[Bug 1838485] [NEW] package policykit-1 0.105-14.1ubuntu0.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2019-07-30 Thread John Stewart
Public bug reported:

I don't have Window.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: policykit-1 0.105-14.1ubuntu0.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 30 11:19:23 2019
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 
1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-27 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.5
 apt  1.2.32
SourcePackage: policykit-1
Title: package policykit-1 0.105-14.1ubuntu0.5 failed to install/upgrade: 
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-package xenial

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[Bug 1509723] Re: [Acer Aspire ES1-311] Ubuntu freezes occasionally

2016-03-06 Thread John Stewart
All,

This is a horrible kernel bug that affects  BayTrail systems.  See here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051

>From what I see there is still no solution.  And little activity from
Intel or kernel devs to fix it.  Which is too bad: there are a *lot* of
BayTrail systems out there...

jds

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[Bug 993187] Re: ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently.

2012-07-14 Thread John Stewart
I am also getting complete lockups, no mouse movement.

Fresh install of 12.04 64-bit with all updates.

Computer: HP DM1Z with AMD E-450 CPU and ATI graphics.

I have to say, after challenges with 11.04 and 11.10 I thought surely
that 12.04 LTS would be a good release for me.  Alas.  Back to the Mac
it is.

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[Bug 774538] Re: [dash] some uninstalled applications are still shown (desktop files still present)

2012-04-27 Thread John Stewart
I can reliably reproduce this bug on a fresh, stock install of 12.04
with all updates done.  Install, say, Medit.  It appears in the taskbar.
Unintall Medit, icon is still in the taskbar.

It's amazing to me that such an *obvious* bug could make it into a final
LTS release.  It's the sort of easily-encountered, semi-cosmetic
breakage that turns people off immediately -- when the system works in
unexpected ways, the motivation to use it drops.  If such a simple thing
is broken, who knows how many more essential aspects of the system are
also broken?

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Re: [Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2011-02-20 Thread John Stewart
Sorry if this is an obvious question, but are you sure you rebooted from the
patched kernel and not some updated ubuntu kernel?

jds

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, matt_callaghan
<642...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> bah; comment spamming (sorry).
>
> I did:
>  1) installed the patched kernel/images/headers, seemed flawless.
>  2) rebooted, yay!  was fixed. the "shiny" ubuntu logo appears as expected,
> and there were no FATAL messages.
>  3) ubuntu prompted me for a whack of updates (it looked like several
> applications needed to be updated w/ the newer kernel)
>  4) rebooted, darn.  got the same error as before. ... FATAL message
> present again.
>
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> Title:
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> Status in The Linux Kernel:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Maverick:
>  Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>  When I turn on my computer I can read this on my screen
>
>  "modprobe: Fatal: Could not load
>  /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: no such file or directory"
>
>  After 4-5 seconds, plymouth starts and the system works fine.
>
>  salve, ho lo stesso problema, mi chiede la psw del portachiavi e poi
>  rimane con lo schermo nero..ed è impossibile lavorare...! grazie
>
>  hi, I have the same problem, I asked the psw keychain and then left
>  with a black screen .. and it is impossible to work ...! thanks
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Re: [Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2011-01-15 Thread John Stewart
I didn't use the patch command at all.  I just installed the two header
files and the kernel using 'dpkg -i ', then rebooted.  Grub will show
you the new kernel on the boot screen.

jds

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:59 PM, lunix <642...@bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> >
> > Once i figured out to install headers-all before headers, it went
> > smoothly - thanks so much for the patch!
> >
> > --
> >
>
> I have been resisting putting the patch on as I share
> this machine with others and I didn't want to upset anything or screw up in
> the order.   I suppose I could just boot from one of the other kernels if
> something went wrong.
>
> Perhaps someone who has been successful, apparently all of you might post
> an
> extra procedure for those that are used to just going through the normal
> update options.
> Will this patch be released as an update?
>
> I have a 64-bit machine.  It looks like I need to install:
> linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic_2.6.35-25.43lp642421v201101091714_amd64.deb
>
> linux-headers-2.6.35-25_2.6.35-25.43lp642421v201101091714_all.deb
>
> linux-
> headers-2.6.35-25-generic_2.6.35-25.43lp642421v201101091714_amd64.deb
>
> Then do I reboot and come up on this and then apply the patch or apply the
> patch straight away while running the older kernel?
>
> 0001-UBUNTU-SAUCE-ensure-root-is-ready-before-running-use.patch
>
> Do I just type as root:  patch
> 0001-UBUNTU-SAUCE-ensure-root-is-ready-before-running-use.patch
>
> Does it matter what directory the above patch file is in when I run the
> patch command?
>
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> Title:
>  Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  When I turn on my computer I can read this on my screen
>
>  "modprobe: Fatal: Could not load
>  /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: no such file or directory"
>
>  After 4-5 seconds, plymouth starts and the system works fine.
>
>  salve, ho lo stesso problema, mi chiede la psw del portachiavi e poi
>  rimane con lo schermo nero..ed è impossibile lavorare...! grazie
>
>  hi, I have the same problem, I asked the psw keychain and then left
>  with a black screen .. and it is impossible to work ...! thanks
>
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Re: [Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2011-01-13 Thread John Stewart
Andy's patched kernel worked like a charm on my EEE PC 1001px, on which I
originally noticed the boot-time error message.  On the netbook 10.10 was
installed in its own partition, separate from the bootable partition of the
system (which has 10.04 on it).

Thanks Andy, terrific work.  I was also one of the early greasy-well
complainers about this bug, arguing that it's much more than merely
cosmetic.  I still think that's true!

jds

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Gerald Williams
<642...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> Affects my Toshiba A215-S7422 laptop. In addition to boot warnings,
> menus don't appear properly transparent and video artifacts appear.
>
> Going back to latest stable kernel from 10.4 resolves all, recommended
> workarounds with initramfs and rebuilding modules.dep did not help.
> Haven't tried the backported kernel yet (have an AMD Turion64, was
> running 32-bit, didn't want to grab the wrong version).
>
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>
> Status in The Linux Kernel:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  When I turn on my computer I can read this on my screen
>
>  "modprobe: Fatal: Could not load
>  /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep: no such file or directory"
>
>  After 4-5 seconds, plymouth starts and the system works fine.
>
>  salve, ho lo stesso problema, mi chiede la psw del portachiavi e poi
>  rimane con lo schermo nero..ed è impossibile lavorare...! grazie
>
>  hi, I have the same problem, I asked the psw keychain and then left
>  with a black screen .. and it is impossible to work ...! thanks
>
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[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2010-10-13 Thread John Stewart
Andrew,

Thanks for your reply, and for keeping the (totally misplaced)
discussion going :)  I too for a long time held the position you have
stated.

My opinion has changed though.  First observe that Macs also have a
command-line interface (though one can get away with using it rarely)
and that game support for Macs is extremely limited compared to Windows.
But mainly, in my professional life I have observed many software
developers -- leading-edge users who otherwise know Unix up and down --
simply wonder away from Linux (to Macs) precisely because of issues such
as this: that Linux installations feel brittle, untested, held together
by hacks and tape.  That's why the optics *are* important.  The attitude
that "oh well it's just a message that flashes by, and hey it doesn't
actually affect the system" in my view is so mistaken.  Things that make
the system seem broken and unstable send the wrong message to end users.

I was very excited when Ubuntu kicked off because I thought, at last
here's an attempt to bring rigour and polish to Linux packaging.
Instead, release after release I see that the old attitudes are still
prevalent.  The new netbook interface in 10.10 is *just terrible*, how
anyone thought to release it without saying, "this is really rough so
play with it and file bugs" is beyond me.Compare the language here
http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook to the reality here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9953240&postcount=1

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[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2010-10-13 Thread John Stewart
"While it is undesirable that this error is emitted so prominantly
during boot on any system, even had this error been on the release teams
radar, it is unlikely it would have been a release blocker as it does
not seem to affect functionality, nor does it affect a large percentage
of the install base."

And right here you have, in its tightest expression, the core reason why
Ubuntu will never reach levels of popularity beyond the tiniest fraction
of computer users world-wide.

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[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2010-10-12 Thread John Stewart
Michael,

Again, I'm totally sympathetic with what you're saying, but I don't
believe this case is comparable to the experience you have in your
organization.  Here we don't have a minor bug that some bunch of free-
loaders are whinging about.  In fact, as far as my own usage is
concerned, I could care less whether this gets fixed -- it's not yet
clear whether it affects the operation of the system, and in any case I
can just stick to LTS.  The point is: how can it be that such monster
bugs make it into a final release?  The real bug is the process, not
this particular exemplar.  And yet one sees little effort on the part of
Canonical to alter the process to prevent this sort of thing.  And thus
potential users turn away.  That is the frustration.

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[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2010-10-12 Thread John Stewart
Michael,

I hear you, but I read your reply as reproductive of the head-in-the-
sand mentality that won't examine cases such as these as opportunities
for improvement.  I've been a regular user of Ubuntu for many years, and
I've always felt the releases are rushed, whenever a "Final" comes out,
several weeks, sometimes months, go by before it reaches the stability
of the previous one.  That my be fun for geeks, but it's not 'Linux for
Humans'.  So if this keeps happening over and over again, there's a real
problem to be solved.

Saying that this affects some small subset, that it's happened before,
see there's a Debian thread from two years ago ... is so not the point.
Here we have a case of an error that occurs across, it seems, many
hardware configurations -- I'm using a stock netbook that (after a few
months of updates) works more-or-less fine under 10.04, I'm not on some
exotic motherboard etc.  I suspect that many, many users are seeing
this.  And an error that hits you immediately upon the first boot with
FATAL really doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, whatever the impact
later.  And a link to an old discussion that ends with another link to a
thread on how to recompile the kernel is hardly an effective argument
for why this shouldn't be a release blocker.

The broader point here is: what needs to happen to harden these
releases?  Maybe the 6-month thing should be rethought, or at least the
non-LTS releases should be tagged as geek-oriented, unstable experiments
(I wish the LTS releases would be more stable on the release date).
Instead Canonical makes a big deal that this is the latest and greatest
OS for the masses.  There is such a gap between the rhetoric and the
reality that people naturally just walk off to buy a Mac.

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[Bug 642421] Re: Maverick could not load /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/modules.dep

2010-10-12 Thread John Stewart
I'm curious about something: how can Ubuntu ship with such a massive
error right at boot?  I'd like to understand the release process better.
Surely this sort of thing could benefit form a post-release analysis?
It's absolutely a priority-1 blocker!

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[Bug 519553] Re: Right click menu could confuse users, leading to accidental removal of panel applet

2010-05-06 Thread John Stewart
Does the closing of this bug mean that this won't be fixed until the
next Ubuntu release?  Note that at Apple this bug would be considered a
total show-stopper.  User can delete volume control icon and never get
it back.

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[Bug 519553] Re: Right click menu could confuse users, leading to accidental removal of panel applet

2010-05-03 Thread John Stewart
This is the sort of severe and *OBVIOUS* usability issue that just kills
Linux in the consumer space.  I just installed 10.04 on a test system,
went to (what I thought was) delete the mail icon, lost the other icons
including the volume control applet, which I want.  I browsed the web to
restore it, found a comment about re-adding the Notification area.  Did
so, ending up with an empty space in the menu bar.  Read a note about
deleting ~/.gnome2 and re-log in,  did so, got the battery and bluetooth
icons back but still no volume icon.

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[Bug 441828] Re: System Monitor ignores close request and uses 100% of one core

2009-12-24 Thread John Stewart
Same happens when I connect an iphone to a system running 9.10.

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[Bug 218794] Re: integrated microfone does not work (sony vaio, hardy)

2008-11-19 Thread John Stewart
Nikos,

Does Ubuntu 8.10 otherwise work fine on your VAIO NS?  For example, when
you plug a headset into the headphone jack, are the speakers muted
appropriately?  Does X run normally, at full resolution?

Thanks,

jds

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[Bug 299677] Re: package mysql-server_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_all.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-18 Thread John Stewart

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[Bug 299677] [NEW] package mysql-server_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_all.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-18 Thread John Stewart
Public bug reported:

MythTV
8.04
Synaptic
The install to finish
It crashed instead

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 18 15:48:06 2008
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: mysql-server None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server None [modified: 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

** Affects: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: apport-package

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