[Bug 1784232] Re: Grub-install failed because of no EFI mounted, but msinfo32 indicates an older BIOS

2018-07-31 Thread Per Heldal
Revised description: The cause is that the partition intendeed for EFI had been given an incorrect tag and thus was not mounted. The problem would have been uncovered if the installation would refuse to proceed without EFI-partion when one is required. (duplicate) ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ub

[Bug 1784232] [NEW] Grub-install failed because of no EFI mounted, but msinfo32 indicates an older BIOS

2018-07-29 Thread Per Heldal
Public bug reported: msinfo32 says: BIOS-Type: Older Yet, grub-install fails poining to missing EFI-mount. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-lowlatency 4.15.17

[Bug 1686894] Re: mysql-server hangs on postinst script

2017-05-05 Thread Per Heldal
I'm in the middle of an upgrade of ubuntu-studio from 16.10 to 17.04. Upgrade stopped at "systemctl stop mysql.service". Had to manually kill (-9) mysqld to continue the upgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 1565060] Re: defaults file is ignored

2017-02-18 Thread Per Heldal
This bug affects among others anyone with intermittent or permanent ipv6 routing problems. Most documented workarounds for ipv6-problems in dual- stack configurations hint at disabling ipv6 in /etc/default/bind9, but that won't work when the file is ignored when systemd is in control of the process

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

2016-12-07 Thread Per Heldal
Solutions to this problem is to either use a more capable HTTP-client for download to cope with Sourceforge's ads and redirections, or to host the fonts elsewhere. Workarounds by directing the installer to particular mirrors etc may work for a while, and/or from some places, but aren't likely to be

[Bug 1608753] Re: Cannot build nvidia driver via dkms because compiler doesn't match kernel

2016-08-05 Thread Per Heldal
When examining repos it seems like the inconsistency was introduced in xenial-updates where packages in the build toolchain was bumped from 5.3.1 to 5.4.0 while the supplied kernel still is built with GCC 5.3.1 and the dependecy-packages that provide symlinks to tool-binaries also remain at version

[Bug 1608753] Re: Cannot build nvidia driver via dkms because compiler doesn't match kernel

2016-08-04 Thread Per Heldal
Seems like alle the dependency-packages are listed as version 5.3.1 (cpp, g++, gcc etc), but the symlinks within links to 5.4.0 binaries. Anyone trying to compile and/or link kernel-modules will have a problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1608753] Re: Cannot build nvidia driver via dkms because compiler doesn't match kernel

2016-08-04 Thread Per Heldal
It's not just gcc that has mismatching versions. It's the whole toolchain. The installed gcc package (according to dpkg) has version 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 while the /usr/bin/gcc symlink contained within is pointing to gcc-5.4.0. There is no trace of 5.3.1 binaries on the system, nor are there any avail

[Bug 680811] Re: incorrect maximise behaviour with twinview

2011-01-14 Thread Per Heldal
This problem appear to be fixed in version 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3 distributed in maverick-proposed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680811 Title: incorrect maximise behaviour with twinview

[Bug 680811] Re: incorrect maximise behaviour with twinview

2010-12-06 Thread Per Heldal
As requested: XINERAMA version 1.1 opcode: 151 head #0: 1920x1200 @ 0,0 head #1: 1280x1024 @ 1920,0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680811 Title: incorrect maximise behaviour with

[Bug 680811] Re: incorrect maximise behaviour with twinview

2010-12-06 Thread Per Heldal
The current Xorg-log (attached) shows that I'm running a non-standard kernel (for audio) and updated nvidia-driver (260.19.26 is the first vdpau-capable driver that seem reasonably free from memleaks with my gtx260-card). The system does however behave the same with stock 10.10 packages. ** Attac

[Bug 680861] Re: pulseaudio goes into poll-read loop when removing usb device

2010-11-24 Thread Per Heldal
The problem is observed on ubuntu 10.10 x86/32, pulseaudio 0.9.22. It may be related to a bug reported, but not yet commented, upstream in http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/869 ** Bug watch added: PulseAudio sound server #869 http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/869 -- pulseaudio goes into poll-read loop

[Bug 680861] Re: pulseaudio goes into poll-read loop when removing usb device

2010-11-24 Thread Per Heldal
** Attachment added: "pulseaudio-log from the device is attached" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680861/+attachment/1743327/+files/pa-log.txt -- pulseaudio goes into poll-read loop when removing usb device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680861 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 680861] [NEW] pulseaudio goes into poll-read loop when removing usb device

2010-11-24 Thread Per Heldal
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio I'm testing with 2 USB sound devices. One works, one doesn't. Using a Cakewalk (Roland) UA-25EX (2 audio channels in/out + midi in/out) works fine. The device may be connected, removed and reconnected at any time wouthout problems. A Digitech

[Bug 680811] [NEW] incorrect maximise behaviour with twinview

2010-11-24 Thread Per Heldal
Public bug reported: The maximise behaviour of windows in a twinview setup changes with xserver packages version 1.9.0-0ubuntu7.1. After upgrade panels (gnome) span all screens and windows (metacity) maximise across all available screens. Previously objects would only maximise within their current

[Bug 343520] Re: rythmbox and totem crash when getting http://www.radiomayavision.net/106-9.m3u

2010-05-27 Thread Per Heldal
The crash in rhythmbox when connecting to mms streams through libmms is an old one. It usually happens when switching to a mms:// source from listening to something else (e.g. an mp3 file). I've seen exactly the same behaviour in every release over the last 3-4 years. Switching from listening to a

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-09 Thread Per Heldal
Slight update to #142. I may have gotten protocol orders wrong in my analysis, or the dns- lookup-mechanism has been altered in the last libc update. The net result however, is still that every attempt by an application to connect to a v4-only host is preceded by a dns-request that result in a los

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-08 Thread Per Heldal
This is as Jeroen and others have pointed out repeatedly, primarily an issue with broken resolvers/forwarders often part of cheap broadband/wlan routers. I just want to repeat that this isn't specific to IPv6, and emphasise that changes in karmic have made things worse. Karmic always first tries t

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-03 Thread Per Heldal
The reason for the delay described in #84 and #85 seems to be a firmware-bug in a wlan router (D-Link DIR-655). It doesn't seem to pass NXDOMAIN-responses to the clients when it is set up to relay requests. The upstream servers respond immediately with NXDOMAIN when queried directly. However, this

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-03 Thread Per Heldal
Wrt #84, is it a correct observation that the resolver-library in karmic always tries to add search-domains to the queried string even when the original query from the application is for a FQDN? The first DNS- request from a karmic client looking for "www.google.com" in a browser is for "www.googl

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-03 Thread Per Heldal
Another issue in addition to ipv6 is how the resolver-lib handles search domains. I found I could avoid the delay by removing the "domain" and "search" statements from /etc/resolv.conf. In this particular case there's a broadband-router which put either the providers domains or a configured local a

[Bug 396928] Re: Firefox 3.5 identifies as Shiretoko

2009-08-09 Thread Per Heldal
What the application is called in GUI-elements doesn't really matter all that much. It does after all simplify package-management slightly when the decision has been made not to make it a default upgrade on old distributions. That the browser identifies itself as Shiretoko to websites is however a

[Bug 347376] Re: [jaunty] Choppy video playback and high CPU usage when watching online video

2009-06-09 Thread Per Heldal
To me it looks like video and audio keeps having sync issues with any player when pulseaudio is involved (totem, mplayer, mythtv, flashplugin, vlc, ffplay). The results are better for players that use gstreamer with pulse disabled (kill daemon and disable autospawn). Ditto for mplayer with direct

[Bug 378606] Re: Jaunty fast then slow out of sync video with stuttering sound

2009-06-09 Thread Per Heldal
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 345627 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345627 Not so sure it's a duplicate. I hear no scratching sounds which are the main complaint in 337429, yet have major problems with audio/video sync. I suspect it is related to the variable audio latency introduced

[Bug 296019] Re: Rhythmbox 0.11.6 Segmentation fault in Ubuntu 8.10 (more info)

2009-05-26 Thread Per Heldal
Backtrace from rhythmbox attached. The behaviour is the same for all application which establish connections using libmms through gstreamer on all machine-architectures and ubuntu-releases I've tried over the last year or two so it shouldn't be hard to reproduce. Just try swapping back and forth b

[Bug 296019] Re: Rhythmbox 0.11.6 Segmentation fault in Ubuntu 8.10 (more info)

2009-05-08 Thread Per Heldal
This bug is still present in Ubuntu 9.04 (libmms 0.4-2) and affects all applications which access mms urls through gstreamer and libmms. Totem, Rhythmbox and Banshee all show the same behaviour. Listen to a mp3 file, then switch to network radio from a mms url and it crashes immediately. -- Rhyth

[Bug 204960] Re: [Hardy] Lirc devinput (linux-input-layer) broken

2008-11-16 Thread Per Heldal
The fix in 0.8.4a-0ubuntu1 is not complete. Exceptions are made for HAL to ignore a list of known receivers, but there are surely more to come. A permanent fix can only be made upstream by making HAL able to identify dev/input IR-receivers in general, or integrate lircd to take events from dev/inpu

[Bug 99508] Re: Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme

2008-11-15 Thread Per Heldal
As previously described, 180.06 did sole this problem for me. It is however a beta so don't take that statement as a recommendation for general use. Stability seems somewhat questionable. However, after 180.06 solved this particular problem for me, but didn't appear stable I decided to try 177.82

[Bug 99508] Re: Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme

2008-11-14 Thread Per Heldal
GeForce Go 7600: 177.82 does not work 180.06 works - see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123072 -- Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 216999] Re: Decoration Plugin: Window shadow color is not displayed as set in plugin properties on NV GeForce 8600 GTS, using nvidia-new drivers

2008-04-17 Thread Per Heldal
It seems to be something in the packaging that introduce this problem. The same version from nvidia works just fine. I just removed nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-kernel-common and dependencies (incl all accumulated restricted-modules), then booted single-user and compiled and installed the original 169.1

[Bug 216999] Re: Decoration Plugin: Window shadow color is not displayed as set in plugin properties on NV GeForce 8600 GTS, using nvidia-new drivers

2008-04-17 Thread Per Heldal
Confirm. I see pinkish shadows around windows and menus on a NV-8800GTS. There are other issues which have been blamed on composite handling in the current driver too, like a delay that is introduced in the handling of several gtk-widgets on only some of the displays in a multi-head config. Maybe

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-12 Thread Per Heldal
To be a bit more specific: I'm now running a kernel built from the ubuntu.com git repository, with the specified patch applied. From there I've built and installed binary-generic. The BT-handsfree-kit works (kind of) with this kernel. While running with this kernel I've seen bt-audio once end up

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-12 Thread Per Heldal
Grabbed the kernel-source from git, applied the BT patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2008/2/25/530/1) and built new packages. My BT-2.0 headset works with this new kernel. The sound gets choppy after a few seconds, but there are still more options to explore in the BT-audio config that may change th

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-11 Thread Per Heldal
@Brian Murray : bug 198494 does indeed cover the pairing issue mentioned, but that's the simple bit. @MsTiFtS : bug 39414 is similar, but concerns a USB-BT adapter. In this case the adapter works with multiple devices (keyboard, mouse and several phones using obex-transfers and HID). Only BT-audio

[Bug 202301] Re: Firefox not translated/localized

2008-04-10 Thread Per Heldal
Not only is the re-packaging of mozilla.org's translations into separate locale and binary packages missing for FF3. The ones in the repos for FF2 have not been updated from 2.0.0.7 and don't work with the current 2.0.0.13. Looks like we're getting close to a release with epiphany as the only gnome

[Bug 191760] Re: [Hardy] Youtube Plugin can't play video

2008-04-09 Thread Per Heldal
Something seems to have happened with hardy's recent upgrade to totem 2.22.1. I have all gstreamer-10 plugins and totem-plugins I can find installed, yet totem complains that the necessary plugins is missing when trying to play a youtube video from the search-results. It does play locally-stored fl

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-05 Thread Per Heldal
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => linux -- Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubu

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-05 Thread Per Heldal
This relates to a similar bug in gutsy and before, but both bluez and the kernel has changed since so the fixes for those may not apply anymore. In short this seems to relate to missing or incomplete support for eSCO in the kernel that makes most, if not all, BT<=1.2 headsets fail. There's a numb

[Bug 211893] [NEW] Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-04 Thread Per Heldal
Public bug reported: [I'm not sure is this big relates to bluez or alsa or something else . It concerns hardy beta] First, to get pairing to work I have to use parts of the suggested python-script from the bluez-wiki. To make the PC visible and connectable prior to setting the headset in pairing

[Bug 211893] Re: Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog

2008-04-04 Thread Per Heldal
** Attachment added: "bt-info.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13116789/bt-info.txt -- Bluetooth handsfree does not work and floods syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 149214] Re: [Gutsy] Intel 4965AGN wireless connection dies

2008-02-12 Thread Per Heldal
Don't expect this to be fixed in Gutsy as components of a release rarely (if at all) are upgraded within a release-cycle. Are any bugs being addressed at all if they're not security-related? That seems to be a problem with Ubuntu. The best fix for wireless problems in 7.10 seems to be to reinstall

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java & wxwidgets apps

2008-01-21 Thread Per Heldal
Arrg forget my previous comment about tvtime. It first happened to me after the broken xserver update, so I incorrectly assumed the problem was related to one of the many changes in the code. It turns out it is totem that messes with picture settings and that it also affects other media applica

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java & wxwidgets apps

2008-01-21 Thread Per Heldal
The problem with tvtime reported earlier is still there with the last version. The picture (window or fullscreen) sometimes gets very dark (and distorted when corrected with brightness/contrast settings). There are no errors reported when tvtime is run from the command-line. Besides, a check with v

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java apps

2008-01-18 Thread Per Heldal
Upgrade to xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.1 causes numerous problems: wxwidget-based applications don't work (vlc etc) tvtime get in a weird state with brightness/contrast after a while Various other intermittent problems and graphics anomalies (possible memory buffer corrup

[Bug 141396] Re: ipw3945 hangs intermittently on Thinkpad T61

2007-12-03 Thread Per Heldal
Funny it's not been mentioned yet in this thread, but the iwlwifi drivers in gutsy are rather old. Changelogs from intellinuxwireless.org describe heaps of serious bugs that have been squashed recently. Those fixes should IMHO make it into the next revision of the linux-ubuntu- modules package. The

[Bug 141396] Re: ipw3945 hangs intermittently on Thinkpad T61

2007-12-03 Thread Per Heldal
Hardware encryption seems to improve stability for the iwl3945 module. put options iwl3945 hwcrypto=1 in a file in /etc/modutils.d (ex create a file called iwl3945) With default software-crypto my test-computer would hang randomly after transmitting anywhere between a few MB up to 1 or 2 GB.

[Bug 158045] Re: the distribution should use iwl3945 instead of ipw3945 by default

2007-12-03 Thread Per Heldal
Not only should iwl3945 be used instead of ipw3945, but Gutsy also needs an upgrade to new versions of the iwl3945 and related drivers. The current driver causes occasional system freezes. These may, at least in part, be related to the use of software encryption in the current driver. It seems slig

[Bug 141396] Re: ipw3945 hangs intermittently on Thinkpad T61

2007-12-02 Thread Per Heldal
I've got the same with 7.10 on an Acer Aspire. Nothing further to add,except confirming that: - I didn't notice any such problem on 7.04. - Both iwl3945 and ipw3945 show the same behaviour. -- ipw3945 hangs intermittently on Thinkpad T61 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141396 You received this

[Bug 48499] Re: hald blocks ide bus if cdrom on same bus with harddisk(was:Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200)

2007-07-22 Thread Per Heldal
Anco: the rules I added to /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10 -ide-drives.fdi were those that were removed by an earlier patch found in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5907427/hal-fix-remove_blacklisted_HL- DT-STCD-RW.txt Apply the reverse of that patch, or if you don't know "patch" simply ad

[Bug 98641] Re: [nvidia-glx-new] NVidia driver missing libwfb

2007-07-16 Thread Per Heldal
Is there a good reason why the solution hasn't yet made its way into feisty? It appears to be a simple omission in packaging as the missing libwfb.so is readily supplied by nvidia. The only reasonable alternative would be to communicate clearly to the ubuntu community that 8800 gpus are not support

[Bug 107831] Re: Feisty don't work with nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX

2007-05-31 Thread Per Heldal
In my case I found that the 8800gts was not working due to a missing x-server module as reported in the Xorg.0.log. The required file is included with Nvidia's driver-package, but there's no trace of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so* in any ubuntu-packages. I.e. it seems to be a build/packaging iss

[Bug 48499] Re: hald blocks ide bus if cdrom on same bus with harddisk(was:Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200)

2007-01-27 Thread Per Heldal
This update adds information I have previously reported in a thread on ubuntuforums.org: hald on edgy still behaves badly on an Inspiron 8200 here. I've found that it does *not* work to stop hald from polling the CD-drive and stop blocking the IDE-channel by adding filters in /etc/hal. It does how