[Bug 396949] Re: mounted cdrom doesn't display long filenames

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Kegel
Also happens with the kid pix 3 disc, so much for that workaround :-) There are too many files to copy and rename by hand. mount -t iso9660 -o ro,joliet /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom fails with unrecognized option or something like that. dmesg | grep joliet shows [ 1836.464112] udf: bad mount option

[Bug 399580] [NEW] conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Running the (32-bit) chromium ui_tests all day under valgrind on 64 bit jaunty netted a single instance of this warning: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) at __libc_res_nsend (res_send.c:1011) by __libc_res_nquery (res_query.c:225) by

[Bug 399580] Re: conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Filed upstream as http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10391 ** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #10391 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10391 -- conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399580 You

[Bug 190834] Re: keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes

2009-07-05 Thread Dan Kegel
This is affecting me about one boot out of four in Karmic Koala alpha 2 64 bit (with updates) on my Compaq Presario R3000. I've been running 32 bit Ubuntu (Dapper through Jaunty) on this box for a long time, and never had this problem before. I'd be happy to provide any information you

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-03 Thread Dan Kegel
I see from /etc/logrotate.d/{apt,dpkg} that the logs are rotated monthly, so the log rotation bug only prevents updates one week out of four. Still worth fixing. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification

[Bug 391044] Re: grub2 update adds --no-floppy to search lines

2009-07-02 Thread Dan Kegel
I am running Karmic alpha 2, applied the updates offered to me, chose the defaults everywhere, and ended up with a nonbootable system. It took a while to figure out to remove the --no-floppy argument. I didn't chain-load, as far as I know. The debconf prompt made no sense to me, it offered no

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Here's a little perl script that tries to match exactly update-notifiers logic (from the one used in Karmic, I think, http://update-notifier.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.78/update_8c-source.html ) It prints out why update manager's not going to be launched. I'll try to improve that to

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Running that perl script showed that update notifier is probably getting confused by log rotation! It's telling me that it won't run update manager because /var/log/dpkg.log is too new... even when the darn file is only new because the log was rotated and is zero size. I'm attaching a (bad)

[Bug 322353] Re: segfault updating package openjdk-6-jre-headless

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414462 which says the app was trying to allocate too much memory for your system. To verify whether it's the same problem, could you reinstall the problem package and try $ java -version to see if it fails, and $ java -Xmx384m -version to see if it

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
May be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/299360 -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 299360] Re: No automatic package update notifications since Intrepid upgrade

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Happened to me, too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update- notifier/+bug/356152 may be a dup. -- No automatic package update notifications since Intrepid upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299360 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-26 Thread Dan Kegel
I'd like to have a script I can send to people complaining of autoupdate failure to gather the information needed to diagnose the problem. Here's a first draft. Along with generic update-notifier and update-manager information, it checks for the two problems I've seen personally: wrong permissions

[Bug 60764] Re: Large file transfer gives error: Corrupted MAC on input

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this in Jaunty on a Lenovo laptop. lspci says 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) The symptoms are so severe that running google-chrome over ssh dies within a few seconds. Happily, the workaround sudo ethtool -K eth0

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
Still present in Jaunty Alpha 2 when starting Google Chrome: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Possible culprit: $ strings /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so | grep /usr/lib

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Kegel
Please ignore my comment about the wasted day. I think update-manager already waits properly. The /etc/cron.daily/apt permissions problem is the real issue, I think. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this, too. The system in question was upgraded from an earlier version of ubuntu to 9.04. Update Manager says Your system is up to date. The package information was last updated 25 days ago. (!) $ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-04-22 19:53

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I did sudo chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/apt sudo rm /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily rebooted, and logged in. Five minutes later, cron.daily ran. Five minutes after that, update manager popped up in the task bar and offered a huge pile of updates... but after it finished, it still said The

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Hmm. /etc/cron.daily/apt will sleep for up to 1800 seconds (30 minutes), so it looks like there's a one-day lag built into the system. On the first day, /etc/cron.daily/apt updates the list of packages; on the next day, update-manager uses the updated list. Maybe we could get rid of that wasted

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-05-21 Thread Dan Kegel
The Chromium project is gathering a list of the 32-bit-on-64-bit problems they're facing at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/Linux64BitIssues It would be good if we could resolve all of them for Koala. It's sad that resolving these is considered low importance. The 32 bit subsystem should

[Bug 364909] Re: i8042-based keyboard fails on resume

2009-05-02 Thread Dan Kegel
In http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200717pgno=6 you mentioned that this is a regression. Just to confirm: did this work properly in Ubuntu 8.10? -- i8042-based keyboard fails on resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364909 You received this

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-03-29 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm getting this with apps on Jaunty Beta. In particular, I get the errors Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Failed to load

[Bug 341532] Re: libc6-dbg has broken 32 bit symbols on x86_64

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Kegel
This works in Jaunty Alpha 5, huzzah. So: 9.04 ok, 8.04 and 8.10 bad. Back on 8.10, I checked to make sure there was no version skew between libc6 and libc6-debug: $ apt-cache policy libc6-dbg | grep Installed Installed: 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9 $ apt-cache policy libc6 | grep Installed

[Bug 341532] [NEW] libc6-dbg has broken 32 bit symbols on x86_64

2009-03-11 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libc6-dbg On Ubuntu 8.10, gdb and valgrind cannot show line numbers and filenames for functions in glibc for 32 bit programs on 64 bit systems, even if libc6-dbg is installed. You can see this by setting a breakpoint on some function in glibc,

[Bug 334481] [NEW] trackpad doesn't work on lenovo t61 with jaunty alpha 4 live cd

2009-02-25 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: On my lenovo t61 booted with the jaunty alpha 4 live cd, the pencil-eraser mouse and its buttons work fine, but the trackpad and its buttons don't respond. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- trackpad doesn't work on lenovo t61 with

[Bug 332339] Re: konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-22 Thread Dan Kegel
So the enhancement request is to turn it on by default, I guess. Otherwise it's not very useful for routing the average person to the right download. -- konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332339 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 332253] Re: Epiphany doesn't mention Ubuntu in user agent string

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
** Description changed: Binary package hint: epiphany-browser The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Epiphany doesn't - mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so it's impossible to detect. + mention Ubuntu in the

[Bug 332340] [NEW] konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Konqueror doesn't mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so Konqueror users will get the non-streamlined download page. Konqueror

[Bug 332339] [NEW] konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Konqueror doesn't mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so Konqueror users will get the non-streamlined download page. Konqueror

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-01-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Here's a workaround script for at least Ubuntu 8.04.1. What other libraries should be added to this list? #!/bin/sh # Script to work around https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/190227 # Picasa can't capture images on 64 bit ubuntu if grep -q /usr/lib

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-01-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Is this still a problem in Intrepid? -- ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190227 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 135540] Re: mgp new upstream version available

2008-12-26 Thread Dan Kegel
Please get this into Jaunty. 1.13a, built from source, works great. The version in Intrepid just hangs with a black screen as described above. -- mgp new upstream version available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135540 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Kegel
Giorgio, thanks for that link. It led me to the thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1827692 in which (see post number 8) AaronP of NVIDIA Corporation explains what the bug is and says it will be fixed in the next beta release of the driver. The latest beta release number is

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Kegel
Also: the bug affects firefox 3 in Intrepid, too! For me, viewing the page http://hi.baidu.com/jmlover/blog/item/ea27c83df3b883c29f3d62cf.html shows the font scribble with the nvidia driver, but not with the nv driver. (One more note: the nvidia thread mentions that turning on antialiased font

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Kegel
Giorgio / Chuck, can you provide a screenshot of the problem in OpenOffice or a recipe for how to reproduce the OpenOffice problem? -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300476 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I tried reproducing the openoffice problem, but couldn't. Can you give a recipe or more details there? -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
Since this affects both Wine and OpenOffice, and seems to be caused by a problem in the old nvidia drivers, let's move it to the nvidia-graphics- drivers-96 package. ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: wine = nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 -

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Kegel
Sadly, I don't have any cards that are supported by both drivers. I see there is an older version of nvidia-glx-96 available ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/nvidia-glx-96 vs. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-updates/nvidia-glx-96 ) but I can't figure out how to install it; I tried

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-22 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this, too. It seems quite new -- was there a recent update of some font library in ubuntu? Fresh .wine and fresh wine from git don't help. Also, with visual effects on in the ubuntu desktop, lots of stuff is all f*cked up. Even the title bar for xterm looks awful when you mouse

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 - 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-22 Thread Dan Kegel
The culprit may be be (from /var/log/dpkg.log): 2008-11-21 20:31:01 install nvidia-glx-96 none 96.43.09-0ubuntu1 Doing System / Administration / Hardware Drivers and then disabling the nvidia driver -- and then rebooting! -- seems to make the problem go away on my compaq r3000. -- Wine :

[Bug 256025] Re: invoke-rc.d procps start loads /etc/syctl.d before /etc/sysctl.conf

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Kegel
I've updated http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem to reflect the new workaround. -- invoke-rc.d procps start loads /etc/syctl.d before /etc/sysctl.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256025 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Kegel
Although using GTK themeing sounds nice, it's impractical; wine is going to use windows themes. See http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-November/070338.html -- Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111061 You received this bug notification

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Kegel
So this will be actual themes (msstyle files), and not just colors? That sounds like a great halfway solution until real theming works (although requiring more manual labor). Yes, real msstyle files. Also it wouldn't handle user- customized colors, so we might merge these two efforts

Re: [Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Endolith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, real msstyle files. Ah. And we know how to avoid the slow parts that Wine doesn't quite handle right? I don't, but either a) people can avoid them by trial and error and/or b) wine can improve. How about including a

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-22 Thread Dan Kegel
No, not yet implemented, it was just a discussion. BTW Picasa tried theme color scraping, it was spectacularly ugly, so we stopped. The Wineconf tracking themes proposal mentioned by Scott is much more promising. -- Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

[Bug 41747] Re: if network cable not plugged in on boot, no address ever acquired

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Kegel
This works in Hardy. ** Changed in: gnome-netstatus (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- if network cable not plugged in on boot, no address ever acquired https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a

[Bug 262839] Re: dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors

2008-08-31 Thread Dan Kegel
The system in question probably had a bad stick of ram. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262839 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 262839] [NEW] dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dpkg I ran into this while bringing up a system that happens to have a flaky network card which caused a single bit error about one in every hundred megabits downloaded. This caused about three .deb packages to be downloaded with single bit errors; I

Re: [packaging] LSB Package API

2008-06-23 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Denis Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this is a corner case at all. For one thing, propietary applications might just don't play a role _because_ there is no really good distribution method for them - the typical chicken-and-egg problem. (I'm

[Bug 114025] Re: Problem with wine preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000

2008-06-11 Thread Dan Kegel
Not that I know of. FWIW, other similar apps are also affected: qemu: http://lists.scratchbox.org/pipermail/scratchbox-users/2008-April/001218.html dosemu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=781052 So whatever solution you go for, coordinate it with the owners of those other packages. --

[Bug 114025] Re: Problem with wine preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000

2008-06-02 Thread Dan Kegel
Right, that's expected, but it's bad to run wine apps as root. For one thing, it contaminates your .wine directory with files owned by root, for another, it makes it easier to get infected with rootkits and the like.http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/ -- Problem with wine preloader: Warning:

[Bug 224042] Re: Wine 64 bit does not depend on lib32nss-mdns package; dns lookups broken

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Kegel
This is now in the wine faq: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-933a92a965553f3ef2ab7ff40488b58f0983fdc6 It's probably safe to consider this tested. -- Wine 64 bit does not depend on lib32nss-mdns package; dns lookups broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224042 You received this bug notification

[Bug 216480] Re: wine output error

2008-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 114025 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114025 This is a duplicate bug, but for your convenience, here's the workaround: http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem -- wine output error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216480 You received this bug

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