[Bug 1088137] Re: colored snow all over, hangs under compiz

2016-03-01 Thread drewp
Nope, I think we should close the ticket -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088137 Title: colored snow all over, hangs under compiz To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 990765] Re: Save button always greyed out when creating openvpn connection

2012-12-20 Thread drewp
A workaround on 12.10 is to run sudo nm-connection-editor instead of using the normal NM menu. And, as you edit in the openvpn config dialog, your terminal will now show validation errors (like 'Invalid setting VPN: username'). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1088137] Re: colored snow all over, hangs under compiz

2012-12-13 Thread drewp
Rebooting and not using compiz fixes it. I haven't done tests to narrow that down any more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088137 Title: colored snow all over, hangs under compiz

[Bug 1088137] [NEW] colored snow all over, hangs under compiz

2012-12-09 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: I upgraded to 12.10 successfully and didn't see any graphics problems. Today, after my laptop was on for a while but not in a position where it would overheat, I had random colored pixels on the screen and the mouse position only refreshed a few times. dmesg contains NVRM:

[Bug 934471] Re: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in dvdnav_describe_title_chapters()

2012-04-29 Thread drewp
Elijah, here is what I did: First, have checkinstall and libdvdread-dev installed. cd /tmp apt-get source libdvdnav wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdnav/+bug/934471/+attachment/3055259/+files/libdvdnav-searching.c-check-cellnr-before-indexing.patch patch -p1

[Bug 519517] Re: Touchpad unresponsive after suspend

2012-04-10 Thread drewp
I get basically this upon upgrading to 12.04. After resume Xorg says this: [ 21452.322] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) [ 21452.464] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1920x1080_60_0 [ 21453.909] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found [ 21456.409] (II) XKB: reuse

[Bug 965299] Re: HUD service returning more than 5 entries

2012-04-09 Thread drewp
2458 drewp 20 0 1489m 932m 12m R 102 15.7 4:19.03 unity-panel-ser 2531 drewp 20 0 1117m 458m 3536 R 100 7.7 4:08.02 hud-service unity-panel-service is slowly filling ram. After I

[Bug 976971] [NEW] package linux-image-3.2.0-22-generic 3.2.0-22.35 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: trying 12.04 upgrade ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image-3.2.0-22-generic 3.2.0-22.35 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound

[Bug 976971] Re: package linux-image-3.2.0-22-generic 3.2.0-22.35 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976971 Title: package linux-image-3.2.0-22-generic 3.2.0-22.35 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation

[Bug 976975] [NEW] package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: trying 12.04 ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date:

[Bug 976975] Re: package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976975 Title: package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned

[Bug 976978] [NEW] package grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: trying 12.04 ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun

[Bug 976978] Re: package grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976978 Title: package grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error

[Bug 976979] Re: package friendly-recovery 0.2.25 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976979 Title: package friendly-recovery 0.2.25 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error

[Bug 976979] [NEW] package friendly-recovery 0.2.25 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-04-08 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: trying 12.04 ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun

[Bug 899954] Re: yo frankie only shows some clouds, game doesn't start

2012-02-14 Thread drewp
As to this line: warning: could not open '/usr/share/yofrankie-bge/levels/start_menu.bgeconf' % dpkg -L yofrankie | grep bgeconf (no results) The zip download from the site runs fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 892706] Re: after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-25 Thread drewp
I fixed this by purging a lot of the xserver, dbus, and udev related packages and reinstalling them. I didn't notice anything else relevant to the problem, unfortunately. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 892706] [NEW] after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-20 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: I can type fine at the gdm prompt, and the mouse works after login too. fvwm catches my bound function keys for window manipulation, but regular keypresses into windows don't work. I ran xev and typed into it. Usually each keypress makes 3 events: FocusOut event, serial 23,

[Bug 892706] Re: after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-20 Thread drewp
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[Bug 892706] Re: after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-20 Thread drewp
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/892706/+attachment/2602544/+files/Xorg.0.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892706 Title: after gdm login,

[Bug 892706] Re: after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-20 Thread drewp
** Attachment added: xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/892706/+attachment/2602543/+files/xorg.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892706 Title: after gdm login,

[Bug 892706] Re: after gdm login, keyboard doesn't send KeyPress events

2011-11-20 Thread drewp
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 - 1:7.6+4ubuntu3 [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.10.4-1ubuntu4.2 - 2:1.10.1-1ubuntu1 has no effect -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892706

[Bug 566057] Re: Cheese fails to start: Gtk-ERROR **: List item does not match its index: item index 130 and list index 129

2010-10-31 Thread drewp
I hit this too after cheese (reasonably) crashed because my machine was out of ram. I ran cheese under strace to see what it was doing around the does not match error, and I found it was talking to some thumbnail service. Running nautilus ~/.thumbnails to force a proper thumbnail of every pic in

[Bug 566057] Re: Cheese fails to start: Gtk-ERROR **: List item does not match its index: item index 130 and list index 129

2010-10-31 Thread drewp
Oops, I meant nautilus ~/Webcam (or ~/Pictures/Webcam) as the command that causes whatever's wrong with the thumbnails to get fixed. -- Cheese fails to start: Gtk-ERROR **: List item does not match its index: item index 130 and list index 129 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566057 You received

[Bug 650539] Re: Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...

2010-10-25 Thread drewp
Using fvwm2 and opening a fvwm desktop menu triggers the X crash bug too. Disabling xinerama is a workaround. -- Launching QT apps under Xinerama crashes Xorg : affects SpeedCrunch, KeePassX, Lucky Backup, Pencil, Stellarium, Skype, Google Earth, VLC, Konqueror, VirtualBox, Opera ...

[Bug 405091] [NEW] please upgrade kdirstat to new upstream version

2009-07-26 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdirstat http://kdirstat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kdirstat/kdirstat/ChangeLog?revision=1.75view=markupsortby=date shows some new (2007!) versions that support leaving cache files on disk for faster rescans. That sounds very helpful. Please consider

[Bug 309364] Re: Allow to specify message type

2009-03-05 Thread drewp
Upgrading to a new upstream version also solves this. I am now using 1.18, though I don't know exactly when the --messages-type cmdline arg appeared. In 1.18 the default type is 'chat', in fact. http://platon.sk/cvs/cvs.php/sendxmpp/sendxmpp?rev=1.18content- type=text/x-cvsweb-markup has the

[Bug 279471] Re: eog should auto-refresh when file changes

2009-01-25 Thread drewp
I'm using the c-R shortcut now. This request is ok to close (unless someone intends to implement auto-reload because of it :) -- eog should auto-refresh when file changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279471 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 287148] Re: [Intrepid] oprofile gui missing library

2008-12-23 Thread drewp
Here is an attempted workaround, which assumes the .93 version of libbfd will substitute correctly for the requested .0 version: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.93.20081009.so /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so That lets oprof_start, but then I get a dialog box with the same error as 'opcontrol

[Bug 230839] Re: The sensors program crashes on 2.6.26+

2008-12-22 Thread drewp
I confirm the first patch which stops the crash and removes a lot of litter from my logs. (It would be nice for sensors to actually report results too, of course.) ubuntu 8.04.1 Linux slash 2.6.27-1-server #1 SMP Thu Aug 14 16:26:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux More hardware details here:

[Bug 274155] Re: Intrepid: quiet splash freezes but verbose boots up fine

2008-12-16 Thread drewp
Like Adam, I have found that when the progress bar stalls at about 10%, I can hold down a key like shift to get the progress bar to the end. Letting go at any point makes the progress stop again. This is on intrepid with either 2.6.27-7.16 or 2.6.27-9.19, 64-bit dual AMD, on an HP dv9000 laptop.

[Bug 284982] Re: Bluetooth does not work at Acer Aspire 7520

2008-11-28 Thread drewp
My device detection also improved when I added the blueman repo. I haven't tried all the dialup/etc functions, but this fixes my No such device problem. web page: https://launchpad.net/~blueman/+archive add these to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ubuntu intrepid

[Bug 284982] Re: Bluetooth does not work at Acer Aspire 7520

2008-11-17 Thread drewp
Same on hp pavilion dv9000 with Actiontec BTM200B usb bluetooth. It used to work in hardy. plus(pts/0):/# uname -a Linux plus 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:09:30 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux plus(pts/0):/# lsusb | grep -i blue Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1668:0500 Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

[Bug 204526] Re: python-central doesn't handle modified symlinks created with symlinks -c

2008-11-11 Thread drewp
I also had trouble with this link today: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 2008-04-21 02:55 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/GMenuSimpleEditor/menufilewriter.py - /usr/share/pyshared/GMenuSimpleEditor/menufilewriter.py aptitude reinstall python-gmenu didn't help. My workaround was to run this: sudo

[Bug 271706] Re: Volume control wheel on laptop is sticking in ubuntu

2008-11-07 Thread drewp
Same thing on intrepid on an hp pavilion dv9000, 2.6.24-21-generic 32bit. On this machine, the volume is adjusted by sliding your finger on a little stripe. It's like a laptop mousepad, but 1D and above the keyboard (http://www.laptopblog.org/images/jgfjh.jpg). What I find is the gently sliding

[Bug 245946] Re: Intrepid Ibex - Lost sound after dist-upgrade

2008-10-26 Thread drewp
Upgraded yesterday to ibex 8.10, and I have no sound either. % uname -a Linux score 2.6.25-2-386 #1 Tue Sep 30 14:47:35 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux % alsamixer No mixer elems found % find /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-386 | grep snd % aplay /usr/lib/openoffice/share/gallery/sounds/sparcle.wav Playing WAVE

[Bug 253430] Re: libdbus-glib-1.so.2 required by newest Firefox 32 bit nightlies

2008-10-19 Thread drewp
I wrote up a workaround on my blog: http://drewp.quickwitretort.com/2008/10/19/0 1. Go get the i386 version of libdbus-glib (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/libdbus-glib-1-2/download) and save the .deb file somewhere. 2. Run file-roller /tmp/libdbus-glib-1-2_0.74-2_i386.deb. 3.

[Bug 279471] [NEW] eog should auto-refresh when file changes

2008-10-06 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog For example: cp red.jpg image.jpg eog image.jpg cp blue.jpg image.jpg eog will keep showing the red image, even if I re-select image.jpg from the recent files list. The use case is when I'm working on a program that outputs an image, and I keep

[Bug 173833] Re: evdev mouse fails on hardy: cannot open input pEvdev

2008-05-12 Thread drewp
Related trouble with evdev and mouse model A4 Tech SWOP-80PU8. I eventually went with this config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Buttons 10 Option Name A4 Tech USB Laser Mouse Option Protocol auto Option

[Bug 204757] Re: package update-manager 1:0.87.12 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin

2008-04-21 Thread drewp
Similar message, but the popup also mentioned /usr/bin/cwm, which is a python program that I think I installed with normal 'python setup.py install' (or possibly easy_install). ** Attachment added: distupgrade-drewp.tgz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13630918/distupgrade-drewp.tgz -- package

[Bug 173414] python-xlib breaks with AttributeError: roots

2007-12-02 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-xlib % python -c from Xlib.display import Display; Display() Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 1, in module File /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/Xlib/display.py, line 80, in __init__ self.display =

[Bug 160386] hal_lpadmin reports cups error incorrectly

2007-11-05 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal-cups-utils I don't care much about this error or cups, as I am actually trying to use a usb/parallel convertor to control electronics. But there is what looks like a typo in the python code: Nov 5 20:00:06 score kernel: [1031822.46] usb 1-2:

[Bug 78392] Re: /var/lib/scrollkeeper/(null)/scrollkeeper_cl.xml warning on pkg ghex

2007-08-10 Thread drewp
I'm now on Ubuntu 7.04. I tried removing and reinstalling ghex just now, and I get no more scrollkeeper warnings. Thanks for the followup. This is ok to close. -- /var/lib/scrollkeeper/(null)/scrollkeeper_cl.xml warning on pkg ghex https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78392 You received this bug

[Bug 97297] Re: [Feisty] Bluetooth pairing fails due to bug in init script

2007-08-06 Thread drewp
I find myself at this bug because the bluez-utils package indeed looks like it's accidentally missing sdpd: % dpkg -L bluez-utils ... /usr/sbin/hcid /usr/share/man/man8/hcid.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/sdpd.8.gz I would recommend removing the sdpd man page or better yet, augmenting that man

[Bug 78392] /var/lib/scrollkeeper/(null)/scrollkeeper_cl.xml warning on pkg ghex

2007-01-07 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ghex I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS for i386. # aptitude reinstall ghex Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done

[Bug 46422] Re: Wrong directory for libTix8.4

2006-09-02 Thread drewp
confirmed bug and confirmed dr. gonzo's symlink fix. -- Wrong directory for libTix8.4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/46422 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 55018] can't install due to deliberately broken .py file

2006-08-02 Thread drewp
Public bug reported: Setting up python2.4-pylib (0.7.20050829-0ubuntu1) ... Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py ... File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/py/test/testing/data/syntax_error.py, line 3 this is really not python