[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2060993] [NEW] Startup applications / gnome-session-properties does not persist between logins

2024-04-11 Thread David White
Public bug reported: Having installed Guake I tried adding `/usr/bin/guake --hide` to Startup Applications. However, it was not in the list of startup applications when I next booted. I tested logging off and logging on again and found it wasn't persisting between logins. Data I entered was:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2060575] Re: gnome-keyring fails to automatically unlock login keyring after recent updates in noble

2024-04-09 Thread David White
It seems that the usual password keyring called Login is not automatically created in gnome-keyring. In fact there are no credentials of any kind in there on logging in after a clean install. If you change your password via the control panel, the login keyring is then created. However, when you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2060667] [NEW] No default keyring and does not unlock on login

2024-04-09 Thread David White
Public bug reported: On a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 numbat, gnome-keyring does not seem to be properly configured. If I attempt to add an online account via settings > online accounts, after authentication with the online account gnome-keyring prompts me to create a default keyring because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-11-30 Thread David White
Might be related to https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/1198 Issues with nvme affecting udisks 2.10.1 ** Bug watch added: github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues #1198 https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/1198 -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-11-29 Thread David White
whoopsie id 60b13c6e12dee1beadc3425b95424ebfdeb3cbfbe1fb9d506bc8384236c8261f8d10c14e1f60911f06cb2afb39156dbcaffc7613ec5ed98d558e73cf214aefe4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to udisks2 in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-11-29 Thread David White
Can't run ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_libexec_udisks2_udisksd.0.crash. Failed with: Failed to get unit file state for whoopsie.path: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms) I've been experiencing wider issues with systemd a lot. I'll try

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-11-29 Thread David White
Output of journalctl -b0 > journal.txt ** Attachment added: "journal.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/2031096/+attachment/5724824/+files/journal.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to udisks2

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-11-29 Thread David White
This is still a problem for me. Udisksd crashes in the installer when booting from the latest ISO on USB, popping up an error message. Performing a fresh install still works. On starting the newly installed system I get the stack smashing fault for udisksd. I get an internal error notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2031096] Re: udisks2 daemon fails to start

2023-10-18 Thread David White
I'm getting the same stack smashing fault with udiskd on my Dell XPS 15 7590 with an SSD drive. This fault prevents any external storage from mounting which affects my backup HDD and all USB pen drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2033197] Re: ubuntu (perhaps its the gnome desktop) freezes every few seconds saying wait or force quit window then unfreezes, this still happens after reboot

2023-09-10 Thread David White
Thanks. I work with a lot of windows open but I took your advice a closed a few to improve response -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2033197 Title: ubuntu (perhaps its

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2033197] Re: ubuntu (perhaps its the gnome desktop) freezes every few seconds saying wait or force quit window then unfreezes, this still happens after reboot

2023-09-04 Thread David White
Thanks. I work with a lot of windows open but I took your advice a closed a few to improve performance -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2033197 Title: ubuntu (perhaps

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1969709] Re: libreoffice font selection unusably slow

2022-08-12 Thread David White
I have a feeling this is something to do with the Nvidia driver. I first noticed this on my desktop PC which was using Mint 20 (based on Ubuntu 20.04), and the "Fresh" PPA of Libreoffice 7.3. I recently moved to Mint 21, based on Ubuntu 22.04. Mindful of this lagging issue in the font selection

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1876992] Re: X11 session crash on using Gimp or LibreOffice

2020-05-07 Thread David White
Reviewing bug 1868519, it certainly matches the situation. Mouse movement is the trigger for the crash. For gimp it's moving the mouse after opening or creating an image. For Libreoffice it's beginning to use the crop tool, which is also a mouse movement. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1876992] Re: X11 session crash on using Gimp or LibreOffice

2020-05-07 Thread David White
One issue here is that it doesn't always produce a crash file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876992 Title: X11 session crash on using Gimp or LibreOffice

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1876992] Re: X11 session crash on using Gimp or LibreOffice

2020-05-07 Thread David White
Well. It's easy to cause the crash. Open Gimp, create a new image, move mouse. I'll upload some more crash files. https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/4f6c0418-903c-11ea-a976-fa163ee63de6 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1876992] [NEW] X11 session crash on using Gimp or LibreOffice

2020-05-05 Thread David White
Public bug reported: Several applications are crashing X11. Gimp after creating a new image Gimp after opening an image Libre office writer on attempting to crop and image All the currently running applications then log the following into syslog May 5 21:25:22 david-XPS-15-7590

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-29 Thread David White
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1867668 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867668 Thanks Daniel. I uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-intel and removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf, which sorted all the display corruption issues. It looks like there is a problem on the upgrade with

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-29 Thread David White
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1867668 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867668 Sorry Sebastian - I didn't relaise journalctl piped output to less! Attached is the full output ** Attachment added: "log.txt"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
I tested xfce4 and it worked OK. No graphic problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875645 Title: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
journalctl -b 0 -- Logs begin at Sat 2020-02-22 20:36:17 GMT, end at Tue 2020-04-28 17:24:34 BST. -- Apr 28 16:19:45 david-XPS-15-7590 kernel: Linux version 5.4.0-26-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-029) (gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2)) #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 20 16:58:30 UTC 2020

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
journalctl -b 0 -- Logs begin at Sat 2020-02-22 20:36:17 GMT, end at Tue 2020-04-28 17:24:34 BST. -- Apr 28 16:19:45 david-XPS-15-7590 kernel: Linux version 5.4.0-26-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-029) (gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2)) #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 20 16:58:30 UTC 2020

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
** Attachment added: "Corrupted text in the password modal" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1875645/+attachment/5362469/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-04-28%2014-30-50.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
** Attachment added: "Corrupted ubuntu logo on login screen" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1875645/+attachment/5362470/+files/20200428_142415.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
** Attachment added: "Corrupted volume icon on login screen" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1875645/+attachment/5362473/+files/20200428_142516.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] [NEW] Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
Public bug reported: After upgrading from 19.10 to 20.04 I am seeing blocky green and purple artefacts on icons, background images and text. This is visible on the login screen and once logged in. Only the "shell" is corrupted and any subsequent changes, such as changing the background image,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875645] Re: Graphics corruption on shell on login screen and session screen

2020-04-28 Thread David White
** Attachment added: "Screen corruption once logged in" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1875645/+attachment/5362464/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-04-28%2014-25-51.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1734044] Re: gnome-shell crashes when monitor turned off or switch kvm [meta_monitor_manager_get_logical_monitor_from_number: assertion '(unsigned int) number < g_list_length (

2019-08-13 Thread David White
Is anything happening on this issue? It's been a while ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734044 Title: gnome-shell crashes when monitor turned off or switch kvm

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827354] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop reports error on startup

2019-05-04 Thread David White
Step 2 provided the following report: 2019-04-28 20:042019-05-05 02:05 UTCCrash aptdaemon Error link: https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/44e474d4-6ede- 11e9-9306-fa163e6cac46 The attachment is a copy (image) of the window that opens after login to the Ubuntu 18.04 desktop. **

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827354] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop reports error on startup

2019-05-04 Thread David White
** Attachment added: "Image presented on error just after login to desktop" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1827354/+attachment/5261563/+files/Screenshot%20from%202019-05-05%2011-37-59.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1827354] [NEW] Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop reports error on startup

2019-05-02 Thread David White
Public bug reported: david@david-OptiPlex-9010:~$ sudo lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS david@david-OptiPlex-9010:~$ sudo apt-cache policy pulseaudio pulseaudio: Installed: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 Candidate: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 Version table: *** 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 500

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1797734] Re: slow calculator startup

2019-03-04 Thread David White
This is a problem on 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, as well. Embarrassingly slow for a simple application like this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-calculator in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797734 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1247061] Re: ctrl+shift+alt+arrow can't move window up or down, only left and right

2014-01-28 Thread David White
Christopher, In the end I found the keyboard shortcut options via the sytem settings and found that the keyboard shortcuts for these actions had changed to something else, which I can't remember now. I set them back to the default. If it would help I could run the CD image as a live USB stick on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1208019] Re: Eclipse menus doesn't show up in Saucy

2013-10-29 Thread David White
Ahmed, Just guessing at the problem but are you launching eclipse from the command line? If you are launching as root from the command line the eclipse.desktop file doesn't take effect. This file is only for launching from the dash. To launch from the command line with this fix type in: env

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1065669] Re: Unity webapps do not support Notifications

2013-05-23 Thread David White
Also true for 13.04. I have two google apps gmail accounts and no notifications appear for incoming mail, whether gmail web page is open or not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libunity-webapps in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1158712] Re: Pulse audio startup failure

2013-03-26 Thread David White
Issue resolved. This isn't a bug with pulseaudio, the issue stemmed from the FQDN not being set properly which messed up the idmapping for NFS for the home disk. Wrong user ids (nobody) = permission problems for pulseaudio. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1158712] [NEW] Pulse audio startup failure

2013-03-22 Thread David White
Public bug reported: In Raring ringtail. New install. Home directory mounted over NFS. Audio icon on menu bar shows speaker icon with dashes. Clicking on icon the menu only has volume control set to zero (can't change).,Rhythmbox link and play controls, and Sound Settings link. Would expect to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1087647] [NEW] Can't open any Microsoft Office files, including Word or Powerpoint

2012-12-07 Thread David White
Public bug reported: Attempting to open a Word .doc or PPT file fails. Document just has a jumble of characters in Writer. In Impress opening a PPT pops up an ascii input filter dialogue. I've tried many files on the two computers I have running 12.10 with no success. This appears to be a known