[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
i'm running jaunty release and the workaround of stopping the avahi- daemon doesn't seem to work on my configuration. Linux quad 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux I still get the messages about the plugins not loading. 2009-05-18 12:05:53 (d036c804):

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
jcornwall: I still haven't found a bug for my problem then. I tried your amd64 package but got the following: d...@quad:~$ sudo aptitude install mt-daapd_0.9~r1696.dfsg-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extend

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
fyi, I filed bug 378390 for the ffmpeg plugin load failure. -- Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343069 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.ubunt

[Bug 378390] [NEW] ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mt-daapd Description:Ubuntu 9.04 mt-daapd: Installed: 0.9~r1696.dfsg-9 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux upgrading to jaunty from intrepid caused the ffmpeg plug into break. Performing the final update/u

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-05-28 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: the ssc-script.so failure was present also in intrepid. I don't really know what that affects. the ssc-ffmpeg plugin works though. with jaunty, the ssc-ffmpeg fails to load giving the avcodec_decode_audio as an undefined symbol. doing a bit of googling indicates that that call was being

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: also have to say it is working for me. great reference for package build and manipulation. I still find the debian package system hard to deal with. rpm spec files are much clearer to me. where I have it working is a 9.04-64bit virtual install. dropped some ogg files in the appropriate

[Bug 152446] Re: update-manager -d fail to install several packages upgrading from feisty to gutsy

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Thiede
An upgrade of a VMware install of feisty to the gutsy release candidate worked however the same type of upgrade on a dell latitude laptop that has been more extensively modified and used failed with multiple dependency errors. many packages are no longer viable including the upgrade-manager. Files

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
I applied the patch and the app still crashes. The bug report I filed was marked as a duplicate of this one even though the triggering environment would appear to be the empty screens and graphics pick boxes. 198948 -- displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged() https:

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
Posted the previous too quickly. This bug does also includes the blank entry fields problem. sigh. while the above patch certainly will work better in that it checks its arguments better it still doesn't address why the graphics devices and screens are not being populated. In my case, it might be t

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Thiede
I can't seem to get this to work and show anything on 7.10 (patched as of 2008.03.11) so I tried it on gutsy alpha 3? also just patched. This time it crashed with this same crash reported last year by the original author of this bug. I had just put a single stock in and added number of shares, clos

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Thiede
The updates that applied this morning seems to have resolved the crash issue. 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 published 10 March. Now that it is running I see two minor issues. The stock symbols MUST be entered as upper case. That can be worked around. The other is that the amounts can only be whole numbers. The f

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Thiede
it is sort of fixed. my expectations would be that the fields would be populated by a fixed package but as of last Wednesday's patches it hadn't. even rebooting didn't cause the fields to fill in. I then installed nightly iso build from wednesday (5 march 2008). this time the fields were filled in

[Bug 114878] Re: tcpreplay, package broken

2007-06-07 Thread Dave Thiede
I also ran into this on 7.04/amd64 and also 7.04/i386. Also the build or at least labelling of the libopt package is in error. A simple solution for me was to create an additional symbolic link from libopts.so.24 -> libopts.so.25 -- tcpreplay, package broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114878

[Bug 110802] Re: [feisty] Firefox Crashed x86_64

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
Thought I'd add to this one rather than add to the chorus of crash bugs. I just hit a crash with what appears to be the same config. (x86_64 amd64 3200+) with feisty 7.04 current as of 2007/05/18. The web site that triggered the crash was www.cnn.com. There is no crash dump in /var/crash. Firefox

[Bug 218926] [NEW] firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The search bar shows multiple search engines when using the drop down box via the mouse. using the "manage search engines" dialog doesn't show any in the list. the ok , cancel and restore default buttons don't trigger any action. the close box on

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544081/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544082/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "pluginreg.dat.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544083/pluginr

[Bug 225040] [NEW] gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-properties-gtk I was researching vmware-server update issue when I noted that the third-party software list entries referred to feisty in the distribution field. This was the version that I originally installed. subsequently I upgraded to gutsy a

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "what appears in the list for feist->gutsy->hardy upgraded system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14056984/Screenshot-Software%20Sources.png -- gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225040 You received th

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Thiede
I would agree with you that true "third-party" repositories should be left alone as they would be added by the end user. however the urls that I refer to are part of the standard repository tree complete with distribution names and components and are placed there by either the distribution initial

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Thiede
I've never used vitualbox before so after the upgrade to hardy release and vmware-server broke yet again I gave it a try. Unfortunately I can confirm the problem with the kernel module version not tracking the current kernel. I installed from the standard repo and it went well until: Unpacking lib

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
update to previous post. I missed the "recommended packages: virtualbox- ose-modules" lines while using apt-get. that seems to have resolved the driver issue though I would expect that it should really be a dependency and force the install. I still don't know where the -15 version of the driver cam

[Bug 148326] Re: invest-applet crashed with ValueError in on_quotes_open()

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
I got this crash when i've been logged in for at least a day. the screen was blanked out and I moved the mouse to start the monitor again. the crash dialog was on the screen when it turned on. the only odd thing i've done lately is massive download of vmware files and installed drivers for virtual

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-27 Thread Dave Thiede
i'd gotten so used to not using the search bar I didn't notice that it is now working again after the upgrade to 2.0.0.14. all functionality seems to be restored. the drop down list of search services is again populated and all links and buttons are functional again. I haven't checked the errata bu

[Bug 252871] Re: kvm prevents running vmware player without rebooting

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Thiede
It would appear that this problem has persisted into the intrepid release. The above fix should work but it seemed the blacklist approach was the easiest for now. unfortunately, the modules don't seem to be dropped when the kernel finishes booting. is there another way to automatically drop modul

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: also have to say it is working for me. great reference for package build and manipulation. I still find the debian package system hard to deal with. rpm spec files are much clearer to me. where I have it working is a 9.04-64bit virtual install. dropped some ogg files in the appropriate

[Bug 218926] [NEW] firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The search bar shows multiple search engines when using the drop down box via the mouse. using the "manage search engines" dialog doesn't show any in the list. the ok , cancel and restore default buttons don't trigger any action. the close box on

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544081/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544082/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "pluginreg.dat.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544083/pluginr

[Bug 225040] [NEW] gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-properties-gtk I was researching vmware-server update issue when I noted that the third-party software list entries referred to feisty in the distribution field. This was the version that I originally installed. subsequently I upgraded to gutsy a

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "what appears in the list for feist->gutsy->hardy upgraded system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14056984/Screenshot-Software%20Sources.png -- gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225040 You received th

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Thiede
I would agree with you that true "third-party" repositories should be left alone as they would be added by the end user. however the urls that I refer to are part of the standard repository tree complete with distribution names and components and are placed there by either the distribution initial

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Thiede
I've never used vitualbox before so after the upgrade to hardy release and vmware-server broke yet again I gave it a try. Unfortunately I can confirm the problem with the kernel module version not tracking the current kernel. I installed from the standard repo and it went well until: Unpacking lib

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
update to previous post. I missed the "recommended packages: virtualbox- ose-modules" lines while using apt-get. that seems to have resolved the driver issue though I would expect that it should really be a dependency and force the install. I still don't know where the -15 version of the driver cam

[Bug 148326] Re: invest-applet crashed with ValueError in on_quotes_open()

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
I got this crash when i've been logged in for at least a day. the screen was blanked out and I moved the mouse to start the monitor again. the crash dialog was on the screen when it turned on. the only odd thing i've done lately is massive download of vmware files and installed drivers for virtual

[Bug 114878] Re: tcpreplay, package broken

2007-06-07 Thread Dave Thiede
I also ran into this on 7.04/amd64 and also 7.04/i386. Also the build or at least labelling of the libopt package is in error. A simple solution for me was to create an additional symbolic link from libopts.so.24 -> libopts.so.25 -- tcpreplay, package broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114878

[Bug 152446] Re: update-manager -d fail to install several packages upgrading from feisty to gutsy

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Thiede
An upgrade of a VMware install of feisty to the gutsy release candidate worked however the same type of upgrade on a dell latitude laptop that has been more extensively modified and used failed with multiple dependency errors. many packages are no longer viable including the upgrade-manager. Files

[Bug 252871] Re: kvm prevents running vmware player without rebooting

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Thiede
It would appear that this problem has persisted into the intrepid release. The above fix should work but it seemed the blacklist approach was the easiest for now. unfortunately, the modules don't seem to be dropped when the kernel finishes booting. is there another way to automatically drop modul

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-27 Thread Dave Thiede
i'd gotten so used to not using the search bar I didn't notice that it is now working again after the upgrade to 2.0.0.14. all functionality seems to be restored. the drop down list of search services is again populated and all links and buttons are functional again. I haven't checked the errata bu

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: also have to say it is working for me. great reference for package build and manipulation. I still find the debian package system hard to deal with. rpm spec files are much clearer to me. where I have it working is a 9.04-64bit virtual install. dropped some ogg files in the appropriate

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
i'm running jaunty release and the workaround of stopping the avahi- daemon doesn't seem to work on my configuration. Linux quad 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux I still get the messages about the plugins not loading. 2009-05-18 12:05:53 (d036c804):

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
jcornwall: I still haven't found a bug for my problem then. I tried your amd64 package but got the following: d...@quad:~$ sudo aptitude install mt-daapd_0.9~r1696.dfsg-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extend

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
fyi, I filed bug 378390 for the ffmpeg plugin load failure. -- Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343069 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.ubunt

[Bug 378390] [NEW] ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mt-daapd Description:Ubuntu 9.04 mt-daapd: Installed: 0.9~r1696.dfsg-9 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux upgrading to jaunty from intrepid caused the ffmpeg plug into break. Performing the final update/u

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Thiede
it is sort of fixed. my expectations would be that the fields would be populated by a fixed package but as of last Wednesday's patches it hadn't. even rebooting didn't cause the fields to fill in. I then installed nightly iso build from wednesday (5 march 2008). this time the fields were filled in

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Thiede
I can't seem to get this to work and show anything on 7.10 (patched as of 2008.03.11) so I tried it on gutsy alpha 3? also just patched. This time it crashed with this same crash reported last year by the original author of this bug. I had just put a single stock in and added number of shares, clos

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Thiede
The updates that applied this morning seems to have resolved the crash issue. 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 published 10 March. Now that it is running I see two minor issues. The stock symbols MUST be entered as upper case. That can be worked around. The other is that the amounts can only be whole numbers. The f

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
I applied the patch and the app still crashes. The bug report I filed was marked as a duplicate of this one even though the triggering environment would appear to be the empty screens and graphics pick boxes. 198948 -- displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged() https:

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
Posted the previous too quickly. This bug does also includes the blank entry fields problem. sigh. while the above patch certainly will work better in that it checks its arguments better it still doesn't address why the graphics devices and screens are not being populated. In my case, it might be t

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
i'm running jaunty release and the workaround of stopping the avahi- daemon doesn't seem to work on my configuration. Linux quad 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux I still get the messages about the plugins not loading. 2009-05-18 12:05:53 (d036c804):

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
jcornwall: I still haven't found a bug for my problem then. I tried your amd64 package but got the following: d...@quad:~$ sudo aptitude install mt-daapd_0.9~r1696.dfsg-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extend

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
fyi, I filed bug 378390 for the ffmpeg plugin load failure. -- Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343069 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.ubunt

[Bug 378390] [NEW] ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mt-daapd Description:Ubuntu 9.04 mt-daapd: Installed: 0.9~r1696.dfsg-9 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux upgrading to jaunty from intrepid caused the ffmpeg plug into break. Performing the final update/u

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-05-28 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: the ssc-script.so failure was present also in intrepid. I don't really know what that affects. the ssc-ffmpeg plugin works though. with jaunty, the ssc-ffmpeg fails to load giving the avcodec_decode_audio as an undefined symbol. doing a bit of googling indicates that that call was being

[Bug 110802] Re: [feisty] Firefox Crashed x86_64

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
Thought I'd add to this one rather than add to the chorus of crash bugs. I just hit a crash with what appears to be the same config. (x86_64 amd64 3200+) with feisty 7.04 current as of 2007/05/18. The web site that triggered the crash was www.cnn.com. There is no crash dump in /var/crash. Firefox

[Bug 218926] [NEW] firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The search bar shows multiple search engines when using the drop down box via the mouse. using the "manage search engines" dialog doesn't show any in the list. the ok , cancel and restore default buttons don't trigger any action. the close box on

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544081/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544082/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "pluginreg.dat.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544083/pluginr

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
I applied the patch and the app still crashes. The bug report I filed was marked as a duplicate of this one even though the triggering environment would appear to be the empty screens and graphics pick boxes. 198948 -- displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged() https:

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
Posted the previous too quickly. This bug does also includes the blank entry fields problem. sigh. while the above patch certainly will work better in that it checks its arguments better it still doesn't address why the graphics devices and screens are not being populated. In my case, it might be t

[Bug 152446] Re: update-manager -d fail to install several packages upgrading from feisty to gutsy

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Thiede
An upgrade of a VMware install of feisty to the gutsy release candidate worked however the same type of upgrade on a dell latitude laptop that has been more extensively modified and used failed with multiple dependency errors. many packages are no longer viable including the upgrade-manager. Files

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Thiede
I can't seem to get this to work and show anything on 7.10 (patched as of 2008.03.11) so I tried it on gutsy alpha 3? also just patched. This time it crashed with this same crash reported last year by the original author of this bug. I had just put a single stock in and added number of shares, clos

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Thiede
The updates that applied this morning seems to have resolved the crash issue. 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 published 10 March. Now that it is running I see two minor issues. The stock symbols MUST be entered as upper case. That can be worked around. The other is that the amounts can only be whole numbers. The f

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Thiede
it is sort of fixed. my expectations would be that the fields would be populated by a fixed package but as of last Wednesday's patches it hadn't. even rebooting didn't cause the fields to fill in. I then installed nightly iso build from wednesday (5 march 2008). this time the fields were filled in

[Bug 225040] [NEW] gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-properties-gtk I was researching vmware-server update issue when I noted that the third-party software list entries referred to feisty in the distribution field. This was the version that I originally installed. subsequently I upgraded to gutsy a

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "what appears in the list for feist->gutsy->hardy upgraded system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14056984/Screenshot-Software%20Sources.png -- gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225040 You received th

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Thiede
I would agree with you that true "third-party" repositories should be left alone as they would be added by the end user. however the urls that I refer to are part of the standard repository tree complete with distribution names and components and are placed there by either the distribution initial

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Thiede
I've never used vitualbox before so after the upgrade to hardy release and vmware-server broke yet again I gave it a try. Unfortunately I can confirm the problem with the kernel module version not tracking the current kernel. I installed from the standard repo and it went well until: Unpacking lib

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
update to previous post. I missed the "recommended packages: virtualbox- ose-modules" lines while using apt-get. that seems to have resolved the driver issue though I would expect that it should really be a dependency and force the install. I still don't know where the -15 version of the driver cam

[Bug 148326] Re: invest-applet crashed with ValueError in on_quotes_open()

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
I got this crash when i've been logged in for at least a day. the screen was blanked out and I moved the mouse to start the monitor again. the crash dialog was on the screen when it turned on. the only odd thing i've done lately is massive download of vmware files and installed drivers for virtual

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-27 Thread Dave Thiede
i'd gotten so used to not using the search bar I didn't notice that it is now working again after the upgrade to 2.0.0.14. all functionality seems to be restored. the drop down list of search services is again populated and all links and buttons are functional again. I haven't checked the errata bu

[Bug 110802] Re: [feisty] Firefox Crashed x86_64

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
Thought I'd add to this one rather than add to the chorus of crash bugs. I just hit a crash with what appears to be the same config. (x86_64 amd64 3200+) with feisty 7.04 current as of 2007/05/18. The web site that triggered the crash was www.cnn.com. There is no crash dump in /var/crash. Firefox

[Bug 252871] Re: kvm prevents running vmware player without rebooting

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Thiede
It would appear that this problem has persisted into the intrepid release. The above fix should work but it seemed the blacklist approach was the easiest for now. unfortunately, the modules don't seem to be dropped when the kernel finishes booting. is there another way to automatically drop modul

[Bug 114878] Re: tcpreplay, package broken

2007-06-07 Thread Dave Thiede
I also ran into this on 7.04/amd64 and also 7.04/i386. Also the build or at least labelling of the libopt package is in error. A simple solution for me was to create an additional symbolic link from libopts.so.24 -> libopts.so.25 -- tcpreplay, package broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114878

[Bug 218926] [NEW] firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The search bar shows multiple search engines when using the drop down box via the mouse. using the "manage search engines" dialog doesn't show any in the list. the ok , cancel and restore default buttons don't trigger any action. the close box on

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544081/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544082/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "pluginreg.dat.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544083/pluginr

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Thiede
I can't seem to get this to work and show anything on 7.10 (patched as of 2008.03.11) so I tried it on gutsy alpha 3? also just patched. This time it crashed with this same crash reported last year by the original author of this bug. I had just put a single stock in and added number of shares, clos

[Bug 132216] Re: invest-applet crashed with KeyError in populate()

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Thiede
The updates that applied this morning seems to have resolved the crash issue. 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 published 10 March. Now that it is running I see two minor issues. The stock symbols MUST be entered as upper case. That can be worked around. The other is that the amounts can only be whole numbers. The f

[Bug 152446] Re: update-manager -d fail to install several packages upgrading from feisty to gutsy

2007-10-13 Thread Dave Thiede
An upgrade of a VMware install of feisty to the gutsy release candidate worked however the same type of upgrade on a dell latitude laptop that has been more extensively modified and used failed with multiple dependency errors. many packages are no longer viable including the upgrade-manager. Files

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
I applied the patch and the app still crashes. The bug report I filed was marked as a duplicate of this one even though the triggering environment would appear to be the empty screens and graphics pick boxes. 198948 -- displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged() https:

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-06 Thread Dave Thiede
Posted the previous too quickly. This bug does also includes the blank entry fields problem. sigh. while the above patch certainly will work better in that it checks its arguments better it still doesn't address why the graphics devices and screens are not being populated. In my case, it might be t

[Bug 225040] [NEW] gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-properties-gtk I was researching vmware-server update issue when I noted that the third-party software list entries referred to feisty in the distribution field. This was the version that I originally installed. subsequently I upgraded to gutsy a

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "what appears in the list for feist->gutsy->hardy upgraded system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14056984/Screenshot-Software%20Sources.png -- gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225040 You received th

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Thiede
I would agree with you that true "third-party" repositories should be left alone as they would be added by the end user. however the urls that I refer to are part of the standard repository tree complete with distribution names and components and are placed there by either the distribution initial

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Thiede
I've never used vitualbox before so after the upgrade to hardy release and vmware-server broke yet again I gave it a try. Unfortunately I can confirm the problem with the kernel module version not tracking the current kernel. I installed from the standard repo and it went well until: Unpacking lib

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
update to previous post. I missed the "recommended packages: virtualbox- ose-modules" lines while using apt-get. that seems to have resolved the driver issue though I would expect that it should really be a dependency and force the install. I still don't know where the -15 version of the driver cam

[Bug 148326] Re: invest-applet crashed with ValueError in on_quotes_open()

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
I got this crash when i've been logged in for at least a day. the screen was blanked out and I moved the mouse to start the monitor again. the crash dialog was on the screen when it turned on. the only odd thing i've done lately is massive download of vmware files and installed drivers for virtual

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-27 Thread Dave Thiede
i'd gotten so used to not using the search bar I didn't notice that it is now working again after the upgrade to 2.0.0.14. all functionality seems to be restored. the drop down list of search services is again populated and all links and buttons are functional again. I haven't checked the errata bu

[Bug 173762] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with AttributeError in isXorgConfigChanged()

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Thiede
it is sort of fixed. my expectations would be that the fields would be populated by a fixed package but as of last Wednesday's patches it hadn't. even rebooting didn't cause the fields to fill in. I then installed nightly iso build from wednesday (5 march 2008). this time the fields were filled in

[Bug 114878] Re: tcpreplay, package broken

2007-06-07 Thread Dave Thiede
I also ran into this on 7.04/amd64 and also 7.04/i386. Also the build or at least labelling of the libopt package is in error. A simple solution for me was to create an additional symbolic link from libopts.so.24 -> libopts.so.25 -- tcpreplay, package broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114878

[Bug 110802] Re: [feisty] Firefox Crashed x86_64

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
Thought I'd add to this one rather than add to the chorus of crash bugs. I just hit a crash with what appears to be the same config. (x86_64 amd64 3200+) with feisty 7.04 current as of 2007/05/18. The web site that triggered the crash was www.cnn.com. There is no crash dump in /var/crash. Firefox

[Bug 252871] Re: kvm prevents running vmware player without rebooting

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Thiede
It would appear that this problem has persisted into the intrepid release. The above fix should work but it seemed the blacklist approach was the easiest for now. unfortunately, the modules don't seem to be dropped when the kernel finishes booting. is there another way to automatically drop modul

[Bug 218926] [NEW] firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The search bar shows multiple search engines when using the drop down box via the mouse. using the "manage search engines" dialog doesn't show any in the list. the ok , cancel and restore default buttons don't trigger any action. the close box on

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-17 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544081/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544082/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "pluginreg.dat.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13544083/pluginr

[Bug 225040] [NEW] gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-properties-gtk I was researching vmware-server update issue when I noted that the third-party software list entries referred to feisty in the distribution field. This was the version that I originally installed. subsequently I upgraded to gutsy a

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-04-30 Thread Dave Thiede
** Attachment added: "what appears in the list for feist->gutsy->hardy upgraded system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14056984/Screenshot-Software%20Sources.png -- gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225040 You received th

[Bug 225040] Re: gutsy upgrade didn't update third-party software list in software sources

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Thiede
I would agree with you that true "third-party" repositories should be left alone as they would be added by the end user. however the urls that I refer to are part of the standard repository tree complete with distribution names and components and are placed there by either the distribution initial

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Thiede
I've never used vitualbox before so after the upgrade to hardy release and vmware-server broke yet again I gave it a try. Unfortunately I can confirm the problem with the kernel module version not tracking the current kernel. I installed from the standard repo and it went well until: Unpacking lib

[Bug 212217] Re: Kernel updates break VirtualBox support

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
update to previous post. I missed the "recommended packages: virtualbox- ose-modules" lines while using apt-get. that seems to have resolved the driver issue though I would expect that it should really be a dependency and force the install. I still don't know where the -15 version of the driver cam

[Bug 148326] Re: invest-applet crashed with ValueError in on_quotes_open()

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Thiede
I got this crash when i've been logged in for at least a day. the screen was blanked out and I moved the mouse to start the monitor again. the crash dialog was on the screen when it turned on. the only odd thing i've done lately is massive download of vmware files and installed drivers for virtual

[Bug 218926] Re: firefox search bar is mostly non-functional

2008-04-27 Thread Dave Thiede
i'd gotten so used to not using the search bar I didn't notice that it is now working again after the upgrade to 2.0.0.14. all functionality seems to be restored. the drop down list of search services is again populated and all links and buttons are functional again. I haven't checked the errata bu

[Bug 378390] Re: ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin fails to load

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Thiede
@scnaifeh: also have to say it is working for me. great reference for package build and manipulation. I still find the debian package system hard to deal with. rpm spec files are much clearer to me. where I have it working is a 9.04-64bit virtual install. dropped some ogg files in the appropriate

[Bug 343069] Re: Avahi causing mt-daap to segfault

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Thiede
i'm running jaunty release and the workaround of stopping the avahi- daemon doesn't seem to work on my configuration. Linux quad 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux I still get the messages about the plugins not loading. 2009-05-18 12:05:53 (d036c804):

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