Re: [Bug 158024] Re: cp command freezes desktop

2009-11-22 Thread willisoften
I have been copying files (1GB worth or so) between desktop and mp3 player, The problem hasn't reappeared in Karmic so far. Will etali wrote: We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, and if it has been resolved, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please

[Bug 447716] Re: Icon Spacing

2009-11-02 Thread willisoften
I have a Toshiba NB 200 and the same issue is very obvious the amount of space given to the first row of Games icons seems enormous. The text for the last row appears below the edge of the frame and is illegible. The mouse-over frame for each icon on the last row is half in and half out of the

Re: [Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2008-08-20 Thread willisoften
I haven't noticed any problems since Hardy - but I've built a new system so it could be a chipset related issue I guess - no idea what chipset unfortunately Martin Emrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already built the disk of one of my external USB drive directly into my PC (connected via

Re: [Bug 158024] Re: cp command freezes desktop

2008-03-19 Thread willisoften
Have you tried using xargs to copy folder by folder ? The following should copy all files recursively from directory $1 to directory $2, and echo each move command just before doing it: ls $1 | xargs -I {} -t cp -Rv $1/{} $2/{} I'm not at my machine at the moment so it's untested. It

[Bug 158024] cp command freezes desktop

2007-10-28 Thread willisoften
Public bug reported: Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Old home partition backed up to usb hard disk. cp -R fails at various points ( 48MB to 18GB) and freezes the Desktop. There is no way out except a reset. (Alt +SysRq reisub has worked occasionally). Desktop and Mouse do not usually respond at all.

[Bug 17881] Re: usb flash memory hangs after copying few MB

2007-10-28 Thread willisoften
Yes I noticed that I had no problems copying to hard disk mp3 player that uses USB 1.1 - however I've noticed that I have the same problem copying from a samba share. (Using windows machine to mount the usb drive) I really can't access any information the Linux machine is completely frozen.

[Bug 17881] Re: usb flash memory hangs after copying few MB

2007-10-27 Thread willisoften
I have the same problem in gutsy (AMD64) with a WD Passport HDD drive. I can copy some information then the whole desktop freezes. The machine seems to be running but completely unresponsive to mouse or keyboard input. I can however shutdown with Alt +SysRq reisub - that's the only thing that

Re: [Bug 27316] Re: Plextor DVD-RW drives do not detect DVDs properly until an audio CD is inserted

2007-09-27 Thread willisoften
On Saturday 22 September 2007 08:52:08 Daniel Elstner wrote: OK, for some reason this now works just fine for me. I still have the same drive (PX716-A) and was running feisty around the time it went away. Unfortunately I noticed it way too late to know for sure what has fixed it. It might just

[Bug 27316] Re: Plextor DVD-RW drives do not detect DVDs properly until an audio CD is inserted

2007-04-22 Thread willisoften
I still have this problem, Kubuntu 7.04 and Debian Etch - Pioneer, Plextor, LG and Toshiba drives. Although (as posted before) I can mount non-udf disks. Has anyone with two DVD-ROM drives tried editing fstab so one drive mounts udf specifically? I think this is a udf mounting problem not