[Bug 518087] Re: palimpsest cannot delete partition/MSDOS_MAGIC found

2010-10-31 Thread Walter_Wittel
I'm using a Maverick x64 LiveCD trying to change some partitions on a failed Clonezilla restore of a disk with Windows Vista on the primary partition and three partitions on an extended partition. Don't know if this is the same bug or not but when I try to delete the swap partition in the extended

[Bug 614841] Re: Battery icon missing after latest Maverick upgrade

2010-08-15 Thread Walter_Wittel
Just updated and the problem seems to have gone away. Don't see any evidence of anyone working on this bug so hopefully it is fixed rather than intermittent. Currently running: gnome-power-manager: Installed: 2.31.6-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.31.6-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.31.6-0ubuntu1 0

Re: [Bug 614841] Re: Battery icon missing after latest Maverick upgrade

2010-08-09 Thread Walter_Wittel
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:48 PM, G0B1!N5486 614...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: I have the same problem too but i have found that if you kill the gnome- power-manager process and start it again you get the icon!! ... but after a reboot you still need to kill and restart gnome-power-manager? Maybe

[Bug 565441] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__gdk_window_set_geometry_hints()

2010-08-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
Sorry, this machine has been upgraded to Maverick (and I don't put too many hours on it so doubt seriously I can get a repro). If I get another repro I'll try and get a proper backtrace. but I'm usually upgrading every couple of days. I've marked invalid. ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)

[Bug 560588] Re: Nautilus in Lucid Lynx Samba could not display network location dbus error gvfsd-smb-browse

2010-04-14 Thread Walter_Wittel
I'm on a fairly disk / resource constrained machine but installed apport-retrace and got the following stack trace (Lucid with an update just this evening) from _usr_lib_gvfs_gvfsd-smb.1000.crash: --- stack trace --- #0 0x00944422 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1

[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots and log out / log on

2010-01-24 Thread Walter_Wittel
Just in case anyone else hits this problem, I found the cause. My ~/.local/share/applications/ directory had a compiz.desktop file in it. Don't know what wrote the file or tried to figure out exactly what in the file caused my Visual Effects settings to get messed up on login, but my other

[Bug 243904] Re: LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2010-01-14 Thread Walter_Wittel
I have upgraded to the release version of Karmic + patches and the applet continues to work correctly (as well as the Fn-F5/F6 buttons) and has AFAIK since Jaunty Alpha 5. I do not have a patched version of 8.10 to see if the regression ever got fixed but I guess it is getting close to the end of

[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots

2010-01-09 Thread Walter_Wittel
Marking this invalid because I have two other systems at same update level with no problems (one is different partition on same machine). Looks like saved state is a red herring but something is definitely messing up my compiz settings and window layout when I log out / log in or reboot. I've

[Bug 343275] Re: Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2010-01-09 Thread Walter_Wittel
I booted the release Karmic Live-CD and it was able to return from suspend, however it took quite some time and I had a kernel oops to report with apport when the UI came back. Looks to be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/417842 for which a recent fix has been

[Bug 343275] Re: Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2010-01-09 Thread Walter_Wittel
The problem no longer repros on this hardware with Karmic and latest updates installed on a partition. Perhaps 417842 was the fix. I marked invalid (hope that is correct status for no longer repros). Thanks. ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid --

[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots

2010-01-03 Thread Walter_Wittel
This is most definitely NOT a regression of 430981. /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager is set correctly both before and after the reboot. After a reboot I can fix the problem (which manifests as missing key bindings and also windows are missing the title bar and the menu

[Bug 500570] [NEW] Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots

2009-12-26 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-session Just started noticing this recently. After a reboot Visual Effects are always reset to None and have to be reset manually. Could be related to / regression of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/gnome- session/+bug/430981

[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots

2009-12-26 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37208458/Dependencies.txt -- Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 500570] Re: Appearance Visual Effects settings lost across reboots

2009-12-26 Thread Walter_Wittel
Doesn't look like much got automagically attached to this bug. Note that I have built / installed Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2 from source along with dependencies. Let me know if you need more info (and how to collect in a way that would be helpful). Thanks. -- Appearance Visual Effects settings

[Bug 407315] Re: Screen does not lock after suspend

2009-09-10 Thread Walter_Wittel
I tried gconf-editor and set /apps/gnome-power- manager/lock/use_screensaver_settings checked (my screen saver locks the screen), but this didn't help. I'm up-to-date per Update Manager as of tonight (but my system is having a problem with grub-pc so I'm still booting to 2.6.31-9-generic rather

[Bug 386996] Re: suspend timeout ignored

2009-08-15 Thread Walter_Wittel
This is still not working after Alpha 4 release (I upgraded from Jaunty and have been updating frequently). gnome-power-saver: 2.27.5-0ubuntu2 gnome-screensaver: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5 -- suspend timeout ignored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386996 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 343275] Re: Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2009-03-17 Thread Walter_Wittel
Attaching requested gpm.log and gpm.gconf.values.txt. Note that /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-bugreport was not in the path on the Live CD, so perhaps that it why it wasn't automatically attached via ubuntu-bug. ** Attachment added: gpm.log

[Bug 343275] Re: Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2009-03-17 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: gpm.gconf.values.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24033063/gpm.gconf.values.txt -- Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343275 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 343275] [NEW] Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2009-03-15 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager This is a amd64 Live CD boot using Jaunty Alpha 6. When I suspend from the Live session user menu the display goes blank and keyboard / mouse are disabled (e.g. can't resume), but the system never fully gets into a suspend mode. The

[Bug 343275] Re: Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A

2009-03-15 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23885748/Dependencies.txt -- Suspend hangs on Gateway W350A https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343275 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 326789] Re: Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend

2009-02-28 Thread Walter_Wittel
The track pad mouse is now working again after suspend / resume in Jaunty Alpha 5. Thanks for fixing the regression! ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326789

[Bug 243904] Re: LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2009-02-28 Thread Walter_Wittel
This 7.10 regression is now fixed in 9.04 Jaunty Alpha 5 but remains broken on Intrepid 8.10. Is there some way to get the fix into the 8.10 updates? -- LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243904 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 326789] Re: Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend

2009-02-10 Thread Walter_Wittel
Attached is the requested log. I also tried this scenario on a Sony VGN- CR120E and it has the same symptoms. I also discovered that only the touchpad stops working. An IntelliMouse Explorer USB works fine after resume. I'll try and take a look at the link tomorrow. Thanks. ** Attachment added:

[Bug 318280] Re: Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E

2009-02-09 Thread Walter_Wittel
This is fixed in Alpha 4. Thanks! ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 326789] Re: Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend

2009-02-08 Thread Walter_Wittel
Yes, after a reboot the mouse works just fine. I did a couple of reboots - suspend - resume on both my 900 and 901 and dead mouse on resume but working mouse on reboot seems 100% repro. Sorry if I hit a nerve with my deployment-blocker comment. I realize Jaunty is Alpha, but I would be more than

[Bug 326789] [NEW] Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend

2009-02-07 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Asus Eee 901 and Jaunty Alpha 4 Live session boot from USB thumb drive. After resume from suspend mouse is frozen (keyboard still works, can alt-tab between applications, etc.). This is a deployment blocker for me. Same happens on

[Bug 326789] Re: Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend

2009-02-07 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22171375/Dependencies.txt -- Jaunty Alpha 4 mouse freeze on resume after suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 318280] Re: Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E

2009-01-17 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: gnome-power-bugreports.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21295073/gnome-power-bugreports.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21295074/Dependencies.txt -- Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E

[Bug 318280] [NEW] Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E

2009-01-17 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) Kernel version: 2.6.28-4-generic g-p-m version:2.24.0 HAL version: 0.5.12rc1 Related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-

[Bug 318280] Re: Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E

2009-01-17 Thread Walter_Wittel
BTW, as on Intrepid I can control the screen brightness using /etc/acpi/sonybright.sh from terminal. -- Jaunty A3: gnome-brightness-applet hangs gnome on Sony VGN-CR120E https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 243904] Re: LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2008-10-14 Thread Walter_Wittel
Attaching requested log. Note I'm running same (current updates) intrepid nversion (but i386) on an Asus 900 and the applet works fine there (as it did on 8.04 on my Vaio). Let me know if there is something else specific you need. I'll have a look at the wiki and see if there is something else I

[Bug 267019] Re: Intrepid frequently locks up (no crash reports)

2008-10-01 Thread Walter_Wittel
I haven't had it lock up in the last week or two (have been keeping up with updates). I haven't been running it more than a few hours at a time though because I've been using the laptop for work daily and booting into another partition. I've got the centrino chipset / wireless, so I don't think my

[Bug 267019] [NEW] Intrepid frequently locks up (no crash reports)

2008-09-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: For the last several weeks (since about Alpha 4) I've been getting frequent lock-ups of the gnome desktop with the following symptoms (2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP x86_64 on a Sony Vaio VGN-CR120E) : * No response from keyboard, including ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. *

[Bug 267019] Re: Intrepid frequently locks up (no crash reports)

2008-09-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: syslog http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17341218/syslog -- Intrepid frequently locks up (no crash reports) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267019 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to meta-gnome2 in

[Bug 243889] Re: Intrepid Vinagre crash on startup

2008-08-02 Thread Walter_Wittel
I can confirm this is fixed in this recent update to my client. Thanks! apt-cache policy vinagre vinagre: Installed: 2.23.4-1 Candidate: 2.23.4-1 Version table: *** 2.23.4-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Intrepid

[Bug 245365] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

2008-07-26 Thread Walter_Wittel
Thanks for the link Sebastien, I marked this bug Invalid because I have not seen a repro (been asked to submit another crash report), since I first submitted. Further I reinstalled from scratch because I got bit by https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245888, so now I have a different version of

[Bug 245365] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc()

2008-07-26 Thread Walter_Wittel
I guess I don't have permissions to mark invalid (was told on another bug I could change status myself). I'll try again here but otherwise someone else with permissions will have to do it. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 243904] Re: LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2008-07-20 Thread Walter_Wittel
Still not working with latest updates today (this is a regression from 8.04 where it worked). Per above I can control the brightness via /etc/acpi/sonybright.sh, so my impression is that it is related to the panel Brightness Applet, perhaps not the gnome-panel itself. If someone can provide with

[Bug 250326] [NEW] Shut Down... panel applet only restarts gnome on intrepid (near Alpha 3)

2008-07-20 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-applets Not sure if I got the right package. I didn't see Shut Down... listed in the Synaptic description for this package. When I click the Shut Down... icon I added to the panel, I get the choices to Restart or Shut Down, but both of these just

[Bug 250326] Re: Shut Down... panel applet only restarts gnome on intrepid (near Alpha 3)

2008-07-20 Thread Walter_Wittel
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 250009 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250009 Sorry about the dupe. One correction to the above. I tried suspend / hibernate for the first time since reinstall of alpha 2 / upgrades and suspend / hibernate now work :-). So the only problems are as

[Bug 243889] [NEW] Intrepid Vinagre crash on startup

2008-06-29 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vinagre Description:Ubuntu intrepid (development branch) Release:8.10 vinagre: Installed: 2.23.2-1 Candidate: 2.23.2-1 Version table: *** 2.23.2-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100

[Bug 243904] [NEW] LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2008-06-29 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel The Panel LCD Brightness control worked on 7.10 but is now broken after an upgrade to 8.04 Alpha on an x86_64 build. I can still control the brightness using /etc/acpi/sonybright.sh, but dragging the slider has no effect (and up/down arrow

[Bug 243904] Re: LCD Brightness no longer works on Sony VGN-CR120E

2008-06-29 Thread Walter_Wittel
sonybright.sh works, but here is where it comes from if it is helpful: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy acpi-support acpi-support: Installed: 0.109 Candidate: 0.109 Version table: *** 0.109 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100

[Bug 235698] Re: gvfs-fuse-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in pthread_mutex_lock()

2008-06-29 Thread Walter_Wittel
I also got the crash on 8.10 and can upload the .crash to another bug if it would help (although I didn't have debug symbols installed at the time of the crash). -- gvfs-fuse-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in pthread_mutex_lock() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235698 You received this bug

[Bug 201762] Re: [hardy] Battery brightness slider gone

2008-04-07 Thread Walter_Wittel
Chris, thanks for educating me on this! The brightness applet works great and completely addresses my concerns about adjusting the brightness. Do you know if this will get turned on by default on a 7.10 upgrade? For laptops I think it should be put up on the panel by default right along with the

[Bug 201762] Re: [hardy] Battery brightness slider gone

2008-04-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
I would like to respectfully disagree with this being invalid / file a wishlist for the following reasons: * The feature was available in 7.10 along with the confusing and unpredictable way it worked, but it was usable and better than nothing. As an end-user upgrading I would be very

[Bug 205329] Re: Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

2008-04-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 201762 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201762 I made some relevant comments on this in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power- manager/+bug/201762 -- Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

[Bug 201762] Re: [hardy] Battery brightness slider gone

2008-04-06 Thread Walter_Wittel
Chris, Thanks for the additional clarification. I do understand a change isn't likely before Hardy ships, I'd just like the issue addressed (but maybe it is simpler than I thought). I am unable to find a brightness panel applet on my system and my brightness keys don't work (see BTW below). I

[Bug 205329] [NEW] Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

2008-03-22 Thread Walter_Wittel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager At some point over the last few days of updates the display brightness slider disappeared from the gnome-power-preferences dialog and I can no longer control the display brightness of my Sony VAIO VGN-CR120E. Display brightness is

[Bug 205329] Re: Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

2008-03-22 Thread Walter_Wittel
** Attachment added: gnome-power-bugreport.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12814037/gnome-power-bugreport.txt -- Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 205329] Re: Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

2008-03-22 Thread Walter_Wittel
Adding gpm.gconf.values.txt as requested on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager ** Attachment added: gpm.gconf.values.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12814066/gpm.gconf.values.txt -- Heron: gnome-power-preferences lost display brightness

[Bug 122973] Re: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

2008-02-23 Thread Walter_Wittel
Crashed for me on 8.04 trying to archive a crash for a different bug. I'll attach this one without compressing. Hope this helps. ** Attachment added: Crash file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12169345/_usr_bin_file-roller.1000.crash -- file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 188562] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_datalist_id_set_data_full()

2008-02-23 Thread Walter_Wittel
Happened on amd64 also. I've attached the crash file (archived). Hope this helps. BTW I also pressed Volume Down (Vaio VGN-CR120E) while the startup sound was playing. ** Attachment added: _usr_lib_gnome-settings-daemon_gnome-settings-daemon.1000.crash.tar.gz

[Bug 188537] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-02-05 Thread Walter_Wittel
Will do. Thanks! -- nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 188537] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-02-04 Thread Walter_Wittel
Pedro, thanks for your pointers. I'm a nubie but was able to figure out that I needed to install nautilus-dbgsym to get a backtrace. If I run gdb nautilus and set a breakpoint at main I can get a backtrace with symbols, however if I unzip CoreDump.gz and run gdb nautilus ~/Desktop/CoreDump I get