[Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-09 Thread William Geiger
from my auth.log file: before modifying the terminal flag in gdebi.desktop Jul 8 15:20:46 johndoe-Latitude-D630 polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action com.ubuntu.pkexec.gdebi.gtk for unix-process:998:23188 [/lib/systemd/syste

[Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-09 Thread William Geiger
after some sleep I have a couple of additional comments: the /usr/share/application-registry/gdebi.applications file the mime list should be comma-delimited or at least that is what they did in the liboffice.application file (it is the only other file in the directory). while the steps in my prev

[Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-08 Thread William Geiger
I finally got around to tracking down this problem it seems to be a mimeinfo.cache issue. If the reader is not familiar mimeinfo is part of the freedesktop and contains all the mime types and their program associations. for deb packages the primary mime type (called media types now because why no

[Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-05-11 Thread William Geiger
I am experiencing the same behavior in Xubuntu 18.04 (has been a problem for a while) when using "open with" on the .deb package from Thunar (right mouse menu). If I start gdebi-gtk from the command line and use the "file open" menu option then everything works ok. I will dig through my logs for m

[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

2016-06-24 Thread William Geiger
I was reading some post on the Arch site and it seems compiling with GTK2 rather than GTK3 resolved the problem. I just build 3.0.1-7 package from source on my machine (using GTK3). The flickering issue seems to be down to just the cursor but I have some other build issues I need to look into. FWI

[Bug 1595731] [NEW] package libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package libtidy-dev 1:5.2.0-1

2016-06-23 Thread William Geiger
Public bug reported: Conflict with libtidy-0.99 and libtidy5: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libtidy-0.99-0_20091223cvs-1.5_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package libtidy-dev 1:5.2.0-1 ProblemType: Package DistroRelease:

[Bug 1595731] Re: package libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package libtidy-dev 1:5.2.0-1

2016-06-23 Thread William Geiger
libtidy 0.99-0 is a requirement for Abiword. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595731 Title: package libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/us

[Bug 1581906] Re: Xubuntu 14 may daily build install fails.

2016-05-19 Thread William Geiger
Tried the 16 May 2016 Daily Build and the #1577440 Bug is still present during the install but the apt CD error is gone and I am able to do a complete install. Hope this helps ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1583342] [NEW] fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 16.03.00-0ubuntu3: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms kernel module failed to build

2016-05-18 Thread William Geiger
Public bug reported: bug occurred during my daily apt upgrades. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 16.03.00-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-lowlatency 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu4 Archit

[Bug 1581906] Re: Xubuntu 14 may daily build install fails.

2016-05-16 Thread William Geiger
The link on my first comment is incorrect the proper link is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1577540 hope this helps -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581906 Tit

[Bug 1581906] Re: Xubuntu 14 may daily build install fails.

2016-05-16 Thread William Geiger
Tried the 14 May 2016 Daily Build with the same results. Went back to an older Yakety iso image I had on my machine (25 April 2016). did not get the #157750 Bug but still got the apt error. I will keep playing around as time permits. Hope this helps ... -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1581906] [NEW] Xubuntu 14 may daily build install fails.

2016-05-14 Thread William Geiger
Public bug reported: Fresh Install on new system, daily build from usb stick. first ubi- console-setup error bug #157750 hit continue and then install fails with message about can not set up apt to install additional software from the CD. I started the install by booting into Xubuntu from the USB

[Bug 1579951] [NEW] Can not get octopussy to install in Yaktey

2016-05-09 Thread William Geiger
Public bug reported: I am unable to get octopussy up and running in Xubuntu Yakety. The APT install works fine but I am getting the following errors: octopussy Dispatcher Started. octopussy RRD Started. octopussy Scheduler Started. octopussy Sender Started. octopussy Pusher Started. ERROR 1054

[Bug 1576453] [NEW] package interchange-ui (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1

2016-04-28 Thread William Geiger
Public bug reported: Installed interchange & the demo catalog last night. There was the requirement of having SOAP installed. Installed SAOP but the system is being pissy. I am in the process of purging everything and reinstalling and this is when the apport came up. I will post a follow-up If I c

[Bug 1550950] Re: package openjdk-9-jdk 9~b102-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h', which is also in package openjdk-9-jdk-head

2016-04-25 Thread William Geiger
Anyone looking for a manual "fix" I went and installed the jdk- headerless which works fine. The I downloaded the jdk .deb file and installed using dpkg with the --force all option. It seem to take care of the install problem. I am not a big java user but if anyone needs me to check it out further

[Bug 1550950] Re: package openjdk-9-jdk 9~b102-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h', which is also in package openjdk-9-jdk-head

2016-04-25 Thread William Geiger
I just tried installing b115-2 on a machine that I have done a partial upgrade to yakkety. On this machine I originally did a fresh xenial alpha install and have been doing daily upgrades (and other tinkering) ever since. Last night or the night before I added yakkety depositories to my sources.li

[Bug 1550950] Re: package openjdk-9-jdk 9~b102-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h', which is also in package openjdk-9-jdk-head

2016-04-25 Thread William Geiger
just tried on xenial using b114 and did not work. I'll try with the yakkety b115 and see how it goes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550950 Title: package openjdk-9-jdk 9~b102-1 fail

[Bug 1429098] Re: systemd[1]: ureadahead.service fails on vanilla kernels, needs Ubuntu kernel patch

2016-03-26 Thread William Geiger
I am running Xubuntu Xenial and was getting the same "ignore relative path" statements in my log files. I ran the following to fix it for now: sudo ureadahead --force-trace --verbose / adding the "/" for the mount-point for uredahead rebuilt the pack file properly. ran sudo ureadahead --dump

[Bug 1369493] Re: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2016-03-20 Thread William Geiger
I am also getting this on Xenial I found a bug report on Debian that discusses this issue and the causes. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718232 The last post on Debian claims that this was fixed with resolvconf (1.75). I have resolvconf (1.781.78ubuntu2) on my system and the bu

[Bug 1184451] Re: Ubuntu 13.10 random screen freeze while Normal OS activites

2014-03-06 Thread William Geiger
If it is of any help I have been having this same problem ever since the the 3.8.0 kernel came out. When I first starting having this problem I was running 64 bit Xubuntu 3.04 with the nouveau drivers. I just figured that it was a problem on my system. So long as I booted using the 3.5.0-28 kernel