[Bug 653361] [NEW] guake.schemas are not installed properly

2010-10-01 Thread Neil Burlock
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: guake I just installed guake and when I attempted to run it, I recieved the error Guake can not init! Gconf Error. Have you installed guake.schemas properly? Manually installing the schemas with the following command fixed the problem gconftool-2

[Bug 653361] Re: guake.schemas are not installed properly

2010-10-01 Thread Neil Burlock
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653361/+attachment/1665137/+files/Dependencies.txt -- guake.schemas are not installed properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653361 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 452256] Re: eSATA storage devices do not automount whereas USB storage devices do.

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Burlock
I have the same problem. I did find that if I opened the Disk Utility under System-Administration then the drives that were plugged in would mount, but only the first time it was opened. -- eSATA storage devices do not automount whereas USB storage devices do.

[Bug 332100] Re: wine fullscreen app makes X server crash on jaunty

2009-10-16 Thread Neil Burlock
I've found this problem is now happening in a fully updated beta version of Karmic, in this instance, playing Bejewelled in Wine fullscreen throws the user back to the X login screen when exiting. This is with the nVidia binary drivers on 64bit Karmic and it wasn't happening on Jaunty which I

[Bug 382222] Re: package ecryptfs-utils 73-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2009-06-23 Thread Neil Burlock
The uninstall process is unable to remove .ecrypt because the user created an encrypted folder, which puts a read only passphrase file in .ecrypt. Manually deleting the contents of .ecrypt lets the uninstall complete successfully. -- package ecryptfs-utils 73-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade:

[Bug 379139] Re: package ecryptfs-utils 73-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso pre-removal script devolvi? el c?digo de salida de error 1

2009-06-23 Thread Neil Burlock
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 38 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 38 package ecryptfs-utils 73-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 -- package ecryptfs-utils

[Bug 381387] Re: networking not yet started at rc.local

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Burlock
I can confirm this problem, it's affecting both of my PC's running Jaunty 64bit. In my case I'm trying to mount an nfs share over Ethernet. 1) I added an entry to fstab but it fails with a message similar to DNS Resolution failed for 192.168.1.10 Name or service not known. I have used this

[Bug 381387] Re: networking not yet started at rc.local

2009-06-21 Thread Neil Burlock
A few seconds of delay at the start of rc.local seems to work around the problem sleep 5 mount your shares exit 0 -- networking not yet started at rc.local https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381387 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Burlock
I did have a long list of tests to attach here, but using dstat over the last couple of hours it appears that one of my drives that is connected via eSATA might be faulty. Until last week when I purchased a new 640GB I was using it (WD 500GB ext4) as my desktop drive and prior to that as my

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
No, it's not Ubuntu specific and Canonical didn't cause it. Right now I'm copying between two SATA drives, connected to my PC via eSATA. So far a lousy 600MB has been copied and I'm already down to 5MB/s and falling. Here is what I know about the problem: It affects ALL hardware. It affects

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
Theodore, thanks for the info. I don't have a lot of time this morning before work, but I was able to run one test which illustrates the problem. In the attached dstat output, I copied 3.4GB between two eSATA HDD. It started off fast (as usual), but by the time the copy finished the dialog was

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
Forgot to mention, that dstat is for the destination drive only. I'm also not seeing as much of a slowdown if I copy from the source to the internal drive, then to the destination drive. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Burlock
I took a chance and reinstalled my system with 32 bit 8.10, as suggested. I've done some quick testing and my USB devices are operating much faster, and the speed remains stable. Additionally, the whole system is *far* more responsive. Previously, I couldn't even use Firefox because it was too

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Burlock
I've finished reinstalling and testing 32bit 8.10. The problem seems to be greatly diminished. Once I had all my software installed (system updates, Thunderbird, VMWare, restricted extras, nfs driver, nVidia driver) Firefox was showing some symptoms of running slower on Slashdot, but nowhere

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Burlock
noatime, nodirtime hasn't improved the situation on my PC much, if at all. Copying speed is still all over the place, one time it'll copy fine, the next it stalls every couple of megabytes, blocking file i/o to any other device connected to the system and stalling the gui. I've noticed that it

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Burlock
Yes, I rebooted and no, I don't have a performance option in the bios. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Burlock
I just noticed that vmware is loading way faster now, down from about 3 minutes to 20 seconds to open a 768MB RAM virtual machine. That's a major improvement. Copying is still broken though. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs

2008-10-04 Thread Neil Burlock
I never got around to reinstalling. Rather than waste any more time on this, I've moved on to the 8.10 beta. File copying is improved on my system, but it's still not working reliably. I've been copying some data (about 30GB for each test) from my local USB drive to the my network server and

[Bug 277553] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 beta live cd locks up

2008-10-04 Thread Neil Burlock
I tried the CD four more times yesterday and got three different results, two normal boots, a stall that didn't resume until I had switched to a different console, and a normal boot, but no clearlooks theme on the desktop. I installed it and have been using it for the last day and a half without

[Bug 277553] [NEW] Ubuntu 8.10 beta live cd locks up

2008-10-03 Thread Neil Burlock
Public bug reported: Booting the beta live CD works fine, but about 20 seconds after the boot menu appears the PC locks up and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. While this is happening, I can hear the CPU fan spin up as though it's under heavy load. Attempting to boot to desktop

[Bug 277553] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 beta live cd locks up

2008-10-03 Thread Neil Burlock
I should point out that there are no error messages, the screen simply freezes. -- Ubuntu 8.10 beta live cd locks up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Burlock
Savvas Radević, there's nothing to post, nothing is added to dmesg other than the usual USB messages when plugging it in. This is the reason why it's attached to gvfs even though nobody is sure what is causing it. I tried formatting my laptop yet again and stuck on the new Hardy .1 release.

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs

2008-08-01 Thread Neil Burlock
My pci=routeirq helped, but didn't turn out to be everything I hoped for. I can get away with copying a few GB of files now before the slowdown sets in, but it's still happening. The pattern is slightly different with this tweak however, since it seems to be copying fine for a certain number of

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs

2008-07-24 Thread Neil Burlock
I seem to have happened upon a solution. I added pci=routeirq to the grub boot options and I got my USB and network performance back, and the GUI is actually *usable* while copying files too I haven't run extensive tests, but I've been able to copy simultaneously over the network and to two

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs

2008-07-01 Thread Neil Burlock
I'm going to add a bit more that might be useful because this bug is driving me crazy. It affects both my systems, one a laptop, the other a brand new desktop I purchased two weeks ago and is happening on both USB and network file transfers (via either Samba or UFS to my NAS box). I've also been

[Bug 208594] Re: hang at splash on application start when loading existing project

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Burlock
And now it's no longer working on the final release of Hardy. It just started happening again on a project that was working fine. I enabled some of the Anjuta plug-ins and found I couldn't start Anjuta the next day. Disabling the plug-ins had no effect, so I've had to turn off the option to

[Bug 208594] Re: hang at splash on application start when loading existing project

2008-04-19 Thread Neil Burlock
With the Hardy RC and version 2.4.1 of Anjuta this problem is now resolved for me -- hang at splash on application start when loading existing project https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 208269] Re: Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:///

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Burlock
Sebasiten: Sorry, I just did a bulk update - there were dozens of packages, so I can't be sure what fixed it -- Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:/// https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208269 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 213995] Re: File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Burlock
I've since noticed that this problem is also affecting network transfers - file copies across ethernet bottom out at 5MB/s, which, although better than the sub 1MB/s I get on my flash drive, is still very frustrating. On the plus side, the release candidate of Hardy allows file copies to work at

[Bug 213995] [NEW] File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Burlock
Public bug reported: I've recently purchased a 16GB USB flash drive. Under windows it has a write speed of 5.2MB/s, however under Hardy Beta, it starts off at about 2.5MB/s after mounting, and gradually slows down as more data is copied to it, either as a single large file or as many small

[Bug 213995] Re: File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Burlock
** Attachment added: dmesg.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13248193/dmesg.log -- File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 213995] dmesg

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Burlock
** Attachment added: dmesg.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13248199/dmesg.log -- File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 213995] lspci -vvnn

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Burlock
** Attachment added: lspci-vvnn.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13248205/lspci-vvnn.log -- File copy to NTFS formatted USB device very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 208269] Re: Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:///

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Burlock
With the latest updates this problem is now fixed for me -- Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:/// https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208269 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 208269] Re: Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:///

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Burlock
I'm getting this exact problem with today's updates. It's a USB flash drive formatted NTFS, an icon appears under computer:///, but it cannot be mounted. -- Cannot mount USB Drive from computer:/// https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208269 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 208594] [NEW] hang at splash on application start when loading existing project

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Burlock
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: anjuta I've just reinstalled my system as Hardy beta, moving from Gutsy. I had manually compiled Anjuta 2.4.0 on Gutsy and was using it to develop a C++/Gtk application without any problems. After moving to Hardy, then installing Anjuta from the repos,

[Bug 83301] Re: herd3 desktop: gnome does not start on powerbook G4

2007-02-25 Thread Neil Burlock
Adding pnpbios=off to the grub boot options resolved this issue and both logging in and sound are working now. -- herd3 desktop: gnome does not start on powerbook G4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/83301 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 83301] Re: herd3 desktop: gnome does not start on powerbook G4

2007-02-25 Thread Neil Burlock
Just to confirm what I did. Boot the CD, press F6 to display the boot options which should look something like: Boot Options root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash -- At then end of the line add pnpbios=off: Boot Options root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash -- pnpbios=off Then press enter to start --

[Bug 83301] Re: herd3 desktop: gnome does not start on powerbook G4

2007-02-16 Thread Neil Burlock
I'm getting this problem with both the AMD64 version of herd 3 and the i386 version of herd 4 after installing on a Compaq V3118AU. I don't know if it's a related problem or not, but while this is happening I'm also getting sound looping when the gdm login screen appears. I've found an alternate