[Bug 1880830] Re: deja-dup failing with gpg read errors

2021-05-12 Thread Wim Lewis
I did eventually resolve this by deleting a corrupt file in (I think) ~/.cache/deja-dup , although it was difficult to figure out what needed to go. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188083

[Bug 1924930] [NEW] error message on install: "called emacs-package-install as a new-style add-on"

2021-04-18 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: The following error message was emitted while installing scala-mode-el via aptitude: Setting up scala-mode-el (20111005-2.1) ... ERROR: scala-mode-el is broken - called emacs-package-install as a new-style add-on, but has no compat file. Install scala-mode-el for emacs Inst

[Bug 1880830] [NEW] deja-dup failing with gpg read errors

2020-05-27 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: Starting a couple weeks ago, backups have begun failing with the following message. Until now, I have had no problems with backups; I backup via ssh to a cloud provider. (Until ~6 months ago I was backing up via ssh to a machine on my local net.) The scheduled backup asks for

[Bug 1807277] [NEW] Cannot set tiling background for desktop

2018-12-06 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: The Ubuntu settings app used to allow choosing how the background image would fit the window (tiled, stretched, centered). It no longer offers any choices, backgrounds are always stretched. (Other approaches, like alt-clicking on an image in Firefox, still allow me to set a t

[Bug 1802377] [NEW] package linux-headers-4.15.0-38-generic 4.15.0-38.41 failed to install/upgrade: installed linux-headers-4.15.0-38-generic package post-installation script subprocess was killed by

2018-11-08 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: Running do-system-upgrade from 16.04, the upgrade hung at this point. I left it overnight w/ no progress. Eventually ^C and had to continue dpkg by hand. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: linux-headers-4.15.0-38-generic 4.15.0-38.41 ProcVersionSignatur

[Bug 1793594] [NEW] IAKERB-HEADER "Realm" field incorrectly encoded as OCTET STRING

2018-09-20 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: Background: Under some circumstances, when the client/initiator has a TGT but no ticket for a particular principal, it needs to communicate with the KDC. The GSSAPI protocol includes a mechanism, a subprotocol named IAKERB, for the client to tunnel/proxy through the server/ac

[Bug 1614684] [NEW] can't use the sandbox (-s) option of do-release-upgrade / update-manager

2016-08-18 Thread Wim Lewis
Public bug reported: Tried to do an upgrade in "sandbox" mode using the -s option. It failed to set up the sandbox (though it didn't give a detailed error why). Same behavior with either do-release-upgrade or update-manager. ubuntu-release-upgrader-core: Installed: 1:0.220.8 Candidate: 1:0.22

[Bug 365874] Re: curl error: necessary data rewind wasn't possible

2013-05-29 Thread Wim Lewis
FWIW, I think this can happen any time you set curl's READFUNCTION but do not set its SEEKFUNCTION. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365874 Title: curl error: necessary data rewind wasn

[Bug 483177] Re: KARMIC - Selecting the Ubuntu column dims then hangs Synaptic.

2009-11-15 Thread Wim Lewis
I encountered (and then reported) this bug about 20 minutes ago, but noticed that eventually synaptic did recover and become responsive again. On my (fairly underpowered) machine it took almost 10 minutes to recover. So perhaps this is not a hang at all but just an extremely slow sorting operation,