Re: When Amazon Fire tablet is connected via USB information on tablet is written to syslog every 15 minutes

On 08/18/2016 07:49 PM, Chris wrote: I've submitted a bug report for this - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunt u/+source/gvfs/+bug/1613802 here is the text file I added with what's being written to syslog - https://launchpadlibrarian.net/279272843/fire -tablet.txt below is system information. Desc

Three weeks of testing beginning week of July 18th

As the title says, we’re tentatively facing three straight weeks of iso and upgrade testing beginning the week of July 18th. I’m in hopes of recruiting some help with this testing effort because disability is seriously limiting my ability to perform the needed tests in a timely manner. Week o

Re: Bios bug report

On 04/07/2016 07:15 AM, Ty Young wrote: On 04/07/2016 01:47 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: I feel GRUB has nothing to do with BIOS menuses. Both Linux kernel and Ubuntu are more far about this. Here you have nearer mailing lists: www.gnu.org/software/grub As I understand it, BIOS hands off contr

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Fwd: Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) Final Beta Freeze

On 03/23/2016 02:08 PM, Tom wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2016, 07:32 -0500 schrieb Erick Brunzell: On 03/22/2016 07:05 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Tom wrote: Does the account "live session user" still ask me for a pass

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Fwd: Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) Final Beta Freeze

On 03/22/2016 07:05 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Tom > wrote: Does the account "live session user" still ask me for a password, that noone is about to know ? Could you please be more specific? Possibly this bug? https://b

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Beta 1 Testing] Your Help Is Needed

/1554158 I've since wiped that install so I’ll need to try a fresh one soon and see what happens. On 25/02/16 18:13, Erick Brunzell wrote: Just a heads up in case you missed it - the Trusty to Xenial release upgrades fail and can't be recovered from. I checked later yesterday a

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Beta 1 Testing] Your Help Is Needed

failed. I retried and now there is a i386 image with the upower bug fix, no amd64 image as yet though > > On 24/02/16 12:26, Ali/amjjawad wrote: >> Hi Lance and everyone else, >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Erick Brunzell mailto:lbsol...

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Beta 1 Testing] Your Help Is Needed

On 24/02/16 16:33, Tim wrote: > Ali's respins failed. I retried and now there is a i386 image with the upower bug fix, no amd64 image as yet though > > On 24/02/16 12:26, Ali/amjjawad wrote: >> Hi Lance and everyone else, >> >>

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Beta 1 Testing] Your Help Is Needed

On 02/23/2016 05:42 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, I am extremely busy in real life and not in good health (back/neck problems) as I'm about to shift houses for the 4th or 5th times in 2 years so you can imagine :) However, living in pain is easier than NOT supporting Ubuntu GNOME. So please,

Re: Fwd: Preparing for 14.04.4 release on Feb 18

On 02/10/2016 09:07 PM, Tim wrote: On 11/02/16 11:06, Erick Brunzell wrote: Just a heads-up. As you can see 14.04.4 has been delayed another week and hopefully the trusty-proposed repos will be disabled in the iso's by Saturday. This is important because I'm tracking two bugs that

Fwd: Xenial Xerus Beta 1 - Flavour Participation

Another heads-up. Just one week after 14.04.4 we have the option of participating in Xenial Beta 1. Just one month later comes Beta 2 which we must do, but if we plan on having a Beta 1 someone needs to step up and handle the release announcement & release notes as well as voicing our desire to

Fwd: Preparing for 14.04.4 release on Feb 18

Just a heads-up. As you can see 14.04.4 has been delayed another week and hopefully the trusty-proposed repos will be disabled in the iso's by Saturday. This is important because I'm tracking two bugs that I believe may be fixed with packages from proposed but still present w/o proposed. Also,

Trusty 4th point release the 11th

This is just a heads up. I made an inquiry a little over a week ago: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2016-January/003518.html We'll need someone to handle the release notes, announcements, etc. I suppose some download links and info may need to be changed in our documentation?

Re: Website request: include an easy-to-get-to link to downloads

On 11/16/2015 03:17 PM, Steve Lorimer wrote: Hi Ali. The way I explained how to download Ubuntu Gnome wasn't an attempt to help people find the download link. It was a step-by-step run down of the process I had to go through in order to find the link as a newcomer to the distro and the websit

Re: Website request: include an easy-to-get-to link to downloads

I'm cc'ing the QA mailing list and Ali so we can consider any changes needed. I do rather prefer that we always link to the release notes in hopes that users will read them (particularly known issues). How much work would it be to add a tree view of quick links at the upper right of our release

Re: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.

Good morning Nick, On 11/07/2015 01:19 AM, Nick Els wrote: I'm not able to get the Ubuntu-Gnome setup to run from the USB stick. I've disabled UEFI in the bios and disabled windows 10 fast start feature. when selecting the USB stick as the boot source then the boot source is being accessed th

Re: Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 Bugs

On 10/19/2015 08:12 PM, ty wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it would be OK to share bugs that I've found in Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 here. I would have created a bug report on Launchpad, but I've never filed a bug report before by myself and am unfamiliar with the steps and/or what issues should or sh

Re: Malware in Ubuntu-Gnome?

On 09/20/2015 11:32 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: I want to ask if desktop search surveillance is included or excluded in Gnome variant of Ubuntu, and what references endorse answers to this question; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html AFAIK that "malware" (I prefer to call it

Re: Wiki pages updated with an Upgrade HowTo

On 09/19/2015 07:26 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote: Hey everyone, a small contribution from me: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/HowTo/UpgradeGnomeShell Learn about how to protect yourself on the internet Why it is important to encrypt your communications

Re: NEW Sub-Teams for Ubuntu GNOME

On 09/10/2015 01:38 AM, Tim wrote: On 10/09/15 09:59, Ali/amjjawad wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Tim mailto:dark...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: Hi Tim and thanks for your reply :) On 10/09/15 06:55, Ali/amjjawad wrote: > I'd like to introduce: > > 1. https://launch

Re: Curtains off

On 08/12/2015 08:35 AM, Alfredo Hernández wrote: Installing LightDM should be relatively easy. I haven't tried it, but some distros (e.g., Antergos) ship GNOME Shell with it instead of GDM. If memory serves correctly when installing lightdm you must be sure to install lightdm-gtk-greeter f

Re: Image size limit

On 08/09/2015 04:38 AM, Tim wrote: What do people think about increasing the size limits on our ISO's, we currently have a 1GB limit set, but that is pretty arbitrary and was mainly intended so the image would fit on 1GB usb key. That seems like a somewhat dated requirement these days, with usb

Re: Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

On 08/05/2015 03:23 PM, Bruce Pieterse wrote: On 03/08/2015 17:10, Patrik Bubák wrote: Thanks a lot, that made things pretty clear. On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:34 -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote: Oopsy - below I said the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 HWE stacks would reach HWE EOL in August 2017

Re: Great News

On 08/05/2015 07:01 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi everyone, Our amazing and brave developer lead (Tim) has become an Ubuntu Desktop Member: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2015-August/004688.html Join me to congratulate him :D That's definitely a plus to our project and communit

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Fwd: Help needed to test 14.04.3

On 08/06/2015 01:09 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, *Reminder: today, is the final day before releasing 14.04.3 .. Please help us and test, thanks!* Hi Ali, It never hurts to test on a wider range of hardware but according to what Adam Conrad said here: https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntug

Re: Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

On 08/03/2015 07:34 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote: Hi lads, I'm not exactly sure how should I proceed if I'm on 14.04.2 and want to upgrade to .3. Will the update be available via the update manager, or is it recommended to rather do a quick re-install of /? No need to reinstall, that would rather

Re: Question regarding the upgrade to 14.04.3

Oopsy - below I said the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 HWE stacks would reach HWE EOL in August 2017. That should have said August 2016!! Sorry for the goof up. Lance On 08/03/2015 09:29 AM, Erick Brunzell wrote: On 08/03/2015 07:34 AM, Patrik Bubák wrote: Hi lads, I'm not exactly

Re: Help needed to test 14.04.3

On 08/02/2015 04:17 AM, Tim wrote: On 02/08/15 18:43, Narcis Garcia wrote: There is a problem about 14.04.2 and above: those .iso versions haven't the support of LTS. Currently I make 14.04.1 installations and upgrade packages from it, and in this way all updates and support will be available f

Re: Dedicated to the drivers/leaders of Ubuntu GNOME sub-teams

Hi Tim and everyone, On 08/02/2015 09:21 PM, Tim wrote: This all seems a little lacking of purpose (or direction), Im guessing your coming at it from a planning perspective, but that is not even mentioned in the email! I am going to suggest that each team leader sends a quick status report to

Re: Someone Tries to Sell Ubuntu GNOME Linux OS on Craigslist for $30

Hi Keith, I suggest we just drop this. Please read below: On 06/22/2015 08:46 AM, Keith I Myers wrote: Hello All, I will be reaching out to this person this afternoon to try to get his side of the story. We will all agree that the posting on CraigsList is extremely vague and leaves A LOT of ro

Re: Need help with Ubuntu not booting next to Windows 7

On 04/25/2015 12:07 PM, Patrik Bubák wrote: Anyone here knows their way around a failed boot? I installed Ubuntu next to Win 7 on an extended partition. After reboot it boots Win normally from GRUB, but not Ubuntu, not even via recovery. If anyone has a bit of spare time please have a look at

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] *URGENT* Testing Vivid (15.04) Final

On 04/22/2015 12:45 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Ali/amjjawad > wrote: Dear all, In case you forgot, we are 2-3 days away from releasing Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 and at the moment, we MUST test: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qa

Two grueling weeks of milestone testing ahead

Hi everyone. First of all I've noticed a couple of new team members introduced themselves in recent days and I'd been too busy to reply to each one, so let me take this moment to say welcome aboard. We can certainly always use a helping hand with any number of tasks. I would make note of one th

Re: [ATTENTION PLEASE] Gentle Final Reminder

Hi Ali, I assume Canonical will have to re-spin the images to fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1417792 If so I'd think we'll also have to re-spin, eh? If we ship with proposed updates enabled by default we're just inviting trouble. I suppose we could

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Urgent Call For Help - Testing 14.04.2 Daily Builds

Hi Ali. I performed just a couple of tests tonight. It's probably worth mentioning that the proposed repos are "turned on" by default ATM via /etc/apt/sources.list.d - this is a common practice with LTS point release daily images. Probably no later than Monday or Tuesday the proposed updates w

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Waiting for image re-spins?

Tim) and we might be on bed ... On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Erick Brunzell <mailto:lbsol...@yahoo.com>> wrote: On 12/17/2014 02:42 PM, Tim wrote: On 17/12/14 23:40, Erick Brunzell wrote: Just curious what's up with the pre-alpha Vivid images. I

Re: [Attention] Ubuntu GNOME QA Team

On 12/18/2014 04:00 AM, Tim wrote: On 18/12/14 06:14, Bruce Pieterse wrote: On 12/16/2014 04:23 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi everyone, I'm going to send this 'before' starting any blueprints for 15.04 cycle. This is part of a plan [1] I have in mind for Ubuntu GNOME as a whole but let's start f

Re: Ubuntu GNOME on distrowatch.com

On 12/08/2014 06:29 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi, http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20141208#news The target this cycle of the marketing team is to spread the word of Ubuntu GNOME. We need more website to talk about us ;) in a good way of course :) Thank you! -- Best Regards, Ali/amjja

Re: Rolling Release

On 12/08/2014 06:34 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: "Ali/amjjawad" writes: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Who is interested to use/run Ubuntu GNOME as a Rolling Release?! For those who are interested, here is how to do that ;) http://ubuntugnome.org/howto-run-u

Re: Updating Ubuntu GNOME Wiki Pages

On 10/25/2014 06:47 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi all, My motto for this cycle will be: "Don't tell me, SHOW me." :) That said, I have lots of ideas in mind - as usual - and I have started already but will take it easy as I don't want to rush things, let's say I have learned to take it easy the

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [July 24th] Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.1

I encountered a minor bug with the QA Tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-website/+bug/1341731 I already gave a shout-out to Edubuntu-devel and stgraber so it should be fixed soon. In the meanwhile the images at cdimage.ubuntu.com are OK. Lance On 07/14/2014 01:57 PM, Ali/amjjawa

Re: Membership in mailing list disabled!

On 04/19/2014 09:26 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Lance > wrote: Maybe Heartbleed related? I'm not sure but hopefully not :) Things like that happens at such period of time. Before/After new release, etc. It happens.

Re: How to install Ubuntu GNOME from a netboot iso ?

On 03/30/2014 04:36 PM, Tim wrote: On 31/03/14 06:47, Erick Brunzell wrote: On 03/30/2014 09:31 AM, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: Hi, I wanted to install Ubuntu GNOME from a standard Ubuntu net boot ISO. once the base system is installed the installer gives one a long list of choices, LAMP server

Re: How to install Ubuntu GNOME from a netboot iso ?

On 03/30/2014 09:31 AM, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: Hi, I wanted to install Ubuntu GNOME from a standard Ubuntu net boot ISO. once the base system is installed the installer gives one a long list of choices, LAMP server, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop etc. Nowhere in this list c

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Urgent] Call for Testing Trusty Tahr Beta 1 Candidate

On 02/28/2014 01:28 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Michael Gratton > wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Ali/amjjawad > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Kindly treat this email and this call

Re: Some General feedback

On 02/16/2014 09:29 AM, Steve Ovens wrote: > > Hi all, > > I thought I would provide some general feedback from my experience > with Ubuntu Gnome. Before this weekend i had no problems with the 3 or > 4 installs i had done. I speculate that is because of the older nature > of the hardware (anywhere

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME Digest, Vol 11, Issue 49

On 01/23/2014 09:47 AM, James Vorderbruggen wrote: > On 01/23/2014 06:00 AM, ubuntu-gnome-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: >> Are you required by Ubuntu to create a LTS? >> >> To me a LTS is not really high priority on this great Gnome distribution, >> as the main reason for selecting Ubuntu GNOME i

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Bug 1228765

On 01/02/2014 11:12 AM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > In most yes. > > But that means that will be a version for Ubuntu GNOME and for Ubuntu. > I mean, Ubuntu GNOME will ship 3.10 g-s and Ubuntu 3.8 if this is not > fixed by Ubuntu Developers? > > All work is focused on GNOME 3.10 for trusty rigth? No 3

Re: [ATTENTION] LTS Release - Urgent Need for More People

On 12/25/2013 02:02 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Erick Brunzell <mailto:lbsol...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > On 12/25/2013 11:12 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:5

Re: [ATTENTION] LTS Release - Urgent Need for More People

On 12/25/2013 11:12 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) > mailto:amjja...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello Ubuntu GNOME Community, > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) > mailto:amjja...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >

Re: [FAQ] Ubuntu GNOME & The Display Server

On 12/20/2013 08:50 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Steve Ovens > wrote: > > Hi Ali, > > > Hi :) > > > > I believe in the FAQ there should be some more detail. I know both > Wayland and Mir are premature, but putting

Re: Flashback (no effects) unusable in Ubuntu GNOME Saucy

press Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) 2GB DDR2 RAM And the "flashback (no effects)" session works OK beginning with either Edubuntu or Ubuntu, just not if I begin with Ubuntu GNOME. Lance > On 27.10.2013 18:43, Erick Brunzell wrote: >> On 10/27/2013 12:13 PM, . wrote: >>&g

Re: Flashback (no effects) unusable in Ubuntu GNOME Saucy

quot;gnome-shell" session whereas the "flashback (no effects)" session is something else altogether and it uses the Metacity window manager rather than Mutter. Lance > On 27.10.2013 17:14, Erick Brunzell wrote: >> On 10/27/2013 07:19 AM, . wrote: >>> Can't view

Re: Flashback (no effects) unusable in Ubuntu GNOME Saucy

ne with a "won't fix" but as I rewrite instructions for tweaking "flashback (no effects)" I do not want to be responsible for spreading any FUD ;^) Thanks in advance, Lance > On 27.10.2013 11:21, Erick Brunzell wrote: >> I had not taken time during the Sau

Flashback (no effects) unusable in Ubuntu GNOME Saucy

I had not taken time during the Saucy dev cycle to test the flashback session with metacity because it's of minimal importance to me, but I do plan on doing a rewrite of this forum thread during the Trusty dev cycle: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370 So I started testing the flashb

Re: Time for LTS (was: Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?)

On 10/03/2013 04:06 AM, Tim wrote: > > On 03/10/13 17:10, Erick Brunzell wrote: >> On 10/02/2013 10:27 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) >>> mailto:amjja..

Re: Time for LTS (was: Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?)

On 10/03/2013 02:21 AM, Joseph Godino wrote: > Hello, > > I think that Ubuntu integrates GNOME into Unity. Over the summer I was > testing Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME classic and I noticed some minor > differences between a pure GNOME and GNOME integrated with Unity. For > example, to close an applicat

Re: Time for LTS (was: Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?)

On 10/02/2013 10:27 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) > mailto:amjja...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Whether this is a shocking news or not, I guess I have to share it > here and read your opinion about this :) > > htt

Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

On 10/02/2013 11:51 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Hi, > > Whether this is a shocking news or not, I guess I have to share it > here and read your opinion about this :) > > http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/ubuntu-1404-lts-to-stay-on-gtkgnome-38.html > > Read the link carefully before replying :) >

Re: Testing

On 09/30/2013 06:05 PM, Joseph Godino wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 00:37 +0400, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Godino >> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I just installed the September 20th daily build of Ubuntu >> GNOME one my >>

Re: [testing] A few bugs I found with Beta 2

On 09/28/2013 01:03 PM, Helder Carreiro wrote: > Hi All, > > This is for Ubuntu-Gnome 13.10 64bit Beta2 > > These might have been posted already, but here goes: > > 1 - Upon completion of fresh install, the note to remove the install > disk, is not there. I don't know about the rest but I last men

Dual-booting with Windows - general info

I'll grant you that dual-booting with Windows up through XP was fairly easy, but even about 20% of puters that shipped with Vista used 4 primary partitions by default. That increased to about 80% with Win 7, and while it's still possible it's definitely problematic. I've only seen a few Win 8 put

Re: Blue text on gray background hard to read

On 09/06/2013 02:11 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 6 September 2013 13:54, Alfredo Hernández > wrote: >> BTW, does anybody know where are Plymouth files located at the LiveUSB? I >> mean, I can change syslinux and test it anytime I want, but I have no clue >> about how to do it with Plymouth (which

Upgrade testing?

I know I've not been much help with iso-testing this cycle due to time constraints and my prior commitment to Lubuntu testing, but I was just looking over the QA iso tracker and I notice that we don't yet have any upgrade tests listed on the QA tracker. Should we not have since we became an offici

Re: Fwd: new install with unetbootin

On 07/14/2013 07:22 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Sorry, forgot to include the list! > > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Erick Brunzell <mailto:lbsol...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > On 07/14/2013 05:59 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >> > I've n

Re: new install with unetbootin

On 07/14/2013 05:59 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Hi James, > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:53 PM, James Freer > wrote: > > I'd be grateful if someone could advise. I've been a Ubuntu/Xubuntu > user since 2007. I want to install ubuntu-gnome but i'm a litt