[Bug 321339] Re: ffsl(3) not in strings.h like manpage says

2014-05-27 Thread Peter Cordes
I don't know what I was thinking when I first reported this. Maybe I didn't notice the difference between string and strings right away and got the wrong idea. Anyway, you're right, invalid bug, sorry about that. ** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received th

[Bug 1241376] Re: procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1) upgrade error

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
(copied from my comment in bug 1247921, since this is the exact bug I had, and more people are looking at this) I ran into this today, and eventually (thanks to strace!) figured out that I had a config file that didn't end with a newline. 30-SpiderOak, like several other people, actually. So what

[Bug 1241376] Re: procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1) upgrade error

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
There are a few reports from people with stuck package upgrades, some in foreign languages in case that's relevant to anyone. I would guess most of them are duplicates of this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1247921] Re: starting procps getting invalid argument setting key

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1241376 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241376 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1241376 procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1) upgrade error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 1249542] Re: package procps 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
You can't put comments on the same line as an entry. sysctl writes "10 # el valor original es 60, pero no existía en el archivo original" to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness and gets an error. It actually takes it two write(2) system calls to write the whole string. The kernel reads the first 3 characte

[Bug 1247921] Re: starting procps getting invalid argument setting key

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
I ran into this today, and eventually (thanks to strace!) figured out that I had a config file that didn't end with a newline. So what was getting fed to sysctl was actually fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536 (yes, two files in a row were setting the same valu

[Bug 821603] Re: sysctl -p doesn't work on vm.dirty_background_bytes = 0

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Cordes
Did you try setting it to a non-zero value other than the default, if 1048676 was the default? Also, did you check that the value isn't getting overwritten by a later line in the same or a later config file in /etc/sysctl.d? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 75695] Re: huge performance hit for -i with UTF-8 locales

2013-06-22 Thread Peter Cordes
The performance hit of -i hasn't changed with 12.04 LTS. Will have to check with a newer grep, I guess. Seeing e.g. 25 secs to grep -i on the .c/.h files in a Linux source tree, 0.5 secs to grep without -i. 1.3 secs for a LANG=C grep -i. No disk I/O, files are cached. So a factor of about 20

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
I updated the title again, the "won't run" part of the bug description is the symptom if you hit this bug, but that only happens when you either install gnome-sudoku on a lean install that doesn't include the recommends: packages of ubuntu-desktop, or if you strip stuff out of a desktop install.

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
The lpi patch is gone from gnome-games's source tree in Saucy, so at some point this bug disappeared. It still affects 12.04 LTS, but won't affect future releases. ** Changed in: gnome-games (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Summary changed: - gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patc

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
** Summary changed: - gnome-sudoku crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome_sudoku/main.py: cannot import name LaunchpadIntegration + gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run. -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome_sudoku/main.py: cannot import name LaunchpadIntegration

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
Installing gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 allows gnome-sudoku to start on Ubuntu 12.04. python-launchpad-integration wasn't sufficient. Even ubuntu-desktop doesn't include gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 in its dependency chain, only a Recommends via software-center. Anyway, either add the

[Bug 491524] [NEW] /usr/share/doc/NTL vs. /usr/share/doc/libntl-dev

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: apt-file search -x /usr/share/doc/'[A-Z]' | egrep 'share/doc/(HTML|LANG|HOWTO|FAQ|RFC)' reveals libntl-dev as putting files in two different directories: $ apt-file list libntl-dev ... libntl-dev: /usr/share/doc/NTL/version.txt libntl-dev: /usr/share/doc/NTL/xdouble.txt.gz l

[Bug 491518] [NEW] /usr/share/doc/{KMF,kmf}ormat mixup

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kmformat apt-file search -x /usr/share/doc/'[A-Z]' | egrep 'share/doc/(HTML|LANG|HOWTO|FAQ|RFC)' $ apt-file list kmformat ... kmformat: /usr/share/doc/KMFormat/README kmformat: /usr/share/doc/KMFormat/manual-en.pdf.gz kmformat: /usr/share/doc/KMFormat/ma

[Bug 491515] [NEW] installs a file in /usr/share/doc/Decibel

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: decibel apt-file search -x /usr/share/doc/'[A-Z][a-z]' found libdecibel-runtime: /usr/share/doc/Decibel/demos.html other docs for the same package go in libdecibel-runtime: /usr/share/doc/libdecibel-runtime/README libdecibel-runtime: /usr/share/doc/libd

[Bug 491517] [NEW] packaging: should use lowercase name, not /usr/share/doc/MountManager

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mountmanager apt-file search -x /usr/share/doc/'[A-Z][a-z]' says mountmanager: /usr/share/doc/MountManager/... ... Almost all Debian packages use their lowercase package name as their /usr/share/doc directory. ** Affects: mountmanager (Ubuntu) Imp

[Bug 490444] [NEW] MP4Client looks for its modules in /build/buildd/gpac-0.4.5/debian/tmp/usr/lib/gpac

2009-11-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gpac $ MP4Client foo.m4a GPAC config file not found in /home/peter - creating new file create /home/peter/.gpacrc: OK Using module directory /build/buildd/gpac-0.4.5/debian/tmp/usr/lib/gpac Using default font directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ Using /tm

[Bug 98783] Re: MASTER: memory leak

2009-11-29 Thread Peter Cordes
confirmed on Ubuntu Karmic AMD64, with fglrx from Catalyst 9.11. 1GB HD4670 desktop card. Okular makes server memory consumption go up, but it doesn't go down even after exitting everything. This has been discussed on the xorg list. http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041324.html htt

[Bug 436342] Re: Consider disabling NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Cordes
Markus, and anyone else wondering about interactive performance regressions, NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS is modifiable at run time; just run echo NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS | sudo tee /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features grep --color=tty NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features (Ubuntu mounts linux's debugf

[Bug 275304] Re: wrong ownership of .Xauthority and /tmp/libgksu-xxx

2009-11-22 Thread Peter Cordes
(way off topic...) > It's quite a security shame that ubuntu ships without fully working "running as different user" mechanisms for so long. I wouldn't give un-trusted programs access to my X display. X isn't secure like that! When I run p2p filesharing programs (complex and crash-prone progra

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Cordes
reported as bug 486486. Thanks again, Felix. -- fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu

[Bug 486486] [NEW] OpenGL broken for amd64 (packaging problem)

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: There seems to be a packaging bug in Catalyst that bites Ubuntu 9.10. I previously added comments to bug 464525, but ATI's Felix Kuehling thinks that's actually a separate bug. I also reported this to ATI already: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695, where Felix got

[Bug 469239] Re: Catalyst Control Centre Crashes when started.

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Cordes
Is the fglrx kernel module loaded properly? Your Xorg.0.log shows that you are using the fglrx driver, but the 3D part of it failed to initialize. [code] (WW) fglrx(0): *** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): *

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Cordes
Ah, switchable graphics. I didn't read other people's report in enough detail to pick up on that, sorry. -- fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 206967] Re: no video output with restricted ATI installed in hardy

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
Without compiz, mplayer -vo gl, xv, and x11 all work. my ~/.mplayer/config has vo=gl:yuv=2:swapinterval=1:lscale=1:cscale=0 which looks better than xv (better smoothing when upscaling to fullscreen), but xv may work better with compiz. -- no video output with restricted ATI installed in hardy h

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
oh, and lspci has no interaction with any other installed packages. It's a very simple program that queries the hardware on the PCI bus in the standard way. (actually, it asks the kernel, instead of talking to the HW directly, which is why you can run it as non-root.) All PCI devices can tell you

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
Turns out ATI's installer builds broken .deb packages for --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic, and only works if you use --install I wasn't seeing kernel panics, but I don't use compiz, so I still think this could be the same bug as I commented on earlier, and eventually reported here: http://ati.cchtml.c

[Bug 442574] Re: mesa doesn't work when fglrx is installed

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
I would set this to won'tfix, but maybe only the maintainer can do that. ** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- mesa doesn't work when fglrx is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 479924] Re: package xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.660-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libatiadlxx.so'

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
> ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg- deb during `./usr/lib/libatiadlxx.so' Is your hard drive dieing? Check /var/log/kern.log for disk error messages, and try sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | less Or is your disk full? Too bad the error message doesn't include th

[Bug 373475] Re: FGLRX unusable with an ATI Mobility Card

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
BTW, is fglrx any more stable now? If so, maybe this bug should be closed. AFAIK it crashes regularly for everyone who plays games on it. (which is IMHO completely unacceptable, but such is life.) -- FGLRX unusable with an ATI Mobility Card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373475 You received th

[Bug 373475] Re: FGLRX unusable with an ATI Mobility Card

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
> I must make a hardcore reset every time (Strg+Alt+F2 and sudo reboot not possible for me). If you don't have another machine to ssh in from, and run sudo shutdown -r now, you can at least try alt+sysrq+s alt+sysrq+u alt+sysrq+b to sync and remount-read-only your filesystems before reboot. g

[Bug 442574] Re: mesa doesn't work when fglrx is installed

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
Having fglrx installed replaces the open-source libGL with ATI's libGL, so you can't have both at once. $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libGL.so* libgl1-mesa-dev: /usr/lib/libGL.so libgl1-mesa-glx: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 diversion by xorg-driver-fglrx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 diversion by xorg-driver-fglrx to:

[Bug 442574] Re: glxgears fails in Karmic

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Cordes
** Tags removed: hw-specific regression-potential ** Summary changed: - glxgears fails in Karmic + mesa doesn't work when fglrx is installed -- mesa doesn't work when fglrx is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-07 Thread Peter Cordes
I noticed I also had i915 in my /etc/modules, so that was getting drm loaded before fglrx pulls it in, another difference from stock karmic. My 4670 is in the PCI-e x16 slot, disabling the onboard g965, so the i915 module doesn't find anything to talk to. (lspci shows the only VGA device is the

[Bug 464525] Re: fglrx causes kernel panic on karmic final amd64

2009-11-06 Thread Peter Cordes
fglrx on AMD64 Karmic works (partly) for me, with a 4670 desktop card. I don't see any kernel crashes or boot problems. OTOH, I boot up in text mode with no splash-screen crap of any kind, so when I run startx, it's from VGA text mode, and the video card wasn't in any other mode from POST until th

[Bug 473007] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: module-init-tools found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L module-init-tools) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 196018270 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 31 15:36 /usr/share/man/man5/modprobe.d.5 -> ../modprobe.conf.5 correct link target is m

[Bug 472995] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: feh $ find -L $(dpkg -L feh) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31731060 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Mar 24 2009 /usr/share/man/man1/gen_cam_menu.1 -> feh-cam.1 lname is missing .gz ii feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-3 im

[Bug 472945] Re: installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
sorry, forgot to change the package field on the form before hitting submit. I hit stop in the browser, but it did get submitted after all. correct bug filed as 472948. ** Changed in: lucene (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- installs a broken man-page symlink https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 472945] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L gstreamer0.10-tools) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31182280 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 31 16:11 /usr/share/man/man1/gst-xmlinspect-0.10.1 -> gst-inspect-0.10.1 actual target is ...1.gz ii gstreamer0.10-tools

[Bug 472969] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm found with cruft(8) $ find -L $(dpkg -L qemu-kvm) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31129340 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 15:41 /usr/share/man/man1/kvm-nbd.1 -> qemu-nbd.1 correct target is /usr/share/man/man8/qemu-nbd.8.gz ii

[Bug 472941] [NEW] installs broken symlink /usr/share/java/lucene.jar

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: liblucene-java found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L liblucene-java) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 306985180 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 4 2008 /usr/share/java/lucene.jar -> ../lucene-1.4.3.jar symlink has an extra ../ in the targ

[Bug 472948] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-tools found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L gstreamer0.10-tools) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31182280 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 31 16:11 /usr/share/man/man1/gst-xmlinspect-0.10.1 -> gst-inspect-0.10.1 actual target

[Bug 370620] Re: Invalid symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/libsane

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
I filed bug #472919 while going through the output of cruft(8), but it's a dup of this. $ find -L $(dpkg -L libsane) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 22258000 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 31 16:11 /usr/share/doc/libsane/supported.html -> html/sane-mfgs.html $ apt-file search /usr/share/doc/libsane/html

[Bug 472919] [NEW] installs a broken symlink in /usr/share/doc/libsane

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 370620 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370620 Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libsane found with cruft(8) $ find -L $(dpkg -L libsane) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 222580000 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 31 16:11 /usr/share/d

[Bug 472911] [NEW] installs broken symlinks in /usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/licenses/ixp4xx

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-firmware found with cruft(8): (IFS=" "; find -L $(dpkg -L linux-firmware) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls) 377553410 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 31 16:24 /usr/share/doc/linux-firmware/licenses/ixp4xx/NPE-C -> NPE-C.02020201 3775534

[Bug 472893] [NEW] installs broken symlink to /usr/share/bug/vlc-data

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libvlccore2 found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L libvlccore2) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 128532580 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Oct 31 15:56 /usr/share/bug/libvlccore2 -> vlc-data up-to-date karmic, debsums -ac reports clean. ii li

[Bug 472893] Re: installs broken symlink to /usr/share/bug/vlc-data

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Also $ find -L $(dpkg -L libvlc2) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls ... 189388180 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 28 2008 /usr/share/doc/libvlc2 -> libvlccore0 (should be libvlccore2) find -L also reports /usr/share/bug/libvlc2 -> libvlccore2, but it's the libvlccore2 -> vlc-data symlin

[Bug 274824] Re: clisp-dev (1:2.41-1) requires gcc 4.1 - it should not

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
clisp-dev 1:2.44.1-4.1ubuntu2 no longer depends on any gcc packages, so that's been fixed but it does still depend on bison. (hence the retitling) ** Changed in: clisp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Summary changed: - clisp-dev (1:2.41-1) requires gcc 4.1 - it should not + clisp-d

[Bug 472095] [NEW] installs broken symlinks

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: seamonkey-browser found with cruft(8) $ find -L $(dpkg -L seamonkey-browser) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 212476010 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Oct 31 16:25 /usr/lib/seamonkey/components/xmlextras.xpt -> ../../../share/seamonkey/component

[Bug 472080] [NEW] Installs symlinks to files in non-dependency libkadm5clnt6

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libkrb5-dev Found with cruft(8). $ find -L $(dpkg -L libkrb5-dev) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 168769880 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 31 15:35 /usr/lib/libkadm5clnt.so -> libkadm5clnt.so.6.0 $ apt-file search libkadm5clnt.so.6.0 libkad

[Bug 471903] [NEW] broken symlink to fastjar man page

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gcj-4.4-jdk find -L $(dpkg -L gcj-4.4-jdk) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 337485660 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Oct 31 13:31 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.4/man/man1/jar.1 -> ../../../../../share/man/man1/fastjar.1 337485670 lrwxrwxrwx

[Bug 471859] Re: installs broken symlinks

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
The find output is pretty much unreadable with line wrapping. I wondered how that would come out :/ forgot to include my version: ii eclipse-platform3.5.1+repack~1-0ubuntu3 Eclipse platform without plug-ins to develop any language -- installs broken symlinks https://bugs.laun

[Bug 471859] [NEW] installs broken symlinks

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eclipse-platform found with cruft(8). demonstrated as follows. up-to-date Karmic, with no broken dependencies and debsums -ac happy about every package. pe...@tesla:~$ find -L $(dpkg -L eclipse-platform) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 297435910 lrwxrwxrw

[Bug 233863] Re: [hardy i386] missing the script xine-check

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
furthermore, xine-ui ships a broken symlink to xine-check pe...@tesla:~$ ll /usr/bin/xine-bugreport lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-10-31 15:40 /usr/bin/xine-bugreport -> xine-check pe...@tesla:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/xine-bugreport xine-ui: /usr/bin/xine-bugreport pe...@tesla:~$ dpkg -l xine-ui ii

[Bug 471833] [NEW] installs a broken symlink to a buildd absolute path

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pfmon pe...@tesla:~$ ll /usr/bin/pfmon_gen lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 2007-10-20 05:30 /usr/bin/pfmon_gen -> /build/buildd/pfmon-3.2.060926/debian/pfmon/usr/bin/pfmon pe...@tesla:~$ debsums -ac pfmon pe...@tesla:~$ dpkg -l pfmon ii pfmon

[Bug 446329] Re: udev output at bootup: NAME="%k" is superfluous

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Cordes
I see the message too. lvm2 is the wrong package, though. pe...@tesla:~$ dpkg -S /etc/udev/rules.d/50-kvm.rules kvm: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-kvm.rules ** Package changed: lvm2 (Ubuntu) => kvm (Ubuntu) -- udev output at bootup: NAME="%k" is superfluous https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446329 You r

[Bug 317973] Re: cannot mount LVM2 drives

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Cordes
> What I want to do is remount these LVM drives but not lose the data on them. Then I'm afraid you shouldn't have run pvcreate /dev/hda1 pvcreate writes to the specified device. If you run fsck.ext3 with the right options, it can hopefully find a secondary superblock and recover your filesystem

[Bug 446329] Re: udev output at bootup: NAME="%k" is superfluous

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Cordes
** Changed in: lvm2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- udev output at bootup: NAME="%k" is superfluous https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bu

[Bug 164507] Re: cannot chmod on fat32

2009-10-20 Thread Peter Cordes
> I have marked this as Low, as I doubt there will be many trying to chmod a fat32 partition. The usual situation for me was cp -a foo/*.mp3 /mnt/sd-usb/audiobooks/ cp -a would print an error as it tried to chown every file, although setting the mod time succeeded. With Jaunty, tt doesn't print

[Bug 164507] Re: misleading error message in terminal when trying to chmod on fat32

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Cordes
mount -t vfat has a "quiet" option now. See man(1). quiet: Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not return errors, although they fail. Use with caution! It isn't enabled by default. However, a lot of things now don't return an error at all, even without quiet. e.g.

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Cordes
> Now, am I to undestand that, at least in my case, the error message > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail": > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 > was caused by libgail being a 32bit library and not compatible with amd64 > architecture? amd64 Linux kernels su

[Bug 377697] Re: update manager should warn about laptop running on battery when installing big updates

2009-06-19 Thread Peter Cordes
That's a good idea. It might be good if this was at a low enough level in apt that aptitude, and even apt-get, could prompt, too. (or just warn if non-interactive). Download speed is very hard to predict, and could take a _really_ long time. So it would be smart to check battery status after d

[Bug 303844] Re: ENE CB-710/2/4 sdhci [PCI 1524:0550] doesn't work

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: My Toshiba A70 laptop's SD card reader with PCI ID 1524:0550 (part of an ENE CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller) doesn't work with Linux. I haven't tried Ubuntu pre-gutsy, but it hasn't worked with Gutsy, Hardy, or Intrepid. I've never seen it work under Linux, so AFA

[Bug 303844] Re: ENE CB-710/2/4 sdhci [PCI 1524:0550] doesn't work

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
Ivan Garcia: You have bug 99648, not this bug. This bug is about the SD reader not working in a slightly different version of hardware from what you have. csantiago, andreika73, quezak: are you sure you have this bug? Your hardware has PCI ID 1524::0551, which indicates that it should be like Da

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Cordes
BlueSky wrote: > Lecturing them on the dangerousity of their ways is just an excuse not to fix > the bug. > I do not mean to attack you personally, but I just hate it when people say > "why do you do that anyway?" or > "it's much better if you do it the other way" when there is a real bug. Tha

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: I cannot start gnome-terminal. If I open an xterm and start gnome- terminal from the command line, here is what I get: $ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. (original report didn't have sudo in this command, but a later comment b

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: I cannot start gnome-terminal. If I open an xterm and start gnome- terminal from the command line, here is what I get: - $ gnome-terminal + $ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. + (original report didn't have sudo in this command, bu

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Cordes
> The main purpose of this message is to point out that this is NOT just a su issue. Right, it's an X11-without-gconf issue. See my post, above, for my workaround for fluxbox. Like you, I use fluxbox and gnome-terminal. It's a simple matter of getting gconf running. I do it by running gnome-se

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Cordes
Thanks to everyone for confirming that this happens under normal circumstances. No further confirmation is required. Just subscribe to the bug without making a post, unless you have anything new to add. (Correct me if I'm overstepping here, Ubuntu maintainers.) Further posts on this thread shou

[Bug 360108] [NEW] stale /var/lib/alsa/asound.state breaks S/PDIF output after upgrade

2009-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: alsa-utils I found this bug a while ago, but never got around to reporting it until now, so I'm a little vague on the details of my specific case. However, the general problem is that /etc/init.d/alsa-utils saves and restores the mixer settings, but the

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
forgot to say that this is maybe not gconf2's bug, but rather a bug in things that use it. (esp. if the fix is a more useful error message.) -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
I noticed this problem because my .fluxbox/startup wasn't starting my gnome-terminal anymore. (that's a shell script run by startfluxbox that runs some X clients then execs /usr/bin/fluxbox. I put some of my startup stuff in it.) If I run /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon & before gnome-terminal,

Re: [Bug 306016] Re: nfs client broken since 2.6.28-2-generic upgrade

2009-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:38:36PM -, mike503 wrote: > This has been an issue for me for a long time using intrepid too. You're the only one hitting this on Intrepid. Unless you're using a Jaunty kernel on your Intrepid system. It's been fixed in Jaunty for months. The only way you could b

[Bug 338435] Re: python-aubio install fails on Jaunty

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
same here: marking as Confirmed. ** Changed in: aubio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- python-aubio install fails on Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 319042] Re: X doesn't start: undefined symbol: xf86OSMouseInit

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Cordes
err, don't assume it's fixed in Jaunty just based on what I said about xorg-edgers. I'm using the Intrepid packages from it. My point was mainly that this wasn't a showstopper for me. And yeah, I know -evdev wants to take over the world. :) My Xorg.conf used -mouse, which is why I noticed this

[Bug 344370] Re: imx51 AppArmor oops during bootup

2009-03-18 Thread Peter Cordes
When you're cleaning up the #ifs, make sure you test with all combinations of CONFIG_VSERVER and apparmor. Bug #327337 is that aufs doesn't build when neither of those are included. (the calls don't match the prototypes.) -- imx51 AppArmor oops during bootup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3

[Bug 327337] Re: aufs doesn't build with (non-standard) config w/o vserver or apparmor

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Cordes
The code has #ifs on CONFIG_VSERVER and CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR to select different parameter sets: #ifdef CONFIG_VSERVER // line 160 err = vfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode, dev, NULL); #elif defined(CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR) err = vfs_mknod(dir, dentry, NULL, mode, dev); #else

[Bug 336549] [NEW] newer HECI module fixes build with CONFIG_HECI=y

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: The jaunty git tree's version of ubuntu/heci defines extern int debug; which conflicts with Linux's own symbol of that name on AMD64 at least. (seems to be a kprobe entry in entry_64.S) I looked at upstream, and heci-5.0.0.30.tar.gz from https://sourceforge.net/project/sho

[Bug 331308] [NEW] NUMA support not enabled in amd64/config.server

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: In the Jaunty Linux git tree grep NUMA debian/config/*/config* debian/config/amd64/config:# CONFIG_NUMA is not set Most multi-socket K8/K10 systems are NUMA. (The ones that aren't have memory attached to only one of the CPUs. I guess even that's sort of NUMA, because memo

[Bug 327906] [NEW] acpi_find_dsdt_initrd references __initdata, but is not marked init itself.

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: While building amd64 2.6.28-7.20 (with my own customized config) on an Intrepid system, I saw the following error messages: ... LD init/built-in.o WARNING: init/built-in.o(.text+0x5e0): Section mismatch in reference from the function acpi_find_dsdt_initrd() to the var

[Bug 327788] [NEW] default config includes CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: There are a couple recent threads on lkml where the conclusion seems to be that CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is not ready for use yet, and probably won't be until gcc 4.4 or 4.5. And that it was a mistake for it to be on in the defconfig, which is probably why it's on in Ubun

[Bug 158585] Re: Duo Core 2 too hot

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Cordes
In case it helps, bug 264290 has some info and links about coretemp reading 15C hotter after the changes introduced in 2.6.25. It's purely artificial, since coretemp apparently never claimed to be giving absolute temperature readings. Although I think this bug is about actual overheating, not ju

[Bug 327337] Re: aufs doesn't build with (non-standard) config w/o vserver or apparmor

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Cordes
unionfs is also broken w/o APPARMOR (or by something else in my .config) /usr/local/src/linux/ubuntu-jaunty/ubuntu/unionfs/super.c: In function 'get_hidden_parent': /usr/local/src/linux/ubuntu-jaunty/ubuntu/unionfs/super.c:489: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct export_operations' /usr

[Bug 327337] Re: aufs doesn't build with (non-standard) config w/o vserver or apparmor

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Cordes
** Attachment added: "config.tesla" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22421049/config.tesla -- aufs doesn't build with (non-standard) config w/o vserver or apparmor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327337 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 327337] [NEW] aufs doesn't build with (non-standard) config w/o vserver or apparmor

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: I'm building a custom kernel, because I want Jaunty's 2.6.28 on Intrepid with a linux-headers-...deb that doesn't Depend: on jaunty's libc. (grrr.) So I figured I might as well customize it for my machine anyway, which is what I used to do back when the 1/2MB of RAM you c

[Bug 61105] Re: Mouse jumps to center in (sdl?/opengl?) games

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Cordes
The thing unclutter conflicts with is SDL's relative mouse input. If you export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0 before running an SDL game, the mouse won't jump. OTOH, an FPS like nexuiz will be unplayable because you won't be able to turn freely! But this does confirm that it's SDL's relative mouse inp

[Bug 321339] [NEW] ffsl(3) not in strings.h like manpage says

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: manpages ffs/ffsl/ffsll(3) says all three bit-scan functions are available after defining _GNU_SOURCE and including strings.h. However, only POSIX ffs(int) is in strings.h. only string.h defines the GNU extension ffsl(long) and ffsll(long long). So ei

[Bug 319042] Re: X doesn't start: undefined symbol: xf86OSMouseInit

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-mouse I booted my jaunty chroot to test https://launchpad.net/~xorg- edgers/+archive intel drivers on my g965. With the normal Jaunty version of xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-input-mouse, I got this error when start

[Bug 319042] Re: X doesn't start: undefined symbol: xf86OSMouseInit

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Here's the lspci. I'm now running Jaunty's kernel on an Intrepid system with X, dri, and stuff from xorg-edgers (and a locally compiled mesa 7.3rc3) and it's all working pretty well. The two extra PCI VGA cards are not currently in use. ** Attachment added: "lspci.vvnn.txt" http://launchpad

[Bug 319042] [NEW] X doesn't start: undefined symbol: xf86OSMouseInit

2009-01-19 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-mouse I booted my jaunty chroot to test https://launchpad.net/~xorg- edgers/+archive intel drivers on my g965. With the normal Jaunty version of xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-input-mouse, I got this error when starting X X.Org X

[Bug 310827] [NEW] freeze/deadlocks the GUI and window manager when keyring manager dialog pops up while applet menu is open?

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: I just had some weird behaviour from the GNOME desktop on my Intrepid laptop (x86 hardware, ath_hal wifi). I'm not sure this is the right package; it might be the fault of the window manager (compiz in my case), or something else. If anyone figures out what was actually goin

Re: [Bug 306016] Re: nfs client broken since 2.6.28-2-generic upgrade

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Cordes
6016 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(pe...@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set u

[Bug 306016] Re: nfs client broken since 2.6.28-2-generic upgrade

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Cordes
This does look the as same bug 306343 I reported. I didn't see this one because I was only searching in linux, not nfs-common. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- nfs client broken since 2.6.28-2-generic upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306016 You received th

[Bug 306343] Re: nfs lockd broken

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Cordes
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 306016 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306016 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 306016 nfs client broken since 2.6.28-2-generic upgrade -- nfs lockd broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306343 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 306343] [NEW] nfs lockd broken

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: I've tried AMD64 2.6.28-2.3-generic with Jaunty userspace, and with Intrepid userspace, and NFS is b0rked with both (nfs client and nfs server). Mounts work with -o nolock, though. (-o nolock doesn't require NFS lockd to be running). Otherwise, NFS mount attempts time out.

[Bug 99648] Re: Sony memory reader in CB-712/4 does not work

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: (original report was that SD/MMC didn't work, but SD works now according - to Matt LaPaglia. + to Matt LaPaglia. He posted lspci and dmesg output on a fresh bug he + opened specifically about the Sony memory stick part: bug 200668, which + is marked as a dup of this one.

[Bug 97398] Re: automount problems in kubuntu feisty

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Cordes
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 99648 Sony memory reader in CB-712/4 does not work -- automount problems in kubuntu feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97398 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 99648] Re: Sony memory reader in CB-712/4 does not work

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Cordes
> Why did you all of a sudden change the summary of the bug? I'm trying to sort out the SD card reader bugs so there is one open bug for each specific piece of hardware that doesn't work. I thought this bug looked like it should be about this hardware, not yours, since you jumped in later and re

[Bug 99648] Re: Sony memory reader in CB-712/4 does not work

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Cordes
** Summary changed: - MMC/SD memory card reader does not work + Sony memory reader in CB-712/4 does not work ** Description changed: + (original report was that SD/MMC didn't work, but SD works now according + to Matt LaPaglia. + + This bug is specifically about readers that are part of the ENE

[Bug 41211] Re: sdhci: Nothing happens when a card is inserted

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Cordes
your lspci output doesn't seem to include any card readers. There should be a device that lspci says is handled by sdhci..., or tifm... Also, lspci -vvnn includes the numeric and decoded outputs together; I should have recommended that instead of two separate lspci commands. (But wait until you

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