[Bug 158338] Re: Network Manager becomes confused by sleep

2007-11-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I've just installed it, I'll see how it works. However, I stopped seeing the exact behavior mentioned at the top of this report for some time. The WiFi is re-connected on resume _some_ times, though not always. I still get weird behavior on some resumes, which I've documented in some other

[Bug 131911] Re: tries to clear nscd hosts cache even when it's not installed

2007-11-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I still see it in the logs. The earliest occurrences are from Nov 29, which is today. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ grep -iIr 'nscd hosts cache' * grep: apt/term.log: Permission denied grep: apt/term.log.1.gz: Permission denied grep: cups/cups-pdf_log: Permission denied daemon.log:Nov 26 10:54:20

[Bug 162664] Re: none of VLCs output modules play nice with Compiz

2007-11-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
This bug actually applies to all of Ubuntu's video players, I'll edit it and attach it to the others I'm using (MPlayer and Totem). ** Also affects: mplayer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: totem (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New **

[Bug 162664] Re: no video output module play nice with Compiz

2007-11-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
By the way, there is a patch that (almost) fixes this for MPlayer, there's some info at http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/10/18 /unlocking-the-full-video-potential-of-your-video-card/ It's not perfect (maximizing breaks the aspect ratio, and if you make the window transparent you can see the

[Bug 149507] Re: Amarok's global hotkeys become stuck often

2007-11-27 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I hadn't noticed the relationship with key press duration, but other than that it seems it's the same problem. I've just tried it, and indeed, it happens right away when a key is pressed longer than an instant. -- Amarok's global hotkeys become stuck often https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149507

[Bug 172302] sleep sometimes causes log-outs or reboots

2007-11-27 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. Usually sleep works very well: there's a special Fn key on the keyboard that can turn on some special effects, for instance it turns Esc into sleep. This is correctly detected by Ubuntu, and it enters sleep mode

[Bug 148926] Re: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV

2007-11-27 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Sorry, I can't remember which video file caused it. Is there a way to enable automatic collection of backtraces through apport? -- vlc crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148926 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact

[Bug 164893] Compiz misrembers full-screen status of closed applications

2007-11-24 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz Hello! This is about latest Gutsy. Compiz* remembers the window size when applications are closed. The next time an application is started, its window is set to the last recorded size (I'm not sure about the position). The problem is that if a

[Bug 164897] Flash video doesn't have true a full-screen mode

2007-11-24 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! This is about latest Gutsy. Consider it a feature-request rather than a bug. On Mac OS X, the Flash player has a very nice feature: when pressing the full-screen button, the Flash window fills up the screen completely. This mode can be exited by simply pressing the

[Bug 164297] desktop color changes several times during login

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! This is about the latest Gutsy. Currently, during login, the login process, the desktop switches colors several times, which isn't very pretty. (This is not about the multiple mode switches during boot.) At first we have the GDM theme, which has its own look, that's

[Bug 80666] Re: Azureus crashed when starting a new torrent

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I don't see this anymore, but I didn't have this in a long time. I have made some changes to Azureus (eg, I eliminated GCJ, and I disabled sliding animation/on top style for alert messages in the display options, which caused me other problems, too). So as far as I'm concerned, this bug doesn't

[Bug 164306] NetworkManager stuck in connect/disconnect loop

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager Ubuntu Gutsy. I used to have this before. Something strange happens after some disconnects. I tell nm-applet to connect to a WiFi network. It starts connecting, it associates with the AP, then it gets an address from DHCP, and then it

[Bug 164305] NetworkManager broke after temporarily disabling networking

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager Weird issue on latest Gutsy. I disabled the networking from the nm- applet (right click, uncheck enable networking) to test how some program behaved. When I re-enabled it, the enable wireless option wasn't in the applet anymore. I tried

[Bug 80666] Re: Azureus crashed when starting a new torrent

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
OK, I did that (sorry, didn't cross my mind to just do a fresh reinstall). I tried simulating network failures by disconnecting NetworkManager and by flipping the hardware switch, and Azureus doesn't seem to crash anymore. Thanks for whatever you guys did! -- Azureus crashed when starting a new

[Bug 153676] Re: full-screen windows sometimes hide windows that should be above them

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I've just did some more testing, and it seems the second part of this bug is caused by the same issue that causes bug #162762. When the user initiates moving a window using the Alt+drag combination, compiz calls (among other things)

[Bug 153676] Re: full-screen windows sometimes hide windows that should be above them

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Hello! I've done a bit of hacking through Compiz' sources, and I think I found the reason for the first problem. As far as I could follow the process, Compiz calls updateWindowAttributes() on newly-created windows, with the stackingMode argument set to CompStackingUpdateModeInitialMap. This

[Bug 162762] Re: widget layer is below full-screen windows

2007-11-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
After taking a look through the code, I think it's not exactly the same thing as bug #153676. As far as I can tell, the widget plugin uses raiseWindow (from window.c) to put the widgets on top. However, that function then uses findSiblingBelow() with aboveFs=FALSE, which causes the widgets to

[Bug 162665] Re: Compiz should allow exceptions for window transparency

2007-11-16 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
OK, another case where it is useful: Video software that uses video overlays (ie, X Video), like VLC and Totem, depend on some parts of the screen having an exact key color. When the window is turned transparent, the color is changed, and the video image disappears. (Depending on which key color

[Bug 162665] Compiz should allow exceptions for window transparency

2007-11-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz Hello! This is about the latest Gutsy, up to date. Compiz currently allows setting an option to make windows semi- transparent while they're moved. This is very nice, as it allows easier positioning by seeing windows behind it. However, it can be

[Bug 162664] none of VLCs output modules play nice with Compiz

2007-11-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vlc It's a shame that even with Compiz working very well now, there is no suitable VLC output plugin that allows all the nice visual features to work correctly. I've tried everything I have installed by default: * X11 is the only one where Compiz

[Bug 162669] kwin-dev package needed (kdebase-dev split)

2007-11-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase-dev Hello! This is about up-to-date Ubuntu Gutsy. Please take a look at bug #160953. Compiz' build-deps include the kwin headers (for the kde window decorator); unfortunately the only way to get those is to depend on kdebase-dev. This is

[Bug 162762] widget layer is below full-screen windows

2007-11-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz This is about Compiz running on latest updated Gutsy. I've tried adding some widgets using Compiz' widgets layer plugin and the screenlets package (from an external repository). Unfortunately I've noticed an issue: whenever I have a full-screen

[Bug 160953] compiz has huge build-deps

2007-11-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz Hello! This is about Ubuntu Gutsy, up-to-date. I've thought about taking a look through Compiz's source, and I tried a simple apt-get build-dep compiz. For some reason apt-get insisted on installing 200 megs of packages, including things like

[Bug 160953] Re: compiz has huge build-deps

2007-11-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Simply removing kdebase-data got rid of pretty much everything KDE, by the way. However, for some reason this removed libxslt1-dev, which ./configure asks for. It seems to work after installing it manually. -- compiz has huge build-deps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160953 You received this

[Bug 160953] Re: compiz has huge build-deps

2007-11-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I take that back. It seems it does need parts of KDE, to build the kde part. It works though if I just ./configure --disable-kde (it compiles, at least). -- compiz has huge build-deps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160953 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 160953] Re: compiz has huge build-deps

2007-11-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Wait a minute. I agree that some components of kde-base and a few others (qt-dev-whatever) are necessary, and I suppose apt-get doesn't allow the option of installing partial build-deps. But are konqueror, konsole, kdeprint, kicker, klipper, poster, and libvorbis really used by Compiz? --

[Bug 160953] Re: compiz has huge build-deps

2007-11-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
And, is that normal? That is, should I move this bug to kdebase-dev because it depends on too many things(*), or should Compiz depend on something more precise than kdebase? (*: While it's not unreasonable, it seems unnecessary that Konqueror be needed to develop something _for_ Konqueror. I'd

[Bug 158988] edge flipping of workspaces should ignore panel area

2007-10-31 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! This is about Compiz on Ubuntu Gutsy, though it probably applies to every distribution out there (and to many window managers, too). Compiz allows flipping between workspaces when the mouse cursor touches the screen edges (including when dragging some object). This is

[Bug 159031] computer freezes when sshfs blocks waiting for connection

2007-10-31 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: This is about Gutsy. I have set-up remote drives mounted over sshfs, which in turns runs over a WiFi connection. Every now and then, the router reboots itself (crappy ISP, irrelevant), and the network connection naturally stops. When that happens, sshfs will block on any

[Bug 151322] Re: trackerd keeps trashing the hard drive incessantly, gives almost no status info

2007-10-30 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
How is this fixed? Is there a new status panel that was added recently? -- trackerd keeps trashing the hard drive incessantly, gives almost no status info https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact

[Bug 122041] Re: thumbnail-related error for swf

2007-10-30 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Here's the file. Nautilus doesn't give the error anymore (I think it only gave it when it first tried to thumbnail it using Totem, and it remembers it failed). Totem gives the same error or at least something similar when I try to double-click on it. Firefox can open it, though. I'm not sure how

[Bug 158338] Network Manager becomes confused by sleep

2007-10-29 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! I'm using Gutsy on a laptop with an ipw3945 WiFi card. I've noticed some weird behavior of the Network Manager when resuming from sleep. I'm connected at home to a WPA2 network, which seems to work very well. However, when I resume the computer from sleep, 1) The

[Bug 158352] Firefox is slow to stop when shutting down

2007-10-29 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! This is about Firefox on the latest Ubuntu Gutsy. I've noticed that very often, after I tell the computer to shut down or reboot while Firefox is running, the next time I open Firefox (after restarting the computer) I get a warning that Firefox crashed the last time

[Bug 158352] Re: Firefox is slow to stop when shutting down

2007-10-29 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
No, it really says it crashed. I have setup Firefox's session manager to automatically load the last session, and if I close FF manually and restart it it works correctly. Only when I shutdown the computer with FF running (thus letting the computer close FF) I get the error on the next start. --

[Bug 82463] Re: monitor remains blank after quick close/open lid cycle

2007-10-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I can't seem to reproduce this on Gutsy. However, there is another difference that might be related: When I entered this bug report, I had the computer set-up to lock the screen when I closed the lid. I can't figure out how to do this now, the only equivalent setting in the power manager is to

[Bug 157921] language-support-en pollutes Firefox's spell-check languages list

2007-10-27 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! This is about the package language-support-en on Ubuntu Gutsy, but it applies generally to all language-support-* packages in all or most other Ubuntu versions. When I install the package, English dictionaries for the spell-checking feature of Firefox are installed.

[Bug 127168] Re: vesafb sets the refresh rate too high for some LCDs

2007-10-26 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I'm not using 915res anymore, precisely because of the new intel driver. But the initial bug report was about the console settings, and I'm still having that problem. -- vesafb sets the refresh rate too high for some LCDs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127168 You received this bug notification

[Bug 78830] Re: lcd is set to expand when installing

2007-10-22 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I'm not using 915 resolution anymore (because of the new driver), so I'm not sure I have what to check. The Intel driver didn't seem to affect the LCD expansion. -- lcd is set to expand when installing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78830 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 133206] Re: 915resolution spams the console at startup

2007-10-22 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Well I don't use 915resolution anymore (precisely because I use the new Intel driver), so I can't really check it easily. But unless someone merged my replacement above, or duplicated it, I doubt the situation changed. -- 915resolution spams the console at startup

[Bug 141056] Re: clock is delayed by a constant amount when ntpd is enabled

2007-10-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
What I did was (1) open the time and date settings (time-admin), using the clock applet on the panel, (2) configure my time zone to Europe/Paris (which is UTC+2), and (3) activated Keep synchronized with internet servers, which is the next option in that menu. Now my clock displays 5:56 pm (and

[Bug 119318] Re: power manager insists batter is broken

2007-10-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I should probably mention that this doesn't seem to happen anymore for me. However, during the last few weeks I had several computer issues, which among other things led to replacing the motherboard (twice), the hard drive and the battery, and reinstalling Gutsy from scratch (the previous one had

[Bug 141056] Re: clock is delayed by a constant amount when ntpd is enabled

2007-10-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Note that in my first report the delay was much higher, now it seems to have stabilized to two hours. -- clock is delayed by a constant amount when ntpd is enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141056 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 141056] Re: ntpd behaves strangely---clock is badly delayed

2007-10-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I linked this to NTP, since that's where I think the issue is. I also linked it to gnome-system-tools, which contains the time-admin applet; I don't think that's the problem, but someone there might now how to look for more info. ** Summary changed: - ntpd behaves strangely---clock is badly

[Bug 141056] Re: ntpd behaves strangely---clock is badly delayed

2007-10-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I have this behaviour on every Gutsy machine I have (three). After a bit of following this thing it appears that the delay is exactly +2hours, which incidentally is my timezone, CEST, or UTC+2. I think some of the packages, probably NTP, are confused; probably it thinks the RTC is set to UTC

[Bug 12153] Re: Cannot use Windows key in keyboard shortcuts

2007-10-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Note that this with Compiz this works without any hassle. -- Cannot use Windows key in keyboard shortcuts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 154954] [wishlist] simlink target should be editable

2007-10-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: It would be nice if the Link target field in a simlink's properties panel (right-click, Properties) would be editable. Currently there is no easy way of managing simlinks in Nautilus other than right-click menu's Make link option, which always creates absolute simlinks

[Bug 153676] Re: full-screen windows sometimes hide windows that should be above them

2007-10-19 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I'm not so sure. I have none of the symptoms described there. Also, there is absolutely no corruption visible, it's as if Compiz thinks that's what's supposed to happen. By the way, I have the exact same behavior on firegl and intel drivers, on two different computers. On the ATI card Compiz runs

[Bug 153969] avahi-autoipd takes over when the router fails, breaks DHCP

2007-10-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: I'm having a bit of an issue with avahi-daemon on Ubuntu Gutsy. My home network consists of an ADSL modem that includes a WiFi ethernet router, into which I have plugged: 1) one laptop, running Gutsy, connected via ethernet; let's call it gutsy-eth. 2) one laptop, running

[Bug 153676] weird behavior with full-screen windows

2007-10-17 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy, and I'm currently quite pleased with how Compiz works. (I had Gutsy before (re-installed after some hardware problems), but Compiz didn't work very well, probably because of cruft accumulated through upgrades all the way

[Bug 140643] Re: [evince] cairo context error: NULL pointer

2007-10-16 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Any idea when it will be accessible here? BTW, not sure if that's related or interesting, but I can't print the document given above. (Evince usually prints PDFs.) -- [evince] cairo context error: NULL pointer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140643 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 12153] Re: Cannot use Windows key in keyboard shortcuts

2007-10-16 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
The funny thing is that using compiz's settings manager (ccsm) this works without any problem. -- Cannot use Windows key in keyboard shortcuts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 151322] trackerd keeps trashing the hard drive incessantly, gives almost no status info

2007-10-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tracker Hello. I have Ubuntu Gutsy installed since a long time ago on a work computer (and a couple at home). Today I got really annoyed by the fact that during the last month or so I can't remember a single moment when trackerd wasn't trashing the

[Bug 133567] Re: nautilus hangs on accessing vfat drives - statfs() blocks for a long time

2007-10-08 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I know this is a bit complex to work-around, but we could hack Nautilus to work around this whenever it encounters a VFAT volume. If I understand correctly, Nautilus uses the statfs call to determine the free space on the drive, to show it on the bottom of the window. I would suggest that

[Bug 150380] vlc's Open File dialog doesn't handle drag and drop correctly

2007-10-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vlc Hello! This is about VLC on Gutsy; however it probably applies to other versions too. The Open File... dialog (the complete one, not the quick one) has two text fields for choosing the video and the subtitle file. When drag-and-dropping a file on

[Bug 149507] Amarok's global hotkeys become stuck often

2007-10-05 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: amarok Hello! I'm using Amarok on an otherwise Gnome-exclusive Ubuntu Gutsy box. One thing I'm very fond of is using global hotkeys to control the music player (in this case Amarok) from any application. For example, I have hotkeys set for skipping to

[Bug 148605] gnome starts all startup programs at once

2007-10-03 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-session Hello! This is about Ubuntu Gutsy, though it applies to every distro that uses Gnome. I've attached it to gnome-session, though I'm not sure there's where the change must go. The problem is that Gnome starts all startup applications at

[Bug 148230] opening some USB drives takes a long time

2007-10-02 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I have a strange issue: I have three Lacie USB drives, one is 320GB and the others 500GB. The small one and one of the others are FAT-formatted, and the third is reiserfs. For some strange reason, whenever I mount the small one, the first

[Bug 146448] warning during update process

2007-09-28 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Seen during last Gutsy update, a couple minutes ago. Removing language-pack-en-base ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US.UTF-8 are

[Bug 145628] Thumbnails not displayed in Nautilus

2007-09-27 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus Hello! I'm using an up-to-date Gutsy; a few updates ago (I think I saw something thumbnail-related in the changelists) Nautilus started to behave strangely: I have thumbnail-able files on the desktop at all times, including several PDF

[Bug 144083] Re: package lists should be downloaded as diffs (Contents-i386.gz)

2007-09-23 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
That would work, too. I didn't look at their system in detail, but if I understand how it works I don't think rsync is the best idea. The problem is that _each_time_ a file is re-synchronized, both the server (with the new file) and the client (the one updating) must read the file completely,

[Bug 144083] package lists should be downloaded as diffs (Contents-i386.gz)

2007-09-22 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt Hello! This is a feature request for Ubuntu Gutsy, though it can apply to every dist that uses apt-get. I marked it as affecting apt-get, but I think it would affect lots of other things if implemented. AFAIK, every apt-get update checks each

[Bug 141473] dpkg: error processing hotkey-setup (--configure):

2007-09-21 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hotkey-setup Hello! From my latest Gutsy update: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing

Re: [Bug 140739] Re: Apt segfaults on gutsy

2007-09-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
subscriber of a duplicate bug. -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself. – O. -- Apt segfaults on gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact

[Bug 141234] when updating the network-manager, network connections fail

2007-09-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I just realized an annoying fact: When doing software updates which install a new version of the network manager, the network connections are temporarily disconnected while the network-manager is

[Bug 141348] purging beagle doesn't clean up everything

2007-09-20 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: beagle Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I noticed that the beagle package doesn't clean-up after itself even after a purge. I'm trying to switch to tracker for a while, and I tried to remove beagle. (libbeagle can't be removed because Nautilus depends

[Bug 141056] ntpd behaves strangely---clock is badly delayed

2007-09-19 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and I noticed some very strange behavior of the date and time settings. I've been using manually-set date for a long time, but it had a lot of skew (not sure why) so I switched to using the time servers. I just enabled the network time in the

[Bug 140643] Re: [evince] cairo context error: NULL pointer

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
This is the file showing the warnings, please check if it happens for others, too. ** Attachment added: IN100_TD_2005_06.pdf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9338165/IN100_TD_2005_06.pdf -- [evince] cairo context error: NULL pointer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140643 You received this bug

[Bug 140642] gnome-terminal doesn't show text anymore

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and after a big set of updates this morning (about 140) I started noticing weird behavior. After the (asked-for) reboot gnome-terminal stopped working. It starts (randomly) in two different states: 1) A

[Bug 140643] [evince] cairo context error: NULL pointer

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and after a big update this morning I noticed some strange behavior. I'm not sure if this is related, but I noticed Evince throwing up repeated warnings of cairo context error: NULL pointer in the console when

[Bug 140641] weird window manager behavior

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: metacity Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, and after a big set of updates this morning (about 140) I started noticing weird behavior. For instance, Metacity started acting buggy. Two things I noticed were: (1) Firefox seems stuck in full-screen mode. When

[Bug 140642] Re: gnome-terminal doesn't show text anymore

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Confirming that Hendrick's fix works. I used the deskbar to start an xterm and typed the command. There's probably a way to do that from the apps menu, too. Thanks! -- gnome-terminal doesn't show text anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140642 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 140682] [cupsys-common] warning during update

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cupsys-common Hello! Seen on the console during the latest round of updates: Preparing to replace cupsys-common 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 (using .../cupsys-common_1.3.0-4ubuntu4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement cupsys-common ... Preparing to replace cupsys

[Bug 140641] Re: weird window manager behavior

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
The font issue is probably unrelated. Try the fix at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/140619 -- weird window manager behavior https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140641 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 140744] access denied on archive server

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: I got this error repeatedly: $ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The

[Bug 140746] Re: apt-get/aptitude dump core while updating

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 140739 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140739 apt-get's crash log file, from /var/crash ** Attachment added: _usr_bin_apt-get.0.crash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9354700/_usr_bin_apt-get.0.crash -- apt-get/aptitude dump core while updating

[Bug 140746] Re: apt-get/aptitude dump core while updating

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 140739 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140739 aptitude's crash log file, from /var/crash I don't know where the core dumps should be. ** Attachment added: _usr_bin_aptitude.0.crash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9354709/_usr_bin_aptitude.0.crash --

[Bug 140746] Re: apt-get/aptitude dump core while updating

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 140739 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140739 Here's the .deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomevfs2-common_1%3a2.20.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb which I assume is what apt-get is trying to install. ** Attachment added:

[Bug 140746] apt-get/aptitude dump core while updating

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 140739 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140739 Public bug reported: (Ubuntu Gutsy:) I get the following error chain when trying to update: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for bogdanb: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg

[Bug 140744] Re: access denied on archive server

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Yeah, I got the answer from an apt-get bug. It works already, thanks! -- access denied on archive server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140744 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 140815] warning during update process

2007-09-18 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: app-install-data Seen during recent updates (I'm using Gutsy): Setting up app-install-data (0.4.6) ... Caching application data... Skipped k3dsurf.desktop: does not include a menu name Generating mime/codec maps... For the record, I don't have k3dsurf

[Bug 85791] Re: Amarok loops through all songs when the sound device isn't unavailable

2007-09-15 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
It happens to me in Gutsy, too. It also happens if the sound device becomes unavailable (eg, using PulseAudio when the network fails). It also happens when the _files_ become unavailable (eg, the remote drive can't be accessed through the network anymore): Amarok cycles through the entire

Re: [Bug 138654] Re: Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors

2007-09-13 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
of the bug. -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself. – O. -- Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

Re: [Bug 138654] Re: Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors

2007-09-13 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Oh, and I can press Ctrl-C at any moment at a sudo prompt and try again. (Depending on your POV that might be a bug in sudo, but anyway.) On 9/13/07, Bogdan Butnaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but you can kill it's parent shell. You can do 'bash -c sudo cmd' and kill bash. On my attempts

[Bug 138628] eclipse complains about eclipseextension file access

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eclipse Hello! I'm using Eclipse on an up-to-date Gutsy machine. I noticed that Eclipse throws the following message to the console during start-up: $ eclipse using specified vm: /usr/lib/jvm/java Could not create

[Bug 138654] Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sudo Hello! This is about Ubuntu Gutsy, though it applies to the other versions as well. My problem is that every password-entry that requires the user's log-in password has an annoying little delay of a few seconds when entering a mistaken password

[Bug 138654] Re: Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
After a bit more reading-up I see most of this should be possible by simply updating the default configuration in /etc/pam.d The delay can be removed by adding parameter to common-auth's pam_unix, and the counting by using pam_tally. I can't figure out how to add a growing timeout; perhaps a new

[Bug 137951] Re: power management applet seems very screwy

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Here are a couple of screenshots for a discharge cycle: I turned on the computer unplugged (with a full battery). After I got the critical battery level warning I opened the PM applet and took a couple of screenshots. The first is the Charge History. Note how sudden it falls towards the end of the

[Bug 137951] Re: power management applet seems very screwy

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
And this is the Voltage History screenshot, took a few seconds later. Notice how there is no corresponding sudden change—it even rises a little around the time the Charge fell down. Another interesting tidbit is that the battery model on this laptop has a little charge monitor: a small button and

[Bug 137951] Re: power management applet seems very screwy

2007-09-10 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
And finally some info I took out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/(info|state): info: present: yes design capacity: 5200 mAh last full capacity: 12238 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 11100 mV design capacity warning: 520 mAh design

[Bug 133146] Re: ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
** Attachment added: lspci-v.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9196887/lspci-v.txt -- ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 133146] Re: ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
** Attachment added: lshal.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9196889/lshal.txt -- ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 133146] Re: ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
As can be seen from at least the last attachment, I have version A05. On the Dell site I see they reached version A08. However the changelogs for the newer versions don't show anything related to ACPI, so I'm not sure if that would change anything. I'm reluctant to update because I have the

[Bug 138467] keyboard-applet gets confused by layouts which swapped Ctrl and Caps Lock

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, up-to-date, and I noticed an unpleasant issue with the gnome-keyboard-preferences applet. Said applet offers the very useful possibility of customizing the keyboard configuration through using its

[Bug 138467] Re: keyboard-applet gets confused by layouts which swapped Ctrl and Caps Lock

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
This is an example layout file (derived from the us layout) that shows the problem. To use it you must copy it in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Note that you must add it in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.[lst|xml]. ** Attachment added: bogdanb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9197759/bogdanb --

[Bug 34898] Re: Requires keyring password to connect to WEP/WPA network

2007-09-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I can confirm that it doesn't work with autologin. There's a bug already filled, bug #137247 And I too would like NM to work without the keyring. I can appreciate why the keyring is a nice idea, but in practice I've had so many problems with it I resorted to keeping all my network passwords in a

[Bug 137948] [usability] gnome's save file dialogs place focus inconveniently

2007-09-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Hello. I'm running up-to-date Gutsy using the normal Gnome interface. I'm having a bit of an issue with the save file dialogs. On my machine (I assume this happens everywhere) when I click save in a GTK application (like GEdit), the dialog comes up, but its focus is in the

[Bug 137961] powe-manager's graph legends aren't very visible

2007-09-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Hello! This is about the latest-version Gnome Power Manager in Ubuntu Gutsy. (1) The graph colors are used inconsistently between the various graphs. For instance, the Charge time accuracy profile uses blue for valid data and black

[Bug 137948] Re: [usability] gnome's save file dialogs place focus inconveniently

2007-09-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 130224 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130224 Cool, didn't notice that one. Thanks! -- [usability] gnome's save file dialogs place focus inconveniently https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137948 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 137951] power management applet seems very screwy

2007-09-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy on a Dell Latitude Laptop, and I'm seeing very weird behavior from the Power Manager, and (consequently, I think) the battery-related behavior of the computer. Maybe someone can help me trace the problem

[Bug 137951] Re: power management applet seems very screwy

2007-09-07 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I have attached screenshots of each of the graphs shown by the Power Manager during a charge-up. What I did was (1) disabled PM's reaction to critically low battery, (2) used the computer until it just turned off because the battery was exhausted, (3) plugged the computer in, turned it on, and as

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