[Bug 830404] Re: Proposed removal of GNOME Classic desktop would be a serious usability and accessibility regression

2012-04-05 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Yes, I'm going to be switching to Mint at the earliest opportunity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830404 Title: Proposed removal of GNOME Classic desktop would be a serious usability

[Bug 912589] Re: pytz should be dropped for dateutil as soon as epsilon is dropped for dateutil

2012-02-04 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Thanks for these changes, they will simplify dependency issues for the S3 backend of Tahoe-LAFS. dateutil is a good choice -- simple and well- tested. (It's unfortunate that its Python 3 variant is a higher version number for the same package rather than a different package, but that can be worked

[Bug 418242] Re: Incorrect call to output plugins (with persistent error message) on copy

2011-11-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
I'm not using xfce or any of the download or clipboard managers mentioned, but I see the same traceback as comment #21 when copying. This is with a file created by Inkscape on Windows, with text objects using fonts that are not available on Ubuntu -- similar to the original report in the bug descri

[Bug 811721] Re: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty

2011-11-02 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
'tahoe debug trial' is indeed the correct way to run the tests for the installed version. The following failure: twisted.trial.unittest.FailTest: We seem to be testing the code at '/usr/lib/pymodules', (according to the source filename '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/allmydata/__init__.pyc'), bu

[Bug 427029] Re: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory

2011-10-30 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Is it considered acceptable that doing anything involving package management can fail due to bad luck? Perhaps the dist-upgrade should be holding the lock for a much shorter time, and/or perhaps the error message could say what the actual problem is (for example by identifying the process holding t

[Bug 811721] Re: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty

2011-10-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
> If someone can point to some thorough test procedure, please do. The test suite can be run using 'python setup.py trial'. Thanks for the manual testing; the test suite isn't intended to replace that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 134944] Re: Keyboard locks up randomly while typing

2011-09-19 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
"I often have to type my letters twice as the characters are not being registered. Typing slowly makes the process a bit manageable." That doesn't really sound like the same bug. The other reports here are of the keyboard becoming completely unresponsive. (I've had that symptom since my last repor

[Bug 843000] Re: tahoe-lafs is incompatible with the version of pycryptopp it depends on

2011-09-06 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 811721 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811721 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 811721 update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 811721] Re: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty

2011-09-06 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Bug 843000 was a duplicate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811721 Title: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.lau

[Bug 815397] Re: Sync tahoe-lafs 1.8.2-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2011-08-25 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Broken in Natty due to bug 769935, I mean. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815397 Title: Sync tahoe-lafs 1.8.2-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) To manage notifications about t

[Bug 815397] Re: Sync tahoe-lafs 1.8.2-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2011-08-25 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
If I understand correctly, this has only been fixed in Oneiric. It is also broken in Natty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815397 Title: Sync tahoe-lafs 1.8.2-3 (universe) from Debian

[Bug 665580] Re: apt-get automatically starts and uses 100% CPU forever after each boot

2011-08-25 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
This was a critical performance regression in 10.10, and certainly should be fixed there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665580 Title: apt-get automatically starts and uses 100% CPU f

[Bug 830404] [NEW] Proposed removal of GNOME Classic desktop would be a serious usability and accessibility regression

2011-08-20 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Public bug reported: In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/739812/comments/5 , Mark Shuttleworth said, "... we have the Classic desktop fallback in Natty, but will not in Oneiric." This is worrying. Any attempt to remove support for the Classic desktop is likely to cause seriou

[Bug 772019] Re: kubuntu upgrade 10.10 -> 11.04 ended up in unusable state

2011-08-20 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Sounds like I dodged a bullet by not upgrading to 11.04. Why on earth is the upgrade removing or disabling any video driver? How can that not end up screwing peoples' systems? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 134944] Re: Keyboard locks up randomly while typing

2011-08-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Oh, another symptom is that *sometimes* when this happens, the system behaves as though the shift key were held down (e.g. left mouse clicks cause a selection rather than a click). However I'm pretty sure that none of the modifier keys are physically stuck down; if that were the problem, I wouldn't

[Bug 134944] Re: Keyboard locks up randomly while typing

2011-08-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
I also have keyboard lockups on Ubuntu Maverick with KDE 4.5.5 (kubuntu- desktop packages on top of a Gnome install). Ctrl-Alt-F1 does *not* work when the keyboard is locked up, in my case. This is the laptop keyboard, not a USB keyboard, on a Dell Pavilion dv8 ea1110. (Not quite the same system as

[Bug 410098] Re: Installing python-nevow breaks twisted trial

2011-07-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
... and I don't think it is the same bug as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521663 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410098 Title: Installing python-nevow breaks twis

[Bug 410098] Re: Installing python-nevow breaks twisted trial

2011-07-22 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Zooko: the bug is explained in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/7363/focus=7409 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410098 Title: Installing python-nevow breaks

[Bug 811721] Re: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty

2011-07-21 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
I meant http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811721 Title: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty To manage notifications about this bug g

[Bug 811721] Re: update pycryptopp to version 0.5.29-1 in natty

2011-07-21 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
What Zooko said. (I reviewed the changes to pycryptopp and they all look harmless or low-risk.) Bear in mind that debian/control in Tahoe-LAFS also needs to be changed to depend on "python-pycryptopp (>= 0.5.20)" here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jtaylor/ubuntu/oneiric/tahoe- lafs/fix-769935/view

[Bug 782461] Re: too high version dependency on pycryptopp

2011-07-20 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
If I understand correctly, the fact that pycryptopp 0.5.29-1 has been uploaded means that the change in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jtaylor/ubuntu/oneiric/tahoe-lafs/tahoe- lafs-fix/revision/9 is no longer required or desired. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 743761] Re: Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome-session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" in syslog

2011-06-20 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
I haven't been able to reproduce this bug (although I'm sure it was valid). I frankly don't understand why there are debugging assertions in the Gnome code that don't log a stacktrace automatically (logging it at the point of the assertion would give more information than nothing, even if that's n

[Bug 782461] Re: too high version dependency on pycryptopp

2011-06-07 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Paul Hummer wrote about this bug on the tahoe-dev mailing list, and I replied: On 07/06/11 01:17, Paul Hummer wrote: > > Hi folks- > > > > The context of this email is here: > > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~jtaylor/ubuntu/oneiric/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs-fix/+merge/63631 > > > > > > Some o

[Bug 782414] Re: tahoe-lafs can't start because foolscap packaging metadata doesn't declare the fact that it supports secure_connections

2011-05-14 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
OK, the foolscap packaging error is fixed in the package for foolscap 0.6.1-2. But the Tahoe-LAFS package doesn't require foolscap 0.6.1-2, does it? So a user of Tahoe-LAFS can still hit the error if that package dependency isn't updated, IIUC. -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 743761] Re: Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome-session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" in syslog

2011-04-18 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Well, can you suggest a way to get a stacktrace at the point where the assertion fails? Since it does not crash, apport won't work. However I can add debugging code to gnome-session if necessary. (BTW, the Firefox hang was probably a red herring. It has happened since without any interaction with

[Bug 743761] Re: Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome-session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" in syslog

2011-04-17 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
As I clearly said in the report, there is no possibility of getting a crash trace. I know this message is automated, but closing bugs as invalid without reading them is impolite and discourages feedback. I will think twice about bothering to file bugs against Gnome in future :-( (And yes, asynchro

[Bug 743761] Re: Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome-session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" in syslog

2011-03-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Correction: Firefox hung, it didn't crash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743761 Title: Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome- session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITIC

[Bug 743761] [NEW] Gnome reverts partially to default theme and fonts; "gnome-session[...]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed" in syslog

2011-03-27 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-session The icons, fonts, and some (but not all) window styling in Gnome suddenly reverted to the default theme. At the same time, an instance of Firefox crashed, although I don't know whether the Firefox crash caused the Gnome problem or vice-versa

[Bug 577916] Re: lucid regression: does not resume from hibernation

2011-03-24 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
The VirtualBox-related bug is on the VirtualBox tracker as http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7716 . I suggest not considering that issue to be part of this one, since it has different symptoms, and seems quite deterministic unlike this one. It almost certainly doesn't have anything to do with having

[Bug 576434] Re: UserWarning: Unbuilt egg for setuptools [unknown version] (/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages)

2010-10-28 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
We are seeing this bug on one of the Tahoe-LAFS buildslaves: http ://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1235 ** Bug watch added: Tahoe-LAFS Trac #1235 http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1235 ** Also affects: tahoe-lafs via http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1235 Im

[Bug 606022] Re: zfec dependencies are broken

2010-08-05 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
I wrote: > Another option is for Ubuntu to package the "slim" version of zfec that > doesn't depend on pyutil... Oh, I was confused. That just changed zfec not to bundle pyutil; it still depends on it. -- zfec dependencies are broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606022 You received this bug

[Bug 606022] Re: zfec dependencies are broken

2010-08-05 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Another option is for Ubuntu to package the "slim" version of zfec that doesn't depend on pyutil: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec/ticket/2 I don't know exactly what this omits. Zooko? ** Bug watch added: tahoe-lafs.org-zfec trac #2 http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec/ticket/2 -- zfec dependenc