[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2059651] Re: network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

2024-03-29 Thread Doug Smythies
The "sudo dhcpcd" command worked to get my network back. I had to do another update/upgrade cycle before network-manager would re-install. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2059651] Re: network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

2024-03-28 Thread Doug Smythies
After the extensive upgrades of today no network. As per this bug report, network-manager seems to be gone. In my case this is a 24.04 Ubuntu Desktop QEMU/KVM VM running on my main Debian server host. In my case the command was "sudo apt dist-upgrade" ** Attachment added: "dpkg listing"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1833322] Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images

2024-01-10 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Christian, Thank you for your reply to my post. > I do not know the ping pong test, A simple token passing ring, that is useful for getting the system to utilize shallow idles states. Otherwise it can be difficult to get to such shallow states on my test system, without them being timer

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1833322] Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images

2024-01-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Lots of good comments. I sort of agree with: > So if we're going to make a change, there > should be due diligence to demonstrate a > benefit, it should not be based on > Internet hype. However, I would have said: If irqbalance is to be included by default, then there should be due diligence

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1833322] Re: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images

2024-01-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Thank you for your incredibly thorough analysis of this. Since finding this via bug 2046470, I have tried, without success, to create a test to show any difference in performance or power or whatever between irqbalance enabled/disabled on my Ubuntu 20.04 test server. While my vote carries little

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1970588] Re: screen-shot-record.html doesn't reflect surprisingly swapped print screen key behaviour

2022-05-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I thought the gnome version might be available to view, but I couldn't find it. I couldn't remember their development directory name, but, after many failed attempts, finally found the "unstable" directory: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/unstable/screen-shot-

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1965942] Re: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix?

2022-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K., and after some reading about IPv6, I agree with Manfred. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-user-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965942 Title: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix? Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1965942] Re: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix?

2022-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Netmask is the correct term. I don't currently have a desktop running to see what is being referred to by prefix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-user-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965942 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1868019] Re: [FFe] Add method to enable fractional scaling

2020-03-30 Thread Doug Smythies
Ya, those e-mails to the lists were too big, due to big html and with an embedded png file. So they bounced even after being approved in moderation. I sent an edited e-mail to the lists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Each CPU can have a different request into the PLL (phase locked loop), but the highest one wins, and their vote does not count if they are in an idle state deeper than C1. You can observe this manually by reading the pstate request and granted MSRs directly (requires msr-tools, and the msr module

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
There is only one PLL (Phase Locked Loop) in the processor, all CPUs get the resulting clock. When they go into deep idle states (deeper than C1, at least for my processor) then they give up their vote into the PLL as to what the frequency should be. Your single 100% task is dedicating the CPU

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
@Davide Sangalli: What you describe and show in your comment #80 is correct and exactly what should happen. Your processor is spending an extraordinary amount of time in C1 as opposed to deeper idle states. At what sampling frequency do you run i7z? I would suggest once every 15 seconds or so, so

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-27 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.05.26 19:18 Daniel van Vugt wrote: > This bug might be getting confused... I disagree. > Doug: You are reporting problems with the radeon > graphics driver, No, I am providing additional information in support of the original bug report, proving that the issue occurs on multiple

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
The VM that I revived had not been run or updated since an early development version of 18.04, and it worked fine for playing the help videos. When I updated it, the yelp package did not update, but webkit did: doug@desk-aa:~$ grep -i webkit /var/log/apt/term.log | grep over Unpacking

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: webkit2gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to webkit2gtk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804786 Title: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
I have 3 computers running Ubuntu desktop edition: An old HP LapTop, 19.04; An old Apple iMac, 18.04; And a VM, 18.04, running on my main Ubuntu 16.04 test server. All 3 have the issues, with one main difference in the 19.04 verses 18.04 "play again" stimulus response. Attached is the "lspci -k

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-19 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar asked: > @Doug: Are you using Nouveau or some other graphics driver? Both desktop computers (one an old MAC with 18.04, and one the old HP LapTop I revived the other day with (now) 19.04) are using Radeon drivers. From the command you gave me off-list: $ lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 |

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-17 Thread Doug Smythies
I revived an old LapTop, that had Desktop 18.04 on it. Updated to current 18.04. Verified that this video issue was present. Upgraded the computer to 18.10. Ran one help video about 15 times without any issues. Upgraded the computer to 19.04. Ran the video only 2 times before it messed up. It

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2018-11-23 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar: I do see "WebKitWebProcess" using the most CPU during video play. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-getting-started-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804786 Title: Garbage occurred when

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2018-11-23 Thread Doug Smythies
On my desktop 18.04 computer this happens for all the videos that I have tried (3 of the 5 so far). And yes, the web versions seem to work fine, which suggest to me that this is a yelp problem and not a docs problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1782857] Re: no burn button in file manager in 18.04

2018-07-21 Thread Doug Smythies
Gunnar; I have an iMac with 18.04 desktop, and an old HP LapTop still with 17.10 desktop (will be updraded to 18.04 soon). 18.04 and 17.10 behave differently upon insertion of a writable CD/DVD, but neither behave as per the web page. ** Changed in: gnome-user-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New =>

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1599264] Re: "When power is critically low" setting does nothing

2016-07-06 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar: It is not clear to me why we wouldn't fix this in Xenial. I think we should. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1599264 Title: "When power is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1493156] Re: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2016-01-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pm-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493156 Title: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1493156] Re: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2015-11-22 Thread Doug Smythies
As of kernel 4.4-rc1 this bug becomes invalid, as the kernel was patched such that this issue no longer occurs. I'll wait until kernel 4.4 is finished, check again, then set the status of this bug report to invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1066526] Re: More Information is not translatable

2015-10-21 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066526 Title: More Information is not translatable

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1066526] Re: More Information is not translatable

2015-10-21 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Changed in: yelp-xsl (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1493156] [NEW] pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2015-09-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Kernel 4.2 includes a significant commit (87549141d516aee71d511138e27117c41e8aef68), after the patch the files and directory are present even if the CPU is offline. If the CPU is offline, writing to those files isn't allowed and so the echo in 94cpufreq fails. If the failed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1484587] Re: CPU frequency management fails to re-engage on resume from suspend

2015-09-06 Thread Doug Smythies
, just use primitive commands and not these higher level utilities (that I neither use or know anything about). For example use: grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo to observe CPU frequencies. The commit that, I think, fixes this issue is: commit 6c1e45917dec5e7c99ba8125fd8cc50f6e482a21 Author: Doug Smythies

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1448535] [NEW] Lockscreen timeout un-blanks the screen

2015-04-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Just to separate the variables, use a different Turn screen off when inactive for time and Lock screen after time under Brightness and Lock under System Setting. Leave the system inactive. The screen goes blank after the appropriate inactive period. After the additional

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1412897] [NEW] newest libxml2 update in vivid breaks serverguide validation

2015-01-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Under vivid, the serverguide validation script gives and error: doug@desk-dev:~/sguide-trunk/serverguide$ scripts/validate.sh serverguide/C/serverguide.xml --Validating serverguide/C/serverguide.xml ... serverguide/C/serverguide.xml:2: element legalnotice: validity error :

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1360756] Re: The URI ‘help:ubuntu-help/index’ does not point to a valid page.

2015-01-19 Thread Doug Smythies
It works fine for me also. Machine = up to date 14.10 VM guest on a 14.04 server host -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1360756 Title: The URI ‘help:ubuntu-help/index’ does

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276230] Re: Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty

2014-08-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I see that utopic is using 3.12.1-1. Can this be backported to 14.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276230 Title: Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276227] Re: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty

2014-08-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I see that utopic is using 3.12.0-1. Can this be backported to 14.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276227 Title: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292041] Re: Lockscreen doesn't turn off the screen

2014-06-27 Thread Doug Smythies
Behavior for me is still identical to what I posted in #10 above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1292041 Title: Lockscreen doesn't turn off the screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1255558] Re: Can't type my password after cold boot

2014-03-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, the package at posts 10 and 11 of the duplicate bug fixed the problem for me, however the merge proposal was rejected for some reason. Reference: https://code.launchpad.net/~albertsmuktupavels/unity-greeter/fix-for-1278681/+merge/211318 -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1278681] Re: Cannot type password until I have clicked something else

2014-03-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Installing the .deb from post #10 solved this issue for me. I tested it before and after several times on two computers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278681

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1283826] Re: lightdm hangs after updates

2014-03-15 Thread Doug Smythies
We had someone on Ubuntu forums with what seemed to be this issue. User deadflowr suggested it was because /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop was missing, and indeed it was. So the related package, ubuntu-session was missing. Why? I don't know. As far as I know the user was doing fresh installs

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292041] Re: Lockscreen doesn't turn off the screen

2014-03-14 Thread Doug Smythies
I use a different screen blank time and lock time. The screen does go blank at the correct time, but then it come on again at the additional lock time, and stays on thereafter. For me this started a couple of days ago (~2014.03.12). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1275798] Re: 14.04 wallpapers package

2014-03-11 Thread Doug Smythies
Would it be possible to include one with a Tahr? Why? Because nobody seems to know what the process is for changing this: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/figures/ubuntu-quantal.jpg (which hasn't been changed for few cycles now) to a relevant graphic for the current cycle. The thought

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1055166] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in memmove() from drisw_update_tex_buffer() from dri_set_tex_buffer2() from operator() from compiz::opengl::bindTexImageGLX() from ...

2014-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, this has fixed my problem for one of my 14.04 Desktop VM running on my 12.04 server host. I have several other scenarios to check, it'll take me awhile. (I came here from bug 1282342 , which started 2104.02.17) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1282342] [NEW] compiz crashes with segfault after recent updates

2014-02-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: My Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 VM became unusable (unity shell) a few days ago, and after some significant updates. Things are fine after I log in and until I try to do something. Then compiz will crash and my system becomes unusable. I do have sshd running and can connect via

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276227] Re: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty

2014-02-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Adjusting the Importance, having missed the Debian Import Freeze. I will build help.ubuntu.com updates with a computer with yelp-xsl version = 3.11.5. ** Changed in: yelp-xsl (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276230] Re: Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty

2014-02-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Adjusting the Importance, having missed the Debian Import Freeze. I will build help.ubuntu.com updates with a computer with yelp-xsl version = 3.11.3. ** Changed in: yelp-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical = Medium ** Description changed: For many months now we, the Ubuntu Doc Team, have

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276227] [NEW] Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty

2014-02-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: For many months now we, the Ubuntu Doc Team, have been working on issues with the official documentation and the related higher level tools. Some solutions and workarounds have been able to be implemented in the documentation, other fixes required changes to yelp-xsl (and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276230] [NEW] Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty

2014-02-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: For many months now we, the Ubuntu Doc Team, have been working on issues with the official documentation and the related higher level tools. Some solutions and workarounds have been able to be implemented in the documentation, other fixes required changes to yelp-tools (and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276230] Re: Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty

2014-02-04 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: yelp-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Critical -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276230 Title: Version = 3.11.3 needed for Trusty Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276227] Re: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty

2014-02-04 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: yelp-xsl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Critical -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276227 Title: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1276227] Re: Version = 3.11.5 needed for Trusty

2014-02-04 Thread Doug Smythies
** Description changed: For many months now we, the Ubuntu Doc Team, have been working on issues with the official documentation and the related higher level tools. Some solutions and workarounds have been able to be implemented in the documentation, other fixes required changes to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1220953] Re: Legal Notice refers to Privacy panel instead of Security Privacy panel

2013-09-05 Thread Doug Smythies
In the unity source the file location is: plugins/unityshell/resources/searchingthedashlegalnotice.html In the gnome source the file location is: debian/searchingthedashlegalnotice.html My merge proposal ( MP: 184008) seems to have disappeared, I don't know why. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1220953] [NEW] Legal Notice refers to Privacy panel instead of Security Privacy panel

2013-09-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: This issue actually is in two identical files in two spots. The files are just one very long line. Files: /usr/share/gnome-control-center/searchingthedashlegalnotice.html /usr/share/unity/icons/searchingthedashlegalnotice.html Package to place this bug found via (a method

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1220953] Re: Legal Notice refers to Privacy panel instead of Security Privacy panel

2013-09-04 Thread Doug Smythies
The diff is supposed to be 1 line not 1333811 lines. I don't know why it is wrong. There might be some other spot to change the other file, I don't know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I'm going to put this bug back to serverguide and add ubuntu-docs, as I think the issues might be fixable via the two projects ubuntu.xsl files. I have actually already showed that it can be done, however doing so breaks other stuff. There is some very weird stuff going on, and things are somewhat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Smythies
** Package changed: yelp-xsl (Ubuntu) = ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Doug Smythies (dsmythies) ** Also affects: serverguide Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: serverguide Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: gui tag pair - old theme https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp-xsl/+bug/1173426/+attachment/3703466/+files/old_theme_gui_tag.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Smythies
This bug should be expanded to include all tags pairs where display differentiation would be desirable but it not present or not pronounced enough. Another example, from the desktop docs, is within the gui.../gui tags pair See also bug 1189282. I'll attach two screen shots, one from the old theme

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: gui tag pair - new theme https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp-xsl/+bug/1173426/+attachment/3703467/+files/new_theme_gui_tag.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to yelp-xsl in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-05-31 Thread Doug Smythies
Kevin Godby pointed out that in the Ubuntu-docs case, the kbd/kdb tag pair, which is inside most, but not all, span class keyspan pairs does actually make a box around the key. For whatever reason $color.gray_background compiles into #f7f6f5, which is imperceptibly different than white, and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-05-30 Thread Doug Smythies
The issue of this bug report affects all official Ubuntu documentation. Serverguide: DocBook source code, as described in previous entries, tag pairs of kaycap.../keycap compile into html code of span class=key keycap.../span Ubuntu-docs (Desktop): Mallard code, tag pairs of key.../key compile

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-05-29 Thread Doug Smythies
I have been doing my work on a 12.04 server. It has yelp-xsl 3.4.1-1 The package doesn't seem to exist yet for saucy. The raring version is 3.6.1-1, and the file and area of concern for this bug report is the same. I will be un-assigning myself from this bug and changing Affects from serverguide

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173426] Re: html - new theme - keycap in .xml does not display with differentiation

2013-05-29 Thread Doug Smythies
There is version 3.8.1-1 for Saucy, it just isn't available in the package repository yet. I looked at the source code on Launchpad, and the file and area in question is the same, however it is now in and around line 1251. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of