[Bug 138969] Re: Feisty: Keyboard and Gnome freezes with Network Manager

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Van Dam
I tried to post a comment a while back but ironically my computer froze while doing so. I have exactly the same problem as you. The easiest way I've found to avoid the problem is to quickly turn off roaming and set network manager to a manual configuration. That often means I have to run

[Bug 225861] [NEW] XHR in chrome window does not show authentication dialog

2008-05-02 Thread Rob Van Dam
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 Description:Ubuntu 8.04 Release:8.04 Bugzilla bug #420578 was reported fixed in 3.0b5 but still occurs in 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3. An XHR to a page with standard http authentication (i.e. via .htaccess) should pop up an

[Bug 138969] Re: Feisty: Keyboard and Gnome freezes with Network Manager

2008-08-06 Thread Rob Van Dam
I'm not on campus very often anymore so I can't test this easily now. However, I can say that upgrading to Hardy did NOT eliminate the problem. I cannot however speak for any updates to network-manager since the initial hardy release because I just haven't be in a situation to test it recently.

[Bug 37444] Re: RandR stops working with MergedFB when the external display is disconnected

2007-07-24 Thread Rob Van Dam
I'm also seeing this in edgy, using the BigDesktop with the fglrx driver. I can provide Xorg log files if needed. Is this likely to be patched officially any time soon or should I just patch my own system rather than wait? -- RandR stops working with MergedFB when the external display is

[Bug 781494] [NEW] Apply upstream fix to broken perl plugins for pidgin 2.6.6

2011-05-12 Thread Rob Van Dam
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pidgin A bug in pidgin 2.6.6 means that signals (aka events) in perl plugins are passed invalid/incorrect arguments. This has already been documented and fixed upstream. See http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11431. Here is the fix (reverts the

[Bug 1079311] [NEW] gnome-terminal memory leak causes slow performance

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Van Dam
Public bug reported: I believe this started with the upgrade to 12.10 or perhaps shortly after. I'm used to firefox using astronomical amounts of memory over time but that's not a big deal because i can just kill it and restart it and my workflow is barely interrupted. Unfortunately,