[Bug 1085541] Re: Regression: Latest updates break X [HP dv6 laptop]

2012-12-04 Thread Dave Gilbert
OK, I'll leave it as 'incomplete' for the moment; if you get around to trying 12.10 again then please add any more detail you can and flip it back to 'New'. There's probably not too much we can do without more diagnostics, other than to remember this and watch out for any similar reports. Thanks

[Bug 1075313] Re: no reliable way to boot from iscsi root

2012-12-04 Thread Dave Gilbert
Just an observation that maybe the /dev/disk-by-path stuff is a useful way of describing what you want to boot reliably for me in my test setup I have: ip-192.168.122.10:3260-iscsi-iqn.2008-09.com.example:server1.share1-lun1-part1 as one of the names in there; certainly the iscsi iqn seems not

[Bug 1085751] Re: [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -35!

2012-12-04 Thread Dave Gilbert
(You said Precise, but I assume you mean Quantal since that's what I was previously on - if you really meant precise just ask and I'll try) I don't seem to be able to trigger it on the Quantal 3.5.0-19, but managed to repeat the failure on the Raring 3.7.0 (same Raring userspace) My test

[Bug 1033250] Re: crash on asking for internet game

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Reported upstream; http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3591921group_id=13411atid=113411 bzr branch linked with fix. ** Changed in: xpilot-ng (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #3591921

[Bug 1085830] Re: Kernel does not boot on HP ProBook 4540s (with UEFI)

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Marking critical since it doesn't boot, and even worse this is a minor update that triggers it. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Critical ** Tags added: regression-update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1085541] Re: Latest updates break X

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi Jorge, If you use shift during booting to get the 'grub' menu to display, it should let you choose a previous kernel version to try; if that helps you then please add a note saying the kernel version that works and the version that fails. Also can you describe the make and model of the

[Bug 690431] Re: Segmentation fault in lspci

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Still happens on Raring in pciutils 1:3.1.9-6ubuntu1 The problem here is that the argument 'i' is supposed to take a filename; and in this case it's the second i that's being taken as the filename, names-parse.c has a broken check for the filename; it's expecting it to end in .gz which it strips

[Bug 1085338] Re: One pixel column that belongs in one monitor shows up in the other instead

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Have you got a different resolution monitor that you could borrow to try it with? I notice the monitors you are using are 1366x768 and I've seen other problems with that res because it's not divisible by 8 exactly, and various things sometimes get upset. (Only a hunch, may be wrong). -- You

[Bug 1085044] Re: nvidia-experimental-310 does not provide nvidia-current

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Gilbert
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html says: 'If a relationship field has a version number attached, only real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a conflict or breakage). In other words, if a version

[Bug 1085751] [NEW] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -35!

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Gilbert
Public bug reported: This is on a machine upgraded from Quantal to Raring. I switched between two users, and then switched back under KDE and managed to trigger that Failed to parse relocation. It happened (and the screen went blank) at the moment I clicked the 'activate' button on the screen

[Bug 1085766] [NEW] /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Gilbert
Public bug reported: After an upgrade to Raring (as of today) from Quantal I'm seeing tons of these in /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log: Counted 8 CPUs ureadahead: ��a��w: Ignored relative path ureadahead: : Ignored relative path ureadahead: �=%���n�T9: Ignored relative path ureadahead:

[Bug 910890] Re: gdb should at least suggest libc6-dbg

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Tags added: bitesize -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910890 Title: gdb should at least suggest libc6-dbg To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 285703] Re: viewport switching sticky windows

2012-12-01 Thread Dave Gilbert
Tried on Raring; Looks like this got fixed somewhere in the last 4 years. ** Changed in: compiz (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/285703

[Bug 1070690] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null); RIP: 0010:[ffffffff8167f93a] [ffffffff8167f93a] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xaa/0x150

2012-12-01 Thread Dave Gilbert
I think there are really two separate bugs going on here; 1) For some reason the Intel chipset doesn't like something and gives up 2) When it cleans up from (1) it panics It looks to me like 3.5.0-19-generic has fixed the panic on my box; although I still get a black screen - but that looks

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-25 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hmm; I'm closing this as invalid - it does work following your instructions; but not if I use my image file I'd previously created. Hmm that's going to be trickier to chase down. ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-25 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hmm; I'm closing this as invalid - it does work following your instructions; but not if I use my image file I'd previously created. Hmm that's going to be trickier to chase down. ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-11-25 Thread Dave Gilbert
Confirmed still happening in Raring (That's a raring guest with Quantal host) as of today's install. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1043513 Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in

[Bug 1079801] Re: Second Life Google Earth do not load for the intel sandy bridge gfx chip

2012-11-25 Thread Dave Gilbert
Whether the two failures are related is difficult to say; the SecondLife one seems to be failing with a fairly clear problem finding the dri modules: libGL: OpenDriver: trying /tls/i965_dri.so libGL: OpenDriver: trying /i965_dri.so libGL error: dlopen /i965_dri.so failed (/i965_dri.so: cannot

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Interesting; no I don't get that menu - it doesn't get that far for me. Both of the machines I tried it on are Quantal installs; both using virt-manager to set the vm up; I'll try your command line set to see if it makes any difference. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1069897] Re: gdb crashes on startup if run as root via sudo and ~/.gdbinit exists

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
My full backtrace on this (quantal 64bit): #0 0x7f8710ffe425 in __GI_raise (sig=optimised out) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 resultvar = 0 pid = optimised out selftid = 9345 #1 0x7f8711001b8b in __GI_abort () at abort.c:91 save_stage = 2

[Bug 1060059] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in ResFindAllRes()

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
It's interesting, I can't trigger this in either my quantal or raring vm, but I've had it happen on two different quantal machines; one Intel graphics one ATI (open driver). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Interesting; no I don't get that menu - it doesn't get that far for me. Both of the machines I tried it on are Quantal installs; both using virt-manager to set the vm up; I'll try your command line set to see if it makes any difference. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1069897] Re: gdb crashes on startup if run as root via sudo and ~/.gdbinit exists

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
This looks to me as a bug in a debian specific patch; see debian/patches/gdbinit-ownership.patch + warning (not using untrusted file \%s\, file); + fclose (stream); + do_cleanups (old_cleanups); + return; As far as I can tell from the weird cleanup system, the

[Bug 1069897] Re: gdb crashes on startup if run as root via sudo and ~/.gdbinit exists

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #694256 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694256 ** Also affects: gdb (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694256 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1060059] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in ResFindAllRes()

2012-11-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
I've just put a load of comments on the upstream bug The short story is that a patch to Xext/xres.c ResFindAllRes to change counts[(type TypeMask) -1]++ to if ((type TypeMask)!=0) counts[(type TypeMask) - 1]++; stops the crash. The longer story is, I don't think that case of a 0

[Bug 1080369] [NEW] FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-18 Thread Dave Gilbert
Public bug reported: To repeat: * Grab freedos ISO from from http://www.freedos.org/download/ * Add it as a CD to your KVM guest * Boot and go through the defaults (I'm using a small - ~90MB - IDE hard drive raw image as the 1st IDE disk) * Go through all the defaults * Install FreeDOS

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-18 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Attachment added: libvirt config for the vm https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/1080369/+attachment/3437655/+files/DOS.xml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1080369] [NEW] FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-18 Thread Dave Gilbert
Public bug reported: To repeat: * Grab freedos ISO from from http://www.freedos.org/download/ * Add it as a CD to your KVM guest * Boot and go through the defaults (I'm using a small - ~90MB - IDE hard drive raw image as the 1st IDE disk) * Go through all the defaults * Install FreeDOS

[Bug 1080369] Re: FreeDOS fails to boot in Qemu/kvm

2012-11-18 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Attachment added: libvirt config for the vm https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/1080369/+attachment/3437655/+files/DOS.xml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1077658] [NEW] i915: repeatable NULL pointer oops via i915_driver_lastclose+0x30/0x60 on connection to KVM

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
Public bug reported: My dad's new machine (freshly installed with Quantal) reliably kernel panics at boot iff connected via a kvm switch. 6.265801] [drm:drm_pci_agp_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module. [6.280161] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

[Bug 1077658] Re: i915: repeatable NULL pointer oops via i915_driver_lastclose+0x30/0x60 on connection to KVM

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
Some addirtional notes: * It works if the monitor is connected directly * The KVM is an old Belkin 8 way Omniview 8 pro (which works fine with the other machines) * This ubuntu-bug capture was made from the rescue shell after bringing up the networking manually * The symptom as far as

[Bug 1070690] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null); RIP: 0010:[ffffffff8167f93a] [ffffffff8167f93a] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xaa/0x150

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
I've just reported bug 1077658 which looks like it might be the same as this. This only happens for me if I plug in via a KVM switch, not direclty in via a monitor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1077658] Re: i915: repeatable NULL pointer oops via i915_driver_lastclose+0x30/0x60 on connection to KVM

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
This is probably a dupe of bug 1070690 3.7.0-030700rc5 #20120835 from the nightlies works for me (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/ although I'm on a quantal userspace) So I say that makes it a fixed upstream 3.6.3-030603 #201210211349 boots but won't start X

[Bug 1070690] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null); RIP: 0010:[ffffffff8167f93a] [ffffffff8167f93a] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xaa/0x150

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
3.7.0-030700rc5 #20120835 from the nightlies works for me (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/ although I'm on a quantal userspace) So I say that makes it a fixed upstream 3.6.3-030603 #201210211349 boots but won't start X (but ctrl-alt-f1 gets me a console)

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
OK; so we've got to be careful to keep the debug together; I think you really have two separate things going on: a) Slow when transferring lots of stuff (as per your vmstat in #9) b) 'hang up's Is that perf report from the 'hang up' state - it doesn't seem to have much system/kernel CPU

[Bug 973592] Re: aisleriot does not refresh cards after dealis pressed [with Nvidia prop drivers]

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
Pilot6: Thanks for noting it's now fixed (not sure what fixed it) ** Changed in: aisleriot (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973592

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Gilbert
note that sudo echo 2 /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratiowill give you the perm denied (because the is in the parent shell) so if you do echo 2 /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio from a root shell (e.g. sudo -s ) it should work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-11-04 Thread Dave Gilbert
To simplify my instructions from comment #15: 1) Open a terminal (sits in top left) 2) Ctrl-alt-down arrow to move down one virtual deskop It blows up at (2). (pScrn-virtual X/y in cirRefreshArea is 1024/768) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
OK, lets see what we've got; if I'm reading this vmstat correctly it's split pretty much between system time and wait (for IO): procs ---memory-----swap---io -system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si so

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
oh, the other thing you might want to see is whether you're running with jumbo frames or not, they should help the load at both ends. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071978 Title:

[Bug 1062699] Re: package linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic 3.2.0-31.50 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 [/dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a direc

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hmm thanks! OK, so I don't have a /dev/root either; what seems to happen (see /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions) is that it checks the output of mount to see where / is mounted, and it's finding that it says /dev/root - and so that's what it uses /dev/disk/by-uuid to look at via blkid

[Bug 1072230] Re: rpcinfo is in /sbin, not /bin = NFS v3 is disabled

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Thanks for testing that Alan, Marking as invalid because it looks like it was an old file left behind somehow. Note: If someone sees more cases of this then it's probably worth figuring out if there is something causing them to be left behind rather than it being one case. ** Changed in:

[Bug 1069718] Re: Simple single word grep does not work for the attached file

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi xor, Yes I suspected it was UTF-16, I don't know much about tools that deal with UTF-16 stuff, certainly haven't come across grep like things that do. There are suggestions on sites to try using iconv to convert your data 1st. But, as I say, I wouldn't expect grep to deal with UTF-16.

[Bug 1070685] Re: pdf does not print correctly, and ps generated from pdf shows errors when viewing

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Changed in: okular (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released ** Changed in: okular (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = precise-updates -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070685 Title:

[Bug 1070685] Re: pdf does not print correctly, and ps generated from pdf shows errors when viewing

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Changed in: okular (Ubuntu) Milestone: precise-updates = None -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070685 Title: pdf does not print correctly, and ps generated from pdf shows

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Gilbert
Some random extra debug (from a separate run): (gdb) up #3 0x7f0485ef1af3 in ShadowCopyArea (pSrc=0x7f048ba948f0, pDst=0x7f048c4ca910, pGC=0x7f048c3def70, srcx=optimised out, srcy=optimised out, width=optimised out, height=434, dstx=0, dsty=0) at

[Bug 1072339] Re: [12.10] During boot: monitor goes off (ATI Radeon HD 4670) / mount points that contain space \040 give error while mounting

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi Pascal, Can you split the bug into two separate bugs please; one symptom in each; probably the best thing is if you open a new separate one for the monitor-goes-off and leave this one as the space in name problem. Add a comment in here to point to the new one. Dave -- You received this

[Bug 1072179] Re: %f missing in exec line of desktop file of timidity-interfaces-extra

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Triaged: Reporter describes fix required. ** Changed in: timidity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: timidity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1071937] Re: Documentation did not build correctly

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Confirmed, I can see this on ii libxt-doc 1:1.1.3-1 allX11 toolkit intrinsics library but I also see this in libx11-doc in /usr/share/doc/libx11-dev/libX11/libX11.html, so this is something common - some docbookism??? ** Changed in: libxt (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi Bryce, See backtrace attached; just generated, on an up to date Quantal: ii xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.5.1-0ubuntu2 amd64X.Org X server -- Cirrus display driver Looks the same one to me; it's a lot harder to hit this than it was a few weeks ago - this survived an

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
actually, I seem to have found a reasonably repeatable sequence: 1) Login 2) open a gnome-terminal 3) Walk through the 4 workspaces with ctrl-alt-arrows, within 2 or 3 times of doing that reasonably quickly it blows up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Some more diags; (gdb) p *pbox $2 = {x1 = -958, y1 = -716, x2 = -236, y2 = -282} I'm not sure what the space these values are working is supposed to be; if they're supposed to be -ve then they're in a sensible range as far as I can tell - but are they supposed to be -ve? (gdb) p

[Bug 1070685] Re: pdf does not print correctly, and ps generated from pdf shows errors when viewing

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
This seems to work for me on the quantal version of Okular, indeed the generated postscript version you gave also displays without error in evince and gs on quantal. You might be able to work around the bug by trying some of the options in okular's print dialog; in particular the 'force

[Bug 1070256] Re: mount.cifs occasionally causes GPF error/kernel panic when mounting at boot

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Kernel panic - linux ** Package changed: cifs-utils (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - mount.cifs occasionally causes GPF error/kernel panic when mounting at boot + mount.cifs occasionally causes GPF error/kernel panic when mounting at boot [crypto_larval_kill+0x2b/0x90] -- You

[Bug 1070076] Re: this error was appeared: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Summary changed: - this error was appeared: + this error was appeared: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1040557] Re: UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C, np700z5c laptop

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
pkhbdb/allocerceau: Can you state the exact version of the samsung laptop you had/have. When you did the installation, how did you install - did you use a CD or USB stick? Did you at any point select 'EFI' during the boot process? If you used a USB stick how exactly did you right the thumb drive?

[Bug 1069718] Re: Simple single word grep does not work for the attached file

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi Xor, grep is actually correct in this case, if you look at the contents of the file byte-by-byte, it's actually got: 0001060 v nul 2 nul ) nul cr nul nl nul T nul r nul a nul 76 00 32 00 29 00 0d 00 0a 00 54 00 72 00 61 00 0001100 c nul k nul sp

[Bug 1040557] Re: UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C, np700z5c laptop

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Albert: Can you add some detail please; 1) what model of laptop do you have? 2) When you say it's bricked twice - that's confusing, do you mean you've permenantly unrecoverably bricked two laptops, or do you mean you somehow recovered them? 3) What version of Ubuntu did you install

[Bug 570049] Re: lsusb hangs forever

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Fabio: Hmm yes those do look the same, but we haven't got Seth (original reporter) logs for it so we don't know if it was the problem he hit; so please file a separate kernel bug for that, and add a comment here stating the bug number. (I suspect most of the problems here are kernel bugs of one

[Bug 1062022] Re: exportfs crash with long path

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Triaged: Reporter has explanation of bug, detailed and with patch High: Crash in core package Your diagnosis looks right - nice find! ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- You received this bug

[Bug 1062022] Re: exportfs crash with long path

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
I suspect the problem is caused by the top-bit set non-ascii characters in your path rather than the length of the string. While I think your patch is sufficient, I'd actually fix: * The cast of (int) in strtoint and change it to a (unsigned int) * and the type of export_hash Dave -- You

[Bug 993043] Re: NFS BUG

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Kernel panic-Moved to linux package ** Package changed: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993043 Title: NFS BUG To manage notifications about this

[Bug 430609] Re: [431478.109859] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Kernel panic; moving to kernel package. ** Package changed: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430609 Title: [431478.109859] general protection

[Bug 1072230] Re: rpcinfo is in /sbin, not /bin = NFS v3 is disabled

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi Alan, I'm a bit confused by this since it looks like it was fixed in 2.6-3ubuntu2 back in April, as a fix for bug 945651. Certainly when I just tried doing an install of nfs-kernel-server the init script just uses rpcinfo with no path. Did you modify the init script sometime in the

[Bug 1072047] Re: PCI/internal sound card not detected [PPC mac]

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Summary changed: - PCI/internal sound card not detected + PCI/internal sound card not detected [PPC mac] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072047 Title: PCI/internal sound card not

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
oops, that's vmstat 5 on the server -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071978 Title: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1071978] Re: nfs kernel server is very slow and causing high cpu load

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
You say nfs-kernel-server is causing high cpu load - how do you know it's that? top? What type of traffic is it transferring; large files, lots of small files? Please add: * your /etc/exports from the server * The output of cat /proc/mounts from the client to show how it's mounted

[Bug 1071945] Re: parallel does nothing at all

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
The manpage says that parallel takes it's input from the command line, not stdin - e.g parallel echo -- 1 2 3 1 2 3 I think you should be able to use xargs -P to do what you want. ** Changed in: moreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1071858] Re: mlocate doesn't allow access to any normal users

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, mlocate should be sgid to get permissions; so can you do: ls -l /usr/bin/locate /etc/alternatives/locate /usr/bin/mlocate /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db and include the result. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1071826] Re: bad hard drive or DVD?

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
I'd have to agree with it's diagnosis - looking at the error log I'd say you've got a hardware fault; probably a break in the lead/connector between the hard drive and the controller. If you can get this to work reliably on another OS then please reopen and describe what worked in more detail,

[Bug 1071161] Re: package libapt-pkg4.12 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.3 [modified: usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg4.12/changelog.gz usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
Title originally read: package libapt-pkg4.12 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.3 [modified: usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg4.12/changelog.gz usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo

[Bug 1071858] Re: mlocate doesn't allow access to any normal users

2012-10-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
OK, I'm not sure why you've changed the group on mlocate, but it sohuld match the group on the mlocate.db; typically as mlocate: dg@major:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/locate /etc/alternatives/locate /usr/bin/mlocate /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 17 19:09

[Bug 1066437] Re: On Lenovo ThinkPad T530 speakers not working after suspend

2012-10-20 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - On Lenovo ThinkPad T530 speakers not working after suspend + On Lenovo ThinkPad T530 speakers not working after suspend with wireless enabled -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1066437] Re: On Lenovo ThinkPad T530 speakers not working after suspend with wireless enabled

2012-10-20 Thread Dave Gilbert
As per the reports there is some wierd interaction with wireless going on here, so I've added 'linux' in. I've also edited the title to point out the wireless connection. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1062699] Re: package linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic 3.2.0-31.50 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 [/dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a direc

2012-10-20 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, Hmm well that looks ok, but the output of the update-initramfs has a clue: # update-initramfs -v -u -k 3.2.0-32-generic update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic /dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a directory Can you rerun that update-initramfs like this (with the original

[Bug 1057635] Re: initramfs built during install does not contain a valid iscsi initiator name

2012-10-20 Thread Dave Gilbert
Thanks James, I can confirm this is now working. It's a bit chatty during the boot, I get lots of messages from IP-Config moaning about no response after a few seconds for the networking config, and after a few seconds it recovers and gets on with it. (This is still a kvm guest). Anyway,

[Bug 970532] Re: /usr/bin/vimdot: 9: Syntax error: Bad fd numberon ubuntu 10.10

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
It looks like that fix is in quantal's 2.26.3-12ubuntu1; I'm not sure which version it landed in though $ nl -ba /usr/bin/vimdot | head -10 1 #!/bin/sh 2 # Written by: John Ellson ell...@research.att.com 3 4 error() { echo $0: $* 2; exit 1; } 5 6 for prog in gvim

[Bug 1055545] Re: Cannot open high resolution files.

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
** Changed in: feh (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055545 Title: Cannot open high resolution files. To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 674240] Re: Possible DoS attack from Unknown (cups)

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
The cups bug you link to says it got fixed in 1.5 and later 1.4; since QUantal has 1.6.x I'm marking as fix released. This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a

[Bug 356066] Re: Transcend 2GB/4GB Flash Drive

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed

[Bug 656671] Re: Check disc for defects is wrong wording for live USB

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 340440 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340440 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 340440 Check disc for defects would better be written in a medium neutral manner -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 340440] Re: Check disc for defects would better be written in a medium neutral manner

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Markign confirmed having just merged a dupe in; doesn't seem that important though, and I haven't checked on a more recent image. ** Changed in: ubuntu-cdimage Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low -- You received this bug

[Bug 1066548] Re: Home End PgUp PgDn not working

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, Can you tell me do these keys fail in a graphics/X session; do they work if you switch into a text control (use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch to a text console and login, you can use ctrl-alt-f7 or f8 to switch back). Have you tried another keyboard? (or if it's a laptop plug an external one in).

[Bug 1058430] Re: Failed to load session ubuntu at login after upgrade 12.04 to 12.10

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1059137 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059137 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1059137 Cannot login after un upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 (ubuntu-2d) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 789957] Re: Illegal instruction crash on processors without SSE2

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi DMitry, Could you try this on a newer version of Ubuntu; I notice that in 3.8.4-8ubuntu1 on Quantal the change the changelog says that at the 3.8.4.-7 level there is an entry: 'Force generic x86 CPU when building a non-custom package on an x86 arch' and a few other CPU check type comments;

[Bug 970226] Re: Internal Server Error on page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Nvidia

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
I think the right place for this is the ubuntu-website project; although those links look OK now. ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) = ubuntu-website -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 231340] Re: Script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces.

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi John, Probably the best thing to do here would be to suggest this on the util-linux mailing list (see http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#util-linux ). I'm fairly sure I've seen programmes similar to this to strip escape and control characters before; so it might be worth searching

[Bug 371536] Re: at cannot open .SEQ file

2012-10-14 Thread Dave Gilbert
Not sure when it was fixed, but looks OK in Quantal (that bug is still open in Debian, but that can be followed in their tracker). $ ls -l /usr/bin/at -rwsr-sr-x 1 daemon daemon 55480 Jun 11 10:03 /usr/bin/at ii at 3.1.13-2ubuntu amd64 Delayed job execution and batch

[Bug 570049] Re: lsusb hangs forever

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
Fabio: It's probably better to file a separate kernel bug for your case; your dmesg is showing a lot of unhappy USB/scsi errors. Dave -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570049 Title:

[Bug 1062699] Re: package linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic 3.2.0-31.50 failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 [/dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a direc

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
I'd try running update-initramfs with -v on the new kernel and see what happens, something like update-initramfs -v -u -k 3.5.0-11 (or whatever your latest kernel version in /boot is) and attach the debug output it produces; hopefully it'll provide some more information as to why it's

[Bug 1043513] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in memcpy() via cirRefreshArea() under KVM virtual machine

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
Timo: As mentioned in #10 It's worth checking that bug 1056511 as well which is nouveau based, the backtrace looks similar enough to me to make me wonder if it's not driver specific. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 908233] Re: cal -M (start week on Monday) don't work

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
xintx-ua: I don't know why it uses the cal from bsdmainutil's rather than util-linux; but it seems pretty arbitrary. The version in util-linux appears to be a different piece of berkeley licensed code, but given that there is precisely nothing Linux specific about cal or even vaguely systemy,

[Bug 231735] Re: gwenview batch converter fails on tiff images

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
I've tested this on Quantal (Gwenview 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu1, kipi-plugins 4:2.8.0-0ubuntu1) and it seems to work. However, I don't know when it got fixed; so I don't know whether it's still an issue on any of the Ubuntu versions still in support. Given Gwenview is in the kubuntu-desktop tasks, if it

[Bug 1010082] Re: freespesk language options

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
The package is unusable due to this; the translate button never ungreyes. ** Changed in: freespeak (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: freespeak (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 240266] Re: xvkbd UK layout error

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
3.0.1 xvkbd in quantal seems to get this right, and 3.0.1 has been in since lucid, so closing as fixed released. ** Changed in: xvkbd (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 326990] Re: Lingot 0.7.6 is out, Jaunty still has 0.7.4

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
0.9.1 looks like it's been in since Oneiric. ** Changed in: lingot (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326990 Title: Lingot 0.7.6 is out,

[Bug 248879] Re: fprint and libraries have unmet dependencies

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
The bug report doesn't say what versions of the packages were affected, and it w as a long time ago - so I'm going to mark this as invalid. Anyway, fprint-demo now installs OK on quantal, and libpam-fprintd installs (libpam-fprint is gone). -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 466575] Re: secure remove of external USB-HDD produces error

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Gilbert
Martin: I didn't think all of the ubuntu varients had moved onto Udisks2, only the main one. On Quantal udisks still shows as a member of tasks: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop-kde, edubuntu-usb,

[Bug 1054477] Re: check-diskfree ignores fs with media anywhere in mount path

2012-10-07 Thread Dave Gilbert
Triaged: Report explains what's wrong Thanks for the report. ** Changed in: checksecurity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: checksecurity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which

[Bug 1059137] Re: Cannot login after un upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 (ubuntu-2d)

2012-10-07 Thread Dave Gilbert
Marked as High, not being able to log in after upgrade seems bad. (Although this might be a greeter bug rather than lightdm itself?). We had a couple of people on #ubuntu+1 yesterday hitting this. One way to distinguish this from a post-login crash is that if the users delete their

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >