[Bug 945453] [NEW] README has wrong VCS default (should be bzr, not git)

2012-03-03 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: /usr/share/doc/etckeeper/README says: Note that the default VCS is git The actual default in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf seems to be bzr. Please can you tweak the README to match reality. Unfortunately the above sentence from the README continues: and this tutorial

[Bug 213575] [NEW] Hardy upgrade wrongly claims to have found local modifications

2008-04-07 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bash-completion On a brand new computer I: 1 installed Ubuntu 7.10 from an official CD 2 installed all updates 3 ran update-manager -d and upgraded to Hardy Heron Alpha 5 No other software was run. The Hardy upgrade claimed that bash-completion

[Bug 191355] Re: cron complains /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 127

2008-04-11 Thread Smylers
I also have this cron job: $ dpkg -S /etc/cron.daily/find findutils: /etc/cron.daily/find This is a computer on which I installed Ubuntu 7.10 from CD, then immediately ran update-manager -d to upgrade to the latest Hardy. The cron job is buggy (it calls ionice -p 7 rather than ionice -n 7,

[Bug 197695] [NEW] package deskbar-applet 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-03-02 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: deskbar-applet This happened when I ran update-manager -d to upgrade from 7.10 to the latest Hardy Heron alpha. ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Mar 2 16:40:21 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation

[Bug 197695] Re: package deskbar-applet 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-03-02 Thread Smylers
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12352964/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12352965/DpkgTerminalLog.txt -- package deskbar-applet 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess

[Bug 197693] [NEW] package alacarte 0.11.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

2008-03-02 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: alacarte I just used upgrade-manager -d to upgrade from 7.10 to Hardy Heron. Manually uninstalling it and ubuntu-desktop, and then re-installing them both seemed to work. ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Mar 2 14:47:45 2008

[Bug 197693] Re: package alacarte 0.11.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

2008-03-02 Thread Smylers
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12352898/Dependencies.txt -- package alacarte 0.11.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 90090] /etc/papersize not taken into account

2007-03-06 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gqview gqview defaults to using US Letter paper for printing (when run for the first time) even though /etc/papersize is set to a4. ** Affects: gqview (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- /etc/papersize not taken into

[Bug 945453] [NEW] README has wrong VCS default (should be bzr, not git)

2012-03-03 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: /usr/share/doc/etckeeper/README says: Note that the default VCS is git The actual default in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf seems to be bzr. Please can you tweak the README to match reality. Unfortunately the above sentence from the README continues: and this tutorial

[Bug 946170] [NEW] README.Debian refers to obsolete gnome-cups-manager

2012-03-04 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: /usr/share/doc/cups-pdf/README.gz includes the sentence: The optional GNOME package gnome-cups-manager is capable of detecting this CUPS backend as a suitable ready-to-use printer. There isn't an Ubuntu package for gnome-cups-manager any more. It seems it was replaced

[Bug 853755] [NEW] Interface Missing

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Blueproximity no longer has an icon in the desktop menu bar (I'm running ‘Ubuntu 2D’), and no way to make its preferences window appear. Blueproximity still runs when I log in, and does the locking/unlocking thing, but I can't see what state it's in or view and change

[Bug 853755] Re: Interface Missing

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853755 Title: Interface Missing To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 837300] Re: gnome-screensaver proximity command doesn't exist

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
** Tags added: oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837300 Title: gnome-screensaver proximity command doesn't exist To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 332046] Re: Yelp cannot open sgt-puzzles help files

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
** Tags added: oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332046 Title: Yelp cannot open sgt-puzzles help files To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 840191] Re: Alt+Tab doesn't work after opening Firefox tab from terminal

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
** Tags added: oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840191 Title: Alt+Tab doesn't work after opening Firefox tab from terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 840153] Re: Menu can't be activated by keyboard

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
** Tags added: oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840153 Title: Menu can't be activated by keyboard To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 837306] Re: Manual: how to run needs adjusting for Ubuntu

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
** Tags added: oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837306 Title: Manual: how to run needs adjusting for Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 853774] [NEW] Dialog command buttons can't be focused

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: In the preferences window it isn't possible to Tab to the Cancel or OK buttons, so as to then activate them by pressing Enter; Tab cycles through all the form controls on the current tab, skipping the buttons at the bottom. Similarly in the Forecast window the Close button

[Bug 853774] Re: Dialog command buttons can't be focused

2011-09-19 Thread Smylers
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853774 Title: Dialog command buttons can't be focused To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 951357] [NEW] Alt+F10 maximize doesn't unmaximize

2012-03-09 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Alt+F10 is documented as: Maximize the current window. If the window is already maximized, unmaximize it. The second sentence isn't true. Alt+F5 has to be pressed to unmaximize a maximized window. (I think the above was up to 11.04, but the behaviour for Alt+F10 changed

[Bug 906826] Re: Error message refers to non-existent right-click menu

2011-12-20 Thread Smylers
** Attachment added: screenshot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906826/+attachment/2641068/+files/notifier_right-click.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906826 Title: Error

[Bug 906826] [NEW] Error message refers to non-existent right-click menu

2011-12-20 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The update notification icon is showing me the attached error message, which asks me to “run Package Manager from the right-click menu”. But since switching to Unity, there isn't a distinct right-click menu; whether left- or right-clicking the same menu is displayed. And none

[Bug 332046] Re: Yelp cannot open sgt-puzzles help files

2011-09-02 Thread Smylers
This is still broken on Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332046 Title: Yelp cannot open sgt-puzzles help files To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 840153] [NEW] Menu can't be activated by keyboard

2011-09-03 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The Unity menu bar doesn't work in Chromium using the keyboard. Holding down Alt makes the Chromium menu entries appear in the menu bar, as with other apps, but then pressing one of the underlined letters ('F' for 'File', 'V' for 'View', etc) doesn't do anything. Nor does

[Bug 840191] [NEW] Alt+Tab doesn't work after opening Firefox tab from terminal

2011-09-03 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: After opening a Firefox tab from a terminal, switching window focus using the keyboard doesn't work. Steps to reproduce: 1 Run Firefox, and open some tabs. 2 In a terminal do something which opens a new tab in Firefox, for example running the firefox command with a

[Bug 837300] Re: gnome-screensaver proximity command doesn't exist

2011-09-07 Thread Smylers
--poke/-p did exist until gnome-screensaver version 2.91.91, when it was removed: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release- list/2011-March/msg00074.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 832615] [NEW] Tagged list-reply doesn't find List-Post: headers

2011-08-24 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Using list-reply to reply to multiple mailing list messages in one go doesn't work for auto-detected mailing lists. Steps to reproduce: 1 Find a couple of messages you have been sent from the same mailing list (one that uses List-Post: headers, such as those run on

[Bug 837300] [NEW] gnome-screensaver proximity command doesn't exist

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The default ‘Proximity command’ is: gnome-screensaver-command -p But that doesn't exist. Checking gnome-screensaver-command(1), it seems that gnome-screensaver doesn't provide a proximity facility. I'm running the Ubuntu 11.10 alpha, which has blueproximity version

[Bug 837306] [NEW] Manual: how to run needs adjusting for Ubuntu

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The BlueProximity manual contains information on running it that is wrong for it as packaged in Ubuntu: If the Ubuntu package is installed you find the start icon in your Applications menu in the utilities subfolder. This no longer applies with Ubuntu 11.10, which doesn't

[Bug 1019236] [NEW] 24/edit-delete-mail.svg shadow mispositioned?

2012-06-29 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: In /usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/24/edit-delete-mail.svg the envelope's shadow looks to be in the wrong place. This can be seen more clearly by editing the icon in Inkscape, and deleting the red slashed circle from the front. The envelope has a shadow which is, as

[Bug 1019236] Re: 24/edit-delete-mail.svg shadow mispositioned?

2012-06-29 Thread Smylers
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019236 Title: 24/edit-delete-mail.svg shadow mispositioned? To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 977526] Re: Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation

2012-04-13 Thread Smylers
Hi. Thanks for this. That patch is definitely an improvement and something useful for users, but it doesn't actually correct the error that this bug pointed out: the claim that there is documentation of BROWSER in environ(7) is still there. BROWSER needs removing from the list of variables in the

[Bug 1092889] [NEW] uninstall command not in man page

2012-12-21 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: pip has an uninstall command, but it isn't mentioned in the pip(1) manual page in what looks like it's a comprehensive list of all pip commands. Information about uninstall can be seen with pip help uninstall. ** Affects: python-pip (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 1087660] Re: --upgrade option not mentioned in man page

2012-12-21 Thread Smylers
** Summary changed: - --upgrade option not documented + --upgrade option not mentioned in man page -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1087660 Title: --upgrade option not mentioned in

[Bug 1013210] [NEW] URL-clicking includes trailing no-break space

2012-06-14 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The dingus URL-identification for ctrl-clicking on URLs will currently include a trailing no-break space (NBSP) character if there happens to be one following the URL. This breaks the URL from loading in, for example, Firefox. For example, I'm reading an e-mail in Mutt (in

[Bug 1014573] [NEW] Help browser ‘up’ and ‘previous’ icons are identical

2012-06-18 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: In PGAdmin's help browser the same up-arrow icon is used for two separate buttons: the first is captioned ‘Go up one level in document hierarchy’ and the second ‘Previous page’. This is confusing, since it's very hard to remember which button does which. Different icons

[Bug 1026586] [NEW] oldfind isn't documented

2012-07-19 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: findutils includes /usr/bin/oldfind, but the manpage doesn't give any indication as to what this is for. /usr/share/man/man1/oldfind.1.gz is a symlink to find.1.gz, so typing man oldfind just displays find(1), which doesn't contain the text ‘oldfind’ anywhere in it. The

[Bug 990314] [NEW] libzip1 missing in (12.04 Precise Pangolin)

2012-04-28 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Hi. I see libzip1 has been removed from Ubuntu as of 12.04. It would be useful to still have this available, because there are external applications which depend on it, for example Kobo Desktop (for registering Kobo e-readers) and MySQL Workbench:

[Bug 1199404] [NEW] Incorrectly detects text files with accented characters as binary

2013-07-09 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: If a text file includes some accented characters then flip incorrectly deems it to be binary, so skips converting it. It only seems to convert (without -b) files containing only Ascii characters. This is with flip 1.20-1. For example, using the attached ingredients.txt:

[Bug 1087660] [NEW] --upgrade option not documented

2012-12-07 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The pip command appears to have an --upgrade option, but pip(1) doesn't mention it. Attempting to install an already installed package yields an error message suggesting --upgrade: $ sudo pip install weasyprint Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade):

[Bug 1009549] [NEW] Syntax errors in units(1) manpage

2012-06-06 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: The units(1) manpage display oddly in a few places. The string “@samp{” appears before some sample input, instead of quoting it, presumably a syntax error in the mark-up leaking through. In the list of command-line options some, including --oldstar, are not formatted

[Bug 1009549] Re: Syntax errors in units(1) manpage

2012-06-06 Thread Smylers
This is Debian bug #606403. I've attached a patch there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606403#10 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #606403 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606403 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 977526] Re: Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation

2012-04-20 Thread Smylers
I've found there already are some relevant Debian bugs; I think that solving any one of these would fix this Ubuntu bug: * sensible-browser(1) making the the erroneous claim that environ(7) documents BROWSER: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567250 * requesting that

[Bug 986499] [NEW] geeqie using /etc/alternatives unnecessarily

2012-04-21 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: /usr/bin/geeqie is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/geeqie, which in turn is a symlink to /usr/bin/geeqie-standard In Precise this is unnecessary, since geeqie is the only package that provides a program called geeqie, as can be seen with: $ /usr/lib/command-not-found

[Bug 977526] [NEW] Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation

2012-04-09 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: sensible-editor(1) in the ‘SEE ALSO’ section says: Documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL, PAGER, and BROWSER variables in environ(7) But environ(7) doesn't actually make any mention at all of BROWSER, so looking there is of little help in determining how to set the

[Bug 1340511] Re: man page contains wrong default history size

2014-10-02 Thread Smylers
Man page contains the text: HISTSIZE The number of commands to remember in the command history (see HISTORY below). The default value is 500. I think that means that if HISTSIZE isn't set at all, then Bash will act as though HISTSIZE had been set to 500. If you have HISTSIZE set, then the

[Bug 1376688] [NEW] Punctuation-only functions give error messages in subshells

2014-10-02 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: I have Bash functions defined with punctuation-only names, such as - and .., which now give errors when starting nested shells. After a recent Shellshock patch, env shows these functions as having names like BASH_FUNC_-(), and starting a second Bash in some way, such as

[Bug 1376688] Re: Punctuation-only functions give error messages in subshells

2014-10-02 Thread Smylers
Intentional temporary regression: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- bash/2014-09/msg00256.html Sounds like an upstream fix will be forthcoming. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1398824] [NEW] Upgrade 14.04 to 14.10 failed with ‘Could not determine the upgrade’

2014-12-03 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: Running Lubuntu 14.04, I tried to upgrade to 14.10 with: $ update-manager -d I pressed the ‘Upgrade’ button, then got a window with the release information, which started: Welcome to the Ubuntu 'Utopic Unicorn' development release This release is still in

[Bug 1873301] [NEW] charmap command missing after upgrade to 20.04 (Focal Fossa)

2020-04-16 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: After upgrading to the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS beta (gucharmap version 1:13.0.1-1), I found that the charmap command was missing. After some searching I discovered it still exists with the name gucharmap. Maybe it was always called gucharmap and there used to be a symlink from

[Bug 1876235] [NEW] "there is no parameter $1" for named queries with numeric parameters

2020-04-30 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: If a named query has positional parameters (with $1, $2, and so on), attempting to use it just gives the error message “there is no parameter $1”, the same as if no argument had been provided for that query. Documentation of how the feature is supposed to work:

[Bug 1878457] [NEW] Window shrinks on switching focus

2020-05-13 Thread Smylers
Public bug reported: MATE Terminal windows shrink themselves every time they lose or gain focus, when CSD is enabled. This screen recording demonstrates the problem: https://imgur.com/a/kLZYUgh GTK_CSD=1 in the environment. Running MATE Terminal by any means (the screen recording uses Alt+F2)

[Bug 1876235] Re: "there is no parameter $1" for named queries with numeric parameters

2020-05-15 Thread Smylers
Update: This is caused by an insufficiently recent pgspecial Python library. pgcli requires pgspecial 1.10 or newer for $1 placeholders to work properly. The current pgspecial release is 1.11.10. Ubuntu's python3-pgspecial package is only 1.9.0-2, from 2017 October — in both Ubuntu 20.04 and