[Bug 1644001] Re: 16.04 IcedTea broken for iLO2 KVM, works fine on 14.04.

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Curiously, I couldn't specify icedtea-8-plugin, because this website says, "There is no package names 'icedtea-8-plugin' published in Ubuntu". However, in my aptitude I see the icedtea-8-plugin package, version 1.6.2-3ubuntu1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 1644001] [NEW] 16.04 IcedTea broken for iLO2 KVM, works fine on 14.04.

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Using completely up-to-date 16.04, firefox with icedtea to access HP iLO2 (integrated lights-out KVM card) on remote server. This always works on 14.04, but on 16.04 it always fails with the following exception: Another available info: IcedTea-Web Plugin version: 1.6.2 (1.6.

[Bug 1644001] Re: 16.04 IcedTea broken for iLO2 KVM, works fine on 14.04.

2016-11-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Still broken. Still works under freshly installed 14.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1644001 Title: 16.04 IcedTea broken for iLO2 KVM, works fine on 14.04. To manage notification

[Bug 924278] Re: xscreensaver doesn't enable DPMS

2016-08-18 Thread Steve Newcomb
I got around this dpms-is-always-disabled nuisance in Xubuntu 16.04 by calling a bash script in ~/.config/autostart/.desktop. The script sleeps for 10 seconds and *then* calls xset in such a way as to enable dpms. The 10-second delay is evidently long enough for the startup of the X session t

[Bug 1319233] Re: audio stutters or stops playing after seeking

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Newcomb
I'm playing an off-air recording (the Newshour). The video freezes, then the audio stops, then the video restarts, but there's no audio. If I move the cursor on the timeline at the bottom of the screen and click it, the audio and video both restart there. The same thing occurs again at the sa

[Bug 1241758] Re: ReiserFS support removed from Ubuntu 13.10 installer => not even possible to mount existing partitions

2014-02-10 Thread Steve Newcomb
Different users have different requirements, and you guys are creating big problems with us. We've been using Reiserfs for over a decade due to its tail packing (we have many small files) and excellent inherent filesystem recovery. Our data have survived many hardware failures without resorting t

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Newcomb
I gave up on Kubuntu and on Ubuntu 11.04 quite a while ago. I'm having no such problems now with Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 and KDE.I'm not testing the latest development release, as you requested, because this bug is no longer an issue for us. Notes: (1) I can now log into Launchpad again, as yo

[Bug 998087] Re: printer ERROR: invalidaccess OFFENDING COMMAND: filter

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Newcomb
I newly installed 12.10 on one of 6 hosts here. The rest still use 12.04, and they work fine. The new install apparently has exactly the same problem that was reported here as fixed. I attempt to print an envelope using my HP 4050 printer, using Postcript/English (recommended). Instead of pri

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2011-11-29 Thread Steve Newcomb
Attempted to upgrade to 38-13 this morning. It still doesn't work. Interestingly, it is broken in a slightly different way than 38-12 was broken. Instead of flickering, as it did under 38-12, the external monitor puts up a floating box that says something like: "Not optimum mode. Optimum mode is

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Something that may or may not be relevant: Both of the Lenovo X-220 machines in my household freeze (hard crash) occasionally. I suspect a driver somewhere is the culprit. At least one of the machines, and maybe both of them, *sometimes* freezes in a very nasty way, taking our whole wired networ

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
I'm still unable to use a kernel newer than 38-11 if I'm using an external monitor with my X-220 machines. An Ubuntu update for Intel graphics chips, which I received and installed last night, did not fix the problem on 38-12. This bug affects both of the Lenovo X-220s in my household. Their ext

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Newcomb
I made a mistake in my report. The monitor is 1920x1200, not 1920x1600 as I reported. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882225 Title: external monitor no longer works To manage notific

[Bug 882225] Re: external monitor no longer works

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Newcomb
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882225 Title: external monitor no longer works To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-backpor

[Bug 882225] [NEW] external monitor no longer works

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: I updated my system, a Lenovo X220, this morning. Upon rebooting, the external monitor would not work. It flickers a lot of mainly-green gibberish, and it is unusable. The internal LCD screen in the notebook still works, but not when the external monitor is connected. The

[Bug 772776] Re: lshw: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000002ca0904

2011-04-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772776 Title: lshw: free(): invalid pointer: 0x02ca0904 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

[Bug 772776] [NEW] lshw: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000002ca0904

2011-04-28 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lshw Here's what I got, first output from lshw, then a kernel message: root@qat:/home/michel# lshw qat description: Desktop Computer product: To Be Filled By O.E.M. vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. serial:

[Bug 771862] Re: kernel oops

2011-04-27 Thread Steve Newcomb
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[Bug 771862] [NEW] kernel oops

2011-04-27 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Following is from /var/log/syslog: Apr 26 22:01:09 tacho kernel: [302747.415047] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0400 Apr 26 22:01:09 tacho kernel: [302747.415053] IP: [] __d_lookup+0x8c/0x150 Apr 26 22:01:09 tacho kernel: [302747.415059] PGD 160c

[Bug 769622] Re: lshw -xml produces incorrect (but parsable) output

2011-04-24 Thread Steve Newcomb
I have also found a completely different bug in the xml output of a slightly more elaborate lshw invocation: lshw -xml -class disk The xml output of lshw is all elements. When the lshw invocation is: lshw -xml that's fine, because the host machine's is the container element for all the other

[Bug 769622] Re: lshw -xml produces incorrect (but parsable) output

2011-04-23 Thread Steve Newcomb
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[Bug 769622] [NEW] lshw -xml produces incorrect (but parsable) output

2011-04-23 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lshw Example of buggy output: It's true that the above now parses as XML. It's not true that it's correct output! The output should be: See exiz ticket #115 for a bug which is gone. Alas, there's now a different but similar bug in the xml output

[Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-03-11 Thread Steve Newcomb
There is still a halting problem in mksquashfs 4.1, but it's MUCH rarer than it was in 4.0. I'm guessing one hang in 300 invocations. I've written a (horrible) way around the problem, which is to call mksquashfs indirectly via a Python program that kills mksquashfs and re- invokes mksquashfs, inv

[Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I took Philip Lougher's advice to heart. I downloaded mksquashfs 4.1 source from Sourceforge, compiled it, and my hanging problem has not occurred since. I therefore urge that the squashfs-tools package in Ubuntu be upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1. When that happens, this bug will be history. -- You

Re: [Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Newcomb
On 02/22/2011 11:08 PM, Phillip Lougher wrote: > Where is the output of mksquashfs going? To a pipe, and thence to a file. But I suspect that I'm flushing it frequently, which may contribute greatly to the problem. I'll have to look into that. > The -noappend option changing things is interest

[Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
Well, I'm trying a run with -info and -no-progress , but, gosh, -info really seems to slow the mksquashfs process down to a small fraction of its usual speed (I'm not sure why, or whether it's my fault somehow). At this rate, it could be weeks before I finish a single run, so don't hold your breath

Re: [Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-02-21 Thread Steve Newcomb
Answers to your questions follow: On 02/21/2011 12:08 AM, Phillip Lougher wrote: > "As far as mksquashfs is concerned, it is being invoked in the usual way > as an independent subprocess." > > What is the exact command line passed to Mksquashfs? (from looking at > the Transparent Archivist tool's

Re: [Bug 722168] Re: mksquashfs hangs

2011-02-21 Thread Steve Newcomb
to trust you, personally, with such access to my system and data. Your contributions to civilization are your credentials, as far as I'm concerned. My archives are pretty demanding, with a single DVD filesystem often containing hundreds of thousands of small files, along with large files th

[Bug 722168] [NEW] mksquashfs hangs

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: squashfs-tools # lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.10 Release:10.10 # apt-cache policy squashfs-tools squashfs-tools: Installed: 1:4.0-8 Candidate: 1:4.0-8 Version table: *** 1:4.0-8 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubunt

[Bug 635258] Re: Garbled chars in xterm

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Newcomb
Curiously, I have the "cursor droppings" on xterm screens -- the little vertical bars before each typed character -- but this NEVER happens in emacs 22 or emacs 23. FYI, I launch xterm with a red blinking cursor as follows; the little vertical lines are red, so it's obvious that it has to do with

[Bug 146894] Re: On upgrade to gutsy boot hangs because uswsusp is looking for /dev/hda, but now is /dev/sda

2010-10-07 Thread Steve Newcomb
Today, Maverick has this bug. Just did a clean install with an encrypted home directory and then I added uswsusp. It seems to work OK until it's time to wake up. The reboot process stops dead, unrecoverably (since the keyboard has no effect), after the following message is scrolled on the screen

[Bug 375148] Re: no more /dev/ttySL0 device node

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Newcomb
I have an external USB modem, which is bulky but at least it works. An extra USD $60, and an annoying occupier of scarce space in my backpack. Too bad I can't use the internal modem in my Lenovo, but at least I'm not completely cut off when I find myself in some internet backwater. Which is less a

[Bug 465958] Re: effect of xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Newcomb
Thanks for taking a look at this. Here's some more info: there's a weirdness with vncviewer, too. I can't use my xmodmap on both the viewed and the viewing machine. I can use it on the viewing machine, but not the viewed machine. Things get confused; the machines soon begin to disagree about wh

[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed

2009-12-12 Thread Steve Newcomb
This is still broken, and it's quite a serious matter because when I upgrade the machine (which sometimes overwrites /boot/grub/grub.cfg) and reboot, I lose access to it. It can't boot unless someone is physically present with the machine, who can remove the lines recordfail=1 if [ -n ${have_grub

[Bug 464743] Re: error: sparse file not allowed

2009-11-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
I have a similar bug after running grub-install /dev/sde update-grub It doesn't seem to matter how many times I run these commands, unlike billBear's experience. Booting doesn't happen until I get rid of those two lines that are identified above: recordfail=1 if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then sav

Re: [Bug 465958] Re: effect of xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

2009-10-31 Thread Steve Newcomb
I'm not sure what any of it has to do with the xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap bug I just reported, but I'm attaching the information you requested, anyway. Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi srn-coolheads, > > > Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your > /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and mayb

[Bug 465958] Re: effect of xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Newcomb
I did a little more testing so I could tell you exactly how to reproduce the error. Turns out, emacs has nothing to do with it (sorry, I was confused). Now I think the problem is actually just another problem with the new gdm, because the problem occurs when I log out and then log back in. Here

[Bug 465958] [NEW] effect of xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Newcomb
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg I just installed karmic 9.10. I have a ~/.Xmodmap file in effect; it has been working fine in Jaunty. The first time I used it in Karmic, I got the usual prompt about whether I really wanted to use it, and of course I said yes. After that, it worke

[Bug 407527] Re: despite changing the optios in setting for login, the auto login does not work. it it set but doesnt work. expecienced on acer aspire one a110 ubuntu 9.04 NBR

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Newcomb
Just installed a new 9.10 Karmic. Even though I have specified auto login in the new, very truncated gdmsetup-like UI, I don't log back in automatically. This a very bad thing because I use the machine via a remote desktop, and I need to be able to log out and then have X automatically log me

[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Newcomb
I thought it might be sufficient to wipe the beginning of the disk in order to fix this. It wasn't sufficient. I finally wiped the whole disk. I used badblocks -w -t 0 -v to write zeroes all over it. It took a long time. Thanks, Scott and Lawrence, for the excellent information and explanat

[Bug 417705] Re: package sl-modem-source 2.9.11~20080817-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Newcomb
My experience was a little different. I'm running jaunty 2.6.28-15-generic on a Lenovo tp60. No complaints appeared in any log, but /dev/ttySL0 never appeared, and the daemon doesn't actually run, apparently. I attempted to reinstall using module-assistant, and it said it would not install becau

[Bug 43745] Re: [Bug 43745] Re: Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Newcomb
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The debian bug is not the same one as this. It describes a hang on Dell > laptops in hwclock, which is worked around by using --directisa. Regarding the hwclock problem on my Dell 620GX box, I added HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa to /etc/default/rcS ...and

[Bug 43745] Re: [Bug 43745] Re: Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Newcomb
Ben -- OK. I ran it twice, as shown below, on my new Dell OptiPlex GX620 Mini-Tower: Intel Pentium 4 Processor 650 with HT (3.4GHz, 2M, 800MHz FSB). I'm running Dapper 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux As far as I can tell, the new information that -D reveals

[Bug 21295] Re: hwclock times out

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Newcomb
Running ubuntu 2.6.15-26-386 on a new Dell desktop GX-620. The hwclock command doesn't work at all, and it says: select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out -- hwclock times out https://launchpad.net/bugs/21295 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

[Bug 43745] Re: Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops - problem appears on some desktops, too.

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Newcomb
I just installed Ubuntu 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux on a DESKTOP Dell Optiplex GX620. The hwclock command doesn't work. The system says "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out". Also I had some pretty weird messages during installation about