[Bug 1318199] Re: Can't change password

2017-08-17 Thread Neil Broadley
16.04, latest LTS, but just ran into this bug. The strength meter says "Strong", but the "Change" button remains greyed out. The only way to change your password on this LTS, ridiculously, is to use a terminal! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 919437] Re: Lost window, cannot get it back.

2016-10-10 Thread Neil Broadley
This has just started happening with me on Ubuntu 14.04, after I updated my HWE stack. My laptop has an HDMI attached screen above it, so I use 1-vertical screens, 2 wide, which gives me a 2x2 set up. When my screen locks, random windows will move themselves to a non- existent vertical screen

[Bug 1270791] Re: Enterprise wifi password is unnecessarily asked on boot

2014-12-02 Thread Neil Broadley
Can confirm that #7 works on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit which is also affected by this bug. However, obviously this is pretty weak, since in many cases, the PEAP password is your AD/LDAP credential, so when you store it in the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections file that represents your SSID,

[Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd

2014-08-18 Thread Neil Broadley
Any manual workarounds for this? The number of users that shows up in the lighdm login window keeps growing with each person that logs in. I'm going to have to remove the picker if I can't delete these AD (LDAP) based users from our laptop fleet. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1104476] Re: Network manager cannot connect to WPA2/PEAP/MSCHAPv2 network without CA_Certificate

2014-06-09 Thread Neil Broadley
Note the comment in #144 - while removing the system-ca-certs=true line might work, any changes you make to the network connection in Network Manager thereafter will re-add the line! So the current workflow for connecting to a PEAP WIFI network is currently: 1. Make the connection. It will fail,

[Bug 119660] Re: Autofs should be reloaded when state of network interface changes

2014-05-08 Thread Neil Broadley
Since this still appears to be an issue on Trusty (14.04) and the Debian bugtracker notes that they're no longer tracking autofs in unstable, what happens to this bug? And is it still the case that autofs (now version 5 in Trusty's repo's) doesn't use upstart? I'm going to try the solution

[Bug 119660] Re: Autofs should be reloaded when state of network interface changes

2014-05-08 Thread Neil Broadley
Since this still appears to be an issue on Trusty (14.04) and the Debian bugtracker notes that they're no longer tracking autofs in unstable, what happens to this bug? And is it still the case that autofs (now version 5 in Trusty's repo's) doesn't use upstart? I'm going to try the solution

[Bug 933707] Re: Pressure issues

2014-01-10 Thread Neil Broadley
As far as I know, this is still an issue on Precise, but since I've now upgrade to Quantal, I can't test. And the bug is resolved in Quantal. I think it's best to close this one unless someone else has experienced the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1104476] Re: Network manager cannot connect to WPA2/PEAP/MSCHAPv2 network without CA_Certificate

2013-12-05 Thread Neil Broadley
Is there something broken in Ubuntu's update process that a PPA had to be created (many thanks for that Pritam!) for this? I've just tried a fresh 13.10, it still has this problem, despite Fix released. So what does Fix released mean? Released for the next version of Ubuntu? Would I have gotten

[Bug 1073114] Re: Shopping Lens Does Not Respect User Privacy

2013-01-11 Thread Neil Broadley
@unimatrix9, as described in Randall's Full Background link in comment #36, you must be a member of the ubuntu-etherpad team. Visit this link (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-etherpad) to join the team, then wait for an admin (Randall, I think?) to authorise your membership. Then you'll be able to

[Bug 784912] Re: GUI is not updated during mass convert, app frozen.

2012-10-02 Thread Neil Broadley
Same as comment #1 - I add the folder with hundreds of sub-folders (around 350 albums in total, converting to VBR MP3 from FLAC), it processed the files quickly, takes about 30 minutes to process the tags, then hangs without converting a single file. I left it overnight, around 11 hours total, to

[Bug 772925] Re: Screen freezes after laptop lid closed for more than 1 minute

2012-09-12 Thread Neil Broadley
It's early days, but I may have fixed this in on my Tosh R900 by using ccsm to change : OpenGL - Sync to VBlank change to Off. Composite - Detect Refresh Rate change to Off. My Refresh rate was 60, which I think is suitable for most laptops. So far, I've opened the lid twice without issue

[Bug 932338] Re: cannot switch workspaces with super + arrow keys

2012-04-18 Thread Neil Broadley
Addionally, if you disable the overlay feature by editing the Unity parameter in ccsm, you can use super-left/right/up/down to switch workspace, but after switching you to the workspace, the window previews stay on screen, grabbing all keyboard input until you dismiss it with the escape key. This

[Bug 933776] Re: Unity overrides compiz scale plugin behavior settings

2012-04-18 Thread Neil Broadley
This bug affects non-minimised windows too. Open two terminals, on different workspaces, click the dash button for your terminal and nothing will happen, because it only sees that one terminal. Worse, if you're on a workspace on which you haven't opened a terminal, pressing the dash button for

[Bug 959184] Re: Option to Lock screen afer screen turns off is ignored

2012-03-21 Thread Neil Broadley
This is fixed on the Toshiba actually, but I was originally testing on the Chronos laptop, which remains broken. The only two obvious differences between the two laptops is the Chronos has an ATI card, using the fglrx drivers (from hardware drivers), and also sports a backlit keyboard. I notice

[Bug 959184] Re: Option to Lock screen afer screen turns off is ignored

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Broadley
Just noting that as of gnome-settings-daemon version 3.3.92-0ubuntu2, this bug is still apparent. Lock is set, close lid, screen turns off, open lid, normal desktop appears. Do I change the status back to confirmed? scaine@Groovy:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon:

[Bug 959184] [NEW] Option to Lock screen afer screen turns off is ignored

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Broadley
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: I have set my Brightness and Lock settings such that it will lock the screen after Screen turns off. Then in my power settings, I have the lid closed action to Do Nothing, which turns the screen off when the lid is

[Bug 959184] Re: Option to Lock screen afer screen turns off is ignored

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Broadley
I've just tested this on a third laptop which was built using the 32 bit version of 12.04, fully updated, but without encrypted home - same behaviour, so I suspect that the encrypted home is irrelevant in this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 959184] Re: Option to Lock screen afer screen turns off is ignored

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Broadley
Thanks Sebastian - the gnome bug tracker is a perfect replica of the issue I'm describing here. Great news and I'll test again when I do an update tomorrow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 933825] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in report_jack_state()

2012-03-01 Thread Neil Broadley
A short me too that David Henningsson's instructions in comment #16 worked perfectly on my system too. Samsung Chronos 7 series running Precise and experiencing the exact same symptoms of this bug. Many thanks! Hope this makes it into Precise on launch day. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 933707] Re: Pressure issues

2012-02-20 Thread Neil Broadley
I create a script called syn.sh containing just : synclient FingerLow=3 synclient FingerHigh=8 Then make it executable and place the execution of that script in Startup Programs. Actually, I think those values make the touchpad too sensitive on my system, because there's no palm-rest detection,

[Bug 933707] [NEW] Pressure issues

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Broadley
Public bug reported: Testing from the call for testing PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/clickpad). Source URL : http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/02/call-for-testing- clickpad.html Hardware : Samsung Chronos Series 7 using ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad.

[Bug 933356] Re: clickpad PPA not working, sometimes

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Broadley
And re-running the script at this point does not restore the functionality. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933356 Title: clickpad PPA not working, sometimes To manage notifications

[Bug 933356] Re: clickpad PPA not working, sometimes

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Broadley
Confirmed - script works for me until I double click to drag a window title. At that point, click-to-drag stops working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933356 Title: clickpad PPA not

[Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher

2012-01-22 Thread Neil Broadley
Another use case is corporate. Desktop roaming in an AD environment would result in your PC being populated in the greeter by anyone who happened to use your PC while you were on holiday. Or if support staff login to check a support call, or if we get the user to login at another PC to

[Bug 329395] [NEW] Keyboard Short-cuts are disabled by default when using Compiz

2009-02-14 Thread Neil Broadley
Public bug reported: From : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1068786 In latest Jaunty release (up to date as of Saturday 14th Feb), default gnome keyboard short-cuts such as ALT-F2 (run dialog) and ALT-F1 (Menu) don't work when compiz is enabled. In order to fix this, a new compiz

[Bug 232469] Re: Synaptic does not use proxy in some cases

2009-01-29 Thread Neil Broadley
Pardon my ignorance of the process here - I see that you've moved the package to wget from synaptic, which seems to be fair enough, but can I ask why you've also declined this bug for Jaunty, which is still around 3 months from completion? Where would be the best place to raise the fact that

[Bug 242205] Re: [Intrepid] libffi4 -- unmet dependencies

2008-11-09 Thread Neil Broadley
This also affects the installation of the bad plug-ins for Fluendo's Elisa. The status of this bug is fix released. Does anyone know what the fix is? I'm running the full release Intrepid but still can't run the latest Elisa usefully without libffi4. -- [Intrepid] libffi4 -- unmet

[Bug 242205] Re: [Intrepid] libffi4 -- unmet dependencies

2008-11-09 Thread Neil Broadley
Ah - I notice now that there's libffi5 in Intrepid. Looks like the Fluendo guys just haven't gotten around to creating an Intrepid-friendly build yet. Pardon me. -- [Intrepid] libffi4 -- unmet dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242205 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 234185] Re: Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key.

2008-11-06 Thread Neil Broadley
Well that was long winded - I downloaded the standard desktop image, cut a CD from it and booted another PC live, then used USB-Creator to make an alternative boot key that actually worked and doesn't fail at detect- cd roms. Surely it shouldn't be that hard to get the alternative CD to work as a

[Bug 294888] [NEW] Cannot specify location of Private directory

2008-11-06 Thread Neil Broadley
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils There doesn't appear to be anyway to set up the Private directory in any location other than ~/Private. The use case here is that to support suspend/hibernate, I've put my /home on the tiny 4Gb partition on my EEE 701 netboot. However, I

[Bug 234185] Re: Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key.

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Broadley
I've just used unetbootin (latest - 292 I think) to burn the 8.10 release alternate CD to a USB key and I can confirm that the installer cannot proceed past the Detect CDROM stage. I'm giving up for now and using 8.10 Desktop, but this means that I can't use full-disk encryption (a requirement

[Bug 234185] Re: Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key.

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Broadley
The point of unetbootin (or isotostick.sh) is that you run them on your current o/s (or even windows) to create a key that can install any other. Isn't usb-creator an intrepid tool? If I had intrepid successfully installed somewhere, I could try it - although my understanding from the forums was

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2008-11-01 Thread Neil Broadley
I have managed to manually hack the theme files to allow for a larger border. Obviously, not really a solution and use at your own risk, but as long you make a back of the file involved (an xml file), you should have an easy time following this. After some searching, it turns out that the

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Broadley
I've commented before, but I'll say it again - resizing is unbelievably difficult at 1920x1280 resolution. Near impossible in fact. I routinely use ALT-Space R now. Trying to hit a one pixel (it feels like it) border on my screen is hopeless. I worry about the accessibility issues implied by

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Broadley
Some gnome apps have a resize corner, like Nautilus, but most GTK+ generic apps don't - Avidemux, Thunderbird, Firefox, DeVeDe and so on. In fact, many gnome apps themselves don't bother with the resize corner - look at the terminal for example. Besides, that doesn't help you much when you want

[Bug 232469] Re: Synaptic does not use proxy in some cases

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Broadley
This bug has a better title, but the longest discussion of this bug (now marked as a duplicate of this one, despite being raised earlier) is surely https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin- nonfree/+bug/45722. That one was raised in early 2006, while this one implies the bug is

[Bug 232469] Re: Synaptic does not use proxy in some cases

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Broadley
In all but the largest of organisations, transparent proxies are rare in my (admittedly limited) experience. Transparent proxies are pretty damn expensive because in order to be transparent, they must be a hop on the way to your internet connection - therefore, they see ALL traffic, not just web.

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Broadley
What resolution are you running at? Are you seriously suggestion that because YOU don't have a problem resizing, then everyone else who's filed against this bug must be wrong? You say that if I don't like the default, change it. How? How do you make grab borders bigger in Ubuntu? And what

[Bug 45722] Re: flashplugin-nonfree doesn't uses the proxy debconf key

2008-08-01 Thread Neil Broadley
Confirmed here too on 8.04. This issue is also affects some other restricted packages MSTcorefonts, which also hang. If you're not showing details, then the Synaptic or Add/Remove programs dialog box just appears to hang. Worse, it hangs with the main status not showing which package is causing

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Broadley
Sounds like this is, indeed, resolution dependant. I'm running a 24 Dell flat panel and its resolution is 1920x1200. This may be why only a small number of people have hooked onto this issue. To be honest, I've fixed this now, simply by installing the Emerald manager straight from the Gutsy

[Bug 160311] Re: Window Resize Difficult (Window Border Thickness)

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Broadley
I'll second this - I can't find any way to make the windows resize border bigger than (I think) 1px. Resizing windows is cumbersome, frustrating and far too easy to get wrong. I'm running compiz-fusion enabled from a stock Gutsy build, with almost no additions (ccsm is the only change I've made