[Bug 1892668] [NEW] do-release-upgrade -d dangerously misleading output

2020-08-23 Thread James Bowery
Public bug reported: Executing: # do-release-upgrade -d at one point output: To continue please press [ENTER] So I pressed ENTER. I was then greeted with this opaque sentence fragment as the response to pressing ENTER: Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed... Then it just sat there... doing

[Bug 1690470] [NEW] Quadro 420 limited to 1280x1024 for each of the 4 displays

2017-05-12 Thread James Bowery
Public bug reported: Nvidia's specifications for the Quadro 420 state: "Drive up to four 30’ displays at 2560x1600 resolutions" After a couple of days trying variations, I discovered the only way I could get 4 displays working properly was to set them all to 1280x1024. If any of the 4 were set

[Bug 1684731] Re: zfs-share.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/rm: No such file or directory

2017-05-10 Thread James Bowery
Affecting my 17.04 system. `May 10 12:22:08 ... systemd[2146]: zfs-share.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/rm: No such file or directory` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 1589401] Re: cannot view wifi networks after re-enabling wifi

2017-03-01 Thread James Bowery
After I gave up and shifted to a wired connection, I noticed that I'd get disconnected periodically but then it would reconnect successfully. It seems some drivers manage to reconnect and other drivers don't. So there may be _two_ bugs: 1) A bug that results in occasional loss of connection. 2)

[Bug 1602941] Re: Draw cannot be loaded in 16.04 (Repackage needed since gcl has changed?)

2017-02-28 Thread James Bowery
@Amr, Yes. I had executed `sudo -s` previously. I wrote incorrectly. I should have placed a '#' rather than a "$" at the start of the `apt-get` line. However, the `$ maxima` was correctly written. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1602941] Re: Draw cannot be loaded in 16.04 (Repackage needed since gcl has changed?)

2017-02-27 Thread James Bowery
Failed. $ apt-get install maxima/yakkety-proposed ... $ maxima Maxima 5.37.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.12 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides

Re: [Bug 1589401] Re: cannot view wifi networks after re-enabling wifi

2017-01-19 Thread James Bowery
iwlist didn't work on my system. Nothing did. I finally gave up and bought another interface. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Jeremy LaCroix <1589...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Again, you shouldn't need to restart network manager or the applet. You > can simply rescan your wireless networks

[Bug 1369651] Re: "libmtp error: Could not send object info" when copying content to root MTP folder

2016-12-26 Thread James Bowery
The title of this bug report is either inaccurate or it isn't the same bug as some of us are experiencing: Large file copy always fails to non-root directory on Android. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1602941] Re: Draw cannot be loaded in 16.04 (Repackage needed since gcl has changed?)

2016-12-22 Thread James Bowery
When I click on the "Unassigned" edit icon, I get a popup that says I can assign myself responsibility. Since I can be just as irresponsible as no one I guess I could assign myself but then what? Where is the documentation on how to become a maintainer? -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1602941] Re: Draw cannot be loaded in 16.04 (Repackage needed since gcl has changed?)

2016-12-21 Thread James Bowery
Obviously the maintainer is absent. What is the procedure to get this released as part of the xenial updates? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1602941 Title: Draw cannot be loaded in

Re: [Bug 1589401] Re: cannot view wifi networks after re-enabling wifi

2016-12-10 Thread James Bowery
First of all, you just cost me a few hours trying to get my network connection back after the instructions for reinstall of network-manager upon failed WICD, themselves, failed. Second, if the default network manager system that comes with distributions has a bug, it's not "whining" to rather

[Bug 1582011] Re: Swap Failed, Indefinite hang on reboot/shutdown "Reached target Shutdown"

2016-12-09 Thread James Bowery
This may be a bug that appears when using an SSD for swap. (I just can't imagine why people would want to use an SSD for swap ;) ). This reported that the problem appeared with installation of an SSD for swap: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1582011/comments/6 That's

[Bug 1633674] Re: libpepflashplayer.so: No such file or directory

2016-10-15 Thread James Bowery
Confirmed: $ apt show pepperflashplugin-nonfree Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree Version: 1.8.2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: multiverse/web Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens Bugs:

[Bug 1589401] Re: cannot view wifi networks after re-enabling wifi

2016-08-19 Thread James Bowery
Confirmed here and none of these "work-arounds" worked for me: # systemctl restart network-manager.service # nmcli g # killall nm-applet # start nm-applet start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused I'm running: ~# dpkg -l | grep

[Bug 1330123] Re: grive needs relink

2014-06-18 Thread James Bowery
I've had to resort to dropbox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1330123 Title: grive needs relink To manage notifications about this bug go to: