[Bug 1048783] Re: network name lookups broken in NAT network adaptors

2012-12-28 Thread Colin D Bennett
I can confirm both the bug and the workaround on Xubuntu 12.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048783 Title: network name lookups broken in NAT network adaptors To manage notificati

[Bug 941672] Re: "bzr help branches" crashes with bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'Option' object has no attribute 'get_help_topic'

2012-06-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
P.S. This 'bzr tags' crash is completely different from the 'bzr help branches' crash, except that perhaps Bazaar could more gracefully catch issues in the plugins help system, and tell the user that "plugin X is missing help for topic Y". -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 941672] Re: "bzr help branches" crashes with bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'Option' object has no attribute 'get_help_topic'

2012-06-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
UPDATE: I discovered that bzr-svn is the culprit for 'bzr tags' crashing. Ubuntu package bzr-svn 1.2.1-1. If I uninstall it, 'bzr tags' works OK. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/941672

[Bug 941672] Re: "bzr help branches" crashes with bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'Option' object has no attribute 'get_help_topic'

2012-06-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething): I also am running Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) and I confirm the crash on 'bzr help tags' and 'bzr help branches'. Ubuntu bzr package version: 2.5.0-2ubuntu2 Bazaar (bzr) 2.5.0 Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.7.3 Python standard library: /usr/lib/py

[Bug 1008743] Re: qdiff locks up with certain file contents

2012-06-04 Thread Colin D Bennett
** Attachment added: "C header file that triggers the lockup bug" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008743/+attachment/3175507/+files/CC2530_registers.h -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1008743] [NEW] qdiff locks up with certain file contents

2012-06-04 Thread Colin D Bennett
Public bug reported: When I use qdiff to show differences including changes a certain C header file, it would lock up completely and have to be forcefully killed. I was able to strip most of the header file out and still reproduce the problem. To reproduce the bug: 1. mkdir test 2. cd test 3. b

[Bug 262408] Re: SysRq key equivalent needed

2012-04-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
@João Hornburg: No, fn+Shift+F11 doesn't work. Tested in Ubuntu 12.04, it doesn't even work as a regular Print Screen key. The key mappings in the Apple page you reference are apparently not all implemented by the Linux “apple” key layout. Also, if fn+Shift+F11 were Print Screen/SysRq, would

[Bug 973533] Re: package gdb-msp430 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/__init__.py', which is also in package gdb 7.4-2012.02-0ubuntu2

2012-04-04 Thread Colin D Bennett
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973533 Title: package gdb-msp430 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/__init__.py', which is also

[Bug 973533] [NEW] package gdb-msp430 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/__init__.py', which is also in package gdb 7.4-2012.02-0ubuntu2

2012-04-04 Thread Colin D Bennett
Public bug reported: Tried to install gdb-msp430 but there is a collision with the 'gdb' package. Both provide '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/__init__.py'. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gdb-msp430 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Una

[Bug 933504] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in __libc_message()

2012-03-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
I hit this crash with a fresh install (i.e., not upgraded from prior release) 12.04 prerelease. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933504 Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in __libc_messag

[Bug 875359] Re: evince locks up when zooming in or out

2011-10-15 Thread Colin D Bennett
The prior two traces were when I locked up Evince with Ctrl minus and Ctrl plus. This one is done with trackpad pinch to zoom. It has a thread exit in it too, maybe that's something. These are the remaining threads: (gdb) info thread Id Target Id Frame 6Thread 0x7fe7c0fa3700 (

[Bug 875359] Re: evince locks up when zooming in or out

2011-10-15 Thread Colin D Bennett
** Attachment added: "gdb backtrace of crash #2 - shorter backtrace and different" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/875359/+attachment/2548857/+files/backtrace2.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 875359] Re: evince locks up when zooming in or out

2011-10-15 Thread Colin D Bennett
** Attachment added: "gdb backtrace of crash #1" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/875359/+attachment/2548856/+files/backtrace1.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 875359] Re: evince locks up when zooming in or out

2011-10-15 Thread Colin D Bennett
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875359 Title: evince locks up when zooming in or out To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug

[Bug 875359] [NEW] evince locks up when zooming in or out

2011-10-15 Thread Colin D Bennett
Public bug reported: Evince locks up when I zoom in or out very far. I had this happen with both the mouse gesture “pinch to zoom” and also with keyboard shortcut Ctrl-plus / Ctrl-minus. I reproduced in 5 or 6 times in a row and also did so in gdb to get a backtrace. Occasionally, I start Evinc

Re: [Bug 754000] Re: 3 finger touch interferes with 3 finger click (middle click)

2011-09-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
I'm using Gnome (Ubuntu Classic session) and three-finger click works fine here. I use it in Firefox all the time. Regards, Colin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/754000 Title: 3 fing

[Bug 770160] Re: windows start to move slow after using compiz for some hours

2011-07-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Andrey Gladkyy: How is this related to Bug #764330? In that bug, slowness always occurs and only when mouse movement takes place. In this bug, at least for me, slowdown occurs only after a long period of time (days to weeks) and I experience lags when using the keyboard as well; for instance, t

[Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-07-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
This bug does not appear for me. I do not have any slowdown when dragging windows with the mouse. There is no lagging or choppiness. I am using a Logitech MX310 wired USB optical mouse on Ubuntu 11.04 (Ubuntu Classic session: Gnome w/ compiz enabled). I have not changed any options such as poll

Re: [Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-07-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Phil, Very interesting! If I experience the problem again, I will definitely do some testing of different mice. However, I recall that my MacBook Pro's trackpad also exhibited the problem as well as my Logitech mouse. It really sounds like two very different bugs, doesn't it? -- You received

Re: [Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-07-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:49:10 - Phil Doroff <764...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I posted 2 hours too soon! > > So on a hunch, based on some other xorg.0.log output from other users > in this ticket, I noticed that all folks with both and Nvidia Video > card, and a Logitech mouse seem to have

[Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-06-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
... (Returning to comment after switching from the Unity “Ubuntu” session to “Ubuntu Classic” session for one week.) Moving windows became very slow again. I tried “compiz --replace” but it did not help. I had to log out and back in again to fix it. The Xorg process had a resident memory size o

[Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-06-06 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Timo: Regarding your workaround of using Compizconfig Settings Manager to set the Composite plugin refresh to 60 Hz (or another fixed value) rather than automatically detect it, I am skeptical that it works. I found that simply restarting Compiz with 'compiz --replace' is what causes the tempor

[Bug 764330] Re: Move window annoying slow with compiz

2011-06-06 Thread Colin D Bennett
Another confirmation that Unity gets slow after running for a while. Unity runs fine when I first boot up, but after a while things get unusable: Dragging windows to move them is nearly impossible, I sometimes have to wait 5+ seconds for the window to react to a drag. Switching desktops is also ex

[Bug 776499] Re: gvim gets no global menu, timeout warning on the console

2011-05-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
Workaround confirmed. Running “gvim -f” makes the global menu appear correctly. Of course it's not usually convenient to run gvim -f so it would be nice to have this bug actually fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 774098] Re: overlay-scrollbar exists and really shouldn't

2011-05-11 Thread Colin D Bennett
I agree totally. It's great to see innovations that improve usability and make better use of screen space, etc. but the new "overlay scrollbar" is truly a usability disaster for all the reasons mentioned above. How could there not be a GUI way to disable this?! -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 289744] Re: Cannot access sytem time settings

2010-05-01 Thread Colin D Bennett
Wow! I this is really confusing! I too thought that this button should bring up a dialog to set the time or something such as the system Time/Date Settings window from the System|Administration menu, where you can enable NTP synchronization. At least in Lucid the Set System Time button does not

[Bug 438868] Re: Address bar autocomplete and search bar autocomplete doesn't always work after emerging from a screensaver or suspend

2010-04-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
I am glad to have finally found the bug report on this bug! It has been driving me crazy for months. On the other hand, I am very disappointed that this won't be fixed in Lucid. At least I know that bringing up the context menu with a right click on the page will fix it when it does happen so I

Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-04-01 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:40:25 - Dag Odenhall wrote: > - the order will change to be (from left) close, minimize, maximise > > Putting the most destructive action first. Wasn't the whole point to > make it more sane for LTR reading? Close may be ‘destructive’, but I would also say it is the

Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:08:40 - Pako wrote: > Colin D Bennett wrote > >If the window buttons are moved to the left, the scroll bar must > >also be moved to the left hand side. > > In my case and I hope in many of yours, I never use the right > scrollbar since I&#

Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:18:42 - Warlon wrote: > Here's my little grain of data: > > My mouse pointer usually hovers above the right part of the screen > simply because text on the screen is aligned left and on the right > side it's out of the way. I had this same thought. The mouse pointer

[Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

2010-03-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
Dear Ubuntu: If you're going to force a left-hand-side window button layout on poor users, at least make the following two concessions (and I have converted many relatively non-technical Windows users to Ubuntu users, including my wife, my dad, and my father-in-law). (1) My mouse spends nearly a

[Bug 535322] Re: no gui options to switch title bar buttons back to right side

2010-03-25 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Mantas Kriaučiūnas: Thank you for the tool! I will probably modify it for my own use and my friends and family's use in Lucid. (I will make the close button always be in the corner.) Dear Ubuntu: you really should include something like this in the Lucid Lynx release! However, I would be a li

[Bug 226894] Re: Backlight control does not work on MacBook Pro 5.1

2010-03-16 Thread Colin D Bennett
Ok, the LCD backlight control does work with the Lucid alpha 3 live CD. It works great -- the brightness range of the indicator bar on screen matches the apparent range of backlight brightness (before, when it was working on Karmic, the ranges were out of sync). A little off topic, but this was my

[Bug 226894] Re: Backlight control does not work on MacBook Pro 3.1

2010-03-16 Thread Colin D Bennett
I have a MacBook Pro 5,1 and my LCD backlight stopped working in Karmic after some package update a couple months ago. The Fn keys work but as the notification bubble brightness bar changes, the LCD backlight brightness does not change (it's fixed at the maximum level). I inserted the mbp_nvidia_

[Bug 509508] Re: FN Brightness keys stopped w orking on Macbook4,1

2010-03-16 Thread Colin D Bennett
Is it the keys that specifically are not working, or is it more properly the backlight adjustment that is not working? That is, when you hit the backlight +/- Fn keys, does Ubuntu respond by showing the notification bubble indicating the brightness level with a bar by the system tray, or do the Fn

[Bug 457882] Re: Macbook 2, 1 panel brightness no longer adjustable in Karmic/Lucid

2010-03-16 Thread Colin D Bennett
I have a MacBook 5,1 and my backlight brightness stopped working several months ago. It worked at one point with Karmic, but after some automatic package update it quit working. I'm still on Karmic and it's still broken. I press the Fn backlight brighter/darker keys and the OSD indicator by the

[Bug 531554] Re: pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)"

2010-03-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
Note that I'm on Karmic desktop x86. -- pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531554 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

[Bug 531554] Re: pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)"

2010-03-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
** Attachment added: "apport data for psmisc's pstree -a" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40097729/apport.psmisc.1FSIXI.apport -- pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 531554] Re: pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)"

2010-03-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
Here is the log from "valgrind -v pstree -a". I'm not sure if it's showing the problem in this output, however. ** Attachment added: "pstree -a valgrind log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40097712/pstree-a.valgrind.txt -- pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)" https://bugs.laun

[Bug 531554] Re: pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)"

2010-03-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
** Attachment added: "pstree -a gdb output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40097617/pstree-a.gdb.txt -- pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 531554] [NEW] pstree -a crash: "double free or corruption (!prev)"

2010-03-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: psmisc Running 'pstree -a' causes a crash with SIGABRT on this machine. It does this every time I run it. However, pstree without the '-a' option runs fine. This is the output: c...@sith02:/tmp$ pstree -a *** glibc detected *** pstree: double free or

[Bug 488720] Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.32-5 completely fails to resume on Macbook 5.1

2010-01-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
The problems demoneivo reports from Karmic sound really similar the problems I experience on my MacBook since I upgraded to Karmic from Jaunty. Suspend/resume on Jaunty worked perfectly, but since upgrading (full reinstall from scratch) to Karmic the system takes a variable amount of time to resum

[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.5.0

2009-06-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
Very inconvenient. I really hope that Karmic Koala includes Eclipse 3.5. While the Eclipse Team PPA doesn't currently provide Jaunty amd64 packages, I was able to install the Intrepid packages successfully. Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eclipse.sources.list: #deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ecl

[Bug 338083] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 will not reboot (Restart).

2009-04-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Ricky, Jim: My /var/log/messages.0 hasn't been modified for about a week. The 'messages' files are not rotated every boot, but once per week. Here's a listing of my /var/log/messages* -rw-r- 1 syslog adm 339444 2009-04-22 10:04 /var/log/messages -rw-r- 1 syslog adm 207454 2009-04-16 0

[Bug 338083] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 will not reboot (Restart).

2009-04-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
I haven't actually done anything to try to fix the reboot problem. My /var/log/messages unfortunately doesn't show anything interesting after a reboot. It just looks like this: Apr 22 08:42:53 svelte kernel: [76362.012307] PM: resume devices took 3.096 seconds Apr 22 08:42:53 svelte kernel: [76

[Bug 338083] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 will not reboot (Restart).

2009-04-21 Thread Colin D Bennett
@Νίκος and Chris: That is weird that it works for me now, but not for you. Just like Nikos, I am running 64-bit Jaunty on a MacBook Pro 5,1 with that kernel. And I have tried it multiple times: Reboot from Ubuntu works! I have not idea why it started working for me. -- [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1

[Bug 338083] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 will not reboot (Restart).

2009-04-17 Thread Colin D Bennett
As of a couple days ago, my MacBook Pro 5,1 on Jaunty suddenly started rebooting properly! Yay! I am now on Linux 2.6.28-11-generic. Has anyone else updated their Ubuntu packages and had this problem fixed? -- [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 will not reboot (Restart). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3380

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Colin D Bennett
I have an Apple MacBook Pro 5,1 with nVidia 9600M GT graphics. I'm running on 64-bit Jaunty beta with the nvidia 180.44-0ubuntu1 driver version. I had problems with the title bars not getting repainted sometimes so you couldn't tell that the focused window was actually focused since it still had

[Bug 337935] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported (Alpha 5 of Jaunty)

2009-04-06 Thread Colin D Bennett
@P. Dunbar: OK, the problem was actually that my .fdi file was not taking effect! So SHMConfig was defaulted to false and all my settings had no effect. I grabbed the .fdi file off the wiki and started fresh, and got it working better. The sensitivity is great now. -- [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 tou

[Bug 337935] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported (Alpha 5 of Jaunty)

2009-04-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
I got the trackpad on my MacBook Pro 5,1 *mostly* working by doing: (On a fresh install of Jaunty Beta) 1. Install all the mactel PPA packages. 2. Blacklist usbhid 3. Put bcm5974, usbhid in modprobe's "modules" file to force bcm5974 to load first. 4. Put the file posted above by P. Dunbar on