[Bug 678421] Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2011-07-07 Thread Egon Elbre
For the sed/eval round we can always escape the special characters beforehand, there should be some function for that. But I agree with your conclusion. Warning or message is a good enough solution, even though I would like to see some hand-holding. I agree it just isn't worth the effort and the o

[Bug 678421] Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2011-07-06 Thread Egon Elbre
The idea is simple: ### VARS=$( # this allows to capture subshell stdout to a variable . $HOME/script.sh 1>/dev/null # this prevents script printing something to stdout set # this prints all variables to stdout alias | sed 's/.*/alias \0/' # this prints aliases to stdout and prefixes them

[Bug 678421] Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2011-07-03 Thread Egon Elbre
Right forgot about the variables. After poking around in dash source I found that "$HOME/.profile" has been hardcoded. So the change needs be made in the shell to make ".profile" safe. Also I found a way to keep the variables from subshell ### test.sh ### ERRCODE=0 TEST="" VARS=$(set -e; . $HOME

[Bug 678421] Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2011-07-02 Thread Egon Elbre
Sorry, I forgot about this due to other duties (work and school). This is not an active issue for me, but would be a nice touch to Ubuntu. This still happens in Oneiric (tested in daily). There are some differences, it just drops you into the default login screen without any explanation. Which is

[Bug 678421] Re: Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2011-05-19 Thread Egon Elbre
Sure, silently just ignoring is just as bad. I just think that, it's a mistake that shouldn't prevent you to login and start up everything. The ~/.profile script can also easily be changed by non-experienced users (ones who may not know terminal that well). If that user doesn't get the session run

[Bug 656045] Re: [r300] Minecraft crashes, fairly randomly [SIGSEGV (0xb)]

2011-02-28 Thread Egon Elbre
Had the same problem, installed gallium drivers as was suggested in this discussion http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/anything_but_tiny_draw_distance_crashes_minecraft_using_mesa_radeon_drivers_on_x11 How to install: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?24195-Help-wanted-instaling-Gall

[Bug 678421] [NEW] Error in ~/.profile halts the X startup

2010-11-22 Thread Egon Elbre
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm After adding "function AddPath { PATH="$1:$PATH" }" to $HOME/.profile made the Xorg startup fail. (At that moment I had already forgotten the changes made to the .profile). As I had autologin that meant it kept trying to login and finally showed me th

[Bug 677968] Re: Error in $HOME/.profile halts the X startup

2010-11-21 Thread Egon Elbre
Any idea where would be a better place? Is it then just a general ubuntu problem? -- Error in $HOME/.profile halts the X startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs maili

[Bug 677968] [NEW] Error in $HOME/.profile halts the X startup

2010-11-20 Thread Egon Elbre
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg After adding "function AddPath { PATH="$1:$PATH" }" to $HOME/.profile made the Xorg startup fail. (At that moment I had already forgotten the changes made to the .profile). As I had autologin that meant it kept trying to login and finally gave up as

[Bug 525302] Re: gwibber-accounts crashed on trying to open it ( crashed with BadArgumentsError in __init__() )

2010-04-29 Thread Egon Elbre
@Paul, Could you try the gwibber --debug > gwibber-debug.txt . I'm not able to reproduce the issue. -- gwibber-accounts crashed on trying to open it ( crashed with BadArgumentsError in __init__() ) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525302 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 525302] Re: gwibber-accounts crashed on trying to open it ( crashed with BadArgumentsError in __init__() )

2010-04-29 Thread Egon Elbre
@Kasmus Version 2.30.0.1 doesn't crash anymore. -- gwibber-accounts crashed on trying to open it ( crashed with BadArgumentsError in __init__() ) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525302 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 571846] [NEW] cache folder on ntfs

2010-04-29 Thread Egon Elbre
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: testdrive Due to the rsync parameters testdrive cache folder is not working on ntfs drives. Changing line 286 in testdrive from: run_or_die("rsync -azP %s %s" % (ISO_URL, PATH_TO_ISO)) to: run_or_die("rsync -rlDzP %s %s" % (ISO_URL, PATH_TO_ISO)) fix

[Bug 525321] Re: Firefox screen usage

2010-02-21 Thread Egon Elbre
** Attachment added: "FFXScreenUsage.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39477793/FFXScreenUsage.png -- Firefox screen usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525321 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 525321] [NEW] Firefox screen usage

2010-02-21 Thread Egon Elbre
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-netbook-remix-default-settings Firefox in default setup uses too much screen space. It uses up about 1/6 of total screen space. I think the default install should also use minimalistic themes. Disable bookmarks bar, auto hide status bar and simila

[Bug 525302] Re: gwibber-accounts crashed on trying to open it

2010-02-21 Thread Egon Elbre
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