[Bug 1064185] Re: root partition not unmounting cleanly on reboot

2013-05-04 Thread Boris Gjenero
I was getting this problem in 12.10 and I continued to get it after an upgrade to 13.04. Today in 13.04 I edited /etc/rc6.d/S90reboot to run sh and examined the situation. (If I simply ran sh, I got no output, just like other messages in that script aren't displayed. I ended up using sh

[Bug 1261730] Re: /dev/sda1 must be recovered on every boot

2015-01-24 Thread Boris Gjenero
In 14.10 amd64, mountall keeps running, causing init to keep /var/log/upstart/mountall.log open for writing, which prevents root from being remounted read-only. These things are easy to examine by adding a /bin/sh line to /etc/init.d/reboot in do_stop() before reboot -d -f -i. Then when you

[Bug 1309617] Re: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (189) terminated with status 1 at boot

2015-01-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
Adding sleep 2 results in a different error: init: /etc/init /plymouth-upstart-bridge.conf:18: Unknown stanza. I wonder if this causes plymouth-upstart-bridge to not run at all? I have not encountered any problems running like that for many months, but I wonder if some situations could lead to

[Bug 1450088] Re: Wakes from S3 in a few seconds unless WIndows has been run

2015-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
I solved the problem. This was wake on LAN. When I ran sudo ethtool eth0 the output included: Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: ug From the ethtool man page: u Wake on unicast messages g Wake on MagicPacketâ„¢ This was wake on unicast messages.

[Bug 1405784] Re: /usr/sbin/fancontrol: line 492: [: too many arguments

2015-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
This also affects me in vivid. The problem is that min_fanval wasn't set. Up above it is set inside an if [[ -n ${fan} ]] block, so it's not set if you're not using fan RPM sensors. This was fixed in r6255: http://lm-sensors.org/changeset/6255 -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1450088] Re: Wakes from S3 in a few seconds unless WIndows has been run

2015-04-29 Thread Boris Gjenero
I can reproduce this with v4.1-rc1-vivid. I had to uninstall nvidia-340-updates because the DKMS module failed to build and boot hung while it was installed. So, I was using nouveau for my GeForce 8600GT PCI express graphics card. I can't reproduce it if not running X, or running X, twm and xterm

[Bug 1450088] [NEW] Wakes from S3 in a few seconds unless WIndows has been run

2015-04-29 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 15.04 on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R rev 1.0 motherboard with BIOS F13. I also have 32-bit Windows 7 SP1. If power was fully cut, including standby power, and Windows has not been run since then, Ubuntu will quickly wake from S3 sleep without any apparent

[Bug 1033676] Re: Dell Inspiron 6400 WiFi light will not stop flashing

2015-05-05 Thread Boris Gjenero
This happened to me once when I was trying to connect to WiFi from the command line. It seemed to happen because multiple wpa_supplicant processes were running. You could try ps xa | grep wpa_supplicant to see if you have multiple processes running. Doing sudo killall wpa_supplicant stopped it.

[Bug 1453404] [NEW] r8169 occasionally doesn't work after suspend

2015-05-09 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: Occasionally the onboard gigabit Ethernet on this Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R rev 1.0 motherboard doesn't work after suspend. This happens less than one out of ten times. Over the last several Ubuntu releases, sudo ifconfig eth0 down followed by sudo ifconfig eth0 up has always been

[Bug 771857] Re: Realtek 8168B (r8169) interface not working following suspend

2015-05-09 Thread Boris Gjenero
This keeps happening to me occasionally, less than one out of ten times. Over the last several Ubuntu releases, sudo ifconfig eth0 down followed by sudo ifconfig eth0 up has always been enough to re- establish connectivity. A long time ago, I sometimes had to unload and reload the r8169 module.

[Bug 1453404] Re: r8169 occasionally doesn't work after suspend

2015-05-17 Thread Boris Gjenero
I refuse to test this with the latest upstream kernel. That is because the bug happens rarely and the upstream kernel breaks other stuff. I would have to use Ubuntu for a prolonged period with the upstream kernel, putting up with that brokenness, or I would have to go into suspend and wake many

[Bug 1309617] Re: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (189) terminated with status 1 at boot

2015-12-28 Thread Boris Gjenero
I never experienced any significant problems because of this bug. It only results in those error messages. If your system fails to boot or other things crash, that is probably due to a different unrelated issue. The "sleep" in /etc/init/plymouth-upstart-bridge.conf does make these error messages

[Bug 1588395] [NEW] 70gconfd_path-on-session doesn't quote DESKTOP_SESSION and fails if it contains a space

2016-06-02 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70gconfd_path-on-session these lines fail if there is a space in ${DESKTOP_SESSION}: export MANDATORY_PATH=${GCONF_PREFIX}/${DESKTOP_SESSION}.mandatory.path export DEFAULTS_PATH=${GCONF_PREFIX}/${DESKTOP_SESSION}.default.path The error output to

[Bug 875991] Re: Not able to start a xsession with a space in the name

2016-06-02 Thread Boris Gjenero
This seems to be a bug in gconf-common. LXDM sets the DESKTOP_SESSION environment variable to the Name string from the desktop file, and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70gconfd_path-on-session cannot handle the space due to lack of quoting. I'm not sure if setting DESKTOP_SESSION to the Name from the

[Bug 539630] Re: Xorg display corruption, Dell Inspiron 6400, Lucid Beta ISO test

2016-03-14 Thread Boris Gjenero
I'm getting a similar bug in 16.04 on my Inspiron 6400 with X1300 and a 1680x1050 display. I have disabled graphical overlays during boot because I prefer to see boot text. Corruption starts after the switch from ordinary VGA text mode to a high resolution text mode which I assume is implemented

[Bug 392204] Re: Huge CPU usage by mount.ntfs process

2016-04-02 Thread Boris Gjenero
I'm also having this problem copying to an external USB 3 drive, with Nemo (Cinnamon file manager) copies around 35 MiB/s on my Q6600 CPU. big_writes helped, but although file copying via Nemo sped up to around 60 MiB/s, it was still CPU bound. Copying via pv < source_file > dest_file is faster

[Bug 1665497] [NEW] Icon with x is confusing: volume could be muted or turned down to zero

2017-02-16 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If audio is muted, then instead of the volume level arcs in front of the speaker icon, there is an x. Mute button needs to be pressed to get sound. Volume keys still affect the volume setting, but there is no visual indication of that on the icon, or any audio indication

[Bug 1629617] [NEW] File corruption with ext4 dump and restore

2016-10-01 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I used Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS dump and restore version 0.4b44-7 to dump and restore a Raspbian Jessie ext4 file system from an SD card. After restoring, the _CACHE_00?_ files from ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox//Cache/ have differing contents. On the original file system they consist

[Bug 1453404] Re: r8169 occasionally doesn't work after suspend

2016-10-24 Thread Boris Gjenero
After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10 I removed the r8168-dkms package so I could see if this bug still exists in 4.8.0 kernels. I upgraded on October 13th, and everything worked fine until today, October 24th. After waking from sleep eth0 appeared up according to ifconfig, but I had no connectivity and

[Bug 1479136] Re: [ubuntu 14.04.2] Artefacts in radeon driver on kernel 3.16 and upwards

2016-10-20 Thread Boris Gjenero
I wonder if this is the same bug which I am seeing on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Radeon X1400 video. Occasionally I get white lines which are very similar to the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2-Fvihzxg video posted at the beginning. The only difference is that more lines are present at

[Bug 1647709] [NEW] Can't connect to WiFi if setting MAC address, RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy

2016-12-06 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If my /etc/network/interfaces settings for wlan0 include a "hwaddress ether" line, then running ifup for that interface fails at the very end, after successfully authenticating with the access point. Here is what happens: systemd[1]: Started ifup for wlan0.

[Bug 1647709] Re: Can't connect to WiFi if setting MAC address, RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy

2016-12-06 Thread Boris Gjenero
This seems to be an old bug, which is also mentioned elsewhere: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26126/spoofed-mac-address-ignored-by-wpa-supplicant https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1193972 Another symptom of this bug is probably inability to connect if you need the changed MAC

[Bug 1678271] [NEW] Background color erase (bce) is broken

2017-03-31 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I'm running my ncursesw application, displaying a black background. When the screen or a region scrolls up by one line, empty areas of the screen in the newly visible line show the default white background of gnome- terminal. If I remove the bce capability from the Terminfo

[Bug 1671954] Re: SDL 2 full screen mode changes broken with nvidia-340

2017-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
https://bugzilla-attachments.libsdl.org/attachment.cgi?id=1715 does not fix the issue I reported. I still can't get full screen mode to work properly. Normally I still get the large scrolling virtual desktop issue, and with SDL_VIDEO_X11_XRANDR=0 set in the environment things are even worse. --

[Bug 1677961] [NEW] xfce4-terminal crashes if input arrives too soon after resize

2017-03-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If I start with an 80x24 terminal, resize to 80x25 with printf("\e[8;25;80t") and then quickly send output via Ncurses, then xfce4-terminal crashes: Vte-0.0:ERROR:/build/vte-jOPZPt/vte-0.28.2/./src/ring.c:370:_vte_ring_thaw_one_row: assertion failed: (ring->start <

[Bug 1671954] [NEW] SDL 2 full screen mode changes broken with nvidia-340

2017-03-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I have a GeForce 8600GT card and am using nvidia-340 drivers, version 340.101-0ubuntu0.16.10.1. Going into full screen mode results in a mode smaller than the displayed area, where the mouse can be used to scroll the screen viewport around. Returning from full screen mode

[Bug 1671920] [NEW] Mode changes fail unless some xorg.conf screen options are set

2017-03-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: The first mode change always works, but subsequent mode changes keep failing. Running xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1600x1200 to go back to the native resolution or any other supported resolution fails with: xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed X Error of failed request:

[Bug 1671954] Re: SDL 2 full screen mode changes broken with nvidia-340

2017-03-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
SDL 2 is able to go back to the proper desktop resolution when exiting full screen if and only if the top left corner of the current viewport is at the top left of the displayed area. In other words, if I don't scroll the viewport right or down by going to those edges with the mouse, or if I

[Bug 1680642] [NEW] xdg-icon-resource does not set permissions when installing icon

2017-04-06 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: When installing an icon using a command such as "sudo xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --context apps --size 256 synaesthesia.png synaesthesia", the ownership of the file created at /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/synaesthesia.png is set to root:root, but the

[Bug 1678271] Re: Background color erase (bce) is broken

2017-04-21 Thread Boris Gjenero
I'm not able to reproduce this now in Zesty with gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu8. Program that was causing problems before is DOSBox SVN with ncursesw output added, https://github.com/dreamlayers/em- dosbox/tree/contxt-only but that works fine now. infocmp $TERM shows I'm using

[Bug 1677961] Re: xfce4-terminal crashes if input arrives too soon after resize

2017-04-21 Thread Boris Gjenero
I'm not able to reproduce this in Zesty xfce4-terminal 0.8.4-1. So, it seems you're right and this has been fixed. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677961 Title:

[Bug 1678271] Re: Background color erase (bce) is broken

2017-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
I tried installing some old libraries and binaries from Yakkety but even with that I couldn't reproduce it in Ubuntu 17.04. I don't have any more Yakkety systems to test on. I also can't reproduce it in 16.04.2 LTS in Windows 10. I don't think any DOSBox changes could have changed this either. So

[Bug 1718720] [NEW] Sensors plugin settings lost and can't be set in 17.10

2017-09-21 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In past versions of Ubuntu, the XFCE sensors plugin worked. I just upgraded to Artful 17.10 and it does not work anymore. The problem seems to be that settings were lost and cannot be configured anymore. All I see on the panel is the word "Sensors" in bold. Double clicking

[Bug 1737522] [NEW] cfq scheduler can write parts of sequential write in reverse order

2017-12-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I'm opening a raw disk device (like /dev/sdb) with O_DIRECT and then doing write() calls. The device is actually USB mass storage. Looking at the USB packets with Wireshark, I see that the write() calls are being split into multiple SCSI writes. That part is okay I guess. The

[Bug 1767560] [NEW] Battery graph in tray icon is inaccurate

2018-04-27 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: xfce4-power-manager has a tray icon which shows current status and has a graph when a battery is inserted. The green bar in the icon should be showing current battery level, but it varies weirdly. If I place my mouse cursor over the icon the tooltip which appears shows the

[Bug 1763967] Re: rmmod b43 hangs

2018-05-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
rmmod b43 works in 4.15.0-21-generic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763967 Title: rmmod b43 hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1718720] Re: Sensors plugin settings lost and can't be set in 17.10

2017-10-19 Thread Boris Gjenero
I don't know of any way to make this work with the package from 17.10 / Artful, but installing the current 1.2.6-1 xfce4-sensors-plugin from 17.04 / Zesty makes the plugin work. No other changes were needed. With the plugin from Zesty the plugin output on the panel immediately changes when I

[Bug 1754911] Re: b44 Ethernet driver not working in Linux 4.15 on Inspiron 6400

2018-03-12 Thread Boris Gjenero
>From http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15.9/ I installed: linux-headers-4.15.9-041509_4.15.9-041509.201803111231_all.deb linux-headers-4.15.9-041509-generic_4.15.9-041509.201803111231_amd64.deb linux-image-4.15.9-041509-generic_4.15.9-041509.201803111231_amd64.deb And booted into

[Bug 1754911] [NEW] b44 Ethernet driver not working in Linux 4.15 on Inspiron 6400

2018-03-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: When I boot linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic then I get an eth0 interface and dmesg output includes: ssb: Core 0 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x07, vendor 0x42 43) b44: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver version 2.0 b44 ssb1:0 eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100

[Bug 1754911] Re: b44 Ethernet driver not working in Linux 4.15 on Inspiron 6400

2018-03-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
After installing linux-headers-4.16.0-041600rc4_4.16.0-041600rc4.201803041930_all.deb , linux-headers-4.16.0-041600rc4-generic_4.16.0-041600rc4.201803041930_amd64.deb and linux-image-4.16.0-041600rc4-generic_4.16.0-041600rc4.201803041930_amd64.deb from

[Bug 1763967] [NEW] rmmod b43 hangs

2018-04-14 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with a 14e4:4328 "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card". Running "rmmod b43" always hangs. So far I have only tried it while connected to a wireless network. I immediately disconnect from the wireless network, so it seems

[Bug 1754911] Re: b44 Ethernet driver not working in Linux 4.15 on Inspiron 6400

2018-04-07 Thread Boris Gjenero
In 4.15.0-13-generic, BCM4321 WiFi works via b43 and BCM4401-B0 b44 Ethernet eth0 exists. So, it seems this has been fixed. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754911 Title:

[Bug 1763967] Re: rmmod b43 hangs

2018-04-16 Thread Boris Gjenero
Bug does not exist in 4.16.2-041602-generic. I did rmmod b43 4 times and it always succeeded immediately. It never worked properly in 4.15.0-13-generic so I am confident this isn't just random success, and it means the bug is fixed in upstream. What older version should I try? Currently I don't

[Bug 1797417] [NEW] Background of system tray icons not drawn properly

2018-10-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 18.04 this problem did not exist. After upgrading to 18.10 the backgrounds of system tray icons in the Xfce panel are not drawn properly on my Inspiron 6400 laptop with ATI/AMD Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics and the open source radeon driver. This problem does not

[Bug 1797417] Re: Background of system tray icons not drawn properly

2018-10-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
Compositing was disabled. When I enabled it, the problem was fixed instantly. I have not seen any more signs of the problem with compositing enabled. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1797417] Re: Background of system tray icons not drawn properly

2018-10-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
My main computer with GeForce 8600 GT and driver 340.107-0ubuntu2 had Compton compositor running via Application Autostart in Session and Startup. Disabling that, logging out and logging back in brings up some corruption there as well. ** Attachment added: "Tray corruption on main computer"

[Bug 1797417] Re: Background of system tray icons not drawn properly

2018-10-11 Thread Boris Gjenero
My main computer with GeForce 8600 GT and driver 340.107-0ubuntu2 had Compton compositor running via Application Autostart in Session and Startup. Disabling that, logging out and logging back in brings up some corruption there as well. ** Attachment added: "Tray corruption on main computer"

[Bug 1174162] Re: chrome-browser makes gnome-keyring-daemon use 100% cpu

2018-10-12 Thread Boris Gjenero
This never happened in 18.04, and started happening after upgrading to 18.10. The keyring daemon when taking 100% CPU on one core also seems to hang and not respond to applications. I've had Chrome hang on startup, and I've had ssh and scp hang. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1797717] [NEW] fstrim -av tries to trim read only mounted ntfs-3g and fails

2018-10-13 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If I run sudo fstrim -av I see: /media/SSD_Data: 2 GiB (2145820672 bytes) trimmed fstrim: /media/Win7: FITRIM ioctl failed: Bad file descriptor /: 26.9 GiB (28823887872 bytes) trimmed /media/SSD_Data is read-write mounted NTFS via ntfs-3g, and /media/Win7 is read-only

[Bug 1718720] Re: Sensors plugin settings lost and can't be set in 17.10

2018-10-31 Thread Boris Gjenero
Maybe I was confused. I was just setting up xfce4-sensors-plugin 1.3.0-2 Ubuntu 18.10 and noticed something. When I double-click on the plugin it opens "Sensors Viewer". If I want to reconfigure the plugin I need to right click on it and select "Properties". This opens "Sensors Plugin". The

[Bug 1821564] [NEW] b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2019-03-25 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: This problem started after upgrading to Ubuntu 19.04. It was not present with 4.18.0-16-generic kernel and is present in the 4.18.0-15-generic kernel. Ever time during boot there is a null pointer dereference in the b44 driver for the on-board Ethernet on this Dell Inspiron

[Bug 1364578] Re: Geeqie does not render the directory list and file list windows upon opening a directory with a large number of image files in it.

2019-03-24 Thread Boris Gjenero
Using Geeqie 1:1.4+git20180820-1 in Ubuntu 18.10, I see that it does render the directory listing window. The problem is that the window takes a long time to render. During that time I still see a photo and can go to the next photo via the space bar, but the image overlay with the histogram and

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2019-04-05 Thread Boris Gjenero
linux-image- unsigned-4.20.0-042000-generic_4.20.0-042000.201812232030_amd64.deb is good but linux-image- unsigned-5.0.0-05rc1-generic_5.0.0-05rc1.201901062130_amd64.deb is bad. I'm not sure I'll have time for a git bisect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2019-03-25 Thread Boris Gjenero
Sorry, I mean bug is not present in 4.18.0-16-generic and present in 5.0.0-7-generic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1821564 Title: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during

[Bug 1855627] Re: projectM 2.1.0+dfsg-4build2 crashes with SIGABRT on first preset change

2019-12-21 Thread Boris Gjenero
I'm also getting this crash in eoan. Building with a patch made from the commit linked in the Debian bug report ( https://github.com/projectM- visualizer/projectm/commit/c87f208c47252b47b117db73cc28a053d5133ffd ) makes it work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1797717] Re: fstrim -av tries to trim read only mounted ntfs-3g and fails

2020-01-26 Thread Boris Gjenero
Right now in 19.10, /lib/systemd/system/fstrim.service runs /sbin/fstrim --fstab --verbose --quiet , which doesn't cause the service to report these errors. According to the fstrim man page, for the --fstab option: "Errors from filesystems that do not support the discard operation, read-only

[Bug 1860938] [NEW] Sound interruptions during high radeon OpenGL load

2020-01-26 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: On my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Mobility Radeon X1400 and built in Intel HDA audio with STAC9200 codec, audio is normally perfect. Even with 100% load on both CPU cores audio is perfect. However, while playing high resolution video, audio has many tiny regular

[Bug 1860954] [NEW] b43 WiFi monitor mode doesn't work with BCM4321 card

2020-01-26 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: My Inspiron 6400 laptop has a Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card with BCM4321 chip. I was using airmon-ng from aircrack-ng to enter monitor mode. It claims the chipset is "non-mac80211 device? (report this!)" but I think that's incorrect information and only

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2020-01-02 Thread Boris Gjenero
I don't normally use Ethernet on my laptop, and for some reason the b44 module for Ethernet doesn't get loaded normally. So I didn't notice this. But I'm getting the same problem reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1821564/comments/8 in Ubuntu 19.10 with

[Bug 1872791] [NEW] PulseAudio doesn't see analog output on Dell Inspiron 6400 with STAC9200

2020-04-14 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: PulseAudio currently doesn't see the analog audio output in my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Intel HDA STAC9200 audio. It only sees the SPDIF output. This is the situation in both "pactl list sinks" and pavucontrol. I hear no sound from applications, probably because it's

[Bug 1872791] Re: PulseAudio doesn't see analog output on Dell Inspiron 6400 with STAC9200

2020-04-14 Thread Boris Gjenero
It was easy to fix this by adding the following line to /etc/pulse/default.pa load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0 After doing that and rebooting, I had to set the analog device as the fallback device in pavucontrol. (Before the default.pa change, the SPDIF device had been the only playback

[Bug 1872791] Re: PulseAudio doesn't see analog output on Dell Inspiron 6400 with STAC9200

2020-04-14 Thread Boris Gjenero
I did some more investigation and found that without the workaround the analog output only appears while headphones are plugged in. The SPDIF output disappears while headphones are plugged in. The bug has been submitted with this new information at

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2020-04-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
iommu=soft does not help, and I don't understand why it would help theoretically when the Core 2 Duo T7400 CPU doesn't have a hardware IOMMU. The problem seems to be that the 64 MB buffer is allocated beyond 1 GB. One theoretical good workaround would be to boot up with only 1 GB and then enable

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2020-04-05 Thread Boris Gjenero
This problem still exists in Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch) 20.04 with linux-image-5.4.0-21-generic. It also exists in linux-image- unsigned-5.6.2-050602-generic_5.6.2-050602.202004020822_amd64.deb With linux-image-5.4.0-21-generic I didn't get any error messages after "insmod b44" in

[Bug 1876157] [NEW] memtest86+ hang on GA-P35-DS3R with X5470 and 6 GB

2020-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: Yesterday I booted into Ubuntu's memtest86+. I wasn't experiencing or expecting problems, and only wanted to make sure memory is okay after I had to remove modules to take the PSU out and put it back in. I ran it twice, and both times it hung at exactly 79% in the first test.

[Bug 1876157] Re: memtest86+ hang on GA-P35-DS3R with X5470 and 6 GB

2020-05-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Source package differences between memtest86+ 3ubuntu2 (which does a whole pass without errors) and 3.1ubuntu1 (which locks up at 79% in test 1) don't seem to explain this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1877873] [NEW] Temperature becomes voltage after restarting panel

2020-05-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: My it8718 chip measures voltages, fan RPM and temperatures. I want to monitor what sensors.conf calls temp1, labelled "NBr Temp". I can set that up via the GUI and it works. But when I log out and back in or restart the Xfce panel, that shows +3.3V instead, which is in2 in

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2020-06-09 Thread Boris Gjenero
I don't see a null pointer message but the b44 driver is still broken in 5.4.0-33-generic on my Dell Inspiron 6400: [ 3148.539194] ssb: Found chip with id 0x4401, rev 0x02 and package 0x00 [ 3148.599317] b44 :03:00.0: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device :03:00.0 [ 3148.599414]

[Bug 1907479] [NEW] Mouse movement stops after switching to text VT and back to X

2020-12-09 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: My Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has a Synaptics touchpad. If I'm using xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and I use Control-Alt-Fkey or sudo chvt to switch to a text virtual console and then switch back to X, the mouse stops moving via the touchpad. The touchpad seems totally ignored,

[Bug 1903728] [NEW] Number of X colormap entries may be less than 1 << depth

2020-11-10 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If I run scrot 1.4-1 to take a screenshot from a MicroVAX with a QDSS display device running ULTRIX 4.5, I get: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed

[Bug 1912030] [NEW] Crash unless ffmpeg direct rendering disabled with ATI X1400

2021-01-15 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.10, VLC started crashing when I tried to play video. I tried changing to different video output methods, but none of them worked. In the past, I remember several methods working fine. In the ffmpeg advanced preferences page, disabling the direct

[Bug 1912030] Re: Crash unless ffmpeg direct rendering disabled with ATI X1400

2021-01-17 Thread Boris Gjenero
But, not all VLC video outputs are supposed to use OpenGL, so I don't see why Mesa is relevant. One of the crash backtraces doesn't involve Mesa. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1912030

[Bug 1912907] [NEW] Told to expect login code via SMS but it came via Telegram intead

2021-01-23 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I had a Telegram account created via the official client (telegram- desktop package) in Ubuntu, where I logged in using a code sent via SMS. Using telegram-purple for the first time on another PC, I provided the same mobile phone number, and then Pidgin asked me to input a

[Bug 1926316] Re: lxappearance crashes on launch

2021-05-15 Thread Boris Gjenero
This also fixes the Lxdm greeter crash I reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/1922443. I installed the pre-release builds from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.68.1-1~ubuntu21.04.1/+build/21536716 and confirm that the bug is fixed. -- You received this

[Bug 1922443] Re: Lxdm black screen after Ubuntu 21.04 upgrade

2021-05-15 Thread Boris Gjenero
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1926316 is the bug which is causing this problem. A fix is committed but it hasn't been released yet for 21.04, and apparently has some test failures in the proposed queue. In installed the pre-release files from

[Bug 1926316] Re: lxappearance crashes on launch

2021-05-01 Thread Boris Gjenero
Seems this should also fix LXDM GTK greeter: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/1922443 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926316 Title: lxappearance crashes on launch

[Bug 1922439] Re: X hangs after wake on Mobility Radeon x1400

2021-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
Wake worked with kernel 5.11.0-16-generic. So, I guess this is fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922439 Title: X hangs after wake on Mobility Radeon x1400 To manage

[Bug 1922443] Re: Lxdm black screen after Ubuntu 21.04 upgrade

2021-04-30 Thread Boris Gjenero
The problem seems to be /usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-greeter-gtk crashing at g_key_file_load_from_file(). Also, lxappearance crashes similarly. This may be related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2361 . But the crash seems to be triggered by plasma.desktop and twm.desktop in

[Bug 1922463] [NEW] Audacious title text not updated in Task Manager

2021-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I'm using Audacious media player in Winamp 2.x skin mode. It consists of two windows: the main window with playback controls, whose title shows the current track, and the playlist editor window, whose title is constant. These windows are grouped into one Plasma Task Manager

[Bug 1922439] [NEW] X hangs after wake on Mobility Radeon x1400

2021-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Mobility Radeon x1400. In Ubuntu 20.10 and earlier, wake from sleep worked properly. In Ubuntu 21.04, X does not work after wake from sleep. It fails in Plasma, Xfce, Openbox and Twm. With both Plasma and Xfce the screen is totally black. In

[Bug 1922443] [NEW] Lxdm black screen after Ubuntu 21.04 upgrade

2021-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In the past I used lxdm on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop without problems. After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04, lxdm shows a fully black screen, without even a mouse cursor. Attempts to interact with it blindly don't work, which suggests it's somehow hanging, and not

[Bug 1922443] Re: Lxdm black screen after Ubuntu 21.04 upgrade

2021-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
The same problem happens on my main PC (with GeForce GT 710 graphics and 460.56-0ubuntu1 driver). I'm now using sddm instead of lxdm on both systems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1922439] Re: X hangs after wake on Mobility Radeon x1400

2021-04-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Wake from sleep works in Xfce and Plasma in Ubuntu 21.04 when using kernel 5.12.0-051200rc5-generic from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v5.12-rc5/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1916074] [NEW] Firefox has border if started with kwin compositing disabled

2021-02-18 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: If I start Firefox with in KDE Plasma with kwin compositing disabled, and the Firefox title bar is disabled via Customize, the whole window has a border. Otherwise my computer is configured to not have window borders, and other applications don't have such a border. I don't

[Bug 1946303] Re: No video after wake from S3 due to Nvidia driver crash

2021-10-15 Thread Boris Gjenero
I got upgraded back to 470 because new 460 transitional dummy packages were released, which caused the upgrade. I could have prevented that via apt-mark hold. When I was getting these problems with 470 I had nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 in my kernel command line, via

[Bug 1946303] [NEW] No video after wake from S3 due to Nvidia driver crash

2021-10-06 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10, my computer sometimes fails to properly wake from suspend. It does start running again, but there is no video output. I'm attaching text for two crashes from kernel log output. First is: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/470.63.01/build/nvidia/nv.c:3967

[Bug 1945908] [NEW] Giara fails to log in due to extra characters at end of URL

2021-10-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: When I ran Giara for the first time, it gave a button for logging in, which opened a Reddit login confirmation for Giara in my default browser, Firefox. After confirming that, Firefox asked me to open a link in Giara. That failed, with Giara printing: Error authorizing

[Bug 1945909] [NEW] Giara requires gir1.2-handy-1

2021-10-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: After installing Giara, when trying to start it I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/giara", line 69, in gi.require_version('Handy', '1') File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 126, in require_version raise

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2021-10-03 Thread Boris Gjenero
In Ubuntu 21.10 with 5.13.0-16-generic kernel, I don't get any dmesg errors after I "modprobe b44" and Ethernet works initially at reasonable speed, but the whole system freezes totally after a few minutes. I suppose this means the b44 driver still doesn't work properly, because I don't get such

[Bug 1953239] [NEW] Files with multiple consecutive spaces cause errors

2021-12-04 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I was trying to use checkinstall to create a package for projectM music visualizer which I compiled. I already made a tar.xz and was doing "sudo checkinstall tar -C / -xJf /d/projectm-linux-x86_64-20211102.tar.xz" and that was failing with a bunch of errors after

[Bug 1821564] Re: b44 Ethernet driver null pointer during initialization

2021-10-27 Thread Boris Gjenero
No, "pcie_aspm=off" does not help. I also tried uninstalling broadcom-sta-dkms. It blacklists the b44 module via /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf and also https://wiki.debian.org/wl says that b44 is incompatible with wl. This did not help either. My laptop seems fine with just having the

[Bug 1958180] Re: "not in multiple of 0x10000" chkdsk errors for sparse files

2022-01-17 Thread Boris Gjenero
I managed to install and use ntfs-3g 1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1 from Ubuntu 22.04 into Ubuntu 21.10. (It was usable despite failing to satisfy dependencies, but this is not recommended and I was only doing it as a test.) Even with that newer version, the same bug still exists. I've reported the bug at

[Bug 1958180] [NEW] "not in multiple of 0x10000" chkdsk errors for sparse files

2022-01-17 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 21.10 using ntfs-3g 1:2017.3.23AR.3-3ubuntu5 I can create sparse files which result in the following messages from Windows 10 21H2 disk scanning: Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... The allocated length 0x41000 is not in multiple of 0x1 for

[Bug 1958086] [NEW] "Load random example" fails because examples are in subdirectories

2022-01-16 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: In the File menu, "Load random example" fails, saying "Error: Could not open examples". This is because examples are in subdirectories of /usr/share/XaoS/examples, and XaoS is not capable of finding examples in subdirectories. XaoS looks in /usr/share/XaoS/examples and in a

[Bug 1968827] [NEW] Pulseaudio disables auto mute, so speaker sound continues when headphones plugged in

2022-04-12 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: My Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has HDA Intel audio with a STAC9200 codec. It has speakers and a headphone jack. Previously when the headphone jack was unplugged sound came from the speakers, and when headphones were plugged in, sound came only from the headphones. In Ubuntu

[Bug 2062995] [NEW] With nvidia-dkms-470 need GSK_RENDERER=cairo WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1

2024-04-20 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: I have an Nvidia GeForce GT 710, which requires the legacy 470 proprietary driver. Both foliate and epiphany-browser display improperly by default. Some user interface elements are missing, and e-book and web pages are totally blank. To fix this, I added the following

[Bug 2062996] [NEW] Fails to start, "Argument display may not be null". fixed in 3.1.1.

2024-04-20 Thread Boris Gjenero
Public bug reported: After upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, Foliate won't start. I get this output: (com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate:14787): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 19:08:02.419: JS ERROR: Error: Argument display may not be null @resource:///com/github/johnfactotum/Foliate/themes.js:110:18

[Bug 2038653] Re: Foliate hangs at startup with spinning gear

2024-04-20 Thread Boris Gjenero
I have reported the bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/+bug/2062995 In Ubuntu 24.04, I need both GSK_RENDERER=cairo and WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 to work around this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is