2008/8/6 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip If it
does get fixed, how might we know when it has been? (Apart from trying
an upgrade and holding our breath?!?)
Hi Mac,
You can always Subscribe to a bug, then Launchpad will send you an
email when the bug is updated. That way, you can see what is
2008/8/7 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Have you considered joining the bug squad?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad You sound like you may have found your
itch. You shouldn't need much more than a little technical knowledge and
only need to donate what time you wish to donate, but maybe by joining
Well I've managed to at least confirm a couple of bugs for now (by
reproducing them), and I'm having a look to see all the normal kind of
information required etc. to have a go at a full triaging.
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
2008/8/6 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip If it
does get fixed, how might we know when it has been? (Apart from trying
an upgrade and holding our breath?!?)
You can always Subscribe to a bug, then Launchpad will send you an
email when the bug is updated. That way, you can
2008/8/8 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Neil Greenwood wrote:
You can always Subscribe to a bug, then Launchpad will send you an
email when the bug is updated. That way, you can see what is happening
to it and don't need the trial-and-error approach to seeing if it's
fixed.
Thanks very much! (I'm
Here we go again. During the final testing to make sure that Edubuntu
was working correctly before handing the machine to my granddaughter,
when a new problem occurred. All worked well, as administrator, but when
I logged out and then tried to log in as my granddaughter an error
message appeared
Hello again Norman,
I'm sorry to see you seem to be hitting many problems.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:32 +0100, norman wrote:
The point I am making is that the software causing the problem was
installed by default, causing a problem which had been well documented
but that nothing appears to
norman wrote:
Here we go again... I will not bore you with the many difficulties I have
encountered, please just accept that, because I like the ideas behind
Ubuntu, I am prepared to try to find ways around them. If I depended on
the use of the computer for my living I probably would not be so
James Westby wrote:
I'm sorry to see you seem to be hitting many problems.
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Is
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749394
the problem to which you refer?
That's a good deal more useful than my reply to Norman -- for which, in
retrospect, I feel I should apologise: he could do
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:49 +0100, Mac wrote:
That's a good deal more useful than my reply to Norman -- for which, in
retrospect, I feel I should apologise: he could do without getting a
philosophical reflection when what he needs is help.
I did agree with what you said. I was also
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Norman I really sympathise with you about this, and I have had
similar irritations and exasperations (mostly with wifi and printers).
I guess, after a while, I've tended to think, Well, the person who
writes and maintains this software is probably doing it for free, in
between
I'm sorry to see you seem to be hitting many problems.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:32 +0100, norman wrote:
The point I am making is that the software causing the problem was
installed by default, causing a problem which had been well documented
but that nothing appears to have been done
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:08 +0100, norman wrote:
Yes it is and no, I can find no bug report but then, is it really a bug?
Yeah, it's a bug somewhere in all likely hood. I'm not exactly
sure where, but filing it against italc would be a good start.
Norman,
Have you considered joining the bug squad?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad You sound like you may have found your
itch. You shouldn't need much more than a little technical knowledge and
only need to donate what time you wish to donate, but maybe by joining
this group you may start to
Have you considered joining the bug squad?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad You sound like you may have found your
itch. You shouldn't need much more than a little technical knowledge and
only need to donate what time you wish to donate, but maybe by joining
this group you may start to get
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you considered joining the bug squad?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad You sound like you may have found your
itch. You shouldn't need much more than a little technical knowledge and
only need to donate what time you wish to
Slightly off topic, but what kind of coding knowledge would someone need
to be a worthwhile participant in the bug team? I'm planning to try
learning several languages in the future (I only know some basic C# and
python at the moment), and so I'm wondering what to concentrate on to be
able to
2008/8/7 Dark Otter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slightly off topic, but what kind of coding knowledge would someone need
to be a worthwhile participant in the bug team? I'm planning to try
learning several languages in the future (I only know some basic C# and
python at the moment), and so I'm
I have used Ubuntu for almost 4 years and, from to time, there have been
discussions on how to encourage the wider use of the package. The common
recurring theme refers to ease of use and reliability and, after all
this time, there are still most annoying defects rearing their ugly
heads.
i think i would sacrifice 2 and halfs for 6 months of no virus scanning and
pop ups!!!
On 06/08/2008, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used Ubuntu for almost 4 years and, from to time, there have been
discussions on how to encourage the wider use of the package. The common
recurring
2008/8/6 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I have sounded off but this sort of thing should not be allowed to
happen and I would be grateful if someone, who knows their way around
the Canonical set up, could bring this to the attention of someone who
cares about the future of Ubuntu.
Norman
It
Norman, while I agree with you to some extent.
1: Have you tried running the XP - Vista upgrade? VERRY Messy -
resulted in a re-format for me.
2: 4 Years! Something must be keeping you with us :)
There are a lot of issues with Windows Mac Ubuntu and various other
distros. Some of them really
David Futcher wrote:
It would probably be a good idea to bring this to the attention of the core
developers, who are in charge of packages like this.
David Norman mentioned the bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/249340
which seems to have been
2008/8/6 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Futcher wrote:
It would probably be a good idea to bring this to the attention of the
core
developers, who are in charge of packages like this.
David Norman mentioned the bug report at
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Mac wrote:
BTW, has anyone else here hit this problem with the upgrade from Gutsy
(but 2.6.22-15 rather than 2.6.22-14) hanging at nearly the end of the
process while setting locales?
I wouldn't know - I have upgraded from Feisty-Gutsy-Hardy
On 06/08/2008, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, has anyone else here hit this problem with the upgrade from Gutsy
(but 2.6.22-15 rather than 2.6.22-14) hanging at nearly the end of the
process while setting locales?
I hit the problem recently while upgrading my Dad's computer, which
hadn't
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, has anyone else here hit this problem with the upgrade from Gutsy
(but 2.6.22-15 rather than 2.6.22-14) hanging at nearly the end of the
process while setting locales?
I always do a fresh reinstall. However on my Dad's laptop I
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:20 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
In my experience, once a bug has been tagged as incomplete,
basically the package maintainer is washing his hands of it and won't
even provide the bug reporters with a list of what extra information
is required to complete/confirm the bug
Mac wrote:
BTW, has anyone else here hit this problem with the upgrade from Gutsy
(but 2.6.22-15 rather than 2.6.22-14) hanging at nearly the end of the
process while setting locales?
I wouldn't know - I have upgraded from Feisty-Gutsy-Hardy ... I had
problems after Hardy
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BTW, has anyone else here hit this problem with the upgrade from Gutsy
(but 2.6.22-15 rather than 2.6.22-14) hanging at nearly the end of the
process while setting locales?
I raised the question on the ubuntu-users list and the answer is yes,
several people have reported the problem
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