[Bug 1639737] Re: New Version of JasPer JPEG2000 Software Available

2016-12-30 Thread Michael Adams
Another update: The latest tarball release of JasPer (on the JasPer web site) is now version 2.0.10: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/software/jasper-2.0.10.tar.gz Presuming that Ubuntu cares at all about security, there are a massive number of security and other bug fixes that have been appl

[Bug 1639737] Re: New Version of JasPer JPEG2000 Software Available

2016-11-16 Thread Michael Adams
Just an update: The latest tarball release of JasPer (on the JasPer web site) is now version 1.900.29: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/software/jasper-1.900.29.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1639737] [NEW] New Version of JasPer JPEG2000 Software Available

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Adams
Public bug reported: I hope that this is not inappropriate to submit as a bug report. As best I can tell, it seems that Ubuntu Zesty (as well as other versions) is using JasPer version 1.900.1. This version of the JasPer software is very old and numerous bug fixes have been made since the time t

[Bug 1026338] Re: PDF font substitution error, libcairo 1.12

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Adams
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52280 Reported upstream as requested. Also should note that I was able to compile poppler-tools 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 12.04, using its libcairo 1.10, and not encounter the font error described above. Also noticed that libcairo is up to 1.12.2 now: its entire

[Bug 1026338] [NEW] PDF font substitution error, libcairo 1.12

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Adams
Public bug reported: When using pdftocairo 0.20.x from http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal /poppler-utils , embedded custom encoded Helvetica fonts are not carried over from original to new PDFs: it gets substituted as NimbusSanL . Using pdftocairo 0.18.4 with libcairo 1.12, the error remains; rest

[Bug 1026338] Re: PDF font substitution error, libcairo 1.12

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Adams
** Attachment added: "Left-hand side is the new fonts; right-hand side is the original fonts" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026338/+attachment/3227665/+files/substitution_error.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 838856] Re: cannot show pdf file from one sender but WIN Acrobat reader can show.

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Adams
I have a fix for the PDF printing issue! http://unquietwiki.blogspot.com/2012/05/fixing-pdf-printing-problems-on- ubuntu.html Procedure 1. In a terminal, sudo bash or login as root. 2. Make the /usr/lib/cups/filters/pdfwash file with your favorite text editor (nano or leafpad works). 3. Using th

[Bug 950713] Re: Brother printer fails to print anything but a blank page

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Adams
I was able to fix my own printing issues in Ubuntu 12.04. http://unquietwiki.blogspot.com/2012/05/fixing-pdf-printing-problems-on- ubuntu.html Procedure 1. In a terminal, sudo bash or login as root. 2. Make the /usr/lib/cups/filters/pdfwash file with your favorite text editor (nano or leafpad wo

[Bug 838856] Re: cannot show pdf file from one sender but WIN Acrobat reader can show.

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Adams
Glad to see folks are working on Poppler. Something happened between 11.10 and 12.04 that breaks printing of some PDFs on Brother printers. Reverting to Poppler 0.16.x (from 11.10) seems to help, but I have to document the proper workaround; still verifying if Ghostscript also has to be reverted fr

[Bug 838856] Re: cannot show pdf file from one sender but WIN Acrobat reader can show.

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Adams
** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues #89122 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89122 ** Also affects: chromium-browser via http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89122 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 950713] Re: Brother printer fails to print anything but a blank page

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Adams
CUPS 1.5.0 & Brother printers: I could print PDFs from a vendor website, using Chrome; not so with CUPS 1.5.2 on 12.04. Even the latest nightly for Xubuntu fails to print said PDFs on a Brother 4040; vendor says they print fine on HP. Is anyone having any issues with PDF printing on Brother or othe

[Bug 977568] Re: Xubuntu nightly ISOs use the non-PAE kernel, but no hd-media image is available for that

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Adams
Non-PAE installer appears to work with latest ISO. Props to everyone involved for getting this fixed. http://unquietwiki.blogspot.com/2012/04/we-can-all-install- xubuntu-x86-from.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 977568] [NEW] Xubuntu nightly ISOs are missing the PAE kernel

2012-04-09 Thread Michael Adams
Public bug reported: This may have been an issue since at least the 11.10 series: it is rare I find an hd-media installer + alternate i386 ISO combination, that can successfully load an Xubuntu preseed installation. ISOs have had the generic, but not the PAE, kernel: so the installer gets a "No k

[Bug 122402] Re: [7.10] [xubuntu] Install fails "Failed to determine codename for the release"

2011-10-14 Thread Michael Adams
Running into this with xubuntu and server alternate i386 installers for 11.10, when using the hd-media installer dated 10-08-2011. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122402 Title: [7.10]

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Adams
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 259914 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259914 Per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1516390 , the /etc/xul- ext/ubufox.js file acts as the default settings file for 10.04 and newer users. I've confirmed this on Xubuntu 10.04.2. -- You received th

[Bug 259914] Re: prefs in ubufox extension override system prefs

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Adams
Per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1516390 , the /etc/xul- ext/ubufox.js file acts as the default settings file for 10.04 and newer users. I've confirmed this on Xubuntu 10.04.2 with Firefox 4 from the PPA. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password (pam_winbind pam-auth-update profile)

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Adams
Well, if base-passwd & shadow aren't impacted, then what the heck are? I'm curious how a samba package ends up breaking normal user login & password changing processes. I knew to check here about the problem because I tried updating some samba packages yesterday & ended up breaking Samba access to

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password (pam_winbind pam-auth-update profile)

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Adams
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/20100331/ Tried installing with this: turns out login is broken. Even holding SHIFT to go into single-user mode comes up with a read-only filesystem I can't remount as rw to run the dpkg-reconfigure on. ** Also affects: shadow Importance: Undecided

[Bug 339405] Re: replace tspc with gw6c

2009-10-24 Thread Michael Adams
Its missing a default config file. I have a working example on http://unquietwiki.blogspot.com/2009/10/go-go-dancing-on-internet- ipv6-anyway.html -- replace tspc with gw6c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 94821] Re: dd fills up kern.log, syslog and messages

2009-04-11 Thread Michael Adams
If you upgrade to Jaunty and still get this, try a 2.6.30 kernel and see if that helps. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc1/ -- dd fills up kern.log, syslog and messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94821 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 284263] Re: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode.

2009-04-11 Thread Michael Adams
I just tried upgrading the kernel on my Core2Duo router box to 2.6.30-rc1 using mainline debs: the ACPI errors seem to have stopped. Changelog in kernel confirms numerous ACPI fixes. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc1/ -- ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interru

[Bug 254968] Re: CAPS LOCK doesn't work in rdesktop 1.6 (intrepid)

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Adams
Another solution that seems to work for now: use the Debian rdesktop that didn't have the keyboard patch as mentioned above. Also has Ipv6 support. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/rdesktop -- CAPS LOCK doesn't work in rdesktop 1.6 (intrepid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254968 You rec

[Bug 254968] Re: CAPS LOCK doesn't work in rdesktop 1.6 (intrepid)

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Adams
Further testing... w & t don't stay capped, regardless of which scancode I use; holding SHIFT works fine for them though. I still believe the permanent solution is to rewrite the keyboard handler. -- CAPS LOCK doesn't work in rdesktop 1.6 (intrepid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254968 You rece

[Bug 254968] Re: CAPS LOCK doesn't work in rdesktop 1.6 (intrepid)

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Adams
I've been playing around with the rdesktop source, and unsuccessfuly tried to modify the xkeymap.c file. However, by converting all the keyboard scan codes from XT to AT, except for the SHIFT & CAPS keys, I can at least get CAPS working again (NUMLOCK toggling varies). Reference for scancodes: htt

[Bug 19033] Re: systemwide default startup homepage ignored

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Adams
Hardy has this bug too. Setting welcome & override URLs are also disregarded. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Startup.homepage_welcome_url http://kb.mozillazine.org/Startup.homepage_override_url -- systemwide default startup homepage ignored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19033 You received this bug

[Bug 218439] Re: CPU load randomly hits 100%; XMPP random reconnects

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Adams
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13530192/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13530193/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13530194/ProcStatus.txt -- CPU lo

[Bug 218439] [NEW] CPU load randomly hits 100%; XMPP random reconnects

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Adams
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pidgin On Ubuntu Hardy, I am seeing the CPU hit 100% load at times, and frequent disconnects/reconnects of my XMPP account in Pidgin. I also have to run Ubuntu in "Normal" visual effects mode to get it to refresh correctly, else at "None," it fails to ref

[Bug 178115] Possible GTK issue

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Adams
Found another bug that may be related to this. My system doesn't lockup fully, but Pidgin gets close to 100% load at times, and that's fixed by switching the appearance in GNOME. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-qt-engine/+bug/68578 -- general protection fault: [1] SMP https:/

[Bug 68578] Similar condition seen in Hardy...

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Adams
I may be experiencing this bug in Hardy. It occurs alongside a CPU load of 100%, and can be temporarily resolved by switching the appearance of the windows to something different. This also happens regardless of the "Visual Effects" level. I am using an onboard Intel video chipset from about 3 year

[Bug 207205] Similar event happens after latest set of patches to Hardy

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Adams
Running Hardy with Vinegre 0.5.0 & latest system updates: crash seems to occur after disconnecting with remote hosts. ** Attachment added: "_usr_bin_vinagre.1000.crash" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13193913/_usr_bin_vinagre.1000.crash -- vinagre crashed with SIGSEGV in memcpy() https://bugs.

[Bug 182262] Re: gnome-screensaver-gl-helper crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Adams
Hardy 03312008 x86 has this bug too. -- gnome-screensaver-gl-helper crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182262 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.ubuntu.com htt

[Bug 132029] Re: console-kit-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Adams
I think it might be tied to the Likewise set of packages for Kerebos login authentication. -- console-kit-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132029 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 136549] Re: Powertop suggest to add usbcore.autosuspend=1 to grub's kernel line, doesn't work

2007-09-22 Thread Michael Adams
On my Feisty router Dell PIII-1ghz with custom 2.6.22 kernel, the following commands appear to work based on suggestions from PowerTOP 1.8: I've added them to my /etc/init.d/rc.local. echo 10 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/power/autosuspend echo auto >/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/power/level The comman

[Bug 116820] Re: evms does not work with feisty xen kernel (dom0)

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Adams
I have also seen the issue on kernel 2.6.22.1, with the host machine not being RAID. Commenting out the "watermark" line got rid of the log errors. Related threads http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=528877 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/207 -- evms does not work with feisty xen kernel (dom

[Bug 131291] TCP Congestion Control improvements (Internet speed)

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Adams
Public bug reported: 1. "CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED" and all the TCP congestion controls should be enabled on build. Currently this is disabled, and only TCP Vegas & Cubic are available. 2. I suggest the following be defaulted to improve TCP performance, since most of us do not have very fast broad

[Bug 114184] Re: iptables doesn't support rt match

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Adams
Regarding libip6t_rt.so being missing from Ubuntu Feisty... 1. Based on a quick Google search, the extension in question has existed since the 1.2 series of ip6tables, if not earlier. 2. The extension in question is documented at http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/netfilter-extensions

[Bug 114184] Re: ip6tables is missing libip6t_rt.so to filter the IPv6 RH0 exploit

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Adams
I have confirmed the module as missing from Ubuntu Feisty ** Changed in: iptables (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- ip6tables is missing libip6t_rt.so to filter the IPv6 RH0 exploit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114184 You received this bug notification because you are a memb