[Bug 1641423] Re: Backup fails with message: 'Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)' or 'No module named gi.repository': missing deja-dup-backend-gvfs, duplicity, and

2017-08-31 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I installed 17.04 fresh, using an existing user (/home). Backup fails as per this bug. If I launch the GUI, The Overview tells me to click on the Install button, but the two Install buttons are greyed out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1679997] Re: QGIS crash on startup

2017-07-09 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
The following was a workaround for me: pip install scipy==0.11 or pip install --user scipy==0.11 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1679997 Title: QGIS crash on startup To manage

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2017-06-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thank you! It looks like this: Thinkpad T450s: $ xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=9[slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2017-06-02 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
@lihow731 (#16): This simply makes the track pad not work at all, starting from bootup. This is the same effect that the syndaemon workout ends up having, although in that case it generally doesn't happen immediately. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2017-06-02 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
(Obviously, I mean "on my machine" in my comment #21, ie an Thinkpad T450s ) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 Title: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work To manage

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2017-06-01 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thanks Leon. Should this also work (be tried) on 16.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 Title: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1619329] Re: fingerprint device takes 80% of system power when idle

2017-04-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This crazy problem still exists under 16.10. I don't have a workaround to disable the thing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619329 Title: fingerprint device takes 80% of system

[Bug 1678498] Re: Resolution options for external display/monitor are incomplete

2017-04-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Summary changed: - Resolution options for external monitor are incomplete + Resolution options for external display/monitor are incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1678498

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2017-04-19 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This is just as bad in 16.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 Title: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1603791] Re: syndaemon "-t" option fails, in turn making touchpad disable-while-typing not work

2017-04-19 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1351772 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 ** Summary changed: - syndaemon "-t" option fails, in turn making touchpad disable while typing not work + syndaemon "-t" option fails, in turn making touchpad disable-while-typing not work -- You

[Bug 1683155] Re: 17.04 Install failed part way through on grub install failure

2017-04-16 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Description changed: - I tried to install this alongside my existing OS, and it failed - abruptly, part way through. See image. + I tried to install Ubuntu 17.04 alongside my existing OS (16.10), and it + failed abruptly, part way through. See image. The hardware is Lenovo + Thinkpad T450s.

[Bug 1683155] Re: 17.04 Install failed part way through on grub install failure

2017-04-16 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Same problem again, this time installing to a single partition on the same internal disk (primary laptop drive) as everything else (boot, efi), for simplicity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1683155] [NEW] 17.04 Install failed part way through on grub install failure

2017-04-16 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I tried to install this alongside my existing OS, and it failed abruptly, part way through. See image. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: ubiquity 17.04.9 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 1678498] [NEW] Resolution options for external monitor are incomplete

2017-04-01 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Usually when I plug in an external monitor (when awake, or before waking from suspend), my external display is rendered with 1024x768 resolution, and this is the highest resolution displayed by xrandr: DP-2 connected 1024x768+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[Bug 1674121] Re: "Restore" asks for cryptic authentication to run /bin/sh as superuser

2017-03-21 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Result of following attached: gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings ** Attachment added: "deja-dup.gsettings" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1674121/+attachment/4841599/+files/deja-dup.gsettings -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1674125] [NEW] "Details" view in gui is not working for Restore

2017-03-19 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: When I click on the little triangle to get Details during any Restore process, I see nothing sensible. There is just one white line, and sometimes a bit of orange bar flickering at the right end of the line. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: deja-dup

[Bug 1674121] [NEW] "Restore" asks for cryptic authentication to run /bin/sh as superuser

2017-03-19 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I am trying to restore a full backup to an external hard drive. After 20 minutes or so, a cryptic gui popup arises which says that "some process" wants sudo authentication to run /bin/sh It is surely a bug to generate such a vague request for sudo use. I note it has been

[Bug 1659029] Re: QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04

2017-02-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Changed in: qgis (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659029 Title: QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04 To manage notifications

[Bug 1664794] [NEW] deja-dup crashes when auto setting turned off during backup

2017-02-14 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Let's say a network backup is in progress, and I want to make sure that one does not also happen tomorrow. So I would naturally go to the deja- dup control panel and turn the "auto" slider to OFF in the schedule tab. Doing this causes an immediate failure of the backup *in

[Bug 1659029] Re: QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04

2017-01-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thanks. Yes, my config was fine before the upgrade. The bug is in the upgrading when users already have a configuration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659029 Title: QGIS fails

[Bug 1659029] Re: QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04

2017-01-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Ah, in fact, a workaround for the original problem for me turns out to be do delete or rename my ~/.qgis2 folder. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659029 Title: QGIS fails after

[Bug 1659029] Re: QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04

2017-01-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thanks, but I don't know how. They don't seem to have a yakkety version. Trying to use the xenial version of the ltr or bleeding repository on yakkety leads to failure to install qgis. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1659029] [NEW] QGIS fails after upgrade to 16.10 from 16.04

2017-01-24 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Trying to run qgis results in the following (QGIS closes immediately / fails to run). I just upgraded from 16.04 to 16.10 $ qgis Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_CA] Warning: loading of qt translation failed

[Bug 1658497] Re: External screen flashes to black for ~1 s periodically under extended desktop

2017-01-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This may be the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1634449 It can reliably be triggered by just crossing the cursor back and forth between screens, but it does not only occur then; often it is a keypress in window (terminal, etc) which triggers it, even when the cursor

[Bug 1634449] Re: Black flicker when leaving monitor

2017-01-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I'm on a Lenovo T450s and have this problem immediately after updating to 16.10. I believe I'm running 4.8.0-34-generic kernel (standard default repos) and the problem still exists. So I'm without a workaround. If there is a fix other than default update, can someone spell it out? -- You

[Bug 1658497] Re: Screens all flash to black for ~1 s periodically under extended desktop

2017-01-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This sounds crazy, but this seems to happen much more frequently when I have, or am interacting with, a terminal or emacs in the second/external screen. The resolution of the display is huge, so these windows tend to be a small fraction of the display. Also, I think it's actually only the

[Bug 1658497] Re: Screens all flash to black for ~1 s periodically under extended desktop

2017-01-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
(sorry.. continued:) For instance, it happens quite often exactly as a close a terminal with Ctrl-D in the external monitor! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658497 Title: Screens all

[Bug 1658497] [NEW] Screens all flash to black for ~1 s periodically under extended desktop

2017-01-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I just upgraded to 16.10 from 16.04. Now my screens all go black for ~1 s periodically (once per minute or so) under extended desktop, using a Lenovo T450s. Keyboard still seems to be active during the blackouts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: xorg

[Bug 1465479] Re: Palm detection does not work on synaptics touchpad

2016-11-27 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Lack of palm detection still a serious problem on Lenovo T450s under 16.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1465479 Title: Palm detection does not work on synaptics touchpad To

[Bug 1603447] Re: ~/.cache is listed in "folders to ignore", yet Backup still reports failure to back up ~/.cache/dconf

2016-11-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1313034 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313034 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1313034 Deja-dup reports it couldn't backup ~/.cache/dconf and ~/.gvfs even though it's not supposed to try to (also, ~/.dbus) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1576060] Re: Gnome Schedule in Ubuntu 16.04?

2016-10-21 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
@tak21's advice on installing from source worked for me in under 2 minutes: sudo apt install python-gtk2-dev python-gconf at gnome-doc-utils scrollkeeper wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnome-schedule/gnome- schedule-2/gnome-schedule-2-3-0/gnome-schedule-2.3.0.tar.gz tar -xvzf

[Bug 1414679] Re: bamfdaemon takes too much CPU (>70%)

2016-10-11 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I'm on 16.04 doing nothing, and bamfdaemon is hogging a huge proportion of CPU -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414679 Title: bamfdaemon takes too much CPU (>70%) To manage

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-09-06 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Version 52 is already/now released for 16.04 if you have security updates enabled. I just did sudo apt-mark unhold chromium-browser sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade to get version 52. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2016-09-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Version 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 16.04: scrolling is still very slow. No other applications on my OS behave like this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2016-09-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Sorry -- I meant to add that using "-graphicssystem raster" only makes it worse. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow To manage notifications about

[Bug 1532264] Re: fprintd allows unauthorized root access

2016-09-02 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This seems to me to have been changed ("fixed") now: I need to use sudo to initiate fprintd-enroll. However, with that change came a change in the behaviour of enroll. It only asks for one fingerprint scan, rather than five. The result seems to be that the finger print reader has terrible

[Bug 1619329] [NEW] fingerprint device takes 80% of system power when idle

2016-09-01 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: My laptop is devoting nearly 4 Watts out of a total of 5-6 Watts idle power to the USB device that is my fingerprint reader on a T450s Thinkpad, when the fingerprint reader is not lit up and not being polled for any good reason. It should be using zero power under these

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-08-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Does any of the poohbahs know: (the inevitable question) will Chromium 52 (ie, the fix) get pushed out to the various distros? Which ones? Or can we install it some other way? Chromium is presenting other troubles to me know, so I'm looking forward to upgrading again. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1603447] Re: ~/.cache is listed in "folders to ignore", yet Backup still reports failure to back up ~/.cache/dconf

2016-08-20 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1313034 says that Duplicity 0.7.08 appears to resolve this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1603447 Title: ~/.cache is listed in "folders

[Bug 1603791] Re: syndaemon "-t" option fails, in turn making touchpad disable while typing not work

2016-07-17 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1351772 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1351772 "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1603791] [NEW] syndaemon "-t" option fails, in turn making touchpad disable while typing not work

2016-07-17 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I'm on Lenovo T450s, but there are reports of others having the same problem that touchpad disabling, which is no longer an explicit option, is not working. This leads to data loss and frustration when typing/editing, etc. With default settings, I find that syndaemon has

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-15 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Just an update to comment #3: A workaround for this problem on chromium- browser is just the last three lines of what I wrote before, ie (as two lines): sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg- extra=49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233 chromium- browser=49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233 sudo apt-mark hold

[Bug 1439427] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [after laptop is un-docked]

2016-07-15 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I agree. So far I've not had this error any more, using the proposed package Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439427 Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 1603447] Re: ~/.cache is listed in "folders to ignore", yet Backup still reports failure to back up ~/.cache/dconf

2016-07-15 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
It looks like this would be a duplicate of #1313034, but should be listed/fixed on Ubuntu LTS as well as the upstream package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1603447 Title: ~/.cache

[Bug 1603447] [NEW] ~/.cache is listed in "folders to ignore", yet Backup still reports failure to back up ~/.cache/dconf

2016-07-15 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Title says it all. To get rid of annoying "Could not back up the following files. Please make sure you are able to open them: /home/meuser/.cache/dconf" messages every time I back up, I listed ~/.cache in the "Folders to ignore" list in the GUI. Yet I still get that

[Bug 1603122] [NEW] 16.04 obselete version of latexmk is known to be buggy (e.g. -cd option)

2016-07-14 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: latexmk fails on basic functionality. According to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/222338/latexmk-cd-option-not-working the author agrees the -cd option does not work on the version supplied by Ubuntu. This was fixed long before the 16.04 release. A newer version

Re: [Bug 1439427] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [after laptop is un-docked]

2016-07-12 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thanks. I followed most of those directions, and think I've installed the proposed unity-settings-daemon and added "Crash" to an Apport file. I could not follow /understand this, though: "" Uploading your hardware profile To help us track the hardware test coverage, please upload your

[Bug 1600661] [NEW] Simple document doesn't compile: "Limit controls must follow a math operator"

2016-07-10 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: The attached lyx document fails to compile for me, with a "Limit controls must follow a math operator" error. In other words, the \sideset option, available in the math tools, fails. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: lyx 2.1.4-2 ProcVersionSignature:

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-06 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Maybe this is related? It's hard to tell https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=575401 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598519 Title: regression: page scrolling jumps

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-06 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Okay, so it sounds like a recent update to webkit contains the problem. (I hardly know what that means butso) I've added webkit to the affected packages. Hello webkit folk! Help? Chris Down: I spent a lot of time moving from Chrome to Chromium to avoid the bug, only to be chased by it a couple

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-06 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Interesting. How come a chromium-browser update would make the difference, and a downgrade fix it? How do you mean it affects those other apps? (Is that true only of recent versions?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-03 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
The following sequence downgrades chromium browser to the previous available version, prior to the introduction of the new bug, and holds it there: sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra apt-cache showpkg chromium-browser sudo apt-get install

[Bug 1598519] Re: regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-03 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Description changed: I switched to chromium-browser from Google Chrome when, 1-2 months ago, Chrome began to misbehave on all pages. It spontaneously jumped to the top of the page when I continue scrolling downwards (using a touchpad). - As of a July 1 update to +  As of a July 1

[Bug 1598519] [NEW] regression: page scrolling jumps to top of page spontaneously

2016-07-02 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I switched to chromium-browser from Google Chrome when, 1-2 months ago, Chrome began to misbehave on all pages. It spontaneously jumped to the top of the page when I continue scrolling downwards (using a touchpad). As of a July 1 update to chromium-browser:amd64

[Bug 1581491] Re: palm detection absent: Mouse pointer jumps around when I am typing

2016-06-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1351772 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351772 Can this really be the same problem as this 2-year-old one?!: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings- daemon/+bug/1351772 Since then / on my machine, the "disable while typing" option has

[Bug 1351772] Re: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work

2016-06-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I can't believe this bug is so old. Do I have the same? I'm on 16.04 with a Lenovo Thinkpad T450s and I do not even have a "disable while typing" option in the settings. ps -af | grep synda shows: 2285 2205 0 Jun25 ?00:00:01 syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R Usability is really poor

[Bug 1581491] Re: palm detection absent: Mouse pointer jumps around when I am typing

2016-06-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Summary changed: - Mouse pointer jumps around when I am typing + palm detection absent: Mouse pointer jumps around when I am typing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581491 Title:

[Bug 1439427] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [after laptop is un-docked]

2016-06-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This is not fixed for me. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I've updated. After I undock, my computer often comes to a complete lock-up following the symptoms of this bug. Will it be fixed on my distribution? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1587650] Re: sqlite banshee.db database not compatible with banshee after upgrade of banshee

2016-06-20 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Summary changed: - banshee crashes 100% of the time when I try to close the window + sqlite banshee.db database not compatible with banshee after upgrade of banshee -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1439427] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [after laptop is un-docked]

2016-06-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
The unity settings daemon crashes are still occurring for me, after all updates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439427 Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-06-10 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
By the way, I tried to install the kernel you suggested and it led to an enormous sequence of crashes / crash reports during the installation. I have immediately tried to uninstall it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-06-10 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Ah. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 does display some shutdown status messages, though they get strangely duplicated if I flip back and forth. In any case, shutdown gets to: [Ok] Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus and then hangs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-06-10 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Update: I take that back, or its reverted: the machine will NOT shut down and, in fact worse than before, after the upgrade there seems to be no way to see the terminal output during shutdown. Pressing ESC during shutdown now gives a blank screen rather than showing what is going wrong. The

[Bug 1587650] Re: banshee crashes 100% of the time when I try to close the window

2016-06-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This problem persists, but not for guest user or if I delete my old .config/banshee-1 Also, if I copy banshee.db to a new user's config, they experience the problem too. So I'm guessing there is a problem in reading my db after the upgrade. The stderr output after I ask banshee to close is:

[Bug 1588815] [NEW] fingerprint scanner usually keeps flashing after use, requiring a second (useless) fingerprint scan

2016-06-03 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: After upgrade to 16.04, any action which invokes the fingerprint scanner (for me: unlocking screen, sudo, etc) will cause the scanner to flash its green light until I scan my finger. Then the desired authentication and action take place. However, the scanner continues to

[Bug 1588747] [NEW] "unknown op" error on running powertop --auto-tune

2016-06-03 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: powertop reports an unknown op error. I cannot claim that it's not functioning normally, otherwise. Running it looks like this: $ sudo powertop --auto-tune Loaded 750 prior measurements RAPL device for cpu 0 RAPL Using PowerCap Sysfs : Domain Mask f RAPL device for cpu 0

[Bug 1587650] [NEW] banshee crashes 100% of the time when I try to close the window

2016-05-31 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: After upgrading to 16.04, when I launch banshee and then, when it's finished loading, immediately click on the "x" closing icon, it just hangs and turns grey and remains unresponsive until I kill it violently. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: banshee

[Bug 1565842] Re: biber removes texlive-bibtex-extra

2016-05-28 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
>From this link, I chose my platform and downloaded the tgz file https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex- biber/2.4/binaries/ ie, just clicked on the link below to get the 64 bit Linux version: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-

[Bug 1586468] [NEW] "apt-mark hold" ignored by Update Manager

2016-05-27 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Update manager keeps telling me there's software to upgrade, but there is only a package on the do-not-upgrade list: When I try upgrading from the command line, I see: Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: offlineimap 0 upgraded, 0

[Bug 1438278] Re: Saving to svg fails with use of textcomp character

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Behaviour is even worse after my upgrade 16.04: The following crashes ipython: pp={'text.usetex': True, 'text.latex.unicode': True,} rcParams.update(pp) plot(1,1) ylabel(r'\textwon') -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I have upgraded to 16.04. There are new problems with RAM/swap (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1585598) but shutdown, which didn't work once in recent months on 15.10, works as it should now under 16.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1439427] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [when laptop is un-docked]

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Summary changed: - unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() + unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [when laptop is un-docked] ** Summary changed: - unity-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in XGetDeviceProperty() [when laptop is

[Bug 1581245] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashes every time T450s laptop is un-docked

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1439427 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439427 This bug seems to be under treatment as: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1439427 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1439427 unity-settings-daemon crashed

[Bug 1585602] Re: keyboard shortcut to play music does not work after upgrade to 16.04

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
If I launch rythmbox, then the super-down key DOES start/stop play, but only for rythmbox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585602 Title: keyboard shortcut to play music does not

[Bug 1572801] Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
In case that (#45, increasing RAM use) is related, I'm linking to this new report of it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1585598 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1585602] [NEW] keyboard shortcut to play music does not work after upgrade to 16.04

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: After upgrade to 16.04, the keyboard shortcut (super-up) to launch Banshee works. However, the shortcut to start/stop play (super-down) does not. It just reveals the unity task bar. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome (not installed)

[Bug 1585598] [NEW] steady decrease in available memory (RAM) under 16.04

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: I've just upgraded to 16.04 from 15.10, and now the memory usage steadily increases from when I first boot up. After just an hour or two, all 20GB of RAM is used up, even if nothing is running, and I am forced to reboot (rebooting frequently is incompatible with my normal

[Bug 1572801] Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10

2016-05-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
No one else has mentioned this symptom: While left idle, memory usage steadily creeps up even without anything going on. In a couple of hours or less, htop shows 16GB of RAM in use (and still slowly climbing), even though the applications, sorted by RAM usage, don't seem to account for that

[Bug 1581245] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashes every time T450s laptop is un-docked

2016-05-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
In case you can see it more easily than me, this is the link to that last bug report, which it said I'm not allowed to see: https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/52ca2140-1895-11e6-b7d3-fa163e839e11 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 1581245] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashes every time T450s laptop is un-docked

2016-05-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
The top one listed is: 2016-05-12 18:052016-05-12 19:05 UTCCrash unity-settings- daemon I click on it and get: "Sorry, you are not a member of a group that is allowed to see the data from error reports. Please fill out this form to request access." even though I obviously have a

[Bug 1581491] [NEW] Mouse pointer jumps around when I am typing

2016-05-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: On a Lenovo T450s, the mousepad is not disabled when typing. There is no option I can see to disable it while typing in the "Mouse & Touchpad" settings, either. Instead it should behave like other machines, in which the mousepad ignores being brushed by palms or thumbs while

[Bug 1581245] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashes every time T450s laptop is un-docked

2016-05-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Curious. I have submitted this bug report the automatic way more than once per day for the last 60 days: every time I undock, a dialog comes up and I say yes to submit it. But I never get an email saying there's been a bug report generated, and I've never received any follow-up.

[Bug 1581245] [NEW] unity-settings-daemon crashes every time T450s laptop is un-docked

2016-05-12 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Every time I undock my Lenovo T450s from its superdock, unity-settings- daemon crashes (producing a crash dialog) and various things stop working as a result, e.g. some of my keyboard shortcuts, functionality on the OS status bar/panel, and normal shutdown. ProblemType: Bug

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-04-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I have a series of symptoms of horrid problems with this laptop, so I am going to mention more of them in case they're related. Whenever I undock the laptop from my ultradock, unity-sessions-daemon crashes and either then or some other time, my swap space accumulates 1.2 GB or so of use, even

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-04-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
** Attachment added: "Booting takes 2 minutes every time, instead of 12 seconds" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1573597/+attachment/4642933/+files/DSC01459.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1573597] [NEW] Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-04-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: My Lenovo T450s under Ubuntu 15.10 does not poweroff normally. Instead, it hangs on "Reached target shutdown". (See image) Along the way, I believe there is briefly a full page of "drm:gen8_irq_handler [i915] *ERROR* The master control interrupt lied (SDE)!" messages. If I

[Bug 1573597] Re: Problems with shut down and boot (Lenovo T450s)

2016-04-22 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Second promised image ** Attachment added: "Ctrl-Alt-Delte fails to force it to shutdown" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1573597/+attachment/4642931/+files/DSC01461.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1126858] Re: Search and replace, with tracked changes on, changing only format of text, causes Writer to hang

2016-04-16 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Still reproducible in Version: 5.0.5.2 Build ID: 1:5.0.5~rc2-0ubuntu2 Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1126858 Title: Search and replace, with tracked

[Bug 1561093] Re: All output lost from testing session. Could not read /tmp/submission.xml

2016-03-28 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Thanks. On the PPA: That page still has the old "Adding this PPA to your system" instructions more prominently. Is this software not meant for the masses who want to contribute to a hardware database, then? I wish my Lenovo T450s would run better, but I won't bother with checkbox if it's not

[Bug 1562379] [NEW] @online Biblographic entry type not recognized

2016-03-26 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Is this a feature request? jabref corrupts my bib file on load by changing all @online (a now-old standard entry type) to @other ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: jabref 2.10+ds-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic 4.2.8-ckt4 Uname: Linux

[Bug 1561093] Re: All output lost from testing session. Could not read /tmp/submission.xml

2016-03-25 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
> Regarding the instructions to add the PPA, they are on the overview page Yes, I read that. But these instructions, with customized text, seem to me incomplete and awkward. They don't tell you how to use the key. The linked page you mentioned has another link ("Read about installing") which

Re: [Bug 1561093] Re: All output lost from testing session. Could not read /tmp/submission.xml

2016-03-24 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
I added the ppa (Not sure why the simpler instructions, using apt-add-repository, are not on the PPA page). An update results in the following error, and a system problem (apt) dialogue box: The following NEW packages will be installed: bonnie++ liblinear1 ndiff nmap python3-guacamole

[Bug 1561093] [NEW] All output lost from testing session. Could not read /tmp/submission.xml

2016-03-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: After all the tests, results cannot be viewed, saved, or submitted because they'r enot written. The GUI says "Could not read /tmp/submission.xml" stderr says stuff like: Error: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError", "Traceback (most recent call last): File

[Bug 1561077] [NEW] Instructions extend outside viewable region

2016-03-23 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Most of the instructions for the interactive tests are unreadable, and there's no way to scroll to see them. See the attached Screenshot. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: checkbox-gui 0.18-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic

[Bug 1208993] Re: Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB

2016-03-13 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
When copying a large amount (multilple files) form an external drive (USB3 cable), my brand new Lenovo T450s laptop (20GB RAM, ... high specs) has frequent latencies/freezes. Doing nearly any operation takes several extra seconds, with zero responsiveness (e.g. trying to move mouse or switch to

[Bug 1509846] Re: lightdm crashes on window open in Ubuntu 15.10 intel

2016-01-27 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
This stream of comments is difficult to follow. If one of the most knowledgeable people could summarize where we are, it might be useful. I am experiencing this problem also, on a Lenovo X230 under Ubuntu 15.10, since a month or so ago. "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" certainly is not a solution for

[Bug 1532264] Re: fprintd allows unauthorized root access

2016-01-11 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Hi Seth, Sorry. Can you tell me anything about what I might do to find the answer to this question? Or, in case this helps, here is what I have in my install notes: # Fingerprint reader sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libpam-fprintd libfprint0 fprint-demo fprintd #Then run this

[Bug 1515308] [NEW] Buttons on control bar/panel are not visible

2015-11-11 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: Launching ardesia from the command line gets me drawing nicely, but the vertical white bar that appears has no buttons. It's all white. Mouseover shows me the tooltips, and clicking on some seems to work (changing colour, for instance), but the buttons are not rendered.

[Bug 1512143] Re: pasting entire sheet results in extra row with XML info

2015-11-01 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Sorry: there was a hidden first row in the original sheet. ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512143 Title: pasting

[Bug 1512143] [NEW] pasting entire sheet results in extra row with XML info

2015-11-01 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Public bug reported: When I select-all in the primary sheet of this XLS file and then select copy, then create a new tab/sheet, then paste, I get a sheet with an extra row at the beginning containing junk. This happens even after I've resaved the file (as XLS). This happens even after I've

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