[Bug 125120] Re: Update Applet pops up nameless window

2007-07-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
** Attachment added: screenshot of the title-less window http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8361566/Bildschirmfoto-synaptic.png -- Update Applet pops up nameless window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 125127] screenshot application should have a button for making new screenshot

2007-07-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: The gnome-screenshot utility should have a button to make a new screenshot. Background: if I want to make an image of a single window (happens quite often), I can't use the Print Screen button, but have to start the screenshot app via Applications - Accessories - Make

[Bug 125134] App Install window shouldnt have both Apply and Ok button

2007-07-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: The App Install dialog (under Applications menu - last entry) currently has an Apply and an OK button; and I'm never sure which one to use to install the apps I have selected. I would rather have an Install selected applications button which installs the apps and then brings

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-07-01 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Some short notes: - after starting Totem under Debian, it has the hue slider at center, and colors are wrong; interestingly, from then on the colors are wrong in other players as well (like in mplayer -vo xv, but not in mplayer -vo x11); starting Totem then and setting the hue slider to leftmost

[Bug 22460] Re: Should be warned of upcoming forced fsck

2007-06-19 Thread Oliver Gerlich
The forced fsck is really annoying, and dropping back to text mode and not being able to easily stop the check makes it worse. I like Huygens suggestions and would formulate it as this: Short-term fix: - don't do the check if laptop runs on battery - make it easier to cancel a check - make it

[Bug 19552] Re: Crash after firefox is opening a new window (when it should open the new URL in the same window/tab) - No More Crash Report Please!

2007-06-18 Thread Oliver Gerlich
In reply to the original bug report: the problem seen in the screen shot seems to come up on different distros; it seems nobody is able to reliably reproduce it... Maybe to narrow down the various bugs behind this bug report: I've experienced this page opens in new window instead of new tab,

[Bug 114443] Lavod portable music player is only detected as Mass Storage Device

2007-05-13 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal When plugging in a Lavod MP3 player, it is only detected as USB disk (Mass Storage Device); i.e. it is not displayed with music player icon, and Rythmbox is not started automatically. The player is a 256MB MP3 player with the name Lavod on its cord.

[Bug 114443] Re: Lavod portable music player is only detected as Mass Storage Device

2007-05-13 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Attached is a .fdi file which makes HAL detect the player as music player. It is based on the contents of the standard 10-usb-music- players.fdi . After putting this file into /etc/hal/fdi/information, restarting HAL, and plugging in the player, it was displayed with Ipod icon, and Rythmbox was

[Bug 112540] Re: backup folder is inaccessible

2007-05-09 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Thanks for the notification. I hope the Debian packagers will remember to change id 117 to something appropriate, as on my Debian Etch system here the id 117 is the powerdev group :-) Are these Group IDs guaranteed to be the same on all Ubuntu installations (also after dist-upgrade and

[Bug 102577] Re: sbackup is very slow when working on many files

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Gerlich
So after some longer pause I looked into this (and into Python) again and noticed that dirs_in is indeed a list, instead of a hash (dictionary), so do_add_file() will inefficiently search through all 200.000+ entries instead of doing a fast hash-lookup. Changing the three occurrences of dirs_in to

[Bug 102577] Re: sbackup is very slow when working on many files

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Yup - already working on that :-D the prev.count() check indeed seems to take lots of time, as it seems to go over the whole list of previous files for every file. Attached is a patch that turns this into a hash lookup: the prev list is copied to a hash (prevHash) after it has been completely

[Bug 45696] Re: NetworkManager can't find interface on resume from suspend

2007-04-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
In my case, it was sufficient to left-click on network-manager icon and select Cable Network again... it then re-requested an IP and succeeded (see Bug #105251). Does this help in your case as well? -- NetworkManager can't find interface on resume from suspend

[Bug 102577] Re: sbackup is very slow when working on many files

2007-04-25 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Attached is some kind of logfile from backing up the 28 files (it's the output of ls -l on the target directory, once a minute). This shows that creating the flist file took around 70 minutes, which is way faster than the original case; but now this was run on a much newer machine (K7 2600+,

[Bug 110113] Backups with very many files make simple-restore-gnome very slow

2007-04-25 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sbackup This is related to Bug #102577 : when using simple-restore-gnome to open the backup file with very many files (actually the same file that was created in #102577), the restore GUI takes many seconds to react when selecting the backup, or when

[Bug 110113] Re: Backups with very many files make simple-restore-gnome very slow

2007-04-25 Thread Oliver Gerlich
While playing with the python profiler mentioned in #102577 (Ouattara: thanks for the link!), I found that the show_dir() function of the GUI calls sre.py:escape() for every file in the whole tree, but always with the same data. Moving this call out of the loop make sthe GUI react much faster. The

[Bug 110113] Re: Backups with very many files make simple-restore-gnome very slow

2007-04-25 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Attached is the profiler output (after some manual preprocessing with pstats) which shows where the time is spent now. This is already with the above escape() patch applied. The time is now mostly spent in sre.py:match() (called 280425 times, ie. once for each file), and in the group() function

[Bug 105291] Re: sensors-applet doesn't recognize newly installed hddtemp

2007-04-24 Thread Oliver Gerlich
[sorry for the late response - had mail problems] I see your point about the high CPU load... but couldn't this be checked when the user opens the settings dialog, or switches between the tabs on the settings dialog. That would make this possible: - user installs hddtemp (because he read

[Bug 102577] Re: sbackup is very slow when working on many files

2007-04-24 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Unfortunately I can't indeed send you the directory names, and don't know a way to create an anonimized directory list. But attached is a script which should create a similar structure: 420 directories at all (in multiple levels), and 28 files in the lowest directories. The files are only 13

[Bug 97534] Re: Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group

2007-04-21 Thread Oliver Gerlich
This also happens on my desktop machine where ACPI is enabled but which obviously has no battery. The energy pref dialog shows two radio boxes, none of them checked. -- Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97534 You received this bug

[Bug 97534] Re: Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group

2007-04-18 Thread Oliver Gerlich
It seems that this problem only happens when ACPI is disabled (on my laptop, ACPI is automatically disabled which is a bug by itself). Starting the laptop with acpi=force causes the battery to be detected, and the energy dialog then displays four checkboxes. The output of lshal with ACPI disabled

[Bug 97534] Re: Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group

2007-04-18 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Attached is also a screenshot of the energy settings tab mentioned. Maybe the problem can be reproduced on other machines by starting with parameter acpi=off . ** Attachment added: The General tab in energy settings, when ACPI is disabled

[Bug 97534] Re: Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group

2007-04-18 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Looks like the energy preferences dialog comes from g-p-m. ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = gnome-power-manager -- Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97534 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 105251] Re: NetworkManager wrongly releases DHCP IP

2007-04-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Syslog output is attached. ** Attachment added: Syslog http://librarian.launchpad.net/7243878/syslog.0 -- NetworkManager wrongly releases DHCP IP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105251 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 105251] NetworkManager wrongly releases DHCP IP

2007-04-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager After resuming my laptop from Suspend-to-disk, NetworkManager failed to give me an IP. Usually it gets an IP from DHCP server without problems; but this one time it failed. First dhclient correctly got an IP: Apr 10 19:32:43 veridian

[Bug 105291] sensors-applet doesn't recognize newly installed hddtemp

2007-04-10 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sensors-applet When sensors-applet is added to the panel and then hddtemp is installed, the applet has to be removed and re-added to panel to recognize the newly available hddtemp daemon. It would be nice if it would recognize the daemon automatically,

[Bug 104388] Files are being backupped again when only permissions have changed

2007-04-08 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sbackup [This is not very grave I think so it should go to the wishlist...] It seems that in incremental backup files are backupped again even if only the permissions or owner has changed. This means that one incremental backup suddenly gets very big

[Bug 102577] sbackup is very slow when working on many files

2007-04-03 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sbackup When backing up a large directory structure (in my case: ~ 28 files, probably many directories, ~ 10 GB of data all in all), sbackup seems to get slower and slower while creating the list of files (i.e. creating the fprops file)... It can

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-29 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Here's what I'm doing right now to reproduce this: - booted from Live CD - ran Totem from Gnome app menu - went to preferences menu and observed that the Hue (Farbton) slider is at leftmost position - opened Firefox and launchpad.net :-) - made a screenshot of the window (it is attached) -

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-29 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Some more info: - updating Totem on the Live CD-booted system to 2.18.0-0ubuntu2 didn't help - I have seen the same wrong behavior on my Debian Testing / Unstable system (not sure about the exact Totem version); same wrong behavior when starting Totem there as user or as root - when booting the

[Bug 97534] Energy management dialog displays unchecked radiobox group

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: The gnome-power-preferences applet displays on its second page (General) two radioboxes (Never display an icon and Always display an icon), but none of the two radioboxes are checked. If the user checks one, he can't revert to the original state anymore. So the user doesn't

[Bug 97549] Screensaver preferences don't show default screen saver on Live CD

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver The gnome-screensaver-preferences dialog on Live CD (Feisty Beta) doesn't have any screensaver marked as default. Yet apparently there _is_ a screensaver set as default, because when setting the timeout to 1 minute and waiting a minute,

[Bug 97571] Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem This is with Feisty Beta (Live CD): when clicking the Reset to Defaults button in Preferences - Display, the Hue slider is moved to center position (same as the other three sliders), while originally it was at leftmost position. Also, the video

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037487/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037488/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037489/ProcStatus.txt -- Reset

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Holy shit... why does this evil bug reporting app put the name and path of the played file publicly into the bug report?? This is not very funny :-/ Could somebody remove/change the ProcCmdline here please? ** Description changed: Binary package hint: totem This is with Feisty Beta (Live

[Bug 97571] Re: Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value

2007-03-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Never mind... found the Edit button on top :-) -- Reset button in Color Balance controls sets Hue to wrong value https://launchpad.net/bugs/97571 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 44535] Re: multiple scrollkeeper-update makes apt upgrade very slow

2007-02-21 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Btw. as I haven't noticed any advantage from having scrollkeeper running, it is currently disabled here, by moving /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update away and instead creating a dummy symlink instead, with: ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update Works fine so far :-) -- multiple

[Bug 83062] Package should install an image by default

2007-02-03 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-splashimages Wishlist: it would be nice if this package would install a splash image per default. I found this package (and how to use it) at http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/add-a-grub-splash-image/ , and it would be nice if normal users

[Bug 54262] Re: Don't drop alsaconf

2007-02-03 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Before dropping it, please see that its functionality is replaced. For Gnome users, I hear that it is. Can you explain what tool is available under Gnome for this? I'm currently trying to set up an old laptop where Ubuntu fails to load a working ALSA sound driver, and hoped to get some info from

[Bug 44535] Re: multiple scrollkeeper-update makes apt upgrade very slow

2006-11-04 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Thanks for the Spoon hint. But it seems that that project will still take some time to replace scrollkeeper. So as my laptop is (yet again) being stuck during an update, and two scrollkeeper-update processes are burning all CPU cycles, I'm wondering if it's possible to completely disable

[Bug 42062] Re: Dapper-Live-CD ignores selection of 16 bit color

2006-11-04 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Yes, I have been testing this with current Edgy live cd, and it still starts at 24 bit even when 16 bit is selected, and screen drawing (like dragging around a window) is still very laggy. I wonder which application generates the xorg.conf at boot? -- Dapper-Live-CD ignores selection of 16 bit

[Bug 57763] Re: If ubiquity disables swap during installation, system may become unusable

2006-08-28 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Then maybe it would be possible to check if ( (free memory) - (used swap) 0 ) and give a warning if the swap contents won't fit into memory? In my case I had firefox open in the background; if I had been given a warning, I could have closed FF first and (probably) avoided the freeze. -- If

[Bug 57763] If ubiquity disables swap during installation, system may become unusable

2006-08-25 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Public bug reported: If Ubuntu activates an existing swap partition during LiveCD boot, ubiquity disables the swap in the partitioning stage (at least when choosing manual partitioning). If there's not enough RAM available, disabling the swap partition will make the system unusable - even

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