Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1761216] Re: Backup fails if backup destination is not mounted

2020-08-03 Thread William Ritchie
Yes, since 20.04, I have not had the problem, but I thought it was due to using a linux server and smbĀ  which solved the problem. The original problem was localized to my desktop machine and a local drive, which would fail after bootup because the dedicated backup drrive/partition was not

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1761216] Re: Backup fails if backup destination is not mounted

2020-08-02 Thread William Ritchie
Yes, it is listed in fstab and yes, I entered the path as a local storage device. All drives are SSD's connected to the computer's internal SSD ports and seen as local. The server is running XIGMANAS with SMB shares for each of the SSD's. I am not running SAMBA server. The local OS is Unbuntu

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1761216] Re: Backup fails if backup destination is not mounted

2018-09-17 Thread William Ritchie
I have not found the bug you describe to be true. Work-a-round. If you mount the backup destination before the scheduled backup begins, everything is fine and the backup runs without error. If you don't mount the backup destination before the scheduled backup, it will fail, with destination

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582845] [NEW] User Accounts: cannot change user picture.

2016-05-17 Thread William Ritchie
Public bug reported: In "user accounts", click on the picture icon, browse for a picture (stock) or (user) and size it. Accept it and no change appears in the "login/logout/shutdown" menu. I did this with "unlock" and "lock". Reproducible in 16.04 LTS. I think this is the wrong place for this