[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here is one method to see the dialog without working remotely: sudo sed 's/yes/auth_self/' -i /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy Then press Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to vt2, and Alt+Ctrl+F7 to switch back to vt7. After testing, to revert the change, run: sudo sed 's/auth_sel

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
To sum up, two problems: 1) `metacity (and marco) --composite` in 12.04 and 14.04 had only 60% of the compiz performance. 2) `metacity` (both composite and no-composite) got a lot slower in 16.04, at 60% and 25% respectively of the compiz performance. -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Any chance that you could track down version when it started to be slow? > Was composite already slow in previous LTS? Initial tests show that metacity had about the same performance as marco in 12.04 and in 14.04. In those versions, `metacity (or marco) --composite` performs only about 60% as

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
mterry, charlesk, I took the liberty of subscribing you because I think it involves this commit: https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290 The issue is happening to me as well, on Ubuntu 16.04 gnome-flashback, in 2 cases: 1) sometimes when I try to

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yet another benchmark, glmark2, in a very recent core i5 client. Scores: No WM: 2058 marco --no-composite: 1894 compiz : 1878 metacity --no-composite: 742 xcompmgr: 716 marco --composite: 708 metacity --composite: 441 In an ideal world, gnome-flashback would support compiz first, then `metacity -

[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I was able to reproduce the issue in Debian Stretch after applying an Ubuntu specific patch to it. So I'm suspecting that Ubuntu's etwork- manager might be involved in this, I've put it to the affects list. Specifically, by editing Debian's /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service like this: -A

[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I can't reproduce the issue in Debian Stretch. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487679 Title: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start To manage notifications

[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hmm. The "2 3 4 5" change doesn't seem to be enough to break the dependency cycle. I played a bit to see what could break the cycle but I couldn't find it. By completely removing /etc/init.d/nbd-client, all is fine. By putting *just* this minimal header: # Required-Start: $network ...and removin

[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The same issue (mostly) was reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796633 Wouter plans to replace the init script with a generator in time for Debian Stretch. I've asked him to comment on if what pitti suggested is acceptable till then (for Ubuntu Xenial's release). ** Bu

[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm experiencing this in Xenial 16.04 fully updated. I have nbd-client installed but I'm not using its sysvinit service at all (LTSP). One out of 10 boots, systemd decides to: Απρ 07 08:20:15 srv1-dide systemd[1]: network.target: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job NetworkManager.service/star

[Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Probably way easier is to document, to execute in terminal: > gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false It's easy for one sysadmin to run a few commands in a terminal. It's not easy for hundreds of students, e.g. 5-10 years old, to run a few commands in a terminal. Sysadmins (

[Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> @Alberts, I'll do some more tests and come up with hard numbers concerning the performance of metacity with or without compositing. I did some benchmarks and reported them in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1566157 Now I'm more convinced that metacity's compositing-manag

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's another benchmark, with an SDL 2D game, teeworlds, running full screen: no wm: 220 FPS metacity --no-composite: 220 metacity --composite: 130 compiz: 218 xcompmgr: 130 compton: 129 I really think that the user's choices would be: 1) compiz, for every PC that supports it, 2) metacity --no-c

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
And here are some numbers for glxgears again (on another pc), but with xcompmgr and compton included. The first column is the WM used, the second is the FPS for glxgears, and the third the FPS for glxgears -fullscreen: no wm 221 15 metacity --no-composite 170 15 metacity --composite

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I run another set of benchmarks using x11perf. I don't know how much they can help in pinpointing the issue(s), but they do show that `metacity --composite` is extremely slower than `metacity --no-composite` or `compiz`. I'm attaching the output in LibreOffice Calc format, I think it's more read

[Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Ah, I forgot to include the results without a window manager as a comparison: $ killall metacity & sleep 5 && glxgears -fullscreen & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 44884 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8976.656 FPS 44905 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8980.993 FPS Normalized: 118 FPS, the fastest of all. $ kil

[Bug 1566157] [NEW] Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: I did the following benchmarks between `metacity --no-composite`, `metacity --composite`, and `compiz`, in Ubuntu 16.04. First, I disabled vsync: $ cat ~/.drirc Then I ran glxgears as follows: $ metacity --no-composite --replace & sleep 5 && glxgea

[Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Alberts, Dmitry: > No compositor means - no desktop window or it will be black - you will never > see background. > My plan is to fix this in Xenial+1. Less patches will mean less work for me, > too :P That's a good example, does that mean that in Ubuntu 16.10 if one doesn't use compositing he

[Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Alberts, I'll do some more tests and come up with hard numbers concerning the performance of metacity with or without compositing. I do believe that in some cases it will be possible to optimize the performance through appropriate bug reports and patches; but I also strongly believe that there

[Bug 1565640] [NEW] Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, metacity's compositing-manager was false by default. In 16.04, it's been set to true. I tried to pinpoint the advantages vs the disadvantages of that, and currently I've only seen disadvantages. I was testing with: gsettings set org.gnome.metacity

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Dmitry, I don't know why compositing-manager was changed from false to true, so I didn't know if it was important to revert it or not. I thought that people that want a compositing manager use compiz, but since metacity is implementing it with xrender instead of opengl, maybe it will work fine

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I was able to reproduce it: *) In flashback 12.04, by setting /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager=true. The default was false, that's why we never saw the problem there. *) In flashback 14.04, by setting org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager=true. The default was false, that's why we nev

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Testing with lightdm-gtk-greeter, I do get the expected xprops: ESETROOT_PMAP_ID(PIXMAP): pixmap id # 0xe1 _XROOTPMAP_ID(PIXMAP): pixmap id # 0xe1 And it works fine, i.e. no grey background there. I'm testing with the default background, i.e. $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Alberts, sure, here it is: _NET_WORKAREA(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 1024, 768, 0, 0, 1024, 768, 0, 0, 1024, 768, 0, 0, 1024, 768 _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING(WINDOW): window id # _NET_CLIENT_LIST(WINDOW): window id # _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES(UTF8_STRING) = "Χώρος εργασίας 1", "Χώρος εργασίας 2", "Χώρος εργασ

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Two more tests. 1) I created an /usr/share/xsessions/xterm session that just ran xterm. At that xterm, I ran metacity. It cleared the wallpaper. I don't think it should have cleared it at that point. I killed metacity and the wallpaper was restored. 2) I created a /usr/local/bin/metacity wrapper

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think that gray background is caused by metacity. If at that point I kill metacity, I get the lightdm wallpaper back. If I run metacity again at that point, I get the user wallpaper properly drawn (that's a different wallpaper than the one used by lightdm). Maybe a race condition between metaci

[Bug 1563735] Re: Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's one method to reproduce it and get a shell at exactly the point where the gray background is drawn: sudo echo '#!/bin/sh xterm exec /usr/bin/gnome-panel "$@"' > /usr/local/bin/gnome-panel sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gnome-panel Once that wrapper is created, try to login. You'll get an x

[Bug 1562749] Re: Some of the tray menus don't work in 16.04

2016-04-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Guys you are right, it only happened in my user account because I had a ~/bin/evolution shell wrapper from the old days, even though I no longer have evolution installed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1563735] [NEW] Recent gnome-flashback clears the background on login

2016-03-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
ed? I replied: > On 23/12/2015 07:45 μμ, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > > In gnome-flashback-metacity, it lasts for half a second, and it's a > solid gray #808080 (I managed to get a screenshot of it). > > In gnome-flashback-compiz, it lasts for 0.1 second so at first I was

[Bug 1562749] Re: Some of the tray menus don't work in 16.04

2016-03-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I installed Ubuntu and then gnome-flashback. I didn't install evolution. Unity hides the "Add Event" menu, gnome-flashback doesn't hide it. I don't know if Unity (re)shows the menu if one installs evolution. Isn't it a problem that there's a menu that does nothing in a normal installation? If hid

[Bug 1562749] [NEW] Some of the tray menus don't work in 16.04

2016-03-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: gnome-flashback-compiz under Ubuntu 16.04. Clicking on the sound applet and then selecting "Sound Settings" doesn't do anything. It should launch 'unity-control-center sound' instead. Clicking on the name applet and then "About This Computer" should launch "unity-control-ce

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
apw uploaded a test kernel without CONFIG_IP_PNP in http://people.canonical.com/~apw/lp1259861-xenial/. I tested it with "ip=dhcp break=top" and it didn't have the 10 sec delay. Thanks a lot Andy! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
$ for d in karmic lucid maverick natty oneiric precise quantal raring saucy trusty utopic vivid wily xenial; do echo "$d: $(wget -q http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/configs/$d/i386-config.flavour.generic -O - | grep -w CONFIG_IP_PNP)" done karmic: lucid: maverick: natty: # CONFIG_IP_

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot with kernel command line ip=

2016-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> TJ (tj) wrote 9 hours ago:#26 > Originally introduced into the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) configuration with commit > 301b4bb > UBUNTU: rebase to v3.10-rc4 TJ, that doesn't match my tests as mentioned in comment #21, i.e. that I see the issue since kernel 3.8, and that https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think the upstream commit that set CONFIG_IP_PNP=y is this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c1b362e3b4d331a63915b268a33207311a439d60#diff-364c3610ebc6899c22148ba10636c71c Ubuntu and openSUSE now have CONFIG_IP_PNP=y and experience the issue. Debian and Fedora do not have CONFIG_IP_PNP s

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The problem is not there in Ubuntu 12.04.2 (kernel 3.5.0-54) and it is there in Ubuntu 12.04.3 (kernel 3.8.0-44). My test case is to boot with ip=dhcp break=top. When the problem doesn't exist, I get an initramfs prompt in 2 seconds, when it exists I get it in 12 seconds, and that shows up in dmes

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@rhansen, sorry, it turns out you were right! ip= is what's causing my kernel delay. I even tried without an initramfs to verify it, and it caused 10 seconds of delay before the kernel panic because of the missing initramfs. I'll try to gather more info about it. -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 1259861] Re: 5-10 second delay in kernel boot

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@rhansen, your bug might be a different one, since ip=dhcp is processed by the initramfs, while I'm talking about the kernel, before the initramfs gets to run. The bug is still there in Xenial. I noticed that it doesn't happen in all hardware; I've seen it in *some* real clients and under Virtual

[Bug 696435] Re: wait-for-root fails to detect nbd root

2016-03-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is still an issue in Ubuntu 16.04, now initramfs-tools unconditionally calls `wait-for-root /dev/nbd0 10` without even using ROOTDELAY. I also reported this bug to https://github.com/yoe/nbd/issues/36. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> ... I'll try to raise the issue in Debian's im-config, ... I will ask that ibus isn't running in locales where it's not needed... I installed Debian Stretch with the Gnome desktop environment and neither im-config nor ibus were installed by default there. So I cannot report it in Debian, as it

[Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you very much Gunnar, the latest PPA changes work as expected for me in gnome-flashback, i.e. ibus isn't running and I can type Greek just fine. What you have in the PPA is a good compromise for 16.04, please keep it that way. For the future, post 16.04, I'll try to raise the issue in Debi

[Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Gunnar, > May I ask: Which display language are you using? If it's something else but Greek, can you please switch to Greek, log out, log in again, and then try to type in Greek (with IBus running). Does that make a difference? I tested with display language = Greek. I haven't tested with disp

[Bug 1551283] Re: "Region & Language" settings should allow you to set keyboard input method system

2016-03-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> With those changes, im-config (and gnome-language-selector) will default to IBus in Ubuntu GNOME. Hi, I've tested the packages from the PPA under Xenial's gnome-flashback, and now I got ibus running by default. And it again breaks keyboard layout switching with the default Win+Space, so I can'

[Bug 1551670] Re: Session shortcuts show up in non-Unity sessions

2016-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix committed in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/session- shortcuts/1.1, thank you Dmitry! ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu) As

[Bug 1403293] Re: Unity Dash can't understand "logout", "reboot", or "shutdown"

2016-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The solution of this bug report, caused this regression to all other desktop environments except Unity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/session-shortcuts/+bug/1551670 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1551670] [NEW] Session shortcuts show up in non-Unity sessions

2016-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Hi, the new logout/reboot/shutdown shortcuts show up in the Applications → Accessories menu of Gnome-flashback and other Desktop Environments. I don't think they make sense there, maybe they should be marked to only be shown in the Dash/Unity session. Btw, they're also not t

[Bug 1387773] Re: Ubuntu Server 14.10: Missing pxelinux.0 on tftpboot/ltsp/chroot

2016-02-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since noone filed an SRU and releases <= 15.04 are EOL and it's fixed in 16.04, I'm marking this as Won't Fix in Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1124029] Re: 'ltsp-client-builder' failed with error code 1 during LTSP server installation with 20120213.1 alternate images

2016-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since 14.04 there are no alternate CD images, so I'm marking the ltsp (Ubuntu) part of this bug report as Invalid. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 1492546] Re: ifdown stops LTSP's "manual" interface on shutdown

2016-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm closing the LTSP task as LTSP 5.5.6 got released and was published in Xenial without the fix being included, and the newer ifupdown makes the fix not necessary anymore. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 1506756] Re: LTSP-pnp 14.04-1 clients don't boot correctly - black screen

2016-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
New LTSP/LDM releases can become available for older Ubuntu versions by following the SRU procedure as described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. I'm marking this bug as "Incomplete" so that it expires if noone follows the SRU procedure, it doesn't make sense to keep bug reports op

[Bug 1027085] Re: issue with SCREEN_07=shell

2016-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix released in LTSP 5.5.6. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027085 Title: issue with SCREEN_07=shell To man

[Bug 1523227] Re: Packages outdated

2016-02-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The LTSP and LDM Xenial packages got updated, so I'm marking this fix released. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1067951] Re: Firefox loses window decorations in GNOME Classic and MATE with Compiz

2016-02-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm still seeing this in Ubuntu 16.04 fully updated (2016-02-18) with gnome-flashback and compiz. The minimize with alt+space/maximize workaround is still valid. Hopefully this will be fixed for 16.04! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1532484] Re: Don't warn about unsigned extension installed via Debian packages

2016-02-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is fixed in Debian, why can't we apply the patch in Ubuntu? @chrisccoulson, could you please provide some reasoning behind "This isn't something that we're going to be changing in Ubuntu"? @bdrung, I have the following xul extensions installed: xul-ext-adblock-plus 2.7.1+dfsg-1~ubun

[Bug 1541532] Re: migrate UTC setting from /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

2016-02-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Martin, I reported it here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2638 We also need to fix this in the systemd packaging in Debian/Ubuntu: # grep printf /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.postinst printf "0.0 0 0.0\n0\nLOCAL" > /etc/adjtime This is similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

[Bug 1541532] Re: migrate UTC setting from /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

2016-02-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
With the switch to configure UTC from /etc/adjtime instead of /etc/default/rcS, I'm having the following regression: I've installed Xenial some months ago and it's fully updated. Without customizing it, my /etc/adjtime reads: 0.0 0 0 0 The regression is this: # timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 Failed

[Bug 1492546] Re: ifdown stops "manual" interfaces on shutdown

2016-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Alkis, would be great if you could test with 0.8.8ubuntu2! I confirm that ifupdown 0.8.8ubuntu2 solves the issue. I tested both with plain `poweroff` and with `ifdown -a`, which didn't bring DOWN the "manual" interface. Thanks a lot Martin! -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2016-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Well... This is *not* needed anymore, i.e. the current bug was solved: # sed '/^ExecStop=/d' -i /lib/systemd/system/ifup@.service Unfortunately now this is needed, i.e. the same bug appeared elsewhere: # sed '/^ExecStop=/d' -i /lib/systemd/system/networking.service The networking.service file no

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2016-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> ifupdown should not have a config stanza (or at least only a manual one) for this. Hi Martin, yup, when network manager was introduced in Ubuntu I've had added code to LTSP to dynamically put "iface $DEVICE inet manual" in /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent network manager from assigning an I

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-12-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you Martin, I'm attaching journal.txt. ** Attachment added: "journal.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1492546/+attachment/4534902/+files/journal.txt ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-12-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Martin, I've set up remote syslogging and I'm attaching the relevant lines for the "ltsp33" client. ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1492546/+attachment/4534472/+files/syslog ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Tr

[Bug 1028972] Re: Empty session menu in ltsp client

2015-12-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I believe this was caused by missing environment variables in the session, like DESKTOP_SESSION, XDG_MENU_PREFIX etc. I've fixed those upstream in LDM+LTSP and I've released them in the Greek schools PPA. Can someone check if adding the PPA to their sources, both in their server and in the chroo

[Bug 1511118] Re: 100% cpu usage with unresolved name server

2015-12-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Robie, from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance => Critical: > Renders the system temporarily or permanently unusable Yup, especially if you are on a single core system and you've never heard of what a terminal or a `kill -9 `is. > Severely affects applications beyond the package responsi

[Bug 1355664] Re: ltsp-build client fails for armhf (linux-image-omap4)

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) -- You received this bug not

[Bug 1244734] Re: LTSP thin client login problem

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Ubuntu 13.10 is EOL, does this still happen with some supported Ubuntu release? Also, LTSP can't put such a file in /etc/skel, not all LTSP users are using KDE. Some other solution should be found instead... ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 1156538] Re: Thin client logs out after a few minutes

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Ubuntu 11.10 is now EOL, can you reproduce it with some supported version? ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1156538 Title:

[Bug 1070197] Re: NBD_SWAP=True not working

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
In LTSP upstream, `ltsp-config nbd-server`, which is also called by `ltsp-update-image`, creates swap.conf if it doesn't exist. If that still doesn't happen in 12.04, could you create an SRU to have this backported? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Imp

[Bug 1027085] Re: issue with SCREEN_07=shell

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027085 Title: issue with SCREEN_

[Bug 1049970] Re: Use Ubuntu's guest login feature

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 206924 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206924 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 206924 Make it possible to create a guest account -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 1036277] Re: Login screen is set multiple monitors and orientation is guessed

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 693151 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693151 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 693151 Login screen is centered between two monitors with dual head setup -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 221363] Re: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Is this still an issue in recent Ubuntu/LTSP versions? ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 Title: Policy Kit Unl

[Bug 1387773] Re: Ubuntu Server 14.10: Missing pxelinux.0 on tftpboot/ltsp/chroot

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, to get this fix backported to previous Ubuntu versions one would need to follow the SRU process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387773

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Martin, I'm seeing a regression for this with systemd 228-2ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Xenial. Now I again have to remove the "ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown %I" stanza in order to get netbooted clients to shut down. Maybe something else is stopping the ifup service on shutdown now? I tried to downgrade to the ver

[Bug 1523227] Re: Packages outdated

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Shahar Or, unfortunately Ubuntu doesn't accept newer versions of upstream packages. It usually only accepts small fixes if one follows the SRU process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates You might try to change this bug report to an SRU, maybe the Ubuntu maintainer will accept it. >

[Bug 891793] Re: Login with USB key or smart card

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, LDM will be deprecated in LTSP 6, so I don't think anyone's going to work on this issue. So I'm marking it "Won't Fix". ** Changed in: ltsp Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 1091683] Re: package ldm-server 2:2.2.9-1ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 127 zurück

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
So the problem is that some other package or process renamed update-inetd? Then this isn't a problem with ldm, is it? When packages depend on other packages, they can expect their executables to be present without checking for them... ** Changed in: ldm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete

[Bug 867608] Re: ldm should depend on gettext-base to make translation of rc.d files work

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Marc is this still an issue? ** Changed in: ldm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/867608 Title: ldm should depend on gettext-base to make trans

[Bug 1002323] Re: multihead: login prompt does not appear on the screen where mouse cursor is until it moves

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 693151 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693151 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 693151 Login screen is centered between two monitors with dual head setup -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1480681] Re: LDM does not use 'Language' from .dmrc

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: ldm (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: ltsp Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ltsp Assignee: (unassigned) => Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1457730] Re: Upstart packaging conflicts with man Xsession

2015-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix released in LDM 2.2.16. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457730 Title: Upstart packaging conflicts with m

[Bug 1316320] Re: Screen Lock does not prompt for password

2015-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix released in LDM 2.2.15. ** Changed in: ltsp Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316320 Title: Screen Lock does not prompt for password T

[Bug 1020113] Re: ltsp: screen session "ssh" not working in precise

2015-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix released in LTSP 5.5.4. ** Changed in: ltsp Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020113 Title: ltsp: screen session "ssh" not working in p

[Bug 1520780] [NEW] Two nm-applets appear in the panel in Xenial

2015-11-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Freshly installed Xenial daily build. I reported the issue in the gnome-flashback mailing list, and Alberts replied: > Upstream network-manager-applet does not autostart applet in GNOME any more: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=2a7336451cb6f06

[Bug 1511118] Re: 100% cpu usage with unresolved name server

2015-11-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Lefteris, could you add the upstream patch here and follow all the SRU steps? Thank you! ** Changed in: socat (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: socat (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #803378 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b

[Bug 1518140] Re: socat using 100% of CPU

2015-11-19 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 158 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158 Hi, as the bug title says, it's a problem with socat, not with epoptes. We cannot solve it in the epoptes code. We've had reported it in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803378, you can co

[Bug 1506756] Re: LTSP-pnp 14.04-1 clients don't boot correctly - black screen

2015-10-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, LTSP in Ubuntu has been broken for some years now, it's lacking a lot of necessary fixes that are upstream in LTSP. Use the Greek schools PPA to get a working LTSP: sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:ts.sch.gr sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ...both in your server and your chroot

[Bug 1506756] Re: LTSP-pnp 14.04-1 clients don't boot correctly - black screen

2015-10-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: ltsp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506756 Title: LTSP-pnp 14.04-1 clients don't boot correctly - black screen

[Bug 1504893] [NEW] Config parser fails with inline comments

2015-10-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: $ tail -1 /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades Prompt=never # Original value: Prompt=lts I'm using inline comments like the one above to mark the original values in files that I change in /etc. But in this case it's considered an invalid value, probably like: Prompt="never #

[Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you Dmitry. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502570 Title: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1499650] Re: local applications are not shown in menu (LXDE)

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since the code that breaks XDG_DATA_DIRS is in LXDE, LTSP can't fix it without directly patching startlxde. This can not be done in a non-intrusive way for thin clients as it requires breaking the server installation (wrong debsums etc). I'm marking this as won't fix, please file the bug report

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
1) It works fine for me with no regressions at all, thank you very much. 2) I just noticed that contrary to what I wrote in the bug title, ibus also breaks Unity, but only a little, so I hadn't noticed before. It eats up the accent but only the first time that the user tries it. I.e. ";" + "a" =

[Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Because then we would lose all the other recommended packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/gnome-panel alacarteeasy GNOME menu editing tool evolution-data-serverevolution database backend server gnome-appletsVarious applets for the GNOME panel - binary files gnome-session-flashb

[Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Would it be at all possible to have this in Wily? We're thinking of installing 15.10 in some schools here instead of 14.04, and it would make things a bit easier for us. Thank you very much in any case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1501189] Re: DNS breaks when port=0 is used in dnsmasq.conf

2015-10-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Robie, while this also happens in Debian, the use case is more common in Ubuntu, because NetworkManager is patched to use a spawned dnsmasq instance as a local resolver, and mixing the two DNS servers is problematic (neither bind-dynamic nor bind-interfaces work very well). In Debian they mo

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-10-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thanks a lot Martin, works fine for me. /me reverts the LTSP workaround... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1492546 Title: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't To man

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Gunnar, that patch works lovely for me, I tried it in Wily beta 2 + updates in: gnome-flashback-metacity (running ibus) mate-desktop (running fcitx) lubuntu (running fcitx) ...and it prohibited ibus and fcitx from running, solving the keyboard layout switching problems that they were causing (

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> How can you tell that im-config shouldn't start IBus? Isn't that why system settings vs user settings exist? For example, my /etc/default/keyboard reads: XKBLAYOUT="us,gr" XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" Then for example Gnome puts those as the default layouts for my session.

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Gunnar, one of the 3 problems here is that im-config starts ibus while it shouldn't. We Greeks have no need for ibus, and IM_CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODE=auto should understand that and act accordingly like im-switch did in the past. In the past I've exchanged some emails with Osamu, the im-config Debi

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: im-config (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ibus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The problem seems to be some incompatibility between ibus and gnome-flashback. ibus doesn't cause problems in Unity but it does cause this problem in flashback. A workaround for gnome-flashback would be to conflict with ibus until this is solved. A workaround for users: in/etc/default/im-config,

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