[Bug 1662552] Re: snaps don't work with NFS home

2018-11-05 Thread Craig Hansen
I'm finding that when vlc is installed via snap, it's unable to play a file that is NFS automounted. Fixes that target only /home are missing the point. Is there a more general workaround or fix that addresses Markus Kuhn's and Andrew Conway's observations above? -- You received this bug

[Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled

2017-07-17 Thread Craig Hansen
I've been trying to turn off encryption on vino-server in order to use one of many of the VNC clients that don't deal with TLS encryption. In the past, I've been able to start the vino-server by running by using "DISPLAY=:0 /usr/lib/vino/vino-server --sm-disable >& ~/.vino.log &" from a shell

[Bug 1264368] Re: GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it - warning when leaving Network menu of g-c-c

2015-10-12 Thread Craig Hansen
** Also affects: gparted via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729800 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264368 Title:

[Bug 414181] Re: Install Updates button does nothing when Update Manager opened by itself

2015-08-02 Thread Craig Hansen
Ubuntu 12.04 comfirmed still has this bug. Ubuntu 12.04 still supposed to be supported until April 2017. Regrettably, this bug was submitted in 2009, and if the policy is to ignore bugs that aren't addressed in 60 days, this system is really just a mockery of the idea of support. This bug has

Re: [Bug 1080107] auto log-in doesn't function after logout

2015-04-09 Thread Craig Hansen
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080107 Title: auto log-in doesn't function after logout To manage notifications about this bug go to:

Re: [Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Hansen
WOW indeed. This bug highlighted a legitimate problem, and all the attention it got was abusive. Finally, it got closed five years later with a useless and incomplete comment. WHERE grub gets installed is a legitimate issue, and the default is completely unrelated to where the BIOS goes looking

Re: [Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Hansen
I haven't given an Ubuntu installation the chance to screw up the choice in a while, but IMHO, choosing a drive that makes the installation or the subsequent boot fail is NOT a good default. If you're going to continue to insist that defaulting to installing grub to a different disk than the

Re: [Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Hansen
Sigh...Do we have to now discuss how the manual partitioning mode doesn't fill in defaults from automatic partitioning, or should we stick to the problem that the installer makes a poor choice of device for installing GRUB, provides insufficient feedback about the choice, and doesn't allow the

[Bug 414181] Re: Install Updates button does nothing when Update Manager opened by itself

2013-05-29 Thread Craig Hansen
Alberto, to me, I thought this was a simple issue that could possibly have been fixed in the user interface. I thought that this was code that was created particularly for ubuntu, and therefore the excuses espoused in the top critical bug in the hundredpapercuts project didn't apply. I thought

[Bug 1173403] [NEW] screen remote screen update errors when scaling turned on - new bug for 13.04

2013-04-26 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: I just upgraded a netbook system from 12.10 to 13.04, which reports version 3.8.0 for vinagre. Because the netbook screen is small (1024x600), I turn on scaling using the button which is labelled Fits the remote screen into current window size. Once scaling is turned on,

[Bug 1173403] Re: screen remote screen update errors when scaling turned on - new bug for 13.04

2013-04-26 Thread Craig Hansen
Additional image showing screen with a trail of correctly-located updates following the mouse pointer partially cleaning up the incorrectly drawn screen update. ** Attachment added: Additional image showing screen with a trail of correctly-located updates following the mouse pointer partially

[Bug 1080102] Re: unity launcher drawing almost completely blank

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 806248 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806248 I have observed this bug to happen around the 25th day of uptime, so I believe it to be the same bug as Bug #806248, unity::TimeUtil::TimeDelta returns an int value which overflows after 24 days of uptime.

[Bug 1080107] Re: auto log-in doesn't function after logout

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Hansen
I have found a workaround less horrible than a reboot: use the shell command sudo service lightdm restart which allows the auto-login to operate again, so a remote vnc access can be re-established. If you have a current interactive session, it will be be killed (i.e. auto-logout), so save your

[Bug 1080105] Re: unity launcher auto-hide broken under VNC (vinagre/vino)

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Hansen
The most obvious workaround is to not use auto-hide, however, this results in a loss of screen real estate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080105 Title: unity launcher auto-hide

[Bug 1080107] Re: auto log-in doesn't function after logout

2013-01-12 Thread Craig Hansen
This problem is also present in the Ubuntu 12.10 Release. ** Also affects: lightdm Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080107 Title: auto

[Bug 1080107] Re: auto log-in doesn't function after logout

2013-01-12 Thread Craig Hansen
This problem is made more serious because of several other bugs that I've encountered for which my only available workaround is to logout. Because of the problem reported here, I have to not only logout, but go through an entire reboot, because I have no way to remotely execute (eg via VNC) a

[Bug 1080111] Re: VNC (vino) doesn't operate until a particular user is logged in

2013-01-12 Thread Craig Hansen
This problem is still present in 12.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080111 Title: VNC (vino) doesn't operate until a particular user is logged in To manage notifications about

[Bug 1080102] [NEW] unity launcher drawing almost completely blank

2012-11-17 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: Each time this bug has cropped up, the session has been running for quite a while. I run an interactive session via VNC, as as such the auto-hide for the launcher must be turned off. At some point, the left- side launcher rectangle gets repeatedly drawn while interacting with

[Bug 1080105] [NEW] unity launcher auto-hide broken under VNC (vinagre/vino)

2012-11-17 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: The unity launcher auto-hide function does not operate in a session accessed via VNC. The auto-hide function appears to operate only when the mouse can be made to push further left than the left side of the screen. Simply placing the mouse near the left edge of the screen is

[Bug 1080107] [NEW] auto log-in doesn't function after logout

2012-11-17 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: Enabling auto log-in for a user causes a ubuntu unity session to be started when the operating system is booted. The session has a Log Out... item on the pull-down menu item in the upper right corner. When this command is used, the session is logged out, but there is no

[Bug 1080111] [NEW] VNC (vino) doesn't operate until a particular user is logged in

2012-11-17 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: Vino doesn't start until a particular user is logged in, and that user has desktop sharing enabled. Consequently, unless auto log-in is set for a user, and desktop sharing is enabled for that user, there is no way to use VNC (vinagre) to log-in to a remote Ubuntu system. Vino

[Bug 486692] Re: vino-server crashes on copy of multiple selected files in nautilus file browser

2012-11-17 Thread Craig Hansen
Still having this issue with 12.04.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486692 Title: vino-server crashes on copy of multiple selected files in nautilus file browser To manage

RE: [Bug 414181] Re: Install Updates button does nothing when Update Manager opened by itself

2012-11-15 Thread Craig Hansen
I continue to see this problem under 12.04, however the workaround has become a learned behavior. It's only because I sometimes fail to remember to press the check button that I continue to see the bug. It's been three years since 9.04. Another year or so and I'll be so well trained that I won't

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!

2012-07-30 Thread Craig Hansen
On many of my systems, the assignment of drives to letters depends on a number of unpredictable factors, so it's much safer to use the UUID to define arrays than /dev/sd[a-z]1. Running sudo mdadm --detail --scan usually gets you pretty good ARRAY lines to put into your mdadm.conf file. -- You

[Bug 772873] Re: Vino does not work with compositing

2012-06-28 Thread Craig Hansen
I'm using the Tear Free option at the moment, but screen refresh is terribly slow, even when used over a LAN. It appears to be refreshing entire screens at a time, which is what I presume the noxdamage setting also does. Yes, it works but its really so slow as to be completely unusable unless you

[Bug 954029] Re: package gettext 0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: gettext:i386 0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3 (Multi-Arch

2012-06-27 Thread Craig Hansen
I got this error on the first attempt to install, but as far as I can tell, everything completed ok on the second attempt. I was installing a large number of packages at once with apt-get install, so I'm not sure what app this package relates to. In any case, rerunning the same apt- get install

[Bug 990169] Re: systemsettings-appearance no longer previews the themes

2012-04-30 Thread Craig Hansen
Actually, there are four variants to select from, but if that's the case then the selector shouldn't be titled Theme it should be titled Variants of the Default Theme (but there are No Other Themes) After all, there is no full features theme selector. Even so, it still takes about 8 seconds

[Bug 990121] [NEW] package update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143

2012-04-27 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: When performing update-install of 12.04 (from 11.10), update-notifier- common attempts to download additional software during installation. When network errors occur, this can take a hideously long time, and there's no mechanism to abort or restart the download provided.

[Bug 990121] Re: package update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143

2012-04-27 Thread Craig Hansen
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990121 Title: package update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script

[Bug 990121] Re: package update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143

2012-04-27 Thread Craig Hansen
As a further note, the window in which the update-install proceeds is too large to fit on a 1024x600 display when the terminal-sub-window is open - it makes it very difficult to see what step the installation is at when it hangs up for hours. If you look at the VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz

[Bug 990161] [NEW] launcher-icon-size adjustment very wonky when launcher is visible

2012-04-27 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: This is in 12.04 Precise Pangolin. I got to the Appearance page in System Settings (which seems to be really named gnome-control-center), while looking to reset the launcher auto-hide behaviour back to the way it was in Ocelot, and found this tool for adjusting the size of

[Bug 990169] [NEW] systemsettings-appearance no longer previews the themes

2012-04-27 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: This is in 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The System Settings-Appearance page allows one to select a Theme, but there is no longer any clue available as to what these themes look like. There used to be some kind of picture associated with each theme, that at least gave the poor user

[Bug 772873] Re: Vino does not work with compositing

2012-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
On several systems using ATI video and not using the fglrx propriety driver, and fresh installs, I am now experiencing the sporadic updates I first reported in comment #32. I am no longer seeing the remission that I reported in #33. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 772873] Re: Vino does not work with compositing

2011-10-26 Thread Craig Hansen
Sorry, I'm unable to further reproduce this behavior after an update and reboot. Please withdraw the above comment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772873 Title: Vino does not work

[Bug 772873] Re: Vino does not work with compositing

2011-10-24 Thread Craig Hansen
I have the same problem with vino-server in an oneiric system with a ATI Video (ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4250]), but not running the fglrx proprietary driver. What I get is a session with sporadic updates - I can get the screen updated by wiping a terminal window around the screen. So

[Bug 608036] [NEW] nvidia-current 195.36.24 fails to start X server when no display connected

2010-07-20 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: nvidia-current 195.36.24 has completely different and fatal behavior (compared to nvidia-173) when started with no display attached to the graphics card. For some bizarre reason Nvidia has changed the default behavior (from assuming by default a CRT output with 1kx768

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-22 Thread Craig Hansen
If the design team is on the ball, they should recognize that the position of the buttons is not arbitrary, to be changed on a mere whim, or the observation that not all window system do it the same way give one license to place them wherever they please. Moving the buttons to the left because

[Bug 414181] Re: Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself

2010-02-18 Thread Craig Hansen
Several of the duplicate bug reports have an xsession-errors file. What's Invalid about this bug? -- Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414181 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 414181] Re: Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself

2010-01-25 Thread Craig Hansen
** Changed in: update-manager Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414181 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 497037] Re: update manager doesn't prompt for password, doesn't apply updates

2010-01-19 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 414181 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414181 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 414181 Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself -- update manager doesn't prompt for password, doesn't apply updates

[Bug 481315] Re: Update Manager fails to install updates, clicking Install Updates button has no effect

2010-01-19 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 414181 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414181 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 481314 Install Updates button has no effect ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 414181 Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was

[Bug 481314] Re: Install Updates button has no effect

2010-01-19 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 414181 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414181 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 414181 Update Manager, install button does nothing when u-m was opened by itself -- Install Updates button has no effect

[Bug 217551] Re: Password prompt freezes system during presence of a drop-down menu [hardy]

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
I'll confirm that I get the problem with vinagre in Karmic as well. It happens if you hit a menu item immediately after starting the first remote session. The focus doesn't change to the key-ring pop-up, so you can't answer or dismiss the pop-up. -- Password prompt freezes system during presence

[Bug 493889] Re: remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 350327 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350327 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop -- remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display

[Bug 490374] Re: Remote Desktop is not working well

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 350327 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350327 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 493889 remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot

[Bug 463971] Re: no grafic feedback when using remote desktop

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 350327 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350327 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 493889 remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot

[Bug 350327] Re: vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Also affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: vino Importance: Undecided Status: New -- vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start

[Bug 493889] Re: remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen

[Bug 490374] Re: Remote Desktop is not working well

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen

[Bug 463971] Re: no grafic feedback when using remote desktop

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen

[Bug 403747] Re: vino freeze

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen

[Bug 365667] Re: remote desktop does not work in Jaunty

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 350327 vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen

[Bug 350327] Re: vinagre connects but appears that I cannot start anything on remote desktop

2010-01-03 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353126 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353126 Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver using X.org prior to release 7.5 -- vinagre connects but

[Bug 490374] Re: Remote Desktop is not working well

2009-12-22 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 493889 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493889 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 493889 remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display -- Remote Desktop is not working well https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490374 You received this

[Bug 463971] Re: no grafic feedback when using remote desktop

2009-12-22 Thread Craig Hansen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 493889 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493889 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 493889 remote desktop viewer does not refresh remote display -- no grafic feedback when using remote desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463971 You

[Bug 488324] [NEW] install-updates button fails to operate unless check button pressed first

2009-11-25 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager I frequently find that when I come back to a machine in which the Update Manager has popped up a window, presumably some time ago, clicking on the install-updates button has no effect until the check button is pressed first. Upon pressing

[Bug 486692] [NEW] vino-server crashes on copy of multiple selected files in nautilus file browser

2009-11-22 Thread Craig Hansen
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vino ...connection gets dropped, and vino-server doesn't restart. Nothing apparent in dmesg output, nor kern.log, nor /var/log/messages. Both local and remote system are running x86 karmic release with up-to-date packages, and particularly for vino:

[Bug 381556] Re: disappeared keybindings

2009-11-16 Thread Craig Hansen
There is indeed a good reason for this, even if this breaks the consistency among the gnome applications. as without this checkbox, vinagre is totally useless for accessing applications such as emacs that use the control-keys that vinagre used to claim for itself. Please, please, please, for the

[Bug 388878] Re: Network connections dialog unclear what 'never' means

2009-07-08 Thread Craig Hansen
A short phrase that works better than Never is Not Yet. Another alternative is New I had no idea what the never meant 'til I saw now once when I had two connections to choose from. A related point is that I see the never tag when I have one connection and it's actually in use. Now that I know

[Bug 389194] Re: Poor choice of device for installing GRUB

2009-07-08 Thread Craig Hansen
For this particular case, (1) the Ubuntu LiveCD install does say GRUB will be installed on hd(0) - but you should be forgiven for not knowing that means your Windows hard drive. (2) there is a special tool for installing to a flash drive under system-administration-usb startup disk creator and

[Bug 277496] Re: Intrepid: Network-Manager should document additional packages are required to enable VPN

2009-07-08 Thread Craig Hansen
OpenVPN is another of the VPN packages. Suggest that the empty grey window display the packages one might want to install create a VPN connection. -- Intrepid: Network-Manager should document additional packages are required to enable VPN https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277496 You received this

[Bug 153374] Re: wobbly window makes the window bounce when attached to top panel

2008-10-24 Thread Craig Hansen
There's a whole family of bugs of this kind with wobbly windows. One way of thinking about this is that the amount of wobbly-ness should be related to the amount of energy put into mouse movement - when the mouse stops moving for a while, the wobbly effects need to be damped out. There are