[Bug 1814169] Re: Mutter upsteam bug: cannot overwrite workspaces layout

2019-04-14 Thread Mike Hicks
Can this be incorporated into the Ubuntu 18.04 version? I manually patched 3.30.2-1~ubuntu18.10.3, but was overwritten by an update to 3.30.2-1~ubuntu18.10.4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1814169] Re: Mutter upsteam bug: cannot overwrite workspaces layout

2019-04-14 Thread Mike Hicks
Correction, I am running Ubuntu 18.10, not 18.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814169 Title: Mutter upsteam bug: cannot overwrite workspaces layout To manage notifications about

[Bug 1048373] Re: No option to remain in one filesystem

2017-06-09 Thread Mike Hicks
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. I noticed my laptop was running slow and discovered that it was trying to back up files over a fuse.sshfs mount to another machine in my apartment. This should not happen. I'm probably going to have to disable deja-dup because of this issue and find some other way

[Bug 63587] Re: Can't queue a song more than once in Rhythmbox

2014-12-19 Thread Mike Hicks
This bug is still present in Rhythmbox 3.0.2-0ubuntu2. Banshee had only briefly been the default music player in Ubuntu, and Rhythmbox is the default again (in main for Ubuntu 14.04 while Banshee is in universe). I have been using Banshee for several years, but a new bug has cropped up which makes

[Bug 1393788] [NEW] xfce4-weather-plugin reports temperature that is too cold by several degrees

2014-11-18 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: The XFCE weather plugin (xfce4-weather-plugin) uses data from apicache.met.no to report weather from around the world. Unfortunately, that site incorrectly reports temperature for my nearest location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Currently, the applet reports a temperature

[Bug 1374896] [NEW] Cannot mount HTC One m8 via MTP on Ubuntu 14.04

2014-09-27 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: I am unable to mount the filesystems on my HTC One m8 phone. It is an Android 4.x device, which only supports the Media Transfer Protocol for transferring files between the phone and a connected PC. USB Mass Storage is not supported. My phone is the variant sold by T-Mobile

[Bug 1282384] [NEW] osmosis can't handle 64-bit way identifiers

2014-02-19 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: I am unable to use osmosis 0.40.1+ds1-7 to convert an XML export from the OpenStreetMap site which I downloaded today. The download includes some nodes (points) which have identifiers that cannot be represented as 32-bit integers. This has been an issue for just over a year

[Bug 1256134] Re: Image appears cropped (underscan/overscan) on external HDTV display

2013-11-28 Thread Mike Hicks
** Attachment added: lspci-vnvn.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1256134/+attachment/3919427/+files/lspci-vnvn.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256134

[Bug 1256134] [NEW] Image appears cropped (underscan/overscan) on external HDTV display

2013-11-28 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: I am visiting my parents who have a Samsung HDTV capable of 1920x1080i resolution (30/60Hz interlaced). When I plug in my Dell laptop (Inspiron N4010) with its integrated Intel graphics, I am unable to get the image to display correctly -- it appears cropped, with several

[Bug 1256134] Re: Image appears cropped (underscan/overscan) on external HDTV display

2013-11-28 Thread Mike Hicks
** Attachment added: xrandr --verbose with Samsung HDTV connected (HDMI1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1256134/+attachment/3919426/+files/xrandr--verbose.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1256134] Re: Image appears cropped (underscan/overscan) on external HDTV display

2013-11-28 Thread Mike Hicks
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1256134/+attachment/3919428/+files/Xorg.0.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256134 Title:

[Bug 1213057] Re: xfce4-session Crash

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Hicks
xfce has recently become unusable for me due to this bug or one very similar. I had to switch to another desktop environment in order to get anything accomplished because crashes are so frequent. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1019708] Re: Firefox pegs CPU usage immediately, even in safe mode

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Hicks
This bad behavior seems to have been caused by issues with futex system calls. Here's the most detailed description I've seen so far, including a small test program that can be used to replicate the behavior (I haven't tried it since it modifies the system time): https://lwn.net/Articles/504658/

[Bug 1019708] Re: Firefox pegs CPU usage immediately, even in safe mode

2012-07-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Thanks. I was beginning to feel a bit silly after a reboot fixed my issue as well. I had first tried restarting my X environment, thinking that some Gnome libraries or protocols might have gotten out of sync somehow. I rarely reboot my machine since issues can normally be resolved through other

[Bug 1019708] Re: Firefox pegs CPU usage immediately, even in safe mode

2012-07-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Just since I'm not sure I want to file another bug against something that may be in a library function or system call, I'll note here that mythfrontend and mythbackend processes (from MythTV) were also running hot on a machine I use as a DVR. Those processes are more heavily multi-threaded, so

[Bug 1019708] [NEW] Firefox pegs CPU usage immediately, even in safe mode

2012-06-30 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: After updating to Firefox 13.0.1 (13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1), the browser immediately starts using large amounts of CPU time (50 to 100%), even if I start the browser in safe mode with plugins and other features disabled. CPU usage remains consistently high as I browse

[Bug 553073] Re: Make step size of mouse wheel volume control configurable

2011-10-28 Thread Mike Hicks
It looks like the /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/volume_step setting is now (in Oneiric Ocelot 11.10) ignored by whatever the new volume control thing is in the GNOME 3 Shell, so both the keyboard multimedia keys and the mouse wheel have larger step sizes than what I'd like to see. It would actually

[Bug 579300] Re: Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS*

2010-11-21 Thread Mike Hicks
I vote for restoring ALSA's OSS emulation module to the official kernel, and blacklisting it by default. If there was a separate package, I think it would inevitably get out of sync. I am also dealing with this bug because of MythTV. Personally, I believe MythTV's 0.23's backend is broken in

[Bug 160151] Re: Edge resistance without stickiness (as in Metacity)

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Hicks
The edge snap behavior in Compiz is fairly strange to me, and I'm having trouble getting accustomed to it. I think most window managers going back more than a decade through Metacity, Sawfish, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, AfterStep, and FVWM have used roughly the same algorithms. It would be best

[Bug 568611] Re: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Hicks
I have encountered this problem on a Dell Inspiron 14R (N4010) when running Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10). I installed to 10.10 (still in alpha/beta at the moment) because the install media I had for Lucid 10.04 didn't support the onboard wired Ethernet device. Will any patches be submitted for the

[Bug 594488] Re: package flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.1 cannot install/upgrade over proxy

2010-07-01 Thread Mike Hicks
I'm having this problem too. I had also tried manually downloading the file, running dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-installer, and then typing in the path manually, but the package scripts don't seem to find the file. I'll have to try the hard-coding option. -- package flashplugin-installer

[Bug 594488] Re: package flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.1 cannot install/upgrade over proxy

2010-07-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Also, when I tried renaming the adobe- flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz package to install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz instead, the installer exited and put this message on the screen: download or license refused The Flash plugin is NOT installed. I guess this means I have to go to

[Bug 573356] Re: Boot hangs after fsck following upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

2010-05-08 Thread Mike Hicks
It appears this was addressed in the Ubuntu 10.04 Release Notes at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004 under the heading Changes in boot-time output on Ubuntu Server. If I read that correctly, a splash boot will show instructions for how to get past this by prompting the user to

[Bug 558700] Re: desktop applet not installed

2010-05-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Not sure about the original poster, but I'm getting this error to pop up while upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04, but it is being generated by deskbar-applet, not Firefox, so the bug should probably be changed to apply to the deskbar-applet package instead. -- desktop applet not installed

[Bug 573356] [NEW] Boot hangs after fsck following upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

2010-05-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and am having trouble booting my box. Both in normal mode and in recovery mode, my system hangs after the following message is printed: fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 /dev/sdb1: clean 380060/4259840 files,

[Bug 573356] Re: Boot hangs after fsck following upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

2010-05-01 Thread Mike Hicks
Okay, I misspoke about my second hard drive not being set to automount -- I had swapped drives a while back and still had an entry in /etc/fstab pointing to a disk UUID that no longer existed. Editing /etc/fstab to comment out the erroneous entry allowed my system to boot. I believe the relevant

[Bug 573356] Re: Boot hangs after fsck following upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

2010-05-01 Thread Mike Hicks
** Description changed: I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and am having trouble booting my box. Both in normal mode and in recovery mode, my system hangs after the following message is printed: - fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 - /dev/sdb1: clean 380060/4259840

[Bug 553581] Re: isohybrid command not found

2010-04-07 Thread Mike Hicks
I'd like to see the isohybrid script included as well. Note that it requires a newer version syslinux because of changes in the isolinux.bin bootloader (I believe 3.72 is the minimum -- I was able to use the file from syslinux 3.84 successfully). -- isohybrid command not found

[Bug 397595] Re: libpcap0.8-dev does not include pcap-int.h

2009-10-30 Thread Mike Hicks
Programs using libpcap should avoid directly using things defined in pcap-int.h. It would be better if you can use the functions and data structures declared in the other headers which do get included in the libpcap dev package. You may really want to be using pcap_t instead of struct pcap. --

[Bug 153301] Re: weather applet won't use automatic-proxy-configuration

2009-08-13 Thread Mike Hicks
Is this really fixed? Did it fix automatic proxies but break manual ones? I've been unable to get weather info since upgrading to 9.04, and my environment requires a manual proxy configuration. -- weather applet won't use automatic-proxy-configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153301 You

[Bug 397595] [NEW] libpcap0.8-dev does not include pcap-int.h

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libpcap0.8-dev I am attempting to compile a tool called Tomahawk, which allows replaying of pcap-formatted traffic dumps. Tomahawk is available at http://www.tomahawktesttool.org/ or http://tomahawk.sourceforge.net/ Tomahawk requires libnet (I used the

[Bug 397595] Re: libpcap0.8-dev does not include pcap-int.h

2009-07-09 Thread Mike Hicks
*sigh* Okay, pcap-int.h turned out to be an unneccessary include. Removing the offending '#include pcap.h' from the tomahawk.c file on my system didn't adversely affect anything -- the program compiled just the same. Further investigation reveals that pcap-int.h is apparently for internal data

[Bug 84844] Re: firefox freezes in feisty herd 3

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Hicks
I've been having problems with this for a while now. I thought it seemed to go away either just before Ubuntu 9.04 came out, or briefly after the upgrade, but it's back with a vengeance. I had also switched system chassis lately -- originally I'd been running a Dell PowerEdge 600SC, which did

[Bug 361649] Re: Screensaver 'lattice' causes immediate Xorg freeze/crash

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Hicks
I also had Xorg hang today with the flux screensaver, also from the rss-glx package. The X server (well, some remnant of it) also ended up hammering my CPU with 99.9% usage after I attempted to kill it, so any operations from my command-line SSH session went very slowly. I would like to simply

[Bug 361649] Re: Screensaver 'lattice' causes immediate Xorg freeze/crash

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Hicks
I also experienced a GUI crash with the lattice screensaver on what lspci reports is a ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]. Fortunately, my system didn't do a hard hang, and I was still able to use an existing SSH session to manage the box a little and determine which process had

[Bug 117229] Re: vncviewer fais vith Rect too big

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Hicks
Interesting idea with xtightvncviewer, but I end up getting a similar problem with it too. Here I was connecting to a QEMU session booting OpenSolaris: [mhi...@accra][~]$ xtightvncviewer -compresslevel 7 -encodings copyrect tight hextile zlib corre rre raw localhost:1 Connected to RFB

[Bug 381490] [NEW] xdg-user-dirs has no man pages; URL in README is incorrect

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xdg-user-dirs The xdg-user-dirs package doesn't contain any man pages or other documentation for the main two binaries (xdg-user-dir, xdg-user-dirs- update) and the /usr/share/doc/xdg-user-dirs/README file only contains the following statement: See

[Bug 31979] Re: Screensaver should allow selective random

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hicks
I've been subscribed to this bug for some time now, but I should note why I'm interested. First, I have been on systems that don't have decent OpenGL support, so many of the 3D screensavers are slow on systems that completely lack 3D, and may cause the system to crash or make the console unusable

[Bug 349331] Re: limited screen resolution

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hicks
One problem is that the emulated Cirrus card apparently only has 4MB of video RAM, which effectively limits the 24/32-bit depth resolutions to 1152x864. You could probably go higher with 16-bit color instead. I've been trying to use the alternate -vga std and -vga vmware display devices, which

[Bug 283489] Re: MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hicks
I get the MP-BIOS bug message whenever I try to run the x86_64 version of Ubuntu on QEMU (0.10.0-1ubuntu1). qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso I'm not sure if this is a bug in QEMU or the kernel (or both...) -- MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC

[Bug 378733] [NEW] qemu monitor virtual console won't do scrollback via VNC

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu In order to prevent myself from inadvertently killing virtual machines that I run via qemu, I've been running them with VNC enabled (-vnc or -vnc :1, etc. on the qemu command line) instead of using the normal GUI. However, this has the drawback

[Bug 335942] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Hicks
Deeply, deeply frustrating to insert a CD-R, get ready to right-click and burn to CD like I've done for months with 8.10 Intrepid, and suddenly see Nautilus crash, especially considering that Brasero is a feature that is flaunted in the beta upgrade documentation:

[Bug 312159] [NEW] mythfrontend should crop 1920x1088 video to 1920x1080

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hicks
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythtv The broadcast standard for HDTV in North America (ATSC) is defined as 1920 columns by 1080 rows (lines). However, a limitation of the MPEG-2 video standard is that a video must be encoded using blocks of 16x16 pixels. 1080 is not evenly

[Bug 208248] Re: printing in firefox-3.0b4 (Hardy) produces white gaps between letters near right margin

2008-11-12 Thread Mike Hicks
On the contrary, I just experienced this with Intrepid. -- printing in firefox-3.0b4 (Hardy) produces white gaps between letters near right margin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208248 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 278176] Re: Intrepid ubuntu server won't boot RAID1

2008-11-03 Thread Mike Hicks
I saw this as well. lspci reports that I have an Adaptec AHA-3960D controller. Since the device got detected a few seconds after the (initramfs) prompt appeared, I was able to boot the system by just typing exit. I guess the startup scripts will re-scan for the boot device after the busybox

[Bug 221664] Re: lilo loads wrong data for big initramfs (?)

2008-07-27 Thread Mike Hicks
I came across this problem too, but it first affected my kernel and caused the system to panic at boot. I only got to this page to figure out the solution after I used a rescue mode boot to install the amd64 server kernel. -- lilo loads wrong data for big initramfs (?)