[Bug 1695651] Re: GNOME Weather: "Forecast not available"

2021-05-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Does this need to get refiled against libgweather in order to get this issue fixed? I can confirm that building local libgweather_3.36.1-2~ubuntu20.04.1 packages with the four patches referenced in comment 6 eliminates this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1760449] Re: pymol can't find ubuntu pdb2pqr files

2018-04-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Patch to set APBS_PSIZE_LOCATION and APBS_PDB2PQR_LOCATION to the locations used in the ubuntu pdb2pqr package for psize.py and pdb2pqr.py scripts required by the APBS Tools 2.1 plugin. ** Patch added: "apbs_path_fix.diff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1760449/+attachmen

[Bug 1760449] Re: pymol can't find ubuntu pdb2pqr files

2018-04-01 Thread Jack Howarth
To clarify, the steps to reproduce the functionality of the patched pymol, the correct steps are described for Example 1 at https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Apbsplugin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1760449] [NEW] pymol can't find ubuntu pdb2pqr files

2018-04-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The current pymol 1.8.4.0+dfsg-1build1 packaging fails to set the APBS_PSIZE_LOCATION and APBS_PDB2PQR_LOCATION variables in modules/pmg_tk/startup/apbs_tools.py which breaks the ability to perform electrostatic surface calculations in the APBS Tools 2.1 plugin. The fix is to

[Bug 1797791] [NEW] nvidia-340 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested'

2018-10-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 is essential to many users. For example, on my MacPro 3,1 equipped with an EVGA GTX-680 Mac version graphic card, the nvidia 360, 390 and 396 drivers all fail due to issues with the new nvidia_drm module resulting in no video output on DVI and H

[Bug 1797791] Re: nvidia-340 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested'

2018-10-15 Thread Jack Howarth
I believe that I have identified why the newer nvidia drivers which depend on the new nvidia_drm kernel module fail on Mac hardware. That new module depends on the ipmi modules. On Mac hardware, unsurprisingly, the ipmi_si module fails to load and the ipmi device is not created. Motherboards with i

[Bug 1798807] [NEW] bcmwl-kernel-source fails to install if Nvidia card present in the absence of a network connection

2018-10-19 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: When enabling the proprietary packages option on the Ubuntu installation of xenial, bionic or cosmic x86_64 on a machine with both a wireless card requiring the bcmwl-kernel-source package and an additional Nvidia card present, the installation of the bcmwl-kernel-source packa

[Bug 1795516] [NEW] cosmic 18.10 beta installs grub-pc instead of grub-efi-amd64 on MacPro 3, 1

2018-10-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The bionic 18.04 installer used the grub-efi-amd64 package for grub on a MacPro 3,1, however the cosmic 18.10 installer on the same machine installs grub-pc instead (despite this being an EFI-64 machine). ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 1764005] Re: Black-screen on boot with nvidia 390 for Budgie, MATE, Xubuntu, Kubuntu

2018-10-07 Thread Jack Howarth
I am seeing the same problem with current cosmic 18.10. The stock nouveau drivers work fine but using 'sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall' to install either the nvidia-390 or nvidia-396 drivers produces a black screen (backlighting completely off) after the ubuntu splash screen has been displayed on r

[Bug 1797791] Re: nvidia-440 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested'

2020-04-04 Thread Jack Howarth
** Summary changed: - nvidia-340 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested' + nvidia-440 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1797791] Re: nvidia-440 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested'

2020-04-04 Thread Jack Howarth
I can confirm, on a 2008 MacPro with Apple ROMed GTX680, that the nvidia 440 drivers bundled with the 20.04 beta release show the same behavior. The Apple Cinema HD display LED comes on (indicating that the driver loses contact with the display) as nvidia drivers are loaded and nvidia- modeset exec

[Bug 1758551] [NEW] bionic install uses 3.26 gnome snaps instead of 3.28 packages

2018-03-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The current bionic installer is incorrectly installing snap versions of gnome-calculator, gnome-characters and gnome-system-monitor from the Gnome 3.26 release rather than the newer 3.28 normal deb packages present in the bionic repo. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undec

[Bug 1845979] [NEW] Eoan Ermine's sysprof should be 3.34.0

2019-09-30 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The sysprof in eoan is still based on 3.32.0. Since the improvements to sysprof are considered one of the significant improvements in gnome 3.34.0, it should be upgraded to the matching new version. ** Affects: sysprof (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 1845979] Re: Eoan Ermine's sysprof should be 3.34.0

2019-10-10 Thread Jack Howarth
Note that the Gnome press release specifically mentions the sysprof improvements. https://www.gnome.org/press/2019/09/gnome-3-34-released/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845979 Title:

[Bug 1796534] Re: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_renderer_set_handler_for_input_source()

2019-01-08 Thread Jack Howarth
I was able to suppress these fatal crashes in plymouth that launched the bug reporter on that package under current 18.10 Cosmic by building and installing the 0.9.3-1ubuntu12 release on launchpad https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth from the disco dingo proposed updates. There are no ob

[Bug 1876632] Re: [nvidia] Corrupted shell textures when switching users or resuming from suspend

2021-01-26 Thread Jack Howarth
I've seen the same issue with focal and System76 Stable PPA's 460.32.03-1pop0~1611601564~20.04~11a4029~dev nvidia packaging. All text was corrupted after waking from suspend but it has only occurred once so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1870937] [NEW] 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 produces SyntaxWarning

2020-04-05 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The installation of the new 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 update in Ubuntu 20.04 produces a series of warning... Setting up python3 (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python3.8... /usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py:2060: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="

[Bug 704763] Re: boot loader not installed to target disk

2020-04-05 Thread Jack Howarth
I ran into this problem under Ubuntu 20.04 Beta on my 2008 MacPro while attempting to have the boot loader installed on the same drive as the linux installation rather than the drive with my macOS installation. Using the Custom Partitioning option to install / on /dev/sde2 (ext4) and the device for

[Bug 1872109] [NEW] blacking listing of nouveau should be removed from __init__.py

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The current pymol package for 2.3.0+dfsg-1build1 has upstream's code to disable shader support on nouveau drivers in /usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/pymol/__init__.py. This causes pymol to render very slowly compared to the non-free nvidia drivers. Disabling this code... #

[Bug 1872109] Re: blacking listing of nouveau should be removed from __init__.py

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Howarth
Note that this issue is always fixed in pymol trunk with... https://github.com/schrodinger/pymol-open- source/commit/af8c2e09c3ff45eaaeaac76a9fb89b9359340336 ** Patch added: "do not blacklist "nouveau" driver" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1872109/+attachment/5351641/+

[Bug 1797791] Re: nvidia-440 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested'

2020-04-10 Thread Jack Howarth
I can also confirm that the nvidia-340 package in 20.04 builds usable kernel modules and works fine on the same 2008 MacPro with Mac rom'd GTX680. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797791

[Bug 1872109] Re: blacking listing of nouveau should be removed from __init__.py

2020-04-11 Thread Jack Howarth
I checked with pymol upstream and the 2.4.0 release, which will contain the removal of the nouveau blacklisting, is slated for a May release. This change isn't associated with any fixes in pymol but just a recognition that recent nouveau now has usable shader support. -- You received this bug not

[Bug 1872109] Re: blacking listing of nouveau should be removed from __init__.py

2020-04-11 Thread Jack Howarth
diff --git a/modules/pymol/__init__.py b/modules/pymol/__init__.py index fe299fbff..aaf978ade 100644 --- a/modules/pymol/__init__.py +++ b/modules/pymol/__init__.py @@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ def adapt_to_hardware(self): print(" Disabling shaders for Intel Express graphics")

[Bug 1873313] [NEW] linux-image-5.4.0-24-generic 5.4.0.24.29 missing from repo

2020-04-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The most recent kernel updates resulted in... ii linux-image-5.4.0-24-generic 5.4.0-24.28 amd64Signed kernel image generic ii linux-image-generic5.4.0.24.29 amd64

[Bug 1873411] [NEW] steam installs generic Desktop icons for games that require an explicit 'Allow Launching'

2020-04-17 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The 1.0.0.61-2ubuntu3 steam package installs a steam which creates generic icons on the Desktop for games. These Desktop game icons open in gedit rather than launching when double clicked. One has to explicitly right-click on the icon and select 'Allow Launching' for the Deskt

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2020-04-17 Thread Jack Howarth
20.04 RC shows the same problem with the nvidia-340 drivers on a MacPro 3,1 with Mac ROM'd GTX680. The autologin is ignored and the greeter is shown instead. While the login works fine at the point, restarting then causes the system to hang rather than completing the restart. -- You received this

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2020-04-17 Thread Jack Howarth
Confirmed that setting 'WaylandEnable=false' in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf under 20.04 has no impact on the autologin bug with nvidia-340. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845801 Title: [nv

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2020-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
This bug is definitely triggered by the built kernel image loading the nvidia drivers. The autologin failures and associated hangs on restarts can be suppressed as follows... 1) Edit /etc/config/grub to remove 'splash' from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT 2) Regenerate /boot/grub/grub.cfg with 'sudo up

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2020-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
Couldn't the nvidia packages all be modified to prune 'splash' from /boot/grub/grub.cfg prior to rebuilding its kernel modules and thus regenerating the initrd.img files? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1873604] [NEW] nvidia-340 should prune 'splash' from grub.cfg

2020-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Currently the Nvidia driver packages break the autologin feature of gdm3 whenever the 'splash' option is present on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/config/grub. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1845801 This breakage can be avoided by removing '

[Bug 1873937] [NEW] nvidia-340 prevents booting into single user mode under Ubuntu 20.04

2020-04-20 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Steps to reproduce this bug... 1) Install the current nvidia-340 340.108-0ubuntu2 package. 2) Reboot to confirm nvidia graphics drivers are functional. 3) Reboot and edit the default kernel options to have 'single' before 'quiet splash' 4) Boot the edited kernel options The

[Bug 1873965] [NEW] booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-20 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: On a 2008 MacPro with GTX680 under Ubuntu 20.04, selecting the recovery mode from grub hangs on loading of the ramdisk with the Recovery Menu dialog never appearing. This problem doesn't exist for a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 updated to the current package updates. In that

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
If I remove 'nomodeset' from the grub kernel options for the recovery kernel under 20.04, the hang in booting at loading the ramdisk is eliminated. The recovery dialog appears as expected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Interestingly, installing the mainline Ubuntu 5.4.25 generic kernel packages on Ubuntu 18.04 produces the same bug of nomodeset preventing the recovery dialog from appearing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Oddly, so far I have not found a Ubuntu mainline kernel build that doesn't show the problem. 5.3.18-050318-generic 5.4.0-050400-generic 5.4.25-050425-generic 5.4.28-050428-generic 5.6.6-050606-generic all produce the hang at loading the ramdisk when booting the recovery kernel with the default us

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
This problem doesn't exist for current Ubuntu 19.10 under its 5.3.0-46-generic kernel. The recovery mode boots fine on the same hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873965 Title:

[Bug 1873937] Re: nvidia-340 prevents booting into single user mode under Ubuntu 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
This bug doesn't exist on the same hardware (a 2008 MacPro with Mac ROM'd GTX680) under current Ubuntu 19.10 with the nvidia-340 package installed. In that case, booting the default 5.3.0-46-generic kernel in single user mode produces the expected prompt. -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
I have been able to eliminate the focal 5.4.0-26-generic kernel packages as the origin of this bug. Manually installing those onto an installation of Ubuntu 19.10, produced a fully functional boot. More importantly the recovery mode boot from grub worked fine. So the problem under 20.04 would appea

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-22 Thread Jack Howarth
This issue extends to the daily desktop cd image for focal. When booted from a usb memory stick and the safe graphics (which uses nomodeset) is selected from grub, the screen remains black and never completes booting. This issue doesn't exist with the current 19.10 cd images which boot without issu

[Bug 1873965] Re: booting into recovery mode hangs under 20.04

2020-04-24 Thread Jack Howarth
This offending package for bug is proving very difficult to pin down. I have tried to sequentially regress all the packages that the recovery kernel boot are likely to use back to their eoan versions on a 20.04 installation. In each case, I reinstalled the kernels afterwards to insure that the init

[Bug 1878611] Re: accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update crashes into greeter

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
I noticed that one of the changes in accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 is... * Add patch to not crash in the library when the daemon goes away (Closes: #948228) (LP: #1843982) Does this imply that the existing accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu11 package in 20.04 will crash during upgrade

[Bug 1878611] [NEW] accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update crashes into greeter

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: When updating Ubuntu 20.04 to the current proposed updates with the accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update, the current gnome session crashes out reproducibly into the the gdm3 greeter. At that point, when you try to log back in, only the background color is displayed

[Bug 1878611] Re: accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update crashes into greeter

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Done. I forget to note that I do have autologin set. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878611 Title: accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update crashes into greeter To manage not

[Bug 1843982] Re: Various programs crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash() from g_hash_table_lookup() from update_user()

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
I am seeing crashes back into the greeter when updating the current accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu11 package to the accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update in the focal proposed-updates. An autologin is currently set for this machine. Since the changes describe this fix as... * Add patch

[Bug 1843982] Re: Various programs crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash() from g_hash_table_lookup() from update_user()

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
I can also confirm that if I disable autologin, reboot and then update to the current packages in focal-proposed updates that the installation of accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 from the current accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu11 package completes normally. -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1878611] Re: accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 update crashes into greeter

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
I can also confirm that if I disable autologin, reboot and then update to the current packages in focal-proposed updates that the installation of accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 from the current accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu11 package completes normally. -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1843982] Re: Various programs crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash() from g_hash_table_lookup() from update_user()

2020-05-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Looking at the syslog for the failed upgrade to accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 with autologin enabled, I find that the first failure appears at... May 13 17:04:50 howarth-MacPro systemd[1]: Stopping Accounts Service... May 13 17:04:50 howarth-MacPro systemd[1]: accounts-daemon.service: S

[Bug 1843982] Re: Various programs crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash() from g_hash_table_lookup() from update_user()

2020-05-15 Thread Jack Howarth
My experience with focal-proposed and accountsservice 0.6.55-0ubuntu12~20.04.1 has been that the update causes the currently executing 'sudo apt-get update' to prematurely abort when the gnome shell crashes. In my case, this left the linux-kerrnel packages only half configured. My understanding is

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
The 33_fix_relative_paths_in_example_scripts.patch has to be regenerated to cope with context changes in the pymol 2.1.0 sources. ** Patch added: "33_fix_relative_paths_in_example_scripts.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1763992/+attachment/5115692/+files/33_fix_rela

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
The PyQt GUI for pymol appears as shown in the attached screen shot under 18.04. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2018-04-14 15-09-08.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1763992/+attachment/5115694/+files/Screenshot%20from%202018-04-14%2015-09-08.png -- You receive

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
The 22_fix_pymol_import.patch has to be regenerated to cope with context changes in the pymol 2.1.0 sources. ** Patch added: "22_fix_pymol_import.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1763992/+attachment/5115691/+files/22_fix_pymol_import.patch -- You received this bug

[Bug 1763992] [NEW] pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: It is trivial to update the current pymol packaging in 18.04 to the newest pymol 2.1.0 tarball at available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/files/pymol/2/. The 2.1.0 release now runs under a PyQt when present so the control file for the deb build only needs...

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
The 02_test-suite.patch has to be regenerated to cope with context changes in the pymol 2.1.0 sources. ** Patch added: "02_test-suite.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymol/+bug/1763992/+attachment/5115690/+files/02_test-suite.patch -- You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Add additional 40_fix_apbstools_search_path.patch should be added to solve the long standing issue of the apbstools plugin not being able to find the required psize.py and pdb2pqr.py files from the pdb2pqr package in ubuntu. Trivial to fix. ** Patch added: "40_fix_apbstools_search_path.patch"

[Bug 1763992] Re: pymol should be updated to 2.1.0 to use PyQt interface

2018-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Just to be clear, the changes required to the existing packaging are... --- pymol-1.8.4.0+dfsg/debian/control 2016-10-20 11:33:21.0 -0400 +++ pymol-2.1.0+dfsg/debian/control 2018-04-14 13:57:37.0 -0400 @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Package: pymol Architecture: any Depends: python-nump

[Bug 1765960] [NEW] nautilus fails to insert disk with eject key

2018-04-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The nautilus handling of removable media capable of automated insertion is flawed. On a MacPro 3,1, running bionic for instance, the first use of the eject key on the keyboard ejects the SuperDrive DVD tray but the second use of the eject key doesn't cause the tray to auto-ins

[Bug 1650023] [NEW] grub2 should install in mixed-mode for multi-arch x86_64/i386 support to allow EFI-32 boots

2016-12-14 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Description of problem: Currently the existing Ubuntu Live installers can't boot from a USB key on legacy Apple hardware like a MacBook Pro 2,1 which lacks EFI-64 firmware with only EFI-32 firmware. The next Ubuntu release should adopt the same mixed-mode multi-arch install

[Bug 1650278] [NEW] ubuntu-software maddeningly vague on OS updates

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Currently when the ubuntu-software program offers the user OS Updates which promise security and performance improvements, it is completely opaque about what these will encompass. Is it a minor system utility or a full kernel upgrade? There needs to be a tab to click on that p

[Bug 1647184] Re: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Howarth
I have crafted a update-efi-booter script which automates the booting approach described in http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs171/materials/pdfs/How_to_Dual- Boot_OSX_and_Ubuntu.pdf where the /boot/efi partition on Macs are kept as HFS+ so that the boot selector can be made aware of the bootable boo

[Bug 1369187] Re: Installation on Macs could use EFI booting instead of legacy BIOS

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Howarth
I have successfully installed Debian Jessie using the multi-arch netinst iso https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso- cd/debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso which leverages the new mixed mode support described in https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI Support for mixed-mode systems: 64

[Bug 1369187] Re: Installation on Macs could use EFI booting instead of legacy BIOS

2016-12-15 Thread Jack Howarth
I would also strongly suggest that we add code similar to that posted on pastebin for journal_disable.c at http://pastebin.com/7rvxR38d to the mactel-boot package as well as this script so we can add the additional lines... # make sure HFS+ Journaling is disabled disable_journal `cat /proc/mounts

[Bug 1369187] Re: Installation on Macs could use EFI booting instead of legacy BIOS

2016-12-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Tested on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.10 x86_64 by... gcc -o disable_journal disable_journal.c chmod ugo+x update-efi-booter install disable_journal update-efi-booter /usr/local/bin identify the device that the /boot/efi partition is mounted on, umount it and then use gdisk to delete that parti

[Bug 1629235] Re: rtl8812au-dkms 4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg-0ubuntu4: rtl8812au kernel module failed to build [error: ‘IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ’ undeclared here]

2016-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1595765 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595765 I can confirm that the instructions at http://wiki.beyondlogic.org/index.php?title=TPLINK_Archer_T4U_RTL8812au_Linux_Drivers produce a usable rtl8812au.ko under both the 4.8.0-22-generic and 4.8.0-32-generic

[Bug 1717127] [NEW] libomp5 and libomp-dev should be updated to the 5.0.0 release

2017-09-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The libomp5 and libomp-dev packages available in arty for installation against the release clang-5.0 package are still based on the 4.0.1-4 packaging. The libomp5 and libomp-dev packages need to be kept in sync with the latest official release of llvm (5.0.0) in order to be fu

[Bug 1707208] [NEW] ubuntu tomcat8 packaging breaks MetaboAnalyst application

2017-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The Ubuntu tomcat8 server fails to properly serve the MetaboAnalyst server application when installed as described upstream at http://www.metaboanalyst.ca/faces/docs/Resources.xhtml. A manual installation of a glassfish4 4.1.2 server has no problems serving the same MetaboAnal

[Bug 1707208] Re: ubuntu tomcat8 packaging breaks MetaboAnalyst application

2017-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
The logs from a bzip2 tar archive of the /var/lib/tomcat8/logs directory contents after the tomcat8 and MetaboAnalyst installation to run as tomcat8. The logs show the messages logged from tomcat8 when the failed connection attempt at the URL... http://localhost:8080/MetaboAnalyst/ ...produces th

[Bug 1646895] [NEW] Unity desktop confused by AppleRAID volumes

2016-12-02 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: On a MacPro 3,1 with a stock installation of Ubuntu 16.10 amd64 from ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso , the mounted volumes on the Dock of the Desktop are incorrect. The machine has three SATA drives installed. Two of these are formatted as RAID-1 slices of an AppleRAID Journal

[Bug 1314587] Re: Windows slow/stall/freeze when minimizing/restoring/etc in Unity 7 (14.04 and 14.10)

2016-12-03 Thread Jack Howarth
Why is ubuntu bothering to duplicate the virtualbox packaging when Oracle appears to be both more current and supporting all of the Ubuntu releases in their own repo? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1314587] Re: Windows slow/stall/freeze when minimizing/restoring/etc in Unity 7 (14.04 and 14.10)

2016-12-03 Thread Jack Howarth
I see the same problem on Ubuntu 16.10 but using the Oracle virtualbox-5.1 packaging for 5.1.10 works perfectly after installing the dkms package and running /sbin/vboxconfig to generate the kernel modules. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1647184] [NEW] Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: While looking at the various Linux distributions as a replacement OS on a MacBook Pro 2,1 with EFI-32, I was pleasantly surprised that Fedora 24 could produce a bootable system on an internal disk which was partitioned as MBR with just a single spare partition of empty space.

[Bug 1387274] Re: system-config-samba.py fails to start due to missing /etc/libuser.conf Utopic

2016-12-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Why not take the path of least resistance here? Just make the system- config-samba have an dependency on the installation of the libuser package and the problem goes away, no? It certainly worked for me tonight with a fresh installation of 16.10. Note from... http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/sy

[Bug 1647260] [NEW] virtualbox lies about available processors on non-hyperthreaded processors

2016-12-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: I consider this bug extremely insidious as it can ruin the performance of linux while virtualbox is running. While setting up Oracle's virtualbox-5.1 on my MacPro 3,1 under Ubuntu 16.10, I was puzzled by the extremely bad system performance that I was seeing. Finally I realize

[Bug 1647184] Re: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-05 Thread Jack Howarth
FYI, I strongly urge the interested Ubuntu developers to carefully read the following thread in the fedora-devel mailing list where the Fedora developers discuss the specific changes made and known behaviors of booting on EFI-32 with Fedora 25... https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...

[Bug 1647184] Re: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-09 Thread Jack Howarth
After struggling this for the better part of a week, the best solution I have found is to abandon the Ubuntu 16.10 installers entirely and use debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso which works perfectly on a MacBook Pro 3,1. A workable approach I believe is to do as bare-bones an installation as poss

[Bug 1647184] Re: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-09 Thread Jack Howarth
err, that should have been MacBook Pro 2,1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1647184 Title: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallba

[Bug 1647184] Re: Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI like Fedora 24 and fallback.efi for EFI-32

2016-12-11 Thread Jack Howarth
I finally got this to work. The only real requirement for this to work is the the a boot partition that is FAT32 was exist for the Mac EFI firmware to see and that this partition must contain the fake mach_kernel file and a System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist file containing...

[Bug 2060394] [NEW] do-release-upgrade -d currently non-functional

2024-04-07 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Under both current 22.04.4 and 23.10, the command 'sudo do-release- upgrade -d' is non-functional and can't upgrade a system to the current 24.04 development release. I've never witnessed this behavior in the past and assume that the development release has been hidden from th

[Bug 2060655] [NEW] linux-signatures-nvidia-6.8.0-22-generic missing default nvidia 550 drivers

2024-04-09 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The linux-signatures-nvidia-6.8.0-22-generic package only contains nvidia drivers as new as nvidia-driver-450 despite the current additional drivers in Software & Updates having nvidia-driver-550 as the tested topmost choice. ** Affects: linux-restricted-signatures (Ubuntu)

[Bug 2061036] [NEW] pymol 2.5.0+dfsg-1build6 fails to start on noble

2024-04-11 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The python 3.12 in use on noble causes pymol in the pymol 2.5.0+dfsg-1build6 to fail on the command line with the error... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 189, in _run_module_as_main File "", line 112, in _get_module_details File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-

[Bug 2061036] Re: pymol 2.5.0+dfsg-1build6 fails to start on noble

2024-04-12 Thread Jack Howarth
I am a bit confused as to why simply commenting out the import of imp works as find_module() should be removed in python 3.12 under Ubuntu 24.04. There doesn't appear to be any fixes yet upstream in Debian Sid which uses the same 22_fix_pymol_import.patch. Debian doesn't have a bug report yet again

[Bug 2061036] Re: pymol 2.5.0+dfsg-1build6 fails to start on noble

2024-04-12 Thread Jack Howarth
It appears that the following does find the pymol module when executed within python3.12. % python3.12 Python 3.12.2 (main, Feb 10 2024, 11:33:20) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.1.0.2.5)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from importlib.util import fi

[Bug 2062967] [NEW] ubuntu-drivers no longer offers nvidia 550 drivers

2024-04-20 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: While I am unclear which package update impacted the video drivers detected by ubuntu-drivers, the nvidia 545 and nvidia 550 video drivers are no longer shown as an option on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 video card. I can understand the removal of the nvidia 545 drivers as the curr

[Bug 1971558] [NEW] dropbox menu icon often replaced with three dots under Jammy

2022-05-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: Often when logging back into after workstation sleeping, the dropbox icon in the top menu bar is replaced with three dots instead of its normal dropbox icon. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: nautilus-dropbox 2019.02.14-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubunt

[Bug 1971558] Re: dropbox menu icon often replaced with three dots under Jammy

2022-05-04 Thread Jack Howarth
** Attachment added: "screen shot of the three dot icon instead of the expected dropbox one." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/1971558/+attachment/5586601/+files/Screenshot%20from%202022-05-04%2006-01-59.png -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1971558] Re: dropbox menu icon often replaced with three dots under Jammy

2022-05-04 Thread Jack Howarth
** Attachment added: "screen shot of the three dot icon instead of the expected dropbox one." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/1971558/+attachment/5586602/+files/Screenshot%20from%202022-05-04%2006-01-59.png -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1947829] Re: Cannot identified WLAN card MT7921 in Ubunut OS with Install OS complete first OOBE Boot OS

2021-11-03 Thread Jack Howarth
The changes made to linux-firmware 1.201.1 on impish has destablized use of a Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I REV Bluetooth 4.0/Wireless AC/B/G/N Band Dual Frequency 2.4Ghz/5.8Ghz Expansion Card. Under the new linux-firmware 1.201.1, no wifi is available under Gnome in about 80-90% of the boots. Under the pri

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-16 Thread Jack Howarth
So this isn't a single bug but multiple points of failure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969243 Title: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option To manage notifications abou

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-17 Thread Jack Howarth
gdm3 42.0-1ubuntu6 is in proposed and Wayland is apparently going to be unavailable for the 22.04 LTS release. Cnet is going to have to rewrite its review. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-17 Thread Jack Howarth
Looks like Fedora 36 won't have this problem with Wayland on Nvidia because their associated rpmfusion packaging for xorg-x11-drv-nvidia adds a nvidia-power-management.conf with the following contents into /etc/modprobe.d... # # Save and restore all video memory allocations. options nvidia NVreg_P

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
What is Ubuntu's definition of a 'stable release update' in this case regarding Nvidia driver support for Wayland? Does this imply, as I fear, an update only after the fix has been deployed in another full Ubuntu release? If so, this would imply that we won't have Nvidia Wayland support until 22.10

[Bug 1968929] Re: No Wayland support on my NVIDA laptop

2022-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
"gdm3 (42.0-1ubuntu6) jammy; urgency=medium * Fix Wayland no longer being available for everyone - Fix by adding a separate revert patch instead of trying to rebase the cherry-picked patches (LP: #1969243) * Please note that Wayland is not currently available for systems using th

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
As importantly, how can we even know whether the Nvidia power mananagement support is broken or working if the Ubuntu Nvidia packaging never starts nvidia-hibernate.service, nvidia-powerd.service, nvidia- resume.service and nvidia-suspend.service like rpmfusion on Fedora. Of course, we would need a

[Bug 1969243] Re: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option

2022-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969243 Title: gdm 42.0-1ubuntu4 no longer shows Wayland option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

[Bug 1968929] Re: No Wayland support on my NVIDA laptop

2022-04-18 Thread Jack Howarth
How can we even know whether the Nvidia power mananagement support is broken or working if the Ubuntu Nvidia packaging never starts nvidia- hibernate.service, nvidia-powerd.service, nvidia-resume.service and nvidia-suspend.service like rpmfusion on Fedora? Of course, we would need a /etc/modprobe.d

[Bug 1969447] [NEW] 42.0-1ubuntu6 doesn't recongize the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1

2022-04-19 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The current /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules has a broken rule for detecting the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1. This issue can be seen by adding a file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power- management.conf containing the line... options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVi

[Bug 1969447] Re: 42.0-1ubuntu6 doesn't recongize the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1

2022-04-19 Thread Jack Howarth
I am wondering if the use of escaped quotes in the failing rule of /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules is really being honored. There don't seem to be any other examples of deployed udev rules which actually use such escaped quotes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 1969447] Re: 42.0-1ubuntu6 doesn't recongize the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1

2022-04-19 Thread Jack Howarth
I have found that current /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules can be fixed by swapping the order of the single and escaped double quotes from... IMPORT{program}="/bin/sh -c \"sed -e 's/: /=/g' -e 's/\([^[:upper:]]\)\([[:upper:]]\)/\1_\2/g' -e 's/[[:lower:]]/\U&/g' -e 's/^/NVIDIA_/' /proc/driver/nvidia/

[Bug 1969447] Re: 42.0-1ubuntu6 doesn't recongize the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1

2022-04-19 Thread Jack Howarth
Note that I stumbled onto the above fix after noticing the example shown for the udev escaped quoting support showed an example with double quotes surrounded by single quotes which in turn surrounded escaped double quotes... https://git.alternativebit.fr/NinjaTrappeur/Systemd/commit/7e760b79ad143b

[Bug 1969447] Re: 42.0-1ubuntu6 doesn't recongize the presence of NVIDIA_PRESERVE_VIDEO_MEMORY_ALLOCATIONS=1

2022-04-20 Thread Jack Howarth
Daniel, I disagree. This bug is actually about the fact that the test crafted in /lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules doesn't parse as expected in udev. We also should probably file a bug report against upstream udev as the changes added to support escaped quotes in #6890 aren't robust enough. -- You r

[Bug 1967843] [NEW] cheese display corrupted under Ubuntu 22.04

2022-04-05 Thread Jack Howarth
Public bug reported: The cheese application produces a corrupted display under Ubuntu 22.04 with a Logitech C525 webcam. When started from the command line, cheese produces repeated warnings of the form... (cheese:4175): cheese-WARNING **: 05:15:48.706: A lot of buffers are being dropped.: ../li

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