[Bug 1891825] Re: x2go does not register fixed font path

2021-09-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
On a related, and possibly connected, note, I'm hearing reports that nxagent(1)'s 'FONTS' section, near the end of the man page, says 'The default font path is __default_font_path__ .' as if some build process failed to replace the marker string. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1930695] Re: Noto Fonts (without color emoji) break non-color emoji in QT applications

2021-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Changed in: fonts-noto (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1930695 Title: Noto Fonts (without color emoji) break non-color emoji in QT

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2019-04-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It shouldn't be Expired, but Confirmed. The bug's great age doesn't contribute a fix. (It no longer affects me. I dumped Gnome, and Ubuntu, on the desktop.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1819977] Re: razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info

2019-03-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Christian, DNS resolved the domainname to one of three IP addresses and the server listening on one of those developed a fault leading to the client reporting the error, but in an unclear manner. The server owners were alerted thanks to nyet and fixed their server's problem. Thus the software

[Bug 1819977] Re: razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info

2019-03-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi nyet, thanks for letting us know. What mechanism did you use to contact CloudMark that worked? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819977 Title: razor2 had unknown error during

[Bug 1819977] Re: razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info

2019-03-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
In case of future similar problems, I think the error logged should include the IP address used. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819977 Title: razor2 had unknown error during

[Bug 1819977] Re: razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info

2019-03-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi nyet, You state this all as fact, but give no references to the source of the information, nor say why you'd know, e.g. an employee of Cloudmark. And what you say is incorrect because 'Razor servers' are not dead, some are still alive. /etc/cron.d/amavisd-new has 18 */3 * * * amavis ...

[Bug 1819977] Re: razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info

2019-03-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
A DNS lookup of discovery.razor.cloudmark.com occurs. Here, that gives three A records: 208.83.137.118, 208.83.139.205, and 208.83.137.117. When the ..205 is connected, the initial read(2) of 'sn=D...', write(2) of 'a=g...', triggers a read() of 'err=240\r\n'. connect() to ..117 and that error

[Bug 1539689] Re: package lvm2 2.02.133-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2019-03-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I'm running do-release-upgrade on 14.04 to get to 16.04. This is one of the errors that appears. E: Version ‘2.02.133-1ubuntu10’ for ‘libdevmapper1.02.1’ was not found https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libdevmapper1.02.1 suggests libdevmapper1.02.1 (2:1.02.110-1ubuntu10) is available with the

[Bug 788596] Re: xclock's reverseVideo draws black on black

2018-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Chris, that's not what I'm seeing. Please describe what it is you are seeing working normally, and confirm you've no .Xresources, etc., implicitly in play. I see xclock(1) now describes hourColor, etc., and says that reverseVideo, AKA -rv, affects their defaults. -- You received this bug

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It doesn't matter where you move the directory to, if it can't be stat(2)'d then it's a POSIX violation and breaks programs. The example of a user running rsync on their home directory doesn't mean that's the only situation that should work. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 562894] Re: wrong date format in "ls -la" output

2017-12-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maik, If you think you are confirming the original bug report still exists then you need to change the status above from `New' to `Confirmed'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562894

[Bug 1010421] Re: Text antialiasing is green.....

2017-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It seems odd gimp doesn't override the system and user's configuration of the rgba attribute to none, e.g. by providing a /etc/gimp/2.0/fonts.conf, e.g. https://gist.github.com/csaez/5d8286b134266e51c6cb76fd218d1d5d If they think that a user might want to produce a PNG with rgba set for a

[Bug 1587643] Re: index++ crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()

2017-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1551886 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551886 This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug #1551886 but that is inaccessible as it's "private". Thus sufferers from this bug have no sight of discussion about if and how it is being fixed. Please can

[Bug 1445549] Re: systemctl start mysql.service starts mariadb but reports failure

2017-02-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I find systemd loses track of starting mariadb-server-10.0 because /etc/mysql/debian-start fails because 'root'@'localhost' needs to have a password set for legacy code. There used to be a `debian-sys-maint' user and /etc/mysql/debian.cnf could be changed to run as that user instead of root, but

[Bug 1427600] Re: apport-unpack: ValueError: ['UserGroups'] has no binary content

2016-04-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Ubuntu 15.10, apport 2.19.1-0ubuntu5. Trying to unpack to a non- existing directory. Get Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apport-unpack", line 73, in pr.extract_keys(f, bin_keys, dir) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 253,

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also, given a file /etc/foo then one would expect foo to be the name of the man page; not bar. Thus environment(5), not environ(7). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574

[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

2016-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
No, environ(7) documents the "char **environ" symbol that program can expect to find and that contain environment variables. That's not connected to environment(5) that describes a file format for a file that contains environment variables, e.g. are comments allowed. Other problems stated by

[Bug 1503611] Re: systemd: spamassassin not starting after upgrading to 15.04

2015-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
After 14.10 to 15.04 upgrade, with amavis so spamassassin is installed, but spamd shouldn't be running IIRC, root is receiving /etc/cron.daily output. /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: Job for spamassassin.service invalid. invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "reload" failed.

[Bug 1503611] Re: systemd: spamassassin not starting after upgrading to 15.04

2015-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
After 14.10 to 15.04 upgrade, with amavis so spamassassin is installed, but spamd shouldn't be running IIRC, root is receiving /etc/cron.daily output. /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: Job for spamassassin.service invalid. invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "reload" failed.

[Bug 1447808] Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04

2015-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 broke programs' access to MariaDB because they were all expecting to give a username of root and the appropriate password. To repair, I set user.plugin back to empty for user='root' and *also* had to set user.password as the upgrade had cleared it. It's not nice to

[Bug 1447808] Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04

2015-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Another change required having done the above is to alter /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to have user = debian-sys-maint, instead of root, with a new random password that's put into the existing row for that user. Otherwise, /etc/cron.daily/logrotate generates an email because it has problems rotating

[Bug 1036859] Re: stdint.h defines PRIx16 and similar in unhelful way

2015-02-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This bug, PRIx16 is x rather than hx, reported 2012-08, has just bit me. Is Ubuntu now doing a disservice to the community by still accepting bug reports, but acting as a nothing happens sink for them with more chance of a fix if they were reported upstream in the first place? -- You received

[Bug 663111] Re: bash_completion script errors: undefined variables, failed GLOB

2014-08-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Daisy, No workaround that I know of. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/194419/comments/29 suggests wrapping the entry and exit of the broken functions with a save-and-restore of failglob. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/BashCompletion/Proposals/Roadmap says 3.0 will

[Bug 622179] Re: The suspicious errors don't give sufficient information

2014-06-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #750469 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750469 ** Also affects: xorg (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750469 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 622179] Re: The suspicious errors don't give sufficient information

2014-04-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Christopher, another six weeks have passed and this bug still hasn't had its correct status and importance settings restored. As you changed them, wrongly, it would seem a matter of taking pride in your work that you restore them to Bryce's settings. Or at least reply to my requests with your

[Bug 622179] Re: The suspicious errors don't give sufficient information

2014-02-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Christopher, it's been about six weeks and Julien Cristau hasn't responded. Please restore Bryce's settings of status and importance as this isn't a freedesktop issue AFAICS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 222458] Re: /lib/udev/hdparm Compares Against $DEVNAME.

2014-01-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tom, This bug is Fix Released. No further work will be done on it. Your comment will be ignored. You need to find a closely related open bug to request it or open a new one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 622179] Re: The suspicious errors don't give sufficient information

2014-01-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Christopher, as I stated They're from debian/local/xserver-wrapper.c so is freedesktop.org relevant? If not, please restore importance and status. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2013-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Martin Pitt wrote: status: Triaged → Fix Released So if this is considered the fix should we now raise bugs on all the user-space programs that are disgruntled to find root can't stat .gvfs as part of detecting it's a mount-point that shouldn't be crossed? -- You received this bug

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2013-03-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
So can rsync --one-file-system, find, etc., now stat the inode to know it's another filesystem and not attempt to descend? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 Title: .gvfs can't be

[Bug 1008584] Re: perl's s2p(1) produces non-equivalent perl for simple sed substitution

2012-10-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It should be trivial for anyone who knows regexps to confirm this bug so it gets some TLC. Go on, be a karma whore! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008584 Title: perl's s2p(1)

[Bug 1008584] Re: perl's s2p(1) produces non-equivalent perl for simple sed substitution

2012-10-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Bug watch added: rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/ #115156 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Ticket/Display.html?id=115156 ** Also affects: perl5 via http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Ticket/Display.html?id=115156 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1062836] [NEW] a2p wrongly considers string literal 0 is always false

2012-10-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Perl always considers a scalar with the string value 0 as false due to a scalar's polymorphism. awk does something similar, which is where Perl picked up the idea, but only if the string came from the user, e.g. an environment variable or read from a file. If the string is

[Bug 1062836] Re: a2p wrongly considers string literal 0 is always false

2012-10-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Bug watch added: rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/ #115158 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Ticket/Display.html?id=115158 ** Also affects: perl5 via http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Ticket/Display.html?id=115158 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 123732] Re: Feisty Desktop CD installation Hangs at 5% on AMD64 with SATA

2012-10-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
No, hardware currently unavailable due to age. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123732 Title: Feisty Desktop CD installation Hangs at 5% on AMD64 with SATA To manage notifications

[Bug 1008584] [NEW] perl's s2p(1) produces non-equivalent perl for simple sed substitution

2012-06-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Compare $ sed 's/c*$/x/g' abc abx $ s2p 's/c*$/x/g' | perl - (echo abc) abxx $ sed's behaviour is correct for sed. The Perl that s2p(1) produces doesn't do the equivalent substitution, instead matching zero c's and the end of the string after the

[Bug 257135] Re: notify-send(1) can't replace an existing notification

2012-05-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Thanks Paul. Why might there not be an id to print? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257135 Title: notify-send(1) can't replace an existing notification To manage notifications about

[Bug 999207] Re: what is the operative readlink command?

2012-05-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Not a bug. Reporter has clarified in original Question that $0 at the command line was passing -bash to readlink(1). ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 999207] Re: what is the operative readlink command?

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It's not a good idea for us all to search through the forums and possibly read different material. Please state the problem here and give a direct link to the forum thread if you think it would be helpful background. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You

[Bug 999207] Re: what is the operative readlink command?

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
When running the ./install script it seems to me that readlink works correctly, do you agree? Running readlink at the command line and passing it $0 might result in the errors you are seeing depending on the value of $0. Please try printf '%s\n' $0 readlink -f -- $0 The pasting of your

[Bug 234629] Re: supybot !web title leaks LAN HTTP servers to the channel

2012-05-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Mika, I think I explained adequately above. There is no warning in the documentation for the plugin that enabling it opens up the LAN to interrogation in a way that may not be obvious to the administrator that's having a browse of the plugins and enabling a few here and there. -- You received

Re: [Bug 234629] Re: supybot !web title leaks LAN HTTP servers to the channel

2012-05-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
There isn't warning about Unix progstats command giving out PID, username, ... It doesn't need one. It sounds more likely that it would give out that kind of thing from its name. That a plugin typically used to print the title of public web pages can be used to poke about the LAN isn't so

[Bug 991366] Re: df shows up different usage in 12_04 and 11_04

2012-04-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Are you only switching kernels or booting a whole different version of Ubuntu, including coreutils? What's the output of `dpkg-query -W coreutils' just before you run both df's? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 382096] Re: syslog(3) doesn't cover openlog()'s ident being NULL

2012-04-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382096 Title: syslog(3) doesn't cover openlog()'s ident being NULL To manage

[Bug 877429] Re: Manual resize of window required after Best Fit

2012-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Fit page height isn't always the case; depends on the aspect ratio of the page and the window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877429 Title: Manual resize of window required after

[Bug 605567] Re: Extremely slow painting of launchpad.net bug details page with nvidia driver

2012-03-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
David, yes, it is the large sprite image, see bug #744808. But it isn't illegal to have one so, although Launchpad should change to one that's more square to work better in more places, Firefox/Nvidia could also improve for sites that continue to do legal things that work fine on other set-ups.

[Bug 246040] Re: Firefox 3's full screen mode flickers redundant hint bar at top of screen

2012-01-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Not present on Firefox 9, the new Firefox for 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246040 Title: Firefox 3's full screen mode flickers redundant hint bar at top of screen To

[Bug 342433] Re: hexdump :: irregular illegal seek

2012-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Ubuntu 10.10, bsdmainutils 8.0.11ubuntu1, seems to be working fine. $ echo ABCD | hexdump -s 1 001 4342 0a44 005 That's CB \nD; the A has been skipped. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 908233] Re: cal -M (start week on Monday) don't work

2012-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Agreed, it's only the documentation that's misleading WRT -M not working for old cal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908233 Title: cal -M (start week on Monday) don't work To manage

[Bug 604366] Re: cal -m doesn't work anymore

2012-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Here's a trivial example of the bug. $ ncal -M January 2012 Mo 2 9 16 23 30 Tu 3 10 17 24 31 We 4 11 18 25 Th 5 12 19 26 Fr 6 13 20 27 Sa 7 14 21 28 Su 1 8 15 22 29 $ ncal -S January 2012 Su 2 9 16 23 30

[Bug 923080] [NEW] hexdump elides a partial last line with asterisk

2012-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Package bsdmainutils 8.2.3's hexdump(1) says -v Cause hexdump to display all input data. Without the -v option, any number of groups of output lines, which would be identical to the immediately preceding group of output lines (except for the input

Re: [Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
To discard all errors with redirection seems too severe. As I wondered above, has start's behaviour changed WRT reporting foo is already running when it's been given --quiet? Perhaps what's needed is a start option that tells it to consider an already running foo to be OK. -- You received this

Re: [Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Johannes, I agree some of the emails point to an underlying problem that needs fixing, but some are due to permissible changes, e.g. lengthening the amount of time after boot before /etc/cron.daily, etc., are kicked off; see /etc/anacrontab at the end of comment #7. To get a daily email because

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Daniel, I disagree. If you read back through all the bug's comments you'll see that some of us are getting this email and it has nothing to do with apt, that's just one instance that can trigger overlapping anacrons. The solution isn't to discard the error messages. :-) -- You received this

[Bug 729288] Re: squid failed to restart after update to squid 2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.2

2011-11-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
cache.log, attached, shows nothing odd AFAICS, normal shutdown. dist- upgrade failed, Preparing to replace squid 2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.1 (using .../squid_2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement squid ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will

[Bug 729288] Re: squid failed to restart after update to squid 2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.2

2011-11-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
cache.log, attached, shows nothing odd AFAICS, normal shutdown. dist- upgrade failed, Preparing to replace squid 2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.1 (using .../squid_2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement squid ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will

[Bug 200201] Re: pidof Stops Searching if Match Found by device/inode Pair.

2011-10-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've checked sysvinit_2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu4 from 11.10 and it looks to me as if the code hasn't changed and the documentation hasn't improved so the problem remains. 12.04 has the same package version. ** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug

[Bug 877429] [NEW] Manual resize of window required after Best Fit

2011-10-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Maximise evince with an A4 PDF, hit Best Fit, page fills vertical space, much horizontal space empty. I now have to manually resize the evince window to be narrower until the waste is tolerable. It would be nice if evince itself let me ask it to minimise its window for the

[Bug 71322] Re: reproducible seg fault in 'aspell' when using 'eo_XX.UTF-8' locale

2011-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to confirmed as many have seen the problem and I can easily reproduce on 10.10. (Leaving the bug as New caused me to look at it to see if I could help confirm it.) ** Changed in: aspell (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 710915] Re: aspell aborts with --size less than 10

2011-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The code in 10.10 explicitly abort(3)s instead of generating an error. aspell-0.60.6/lib/find_speller.cpp: 375// 376// Retrieve size 377// 378str = config-retrieve(size); 379p = str.data.c_str(); 380if (p[0] == '+' || p[0] == '-'

[Bug 581357] Re: aspell pipe mode outputs spurious blank lines

2011-09-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think we need a better example. I'm unsure this is a bug. $ printf 'foo bar\n---\n\nfoo bar\n' foo bar --- foo bar $ printf 'foo bar\n---\n\nfoo bar\n' | grep -c '^$' 1 $ printf 'foo bar\n---\n\nfoo bar\n' | aspell pipe @(#) International Ispell

[Bug 855477] [NEW] _nss_nis_gethostbyname4_r() leaks memory on parse error

2011-09-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: eglibc-2.13, nis/nss_nis/nis-hosts.c: 452 enum nss_status 453 _nss_nis_gethostbyname4_r (const char *name, struct gaih_addrtuple **pat, 454char *buffer, size_t buflen, int *errnop, 455int *herrnop,

[Bug 462243] Re: Letter L and letter U do not work when at the remote computer log in screen

2011-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Set to Invalid given sefs's comment that's almost two years old. Does no one read these? :-) ** Changed in: vnc4 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2011-07-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Yes, a friend with 11.04 confirms it's still readily apparent and easily testable in a gnome-terminal. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2011-06-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Alden, no, it's nothing to do with an email server as such, although that may have made it more likely to happen on your system but then an FTP server or web server may have done so too. My comments #9 and #10 above try to explain why it's happening. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 785722] Re: mplayer can't fullscreen without zooming too

2011-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
zoom=no in ~/.mplayer/config with no other options doesn't stop it scaling when full-screen is entered. I'm after mplayer blacking out all the surrounding screen area, like it does in its full-screen mode, but leaving the video unscaled in the centre. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 234158] Re: URL-related menu items don't appear if pointer is on bottom pixel of URL

2011-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
As I stated in comment #4 above, this bug was fixed upstream. Ubuntu 10.10 seems fine; the bug's fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234158 Title: URL-related menu items don't

[Bug 791263] Re: !$ works with `` but not $()

2011-06-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
bash's upstream maintainer Chet Ramey confirms the bug and says it will be fixed in the next release. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- bash/2011-06/msg3.html ** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 340571] Re: Bash PPID is wrong when parent terminates

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
A simpler test is s=bash $s -c 'echo $$; '$s' -c for f in 1 2 3; do echo \$\$ \$PPID; sleep 1; done sleep 1; echo exit' That shows the behaviour described above for bash and zsh. Given Jilles says POSIX demands it I don't think this is a bug. If you think bash(1) man page can be

[Bug 536129] Re: ++ operator exits with error when the variable equals to zero

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The fine man page, bash(1), says ((expression)) The expression is evaluated according to the rules described below under ARITHMETIC EVALUATION. If the value of the expression is non-zero, the return status is 0; otherwise the return status is 1. This is

[Bug 562894] Re: wrong date format in ls -la output

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
More information about your environment is required. Could you please run `locale' on Ubuntu and Red Hat and provide the two outputs. LANG isn't used if some other variables are set; see locale(7). ** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 562894] Re: wrong date format in ls -la output

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also, ls's output isn't a bash issue, but the package coreutils; this bug should probably be re-assigned unless you think it's bash setting the environment up incorrectly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 522591] Re: Bash script getopts strange behaviour

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This is correct behaviour. Perhaps these two examples will make it more clear. $ OPTIND=1 $ while getopts :a:bc f -a foo -b -c bar; do echo f=$f arg='$OPTARG' done f=a arg='foo' f=b arg='' f=c arg='' $ $ OPTIND=1 $ while getopts :a:bc f '-a foo -b -c

[Bug 791263] [NEW] !$ works with `` but not $()

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bash This is on 10.04 and also with upstream's pure bash 4.2 with no Debian or Ubuntu patches. $ echo bar foo $ bar $ ls `cat foo` bar $ wc !$ wc `cat foo` 0 0 0 bar $ ls $(cat foo) bar $ wc !$ wc ) -bash:

[Bug 694601] Re: Cursor wont move using backspace and left arrow key: I tried to search my previous commands using up arrow key and edit the issued command but the cursor wont continue to move at the

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I can't get a problem to occur with either the PS1 given above or the same with the space before the removed. Could you give a precise example, e.g. what to set PS1 to, what to enter, then cursor up once to return to it, then what fails. ** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Status: New =

[Bug 349658] Re: bash: Conditional expressions and do not perform as documented.

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
10.10's bash 4.1-2ubuntu4's bash(1) now says and compare lexicographically in the current locale if used with [[...]] else just that they compare lexicographically (with no mention of locale). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 562894] Re: wrong date format in ls -la output

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Agreed, they're the same. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562894 Title: wrong date format in ls -la output --

[Bug 270479] Re: Debian/Ubuntu netpbm is many years out-of-date with upstream

2011-05-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dan, good point about Fedora 14 being happy. As for the Ubuntu package, Andreas Barth is given as the maintainer; https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netpbm-free That's who the Debian maintainer is too though AFAICS. It's a real shame that a venerable workhorse such as netpbm isn't in a better

[Bug 510613] Re: look(1) can't open bigfiles

2011-05-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mark, Perhaps you're on a 64-bit machine so the behaviour differs? Anyway, could you please change this bugs status from New to Confirmed; until then, no one looks at it and it's frowned upon to Confirm one's own bugs no matter how simple and obvious the test case. :-( -- You received this

[Bug 788596] [NEW] xclock's reverseVideo draws black on black

2011-05-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: x11-apps Package x11-apps 7.5+5. When xclock is given -rv it has a black background instead of a white one but much of the clock isn't drawn; presumably those missing bits are still being drawn in black. Easy to confirm; compare `xclock' and `xclock

[Bug 788596] Re: xclock's reverseVideo draws black on black

2011-05-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to Confirmed. Bad form to confirm one's own bugs I know but John's seeing the same. ** Changed in: x11-apps (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 394430] Re: xclock -twentyfour option ignored

2011-05-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Looks like Josh should have set status back from Incomplete. I'm seeing the same issue here so setting to Confirmed. ** Changed in: x11-apps (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 785722] [NEW] mplayer can't fullscreen without zooming too

2011-05-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: mplayer version 2:1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1ubuntu1. My screen is 1920x1080 but the video is considerably smaller at 1280x724 (yes, not 720; it's from BBC's iPlayer). I want to play it fullscreen, so all of the normal desktop furniture is hidden, but I do *not* want the video

[Bug 237207] Re: the birthday of the queen is celebrated twice

2011-05-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Birthday. ** Changed in: bsdmainutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237207 Title: the birthday

[Bug 604366] Re: cal -m doesn't work anymore

2011-05-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Changed in: bsdmainutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604366 Title: cal -m doesn't work anymore -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 604366] Re: cal -m doesn't work anymore

2011-05-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think the title of this bug is misleading. cal's -m option has become ncal's -M, that fine. But ncal's -S option compared to -M prints the dates in the same place but shifts the days of the week labels; as mrq1 wrote that CANT be correct. To show the problem, just do ncal -M; ncal -S and

[Bug 246040] Re: Firefox 3's full screen mode flickers redundant hint bar at top of screen

2011-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Ubuntu 10.10, firefox 3.6.16+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1, turn off status and toolbars are before. A window with a single tab has just the menubar and then the web page immediately below. Full screen that with F11. The web page initially fills the screen but then slightly later it's

[Bug 766827] Re: motd not updating

2011-04-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
10.04 here too. /etc/motd didn't update after the 19th's updates and then when it did it has two copies, with the old being stale and coming from /etc/motd.tail. What puts the current motd into motd.tail? ** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug

[Bug 766534] Re: Regression on maverick when updating to 0.6.7 (security upload)

2011-04-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Congrats on the quick release of a fix. When it's time for us to update and dist-upgrade to get our hands on it can someone add a note to this bug. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2011-04-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Got another email this morning. Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/syslog showing the overlap between the first anacron and the second started by cron. Apr 16 07:29:40 orac cron[1097]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Apr 16 07:29:40 orac anacron[]: Anacron 2.3 started on

[Bug 756657] Re: ipcheck suffers exception; NoneType object has no attribute 'close'

2011-04-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Having had time to work around it, fp isn't None, but fp._sock is. Changing line 5198 to if fp and fp._sock: fp.close() lets the program continue to apparently successful conclusion. I don't suggest this as the proper fix though. Without the work around, ipcheck.dat doesn't contain useful

[Bug 756657] [NEW] ipcheck suffers exception; NoneType object has no attribute 'close'

2011-04-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ipcheck ipcheck version 0.233-1 gives Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/ipcheck, line 5518, in module _main(sys.argv) File /usr/sbin/ipcheck, line 5198, in _main fp.close() File

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2011-04-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just had another occurrence. Again, local time is 07:30:01. Return-Path: r...@inputplus.co.uk Delivery-Date: Sat Apr 9 07:30:02 2011 Return-Path: r...@inputplus.co.uk X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: r...@inputplus.co.uk Received: by orac.inputplus.co.uk (Postfix, from

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2011-04-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think I get this email if I boot within roughly a couple of hours (due to my longer /etc/anacrontab delays) of 07:30 local time. Perhaps an anacron from boot time is sleeping for those delays and meanwhile, at 07:30, cron attempts to `start -q anacron', causing noise and the email. Others could

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2011-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've also just received a similar email from cron. Return-Path: r...@inputplus.co.uk Delivery-Date: Tue Mar 29 07:30:01 2011 Return-Path: r...@inputplus.co.uk X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: r...@inputplus.co.uk Received: by orac.inputplus.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 0)

[Bug 249436] Re: Firefox 3 displays JPEG with much colour banding compared to Firefox 2

2011-03-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Well, it's two and a half years later, I've upgraded from 8.04 to 10.10, and Firefox 3 still has this JPEG display regression compared to Firefox 2 back then. The sample image I provided back then still displays terrible banding on this 16bpp display, as can be seen in the differences between

[Bug 663111] Re: bash_completion script errors: undefined variables, failed GLOB

2011-03-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Changed in: bash-completion (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663111 Title: bash_completion script errors: undefined variables, failed GLOB

[Bug 663111] Re: bash_completion script errors: undefined variables, failed GLOB

2011-03-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Trivial to reproduce. I've just upgraded from 8.04 - 10.04 - 10.10 and it seems bash_completion has been re-enabled for me somewhere along the line. Because I have failglob set Tab filename completion is broken. $ shopt -u failglob $ ls /nonexistant^C $ shopt -s failglob $ ls

[Bug 381623] Re: hosts file is not read

2011-02-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Petri, Are you saying removing the comma fixed your problem? /etc/nsswitch.conf exists now to determine the resolver's order, see nsswitch.conf(5). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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