[Bug 1389682] Re: man command failed with exit status 3

2020-12-06 Thread Neal McBurnett
The symptom I see on Ubuntu 18.04 is running $ man -H man and getting man: command exited with status 3: (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd /tmp/hman6RgU0i && /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE) | (cd / tmp/hman6RgU0i && preconv -e UTF-8) | (cd

[Bug 704745] Re: [needs packaging] ftimes -- a system baselining and evidence collection tool

2020-12-06 Thread Neal McBurnett
Hmm - it seems Launchpad is wrong about what the Debian bug tracker says about this. I don't believe a fix has been released. As of 2016, the Debian bug tracker says "RFP 468940 has no visible progress for a long time, so closing." -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1866859] Re: SRU: backport Python 3.6.12, 3.7.9 and 3.8.6 to bionic

2020-10-27 Thread Neal McBurnett
There seems to be at least one security issue with the current version of Python 3.8 in Bionic, which is still 3.8.0. See: What’s New In Python 3.8 — Python 3.8.6 documentation https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.6/whatsnew/3.8.html I.e.: Notable changes in Python 3.8.1 Due to significant

[Bug 1389077] Re: [HP ProBook 4530s / Lenovo G580] Intel Powerclamp is Slowing CPU

2020-07-28 Thread Neal McBurnett
I'm on 18.04, and saw huge cpu use all of a sudden by 4 tasks called kidle_inject running at 40% CPU each. I'm quite used to having this Thinkpad x230 tablet run hot since graphics e.g. for video don't seem to be accelerated. But in this case, the CPU and temperature as reported by psensor was not

[Bug 1752091] Re: gvfsd-metadata[1703]: g_udev_device_has_property: assertion 'G_UDEV_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed

2020-02-24 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Bug watch added: bugzilla.gnome.org/ #795191 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795191 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752091 Title: gvfsd-metadata[1703]:

[Bug 1535030] Re: Can't receive files from phone over Bluetooth

2019-11-09 Thread Neal McBurnett
I had this problem or a similar one: repeatedly failing to receive an image shared from android to Ubuntu. I got this message on Android 9: "Bluetooth share: File IMG not sent", and this FORBIDDEN message in syslog from obexd: Nov 9 10:35:17 sn obexd[24314]: CONNECT(0x0),

[Bug 1535030] Re: Can't receive files from phone over Bluetooth

2019-11-09 Thread Neal McBurnett
Note that I was running Ubuntu 18.04.3 Bionic with Gnome -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1535030 Title: Can't receive files from phone over Bluetooth To manage notifications about

[Bug 1512792] Re: Pip crashes with cryptography/cffi/openssl error

2019-01-05 Thread Neal McBurnett
I have this issue in Bionic. It was caused by pip using an old install of an obsolete cffi in ~/.local from a pip --user install, as explained (and diagnosed) here: https://stackoverflow.com/q/54054263/507544 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 418203] Re: "Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0" doesn't make sense

2018-10-03 Thread Neal McBurnett
Still here 9 years later in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver For those of you asking us not to keep commenting on this bug, please give us a way to help get it fixed. In the meantime, as so clearly expressed over 9(!) years ago, this causes anyone who runs across the Firefox "about" button to get

[Bug 1791853] Re: Postfix upgrade queries about replacing /etc/postfix/makedefs.out, when it really should always do so

2018-09-11 Thread Neal McBurnett
Yes - very puzzling. In my case it said Configuration file '/etc/postfix/makedefs.out' ==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation I certainly don't recall deleting it. I'm running Bionic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1772104] Re: clock-timezone help should note that Automatic Time Zone requires Location Services

2018-07-16 Thread Neal McBurnett
I see "fix released" - thanks! But fix hasn't been released via Ubuntu as far as I can tell. The Ubuntu doc page doesn't have the text added at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user- docs/merge_requests/7/diffs?commit_id=d81692fb so the page referenced in the description of this bug hasn't

[Bug 1773850] Re: No login prompt when booting bionic with both hdmi and vga monitor

2018-05-29 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thank you, penalvch. 1) viewsonic vx2433wm model VS12324 2010-01-28 samsung 22" led tv series 5 5000 model code UN22F5000AFXZA Version: FP02 2) For the HDMI connection from the thinkpad, I'm using an INSIGNIA DisplayPort-to-HDMI Adapter 3) Yes, except while I am then able to configure the

[Bug 1773850] [NEW] No login prompt when booting bionic with both hdmi and vga monitor

2018-05-28 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: I'm running bionic on a Lenovo X230 laptop. It works fine to boot it with either my hdmi monitor or my VGA monitor. It also works to attach the VGA monitor after booting and logging in with the HTMI monitor. But if both are connected while I boot, the graphical login prompt

[Bug 1772104] [NEW] clock-timezone help should note that Automatic Time Zone requires Location Services

2018-05-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: The Automatic time zone feature doesn't work when Location Services is disabled in the Privacy settings of Gnome. See bug reports at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1741928 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788714 This

[Bug 1325801] Re: failed to boot from USB disk with error: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R Image boot:

2018-05-01 Thread Neal McBurnett
I just encountered the same issue after creating a Bionic Beaver 18.04 USB boot disk, using usb-creator-kde in Trusty. It is a little hard to understand the current status from this long bug page, but is this something that would seem to start cropping up more as people do the 14.04-to-18.04

[Bug 964510] Re: Evince cannot open HTTP link in Google Chrome or chromium-browser

2017-05-05 Thread Neal McBurnett
Adnan, Cerin, Raffi - please note the message above from Seth, and gather the evidence as he describes, and file a new bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964510 Title: Evince cannot

[Bug 822828] Re: texlive-latex-extra-doc is too big in size and includes unneeded big minitoc-fr.pdf file (~27Mb)

2017-02-26 Thread Neal McBurnett
In the meanttime, this will just remove all the tex documentation: sudo apt-get --purge remove tex.\*-doc$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822828 Title: texlive-latex-extra-doc

[Bug 1349711] Re: Machine lockup in btrfs-transaction

2017-01-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
The two upstream report links above via gmane now say "ArchivedAt Nothing found - bye" http://web.archive.org has no record of them. Are updated links available? Did any discussion take place there? I'm seeing INFO: task btrfs-transacti:979 blocked for more than 120 seconds. and wondering if it

[Bug 1638341] [NEW] timidity daemon using 100% CPU

2016-11-01 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: About 2 days after a reboot of my 14.04 system, the timidity daemon suddenly started using 100% of the cpu. That happened early in the morning when I was asleep, but I tracked it down using collectl data. I saw nothing unusual in the syslog at that time. This has happened to

[Bug 860776] Re: [needs-packaging] Gnome DrWright needs packaging

2015-10-28 Thread Neal McBurnett
It looks like drwright (aka typing break) has been abandoned, as described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/63999/how-can-i-install-typing-break/64004#64004 As also described there, a good alternative is workrave. But workrave also needs better integration with whatever the bloody

[Bug 288011] Re: dns resolver does not support dnssec

2015-05-24 Thread Neal McBurnett
What is the status of this for currently supported Ubuntu distributions? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288011 Title: dns resolver does not support dnssec To manage notifications

[Bug 1144682] Re: Unclear where technical items are hidden

2015-05-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
The bug still exists in the current version of Ubuntu Software Center on Trusty 14.04.2 LTS. Reopening. ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1144682] Re: Hard to find many packages: unclear where technical items are hidden

2015-05-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Summary changed: - Unclear where technical items are hidden + Hard to find many packages: unclear where technical items are hidden -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1144682 Title:

[Bug 1409166] Re: Popup dialog could not set the configuration for CRTC 65 steals keyboard, hinders login in 3-monitor configuration

2015-04-20 Thread Neal McBurnett
OK, I updated the BIOS and it is now up-to-date: $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date [sudo] password for neal: GCETA1WW (2.61 ) 02/12/2015 The original problem remains, so I marked the bug Status Confirmed. Thanks. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status:

[Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

2015-04-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thank you Anne for describing what looks like one way to fix this for all connections, rather than the easy fix in #24 which only addresses one SSID. But I worry that making wpa_supplicant more quiet will hide messages that are important - what else would be suppressed? So I suspect that the bug

[Bug 1308800] Re: Unity doesn't respawn all the times on crashes

2015-04-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
It is now a year since this bug was marked Critical, but it keeps being postponed. I think this was part of the cause of an embarrassing experience during my recent presentation to a Linux Users Group, where Unity went away twice, forcing me to reboot the first time, and borrow a (gasp!) Apple

[Bug 1409166] Re: Can't add third monitor: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._gnome_2drr_2derror_2dquark.Code2: could not set the configuration for CRTC 65

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: + Every time I boot, while I'm trying to enter my password in the initial + login screen (from Unity?), a dialog box pops up saying The selected + configuration for displays could not be applied. could not set the + configuration for CRTC 65. + + The dialog box also

[Bug 1409166] Re: Popup dialog could not set the configuration for CRTC 65 steals keyboard, hinders login in 3-monitor configuration

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected vivid ** Description changed: Every time I boot, while I'm trying to enter my password in the initial login screen (from Unity?), a dialog box pops up saying The selected configuration for displays could not be applied. could not set the

[Bug 1409166] xdpyinfo.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: xdpyinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376329/+files/xdpyinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title:

[Bug 1409166] ProcModules.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376324/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] LightdmDisplayLog.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: LightdmDisplayLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376318/+files/LightdmDisplayLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1409166] Lsusb.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: Lsusb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376321/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title: Popup

[Bug 1409166] Xrandr.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: Xrandr.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376328/+files/Xrandr.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title:

[Bug 1409166] DpkgLog.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: DpkgLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376316/+files/DpkgLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title:

[Bug 1409166] ProcInterrupts.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376323/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1409166] GconfCompiz.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: GconfCompiz.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376317/+files/GconfCompiz.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] XorgLog.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: XorgLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376327/+files/XorgLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title:

[Bug 1409166] Lspci.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376320/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title: Popup

[Bug 1409166] CurrentDmesg.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376314/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376322/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] UdevDb.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376325/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title:

[Bug 1409166] Dependencies.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376315/+files/Dependencies.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] Re: Popup dialog could not set the configuration for CRTC 65 steals keyboard, hinders login in 3-monitor configuration

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: Every time I boot, while I'm trying to enter my password in the initial - login screen (from Unity?), a dialog box pops up saying The selected - configuration for displays could not be applied. could not set the - configuration for CRTC 65. + login screen (from Unity?),

[Bug 1409166] LightdmLog.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: LightdmLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376319/+files/LightdmLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166

[Bug 1409166] xserver.devices.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: xserver.devices.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376330/+files/xserver.devices.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1409166] xserver.errors.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: xserver.errors.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376331/+files/xserver.errors.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1409166] UnitySupportTest.txt

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
apport information ** Attachment added: UnitySupportTest.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166/+attachment/4376326/+files/UnitySupportTest.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1409166] Re: Popup dialog could not set the configuration for CRTC 65 steals keyboard, hinders login in 3-monitor configuration

2015-04-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
Confirmed also that this bug happens the same way on Vivid Vervet beta2, live CD -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409166 Title: Popup dialog could not set the configuration for CRTC

[Bug 1402981] Re: Breaks with Automatic signature extraction failed and then 403

2015-02-28 Thread Neal McBurnett
This is due to a YouTube API change on June 25th, 2014, and was fixed upstream over 10 months ago. You now need version 2014.05.25 for some YouTube videos: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/3754 But for universe Ubuntu packages like this, upgrades may never come. So this is probably

[Bug 1126221] Re: Switching from multiple to one screen causes windows to go missing

2015-02-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
I see the same problem on Trusty 14.04.1 LTS. I have a VGA monitor on the left, and an HDMI monitor on the right, and a laptop screen that is turned off since I can't seem to run 3 displays at once. The HDMI goes to sleep after 2 hours of inactivity. It doesn't happen every time, but after

[Bug 924742] Re: The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link

2015-01-16 Thread Neal McBurnett
According to http://serverfault.com/questions/4427/damaged-vmlinuz-and-initrd-img-symbolic-links-after-kernel-uninstall this error message was old 5 years ago, when folks might still have been using lilo, which relied on these symbolic links, unlike grub. Assuming that is true, shouldn't we

[Bug 1409166] Re: Can't add monitor: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._gnome_2drr_2derror_2dquark.Code2: could not set the configuration for CRTC 65

2015-01-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: My Lenovo Thinkpad X230 Tablet laptop has a VGA and a DVI connector. I had the VGA hooked up to a Viewsonic 1920x1080 monitor, positioned above - it. From Settings I tried to add a Samsung monitor to the right of the - Viewsonic, via a DVI-to-HDMI passive connector,

[Bug 1131361] Re: Alt+Tab stopped working after upgrade to 12.10

2015-01-13 Thread Neal McBurnett
Is this a dup of bug 1169045? Do you have compiz-plugins installed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1131361 Title: Alt+Tab stopped working after upgrade to 12.10 To manage

[Bug 1237057] Re: Huge icons with Apllication Switcher (Alt-Tab) (Icon, but not Only show icon)

2015-01-13 Thread Neal McBurnett
I see this bug in Trusty, and it doesn't seem like a dup of bug 1061037. In this bug, the icons are huge and blurry and overlapping. See attached screenshot. ** Attachment added: big-icon-bug-app-switcher-Screenshot from 2015-01-13 16:44:55.png

[Bug 1409166] [NEW] Can't add monitor: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._gnome_2drr_2derror_2dquark.Code2: could not set the configuration for CRTC 65

2015-01-09 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: My Lenovo Thinkpad X230 Tablet laptop has a VGA and a DVI connector. I had the VGA hooked up to a Viewsonic 1920x1080 monitor, positioned above it. From Settings I tried to add a Samsung monitor to the right of the Viewsonic, via a DVI-to-HDMI passive connector, and got

[Bug 1292118] Re: virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.6: virtualbox kernel module failed to build [error: incompatible types when returning type ‘kuid_t’ but ‘RTUID’ was expected]

2014-12-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
I'm running precise with the Trusty HWE. I just installed the latest from proposed - virtualbox 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.7 It seems to have loaded up find after a reboot, and I could start up a VM. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1301807] Re: Apport doesn't open browser window

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1189913 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189913 ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1189913 apport fails to open browser window to complete bug submission -- You received this

[Bug 1397725] [NEW] bzr index AssertionError: Somehow we ended up with too much compressed data

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: It seems that to run bzr search, I need to create a search index. So in my repo I ran bzr index . It ran for a while, saying stuff like Indexing...:Indexing texts:commits 2/4.B But then it gave me a traceback, as attached. The bottom line was: File

[Bug 1189913] Re: apport fails to open browser window to complete bug submission

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 994921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994921 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 994921 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/app.crash' (and even more so, 'apport-cli -c /var/crash/app.crash') should still allow manual bug filing in stable releases --

[Bug 1308169] Re: apport-bug on .crash file does not send report

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thanks, Brian for the clarifications. But note that I see nothing via grep whoopsie /var/log/syslog even though I do see the zero-length /var/crash/bzr.1000.2014-11-30T18:42.uploaded' file you talk about. I'm running precise 12.04. with the 14.04 kernel HWE. Another note, for anyone else

[Bug 1301807] Re: Apport doesn't open browser window

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 994921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994921 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1189913 apport fails to open browser window to complete bug submission ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 994921 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/app.crash'

[Bug 1369223] Re: Crash report doesn't give return a link to the report sent, nor give any feedback of success/failure

2014-11-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 994921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994921 This looks most like a dup of bug 994921. See also How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?

[Bug 1366509] Re: error message when running images of the wrong arch can be considered confusing

2014-11-25 Thread Neal McBurnett
I'm a docker newbie trying to follow the recommended installation and verification procedure for running docker on 14.04 trusty, as described at https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/ I seem to have figured out the workaround that is being referred to here, so I'll post what I did

[Bug 1393463] [NEW] image description / title should be visible via shotwell viewer

2014-11-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: When I run from the command line shotwell /tmp/river-300x224_a.jpg or when an image is viewed in shotwell via the nautilus file manager, there is no way to see the description of the image (EXIF Description tag). I can only get a tiny bit of other metadata, e.g. via

[Bug 1278569] Re: ibus breaks emacs and eclipse control-space keybinding

2014-09-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
Re: #20 - it looks like it is upstream that changed to super+space, not Debian: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases 1.5.3: Release 1.5.3 Takao Fujiwara fujiwarat released this on Jul 26, 2013 This version changes the default hotkey from Control + space to Super + space. You can customize

[Bug 1249208] Re: Avoid conflicting SuperSpace shortcut with g-s-d

2014-09-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
By overriding the upstream default of super-space to fix something for one desktop, you've broken emacs, eclipse, NetBeans, and many others that use ctrl-space on every other desktop it seems. See bug 1278569. Please fix this properly in Trusty, which is after all a Long Term Support system,

[Bug 1340219] Re: s3ql post-installation script fails with syntax error in yield from

2014-07-23 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thanks for noting the newer package in universe. And I'm sorry for my typo in the package version. This is where I was seeing what is actually 1.18.1-1~precise1, in the ppa: $ wajig policy s3ql s3ql: Installed: 1.18-1~precise1 Candidate: 1.18.1-1~precise1 Version table:

[Bug 1340219] [NEW] s3ql post-installation script fails with syntax error in yield from

2014-07-10 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: After the last s3ql package upgrade, on precise, I started getting this error: Setting up s3ql (1.18-1~precise1) ... SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/s3ql/dugong/__init__.py', 409, 18, ' yield from self._co_send((CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.0\\r\\n\\r\\n\n'))

[Bug 421537] Re: need a way to rotate video playback

2014-07-09 Thread Neal McBurnett
Note that the new rotation plugin landed in Totem version 3.1.4 or so, which seems to have made it to Ubuntu around 13.04 Raring. It has to be manually enabled, and then rotation applied manually. But rotation is not yet automatic, and I think that when a video has metadata indicating the need

[Bug 621648] Re: RFE: change deleting all instances of a file warning

2014-06-21 Thread Neal McBurnett
To clarify: the first warning I see (FSlint 2.42 in Precise) is Are you sure you want to delete these 2 items? The second warning (repeated for each hash for which all files are deleted) is Are you sure you want to delete all items in this group? And it seems that nothing is deleted until all

[Bug 621648] Re: RFE: change deleting all instances of a file warning

2014-06-21 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: Binary package hint: fslint TEST case: - $ mkdir -p /tmp/1 /tmp/2 - $ for i in 1 2 ; do echo test /tmp/$i/test.txt;done - $ fslint-gui /tmp/1 /tmp/2 + mkdir -p /tmp/1 /tmp/2 + for i in 1 2 ; do + echo test /tmp/$i/test.txt + echo test 2

[Bug 574819] Re: RFE: please package GUI and cli separately

2014-06-21 Thread Neal McBurnett
+1 for this bug - seems like it might be worth the effort. On a server, which has so many exposures to security threats, it is generally recommended to limit the installed packages to a minimum. See what the server team had to say about this, along with safer multi-window alternatives:

[Bug 871123] Re: Miro produces crash message when attempting to enter fullscreen

2014-06-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
Note that the key error in the above miro-error.txt attachment is: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method Inhibit with signature ss on interface (null) doesn't exist I get that same error when running the code at http://rschroll.github.io/code/disablescreensaver.py

[Bug 871123] Re: Miro produces crash message when attempting to enter fullscreen

2014-06-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
See a related bug report, with code attached that seems relevant to the UnknownMethod error, at #389857 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871123 Title: Miro produces crash message when

[Bug 502474] Re: rhythmbox should be able to export (and import) songs ratings

2014-06-07 Thread Neal McBurnett
At http://muth.org/Robert/Hacks/ there is a shell script that can help: rhythmbox-tool.sh Miscallenous tools for exporting and backing up data (playlists, ratings) for rhythmbox. It is out-of-date in terms of where to look for the database, but seems useful anyway. E.g. this command will

[Bug 502474] Re: rhythmbox should be able to export (and import) songs ratings

2014-06-07 Thread Neal McBurnett
Replace tracked bug with a more appropriate one - exporting ratings, not files ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #658559 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658559 ** Changed in: rhythmbox Importance: Wishlist = Unknown ** Changed in: rhythmbox Status: Confirmed =

[Bug 972063] Re: [Dell Inspiron N411Z] Bluetooth Headset pairs but does not show up in Sound Settings profile

2014-03-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
Comment #55 by penalvch seems to give some sense of how this bug is being tracked, as a Dell Inspiron N411Z issue, and other similar but different bluetooth bugs related to pulseaudio seem unwelcome here, for good reason. More clarity on exactly what this bug covers would be welcome. I'll note

[Bug 868886] Re: pitivi crashed with AttributeError in _update_preview_cb(): 'PreviewWidget' object has no attribute 'preview_cache'

2013-10-26 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 864368 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864368 Thanks, Seth. I'll also note that, if I recall correctly, openshot didn't actually crash. It just printed a traceback and initiated a crash report. I don't know if anything related to the movie was

[Bug 868886] Re: pitivi crashed with AttributeError in _update_preview_cb(): 'PreviewWidget' object has no attribute 'preview_cache'

2013-10-24 Thread Neal McBurnett
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 864368 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864368 I just got the same crash, simply having started pitivi and imported a 1 simple 1 hour youtube video, Lecture_13_Bayes_Nets-VfyxPtlqZh4.mp4. The bug this is a dup of, #864368, is private. Is any information

[Bug 1130832] Re: Enabled Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed option in g-c-c makes windows lose focus when CTRL key is pressed, which breaks multiple-select using CTRL+CLICK in

2013-06-15 Thread Neal McBurnett
The show pointer options also makes it impossible to use ctrl-v to paste, or ctrl-c to copy text in web applications like gmail contacts, ipython notebook, etc. Very confusing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1130832] Re: Enabled Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed option in g-c-c makes windows lose focus when CTRL key is pressed, which breaks multiple-select using CTRL+CLICK in

2013-06-10 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130832 Title: Enabled Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed option

[Bug 780602] Re: nm-applet leaks memory

2013-04-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Summary changed: - nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while + nm-applet leaks memory -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780602 Title: nm-applet leaks memory To

[Bug 636045] Re: intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

2013-03-20 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thanks, Garik! What was the fix? What package/version is it in? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636045 Title: intel ips :00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded To manage

[Bug 925760] Re: Constant warnings from the kernel: Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

2013-03-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
Thank you, Krzysztof!! Your suggestion in comment #75 worked for me, at least it seems to be working after doing this to restart the module: $ sudo rmmod ums_realtek $ sudo modprobe ums_realtek My current setup is a bit screwy, running 12.10 on a 12.04 kernel (3.2.0-36-generic) because of

[Bug 1128610] [NEW] Youtube: ERROR: unable to download video

2013-02-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
Public bug reported: I'm getting ERROR: unable to download video for youtube downloads. The issue is fixed upstream in https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/530 The diagnosis there is that 'this is a strange case where the best codec only has mobile quality'. This is related to some sort of

[Bug 1128610] Re: Youtube: ERROR: unable to download video

2013-02-17 Thread Neal McBurnett
I meant to add that it was fixed on 2012-11-13 so I'm guessing that it's fixed in upstream release 2012.11.17 and subsequent ones. The ubuntu 12.04 release is 2012.02.27-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 930563] Re: NM Applet menu entries not responding

2013-01-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
Based on the comments both here and in bug 780602 that this bug still exists in quantal 12.10 despite a fix for the memory leak problem, I marked this as no longer a duplicate of 780602. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 780602 nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a

[Bug 780602] Re: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while

2013-01-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
Based on the comments both here and in bug 930563 that nm-applet still stops functioning after a while in quantal 12.10 despite a fix for the memory leak problem, I marked that as no longer a duplicate of this one. So sign up there if this exists for you, and let's focus here on the memory leak.

[Bug 780602] Re: nm-applet leaks memory and stops functioning after a while

2013-01-18 Thread Neal McBurnett
Cody, thanks for looking more into it. It seems like I might have just piled on to the confusion over the scope of the bug etc., though the confusion has indeed been here a long time. I don't object to the other bug being changed back to being a duplicate if it is still being worked on,

[Bug 799356] Re: gwibber stores extreme number of messages in gwibber.sqlite

2012-11-01 Thread Neal McBurnett
My gwibber.sqlite is 3.5 GB right now. And now my gwobber.sqlite.journal is 1.2 GB and growing while I watch. I have no idea what is in there, but it is slowing the system down as well as trashing the remainder of my disk space, then space returns, only to drain away again. Totally broken it

[Bug 799356] Re: gwibber stores extreme number of messages in gwibber.sqlite

2012-11-01 Thread Neal McBurnett
I have 2.5 GB of free space in $HOME, and a gwibber.sqlite file that is 3.5 GB in size Every 14 minutes gwibber starts writing a gwibber.sqlite-journal file, which fills up until I'm out of space. 2 minutes later it is deleted, and 5 minutes after that it starts filling up again. I think this

[Bug 964510] Re: Evince cannot open HTTP link in Google Chrome or chromium-browser

2012-10-24 Thread Neal McBurnett
Since the SRU fix for precise seems low on the priority queue, I boldly did this on my precise machine, based on the apparmor_2.7.102-0ubuntu6.debdiff patch and the advice from Antoine- terracol. I'm no expert, but it seems to work now, without even restarting evince. Add these lines to

[Bug 523264] Re: [lucid] dos2unix is not in tofrodos but dos2unix

2012-10-14 Thread Neal McBurnett
Note - it sounds like the dos2unix package may be preferable for those wanting a more general-purpose conversion tool, and the command names that are missing from tofrodos. That is according to the tofrodos package documentation (as noted in #2). Here is the relevant text from

[Bug 926481] Re: hamster-time-tracker crashed with TypeError: can't compare datetime.datetime to NoneType

2012-10-04 Thread Neal McBurnett
Hamster is now using github to track bugs. Rather than being expired, this issue is now also fixed upstream: https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/24 Because of bug 878413, I can't simply enter that above in launchpad as a new upstream bug url for this bug. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1032887] Re: package indicator-weather 11.11.28-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-08-10 Thread Neal McBurnett
Still failing for me. Version: 11.11.28-0ubuntu1.1 I hear that this is fixed for people that uninstall and re-install, but I'm assuming that we won't be asking all users to do that, right? Can we expect a release that will just work for -proposed users so they can just do a normal apt-get

[Bug 926433] Re: indicator-weather refuses to start, saying Another instance of this program is already running when that is not true.

2012-08-03 Thread Neal McBurnett
It seems that this bug has been fixed: $ killall -i -9 indicator-weather Signal indicator-weath(2503) ? (y/N) y $ cat /tmp/indicator-weather-1000.pid 2503 $ indicator-weather /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion

[Bug 497732] Re: Tar exited with error 512 () status

2012-06-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: + A default install of backuppc produces fails on an hourly basis like + this: + + Backup failed on localhost (Tar exited with error 512 () status) + + because it is trying to back up /etc and several files there are not + readable by the user which is doing the backup

[Bug 497732] Re: backuppc errors: Tar exited with error 512 () due to read permission failures

2012-06-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
This seems much higher-priority than low to me. To have the default install mysteriously fail hourly provides no confidence in backuppc, and saving critical system configuration data like password hashes is one of the main jobs of a backup tool. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 497732] Re: Tar exited with error 512 () status

2012-06-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
** Description changed: + A default install of backuppc produces fails on an hourly basis like + this: + + Backup failed on localhost (Tar exited with error 512 () status) + + because it is trying to back up /etc and several files there are not + readable by the user which is doing the backup

[Bug 497732] Re: backuppc errors: Tar exited with error 512 () due to read permission failures

2012-06-30 Thread Neal McBurnett
This seems much higher-priority than low to me. To have the default install mysteriously fail hourly provides no confidence in backuppc, and saving critical system configuration data like password hashes is one of the main jobs of a backup tool. -- You received this bug notification because you

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