[Bug 1408092] Re: sysconfig.get_path('purelib') points to site-packages directory

2017-06-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
In fact looking at /usr/lib/python3.4/distutils/sysconfig.py, it appears
the fix is quite easy.  In get_python_inc(), the variable `python_dir =
python_dir = 'python' + get_python_version() + build_flags` is used to
build the path.  However, in get_python_lib(), "python3" is a hard-coded
string: `return os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "python3", "dist-packages")`

This is a special case for the value of prefix if it's something like
/usr/local.. Currently to get around this I am forced to provide a fake
argument to `prefix` and then doing a string replace for /usr/local,
which is just silly.

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[Bug 1408092] Re: sysconfig.get_path('purelib') points to site-packages directory

2017-06-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
Hello, yes this last issue (distutils.sysconfig) is causing a problem on
a project I work on, so I'd like to confirm as well.  It appears to have
been previously brought up here without reply:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-
discuss/2016-October/017005.html

I am seeing the issue on Ubuntu 17.04 so it seems this bug has not been
fixed.

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[Bug 1616957] [NEW] interaction between vtk and pyhull causes segfault

2016-08-25 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

I don't know whether to report this to vtk6 or to qhull, but I'll report
it to vtk6 since there is no python-pyhull package.

Install the packages via

~~~
sudo apt-get install python-vtk6
sudo pip install pyhull
~~~

The following program then segfaults for me on 16.10 during creation of
the ConvexHull object.  Works fine on 16.04.

If the line "import vtk" is commented out, the program proceeds without
error.  So something in vtk 6.3 is causing a problem with pyhull, very
strange.

~~~
import numpy
import vtk
from pyhull.convex_hull import ConvexHull

coords = numpy.array([[ 0.05753396,  0.0594523 ,  0.04074307],
  [ 0.02653826, -0.02544384,  0.08457577],
  [-0.03997982,  0.01372854,  0.08196262],
  [-0.03134984, -0.02472897,  0.08312879],
  [ 0.08184259,  0.01582656, -0.03944668],
  [ 0.05668982, -0.03320603, -0.06471749],
  [-0.06028319,  0.06223122, -0.03159022],
  [-0.00628884, -0.00626133, -0.09179312]])

hull = ConvexHull(coords)
print hull
~~~

A backtrace reveals errors during initialization.

~~~
#0  0x7fff7ccf4a98 in qh_initstatistics () at src/libqhull/stat.c:462
#1  0x7fff7ccfbaf2 in qh_initqhull_start (
infile=infile@entry=0x5624da60, outfile=outfile@entry=0x55ed3080, 
errfile=errfile@entry=0x77bb5520 <_IO_2_1_stderr_>)
at src/libqhull/global.c:1825
#2  0x7fff7ccfbb3c in qh_init_A (infile=0x5624da60, 
outfile=0x55ed3080, errfile=0x77bb5520 <_IO_2_1_stderr_>, argc=3, 
argv=0x7fffdcc0) at src/libqhull/global.c:487
#3  0x7fff7ccf180a in py_qconvex (self=, 
args=) at src/_pyhull.c:106
#4  0x5564e37a in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
~~~

It *appears* to be a problem with initialization qhull, but I report it
to vtk6 because the problem happens with vtk6.3 but *not* with vtk6.2
(on Xenial).  I am not sure how to proceed to debug further.

** Affects: vtk6 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 1198123] Re: clang cannot find stddef.h

2013-11-20 Thread Steve Sinclair
This workaround also fixed it for me.

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[Bug 583001] Re: Some packages missing in texlive-math-extra in lucid

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Sinclair
Was trying to compile a document that uses breqn and found this problem.
Why were these packages removed?

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Re: [Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2010-01-31 Thread Steve Sinclair
If it found your device you are on the right track.  Any luck if you
turn off WPA2?  For what it's worth the thread ended with some of us
getting it working, so at this point it's possibly just a matter of
waiting until the fixes are integrated into the OS better.  (Maybe
someone more officially Ubuntu can confirm what the next steps are?)

And yes, of course you'll have a better time of things if you
explicitly buy hardware that is known to be working.

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[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
Hi, finally got a chance to try again.. when I added the correct vender
and product id to common/rtusb_dev_id.c, then it worked.  Thanks!

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[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
Which one?  I just downloaded the Linux driver labeled RT3572, version
2.3.0.0, released 12/14/09.  It compiled and loaded fine, but didn't
seem to do much when I plugged in my WUSB200Nv2.  No network device
appeared.  Do I need to manually associate the driver with the device
somehow?

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[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
I just tried the latest Windows XP driver with ndiswrapper as well, but
ndisgtk just says Hardware present: No.

lsusb says:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1737:0079 Linksys

But no network device appears when I plug it in.

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[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
Should have said, running Jaunty i686.

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[Bug 199992] Re: 1.3.4 beta won't get passed welcome dialog - 100% CPU

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
I booted off a Karmic live CD to test this bug again.

Audacity pauses at the welcome screen for a long time, but this time it
did in fact eventually allow me to close the dialog.  For a second
program was usable and I could see that after loading test.wav, it had
created a few _hundred_ tracks, called test1, test2, etc.. I tried
to scroll down to see how many tracks it had created but the program
became unresponsive and the CPU is now running at 100% doing something,
presumably swapping memory or something.  Eventually the whole desktop
started periodically freezing, and I had to manage to click on my
terminal window and Ctrl-C the process in order to be able to finish
this message.

I think there is clearly an input bug in Audacity that is not properly
validating a maximum number of tracks, or otherwise not realizing that
the computer cannot handle the load demanded by this corrupt file.

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[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2009-10-05 Thread Steve Sinclair
Just to confirm, I have the same problem.  (After adding usb-id)

The driver loads and detects the stick, but no matter what I do,
iwlist gives No scan results.  After configuring RT2870STA.dat, my
SSID changes accordingly in iwconfig but I cannot connect to it.

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[Bug 422034] [NEW] Gambit-C compiler/interpreter is an old version, needs update.

2009-08-31 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gambc

Gambit-C is now at version 4.5.1.  The Ubuntu Intrepid and Karmic
packaged versions are 4.2.8, which is now quite old and seems to be
missing important things like 'define-syntax' and the '-exe' command-
line option.  It could use an update, particularly since it is a
compiler and it would be nice to have the possibility for other source
packages to depend on it.

1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 9.04
Release:9.04

2) $ apt-cache policy gambc
gambc:
  Installed: 4.2.8-1
  Candidate: 4.2.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.8-1 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Version 4.5.1 of gambc.

4) Version 4.2.8 of gambc.

** Affects: gambc (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 2462] Re: mail-notifcation hogging the CPU polling for GMail

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Sinclair
I just tried it on my laptop for an hour, (running Intrepid), and it
didn't seem to be an issue.  I'll keep running it for a while to monitor
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[Bug 255360] Re: liblo package is out of date

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
Yes, that's basically the plan.  We are trying to organize a release
0.26 by the end of Jan., so it seems logical to wait until then, at
which point the new release will contain this change to the soname.

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[Bug 277926] Re: synfigstudio crashed with SIGSEGV in Gtk::Tooltips::set_tip()

2008-12-14 Thread Steve Sinclair
I can confirm this bug.  32-bit Ubuntu 8.10.

$ synfigstudio

   synfig studio -- starting up application...


(synfigstudio:7758): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with 
non-zero page size is deprecated

(synfigstudio:7758): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with 
non-zero page size is deprecated
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Re: [Bug 199992] Re: 1.3.4 beta won't get passed welcome dialog - 100% CPU

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Sinclair
Seems like it, yes.  I'm running 8.10 (Audacity 1.3.5 beta) and it
seems to go into an infinite loop trying to load that file. (100%
CPU).

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Daniel T Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

 ** Changed in: audacity (Ubuntu)
   Status: New = Incomplete

 ** Tags added: testcase

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[Bug 284500] [NEW] NetworkManager should have do not connect to this network checkbox under Wireless Networks / Properties

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: network-manager

This is a wishlist item.  Sometimes in certain locations there are
wireless networks, not security encrypted, which Network Manager
automatically connects to, but that I do not want to connect to.  I'm
not adverse to it automatically connecting, but it would be nice to have
the option of telling it _not_ to connect to certain networks.

I propose putting a checkbox under Properties in the Wirelss Networks
dialog box, called Do not connect to this network.

** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 284504] [NEW] System Monitor should provide option to monitor temperature.

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

This is a wishlist item.  The system monitor provides monitoring of CPU
and network usage, as well as disk activity.  It would be nice to use
the same program to monitor the CPU temperature(s).

** Affects: ubuntu
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 284500] Re: NetworkManager should have do not connect to this network checkbox under Wireless Networks / Properties

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Sinclair
Bug 556590 on bugzilla.gnome.org.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556590

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[Bug 284504] Re: System Monitor should provide option to monitor temperature.

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Sinclair
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556596

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Re: [Bug 2462] Re: mail-notifcation hogging the CPU polling for GMail

2008-09-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
It's a universe package!

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   VersionDescription
+++-==-==-
un  mail-notificat none (no description available)

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[Bug 255360] [NEW] liblo package is out of date

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

The package liblo is for upstream version 0.23.  However, the upstream
is now at version 0.25.  The latest version contains important packet
validation code which is needed for security, among several other
features and important bug fixes.  Please package the latest version.
When sending the sourceforge release notice for 0.25, I made sure to
include the debian maintainer's email address, but the package has not
be upgraded for over a year.

** Affects: liblo (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 255360] Re: liblo package is out of date

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Sinclair
Okay, I see. I'll pay more attention to the version-info in the future.
I may issue a point-release to fix it, in which case I'll CC the package
maintainer.

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[Bug 199992] [NEW] 1.3.4 beta won't get passed welcome dialog - 100% CPU

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: audacity

I have just installed audacity-1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1~gutsy1 on a brand new
installation of Gutsy.

On running it, the main audacity window appears along with the welcome screen 
dialog.
The mouse cursor then begins to spin, and the welcome dialog has its buttons 
and scrollbars disabled.
One of the two CPUs on this dual core computer is consumed 100%.

Audacity is, apparently, completely unusable, since it seems the only
way to leave the welcome dialog is Ctrl-C or Force Quit.

This occurs with or without jackd running.
Trying to play a sound in another program revealed that the sound card is 
claimed while audacity is running.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 7.10

If only I knew what to put in the .audacity file to get it to skip the
welcome dialog..

** Affects: audacity (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 199992] Re: 1.3.4 beta won't get passed welcome dialog - 100% CPU

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
Okay, it looks like this was due to the fact that I was passing an apparently 
corrupt .wav file as an argument when starting audacity.
It has nothing to do with the welcome screen.

The wav file was generated in Octave, so maybe it's actually a problem
there (with the wavwrite function), but after launching Audacity and
manually loading this file, audacity spins indefinitely at 100%.

I've attached the file for reference.


** Attachment added: Wav file which causes audacity to busywait using 100% 
CPU.
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12523033/test.wav

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Re: [Bug 160654] Re: users should be able to install applications by downloading a shortcut to Synaptic

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Sinclair
Thanks for the comments.  What I was talking about it maybe more
similar to apturl.  Thanks, this is the first I've heard of it.
However, I was really talking about just having small files that could
be downloaded over http, which would then be double-clicked by the
user when they are on his desktop.  I've never been a big fan of the
let's invent a new URL format solution when an http link would do
just fine.  But in any case, apturl looks interesting and maybe covers
this need I was talking about, even though it's not exactly how I'd
implement it.

I'll just restate that I was definitely _not_ talking about having
developers host .deb files on their websites.  I said this
specifically in my post.  I was talking about installing programs from
the Ubuntu repos.

Thanks, I guess we could consider this closed since I didn't know
about apturl.  I would be great to see people start using it.

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[Bug 160654] users should be able to install applications by downloading a shortcut to Synaptic

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Sinclair
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This is a wish-list item, request-for-comment, or whatnot.

I often read on forums that users find it simple and easy in Windows
to be able to download an application installer and then just run it to
install the program.  This is somehow seen as easier and more straight-
forward than loading up Synaptic, even though it is not as safe.
Similarly on OS X, users can download dmg files, mount them with a click
and then drag an application where they want it.  This is also often
seen as easier than launching Synaptic an searching for a program.

I was thinking that it might be beneficial to allow people to put small
files on websites which, when downloaded and double-clicked, would
instruct Synaptic to install a particular package.  Synaptic would
download the actual application from the repository, so there would be
no problems with distribution of debs.  Synaptic could support this by
generating these files which developers and users could post anywhere on
the web.  When recommending a program to someone, these shortcuts would
be the easiest way to send a link to someone.  It would provide an
easy shortcut instead of making the user search through the repository
him/herself.

For instance, a user would visit a website for a particular application.
The application developer could have, in addition to the Windows
installer and the OS X dmg file, a Ubuntu Synaptic file.  The user then
simply chooses the Ubuntu Synaptic file, which he then double-clicks,
and the application begins to install seamlessly.  Ideally, an icon
would then appear right on the desktop or on the panel, so it will be
obvious how to launch the new application.

This would be exactly equivalent to the user searching the repository
using Synaptic and choosing to install the application, except easier.
It would also provide a kind of psycological closure -- the user can be
sure that what he installed is what he was reading about on the web
site.  I believe this would help dispell a lot of criticism about the
difficulty of installing software on Ubuntu.  (Which is silly, of
course.)

** Affects: ubuntu
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: install software synaptic

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[Bug 132002] libportaudio packaging very confusing

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Sinclair
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Installing portaudio 19 is very confusing.  I am trying to compile an
application which uses it, as well as the CPP bindings which are
contained in libportaudiocpp0.

1) Previously, PortAudio 18 dev files were installed using the package 
libportaudio-dev.  So far so good.
2) So libportaudio0 goes with libportaudio-dev and libportaudio-doc, for V18.
3) To install V19 and the cpp bindings, first I tried installing 
libportaudiocpp0.
4) Apparently libportaudiocpp0 is not intended for libportaudio0, but for 
portaudio19-dev.
5) portaudio19-dev is the development files for libportaudio2.  2?  Why 
couldn't this be 19?
6) The dev files for libportaudiocpp0 are contained in portaudio19-dev.  I 
spent some time looking for a package called libportaudiocpp0-dev, but was very 
confused for a while.

So anyways, it finally become apparent that all I had to do was install 
portaudio19-dev and libportaudiocpp0.
I just wanted to state my general confusion here at the package naming scheme...
At the very least, why not put the cpp binding dev files in 
libportaudiocpp0-dev?  And if I install libportaudiocpp0, it should detect the 
dependancy on libportaudio2, instead of allowing me to compile programs with an 
incompatible version of the library.
It is very non-obvious which package to install for V18 or V19.  I had to issue 
several apt-cache show commands before figuring it out.
Lastly, V18 for some reason is mutually exclusive with V19.  This is a bad 
thing, because some older applications may require V18.  There is a perfectly 
good way to deal with this problem, by using version numbers in the file names. 
 (For example, I currently have both libglib-1.2 and libglib-2.0 installed at 
the same time.)

** Affects: portaudio19 (Ubuntu)
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Re: [Bug 130911] Re: emacs22 hangs for a few seconds after saving file

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Sinclair
Okay I had the bug occur again.  It definitely is something that
happens sometimes, where when I save the file it takes like 5 to 10
seconds and the Emacs process hangs while it's happening.  (That's
natural I guess.)

This time however I tried it with emacs-snapshot-gtk, and got the same
behaviour.  I also tried killing trackerd, which was running, and it
didn't change anything.  Eventually the behaviour went away on its
own.

By the way, using top, the top process was using about 10% of the
CPU, so it must be something IO-bound that is causing problems.
Switching to the terminal, I didn't notice any filesystem slowdowns.
For example, ls seemed to work fine.

So unfortunately I can't find a rhyme or reason for it.  If it happens
again, is there something else I could check?  Otherwise, mark it
unreproducible I guess.  I'll see if I can figure it out more clearly
and re-report it.

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[Bug 130911] Re: emacs22 hangs for a few seconds after saving file

2007-08-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
Hm, it is not doing it anymore today.  Yesterday it was doing it all day, but 
so-far today I haven't seen it happen in either version.  I was not entirely 
convinced that it was an emacs bug, it could have been the file system acting 
funny.  Though, as I said, I didn't see any other programs behaving similarly.
(I have about 2 gigs left on each disk, so it wasn't a space issue..)

Perhaps you can mark this as invalid, and I can re-open it if I see it again.
Though maybe you could wait a day or so to give me a chance to make some more 
observations.

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Re: [Bug 130911] Re: emacs22 hangs for a few seconds after saving file

2007-08-08 Thread Steve Sinclair
I'm afraid I haven't used either of those two programs.
One thing though -- the last update installed a program in Gutsy
called trackerd which has been eating up my CPU and accessing the
disk a lot.  (I believe it's a search indexing program.)

I finally uninstalled it, since I don't use desktop search features,
and at the same time I haven't noticed any problems today.
Coincidence?
Though to be clear, I just finished working on a paper so I haven't
been using emacs nearly as much today as I was yesterday.

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[Bug 130911] emacs22 hangs for a few seconds after saving file

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: emacs22

While using emacs22 to edit a .tex file, I find that almost every time I
save the file (C-X, C-S), the application hangs for a few seconds.
During this time the window does not update.  (If I switch desktops and
switch back, the window remains undrawn, black, until it starts working
again.)  It lasts for about 3 or 4 seconds and then I can continue
editing.  However it's quite annoying as I have a habit of saving every
time I make a change.

I can't be 100% sure this is emacs at fault, but I haven't seen any
other programs do this, and emacs21 did not do it either.

** Affects: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 2462] Re: mail-notifcation hogging the CPU polling for GMail

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Sinclair
I'd just like to report that this bug is still in effect.  I just installed 
mail-notification in my Gutsy laptop and am seeing 100% CPU usage.  I haven't 
experienced it often enough to identify a pattern yet, it just seems to kick in 
after running mail-notification for a while.  I haven't had a chance to try the 
-u option yet.
This makes mail-notification much less useful, unfortunately, and there sadly 
seems to be few options for well-integrated mail notification under Gnome.

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[Bug 123826] Re: libcurl3-gnutls gutsy upgrade failed

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
I can't read italian, but I think the same thing happened to me just now.
Using update-manager, the error message was:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3_7.16.2-6ubuntu2_i386.deb: trying to 
overwrite `/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.0.0', which is also in package libcurl4
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.16.2-6ubuntu2_i386.deb: trying to 
overwrite `/usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4.0.0', which is also in package 
libcurl4-gnutls


The install was successful after closing the dialog and clicking Intall 
Updates a second time.
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[Bug 93667] Re: 100% cpu when editing a java file with jde

2007-04-27 Thread Steve Sinclair
It seems that this problem is not related to zone.  I'm pretty sure zone makes 
no difference to this problem.
However, I've just figured out that it only occurs (and occurs consistantly) 
when using emacs-snapshot-gtk.  It doesn't occur if I run /usr/bin/emacs21.

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[Bug 93667] Re: 100% cpu when editing a java file with jde

2007-04-23 Thread Steve Sinclair
It's also been happening to me recently with Python files (using python-mode)
Is it possibly related to a 
href=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs21/+bug/101905;Bug 
#101905/a

It may be related to zone.  Doing M-x zone does not cause 100% CPU usage.
However, doing M-x zone-when-idle and choosing 1 second caused it for me.  
But not every time.
I will look up how to disable zone for now.

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[Bug 89693] after upgrade edgy-feisty, high udev CPU usage

2007-03-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: udev

During my upgrade from edgy to feisty (using update-manager), I had a
few errors with a few packages, including udev.  I simply used apt-get
from the command line to complete the installation, which worked fine.
(I took notes of which ones had errors, about 10 or so, and apt-get
installed them explicitly.)

Anyways, on reboot, the text-mode display was flooded with these
messages:

[ 4554.079347] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
[ 4554.080101] device-mapper: table: 253:1: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup 
failed
[ 4554.080283] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
[ 4554.081027] device-mapper: table: 253:1: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup 
failed
[ 4554.081210] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
[ 4554.081955] device-mapper: table: 253:1: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup 
failed
[ 4554.082135] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

So many that I could barely see what I was typing.  When GNOME came up,
I saw that my CPU monitor was reported very heavy CPU usage, in an
unstable behaviour.  (That is, not a straight line, but going up and
down quite frequently.)

Using top, I saw that udevd was eating all the CPU.

After sudo /etc/init.d/udevd stop, the CPU usage returns to normal.
After sudo /etc/init.d/udevd start, the CPU usage becomes heavy and unstable 
again.

After stopping udevd, the dm-linear: Device lookup failed messages
also cease, and start coming again when it is started.

I'm not sure what the fix is, since I don't want to run my system with
udevd stopped.

I should note, if it's related, that I'm not using any RAID or LVM partitions.
I have two hard drives, though the system is installed entirely on hdc.

I am running a custom-compiled version of 2.6.19, because I need the BadRAM 
patch.
Kernel settings are copied from the Ubuntu kernel.
I will reboot to the Ubuntu-provided kernel and report if it makes any 
difference.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Sun Mar  4 12:59:37 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux hal9000 2.6.19 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 27 11:47:09 EST 2007 i686 
GNU/Linux

** Affects: udev (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: Unconfirmed

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[Bug 89693] Re: after upgrade edgy-feisty, high udev CPU usage

2007-03-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
Okay, sorry. Nevermind.  I rebooted to the Ubuntu kernel
(2.6.20-9-generic) and I did not get the same behaviour.  I guess it is
related to some upstream kernel bug that has been fixed in later
versions.  For my part, I removed the dm-mod.ko module, and it fixed
this problem for me.  (Since I am not using LVM I don't need this
anyway.)

This bug can be closed.

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[Bug 67999] Re: update-manager in dapper needs to depend on python-vte (was: can't find DistUpgradeViewGtk when upgrading dapper-edgy)

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Sinclair
Hello, I just ran into this issue.  Installing python-vte fixed it.
This seems like it should be an easy fix to change a dependancy.  I would like 
to note that the last comment was 1 month ago, and this bug is marked high 
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[Bug 86694] edgy-feisty dist-upgrade stops at libbrlapi1 (trying to overwrite /lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

I have been running Dapper for a long while, and finally decided to
upgrade to Feisty.  On forum advice, I first used update-manager to
upgrade to Edgy, which went very smoothly.  Once booted into Edgy, I did
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

The process stopped at the following error:

Preparing to replace libbrlapi1 3.7.2-3.1ubuntu3 (using 
.../libbrlapi1_3.7.2-7ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libbrlapi1 ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbrlapi1_3.7.2-7ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so', which is also in package 
brltty
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libbrlapi1_3.7.2-7ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

** Affects: Ubuntu
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[Bug 86694] Re: edgy-feisty dist-upgrade stops at libbrlapi1 (trying to overwrite /lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
After performing the following command,

sudo apt-get -f install

and then another apt-get dist-upgrade, the install seems to be
proceeding.  It has not yet finished, but if there are further problems
I will append them here.

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[Bug 86694] Re: edgy-feisty dist-upgrade stops at libbrlapi1 (trying to overwrite /lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Sinclair

** Attachment added: my main.log produced by this apt-get command
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[Bug 86694] Re: edgy-feisty dist-upgrade stops at libbrlapi1 (trying to overwrite /lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Sinclair
The rest of the install seems to have been successful.  I am running the
Nvidia proprietary drivers, and on reboot I had to re-run the Nvidia
installer to get gdm running, but otherwise there were no problems.

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[Bug 49418] Re: grub-reboot does not work as expected

2006-11-12 Thread Steve Sinclair
I confirm as well.  Any ideas on how to get it working?

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Re: [Bug 63385] Re: binutils-multiarch depends on out-of-date version of binutils

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sinclair
Yes, it seems to work now.
Although when I filed it I had recently performed an update, but I
guess it was just a glitch.
Thanks.

On 10/4/06, Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I assume that's a mirror problem; please could you recheck after an apt-
 get update?


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[Bug 63385] binutils-multiarch depends on out-of-date version of binutils

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: binutils-multiarch

I am using an up-to-date version of Dapper Drake.
Trying to install binutils-multiarch resulted in the following output:

~  $ sudo apt-get install binutils-multiarch Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  binutils-multiarch: Depends: binutils (= 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2) but 
2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

** Affects: binutils (Ubuntu)
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 Status: Unconfirmed

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[Bug 59992] Should depend on curl

2006-09-11 Thread Steve Sinclair
Public bug reported:

Very low priority, but thought I may as well report it.

I hadn't yet apt-gotten the curl program, and my first run of cogito
reported curl: command not found.

I used apt-get to install it. However, this should have been done automically 
if cogito requires it.
(Though, I suppose, it only requires it for the http support.)

** Affects: cogito (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Untriaged
 Status: Unconfirmed

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[Bug 39717] Re: [Bug 39717] Re: When guest (nobody) account exists, smbpasswd should default to none

2006-08-07 Thread Steve Sinclair
I agree, but the UI should make it possible to enable the nobody account
instead of having to resort to the command line.
On the other hand, an even better method would be to somehow block incoming
connections on internet IP ranges for samba. It should really never be used
on the internet.

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