[Bug 1845800] Re: xiccd consumes 100% CPU

2019-12-18 Thread pauljohn32
I confirm that installing the new package fixed the problem. I had to manually kill xiccd one time because the old instance kept running. But after logging out and in again, problem solved. Instead of using APT, I downloaded the deb package and installed manually: xiccd_0.3.0-1~19.10_amd64.deb

[Bug 1829274] [NEW] ppd file has wrong language after cups update

2019-05-15 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: When the cups system is upgraded during an Ubuntu release, the ppd file for the Konica Minolta printer that I use is replaced. The PPD file I found on the Konica site starts like this: ``` *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" *% Linux Version [cut license] *FormatVersion: "4.3"

[Bug 1808694] Re: exo-compose-mail-1 includes 64-bit installation prefix on 32-bit

2019-05-13 Thread pauljohn32
On Ubuntu 19.04, I still see this problem. exo-utils 0.12.4-1 It is surprising because this was fine when still using Ubuntu 18.10. Fix was: cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/xfce4/exo-1/exo-compose-mail-1 . -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1799106] [NEW] jabref won't run in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-21 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: On askubuntu.com, user asks about jabref error. On 18.10, jabref wont' start due to missing java modules. I answered that java 8 is required: https://askubuntu.com/a/1085678/495717. When java 11 is installed at same time, jabref won't start. In my checking, one must

[Bug 1769554] [NEW] geeqie 1.4 omits key settings from preferences

2018-05-06 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: I suggest you downgrade geeqie back to version 1.3. Version 1.4 omits quite a few settings in the preferences that have been included with geeqie for a long time. Preferences/Image no longer has "When new image is selected o Leave Zoom at previous setting o Scroll to top

[Bug 1718426] [NEW] fusion-icon fails to start

2017-09-20 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: $ fusion-icon * Detected Session: xfce * Searching for installed applications... compizconfig - Error: Unable to find interface type 2 on 0x7f4849306a60 This is either a programmer error or more than one static library defining this interface has been linked in Unable to

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-05-21 Thread pauljohn32
This should be marked "SOLVED!". It appears that newcomers are arriving at this ticket to report same old problem, without realizing it has been fixed in a replacement kernel offered by Seth Forshee. The problem is now understood and there is no need to guess about installing alternative kernels

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-05-18 Thread pauljohn32
One more happy week of success with http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1674838. I understand Tim Passingham's frustration, but can I turn the question a different way? I want to know "why didn't this problem affect all Ubuntu users? Why just us?" A particular motherboard is to blame? Also,

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-05-05 Thread pauljohn32
Good news. I have no crashes in 2 days with http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp1674838. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674838 Title: kernel BUG at /build/linux-

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-05-02 Thread pauljohn32
OK, I will install 4.10.0-13. Are these the correct ones: linux-headers-4.10.0-13_4.10.0-13.15_all.deb linux-headers-4.10.0-13-generic_4.10.0-13.15_amd64.deb linux-image-4.10.0-13-generic_4.10.0-13.15_amd64.deb linux-image-extra-4.10.0-13-generic_4.10.0-13.15_amd64.deb

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-04-27 Thread pauljohn32
Bad news. Just had the kernel crash while using #22~lp1674838 I am attaching a kern.log file that shows this morning I woke from suspend, suspended again, work up again, and then had a freeze. Very surprising to me is that while the machine was locked to outside (cursor moved, but no key board

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-04-26 Thread pauljohn32
To @jsalisbury So far so good! 28 hours with http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1674838. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674838 Title: kernel BUG at /build/linux-

[Bug 1660619] Re: kernel: [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe B

2017-04-24 Thread pauljohn32
Are we sure that the pipeline error is a separate cause of a freeze up? I've had a lot of freezes in Ubuntu 17.04 and the freeze has only once been accompanied by the pipeline update. In my kernel logs, the pipeline appears once, but all seem to have the kernel BUG swapops.h, ( after --[cut

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-04-24 Thread pauljohn32
To @jsalisbury. Ubuntu updates just uploaded 4.10.0.20.22. Can you guess if that has fixes similar to ones you offer in http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1674838? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1674838] Re: kernel BUG at /build/linux-7LGLH_/linux-4.10.0/include/linux/swapops.h:129

2017-04-24 Thread pauljohn32
I have this as well. For me, this is always correlated with having Thunderbird or Firefox open. Sometimes, I also see messages like this NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! Can you say if these are superficial or not? In my kernel log, the freeze happened Apr 22 13:41:51

[Bug 1470691] Re: 1.2 regression: image blur after scrolling

2016-10-14 Thread pauljohn32
Sorry to post so soon again, but here is the recipe to reproduce. Get an image that is 2x as high as monitor. In geeqie, 1. Float the file list 2. In preferences, on 3rd windows tab, set a. fit window to omage b. limit window when autosizing (problem same if you pick 100% or smaller. If I

[Bug 1470691] Re: 1.2 regression: image blur after scrolling

2016-10-14 Thread pauljohn32
Nobody else sees this "scroll distortion" problem? I installed Ubuntu 16.10 and when all the new packages were installed, guess what? That distortion that causes very large images to be distorted when scrolling up is back. I have installed every other image viewer I can find and none of them

[Bug 1623585] Re: Toolbar is blank

2016-10-13 Thread pauljohn32
Sorry, forgot to mention. I confirm this does solve the toolbar problem, once you get it installed. Installation required removing emacs24 and some other packages that depended on it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1623585] Re: Toolbar is blank

2016-10-13 Thread pauljohn32
Hi. I never had the empty toolbar before Yakkety install today and I've spent quite a bit of time re-discovering the solutions you list here. I'm wrestling with the compiler errors from both emacs 25.1 and the 24.5 as distributed with Yakkety. Can somebody explain how a package that does not

[Bug 1593124] Re: Add proper palm detection support for MS Precision Touchpad

2016-08-04 Thread pauljohn32
@Phidias I withdraw my complaint. I updated the bios and installed a new OS partition and this new kernel works much better now. I fear that I had tried to adjust miscellaneous settings so much in the past 2 months that my fixes were blocking the beneficial changes. I had put a blacklist line on

[Bug 1593124] Re: Add proper palm detection support for MS Precision Touchpad

2016-07-29 Thread pauljohn32
I installed kernel from proposed today: $ uname -a Linux delllap-16 4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux On Dell Precision 5510, I don't see any improvement while using the synaptics client. I especially still have the symptom that the

[Bug 1567287] Re: monitor names were changed since 14.04

2016-05-19 Thread pauljohn32
I see same problem after upgrading. Scripts that were written with idea that the laptop built-in display is always LVDS1, as it always was, no longer work. More bothersome, the assigned value of the monitor in xfconf-query statements seems to change, depending on what is plugged in. This does

[Bug 1470691] [NEW] 1.2 regression: image blur after scrolling

2015-07-01 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: A while ago, I noticed that the directory file names were not updating quickly after removing files and I built a debian package that applied a patch I found in the bug list here. I've been using my geeqie 1.1-9 for a long time, but an Ubuntu update brought in the new 1.2

[Bug 1396361] UnitySupportTest.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] ProcInterrupts.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] BootDmesg.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] ProcModules.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] Re: Double Mouse Cursor

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
.tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: XFCE DistUpgraded: 2014-12-18 18:11:04,949 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename:

[Bug 1396361] UdevDb.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] LightdmLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] CurrentDmesg.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] BootLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] GconfCompiz.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] UdevLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] LightdmDisplayLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] XorgLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] Lspci.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] DpkgLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] Dependencies.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] LightdmGreeterLogOld.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] LightdmGreeterLog.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] Lsusb.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] ProcEnviron.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] Xrandr.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] XorgLogOld.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1396361] xdpyinfo.txt

2015-03-31 Thread pauljohn32
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[Bug 1252309] [NEW] toggle does not work correctly

2013-11-18 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: I want the xfce4 panels on top, sometimes, otherwise I don't. toggle used do do that, now it does not. I show here I can explicitly run add,below or add,above to get what I want, but toggle has no effect. This usage did work at one time. Am I doing this incorrectly. I

[Bug 1169474] Re: Synaptic Settings Repositories menu silently fails to open

2013-06-27 Thread pauljohn32
I have this problem right now in Debian Jessie, and it is almost certainly caused by software-properties-gtk. versions: synaptic 0.80.2 software-properties-gtk 0.82.7.1debian1 python 2.7.5-2 python-gi3.8.2-1

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2012-01-17 Thread pauljohn32
ndkhoi168: There's no way for us to know that you have the particular kind of touchpad that this driver supports. Supposing it is, you need to use the synclient program to review and set the options. Simply installing the d river does not necessarily do any good. You need to be sure the kernel

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-12-23 Thread pauljohn32
Sampo Saarela: The RedHat/Fedora folks have been a little late to the party on this problem. In fact, they tried to close work on it, arguing that it was an impossible problem because ALPS would not cooperate. It was really quite disappointing to me. That's why I'm so impressed and delighted

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-11-10 Thread pauljohn32
Hi, Seth. The dumps I posted yesterday are when I see the slow down, and I'm not near any other electronic devices. I'm going to have to keep a journal of the mouse flying off to the left problem and see if it correlates to things I'm next to. pj -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-11-09 Thread pauljohn32
Hello, Seth It's me again, still trying to get good diagnostic output for the driver. I have 2 files attached here, as you ask for. In the previous post, I said that sometimes the mouse flies off to the top left, and you asked if perhaps I'm touching the left part of the touchpad. I've been

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-10-16 Thread pauljohn32
Dell Precision M4600 Debian 3.0.0-1-amd64 I've after alps-dkms version 0.6 or so, I have noticed occasional weird behaviors. Sometimes cursor flies to far left of screen, sometimes the touchpad seems to become nonresponsive for a moment. Often it wakes up and works again, sometimes I have to

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-10-12 Thread pauljohn32
To users who say touchpad is too sensitive, do not bother Seth about the driver. Instead, learn how to properly configure your device. synclient is a command line program you use to interact with the ALPS touchpad. Do not bother with the Gnome Menu system-mouse- touchpad settings. Those are

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-10-03 Thread pauljohn32
Greetings. do you get accidental grabs as you try to move the cursor? I never noticed this in the psmouse dkms patch version 0.2, but in 0.9, it happens often. Moving the cursor toward top with a few finger brushes does not always select a region, but sometimes it does. Is that likely related

[Bug 784965] Re: Touchpad does not work properly in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-08-02 Thread pauljohn32
As far as I know, it is for all of those mysterious ALPS devices that are not recognized as touchpads. The patch is distributed from Dell, that's why it mentions their models. My laptop happens to be Precision M4600, if that helps. One of the frustrating things about tracking this down is that

[Bug 784965] Re: Touchpad does not work properly in Ubuntu 11.04

2011-07-23 Thread pauljohn32
I blogged out the full answer. http://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/alps-touchpad-linux-final-statement-now Brief summary. Install the psmouse patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/350841/ following instructions you find here: http://budts.be/weblog/2010/12/dell-latitude-e6510-screen-

[Bug 678103] Re: Dell Inspiron N Series, Touchpad recognised as generic PS/2 mouse

2011-07-23 Thread pauljohn32
I'm running Debian now, but I think this may address your problem (although it may be the fix mentioned above is the application of the same patch, I can't tell). http://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/alps-touchpad-linux-final-statement-now Brief summary. Install the psmouse patch

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-07-11 Thread pauljohn32
The following bugs in launchpad are ALL versions of this same problem. ALPS has apparently pushed this secret device into lots of systems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/678103 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/784965

[Bug 754344] Re: ALPS Touchpad on Dell E6510 not recognized as touchpad

2011-06-05 Thread pauljohn32
Lets look at this as a configuration problem. I mean, after applying the psmouse patch, and the system sees the device, how can we control it? I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 and it has the ALPS touchpad that other people are struggling with. I've found many bug reports on it on all of the

[Bug 749084] Re: Dbus-Plugin of compiz not working

2011-05-01 Thread pauljohn32
I would have said this bug is so serious that the release of Natty should have been blocked by it. A non-functioning window manager is a BIG thing, not ignorable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 339648] Re: recordmydesktop produces Broken pipe: Overrun occurred in Kubuntu Jaunty with HDA Intel

2011-04-17 Thread pauljohn32
Wow, I'm frustrated with recordmydesktop. I made some recordings in which the video played at double speed, out-racing the audio. Folks said change the window manager, don't use compiz. That solved that. Now I've made 2 screencasts that are 20 minutes long and the damn audio recording stops

[Bug 736770] Re: suspend to ram is not working on Asus U36JC and U35JC notebooks

2011-03-17 Thread pauljohn32
I have Lenovo T61 and have a new fail to suspend problem I have no trouble with previous kernels, 2.6.35-25-generic But the new one causes the symptom of a lock-up while suspending. The Lenovo as a moon shaped LED that flashes during suspend, and the system is not responsive, but the screen

[Bug 463735] Re: Ubuntu Karmic Regression: No Multi-Touch Touchpad Functionality on Asus Eee PC 1000HA

2010-12-31 Thread pauljohn32
I have fought with this and now can tell you the once and for all fix. You can't fix this with GUI menus and such, but this is a definite, lead pipe guaranteed fix if you are willing to do some file editing. 1. As in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/463735/comments/11, fiddle with synclient

[Bug 308191] Re: Multitouch support not available for Synaptics touchpads v7.2

2010-12-31 Thread pauljohn32
I have wrestled with this lots, and the problem is that no two people describe it as the same problem. For some people, the mouse/touchpad driver or module is just wrong. I believe they are the minority. The majority are people who have working devices, but can't figure how to configure them

[Bug 596160] Re: zoom shrinks as images scroll backward

2010-12-22 Thread pauljohn32
It happens to me still in current Ubuntu which has geeqie version 1:1.0-4. Can you try again with a folder of images that are larger than your monitor size and with the zoom beginning at 1:1. Every time I hit page up or page down the image size wanders down. It gets smaller than a postage stamp

[Bug 629391] Re: Compiz Wallpaper plugin broken in 10.10

2010-11-01 Thread pauljohn32
Have any Ubuntu users applied the patch proposed on the link to the fix in the free desktop site, on the right side of this report. I mean this: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30260 If so, how? I have the compiz-fusion-plugins-extra source from Ubuntu-10.10, but the patch doesn't

[Bug 660323] Re: touchpad right click no longer works after upgrade to 10.10

2010-10-18 Thread pauljohn32
Hi. I've been fine tuning my touchpad as well. I've not seen your trouble, but can tell you some diagnostic steps. I believe, in the end, you will find this is not a touchpad problem, but a keyboard/mouse button problem. I wonder if you do System-Preferences-Mouse and change from left to right

Re: [Bug 577268] Re: turn off place plugin in lucid?

2010-08-30 Thread pauljohn32
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM, yurik81 577...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Why Ubuntu team took such stupid decision to disable some plugins? -- They did not disable plugins, so far as I know. They made some Mandatory and hard to turn off. There is a difference :) -- Paul E. Johnson

[Bug 589967] Re: produce uncompilable source file

2010-07-01 Thread pauljohn32
Why doesn't this appear in Ubuntu updates now? I just wasted a whole day chasing typographical errors in code that were inserted by gob2. I had the exact same kinds of things the OP referred to. Class - Clsss and so forth. -- produce uncompilable source file

[Bug 596160] [NEW] zoom shrinks as images scroll backward

2010-06-18 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: geeqie As I hit page up to cycle backwards through images, the zoom factor steps smaller and smaller. I've never had the zoom step while scrolling forward. I'm using geeqie with a detached toolbar, leave zoom at previous setting, resize window to fit

[Bug 359857] Re: blt does not work as currently packaged

2010-06-16 Thread pauljohn32
I agree with Gertjan. The Ubuntu packages do not fix this problem. I learned that the Fedora team has a solution. They added the 2 attached patches on January 10,2010. blt2.4z-tk8.5.6-patch blt2.4z-zoomstack.patch I've applied their patches to Ubuntu's blt source and after that, blt works with

[Bug 359857] Re: blt does not work as currently packaged

2010-06-16 Thread pauljohn32
Zoomstack patch from Fedora ** Patch added: blt patch for zoomstack http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50440158/blt2.4z-zoomstack.patch -- blt does not work as currently packaged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 518236] Re: Evince/Okular displays incorrect characters

2010-05-24 Thread pauljohn32
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Evince 2.30 and I see the wrong rendering in Evince with that example document. The square root doesn't show properly, it is a little squiggle symbol. mu comes out as the infinity symbol that is open on the right side. Please check page 3 in that pdf, look in the

[Bug 577268] Re: turn off place plugin in lucid?

2010-05-09 Thread pauljohn32
Thanks. Can you please tell me in Ubuntu how I add the ccp option for every start of compiz? It is tiresome to retype this every single time I log in and then re-run ccsm to turn off the place plugin. pj -- turn off place plugin in lucid? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577268 You received

[Bug 207065] Re: Bad Compiz Bindings Bug

2010-05-08 Thread pauljohn32
Has something changed in the repository? When I do this: git clone git://anongit.compiz.org/fusion/compizconfig/compizconfig- backend-gconf I get no autogen.sh or other config files. I don't get a subdirectory settings-backend $ ls compizconfig-backend-gconf/ AUTHORS ChangeLog CMakeLists.txt

[Bug 577268] [NEW] turn off place plugin in lucid?

2010-05-07 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz I don't like any of the placement options in the place plugin. In ccsm, one is not allowed to turn off the place plugin--it always comes back on. In karmic, I would edit the /usr/bin/compiz file and remove the place plugin from the set that was

[Bug 539912] Re: [lucid] current battery charge not easily accessable

2010-05-03 Thread pauljohn32
I applied this patch (thanks Tom) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/539912/comments/5 and it does help. Now a click on the battery icon reveals the percent charge. It is very important to me because a 'full charge' is anything above 70%, and the battery time

[Bug 321932] Re: ghostscript stop rendering with font errors

2010-04-07 Thread pauljohn32
I think the problem is not in the fonts themselves, but in the other changes that the installer triggers. Here's why. After removing the msttcorefonts from my system last month, and making sure the hints file was gone from /etc/defoma/hints, then I was able to print pdf files from Adobe Acrobat

[Bug 321932] Re: ghostscript stop rendering with font errors

2010-02-17 Thread pauljohn32
I've had the random-unpredicable cups error in the middle of printing pdf from Adobe Acroread. I believe it is same problem discussed here and I ran remove apt-get on the mscorefonts installer, and it did remove the font files. HOwever, it leaves behind this file:

[Bug 307008] Re: [CAPSLOCK] shift-control ignored after re-mapping CAPSLOCK and Control

2010-01-27 Thread pauljohn32
I'm sorry, Friedrich. I cannot understand your words. If you mean that Ubuntu has fixed the problem, I do not agree. On my system, using the xmodmap file I gave above, the key combinations like Shift-Control-S don't do anything. -- [CAPSLOCK] shift-control ignored after re-mapping CAPSLOCK and

[Bug 505027] [NEW] package fig2sty 1:0.1-13 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127

2010-01-08 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fig2sty I installed a test version of texlive-2009 from a ppa repository. It didn't quite work, and I wanted to uninstall it. It was a hard problem because the texlive programs were inter-depended with many other packages. Along the way, I had to try

[Bug 505027] Re: package fig2sty 1:0.1-13 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127

2010-01-08 Thread pauljohn32
** Attachment added: AptOrdering.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37631290/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37631291/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Dmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37631292/Dmesg.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 464957] Re: when changing /apps/gdm/simple-greeter disable_user_list in true, still gives a user list in gdm at startup

2009-12-13 Thread pauljohn32
I've run the configure command sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple- greeter/disable_user_list true and the user list disappears for a while, but it keeps coming back! It seems to me as though updates are erasing my settings. In /var/log/apt/term.log, for example, I

[Bug 450517] Re: chkconfig on service fails due to detected loop

2009-12-01 Thread pauljohn32
I had this problem too. I do not understand it, but I believe I have a possible fix. On my system, this loop harassment was caused by unpurged configurations from previous version of Ubuntu or removed packages. Open up synaptic, choose the status listing, and then the resitual configuration for

[Bug 94940] Re: mdns listed in nsswitch.conf causes excessive time for dns lookups

2009-11-25 Thread pauljohn32
For me, turning off avahi-daemon on the target server solved the problem entirely. Perhaps the other fixes have already been applied by some deb updates. In /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 I don't have any settings on DNS in /etc/ssh/ssh_config

[Bug 458478] Re: LaserJet 1320 prints always in duplex

2009-11-17 Thread pauljohn32
Same on HP2015d. Would print either one or two sided in Hardy, Intrepid, and Jaunty. Only in Karmic did this problem develop. There are no errors about it in /var/log/cups. -- LaserJet 1320 prints always in duplex https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458478 You received this bug notification

[Bug 444395] Re: 9.10 beta fails to boot into LiveCD (flashing text on beta/straight black on later images) - black screen

2009-11-04 Thread pauljohn32
Me too. This is caused by a mismatch of the video configuration from your old Ubuntu with the new one. Here is a solution. Log in with recovery mode, move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out, so the system starts without taking into account your old settings. It will boot into a generic/open set of drivers.

[Bug 457714] [NEW] growisofs doesn't work anymore: Cannot write dvd's anymore from any frontend program

2009-10-21 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dvd+rw-tools DVD writes fail, and the DVD device light is flashing and the system keeps trying to access the drive over and over again. Ubuntu 9.04 ii dvd+rw-tools 7.1-4DVD+-RW/R tools ii linux-generic

[Bug 359857] Re: blt does not work as currently packaged

2009-09-11 Thread pauljohn32
I have not tried that fix, but I've been meaning to point out what I learned in the Fedora/RedHat bug tracker on this same problem. Go here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504388 Look for a post by Carlos Vidal. He shows that if you hack two lines in blt, you can stop it from

[Bug 359461] Re: package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files

2009-04-11 Thread pauljohn32
I think this is a valid complaint. Why don't you explain how to fix the problem when you mark it Invalid? -- package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files

[Bug 359857] [NEW] blt does not work as currently packaged

2009-04-11 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: blt I'm no tcl/tk expert, but I think that blt-2.4z is incompatible with tcl/tk 8.5 and attempting to package blt to support both is a mistake. We have been using the blt libraries with the Swarm toolkit for years. With tcl/tk 8.4 and blt from Ubuntu

[Bug 270377] Re: content of window do not redraw automatically (intrepid)

2008-12-18 Thread pauljohn32
This problem has been much discussed in the nvidia user support forums. It appears to only/mostly arise when Compiz is in use. The problem is caused by an Nvidia feature called powermizer that pushes the video card into low performance mode. Some people say some changes in xorg.conf help, but I

[Bug 272527] Re: rkward: 'No (valid) plugins found', therefore no menu items

2008-12-14 Thread pauljohn32
I'm running R 2.8 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. rkward installs, but it doesn't run for a variety of reasons described in this and other threads. I noticed the subversion address given in note 3 above is incorrect. It has this: svn co https://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/trunk rkward but

[Bug 307008] [NEW] shift-control ignored after re-mapping CAPSLOCK and Control

2008-12-10 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xmodmap I followed the xmodmap man page to swap the CAPSLOCK and Control keys. That part works great. However, after re-mapping, other key combinations with the Control key (which is the one labeled CAPS) do not work. Shift-Control-s in the Gimp is

[Bug 307008] Re: shift-control ignored after re-mapping CAPSLOCK and Control

2008-12-10 Thread pauljohn32
Yes, I realized I should have posted the actual xmodmap file. AFAIK, this is exactly same as man page remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L -- shift-control ignored after

[Bug 138957] Re: (gutsy) lock screen doesn't support fingerprint readers driven by thinkfinger

2008-12-09 Thread pauljohn32
Doing 3 things fixed this for me. 1. Change the permissions on $HOME/.thinkfinger_bir so that it is owned by the user, not by root: $ sudo chown pauljohn .thinkfinger.bir 2. Changing the permissions of the uinput device, which was root:root, and instead this is needed: chown root\:plugdev

[Bug 303816] [NEW] package ttf-mathematica4.1 4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-30 Thread pauljohn32
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ttf-mathematica4.1 In synaptic, I chose to install this package, and the system crash detector popped up and asked me to report the installation failure. I don't know exactly if it is the same error that the other user reported about dpkg application or

[Bug 303816] Re: package ttf-mathematica4.1 4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-30 Thread pauljohn32
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20081832/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20081833/DpkgTerminalLog.gz -- package ttf-mathematica4.1 4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script

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