[Bug 447751] Re: ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

2014-09-09 Thread Marien Zwart
Ick, I'd forgotten about this (again!) and I won't have time to work on this in the next couple of weeks. You can't really re-use my merge request: it was rejected, and you can't upload to my branch (which the merge request was for). You can send a new merge request, though.

[Bug 562494] Re: viafb and vga16fb turn off lcd on an acer aspire 1350

2013-09-10 Thread Marien Zwart
I'm afraid I no longer have access to the hardware needed to reproduce this bug (and I doubt running recent versions of Ubuntu on hardware supported by viafb is something many other people do, either). Please do whatever's necessary to reflect that to this bug's state, assuming leaving it

[Bug 874144] Re: 18bind_utf8-fix patch breaks alt-backspace behavior

2011-10-15 Thread Marien Zwart
Please note that the first patch I attached (which seems to be the one that went into the builds mentioned in comment #4) is not good: it fixes alt+backspace but unfixes utf8 keybindings. Dropping the patch completely is saner than applying that patch. I have attached a second patch to the irssi

[Bug 661954] Re: [Maverick] RTL8180L wireless fails to connect

2010-11-04 Thread Marien Zwart
There is a thread on the linux-wireless list that sounds like it might fix this problem, see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux- wireless/msg53115.html and especially http://www.spinics.net/lists /linux-wireless/msg53204.html (The patch lets me use wifi). I have not yet actually tested this patch

[Bug 620430] Re: Pressing shuffle button in Rhytmbox causes it to crash

2010-08-22 Thread Marien Zwart
This is indeed because of the mpris plugin. Relevant part of the stack is just: #0 0x00172642 in rb_shell_player_get_playback_state (player=0x822d000, shuffle=0x0, repeat=0xbfffefcc) at rb-shell-player.c:1817 #1 0x038005a3 in get_loop_status (plugin=value optimized out) at

[Bug 620430] Re: Pressing shuffle button in Rhytmbox causes it to crash

2010-08-22 Thread Marien Zwart
The linked branch lp:~marienz/ubuntu/maverick/rhythmbox/fix-crash-on- random-with-mpris might fix this. My ppa has an amd64 build of that branch (see https://launchpad.net/~marienz/+archive/ppa/+build/1930205 ), but I cannot test it and the i386 one is still pending. Please do not add my entire

[Bug 447751] Re: ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

2010-08-17 Thread Marien Zwart
I had completely forgotten about this, but can probably address the review comments next week (possibly sooner). If someone else wants to beat me to it that is fine too, of course. -- ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

[Bug 544910] Re: Upgrade to 10.04 beta1 blocked by aiccu

2010-04-28 Thread Marien Zwart
That does indeed fix it (I should have read the debconf documentation and figured this out myself...). Updated package is in my ppa (it just has a db_stop call added after db_reset aiccu/password). -- Upgrade to 10.04 beta1 blocked by aiccu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544910 You received

[Bug 544910] Re: Upgrade to 10.04 beta1 blocked by aiccu

2010-04-27 Thread Marien Zwart
This does not just break upgrading, the same thing happens when installing aiccu on an already-running system. What seems to be going on is this: - debconf launches the postinst script, using an extra pipe (connected to fd 3 in the script) to communicate. - The postinst script eventually

[Bug 544910] Re: Upgrade to 10.04 beta1 blocked by aiccu

2010-04-27 Thread Marien Zwart
** Patch added: Close all fds when daemonizing http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45817305/09_close_fds.patch -- Upgrade to 10.04 beta1 blocked by aiccu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 518623] Re: [KM400] Black screen after boot, no text console possible

2010-04-14 Thread Marien Zwart
My vga16fb problem may be the same one from bug 538893 comment #1, at least in that the garbage I see in text mode seems to be influenced by what was on the screen in X. And yes, that's a different bug. Blacklisting vga16fb is not necessary as long as X works: I get a brief period of garbage

[Bug 562494] [NEW] viafb and vga16fb turn off lcd on an acer aspire 1350

2010-04-13 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: After upgrading from karmic to lucid my laptop turns off its lcd panel early during boot, after which I cannot figure out a way to turn it back on. X starts (I can hear the gdm drums and log in blindly), I can ctrl+alt+f1 out of X and alt+f7 back into X, but during all this I

[Bug 562494] Re: viafb and vga16fb turn off lcd on an acer aspire 1350

2010-04-13 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44063371/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: AplayDevices.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44063372/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: ArecordDevices.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44063373/ArecordDevices.txt

[Bug 562494] Re: viafb and vga16fb turn off lcd on an acer aspire 1350

2010-04-13 Thread Marien Zwart
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 518623 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518623 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 518623 [KM400] Black screen after boot, no text console possible -- viafb and vga16fb turn off lcd on an acer aspire 1350

[Bug 518623] Re: [KM400] Black screen after boot, no text console possible

2010-04-13 Thread Marien Zwart
As mentioned on the duplicate I just filed: adding blacklist viafb and blacklist vga16fb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf makes things work here. Karmic's kernel (2.6.31-20-generic) also works, but that is because viafb is not loaded there by default, not because viafb works. If I stop gdm and

[Bug 533549] Re: package yaml-mode 0.0.4-2 failed to install/upgrade:

2010-04-13 Thread Marien Zwart
This interrupted the upgrade from karmic to lucid (I'm sorry, I don't have exactly how logged). A manual reinstall attempt at the commandline gave me: Setting up yaml-mode (0.0.4-2) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor

[Bug 532676] Re: [r300] mouse cursor disappears after xrandr change

2010-03-09 Thread Marien Zwart
And I can no longer reproduce this using linux-image-2.6.32-16-generic 2.6.32-16.24 (now in main) either, which (if I read the changelog right) has the same DRM backport. Closing this as fixed, thanks! ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released --

[Bug 532676] Re: [r300] mouse cursor disappears after xrandr change

2010-03-06 Thread Marien Zwart
I cannot reproduce the problem using the kernel from that PPA. -- [r300] mouse cursor disappears after xrandr change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532676 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 532676] [NEW] [r300] mouse cursor disappears after xrandr change

2010-03-05 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati My ubuntu lucid system with a radeon 9600 xt (r300 driver) using kms loses its mouse cursor if I change the refresh frequency through xrandr. Certain actions bring it back (I've been using the animated workspace switch in compiz,

[Bug 532676] Re: [r300] mouse cursor disappears after xrandr change

2010-03-05 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40251105/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40251106/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40251107/Dependencies.txt **

[Bug 518547] Re: indicator-messages-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

2010-02-09 Thread Marien Zwart
This is the change I mentioned in my previous comment. Applying this might make sense even if it does not turn out to fix this crash. ** Patch added: fix (?) applied to indicator-messages http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38924097/messages-service.patch -- indicator-messages-service crashed with

[Bug 518547] Re: indicator-messages-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

2010-02-09 Thread Marien Zwart
I tried to debug this. While I did not understand the attached gdb session (how can sl_item be NULL if serverentry and serverentry-data are not?) I did notice some suspicious code higher up: if serverentry *is* NULL a new *local* sl_item is created and then thrown away, leaving the sl_item in the

[Bug 510914] [NEW] apt-get install quassel-client-qt4 still pulls in kde

2010-01-21 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: quassel On a fairly vanilla lucid install with no kde and at least almost no qt packages installed sudo apt-get install quassel-client-qt4 wants to install things like kdebase-runtime and kdelibs5 that I would prefer not to have installed. This seems to

[Bug 510914] Re: apt-get install quassel-client-qt4 still pulls in kde

2010-01-21 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38200840/Dependencies.txt -- apt-get install quassel-client-qt4 still pulls in kde https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510914 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 510914] Re: apt-get install quassel-client-qt4 still pulls in kde

2010-01-21 Thread Marien Zwart
Ah, great. Just --no-install-recommends doesn't do the trick though: I had tried that already and found kcm-phonon-xine is a Depends of phonon- backend-xine, not a Recommends. Unless I missed something in the dependency tree kcm-phonon-xine being a Suggests would give me a kde- free

[Bug 495333] [NEW] pyflakes package in lucid contains only documentation, no executable

2009-12-10 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pyflakes The pyflakes package only installs a changelog, a copyright file and a manpage. Those would be more useful if the actual program was also included :) I fixed this (following a few hints in the python-support README) by removing

[Bug 476005] Re: PYTHONUSERBASE should not affect distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib and friends

2009-11-10 Thread Marien Zwart
Distutils does honor PYTHONUSERBASE, but it only does so when using --user (which is what I expect). When I do *not* use --user whether PYTHONUSERBASE is set or not should not matter, but in ubuntu it does. Let me try to show what I mean with an example: Create a setup.py containing just: from

[Bug 445367] Re: os-prober entries do not use correct /boot device

2009-11-07 Thread Marien Zwart
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 462961 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462961 Looks like this got fixed as bug #462961 so marking this as a duplicate of that. If someone can teach me what caused that bug report to be picked up and fixed instead of this one I would appreciate it, so I

[Bug 476005] [NEW] PYTHONUSERBASE should not affect distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib and friends

2009-11-05 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python2.6 The PYTHONUSERBASE variable sets the base directory for the *user* site directory. This defaults to ~/.local, and sensible values for it will generally include $HOME. This is not very well documented, but see for example

[Bug 476005] Re: PYTHONUSERBASE should not affect distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib and friends

2009-11-05 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35202306/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35202308/XsessionErrors.txt -- PYTHONUSERBASE should not affect distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib and friends

[Bug 447749] Re: apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button

2009-10-13 Thread Marien Zwart
** Branch linked: lp:~marienz/apport/maximize-button -- apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447749 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 447749] Re: apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button

2009-10-13 Thread Marien Zwart
No, I do not see a maximize button. If I saw a maximize button I would not have filed this bug. And yes, I'm in karmic, as I was assuming the apport-provided extra information would tell you. What's probably relevant though is I'm using metacity, not compiz (this laptop cannot run compiz). And it

[Bug 447751] Re: ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

2009-10-13 Thread Marien Zwart
It's not hard to do this in python directly either, see the attached branch (not heavily tested, but since getting this exactly right isn't critical it may be good enough). ** Branch linked: lp:~marienz/apport/search-for-executable -- ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a

[Bug 447745] Re: bzr import-dsc crashes if an author's name is not ascii

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: One of the crash reports bzr produced http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33387578/bzr-20091010024415-7709.crash ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33387579/Dependencies.txt ** Branch linked: lp:~marienz/+junk/import-dsc-hack -- bzr

[Bug 447745] [NEW] bzr import-dsc crashes if an author's name is not ascii

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb import-dsc sets author information from debian/changelog and/or debian/control as revision property as bytestrings. At least using bzr 2.0 chk_serializer's write_revision_to_string tries to encode those to utf-8, which fails if the names

[Bug 447749] Re: apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: CrashReports.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33387828/CrashReports.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33387829/Dependencies.txt -- apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button

[Bug 447749] [NEW] apport Content of the report window should have a maximize button

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apport The dialog Send problem report to the developers? has an expandable Content of the report section that I would expect people new to the system to want to skim through. This area is much too small to read at the default window size, and while the

[Bug 447751] [NEW] ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apport ubuntu-bug understands package names and the full path to a program. If the argument I give it is neither but is the name of an executable on $PATH it should do what I mean and use that. It could optionally confirm that with me first (Did you mean

[Bug 447751] Re: ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug should work)

2009-10-09 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: CrashReports.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33388012/CrashReports.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33388013/Dependencies.txt -- ubuntu-bug should fall back to using its argument as a command name (ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug

[Bug 439138] Re: [karmic] Xorg 100% CPU utilization -- only after first login

2009-10-08 Thread Marien Zwart
I use cryptsetup to encrypt my swap file. I can try disabling that, but I'm not hitting this bug consistently (I haven't hit it across the last couple of reboots) so I'm not the most useful tester for this. -- [karmic] Xorg 100% CPU utilization -- only after first login

[Bug 324700] Re: gnome-volume-control missing ability to customize session sound effects theme

2009-10-08 Thread Marien Zwart
Note that system - preferences - startup applications allows you to turn off GNOME Login Sound, which I'm assuming covers the disable login/out sounds and keep the rest of the system sounds case (but does not let you do everything the old preferences panel did). -- gnome-volume-control missing

[Bug 415964] Re: [KM400]xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-10-07 Thread Marien Zwart
Sorry for losing track of this. The version of openchrome in karmic (xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1) is still affected by this. Upgrading that package to r800 fixed it. So this is indeed fixed upstream, and it might be nice to get a newer snapshot in the xorg-updates ppa or

[Bug 445367] [NEW] os-prober entries do not use correct /boot device

2009-10-07 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 I'm encountering this on a system using lvm with a separate /boot partition outside of lvm used by jaunty but no separate /boot for karmic, but I think it will affect every system with grub 1 on a separate /boot partition, not just those also using

[Bug 445367] Re: os-prober entries do not use correct /boot device

2009-10-07 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33221201/XsessionErrors.txt -- os-prober entries do not use correct /boot device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445367 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 441039] Re: Ubuntu One crashed on launch

2009-10-06 Thread Marien Zwart
** Branch linked: lp:~marienz/ubuntuone-client/ubuntuone-client- preferences-first-run -- Ubuntu One crashed on launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441039 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 415964] Re: xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-08-20 Thread Marien Zwart
This is going to sound pretty dumb, but how do I get the driver to use a resolution different from the native panel resolution? Both the driver from the .ppa and current svn head (revision 777) with the patch applied log ViaPanelGetIndex: Mode not supported by Panel. or ViaPanelGetIndex:

[Bug 415964] Re: [KM400]xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-08-20 Thread Marien Zwart
I haven't been able to get a logfile out yet. I can confirm it will not work correctly: I'm seeing some old video memory contents with some corruption drawn on top of it, and then the system locks. Not just X: magic sysrq and ctrl+alt+del do not work, and my ssh connection dies. Neither Xorg.0.log

[Bug 415964] [NEW] xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-08-19 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: I have an acer aspire 1350 laptop with (from lspci -nn): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] [1106:7205] (rev 01) Using jaunty it needs the x-updates ppa for X to start at all (at least without an xorg.conf).

[Bug 415964] Re: xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-08-19 Thread Marien Zwart
** Attachment added: very ugly but working patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30508577/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome_0.2.903%2Bsvn741-1build1.diff -- xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415964 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 415964] Re: xv does not work (badalloc, using the x-updates ppa)

2009-08-19 Thread Marien Zwart
Yes, that patch (applied to the source package from the x-updates ppa) still gives me working xv. Note via_swov.c:Upd_Video still uses NativeMode-Width, but I don't know if it's actually possible to trigger that code, or what would happen if it got a 0 width (dwWidth would be set to 0, but I don't

[Bug 398414] [NEW] mk-sbuild-lv fails when dm_snapshot is built-in

2009-07-12 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools mk-sbuild-lv tries to modprobe dm_snapshot and bails if this fails, assuming snapshots will not work. But the kernel I'm running (jaunty's default linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic kernel) has CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y, so that modprobe fails

[Bug 392968] [NEW] beautifulsoup 3.1 is buggy, provide 3.0 by default

2009-06-27 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: As documented on http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html the 3.1 BeautifulSoup branch uses a different parser to be compatible with Python 3. Unfortunately this parser does much worse on invalid html than the old one did, and a very common reason to use

[Bug 382081] [NEW] hal does not start with the root account renamed

2009-05-31 Thread Marien Zwart
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal If the account with uid 0 is not called root (this is sometimes recommended for security reasons) hal does not start successfully, most likely because the dbus policy file for hal says only the root and dbusdaemon user may claim the nameThis is not a