[Bug 251443] Re: keyboard layout switching shortcuts like Alt+Alt do not work anymore

2008-09-20 Thread mnemo
I just updated to 8.10 alpha, for me not even normal ALT-TAB works. Seems like ALT is not acting like a proper modifier key for me, instead when I press TAB while holding ALT is just acts like I pressed TAB without holding ALT. This might not be related to this bug though. I use ATI with radeon

[Bug 271831] [NEW] ldconfig should check immediately on startup whether it can write to /etc/* or not

2008-09-18 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Very often I run ldconfig and I wait a long long time only to tell me that it can't write to /etc/something This is my own fault because I forgot to write sudo in front of the ldconfig and that's fine. However, ldconfig should not do all the work first and then check if

[Bug 271831] Re: ldconfig should check immediately on startup whether it can write to /etc/* or not

2008-09-18 Thread mnemo
The is the current behavior (unfortunate it can take 20 seconds before the error appears and I still have to wait yet another 20 seconds when I rerun ldconfig as root): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/xcb/xcb-util$ ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~:

[Bug 269934] Re: application icons are faded and hard to distinguish

2008-09-14 Thread mnemo
I agree with the bug reported, I've been thinking many times about filing such a bug report myself. While it's also useful to have less emphasize on minimized icons I think the current visualization of minimized icons are just too hard to distinguish because they are too much faded to gray. I

[Bug 270036] [NEW] autogen.sh/configure workflow improvement

2008-09-14 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: While trying to build different free software packages, every time I want to build a completely new code base I go through this tedious process where I run configure or autogen.sh, it then tells me I need package abc, so then I install package abc and finally I try running

[Bug 270038] [NEW] autogen.sh/configure prints the wrong name for dependency packages

2008-09-14 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: I was just trying to build nemiver from svn. I ran autogen.sh and then it said package libgtop-2.0 is missing. My first gut reaction was to try sudo apt-get install libgtop-2.0-dev but that did not work. Instead I had to use apt-cache to find out that the name is actually

[Bug 154870] Re: ubuntu asks for login for non-password protected windows share

2008-09-11 Thread mnemo
Too bad it took 11 months to ask that question because at this point I don't even have the Windows box left. This is too bad because the likelyhood that this bug will be fixed is now significantly lowered. On the upside, the reason why I no longer got the Windows box is because I removed Windows

[Bug 267885] [NEW] [needs-packaging] Games Heretic and Hexen are now GPL

2008-09-08 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Raven Software have now released the source code to these games as GPL. More information available here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=864305 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: needs-packaging --

[Bug 155493] Re: Black borders around the part of each window which hovers above a movie

2008-08-24 Thread mnemo
FYI: The screenshot attached originally doesn't show the bug because due to another bug the contexts of the overlay video surface is apparently not captured in the screenshot. Anyway, I no longer see the black border around windows that are placed so that they slightly overlap the video surface

[Bug 101943] Re: braid and other screensavers lock up system when compiz activated [-intel, -nvidia]

2008-08-12 Thread mnemo
I installed xscreensaver-data-extra activated desktop effects and tried braid. I can confirm that this issue affects both the ATI proprietary and the Intel open source driver. On my desktop box I see a lockup directly when I select braid in the list (X.org doesn't even redraw my conky CPU load

[Bug 234768] Re: Xorg crashes w/ failed assert in bm_fake_NotifyContendedLockTake, with high CPU usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-08-05 Thread mnemo
Today I got a new version (2:2.2.1-1ubuntu13.6) of the intel driver and also the intel-dbg package and so I decided to see if this bug still exists. The bug is still easily reproducible unfortunately. However, to my delight the new dbg package seems to provide a much better stacktrace (now I also

[Bug 134742] Re: Choose boot keymap in GutsyGibbon Tribe 5

2008-08-02 Thread mnemo
Hardy live CD let's the user select language as the first thing that happens on boot. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- Choose boot keymap in GutsyGibbon Tribe 5 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134742 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 69557] Re: Anjuta requires autogen in order to create new project

2008-07-31 Thread mnemo
I ran into this bug on hardy as well. Recommend/Depend... either way I'd think it would be a good idea to have autogen installed automatically. If someone really wants to they can uninstall autogen in order to use anjuta as a editor only (I think using anjuta as a full IDE is much much more common

[Bug 250231] [NEW] gnome-panel NTP time sync allows me to enter random URLs without complaining

2008-07-20 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. right click the time/date in gnome 2. select Adjust time/date 3. click the unlock and enter admin password so you can change time 4. select keep synchronized with internet servers 5. (now install NTP support if you didn't already have it, maybe reboot is necessary I don't

[Bug 250231] Re: gnome-panel NTP time sync allows me to enter random URLs without complaining

2008-07-20 Thread mnemo
I took the time to report this upstream as well. This seems like a good bug for someone who wants to make their first contribution to GNOME or Ubuntu. -- gnome-panel NTP time sync allows me to enter random URLs without complaining https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250231 You received this bug

[Bug 247932] [NEW] ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears

2008-07-12 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. install hardy heron (on a box with a radeon 9600 gfx card) 2. (install all updates as of 2008-july-12) 3. (but dont install the restricted driver) 4. run glxgears from a terminal Expected: glxhears should run. Actual: glxgears crashes with the following error: $ glxgears

[Bug 247932] Re: ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears

2008-07-12 Thread mnemo
lspci from this box: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

[Bug 247932] Re: ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears

2008-07-12 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: X.org log file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15983512/Xorg.0.log -- ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247932 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 205815] Re: Monodevelop in hardy doesn't install gmcs

2008-07-12 Thread mnemo
I also hit this bug just now. Will have another look in intrepid once I upgrade. -- Monodevelop in hardy doesn't install gmcs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 247932] Re: ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears

2008-07-12 Thread mnemo
Problem went away after reboot. Marking bug as invalid. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-driver-ati (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- ati x.org driver 6.8.0 runs out of gart memory when running glxgears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247932 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 246376] Re: mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app

2008-07-07 Thread mnemo
Here is my compiler and runtime versions: $ gmcs --version Mono C# compiler version 1.2.5.0 $ mono --version Mono JIT compiler version 1.2.5 (/trunk/ r88274) Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com TLS: __thread GC:Included

[Bug 246376] Re: mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app

2008-07-07 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: mini code that causes the crash http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15876400/repro.tgz -- mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 246376] Re: mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app

2008-07-07 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: error messages, stacktrace etc printed by mono runtime when crashing http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15876677/mono_runtime_crashes.txt -- mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246376 You received this bug notification

[Bug 246376] [NEW] mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app

2008-07-07 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. downloadand unpack the attached repro.tgz 2. run xbuild in the directory to create bin/Debug/ShowFont.exe 3. run bin/Debug/ShowFont.exe and pass fixedsys.ttf as a parameter Actual: Mono runtime SIGSEGV's Expected: Mono should render some text with a couple of different

[Bug 246376] Re: mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app

2008-07-07 Thread mnemo
Thanks. You guys rock! -- mono SIGSEGV crashes when running simple font test app https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 244635] [NEW] scrollboxes scroll to offset 0 when resized

2008-07-01 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. install thunderbird (I used 2.0.0.14 for this repro) 2. create a large set of local folders so that you have about two screenfulls of local folders 3. select the top inbox node 4. scroll the list of local folders to the bottom 5. resize the local folders panel to be a

[Bug 244635] Re: scrollboxes scroll to offset 0 when resized

2008-07-01 Thread mnemo
The list view used Edit::Preferences::Advanced::Encryption::View Certificates::Authorities for Firefox 2.0.0.15 on Ubuntu exhibits the same problem, so it's definately a platform problem. This problem has been fixed in FF3 though so compiling against the mozilla trunk XULRunner will likely be

[Bug 244683] [NEW] monodevelop crashes on startup directly after installation

2008-07-01 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. Install monodevelop using apt-get 2. Launch it Actual: monodevelop crashes and shows the following error inside an error dialog: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for MonoDevelop.Core.Gui.Services ---

[Bug 243948] [NEW] Documentation for apt-get purge is sort of hard to understand

2008-06-29 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Use case: User wants to understand what apt-get purge actually does to the system. Running apt-get --help tell him that this command will remove and purge packages. This is not a very straight forward description. At least, I'm left with many questions. Running man

[Bug 243951] [NEW] Thunderbird does not have a -dbg package, so it's possible to file good bug reports for crashes

2008-06-29 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: I'm trying to migrate from windows to ubuntu but I can't move my thunderbird e-mail profile over due to repeated crashes. This bug happens all the time in thunderbird but I'm unable to get a backtrace because building it from source is too hard and there is no -dbg package.

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-06-08 Thread mnemo
I was wrong about the improved stacktrace, when I looked carefully at it I noticed that for some reason I'm getting symbols for some addresses in the DRI module but not all addresses. I find this a little bit strange. Anyway, I can also repro this bug using the 2.3.1 driver that bryce provided

[Bug 219281] Re: totem-gstreamer crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_malloc()

2008-06-07 Thread mnemo
Unfortunately, I don't have reliable repro steps for this bug it was just a bug that appeared out of the blue and then apport submitted it. For this reason, I will not reopen this bug. Anyway, I'm fairly sure it was related to a conflict between totem and some other app with respect to

[Bug 237955] Re: Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games

2008-06-07 Thread mnemo
The game Openarena is also affected by this bug. -- Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 237955] [NEW] Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games

2008-06-06 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Short repro steps: 1. Add System Monitor as a gnome panel. 2. Install and run the game supertux (or basically any other fullscreen SDL game). Detailed repro steps: 1. Boot Hardy live CD. 2. Right click gnome panel in the top gray area, maybe 2 cm left of the blue help

[Bug 237955] Re: Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games

2008-06-06 Thread mnemo
Notes: 1) The exact same bug also repros using the Extreme Tux Racer game (package name etracer). 2) The bug goes away if you turn off compiz by setting System::Preferences::Appearance::Visual Effect to None. ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: meta-gnome2 = compiz -- Gnome

[Bug 237955] Re: Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games

2008-06-06 Thread mnemo
I have a Intel X3100 GMA card with a 965GM chipset so this is not a graphics driver issue. -- Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 237955] Re: Gnome panel flickers through into fullscreen SDL games

2008-06-06 Thread mnemo
I've filed this bug upstream at this URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16259 ** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #16259 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16259 ** Also affects: compiz via

[Bug 30195] Re: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME env var has to be manually set to run

2008-06-06 Thread mnemo
I ran into this problem with the 1.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1 version of the monodevelop package (this is the one that ships with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy). -- MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME env var has to be manually set to run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30195 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 237585] [NEW] gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2008-06-05 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Note: I've been able to resize Vista NTFS partitions several times without problems. This bug applies only to Windows server 2008. 1. Install Windows Server 2008 2. Boot the Hardy live CD 3. Use gparted to resize the NTFS partition and create a small (primary) ext2 fs on

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-06-04 Thread mnemo
Ah, thanks for the tip unggnu, that's a nice workaround for textured video. By the way, I was able to figure out why my backtrace didn't have full symbols. The two dbg packages you mentioned does not cover everything, it's also necessary to install libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg in order to get symbols for

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-27 Thread mnemo
Ah, there was in fact some information related to the crash in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file! I'm attaching it now. It's not much but the end of it says: (WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x0001 (WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled (WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x95e1c1a0)

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-27 Thread mnemo
unggnu, are you able to answer the two questions I posted above about why/how X.org automatically restarts? -- periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 219319] Re: mplayer crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-05-27 Thread mnemo
As soon as a proper -dbg package is added for mplayer I will try to get a backtrace. -- mplayer crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219319 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-26 Thread mnemo
After about an hour of CPU hogging pain with the new driver I reverted to the old Hardy driver. I then change my power options to say that Never blank out screen and I also set my screensaver timeout to 1 minute. Then I went to sleep. I just woke up and this bug had reproduced. I believe I can

[Bug 234768] [NEW] x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response)

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and I just got back to my computer and for the third time I found it completely hung with no mouse cursor, no response and a single frozen image from the screen saver is visible (I use the screensaver called busy spheres and I think it uses

[Bug 234768] Re: x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response)

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: this is what the frozen busy shperes screensaver looks like (notice the defects along the edges) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14699416/DSC_0053.jpg -- x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You

[Bug 234768] Re: x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response)

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: this is my xorg.conf http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14699470/xorg.conf -- x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 234768] Re: x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response)

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #16091 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16091 ** Also affects: xorg-server via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16091 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse

[Bug 234768] Re: x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response)

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: this is my Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14699465/Xorg.0.log -- x.org hangs during screensaver (100% CPU, no mouse cursor, no response) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: xrandr --verbose http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14701119/xrandr_verbose.log -- periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: lspci http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14701110/lspci.log -- periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
First of all, as I explained above this bug does not allow me to launch any sudo operation and in particular I cannot start sudo gdb so I will not be able to obtain a backtrace. This is in itself a problem because it means some X.org bugs cannot be efficiently debugged at all (it's probably going

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
I tried upgrading to the new driver. One happy moment was that I now get textured video (so they I move totem the video surface now moves with it), that's just awesome. One not so good thing though is that this new driver consumes HUGE amounts of CPU. When I play a 320x240 pixel .OGG file (which

[Bug 234768] Re: periodic Xorg crashes w/ high cpu usage after OpenGL screensaver [965GM]

2008-05-25 Thread mnemo
I don't have INTEL_BATCH=1 set (I basically don't have any non-standard configuration options available, just pure ubuntu default. The only change I did was to activate evdev for my X.org input (makes my mouse smooth and low-latency). I really hope they can get textured video optimized a little

[Bug 183917] Re: Sound stops working in Firefox once other applications (Pidgin, Rhythmbox) have played sound

2008-05-24 Thread mnemo
I'm also having problems with sound firefox/flash simultaneously with sound from other apps. I use flash as my main music player (i.e. http://last.fm/ etc) so it's a huge problem for me. I've grown several new gray hairs while to reboot back and forth between Vista and Ubuntu, it would be very

[Bug 183917] Re: Sound stops working in Firefox once other applications (Pidgin, Rhythmbox) have played sound

2008-05-24 Thread mnemo
This bug has already been fixed in intrepid. To get that fix into hardy as well the following packages needs to be backported by someone:alsa- lib, alsa-plugins, and flashplugin-nonfree. There is also several workarounds to this bug (which is partly why is marked as lower priority). For instance,

[Bug 2772] Re: [feisty] vlc key shortcuts doesnt work

2008-05-15 Thread mnemo
The next VLC version has been in the making for a very long time, I don't see it as particularly likely that this VLC branch will stabilize and ship properly before Inteprid Ibex. And even when it does ship there might be people who wants to stay with the old version for just a little while longer

[Bug 212759] Re: firefox crash opening corrupted png

2008-05-14 Thread mnemo
Just because linux browsers can't open the file doesn't mean it's corrupt (as the original bug title suggested). It's possible to view this file without problems on Windows using any version of Firefox or MSIE. Anyway corrupt or not corrupt, this is still an important bug; I it gets fixed

[Bug 230087] [NEW] firefox3 crashes when viewing big PNG files

2008-05-13 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Open one of these PNG files in FF3b5 or FF3-RC1: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/kernel_history/developer_graph-2.6.22.png http://libpng.org/pub/png/img_png/16million.png Note: the first one is a real life image that I want to view, it's not some

[Bug 230087] Re: firefox3 crashes when viewing big PNG files

2008-05-13 Thread mnemo
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #427385 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427385 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427385 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- firefox3 crashes when viewing big PNG files

[Bug 222404] Re: no easy way to get alternative plugins for flash

2008-05-13 Thread mnemo
** Summary changed: - to easy way to get alternative plugins for flash + no easy way to get alternative plugins for flash ** Summary changed: - no easy way to get alternative plugins for flash + no easy way to get alternative (switch) plugins for flash -- no easy way to get alternative

[Bug 116689] Re: Problem with viewing quicktime movies with Mozilla VLC plugin

2008-05-09 Thread mnemo
I've provided a strace and backtrace (with debug symbols) in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/227055 (both bugs are VLC related) -- Problem with viewing quicktime movies with Mozilla VLC plugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116689 You received this bug notification

[Bug 227055] Re: VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly

2008-05-06 Thread mnemo
At first I could not repro this bug. Then I ran sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc and I created a file on my desktop with the following contents: html body embed src=this_file_doesnt_exist1.wav id=sound_id_number_1 / embed src=this_file_doesnt_exist2.wav id=sound_id_number_2 / /body /html

[Bug 227055] Re: VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly

2008-05-06 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: terminal output from firefox while reproing the bug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14265333/terminal_output.txt -- VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 227055] Re: VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly

2008-05-06 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: zipped strace output while reproing this bug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14265545/strace_output5.txt.zip -- VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 227055] Re: VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly

2008-05-06 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: gdb backtraces for this bug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14265557/gdb_output.txt -- VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 227055] Re: VLC seems to cause Firefox-3.0 to crash repeatedly

2008-05-06 Thread mnemo
If you have mozilla-plugin-vlc installed, this bug can be avoided by opening Tools::Add-ons::Plugins and then disabling the plugin called VLC Multimedia Plugin 0.8.6e Janus. This is definately a VLC bug, this specific version of the plugin should be blacklisted imho. 0.8.6f is already released,

[Bug 226631] Re: totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
I don't hear any sound output from the movie which is playing in slowmotion. I've not explicitly downloaded any kernel from proposed and since booting the live CD I have not installed any updates. -- totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

[Bug 226631] Re: totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 226631] Re: totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
Here is my alsa info recorded with the live cd booted just after performing the repro steps. ** Attachment added: alsa-info http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14228893/alsa-info.txt -- totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226631 You

[Bug 226631] Re: totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
Earlier today when I was investigating this bug I noticed that if I go into Preferences inside audacious and switch the output plugin from ALSA to PulseAudio -- then the problem does away and I get seamless playback. From this viewpoint, I believe it would be a great idea to switch the default

[Bug 226631] Re: totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
I don't think this is a CPU load issue because the mandela ogg movie is 360x288 25 FPS with 45 kbps audio, and this is a dual core 1.8 GHz machine. I took a screenshot of top so you can see what consumes CPU and how much (not sure why totem's video surface comes off as pitch black in the

[Bug 227055] Re: Firefox 3 crash - repeatable example

2008-05-05 Thread mnemo
QUESTION 1: When you boot the final hardy live CD on this machine, do you see the same problem? I just booted the live CD and I can't get it to crash on this page despite reloading it like 20-30 times sometimes waiting 20 seconds in between and sometimes just hitting CTRL-R repeatedly. I also hear

[Bug 225166] Re: firefox cant play CNN video clip and doesnt offer to install plugin

2008-05-04 Thread mnemo
markign as invalid, I suppose we just have to wait for gnash and/or swfdec to get good enough ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- firefox cant play CNN video clip and doesnt offer to install plugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225166 You received this bug

[Bug 225166] Re: firefox cant play CNN video clip and doesnt offer to install plugin

2008-05-04 Thread mnemo
I did some additional testing (with live cd etc to get a clean repro) and it turns out that since my main machine has swfdec it will show the error I describe in step 2. Also, the yellow bar with the Want to install missing plugins? does not appear because Firefox actually thinks that swfdec can

[Bug 226631] [NEW] totem plays movies in slowmotion when audacious is playing a song

2008-05-04 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. boot hardy final live cd 2. use system::administration::software sources to enable the UNIVERSE repository 3. run sudo apt-get install audacious in a terminal window 4. start applications::soundvideo::audacious 5. open the EXAMPLES folder on the Desktop, drag the file

[Bug 226076] [NEW] grub distorts default selection during kernel upgrade

2008-05-03 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. install ubuntu and setup your grub config so the grub main menu shows: A) Ubuntu major.minor B) Ubuntu major.minor (recovery) C) Boot other OS 2. Then configured the cursor to be on alternative C) on default so that pressing ENTER or waiting for the timeout will

[Bug 226141] [NEW] pulseaudio allows a single program to hog the sound card exclusively

2008-05-03 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. boot hardy live cd 2. go to last.fm 3. when firefox asks if you want to install missing plugins, select to install adobe flash (gnash and swfdec is not usable at all for last.fm playback) 4. type in some artist name and press OK so that sound starts playing from last.fm

[Bug 226141] Re: pulseaudio allows a single program to hog the sound card exclusively

2008-05-03 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: alsa-info.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14168576/alsa-info.txt -- pulseaudio allows a single program to hog the sound card exclusively https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 225166] [NEW] firefox cant play CNN video clip and doesnt offer to install plugin

2008-05-01 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. go to CNN front page and click on any of the video clip stories 2. embedded video player loads but then something goes wrong and left is left displaying the text undefined without any error message, no offers to install plugins etc One particular direct URL that shows

[Bug 223905] Re: eog 2.20.0 reports false assertion and aborts when trying to open this TIF file

2008-04-29 Thread mnemo
If I run dpkg -l | grep eog it says I got 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 but if I launch eog and check the about box it says 2.20.0 Since you asked, I also ran sudo apt-get install --reinstall eog and then re-checked the version but both of them remain as stated above. ** Changed in: eog (Ubuntu)

[Bug 223905] Re: eog 2.20.0 reports false assertion and aborts when trying to open this TIF file

2008-04-29 Thread mnemo
which eog prints /usr/local/bin/eog. I also find find . -name eog from /usr and I found out I also had /usr/bin/eog which was 2.22.1. When I tried this image in 2.22.1 it said this particular .TIF type wasn't supported by libtiff. Marking bug as invalid. I hope BigTIFF will be supported soon

[Bug 220227] Re: Compiz default Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) is difficult to use

2008-04-29 Thread mnemo
I agree with all the points in the original post. It's sort of a regression since pre-compiz versions of Ubuntu. Kudos to anyone who picks up this feature desktop / regression. -- Compiz default Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) is difficult to use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220227 You

[Bug 202460] Re: Hardware Testing app hangs

2008-04-29 Thread mnemo
I saw the lshw hang on my machine before. I updated to the hardy- proposed version and now I can run the hardware testing wizard with no problems and lshw and sudo lshw both finished just fine without any hang. I got a HP DV6000 laptop and my network cards are these: 02:00.0 Network controller:

[Bug 223905] [NEW] eog 2.20.0 reports false assertion and aborts when trying to open this TIF file

2008-04-28 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: On Hardy Heron (which has Eye of GNOME 2.20.0 installed by default), open a terminal and do: 1. wget http://homepage.mac.com/sc42koi/tiffcentral/samplefiles/Flowers1.Zap0.BP.LZW+NONE.btf.tif 2. eog Flowers1.Zap0.BP.LZW+NONE.btf.tif Expected results: Eye of GNOME should

[Bug 222404] [NEW] to easy way to get alternative plugins for flash

2008-04-26 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. boot hardy live cd 2. go to youtube; top yellow strip want to install required plugins? appear 3. install gnash Now youtube doesn't play so you decide you want to try swfdec instead but unfortunately there is no easy way to install swfdec so I'm stuck with no being able

[Bug 222404] Re: to easy way to get alternative plugins for flash

2008-04-26 Thread mnemo
One workaround is to close firefox, start a terminal and type sudo apt- get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash followed by sudo apt-get install swfdec-mozilla. -- to easy way to get alternative plugins for flash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222404 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 221068] Re: ALT-PrintScreen captures only the contents of the window and not the window caption/title bar etc

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
apt-cache policy compiz says: compiz: Installed: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status lspci says: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile

[Bug 221068] Re: ALT-PrintScreen captures only the contents of the window and not the window caption/title bar etc

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: this is what the ALT-PrintScrn output looks like for GNOME Calculator on my system http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13838466/what_my_ALT_PrintScrn_output_for_gnome_calculator_looks_like.png -- ALT-PrintScreen captures only the contents of the window and not the window

[Bug 221068] [NEW] ALT-PrintScreen captures only the contents of the window and not the window caption/title bar etc

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz In Gutsy I didn't get compiz by default because my gfxcard (intel x3100 with 965GM chipset) was blacklisted. In hardy the driver have been improved and I now get compiz by default which is terrific. However, I have noticed one bug that came with

[Bug 37161] Re: unwanted behaviour with the notification area and double instances of update-manager running

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
I also saw this all the time in Gutsy. As a Windows convert I keep double clicking the updates available tray icon by mistake and thus I always get two instances which is annoying :-) -- unwanted behaviour with the notification area and double instances of update-manager running

[Bug 221063] Re: update-notifier should bring itself to the topmost z-order when notification tray icon is clicked

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
this is a screenshot of the update-notifier dialog box I'm mentioning in this bug report ** Attachment added: update-notifier-popup.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13838417/update-notifier-popup.png -- update-notifier should bring itself to the topmost z-order when notification tray icon

[Bug 221063] [NEW] update-notifier should bring itself to the topmost z-order when notification tray icon is clicked

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. do whatever necessary to make sure you got the update-notifier active (i'm talking about the thing that sits in the gnome notification tray and which contains a message saying restart required. in order to complete the update you must reboot your computer) 2. click the

[Bug 221099] [NEW] disable the preview button on the report submitted wizard page

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: 1. go through the hwtest wizard until you reach the last wizard page (the one that says report successfully submitted) 2. now notice that the previous button is still enabled, press it 3. once you're at the next last wizard page (this is the one where the user enters his

[Bug 221099] Re: disable the preview button on the report submitted wizard page

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: strange error message http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13839279/hwtest_second_submit_failed.png -- disable the preview button on the report submitted wizard page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221099 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 221109] [NEW] first use dialog says I should use Tools :: Library Manager which doesnt exist

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: The first time using exaile-dialog says I should use Tools :: Library Manager which doesnt exist (I guess this menu item existed a long time ago but was moved). ** Affects: exaile (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- first use dialog says I should

[Bug 221109] Re: first use dialog says I should use Tools :: Library Manager which doesnt exist

2008-04-23 Thread mnemo
** Attachment added: exaile_tells_me_to_use_tools_library_manager.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13839387/exaile_tells_me_to_use_tools_library_manager.png -- first use dialog says I should use Tools :: Library Manager which doesnt exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221109 You received

[Bug 204420] Re: hwtest-gtk crashes and consumes 100% cpu power

2008-04-22 Thread mnemo
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 202460 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202460 This bug will unfortunately not be fixed in time for hardy final. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 202460 Hardware Testing app hangs -- hwtest-gtk crashes and consumes 100% cpu power

[Bug 202460] Re: Hardware Testing app hangs

2008-04-22 Thread mnemo
I'm also seeing this, on a HP DV6000 laptop. lshw hangs both from hwtest and from terminal. I tried to install the fixed .deb but gdebi said later version already installed and there was no 'override' button so I don't know how to install it :-/ -- Hardware Testing app hangs

[Bug 220732] [NEW] hwtest should ask about sound recording not just sound playback (ask if the microphone is working)

2008-04-22 Thread mnemo
Public bug reported: Seeing how important microphones are today for skype and other audio conferencing apps I think one of the high priority work items should be to get a wizard page included into hwtest that asks if the microphone is working or not. ** Affects: hwtest (Ubuntu) Importance:

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