[Bug 139914] Re: Sound stops with Intel 82440MX (i810)

2008-09-28 Thread LionsPhil
This problem also affects the ThinkPad iSeries 1200, which uses the same chip, under Ubuntu 7.10/kernel 2.6.22-15-generic. The bad news is that it's always done it under the OEM Windows 98SE install, so I suspect a hardware issue. Suggest that you see if the Toshiba problem is reproducable under

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-03-20 Thread LionsPhil
Ahem. If we want the devs to read this, the least we could do would be to stay on topic. Blog about how blogs suck in your blog. Let's keep the bug report full of bug information. On that note, have a rough idea of how widespread echo abuse is:

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-02-17 Thread LionsPhil
More importantly, just don't use it [Edgy], then is /not/ a solution to it [Edgy] is broken. It rates up there with you have a compiler for unhelpfully condescending open-source brush-offs. One of the very problems with this bug is that it's a reason for people to just not use it, and switch

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-24 Thread LionsPhil
Mark: It should be noted that, according to his launchpad profile, sparr is not actually an Ubuntu dev. I think the last actual dev to comment on this thread was Matthew Garrett (mjg59), with a no plans to fix this. Since then, the bug has been rejected (or WONTFIX, to use the more accurate

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-24 Thread LionsPhil
Hey, great idea sparr! I've come up with generalisation of that approach, which will also fix any other scripts enountered outside of the Ubuntu enclave: make /bin/sh point to /bin/bash by default, thus applying to systems other than Mark's, and persisting across any future installations. I

[Bug 79375] VLC crashes on HTTP authentication failures (401)

2007-01-15 Thread LionsPhil
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vlc With VLC's Open Network Stream... 1. Try to open a media URL which requires HTTP authentication, e.g. http://myserver/file.mp3 Crash! 2. Try to open the same URL, but this time provide incorrect authentication details in the URL, e.g. http://[EMAIL

[Bug 79375] Re: VLC crashes on HTTP authentication failures (401)

2007-01-15 Thread LionsPhil
One autogenerated crash report. I'm afraid that it's missing most symbols. ** Attachment added: Crash report for case 1 (no authentication details) http://librarian.launchpad.net/5747953/_usr_bin_wxvlc.1000.crash -- VLC crashes on HTTP authentication failures (401)

[Bug 70878] Re: evolution-alarm-notify crash at midnight

2007-01-06 Thread LionsPhil
Reproducable here, version 2.8.1-0ubuntu4. I haven't attached the crash report becuase it's full of unhelpfully symbol-less backtraces. -- evolution-alarm-notify crash at midnight https://launchpad.net/bugs/70878 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-03 Thread LionsPhil
I /am/ working on getting the problem fixed. Unfortunately, there's this arrogant perfectionist who values standard compliance over a system /actually being useful/. Perhaps he should go and berate the Firefox developers for writing a renderer which doesn't correctly stop dead on invalid XHTML,

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-03 Thread LionsPhil
Unfortunately, sparr, I don't have the time (I'm wasting quite enough on this thread, it appears), permissions, bandwidth or whatnot to fork and take over every project in the world which is broken and the devs aren't there/inclined to fix. The far, _far_ more efficient way for me to fix it is to

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2007-01-03 Thread LionsPhil
This also breaks building glibc (specifically, as part of the GP2X development kit, but it's basically a wget and make on glibc, gcc, etc. sources with flags for cross-compiling to ARM), because dash's “echo” built-in behaves differently from the GNU /bin/echo (which bash's built- in emulates more

[Bug 35876] Re: Progress dialogs steal focus

2006-12-15 Thread LionsPhil
Depends if you want to veer off on a tangent, or open a new bug. It still does it when actually installing the updates. It's rather annoying, because it does it twice (download, then apply), and also raises. I'm using XFWM as my window manager, and it set to neither raise nor give focus to new

[Bug 61463] Re: Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink

2006-11-16 Thread LionsPhil
Sparr, your comments are unhelpful---there IS a problem here, and it making the distribution notably less useful. Reverting /bin/sh to point to bash will fix this until you can (quite rightly) beat people into specifying /bin/bash if they need bash. But, for now, this is breaking stuff, and it

[Bug 70962] Make's “echo” behaviour ch anges after upgrade to Edgy

2006-11-08 Thread LionsPhil
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: make Probably needs upstreaming, but the new version of make in Edgy appears to have an internal implementation of “echo” which is inconsistent with the GNU version (or bash builtin), and does not properly handle flags: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/shm$ cat

[Bug 70962] Re: Make's “echo” behaviou r changes after upgrade to Edgy

2006-11-08 Thread LionsPhil
Ah. If you mean that Make will be running the scripts in this dash shell, that's the problem. It appears that dash has a built-in echo which doesn't support the flags. (It's echo that should be doing the expansion, not the shell, when provided the “-e” flag. You can demonstrate this with a Perl