[Touch-packages] [Bug 1804885] [NEW] Desktop freeze running VirtualBox, Intel graphics

2018-11-23 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: When I start a VirtualBox virtual machine (reproducible with the Ubuntu 18.04/VirtualBox 5.2.22 packages from virtualbox.org) with VMSVGA emulation and 3D pass-through enabled, my system hangs. Sometimes I can recover if I get to a VT fast enough to kill the process. Also, t

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1805151] [NEW] Desktop freeze running VirtualBox, Intel graphics

2018-11-26 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: This is identical to bug 1804885, but as requested I am filing this while running the standard Ubuntu kernel. I will copy and paste my summary below. Updates since I created that bug: * This occurs with the mainline PPA 4.18.12-041812-generic kernel. * The glxinfo sectio

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1805151] Re: Desktop freeze running VirtualBox, Intel graphics

2018-11-26 Thread Michael Thayer
Update: 4.19.4-041904-generic is affected, 4.20.0-042000rc1-generic is not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805151 Title: Desktop freeze running VirtualBox,

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1781861] [NEW] qtchooser should select right version when only one is installed

2018-07-16 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: I have trouble imagining I am the first person to report this, but I did not (quickly) find a duplicate. When only one version of Qt is installed, can qtchooser select it automatically? E.g. when I start linguist and only have Qt5 installed, could it start Qt5 Linguist? Pro

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Thayer
This issue should be fixed in versions of Ubuntu which provide the VirtualBox graphics driver. However the person who re-opened the bug discovered another issue: at least the Lubuntu live ISO seems to load the VirtualBox driver rather late in the boot process, which can result in X.Org loading wit

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Thayer
I would just point out that the problem with Lubuntu live which was reported and which I reproduced would force a fall-back from Wayland to X.Org. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to kbd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Thayer
Actually Lubuntu probably doesn't support Wayland at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to kbd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443853 Title: Ubuntu boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupt

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2017-12-12 Thread Michael Thayer
Ah, it is the old problem with lightdm not waiting for the udev notification that the driver is loaded. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to kbd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443853 Title: Ubuntu bo

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1722722] [NEW] Search domains not deleted from resolv.conf

2017-10-11 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: I hope that this is the right place for this. What I am seeing is that every time I switch networks with my laptop entries get added to the resolv.conf search list but never deleted. For whatever reason, once I have left our company network I am unable to access resources wh

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1723075] [NEW] System freeze after docking and display configuration change

2017-10-12 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: I have been having regular system freezes after switching from using my laptop stand-alone to waking it up on a docking station with an external monitor. I have seen this using two identical docking station plus monitor combinations. I am still trying to find a pattern. I o

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1723075] Re: System freeze after docking and display configuration change

2017-10-12 Thread Michael Thayer
Just got this again with 4.13.0-15-generic after suspending and resuming the laptop. No docking station or screen reconfiguration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1723075] Re: System freeze after docking and display configuration change

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Thayer
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1724259 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724259 Reported this again using apport as bug 1724259. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1724259 System freeze after docking and display configuration change -- You received this bug notificatio

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1726020] [NEW] apport will not process report in /var/crash

2017-10-22 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: I have an 11K crash report in /var/crash, which Apport refuses to process due to a lack of "free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers". So I am attaching it here in case it is of interest. At least the question of why Apport has so

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1726020] Re: apport will not process report in /var/crash

2017-10-22 Thread Michael Thayer
** Attachment added: "_lib_systemd_systemd-udevd.0.crash" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1726020/+attachment/4985136/+files/_lib_systemd_systemd-udevd.0.crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subsc

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1427600] Re: apport-unpack: ValueError: ['UserGroups'] has no binary content

2017-10-22 Thread Michael Thayer
To my way of thinking, an exception is for something the programmer did not foresee. Since this is now a known failure mode of Apport, I would expect - in an ideal world in which there was enough time to work on all known bugs - a clean exit with a clear error message. -- You received this bug n

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Thayer
Gianfranco, now I am interested - could you point me to the change you mean? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to kbd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1443853 Title: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1671377] [NEW] Crash in VirtualBox with libdrm/intel, fixed in git

2017-03-09 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: When starting a VirtualBox virtual machine using VMSVGA emulation on Ubuntu 17.04 I get a crash. I tracked this down to the Intel code in libdrm and Chris Wilson committed the fix to git as 19c4cfc5. I verified that the crash occurs with libdrm build from git before but not

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1499133] Re: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_menu_tracker_remove_items()

2015-10-05 Thread Michael Thayer
Might this be related to bug 1499747<1>? <1> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1499747 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1499133 Title: unit

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1499747] Re: gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Thayer
Seems to be fixed here too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1499747 Title: gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() Status in gedit package in U

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1499747] Re: gedit crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

2015-09-28 Thread Michael Thayer
I can also reproduce this as described in comment 14, and get it whenever I start Pidgin and log in to my Jabber account: $ pidgin ** GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/glib2.0-pRoDo9/glib2.0-2.46.0/./gio/gmenuexporter.c:256:g_menu_exporter_menu_items_changed: assertion failed: (position + removed <= g_seque

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Thayer
Please see comment 1[1] and 14[2] on that ticket. We believe that this is a problem in setfont, not in VirtualBox (or Ubuntu for that matter). [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13615#comment:1 [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13615#comment:14 -- You received this bug notification becau

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1456789] Re: restarting services hangs on systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

2015-09-10 Thread Michael Thayer
Ran into something similar just now. A bit of internet searching suggested<1><2> that it was due to systemd's internal state getting out of sync, and indeed running "systemctl daemon-reload" made it go away. <1> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2584 <2> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1456789] Re: restarting services hangs on systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

2015-09-10 Thread Michael Thayer
Sorry, "systemctl daemon-reexec". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1456789 Title: restarting services hangs on systemd-tty-ask-password-agent Status in syst

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer
Just did a quick test after upgrading to 16.10. I (still) see double menus (both local and global) in a single window machine. Should I remove appmenu-qt* and try again? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libdbu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer
Removed appmenu-qt5 and checked that I am on 5.6.1+dfsg-3ubuntu3~3, but still no joy. I would not rule out user error though (and I have not yet rebooted since upgrading from 16.04, so there might be something stale in memory). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer
I can confirm though that the global menu now works for the second window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libdbusmenu-qt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604009 Title: Empty menus in global app-m

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-06 Thread Michael Thayer
Not sure if you want to include the double menu issue here or if you prefer to treat the bug as fixed. As a reminder, the double menu issue seemed to happen with appmenu-qt because it simply hid the local menus but did not intercept hide and show requests from the application. -- You received th

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Thayer
I rebuilt Qt5 with that change but do not see any difference. Might be user error of course. I downloaded with apt-get source, made the change, rebuilt with debuild binary and (for simplicity) installed all resulting .deb files with dpkg -i. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Thayer
User error indeed - I did #if 0 instead of #if 1. Rebuilding now, but because of my lack of experience with debuild I am stuck in a full build again. By the way, lots of test cases fail after the change. I disabled them in debian/rules locally. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Thayer
Sorry for the noise. After fixing my change the local menus are gone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libdbusmenu-qt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604009 Title: Empty menus in global app-menu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Thayer
** Attachment added: "The log file from yesterday." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1599775/+attachment/4696780/+files/lightdm.log.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] [NEW] "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: I sometimes get the "low-graphics mode" message when starting an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine inside of VirtualBox (current development code trunk, somewhere past version 5.1 beta 3 and a debug build). When I switch to VT-7 I find the X server running without any visible issu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Thayer
Just checked, I do not have that message in the current log file, attached the file from yesterday containing the message. I asked about this on #ubuntu-devel, here are the relevant logs: (17:09:06) michael-vb: Afternoon. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but someone will probably kno

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-07 Thread Michael Thayer
Actually, perhaps I misunderstand the lightdm log rotation and the .1 logfile does contain the relevant log. I assume the lightdm developers will know. My uneducated guess is that there is some sort of race here between lightdm and logind which needs better dependency specification. And I just c

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-08 Thread Michael Thayer
I was able to reproduce this with the lightdm deb file from that package installed. I did not install the other deb files built from the package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-11 Thread Michael Thayer
My apologies, I missed that one, so this is probably my bug! I will fix that and then get back to you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1599775 Title: "low-

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1640112] [NEW] Irregular USB network tethering failures

2016-11-08 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: Reporting this against network manager for want of better information. Sorry for the imprecise report - I will be glad to observe and update. Since upgrading to 16.10 I have had problems with my USB "ethernet" network connection provided by a tethered Android 2.3 device. Init

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2016-08-29 Thread Michael Thayer
Hello, Short answer (mobile mail). On the whole a bug with a workaround is usually (understandably) less important to people than one without. I am slightly surprised that Canonical have not looked at this since I have provided a fix which may well be acceptable as is, but of course I do not presu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-13 Thread Michael Thayer
Sorry, that doesn't do it yet. (Shame I didn't manage to fix this for 5.0.0.) However I realised that Mesa has exactly the same problem, so I have taken a look at their code to see what they do. Also looks like a bit of a hack, but since nothing relevant can afford not to work with Mesa it shoul

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1436405] Re: Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt5 apps

2016-07-14 Thread Michael Thayer
VirtualBox is affected by this. When I comment out calls to menuBar()->setVisible() in the VirtualBox source the duplicate menu bar goes away. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libdbusmenu-qt in Ubuntu. https://

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1599775] Re: "low-graphics mode" in VirtualBox guest, but X server running

2016-07-15 Thread Michael Thayer
I hope this upstream change set will do the trick: https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/62242 Re comment 11, I looked at Mesa to see how they were distinguishing client and server GL and applied that to my code (see comments in change set). To summarise the issue: the tricks that we were playing

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] [NEW] Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-07-18 Thread Michael Thayer
Public bug reported: Reporting this following this IRC discussion: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/07/15/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t14:00 The basic summary: when I run a two-screen/two-window virtual machine with VirtualBox under Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity and the global app-menu, the menus are empty wh

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-07-19 Thread Michael Thayer
By the way the commit which fixed that KDE bug is: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dbusmenu-team/libdbusmenu- qt/trunk/revision/189 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libdbusmenu-qt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1604009] Re: Empty menus in global app-menu in VirtualBox second window

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Thayer
I got in touch with Aurélien, who wrote the original libdbusmenu-qt code, in case he has any ideas. This is a bit tricky for me, as I can only justify spending a limited time on it (my main area is graphics driver work), and while I could probably fix something up that would work for me, I don't u

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2016-07-27 Thread Michael Thayer
I think that in this day and age EGA console fonts are meaningless for 99% of the user base or more. I also think that if you remove the functionality the remaining 1% will complain very loudly. However, I suspect that many of those will have set up custom fonts to be loaded. So my suggested fix

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1443853] Re: Ubuntu 14.10 ISO live boot in Oracle VirtualBox ends up with a corrupted display

2016-07-27 Thread Michael Thayer
If you do actually find someone at Ubuntu who knows about this, perhaps you can ask them to comment on this thread: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2016-July/013926.html I note that the person asking the question seemingly never bothered to create an Ubuntu bug, so it can't have bee