[Bug 1016895] Re: smbd crashed with SIGABRT in dump_core()/setgroups being passed a -1 group is causing crashes.

2013-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
With the 12.04.2 CD shipping linux-generic-lts-quantal, Samba is now completely unusable due to this bug. Is someone working on SRU'ing it, or we're waiting for someone to do the bureaucratic stuff like updating the bug description as per

[Bug 1016895] Re: smbd crashed with SIGABRT in dump_core()/setgroups being passed a -1 group is causing crashes.

2013-02-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Description changed: - Sorry for not being of any help here. I don't really know what happened. - There was suddenly a report about a system problem. and apport started. - just updated a few hours ago. + [Impact] + 12.04.2 users cannot share dirs with Samba due to smbd crashing with

[Bug 916489] [NEW] grub-ipxe says B: command not found

2012-01-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: First of all thanks a lot for the ipxe package, it's most helpful. :) I just tried grub-ipxe 1.0.0+git-2.149b50-1ubuntu4 in kubuntu precise, and it installed fine. But after selecting it in grub, and after the usual iPXE headers, I got: B: command not found At that point

[Bug 916494] [NEW] Please put ipxe.krn to the desktop CD

2012-01-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Please put ipxe.lkrn as a boot option in the isolinux menu of the live CDs, so that they can be used to netboot computers, either for network- based installation, or as LTSP clients, etc. The embedded iPXE script would do this: 1) autoboot (that's an iPXE command) 2) on

[Bug 916489] Re: grub-ipxe says B: command not found

2012-01-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I installed it into a vbox client so I was able to get a screenshot of the B: command not found problem. I talked with the devs in #ipxe about it, they say the problem was related to the grub command line handling, and was fixed in

[Bug 916494] Re: Please put ipxe.krn to the desktop CD

2012-01-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'd love to see your iPXE boot script. The easiest version is this: #!ipxe # We do assume that a DHCP server exists on the local network, e.g. a home router autoboot # The rest only happens if no local *boot* server exists kernel

[Bug 916489] Re: grub-ipxe says B: command not found

2012-02-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Marking Fix Released - please re-open if this is not the case. Confirming that it works fine now, thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ipxe in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916489 Title: grub-ipxe

[Bug 962393] Re: Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

2012-03-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm not sure if the erroneously hidden root password debconf question comes from phpmyadmin or from dbconfig-common, so I put dbconfig-common to the affects list as well. ** Also affects: dbconfig-common (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 962393] Re: Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

2012-03-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I ran software-center from the console, and I noticed this error: debconf: DbDriver passwords warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: access denied Then I tried from scratch, by running ***sudo*** software-center And everything worked fine, the password questions were

[Bug 962393] Re: Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

2012-03-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I tried: gdebi-gtk /var/cache/apt/archives/phpmyadmin_4%3a3.4.10.1-1_all.deb without using sudo, and everything worked fine again, the debconf password questions were displayed. So the bug is probably in software-center. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 962393] Re: Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

2012-03-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Maybe the problem is that software-center spawns debconf-communicate with the user id instead of as root: alkisg7368 1.7 0.5 65404 23364 pts/1Sl+ 07:48 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate I tried making a debconf-communicate wrapper, to force running it as root

[Bug 959037] Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

2012-04-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: dnsmasq (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dnsmasq in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959037 Title: Don't start local resolver if a DNS

[Bug 959037] Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

2012-04-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since this won't be fixed for Precise from the network-manager side, the dnsmasq package now is broken by default in desktop installations. So I've added the dnsmasq package in the Affects: list, to make it easier for people to locate the cause of the problem so that fewer duplicate bug reports

[Bug 959037] Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

2012-04-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The configuration itself shipped by default should be patched If you mean something like: except-interface=lo bind-interfaces ...I just tested them and they do allow both dnsmasq instances to run. But of course those settings won't be acceptable to most dnsmasq users, as listening on lo is

[Bug 959037] Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

2012-06-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Summary changed: - Standalone dnsmasq is not compatible out of the box with NM+dnsmasq + Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dnsmasq in Ubuntu.

[Bug 959037] Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

2012-06-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@jdthood: the Standalone dnsmasq is not compatible out of the box with NM+dnsmasq title hints that the problem is caused by the dnsmasq package, i.e. that it should be crippled and not listen on lo by default in order to coexist with the local resolver implementation. I don't think this is the

[Bug 959037] Re: Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running

2012-06-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Thomas: cool, I hope this one's better. ** Summary changed: - Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed + Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dnsmasq in

[Bug 959037] Re: Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running

2012-06-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thomas, that was a very good summary at comment #33! Why do you need the dnsmasq package at all? You want NM and dnsmasq. Why not just use the NM-enslaved dnsmasq? The NM-enslaved dnsmasq uses hardcoded options (in C) that provide extremely limited functionality. * It doesn't listen on ethX

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

2012-06-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
* Change NM such that it causes its slave dnsmasq to listen on ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1 Personally, when I install dnsmasq, I *don't want* to use the NM-spawned dnsmasq, because it disables caching etc etc. So it wouldn't matter if it listened on another address, on a socket or wherever else; I

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

2012-06-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It's better to eliminate the behavioral conflict, if we can, than to formalize that conflict as a packaging dependency. I was about to say this: But then the main problem which caused me to report this bug would remain: When I install the dnsmasq package, it wouldn't work. I'd configure my

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

2012-06-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Note that while bind-interfaces can be specified multiple times, defining except-interfaces more than once is a syntax error in my dnsmasq 2.59-4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dnsmasq in Ubuntu.

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

2012-06-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I tested bind-interfaces and except-interface=lo in the past (comment #26), it worked as advertised. I haven't yet tested them in the chained dnsmasq mode, but I guess it would work if I'm using a static IP (which isn't always the case for LTSP servers, some teachers use their laptops for LTSP

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

2012-06-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
In reply to #58, sorry, defining multiple except-interface= directives works fine in my 2.59-4 after all, I think I might have used except- interfaces, plural. Solution #2 sounds good to me too. :) If I understand well, a dnsmasq-base SRU is in order for 12.04 anyway to fix the tftp issue, so

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I was reading about bind-interfaces at http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/FAQ and I'm wondering, are there any use cases that will have problems with bind-interfaces and the standalone dnsmasq instance? * Suppose a teacher boots her laptop (==LTSP server) without a network cable plugged

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thanks, so until the #3 idea is implemented (if ever), I'll be disabling the NM-spawned dnsmasq. But of course the #2 idea is good enough for many cases, thank you all for your work on this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
What if NM always dropped whatever configuration file it needs in /etc/dnsmasq.d/nm.conf, and when NM was started, it would check if /etc/init.d/dnsmasq exists, * if yes, dnsmasq is installed, so it read the configuration file and there's no need to do anything, * if not, dnsmasq-base is

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This assumption is, er, questionable. True, but if you don't mind, let's examine that question a bit. This is the NM-spanwed command line: /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
(Another minor problem with your proposal as you phrased it is the following. The existence of /etc/init.d/dnsmasq does not entail that the dnsmasq is installed. The package could have been removed and not purged.) Correct, but then I wonder what prevents dnsmasq from running even if it's

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
NM kills and starts a new dnsmasq process every time this file changes. Will that be a problem for your LTSP setup where dnsmasq is also the DHCP server? The most time consuming operation that dnsmasq does in our setups is sending the kernel/initrd via TFTP. That takes a few seconds. If the

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The real dnsmasq command line is: /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old,.dpkg-new I think that NM would just need to update /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf instead of creating+updating

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-06-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Would it be remotely possible in the future for the problem to be addressed inside libc itself? Other people not using NM or dnsmasq would still welcome the split VPN resolving, right? Should we file a wishlist bug request for it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1014005] [NEW] Please generate and include ipxe.dsk to the ipxe binary package

2012-06-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: For some older computers with no hard disks, it might be desired to boot them from the network via a floppy disk, so shipping /usr/lib/ipxe/ipxe.dsk would be useful. Please generate and include ipxe.dsk to the ipxe binary package. ** Affects: ipxe (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 1014005] Re: Please generate and include ipxe.dsk to the ipxe binary package

2012-08-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
...and may I also suggest ipxe.usb, for those that need a quick solution with dd and a usb stick. :) http://ipxe.org/download#using_a_boot_cd-rom_or_usb_key -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ipxe in Ubuntu.

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2012-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
To my own surprise I haven't seen any complaints related to the switch from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.1.1, even though I have been following AskUbuntu and ubuntuforums. It's possible that a large portion of Ubuntu users that are using dnsmasq as a DNS server, only use LTS releases, so complains might

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2013-11-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm still having problems with this on 14.04. After the default installation, I installed dnsmasq and DNS stopped working until system restart. Now it's only working for a few seconds after each network-manager restart! If I comment out #dns=dnsmasq in NetworkManager.conf, then everything is

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2013-12-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The fix for this issue caused another regression, dnsmasq now doesn't function correctly as a tftp server either. I just tried Trusty (dnsmasq 2.68-1), and network manager ships /etc/dnsmasq.d/network-manager with: bind-interfaces So now dnsmasq only binds 127.0.0.1 for its tftp service: udp

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2013-12-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Or better yet, ltsp-server-standalone could Conflict: network-manager- local-resolver so that all LTSP sysadmins that use dnsmasq don't bother searching for a solution and manually editing configuration files... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2013-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thomas, yup, TFTP appears to be working fine with bind-dynamic. I'll test if re-enabling dns=dnsmasq in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf along with bind-dynamic allows dnsmasq co-exist with nm-dnsmasq, and report back. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2014-01-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Mathieu, I reopened this bug because it was never resolved... not just for the TFTP issue. Please see my #143 comment. If you want more feedback tell me what to send, but DNS never worked properly for me when dnsmasq and nm-dnsmasq are both running. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 573975] Re: pxe image fails to boot: Forbidden directory

2010-07-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
As far as I know, this bug consists of three separate bugs, one in tftpd-hpa (==when installing from the alternate CD tftpd-hpa uses /srv while when installing from the desktop CD it uses /var/lib/tftpboot), one in compiz, and a sound problem. So I'm marking it invalid for LTSP and I'm putting

[Bug 573975] Re: pxe image fails to boot: Forbidden directory

2010-07-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I did not see the issue myself, but the reporter and another person (comments #1 and #2) say that for them, /etc/default/tftpd-hpa contained /srv/tftp instead of the expected /var/lib/tftpboot, and that caused the message forbidden directory to be displayed. I don't know under which circumstances

[Bug 522509] [NEW] tftpd-hpa doesn't start on boot

2010-02-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tftp-hpa tftpd-hpa version: 5.0-11ubuntu1 tftpd-hpa doesn't start on boot for me: syslog.1:Feb 16 08:26:43 alkis in.tftpd[1399]: cannot resolve local IPv4 bind address: 0.0.0.0, Name or service not known But if I put a sleep 30 on top of

[Bug 522509] Re: tftpd-hpa doesn't start on boot

2010-03-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: ltsp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- tftpd-hpa doesn't start on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522509 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to tftp-hpa in ubuntu. --

[Bug 938511] Re: `nbd-client -d` doesn't close -persist'ent connections

2014-03-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
No, it's not an issue anymore in 14.04, so Wouter must have fixed it. Marking as fix released. ** Changed in: nbd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to nbd in Ubuntu.

[Bug 696435] Re: wait-for-root fails to detect nbd root

2014-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yes, it's still an issue in Trusty. Also please use Incomplete, not Invalid when you need feedback from a bug reporter. root@ltsp241:~# blkid /dev/nbd0: TYPE=squashfs /dev/nbd1: UUID=d7bfcbc8-9718-46f9-b9e3-daf9e46f596a TYPE=swap /dev/sr0: LABEL=Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS i386 TYPE=iso9660

[Bug 696435] Re: wait-for-root fails to detect nbd root

2014-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hmmm, maybe this is an easier way to reproduce something similar without using NBD at all: wait-for-root /dev/sr0 1 succeeds in a booted system, but fails from the initramfs if one adds break=bottom in the kernel command line. It succeeds in both cases for e.g. /dev/sda1. -- You received

[Bug 696435] Re: wait-for-root fails to detect nbd root

2014-05-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think the problem is the missing ID_FS_TYPE in udev for nbd devices, and that it's also reported more properly there: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62565 Maybe wait-for-root could find some better workaround when ID_FS_TYPE is unset though, e.g. checking the output of `blkid`...

[Bug 207135] Re: pulseaudio uses too much CPU

2008-11-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Playing a video on a 600 MHz thin client: pulseaudio - 63% CPU Pulseaudio is useful, it makes streaming sound through network possible, and my LTSP clients are slow, but 63% CPU? Xorg needed much less than that to display the video... Hardy 8.10 -- pulseaudio uses too much CPU

[Bug 281951] [NEW] Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-10-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
(group_lock)}; xkb_symbols { include pc+us+gr(extended):2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+level3(ralt_switch) }; xkb_geometry { include pc(pc105) }; }; Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos ** Affects: hotkey-setup (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 282095] Re: No spell suggestions in Greek language

2008-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 10713 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10713 I later saw that this bug is a duplicate of bug #10713 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-spell/+bug/10713 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 10713 Broken context-sensitive spell

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
gtkhtml apps are affected? Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos -- Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 282095] [NEW] No spell suggestions in Greek language

2008-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
application to see if it affects other gtkhtml-based apps?). Right now the version of evolution I have is 2.24.0-0ubuntu2. Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- No spell suggestions in Greek language https

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Spelling suggestion in Greek works for me under special circumstances, i.e. in fake words like αβγαnd, with English letters stacked right before or after the Greek letters. And *only* when I click on these English letters (nd) do I get a spelling menu. I don't get a spelling menu when I click on

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It seems that *all* languages that contain non-ascii symbols are affected by this. E.g. write Hööörz and click on the middle ö. No spell suggestions. But if you click on H or rz, you get spell suggestions. -- Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Evgeny, I *did* try with Russian, with the words you posted above: проверка русской арфографии The first two words weren't underlined, the third one was. But *it matters where you click* on the third word. If you click between: ар = no (spell suggestion) рф = yes фо = yes ог = no гр = no ра = no

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I got something more specific: Cyrillic а = U+0430 = no suggestion Cyrillic р = U+0440 = no suggestion Cyrillic ф = U+0444 = suggestion Look at the least significant bytes. ASCII 30 = character 0 = not a letter ASCII 40 = character @ = not a letter ASCII 44 = character D = it's a letter The

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
the mistypes I have used for test while I had Greek dictionary installed are not shown in F7-run Evgeny, perhaps you 've added them in the user dictionary? Have a look at ~/.config/enchant -- Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

[Bug 10713] Re: Broken context-sensitive spell check in Evolution (Greek, Hebrew)

2008-10-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Evgeny, you're good, you found out that there are two bugs, not one: one concerning forward scanning of the text, and one concerning backward scanning (like when you right click in the middle of a word and the speller needs to find out the beginning and the end of the word). You may get a better

[Bug 82354] Re: Denemo no name in menu

2008-07-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is not a translation-missing problem, it is a bug in /usr/share/applications/denemo.desktop. It is full of empty lines like Name[cs]= Name[cy]= Name[da]= Name[de]= Name[el]= Name[en]=GNU Denemo Name[es]= The empty lines should be removed so that the English caption shows when no translation

[Bug 39890] Re: characters change when selecting text

2008-08-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
it in Evince and select all the text, the line that contains BCDΓ should display ABCdisplay artifact when selected! Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos ** Attachment added: evincebug.pdf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16578432/evincebug.pdf -- characters change when selecting text https

[Bug 39890] Re: characters change when selecting text

2008-08-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I don't know about the plugin, it's a hand-made minimal example to show the developers that this line causes the problem: /Differences [65 /B /C /D /Gamma] When the text is not selected, the differences array is used, and evince displays BCDΓ When the text is selected, the differences array is

[Bug 190907] Re: [kde] Applications cannot read Greek folder names

2009-02-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think it's the same problem with this one: If one runs kdialog --yesno δοκιμή Greek characters *are not* displayed correctly in the dialog. Maybe KCmdLineArgs doesn't support UTF-8? http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs- apidocs/kdecore/html/classKCmdLineArgs.html -- [kde] Applications

[Bug 327707] Re: Fix Fn+Arrow Brightness Up key on Acer laptops

2009-02-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
In the first bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal- info/+bug/281951) I've uploaded the .fdi file which works fine with my Acer 5920G laptop, after spending hours on it. I'm attaching here the latest version, you may use it if you like. It fixes the bluetooth key. Also, it

[Bug 324637] [NEW] ltsp-update-kernels overwrites pxelinux.cfg/default

2009-02-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: In ltsp-update-kernels, the line cp -a $CHROOT/boot/. $TFTPBOOT/$CHROOT_NAME/ always replaces /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/arch/pxelinux.cfg/default with /opt/ltsp/arch/boot/pxelinux.cfg/default, even if a user customized the former. I don't think it should. A quick hack could

[Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've installed Jaunty and I want to report the brightness behaviour there; I hope I didn't need to open a new bug report. * I again blacklisted the video module because of the same problem (each key changing the brightness twice). * With the default

[Bug 338328] [NEW] Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
-- Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos ** Affects: hal-info (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338328 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 327707] Re: Fix Fn+Arrow Brightness Up key on Acer laptops

2009-03-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Martin thanks for your interest in properly solving this, I've filed bug #338328 and send the information you requested there. Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos -- Fix Fn+Arrow Brightness Up key on Acer laptops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327707 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 305531] Re: Context menu and drop down list are slow to appear

2009-02-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
An easier way to reproduce the bug is with ssh -Y localhost (or -X) firefox There's a big delay there as well, no need for network or different computers to reproduce it... And about:config is a xul app, the delay also happens there. -- Context menu and drop down list are slow to appear

[Bug 360355] Re: Client volume control changes sound volume in the server

2009-04-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, Reiner S wrote: I think you have only to change the (audio) device in gnome-volume-control. That'd be difficult for young students to do, and a little annoying because they'd have to do it every time they changed seats... Stéphane Graber wrote: Looks like the order in which the gnome

[Bug 350145] [NEW] [Compaq Presario] suspend/resume failure

2009-03-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Compaq Evo N1020v Suspend/resumed never worked on Hardy, Intrepid and now Jaunty beta. I think it worked on Gutsy, even with some casual hangs. Information gathering, as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume: Did the machine break while going to

[Bug 350145] Re: [Compaq Presario] suspend/resume failure

2009-03-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/2310/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/2311/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: HalComputerInfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/2312/HalComputerInfo.txt **

[Bug 350145] Re: [Compaq Presario] suspend/resume failure

2009-03-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
If I remember correctly, on Gutsy I could resume the laptop with any keypress, now I specifically have to press the power key to wake it up (and to get to a blank screen and a completely hanged laptop). It turns out I remembered wrong; I tried with a live Kubuntu 6.10 DVD and it hanged in the

[Bug 281951] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-11-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
FokkerCharlie, yeah, I did as Percy suggested and all keys works fine under X. I'm attaching my /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi There should be some more match key in there to check specifically for Aspire 5920G, but I didn't have time to look into it. Remaining

[Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Martin, please use the attached .fdi. It only differs from your last one in 2 lines. ** Attachment added: 30-keymap-acer.fdi http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23521554/30-keymap-acer.fdi -- Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338328 You received this bug

[Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Sorry for forgetting about lshal before, here it is: ** Attachment added: hal.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23521591/hal.txt -- Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338328 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I didn't see any difference with sudo mv /etc/acpi/events /etc/acpi/events.disabled A workaround for the brightness problem is to blacklist the video module. I don't know if this is a good thing to do or not; but I've been using my laptop like this for a lot of months now without a problem.

[Bug 338328] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G - some Fn keys not working

2009-03-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
With the fdi files that got you the original hal.txt in comment 3, was brightness working correctly there? No. If you replace your /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-laptop-panel-hardware.fdi with this version, does it work correctly? No. In both cases I get 5 brightness

[Bug 164508] Re: Non-Latin Letters in Filenames Appear As Question Marks

2009-01-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Confirming both the bug and the workaround for Intrepid 8.10. -- Non-Latin Letters in Filenames Appear As Question Marks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 164508] Re: Non-Latin Letters in Filenames Appear As Question Marks

2009-01-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
OK, it was fixed in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltspfs /ltspfs-trunk/revision/78 -- Non-Latin Letters in Filenames Appear As Question Marks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 317286] [NEW] Obsolete functions in /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup override newer ones

2009-01-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ltsp-client-core Ubuntu 8.10, ltsp-client-core 5.1.29-0ubuntu3. The script /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup contains functions like configure_localdev() configure_swap() configure_printer() etc which also exist in /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-commons. The

[Bug 317286] Re: Obsolete functions in /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup override newer ones

2009-01-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yeah I think he already published some modifications in his PPA. Thanks stgraber, ogra! :) -- Obsolete functions in /etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup override newer ones https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317286 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 281951] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-12-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 02-12-2008, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 21:07 +, ο/η FokkerCharlie έγραψε: A quick thought on it, could you let me know if you are seeing the same thing, and if there are any more clues? When I adjust brightness, the screen looks like it goes to minimum (if trying to decrease the brightness)

[Bug 281951] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've fixed the brightness bug by removing the video module. I.e. I inserted the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and rebooted my laptop: blacklist video This is a trial-and-error workaround, I don't know if it's a good thing to remove this module or not, I just know that it fixes

[Bug 281951] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-11-27 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's a fix for the € and $ keys: echo 'keycode 186 = dollar dollar dollar dollar dollar' | xmodmap - echo 'keycode 185 = EuroSign EuroSign EuroSign EuroSign EuroSign' | xmodmap - 185 and 186 are the keys scrollup and scrolldown in which I've mapped the Euro and Dollar keys in my previously

[Bug 281951] Re: Acer Aspire 5920G Fn keys not working correctly

2008-11-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Charie, I didn't put the script to /etc/rcS.d, I just put it to a session script (menu system preferences sessions - if that's what it's called, I got Greek menus and I'm not sure). Anyway, you may also just run them inside a gnome-terminal while you're logged on, they don't need sudo or

[Bug 203158] Re: libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio must be installed as default by libsdl1.2debian

2010-01-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It looks like this isn't going to be fixed easily. They don't want to put libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio as the first dependency of libsdl1.2debian, because Kubuntu and Xubuntu don't use pulseaudio by default, and that would break them. So Ubuntu remains broken instead. Also, *

[Bug 491940] Re: Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2010-01-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
LDM_LOGOUT_ACTION has been renamed to the more generic LTSP_LOGOUT_ACTION, in commit http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp- upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/revision/1481 So please use the following 4 lines instead: + if (g_getenv (LTSP_CLIENT)) + g_spawn_command_line_async(xprop -root -f LTSP_LOGOUT_ACTION

[Bug 203158] Re: SDL's default configuration doesn't work with PulseAudio

2010-01-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I don't think the new title is appropriate. Bug #269082 was marked as a duplicate of this one, because both of them were requesting specifically for SDL to *use* PulseAudio by default, not just to work when PulseAudio is also installed. In other words: if libsdl1.2debian-alsa is fixed so that it

[Bug 203158] Re: libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio must be installed as default by libsdl1.2debian

2010-01-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I read in LP #128447 that * installing libsdl1.2debian-all instead of libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio, * and setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse in the environment would have about the same results as installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio. I tried it and it works fine for me. So maybe instead of

[Bug 491940] Re: Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2009-12-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've uploaded in LTSP-upstream the necessary code to handle this xprop from the LTSP side: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk/revision/1223 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/revision/1465 So if the patch above was accepted in gnome-session, LTSP

[Bug 491940] Re: Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2009-12-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
In case anyone else wants to test this, I've uploaded updated packages for gnome-session and LTSP (karmic) to this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ts.sch.gr/+archive/proposed I've also uploaded a modified iTalc package there that calls gnome.SessionManager.RequestReboot/RequestShutdown via dbus-send

[Bug 433827] Re: Regression: Automatic proxy configuration + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget...

2009-11-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Nathaniel thanks again for your input, and sorry for bothering you with this. I located the component that inserts that pac+: it's libsoup-gnome2.4-1. 1) I ran `apt-get source libsoup-gnome2.4-1` 2) I modified pac+ to pac+debug in libsoup/soup-proxy-resolver-gnome.c: } else if

[Bug 433827] Re: Regression: Automatic proxy configuration + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget...

2009-11-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: libsoup2.4 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Regression: Automatic proxy configuration + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 433827] Re: Regression: Automatic proxy configuration + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget...

2009-11-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've forwarded this to gnome: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603285 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #603285 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603285 -- Regression: Automatic proxy configuration + gnome-terminal now breaks apt-get, curl, wget...

[Bug 498856] Re: No Greek kb layout added after selecting it during installation

2009-12-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm putting gdm in the Affects list, as I think that it's a regression caused by the new gdm that was introduced with Karmic. Also, when I choose Greek in the gdm screen, I properly get a Greek layout, but that's not the desired behavior, it should by default respect the system settings. Some

[Bug 460328] Re: Wrong keyboard settings when console-settings has multiple layouts

2009-12-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Verifying this for Lucid Alpha 1. Please make gdm use a [Default] layout by default, one which simply doesn't write anything to /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts, as opposed to using/forcing the [us] layout. -- Wrong keyboard settings when console-settings has multiple layouts

[Bug 499103] Re: Keypairs should be generated for italc-master package and debconf question should be displayed to import public keys during installation of italc-client

2009-12-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Just some thoughts: * Debconf doesn't have a browse for files widget type. Using the string type to enter either the keys path or the keys text would be a little awkward. * I'd prefer using scp to copy the keys to dozens of workstations than providing the path to a debconf dialog in each one

[Bug 498839] Re: No keyboard indicator applet shown after install with Greek kb

2009-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Adding the applet may be an easy thing to do in single user systems, but it isn't easy when you have hundreds of students in primary or even secondary schools. Please add the applet automatically when more than one keyboard layouts are active. -- No keyboard indicator applet shown after

[Bug 491940] [NEW] Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2009-12-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-session Please consider the following 4 lines for inclusion to debian/patch/95_dbus_request_shutdown.patch. Those lines make LTSP clients properly reboot/shutdown. gboolean gsm_manager_request_shutdown (GsmManager *manager,

[Bug 367960] Re: power down request fails on 9.04; logout instead

2009-12-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm attaching a patch which makes iTalc call the gnome SessionManager via dbus for logout / reboot / shutdown. Now iTalc works properly for me on Ubuntu Karmic (and it should also work for at least Jaunty and Lucid). If anyone wants to try the patch, I've uploaded a Karmic package in this ppa:

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