[Bug 1872212] Re: grub-install: Operation not permitted

2020-11-24 Thread Ben McCann
I have the same issue on bare metal (Ryzen 3600 on B550 MB) and --no- nvram also disables the error message by, presumably, *not* updating the EFI boot entries in NVRAM. This was a working install and efibootmgr looked reasonable after attempting to upgrade grub-efi-amd64-signed: [deneb:~]$ sudo

[Bug 1872212] Re: grub-install: Operation not permitted

2020-11-24 Thread Ben McCann
Me to. I upgraded all out-of-date packages and the grub-efi-amd64-signed upgrade failed as shown above. This was an *upgrade* on bare metal (A Ryzen 3600 on a B550 motherboard) that had been booting just fine prior to this error. The '--no-nvram' work-around prevents the error but I have no idea if

[Bug 1609326] Re: adminer .conf file is misplaced in /adminer/apache.conf

2017-05-31 Thread Ben McCann
Folks can't figure out how to use adminer on 17.04 anymore: https://askubuntu.com/questions/915587/why-i-am-getting-empty-folder-of- adminer-after-install/920951#920951 @jbicha what did you end up doing? Did you just download manually or did you have some other workaround? -- You received this b

[Bug 1556602] Re: LVM in 16.04 cannot mount LVM Cached Volumes created in 15.10

2016-09-03 Thread Ben McCann
LVM caching enabled in Ubuntu 16.04 (or, to be completely honest, Linux Mint 18) is also incompatible with the older caching implementation in Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 (i.e. Debian Jessie). I hoped the following procedure would create an LVM cache that works for both Jessie and Xenial: 1) Under

[Bug 1556602] Re: LVM cannot mount LVM Cached Volumes from LMDE Betsy

2016-03-13 Thread Ben McCann
Installing the thin-provisioning-tools after booting the Live USB did not help. I still get the same error when checking the LVM partition status with 'pvs'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1556602] Re: LVM cannot mount LVM Cached Volumes from LMDE Betsy

2016-03-13 Thread Ben McCann
Here is the package info for LVM2 on LDME Betsy: dpkg-query -l lvm2 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Descr

[Bug 1556602] [NEW] LVM cannot mount LVM Cached Volumes from LMDE Betsy

2016-03-13 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: I'm test driving Ubuntu Mate Beta 1 (from USB) on a machine that uses LVM caching. (I use some SSD to cache old hard drives). My LVM setup was created with Linux Mint Debian Edition - Betsy release. The system cannot mount these cached volumes due to the following error repor

[Bug 1006776] Re: openjdk-6-jdk ssl negotiation incompatibility

2013-11-15 Thread Ben McCann
I get this error using a self-signed cert for localhost, but not when using a self-signed cert for another domain and setting my hosts file to point that domain to localhost -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1023055] Re: do-release-upgrade crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release: No module named DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeVersion

2013-09-13 Thread Ben McCann
That link https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...+build/3652904 should be https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3-defaults/3.2.3-3ubuntu1/+build/3652904 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-20 Thread Ben McCann
BTW, I had to add the 'mdadm -Ss --wait-clean' command to a KDE shutdown script (instead of one of the normal system shutdown scripts under /etc/init.d) because the shutdown scripts would not wait for this command to complete. It takes long enough to '--wait-clean' that something during shutdown wo

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-15 Thread Ben McCann
The files that have to be customized or overridden by adding hooks under /etc are: /lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid.rules /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdadm so I think this is more of an MDADM issue instead of a generic setup/config issue. But, that depends on which package actually owns thes

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-15 Thread Ben McCann
I found and fixed this problem and it has nothing to do with the kernel. Intel RAID is *extremely* finicky and I remembered that it required two tweaks to the initrd build process. I originally implemented those tweaks in a couple of the MDADM 'hook' files under /usr/share. That was my mistake. Th

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-15 Thread Ben McCann
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51 To m

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-14 Thread Ben McCann
I can't test 3.2.46 because there are no amd64 packages available in http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2.46-precise. (There were no Intel CPU packages at all). I did test 3.2.47 and 3.2.48 images and *both* of them fail to detect my Intel fakeraid array. I also looked into updating

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-13 Thread Ben McCann
I'm reluctant to upgrade the BIOS on a PC that is otherwise working fine but I agree that my BIOS is quite out of date. So, I'll probably upgrade tomorrow. (Have to go to work now). That said, I'm skeptical upgrading the BIOS would matter because Linux 3.2.0-49 works fine and 3.2.0-51 doesn't. Som

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-13 Thread Ben McCann
The bug exists in the latest upstream kernel (v3.11-rc4-saucy). I see identical behavior to the originally reported bug. MD fails to see my intel fakeraid array but both physical members of the array are online and readable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-09 Thread Ben McCann
Tested upstream kernel as requested. Regression exists upstream too. Added kernel-bug-exists-upstream tag. ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210

[Bug 1210104] PciMultimedia.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "PciMultimedia.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764835/+files/PciMultimedia.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12101

[Bug 1210104] Lsusb.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764834/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title: Inte

[Bug 1210104] UdevLog.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevLog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764841/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title:

[Bug 1210104] UserAsoundrcAsoundconf.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "UserAsoundrcAsoundconf.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764842/+files/UserAsoundrcAsoundconf.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
OK. I added the apport data. Note that I am currently running 3.2.0-49, which works, because my machine is almost useless with 3.2.0-51. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 1210104] PulseList.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "PulseList.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764839/+files/PulseList.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Titl

[Bug 1210104] IwConfig.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "IwConfig.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764832/+files/IwConfig.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title:

[Bug 1210104] ProcModules.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764838/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104

[Bug 1210104] Lspci.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764833/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title: Inte

[Bug 1210104] ProcInterrupts.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764837/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121

[Bug 1210104] UdevDb.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764840/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Title: In

[Bug 1210104] CurrentDmesg.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764831/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104

[Bug 1210104] Card1.Amixer.values.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Card1.Amixer.values.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764829/+files/Card1.Amixer.values.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1210104] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764836/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104

[Bug 1210104] Card1.Codecs.codec.0.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Card1.Codecs.codec.0.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764830/+files/Card1.Codecs.codec.0.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1210104] Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764828/+files/Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1210104] BootDmesg.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764826/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104 Titl

[Bug 1210104] ArecordDevices.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "ArecordDevices.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764825/+files/ArecordDevices.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121

[Bug 1210104] Card0.Amixer.values.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "Card0.Amixer.values.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764827/+files/Card0.Amixer.values.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1210104] AplayDevices.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764824/+files/AplayDevices.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected precise staging ** Description changed: I have been using Intel FakeRAID on an Asus Z77 motherboard on Kubuntu 12.04 for months. I'm using the MDADM version and not DMRAID. It has been working fine other than a couple minor issues with cle

[Bug 1210104] AlsaDevices.txt

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
apport information ** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104/+attachment/3764823/+files/AlsaDevices.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1210104

[Bug 1210104] Re: Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
3.2.0-51 kernel log ** Attachment added: "Kernel log from 3.2.0-51 (that fails to start FakeRAID)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1210104/+attachment/3764809/+files/3.2.0-51.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1210104] [NEW] Intel FakeRAID *Regression* in Kubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.0-51

2013-08-08 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: I have been using Intel FakeRAID on an Asus Z77 motherboard on Kubuntu 12.04 for months. I'm using the MDADM version and not DMRAID. It has been working fine other than a couple minor issues with clean shutdowns that I fixed by tweaking a couple of the scripts under /etc. I u

[Bug 593332] Re: GT218 (GF 210) unsupported

2013-04-25 Thread Ben McCann
Here's the GTX 650 Ti: $ sudo nvclock -f -i -- General info -- Card: Unknown Nvidia card Architecture: GE6 A1 PCI id: 0xbad0 GPU clock: -2147483.750 MHz Bustype:PCI -- Memory info -- Amount: 2989 MB Type: 128 bit SDR Clock: -2147483.

[Bug 965371] Re: HTTPS requests fail on sites which immediately close the connection if TLS 1.1 negotiation is attempted, on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-04-01 Thread Ben McCann
This is happening when connecting to SoftLayer as well. I've filed a bug with them here: https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-object-storage- python/issues/17 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 771788] Re: nVidia driver activated and apparently being used but reported as not being used by jockey-gtk

2011-06-30 Thread Ben McCann
I tried to install the driver from NVidia's site as Emilio suggested, but found it would not work. The 256.53 driver available on their site is incompatible with 2.6.38 kernel used by Natty. I get the message "error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer" and then "nvidia.ko failed to bu

[Bug 668382] Re: No warning before removing important packages!!

2011-02-04 Thread Ben McCann
I removed evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common because I use gmail, so I didn't want any email software on my system. However, that removed gnome-panel with no notice whatsoever. I would like to suggest that we show what packages are being removed regardless of whether it's co

[Bug 569224] Re: Plugin installation - keystore issue, reports: "This trust engine is read only."

2010-07-23 Thread Ben McCann
The problem for me was that I installed "Eclipse Integrated Development Environment" in synaptic. When I installed "eclipse" the problem was solved. This is insanely non-intuitive. Why are there two packages? Can we make "Eclipse Integrated Development Environment" install "eclipse"? ** Chang

[Bug 607340] Re: Keyboard broken in NX

2010-07-20 Thread Ben McCann
It seems this is the worst when using a shadow session. I cannot figure out how to resolve the problem in that case. However, I have somehow worked around the problem for the standard case. -- Keyboard broken in NX https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607340 You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 289918] Re: Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid

2010-07-20 Thread Ben McCann
Sure. What do you mean by "check the gnome-settings-daemon"? What am I supposed to do exactly? -- Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 607340] Re: Keyboard broken in NX

2010-07-20 Thread Ben McCann
This may well be a different bug than the Intrepid/FreeNX bug, but I would be surprised if the bug is in NX. I have not had this problem on any OS except Ubuntu. Also, when searching for a solution, I came across numerous posts regarding the up key being remapped to PrintScreen in Ubuntu. -- Ke

[Bug 289918] Re: Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid

2010-07-20 Thread Ben McCann
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 289918] Re: Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid

2010-07-20 Thread Ben McCann
** Changed in: freenx-server Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 289918] Re: Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid

2010-07-19 Thread Ben McCann
This is broken for me and none of the workarounds have helped. My client and server machines are both running Lucid. I am running the official NX client and server so the bug is not in freenx. I'd be nice if we could get the importance bumped up from low and hopefully get the bug assigned to s

[Bug 607340] [NEW] Keyboard broken in NX

2010-07-19 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: The keyboard is totally messed up when I NX into my Lucid desktop from my Lucid laptop. When I hit the up arrow it takes a screenshot. Instructions for installing NX available here: http://www.benmccann.com /dev-blog/my-first-experience-with-ubuntu/ ** Affects: ubuntu

[Bug 607072] [NEW] NX Shadowing requires disabling Compiz

2010-07-18 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: Looks a bit like a https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/353126 It looks like that bug is marked as fixed, which is why I'm reporting a new bug. I'm having a really hard time understanding what the status of that bug is since it appears to affect multi

[Bug 602152] [NEW] Ubuntu Software Center fails and swallows error message

2010-07-06 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-center I ran the following command as suggested on http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html: sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_lucid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list This created a file which was not readable:

[Bug 389117] Re: gedit - not standard redo keybinding

2010-05-01 Thread Ben McCann
I have to say this does piss me off to no end. I spend the majority of my day in apps that use Ctrl+y for redo (e.g. Firefox, Chrome, Eclipse, etc.), so when I use gedit I always forget that it has a completely different key binding. Perhaps it could support both? That way it satisfies anyone wh

[Bug 522950] Re: new flashplugin-installer broke flash in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-02-18 Thread Ben McCann
I got flash working again on by 64-bit linux by: 1) Completely uninstall the flashplugin-installer and flashplugin- nonfree packages. 2) Downloading the 'beta' version of 64-bit Flash for Linux directly from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html. 3) Untar the tarball availabl

[Bug 522950] Re: new flashplugin-installer broke flash in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-02-18 Thread Ben McCann
I have the same issue with Google Chrome on 9.10. Here is the installation log: Log started: 2010-02-16 04:50:30 (Reading database ... 191850 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 10.0.42.34ubuntu0.9.10.1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_10.0.45.2

[Bug 376259] Re: Some Broadcom chips unsupported by B43 wireless driver [BCM4322]

2009-09-20 Thread Ben McCann
My HP-2140 uses the STA driver (which provides the 'wl' kernel module) under Jaunty 9.04 and that works fine. However, I am *not* running the stock 9.04 kernel due to problems with the Intel graphics driver in 9.04. To be more specific: * I think Intrepid (8.10) worked "out of the box" with the 21

[Bug 376259] Re: Some Broadcom chips unsupported by B43 wireless driver [BCM4322]

2009-09-18 Thread Ben McCann
The B43 driver is still broken on the HP-2140 with the BCM-4322 running on Karmic Alpha 6. Same dmesg data: [ 70.975437] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4322 WLAN found (core revision 16) [ 71.021089] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 8, Type 4, Revision 4) [ 71.045828] b43: probe of ssb0

[Bug 297263] Re: HP/Compaq mini Sky2 Ethernet not working if booting from battery

2009-09-07 Thread Ben McCann
I am also seeing this bug on Karmic alpha-6 running on an HP 2140 mininote. If I boot from battery then the sky2 driver reports "PCI configuration read error" and fails to install. (I.e. no 'eth0' device). If I boot while plugged in then eth0 comes up successfully. However, the 'acpi_os_name=Linux

[Bug 322867] Re: Kernel panic after update to 2.6.24-23 on Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Ben McCann
Stefan, I've solved my problem by upgrading to 2.6.30. If you're curious, then read on to find out how... I tried 'pause_on_oops' but it didn't help. It looks like both 'cores' of the hyper-threaded Atom CPU are both panic'ing at roughly the same time. There was no way to prevent crap scrolling of

[Bug 322867] Re: Kernel panic after update to 2.6.24-23 on Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-08-24 Thread Ben McCann
'ACPI' in them but I can't tell for sure what else was going on when the first crash happened. I'm attaching a jpeg of the screen. -Ben McCann ** Attachment added: "Screen scrape of Jaunty panic during boot on HP-2140" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30717716/P10009

[Bug 322867] Re: Kernel panic after update to 2.6.24-23 on Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-08-23 Thread Ben McCann
n I loose hyper-threading and acpi power management. Stefan, will you be promoting this fix in Jaunty? What's odd is that the latest kernel in 8.10 (intrepid) works fine. I've never had this problem on this laptop. (Of course, the timing could be just enough different to avoid the r

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-04-27 Thread Ben McCann
Damian, I'm very surprised that selecting the VESA X11 driver breaks your X windows. This is the "lowest common denominator" driver that doesn't rely on any hardware specific acceleration features. It should *always* work. I'm attaching my xorg.conf file for your reference. This will be my last

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-04-12 Thread Ben McCann
[NOTE: WORK-AROUND AVAILABLE] I can reproduce ezgumol's observation with the added twist that the wireless network goes down *immediately* upon starting 'xine'. I don't have to go to full screen at all. It it takes is playing a movie in xine. I ran a 'ping' in one window and xine in another and as

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-04-09 Thread Ben McCann
I tweaked /etc/apt/sources.list and added the intrepid package repository so I could force a downgrade of the HAL packages. I downgraded hal, libhal1, and libhal-storage from version 0.5.12-rc1+git20090403 to version 0.5.11-4ubuntu4 (i.e. intrepid's version). I hoped to show that this bug was i

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-31 Thread Ben McCann
Following up on Andrew Aylett's posting, I too see the HAL layer incorrectly deciding the radio has been turned off: Start monitoring devicelist: - 06:49:15.023: computer_power_supply_battery_BAT1 property battery.voltage.current = 12512 (0x30e0) 06

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-29 Thread Ben McCann
Still locks up with the acpitool disabling wakeup. I tried without explicitly disabling iwconfig power management and with explicitly setting power management off with iwconfig. (Note that on my config power management in iwconfig is off by default so the latter experiment was really pretty futile)

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-28 Thread Ben McCann
Upgraded all Jaunty packages to latest (Beta) version. Problem still occurs. It does seem like something like ACPI or some other power management subsystem is shutting down the radio unexpectedly (and differently from Intrepid). This is reported in dmesg at the time of the failure: [ 1016.000206]

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-24 Thread Ben McCann
Mine goes down w/o blanking the screen. It happens when the laptop is idle (but not blanking) and I had it happen while downloading data from the Web. I'm up for running experiments but I'm at a loss as to what I should be trying. What would it take to install the Intrepid NetworkManager on Ja

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-16 Thread Ben McCann
I retried the 'power off' work-around and it still failed to prevent my laptop's wireless from dropping after 5 or 10 minutes. I also figured out why the work-around was ineffective. The wireless power management was already OFF *before* I did the 'iwconfig power off' command. (I ran 'iwco

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-13 Thread Ben McCann
Problem still exists in Jaunty Alpha 6. (Note, I upgraded packages; I did not do a fresh install). -- [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-09 Thread Ben McCann
I tried the work-around suggested by Antareus and it did not help. The wireless still lost connectivity. It did seem like it took longer to disconnect with power management disabled but that's only one data point. I'm actually encouraged by this result because my HP-2133's BCM4312 wireless runs fl

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-03-05 Thread Ben McCann
This problem still exists in Alpha 5 or, at least, the latest packages as of 3/4/09 around noon GMT. Can we get someone assigned to this bug? Its not going to make much progress while assigned to 'nobody'. Thanks, Ben McCann -- [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverabl

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-02-22 Thread Ben McCann
and... ** Attachment added: "dmesg output from boot to wireless disconnect" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22981753/dmesg.log -- [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331952 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 331952] Re: [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-02-22 Thread Ben McCann
As requested... ** Attachment added: "Outpuy of lspci -vv" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22981734/lspci.out -- [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331952 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 331952] [NEW] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver

2009-02-20 Thread Ben McCann
rmware issue despite the fact the driver wants new firmware. This firmware is fine in Intrepid. I think something else in the b43, wl, or ssb driver has regressed. Or, perhaps there's been a regression in network-manager. I'm happy to help any way necessary to find this bug. -Ben

[Bug 284162] Re: [intrepid] network-manager, missing icon on the system tray or notification area after switching to a different user

2009-01-16 Thread Ben McCann
This isn't a problem in NetworkManager. I finally found the right bug that describes the behavior *and* which offers a viable work-around. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-panel/+bug/139424 (Bug #139424). The issue is that icon scaling in the System Tray doesn't work well if

[Bug 284162] Re: [intrepid] network-manager, missing icon on the system tray or notification area after switching to a different user

2009-01-16 Thread Ben McCann
Following up on yesterday's comment... I started customizing an alternate user account in the hope that I could migrate my stuff from one user name to another just to get around this bug. (If you can fix the bug, then work-around it). During the course of configuring the desktop for that new acc

[Bug 284162] Re: [intrepid] network-manager, missing icon on the system tray or notification area after switching to a different user

2009-01-14 Thread Ben McCann
I've been fighting with NetworkManager with the problem that it runs but doesn't show up in the system tray. Actually, its there but it has a 1x1 icon which is a bitch to find, but, if you find it, it works. (Alex, I posted a similar complaint to bug 282835 last month). I found this bug and one oth

Re: [Bug 282835] Re: Network Manager fails to start

2008-12-22 Thread Ben McCann
From 'dpkg -l': ii network-manager-gnome 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 network management framework (GNOME frontend) -Ben McCann Alexander Sack wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:59:03AM -0000, Ben McCann wrote: > >> My xubuntu 8.10 i

[Bug 282835] Re: Network Manager fails to start

2008-12-22 Thread Ben McCann
My xubuntu 8.10 is fully up to date and its still broken. I'd be happy to help trouble-shoot it. I'm an experienced Linux user and software developer so I'd be happy to dig into anything including attaching GDB to a daemon if it would help dig out the cause of this problem. Its super annoying wh

[Bug 282835] Re: Network Manager fails to start

2008-12-21 Thread Ben McCann
I don't know if this is the right bug for this comment, but its the closest I've found so far. My NetworkManager and nm-applet both work fine *except* that the nm- applet is not displayed in the notification tray. (Its actually there but apparently with a 1x1 pixel image. if you're lucky, you ca

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-29 Thread Ben McCann
I can confirm Georg's note about 'Option "NoAccel"'. It prevents the freeze but its then so slow that you may as well use the VESA driver. I originally noted in this bug that the cursor is off-center (down and to the right) on my mini-note before it freezes. If I use NoAccel then X comes up but

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ben McCann
Here's the Xorg.0.log from Hardy running the openchrome video driver... I may have debris left from the VIA proprietary driver on my Intrepid partition because I created it by copying a working Hardy install, with the VIA driver, and then upgrading it to Intrepid. However, I don't think that's a

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ben McCann
No change with 'Option "DRI" "false"'. Still locks up with openchrome. FWIW, the openchrome driver included in Hardy works OK with on the Mininote. Note, I normally don't use that and instead use the VIA proprietary drivers. Unfortunately, those are locked to one kernel version so have to 'hold'

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ben McCann
The new openchrome xserver did not help. I updated and then ran several experiments, all with the same result: 1) 'Default" xorg.conf with no driver selection, 2) xorg.conf with explicit 'driver "openchrome"' selection 3) xorg.conf with explicit: driver "openchrome" options "EnableAGPDM

[Bug 179675] Re: Ubuntu LiveCD doesn't start with a "VIA Chrome9 HC" graphic card and, when Ubuntu is installed, it works only with VESA drivers

2008-09-24 Thread Ben McCann
Explicitly selecting the openchrome driver using: driver "openchrome" in the xorg.conf file locks up the X server exactly as described in bug 267115. So, I infer that the X server is selecting the driver correctly but that the openchrome driver is busted in Intrepid. -- Ubuntu LiveCD doesn't st

[Bug 179675] Re: Ubuntu LiveCD doesn't start with a "VIA Chrome9 HC" graphic card and, when Ubuntu is installed, it works only with VESA drivers

2008-09-24 Thread Ben McCann
I marked bug 267115 as a duplicate of this bug. I could not get Intrepid to load the LiveCD. (But, I did not try the 'secure mode' install). I was able to get it installed by upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid and then manually selecting the xorg.conf.failsafe config file that uses the VESA driver.

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-24 Thread Ben McCann
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 179675 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179675 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 179675 Ubuntu LiveCD doesn't start with a "VIA Chrome9 HC" graphic card and, when Ubuntu is installed, it works only with VESA drivers -- Intrepid Alpha 5,

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-24 Thread Ben McCann
I repartitioned my HP 2133's disk when it first arrived to support two root file systems. I cloned my working Hardy root file system from one '/' to the other and then ran a dist-upgrade to convert that to Intrepid Alpha 6. This was successful so I can now run experiments on the X server. The

[Bug 223110] Re: kernel panic on boot after upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04

2008-09-24 Thread Ben McCann
I hit this same bug upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid Alpha 6. This is a killer for linux newbies and really should be addressed before Intrepid completes. I always use two root file systems so I can fall back if an upgrade fails. Most people aren't that paranoid and hence this bug will BRICK thei

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-21 Thread Ben McCann
The Hp-2133 needs the boot option acpi_os="!Windows 2006" to run Hardy correctly. (I don't why but its documented in the Ubuntu mininote forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749693). I manually added this to the boot command line prior to booting the 'test drive without installin

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-21 Thread Ben McCann
(Update from bug originator) I tried the Intrepid Alpha 6 and got the same result. The X server hangs shortly after blanking the screen and putting up the initial mouse cursor. I'm currently running the VIA proprietary drivers on Ubuntu Hardy. That, plus the original VESA X.org drivers worked OK

[Bug 267115] Re: Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-11 Thread Ben McCann
** Summary changed: - Intrepid Alpha 6, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot + Intrepid Alpha 5, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot ** Description changed: - I'm trying to boot the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 Live CD from USB on my HP + I'm trying to boot the Intrepid

[Bug 267115] [NEW] Intrepid Alpha 6, HP Mininote 2133, Live CD, X Server Hangs after Boot

2008-09-06 Thread Ben McCann
Public bug reported: I'm trying to boot the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 Live CD from USB on my HP 2133 Mininote Laptop. (The 2133 is running Hardy almost flawlessly right now). I select 'try live cd' boot option and then the grub splash screen works fine. I get the normal ubuntu progress bar. The progre

[Bug 201890] Re: ubuntu does not support frequency scaling with intel T9300

2008-04-26 Thread Ben McCann
I can't load acpi-cpufreq on an HP-2133 Mini-note with a VIA C7-M processor. (This seemed like the closest bug to comment on instead of opening yet another bug). I'm running Hardy Heron RC1 updated as of 4/24/08. The laptop has a dual-boot config between Xubuntu Hardy and Suse Enterprise 10 (wh