[Bug 1573454] Re: Mouse pointer disappear after suspend in Xubuntu 16.04

2016-05-11 Thread Paul Taylor
This bug seems to lie in the code the requires a password atfer closing the laptop lid, rather than in the screensaver. Aside from the fact that the pointer disappears, this code that is supposedly for security shows the prior screen display after the laptop lid is opened, before blanking and aski

[Bug 1573454] Re: Mouse pointer disappear after suspend in Xubuntu 16.04

2016-04-29 Thread Paul Taylor
Confirm bug (and virtual console quick fix) for Xubuntu 16.04 on a HP Stream 13. Usually I do a clean installation on a different 10GB root partition, but this time I did an upgrade from 15.10 and therefore cannot easily revert - I'm not going to do that again. -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 767030] Re: Banshee freezes after suspend whilst playing

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Taylor
>From the debug information, it was BBC Radio 2 live stream which is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx I remember testing it with other Windows Media streams, like Radio 1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 746875] Re: Xorg High CPU Usage with Gnome/Openbox

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Taylor
Unfortunately I no longer have Ubuntu installed so I cannot comment much further. I think I did test it in Natty (could have been perhaps the 2nd beta) and it still did the same thing. I did not test it in vesa graphics mode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 767030] Re: Banshee freezes after suspend whilst playing

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Taylor
Yes I have attached a copy of the terminal output. ** Attachment added: "Debug information while reproducing bug" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/767030/+attachment/2133451/+files/Banshee_bug_radio_suspend.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 42052] Re: Screen not locked on resume from hibernate/suspend

2011-04-23 Thread Paul Taylor
I'm not sure if it's related, but I just then experienced the same thing. I was able to use the computer for about 30 seconds after being away from the computer for 20 minutes. The computer wasn't in sleep mode, but the screensaver had kicked in. When I moved the mouse I was able to do things,

[Bug 767030] [NEW] Banshee freezes after suspend whilst playing

2011-04-20 Thread Paul Taylor
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: banshee If I play a radio stream, then suspend the system, upon resuming from sleep banshee freezes. I was playing back a windows media stream. Tested with an ogg stream, and freeze does not occur. Running Ubuntu 11.04, 64bit, Banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1

[Bug 459005] Re: Can not log into openbox from GDM in Karmic Beta/RC

2011-04-20 Thread Paul Taylor
This seems to be reoccurring in Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2 (and I think beta 1 I had the issue). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459005 Title: Can not log into openbox from GDM in Karmic Beta

[Bug 746875] Re: Xorg High CPU Usage with Gnome/Openbox

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Taylor
I've had a read through but it seems fairly non-descriptive as to go about solving the problem. I took a look at the Xorg.log.old and have attached it to this post - nothing seems too out of place for me at least. The CPU usage is definitely true and not just being reported since my fan is ki

[Bug 746875] Re: Xorg High CPU Usage with Gnome/Openbox

2011-04-01 Thread Paul Taylor
I have the same issue, just tried to use openbox, but CPU usage was being used constantly. Similar specifications, but 64bit. NVIDIA card with latest drivers, ubuntu 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 686014] Re: update manager

2010-12-12 Thread paul taylor
only have 1 Thank you for your time Paul Taylor -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686014 Title: update manager -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https

[Bug 686014] Re: update manager

2010-12-07 Thread paul taylor
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686014 Title: update manager -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 686014] [NEW] update manager

2010-12-06 Thread paul taylor
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager could not install the upgrades kubuntu 9.10 to 10.04lts file:///var/log/dist-upgrade ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 436340] Re: Installer fails: grub fails on Intel ICH10 raid

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Taylor
I struck the same problem with the 19 October daily build of karmic- alternate-amd64.iso (I didn't try the livecd.) During the installation, grub2 (grub-pc) was installed - not grub - and failed to detect the dmraid devices as above. Booting into rescue mode. Was asked if I wanted to initialise

[Bug 429667] Re: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in ui_present_report_details()

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Taylor
Much the same problem here. I tried to report a bug with debian- installer, and received the following (running as root): # ubuntu-bug debian-installer *** Collecting problem information The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the application. This might take a few mi

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Taylor
Ubuntu is a Good Thing, and I would like to recommend it to my friends, giving them CDs. However, I cannot do this when I know that the installation CD or a routine kernel upgrade could leave their computer in an unbootable state. Especially when it is now clear where the error lies. Please can

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2009-01-11 Thread Paul Taylor
With all due respect, Steve, I fear that you are never going to solve this/these bug(s) unless you are more critical of your own reasoning. Whilst I now use computers primarily for email and word processing, you can see from my web page that I was a computer science lecturer and have taught reasone

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Taylor
Sorry, "thinking aloud". And I do hate text boxes on web forms, and their assumption that "carriage return" means "new paragraph". A "preview" button would help, to give one the opportunity to correct the line breaking. -- initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.0

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks to Steve Langasek for his thinking allowed about this important bug. In his faulty sequence, and on the occasion that the bug hit me, the crucial failure is that ** there is kernel entry in menu.lst with no accompanying initrd ** (in particular, the default entry had this). Looking at th

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Taylor
This dialogue seems to be split between two pages - it is not possible to merge them? > if the initrd.img has not been created, then that's certainly a bug in its > own right, > though not a bug in grub, and we should still try to get that fixed. I would point out that in my case the initrd.img

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-06-22 Thread Paul Taylor
to Steve Langasek: How do you know that (occurrence of) this bug is "rare"? It renders the computer unusable, especially if it occurs during use of the installation CD. If this happens to someone who is "just trying out" Linux for the first time, they'll (re)install Windows Vista and never co

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-06-18 Thread Paul Taylor
I find it shocking that nothing has been done about the fact that the installation CD can leave someone's computer in an unusable state, from which it is only possible to recover using other tools and considerable Linux experience. -- initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.

[Bug 145015] X freezes, hogging CPU

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Taylor
Maybe the bug has metamorphosed. At any rate, the following is similar, but I cannot work out the appropriate heading under which to report it - if you know, please redirect my report as appropriate. I now have Xubuntu 8.04 (from the 24 April CD image) on the same machine. On several occasio

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-05-02 Thread Paul Taylor
Xubuntu 8.04 (24 April 2008) CD image downloaded My only differences from "standard" set-up: (1) Old hardware (2) DIY disk partitioning. On completion of the intallation, it failed to boot, with messages like this: VFS: cannot open root deveice "UUID=" or unknown block (0,0) Please append a corre

[Bug 222421] Re: initrd not configured in menu.lst after upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-05-02 Thread Paul Taylor
Description of my hardware: Mainboard Gigabyte GA-7IX ATX SOYO 5EMA+ 100Mz (Skt7) ProcessorAMD K6-2-550 Memory 128Mb DIMM PC100 NB this is less RAM than the Xubuntu 8.04 documentation says that I need. ** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1

[Bug 145015] Re: Gnome session restarts spontaneously

2008-01-27 Thread Paul Taylor
It happened to me again this evening. Here's some stuff from /var/log /var/log/messages syslog and user.log: 21:04:44 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly 21:04:53 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Exiting auth.log: 21:04:51 localhost gdm[4876]: (pam_unix) session c

[Bug 145015] Re: Gnome session restarts spontaneously

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Taylor
I'm using Ubuntu Dapper on some elderly hardware. As with Jan Kalab, this has happened to me a number of times after a period of inactivity. On the last occasion, I had only a Gnome Terminal, Emacs and Xdvi running; I was sitting on the other side of the room, the screensaver was running, and then

[Bug 40561] USB disk goes offline - but not in Knoppix 5.1.1 (Linux 2.6.19)

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Taylor
I used gparted to repartition my 80Gb disk with several ext3 partitions (and one for the Mac), and gparted, fdisk, cfdisk and the Mac agreed on the new partition table. Using cpio under Ubuntu Dapper / Linux 2.6.15, I then tried to copy the largest partition of my old disk (10Gb) on to it. This fa

[Bug 40561] USB disk goes offline midtransfer

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Taylor
I have a new Freecom Classic SL 80GB USB hard drive connected to Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake Linux 2.6.15-29-386 on old (2001) hardware also tried with Mac PowerBook G4 MacOS 10.3.9. After playing with the VFAT filesystem on the disk as it came, using both computers, I used GNU Parted 1.6.25.1 to pu