[Bug 140896] Re: Cron does send mails with wrong charset

2011-03-12 Thread foolishchild
Still there with 10.10 server -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140896 Title: Cron does send mails with wrong charset -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 102947] Re: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory

2011-02-07 Thread foolishchild
The fix is easy: - sudo aptitude purge maildrop - download the maildrop tar.bz2 from http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#maildrop - follow the install instructions - sudo aptitude install libpcre3-dev - ./configure - ./make - ./make install-strip - ./make install-doc - change

[Bug 585339] Re: parcellite does not display applet on gnome panel

2010-05-27 Thread foolishchild
Solved (sort of). All I had to do was mv ~/.gconf to ~/.gconf.old, and the problem disappeared. Now all I have to do is work out which of the million or so settings in .gconf was affecting it. -- parcellite does not display applet on gnome panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585339 You

[Bug 585339] [NEW] parcellite does not display applet on gnome panel

2010-05-25 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: parcellite 1. Install parcellite 0.9.2-1 on Lucid (sudo apt-get install parcellite) 2. Use it 3. Remove it (sudo apt-get purge parcellite 4. Install again (sudo apt-get install parcellite) 5. parcellite starts ok, but there is no indicator applet in the

[Bug 572100] [NEW] gnome-system-monitor does not show all processes

2010-04-30 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor On the processes tab of gnome-system-monitor, I don't see all processes. So I go to Edit, Preferences, Processes and tick User to see user names in the process list. The only processes listed are ones belonging to my userid. I then

[Bug 572100] Re: gnome-system-monitor does not show all processes

2010-04-30 Thread foolishchild
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46511063/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46511065/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46511067/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 139875] Re: [GUTSY] firefox crashed

2008-08-24 Thread foolishchild
To respond to Connor's request... Eventually the problem was solved when I found some fonts (Lucida Grande?) which did not have the read attribute. I think from memory something like sudo chmod +r /usr/local/share/fonts/* fixed it for me. So somehow I guess I installed some restricted fonts

[Bug 139875] Re: [GUTSY] firefox crashed

2007-10-30 Thread foolishchild
I think Bug #152609 is a duplicate, but it contains a work-around which worked for me: export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1, then run firefox. -- [GUTSY] firefox crashed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139875 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 139875] Re: [GUTSY] firefox crashed

2007-10-30 Thread foolishchild
And now I have traced my problem to extension firebug. Removed it, removed the MOZ_ work-around above, and now firefox is fine for me. Hope that helps somebody else. -- [GUTSY] firefox crashed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139875 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 115616] Re: Device-mapper errors: dm-linear, lookup failed

2007-10-29 Thread foolishchild
I had this problem. Thankfully I found this bug report. I did NOT choose not to remove obselete software - in fact I was careful to remove obselete software. I also made sure my feisty system was totally up to date before starting. My system has evolved from dapper drake thru edgy, eisty, gutsy,

[Bug 139875] Re: [GUTSY] firefox crashed

2007-10-29 Thread foolishchild
I think same problem. It's solid, whether in safemode or not. Doesn't happen if I sudo firefox. firefox -safemode (gecko:12885): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Lucida Grande 8.25' Segmentation fault (core dumped) I have run

[Bug 158106] pvmove cannot find physical volume

2007-10-28 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lvm2 I have a disk /dev/hda1 which is used by lvm as part of a volume group called 'Big'. I want to free the disk so I have pvcreated a new device /dev/hdb7, added it to the volume group 'Big', and now I want to move from hda1 to hdb7. I try 'sudo

[Bug 158106] Re: pvmove cannot find physical volume

2007-10-28 Thread foolishchild
Probably better close this. While tired I inadvertently did pvremove instead of pvmove, so I can't debug any further. Fortunately I had made a backup first ;-). -- pvmove cannot find physical volume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158106 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-16 Thread foolishchild
Sitsofe: I cannot recreate the problem any more. I just re-booted to 2.6.20-16-generic and it came up using nvidia-glx without a problem. Yesterday it was giving me API mismatch errors. I couldn't fix it in 2.6.20-16 so I reverted to 2.6.20-15 and did depmod and modprobe stuff, and probably

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-15 Thread foolishchild
Sitsofe: I used envy because this problem was already happening. So I thought I'd see if envy worked. It didn't. So I uninstalled it, with a little trouble, because it didn't clean up after itself without a little manual intervention. I am very familiar with the second link you gave me. It is

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-15 Thread foolishchild
Problem resolved by: remove all of linux-restricted-modules*, nvidia* with --purge install envy - use envy to install nvidia-glx - use envy to remove nvidia-glx - use envy to clean-up all ATI and Nvidia installations remove envy install linux-restricted-modules-generic* first, then install

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-14 Thread foolishchild
OK: Followed Alberto's suggestion. Results identical to before. Nothing in dmesg that looks relevant, can't modprobe nvidia (result was FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-386/volatile/nvidia.ko': No such file or directory FATAL: Error running install command for nvidia) ran depmod,

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-13 Thread foolishchild
Thanks for your help. What does Really punting from linux-restricted- modules-2.6.22 - linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 mean? I am running linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386. dpkg -l \*restricted\* | grep ii ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386 2.6.20.5-15.20 Non-free Linux 2.6.20

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-13 Thread foolishchild
dmesg | tail after reboot: [ 49.429327] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 50.923915] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4 [ 50.929040] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [ 50.965199] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5 [ 50.970293] ACPI: Power

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-13 Thread foolishchild
I've remembered another strange thing. I have kernel 2.6.20-16-386 but I can't persuade the nvidia module to work at all with that. Hence I'm using kernel 2.6.20-15-386. Is this a dup of 95956? I found Bug #108578 which looks somewhat similar. It pointed me to /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video, which

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-13 Thread foolishchild
$ sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386 is already the newest version. linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-15-386 set to manual installed.

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-13 Thread foolishchild
Is there a way I can remove EVERYTHING to do with this. I mean linux- restricted-modules, nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-common, any old crap left around by other installers (e.g. envy) and then reinstall a known working set of packages? That's what I was trying to do with sudo apt- get install

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-09 Thread foolishchild
You may be right (about support) but I think it is a bug, probably in the install information of one of the packages? Which one though? To answer your questions: I am running kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Is there a uname type command to show this? uname -a == Linux server0 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-09 Thread foolishchild
To continue answering, I attach the dmesg output after booting and Xserver not working ** Attachment added: nvidia.dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8742987/nvidia.dmesg -- nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130832 You received this bug

[Bug 130832] Re: nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-09 Thread foolishchild
And to continue answering I attach a file describing the steps I just took to gather this information, which includes answers to things like dpkg -l \*nvidia\* | grep ii... It's called nvidia.prob. In it you will see I believe the problem is that the nvidia module is not being properly

[Bug 130832] nvidia-glx installation is broken after reboot

2007-08-07 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nvidia-glx I am instaling nvidia drivers. To do so I do: sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common- -y which removes a load of xserver packages Then I do: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx -y and they all get installed again. sudo /etc/init.d/kdm

Re: [Bug 38538] Re: man pages suggest info pages that don't exist.

2007-05-05 Thread foolishchild
Good man Micah. I'm glad to see you are still on the case. Micah Cowan said the following on 04/05/07 22:18: Phillip posted the same query regarding dpkg's versus GNU's install-info to debian's dpkg discussion list (to which I also am subscribed), and I was delighted to see the response that

[Bug 55394] Re: cervisia fails to start libcvsservice0

2007-02-14 Thread foolishchild
Sorry - didn't notice your emails. Have retried and the error no longer occurs, so to close is probably correct. apt-show-versions libcvsservice0 ; apt-show-versions cvs libcvsservice0/edgy uptodate 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu1 cvs/edgy uptodate 1:1.12.13-3 As you see, edgy versions are different. --

[Bug 56734] Re: [Bug 56734] Re: Cannot bind \M-o to a new function

2006-08-18 Thread foolishchild
Micah Cowan said the following on 17/08/06 20:19: Confirmed problem. Actually, I am also unable to bind even \M-f usefully (no matter what I put in my .inputrc, it still does forward- word). Hi Micah, Do you vet every bug report? As you have so correctly indicated this is all because Iam

[Bug 56734] Cannot bind \M-o to a new function

2006-08-17 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libreadline5 Have put the following in .inputrc: \M-o: \C-p\C-a\M-f \M-s: menu-complete Neither the M-o or M-s keys do anything. Standard things like M-. and M-f work fine. Other customisations like \e[A: history-search-backward in the

[Bug 38538] Re: man pages suggest info pages that don't exist.

2006-08-11 Thread foolishchild
Local fix: a) just remember to type info coreutils ls when you really want to type info ls. Uugh. OR b) cd /usr/share/info sudo gunzip coreutils.info.gz sudo vim coreutils.info comment out (delete?) the first END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and secondSTART-INFO-DIR-ENTRY lines. I used ## as

[Bug 38538] Re: [Bug 38538] Re: man pages suggest info pages that don't exist.

2006-08-11 Thread foolishchild
Micah Cowan said the following on 11/08/06 12:09: Attached is a debdiff that implements the other solution (fixing the references in the manpages from info foo to info coreutils foo). The debdiff also includes a fix for bug #55991. Micah, thanks. But I prefer my solution :). I think the

[Bug 55897] info does not (always) display info pages

2006-08-10 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: coreutils If I type (in a terminal) e.g. info ls I expect to see the info documentation for ls. Instead I see the manpages documentation for ls. If I type info coreutils ls then I go to the correct node. So I guess there is a problem building

[Bug 55394] cervisia fails to start libcvsservice0

2006-08-06 Thread foolishchild
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cervisia 1) Install cervisia == install cvs 1.12.9, libcvsservice0 3.5.2, cervisia 3.5.2 2) Start cervisia in a terminal window. Receive error message Starting cvsservice failed with message: Could not find service 'cvsservice'. ** Affects: kdesdk