I must have missed some new revision, as I no longer seem to be able to
post bugs directly to launchpad. I go to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy
and click on Report a bug on the top right hand side of the page.
Rather than taking me to a bug report screen, this now takes me to an
Hi -
I'm bringing this issue to the attention of this list in the hopes of
finding out where it is most appropriately addressed.
I've recently done a number of server installs using mostly the 13.10
64-bit pre-release ISO, but also testing the problem I'm about to
mention using 12.10 and
On 05/21/2013 04:53 AM, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
Hopefully, the SSL bug in LDAP libraries is now gone (Bug #423252), so
the first 2 can be used productively on desktops and/or servers. Note
that cached credentials (with nss-updatedb and pam-ccreds) are not
officially
From: Jeremy Bicha jer...@bicha.net
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 23:24:17 -0400
Unity actually is
customizable, perhaps not to the extent that power users like. I'm
hoping that a simple user-friendly tool will be available in 11.04 to
change the settings without needing to dig around CCSM or
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:55:06 Martin Pitt wrote [regarding Unity]:
I couldn't have believed it even two months ago still,
but today I feel the same. When I switch back to
classic GNOME it feels inferior now; I'm particularly
missing the super-fast keyboard shortcuts/search/navigation
and
On 04/08/2011 01:05 PM, Remco wrote:
You have a Firefox window with a Terminal just above it. As soon as
you move to the terminal window, focus switches to the terminal. But
the menu is still the Firefox menu for 1 second. After the delay, the
menu switches to Terminal.
Note first that point
On 02/22/2011 06:00 AM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Patrick Goetz [2011-02-21 14:41 -0600]:
Does the feature freeze include updating binary drivers?
In principle yes, but as the current nvidia/fglrx drivers in Natty are
totally broken (they are currently not available
current
binary drivers whenever possible.)
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I found this article to be extremely disturbing. Surely the negative PR
of such a move isn't worth $1/yr in revenue? Who's making these
brain-damaged decisions?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/banshee-amazon-store-disabled-by-canonical-in-ubuntu
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or at least freely
distributable linux drivers.
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have a file that I want to open with a specific application
If you know the name of the package the application came from, the command
dpkg -L package_name
will show you all the files + locations installed by this package.
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Since I've run into this problem myself:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tips/7223/1/
This might be something to look for when building the oo3.3 packages for
11.04..
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This list is actually cited as the package maintainer in the package
status for libpam-runtime, so I thought I would run this by here first
before filing a bug against the package just in case I'm terribly confused.
Both in the /usr/share/pam/common-auth template and in various
instantiations of
Here to answer my own question after a little more RTFM. The preceding
common-auth lines are set up using the new-fangled jump feature:
--
auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
# here's the
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
From: Florian Diesch die...@spamfence.net
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:18:40 +0200
Any event can be emitted by any program using upstart's DBus API.
IMHO it's not that important to know where a event gets emitted
(that's an implementation
Scott James Remnant wrote:
When is ufw run vis' a vis the /etc/rc2.d scripts?
Before, after, during, etc. There is no fixed relationship between
these two things, except that /etc/rcS.d (and thus /etc/rc2.d) will not
be run until the lo device is up.
Then this is problematic for my
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
From: Brian Vaughan bgvaug...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700
I'd like to see a good overview of Ubuntu's startup process. I just took
a class on Unix/Linux system administration, and we spent quite some
time on system startup and
Subject:
[Lucid] Thunderbird issues
From:
Sebastian Geiger sbas...@gmx.net
Date:
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:49:50 +0800
Since I upgraded to Thunderbird I am getting strange notices that a
mailbox is not available
With thunderbird not running, delete your entire .mozilla-thunderbird
profile
Subject: Re: lucid and 2.6.33?
From: Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:34:20 +
As far as I am aware the important bits of .33 are being integrated
into the special sauce for the Lucid .32 kernel.
Perhaps someone can explain why this makes more
Flávio Etrusco wrote:
Seriously? Ubuntu is not only about techies, it's about general
use(rs) and businesses too. They have to have a solid and well-tested
base.
If you really wanna know what you're actually getting, you have the
sources and the changelogs.
It's not clear to me how a
Now that the 2.6.34 linux kernel is about to be released, does anyone
know if 2.6.33 is going to make it into the final Lucid release, as
previously suggested?
Why this is important: 2.6.33 has better support for SSD storage
Ran across these rather interesting survey results in Infoworld, hence
thought I'd share:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/ubuntu-ready-run-your-business-servers-646?source=IFWNLE_nlt_openenterprise_2010-03-10
At least for Eclipse developers, Ubuntu is slamming everyone except MS
Subject: Re: Evolution Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
From:Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com
Date:Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:02:32 +0100
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu has been bitten by upgrading to new versions which were rewritten
in the past and we have learnt, the
Having abandoned Karmic, I've been installing Lucid Alpha 3 on a number
of different systems, mostly for testing, and am finding lots of bugs.
For example, on an old Acer Aspire 3000 laptop, after a completely
generic Alpha 3 install + or - up to March 8 daily updates:
1. The console driver is
Subject: Re: Upstart (now, a very modest suggestion)
From:Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com
Date:Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:28:48 -0500
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
I assume that the samba job has been split into two because there was
a problem with nmbd not starting when smbd and
The number of replies in this silly thread indicates that you guys have
way too much time on your hands. :)
SJ Remnant's response is definitive; time to move on and agree to
disagree. The take away message: is thank heavens for choices and a
curse on any gnome/KDE developers who plan to
Scott James Remnant wrote:
Anyone can emit any event. That's probably the bit of Upstart that
people find the hardest to get to grips with, so there can never be any
comprehensive list of every event and every argument - because anyone
can add a new one.
However there are recommendations.
So, I'm testing samba on a Lucid alpha 3, and I decide to restart the
smbd daemon:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found
Oops, I guess it's a service now?
sudo service samba restart
samba: unrecognized service
So of course it only took a little digging to
Scott James Remnant wrote:
You might have forgotten to plug your USB
mouse in this boot; or maybe your cat has chewed the ethernet cable
overnight and it won't come up, etc.
Actually, it was my gerbil that frequently chewed through the ethernet
cable, but then the cat ate the gerbil, so that
Scott James Remnant wrote:
This is a bug that I'm working on.
The problem is there's no code in Plymouth to put the VT back ;-)
And probably way to busy to work on documentation. At some point it
would be nice to have a better understanding of how upstart works. The
concept of an event
I'm trying to track down a Lucid AMD64 Server bug to either Upstart or
plymouth, and realized I have no idea how the system decides what vt
console gets focus after boot when no xserver is installed. Can anyone
direct me to some relevant Upstart documentation?
Someone has already (incorrectly,
Subject: Re: Bug reporting for Ubuntu Server? WTF?
From: Brian Murray br...@ubuntu.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:49:58 -0800
The ReportingBugs wiki page also has a section about Filing bugs when
off-line which discusses how to use apport-cli to save a report that
you can then report from
I just filed a bug against the 64-bit Karmic (9.10) server edition on
bugs.launchpad.net and noticed that the process appears to have
regressed considerably.
First of all, there is no longer any clear indication on the front page
of bugs.launchpad.net about how one goes about filing a bug,
Last week I tried to upgrade a battered old Debian server running linux
2.6.3 to a sparkling new machine running Ubuntu Karmic 64-bit AMD
server. The old Debian server was working perfectly, but had basically
run out of disk space. After 12 hours, I had to concede defeat, and
rolled back to
Subject: Re: Can we get ntfs-3g 2010.1.16 in Lucid?
From: stephan marg...@rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:48:32 -0500
To: Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com
It looks like Michael will help us all out and do a non-maintainer
upgrade to get 2010.1.16 into testing:
Subject: Postfix authentication default configuration
From: Ben Bucksch linux.n...@bucksch.org
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:44 +0100
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
I'm trying to set up a mail server with Ubuntu, Cyrus and Postix, and
need authentication (via sasldb2)
Cyrus
Subject: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development
From: James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:40:34 +
To: ubuntu-devel ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
The TL;DR version:
1) Version Control rocks.
2) Distributed version control rocks even more.
3)
Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
From: Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:14:38 +
To: Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com
Speaking as the guy who maintains the boot and plumbing layer, I am
completely and utterly uninterested in such a
Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
From: John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:07:44 -0500
you know the microkernel arguments, and they're actually
pretty considerable. The idea of a system that's easier to maintain
(face it, operating systems are huge now;
I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this
has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a
TomsHardware.com review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html
Some of these issues (system freezes when copying large files
Siegfried-A. Gevatter wrote:
GRUB 2 is a special case. It is only (automatically) installed on a
clean install, and not on upgrades, given the risk of this operation.
Speaking of Grub 2, does anyone know if the grub2 automatic boot-through
to default bug has been fixed? I posted it on
Conrad Knauer wrote:
give the users at some point during the installation process options of what
office suite browser and mail client they would like installed.
Short answer: this is a bad idea.
Longer answer: the whole point of an Ubuntu install is to keep it as
simple as possible with
Conrad Knauer wrote:
I'm going to guess, without seeing his machine, that it's something
with Firefox... it could be a malfunctioning extension, it could be
some script on an otherwise normal page... I would try backing up my
~/.mozilla folder and seeing if running FF fresh solves the
Tormod Volden wrote:
By dev package you mean the package sources? In general you can get the
sources for any binary package using: apt-get source package
No, by dev package he means -dev, as in there is a libc6 package and
there is also a libc6-dev package which contains the stuff needed
Joshua Timberman wrote:
Bugs in The Karmic Koala
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic
Substitute karmic with other release names if desired.
I saw this, but this just lists all karmic bugs, although it's easy
enough to search on a package name. This raises the question of how
bugs
Soren Hansen wrote:
I don't think it would be very useful to assume that any bug in Hardy
was magically fixed in Intrepid. Hence, dividing bugs by series[1] seems
like a bad plan to me.
I agree. What I'm suggesting is that the bug report include a field
indicating the series that the bug was
Matthew Garrett wrote:
What would the differences be?
If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of
discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the
disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for
performance is more or
Martin Owens wrote:
What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it
behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy
conservation mode).
Based on having spent a few days reading through the massive ext4 debate
that occurred between the 2.6.29
I've been playing with the dovecot-postfix package currently available
for 9.10 a4 server and have found a few configuration issues worth
discussing as well as one major bug (it appears that postfix doesn't
know anything about rsyslog, preventing the administrator from
controlling SMTP
Am I missing something? It seems that bug reports in launchpad are
categorized by package name but not by distribution. Wouldn't it make
sense to take advantage of the distribution hierarchy in order to make
this system easier to work with?
I.e. I'm specifically trying to get some problems
We are currently using Jaunty 9.04 (64 and 32-bit) on our production
desktop systems. A few weeks ago a user asked me for a recommendation
for an easy to use html editor, and I suggested KompoZer. (Suggestions?
I think I've tried most of them and found them lacking; the original
Netscape
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:03:44 -0400
From: Evan eapa...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think
Again, someone in the Audio
metaforum (who presumably knows something about audio) tells them it's a
driver issue, and moves their post a level deeper into
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:01 -0300
From: Felipe Figueiredo phils...@gmail.com
Subject: RFC: binary compatibility between short cycles
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Infrastructure could be kept at stable versions for longer cycles, and
Interface would match the usual 6 month
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:17:46 -0400
From: Jorge O. Castro jo...@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Plenary videos from uds-karmic?
To: Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org
12:50 AM, Scott Ritchiesc...@open-vote.org wrote:
It's been over a week now, any updates on when we can see
the plenary
Danny Piccirillo wrote:
Until i got the 64-bit version of flash, YouTube would crash everytime i
scrolled on a Not to mention it was slowww. All of those things have been
fixed now that i'm using the native 64-bit version and i've had zero
problems
Let me clarify that we've only
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:42:07 -0400
From: Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Stable 64-bit flash
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Danny Piccirillodanny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote:
No exception can be made there? How have exceptions been made
before? Is
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:07 -0400
From: Asif Youssuff yoa...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: about empathy as the default IM application
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
I've been playing with Empathy for a while, and it has an extremely
annoying behavior -- when a
It looks like no one responded to the concern raised below. It makes
sense to me that all applications should be identified by their name as
well as their function in gnome GUI menus. Furthermore, not doing so
frequently increases confusion for naive users. For example, due to
ongoing bugs
Given that my signal to noise ratio is already at a white noise breaking
point (and that I'm probably not alone here), can we please keep these
kinds of tit-for-tat arguments, rhetoric, ad hominem attacks, and
flirting off the devel-discuss list? Surely facebook, twitter, digg,
etc. should
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:45:56 +0200
From: Soren Hansen so...@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Properly identifying applications
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
If you put yourself in the place of someone who is not used to
Linux: You have a document you want to open (and for some
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I've been
unable to find a definitive answer to this question.
Probably everyone is familiar with the lengthy discussion that has
revolved around the first stable implementation of ext4, namely that all
data in a file can be zeroed
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