Asking the user to mount a device

2009-09-07 Thread Brennan Vincent 
Hello,

I have two partitions on my hard drive: one containing Ubuntu and the
other containing Vista. The Vista partition is called "OS". It is not
mounted on boot, but it appears in the Gnome "Places" menu. When
clicked, the user is asked to grant root privileges in order to mount
the device in the proper place (/media/OS).

My question is: what is the mechanism for this? How does the system
know which drives should be mounted where so that it can populate that
menu and mount them when the user tries to access? Where are the
relevant configuration files?

I ask because I would like to write a patch for Banshee that would try
to do a similar thing when songs in the music library can't be found
because the device they are on has not been mounted.

I'm sorry if this is a Gnome issue. I wasn't sure if it was an
Ubuntu-specific feature and I wasn't sure where to post.

Any suggestions are welcome.
Brennan Vincent

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Re: Ubuntu Advanced?

2009-09-07 Thread Dane Mutters 
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:18 +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
> Dane Mutters wrote:
> 
> > Just an example that I was arguing with yesterday: /etc/resolv.conf.
> > It's auto-generated by NetworkManager.  I like NM; don't get me wrong,
> > but if you need to change the DNS (or other) settings from the command
> > prompt, it's really a pain.
> >
> > --Dane
> 
> Hi Dane,
> 
> Whilst i appreciate that is just an example, that particular issue can
> be overcome with, appending:
> "prepend domain-name-servers $SOME_DNS_SERVER,$DNS_SERVER_2;"
> to: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> 
> Then you have two DNS servers,at the top of /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Dave Walker

Thanks for the reply, Dave.  That information will surely be useful in
the future.  :-D

Might it be good to have a commented-out line in the
generated /etc/resolv.conf stating something to that effect?  I think it
would be a good general rule to do this with any editable file in /etc/
(Editable Text Configuration...) that would normally be clobbered by
such a thing after an edit.  Any thoughts on that?

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Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-07 Thread John Vivirito 
On 09/04/2009 04:50 PM, Caroline Ford wrote:
> What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in  
> jaunty.
> 
> I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means  
> that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it  
> does seem that the fixed version is in karmic so we need to arrange a  
> backport.
> 
> What we don't need is a needs packaging bug, as they are for programs  
> that don't exist in any version in the repositories. This is more of  
> an update.
> 
> Caroline
> 
> 
> Sent from a mobile device.
> 
> On 4 Sep 2009, at 17:10, Patrick Goetz  wrote:
> 
>> We are currently using Jaunty 9.04 (64 and 32-bit) on our production
>> desktop systems.  A few weeks ago a user asked me for a recommendation
>> for an easy to use html editor, and I suggested KompoZer.   
>> (Suggestions?
>>  I think I've tried most of them and found them lacking; the original
>> Netscape Composer, now found in SeaMonkey still seems to be the best  
>> for
>> fast, simple editing of static HTML pages by naive users.)
>>
>> The version of KompoZer in 9.04 universe is 0.7.10.  The user came  
>> back
>> a few days later complaining about bugs.  I didn't believe him until I
>> tried it myself.  Sure enough, just hovering the mouse over certain  
>> menu
>> items (e.g. file -> recent pages or formatting -> fonts) make the
>> program crash every time -- the editing window simply disappears.   
>> Feel
>> free to try it yourself.
>>
>> It took exactly 15 seconds to confirm that this is a known bug (in
>> Intrepid!) and another 5 seconds to find out what it was.  Tracking  
>> down
>> the bug involves the following complicated steps: google for the work
>> "kompozer" and then click on the first link which appears, the  
>> kompozer
>> project home page, where one finds the following text right in the
>> middle of the main page:
>>
>> "Linux users: KompoZer 0.7.10 is not compatible with GTK 2.14 and
>> higher, hence the crashes. Please have a look at KompoZer 0.8 alpha."
>>
>> Now, is it finally appropriate for me to say WTF?  Is the package
>> maintainer for this package in a coma?  It shouldn't take more than  
>> one
>> use of the program to realize that there is a problem:  if the mouse
>> pointer comes in contact with the test "recent pages" the program
>> crashes.  Changing the font, a frequently invoked action, is  
>> completely
>> impossible.
>>
>> Since we all care about linux/Ubuntu on this list, I presume that I
>> don't have to say that we simply can't afford to continue to have  
>> these
>> kinds of embarrassing basic quality control issues.  If a package  
>> isn't
>> really being maintained, then it shouldn't appear in any of the main
>> repositories.  What's the definition of "really being maintained"?   
>> For
>> starters, trying to run the program at least one time with the new
>> distribution before publishing.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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As i recall the person that started the package "was"
maintaining it. However the name escapes me atm. It should be
found in package, there should be a changelog for the package :)

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Re: python-zopeinterface - apparent dependency resolution error

2009-09-07 Thread James Westby 
On Sat Sep 05 19:18:37 +0100 2009 Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Did anyone else see this recently in Karmic?  python-apport wouldn't upgrade
> automatically due to a chain of dependency weirdness which led to
> python-zopeinterface and python-zope.interface.

I was just looking at this.

The issue is the zope3 was split, but we haven't completed the migration by
promoting the split packages and removing the monlithic one.

When I uploaded lazr.restfulclient I took the package in main, but other
things coming from Debian are either using alternative dependencies or
the new name.

I plan to fix this up today with removals, promotions and uploads so
that we have a consistent installable set while keeping the components
self-contained.

Thanks,

James

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Re: Karmic Alpha 5 released

2009-09-07 Thread jairo mayorga 
2009/9/3 Steve Langasek :
> Hello Ubuntu developers,
>
> Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
> system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
> frequent breakage.  They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and
> those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
>
> Alpha 5 is the fifth in a series of milestone CD images that will be
> released throughout the Karmic development cycle.  The Alpha images are
> known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while
> representing a very recent snapshot of Karmic. You can download it here:
>
>  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu)
>  http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC 
> and EC2)
>  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu ARM)
>  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Kubuntu)
>  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Xubuntu)
>  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Mythbuntu)
>
> See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.
>
> Alpha 5 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale
> testing.  This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some
> bugs.  For a list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you
> encounter), please see:
>
>  http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha5
>
> If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop
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Bug in GtkTextView Applications

2009-09-07 Thread Heroid Shehu 
This problem occurres everytime you repeat the characters ([, ], (, ),
{, }, ;, :, ,, ., !, ?, ¡, ¿, /, ' ' (space) and — (em dash)) enough
times to cause the evoking of a line break, the GtkTextView does not
wrap them.

Although this functionality is beneficial in sane environments where the above
characters are not expected to be repeated more than three times, applications
that use GtkTextView in an environment where wrapping is preferred
such as in (Pidgin, IRC clients, etc.) they have their windows either
stretched—occasionally beyond the size of the screen—or a horizontal
scrollbar appears, which then requires the user to scroll to read
text, this bug happens to many people, and we want to fix it that's
why we need you're help.

read more about this bug here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591364

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python-zopeinterface - apparent dependency resolution error

2009-09-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman 
Did anyone else see this recently in Karmic?  python-apport wouldn't upgrade
automatically due to a chain of dependency weirdness which led to
python-zopeinterface and python-zope.interface.

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atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get install python-apport
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  python-apport: Depends: python-launchpadlib but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Broken packages
zsh: exit 100   sudo apt-get install python-apport
atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get install python-launchpadlib
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  python-launchpadlib: Depends: python-lazr-restfulclient but it is not going 
to be installed
E: Broken packages
zsh: exit 100   sudo apt-get install python-launchpadlib
atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get install python-lazr-restfulclient
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  python-lazr-restfulclient: Depends: python-zope-interface
E: Broken packages
zsh: exit 100   sudo apt-get install python-lazr-restfulclient
atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get install python-zope-interface
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting python-zopeinterface instead of python-zope-interface
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-wadllib libmissioncontrol-client0 python-lazr-uri 
libmissioncontrol-server1 libtelepathy2 python-oauth
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
sudSuggested packages:
  python-zopeinterface-dbg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  python-zope.interface
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-zopeinterface
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 120 not upgraded.
oNeed to get 146kB of archives.
After this operation, 254kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/ 
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main python-zopeinterface 
3.4.0-0ubuntu3 [146kB]
Fetched 146kB in 11s (12.2kB/s)  
dpkg: python-zope.interface: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you 
requested:
 python-twisted-core depends on python-zope.interface | python-zopeinterface 
(>= 3.2.1-3); however:
  Package python-zope.interface is to be removed.
  Package python-zopeinterface is not installed.
 python-twisted-core depends on python-zope.interface | python-zopeinterface 
(>= 3.2.1-3); however:
  Package python-zope.interface is to be removed.
  Package python-zopeinterface is not installed.
(Reading database ... 164506 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-zope.interface ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-zopeinterface.
(Reading database ... 164473 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-zopeinterface (from 
.../python-zopeinterface_3.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up python-zopeinterface (3.4.0-0ubuntu3) ...

atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
^Cading package lists... 6%
atomicity:[~/src] sudo apt-get install python-apport
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmissioncontrol-client0 libmissioncontrol-server1 libtelepathy2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-launchpadlib python-lazr-restfulclient
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-launchpadlib python-lazr-restfulclient
The following packages will be upgraded:
  python-apport
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 119 not upgraded.
Need to get 147kB of archives.
After this operation, 582kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main python-lazr-restfulclient 
0.9.3-0ubuntu2 [28.0kB

q: development status of procmail

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Jakobi 
Hi,

I'd  like  to  know the current development status of procmail,  as  I
hadn't  much luck in reporting a regex bug recently. Is there still  a
live upstream or is the historic procmail.org all that remains?

Thanx for an update on this issue,
Peter


FIY: Background:

With  a  the perceived lack of development and maintenance I'm also  a
quite a bit concerned about say UTF8, which was way less of a topic in
era  2001,  but  is  increasing and matching  against  encoded  header
strings in utf8 might become more than just nice-to-have.

(And  NO: restriciting matching in classic procmail recipe fashion  to
ascii  is increasingly insufficient: e.g. allow for just a measly half
a  dirty dozen of umlauts. Quoted is bad enough, but the mailer  might
choose  to  encode the entire header. The only thing that's  worse  is
chars above 0x80 in headers and body and no sender-provided indication
at  all for either latin or UTF8 And umlauts nicely differ in utf8
vs  latin; and there's enough Asian full UTF8 spam around to _not_ add
recipes trying to outguess bad senders in order to auto-decode UTF8)

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Re: Acer 4920g with 4gb 667mhz Kingston

2009-09-07 Thread Ömer Faruk AK 
Sorry for my noobish question, but how can i find a fresh kernel?

2009/9/3 Christian Leber 

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:08:14AM +0300, ?mer Faruk AK wrote:
>
> >i have upgrade my laptop to 4 gb ram capacity. Then my ubuntu is
> failed.
> >When it's starting it gives me some error about to check my partition
> with
> >manual fsck, then my files are lost. And i reinstalled ubuntu for many
> >times..
> >But its failed again and again...
>
> That is because the kernel of 9.04 has this known unfixed grave bug that
> eats
> filesystems.
>
> I hit the problem myself on my Dell Latitude D830 laptop.
>
> The solution is either to use 9.10 or directly install a fresh kernel
> before the first reboot! (i would even switch the machine just off after
> a sync and not shut it down)
>
> Christian
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>   nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est."   (Aurelius Augustinus)
>  Translation: 
>
>


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