[Bug 1243806] Re: The names column has its width dictated by other columns

2014-10-20 Thread floid
@Sebastien Bacher: Awesome, thanks! From the timing I guess that landed between visiting Launchpad and finishing typing. (Obviously got all that from your link to the GNOME bug just prior but I wasn't sure how much activity that indicated.) Now to actually try it out after work... :) -- You

[Bug 1243806] Re: The names column has its width dictated by other columns

2014-10-20 Thread floid
Oof. Well, glad someone may be addressing it - kudos and all love to Carlos Soriano, it appears? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732004#c3 Apparently it's a simple one-liner: https://bug732004.bugzilla- attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=284244 ...that won't be in upstream until

[Bug 1243806] Re: The names column has its width dictated by other columns

2014-10-18 Thread floid
re: my #38 above: Those screenshots accidentally expose another funny behavior - yes, when the yellow 'tip' appears at the bottom of the window it does at least tell you about the individual file that's been highlighted. Apparently in the contrived case of a window that small (felt like fitting bo

[Bug 1243806] Re: The names column has its width dictated by other columns

2014-10-18 Thread floid
Does this mean it's fixed or someone just pushed the "ignore pesky users" button again? I see no new Nautilus updates since last week. Does this mean 14.10's version will be improved? The 14.04 examples in the attachment are a bit forced with non-sensitive data from my home machine, but when you

[Bug 932834] Re: Enable equalizer

2014-09-24 Thread floid
It's not clear what themuso was referring to back in 2012, but as nevion alluded to above, qpaeq is 'just' a Python program. It's the GUI required (absent equivalent software) for the end-user to do something useful with the capability exposed by the modules (which do come stock, but aren't load

[Bug 1205055] Re: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view

2014-04-07 Thread floid
Trash issue in #11 and #12 reproduces with 13.10 (64-bit also) here as well. [Anybody else have my "'Modified' column header doesn't always accept mouseclicks to sort" issue? Starting from Trash, which activates the "Location" column in new tabs within that window is actually a pretty good workar

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2014-01-08 Thread floid
As a parting comment, this was awful enough and lasted long enough that I was forced to drop 6450s in the affected hardware, so I don't know if any of that was resolved. I will note the following for those in the same boat: a) Dropping in Radeon 6450s did solve it and they were "only" $30 or so w

[Bug 1205055] Re: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view

2014-01-07 Thread floid
Hmm. I just experimented with your problem here and notice that if the window is not wide enough in list view, you cannot stretch the contents of the Name field past the Questions: Do you get the double arrow "<->" cursor when you hover over the | divider between the "Name" and Size" fields? If

[Bug 1205055] Re: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view

2014-01-07 Thread floid
You may also want to try installing XFCE's Thunar which appears to have similar scrollbar behavior to old Nautilus. This will probably pull in a large bunch of XFCE dependencies but if you have the disk space that should be okay; then just add it to your dock as an alternative file browser. (If t

[Bug 1244806] Re: Libre outline numbering presets corrupt after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-26 Thread floid
Extensions: Only the "Presentation Minimizer" that seems to have been included by default. I'm a little loathe to do a full deinstall/reinstall of the packages just yet (employer would prefer I get some writing done in between filing bugs) but while the homedirs and their cruft have been copied s

[Bug 1244806] ProcEnviron.txt

2013-11-26 Thread floid
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244806/+attachment/3917743/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244806

[Bug 1244806] Re: Libre outline numbering presets corrupt after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-26 Thread floid
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected saucy ** Description changed: Upgrading from Ubuntu 64-bit 13.04 to 13.10 resulted in the attached mess for the "Outline" presets for Bullets and Numbering in LibreOffice (Version: 4.1.2.3 Build ID: 410m0(Build:3)). - Noticed when force

[Bug 1205055] Re: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view

2013-11-26 Thread floid
At risk of making this another "miscellaneous complaints" bug, but it appears there is yet another intermittent issue where "cut and paste" moving of files ceases to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1174611] Re: tessaract ocr no longer available in gscan2pdf

2013-11-26 Thread floid
Sorry I missed responding to the request for more info. The aside about page definitions seems to have been long-since cured in the 1.1.3 in the Ubuntu 13.10 repos at least. Using libsane-perl, no less. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1253448] Re: Papercut: Visual diff - "Replace your changes" shows someone else's "Changes"

2013-11-20 Thread floid
[Attachment: In this case, the changes necessary to make acroread work by default cause the system to forever more ask the user which foot they'd like to be shot in.] ** Attachment added: "Would you like a system that recognizes PDFs or not?" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/

[Bug 1253448] [NEW] Papercut: Visual diff - "Replace your changes" shows someone else's "Changes"

2013-11-20 Thread floid
Public bug reported: The brittleness of "/etc/gnome/defaults.list" should be another bug*, but happens to show up a more basic problem with ambiguity in the "helpful" visual diff dialog. The software asks the user whether it should be allowed to: "Replace your changes in '[file]' with a later ve

[Bug 1244806] [NEW] Libre outline numbering presets corrupt after upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10

2013-10-25 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Upgrading from Ubuntu 64-bit 13.04 to 13.10 resulted in the attached mess for the "Outline" presets for Bullets and Numbering in LibreOffice (Version: 4.1.2.3 Build ID: 410m0(Build:3)). Noticed when forced to hand-renumber an imported .DOCX (saved to .ODT) because the font fo

[Bug 1205055] Re: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view

2013-10-25 Thread floid
Resizing columns doesn't seem to be a problem for me with Nautilus 3.8.2 on 13.10 x86-64 as just released (for the Name and Size fields - Type and Modified are apparently 'wide enough' and not adjustable), but I'm experiencing something potentially related: Intermittently, the "Type" and "Modified

[Bug 1209326] Re: calculator fails to do proper calculatoins after CTRL+Z and Enter

2013-09-18 Thread floid
Glad I'm not crazy. Recorded what I thought were steps to reproduce with gnome-calculator 1:3.8.1-0ubuntu1: Enter: 5994.34 * .50 see 5994.34 x .50 displayed hit enter result: 2997.17 ^Z undo see 5994.34 x .50 displayed hit enter result: 1498.585 ^Z undo see 5994.34 x .50 displayed hit enter

[Bug 1174611] Re: tessaract ocr no longer available in gscan2pdf

2013-06-19 Thread floid
As a headsup for others, 1.1.3 from PPA solves this but seems to have some work-in-progress quirks re: using scanning backends other than libsane-perl. In plain English this means you regain OCR but may lose access to some convenient page size definitions etc. if, say, scanimage worked more seamle

[Bug 1187969] Re: uninstalling fglrx results in unknown bad state

2013-06-10 Thread floid
Well, that's a simpler description and the detail's in the comment anyway, but I had no way of knowing if the GUI approach might be touching anything in the 'alternatives' system or thereabouts different from direct apt manipulation. Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist in solving, m

[Bug 1187969] [NEW] 13.04: Reverting from fglrx in Additional Drivers results in unknown bad state

2013-06-05 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Dropped in a Diamond-branded Radeon 6450 card today to work around LP #1181355 - the default open-source Xorg radeon driver was working flawlessly until I switched to fglrx-updates and then attempted to switch back, all through the settings UI. Possibly I made the mistake of

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-06-03 Thread floid
Testing suggesting it's not very application-dependent: 1. With Libre started and 'flickering' occurring, kill -9 it and make sure it's dead; flickering persists while using Firefox. 2. From that state, conduct 'change mode and revert' workaround: flickering stops and does not recur after resta

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-06-03 Thread floid
Per multiple re-edits just now, whups, starting LibreOffice with a few documents open from autorecovery and maximizing a window has started it up without the monitor having gone to sleep since booting. Will try to pay attention and report if this puzzler is connected to Libre somehow - I'm never n

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-06-03 Thread floid
Reviewing state and this bug after wondering why the system wasn't flickering after a reboot, I am reminded that entering and leaving monitor sleep seems to be prerequisite to reproducing the issue. So every boot is fine until the monitor goes to sleep, and disabling it would be a workaround. **

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-24 Thread floid
It appears I was confused and most recent testing _did_ happen in the same session post-reboot, see timestamps in log snippet below; The bug recurs after the display goes to DPMS standby/sleep. It also appears the "display corruption on switching modes" occurs after the display has its first (or

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-24 Thread floid
Workaround seems reproducible after a reboot, although switch to 1280x720 actually produced a working mode this time. (Rebooted to install updates available as of about 0400 UTC 2013-05-24 which contained some things tangentially related to udev, nothing that seemed likely to have graphics impact?

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-23 Thread floid
A possible temporary workaround after discovering the issue persists through a warm boot not starting VMWare Player, which I temporarily suspected - only been testing for about 5 minutes here: Used "Displays" to set 1280x720 instead of 1920x1080. Display becomes a horrible corrupt mess of offset

[Bug 1182655] Re: Samba printers are missing after reboot until smbd is restarted

2013-05-21 Thread floid
Noticed today as well on 13.04 (64-bit). The "reload-smbd" upstart script already exists to handle this per the prior bugs, but apparently something's still racing. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213 Nov 23 08:55 /etc/init/reload-smbd.conf smbd.log appears to suggest that the reload isn't happening (boo

[Bug 1182655] Re: Samba printers are missing after reboot until smbd is restarted

2013-05-21 Thread floid
** Tags added: raring -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1182655 Title: Samba printers are missing after reboot until smbd is restarted To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-17 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "Earlier frame from video while typing into LibreOffice" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1181355/+attachment/3679735/+files/Screenshot%20from%202013-05-17%2014%3A54%3A21.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1181355] Re: R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-17 Thread floid
After catching it in the act with my phone camera, the glitch seems prone to reusing more recognizable content today - this is my desktop background (although there's a pile of icon-litter on top of it in normal circumstances) offset and possibly tinted a bit. Also seeing more non-vertically-align

[Bug 1181355] [NEW] R300 (RS480): Intermittent flickering corruption top half of display (VGA, 1080p)

2013-05-17 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Any suggestions where to start welcome: Compaq SR1611NX desktop, "Radeon Xpress 200" RS480 (R300) graphics. HP LV2311 LCD connected via VGA because that's the only output on this hardware. The VGA output used to be a little "less than perfectly stable" with older X.org (ver

[Bug 1176475] Re: 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-13 Thread floid
As came up while trying to figure out where the U1 Music Store went (apparent answers after much screen-scraping: gone from Rhythmbox, not in The Store, moved into Dash which really just opens a link in Firefox, correct me in private if I'm wrong?), the "Cloud Indicator" is also missing. Some web-

[Bug 1176475] Re: 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-04 Thread floid
apt-term.log hidden as single manual attachment permitted in first wad of telemetry attached by running ubuntu-bug against update-manager (probably entirely uselessly but I'm still getting used to being redirected to ubuntu-bug to report issues). term.log empty and lspci.txt unlikely to be interes

[Bug 1176475] Re: 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-04 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "apt.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1176475/+attachment/3665444/+files/apt.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176475 Title:

[Bug 1176475] Re: 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-04 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "history.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1176475/+attachment/3665443/+files/history.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176475

[Bug 1176475] Re: 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-04 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "main.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1176475/+attachment/3665442/+files/main.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176475 Titl

[Bug 1176475] [NEW] 13.04 amd64: Packages missing on upgrade: activity-log-manager-control-center, gnome-control-center-signon, gnome-control-center-unity

2013-05-04 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Sat through an uneventful update-manager upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 on amd64 recently - only to find that at least the following packages were absent after the upgrade: gnome-control-center-unity [provides Appearance settings panel] activity-log-manager-control-center [prov

[Bug 1098561] Re: "Unsupported hardware" watermark appears when FGLRX is installed on 13.04

2013-05-01 Thread floid
Also seen in the release with: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device 2311 (ID 1787:2311. Believe it's a Powercolor-branded card.) Switching to fglr

[Bug 1171979] [NEW] Ambiance vs. acroread (Adobe Reader): Unreadable tabs

2013-04-23 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Screenshot attached is worth a thousand words. Radiance is, of course, a fix, but this has been present for a while and is a wart on the default theme. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: ubuntu-artwork 58 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46-generic 3.

[Bug 897786] Re: Kernel is dropping non-PAE flavour

2013-03-30 Thread floid
@Chris Bainbridge re comment #31: > but I haven't seen any reports of PAE kernel failing to boot on Pentium M. Does this go for Banias as well as Dothan Pentium Ms? My understanding is that Dothan actually supports PAE but was potentially crippled-by- chipset (but if so does that really touch cp

[Bug 1101374] Re: Can't add new location

2013-01-22 Thread floid
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 821233 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821233 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1090890 weather applet crashes when you add a locality ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 821233 indicator-weather crashed with AttributeError in e

[Bug 1101374] Re: Can't add new location

2013-01-22 Thread floid
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1090890 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090890 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1094676 fails to parse Yahoo response -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1101374] Re: Can't add new location

2013-01-22 Thread floid
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1090890 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090890 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1094676 fails to parse Yahoo response ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1090890 weather applet crashes when you add a locality -- You received

[Bug 1087555] Re: Pidgin segfaults Metacity using unity-2d in 12.04 due to liboverlay-scrollbar

2012-12-16 Thread floid
After somehow forgetting about this, I now note the place to stick the 'patch' override is /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop, making the Exec line: Exec=LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 pidgin Sadly the whole Unity/Dash morass made it a bit difficult to track that down (and this even for someone well

[Bug 1087555] [NEW] Pidgin segfaults Metacity using unity-2d in 12.04 due to liboverlay-scrollbar

2012-12-06 Thread floid
th long uptime being stressed by whatever ridiculous thing X.org is being asked to do until it realizes it can't. floid@miscreant:~$ pidgin -d (22:44:06) prefs: Reading /home/floid/.purple/prefs.xml (22:44:06) prefs: Finished reading /home/floid/.purple/prefs.xml (22:44:06) prefs: purple_pre

[Bug 1066294] Re: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-10-24 Thread floid
@alpha1: I'm just another vaguely-confused "end user" like you; as far as I can tell there should be "no reason" for the kernel to *demand* PAE aside from Ubuntu apparently wanting to make sure all their users have W^X protections (given Ubuntu's popularity among distributions, that's a fair point,

[Bug 1069063] Re: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-10-23 Thread floid
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1066294 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069063 Title: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to insta

[Bug 1066294] Re: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-10-20 Thread floid
Sorry, per #3 [thanks vilbara, wish I'd actually read your comment first!], it looks like xubuntu and lubuntu were workarounds for the initial "PAE-free" release of 12.04, but have already inherited the PAE requirement from mainline Ubuntu for 12.10, so... the 'grace period' offered by those distri

[Bug 1066294] Re: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-10-20 Thread floid
I hope this isn't just a me-too, but I want to add that I'm amazed that I somehow lived through both 12.04 (and the 12.10 upgrade process) completely oblivious to the fact that PAE had become 'temporarily requisite' for 12.04 at launch and now definitely requisite for 12.10 absent 'unsupported' hac

[Bug 1055766] Re: grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon

2012-10-18 Thread floid
re: #35 - could this overlay functionality be used to present automatically-updating context-sensitive QR codes? Then a user poking through a source tree would simply have to point a smartphone at the screen to purchase a license to Visual Studio 2012. -- You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 827193] Re: Asus M3A78-EM / Realtek ALC1200 - output selection SNAFU

2011-08-16 Thread floid
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827193 Title: Asus M3A78-EM / Realtek ALC1200 - output selection SNAFU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+

[Bug 827193] [NEW] Asus M3A78-EM / Realtek ALC1200 - output selection SNAFU

2011-08-16 Thread floid
ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: floid 2104 F pulsea

[Bug 368679] Re: wifi module rtl8180 freezes the system

2011-06-27 Thread floid
Does pcie_aspm=off as described in #21 do anything in systems that predate PCI-E? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368679 Title: wifi module rtl8180 freezes the system To manage notifi

[Bug 768357] Re: Natty: Suspend bug(s) on Dell D600 as of 2011-04-21

2011-04-21 Thread floid
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768357 Title: Natty: Suspend bug(s) on Dell D600 as of 2011-04-21 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

[Bug 768357] [NEW] Natty: Suspend bug(s) on Dell D600 as of 2011-04-21

2011-04-21 Thread floid
USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: floid 1315 F pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with STAC9750,51 at irq 5' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9750,51' Compo

[Bug 616097] Re: Dell D600 + RTL8185L = livecd boot hang through 11.04a3

2011-03-20 Thread floid
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 368679 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368679 With some sleep, blacklisting rtl8180 is obviously the short-term workaround, and this is a dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/368679 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 3

[Bug 616097] Re: Dell D600 + RTL8185L = livecd boot hang through 11.04a3

2011-03-18 Thread floid
Popping the card back into a happily installed system results in a freeze somewhere just after the Radeon drm initializes and: "* Starting AppArmor profiles"; "Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox [ OK ]". Thoughts on how to proceed will be appreciated. -- You received

[Bug 616097] Re: Dell D600 - 10.04, 10.10 boot hang (livecd)

2011-03-18 Thread floid
I'm chagrined to report that this continued to be a problem with 11.04 Alpha 3, but removing the third-party-surplus-sourced "Arima"-branded RTL8185L wireless card allows the installer to boot flawlessly. Obviously this is suboptimal for those who manage to have that hardware present and don't wan

[Bug 624043] Re: Avahi needs to be restarted after boot to broadcast netatalk services

2011-03-15 Thread floid
[To clarify *my* issue and discovery: random loss of avahi / mDNS *after boot* was determined to be due to the duplicate scripts competing in absurd ways. This may not have anything to do with a separate race with netatalk, but I found this bug based on the SIGTERM logged in https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 624043] Re: Avahi needs to be restarted after boot to broadcast netatalk services

2011-03-15 Thread floid
This may or may not relate to this bug, and may or may not be the workaround, but recently [and only recently] became a recurring issue after accepting some updates on 9.10 machines. Musing on the source for that mysterious SIGTERM revealed duplicate up/down scripts for dhclient: in /etc/dhcp3/dh

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-10-30 Thread floid
@Ton van Vliet: I'm not in charge and barely know who is. Since it hasn't been backported yet [as far as I know - I think my 10.04 machines are demanding another reboot after auto-updates], ignoring the messages is certainly one option. Not to grouse about it [since I've gotten used to it] but t

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-10-29 Thread floid
@Ton van Vliet: See #20 for a "by hand" patch for the actual problem - thanks to Frank Larimer for identifying it there. This or an equivalent made it into 10.10's kernel as described in my #22, so 10.10 is the lazy option if you want to upgrade. [Do I read it right: The MS compiler generates co

[Bug 616097] Re: Dell D600 - 10.04 boot hang (livecd/post-install)

2010-10-05 Thread floid
Fails in a similar way at a similar point with the daily: maverick-desktop-i386.iso05-Oct-2010 09:15 693M Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download) Particularly, still makes it exactly to "* Pulseaudio configured for per-user sessions" with all 'dangerous' options turn

[Bug 616097] Re: Dell D600 - 10.04 boot hang (livecd/post-install)

2010-10-05 Thread floid
** Description changed: - This is being somewhat annoying to track down, so I'm posting with the - minimal information I have in case there's a quick, known fix -- or, - vexingly, if it helps confirm I'm the only person in the world who can - reproduce this problem, since there seem to be other us

[Bug 653388] Re: 10.10 RC: serial8250: too much work for irq (Motorola SM56 modem, RS480, SB400)

2010-10-04 Thread floid
Confirmed behavior: On the machine that was warm-booted into i386 10.10 RC and back to 9.10, 9.10 with i386 2.6.31-22-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP does generate the noise from timestamps ~ 20 to 67 at boot. I haven't bothered checking to make sure it goes away from a cold boot - it's hardly a big d

[Bug 653388] Re: 10.10 RC: serial8250: too much work for irq (Motorola SM56 modem, RS480, SB400)

2010-10-02 Thread floid
Trouble with bug-reporting towards local midnight: "I lied" in a couple important ways: 1. I noticed this because it was *continually* flooding dmesg in my first boot into 10.10 RC; the halt of the messages at [ 335.695389] was seen on a later boot, and suggests this is an intermittent issue; 2.

[Bug 653388] Re: 10.10 RC: serial8250: too much work for irq (Motorola SM56 modem, RS480, SB400)

2010-10-01 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "AcpiTables.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653388/+attachment/1665334/+files/AcpiTables.txt ** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653388/+attachment/1665335/+files/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http

[Bug 653388] [NEW] 10.10 RC: serial8250: too much work for irq (Motorola SM56 modem, RS480, SB400)

2010-10-01 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Previous attempt to file resulted in a Launchpad timeout and lost screed, so here's the "talk-like-the-Micro-Machines-guy" version: 10.10 RC i386 Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux dmesg clogs with: [ 326.566996] seria

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-10-01 Thread floid
To my delight, this does appear fixed with: Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux using the current 10.10 RC desktop CD (i386). I assume the patch referenced in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704/comments/18 landed? Un

[Bug 630410] Re: Printer properties: Improve "Test Page" "Self Test Page" documentation

2010-09-04 Thread floid
Before I got lost in the wilderness, I wanted to communicate that the 'tip' or expanded documentation for the "Print Self-Test Page" button should ideally communicate: "This sends a Postscript script to generate a test page directly to the printer. It is meant for Postscript printers, but may con

[Bug 630410] [NEW] Printer properties: Improve "Test Page" "Self Test Page" documentation

2010-09-04 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: system-config-printer Using system-config-printer 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04LTS, I recently discovered the true difference behind the "Print Test Page" and "Print Self-Test Page" buttons in a printer's properties dialog. "Print Test Page" appears to push the

[Bug 433438] Re: device descriptor read/64, error -110

2010-08-21 Thread floid
I just noticed this 'regression?' on a 32-bit system running the prior 2.6.32.23 [meaning, I observed 'whups, it's broken again' on a machine that had been running that kernel for days or weeks] and an update to 2.6.32.24.25 did not immediately resolve it. The majority of USB devices, including th

[Bug 616097] [NEW] Dell D600 - 10.04 boot hang (livecd/post-install)

2010-08-10 Thread floid
Public bug reported: This is being somewhat annoying to track down, so I'm posting with the minimal information I have in case there's a quick, known fix -- or, vexingly, if it helps confirm I'm the only person in the world who can reproduce this problem, since there seem to be other users describ

[Bug 595650] Re: After the last updates HP printer stopped working

2010-07-14 Thread floid
It's fairly common to have the "legacy" or "stable" branch of a library installed concurrently with its current or development branch. This generally indicates that the interface [is assumed to have] changed between libusb-0.1 and libusb-1.0 such that consumers of the former can't just relink agai

[Bug 595650] Re: After the last updates HP printer stopped working

2010-07-14 Thread floid
@Cesare Mastroianni: Regarding the double-sided printing trouble, have you confirmed you are using the same version of hplip as before the update that gave you the troublesome libusb (check /var/log/apt/history.log for what else was installed in the update that gave you libusb-0.1-4 0.1.12-14ubunt

[Bug 595650] Re: After the last updates HP printer stopped working

2010-07-13 Thread floid
@Cesare Mastroianni: Try specifying "libusb-0.1-4" rather than "libusb". Upstream http://www.libusb.org/ gives some background for that naming convention [it should be possible to install the "legacy" libusb-0.1-4 and "stable" libusb-1.0-0 concurrently if you ever need to], though why the "-4" be

[Bug 595650] Re: After the last updates HP printer stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread floid
@Till Kamppeter: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gscan2pdf/+bug/602560 It takes "this bug" to trigger that behavior in gscan2pdf, and without realizing the cause it made scanning "look" broken after backing out the bad libusb. So worth documenting here while reporting there. :) -- Aft

[Bug 602560] Re: device-dependent options cache inobvious

2010-07-06 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "Screenshot with corrupt cache. "Did scanimage break?" Nope, it's the cache!" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51497930/Screenshot-Scan%20Document.png -- device-dependent options cache inobvious https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602560 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 602560] Re: device-dependent options cache inobvious

2010-07-06 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "bad_cache-.gscan2pdf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51497914/bad_cache-.gscan2pdf -- device-dependent options cache inobvious https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602560 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 602560] [NEW] device-dependent options cache inobvious

2010-07-06 Thread floid
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gscan2pdf As described over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/595650/comments/43 and observed with gscan2pdf-0.9.29-1ubuntu1 Under certain conditions [#595650], the device-dependent options cache can become corrupt [for a particular combination of

[Bug 595650] Re: After the last updates HP printer stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread floid
Tangentially related to this: If gscan2pdf suddenly refuses to show any "device-dependent options" (such as DPI or color vs. grayscale mode) for the scanner on your multifunction [perhaps due to this bug or side- effects of attempts to correct it], use the "Clear device-dependent options cache" fe

[Bug 595650] Re: after the last updates printer stopped working

2010-07-04 Thread floid
@Johan Stenlund, and anyone else stymied, the incantation you are looking for is: aptitude forbid-version libusb-0.1-4=2:0.1.12-14ubuntu0 (Or use apt-get's same 'downgrade' feature directly.) It would also help [me] to remember that /var/log/apt/history.log exists when trying to recover from a b

[Bug 495648] Re: Karmic / 9.10: Automagic printing of legal, letter, multiple size pages to PostScript printer fails (Regression from 8.04)

2010-05-20 Thread floid
Automatic notification, manual comment: I'm holding off on upgrading those machines until I have a moment to breathe, so I can't comment at the moment but will report back when I've had the chance. -- Karmic / 9.10: Automagic printing of legal, letter, multiple size pages to PostScript printer

[Bug 570087] Re: Canon camera not auto mounted by gphoto2 backend, manually accessing gphoto2://[usb:id] works though

2010-05-01 Thread floid
I thought I was bitten by this, but discovered I was affected by LP#544994 instead (Rhythmbox improperly trying to open USB PTP camera). This might be a different issue, but since it was very inobvious, make sure Rhythmbox is not running when testing. -- Canon camera not auto mounted by gphoto2 b

[Bug 544994] Re: the rhythmbox mtp code hijacks cameras

2010-05-01 Thread floid
If it was fixed in 0.12.8-0ubuntu2 it's now regressed in 0.12.8-0ubuntu3 on my fresh Lucid upgrade. lsof snippet: gvfs-gpho 6062 floid 13u CHR189,146 0t02544556 /dev/bus/usb/002/019 ... rhythmbox 6244 floid 43u CHR189,146

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-04-28 Thread floid
I did some scraping around after my last comment and determined that the closest thing to a proper venue 'upstream' would be http://acpica.org/bugzilla/ , but someone ought to do due-diligence and make sure the collateral issues in #7 here aren't magically resolved in their bleeding-edge code first

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-04-24 Thread floid
As I found above, it's a simple and silly type error, but the more thorny fatal incompatibility between recent iasl and the original code is beyond my familiarities. Running the simple patch through the Microsoft compiler would probably do the trick, but it would take someone with a bit more famil

[Bug 444235] Re: [6.311772] ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus [0b00-0xb07] conflicts with region SOR1 [0xb00-0xb0f] on KUBUNTU Karmic boot

2010-02-07 Thread floid
Aside from any more obvious lmsensors breakage, the inability to load piix4_smbus blocks the ability to use `decode-dimms` from i2ctools on these AMD systems, which is annoying. -- [6.311772] ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus [0b00-0xb07] conflicts with region SOR1 [0xb00-0xb0f] on KUBUNTU Karmic b

[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System > Administration do not work with sudo

2010-02-06 Thread floid
Thought I'd heard something about this and was glad to find the background here. I was reminded while catching both the punt-users-on-shutdown-warning and "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" applet being smart enough to ask for the password for the local superuser while e.g. Synaptic still doesn't. I

[Bug 108623] Re: totem isn't buffering correctly

2010-01-31 Thread floid
Observed annoying with totem-gstreamer 2.28.2-0ubuntu3, whether in the browser plugin or natively in Totem. I haven't fiddled with any of the gconf settings, I did go in and tell Totem I have "1.5Mbps T1/Intranet/LAN" (which is true, 1.5mbit/s AT&T DSL - though that does mean it craps out just shy

[Bug 475704] Re: Karmic desktop livecd constant kernel ACPI exception messages: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] 20090521 evregion-424

2010-01-30 Thread floid
Hmm. Happened to be at the machine when I saw the last comment, so I decided to poke at it. Attempting to recompile my SR1611NX DSDT with iasl (note that the -dc option doesn't seem to be working as advertised, but simply running `iasl DSDT.dsl` works at the expense of obliterating the contents

[Bug 433817] Re: Gnome hang

2010-01-25 Thread floid
This is an annoyance and can also occur with gnome-panel alone (I am not a Gnome Do user, but just got into a 'stuck' drag situation accidentally dragging from Nautilus to the Window List or vice-versa). At least, I assume gnome-panel is part of the problem, but killing both Nautilus and it failed

[Bug 509079] Re: nautilus has tabs on bottom

2010-01-18 Thread floid
This is intentional from the Nautilus crew: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/01/ubuntu-1004-alpha-2-brings-pitivi-panel-changes.ars I'll chime in because I agree it's a bit gratuitously different and likely to confuse users who have managed to get familiar with browser tabs. It wou

[Bug 259513] Re: SB600 w/legacy floppy still a problem - start at LP comment #6

2010-01-18 Thread floid
Found edit->delete, so the attachments in LP are the correct ones only. Sorry about the noise. -- SB600 w/legacy floppy still a problem - start at LP comment #6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 259513] XsessionErrors.txt

2010-01-18 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027935/XsessionErrors.txt ** Attachment removed: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027622/XsessionErrors.txt ** Attachment removed: "WifiSyslog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027620/WifiSy

[Bug 259513] WifiSyslog.txt

2010-01-18 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027934/WifiSyslog.txt -- SB600 w/legacy floppy still a problem - start at LP comment #6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 259513] UdevLog.txt

2010-01-18 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "UdevLog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027932/UdevLog.txt -- SB600 w/legacy floppy still a problem - start at LP comment #6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 259513] UdevDb.txt

2010-01-18 Thread floid
** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38027927/UdevDb.txt -- SB600 w/legacy floppy still a problem - start at LP comment #6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

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