[Bug 729288] Re: squid failed to restart after update to squid 2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.2

2011-11-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
cache.log, attached, shows nothing odd AFAICS, normal shutdown. dist- upgrade failed, Preparing to replace squid 2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.1 (using .../squid_2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5.2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement squid ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will

[Bug 39249] Re: (Dapper) can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied

2008-06-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Seeing this on a new 8.04 Server install. Given Martin said it needs info so long ago I'm changing it back to confirmed in the hope there's since been enough info. Here's mine; it's just got eth0 and lo interfaces. $ cd /var/lib/dhcp3 $ ls -la total 8 k drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

[Bug 242666] Re: seahorse asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

2008-06-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The above was originally https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+question/36438 rather than a bug. However, on thinking about it, prompting for the passphrase for `ssh-add -l' seems broken compared to the old behaviour. -- seahorse asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

[Bug 242666] Re: seahorse asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

2008-06-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
/usr/lib/gnome-keyring/gnome-keyring-ask is the program prompting with the dialogue box, from package gnome-keyring 2.22.2-0ubuntu1. ** Summary changed: - seahorse asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l' + gnome-keyring asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l' -- gnome-keyring asks for

[Bug 242666] Re: gnome-keyring asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

2008-06-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Given it's /usr/lib/gnome-keyring/gnome-keyring-ask displaying the dialogue box I'm guessing gnome-keyring is the right package. ** Changed in: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: openssh = gnome-keyring -- gnome-keyring asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

[Bug 39249] Re: (Dapper) can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied

2008-08-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Martin, I saw this on a fresh 8.04 install and try to give some detail, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/39249/comments/24 above. -- (Dapper) can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39249 You received this bug

[Bug 24741] Re: samba account_policy_get fails on install

2008-08-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just an update; installing package samba on 8.04 still gives Setting up samba (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4) ... Generating /etc/default/samba... tdbsam_open: Converting version 0 database to version 3. account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 1 (min password length),

[Bug 24741] Re: Installing samba gives spurious account_policy_get failed messages

2010-02-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Summary changed: - Spurious account_policy_get failed messages on install + Installing samba gives spurious account_policy_get failed messages -- Installing samba gives spurious account_policy_get failed messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24741 You received this bug notification

[Bug 561779] Re: squid is not started on runlevel transition 1 - 2

2010-04-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Is it low importance? It's easily worked around if I know it occurs, but if I don't know this bug exists then I'm left with a server at runlevel 2 without squid, and it may cause users all kinds of problems before they get back to me and I work out what's wrong. -- squid is not started on

[Bug 561779] Re: squid is not started on runlevel transition 1 - 2

2010-04-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It isn't a matter of being able to work around the problem; an experienced user can do that, I agree. As I pointed out, it's that squid not running on moving to run level 2 isn't obvious to the admin that's just made the change. It has to affect users before the admin gets to know about the

Re: [Bug 24741] Re: Installing samba gives spurious account_policy_get failed messages

2010-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The fix is in the development release (Lucid), not backported to Karmic. Making it useless to the majority of Ubuntu users, who are not all on Lucid and many of whom will not be upgrading to Lucid for some time... (need to wait for bugfxes to be released, wontfixes to be worked aroud,

[Bug 416264] Re: ssh client pauses during GSS negotiation due to delay on reverse lookup in avahi

2010-05-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just experienced this with a 8.04 ssh client talking to a CentOS ssh server. Turning off GSSAPIAuthentication avoids the delay. -- ssh client pauses during GSS negotiation due to delay on reverse lookup in avahi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416264 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1286] Re: nn suffers segv after empty NNTP LIST reply from sn.

2006-10-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Yes. I can't try it on Dapper but looking at Dapper's nn-6.7.2 source I see they've altered the code to initialise stp to NULL but it still doesn't get set to anything useful unless the while-loop body is executed at least once. Despite this, after the while-loop the code does `stp-n.next =

[Bug 1898] Re: tcc -run works but tcc can't produce a.out.

2006-09-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
http://www.mail-archive.com/tinycc-devel@nongnu.org/msg00228.html seems to be discussing the same problem, and there's a suggested patch but it's corrupted by the mail archive. I think http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2005-09/txtJuEgJiyPEC.txt is the same patch. Perhaps someone can

[Bug 18306] Re: `apt-cache show gphoto2' is silent and exits 0.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think Steve Harms is wrong above. The problem still remains in Dapper. It's just gphoto2 appears to have changed from a virtual package to a real one. But the problem remains with awk. $ t() { apt-cache show $1 /tmp/t 21; echo $?; wc -c /tmp/t; } $ t foo 100 53 /tmp/t $

[Bug 18306] Re: `apt-cache show gphoto2' is silent and exits 0.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Present now in Dapper as well so reversing Steve's Unconfirmed - Fix Released change but making it Confirmed. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Confirmed -- `apt-cache show gphoto2' is silent and exits 0. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18306 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 18272] Re: amixer beeps on argv[] processing errors.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Still present in Dapper, 6.06. $ pwd /tmp/alsa-utils-1.0.10 $ find -name '*.c' | xargs grep '\\0[0-9]' ./alsamixer/alsamixer.c:case '\014': ./amixer/amixer.c: fprintf(stderr, \07Invalid card number.\n); ./amixer/amixer.c:

[Bug 18283] Re: hwdb-gui hangs if there's no default network route.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 18125 *** Still present in Dapper, 6.06. Definition of getroute() hasn't changed in hwdb-client-0.6. ** Changed in: hwdb-client (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- hwdb-gui hangs if there's no default network route.

[Bug 18575] Re: /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh Searches /etc/environment with wrong regexp.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to Confirmed since the script is still the same in Dapper, Ubuntu 6.06. ** Changed in: console-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh Searches /etc/environment with wrong regexp. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18575 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 52420] sn creates line in /etc/inetd.conf but inetd not installed.

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sn On Ubuntu 6.06, Dapper, I `apt-get install sn' and all went well. Afterwards, $ cat /etc/inetd.conf nntp stream tcp nowait news.news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/snntpd logger -p news.info $ apt-show-versions -a -p netkit-inetd Not

[Bug 53438] apt-show-versions doesn't find all gnucash related packages.

2006-07-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: I found gnucash's `new user tutorial' didn't work because gnucash-docs wasn't installed. I was surprised to find gnucash-docs existed because $ sudo apt-show-versions -i $ apt-show-versions -a -r -p gnucash gnucash-common 1.8.9-4ubuntu2 install ok installed

[Bug 1828] Re: star installs gnutar which isn't GNU tar.

2006-06-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Identical problems to original bug report confirmed in Ubuntu 6.06. ** Changed in: star (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Confirmed -- star installs gnutar which isn't GNU tar. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1828 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 56891] sort's -u is Failing to Check all -k fields for Uniqueness.

2006-08-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: coreutils Tested with sort 5.2.1 from coreutils 5.2.1-2ubuntu0 and sort 5.93 from 5.93-5ubuntu4. sort's -u (unique) option isn't working as expected and the info (spit!) documentation doesn't match its behaviour either so I'd expect one or the other to

[Bug 56891] Re: sort's -u is Failing to Check all -k fields for Uniqueness.

2006-08-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think I've given sufficient detail to re-create the issue so it warrants further investigation. Waiting for someone else to hit the same problem and find this might mean it never gets confirmed otherwise. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- sort's -u

[Bug 56891] Re: sort's -u is Failing to Check all -k fields for Uniqueness.

2006-08-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Sorry, this isn't a bug. -k1,$n doesn't sort on the first $n fields but on the numeric prefix of the first $n fields, i.e. the `/' tab character separating fields 1 and 2 stops the comparison. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Rejected -- sort's -u is Failing to

[Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I think there's enough people suffering from this that it can be made Confirmed in order to get someone looking at it. Even The Register has reported on it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon_ipv6/ Can people with the problem please try and be as precise as possible with

[Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Michael, can you run tcpdump to display the network traffic on your outgoing interface and then attempt a ping to a never-tried-before host. E.g., my interface is ppp0 so `sudo tcpdump -i ppp0 -n' in one window and then `ping -c 3 -n mail.troff.org' in another. The output should only be a few

[Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Michael, I assume you mean www.ubuntu.gr since gr.www.ubuntu.com doesn't exist for me either. $ host www.ubuntu.gr www.ubuntu.gr is an alias for ubuntu.gr. ubuntu.gr has address 64.79.219.14 -- Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155393 You

Re: [Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
That is, while I CAN ping archive.ubuntu.com, archive.canonical.com e.t.c. I CAN'T download any packages! All I can suggest for the moment is to see if tcpdump sheds any light on what's going on, e.g. are the DNS replies not coming back, or are the requests going to an odd address, whilst

Re: [Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Michael, thanks, that helps. You machine is issueing IPv6 address queries and is sometimes getting back 1.0.0.0 as an answer. It then tries to contact this incorrect address. It's almost certainly the poor implementation of a DNS server in your router not coping well with IPv6. It has

Re: [Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

2007-10-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Thanks for the Ouzo! Ohhh, I was wondering, is there any other way to install a fix other than update, because some people might not be able to fix such bugs as they don't have internet connection... because of the bug! For example, I had to wait for a period to get my internet connection

Re: [Bug 222458] Re: /lib/udev/hdparm Compares Against $DEVNAME.

2008-11-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Yes, bug #227705 may be a duplicate of this one, but I'm puzzled why it still didn't work when you switched from the symlink to /dev/sda1. Did you try the drive rather than the partition? /dev/sda. I agree that, compared to init.d, the udev stuff seems hard to debug. Perhaps we just don't have

[Bug 231051] Re: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Ubuntu 8.04, yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3. On doing `gnome-help info:groff' the window appears correctly. Clicking Introduction gives a SIGSEGV in strlen(). It's very consistent behaviour. Attached is valgrind log. ** Changed in: yelp (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- yelp

[Bug 231051] Re: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: valgrind-logs-gnome-help.tar.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18397609/valgrind-logs-gnome-help.tar.gz -- yelp crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
In my opinion, this doesn't reall give enough information to confirm that the behaviour isn't down to user error. For example, on the second machine the cut-and-pasted output of for u in A B C; do ls -ld /home/$u{,/.gvfs}; df /home/$u/.gvfs; id $u; done would be useful. -- Superuser

[Bug 289893] [NEW] mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 8.04, xserver-xorg-video-mga 1:1.4.8.dfsg.1-1. Attempts to play *.avi from various sources in mplayer(1), vlc(1), etc., result in the same fault; two columns have been swapped with their neighbours for every few columns through the frame. It doesn't happen if I

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: compare.avi http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18945005/compare.avi -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: paraglider.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18945022/paraglider.png -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: xdpyinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18946377/xdpyinfo.txt -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: xorg.conf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18946391/xorg.conf -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: xvinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18946382/xvinfo.txt -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 289893] Re: mga XVideo driver swaps columns

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: lspci-nn.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18946395/lspci-nn.txt -- mga XVideo driver swaps columns https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 98637] Re: window list → bug in flash ing effect

2008-10-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The issue I raised in bug #260459, which was marked as a duplicate of this one, was seen in 8.04, yes. In that bug report, it says Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-panel 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu1.1.. But perhaps it's a different issue and not a duplicate after all? -- window list → bug in flashing effect

[Bug 218112] Re: hardy beta installer: grub fails to install

2008-04-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, trying to install from http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-rc-desktop-amd64.iso as it was around 2008-04-09 onto a machine with one PATA and five SATA drives, the installation repeatedly, consistently, fails at 94% with Running grub-install (hd0)... Unable to

Re: [Bug 218112] Re: hardy beta installer: grub fails to install

2008-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Apr 19 20:02:59 ubuntu grub-installer: Unknown partition table signature I assumed this was just down to one of the five 500GB SATA drive not having a partition table, i.e. it's fresh out the box and plugged in. $ gi 'unknown partition' syslog.0 syslog partman syslog.0:Apr 19 19:27:15

Re: [Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-04-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The problem u are all having is a hardware problem If you're suggesting we've all got a hardware fault then you are mistaken. In the particular case I'm monitoring, the exact same hardware locks up day after day with 7.10 and not at all with 7.04. I'm glad you've resolved your problem, but it

[Bug 163451] Re: Unable to run GNOME Font Viewer in Ubuntu 7.10 from menu

2008-03-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've just followed Jonathan Fritz's path. Having freshly installed 7.10 I did System - Preferences - Main Menu to see what could be changed. Finding Applications - Other - Gnome Font Viewer I thought it sounded useful and ticked it. Selecting the newly appeared menu item show a minimised button

[Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-04-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This is on a standard Ubuntu 7.10, gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1. As you can't cut and paste those echo(1)s above, here's some printf(1) equivalents. $ printf '\x1b[8;40;100t' $ printf '\x1b[4;200;200t' -- gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

[Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-04-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've also found that rxvt 1:2.6.4-12 responds correctly to the two printf(1)s above. So gnome-terminal is so far the only one that doesn't. -- gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217167 You received this bug notification

[Bug 214540] Re: gnash Bug with apport Enabled Results in Very High Run Queue

2008-04-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 207629 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207629 This has been marked as a dupe of bug #207629. I spotted that one before opening this one, but it was with 8.04 pre-release whereas I'm on 7.10. Given the comment on bug #207629 that the plan is to disable

[Bug 210822] [NEW] mhpath Splits Error between stdout and stderr.

2008-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nmh Ubuntu 7.10, package nmh 1.2-3. mhpath splits its diagnostic across stdout and stderr. $ mhpath - mhpath: - ambiguous. It matches -version -help $ $ mhpath - 2 (od -c | sed s/^/2:/) (od -c | sed s/^/1:/); sleep 1

[Bug 210822] Re: mhpath Splits Error between stdout and stderr.

2008-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to confirmed because I've given an exact case for reproducing. ** Changed in: nmh (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- mhpath Splits Error between stdout and stderr. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210822 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 210883] [NEW] `fdisk -l /dev/foobar' gives no error.

2008-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: util-linux Ubuntu 7.10. Package util-linux 2.13-8ubuntu1. `fdisk -l /dev/foobar' doesn't complain if foobar doesn't exist, nor does it set the exit status to non-zero. $ ls -l /dev/foobar ls: /dev/foobar: No such file or directory $ fdisk

[Bug 210883] Re: `fdisk -l /dev/foobar' gives no error.

2008-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to Confirmed because I've given an easy means to re-create it. ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- `fdisk -l /dev/foobar' gives no error. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 210890] [NEW] egrep -o '^..' Doesn't Match Start of Line Correctly.

2008-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grep Ubuntu 7.10. Package grep 2.5.1.ds2-6build1. Consider $ echo 0123456789 | egrep -o '^..' 01 23 45 67 89 $ The -o option: Show only the part of a matching line that matches PATTERN. Hence I'd expect the output to be

[Bug 1828] Re: star installs gnutar which isn't GNU tar.

2008-04-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Etienne, I don't see why. star's claim to emulate GNU tar seems false; hence building Firefox failing above. It isn't really a GNU tar, I suspect its author just wanted to usurp GNU tar and have configure scripts use it. If people want star for its benefits, that's fine. But if someone's

[Bug 214537] [NEW] gnash-gtk Consumes Memory until Kernel OOM Killer Steps In

2008-04-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnash Ubuntu 7.10. gnash 0.8.1-0ubuntu3. firefox 1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10. Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/europe/7335351.stm in firefox. Page displays fine. Edit URL, replacing /low/ with /hi/. New page starts to load. The flash movie at

[Bug 214540] [NEW] gnash Bug with apport Enabled Results in Very High Run Queue

2008-04-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apport Ubuntu 7.10. apport 0.98. If bug #214537 is re-created with apport enabled, i.e. /etc/init.d/apport start, then once the disc activity starts, presumably because the machine is getting low on RAM, it never stops. The machine gets very

[Bug 208837] Re: Esc [ 1 8 t Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
There are other similar faults where the response is incorrect in that same function. ^[[13t response should be ^[[3;x;yt but is ^[[x;yt. ^[[14t response should be ^[[4;h;wt but is ^[[h;wt. ^[[19t response should be ^[[9;h;wt but is ^[[h;wt. On a similar note, although ^[[20t is

[Bug 208837] Re: Esc [ 1 8 t Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Sufficient detail provided that it can go straight to confirmed. Hope that's OK. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Esc [ 1 8 t Response doesn't match xterm. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 208837] [NEW] Esc [ 1 8 t Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 7.10. The escape sequence Esc [ 1 8 t is meant to make the terminal reply with the height and width of the current window characters. It's handled in vte-0.16.9/src/vteseq.c, line 3865. The output on gnome-terminal is different to the xterm from xterm-229-1. Here's

[Bug 135619] pydoc ModuleScanner gives Exception if import fails

2008-03-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've just hit what looks like this same problem. python 2.5.1-1ubuntu2. An easy means to re-produce: $ pydoc -k foobar Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/pydoc, line 5, in module pydoc.cli() File /usr/lib/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 2195, in cli

[Bug 135619] Re: ipython crashes on help modules (APT API not stable)

2008-03-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Confirming as I think it's the same as my `pydoc -k foobar' issue. ** Changed in: python2.5 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- ipython crashes on help modules (APT API not stable) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135619 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 42925] Re: ps2pdf's Ligatures are followed by a Gap on Page Two onwards.

2008-04-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Having now upgraded to 7.10 I find the above ./reproduce script now longer shows the problem when viewing the PDF with evince and conclude it has been fixed. I'm using: ghostscript 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.4 ghostscript-x 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.4 gs-common

[Bug 181561] Re: Hardy alpha [2-6] daily-live i386 don't boot

2008-04-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I'm assuming the 8.04 Live CD Beta didn't have this fix and the daily build CDs did because with booting from the latter the PATA hard drive is now longer available, i.e. this fix is a regression for some users. PATA drive available: Linux version 2.6.24-12-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc

[Bug 221854] [NEW] hdparm Ignores Order of Command-Line Flags.

2008-04-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hdparm Ubuntu 7.10, hdparm 7.5-1ubuntu1. hdparm(1) doesn't point out that the options aren't interpreted in the order they're given but instead in a fixed order. This causes problems when /etc/hdparm.conf contains

[Bug 48975] Re: /etc/init.d/hdparm is not there

2008-04-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've Ubuntu 7.10 and /etc/init.d/hdparm is there. $ sudo find /etc -name '*hdparm*' /etc/apm/event.d/20hdparm /etc/init.d/hdparm /etc/udev/rules.d/85-hdparm.rules /etc/hdparm.conf $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/hdparm hdparm: /etc/init.d/hdparm $ pkg ver hdparm hdparm

[Bug 222458] [NEW] /lib/udev/hdparm Compares Against $DEVNAME.

2008-04-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hdparm Ubuntu 7.10, hdparm 7.5-1ubuntu1. My /etc/hdparm.conf has entries like /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160023A_4JS03MMK { spindown_time = 60 } which work just fine with /etc/init.d/hdparm. However, it appears init.d/hdparm is on its way

[Bug 210890] Re: egrep -o '^..' Doesn't Match Start of Line Correctly.

2008-04-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The GNU grep folks know about this problem. It's their https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?11579 Based on this Changelog entry, http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/grep/ChangeLog?root=grepr1=1.279r2=1.280 it appears they've fixed it already. Revision 1.280 of Changelog was released in their

[Bug 210890] Re: egrep -o '^..' Doesn't Match Start of Line Correctly.

2008-04-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Also affects: grep via http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?11579 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- egrep -o '^..' Doesn't Match Start of Line Correctly. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

Re: [Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I realize this might be a broken harddrive, but even though, is ubuntu supposed to crash this way if there's an IO error? No. It seems the problem comes along the more busy the machine is. It could just be that copying lots of files in and out of RAM is busy enough. Still, only a couple

Re: [Bug 30791] Re: firefox 1.4.99 upgrade still have compreg.dat, creates issue

2008-02-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Sam, thanks for the update. #dpkg -l firefox | grep compreg.dat - no output That should be `dpkg -L firefox'; the original request above is wrong. `dpkg -l' just lists the package status. `dpkg -L' lists all the files installed by the package. and usually after every update this message:

[Bug 200201] [NEW] pidof Stops Searching if Match Found by device/inode Pair.

2008-03-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sysvutils Ubuntu 7.10, /bin/pidof from 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu31 of sysvutils. pidof first tries to search by device/inode pair. If that's succesful it doesn't bother searching by other methods. This can result in it sometimes listing all PIDs for the

Re: [Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
And how is the importance undecided?!?!? i think it's critical if ubuntu can't run for 2 days without crashing and freezing the system. or are their hidden criteria that I do not know to set what the importance is! is it because no one knows the cause of the crash? Agreed. This bug's

Re: [Bug 20775] Re: libc6's printf and fprintf don't return -1 on closed stdout/stderr.

2008-02-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Is this still an issue on gutsy and/or hardy? Seems fixed in AMD64 7.10. $ LINEBUF= ./closed 41 - - 2- getchar=-1 puts=-1 printf=-1 fprintf=-1 fprintf=-1 $ ldd closed libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b9d1e191000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

[Bug 180551] Re: Postfix myhostname defaults to uname() not gethostname().

2008-01-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Lamont, I think I've mislead you with the uname() comment. Yes, I agree postfix calls glibc's gethostname() and it's that which calls uname(), but the fault appears to lie with postfix's check_myhostname(). It's got two definitions but they appear the same apart from comments. It includes

[Bug 121341] Re: python modules need to work during dist-upgrades

2007-11-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
AMD64 7.04 install, fully up to date, and then chose to upgrade to the new 7.10 installation that was available with the GUI. It worked quite happily for a while and got to the stage of downloading lots of files. Left it to it. Now it's hung. The GUI is still present and responds to X expose

[Bug 121341] Re: python modules need to work during dist-upgrades

2007-11-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: main_pre_req.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10467218/main_pre_req.log -- python modules need to work during dist-upgrades https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 121341] Re: python modules need to work during dist-upgrades

2007-11-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: main.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10467252/main.log -- python modules need to work during dist-upgrades https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 121341] Re: python modules need to work during dist-upgrades

2007-11-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: term.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10467335/term.log -- python modules need to work during dist-upgrades https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 121341] Re: python modules need to work during dist-upgrades

2007-11-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
There's a group of crash files, all around the time things started going wrong. $ ls -ltra /var/crash total 56 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2007-11-18 17:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 2007-11-18 21:19 update-manager.0.crash -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 2007-11-18 21:19

[Bug 1524] Re: sloccount's meddling with LANG causes warnings from perl.

2008-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi mustapha, it isn't the dash that sloccount's complaining about. What sloccount is doing is to alter your $LANG if and only if it ends with .UTF-8. This alteration causes problems in Perl. If you've previously changed your $LANG to end with .UTF8 then you're avoiding sloccount's meddling. --

[Bug 1524] Re: sloccount's meddling with LANG causes warnings from perl.

2008-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Confirmed problem still exists in 7.10's sloccount 2.26-2 as described when bug was opened. -- sloccount's meddling with LANG causes warnings from perl. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber.

[Bug 180551] Postfix myhostname defaults to uname() not gethostname().

2008-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: postfix Given 7.10's postfix-2.4.5-3ubuntu1's postconf(5) says myhostname (default: see postconf -d output) The internet hostname of this mail system. The default is to use the fully-qualified domain name from gethostname(). $myhostname is

[Bug 158901] Re: Errors from scrollkeeper during updates from gutsy-{security, updates}

2007-11-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I too have seen these corrupted files on amd64. If you look at the end of those files you'll see they end abruptly part way through the XML. I've found the answer is to `sudo scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -v'. This deletes the whole database and re-builds it from scratch. The problem is that

[Bug 133020] Re: Vmware server missing in Gutsy

2007-12-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
What about vmware-player? That used to be in the old repo. structure but hasn't appeared in the new one yet. Is it intended that it will? I'm not sure of the differences between vmware-server and vmware-player but having installed player people are going to expect an `apt-get upgrade' to do its

[Bug 133020] Re: Vmware server missing in Gutsy

2007-12-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Thanks Yan. I realised player couldn't be upgraded to server, I was trying to say that those with player installed from pre-Gutsy will expect it to be upgraded one-day to a Gutsy player. If you're saying that server is a super-set of player then that's fine and maybe we don't need player on

Re: [Bug 133020] Re: Vmware server missing in Gutsy

2007-12-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
you must have missed something. I saw vmware-player in the partner repo from the first day Gutsy was released. You can install it by using Add/Remove Applications. Are you using x86-64 version of Gutsy? Yes, Gutsy on AMD64 CPU. I can see vmware-server, but only since it was recently

[Bug 18125] Re: hwdb raises Exception when looking up route

2008-01-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
In bug #18283 Oliver Grawert says its a general problem with the error handling in the route code that needs to be rewritten. Perhaps the route code does need to be re-written but most people are getting bit by one specific instance, that of `route -n' not outputting a default root; see bug

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
A machine with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ ran perfectly stable for months with 7.04. Repeated crashes occurred as soon as the upgrade to 7.10 completed with no other system changes. Have then switched from nv X driver to nvidia and added maxcpus=1 in an attempt to workaround.

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi bojo42, sudo /etc/init.d/powernowd stop when this solves your hard freezes, better report to the more specific bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/109643 Thanks, I'll try this. But having read bug #109643 it seems they suffered

Re: [Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I have installed 32-bit gutsy with xp in virtualbox. Everything works perfect but if I enable usb in virtualbox, the mouse freezes. I have NVidea GFX 6200 Graphics card Bhupi, I don't think your problems are connected to this bug unless you're forgetting to tell us something. If it's only

Re: [Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Bhupi, take a look at bug #161748. It may be the same problem with virtualbox that you're having. If so, add a clear description of what doesn't work and change the status from `New' to `Confirmed'. You can do this by clicking on `New'. -- gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

[Bug 14950] Re: Manpage broken

2008-01-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It seems all the texi2pod.pl's that are found in various packages may all have descended from gcc's. Perhaps gcc's latest version fixes some of these problems, or maybe that's the version to look at fixing so other improvements aren't discarded. Other projects may refresh their copy by grabbing

[Bug 133020] Re: Vmware server missing in Gutsy

2007-11-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just got to this bug after investigating why a friend's vmware-player installation from 7.04's commercial repo no longer works after upgrading to 7.10. We don't want to move away from repo-supplied packages since smooth upgrades is one of its key advantages. However, it does seem that a big

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2007-12-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also experiencing this problem since upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10. Machine was fine under 7.04. Now, with no hardware changes, lock-ups occur during activity anywhere from between 30 minutes to a day. Sometimes the SysRq key doesn't work, other times it does. Seems worse at times of high

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy freeze crash lockup

2007-12-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It might be useful for sufferers to try the Magic SysRq key when a lock up occurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#Raising_Skinny_Elephants Ctrl-Alt-Backspace isn't the only key combination that may help. -- gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2007-12-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Surprised this didn't have a package specified. The immediate suspect, especially following Keith's comment, is the kernel. Let's hope someone will visit asking us for the information that would help them. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = linux-source-2.6.22

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Bob Kline wrote: I wish that were true. I tried switching to the 32-bit Gutsy on my AMD64 and Firefox still froze pretty regularly. Hi Bob, can you please be very specific. If Firefox was the only program affected and the rest of the desktop kept working then your problems aren't the ones this

[Bug 157777] Re: gutsy amd64 freeze crash lockup

2008-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi fisuk, I'd guess your nspluginwrapper segfaults are due to it running against a kernel that's different from what it can cope with. That's a side-effect of running with a later, hand-installed, kernel as opposed to a repository one from Ubuntu. It's because of these hard-to-predict

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