[Bug 1923040] Re: en-gb thesaurus is missing

2021-04-18 Thread RichardNeill
Thanks for your response. I looked a bit more into it, and it seems that the official recommended way of dealing with this problem is the symlink approach, and that en-GB is explicitly provided by the en-US package - the compiler of the thesaurus intentionally combined both languages' spelling

[Bug 1923040] [NEW] en-gb thesaurus is missing

2021-04-08 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Problem: The EN-GB thesaurus is missing for LibreOffice. To observe: 1. Fresh install of 21.04, set Location to United Kingdom. 2. Start LibreOffice Writer, choose the Tools menu. 3. The "Thesaurus" item is greyed out. Root cause: there is no mythes-en-gb package available

[Bug 1913833] [NEW] ImageMagick 2 years old, fails to convert some svgs; fixed upstream

2021-01-29 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: The version of convert (ImageMagick) in Ubuntu is rather outdated: $ lsb_release -d Description:Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (development branch) $ convert --version Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-23 Q16 x86_64 20190101 https://imagemagick.org Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick

[Bug 1863128] [NEW] focal: php-mbstring has broken dependency on libonig4

2020-02-13 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: php7.4-mbstring : Depends: libonig4 (>= 5.9.5) but it is not installable On further investigation, focal ships with libonig5. Just as a bit of debugging, if I force it to install with --ignore-depends PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mbstring.so'

[Bug 1854673] [NEW] needs-packaging SuiteCRM

2019-12-01 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: [needs-packaging] SuiteCRM SuiteCRM is a major open-source customer relations management program. It's mature, having forked from SugarCRM some years back, and is a standard web+database (PHP/MariaDB) application. Currently, it's not packaged, and it has an installer which

[Bug 1849371] Re: [snap] Cannot run chromium as user www-data because home directory is /var/www

2019-10-29 Thread RichardNeill
The snap confinement also seems to create a number of other problems. I've also observed: * Webmail - if I receive an attachment of certain types (libreoffice is broken; pdf is OK), then I get a "please confirm you want to allow chromium to open this file" dialog every single time. * password

[Bug 1849371] Re: [snap] Cannot run headless chromium as user www-data

2019-10-22 Thread RichardNeill
Thanks for the suggestion, and you're right, your summary is better. I tried the following (with various permutations). sudo su -l -s /bin/bash www-data mkdir /tmp/chromium-home HOME=/tmp/chromium-home /usr/bin/timeout 60 chromium-browser --no- sandbox --headless --disable-gpu

[Bug 1849371] [NEW] headless chromium broken (as a consequence of snap)

2019-10-22 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Since the move to snap, and upgrade to 19.10, I can no longer use headless-chromium to do automated conversions. The script, as currently run by Apache (user www-data) as a back-end server process is: /usr/bin/timeout 60 chromium-browser --no-sandbox --headless --disable-

[Bug 1665833] Re: inode exhaustion should be logged to dmesg

2017-02-17 Thread RichardNeill
Sorry, I can't collect the report: apport isn't installed on the server, and the whole problem is that, having run out of inodes, I can't install anything (nor save files). Cleaning up and rebooting will destroy the logfiles of interest. The key point here is that: root@archimedes:/home/rjn#

[Bug 1665833] [NEW] inode exhaustion should be logged to dmesg

2017-02-17 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Problem: My server just became unusable, because it ran out of inodes (something that shouldn't happen on a relatively normal installation). The root-cause was a misbehaving CRM program creating way too many session files and never deleting them. However, while debugging,

[Bug 1464056] Re: Some characters are invisible (libreoffice/freetype) - depends on font-rendering

2016-10-08 Thread RichardNeill
...and it's still here in 16.04.1 LTS. Any chance of a fix? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464056 Title: Some characters are invisible (libreoffice/freetype) - depends on

[Bug 1531687] Re: mediawiki is almost 4 years out of date

2016-01-07 Thread RichardNeill
Sorry for the dup. I fell for a UI problem in Launchpad. To see this, go here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediawiki/+filebug and try to file a bug on mediawiki: put "mediawiki" in the summary field, then click next. In the process, launchpad will show a list of possible bugs. I

[Bug 1531687] [NEW] mediawiki is almost 4 years out of date

2016-01-06 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: The Ubuntu MediaWiki packages (in 14.04 and 15.10) are both version 1.19, shipped in 2012! This is so badly out of date that the mediawiki install instructions suggest downloading packages manually (which is the "windows-way" of doing things). It's also end-of-life upstream.

[Bug 883017] Re: memtest86+ fails on efi systems

2015-11-14 Thread RichardNeill
Still broken...surely it's not good enough to leave a vital testing tool like this in a state where it is "known not to work" with most modern computers? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1338177] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:1295]

2015-09-08 Thread RichardNeill
Hi Christopher, Is there actually any point doing this? I've had so many experiences where I track down a bug in some detail, file it on Launchpad,, and then it takes a year or more (as in this case) before any developer might actually pay attention to the report - by which time the whole

[Bug 1338177] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:1295]

2015-08-31 Thread RichardNeill
Hello. I'm currently running Wily on the same machine, under kernel: 4.1.0-3-generic #3-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 28 12:25:10 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm using the Radeon driver from Xorg (Fglrx isn't even installed), and while the machine is perfectly usable, I still get these

[Bug 1464053] Re: ubuntu-bug is broken (only) within Mate, because of gvfs-open.

2015-08-25 Thread RichardNeill
I just tested this again in my Ubuntu Mate system (Wily, fully updated as of today). Running the command gvfs-open http://www.bbc.co.uk; still results in the same problem - namely a new firefox window that is open at the homepage, not the URL required. The gvfs-open command does what it

[Bug 1488496] [NEW] arduino IDE is very outdated

2015-08-25 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: The arduino version shipped with Ubuntu Wily should be a current build, such as 1.6.3. In fact, it is version 1.0.5, which is 2.5 years old, and incompatible with most current boards. This is made more confusing by a version number that doesn't make it obvious. Going to

[Bug 1464053] Re: ubuntu-bug is broken (only) within Mate, because of gvfs-open.

2015-08-06 Thread RichardNeill
** Also affects: gvfs (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/1464053 Title: ubuntu-bug is broken (only) within Mate, because of

[Bug 1464053] Re: ubuntu-bug is itself broken

2015-08-06 Thread RichardNeill
According to mate, the gvfs-open command is no longer a mate-fork, but part of gnome. https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-vfs/issues/6#issuecomment-128310994 Furthermore, within the Gnome (Unity) environment, running the command gvfs-open http://www.bbc.co.uk; opens the BBC webpage as we

[Bug 1464056] Re: Some characters are invisible (libreoffice/freetype) - depends on font-rendering

2015-08-05 Thread RichardNeill
Still present as of 5th August in latest Wily. This may be more useful filed upstream: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center/issues/174 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1464069] Re: mate-appearance-properties segfaults on font-tab in certain cases (Ambience + Terminus)

2015-08-05 Thread RichardNeill
Still present as of latest update in Wily, on 6/Aug/2015. I noticed that when reading my instructions to replicate this bug, I copy-pasted a line which doesn't make sense. The paragraph 3 should read: 3. To make it crash: - Open appearance-properties - Select one of the bad themes.

[Bug 1464053] Re: ubuntu-bug is itself broken

2015-06-24 Thread RichardNeill
Hello Brian, Thanks for your comment. If I type the following command at the shell: xdg-open http://www.bbc.co.uk; Then I get a newly opened, maximised Firefox window, which opens a blank page (the Ubuntu start page, exactly as if within Firefox, I had pressed Ctrl+N.) However, if I run

[Bug 1464053] Re: ubuntu-bug is itself broken

2015-06-24 Thread RichardNeill
One more thing that may help; I read through the source of xdg-open, and the open_mate() function calls gvfs-open. If I run the command: gvfs-open http://www.bbc.co.uk; then I get, as before, the new window with the ubuntu-start-content. Looking at the other underlying commands within

[Bug 1464053] [NEW] ubuntu-bug is itself broken

2015-06-10 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: The ubuntu bug reporting system is rather badly broken, because when I run ubuntu-bug/apport-bug, it gathers data, then opens a new blank firefox window, but does not connect to launchpad! The root cause is this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exo/+bug/1427144

[Bug 1425972] Re: Firefox no longer supports -remote parameter

2015-06-10 Thread RichardNeill
This also breaks ubuntu-bug/apport-bug itself. Report filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1464053 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425972 Title: Firefox

[Bug 1464056] Re: Some characters are invisible (libreoffice/freetype) - depends on font-rendering

2015-06-10 Thread RichardNeill
** Attachment added: This is a screenshot of it working OK. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1464056/+attachment/4412907/+files/font_bug_working.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1464056] [NEW] Some characters are invisible (libreoffice/freetype) - depends on font-rendering

2015-06-10 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Symptom: Certain characters are not reliably displayed in LibreOffice. Which character is visible depends on font size, font face, and even mouse-over. It looks as though about 40% of the letters have been randomly made white-on-white! (This is really weird to track

[Bug 1464069] [NEW] mate-appearance-properties segfaults on font-tab in certain cases (Ambience + Terminus)

2015-06-10 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Under certain circumstances, the Mate-Control-Center Appearance window simply segfaults when the font-tab is chosen. Here is how to reproduce it (and work-around it). 1. Always open mate-appearance-properties from the CLI, rather than the control-center - just to see the

[Bug 1448102] Re: Kubuntu 15.04: plasmashell crashes

2015-05-11 Thread RichardNeill
Can anyone explain where KDE logs its errors to, or how this might be debugged? (On the positive side, this encouraged me to try out the Trinity Desktop (KDE3-fork) and it works surprisingly well. Packages are available at trinitydesktop.org ) -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1448102] Re: Kubuntu 15.04: plasmashell crashes

2015-05-09 Thread RichardNeill
I also can't get this to work - KDE in Ubuntu 15.04 is completely unusable. I tried creating a new user, and that doesn't help. However, I have no problem with XFCE or MATE (or the previous KDE in 14.10). There doesn't appear to be anything useful in the logs either. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1222654] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to install/upgrade, left in a half configured state

2014-08-06 Thread RichardNeill
In a related manner, can I suggest that when apt-get is invoked with -y, that means that the user really really wants the installer to proceed assuming yes, and without asking questions, and has probably written an unattended shell-script, which is not allowed to require user-interaction to

[Bug 782049] Re: firefox tooltip timeout after ~2sec

2014-07-27 Thread RichardNeill
See also: /etc/default/unclutter: the default (unhelpfully, imho) is that it is autostarted for every X session. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782049 Title: firefox tooltip timeout

[Bug 435831] Re: unclutter shouldn't be enabled by default

2014-07-27 Thread RichardNeill
I agree, the default should be disabled. My rationale: 1. Most users wouldn't necessarily expect the program to be auto-start; rather, they would expect to add it to their own X-startup scripts if they want it. 2. Furthermore, it creates really weird symptoms for those who don't realise what's

[Bug 1308125] Re: ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(240)] Gdk: gdk_window_set_user_time called on non-toplevel

2014-07-18 Thread RichardNeill
Sorry, forgot to mention, it affects a clean default install of both Saucy and Utopic (as of 19/Jul/2014) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308125 Title:

[Bug 1308125] Re: ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(240)] Gdk: gdk_window_set_user_time called on non-toplevel

2014-07-18 Thread RichardNeill
II also see this bug. It's definitely a problem! I suspect that the reason relatively few people are complaining is that (a) The problem is intermittent - the keys come and go, sometimes only a single keystroke is dropped. Sometimes it takes many seconds. (b) Nobody expects a bug of this type -

[Bug 1338622] Re: LCD monitor timing misdetected: 60Hz != 60 Hz

2014-07-09 Thread RichardNeill
Hi Joseph, Can I ask why you think this might be a kernel bug? I've had this problem for about 11 years, with multiple kernels, distros and both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. I always fixed it with the binary driver. However, I only just discovered that it could also be fixed by the correct

[Bug 1338622] Re: LCD monitor timing misdetected: 60Hz != 60 Hz

2014-07-09 Thread RichardNeill
I did just try the upstream kernel as requested (linux-image-3.16.0-031600rc4-generic). This does (mostly) fix the problem, but not entirely, so I'll tag it bug-exists upstream. 1) I have all 3 monitors working correctly if I combine kernel 3.16 AND a hand-tuned xorg.conf 2) Without

[Bug 1338177] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:1295]

2014-07-08 Thread RichardNeill
Hello. I tried using both of the Ubuntu packages of the driver, from the utopic repositories, namely: fglrx and fglrx-updates. I also observed the same problem with the fglrx packages under Trusty. The versions were: fglrx_13.350.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb fglrx-

[Bug 1338177] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:1295]

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
Dear Christopher, Thanks for your suggestion. I've done a few more experiments before and after updating the BIOS (to the latest version (4105 07/01/2013). Here are the results. 1. Old Bios. Mageia 3 + Fglrx driver = Worked fine 2. Old Bios, Kubuntu Trusty (installed yesterday, fully

[Bug 1338603] [NEW] fglrx deb postrm script hangs indefinitely

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: I just installed fglrx (2:13.350.1-0ubuntu3) on Utopic. It causes a CPU hang (see Bug 1338177), so I wanted to remove it. Running: sudo apt-get purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle silently hangs, indefinitely. The prompt just never returns (not even with Ctrl-C). I tracked

[Bug 1338603] Lsusb.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: Lsusb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147247/+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/1338603 Title: fglrx

[Bug 1338603] BootDmesg.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147243/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603

[Bug 1338603] Lspci.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147246/+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/1338603 Title: fglrx

[Bug 1338603] Re: fglrx deb postrm script hangs indefinitely

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected utopic ** Description changed: I just installed fglrx (2:13.350.1-0ubuntu3) on Utopic. It causes a CPU hang (see Bug 1338177), so I wanted to remove it. Running: sudo apt-get purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle silently hangs,

[Bug 1338603] CRDA.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: CRDA.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147244/+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/1338603 Title: fglrx

[Bug 1338603] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147248/+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/1338603

[Bug 1338622] [NEW] LCD monitor timing misdetected: 60Hz != 60 Hz

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: X is not correctly detecting my monitors' timings. Despite being a digital connection (with allegedly EDID), I have to force a modeline with xrandr. The graphical xrandr tools (arandr, or KDE's system- settings) do not work. I used to think this was solved with the binary

[Bug 1338603] CurrentDmesg.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147245/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603

[Bug 1338603] ProcModules.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147250/+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/1338603

[Bug 1338603] ProcInterrupts.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147249/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1338603] UdevDb.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147251/+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/1338603 Title:

[Bug 1338603] WifiSyslog.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: WifiSyslog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147253/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1338603] UdevLog.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603/+attachment/4147252/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338603 Title:

[Bug 1338622] Re: LCD monitor timing misdetected: 60Hz != 60 Hz

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected utopic ** Description changed: X is not correctly detecting my monitors' timings. Despite being a digital connection (with allegedly EDID), I have to force a modeline with xrandr. The graphical xrandr tools (arandr, or KDE's system-

[Bug 1338622] AudioDevicesInUse.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: AudioDevicesInUse.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147262/+files/AudioDevicesInUse.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1338622] CurrentDmesg.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147265/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622

[Bug 1338622] CRDA.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: CRDA.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147264/+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/1338622 Title: LCD

[Bug 1338622] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147268/+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/1338622

[Bug 1338622] Lspci.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147266/+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/1338622 Title: LCD

[Bug 1338622] ProcModules.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147270/+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/1338622

[Bug 1338622] ProcInterrupts.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147269/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1338622] BootDmesg.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147263/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622

[Bug 1338622] UdevDb.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147271/+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/1338622 Title: LCD

[Bug 1338622] UdevLog.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147272/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622 Title:

[Bug 1338622] Lsusb.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: Lsusb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147267/+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/1338622 Title: LCD

[Bug 1338622] WifiSyslog.txt

2014-07-07 Thread RichardNeill
apport information ** Attachment added: WifiSyslog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1338622/+attachment/4147273/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1338177] [NEW] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:1295]

2014-07-05 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: I've just installed Utopic, and my machine is really slow to boot. ProblemType: KernelOops DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: linux-image-3.15.0-6-generic 3.15.0-6.11 [modified: boot/vmlinuz-3.15.0-6-generic] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.15.0-6.11-generic 3.15.0 Uname:

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
(P.S. Even worse is connecting via a stack of SSH tunnels, eg behind a firewall. It takes almost 30 seconds to get a prompt, and ssh -vvv doesn't help identify the issue). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to the bug report.

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
This is really painful - although I don't experience complete hangs, I do experience 12-second+ delays while the script 90-updates-available grinds slowly though. So login via SSH is unpleasantly slow. Furthermore, bash completion for tab completion on scp commands is also very slow. The

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
Interestingly, 14.04 seems to be much better at this than 12.04, takling around 1.5 sec rather than 12. However, it's interesting how much faster it can still be without this. Here is a measurement I made. This is 14.04 server on the LAN, with ssh-key authentication, and I repeated serveral

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
(P.S. Even worse is connecting via a stack of SSH tunnels, eg behind a firewall. It takes almost 30 seconds to get a prompt, and ssh -vvv doesn't help identify the issue). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
This is really painful - although I don't experience complete hangs, I do experience 12-second+ delays while the script 90-updates-available grinds slowly though. So login via SSH is unpleasantly slow. Furthermore, bash completion for tab completion on scp commands is also very slow. The

[Bug 525674] Re: apt-check hangs, preventing login via SSH

2014-05-05 Thread RichardNeill
Interestingly, 14.04 seems to be much better at this than 12.04, takling around 1.5 sec rather than 12. However, it's interesting how much faster it can still be without this. Here is a measurement I made. This is 14.04 server on the LAN, with ssh-key authentication, and I repeated serveral

[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found

2014-04-28 Thread RichardNeill
I reported this on Mageia; you may find the following helpful. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12423 As to what is happening, it has got *nothing* to do with the terminal_highlight_color. Grub has 2 parts: The early stage, installed in the drive's bootsector The rest of the

[Bug 1215449] Re: triple monitor support not working on HD 4600

2013-10-25 Thread RichardNeill
Re #19: I'm using kernel 3.11.0-8-generic and the Intel Xorg driver 2:2.99.903+git20131001.c724098f-0ubuntu0sarvatt2 I installed saucy alpha a few months ago, and then the xorg-edgers PPA. That works fine, though I haven't updated it in about4 weeks. The trick for me was to use one DVI/VGA

[Bug 1242180] Re: saucy regression - three monitors no longer work

2013-10-25 Thread RichardNeill
FYI, this is an easy way you can test the latest Xorg nightlies: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242180 Title: saucy regression - three

[Bug 1215449] Re: triple monitor support not working on HD 4600

2013-09-24 Thread RichardNeill
Just for anyone who finds this ... it can be made to work, in the following configuration: Monitor #1 HDMI output - adapter - DVI input(1600x1200) Monitor #2 HDMI output - adapter - DVI input(1600x1200) Monitor #3 DVI output - adapter - VGA input(1600x1200) The 3rd one has to be

[Bug 1215449] Re: triple monitor support not working on HD 4600

2013-08-30 Thread RichardNeill
Filed upstream here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68485 This feature isn't yet implemented in the Intel Driver. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #68485 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68485 -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1215449] [NEW] triple monitor support not working on HD 4600

2013-08-22 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: I have a Gigabyte GA-H87N-wifi motherboard, which explicitly supports 3 monitors at the same time from the motherboards' onboard graphics (2x HDMI, 1x DVI). The CPU is an Intel 4570S with HD4600 graphics (also supporting 3 heads at the same time). However, I can only get 2

[Bug 1197884] Re: apache2.2 SSL has no forward-secrecy: need ECDHE keys

2013-07-22 Thread RichardNeill
Just to answer this, the upgrade has hit Saucy, and I have tested it successfully. I'll mark it as fix-committed. Thanks for your time. ** Changed in: apache2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team,

[Bug 1197884] Re: apache2.2 SSL has no forward-secrecy: need ECDHE keys

2013-07-22 Thread RichardNeill
Just to answer this, the upgrade has hit Saucy, and I have tested it successfully. I'll mark it as fix-committed. Thanks for your time. ** Changed in: apache2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1009914] Re: No boot flag on any partition - Failure to boot after install - Acer Aspire 5720

2013-07-16 Thread RichardNeill
I also saw this in the 13.10 installer (Lubuntu 64 Saucy) with a Lenovo S205 Netbook. This machine has a BIOS that simply ignores the disk (with no error message) unless all of the following are true: * The bootable flag must be set on at least one partition. * It must have a MBR rather than

[Bug 1197884] Re: apache2.2 SSL has no forward-secrecy: need ECDHE keys

2013-07-05 Thread RichardNeill
Thanks for your assistance. Can I ask why you think this is merely a wishlist item? If I've understood the import of this correctly, then the privacy of every visitor to every website served by Apache on every version(*) of Ubuntu is at risk. I don't think that forward-secrecy in SSL is an

[Bug 1197884] Re: apache2.2 SSL has no forward-secrecy: need ECDHE keys

2013-07-05 Thread RichardNeill
Thanks for your assistance. Can I ask why you think this is merely a wishlist item? If I've understood the import of this correctly, then the privacy of every visitor to every website served by Apache on every version(*) of Ubuntu is at risk. I don't think that forward-secrecy in SSL is an

[Bug 1132766] Re: modesetting fails; no signal to monitor

2013-05-09 Thread RichardNeill
I can add a little more here. I think this is a serious kernel regression, which occurred sometime after 3.3.8, and is not fixed as of 3.9.0. There are a lot of forum posts that seem to have the same issue, though few of them are informative. I'm guessing that it only really bites people who

[Bug 932177] Re: XFCE (and other non-GNOME) desktops do not initialise gnome-keyring correctly / WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to PKCS11

2013-04-09 Thread RichardNeill
I'd like to confirm this bug for KUbuntu Raring Beta-final. Please fix it; it's most definitely not invalid. To reproduce: 1. Install both sets of desktops: apt-get install ubuntu-desktop kubuntu-desktop 2. Log into a KDE session. 3. launch an application from the terminal eg libre-office. 4.

[Bug 683570] Re: apt-add-repository doesn't recognize CTRL+C during fetching

2012-12-20 Thread RichardNeill
Still true on Precise. Please fix this! Incidentally, the workaround is Ctrl-\ which does a rather more forcible terminate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683570 Title:

[Bug 103986] Re: Update inputrc config and bash config

2012-12-03 Thread RichardNeill
The inputrc one is definitely an issue. It's easy to change manually after installation, but show-all-if-ambiguous on is so useful, and such a no-brainer to include that I would urge you to make the change. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 103986] Re: Update inputrc config and bash config

2012-12-03 Thread RichardNeill
Sorry, forgot to say, still present in Quantal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103986 Title: Update inputrc config and bash config To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 777685] Re: Unity Desktop is very slow (almost freezed) when decompressing with tar a LZMA file onto a USB Device in vfat

2012-08-07 Thread RichardNeill
I think I can shed a little light. This seems to be a general kernel bug (I've seen it on Mageia too), as well as the most recent Precise-64 system, affecting copying large amounts of data onto a VFAT filesystem (especially if this system is an SD card). For example, trying to copy a 1GB backup,

[Bug 516412] Re: Pressing Enter causes X to freeze

2011-12-16 Thread RichardNeill
I'm seeing this on Oneiric (64-bit) with Xubuntu. I have a very repeatable test case: 1. Reboot. 2. Wait for autologin to occur. 3. Press enter on desktop. 4. X will crash, and I get dumped back to password prompt to login. 5. Then it works ok till I reboot again. I tried the recommended

[Bug 351159] Re: cpufreq scaling_governor entry missing from /sys

2011-07-19 Thread RichardNeill
I just checked, and can confirm that this bug does not affect Lucid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351159 Title: cpufreq scaling_governor entry missing from /sys To manage

[Bug 93603] Re: RFE: Add more php5 extensions (like php5-gmp)

2011-04-04 Thread RichardNeill
Re #28, simplexml is aleady available for lucid. On my lucid system, which has the following PHP pacakges installed: libapache2-mod-php5, php-doc, php5, php5-cli , php5-common , php5-curl , php5-gd, php5-gmp, php5-pgsql I can run: php5 --ri simplexml and it's there. Hope that

[Bug 93603] Re: RFE: Add more php5 extensions (like php5-gmp)

2011-04-04 Thread RichardNeill
Re #28, simplexml is aleady available for lucid. On my lucid system, which has the following PHP pacakges installed: libapache2-mod-php5, php-doc, php5, php5-cli , php5-common , php5-curl , php5-gd, php5-gmp, php5-pgsql I can run: php5 --ri simplexml and it's there. Hope that

[Bug 565729] Re: bash-completion doesn't check shell is BASH

2011-03-20 Thread RichardNeill
I agree that one should never source bash_completion from the wrong shell - it is a case of user error. But I suspect it's a relatively common mistake to make (for example, Mandriva users expect the system shell to always be bash, and /etc/profile.d is used in that way). Also, adding shell

[Bug 565729] Re: bash-completion doesn't check shell is BASH

2011-03-20 Thread RichardNeill
(oops: I've just quoted Mandriva's /etc/bashrc, rather than Ubuntu's /etc/bash.bashrc above - you can see the potential for confusion!) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565729 Title:

[Bug 598580] [NEW] apt-get --force-yes should try harder

2010-06-25 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt If I run apt-get --force-yes install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 pkg4 pkg150 and there is something wrong with pkg73 (eg there is no installation candidate) then I expect apt to try hard, and succeed in installing 149 of my packages, leaving just

[Bug 598581] [NEW] RFE: apt-get install local .deb file

2010-06-25 Thread RichardNeill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt A really useful enhancement to apt-get would be to allow the installation of .deb packages, but with apt's clever abilities. For example: apt-get install ./some_custom_pkg.deb would install it, provided it isn't already present (similar to dpkg

[Bug 195666] Re: Allow pressing escape to see boot messages

2010-06-23 Thread RichardNeill
BTW, the best-of-breed here is quite clearly Gentoo (you can easily see it with the Live CD) - who manage to make the boot messages both informative and pretty. In my view, it's much more elegant than the animation (especially when the animation's progress bar doesn't have 100%=100%, but can go

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