[Bug 1205054] [NEW] Unpolished prompt for encrypted-disk passphrase

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu6.1 as deployed on Xubuntu raring. I installed from the live CD, and set up encrypted volumes. When booting into the new system, I am prompted for the passphrase at the splash screen. Unfortunately, the text of the prompt is not formatted

[Bug 1205054] Re: Unpolished prompt for encrypted-disk passphrase

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Even when the disk is successfully unlocked, the previous error message still remains. ** Attachment added: crypt-prompt-3.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1205054/+attachment/3749098/+files/crypt-prompt-3.png -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1205054] Re: Unpolished prompt for encrypted-disk passphrase

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I also set /home to be encrypted---not at all an unusual setup---and the system doesn't appear to be aware that it needs to be unlocked first, resulting in more verbiage being dumped to the splash screen. ** Attachment added: crypt-prompt-4.png

[Bug 1194674] Re: Drop-down fields in PDF forms are not saved

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #703145 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703145 ** Also affects: evince via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703145 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1194674] [NEW] Drop-down fields in PDF forms are not saved

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns evince 3.6.1-1ubuntu3 in Ubuntu raring. I have a PDF form in which a couple of fields are multi-option drop-down widgets, e.g. Title: [ Select one ] Mr. Ms. Mrs. The field is initially set to [ Select one ], and I am supposed to select one of

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Note on comment #47 and the oem-config bug: That was found to be unrelated, and a fix for it has already been released. As for this bug, it appears to have gone away. I tested a minimal Raring install, and even through the GRUB boot options are the default quiet splash, it does correctly switch

[Bug 700912] Re: dosbox crashed with SIGSEGV

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
No, I get the same error too. Looks like SourceForge lossage---I've seen the same issue with some other projects recently. (Now I wish I'd also posted the patch here...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 700912] Re: dosbox crashed with SIGSEGV

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
FWIW, it seems like SourceForge updated their bug/patch tracker functionality, and forgot to support old URLs. The current patch tracker for DOSBox is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/patches/ I don't see my patch in there, however, even though there are a few from about the same

[Bug 950921] Re: aa-enforce and aa-complain strip all flags instead of manipulating 'complain'

2013-05-09 Thread Daniel Richard G.
The aa-* scripts would probably do better to replace complain with enforce and vice versa, rather than edit the flags=(...) bit as a whole. (Better yet, according to http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/AppArmor_Core_Policy_Reference , the mode flags specify the mode the profile is in and are

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Robie, thanks for commenting. Note that the ldap-auth-config package does not preclude alternate forms of managing /etc/ldap.conf. It won't touch an existing config file, nor complain if the one it creates is modified. Also, while this package does not exist in Debian, the file is still created

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Robie, thanks for commenting. Note that the ldap-auth-config package does not preclude alternate forms of managing /etc/ldap.conf. It won't touch an existing config file, nor complain if the one it creates is modified. Also, while this package does not exist in Debian, the file is still created

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Also affects: ldap-auth-client (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to libnss-ldap in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334374 Title: libnss-ldap should not

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I think Thierry's solution in comment #10 is the way to go. It's appropriate for ldap-auth-client to depend on libpam-ldap, because that's the intent of the metapackage. But ldap-auth-config provides /etc/ldap.conf, which you need whether or not you're using LDAP for authentication. (That package

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Also affects: ldap-auth-client (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334374 Title: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap To

[Bug 334374] Re: libnss-ldap should not depend on libpam-ldap

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I think Thierry's solution in comment #10 is the way to go. It's appropriate for ldap-auth-client to depend on libpam-ldap, because that's the intent of the metapackage. But ldap-auth-config provides /etc/ldap.conf, which you need whether or not you're using LDAP for authentication. (That package

[Bug 1069671] Re: no print queues displayed in pure client mode

2013-03-30 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I've tested 1.6.2 in a Quantal install, and confirmed that appending /version=1.1 to ServerName in /etc/cups/client.conf works as intended. The new option still needs to be documented, and I've filed a Debian bug to this end: http://bugs.debian.org/704238 I'd also note that when the client

[Bug 1069671] Re: no print queues displayed in pure client mode

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Ah, I see upstream just released 1.6.2. Will try it once it hits Raring. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069671 Title: no print queues displayed in pure client mode To manage

[Bug 1069671] Re: no print queues displayed in pure client mode

2013-03-11 Thread Daniel Richard G.
The IPP-version patch does not appear to (fully) fix the problem. I'm testing a build of 1.6.1-2 on Quantal. It works if I specify the server hostname (with version directive) on the command line, but not if I specify same via the CUPS_SERVER environment variable or /etc/cups/client.conf: $

[Bug 1152722] [NEW] package-data-downloader does not handle network errors gracefully

2013-03-08 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns update-notifier-common 0.126 in Ubuntu Quantal. I got this e-mail message from a system running inside a corporate network that blocks outbound port 80 connections (a proxy is required for Web access): Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on test-ubuntu64

[Bug 1131383] [NEW] Wishlist: $SSH_AUTH_SOCK in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This is a wishlist item for openssh-client 6.0p1-3ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Quantal. Now that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR support is available, it would be nice if the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent X session startup script would check to see if the variable is set, and if so, pass

[Bug 1131362] [NEW] Asks to unlock private key that was already unlocked by ssh-add(1)

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Quantal. Normally, I invoke ssh-add(1) manually after logging in. I add a number of identities, and then connect to other hosts using those identities. This worked correctly in Ubuntu Oneiric. Now, with a new Quantal

[Bug 1131383] [NEW] Wishlist: $SSH_AUTH_SOCK in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This is a wishlist item for openssh-client 6.0p1-3ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Quantal. Now that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR support is available, it would be nice if the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent X session startup script would check to see if the variable is set, and if so, pass

[Bug 1131442] [NEW] gvfsd-trash process survives logout

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This report concerns gvfs-daemons 1.14.0-0ubuntu6 in Ubuntu Quantal. I log out from an Xfce desktop session, and the process table shows a gvfsd-process is still running. If I log in again, and log out again, two processes. Log in/out again, three processes. And so on. **

[Bug 736743] Re: environment block not implemented on btrfs

2013-01-28 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Short of implementing btrfs environment-block support for GRUB, we need a better workaround that doesn't involve manually hacking config files. The scripts in /etc/grub.d/ can determine the type of the root filesystem---we see this in /etc/grub.d/10_linux, assigning to GRUBFS--- so there's no

[Bug 1103703] [NEW] Choose Preferred Application dialog for Web browser does not list Chromium

2013-01-23 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns libexo-1-0 0.8.0-1 in Ubuntu Quantal. I have xubuntu-desktop, firefox and chromium-browser installed. Yet when I invoke Web Browser from the top-level application menu, I get a Choose Preferred Application dialog that lists the following options: Debian

[Bug 1098294] [NEW] Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at ...

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: When I install krb5-config 2.3 (along with some other Kerberos-related packages) on Ubuntu Quantal, I see this: [...] Get:8 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe krb5-user amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-2 [114 kB] Get:9 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe kstart amd64 4.1-2

[Bug 1098294] [NEW] Use of uninitialized value $admin in string eq at ...

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: When I install krb5-config 2.3 (along with some other Kerberos-related packages) on Ubuntu Quantal, I see this: [...] Get:8 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe krb5-user amd64 1.10.1+dfsg-2 [114 kB] Get:9 http://$APTHOST/ubuntu/ quantal/universe kstart amd64 4.1-2

[Bug 918792] Re: Location of the local file is asked for twice on update

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Richard G.
This appears to be fixed as of Ubuntu Quantal. Could you give it a try? Marking as Fix Released for now; please change back to Confirmed if you still see it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 483928]

2012-12-05 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I don't think anyone will fault you for having more momentous matters to attend to! As it is, I've gone without doing a network scan for that long anyway. Thanks for formally submitting the patch; hopefully this issue will be put to rest soon. Best of luck with the transition to a retired life,

[Bug 483928]

2012-12-05 Thread Daniel Richard G.
And a year later, this issue still afflicts OpenSSH 6.1p1 (as packaged by Ubuntu). Aab's patch still applies, if fuzzily, and still hardens up ssh-keyscan so that it can deal with my company's network. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 483928]

2012-12-05 Thread Daniel Richard G.
And a year later, this issue still afflicts OpenSSH 6.1p1 (as packaged by Ubuntu). Aab's patch still applies, if fuzzily, and still hardens up ssh-keyscan so that it can deal with my company's network. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 483928]

2012-12-05 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I don't think anyone will fault you for having more momentous matters to attend to! As it is, I've gone without doing a network scan for that long anyway. Thanks for formally submitting the patch; hopefully this issue will be put to rest soon. Best of luck with the transition to a retired life,

[Bug 1027258] Re: chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027258 Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 861171] Re: Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Can you tell who marked those bugs as duplicates? If it wasn't Robert Ancell, they could probably be unmarked. There's a possibility the same codepath is involved in being at the greeter vs. in a session, but he's likely the only person active here who would know for sure. -- You received this

[Bug 183456] Re: Trying to load a sf2 file with asfxload returns sfxload: no memory left

2012-06-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Hi Thomas, You've previously said that the kernel hackers aren't overly willing to put in a proper fix for this issue. I don't see an entry for this bug in the Linux kernel bugzilla, however (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/), so it's possible they aren't even aware of it. Regardless of whether or

[Bug 1017063] [NEW] renpy.py crashed with SIGABRT in transform32_mmx()

2012-06-24 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: Tried to run renpy-demo, got a window for a split second, then BOOM. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: renpy 6.12.2-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-21.35-generic-pae 3.0.32 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-21-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl

[Bug 1017063] Re: renpy.py crashed with SIGABRT in transform32_mmx()

2012-06-24 Thread Daniel Richard G.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017063 Title: renpy.py crashed with SIGABRT in transform32_mmx() To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 465231] Re: Karmic: legacy grub-install fails, possibly due to missing /target/etc/mtab

2012-05-15 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Karmic is no longer supported, and I'm not aware of this bug affecting newer releases. Felipe, I would suggest asking for help at ubuntuforums.org; this bug report isn't the right place. ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You received this bug

[Bug 992060] Re: remmina crashed with SIGABRT in __malloc_assert()

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992060 Title: remmina crashed with SIGABRT in __malloc_assert() To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 988992] Re: chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV

2012-04-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Description changed: I started a separate instance of Chromium in Incognito mode, and it crashed an instant after the window came up. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: chromium-browser 18.0.1025.151~r130497-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 944468] Re: keyboard layouts plugin forgets all settings at random times

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Richard G.
ElTomoLoco, could you look in your /var/log/syslog file when this problem occurs? I've run into what is likely the same bug, and it appears to be associated with USB glitches that cause my keyboard to become temporarily disconnected and then re-detected. A typical cycle of this appears as the

[Bug 934812] Re: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-3.0.0/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0x1e6/0x1f0()

2012-03-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Thank you Christopher, please see comment #3. I will attempt to test this issue with a mainline kernel when the opportunity arises. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 934812] Re: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-3.0.0/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0x1e6/0x1f0()

2012-03-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Confirmed this issue with the 3.2.13-030213-generic mainline kernel. ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: I have a Toshiba laptop (Satellite A65) with a built-in Ethernet adapter, running Ubuntu Oneiric with the stock kernel 3.0.0-16.28. After some time in operation,

[Bug 934812] Re: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-3.0.0/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0x1e6/0x1f0()

2012-03-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Attached is the system's complete syslog, from bootup to NIC failure. (Note that the Apport-collected info is from the mainline kernel running with nosmp, as the failure happens early on, and of course once that's happened the system cannot contact Launchpad.) ** Attachment added:

[Bug 932543] Re: Empty power-symbol menu on minimal system

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Actually, lightdm-gtk-greeter. This is in conjunction with Openbox, so no unity-greeter. ** Package changed: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) = lightdm (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 932543] Re: Empty power-symbol menu on minimal system

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(Meant to reassign to lightdm-gtk-greeter, but that's a binary package with lightdm as its source, so back to the latter it went) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932543 Title: Empty

[Bug 932988] Re: Cannot pass additional command-line options to X server

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Thanks, I missed this in reviewing the code. Could you add a clarification in the sample lightdm.conf that options are allowed, and that [the standard X.org] server options are appended to this command? It's easy to read xserver-command as specifying either just the server program name/path, or

[Bug 932523] Re: Missing background image = ugly background color

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Could you allow a means for the config file to specify both a color and an image file? That way, if both are given, then the color can be set whether or not the image is available---in other words, the color setting serves as a fallback. For example, background=#44

[Bug 939754] Re: sakura crashed with SIGSEGV in _start()

2012-02-23 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939754 Title: sakura crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 793836] Re: openbox occasionally renders unclosable blank ghost windows from chromium-browser

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Changed in: openbox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid ** Summary changed: - openbox occasionally renders unclosable blank ghost windows from chromium-browser + Chromium occasionally renders unclosable blank ghost windows from pop-up menus -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 793836] Re: openbox occasionally renders unclosable blank ghost windows from chromium-browser

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I see dead windows. It's not just Openbox. I'm running Xubuntu (i.e. Xfce4) on Oneiric with chromium-browser 15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1. The ghost windows clearly belong to Chromium, as running xwininfo(1)/xprop(1) on them will indicate. (I'm attaching a copy of the output of

[Bug 934812] [NEW] 8139too: NIC stops working with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (8139too): transmit queue 0 timed out

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: I have a Toshiba laptop (Satellite A65) with a built-in Ethernet adapter, running Ubuntu Oneiric with the stock kernel 3.0.0-16.28. After some time in operation, while the system is in use, the network connection stops working and I find the following in /var/log/syslog: Feb

[Bug 934812] Re: 8139too: NIC stops working with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (8139too): transmit queue 0 timed out

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Attachment added: Output of lspci -vvnn https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934812/+attachment/2751955/+files/lspci-vvnn.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934812 Title: 8139too:

[Bug 934812] Re: 8139too: NIC stops working with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (8139too): transmit queue 0 timed out

2012-02-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
This is a minimal install running off a CompactFlash card, so I actually don't have the apport-collect command. I can provide any telemetry that is needed manually, however. (Note that I've encountered this same error previously with a stock install, so the bug is clearly independent of the

[Bug 710733] Re: LKCD Not Executing kexec Properly

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Technically, the 64MB-too-small bug is #785394, but whatever it takes to get this done! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710733 Title: LKCD Not Executing kexec Properly To manage

[Bug 932988] [NEW] Cannot pass additional command-line options to X server

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: I am using LightDM 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 on Oneiric. I would like to pass the -logdir /path/to/file option to the X server. In the old days, I would edit a file like /etc/X11/Xserver and add the option in there. LightDM, however, constructs the X server invocation in C code,

[Bug 932504] [NEW] cannot create /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0//gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders/loaders.cache

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: Saw this while installing a slew of X11 packages: [...] Setting up libgtk-3-0 (3.2.0-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up libgtk-3-bin (3.2.0-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up librsvg2-common (2.34.1-2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/librsvg2-common:i386.postinst: 15: cannot create

[Bug 932523] [NEW] Missing background image = ugly background color

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: I have LightDM 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 installed on a minimal Oneiric system. There is a /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf file, containing the following: [greeter] background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png The named background file does not

[Bug 932543] [NEW] Empty power-symbol menu on minimal system

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: I am using LightDM 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 on a minimal Oneiric graphical system. The menu under the power-symbol button at the top-right corner of the greeter screen comes up empty when I click it. There are no Restart/Shutdown/Suspend/Hibernate/etc. items under there, none at

[Bug 917352] Re: xfce4-xkb-plugin assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/xfce4-xkb-plugin/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x21fbe145 ***

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Richard G.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 899290 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899290 ** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917352 Title:

[Bug 899290] Re: xfce keyboard crashes when selecting latam layout

2012-01-16 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Rookie programming error in xkb-util.c. The attached patch (against git master) fixes it for me. Will forward to the upstream. ** Patch added: xfce4-xkb-plugin-fix.patch

[Bug 879911] Re: Keyboard layout indicator is not installed by default in Xubuntu

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Richard G.
This is needed pretty badly. It's already standard behavior on other desktops to automagically enable a tray icon indicating the current layout if multiple layouts are loaded (or at least provide the option to enable such an icon in the same dialog where the layouts are configured). As it is,

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-08 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Johannes, --quiet is only applicable to start(8), not to anacron. The solutions you're proposing are feature requests; please post a separate bug report for those. I agree that having some way of being notified about hung jobs would be nice, but that's beyond the scope of this bug report. --

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel Richard G.
The logic is already written with the intent of failing silently if anacron is already running; that's what the || : bit is for. Anacron can be started from multiple places (various cron entries and pm-utils), so it has to address the possibility of collisions from two instances starting at

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-07 Thread Daniel Richard G.
That's a point, but AFAICS --quiet means that start(8) doesn't print the blah start/running message that it would normally give. Error messages are unaffected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 912853] Re: check-new-release-gtk crashed with IOError in _buildMetaReleaseFile(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Richard G.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 686091 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686091 ** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912853 Title:

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Richard G.
The following change should address this bug: --- /etc/cron.d/anacron.orig2010-06-20 04:11:29.0 -0400 +++ /etc/cron.d/anacron 2012-01-06 18:03:48.0 -0500 @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin #30 7* * * root test -x

[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Anacron is hanging only because apt is hanging, however---that's a bug in the latter, not the former. All anacron is doing wrong is causing the e-mail to be sent. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 911030] Re: glcells assert failure: glcells: ../../intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1361: do_bo_emit_reloc: Assertion `offset = bo-size - 4' failed.

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911030 Title: glcells assert failure: glcells: ../../intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1361: do_bo_emit_reloc: Assertion

[Bug 785425] Re: 0_kdump uses dynamic makedumpfile(8) binary, which fails horribly

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Excellent! Thank you, Louis, for getting this in. Just one nit---that should read ... so that if makedumpfile is *dynamically* linked, we get ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785425

[Bug 909939] Re: fontforge crashed with SIGSEGV

2011-12-30 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Description changed: - It didn't like when I did Element - Transformations - Expand - Stroke... on DejaVuSans.sfd + It didn't like when I did Element - Expand Stroke... on + DejaVuSans.sfd ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: fontforge 0.0.20110222-1ubuntu1

[Bug 908916] [NEW] Out-of-order syslog entries

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns rsyslog 5.8.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu Oneiric. I'm looking at /var/log/syslog on this system, and the file contains entries that are chronologically out of order. The timestamps seem to leap forward by five hours, then back by five hours, with no hint as to why.

[Bug 908916] Re: Out-of-order syslog entries

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Attachment added: /var/log/syslog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908916/+attachment/2647883/+files/syslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908916 Title: Out-of-order syslog

[Bug 908926] [NEW] Large Font style option does not work

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 in Ubuntu Oneiric. I am using LightDM as part of a stock Xubuntu install. The High Contrast style option (in the menu activated by clicking the second- from-the-right icon in the top-right corner) works, but Large Font does not. **

[Bug 908923] [NEW] Restart/Shutdown actions do not work

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2 in Ubuntu Oneiric. I am using LightDM as part of a stock Xubuntu install. The Restart and Shutdown actions from the icon at the top-right corner do nothing. (I have not tested Suspend and Hibernate.) No useful information appears to be

[Bug 903526] Re: madplay crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_free()

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I've dug into this with a debugger and Valgrind, and found the problem. It's a buffer overrun. In audio_alsa.c, the play() function calls audio_pcm() with a len argument of 1152. At 8 bytes per sample, this would fill up a buffer of 9216 bytes. But the buffer buf (a static variable in this same

[Bug 903526] Re: madplay crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_free()

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #619341 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619341 ** Also affects: madplay (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619341 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 478978] Re: madplay segfaults on exit in 9.10

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 903526 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/903526 Hi Martin, This is likely the same crash I've run into. Have a look at my report for bug #903526. As there is more information there for a developer to go on, I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of that one.

[Bug 903965] Re: meld crashed with GError in _save_history(): Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-fileentry', as

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Summary changed: - meld crashed with GError in _save_history(): Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-fileentry', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this

[Bug 903965] Re: meld crashed with GError in _save_history(): Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: [...]

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #666136 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666136 ** Also affects: meld via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666136 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 903526] Re: madplay crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_free()

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Well, nuts, perhaps I should have actually *listened* to the program running with my patch rather than doing all the work remotely :-] Revised patch is attached. Not only does this get rid of the static/stuttering caused by the first one, this one can now handle any of the different sample

[Bug 900894] Re: remmina assert failure: *** glibc detected *** remmina: realloc(): invalid old size: 0x000000000153b500 ***

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900894 Title: remmina assert failure: *** glibc detected *** remmina: realloc(): invalid old size:

[Bug 782199] Re: Grub doesn't recognize alternative keyboard layouts

2011-12-02 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I use Dvorak, and this has been an annoyance for me as well. I recently learned about GRUB's newly-added support for non-QWERTY keymaps, and have put together a drop-in solution for Ubuntu users. Place the attached script in /etc/grub.d/, and run update-grub. It will use your system-wide keyboard

[Bug 483928]

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Okay, I tried Ubuntu's packaging of OpenSSH (version 1:5.8p1-7ubuntu1) with your patch, and it powered through everything. Here is a list of all the error messages I received: A.B.C.D: Connection closed by remote host Connection closed by A.B.C.D Connection to A.B.C.D timed out while waiting to

[Bug 483928]

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(In reply to comment #41) The number of ways that key access can be terminated keeps increasing, doesn't it? I hope it won't be necessary to enumerate them all before this bug can be closed! My oops. I have had my focus redirected to other projects and, besides, I'm very lazy (;-}).

[Bug 483928]

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Okay, I tried Ubuntu's packaging of OpenSSH (version 1:5.8p1-7ubuntu1) with your patch, and it powered through everything. Here is a list of all the error messages I received: A.B.C.D: Connection closed by remote host Connection closed by A.B.C.D Connection to A.B.C.D timed out while waiting to

[Bug 483928]

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(In reply to comment #41) The number of ways that key access can be terminated keeps increasing, doesn't it? I hope it won't be necessary to enumerate them all before this bug can be closed! My oops. I have had my focus redirected to other projects and, besides, I'm very lazy (;-}).

[Bug 483928]

2011-11-27 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(In reply to comment #38) I haven't seen this one before. The text you included indicates that ssh-keyscan was processing a Protocol 2 key and it should be using the modified code to do it. Is there any way that you could send me a traceback when the failure occurs? I'll do that, when I'm

[Bug 483928]

2011-11-27 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(In reply to comment #38) I haven't seen this one before. The text you included indicates that ssh-keyscan was processing a Protocol 2 key and it should be using the modified code to do it. Is there any way that you could send me a traceback when the failure occurs? I'll do that, when I'm

[Bug 785425] Re: 0_kdump uses dynamic makedumpfile(8) binary, which fails horribly

2011-11-23 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Sure, the makedumpfile(8) program has other uses, but we're talking about the dependencies of the linux-crashdump metapackage. There's really only one usage context that's relevant for that. I wouldn't suggest dropping the makedumpfile package altogether in favor of makedumpfile-static, but

[Bug 785425] Re: 0_kdump uses dynamic makedumpfile(8) binary, which fails horribly

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On the second patch: Why not drop the makedumpfile package dependency? No need to install two binaries of the same program, especially when one of them isn't even fit for purpose. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 882084] Re: apt-extracttemplates(1) prints inappropriate \r characters in unattended-upgrades

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Happened again this morning. My Web-mail client gave me the same empty message with a single attachment containing the upgrade log; I've attached the file here. The common thread seems to be that this only occurs with large upgrades ---smaller upgrades don't take as much time to extract templates

[Bug 445256] Re: Wrong path to X server in gdm.conf

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Richard G.
lightdm rules, gdm(-2.20) drools ** Changed in: gdm-2.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445256 Title: Wrong path to X server in gdm.conf

[Bug 890339] Re: oneconf-query crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.269 was not provided by any .service files

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Richard G.
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890339 Title: oneconf-query crashed with DBusException in call_blocking():

[Bug 219738] Re: gnome-keyring export support not implemented

2011-11-12 Thread Daniel Richard G.
For what it's worth, if the password on a keyring is set to the empty string---something you can do with seahorse---the keyring will be stored on disk as a plain-text file. The INI-style format leaves a lot to be desired, but at least it's a way to do export and import with gnome- keyring. Other

[Bug 886292] [NEW] Infinite loop (i.e. program hang) in QTreeWidgetItemPrivate::propagateDisabled()

2011-11-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns libqtgui4 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu8 in Ubuntu Oneiric. While using VirtualBox (i.e. virtualbox-qt), I encountered a program hang (on performing a snapshot-restore operation). I traced this down in a debugger to the QTreeWidgetItemPrivate::propagateDisabled() method in

[Bug 886374] [NEW] /run/lock/ not created

2011-11-04 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Public bug reported: This concerns mountall 2.31 in Ubuntu Oneiric. When I run update-grub(8) in recovery mode, I see an error concerning /var/lock/lvm: # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic Found initrd image:

[Bug 785394] Re: Hard-coded crashkernel=... memory reservation in /etc/grub.d/10_linux is insufficient

2011-11-03 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Louis, thank you; that will be very much appreciated. You may also want to look at bug #885071, against linux-crashdump, which consolidates some of these issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 531740] Re: Endless fsck/poweroff cycle if mountall-reboot.conf doesn't work correctly

2011-11-03 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Getting to the point of testing this on the same flaky hardware was a long story (the laptop is very picky about its power supply, and the original brick had to be shipped much later than the main unit), but I finally did so with a fresh install of Oneiric. This bug is licked. That final sync()

[Bug 531740] Re: Endless fsck/poweroff cycle if mountall-reboot.conf doesn't work correctly

2011-11-03 Thread Daniel Richard G.
(Karmic is no longer supported, so no point in leaving this up) ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531740 Title:

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