[Bug 55118] Re: crash during Kubuntu install

2006-09-19 Thread Ariel Faigon
Hi Colin, So sorry, I don't have those particular logs anymore. When I check /var/log/installer/syslog I can't find the crash I enclosed in the original bug report. Trying to reproduce this is too risky for me (might overwrite my partitioning on my main system...) Thanks for all your work on

[Bug 43150] Re: wxmaxima fails with error, can't connect to maxima

2006-10-14 Thread Ariel Faigon
This bug really hurts :-( A question: I have this problem (wxmaxima can't connect to maxima) but I don't have gcl at all (I'm using 'clisp' instead). maxima alone works just fine, it connects successfully to the lisp interpreter. It is only wxmaxima that has the problem. Moreover, if I install

[Bug 43150] Re: wxmaxima fails with error, can't connect to maxima

2006-10-14 Thread Ariel Faigon
Really sorry! plain-text attachments seem to have their newlines eaten on upload, sigh. What I uploaded is completely unreadable. Reading more on this bug in the dups, it becomes obvious that the problem is in maxima (when called as a 'server' with -s portnumber) rather than in wxmaxima.

[Bug 37345] Re: Missing config entry for logicdo Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2006-09-29 Thread Ariel Faigon
I would like to add myself to the wishlist-ers of this. This is a great keyboard and my favorite, so I have 3 of them. With a lot of work (in multiple apps) I can get more keys recognized but I was never able to make thr scroll-wheel on the left side of the keyboard itself work (scroll-wheel on

[Bug 149641] Re: logcheck fails when auth.log.1.gz missing

2007-10-23 Thread Ariel Faigon
Apologies, but I have to correct/improve myself on the previous comment. I have a feeling I was running an older version of logcheck. If I run logcheck from cron with full path (certainly the ubuntu version) like this: sudo -u logcheck /usr/sbin/logcheck -op (given that I add

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow

2008-10-31 Thread Ariel Faigon
Apologies for the double post I should have added more information: This is the most inconveniencing regression I see since upgrading to Intrepid Ibex. The problem is the worst in dialog boxes requiring entering a password. Blind echo (circles/stars instead of the actual password char) is set

[Bug 279240] Re: firefox dies mentioning RenderBadPicture and a failed assertion

2008-11-05 Thread Ariel Faigon
Just want to confirm I see this too very often. Firefox 3.x used to be stable as a rock (no crashes for weeks) under Hardy with KDE 3.5 After upgrading to Intrepid (KDE4, new QT, new Xorg) it started crashing every hour or so with SEGV after the X assertion failure. Here's how a session looks

[Bug 279240] Re: firefox dies mentioning RenderBadPicture and a failed assertion

2008-11-05 Thread Ariel Faigon
More users reporting firefox closes without explanation If they start firefox from the panel, and don't watch their logs this crash looks just like they describe: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=953000 -- firefox dies mentioning RenderBadPicture and a failed assertion

[Bug 290189] [NEW] bell doesn't work in konsole

2008-10-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: konsole I just did a full software upgrade from hardy to intrepid (RC) with KDE/plasma desktop. One regression I noticed is that konsole no longer flashes on errors (e.g non existent file in TAB file completion) my shell is /bin/tcsh with 'set

[Bug 159897] Re: Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu

2008-10-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing a very similar problem on Ibex (RC). I use Monospace which is the same as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono as my preferred font in konsole. Under some circumstances which I'm not fully able to reproduce, I need to set the font size to 11 points while in other times the font suddenly looks

[Bug 290561] [NEW] hotkeys fails to lock and goes into 100% eating CPU

2008-10-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hotkeys $ apt-cache policy hotkeys hotkeys: Installed: 0.5.7.4-0.1 Candidate: 0.5.7.4-0.1 Version table: *** 0.5.7.4-0.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status When hotkeys is

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow

2008-10-29 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing a very similar problem. But mine isn't fixed as of Oct 28. I considered filing a separate bug but this one looks so similar, I decided to add info here. Keyboard events work in bursts. Very frequently, the keyboard echo is delayed. Related: my keyboard repeat is set to be fast (50

[Bug 239929] Re: Not possible to switch language in address bar

2008-10-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
This bug is much more general than firefox. I suspect it has nothing to do with firefox. Here, after upgrading to Ibex (RC) via the net, the switch to KDE 4 breaks the keyboard layout switcher completely. The country-flags in the panel display but switching among languages/countries in the KDE

[Bug 42990] Re: XGL breaks setxkbmap (kde)

2008-10-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm not 100% sure but since upgrading to Ibex my language switching in KDE (panel keyboard layout switching widget) has stopped working. Clicking on it doesn't change the input language even though the county flag changes. If this is the cause, then the problem is not rare. It affects anyone with

[Bug 37345] Re: Missing config entry for logicdo Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2008-02-17 Thread Ariel Faigon
This bug is pretty old so it may be irrelevant. If Vincenzo can confirm, I think it can be closed. From my perspective: With the default X.org config in gutsy (no mucking around), there's already a big improvement for me: the left side scroll wheel works in many applications, including

[Bug 120991] Re: ff hangs after longer period of inactivity. seems to intermittently stop working

2008-01-07 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm able to reproduce one instance of firefox hanging without any extension. Note however that this particular hang is different than the above. Hopefully, it will give developers an easy way to reproduce one hang condition. Steps to reproduce: -- To ensure no extensions

[Bug 120991] Re: ff hangs after longer period of inactivity. seems to intermittently stop working

2008-01-08 Thread Ariel Faigon
Hi Alexander, Are you running gutsy? ... how did you install the flash plugin? Yes, running gutsy. Based on lsof -p pid of the running firefox-bin process, the loaded flashplayer is this: -rwxr-xr-x 1 ariel ariel 8019524 Aug 24 08:28 .mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so under my home dir.

[Bug 135110] Re: [gutsy] firefox freezes with google toolbar enabled when you attemp to open more than two windows

2007-11-22 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing a similar problem here. Kubuntu gutsy. firefox hangs with this system call: futex(0xa75fdbd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 20644, NULL) The screen freezes, no redrawing. It happens to me most often while on youtube.com When clicking on random video 'play' buttons (there's embedded macromedia

[Bug 120991] Re: ff hangs after longer period of inactivity. seems to intermittently stop working

2007-12-09 Thread Ariel Faigon
So many reports on firefox hanging, I'm not sure if this is the one I should pick to add to. The reason I picked it is that it seems most similar to what I see, and I don't want to open yet another bug. But really, I'm not 100% sure if this is the same bug. Kubuntu version: Gutsy (7.10) with

[Bug 47455] Re: KDM detected memory corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
I've been seeing this error ever since I switched to ubuntu (during the dapper days). It was there in edgy, and it is still there in feisty. I can't see anything wrong in the system. Everything just works during login, but the error is a bit disconcerting. Looks like a kdm_greet bug to me. It

[Bug 147509] Re: regression: kernel 2.6.20-16-generic upgrade makes computer noisy from early stages in boot

2008-07-18 Thread Ariel Faigon
Hi Jean-Baptiste Some time after I filed it I came to believe that the noise going away on the first booting of the previous kernel was just a coincidence. My motherboard system chip mini fan started making noise more and more as time went by regardless of the kernel it was running. In the end

[Bug 149641] Re: logcheck fails when auth.log.1.gz missing

2007-10-22 Thread Ariel Faigon
Note that fixing this bug is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition to make logcheck work on gutsy. After fixing this manually, I still get one more failure later from logtail: File /var/log/syslog.offset cannot be created. Check your permissions: Permission denied To solve this

[Bug 154771] Re: Kubuntu 7.10 Upgrading to Kubuntu 7.10 and after gives error and says Distribution is Up To Date

2007-10-23 Thread Ariel Faigon
me too :) and it keeps coming again every day as if it still hasn't figured out that it is already up-to-date. One more piece of data: After gutsy came out, for some unclear reason I didn't get the suggestion to upgrade from feisty by adept-manager. I waited several days and finally decided

[Bug 147509] regression: kernel 2.6.20-16-generic upgrade makes computer noisy from early stages in boot

2007-09-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: I recently updated my Kubuntu feisty desktop from 2.6.20-15-generic to 2.6.20-16-generic Shortly after the start of rebooting, the computer noise level jumped up to unacceptable levels. It seems like some fan is being spinned up to a much higher speed than normal.

[Bug 27472] Re: CD/DVD: hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }

2007-08-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Wow this is old. I just saw the closing bug notification. Sorry for not following up on this. My excuse: I switched to new hardware a long time ago and I haven't seen this problem ever again on my new hardware with later Ubuntu versions. Just to close with a tiny bit more info: DMA (hdparm

[Bug 47455] Re: KDM detected memory corruption

2007-06-27 Thread Ariel Faigon
Another data point: I'm using the non-proprietary/free 'nv' driver from X.org according to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- KDM detected memory corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 267913] Re: hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj

2009-02-22 Thread Ariel Faigon
I would like to add information that may shed light on this. I too started getting this warning in the log after the upgrade from hardy to intrepid could it have something to do with changing the time on the system? For example, if I run hwclock --systohc + adjtimexconfig, I see the warning

[Bug 245301] Re: Crash when selecting Pattern for fill/stroke in the FillStroke dialog

2009-03-10 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing a similar crash (g_signal_emit, and g_closure_invoke) although my stack-trace is much shorter. There's no need to even have an SVG file as input. I'm trying to annotate a '.png' file (just an image) Env: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) inkscape is: Inkscape 0.46 (Oct 24 2008) To

[Bug 120991] Re: ff hangs after longer period of inactivity. seems to intermittently stop working

2008-12-09 Thread Ariel Faigon
Long time has passed. Just to bring some closure.I'm no longer running gutsy. In Hardy + firefox 3.x things were really stable. Now with the upgrade to Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) different firefox (extensions) stability issues have been showing. In particular I've seen many crashes which

[Bug 307412] Re: Binary executable missing from kaffeine package

2008-12-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
I think the importance and urgency of this bug should be raised. Regarding bug 307175: note that this is not just a 64-bit problem. I have an x86 system and I was just hit by this. This morning I has adept-updater telling me that there are new updates for my system showing kaffeine as the only

[Bug 307412] Re: Binary executable missing from kaffeine package

2008-12-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
Confirming that the 2008-12-13 update fixed the problem. Thanks! -- Binary executable missing from kaffeine package https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307412 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 273830] Re: Scrollkeeper cannot parse the XML in /usr/share/gnome/help/serverguide/C

2008-11-16 Thread Ariel Faigon
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 277794 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277794 I have the latest upgrades installed (as of Nov 10, 2008) and I'm getting these errors from cron.monthly of scrollkeeper. Looks like the problem is still there, at least under some conditions.

[Bug 273830] Re: Scrollkeeper cannot parse the XML in /usr/share/gnome/help/serverguide/C

2008-11-16 Thread Ariel Faigon
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 277794 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277794 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 277794 scrollkeeper package report an error message during the update from 8.04 to 8.10 with dist-upgrade -- Scrollkeeper cannot parse the XML in

[Bug 430620] Re: [karmic] ALSA driver snd_hda_intel broken according to PulseAudio

2009-11-20 Thread Ariel Faigon
Seeing this occasionally in my logs since upgrading to karmic: Nov 20 00:02:06 ze pulseaudio[2870]: ratelimit.c: 73 events suppressed Nov 20 00:10:50 ze pulseaudio[2870]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Nov 20 00:10:50 ze

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-11-20 Thread Ariel Faigon
FWIW: Tried to install the test kernels from Leann, and it looks like they are not playing nice with the nvidia drivers (I know, they are not free, but they did work with all officials kernels so far) If I'm doing anything wrong, please let me know. Here's my session: $ sudo dpkg -i

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-11-21 Thread Ariel Faigon
Thanks so much Raphael, My installation issue is gone after following your helpful suggestion. Sorry for the false alarm. I've not yet verified that this new kernel has solved the logging problem for me, but I can confirm at this point that there's no issue with 64-bit and/or nvidia drivers

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-11-27 Thread Ariel Faigon
To clarify: when I said the new kernel solves the problem for me I meant the kernel that was pre-released by Leann (see comment #39) - not the one in the repositories. My kernel is: 2.6.31-16-generic #51~lp453444 SMP Wed Nov 11 07:45:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux And it definitely solves the

[Bug 251424] Re: assertion (dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest)) failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.

2009-12-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Confirming: Getting the same error (many times) in the konsole window when upgrading a remote system from Jaunty (9.04) to Karmic (9.10) 'lsof -p pid' on the pid of the offending process, revealed this process is 'ccardd'. sudo killall ccardd made the noise go away. -- assertion (dest)

[Bug 501204] [NEW] sudo syntax error in /etc/sudoers due to #-- comment

2009-12-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager I put a few comments in /etc/sudoers where the '#' comment char is succeeded with -- as in: #--ariel--# result: sudo won't work anymore. $ sudo echo OK /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 9 /etc/sudoers: syntax error

[Bug 501204] Re: sudo syntax error in /etc/sudoers due to #-- comment

2009-12-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
Apologies for the wrong Binary package hint, not sure how I got here and not sure how to revert it. it should be 'sudo'. ** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) = sudo (Ubuntu) -- sudo syntax error in /etc/sudoers due to #-- comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501204 You received

[Bug 159897] Re: Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu

2009-12-02 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm now on Karmic (9.10) with KDE4 and I'm not seeing this issue either anymore. Thanks. -- Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159897 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-12-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
-17 is in proposed, not in the official repo yet. To install it you would need to add karmic-proposed to your list of supported repositories. You can do it either via a GUI (e.g. synaptic) or by directly adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-11-26 Thread Ariel Faigon
Confirming that the new kernel totally solves the problem for me. I'm using the 64-bit one. I see an occasional CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled and then CPU1: Temperature/speed normal but no flooding of the logs occurs. Instead the number of occurrences appears as in

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-10-31 Thread Ariel Faigon
Seeing the same problem on my desktop. Another side effect is 'logcheck' never being able to catch up with the logs so multiple logcheck processes accumulate over time and the system becomes overloaded with logcheck processes taking all CPUs at close to 100% utilization. Seems like pretty high

[Bug 453444] Re: /var/log fills up with all normal messages @ about 575/sec fill up the available space

2009-10-31 Thread Ariel Faigon
Sorry to have to add one more piece of info. The suggested rsyslog.conf duplication mitigation is not very effective because when you have many CPUs the messages are not identical dups and so they aren't being suppressed. e.g. after adding $RepeatedMsgReduction on to /etc/rsyslog.conf, and

[Bug 358854] [NEW] package gnupod-tools None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnupod-tools.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.old.gz', which is also in package bash

2009-04-09 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnupod-tools package gnupod-tools None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnupod- tools.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.old.gz', which is also in package bash-doc Seems like /usr/share/info.dir is something too

[Bug 358854] Re: package gnupod-tools None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnupod-tools.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.old.gz', which is also in package bash-d

2009-04-09 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25175193/DpkgTerminalLog.txt -- package gnupod-tools None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnupod-tools.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.old.gz', which is also in package bash-doc

[Bug 88530] Re: USB ports: connect-debounce failed, port disabled

2009-04-14 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing this in Intrepid, latest kernel: $ uname -a Linux hostname 2.6.27-14-server #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:45:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux This is on my desktop (not a laptop, and no wireless). One more piece of data: this bug is more than just spewing an error into the logs. When I connect an

[Bug 72809] Firefox 1.5.0.8 'Help-About Firefox' seems broken

2006-11-21 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Still running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Upgraded firefox to 1.5.0.8 via adept auto-update. exited firefox and restarted. Did Help-About Firefox' from the top menu and got a popup with the following error: code XML Parsing Error: error in processing external entity reference

[Bug 72809] Re: Firefox 1.5.0.8 'Help-About Firefox' seems broken

2006-11-21 Thread Ariel Faigon
Oops, looks like I've smoked something bad. I believe I didn't actually restart firefox after the upgrade (had one copy still active) and had some corrupt state somewhere when the error occured. I just existed another firefox window, and restarted firefox. This time, unlike in the first time,

[Bug 43150] Re: [SRU] maxima frontends fail to connect

2006-11-23 Thread Ariel Faigon
Confirming that the two updates (gcl + the maxima pieces) fix the bug for me on 6.06 LTS. Thank you William (and Colin :)! -- [SRU] maxima frontends fail to connect https://launchpad.net/bugs/43150 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 70278] Re: broken library causing photos in digikam to not show

2006-11-05 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing this bug too and I'm not even on edgy. I'm still on 6.06 LTS. Apparently one of the recent standard security updates (via adept) broke digikam for me. My digikam is: code $ digikam --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.3 digiKam: 0.8.2-rc1 /code Some images show completely black in the

[Bug 70278] Re: Changes to imlib2 in recent security update causes digikam breakage

2006-11-07 Thread Ariel Faigon
Would it be possible to have a fix for the broken Dapper / 6.06 LTS too? Thanks! -- Changes to imlib2 in recent security update causes digikam breakage https://launchpad.net/bugs/70278 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 228581] Re: Sata is resetted too often: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

2009-08-02 Thread Ariel Faigon
This bug is alive and well. There are many very similar reports on ubuntuforums.org and linuxquestions.com Based on what I read, which confirms my experience it is a regression which occurred somewhere in kernel 2.6.26 series Here are some more details:

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow

2008-12-16 Thread Ariel Faigon
I just wanted to update this. Should have done this a month ago. Apologies. To confirm what rydberg has written. One of the October-November updates of either the kernel or X.org seems to have _mostly_ solved the problem. I no longer experience the non-responsive keyboard input echo problem.

[Bug 67013] Re: User Management Module doesn't load

2007-03-31 Thread Ariel Faigon
Same problem here, still on Edgy (6.10) I actually did have a /etc/shadow and obviously it was functional since it its passwords were required/working all the time. However: running sudo shadowconfig on revealed several inconsistencies, including: invalid password file entry (had a

[Bug 822383] Re: Sometimes booting stops with rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 0 (t=6000 jiffies)

2012-02-20 Thread Ariel Faigon
I see that this bug has been expired, but thougt itmay be useful to add my own data. I've started seeing the kernel message around November 2011. Not during boot, but at random times long after boot on different CPUs. The occurence is very rare, weeks apart, and it doesn't seem to affect

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-09-08 Thread Ariel Faigon
Confirming that this bug goes away after: $ apt-get purge nvidia-settings nvidia-current nvidia-common and restarting X. Should be closed as invalid. Sorry for the trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-07-03 Thread Ariel Faigon
Chris, Thanks. I don't believe it is a proprietary driver issue. This is using the stock FOSS X.org intel (i965) drivers. Plus, the bug has been traced to the mesa/dri code which is totally FOSS. It has been fixed in the i915 code but not yet in the i965 code. Also, if you look at the

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-09-04 Thread Ariel Faigon
Looks like Chris may have been right after all and I was wrong. See this comment in the original freedesktop bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33592#c15 I'm not in front of the buggy system right now so I can't completely verify, but when I remotely ssh to it, I can see

[Bug 878621] Re: Screensaver takes too long to exit after unlock

2011-10-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing this issue since upgrading to Oneiric (Oct 2011). This is Oneiric 11.10 with KDE with kscreensaver using Nvidia (non free) driver. The transition between photos is extremely slow and the computer becomes non-responsive while the transition is going on. I have set time for each photo

[Bug 878621] Re: Screensaver takes too long to exit after unlock

2011-10-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
Looked at this issue some more. /usr/bin/kslideshow.kss has many transition-effects between photos. Which transitions are being used is not a configurable option so you get all of them. Most of the transitions are lightweight and finish in a second or two. Some of the transitions are complex

[Bug 781353] [NEW] display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-11 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: I just upgraded from Maverick (10.10) to Natty (11.04) The first and biggest regression I noticed is display appearing upside down. I use KDE with plasma desktop (kwin) on Intel (Xorg Driver is intel) - with desktop effects enabled. kdm starts fine allowing me to login.

[Bug 781353] Re: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
Hi IKT, thanks for the followup. Unfortunately No. In KDE you may change the orientation of the *whole* display (System-settings - Display and Monitor - Size and Orientation) but if you look at the screenshot attached to the bug, it is not the *whole* display that is inverted, it is each

[Bug 781353] Re: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
One more important comment, sorry. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259578 says this is a driver issue (Xorg) and may be related to erroneous hardware detection. I'm running the intel version of Xorg. Relevant excerpts from /var/log/Xorg.1.log [ 172.739] X.Org X Server 1.10.1 Release

[Bug 781353] Re: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
Looks like a bug had been filed on the freedesktop.org bugzilla against the intel driver / Mesa (OpenGL): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33592 There's also a patch against: src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/intel_tris.c From: Henri Verbeet ...@gmail.com To:

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Summary changed: - display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade + libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade ** Tags added: dri driver i915 i965 intel libgl1-mesa-dri -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Summary changed: - libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down left-right) in startkde after natty upgrade + libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade ** Description changed: I just upgraded from Maverick (10.10) to Natty (11.04) The first

[Bug 680444] Re: dbus-daemon eats 100% cpu and is not responsive

2011-06-15 Thread Ariel Faigon
I used to see this in maverick occasionally. After upgrading to natty, it happens much more frequently, every 2 days or so. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680444 Title: dbus-daemon

[Bug 737170] Re: dbus-daemon uses 100% of a core's cpu time, makes it impossible to start any applications

2011-06-15 Thread Ariel Faigon
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 680444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680444 I used to see this in maverick occasionally. After upgrading to natty, it happens much more frequently, every 2 days or so. So to comment #3: definitely happens in natty. -- You received this bug

[Bug 249817] Re: Adobe Flash player 10 in Firefox 3 has problems with sound

2008-12-28 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm seeing the same problem. No pld-linux here. I'm running kubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) on a desktop. I don't have pulseaudio at all, so most bugs describing similar symptoms are not relevant to my case. This bug is the closest I could find. My hardware uses an intel audio chip: $ lspci |

[Bug 105736] Re: mutt - TLS packet with unexpected length

2011-04-27 Thread Ariel Faigon
I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) with mutt: Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Started getting this when switching to a new MS Exchange-2010 server using imap from an older exchange server It happens very frequently making mutt very unusable. tls_socket_read (A TLS packet with unexpected length was

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
I spent some more time on this bug. Here are some updates: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.9~git20100924-0ubuntu2 doesn't have the bug libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu has the bug. It turned out that the patch by Henri Verbeet (mentioned above) is only for i915. I've built libgl1-mesa-dri from

[Bug 781353] Re: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty upgrade

2011-05-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781353 Title: libgl1-mesa-dri: display inverted (upside-down) in startkde after natty

[Bug 459648] Re: udev-configure-printer /invalid or missing IEEE 1284 Device ID

2010-01-17 Thread Ariel Faigon
I've been seeing this too lately. I believe it is since one of the recent kernel upgrades, but can't be 100% sure. I'm running: Linux ze 2.6.31-18-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 8 14:54:52 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Aside: I've switched my printing to a network (ethernet) printer so I have

[Bug 367334] Re: console-kit-daemon[2951]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2950/environ: Failed to open file '/proc/2950/environ': No such file or directory

2010-01-17 Thread Ariel Faigon
Adding another observation: Jan 17 01:02:23 ze console-kit-daemon[1001]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/1000/environ: Failed to open file '/proc/1000/environ': No such file or directory As earlier reporters noticed, console-kit-daemon is PID=1001 and it tries to open /proc/1000/environ Is this a

[Bug 288093] Re: Can't play sound because of pulseaudio hang

2009-08-12 Thread Ariel Faigon
I would like to confirm that pulseaudio 0.9.14 does NOT fix the problem - for me at least. I am running 64-bit Jaunty with firefox 3.0.13 and nonfree flash. Every several hours sound gets confused, starts stuttering. Restarting firefox seems to fix it. Also, occasionally, I get this in syslog:

[Bug 560410] Re: After installing Kubuntu Netbook and reboot boot to a grub rescue prompt

2010-05-03 Thread Ariel Faigon
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 final over the network (from Karmic to Lucid) After the upgrade, it wouldn't reboot. Screen says: Entering rescue mode... Error: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found grub rescue _ Searching the web for this, it looks that others have seen this too. e.g:

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes

2010-05-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
Tommy, I'm running a slightly newer (and 64-bit) kernel: $ uname -a Linux ze 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux With an older KDE (4.4.2). And I'm not seeing the problem. Here's a quick test to verify: $ cat - | wc [now look at

[Bug 569937] [NEW] regression: udev no longer creates e-SATA /dev/sdX devices

2010-04-25 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: udev In one of the recent kernel updates, I've noticed the following regression When I hook up an external backup disk via e-SATA, the relevant /dev/sd* entries are no longer being created. This used to work reliably in Karmic Koala (9.10) up to about

[Bug 569937] Re: regression: udev no longer creates e-SATA /dev/sdX devices

2010-04-25 Thread Ariel Faigon
Thanks Scott, That was very helpful. Sorry to have wasted your time. I just rebooted (with a newer kernel) and the regression is gone. Bad timing on my part. Not sure what fixed it but I am running a new kernel now, and after rebooting, connecting and turning on my eSATA external disk makes

[Bug 60177] Re: grub does not detect usb keyboard

2010-01-23 Thread Ariel Faigon
just to confirm. ever since I upgraded to grub2 (I believe), my USB keyboard isn't functional while in the grub menu. The keyboard is recognized and functional while in the BIOS menus (before grub2 takes over) and once linux boots (after grub2). It is not recognized while in grub2. The problem

[Bug 71913] Re: [nvidia] X crash in compPaintWindowBackground

2010-09-22 Thread Ariel Faigon
A very similar bug and stack trace starting at: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD ...) and causing firefox to crash Xorg (both nvidia and intel drivers) with SEGV in a reproducible way on certain web pages. Appears on this RedHat bugzilla:

[Bug 239929] Re: Not possible to switch language in address bar

2010-09-18 Thread Ariel Faigon
This bug is very old. Guess it is time to update. I no longer see any problem as I used to. I'm now on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and I can switch languages without problems, both in firefox and elsewhere. Hope this helps. -- Not possible to switch language in address bar

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes

2010-03-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
Update FWIW: the problem, at least in my env seems to be fixed. I'm running Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) with regular updates these days. Kernel is: 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:02:26 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Xorg is: X.Org X Server 1.6.4 Release Date: 2009-9-27

[Bug 228581] Re: Sata is resetted too often: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

2010-03-13 Thread Ariel Faigon
I just went and looked in all my logs (/var/log/messages.*.gz going back to Feb 7, 2010) It looks like either the problem no longer exists or it is much less frequent than it used to. Part of the reason I'm not sure is that many things have changed on my system from my report: I'm using a

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes

2010-08-25 Thread Ariel Faigon
Tommy, In comment #18 it says your repeat rate is set to only 25 chars/sec, you also have a Mine is set to 50 chars/sec so obviously we should be different. To increase your rate you may use (from a shell): $ xset r rate 250 50 Then check with 'xset -q' that your change in in effect.

[Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes

2010-08-25 Thread Ariel Faigon
Sorry for the truncated sentence. I meant to say 'you also have a relatively long delay of 660 ms) -- suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 227359] Re: suddenly keyboard event recognition gets really slow after multiple suspend/resumes

2010-08-15 Thread Ariel Faigon
, 2010 at 09:31:36AM -, Tommy_CZ wrote: Ariel Faigon: Hi, I tried it as you told, I got this: t...@tom-laptop:~$ cat - | wc

[Bug 696401] [NEW] kubuntu 10.10 maverick logitech multimedia keyboard volume control doesn't work regression

2011-01-01 Thread Ariel Faigon
Public bug reported: On the upgrade from Kubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) to 10.10 (Maverick) the volume control dial on my logitech multimedia keyboard has stopped working. Stopped working means the following: When using volume control on Multimedia keyboard 1) There's no visual feedback

[Bug 696401] Re: kubuntu 10.10 maverick logitech multimedia keyboard volume control doesn't work regression

2011-01-23 Thread Ariel Faigon
Update: My keyboard volume indicator and level works again, as expected. Also in order to work correctly there's no need to run gnome-keyboard- properties. I get the standard elegant KDE volume on-screen indicator. The bad news is I'm not sure what exactly fixed it. Among the things I changed

[Bug 1313042] Re: console-kit-daemon related ssh session hang w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning

2014-04-29 Thread Ariel Faigon
The GLib-CRITICAL error applies to many applcations which call g_source_remove() with garbage parameters. libglib2 changed recently to check for this error, instead of silently ignoring it, so the error started showing in multiple places. The hang in consolekit happens independently of the call

[Bug 1313042] Re: console-kit-daemon session hang (sometimes w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning)

2014-04-29 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Summary changed: - console-kit-daemon related ssh session hang w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning + console-kit-daemon session hang (sometimes w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1313042] Re: console-kit-daemon session hang (sometimes w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning)

2014-05-18 Thread Ariel Faigon
Hi johnnyb0y, Your system feeling lethargic is unlikely to be related to the GLib-CRITICAL warnings appearing in the logs. They are just coincidental. Check the output of `top` for heavy processes. In particular upgrade to 14.04 starts a very heavy new search indexing process called

[Bug 1264368] Re: GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it - warning when leaving Network menu of g-c-c

2014-04-21 Thread Ariel Faigon
Also affecting console-kit-daemon: Apr 21 18:15:22 xx console-kit-daemon[3357]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 462 was not found when attempting to remove it Apr 21 18:15:22 xx console-kit-daemon[3357]: GLib-CRITICAL: Source ID 48 was not found when attempting to remove it Apr 21 18:15:22 xx

[Bug 1264368] Re: GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it - warning when leaving Network menu of g-c-c

2014-04-25 Thread Ariel Faigon
Quote from an upstream (bugzilla.gnome.org) comment: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721369 GLib recently started throwing a warning when g_source_remove() is passed garbage (as per warning). Your applications have probably been broken for a while, and there's no telling

[Bug 1264368] Re: GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it - warning when leaving Network menu of g-c-c

2014-07-27 Thread Ariel Faigon
Sorry I have to correct my comment #10 above. I found the direct reason for my session hangs and they are unrelated to this Glib-CRITICAL messages. Just conincidental. The Glib-CRITICAL errors are annoying and indicate some incorrect calls from various apps to Glib, but not a serious issue as

[Bug 1313042] Re: console-kit-daemon Glib-CRITICAL warning

2014-07-07 Thread Ariel Faigon
** Summary changed: - console-kit-daemon session hang (sometimes w/ Glib-CRITICAL warning) + console-kit-daemon Glib-CRITICAL warning -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313042 Title:

[Bug 1313042] Re: console-kit-daemon Glib-CRITICAL warning

2014-07-07 Thread Ariel Faigon
I figured the reason for my hangs was unrelated to the GLIB warning. I had a sub process of the main job blocking on stdin input when arguments were missing, the main job was waiting for the sub process to finish so it didn't exit(1). Bottom line: the hang cause was a silly bug in one of my

[Bug 1002325] Re: SIGILL: chromium-browse[12042] trap invalid opcode ip:7f4e637e1c7d sp:7fff4a10d878 error:0 in chromium-browser

2015-07-30 Thread Ariel Faigon
I started getting these about a week ago (Jul 2015) They now happen several times a day in bursts (at the same second, same error, but multiple process or thread ids) I'm on 14.04.2 LTS Here are some examples from syslog: Jul 29 10:41:48 xxx kernel: [2065316.058955] traps:

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