[Bug 246364] Re: seahorse asks twice for gpg key password

2017-03-31 Thread Andrew Skalski
I did some troubleshooting on this issue, because it affects me as well. The previous comment mentions an upstream bug report, but I haven't been able to find it, so I'll post this here. The first time I send a signed message after restarting Thunderbird, I get prompted twice for my gpg key passwo

[Bug 1509031] Re: can no longer alt-drag firefox/thunderbird windows above top of screen

2016-06-29 Thread Andrew Skalski
I tested metacity version 1:3.18.5-0ubuntu0.1 from xenial-proposed, and confirmed the fix works correctly and with no regressions. Firefox and Thunderbird windows can now be dragged above the top of the screen. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You receiv

[Bug 1509031] Re: can no longer alt-drag firefox/thunderbird windows above top of screen

2016-06-21 Thread Andrew Skalski
I tested by applying the patch against the current Ubuntu Xenial release version of the metacity package (metacity_3.18.4-0ubuntu0.3). I can confirm the patch fixes the regression (it allows me to drag my Firefox and Thunderbird windows above the top of the screen.) So far, I have encountered no

[Bug 1509031] [NEW] can no longer alt-drag firefox/thunderbird windows above top of screen

2015-10-22 Thread Andrew Skalski
Public bug reported: After upgrading to 15.10, I can no longer Alt-drag Firefox and Thunderbird windows above the top of the screen. When I attempt to do so, the window snaps downward along the y-axis so that the titlebar aligns with top of screen. Other applications such as gnome-terminal do no

[Bug 1412943] Re: security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::XXX) not reachable via HE

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Skalski
I found a decent workaround: use the main server "archive.ubuntu.com" instead of the mirror. Notice how it includes only the known-good addresses; security.ubuntu.com includes a mix of good and bad hosts, and us.archive.ubuntu.com includes only the bad ones. $ dig +short archive.ubuntu.com 2

[Bug 1412943] Re: security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::XXX) not reachable via HE

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Skalski
This affects all of the IPv6 addresses for us.archive.ubuntu.com as well (the addresses are mostly the same as security.ubuntu.com, excluding the two that actually work.) It would be less of a concern if apt automatically fell back on the IPv4 stack, but right now the only way for my machines to r

[Bug 1293252] Re: gnome-panel crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2014-11-18 Thread Andrew Skalski
The libwnck git master works perfectly. I can also confirm that specific commit (5f88636284154e76611012c8a7c7495b9d917bd7) constitues the fix: applying the diff to libwnck3_3.4.7-3.debian fixes the crash; conversely, reverting the diff on git master reintroduces the crash. -- You received this b

[Bug 1293252] Re: gnome-panel crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2014-11-18 Thread Andrew Skalski
I still get the crash even after removing the window-list applet. I actually just finished building libwnck3-3.4.7 with this line commented out in libwnck/xutils.c in the try_pixmap_and_mask() function, and it successfully prevents the crash. I haven't noticed any side-effects other than some err

[Bug 1293252] Re: gnome-panel crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2014-11-18 Thread Andrew Skalski
Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot this? I purchased Kerbal Space Program "early access" on Steam this morning, and gnome- panel crashes with this error whenever I try to run the game. This does not happen with the KSP demo, only the full version. A web search suggests this may affe

[Bug 1302736] Re: apt 0.9.15.4ubuntu4 uninstalls ppa:webupd8team/java oracle-java[78]-installer

2014-04-04 Thread Andrew Skalski
I just sent an email to the maintainer of the webupd8 packages, asking for him to weigh in. While I agree that removing the sun-java6-jdk Provide from the webupd8 installers would indeed resolve the issue, I'm not familiar enough to know what the possible downside might be of doing so. -- You re

[Bug 1302736] [NEW] apt 0.9.15.4ubuntu4 uninstalls ppa:webupd8team/java oracle-java[78]-installer

2014-04-04 Thread Andrew Skalski
Public bug reported: This morning's update to the "apt" package (0.9.15.4ubuntu4) adds sun- java6-jdk to the Breaks/Replaces list for apt. This unfortunately creates a conflict with oracle-java7-installer / oracle-java8-installer from ppa:webupd8team/java, both of which "Provide" sun-java6-jdk:

[Bug 924082] Re: NM fails to connect to campus Wi-Fi network; wicd succeeds -- Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 iwlwifi

2013-09-15 Thread Andrew Skalski
This issue no longer affects me. The problem went away when two changes were made to the wireless network over the span of about a week. I don't know which change actually fixed it, but I suspect it was the second of the two: One change was updating the firmware on the access points. In the oth

[Bug 220327] Re: Stack smashing detected: ./eggdrop terminated

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew Skalski
I ran into this error message yesterday when setting up a new Eggdrop bot. I'm posting to this ticket rather than creating a new bug report in case the two issues are related. My crash happens every time the "md5" TCL function is called. The crash can be reproduced with this simple config file:

[Bug 924082] Re: NM fails to connect to campus Wi-Fi network; wicd succeeds -- Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 iwlwifi

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Skalski
I have a Dell Precision M4600 with Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35), and have had this sort of problem for quite some time. It generally happens with networks where there are many access points, and many people connecting to the network (at work, at hotels, etc.) A workaround which has been reliable in g

[Bug 877803] Re: network-manager forgets wireless password after I cancel connection

2011-10-26 Thread Andrew Skalski
This also affects me, ever since upgrading to Oneiric. What I would like the behavior to be: Only update the keyring after successfully authenticating to the wireless network. This would protect good keys from temporary failures. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-09-29 Thread Andrew Skalski
Hi Seth, Thanks for your work on this. I'm trying out 0.9 right now, and ran into a problem (Dell Precision M4600). It was working fine for about 40 minutes, until the driver (apparently) lost synchronization with the event data. The mouse pointer began jittering slightly, without me touching t

[Bug 606238] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Skalski
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550625 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 550625 Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work * You can subscribe to bug 550625 by following this link: https://bugs.lau

[Bug 606448] Re: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Skalski
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550625 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 606238 synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 550625 Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-10-10 Thread Andrew Skalski
Sorry that I haven't had the time to follow up on this in a while. If upstream is holding out for multitouch specs, then I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. From what I could tell, when I looked at it, the multitouch support in Windows is handled by the user-space driver, and not by the hardware.

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Skalski
Here's a patch against 2.6.35. I moved the reset out of initialization and into disconnect, and rewrote the "PSMOUSE_IMPS" hack a little differently (the original Dell patch would change psmouse->type, even when it wasn't supposed to do so.) I wonder if this driver should be in its own .c file, s

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Skalski
Attached updated psmouse.ko for x86_64 ** Attachment added: "psmouse module (x86_64, 2.6.32-24-generic) with working suspend/resume" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550625/+attachment/1502995/+files/psmouse.ko -- Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and sc

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Skalski
Back from vacation. I rewrote the Dell patch, and fixed the suspend/resume bug. I couldn't find any way to enable hardware tapping or scrolling within absolute mode -- those features are apparently handled by the driver for this device. So, until software support is written for Linux, we're stuc

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Skalski
@pvillela I tried suspending, and got the same erratic pointer behavior. Looking at the code, the patch bails out of alps_init() before setting up reconnect/disconnect handlers. The hardware initialization is called from the wrong place (alps_init, instead of alps_hw_init) too, so simply assigni

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Skalski
I applied the Dell patch (I had to modify it somewhat to make it apply cleanly), and verified that it successfully enables vertical scrolling. It still doesn't support syndaemon, but it's a big improvement from what we had before. Attached is a 64-bit psmouse.ko that I built against 2.6.32-24-gene

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Skalski
I have the "73 02 64" multitouch/dualpoint device on my Dell E6510. In a very manual process of modifying the virtualbox-ose PS/2 driver, and copying bytes between it and /dev/serio_raw0, I managed to piece together the initialization sequence performed by the Windows driver. The entire sequence,