[Bug 1754109] [NEW] df and fsck on empty exfat sdcard shows space used

2018-03-07 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release:16.04 exfat-utils: Installed: 1.2.3-1 Candidate: 1.2.3-1 Version table: *** 1.2.3-1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Expected: df of e

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-06-03 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "Photo of /var/log/syslog after crash (under 17.04, but same kernel)." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4888638/+files/20170520_234717.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-06-02 Thread Joe Harrington
The good news is that this does enable the thing to work after resume from suspend. The bad news is that this kernel panics upon mkfs.ext4. I just tested it again, installing as you suggested rather than using the 17.04 install I had tried before. The 16.04 and 16.10 kernels didn't crash. Both a

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "/proc/bus/input/devices after resume" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887056/+files/devices -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "evtest /dev/input/event10 output after resume (note no events recorded, I did move mouse and click all 3 buttons)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887057/+files/evtest-postsleep -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "output of xdiagnose after clicking "view errors"" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887051/+files/xdiagnose.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "diff of lsmod-presleep and lsmod-postsleep" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887054/+files/lsmod-diffs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887055/+files/Xorg.0.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694866 Title

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "lsmod before suspend" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887052/+files/lsmod-presleep -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "lsmod after resume" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887053/+files/lsmod-postsleep -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "output of dmesg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887050/+files/dmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694866 T

[Bug 1694866] [NEW] (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Problem: After resume from either suspend or hibernate, the DualPoint Stick (rubber knob between g, h, and b keys, and three-button row above trackpad) stops working (all components of it). The trackpad, two buttons below it, and touchscreen all continue to work. The behavi

[Bug 1694866] Re: (Alps?) DualPoint Stick disabled but visible after suspend Dell Latitude 7480

2017-05-31 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "lspci -vvv output" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1694866/+attachment/4887049/+files/lspci-vvv.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694

[Bug 1384503] Re: rsync fails on large files with compression

2015-02-01 Thread Joe Harrington
This is a relief, and thanks for giving your attention to this bug. Utopic has 3.1.1-2. Can it be pushed as an update to 14.04? Thanks! --jh-- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384503 T

[Bug 1384503] [NEW] rsync fails on large files with compression

2014-10-22 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Copying large (>10GB) files with rsync -z (compression) leads to a long hang and eventual error after transferring part of the file. The error is consistent. The file copies at normal speed until it reaches its maximum size (1.4 GB out of 20 GB for one, 6.9 GB out of 29 GB f

[Bug 1117195] Re: lsusb crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main()

2013-02-07 Thread Joe Harrington
** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1117195 Title: lsusb crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_start_main() To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1079188] Re: lsusb segfaults, some USB ports and audio jack stop working

2012-11-15 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "lsusb output" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbutils/+bug/1079188/+attachment/3434321/+files/lsusb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079188 Title:

[Bug 1079188] Re: lsusb segfaults, some USB ports and audio jack stop working

2012-11-15 Thread Joe Harrington
I can add more output of files or stuff from logs, just tell me what to do. Thanks, --jh-- ** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn output" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbutils/+bug/1079188/+attachment/3434336/+files/lspci-vvnn -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1079188] [NEW] lsusb segfaults, some USB ports and audio jack stop working

2012-11-15 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: I am on a Lenovo Thinkpad W510 with integrated nVidia graphics (machine type 4391-V4V), running updated 11.10 with the proprietary nVidia driver. Occasionally, after working fine for a week or often more, my headphone/microphone socket stops working (it's a single socket for

[Bug 1016267] Re: 0458:003a USB mouse stops working after unplug/replug

2012-10-04 Thread Joe Harrington
I have similar behavior. I am on 11.10, and have seen this for a couple of years (certainly 10.04, maybe 9.04). For me it is a keyboard and mouse plugged into my ThinkPad docking station that die. If I plug them into my laptop's ports, they work fine. I also occasionally have my laptop's keyboa

Re: [Bug 1050422] Re: CUPS hangs when remote CUPS server defined in client.conf is inaccessible

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Harrington
Yes, this is noted at the end of the initial report. --jh-- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1050422 Title: CUPS hangs when remote CUPS server defined in client.conf is inaccessible

[Bug 1050422] [NEW] CUPS hangs when remote CUPS server defined in client.conf is inaccessible

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: When a remote CUPS server is defined in /etc/cups/client.conf like this: ServerName print.mpia-hd.mpg.de and the server is not accessible (e.g., it is on a company's internal net and you take your laptop home), then CUPS applications hang for up to several minutes, and then

[Bug 264333] Re: remote printer : freeze when not available

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Harrington
This problem (or a closely related one, I can't tell) is still not (fully?) fixed in: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10" using cups-1.5.0-8ubuntu6 Here is some more detail than given above: Printers defined locally that are not c

Re: [Bug 164233] Re: [Upstream] Exporting pdf from LibreOffice with smooth gradient displays striped in Evince, shows correctly in Adobe Reader

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Harrington
Folks, we've gone round and round on this bug literally for *years*! Is anyone reading who is close enough to the developers just to call or email or skype someone who is familiar with the libreoffice code and ask for a patch? Many thanks if you can! --jh-- On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Chris

[Bug 437246] Re: [Karmic] alarm-clock-applet crashes when clearing alarms

2012-01-20 Thread Joe Harrington
I have also experienced numerous crashes. All I did was set two alarms, 5 minutes apart and about 20 minutes in the future, simple ring with the default tone. It crashed while clearing alarms twice yesterday. I don't have any error messages and /var/crash is empty. I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, updated,

[Bug 851015] [NEW] gnome-panel help missing command substitutions

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Behavior: When you click on an icon in the panel, a command gets executed. The user can set this command in the Properties dialog box for the icon. For the default firefox panel icon, it is "firefox %u". The %u is a command substitution of ...something. What? The help sec

[Bug 164233] Re: [Upstream] [hardy] Opening pdf with smooth gradient in Evince displays striped

2011-08-16 Thread Joe Harrington
I don't have time to chase it down at the moment but maybe you do, Chris. I recall reading some time ago that the problem is in the poppler PDF-writing library, which uses a broken algorithm to make the gradient out of a set of constant-color stripes whose edges are being rendered as white lines b

[Bug 776829] Re: evolution corrupts attachments on save

2011-05-03 Thread Joe Harrington
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776829 Title: evolution corrupts attachments on save -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

[Bug 776829] [NEW] evolution corrupts attachments on save

2011-05-03 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10.2 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS" lenovo T61 laptop When writing out certain attachments, Evo produces consistently corrupt files. Co-workers using evo do not have the same behavior, and it only started a month or two

Re: [Bug 164233] Re: [Upstream] [hardy] Exporting a background with gradient produces a stripey pdf

2010-12-09 Thread Joe Harrington
Very nice test! However, I am told that Adobe readers are very "permissive" and accept/"do the right thing" in some cases with buggy PDF or PS code. The lines appear in printed versions of these documents. I don't know anything about either PDF or PS, but can you or someone actually look at the

[Bug 270726] Re: [upstream] openoffice.org PDF conversion puts lines into background

2010-12-07 Thread Joe Harrington
Yes, it appears to be the same complaint. It's also over 2 years old, and still doing it (ooo 3.2.0.10 in Ubuntu 10.4). Can this be so hard to fix? There's a whole generation of young scientists being pushed to PowerPoint for conference posters over this one issue. --jh-- -- You received this

[Bug 133730] Re: emacs22 hangs when saving if backup file cannot be written

2010-09-16 Thread Joe Harrington
I'm now on 9.04 and I don't see the problem. But, it's not writing backup files, neither ~/%backup% nor foo~ files, when the file being edited is in a directory where the user does not have write permission. GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) of 2010-03-26 on yellow, modi

[Bug 392754] Re: [LENOVO 6465CTO] hibernate/resume failure

2009-06-26 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28446733/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28446734/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28446735/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 392754] [NEW] [LENOVO 6465CTO] hibernate/resume failure

2009-06-26 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Since doing a fresh install of 9.04, I've experienced daily or more frequent hangs, crashes, failures to resume from suspend, failures to resume from hibernate, etc. Things were mostly stable under 8.04. The crashes are occurring on our Lenovo T61 laptops, but also on Asus/I

[Bug 389602] [NEW] hostname -s returns localhost instead of name

2009-06-19 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hostname % hostname glup % hostname -s localhost BUT % man hostname [] -s, --short Display the short host name. This is the host name cut at the first dot. [] I can hack around it by changing the order of

[Bug 349363] Re: firefox renders popup menus and images under images

2009-03-26 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24384985/Screenshot.png -- firefox renders popup menus and images under images https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349363 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 349363] [NEW] firefox renders popup menus and images under images

2009-03-26 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 go to techtarget.com mouse over nav tabs on left menus pop up *under* image on right, making them unusable (see screenshot). Should appear over anything that was in the window before, and completely on screen. same when trying to use the r

[Bug 173585] Re: firefox renders text over images

2009-03-26 Thread Joe Harrington
So far it seems to be fixed. I'll reopen if I find a site where it isn't. --jh-- -- firefox renders text over images https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173585 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 162253] Re: openssh: want hpn-ssh for 20x speed improvement!

2009-03-09 Thread Joe Harrington
Ubuntu is a packager, not a developer. The right way to get this to happen is for someone (who would have to be more motivated than I am) to talk to the Debian SSH maintainers, or even the openssh developers themselves. Options include forking (bad), making a completely new package out of the pat

[Bug 173196] Re: Firefox will not start under vnc

2009-02-26 Thread Joe Harrington
This was fixed in 8.04. Thanks! --jh-- ** Changed in: vnc4 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Firefox will not start under vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 226930] Re: ps2pdf on firefox ps file makes file w/ no cut-and-paste

2008-12-10 Thread Joe Harrington
Well, Feisty was not EOL in May when I posted this bug. Meaning no disrespect, but I post a fair number of bugs that sit un-looked-at for months or even years, and then someone comes along and says in effect, "hey, bozo, that's an old release, how dare you talk to us about it? Update right away an

[Bug 134522] Re: cpio --extract says --sparse is meaningless

2008-10-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Seems to be fixed in 8.04! --jh-- -- cpio --extract says --sparse is meaningless https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

[Bug 133730] Re: emacs22 hangs when saving if backup file cannot be written

2008-10-19 Thread Joe Harrington
Sorry, I'm in a production 8.04 environment, so I can't test in later versions. In emacs-22.1-0ubuntu10.1 the one time I tried it, it did not occur. I don't know what the condition was that sometimes triggered it in prior versions, so I can't know whether it is fixed or not. --jh-- -- emacs22

[Bug 270726] Re: openoffice.org PDF conversion puts lines into background

2008-10-17 Thread Joe Harrington
I am in a production 8.04 environment and cannot do tests on later versions, but you can take the .ppt I posted and try it yourself. Also, I had the same problem in the past week at a conference, where we tried converting a file with a gradient to PDF on both Windows OpenOffice and Mac NeoOffice.

[Bug 127306] Re: user's environment variables may break install

2008-10-12 Thread Joe Harrington
I am in a production environment under 8.04, and we upgrade annually, so I will not be able to answer this question. However, it should be pretty obvious from looking at the preinstall script to see whether someone deliberately has unset all the TeX-related environment variables. These include:

[Bug 270726] Re: openoffice.org PDF conversion puts lines into background

2008-09-15 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "oo.o presentation with gradient (saved as PPT)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17633483/scipydocmarathon-scipy08.ppt -- openoffice.org PDF conversion puts lines into background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270726 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 270726] [NEW] openoffice.org PDF conversion puts lines into background

2008-09-15 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org I may have slightly misspecified the package, since there are many openoffice.org packages. If I have a presentation or drawing with a gradient in the background, and I save as PDF, a series of white, one-pixel-wide lines appears that were

[Bug 137866] Re: network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Harrington
airo(eth1): WPA unsupported (only firmware versions 5.30.17 and greater support WPA. Detected 5b00.08) --jh-- -- network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 137866] Re: network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Harrington
Well, wireless drivers and /proc/acpi are kernel issues. I really don't know enough about kernel internals to answer this question unless there is just an overall kernel category. It uses the airo driver, if there's a category for that. My guess is that if support for this older chipset in the a

[Bug 137866] Re: network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2008-08-04 Thread Joe Harrington
Has anything been done to fix it? If not, then yes, it still bothers me. I switched all the automatic stuff off and now configure manually, which is a royal pain. I'm happy to do some tests if someone tells me some work was actually done and there is something to test. I'm less eager to go do t

[Bug 13333] Re: Evolution hangs when I start it

2008-06-21 Thread Joe Harrington
Ubuntu 7.04 updated, Evolution 2.10.1, i386 I have had a similar behavior today and I solved it by moving my mail/local/Inbox* files to another dir when evo and all helper programs were *not* running, starting evo, and then moving them back while it *was* running (this was accidental but it worked

[Bug 226930] Re: ps2pdf on firefox ps file makes file w/ no cut-and-paste

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "zip file containing ps file from firefox and 2 versions of PDF described above" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14227569/bustedpdf.zip -- ps2pdf on firefox ps file makes file w/ no cut-and-paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226930 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 226930] [NEW] ps2pdf on firefox ps file makes file w/ no cut-and-paste

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ghostscript Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.14 (Ubuntu-feisty) gs 815.04 Feisty on 32-bit intel Description:Ubuntu 7.04 Release:7.04 If I print a web page from Firefox to a PS file and view

[Bug 173196] Re: Firefox will not start under vnc

2008-04-02 Thread Joe Harrington
Yes, I posted the requested data but it appears nobody did anything with it. Does it work in current ubuntu? Why was it invalidated? Is it not reproducible? Thanks, --jh-- -- Firefox will not start under vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173196 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 120392] Re: CAnnot delete Calendars in Evolution 2.10

2008-02-07 Thread Joe Harrington
Sorry, I'm still on Feisty and it's a production environment, so I won't be able to do that soon. --jh-- -- CAnnot delete Calendars in Evolution 2.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ub

[Bug 173585] Re: firefox renders text over images

2007-12-06 Thread Joe Harrington
No, I am not using a projector. A projector just takes what's on your screen and puts it on the wall, it doesn't change what is done in your web browser. The projector mode on this page is probably just so that the font and colors are not tiny and washed out, as these are hard to read otherwise.

[Bug 173585] Re: firefox renders text over images

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Harrington
I have not done that, wasn't even aware it was possible (thanks! what other of the reasons I used to prefer galeon are lurking undocumented? can I get my tabs down the left side? paste a URL onto a titlebar icon to get a new page opening it?). I do see that if I use the ^+ keystroke, I can make

[Bug 173196] Re: Firefox will not start under vnc

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "~/.mozilla after crash (didn't exist before)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10754275/firefoxfiles -- Firefox will not start under vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug conta

[Bug 173196] Re: Firefox will not start under vnc

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "screen shot" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10754263/Screenshot.png -- Firefox will not start under vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 173196] Re: Firefox will not start under vnc

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Harrington
This crash dump is with the new version of firefox that updated last night. It's from a 64-bit intel machine running updated feisty. What happens is the window appears (see next attachment, which is the screenshot of the window's state), hangs out for about a minute, and disappears with a segfaul

[Bug 173585] Re: firefox renders text over images

2007-12-03 Thread Joe Harrington
Here it is. It's 100% reproducible for the given site for me. In this case, you have to change the color scheme, which is an option on the site itself. Other sites do it too, though it's not an everyday occurrence to hit one. For completeness: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10

[Bug 173585] firefox renders text over images

2007-12-02 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox There is a class of pages that has text next to images, and in which firefox will run text right over an image and even into the next block of text. Here's an example: go to http://www.ocls.info click on "change colors" on the left check "proj

[Bug 173196] Firefox will not start under vnc

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: This is similar to Bug #115529, except that the fix posted there does not work and the errors are different. I start vnc4server, latest patched Feisty on intel 64, with -extension XFIXES, Gnome environment. I start a client looking at it. I type firefox. Firefox dies. Gen

[Bug 162316] gimp-print disables color on HP color laserjets

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: 7.04 updated, gimp-print 5.0.0.99.1-0ubuntu2. If a printer is configured as an HP Color LaserJet (or several other color HP printers), only grayscale printing is offered. pull up a color image in gimp select Print... from the file menu see that the image is in color in the p

[Bug 162253] Re: openssh: want hpn-ssh for 20x speed improvement!

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Harrington
Yes, see second-to-last question of: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/faq.php What's needed now is 1) a request to be made from Ubuntu pointing out to upstream that it is a significant issue they should address (either with this patch or some other way), and 2) meanwhile, either a

[Bug 162253] openssh: want hpn-ssh for 20x speed improvement!

2007-11-12 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: This is a wishlist item: hpn-ssh would be a big data-transfer speed improvement for many Ubuntu users, particularly scientific organizations like universities and observatories that transfer large amounts of data over long-haul networks, and large commercial users. hpn-ssh is

[Bug 160045] mayavi postinstall depends on python2.4

2007-11-04 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mayavi I'm on Feisty i386, updated. I just tried to install mayavi 1.5-4. The postinstall explicitly calls /usr/bin/python2.4, which is not installed and on which the package does not formally depend. The postinstall should not call python2.4, but rath

[Bug 152992] Re: xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog

2007-10-25 Thread Joe Harrington
Is there a way to change the bug title? I've now had this happen a number of times after ooffice has been minimized for a while and then restored. If the first click after the restore would bring down a menu, it sometimes hangs xorg. It doesn't matter which menu, but unfortunately this has happe

[Bug 152992] Re: xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog

2007-10-15 Thread Joe Harrington
After reporting, I tried to kill xorg. It would not respond to signals 1, 2, or 15. Only kill -9 would make it die. --jh-- -- xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152992 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the b

[Bug 152992] Re: xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog

2007-10-15 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "output of top" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10012771/xorgmess -- xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152992 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 152992] xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog

2007-10-15 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Feisty, updated as of today. 32-bit i386, IBM T40. The following happens to me every few days to a week: Xorg goes to 99.9% CPU. The keyboard is unresponsive, including all ctrl-alt sequences (bs, del, F1, F2, ...), keyboard shortcuts (e.g., to d

[Bug 152992] Re: xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog

2007-10-15 Thread Joe Harrington
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10012770/xorg.conf -- xorg busy-hangs in ooffice save dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152992 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 12430] Re: evolution weather calendars only for US

2007-09-09 Thread Joe Harrington
This seems more like a case of sour grapes than a bug. Rather than trying to remove a feature used by a significant number (and perhaps fraction) of Ubuntu users, perhaps users from the "rest of the world" who actually care about the feature could get involved and put in the effort to get the feat

[Bug 133730] Re: emacs22 hangs when saving if backup file cannot be written

2007-09-07 Thread Joe Harrington
Nope, it's back. Sometimes this happens and sometimes not. When it happens, the hang is indefinite but interruptible with C-g. Write-file gives the same problem. In a session when it happens, it always happens. Changing the permissions of the directory to that of the user owning the file allow

[Bug 137866] Re: network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Harrington
The block to shutdown is not consistent, but I've had it a number of times. --jh-- -- network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 137866] network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools Background: I have an IBM T40 with Cisco Aironet 11b wireless (airo driver). On the machine there is a little antenna LED and a bluetooth LED. When I boot, antenna is on and bluetooth is off. These reflect whether those two radios i

[Bug 137866] Re: network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Harrington
feisty, updated. --jh-- -- network-admin irrevocably turns off IBM T40 radio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://

[Bug 133730] Re: emacs22 hangs when saving if backup file cannot be written

2007-08-29 Thread Joe Harrington
Hm. Well, I could reproduce it reliably when I filed it, but now I can't; it's working as before for me, too. There were some updates in the last few days, but I think only with emacs21. If someone else sees it, reopen this. I'm marking as invalid. --jh-- -- emacs22 hangs when saving if back

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Harrington
And for the record, my system is 7.04 i386 32-bit with patches to date. Also, bug #59316 and bug #69731 seem to be the same. Note that they are older, so the libpoppler thing might not be the solution. If these render well for you on 7.04 patched, we should compare installed package lists. To my

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Harrington
And for the record, my system is 7.04 i386 32-bit with patches to date. Also, bug #59316 and bug #69731 seem to be the same. Note that they are older, so the libpoppler thing might not be the solution. If these render well for you on 7.04 patched, we should compare installed package lists. --jh-

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Harrington
Ok, that should have said see text below... Here's the Python tutorial. --jh-- ** Attachment added: "Python astronomy tutorial with Type 3 fonts." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8976506/pydatatut.pdf -- [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92296 Yo

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Harrington
No, sorry, I'm on Feisty with evince 0.8.1, and I get terrible Type-3 handling. See the attached screen shot. The left is gv (running ghostscript) on the attached Python tutorial. The middle is evince on the same document. The right is evince on my syllabus, which is also attached. The tutoria

[Bug 134522] cpio --extract says --sparse is meaningless

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cpio The --sparse argument for cpio creates disk files with holes if the input file from the archive has large runs of ASCII 0. I recently switched to Ubuntu 7.04 from Fedora Core 3, and scripts using this feature now produce the error: cat ../arch | cp

[Bug 75411] Re: Crash when using numdisplay (Python)

2007-08-21 Thread Joe Harrington
This crash happens because saods9 is out of date. I just confirmed that it does not crash with current ds9 4.13, which I got from the SAO distribution site http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/. See Bug #133784. --jh-- -- Crash when using numdisplay (Python) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75411

[Bug 133784] saods9 is way out of date wrt upstream (4.0b7 vs 4.13)

2007-08-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: saods9 The saods9 package, which provides ds9 and the xpa programs, is way out of date and has not changed in some time. The current release is 4.13. 4.0b7 crashes when the most basic xpa operations are executed in, e.g., the numpy astronomy tutorial (ex

[Bug 133730] emacs22 hangs when saving if backup file cannot be written

2007-08-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu4~feisty1 To reproduce: in a directory owned by root, as root: touch foo chown someuser.somegroup foo as someuser: emacs foo make some changes C-x C-s hangs. Under emacs21, it would tell you it couldn't write the backup f

[Bug 91558] Re: network-manager multiple problems

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Harrington
Yes, I'm fully updated and the issues are unchanged for me. I had another nm-related hang yesterday. Sorry for the delay in replying; I've been on vacation most of the past month and a half (woohoo!). --jh-- -- network-manager multiple problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91558 You receive

[Bug 127308] Re: user's environment variables may break install

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Here'e the corresponding file from this install. --jh-- ** Attachment added: "texlive.updmap.CwGOx589" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8540407/texlive.updmap.CwGOx589 -- user's environment variables may break install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127308 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 127308] user's environment variables may break install

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: texlive-base See Bug #127306. The same happens in this package (so don't mark it duplicate). The same fix applies: unset all relevant environment variables pre-install. Thanks, --jh-- ** Affects: texlive-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 127306] Re: user's environment variables may break install

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Here's the requested output file, which is more relevant. Note that other variables may also affect the system as it installs. All TeX-related stuff should be unset, or at least a warning to the user should be printed on error. --jh-- ** Attachment added: "/tmp/tetex.updmap.QqV10904" http://

[Bug 127306] Re: user's environment variables may break install

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Harrington
I'm on i386, 7.04. The install produced much output, but scroll down to see the error. --jh-- ** Attachment added: "Output of synaptic" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8540383/configoutput2 -- user's environment variables may break install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127306 You received

[Bug 127306] user's environment variables may break install

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tetex-bin Login as normal user set TEXINPUTS to something non-standard. synaptic select and install tetex-bin (or also texlive) Result: during the install, the post-installation script will search the system for config files. The TEXINPUTS variable w

[Bug 126714] Re: oocalc memory leak in chart

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Harrington
I just saved that .xls spreadsheet as a .ods file, quit, and started ooffice on the saved file. Same result, so it's not the XLS format itself. --jh-- ** Attachment added: ".ods file that also has the problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8517322/setemp.ods -- oocalc memory leak in chart

[Bug 126714] Re: oocalc memory leak in chart

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Harrington
Try clicking on the line or the X axis a few times. Run top and sort on memory first, and watch that. Be prepared to switch to another screen to kill ooffice! --jh-- ** Attachment added: "XLS file that causes problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8517289/setemp.xls -- oocalc memory leak in

[Bug 126714] oocalc memory leak in chart

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Harrington
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org This may be related to bug 93785, but that bug was confirmed only to be a 64-bit bug and I am on 32 bits. I have an XLS spreadsheet (attached below) that consists of a simple table and a chart. When I click on the chart elements, such as

[Bug 91558] Re: network-manager multiple problems

2007-07-06 Thread Joe Harrington
Bug #82203 might be related to my problem 1, above. I don't have a wep network to test on tonight. --jh-- -- network-manager multiple problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91558 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.

[Bug 91558] Re: network-manager multiple problems

2007-07-06 Thread Joe Harrington
This bug seems a bit of a gripe session that nobody has paid attention to. However, I can confirm at least some of the behavior here with release Feisty. Since the Ubuntu world doesn't seem up-in-arms about it, I assume it only triggers on some hardware. So please everyone, state your hardware.

[Bug 120392] Re: CAnnot delete Calendars in Evolution 2.10

2007-06-25 Thread Joe Harrington
Responding to Sebastien, yes, you have to delete some data before you see the problem. However, good design would not then make it impossible to delete the associated handle on the data. On the contrary, if the program notices something is missing it should either delete the handle to the missing

[Bug 120392] Re: CAnnot delete Calendars in Evolution 2.10

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Harrington
I saw the same behavior, came here to report it, and found this and similar bugs. I had created calendars I could not delete. However, I could not reproduce it until I deleted the calendar manually (by going into the .evolution/calendar/local directory and deleting the directory containing the ca