[Bug 803943] Re: compiz consuming a lot of cpu

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Smith
Just to point out, compiz using a constant 5% of CPU time can only be considered good in comparison to compiz using a constant 10-20% CPU time. If there's nothing happening on the screen then compiz should be essentially completely idle and using much less than 1% of the CPU time, if any. A

[Bug 997360] [NEW] ffmpeg goes into infinite loop in libavutil51

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I'm using kmttg to convert files downloaded from my TiVo to a format I can play on my computer. Part of the processing for this uses ffmpeg to do some conversion. The ffmpeg command line looks like: /usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -fflags genpts -i /home/me/MyTv/MyShow.m2v -i

Problems with setuid app in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-09 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all. I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I'm using a proprietary VPN utility from Juniper Networks on my Linux system. In previous versions of Ubuntu, it worked just fine. In the current version of Ubuntu, I'm getting failures. For some reason it's not letting me invoke a setuid

Where is libgcr-3-common:i386?

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Smith
I'm trying to run a program under Wine in my Ubuntu 12.04 64bit fresh installation. When I run it I get this error: p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared

[Bug 990765] Re: Save button always greyed out when creating openvpn connection

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
I hate to be one of those people, but if no one can provide a fix or a workaround for this very soon I'm going to have to delete 12.04 and switch to something else. I need OpenConnect to connect to work and I can't wait much longer before this will start to impact me very seriously. I've

[Bug 991673] [NEW] compiz constantly using 12-15% CPU

2012-04-29 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I've recently changed from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 (fresh installation). I've noticed that compiz is consistently, and constantly, using between 12 and 15% of my CPU and Xorg is constantly and consistently using 15-20% of my CPU, even when I'm not actually doing anything and

[Bug 990765] [NEW] Save button always greyed out when creating openvpn connection

2012-04-28 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I've just upgraded (fresh install) to Ubuntu 12.04 and add the network- manager-openvpn packages. Now when I select VPN Connections - Configure VPN from the network icon in the panel I get the opportunity to Add a VPN with a connection type of OpenVPN. However in the dialog

[Bug 990594] [NEW] No way to exit part mode in Rhythmbox

2012-04-28 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I was messing around with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 12.04 trying to get a display I liked. I saw Party Mode under the View menu and selected it to see what it was. I got a full-screen instance of Rhythmbox with NO WAY TO EXIT! No menus were available, no keys like ESC etc.

[Bug 990595] [NEW] Adding the rxvt package doesn't allow me to start it

2012-04-28 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I've been using rxvt forever: I think the display quality is much better than xterm and it's far less resource-intensive than gnome terminal. I just installed 12.04 and when I added the rxvt package, I could find no way to launch it. It doesn't appear in the dash. I can't

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 13:55 +0100, Dale Amon wrote: There weren't many choices in 2001 or 2002 when I was looking into it. Do you have any suggestions on one that might be particularly useful? It doesn't have to be terribly fancy, just enough so you can get a shell and 'fix things'. I used

Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:33 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Sam Smith smick...@hotmail.com wrote: The point is that SpiderOak (and Lastpass) never know the user's password. And never receive the encryption key. The key never leaves the user's computer. The

Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it

2012-04-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 01:41 +0100, Dale Amon wrote: I do not know the details, so I will ask: is it the case that: All we can know for sure is the way the system is DOCUMENTED to work, as I said in my other email. * The user crypto key is generated on the the user machine. Yes.

[Bug 912030] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #782169 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 ** Also affects: autofs5 (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 912030] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #782169 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 ** Also affects: autofs5 (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782169 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 111612] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs is broken

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Smith
FYI, just discovered that the fix made here for autofs4 was never applied to autofs5, and the same bug exists there; filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/912030 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

[Bug 111612] Re: The auto.net script that comes with autofs is broken

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Smith
FYI, just discovered that the fix made here for autofs4 was never applied to autofs5, and the same bug exists there; filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/912030 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 912030] [NEW] The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: A long time ago I reported a bug in the autofs package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/111612 That bug was fixed, but now I've discovered that the same bug still exists in the autofs5 package. Please see the above bug for the issue and the fix (I

[Bug 912030] [NEW] The auto.net script that comes with autofs5 is broken

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: A long time ago I reported a bug in the autofs package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/111612 That bug was fixed, but now I've discovered that the same bug still exists in the autofs5 package. Please see the above bug for the issue and the fix (I

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Smith
I have this same problem (Ubuntu 11.10, dual-boot installation via Wubi, on a Samsung laptop--not sure of the model but it's brand new). lshw shows this for my wireless device: description: Wireless interface product: Centrino Advanced-N 6230

[Bug 836435] Re: Onscreen fonts in Natty being displayed corrupted

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
I have just installed 11.10 and this bug is present there. (I skipped 11.4). The font gradually deteriorates until it becomes illegible. Rebooting is the only cure I have found. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 674138] Re: Global appmenu breaks sloppy focus

2011-05-01 Thread Paul Smith
I think I would find Jeff's suggestion in comment #11 to be frustrating. I often zip my mouse over to another window with just a nudge of one hand (one of the benefits of FFM after all) and then get back to typing virtually instantaneously. Any kind of delay that caused my input to go into the

[Bug 387308] Re: HTTPS Proxy Support for file sync

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Smith
I think it DOES meet the criteria for high importance, as described here: * Has a severe impact on a small portion of Ubuntu users (estimated) This is manifestly true since for that portion of ubuntu users that must us a proxy, the impact is very severe (basically it's completely unusable).

[Bug 141481] Re: dash as #!/bin/sh introduces countless incompatibilities

2011-03-15 Thread Paul Smith
If GDM is sourcing the user's setup files using any shell other than the user's defined shell (from getpwent() or whatever) then that's a bug in GDM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: The Dell Latitude reality check

2011-02-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:49 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: A better solution would be to include the most common proprietary drivers in some kind of encrypted sandbox on the install CD and let the user choose whether or not he/she would like to use the proprietary drivers at the time of the

[Bug 719345] [NEW] package language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:10.10 20100930 failed to install/upgrade: unable to securely remove '/target/usr/share/omf-langpack/fdl/fdl-de.omf.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file sy

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Sorry,don't know ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:10.10+20100930 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Feb 15 13:36:25 2011

[Bug 719345] Re: package language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:10.10 20100930 failed to install/upgrade: unable to securely remove '/target/usr/share/omf-langpack/fdl/fdl-de.omf.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file syst

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/719345 Title: package language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:10.10 20100930 failed to install/upgrade: unable to securely remove '/target/usr/share/omf-

Re: Evolution in Ubuntu

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 10:37 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: I still don't see any real necessity to kick up such a fuss Paul. *shrug* That's nice. I do, or I wouldn't have asked the question. Since you don't even use Evolution and I do, every single day, I'm not sure why you feel the need to give me

Re: Evolution in Ubuntu

2011-01-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 16:16 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: Is this some sort of new policy decision, that Evolution will forever be left back in every release? Hi Paul. I can understand what you are saying, but is it really that important to you? I'm curious as to why it's bugging you this

[Bug 628060] Re: [ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI] ALSA test tone not correctly played back

2011-01-22 Thread Paul Smith
I had this bug and found several configuration problems. One of which was timidity stealing the sound card, as described here: a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems/KarmicCaveats#Another%20process%20locking%20the%20sound%20card;Process locking sound card/a The described solution

Evolution in Ubuntu (was: Re: Evolution Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
Last year I expressed concern over the fact that Ubuntu was leaving behind Evolution in Lucid (that is, shipping Gnome 2.30 but leaving Evolution alone back at 2.28). The explanation at that time was that the change from Evo 2.28 to 2.30 involved a lot of significant rework (which it did) and

[Bug 694425] [NEW] openconnect does not interoperate with resolvconf

2010-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openconnect I have to connect to multiple VPNs, even at the same time, so I've installed the resolvconf package to manage the resolv.conf file. Many applications, such as dhclient etc., in Ubuntu recognize that resolvconf is installed and will proceed

[Bug 324233] Re: Network Manager 0.7 doesn't use resolvconf to remove nameserver info if it didn't use resolvconf for adding its nameserver info - wipes /etc/resolv.conf link

2010-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
I don't think it's correct for NetworkManager to write directly to the file managed by resolvconf. The entire point of resolvconf is that IT'S supposed to manage the resolv.conf file. Resolvconf is very useful if you (like I do!) have one or more VPN solutions (sometimes I have to connect to two

[Bug 691329] [NEW] dnsmasq init file has incorrect DNSMASQ_INTERFACE reference

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dnsmasq Looking at the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq file I see a bug; in the start() function it says: ${DNSMASQ_INTERFACE:+ $DNSMASQ_INTERFACES} \ This is wrong; the variable names should both be the same. Assuming the right variable name is

[Bug 691329] [NEW] dnsmasq init file has incorrect DNSMASQ_INTERFACE reference

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dnsmasq Looking at the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq file I see a bug; in the start() function it says: ${DNSMASQ_INTERFACE:+ $DNSMASQ_INTERFACES} \ This is wrong; the variable names should both be the same. Assuming the right variable name is

[Bug 681212] [NEW] The ia32-libs package needs libssl / libcrypto

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ia32-libs Lots and lots of 32bit applications link with libssl / libcrypto, but currently there is no package available for 64bit Ubuntu which provides these libraries. Without them, none of these 32bit applications can be run on Ubuntu. ~$ lsb_release

[Bug 681212] Re: The ia32-libs package needs libssl / libcrypto

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Smith
Whoa. Somehow I must have missed this because now I see that it's there. Bizarre. Sorry about that. ** Changed in: ia32-libs (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- The ia32-libs package needs libssl / libcrypto https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681212 You received this bug notification

libc profiling... can anyone use this?

2010-10-29 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; I've been trying to use gprof to profile some of my code and the profiling results for my code only seem to account for about 5 seconds of runtime, out of a total of 40 seconds. So I installed the profiled libc library installed and I'm trying to use that to try to figure out where the

[Bug 667470] [NEW] Linking against libc built with profiling fails

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I'm trying to build my program with the libc profiling (from package libc6-prof) enabled, and it doesn't work at all. $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.10 Release:10.10 The README says I should add -static-libgcc -lc_p to my link line, but if I do that I

[Bug 567025] Re: Compiz borks when tooltips are wider than screen

2010-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
So wait, your answer is that this is expected behavior and we should just accept it? Every time I hover over a link that happens to be too wide to display on my screen my screen flashes, all my carefully-placed windows are thrown into the first workspace, all my advanced display elements are

[Bug 635258] Re: Garbled chars in xterm

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not sure what it means that this bug is marked fixed released... it seems to have been fixed on Oct 17 but it's not Oct 21 and there's still no package available (for Maverick) containing this fix. I do have all my Ubuntu repos enabled including proposed. What's the relationship between a

[Bug 50430] Re: NIS has problems starting before the network comes up

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
for NIS to start before starting # autofs, so we have no maps. Restart it. # # Install with: # sudo cp ~/Downloads/reautofs /etc/init.d # sudo update-rc.d reautofs defaults 99 # # # Author: Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org start () { nohup /bin/sh -c ' while true; do ypwhich

[Bug 50430] Re: NIS has problems starting before the network comes up

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
for NIS to start before starting # autofs, so we have no maps. Restart it. # # Install with: # sudo cp ~/Downloads/reautofs /etc/init.d # sudo update-rc.d reautofs defaults 99 # # # Author: Paul Smith psm...@gnu.org start () { nohup /bin/sh -c ' while true; do ypwhich

[Bug 365270] Re: Move is Copy + Thrash, should be Move that removes all traces of the first.

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
It would be good if people could be explicit about what version of Evolution they're using AND (more importantly) what type of email server they're connecting to. Evolution has to interact with them differently (because the services have different capabilities). Are you using locally-delivered

[Bug 356702] Re: Tooltips stick when switching desktops (Compiz)

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Smith
Re: Sam Spilsbury: This absolutely is a bug. Regardless of whether tooltips are marked sticky or not, they are obviously supposed to be transient. This bug says that in some fairly common circumstances, the tooltip shows up for the workspace switcher and then it NEVER GOES AWAY (unless you

[Bug 365270] Re: Move is Copy + Thrash, should be Move that removes all traces of the first.

2010-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
Knut: your comments reveal a relatively shallow understanding of the email environment. And they show you haven't understood the real situation with Evolution. As for discussions of how IMAP servers ought to work, you should be filing those bugs with the teams that create the IMAP servers; I'm

[Bug 365270] Re: Move is Copy + Thrash, should be Move that removes all traces of the first.

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Smith
Ayeyiyi. Knut, please stop trying to impress everyone with your credentials and consider that you might actually not know everything about everything quite yet, regardless of how much you know about databases. I've been programming on UNIX since before POSIX even existed and I certainly

[Bug 365270] Re: Move is Copy + Thrash, should be Move that removes all traces of the first.

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Smith
I'm loathe to get involved here since Knut seems intent on flaming and not so interested in understanding, but reading the comments here I've been struck by a great attention to irrelevant details and not much clear description of the real issue. Knut continually makes reference to a MOVE

Re: Where can I find more docs/help on upstart?

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 11:28 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Smith wrote on 04/09/10 20:46: Esp. how it interacts with Ubuntu/Debian packaging. ... So far my Google/etc. searching for admin-level details of upstart hasn't netted me

Where can I find more docs/help on upstart?

2010-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
Esp. how it interacts with Ubuntu/Debian packaging. For example on my Ubuntu 10.04 system I installed tftpd-hpa and find that it's been converted to upstart. No problem, except that I don't want it to start when my system boots, I want it to be started via xinetd (I need it to work this way in

Re: Discussion about bug #615504

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:56 -0300, Leandro de Oliveira wrote: I thought not having a versionless symlink was a bug, but it seems to be an explicit decision, if that is the case, then java apps using bluetooth will always need the user to install libbluetooth-dev instead of being able to work

[Bug 516435] Re: Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
I think I've installed the update. However I'm unsure. Which version of the openal libraries should I be running? -- Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 516435] Re: Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
I'm running libopenal1 version 1:1.8.466-2 which seems to be the latest offered, and there's no crash when closing OpenArena which is great. Did i test correctly? -- Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516435 You received this bug

Re: No mouse or keyboard on 10.04 no GNOME

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:28 +0100, Joao Pinto wrote: I can't work without my computer and I'm in deep trouble! Who someone help me?? This is not a support mailing list, please check: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport When you post there, please be

Re: lucid and 2.6.33?

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 15:41 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: Flávio Etrusco wrote: Seriously? Ubuntu is not only about techies, it's about general use(rs) and businesses too. They have to have a solid and well-tested base. If you really wanna know what you're actually getting, you have the

Re: Evolution Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 23:02 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: There are plenty of stability problems with 2.28; I subscribe to the Evo mailing lists and people are constantly posting about this or that database corruption, missing mail, etc. etc. (note this is with standard IMAP or POP support, not

Re: Evolution Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:23 +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Well, as far as I have heard from developers, Staying with Evolution 2.28 decision was made because 2.30 will have too big sweeping changes, like D-BUS instead of Bonobo, etc. So it is too much for LTS. What?!?! Is that really true?

Re: Evolution Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:17 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: The current version of evolution is not broken and probably not over an unstable version which got some much rewrital and so few testing. Sorry, but that's wrong: 2.28 is unquestionably broken. To quote you, Glad that it works for you

[Bug 516435] [NEW] Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I've been using Jaunty for a long time, but only a week ago I upgraded to Karmic via the software installer. Since then, both OpenArena and AssaultCube have had frame rate problems (particularly in open spaces. Enclosed spaces seem to be ok). The sound starts ok, and

[Bug 516435] Re: Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Smith
Ah, I forgot to say I'm using Kubuntu. -- Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 491542] Re: Installation of ia32-sun-java6-bin fails in Karmic

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Smith
Cool... sounds straightforward to fix. Is someone going to do it? :-) -- Installation of ia32-sun-java6-bin fails in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491542 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 Chuck, can you please undo the duplicate status of this bug? This is NOT a duplicate of bug 50430 -- Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213574 You received this bug

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 Chuck, can you please undo the duplicate status of this bug? This is NOT a duplicate of bug 50430 -- Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213574 You received this bug

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not sure why you think retrieving domain info from the DHCP server will do anything to help the problem, which is that the Ubuntu DHCP client is overwriting the resolv.conf file and replacing nameservers that were added due to VPN connections. -- resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not sure why you think retrieving domain info from the DHCP server will do anything to help the problem, which is that the Ubuntu DHCP client is overwriting the resolv.conf file and replacing nameservers that were added due to VPN connections. -- resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
Is anyone ever going to do anything about this? I know it's not an easy problem but there are solutions here which will help at least some of the people and which are not harmful (for example, not updating /etc/resolv.conf on RENEW if the old nameserver is still present). If we could do at least

[Bug 90681] Re: resolv.conf overwritten using VPN/PPP etc...

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
Is anyone ever going to do anything about this? I know it's not an easy problem but there are solutions here which will help at least some of the people and which are not harmful (for example, not updating /etc/resolv.conf on RENEW if the old nameserver is still present). If we could do at least

[Bug 356702] Re: tooltips stick when they shouldn't

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Smith
Argh. Can someone please look at this? I guess some people just have a certain speed of moving the mouse that causes this to happen: it happens to me about 80% of the time that I click on the switcher applet. I know it sounds stupid and minor, but it is SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING! I can

[Bug 356702] Re: tooltips stick when they shouldn't

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Smith
Are we sure this is really a bug in compiz? It seems too early to determine that and reassign the bug. There are plenty of other tooltips that are used in other applications and I never see those hang up like this using compiz. It seems to only be a combination of libwnk and compiz that shows

[Bug 497578] [NEW] Workspace switcher shows tooltips constantly that won't disappear

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, I've noticed that the tooltips in the workspace switcher that show the name of the selected window (Click to start dragging ...) will sometimes not go away. It seems to happen most if I use the mouse to

Re: is anyone ever going to fix this major bug?

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:30 -0800, Brendan Miller wrote: This bug more or less makes apt-get unusable on 64 bit systems and has been in for a long time now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/402833 Is this still a problem in Karmic? I don't have that file on my system, and a search of

Re: Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * Package name: release Version : 0.1 (native) Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com * License : GPL v3+ Programming

[Bug 491542] [NEW] Installation of ia32-sun-java6-bin fails in Karmic

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: I think this is a dup of bug #485135 but for some reason the person who filed that bug later closed it as Invalid; it's definitely _not_ invalid. This is a real bug; maybe the ia86-sun-java6-bin package needs to be updated since a newer sun-java6 release was made for the

[Bug 13983] Re: Evolution virtual trash / real trash on IMAP server

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Smith
Sebastien is correct that Carl's message is missing information. Evo most definitely DOES mark messages as deleted and does NOT expunge them (unless you use the Expunge action of course; the keybinding for this is CTRL-E so it's possible Carl hit it by accident). The entire concept of storing

[Bug 479491] [NEW] mt-daapd crashes in libavcodec whenever I try to play music

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Smith
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mt-daapd I just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic, and now mt-daapd dumps core immediately when I try to play music. I have another system running Karmic as well and I'm using Rhythmbox. I see my shared music in the remote Rhythmbox and if I click on it I

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:56 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: It doesn't matter how much work is involved. Do you think the Linux/Ubuntu community would be willing to change the way system logons work if it meant bug #1 could be completed? Let us see. To change the way system logons work

Re: PulseAudio Managers

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 23:50 -0400, komputes wrote: And has anyone seen this little blurb from Lennart? Did Ubuntu really f**k this up or http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pa-in-ubuntu.html Hasn't this been fixed for over a week? +

Re: PulseAudio Managers

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 00:39 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.us wrote: time, but this change looks like a dud to me. Clearly the right way to debug this is to comment out the patch in debian/series and see why pa_streq() is being

[Bug 401713] Re: DMRAID only detect first subset on Intel ICH10R

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
Installer from a karmic AMD64 desktop version (10/13/09) didn't find the second RAID set. Even when full boot with Live CD, GParted also didn't properly see the 2nd set. Details: Tested with 2 hard drives x 1.0TB, Raid0 (ICH10R), splitted in two sets (300GB + 1.7GB). As mentioned before on the

[Bug 438366] Re: software-center crashed with AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Element'

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
software-center worked for me when I first installed Karmic (brand new 64bit system loaded using the Karmic beta CD). Then I customized my system by installing a LOT of new stuff, including dev packages, etc. Now I get this message whenever I start it. Surely there's some kind of debug flag for

Re: [Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:16 +, Chuck Short wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 50430 NIS has

Re: [Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:16 +, Chuck Short wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 50430 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 50430 NIS has

RE: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:30 +0100, paul.mcma...@met.police.uk wrote: Quicken, Outlook, Powerpoint, they're all bizzare names. Doesn't mean that Ubuntu can't do one better ;-) I believe the menu system is better in Ubuntu than Windows, however all apps could do with having their function

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 19:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I guess Jonathan Taylor is joking or trolling here, one of the main advantage of using Linux distributions for desktops is that every application is automatically categorized where, on Windows, every application is NOT categorized...

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:48 +0200, Vincent Arnoux wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 18:23, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I guess Jonathan Taylor is joking or trolling here, one of the main advantage of using Linux distributions for desktops is that every application is automatically

[Bug 50430] Re: NIS has problems starting before the network comes up

2009-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
S28NetworkManager simply requires that networkmanager be started. That does NOT guarantee that you have an active network connection. The whole idea behind NM is that it will manage network connection and disconnect for the system, behind the scenes. What's happening here is that NM comes up

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
I think many newer environments are switching from NIS to ActiveDirectory (in Windows deployments) or LDAP, for both user account info as well as things like automount. I've never used a setup like that so I can't say whether it works better or not with networkmanager. Certainly it's ridiculous

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Smith
Excellent! I did this on my dad's laptop over the weekend and it worked perfectly. I had a minor heart attack when I upgraded the BIOS since it was going along no problem and then BANG without warning the machine powered off--I've done enough BIOS upgrades to freak out that I'd just turned my

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
Nope. Pretty sad. I guess no one at Canonical / Ubuntu cares much about legacy UNIX environments based on NIS. RedHat, SuSE, etc. have had this working out of the box for years and years. It worked on Ubuntu, too, until network manager came along. What I do on my systems is create a new

[Bug 339987] Re: evolution 2.25.92 evolution-mapi unable to create account

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
Following the advice I read somewhere else on the intertubes, I used the IP address of my exchange server instead of the hostname when I was creating my account. Crazily enough, that worked like a charm!! That's... an embarrassing bug I think. But, give it a shot. -- evolution 2.25.92

[Bug 342096] Re: SD Card containing /home corrupted on resume. ext4. Dell Mini 9.

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Smith
Yeah, I get same problem on my Acer Aspire One . Installed with latest download of USB install from 2009-04-17. Updated packages to latest and then encountered the problem. I have a 16GB SDHC card, formatted to ext4 and mounted as /home. The filesystem is corrupt. It mentions about the journal

Re: Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:53 -0400, Mike Jones wrote: If Ubuntu said Ok Boss and pretended to remove one specific program from a package for me, through the single add or remove programs to your system interface of add/remove, that would be... better, but not really the best solution due to

[Bug 213574] Re: Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not so sure that's it. There's no NetworkManager in /etc/init.d at all in 8.04, which I'm using, and it still has this problem. -- Autofs fails to start with maps from NIS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 15:47 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:57 +0100, Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: If they know English, do not need English support of Ubuntu. If they do not know English, I do not think the English support of Ubuntu could change something. There are

Re: [Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 18:07 +, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: You mentioned that you were doing all these tests with it plugged in, but the computer claims it's unplugged. What if it really is unplugged? That's an excellent question; I don't remember if I tried that or not. I don't have access to

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
Well, it's been like this for quite a while now and there are no other signs of any kind of instability on the system. And of course as I mentioned, if I use the older kernel it works fine. And, this system can dual-boot Windows and Windows doesn't seem to have any problems with it. Also, it

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
I created an Ubuntu 8.10 install CD and tried to boot off that; it also powered down the system after some amount of time. The system got to the point where it was trying to load the desktop, then shut off. -- laptop powers off immediately after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242400 You

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
He didn't bring it last time. But, he's visiting again so I have access to this laptop until Wednesday morning EST (7 Jan 2009). Earlier this week I tried upgrading to 8.10, but it was a disaster. First, it doesn't fix this bug; after a minute or so the laptop powers down. I don't even need to

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
Here's something weird. I upgraded to 8.10, but my kernel still says 2.6.25, not 2.6.27. It's like the new Intrepid kernel was not installed...?!?! I wonder if setting a keep on the older kernel caused a problem. I'm going to forcibly install the newer Intrepid kernel. -- laptop powers off

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
OK, I installed 2.6.27-11 from proposed but still see the same behavior. After a minute or two the laptop simply powers down. -- laptop powers off immediately after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242400 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 242400] Re: laptop powers off immediately after login

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Smith
** Tags added: linux-2.6.27 -- laptop powers off immediately after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242400 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

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