Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 18:10 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit : Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 02:17 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 17.32 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:40 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote I wish I

Re: 1. Unabel to unmount/eject CD/DVD ?

2008-05-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Matthew e a todos. On Wednesday 14 May 2008 21:03:13 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: That's a much better explanation than the error message. Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas Yes, the message wont explain it in enough detail to the end user. It even scares him. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´)

Re: 1. Unabel to unmount/eject CD/DVD ?

2008-05-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Arvind e a todos. On Tuesday 13 May 2008 13:34:03 Arvind K wrote: Yesterday I was met, with what I think is one of the most stupid bugs I ever found. When I tried to eject a DVDr, either using nautilus tools or the drive eject button, an error popup showed up, telling me that I wasn't

Re: Problem with yum etc after installing Ubuntu 7.10.....

2008-05-15 Thread Peter Teoh
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Halse Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, I'm don't think that installing programs through yum is a good idea on an Ubuntu system. I may be wrong here, though. Why do we even have that package? :) First thank you to everyone

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Sayers
If you're amenable to extra scripts being suggested, I'll submit a bug report(s) as and when it's relevant. You're right about requiring a user choice, but I'm a bit concerned that users are going to be confronted with a collection of options that they don't understand, where one of them is known

Re: Problem with yum etc after installing Ubuntu 7.10.....

2008-05-15 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:01:14PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: a. install ubuntu b. apt-get install yum* c. apt-get install git Next I tried git, I got command not found, but reattempted to apt-get install git will give me: Try: apt-cache show git dpkg -L git apt-cache search

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Markus e a todos. On Saturday 10 May 2008 16:34:55 Markus Hitter wrote: How would one notice? Is Hardys hibernating/standby still so flaky one is forced to shut down the computer more than once a month? You're lucky. I reboot mine once every 2/3 days... after that, GDM slows down to a

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Mackenzie e a todos. On Wednesday 14 May 2008 05:14:51 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: The results of using Bootchart to map the GNOME startup process, for the many users that did it, consistently showed gnome-panel as the culprit. How does one use bootchart to map GNOME? mine ends on X11. --

kill switch on with intel wifi 4965

2008-05-15 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
I'm sorry to bring noise about Hardy, on a list now meant to Intrepid, but unable to find how to fix this in any other way, so if any dev could lend me an hand it would be great. I know this is not Ubuntu fault, but manufactors, but still, I know we can fix this. I've bough a new laptop (an

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: That's a pretty handy tool - would you be interested in an option to start the remote recovery that's being discussed in a nearby thread? The design of friendly-recovery makes it easy to drop-in scripts, I wasn't following this

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-15 Thread David Prieto
Hi Colin, I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old /home partition? (If you did, then why?) Actually yes, and I never realised how dumb it was until I read your message. I just was used to formatting before installing, so I guess I never gave it any thought. So,

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-15 Thread David Prieto
Hi again, I should also point out (because I gave out misinformation on IRC in a moment of inattention) that this only works when you're using the manual partitioner and select a partition to mount as /, or equivalent. If you use the automatic partitioner and select use entire disk, then

Re: Problem with yum etc after installing Ubuntu 7.10.....

2008-05-15 Thread ffm
Peter Teoh wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Halse Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, I'm don't think that installing programs through yum is a good idea on an Ubuntu system. I may be wrong here, though. Why do we even have that package? :) First thank

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2008-05-14 kello 02:11 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan kirjoitti: Could a list of vendors who make crappy hard drives (ie ones with this issue) be made so we all can avoid them? I can say my Western Digitals don't have the issue, though they do have a tendency to die anyway (bad sectors and dead

libraries cyclic dependency

2008-05-15 Thread Pedro Brito Cruz
Hi, i'm working on dapper distro and need to install libqt3-mt-dev which depends on a whole big list of other libraries. when trying to install some of these libraries I got to a cyclic dependency which i don't know how to deal with. x11proto-xext-dev depends on libxi-dev which depends on

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:29:44 -0400 Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which package would this be filed against? I'd say that if there's a bug it's in Windows. I could see a wishlist bug against Ubuntu to provide a way to check for this/suggest changes to avoid problematic filenames, but there is

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Evan
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say that if there's a bug it's in Windows. I could see a wishlist bug against Ubuntu to provide a way to check for this/suggest changes to avoid problematic filenames, but there is nothing inherently defective with

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:31, Evan wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say that if there's a bug it's in Windows. I could see a wishlist bug against Ubuntu to provide a way to check for this/suggest changes to avoid problematic filenames,

Re: libraries cyclic dependency

2008-05-15 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 00:06 +0100, Pedro Brito Cruz wrote: Hi, i'm working on dapper distro and need to install libqt3-mt-dev which depends on a whole big list of other libraries. when trying to install some of these libraries I got to a cyclic dependency which i don't know how to deal

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:14 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: but there is nothing inherently defective with the current behavior. I'd agree for any other fs, but the only reason you would use an ntfs partition is because you want to read this in windows. Thus it makes little sense to allow

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:54 +0200 Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: þÿOn Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:14 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: but there is nothing inherently defective with the current behavior. I'd agree for any other fs, but the only reason you would use an ntfs partition is because

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: Doesn't wubi install Ubuntu into an existing Windows partition? Exactly. And then Ubuntu will happily let you create files that you can't read in Windows. It's weird. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:35 +0200 Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: þÿOn Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: Doesn't wubi install Ubuntu into an existing Windows partition? Exactly. And then Ubuntu will happily let you create files that you can't read in Windows. It's