[Bug 1880405] Re: Unresponsive GUI and journal flooded with: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9

2021-05-23 Thread john reid
** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1880405 Title: Unresponsive GUI and journal flooded with: JS ERROR:

[Bug 1899361] Re: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken

2021-05-20 Thread john reid
Sorry should have been: smartctl -s on /dev/sdX. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899361 Title: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken To manage notifications

[Bug 1899361] Re: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken

2021-05-20 Thread john reid
This problem is still in 20.04.1, but appears to have been fixed in master udisk2, patching from 10 mins to 60 mins. https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/407#ref-commit-326b182 I assume this is in 21.x, but not available in LTS (?) As a workaround, you can turn off the smarts

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-31 Thread john reid
Rocko, Slightly OT I see a variety of behaviour., based on the disks. On 14.04 with the 30min polling patch: If you set the spindown to 15 mins and poll at 30, all of my disks spin down and stay down ( see list above). If you set the spindown to 5 and polling to 10, I have problems with the

[Bug 1317599] Re: Evince doesn't show fi-ligatures in a pdf file

2014-05-08 Thread John Reid
Happening in evince and xpdf for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317599 Title: Evince doesn't show fi-ligatures in a pdf file To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-02 Thread john reid
Can confirm that the SMART polling by udisk2 every 10 mins appears to reset the sleep timer on all of my disks: So all disks are kept awake by SMART polling where sleep timer 10 mins. As previously stated later WD disks have a minimum sleep timer of 10 mins ( hdparm -S120 /dev/sdx) defaults to

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-02 Thread john reid
--- udiskslinuxprovider.c 2014-05-02 13:54:46.826781083 +0100 +++ udiskslinuxprovider.c.30minpoll 2014-05-02 13:55:54.034178153 +0100 @@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ g_list_free_full (udisks_devices, g_object_unref); udisks_info (Initialization complete); - /* schedule housekeeping for

[Bug 1065196] Re: update-grub sets wrong kernel root for linux dual boot systems

2014-04-25 Thread john reid
Just updated to 14.04, dual booting 12.04 and 14.04 from diffrent disks, grub always sets root to same partition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065196 Title: update-grub sets wrong

[Bug 1065196] Re: update-grub sets wrong kernel root for linux dual boot systems

2014-04-25 Thread john reid
Ithink this is not a bug; further searching found https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686754#25 which explains the issue. If you have multiple grub.cfg files, one in each /boot, then the primary grub.cfg will populate its config for Other partitions from their grub.cfg. so if the

[Bug 1205214] [NEW] Banshee hangs on startup (MTP related?)

2013-07-26 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: When I start banshee, sometimes it hangs. I do killall -SIGQUIT banshee. I've attached the log file. ** Affects: banshee (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: banshee mtp ** Attachment added: Banshee log

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-20 Thread John Reid
I did run that command. If it happens again I'll make doubly sure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after crash To manage notifications about

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-19 Thread John Reid
Agreed the situation wouldn't be much better in terms of playing music but I think banshee's behaviour could be. At the moment Ubuntu appears not to work as I try to start banshee and nothing happens (not even an error message). Are there no system calls that can return errors instead of

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-19 Thread John Reid
I think better than rebooting might be unmounting the network share. I'll try that next time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after crash To

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-19 Thread John Reid
Here's the log you asked for. ** Attachment added: debug log as asked for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1196828/+attachment/3742400/+files/log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-18 Thread John Reid
Is it really solved though? Despite the problem being caused by a cifs/nfs error, banshee's behaviour is still quite bad. A GUI shouldn't really be unresponsive even if there are network problems behind the scenes. BTW I have been running using a NFS mount instead of CIFS mount for a few days now

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-16 Thread John Reid
Thanks for the pointers. I'm pretty convinced it happens when there is a problem with my network mounted filesystem (/etc/fstab): //192.168.1.74/music/mnt/htpc-music cifs noauto,credentials=/etc/samba/user,noexec,uid=john,gid=john 0 0 The advice in the noah.org article looks

[Bug 1201387] [NEW] Banshee crashes with locked database message

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: I was running banshee in debug mode when it crashed with a message about a locked databse. a john@W530$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 13.04 Release:13.04 Codename: raring john@W530$ dpkg -l |

[Bug 1201387] Re: Banshee crashes with locked database message

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
john@W530$ lsof ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME unity-mus 2969 john9u REG 252,1 45050880 401760 /home/john/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db banshee 25995 john9u REG 252,1 45050880 401760

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Banshee crashed again but the process didn't disappear. Here's the log for the banshee I'm trying to start. john@W530$ banshee --debug ** Running Mono with --debug ** [1 Debug 17:54:39.785] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue I've attached the log for

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Here is the current ps output: john@W530$ ps -ef|grep banshee john 2170 1711 0 17:58 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto banshee john 25995 15673 4 13:00 pts/700:14:35 [banshee] defunct -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Good point, I didn't check the output too closely. 15673 is the bash shell I started banshee from: ~/Downloads john@W530$ ps -ef|grep 15673 john 4724 4624 0 18:59 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto 15673 john 15673 10712 0 Jul09 pts/700:00:00 bash john 25995 15673 4 13:00

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Killing bash make the PPID 1 and banshee won't start ~/Downloads john@W530$ kill 15673 ~/Downloads john@W530$ kill -9 15673 ~/Downloads john@W530$ ps -ef|grep banshee john 6435 4624 0 20:04 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto banshee john 25995 1 3 13:00 ?00:14:35

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
OK I can try and kill bash but I'd like to know what to do when the parent is 1. That is the problem and forces me to reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-08 Thread John Reid
I see this on that link you provided: init can never have zombie children. From the wikipedia article: When a process loses its parent, init becomes its new parent. Init periodically executes the wait system call to reap any zombies with init as parent. One of init's responsibilities is reaping

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-04 Thread John Reid
See link to askubuntu question for ps output but I don't see what you can learn from that. I'm not sure it is a banshee bug either. Banshee is dead but why cannot I start another banshee process? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-02 Thread John Reid
Also see same question here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/315292/how- to-restart-banshee-after-crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after

[Bug 1196828] [NEW] Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-02 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: If banshee crashes the sound/audio system menu still shows it as available but nothing happens if I click on it. With ps I can see a defunct banshee process that cannot be removed. If I try to run banshee from the command line nothing happens. Restarting gdm and/or unity also

[Bug 1015358] Re: Duplicate playlists in Banshee

2012-10-10 Thread John Reid
This affects me as well. Banshee is great but this bug makes it very frustrating to use. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with libgpod 0.8.2-4 and banshee 2.4.1-3. There is this mailing list post about it: http://banshee-media-player.2283330.n4.nabble.com/Banshee-Creates-

[Bug 992486] [NEW] xpdf crashes opening document

2012-05-01 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: john@john-dell:~/Writing/Phd/thesis$ xpdf thesis.pdf * MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89 * CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89 * Rotate = 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 g 0 G 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 BT Tf /F15 17.2154 font: tag=F15

[Bug 992486] Re: xpdf crashes opening document

2012-05-01 Thread John Reid
This only started to happen after an upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992486 Title: xpdf crashes opening document To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 276472] Re: cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error

2010-08-14 Thread john reid
Surbhi, Fix works for me. I haven't done extensive testing, so don't know if it breaks anything else, but the permissions problem is fixed. excellent ! -- cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276472 You

[Bug 276472] Re: cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error

2010-08-14 Thread john reid
Surbhi, Fix works for me. I haven't done extensive testing, so don't know if it breaks anything else, but the permissions problem is fixed. excellent ! -- cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276472 You

[Bug 276831] Re: Thunderbird crashes with Segmentation Fault, debug log shows failed creating protocol instance to play queued url, trying to download headers from Dovecot IMAP server

2009-07-29 Thread John Reid
I'm getting the same as David Kaplan. -- Thunderbird crashes with Segmentation Fault, debug log shows failed creating protocol instance to play queued url, trying to download headers from Dovecot IMAP server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276831 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-12-15 Thread john reid
For me, it is only the first adduser command that fails. If I comment out the first, then the others do not cause a problem. -- MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295592 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-12 Thread john reid
I replied to your original suggestion by mail, probably the wrong protocol. after adding set -x etting up mythtv-common (0.21.0+fixes18722-0ubuntu1) ... + case $1 in + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec

[Bug 295592] [NEW] MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-08 Thread john reid
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythtv INSTALL OF mythbuntu-control-centre. Appears to work, but continually fails to configure mythtv-common, and all therefore all dependent packages. Setting up mythtv-common (0.21.0+fixes18722-0ubuntu1) ... dpkg: error processing mythtv-common

[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-08 Thread john reid
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19490155/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19490156/DpkgTerminalLog.gz -- MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1