[Bug 602210] Re: connman does not rescan for wireless networks after suspend

2014-06-10 Thread Joe Baker
I had problems with Wifi after suspending. Try this after resuming to see if it helps: sudo killall wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant will respawn. If it works you can automate this for every suspend by creating a file such as: /etc/pm/sleep.d/99fixwifi.sh I found parts of the following

Re: [Bug 135000] Re: unresponsive at broadcom firmware installation

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Baker
the Restricted Driver Manager successfully. It would be good if the Restricted Driver Manager could make this suggestion or start the process of downloading this tool. - -Joe Baker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[Bug 81027] Re: emacs21(X11) displays boxes for fonts then crashes

2007-09-24 Thread Joe Baker
We run LTSP thin clients. The X11 Gui version of Emacs shows boxes instead of fonts on our thin clients and our remote Nomachine sessions, but fonts appear OK on the Local X Display of the LTSP server. -- emacs21(X11) displays boxes for fonts then crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81027

[Bug 81027] Re: emacs21(X11) displays boxes for fonts then crashes

2007-09-24 Thread Joe Baker
Oh, I should have mentioned this is on Feisty 7.04. I hope to check it on a Gutsy Tribe 5 installation I have also. -- emacs21(X11) displays boxes for fonts then crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81027 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 81027] Re: emacs21(X11) displays boxes for fonts then crashes

2007-09-24 Thread Joe Baker
When launching Emacs from a terminal (opening up into a GUI). This is the error message I see which leads to the menus displaying ok, but the document text area shows boxes. Warning: Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert

[Bug 139681] Re: Can't type in password dialog

2007-09-21 Thread Joe Baker
This problem occurs when Extra Effects is turned on from : System - Preferences - Appearance - Desktop Effects Yet typing in the password works when No Effects is chosen. -Joe Baker -- Can't type in password dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139681 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 64301] Re: Unable to unlock screen when using ldap

2007-09-20 Thread Joe Baker
Consider the issue confirmed. This problem plagues other distributions as well. Please just make some queries upstream with the Gnome developers on our behalf. Thanks -Joe Baker Sebastien Bacher wrote: Cesar, there is ten of thousands of bugs open and only a limited number of people working

Re: [Bug 131385] Re: pulaudio excessively drains laptop battery

2007-09-17 Thread Joe Baker
the battery. I can imagine that silence would be re-sampled just as any sound would be. Unless there is some sort of intelligent muting circuit. It was a good call to see that this was draining laptop batteries though. -Joe Baker -- pulaudio excessively drains laptop battery https

[Bug 139681] Can't type in password dialog

2007-09-14 Thread Joe Baker
, see the cursor flashing and when I type letters I see asterisks as expected. Running Gutsy Gibbons Tribe 5 with all updates loaded as of Friday Sept14. -Joe Baker ** Affects: vnc4 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Can't type in password dialog https

[Bug 131385] Re: pulaudio excessively drains laptop battery

2007-09-13 Thread Joe Baker
Could it be that you were transcoding one sample rate to another? maybe if there was unity between all the devices the load would be less. -- pulaudio excessively drains laptop battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 131711] NoMachine breaks ubuntu-desktop sound

2007-09-05 Thread Joe Baker
I have a laptop where I've installed Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5. Sound works (Although I don't hear the splash screen sound when the desktop is loading). As soon as I connect to a NoMachine session sound on the desktop breaks. and won't resume. I plan on alerting NoMachine of this as well. I am

[Bug 48212] Re: ltsp's dhcpd fails after server is hibernated

2007-08-31 Thread Joe Baker
Scott, Changing that line to... STOP_SERVICES=mysql dhcp3-server Worked! Sorry I forgot to include the last space before the ending quote. Although maybe it was good to know that the space wasn't required. Thanks for the Fix! -Joe Baker -- ltsp's dhcpd fails after server is hibernated https

[Bug 60995] Re: The backspace key pages up instead of going back in history

2007-08-23 Thread Joe Baker
Here's the Firefox documentation page which says that on Linux Backspace should take the user back a page in history. Here's the footnote: For this shortcut to work on Linux, use about:config to set the preference browser.backspace_action to 0. The Documentation link:

Re: [Bug 60995] Re: The backspace key pages up instead of going back in history

2007-08-22 Thread Joe Baker
mentioned having problems with it. -Joe Baker -- The backspace key pages up instead of going back in history https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 125750] Re: PulseAudio is started before HAL, module-hal-detect fails

2007-08-14 Thread Joe Baker
This seems to make sense to me to move Pulseaudio to start after HAL. Of course PulseAudio then needs to give feedback to HAL after it creates new sound offerings. I can see how others might have thought HAL should be second, but it's clear that PulseAudio needs HAL to detect the raw hardware

[Bug 103812] Re: Doesn't See network printers installed on system.

2007-06-14 Thread Joe Baker
This is still occurring on Feisty. I have the option of printing to file. Then I can issue a command line of: kprinter /home/joebaker/print.ps I'd like to introduce this wonderful program to the users on our LTSP server, but this is an embarrasing problem. -Joe -- Doesn't See network printers

[Bug 64301] Re: Unable to unlock screen when using ldap

2007-06-01 Thread Joe Baker
LDAP authenticated users still can't unlock the Gnome-Screensaver. Adding the includes to /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver did not help. This is an important issue for large scale deployments. Our deployment is small, but gnome-screensaver needs to work with out having access to any master password

[Bug 64301] Re: Unable to unlock screen when using ldap

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Baker
in the directory to see which other profiles also included common-auth. These profiles also included common-auth and were the model for the change I'm trying out: ssh, kscreensaver, login, gdm, kcheckpasswd I'll report back later on how this works. Thanks. -Joe Baker -- Unable to unlock screen when

[Bug 67390] Re: More aggressive NFS disk caching

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Baker
You might check to see how the swapfiles are started. In the old LTSP 4.2 system a client would create a swapfile on it's first connection, but thereafter, the swapfile would be re-attached to a unique file based upon the ip address of the client. -- More aggressive NFS disk caching

[Bug 116274] Re: [feisty] no currently active network device, won't activate VPN

2007-05-24 Thread Joe Baker
This problem appears to have healed itself. I've recently installed some updates. Although Network-Manager has been buggy for me, but I like the direction this application is moving toward. -- [feisty] no currently active network device, won't activate VPN

[Bug 81700] Re: Only allow a smaller selection of users to perform privileged shutdown/suspend/hibernate

2007-05-24 Thread Joe Baker
As root run gconf-editor Navigate to Apps- gnome-power-manager - Uncheck these two keys: can_hibernate can_suspend This resulted in immediately removing the Hibernate functions from all currently running sessions. Very nice. -Joe Baker -- Only allow a smaller

[Bug 64301] Re: Unable to unlock screen when using ldap

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Baker
Same problem exists again in Feisty 7.04. -Joe Baker -- Unable to unlock screen when using ldap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64301 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 116274] [feisty] no currently active network device, won't activate VPN

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Baker
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager-openvpn My WiFI card shows up as eth1. In a profile where Eth0 (a true ethernet port) is down and wifi (eth1) is up I find when trying to engage an openvpn connection with Network-Manager that an error in /var/log/syslog reports: no

[Bug 110278] Re: New gq unable to connect a ldap server

2007-05-11 Thread Joe Baker
-attribute /ldapserver Thanks for the neat program! Sincerely, Joe Baker -- New gq unable to connect a ldap server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 48212] Re: ltsp's dhcpd fails after server is hibernated

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Baker
Well I've often thought about hibernating servers in the evening to save on electricity. This morning one of my users selected Hibernate from their Log Off... screen and I start getting lots of calls. I go to the ltsp server and it's powered down. Powering it back up worked, but I can confirm

[Bug 78282] Summarizing our Progress with vnc4server on Ubuntu

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Baker
To summarize: There seems to be three general ideas for fixing vnc4server on Ubuntu. 1. -extension XFIXES (an addition to Xvnc execution) 2. Fixing the Font Path 3. Compiling against the newer version of Xorg. === 1. -extension XFIXES (an addition to Xvnc execution)

[Bug 110278] Re: New gq unable to connect a ldap server

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Baker
7.04 Ubuntu i386. My configs were working under Edgy (6.10). Now after fresh install I can't get gq to connect to our LDAP server. Background. Our LDAP server is running on an old Mandrake 9.1 machine. It likely does not support TLS connections. I usually refer to it by it's IP address. -Joe

Re: [Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Baker
longer in desktop environment mode, only the gray screen with the X mouse pointer appeared. Step 2 took care of that. This is great news that you've gotten this to work better! So will the font issue get updated into an updated Ubutnu package? -Joe Baker -- vnc4server does not start

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
This is most likely a problem with /etc/vnc.conf not having some sane defaults. Maybe the problem is that vncserver and vnc4server can both be installed at the same time. I'm looking into this further. Maybe we can patch /etc/vnc.conf from vnc4-common package. -- vnc4server does not start

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
I'm trying to figure out where this file gets generated from ~/.vnc/xstartup It does not invoke gnome. The file instructs that for a normal desktop two lines should be commented out. I tried doing that... still no gnome-session. I tried adding gnome-session at the end, but no joy. --

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
Hmm... some apps work under this vnc4server firefox emacs (as an X application) konqueror Open Office .org Works...(Font smoothing is not so smooth) Some apps do not work... nautilus gnome-session gedit gcalctool (Offers interesting error message) main.c:

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
The twm window manager works. To me this seems like Gnome's inability to deal with a non-GLX display. This is a show stopper especially for Linux thin clients. Now on this machine I did have some 3d effects software loaded beryl and such. Maybe this is leading to certain gnome options enabled

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server won't support Gnome

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
I'm testing in Feisty at present and we are still having problems getting Gnome applications to startup within RealVNC (vnc4server). I ran glxinfo and it told me that glx was not supported in a series of displays then it coredumped. I've read that RealVNC can support GLX extensions. I don't

[Bug 78282] Bug #78282 - Try Version Bump

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
The latest version of RealVNC is 4.1.2 The version Feisty and Edgy are working with is 4.1.1+xorg1.0.2-0ubuntu4 . Maybe try bumping the version up? -- vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78282 You received this bug notification

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Gnome Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Baker
I installed kubuntu-desktop then modified ~/.vnc/xstartup to include the line exec startkde And the KDE desktop starts up. Gnome applications fail though. Where should I file this bug report under Gnome? Still Gnome applications don't work. -Joe Baker -- vnc4server does not start Desktop

[Bug 85403] I prefer RealVNC (vnc4)

2007-04-10 Thread Joe Baker
on it. I am in favor of seeing RealVNC moved to becoming the default program for vncserver and vnviewer. It's a solid program. Something to watch out for though in all the VNC Server products is keymapping. Test the numeric keypad, ctrl-z (undo) for proper functions from several vnc clients. -Joe

[Bug 64301] Re: Unable to unlock screen when using ldap

2007-04-10 Thread Joe Baker
in the other pam/ldap files to see if I can find out what's going wrong here. I should also note that I am running an LTSP thin client session. Maybe I'll try this on the server itself. It's the ltsp-standalone-server as provided by Ubutnut 6.10. Cheers till later! -Joe Baker -- Unable to unlock screen

[Bug 103812] Doesn't See network printers installed on system.

2007-04-06 Thread Joe Baker
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vym Thunderbird can see and print to the printers setup, but VYM does not list the printers. Thinking it might be a KDE thing, I ruled that out by printing from kspread successfully. Good Luck! Thanks! -Joe Baker ** Affects: vym (Ubuntu

[Bug 102410] Feisty Xubuntu LVM over RAID1 won't boot

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Baker
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer Xubuntu Alternate Install Alpha 5 I performed the LTSP install. Here I describe what I can recall of performing custom partitioning from the installer. I created a RAID1 device from two single partitions each on a 40 gig drive. Next I

[Bug 102410] Re: Feisty Xubuntu LVM over RAID1 won't boot

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Baker
This bug report could be related to #75681 as you mentioned. I'll type here what I see when the system tries to boot after the install... Hopefully I've scrolled back far enouth. It seems like mdadmin can't read the config file which should have been written into the initrd, right? --- [

Re: [Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Baker
Chuck Forsberg wrote: Was able to get tightvncserver working with fluxbox on Feisty. When I tried to use gnome I got a desktop allright, but the keys in the keyboard were mixed up. Would be nice to get gnome to work with the latest and fastest VNC. Vino works but doesn't count because it

[Bug 74952] Re: crash while undo of of delete operation

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Baker
Under Ubuntu 6.10 Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 the Ctrl-Z option seems to be masked. I have to use Edit-Undo Delete from the menu. I couldn't add a bug, rather I entered a support request about the matter here on launchpad. https://answers.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+ticket/3829 -- crash while undo of

[Bug 1084] Workaround: View Source

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Baker
Ctrl - U will give you a new window (scrollable) which displays the full text of the email including mime encapsulation. From the menus View - Message Source Cheers! -- turn on full headers and there is no scroll bar https://launchpad.net/bugs/1084 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 86505] Application Reports 7.0.8 in Help About instead of 7.0.9

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Baker
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: acroread I'm trying to ensure that we have the new 7.0.9 version installed, but while Synaptic reports that 7.0.9 is installed, Acrobat's own Help - About Acrobat 7 reports 7.0.8. ** Affects: acroread (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status:

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Baker
I've also encountered this problem here. I'm migrating from a Mandriva server where we had nearly 30 pre-launched VNC Server sessions to Ubuntu. I'm eager to see version 4.2.8 deployed in Feistey. Although Tightvncserver is getting us by for now. -- vnc4server does not start Desktop

[Bug 82894] Logging out of Gnome from XDMCP session does not return to login screen

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Baker
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm We have Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 installed with the latest updates. We use the LTSP package provided by Ubuntu. However instead of using LDM, I have enabled GDM's XDMCP logins and I've rigged the thin clients to use startx instead of ldm. This all works