[Bug 1957102] [NEW] xfburn crashes (and does not burn)

2022-01-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Asking to burn from a browser fails. Invoking as root: xfburn -i reports a seg fault (core dumped) but I don't see a dump I'm attaching the output of strace on the above command ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: xfburn 0.6.2-1 ProcVersionSignature:

[Bug 1930638] [NEW] cannot start usb-cretor-gtk on Xubuntu 20.04.2

2021-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: When I try, either from the whisker menu, or from the command line I get an error. I'll attach an image from a screenshot of the former. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.3.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-66.74-generic 5.4.86

[Bug 1923875] [NEW] Cannot upgrade a fresh install of bionic

2021-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I did a fresh install of Xubuntu 18.04.4 from a CD-ROM, updated all packages, and immediately tried do-release upgrade to get to Bionic. I know, it seems odd to do that, but I have reasons I'll report in a separate bug. Anyway, there was absolutely nothing else done besides

[Bug 1921009] Re: Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Color me embarassed. I just tried this again on a different system, still with the same software, and it worked perfectly, using the same source and destination drives as when I first had a problem. Mark this "worksforme" I guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1921009] Re: Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
There is probably more going on than I realized. I edited the file so that all references were to /dev/sdc without those added "p" characters. It still complained about parsing sdc. Now I'm completely puzzled and would ask for a better error message. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1921009] [NEW] Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a dump from an M.5 drive named "/dev/nvme0n1" that I wanted to apply to a regular SCSI drive /dev/sdc. This got the GPT built but when it tried to work on partitions, it failed, giving the error message sfdisk: failed to parse partition number: '/dev/sdc' This is

[Bug 1920967] [NEW] Bash not interpreting negative offsets in Substrring Expanison of parameters

2021-03-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: According to the man page, $(variable:offset[:length]} should treat negative offsets as counting from the end of the value. Instead, I find any such substring expansion expands the ENTIRE variable regardless of the exact negative offset or any length provided. A short

[Bug 1916645] [NEW] sfdisk --force says it can correct a size mismatch, but then fails.

2021-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Trying to restore a GPT partition table using a dump sfdisk previously created from a larger disk to a smaller one (but has enough room for the partitions) fails. I'm using the --force option to try to make this work. It doesn't. The first line of the output (with added

[Bug 1911061] Re: partclone --quiet options does not seem to work

2021-01-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm reporting this on an 18.04 system, but I've obsered the behavior all the way up to 20.04.1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1911061 Title: partclone --quiet options does not seem

[Bug 1911061] [NEW] partclone --quiet options does not seem to work

2021-01-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm writing scripts around the partclone family of commands. The man page says that --quiet option :disable(s) progress message", but when I use it I still get timings and such in the output. I'm capturing all of the stdout and stderr output and formatting it. This stuff is

[Bug 1900344] Re: Error behavior in "print" command does not work well in a pipeline

2020-10-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I use that, it does not ask for confirmation, and will not make changes. Does not help me fix problems that arise with secondary GPT tables being slightly off when disks are of slightly different size. I see no other command-line utility that can do it at all, so I'd love it if this one

[Bug 1901343] [NEW] timing bug creates interacctions between util-linux utitlities

2020-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This is a creepy bug that seems to disappear under examination. In this case it appears that the bug is a timing bug, and introducing delays makes it go away. I call this sort of thing a "frankenbug" because of creepyness and difficulty diagnosing. It appears to be an

[Bug 1901343] Re: timing bug creates interacctions between util-linux utitlities

2020-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
** Attachment added: "Test script to investigate the error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1901343/+attachment/5426630/+files/test.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1900346] [NEW] Error respose gets lost in a pipeline

2020-10-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm using parted's "print" command in a pipeline in a script. This usually works well, but I just had an instance of the error Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. This should be followed by the confirmation line

[Bug 1900344] [NEW] Error behavior in "print" command does not work well in a pipeline

2020-10-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I've got a script that includes "parted print" in a pipeline with other things processing the output. This works fine usually, but I just saw the error Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. and processing appeared to

[Bug 1900282] [NEW] Can create MINIX partition on GPT disk, but it reports an error

2020-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I was creating all the partition types I could on a GPT disk, to check that some software I'm working on would handle them all right. I could create MINIX partition, but when it finished, and rescanned partitions, it showed an alert next to the partition name, and the info

[Bug 1883441] Re: Fatal interaction between sfdisk and lsblk

2020-07-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I tried, but when I went back to the same system, with the same drives, and tried again -- you guessed it, it did not fail. I really hate intermittent errors. You may as well mark this one "works for me". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1885627] [NEW] sfdisk does not notice over-large partitions

2020-06-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Call this a feature request. I found that when I use the output of "sfdisk --dump" from one disk to format another one that is smaller, sfdisk does not complain. Of course, using those partitions caused problems because they went off the end of the new disk. The error can

[Bug 1883441] [NEW] Fatal interaction between sfdisk and lsblk

2020-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm posting this against util-linux because it's lsblk calls that fail, but the failure depends on a prior call to sfdisk which is part of the fdisk package. Remove the sfdisk call, and the failure does not happen, at least in my test setup. A call to sfdisk in a script

Re: [Bug 1812754]

2019-09-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
9 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-18 (95 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 > (20180725) > SourcePackage: libreoffice > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications

[Bug 1835857] Re: partclone.ext4 fails, but error message makes no sense

2019-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Please note that this run was done from the Xubuntu 18.04.2 install media. It may be a limitation of the environment set up by that software, in which case please consider this a feature request for the install media (I have no idea how to submit a bug against them, so I've got to do it this

[Bug 1835857] Re: partclone.ext4 fails, but error message makes no sense

2019-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Here's the partclone log ** Attachment added: "partclone's own log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partclone/+bug/1835857/+attachment/5275751/+files/partclone.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1835857] [NEW] partclone.ext4 fails, but error message makes no sense

2019-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I've got a 256GB partition, sparsely populated, and I want to clone it to a file on an empty 256GB thumb drive. It starts working, but fails with the message "ERROR: file too large". At that point, the thumb drive is just 4% full. I'll attach output of script(1) for the run

[Bug 1812754]

2019-03-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have a better idea. Instead of inventing reasons for me to mess up my settings why don't YOU try to confirm it. I sent all the stuff you'd need to try this. If it does not add blank pages for you with whatever settings you have, go ahead and mark it invalid. If it _does_ add blank pages,

[Bug 1812754]

2019-03-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Sorry, I do not have a spare machine to download the software. When I first reported this to Ubuntu I got immediate confirmation, and they suggested I re-submit to you. If you have the latest software, please give it a try. It will either fail or not in a hurry. Maybe 5 minutes max will any

[Bug 1817496] [NEW] Login always shows partitions to be fsck-ed, even after reboot.

2019-02-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This system reports /dev/sda5 will be checked on the next reboot. Maybe it is (it's EXT4 on as SSD drive, so it could be too fast to notice), but the message persists even after such a reboot. I would expect it to go away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04

[Bug 1812754] Re: Libreoffice writer adds blank pages on multiple inputs

2019-02-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Filed. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123297 ** Bug watch added: Document Foundation Bugzilla #123297 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123297 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1814593] Re: canonical-livepatch fails to install when logged in via SSH; cannot fix

2019-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
make that "parser" not "piercer". LOL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814593 Title: canonical-livepatch fails to install when logged in via SSH; cannot fix To manage

[Bug 1814593] Re: canonical-livepatch fails to install when logged in via SSH; cannot fix

2019-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Yes. It's in /sbin/apparmor_piercer, and is in the path for root when I sudo to it, but not for ordinary users. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814593 Title: canonical-livepatch

[Bug 1814593] [NEW] canonical-livepatch fails to install when logged in via SSH; cannot fix

2019-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: It was apparently a mistake to try to get livepatch working when logged in via SSH (direct to root via secure key). I did it under script, so I have the log: snap install canonical-livepatch

[Bug 1812754] [NEW] Libreoffice writer adds blank pages on multiple inputs

2019-01-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: When I have multiple .txt files on the command line and start libreoffice writer, it adds (many) blank pages to the documents. These blanks contain nothing at all and I have not figured out how to remove them. But they are included when I print them. I'm attaching a file

[Bug 1810216] [NEW] Unable to run do-release-upgrade under script(1) because of a need to clear the screen

2019-01-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I like to do system updates under script(1) and have a collection of bash aliases to do these things and log the script output. Otherwise all that stuff scrolls by with no chance for me to use it later. I just tried to update my system to 18.04, and it failed with the

Re: [Bug 1804910] Re: pip3 cannot install gmpy

2018-12-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
allationDate: Installed on 2018-10-18 (36 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 > (20180725) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about t

[Bug 1807537] [NEW] failure in fsck option of advanced boot

2018-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I ran into this first on a 16.04.5 install I have. I just retried it on a new laptop with 18.04.1 with the same result. When booting, I chose the advanced form, the rescue variant, and tried to use its fsck option. This failed almost immediately. I'm attaching a photo of

[Bug 1804910] [NEW] pip3 cannot install gmpy

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I'm using python3 and want gmpy. Attempts to install it fail. I routinely capture the output of maintenance tasks, and am attaching the results. This output begins with the text of the shell script I wrote to do this, which includes calls to the bash functions I wrote to

[Bug 1804908] Re: Fails to load 'gmpy'

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I see that this arises when the script calls pip3 to install a python package. I'll clean this up to do just that by itself, and re-submit. Call this one invalid, I guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1804908] [NEW] Fails to load 'gmpy'

2018-11-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: It may be this is a problem in gmpy itself, but since it is not installed, ubuntu-bug won't let me report a problem with it. In any event, I routinely capture the output of package maintenance tasks, and I'm attaching the output of the most recent run of a shell script I

Re: [Bug 1799868] Re: seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-11-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-36.39-generic 4.15.18 > Uname: Linux 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia > ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME > Date: Wed Oct 24 20:17:15 2018

Re: [Bug 1799869] Re: ubuntu-bug (a.k.a. apport-bug) not working in Xubuntu

2018-10-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
pgraded to bionic on 2018-08-19 (66 days ago) > modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified] > mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2017-05-02T14:12:29.908000 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1799

[Bug 1799868] Re: seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's worse than I thought. Increments of 2 fail even when aa factor of 100 away from the limit: kevin@plato-x:~$ seq 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 1 170141183460469231731687303715884105725 | head -10 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105722

[Bug 1799869] [NEW] ubuntu-bug (a.k.a. apport-bug) not working in Xubuntu

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Sorry for using Ubuntu to report an Xubuntu bug, but the problem is exactly that bug reporting is not working for me in Xubuntu. When I tried to create what eventually became bug 1799868 here on Xubuntu, as soon as the web browser (Chrome) came up, it waas reporting a

[Bug 1799868] [NEW] seq command has problems near its max integer

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I can use seq(1) to generate sequences of large numbers if I use the default increment: $ seq 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105725 170141183460469231731687303715884105721 170141183460469231731687303715884105722

Re: [Bug 1737657] Re: Failure to be root is repored in a misleading message

2017-12-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n Dec 11 17:53:23 2017 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (490 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: ntp > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage not

[Bug 1737657] [NEW] Failure to be root is repored in a misleading message

2017-12-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This is a feature request. When solving a problem or in a rush, I don't necessarily remember everything from a man page, or even think to read it. This is what happened with ntpdate(8) $ ntpdate 11 Dec 20:08:12 ntpdate[13930]: no servers can be used, exiting $ Of course,

[Bug 1728709] [NEW] bash man page has a typo, repeating .bashrc when one should be /etc/bash.bashrc

2017-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: The INVOCATION section of the man page has the text "reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist and are readable" which repeats "~/.bashrc". By experiment, I find it probable that the first of these .bashrc references should read

Re: [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Oops. I did locate the directory on a backup. As you supposed, I had created queue.py initially to do the test. I re-ran it as 'q.py' to see if that helped, but did not delete the original. So you were right -- name conflict. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.

Re: [Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
op: XFCE > Date: Wed Sep 28 20:54:17 2016 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (51 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probab

Re: [Bug 1671952] Re: python program gets segmentation fault

2017-10-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
6-08-08 (214 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20160719) > SourcePackage: python3-defaults > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: &

[Bug 1720691] [NEW] seg fault using sqlite3 module

2017-10-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I got a seg fault and core dump about 5 hours into a hand-coded merge of two databases. WAL (write-ahead logging) was enabled, and the journal was about 500MB, so I tried again with periodic commits, and after about 20 hours its still going strong. In any event, I regard a

[Bug 1720691] Re: seg fault using sqlite3 module

2017-10-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The machine is a Core i7 with 32 GB RAM. The swap space is also 32 GB. Nothing else was active during this run other than the usual daemons; some terminal and browser windows were open, but not in use. The activity was all on a RAID which had at the time 2 TB free. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1677725] [NEW] Error report on bootup is useless to me

2017-03-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: On booting my system, I see dialog reporting a "system program error" with no further information, and is asks me if I want to report this. I have no basis on which to make the choice, because I have been completely unable to figure out what problem is being reported. The

[Bug 1677042] [NEW] Grub recovery boot root prompt is unstable

2017-03-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I've seen this on two systems: Xubuntu on dual Xeons, and Ubuntu on an I-7. When I choose "advanced options" -> "recovery mode" in Grub, and then "root shell prompt" in the resulting booted system, I cannot expect it to be functional for long. I can do a few things, but

[Bug 1676456] [NEW] less highlights don't work with my terminal colors and I don't see how to change it

2017-03-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I prefer very light background colors, unlike the default xterm's black. Some time ago, less(1) changed its way of doing highlights (such as when displaying man pages) so that they are pure white. This makes them much harder, rather than the intended easier to read. This

[Bug 1596866] Re: NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0 - Xenial - Python

2017-03-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I was having this problem on two systems, one a Core i-7, the other a Xeon. Both are X86-64, running the kernel that uname reports as 4.4.0-66-generic The problem has not recurred since the changes, but that's only a few days ago at the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1671952] Re: python program gets segmentation fault

2017-03-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I modified the code to issue commit() calls, which it had not been doing. It ran to completion, having made over 3 million changes to the database. Perhaps a really big journal does not work well? Even if so, I would consider a segmentation fault a bug. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1671952] [NEW] python program gets segmentation fault

2017-03-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Running a Python 3 / sqlite3 script that develops a database representing a game tree, a segmentation fault occurred. The program had written 4,910,495 lines of output when it crashed, redirected to a file. It appears normal, and its size is about right for the job being

[Bug 1596866] Re: NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0 - Xenial - Python

2017-02-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It looks like I'm having the same problem with a clean install of Xubuntu 16.04.1, and I'll be trying the clocksource tweak. If you don't hear back, it got fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1651923] Re: apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the destination undecoded.

2017-01-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
usicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=16056 > > https://www.drupal.org/node/2324991 (clues on root cause) > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 > Package: apt 1.3.3 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-lowlatency 4.8.6 > Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-lowlatency x8

[Bug 1658545] [NEW] media-change required for apt-get install python-pip python3-pip

2017-01-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Attempting to install either python-pip or python3-pip does a request for a media change, and not having that medium, it cannot be done. This occurs for me on Xubuntu amd-64, but NOT on i386. It occurs to me this may belong to the python and python3 packages, but since I

[Bug 1655215] [NEW] re.match is anchored to the beginning of the string.

2017-01-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: All matches, whether compiled or not, appear to be anchored to the beginning of the target string. Un-anchoring requires a beginning ".*" in the pattern kevin@plato-x:/raid/917$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type

[Bug 1655214] [NEW] re.match is anchored to the beginning of the string.

2017-01-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: All matches, whether compiled or not, appear to be anchored to the beginning of the target string. Un-anchoring requires a beginning ".*" in the pattern kevin@plato-x:/raid/917$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type

Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

2016-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
udo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, mirohe <miguelrodriguezherna...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sorry, I wrote this wrong >

Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

2016-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/$font > done > > sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer > sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer > sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer > -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb)

[Bug 1642508] [NEW] Failed to install fonts, keeps trying

2016-11-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I ran apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer oddly, it seems to run something, but this bug tool is denying that it's a package. It sure used to be in earlier releases, and the above command seems to agree. It appears to be trying to get the fonts from sourceforge, and

[Bug 1637629] [NEW] monitors become unavailable after blanking

2016-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: My monitors become unavailable and hard to configure after blanking, or switching to a different input, let alone unplugging. I can boot into 14.04 and do not see this problem. It is present in 16.04. I did not use the releases in between on this system. It is a core-i7

[Bug 1637219] Re: ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1637213 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637213 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1637213 ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1637219] [NEW] ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: ubuntu-bug begins immediately with the following warning message, which I'm pretty sure just confuses most of us. If this gets posted, then the message does not indicate a failure. /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without specifying a version

[Bug 1637213] [NEW] ubuntu-bug begins with a warning message

2016-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: starting ubuntu-bug, it outputs this warning message immediately: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Wnck', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded. from

[Bug 1631218] Re: seg faults in sqlite3 program

2016-10-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm now confident it's consistent. I've rebuilt the database from scratch several times, and it always seg faults at the same stage (there are several stages). I've tried VACUUM just before that stage, to no effect other than making the failed DB a bit smaller. I'll be continuing attempts to

[Bug 1631218] [NEW] seg faults in sqlite3 program

2016-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: A small Python program that uses sqlite3 frequently gives me segmentation faults, but I'm not sure it's consistent. Thus I'm a bit baffled about what to include, or how to help narrow down the problem. The inputs and the database are both quite large. The core file is large

[Bug 1631218] Re: seg faults in sqlite3 program

2016-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
here's the program it was running. Here's the database schema CREATE TABLE base64 ( b64char CHAR NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, b64val INTEGER); CREATE TABLE pos ( pnum INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, ppos CHAR(64) NOT NULL, pcensus INTEGER NOT NULL,

[Bug 1629123] [NEW] multiprocessing.Pool fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Trying the examples from https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html#exchanging-objects-between-processes the example for Pool fails. It's attached. The error implicates something missing in SimpleQueue $ python3 Pool.py Traceback (most recent call last):

[Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Noting still further: When I tried the same program with the default Python (2.7), it worked just as the documentation promised, so the problem is in the Python 3.5 build. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1628763] Re: Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Noting further: There's a Note at the bottom of the entry for Queue in 17.2.2.2, https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html#pipes-and-queues which says that ImportErrors can be caused by failure of the system to support semaphores, as outlined in Issue3770 (Closed years ago):

[Bug 1628763] [NEW] Example of Queue from documentation fails

2016-09-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: Reading https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html #exchanging-objects-between-processes, I have copy-pasted the code into a file. Running it with python3 fails thus: Traceback (most recent call last): File "q.py", line 7, in q = Queue() File

[Bug 1619353] Re: seg fault in ul on this input

2016-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
here is the input ** Attachment added: "input that causes ul(1) to seg fault" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdmainutils/+bug/1619353/+attachment/4732371/+files/u2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1619353] [NEW] seg fault in ul on this input

2016-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: running ul(1) on an output of script(1) causes a seg fault. I'm of the opinion that a seg fault on any input whatever is a bug. This input is the output of a script(1) of a run of apt-get, but that should not matter. Input is attached. I've run it through head(1) to

Re: [Bug 1615103] Re: config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9

2016-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ase amd64 > (20160719) > PackageArchitecture: all > SourcePackage: byobu > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/ > 1615103/+subscriptions >

[Bug 1615103] Re: config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9

2016-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Hmmm. I explored my system a bit, and did find 3 contemporaneous files that may bear on this, at /var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.uploaded /var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.crash /var/crash/_usr_lib_byobu_include_config.py.1000.upload Two of these are empty, but

[Bug 1615103] Re: config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9

2016-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm sorry that this bug was filed when I was completely confused, but that's the nature of some bug events. I know I was trying byobu for the first time and nothing much was working. I just now tried the obvious thing of starting byobu and pressing F9, and just got nothing at all. Of course, now

[Bug 1615249] [NEW] ubuntu-bug produces errors

2016-08-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I run the command "ubuntu-bug" (with no package name) and it reports errors that I did not see in previous releases of Ubuntu: > kevin@camelot-x:~$ ubuntu-bug > /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk:16: PyGIWarning: Wnck was imported without > specifying a version first. Use

[Bug 1614788] Re: Oddities in configuring multiple monitor appearance

2016-08-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Additional info: the Desktop -> Background widget has a "Folder" selector which can drop down to "other", where it shows the default from which the choices are offered. This selector is ineffective in that all items are greyed out, even the ones in the default directory, and there seems no way to

[Bug 1615103] [NEW] config.py is needed, but not found, for some operations such as F9

2016-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I just installed byobu on Xenial, and I'm trying to learn it. Some operations listed in the documentation are failing because of a missing "config.py" or complaining that config.py has failed. I don't see config.py in the contents list of byobu (looking at byobu's

[Bug 1614787] [NEW] Oddities in configuring multiple monitor appearance

2016-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have three HD monitors. When i use the whisker menu -> settings -> Desktop widget, I can set the first two monitors to a number of different backdrop images which are apparently stored in /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops. However, the third monitor has only two choices, and

[Bug 1614788] [NEW] Oddities in configuring multiple monitor appearance

2016-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have three HD monitors. When i use the whisker menu -> settings -> Desktop widget, I can set the first two monitors to a number of different backdrop images which are apparently stored in /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops. However, the third monitor has only two choices, and

[Bug 1560130] [NEW] Grub reports conflict in sector usage.

2016-03-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have just now removed some old kernels. I did an update-grub, but grub-install /dev/sda is reporting an odd error that I've never seen before: root@roisin:~# grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: Sector 50 is already in use by

[Bug 1506669] [NEW] top loses track of processes when running a very long time

2015-10-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a pipeline of about 2 dozen commands that I expect will run for 2-3 weeks, with top running concurrently in another window. They are compute-intensive, and there is always at least one one that is running and sometimes more. In spite of this after several days, top

[Bug 1482782] [NEW] desktop-settings arrange icons actually makes them disappear

2015-08-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: This is just about the first thing I'm doing after a utopic-vivid upgrade. The desktop icons came up in an odd place, about halfway down the main screen. I used the Desktop menu arrange icons, but that made them simply vanish. I don't know what that is actually, so I set

[Bug 1330239] Re: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid showed in syslog in Ubuntu 14.04

2015-01-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This is probably obvious, but if like me you don't have or want a modem, you can remove the package that's generating these messages: apt-get remove modemmanager -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1404548] [NEW] sort --reverse does not reverse numeric sorts

2014-12-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: The --reverse option is supposed to reverse the sense of comparisons, but does not affect numeric ('g' or 'n') sorts. With the input filed 02 q l 10 f abc 01 x abc 01 y abc 01 z n 10 u d 02 m d 02 b b 10 c I get the same results with either of sort --reverse -k2n sort -k2n

[Bug 1400841] [NEW] test crashes after PASS on almost all tests

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: System is 64-bit, with 64GB of RAM, running PAE kernel, so default page size is 2MiB. Perhaps this is a problem because Python is compiled 32-bit; the first line of output does complain about the size. A run of run_test.py finishes with a stack dump, and an error because

Re: [Bug 1361909] Re: gparted issues many error messages when started from console

2014-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1361909/+subscriptions -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email

[Bug 1374898] [NEW] Vim has 32-bitlimits; annoying on really large files and 64-bit machine

2014-09-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: I have a program that I'm debugging. It generates enormous log files which I need to peruse. I use vim as the tool of choice ordinarily, but vim stops loading the text when it reaches line 2147483647. That sounds familiar. It gives no hint of what's wrong, so I tried

[Bug 1361909] [NEW] gparted issues many error messages when started from console

2014-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: When starting from a terminal, gparted issues a very large number of error messages, which are meaningless to the user. Presumably these go nowhere when starting it from a GUI. Screenshot attached. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gparted 0.18.0-1

[Bug 1277865] Re: Cannot install Ubuntu 14.04 on EFI hardware

2014-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This affects me too. I have a newer Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 8.1, and it boots UEFI. I created space using windows tools, created a Linux swap and root partition, and installed Xubuntu 14.04.1 from DVD. Everything went as expected except the grub-install, it seems. If I boot from

[Bug 1285798] Re: function get_options cannot be documented

2014-02-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The bug occurred in sourceforge project 'qubic' in versions before 0.5.8. In particular see git commit 39ebfdc9cf41f1e71c0528140f92711ee5d95678 which is just before the fix, and compare it to commit 540bdc905e407ccf7de3f497ab21aaf00e25260f which is just after. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1285798] [NEW] function get_options cannot be documented

2014-02-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: My C program had a function get_options(int, char**), and doxygen warned that it was not documented no matter what I tried. It was the only one of about 30 functions with this complaint. Finally, I changed its name to getOptions without making any other changes, and the

[Bug 1268218] [NEW] nm(1) does not work on 64-bit objects

2014-01-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Public bug reported: On 64-bit Ubuntu and Xubuntu systems, at least since 12.04, nm(1) does not recognize the format of 64-bit objects or executables. It does recognize 32-bit objects even on a 64-bit system. Try it on the stuff in /bin or /lib, for instance. It's a handy utility, and I really

[Bug 1268218] Re: nm(1) does not work on 64-bit objects

2014-01-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Please mark this one invalid. Consider it a brain failure. ** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman-pacbell) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1267452] Re: Panel sound control is inactive

2014-01-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This but was reported against apport because attempts to use ubuntu-bug without a package failed, the choices presented not being related to the problem. I have no idea what that thingie is, what its name is, or what package its in. Nor do I have any idea how to find out other than reporting

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