[Bug 1847018] [NEW] Syncthing reports bad version, confusing other clients

2019-10-07 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: Syncthing (1.1.4~ds1-4) in Eaon results in *other* clients (eg, one running 1.0.1) reporting the error "Not sending symlinks to old client {EAON CLIENT} - please upgrade to v0.14.14 or newer". It appears that it reports its version as "unknown-dev". From the log of the

[Bug 620779] [NEW] hdfview dependencies are wrong: requires non-headless jre

2010-08-19 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: On a clean install of Maverick Alpha 3, installing the hdfview package will not result in a usable hdfview. The only java dependency hdfview has appears to be from the libjgraph-java package, which in turn depends on default-jre-headless or java-runtime-headless. Both of

[Bug 40257] Re: framebuffer setup should not be done in usplash.

2010-01-13 Thread Constantine Evans
Is there some reason for the change from Fix Released to Fix Committed, or was it a mistake? As far as I can tell, this bug was fixed four years ago. -- framebuffer setup should not be done in usplash. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40257 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 40257] Re: framebuffer setup should not be done in usplash.

2010-01-13 Thread Constantine Evans
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- framebuffer setup should not be done in usplash. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40257 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 70569] Re: Vim variants other than vim-tiny source /etc/vim/vimrc instead of /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny when invoked as vi (ie, Arrow keys not broken when running vi)

2009-07-02 Thread Constantine Evans
dmuir, that isn't this bug, and it isn't actually a bug at all. All vim documentation, if I recall correctly, points out that vi is meant to run a traditional form of vi, which means compatible is set. The fact that vi runs vim with nocompatible set when anything other than vim- tiny is installed

[Bug 76807] Re: /etc/skel/.bashrc sets HISTCONTROL twice in succession.

2008-05-17 Thread Constantine Evans
I'm afraid I didn't notice this bug closure, and I hope I won't be offending anyone by reopening it. The documentation explanation doesn't make sense to me, because not only is the repetition terribly confusing and unnecessary (having both lines uncommented makes it seem as though they are both

[Bug 212648] Re: [nvidia-new] a visit to http://www.themareks.com/xf/ in firefox hardy causes X to restart

2008-04-13 Thread Constantine Evans
It looks to me as though this is a video driver bug, possibly in the proprietary nvidia drivers. Nik, what drivers are you using? -- [nvidia-new] a visit to http://www.themareks.com/xf/ in firefox hardy causes X to restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212648 You received this bug

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-04-03 Thread Constantine Evans
A patch to simply stop the automatic timezone selection would be quite easy. I can do this if it is needed. Alternatively, I can improve my original patch to allow for timezones to be specified for entire countries/states. This would probably also be rather easy, though it would require that

[Bug 207369] Re: visudo is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an external text editor)

2008-03-27 Thread Constantine Evans
It's certainly an unfortunate default, and I had hoped it would be brought up elsewhere, as, at least at one time, I seem to recall that these sorts of issues weren't handled in bugs, especially for issues involving confusing behaviour and vi. One option would be to undo the changes made for the

[Bug 179847] Re: Cannot configure printers when not connected to the network.

2008-03-26 Thread Constantine Evans
While there is a similar bug that I am probably going to file soon, this one appears to be fixed. -- Cannot configure printers when not connected to the network. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179847 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 207395] [NEW] system-config-printer hangs for several minutes while loading if network is connected but remote printer is unreachable.

2008-03-26 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: system-config-printer If a network printer is inaccessible in a way such that dns doesn't fail and the connection isn't refused, system-config-printer hangs for several minutes while starting up or modifying that printer. For example, if a laptop user

[Bug 207369] Re: visudo is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an external text editor)

2008-03-26 Thread Constantine Evans
(I'm assuming this isn't a prank about vi) I'm afraid this is the direct result of bug #388659, which means that visudo will now use vi by default. Vi is an editor with a rather different model of editing. If you want to use nano, set your $EDITOR variable (eg, export EDITOR=nano), and then

[Bug 207369] Re: visudo is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an external text editor)

2008-03-26 Thread Constantine Evans
Sorry, that bug number appears to be a Debian bug. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388659 . -- visudo is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an external text editor) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207369 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
The obvious way to fix this would be to add a timezone entry to each city in Locations.xml. Unfortunately, that would be a very tedious task. It may be better to add timezone information to locations where the distance code gives the incorrect result, and use the distance code as a default. --

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
** Attachment added: Patch for libgweather http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12714304/libgweather-tzfix.diff -- Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
These two patches (for gnome-panel and libgweather trunks) may or may not lay the groundwork for solving this problem. As I proposed in my recent comment, the code allows for timezone tags in Locations.xml; I've added an example for San Diego. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to test this,

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
Of course, it is almost impossible to write code that works perfectly without any testing. The patches here should now work. I'm not happy with this solution, however. It seems as though it requires a huge amount of work in updating Locations.xml, in a rather unfortunate way. It could certainly

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
I agree that the solution is rather wanting, and believe that the timezone-guessing code is something that does not belong in any release. The idea of it not selecting a timezone at all is interesting: it would be very easy to do - I can make the patch if necessary - and wouldn't require any extra

[Bug 69184] Re: gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

2008-03-17 Thread Constantine Evans
It seems that the backup-writing code has been rewritten (to begin with, it's now in gedit-local-...). This error no longer occurs in hardy, with 2.22, and was probably fixed in even earlier versions. ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- gedit error Could not

[Bug 65941] Re: XHTML file recognition

2008-03-09 Thread Constantine Evans
This was reported over a year ago! I can't remember what I did at the time, especially for little bugs. It might be a good idea to report it upstream again if it hasn't been fixed yet. -- XHTML file recognition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/65941 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 192051] Re: Vinagre keyboard not working, mouse not always visible

2008-02-16 Thread Constantine Evans
Using the Alpha 4 livecd with an updated libgtk-vnc connecting to tightvnc 3.3.tight1.2.9, I can confirm this bug. The problem appears to be one of gtk keyboard focus: while clicking on elements generally focuses them, clicking on the remote screen doesn't. As a workaround, try clicking on the

[Bug 70569] Re: Vim variants other than vim-tiny source /etc/vim/vimrc instead of /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny when invoked as vi (ie, Arrow keys not broken when running vi)

2007-05-29 Thread Constantine Evans
I actually did bring this up quite a while ago on ubuntu-devel (before the split), and the consensus seemed to be for the traditional mode. -- Vim variants other than vim-tiny source /etc/vim/vimrc instead of /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny when invoked as vi (ie, Arrow keys not broken when running vi)

[Bug 42553] Re: wacom input devices enabled by default, why?

2007-04-05 Thread Constantine Evans
As I believe I noted earlier, these lines *do not* enable support for tablets by default. They only add support for a few tablet PCs. Tablets aren't supported by Ubuntu by default, and getting them working is actually rather annoying. -- wacom input devices enabled by default, why?

[Bug 62980] Re: Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

2007-02-12 Thread Constantine Evans
The 'vim' command is already there by default (vim-tiny is installed). If you want vim, use the 'vim' command. Vi isn't vim. In response to Reuben, there is nothing to revert. The 'vi' command has always been this way. In response to Liegerm, isn't the 'vim' command already there after

[Bug 62980] Re: Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

2007-02-12 Thread Constantine Evans
Sorry for the spam, but I should point all of you to bug 70569 as well, which pertains to the issue, and explains why there is some confusion over what vi does. -- Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim https://launchpad.net/bugs/62980 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 19066] Re: Pango-enabled firefox breaks MathML support

2007-02-07 Thread Constantine Evans
Freddy, just go to any site that uses mathml - search for mathml, for example - and make sure that pango rendering in firefox is enabled. If I recall correctly, pango is only used for firefox rendering now if there are certain language support packages installed which need the enhanced language

[Bug 79619] Re: Add/Remove programs crashed on Feisty

2007-01-21 Thread Constantine Evans
Denis, Jonh just said that two comments ago, and the status is Fix Released. Also, I think it is safe to assume that people here know how to use apt. As for the patch, I agree with Christof here - even if the problem isn't occurring any more, the patch should still be applied, since it would

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2007-01-07 Thread Constantine Evans
For some reason, my comment I thought I had made a few days ago didn't show up here. The issue wasn't in speedstep-centrino, it was in the ppc code of acpi, acpi_processor_ppc_notifier. My hack of commenting out code in the speedstep-centrino code was to keep the acpi code from being used to

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

2006-12-26 Thread Constantine Evans
37 used gdm in the last 30 days and only 42 used firefox in the last 30 days? And only 120 used dpkg? In fact, it appears that only 120 of the 1200 computers were used at all in the last 30 days. Is there some explanation for why the votes seem so strange? Sincerely, Constantine Evans

[Bug 76396] Re: Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-23 Thread Constantine Evans
A fix for this was committed upstream. ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed -- Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20) https://launchpad.net/bugs/76396 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 76396] Re: Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-23 Thread Constantine Evans
Messed up subtle aspects of this, due on distinction of upstream/package status. ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Confirmed -- Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20) https://launchpad.net/bugs/76396 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 76396] Re: Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-21 Thread Constantine Evans
. ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Constantine Evans -- Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20) https://launchpad.net/bugs/76396 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 76396] Re: Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-21 Thread Constantine Evans
** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = In Progress -- Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20) https://launchpad.net/bugs/76396 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 76396] Re: Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-21 Thread Constantine Evans
an instance of GR_UnixGraphics is created (destroyed), instead of being done in the function as it is now, which causes a significant performance problem. ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Assignee: Constantine Evans = (unassigned) Status: In Progress = Confirmed -- Abiword ignores DPI setting

[Bug 76807] /etc/skel/.bashrc sets HISTCONTROL twice in succession.

2006-12-21 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bash The current .bashrc in feisty has export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, then has a one line comment, and then has export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth. This is terribly confusing and unnecessary. The correct way to set this, I believe, would be to just have

[Bug 76803] Re: Powermanga not

2006-12-21 Thread Constantine Evans
This should be very easy to fix. ** Summary changed: - Edgy: Users not in games group. + Powermanga not ** Description changed: - Found this bug while playing powermanga. - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ powermanga --window --easy - /var/games/powermanga/powermanga.hi-easy: Permission denied - [EMAIL

[Bug 76396] Abiword ignores DPI setting for zooming, assumes 72 dpi (1440 dpi / 20)

2006-12-19 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: abiword Akin to bug #44672 in Evince, Abiword also ignores the system's and user's DPI settings (Xft.dpi and xorg.conf) for purposes of zooming. This was also discussed in bug #62347 in abiword, but was beyond the scope of that bug. It appears that

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-12-05 Thread Constantine Evans
Thank you, Mirco - that confirms some suspicions I had. I think I might be able to reproduce the problem now. -- kernel can't scale cpu frequency https://launchpad.net/bugs/36014 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-12-03 Thread Constantine Evans
Mirco - unfortunately, the bug is in an obscure part of the cpufreq code, and dmesg and lsmod don't show anything abnormal. The bug _does_ have a tendency to randomly appear and disappear. You might want to try resetting the BIOS, perhaps that will help. I suppose if you blacklisted all of the

[Bug 74325] Baobab uses incorrect units

2006-12-03 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: Baobab displays directory content sizes in binary prefix based units, but uses SI prefixes. We need to either display sizes with the correct units (KiB, MiB, etc), or have the calculation scheme changed so that the numbers are in SI units. I will report this upstream and

[Bug 74325] Re: Baobab uses incorrect units

2006-12-03 Thread Constantine Evans
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #382093 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382093 ** Also affects: gnome-utils (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382093 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Baobab uses incorrect units

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-12-01 Thread Constantine Evans
Arthur, it appears that this bug shows up somewhat randomly, and is not necessarily reproducible even with the same hardware and software configurations. I had the bug for months, and then it went away without explanation. Others have it even with newer kernels. Mirco, you should look at

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-11-28 Thread Constantine Evans
I must say, this bug is the worst I have worked with. I had thought that the patches that were included in 2.6.17 fixed the issue, but the PPC commenting method still works to solve the issue, it is apparent that the bug still exists. I have a few thoughts about how the bug might be solved, but

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-11-26 Thread Constantine Evans
Dan, please *don't* file another bug. I'm not sure what Paul is trying to say, but the D600 is one of the machines that has this problem, and is the machine I used to examine the bug. It has also rather been seen that the patch doesn't fix it, but unfortunately it is very difficult to work on

[Bug 71121] Re: 0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts ugly

2006-11-10 Thread Constantine Evans
This is a problem with the fontconfig configuration. It appears that it is being caused by /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-ttf-arphic-uming.conf declaring uming to be the strongest preference for every alias. Why was that done? -- 0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts ugly

[Bug 71121] Re: 0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts ugly

2006-11-10 Thread Constantine Evans
I'm attaching two patches here, one which changes all of the prefer to accept, and one which removes all of the alias sections in ttf- arphic-uming altogether. I'm assuming that there is some reason why uming is declaring aliases in its configuration file, which not a single other font in

[Bug 71121] Re: 0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts ugly

2006-11-10 Thread Constantine Evans
This is the patch that changes all prefer tags to accept tags, and is probably the better and more conservative of the two patches. ** Attachment added: Changes all prefer tags to accept http://librarian.launchpad.net/5035368/uming-accept.patch -- 0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts

[Bug 58993] Re: updae available: 0.1.20060903

2006-11-10 Thread Constantine Evans
The new version is now in Feisty (and also makes itself the default font as a side effect...). ** Changed in: ttf-arphic-uming (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Fix Released -- updae available: 0.1.20060903 https://launchpad.net/bugs/58993 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 35084] Re: Syntax highlighting vor cmake is missing

2006-11-10 Thread Constantine Evans
This is fixed in Edgy, as you mention, so it should be closed here. If you would like to request that this be backported, please see the appropriate section in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Fix Released -- Syntax highlighting

[Bug 63862] Re: wacom entries appear even when not having a tablet

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
I am going to be a bit brave here and reject this, since it seems to be an intentional decision by the Xorg team. If the inclusion is causing a specific problem, then you should file a bug about the problem. Feel free to reopen this if I am incorrect in my reasoning. Unfortunately, the underlying

[Bug 69181] Re: firefox has bee ncrashing often in edgy

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Assigning to self per what sflaw told me on #ubuntu-bugs. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Constantine Evans -- firefox has bee ncrashing often in edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/69181 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https

[Bug 55809] Re: HAL changes wireless interface (net.80211) to wired (net.80203) in info.category after suspend

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 59981 *** Rejecting hal part as well. ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected -- HAL changes wireless interface (net.80211) to wired (net.80203) in info.category after suspend https://launchpad.net/bugs/55809 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 34633] Re: Ctrl-C wrong exit help in insert mode

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
This was indirectly fixed in 7.0, which is now in Edgy. Ctrl-C now exits insert mode instead of printing the message. As this is not a very important bug, I would suggest against requesting a backport because of it, but it will be fixed in Ubuntu Backports if vim 7 is backported. Please see

[Bug 40733] Re: firefox - tab switching causes unintended tab dragdrop

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
As mentioned, this has been fixed in Firefox 2.0 in Edgy, which will most likely be in Ubuntu Backports for Dapper. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- firefox - tab switching causes unintended tab dragdrop https://launchpad.net/bugs/40733 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 69611] Re: jump to last position when reopening file

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Confirming this. This is trivial to fix, as the fix is already explained. I will add a bug about this to the debian package tomorrow. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- jump to last position when reopening file https://launchpad.net/bugs/69611 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 63448] Re: [edgy] command tab-completion broken in vim

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Thank you for reporting this. The problem has already been fixed in Feisty because it has a newer patch (7.0.122), which fixes the problem, as you mentioned. It is unlikely that this will be fixed in Edgy Backports unless there is some other reason for a newer version of Vim to be backported. **

[Bug 62980] Re: Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Thank you for your report, but this is actually the intended behaviour of the vi command. When invoking vim-tiny, the variant of vim installed by default, using the vi command, it reads /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, which sets the compatible mode, so that vi acts like the original vi. The broken arrow keys

[Bug 70569] Vim variants other than vim-tiny source /etc/vim/vimrc instead of /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny when invoked as vi (ie, Arrow keys not broken when running vi)

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: When invoked as vi, vim.tiny sources /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, which sets compatible so that the vi command runs like the original vi. According to several people on -devel, this is the desired behaviour for vim when invoked as vi, and the behaviour makes sense. However, when

[Bug 68960] Re: Vim locks up while editing a specific file (file attached)

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
I've confirmed this in Edgy. I will look into this upstream tomorrow. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Vim locks up while editing a specific file (file attached) https://launchpad.net/bugs/68960 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 65947] Re: gvim will not use the same filename for writing

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 69267 *** ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 69267 vim-gnome doesn't open non-ascii filenames by double click -- gvim will not use the same filename for writing https://launchpad.net/bugs/65947 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 46907] Re: gVim doesn't handle german umlauts correctly

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 69267 *** ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 69267 vim-gnome doesn't open non-ascii filenames by double click -- gVim doesn't handle german umlauts correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/46907 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 69267] Re: vim-gnome misinterprets non-ascii filenames when opened via nautilus

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
=ru_RU.UTF-8 - LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8 - LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8 - LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8 - LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8 - LC_ALL= + + (edited by Constantine Evans) ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- vim-gnome misinterprets non-ascii filenames when opened via

[Bug 66878] Re: Spellchecking impossible for most languages

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
It is possible that the configuration could be changed to use wget instead of ftp. I will look into the issue. -- Spellchecking impossible for most languages https://launchpad.net/bugs/66878 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 17386] Re: colorscheme get's sourced twice resulting in lost custom highlighting

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
After testing this in Edgy with Simon Morgan's .vimrc, I've found that this has been fixed, probably because gvimrc no longer contains the commands noted in the description. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Fix Released -- colorscheme get's sourced twice resulting in

[Bug 47385] Re: Gvim doesn't scroll correctly when using arrows

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Since this is from when Dapper was not yet released, and I am unable to reproduce it in Edgy, I am going to close this as Fix Released, since the bug would be rather apparent if it were still there and I would expect that others would have commented or filed duplicates. If you are still having

[Bug 35925] Re: Dapper: hitting q: in (g)vim causes a long cpu hang when syntax highlighting is enabled

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Since the reporter was the only one to see this, and is no longer seeing it, and I am also unable to see it in Edgy, I am closing it as Fix Released. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Fix Released -- Dapper: hitting q: in (g)vim causes a long cpu hang when syntax

[Bug 65941] Re: XHTML file recognition

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
I can confirm this. The problem is trivially easy to fix, and I will forward it upstream tomorrow. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- XHTML file recognition https://launchpad.net/bugs/65941 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 62980] Re: Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
The intended behaviour is to have vi use set compatible, as noted in the vim manpage, /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, and a variety of other places. The behaviour in Dapper was a bug. In fact, I've even filed a bug report about this (bug 70569). -- Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

[Bug 55068] Re: vim-gtk won't work

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
This is most likely caused by an incorrect alternatives configuration. If you are still having this problem, it would be most helpful if you could tell me what the output of update-alternatives --display gvim is? If it doesn't point to vim.gnome, then that is the problem, and this isn't a bug. In

[Bug 46209] Re: Nautilus Passes Relative Path to vim for Remote Files

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Confirming this. This is still happening in Edgy. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Nautilus Passes Relative Path to vim for Remote Files https://launchpad.net/bugs/46209 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 69611] Re: jump to last position when reopening file does not work when g is remapped.

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
** Summary changed: - jump to last position when reopening file + jump to last position when reopening file does not work when g is remapped. -- jump to last position when reopening file does not work when g is remapped. https://launchpad.net/bugs/69611 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 62980] Re: Arrow keys are incorrectly mapped in vim

2006-11-06 Thread Constantine Evans
Nicolò, the arrow keys aren't mapped because compatibility mode acts exactly like the original vi, down to bugs if I recall correctly. For this bug, I can understand the desire to have vi start vim. However, if someone wants to start vim, they need to run vim. One wouldn't use the command emacs

[Bug 62140] Re: Pleave remove Insert (INS) / Overwrite (OVR) modes

2006-11-05 Thread Constantine Evans
Thank you for your comments. I believe that you do make good points, but bug reports are not the proper venue for discussing such changes. Your ideas would be better received as a specification (https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs, and

[Bug 70316] Re: Using F5 as Hotkey in the Date/Time Plugin

2006-11-05 Thread Constantine Evans
Thanks for your comment. The changes you are requesting require more discussion and should rather be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/forums/ might be a good start. ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected -- Using F5 as

[Bug 69557] Re: Anjuta requires autogen in order to create new project

2006-10-31 Thread Constantine Evans
Recommends are for situations where the program does not require the package to run, but needs it for major functions to work. Anjuta still works as an editor without autogen installed. In the future, installation of recommends will probably be easier. ** Changed in: anjuta (Ubuntu)

Re: [Bug 69184] Re: gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

2006-10-31 Thread Constantine Evans
My apologies - I meant uid, not umask. Ari wrote: Hi Constantine, first thanks a lot for your quick response! On umask: It doesn't look like that option will accept a user number... it seems to be a permission mask for filesystems that don't support builtin unix permissions umask: octal

[Bug 69184] Re: gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

2006-10-30 Thread Constantine Evans
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #343559 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343559 ** Also affects: gedit (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343559 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to

[Bug 69184] Re: gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

2006-10-30 Thread Constantine Evans
I've figured out the problem, and added a description of it to the upstream bug. For now, you can get around the issue by mounting with the option umask=(YOUR_USER_NUMBER) instead of umask=000 (probably umask=1000). -- gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-10-30 Thread Constantine Evans
Please read the comments here before adding your comments, and *don't add your experience if you are having an unrelated bug*. Dragonmirov, your bug has nothing to do with this problem. John, I might take a look at the problem again, but because of its intermittent nature I am not experiencing it

[Bug 69181] Re: firefox has bee ncrashing often in edgy

2006-10-29 Thread Constantine Evans
Unfortunately, your report doesn't give us enough information to understand what is going wrong with Firefox on your system. If you have the nonfree Flash plugin installed, do the sites you go to when Firefox crashes normally have Flash components or advertisements? If not, it would be very

[Bug 69184] Re: gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

2006-10-29 Thread Constantine Evans
I'm confirming this after reproducing it with a clean loop mounted image - vim works without an error, but gedit gives this error. ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- gedit error Could not create a backup file when trying to save a file in a VFAT partition

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-10-16 Thread Constantine Evans
Fjodor, throttling and scaling *are not the same*, as I noted before. Throttling has nothing to do with this bug. Please don't discuss it here. John, I'm rather certain that the max_freq cannot be set manually. If max == min, then you probably have the race condition problem that this bug is

[Bug 63862] Re: wacom entries appear even when not having a tablet

2006-10-03 Thread Constantine Evans
The configuration in xorg.conf specifically breaks tablet support for tablet users by having ForceDevice ISDV4. These lines are to support tablet *PCs* that use wacom's interface. -- wacom entries appear even when not having a tablet https://launchpad.net/bugs/63862 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 36014] Re: [Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-09-22 Thread Constantine Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fjodor, the issue that you are having is not related to this bug. Please file a new bug report about it if you can't find a relevant one. That said, I think you need to ask on the forums or the mailing list, since it doesn't appear you are

[Bug 32561] Re: Pango-enabled firefox is much slower

2006-08-19 Thread Constantine Evans
BBCUrdu seems to be rendering without any obvious (eg, boxes) problems for me with Pango disabled (though I know nothing about the language), but we probably should err on the side of safety here. Ian, could you consider adding Urdu to the list of locales requiring Pango? -- Pango-enabled

[Bug 56126] IMAP4rev1 should be removed as an option

2006-08-12 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: The IMAP4rev1 option for receiving mail is broken, unsupported, unnecessary, outdated and confusing. Evolution developers seem to agree at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324118 that it should never have been included in a stable release. We really shouldn't have it

[Bug 56126] Re: IMAP4rev1 should be removed as an option

2006-08-12 Thread Constantine Evans
Just to clarify here, I'm listing this as a bug because I believe this is something that could be done without significant discussion. We could just patch evolution to remove the IMAP4rev1 option when creating new accounts, without causing the compatibility issues entailed with removing the code

[Bug 22687] Re: evolution ignoring preferred browser setting

2006-08-12 Thread Constantine Evans
I can't confirm this in a mostly clean 6.06.1 installation. Evolution does appear to be using the gconf setting instead of x-www-browser or $BROWSER, so I can't see where the problem would be unless the gconf key is set incorrectly. -- evolution ignoring preferred browser setting

[Bug 56126] Re: IMAP4rev1 should be removed as an option

2006-08-12 Thread Constantine Evans
Hmm... that seems reasonable, but we also don't seem to say that this option shouldn't be used. In fact, the help file for Evolution says the exact same thing for IMAP and IMAP4rev1. Is there some documentation that I am missing that says this, and if so, why is it so obscure? -- IMAP4rev1

[Bug 40125] Re: Doesn't bring the network back online when resuming from suspend / hibernate

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
baszoetekouw, that is a different bug. Please don't post about it here - make another bug, or wait for me to do so - I'm having the same problem. -- Doesn't bring the network back online when resuming from suspend / hibernate https://launchpad.net/bugs/40125 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 55809] Re: NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend.

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
Confirming, as others have reported this as well. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend. https://launchpad.net/bugs/55809 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 55809] NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend.

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
Public bug reported: On a Dell D600 running Edgy with an Intel 2200BG, Network Manager detects the card as a wired interface instead of a wireless interface after suspending (everything is fine before suspending). It then goes on to claim that it is connected to a wired connection, but it does

[Bug 55809] Re: NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend.

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
This actually appears to be a bug in hal - I'll move it as soon as I get more information on it. Hal seems to be changing the information it publishes after a suspend. Restarting hal fixes the problem. I'm attaching the NM log. Search for Going to sleep to find point where suspend occurs. --

[Bug 55809] Re: NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend.

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
rejecting - this is a hal bug. oops. ** Also affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Summary changed: - NetworkManager detects wireless interface as wired interface after coming out of suspend. + HAL changes wireless interface (net.80211) to wired

[Bug 55809] Re: HAL changes wireless interface (net.80211) to wired (net.80203) in info.category after suspend

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
I'm attaching a log of hald's verbose output when this happens, but it doesn't appear to have any obviously useful information on the problem. Search for event is 'button/sleep to get to what I believe is the relevant portion. -- HAL changes wireless interface (net.80211) to wired (net.80203)

[Bug 55814] Re: Nautilus duplicates thumbnails for files with special characters when searching

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
This is a rather obscure bug, but more info is not needed. I've confirmed it with nautilus on edgy. This is entirely in nautilus. To reproduce it, do the following: 1) Remove ~/.thumbnails 2) Create a directory with one thumbnailable file in it, that has a space in the name. 3) Go to that

[Bug 55814] Re: Nautilus duplicates thumbnails for files with special characters when searching

2006-08-09 Thread Constantine Evans
This occurs with my test, on edgy as well. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Confirmed -- Nautilus duplicates thumbnails for files with special characters when searching https://launchpad.net/bugs/55814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-08-04 Thread Constantine Evans
Ken, could you check to see if this happens with the 2.6.17 kernel in Edgy? I no longer have the problem now that I am using Edgy, and there is reason to believe that the issue was resolved by some changes upstream. -- kernel can't scale cpu frequency https://launchpad.net/bugs/36014 --

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-07-23 Thread Constantine Evans
My problem was that this was happening with all kernels that I tried (386, 686, etc), and fixing it required hackish modification of the _PPC frequency limiting code, to stop it from incorrectly limiting. It appears that this bug is now gone as of 2.6.17-2 in Edgy, but I can't say for sure. The

[Bug 36014] Re: kernel can't scale cpu frequency

2006-06-12 Thread Constantine Evans
I've been working on trying to fix this, and have had some success in tracking down the problem. The problem occurs in the verification steps of __cpufreq_set_policy in cpufreq.c. If one comments out that (from after the memcpy to before the data-min = policy-min), cpufreq works fine. Something

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