[Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
OK. I have installed the chromium-broswer beta using sudo apt-add-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta and installed Chromium 37. I can confirm that the problem then disappears. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

2014-08-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me for Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972). Killing ibus solves the problem. Which ppa should I use if I wanted Chromium 35? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
The end of dmesg gives [22116.317942] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci [22116.454299] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=023e [22116.454312] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [22116.454319] usb 2-4: Product: USB PTP

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Kubuntu 13.10/KDE 4.11.3 with a Fuji Finepix AX 300 and the reported problems, here is what I get: solid-hardware query Camera.supportedDrivers == 'gphoto' gives Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal

[Bug 1256591]

2014-01-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256591 Title: The system is unable to read from a PTP camera. To manage notifications about this

Re: [Bug 232260] Re: Installing luatex causes bugs in texdoc

2013-06-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am amazed to get this message five years after the original report. You people must get a medal for tenacity :-) Nothing else from me. Please close the bug. Chandra 20 Jun 2013 On 06/16/2013 12:37 AM, Daniel Karlsson wrote: Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Hardy Heron reached EOL

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced this bug and it has resulted in the following consequences on my Kubuntu 12.04 amd64 system: 1. Inability to update or upgrade with apt-get update apt-get upgrade See example below for error message. 2. Error when trying to install or reinstall any existing package. For

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Is this connected to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1016040 by any chance? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970139 Title: apt_check.py crashed with

[Bug 970139] Re: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

2012-08-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
And to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1024599 as well? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970139 Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in

[Bug 1012167] Re: Version of PDFSam in the repository is incredibly old

2012-07-31 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me. I have followed the instructions at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9109328postcount=5 but would prefer not to have a workaround. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 915235] Re: muon-installer crash

2012-04-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Following up on my report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/muon/+bug/915235/comments/12 I re-installed Kubuntu 12.04 from the alternate CD and can now report that the problem is no more. Perhaps the first installation was corrupted in some way that is not reproducible. Sorry for the

[Bug 915235] Re: muon-installer crash

2012-04-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am on fresh install of Kubuntu 12.04 on AMD64. Muon stoppedworking after an upgrade and when I do `apt-get install --reinstall muon` I get this error ** Reading en translations from /var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_i18n_Translation-en: done.

[Bug 881355] Re: citeproc-hs was not compiled with bibutils support

2012-01-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 from me. I wish to compile from deb-src if possible and would appreciate some guidelines here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881355 Title: citeproc-hs was not compiled with

[Bug 332663] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

2011-11-08 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
IIRC, the bug was reported with Kubuntu 09.10. I am now using 11.10. which is four releases later. The bug has disappeared in the process and does not affect me any more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 235018] Re: ImageMagick menu fonts are illegible in Hardy

2011-06-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Natty (the bug was reported with Hardy!) there are no problems. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235018 Title: ImageMagick menu fonts are illegible in Hardy To manage

[Bug 183492] Re: [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit

2010-12-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Many thanks Michael Lustfield. Would you be kind enough to point us to a ppa or other source when the package is ready? -- [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 358654] Re: udevadm trigger is not permitted while udev is unconfigured

2010-09-02 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
LL Phillips: You might want to see http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9796852postcount=10 for StewartM's step-by-step solution if you have previous kernel images that you can reboot from. If you do not have a previously working kernel, you might have to do what Andrux101 has suggested at

[Bug 522814] Re: ibus does not install itself as an option for the all_ALL quasi-locale

2010-07-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm the reported behaviour for ibus on a fresh CD install of Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 on an AMD 64 system. One consequent problem is that if I launch the KDE kate text editor version 3.4.5 for KDE 4.4.5 from the launchpad pparepos, I still get a No Input Window message from the ibus

[Bug 514170] [NEW] Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: In Kubuntu 9.10 using KDE 4.3.5 the middle mouse select and paste function fails in kate or kile. This seems to happen randomly and is very frustrating. Klipper has been configures to synchronize contents fo clipboard and selection, and yet this synchronization is absent.

[Bug 514170] Re: Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

2010-01-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519309/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519310/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38519311/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
It works in Kubuntu 9.10 with gscan2pdf 0.9.29-1ubuntu1~9.10prevu1 imagemagick 7:6.5.8.3-1~9.10prevu1 both combined from source packages using prevu. One curious observation though: there is no warning before an existing file is overwritten by a new scanned file, saved as a PDF. Thank you.

[Bug 183492] Re: [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit

2010-01-24 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Any progress on packaging a .deb? Thanks. -- [needs-packaging] Open Komodo Edit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 424249] Re: locks when trying to save as PDF

2010-01-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced the same problems as noted above. Here is what I did to work around. 1. I installed the imagemagick-6.5.8.3 source package, generated the .deb using prevu, and installed the resulting package on Karmic Koala on an amd-64 PC. My packages have version number

[Bug 368053] Re: Jaunty fails to recognize USB-connected cell phone as device

2009-11-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 I have the same problem with an Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone. Here is what I did to get around the problem: 1. sudo apt-get install usbmount pmount 2. Create /etc/udev/rules.d/75-mobile-phone.rules with this content: SUBSYSTEM!=usb_device, ACTION!=add,

Re: [Bug 392898] Re: prevu error: No space left on device

2009-10-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
the problem with kate that I was trying to solve by compiling source with prevu. HTH. Chandra 20 Oct 09 -- -- R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Perth, Western Australia email: chyav...@gmail.com -- -- prevu error: No space left on device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392898 You

[Bug 392898] [NEW] prevu error: No space left on device

2009-06-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: prevu I am trying to compile kate from Karmic source using prevu on a Jaunty machine with lots of hard disk space on all partitions. I have confirmed that no partition is even close to maxing out. The highest usage is on my root (/) partition at 59.6%

[Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2009-06-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I used to experience this problem with my previous i386 PC which had a Pioneer DVD reader-writer. The problem never went away. I am now on an AMD 64 machine with an ASUS DVD reader-writer and am running Jaunty. There is no problem now. It would perhaps be useful if you stated your brand and

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I replaced /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops with the new Poppler-based pdftops filter and changed its permissions to 755 as advised at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/362186/comments/43 above. Now, the job does not get printed although it shows up in the printer queue. The printer

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I tried apport-collect 362186 and went as far as the Almost finished ... stage but did not know how to go back to the application window in which you started the process and inform it that you have done your part of the process. This seems arcane for a CLI. What does one type in on a terminal

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have re-installed poppler-utils and used the latest Improved Poppler- based pdftops and printed the PDF. I can report the following: 1. The small piece of the lower border of each letter [being] added to the upper border problem has now gone. Thank you very much for that. 2. When I

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-06-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
After re-installing the printer on the Jaunty PC, the new printout is raised by 2 mm for the whole page. Once the pages are so aligned, if a light is shone through the two pages, the printout appears as one. This is sufficient for me. I think the problem has been solved. My deep gratitude to

[Bug 362186] Re: Spurious lines on print outs

2009-05-29 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm the same problems as reported above, with PDF documents written with Adobe Minion Pro and Wranock Pro on Kubuntu 9.04 on an AMD 64 PC. However, a PDF embodying Linux Libertine OTF, Lohit Tamil, and Lohit Hindi fonts does not suffer from the small piece of the lower border of each

[Bug 306002] Re: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read

2009-05-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jerod D. Klink, you might wish to look at: http://www.jemmatzan.com/2009/02/the-default-ubuntu-mycnf-for-mysql- 50x.html -- /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 306002] Re: /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read

2009-05-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Jerod D. Klink, you might wish to look at: http://www.jemmatzan.com/2009/02/the-default-ubuntu-mycnf-for-mysql- 50x.html -- /etc/mysql/my.cnf cannot be read https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 267399] Re: Intrepid: K3B fails to rip to MP3

2009-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you so much Ralf Jung. I did what you suggested and it now works! Because it is not obvious how to do it, I have recorded below my sequence of steps: Settings - Configure K3b - Plugins - Audio Encoder - External Audio Encoder - Configure - Mp3 Lame - Edit Tick the checkboxes for Swap Byte

[Bug 289699] Re: Kate crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

2009-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
This problem still persists in Kubuntu Jaunty on an AMD 64. Backtrace is attached. ** Attachment added: kate.kcrash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26001782/kate.kcrash -- Kate crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289699 You received this bug notification

[Bug 41651] Re: Created file doesn't appear on Open recent list unless opened through konqueror

2009-04-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm this kate bug on Kununtu Jaunty upgraded from Intrepid. Please fix this anomaly; kile does not suffer from it. -- Created file doesn't appear on Open recent list unless opened through konqueror https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41651 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 267399] Re: Intrepid: K3B fails to rip to MP3

2009-04-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have upgraded Intrepid to Jaunty on Kubuntu and I still have the problem. The elegant workaround at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3b/+bug/267399/comments/15 does not work for me either. For the record, although I am running KDE 4.2.2, K3b is 1.0.5 on KDE 3.5.10. dpkg -l lame

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-04-02 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Arthur wrote: This was Firefox idle? Without flash movies, Ajax applications etc.? Mine only shows low one digit kb/s values when using it actively. Nothing when not using it. Nothing more than a few open tabs and normal browsing. No flash, Googlemap, etc. Ever since FF 3.0.5 beta, I have

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-04-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Intrepid on an AMD 64 running firefox 3.0.8 this is a grep of all firefox related processes when I did pidstat -d 2 at different times: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic (hostname) 02/04/09_x86_64_ === 09:08:05 PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command 09:08:23 9140 0.00

Re: [Bug 136526] Re: Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2009-03-22 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
John Vivirito wrote: This should have been fixed in 3.0. I am unable to reproduce this bug. Can you please try running firefox in safe-mode and try a new profile to see if it helps if you are able to reproduce it again ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2009-03-22 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Alexander Sack wrote: in anycase, if you still have an issue in jaunty you could also test ext4 filesystem which should help to make the filesystem access done by firefox less IO hungry. Thanks for that hint. I need clarification on the ext4 filesystem: 1. Will it be an option in jaunty? 2.

[Bug 299427] Re: dpkg: error processing ttf-mathematica4.1 (--install)

2009-03-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can report the same problem and second the motion to have this package removed so that it is not a nuisance. Thanks. -- dpkg: error processing ttf-mathematica4.1 (--install) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299427 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 337277] [NEW] Building kile-2.1~svn20090217 using prevu fails on Intrepid

2009-03-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kile I am running Kubuntu Intrepid with KDE 4.2 on an AMD 64 PC. Details are: Description:Ubuntu 8.10 Release:8.10 The existing package is: kile: Installed: 1:2.0.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:2.0.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: ***

Re: [Bug 337277] Re: Building kile-2.1~svn20090217 using prevu fails on Intrepid

2009-03-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Andreas Wenning wrote: https://launchpad.net/~andreas-wenning/+archive/ppa Thank you so much. I have downloaded and starting using the .deb you lave so kindly packaged. -- Building kile-2.1~svn20090217 using prevu fails on Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337277 You received this

[Bug 301522] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2009-02-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I was trying to install prevu on Intrepid on an amd64 setup. It failed with error messages as reported above. The apport stuff appeared but I do not know if an error report was generated and mailed out. I tred to uninstall the packages with apt-get remove --purge but all the packages were not

[Bug 332663] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

2009-02-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Please take a look at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/301522 and see if this problem also arose because of two versions of install- info. -- package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

[Bug 301522] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2009-02-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am running Intrepid Ibex on an AMD 64 platform. -- package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 301522] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2009-02-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Sorry for the sloppiness. I was trying to understand what happened while I filed my comments. I think the cause of this problem is my installation of TeXLive 2008 from DVD. That has put the GNU version of install-info before the Debian install-info. For more details, please see:

[Bug 301522] Re: package gettext 0.17-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2009-02-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I removed the symlinks from /usr/local/bin including that of /usr/local/bin/install-info and the problem has gone away. I can now install gettext and all packages needed by prevu, which itself has been successfully installed. Perhaps this error message occurs after non-Debian-package

Re: [Bug 136526] Re: Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2008-10-19 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Daniel T Chen wrote: Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta or later? ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: mozilla-firefox = firefox Status: New = Incomplete I am now using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04

Re: [Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2008-09-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Leann Ogasawara wrote: Thanks for the update Mike. So this would appear to be resolved for Intrepid. Although from your comments it would appear this was not resolved with the newer 2.6.27 kernel as you mentioned originally testing showed no improvement with 2.6.27 but after an Intrepid

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-09-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Alexander Sack wrote: R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar, how long does this oscillating happen? one minute? one hour? all the time? I did not pay attention to the frequency, but from memory, I would say it happens from once every half hour to once every hour. -- after fix for #215728 - Committing

Re: [Bug 199040] Re: (hardy) can't write DVD-RW

2008-08-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 228624 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228624 Leann Ogasawara wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 228624 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228624 Hi Guys, This seems like a duplicate of bug 228624 which is already triaged and

Re: [Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2008-08-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Leann Ogasawara wrote: Hi Everyone, One thing I'd be interested in is if people could test booting with the all_generic_ide boot option. Booting with all_generic_ide=1 as a boot option does not change things. I inserted a blank CD-R into the Pioneer drive and while the green LED lights up

[Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2008-07-30 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have reported similar behaviour in another Launchpad bug report. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/228624 and my report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/228624/comments/48 I repeat some of that info here: hdparm -i /dev/scd1 gives ==

[Bug 220957] Re: Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing

2008-07-30 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Perhaps this bug report is also relevant, at least to my case: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=217465 -- Fails to see blank CD/DVDs for writing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220957 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2008-07-30 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
There seem to be similar reports at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=217465 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220957 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4909193 -- DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228624

[Bug 228624] Re: DVD writer not working since hardy upgrade

2008-07-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have a similar problem with a Liteon DVD reader that works and a Pioneer DVD writer that does not, after a fresh install of Hardy. Both were working in Gutsy. hdparm -i /dev/scd0 gives == /dev/scd0: Model=LITEON DVD-ROM LTD-165H , FwRev=CH0J, SerialNo=

[Bug 57789] Re: Crossfading option causes skipping

2008-07-11 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
+1 -- Crossfading option causes skipping https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 222944] Re: mailto links in Firefox 3.0b5 do not open up Thunderbird compose windows

2008-07-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Comment to Robert Persson: Assuming that your FF installationuses a new profile, all you have to do is select File - Send Link You will see a popup window with yahoo as the mail user agent default choice (for reasons that escape me). You also have the option to choose another application. Click

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-07-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
At least one other person seems to have encountered a similar problem on Windows Vista. See post of June 24th, 2008 at: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7p=3612185 entitled Reducing disk I/O used by Firefox 3.0 • mozillaZine Forums where the poster writes: -Quote Looking

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-06-30 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Today, I tried to catch what was going on in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/something while there was loss of responsiveness and audible/visible disk I/O. It appears that places.sqlite-journal is being emptied and filled alternately. This is an extract with timestamps for these two files over time from

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-06-28 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
stek79 wrote: I never experienced any grey issue since the first post, now the IO activity is not so overwhelming like it was before. Perhaps we can close this bug? I am hesitant to say the problem has been resolved. I still experience periods where the program does not respond while I/O

[Bug 240691] [NEW] Please provide source package for libgphoto2 2.4.1

2008-06-17 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: libgphoto2 2.4.1 overcomes a bug affecting Olympus cameras. For details, please see this thread: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2008-June/005636.html As long as an Ubuntu or Debian source package is available, I can compile it using prevu. So, my request is to

Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-06-15 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Alexander Sack wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:43:49PM -, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: But I am sure that it is places.sqlite that is causing loss of responsiveness. Why are you sure about this? - Alexander Because when the computer is unresponsive and I run top the first

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-06-14 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
My places.sqlite file has grown to 12107776 bytes and there is still periodic loss of responsiveness with high CPU usage and concentrated I/O. My urlclassifier3.sqlite file is growing only slowly at is 54878208 bytes and does not seem to be the problem. Perhaps this blog explains what I am

[Bug 230624] Re: logout crash kubuntu 8.10 (kde3) lifebook S7010

2008-06-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am using Kubuntu 8.04 on a desktop with the nvidia driver/kernel module. dpkg -l *nvidia* | grep ii gives ii nvidia-glx 1:96.43.05+2.6.24.13-18.41 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver ii nvidia-kernel-common

[Bug 230624] Re: logout crash kubuntu 8.10 (kde3) lifebook S7010

2008-06-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: File /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14986948/Xorg.0.log.old -- logout crash kubuntu 8.10 (kde3) lifebook S7010 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230624 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-05-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have had recent loss of responsiveness in fifefox-3.0b5. Today I experienced about three minutes of non-repsonsiveness with high CPU load of about 70% and disk I/O. It seems that this time the file places.sqlite is being written to. It size is currently 8626176 2008-05-26 14:13 places.sqlite

[Bug 135911] Re: [gutsy] request for Tex Gyre fonts to be added to texlive-fonts-extra

2008-05-21 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I will appreciate knowing if any decision has been made. Is there any chance they will get to Intrepid? prevu can then be used to build from source. Many thanks. Chandra -- [gutsy] request for Tex Gyre fonts to be added to texlive-fonts-extra https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135911 You received

[Bug 232260] [NEW] Installing luatex causes bugs in texdoc

2008-05-20 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: I have set texdoc environment variables in ~/.bashrc to handle online display of documentation on my Kubuntu Hardy system so: TEXDOCVIEW_dvi=/usr/bin/kdvi %s export TEXDOCVIEW_dvi TEXDOCVIEW_pdf=/usr/bin/kpdf %s export TEXDOCVIEW_pdf TEXDOCVIEW_html=firefox %s export

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-19 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
For what it is worth, I just checked my /etc/hosts file and found out that the first line was 127.0.0.1 localhost while the second line was 127.0.1.1 hostname Perhaps the first line was a leftover from manually editing the file in some previous setup. I have now commented it out and will post

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-17 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
It would be interesting to find out if kdesu kcontrol had the same beneficial effect: DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. I cannot test this since I no longer have this problem, but I believe that the observation above from Richard holds the clue to the solution. -- Administrator button fails

[Bug 222944] Re: mailto links in Firefox 3.0b5 do not open up Thunderbird compose windows

2008-05-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you very much Oliver. I did what you said, but it failed the first time because I have a user.js file as well in my profile, with the line: user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.mailto,/usr/bin/thunderbird); I had to comment that out. After that your method worked like a charm. Many

[Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd)

2008-05-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
There is noticeable loss of functionality during a minute or two of intensive writing, but it is bearable now. My urlclassifier3.sqlite is now 52752384 bytes. It will help to know when the growth in size will taper off so that the file updates go largely unnoticed. -- after fix for #215728 -

[Bug 215728] Re: [MASTER] Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O

2008-05-06 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
No problems, but two questions. Before the workaround, I had two files: 4970496 2008-04-26 23:42 urlclassifier2.sqlite 23249920 2008-04-27 17:01 urlclassifier3.sqlite Now that I have installed xulrunner-1.9 version 1.9~b5+nobinonly- 0ubuntu4~8.04.0mt1 from hardy-proposed, I do not have the file

[Bug 215728] Re: [MASTER] Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O

2008-05-05 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have added to /etc/apt/sources.list the following two lines: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ubuntu hardy main The currently installed packages are: firefox-3.0_3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

[Bug 222944] [NEW] mailto links in Firefox 3.0b5 do not open up Thunderbird compose windows

2008-04-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 After upgrading from Kubuntu Gutsy to Hardy (Kubuntu 8.04) and moving from Firefox 2.0.0.14 to 3.0b5 (from package 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3) I find that left clicking on mailto links does not open the Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 compose window as

[Bug 215728] Re: [MASTER] High CPU Consumption

2008-04-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm all of the above, especially the hammering of the hard disk and firefox being on top of top, after upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on Kubuntu. My packages are: dpkg -l firefox xulrunner ||/ Name VersionDescription

[Bug 215728] Re: [MASTER] High CPU Consumption

2008-04-27 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you marcw. I have done what you have suggested. Now urlclassifier2.sqlite is absent and urlclassifier3.sqlite is 9216 bytes as you have said. Firefox is quiet and responsive now. I will post if there are any changes. -- [MASTER] High CPU Consumption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215728

[Bug 222496] [NEW] Please allow upgrade from local ISP archives

2008-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager When I tried upgrading Kubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 in Australia, it disables my local ISP's K/Ubuntu archives and uses the national archive for Australia. It then reports this: Failed to fetch

[Bug 222497] [NEW] Please allow upgrade from local ISP archives

2008-04-26 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 222496 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222496 Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager When I tried upgrading Kubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 in Australia, it disables my local ISP's K/Ubuntu archives and uses the national archive for

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-23 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Out of curiosity, I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.9, simply to see if the problem went away, and it has. I wonder if this information can help track down the cause of this recalcitrant bug. Thanks. -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-09 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am sorry, the problem has returned. The administrator button in KDE Control Centre (kcontrol) does not work. When pressed, there is a Loading message and it hangs up after that. Clicking any other function after that causes the program, to abort. The workaround sudo kcontrol spews error

[Bug 126940] Re: Eyedropper in Colorzilla addon does not work

2008-02-08 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I can confirm this behaviour and the successful workaround for firefox-2.0.0.12 in Gutsy and ColorZilla-1.9. I have written a script to patch the workaround after each update., but it would be nicer and neater if that were done in the post install script of the package itself. Thanks. Chandra

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-01-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
This problem disappeared as mysteriously as it arose. There are two possible reasons for this as far as I can see: 1. A recent update/upgrade using sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade flushed the problem out somehow. 2. The encoding was not set to default on konsole. This was noticeable

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dave, Please tell me what additional information you need me to provide and I will endeavour to do so. Thanks. Chandra -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dave, I installed it with English, pre-selected as default. Typing locale at the console gives: *** LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am online just now and can furnish more info at short notice if you tell me what commands you want executed and what messages you need logged. Chandra -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification

[Bug 15001] Re: Administrator mode not working

2007-12-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced identical behaviour. A complete re-install of Kubuntu Gutsy has not helped. I have filed Bug #175909 in kde-systemsettings because this bug is marked closed. The messages on console when the Administrator Mode button is clicked are:

[Bug 175909] Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: This bug is identical to: Bug #15001, first reported on 2005-04-05 by Aric Wilisch Administrator mode not working and solved that year. It has re-surfaced and has also been reported again by Rohan Dhruva on 30 Nov 07. I can confirm what he has siad at:

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Typing sudo kcontrol from the console enables administrator tasks to be accomplished. This is a workaround. There are error messages about uid being 1000 when it should be 0, but it works. kdesu kcontrol fails with error messages. This means that the system is usable now. -- Administrator

[Bug 15001] Re: Administrator mode not working

2007-12-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Typing sudo kcontrol from the console enables administrator tasks to be accomplished. This is a workaround. There are error messages about uid being 1000 when it should be 0, but it works. kdesu kcontrol fails with error messages. -- Administrator mode not working

[Bug 159965] texlive-xetex omits dependency on dvipdfmx

2007-11-04 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: texlive-xetex texlive-xetex version 2007-12ubuntu3 omits dependency on dvipdfmx. This leads to all sorts of errors if the dvipdfmx package is not installed independently. The workaround is to install dvipdfmx. Another is to backport texlive-xetex

[Bug 157196] Re: PREVU failed under Gutsy

2007-11-03 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Thank you Fred. I have installed both the patched prevu and the pbuilder package and things work fine now :-) -- PREVU failed under Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 157196] Re: PREVU failed under Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have experienced the same problem on a fresh Gutsy install: Output on stdout is: --- - cleaning the build env - removing directory /var/cache/prevu/builds/29762 and its subdirectories cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/pbuilder/result/tex-common_1.9~7.10prevu1.dsc':

[Bug 136526] Re: Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2007-09-01 Thread R \(Chandra\) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: Output from Firefox for table in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts; http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9085183/firefox.jpg -- Indic scripts not displayed properly (again) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136526 You received

[Bug 136526] Re: Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2007-09-01 Thread R \(Chandra\) Chandrasekhar
** Attachment added: Output from Konqueror for table in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts; http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9085184/konqueror.jpg -- Indic scripts not displayed properly (again) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136526 You

[Bug 136526] Indic scripts not displayed properly (again)

2007-08-31 Thread R \(Chandra\) Chandrasekhar
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty) I am unable to view Indic scripts correctly. The test page is:

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