[Bug 801471] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 installer crash, right at the end

2018-04-03 Thread Eric Ongerth
Hi Simon, I hope you can see that this report was from 2011 and that I commented in 2014 saying it was likely too stale to bother. I was very surprised today to see your comment and I recommend simply closing this issue since the version is far in the past. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1351699] Re: Additional Drivers / Driver Manager shows no drivers for NVidia GTX 750ti - Missing modalias in nvidia-331.

2015-03-26 Thread Eric Ongerth
Same problem -- Fresh install of Ubuntu-14.04.1 64-bit .iso followed by two reboots and certainty of all apt-get updates installed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card No Additional Drivers detected by the built-in tools. For now I'm enabling the xorg-edgers ppa but I shouldn't have to and it's

[Bug 1380002] [NEW] nvidia-331-uvm 331.89-0ubuntu5: nvidia-331-uvm kernel module failed to build

2014-10-10 Thread Eric Ongerth
Public bug reported: Sorry for the scant awareness here, but I was just computing along when this happened. At the time, I think an 'apt get update' was running and that's all I was really doing besides browsing Facebook or something in Chrome and looking up Ubuntu community help topics in

[Bug 1315167] [NEW] Cross-workspace app switching from launcher is broken after resume from sleep

2014-05-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
Public bug reported: When I resume my computer from sleep there is only one problem I've found. Otherwise sleep and resuming from it work fine. To reproduce: 1. Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, all up to date. Enable multiple workspaces (for example I use 2x2). Start some applications on more than one

[Bug 927742] Re: banshee moves to next song then stops playback

2014-05-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
I can confirm this is still the case in my configuration -- Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (14.04), 64 bit desktop version, and banshee 2.6.2. It is somewhat ironic that enabling the gapless playback option actually CAUSES a gap in playback. I do not experience playback fully stopping, and in my case it is

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2014-04-29 Thread Eric Ongerth
It's still not a bug, just a difference between what newer Linux users may expect and normal Ubuntu behavior. When I posted in 2011 I was still new to using Linux on a system with multiple hard drives, though I had used it for longer on a single-drive system. Ubuntu, and Linux distros in

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2014-04-29 Thread Eric Ongerth
Hi Michael, I agree with Chow Loong Jin that deleting your banshee database and re-importing your library will most likely fix everything in your latest description. I'm sorry to hear of your frustration with Linux. That was my opinion circa 2008-9, but in recent years I have been much more

[Bug 1247221] Re: Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true

2014-04-27 Thread Eric Ongerth
John Doe, if you have not done so already, uncheck Show hidden and backup files in nautilus' Edit Preferences Views. At least that will change your default so you won't be reverting to showing hidden every time you open a nautilus window. It won't remember your use of View Show Hidden Files

[Bug 949782] Re: No way to disable start-up sound using GUI

2014-04-24 Thread Eric Ongerth
In case anyone else finds this bug before a solution, I believe it's possible to turn down or mute the volume on the greeter screen and the setting will be persistent. There was a bug with this but it's reported fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1247221] Re: Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true

2014-04-22 Thread Eric Ongerth
@Sebastien: I tried a guest session just now. 1. This was my first time using a guest session since installing 14.04. 2. On this first opening of the guest session, the nautilus preference was found to be unchecked, so it did not show hidden files. 3. Leaving the preference unchanged, I used

[Bug 1247221] Re: Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true

2014-04-21 Thread Eric Ongerth
My similar bug report on 14.04 got linked to this one. But mine is not identical. The difference: on this report the original poster writes, When changed via gui the setting is remembered correctly. In my case that is not true. No matter whether I use Ctrl+H or View Show Hidden Files, the

[Bug 1310390] Re: nautilus showing hidden files by default, does not retain view setting

2014-04-21 Thread Eric Ongerth
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1247221 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247221 Thank you for the workaround. I've added some comments to the other bug report because it did not sufficiently describe the bug I was seeing (in fact it conflicted in one way). But it's close enough to

[Bug 1247221] Re: Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true

2014-04-21 Thread Eric Ongerth
Technically, the title of this bug report is a little misleading. It says Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true. But nautilus also doesn't remember the setting when the preference is false. So the title of this

[Bug 1310390] [NEW] nautilus showing hidden files by default, does not retain view setting

2014-04-20 Thread Eric Ongerth
Public bug reported: Summary: Since 14.04, the nautilus file manager is always showing hidden items when I open it. The setting can be changed, but reverts when I close the app so the next time I use it it again defaults to showing hidden items. Expected behavior: nautilus defaults to not

[Bug 619003] Re: GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache'

2014-04-11 Thread Eric Ongerth
I experienced this during the process of upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 final beta in a terminal window using the command sudo do-release- upgrade -d. Running the command suggested in the warning message in a console window during and after the upgrade did nothing useful. After completing the

[Bug 801471] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 installer crash, right at the end

2014-04-05 Thread Eric Ongerth
Probably no longer important -- this issue is too old. I only reported it because the system advised me to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801471 Title: Ubuntu 11.04 installer

[Bug 658865] Re: Install from USB fails: An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the CD failed

2014-04-03 Thread Eric Ongerth
Same as above, this is still a problem when installing 14.04 final beta from a USB stick created with either unetbootin or ubuntu's own Startup Disk Creator. Same solution as above worked for me. I want to recommend Ubuntu to my friends who are discontinuing Windows but it's hard to believe I

[Bug 1154561] Re: software-center crashed with /home/username/Downloads/virtualbox-4.2_4.2.8-83876~Ubuntu~quantal_amd64.deb in _run_transaction()

2014-04-03 Thread Eric Ongerth
Same here, attempted to install Chrome stable .deb 64-bit using the save-and-open option from Firefox, going with the default of allowing Software Center to do the installation. On a second attempt I saved the .deb in my Downloads folder and then installed it from a shell using: dpkg -i

[Bug 1228360] Re: No clock in menu bar and can't edit Clock settings

2014-02-02 Thread Eric Ongerth
I had this bug back when Saucy was new, and the fix for it back then worked. It returned today for the first time on Saucy (fully updated). killall unity-panel-service worked as an immediate fix, but I hope the bug does not return. This was on a fresh boot. Apparently something regressed?

[Bug 1244285] Re: Date/time sometimes doesn’t appear in menu bar, settings greyed out (Ubuntu 13.10)

2014-02-02 Thread Eric Ongerth
This bug has returned today on my machine (fully updated Saucy / 13.10 64-bit) after seeming fixed for months. I had to killall unity-panel- service as an immediate/temporary solution but I hope it will be fixed in distribution. Is it the same as this one?

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2014-01-27 Thread Eric Ongerth
I also confirm that starting: UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= banshee launches banshee with working equalizer -- with, of course, the banshee menu right inside the top of the banshee window instead of proxied to the top of the screen. I am on Saucy, 13.04 with all updates. -- You received this bug

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Ongerth
Thank you! Here is the output of apt-cache policy banshee: banshee: Installed: 2.6.1-2ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.6.1-2ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.6.1-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status The output of

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Ongerth
Hi Loong Jin, Well, this may be good news -- Ctrl+E still activates the equalizer! I had not thought to try it before since the option was grayed out on the View menu. I suppose that is probably easier to deal with (though also lower priority) than if the equalizer was becoming totally

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Ongerth
Here's a screenshot showing banshee's View menu with equalizer option greyed out (attached). Yes, I had to set a few seconds' delay in order to capture it. ** Attachment added: Screenshot of Banshee with View menu equalizer option grey

[Bug 1244285] Re: Date/time sometimes doesn’t appear in menu bar, settings greyed out (Ubuntu 13.10)

2013-11-03 Thread Eric Ongerth
I had the indicator-session problem, and was glad to see it was fixed in a recent update. Before the indicator-session fix, I did not have any problem with indicator-datetime. Now I do. Logging out and back in takes care of it, I don't have to reboot. 13.10 64-bit here, from a fresh install.

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2013-11-03 Thread Eric Ongerth
`gst-inspect-1.0 | grep equalizer` shows: equalizer: equalizer-10bands: 10 Band Equalizer equalizer: equalizer-3bands: 3 Band Equalizer equalizer: equalizer-nbands: N Band Equalizer Is anyone working on this? Do I have to reinstall banshee? Every time I reinstall Banshee it takes a very

[Bug 879328] Re: Equalizer option is disabled / grayed out

2013-10-27 Thread Eric Ongerth
Same problem, fresh new install (not upgrade) of 13.10, really wasn't happy with rhythmbox under 13.10 so I installed banshee. When first installed, two days ago, banshee's Equalizer was available. I changed one or two extensions (I did NOT enable anything connected with Last.fm.). I cannot

[Bug 1168208] Re: friends-dispatcher crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in __new__(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y3GCrMBjQo: Connection refused

2013-08-30 Thread Eric Ongerth
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1166582 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166582 The bug that this one is marked as a duplicate of, #1166582, does not exist. Confusing! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 86689] Re: firefox does not recognize some font styles

2013-04-08 Thread Eric Ongerth
Yes, the same problem is still in effect as of Firefox 20.0 on all of my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS systems including a clean install. The problem and a successful workaround are described well here: http://keramida.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/dejavu-condensed-as-default/ From reading other bug reports and

[Bug 571568] Re: Dejavu condensed fonts not working in openoffice 3.2

2012-12-04 Thread Eric Ongerth
This is not actually an OpenOffice bug per se, but an interaction between Ubuntu's fontconfig and several different programs, including (but not limited to?) Open/Libre, Firefox, and probably several others. What these seem to have in common is the use of GTK+ font chooser dialogs. There is an

[Bug 882699] Re: Déjà Dup fails with Got status code 500 when starting backup

2012-10-24 Thread Eric Ongerth
I third that... Ubuntu backup (deja-dup to Ubuntu One) has not worked for me for many months due to this bug, and after so much time I think I probably need to just stop waiting for a fix and FTP or SSH to my own web host. But I already do that, and I was thinking of Ubuntu One as a very nice

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-19 Thread Eric Ongerth
Tim, thank you very much for the suggestion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898758 Title: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-02 Thread Eric Ongerth
OK to close -- see UPDATE at the top of original report above. ** Description changed: - I'm fairly close to a noob on this, so I'm just reporting exactly what - the error window says: + UPDATE: Possibly still a bug, but this resolved itself over two days. 1 + day after this report, and after a

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
** Attachment added: contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898758/+attachment/2614904/+files/bugfiles -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898758 Title:

[Bug 898758] [NEW] update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
Public bug reported: I'm fairly close to a noob on this, so I'm just reporting exactly what the error window says: quote Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager'

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
Hm, I don't think my file submission was created correctly by the tar command I mentioned. It's been a long time since I was a BSD Unix user in the 90s and haven't had to tar anything since then... I'm usually just extracting and not creating archives. Sorry, will try again if given a different

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
One last thing to add to my original report. I also ran sudo apt-get clean after running the Janitor utility. But again, that was two or three days ago and it seemed like the system was fine until then. Then just today, update-manager showed this problem. So perhaps that is unrelated. But I

[Bug 898758] Re: update-manager crashes; problem with merge list

2011-12-01 Thread Eric Ongerth
Attaching the merge file that was reported in the error message: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_universe_binary-i386_Packages just in case that helps. Happy to attach others if requested, sorry my attempt to upload the apt logs etc. failed before. ** Attachment

[Bug 801471] [NEW] Ubuntu 11.04 installer crash, right at the end

2011-06-24 Thread Eric Ongerth
Public bug reported: I am filing this report not from inside the installer, but still before a reboot. So according to the instructions below, I will attach /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman. I was unable to file from inside the installer because the wireless connection

[Bug 801471] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 installer crash, right at the end

2011-06-24 Thread Eric Ongerth
** Attachment added: syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801471/+attachment/2180168/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801471 Title: Ubuntu 11.04 installer crash,

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2011-06-10 Thread Eric Ongerth
One more observation. Today I forgot to mount my media drive before starting Banshee and trying to play from a playlist. When I clicked the play button, in the past it has just not worked, though sometimes Banshee made at least some sort of visual indication that I had clicked the button, but

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2011-06-08 Thread Eric Ongerth
OK, one day later the problem is back. There are only two real changes I made to my Ubuntu 11.04 system since yesterday when I deleted banshee's media db and re-imported media which caused it to work properly again. Since yesterday I set up the Empathy Internet Messaging widget that is I guess

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2011-06-08 Thread Eric Ongerth
I should have realized it while I was typing my previous message. All I have to do is manually mount the source drive before I try to play the files in Banshee. So it's not exactly a bug, but it is a usability issue. Some new users (especially newcomers to Ubuntu) will not understand why their

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2011-06-07 Thread Eric Ongerth
This should be reopened! I'm seeing a lot of internet chatter about the same issue. Banshee at some point (this is within 24 hours of a completely fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04 with the default installation of banshee) just stops playing music. I have only imported a single time, which brought

[Bug 751575] Re: banshee no longer plays music gstreamer resource error NotFound

2011-06-07 Thread Eric Ongerth
By the way, if it happens again I will try the test Kamus suggested to Pete in the messages above -- I will try playing other media in other ways, such as opening a video with Totem, etc. and make sure system sound and other media players are working. But I will have to wait until (if) the