[Bug 1966580] Re: Erroneously huge mouse pointer with snap-packaged firefox in jammy

2022-06-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Laptop: HP Spectre x360 Convertible 14-ea0xxx Graphics: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] Resolution: 3000x2000 Mostly uncustomized out-of-the-box Ubuntu, the one notable choice being to use the gnome-xorg session type (declining to use the Ubuntu customisations to gnome-session,

[Bug 1966580] Re: Erroneously huge mouse pointer with snap-packaged firefox in jammy

2022-05-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Sorry, I am opposed to Canonical forcing snap on Ubuntu users and do not wish to spend my personal time on supporting that. I'll just use a non-snap distribution mechanism instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1966580] [NEW] Erroneously huge mouse pointer with snap-packaged firefox in jammy

2022-03-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: I just upgraded to jammy, and the mouse cursor now becomes comically huge whilst it's over a Firefox window. I suspect this might be something to do with this being a HiDPI laptop. I'm also fairly upset about the overcomplicated - and apparently broken - snaps being

[Bug 1959970] Re: Microphone-mute LED regression with 5.13.0-28 kernel update

2022-02-06 Thread Max Bowsher
No, the mic-mute keyboard key does not work - neither with the old (-27) or new (-28) kernel. My mention of bug 1955691 is based upon having tested by rolling back to the -27 kernel and seeing the mic-mute LED stay off, rolling forward to the -28 kernel and seeing it illuminate at boot again,

[Bug 1955691] Re: audio mute/ mic mute are not working on a HP machine

2022-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
I've reported a related regression in bug 1959970 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955691 Title: audio mute/ mic mute are not working on a HP machine To manage notifications about

[Bug 1959970] [NEW] Microphone-mute LED regression with 5.13.0-28 kernel update

2022-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: The bug 1955691 kernel update introduces undesirable behaviour on the HP Spectre x360 - the mic-mute LED is now lit at system startup, even though the microphone is NOT MUTED. This is undesirable because it is giving the user incorrect information; and also because the LED

[Bug 1916541] Re: smtp "fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp", probably after libc upgrade

2021-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
I've just been bitten by this. It seems this was broken by https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=429029a73ec2dba7f808f69ec8b9e3d84e13e804 and it has recently been realised that was a bad idea:

[Bug 1916314] Re: HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
(It took 30 seconds on the next boot) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title: HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot To

[Bug 1916314] Re: HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
In the apport-collected CurrentDmesg.txt, the keyboard is detected at: [ 11.664651] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input44 That's sooner than it usually takes! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1916314] acpidump.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "acpidump.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468228/+files/acpidump.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1916314] WifiSyslog.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468227/+files/WifiSyslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] UdevDb.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468226/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title:

[Bug 1916314] RfKill.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "RfKill.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468225/+files/RfKill.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title:

[Bug 1916314] PulseList.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "PulseList.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468224/+files/PulseList.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] ProcModules.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468223/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] ProcInterrupts.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468222/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1916314] ProcEnviron.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468221/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468220/+files/ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1916314] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468219/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] PaInfo.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "PaInfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468218/+files/PaInfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title:

[Bug 1916314] Lsusb-v.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb-v.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468217/+files/Lsusb-v.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title:

[Bug 1916314] Lsusb-t.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb-t.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468216/+files/Lsusb-t.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title:

[Bug 1916314] Lsusb.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468215/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title: HP

[Bug 1916314] Lspci-vt.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci-vt.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468214/+files/Lspci-vt.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] Lspci.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468213/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title: HP

[Bug 1916314] IwConfig.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "IwConfig.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468212/+files/IwConfig.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314

[Bug 1916314] CurrentDmesg.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468211/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1916314] CRDA.txt

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Attachment added: "CRDA.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314/+attachment/5468210/+files/CRDA.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916314 Title: HP

[Bug 1916314] Re: HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected groovy ** Description changed: On the HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx (Tiger Lake), the keyboard is inoperable for ~30-60 seconds after system boot. Kernel logging reveals that it did not detect the keyboard during this time. An

[Bug 1916314] Re: HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot

2021-02-27 Thread Max Bowsher
> Have you compiled kernel with that patch? No, I haven't. The workaround of setting i8042.nopnp is satisfactory for me, and the patch creator has done a thorough write up of the problem. My objective in filing this bug is to raise awareness that the current version of Ubuntu has this problem -

[Bug 1916314] [NEW] HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx Tiger Lake Keyboard does not work until ~30-60 seconds after boot

2021-02-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: On the HP Spectre x360 14-ea0xxx (Tiger Lake), the keyboard is inoperable for ~30-60 seconds after system boot. Kernel logging reveals that it did not detect the keyboard during this time. An analysis of this and a patch can be found at:

[Bug 1914881] Re: No sound from internal speakers HP Spectre x360 Convertible 14-ea0xxx, Realtek ALC245,

2021-02-19 Thread Max Bowsher
I also have this exact model of laptop. I have installed kernel 5.11 from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v5.11/ Following a cold boot to Ubuntu, sound can be made to work via the workaround GPIO commands detailed in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210633#c13 The

[Bug 1765911] Re: Major performance regression from Ubuntu 17.10 with i915

2018-05-06 Thread Max Bowsher
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765911 Title: Major performance regression from Ubuntu 17.10 with i915 To

[Bug 1765911] Re: Major performance regression from Ubuntu 17.10 with i915

2018-05-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Similar/same issue observed on HP Spectre 13 (2017 model) which has exactly the same Intel HD 520 graphics. Bad enough that I had to reinstall 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1762261] [NEW] Bug in Ubuntu patch for synaptics support prevents me configuring my touchpad same as previous Ubuntu releases

2018-04-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Touchpad handling appears to have been refactored somewhat in bionic - which led to the surprise of having my settings changed on upgrade but even when I tracked down the new gsettings property of org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method, it fails to behave as

[Bug 1704799] Re: iwlwifi: 8260: missing iwlwifi-8000C-{22..30}.ucode firmware

2018-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
It is expected that the -22.ucode file is missing because it was deliberately removed per https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel- team/2017-July/085667.html The -27.ucode file was added in linux-firmware 1.165 and updated in 1.168 None of the other versions were ever released by Intel

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2018-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Adding linux-firmware as an affected package - on further investigation, it turns out that the real problem here appears to be firmware incompatibility between the Wifi and Bluetooth parts of the 8260 package. Relevant bug in Kernel bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197807

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2018-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719210 Title: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2018-01-15 Thread Max Bowsher
The exact manifestation of this seems to have changed (now the gnome settings UI claims that my hardware doesn't have bluetooth support at all - despite CLI bluetoothctl still being aware of it) but the basic issue still very much remains: 4.13 from artful => bluetooth inoperable; 4.10 from zesty

[Bug 1722109] Re: iwlwifi regression in artful - intermittent total packet loss

2017-10-10 Thread Max Bowsher
It is not possible to test the latest upstream kernel. It appears to introduce further problems apparently related to apparmor which prevent dhclient running, preventing a wifi connection from being successful at all, as well as apparently causing display flickering, which is barely perceptible at

[Bug 1722109] Re: iwlwifi regression in artful - intermittent total packet loss

2017-10-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Unfortunately as the issue is intermittent, it is difficult to pinpoint a starting version exactly, but here's my best attempt: Ubuntu zesty 4.10 series: definitely not affected Ubuntu artful 4.12 kernels: problem not observed, though other iwlwifi issues (bug 1719210) observed - probably not

[Bug 1722109] [NEW] iwlwifi regression in artful - intermittent total packet loss

2017-10-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Recently I have been experiencing intermitted total packet loss over wifi. I've already been looking at another issue in which Bluetooth coexistence seems to be causing controller hardware to crash - bug 1719210 - so I'm rather suspicious of the updated iwlwifi microcode

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-10-08 Thread Max Bowsher
I also seem to now be having Bluetooth-unrelated issues with iwlwifi, filed in bug 1722109 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719210 Title: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-10-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Confirming this is very much *not* fixed - the last linux-firmware upload doesn't seem to have touched anything iwlwifi-related at all: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/339888041/linux- firmware_1.168_1.169.diff.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
OK, I think I finally found the real trigger, helped by John Tanner's comment and Googling the bt_coex_active option. It's trying to simultaneously use bluetooth and a *2.4GHz* wifi network. Trying that on my hardware results in lots of iwlwifi kernel logging reporting that the device microcode

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Or so I thought :-(I got set up for bisecting again, and now I can't reproduce the problem at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719210 Title: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Hmm... empirically, I seem to have discovered a factor related to why this sometimes works and sometimes does not with 4.13 - for me, the bug only occurs if my laptop is booted *without* AC power applied. Which makes no sense. But seems to be happening anyway. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-09-28 Thread Max Bowsher
I am seriously confused. As requested, I tested out a 4.14-rc - actually, I tested -rc2 since that had come out - and the problem was present - audio playback would freeze after around 40-50 seconds. Then I went back to various 4.13 versions and attempted to get the start of a bisection going -

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-09-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Mainline ppa 4.12.14 is working OK -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1719210 Title: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful To

[Bug 1719210] Re: Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-09-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Lack of functionality also a problem in mainline-ppa 4.13.3 version. The following messages are logged to the journal: Sep 24 21:44:05 spectre bluetoothd[826]: Unable to get Headset Voice gateway SDP record: Connection timed out Sep 24 21:44:46 spectre bluetoothd[826]: connect error: Connection

[Bug 1719210] [NEW] Bluetooth audio to A2DP headset no longer works following upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 in artful

2017-09-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Using artful kernel 4.12.0-13.14, Bluetooth audio works great. Upgrading to artful kernel 4.13.0-11.12, there are severe Bluetooth audio issues which have manifested in a variety of weird ways: 1) Playback would stall after 10-20 seconds 2) Upon removing the device and

[Bug 1714301] Re: systemd-networkd hangs my boot (wireless)

2017-09-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Still a problem in artful upgraded from zesty right now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714301 Title: systemd-networkd hangs my boot (wireless) To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1716801] [NEW] Spurious creation of /stub-resolv.conf symlink

2017-09-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Code in /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service seeks to populate /etc/resolv.conf if it is empty: ExecStartPre=-+/bin/sh -c '[ ! -s /etc/resolv.conf ] && ln -snf ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf' However the code is just wrong, and writes a symlink to

[Bug 1676082] [NEW] Inactive terminator tabs have a 100% transparent background (which looks very broken)

2017-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: In Zesty, inactive Terminator tabs now have a transparent background, which makes the app look pretty broken. It appears there's a default of full transparency configured in the CSS in the code, which isn't being overridden for everything which actually *needs* to not be

[Bug 1629138] Re: Unity launcher doesn't recognize gnome-terminal processes as connected with launcher

2016-09-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Additionally, if I hover over the gnome-terminal title bar to show the menus, the application menu is titled "Unknown Application Name". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629138 Title:

[Bug 1629138] [NEW] Unity launcher doesn't recognize gnome-terminal processes as connected with launcher

2016-09-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: On current yakkety: * Open the dash * Search for the Terminal application (gnome-terminal) * Drag-drop it to the launcher * Click the newly added application launcher Observe that a gnome-terminal window opens, but rather than the application launcher having a steady

[Bug 1624369] Re: Please sync mozc 2.18.2595.102+dfsg-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

2016-09-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Concerning this update... ibus-mozc seems to have stopped displaying its suggestions window on upgrading to yakkety, which is a rather major fault. Upgrading to a local build of this version restores it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1626932] [NEW] cyrus-admin installs broken symlinks to sieveshell and installsieve

2016-09-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: maxb@altimeter:~$ ls -lA /usr/bin/sieveshell lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 25 13:19 /usr/bin/sieveshell -> ../sbin/cyrus maxb@altimeter:~$ ls -lA /usr/sbin/sieveshell ls: cannot access '/usr/sbin/sieveshell': No such file or directory maxb@altimeter:~$ ls -lA

[Bug 1438510] Re: [REGRESSION] bluetooth headset no longer supports a2dp

2016-07-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Acting on Cyril's suggestion above, I downloaded the Debian 8.0-2 source package, rebuilt it locally, and installed it. It seems to have fixed the problem for me. So perhaps the problem really is in the Ubuntu delta? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1603436] [NEW] Regression in python2.7 SRU breaks python-cassandra

2016-07-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: "SRU: backport python 2.7.12 to 16.04 LTS" (bug 1591895) has caused a regression in (at least) python-cassandra. Any attempt to connect to a cluster fails due to: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cassandra/cluster.py", line 1894, in

[Bug 1438510] Re: [REGRESSION] bluetooth headset no longer supports a2dp

2016-04-25 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm not sure if this helps, but I see pulseaudio logging an "Operation Not Authorized" message when things do not work: Apr 26 01:46:52 zenbook pulseaudio[3346]: [pulseaudio] module-bluez5-device.c: Acquiring transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_20_74_CF_02_DB_F2/fd0 Apr 26 01:46:52 zenbook

[Bug 1562358] Re: python-googleapi is incompatible with oauth2client >= 2.x

2016-04-23 Thread Max Bowsher
This is fairly serious, as python-googleapi in Xenial is unusable as a result. Since updating Xenial to an new upstream version is unlikely to be approved post-release, please see this upstream Git commit for the one- line fix to this problem: https://github.com/google/google-api-python-

[Bug 774487] Re: Totem/VLC etc. goes to background when full-screen and out of focus

2015-05-23 Thread Max Bowsher
** Summary changed: - Totem goes to background when full-screen and out of focus + Totem/VLC etc. goes to background when full-screen and out of focus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 774487] Re: Totem/VLC etc. goes to background when full-screen and out of focus

2015-05-23 Thread Max Bowsher
I see this with VLC too, so it's probably with any fullscreen app. However, at least on 15.04, ticking the 'Always on top' option via the right-click titlebar menu of the video window is an effective workaround. This seems to suggest it ought to be easy to fix? It's clear Unity can draw things

[Bug 1451572] [NEW] 'SMART error (FailedOpenDevice) detected' emails now being sent to root after removing a USB portable hard drive

2015-05-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Since upgrading from trusty to vivid, it appears that smartd has started sending 'SMART error (FailedOpenDevice) detected' alert emails each time a USB external hard drive is attached and then removed (subject to it being attached long enough to be caught by smartd's polling

[Bug 1451572] [NEW] 'SMART error (FailedOpenDevice) detected' emails now being sent to root after removing a USB portable hard drive

2015-05-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Since upgrading from trusty to vivid, it appears that smartd has started sending 'SMART error (FailedOpenDevice) detected' alert emails each time a USB external hard drive is attached and then removed (subject to it being attached long enough to be caught by smartd's polling

[Bug 1445947] [NEW] 'pip3 list' throws AssertionError

2015-04-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: The command 'pip3 list' is broken on vivid: maxb@altimeter:~$ pip3 list [snip] Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py, line 122, in main status = self.run(options, args) File

[Bug 1397694] Re: System lockups with utopic kernel

2014-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
No, I have no Thunderbolt hardware in this computer, nor will any ever be installed. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17.4-vivid/ has so far been successfully running for an uptime of 2 days. So far so good, though I didn't always experience a crash within this time on the utopic

[Bug 1397694] Re: System lockups with utopic kernel

2014-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
I've just looked back through my /var/log/kern.log and I've noticed something strange - I can't tell for certain which reboots are due to a system lockup (since /var/log/syslog has rotated away too much, so I can't look for rsyslogd shutting down to identify a clean reboot), but it looks very much

[Bug 1397694] Re: System lockups with utopic kernel

2014-12-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Dell's release notes for this BIOS update state We do not recommend you to upgrade to A10 BIOS if your system doesn't support Thunderbolt hardware. I decline to install a BIOS update that the manufacture recommends against. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1397694] [NEW] System lockups with utopic kernel

2014-11-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to utopic, I've been experiencing occasional system lockups - when this occurs, nothing at all is responsive including the mouse pointer and Alt-SysRq combinations. Lockups only occur infrequently - perhaps once every day or two days - so testing this is

[Bug 1382975] [NEW] utopic upgrade failure: postrm: extlinux-update: not found

2014-10-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: My trusty-utopic upgrade failed due to: Removing syslinux-themes-debian (12-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: 15: /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: extlinux-update: not found dpkg: error processing package syslinux-themes-debian

[Bug 1347834] Re: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'e' referenced before assignment in doUpdate, line 924

2014-10-18 Thread Max Bowsher
This appears to be a coding error. If you look at the file and line referenced, you see the local variable 'e' being referenced, but it is not in scope there. It looks like the code is expecting the captured exception variable from a previously exited 'except' block to still be in scope after the

[Bug 1347834] Re: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'e' referenced before assignment in doUpdate, line 924

2014-10-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Further note on reproducability: The bug is only directly visible if the previous loop attempting multiple retries to update the APT cache fails on all attempts. One way to make this happen is to have a third party PPA in sources.list which doesn't have anything published for utopic, and have

[Bug 855921] Re: does not honor netcfg/choose_interface in preseed

2014-08-23 Thread Max Bowsher
ooshlablu is correct. You cannot preseed network settings in a preseed file which the installer is loading from a network location, because the network needs to be configured before the preseed can be fetched. The solution here is to pass the appropriate options on the kernel command line. You

[Bug 1340734] [NEW] oem-config missing from installed system after OEM mode setup using EFI boot

2014-07-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Scenario: d-i EFI netboot with oem-config/enable=true Problem: After the install completes and reboots into the OEM configuration temporary user, there is no icon on the desktop to invoke oem-config-prepare - indeed, oem-config is not even installed. Cause: oem-config-udeb

[Bug 1302971] [NEW] Doesn't support ID3 v2.4

2014-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Program appears to not support ID3 format version 2.4 - it reports no tags present when run on such a file ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: id3v2 0.1.12-2.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-20.42-generic 3.13.7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-20-generic x86_64

[Bug 1289597] Re: bash: words: bad array subscript

2014-03-09 Thread Max Bowsher
** Branch linked: lp:~j/bash-completion/bug1289597 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289597 Title: bash: words: bad array subscript To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1289303] [NEW] Breaks completion of file paths beginning with ~/

2014-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: On trusty, with bash-completion installed, I can't tab-complete paths to files beginning with ~/ Only directories are offered as completion candidates. This completion works correctly when the bash-completion package is purged, reverting to basic built-in completion.

[Bug 1289317] [NEW] New windows open at random small sizes

2014-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Open several terminator windows by repeatedly pressing Ctrl+Shift+I For me, they open at a seemingly random variety of different sizes, e.g.: 79x21 78x20 76x18 77x19 76x18 The size should be: 1) Constant 2) Based on a standard 80 character width ProblemType: Bug

[Bug 1289180] [NEW] Zoom dropdown is broken

2014-03-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Recently, within trusty, evince has broken so that the zoom selector in the top right of the window is inoperable. Clicking its dropdown arrow does not cause any UI to open. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature:

[Bug 1282203] Re: gnome-terminal not respecting Enable menu access keys setting, inside the Unity desktop environment.

2014-03-05 Thread Max Bowsher
I observe that the menu access keys are correctly disabled if UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 is set in the environment, disabling the global menu to revert to menu bar drawn within the gnome-terminal window. Therefore, I've marked the bug as also affecting unity, as it seems highly likely that at least some

[Bug 1286488] [NEW] Installs special EGL implementation breaking, e.g. totem

2014-03-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: I installed android-tools-adbd, and was surprised when totem stopped working. It turns out that libhybris installs its own implementation of the alternative /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf at a higher priority than the one from mesa, but the libhybris one is

[Bug 1185838] Re: Mouse pointer corruption, radeon, dual-head

2013-06-14 Thread Max Bowsher
I have just experienced the same manner of pointer corruption using the upstream 3.10-rc5 kernel ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1185838] Re: Mouse pointer corruption, radeon, dual-head

2013-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
I have spent some time trying to better quantify how often the problem reproduces in daily use with the raring kernel, and ironically I only experienced the problem a couple of times in a week now that I'm actually trying to reproduce it. I have now switched to the 3.10-rc5 mainline build, and

[Bug 1188036] [NEW] debian-keyring is a rather heavyweight Recommends for ubuntu-dev-tools, perhaps demote to Suggests?

2013-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: debian-keyring was promoted from a Suggests to a Recommends as a result of a user report in bug 717245. However, either behaviours of tools have changed since then, or there was confusion between errors and warnings - if I use pull-debian-source without having

[Bug 1185838] [NEW] Mouse pointer corruption, radeon, dual-head

2013-05-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Since upgrading from quantal to raring, I am experiencing corruption of my mouse pointer around once per day. I am using a dual-head setup on an ATI RV730 GL [FirePro V3750]. When corruption occurs, the mouse pointer is usually some garbled rearrangement of the pointer's

[Bug 1170958] Re: [Regression] Panel shadow dropped on full screen windows after notification

2013-05-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Should the Ubuntu bugtask really be marked Fix Committed when it looks like the fix has only landed into Unity upstream branches at present? Also, when might this reach raring-proposed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1167622] Re: Cannot change EFI variables using efibootmgr (raring regression)

2013-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Hi. Sorry for taking so long to get back on this one. I failed to see the emails due to some mail rules filing things into folders too aggressively, which I've now fixed. I've bisected, and come up with a hopefully useful result: the regression occurred between 3.8.2 and 3.8.3 ! -- You received

[Bug 1167622] Re: Cannot change EFI variables using efibootmgr (raring regression)

2013-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
It would appear that 9f677cf27341b7a53915ad0e018912dc022a2a24 is almost certainly the issue (based on examining the efi commits between 3.8.2 and 3.8.3). To quote its commit message: efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables commit

[Bug 1167934] [NEW] gnome-disks crashed with SIGSEGV in udisks_drive_ata_get_smart_updated()

2013-04-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: I am seeing a repeatable crash in gnome-disks when unplugging a SATA HD whilst the SMART Data window for the HD in question is open. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.6.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic

[Bug 1167622] [NEW] Cannot change EFI variables using efibootmgr (raring regression)

2013-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: Hardware: Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A Runing quantal, I can set boot parameters using efibootmgr as expected. Running raring, any attempt to write EFI vars fails. dmesg says: [ 248.382221] efivars: set_variable() failed: status=8009 strace of efibootmgr says:

[Bug 1167622] Re: Cannot change EFI variables using efibootmgr (raring regression)

2013-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
The bug also occurs with upstream 3.9-rc6 from the kernel-ppa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1167622 Title: Cannot change EFI variables using efibootmgr (raring regression) To

[Bug 1165789] [NEW] Wifi indicator shows disconnected in between connecting and connected (raring regression)

2013-04-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: In quantal, the network-manager indicator progressed straight from connecting (pulsing/rippling wifi symbol) to connected (static wifi signal level indicator) when successfully connected. In raring, it shows the disconnected (outlined empty lack of wifi symbol) symbol for a

[Bug 1024405] Re: Port to udisks2

2013-04-07 Thread Max Bowsher
It should be noted that this isn't just a backend issue. There are a couple of user visible weirdnesses as a result: 1) USB sticks mounted by usb-creator show up at /media/deviceuuid not /media/user/deviceuuid like removable media generally does in raring 2) Attempting to unmount via the Unity

[Bug 1114545] Re: Startup Disk Creator fails when erasing disk

2013-04-07 Thread Max Bowsher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 689593 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689593 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 689593 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition modifications via udisks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1090663] Re: erase disk results in error message + 100% CPU hang

2013-04-07 Thread Max Bowsher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 689593 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689593 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 689593 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition modifications via udisks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 689593] Re: 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition modifications via udisks

2013-04-07 Thread Max Bowsher
** Summary changed: - 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when setting bootable flag in palimpsest + 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when performing partition modifications via udisks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1058040] Re: fglrx-installer not working with AMD Radeon/Mobility Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards in Quantal

2013-04-01 Thread Max Bowsher
The other option for people on Quantal is to upgrade to Raring. There's still no fglrx, but the open source radeon driver has improved a *lot*. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058040

[Bug 1162389] [NEW] Preferences inaccessible

2013-03-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Public bug reported: The menu option to open the Totem Preferences UI appears to have gone missing. There's evidence in the source code that there's supposed to be a preferences UI, and the online help states there should be an Edit Preferences menu item, but it does not appear. ProblemType:

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