[Bug 1968847] [NEW] Frequent popup asking for Gmail Calendar password

2022-04-13 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: I'm frequently being prompted by a popup (initiated by Thunderbird?) to input my password for Google Calendar, even though I've removed my Gmail account (with its data) from ThunderBird though I haven't deleted the Gmail a/c as I use that a/c for my Android phone's Gmail

[Bug 1967171] [NEW] KDEConnect does not see my Android phone

2022-03-30 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: I've installed the KDE Connect, which installed a few dependent packages. It gave 4 apps for KDE Connect. I've tried 3 of them but they did nothing visible, although they didn't crash according to System Monitor. The other one gave a 'Configure KDE Settings' window but

[Bug 1965628] Re: VirtualBox does not allow changing USB to 2.0/3.0 using Settings

2022-03-21 Thread John Rose
Nothing wrong with VirtualBox (or Ubuntu 20.04 in this matter): please close this bug report. I found the solution: the VM needs to be Powered Off rather than Saved. Once that is done the USB options (best to select USB 3.0, which then allows all USB devices to be recognised e.g. flash drive or

[Bug 1965628] Re: VirtualBox does not allow changing USB to 2.0/3.0 using Settings

2022-03-20 Thread John Rose
I have shut down the VM and rebooted Ubuntu 20.04 BEFORE I took the attached screenshot of the USB Settings. Please note also the message about the Display on it: when I click on that message it says that I should use the recommended VBoxSVGA (not able to take screenshot showing that message as it

[Bug 1965628] Re: VirtualBox does not allow changing USB to 2.0/3.0 using Settings

2022-03-19 Thread John Rose
Attached is a screenshot showing the greyed out USB possibilities. ** Attachment added: "VirtualBoxSettingsScreenshot.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1965628/+attachment/5570816/+files/VirtualBoxSettingsScreenshot.png -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1965628] [NEW] VirtualBox does not allow changing USB to 2.0/3.0 using Settings

2022-03-19 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: In VirtualBox's Settings: 'Enable USB', USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 radio buttons are greyed out. Even if I add a USB filter, they are still greyed out. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: virtualbox 6.1.32-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 1965628] Re: VirtualBox does not allow changing USB to 2.0/3.0 using Settings

2022-03-19 Thread John Rose
I forgot to say that I'm running VirtualBox version 6.1.32_Ubuntu r149290 on a Ubuntu 20.04 box. The guest OS is Windows 10. The Extension Pack is installed: john@desktop:~$ VBoxManage list extpacks Extension Packs: 2 Pack no. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack Version: 6.1.32

[Bug 1898181] [NEW] No duplex printing

2020-10-02 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: On Ubuntu Focal desktop 64 bit, neither Samsung SCX-472FD monochrome laser printer nor HP M254dw colour laser printer prints duplex. Was OK on Ubuntu Bionic until upgrade to Focal. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: cups 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1

[Bug 1874272] Re: Stage "searching for obsolete software" takes a very long time (30 minutes)

2020-09-29 Thread John Rose
Same problem. What would happen if I stopped the upgrade (e.g. by cutting power on my Intel Barebones PC)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874272 Title: Stage "searching for obsolete

[Bug 1889066] Re: ffmpeg does not create valid mp4 file

2020-07-27 Thread John Rose
Standard Output & Standard Error attached. ** Attachment added: "Standard Output & Standard Error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/1889066/+attachment/5396216/+files/l.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1889066] [NEW] ffmpeg does not create valid mp4 file

2020-07-27 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: Running in Terminal: ffmpeg -r 25 -video_size 1920x1080 -f x11grab -draw_mouse 0 -show_region 1 -i :0.0 -f pulse -ac 2 -i default -vcodec libx265 -y /home/john/Temporary/v.mp4 >/home/john/Temporary/l.txt 2>&1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ffmpeg

[Bug 1585635] Re: usb networked hard drive not recognised

2019-01-30 Thread John Rose
Ok niow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585635 Title: usb networked hard drive not recognised To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1251182] Re: Thunderbird: Deleted emails get lost instead of going to the Trash folder

2018-11-24 Thread John Rose
Still happening with T'bird 60.2.1 and Ubuntu Bionic: see Bug 1215524. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251182 Title: Thunderbird: Deleted emails get lost instead of going to the

[Bug 1798357] [NEW] After upgrade of Thunderbird to 60.2.1, Lightning extension is not compatible

2018-10-17 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: After upgrade of Thunderbird to 60.2.1, Lightning 5.4 extension is disabled as not compatible. No option to upgrade to Lightning version which is compatible. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: thunderbird 1:60.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

[Bug 1787827] Re: Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
** Package changed: compiz (Ubuntu) => gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787827 Title: Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off To manage

[Bug 1787827] Re: Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
This occurs on both a new install of Bionic and upgrades from Xenial to Bionic. All PCs use SSD but that may be irrelevant. It seems to be improving with upgrades of SSD packages. Which package would be causing the problem? I have no intention of doing clean installs as it involves a lot of work

[Bug 1797678] Re: Printing stops with Status as "Idle - Filter failed"

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
Solution found in Ask Ubuntu site at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1081885/printer-stopped-working-after-upgrade-16-04-to-18-04 Solution is: sudo rmdir /usr/share/ghostscript/9.25/iccprofiles sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgs9-common -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1787827] Re: Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
This also applies to my other 2 computers which have had upgrades from 16.04 to 18.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787827 Title: Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off

[Bug 1797678] [NEW] Printing stops with Status as "Idle - Filter failed"

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: This happened after an upgrade from Xenial to Bionic on this Barebones PC. Interestingly after an upgrade from Xenial to Bionic on a Laptop this problem did not occur. It also occurred with a clean install on another Barebones PC, but was fixed by installing package hplip.

[Bug 1797678] Re: Printing stops with Status as "Idle - Filter failed"

2018-10-13 Thread John Rose
I forgot to say that the printer is a networked Samsung SCX-4729FD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797678 Title: Printing stops with Status as "Idle - Filter failed" To manage

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-10-03 Thread John Rose
G, I've already attached screen prints of my Gmail list of folders in my Comments #9 & #22. Please clarify what you want. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215524 Title: Thunderbird

[Bug 1789095] Re: Computer locks even when Screen Lock off

2018-08-27 Thread John Rose
It's not a crash or a hang. It locks in terms of the screen being blank and the login password being required to unlock the screen. Also, I put this glitch down to the xorg package but I could be wrong. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1789101] Re: vlc does not play sound on mp4 files

2018-08-26 Thread John Rose
Solution found. Whilst playing the mp4 file in vlc: in Settings->Sound->Applications, check that 'VLC Media Player' is shown as 'On' and that the level is 'above zero' (i.e. somewhere on th right)". As soon as I modified the level to be 'above zero' sound played. This also corrected no sound

[Bug 1789101] [NEW] vlc does not play sound on mp4 files

2018-08-26 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: vlc 3.0.3 does not play sound for mp4 files (with audio as aac) on 4GB laptop upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. The laptop used to play sound for these files under 16.04 with (I think) vlc 2.2.2 But the laptop plays sound Ok for video played on web sites with either Chromium or

[Bug 1789095] [NEW] Computer locks even when Screen Lock off

2018-08-26 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: Computer locks after a few minutes even when Automatic Screen Lock turned off. I've also tried Screen Lock after e.g. 30 minutes. This happens on both a new install of 18.04 (on this computer) or after an upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 on another computer. ProblemType: Bug

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-20 Thread John Rose
Rest of gmail Server Settings attached. No Trash folder. Local Language (in Ubuntu & T'bird Spell Checker) is English Great Britain (GB)/ United Kingdom (UK). ** Attachment added: "gmailServerSettings 2.png"

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-20 Thread John Rose
Hi G, It was stupid of me to forget about the delay option. Screenshot attached. ** Attachment added: "gmailServerSettings.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1215524/+attachment/5178148/+files/gmailServerSettings.png -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1336366] Re: In Firefox, pdf files do not open

2018-08-20 Thread John Rose
I no longer use Firefox due to this and other problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336366 Title: In Firefox, pdf files do not open To manage notifications about this bug go to:

Re: [Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-20 Thread John Rose
Hi G, Not able to take screenshot showing drop down list as I as soon as I try to take a Screenshot (run by either clicking its icon in Favourites or by clicking the Show Apps icon and searching for Screenshot and pressing Enter) it removes the drop down list from the display and the .png file

[Bug 1787827] [NEW] Screen locks even though Screen Lock turned off

2018-08-19 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: New install of 18.04. Screen locks in a few minutes even though Screen Lock turned off in privacy tab of settings. I've tried setting Blank Screen to 15 minutes(in Power) but makes no difference. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: compiz (not installed)

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-18 Thread John Rose
Hi G, I have Ubuntu 16.04 with T'bird 52.9.1 on 2 PCs and Ubuntu 18.04 (clean installed) with T'bird 52.9.1 on the other. All have same problem. None of them have a Trash folder. All have a Deleted folder created by T'bird (i.e. not by me). Your statement about the settings is correct except that

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-17 Thread John Rose
I don't know about the "leave message on server" option. However, In Edit -> Account Settings -> -> Server Seetings, the option is set for "When I delete a message", "Move it to this folder" "Deleted on gmail". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-08-16 Thread John Rose
Hi G BTW I use IMAP not POP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215524 Title: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1168450] Re: Printing to USB Printer Hangs

2018-08-12 Thread John Rose
No longer a problem. Please close ticket. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168450 Title: Printing to USB Printer Hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1187710] Re: Sometimes garbage sent to printer

2018-08-12 Thread John Rose
No longer a problem. Please close ticket. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1187710 Title: Sometimes garbage sent to printer To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1096397] Re: Cannot add printer attached to another PC in network

2018-08-11 Thread John Rose
No longer a problem. Please close ticket. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096397 Title: Cannot add printer attached to another PC in network To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1766558] Re: Multiple Flashing Mouse Pointers

2018-07-30 Thread John Rose
Now happening on clean install of Bionic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1766558 Title: Multiple Flashing Mouse Pointers To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 528369] Re: Calibre windows do not show buttons at bottom

2018-07-28 Thread John Rose
Bug fixed. Please close ticket. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528369 Title: Calibre windows do not show buttons at bottom To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-07-07 Thread John Rose
Hi g, In my server settings, I do you have the "leave messages on server" box checked I'm reluctant to change that as sometimes: I delete a message by accident, or later I realise that I shouldn't have deleted it. When I do either of those deleted actions, that results in the message being

[Bug 1215524] Re: Thunderbird deletes messages rather than move them to Deleted

2018-07-06 Thread John Rose
This is still a problem on Thunderbird 52.8.0 64 bit.. I interrupted runningg "sudo apport-collect 1215524" after a minute because it didn't do anything in my browser (Chrome as I no longer use Firefox; it didn't launch Firefox either). Terminal output was: The authorization page:

[Bug 1766558] Re: Multiple Flashing Mouse Pointers

2018-05-14 Thread John Rose
This is now Ok without my having done anything except run Software Update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1766558 Title: Multiple Flashing Mouse Pointers To manage notifications

[Bug 1766983] Re: gpxviewer crashes from Unity and hangs from Terminal

2018-05-12 Thread John Rose
This is a regression bug i.e. gpxviewer used to work with the same Ubuntu version (16.04). So it's presumably been caused by a Ubuntu software update. So it should be an easy bug to fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1766983] [NEW] gpxviewer crashes from Unity and hangs from Terminal

2018-04-25 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: Ubuntu version is 16.04.4. gpxviewer is 0.5.2-1. Until approx a week ago gpxviewer worked fine when invoked from Unity Dash (as GPX Viewer) or by clicking a gpx file in Nautilus etc. Now it crashes. When I invoke it from Terminal, it hangs when I try to open a gpx file:

[Bug 1766558] [NEW] Multiple Flashing Mouse Pointers

2018-04-24 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: When I move the mouse, multiple flashing mouse pointers appear on the display. Sometimes they disappear in a few seconds and sometimes they stay for minutes or until I've moved the proper pointer to another app. This only happens when I'm using a USB SSD to boot and start

[Bug 1758070] Re: Switching users takes excessive time

2018-04-17 Thread John Rose
It's been almost a month since I posted this bug. It would be nice if someone looked at it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758070 Title: Switching users takes excessive time To

[Bug 1758070] Re: Switching users takes excessive time

2018-04-16 Thread John Rose
Over 3 weeks and nobody has posted a reply/comment/solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758070 Title: Switching users takes excessive time To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-23 Thread John Rose
The solution is too obvious! I looked at https://askubuntu.com/questions/638446/why-do-the-video-players-make-no- sound. There is a comment saying "Sound Settings -> Applications -> See If 'Videos' Is Muted". Volume was at zero for VLC Media Player when it was playing the mp3 file. As soon as I

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-23 Thread John Rose
I should have said that there was no sound even with Clementine or All Settings -> Sound -> Test Sound until I did "pulseaudio -k" command. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1755144

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-23 Thread John Rose
I've just tried reinstalling pulseaudio and currently installed related packages. These packages were: libpulse0, libpulsedsp, pulseaudio, pulseaudio-module-x11, pulseaudio-utils, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, libcanberra-pulse, libpulse-dev, libpulse-mainloop-glib0,

[Bug 1758070] [NEW] Switching users takes excessive time

2018-03-22 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: I'm not sure if this is the correct package on which to report this problem. Everything fine (took a few seconds) on switching users until a couple of days ago. Now it takes approx 30 econds to do so with lots of flashing on screen. Also, when user goes away from PC for a

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-22 Thread John Rose
There was no ~./asoundrc or ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf. I moved ~/.config/totem & ~/.config/vlc to another directory. I tried vlc & totem again: still no sound. I've compared the files in ~/.config/totem & ~/.config/vlc with those on other PC and much the same. I then tried to move the

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-22 Thread John Rose
I just checked vlc & totem audio for another user (i.e. login) on this PC and everything Ok. So what could be different about my user specifics as compared to another user? gstreamer1.0-libav is installed on all 3 PCs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-22 Thread John Rose
Another interesting point is that totem has no dependencies on packages with "ffmpeg" or "libav" as part of the package name. So what is common to totem & vlc that prevents audio working whereas it works on banshee & clementine? Comment #33 implies that the problem is not with ffmpeg as ffplay

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-21 Thread John Rose
Apologies. I forgot to attach the log. I'm so used to Thunderbird where it reminds you if you forget to make an attachment identified as needing one from the email. ** Attachment added: "vlc-ffplay Verbose Terminal.txt"

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-21 Thread John Rose
I ran the vlc & ffplay commands suggested above to give a log which is attached. Is "mpgatofixed32 audio converter error: libmad error: bad main_data_begin pointer" in the vlc significant as it's not in the ffplay log? ffmpeg version 3.2.6-1~backport1.1~xenial package is part of the get-iplayer

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-21 Thread John Rose
Another piece of information. Looking at the documentation for ffmpeg, it mentioned ffplay. So I tried that in Terminal (attached) and the sound was working. So what's so different between ffmpeg a& ffplay? BTW I reverted back to the get_iplayer ppa for ffmpeg as that ppa (using ffmpeg) works Ok

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-21 Thread John Rose
Here is something really interesting. mplayer (from CLI) plays mp3 Ok. mplayer has libav/ffmpeg dependencies of libavcodec-ffmpeg56, libavutil-ffmpeg & libavformat-ffmpeg56. vlc only has the first 2 of those packages as libav/ffmpeg dependencies. So my deduction is that this problem has nothing

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-21 Thread John Rose
I've now checked all the ffmpeg & libav packages against those on the PC on which sound works. They all match and I've done all the reinstalls again but still sound doesn't play for vlc on mp3 files. I can't think of anything to do next. I don't want to reinstall Ubuntu as that's a big job in

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-20 Thread John Rose
How did you work out to do sudo apt install --reinstall libavutil-ffmpeg54/xenial libavresample-ffmpeg2/xenial libavformat-ffmpeg56/xenial libavfilter-ffmpeg5/xenial libavdevice-ffmpeg56/xenial libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56/xenial libavcodec-extra/xenial as per comment #19? i.e. how did you

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-20 Thread John Rose
Yes you're correct in that I meant totem (not vlc) when I was referring to playing a video file after "sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-libav". When you say a complete reinstall, do you mean a complete reinstall of Ubuntu? Isn't there a way of removing ffmpeg packages and reinstalling them? -- You

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-20 Thread John Rose
I've tried mp3, ogg, wav and aac: all fail to make audio work. Screen shot of vlc->Tools->Preferences->Audio attached. This command does NOT make audio work in Totem for an mp4 video file? sudo apt remove gstreamer1.0-libav It actually caused vlc to say that it needed the gstreamer1.0-libav

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-19 Thread John Rose
BTW I've also checked the versions (in Synaptic) for ffmpeg, gstreamer, libav packages. The installed & latest versions all match. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1755144 Title: No

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-19 Thread John Rose
Just tried above forced reinstalls. Still vlc won't audibly play mp3 files. all.txt (output of all packages) attached. ** Attachment added: "all.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1755144/+attachment/5083909/+files/all.txt -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-19 Thread John Rose
I thought that I'd just mention another bug 1753385 (for Sound Converter) now as I didn't think that it was relevant to this bug until now. Sound Converter (which I use occasionally, mostly for converting wav files to mp3 files) stopped working on this barebones PC approx a week ago. In fact I

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-16 Thread John Rose
Done the downgrade (all.txt attached showing downgrade 3.7 successful. Tried vlc with mp3 files again and still doesn't work. ** Attachment added: "all.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1755144/+attachment/5081080/+files/all.txt -- You received this bug

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-16 Thread John Rose
The purge & reboot made no difference. For the last instruction, did you mean to install ALL the approx 30 deb files? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1755144 Title: No audio on vlc or

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-16 Thread John Rose
I've done all the above previously and have done all the above just now. Still no audio on this PC for mp3 files using vlc, but audio Ok on other very similar (both barebones Intel with same memory) PC with same software (i.e. Ubuntu 16.04, vlc). Other (new) PC had recent install from 16.04.3 and

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-15 Thread John Rose
all.txt attached as requested. ** Attachment added: "all.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1755144/+attachment/5080156/+files/all.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-15 Thread John Rose
The above packages are in (and only in) https://launchpad.net/~jon- hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer. That ppa also uses other libav type packages. I use that ppa in order to use get_iplayer app as the BBC keep changing iPlayer re their servers for it. I used y-ppa-manager (from

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-14 Thread John Rose
I did the "sudo dpkg -i *,deb" after cd to the directory containing the downloaded 3.7 pulseaudio deb files. All installed with warnings about downgrading from 3.8 to 3.7. However, there was now a No Entry sign on the 'systray'. So I ran Synaptic and there were 3 'missing' packages, namely:

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-13 Thread John Rose
I just wanted to check the best method of uninstalling the existing corresponding packages & installing these downloaded packages without having dependency problems. I'm not a Sysadmin so I don't know the best method. The reason I ask is that when I try using Synaptic to do the uninstall I get

[Bug 1755144] Re: No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-13 Thread John Rose
I checked out your suggestion of "System Settings > Sound > Applications and verify (while running) that the problematic applications aren't muted or have different volume": check was Ok. I'll try the reverting to previous pulseaudio suggestion later. I have a question. This PC doesn't play an

[Bug 1755144] [NEW] No audio on vlc or videos sound or video files

2018-03-12 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: Up until a few weeks ago there was no problem with playing sound from mp3 files. I have a pair of usb speakers. Audio plays Ok on them for video clips using Chrome (e.g. from BBC website). Using vlc 2.2.2 (from Ubuntu repos), neither a CD nor DVD (video is Ok) nor mp3 file

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-12 Thread John Rose
BTW sound doesn't play when using my monitor's built in speakers connected by hdmi (though the monitor then displays Ok). Sound plays Ok when using Clementine to play music. So problem looks like it might be Pulseaudio. If so, what package should I find/report a bug on? -- You received this

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-08 Thread John Rose
I should have said that I muted the Builtin Audio Interface. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752267 Title: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will To manage

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-08 Thread John Rose
I installed & ran pavucontrol: screenshot attached. I've set the Builtin Audio Interface. The USB Audio Device Analogue Stereo is the USB Speakers. vlc has a dot to the left of USB Audio Device Analogue Stereo. But vlc still does not have the sound audible when playing an mp3 file. ** Attachment

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-07 Thread John Rose
Interestingly, he standard Videos app (Totem?) also doesn't play sound on these speakers either of an mp4 file (downloaded from YouTube though it plays Ok on YouTube website using Chrome) or a DVD. What do vlc & Totem have in common re playing sound whether from sound files or DVDs? -- You

[Bug 1753385] Re: Sound Converter hangs on conversion ffrom wav to mp3

2018-03-07 Thread John Rose
I've adapted another person's shell script to do what I want Sound Converter to do, namely convert all the .wav files in a directory to .mp3 files placed in another directory. Script is attached. ** Attachment added: "wav2mp3.sh"

[Bug 1753385] [NEW] Sound Converter hangs on conversion ffrom wav to mp3

2018-03-04 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: Sound Converter used to work approx a week ago. Now it hangs on conversion from wav to mp3, whether it's of a folder of files or individual file(s). It now hangs. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: soundconverter 3.0.0~alpha1+git20151209-1

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-03 Thread John Rose
Just tried vlc 3.0 snap. It also failed to play audio. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752267 Title: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will To manage

[Bug 1752267] Re: vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-03-01 Thread John Rose
"vlc -vvv" terminal output attached. www.videolan.org does not provide vlc 3.0. I am using Xenial which provides vlc 2.2. And I do not want to upgrade Ubuntu to a STS version just to run a newer version of vlc. ** Attachment added: "vlc -vvv output"

[Bug 1752267] [NEW] vlc won't play audio on usb speakers even though chrome will

2018-02-28 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: I have a pair of usb speakers. Audio plays Ok on them for video clips using Chrome (e.g. from BBC website). Using vlc 2.2.2 (from Ubuntu repos), neither a CD nor DVD (video is Ok) nor .mp3 file plays audio. .mp3 files play Ok using Rhythmbox. So problem must be with vlc.

[Bug 1751282] Re: tasksel fails exiting to prompt

2018-02-24 Thread John Rose
Apologies. Not a bug. Pressing Space bar or t key causes selection of appropriate group of packages by marking with *. Pressing Tab key then causes Ok to be highlighted. Pressing Enter key then causes installation of marked (with *) group(s) of packages. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1751282] [NEW] tasksel fails exiting to prompt

2018-02-23 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: When running tasksel using sudo in Terminal, it returns a prompt without doing anything when selecting Lamp Server. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: tasksel 3.34ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-116.140-generic 4.4.98 Uname: Linux

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-17 Thread John Rose
Can you make a cups-filters-core-drivers version 1.13.0-2 package for 16.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723593 Title: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print To manage

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-17 Thread John Rose
I forgot to mention that I tried to use the driverless ppd generator utility program (as detailed in http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/man1/driverless.1.html) in order to generate an appropriate ppd file. However, the program is not available in Ubuntu 16.04 as it's part of the

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-17 Thread John Rose
I have looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes#Driverless_Printing For http://localhost:6/ and http://localhost:60001/, I get "Site can't be reached. So I tried http://localhost:631/ which allowed me to get into the Printer Modify for the HP 2540 printer. However,there is

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-17 Thread John Rose
Output of lpstat commands: john@Desktop:~$ lpstat -o HP-Deskjet-2540-series-1691 john 48128 Tue 17 Oct 2017 06:42:47 BST john@Desktop:~$ lpstat -p printer HP-Deskjet-2540-series now printing HP-Deskjet-2540-series-1691. enabled since Tue 17 Oct 2017 06:42:47 BST Processing

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-16 Thread John Rose
CUPS Error Log attached. ** Attachment added: "error_log.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/1723593/+attachment/4972944/+files/error_log.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1723593] Re: HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-16 Thread John Rose
USB Printer instructions output contained in USB.tar.gz attached: 2. lsmod.txt 3. tail.txt 6. lsusb.txt 7. ls.txt 8. sudo.txt & hp-info.txt 9. hp-makeuri.txt 10. lpinfo.txt ** Attachment added: "USB.tar.gz"

[Bug 1723593] [NEW] HP2540 Printer installs Ok but does not print

2017-10-14 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: HP2540 All In One printer printed under Ubuntu 14.04. But does not print under Ubuntu 16.04. Have tried removing and installing printer without success. Tried installing hplip 3.16.3 package. Printer found Ok but did nothing when I tried to print test page. Printer Properties

[Bug 1669427] Re: Cannot open audio files in toc.bin

2017-03-02 Thread John Rose
I forgot that I'd copied the .toc & .bin files to another directory. I then used the .toc file in that directory as the Image file to Brasero. Silly me! What confused me was the default creation of a .toc file where Brasero used to create a .cue file by default. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1669427] [NEW] Cannot open audio files in toc.bin

2017-03-02 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: I created a .toc and toc.bin from a cd using Brasero. I noted that Brasero used to create a .cue and .bin: I last did this on 19 January 2017. When I try to copy the created .toc, Brasero finds it Ok but then says that it cannot open each of the audio files in the .toc.bin:

Re: [Bug 1665408] Re: winecfg does not work on 32 bit wine directory

2017-02-17 Thread John Rose
Yes. John On 17/02/17 14:16, jre wrote: > Did you use exactly the same command at that time? > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665408 Title: winecfg does not work on 32 bit wine

Re: [Bug 1665408] Re: winecfg does not work on 32 bit wine directory

2017-02-17 Thread John Rose
No problem with your suggestion. However, 2 hours later it did the same again! John On 16/02/17 18:13, jre wrote: > With these commands you were still using ~/.wine. You have to either export > WINEPREFIX or specify it for every command. > Further I think I've seen Wine complaining about "~"

[Bug 1665408] [NEW] winecfg does not work on 32 bit wine directory

2017-02-16 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: On standard 64 bit wine directory, winecfg works OK: WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg After creating 32 bit wine directory, winecfg fails: john@NewDesktop:~$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine wineboot wine: created the configuration directory

[Bug 1664283] [NEW] Unkown parameter warnings in system-config-samba

2017-02-13 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: gksu system-config-samba gives various warnings: user Unknown parameter encountered does not exist in the passdb user Ignoring unknown parameter password does not exist in the passdb user Unknown parameter encountered does not exist in the passdb Unknown parameter

[Bug 1664276] [NEW] system-config-samba crashes as can't find /etc/libuser.conf

2017-02-13 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: john@NewDesktop:~$ sudo system-config-samba [sudo] password for john: (system-config-samba:23200): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/john/.config/ibus/bus is not root! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/system-config-samba", line 45, in

[Bug 1654976] [NEW] Crashes

2017-01-09 Thread John Rose
Public bug reported: When trying to run from Ubuntu 64 bit Xenial, it crashes. When running in Terminal: john@NewDesktop:~$ gpxviewer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gpxviewer", line 28, in from gi.repository import Gdk ImportError: No module named gi.repository

[Bug 1574300] Re: Could not load 'vboxdrv' after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04

2016-11-17 Thread John Rose
Nothing worked in http: //askubuntu.com/questions/760671/could-not-load-vboxdrv-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-16-04-and-i-want-to-keep-secur In my BIOS, there is no mention of "Enable support for legacy ...". So I disabled secure boot (in the BIOS) & rebooted. Mow "Sudo modprobe vboxdrv" works and so

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