[Bug 1218408] Re: nvidia-settings 319.32 Crash on exit (segmentation fault) (core dumped)

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1214508 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214508 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1214508 nvidia-settings =319 segfaults on close -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1214508] Re: nvidia-settings =319 segfaults on close

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Spacek
seems to apply to all versions since 319 ** Package changed: nvidia-settings-319-updates (Ubuntu) = nvidia- settings (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu ** Also affects: gdk-pixbuf

[Bug 1281019] Re: 10de:0dda [HP EliteBook 8560w] Brightness controls are not working nvidia-319 and nvidia-331

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Spacek
** Changed in: xorg (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/1281019 Title: 10de:0dda [HP EliteBook 8560w] Brightness controls are not working

[Bug 1303736] Re: [SRU] Black screen after wakeup from suspending by closing the laptop lid

2014-08-18 Thread Martin Spacek
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1357090 Black screen on resume Xubuntu 14.04.1 #1303736 NOT fixed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1303736 Title: [SRU] Black screen

[Bug 1357090] Re: Black screen on resume Xubuntu 14.04.1 #1303736 NOT fixed

2014-08-18 Thread Martin Spacek
Damian, you probably shouldn't go marking the original bug #1303736 (marked resolved) as a duplicate of this one. The whole point of starting this bug was to differentiate it from the previous one, right? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1068940] Re: package sni-qt 0.2.6-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared '/etc/xdg/sni-qt.conf', which is different from other instances of package sni-qt:i386

2014-08-26 Thread Martin Spacek
I was getting the same error message while installing skype on Xubuntu 14.04 amd64. sni-qt:i386 wouldn't install as a result. Jean-Pierre's solution worked for me (although I renamed sni-qt.conf instead of deleting it outright). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1303736] Re: [SRU] Black screen after wakeup from suspending by closing the laptop lid

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Spacek
As Elfy said, this may be becoming a catch-all bug for similar problems. But, since I don't know where else to report this, and since it seems similar enough: I was having the original black screen problem with the default light- locker installed. After the updates rolled out and after toggling

[Bug 1347272] Re: Several XFCE applications appear unresponsive after communicating with a daemon

2014-07-29 Thread Martin Spacek
@ Alistair, I don't explicitly have Unity installed (I'm on Xubuntu 14.04), but a search via synaptic shows that I do have these Unity-related packages installed, possibly as dependencies for some piece of software I was compiling: gir1.2-unity-5.0 7.1.4+14.04.20140210-0ubuntu1

[Bug 965953] Re: Indicator menus are too short and scroll when opened from screen bottom

2014-07-30 Thread Martin Spacek
I've had this problem for years. Currently, I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 with my panel located at the bottom edge of the screen. I see this most often with nm-applet, skype, and sometimes the sound applet. Really annoying! Thanks Lannoxx for opening a bug at GTK+'s bugzilla, and submitting the patch.

[Bug 1347272] Re: Several XFCE applications appear unresponsive after communicating with a daemon

2014-08-05 Thread Martin Spacek
Should bug #1222356 (** (apport-gtk:3020): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply.) perhaps be marked as a duplicate? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1222356] Re: ** (apport-gtk:3020): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message

2014-08-05 Thread Martin Spacek
Is this perhaps a duplicate of bug #1347272 (Several XFCE applications appear unresponsive after communicating with a daemon)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1222356 Title: **

[Bug 1244629] Re: SRU xfce4-weather-plugin, currently showing 'No Data'

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Spacek
@luca, not still, this is a new issue, started showing No data around last weekend, maybe October 11, 2014 . This is on Xubuntu 14.04 amd64. This bug report refers to an old old version of this issue. xfce4 -weather-plugin has been using met.no for its data for a while now. I suppose something's

[Bug 1244629] Re: SRU xfce4-weather-plugin, currently showing 'No Data'

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Spacek
Actually, from the timestamps of the cache files in $HOME/.cache/xfce4/weather, it looks like the last successful data retrieval was Oct 12. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244629

[Bug 1244629] Re: SRU xfce4-weather-plugin, currently showing 'No Data'

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Spacek
Never mind. The latest version in git does indeed work. met.no changed their API from 1.1 to 1.2: http://api.yr.no/weatherapi/locationforecastlts/1.2/documentation 1.2 was implemented in git in xfce4-weather-plugin this summer, and met.no deprecated 1.1 about a week ago. My problem was that I

[Bug 1318218] Re: SATA problems on MacBook Pro 11,1?

2014-09-09 Thread Martin Spacek
Just to clarify, it seems the hard resetting link and SError: { CommWake DevExch } errors I was seeing had to do with me connecting/disconnecting an external bus-powered portable eSATA drive (ata6) that sometimes isn't correctly detected for some reason. The sudden, random remounting of my main

[Bug 1220426] Re: [nvidia-prime]Freeze while using touchpad

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Spacek
I'm seeing something similar, but noticeably different on my Thinkpad W510 (Quadro FX 880M), Nvidia 331.38, Xubuntu 14.04 amd64. Maybe once a week, while using the synaptics touchpad in firefox, the entire screen turns a solid colour, either green or grey. Switcing virtual terminals doesn't seem

[Bug 1068988] Re: Synaptic runs without administrative privileges when run from the launcher

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
In Xubuntu 14.04, I found I had to replace the exec line in my synaptic.desktop file from synaptic-pkexec to gksu synaptic. Not sure if it's related, but I seem to be having lots of DBus-related issues in Xubuntu 14.04. Argh. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1254895] Re: synaptic won't start from unity dash

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1068988 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068988 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1068988 Synaptic runs without administrative privileges when run from the launcher -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 976638] Re: pkexec does not find any authentication agent

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
I'm seeing the same thing in Xubuntu 14.04: pkexec works in text mode, but not GUI mode. If I run it with the --disable-internal-agent flag, it raises Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found. polkitd is running, as is polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1. This is a

[Bug 1068988] Re: Synaptic runs without administrative privileges when run from the launcher

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 976638 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976638 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 976638 pkexec does not find any authentication agent -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1254895] Re: synaptic won't start from unity dash

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 976638 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976638 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1068988 Synaptic runs without administrative privileges when run from the launcher ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 976638 pkexec does not find

[Bug 1314782] Re: multimedia keys don't work when xfce4-volumed is run in daemon mode

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
The slowness in that bug may simply be some kind of timeout being hit due to a dbus connection problem. After the timeout, maybe it retries and succeeds, or tries some other method. I also have an unsubstantiated hunch that Bug #976638 (pkexec does not find any authentication agent) is also

[Bug 976638] Re: pkexec does not find any authentication agent

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
I have an unsubstantiated hunch that Bug #1314782 (multimedia keys don't work when xfce4-volumed is run in daemon mode) is related. Something to do with a dbus race condition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1193236] Re: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-*

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
I still get this error in Xubuntu 14.04 when I run sudo gnome-disks, and possibly other commands that I can't recall at the moment: $ sudo gnome-disks [sudo] password for mspacek: ** (gnome-disks:474): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket

[Bug 1314782] Re: multimedia keys don't work when xfce4-volumed is run in daemon mode

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
The slowness in that bug may simply be some kind of timeout being hit due to a dbus connection problem. After the timeout, maybe it retries and succeeds, or tries some other method. I also have unsubstantiated hunches that: Bug #976638 (pkexec does not find any authentication agent) and Bug

[Bug 1314782] Re: multimedia keys don't work when xfce4-volumed is run in daemon mode

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
The slowness in that bug may simply be some kind of timeout being hit due to a dbus connection problem. After the timeout, maybe it retries and succeeds, or tries some other method. I also have unsubstantiated hunches that: Bug #976638 (pkexec does not find any authentication agent) and Bug

[Bug 912857] Re: Authenticate window doesn't appear anymore

2014-07-21 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 976638 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/976638 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 976638 pkexec does not find any authentication agent -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 976638] Re: pkexec does not find any authentication agent

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
By the way, I find this is a transient issue. It went away after a reboot, but perhaps it'll come back after enough suspend/resume cycles, or on some subsequent reboot. Again, smells like a race condition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1347272] [NEW] DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
Public bug reported: I seem to be hitting transient DBus communication problems after a fresh install of Xubuntu 14.04 amd64 on my Thinkpad W510 with the latest nvidia binaries from the Ubuntu repos. Here are the related bugs. Sometimes rebooting fixes things for a while. If I understand

[Bug 976638] Re: pkexec does not find any authentication agent

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
On the advice of AlbertoSalvia Novella , I've submitted a new bug report against dbus with links to all the bugs (in my install of Xubuntu 14.04) that I vaguely suspect are related to one another: Bug #1347272 (DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1314782] Re: multimedia keys don't work when xfce4-volumed is run in daemon mode

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
On the advice of AlbertoSalvia Novella , I've submitted a new bug report against dbus with links to all the bugs (in my install of Xubuntu 14.04) that I vaguely suspect are related to one another: Bug #1347272 (DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1239014] Re: xfsettingsd unable to daemonize properly when overlay scrollbars are activated

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
On the advice of AlbertoSalvia Novella , I've submitted a new bug report against dbus with links to all the bugs (in my install of Xubuntu 14.04) that I vaguely suspect are related to one another: Bug #1347272 (DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1048805] Re: xfce4-appfinder launches very slowly

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
On the advice of AlbertoSalvia Novella , I've submitted a new bug report against dbus with links to all the bugs (in my install of Xubuntu 14.04) that I vaguely suspect are related to one another: Bug #1347272 (DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1193236] Re: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-*

2014-07-22 Thread Martin Spacek
Thanks Alberto! OK, I've submitted a new bug report against dbus: Bug #1347272 (DBus communication problems affecting multiple packages) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1193236 Title:

[Bug 1259829] Re: htree_dirblock_to_tree:920: inode #53629599: block 214443464: comm rm: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0(0), inode=1667681412, rec_len=45654, name_len=39

2014-07-25 Thread Martin Spacek
@Jeffrey AFAIK, the Crucial M500 uses the Marvell 88SS9187 controller, while the M550 and MX100 both use the Marvell 88SS9189 controller, and therefore probably share the same firmware (or maybe the MX100 firmware was forked off of the M550 firmware): These new Crucial MX100 SSD series features

[Bug 1259829] Re: htree_dirblock_to_tree:920: inode #53629599: block 214443464: comm rm: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0(0), inode=1667681412, rec_len=45654, name_len=39

2014-07-27 Thread Martin Spacek
@Jeffrey, I don't know for sure, but I'd say it's likely that two drives from the same manufacturer using the same controller will at the very least be both derived from the same firmware code base, and their firmware will therefore likely have a lot of bugs (and features) in common. Since your

[Bug 1254881] Re: xfce session starts multiple instances of xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-volumed

2014-07-28 Thread Martin Spacek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1347272 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1347272 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1347272 Several XFCE applications appear irresponsible after communicating with a daemon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1347272] Re: Several XFCE applications appear irresponsible after communicating with a daemon

2014-07-28 Thread Martin Spacek
It seems to me that bug #1254881 ( xfce session starts multiple instances of xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-volumed) is another duplicate, so I've marked it as such. I might be wrong though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1369651] Re: libmtp error: Could not send object info when copying content to root MTP folder

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Spacek
I get this Could not send object info error from libmtp on seemingly random files while copying a large number of files to a subfolder of Internal storage on my Moto X running CyanogenMod 11 2014-11-28 (ghost), using Thunar in Xubuntu 14.04. On second glance, I think this is due to the full

[Bug 1318218] Re: SATA problems on MacBook Pro 11,1?

2014-09-04 Thread Martin Spacek
I'm getting these errors in Xubuntu 14.04 amd64 with nvidia binaries on a Lenovo Thinkpad W510. I only noticed them because several times over the past couple of months since installing Xubuntu 14.04, the machine has suddenly, and quite randomly, remounted the filesystem to read only. When that

[Bug 390959] Re: 045e:00b0 Microsoft keyboard and 045e:0745 nano transceiver recognised as joystick - interferes with some games

2014-09-04 Thread Martin Spacek
I seem to be having the same problem with a Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Mouse I just bought. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-ca/p/sculpt-mobile-mouse This is in Xubuntu 14.04 amd64 on a Thinkpad W510. In the xfce Mouse and Touchpad settings I get two entries for Microsoft Microsoft (R) Nano

[Bug 1307251] Re: xfdesktop doesn't save the arrangement of desktop icons after a resolution change

2014-12-23 Thread Martin Spacek
I just tried installing the proposed xfdesktop 4.11.8 package from bug 1365965, and so far, it seems to work. I'm not exactly sure what triggered the icon rearrangement on reboot (it wasn't necessarily a screen resolution change), so I'll report back if I have any further problems. -- You

[Bug 1315716] Re: No confirmation prompt when force-deleting (SHIFT+DEL)

2014-12-23 Thread Martin Spacek
This seems to work for me after updating to xfdesktop 4.11.8 in the proposed update in bug 1365965 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315716 Title: No confirmation prompt when

[Bug 1365965] Re: [MRE] Please update xfdesktop4 to 4.11.8 in Trusty

2014-12-23 Thread Martin Spacek
I'm trying out this 4.11.8 proposed release because I was affected by bug 1307251 and bug 1315716. So far, both seem to have been fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365965 Title:

[Bug 1365965] Re: [MRE] Please update xfdesktop4 to 4.11.8 in Trusty

2015-01-22 Thread Martin Spacek
I would say release the package as an update, close bug 1307251, and then see if anyone continues to complain about icon positions. My guess is there will be fewer reports, and they'll be trickier to diagnose. It probably deserves a new bug report. I haven't had any other problems with 4.11.8 on

[Bug 1365965] Re: [MRE] Please update xfdesktop4 to 4.11.8 in Trusty

2015-01-04 Thread Martin Spacek
I just had icon positions reset on me on reboot, so it seems bug 1307251 is not fixed after all in xfdesktop 4.11.8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365965 Title: [MRE] Please update

[Bug 1307251] Re: xfdesktop doesn't save the arrangement of desktop icons after a resolution change

2015-01-04 Thread Martin Spacek
I just had icon positions reset on me on reboot, so it seems this bug is not fixed after all in xfdesktop 4.11.8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307251 Title: xfdesktop doesn't save

[Bug 1365965] Re: [MRE] Please update xfdesktop4 to 4.11.8 in Trusty

2015-01-04 Thread Martin Spacek
Also, note that I have Save session for future logins disabled in the log out dialog. Not sure if that should matter. I imagine it shouldn't. Icon positions should always be saved between reboots. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1307251] Re: xfdesktop doesn't save the arrangement of desktop icons after a resolution change

2015-01-04 Thread Martin Spacek
Also, note that I have Save session for future logins disabled in the log out dialog. Not sure if that should matter. I imagine it shouldn't. Icon positions should always be saved between reboots. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1347272] Re: Several XFCE applications appear unresponsive after communicating with a daemon

2015-03-11 Thread Martin Spacek
Just thought I'd mention that this problem does seem to have gone away for me in trusty. Not sure when that happened, but I'm glad it's (apparently) fixed. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1268257] Re: nvidia-331-updates 331.38-0ubuntu3: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build, with only error: objdump: '... .tmp_nv.o': No such file

2015-03-27 Thread Martin Spacek
@dino99 This is not fixed with nvidia-340. I have Xubuntu 14.04 with nvidia-340 and nvidia-304-uvm installed from the xorg-edgers PPA. It seems nvidia- libopencl1-340 depends on nvidia-340-uvm. I just installed the 3.19.3 vivid kernel from here:

[Bug 1410548] [NEW] nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build

2015-01-13 Thread Martin Spacek
Public bug reported: Apport popped up a message that the nvidia driver installation failed during today's kernel update on my Xubuntu 14.04 installation. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-43.72-generic

[Bug 562005] Re: Backlight controls of laptops with NVIDIA NVS and Quadro FX 880M GPUs no longer function while using proprietary drivers

2015-06-26 Thread Martin Spacek
What version is no longer supported? Really? We need to open up a new bug report for a bug that's 5 years old and counting? This has never been fixed, and likely never will be by nvidia. I'm currently on the last supported version, 340.76, in Xubuntu 14.04. Still doesn't work. But we *should* keep

[Bug 562005] Re: Backlight controls of laptops with NVIDIA NVS and Quadro FX 880M GPUs no longer function while using proprietary drivers

2015-06-26 Thread Martin Spacek
there is plenty of similar reports around and forums discussions about that. Why not post them here? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562005 Title: Backlight controls of laptops with

[Bug 1418706] Re: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

2016-07-12 Thread Martin Spacek
This is an infuriating bug, but I've found a workaround, more or less described in a comment in a duplicate bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1547286/comments/11 I'm installing Xubuntu 16.04 amd64 on a completely blank SSD on a brand new UEFI-enabled HP system. If

[Bug 1418706] Re: UEFI: blank drive incorrectly detected as existing BIOS-mode install

2016-07-12 Thread Martin Spacek
Sorry, I forgot to mention above that I selected both "download updates while installing Ubuntu" and "download third party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, Mp3 and other media." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1575655] Re: the network indicator shows the wrong status

2018-01-05 Thread Martin Spacek
I have this problem in Xubuntu 16.04 with HWE kernel, on my Thinkpad X1 carbon 4th gen (2016). uname -a: Linux Godel 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci | grep -i network: 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation

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