[Bug 930251] Re: gnome-shell crashes while logging in

2012-02-19 Thread Manuel Bua
I'm using Archlinux/64 and i've the same symptoms as you: [2012-02-19 13:07:40] gnome-shell[1449]: segfault at 8 ip 7fa10dd4e903 sp 7fff3442dbd0 error 4 in libfreetype.so.6.8.0[7fa10dcfd000+98000] [2012-02-19 13:07:41] gnome-shell[1596]: segfault at 38 ip 7f432d3f9bda sp

[Bug 730209] Re: Ubi-partman fails with exit code 141 in Desktop Natty Alpha 3

2011-03-12 Thread Manuel Bua
I was given this error as well and i found out the ubi-partman doesn't like pre-configured partitions or unpartitioned disk space: so fireup GParted, delete every partition until you have one single unpartitioned space entry, create one ext4 primary partition with the size of your disk and apply

[Bug 439448] Re: Visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-12-17 Thread Manuel Bua
I have configured mine at 96dpi and for some reason i don't experience this bug anymore: i don't know if this is related in any way, but it's well worth trying it out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2010-11-16 Thread Manuel Bua
I'm also affected by this: you can also make the menus appear by just moving the mouse around the area where the menu is supposed to appear: it seems that doing that will trigger the redrawing of the menu. -- Drop and sub menus don't always show up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665546 You

[Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2010-11-16 Thread Manuel Bua
I may add that (using compiz 0.8.6) tooltips are also affected by this problem: one need to stand firm with the mouse on a UI element for the default timeout for tooltips to show up, then move one pixel or two and the tooltip will appear. -- Drop and sub menus don't always show up

[Bug 455156] Re: Compiz performance drops over time on netbook

2010-11-04 Thread Manuel Bua
Spoke too soon: after one month of running fine, today compiz is always stuck at 30fps, no matter what. I wonder what's going on with this release since this isn't the only problem that came up with it.. -- Compiz performance drops over time on netbook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455156

[Bug 455156] Re: Compiz performance drops over time on netbook

2010-11-03 Thread Manuel Bua
This is one year old, but by installing 10.10 i run into this very same problem, i never experienced anything similar before: i found out that in my case this was due to having reflections enabled, so try disable them and see if this change anything. Both Cube Reflection and Deformation's

[Bug 658069] Re: Empty files written over gvfs by some editors

2010-10-15 Thread Manuel Bua
@stephen, you need to have the patch file inside the geany directory and run the command from there: you can see it's going to patch the client/gvfsfusedaemon.c file that is not there. -- Empty files written over gvfs by some editors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658069 You received this bug

[Bug 658069] Re: Empty files written over gvfs by some editors

2010-10-14 Thread Manuel Bua
sudo patch -p1 patch_file should do it: remember you can also --dry-run, so that you won't trash anything at all and find out if the command would work or not. -- Empty files written over gvfs by some editors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658069 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 140503] Re: mouse cursor looks different in gtk and qt programs

2010-10-08 Thread Manuel Bua
I had the same problem, then i found out it could be fixed by simply doing: sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme -- mouse cursor looks different in gtk and qt programs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 654809] Re: Geany saves corrupted files on FTP mounted with GVFS

2010-10-07 Thread Manuel Bua
Same problem on Maverick 64: i used Geany for a lot of time, then switched to Maverick 2 days ago and today i thought i was going crazy o_O Note that i also tried Geany from GIT (w/ plugins) and same thing happens: Gedit works fine instead. AFAIK, it affects any and only gvfs mounts, both smb

[Bug 654809] Re: Geany saves corrupted files on FTP mounted with GVFS

2010-10-07 Thread Manuel Bua
To add more information: i read somewhere the user should be made member of the fuse group for gvfs to work properly but my newly installed 10.10 didn't add me as a fuse member, so i added it. Either ways GEdit works fine but not Geany. -- Geany saves corrupted files on FTP mounted with GVFS

[Bug 629910] Re: nvidia 256.53 xorg-server 1.9.0 performance regression with antialiased text

2010-09-16 Thread Manuel Bua
Am i the only one with this problem *AND* these latest drivers installed? I'm still experiencing the gnome-terminal slowness problem with the 260.19.06 beta release as well. Ubuntu 10.10beta, GeForce 8400M GS, X server 1.9.0 on an HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC. -- nvidia 256.53 xorg-server

[Bug 629910] Re: nvidia 256.53 xorg-server 1.9.0 performance regression with antialiased text

2010-09-16 Thread Manuel Bua
Partially solved: i completely removed everything and just reinstalled, for some unknown reason it was still loading the old driver. However, i've completely lost v-sync, be it xvideo textures, compiz or everything else, it just doesn't sync anymore: the new driver completely resolves the font

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-13 Thread Manuel Bua
David: i comprehend the fact we have 200 comments, but i'm not sure being conservative would produce any advantage in its resolution. Also, this isn't the first time i see bug reports being closed due to inactivity or simply because it was quiet enough to think people eventually solved their

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-13 Thread Manuel Bua
Sorry guys, i realized now i completely misread David's post: obviously Mahendra was right, i even told him yesterday by private mail ;) Time for vacation i think.. :D -- visual corruption affecting several panel applets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 You received this bug notification

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-11 Thread Manuel Bua
I'm sorry for you Mahendra, but if you are bothered by these meaningful and useful bug reports you shouldn't read them at all, and maybe unsubscribe from the bug: we all know it happens then stop and then happens again, but reporting anomalies and behaviors is just the minimum we, users, can do to

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-07-10 Thread Manuel Bua
Ok, here i'm again: no problems for some days, today the problem reoccurred, so still no luck. -- nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532436 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-07-09 Thread Manuel Bua
Hi Cesare, i also updated my system and since then, no problems so far: but i had your very same problem before the update, but used CTRL+ALT+SysReq+B since CTRL+ALT+CANC wasn't working at all. Lately, it seems things are a little better, but i know this problem presents itself in various

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-09 Thread Manuel Bua
It seems the latest updates did something regarding this problem since i've still to notice the usual mess in my applets: hopefully this problem is gone ;) -- visual corruption affecting several panel applets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-07-08 Thread Manuel Bua
I saw that yesterday evening, i updated and forgot to reboot and test ;) This afternoon i'm going to report if that has worked or not. -- nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532436 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-05 Thread Manuel Bua
Just to give you some more info, my current setup is an ubuntu64-10...@intel i7 and i must admit this release is unbelievably faster than any other previous version of Ubuntu: after trying out the livecd i just got my /home/ folder backed up from the previous installation (ubuntu64-9.04) and

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-07-03 Thread Manuel Bua
I'm affected by this bug too, not only the notification area is a mess, but also all my 4 panels and applets go crazy until i issue a sudo killall gnome-panel. In the attached screenshot you can see what my sensors applet looks like before killing the processes: sometimes it get heavily messed

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-30 Thread Manuel Bua
Yesterday updates didn't help: now with gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2 (curious naming btw) i'm experiencing the same problem at every boot, no matter if i disconnect/connect usb drives, reboot or shutdown; furthermore, i'm now unable to access to a console prompt since everything hang after

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-30 Thread Manuel Bua
Thank you for the head up Cesare, now i'm sure i'm also affected by that very same problem too: the thing is curious because everytime i was manually restarting the gdm, the panels never get messy and everything would load as normal. It looks like as the boot scripts at startup are loaded in

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel Bua
So was your problem related to gdm in some ways? Or was it laying in your PC (hardware)? -- nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532436 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-29 Thread Manuel Bua
Thank you for reporting that Cesare! This evening i'm going to try the updates: oddly the update manager never prompted me for updates although is setup to do so ;-\ Anyway, just yesterday the problem started to arise after a week of working as expected, so i hope this update will finally bring

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-22 Thread Manuel Bua
@Cesare, this is quite interesting. I've got your very same error message if i *omit* the GdmXserverTimeout=60 setting instead, now that i'm trying i can't even boot anymore if omitting it, then i'll leave it as is for now: i could bet i'll need to revert that gdm.conf line in two weeks. --

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-21 Thread Manuel Bua
So far it seems i managed to have the gdm start correctly by adding a GdmXserverTimeout of 60 seconds in the [daemon] section. Also, it seems Ubuntu changed the way (custom) gdm settings are being looked up since while i was keeping trying play with the timeout in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-20 Thread Manuel Bua
I just wanted to update from Jaunty to the latest and greatest LTS but i heavily regret having done that.. fortunately i clonezill'ed the system before the clean install. But how such a problem slipped into an LTS? I experience the same problem with any version of the nvidia drivers: With a

[Bug 532436] Re: nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot

2010-06-20 Thread Manuel Bua
I forgot to mention that sudo service gdm restart DOES start gdm as it should. -- nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532436 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 453579] Re: corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4

2009-10-28 Thread Manuel Bua
Since it seems the fix has been planned for karmic-updates, should we expect ext3 to be used as the default fs when installing Karmic? I'm quite worried about the impact this bug could have on new users migrating to Ubuntu. -- corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4

[Bug 373945] Re: Segmentation Fault?

2009-05-09 Thread Manuel Bua
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353881 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 353881 firefox-3.5 crashed with SIGSEGV in XRE_ParseAppData() -- Segmentation Fault? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373945 You received this bug

[Bug 353881] Re: firefox-3.5 crashed with SIGSEGV in XRE_ParseAppData()

2009-05-05 Thread Manuel Bua
Just to add some more information, i found out that the version of [B]xulrunner[/B] being installed during alpha days was [B]1.8.1[/B] and that obviously lead to segaulting apps if linked against more recent version of it, such as 1.9. So, uninstalling 1.8.1 and installing 1.9 should let

[Bug 353781] Re: firefox-3.5 crashed with SIGSEGV in free()

2009-05-05 Thread Manuel Bua
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 353881 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353881 @cosmix Could you try if the solution i proposed in the duplicate #353881 does work for you (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/353881)? I think the bug was in some package

[Bug 353881] Re: firefox-3.5 crashed with SIGSEGV in XRE_ParseAppData()

2009-05-05 Thread Manuel Bua
Cool thing you had the 1.8.1 package as well: have you installed Jaunty since the alpha days too? I did it, i built a brand new machine with the alpha distribution and then updated 'til final, this way i always got the 1.8.1 version that caused me lot of segfaults with other apps as well, i

[Bug 353881] Re: firefox-3.5 crashed with SIGSEGV in XRE_ParseAppData()

2009-04-23 Thread Manuel Bua
I've exactly the same problem, here is the ending output of strace firefox-3.5: open(/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1b4pre/libxpcom.so, O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\36\0\0004\0\0\0\254..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13716, ...}) = 0

[Bug 364524] Re: Lockup when using strace

2009-04-21 Thread Manuel Bua
I confirm the problem: i have a desktop AMD Athlon X2/64 running Jaunty/32 and an HP notebook running Jaunty/32 as well, both incrementally upgraded from the first public alpha to the current stage, and i can programmatically lock them up via strace gedit. The SysReq+REISUB it's the only

[Bug 364524] Re: Lockup when using strace

2009-04-21 Thread Manuel Bua
Just to add my own video specs, both my desktop as for the laptop have nVidia cards, 9400GT and 8400M-GS respectively. -- Lockup when using strace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 231419] Re: update-manager starts gnome-power-manager when it's not wanted

2009-04-18 Thread Manuel Bua
I can confirm the behavior described by Alastair Sherringham: whenever i press the check button it starts another instance of gnome-power- manager; i never experienced this though, until i started to update- manager -d from Intrepid to Jaunty. -- update-manager starts gnome-power-manager when

[Bug 35347] Re: bookmarks need subfolders

2009-04-14 Thread Manuel Bua
+1 for this proposal, at work i need to ssh/ftp on some servers and the ability to organize and categorize bookmarks would be productive. -- bookmarks need subfolders https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a

[Bug 259214] Re: wired connection settings are lost after reboot

2008-11-27 Thread Manuel Bua
I can't believe this buggy nm thing is still buggy and included with Ubuntu. Is this a joke or what? I had to fiddle for 30 minutes in order to have it asking me for credentials and finally saving the configuration: how can one be sure the configuration now will last? What's the need for nm to