[Bug 1961010] Re: firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Thank you. Yes, about:buildconfig shows the --disable-updater flag. And software-properties-gtk --open-tab=2 showed that the setting for security updates was to download and install them immediately. I have changed that setting to only download security updates rather than to install them

[Bug 1961010] Re: firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Added screenshot that happens when this bug is triggered. Firefox refuses to operate normally after this point, just displaying "Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep going. Firefox has just been updated in the background. Click Restart Firefox to complete the update. We will restore

[Bug 1961010] [NEW] firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: The Firefox package does not act like ordinary packages. When it is running, it forcibly downloads upgraded binary versions of itself and then forces the user to restart Firefox and run the new version. There used to be a Firefox setting by which the user could control

[Bug 1879980] Re: Fail to boot with LUKS on top of RAID1 if the array is broken/degraded

2020-11-02 Thread John Gilmore
I am running a laptop with an internal nvme that is partitioned to contain an encrypted LUKS partition that contains an LVM2 PV. That PV contains part of an LV (lvubuntu) which also includes a partition residing on an external USB drive. The theory is that I'll make part of the external PV into

[Bug 1888088] Re: [amdgpu] [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-26 Thread John Gilmore
I found a way to enable the amdgpu support for this hardware in the standard LTS kernel! Based on this comment on a YouTube video reviewing this laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjegdWtHuOE=UgzbtkQw4vuk6ls- 6vF4AaABAg Add "amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1" to the kernel command line in

[Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Description changed: Opening Settings -> Display and selecting an orientation other than Landscape doesn't work. Similarly, selecting Fractional Scaling and then picking a scale factor has no effect. This is a recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, fully updated, on a recently released

[Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen after I chose "125%" as a fractional scale, then pressed Apply. The pop-up has dimmed the underlying windows, but you can see that the Scale setting in the underlying Displays window has reverted to "100%", and nothing on the screen has changed its scale

[Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen before I slide the "Fractional Scaling" slider." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1888088/+attachment/5393945/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-07-18%2014-21-25%20-%20before%20fractional%20scaling.png -- You received this bug

[Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen just after I slide the Fractional Scaling slider. The icons in the left margin, and the text at the top of the screen, have changed size (despite me not picking any new scale) and nothing else has scaled."

[Bug 1888088] [NEW] [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Opening Settings -> Display and selecting an orientation other than Landscape doesn't work. Similarly, selecting Fractional Scaling and then picking a scale factor has no effect. This is a recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, fully updated, on a recently released laptop/tablet

[Bug 1873641] [NEW] pulseaudio says: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Apr 19 03:12:37 shh pulseaudio[2107]: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write. Apr 19 03:12:37 shh pulseaudio[2107]: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA

[Bug 1873641] Re: pulseaudio says: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
Um, that should say I got a "single" report like this in syslog so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873641 Title: pulseaudio says: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the

[Bug 1873630] Re: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
I ran the software updater and noticed that it installed a new pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installed: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 After rebooting the system, I'm running this version. You will be happy to learn that pulseaudio doesn't crash with this version, and it shows

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
I ran the software updater and noticed that it installed a new pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installed: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 After rebooting the system, I'm running this version. You will be happy to learn that pulseaudio doesn't crash with this version, and it shows

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
OK, that's bug #1873630. We don't actually know that this current crasher bug is correctly solved by the above patch, since pulseaudio is not yet working. Perhaps the new bug was there all along, but perhaps it was introduced by this patch being an incomplete fix. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1873630] [NEW] [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I have a Gigabyte motherboard that gives pulseaudio fits in Ubuntu 20.04 beta. (It worked fine in 18.04.4 LTS.) It produced pulseaudio crashes with bug #1870833 until a proposed fix was brought in from upstream:

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "Here's the alsa-info output for this system, in case it helps." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1870833/+attachment/5356402/+files/alsa-info.txt.QsoAGgtfAU -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-18 Thread John Gilmore
With the -1ubuntu2 package, I no longer get a crash dump, but the audio is still not working. pulseaudio is aborting. Here is what is in syslog from bootup: Apr 18 01:13:09 shh dbus-daemon[1218]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'

[Bug 1873439] [NEW] Logitech BRIO webcam fails with "xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 13"

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: [ 450.844431] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 13 [ 450.844439] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: Looking for event-dma fd473230 trb-start fd473210 trb-end fd473210 seg-start fd473000

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "syslog from Ubuntu 18.04.4 from the same system, with working sound and working pulseaudio, in case it helps." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1870833/+attachment/5355971/+files/syslog-18.04.4 -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
I forgot to note (and the attachments don't apparently say) that I am also running this on a Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming 5" motherboard. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor, and 16GB of DRAM. I'll enclose dmesg output so you can see what audio chips the kernel found when

[Bug 1873407] [NEW] totem warns every time: "Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale)

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I am running Ubuntu 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from the liveCD ISO. Whenever I run totem from a shell window to play a video, I get on stderr: "(totem:13002): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:50:52.916: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node

[Bug 1873398] [NEW] gnome-disks won't do SMART on NVME drive

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I'm running 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from a USB stick of the live ISO. I opened Disks (gnome-disks) and it sees all my drives, but it won't show SMART stats on my NVME drive (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB). The SMART menu item is greyed out. It works fine on other drives.

[Bug 1873396] [NEW] Software & Updates hangs and won't close if IPv6 but no IPv4 connectivity

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I was running Ubuntu 20.04 beta x86_64 desktop without installing it. Went into Settings, to About, clicked "Software Updates", and up popped this window. My LAN has public IPv6 connectivity but this machine's ethernet address was configured with an IPv4 address that doesn't

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Just for fun I tried to start it manually. $ pulseaudio --start --log-level=debug --verbose D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Failed to open configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf': No

[Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Besides this Whoopsie catch of pulseaudio crashing, the result is that audio doesn't work at all on the system. Settings -> Sound shows no options for the output or input devices, the "Test" button says to click on a speaker to test it but then shows zero speakers, just the icon of a person, etc.

[Bug 1835660] Re: initramfs unpacking failed

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
This happened for me yesterday, when booting the main Ubuntu 20.04 beta x86_64 iso on real hardware (not a virtual machine). It has a graphical splash screen but in the upper left corner I get this "console" message. Then eventually in a few seconds, after it has fully booted, that splash screen

[Bug 1274678] Re: Unable to unmount nfsv3 when server is inaccessible

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
This error occurs on an NFS client machine when one of its NFS servers stops responding (e.g. is powered-off). The umount command provides a -l (lazy) option that is supposed to disconnect the mount point from the system so that no future commands that access the file system will hang due to the

[Bug 1274678] Re: Unable to lazy unmount nfsv3 when server is inaccessible

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
The version of nfs-common that I found the bug in is: nfs- common-1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1 which is from the trusty-updates repository. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1274678 Title:

[Bug 1274678] Re: Unable to lazy unmount nfsv3 when server is inaccessible

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
I found this bug today in ubuntu-14.04.2 LTS. I don't see in the Launchpad interface how to easily specify which release(s) the bug appears in. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1274678

[Bug 412351] Re: nfs server stand-by cause client hang

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
When mounting with the intr option, you have to interrupt a stalled program (using Control-C in a terminal, for example) in order to get it to stop trying to access the server. If you instead mount with the soft option, NFS accesses will eventually time out without needing to be interrupted (but

[Bug 1466217] Re: unmounting NFS filesystem hangs on readlink even with lazy unmount

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1274678 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1274678 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1274678 Unable to unmount nfsv3 when server is inaccessible -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1466217] [NEW] unmounting NFS filesystem hangs on readlink even with lazy unmount

2015-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: This error occurs on an NFS client machine when one of its NFS servers stops responding (e.g. is powered-off). The umount command provides a -l (lazy) option that is supposed to disconnect the mount point from the system so that no future commands that access the file

[Bug 1066342] Re: Reinstalling over a previous installation with encrypted swap displays a Continue without swap warning dialog

2015-05-27 Thread John Gilmore
This is not fixed in Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04.2 LTS. I recently installed Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04.2 LTS on a few machines and invented a workaround. The script that sets up encrypted swap (/usr/bin /ecryptfs-setup-swap) should first do a mkswap on the partition (if it isn't already set up), then use the

[Bug 340970] Re: When apport complains package is outdated, it doesn't let you update

2014-09-22 Thread John Gilmore
The issue is worse than as reported above. apport in Ubuntu 14.10 beta1 won't even let you report a bug in an application when ANY package in the system is not the absolute latest! I got a core-dump crash in Rhythmbox and this was the eventual result from apport (when I came across it on my

[Bug 454358] Re: karmic ubiquity installer hangs in partitioner after dismounting 2nd drive

2014-01-31 Thread John Gilmore
It's only end of life because the bug-handling team sat on it without action for four years. This bug is not MY problem, it's yours. No, I am neither able nor willing to reproduce this with a later Ubuntu release. I've switched to Fedora. If you actually care about addressing the bug that I

[Bug 1172002] Re: Install doesn't mount encrypted swap for reinstall

2014-01-05 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1066342 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066342 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1066342 Reinstalling over a previous installation with encrypted swap displays a Continue without swap warning dialog -- You received this bug

[Bug 882147] Re: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2012-04-18 Thread John Gilmore
Inotify is not defined to return a subset of changes. It's defined to return all changes. That's why this is a bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882147 Title: overlayfs does not

[Bug 977847] [NEW] won't install in livecd, fails to configure

2012-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I wanted to mount an NFS disk in the LiveCD, so I tried a mount command; that didn't work. Turned out that the NFS support isn't even in the livecd, so I had to apt-get install nfs-common. This failed, even immediately after apt-get update: # apt-get install nfs-common

[Bug 977847] Re: won't install in livecd, fails to configure

2012-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977847 Title: won't install in livecd, fails to configure To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 882147] Re: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2012-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
Mike, if inotify will not actually report all changes on an overlayfs then inotify needs to report an error when someone tries to monitor changes in an overlayfs. Pretty simple, eh? I mean, you could actually fix it so that inotify DOES report all the changes, but that would be harder than

[Bug 977847] Re: won't install in livecd, fails to configure

2012-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 882147 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882147 For those who run into this bug, which is caused by #882147, here is how to circumvent it while the boffins argue about what the right fix is. Run sudo initctl reload-configuration, and then rerun the

[Bug 876107] [NEW] relnotes in 11.10 say to install gnome-panel but it doesn't install

2011-10-16 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I hate Unity and am only interested in running new Ubuntu's if I can install gnome. The release notes here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes?action=showredirect=OneiricOcelot%2FTechnicalOverview say: GNOME 3.2 is included and is a major upgrade from

[Bug 455068] Re: Merely starting Firefox gives user a permanent Google cookie

2011-10-16 Thread John Gilmore
Just reconfirmed that this bug still exists in 11.10 (Ocelot). I started Firefox in the desktop-i386 LiveCD, went right to Preferences, clicked Privacy, changed from remember everything to custom settings, clicked View cookies, and poof, the Google PREF cookie is there, with a many-hex-digit ID

[Bug 862928] [NEW] NFS filesystems are not exported after booting

2011-09-29 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I have an 11.04 Natty system that was upgraded from earlier releases. It exports several filesystems via NFSv3 for use by other machines on the local network. When I boot the machine, those filesystems are not exported by default. Immediately after logging in after a

[Bug 862928] Re: NFS filesystems are not exported after booting

2011-09-29 Thread John Gilmore
I have found a way to reconfigure the system to resolve the problem. However, there is still a bug in the default configuration of Ubuntu. The problem DOES appear to be name resolution. Even with bind9 installed, the local system is never configured to set /etc/resolv.conf to USE the local

[Bug 806284] [NEW] nfs-kernel-server fails: hostname has non-inet addr on boot, before eth0 comes up

2011-07-05 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I upgraded my server to Natty and now the two directories that this server exports to various other machines on the network, do not get exported during an ordinary bootup. However, after startup, if I run exportfs -av on them, they export just fine. /var/log/syslog shows:

[Bug 458453] Re: beam.smp uses lots of CPU on desktopcouch contacts lookup

2011-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
It was apparently started by gwibber (perhaps because I briefly opened the menu in the upper right corner of the Ubuntu Natty screen, which seems to be a gwibber thing; I do not use social networking). One possible problem is that the Erlang runtime is started with the -heart option, so it burns

[Bug 458453] Re: beam.smp uses lots of CPU on desktopcouch contacts lookup

2011-06-20 Thread John Gilmore
I upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 system to 11.04 recently. I do not use Evolution, Ubuntu One, or Gwibber or Weather. Yet I still find this beam.smp process has burned 979 minutes of CPU since the last reboot 18 days ago -- apparently for no reason at all. First, why is it getting started at all? ps

[Bug 510212] Re: update-manager: no branding. Is it legit?

2011-01-09 Thread John Gilmore
The problem (as reported) seems to be that it pops up without warning, but doesn't identify itself as a part of the Ubuntu system. To anyone who's used to annoying or harmful Windows or Web pop-ups, it looks like another one of those, trying to scam the user into something. Upgrade the system

[Bug 694283] Re: Encrypt my home folder should be disabled when Log in automatically is selected

2011-01-09 Thread John Gilmore
The problem with disabling the Encrypt my home directory option when Login automatically is selected is that people who want to encrypt their home directory have no way to figure out why it's greyed out. (Now, if Gnome supported hitting a greyed-out item and getting a message about why it's

[Bug 661364] [NEW] Python warning at UpdateManager.py:398: ...gsignal.c:2392: instance '0x9ab4278' has no handler with id '341'

2010-10-15 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager After running update-manager from a terminal, I got this message on the terminal: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py:398: Warning: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.26.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2392: instance `0x9ab4278' has

[Bug 661382] [NEW] Maverick Source DVD is missing many packages

2010-10-15 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I downloaded the Maverick source DVD from: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs/ubuntu/10.10/release/source/ I got the ubuntu-10.10-src-1.jigdo and ubuntu-10.10-src-1.template files, and ran jigdo-lite on a Lucid machine to produce the .iso, which passed all the

[Bug 646421] Re: oem-config process that zero's swap broken on armel preinstalled images

2010-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
Also note that this dd should specify a blocksize, rather than defaulting to 512 byte writes. This will vastly speed up the process of clearing encrypted swapspace. See bug #432422. -- oem-config process that zero's swap broken on armel preinstalled images

[Bug 655402] [NEW] doesn't let me buy software without a Launchpad account (which it won't help me create)

2010-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-center There should be a clear, obvious way to register for a new Launchpad account while making a software purchase. We were asked to test the software-purchase capabilities of the software-center, so I tried to buy the $1 wallpaper test

[Bug 655406] [NEW] pop-up for buying software is too small for underlying text

2010-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-center UNR 10.10-RC on 10.1 Acer Aspire One D250 netbook, running from SD card as LiveCD. I tried to buy the Wallpaper test item. It popped up a window to authenticate me to Launchpad. Unfortunately, the text in that window is too large for

[Bug 655406] Re: pop-up for buying software is too small for underlying text

2010-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: Screen shot of too-small popup window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655406/+attachment/1674164/+files/Screenshot.png -- pop-up for buying software is too small for underlying text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655406 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 655402] Re: doesn't let me buy software without a Launchpad account (which it won't help me create)

2010-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
Bug #655406 is the cause of this -- the New Account button is so far off the right-hand side of the window that I never suspected its existence. -- doesn't let me buy software without a Launchpad account (which it won't help me create) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655402 You received this

[Bug 649553] Re: system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card

2010-10-04 Thread John Gilmore
This is not a fucking question, it's a fucking bug report. But feel free to ship your precious Maverick release with this bug, because you ignored the bug report. -- system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649553 You received this bug

[Bug 649553] Re: system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card

2010-10-04 Thread John Gilmore
Mr. Marconi apparently forged my name to an Ubuntu Questions posting here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/127826 while simultaneously trying to close out this bug report with Status: Invalid. His recommendation -- that I should run memtest on the laptop that showed these failures

[Bug 649553] Re: system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card

2010-10-04 Thread John Gilmore
This is a bug report, not a fucking question. Perhaps making bug reports into questions is just another of the Ubuntu QA team's tactics to make their statistics look good. Unfortunately, good QA stats don't do anything for the quality of the actual software release. -- system hangs, bounces,

[Bug 649553] Re: system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card

2010-09-29 Thread John Gilmore
Part of the problem seems to be that the netbook normally runs Lucid with encrypted home directory and 5GB of encrypted swapspace. Thus the LiveCD boot of Maverick beta doesn't see the swap partition, because even though it has the linux-swap partition type, it doesn't have the swapspace

[Bug 636206] Re: Unity crashes on opening Firefox Browser

2010-09-28 Thread John Gilmore
This might well be the oom-killer - just running the 10.10 beta UNR LiveCD without swap space invokes it for all sorts of things, even on a 1GB machine. -- Unity crashes on opening Firefox Browser https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636206 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 610055] Re: computer stuttering, freezing, hanging, and otherwise being uncooperative

2010-09-28 Thread John Gilmore
All the hangs I noticed so far in 10.10 BETA UNR on Acer Aspire One D250 (running direct from SD card with LiveCD) might have been the oom- killer, but in dmesg, I did notice some odd entries relating to the ATA ports (which I'm not using, since I'm running from the LiveCD without mounting or

[Bug 649553] [NEW] system hangs, bounces, oom-killer invoked on UNR live SD card

2010-09-27 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I put Maverick Beta UNR on an SD card, ran it in my Aspire One D250 laptop without installing. Was just trying it out, running mahjongg, running rhythmbox (with no music), trying to find the control panel (hiding in greyed-out stuff that scrolled off the left margin), etc,

[Bug 649560] [NEW] Too hard to find control panel / settings / System in 10.10 UNR Beta

2010-09-27 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unity It's too hard to find out how to do something simple like change a setting. The settings are apparently buried under a grey square that rolls off the bottom of the screen during normal operation. To get to it, you seem to have to hover at the

[Bug 649562] [NEW] Help icon produces garbage-unicode name popup in 10.10 beta UNR

2010-09-27 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unity When moving the mouse down the left margin in 10.10 beta UNR (running from LiveCD on SD card), when I come to the blue circle containing a question mark, it pops up a tooltip that says: [four Unicode characters in boxes that indicate we don't

[Bug 649562] Re: Help icon produces garbage-unicode name popup in 10.10 beta UNR

2010-09-27 Thread John Gilmore
Here's a screenshot of the errant tooltip. ** Attachment added: Screenshot with tooltip visible https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/649562/+attachment/1647265/+files/Screenshot.png -- Help icon produces garbage-unicode name popup in 10.10 beta UNR

[Bug 432422] Re: add installer status message for Wiping Swap Space

2010-08-24 Thread John Gilmore
OK, so now we have a message, that's progress, but it still hangs for minutes after printing the message. How about fixing the underlying bug, which is that a shell script is doing *512-byte* writes from /dev/zero to the swap partition using dd! See comment #13 above. Making it run 1000x as

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-30 Thread John Gilmore
I've just found a way to reproduce the issue on my system. I ran evince (the PDF viewer) on a file someone sent me, which produces a very wide window that fills the entire screen. The first time I ran this, compiz immediately died after this window went up. So I investigated. I logged out and

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-30 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51151359/Xorg.0.log -- compiz exits with radeon error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-30 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: dmesg | egrep drm|radeon after compiz dies http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51151406/1 -- compiz exits with radeon error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-26 Thread John Gilmore
Here's a screenshot of sample screen corruption. This comes and goes (making the program repaint the window often fixes it). Notice: * Mangled fonts, e.g. in right-hand side of screen Change your plan or services mangles the g, and it's also mangled above there in messages you've used.

[Bug 583891] Re: X.org crashes sometimes. [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12!

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550850 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550850 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 550850 compiz exits with radeon error -- X.org crashes sometimes. [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12!

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
This is also happening for me since I upgraded my HP dc5750 PC to Ubuntu 10.04. The desktop runs fine for a few days, then I start seeing odd static in windows, including lots of horizontal lines in parts of Firefox windows, plus sometimes, garbled fonts in some firefox windows. Then without

[Bug 580984] Re: Running firefox causes problem with screen refreshing

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550850 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550850 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 550850 compiz exits with radeon error -- Running firefox causes problem with screen refreshing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580984 You received this bug

[Bug 491572] Re: [lucid][rv350] radeon drm error (AGP)

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
This appears to be a duplicate of #550850 and #583891. -- [lucid][rv350] radeon drm error (AGP) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491572 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 578078] Re: regular system freezes with KMS on rc410 ati video chip

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I am experiencing bug #550850 (which is also duplicated several times), whose main symptom is garbled screen output followed at some length by a crash in compiz, with the error message Failed to parse relocation -12! in dmesg. There may be a correlation between these two bugs. Altogether I found

[Bug 455167] Re: Ubiquity should put install image onto target disk for apt's use

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
It seems that the thrust of this bug has not been perceived. Even when I have a full DVD install image sitting on the hard drive of my Ubuntu system, there appears to be no way to *install packages from it* without manually groveling around in its subdirectories and running dpkg! There appears

[Bug 455167] Re: Ubiquity should put install image onto target disk for apt's use

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I'm trying to get this bug to not automatically expire. If Ubuntu keeps ignoring my bug reports then I'll just stop making bug reports -- which is not what I want and not what you want. But somehow there's this daemon for throwing away bug reports *automatically*. ** Changed in: ubiquity

[Bug 412647] Re: Firefox is not able to play mp4 video tags

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
The upstream bug (moz bug 422540) hasn't progressed in months; if Ubuntu developers want this feature, please lend a hand. -- Firefox is not able to play mp4 video tags https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 583891] Re: X.org crashes sometimes. [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12!

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I'm not entirely convinced either. But I find it suspicious that various processes are crashing with the same kernel error message, coming from the same DRM driver in the kernel. Whichever process gets the error is the one that crashes, so when it's compiz, you have windows but no window

[Bug 550850] Re: compiz exits with radeon error

2010-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I had originally marked bug #583891 as a duplicate of this. Someone else detached it, arguing that it may not be the same bug because the X server or other processes are crashing with the Failed to parse relocation -12 message, rather than compiz. This makes me suspect a bug in the kernel DRM

[Bug 248324] Re: can't access add to panel... dialogue

2010-05-21 Thread John Gilmore
The changes in 10.04 seem to have made the problem worse, not better. Clever people in 9.10 used to be able to work around the problem. Now in 10.04 you have to be a true genius, or merely insane, (or find this bug report) to work around the problem. The proposed fix in #19 is to tell users to

[Bug 455068] Re: Merely starting Firefox gives user a permanent Google cookie

2010-05-19 Thread John Gilmore
I just verified that this bug is still present in Lucid 10.04 (the UNR version installed onto a fully erased drive in a netbook). (It gets a cookie from Google, but not one from the BBC any more. I'm not sure why not; the Recent Headlines smart-bookmark is still present; perhaps BBC changed

[Bug 581250] [NEW] Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13

2010-05-16 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: b43-fwcutter When first booting Lucid Netbook remix on Acer Aspire One D150, it fails to access wireless because it needs some proprietary firmware. Even after installing that with jockey, though, it barely works (very slow access, 1-second ping times,

[Bug 581250] Re: Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13

2010-05-16 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48535097/Dependencies.txt -- Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581250 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 581250] Re: Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13

2010-05-16 Thread John Gilmore
I thought ubuntu-bug was going to add my dmesg and such, but stupidly it didn't, so here is dmesg and lspci -vnn. ** Attachment added: dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48535739/dmesg -- Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13

[Bug 581250] Re: Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13

2010-05-16 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: lspci -vnn http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48535749/lsp -- Broadcom 4312 doesn't work with Lucid - needs upstream b43-fwcutter v.13 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581250 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 441013] Re: The Synaptic Touchpad on my Eee Pc 701 doesn't work correctly

2010-05-01 Thread John Gilmore
Oh, I see. If you add tags like needs-upstream-testing to a bug, then it becomes incomplete, so then a robot will expire it a few months later. It's a cheat to get bugs to go away. The product is so much better when bug reports get swept under the rug by people or robots who don't actually

[Bug 441013] Re: The Synaptic Touchpad on my Eee Pc 701 doesn't work correctly

2010-05-01 Thread John Gilmore
This bug appears to have been fixed. The problem is as reported in comments #3 to #4, and the fix was reported in #5. Someone fixed the default value in the release. I just tested this on Lucid and it worked for me. (I don't have an EEE PC but my Acer Aspire One D250 touchpad had the same

[Bug 455151] Re: disconnect wired network leaves IPv6 running, only disconnects IPv4

2010-03-05 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 215497 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215497 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 215497 IPv6 configuration is not flushed when interface goes down -- disconnect wired network leaves IPv6 running, only disconnects IPv4

[Bug 412647] Re: Firefox is not able to play mp4 video tags

2010-01-22 Thread John Gilmore
The problem is that Firefox-3.5 (and 3.6) contains code specific to the Ogg and Wav file formats and specific codecs. Though the original video tag support included generic gstreamer support, MozCorp for some reason rewrote that to exclude the use of system-provided codecs. See, for example, the

[Bug 455167] Re: Ubiquity should put install image onto target disk for apt's use

2009-11-04 Thread John Gilmore
apt-cdrom does NOT work this way. It keeps insisting that I mount a physical CDROM, even when the image is mounted, even when I passed -m and -d /mnt/ubu910 to apt-cdrom add. It's just broken for use with ISO images. And if you leave an apt-cdrom entry in /etc/apt/sources.list, it screws up all

[Bug 378391] Re: Source rename clobbered local changes (so tapping not working in Karmic)

2009-10-29 Thread John Gilmore
According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441013/comments/5: The behavior in realease Karmic has changed. You will be able to try it on a live cd and install tommorow. Enable mouse clicks with touchpad is now enabled by default. It has had this behavior since RC build.

[Bug 441013] Re: The Synaptic Touchpad on my Eee Pc 701 doesn't work correctly

2009-10-28 Thread John Gilmore
This is not a ($*#$*#( duplicate! The problem is the regression from Jaunty. That problem was not fixed by adding a new Control Panel item that re-enables the old behavior. The problem is that you NEED to re- enable the old behavior. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 378391 Source

[Bug 441013] Re: The Synaptic Touchpad on my Eee Pc 701 doesn't work correctly

2009-10-22 Thread John Gilmore
There are now more than a dozen bugs reported against this. See the original bug report at #378391. The problem appears to be that as people report the bug, they are marked as dups and lniked to that bug -- but that one is marked Fix Released. So nobody does anything to fix the bug, which is

[Bug 391177] Re: touchpad tap to click should be enabled by default

2009-10-22 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 378391 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378391 This is *not* a duplicate. The original bug was about an unintentional regression. That has been fixed. This is a complaint about what appears to be an intentional regression (making tap-to-click work as

[Bug 455151] Re: disconnect wired network leaves IPv6 running, only disconnects IPv4

2009-10-21 Thread John Gilmore
Thanks for trying! And for the very explicit, useful instructions. But, no, that commit did not fix it for me. Did you try reproducing the problem yourself, or don't you have an Ethernet network that offers both DHCP for v4 address assignment and RA for IPv6 address assignment? -- disconnect

[Bug 315646] Re: [Feature Request] OEM config should offer support to show EULAs

2009-10-20 Thread John Gilmore
Free software (and Ubuntu in particular) should not be trying to impose clickwrap contracts on end-users. Our software is licensed under a copyright license. Any terms that don't work in a copyright license (e.g. because they try to control something other than whether users can copy the

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