[Bug 1676284] Re: package mariadb-common 10.0.29-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2021-07-09 Thread Quintin Beukes
I see this is expired but I am running into this scenario again and the steps to reproduce and fix this seem to be simple so I'm posting it here because backlinks lead me here. This can occur in many Ubuntu versions and it's essentially user error. REPRODUCE: The basic sequence and user reasoning

[Bug 501601] Re: Bash in gnome-terminal shows control characters as unsupported-unicode squares

2010-01-10 Thread Quintin Beukes
Can be reproduced with: gnome-terminal: YES terminator: YES xterm: NO tty[1-6]: NO I attached another screenshot showing a ctrl+c in /bin/cat for gnome- terminal, terminator and xterm. ** Attachment added: bug.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37683512/bug.png -- Bash in gnome-terminal

[Bug 501601] Re: Bash in gnome-terminal shows control characters as unsupported-unicode squares

2010-01-10 Thread Quintin Beukes
An easy way to reproduce this is to just do: printf \003\n\x1A\n This shows than when receiving these characters, gnome-terminal tries to print them, instead of ignoring them. When doing: printf ##\003##\n, gnome-terminal (and thus also terminator), will print 2 hash characters, then the unicode

[Bug 501601] [NEW] Bash in gnome-terminal shows control characters as unsupported-unicode squares

2009-12-30 Thread Quintin Beukes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal When I upgraded to Karmic (clean install) I noticed bash echoes control characters using the hat notation (ex. ctrl+c shows as ^C). stty reported echoctl being set, so I tried to unset it. This helped, and pressing ctrl+c at a prompt

[Bug 501601] Re: Bash in gnome-terminal shows control characters as unsupported-unicode squares

2009-12-30 Thread Quintin Beukes
** Attachment added: Visualization of problem. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37286236/ctrlchar.png ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37286238/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37286239/ProcMaps.txt **

[Bug 501053] [NEW] Setting LOCALVERSION causes build to build at modules.order

2009-12-28 Thread Quintin Beukes
Public bug reported: When trying to build linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic_2.6.31-16.53_i386.deb, and setting LOCALVERSION in debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu, causes the build to fail at: # # Remove files which are generated at installation by postinst, except for # modules.order. # mv

[Bug 394724] Re: Mod operation calculates wrong results!

2009-07-24 Thread Quintin Beukes
Related to this bug is also that you can't do mod's for 2^714 or less, but you can do for 2^715 and up. Also, they seem to work for 715 upwards, giving answers like 0, 1, 2, 3 and numbers which might seem right, but aren't, because in those are hidden numbers like for 2 ^ 730 Mod 3 which gives