[Bug 1898182] Re: [needs-packaging] GooBook version 3.5 backporting required (SRU request)

2020-10-02 Thread Darren Davison
This is not really a "Wish list" item, it's a package with completely broken functionality in the current release. I removed the tag. ** Tags removed: needs-packaging -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1898182] [NEW] GooBook version 3.5 backporting required (SRU request)

2020-10-02 Thread Darren Davison
Public bug reported: Goobook (https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook) is a package that makes contact data from a google account available on the command line. It has no other purpose or features and is typically used in MUAs such as Mutt. [Impact] * The current version of goobook (3.4.1) in

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-03-19 Thread Darren Davison
> How do I disable the message notification panel? right click the indicator icons in the panel and click "remove" in the pop-up menu. Let us know if it works for you -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-01-25 Thread Darren Davison
I'm pretty sure the message notification panel is to blame. I ran with it disabled for several days a few weeks ago and I wasn't plagued by this dialog on a single occasion. Unfortunately, though I can do without the notifications, I can't do without the volume control and for some bizarre

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-12-07 Thread Darren Davison
I think the advice to disable the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 to fix this is akin to advising someone to take the batteries out of their smoke alarms to stop the annoying noise. One of the other links in there has a more plausible angle though, which is that it is to do with the message

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-20 Thread Darren Davison
I'm using Xubuntu, yes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512002 Title: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data" To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-18 Thread Darren Davison
>From my logs (summarized by logwatch)... polkitd(authority=local): message repeated 473 times: [ Operator of unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data for system-bus-name::1.48 [] (owned by unix-user:darren)]: 1 Time(s)

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-06 Thread Darren Davison
I notice one of the comments on the forum issue (linked in comment #3) mentions that the symptoms are apparent after switching users and switching back. This is also the same for me on the desktop box where 2 people are almost permanently logged in with one or both having a locked session. Only

[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2015-11-05 Thread Darren Davison
I recently installed 2 machines with Xubuntu 15.10 and I see this issue very often, but not *always* on one of them (a desktop PC) and never on the other (a laptop). On the desktop machine, I simply hover over the dialog and hold my ESC key down until it eventually goes away. Like another

Re: [Bug 776445] Re: Panel disappears after enabling Window Previews in Compiz

2013-09-17 Thread Darren Davison
:) ) -- Darren Davison Public Key: 0xE855B3EA -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776445 Title: Panel disappears after enabling Window Previews in Compiz To manage notifications about

[Bug 278474] Re: henplus does not start in intrepid ibex

2012-01-11 Thread Darren Davison
doesn't affect me any more. I stopped using Ubuntu. This (and many other, high profile examples of a similar kind) attitude of the developers towards the community being the sole reason. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 648618] Re: evolution (e-calendar-factory) memory leak

2011-06-21 Thread Darren Davison
likewise with Google calendars. Utterly unusable.. switching away from Evolution (again). Maybe one day it will work but I've tried it now in eleven successive releases of Ubuntu and I'm still waiting for that to happen. Microsoft may write an awful lot of bloatware, but this pile of garbage

[Bug 776445] Re: Panel disappears after enabling Window Previews in Compiz

2011-05-04 Thread Darren Davison
happens for me too - doing almost anything in ccsm causes the top panel, or the launcher icons or both to become corrupt or invisible. Only a logout/login or a compiz --replace causes them to be restored (the latter also causing all desktops to become shuffled and all terminal windows to be

[Bug 667405] Re: Toshiba Satellite R630 freezes while running on battery

2011-01-22 Thread Darren Davison
yes, I've been running on battery with no problems now, for several hours at a time. Looks fixed to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667405 Title: Toshiba Satellite R630 freezes

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2011-01-21 Thread Darren Davison
Hi Serge, I created a new Lucid guest on a Maverick host, and now it works. As this is the first time I've tried this since commenting on the bug a few months ago, I can only assume that one of the Maverick kernel updates, or a lib-virt update in the meantime has fixed it. To be sure, I need to

[Bug 667405] Re: Toshiba Satellite R630 freezes while running on battery

2011-01-21 Thread Darren Davison
I have the same problem but I'm struggling to see how to upgrade the BIOS.. I have a BIOS180_EC140.exe file from Toshiba (is that the right one?) but can see no way to apply it without installing windoze. They don't make the file available in any other format. How did you guys flash your BIOS

[Bug 667405] Re: Toshiba Satellite R630 freezes while running on battery

2011-01-21 Thread Darren Davison
good call Steve. I can confirm the flash worked fine on my UK R630-13T also. So far, I've been using the laptop on battery power for almost 10 minutes! (That's about nine minutes longer than the previous best). Will report back later after it's discharged more. For info (and I'll keep it brief

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2011-01-21 Thread Darren Davison
Hi Serge, I created a new Lucid guest on a Maverick host, and now it works. As this is the first time I've tried this since commenting on the bug a few months ago, I can only assume that one of the Maverick kernel updates, or a lib-virt update in the meantime has fixed it. To be sure, I need to

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
confirmed for me.. after upgrading host machine from Lucid to Maverick (Linux davisond-laptop 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 22:16:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux), none of my Lucid or Hardy VM guests will boot, each hangs after grub stage 2 with Starting... on the console while the

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
Hi John, I tried restarting apparmor, and also stopping it altogether (restarting libvirt-bin each time). Had no effect on the symptoms listed above. Cheers, -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You received this bug

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I can now confirm this behaviour on 2 separate host machines and many guest VMs. Just to remove the possibility of it being something odd about the setup on one of the hosts. -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I also tried a maverick guest in the maverick host. Same problem. Looks to be a serious bug in the maverick libvirt/kvm stack somewhere. Odd that it will run non-ubuntu based kernels without any problem. Anything further I can do or provide to help someone diagnose/troubleshoot this? -- some

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
confirmed for me.. after upgrading host machine from Lucid to Maverick (Linux davisond-laptop 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 22:16:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux), none of my Lucid or Hardy VM guests will boot, each hangs after grub stage 2 with Starting... on the console while the

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
Hi John, I tried restarting apparmor, and also stopping it altogether (restarting libvirt-bin each time). Had no effect on the symptoms listed above. Cheers, -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You received this bug

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I can now confirm this behaviour on 2 separate host machines and many guest VMs. Just to remove the possibility of it being something odd about the setup on one of the hosts. -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I also tried a maverick guest in the maverick host. Same problem. Looks to be a serious bug in the maverick libvirt/kvm stack somewhere. Odd that it will run non-ubuntu based kernels without any problem. Anything further I can do or provide to help someone diagnose/troubleshoot this? -- some

[Bug 198841] Re: PKCS #12 Error Importing Client Certificates

2010-09-13 Thread Darren Davison
confirmed bug and tor-button workaround on 3.6.9 -- PKCS #12 Error Importing Client Certificates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198841 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 44058] Re: suspend when closing laptop lid doesn't work

2010-04-06 Thread Darren Davison
Is anyone from the Ubuntu Laptop Team group (there are over a hundred of you in it) actually looking into this? It's going to be farcical if an LTS release ships with such an obvious and high profile laptop fault. Can anyone with a Lucid beta confirm whether the GPM AC Power workaround still

[Bug 476437] Re: Balance unable to start (setsockopt(IPV6_V6ONLY=0): Protocol not available)

2010-01-29 Thread Darren Davison
confirmed here too -- Balance unable to start (setsockopt(IPV6_V6ONLY=0): Protocol not available) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476437 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 44058] Re: suspend when closing laptop lid doesn't work

2009-12-03 Thread Darren Davison
this behaviour has changed for me since I last posted a month or so ago. If I change the settings for AC power to Suspend on lid close, then that's what works for both. Same goes for blank screen. g-p-m only seems to take note of the AC setting, regardless of power state. -- suspend when

[Bug 44058] Re: suspend when closing laptop lid doesn't work

2009-10-27 Thread Darren Davison
confirm exact behaviour as noted by AlexW on my Dell M6300 with up to the minute updates. Can additionally confirm that the acpi button/lid event does get fired, and the /etc/acpi/lid.sh script runs even when suspend fails. CheckPolicy will return 0 though since gnome-power-manager is running and

[Bug 278474] Re: henplus does not start in intrepid ibex

2009-10-26 Thread Darren Davison
agreed - can someone please either fix it, bump the version for Karmic, remove it from the repo altogether, or let someone who cares maintain the package. Maintaining the status quo is just making Ubuntu look stupid. -- henplus does not start in intrepid ibex

[Bug 346095] Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference

2009-04-17 Thread Darren Davison
I agree with all of the sentiments here. It's simply staggering that so much effort is having to be spent to make developers accept that this is a usability issue - pure and simple. On a 24 screen at 1920x1200, I cannot see the top right corner of the screen at all when working in a window on

[Bug 346095] Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference

2009-04-17 Thread Darren Davison
@Mat: thanks for listening, I for one will now look forward to the option to configure the dialogs and I will point anyone else I hear complaining to your response. But as has been pointed out, we're not all C developers, so there's little else non-coders or non-C-coders *can* do. Nor is anyone

[Bug 331369] Re: regression vs. notification-daemon: positioning when multiple screens are available

2009-04-13 Thread Darren Davison
The behavior implemented as of 0.9.8 is to attach the notification to the panel, next to the status indicators. It seemed to be the most familiar and consistent default position for notifications. @David this is certainly not apparant in 0.9.11-0ubuntu1 on my setup. I, like others in this

[Bug 178400] Re: [Hardy] Xorg high CPU usage with 2.6.24 kernel and nvidia-glx

2009-01-05 Thread Darren Davison
this issue disappeared for me when I upgraded to Intrepid. My guess, given all the info available, is that the nvidia driver is the culprit. Intrepid has a later version (unless it has since been backported to Hardy, but I don't think it has). -- [Hardy] Xorg high CPU usage with 2.6.24 kernel

[Bug 178400] Re: [Hardy] Xorg high CPU usage with 2.6.24 kernel and nvidia-glx

2009-01-05 Thread Darren Davison
Intrepid installs 177.80 but be aware there are compatibility issues with older cards (i.e. this driver only supports a limited set of more recent nvidia hardware). The command aptitude show nvidia-glx-177 will give you the supported list. D. -- [Hardy] Xorg high CPU usage with 2.6.24 kernel

[Bug 144252] Re: [Gutsy] Upgrade to 2.6.22-12 causes iwl3945 to stop functioning

2007-09-27 Thread Darren Davison
I just (20 mins ago) did a dist-upgrade which included 2.6.22-12. There appears to be no iwl4965 module in this package so I have no wireless at this kernel version. -- [Gutsy] Upgrade to 2.6.22-12 causes iwl3945 to stop functioning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144252 You received this bug

[Bug 29787] Re: Backspace key in GNU Screen not detected correctly

2007-09-15 Thread Darren Davison
can confirm same behaviour in Gutsy Tribe5 (Xfce 4.4.1/xfce4-terminal 0.2.6/screen 4.00.03) -- Backspace key in GNU Screen not detected correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/29787 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 50099] Re: network has to be started each time system is booted

2007-04-27 Thread Darren Davison
guys, this may or may not be relevant but I just had 6 weeks of frustration with wpa-roam under feisty. The following might help you: http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/Softwareindex.php?action=title_detailsid=3965 apologies for the noise if it's not relevant. Regards -- network has to be started

[Bug 50099] Re: network has to be started each time system is booted

2007-04-27 Thread Darren Davison
oops - pasted wrong URL. Sorry 'bout that!! http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2489740 - try that one instead -- network has to be started each time system is booted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50099 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 37697] Re: wpasupplicant only authenticates immediately after atheros kernel modules freshly loaded.

2007-04-24 Thread Darren Davison
I've been seeing almost identical symptoms since upgrading to feisty about 6 weeks ago. However, this is with a Broadcom chipset using either bcm43xx or ndiswrapper (it worked perfectly under edgy with ndiswrapper). I get very similar output in wpa_cli and see similar symptoms with dhclient and