[Bug 1837071] Re: xfsettingsd crashed with SIGSEGV

2019-08-08 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837071 Title: xfsettingsd crashed with SIGSEGV To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1839247] Re: gvfsd-smb-browse crashed with SIGABRT

2019-08-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1541335 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1541335 Apport is once again suggesting this is a duplicate of a private bug. If I am mean to check whether this is a duplicate or not I cannot do so. If apport is comfortable to strip this bug of its Private tag,

[Bug 1651130] Re: gvfsd-smb-browse crashed with SIGABRT in talloc_abort()

2019-08-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Marking as non-private as it has been long enough I am comfortable that anything stored is no longer sensative. I do not think there is anything sensitive in there anyway. I am back here now as I have just raised bug 1839247 however that only looks related by attributed package and nothing more.

[Bug 1831855] Re: Running wireshark-gtk with lots of virtual devices and it crashed with SIGSEGV

2019-06-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Having reviewed the contents of the attachments, I do not consider anything there sensitive so I am changing this bug from private to public. If there is anything I could do to try and recreate the issue or debug the problem please let me know. ** Information type changed from Private to Public

[Bug 1038044] Re: munin-node: apt_all does not Grok Ubuntu (possible regression)

2019-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Thank you for taking the time to get this through Christian. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038044 Title: munin-node: apt_all does not Grok Ubuntu (possible regression) To manage

[Bug 1820031] Re: My Ubuntu 18.04 GUI seems frozen

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Nothing new comes out in the crash report. When I visit https://errors.ubuntu.com/user/1d81a00d35531ca846cc8b470c853c9c4cc299c3a0a42040e68da92210168a3d96818f5de95d8f7d85e66516d77e481a6259123145189d1685f6d22ac584114a the most recent report is:

[Bug 1820031] [NEW] My Ubuntu 18.04 GUI seems frozen

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: This will possibly be a duplicate of Bug #1820028 or Bug #1820029 or Bug #1820030 I was trying to report a frozen GUI over SSH. This is the second report that apport-cli generated when I ran it with xorg as the target package. I made three four reports to see if different

[Bug 1820030] [NEW] My Ubuntu 18.04 GUI seems frozen

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: This will possibly be a duplicate of Bug #1820028 or Bug #1820028 I was trying to report a frozen GUI over SSH. This is the second report that apport-cli generated when I ran it with lightdm as the target package. The symptoms I see are that I started running a go test last

[Bug 1820029] [NEW] My Ubuntu 18.04 GUI seems frozen

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: This will possibly be a duplicate of Bug #1820028 I was trying to report a frozen GUI over SSH. This is the second report that apport-cli generated when I ran it with xdm as the target package. The symptoms I see are that I started running a go test last night and my GUI on

[Bug 1785249] Re: git-cola crashed with SIGABRT

2019-01-24 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Running with my LD_LIBRARY_PATH setup seems to avoid the problem. $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH git-cola I was lead to attempting this by post at https://superuser.com/questions/1397366/what-is-wrong-with-my-qt-

[Bug 1785249] Re: git-cola crashed with SIGABRT

2019-01-22 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I had this again today. I also have it when I try to use Barrier or Synergy, so something has gone wrong with my Qt environment between 16.04 and 18.04. I have tried to remove the development tools and runtime environment without success. After posting to the git-cola project's issue tracker:

[Bug 1810743] [NEW] keepassxc fails to start with could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "".

2019-01-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I recently installed keepassxc and attempted to launch it both from the activities menu and from the command line without success. When I try to run the application from the command line I see: $ keepassxc --help This application failed to start because it could not find

[Bug 1791267] Re: Octave exited with signal 6 On Startup

2018-09-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I got another automated crash prompt to come up. This generated +bug1791278 (which is marked as private right now, but I shall try to change that when appropriate). I had tried running octave as root to see if that changed the unavailable resource mentions in the strace. I now see SIGABRT in

[Bug 1791267] Re: Octave exited with signal 6 On Startup

2018-09-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Further diagnostic suggestions were to try: $ octave --norc octave exited with signal 6 $ octave --no-gui-libs GNU Octave, version 4.2.2 $ octave-cli GNU Octave, version 4.2.2 So the problem seems to be related to the GUI libraries for me. I am not much help at diagnosing more than that. I

[Bug 1791267] [NEW] Octave exited with signal 6 On Startup

2018-09-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: Before my update to Ubuntu 18.04 I was using Octave under 16.04. I am not a frequent Octave user (once every few months). I updated to 18.04 a couple of months ago and tried running octave today only to find that it would not start from my command line. Instead, I see: $

[Bug 1748787] Re: pitivi crashed with AttributeError in _create_next_thumb(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'seek'

2018-08-29 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I was not able to complete a render after this crash. I did not try reloading the program and trying again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748787 Title: pitivi crashed with

[Bug 1785249] Re: git-cola crashed with SIGABRT

2018-08-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Set to public as I did not see anything sensitive in the logs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785249 Title: git-cola crashed with SIGABRT To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1785249] Re: git-cola crashed with SIGABRT

2018-08-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I cannot work out how to install those missing debug symbols. Looking for -dbg or -debug named packages leads me to a dead end. More mooching about the internet lead me to the suggestion of setting export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 Then running my failing program again to see a more detailed output. $

[Bug 1784358] Re: Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-31 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I have raised https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=537526 to cover the installer issue. There are similar bugs marked as fixed for the main Eclipse code, but as this is still visible and relates to the installer, not the main binary, I raised a new bug. That is probably all from me for

[Bug 1784358] Re: Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-31 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I can confirm that downloading the Eclipse installer from the main website: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ executing it as myself and then selecting the C/C++ option got me a working copy of Eclipse installed. That is a successful work around until the packaged version is fixed. When I ran

[Bug 1784358] Re: Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libequinox-osgi-java Resulted in no change. The problem presented as before. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784358 Title: Eclipse not starting

[Bug 1784358] Re: Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Reinstalling Eclipse and Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling also did not change the error. $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall eclipse eclipse-cdt g++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 reinstalled, 0

[Bug 1784358] Re: Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Reviewing the Debian equivalent people have suggested that: $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libequinox-osgi-java Could resolve the issue. Although some people note that it does not help. Others have recommended completely removing Eclipse as installed through apt and instead using the

[Bug 1784358] [NEW] Eclipse not starting with org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main java.lang.ClassNotFoundException being issued after updgrade to 18.04

2018-07-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 on Friday. Following some reboots and updates this morning I am now unable to start the Eclipse IDE. This was working before the upgrade. I have the C++ developer support added to Eclipse. To the best of my memory (and ability to interrogate

[Bug 1780731] [NEW] USB Mouse stopped working. Tried live image of lates Ubuntu on same machine and same result.

2018-07-09 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I had already filed bug 1780391 and was asked to try 18.04 instead of 16.04 to see if the problem was repeatable. I seem to have the same symptoms as with 16.04. First thing this morning I logged into Ubuntu 16.04 and noticed that my mouse worked at the login prompt but not

[Bug 1780731] Re: USB Mouse stopped working. Tried live image of lates Ubuntu on same machine and same result.

2018-07-09 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I was asked to run fwupd in verbose mode and submit the log. Attached is the result of sudo systemctl stop fwupd.service sudo /usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd -v ** Attachment added: "fwupd -v log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd/+bug/1780731/+attachment/5161271/+files/fwupd-v.txt --

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-09 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
As requested I have tried to repeat the problem under Ubuntu 18.04. I did see the same behaviour so I logged a new bug report for Ubuntu 18.04 to match this 16.04 one. The new report is under bug 1780731. The requested file is attached to that report. While writing up that report I checked the

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
More plugging an unplugging mice and now my original mouse is working in the original USB port again. In the RedHat bug they as for the output of `lsusb -v` and `dmesg`. I shall post those here while I have an easy way to copy and paste and then move on.

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Attaching dmesg output as dmesg.txt as it is rather long. ** Attachment added: "dmesg output captured after origonal mouse was working agian but new mouse still did not work" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd/+bug/1780391/+attachment/5160315/+files/dmesg.txt -- You received

[Bug 1780391] [NEW] Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: When I logged in to my locked PC this morning the mouse began behaving strangely. It would only move to one of several vertical points if I made a violent motion. It seemed to move left to right as normal. To try and solve this I unplugged the USB connection and put it

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
It seems that I can click and scroll with the non-working mouse at present. I cannot move the pointer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780391 Title: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
That is interesting. The original USB mouse is working OK now but the new mouse I added is not. I shall try swapping over the USB ports to which they are attached. Maybe I have a USB port that just failed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1780391] Re: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops Working

2018-07-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Changing USB port has not got the new non-working mouse to start working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780391 Title: Mouse Begins To Work In Jumpy Horizontal Steps Then Stops

[Bug 1765001] Re: memcheck-amd64-linux crashed with SIGILL during valgrind --leak-check of my binary

2018-04-18 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1301850 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301850 Closest upstream I came up with was https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387940 I cannot confirm if bug #1301850 is a duplicate or not as I cannot view the private bug. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug

[Bug 1765001] Re: memcheck-amd64-linux crashed with SIGILL during valgrind --leak-check of my binary

2018-04-18 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1301850 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301850 Interesting... I installed the valgrind-dbg package and I no longer get an error report when I attempt to recreate the problem. Before adding debug this was the output: $ ./runmysmoketests.sh "valgrind

[Bug 1748844] Re: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-04-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Happened again today. Raised #1760792 this morning to see if the trace will work. If it does not I shall try adding more -dev packages to see if the backtrace can be brought about. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1748844] Re: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-03-19 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Occurred again today. New report raised at +bug1756839 I raised a new report as this bug seems to happen as a pair with another bug. The original pair that went with this bug (+bug1753393) asked me to raise a new bug to see if better diagnostics were included. I have done so and created

[Bug 1753393] Re: window-stack-bridge crashed with SIGABRT in QMessageLogger::fatal()

2018-03-19 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Changing report to Public so that others can see it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1753393 Title: window-stack-bridge crashed with SIGABRT in QMessageLogger::fatal() To manage

[Bug 1753393] Re: window-stack-bridge crashed with SIGABRT in QMessageLogger::fatal()

2018-03-19 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Would +bug1756835 work better as a link? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1753393 Title: window-stack-bridge crashed with SIGABRT in QMessageLogger::fatal() To manage notifications

[Bug 1753393] Re: window-stack-bridge crashed with SIGABRT in QMessageLogger::fatal()

2018-03-19 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
The problem happened again this morning. As requested above I have filed a new report at #1756835. Hopefully this will include more useful diagnostic information. ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1595458] Re: scan-view reports "ImportError: No module named ScanView"

2018-03-13 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #825101 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825101 ** Also affects: clang (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825101 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1578803] Re: scan-view fails

2018-03-13 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
** Also affects: clang (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825101 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578803

[Bug 1748844] Re: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-03-12 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Seems simple enough to recreate this each time I restart the machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748844 Title: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

[Bug 1748844] Re: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-03-05 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
This morning the second automated bug report prompted me to create +bug1753393 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748844 Title: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported

[Bug 1748844] Re: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-03-05 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Occurred again this morning and an automated bug report brought me back here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748844 Title: hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at

[Bug 1748844] [NEW] hud-service crash with qmessageLogger::fatal() reported at login

2018-02-12 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I start up my Ubuntu 16.04 machine and immediately after loginning in to the GUI I get a crash report about the hub-service. Often this is followed by one or two other reports but not today. Today I followed the instructions on:

[Bug 1724498] Re: Including a DOCTYPE reference to a DTD in the Repo manifest XML causes it to silent fail initialisation

2017-10-23 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I have now raised a bug with Google / Android tools at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68131667 The Debian package maintainers suggested this was the bug tracker I should probably be using http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/android-tools-devel/2017q4/002864.html -- You received

[Bug 1724498] [NEW] Including a DOCTYPE reference to a DTD in the Repo manifest XML causes it to silent fail initialisation

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I have written a manifest XML file for repo (or git-repo depending on how you like to name it). To help check my syntax, I attempted to generate a Document Type Definition (DTD) file to go with it based on the repo Manifest Format text document. When I include a line in my

[Bug 1306436] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2017-09-05 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I am doing OK at being taken to this page every few months. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306436 Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply() To manage

[Bug 1713004] Re: Temporary files left under /var/tmp by mkinitramfs

2017-08-25 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Looks like this bug is related to bug #1597661 and bug #1515513 although both of those point the upgrade process being the prompt for a failing run of the initramfs-tools. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713004] [NEW] Temporary files left under /var/tmp by mkinitramfs

2017-08-25 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: I recently ran out of disk space on my / mount. While looking for what consumed the disk I noticed a large number (130) of directories with names / paths beginning /var/tmp/mkinitramfs. These directories seem to be either ~103 MB or ~927 MB in size. Many of these files are

[Bug 1705287] Re: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in gd_tagged_entry_remove_tag() when closing a file or searching through the text of one

2017-07-19 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Eyeballed the attachments and cannot see anything sensitive in them. Making this public instead of private. ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 376859] Re: CCCC crashed on AMD64

2017-07-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Make that 8 years ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376859 Title: crashed on AMD64 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1702879] Re: cccc crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() when starting execution with wildcard

2017-07-07 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Eyeballed the attachments. Looks safe to make public. ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702879 Title: crashed with SIGABRT in

[Bug 1694391] Re: Following System Restart Trac Issues "Error: Unable to get database connection within 0 seconds" Message

2017-05-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
To resolve the issue all I needed to do was: $ sudo service postgresql start I guess there is something in the sequencing of service start going wrong. I will try and look into it more later. I am not sure how Trac is packaged, how this server is setup and as a result how much of all this is a

[Bug 1694391] [NEW] Following System Restart Trac Issues "Error: Unable to get database connection within 0 seconds" Message

2017-05-30 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: My Trac server is configured to automatically upgrade and reboot in the early ours of the morrning. This morning I found that it started sending me emails like this: Error: Unable to get database connection within 0 seconds. (OperationalError: could not connect to server:

[Bug 1692829] [NEW] Forgets Port And Baud Rate When Configuring

2017-05-23 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: GtkTerm always ends up presenting the first port (/dev/ttyS0 for me) and the minimum port baud rate (9600) when you enter to the Configuration > Port menu. The Parity, Bits, Stopbits and Flow control settings are retained from the current setting. I feel it would be more

[Bug 1688232] [NEW] Clicking 'Restart current capture' button while a capture is running results in 'No interface selected' error message instead of a capture restart

2017-05-04 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: Clicking 'Restart current capture' button while a capture is running results in 'No interface selected' error message instead of a capture restart. You get a similar looking error message after having stopped a running capture, then clicking the 'Start capturing packets'

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Hi Christian, A more careful read through of the instructions you link to and I have spotted the required tag. Now added that as requested. I'll try to get the other two tested using lsc tomorrow. Tag now added. ** Tags added: verification-done-xenial -- You received this bug

[Bug 1245666] Re: Pidgin is creating zombies

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Well I am seeing something odd in Pidgin. $ ps -elf | grep defunct | wc -l 121 $ ps -elf | grep defunct | grep pidgin | wc -l 120 (One of the 'defunct' hits is the grep) $ pidgin --version Pidgin 2.10.12 (libpurple 2.10.12) I have IRC, and XMPP to GoogleMail (Hangouts / Talk) configured and

[Bug 1245666] Re: Pidgin is creating zombies

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
It has been noted on the developer site for Pidgin that 1 defunct is normal for DNS lookups. https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15617#comment:11 The rest I have seen might come from failed attempts to connect to chat services. https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15617#comment:13 mentions you get

[Bug 1245666] Re: Pidgin is creating zombies

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Closed down Pidgin. Waited a few seconds for all the defunct processes to go away. Restarted Pidgin. Probably only a minute later before the first defunct process has arrived. I am signed into 4 IRC channels automatically on startup. I have tried to send my identify command to the NickServ

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Looks to me like everything worked fine overnight. $ ls -l /var/log/syslog* -rw-r- 1 syslog adm 587351 Apr 26 12:10 /var/log/syslog -rw-r- 1 syslog adm 1824727 Apr 26 07:38 /var/log/syslog.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 15:48 /var/log/syslog.2 -rw-r- 1 syslog adm37783

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-25 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Running through on Xenial. $ sudo apt-get install logrotate/xenial-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1' (Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-proposed [amd64]) for 'logrotate' The following packages will

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-05 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
To finish off my confirmation of the fix, I did not see any email notifications overnight. When I look at the relevant log files I can see the rotation is progressing: $ ls -l /var/log/apt-cacher-ng/apt-cacher.err* -rw-r--r-- 1 apt-cacher-ng apt-cacher-ng 0 Apr 5 06:28

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-04 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
The proposed change added under https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa- service/+archive/ubuntu/2623 seems to have resolved my issue. Before the change I received an email stating: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/apt-cacher-ng/apt-cacher.err.1.gz: File exists

[Bug 1565332] Re: sudo crashed with SIGABRT in kill()

2017-04-04 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Is bug #1663453 also a duplicate of this bug? I raised two bugs yesterday that I thought were probably the same but one got marked as a duplicate of this bug and the other was marked as a duplicate of bug #1663453. My two bugs were bug #1678877 and bug #1679233. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1679233] Re: sudo crashed with SIGABRT in kill()

2017-04-04 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1565332 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565332 Interesting. I expected this bug to be a duplicate of bug #1678877 that I reported earlier in the day but it did not get identified as a duplicate of bug #1663453 so it must be a different one. -- You

[Bug 1678877] Re: sudo crashed with SIGSEGV in kill()

2017-04-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1663453 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663453 Oh good. Another bug that has been marked as a duplicate of a private bug so I cannot tell if it should or should not be a duplicate of it. This bug is not marked as private any more. Please can someone

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-04-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Installing for 16.04 xenial on a machine that has just reproduced the issue on its own. If I do not see the error message emailed out to me tonight then it is likely that the fix has succeeded. I shall try to post an update promptly, sorry for the delay. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1678081] [NEW] munin-plugins-core package missing requierment for libcache-cache-perl

2017-03-31 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 910566 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910566 Public bug reported: Having installed munin-plugins-core, a LAMP stack and the other packages to run a Munin node I have discovered that the mysql_ plugin will not run as a library file it requires is

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate doesn't clean old system logs, allowing them to fill the disk

2017-03-22 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
SRU Bug Template [Impact] Logrotate fails to rotate a log and then will continue to fail to rotate it until manual intervention takes place. If messaging has not been configured on the system there will be no warning issued to the user. The log will grow day by day until a user intervenes or

Re: [Bug 1636564] Re: Segfault from libX11.so.6.3.0

2017-03-21 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I don't think I'm using the Nvidia drivers on the machine I reported this from. That would mean they could not be the route cause. On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, 17:51 Jan Lachnitt, <1636...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Another report and some thoughts below > > HW: Asus Vivobook (touchscreen, Intel

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

2017-03-15 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
The stock not security reply can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/BugTriage#Not_Security which says "unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy." -- You received

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

2017-03-15 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I checked on IRC #ubuntu-hardened (the actual name for the #ubuntu- security channel) and was told that "we typically only consider bugs to have a security impact if there's an attacker to the story". The reason for that is "else, almost every bug has an indirect security impact" which I can see

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

2017-03-15 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
That does sound a bit tenuous but could be easily settled by a policy decision on whether: i) Bugs that directly block the installation of security patches are security bugs. ii) Bugs that cause disk space to fill which in turn block security patch install are security bugs. I would

[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

2017-03-15 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Still present on 14.04.1. I am seeing this again today. I wonder if this would count as a papercut? I am not really sure as https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/Mission says "Have the impression the desktop is rock solid." and this is a log rotation system that only moans if root

[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

2017-03-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
@jarnos mentions having generated a script to remove extra kernels. There is already a purge-old-kernels command line tool lingering in the bikeshed package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1306436] Re: unity-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2017-02-06 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Occurred again today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306436 Title: unity-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply() To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1660574] [NEW] IPv4 Address Lost 8 Days After Previous DHCP Allocation

2017-01-31 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: My Ubuntu 16.04 desktop frequently loses the IPv4 address on its wired ethernet connection to my office's network. This happened this morning and previously happened 8 days ago. The network uses a Windows Small Business Server as its main Active Domain Domain Controller

[Bug 1656405] [NEW] package mariadb-server-10.0 10.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/myisam_ftdump.1.gz', which is also in package mysql-client-

2017-01-13 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: No Idea. Fired this machine up after about a year of it not really working well and got to here. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: mariadb-server-10.0 10.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux

[Bug 1653636] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-11 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Thank you Joseph, the upstream kernel from months ago was the cause of the issue. I had completely forgotten about it being there and did not recognise the change in version numbering as significant. I followed the steps outlined in http://askubuntu.com/a/594484/109072 to remove the kernel and a

[Bug 1527166] Re: cron.daily/apt reports MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers..."

2017-01-11 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Seen in an email this morning from a 16.04 system: /etc/cron.daily/apt: MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic' MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-tools-3.13.0-107-generic' MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-tools-3.13.0-107'

[Bug 1653636] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-11 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I expect I got the kernel the same way I get most of my kernels, though an `apt-get upgrade`. Although I did try and compile a kernel a while ago... I wonder if that got left around as an install option and it was so long since I last rebooted I forgot about it! Now isn't that a silly thing to

[Bug 1653636] Lsusb.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799332/+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/1653636 Title:

[Bug 1653636] PulseList.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "PulseList.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799337/+files/PulseList.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636

[Bug 1653636] CurrentDmesg.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799329/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1653636] ProcInterrupts.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799335/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1653636] UdevDb.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799338/+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/1653636 Title:

[Bug 1653636] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: On powering my PC up after the holiday break I got a welcome back in the form of a kernel panic. I had completed some upgrades before the holiday and was seeing a restart to use the newly upgraded packages

[Bug 1653636] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
I have executed the command `apport-collect 1653636` as requested by brad-figg. I can see that log files have been added. Note that this command was performed while running 4.4.0-57-generic not the 4.4.21 kernel that causes the issue. It is also worth noting that as the filesystem could not be

[Bug 1653636] JournalErrors.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "JournalErrors.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799330/+files/JournalErrors.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1653636] Lspci.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799331/+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/1653636 Title:

[Bug 1653636] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799333/+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/1653636

[Bug 1653636] WifiSyslog.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799339/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1653636] ProcModules.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799336/+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/1653636

[Bug 1653636] CRDA.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "CRDA.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799328/+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/1653636 Title:

[Bug 1653636] ProcEnviron.txt

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636/+attachment/4799334/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653636

[Bug 1653636] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
As an upgrade from one kernel to the other seems to have brought about this problem I am attaching the recent /var/log/apt/term.log file. The more recent version of the file is blank. These files relate to the period of the 16th to power off. ** Attachment added: "term.log.1.gz"

[Bug 1653636] [NEW] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2017-01-03 Thread Thomas A. F. Thorne
Public bug reported: On powering my PC up after the holiday break I got a welcome back in the form of a kernel panic. I had completed some upgrades before the holiday and was seeing a restart to use the newly upgraded packages message. When the PC powered on the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights

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