[Bug 157988] no official Swedish time server mentioned in list of available time servers in "settings for time and date" setup

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: this report is (probably) for either the ntp or the ntpdate package (since those are the only two ntp related packages installed on my system). this problem has been around for several iterations of ubuntu and is still present in the Gutsy incarnation. when using "settings fo

[Bug 157988] Re: no official Swedish time server mentioned in list of available time servers in "settings for time and date" setup

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Ronquist
This is not a bug in the sense that some computer interpreted instructions are wrong, but it still leads end users astray when they try to use ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu for fun and profit. By having at least some of the official servers listed we would be able to provide a better end user experience.

[Bug 152126] Re: package findutils 4.2.31-1 fa iled to install/upgrade: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/bin/locate », qui appartient aussi au p aquet slocate

2007-10-12 Thread Roland Ronquist
I have a similar problem that has buggered me for the last few weeks which I have now investigated a little bit more: ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, and xubuntu-desktop all depends on slocate. ubuntu-minimal is depending on findutils. as a normal user probably likes to have one of the above me

[Bug 133422] Re: After update display is shifted to the left

2007-09-21 Thread Roland Ronquist
As far as the description goes, this is probably not a bug. Different operating systems, video adapters, and video drivers all comes with their unique set of timing caracteristics. To releive end users from constantly having to fiddle the controls of their video monitors, the leading manufacturers

[Bug 140010] Re: cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-21 Thread Roland Ronquist
i have upgraded my system a few times and now i am not able to reproduce this problem again. neither with or without kvm. i will get back _if_ things turn fishy again 8-) -- cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140010 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 138204] Re: ltsp-build-client and ltsp-update-image fails if inetd.conf is not cleared

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Ronquist
sorry for not reporting back in time, it do work now without editing the inetd.conf. BTW are things supposed to work with xinetd as well? -- ltsp-build-client and ltsp-update-image fails if inetd.conf is not cleared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138204 You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 140010] Re: cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-17 Thread Roland Ronquist
thank you Scott for your suggestions regarding LDM. Actually I have submitted logfiles and error messages for this problem in another bug report; unfortunately I am not friendly enough with the launchpad to figure out where, at least it is nowhere to be seen on my page with bugs that i have repo

[Bug 140010] Re: cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-17 Thread Roland Ronquist
i have tried ldm with several of my thin clients with no luck, with Gutsy, ldm on feisty worked like charm :-) i shall try to run more without kvm and report back, but beware: as the computers are more or less unused while I am out working, they may be "behind" screen saver all day. my personal th

[Bug 140010] Re: cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-17 Thread Roland Ronquist
to clarify upon what i said above: when i first run into this problem on the 22th (saturday), i had my screensaver configured to take over after 4 minutes of inactivity. after increasing this time to 10 minutes, the frequency of the problem decreased drastically. R.R. -- cursor disappears frequ

[Bug 140010] Re: cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-17 Thread Roland Ronquist
two questions and accordingly two answers: 1. i have tried running without kvm during this day with the screen saver active all day since i have not been home, and no, i could not reproduce. but i do think this case is similar to when running the kvm without switching like i did above with disap

[Bug 131983] Re: [gutsy] trackerd kills disk io

2007-09-17 Thread Roland Ronquist
regardless if you run out of batteries or not, it is, at least in most cases, stupid to let a background daemon take most of the computers internal bandwidth. I am running this on my desktop machine and it is almost useless for several hours after logging into the system. As I sure am a geek and I

[Bug 130817] Re: trackerd eating CPU and memory

2007-09-16 Thread Roland Ronquist
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 132320 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132320 no matter if it is beneficial or not having this trackerd track down every single bit in every file fast or not, it is definitely not good for anybody if your systems feels like you have upgraded to an 1 MHz

[Bug 140008] Re: Uncomfortable keybinding in synaptic

2007-09-16 Thread Roland Ronquist
the best solution would be an inconsistent solution: If and only if the user had selected any text, copy that text, if no text is selected, pretend it is a normal console app and abort. This will not cater for those cases when the user stumbles on their mouse and accidentally select some random c

[Bug 82273] Re: desktop gets stuck when logging out

2007-09-16 Thread Roland Ronquist
no Feisty fixed this issue for me. as I now run Gutsy, I have got myself a brand new set of problems 8-) -- desktop gets stuck when logging out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82273 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.

[Bug 140010] cursor disappears frequently in latest Gutsy build

2007-09-16 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: after doing the latest upgrade (to v 5.0.30 of ltsp-client) I have been forced to reboot my primary workstation (a hp 5x00 running ltsp) due to the fact that when I leave the terminal the cursor disappears without comming back when I start moving about with the mouse. Since I

[Bug 65010] Re: Xubuntu desktop manager not LTSP aware

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
some aditional info: as I am playing about with Gutsy, it seems like XFCE has started to be a little bit more LTSP aware: 1. I still get all those confusing options, but now it begs me for authentication (password) before it starts shutting down things. 2. I do not know if it wants password if I

[Bug 138200] Re: ltsp ldm does not start properly

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
As you might have already seen from my eager writings on defect #138089, I do use "ltsp-build-client" from a clean startingpoint. The interesting thing is that since I now use the CONFIGURE_X=True configuration as you kindly suggested for #138089, I am not getting the error messages stated above a

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
sorry for spamming you all, but if this is not clear from my abundant reports above: 1. following the advice of Oliver G. above for setting the variable CONFIGURE_X=True manually works. 2. the default value for CONFIGURE_X in lts.conf created by ltsp-build-client is still CONFIGURE_X=False And

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
regardless the quality of any defect report, it is pretty much useless if you can not track down which version/configuration that was used when finding the error. As I have not figured out any better way of providing a complete report of the system status regarding various packages, I hereby encl

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
Yes, I know, my previous post was not 100% related to the error report at hand. So here I enclose the dmesg output from using startx instead 8-) Even if the session did start successfully I still get loads of interesting messages about various USB devices that should not really excite anybody.

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
since I got the message of using CONFIGURE_X=True I finally to the plunge and went looking for some problems again. So I did the following steps: 1. removed my /opt/ltsp/i386 tree 2. ran ltsp-build-client (which of course had a few things to complain about already having nbdroot configured in i

[Bug 37350] Re: Pressing power button unlocks locked screensaver

2007-09-10 Thread Roland Ronquist
still, if somebody for administrative reasons, needs to shut down a computer, reasons ranging from planned power interruptions to office relocations, it still is nice being able to let somebody shut down the computer in an orderly fashion. Hence, the problem was not that a shutdown option was pres

Re: [Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Oliver Grawert wrote: > did you notice the CONFIGURE_X=False ? ;) > Well frankly, I did not have the slightest clue about what did option actually did do, but as it was configured this way when I had done my "ltsp-build-client" I did not touch it. Why not have a REALLY_SAFE_MODE=True which refu

Re: [Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Oliver Grawert wrote: > did you notice the CONFIGURE_X=False ? ;) > drop that and X will be configured ... > sorry, thats my fault, we worked initially with the self configuring feature > of Xorg and omitted the configuration file, thats a leftover in the default > file that has to go. > I may

[Bug 65010] Re: Xubuntu desktop manager not LTSP aware

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Hi Jani, no I am not running kiosk mode, I am running a small office. But since I found this bug report while looking for something else I figured that somebody might be interested in some information 8-) Anyway, when running either gnome or kde, without any special config, they both figure out t

[Bug 138204] ltsp-build-client and ltsp-update-image fails if inetd.conf is not cleared

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: When I run ltsp-build-client or ltsp-update-image, both fails if the nbdrootd line for port 2000 is not removed. This is not a big showstopper for me since quick jab with emacs will help me around it, but I can imagine teachers without much unix experience not knowing anythin

[Bug 138200] ltsp ldm does not start properly

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ltsp-client this may be related to #138089 when I first updated to Gutsy a few days back the ldm did not manage to go from text mode to graphical mode on any of our clients. Since I did not get many messages out of the process of starting ldm I chose the

[Bug 138200] Re: ltsp ldm does not start properly

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
** Attachment added: "my lts.conf that tells all 8-)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9188757/lts.conf -- ltsp ldm does not start properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138200 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 107526] Re: rebooting ltsp server leaves client stuck

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
out of pure evilness, I found out that most of the times (in my environment) the clients survived a server reboot as long as they where at the login prompt. I know this may not be 100% expected and that this neither may be the intended way of doing things. Best, r.r. -- rebooting ltsp server le

[Bug 65010] Re: Xubuntu desktop manager not LTSP aware

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
neither edgy, feisty, nor gutsy recognices that you are running a remote session. I can only imagine the horrors of a teacher running xubuntu at school. with responsible and educated users this is a non issue, but well, the name edubuntu tells something about some education that needs to be done

[Bug 67366] Re: LDM does not warn when a user is already logged in

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Oliver is perfectly right about the gdm, due to my present problems with using ldm I am very much up to date on how to setup gdm 8-) Best, r.r. -- LDM does not warn when a user is already logged in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67366 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-08 Thread Roland Ronquist
Well, to be able to use the startx option I actually have to edit my lts.conf, otherwise I would never have come to the point where the starting of X.org fails because there is no valid configuration. Accordingly, I am enclosing my config file. Another point of interest, is that if I do log on ma

[Bug 138089] Re: ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-07 Thread Roland Ronquist
Sorry guys, credit should be given where it is due: James A. McQuillan seems to be the author of this smashing little script. Anyhow I added the following lines: # Configure X.org . /usr/lib/ltsp/configure-x.sh so that the X.org gets configured before anything tries to start any X-server. Best

[Bug 138089] ltsp startx option does not work since X.org is not configured

2007-09-07 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ltsp-client as I have problems logging in through ldm since it does not start X.org, I tried configure SCREEN_07=startx in my lts.conf Unfortunately the startx command got run without anything trying to configure X.org this time either. So I am st

Re: [Bug 137461] Re: xdmcp does not work due to syntax error in shell script

2007-09-07 Thread Roland Ronquist
Dear Olivier, as I am a very happy end user of the result of your effort making LTSP a viable option for everyday usage, I have taken the step upgrading to gutsy. If you need help in testing things I am more than willing, but, as per how things are right now, ltsp is in an unusable state on our ma

[Bug 137461] xdmcp does not work due to syntax error in shell script

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: in the source package file: ltsp-5.0.25/client/screen.d/startx or if you rather look in your installed package: /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/startx on line 59 there is an if-statement lacking the actual token "if" add "if" and things will work much better. ** Affe

[Bug 137461] Re: xdmcp does not work due to syntax error in shell script

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Ronquist
my changed file with the extra "if " added. ** Attachment added: "startx" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9130622/startx -- xdmcp does not work due to syntax error in shell script https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 73897] Re: the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard

2007-05-07 Thread Roland Ronquist
well, as I am now running Feisty on 3 machines, all with Swedish keyboard selected, I can now tell that my brother is right: it finally works! The keyboard works as described both when using X11 and the console interface. No need for configuring "Finnish" any more :-) -- the swedish keyboard la

Re: [Bug 54122] Re: install CD does not boot on tray loading rev-a imac 233MHz

2007-04-03 Thread Roland Ronquist
Roland Ronquist wrote: > Timothy Smith wrote: >> Can someone test this under a Feisty build so we can see if this bug >> still exists? >> >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/feisty/herd-5/ >> > > I will test it this weekend; must burn a cd and di

Re: [Bug 54122] Re: install CD does not boot on tray loading rev-a imac 233MHz

2007-03-22 Thread Roland Ronquist
Timothy Smith wrote: > Can someone test this under a Feisty build so we can see if this bug > still exists? > > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/feisty/herd-5/ > I will test it this weekend; must burn a cd and dig out the bl*sting machine to test on :-) Best, R. -- install CD does not

[Bug 10979] Re: unzip does not support UTF-8 filenames

2007-02-02 Thread Roland Ronquist
As far as I can see the bug is still there, and zip is showing the exact same behaviour as unzip so maybe we should file yet another bug or stick to killing 2 birds with one stone. Maybe even a better suggestion is to go through all packages and figure out what is needed for UTF-8 compatibility si

[Bug 73897] Re: the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
My brother installed Feisty and he got no problems with his keyboard, but I am not sure if he selected Swedish or if he autodetected the keyboard. In the later case you will end up with "Finnish". -- the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard https://launchpad.n

[Bug 73897] Re: the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
For your information, IBM says this about the Swedish and Finnish keyboards that they have been selling for ages: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/KBD285.jsp http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/KBD153.jsp -- the swedish keyboard layout do

[Bug 35611] Re: Installer detects Finnish keyboard instead of Swedish

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
Having Ubuntu autodetect the "Finnish" layout when using a Swedish keyboard may be good if you consider the Finnish origin of Linux. On the other hand, Linus Torvalds himself is speaking Swedish as his mother tounge and there are twice as many people speaking Swedish as those who speak Finnish. He

[Bug 15104] Re: Keyboard layout problems

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
Modern Linux distros, like Ubuntu, tend to prefer UTF-8 character endcoding and legacy operating systems like Windows and Palm OS tend to go for ISO 8859-1 character encoding when using a Swedish locale. Some Ubuntu applications convert well (Open Office.Org, and some usually do not, like Abi Wor

[Bug 35611] Re: Installer detects Finnish keyboard instead of Swedish

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
Well physically, Swedish and Finnish keyboards are exactly the same. Many vendors do label their keyboards for the Swedish market as "Swe/Fi", "Swedish/Finnish" or something similar. Other do have different labels even though the actual keyboards do not differ. Look at IBM for instance, a well

[Bug 82273] desktop gets stuck when logging out

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: Well I get a crash report from the xfce4-panel but, actually my thin client locks up; mouse pointer gets stuck, keyboard does not work etc; though I can log on through SSH so at least the Linux kernel is working. With earlier versions (and some specific options in lts.conf) s

[Bug 73897] Re: the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard

2006-11-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
sorry, I have been fooling around a little bit with synaptics, it seems like xkb-data could be another likely origin for this problem; as I said I am not so well versed in the actual package layout of the Ubuntu system since I am only a mere (and happy) user :-) /r. -- the swedish keyboard layou

[Bug 73897] the swedish keyboard layout does not work as printed on the physical keyboard

2006-11-30 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: language-pack-sv please forgive me, I may be barking at the wrong three (package): language-pack-sv and language-pack-sv-base looks like the obvious choices to me; but this may be something hidden deep in the soul of linux: Due to national pride all comm

[Bug 67387] Re: Client keymap doesn't match server's one

2006-11-01 Thread Roland Ronquist
Sorry for buggering you guys, but since I have been complaining, I should also give some credit to you when the problem was not your's. Yes, as I said, I have not been able to get ltsp to work "out of the box" on neither dapper nor edgy. But the problem was in the sshd end, to many unsuccessful lo

[Bug 67387] Re: Client keymap doesn't match server's one

2006-11-01 Thread Roland Ronquist
Yes, in most cases we got the same keyboard layout on all workstations at the same site. Hence that should be a reasonable default. My first post was only to point out the fact that all documentation that I have found on this issue (regardless of LTSP version) has stated that us keyboard should be

[Bug 67387] Re: Client keymap doesn't match server's one

2006-10-31 Thread Roland Ronquist
this non-existent lts.conf on a freshly configured system (after running ltsp-build-client) can be very confusing to the beginner. (yes, I have been one of them... ) The fact that there are several incompatible versions of ltsp out in the wild on the internet makes googling for answers a fruitless

[Bug 58981] Re: After loading X on terminal keboard hangs

2006-10-31 Thread Roland Ronquist
I have got the exact same problem since upgrading from Dapper. Since I have had insurmountable problems with the ldm and I do not consider XDMCP being a local security problem at our site. Hence I have been doing without ldm until being forced by this problem with Edgy Eft as described above. In m

[Bug 67387] Re: Client keymap doesn't match server's one

2006-10-31 Thread Roland Ronquist
This keymap problem may be cumbersome to work out for many users, but it still is an intended behaviour and not a bug. When setting up the clients (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf if you are running on an x86 processor), you are supposed to declare which keyboard layout you want on the clients. If the

[Bug 54122] Re: install CD does not boot on tray loading rev-a imac 233MHz

2006-07-26 Thread Roland Ronquist
yes, I have been searching the web intesively; even if this is the first formal bug report, it seems like I am far from the first one to find this problem. On ubuntuforums, many users have similar experiences. My belief is that many users consider this kind of old "junk" more toys than actual too

[Bug 54122] install CD does not boot on tray loading rev-a imac 233MHz

2006-07-26 Thread Roland Ronquist
Public bug reported: I have tried this using anything from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper Drake, and several "flights" in between; unfortunately same problem all the time. Both CD-R made on the lowest speed that my current system support (10x) and factoru made dapper install CD:s. Since this baby is a m