[Bug 314044] Re: WebDav support in Nautilus broken

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Boddie
I've just tried to connect to a webdavs URL in Ubuntu 11.10 and I get the same results as reported above: attempting to enter a folder makes it appear as a file (after the moved permanently error), but using the list view and expanding the tree shows the contents of a folder. I've seen this

[Bug 269662] Re: Creating a new partition

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Boddie
I imagine that the reporter has now moved on from this situation. However, people in similar situations should see the following page for ways to refresh the kernel's view of the partition table after adding partitions: http://serverfault.com/questions/36038/reread-partition-table-without-

[Bug 31491] Re: kio_http processes build up and hog all CPU time

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Boddie
I'm now running Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 3.5.10, and I haven't seen this problem since I last commented, either. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31491 Title: kio_http processes build up

[Bug 304193] Re: digiKam fails to connect to a previously recognised/registered camera

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Boddie
For the record, the problem seemed to manifest itself when the memory card in the camera was heavily utilised. Having fewer images stored on the card seemed to make it less likely for the process of connecting to stall. What I did notice was that the initialisation of hotplugged devices did become

[Bug 44194] Re: wpasupplicant doesn't start when the network start

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Boddie
Thanks to everyone who figured this bug out. I installed backported versions of ifupdown and netbase from Intrepid and this specific problem seems to be solved for me. However, after having to hunt down the apparent cause of the problem (useless wlan0 interface being brought up at boot which does

[Bug 190595] Re: knetworkmanager does not automatically connect to trusted networks

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Boddie
Just looking at KNetworkManager in Hardy, and there doesn't seem to be an option to connect automatically to trusted networks. I don't see how this bug is somehow irreproducible, or rather I don't see how this apparently missing feature is somehow present, thus invalidating the bug - if it isn't a

[Bug 193497] Re: It doesn't connect to any available wifi network automatically at boot

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Boddie
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 190595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 190595 knetworkmanager does not automatically connect to trusted networks -- It doesn't connect to any available wifi network automatically at boot

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2010-01-17 Thread Paul Boddie
A comment on the attached program: if the bad block corresponds to a directory, it probably isn't a good idea to try and fix it since this appears to cause ext3 to panic and remount the affected partition read- only. -- Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Boddie
The attached program can be used as follows: python badblock.py device lba For example, where smartctl reports an LBA_of_first_error of 12345678: python badblock.py /dev/sda 12345678 This should report one of the following things if successful: Bad block corresponds to file: filename Bad

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Boddie
I've managed to reproduce the old error message with the new kernel, so I'm going to close this bug. What I've done is to run a long test using smartctl as follows: smartctl -t long /dev/sda Then, upon having a bad block reported, with... smartctl -a /dev/sda ...producing a report like this...

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Boddie
For the old kernel: cat /proc/version_signature version.log.old ** Attachment added: version.log.old http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36604293/version.log.old -- Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493819 You

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Boddie
For old kernel: uname -a uname-a.log.old ** Attachment added: uname-a.log.old http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36604295/uname-a.log.old -- Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493819 You received this bug

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Boddie
Having now booted both the old and new kernels, I don't get the SATA- related errors in the syslog at all. Here I'm including the output of dmesg in the new kernel from today's experiments. I've also run short smartctl tests in the old and new kernel environments without provoking read errors in

[Bug 493819] [NEW] Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Boddie
Public bug reported: I'm trying to track down an apparent change in behaviour between the kernels supplied in the most recent packages for Ubuntu Hardy, specifically linux-image-generic 2.6.24.25.27 and linux-image-generic 2.6.24.26.28, concerning SATA error reporting, supposedly these

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Boddie
cat /proc/version_signature version.log ** Attachment added: version.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36552498/version.log -- Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493819 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 493819] Re: Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Boddie
uname -a uname-a.log ** Attachment added: uname-a.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36552507/uname-a.log -- Persistent SATA errors possibly indicating disk fault disappeared with new kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493819 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 206542] Re: by upgrading to hardy, ksplash-engine-moodin got removed

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Boddie
Really? According to the following page, 8.04 is supported until April 2011 at the earliest: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ -- by upgrading to hardy, ksplash-engine-moodin got removed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206542 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 223055] Re: Focused checkboxes and radio buttons rendered as grey rectangle

2009-05-10 Thread Paul Boddie
Confirmed on a fully updated Kubuntu Hardy (recently upgraded from Gutsy) with Firefox 3 running the Plastik KDE theme. Installing the gtk2-engines package provided a number of Gtk+ themes. Then, going into System Settings, under Look Feel choosing Appearance, then entering the GTK Styles and

[Bug 206542] Re: by upgrading to hardy, ksplash-engine-moodin got removed

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Boddie
Just did a Gutsy to Hardy upgrade since Gutsy is now no longer supported, and this issue remains. It doesn't matter whether this issue is fixed in 8.10 or 9.04 if people are upgrading to Hardy and will stick with that release. Indeed, since one has to upgrade to Hardy to upgrade beyond Hardy

[Bug 321603] Re: Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Boddie
In my grub menu.lst file, the following line appears at the end of the file: ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST Thus all the title, root, kernel, initrd definitions appear above this comment. I looked at some old menu.lst files, and some of those do have definitions between the above comment

[Bug 321603] Re: Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Boddie
Attached is my menu.lst file. Here is what I did: 1. I installed a new disk in my computer alongside my old disk. 2. I partitioned the new disk and formatted the partitions. 3. I mounted the new disk's partitions and copied files into them. 4. I edited the fstab on the new disk's root partition

[Bug 321603] Re: Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Boddie
OK, I ran update-grub and it appears that no changes were made, so I suppose that the configuration is stable. Thanks for the help and information! -- Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321603 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 321603] Re: Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Boddie
This bug seems to be similar to my own experiences, so I'm adding this comment to it. After having my system upgraded yesterday (2009-01-30) using the package linux-image-2.6.22-16-generic_2.6.22-16.61_i386.deb, I found today that it was impossible to boot my computer. Upon selecting any entry in

[Bug 321603] Re: Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Boddie
Of course, the last part of my comment should read, if such special files with disk information *exist* then these should be documented somewhere. -- Unable to boot Ubuntu server after update/upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321603 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 304193] Re: digiKam fails to connect to a previously recognised/registered camera

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Boddie
I also found that if I open the Add camera... dialogue, edit the existing camera, change the camera model and then change it back (so that the dialogue thinks a change has been made), then press OK (and OK to close the list of cameras), the connection problem seems to go away. This is a better

[Bug 144154] Re: Jython integration with Java API seems awkward

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Boddie
Maybe. I'm not running 8.10, but the jython package still only recommends jython-gcj in that release. So I guess the problem is still there. -- Jython integration with Java API seems awkward https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 71174] Re: Misleading error message with mv and existing directories

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Boddie
Still an issue on Gutsy, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic, coreutils 5.97-5.3ubuntu3 -- Misleading error message with mv and existing directories https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71174 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 304193] [NEW] digiKam fails to connect to a previously recognised/registered camera

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Boddie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: digikam I experience the following problem, and this actually started when I upgraded from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy. My camera (Fujifilm F31fd) was previously registered in digiKam, but after having started the application a few times after the upgrade

[Bug 144154] Jython integration with Java API seems awkward

2007-09-22 Thread Paul Boddie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: jython After installing the jython package, attempts to import Java API functionality seem to fail: Jython 2.1 on java1.4.2 (JIT: null) import urllib Traceback (innermost last): File console, line 1, in ? File

[Bug 137357] Konqueror does not open archives itself any more

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: konqueror Unlike Hoary, Kubuntu Feisty seems not to include the ability to navigate into archives (zipfiles, at least) as if they were directories. Sadly, this means that users have to open the Ark application and use the WinZip-style user interface

[Bug 71174] Re: Misleading error message with mv and existing directories

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Still an issue on Feisty, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic, coreutils 5.97-5.2ubuntu3 -- Misleading error message with mv and existing directories https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71174 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 134387] Adept Manager Handbook missing

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Boddie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept-manager Choosing Help - Adept Manager Handbook produces the KDE help viewer and the message There is no documentation available for /adept_manager/index.html. Adept Manager 2.1 Cruiser (Using KDE 3.5.6) on Kubuntu 7.04, English language,

[Bug 82428] Request Install behaviour

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Boddie
This is part of the Adept usability critique and doesn't really merit a separate bug, but how is one supposed to know that Request Install is actually going to install all packages whose details are being shown in the card stack of details? I don't have the Adept Manager Handbook in my install

[Bug 19159] Re: Keyboard map is wrong

2007-08-19 Thread Paul Boddie
I've no idea if this is the best bug to add my experiences to - the title sums up my experiences, though - but upon installing Feisty, the console doesn't handle my Norwegian keyboard properly. The æ, ø, å keys are detected, but they print combinations of bizarre characters. Perhaps by changing my

[Bug 31491] Re: kio_http processes build up and hog all CPU time

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Boddie
I still run Kubuntu Hoary with KDE 3.4.0, but I haven't had this problem for a while. I don't use all of the sites I was using when I reported this problem originally, so perhaps I'm not exposing the cause of the bug any more, but it could be the case that some fix or other made its way downstream

[Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains combinatorial expansion of existing installations

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Boddie
Well, as for the importance of this bug, I suppose that people expert enough to want to have multiple installations probably should know how to edit grub menus, but I'm a bit disappointed that there have been two releases since Hoary without fixes for this. Had I had time, I would have attempted a

[Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains combinatorial expansion of existing installations

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Boddie
No problem, Colin! I just thought it was a bit embarrassing for Ubuntu, really. -- grub menu contains combinatorial expansion of existing installations https://launchpad.net/bugs/26031 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs