Re: [Bug 1905483] Re: Lubuntu installer cannot deal with a virgin disc.

2021-01-25 Thread John Hunter
Thank you for that. It would have been good manners to inform me that the "bug" had been fixed when it was resolved. On 25/01/2021 19:29, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > "Seems" is the appropriate word. The reality is, it's long resolved. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1905483] Re: Lubuntu installer cannot deal with a virgin disc.

2021-01-25 Thread John Hunter
There seems to have been no action on this bug. There is a (clumsy) work around: install another distribution (Q4OS in my case) and then reinstall ubuntu. If that doesn't give you a clue that there is an issue here, I give up! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 1905483] Re: Lubuntu installer cannot deal with a virgin disc.

2020-11-25 Thread John Hunter
uot;virgin" and the issue is not repeatable. I trust that you find this experience useful. John Hunter On 25/11/2020 01:52, Chris Guiver wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it &

[Bug 1905483] [NEW] Lubuntu installer cannot deal with a virgin disc.

2020-11-24 Thread John Hunter
y warning. I never got as far as being able to track down the guilty package; try "installation script"? John Hunter ** Affects: calamares (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

Re: [Bug 1616237] Re: Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

2016-10-04 Thread John Hunter
Thank you for your reply -- which was less than helpful. I am not a complete dolt: I attempted to follow the on screen instructions and the mess that followed was entirelythe efforts of the grub installer. Perhaps you need different, clearer instructions. To actually get a working system, I

[Bug 1616237] [NEW] Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

2016-08-23 Thread John Hunter
Public bug reported: This seems to be an installer silly. In this case, the install is installing over Kubuntu 14.04. The disc is a normal 500GB drive with a DOS partition table. The installer partition manager is aware of this but the boot installer seems to be oblivious of this. This makes an

[Bug 1457184] [NEW] Plasma 5.2.2 cannot do separate wallpapers for each desktop. (:-

2015-05-20 Thread John Hunter
Public bug reported: just installed Kubuntu 15.04. The installation went well. however long established desktop configurations do not work any more; this leads to confusion and loss of productivity. I have just spent nearly 3 hours attempting to re engineer the desktop configuration. I have

[Bug 1457184] Re: Plasma 5.2.2 cannot do separate wallpapers for each desktop. (:-

2015-05-20 Thread John Hunter
There seems to be other design errors in this version of Plasma: there seems to be no sane facility to remove unwanted applets from the task bar. I have had to resort to manually editing the file ~/.config/plasma- org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1290038] Re: After an upgrade KDE has become unuseable

2014-03-11 Thread John Hunter
I have now installed netrunner 13.12 over Kubuntu 14.04 beta-1. Initially KDE 4.11.5 sort of worked in sofar as it gave me back my 12 desktops complete with the correct wallpapers for each desktop. Secondly, the bottom panel was configured correctly. However there were still no window frames. I

[Bug 1290038] [NEW] After an upgrade KDE has become unuseable

2014-03-09 Thread John Hunter
Public bug reported: KDE 14.04 beta-1 Installed 06-mar-14; immediately followed by 272 ugrades using sysnaptic (Muon Discover proved absolutely useless; used it to install Muon; used muon to install synaptic -- this process apparently mangled 6 packages!). Applied two batches of upgrades on

[Bug 1290038] Re: After an upgrade KDE has become unuseable

2014-03-09 Thread John Hunter
** Package changed: ubuntu = kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290038 Title: After an upgrade KDE has become unuseable To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1241758] Re: ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer = not even possible to mount existing partitions

2014-01-05 Thread John Hunter
I am a third complainer. Luckily, I decided to try 13.10 on a spare laptop. I concur with the useless description. I am currently running on 12.04 which is increasingly showing its age: there are problems with system settings and the KDE community are ignoring problems with the older facilities

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-10-07 Thread John Hunter
cured the problem. The crass Network Manager forced me to change to another Linux distribution. Hence I will not risk attempting to run your apport- collect script. John Hunter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-22 Thread John Hunter
the option of disabling wlan -- which does wonders for laptop battery life! John Hunter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779040 Title: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-19 Thread John Hunter
I think that I have (partially) cracked it! I have dissassembled the initrd.img to find that the offending driver (r8169) is embedded in it. There needs to be some mechanism to blacklist such rogue drivers at the boot stage: is there a boot command line option which effect this? John Hunter

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-15 Thread John Hunter
the required effect -- in anyway, that would eventually confuse me! John Hunter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779040 Title: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-14 Thread John Hunter
could be innocent! John Hunter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779040 Title: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-14 Thread John Hunter
Just searched the internet: it would appear that the r8169 is NOT the correct driver for this NIC. Realtek have produced a specific driver r8101 V 1.020 which I have just downloaded. I will give it a go tomorrow -- it is a bit late to do that now without making silly mistakes! John Hunter

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-13 Thread John Hunter
an existing network? John Hunter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779040 Title: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-08 Thread John Hunter
I think that Network manager may have something to do with this. I have just tried to close down the eth0 interface by clicking on the kde taskbar widget; this resulted in an immediate freeze -- needing a power down and reboot. Could my power down lock ups be caused by trying to get network

[Bug 779040] [NEW] System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-07 Thread John Hunter
but has other problems). I hope that this helps. John Hunter ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: konqueror 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat May 7 13:29:08 2011

[Bug 779040] Re: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown

2011-05-07 Thread John Hunter
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[Bug 62871] Ubuntu 6.0.6 Installer disc formatter aborted, can't mount NTFS partition

2006-09-28 Thread John HUnter
this rather puts one off. What other quirks has the installer got up its sleeve? John Hunter ** Affects: partitioner (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Ubuntu 6.0.6 Installer disc formatter aborted, can't mount NTFS partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/62871 -- ubuntu

[Bug 62871] Re: Ubuntu 6.0.6 Installer disc formatter aborted, can't mount NTFS partition

2006-09-28 Thread John HUnter
I have just had a thought about the NTFS mounting problem. From experience, I know that looking at NTFS inner workings is relatively straight forward when the MFT (Master File Table) is contiguous. However, it is rather more messy when the MFT is fragmented. I happen to know the the MFT of