[Bug 1695651] Re: GNOME Weather: "Forecast not available"

2021-03-25 Thread Dan Kortschak
The debian bug is informative https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983917 and shows that it is fixed upstream (commit: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome- team/libgweather/-/commit/bacbf97c838abb33c18aceff09bb06d6df396329). ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #983917

[Bug 1860374] Re: External Editor plugin does not open external editor

2020-10-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
The deficit here is not the action, but rather that the action is not documented in any way except in the source. >From the source there are two ways to open the editor, either by setting the "Automatically launch when a new mail is edited" option and then pressing any key in the Evolution

[Bug 1879016] Re: Crash with "Object .Gjs_AppIndicatorIconActor__1 ..." loss of Riot AppIndicator icon

2020-05-18 Thread Dan Kortschak via ubuntu-bugs
I have found a perfect reproducer; locking the screen (and so entering standby) reproduces this 100% of the time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1879016 Title: Crash with "Object

[Bug 1879016] [NEW] Crash with "Object .Gjs_AppIndicatorIconActor__1 ..." loss of Riot AppIndicator icon

2020-05-15 Thread Dan Kortschak via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: Sporadically, I see loss of the Riot-Desktop (https://github.com/vector- im/riot-web/ care of https://packages.riot.im/debian/) app indicator icon. This appears to be associated with the following log lines from `journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell` ``` May 16 10:54:22 cube

[Bug 1877004] [NEW] Installation of octave fails with /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: gotoblas

2020-05-05 Thread Dan Kortschak via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: Attempted installation of octave fails due to an absent symbol expected to be present. This results in a non-functional octave install. ``` ~ $ octave /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/4.2.2/exec/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/octave-gui: symbol lookup error:

[Bug 1862589] Re: Synaptics touchpad sporadically not detected at boot

2020-03-01 Thread Dan Kortschak
Any suggestions as to how to debug this would be greatly appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862589 Title: Synaptics touchpad sporadically not detected at boot To manage

[Bug 1862589] [NEW] Synaptics touchpad sporadically not detected at boot

2020-02-09 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Occasionally on boot I find that the trackpad does not support Synaptics multitouch and is not found by the Gnome configuration panel. Looking at relevant parts of the syslog, I see this in the case that the trackpad is not working correctly. ``` Feb 10 10:31:09 cube

[Bug 1722478] Re: Two-finger scrolling and click-and-drag no longer works after resuming from suspend

2020-01-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Also on 18.04.3 with 5.3.0-26-generic on a clevo p650re. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722478 Title: Two-finger scrolling and click-and-drag no longer works after resuming from

[Bug 1860374] [NEW] External Editor plugin does not open external editor

2020-01-20 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Installing evolution-plugins-experimental, which contains the external editor plugin does nothing when opening a new message (with or without the "Automatically launch when a new mail is edited" check box being set. The Gnome wiki says "If Automatically launch when a new mail

[Bug 1838355] [NEW] task completion check UTC instead of local timezone

2019-07-29 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: When a task is completed it can be marked as such. The code, correctly, checks to ensure that a task is not being marked as completed before the current time. Howvever, the current time is taken (apparently) from UTC and not from the current local timezone. This means that it

[Bug 1838355] Re: task completion check UTC instead of local timezone

2019-07-29 Thread Dan Kortschak
We are living in the future! ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2019-07-30 09-22-49.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1838355/+attachment/5279940/+files/Screenshot%20from%202019-07-30%2009-22-49.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1834554] Re: [nvidia] Screen displays dynamic corruptions

2019-06-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
Yeah, I considered that and I guess it's a possibility, but if it's the case it's only exercised by the 18.04 X code, this has never appeared prior to the installation of 18.04 a couple of days ago (was previously running 16.04). I don't recall seeing it while running the live usb either, but I

[Bug 1834554] Re: Screen displays dynamic corruptions

2019-06-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
Screen shots of the corruption do not work as the screen shot tool appears to overwrite the corruption. Video capture does work. ** Attachment added: "Video capture of screen corruption" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1834554/+attachment/5273854/+files/screen-speckles.ogv

[Bug 1834554] [NEW] Screen displays dynamic corruptions

2019-06-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Regularly the screen displays corruptions that change depending on disk i/o, keyboard/mouse and other system activity. The screen corruptions do not appear on each session and can be removed by selecting an alternative resolution and then changing back (or reverting without

[Bug 686859] Re: "Bootloader install failed" cannot be closed

2019-06-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Still present in 18.04.2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686859 Title: "Bootloader install failed" cannot be closed To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1780310] Re: Option 'finishings' has value '3' and cannot be edited

2019-06-16 Thread Dan Kortschak
Still affecting 18.04. Also note that upstream does not have an issue tracker anymore, losing the linked issue above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780310 Title: Option

[Bug 1532508] Re: Screen contents revealed briefly on resume, before even unlocking

2019-06-07 Thread Dan Kortschak
Still present in 18.04.2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532508 Title: Screen contents revealed briefly on resume, before even unlocking To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1830531] Re: .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication

2019-06-01 Thread Dan Kortschak
I don't claim that the packets are not being sent, but rather that the system does not work as expected out of the box when it did in a previous LTR. I don't really care what package is the cause except to help get the problem fixed. I have done as much debugging of this as I am capable since

[Bug 1830444] Re: IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

2019-06-01 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830444 Title: IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

[Bug 1830979] [NEW] org.gtk.setting.file-chooser.location-mode setting is not respected and is reset to path-bar

2019-05-29 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: The org.gtk.settings.file-chooser.location-mode="filename-entry" setting is not respected by open and save (other?) file dialogs. Whenever a file dialog is opened it is in bread crumb ("path-bar") mode irrespective of the state the conf was set to (in this case

[Bug 1830531] Re: .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication

2019-05-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
I have checked iptables and there are no rules. # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt

[Bug 1830531] Re: .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication

2019-05-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
Before I get a chance to look into this later today, I'd like to note that the network device is not firewalling those packets since a few days ago before I installed 18.04 on this machine it was behaving as expected and the 16.04 machine mentioned in the OP is not being blocked (it is on a

[Bug 1830531] Re: .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication

2019-05-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
~ $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release:18.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830531 Title: .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication To

[Bug 1830531] [NEW] .local domain look ups do not trigger name publication

2019-05-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: On my local network I find that with 18.04 network name lookups using .local domains no not work unless stimulated by a non-18.04 machine first. This is observed for ssh, http, https and ping, but probably not limited to those. To demonstrate this here is a ping example. ~

[Bug 1830444] Re: IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

2019-05-25 Thread Dan Kortschak
This is part of the set up process for installation of ev3dev linux on an EV3 robot controller (see https://www.ev3dev.org/docs/tutorials /connecting-to-the-internet-via-usb/ scroll down to the linux instructions). Connection to the USB via USB is an mandatory step prior to setting up wi-fi. This

[Bug 1830449] Re: Power control panel does not provide suspend on lid close dependent on battery power

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "automatic-suspend.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830449/+attachment/5266393/+files/automatic-suspend.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1830449] Re: Power control panel does not provide suspend on lid close dependent on battery power

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "lid-suspend.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830449/+attachment/5266394/+files/lid-suspend.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1830448] Re: gnome shell does not respect "Photos: Do nothing" for removable media

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
This setting prevents Shotwell from starting, but obviously block everything else as well. ** Attachment added: "never-do-anything.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830448/+attachment/5266389/+files/never-do-anything.png -- You received this bug

[Bug 1830448] Re: gnome shell does not respect "Photos: Do nothing" for removable media

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
With this setting Shotwell is still started on insertion. ** Attachment added: "do-nothing-for-photos.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830448/+attachment/5266388/+files/do-nothing-for-photos.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1830449] [NEW] Power control panel does not provide suspend on lid close dependent on battery power

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: In previous versions of Ubuntu (16.04) it was possible to set an automatic suspend on laptop lid closure when the laptop was battery powered, but not when on mains. This is no longer available; automatic suspend provided by the power control panel is purely time-based. The

[Bug 1830448] [NEW] gnome shell does not respect "Photos: Do nothing" for removable media

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Setting "Photos: Do nothing" in the removable media panel of the gnome control center had no effect in that inserting a removable volume with photos/video (GoPro SD card) results in Shotwell being opened. The only way to prevent this from happening is to check "Never prompt

[Bug 1830444] Re: IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Image of nm-connection editor control, including shared to other. ** Attachment added: "with-shared-to-other.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830444/+attachment/5266383/+files/with-shared-to-other.png -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1830444] [NEW] IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: In previous versions of Ubuntu (16.04 and before), it was possible to specify the IPv4 method to use "Shared to other computers" directly from the top bar (via the via the nm-connection-editor/nm-applet). This ability is no longer available via the preferred network

[Bug 1830444] Re: IPv4 does not provide "Shared to other computers" method

2019-05-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
Image of current directly available control panel. ** Attachment added: "no-shared-to-other.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1830444/+attachment/5266382/+files/no-shared-to-other.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-23 Thread Dan Kortschak
Note that I'm not suggesting that it be altered mechanically, but rather than a warning be written that it may not be what is wanted (note also that this issue is not about nouveau drivers but NVidia-provided drivers). If I'd seen a warning like that on doing `ubuntu-drivers autoinstall`, this

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-23 Thread Dan Kortschak
As an after thought. This could be mitigated by having the nvidia drivers' postinst check for nomodeset in /etc/defaults/grub and warn if it is present. It is already running grub-update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-23 Thread Dan Kortschak
Yes, sorry. Removing nomodeset allowed boot to desktop and a functional and stable system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183 Title: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-23 Thread Dan Kortschak
Thank you so very much. That has fixed the problem. In the next couple of weeks when I can find some time, I'll look into the other issue that you've been managing and try it with a mainline kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1830029] Re: nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on GTX970M to the point of unusability

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
The reason I ask this is that launchpad has an unfortunate approach to issue management (these two that you have been communicating in are a welcome change - thanks) where bugs go stale for years or are dropped due to lack of engagement from maintainers. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
re:nomodeset: That's odd unless the drivers on the live usb media are old; nomodeset is definitely needed to not lock up from the live usb on this machine. re:grubmenu: I'm not using UEFI, so AFAIU, shift should be the key (though I tried both). Is it edge triggered? If not, I've had the key held

[Bug 1830029] Re: nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on GTX970M to the point of unusability

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Please undo the incomplete. The action that was asked for was performed in the comment #2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830029 Title: nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
I will give that a go. The nomodeset option was set during istall, presumably because the live usb install media doesn't boot without it. I vaguely recall altering that option at the grub menu, but it was a long day yesterday, so I am not sure (as an aside, why does the grub menu not come up with

[Bug 1711377] Re: Nautilus desktop mode should relearn handling a dock nicely in intellihide

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
An alternative (preferable IMO, and probably simpler) is to make the dock configurable to always hide. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1711377 Title: Nautilus desktop mode should

[Bug 1830034] [NEW] dock obstructs desktop icons when in auto-hide mode

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: When not in auto-hide mode, icons are shifted out of the way of the dock. This does not happen when the dock is in auto-hide mode meaning that when there is no window to cause it to hide, the icons at the edge of the desktop are obscured. These icons are commonly Home, Trash

[Bug 1830029] Re: nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on GTX970M to the point of unusability

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Removing the nomodeset kernel parameter makes GDM snappier, but it then hangs on login (relevant portion of syslog attached). ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1830029/+attachment/5265713/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1830029] [NEW] nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on GTX970M to the point of unusability

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: I am trying to use the nouveau drivers on a recent (today) install of 18.04 on a 2.5yo laptop. Unfortunately the nvidia drivers don't work at all. What I am finding is that the sluggishness of the display is comparable to the case when nouveau drivers are disabled. The only

[Bug 1830000] Re: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Unfortunately that does not resolve the issue. The behaviour remains the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183 Title: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login

[Bug 1830000] [NEW] NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen

2019-05-22 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Installing the nvidia-driver-390 package and disabling (or not) the nouveau drivers results in a system that superficially appears to busy hang before reaching the login screen, leaving only the fsck "/dev/sda1: clean,..." message on the screen. The machine is alive, and

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
Ah, you mean nomodeset. I have tried that now with both 18.04 and 19.04 with success. Both live USBs are stable for at least 10 minutes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568 Title:

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
What magic is required to get into safe graphic mode from the Disco live USB? (normal boot on that version fails in the same way) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568 Title: Ubuntu

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
lspci.txt is empty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568 Title: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic To manage notifications

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "/proc/acpi for working 16.04 system on same hardware" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262938/+files/acpi-16.04.tar.bz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "uname.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262932/+files/uname.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568 Title:

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "uname for working 16.04 system on same hardware" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262935/+files/uname-16.04.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "dmidecode output for working 16.04 system on same hardware" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262937/+files/dmidecode-16.04.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1828568] [NEW] Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Booting an Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer USB on a Clevo P650RE3 results in a hang shortly after the desktop is presented, unless acpi=off and noapic (or nolapic) are given as kernel boot parameters. The same installer runs without issue on other machines and the 16.04

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "dmidecode.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262933/+files/dmidecode.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "dmesg from boot that results in hang" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262939/+files/dmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "lspci output with acpi=off noapic boot" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262934/+files/lspci-acpi%3Doff-noapic.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
acpi.tar.bz was not obtainable -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828568 Title: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic To manage

[Bug 1828568] Re: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64 installer hangs shortly after boot unless acpi=off and noapic

2019-05-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Attachment added: "lspci output for working 16.04 system on same hardware" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1828568/+attachment/5262936/+files/lspci-16.04.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 990377] Re: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing

2018-05-02 Thread Dan Kortschak
One of my hobbies is to shout into the void; bugs are my favourite. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990377 Title: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing To manage

[Bug 1755923] [NEW] package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2018-03-14 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: The mscorefont issue continues unabated! Every morning I am greeted with an autoupdater dialogue telling me that the ms core ttf fonts can't be installed. This morning I try using the CL and get this: ``` ~ $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Bug 1624299] [NEW] SFTP protocol source cannot be found

2016-09-16 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Trying to play a video over SFTP fails, with Totem giving a pop-up: """ Required plugin could not be found Videos requires to install plugins to support the following multimedia feature: SFTP protocol source """ There does not seem to be any package that fits this

[Bug 1591472] Re: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-09-07 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591472 Title: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter To manage

[Bug 1591472] Re: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-09-06 Thread Dan Kortschak
When I started looking at this problem, the machine would not boot without nomodeset. This is no longer the case - and removing that fixes the problem. Thank you for looking at this, Timo. Please mark as invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1610519] [NEW] apport-gtk crashes with segmentation fault

2016-08-06 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: apport-bug calling apport-gtk crashes with a segmentation fault. ~ $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 ~ $ dpkg -l apport-gtk Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

[Bug 1610518] [NEW] synaptic crashed with segfault

2016-08-06 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Attempting to start synaptic over an X tunnel via ssh causes synaptic to crash with a segfault - it may be the case that this happens on a local X session, but I have not been able to get an X to work locally (grumble). ~ $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

[Bug 1591472] Re: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-08-06 Thread Dan Kortschak
OK, `gdb64 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 2>&1 | tee gdb-Xorg.txt' works. The instructions for backtracing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing#Backtrace_with_gdb obviously need some love. With all the complaints from gdb out of the way it seems that the issue shows up as the corrupted shared library

[Bug 1591472] Re: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-08-06 Thread Dan Kortschak
I have sorted out the syscall-template.S issue by getting the libc6 source. I have found places saying that the cause of gdb not liking the binary is because of arch incompatibility (32 v 64). I tried this with no change. ~# gdb /usr/bin/Xorg 2>&1 | tee gdb-Xorg.txt GNU gdb (Ubuntu

[Bug 1591472] Re: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-06-25 Thread Dan Kortschak
Yoo hoo! Is anyone home? Some triage love would be greatly appreciated here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591472 Title: Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter To

[Bug 1591472] [NEW] Xorg crashes immediately on login returning to greeter

2016-06-11 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: ~ $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release:16.04 ~ $ apt-cache policy nvidia-361 xorg nvidia-361: Installed: 361.42-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 361.42-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 361.42-0ubuntu2 500 500

[Bug 1407819] [NEW] drotmg gives incorrect result when result is DIAGONAL with non-zero first column of H

2015-01-05 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: See upstream bug report here: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/484 In brief, drotmg inverts the order of the elements of the first column of DH when DFLAG is 1.0 (diagonal). $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release:14.04 Version of

[Bug 229798] Re: SDHC /home not properly umounted at shutdown on Eee PC

2013-05-17 Thread Dan Kortschak
Yes, if you leave something for long enough eventually it becomes unimportant. If this had been properly triaged and assigned - i.e. before five years after the initial submission - then questions aimed at identifying the cause of the problem might have been possible to follow up. No. Chances

[Bug 229798] Re: SDHC /home not properly umounted at shutdown on Eee PC

2013-03-14 Thread Dan Kortschak
Yes, I still have that hardware. Yes, the problem is still exhibited. The current install is 10.04 and will probably stay that for the forseeable life of the current universe, so I doubt a fix will be forthcoming. Five years is a pretty slow turn around. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1024768] Re: [xorg-edgers] Missing icons in unity launcher and app switcher after update

2013-02-07 Thread Dan Kortschak
And equally unexplicably, mine has gone again. How on earth can this be tagged as fixed. If LTS does not mean fixes are released for it, what does LTS actually mean. Without a launcher, what is the point of unity? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1024768] Re: [xorg-edgers] Missing icons in unity launcher and app switcher after update

2013-01-13 Thread Dan Kortschak
This or a similar bug is still sporadically affecting me. As for Hamil, no obvious cause, no recent upgrade. The only path to fix is to reatart the machine (is this an approach to fix Bug 1 by immitation?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-11-10 Thread Dan Kortschak
Two weeks away does wonders for perspective. Tested the previous known working release - failed, so looked further and found I was misconfiguring grub (setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= after the correct i8042.nomux, thus negating the required setting). Tried again with precise, taking this into account

[Bug 1075360] [NEW] list view jumps to arbitrary location after deleting email(s)

2012-11-05 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: Deleting and email causes the list view to jump to an arbitrary location in the list (a sane email is selected and displayed in the preview, but its subject line etc is not visible in the email list). Requiring navigation back to the desired point in the subject list view.

Re: [Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Kortschak
Tested image+extras 3.6.2-030602.201210121823_i386. Problem persists. On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 01:28 +, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: Could you please test http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v3.6.2-quantal/ ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Kortschak
was disappointed the upgrade broke the pointer). If you need this confirmed I can query again. On 17/10/2012, at 10:15 PM, Christopher M. Penalver christopher.penal...@gmx.com wrote: Dan Kortschak, did this problem not occur in a release prior to Ubuntu? -- You received this bug notification because you

Re: [Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Kortschak
Tested - failed. I have asked the owner to re-describe the history of the issue, will test the release they claim gave touchpad functionality and post details. Due to work, I will not be able to do this until about a fortnight from now. Thank you for your time and patience. On Wed, 2012-10-17 at

Re: [Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-10-16 Thread Dan Kortschak
Attached. By way of additional comment, the instructions provided at the linked page are very poorly structured; I went in knowing what to do and came out confused. Also, 's/seperate/separate'. On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 21:41 +, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: Dan Kortschak, thank you

[Bug 1020945] Re: package otrs2 3.0.11+dfsg1-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2012-10-07 Thread Dan Kortschak
This is the same as question 209179 which was ignored and so timed out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020945 Title: package otrs2 3.0.11+dfsg1-1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-10-01 Thread Dan Kortschak
** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1058467] [NEW] kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-09-28 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: I am working on a kogan agora netbook (vintage unknown - firend's little daugher's machine). On this machine the touchpad does not work, even when passing i8042.reset i8042.nomux to the kernel on boot. The only input device listed in /proc is a standard PS/2 mouse unless an

[Bug 1058467] Re: kogan agora touchpad does not work

2012-09-28 Thread Dan Kortschak
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058467 Title: kogan agora touchpad does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1057215] [NEW] Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Search.pm line (283|284).

2012-09-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: $ apt-cache policy bugzilla3 bugzilla3: Installed: 3.2.5.1-2 Candidate: 3.2.5.1-2 Version table: *** 3.2.5.1-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ lsb_release -r Release:12.04 I see these warnings in the cron burble mails: snip /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla3:

[Bug 1057217] [NEW] Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Bug.pm line 1085.

2012-09-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: $ apt-cache policy bugzilla3 bugzilla3: Installed: 3.2.5.1-2 Candidate: 3.2.5.1-2 Version table: *** 3.2.5.1-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ lsb_release -r Release: 12.04 I see these warnings in the cron burble mails: snip /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla3:

[Bug 669465] Re: Evolution's e-addressbook-factory process renders CPU usage 100%

2012-09-24 Thread Dan Kortschak
I'm seeing something very similar, though entirely different (sorry). e-addressbook-server occasionally starts thrashing on my hard drive with low CPU and memory use (~5% and 25MB RES respectively). Appart from being noisy, this impact on actually useful disk-intensive applications. $

[Bug 812940] Re: dbus behaviour change from natty to oneiric: now enables X11 autolaunch

2012-09-21 Thread Dan Kortschak
Is there any movement on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/812940 Title: dbus behaviour change from natty to oneiric: now enables X11 autolaunch To manage notifications about

[Bug 1053326] [NEW] apparent regression of 685476

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: I tried upgrading my 10.04 installation to 12.04 today using the upgrade manager. This failed apparently due to the same issue as described and marked invalid in bug 990740 - I would add this to that bug, but that is specifically recommended against and I can find no valid

[Bug 929206] Re: unity; Failed to open file '/usr/share/virt-manager/pixmaps/virt-manager-icon.svg': No such file or directory

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Kortschak
I am seeing a similar situation still with 0.9.1-1ubuntu5. In addition, starting virt-manager from the launcher fails (admin password is asked for, but nothing further), staring from a terminal succeeds with gksudo or sudo, but not with gksu. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1019094] Re: exhaustive fatal memory leak

2012-06-28 Thread Dan Kortschak
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019094 Title: exhaustive fatal memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1019094] [NEW] exhaustive fatal memory leak

2012-06-28 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: This is a resubmission of bug 1018263 required for bug submission via apport (I won't repeat comments here as this is submitted from a VM). As explained in the last comment of that submission. It was not possible to trigger apport on crash while following the apport wiki

[Bug 1018263] Re: exhaustive memory leak

2012-06-28 Thread Dan Kortschak
Replicated with fresh (but upgraded to current state) 32 and 64 lucid instances - on both VMs firefox was started in safe-mode. As per the apport wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/: I executed `sudo service apport start force_start=1' prior to firefox launch. However apport was not started, so

[Bug 1018263] [NEW] exhaustive memory leak

2012-06-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: If I leave firefox running over night, since upgrading to 13.0.1 Firefox, firefox exhausts all system memory, running with 100% load on one core. This has been noticed on other platforms by other users (for example here http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/930472).

[Bug 1018263] Re: exhaustive memory leak

2012-06-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
My apologies - my clarity goes away when long running development tests are crashed by another, unrelated, application. I'll set up a VM and try to replicate the situation there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 990377] Re: lock icon in User Accounts is at best confusing

2012-05-26 Thread Dan Kortschak
Submitted to GNOME Bugzilla as Bug 676912: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676912 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #676912 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676912 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 993878] [NEW] there is no tab for access to file notes in the properties dialog

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Kortschak
Public bug reported: The Notes tab of the properties dialog has gone away some time between Lucid and Precise. The decoration indicating a note exists is still present suggesting the feature has not been intentionally dropped. Further examination shows that emblems have also disappeared (this

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