVER come to me. I just happen to notice it now, here. Next time, make sure you talk to upstream before

[Bug 1573474] Re: ubuntu 16.04 oem config wireless

2016-09-27 Thread James Cameron
Is caused by missing wpa_supplicant. Alternate workaround is to start it manually; systemctl start wpa_supplicant After this, wireless can be used. The reason reboot worked was that it did the same thing. According to syslog, when the host name changes from oem-INVALID to user preference

[Bug 1556735] Re: surf crashed with SIGSEGV in JSC::JSCell::getPrimitiveNumber()

2016-09-15 Thread James Cameron
Also seen with sugar-browse-activity package. (gdb) bt #0 JSC::JSCell::getPrimitiveNumber (this=this@entry=0x0, exec=exec@entry=0x7f8e28d43ab0, number=@0x7ffdcedc13e0: 9.8813129168249309e-324, value=...) at ../Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSCell.cpp:134 #1 0x7f8e85accbdc in

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2016-09-14 Thread James Cameron
Uwe, do you have a method to reproduce flickering with the GTK_THEME=adwaita? Even so, the workaround is a major improvement, and the best we have, so I'll add it to my OLPC derivative of the Ubuntu sugar-write-activity package. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/y/1bkIWb.txt -- You received this

[Bug 1573474] Re: ubuntu 16.04 oem config wireless

2016-07-28 Thread James Cameron
Reproduced on a derivative. Using 16.04.1 ISO remastered with the Sugar desktop. Used to work with 14.04.3. Log out and log in makes no change. Workaround is to reboot. Can supply additional information if required. Let me know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1605034] [NEW] maliit-framework import fails in python using GI API

2016-07-20 Thread James Cameron
Public bug reported: Using Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 with xenial-updates applied. Installed gir1.2-maliit-1.0 0.99.1+git20151118+62bd54b-0ubuntu3 and dependencies. Expected: successful import of Maliit via GObject Introspection API using python "from gi.repository import Maliit", Observed: failure

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2016-07-06 Thread James Cameron
Raised upstream as http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 ** Bug watch added: AbiSource bug tracker #13791 http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2016-07-06 Thread James Cameron
Impacting OLPC. Reproduced using Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial amd64 iso booted as live-image, plus universe, with abiword_3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1 from xenial-updates. Workaround: switch from Ambiance to High Contrast theme. Also affects package sugar-write-activity_97-5 which depends on package

[Bug 1583353] [NEW] what-utils missing dependency

2016-05-18 Thread James Cameron
Public bug reported: in what-utils-1.3-0ubuntu1 /usr/bin/what-repo uses col2, so it doesn't work. on xenial, col2 is provided by package byobu. on trusty, col2 is available in package bikeshed. however, it would be simpler if col2 were replaced by an equivalant awk. e.g. {{{ ---

[Bug 1397976] Re: tty hangup regression in 3.13 kernel (trusty LTS)

2015-10-08 Thread James Cameron
The fix made in this bug broke production systems for me. Same symptom as in comment #4. Which bug is tracking the regression? Meanwhile, I downgrade kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1483004] Re: installation of Ubuntu OS failed

2015-08-11 Thread James Cameron
No, it is still a problem. If you don't want to remain subscribed to the bug, feel free to remove yourself. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1483004] Re: installation of Ubuntu OS failed

2015-08-11 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Brian. I'm not part of Ubuntu, but I am a developer at One Laptop per Child. In my situation, the same problem happened without any Windows involved at all, so I'm looking at what is common between us. Your system logs show two SATA drives of 64 GB each, a USB CD-ROM drive, and a

[Bug 1483004] Re: installation of Ubuntu OS failed

2015-08-10 Thread James Cameron
Reproduced three times. My ubiquity syslog shows grub install is attempted on the installation media instead of the target media. ** Attachment added: syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1483004/+attachment/4442490/+files/syslog -- You received this bug

[Bug 1483004] Re: installation of Ubuntu OS failed

2015-08-10 Thread James Cameron
After several more attempts, I found that the kernel discovery order of the drives was critical. When the install media is detected as /dev/sda the problem occurs. When the target media is detected as /dev/sda the install is successful. There's no obvious way to control the discovery order. --

[Bug 1483004] Re: installation of Ubuntu OS failed

2015-08-10 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. But it is not resolved for me. There was no option to turn on or off RAID. In the Installation Type dialog, I chose Erase disk and install Ubuntu. Where was this alternate menu of which you speak? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1224732] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts don't work

2014-04-28 Thread James Cameron
On my system after upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 and then to 14.04, custom shortcuts didn't work because the wrong keysyms were being generated, according to xev, despite my use of xmodmap in .xsession called by nodm. I fixed it by delaying the xmodmap by two seconds. I speculate that the X server

[Bug 1182868] Re: tg3 driver 1.28 does not recognize the NetXtreme BCM57766 chip

2013-05-30 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Joseph. The module version and source version are identical (see below), but the kernel version is not ... because I am running the latest kernel that works for me. I will schedule downtime and carefully boot the new kernel, in order to avoid losing control of the system again. I would

[Bug 1182868] Re: tg3 driver 1.28 does not recognize the NetXtreme BCM57766 chip

2013-05-29 Thread James Cameron
Joseph, -22.33 did _not_ fix the problem for me. Are there any further tests you would like me to make? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1182868 Title: tg3 driver 1.28 does not

[Bug 1182868] Re: tg3 driver 1.28 does not recognize the NetXtreme BCM57766 chip

2013-05-24 Thread James Cameron
3.8.0-22.3 boots, but the ethernet device is not detected, and I've lost USB as well. I can't get in to even get a dmesg. I'll try talking grub into downgrading. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1182868] Re: tg3 driver 1.28 does not recognize the NetXtreme BCM57766 chip

2013-05-24 Thread James Cameron
I upgraded from 3.8.0-20.31 to 3.8.0-22.33 on my Macmini6,1 and the ethernet device went away again as per #1162665, judging by my gkrellm on nodm display. USB also went away, preventing further easy diagnosis. Grub would not respond to a held down shift key. I was able to boot from an

[Bug 1162665] Re: BCM57766 (present in 2012 Apple products) is not detected by tg3 module

2013-05-24 Thread James Cameron
G'day Joseph, thanks for the bug reference, I've posted an update to bug #1182868. Summary: 3.8.0-20.31 works fine, but 3.8.0-21.32 and 3.8.0-22.33 do not detect the tg3 ethernet device. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1070677] Re: Xorg fails to start because of Radeon Issue [(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version]

2013-05-18 Thread James Cameron
For me on 13.04, although the error message in Xorg.log was the same, it turned out to be caused by #714492 (plymouth). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070677 Title: Xorg fails to

[Bug 714492] Re: nodm screen may not show up depending on plymouth and tty

2013-05-18 Thread James Cameron
For me on 13.04 an alternate workaround was to configure /etc/default/nodm to start on vt8, although this leaves plymouth active on vt7, whether or not the splash option is on the kernel command line. The workaround to add plymouth --wait --quit || true to /etc/init.d/nodm worked fine for me.

[Bug 1162665] Re: BCM57766 (present in 2012 Apple products) is not detected by tg3 module

2013-05-18 Thread James Cameron
After an update, linux-image-3.8.0-21-generic 3.8.0-21.32 was installed from raring-security, and this problem has come back. Will downgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1162665

[Bug 1024533] Re: xpdf.real crashed with SIGSEGV in GooHash::find()

2013-05-14 Thread James Cameron
This bug #1024533 would appear to be a duplicate of bug #943195, and bug #943195 has way more information. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024533 Title: xpdf.real crashed with

[Bug 1162665] Re: BCM57766 (present in 2012 Apple products) is not detected by tg3 module

2013-05-11 Thread James Cameron
Did install from ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64+mac.iso on Macmini6,1 and built-in ethernet did fail, symptoms matched as above in this ticket. Did add USB ethernet, enable proposed, install new kernel -20, remove USB ethernet, reboot, and the built-in ethernet was enabled. Did several scp of large

[Bug 1070677] Re: Xorg fails to start because of Radeon Issue

2012-11-02 Thread James Cameron
I see the same Xorg.0.log output, but it happens every boot, and it began yesterday, after applying updates, on 12.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070677 Title: Xorg fails to

[Bug 176648] Re: Impossible to change screen brightness on iMac

2010-06-29 Thread James Cameron
Also affected, on iMac11,1 27 i7 ATI M98L HD 4850 with Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. Have fglrx package installed. Backlight is turned off by DPMS idle timer fine. Backlight stays at a default brightness since boot despite DPMS activation. Backlight goes to maximum brightness on resume from suspend.

[Bug 576601] Re: [MacBookPro 7, 1]mcp89 sata link reset fails, no disks detected

2010-06-19 Thread James Cameron
@Payall: on Mac mini 2010 with internal 320Gb SATA drive, performance is low, about a tenth of expected. About 7 MB/sec on Ubuntu 10.04 using the above kernel, versus about 55 MB/sec on Mac OS X as shipped. Better than the 0 MB/sec before this fix was available. (Test method on Ubuntu; ensure

[Bug 576601] Re: [MacBookPro 7, 1]mcp89 sata link reset fails, no disks detected

2010-06-18 Thread James Cameron
Fantastic. I also confirm that the test ISO ubuntu-10.04-desktop- amd64-macbook71.iso 7b4cc590c28f8a5d31a411562dc4ff11 works on Macmini4,1. ~~ qu...@laptop.org -- [MacBookPro 7,1]mcp89 sata link reset fails, no disks detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576601 You received this bug

[Bug 576601] Re: [MacBookPro 7, 1]mcp89 sata link reset fails, no disks detected

2010-06-18 Thread James Cameron
@Damien, my partitioning was everything in one place and ext3 rather than ext4, but even during creation of ext3 filesystem the progress was unremarkable. It was difficult to tell if it was hung. I used top(1) and cat /proc/diskstats in a terminal to verify things were still happening. No disk

Re: [Bug 155945] Re: Only a single PPTP-Linux VPN connection allowed

2009-04-17 Thread James Cameron
It's in the TODO file in the source repository and should be in the .tar.gz, please check? -- Only a single PPTP-Linux VPN connection allowed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 155945] Re: Only a single PPTP-Linux VPN connection allowed

2009-04-16 Thread James Cameron
I'm upstream. My opinion is that the original poster's problem is a combination of the incomplete implementation of pptp on Linux, and external devices that were never intended to be operated in that fashion. We have a feature request logged in our system (TODO) dated 23rd December 2000 to fix

[Bug 172746] Re: pptp floods syslog

2008-10-26 Thread James Cameron
Micke, what you describe has nothing to do with the original bug report ... which was an issue with the verbosity of the logs. But I can suggest some actions you can take. 1. Please downgrade temporarily to 8.04 if possible to verify for sure that it is the transition from 8.04 to 8.10 that

[Bug 172746] Re: pptp floods syslog

2008-10-02 Thread James Cameron
The --loglevel option for pptp was added in 2003 for this purpose, and was present from version 1.4.0-rc1 and onwards. The messages you show in this bug report are not printed if the --loglevel is reduced from the default 1 to the low 0. The messages indicate you have packet loss, and for

[Bug 155945] Re: Only a single PPTP-Linux VPN connection allowed

2008-10-02 Thread James Cameron
Upstream code follows the RFC, and does not imitate the competing implementations exactly, therefore some routers do not handle the simultaneous connections properly, because the routers were coded and tested against other implementations. Upstream will accept patches that seek to make the