[Bug 744927] [NEW] evince takes many seconds to open a LOCAL pdf when network connection is broken

2011-03-29 Thread Nick Demou
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince Opening a local pdf that normally needs 2-3secs takes about 10-15 when my network connection suffers from excessive dropped packets (I noticed it by accident but was able to reproduce easily with many different pdfs) Steps to reproduce: make it s

[Bug 487468] Re: main window empty

2010-05-19 Thread Nick Demou
Same symptoms for me today with Empathy ver 2.30.1. It seems to happen randomly. I restarted empathy several times and at one point (a few hours later) it opened with all contacts listed. Some details: 1) When somebody was IMing me I was getting the message. 2) Trying to send an IM by hitting ct

[Bug 349576] Re: hangs for several seconds when exiting a folder with many files

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Demou
I asked a friend with 9.04beta installed and he had no problem where in 8.10 I get this numbers: 30sec to return to /usr from /usr/bin (for reference the same PC needs 17sec to open /usr/bin with ~1400 files) So it seems this is fixed in 9.04 -- do you still need my input in regards to 8.10? --

[Bug 349576] Re: hangs for several seconds when exiting a folder with many files

2009-03-30 Thread Nick Demou
I will try to absorb all this info and test it. It's a lot of new things but after a quick scan they look clear enough. Meanwhile if anybody else allready knows how to get a backtrace I should note that I've reproduced the problem on another 8.10 installation and I can give a two step summary on r

[Bug 349576] [NEW] hangs for several seconds when exiting a folder with many files

2009-03-27 Thread Nick Demou
Public bug reported: I enter a folder with 3421 jpg files, select all of them and wait a little without doing nothing. Then I click on the parent folder to go up one level and this takes about a minute (note that it took a few seconds to display the contents of the folder with the thousand jpgs

[Bug 209637] Re: sound chirps and dropouts during playback MP3 shoutcast stream

2008-06-25 Thread Nick Demou
Sorry everyone -- this is not my bug, my problem is with mp3's from the disk -- sound chirps and dropouts during playback MP3 shoutcast stream https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem i

[Bug 209637] Re: sound chirps and dropouts during playback MP3 shoutcast stream

2008-06-24 Thread Nick Demou
in my case the fix doesn't help vlc (allthough all 3 files are present and contain icy-metadata wich is altered by sed to Xcy-metadata). I've never had any problem with mplayer or totem-audio-preview (mouse over) or with gst-launch I came here from bug #223650 which seems as a dupe -- sound ch

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-05-09 Thread Nick Demou
tested with ~3800 files and seen no problem at all in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) ** Changed in: nautilus-cd-burner (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172332 You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-21 Thread Nick Demou
> Could you try if that's still an issue on hardy I'll do so as soon as I'll have the time for an upgrade > you can use the answer tracker on https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu thanks for the tip Sebastian -- Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Demou
I'm guessing I must backtrace nautilus just before hitting the record button and I'm guessing that the method described in "Already running programs" [1] is good so here is a backtrace. Feel free to re-close this report if you don't like it but I would prefer a tip as to what else I could do to mak

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Demou
Two different users report the same problem and ask for very little help to investigate it further. If at this moment you can't help, just leave this one for someone else. Closing bugs without investigation doesn't help Ubuntu become better in any way. -- Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying t

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Demou
** Description changed: After adding too many files (say 2000) to a Blank DVD folder (burn://) and clicking "Write to Disc" the write to disc dialog box appears but it is completely unresponsive (BTW it reports "calculating data size" or something close to that). With few files (say 1

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Demou
I've seen the same behavior when I was witting a lot of files (last time ~2000 files) following is an strace for nautilus-cd-burner and nautilus-cd-burner/mapping-daemon during the bugy behavior. I've waited for at least 3-4 minutes with no response (btw total CPU response was ~1% for all this

[Bug 172332] Re: Nautilus DVD creator hangs when trying to write files to disc

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Demou
I've seen the same behavior when I was witting a lot of files (last time ~2000 files) following is an strace for nautilus-cd-burner and nautilus-cd-burner/mapping-daemon during the bugy behavior. I've waited for at least 3-4 minutes with no response (btw total CPU response was ~1% for all this

[Bug 148701] Re: Search function in File browser does not function

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Demou
Most of the times whining doesn't help at bugs getting fixed. Sometimes it even delays fixing because developers get pissed off (also note that the bug is "triaged" that is work on fixing it is about to begin) regarding "INDEXING MUST BE OPTIONAL, NOT MANDATORY": this choice is not the topic of th

[Bug 150379] Re: Nautilus built-in search doesn't work if tracker is disabled

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
I've done a default install of 7.10 some hours before and have the exact same behavior (without configuring anything even vaguely related to indexing ) If I haven't done a thorough search in bugs I would have believed that search doesn't work (just like this user thinks in bug #148701 which is pos

[Bug 154692] Re: Searching within Nautilus doesn't work at all

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
maybe dupe bug #148701 -- Searching within Nautilus doesn't work at all https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154692 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 150379] Re: Nautilus built-in search doesn't work if tracker is disabled

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
(continuing my previous post) I've verified that in my case the tracker is enabled but apparently it had no time to index all my /home files (copied thousands of them some hours ago). Note also that in my case searches complete almost instantly (<1/2sec) [I should say that searching for "Desktop"

[Bug 148701] Re: Search function in File browser does not function

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
maybe dupe bug #154692 -- Search function in File browser does not function https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148701 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://list

[Bug 81977] Re: beagle search limited to files indexed by beagle

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
quote from bug#150379: "Nautilus integrated search (CTRL+F) does not return any result without tracker indexes. I don't need an indexing daemon running all the time so I disabled trackerd [...] and disabled indexing [...]." maybe the two bugs are related (and maybe bug#148701 "Search function

[Bug 148701] Re: Search function in File browser does not function

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
Gabriel I faced the same problem and landed here. Can you please check bug #150379 [1]. I'm quoting from it: "Nautilus integrated search (CTRL+F) does not return any result...[but] Searching through "Places -> Search file" works as usual." This is the case for me. Can you tell us if it's the s

[Bug 148701] Re: Search function in File browser does not function

2007-11-14 Thread Nick Demou
confirmed in a fresh 7.10 i386 installation ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Confirmed -- Search function in File browser does not function https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which i

[Bug 44196] Re: gnome-cups-icon uses 100% CPU

2006-10-04 Thread Nick Demou
I've accidentaly clicked "Also needs fix here" button of this bug thinking that it would link to some more info instead of performing an action. I'm totaly lost with regards to malone and I can't find how to undo my action. -- gnome-cups-icon uses 100% CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/44196 -- de

[Bug 49222] Re: Screensaver password dialog does not indicate keyboard layout

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Demou
Adam wrote: > It has led to information loss for me. Well in my case it has led to hardware loss. I know you are laughing. It's OK. Now let's get serious, here is my situation: 1) English is not my primary language as is the case of so many people 2) At my office I always have a locking-screensav

[Bug 58093] Re: I lost the control of the desktop when screen saver run

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Demou
from a duplicate of this bug (Bug #24305) here are some comments: DETAILED DESCRIPTION - if the screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop window, then upon exiting the screensaver (either password protected one or not) the mouse and keyboard are not

[Bug 24305] Re: Mouse stops responding if the ubuntu screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop windows

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Demou
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 58093 *** ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 58093 I lost the control of the desktop when screen saver run -- Mouse stops responding if the ubuntu screensaver activates while the focus is on an rdesktop windows https://launchpad.net/bugs/24305

[Bug 58093] Re: I lost the control of the desktop when screen saver run

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Demou
** Bug 24305 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- I lost the control of the desktop when screen saver run https://launchpad.net/bugs/58093 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs