Re: Possible regression in Karmic: valgrind echo foo has problems

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Mike Pontillo wrote: Thank you for your response. I can confirm that rebuilding the same version of the valgrind package solves the problem for me as well. Should anything else be done to triage this? Could other packages be lurking in the repository that need to be rebuilt? TWIMC;

Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Sense Hofstede
Hello, Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred way to report bugs. (For more information, have a look at the QATeam spec [1]) The move away from the web interface ought to make our lives

Re: Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/20 Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl Hello, Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred way to report bugs. (For more information, have a look at the QATeam spec [1]) The move away

grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Hello all, What package takes care of shutting down? I have this problem with Jaunty. When I first installed Jaunty, it booted up without problems. However, after an update was done, it would always show me a grub error 18 screen on the next attempt to boot the machine after a shutdown.

Re: grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
I remember reading something about commenting out some line that did something with grub that would solve this problem. Unfortunately I have not been able to find that url again and I wondered whether anybody knows where a command involving grub during shutdown might be located in the

Re: grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
I take it that you now have no problem booting after the root...setup... from the livecd. Yup. Grub legacy have precisely some problems not only with LBA cylinder but also with newer bios. Instead of trying to fix your grub, I suggest you convert your grub legacy to grub2. After all,

Re: grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Goh Lip
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Hello all, What package takes care of shutting down? I have this problem with Jaunty. When I first installed Jaunty, it booted up without problems. However, after an update was done, it would always show me a grub error 18 screen on the next attempt to

Re: Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/9/20 Caroline Ford caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com 2009/9/20 Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl Hello, Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred way to report bugs. (For more

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Andrew SB
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl wrote: What should this operation do? The idea is to create an 'apport-hook' tag, report bugs against all packages (that don't have a hook yet) and start watching the bugs. Then we can write hooks and watch the tag for bugs that

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/9/20 Andrew SB a.star...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl wrote: What should this operation do? The idea is to create an 'apport-hook' tag, report bugs against all packages (that don't have a hook yet) and start watching the bugs. Then we can

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Andrew SB
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl wrote: Reporting bugs against every package would indeed result in a lot of new bug reports, but I do think that it would be a good way of keeping track of the implementation process. We could use python-launchpadbugs to make the

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 15:53 -0400 schrieb Andrew SB: As someone who would be willing to write hooks and incorporate them into a package, looking at a bug list of over 16,000 wouldn't give me any idea where to start. Start with packages with = 50 bugs open. Look at audacity, eclipse,

What about SLiM and tint2?

2009-09-20 Thread rent0n
Hello, I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on. I also would like to know why the new stable release of tint2 (0.7) has not been included in

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Pitt
Benjamin Drung [2009-09-20 21:59 +0200]: Start with packages with = 50 bugs open. Look at audacity, eclipse, vlc, to name a view. I'd think that it makes more sense to start with packages which are actually maintained in Ubuntu, i. e. where someone actually looks at bugs. Also, apport hooks

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Apport Hooks Task Force

2009-09-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:53:06 -0400 Andrew SB a.star...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl wrote: Reporting bugs against every package would indeed result in a lot of new bug reports, but I do think that it would be a good way of keeping track of the 

Re: grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Christopher Chan
Dane Mutters wrote: It sounds like your menu.lst file in /boot/grub is being overwritten by the maintainer's version of the config file from the updated package. Usually, if you've edited that file even a little, it'll ask whether you want to change it or keep it the same and update it

Re: grub error 18

2009-09-20 Thread Christopher Chan
Goh Lip wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: I take it that you now have no problem booting after the root...setup... from the livecd. Yup. Grub legacy have precisely some problems not only with LBA cylinder but also with newer bios. Instead of trying to fix