[Bug 1153318] Re: emacs/gui does not start when .gtkrc-20 file present

2013-09-23 Thread Michael Hirsch
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1142213 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1142213 My machine works fine with a ~/.gktrc-2.0 file, but emacs will not open with a .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 file. But otherwise the symptoms are identical. This is probably related to the fact that I use KDE and not

[Bug 722941] [NEW] OpenOffice can't save to a directory with # in the name

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org-kde My computer has a directory named Troop #441. Every time I save a file to that directory it ended up in my home dir in a file named Troop. Actually, I think it was named Troop but that took a while to figure out. I finally found

[Bug 722941] Re: OpenOffice can't save to a directory with # in the name

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Hirsch
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722941 Title: OpenOffice can't save to a directory with # in the name -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 75174] Re: runaway kacpi_notify

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Hirsch
Still a problem with Kubutu 9.10 on my Dual Opteron 64-bit system. -- runaway kacpi_notify https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75174 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

[Bug 159897] Re: Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Hirsch
I am not seeing the issue with KDE 4 on Kubuntu 9.10. I started up both konsole and konqueror both ways and they appeared identical. -- Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159897 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 271580] Re: Epson Stylus Photo R340 stopped working after upgrade to Hardy

2008-12-26 Thread Michael Hirsch
I do not know. It was still broken until 8.10 came out. 8.10 worked with my printer, so I upgraded all my computers. 8.04 was not working up to then, but I upgraded everything shortly after 8.10 was released. -- Epson Stylus Photo R340 stopped working after upgrade to Hardy

[Bug 164800] Re: Wrong version of libreadline-java in dependencies

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Hirsch
This issue has gone away for me with 8.10. The same simple.py program runs as expected. -- Wrong version of libreadline-java in dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 271580] Re: Epson Stylus Photo R340 stopped working after upgrade to Hardy

2008-09-20 Thread Michael Hirsch
A little more info: If I send a test page, after a long time I can see the job with an error message in the KDE print manager. If I right click and get the IPP job report I see Can't print page 1 header listed in it. I don't know what that means, but it appears to me to be significant. --

[Bug 271580] [NEW] Epson Stylus Photo R340 stopped working after upgrade to Hardy

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: I upgraded my dual athlon x86_64 system when Hardy first came out. Shortly after I noticed that my printer would no longer work. I don't print much, and the few times I needed to print I used my other system. I figuered it was a problem with the 64 bit release, maybe. Last

[Bug 157958] Re: amarok still can't play mp3s after autoinstalling the codecs

2008-04-13 Thread Michael Hirsch
There are several issues. 1) The main problem is that Amarok claims to know how to enable MP3's, but after it executes the required apt-get command it still can't play them. There is some magic combination of debs to install and then it works, but no one can agree on what those debs are. 2)

[Bug 157958] Re: amarok still can't play mp3s after autoinstalling the codecs

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Hirsch
I disagree that I shouldn't have to run code from universe to play MP3s. is a non-bug. If you look at my solution, it had nothing to do with universe. In fact, I don't believe that universe is supposed to ship MP3 playing software, either, for the exact same patent reasons. I thought that

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
Here's the xorg.conf that is able to get it into 1600x1200, but only the second time. If I kill the server after kdm comes up, I will be in 1600x1200 after logging in. Also, note that the fonts are huge--over 2 inches. I have a hack where I changed the resolution to something like 40 DPIK, but

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
This is the X log from the first running of X. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log.first http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10599159/Xorg.0.log.first -- radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155664 You received this bug notification

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
This is the log of the second, more successful running of X ** Attachment added: log of the second, more successful running of X http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10599160/Xorg.0.log.second -- radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
Here is the log of running without xorg.conf. The screen complained that the mode was out of it's capabilities and I couldn't see the screen at all. ** Attachment added: log of running with no xorg.conf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10599161/Xorg.0.log.blank -- radeon 9200 Pro xorg server

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
Okay, I found how I fixed the large font issue. In my kdmrc file i told the server I had a ridiculously small dpi. Here's the line: ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br -dpi 40 Even though I have a about 100 DPI screen and have specified the screen size in xorg.conf, I have to do this to get reasonable

[Bug 164800] Wrong version of libreadline-java in dependencies

2007-11-23 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: Jython claims to depend on libreadline-java version 60 or higher. One my AMD-64 Gutsy installation, libreadline-java version 80 was installed. When I try to run anything with jython, even 'print Hello world' I get this error indicating that version 49 or libreadline-java

[Bug 159897] Different font sizes depending on whether autostart or start from menu

2007-11-03 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: I noticed this in Feisty, and it is still present in Gutsy. Using Kubuntu, I have Kontact start up automatically when I log in. I have configured it to use fairly large fonts on my 1600x1200 display. As long as I don't quit Kontact the fonts look okay. If I quit Kontact

[Bug 157958] amarok still can't play mp3s after autoinstalling the codecs

2007-10-27 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: amarok After upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy on my dual opteron AMD64 system, Amarok can't play MP3s (using the Xine engine). I have mediabuntu in my repositories. Amarok offered to install the required packages which I accepted, though I thought I

[Bug 27667] Re: xresprobe drops highest available resolution on certain lcd's

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Hirsch
I have version 0.4.24ubuntu8 of xresprobe installed on my dual opteron (AMD64) gutsy system, and I'm still having this problem, or one just like it. I cannot get my 1600x1200 resolution display that I used to get on Feisty. I seem to be able to get no better than 1280x1024. As you can see,

[Bug 155664] radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati I have a dual opteron 64bit system that I've been upgrading since 6.04. In the last year I put a 1600x1200 20 inch LCD screen on it. The xserver-xorg-video-ati driver had no problem with it in 7.04. I don't recal for sure if I

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Hirsch
Another datum: When running this server, I can't get to a virtual terminal once X is started. When I try to change VTs, I get yellow bars of garbage across the screen. I can get back to X, but I can't see the VT. If I don't start X then the VTs work well. -- radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't

[Bug 155664] Re: radeon 9200 Pro xorg server can't do 1600x1200 resolution in gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Hirsch
Oh yes, another point. The fonts are really huge using the ati server. By really huge I mean 2-3 inches tall, say 6 cm. Other things are messed up. Menu bars tend to take over the entire screen. Dialog boxes are 3 screens wide, etc. It is essentially unusable. Switching to vesa mode made

[Bug 154189] Re: Upgrade to 7.10 fails to fetch main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

2007-10-21 Thread Michael Hirsch
Removing the koffice-latest repository did get me past this problem. The error message should at the least suggest that as a solution. Even better would be to offer to exclude the repository without an upgrade repository. -- Upgrade to 7.10 fails to fetch main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

[Bug 154189] Upgrade to 7.10 fails to fetch main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Hirsch
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager In attempting to upgrade my amd64 system tfrom 7.04 to 7.10 I ran sudo adept_manager --version-upgrade and then clicked Version Upgrade. After a long time downloading updates, it crashed with this error message: Failed to fetch

[Bug 114630] Re: menus in planet penguin racer appear as unreadable dashed lines

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Hirsch
This is also the case for me on my AMD64 system running feisty. I have not found a workaround. -- menus in planet penguin racer appear as unreadable dashed lines https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 75174] Re: runaway kacpi_notify

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Hirsch
More data: It isn't logging in that causes it for me, but starting kpilot. If kpilot doesn't start, kacpid doesn't start using all my CPU. If kpilot starts, then kacpid uses all my CPU. -- runaway kacpi_notify https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75174 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 75174] Re: runaway kacpi_notify

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Hirsch
For me it is kacpid that is a runaway using 95% of a cpu and kacpi_notify uses only 5%. It seems to happen even if I don't run anything CPU intensive--just loggign in to KDE starts it. I guess I should try logging in to a console and see what happens. -- runaway kacpi_notify

[Bug 109888] Re: feisty lockup kacpi and kacpi_notify eat cpu

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Hirsch
Same problem on my dual Opteron-64 system since the feisty upgrade. kacpid is a runaway. -- feisty lockup kacpi and kacpi_notify eat cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109888 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 77059] Re: MP3 Support is Broken In Feisty

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Hirsch
This was broken for me, too. I fixed it by finding the libxine1-ffmpeg package for amd64. It was not in any of the archives referenced in my sources.list. I thought I had all the standard archives except universe listed. I don't know where it is served from--I just downloaded it by following

[Bug 34311] Re: The module Users Groups could not be loaded

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Hirsch
I'm pretty sure that the userid and groupid numbers is the problem. When I added a user with userid1000 then this module started working. -- The module Users Groups could not be loaded https://launchpad.net/bugs/34311 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 34311] Re: The module Users Groups could not be loaded

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Hirsch
On Sunday 29 October 2006 2:52, sebas wrote: Michael Hirsch: Can I have your /etc/passwd and /etc/group as well? Sure. I've attached them. As I mentioned in the bug report, my system used to be a Mandriva (and before that Mandrake, and even earlier RedHat) system, so I have somewhat

[Bug 58509] Re: /dev/null permission

2006-09-10 Thread Michael Hirsch
This happens to me, too. This is pretty critical because the permission seem to get reset to 600 after a reboot, so X never starts up successfully. -- /dev/null permission https://launchpad.net/bugs/58509 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 34311] Still seeing the problem in kde3.5.4

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Hirsch
I have kde-guidance 0.6.7, shipped with kde 3.5.4, and see this exact problem, too. I'm up to date with all updates, AFAIK. [502] ~ kcmshell userconfig kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-hirschlNq11X/ksycoca kutils (KCMultiDialog): KCMultiDialog::addModule Users

[Bug 34311] Re: The module Users Groups could not be loaded

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Hirsch
I might be important that my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are a little unusual and I can imagine that causing errors. My users are number 500, 501 and 502 because my Kubuntu installation was originally on Redhat, then Mandriva. I've ported the home partition across the changes. Since that