[Bug 589985] [NEW] multi-threaded support broken

2010-06-04 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sox The version of sox shipped with lucid enables multi-threaded processing by default, but this results in a *dramatic* slowdown rather than an improvement. This is what I get trying to resample a 90-second stereo file: % time sox --single-threaded -r

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2010-05-28 Thread jmspeex
If you look at my original comment, you'll see that the reason I commented here is because someone made my earlier bug report a duplicate of this bug. So if you're not happy, find that person and tell him/her to stop doing that. -- Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

[Bug 132612] Re: memory leak in evince?

2009-02-13 Thread jmspeex
I'm currently running Intrepid and the problem is *not* fixed. I was wondering why my system was still using a lot of memory despite the fact I didn't have that many apps running. So I closed all by one of the evince documents and checked memory use: % free total used

[Bug 292233] Re: kdiff3 is no longer packaged in intrepid

2008-12-13 Thread jmspeex
Please add kdiff3, it's one of the must-have utils on any Linux distro. -- kdiff3 is no longer packaged in intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292233 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events after using rdesktop

2008-11-07 Thread jmspeex
OK, question to Ubuntu devs. Is there someone actually interested in investigating this? If so, please list anything that would be useful to check when the bug occurs (about once a month for me with 8.10). Some additional info. The last time this bug (or something very similar -- hard to say)

[Bug 120305] Re: [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2008-08-29 Thread jmspeex
Considering that this Fiesty regression is marked as WONT_FIX, please just close this bug like all the others I reported. -- [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120305 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 48603] Re: USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

2008-08-28 Thread jmspeex
This has to be a joke. Nobody has ever done anything about that bug in two years and now I should do more testing so it continues to be ignored? Just close this as WONT_BOTHER like the rest of the bugs. -- USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48603 You

[Bug 48603] Re: USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

2008-08-28 Thread jmspeex
How about adding a A_DEVELOPER_IS_INTERESTED_IN_THIS_BUG flag to Launchpad? That way, you could report a bug and only put effort in finding the bug if a developer is actually interested in fixing it. This would greatly reduce wasted effort and perhaps improve the odds of fixing bugs that

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2008-08-02 Thread jmspeex
I also believe it's related to copy-paste, because it always triggers a bit after a paste. -- Runaway leak in composer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51662 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2008-07-31 Thread jmspeex
Sebastien, I *did* try valgrind. The problem was that evolution generates so many warnings that valgrind's useless. It's also incredibly slow (evo+valgrind) that you can't run that all the time. Some people also gave stack traces, so don't say there was no info provided. Also, in my case, I wasn't

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2008-07-30 Thread jmspeex
I think the main reason you're getting no more information is that: 1) No information has been provided by the developers 2) Most people really affected by this bug have probably switched to another client just like I've done. You need to understand that the bug's been around for years now and

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events after using rdesktop

2008-06-02 Thread jmspeex
It is probably related. It happens to me with other apps than rdesktop. I think the title should be changed. -- No more mouse events after using rdesktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events after using rdesktop

2008-03-11 Thread jmspeex
OK, it happened again to me (on Gusty), while I was using Thunderbird and I was able to get more info. First interesting thing was that trying to run xkill gave me: xkill: unable to grab cursor That was interesting, because it occurred to me that the cursor was indeed grabbed by something

[Bug 158177] Re: Evince presentations start in a window if evince is fullscreen and compiz is enabled

2008-01-29 Thread jmspeex
Just a minor correction: the openoffice.org do you want to save your changes? dialog is actually created as full-screen, which is really annoying to say the least. I've also found the behaviour to be intermittent. -- Evince presentations start in a window if evince is fullscreen and compiz is

[Bug 158177] Re: Evince presentations start in a window if evince is fullscreen and compiz is enabled

2008-01-29 Thread jmspeex
I'm having similar problems with evince when I enable compiz. Basically, evince will open with the wrong geometry (slightly higher than the screen) and more than half its window would be outside the screen (top- left corner almost at the centre of the screen). But evince is not the only

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2007-12-23 Thread jmspeex
When I get hit by that bug, I generally can't type anything because the keyboard focus isn't on any window. However, typing Alt-F2 (or whatever brings up the run dialog) actually works. From there, I can start a terminal that will actually get the focus. This is of course of limited use because

[Bug 120305] Re: [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2007-10-29 Thread jmspeex
Just upgraded my machine to Gusty 64-bit, which I can confirm doesn't have the bug in that hda driver (yet!). It also means I will not be able to test this anymore. Yet another bug heading for a DONTCARE resolution, which is sad considering it's a regression introduced *after* the Feisty release.

[Bug 120305] Re: [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2007-10-22 Thread jmspeex
Rob, I had a quick look and I believe it's a different bug. The bug here is: 1) About the snd-hda-intel module 2) The module does not load at all (even when using modprobe explicitly) due to missing symbols 3) As far as I understand, it's specific to x86-64 -- [regression]Cannot modprobe

[Bug 115283] Re: random system freeze when desktop-effects activated with X300 (X700 too?)

2007-10-09 Thread jmspeex
Just a note, the card with which the problem happens is a Radeon Mobility X600, so you'd have to blacklist that as well. Let's put it the other way. Has anyone had any success with any Radeon Mobility card? ** Summary changed: - random system freeze when desktop-effects activated with X300 (X700

[Bug 115283] Re: random system freeze when desktop-effects activated

2007-10-08 Thread jmspeex
I just installed Gusty and I'm also experiencing exactly the same problem as MichaelElkins described above, but on a Dell D810 (with radeon card too). Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace doesn't work for me either, but Alt-SysRq-b does work. It happens so often that there's no way to do any work with that enabled

[Bug 120305] Re: [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2007-10-07 Thread jmspeex
Until that gets fixed, is it at least possible to stop kernel upgrades from overwriting the drivers I install? This is really annoying. Not only do I need to work around the problem by compiling alsa drivers myself, but on top of that, every kernel upgrade breaks everything again. --

[Bug 120305] Re: [regression]Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2007-09-29 Thread jmspeex
phaserman: This is not the same problem as your link. The link is about disabling the soundcard if it hangs on boot. In the case of this bug, the machine doesn't hang, we're just trying to get the card to actually work (and disabling it in the BIOS isn't exactly a good way to do that). --

[Bug 111690] Re: Kernel oops when inserting pcmcia CF reader

2007-09-16 Thread jmspeex
I'm hit by exactly the same bug on my Dell D820 with the 64-bit version of Edgy. It's really annoying because it really mean I have no way to use that CF card in my laptop at all. Bug occurs 100% of the time, so it's quite serious. I can attach the dmesg, but it's fairly similar to the one above.

[Bug 120305] Re: Cannot modprobe snd-hda-intel following upgrade to Feisty

2007-08-09 Thread jmspeex
I've experienced exactly the same problem on my Dell D820 laptop (x86-64) and a Dell Precision 390 desktop (x86-64), which also use the snd-hda-intel driver. The same driver loads find on another Dell laptop (i386), although that one doesn't actually have that card. From this sampling, I would

[Bug 117580] Re: Wireless gone at upgrade to kernel 2.6.20-16-generic

2007-07-04 Thread jmspeex
Same problem here when upgrading from 2.6.20-15 to 2.6.20-16. I've got a Dell D820 with a Core 2 Duo and a ipw3945 card. On top of that, I also lose sound (intel-hda soundcard). Don't know what happened to this kernel, but it's definitely pretty bad. -- Wireless gone at upgrade to kernel

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2007-06-29 Thread jmspeex
Yes. See my above comment. It's not as bad, but it definitely has happened to me with Feisty. -- No more mouse events https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 51476] Re: Frequency scaling stays at min with niced processes on Dapper

2007-06-06 Thread jmspeex
You've got to be kidding! During the time it took to just have this bug acknowledged (11 months), I've had time to upgrade Ubuntu twice (now running Feisty) and replace my laptop with a newer model. So no, this bug isn't causing me problems anymore, but I couldn't say whether it's fixed or not.

[Bug 53857] Re: Weird X bug with 686 build

2007-06-06 Thread jmspeex
Upgraded Ubuntu twice (to Feisty) and changed machine (to a 64-bit one) in the mean time, so I'm no longer affected by this Dapper/i386 bug. -- Weird X bug with 686 build https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2007-06-06 Thread jmspeex
Feisty boots fine on a Core2 machine. It's only Edgy and Dapper (and probably earlier) that are completely broken. -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66500 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2007-06-06 Thread jmspeex
Although it happens less often, it has happened to me with Feisty on my new (x86-64) machine. I was in the middle of an IRC meeting so I couldn't logout. It took maybe 30 minutes to the X server to release the mouse from it's weird state. This behaviour is very annoying. I get the choice between

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2007-04-16 Thread jmspeex
I didn't observe the problem again because I'm no longer using evolution (mainly because of this bug). All I can remember is that the bug was often triggered by pasting some text into the compose window. Also, if I saved the message before killing evolution (it was sometimes possible), then trying

[Bug 66188] Re: Big memory leak

2007-03-18 Thread jmspeex
How about applying the fix to Dapper? Looks like bug #92143, which I filed. -- Big memory leak https://launchpad.net/bugs/66188 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 92143] Re: gnome-session leaks huge amounts of memory on Dapper

2007-03-15 Thread jmspeex
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 66188 *** Seems to fit the pattern. I had set up a script to check the memory every minute and it turns out that it leaked exactly 6752 KB every time I brought up the logout dialog today (and did an xlock, but I don't think the xlock is the problem here). --

[Bug 77859] Re: Dapper: Regression: Firefox 1.5.0.9: Saved passwords causes crash with Mailman admin

2007-01-22 Thread jmspeex
I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour. Any saved password with no login name makes firefox segfault. The problem appeared in the security update, as reported by others. Starting firefox with -safe-mode doesn't change anything. However, if I use the official mozilla.org build, firefox doesn't crash

[Bug 48603] Re: USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

2007-01-21 Thread jmspeex
% uname -a Linux theorix 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 8 17:51:56 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux % lspci -vv http://people.xiph.org/~jm/d800_lspci_vv.txt % lspci -vvn http://people.xiph.org/~jm/d800_lspci_vvn.txt % dmidecode http://people.xiph.org/~jm/d800_dmidecode.txt -- USB fails after

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2007-01-07 Thread jmspeex
Yet another user affected by this bug. See blog post http://www.advogato.org/person/berend/diary.html?start=286 Considering there's no way to get out of this except doing a ctrl-alt-backspace, this is *really* annoying. -- No more mouse events https://launchpad.net/bugs/55739 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2007-01-07 Thread jmspeex
I've got focus-follows-pointer as well. I'll try Alt-tab next time I get the bug. I also found this page http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html and started thinking it it could actually be screensaver-related because it usually happens after a bit of idle time. Have you seen the same

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2006-12-01 Thread jmspeex
Actually, I originally filed this bug against Dapper... In any case, installing thunderbird solved the problem permanently for me and I'm not looking back (took about an hour to copy mail around and configure). It's not perfect, but it's much more stable and has never crashed my machine. --

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-11-29 Thread jmspeex
Considering that the patch has been in the main Speex tree for over a year without complaints and the previous behaviour was totally broken anyway, I say go for it now. -- speexenc segfaults on amd64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/19482 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-11-25 Thread jmspeex
ACPI problem can be worked around by also using no_timer_check. I have checked newer kernels (2.6.18 and 2.6.19-rc6) and none of those seems to be affected. I'd recommend either back-porting the relevant patch or adding notsc no_timer_check to the default boot options (is that possible?). From

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-11-22 Thread jmspeex
I don't have a Dapper64 machine, but if anyone has, the test is really simple: % speexenc /dev/zero /dev/null If it doesn't crash after a millisecond or so, then the bug is fixed. -- speexenc segfaults on amd64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/19482 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-11-19 Thread jmspeex
Turns out the notsc kernel option solves the strange X problems. Machine still crashes on any ACPI event though. -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66500 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-11-18 Thread jmspeex
It doesn't seem like it's an X server bug, please stop assigning it that way. ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xorg-server = None -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66500 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-11-18 Thread jmspeex
Some additional info: Dapper still crashes after a while. The difference with Edgy is that Dapper is actually behaving normally before it crashes. I tried the Dapper kernel on Edgy, and it works better -- about the same as normal Dapper -- so it's probably a kernel bug. I also tried FC6 (2.6.18

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-29 Thread jmspeex
I confirm that the final release of Edgy for AMD64 is still totally unusable on my machine. On the other hand, the 32-bit version doesn't have any of these problems (have been running it for one week). -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66500

[Bug 30146] Re: gnome-panel doesn't show all menu items

2006-10-23 Thread jmspeex
I confirm that the bug is *still* present in Edgy. And it's *really* annoying! -- gnome-panel doesn't show all menu items https://launchpad.net/bugs/30146 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-10-22 Thread jmspeex
Considering the refusal to fix the speex encoder 6 months after a patch was posted, I request (as the Speex maintainer) that package speex (not libspeex1) be removed from the amd64 version of Dapper. The package is broken beyond any use on that system, so all it does is give people a bad

[Bug 67476] Re: Dialogs of background applications pop up in the foreground

2006-10-21 Thread jmspeex
I don't know why the bugs I filed *earlier* are being marked as duplicates of this bug -- especially considering that what I reported is much more general than this. The problem is not restricted to dialogs. New windows -- in general -- should not steal the focus. Not only can this be a security

[Bug 67101] Edgy regression on AMD64 makes machine unusable (CRITICAL)

2006-10-20 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: I'm resubmitting #66500 because I no longer think it's an X.Org bug. It *looks* like a kernel problem now because it affects too many things. The result is that Edgy (beta and RC) is totally unusable on my machine, crashing/hanging after a few minutes. Other than the

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-20 Thread jmspeex
Unsure which package ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xorg = None -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66500 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-20 Thread jmspeex
Just summarising the info I have so far. I no longer think it's an X.Org bug. It *looks* like it could be a kernel problem because it affects many things. The result is that Edgy (beta and RC) is totally unusable on my machine, crashing/hanging after a few minutes. Other than the crashes,

[Bug 67101] Re: Edgy regression on AMD64 makes machine unusable (CRITICAL)

2006-10-20 Thread jmspeex
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 66500 *** More tests: - Booting amd64 Edgy with Dapper's amd64 kernel results in about the same behaviour as Dapper itself (not counting the stuff that requires a newer kernel), so it's probably kernel related. - With amd64 Dapper, I'm still getting some

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-17 Thread jmspeex
I have done some experiments with BIOS settings. Basically, the problem seems to disappear when I disable the second core. If any Ubuntu developer is interested in investigating the bug, please let me know as soon as possible because I'll otherwise be reformatting the partition as soon as FC6 is

[Bug 66500] Re: Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-17 Thread jmspeex
Sorry, the problem doesn't disappear when I disable the second core, it just takes 20 minutes for the machine to crash instead of 1-2 minutes. Oh, and BTW the strange info in /proc/cpuinfo was simply due to cpufreq changing the CPU frequency. -- Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy

[Bug 66500] Bug on amd64 makes X server unusable in Edgy (CRITICAL)

2006-10-16 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: I've recently attempted to install and64 Edgy on my laptop and I find it to be totally unusable in X (gnome or KDE). The X server will hang, crash, etc within minutes (if not seconds) of using it, usually forcing a reboot. The 32-bit version seems to work fine (haven't tested

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-10-05 Thread jmspeex
Based on what I see at http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/source/speex it seems like Edgy is not affected by the bug (which was fixed in 1.1.12). Now will someone finally apply the 4-line fix (above) to Dapper... or does LTS just stand for Long Time to get Support? -- speexenc segfaults on

[Bug 55739] Re: No more mouse events

2006-10-04 Thread jmspeex
Well, Firefox (and rdesktop in my case) may (or may not) be buggy, but in any case the X server should contain the bug to these applications instead of causing the whole system to be unusable. -- No more mouse events https://launchpad.net/bugs/55739 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-09-29 Thread jmspeex
Yes, that would make sense because if it's a modal dialog, you can't type in the main application window anyway. That's the only case I see where stealing the focus is OK, and it's not really stealing because that's what a modal dialog does *by definition*. The only question remaining is what

[Bug 62893] Re: Inconsistent security measures for password protection in Dapper

2006-09-29 Thread jmspeex
Well, the fact remains that the password protection behaviour is inconsistent. The choices are either to accept that Bug #54741 is real (and not a feature) or to conclude that the blanking feature of gksu should be removed. I'd personally prefer the former solutions, but it seems like some people

[Bug 62893] Inconsistent security measures for password protection in Dapper

2006-09-28 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-notifier As reported in Bug #54741, the focus-stealing behaviour of metacity makes it *very* easy to type an ssh (or other) password in the wrong window if there's a new window opening. Since I have been told that this behaviour should be

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-09-28 Thread jmspeex
The consisteny issue is about having consistent *security* behaviour. I can't see why some passwords are deemed more important than others. I didn't they that was not a bug, I just wrote that is was not the same issue than the focus issue initially described so it could use a different bug,

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-08-28 Thread jmspeex
Just saw this today. I'm the maintainer of Speex (for some reason the Speex project no longer appears on launchpad). I'll fix the problem in Speex for the next release. In the mean time, I suggest simply doing the following change instead: - op.packet = (unsigned char

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-08-28 Thread jmspeex
Bit off-topic, but I just noticed that Speex is listed as an Ubuntu package instead of an individual project. In any case, how can I get automatically notified of bugs filed against Speex? -- speexenc segfaults on amd64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/19482 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 19482] Re: speexenc segfaults on amd64

2006-08-28 Thread jmspeex
I talked too soon. The patch I was proposing was actually applied on 01/01/06 19:21:21 (see http://trac.xiph.org/changeset/10684) and actually made it into 1.1.12. You probably want to apply the same patch in Dapper. -- speexenc segfaults on amd64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/19482 --

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-08-24 Thread jmspeex
I totally agree. What I don't get is that there's simply no logical justification to the current behaviour (at least when focus follows mouse is selected), yet they still don't want to change it. Sure, maybe Windows does it like that, but Windows doesn't have focus follows mouse either. Two

[Bug 49262] Re: Multiple entries in gnome menu

2006-08-22 Thread jmspeex
I have not seen this error recently. It went away after I logged out. IIRC I did an Ubuntu update before, so maybe the updated packages added themselves to the menus again? -- Multiple entries in gnome menu https://launchpad.net/bugs/49262 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-08-09 Thread jmspeex
Because your admin password can be immediately used to compromize your computer, whereas your ssh or gpg passwords may or may not be used that way. I would argue the opposite. The sudo password is *by default* useless because ubuntu doesn't install a local ssh server by default. Your

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-08-09 Thread jmspeex
when you open a new folder with nautilus spatial or an application from the panel menu you probably want them taking the focus instead of having the previous nautilus window of the panel keeping it This may (or may not) be handled as an exception to the don't steal focus rule. Even then, it

[Bug 55739] No more mouse events

2006-08-08 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg I'm running Ubuntu Dapper and sometimes X just stops sending any mouse events (or so it seems). This usually seems to be triggered by using rdesktop. At some point, my desktop becomes unusable. I can see the mouse pointer move, but I can't click on

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-08-08 Thread jmspeex
One thing I would like to point out. A new feature in Dapper is that when starting up an config tool that requires the admin password (e.g. update manager), then the screen goes dark to prevent other windows from opening (and steeling focus) at the same time. Why is it considered that the admin

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-08-01 Thread jmspeex
Funny, doing the 'sleep 5; nautilus' *and* typing in another window is the first case of things (sort of) behaving correctly. Any process other than nautilus steals the focus. If I try the same with xterm, gnome- terminal, konsole, gimp, ... the new window steals the focus. Clearly, it should be

[Bug 48226] Re: auto-hidden panel sometime jumps to the top of the screen

2006-07-31 Thread jmspeex
The first and third issues are indeed covered in the bugs you linked. The second, however isn't: 2) When clicking on the main menu button, sometimes the panel hides itself and the menu pops up too low -- the bottom of the menu is aligned with the bottom of the screen instead of the top of the

[Bug 54741] New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-07-31 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: metacity I'm resubmitting bug #51242 because I'm now convinced it has potential to be successfully exploited remotely to steal user passwords. It basically comes down to the fact that metacity gives by default (which is impossible to change for me) the

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-07-31 Thread jmspeex
So your argument is that if a vulnerability has been there for long enough (or affects another OS), it's OK to leave it there? If a user want to be affected by that, it's his/her choice, but the sane behaviour should be the default. Or, in the minimal case, applications that can be controlled

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-07-31 Thread jmspeex
Have you ever typed your password in clear in another window that just opened? I have -- several times. Usually, it just goes into a local window and only the people around me could see it (which is bad already), but I don't see why it couldn't happen accidently or deliberately through IM or a web

[Bug 54741] Re: New windows stealing focus -- and passwords?

2006-07-31 Thread jmspeex
that this doesn't seem to be a general nautilus issue I assume you meant metacity issue here. I think there must be some soft of confusion in here. On all three Dapper machines I have, I have yet to see a *single* case of a window opening *without* getting focus. Click on the panel to open a

[Bug 51242] Re: New windows shouldn't steal focus

2006-07-30 Thread jmspeex
Having a key in gconf is nice, but it doesn't change the fact that automatically giving focus to a new window (by default!) constitutes not only a security issue (typing a passwd in the wrong window), but a potential for data loss (typing rm -rf * in the wrong terminal). Maybe I should file it

[Bug 51242] Re: New windows shouldn't steal focus

2006-07-30 Thread jmspeex
Not sure what's going on with metacity/gconf, but I tried: gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows --type string strict and though the setting was changed (checked with gconf-editor), there's no change in metacity's behaviour. -- New windows shouldn't steal focus

[Bug 52224] Re: rtlimits far too aggressive with SCHED_FIFO on Dapper

2006-07-29 Thread jmspeex
Please mark this as a dupe of bug #52600 (which I also filed). -- rtlimits far too aggressive with SCHED_FIFO on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/52224 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53857] Weird X bug with 686 build

2006-07-24 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-26-686 I just discovered a very strange bug in the 686 kernel build. If I boot that kernel, the X server ends up eating about 50% CPU, even when idle. This slows down the machine dramatically. What's even stranger is that, while top

[Bug 48786] Re: Package babel Error

2006-07-21 Thread jmspeex
I'm attaching the IEEEtran.cls file. Not sure what scrartcl is or how to use it. About tetex-base, how do I check where it's from? I'm using Dapper, but beyond that, I'm not sure what to check. Last thing, I don't think bug 36145 is related, or at least it's not the same bug. -- Package babel

[Bug 48226] Re: Autohide bugs

2006-07-11 Thread jmspeex
I've seen the same problem on a panel with default size and with a panel of size 52. I've been trying a bit with the panel at the top. I've tried with the panel up and I haven't been able to reproduce the jumping panel bug. Maybe the bug is only with panel at the bottom or maybe it's because of

[Bug 48226] Re: Autohide bugs

2006-07-10 Thread jmspeex
Anything else needed to confirm this bug? I would think the screenshots should be enough to see what's going on. -- Autohide bugs https://launchpad.net/bugs/48226 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 51242] Re: New windows shouldn't steal focus

2006-07-09 Thread jmspeex
OK, this bug is still marked as Needs Info. What other info is needed? -- New windows shouldn't steal focus https://launchpad.net/bugs/51242 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 48786] Re: Package babel Error

2006-07-09 Thread jmspeex
Bug still says Needs Info. Have you been able to reproduce the problem? Otherwise, what other info is needed? -- Package babel Error https://launchpad.net/bugs/48786 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 48603] Re: USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

2006-07-09 Thread jmspeex
Why is this still marked as Needs Info. What other info do you need? -- USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/48603 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 52224] rtlimits far too aggressive with SCHED_FIFO on Dapper

2006-07-07 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Not sure what's going on exactly, but it seems like on Dapper a user can use SCHED_FIFO. The problem is that all priorities are allowed and there seems to be no limit to the amount of CPU used. What this means is that I can easily lockup my system by not being careful. As far

[Bug 36581] Re: gam_server consumes lots of cpu time

2006-07-06 Thread jmspeex
Until the problem is fixed, I think Ubuntu should include an option to just disable gamin without having to remove the binary. Considering the little benefit it provides (haven't really noticed a difference after removing it), gamin causes far more harm than it helps. Actually disabling it by

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2006-07-05 Thread jmspeex
How do I do that? Sorry, not familiar with that bug tracking system. -- Runaway leak in composer https://launchpad.net/bugs/51662 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2006-07-04 Thread jmspeex
I'm running Dapper, but I remember seeing the problem on Breezy (and IIRC earlier) as well. AFAIK, I don't use any special plugin and I don't use the exchange connector. I tried running valgrind but not only is that incredibly slow, but there are hundreds of errors and leaks reported. The

[Bug 51662] Re: Runaway leak in composer

2006-07-04 Thread jmspeex
Well, any suggestion as to how to obtain debug info? It's not like using valgrind+evolution as my main mail client for weeks is a realistic option. Not to mention the fact that even if that was possible, valgrind would have reported so many errors already that the real one would be buried in

[Bug 51662] Runaway leak in composer

2006-07-03 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution Every once in a while, the evolution composer becomes out of control while leaking memory. This usually makes my system completely unresponsive within about 10-30 seconds. Evolution's memory footprints grows at a very fast rate until it gets

[Bug 51581] gnome-power-manager applet dies

2006-07-02 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager I still haven't quite found the exact pattern, but I often have to restart the gnome-power-manager applet because it either just died or just failed to re-appear after a logout/reboot. Setup is: Dapper with default kernel Dell D600

[Bug 51242] Re: New windows shouldn't steal focus

2006-06-29 Thread jmspeex
Bug #43760 was more about the fact that evolution shouldn't make warnings pop all the time. I think this bug is more fundamental in the sense that even if popping up a window is justified, it is *never* (I still haven't found a counter-example) justified to make the new window steal focus. It's a

[Bug 51242] New windows shouldn't steal focus

2006-06-28 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: metacity Whenever a new window pops up on Dapper, metacity assigns the focus to it. This is bad behaviour. While Dapper solved the problem for some password entries, it remains that whenever typing in a terminal or text editor, one never knows if/when a

[Bug 48226] Re: Autohide bugs

2006-06-25 Thread jmspeex
** Attachment added: Screenshot http://librarian.launchpad.net/3153315/panel_bug.png ** Attachment added: screenshot (no bug) http://librarian.launchpad.net/3153327/panel_nobug.png -- Autohide bugs https://launchpad.net/bugs/48226 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 48603] Re: USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

2006-06-25 Thread jmspeex
OK, since it seemed like this bug was going to be ignored until I upgraded the BIOS, I just upgraded to A05 (latest). Didn't change anything. I also noticed that the bug only happens when I suspend when my laptop is docked. -- USB fails after suspend to RAM on Dapper

[Bug 49530] Re: Installer makes it easy to mess up the hostname

2006-06-14 Thread jmspeex
Then, wouldn't it make sense for postfix to make at least a reasonnable attempt at ensuring it has an FQDN when being setup/installed -- or at least warn if it doesn't? -- Installer makes it easy to mess up the hostname https://launchpad.net/bugs/49530 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 49530] Installer makes it easy to mess up the hostname

2006-06-12 Thread jmspeex
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer When the Dapper installer asks for a host name, it does not specify it needs to have the domain name. Worse, it even suggests a name with no domain. So I entered that wrong and after installing postfix (as local MTA because my ISP