[Bug 1288786] [NEW] pkexec does not launch graphical authentication

2014-03-06 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Installed Trusty Tahr Lubuntu Beta1 version and added xubuntu desktop. In buth desktops, I tried to launch synaptic to install some packages. If I try to launch from menu, nothing seems to happen. From a terminal, I ran pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic and saw that it asks

[Bug 778619] Re: Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text

2011-10-31 Thread Ralph Green
Bug still exists in Ubuntu 11.10. I am running xubuntu 11.10 and I have applied all fixes available up to this day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778619 Title: Festival TTS starts

Re: [Bug 751018] Re: i386 installer CDs are named improperly

2011-06-19 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, Something like that would seem to be a good idea. But, it was explained that the names come from the debian names an won't change. I did discover that Debian no longer supports 386, with 486 being the lowest chip they compile for. They document this better than Ubuntu. Good day On

[Bug 751018] Re: i386 installer CDs are named improperly

2011-04-23 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, OK, I'll take your advice. I am not trying to cause trouble. I just wanted it to be clear. I know when Maverick came out, I was one of those who missed the reference in the release notes and I messed up one of my servers and had to rebuild it. The name i386 in the architecture

[Bug 761711] Re: Could not select menu in Synaptic after Beta2 Natty install

2011-04-23 Thread Ralph Green
I just reinstalled Natty Beta 2. I got the same exact error. I tried the apport command suggest above. It came back and said no additional information collected. The computer detected that a problem had occurred this time. It asked if I wanted to report it. I did, but that failed because

[Bug 751018] Re: i386 installer CDs are named improperly

2011-04-22 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, To Steve Langasek, the change took place in Maverick. I have a Via C3 based thin client that I use as a samba server and to demonstrate Ubuntu. The release notes for Maverick say With 10.10 we have also dropped support for i586 and lower processors, as well as i686 processors without

[Bug 751018] Re: i386 installer CDs are named improperly

2011-04-22 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I want to revise that a bit. Intel/AMD/Via architecture note: i386 refers to processors that have support for the Intel 32 bit instructions. In order to take advantage of certain compiler optimizations, a 686 processor or higher with cmov support is needed. amd64 refers to

[Bug 761711] [NEW] Could not select menu in Synaptic after Beta2 Natty install

2011-04-15 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: I did an install of the Beta2 alternate installer i386 CD. The first app I tried to run was Synaptic, in order to check for updates. It let me press the reload button. Then, after it had reloaded and I waited several minutes, I could not select any menu option or activate

[Bug 751018] [NEW] i386 installer CDs are named improperly

2011-04-04 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: There are several installer images with i386 in their name. These won't install onto i386 machines since the release of Maverick. They need at least i686 machines. The CDs should be renamed with i686 in their names. I am not sure if this should be reported as a bug or

[Bug 741656] [NEW] Wrong window moves

2011-03-24 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz Using Natty daily build from March 16 with all updates applied as of March 24. I uninstalled Unity and added gnome. I also killed the Indicator applet to get rid of the global menus. Then, I launch a program. Now, I launch a second program. I

[Bug 728775] Re: Alpha 3 Natty install hangs after starting up the partitioner

2011-03-17 Thread Ralph Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 729394 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729394 Starting with the daily build on March 16, this bug seems resolved to me. If I can figure it out, I'll close it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 728775] Re: Alpha 3 Natty install hangs after starting up the partitioner

2011-03-17 Thread Ralph Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 729394 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729394 I tested the daily build after it was released on March 16. The ticket that this is marked as a duplicate of noted that it should be fixed. Since I was not using LVM, I waited until I could do an install to

[Bug 723831] Re: Installer – The option to 'install third-party software' when installing Ubuntu should be selected by default (aka make Youtube work)

2011-03-16 Thread Ralph Green
This is a really bad idea. Installing the codecs easily would be fine with me. Installing Adobe Flash is an awful idea. First, the license for Adobe Flash is not even close to reasonable. You give up the right to make proper backups of your system, for example. Second, Adobe Flash exposes

[Bug 728775] Re: Alpha 3 Natty install hangs after starting up the partitioner

2011-03-07 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I filed this against debian-installer and that is where it belongs. I tried the Alternate i386 alpha 3 installer on Natty on a real computer and it hangs in exactly the same way. The computer is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with a 40 gig IDE hard drive and 1 gb of ram. How do I get it moved

[Bug 728775] Re: Alpha 3 Natty install hangs after starting up the partitioner

2011-03-07 Thread Ralph Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 729556 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729556 Howdy, I am not trying to get anyone to reclassify this bug to get it priority or anything similar. I am curious, though as to why bug #729556 is not a duplicate of this, since I reported it 2 days

[Bug 728775] [NEW] Alpha 3 Natty install hangs after starting up the partitioner

2011-03-03 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer I am installing in a VirtualBox 3.16 OSE machine on a Ubuntu Maverick host. The machine does not have hardware virtualization support, and runs a number of other Ubuntu VMs handily. During my attempt to install the Alpha 3 version of

[Bug 714404] Re: Gnome menus unavailable after fresh install

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph Green
** Description changed: Binary package hint: debian-installer  Alpha-2 of Natty install following exact procedure from testcase Alternate Manual Partitioning (d-i/debian-installer package) on i386. See: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/4928/17. Install went fine. Upon

[Bug 714404] Re: Gnome menus unavailable after fresh install

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph Green
** Description changed: Binary package hint: debian-installer  Alpha-2 of Natty install following exact procedure from testcase Alternate Manual Partitioning (d-i/debian-installer package) on i386. See: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/4928/17. Install went fine. Upon

[Bug 712630] Re: Ubuntu Alternate: Empty desktop after installation with 2D fallback

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph Green
I chose Close, instead of Change session, since I could not see what Change session would mean. I got the same results, anyway. As an experiment, I tried switching to a virtual console and enabling an nVidia proprietary driver. I hoped that a reboot would then let me run Unity or something.

[Bug 714404] Re: Gnome menus unavailable after fresh install

2011-02-07 Thread Ralph Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 712630 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712630 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 712630 Ubuntu Alternate: Empty desktop after installation with 2D fallback * You can subscribe to bug 712630 by following this link:

[Bug 714404] [NEW] Gnome menus unavailable after fresh install

2011-02-06 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer  Alpha-2 of Natty install following exact procedure from testcase Alternate Manual Partitioning (d-i/debian-installer package) on i386. See: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/4928/17. Install went fine. Upon login at step 43,

[Bug 714404] Re: Gnome menus unavailable after fresh install

2011-02-06 Thread Ralph Green
** Description changed: Binary package hint: debian-installer - Alpha-2 of Natty install following exact procedure from testcase +  Alpha-2 of Natty install following exact procedure from testcase Alternate Manual Partitioning (d-i/debian-installer package) on i386. See:

[Bug 705755] Re: Natty Testing--Alternate OEM Install, grub-pc/grub2 failed to install

2011-01-29 Thread Ralph Green
I have been getting this error for over a week when installing into a VirtualBox VM. I tried tonight to directly install onto a computer and the install also failed with this error. I am using the alpha-1 alternate i386 installer. I'll leave the machine alone for tonight. If there is some

[Bug 705755] Re: Natty Testing--Alternate OEM Install, grub-pc/grub2 failed to install

2011-01-29 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, Perhaps I should describe my partition layout. I have two 37 GB drives. The first drive has 4 primary partitions[1) .5 GB ext2 with /boot, 2) 9 GB JFS with /usr, 3) .5GB encrypted swap, 4) remainder to LVM] The second drive has 2 primary partitions[1) .5gb encrypted swap, 2) remainder

[Bug 589108] Re: pae kernel installed by kvm will not boot

2010-06-04 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I am confused about the apport-collect part. I understand how to use that program once the system is booted. In this case, I don't get the kernel loaded, because it cannot find my root filesystem. Do I run it after I reboot back with the non pae kernel and will it still have any

[Bug 589108] [NEW] pae kernel installed by kvm will not boot

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm I am running an AMD-64 system with 32 bit kernel and all updates as of today for Release 10.04. I have 2 GB of ram and I installed kvm and a couple of related tools today. My hard drive is laid out like this. sda1 - /boot ext2 sda2 -

[Bug 589108] [NEW] pae kernel installed by kvm will not boot

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm I am running an AMD-64 system with 32 bit kernel and all updates as of today for Release 10.04. I have 2 GB of ram and I installed kvm and a couple of related tools today. My hard drive is laid out like this. sda1 - /boot ext2 sda2 -

[Bug 419709] Re: Karmic does not complete boot process

2009-08-27 Thread Ralph Green
** Summary changed: - System does not complete boot process + Karmic does not complete boot process -- Karmic does not complete boot process https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419709 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 419709] Re: Karmic does not complete boot process

2009-08-27 Thread Ralph Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 418514 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418514 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 418514 linux-image-2.6.31-7.27-generic fails to boot lvm -- Karmic does not complete boot process https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419709 You received this

[Bug 419709] [NEW] System does not complete boot process

2009-08-26 Thread Ralph Green
Public bug reported: I am testing koala and most days I update by running the following 2 commands. sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade My system is a Compaq iPaq with a 933 MHz P3 and 512 meg of ram and 80 gig of hard disk. I used the Alpha 4 alternate installer to install. My

[Bug 332945] Re: [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information

2009-05-03 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I was ignoring this behavior on my Jaunty systems at first. I thought it was a bug that would be fixed soon. I see others agreed that it was a bug, but it does not look like it will be fixed. So, I have been thinking about what to do. First, I have to say that I like the

[Bug 319210] Re: [jaunty] segfault during X startup with randr 1.2 drivers

2009-02-25 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, My i815 based system could not start X because of this error. I found a simple solution for now. Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add a line that says: Option NoAcceltrue in the Device section. There are some references on a RedHat board about this making X