[Bug 1561278] Re: internal sound card not detected HP X2

2018-11-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This is the usual Ubuntu way of fixing bug : Let the bug report cool down for 3 years or so (this one is date 2016-03-24), then ask the reporters to perform some more tests with the latest versions, just in case. Hopefully the user will have trashed his now-old computer meanwhile. This also

[Bug 1561278] Re: internal sound card not detected HP X2

2018-11-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
And nobody gives a damn fixing it. And it's not only HP X2, but each and every machine based on a Cherry Trail Intel Atom CPU... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1561278 Title:

[Bug 1561278] Re: internal sound card not detected HP X2

2018-11-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
As usual... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1561278 Title: internal sound card not detected HP X2 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1730174] Re: [artful] mouse clicks are completely ignored both in Gnome's gdm and once logged in to the desktop

2018-02-05 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hello, I cannot test it anymore in Ubuntu, as I have removed Ubuntu from this machine, but I do *not* believe that it related to Wayland and I'm positive that it relates to the NVidia proprietary driver on my machine as explained above. For I discovered the same issue after installing Manjaro

[Bug 1730174] Re: [artful] Mouse broken after upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10

2018-01-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Detail of my the affected machine : Motherboard produit: M3N78-VM fabriquant: ASUSTeK Computer INC. BIOS fabriquant: American Megatrends Inc. identifiant matériel: 0 version: 1406 date: 10/30/2009 Video NVidia C77 [GeForce

[Bug 1730174] Re: [artful] Mouse broken after upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10

2018-01-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I could narrow this bug with a 100% certitude (and confirm it also on Manjaro Linux on the same machine) with using the NVidia 304 proprietary driver. My machine has a NVidia C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2) which is unsupported with latest NVidia 340 drivers (the system justs freezes). It used to

[Bug 1561278] Re: internal sound card not detected HP X2

2017-12-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I never got any sound out of it so far, but for the record, With Manjaro Linux and kernel 4.14 and 4.15, the sound card is recognized along with its HDMI outputs. Although I haven't plugged anything on the HDMI port, from my readings I expect that it should work. However the internal speakers

[Bug 1730174] Re: [artful] Mouse broken after upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10

2017-11-05 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
See exactly similar mouse issues described by other people in : https://askubuntu.com/questions/971647/17-10-mouse-cant-click-on-gnome-elements-keyboard-misbehaving -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1730174] [NEW] [artful] Mouse broken after upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10

2017-11-05 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: After upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10, I encounter strange mouse issues, namely : - The mouse cursor moves allright - But mouse clicks are completely ignored both in Gnome's gdm and once logged in to the desktop, they are also ignored in all the Gnome panel and lef side dock.

[Bug 1610547] Re: Cannot connect to remote desktop, vino eating cpu and not answering

2016-08-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi there, The fix works for me and solves the issues on both machines on which I had encountered it (an Ubuntu 16.04 and a Mint 18). I cam confirm that uPNP now works properly, and I can connect to the remote desktops. Thank you very much. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1610547] Re: Cannot connect to remote desktop, vino not answering

2016-08-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
After some more analysis, I could confirm that the issue relates to uPNP. It never succeeds setting uPNP on my router/DSL box (an Orange "LiveBox"), but if I uncheck the uPNP checkbox, then vino opens up immediately and works... on the LAN. As a side note, the uPNP issue does not relate to the

[Bug 1610547] [NEW] Cannot connect to remote desktop, vino not answering

2016-08-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Seen this on 2 machines both running vino 3.8.1-0ubuntu9, exact same symptoms : - One machine running Ubuntu 16.04.1 xenial LTS (from which I report this) - One machine running Mint 18 Sarah (based on Ubuntu 16.04, showing same behaviour) On both machines, vino does not

[Bug 1606163] [NEW] Cannot suspend to RAM on HP Pavilion Detachable X2 10-N123NF

2016-07-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi there, Trying to suspend to RAM on HP Pavilion Detachable X2 10-N123NF with Ubuntu xenial fails. Relevant extract from syslog is attached. TIA for any help. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: acpi-support 0.142 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 1606159] [NEW] Battery not recognized on HP Pavilion Detachable X2 10-N123NF

2016-07-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: After a clean install of xenial on HP Pavilion Detachable X2 10-N123NF, the battery is not "seen" at all. It doesn't appear in Ubuntu's "energy" tab. # acpi No support for device type: power_supply However...: # lshw -class power USB *-battery

[Bug 1561278] Re: internal sound card not detected HP X2

2016-07-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Same issue on HP Pavilion detachable X2 10-N123NF after a fresh install of 16.94 xenial. Sound card is not recognized at all. Attaching the output of alsa-info.sh on my machine. ** Attachment added: "Output of alsa-info.sh"

[Bug 1395327] [NEW] software-properties-gtk crash if accentuated characters in apt-key list

2014-11-22 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: software-properties-gtk crashes badly if one of the apt keys listed in apt-key list contains an accentuated char. Here I have retraced it to having a key name containing a ç. $ /etc/apt$ software-properties-gtk Traceback (most recent call last): File

[Bug 1013881]

2014-05-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW, about the punctuation signs that, in French, requires a nbsp before them, i.e. ; : ! ? (for perfect typographic correctness, while usually few people know about this and nobody really cares...) : Usual word processing programs, such as OpenOffice / LibreOffice, when configured to the

[Bug 221112]

2014-05-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW, about the punctuation signs that, in French, requires a nbsp before them, i.e. ; : ! ? (for perfect typographic correctness, while usually few people know about this and nobody really cares...) : Usual word processing programs, such as OpenOffice / LibreOffice, when configured to the

[Bug 221112]

2014-05-11 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
About a short nbsp in french, let's make it perfectly clear that there must be about a hundred professionnal typographists in the whole country who care about it - most of them not using Linux BTW - and the rest of the ~40 million computer users here don't give a shit about a short nbsp and don't

[Bug 1013881]

2014-05-11 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
About a short nbsp in french, let's make it perfectly clear that there must be about a hundred professionnal typographists in the whole country who care about it - most of them not using Linux BTW - and the rest of the ~40 million computer users here don't give a shit about a short nbsp and don't

[Bug 1013881]

2014-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, your vote is currently happening on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 with 4 new entries today (from different people), 100% of them saying : « PLEASE GIVE US OUR RIGHT [CTRL] KEY BEHAVING AS A [CTRL] KEY BACK !!! » To summarize further, AFAIK, there is ONE person in the world

[Bug 221112]

2014-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, your vote is currently happening on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 with 4 new entries today (from different people), 100% of them saying : « PLEASE GIVE US OUR RIGHT [CTRL] KEY BEHAVING AS A [CTRL] KEY BACK !!! » To summarize further, AFAIK, there is ONE person in the world

[Bug 1013881]

2014-04-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Great ! Now the FR right [Ctrl] is B.R.O.K.E.N on Ubuntu 14.04 as well. Given the number of french Ubuntu users (+ upcoming derivatives) I think you'll have your vote and survey very soon, just by taking a look at lauchpad bug entries and new comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 -

[Bug 221112]

2014-04-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Great ! Now the FR right [Ctrl] is B.R.O.K.E.N on Ubuntu 14.04 as well. Given the number of french Ubuntu users (+ upcoming derivatives) I think you'll have your vote and survey very soon, just by taking a look at lauchpad bug entries and new comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 -

[Bug 1310235] [NEW] Cannot upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy to 14.04 Trusty

2014-04-20 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, Trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy to 14.04 Trusty in the GUI, I get the attached image. Using do-release upgrade in a terminal, it ends in : Checking package manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

[Bug 1310235] Re: Cannot upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy to 14.04 Trusty

2014-04-20 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, I could fix this by uninstalling flightgear - after having taken a look at the logs that ubuntu-bug-report had attached to this bug... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310235

[Bug 221112]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sergey, you might want to check Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1013881 , which is a downstream reflection of this one. There are some other loud voices there that you might consider as taking part to the vote that you want. I had in my office 2 peopl

[Bug 1013881]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sergey, you might want to check Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1013881 , which is a downstream reflection of this one. There are some other loud voices there that you might consider as taking part to the vote that you want. I had in my office 2 peopl

[Bug 1013881]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW Sergey, I'm a bit surprised that you want a vote to fix something that people complain about, when you didn't need any vote to break it in the first place... Would you need a vote, I suggest that you put a survey system online by yourself on any web page that you'd like (so you know the vote

[Bug 221112]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW Sergey, I'm a bit surprised that you want a vote to fix something that people complain about, when you didn't need any vote to break it in the first place... Would you need a vote, I suggest that you put a survey system online by yourself on any web page that you'd like (so you know the vote

[Bug 814562]

2014-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I believe KDE bugs are considered digital art and are not meant to be fixed. Ever. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814562 Title: [Natty] Kubuntu system settings downloads KDM themes

[Bug 1013881]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Repeating : 1/ Standard French keyboard has NO [CtrlGr] key. It does have 2 normal [Ctrl] keys bearing the exact same label. The right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key and no other modifier or whatever. 2/ There are quite a *lot* of common, daily used by professional IT staff, keyboard

[Bug 221112]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Repeating : 1/ Standard French keyboard has NO [CtrlGr] key. It does have 2 normal [Ctrl] keys bearing the exact same label. The right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key and no other modifier or whatever. 2/ There are quite a *lot* of common, daily used by professional IT staff, keyboard

[Bug 1013881]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Even though I've been an IT professional for the past 3O years, I went to a large computer store in France over lunch time, to find out if such thing as a [CtrlGr] key could possibly exist on a french keyboard. Let me tell you : I couldn't find any. OTOH, I was surprised to notice that some

[Bug 221112]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Even though I've been an IT professional for the past 3O years, I went to a large computer store in France over lunch time, to find out if such thing as a [CtrlGr] key could possibly exist on a french keyboard. Let me tell you : I couldn't find any. OTOH, I was surprised to notice that some

[Bug 221112]

2014-03-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I had yet another good reason to revert to a normal right [CTRL] key on a Fedora this morning: I was working in a terminal with several open terminal tabs. Switching between tabs is made using [Ctrl]-[PageUp] and [Ctrl]-[PageDown] - same goes with other Gnome tabbed apps, as well as Firefox and

[Bug 1013881]

2014-03-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I had yet another good reason to revert to a normal right [CTRL] key on a Fedora this morning: I was working in a terminal with several open terminal tabs. Switching between tabs is made using [Ctrl]-[PageUp] and [Ctrl]-[PageDown] - same goes with other Gnome tabbed apps, as well as Firefox and

[Bug 1013881]

2014-03-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I spent a couple days extremely disappointed to have a broken right [CTRL] key on a french keyboard on recent Arch installs, thus being unable to use VirtualBox properly, and googling around (and let me tell you that my googling showed me a *lot* of french people are really upset with this as

[Bug 1013881]

2014-03-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
(In reply to comment #50) Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented. Which behavior would be preferable? A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine. Most users don't care as long as it works and may not even know there

[Bug 221112]

2014-03-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I spent a couple days extremely disappointed to have a broken right [CTRL] key on a french keyboard on recent Arch installs, thus being unable to use VirtualBox properly, and googling around (and let me tell you that my googling showed me a *lot* of french people are really upset with this as

[Bug 221112]

2014-03-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
(In reply to comment #50) Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented. Which behavior would be preferable? A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine. Most users don't care as long as it works and may not even know there

[Bug 576181] Re: Lucid - Screen flickering with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

2014-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Thi bug is most probably still there, and most probably still the same as bug #560104 that has been around, unfixed, for about 4 years (and is still there), and went thru all future and development releases without any fix, so the eternal request please test latest development version without ever

[Bug 560104] Re: ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2014-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This bug is still there and has been there for around 4 years without a fix. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 971734] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] hotkeys don't work before system has been suspended in Precise.

2013-12-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Christopher, Thanks for the followup. However I've been running the new 2.50 BIOS on this machine since it was released (06/26/2012), and it unfortunately did not fix the issue. No change *-firmware description: BIOS fabriquant: INSYDE identifiant matériel: 0

[Bug 971734] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] hotkeys don't work before system has been suspended in Precise.

2013-12-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hum forget it. My previous comment is a mistake, I mixed bugs and thought it was just about the screen brightness hotkeys. The only things true there is that I now run ArchLinux with a 3.12.4-1-ARCH kernel, have BIOS 2.50 and still have the can't set backlight brightness issue. For the other

[Bug 814562]

2013-12-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
That's what I really hate in KDE. Loads of bugs, very well identified, reported for years, confirmed and re-confirmed... And nobody ever gives a shit about fixing them. KDE bug tracker is managed by Dave Null... So yeah, this bug has been outstanding for more than 3 years. Holy shit. -- You

[Bug 1193522] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_action_get_name()

2013-10-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I upgraded my Ubuntu installations to ArchLinux, and my problems are gone :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1193522 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_action_get_name() To

[Bug 1193522] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_action_get_name()

2013-10-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I even got the t-shirt and keyboard sticker :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1193522 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_action_get_name() To manage notifications about

[Bug 1226105] Re: [Saucy] Empty Unity dashboard after upgrade Raring - Saucy Beta 1

2013-09-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1220572 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220572 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1220572 Unity dash empty on Edubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1220572] Re: Unity dash empty on Edubuntu

2013-09-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirmed. Upgrading Ubuntu Raring AMD64 - Saucy Beta 1, and Unity dashboard shows empty as reported in this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220572 Title: Unity dash empty on

[Bug 1226105] [NEW] [Saucy] Empty Unity dashboard after upgrade Raring - Saucy Beta 1

2013-09-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: After upgrading from Raring to Saucy Beta 1, the Unity dashboard has become completely empty except for a search social networks icon at the bottom. No more Apps, no more Files, etc, everything and her brother is gone :-/ See attached screenshot. ProblemType: Bug

[Bug 512567] Re: [Asus 1005PE] hotkeys adjust brightness non-monotonically

2013-09-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
It's okay on my 1005PE as far as I can tell. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512567 Title: [Asus 1005PE] hotkeys adjust brightness non-monotonically To manage notifications about

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-09-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This bug is 1 year and a half old, and it's extremely clear to me that nobody has been addressing this except for administrative processing. Administrative processing that typically puts all the burden on the bug reporter, asking him every 6 months to test the latest dev kernel while nobody else

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-09-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Also removing using hotkeys from bug title, as screen brightness CANNOT BE SET, period. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750 Title: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be

[Bug 971750] Re: BTRFS [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2013-09-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Pls note that this machine was moved to ZFS since, and then back to good ole' ext4, and the problem remains exactly the same, so it has nothing to do with BTRFS. Removing BTRFS from bug title. ** Summary changed: - BTRFS [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys + [Toshiba

[Bug 1097377] Re: Chromium browser infected by Google redirect Findgala malware

2013-07-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Not after I removed files / directories listed in comment #2 and avoided ever revisiting suspect web pages again. Now it's OK. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1097377 Title: Chromium

[Bug 1192475] Re: CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring

2013-06-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: Error when trying to add a printer from browser https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1192475/+attachment/3707177/+files/CUPS_Error%202013-06-19%2009%3A05%3A24.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1192475] [NEW] CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring

2013-06-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi there, Since upgraded from Quantal to Raring, my printer didn't work anymore, so I deleted it and (tried to) recreate it. But trying to recreate it ends (from Ubuntu's Interface) in « client- error-request-value-too-long », and, if using a browser pointed to

[Bug 1192475] Re: CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring

2013-06-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi, The problem occurs with both printers I tried, either Epson SX115 or Epson CX3200, eithern USB-connected or thru the network. When locally USB connected, the printers are properly identified and correct drivers are proposed (from the control panel interface). Only when trying to finalize the

[Bug 1192475] Re: CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring

2013-06-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
It may be worth noting that also, my /var/log/cups directory is completely empty, and trying to set any CUPS server parameter from the control panel ends in « Failed to set settings »... However : # ps awx | grep cups 2163 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed 9416 ?Ss 0:00

[Bug 1192475] Re: CUPS broken (client-error-request-value-too-long) since upgrade to Raring

2013-06-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Problem solved (for me). This was an apparmor issue, and sudo aa- complain cupsd allowed me to work around it. I had some disk space and filesystem constraints that forced me to symlink : /var/spool/ - /alt_var/spool/ /var/cache/ - /alt_var/cache/ And it seems that in this situation, apparmor

[Bug 1055952] Re: Direct data leaking to Amazon

2013-04-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
12.04 has been my last one for this very reason. I'm now a happy ArchLinux user. To put it very clearly : I just left Ubuntu because I was so pissed off by this commercial move (as well as the software library that doesn't make any difference between freeware and free sofware. Ubuntu seems not

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I don't believe in a hardware issue. The hardware has not changed and the card reader works perfectly once booted... No issue with the HDD either. I have lacked time to perform further testings yet, reason why I haven't given more information. The only thing I have noticed is that the issue

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
It looks like I still got the problem twice. I have commented out the line that calls evms_activate, so I has no more message about EVMS. OTOH I found myself with the machine staying mute at bootup (staying of the animated Ubuntu logo without asking for the passphrase), then by pressing [Esc] I

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
$ sudo dpkg -s initramfs-tools Package: initramfs-tools Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 363 Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team kernel-t...@lists.ubuntu.com Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 0.103ubuntu0.7 -- You received this bug

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi Steve, My bootkeyscript is used to perform dual-factor authentication. Typically, it fetches the LUKS VG key-file from an external device (i.e. US key or SD card) which is itself LUKS encrypted - and it prompts for a decryption passphrase for this. It gets the UUID of the LUKS container and

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: GPG detached signature for boot keyscript https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/1155222/+attachment/3575287/+files/bootkeyscript.asc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1155222] [NEW] Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: This bug has been reported upstream both to dm-cr...@saout.de and pkg- cryptsetup-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org I've recently upgraded one of my fully encrypted systems from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 Alpha, and was surprised to see my system sometimes fail to boot, complaining

[Bug 1155222] Re: Cryptsetup initramfs wants EVMS - Bug in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

2013-03-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I may have been a little quick in reading the code. I hadn't ever see any message about EVMS before upgrading from Quantal to Raring Alpha, so I assumed something had changed in between... But you're right, I just checked and the same piece of code is present in Quantal... The sometimes is real,

[Bug 736743] Re: environment block not implemented on btrfs

2013-02-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
+1 I'm suffering from this as well, and I'm very often under the impression that Ubuntu's bug reporting system is there for getting users complains and le it be, not for solving them. Over years I filled hundreds of bug reports here, almost all of them never got any solution nor fix, until the

[Bug 1097377] Re: Chromium browser infected by Google redirect Findgala malware

2013-01-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Update : I have removed ~/.cache/chromium and ~/.config/chromium , then have restored ~/.config/chromium from a filesystem snapshot (I use the excellent SuSE Snapper tool http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper ) made on january 1st - before my browser got infected. After doing so, the symptoms of

[Bug 1097377] [NEW] Chromium browser infected by Google redirect Findgala malware

2013-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal AMD64, all updates applied as of 2013/01/08. My Chromium browser got infected by the Google Redirect Findgala malware. Symptoms : When a google results page is displayed, Chromium replaces all

[Bug 1055952] Re: Direct data leaking to Amazon

2013-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
+ 100 ! Well said. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055952 Title: Direct data leaking to Amazon To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1089314] [NEW] Tomboy leaves behing hundreds of Zombie shells

2012-12-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: I found this out by accident by looking at my processes list...: 22328 ?Sl 0:28 mono /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe --search 22547 ?Z 0:00 \_ [sh] defunct 22556 ?Z 0:00 \_ [sh] defunct 22561 ?Z 0:00 \_ [sh] defunct 22565 ?

[Bug 1055952] Re: Direct data leaking to Amazon

2012-12-11 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Richard's comments must be taken very seriously, and this issue *must* be adressed in the single only possible way : Shopping lens and every related unwanted online search packages must be removed from Ubuntu, by an urgent, security, bugfix. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1083136] [NEW] Rhythmbox cannot rip CD to MP3

2012-11-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: When trying to rip a CD to MP3 Extract to library, I get a message stating that required libraries are missing. Trying to install these libraries fail - in the attached pictures, it would want to install i386 libs on and AMD64 machine, and the install button is greyed out -

[Bug 1083136] Re: Rhythmbox cannot rip CD to MP3

2012-11-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 1083136] Re: Rhythmbox cannot rip CD to MP3

2012-11-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 1061058] Re: [Quantal] gnome-control-center privacy settings are not retained

2012-11-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi Sebastien, I understand your meaning. So this may not be a bug, if this option is not a setting stating How long should history be retained but on the contrary What should I erase right now ? I truly confused it with a setting. Anyway, the meaning of this combo box is especially unclear, so

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Nothing personal here Christopher, please accept my apologies if your felt hurt by my comment, it wasn't my intention. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750 Title: [Toshiba L735-101]

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Why the f. ask people to file a separate bug report for the exact same problem on the exact same machine ? Just to mark it a duplicate later on ? I've been filing bugs for Ubuntu for 5+ years, and I would say that I'm under the impression that reporting kernel bugs in plain useless. The reporter

[Bug 1063969] Re: NVIDIA does not work with framebuffer drivers

2012-11-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
The instructions in bug #1063969 comment #7 allowed me to re-enable graphical splash on all of the 3 following NVidia configs - and all keep properly working framebuffer text consoles 1-6 : - Toshiba Satellite L735-101 : NVIDIA GPU GeForce 315M (GT218) - Dell Inspiron 9300 : NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go

[Bug 1059827] Re: Non trival grub2 installs no longer fit in small embed areas

2012-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Stating that either LVM or RAID are exotic is simply bullshit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059827 Title: Non trival grub2 installs no longer fit in small embed areas To manage

[Bug 1059827] Re: Non trival grub2 installs no longer fit in small embed areas

2012-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
And BTW it's not only LVM or RAID that suffer from this issue, but also BTRFS installs, ZFS installs... Everything that is a bit more complex than ext3/4 on plain good ol'e DOS disk partitions... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Christopher M. Penalver (#60) I tried with Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Live AMD64 per your request. My Toshiba L735-101 backlight keys have absolutely no visible effect, whether or not I boot with acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor So it seems it wasn't working by that time, either. ** Changed in:

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi Christopher, I'm afraid I cannot test a future RC kernel on this machine. I explain : I use a BTRFS filesystem, and it already happened to me once that, testing a future kernel modified my BTRFS filesystem features somehow, then returning back to usual (older) kernel broke my FS, needing me to

[Bug 932882] Re: Update of a printer driver package does not update the PPD files of the existing queues for this driver

2012-11-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming. Got it as well. ** Changed in: gutenprint (Ubuntu Quantal) 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/932882 Title: Update of a printer driver package

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I believe I didn't have this machine before Precise, so I cannot tell for earlier releases... ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1059827] Re: Non trival grub2 installs no longer fit in small embed areas

2012-10-22 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTRFS support takes a larger disk space, so you either must leave a couple (say 4) MB of free space between the start of he disk and first partition, or create a small BIOS GRUB partition there (that you don't mount or otherwise use, grub will take care of it). -- You received this bug

[Bug 736743] Re: environment block not implemented on btrfs

2012-10-22 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
+1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736743 Title: environment block not implemented on btrfs To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1062335] Re: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ?

2012-10-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
For info, this control now lies in /etc/sysctl.d/10-magic-sysrq.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062335 Title: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ? To manage

[Bug 1067374] [NEW] [Quantal] [Regression] update-manager fails and exits if any source cannot be reached

2012-10-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Confirming immediately, as behaviour is consistent across 6 machines and more than a month. In Quantal, update-manager immediately exits if any of the sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* is temporarily unreachable, or if its package list

[Bug 1062335] Re: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ?

2012-10-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Looks like this is solved, I just could kill tasks using MagicSysRq... ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062335

[Bug 1054136] Re: Quantal Beta 1 fresh install : No lightdm graphical login

2012-10-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I see the bug on 3 machines with (different) Nvidia cards, one machine with ATI, one machine with Intel. That does not seem to be related to any specific graphics card... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1054136] Re: Quantal Beta 1 fresh install : No lightdm graphical login

2012-10-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This bug is still around at Quantal final freeze... I see it on 5 (!) different machines : randomly, but often, the system boots but the GUI doesn't start, I need to sudo start ligthdm from a text console... A showstopper for Linux beginners... -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1066959] [NEW] [Quantal] Plymouth broken for NVidia graphics with proprietary drivers

2012-10-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, I've seen this happen on 3 different machines with 3 different NVidia graphics cards, so I confirm this immediately. Somewhere during the updates between Quantal Beta 1 and Beta 2, plymouth graphics boot got broken for all machines with NVidia cards, using proprietary

[Bug 1063886] Re: [Regression] mount or df don't see root fs anymore

2012-10-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Latest updates fixed this on all machines where I had noticed it. Marking as fix released. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1062335] Re: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ?

2012-10-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I am sorry, but this is not a kernel bug, but a kernel compilation option (parameter). So this has nothing to do with an upstream kernel, but only with the kernel configuration parameters that Ubuntu applies (and that was changed). ** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing -- You received this

[Bug 1063886] Re: [Regression] mount or df don't see root fs anymore

2012-10-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I am sorry, but have currently no time available for testing non standard packages or upstream kernels anymore, for the time being. I have noticed and reported the bug, but am not able to help tracking it further (although it seems obvious enough to be noticed by many...) Kind regards. ** Tags

[Bug 1062335] Re: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ?

2012-10-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Yes, they do work in Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062335 Title: Magic SysRq E and I disabled in Quantal Ubuntu kernels ? To manage notifications about this bug go to:

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