[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
@Sander50: What workaround?? @pitti: In general I think it *doesn't* work fine to eject all usb devices - especially external USB hard drives - flash drives seem to work okay - except they can't be remounted afterwards and need to be physically removed and reinserted first - but I have an

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
But it seems like this (not being able to eject devices using nautilus / drive-mount applet) is definitely a new problem - at least for me I never had problems like this before, and thus this a regression for me - has anything else changed such as the method used to eject the devices which could

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
Interestingly, while I can't eject my external usb harddrive, I can still eject my usb thumb drive, so I have attached the output from DebuggingRemovableDevices from the wiki with first the usb flash (thumb) drive which can be correctly ejected, and then the external usb harddrive which can't be

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
udev.log with thumb drive ** Attachment added: udev.log with thumb drive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336300/udev.log -- do not eject all USB/Firewire devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
dmesg with thumb drive - note before running these debugging steps I had previously inserted and ejected the drives a couple times so only the last bit is probably relevant ** Attachment added: dmesg with thumb drive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336304/dmesg.txt -- do not eject all

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
devices.txt listing sd* devices in /dev ** Attachment added: devices.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336305/devices.txt -- do not eject all USB/Firewire devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
** Attachment added: lshal with thumb drive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336301/lshal.txt -- do not eject all USB/Firewire devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
other outputs requested - ie id etc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(alex) gid=1000(alex) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),110(netdev),111(lpadmin),113(powerdev),114(scanner),116(admin),1000(alex) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id hal id: hal: No such

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
Now is attached the same but when the external usb harddrive is attached - I also tried ejecting it so the output in gvm from trying to do that is there too ** Attachment added: gvm.log with external usb harddrive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336311/gvm.log -- do not eject all

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
** Attachment added: lshal with external usb harddrive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336312/lshal.txt -- do not eject all USB/Firewire devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
dmesg output for external usb harddrive which cannot be ejected - Since I did this after the thumbdrive stuff above it also includes that as well... ** Attachment added: dmesg with external usb harddrive http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336317/dmesg.txt -- do not eject all USB/Firewire

[Bug 63090] Re: do not eject all USB/Firewire devices

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Murray
ls of /dev/sd* with external usb harddrive connected ** Attachment added: devices.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336319/devices.txt -- do not eject all USB/Firewire devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 85635] Re: Volumes change name when mounted/unmounted in Nautilus

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Murray
The naming could definitely be better, as with multiple devices, it is not easy to identify which one is which when you want to unmount / eject a specific one. -- Volumes change name when mounted/unmounted in Nautilus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85635 You received this bug notification

[Bug 63090] Re: inconsistent handling of external usb devices

2007-01-14 Thread Alex Murray
I am currently on holiday, and will be back in a week, but this occurred for me with both dapper and edgy. I have not yet tried fiesty, but will once I get back home. What is the expected behaviour that I should be seeing in this case? Cheers -- inconsistent handling of external usb devices

[Bug 114804] Re: sensor-applet starts showing wrong devices

2007-05-21 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 94588 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94588 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 94588 [apport] sabayon-apply crashed with ValueError in c2py() -- sensor-applet starts showing wrong devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114804 You

[Bug 63090] Re: inconsistent handling of external usb devices

2007-03-30 Thread Alex Murray
This was fixed in fiesty UNTIL hal version 0.5.8.1-4ubuntu12 was published - the problem seems to be the readdition of 10.storage- policy.fdi - if this is removed, it works as expected - ie. I can continously mount and unmount a device from nautilus. So I would say the problem is actually in hal,

[Bug 99498] Re: Nautilus and hal can't umount usb hd disk

2007-03-31 Thread Alex Murray
This is a regression due to the addition of 10-storage-policy.fdi, and more specifically the requires_eject policy for usb devices. IMO this is incorrect and should be removed. -- Nautilus and hal can't umount usb hd disk https://launchpad.net/bugs/99498 -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 97366] Re: Desktop suggests using eject in the drive icons context menu, but it is missing

2007-04-02 Thread Alex Murray
This 'fix' has caused a number of other problems - see: #99498 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/99498 -- Desktop suggests using eject in the drive icons context menu, but it is missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/97366 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 99498] Re: Nautilus and hal can't umount usb hd disk

2007-04-02 Thread Alex Murray
This is also affecting a number of other users: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=398262 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=398704 Can the requires_eject policy for all usb storage devices please be changed to false, as in general unmounting is a more desirable feature - especially

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2008-12-27 Thread Alex Murray
I am seeing this same bug on my MacBook Pro 5,1 with Ubuntu 8.10 using the mactel-support ppa with all relevant packages from the PPA installed and kernel modules loaded. This includes the updated package of gnome- power-manager from the PPA, and the only way to fix the problem is to disable the

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-01-07 Thread Alex Murray
By improving the driver, do you mean getting it to scale values based upon which machine it is running on to report a larger dynamic range under 'normal' light conditions? This should be relatively straight forward, provided we can obtain some data about which machines report these lower values -

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-01-09 Thread Alex Murray
I guess we need to first get the values which the light sensor reports for each of the different models under varying light conditions - then we can identify which models need correcting / scaling for - ie. as I mentioned before my MBP 5,1 reports only 4 out of 255 in a reasonably well lit room so

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-01-09 Thread Alex Murray
See new bug report which I just opened for a patch to add light_scale to applesmc-dkms https://bugs.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+bug/315485 -- Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-01-11 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks for the feedback rydberg - after looking into it some more it seems the new MBP / MBA's use the 10 byte light value from the left sensor as follows: first 2 bytes seem to always be 01 next 2 bytes are a big endian 16-bit value of the ambient light value with a maximum value of 65535 next

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-01-11 Thread Alex Murray
Actually scrub the previous patch - this one is much simpler and doesn't break the case for the old machines. ** Attachment added: Improved patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21101822/applesmc-dkms-light-sensor-fix.patch -- Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

[Bug 341367] Re: Update to 3.1

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Murray
3.2.0 has been released: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/3.2/ -- Update to 3.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341367 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 708382] Re: [regression] cannot create custom preferred applications

2011-03-29 Thread Alex Murray
This also affects other mail applications like gnome-gmail (bug #729357) and desktop-webmail since neither can set themselves as the default mail application - at the moment there is a patch for gnome-gmail in the attached bug, but it would seem a better solution would be to fix this in

[Bug 724324] [NEW] g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-24 Thread Alex Murray
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager upower 0.9.8 supports controlling keyboard backlights and exposes an appropriate dbus interface to control them. g-p-m can simply access this to control keyboard backlights in much the same way as it does for lcd / display

[Bug 724324] Re: g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-24 Thread Alex Murray
** Patch added: Patch to implement keyboard backlight support in g-p-m 2.32 for natty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324/+attachment/1868852/+files/99-keyboard-backlight-support.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 724324] Re: g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-24 Thread Alex Murray
I've got packages in my ppa to test this implementation under maverick if interested (currently waiting to build...) https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa ** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 724324] Re: g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-24 Thread Alex Murray
A similar patch has been sent upstream http://mail.gnome.org/archives /gnome-power-manager-list/2011-February/msg00017.html which should hopefully get accepted - the upstream codebase is quite a bit different now after transitioning to Gtk 3 and other Gnome 3 related changed so the patch here is a

[Bug 724324] Re: g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Murray
Upstream have accepted the updated patch (http://git.gnome.org/browse /gnome-power- manager/commit/?id=7e5fedb32bfb9dc6428c5b0eb21ef48a27602a27) so there is no worries that we are deviating too far with this extra patch against 2.32. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 724324] Re: g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-26 Thread Alex Murray
No worries Chris, will see what I can get together - should I file a separate bug report for the FFE or just put all the required information into this one? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Murray
** Summary changed: - g-p-m should add support for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty + FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Murray
Have updated bug description with info for the FFE. Will update again soon once I confirm the patch is correct for Natty. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager - upower 0.9.8 supports controlling keyboard backlights and exposes an - appropriate dbus interface to

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Murray
Have just finished successfully building and testing the patch in Natty (see description for link to build log). Any update on the FFE? Any more info required? ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager The version of upower (0.9.8) in Natty now has support for

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-03-07 Thread Alex Murray
@pitti - Any update on when this will be uploaded? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324 Title: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-03-07 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks Chris. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324 Title: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty --

[Bug 724324] Re: FFE: Add support to g-p-m for controlling keyboard backlight via upower in natty

2011-03-10 Thread Alex Murray
@Chris - sorry to bug you but just wanted to ping you again about sponsoring this Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724324 Title: FFE: Add

[Bug 583660] Re: GDM doesn't start at boot time (I need to run it from terminal)

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 459639 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459639 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 532436 nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 459639 X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting

[Bug 555585] Re: No battery level indication

2010-05-16 Thread Alex Murray
This is due to a crash in upowerd which is inturn caused by a bug in libusb, marking as dupe against bug #427805 -- No battery level indication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 555585] Re: No battery level indication

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 427805 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427805 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 427805 usb_find_devices() crashed with SIGSEGV in free() -- No battery level indication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85 You received this bug

[Bug 493398] Re: Funny Dialog Box?

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Murray
This is not a bug - what has happened here is that while your machine was locked, someone has come along and selected 'Leave a message' and typed in 'Give me your password!' - then when you come and unlock the screen, the message they left it displayed for you.. Try it for yourself. -- Funny

[Bug 493398] Re: Funny Dialog Box?

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Murray
To reproduce, lock your screen, then click the leave a message button, and type in ' Give me your password' or whatever you want, then click OK. Finally unlock the screen and voila! ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- Funny Dialog Box?

[Bug 513716] Re: [lucid] battery status not detected/shown until /proc entry viewed

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Murray
@Vladimir - that doesn't sound like a bug to me - of course it will fail to display if set to only display when charging / discharging and battery is at 100% with AC since it *isn't* charging / discharging, it's full. This is just the correct, expected behaviour for that setting. If you want it to

[Bug 437638] Re: Totem stop playing when I try to call in skype

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Murray
I'm having this problem too - I am playing a video in Totem when Skype pops up a notification saying someone has logged off / on - this pauses my video - and the video stays paused even after the notifcation has gone away which I dont think should happen - instead shouldn't the pausing only happen

[Bug 334809] Re: design problem? infinite wait for long queue

2009-10-10 Thread Alex Murray
Just wondering if hyperair's patch will get applied to Ubuntu's banshee before Karmic is released? -- design problem? infinite wait for long queue https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 413168] Re: Karmic upgrade not shutting off backlight after time

2009-09-25 Thread Alex Murray
This seems to be a serious regression to me - bug #426765 (which seems to be a dup on this) suggests that commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=c1d901d723c3bee523736eacc15b44a7dff484fe needs to be applied to xorg-server to fix this - so I suggest this bug should be marked

[Bug 397839] Re: Screen randomly goes off in karmic

2009-09-27 Thread Alex Murray
@Bryce: I am pretty sure the Ubuntu xorg-server is still missing one of the fundamental upstream patches to fix this issue - as Ive said on a number of other bug reports which report this issue still, the following patch is still needed:

[Bug 413168] Re: Karmic upgrade not shutting off backlight after time

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Murray
I've uploaded a patched version of xorg-server to my PPA which should fix this if you want to test it: https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa -- Karmic upgrade not shutting off backlight after time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413168 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 397839] Re: Screen randomly goes off in karmic

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Murray
Yep, I've also got the same patch applied in my PPA and can confirm this fixes the screen blanking. -- Screen randomly goes off in karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397839 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 385633] Re: [karmic] display doesn't go to DPMS sleep

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 413168 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413168 I've uploaded a patched version of xorg-server to my PPA which should fix this if you want to test it: https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa -- [karmic] display doesn't go to DPMS sleep

[Bug 436574] Re: Monitors do not sleep

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Murray
I've uploaded a patched version of xorg-server to my PPA which should fix this: https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa -- Monitors do not sleep https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 415589] Re: g-p-m does not turn off the display after specified time-out

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Murray
I've uploaded a patched version of xorg-server to my PPA which should fix this: https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+archive/ppa -- g-p-m does not turn off the display after specified time-out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415589 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 285815] Re: Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro

2009-08-10 Thread Alex Murray
This patch is about making the applesmc driver report sensible values for the ambient light sensor - it has already been integrated into the applesmc dkms package in the mactel ppa so if you're running that then you've already got it and don't need to do anything with the patch itself. --

[Bug 413168] Re: Karmic upgrade not shutting off backlight after time

2009-10-25 Thread Alex Murray
@Milos - the patched version of xorg-server in my PPA has been superseded by the official Ubuntu package, so there is no need to use my PPA (hence why it doesn't offer any upgrade because the version in the official PPA is newer). For me this issue is fixed by the official package in the Ubuntu

[Bug 544864] [NEW] rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Murray
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox Crashed when trying to use ubuntuone-music-store plugin - as am in Australia I get the world store, and I simply clicked on the first item listed in 'World Store Top Picks' on the front page (Oasis - Definitely Maybe) and rhythmbox crashed. I

[Bug 544864] Re: rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Murray
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41695726/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41695727/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment added: GConfNonDefault.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41695728/GConfNonDefault.txt

[Bug 544864] Re: rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Murray
As can be seen from the stacktrace this looks like a crash in the flash player, and after uninstalling adobe flash player I can no longer reproduce this crash. Will try later with gnash or swfdec perhaps... this is a shame as in general the adobe flash plugin is perfectly stable in Chrome /

[Bug 545180] Re: Rhythmbox crashes when trying to view albums in U1MS

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 544864 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544864 Marked as dupe against #544864 as this has a stack trace from the crash and appears symtom-wise identical ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 544864 rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox:

[Bug 544864] Re: rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Murray
accidentally assigned to ubuntu, reverting ** Also affects: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Package changed: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) = ubuntu ** Package changed: ubuntu = rhythmbox (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store Assignee:

[Bug 544864] Re: rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-25 Thread Alex Murray
Why low importance? This crash makes the music store completely useless when adobe-flash-plugin is installed as it consistently crashes... -- rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

[Bug 544864] Re: rhythmbox assert failure: rhythmbox: /build/buildd/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-rpc.c:1225: do_recv_NPObject: Assertion `npobj != ((void *)0)' failed.

2010-03-25 Thread Alex Murray
As a note - this is actually an assert failure in nspluginwrapper, rather than flashplayer itself - which is needed for the 32-bit flash player on 64-bit ubuntu - as a result it can be worked around by manually installing the native 64-bit adobe flash plugin from

[Bug 1775329] [NEW] Feature request: Add a handler for CVE URLs

2018-06-05 Thread Alex Murray
Public bug reported: Provide automatic link handling for CVE identifiers back to the Ubuntu Security team's CVE database (useful when looking at package changelog's which have security fixes etc). ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment

[Bug 1775329] Re: Feature request: Add a handler for CVE URLs

2018-07-30 Thread Alex Murray
The upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579859 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #579859 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579859 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal

[Bug 1784489] Re: nautilus-desktop crashed with SIGSEGV in discovered_cb()

2018-07-30 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross

[Bug 1775329] Re: Feature request: Add a handler for CVE URLs

2018-07-30 Thread Alex Murray
Ok so any guidance as to how to proceed - Jeremy do you have a preference for how this should work? Would you like it to also support Debian in a similar manner and link to the Debian CVE tracker? In this case would you prefer runtime detection (via say /etc/os-release) or compile-time selection

[Bug 1775329] Re: Feature request: Add a handler for CVE URLs

2018-07-29 Thread Alex Murray
The other option would be to do it "properly" the way upstream want - ie. to have the user be able to configure their one linkification. I am happy to rework the patch - is there any interest in carrying this just in Ubuntu or would the preference be to push it to Debian and get it into Ubuntu

[Bug 1784888] Re: password appears in clear after login with gdm3

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1784852 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784852 Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as

[Bug 1784888] Re: password appears in clear after login with gdm3

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1784852 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784852 Also wrong duplicate - ignore comment #4 as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1784888]

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1784852 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784852 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1779637, so it is being marked as such. Please

[Bug 1784888] Re: password appears in clear after login with gdm3

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1784852 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784852 Apologies - ignore comment #2 - wrong bug. ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1784888]

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1784852 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784852 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1784852, so it is being marked as such. Please

[Bug 1784852] Re: Login / switch user passwords visible on screen!

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
Ignore comment #2 - I misread bug #1779637 - this bug is distinct from that. Can you provide any details as to whether you are using the X or the Wayland session? ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1779637 Password visible at login screen -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1784852] Re: Login / switch user passwords visible on screen!

2018-08-01 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1779637 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779637 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1779637, so it is being marked as such. Please

[Bug 1798725] Re: Content "n\xff=" can crash libpcre when an application is matching the pattern \s*=

2018-10-29 Thread Alex Murray
This was fixed in upstream commit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/a23eb6f14eb3cffa1585d4e5e566f779337d1e04 Uncertain whether this qualifies as a security issue - there doesn't seem to be any real security impact from the bug - so unmarking this as a security issue now. ** Information

[Bug 1798725] Re: Content "n\xff=" can crash libpcre when an application is matching the pattern \s*=

2018-10-26 Thread Alex Murray
Seems this is a bug in gvfs not properly validating as UTF8 before calling into glib: https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2330#c9 ** Package changed: pcre3 (Ubuntu) => gvfs (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1802349] Re: video is not playing in the default player and ear phone sound is not working

2018-11-08 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross

[Bug 1798725] Re: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf

2018-11-13 Thread Alex Murray
@Seb - so there is an autorun.inf in the original tarball which can be used (I will attach it separately here as well) - and this reproduces the crash for me - I just copied it to a FAT formatted USB drive, plugged it in and then in dmesg: [ 40.361136] gvfs-udisks2-vo[1563]: segfault at

[Bug 1798725] Re: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf

2018-11-13 Thread Alex Murray
@Seb - also I rebuilt gvfs locally for bionic with that upstream patch added and can confirm it does not segfault after that - would be happy to test your SRUd version and confirm it as well if needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which

[Bug 1802981] Re: Lockscreen shown dash when screen was locked

2018-11-12 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1769383 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769383 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1769383, so it is being marked as such. Please

[Bug 1793973] Re: package gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

2018-09-23 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross

[Bug 1812436] Re: Display locking leaves the Ubuntu dock available and functional

2019-01-21 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1769383 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769383 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1769383, so it is being marked as such. Please

[Bug 1770871] Re: [MIR] libcue

2018-11-28 Thread Alex Murray
I reviewed libcue (2.2.1-2) from disco. This is not a full security audit but rather a quick gauge of maintainability. libcue is a library to parse CUE sheets / files (metadata which describes how tracks of a CD or DVD are layed out). Stored as plain text and commonly have the .cue extension.

[Bug 1798725] Re: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf

2018-11-20 Thread Alex Murray
Tested the version from cosmic-proposed in an up-to-date VM and it failed - looks like this is not actually applied during the build - see the build log https://launchpadlibrarian.net/398362236/buildlog_ubuntu- cosmic-amd64.gvfs_1.38.1-0ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz and notice it is never listed during

[Bug 1798725] Re: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf

2018-11-20 Thread Alex Murray
Tested the version from bionic-proposed in an up-to-date VM and it passed Steps to test locally as follows: 1. Enabled bionic-proposed 2. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 3. sudo reboot On next boot with the autorun.inf on a local USB drive: $ dmesg | grep gvfs $ apt-cache policy gvfs gvfs:

[Bug 1798725] Re: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Murray
Tested the new version in cosmic-proposed on an up-to-date cosmic VM by inserting a USB drive with the attached autorun.inf and it passes. Steps to test locally as follows: 1. Enabled cosmic-proposed 2. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 3. sudo reboot On next boot with the autorun.inf on a local USB

[Bug 1791433] Re: Path traversal vulnerability

2018-09-17 Thread Alex Murray
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791433 Title: Path traversal vulnerability To manage

[Bug 1772791] Re: Lock/login screen displays password in clear text occasionally

2019-03-20 Thread Alex Murray
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/460#note_331931 seems to offer a pretty compelling explanation of why this might be seen inadvertently. ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues #460 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/460 -- You received

[Bug 1821003] Re: Screen locking issue

2019-03-20 Thread Alex Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1772791 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772791 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1772791 Lock/login screen displays password in clear text occasionally ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security -- You

[Bug 1812527] Re: [bionic][regression] gnome-shell crashes with SIGSEGV in meta_window_actor_is_destroyed(self=NULL) called from _switchWorkspaceDone() [windowManager.js:1787]

2019-03-11 Thread Alex Murray
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gjs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812527 Title: [bionic][regression] gnome-shell crashes with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 1828116] Re: Password works uppercase and lowercase

2019-05-14 Thread Alex Murray
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1828124] Re: org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Source completely unveils account credentials in plain text while using dbus-monitor

2019-05-12 Thread Alex Murray
>From a security PoV this is basic security by obscurity and effectively pointless - they are simply XORing each byte with a fixed value and then base64 encoding it - since the source code is public anyone can easily find this out and hence easily decode it - the only way to do this securely would

[Bug 1844853] Re: IBus no longer works in Qt applications after upgrade

2019-11-03 Thread Alex Murray
@gunnarhj - updated packages for ibus are now available in the ubuntu- security-proposed PPA at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security- proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Also I note the bug descriptions lists ibus in Focal as Fix Released - but the latest version in focal (1.5.21-1~exp2ubuntu2) is the

[Bug 1866042] [NEW] AppIndicator labels are not centered vertically

2020-03-04 Thread Alex Murray
Public bug reported: After a recent gnome-shell + yaru-theme update, AppIndicator labels are now shown aligned with the top of the top bar instead of aligned vertically centered as previously https://imgur.com/a/jKVP5w9 (This is the indicator-sensors snap, which creates an AppIndicator with a

[Bug 1866042] Re: AppIndicator labels are not vertically centered

2020-03-04 Thread Alex Murray
Image demonstrating the issue ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2020-03-04 21-21-01.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/+bug/1866042/+attachment/5333430/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-03-04%2021-21-01.png ** Summary changed: - AppIndicator

[Bug 1857539] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

2020-03-02 Thread Alex Murray
@seb128 - I just noticed this - Apport popped up just after login saying Files (aka nautilus) had crashed - and pointed at this bug report. This was the first time I have seen it so not sure if it is reproducible and I didn't take any particular steps to make it occur. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1866256] Re: Disabled animations breaks lock screen and other dialogs, reveals information from the screen without unlocking

2020-03-05 Thread Alex Murray
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross

[Bug 1862158] [NEW] gnome-software tries to install snap updates in the background, causing unprompted polkit authentication for authorisation to install packages

2020-02-06 Thread Alex Murray
Public bug reported: Every morning about ~30mins after powering on my focal machine I get (unprompted) a gnome-shell policykit authorisation popup saying 'authentication is required to install software' - I haven't yet actually authorised it since I wasn't sure what was causing it, however I

[Bug 1862158] Re: gnome-software tries to install snap updates in the background, causing unprompted polkit authentication for authorisation to install packages

2020-02-06 Thread Alex Murray
Attached log output for gnome-software (if there is a better way to obtain this or more complete logs for gnome-software please let me know). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu.

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