[Bug 1895157] Re: Boinc cannot enable RPC access to start client or manager

2020-11-03 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Tried the suggestion in comment #9 and that produced the error message "Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC." I already did a reinstall using aptitude. I also found a version of the file at a higher level, but messing with that one didn't help, either. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1895157] Re: Boinc cannot enable RPC access to start client or manager

2020-11-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
The minimal solution of comment #4 did not work for me. I also tried manually changing the permissions of the file to make it "Read and write", but I didn't look for the BOINC group, so I'm going to try that next... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 492995] Re: Howmany option from grub no longer available in grub2

2020-03-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Not sure why it's marked incomplete at this late date, but if I remember correctly the problem was fixed not long after I reported it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492995 Title:

[Bug 1815258] Re: 4.18.0-14-generic unbootable on Toshiba

2019-02-11 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Okay, after the latest update (from the 0-13 kernel) it now seems to be booting normally. I hope that means the problem has been corrected and this bug can be closed. Perhaps some kind of regression bug? If anyone over there wants me to collect any additional information about what was going on,

[Bug 1815258] Re: 4.18.0-14-generic unbootable on Toshiba

2019-02-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I am unable to run that command under the afflicted kernel because the machine cannot boot under that kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815258 Title: 4.18.0-14-generic

[Bug 1815258] Re: 4.18.0-14-generic unbootable on Toshiba

2019-02-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
The robotic message tells me to change the status to confirmed after adding the previous comment, but the instructions there say that the confirmed status is supposed to be done by someone else. By the way, my current theory (based on weak understanding) is that there might be some logs of the

[Bug 1815258] Re: 4.18.0-14-generic unbootable on Toshiba

2019-02-08 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Description changed: After the update for the 4.18.0-14-generic kernel the machine freezes on booting. Machine still books under the 0-13 kernel. Booting in Recovery Mode seems go normally to the Recovery Menu. At that point it reports - "Starting Avahi mDNS-SD Stack" and gets and OK.

[Bug 1815258] [NEW] 4.18.0-14-generic unbootable on Toshiba

2019-02-08 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: After the update for the 4.18.0-14-generic kernel the machine freezes on booting. Machine still books under the 0-13 kernel. Booting in Recovery Mode seems go normally to the Recovery Menu. At that point it reports "Starting Avahi mDNS-SD Stack" and gets and OK. That is

[Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-05-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Correction: "when away" should be "went away". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532226 Title: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-05-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
@Ian (ian-bradley) You say it makes a lot of sense, but not to me, so I must have been unclear in my description of what does not make sense. The Title bar where the menus will appear is there and taking up screen real estate whether or not you are hovering over it. The new feature (if I

[Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-04-27 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
How do we know if this problem has gone away? Anyway, I'm pretty sure that disabling the hover for menus was sufficient to eliminate the problem on my machine. )However I can't imagine why anyone would want such a feature in the first place. Just because Microsoft uses a similar feature in

[Bug 1574189] Re: Memory leak in BOINC Manager

2016-04-25 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1532226 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532226 At this time I'm inclined to regard this as a separate bug not directly related to the gdk menu bar problem. They appeared at the same time, but that was just because of the upgrade. Not sure how to prove

[Bug 1532226] Re: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot

2016-04-25 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
About 90% sure this is the same as a bug I tried to report earlier, but is there any test to be sure? I have a couple of peculiar observations that might help in the diagnosis and cure... Suspending seemed to fix it, at least temporarily. Before that there was nothing random about it. There were

[Bug 1574160] Re: Menu bar options lost for most programs

2016-04-25 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1532226 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532226 Is there any way to confirm that I am 90% sure that Bug #1532226 is the proper one for what I reported? (Even better, is there some way I could have been directed to that bug as I was describing my symptoms

[Bug 1574189] Re: Memory leak in BOINC Manager

2016-04-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
If it is related to the Menu bar bug I reported earlier, then this one should be folded into that one (Bug 1574160) and the Bug Heat of that one should be increased. My initial research suggested that was the primary problem, but I'm not certain that the apparent bug isn't a design change with an

[Bug 1574189] [NEW] Memory leak in BOINC Manager

2016-04-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: This behavior only began after installing 16.04 a few days ago. Watching BOINC Manager start with four running tasks, the memory utilization steadily creeps upward from about 30% and eventually it starts shutting down tasks, but has to be tricked into resetting the memory

[Bug 1574160] [NEW] Menu bar options lost for most programs

2016-04-23 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: The Summary is just the most distinctive symptom now. There seem to be a number of related pre-release reports, but none of them seemed the correct link to what I'm seeing. Only Firefox seems to have access to the Menu bar now. All other programs display only the program

[Bug 1573210] Re: Huge memory leak when playing video in Ubuntu 16.04

2016-04-22 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Not sure if it's the same problem, but if so, BOINC is triggering it, too. GPU is enabled, so that might be related to the video observation above. Not sure how to include the diagnostic information if that will help, but right now I'm going to reboot and confirm that the fresh boot is normal. Oh

[Bug 197537] Re: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text

2011-09-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
god damn spammer. How is this sort of crap supposed to be reported? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 Title: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text

[Bug 656777] Re: Wrong keyboard selection with starting directly ubiquity

2011-04-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Similar problem in the Japanese version--but at this point I'm expecting Ubuntu to become more useless with each so-called upgrade. I'm just trying to do the upgrade, and the first question it asks is for a keyboard, but it does NOT offer ANY option that is recognizably similar to the keyboard

[Bug 747854] Re: console-setup kernel args no longer recognized

2011-04-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I think I'm seeing this problem in the upgrade causing it to ask me to select a keyboard when there should be no change in the keyboard configuration--but at this point I'm expecting Ubuntu to become more useless and troublesome with each so-called upgrade. Look, I'm just trying to do the upgrade,

[Bug 728643] Re: Kinetic scrolling improperly interacts with modifier keys

2011-04-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I think this bug is affecting me because I cannot install ANY keyboard for my ThinkPad--but at this point I'm expecting Ubuntu to become more useless and troublesome with each so-called upgrade. Look, I'm just trying to do the upgrade, and the first question it asks is for a keyboard, but it does

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2010-09-19 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'll just note that I'm still seeing it, but quite rarely now. In contrast, the new Firefox shutdown problem has become quite frequent... -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-09-19 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Just stopped by to see if anyone else has reported it. Amusingly enough, I asked the other local user of Ubuntu about it, and he said his Firefox does it, too--but he's never bothered to report it. He just figured it was because he has too many Firefox windows open, which got me to try the

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-18 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Sorry I've been kind of busy and haven't gotten back to you on this. I really do appreciate your attempt to follow up on it, and I value your technical acumen, but like many people, I have competing priorities. I've already noted why Ubuntu has become a relatively low one for me. More importantly,

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
WA70:~$ lspci -vvnn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 01) Subsystem: Sharp corporation Device [13bd:104c] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap-

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
The attempt to add the basic Report a Problem... information failed, as did the attempt to use the apport-collect 612131. This was after the first unprovoked shutdown of the evening, which was actually quite slow --already over an hour. -- Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

[Bug 614861] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-08 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Working on a reliable Windows computer now, so I can comment in a bit more detail. Sad to report it, but I used to think of Ubuntu as more reliable than Windows. Because this shutdown bug was so annoying and unpredictable and undiagnosable, I finally decided to upgrade the machine in question

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-08 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Thank you (Mr Gersten) for linking from the other bug. If I can at least temporarily overcome my increasingly hopeless feelings towards Ubuntu, I may also attempt the steps recommended by madbiologist (since the backtrace approach failed (and going even farther by the way, the backtrace had

[Bug 614861] [NEW] Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 will it even save the bug report this time? guess what. I don't care. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Aug 8 08:35:41 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 ProcEnviron:

[Bug 614861] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53252772/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53252773/XsessionErrors.txt -- Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614861 You received this bug

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
No, I cannot do that because your (Micah Gersten's) instructions (in the previous message and in the linked webpage) are incomplete or incorrect. I have just wasted another half hour or so trying to figure out various combinations of the most likely corrections. I made that much effort in an

[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-08-01 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
By the way, even if I had succeeded, I still do not have any reliable mechanism with which to trigger the bug. It happens when it feels like happening. The last time just happened to be when I was looking at the email that told me you had posted your comment to Launchpad. Sometimes it happens

[Bug 316586] Re: firefox-3.0 shutdown automatically when i open web page

2010-07-31 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Whoops. This is obviously not the bug I'm looking for, though it sounded very similar... -- firefox-3.0 shutdown automatically when i open web page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316586 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 612131] [NEW] Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

2010-07-31 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 This is in Firefox 3.6.8, but may have begun with 3.6.7 under Ubuntu 9.04. (Later versions of Ubuntu have been tested on the machine, but this seems to be the most stable. The main stability problem is probably related to some kind of display

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Thanks to whoever provided the useful reminder about the tab setting in response to the previous spleen venting. I don' t know if this is really the same bug I'm seeing--and I don't care anymore. After several years of using Ubuntu, I am now convinced that it is going down the toilet and cannot

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Oh yeah. One more point of annoyance. A bug-reporting system that strongly depends on a buggy piece of software is not worth much. However, I've already suggested the obvious REAL improvement directed at the root of increasing the regression testing. -- [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I don't mind discussing thing, but it seems pretty pointless. Actually, on the two machines that I normally run under Ubuntu, I also am forced to use older versions of Ubuntu because the newer versions are NOT reliable enough. I am running the newest version experimentally on three machines--but I

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I have (at least twice) already used the supposedly automatic system to collect and submit the information that is supposed to diagnose these new Firefox problems. In the past, before I lost hope for Ubuntu, I also volunteered to undertake additional diagnostic measures or to run additional tests

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I was getting too afraid to continue pending the next crash, but so far it's been stable... knock on wood I really want viable alternatives to Windows. I believe that freedom is a good thing and that freedom depends on meaningful choice. Linux could be such a choice, but so far it has remained a

[Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2010-07-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
With regards to the earlier comment about Windows, I believe there was only one time in my life when I freely purchased a copy of Windows, though there were a couple of times when I chose to buy other Microsoft products. Long time ago. I'm still forced to use Microsoft products--because their

[Bug 609593] [NEW] Lots of problems with new Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 Actually several of those existing bug reports are probably the same, but at this point I don't care enough about Firefox to worry about it. I'm only writing this because the new bugs are just SO fucked up and they AGAIN clearly show the need

[Bug 609593] Re: Lots of problems with new Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52446667/Dependencies.txt -- Lots of problems with new Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 609593] Re: Lots of problems with new Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Upon reflection, I think that #3 should be the utter mangling of the form and search history data. It USED to be a useful feature in Firefox. -- Lots of problems with new Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 609593] Re: Lots of problems with new Firefox

2010-07-24 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Oh yes. Apologies for the profanity. I tried to keep it calm, but one word slipped through. Not really a defense of my transgression, but if I wasn't so annoyed, I wouldn't have wasted the time in the first place. Overall, I'm just venting my frustration at the failure of Ubuntu, which long ago

[Bug 198162] Re: GNOME Bug Report Tool missing arguments

2010-06-19 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I couldn't remember this discussion after a couple of years, but I was amused by the comment and depressed to see that after two (more) years things have NOT turned around. I still want alternatives to Microsoft's awful software, but the major change of the last few years is that Microsoft has

[Bug 492995] Re: Howmany option from grub no longer available in grub2

2010-06-03 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Congratulations on figuring out the new hoops to jump through to report a bug. I couldn't figure it out, but at this point I don't care enough about Ubuntu to worry about it. I'm just stalling and waiting for a better alternative, perhaps Chrome? (My employer favors RHEL, but I can barely stand

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2010-05-02 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I don't object to your closing it, but I feel obliged to let you know you that I think this bug is still present in Koala. However, the release before Koala seems to be good enough, and that's where I've been staying with the machine for most of the time. I'm going to go ahead and install the new

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2010-04-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Should I do this from the J or K version? Or maybe wait for L? I have both J and K installed here, but Koala had so many problems with the sound card that I still regard it as experimental and I normally run from J. The problem has become quite infrequent under J, however, so I wasn't too worried

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2010-02-06 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I finally got this bug into a can yesterday. I thought it had gone away, but it started showing up again, though very rarely. Then yesterday, I found a way to reproduce it. At least it worked twice in a row. If someone will tell me what to do, maybe it will be possible to diagnose it now. The

[Bug 197537] Re: [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text

2010-01-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I wanted to check the status of this ancient bug, but on this particular machine I only have a VMware Player with Ubuntu as a guest OS. It runs, but I am unable to get the Japanese support to work properly for Japanese input now that I have upgraded it to the newest version of Ubuntu. I can

[Bug 428619] Re: pulseaudio crackle/distortion with cs46xx on latest update

2010-01-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
This bug is listed as a duplicate of a different bug report that more accurately described the symptoms that I am seeing. In my machines. What I see is total sound failure (apart from a few intermittent clicks at boot time) on machines that worked fine with 9.04. That includes three machines from

[Bug 428619] Re: pulseaudio crackle/distortion with cs46xx on latest update

2010-01-30 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Whoops, I meant to say at least 3 machines, but I think I may have tested it on as many as five machines that failed, and found only one machine where the sound worked properly (from the live CD, as I recall). -- pulseaudio crackle/distortion with cs46xx on latest update

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2009-12-19 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'm afraid to say anything, since I haven't seen the bug in a long time. Let me knock on some wood before continuing... However, from looking at this thread now, I'm pretty sure you were talking to someone else, probably Bryce Harrington. Do you want me to try to run the same information? I don't

[Bug 478134] Re: Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Sorry I'm slow getting back to you on this. I sort of hoped it was just the usual glitches (even though they're supposed to be ready to release the software when they release it)... However, it appears the sound- related problems are much more serious than I understood at the time, and much more

[Bug 405405] Re: [Koala] problem with sound in totem, rhytmbox, but no in firefoxes flash videos

2009-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'm seeing related problems in two machines, but I can say that Firefox is not involved in my case... The machines worked well until Koala upgrades apparently destroyed the sound capabilities... (Mostly commenting here so that (I think) I'll be subscribed for updated information on this bug in

[Bug 411574] Re: [karmic] No sound on Intel 82801H HD Audio

2009-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Different Shannon here... I think I'm confirming this bug for two machines and hoping to see updates. However, so far I'm mostly just overwhelmed by noise and a feeling of hopelessness. This seems to be a pretty basic level of functionality. About the only things I can see to add to the

[Bug 480596] Re: Incompatible extension 'Google Gears' in Firefox 3.5

2009-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'm pretty sure I've been seeing the same problem for several weeks now, but only on one machine. It's a Sharp running the Jackalope version of Ubuntu, and is reported almost every boot, and sometimes twice, when it apparently tries to upgrade the extension version. The error message says to

[Bug 478134] [NEW] Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem My main audio use of Ubuntu was for streaming MP3 audio, and it's been working fine (for perhaps a year or two on this machine) until the Koala upgrade. It seems to be attempting to do something, but there's no sound and I can't find any way to get

[Bug 478134] Re: Totem silent in VMware Player after Koala upgrade

2009-11-07 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352536/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352537/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35352538/ProcStatus.txt -- Totem

[Bug 222931] Re: Gparted can't resize NTFS

2009-07-23 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'm the original reporter, but I'm unsure how to check it. I can say that it does sound plausible as the explanation for what I saw. If so, then what I did with the Windows internal (chkdsk?) disk checking utility (whatever it is in the tools from the disk properties?) was actually resetting or

[Bug 392691] Re: Security Certificate only valid for IE

2009-07-14 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I've had trouble with that new bug reporting feature you mentioned, so I have mostly been bypassing it. I should try to go back to it to see if the bugs have been worked out of the bug reporting... As regards this bug, I just installed Firefox 3.5, and I can confirm that the same problem exists

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2009-07-11 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Just had another one, but that's only the second time since switching to Jackelope, so I feel like it's mostly cured. However, I'll say this was an especially nasty one to fix. The automatic recovery did not work and after several failed iterations, I remembered to try a manual fsck, which seems

[Bug 343798] Re: Consider adding GlobalSign CA certificate

2009-07-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Well, now I can't find the other bug report that I prepared, but the problem is more complicated than it appears, and it only affects Firefox. Since I can't find that bug, I'll go ahead and summarize the critical details here, and attach the NTTPC certificate that is supposed to use GlobalSign.

[Bug 343798] Re: Consider adding GlobalSign CA certificate

2009-07-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'm still confused why it works for IE but not Firefox, but this doesn't seem to be the right venue for that discussion in detail. I did try to find out what was going on, but obviously didn't get the right reference. Can you post a URL for an explanation focusing on the specific problem you

[Bug 343798] Re: Consider adding GlobalSign CA certificate

2009-07-03 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Well, whatever is going on is rather more complicated, but I'm going to report those details over in a newer bug report. However, what I can say is that there is definitely something wrong with the way Firefox is handling this Certificate Authority, even though the appropriate root authority is

[Bug 392691] Re: Security Certificate only valid for IE

2009-07-03 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
More data: There appear to be two GlobalSign root certificates--and they are already installed. Here is a case-by-case report of what I know: In Ubuntu (with Firefox, of course), the NTTPC certificate fails, reporting that GlobalSign is not known. Looking in the list of installed certificates, it

[Bug 392691] Re: Security Certificate only valid for IE

2009-07-02 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Figured out how to read it, though not how to cut and paste it into this system (though I'd think some expert there should be able to figure it out from the file I attached?). So here is the scoop on the anti-Firefox security certificate: Common Name: GlobalSign Domain Validation CA Organization:

[Bug 343798] Re: Consider adding GlobalSign CA certificate

2009-07-02 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I ran into this same certificate authority being used by NTTPC, a subsidiary of NTT, the main phone company of Japan. IE accepts it, but I don't think it's pure anti-Firefox behavior, just typical mindless incompetence from the NTT zombies. The status of this bug seems to claim the bug has been

[Bug 392691] [NEW] Security Certificate only valid for IE

2009-06-26 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: Not sure exactly where to report this, but the problem is really a kind of anti-Firefox problem. The security certificate is supported by IE, but returns the error message below from Firefox. I've tested it both in Ubuntu and under Windows (in the same machine where IE

[Bug 392691] Re: Security Certificate only valid for IE

2009-06-26 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
** Attachment added: www.nttpc.ne.jp http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28438182/www.nttpc.ne.jp -- Security Certificate only valid for IE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2009-06-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I should have known better to say anything... It's back! Unprovoked and unexplained white screen of death. Oh well. Overall I still think Jaunty Jackalope is generally better than the last few releases of Ubuntu for this troublesome machine. Time to try a complete install from scratch? --

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2009-06-04 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Knocking on wood, but it seems that Jackalope has fixed this bug. I haven't seen any of these crashes since I upgraded to Jackalope. -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 340857] [NEW] NetworkManager needs dnsmasq-base to share a connection

2009-03-10 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: No warning messages or anything, but NetworkManager is unable to share a connection unless dnsmasq-base is installed. When you select the option to share the connection Shared to other computers, it should obviously warn you if dnsmasq-base is not installed. I saw some

[Bug 340853] [NEW] NetworkManager can't connect D02HW to eMobile (Japan)

2009-03-10 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Public bug reported: This D02HW is a Chinese-made USB device, but will not connect through NetworkManager. I've been told that eMobile has configured their network in such a way that this problem affects many of the other devices they supply for use with their wireless network. (The eMobile

[Bug 287258] Re: ALSA doesn't work after upgrade to Intrepid Ibex beta

2009-02-16 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Seems pointless to note that I'm another victim of this bug, closed or not. Main reason I'm replying is because this particular description of the problem seems to match my own particular version of the problem more closely than the various other bug reports I've looked at. I would say so far, but

[Bug 245946] Re: Intrepid Ibex - Lost sound after dist-upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Me, too, on the death of sound. Tried many of the things in this thread, followed some of the links and tried lots of the things in those places, too. Already spent way too much time on this, so I'm giving up, but just feel obliged to note that it seems to be another example of Ubuntu not being

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-28 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
With poppler-data installed it shows garbage characters all over the place. Some of them were graphic characters, and others looked like numbers from Unicode. Seems like xpdf is still the solution. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-27 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Well, I just checked the latest Japanese file, and it's still broken, and xpdf still works properly. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2009-01-27 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Whoops. I forgot to note that I'm running Ibix 8.10 now, and with all of the latest updates. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2009-01-05 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Seems to be worse than usual now. Already two crashes this morning. At this point I'm teetering on giving up Ubuntu. It's not very useful when the machine can crash at any moment, is it? I suppose the alternative would be to try a different computer, but that sort of cancels the argument that

[Bug 165316] Re: finding a lost swap partition?

2008-12-22 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I'll just note that I ran into some of these problems again in conjunction with some more upgrades. I'm getting much too familiar with the internal GRUB commands to find partitions and to find and display files. I feel like the proper solution would be a graphic repair interface for GRUB. In

[Bug 230922] Re: Firefox grays out and crashes

2008-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I have just confirmed that it continues to exist in Ibex, but I still have no real idea about the real cause and I'm still unwilling (and regard myself as basically technically incompetent) to tackle the complicated backtrace procedures. Currently what I have done is disable the proprietary

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Bug has survived the transition to Ibex, apparently. I initially did the upgrade to a scratch partition and ran it for a few days without seeing the crash, but as soon as I upgraded my main working partition, it returned. At least twice in the last few days since I did the upgrade. I noticed that

[Bug 246205] Re: Wordcommunitygrid Message Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates.

2008-11-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Mostly just noting that I ran into this too, and think it should have a high priority for repair. Many, or perhaps most people will never even notice that it's hung up. I also wish someone would modify the misleading directions. Being too enthusiastic, I used the version that said to detach from

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-10-11 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
The frequency of the crashes is increasing again after a low-crash period. Lovely pastel death this morning. Right now I have to regard the machine when running under Ubuntu as unsuitable for any serious work (unless the working program includes a Gmail-like remote backup every few minutes). This

[Bug 185157] Re: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon

2008-09-29 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I haven't been willing to try Intrepid yet, but I'm still seeing it on one machine. I actually have a highly reproducible version on that machine. Do you want me to try to get some diagnostics, or can it be regarded as a moot point as Intrepid arrives? -- There was an error starting the GNOME

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-09-26 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Well, I can now confirm that the .gnomerc approach did not solve the problem. There was one crash since I added that file. Just to confirm I did it right, here is the cat result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .gnomerc export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity I need to run another memory check from GRUB, but I

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-09-22 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Getting really bad these days, with increasingly frequent crashes. Minor variant is that not all of them are white screens now, but sometimes pastel colors of various types. -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-09-22 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
There is no .gnomerc file here, and I have upgraded to Hardy. The problem is rather sporadic, and so far I haven't been able to spot any sure-fire trigger. Sometimes it doesn't appear for weeks, and other times it will happen several times within a few hours. -- Crash to white screen of death

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-09-22 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Just had another one. At least three or four crashes in the last few hours... I'm trying your .gnomerc solution, though I'm not happy about the idea of winding up in a unique configuration that I don't really know how to maintain -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

[Bug 181184] Re: vertical text spacing problem

2008-09-02 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
What new information did you ask for? The bug still existed the last time I checked, but you never asked for anything else. I understand you want to close the open bug reports, but shouldn't you fix the bugs first? Would it help to remind you that Microsoft Office does print tategaki correctly?

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-08-25 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Just had another one, and there was a day last week when I had about three of them in just a few hours. Seems like it's getting worse again. However, it also seems like no one else is seeing it... Not sure what that signifies, but I don't feel like this is an especially odd machine. Perhaps the

[Bug 197537] Re: Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

2008-08-20 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Not sure which way you're handling this, but the bug is still present in the default document viewer as of today. However, my workaround was to install the xpdf viewer, and it handles the Japanese without any problems. -- Can't read PDF file with Japanese text

[Bug 159594] Re: Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?)

2008-08-14 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Hadn't seen it for a while, but just had one a few minutes ago. Still don't know what diagnostic information to collect, and still can't stop any particular trigger event. -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug

[Bug 159649] Re: gcj plugin broken and won't uninstall

2008-08-10 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Mostly I'm running Hardy now, and I haven't attempted to use Java on my last Gutsy machines. However, I concur that the bug is probably closeable, but still don't know how to do it. -- gcj plugin broken and won't uninstall https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159649 You received this bug notification

[Bug 156536] Re: BOINC World Community Grid stuck Waiting for memory

2008-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
I still see it sometimes, but more rarely. It's become one of those things that's fluttering at the edge of traceability. That machine actually has two versions of Ubuntu on it right now. My feeling is that the problem is less common with Hardy Heron, but more common with Gutsy. When it does

[Bug 229425] Re: Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer

2008-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
No one else has reported a similar problem on this bug, and I haven't seen it in a long time, so I think it can be closed on the belief it was related to some software that was upgraded later on. However, I don't see any way for me to close it. Wait, maybe I found it... -- Can't quit Firefox or

[Bug 229425] Re: Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer

2008-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Seems to be the only thing I can mark it with, though it's basically just a guess that the bug was fixed by something somewhere. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Fix Released -- Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229425 You received

[Bug 229425] Re: Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer

2008-08-09 Thread shanen (Shannon Jacobs)
Nope. I see where I can add new statuses, but none of the available options seems to be the correct one for it. -- Can't quit Firefox or shutdown computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229425 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

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