[Bug 771264] [NEW] error creating certificate which expires after 2038

2011-04-26 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openvpn When generating a new certificate, if the variables CA_EXPIRE or KEY_EXPIRE put the expiration date after 19-Jan-2038, then pkitool will create a certificate which expires around 1902 and also corrupt keys/index.txt so that the next certificate

[Bug 201786] Re: ssh Agent admitted failure to sign using the key on big endian machines

2010-02-05 Thread bitinerant
This one bit me when I deleted my old ssh keys and generated new ones on Karmic. Both work-arounds worked for me (I tried them individually)--adding the line export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0 to ~/.bashrc OR running ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa. I like the latter better because it doesn't require extra work to

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2008-11-04 Thread bitinerant
Perhaps this problem has something to do with the battery calibration. I experience this problem in Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04. A while back, I read something about Apple's recommendation to occasionally allow the MacBook battery to completely discharge and then recharge in order to

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-08 Thread bitinerant
I attempted to get a backtrace, but I'm not sure it worked. After attaching gdb to the frozen polytopes process, gdb froze (ctrl-c did not work) until I killed the polytopes process from another terminal window. At that point gdb gave some error messages. It did then allow me to dump a

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-09 Thread bitinerant
I tried: gdb /usr/lib/xscreensaver/polytopes 21 | tee gdb-polytopes.txt and typed 'run' in gdb. It successfully brought up the Polytopes screensaver in a window. Pressing escape closed the window. However, I repeated this process about 7000 times (via a script!) and it never locked up.

[Bug 319097] Re: [intel] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-02-10 Thread bitinerant
My prior backtrace attempt (2009-02-08) was over the network via ssh. I tried it again today, but this time I attached gdb to the polytopes process BEFORE polytopes locked up. However, the result was nearly identical to the log I uploaded on 2009-02-08. In short, once polytopes locked up,

[Bug 240738] Re: syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad

2008-11-22 Thread bitinerant
This problem has not been fixed in Intrepid. -- syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240738 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2008-12-11 Thread bitinerant
I should say that a couple of weeks after I wrote the above description, the problem did re-occur, and at that point I had upgraded to 8.10. This time I discharged from 100% to 75% in OS X; we'll see how long that 'fixes' it. -- macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

[Bug 319097] [NEW] polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-19 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xscreensaver-gl I returned to my laptop after several minutes and the Polytopes screensaver was moving normally. I did not press shift or any other key to clear the screensaver. Instead, I began typing my password. At about the first letter of the

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-19 Thread bitinerant
I also had a very similar problem with the Lockward screensaver in early Nov-2008. Lockward is also part of the package xscreensaver-gl. At that time I was running Ubuntu 8.04. -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: /etc/X11/xorg.conf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475274/xorg.conf -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475305/Xorg.0.log -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 319097] Re: polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset

2009-01-20 Thread bitinerant
** Attachment added: sudo lspci -vvnn http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21475336/lspci -- polytopes screensaver freezes, requiring hard reset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 215074] Re: macbook battery info not readable, appears empty

2009-01-14 Thread bitinerant
This seems to be the same problem described on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=502674 It says it is solved by resetting the SMC to factory defaults (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US). However, this seems like a work-around rather than a solution. -- macbook battery

[Bug 289686] Re: evolution contacts are lost on upgrade to [8.10] RC

2008-11-24 Thread bitinerant
I also have missing contacts after upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2). However, for me not all of the contacts are missing. My primary contacts folder displays 46 contacts, but strings ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db |grep '^BEGIN:VCARD' |wc -l

[Bug 222597] Re: [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc

2008-12-03 Thread bitinerant
My `sudo lspci -vvnn` is also attached (system where .mp3 and .avi still skip). I'll try to do the other testing soon. ** Attachment added: 222597_lspci-vvnn.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20174221/222597_lspci-vvnn.txt -- [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc

[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hidp HID_QUIRK_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2008-12-05 Thread bitinerant
This problem has frustrated me ever since I upgraded to Intrepid. I have the same model of Mighty Mouse; here is the applicable line from `cat /proc/bus/input/devices`: I: Bus=0005 Vendor=05ac Product=030c Version=0200 I don't think I'm up to compiling a new kernel. I have tried many

[Bug 222597] Re: [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc

2008-12-01 Thread bitinerant
In my tests (two or three files for each file type), .mp3 and .avi still skip, while .ogg and .wma do not skip. Strange. VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko on Ubuntu 8.10 (32bit version). -- [Hardy] skipping sound in vlc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222597 You received this bug notification

[Bug 468132] Re: Evolution doesn't add words to dictionary

2009-11-28 Thread bitinerant
This is a regression--adding words to the Evolution custom dictionary worked fine in Ubuntu 9.04. I am experiencing this problem on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit with the 'English' and 'English (United States)' dictionaries enabled. Three other people at http://ubuntu-

[Bug 438379] Re: ext4 journal error, remounted read-only after resume

2009-12-22 Thread bitinerant
Four times now I have experienced what I think is exactly the same problem (touch: cannot touch `testfile': Read-only file system) except that it happened while the computer was on rather than after resume. Three of the four times I was away from my laptop when it happened and had to kill the

[Bug 414560] Re: ath9k disassociates/reassociates a lot

2009-12-23 Thread bitinerant
Thanks for the tip, but the command `iwconfig wlan1 power off` does not help on my system. I figured out how to visualize the network pauses by printing dots to the terminal in a background process while connecting to a remote system via ssh and asking it to count. See attachment for details.

[Bug 373680] Re: network-manager fails periodically , on backgound networks scan?

2009-12-11 Thread bitinerant
After installing linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic a few days ago I began experiencing periodic pauses lasting several seconds, making working in ssh very cumbersome. Doing a 'ping 192.168.1.1' at the same time as 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' makes the pauses obvious and displays

[Bug 458545] Re: Cairo/Gdk shapes not visible on Intel gpu since Karmic

2009-12-11 Thread bitinerant
This fixes the problem for me as well, Intel 945GM: https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/drivers-only/+files /xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.9.1~git-0ubuntu0tormod_i386.deb -- Cairo/Gdk shapes not visible on Intel gpu since Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458545 You received this

[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2009-07-19 Thread bitinerant
Bertl, thank you! This bug has been bothering me for about nine months. Your provisional patch worked well for me (Ubuntu 9.04). My Mighty Mouse vendor and device IDs are listed in earlier comments from me. -- Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

[Bug 415203] [NEW] Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database

2009-08-18 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: The mobile broadband provider AWCC (Afghan Wireless, http://www.afghan- wireless.com/) needs to be added to the database. I manually edited the file /usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml and addeded these lines: !-- Afghanistan -- country

[Bug 415203] Re: Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database

2009-08-30 Thread bitinerant
Bump. -- Need to add AWCC to Mobile Broadband database https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 574663] Re: Evince fails to properly print pdf files

2012-01-27 Thread bitinerant
I reproduced this problem in 11.10 Oneiric 64-bit by opening the 655-page PDF linked above in Evince and printing to a Postscript file, then viewing the .ps file in Evince. The on-screen PDF looks fine, as does Print Preview in Evince. A screenshot of page 5 of the .ps file is attached. **

[Bug 296922] Re: Unknown encoder mp3 error in ffmpeg (ibex)

2012-02-27 Thread bitinerant
@intuited - You're doing the right thing. Just type 'y' rather than 'q'. It needs to remove those two packages, but will install alternate packages which satisfy all the necessary dependencies. I suspect that the pairs of packages that seem to do the same thing are for legal reasons--one

[Bug 938069] [NEW] extra pane width messed up when viewing Trash side-by-side with another folder

2012-02-21 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: To reproduce: * open Trash * select View Extra Pane (or press F3) * select Go Home Observed results: the Trash pane width unexpectedly changes to fill about 85% of the window Expected results: the width does not change I'm seeing this on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit

[Bug 876049] Re: Opening extra pane causes current pane to be squished

2012-02-22 Thread bitinerant
I am unable to reproduce this bug as described, but I can easliy reproduce bug 938069 (marked as dup of this one) via: * open Trash * select View Extra Pane (or press F3) * select Go Home I'll let the programmers decide if these are really the same issue. -- You received this bug

[Bug 668079] Re: [Upstream] Rotated text is invisible unless Vertical Alignment=BOTTOM

2011-12-12 Thread bitinerant
For text rotated 270 degrees, text is invisible unless Vertical Alignment=TOP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668079 Title: [Upstream] Rotated text is invisible unless Vertical

[Bug 801084] Re: Missing method System.Type::op_Inequality(Type, Type)

2011-12-27 Thread bitinerant
baltasarq filed a new bug for this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mono/+bug/882501 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801084 Title: Missing method

[Bug 291881] Re: Search folders have the wrong Unread count

2009-05-12 Thread bitinerant
I had to delete and then re-create my search folder after the upgrade to Jaunty to get this to work ('Refresh' did not help), but now it seems fine. -- Search folders have the wrong Unread count https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 291408] Re: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way!

2009-04-28 Thread bitinerant
The problem is still here in the Ubuntu Jaunty Final Release Ditto! -- Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: hid APPLE_INVERT_HWHEEL actually inverts wheel wrong way! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 203574] Re: Eject should eject the CD-ROM drive tray

2009-01-02 Thread bitinerant
Confirmed on Ubuntu 8.10 with updates. This is a particularly problematic problem on CD drives without a manual eject button (e.g. MacBook) after inserting an unreadable CD. Until I discovered this bug report, I did not know how to eject my CD without rebooting. gnome-mount --text --eject

[Bug 771264] [NEW] error creating certificate which expires after 2038

2011-04-26 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openvpn When generating a new certificate, if the variables CA_EXPIRE or KEY_EXPIRE put the expiration date after 19-Jan-2038, then pkitool will create a certificate which expires around 1902 and also corrupt keys/index.txt so that the next certificate

[Bug 788317] Re: Xorg freeze, blank screen, mouse moves, VT works

2011-08-10 Thread bitinerant
I have this maybe twice a month since 11.04--black screen with active mouse pointer. After typing my password, mouse pointer changes as I move it to different parts of the screen. Banshee keyboard shortcuts work to start/stop music. I eventually discovered that I could recover without a reboot

[Bug 240738] Re: syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad

2011-07-06 Thread bitinerant
I think the problem is that most people never actually figure out what is happening well enough to be able to locate this bug report. I agree --it must be affecting many more people. As well as the MacBook mentioned at the top, it also affects both of our two other laptops. That is 100% of our

[Bug 240738] Re: syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad

2011-07-06 Thread bitinerant
There are also 18 people affected by the various duplicates of this bug, but it's hard to know how many of those are unique. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240738 Title: syndaemon

[Bug 632293] Re: ubuntu certified hardware misleading, and key contributor to lack of progress on bug #1

2010-11-05 Thread bitinerant
I bought the V13 specifically BECAUSE of Ubuntu's certification with 10.04 and 10.10. However, the laptop is unusable because of this touchpad issue. Reading through Fuggum's research (see also http://www .mail-archive.com/dell-recov...@lists.launchpad.net/msg00030.html) and doing a lot of my

[Bug 564387] Re: basic256 freezes

2010-11-08 Thread bitinerant
On two different systems (both 10.04 32-bit) I am able to consistently make basic256 lock up. To reproduce, open BASIC-256 version 0.9.2, click in the large code editing box, and type color red (without quotes). After pressing the last letter 'd', basic256 freezes. Attempts to close the

[Bug 632293] Re: ubuntu certified hardware misleading, and key contributor to lack of progress on bug #1

2010-11-09 Thread bitinerant
Thanks, fuggum. I DID get a hassle-free RMA number with a promise of a full refund from Dell, although it may have been easy because it has been less than 21 days since purchase. What model did you replace the V13 with? (By the way, Broadcom is not all closed-source; they recently released

[Bug 498911] Re: nspluginwrapper fills .xsession-errors until disk space is exhausted

2011-03-06 Thread bitinerant
(Also Ubuntu 10.10.) I noticed the backup of my home directory was taking hours rather than minutes and tracked it down to a 2.5 GB .xsession-errors.old file which contained over 13,000,000 lines of: *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING:(/build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-

[Bug 103537]

2011-02-14 Thread bitinerant
Created an attachment (id=33267) log of install attempt - Rosetta Stone v2.1.5.3Asms under Wine 1.2.2 (In reply to comment #8) Is this still an issue in current (1.2-rc2 or newer) Wine? Yes, although the symptoms are different. I tried installing Rosetta Stone v2.1.5.3Asms under Wine 1.2.2.

[Bug 579822] Re: Large window size crashes compiz

2011-02-28 Thread bitinerant
Situation very similar to Øyvind Stegard - very tall mouse-over tooltip window in MonoDevelop crashes Compiz (version 1:0.8.6-0ubuntu9.1). I can get it back via `compiz --replace` but I still have to arrange the windows on workspaces manually. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 468132] Re: Evolution doesn't add words to dictionary

2010-04-30 Thread bitinerant
I am glad this has helped others, but in my case I already had the file ~/.config/enchant/en_US.dic (size 0 perms -rw-r--r--). There is also a en_US.exc. I added a couple of words to en_US.dic with vi and then restarted Evolution. Now these new words are recognized as spelled correctly (which

[Bug 344878] Re: file name to long when creating new file (ecryptfs_lookup: lookup_one_len() returned [-36] on lower_dentry)

2010-05-31 Thread bitinerant
When I set up eCryptfs on 10.04 and tried copying my huge home directory (formerly ext3) to the new system, I was hit by 27,278 errors and it cost me days of work. (Most of these paths were too long because of a bug in other software, but many were not.) I realize we're not voting here, but I am

[Bug 359531] Re: LVM file name maximum length is shorter than in ext3

2010-05-31 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 344878 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344878 Could someone change the title of this report to mention eCryptfs rather than LVM? -- LVM file name maximum length is shorter than in ext3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359531 You received this bug

[Bug 566496] Re: Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 Hardware support Asus eee 1005P

2010-05-18 Thread bitinerant
Two-finger scrolling for the 1005HA (and probably the 1005P and others) is solved here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479361 -- Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 Hardware support Asus eee 1005P https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566496 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 502698] Re: 'urlopen error' using add-apt-repository

2010-02-16 Thread bitinerant
It seems that the urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known is given when the Internet connection is down. In my opinion the message is very unclear. In addition, I feel it would be better for add-apt-repository to not add the repository in the event that the corresponding key cannot be

[Bug 201786] Re: ssh Agent admitted failure to sign using the key on big endian machines

2010-02-05 Thread bitinerant
This one bit me when I deleted my old ssh keys and generated new ones on Karmic. Both work-arounds worked for me (I tried them individually)--adding the line export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0 to ~/.bashrc OR running ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa. I like the latter better because it doesn't require extra work to

[Bug 123282] Re: LDAP fails. Says it can't find the server, but the server is there and spelled correctly. Works in Windows. Problem is probably with the authentifiaction.

2010-10-07 Thread bitinerant
If this still effects anyone, the solution for me was to edit /etc/ldap/ldap.conf and add the line: TLS_REQCERT never (You probably then need to restart Evolution.) -- LDAP fails. Says it can't find the server, but the server is there and spelled correctly. Works in Windows. Problem is

[Bug 578303] Re: mlocate does not work as expected on encrypted disks

2010-05-22 Thread bitinerant
As I understand it, this is intentional! I agree that in theory this aught to work, but mlocate would need to be completely redesigned to address the security issue. Note that 'ecryptfs' is in the 'PRUNEFS=' line of the default /etc/updatedb.conf file. I suppose you could edit this file to

[Bug 621152] Re: [Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter] cannot connect to [WPA/WPA2]

2010-08-25 Thread bitinerant
Ju Ping, does this problem occur during heavy network traffic? I have what may be the same problem--connection drops during heavy network usage on two WPA networks I've tried using Atheros AR9285. On at least the Belkin AP, rebooting the computer did not help, but power- cycling the AP allowed

[Bug 528981] Re: Repetitive massive filesystem corruption

2010-08-09 Thread bitinerant
It was noted above that kernel 2.6.33 was, in one case, 'cured' of this bug, but 2.6.33-02063305-generic on my MacBook2,1 still had file corruption (all-be-it after much more time than 2.6.32-23). Now that 2.6.32-24 is the default for Ubuntu 10.04, I am testing it and it has gone longer than

[Bug 1030491] Re: Xorg segfault

2012-08-03 Thread bitinerant
You may want to read through bug #1026777 and/or bug #956071 to see if you think this is a duplicate of one of those. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030491 Title: Xorg segfault To

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-09-04 Thread bitinerant
Just for the record, a while back I did: sudo aptitude install wine --without-recommends It installed fine and has been working ever since. I don't remember if Mono was installed at the time, but there may be an unintended interaction between Wine and Mono. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. -- You

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-09-04 Thread bitinerant
My install was not like that at all. Aptitude did not remove any packages, and I don't believe it listed any unmet dependencies. I wish I had a terminal dump of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1109890] [NEW] Unicode 25D2 Circle With Lower Half Black and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-29 Thread bitinerant
Public bug reported: The Unicode character 25D2 CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK and 25D3 CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK are swapped in most fonts, including major ones such as Arial, Times New Roman, and the Ubuntu fonts. The only fonts I could find which have it _correct_ are TakaoPGothic, Lucida

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 Circle With Lower Half Black and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-29 Thread bitinerant
Font substitution obviously plays a big role here, and different applications have different rules for this. For example, OpenSymbol and Courier New both display incorrectly in Firefox but correctly in LibreOffice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 Circle With Lower Half Black and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-01-30 Thread bitinerant
Affected packages include ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-mscorefonts- installer. The packages xfonts-base and xfonts-scalable and others may also be affected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 Circle With Lower Half Black and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-02-05 Thread bitinerant
I can post a screenshot but I think it would be much more useful if it did not include the fonts which do not define U+25D2. Is there a way to search all fonts to see which ones define that character? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1109890] Re: Unicode 25D2 Circle With Lower Half Black and 25D3 swapped in most fonts

2013-02-05 Thread bitinerant
Thanks for the instructions. In the Ubuntu font, U+25D3 maps from DejaVu Sans. Same for Arial, Garamond, Lucida Sans, Microsoft Sans Serif, Ubuntu Mono, Ubuntu Condensed, and dozens of others I tested. Serif and Times New Roman map U+25D3 from DejaVu Serif. Most monospace fonts map from DejaVu

[Bug 1036029] Re: All menus are empty when using Unity Global Menus

2013-02-08 Thread bitinerant
Hackel, does the attached screen shot show the issue are describing? Only a small gray box drops down where the menu should be. Tapping alt and typing does not work properly either, so all menu commands are inaccessible. I've seen this in Firefox and Nautilus on two different 12.04 installs.

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-05-23 Thread bitinerant
Crossfading of 1 second does NOT fix the MP3-to-OGG transition in Rhythmbox 2.96 on my machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978604 Title: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing

[Bug 699802] Re: error:: no video mode activated

2012-05-23 Thread bitinerant
Comment #24 worked around this issue for me. I ran: sudo cp -i /usr/share/grub/*.pf2 /boot/grub/ sudo update-grub -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699802 Title: error:: no video

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-05-23 Thread bitinerant
@stefan--yes, sorry. After restarting Rhythmbox, the 1 second crossfade works around the problem. A 0.2 second crossfade also works. Ignore comment #19. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 674841] Re: os-prober 1.40 doesn't detect another ubuntu installation anymore

2012-05-04 Thread bitinerant
I, too, have lost my other Ubuntu partition. I installed 12.04 on sda1 using Btrfs; it booted fine. Then I installed another 12.04 on sda2 (/boot) and sda3 (swap) and sda4 (/), and it boots fine, but now I can't boot from sda1. Mounting and then unmounting sda1 as suggested in comment #2 does

[Bug 674841] Re: os-prober 1.40 doesn't detect another ubuntu installation anymore

2012-05-04 Thread bitinerant
Comment #2 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1969614 says that renaming the grub.cfg on the _hidden partition_ allows update-grub to work, but this did not help in my situation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 994309] Re: wine is uninstallable

2012-06-11 Thread bitinerant
Is there a work-around? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994309 Title: wine is uninstallable To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1265421] Re: Ubuntu login screen never blanks; no screensaver

2014-01-02 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1245474 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245474 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1245474 saucy regression: on login screen, monitor stays on forever -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1245474] Re: [regression] on login screen, monitor stays on forever

2014-01-23 Thread bitinerant
I also can confirm this works. Thank you, Eugene! It took me an embarrassing number of tries to get this right, so for others wanting to implement this work-around: printf '\n[SeatDefaults]\ndisplay-setup-script=/usr/bin/bug1245474-work-around.sh\n' |sudo tee

[Bug 1194841] Re: Upgrade to ff22 enters proxy-settings

2013-06-26 Thread bitinerant
When I was upgraded to Firefox 22, pages refused to load with Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections. Firefox Edit Preferences Advanced Settings Configure Proxies... was set to Use system proxy settings but in System Settings Network Network proxy, Method

[Bug 970402] Re: kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2287!

2012-08-07 Thread bitinerant
In case it still matters to someone, I got this same error on an external USB 2 GB drive with the stock 12.04 kernel (3.2.0-27): kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2287! I installed kernel 3.4.7 as suggested above and it did, indeed, fix the issue. The drive

[Bug 1075537] Re: Ubuntu Software Center does not update the cache and the xapian search index automatically, caused some packages cannot be found.

2012-11-28 Thread bitinerant
This bug makes it very difficult to write easy-to-follow instructions for adding software in non-default repositories. What I think is needed is a GUI button or menu item in Ubuntu Software Center which does something similar to sudo apt-get update sudo update-apt-xapian- index -f. -- You

[Bug 804109] Re: can't enable touchpad in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-05-14 Thread bitinerant
This bug effects me with 12.04 fresh install on a ThinkPad T420s. Comment #46 works around the issue nicely (Fn-F8 toggles touchpad on and off properly) until the next reboot: sudo xinput set-int-prop 11 Synaptics Off 8 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 897322] Re: PDF saved forms are not compatible with Adobe Reader

2012-05-17 Thread bitinerant
I was hit by this today. I completed an important applicatoin form with Evince 3.4.0, verified that it looked correct (in Evince), and submitted it via email only to hear back that the administrators (presumably using Windows and Adobe Reader) were unable to open it. -- You received this bug

[Bug 956830] Re: playback pauses after two songs, even with repeat enabled

2012-05-17 Thread bitinerant
I can confirm that this did not happen on 11.10 with the same music collection. I have ogg, mp3, and wma. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956830 Title: playback pauses after two

[Bug 880962] Re: dnd pointer lock when dragging tab between two gedit instances

2012-05-11 Thread bitinerant
I think this is the same bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808789 The comments mention it could be related to a mismatched DISPLAY environment variable. Also: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/98401 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #808789

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
@fluffy: There are three similar bugs which seem related to the issue you are seeing . Could yours be a duplicate of one of these? bug #915906 bug #918815 bug #772873 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 918815 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918815 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 918815 Vino doesn't work with compositing using Intel driver -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 774365] Re: Certain update packets not being sent

2012-05-03 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 918815 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918815 @fluffy: Thanks for the input. Based on your comments, I have marked this as a duplicate of bug #918815 (the Intel one). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 804109] Re: can't enable touchpad in Ubuntu 11.10 (thinkpads)

2012-06-05 Thread bitinerant
Tested today--yes, it is still a problem on Precise (Unity session, ThinkPad T420s). Fix in comment #46 works until reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804109 Title: can't enable

[Bug 794142] Re: Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
Thank you, Kuroshima, for reporting this. I have struggled with this bug on Ubuntu 10.10 and 12.04. I didn't report it myself because my problematic PDFs are copyrighted. However, I am attaching a screenshot of Evince's screen display (left) and Evince's print preview (right). This sounds like

[Bug 794142] Re: Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
Screen shot of the problem attached. ** Attachment added: screen-vs-print-preview.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/794142/+attachment/3262271/+files/screen-vs-print-preview.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 887836] Re: update-grub does not create btrfs menuentry in grub.cfg

2012-08-15 Thread bitinerant
I believe this bug explains why I can't boot from sda1. I installed a 'normal' Ubuntu 12.04 with Btrfs on sda1 and it worked fine. I let the installer create the partition table; GParted says it is 'msdos'. I then installed a crypt-luks Ubuntu 12.04 with /boot on sda2 (Ext2), encrypted swap on

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-08-22 Thread bitinerant
This seems to be fixed in Rhythmbox too. I had enabled crossfade as a work-around, but just now I disabled crossfade, closed, re-opened Rhythmbox, and tested. The formerly-broken MP3-to-OGG transition works well, as well as all the other combinations of OGG, MP3, and WMA tried. :-) -- You

[Bug 978604] Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

2012-08-23 Thread bitinerant
Alistair, perhaps you are experiencing a different bug or perhaps you have a different version of Rhythmbox or a library. I don't have any FLAC files to test. My experience with this bug in the past is that it froze/paused on transitions _from_ MP3 and _not_to_ MP3. I'm running Rhythmbox

[Bug 153768] Re: External SATA (eSATA) removable disk not auto mounted

2012-08-24 Thread bitinerant
Marcin, I, too, would love to see your udev rule. I have a LUKS-encrypted partition on a SATA drive which I can hot-plug into the slot on my laptop where the DVD drive normally goes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1007352] Re: toggle fullscreen mode keyboard shortcut not honoured

2012-08-27 Thread bitinerant
I don't know how they got in the state, but two applications (Thunderbird and TortoiseHG) got very stuck in fullscreen mode (not just maximized, but 100% of my LCD). No amount of F11, maximize, moving, rebooting, etc. would unstick them. I worked around it by editing config files

[Bug 956071] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in XIGetDeviceProperty()

2012-08-29 Thread bitinerant
The except for scrolling phrase from ThomasNovin really caught my attention because, on two laptops using xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.5.99.902, I have seen the touchpad become inoperable except for scrolling. I have both configured for two-finger scrolling, and when this happens, it switches

[Bug 921071] Re: daap served files sometimes stop playing when going from an mp3 to an ogg

2012-05-17 Thread bitinerant
If not a duplicate, this seems at least closely related to bug #956830. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921071 Title: daap served files sometimes stop playing when going from an mp3

[Bug 1268838] Re: Unable to mount audio disc - Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

2014-03-29 Thread bitinerant
Same issue here--but only with one particular audio CD. DVDs and other audio CDs work fine. I have Ubuntu 12.04 kernel 3.5.0-47-generic. The same CD causes the same problem on another laptop with a different CD drive (same Ubuntu kernel). Syslog has this line for each time I insert the CD:

[Bug 1268838] Re: Unable to mount audio disc - Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

2014-03-31 Thread bitinerant
Update: the troublesome audio CD was not accepted by an old MacBook (OS X 10.6.8) but WORKED FINE in another MacBook (also 10.6.8). I also found a second audio CD with the same issue, which also worked in the second MacBook. Could the CDs have bad checksums which the drive firmware or kernel on

[Bug 803348] Re: In Firefox, scrolling and then pressing Ctrl causes zoom

2014-04-16 Thread bitinerant
As dimovnike wrote, this happens on simple pages too--as long as they are at least several screens long. Two-finger scrolling has momentum, or coasts a while after removing your fingers from the touchpad if they are in motion. I love this feature and think it works well. The problem is that the

[Bug 1278437] Re: can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop

2014-06-23 Thread bitinerant
Still not working for me, same nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1. Felix, try the steps in post #4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278437 Title: can't move link type .desktop files

[Bug 1278437] Re: can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop

2014-06-04 Thread bitinerant
This bug makes saving URLs to the desktop unusable (e.g. from Firefox). In addition, Nautilus crashes if moving multiple files at once if the .desktop file contains certain types of URLs. Steps to reproduce crash: * save this as test.desktop on the Ubuntu desktop: [Desktop Entry]

[Bug 1310864] Re: Desktop URL shortcuts, added from Firefox, are not movable

2014-06-07 Thread bitinerant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1278437 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278437 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1278437 can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1283663] Re: when using openvpn the vpn's dns is never used (DNSLEAK)

2015-03-18 Thread bitinerant
@mubtcez: to use the OpenVPN server's pushed DNS servers, add this to your .conf file: script-security 2 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf If you want to use your own DNS servers, add the above plus a line for each DNS server: dhcp-option

[Bug 1283663] Re: when using openvpn the vpn's dns is never used (DNSLEAK)

2015-03-18 Thread bitinerant
@mubtcez: to use the OpenVPN server's pushed DNS servers, add this to your .conf file: script-security 2 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf If you want to use your own DNS servers, add the above plus a line for each DNS server: dhcp-option

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