[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1961010] Re: firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-17 Thread John Gilmore
Thank you. Yes, about:buildconfig shows the --disable-updater flag. And software-properties-gtk --open-tab=2 showed that the setting for security updates was to download and install them immediately. I have changed that setting to only download security updates rather than to install them

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1961010] [NEW] firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: The Firefox package does not act like ordinary packages. When it is running, it forcibly downloads upgraded binary versions of itself and then forces the user to restart Firefox and run the new version. There used to be a Firefox setting by which the user could control

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1961010] Re: firefox doesn't let its user control how or when it upgrades

2022-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
Added screenshot that happens when this bug is triggered. Firefox refuses to operate normally after this point, just displaying "Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep going. Firefox has just been updated in the background. Click Restart Firefox to complete the update. We will restore

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] Re: [amdgpu] [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-26 Thread John Gilmore
I found a way to enable the amdgpu support for this hardware in the standard LTS kernel! Based on this comment on a YouTube video reviewing this laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjegdWtHuOE=UgzbtkQw4vuk6ls- 6vF4AaABAg Add "amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1" to the kernel command line in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Description changed: Opening Settings -> Display and selecting an orientation other than Landscape doesn't work. Similarly, selecting Fractional Scaling and then picking a scale factor has no effect. This is a recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, fully updated, on a recently released

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen before I slide the "Fractional Scaling" slider." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1888088/+attachment/5393945/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-07-18%2014-21-25%20-%20before%20fractional%20scaling.png -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen just after I slide the Fractional Scaling slider. The icons in the left margin, and the text at the top of the screen, have changed size (despite me not picking any new scale) and nothing else has scaled."

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] Re: [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "This is my screen after I chose "125%" as a fractional scale, then pressed Apply. The pop-up has dimmed the underlying windows, but you can see that the Scale setting in the underlying Displays window has reverted to "100%", and nothing on the screen has changed its scale

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1888088] [NEW] [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-18 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: Opening Settings -> Display and selecting an orientation other than Landscape doesn't work. Similarly, selecting Fractional Scaling and then picking a scale factor has no effect. This is a recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, fully updated, on a recently released laptop/tablet

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
I ran the software updater and noticed that it installed a new pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installed: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 After rebooting the system, I'm running this version. You will be happy to learn that pulseaudio doesn't crash with this version, and it shows

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1873630] Re: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
I ran the software updater and noticed that it installed a new pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installed: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3 After rebooting the system, I'm running this version. You will be happy to learn that pulseaudio doesn't crash with this version, and it shows

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
OK, that's bug #1873630. We don't actually know that this current crasher bug is correctly solved by the above patch, since pulseaudio is not yet working. Perhaps the new bug was there all along, but perhaps it was introduced by this patch being an incomplete fix. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1873630] [NEW] [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: Assertion 'jack' failed at modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:2158, function device_add_hw_mute_jack(). Aborting.

2020-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I have a Gigabyte motherboard that gives pulseaudio fits in Ubuntu 20.04 beta. (It worked fine in 18.04.4 LTS.) It produced pulseaudio crashes with bug #1870833 until a proposed fix was brought in from upstream:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-18 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "Here's the alsa-info output for this system, in case it helps." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1870833/+attachment/5356402/+files/alsa-info.txt.QsoAGgtfAU -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-18 Thread John Gilmore
With the -1ubuntu2 package, I no longer get a crash dump, but the audio is still not working. pulseaudio is aborting. Here is what is in syslog from bootup: Apr 18 01:13:09 shh dbus-daemon[1218]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
** Attachment added: "syslog from Ubuntu 18.04.4 from the same system, with working sound and working pulseaudio, in case it helps." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1870833/+attachment/5355971/+files/syslog-18.04.4 -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
I forgot to note (and the attachments don't apparently say) that I am also running this on a Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming 5" motherboard. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor, and 16GB of DRAM. I'll enclose dmesg output so you can see what audio chips the kernel found when

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1873407] [NEW] totem warns every time: "Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale)

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I am running Ubuntu 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from the liveCD ISO. Whenever I run totem from a shell window to play a video, I get on stderr: "(totem:13002): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:50:52.916: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1873398] [NEW] gnome-disks won't do SMART on NVME drive

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I'm running 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from a USB stick of the live ISO. I opened Disks (gnome-disks) and it sees all my drives, but it won't show SMART stats on my NVME drive (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB). The SMART menu item is greyed out. It works fine on other drives.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Just for fun I tried to start it manually. $ pulseaudio --start --log-level=debug --verbose D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Failed to open configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf': No

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1870833] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_alsa_ucm_add_profile_set() from module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init()

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Besides this Whoopsie catch of pulseaudio crashing, the result is that audio doesn't work at all on the system. Settings -> Sound shows no options for the output or input devices, the "Test" button says to click on a speaker to test it but then shows zero speakers, just the icon of a person, etc.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876107] [NEW] relnotes in 11.10 say to install gnome-panel but it doesn't install

2011-10-16 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I hate Unity and am only interested in running new Ubuntu's if I can install gnome. The release notes here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes?action=showredirect=OneiricOcelot%2FTechnicalOverview say: GNOME 3.2 is included and is a major upgrade from