[Bug 8422] Re: Error message on ending VNC session

2011-10-04 Thread Jordan Erickson
@robbert: s/Linux/Ubuntu/ ;) -- 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/8422 Title: Error message on ending VNC session To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 315300] Re: [Upstream] Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2011-08-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Sorry guys, after 2.5 years and no movement on this, we had long since given up. The schools have reverted back to Windows computers in their labs because of issues such as this (this was one of the biggest issues we had which was preventing the kids from using presentation software). It's too bad

Re: [Bug 592489] Re: sabayon-apply hosed my system due to inadequate documentation

2010-06-23 Thread Jordan Erickson
No reasonable user would expect it to operate on the current user when the working directory is another user's home directory. I respectfully disagree. Running a command designed to apply user configurations as the root user would presumably run it on the root user - especially since that's

[Bug 537474] Re: Clock menu is different color from other menus in Ambiance

2010-03-30 Thread Jordan Erickson
The theme has other issues with the panels. I'm attaching a screenshot where the Main Menu, Clock and Window List spaces are their own color, and don't respect the gnome-panel color specified when right-clicking - Properties - Background - Solid Color. This is the same for the New Wave and

[Bug 537474] Re: Clock menu is different color from other menus in Ambiance

2010-03-30 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Attachment added: Screenshot.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42560741/Screenshot.png -- Clock menu is different color from other menus in Ambiance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
Hey, regardless of the nature of this controversy, cheers at least for the head honcho actually keeping involved with the process AND community input. You can't say that for most. *holds up pint* -- [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-23 Thread Jordan Erickson
Not that this adds, in any way shape or form, any kind of useful information...but there was a story posted regarding Ubuntu's Lucid entering beta: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/23/2348232/Ubuntus-Lucid-Lynx- Enters-Beta?art_pos=1 And the first comment (and subsequent replies) are about

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
Obviously this UI change is 'hot' enough to warrant an easily accessible choice by the user. At the *very least*, please include an option in System - Preferences - Appearance to put the buttons on right/left/middle/whatever the user sees as their own individual preference. Please don't force it

[Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to menu:minimize, maximize, close

2010-03-19 Thread Jordan Erickson
From a support standpoint this is a nightmare. I can see that if this was a smaller project, it wouldn't create many waves. But come on, Ubuntu is #1. I'm moving to Lucid from Hardy because of LTS. I run LTSP servers for thousands of students and teachers. They are ALL going to complain to me. As

[Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to menu:minimize, maximize, close

2010-03-19 Thread Jordan Erickson
@Mark Shuttleworth: You said in #248, Most people don't scroll with the scrollbar any more. The use the scrollbar to gauge how much fo the document am I seeing. Can you site any references to this? Scrolling through this bug report, for instance, would take a LONG time with a mouse wheel. --

[Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to menu:minimize, maximize, close

2010-03-19 Thread Jordan Erickson
@Atel, Yes, the web is broken. Ubuntu is changing it's design, and the web is not compatible with it. The web must change. Seriously? -- [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to menu:minimize,maximize,close https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633 You received this

[Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2010-02-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
FWIW, it looks like Gnome 2.29.91 (tested in Ubuntu Lucid) fixes this issue. It has a very small delay but it isn't anywhere near as bad - looks like it just takes a second to slide out (probably making it actually look like an opening drawer - very smooth). -- Gnome drawer applet delays and

[Bug 521955] Re: second user ends up with white rectangle on desktop that can not be removed without logging off.

2010-02-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
I get the same issue. Current 9.10 (as of 2/23/10). The white rectangles are actually windows that haven't really been drawn - I was able to copy/paste the (invisible) text from it, which is (on 2 different occasions): Unable to mount 993 MB Filesystem and Not Authorized You can close them by

[Bug 521955] Re: second user ends up with white rectangle on desktop that can not be removed without logging off.

2010-02-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
AFAIK not a Firefox bug, it's a HAL bug. ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed ** Package changed: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) = hal (Ubuntu) -- second user ends up with white rectangle on desktop that can not be removed without logging off.

[Bug 91615] Re: network-manager-openvpn lacking support for pkcs12

2010-01-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
@andyhull, this is more of a feature request/wishlist item. I wrote a blog on how to accomplish this - hopefully this can be sort of a primer to get something going directly in nm-ovpn.. http://blog.logicalnetworking.net/index.php/technologyarticles/openvpn- and-gnome-network-manager?blog=5 Let

[Bug 184549] Re: [patch] Mythbuntu: try again if squashfs couldn't be mounted

2010-01-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Is the patch good for if you have a network hiccup with a client *after* the boot process is complete? For instance, if you accidentally unplug the network cable, would the patch allow for attempting re-mount? -- [patch] Mythbuntu: try again if squashfs couldn't be mounted

[Bug 501755] [NEW] usermod -md does not work in 8.04LTS

2009-12-30 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: passwd Executing usermod -md /home/new_home_dir username as root/sudo acts as though it is broken in Ubuntu 8.04LTS. Displays help text instead of executing action of moving the contents of a user's home directory to new location. Executing usermod -d

[Bug 460577] Re: Tuxpaint hangs when attempting to quit after upgrade to Ubuntu Karmic from Jaunty

2009-11-17 Thread Jordan Erickson
Have you verified that you're using libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (or karmic equiv) instead of -alsa ? I know this was the workaround for Hardy+ ... -- Tuxpaint hangs when attempting to quit after upgrade to Ubuntu Karmic from Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460577 You received this bug

[Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2009-10-19 Thread Jordan Erickson
I'm giving up on this personally. Obviously no Gnome devs give a sh*t about it, even with the triaged bug report on Gnome Bugzilla. -- Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 315300] Re: Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-09-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
I would strongly advise anyone experiencing these issues to please go to the upstream bug report in the OOo bug tracker, create an account if you do not have one, and comment on the bug stating that the issue affects you as well with as much detail as possible. Nothing seems to be happening

[Bug 219473] Re: no policykit access on ltsp thin client

2009-09-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
I had this issue as well while trying to use System - Administration - Services with a user/member of the 'admin' group, using VNC and LTSP clients. Please see comment #14 at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8001955#post8001955 for my workaround. This seems to be a default Ubuntu polkit

[Bug 433276] [NEW] Typing hotkeys in Facebook textboxes not recognized as text input

2009-09-19 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: Reproducable under (at least) Ubuntu 8.04 i386 / 9.04 AMD64 Steps to reproduce: 1) Launch epiphany-browser 2) Log onto Facebook 3) Attempt to update your status. Use an apostraphe ('). Watch the Find Text bar pop up instead of typing an apostraphe. Not sure what kind of

[Bug 307471] Re: Multi bin printing broken in OpenOffice.org due to cupsys pstops filter bug

2009-08-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
Wow...really? 8.5 months later, and ... nothing? With a submitted patch upstream? Who's doing the bug monitoring here? -- Multi bin printing broken in OpenOffice.org due to cupsys pstops filter bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307471 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2009-08-06 Thread Jordan Erickson
I can confirm myself that this happens in Fedora 11.. If everyone can comment on the Gnome Bugzilla report at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514298 maybe we can get some more heads in the game. -- Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108951

[Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2009-08-06 Thread Jordan Erickson
@Jim: This bug is not tied to Compiz. I have experienced this bug on numerous releases of Ubuntu as well as a 'stock' F11 install without Compiz enabled. -- Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108951 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 276930] Re: When an USB Drive is inserted into a LTSP Server, all connected clients receive a mounting error

2009-07-30 Thread Jordan Erickson
I still have the error too - I'm assuming it's fixed in later releases, though I'm not sure exactly where or in which package(s). Maybe we can all coordinate a backport to Hardy...? -- When an USB Drive is inserted into a LTSP Server, all connected clients receive a mounting error

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-30 Thread Jordan Erickson
I can confirm that 8.10 doesn't experience this issue. What's strange is that my 8.10 has libsdl1.2debian-alsa installed (and doesn't have libsdl1.2debian-pulse), but as I said the issue doesn't appear. -- tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
@Caroline re: #32: Here are two replies I got from people running Jaunty LTSP setups: --- Tuxmath and tuxtyping both started, with sound and everything working, and when I exited, it worked fine, no problems, no lockup. Of course only one user here. Hope that helps, cat /etc/lsb-release

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:04:05PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:35:15PM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxpaint/+bug/269082 - check out my latest comments. Googling around furiously... urbanterror crash with pulseaudio

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
Sorry for the comment chatter...documenting things. I'll test out tomorrow when I'm at an actual thin client - this is when I attempt installation of the debian libsdl pulseaudio package on my server remotely: --- jerick...@fibonacci:~$ apt-cache search libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
SUCCESS! For the record, installing the 'libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio' package cures the issues I have had with all mentioned programs (Tuxpaint, tuxmath, tuxtype, even circuslinux which I hadn't mentioned before but was experiencing similar issues). The CPU utilization is MUCH better (~3-5% for a

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
I was at a school today on a fully updated (w/ -updates and -backports, chroot included) 8.04 server. Installed tuxtype/math/paint and they *all* crash upon exit. The --nosound option still works but we need sound as it's important to the experience for kids. I did an strace on all of these apps

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Attachment added: strace-tuxpaint.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29637511/strace-tuxpaint.txt -- tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269082 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Attachment added: strace-tuxtype.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29637527/strace-tuxtype.txt -- tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269082 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-07-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
Looked at the debbugs report and there was never a fix released due to nobody actually knowing if the bug was present in Debian - I changed the status, hope Incomplete is a sane replacement. ** Changed in: tuxmath (Debian) Status: Fix Released = Incomplete -- tuxpaint and other tux SDL

[Bug 402706] Re: X crashes when I run tuxmath

2009-07-21 Thread Jordan Erickson
Caroline, do you remember https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxpaint/+bug/269082 ? Have you set/unset the --nosound option and tested that way? -- X crashes when I run tuxmath https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 401878] Re: Kernel Panic on Clients using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

2009-07-20 Thread Jordan Erickson
Guevara, this is an UBUNTU-SPECIFIC bug. You marked LTSP (upstream) as part of the bug, which it is not. That is why it was marked invalid. LTSP (Ubuntu) is still on there as new. ** Changed in: ltsp Status: New = Invalid -- Kernel Panic on Clients using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[Bug 396709] Re: 0.9.15: irregular excessive cpu usage

2009-07-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 236936 Pulseaudio connection refused on older ltsp clients -- 0.9.15: irregular excessive cpu usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396709 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 274128] Re: LTSP: Sound sometimes not working

2009-07-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 236936 Pulseaudio connection refused on older ltsp clients -- LTSP: Sound sometimes not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 396709] Re: 0.9.15: irregular excessive cpu usage

2009-07-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 236936 Pulseaudio connection refused on older ltsp clients -- 0.9.15: irregular excessive cpu usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396709 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 274128] Re: LTSP: Sound sometimes not working

2009-07-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 236936 Pulseaudio connection refused on older ltsp clients -- LTSP: Sound sometimes not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 140051] Re: xf86-video-amd: fails to autoconfigure

2009-07-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
I have to say it is. My Hardy servers don't have the PPA in them (just -updates) and I've tested on Ibex with success as well. -- xf86-video-amd: fails to autoconfigure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 398072] [NEW] WISHLIST: Integrated search into notes of files/dirs

2009-07-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: It would be really nice as a quasi-tagging system to be able to search the notes you enter for files/directories. For instance, I have a bunch of randomly named .wma files (from a voice recorder) with lots of small bass riffs I've recorded. I'd like to use the notes to put in

[Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2009-07-09 Thread Jordan Erickson
Personally, I would love to see an SRU for Hardy. There are plenty of large LTSP installations that use only LTS releases (myself included). A fix for this would mean one of the very few remaining major roadblocks cleared for prime-time implementation. -- Extreme slowness, Firefox is already

[Bug 41179] Re: Integrate with Gnome Keyring

2009-07-09 Thread Jordan Erickson
John, thanks for the info. Is there a bug report for xulrunner that you know of which we can attach this one to? -- Integrate with Gnome Keyring https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41179 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 41179] Re: Integrate with Gnome Keyring

2009-07-07 Thread Jordan Erickson
I've been wanting gnome-keyring support for Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird for some time now. Is there no common password handling libraries for these Mozilla projects that would make it easier, at least for the Mozilla side, to implement? -- Integrate with Gnome Keyring

[Bug 373100] Re: Thin Client Manager shows nothing in 9.04

2009-06-24 Thread Jordan Erickson
FWIW, a couple of people and I are sort of taking the initiative to re- write and build upon TCM (cleaning up, modularizing, making sure everything is stable, then later adding features). We're building on LTS release stability but I'm sure it would be trivial (though IANAP myself, maybe it's a

[Bug 374934] Re: Connection Failed! in Ubuntu Karmic

2009-06-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
Requesting a backport to 8.04 LTS. With 1.0 Beta, getting Connection Failed message. Not behind a proxy, twitux works fine. This package is unusable. -- Connection Failed! in Ubuntu Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374934 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2009-06-17 Thread Jordan Erickson
So I think we've narrowed this down to gnome-panel (Ubuntu at least)...? Can we get people to comment on whether this affects more than Ubuntu? I don't have any other distributions as virtual machines (I will soon, but...) so if anyone is using Fedora, Debian, openSuSE, etc. can you quickly add a

[Bug 152535] Re: Switching to a user that has logged out and logged in does not work

2009-06-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
I can also confirm with steps outlined above, currently up-to-date Jaunty AMD64 install. It seems that fast-user-switch-applet doesn't update itself when the TTY is changed from logout/login, thus goes to the abandoned TTY from the old session. Sidenote: What I see is strange (and might not be

[Bug 225950] Re: [8.04] Drawing evolution window on screen very slow

2009-06-06 Thread Jordan Erickson
Someone needs to look at the code responsible for it and see what they can find. IMHO it's pretty obvious there's something funky going on when you're using remote X, whether in LTSP or not. -- [8.04] Drawing evolution window on screen very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225950 You

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2009-06-01 Thread Jordan Erickson
turncoat, wow - so does this mean the Ubufox plugin overrides the FF default in firefox.js? E-mail me at jerickson_-at-_logicalnetworking_-dot-_net (or msg Lns on freenode) and we'll arrange the pizza customization and commit. :) -- systemwide default startup homepage ignored

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2009-06-01 Thread Jordan Erickson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 259914 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259914 turncoat, whoops - spoke too soon. This didn't work either (I do have the UbuFox add-on installed and enabled). :( --- $ cat /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/ubufox.js lockPref(browser.startup.homepage,

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2009-06-01 Thread Jordan Erickson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 259914 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259914 Well, might be because I'm in Hardy, w/Ubufox 0.5 still. Verified this fix works in my ibex VM w/0.6 =) -- systemwide default startup homepage ignored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19033 You received this

[Bug 225950] Re: [8.04] Drawing evolution window on screen very slow

2009-05-21 Thread Jordan Erickson
Anthony, you should try the lts.conf option LDM_DIRECTX = True to disable SSH tunneling temporarily for your LTSP network. Reboot your thin clients with that option and try again. If Evolution speeds up, you can be certain that it's an SSH tunneling issue with Evolution rather than simply a remote

[Bug 277069] Re: Slow performance with remote X applications (java, firefox/xul, etc.)

2009-05-21 Thread Jordan Erickson
I don't suppose an 8.04 PPA/package would be in order? This would help me IMMENSELY. I've got multiple sites with the exact same issue and a pre-packaged Hardy fix would rock my socks off! I have 7 sites I can test the fix out on if that helps. -- Slow performance with remote X applications

[Bug 259163] Re: users-admin does not sort when Name/Login/Homedir field clicked

2009-05-20 Thread Jordan Erickson
Wishlist? Don't you all think that sorting is kind of important for any system with 10 users? This is pretty basic functionality that I would assume just works OOTB...Wishlist doesn't sit right with me on this. -- users-admin does not sort when Name/Login/Homedir field clicked

[Bug 225133] Re: networkmanager-openvpn does not support pkcs12

2009-05-20 Thread Jordan Erickson
In addition to supporting .P12 files, it would be s cool to support .ovpn files (generated by things like IPCop) to automagically import settings such as gateway, cypher, etc.. This is what the OpenVPN client for Windows does, and it's really slick. :) -- networkmanager-openvpn does not

[Bug 336108] Re: Notification is blanked on mouse over in vmware

2009-05-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Not sure if I should add a new bug for this, but I experience the same issue in a physical install of fully updated Jaunty 64-bit w/Compiz enabled. Mouse-over will 'hide' the notification, and taking the mouse cursor away will 'unhide' it. To me, this always appeared as a rendering bug. It just

[Bug 363712] Re: cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice 3.0

2009-05-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
Just to confirm, I'm also seeing this via OOo 3.x PPA packages from openoffice-scribblers ( https://launchpad.net/~openoffice- pkgs/+archive/ppa ) when installing on 8.04LTS with normal openclipart* packages. -- cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice 3.0

[Bug 363712] Re: cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice 3.0

2009-05-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
Awesome. I can also confirm Nick B's workaround - I simply symlinked the original dir, opened OOo 3.1 and my openclipart appeared in the gallery! --- r...@fibonacci:/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share# ln -s ../../share/gallery/ gallery --- Thanks for the help! -- cliparts are not in

[Bug 363712] Re: cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice 3.0

2009-05-14 Thread Jordan Erickson
(after renaming the original 'gallery' dir to 'gallery.orig' of course, sorry) -- cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice 3.0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363712 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 315300] Re: Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-03-05 Thread Jordan Erickson
Is there anything we (Ubuntu) can do on our end to help this process move forward? I'm still having these issues at a number of my sites. -- Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315300 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2009-02-17 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #17868 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17868 ** Also affects: libxcb via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17868 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Java slow on remote X

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2009-02-17 Thread Jordan Erickson
Please see http://www.typingmaster.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=11 for information regarding a specific case of this bug, in the TypingMaster java-based typing tutor for Linux. This is the app that I have the most issues with regarding this bug, and the people at TypingMaster have been very

[Bug 269082] Re: tuxpaint and other tux SDL driven apps slow down and/or freeze thin client terminals (ltsp)

2009-02-16 Thread Jordan Erickson
Tim Holy (tim.h...@gmail.com) sent me a private e-mail for some reason, but gave me this URL regarding SDL/Alsa/Pulse bugs: --- Hi Jordan, Sadly I'm not an expert in audio, but I'm happy to help where I can. Are you, or do you know, the maintainer for the SDL-audio in Ubuntu? Have you seen this

[Bug 281498] Re: /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup has bashisms

2009-02-16 Thread Jordan Erickson
Bump? Is there anything I can do at all to help move this bug along? This is a pretty big issue for booting up thin-clients. Doubles (triples?) the time to boot up when it hangs here. :( - Jordan/Lns -- /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup has bashisms https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281498 You

[Bug 330194] [NEW] ltsp-update-image should grow a 'mount' command for /dev/pts

2009-02-16 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: IRC conversation with ogra 2009/02/16: --- Lns ogra: real quick, it's a good idea to mount --bind /dev in chroot when upgrading right? I always get a cannot open /dev/pty blah blah when upgrading.. if so, can you give me the best mount cmd to put into the howto? ogra no,

[Bug 281498] Re: /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup has bashisms

2009-02-16 Thread Jordan Erickson
I should also mention that I was at a school site a few days ago and noticed this bug in action (again) - it seems to cause other booting LTSP clients to not get a DHCP lease if dhcpd is on the same server (maybe due to heavy server i/o when building other swapfiles?) Causes half clients to fail

[Bug 203217] Re: fast-user-switch heavy cpu usage

2009-02-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
So is anything being done here? I can see two possible (easy) solutions: 1) Simply use gksudo in the .desktop file to necessitate root privs to run it 2) (probably better) Integrate policykit into it for those functions, since by default, normal users can't kill/re-nice other users' procs Am I

[Bug 203217] Re: fast-user-switch heavy cpu usage

2009-02-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
Ahh, crap! Sorry, wrong bug. /me needs to read more -- fast-user-switch heavy cpu usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203217 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

Re: [Bug 108951] Re: Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness

2009-02-05 Thread Jordan Erickson
I notice similar behavior - the first time I open the drawer after booting up/logging in, it's as fast as it should be. Subsequent times, however, are slow like it's got molasses in its rails. -- Gnome drawer applet delays and unresponsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108951 You

[Bug 206583] Re: System Monitor crashes when lowering nice value of process

2009-01-23 Thread Jordan Erickson
Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549760#c6 for another workaround using gconf: Setting /apps/gksu/disable-grab to True makes the problem disappear. Hopefully this sheds some light on the core issue so we can get it fixed for real :) -- System Monitor crashes when lowering

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2009-01-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Not that I know of - but that, IMHO, is moot - we need to get the core issue fixed and not waste time and resources trying to find the best, most stable workaround. If I have to put on an LTSP cheerleader uniform, I will! ;) -- Java slow on remote X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277069 You

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2009-01-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Sorry Philippe, your updated workaround posted on2008-12-23 doesn't work at all. I tried both with new and existing profiles, and even altering pref to lockPref in both mozilla.txt (before converting to .cfg) and /etc/xulrunner-1.9/system-greprefs.js ... Malte, your suggested workaround on

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2009-01-13 Thread Jordan Erickson
It seems as though even using 'dpkg-divert' won't help in this case, as ldconfig seems to override the libX11.so.6 symlink whenever changes take place. man dpkg-divert: --- Care should be taken when diverting shared libraries, ldconfig(8) creates a symbolic link based on the DT_SONAME

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2009-01-13 Thread Jordan Erickson
Hope this is an accurate affecting package change: $ apt-file search libX11.so.6 libx11-6: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 libx11-6: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0 ** Changed in: libx11 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ia32-libs = libx11 -- Java slow on remote X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277069 You received

[Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2009-01-12 Thread Jordan Erickson
This is great news!! I am going to be visiting #ubuntu-testing to coordinate an SRU into Hardy, if possible. Thanks! -- Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269188 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2009-01-12 Thread Jordan Erickson
into Hardy. -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blogs.logicalnetworking.net Intel and HP team up to roll out Green PCs for the enterprise Mozilla Thunderbird Add-on Signature Switch

[Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2009-01-12 Thread Jordan Erickson
I can also confirm the updated nspr package from fta's PPA works, via directions I wrote at http://lns.wikidot.com/nsprupdate . I launched 27 FF3 instances from different LTSP terminals, after rm -rf'ing current user FF profiles. No delays, even when launching 1-2 seconds apart each (as fast as I

[Bug 315300] Re: Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-01-09 Thread Jordan Erickson
New issue filed with OOo as per their request ** Changed in: openoffice Bugwatch: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #85321 = OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #97906 Status: Fix Released = Unknown -- Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

[Bug 315300] [NEW] Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-01-08 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: + Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS + OpenOffice 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 + LTSP Environment Working in OpenOffice Impress/Presentation is fine until starting Slide Show, which caches excessive amounts of pixmap data to thin-client memory. This is bad because thin clients generally have very

[Bug 315300] Re: Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-01-08 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Attachment added: Sample presentation file I used in description (actual student made presentation) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21040451/POWER%20POINT.odp -- Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315300 You received

[Bug 315300] Re: Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

2009-01-08 Thread Jordan Erickson
** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #85321 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321 ** Also affects: openoffice via http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Starting Slide Show caches pixmap data

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
Philippe, I have also tried your method from comment on 2008-10-01, both with generating my own mozilla.cfg and using your supplied config. I verified and reverified all settings in your workaround with no avail. /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js *still* isn't honoring the homepage setting, either.

[Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
Another strace using a new profile (created during the strace) and some more random browsing shows the following: jerick...@fibonacci:~$ mv .mozilla .mozilla.orig jerick...@fibonacci:~$ strace firefox trace.txt 21 jerick...@fibonacci:~$ grep random trace.txt strace.txt

[Bug 269188] Re: Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for 3 users launching Firefox in LTSP environment

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
Ok - I noticed some Firefox 3 updates in Hardy, so I thought I'd re-'strace' it to see if it was using /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random. I can't verify that this fixes the slowness problem because I'm on my own LTSP server (only 2 clients attached) but to me, anyway, it looks like /dev/urandom

[Bug 93234] Re: [Feisty] gnome-screenshot should not take a screenie of itself

2008-12-22 Thread Jordan Erickson
This issue seems to be resolved for 8.04.1, but now the Current Window option is broken - no matter what you choose, it grabs the whole desktop. BUT, the screenshot window isn't in there, so that's good. I'm using this under LTSP, not sure if that makes a difference. Probably shouldn't. Anyone

Re: [Bug 133635] Re: LTSPFS security is broken

2008-12-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
background. Cheers, Scott -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blogs.logicalnetworking.net Intel and HP team up to roll out Green PCs for the enterprise Mozilla Thunderbird Add

Re: [Bug 133635] Re: LTSPFS security is broken

2008-12-15 Thread Jordan Erickson
Gareth Bult wrote: Just as a general note, when you're running a LTS version of Ubuntu with 50 users on one server running LTSP in a live environment, the very LAST thing you want to do is to upgrade the OS to fix a bug. (not least given Ubuntu's track record on upgrades as already mentioned)

Re: [Bug 133635] Re: LTSPFS security is broken

2008-12-13 Thread Jordan Erickson
Johnathon wrote: ... And, again, this bug was ignored for 4 and a half months, till the vulnerable release went EOL. Again, Really _awesome_ security policy guys! Again, I'd expect that tactic from MS Windows, not from Ubuntu. I know you guys are manically busy working on new features, I

[Bug 133635] Re: LTSPFS security is broken

2008-12-13 Thread Jordan Erickson
Not that I know, but I don't think you understand the general process of using your (limited) resources as effectively as possible under a priority-based system for such an enormous project as Ubuntu. I'm just a normal sysadmin and business owner, read: IANAP. But I do understand that given the

[Bug 207634] Re: LTSP amd64 installs 64bit clients software

2008-12-10 Thread Jordan Erickson
You do have a choice with --arch : ltsp-build-client --arch i386 -- LTSP amd64 installs 64bit clients software https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207634 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 277069] Re: Java slow on remote X

2008-12-05 Thread Jordan Erickson
Yikes.. libxcb priority is Low ? That's surprising, given that (presumably) because of libxcb, Java applications are pretty much unusable in LTSP environments. -- Java slow on remote X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277069 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 152504] Re: system-config-printer won't accept password

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
I can confirm this behavior in Hardy 8.04.1, on 9 different servers that I administrate. I can confirm the workaround of adding the user to the lpadmin group to bypass the prompt for a password and add a printer, whereas before it would continually ask for a password, even when entering it

[Bug 152504] Re: system-config-printer won't accept password

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 138776 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138776 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 138776 [gutsy tribe 5] a user with sudo privileges cannot change printer settings -- system-config-printer won't accept password

[Bug 138776] Re: [gutsy tribe 5] a user with sudo privileges cannot change printer settings

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
I strongly agree this should be more than wishlist - it hinders the normal ability for users to add printers, and does not give you the information required to understand the fact that you need to be a part of the 'lpadmin' group. I personally have been dealing with this bug for a long time, and

[Bug 268189] Re: GUI Printer Configuration doesn't use PAM/LDAP

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 138776 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138776 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 138776 [gutsy tribe 5] a user with sudo privileges cannot change printer settings -- GUI Printer Configuration doesn't use PAM/LDAP

[Bug 138776] Re: [gutsy tribe 5] a user with sudo privileges cannot change printer settings

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
(Added in duplicate #152504) --- I can confirm this behavior in Hardy 8.04.1 with all updates, on 9 different servers that I administrate. I can confirm the workaround of adding the user to the lpadmin group to bypass the prompt for a password and add a printer, whereas before it would

[Bug 302158] [NEW] MASTER: system-config-printer doesn't accept password when user is not in 'lpadmin' group

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Erickson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: system-config-printer Please mark all other related bugs to this bug as a duplicate so we can track them. ISSUE: Running 'system-config-printer' as a user (even a user as a member of group 'admin') gets prompted when adding/modifying printers, but the

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