[Bug 86115] Re: no mime-types for fontforge

2012-10-03 Thread Glyphobet
I don't know if it's still an issue, I reported this three and a half years ago and I stopped using Ubuntu a few years after I reported it (I left precisely because issues like this went un-addressed for years even though they were fixed in upstream). However, if you look at the two fixed Debian

[Bug 474770] Re: background image and full screen video is not displayed when screen size it set too large. all i get is a black screen.

2009-12-09 Thread Glyphobet
This may be a duplicate of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video- ati/+bug/444139 The instructions in comment #3 on that bug fixed this issure for me. -- background image and full screen video is not displayed when screen size it set too large. all i get is a

[Bug 444139] Re: (Needs KMS) Background and full screen apps don't show up when Normal Visual Effects on (ATI RV100/RV200 chipset)

2009-12-09 Thread Glyphobet
I have an ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 Pro] video card. I was experiencing these issues after upgrading to Karmic 9.10. * black background under Compiz * windows larger than 1024px were black * full-screen videos in VLC or Totem were black * very choppy (~2 frames per second)

[Bug 364319] Re: pstoedit cannot convert to SVG any more

2009-06-20 Thread Glyphobet
Here is a patch to add the missing build dependencies to the debian/control file. For people following Luca Citi's helpful instructions on how to rebuild the package properly, note that you'll need to install all three .deb package files generated by dpkg-buildpackage. Under Ubuntu 9.04, they

[Bug 86115] Re: no mime-types for fontforge

2009-05-11 Thread Glyphobet
This bug and a related one have been patched, submitted to Debian, and accepted there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507427 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507428 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #507427

[Bug 244086] Re: Baobab reports incorrect available diskspace value

2008-11-18 Thread Glyphobet
This bug should be reopened. I can confirm that it is still happening in Intrepid with Baobab 2.24.1, which now appears to be part of the gnome- utils package. (This bug should probably be reassigned to that package, or to gvfs as well.) On my system, df and Nautilus agree with regards to free

[Bug 203157] Re: Liferea uses a lot of CPU at times

2008-11-12 Thread Glyphobet
I can confirm that this bug is still happening for me in Intrepid, using Liferea 1.4.18-0ubuntu2. Every so often Liferea just starts using 100% of my CPU and will not stop -- even if I quit it -- until I kill the process. IMHO, this bug should be much more severe than medium. When Liferea uses

[Bug 67301] Re: fsck.reiserfs hangs the system at boot for 5 secs per partition

2008-08-13 Thread Glyphobet
I can confirm that this issue still exists as of Ubuntu 8.04. See attached bootchart for evidence. ** Attachment added: hardy-20080813-1.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16762630/hardy-20080813-1.png -- fsck.reiserfs hangs the system at boot for 5 secs per partition

[Bug 203157] Re: Liferea uses a lot of CPU at times

2008-08-11 Thread Glyphobet
I am experiencing this bug as well. It appears to be triggered by Flash in feeds, and is 100% reproducible. Steps: 1. view a feed item that contains embedded flash (This feed contains a number of items with embedded flash: http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default) 2. Voila!

[Bug 165060] Re: /etc/init.d/xprint: 534: Syntax error: Bad substitution

2008-03-10 Thread Glyphobet
Looking again at the /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/thunderbird shell scripts in 7.10, I see that in the last four months they have been modified so that they no longer try to do anything with XPrint, and this syntax error is no longer printed to the screen. If XPrint is deprecated, shouldn't it

[Bug 131188] Re: top and free report twice as much swap as I actually have

2008-01-18 Thread Glyphobet
I *did* have evms installed at some point. The 7.04 to 7.10 upgrade introduced problems with evms, though ( http://brainsik.theory.org/.:./2007/ubuntu-710-gutsy-caveat-beware-evms/ ), so I removed it, and that was around the same time that this double- swap problem went away. Curious. :) --

[Bug 165060] /etc/init.d/xprint: 534: Syntax error: Bad substitution

2007-11-25 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Launching firefox from a terminal gives this error: $ firefox /etc/init.d/xprint: 534: Syntax error: Bad substitution Looking at the shell script at /etc/init.d/xprint, it appears that the script is trying to reference the variable $xpstart_remote_server before it defines

[Bug 39559] Re: Cannot have two profiles (-P switch) opened simultaneously.

2007-11-25 Thread Glyphobet
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 31746 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31746 I can confirm that I am also experiencing this bug. Firefox 2.0.0.8 under Ubuntu 7.04 behaved as follows. These two commands would open two different instances of Firefox, using two different profiles:

[Bug 131188] Re: top and free report twice as much swap as I actually have

2007-10-10 Thread Glyphobet
No, I don't have the same partition listed twice. # cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # /dev/sda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy

[Bug 131188] Re: top and free report twice as much swap as I actually have

2007-10-09 Thread Glyphobet
# swapon -s FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/sda5 partition 3036244 947632 -1 /dev/mapper/sda5partition 3036244 0 -2 -- top and free report twice as much swap as I

[Bug 128474] Re: screenshot, annotate and zoom plugins interfere with mouse

2007-08-22 Thread Glyphobet
remove 'screenshot' from the list of active plugins in gconf, under apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins. More info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/ConfiguringCompiz -m -- screenshot, annotate and zoom plugins interfere with mouse

[Bug 131188] top and free report twice as much swap as I actually have

2007-08-08 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Upon rebooting into 2.6.20-16-generic, top and free now report that I have 6GB of swap, as opposed to the 3GB that I have. Under previous kernel versions, I have always seen the correct amount of swap. There is no way I could have 6GB of swap; the partition is, and has

[Bug 127846] Re: cannot re-order items

2007-08-07 Thread Glyphobet
Hmm. This now seems to be fixed on both my desktop and laptop (both running 7.04). Perhaps it has already been fixed, or perhaps some permissions were screwed up somewhere. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, though. -- cannot re-order items https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127846 You

[Bug 128474] screenshot, annotate and zoom plugins interfere with mouse

2007-07-26 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz After enabling compiz via the Desktop Effects preferences item, the mouse becomes unusable: * Left click does nothing * Left click and drag creates a lasso which selects an area of the screen and takes a screenshot (the screenshot plugin) *

[Bug 127846] cannot re-order items

2007-07-23 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: alacarte 1. open alacarte by going to System = Preferences = Main Menu 2. drag an application item to another position in the same menu -or- 2. use the move up or move down buttons to move an application item to another position 3. the application item

[Bug 59060] Re: Invest applet renders incorrectly

2007-07-21 Thread Glyphobet
I can confirm that this bug still exists in Edgy as of 2007-07-21. The non-functional color block next to the invest applet button is still there. If the color block is really meant to indicate the overall performance of your stock symbols, you should be able to disable it in the preferences,

[Bug 51472] Re: kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:463!

2007-06-04 Thread Glyphobet
Well... I guess the answer to that would be no. I only saw this problem once, almost a year ago, when I was running Ubuntu 6.06 and an older version of the kernel. In the past year I haven't seen the problem again. I'm now running 6.10 and kernel 2.6.17-11-generic. -- kernel BUG at

[Bug 82091] Re: update-notifier dies while upgrading dapper to edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Glyphobet
Sorry. I reported this bug three months ago. The crash report is long gone. -- update-notifier dies while upgrading dapper to edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/82091 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 89352] open file dialog crashes when you have moved images out of the last directory files were opened from

2007-03-02 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gimp Steps to reproduce: 1. Put some JPG files in a folder called foo 2. Start gimp 3. Choose open file and navigate to the foo folder 4. Open one of the JPG files 5. Make a new folder inside foo, called bar with Nautilus 6. Move some (not all) of the

[Bug 89352] Re: open file dialog crashes when you have moved images out of the last directory files were opened from

2007-03-02 Thread Glyphobet
here's the crash log ** Attachment added: file from /var/crash/ for this bug http://librarian.launchpad.net/6605351/_usr_bin_gimp-2.2.1000.crash -- open file dialog crashes when you have moved images out of the last directory files were opened from https://launchpad.net/bugs/89352 --

[Bug 86559] Re: firefox crashes intermittently

2007-02-22 Thread Glyphobet
Whoops! Sorry, I forgot to check the permissions. The crash file should now be downloadable from the link above. ** Attachment added: crash file http://librarian.launchpad.net/6509878/_usr_lib_firefox_firefox-bin.1000.crash -- firefox crashes intermittently

[Bug 86559] Re: firefox crashes intermittently

2007-02-22 Thread Glyphobet
No, I'm sorry... I don't remember what sites were open. :( -- firefox crashes intermittently https://launchpad.net/bugs/86559 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 81863] Re: firefox crashed while update-manager was running

2007-02-22 Thread Glyphobet
No, I'm sorry... I don't have this crash report anymore. I don't know why, but it disappeared from /var/crash/ -- I assume something cleans /var/crash/ out periodically, or at reboot... -matt -- firefox crashed while update-manager was running https://launchpad.net/bugs/81863 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 86559] firefox crashes intermittently

2007-02-20 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox Firefox crashed, and a crash report was generated. I had not touched Firefox for an hour or more, it was merely open on another desktop. Please find the crash report here: http://www.theory.org/~matt/crash/_usr_lib_firefox_firefox-

[Bug 81863] Re: firefox crashed while update-manager was running

2007-02-20 Thread Glyphobet
I have encountered a similar crash again. I have opened a new bug with a complete crash report available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/86559 -- firefox crashed while update-manager was running https://launchpad.net/bugs/81863 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 86115] Re: no mime-types for fontforge

2007-02-18 Thread Glyphobet
ps. This is in Edgy / 6.10 -- please forgive me if it's fixed in Feisty. -- no mime-types for fontforge https://launchpad.net/bugs/86115 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 86115] no mime-types for fontforge

2007-02-18 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fontforge Fontforge saves its internal format in files with .sfd extensions. Nautilus identifies these files as text/plain and wants to open them with Gedit or whatever your default text editor is. I can add Fontforge to the Open With menu using

[Bug 81863] Re: firefox crashed while update-manager was running

2007-02-16 Thread Glyphobet
I'm sorry, but the crash report is long gone. It was in /var/crash/ -- I can only assume that it was cleaned up during reboot or by a cron job. Maybe the package manager did something to cause the crash, or it could have been just random coincidence -- either way, I have only seen it once and

[Bug 82559] gaim crashed unexpectedly

2007-01-31 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gaim I was just using gaim normally, and it crashed. The only thing that was unusual was that someone tried to send me a file, and I accepted it. The transfer sat at 0% for a few minutes, then I canceled it. (File transfer in gaim has never worked, in

[Bug 82559] Re: gaim crashed unexpectedly

2007-01-31 Thread Glyphobet
here's the crash log. Let's see if this works better than uploading the firefox crash log a few days ago. :/ ** Attachment added: here's the crash log. Let's see if this works better than uploading the firefox crash log a few days ago. :/

[Bug 82091] update-notifier dies while upgrading dapper to edgy

2007-01-29 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-notifier update-notifier died and generated this bug report while I was upgrading dapper to edgy. Memory status: size: 30887936 vsize: 0 resident: 30887936 share: 0 rss: 8826880 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 1167159190 rtime: 0 utime: 6697

[Bug 82089] gnome-terminal seg faults while upgrading to edgy

2007-01-29 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal This has happened to me twice, on two different machines, when upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) to Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy). My guess would be that this is due to mismatches between libraries as some have been upgraded and others have not

[Bug 82092] bug report generated by nm-applet while upgrading from dapper to edgy

2007-01-29 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome This bug report was generated while I was upgrading from dapper to edgy: Memory status: size: 21241856 vsize: 0 resident: 21241856 share: 0 rss: 12529664 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 1163141870 rtime: 0 utime: 445 stime: 0

[Bug 81863] firefox crashed while update-manager was running

2007-01-27 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox I had a firefox window open, and wasn't using it. I was watching update-manager download new updates, all to gnome control panel related items, if I remember correctly. Then 'apport' used up 100% of my cpu for about three minutes. Then I was

[Bug 81863] Re: firefox crashed while update-manager was running

2007-01-27 Thread Glyphobet
I tried to upload the file that apport wanted me to attach but got this instead: 500 Internal Server Error An internal server error occurred. Please try again later. So, my previous comment stands, email me and I will email you the file. Also, I would suggest that the initial report a bug form

[Bug 45212] Re: Rhythmbox seg faults after a few moments

2006-09-27 Thread Glyphobet
I still have exactly the same issue on dapper. I will upgrade to edgy as soon as it is released, so I can test this for you on edgy at that point. I realize that's not super helpful, but I can't really risk testing a beta release on this machine as it is my only machine right now. -- Rhythmbox

[Bug 21413] Re: Proposals for Swap Partition too small for Hibernation to work scenario

2006-09-27 Thread Glyphobet
IMHO, the laptop should beep loudly when hibernate fails, and a dialog box with error message like You have too many programs open to hibernate successfully. Try quitting some and hibernating again. should appear once you log back in to X. The loud beep should prevent people from telling their

[Bug 21413] Re: Proposals for Swap Partition too small for Hibernation to work scenario

2006-09-27 Thread Glyphobet
Someone told me that the kernel frees up cached and buffer memory until it can copy *all* of the resident, non-virtual memory into swap. But that's just hearsay. :) -- Proposals for Swap Partition too small for Hibernation to work scenario https://launchpad.net/bugs/21413 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 51472] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:463!

2006-06-30 Thread Glyphobet
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-25-686 I came home to find my machine attempting (and failing) to reboot. A hard reset brought it back up again. I am running dapper, totally up to date. This was sitting in /var/log/syslog: Jun 30 12:43:48 string kernel:

[Bug 45212] Re: Rhythmbox seg faults after a few moments

2006-06-25 Thread Glyphobet
Running it again, looks like it's dying because there are m4a files in one of the directories it scans on startup: $ gdb --args gst-launch-0.10 -t filesrc 'file:///path/to/file/file.m4a'! decodebin ! fakesink GNU gdb 6.4-debian Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software,

[Bug 45212] Re: Rhythmbox seg faults after a few moments

2006-06-25 Thread Glyphobet
Here's thread apply all bt (I left gdb running, so it's from the same invocation of the program as the above backtrace) (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 2 (Thread -1216918608 (LWP 20138)): #0 0xe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7e58c76 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from

[Bug 45212] Re: Rhythmbox seg faults after a few moments

2006-06-25 Thread Glyphobet
It appears to crash on a different, random file each time. Sometimes it is a mp3, sometimes an m4a. I just tried it four times -- it died on four different files, three mp3s and one m4a. I am not the copyright owner of the music files that I have so I cannot upload them. Sorry. -- Rhythmbox