[Bug 1464753] Re: package software-properties-kde 0.96.7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2015-06-15 Thread John Sergeant
Judging by the rest of the script, line 732 should read text = _(%s\n\nsmall%s/small) % primary, msg Certainly it runs correctly after editing it in this manner and running 'dpkg --configure -a'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 827815] Re: Can't log into KDE, with error: Could not start D-bus, can you call qdbus?

2011-08-18 Thread John Sergeant
Tried to install qt4-x11 but the terminal says unable to locate package qt4-x11 You wouldn't install qt4-x11... The fix that Steve mentioned is to the next release of the 'libqt4-dbus' library, which you should already have installed. When this is released, an update on your machine will

[Bug 614240] Re: libglib2.0-0 2.25.12-1ubuntu1 failed to install: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/glib-2.0/gio-querymodules terminated

2010-08-06 Thread John Sergeant
By the looks of the bug reports on Debian, it seems that this is caused by an over-eager compiler optimization (which probably explains why the amd64 works whilst the i386 doesn't). It ought to be possible to bypass this optimization for the one section of the code so I would expect a pretty quick

[Bug 614240] Re: libglib2.0-0 2.25.12-1ubuntu1 failed to install: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/glib-2.0/gio-querymodules terminated

2010-08-06 Thread John Sergeant
I'd prefer a thorough fix for the release than a quick hack! I'm sure that we all agree with that... *If* the problem is that the compiler is optimizing incorrectly for the i386 code, however, disabling the optimization locally to that routine is surely a fair enough solution pending a

[Bug 363695] Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

2010-04-28 Thread John Sergeant
I'm seeing the same problem on my fully patched Lucid Kubuntu box (P4, 512 Mb of RAM). Specifically, using 'atop' reveals system crippling levels of paging and disk reads - obviously the bottleneck on this system is memory rather than processor. That said, my problem is not with the cron.weekly