Re: Ubuntu falling behind?

2010-06-26 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 18:50, Chris Jones wrote: > I guess I also have to remind myself that lucid is a LTS release. Which I > hadn't thought of when I first posted. > Still, this very issue seems to be apparent with all Ubuntu releases and > Firefox updates. We always seem to be the last ones to

Ethernet driver problem fixed?

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Mancusi
Did yesterday's update From: 2.6.27-4.5 To: 2.6.27-4.6 fix the problem - or are the cards still at risk? tnx -rich -- 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

Re: Serious, potentially hardware-damaging e1000e driver issue on Intrepid

2008-09-24 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:22, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear developers, > > Reports have been coming in that the e1000e ethernet driver for Intel GigE > chipsets, as included upstream in Linux 2.6.27, may under certain conditions > irreparably damage your ethernet hardware by co

Re: libc borked

2008-03-17 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Richard Mancusi wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One thing this, and some other events, has made me think

Re: libc borked

2008-03-17 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing this, and some other events, has made me think about is - how > are new community members supposed to know who someone is and what their > contributions to Ubuntu have been? We have a developer responsibilitie

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Feb 3, 2008 10:32 AM, Richard Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008 10:15 AM, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Could you run this and tell us wh

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Feb 3, 2008 10:15 AM, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could you run this and tell us what it shows: > > sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' > > /home/root > > That's pretty strange. Try running sudo usermod -d /root root

Fwd: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 3, 2008 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error To: Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Feb 3, 2008 9:35 AM, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you run this and

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Feb 3, 2008 9:13 AM, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager > > warning: could not initiate dbus > > You don't need to run update-manager as root. It wi

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Feb 2, 2008 10:59 PM, scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'. > > Regards, > Scott > The "administrative tasks" password box comes up and accepts the password. Then update manager gui appears showing 32 updates. However the

Hardy Alpha-4 jockey-gtk

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Mancusi
I have been told to use bug tracker, not this list to report problems. But what if the problem can't be reported (per Ubuntu)? -- Problem in jockey-gtk The problem cannot be reported: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package -- This had to be installed by the official Ubuntu disc bec

Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-02 Thread Richard Mancusi
After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - m

Re: Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-17 Thread Richard Mancusi
The problem shown below appears to have been resolved with tonight's update. tnx -rich On Jan 15, 2008 9:39 PM, Richard Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2008 8:40 PM, Richard Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 15, 2008 6:43

Re: Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Jan 15, 2008 8:40 PM, Richard Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2008 6:43 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > > > On Monday 14 January 2008 17:14:29 Brian Murray wrote: > > >> You

Re: Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Jan 15, 2008 6:43 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > > On Monday 14 January 2008 17:14:29 Brian Murray wrote: > >> You should have to authenticate before modifying the network > >> configuration. On my Hardy systems and a daily build of the Li

Re: Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-14 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Jan 14, 2008 11:14 AM, Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:45:22PM -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: > > Desktop i386 install > > > > Is the following a bug or can anyone change network > > settings via System/Administration/

Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Mancusi
Desktop i386 install Is the following a bug or can anyone change network settings via System/Administration/Network And can you verify it really changed by looking in the appropriate file. Install took a DHCP address. When completed I tried to change the settings to a static with different D

Hardy Alpha-3 language selection

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Mancusi
Desktop 386 installation: I selected U.S. English during the installation however the result was not that. I noticed a different sort order in Nautilus and JPilot week started on Monday rather then Sunday. Re-logon with a language selection of English (USA) (American English) created a message t

Re: Hardy Alpha-2 notes

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Mancusi
On Jan 6, 2008 4:38 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 January 2008 06:18:08 Richard Mancusi wrote: > >I have one application (non-opensource) that will not install > >with sudo. You must logon as administrator. I checked the >

Hardy Alpha-2 notes

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Mancusi
I had a successful Alpha-1 installation. Then did a clean install of Alpha-2 and ran into a few problems not encountered with Alpha-1. It probably makes the most sense to simply wait for Alpha-3 next week and do a clean install. Just in case there is some value - I will mention a couple of the p