[Bug 1871268] Re: Installation fails when "Install Third-Party Drivers" is selected

2020-10-04 Thread Jon Brase
I have encountered this issue trying a fresh install of Kubuntu 20.04.1. The entire reason that I tried a fresh install is that trying to upgrade my existing system from Ubuntu Mate 18.04 to 20.04 resulted in the upgrade finishing with errors and leaving my system in an unusable state

[Bug 1871268] Re: Installation fails when "Install Third-Party Drivers" is selected

2020-10-04 Thread Jon Brase
** Attachment added: "The attachment for my comment above does not seem to have taken. This is /var/log/syslog for a failed ground-up Kubuntu 20.04 installation" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1871268/+attachment/5417422/+files/syslog -- You received this bug

[Bug 1897339] [NEW] Documentation missing for "ip tuntap"

2020-09-25 Thread Jon Brase
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 18.04.5 iproute2 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.2 iproute2-doc 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.2 Most of the subcommands for /sbin/ip are documented in a manpage with a name of the form "ip-$SUBCOMMAND(8)", for example "ip address" is documented at "ip-address(8)". However, ip tuntap seems to

[Bug 1511875] Re: Can't upgrade from 15.10 Wily to 16.04 Xenial in LXC container

2017-02-04 Thread Jon Brase
As an update to my comment above, while the release upgrader hung and did not finish the upgrade, it *did* disable all my ppa's and switch over to the Xenial repositories, which ended up leaving my system broken next time I tried pulling in updates (thinking the upgrade had failed completely and

[Bug 1511875] Re: Can't upgrade from 15.10 Wily to 16.04 Xenial in LXC container

2016-11-29 Thread Jon Brase
I'm running into the same thing trying to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. After Googling around about the issue, this link at first looked like a promising lead, as I'm running into this on Haswell hardware and I have Core2 hardware that was unaffected:

[Bug 965510] Re: option --new-window not working correctly

2013-03-07 Thread Jon Brase
Is there any chance of this being fixed in Precise? Looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#When , it's not really a severe regression (2nd bullet point), but I believe it qualifies for Obviously safe patch and Affects an application (4th bullet point). -- You received this bug

[Bug 410548] Re: when i boot in to win me It thinks I have a virus in mbr

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Brase
I've recently run into this problem. From my own experience, and looking around on the net, the cause seems to be that something in the handling of chainloading or drive mapping has changed since grub-legacy, and Windows 95/98/ME thinks that it was booted from the MBR of a drive with grub on it

[Bug 919736] [NEW] Mounting a loop device causes the wrong loop device to be mounted.

2012-01-21 Thread Jon Brase
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS util-linux 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.04.2 There may be other packages involved in this bug than util-linux: This bug has only affected me for a few days, whereas Synaptic reports the last update to util-linux / mount to have been about a year ago (January 20th

[Bug 919736] Re: Mounting a loop device causes the wrong loop device to be mounted.

2012-01-21 Thread Jon Brase
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[Bug 726283] Re: umount segfaults with inconsistent entry in /etc/fstab

2012-01-21 Thread Jon Brase
I can reproduce this bug in Lucid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/726283 Title: umount segfaults with inconsistent entry in /etc/fstab To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 919736] Re: Mounting a loop device causes the wrong loop device to be mounted.

2012-01-21 Thread Jon Brase
Oops. Just realized that the problem was do to the inclusion of loop,user,noauto rather than user,noauto in my fstab entries. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919736 Title: Mounting a

[Bug 913029] Re: su segfaults when Ctrl-D is entered as the first charachter in response to the password prompt

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Brase
OK, yeah, I recently installed a fingerprint reader package (from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui) , and I recall that a PAM module was involved. And /var/log/syslog records a segfault in a *.so associated with that package. -- You received this bug

[Bug 913029] [NEW] su segfaults when Ctrl-D is entered as the first charachter in response to the password prompt

2012-01-06 Thread Jon Brase
Public bug reported: 64 bit Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS login version 1:4.1.4.2-1ubuntu2.2 Steps to reproduce: 1. Invoke su. (What options and username are given, if any, doesn't seem to matter). 2. When prompted for a password, hit Ctrl-D without typing any other characters first. Expected results:

[Bug 913029] Re: su segfaults when Ctrl-D is entered as the first charachter in response to the password prompt

2012-01-06 Thread Jon Brase
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913029 Title: su segfaults when Ctrl-D is entered as the first charachter in response to the password prompt To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Brase
@ Tal Liron In their rush to hate on Unity, people are forgetting how keyboard-centric Unity is. Not me. For me, the fact that that keyboard centrism comes at the cost of huge regressions in mouse-centric usability is what kills it for me (that and some configurability issues, but many of those

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Jon Brase
@Mark Shuttleworth: Nonsense, again. Ubuntu has *always* aimed for usability, always gone the extra mile to make it easy to install and easy to embrace and easy to share Linux. I don't think it's cool to be too cool for that mission, but if you are in fact too cool for that mission, please

[Bug 843333] [NEW] Rhythmbox delivers a misleading error message on encountering a corrupted ogg.

2011-09-06 Thread Jon Brase
Public bug reported: In my ~/Music folder I have a corrupted copy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I.S.Bach-BWV578.ogg Naturally, Rhythmbox will often stop playing this file when in reaches the corrupt data (though exactly where it stops and if it stops is inconsistent). The problem is that

[Bug 843333] Re: Rhythmbox delivers a misleading error message on encountering a corrupted ogg.

2011-09-06 Thread Jon Brase
** Attachment added: The corrupted file. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84/+attachment/2364026/+files/I.S.Bach-BWV578.ogg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84 Title:

[Bug 75151] Re: Refuses to open files where the character encoding is not recognised

2011-02-20 Thread Jon Brase
The thing is, this probably isn't actually a bug, but rather a misfeature, and the it's not a bug, it's a feature mentality is probably responsible for the fact that it has gone unfixed so long. I see no evidence that the behavior gedit exhibits here wasn't intended. If it *were* a bug, it would