[Bug 58560] File not found for suggested update

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: The update manager suggests that several packages be updated, but when the update is carried out there is a file not found error (this has been happening for several days until today, 2.9.2006) The following updates are suggested by the update manager: dia-common

[Bug 49520] Re: kdesvn conflicts with kdesdk (kdesvn-kio-plugins vs. kdesdk-kio-plugins)

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
Are bugs being ignored here? This is preventing productive work and cannot even be confirmed? I have had the problem that I cannot have kdesvn and kdesdk since I started to use Dapper. -- kdesvn conflicts with kdesdk (kdesvn-kio-plugins vs. kdesdk-kio-plugins) https://launchpad.net/bugs/49520

[Bug 58560] Re: File not found for suggested update

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
Just saw that this has been rejected. How on earth can this NOT be a bug? As I said I nowhere told the system to be so insane and use Australian mirros (that it does is probably a bug too). As an Ubuntu user I do not care what mirrors are used but I expect them NOT to be broken. This bug has

[Bug 58560] Re: File not found for suggested update

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
And by the way, the unofficial repository has nothing to do with this problem and I use d it because Ubuntu does not provide a gems package (rubygems, something very similar to cpan). -- File not found for suggested update https://launchpad.net/bugs/58560 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 58560] Re: File not found for suggested update

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
It seems the repository contains file without that strange ~dapper1 part in the filenames that Ubuntu tries to fetch. Seems somebody messed up the information about how the filenames to fetch are named. -- File not found for suggested update https://launchpad.net/bugs/58560 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 58560] Re: File not found for suggested update

2006-09-02 Thread Johann Petrak
Just one more thing because this is truely odd: how do those mirrors get selected in the first place? I certainly never picked an Australian mirror (as I said, I am in Europe) -- so how do thise settings get in there? I would have assumed that the system picks a mirror that is either

[Bug 53900] Re: There is no package for rubygems

2006-07-24 Thread Johann Petrak
So how does Ubuntu make sure that everything that is available through gems is available as a package? How does the Ubuntu package system deal with different versions of packages being installed at the same time? -- There is no package for rubygems https://launchpad.net/bugs/53900 --

[Bug 53900] Re: There is no package for rubygems

2006-07-24 Thread Johann Petrak
What is the goal then? Simply not support a big number of packages or let the user install RubyGems from source? What is the advantage of the latter over providing a RubyGems package in the first place? As an example: how should an Ubuntu user install FreeRIDE or FxRuby? None of these packages

[Bug 15156] Re: Error using --generate option to system-config-kickstart

2006-06-28 Thread Johann Petrak
I also hit this bug -- it makes the whole package more or less unusable. Version of system-conf-kickstart: 2.5.20-0ubuntu14 Depends: python ( 2.5), python (= 2.4), python-gtk2, python-glade2, console-data, hwdata, iso-codes, localechooser-data, python-apt -- Error using --generate option to

[Bug 15156] Re: Error using --generate option to system-config-kickstart

2006-10-24 Thread Johann Petrak
According to system-config-kickstart --help, the --generate option is valid: --generate filename Generate a kickstart file from the current machine and write The GUI does not seem to generate anything from the current configuration so this option is quite useful, if not essential. -- Error

[Bug 235574] [NEW] Upgrade manager: show reasons for package removals

2008-05-28 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: When upgrade manager prepares the upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy, it shows 1) that some non-standard repositories were disabled and 2) shows a list of packages that will get removed along with packages that will get installed. Unfortunately, this list does not say *why*

[Bug 112909] Support extended attributes

2007-05-06 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: Support for extended attributes is currently extremely lacking to non-existent, even if the file system supports them. Extended attributes lost when a file is copied or moved, they are lost when editors or other programs update a file by deleting and re-creating it, they

[Bug 112909] Re: Support extended attributes

2007-05-07 Thread Johann Petrak
I have not originally assigned this to component nautilus because many programs are affected. Unless at least the most essential programs like cp, mv, tar, gedit etc. all maintain/handle existing EAs, support in nautilus is pretty useless. -- Support extended attributes

[Bug 34141] Re: Installing libxml-sax-perl

2008-08-25 Thread Johann Petrak
I just got this bug under hardy. Why is this closed? Here is the log when I try to install this package: Selecting previously deselected package libxml-sax-perl. (Reading database ... 141128 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libxml-sax-perl (from

[Bug 151500] Re: special characters break WPA key

2007-10-18 Thread Johann Petrak
I had the same problem on both Feisty and Gutsy with a WPA passphrase that contained umlauts (öäüÖÄÜ). This passphrase worked fine with Windows wifi clients but I never was able to connect through the Ubuntu network manager, though the network ESSID was shown correctly and the signal was of high

[Bug 153880] Update manager hangs during install from Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-18 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: I have run update-manager on my T60 ThinkPad running Feisty i386 with all current updates. Downloading of all packages went well, but during the step Installing the upgrades everything stopped at the step: Running mktexlsr. This may take a while. ... done In top I see

[Bug 153880] Re: Update manager hangs during install from Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-18 Thread Johann Petrak
This seems to be an issue with kpsewhich .. after killing the hanging process, update manager showed an error notification and continued. The error message in the terminal indicated that the error was in texlive-lang-danish. After a little while, the update manager got into a hang again after

[Bug 153886] Difference between configuration files should be shown more friendly during update

2007-10-18 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager When running the update manager to install new versions of packages or a new version of the distribution, conflicts between configuration files are shown to the user in a GUI and the user has to decide whether to keep the old version or

[Bug 86970] Printing from Java does not work

2007-02-22 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: This applies to a current Feisty Fawn installation as of 2007-02-20. I have installed Java 1.6.0 using the Sun download packages. Printing from any java application (e.g. Netbeans, Jedit) to a CUPS printer does not work because the Java application complains about the

[Bug 86970] Re: Printing from Java does not work

2007-02-23 Thread Johann Petrak
No, I installed Java by downloading the Linux package directly from java.sun.com and installing to my homedir. However I also tried this by running jedit with the jdk version 1.5.0_09 (also directly downloaded and manually installed from Sun) and there the problem exists also. -- Printing from

[Bug 64662] Re: doesn't index thunderbird mails

2007-03-26 Thread Johann Petrak
I am running the most recent Feisty Fawn (32 bit) and thunderbird mail is still not getting indexed. The beagle package shows up in synaptic as version 0.2.16.3. Thunderbird does not even show up in the list generated by beagle-index-info. It looks as if there would be no Thunderbird backend at

[Bug 133050] Re: Error 'Malformed 3rd word on Status line' whilst updating Gutsy on ia64

2011-04-18 Thread Johann Petrak
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133050 Title: Error 'Malformed 3rd word on Status line' whilst updating Gutsy on

[Bug 133050] Re: Error 'Malformed 3rd word on Status line' whilst updating Gutsy on ia64

2011-04-18 Thread Johann Petrak
This just happened out of the blue on my system (Ubuntu 10.10 on a 32 bit x86 computer). Whatever the reason is, the way how this error is handled seems to prevent any use of the graphical programs that are package related: synaptic terminates after showing the error message and the update

[Bug 760713] Re: Upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 fails: sunbird/karmic holds back libnss3

2011-04-29 Thread Johann Petrak
How can this be fixed? I am having the same problem and when you look into ubuntuforums.org or forums of other languages you will find countless others with the same problem. The error message does nothing to help the user figure out what is wrong in all this cases. This is a serious issue. --

[Bug 323146] [NEW] After upgrade to 2.6.27-11-generic skype and WinTV-PVR USB2 won't work any more

2009-01-30 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: I upgraded my 8.10 X86-32 system yesterday and this also upgraded the kernel to 2.6.27-11. This update required a restart and since that restart, my WinTV-PVR USB2 device does not work any more. That device previously showed up as /dev/video0 but this device is not found any

[Bug 323146] Re: After upgrade to 2.6.27-11-generic skype and WinTV-PVR USB2 won't work any more

2009-01-30 Thread Johann Petrak
I was able to solve both issues: The WinTV-PVR USB2 problem was caused by the module option initusbreset=0 which is no longer supported. This parameter was recommended for earlier versions to make the device work but must be removed now. The Skype problem could be fixed by moving away ~/.Skype

[Bug 433508] [NEW] Enabling AMD proprietary FGLRX driver makes kaffeine DVBT player unusable

2009-09-20 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: I am running Ubuntu 8.10 2.6.28-15-generic 32 bit on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. I have set the BIOS to always use ATI graphics and lspci reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650 The standard drivers make any 3D program unusable,

[Bug 433508] Re: Enabling AMD proprietary FGLRX driver makes kaffeine DVBT player unusable

2009-09-20 Thread Johann Petrak
** Description changed: - I am running Ubuntu 8.10 2.6.28-15-generic 32 bit on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. + I am running Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-15-generic 32 bit on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. I have set the BIOS to always use ATI graphics and lspci reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI

[Bug 187304] Re: klear does not parse channels.conf

2009-09-20 Thread Johann Petrak
I have the same error with Ubuntu 9.04 and klear version 0.6.1-0ubuntu1. The channels.conf file created by w_scan produces an error dialog with the message Error: parse error, not valid. Pressing the Show details button of that dialog shows another dialog as shown in the attached screen capture.

[Bug 187304] Re: klear does not parse channels.conf

2009-09-20 Thread Johann Petrak
** Attachment added: The channels.conf file that produces the error http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32112299/channels.conf ** Changed in: klear (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Incomplete ** Changed in: klear (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- klear does not parse channels.conf

[Bug 187304] Re: klear does not parse channels.conf

2009-09-20 Thread Johann Petrak
Another channels.conf file that does not work and shows a dialog error. This one has been created with the scan program (while the previous was created with the w_scan program) ** Attachment added: channels.conf file created with the scan command

[Bug 1075322] [NEW] Error during upgrade to 12.10: could not install octave3.2

2012-11-05 Thread Johann Petrak
Public bug reported: During the upgrade of ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 via the distribution upgrade GUI, the following notification window pops up: Could not install 'octave3.2' The upgrade will continue but the 'octave3.2' package may not be in a working state. Please consider submitting a bug