[Bug 1816674] Re: Update-mime-database is getting very slow during apps installation

2021-04-12 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
@Sebastien Sorry for the late reply. I recall that the workaround consisted in adding a random delay to the apt-daily task, so that it would not happen *right* at startup. How exactly this was done, unfortunately, I did write it down :-/ but I think it was adding or creating the file

[Bug 1816674] Re: Update-mime-database is getting very slow during apps installation

2021-02-10 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Same problem with 20.04. I believe this is related to this issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=255817 . FTR, as `apt-daily.service` is running on startup, this was also increasing my boot-time significantly (although I found a workaround for this particular problem). Just to

[Bug 1860761] Re: Dell XPS 13 - Bios upgrade not working - Always ask for power supply

2020-04-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
FTR, I tried as Daniel described, and it didn't work. My configuration is slightly different, though: * using Ubuntu 19.04 * my current firmware is 1.1.3 When I click on the update with AC plugged in, I get a "Software is up to date" message,* with no indication to reboot. When I reboot, I see

[Bug 1860761] Re: Dell XPS 13 - Bios upgrade not working - Always ask for power supply

2020-04-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I have had the same problem since I got my XPS 7390, and I have the same problem. I just found this report and will try Daniel's fix ASAP (actually, my laptop has been charging all night, so I hope it will work). However, just before I do, here is the output of the two commands required by

[Bug 1827842] Re: pulseaudio should not load module-x11-bell in gnome-shell

2019-10-13 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Sorry (again) for the late reply. I just got an opportunity to install a fresh ubuntu 19.04, so I thought I would give a try to the patch... But on this fresh install, I do not have the problem... (without even enabling proposed packaged). I don't even understand *why* the x11-bell module is

[Bug 1827842] Re: pulseaudio should not load module-x11-bell in gnome-shell

2019-06-27 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Sorry for the late answer. In my case, the sound was the correct one, but it was played twice at the same time, causing some unpleasant saturation. Furthermore, if I changed the sound in the Gnome control panel, than I would have two different sounds playing at the same time (the newly configure

[Bug 1411146] [NEW] italic becomes bold depending on zoom level

2015-01-15 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: How to reproduce the bug: - type some text - change its font to 'Times New Roman' - mark it as italic - change the zoom level At some zoom levels, the text is displayed in bold rather than italic... I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 with libreoffice 1:4.3.3-0ubuntu1 . Note that: -

[Bug 1338243] [NEW] spurious zooming when scrolling with touchpad

2014-07-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: How to reproduce the bug * open a long PDF in evince, or a long webpage in Firefox (this page should do) * sroll with touchpad (two-fingers on my system) * when you take of your fingers from the touchpad, the document keeps on scrolling, slowing down (like inertia) * before

[Bug 1325650] [NEW] CTRL+F turns search off

2014-06-02 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release:14.04 $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10 Candidate: 3.10.3-0ubuntu10 Version table: *** 3.10.3-0ubuntu10 0 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64

[Bug 1324508] [NEW] documentation is not built in python-sklearn-doc

2014-05-29 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: When I open /usr/share/doc/python-sklearn-doc/html/index.html, it just says sklearn documentation was not built. Description:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release:14.04 python-sklearn-doc: Installed: 0.14.1-2 Candidate: 0.14.1-2 Version table: *** 0.14.1-2 0

[Bug 1275648] [NEW] Remote printers do not disappear when they are no longer available

2014-02-03 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: With my laptop, I often move in different buildings in my university, connecting to various local networks. Everytime I do so, a number of remote printers appear in CUPS, which is good. The problem is: once I move to a different network, those remote printers do *not*

[Bug 1168293] Re: No Certificate dialog not responding

2013-05-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
The problem seems to have disappeared for me, probably following some update... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168293 Title: No Certificate dialog not responding To manage

[Bug 1168293] Re: No Certificate dialog frozen

2013-04-16 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Actually, I realize that the dialog underneath the warning dialog (entitled Wii-Fi Network Authentication Required) is still active; I can check the Show password box, click on Connect again (no effect) or on Cancel, which closes both dialogs alltogether. (I attach a screenshot to make things

[Bug 1168293] [NEW] No Certificate dialog frozen

2013-04-12 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: I'm using ubuntu 13.04 (raring ringtail) beta. I try to connect to a secure wi-fi network (eduroam). I enter my login and password, but no certificate -- I'm instructed by my university to ignore the warning (I know this is bad, but...). Said warning appears (dialog entitled

[Bug 1162849] Re: change dependency on gdm

2013-04-08 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Thank you Jeremy for this information (I had an intuition that it might be the case, but wasn't sure). Re. Tim's proposal, an idea could be to have a packaged called libgdm that would contain all the binary files (including executable), and a package calle gdm that would only contain the

[Bug 1164702] Re: Can not create SIP account in raring ringtail

2013-04-08 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
yes; here are the installed versions of all the dependencies: account-plugin-sip 3.6.4-0ubuntu3 --\ empathy 3.6.4-0ubuntu3 --\ libc6 2.17-0ubuntu4 --\ libglib2.0-0 2.36.0-1ubuntu1 --\ mcp-account-manager-uoa 3.6.4-0ubuntu3 --\ telepathy-rakia 0.7.4-1 --\

[Bug 1154049] Re: Crashes with GLib-GIO-CRITICAL. UnknownMethod: Method DescribeAll

2013-04-04 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Same problem here with 13.04 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1154049 Title: Crashes with GLib-GIO-CRITICAL. UnknownMethod: Method DescribeAll To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1154049] Re: Crashes with GLib-GIO-CRITICAL. UnknownMethod: Method DescribeAll

2013-04-04 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
After further investigation, the problem disappears when I kill seahorse-daemon, but comes back when I relaunch it... :-/ Not sure if this is related, but when I run seahorse-daemon, I get the following (warning?) message: pa@nua:~$ killall -q seahorse-daemon; seahorse-daemon -d **

[Bug 1164702] [NEW] Can not create SIP account in raring ringtail

2013-04-04 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: I installed account-plugin-sip, and tried to create a new SIP account. First, the dialog is empty, but for Cancel and Done buttons; no configuration field. Then, whether I click on Cancel or Done, credentials-preferences stops with a segmentation fault. NB: I'm using

[Bug 1162849] [NEW] change dependency on gdm

2013-04-01 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: gnome-shell depends on gdm; however, it is possible to use gnome-shell with another session manager (esp. lightdm which is the default on ubuntu). So this dependency seems too strong. It should either * be changed to a recommend * be a dependency on gdm | lightdm (possibly

[Bug 1162858] [NEW] clean-up dependecy graph

2013-04-01 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: Background: I like aptitude, especially its ability to flag some packages as automatically installed (as the result a dependencies). Those packages are proposed for removal as soon as no manually installed package depend on them. So the first thing I do after installing a

[Bug 1025017] [NEW] Unmet dependency: libgnutls-openssl26

2012-07-15 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: When I try to run freewheeling in ubuntu 12.04, I get the following error: freewheeling: error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls- openssl.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, the corresponding package (libgnutls-openssl26) does

[Bug 919229] [NEW] Inverse mathematical operators

2012-01-20 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: I notices that characters SQUARE CAP (U+2293) and SQUARE CUP (U+2294) are inversed in FreeSerif. ** Affects: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 625983] Re: monitor of input in pulseaudio not working in Maverick

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I just installed Oneiric, and I have the exact same bug. I reproduced it with the steps described above (#3). Another way is: * run paplay with a song (something long enough to go through the following steps) * open pavumeter, tab Playback * paplay shows in the Playback tab, but its vumeter is

[Bug 625983] Re: monitor of input in pulseaudio not working in Maverick

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Note that if I launch jackd with monitor enabled, then restart pulse, the pulse monitor seems to works fine. So the problem seems to be related to alsa, may be more specifically the alsa driver of my specific card? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 764272] Re: Unity Launcher does not hide

2011-05-23 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 769703 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769703 Got the same problem with LibreOffice and Skype. Note that the following workaround worked for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/763275/comments/4 -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 769504] Re: RT3090 Internal Wi-fi Stability/Connectivity Issue

2011-05-12 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I also have the same problem with a Sony VAIO VPCM12M1E . Devius's fix does not seem to work for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769504 Title: RT3090 Internal Wi-fi

[Bug 686703] Re: USB mouse does not get detected on bootup 25% of the time (USB bus reset)

2011-01-12 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Following my previous comment: this seems to be a hardware bug related to the USB receiver itself. Apparently, when I push it as far as possible into the USB plug, it goes *too* far and disconnects. If I pull it a little, it reconnects. Still to be confirmed next time I reboot on Windows (may

[Bug 686703] Re: USB mouse does not get detected on bootup 25% of the time (USB bus reset)

2011-01-12 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I confirm that in my case, this was a hardware problem with the USB receiver (same problem under Windows). Sorry for the noise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686703 Title: USB

[Bug 686703] Re: USB mouse does not get detected on bootup 25% of the time (USB bus reset)

2011-01-11 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I have a similar problem on a Dell Latitude E4310, and it appeared around the same period (december 2010): my USB cordless mouse stopped working intermittently, and plugin it out and back in does not always solve the problem. I attach a fragment of /var/log/syslog where at 09:29:06 I plug the USB

[Bug 661622] Re: pulseaudio no volume signal no sound routing

2010-11-07 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Thanks maik for the workaround. I had the same problem, and deleting ~/.pulse also solved it. However, I would not consider this bug fixed before identifying *what* broke the ~/.pulse directory and *how* (so that it does not happen again...). I kept a copy of my buggy ~/.pulse directory. to

[Bug 664448] Re: Evince steals focus when automatically reloading the document

2010-10-28 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I have a very similar use case. Rather than a preference to disable auto-reload, I would like a preference to disable focus-stealing when the document change. I would even be happy if this was only accessible via gconf-editor. For the record, I can't imagine any scenario where this

[Bug 638766] Re: SIGSEGV in PrefService::GetDictionary()

2010-09-16 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I had the same problem, and Artem's fix did solve it. Thanks a million. -- SIGSEGV in PrefService::GetDictionary() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638766 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 506883] Re: Update to 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 broke compilation tools

2010-03-15 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Now using libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 with gcc 4:4.4.1-1ubuntu2 and linux-generic 2.6.31.20.33. Everything works fine, but I don't know what happened exactly... -- Update to 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 broke compilation tools https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506883 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 506883] [NEW] Update to 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 broke compilation tools

2010-01-13 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: I did an update of my packages this morning, and after that, was unable to compile source files that worked perfectly yesterday. Downgrading to libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu15 solved the problem? ** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Update

[Bug 506883] Re: Update to 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 broke compilation tools

2010-01-13 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Oups, I didn't mean to type a question mark at the end... Downgrading *did* solve the problem. That's an assertion. -- Update to 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 broke compilation tools https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 366352] Re: kernel-rt freeze after new install jaunty studio

2009-07-07 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I experience the same problem with Jaundty, x86, linux-2.6.28-3-rt on a Dell Latitude D820 (nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300]). I found out that the problem can be solved by either - using driver nv instead of nvidia - not using the network at all (the idea came when

[Bug 354816] Re: system freeze when using network with linux-rt on smp amd64 machines

2009-07-07 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
This may be related to bug #366352. See my comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-rt/+bug/366352/comments/24 . -- system freeze when using network with linux-rt on smp amd64 machines https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354816 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 37768] Re: gnome-volume-manager mounting Partition, while working with GParted

2009-01-26 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Having the bug in Intrepid as well, with a USB disk. One thing I didn't see mentioned (except may be in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/37768/comments/44) is that the partitioned as mounted by Gnome is still using the *old* partition table, and that even if I unmount it and

[Bug 37768] Re: gnome-volume-manager mounting Partition, while working with GParted

2009-01-26 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I saw that this bug is marked as fixed on gparted's bug tracker. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324220 I had a look and try to figure out how the fix was supposed to work. It uses hal-lock to prevent HAL to mount the volume gparted is working on, but obviously, it fails to do so... I

[Bug 37768] Re: gnome-volume-manager mounting Partition, while working with GParted

2009-01-26 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Indeed I am not a specialist of HAL. According to Curtis Gedak quoting HAL specifications [1], what gparted does with hal-lock should be sufficient. According to Deji Akingunola [2], the problem would be another program (gnome-mount ?) not honnouring these specifications. So may be this is not

[Bug 226797] Re: Incorrect plugin version

2009-01-20 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I'm now using Intrepid, and the bug seems to have disappeared: I installed an old version of flash under ~/.mozilla/plugins, and the correct version (i.e. the older one) shows in about:plugins. -- Incorrect plugin version https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226797 You received this bug notification

[Bug 286933] Re: sleep and hibernate do not work

2008-11-11 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
My video problem being solved, I did some more tests. The problem is not limited to the wired network after all: today I had it with a wireless network :-( The difference may be that this wireless network is encrypted (WEP) while the previous one (that didn't seem to cause the bug) was not...

[Bug 286933] Re: sleep and hibernate do not work

2008-11-11 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Note also that waking up from hibernate does not work with the nvidia 177 drivers (waking up from sleep does). Waking up with the nv driver always works (provided the system managed to fall asleep, that is...). -- sleep and hibernate do not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286933 You

[Bug 262974] Re: [MASTER] networkmanager display connections twice in intrepid

2008-11-10 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
My mistake!! Triggering udevadm creates both duplicate at one time. Furthermore, restarting hal once is sufficient, but I need to restart NetworkManager as well. -- [MASTER] networkmanager display connections twice in intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262974 You received this bug

[Bug 262974] Re: [MASTER] networkmanager display connections twice in intrepid

2008-11-10 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I confirm that: * the bug appeared after a kernel update and nvidia driver installation * restarting hal removed the duplicate * udevadm trigger created the duplicate again. Note also that I had both the wired and wireless card duplicated, but that each operation to remove or recreate the

[Bug 286933] Re: sleep and hibernate do not work

2008-11-05 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
It appears to be related to the *wired* network: with only the wireless network, sleep and hibernate work properly (as a matter of fact, it does not wake up properly from hibernate, but it might be related to another problem I have...). With the wired network on, I still have the problem, and I

[Bug 286960] Re: 2.6.27-3-rt shutdown not working

2008-11-05 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I have the same problem with an nvidia video card (either with the nvidia binary module or the nv module): the shutdown process seems to zork, but won't turn the power off. -- 2.6.27-3-rt shutdown not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286960 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 236998] Re: Intermittent problem with GL applications in linux-rt

2008-10-24 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I experienced the bug on a regular basis with hardy. I recently upgraded to intrepid, and do not use the linux-rt kernel since it does not support sleep or hibernate anymore :-( I attach the output of lspci -vvnn (with linux-generic kernel under intrepid, hopes this help anyway). ** Attachment

[Bug 258083] Re: F-Spot - Error connecting to camera. Could not lock the device

2008-10-21 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Martin, I did as you asked with my iPhone, and it worked. I attach the output of both commands. However, the bug seems to have been fixed with the update to f-spot 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu1. ** Attachment added: iphone.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18765371/iphone.txt -- F-Spot - Error

[Bug 197130] Re: [hardy] Black X screen and system halt after installing linux-rt

2008-10-21 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
For what it's worth: I updated to intrepid, and just installed linux-image-rt 2.6.27.3.4. Nvidia kernel modules were automatically compiled (linux-restricted-module-rt can not be updated anyway), and it worked perfectly with the latest version (177.80). -- [hardy] Black X screen and system

[Bug 286933] [NEW] sleep and hibernate do not work

2008-10-21 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-3-rt I installed linux-image-2.6.27-3-rt in Intrepid, and I could not put the system to sleep or hibernate: it complains about not being able to freeze network-manager and multiload-applet. Note that it works with

[Bug 258083] Re: F-Spot - Error connecting to camera. Could not lock the device

2008-10-20 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
I still have the bug under Intrepid with two cameras (FUJIFILM FinePix F30 and iPhone). How come the bug is marked as Fix released, while many people seem to experience it? -- F-Spot - Error connecting to camera. Could not lock the device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258083 You received

[Bug 236998] Re: Intermittent problem with GL applications in linux-rt (erratum)

2008-06-30 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Erratum : the messages in Xorg.0.log are no longer correlated with the problem: sometimes, the logfile is ok but the problem is there. More annoying, now the problem appears even when the system wakes up from sleep mode -- that is, even if it was working before falling asleep. It seems to be

[Bug 236998] Re: Intermittent problem with GL applications in linux-rt

2008-06-20 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
It seems like the problem disappeared (or at least became quite rare) with linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-rt, but now that I upgraded to linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-rt, it is frequent again (2/3 or 3/4 startups), hence becoming quite annoying. The symptoms have quite changed : once

[Bug 236998] [NEW] Intermittent problem with GL applications in linux-rt

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-17-rt I am using hardy, with the linux-rt kernel and the nvidia-glx (not new) driver. Also, I patched /usr/bin/compiz with INDIRECT=yes to fix a memory leak in nvidia drivers. Some times, when compiz starts, Xorg hangs

[Bug 197130] Re: [hardy] Black X screen and system halt after installing linux-rt

2008-06-03 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
@prismatic7 I submitted the Xorg hanging problem as bug #236998 Note again that #236998 is related to nvidia-glx, while this bug (black screen) happens only with nvidia-glx-new (for me at least). -- [hardy] Black X screen and system halt after installing linux-rt

[Bug 197130] Re: [hardy] Black X screen and system halt after installing linux-rt

2008-06-02 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
@Lorenzo @prismatic7 : I'm not sure this is the same bug (although related to the -rt kernel), but I seem to have it too :-) Can you confirm me that : - when this happen, I manage to get it working by switching to a console (ctrl+alt+f1, it may take some time), and replacing compiz by metacity

[Bug 197130] Re: [hardy] Black X screen and system halt after installing linux-rt

2008-05-28 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
my two cents : I have a Dell Latitude D820 (video: Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300) I was using linux-rt and nvidia-glx-new in Gutsy. After upgrading to Hardy, I got the black screen / no response symptom. I changed for nvidia-glx (not new) still with linux-rt, and it worked fine. Compiz runs

[Bug 226797] [NEW] Incorrect plugin version

2008-05-05 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox I installed flashplugin-nonfree, and about:plugins reports the correct version of the flash plugin (9.0.124). However, some pages (e.g. http://www.5min.com/) refuses to display flash content. Then I discovered that an old (9.0.31)

[Bug 199075] [NEW] Compiz crashes the system

2008-03-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz I use gutsy, the nvidia-glx-new driver, and the linux-rt kernel, on a Dell Latitude D820 laptop. compiz : 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1.1 nvidia-glx-new : 100.14.19+2.6.22.4-14.10 linux-rt : 2.6.22.14.21 I have experienced recently a lot of

[Bug 199075] Re: Compiz crashes the system

2008-03-06 Thread Pierre-Antoine Champin
** Attachment added: Capture.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12456856/Capture.png -- Compiz crashes the system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199075 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list