Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repo speed

2019-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
> already known about? This is known and being worked on. (I'm not involved myself so don't have a lot to add beyond that - I've just seen it going past on internal channels.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] launchpad and ubuntu

2018-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
o start with, so I'm not sure how you managed this. Normally the private key is mode 600 and the public key is mode 644. The default permissions for files are 644 rather than 755, unless you're on an unusual filesystem. (755 indicates executability, so programs and dir

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 18.04 on line updates not available yet

2018-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
oblems. > Anything to do with the last minute bug that was found (and fixed) on release > day? No - that was confined to ubiquity (the installer), and is unrelated to upgrades. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] AMD APU support in 18.04

2017-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
f the 4.15 kernel is a pre-requisite and 18.04 > uses 4.14, will this make support for AMD APUs in 18.04 less than stellar? https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-December/040061.html says that 4.15 is "tentatively" going to be the baseline

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Update Manager not informing Me of LTS upgrade

2012-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
ose listed in http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts-development, i.e. -d => 12.04. Upgrades to 12.04 will become available to 10.04 users by default (i.e. without -d) when 12.04.1 is released. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
aware of it. It's been available since Ubuntu 7.04, although we may not have done a great job of advertising it at various points. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2012-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
need additional multiarch metadata in the Ubuntu archive, though; there's a lot to do here. * There's always the option of using a 32-bit chroot if need be, although it's obviously not ideal. schroot can help with the mechanics of using one. -- Colin Watson

Re: [ubuntu-uk] cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2012-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
" > > gives > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSvg.so.4 > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSvg.so.4.7 > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSvg.so.4.7.4 > > So it seems that the directory is there but its not being seen. No, if kbide is a 32-bit application, then you need to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precise Pangolin Release Party - London, 26th April

2012-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
and how late I want to stay, I might not say no to a real-ale splinter party ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] uname -a for 32 bit os on 64 bit cpu

2011-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
w specifically about the running kernel. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which boot options on the live CD?

2011-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
> options the knoppix system booted with? cat /proc/cpuinfo But this may be a red herring; kernel differences may matter more, or it could be something else depending on exactly what's going on. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2011-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
be affected by that, and in any case I would be inclined to apply Occam's Razor. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Party Party

2011-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
s :D Hmm? What's going wrong with the desktop image for you? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu .....

2011-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
anks! > I'm writing to ask you to consider a review on click after next > April's release. I'm not sure what you mean here. What's a "review on click"? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unmap f11 & f12 keys from mouseclicks

2009-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
gurable in the /etc/default/mouseemu file. If you want to remove this altogether, you can just remove the mouseemu package. (Unfortunately the installer can only tell whether you're on a Mac, not whether you have a one-button mouse or something better ...) -- Colin Watson

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

2009-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 04:20:14PM +, Ian Betteridge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > As I recently wrote on the sounder list: Adobe are entirely aware of the > > existence of Ubuntu, and we are expressly forbidden from distributing > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

2009-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
witch between implementations to try them out. Yes, Gnash is still rather crashy at times. The only way it will improve is if people report those bugs. We've spoken with the Gnash developers; they are incredibly keen to do everything they can to make it work wel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mbr removal command

2007-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
ition numbers start at 1 under Linux; there are no "xxx0" devices for disks. You're perhaps thinking of "/dev/sda", which accesses the whole disk. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues with APT installing dependencies?

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
; then future system upgrades will preserve this. (For a prepackaged LAMP server, you may want to try 'sudo tasksel install lamp-server', which happens to fill some of your needs right off the bat.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get distupgrade (to gutsy)

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
> subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation > fault), core dumped > " I have no idea what's going on here. I can tell you that it's very unlikely to be debconf's fault; debconf is written in pure Perl and such code is not supposed to be *able*

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get distupgrade (to gutsy)

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
for Ubuntu 8.04 (though it's early days and that's not a promise!). That would take care of the main root problem without creating a rod for our own backs further down the line. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It's the simple things that baffle me...

2007-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
ed), this > equals escape sequence isn't always followed by 20, it can have other > characters or just be at the end of a line for example. This is called "quoted-printable" encoding, in case that helps you find a tool to decode it. (As somebody else pointed out, mutt does t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive

2007-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:27:21AM +0100, Tom Bamford wrote: > I believe it's better to use ntfs-3g rather than ntfs as the filesystem > type, unless they mean the same thing now. They mean the same thing in Gutsy, but I'd be inclined to stick with just ntfs in Feisty.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do kernel builds etc determine the UUID of the root partition?

2007-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
ne) and consequently it wouldn't > reboot without a bit of fiddling. You missed a spot in menu.lst. See the "# kopt=" line (yes, it looks like a comment; don't uncomment it, just edit the root= bit). Run update-grub when you've finished to test it. -- Colin Watson

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubunter installer

2007-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
you via a moderation message from ubuntu-devel, they mean that you're subscribed to one of the *-changes mailing lists which receives notifications of all changes developers make to the respective Ubuntu releases. If you don't want to receive them, then unsubscribe from those mailing lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

2007-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
t; Gaim, etc). We all just dropped in and out whenever work or other > commitments allowed. We had (IIRC) #ubuntu-releaseparty on Freenode last time round. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re-installs - How do exp users do it?

2007-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
l experts just upgrade, and that's what we (the Ubuntu development team) recommend. You should only need to reinstall if you've really screwed up your system and can't figure out how to get it back. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

2007-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
oper (see xorg/debian/rules, for instance), and the Pembury's a fine pub. I second that recommendation. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

2007-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
operating system on your > > laptop over breakfast it would make good press. > > Or just install feisty and then dist-upgrade to gutsy repeatedly until > the night before or the morning of the release. Not so press-friendly though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for Gutsy?

2007-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
advance, otherwise you end up with the "OMG, Ubuntu is five minutes late to release!!!1!" thing, which gets annoying. :-) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu to dual-boot (partition sizes)

2007-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
fine for now. In the future (Ubuntu 7.10 and on) we should be able to support writing to NTFS as well. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/