[Bug 1091610] Re: wifi connection loss on Realtek RTL8191SEvA

2013-01-12 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I have a similar issue here, RTL8191SEvA and 12.04.1 (3.2.0-35-generic) also on a low power machine (Atom D510). The issue manifests itself periodically, but it does seem only when there is moderate network load (MythTV video streaming). It's quite frequent (we can't get through a half hour show

[Bug 595764] Re: Mouse often hangs after upgrade to 35-2, 35-4 kernels

2010-10-13 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Following up on my #18 post, I can confirm 2.6.34 still works fine after 24+ hours. This supports maor's findings as well. I don't see /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters at all in 2.6.34... so was polling added in 2.6.35? If not that, someone have time to git bisect 2.6.34 and 2.6.35 ? :)

[Bug 660040] [NEW] vim-rails out of date

2010-10-13 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vim-rails Can vim-rails be updated to the latest script from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567 ? The version in Ubuntu maverick is horribly old. ** Affects: vim-rails (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 595764] Re: Mouse often hangs after upgrade to 35-2, 35-4 kernels

2010-10-11 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Hmm, I've tested 4 kernels and the only one that doesn't have this behavior for me (so far) is vanilla 2.6.34. 2.6.36-rc7+ (vanilla) -- broken (kslowd renamed to kworker? seems even worse) 2.6.35-22 (Ubuntu) -- broken 2.6.35 (vanilla)-- broken 2.6.34 (vanilla) -- works? (so far)

[Bug 451518] Re: [i945g] karmic: INFO: task i915/* blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-06-07 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
FWIW: Disabling compiz is a successful workaround for my sister's ThinkPad Edge... not a single freeze since. System | Preferences | Appearance ... Visual Effects | None -- [i945g] karmic: INFO: task i915/* blocked for more than 120 seconds. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451518 You received

[Bug 451518] Re: [i945g] karmic: INFO: task i915/* blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-05-26 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Here as well: ThinkPad Edge, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 2.6.32-22-generic. Display freezes, but otherwise the machine is responsive (logs continue, ssh works etc). lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) lspci -s

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-05-07 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
make that +200 29800 and counting... As said above... totally useless and annoying workspace switcher tooltips, but no battery indicator tooltip?? This is absurd. -- please include status messages/tooltips https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 537907] Re: GCONF_SCHEMA_FILE_DIR incorrect in gconf-2.m4

2010-03-12 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Actually, since the m4 macro will be included in aclocal.m4 (or the like) in developers distributing source tarballs from Ubuntu, this is pretty ugly... as the default is probably correct for other distros (/etc/gconf/schemas vs /usr/share/gconf/schemas). So, I'm not sure what the fix is...

[Bug 537907] [NEW] GCONF_SCHEMA_FILE_DIR incorrect in gconf-2.m4

2010-03-11 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gconf Ubuntu 9.10 libgconf2-dev: Installed: 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://samaritan.ucmerced.edu karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status The default

[Bug 537907] Re: GCONF_SCHEMA_FILE_DIR incorrect in gconf-2.m4

2010-03-11 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
** Patch added: gconf-m4-schemas-dir.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40858563/gconf-m4-schemas-dir.patch ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40857897/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2010-03-02 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Mikko -- you are correct, very embarrassing :( It didn't end up working anyway, but I'm not convinced i'm using the new modules I'm compiling-- perhaps they are loaded from initrd? I wasn't making a new one each time. I've added a unique MODULE_VERSION this time to be double sure (is there another

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2010-03-02 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I've collected the following patches together and managed to apply them to ubuntu-karmic.git. Fair warning: I'm not a expert in this area so I didn't do any sanity checking beyond a clean make... * drm/i915: parse child device from VBT * drm/i915: Don't set up DP ports that aren't in the BIOS

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2010-03-01 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
After 2 days of testing, this patch seems to fix the issue for me. No more spam of change event messages in udev, and udev cpu usage is back to normal. Note, it's unclear to me how the patch would effect folks using, say, HDMI outputs with this chip. Someone who has such hardware needs should

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25259 seems to be closer to this bug then the current remote bug watch (despite the title), and also includes a proposed patch to stop the interrupt storm: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=32825. I will try it out and report back. Red Hat

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2009-12-21 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
applied the patch from Lars, but unfortunately the problem still remains for me :( I only recompiled the i915.ko module, did I miss something? Using 2.6.31-16-generic (karmic) KERNEL[1261390492.215156] change /devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [1261390492.223522] change

[Bug 440411] Re: spam of change events from drm/card0

2009-12-10 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
looks like the folks upstream are actively working on this...lets hope for a solution soon! -- spam of change events from drm/card0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-08-27 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
FWIW, several months ago I got fed up and hacked around this by just commenting out a key schedule_scan call in NetworkManager. I no longer have the problem, but I have to manually sudo iwlist ath0 scan on boot or when roaming to another location for NetworkManager to see any [new] networks.

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-08-27 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Update: I propose this be marked as a dup to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/373680. Also see the same bug @ Red Hat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490493 and upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513820. Better patches and info after the

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-07-13 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Seems there are known issues with scanning and ath5k: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12635 -- network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-07-13 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Known issues with ath5k driver and scanning... see kernel bug #12635 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Incomplete -- network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-07-12 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Got tired of the limitations of wicd and decided to dig deeper... here is what I found: So this is happening because NM tells wpa_supplicant to do periodic background scanning (which apparently, wicd does not do). With ath5k and AR5212 (at least), the scan is very intrusive, changes frequencies

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background scanning

2009-07-12 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #12635 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12635 ** Also affects: network-manager via http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12635 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- network-manager roams to (none) ((none)) - background

[Bug 291760] Re: network-manager roams to (none) ((none))

2009-05-27 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Same here (w/ ath5k): May 27 10:05:24 bluetote NetworkManager: debug [1243443924.002488] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:1E:E5:2D:5A:99 (leslielady) to (none) ((none)) May 27 10:05:36 bluetote NetworkManager: debug [1243443936.001063] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID (none)

[Bug 380146] Re: Ekiga Crashes upon startup

2009-05-27 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
same here, backtrace attached Architecture: i386 Version: 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 Ubuntu 9.04 Linux 2.6.30-020630rc7-generic #020630rc7 SMP (using mainline ppa to get around #330824) ** Attachment added: gdb-ekiga.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27213630/gdb-ekiga.txt -- Ekiga Crashes upon

[Bug 369441] [NEW] XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT failed... Invalid argument

2009-04-29 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 8.04.2 Release:8.04 $ uname -r 2.6.24-23-generic $ apt-cache policy xfsdump xfsdump: Installed: 2.2.45-1 Candidate: 2.2.45-1 Version table: *** 2.2.45-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Bug 367645] [NEW] GetFilesystemInfos, TotalKB: -1 should be handled by AutoExpirer

2009-04-26 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythtv Description:Ubuntu 8.04.2 Release:8.04 mythtv-backend: Installed: 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1 Candidate: 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1 Version table: *** 0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1 0 500

[Bug 321927] Re: /dev/pts and /dev/shm not mounted on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Yes, 8.10 - 9.04 did this to me as well. IMHO this should have a MUCH higher importance then Low. As a workaround, I'm manually mounting /dev/pts until an official fix is released. -- /dev/pts and /dev/shm not mounted on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321927 You received this bug

[Bug 253004] Re: Oops in sunrpc:rpc_shutdown_client

2009-04-19 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I am also hit by this bug. FWIW, the kernel bug policies link above is incorrect. The correct page appears to be: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies -- Oops in sunrpc:rpc_shutdown_client https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253004 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 253004] Re: Oops in sunrpc:rpc_shutdown_client

2009-04-19 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Ok, I tried to follow the KernelTeamBugPolicies reporting instructions to attach to this existing bug report, but they appear to be wrong: at least for hardy LTS, apport-collect doesn't seem to exist. If Ubuntu is serious about LTS releases, this bug needs to be fixed. Here is a quick

[Bug 236799] Re: autofs-ldap should use /etc/ldap.conf instead of /etc/ldap/ldap.conf

2009-03-30 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
/etc/ldap.conf is for nss_ldap and pam_ldap only /etc/ldap/ldap.conf (or /etc/openldap/ldap.conf on Red Hat) is from the OpenLDAP libs, and is what will be used by default in programs that use libldap. See: man 5 ldap.conf -- autofs-ldap should use /etc/ldap.conf instead of /etc/ldap/ldap.conf

[Bug 262152] Re: brings up both wired and wireless interfaces; hard to pick just one through the UI

2009-02-04 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Yes, and in some cases it's the policy of the network administrator to strictly forbid connecting to both wired and wireless in the same building. If they are different subnets, you have the potential to act as a network bridge (yes I know this takes effort, but the potential is still there). We

[Bug 320700] [NEW] gvim rendering is slow

2009-01-23 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vim Rendering in gvim is very slow compared to previous Ubuntu releases. It's usable, but takes patience. I'm using vim/gvim 7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. Others have reported this same issue on a thread from the vim mailing list. Many solutions

[Bug 90925] Re: hardware brightness keys on lenovo R60e are working strange in gnome

2008-12-09 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I have the same problem with a Lenovo Ideapad Y530. Looking at ACPI, /etc/acpi/events/video_brightnessup and /etc/acpi/events/video_brightnessdown are matched, and the appropriate scripts are called. Even replacing these scripts with exit you have the same behavior. So it seems the hardware(?) or

[Bug 90925] Re: hardware brightness keys on lenovo R60e are working strange in gnome

2008-12-09 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
More information... With the acpi video module unloaded, the brightness up/down hardware keys do nothing. And no ACPI events are generated. So this narrows it down to ACPI events. With it loaded, when the buttons are pressed, acpid notifies both the X server and hald-addon-acpi that the buttons

[Bug 35001] Re: enable krb5-support

2008-11-10 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
This does it for me w/hardy (see attached). ** Attachment added: sudo-krb5 build addition http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19552273/sudo-1.6.9p10.krb5.patch ** Attachment removed: sudo-krb5 build addition http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19552273/sudo-1.6.9p10.krb5.patch -- enable

[Bug 35001] Re: enable krb5-support

2008-11-10 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
** Attachment added: sudo-krb5 build addition http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19552344/sudo-1.6.9p10.krb5.patch -- enable krb5-support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 207744] Re: Clicking notification panel icon doesn't switch desktops

2008-11-07 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Removing the patch to metacity (see above) works only if you are not using compiz. The same annoying behavior now effects compiz (intrepid). I really don't understand the logic here. We have a blinking notification saying click here! click me! so you do, and seemingly nothing happens. For tomboy,

[Bug 207744] Re: Clicking notification panel icon doesn't switch desktops

2008-11-07 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
For an excellent overview of this issue (w/metacity), see: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/10/20/by-these-presents/ -- Clicking notification panel icon doesn't switch desktops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207744 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 110384] Re: With desktop effects on scrolling is slow and laggy in firefox other browsers

2008-11-02 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Switching from XAA (default?) to EXA seems to resolve the problem for me. However, now my compiz effects seem to studder :( Here is the Device section from my xorg.conf. I also tuned on a few other options which may have an effect: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device

[Bug 263656] Re: tomboy doesn't bring summoned pages to active desktop

2008-10-30 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Agree it's the job is the WM, not Tomboy. FYI - Ubuntu folks added a behavior change patch restricting window desktop warping in metacity. So if you are not running compiz, check out how to reverse it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/metacity/+bug/207744/comments/3 If you are running compiz,

[Bug 263656] Re: tomboy doesn't bring summoned pages to active desktop

2008-10-30 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
** Also affects: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- tomboy doesn't bring summoned pages to active desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 223014] Re: ata2.00: exception emask 0x0 sact ...

2008-10-18 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530s, same problem and the irqpoll boot option worked here as well. Added to kopt in /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it permanent. Thanks! -- ata2.00: exception emask 0x0 sact ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223014 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 237999] Re: Mythfrontend crashes on playing back recording

2008-08-11 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
also hitting this here. I thought it might be OpenGL, but turning that off doesn't help: $ mythfrontend --override-setting UseOpenglVideo=0 2008-08-11 13:34:33.146 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib 2008-08-11 13:34:35.035 XScreenSaver support enabled 2008-08-11 13:34:35.038 DPMS is

[Bug 205895] Re: [Hardy] Wine 100% cpu usage

2008-06-04 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Doesn't work for me either. Here is an oprofile analysis when ie6 is pegging my CPU... maybe it will mean something to someone with wine internals knowledge. $ opreport -t 1 --long-filenames CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated) Profiling through timer interrupt

[Bug 205895] Re: [Hardy] Wine 100% cpu usage

2008-05-21 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
For me, it only seems to happen when SSL is used... aka when going to an https site or looking at the list of Certificates. If I avoid SSL, then CPU stays low. But once the CPU goes up, it stays up, and I have to eventually kill wineserver etc. I am using Hardy wine (0.9.59-0ubuntu5) and

[Bug 207744] Re: Clicking notification panel icon doesn't switch desktops

2008-05-20 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Similar here... Now, in hardy, clicking on the icon doesn't move pidgin to the current desktop nor does it switch to the desktop pidgin is on (as the previous poster noted). Same for buddy list or flashing icon to show chat window. So, to find a new message in an existing chat window, I now have

[Bug 207744] Re: Clicking notification panel icon doesn't switch desktops

2008-05-20 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Another option is to patch Pidgin to hack around the changes made to metacity... Pidgin bug 5521, above, has an example patch on how to do this with the Buddy List (assume a similar patch is needed for the chat window). I think if Ubuntu keeps the metacity patch intact, it should then patch

[Bug 176465] unable to save, too many open files

2007-12-14 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit I am using gedit 2.20.3 in Gutsy. After leaving gedit open for several days, and opening/closing dozens of files, gedit will refuse to save anything with: Could not save the file [ ... ] There are too many open files. Please close some

[Bug 155994] Re: ooffice hangs when opening xls/ppt files

2007-10-24 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 131526 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131526 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 131526 [gutsy] OpenOffice crashes/hangs on errors in current gtk theme -- ooffice hangs when opening xls/ppt files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155994

[Bug 137873] Re: tracker-search-tool reports no result

2007-10-22 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Ok, restricting trackerd to a small subset of my home directory allowed the --reindex to finish just fine. I was also then able to search. Next I updated tracker to svn, and opened it up to my whole home directory again, and ran --reindex. Woke up this morning to a hung trackerd... $

[Bug 155994] ooffice hangs when opening xls/ppt files

2007-10-22 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org2 After upgrading to gutsy, OpenOffice 2.3 hangs when opening MS Office xls or ppt files. The same files were opening (and saving) fine with feisty's OpenOffice 2.2. Note, even files I created with feisty's OpenOffice 2.2 and simply saved

[Bug 155994] Re: ooffice hangs when opening xls/ppt files

2007-10-22 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
** Attachment added: ooffice-output.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10124536/ooffice-output.log -- ooffice hangs when opening xls/ppt files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155994 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 137873] Re: tracker-search-tool reports no result

2007-10-21 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Results so far... after several hours, but apparently before it was done indexing, trackerd exit'd with this error: ERROR: excessive busy count in query GetServiceID and thread main. Running tracker-status appears to have started trackerd back up again: $ tracker-status Tracker daemon's

[Bug 137873] Re: tracker-search-tool reports no result

2007-10-20 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I also have this problem. I upgraded to 7.10 and Tracker worked great-- for about a day. Now it returns no results. Also seems to have tons indexed. $ tracker-stats ---fetching index stats- default : 0 Files : 87202 Folders : 8017 Documents : 9854 Images : 6991 Music : 579

[Bug 37004] Re: Wireless USB keyboard/mouse not working

2007-05-01 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
I am having the same problem with a Targus Wireless USB mouse (PAWM004). The thumb dongle seems to handle a keyboard also, as indicated by the kernel. However, the mouse doesn't work at all; cat /dev/input/mice shows nothing when I move it around or click. Other USB wireless mice work fine, it's

[Bug 13099] Re: problems with a wireless mouse (model targus)

2007-05-01 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 37004 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37004 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 37004 Wireless USB keyboard/mouse not working -- problems with a wireless mouse (model targus) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13099 You received this bug

[Bug 37004] Re: Wireless USB keyboard/mouse not working

2007-05-01 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
A fix for 2.6.10 can be found here, however the patch does not apply correctly to 2.6.20... Also, this may be specific to the Targus mouse, but may provide insight on other similar devices. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=1454954#post1454954 -- Wireless USB

[Bug 43150] steps to patch and fix

2006-09-15 Thread Nicholas J Kreucher
Personally I don't care if it uses gcl or cmucl, I just want it to work :) So, here are the steps to rebuild maxina w/Olaf's cmucl patch. Thanks Olaf! $ cd /tmp $ apt-get source maxima $ sudo apt-get build-dep maxima $ sudo apt-get cmucl $ cd maxima_5.9.2 $ curl