[Bug 663090] Re: Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Kegel
wine's smarter than I thought. It already does the setrlimit in its loader, so no patch is needed, we just need to raise the hard rlimit. -- Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 663090] Re: Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Kegel
Both. Add the lines * hardnofile 4096 * softnofile 1024 to /etc/security/limits.conf. Then apply the patch http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-November/095464.html to wine. Et voila, wine is happy without expo

[Bug 663090] Re: Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-11-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Alexandre Julliard points out that we can raise the default hard limit to 4096 or so but leave the default soft limit at 1024. That would keep unsafe select() from bothering most apps. -- Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 You received this bug

[Bug 663090] Re: Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-10-19 Thread Dan Kegel
Filed idea http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26178/ -- Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 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.u

[Bug 663090] Re: Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-10-19 Thread Dan Kegel
It's a bug in that Ubuntu's wine can't run a number of Windows apps due to this. A few example apps: Catia http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16156&iTestingId=50899 Quicken 2010 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18171 Stronghold Legends http:/

[Bug 663090] [NEW] Why can't Johnny handle 1025 file descriptors?

2010-10-18 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: select() has the well-known flaw that it has undefined behavior if you try to use it with a file decriptor above 1023 (see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10352 ). This prevents Ubuntu from raising the default ulimit -n; it just wouldn't do for random apps to s

[Bug 546525] Re: Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login

2010-06-21 Thread Dan Kegel
This is now happening for me on *every* run of 3dmark2000. -- Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@

[Bug 574664] Re: strongswan's charon crashes shortly after authentication

2010-05-28 Thread Dan Kegel
Sorry, I gave up, went to gentoo. (It hurts to say that.) But I heard a rumor that ipsec.conf - cachecrls=no (instead of yes) solves the crash on debian. -- strongswan's charon crashes shortly after authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574664 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2010-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
Hmm. With security updates available, it ought to show you the window... (maybe there's a 1 day interval for those? Time to look at the code again.) -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 546525] Re: Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login

2010-05-13 Thread Dan Kegel
Got a SIGPIPE again, this time while wineboot was running (just as 3dmark2000 was starting): Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe. 0xb7769430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xb7769430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb754ea61 in writev () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0x080ad40e

[Bug 546525] Re: Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login

2010-05-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Oh, sorry, I should add that I've seen Xorg crash on 3d benchmarks on wine on Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit with the 195.36.15 drivers that come with Ubuntu and nvidia GT 220 and GT 240 cards, as well as on latest gentoo with gtx 295 cards. -- Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login https://bugs.la

[Bug 546525] Re: Xorg crash with SIGPIPE after successful login

2010-05-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I think this affects me - in my case, the SIGPIPE comes when I run 3dmark2000 or 3dmark06 in wine. It only happens once in a while, but it's happened three times today. Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe. 0xb7769430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xb7769430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

[Bug 574664] Re: strongswan's charon crashes shortly after authentication

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47612489/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47612490/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47612491/ProcStatus.txt -- strong

[Bug 574664] [NEW] strongswan's charon crashes shortly after authentication

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: strongswan In ubuntu 10.04, I'm configuring a vpn in strongswan 4.3.2-1.1ubuntu1 by hand (without network manager). All goes fine... up until it crashes. Here's part of syslog leading up to the crash: ... May 3 10:17:36 laptop charon: 01[LIB] loading

[Bug 570825] Re: Highlighted buttons hard to see

2010-04-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Also affects the "Save changes to document..." dialog in gedit (which amusingly includes the static text in the tab cycle... but that's another bug). -- Highlighted buttons hard to see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570825 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 570825] Re: Highlighted buttons hard to see

2010-04-27 Thread Dan Kegel
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45754474/Dependencies.txt -- Highlighted buttons hard to see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570825 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 570825] [NEW] Highlighted buttons hard to see

2010-04-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: light-themes In Lucid (beta2, updated), without any customizations: When using the tab key to cycle between selected buttons, as in System -> Administration -> Time and Date or in the "Make Chromium your default browser?" dialog when chromium-browser sta

[Bug 558948] [NEW] isoinfo can't handle some large .iso's

2010-04-08 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: isoinfo can handle some dvd images, but not others. And it's not alone; volname and file can't handle the same images. For instance, the discs for the games Assassin's Creed, Sims 3, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed all suffer from this. For these discs, isoinfo reports

Re: [Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2010-04-08 Thread Dan Kegel
The line "Autolaunch disabled. There has already been an update within the last 7 days (1270624168,ctime /var/log/apt/term.log)" means you did a manual update. This inhibits automatic updates for a week. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3

[Bug 519576] Re: Race condition in libXext

2010-03-23 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm hitting this with Karmic + wine + steam a lot on my new i7. Happily, I can move to Lucid beta, but there are a lot of Karmic users out there who can't... -- Race condition in libXext https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519576 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2010-02-03 Thread Dan Kegel
Are you sure your sources are enabled? Upgrading Ubuntu disables all the third-party repos... -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 63222] Re: Inconsistency detected by ld.so

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Happened again later in the run. I should mention this is an 8 core machine, and devenv.exe has seven cl.exe's spawned, so it's pretty busy. -- Inconsistency detected by ld.so https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63222 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 63222] Re: Inconsistency detected by ld.so

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Kegel
On ubuntu 9.10 386 desktop, updated, I got Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 256: dl_open_worker: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed! once just now while building Chromium in Visual C++ 2005 in Wine. -- Inconsistency detected by ld.so htt

[Bug 56402] Re: wishlist - ship vmlinux in a -dbg package for oprofile use

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Kegel
Yep, regressed. New bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/289087 -- wishlist - ship vmlinux in a -dbg package for oprofile use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 289087] Re: Missing linux-image-debug packages and metapackages since Intrepid

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Kegel
http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/ does not have the kernel I need (2.6.31-17-generic), it only has 2.6.31-18. This is annoying when trying to use oprofile. -- Missing linux-image-debug packages and metapackages since Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289087 You received this bug

[Bug 508215] Re: booting karmic in vmware with more than 1GB RAM fails with panic "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)" until you update

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Kegel
Also: booting the live CD fails with more than around 512MB with a different, later kernel panic. Good to know when you, say, forget your password and need to boot a rescue disc... -- booting karmic in vmware with more than 1GB RAM fails with panic "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(

[Bug 508215] Re: booting karmic in vmware with more than 1GB RAM fails with panic "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)" until you update

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Marking fixed. -- booting karmic in vmware with more than 1GB RAM fails with panic "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" until you update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508215 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 508215] [NEW] booting karmic in vmware with more than 1GB RAM fails with panic "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)" until you update

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: With VMWare Workstation and original Karmic 32 bit desktop, telling VMWare to increase the amount of memory to more than 1GB, ubuntu has a kernel panic during boot, saying "vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" Decreasing the amount of memory allocated to the

[Bug 190834] Re: keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Kegel
This problem went away for me on my compaq r3000 when I installed the final version of Karmic. Seems to have only been an issue with the prerelease builds. -- keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190834 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 416488] Re: poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default?

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Kegel
I have data from an affected user, will post shortly. -- poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Kegel
perl auto.pl should do it. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 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:

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Kegel
Can you run the perl script from comment #27 and attach its output? -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 465116] Re: software center does not show a install button where it should show. Also "file -> install" is greyed out.

2009-11-03 Thread Dan Kegel
Wonder if this is related to one of the problems highlighted in http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/14124/bad-karma-for-linux-koalas/ which says -- snip -- The problem is software center. I typed in “fonts” and saw “Microsoft core Fonts”, clicked that and all it says is “not ava

[Bug 465116] Re: software center does not show a install button where it should show. Also "file -> install" is greyed out.

2009-11-01 Thread Dan Kegel
this is extremely frustrating. It kind of sucks to have to google for five minutes to figure out why there are no install buttons in appcenter. -- software center does not show a install button where it should show. Also "file -> install" is greyed out. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465116

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Kegel
No, I mean the standard Gnome Panel on the bottom of the screen ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome-panel ), where running programs show up. It's persistant, and I think sufficient. I seem to recall that Jaunty does let me know very nicely if a system restart is needed. Perhaps it's not the way

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Kegel
>From my understanding, the lack of an icon is a feature, not a bug. The user will see the update-notifier appear in the, um, dock or whatever it's called. That's bigger than an icon. (BTW I think manual checks with synaptic will also reset the seven-day clock...) -- update-manager doesn't show

[Bug 427822] Re: fsck says last write time in future

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Kegel
So it doesn't seem fixed to me. Workaround: at the diagnostic root prompt, type mount -o remount / ^D and then CTL-ALT-DEL. (presumably the reboot command would have done fine, too.) It then seems to boot normally. -- fsck says last write time in future https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 427822] Re: fsck says last write time in future

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Kegel
This happened to me today with karmic beta. I installed in virtualbox, and it seemed to work fine, but then to set up shared folders, I had to reboot... now it says /dev/sda1: Superblock last mount time (Fri Oct 9 12:47:47 2009, now = Fri Oct 9 :5:54:32 2009) is in the future. I'm in Lo

[Bug 391044] Re: grub2 update adds --no-floppy to "search " lines

2009-09-07 Thread Dan Kegel
Doing sudo grub-install /dev/sda made the problem go away for me. Since I don't really care where grub is installed, I don't care that this presumably changes that, I'm just glad my system boots now. (Now if only the keyboard worked every time... but that's a different Karmic bug.) -- grub2 u

[Bug 420009] [NEW] update manager tries to download stale files?

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Kegel
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager An ubuntu-9.04 system that had been turned off for a couple weeks was turned on today, and Update Manager asked to update a bunch of packages. It encountered the following error: W: F

[Bug 416488] Re: poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default?

2009-08-21 Thread Dan Kegel
The user reports: "Installed Umbuntu 9.10. This has the same Wireless LAN distance issue. (So now we know.) The Wireless LAN works fine when next to the Access Point but not when I move further away--just like it did with 9.04 I would be inclined to think hardware, but I am typing this message on t

[Bug 94148] Re: atheros wifi card drop connection and low signal

2009-08-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Gee, I can't remove the Jaunty nomination myself. I filed the MSI wind problem as bug 416488 -- atheros wifi card drop connection and low signal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94148 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 416488] [NEW] poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default?

2009-08-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: http://www.examiner.com/x-9438-SF-Business-Tech-Examiner~y2009m8d19-Adventures-with-Linux-in-business is a very public bug report about poor range on an MSI Wind U123 with Ubuntu 9.04. He wrote: "All went well until I tried to connect to the Internet with the Wind’s intern

[Bug 416488] Re: poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default?

2009-08-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Or is it already fixed for Karmic? I guess I'll ask the original reporter to test. -- poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 94148] Re: atheros wifi card drop connection and low signal

2009-08-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Well, foo. Looks like the MSI wind doesn't use atheros after all, see http://forums.msiwind.net/debian/rtl8187se-drivers-for-ubuntu-and-deb-packages-t4954.html Removing nomination for Jaunty. -- atheros wifi card drop connection and low signal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94148 You received

[Bug 94148] Re: atheros wifi card drop connection and low signal

2009-08-20 Thread Dan Kegel
re #13: the problem isn't the low signal reading displayed by network manager; the problem is that people report the connection doesn't work more than a few feet from the access point. So while there may be a problem with the display of the signal level, there really truly is something wrong wi

[Bug 57787] Re: Obscure scary warning in installer.

2009-08-16 Thread Dan Kegel
Worse still, when I installed Karmic alpha 4 just now, it told me that /home would be formatted when I explicitly didn't check the 'format' button. I suspect this "Ready for Installation" screen is sloppily written when it comes to the partition format warning, and doesn't check to see whether th

[Bug 391044] Re: grub2 update adds --no-floppy to "search " lines

2009-08-16 Thread Dan Kegel
Still happening for me. Goh Lip, is it really resolved, or did you apply one of the workarounds? -- grub2 update adds --no-floppy to "search " lines https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391044 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 190834] Re: keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes

2009-08-16 Thread Dan Kegel
Still happening with an up to date karmic on my compaq r3000. uname -a says Linux lappy 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Aug 1 12:47:58 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is enough to make my wife want to give up on ubuntu. -- keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 375345] Re: "Ubuntu One" name creates confusion

2009-08-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Paul, I'm not a fan of the name, but at this point I think you're beating a dead horse... -- "Ubuntu One" name creates confusion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375345 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs maili

[Bug 392073] Re: update-manager "Install Updates" button not functioning

2009-08-12 Thread Dan Kegel
This has happened to me twice lately. What's happening is that an update notice pops up, and both I and the "apply security updates without conformation" code race to install the updates. The two paths seem unaware of each other. The cheeziest fix, and all that's worth doing for now, is probab

[Bug 396949] Re: mounted cdrom doesn't display long filenames

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Kegel
Also happens with the kid pix 3 disc, so much for that workaround :-) There are too many files to copy and rename by hand. mount -t iso9660 -o ro,joliet /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom fails with "unrecognized option" or something like that. dmesg | grep joliet shows [ 1836.464112] udf: bad mount option "

[Bug 396949] Re: mounted cdrom doesn't display long filenames

2009-07-31 Thread Dan Kegel
Happened to me, too. This is a regression since Jaunty. $ uname -a Linux lappy 2.6.31-2-generic #17-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 21:48:17 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu karmic (development branch) \n \l $ sudo isoinfo dev=/dev/cdrom -d CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: APPLE COM

[Bug 399580] Re: conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Filed upstream as http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10391 ** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #10391 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10391 -- conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399580 You rec

[Bug 399580] [NEW] conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in __libc_res_nsend

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Running the (32-bit) chromium ui_tests all day under valgrind on 64 bit jaunty netted a single instance of this warning: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) at __libc_res_nsend (res_send.c:1011) by __libc_res_nquery (res_query.c:225) by __libc

[Bug 190834] Re: keyboard freezes on boot--sometimes

2009-07-05 Thread Dan Kegel
This is affecting me about one boot out of four in Karmic Koala alpha 2 64 bit (with updates) on my Compaq Presario R3000. I've been running 32 bit Ubuntu (Dapper through Jaunty) on this box for a long time, and never had this problem before. I'd be happy to provide any information you need.

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-03 Thread Dan Kegel
I see from /etc/logrotate.d/{apt,dpkg} that the logs are rotated monthly, so the log rotation bug only prevents updates one week out of four. Still worth fixing. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 391044] Re: grub2 update adds --no-floppy to "search " lines

2009-07-02 Thread Dan Kegel
I am running Karmic alpha 2, applied the updates offered to me, chose the defaults everywhere, and ended up with a nonbootable system. It took a while to figure out to remove the --no-floppy argument. I didn't chain-load, as far as I know. The debconf prompt made no sense to me, it offered no

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Running that perl script showed that update notifier is probably getting confused by log rotation! It's telling me that it won't run update manager because /var/log/dpkg.log is too new... even when the darn file is only new because the log was rotated and is zero size. I'm attaching a (bad) pa

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-07-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Here's a little perl script that tries to match exactly update-notifiers logic (from the one used in Karmic, I think, http://update-notifier.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.78/update_8c-source.html ) It prints out why update manager's not going to be launched. I'll try to improve that to detec

[Bug 299360] Re: No automatic package update notifications since Intrepid upgrade

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Happened to me, too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update- notifier/+bug/356152 may be a dup. -- No automatic package update notifications since Intrepid upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299360 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
May be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/299360 -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 322353] Re: segfault updating package openjdk-6-jre-headless

2009-06-29 Thread Dan Kegel
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414462 which says the app was trying to allocate too much memory for your system. To verify whether it's the same problem, could you reinstall the problem package and try $ java -version to see if it fails, and $ java -Xmx384m -version to see if it s

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-26 Thread Dan Kegel
I'd like to have a script I can send to people complaining of autoupdate failure to gather the information needed to diagnose the problem. Here's a first draft. Along with generic update-notifier and update-manager information, it checks for the two problems I've seen personally: wrong permissions

[Bug 60764] Re: Large file transfer gives error: Corrupted MAC on input

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this in Jaunty on a Lenovo laptop. lspci says 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) The symptoms are so severe that running google-chrome over ssh dies within a few seconds. Happily, the workaround "sudo ethtool -K eth0 r

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
Still present in Jaunty Alpha 2 when starting Google Chrome: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Possible culprit: $ strings /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so | grep /usr/lib /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Kegel
Please ignore my comment about the wasted day. I think update-manager already waits properly. The /etc/cron.daily/apt permissions problem is the real issue, I think. -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Hmm. /etc/cron.daily/apt will sleep for up to 1800 seconds (30 minutes), so it looks like there's a one-day lag built into the system. On the first day, /etc/cron.daily/apt updates the list of packages; on the next day, update-manager uses the updated list. Maybe we could get rid of that wasted

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I did sudo chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/apt sudo rm /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily rebooted, and logged in. Five minutes later, cron.daily ran. Five minutes after that, update manager popped up in the task bar and offered a huge pile of updates... but after it finished, it still said "The packag

[Bug 356152] Re: update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this, too. The system in question was upgraded from an earlier version of ubuntu to 9.04. Update Manager says "Your system is up to date. The package information was last updated 25 days ago." (!) $ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-04-22 19:53 update

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-05-21 Thread Dan Kegel
The Chromium project is gathering a list of the 32-bit-on-64-bit problems they're facing at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/Linux64BitIssues It would be good if we could resolve all of them for Koala. It's sad that resolving these is considered low importance. The 32 bit subsystem should

[Bug 364909] Re: i8042-based keyboard fails on resume

2009-05-02 Thread Dan Kegel
In http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200717&pgno=6 you mentioned that this is a regression. Just to confirm: did this work properly in Ubuntu 8.10? -- i8042-based keyboard fails on resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364909 You received this b

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-03-29 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm getting this with apps on Jaunty Beta. In particular, I get the errors Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Failed to load mod

[Bug 341532] Re: libc6-dbg has broken 32 bit symbols on x86_64

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Kegel
This works in Jaunty Alpha 5, huzzah. So: 9.04 ok, 8.04 and 8.10 bad. Back on 8.10, I checked to make sure there was no version skew between libc6 and libc6-debug: $ apt-cache policy libc6-dbg | grep Installed Installed: 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9 $ apt-cache policy libc6 | grep Installed Instal

[Bug 341532] [NEW] libc6-dbg has broken 32 bit symbols on x86_64

2009-03-11 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libc6-dbg On Ubuntu 8.10, gdb and valgrind cannot show line numbers and filenames for functions in glibc for 32 bit programs on 64 bit systems, even if libc6-dbg is installed. You can see this by setting a breakpoint on some function in glibc, running,

[Bug 334481] [NEW] trackpad doesn't work on lenovo t61 with jaunty alpha 4 live cd

2009-02-25 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: On my lenovo t61 booted with the jaunty alpha 4 live cd, the pencil-eraser mouse and its buttons work fine, but the trackpad and its buttons don't respond. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- trackpad doesn't work on lenovo t61 with jaunty

[Bug 332339] Re: konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-22 Thread Dan Kegel
So the enhancement request is to turn it on by default, I guess. Otherwise it's not very useful for routing the average person to the right download. -- konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332339 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 332339] [NEW] konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Konqueror doesn't mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so Konqueror users will get the non-streamlined download page. Konqueror i

[Bug 332340] [NEW] konqueror user agent string does not include distro ID

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Konqueror doesn't mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so Konqueror users will get the non-streamlined download page. Konqueror i

[Bug 332253] Re: Epiphany doesn't mention Ubuntu in user agent string

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
** Description changed: Binary package hint: epiphany-browser The Wine project is trying to streamline their download page by detecting the distribution of visitors. However, Epiphany doesn't - mention Ubuntu in the user agent string, so it's impossible to detect. + mention Ubuntu in the

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-01-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Here's a workaround script for at least Ubuntu 8.04.1. What other libraries should be added to this list? #!/bin/sh # Script to work around https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/190227 # "Picasa can't capture images on 64 bit ubuntu" if grep -q /usr/lib /usr/lib32/libgphoto2.

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-01-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Is this still a problem in Intrepid? -- ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190227 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://l

[Bug 135540] Re: mgp new upstream version available

2008-12-26 Thread Dan Kegel
Please get this into Jaunty. 1.13a, built from source, works great. The version in Intrepid just hangs with a black screen as described above. -- mgp new upstream version available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135540 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Kegel
Also: the bug affects firefox 3 in Intrepid, too! For me, viewing the page http://hi.baidu.com/jmlover/blog/item/ea27c83df3b883c29f3d62cf.html shows the font scribble with the nvidia driver, but not with the nv driver. (One more note: the nvidia thread mentions that turning on antialiased font re

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Kegel
Giorgio, thanks for that link. It led me to the thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1827692 in which (see post number 8) AaronP of NVIDIA Corporation explains what the bug is and says it will be fixed in the next beta release of the driver. The latest beta release number is li

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Kegel
Giorgio / Chuck, can you provide a screenshot of the problem in OpenOffice or a recipe for how to reproduce the OpenOffice problem? -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300476 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-12 Thread Dan Kegel
I tried reproducing the openoffice problem, but couldn't. Can you give a recipe or more details there? -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300476 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
Since this affects both Wine and OpenOffice, and seems to be caused by a problem in the old nvidia drivers, let's move it to the nvidia-graphics- drivers-96 package. ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: wine => nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 -- Wine : unbunte 8.04 ->

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Kegel
Sadly, I don't have any cards that are supported by both drivers. I see there is an older version of nvidia-glx-96 available ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/nvidia-glx-96 vs. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-updates/nvidia-glx-96 ) but I can't figure out how to install it; I tried downloa

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-22 Thread Dan Kegel
The culprit may be be (from /var/log/dpkg.log): 2008-11-21 20:31:01 install nvidia-glx-96 96.43.09-0ubuntu1 Doing System / Administration / Hardware Drivers and then disabling the nvidia driver -- and then rebooting! -- seems to make the problem go away on my compaq r3000. -- Wine : unbunte 8

[Bug 300476] Re: Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

2008-11-22 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm seeing this, too. It seems quite new -- was there a recent update of some font library in ubuntu? Fresh .wine and fresh wine from git don't help. Also, with visual effects on in the ubuntu desktop, lots of stuff is all f*cked up. Even the title bar for xterm looks awful when you mouse over

[Bug 256025] Re: invoke-rc.d procps start loads /etc/syctl.d before /etc/sysctl.conf

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Kegel
I've updated http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem to reflect the new workaround. -- invoke-rc.d procps start loads /etc/syctl.d before /etc/sysctl.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256025 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Kegel
Although using GTK themeing sounds nice, it's impractical; wine is going to use windows themes. See http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-November/070338.html -- Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111061 You received this bug notification b

Re: [Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Endolith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, real msstyle files. > > Ah. And we know how to "avoid the slow parts that Wine doesn't quite > handle right"? I don't, but either a) people can avoid them by trial and error and/or b) wine can improve. >> How about incl

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Kegel
> So this will be actual themes (msstyle files), and not just colors? > That sounds like a great halfway solution until real theming works > (although requiring more manual labor). Yes, real msstyle files. > Also it wouldn't handle user- > customized colors, so we might merge these two efforts

[Bug 111061] Re: Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors

2008-10-22 Thread Dan Kegel
No, not yet implemented, it was just a discussion. BTW Picasa tried theme color scraping, it was spectacularly ugly, so we stopped. The Wineconf "tracking themes" proposal mentioned by Scott is much more promising. -- Wine use Windows colors instead of Ubuntu colors https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 41747] Re: if network cable not plugged in on boot, no address ever acquired

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Kegel
This works in Hardy. ** Changed in: gnome-netstatus (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- if network cable not plugged in on boot, no address ever acquired https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a di

[Bug 262839] Re: dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors

2008-08-31 Thread Dan Kegel
The system in question probably had a bad stick of ram. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262839 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 262839] [NEW] dpkg and apt silently misbehave when installing packages with download errors

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dpkg I ran into this while bringing up a system that happens to have a flaky network card which caused a single bit error about one in every hundred megabits downloaded. This caused about three .deb packages to be downloaded with single bit errors; I co

[Bug 114025] Re: Problem with wine preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000

2008-06-11 Thread Dan Kegel
Not that I know of. FWIW, other similar apps are also affected: qemu: http://lists.scratchbox.org/pipermail/scratchbox-users/2008-April/001218.html dosemu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=781052 So whatever solution you go for, coordinate it with the owners of those other packages. --

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