[Bug 1920179] Re: System freezes when using Wacom tablet after upgrading to linux-image-5.8.0-45-generic

2021-03-26 Thread sm8ps
The problem persists with linux-image-5.8.0-48. In order to keep the working version 5.8.0-44 installed, I issued 'sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-5.8.0-44-generic' for the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1920179] Re: System freezes when using Wacom tablet after upgrading to linux-image-5.8.0-45-generic

2021-03-21 Thread sm8ps
Luis Llana Díaz, can you confirm that the upgrade to kernel version 5.8.0-45 is the cause and that reverting back to 5.8.0-44 is a work- around? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1920179

[Bug 1920179] [NEW] System freezes when using Wacom tablet after upgrading to linux-image-5.8.0-45-generic

2021-03-19 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: I have an Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 260 with a built-in Wacom digitizer. After the latest Kernel update my system freezes as soon as I put the pen on the screen. Nothing else but a forced power-off is possible. Reverting back to 5.8.0-44 is a work-around, so this seems to be a

[Bug 1914884] Re: udev tries to assign identical name to multiple network cards

2021-02-25 Thread sm8ps
In case anybody else should stumble over this issue, my solution was to create a .link file /etc/systemd/network/10-fix-names.link with content [Match] OriginalName=* [Link] NamePolicy=path AlternativeNamesPolicy=path as described in

[Bug 1914884] [NEW] udev tries to assign identical name to multiple network cards

2021-02-06 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: Upon upgrading from U18.04 to U20.04.2, the network interface names became unpredictable. They could be *any* of eth0, eth1, eth2 and ens2. Further inspection shows error messages like "systemd-udevd: eth1: Failed to rename network interface 3 from 'eth1' to 'ens2': File

[Bug 1895811] [NEW] Keyboard Autoswitch ceases to work after each and every reboot/logout

2020-09-16 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: (Cf. my report https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/keyboard-autoswitch- ceases-to-work-after-each-and-every-reboot/4160) I have Keyboard Autoswitch added to a panel and it does work the way it is intended as long as I don’t shut the computer down. After any reboot the the

[Bug 1810038] [NEW] Installer for 18.10 crashes at installing Grub2

2018-12-29 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: Have been trying to install 18.10-budgie on an Acer Spin 111-C32 (EFI-system). Having Grub2 installed in the PBR of the boot-partition makes the installer crash. Translated error message: "grub-efi-adm64-signed could not be installed into /target. Installed system will not

[Bug 1763760] Re: Directory /var/run/nut is not created

2018-04-14 Thread sm8ps
After some more error messages I realized that /var/run is linked to /run which in turn is a tmpfs. So it all makes perfect sense and this but is none. I apologize for the noise! ** Changed in: nut (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1763760] Re: Directory /var/run/nut is not created

2018-04-13 Thread sm8ps
It is even getting confusing! I did apt remove nut && apt autoremove and killed all processes related to nut and removed /var/run/nut. After apt install nut again, the directory was present. I do not know how to explain this difference in behavior. -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1763760] Re: Directory /var/run/nut is not created

2018-04-13 Thread sm8ps
Now this is strange! I had performed the very same installation simultaneously (!) on three servers. Two of them are absolutely identical and do have the directory /var/run/nut while the third one -- which is pretty much identical to the others -- does not. So this bug report seems moot, at least

[Bug 1763760] [NEW] Directory /var/run/nut is not created

2018-04-13 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, Nut 2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2 I am following the Network UPS Tools User Manual, section 6. Configuration notes (http://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/index.html). According to 6.2. Basic configuration, I set up a device stanza in /etc/nut/ups.conf:

[Bug 722019] Re: Failed to install the bootloader

2014-06-06 Thread sm8ps
I found this thread as the first and only reference to a work-around, so I dare resurrecting it. I had successfully used usb-creator-gtk many times until now, but today it refused to install the bootloader. Today I let it sit and do its thing while checking back after a while, finding I had to

[Bug 1185756] Re: drbd8-utils not compatible with linux-lts-raring kernel in 12.04

2014-05-24 Thread sm8ps
I can confirm that solution in #97 (i.e. #71) worked for me as well (also Pacemaker/Heartbeat). # uname -a Linux server 3.5.0-49-generic #74~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 21:32:31 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # drbdadm --version : identical # echo drbd8-utils hold | dpkg

[Bug 1185756] Re: drbd8-utils not compatible with linux-lts-raring kernel in 12.04

2014-05-24 Thread sm8ps
I can confirm that solution in #97 (i.e. #71) worked for me as well (also Pacemaker/Heartbeat). # uname -a Linux server 3.5.0-49-generic #74~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 21:32:31 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # drbdadm --version : identical # echo drbd8-utils hold | dpkg

[Bug 1041058] Re: Blank screen on Aspire one when less than 22% (9 cells) battery

2012-09-19 Thread sm8ps
In the hope that the following remarks be helpful: I use an Acer Aspire One 150 with Ubuntu 12.04. I sometimes use a 9-cell battery (11Ah) which used to give me about 10 hours of independence under Ubuntu 10.04. The 3-cell gives me about two hours now on Ubuntu 12.04. The other day, I hibernated

[Bug 774938] Re: Erratic cursor movement when using Coordinate Transformation Matrix

2012-08-06 Thread sm8ps
I would like to second the above statements about the bug still being present in (L)Ubuntu 12.04 with Xorg-Server 2:1.11.4. I am using a eGalax Inc. USB TouchController like Jon Szymaniak. So I had a script calling xinput to set-props 'Evdev Axis Inversion' as well as 'Coordinate Transformation

[Bug 568492] Re: Fonts corrupted on Openoffice menus and Lotus Notes 8.5 with nvidia, compiz, twinview and subpixel smoothing.

2011-09-01 Thread sm8ps
Hello all! Cannot say if my solution is in any ways the right one for anybody else. Yet it solved my problems on Ubuntu Lucid with OOo 3.2 and Compiz using NVidia 195.36.24 drivers. Although I could successfully work around the problem by disabling sub-pixel hinting in the 'appearance' menu.

[Bug 570103] Re: rsyslog still includes /etc/default/rsyslog, which isn't used

2011-06-09 Thread sm8ps
Somehow this does not work for me on Lucid LTS. I do have rsyslog (4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1) installed. (In the Synaptics sources configuration editor I do have lucid proposed checked.) The upstart script '/etc/init/rsyslog.conf' runs 'exec rsyslogd -c4' as last line nevertheless without checking

[Bug 570103] Re: rsyslog still includes /etc/default/rsyslog, which isn't used

2011-06-09 Thread sm8ps
Thanks for your answers, Simon and Clint! Obviously, '/etc/init/rsyslog.conf' has not been updated as it is missing the 'script'-section. I had a fresh install of Lucid and turned on backports after installation which was several weeks ago. From the 'dpkg'-log I see that 'syslogd' was upgraded

[Bug 570103] Re: rsyslog still includes /etc/default/rsyslog, which isn't used

2011-06-09 Thread sm8ps
Oh no, I just had my that Oh no!-moment of today! Please ignore all my above postings because I had got mixed up between my local machine and the remote server. So I considered the wrong machine. I am terribly sorry for that! (Damn virtual server zoo!) Thanks for your consideration

[Bug 477430] Re: grub 2 error: out of disk. failed to boot default entries. press any key to continue...

2010-05-19 Thread sm8ps
I had a similar problem as originally stated but worse, namely the machine never did boot at all. (I tried to install Ubuntu 10.4 on my Acer Aspire One 110L. So the problem apparently is not fixed in general.) It always dropped me to the Grub Rescue. The interesting fact is that it has a

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-17 Thread sm8ps
Don't know if this helps but I just happened to notice a surprisingly similar mis-behavior on a totally different machine (Acer C310 that uses Wacom drivers and works perfectly well). While having a second monitor activated by the nVidia proprietary driver tool (System Settings NVIDIA X Server

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-09 Thread sm8ps
I can second Jon's finding. (What a relief to find out that it is not just me who cannot make it work. Thanks, Jon!) My HP/Compaq TC1000 also shows that same strange behavior. Changing the Minimum/MaximumX values in xorg.conf does not do anything (!) . However, changing those values for the

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-09 Thread sm8ps
I am using 1024x768 resolution. The original settings in xorg.conf had been 8600x6458 (Max-values) with some small (~100) offsets (Min-values) each. This gave me perfect y-motion (pointer and pen from 0 to 100% in sync) but the x-motion made the point move to the right-hand edge already if the

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-05 Thread sm8ps
Robert, thank you very much, it does work indeed! Now I my ancient Compaq TC1000 has been turned into a fully functional Linux tablet PC! Thank you so much! Now I need to set the xorg.conf right. Cheers! -- Unmet dependencies in Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565540 You received this

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-04 Thread sm8ps
For everybody's reference, here is the bug report that jkltechninc refers to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-fpit/+bug/327319 I have already tried to apply the deb-package for jaunty. Not much to anybody's surprise that did not work. Yet it was Jon Arnold (the OP)

[Bug 565540] Re: Unmet dependencies in Lucid

2010-05-02 Thread sm8ps
I met the same problem on a HP/Compaq TC1000. So I tried to install the fpit driver regardless of its dependencies. (Before installation through synaptics, it tries to remove ubuntu-desktop, xorg, xserver-core and many more which would not make much sense to me.) I manually copied the

[Bug 493377] Re: Biometric USB stick unmounts by itself

2009-12-07 Thread sm8ps
Hang on! I have got reason to suspect that there is a hardware issue with the biometric usb stick. It seems to have started diing just the same day I upgraded to 2.6.31-16. The behavior was reproducable also under Windows XP. So my quick testing under 2.6.31-15 (where the device worked) must

[Bug 493377] [NEW] Biometric USB stick unmounts by itself

2009-12-06 Thread sm8ps
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-generic After up-grading to 2.6.31-16 from .15 my SanDisk Cruzer Profile 1GB USB stick with integrated biometric sensor behaves in a peculiar fashion. The public partition is auto-mounted and appears on the Gnome desktop. As soon as I try

[Bug 493377] Re: Biometric USB stick unmounts by itself

2009-12-06 Thread sm8ps
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[Bug 219473] Re: no policykit access on ltsp thin client

2009-05-21 Thread sm8ps
Contrariwise to what Alessandro Rinaldi wrote on 2008-10-20, the work-around proposed by gord-s on 2008-09-18 does work for me via LTSP5 on ubuntu 8.04. Indeed, logged in via LTSP, I perform the ssh -X again into the LTSP server and grant rights to myself. After that, it all works well as

[Bug 219473] Re: no policykit access on ltsp thin client

2009-05-21 Thread sm8ps
This is a follow-up to my above post. Only after reading Karl Rosenbaum's post from 2008-12-06, I recalled that indeed I had replaced the Must Be In Active Session option by None as well. With that option, it works well as described in my previous post. St. Mueller -- no policykit access on