[Bug 148806] Re: apt-get blocks on /dev/ptmx a lot

2007-10-16 Thread anthony baxter
Nice work! The one time I ran it today after the new apt package, it didn't lock up - but it wasn't something that happened every time, so let's leave it a day or two before saying it's fixed for sure. -- apt-get blocks on /dev/ptmx a lot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148806 You received this

[Bug 148806] Re: apt-get blocks on /dev/ptmx a lot

2007-10-15 Thread anthony baxter
backtrace: #0 0xe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7c9acb3 in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7ede9d7 in pkgDPkgPM::DoTerminalPty () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5 #3 0xb7ee45ce in pkgDPkgPM::Go () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5 #4 0xb7e90558 in

[Bug 136230] Re: nm-applet duplicates when logging in

2007-10-03 Thread anthony baxter
I see the same behaviour. I don't get 10, but if I log out with 1 running and log back in, I get 2. If I don't kill the duplicate and logout and back in, I get 3, c c. -- nm-applet duplicates when logging in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136230 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 148806] apt-get blocks on /dev/ptmx a lot

2007-10-03 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt Frequently when doing an apt-get dist-upgrade on gutsy, apt-get just hangs. When it does this, it's stuck in a read() call on /dev/ptmx. lsof of a hung apt-get shows a lot of open FD, all with /dev/ptmx open: apt-get 5694 root 28u CHR5,2

[Bug 148798] Re: workrave windows duplicated

2007-10-03 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: screenshot-workrave.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9715273/workrave.png -- workrave windows duplicated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148798 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 148798] workrave windows duplicated

2007-10-03 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: workrave See attached screenshot - since upgrading to gutsy, workrave has duplicated windows. ps shows the following running: anthony 29991 1 0 09:46 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/workrave-applet

[Bug 136529] Re: Can't log in after upgrading

2007-09-28 Thread anthony baxter
Nuking xserver-xgl from orbit fixes the problem for me. -- Can't log in after upgrading https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136529 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 136529] Re: Can't log in after upgrading

2007-09-28 Thread anthony baxter
In theory, touching the file .config/xserver-xgl/disable will do the same thing. It would be nice if whatever it was trying to run with xgl detected it crashing and disabled it on next boot. This is a particularly bad because you get very little useful feedback. -- Can't log in after upgrading

[Bug 136529] Re: Can't log in after upgrading

2007-09-27 Thread anthony baxter
I have the same problem. it's not /tmp for me either, that looks fine. On login, the gdm window goes away, then the X server appears to crash or exit, then comes back to the login window. I tried switching to kdm, behaves the same way. One oddity that might be related is that it's running on the

[Bug 145463] Re: update-manager -d -c failures

2007-09-26 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: apt.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9519640/apt.log -- update-manager -d -c failures https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145463 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 145463] update-manager -d -c failures

2007-09-26 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Trying to upgrade a feisty install to the current gutsy. Running update-manager -d -c doesn't every show the upgrade available button. Running it as root spits out this on the tty: warning: could not initiate dbus extracting

[Bug 145463] Re: update-manager -d -c failures

2007-09-26 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: main.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9519641/main.log -- update-manager -d -c failures https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145463 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 105490] Re: [Feisty] Swap partition receives new UUID

2007-04-30 Thread anthony baxter
Same problem here. The UUID in fstab didn't match the one in /dev/disk/by-uuid/. This started after a sleep/wake cycle. Had to fix it by hand by editing fstab to use the correct value from /dev/disk/by-uuid. swapon -a was reporting: % sudo swapon -a swapon: cannot stat

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2007-04-19 Thread anthony baxter
The driver in feisty is still broken. I grabbed the latest anongit of xf86-driver-ati and built it, it seems to be working fine. This is after the xorg randr stuff landed. -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64128 You received this

[Bug 85907] Re: [feisty] fglrx does not support older cards

2007-04-19 Thread anthony baxter
The problem is that the binary blob fglrx_drv.so has the X server version encoded in it, and the last version that supported the R200 c only supports up to 7.1. Feisty has 7.2. You can (with a bit of messing about) build the kernel driver, but that won't help you, as the X server won't load the

[Bug 68267] Re: x11-common have an important debconf bug

2007-03-08 Thread anthony baxter
Simple workaround I've been using when I hit this: DISPLAY= apt-get update -- x11-common have an important debconf bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/68267 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 68267] Re: x11-common have an important debconf bug

2007-03-08 Thread anthony baxter
gah. upgrade, not update. -- x11-common have an important debconf bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/68267 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-07 Thread anthony baxter
The overwhelming majority of Ubuntu users would almost never notice application installs running faster? You're right, of course. Rather than taking 10 minutes or 30 minutes on dist-upgrade, instead the application installs will fail to work, because of this bizarre decision to favour correctness

[Bug 39955] Re: ladspa plugin missing

2006-12-03 Thread anthony baxter
You don't need to wait for the next release. If you just build the current one from the source tarball from the gstreamer website, ladspa gets built. No idea why it's not built as part of the existing shipping packages... -- ladspa plugin missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/39955 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 39955] Re: ladspa plugin missing

2006-11-30 Thread anthony baxter
It's in gst-plugins-good-0.10.4. I grabbed the upstream tarball, built it, then copied libgstladspa.so into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/ - it seems to work fine. I don't know if it's possible to issue a fixed version of the edgy packages with this plugin, but it should at least be fixed for feisty.

[Bug 66068] Re: New iPod nano recognized as via raid member

2006-11-28 Thread anthony baxter
Will this also fix the same sort of problem with the new 8G nano? dmesg output: [17274130.632000] usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices [17274130.632000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [17274130.632000] usb-storage: device found at 22 [17274130.632000] usb-storage:

[Bug 66068] Re: New iPod nano recognized as via raid member

2006-11-28 Thread anthony baxter
Hm. Looking a bit closer, this may be a different issue. The behaviour I'm seeing is that the ipod is getting mounted, but just as (for instance) /media/sdc2, while my old 15G pre-clickwheel ipod is mounted as /media/ipod (or /media/ipod-1) and then the appropriate signals are sent to banshee and

[Bug 67672] Re: nm-applet always reports No network connection

2006-10-23 Thread anthony baxter
Aha. Ok, I see the problem (aside from I read the man page, rather than hunting through /usr/share/doc ;-) When I upgraded from dapper to edgy, my ethernet interfaces went from eth1/eth2 to eth0/eth1. (I didn't have an eth0 under dapper, for various reasons related to a motherboard swap). It

[Bug 67672] nm-applet always reports No network connection

2006-10-22 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: I'm not sure why, but regardless of whether I'm on wired or wireless, nm-applet always reports No network connection. ifconfig -a, from when I'm on the wired port: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:D6:73:B3 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

[Bug 67672] Re: nm-applet always reports No network connection

2006-10-22 Thread anthony baxter
debugging info from NetworkManager --no-daemon: NetworkManager: information starting... NetworkManager: information eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ipw2200'. NetworkManager: information nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start NetworkManager: information

[Bug 13130] Re: Debconf uninitialized variable

2006-10-21 Thread anthony baxter
I still see something like this with a box that's been upgraded to edgy from dapper. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 83, GEN6 line 3. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at

[Bug 67097] Re: upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values

2006-10-20 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: debconf window complaining about nice values http://librarian.launchpad.net/4894518/Screenshot-upgrade.png -- upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values https://launchpad.net/bugs/67097 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 67097] Re: upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values

2006-10-20 Thread anthony baxter
Forgot to mention that this was with apt-get dist-upgrade -- upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values https://launchpad.net/bugs/67097 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 67097] Re: upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values

2006-10-20 Thread anthony baxter
Awesome. This has totally boned my system now. I'm stuck in please use apt-get install -f mode, but when I do, I get the popups. Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please

[Bug 67097] upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values

2006-10-20 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: When I did an upgrade from 06.06 to 06.10, I got the following bad behaviour - a popup came up (screen shot attached) complaining about 'nice value must be between -19 and 20'. Clicking 'next' made it just reappear. I hit cancel, and got a segfault. DESTROY created new

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2006-10-17 Thread anthony baxter
Please reverse this change before edgy final. It's caused massive breakage for me - for instance, the intel compiler was utterly broken. It relied on 'export -n' and 'exec -a' working. I'm almost tempted to remove dash with dpkg -r and live with the apt-get complaints. This is a huge mistake -

[Bug 63011] Re: opera breaks dapper-eft upgrade

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
I ended up fixing it with 'dpkg -r opera', and don't have the output any more. -- opera breaks dapper-eft upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/63011 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53578] Re: recent dapper kernels causing lockups on Dell Latitude D600

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
I'm not sure exactly what it was, but eventually pretty much all of the innards of the laptop got switched out (mmm warranty) and that made it better. I'd guess that there was something a bit marginal in the hardware, and some kernel change just pushed it over the edge. No idea what or how. So

[Bug 64128] ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: I have a Dell Latitude D600. It has a Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 (R250 Lf) graphics card, and an internal 1400x1050 display. I recently picked up a Chimei CMV 221A LCD monitor, capable of doing 1680x1050. The closed-source fglrx driver picks this up and does the right thing -

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: xorg.conf (radeon driver) http://librarian.launchpad.net/4667603/xorg.conf-radeon -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://launchpad.net/bugs/64128 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: xorg.conf (fglrx driver) http://librarian.launchpad.net/4667604/xorg.conf-fglrx -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://launchpad.net/bugs/64128 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log (fglrx, started with external monitor plugged in) http://librarian.launchpad.net/4667605/Xorg.fglrx.log -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://launchpad.net/bugs/64128 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log (radeon driver, monitor plugged in after starting X) http://librarian.launchpad.net/4667607/Xorg.radeon.log -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://launchpad.net/bugs/64128 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 64128] Re: ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays

2006-10-05 Thread anthony baxter
This is with current Dapper, btw. -- ati/radeon driver has issues with resolution of external displays https://launchpad.net/bugs/64128 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 63011] opera breaks dapper-eft upgrade

2006-09-29 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: x11-common Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22ubuntu10_i386.deb) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_AU:en, LC_ALL =

[Bug 63011] Re: opera breaks dapper-eft upgrade

2006-09-29 Thread anthony baxter
Oooo. Much, much badness. After apt-get stopped on this symlink, I now have a completely hosed system. It's telling me to run apt-get -f install. This bitches that /usr/X11R6/bin is also owned by package opera. But I can't remove opera, because it's telling me to run apt- get -f install when I do

[Bug 54995] no pre-command support for POP (e.g. ssh tunnelling)

2006-08-02 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: The one thing that prevents me using evolution is that there's no way to run a command before initiating a POP connection. In this case, I want to run an ssh tunnel command to port-forward POP locally to the remote server. Running it as a seperate command is a bit too grotty

[Bug 49531] amarok loses most engines after upgrade to dapper

2006-06-12 Thread anthony baxter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: amarok After upgrading to dapper, then reinstalling kubuntu-desktop (see #39658), amarok is pretty badly broken. The only engines available are arts and xine. Before the upgrade, I also had gstreamer, alsa, and I think an OSS one (going from memory). I