[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I had the same problem and I think I know how I produced it: Hardware: IBM Thinkpad X24 with Onboard soundcard "Intel 82801CA-ICH3", running Ubuntu 6.06.1 Audio was working properly until I attached an external USB headset. I've tried 2: One Logitech and one from CMedia. Logitech didn't work, but CMedia did - so I selected CMedia headset as sound device from "System > Preferences > Sound Preferences" I only had this headset attached temporarily. Now sound in gnome is behaving quite strange: - sound during boot: yes - sound in Totem: yes - sound recorder: no (with error) - audacity: no errors, but recording is broken and played back in other players with bad resampling artefacts. I'm still having this error so maybe I'm lucky and can find out how to fix it. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
I fixed it. The problem was that the ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf entry for the "default" soundcard was broken: # BROKEN !defaults.pcm.card default defaults.ctl.card default defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 # WORKING -- !defaults.pcm.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.ctl.card I82801CAICH3 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 Here's how I fixed it: (lines starting with $ are shell commands) === $ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801CAICH3 $ asoundconf set-default-card I82801CAICH3 === -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Sorry. In that case, I should say here that IF the errormessage would have been similar to the one I got from "alsamixer", I would have solved things faster: "Cannot find soundcard 'default'..." Because that told me that my system was trying and failing to resolve some card labeled "default". -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Public bug reported: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to reproduce it. Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Description changed: After dragging an icon from the applications menu onto an icon in an open drawer, an errormessage containing something like "expected an int" appeared - and then all entries in "~/.gconf/apps/panel/objects" that were NOT of type "launcher-object" disappeared. Permanently (still gone after reboot) All other, related entries (toplevels, applets, ...) stayed. This was severe, because menu-bar and the logout-applet were gone - Luckily, the menu was still accessible using keyboard shortcut. + + Although I was able to pinpoint its exact effects, I am unable to + reproduce it. + + + Here is what I did when it happened (reproduction did NOT cause this error to re-appear): + + 1) Had a drawer on the top panel with 4 icons in it. 3 application-launchers and 1 URL link. + 2) I wanted to add an item from the applications-menu to this drawer + 3) ...and accidentially dropped it onto the URL link icon in the drawer. + 4) a small grey box with the above errormessage popped up. + 5) panel-objects disappeared as described above. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Sorry, but I didn't know about ".xsession-errors" back then. :( But if that file isn't wiped automatically, I still could be able to check it. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Since it's cleaned on login, and I didn't know about .xsession-errors I couldn't get any info from there. I've tried reproducing the error, since I know exactly which Icon I dragged where - but it seems that the starting situation matters, too. But there seems to be something fishy with dragging URL references into gnome drawers, anyway: I remember that on another computer (but that one was running Edgy), dragging an URL from a browser to a panel made other objects in that drawer lose their icon - it became a question mark in a 45° rotated square, just like it does when you enter a wrong filename for an icon. I'll try to reproduce that one if I'm on the other computer again. -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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Luckily (ur unfortunately, since I couldn't reproduce it anymore) I've had this happening only once - but after reading myself into the gconf- structure of the gnome-panel, I saw that there's an incredible mess in the panel configuration itself: I've played around with those neat panel-drawers before my objects disappeared. It seems that panels leave a lot of orphaned entries in the gconf when adding/filling/removing them. Maybe I managed to create some strange inconsistency in there? -- all panel objects of type != launcher disappeared after drag&drop https://launchpad.net/bugs/75159 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Wrong location for this bug report?
I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss the reason for this "bug". The actual cause is in 99% of all cases, that the alsa alias "default" is pointint at an invalid (e.g. unplugged USB headset) sound device. On ubuntuforums.org, I see at least 2 posts a day which are a direct result of this problem - The solution is almost always to use "asoundconf set-default-card xxx" in order to point it at the right soundcard. Maybe it would make sense to fix the handling in gnome's sound settings, because if they would work correctly, people would probably sort things out themselves - in 2mins. Currently you "can" choose the right soundcard there in the dropdown settings, but it almost never updates the "default" alias. Any suggestions where else to put my comment on this? -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
The USB headset was just an example. This bug report here is actually about the errormessage in "gnome-sound- recorder", but the problem causing this error to appear occurs *very* often - and it might be more important to fix the source than the symptom, so bug-details about "what causes it" maybe should go somewhere else (gnome sound settings?). I certainly agree that errormessages should be more meaningful - in general. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases. Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 Just had the same problem. A friend of mine gave me a call, saying "I've lost all my network profiles. Please help!". It took me almost 1 hour to figure out what went wrong, since all previous profiles are still in ~/.gnome2/network-admin-locations. @Sebastien Bacher: When you say "we know that", is that the reason why this bug entry is marked as "rejected"? If so, please consider 2 things: 1) Some users are completely lost after updates like that. 2) You lose the functionality of storing profiles per user (I know that's how it was in Dapper, but why removing it again?) Now I know how to handle this problem, but a lot of other people will simply think: "whoops! where are my profiles?" -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 82511] Re: [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67201 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67201 oh! sorry. I've seen that duplicate before posting here, but I thought it was something different, because of Dapper>Edgy upgrade (since Dapper stores the profiles somewhere completely else, doesn't it?) Thanks for your answer! -- [regression, network-admin] looks for locations in root/.gnome2 instead of user/.gnome2 since update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 61211] Re: "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message
Please try some lower-level access to your soundcard (I suppose that gnome-sound-recorder goes over ESD?), by running "speaker-test" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/speaker-test): speaker-test -c 2 (This should output some white noise on your left/right speaker) if this works, please try also: speaker-test -c 2 -Ddefault (this should use the "default" alias for your soundcard) In case the above tests didn't work, please try to manually set the "default" alias in .asoundrc.asoundconf: # Make a backup of .asoundrc: cp .asoundrc.asoundconf .asoundrc.asoundconf.bak # Overwrite it with the following content: !defaults.pcm.card rev20 defaults.ctl.card rev20 defaults.pcm.device 0 defaults.pcm.subdevice -1 -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 25931] Re: Failed to initalize HAL.
Ran into this bug when doing a dist-upgrade from Edgy to Hardy (yes. directly!). Since I'm using KDE, I've moved /etc/rc[1-5].d/S13kdm to "S30kdm" and then rebooted my system - It's running fine now. Maybe the S13 >> S30 wasn't even necessary... -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs