[Bug 1875596] Re: Django Timefield(default=) gives unhelpful diagnostics

2020-04-29 Thread Simon Lambourn
Dear Rafael, Thank you for responding to my bug report. I'm sorry I didn't provide the full information you ask for, and based on your feedback I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not. It is certainly a user error, but the bug I'm hoping to raise is with the unhelpful diagnostics, rather

[Bug 1875596] [NEW] Django Timefield(default=) gives unhelpful diagnostics

2020-04-28 Thread Simon Lambourn
unhelpful diagnostics, not even indicating which field caused the problem. I'm hoping that this lack of diagnostics could be improved, to at least point to the database column that caused the problem? Thanks in advance for all the good stuff you do :-) Simon Lambourn. Output from manage.py migrate

[Bug 1872209] [NEW] syntax error message in f-string doesn't report line number

2020-04-11 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I accidentally came across this annoying 'feature' or more likely, bug. The following code f"...foo ... {**kwargs} ..." produces a very basic syntax error message with no line number in the source file: File "", line 1 (**kwargs) ^ SyntaxError: invalid

[Bug 1865364] [NEW] SELECT WHERE using COLLATE NOCASE fails using multiple tests and using IN(...)

2020-03-01 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: COLLATE NOCASE seems to be ignored when using the following constructs in a WHERE clause: Col=value1 COLLATE NOCASE OR Col=value2 Col IN(value COLLATE NOCASE) Col IN(value) COLLATE NOCASE [both are accepted, not sure which is valid syntax] It works in the simple case

[Bug 1863518] [NEW] Menuitems with actions cannot be set sensitive when in popup menus (using Glade/Python)

2020-02-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: The bug may be assigned to the wrong package: I'm using Glade 3.22.1 and Python 3.7.5. Using popup menus, if I assign Gio.Actions to the menuitems, the menuitems become insensitive, so you cannot click on them, even if they have a handler for the "activate" signal as well.

[Bug 1863518] Re: Menuitems with actions cannot be set sensitive when in popup menus (using Glade/Python)

2020-02-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
Glade file to go with the python file ** Attachment added: "Glade file to go with the python code" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1863518/+attachment/5328759/+files/menuitem_action_bug.glade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1850282] Re: snap cannot be run while being upgraded − no user feedback

2019-11-07 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thank you Olivier. Yes, I forgot that I should have named "chromium- browser" rather than "chromium" when submitting the bug report. I agree that there could have been problems when upgrading the old chromium browser using apt, but when using apt, the upgrade is user- initiated, and the user is

[Bug 1850282] Re: Chromium disappears from system on refresh

2019-10-29 Thread Simon Lambourn
(And just to add insult to injury - you can't even report a bug using ubuntu-bug chromium! You get an error message saying "this is produced by Canonical - for help visit . The url is not properly clickable, perhaps because Chromium is not working, and you can't select it and copy it into

[Bug 1850282] [NEW] Chromium disappears from system on refresh

2019-10-29 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 with the new snap version of Chromium a week or two ago On starting my system today, I found that Chromium had disappeared from the launcher and wasn't even in the apps list. using the command 'chromium' didn't work either, giving me the

[Bug 1841426] [NEW] mypy erroneously reports no [mypy] section in config file unless --config-file is specified

2019-08-26 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: Using mypy 0.670 installed via pip. I created a file~/.config/mypy/config/mypy.ini containing a [mypy] section and one setting (mypy_path). If I use python3 -m mypy [module to check] I get an error: [~]/.config/mypy/config: No [mypy] section in config file Whereas if I

[Bug 1835771] Re: MP4 fails with string argument for freeform text ('----') tags

2019-07-19 Thread Simon Lambourn
Christoph - thank you for the pointer. I have reported it as you suggest: https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/issues/391 ** Bug watch added: github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/issues #391 https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen/issues/391 -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1835771] Re: MP4 fails with string argument for freeform text ('----') tags

2019-07-08 Thread Simon Lambourn
PS. The use case for this is in storing and retrieving musicbrainz ID tags, which are stored as freeform tags. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835771 Title: MP4 fails with string

[Bug 1835771] [NEW] MP4 fails with string argument for freeform text ('----') tags

2019-07-08 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: mutagen.mp4.MP4 container does not accept a string value for freeform text tags, but expects (and returns) a bytes argument. This is inconsistent with python3 default of string values. code: >>> import mutagen.mp4.MP4 as MP4 >>> m = MP4() >>> m[':test:item'] = 'test

[Bug 1835421] [NEW] EasyID3.RegisterTextKey(..., 'COMM') fails on retrieve

2019-07-04 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: EasyID3.RegisterTextKey('comment', 'COMM') actually defines a frame called 'COMM::XXX', which can't be retrieved by the same name. You can set this field as follows >>> e = EasyID3() >>> e['comment'] = 'a comment' >>> vars(e) {'_EasyID3__id3': {'COMM::XXX': COMM(encoding=,

[Bug 1768648] Re: Bionic obsoletes sbackup, makes restore impossible

2018-07-18 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thankyou Anton for your helpful comments. This may not be the place to discuss this, but has anyone tried Areca backup (http://www.areca-backup.org/)? It seems to have most of the same function in terms of include/exclude, incremental backup etc. -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1768648] [NEW] Bionic obsoletes sbackup, makes restore impossible

2018-05-02 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: With no warning in the release notes (as far as I could see), upgrading to Bionic has removed and prevented re-installation of Simple Backup, sbackup. A message "Removed, Core functionality" or something similar, was presented in the "remove packages" detail screen.

[Bug 1664675] Re: Rosegarden "open file" dialog fails with .rg files, works if file specified on launch

2018-03-02 Thread Simon Lambourn
Oops ... I realise that my release is 17.10 not 18.04 (which is not yet released). Rosegarden version is 16.06. I confirm that the bug is fixed on 17.10 (Rosegarden 16.06)... Apologies for my mistake, and thankyou for fixing it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1664675] Re: Rosegarden "open file" dialog fails with .rg files, works if file specified on launch

2018-02-28 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thanks for the response. I have just tested it again with the release in Ubuntu 18.04 (Rosegarden 16.06?) and I agree, it's now working fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1664675

Re: [Bug 1737445] Re: release upgrader doesn't re-enable updates after failure

2018-02-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thankyou for putting the time into this Brian. Much appreciated. On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 at 21:35 Brian Murray wrote: > I did an audit of the release upgrader code and found a couple of spots > where the upgrade may not have been rolled back to the previous release > and fixed

[Bug 1726180] Re: Unable to upgrade to artful with nvidia-libopencl1-304 and virt-viewer installed

2018-01-02 Thread Simon Lambourn
Is there a workaround for this by uninstalling virt-viewer? Will I be able to reinstall it after the upgrade? I am not sure what the dependency issue is... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1737445] Re: release upgrader doesn't re-enable updates after failure

2017-12-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
I'm really sorry but I have failed to re-create the bug on my own system. As I didn't discover the problem for at least a month, I can't remember exactly when it occurred or what I did to make it happen. I do remember that after the first attempt to upgrade, there was a problem with using the

[Bug 1726073] Re: Failed upgrade to Zesty - Could not calculate the upgrade

2017-10-22 Thread Simon Lambourn
Looks as if the main.log was already attached - let me know if you need it. term.log is empty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1726073 Title: Failed upgrade to Zesty - Could not

[Bug 1726073] [NEW] Failed upgrade to Zesty - Could not calculate the upgrade

2017-10-22 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: Trying to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10, I am getting the message "Could not calculate the upgrade". I have seen the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1069160 which seems similar, but refers to earlier releases (and is marked as

[Bug 1530405] Re: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kerneloops:814]

2017-07-06 Thread Simon Lambourn
I can repeatably get this problem if I boot without a network connection.I get the message "waiting for a start job to complete ... Raise Network Interfaces" followed by "NMI Watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [swapper/1:0]" Booting with a network cable attached has no

[Bug 1623856] Re: Scrolled Windows in update-manager are too small to read

2017-05-05 Thread Simon Lambourn
I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour as Hrunting above on 17.04. It is an improvement on the previous one-line display but still not using the whole window. Additionally, when I try and vary the size of the window, the window changes size but the "terminal-like" part of the window doesn't change

[Bug 1675466] [NEW] Comment tag in flac files is not imported correctly

2017-03-23 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: If you export a flac file in Audacity (with a comment tag) and then re- import it, the comment field is not picked up. Perhaps due to confusion over whether the tag is called "comment" or "comments": the tag is saved as COMMENTS. Minor impact I realise, but annoying if

[Bug 1664675] [NEW] Rosegarden "open file" dialog fails with .rg files, works if file specified on launch

2017-02-14 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: Rosegarden fails to open files (using the "file open" button or "File/Recent" menu selection) with a popup window "Cannot open " Screenshot attached. However the same files can be opened by double-clicking on them in Nautilus. Let me know if you need more info.

[Bug 1633871] Re: Mythtv frontend stuck in restart loop (code 139) after update to Ubuntu 16.10

2017-01-17 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thankyou Thomas. It appears to work for me (one test only). I'll report back if I have any problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633871 Title: Mythtv frontend stuck in restart

[Bug 1649957] [NEW] update-manager "show details" only opens a 1 line display

2016-12-14 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: When I click on the "details" option while installing software updates, the window expands to a good size but the actual terminal display (showing apt or dpkg output) is limited to only 1 line in height, so you can't really see what is going on. Expanding the window doesn't

[Bug 1633871] [NEW] Mythtv frontend stuck in restart loop (code 139) after update to Ubuntu 16.10

2016-10-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: After updating to Ubuntu 16.10, Mythtv frontend will not shut down - it appears to function normally but on exit (normal exit at my request), there is an onscreen notification "the frontend has crashed unexpectedly (exit code 139). Restarting, please wait ..." and the

Re: [Bug 1629131] Re: Unable to use 'filething' to open files in mutagen.mp3.MP3

2016-09-30 Thread Simon Lambourn
Christoph, Don't worry - it was an interesting exercise. I've upgraded from your PPA, and I look forward to trying it out. Simon On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 at 10:01 Christoph Reiter <1629...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > No problem. The docs should have a note mentioning when it was > introduced I

Re: [Bug 1629131] Re: Unable to use 'filething' to open files in mutagen.mp3.MP3

2016-09-30 Thread Simon Lambourn
Aaah! So much time spent trying different ways of getting this to work and such a simple mistake! Thank you for the quick reply, and I'm sorry to have bothered you with this. Great package... Simon On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 at 08:35 Christoph Reiter <1629...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > File like

[Bug 1629131] [NEW] Unable to use 'filething' to open files in mutagen.mp3.MP3

2016-09-29 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: Hi, I have been trying to 'override' the file open parameters in the MP3 module to improve scan performance of a large music library, using python3-mutagen. I can't get the supplied example to work: I get the following output: $ python3 fileobj-gio.py Traceback (most

[Bug 1516723] [NEW] Crash when using 'Move to' ...

2015-11-16 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: When using Nautilus to move a folder, or a few folders, to somewhere else, Nautilus sometimes crashes, although it has already done the move by that stage. The window disappears to be replaced by the "Ubuntu has had a problem, do you want to report it?" dialogue. When

[Bug 1447956] Re: Banshee interface unresponsive after upgrade to 15.04

2015-06-07 Thread Simon Lambourn
Help please! I'm still trying to install the proposed fix from vivid- proposed. It has clearly worked for others so I must be getting the command wrong. My 15.04 system is a clean install of 14.10 then recently updated, so it should be straightforward. When I try apt-get install

[Bug 1447956] Re: Banshee interface unresponsive after upgrade to 15.04

2015-06-04 Thread Simon Lambourn
I tried to install the updated package from vivid-proposed but apt-get was going to remove loads of important packages as part of the upgrade, so I didn't go ahead with the installation. Is there something wrong with the package dependencies, or is it me?? I followed the instructions in

[Bug 1447956] Re: Banshee interface unresponsive after upgrade to 15.04

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Lambourn
Will this fix be available for the current release of Ubuntu, Vivid Vervet (15.04)? I see it has been released for Wily which I guess is 15.10, not yet released. Alternatively, is there a way of downloading the fixed package 2.9.0+really2.6.2-3ubuntu1 into Vivid/15.04? Otherwise, it can't be

Re: [Bug 1447956] Re: Banshee interface unresponsive after upgrade to 15.04

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Lambourn
Thank you!(I won't put this on Launchpad...) Simon On 27/05/15 20:13, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 06:03:45PM -, Simon Lambourn wrote: Will this fix be available for the current release of Ubuntu, Vivid Vervet (15.04)? I see it has been released for Wily which I

[Bug 1450897] [NEW] Banshee menu bar fails to display

2015-05-01 Thread Simon Lambourn
: display the menu bar Banshee release is 2.9.0+really2.6.2-2ubuntu4 Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help find out what's going wrong. Hope you can help!! thanks in anticipation. Simon Lambourn ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: banshee 2.9.0+really2.6.2-2ubuntu4

[Bug 1450743] [NEW] Banshee in Ubuntu 15.04 VERY slow to open (24 mins)

2015-05-01 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 and Banshee has become unusably slow to open. I have a big music database (42,000 tracks) and this used to take maybe a minute to open. Now it is 24 minutes: the first few times I thought it was never going to open! The problem may be

[Bug 1375194] Re: lightdm session constantly switches screen appearance

2014-10-10 Thread Simon Lambourn
Edit to above comment: ... workaround by DELETING .config/compiz-1... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1375194 Title: lightdm session constantly switches screen appearance To manage

[Bug 1375194] Re: lightdm session constantly switches screen appearance

2014-10-01 Thread Simon Lambourn
Update: I have found a workaround by .config/compiz-1 and .config/dconf (I have a backup of the .config/dconf if this might help to debug this issue, but not the compiz one, sorry). This makes the screen behave normally again... ** Attachment added: .xsession-errors shows a whole multitude of

[Bug 1375194] [NEW] lightdm session constantly switches screen appearance

2014-09-29 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: After installing regular software updates on 23 Sept, my screen session has become almost unusable. The screen appearance (font, button style, window menu bar location) alternates about twice a second between my usual settings and what I guess are the default un-decorated

Re: [Bug 1311121] Re: bbswitch-dkms 0.7-2ubuntu1: bbswitch kernel module failed to build

2014-07-28 Thread Simon Lambourn
the linux-generic package - so I'm going back and starting again.But I confirm that your diagnosis about the bbswitch bug is correct. Thanks very much for your help and I'm sorry that I didn't notice this myself. Best regards Simon Lambourn On 25/07/14 09:57, Peter Wu wrote: It appears

[Bug 1311104] Fwd: Re: [Bug 1311121] Re: bbswitch-dkms 0.7-2ubuntu1: bbswitch kernel module failed to build

2014-07-28 Thread Simon Lambourn
Subject:Re: [Bug 1311121] Re: bbswitch-dkms 0.7-2ubuntu1: bbswitch kernel module failed to build Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:06:27 +0100 From: Simon Lambourn simon.lambo...@gmail.com To: Bug 1311121 1311...@bugs.launchpad.net Dear Peter, Thank you for investigating this bug and reporting

Re: [Bug 1311104] Re: nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build [macros.h:1:2: error: #error INIT_WORK() conftest failed!]

2014-06-15 Thread Simon Lambourn
Hi Max, Thanks for the email. I did check and my default GCC is set to 4.8, so that wasn't the problem. I can't install from the NVIDIA website or from the repos. Both fail with a compilation error - an unknown function. Simon On 10/06/14 13:52, Max Mustermann wrote: I'm not sure whether

[Bug 1311104] [NEW] nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build

2014-04-22 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I have just installed ubuntu 14.04 on amd64 hardware, and nouveau is unstable with my NVIDIA Geforce 8200 integrated graphics. Tried to install nvidia-331 using sudo apt-get install nvidia-331, but the build failed along with the dkms build (and I think something else

[Bug 1311104] Re: nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build

2014-04-22 Thread Simon Lambourn
Here is the other make.log showing the bbswitch build error ** Attachment added: /var/lib/dkms/bbswitch/0.7/build/make.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1311104/+attachment/4092569/+files/make.log -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1311121] [NEW] bbswitch-dkms 0.7-2ubuntu1: bbswitch kernel module failed to build

2014-04-22 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I have just installed ubuntu 14.04 as a clean install on amd64 hardware. The nouveau driver is unstable with my nvidia Geforce 8200 integrated graphics, so installed the nvidia-331 package, using apt-get install nvidia-331. dkms also failed to build (separate bug reported)

[Bug 1250556] Re: Glade 3.8.0 and 3.14.2 crash when loading old Glade files

2013-12-01 Thread Simon Lambourn
Will this patch also fix the bug with glade 3.8.0? This is the patch for 3.14.2: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glade/patch/?id=d2c8e008e1b81d501b30c070d492959da6922992 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 1246939] Re: package mime-support 3.54ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137

2013-11-23 Thread Simon Lambourn
in dmesg though. There were some udev related errors but I have fixed those with help from Google! The system is working fine now. Let me know if you need to know anything else. Simon. Simon Lambourn. 07952 932 823 Sent from my Android smartphone. On 23 Nov 2013 03:05, Charles Plessy ple

[Bug 1250556] [NEW] Glade 3.8.0 and 3.14.2 crash when loading old Glade files

2013-11-12 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: When trying to load a .glade file created in Glade 3.8 (I think) on Oct 26 2013, glade crashes after registering 1% progress. This applies to both Glade 3.8.0 and 3.14.2 - both crash. I created an extract with a message dialog object which contains the line child

[Bug 1250556] Re: Glade 3.8.0 and 3.14.2 crash when loading old Glade files

2013-11-12 Thread Simon Lambourn
Hi, I have just seen that this bug is also reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glade/+bug/1242865 for Glade 3.14.2. I have downloaded the ppa and this fixes 3.14.2. However 3.8.0 is still broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1242865] Re: Glade can't work with dialog windows

2013-11-12 Thread Simon Lambourn
This problem also happens with Glade 3.8.0 (the version which works with GTK 2.0 ... I know but it works with pygtk) The ppa fix seems to work with Glade 3.14.2 but has not fixed Glade 3.8.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1246939] [NEW] package mime-support 3.54ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137

2013-10-31 Thread Simon Lambourn
Public bug reported: I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10. Having problems getting greeter to work with Nvidia drivers and so booted linux 3.8 kernel. Managed to login using GUI but then got this software problem - not sure if it is related. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu