[Bug 627948] Re: terminator crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup()

2013-01-30 Thread Chris McCauley
Two years later??? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627948 Title: terminator crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup() To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 861268] Re: text corruption in terminals (xterm, urxvt) and emacs

2012-04-27 Thread Chris McCauley
When this gets really bad and it's impossible to use Emacs, I've found that ALT-F2 (to pull up the Please enter a command: prompt), type r (to restart gnome-shell) fixes the problem temporarily. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 861268] Re: text corruption in terminals (xterm, urxvt) and emacs

2012-04-16 Thread Chris McCauley
I've had this problem for months. I'm not using Unity, though it is installed. chris@chris-m1730 ~$ dpkg -l|egrep ^ii *(nvidia|\unity-|libunity|ttf-ubuntu-font-family)|sort|awk '{printf %s : %s\n, $2, $3}' libunity-2d-private0 : 5.10.0-0ubuntu1 libunity4 : 3.8.4-0ubuntu2 libunity9 :

[Bug 902109] [NEW] Installer crashed trying to upgrade 10.04 to 11.10

2011-12-09 Thread Chris McCauley
Public bug reported: The 10.04 install was corrupt so this is the likely source of the problem - but the installer shouldn't crash ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 902109] Re: Installer crashed trying to upgrade 10.04 to 11.10

2011-12-09 Thread Chris McCauley
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[Bug 570890] Re: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV

2010-09-02 Thread Chris McCauley
What exactly is missing. The crash report was automatically generated. -- plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 627948] Re: terminator crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup()

2010-09-01 Thread Chris McCauley
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627948/+attachment/1533987/+files/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627948/+attachment/1533988/+files/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt

[Bug 627948] Re: terminator crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup()

2010-09-01 Thread Chris McCauley
Crashed when I tried to split vertically. Further crashes have happened but all seem pretty random -- terminator crashed with SIGSEGV in g_hash_table_lookup() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627948 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 526446] Re: tracker-indexer crashed with SIGSEGV in tracker_db_interface_execute_vquery()

2010-02-23 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 410485 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410485 ** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39609837/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39609838/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added:

[Bug 292450] Re: Broadcom STA/wl driver causes random kernel panics

2009-01-06 Thread Chris McCauley
I've been seeing this with a Dell Vostro 1710. The random kernel panics have stopped but the wireless connection is unstable. Fingers crossed for this latest update. -- Broadcom STA/wl driver causes random kernel panics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292450 You received this bug notification

[Bug 145360] Re: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-10-13 Thread Chris McCauley
@Michael, Yes, the notification appears on login but compiz works fine. I'm not positive that it happens after an upgrade but it did happen again to me this morning after an upgrade and only on the first login. Chris -- compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145360

[Bug 189599] Re: [Hardy] Ubuntu does not remember the screen resolution

2008-03-12 Thread Chris McCauley
I'd be willing to bet that if you check your xorg.conf files the refresh rate on the modelines is too high. For example my settings used to be: modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editing the xorg.conf so that the only modeline available is: modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] make this problem disappear.

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-02-29 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, It sounds like the simplest course in terms of maintenance is option 1. The original battery duplication will get fixed upstream. Chris On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 13:58 +, Daniel T Chen wrote: After briefly discussing this bug with Seb and Brian yesterday, it is worth noting that we

[Bug 196427] [NEW] pycentral crashed with AttributeError in prepare()

2008-02-28 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196335 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196335 Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-central Updates on 28th Feb caused this problem. DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu hardy (development

[Bug 196427] Re: pycentral crashed with AttributeError in prepare()

2008-02-28 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196335 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196335 ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12272006/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12272007/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detecting the battery properly

2008-02-28 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, For me the battery charge as shown never diminishes. I can work for hours and the charge shown will be the actual charge in the battery when the ac was removed. Meanwhile I can see the actual charge decreasing via /proc. If I plug the ac back in then the correct remaining battery charge is

[Bug 190475] Re: iwl3945 produces a lot of error messages in syslog

2008-02-27 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, This seems to be the cause of some random apparent lockups that I've had. If I wait long enough then the system responds again but there are hundreds of logged errors. Chris -- iwl3945 produces a lot of error messages in syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190475 You received this bug

[Bug 194960] Re: [Hardy]Battery charge never updates, remaining time always unknown

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194719 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194719 Hi Same problem on a Dell Inspiron 1720. Fully up to date packages as of 26th Feb. Files attached. Chris ** Attachment added: files.tar.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12224669/files.tar.gz --

[Bug 193437] Re: libvirt: mouse cursor not properly tracked with ubuntu guests

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Same problem with 32bit Hardy host and 32bit Gutsy client. Two cursors but not tracking correctly. Chris -- libvirt: mouse cursor not properly tracked with ubuntu guests https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

Re: [Bug 173966] Re: java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Not strictly true for me, I do have some applets via the IcedTea plugin. The applet test pages (http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml) appear ok but the one I need most fails silently with Applet not initialized Chris On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:37 +, tomaszko wrote: true mates

[Bug 173966] Re: java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Not strictly true for me, I do have some applets via the IcedTea plugin. The applet test pages (http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml) appear ok but the one I need most fails silently with Applet not initialized Chris -- java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04

[Bug 190030] Re: Hardy Heron Jre (java) does not work with Firefox, Mozilla, Galeon

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 173966 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173966 I purged all Java VMs and plugins and reinstalled Iced Tea. This is now working for the Sun Java Applet Test page. It is not working for the e-trade realtime quote streamer probably because of a problem with

[Bug 173966] Re: java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04

2008-02-26 Thread Chris McCauley
I did some more debugging and found that it is not working for the e-trade realtime quote streamer probably because of a problem with Iced Tea itself - this is the error log; GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f070: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status load: class etrade.mcaster.Streamer not found.

[Bug 195388] [NEW] compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV when logging in after ctrl-alt-backspace to reinit window session

2008-02-25 Thread Chris McCauley
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz This crash was on logging in after doing ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the window session. DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu hardy (development branch) ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386

[Bug 195388] Re: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV when logging in after ctrl-backspace to reinit window session

2008-02-25 Thread Chris McCauley
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12180250/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12180251/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12180252/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 145360] Re: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-02-25 Thread Chris McCauley
I've had it happen when using ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the window environment and also when restarting from hibernate -- compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145360 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 190030] Re: Hardy Heron Jre (java) does not work with Firefox, Mozilla, Galeon

2008-02-25 Thread Chris McCauley
I've gone through the usual combination of update alternatives, adding missing sym links, apt-get install / remove but some applets are still not starting correctly (most notably the e-trade streaming quotes applet!) -- Hardy Heron Jre (java) does not work with Firefox, Mozilla, Galeon

[Bug 173966] Re: java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04

2008-02-25 Thread Chris McCauley
Alexander, If you know of a workaround for the problem, could you post some details? Chris -- java not working in firefox on kubuntu 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 151168] Re: Memory leak in nvidia-glx-new's GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap

2007-10-31 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi all, I've switched to an Inspiron 1720 which has an 8600M GT chipset - previously I had been using an Inspiron 8600 with a 64Mb GeForce 5200. Compiz.real is behaving itself so I guess the problem is related to the amount of video memory available. I'm using a release version of Gutsy on

Re: [Bug 151168] Re: memory leak with ring

2007-10-23 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, I agree with Matt, this problem does not seem to happen with the nvidia/metacity combination. That doesn't mean that it is definitely a compiz problem though - the black windows problem with earlier nvidia drivers running out of video memory was only seen with beryl and nvidia. Chris

Re: [Bug 151168] Re: memory leak with ring

2007-10-21 Thread Chris McCauley
I agree with Tombrus, this appears to be a critical failure in Compiz. Hopefully this will get fixed very quickly tombrus wrote: Same here. Just upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy. When I maximize/minimize windows compiz eats my memory eagerly. I switched window resizing from the default

[Bug 151168] Re: memory leak with ring

2007-10-16 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, I'm not using ring, nor desktop cube - just the extra effects and top shows my nvidia.real using the following virtual = 489M, Resident = 421M and that's just over the course of three hours with no video playback. Yesterday I experienced several restarts of the desktop and dmesg showed

Re: [Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-10-12 Thread Chris McCauley
Seems to be working fine for me Michael. I did however install a copy of Tribe 4 to replace the very old installation which I had been using. Chris Michael Vogt wrote: Thanks for the additional comments! I can not reproduce this here anymore. Do you have a way to make this reproducible? I

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-11 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Did you use the restricted drivers manager to reload the firmware? If you look at the dmesg output you'll probably see that the firmware has changed from the 2.6.22-12 kernel. Chris michael37 wrote: I have updated to 2.6.22-14 kernel and it did not resolve the issue. ~$ uname -a

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-11 Thread Chris McCauley
... also, could you post your dmesg log? michael37 wrote: Hi, Did you use the restricted drivers manager to reload the firmware? If you look at the dmesg output you'll probably see that the firmware has changed from the 2.6.22-12 kernel. Chris I never had 2.6.22-12 kernel installed

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-11 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi Michael, If you've got the firmware enabled then that should be all you need. Is it just that the scan doesn't work? Can you manually connect to the nearest access point? Chris michael37 wrote: Hi, Did you use the restricted drivers manager to reload the firmware? If you look at the

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-10 Thread Chris McCauley
Looks like we just got some updates to restricted-modules, nvidia-glx (important for me) and a new 2.6.22-14 kernel. Fingers crossed! zeddock wrote: I too moved back Waiting for updates. On 10/9/07, Chris McCauley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Your problem could also

[Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-09 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Your problem could also be with the 2.6.22-13 kernel. There are problems with the wireless support for the broadcom driver. I've moved back to 2.6.22-12 where everything seems fine. Chris -- Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124159 You

Re: [Bug 133791] Re: [Gutsy] error in select making regular upgrade

2007-10-06 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134858 I wasn't suggesting that you should. You should however keep in mind that you are running a beta product. Good luck, Chris LGB [Gábor Lénárt] wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 ***

Re: [Bug 133791] Re: [Gutsy] error in select making regular upgrade

2007-10-05 Thread Chris McCauley
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134858 Hi, I've gone from having this problem every day to not having it at all. Significantly I've reformatted my drive and installed Tribe 4 + recent updates. Unfortunately it's difficult to know what fixed the

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-04 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Glad to hear that it's working for you. The problem is probably within the kernel not the driver itself (earlier kernels had no such problem). Dropping the transmission rate seems to be a workaround for this but isn't the solution per se. Hopefully someone will debug the problem correctly

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-10-01 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi there, Try setting the rate to 5.5M as suggested in an earlier post. For me this brings the throughput back up to normal. Assuming that your wireless interface is eth1 then the following should work for you: iwconfig eth1 rate 5.5M Chris dennda wrote: Hi, this is gutsy with latest

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-09-20 Thread Chris McCauley
WOW. That worked. Keep heart Thom! Chris Christoph wrote: I'm experiencing this problem on my machine equipped with a Linksys PCI Wireless Adapter (Broadcom 4306 Rev. 02 Chipset), too. However, manually setting the bitrate on the adapter to a low value seems to help a lot: After

Re: [Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-09-14 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi Michael, Just got a hang and I have the latest apt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ps aux | grep defunct root 6794 3.7 0.0 0 0 ?Zs 09:34 0:12 [dpkg] defunct chris 7968 0.0 0.0 2984 760 pts/10 R+ 09:39 0:00 grep defunct [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get

Re: [Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-09-04 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Some news on my side too. For a few weeks now this bug has happened to me _at least_ once a day. I often also get the Error in select() message. Following your suggestion last week Martin, I have started using xterm rather than gnome-terminal to do aptitude full-upgrade. Although not a

[Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-08-31 Thread Chris McCauley
I have the same issue running aptitude from the command line. It has recently (within two weeks) started to hang on every aptitude full- upgrade. See the (partial) ps listing below root 6724 0.0 0.0 4156 1772 pts/0S09:17 0:00 bash root 6770 0.5 0.9 33764 19480 pts/0

Re: [Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-08-31 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi Martin, I'm using gutsy on a Dell Inspiron 8600 so it is happening not only on amd64. My laptop has been upgraded continuously from early Feisty versions so it isn't a clean installation at all. Having said that, this problem is relatively new. I use gnome-terminal and the Bash shell for

Re: [Bug 134858] Re: update-manager freezes due to defunct dpkg process

2007-08-31 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Perhaps a strange gutsy feeling? (Sorry poor joke). I'll start using xterm and see if the problem repeats. Come to think of it, I have noticed that some apparent hangs can be solved by hitting the enter key after which an error about a closed socket appears. If the problem reappears when

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-08-24 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi, Ignore my earlier optimism the performance is very erratic and when more than a few metres away it is very poor. Sometimes I get acceptable performance but mostly it is about 10%-20% of the expected throughput. With the new nvidia drivers I also cannot use the older kernel. Chris Thom

[Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-08-11 Thread Chris McCauley
I'm using 2.6.22.9 and the performance is pretty good even several meters away. Much better than previous 2.6.22 kernels. Will keep testing but I'm happy now. -- Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124159 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-08-11 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi Thom, I'm using the 4306 chipset. Chris Thom Pischke wrote: Chris, what chipset do you have? -- Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

Re: [Bug 124159] Re: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy

2007-08-11 Thread Chris McCauley
Hi Thom, It's Rev 02. I've been checking the performance by running apt-get updates against one of the Irish repository servers. With earlier kernels (e.g. 2.6.20-16) I get close to 200Kb/s downloads. When I upgraded to 2.6.22-x the performance dropped down to around 16Kb/s when just a few

[Bug 124159] Re: broadcom 43xx wireless regression in gutsy

2007-07-24 Thread Chris McCauley
I have what looks to be the same problem; only half the normal throughput on wireless (100Kb/s versus 200Kb/s) even when only 30 cm from the wireless router dropping to 16Kb/s when a few meters away. Using a wired connection restores performance as does rebooting with an earlier Kernel. I have