[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2039374] Re: xbrlapi causes long delay in GUI login

2023-10-25 Thread Samuel thibault
> if there is an active IPv6 regular (non-loopback) interface with an IPv6 address and network connection, then connection attempts to ::1 seem to hang and timeout Probably it uses the default route to send packets to ::1, which is deemed not to receive any response. > I haven't seen any other

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2039374] Re: xbrlapi causes long delay in GUI login

2023-10-24 Thread Samuel thibault
Ok, I better understand why this has never shown up in most situations. > my system has functional IPV4 and IPV6 Well, it still behaves oddly on the ip6-localhost case: > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(4101), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", _addr),

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2039374] Re: xbrlapi causes long delay in GUI login

2023-10-15 Thread Samuel thibault
This is very surprising: what xbrlapi tries to connect to by default is a local socket in /var/lib/BrlAPI/0 so that should be completely independent from TCP/IP networking configuration, and should be either succeeding or failing immediately. Just to be sure: Does /var/lib/BrlAPI/0 exist? Is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2023-10-01 Thread Samuel thibault
Concerning 1a86:7523, the udev rules file in ubuntu indeed seems to be missing the manufacturer filter: debian/brltty.udev.rules says: ENV{PRODUCT}=="1a86/7523/*", ENV{BRLTTY_BRAILLE_DRIVER}="bm", GOTO="brltty_usb_run" while it should be: ENV{PRODUCT}=="1a86/7523/*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1a40",

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1990189] Re: brlttty claiming CH341 usbtty device blocking access

2022-09-20 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, beattie, le mar. 20 sept. 2022 15:21:36 -, a ecrit: > can't find anything in the udev, That's be in ./lib/udev/rules.d/85-brltty.rules, this line: ENV{PRODUCT}=="1a86/7523/*", ENV{BRLTTY_BRAILLE_DRIVER}="bm", GOTO="brltty_usb_run" > I think somebody did not do their testing. Not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1990189] Re: brlttty claiming CH341 usbtty device blocking access

2022-09-20 Thread Samuel thibault
The simple workaround is to remove the package, or remove the entry from the udev file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1990189 Title: brlttty claiming CH341 usbtty

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1990189] Re: brlttty claiming CH341 usbtty device blocking access

2022-09-19 Thread Samuel thibault
Ok. That'd be tricky to filter. Fortunately with brltty 6.5 such generic entries are kept apart so that they can be packaged separately. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1990189] [NEW] brlttty claiming CH341 usbtty device blocking access

2022-09-19 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, beattie, le lun. 19 sept. 2022 19:07:54 -, a ecrit: > [139099.370766] usb 1-2.1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, > idProduct=7523, bcdDevice= 2.63 Could you run lsusb -v so we get more information on how the generic bridge announces itself? Samuel -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2022-05-12 Thread Samuel thibault
> it's a bit unclear to me which entries there should be considered 'generic USB IDs'? They are marked "Generic Identifier", that's 0403:6001 10C4:EA60 10C4:EA80 > I also don't understand why those rules are debian specific See the diff between ./debian/brltty-udeb.udev.rules and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2022-04-27 Thread Samuel thibault
orca only suggests brltty, it's the *-desktop packages which seem to be recommending brltty. If Ubuntu really wants to install brltty by default, it should disable the udev entries for the generic USB IDs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874181] Re: brltty daemon prevents creation of ttyUSB0 device link

2022-03-23 Thread Samuel thibault
Yes, unfortunately there is no way to fix it in that case. The udev rules properly avoid starting brltty when the iManufacturer field is changed from FTDI to the actual manufacturer of the device, but not when it is left to FTDI. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2022-03-21 Thread Samuel thibault
> In this case, brltty appeared (or at least the device claim) after a dist-upgrade Ah, do you happen to have a log of that dist-upgrade, so we can determine what brought it in? > It still feels very bad form for a vendor device to use the default VID/PID of the underlying converter chip Yes.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2022-03-18 Thread Samuel thibault
Debian is installing the brltty package only when brltty was used during installation. Brltty gets started during installation either through the udev rules, or started manually from the kernel command line. The finish-install script just checks out /var/run/brltty.pid to determine whether a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1958224] Re: brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

2022-01-18 Thread Samuel thibault
Yes, but it is meant to be so: the Seika Braille device is announced as such, so we have to recognize such devices in brltty, otherwise the Seika Braille devices would not work at all. The question is rather: why is brltty installed on your system? It is supposed to be installed only if you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1950488] Re: brltty ftbfs in jammy

2021-11-16 Thread Samuel thibault
Ah, the patch is already in brltty 6.4 actually, so no change on the Debian side actually :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950488 Title: brltty ftbfs in jammy

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1950488] Re: brltty ftbfs in jammy

2021-11-16 Thread Samuel thibault
Ok, thanks! The corresponding commit upstream is e6ed2372887ac0106db8854f70e9b2fdcadec74f, attached here, could somebody check that this fixes the build issue on Ubuntu? I'll then integrate the patch in Debian as well. ** Attachment added: "patch"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1950488] Re: brltty ftbfs in jammy

2021-11-15 Thread Samuel thibault
> it is probably newer python versions being stricter with the use of non existing options? The --without-viavoice is not passed to the python bindings, so that cannot be the problem. That said I have now dropped the option from debian/rules, thanks :) -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1950488] Re: brltty ftbfs in jammy

2021-11-10 Thread Samuel thibault
Please provide the whole build log. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950488 Title: brltty ftbfs in jammy Status in brltty package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 520546] Re: [SRU]Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

2020-12-09 Thread Samuel thibault
It seems I have to insist again: patch https://launchpadlibrarian.net/405256420/patch should definitely really really be applied. As explained in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1508146/comments/73 that script should really *not* pass --force to setupcon. There is no

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1882966] Re: Recent updates to some packages make it impossible to build an Orca Master in Ubuntu-MATE 20.04

2020-06-12 Thread Samuel thibault
I guess this is due to the following change in at-spi2-atk: * Meson: don't hard-code shared_library (!19). which made meson emit a lot of new libraries in Requires.private of atk- bridge-2.0.pc, and thus the -dev package now has to add them in Depends. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 520546] Re: Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

2019-04-23 Thread Samuel thibault
But scripts changing between scancode and ascii/unicode (such as for some terminal emulation, dosbox, etc.) would break. I'm not saying they are widespread, but I have seen this kind of use, and requiring such flag will suddenly break them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 520546] Re: Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

2019-04-23 Thread Samuel thibault
How will kbd_mode know whether it's safe or not? Adding a -f option to kbd_mode will at best break some *other* existing scripts, while this very script should really definitely *NOT* pass -f to setupcon. That is the nonsense which needs to be fixed. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 520546] Re: Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

2019-04-23 Thread Samuel thibault
That is when updating the console-setup package, yes. As mentioned on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1508146/comments/73 that's because its config script passes --force to setupcon, it really shouldn't, as mentioned there -- You received this bug notification because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 520546] Re: Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

2019-04-18 Thread Samuel thibault
Xorg can't do anything about intercepting Alt-key, it's the kernel which takes the shortcut away. Again, as mentioned on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /console-setup/+bug/520546/comments/66 « proposed fix:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1508146] Re: Alt+left/right arrows switch between tty consoles (Gnome Shell vanishes), cannot disable

2019-01-07 Thread Samuel thibault
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 520546 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520546 Is there really any reason why keyboard-configuration.postinst passes --force to setupcon? In Debian we do this in the Debian installer because it is running within a bterm and thus can't detect it's running

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 571956] Re: sd_generic breaks speech-dispatchter

2019-01-01 Thread Samuel thibault
Charlie: do you have the espeak package installed? It is needed to have espeak-generic working -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to speech-dispatcher in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571956 Title: sd_generic

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-08-01 Thread Samuel thibault
>From the upstream policykit bug entry, it is actually a misuse of the policykit API from brltty. I have uploaded a fix in Debian's brltty 5.6-5. Ubuntu should definitely include the policykit-fix patch contained in that 5.6-5 version as an update to ubuntu 18.04, otherwise all blind users will

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-30 Thread Samuel thibault
Yes, disabling that patch fixes the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1782320 Title: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-30 Thread Samuel thibault
This is most probably due to the introduction of Fix-CVE-2018-1116 -Trusting-client-supplied-UID.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1782320 Title: Braille

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-30 Thread Samuel thibault
I can confirm the same issue on Debian: upgrading from version 0.105-20 to version 0.105-21 brings the same issue. ** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2018-1116 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-30 Thread Samuel thibault
Note: to reproduce the issue, one just needs to install an Ubuntu 18.04 system, start brltty by hand as root with: sudo brltty -b no then try to connect to it as normal logged-in user through brlapi: python3 >>> import brlapi >>> b = brlapi.Connection() which shouldn't raise an

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-30 Thread Samuel thibault
This seems to be an issue within policykit itself. Printing the actual error shows: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: process with PID 12570 has been replaced >From reading the source code, it seems that policykit is checking the start time of the program and finds a mismatch.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782320] Re: Braille display inoperable in GUI since polkit-update

2018-07-23 Thread Samuel thibault
Well, this is not a real solution, we need to fix polkit, otherwise all users will have the same issue, and we don't want to make them all revert back to file-based authentication. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874181] Re: brltty daemon prevents creation of ttyUSB0 device link

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel thibault
lasakro, stu: which USB ID does your device have? (otherwise we can't know what to fix in brltty) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874181 Title: brltty daemon prevents

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1741070] Re: Please merge brltty (main) 5.5-4 from Debian unstable (main)

2018-01-22 Thread Samuel thibault
I don't know how ubuntu manages that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741070 Title: Please merge brltty (main) 5.5-4 from Debian unstable (main) Status in brltty

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1670933] Re: [PATCH] Accessibility partly broken due to X root window being kept from login session.

2017-12-21 Thread Samuel thibault
I have pushed the AT_SPI_BUS removal patch to branch https://code.launchpad.net/~samuel-thibault/lightdm-gtk-greeter/at-spi- bus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1670933] Re: [PATCH] Accessibility partly broken due to X root window being kept from login session.

2017-12-21 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, Still now news on this and #1366534 ? This is really hurting users... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670933 Title: [PATCH] Accessibility partly broken

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1670933] Re: [PATCH] Accessibility partly broken due to X root window being kept from login session.

2017-09-24 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, Just to confirm that the approch proposed by Luke is sound. Removing the AT_SPI_BUS property would really be the safest for the user session: even if systemd doesn't manage to properly clean the at-spi dbus, at least the session isn't exposed to its existence. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1664320] Re: xbrlapi loopback interface abuse

2017-02-13 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, This was reported in debian http://bugs.debian.org/851623 , and that led to upstream fix https://github.com/brltty/brltty/commit/0a5341121ba8f4de24407ce2a4d5369dadf5d099 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #851623 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851623 -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1579531] Re: openConnection: connect: No such file or directory

2016-05-08 Thread Samuel thibault
I have suggested a patch to Dave, upstream maintainer of brltty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579531 Title: openConnection: connect: No such file or directory

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567658] Re: ubuntuBSD support

2016-04-07 Thread Samuel thibault
I've commited it, thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567658 Title: ubuntuBSD support Status in brltty package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi Please

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 935296] Re: java-atk-wrapper prevents java applications from starting

2015-08-31 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, While I could reproduce the issue with java-atk-wrapper 0.30, I can not reproduce it with java-atk-wrapper 0.33. I had reported the issue on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698095 , and it was reported as fixed. Perhaps it is the time to consider re-enabling accessibility in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1365054] Re: package brltty 5.0-2ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2014-09-03 Thread Samuel thibault
Well, yes, brltty needs mountkernfs, like a lot of software actually. Having it disabled seems the culprit here, not brltty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365054

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1013881]

2014-05-12 Thread Samuel thibault
I too believe that Andreas' proposal is the right one. It permits people who really want the extra 5th level to be able to easily get it, while not breaking the 99% usual usage. Just for the record, I had not seen the linuxfr discussion. I guess mostly only people who would want the extra 5th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 221112]

2014-05-12 Thread Samuel thibault
I too believe that Andreas' proposal is the right one. It permits people who really want the extra 5th level to be able to easily get it, while not breaking the 99% usual usage. Just for the record, I had not seen the linuxfr discussion. I guess mostly only people who would want the extra 5th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1013881]

2014-01-19 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, Until a solution is to be found, could 518c769d be reverted for now? Breaking the very standard behavior of right control in all applications (e.g. xterminals!!) is really not acceptable, compared to the few issues that the behavior has without it. Samuel -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 221112]

2014-01-15 Thread Samuel thibault
Hello, Until a solution is to be found, could 518c769d be reverted for now? Breaking the very standard behavior of right control in all applications (e.g. xterminals!!) is really not acceptable, compared to the few issues that the behavior has without it. Samuel -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1082679] Re: brlapi.OperationError.__str__ return bytes

2013-03-31 Thread Samuel thibault
This should get fixed by the next brltty version, 4.5, to be released very soon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to brltty in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082679 Title: brlapi.OperationError.__str__ return

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1099309] [NEW] [Quantal and Raring] Brltty native braille support doesn't work with Orca

2013-01-14 Thread Samuel thibault
Attila Hammer, le Mon 14 Jan 2013 07:22:17 -, a écrit : In Ubuntu Quantal and Ubuntu Raring if I enabling Orca with braille support, the Orca's debug.out file I see following traceback error message: BrlTTY seems to have disappeared: Traceback (most recent call last): File