[Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Roth
Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011. Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases I've tried recreating this bug with Precise and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either

Re: [Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2012-04-23 Thread albert fishnets
I can confirm it's gone in precise. On Apr 23, 2012 10:31 AM, Robert Roth evf...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011. Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases I've tried

[Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Roth
This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more

[Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2009-10-13 Thread albert fishnets
Strike that. The hack causes fatal error on reboot when the system attempts to load X-server the screen begins flickering and issuing a permissions error and continues flickering until reset button is hit on the machine. I can no longer boot into my Karmic partition and cannot access the data on

Re: [Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2009-10-11 Thread albert fishnets
Yep me too. After install I'm having the same problem with multiple applications. I tried setting the root password using $sudo su passwd$ and also tried setting it in the user dialog. It still doesn't work. Your hack works, but I agree something is wrong with the user privilage settings. Maybe

[Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2009-10-10 Thread Everaldo Canuto
Same here but I am not running from live syste, it is my installation with last updates (9.10). Normally it should ask for user password because I am admin of computer but for some reason it is asking for root password that I never set since ubuntu uses sudo. If I try: sudo

[Bug 444388] Re: Attempting to enable Desktop Effects causes Jockey to ask for password not set by user

2009-10-06 Thread albert fishnets
** Attachment added: Here's a screen shot of the warning to help get the bug to the right team. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33110536/Effects%20Alert.png ** Attachment added: .var.log.jockey.log.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33110537/.var.log.jockey.log.txt ** Attachment added: