[Bug 187313] 8.04 CR seems cured

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
I no longer saw my problem in a 8.04 CR fresh installation in two days. I've just done some stress testing which should have shown the problem but didn't. It seems to me that I see the sandglass shows more often and it could be that it prevents clicking at the moments the "strange things" may hap

[Bug 134660] Re: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
Funny, this is what I had ready to post just while finding the above. According to my tests, it seems to me that the problem is not that the interface is set to "rate 1M", but to "rate auto", and that this automatic bitrate adjustment mode is broken, setting rate down to 1M. Hence, I have put th

[Bug 134660] 8.04 CR rt73 lockup?

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
Running 8.04 CR, I've has 4 cases in 2 days of lockup when the rt73 was plugged in. Unplugged the rt73 and 8.04 CR ran about 48 hours without stop. Ian, if you stop answering the Windows' WiFi installer's questions at some point before it starts installing, you will find the decompressed files i

[Bug 187313] Re: right click on a link does strange things

2008-04-22 Thread André Pirard
Sorry I must partially take back what I said. In a two hours Google News session, it happened five times. Indeed that's less frequent than before, but it still happens. Right click on a link, release, wait, and for example a Bookmark This Link windows opens. I still say that it happens less often,

[Bug 208365] Now that we're at 8.04 CR

2008-04-23 Thread André Pirard
Now that we're at 8.04 CR... FYI, this is the ugly Ubuntu welcome I'm trying to avoid... at the expense of something like raising some timeout. ** Attachment added: "Live CD 8.04 CR.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13841770/Live%20CD%208.04%20CR.png -- error starting g-s-d on systems with

Re: [Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

2008-05-17 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-05-17 10:51, Alexander Sack wrote : > This is not a bug. Its an explicit design decision to remember that > you _manually_ select the encoding for a site. > > The auto detection does the correct thing in your example; so to get > this confirmed, provide an example where the auto-detection

[Bug 233990] [NEW] Bare lf in mdn message from crashing thunderbird

2008-05-22 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 sends the attached Receipt message. (file as stolen from /tmp) qmail-ldap-1.03 complains that it contains a "bare lf". See attached dialog box & http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html Dialog box is acknowledged. Thunderbird just disappears. Receipt never arrives

[Bug 233990] Re: Bare lf in mdn message from crashing thunderbird

2008-05-22 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "message and message" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14657294/mdnmsg.zip -- Bare lf in mdn message from crashing thunderbird https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/233990 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

[Bug 30201] Re: Return Receipt's prompt before allowing the mail to be read.

2008-05-22 Thread André Pirard
I wonder if this report is just for the wishlist. Bug #233990 describes a case where the Receipt message is never sent. And, much like this bug, because things are done in the wrong order. -- Return Receipt's prompt before allowing the mail to be read. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30201 You re

[Bug 206884] Re: Firefox uses the wrong display encoding

2008-05-09 Thread André Pirard
Sorry to repeat the obvious. Problem #1 1. As shown in the attached screen shot, http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm sometimes displays using UTF-8. 2. Obviously, I expected it to display correctly (using ISO 8859-1 default encoding) 3. _when_ it misbehaves is mysterious, but I found one way to repro

[Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

2008-05-10 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "Screenshot-Le Tr�sor de la Langue Fran�aise Informatis� - Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14424694/Screenshot-Le%20Tr%EF%BF%BDsor%20de%20la%20Langue%20Fran%EF%BF%BDaise%20Informatis%EF%BF%BD%20-%20Mozilla%20Firefox%203%20Beta%203.png ** Chang

[Bug 228988] [NEW] Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

2008-05-10 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Since I'm using it, I see Firefox (2.X and 3.0bX) sometimes display pages using the wrong character encoding. Sometime a page will display correctly, later the same page won't, without any apparent reason why there's a difference. I have first introduced Bug #206884 but, alth

Re: [Bug 206884] Re: Firefox uses the wrong display encoding

2008-05-10 Thread André Pirard
* Considering that the more I write about this problem the less it's understood, I have introduced a new Bug #228988 where everything has been rewritten from scratch. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY, it's the last time I write, I have lost enou

Re: [Bug 187313] Kudos

2008-05-10 Thread André Pirard
Umang, what you wrote is a real find and I'm surprised there's so little followup. I could almost repeat almost what you described. I would phrase it as follows. If a context menu is canceled, a right-click in the area from which it disappeared may produce the action that would have been taken

Re: [Bug 196277] Re: A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard settings

2008-10-10 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-10-10 07:09, svaens wrote : > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Ani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> o fix this bug we need to use "Alt+Shift" as default shortcut for >> keyboard layout switching. > what? Do you mean, the fix is to avoid triggering the problem > It also leaves the keyboard

Re: [Bug 187313] Re: [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

2008-11-05 Thread André Pirard
> > Frankly it looks like an implementation issue. Who was the brainiack > who decided not to activate the menu on click release, but rather on > click depression and then have click release also drive an action. Who > the hell is clicking and holding down the right mouse button while > browsing?

[Bug 297431] [NEW] impossible to override Application menus

2008-11-12 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 8.04, I found it impossible to build a deb package overriding the Applications menus. The attached (incomplete) package adds Game Categories (sub)Menus where games declaring to belong to these categories will be included (welcome by those who list 200 games!!!). T

[Bug 297431] Re: impossible to override Application menus

2008-11-12 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "papou-games_1.0_i386.deb" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19605679/papou-games_1.0_i386.deb -- impossible to override Application menus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 297431] Re: impossible to override Application menus

2008-11-13 Thread André Pirard
And a shot of the resulting pretty Games Menu. ** Attachment added: "Games_Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19618392/Games_Screenshot.png -- impossible to override Application menus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297431 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 297431] Re: impossible to override Application menus

2008-11-13 Thread André Pirard
Here is the patch after which : - menu files that do not override anything continue to work as before (obviously) (I checked that existing menus are unaffected) - menu files that intend to override something effectively do so (The attached package now works according the the specs) ** Attachment

[Bug 290087] [NEW] romanian language weird installation

2008-10-27 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 8.10.1 with English, French, Russian and Spanish. Adding Romanian with 'Language Support', I get the message > Could not install the full language support > Usually this is related to an error in your software archive or software > manager. > Check your software prefer

[Bug 290087] Re: romanian language weird installation

2008-10-27 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "romanian.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18955059/romanian.log -- romanian language weird installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290087 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

Re: [Bug 290087] Re: romanian language weird installation

2008-10-28 Thread André Pirard
Followup ... > The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. > language-support-translations-ro: > Depends: openoffice.org-l10n-ro but it is not going to be installed So I tried to install it manually off the following page : http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/hardy/all/openoffice.org-l10n-ro

[Bug 204909] Re: .desktop filename total confusion

2008-10-28 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: - This was experienced in Ubuntu 8.04. + Short story at triager's request : + + John is trying to move his (attached) file named "Mousepad" to his USB Flash disk. + (I see no way of attaching the file to this update, see in a further reply). + Ubuntu replies : There was a

Re: [Bug 204909] Re: .desktop filename total confusion

2008-10-28 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-10-28 14:52, Adam Niedling wrote : > I'm sure I understand your problem either. If you wanna change Linux > fundamentally, this is definitely not the place for it. Try to make > this report shorter and do not set your own bug reports as confirmed! > > ** Changed in: ubuntu >Status

Re: [Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-10-22 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-10-22 09:43, a1bert wrote : > confirmed, there is no problem with kernel 2.6.24.19.21, only with > 2.6.24.21.23 > I'm having the problem with 2.6.24-19.34-generic (repeat: sporadically). But is it the same problem (on USB hub?, lsusb needed, permanent vs sporadic)? I wonder if t

Re: [Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-10-21 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-10-21 14:25, a1bert wrote : > it DOES work Intrepid Ibex (tested on kubuntu-8.10-beta- > desktop-i386.iso) Interesting. As I explained, USB devices are usually recognized, except under certain conditions the system gets itself into and out of which you get it with the lsusb command. By

[Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-10-21 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: + Clarification : this problem does not happen until the USB system gets itself in a state I cannot reproduce. That state happens rarely, but once it does the problems occurs often until the USB system is reinitialized. + (And as I point it out, rather than waiting that t

[Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

2008-09-13 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196277 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277 ** Changed in: ubuntu Sourcepackagename: gdm => None Status: New => In Progress ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 196277 A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard setting

Re: [Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

2008-09-13 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196277 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277 On 2008-09-13 14:43, Biörn wrote : > Workaround: ... All other similar reports were saying that the problem occurs with autologin. Hence, I introduced this report with the correct reason in the title. The pr

Re: [Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-09-15 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-09-15 19:23, Xwang wrote : > Hi, > I've a Toshiba satellite M30-304 and I've the same issue with the same hub. > With a different hub the problem doesn't happear, so, maybe, it is a > configuration problem? Thanks for your cooperation, Xwang. I think there exists no configuration for USB.

[Bug 197514] Perfectly unbelievable, this is too much

2008-09-27 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-09-25 17:49, Timo Aaltonen wrote : > no need to keep open for xorg. > > ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) >Status: New => Invalid > Wouldn't it be nice to have that xorg entry (mistake) removed instead of flagged with a dreaded word risking to make believe that the entire bug repor

Re: [Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-09-27 Thread André Pirard
As of late 8.10 beta tests, the only improvement is a tiny bit at Live CD startup. Live CD now starts in graphic menu mode, but continues to install 800x600 system. Installed system works, but 800x600 and 600x480 are the only mode to choose from. Workarounds: stay at 7.04 or applying my xorg.co

[Bug 193738] Re: ACPI wakeup crashes on Toshiba (Tecra 8000)

2008-09-27 Thread André Pirard
6 months later : 8.10aX : suspend continues to crash. And I wonder what's the use of my reports if regression from 8.04a6 to 8.04a5 was not even considered. Maybe is it because I seem to be the only one speaking in here? -- ACPI wakeup crashes on Toshiba (Tecra 8000) https://bugs.launchpad.net/

Re: [Bug 125887] Re: (fat32) Unexpected "file modified by another process" warning

2008-09-04 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-08-12 12:07, Sebastien Bacher wrote : > the issue seems to be trigger only on some special setups and it should > be sent to the people who write the software on bugzilla.gnome.org, > nobody having the issue seems to be interested in doing that though > that's why the bug has been closed >

Re: [Bug 196277] Re: A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard settings

2008-09-05 Thread André Pirard
Thanks Peter for the future, and thanks to all the setxkbmap talkers for the present, especially Bryce Harrington for the exact, precisely detailed, working procedure which I exported to the much in need Belarus. -- A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard settings https://bugs

Re: [Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

2008-09-06 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-08-27 01:42, ThiloPfennig wrote : > Although Andre was spamming ... Spamming ? If you say that spamming is to have to repeat the same words over and over to have simple facts understood or believed, you're right, and you've started doing the same! What I said is : 1) That it is non

[Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

2008-09-06 Thread André Pirard
http://atilf.atilf.fr Click 'Entrez dans le TLF' Fill in search 'erreur', click 'Valider 1' Select the word 'ERREUR', a window pops up Click on 'le TLF1' in that window The pop up window invariably displays ISO8859-1 as UTF-8 . You can paste one of its frame's URL directly as a New Window's URL. ht

[Bug 263139] [NEW] usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-08-30 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Using Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with USB hub shown below. Often, when I plug a device to the hub, nothing happens. This lasts as long as I decide (minutes). Then I type the lsusb command, showing no device indeed. That simple fact (issuing lsusb) connects the devic

[Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-08-31 Thread André Pirard
Here you have. As I suppose it's important, I commented it with when I'm doing what. Also, I thought the USB events during boot might be useful. Please note : - the hub is 2.0 but the controller is 1.1 - this is a 7-port hub made of 2 daisy-chained 4-port chips. (is there a way I can find on which

Re: [Bug 263139] Re: usb device invisible until lsusb command issued

2008-09-01 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-09-01 23:15, Leann Ogasawara wrote : > Hi Andre, > > Would you be willing to confirm if this issue will exist with the > upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release? The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning > to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 > release. As a result, the k

Re: [Bug 206295] Re: firefox 3 right-click menu chooses random options

2008-06-27 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 187313 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 > Annoying people that are working as fast and hard as we can is not gonna > help you get it fixed faster. Why not as us what you can do to help get > this bug fixed? Also if you follow bug #187313 you would

Re: [Bug 187313] Re: [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

2008-06-30 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15698574/unnamed -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-07-02 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15753289/Screenshot.png -- Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202456 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-07-02 Thread André Pirard
-- Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202456 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 https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-07-02 Thread André Pirard
Oh dear**2, even plain html no longer works. Resending html and plain. So bad for the alignment. Oh dear, another bug, please someone report. I sent e-mail with 2 parts : html + image. Only the image made through. I'm resending the html alone. Please find the spoken of screenshot above. On 2008-

[Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button

2008-07-02 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button + Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button -- Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202456 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button

2008-07-02 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-07-02 16:43, Jonathan Thomas wrote : > Yeah, not letting your window manager control your windows isn't really > supposed to be pretty. It's mainly there to deal with compatibility problems. > So, what window manager are you using? Because this bug probably lies with > the window manager

[Bug 204202] Re: Ctrl+Z in Terminal doesn't work with dvorak layout

2008-07-27 Thread André Pirard
Similar but different Ctrl key fight worth mentioning. On 8.04.1, I configured kbd pair : RU Winkeys + UK International. (added them and removed first (system's UK (plain))) If you're asked why I do that in Belgium, reply Ubuntu. Default is 0 = RU. Layout switcher set to Shift+Alt (like Windows).

[Bug 253168] [NEW] No typing at GDM login breaks "Separate keyboard layout for each window" option

2008-07-29 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: This is a very precise how to reproduce and a neat conclusion. People in a hurry may jump to the last paragraphs, but I bet they'll come back here for the whole story. Although I have very little time because this bug lost --- and almost got me mad during --- a whole week, I

[Bug 196277] Re: [hardy] With autologin, keyboard layout switching shortcut/settings don't work

2008-07-29 Thread André Pirard
I have introduced Bug #253168 because, although it probably shares the same technical roots with the various issues discussed in these 164 messages, not counting duplicates, it comes to practical conclusions and a workaround I didn't find elsewhere. Practically, as I concluded it, problems occur

[Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

2008-08-01 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - No typing at GDM login breaks "Separate keyboard layout for each window" option + GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options -- GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options http

Re: [Bug 196277] Re: [hardy] With autologin, keyboard layout switching shortcut/settings don't work

2008-08-01 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-08-01 15:26, Simos Xenitellis wrote : > Peter Hutterer posted a patch for this bug, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447252#c11 > In which page I read : > Could you please verify that you have enabled autologin on your system? > > If this is the case, then it would be bette

Re: [Bug 187313] Re: right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

2008-06-05 Thread André Pirard
> That bug is supposed to be fixed in RC1. What is left here is _true_ > random selection - which has been confirmed multipl times, but noone > could come up with easy to follow instructions to reproduce it. > Did you try what I mentioned? Use a slow system (or slow it down), be sure to have Fl

Re: [Bug 187313] Re: right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

2008-06-05 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-06-05 22:17, Alexander Sack wrote : > status incomplete > > ... not related to this bug. > > ... questions are better asked on http://answers.launchpad.net Feeling like at the police station, or even in court. Wonder if I'll continue to help Ubuntu. Starting with, being refused a simple ye

Re: [Bug 187313] Re: right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

2008-06-06 Thread André Pirard
> Repeating all the issues and bugs you see in any bug you comment on > just doesnt help. it increases bug noise and increases likelyhood that > triagers miss the important parts - which is probably what you see > here and why you are unhappy about how things go. > If you don't like noise, inst

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button

2008-07-03 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-07-02 23:28, Jonathan Thomas wrote : > Gnome is a desktop environment, not a window manager. Gnome's default > window manager is metacity, but if you have desktop effects enabled it > uses Compiz Fusion. This isn't a problem in KDE, which uses KWin for its > window manager. > > So the ques

Re: [Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs all programs without window's minimize button

2008-07-06 Thread André Pirard
> Ok, then you're using metacity. I can't reproduce this with KWin 4.1, so > I'm assigning the bug to metacity I have added xubuntu.desktop and kubuntu.desktop to this system. Kubuntu : no problem indeed with KWin. Xubuntu : same problem with Xfwm4. Hence, by the same reasoning, you should assig

Re: [Bug 230671] Re: Mounts external USB hard drive in a different point after resuming sleep

2008-07-09 Thread André Pirard
It would be nice to know exactly what in practice is working as designed. Although I haven't seen it in a long time, I've met the problem Pen Deng reports. My e-mail folders are on a USB drive named D0. A true folder D0, and even D0_ etc..., would be created in /media. In that case, the mount poi

[Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

2008-09-13 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196277 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277 ** Changed in: ubuntu Sourcepackagename: gdm => None Status: New => In Progress ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 196277 A GNOME login without keypress dosn't set GNOME keyboard setting

Re: [Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

2008-09-13 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 196277 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277 On 2008-09-13 14:43, Biörn wrote : > Workaround: ... All other similar reports were saying that the problem occurs with autologin. Hence, I introduced this report with the correct reason in the title. The pr

Re: [Bug 125887] Re: (fat32) Unexpected "file modified by another process" warning

2008-08-12 Thread André Pirard
On 11/08/2008 11:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Nobody sent the request upstream, closing the bug for now, feel free to > reopen if you still have some interest in the change and wants to open > the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org too > > ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) >Status: Incomplete => Invali

[Bug 217639] Re: 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting 8.04 CR

2008-04-15 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting latest 8.04 + 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting 8.04 CR -- 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting 8.04 CR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217639 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 217639] [NEW] 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting latest 8.04

2008-04-15 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: I applied the latest updates to my 8.04 beta that was running fine. Result : it won't boot any more. 2.6.24-16 Segmentation fault while ... Preparing restricted drivers 2.6.24-15 runs fine. PC make: GMTNet Motherboard: M789CG (V3.0A) www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Products/Prod

[Bug 217639] Re: 2.6.24-16 segmentation fault prevents booting 8.04 CR

2008-04-15 Thread André Pirard
Yes, 2.6.24-16-generic, standard with Ubuntu i86, always fails to boot, even in recovery mode. 2.6.24-15-generic always boot but see 213747 about what happens later. In the first few tests, the failure always occurred after the message "Preparing restricted drivers". In further tests different f

Re: [Bug 217639] Re: 2.6.24-16-generic: segmentation fault during "Preparing restricted drivers"

2008-04-16 Thread André Pirard
Thanks to Daniel and Wenzhuo for the help. I'll use the info to do my best to try to find what happens. For Linux sake and the working of this machine. I'm a computer geek, but quite new to Linux. But, but, but... Could someone look at Bug #213747, too? It describes random application crashes on t

[Bug 217639] Re: 2.6.24-16-generic: various boot failures

2008-04-16 Thread André Pirard
** Summary changed: - 2.6.24-16-generic: segmentation fault during "Preparing restricted drivers" + 2.6.24-16-generic: various boot failures -- 2.6.24-16-generic: various boot failures https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217639 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 217639] Re: 2.6.24-16-generic: various boot failures

2008-04-17 Thread André Pirard
I think everyone will agree we must wait to have a clear mind about Bug #213747 before continuing this one. Also, I changed the bug title to prevent it being misleading. Although the first boots all made a segfault after "Preparing restricted drivers", it turned out later that other crashes may h

[Bug 217639] Re: Alert : 2.6.24-15 -> 16 upgrade prevents booting

2008-04-17 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-04-17 07:37, Steve Langasek wrote : > Hi André, > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:53:32AM +0200, André Pirard wrote: > >> See bug #217639 >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/217639 >> Hoping this will help. >> > Unfort

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-03 Thread André Pirard
To make it clear about 'Option "UseFBDev" "true"': it wasn't in the first autoconfiged xorg.conf (first backup) but it was in the xorg.conf (second backup) that resulted from my first booting in recovery mode and selecting xfix. I never added it myself and it never appeared again later, even by u

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-03 Thread André Pirard
To make it clear about 'Option "UseFBDev" "true"': it wasn't in the first autoconfiged xorg.conf (first backup) but it was in the xorg.conf (second backup) that resulted from my first booting in recovery mode and selecting xfix. I never added it myself and it never appeared again later, even by u

[Bug 197514] VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display broken twice

2008-03-31 Thread André Pirard
Hello, Please could something be done to prevent breaking that display adapter twice in a row? 6.04 worked, 7.10 was broken, 8.04 alpha half-worked, 8.04 beta totally broken again. I reported 8.04 alpha Live CD & system crash and showed how to repair xorg.conf. Result : 8.04 beta again runs in

[Bug 187313] Re: right click on a link does strange things

2008-04-01 Thread André Pirard
I have found my own workaround to my incarnation of that problem (On an overloaded computer, right-click very frequently spontaneously executes any context menu entry at random, otherwise menu appears after seconds or even never.): I right-clek, that is, keeping held down until the menu appe

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-02 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "logs.tar.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13051338/logs.tar.gz -- VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-02 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13051281/Xorg.0.log -- VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-02 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.old" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13051275/Xorg.0.log.old -- VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works

2008-04-02 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13051256/xorg.conf -- VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] display no longer works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 197514] Re: VIA/S3G VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] : testing beta test

2008-04-02 Thread André Pirard
No, Timo, I'm afraid that, as I said it on 2008-03-31, "8.04 beta is _totally_ broken again". > 7.04: worked beautifully at 1024x768 <--- Not 6.04, my mistake ! > 7.10: totally broken > 8.04a: works, but autodetects 800x600 only, needs my 1024x768 patch > 8.04b: totally broken again

[Bug 204909] [NEW] .desktop filename total confusion

2008-03-21 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Tested in 8.04 alphas ... When a Firefox URL is dragged to a folder in a File Browser window, an object with an Earth icon is built that behaves totally erraticaly in countless situations. First and mostly, the real filename is not the filename that the File Browser display

[Bug 187313] Re: right click on a link does strange things

2008-03-22 Thread André Pirard
I confirm that this irritating problem is happening reproduceably on this Tecra 8000 (400 MHz) laptop in the following typical situation. When launching (right-click|open in a new tab) a number of URLs, such as displayed by Google Search or News, the first one or two, maybe three, launches happe

[Bug 134660] Impressed with Hardy CR

2008-04-20 Thread André Pirard
Kudos. You guys made a tremendous 8.04 deadline job. You even added suspense ;-) This report may be incomplete, but I wanted to thank for the impressive improvement regarding general ease of use. The only problem I see is RT2500 download data rate. Shall we tell them? http://www.bluenext.co.uk/wi

[Bug 134660] Impressed with Hardy CR

2008-04-20 Thread André Pirard
Kudos. You guys made a tremendous 8.04 deadline job. You even added suspense ;-) This report may be incomplete, but I wanted to thank for the impressive improvement regarding general ease of use. The only problem I see is RT2500 download data rate. Shall we tell them? http://www.bluenext.co.uk/wi

[Bug 134660] Transmission rates

2008-04-20 Thread André Pirard
Update to my message. RT2500: With 7.10 and serialmonkey, Rate=54 Mb/s and download reaches 350 KiB/sec. With 8.04CR, Rate=1 Mb/s and download reaches 20 KiB/sec. after setting sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M Rate=54 Mb/s and download reaches 150 KiB/sec. RT73: With 8.04CR, Rate=1 Mb/s and download

[Bug 187313] 8.04 CR seems cured

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
I no longer saw my problem in a 8.04 CR fresh installation in two days. I've just done some stress testing which should have shown the problem but didn't. It seems to me that I see the sandglass shows more often and it could be that it prevents clicking at the moments the "strange things" may hap

[Bug 134660] Re: Ralink rt2400 / rt2500 / rt2570 / rt61 / rt73 do not work out of the box in Gutsy/Hardy

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
Funny, this is what I had ready to post just while finding the above. According to my tests, it seems to me that the problem is not that the interface is set to "rate 1M", but to "rate auto", and that this automatic bitrate adjustment mode is broken, setting rate down to 1M. Hence, I have put th

[Bug 134660] 8.04 CR rt73 lockup?

2008-04-21 Thread André Pirard
Running 8.04 CR, I've has 4 cases in 2 days of lockup when the rt73 was plugged in. Unplugged the rt73 and 8.04 CR ran about 48 hours without stop. Ian, if you stop answering the Windows' WiFi installer's questions at some point before it starts installing, you will find the decompressed files i

[Bug 187313] Re: right click on a link does strange things

2008-04-22 Thread André Pirard
Sorry I must partially take back what I said. In a two hours Google News session, it happened five times. Indeed that's less frequent than before, but it still happens. Right click on a link, release, wait, and for example a Bookmark This Link windows opens. I still say that it happens less often,

[Bug 208365] Now that we're at 8.04 CR

2008-04-23 Thread André Pirard
Now that we're at 8.04 CR... FYI, this is the ugly Ubuntu welcome I'm trying to avoid... at the expense of something like raising some timeout. ** Attachment added: "Live CD 8.04 CR.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13841770/Live%20CD%208.04%20CR.png -- error starting g-s-d on systems with

[Bug 202456] [NEW] Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-03-15 Thread André Pirard
Public bug reported: Subject says it almost it all. System is Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 6 with related wine. App is this : http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/ App cannot be minimized because there's no minimize button. Minimize is greyed out in the panel's windows list too. Top of window screenshot attached. H

[Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-03-15 Thread André Pirard
** Attachment added: "Simple Sudoku.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12683942/Simple%20Sudoku.png ** Description changed: Subject says it almost it all. System is Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 6 with related wine. App is this : http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/ + App cannot be minimized because there

[Bug 202456] Re: Gnome wine runs Simple Sudoku without window's minimize button

2008-03-15 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: - Subject says it almost it all. - System is Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 6 with related wine. + Subject almost says it all. + System is Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 6 with embarked wine 0.9.56. App is this : http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/ App cannot be minimized because there's no minimize b

[Bug 197514] Startup works

2008-04-09 Thread André Pirard
I bought a WiFi USB adapter for that computer. I upgraded 8.04 beta to latest level. Result, now : - Screen-wise, Ubuntu boots normally as it did with 7.04 - My patch is still needed to get 1024*768, though. - And the computer still locks up when the screens blanks. I supposed this is screen power

[Bug 223990] Sorry

2008-04-29 Thread André Pirard
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 223989 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223989 Sorry, I may have goofed, but I don't remember having filed two bugs. Just one, then I realized I'd better assign it to upstream wine. So I added an "also affects". Why did that result in 2 bug entries? I'd ap

Re: [Bug 222267] Re: balloon text hides Gnome desktop's bottom panel in Hardy

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-04-29 22:10, Sebastien Bacher wrote : > thank you for your bug report, could you make a screenshot of the issue? > Thanks too, but I wonder why you want shots of what every Ubuntu user can see. Screen shots do not show the pointer, so you can't relate it with balloon position. Further

[Bug 222267] Re: balloon text hides Gnome desktop's bottom panel in Hardy

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
Done. Remember that it appears as a problem only with autohiding panels. With autohiding, it's really pesting. -- balloon text hides Gnome desktop's bottom panel in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 204909] Re: .desktop filename total confusion

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
** Description changed: - Tested in 8.04 alphas ... - When a Firefox URL is dragged to a folder in a File Browser window, an object with an Earth icon is built that behaves totally erraticaly in countless situations. - First and mostly, the real filename is not the filename that the File Browser

Re: [Bug 204909] Re: .desktop filename total confusion

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
On 2008-04-29 14:01, Alexander Sack wrote : > could you please try to rephrase your problem in short words? I think I > don't understand the problem you are referring to. Thanks. > Indeed. My improved understanding of Lauchers had me rephrase it all. My general advices : don't be like Windows,

[Bug 204909] Re: .desktop filename total confusion

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
** Changed in: ubuntu Sourcepackagename: firefox-3.0 => None Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- .desktop filename total confusion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 213747] Re: Random crashes with 8.04 beta (512+128 MB RAM with interleave disabled)

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
Daniel, Ubuntu is very happy with memory reduced to 256 MB. I don't think this problem must be tackled statistically. Why does a 256 MB work and not a 256 + 128 MB? (Correctly configured without interleaving). Many would call that a hardware problem. But the memory test passes OK and Windows runs h

Re: [Bug 223989] Re: wine: incorrect "Browse C:\ Drive" launcher

2008-04-30 Thread André Pirard
> Sure. It's an easy change, although winecfg won't let you remap your > C:\ drive these days for very good reasons. > Ah. What are those good reasons? Let's speak about the reason for remapping C:\ Imagine installing Ubuntu for 10 kids, all having their profiles, and their 50 Windows p

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