[Bug 989405] [NEW] GNOME with Xmonad session requires gnome-panel

2012-04-26 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: After installing the xmonad package, the login session GNOME with Xmonad is offered, but it cannot start, instead issuing an error message (from memory) unable to open 'xmonad'. This seems to be caused by the absence of the gnome-panel package; installing this makes things

[Bug 890972] Re: Sup does not work with ruby-gpgme because of new 2.0.0 API

2012-04-26 Thread Jim Cheetham
My error is similar, although starting sup-mail displays old mail initially. sup dies when polling for new messages, so I've reproduced it more simply with sup-sync :- jim@maru:~$ sup-sync [Fri Apr 27 17:40:27 +1200 2012] WARNING: can't find character set by using locale, defaulting to utf-8

[Bug 973173] Re: /etc/mailcap syntax problem

2012-04-22 Thread Jim Cheetham
The edit you should have made to /etc/mailcap was to remove the single quotes around the %s part of the display command ... broken mailcap line :- image/png; display 'png:'%s''; test=test -n $DISPLAY fixed mailcap line :- image/png; display 'png:%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY I suspect that this

[Bug 841408] [NEW] woof crashes when trying to upload file

2011-09-04 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: woof will start and handle HTTP requests successfully, but when actually trying to upload a file to the end-user it will crash with the following dump :- $ woof -s Now serving on http://IPADDR:8080/ HOSTNAME - - [05/Sep/2011 11:00:47] GET /woof 200 - [Errno 32] Broken pipe

[Bug 516016] Re: [karmic] openvpn service starts before dhclient

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
Problem also occurs on a 10.04.1 machine, where OpenVPN is supposed to be listening to connections coming in on a bridged interface (ultimately to place client sessions on that same interface). Section of syslog: Dec 8 11:45:40 moonshine ovpn-areo[849]: TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local

[Bug 687631] [NEW] bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bridge-utils I have a bridge interface specified in /etc/network/interfaces, but when the machine starts up the bridge device is not available early enough -- other packages (specifically OpenVPN and OpenNTPd) try to bind to the requested interface, but

[Bug 687631] Re: bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment added: syslog snippets showing network state app failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/687631/+attachment/1760314/+files/bridge-utils-syslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bridge-utils in

[Bug 516016] Re: [karmic] openvpn service starts before dhclient

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
Problem also occurs on a 10.04.1 machine, where OpenVPN is supposed to be listening to connections coming in on a bridged interface (ultimately to place client sessions on that same interface). Section of syslog: Dec 8 11:45:40 moonshine ovpn-areo[849]: TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local

[Bug 687631] [NEW] bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bridge-utils I have a bridge interface specified in /etc/network/interfaces, but when the machine starts up the bridge device is not available early enough -- other packages (specifically OpenVPN and OpenNTPd) try to bind to the requested interface, but

[Bug 687631] Re: bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment added: syslog snippets showing network state app failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/687631/+attachment/1760314/+files/bridge-utils-syslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 644825] Re: byobu/screen unpredictably crashes Cannot find master process to attach to!

2010-10-21 Thread Jim Cheetham
The last two times this has happened to me, the server in question had had a new kernel installed as part of system upgrades, but had not yet been rebooted. Probably a red herring. I tried to run an instance under strace -- however the program behaves very differently under these circumstances,

[Bug 650539] Re: Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...

2010-10-17 Thread Jim Cheetham
Calm down Obi1Kenobi, I agree that it is a shame this bug has not been picked up on by the Ubuntu dev team, but all I see on the Arch side is a more technical community identifying the root cause and shipping an accepted patch back to the Xorg developers. What I don't see is a new build from Xorg

[Bug 657963] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 650539 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650539 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 657966 skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 650539 Launching QT apps such as

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 650539 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650539 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 650539 Launching QT apps such as SpeedCrunch, keepassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, skype, Google Earth, VLC crashes Xserver * You can subscribe to

[Bug 650539] Re: Launching QT apps such as SpeedCrunch, keepassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, Skype crashes Xserver

2010-10-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
I've just marked #657966 as a duplicate. This was the same behaviour originally linked to Radeon with Xinerama. This bug has identified the following apps with problems, to add to your current list :- VirtualBox OSE VirtualBox PUEL Skype Opera KeePassX VLC qtpfsgui picard I see reports of this

[Bug 650539] Re: Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...

2010-10-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Summary changed: - Launching QT apps such as SpeedCrunch, keepassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, Skype crashes Xserver + Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
I agree with the Xinerama link, although I don't know what the underlying mechanism is yet. There is also a strong suggestion of a link with QT. I switched from the radeon to the fglrx drivers, and get equivalent behaviour when running these apps -- Xorg crashes as soon as they get UI events.

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
I tested glxgears and glxheads -- in both cases the animation only happened if I was generating mouse or keyboard interrupts in the glxgears window. With keyboard on autorepeat, I got 25.000 FPS from glxgears; mouse interrupts managed to get me to 59 FPS. As soon as interrupts cease, the

[Bug 657963] [NEW] skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Starting skype from the command-line causes Xorg to immediately crash exit on this machine. In more detail, it seems like any GUI IO on the skype application is actually what causes the crash, as it is sometimes possible for gnome-session to start

[Bug 657963] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment added: gdb session watching Xorg https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657963/+attachment/1682899/+files/gdb-Xorg.txt ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657963/+attachment/1682900/+files/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt

[Bug 657966] [NEW] skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Starting skype from the command-line causes Xorg to immediately crash exit on this machine. In more detail, it seems like any GUI IO on the skype application is actually what causes the crash, as it is sometimes possible for gnome-session to start

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment added: gdb session watching Xorg crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657966/+attachment/1682950/+files/gdb-Xorg.txt ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657966/+attachment/1682951/+files/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
I also have an strace output of a crashing Skype invocation, which seems to indicate a problem writing to the X socket. This probably isn't unexpected ... 3067 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 7 3067 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@/tmp/.X11-unix/X0}, 20) = 0 ... 3067 ...

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
The xorg.conf has the device option Option EnablePageFlip off set, I added this because of a similar-sounding bug #481669, but it had no effect one way or another ... :-) -- skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

[Bug 657966] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
Also happens for KeepassX -- perhaps related to #647845 ? -- skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 657963] Re: skype (and others) cause complete crash of xorg on startup/IO activity

2010-10-10 Thread Jim Cheetham
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 657966 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657966 ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete ** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg Starting skype from the command-line causes Xorg to immediately crash exit on this

[Bug 644825] Re: byobu/screen unpredictably crashes Cannot find master process to attach to!

2010-09-23 Thread Jim Cheetham
I'm just using the default Ubuntu screen, which as far as I know does not have nethack mode enabled; I have not seen any messages like this before (well, not since the late 1980s when I was part of an unsuccessful attempt to hack a new immortal character into nethack ...). Actually, I have rarely

[Bug 644825] Re: byobu/screen unpredictably crashes Cannot find master process to attach to!

2010-09-23 Thread Jim Cheetham
Summary: no nethack options active, and sufficient memory. {{{ j...@moonshine:~$ echo $NETHACKOPTIONS j...@moonshine:~$ ls -l .nethackrc ls: cannot access .nethackrc: No such file or directory j...@moonshine:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached

[Bug 34299] Re: deluser fails to remove home because of Examples link

2010-08-21 Thread Jim Cheetham
Sorry, the lack of an Examples symlink in current distro versions isn't sufficient to fix the fault. The bug is still present on 10.04, for example ... although to trigger it you now have to create your own symlink rather than one being created by default for you. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)

[Bug 507760] Re: c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2')

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment removed: Add numbers to similar_words()' alphabet http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37909064/CommandNotFound-numeric-diff -- c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2') https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507760 You received this bug notification

[Bug 507760] [NEW] c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2')

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: command-not-found The function similar_words in CommandNotFound.py does not consider numbers in command names, and therefore c-n-f fails to suggest 'bzip2' when given the input 'bzip'. j...@roro:~$ bzip No command 'bzip' found, did you mean: Command

[Bug 507760] Re: c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2')

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
** Attachment added: Add numbers to similar_words()' alphabet http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37909064/CommandNotFound-numeric-diff -- c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2') https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507760 You received this bug notification

[Bug 507760] Re: c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2')

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
Credit: Reported by ol on #ubuntu-nz, similar_words() identified by ajmitch on #ubuntu-nz. Diff produced by yojimbo-san on #ubuntu-nz. -- c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2') https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507760 You received this bug notification

[Bug 507760] Re: c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does not suggest 'bzip2')

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
Sorry, I trusted a wildcard to make my diff; it's in the wrong direction ... here's a better one. ** Attachment added: Add numerics to similar_words()' alphabet http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37909114/CommandNotFound-numeric-diff-2 -- c-n-f does not suggest commands with numbers ('bzip' does

[Bug 475694] Re: OpenVPN thru network manager fails for non-password configurations

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Cheetham
No, I don't think it is; that bug seems to be discussing a case where stored secrets are not correctly applied; this bug is discussing a case where secrets are not even present in the first place. However there are people with this problem who have joined on to 284212, from comment #60 onwards,

[Bug 481054] Re: Cannot connect to VPN (No VPN secrets!) if no private key password is required

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
Attaching a screenshot of the Network Manager GUI editing the VPN config. ** Attachment added: Screenshot of VPN GUI configuration http://launchpadlibrarian.net/3671/Screenshot-Editing%20testvpn.png -- Cannot connect to VPN (No VPN secrets!) if no private key password is required

[Bug 481054] [NEW] Cannot connect to VPN (No VPN secrets!) if no private key password is required

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc I have an OpenVPN configuration that works from the command-line, without requiring any passwords to be entered (simple possession of the keys certs is sufficient). When I import the configuration file into Network Manager, and do

[Bug 481054] Re: Cannot connect to VPN (No VPN secrets!) if no private key password is required

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 475694 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475694 My apologies; I have just realised that I've filed this bug against network-manager-vpnc; but I'm not using the Cisco client, I'm using the OpenVPN one ... and it's duplicate/extension of #475694. I'll try

[Bug 475694] Re: OpenVPN thru network manager fails for non-password configurations

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
I have an OpenVPN configuration that works from the command-line, without requiring any passwords to be entered (simple possession of the keys certs is sufficient). When I import the configuration file into Network Manager, and do not specify a Private Key Password' value, connections fail,

[Bug 155823] Re: wrong ACL on log file

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Cheetham
The contents of /var/log/ are not unified as per access permissions, although many files have group readability for adm this is not a consistent scheme. The dnet client program is running as user daemon, and writes its own log file directly, inheriting group 'daemon' implicitly. The

[Bug 34299] Re: deluser fails to remove home because of Examples link

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Cheetham
This bug needs to be re-opened, as the previous fix did not account for the --remove-all-files usage. deluser --remove-all-files fails to remove the Examples symlink in the more recent version of adduser in Hardy, adduser 3.105ubuntu1. deluser --remove-home is OK. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# adduser

[Bug 34299] Re: deluser fails to remove home because of Examples link

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Cheetham
Changing bug status to In Progress as the previous fix did not account for all use cases. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = In Progress -- deluser fails to remove home because of Examples link https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/34299 You received this bug notification

[Bug 34299] Re: deluser fails to remove home because of Examples link

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Cheetham
Sorry, my comment was slightly inaccurate, although the fix patch are still valid ... home_match() assigns a filename to @files on both -f and -l filetest conditions, which means that the Examples symlink ends up in both @files and @dirs That should have been home_match() assigns a symlinked

[Bug 96753] Re: [feisty] scapy crashes using any version of python

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Cheetham
I've suggested a fix/workaround on the upstream bug tracker, http://trac.secdev.org/scapy/ticket/40 In the meantime, there's probably enough information in this bug report to get people around the problem. -- [feisty] scapy crashes using any version of python

[Bug 96753] Re: [feisty] scapy crashes using any version of python

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Cheetham
/etc/ethertypes (provided by ebtables) is not relevant to this; fixing that message doesn't fix the fault. The problem appears to trigger for unconfigured interfaces; I have an eth0 that is not configured at boot time (no cable plugged in to the UTP socket), and 'scapy -h' (which should print out

[Bug 96753] Re: [feisty] scapy crashes using any version of python

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Cheetham
My scapy (1.0.4-1) cannot be invoked from the command line without crashing :- $ scapy -h /usr/bin/scapy:3101: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 /usr/bin/scapy:3103: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 INFO: Can't import PyX. Won't be able to

[Bug 58347] Listed as conflicting with libapache2-mod-php4

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Cheetham
Public bug reported: This packages is listed as having a conflict with libapache2-mod-php4, but as far as I can see there are no files in common. The only conflict arrives when you attempt to load both modules into a single apache instance; however if you maintain multiple apache servers (so you

[Bug 58347] Re: Listed as conflicting with libapache2-mod-php4

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Cheetham
As an alternative, can someone tell me how to keep both these packages installed? I can install libapache2-mod-php5 normally, and add libapache2-mod-pgp4 manually with dpkg --force-conflicts, but I can't install any other packages without this unresolveable conflict being reported. -- Listed as