Re: Installer shouldn't be able to install grub on ntfs partitions

2009-10-18 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/10/19 04:49 (GMT) Alan Searchwell composed: > I always use the advanced options in the installer to install grub to the > root partition of the distro I'm installing. When you're multi-booting (more than one OS per system, as opposed to dual booting, which is exactly two operating systems

Installer shouldn't be able to install grub on ntfs partitions

2009-10-18 Thread Alan Searchwell
I always use the advanced options in the installer to install grub to the root partition of the distro I'm installing. Since I'm dual booting with windows, I then use grub4dos to boot into linux. This gives me a quick and easy method to restore the ability to boot linux after a Windows re-inst

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2009-10-18 Thread Alan Searchwell
I always use the advanced options in the installer to install grub to the root partition of the distro I'm installing. Since I'm dual booting with windows, I then use grub4dos to boot into linux. This gives me a quick and easy method to restore the ability to boot linux after a Windows re-insta

Re: usb stick

2009-10-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:59 +0200, Hein Hanssen wrote: > Hello, > > When using USB memory sticks, I would expect to have an right click menu > showing a format option. This is not the case (well, at least on the > Gnome desktop, I don't know about KDE). I have the option in Karmic's Gnome, for US

Re: usb stick

2009-10-18 Thread Putu Wiramaswara Widya
2009/10/14 Hein Hanssen : > Hello, > > When using USB memory sticks, I would expect to have an right click menu > showing a format option. This is not the case (well, at least on the > Gnome desktop, I don't know about KDE). > > Right now, the only (graphical) way of formatting USB memory sticks is

Re: eclipse packages in karmic

2009-10-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:32:51 +0200 Benjamin Drung wrote: >Hi, > >we have now an up-to-date, working eclipse package in karmic >(3.5.1-0ubuntu6). It's even better than the one provided by upstream. > >There is only one problem left: Currently all plug-ins are very old and >do not work. All plug-ins

Re: Universe wish: wormux from Debian testing

2009-10-18 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 16.10.2009, 09:59 +0200 schrieb ilf: > Since Universe can continue uploads, i *really* would like to see the > package wormux updated. > > Currently it's 0.8.3-1build1 from Debians 0.8.3-1. > Debian released 0.8.5-1 on Sep 30, and it's in testing already. > > Could the maintainers

Re: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:49:10AM +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote: > >  - the kernel in particular must be frozen some time in advance of the > >   release, in order to settle other components that build on it; there is > I thought this would be the case since the release is in two weeks! I > usuall

google-gadgets-* outdated

2009-10-18 Thread bluefox83
The current version of google-gadgets in the karmic repo is severely outdated and has severe issues. Will not load on many systems. Google Gadgets forum suggests that the version in the repository be updated to the latest available. I have not been able to compile google gadgets from source on

libbass1 needed to get mplayer installed Karmic?

2009-10-18 Thread m_epling
the package libbass is needded to install is it going to be added to repos ? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Universe wish: wormux from Debian testing

2009-10-18 Thread ilf
Since Universe can continue uploads, i *really* would like to see the package wormux updated. Currently it's 0.8.3-1build1 from Debians 0.8.3-1. Debian released 0.8.5-1 on Sep 30, and it's in testing already. Could the maintainers please update these newer packages to universe? The 0.8.4 and 0.8.

Re: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Leslie, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:58:41AM +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Steve Langasek > wrote: > > If you have bugs which you believe should be listed there but aren't yet, > > please get in touch with me or another member of the release team. > How does a

Re: karmic release freeze approaching; FTBFS packages need attention

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Wilson
Steve, This fix to rsyslog needs sponsoring and committing pronto. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/430220 It's a pretty poor operating system where the kernel logs aren't up to date. Rgs Neil 2009/10/14 Steve Langasek : > Dear developers, > > With the release of Ubuntu

PulseAudio Managers

2009-10-18 Thread Kyle Amadio
There seems to be something seriously wrong with the PulseAudio managers. Each of them is crashing in my 64bit Karmic, I have reported a bug for this but I thought it might be a good idea to raise it here too. apport (pid 4420) Tue Oct 13 21:38:59 2009: called for pid 4418, signal 6 apport (pid 4

Re: Launchpad Bug Filing Changes for Ubuntu

2009-10-18 Thread Kirk
UNSUBSCRIBE ME IMMEDIATELY On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:19 -0600, Brian Murray wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As a part of the Increase Apport Adoption specification[1] we are going > to kick off an experiment and redirect all of Ubuntu's /+filebug links > in Launchpad to https://help.ubuntu.com/co

usb stick

2009-10-18 Thread Hein Hanssen
Hello, When using USB memory sticks, I would expect to have an right click menu showing a format option. This is not the case (well, at least on the Gnome desktop, I don't know about KDE). Right now, the only (graphical) way of formatting USB memory sticks is by using Gparted. Sure, it offers you

Re: eclipse packages in karmic

2009-10-18 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Montag, den 19.10.2009, 01:17 +0800 schrieb Tim Hawkins: > Is there any chance we can get the pdt in there as a plugin too, its > glaringly missing pdt is not in the archive. I think it's too late to get a new package in the archive. Someone needs to package it. Currently we are working on cd

Re: eclipse packages in karmic

2009-10-18 Thread Tim Hawkins
Is there any chance we can get the pdt in there as a plugin too, its glaringly missing On 19 Oct 2009, at 00:32, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi, > > we have now an up-to-date, working eclipse package in karmic > (3.5.1-0ubuntu6). It's even better than the one provided by upstream. > > There is only

eclipse packages in karmic

2009-10-18 Thread Benjamin Drung
Hi, we have now an up-to-date, working eclipse package in karmic (3.5.1-0ubuntu6). It's even better than the one provided by upstream. There is only one problem left: Currently all plug-ins are very old and do not work. All plug-ins needs an update. I am aware of two plug-ins: eclipse-pydev eclip