[Bug 873578] Re: synaptic always crashes on search

2012-04-10 Thread Thespian
Exactly like comment #2, the second character in quicksearch crashes synaptic. This is a recent change in behavior, it used to work fine. fully patched 10.04 install -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 727668] Re: cannot mount NTFS with libfuse2 and fuse-utils 2.8.1-1.1ubuntu3.1

2011-03-15 Thread Thespian
This bug is still New/Undecided/Unassigned. How can we get it assigned? while we've got a work around, I would like to be able to update libfuse/fuseutils someday. what's the next step? Thanks, thespian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 727668] Re: cannot mount NTFS with libfuse2 and fuse-utils 2.8.1-1.1ubuntu3.1

2011-03-02 Thread Thespian
Same symptom, and same work-around worked for me. Thanks Pierre. For more debugging details, see my request for help at this ubuntu forum post where I did a bunch of debugging before finding this launchpad bug. For me, the problem manifested as a failure to mount my windows XP partition during

[Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

2010-10-13 Thread Thespian
Colin, thanks for the pointer to the info that could you help with a work-around. Using grub2 in chained boot mode still had a similar problem, so I've reverted back to legacy grub for now. I've got 4 files attached here for you. The fdisk output, the good mbr now with legacy grub installed,

[Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

2010-10-13 Thread Thespian
output of fdisk attached ** Attachment added: fdisk.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/551721/+attachment/1691787/+files/fdisk.txt -- [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551721 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

2010-10-13 Thread Thespian
good mbr ** Attachment added: good mbr - legacy grub installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/551721/+attachment/1691788/+files/mbr-good -- [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551721 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

2010-10-13 Thread Thespian
And last, the mbr that just booted straight in to windows, seemingly over-writing the previous grub2 bootloader in some way ** Attachment added: boot straight to windows https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/551721/+attachment/1691789/+files/bad_mbr2winboot -- [grub2] grub

[Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

2010-09-30 Thread Thespian
My wife and I have identical HP(Dell) laptops (Compaq 8710p). We both dual boot XP/ubuntu. I upgraded 8.04-10.04 a number of months back, and all was relatively painless. We tried to do the same to hers and hit a bunch of upgrade problems (not obviously related to this bug) so I decided to nuke

[Bug 289592] Re: Unknown media types in /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml

2010-06-27 Thread Thespian
I only started getting this problem when I did an apt-get auto-remove just after adding in the suggested other packages for exaile (an audio player program written in python). The extras I installed (which did not trigger this wash of warning messages) were: sudo apt-get install

[Bug 578061] Re: eog gives error messages when run in terminal

2010-06-07 Thread Thespian
Just one more person reporting seeing this problem. Fully updated Lucid system. eog-2.30.0 -- eog gives error messages when run in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578061 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 564459] Re: USB devices not detected when hotplugged

2010-05-13 Thread Thespian
I just did a network direct upgrade from 8.04 (Heron) to 10.04 (Lynx). Everything else seems to work so far, but I seem to have been bitten by this bug, or something very close to it. Plugging in my Western Digital USB 1TB MyBook drive (formatted with two ext3 partiitons and one NTFS partition)

[Bug 564459] Re: USB devices not detected when hotplugged

2010-05-13 Thread Thespian
Adding one more note. The other fixes mentioned in other threads also didn't work for me. Including them here in case this symptom has multiple causes, and they may be of use to others watching this bug. One was to disable floppy controller in bios (done, no effect) and the other was to have

[Bug 267330] Re: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in getmtime()

2009-11-28 Thread Thespian
problem seen on aspire netbook running ubuntu netbook remix off a flash drive. -- update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in getmtime() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267330 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 193970] Re: iwl3945 | iwl4965: Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch

2009-06-28 Thread Thespian
Adding to the data for this bug. It still shows up on Hardy 8.04 kernel: 2.6.24-24-generic fully patched. on a Compaq 8710p laptop with iwl4965 I _don't_ have the backport package installed. dpkg --list | grep backport yields nothing. Symptoms and description are as others have reported.

[Bug 174738] Re: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument, requested cipher or key length (256 bits) not supported by kernel

2009-01-13 Thread Thespian
There has been no activity on this bug for a year, but it is still a problem in Hardy 8.04. I've got a work-around (described below) but loop-AES needs to be rebuilt and copied into the kernel dir after *each* kernel update for my work-around. Could we please get the Sourceforge loop-aes sources

[Bug 195721] Re: glxinfo crashes after login ( systemfreeze )

2008-05-14 Thread Thespian
I'm getting the same problem as well. None of the solutions I've tried have seemed to be permanent. System specs and debugging attempts are here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4817281#post4817281 Nvidia card, and the whole system freezes about 4 seconds after hitting return on my

[Bug 227606] Re: Hardy 8.04 install problem - freeze after login or Ubiquity start (wubi windows installer)

2008-05-07 Thread Thespian
Additional info. I tried a fresh install. The install only completed when I added acpi- off noapic nolapic to the command line boot options. Once finished installing, I was able to successfully log in *once* adding the same options to the boot line. From there I was able to update packages and

[Bug 227606] [NEW] Hardy 8.04 install problem - freeze after login or Ubiquity start (wubi windows installer)

2008-05-06 Thread Thespian
line, with no effect. I'm an experienced linux novice, so if someone can tell me which log files might be useful in debugging, I can check them. Thanks for any help or insight you can offer. Thespian ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Hardy 8.04 install