[Bug 205496] Re: [Hardy]Xsane needs root to operate scanner

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Sander
Same here, Canon CanoScan N 650U. Works if I change the permissions of the device node: $ sudo chown root:scanner /dev/bus/usb/003/003 the output of lshal is attached (just the part about the scanner though. ck-list-sessions gives no output. I guess this is because I don't use kdm or gnome. I us

[Bug 205496] Re: [Hardy]Xsane needs root to operate scanner

2008-05-23 Thread Martin Sander
Installing libpam-ck-connector, and sudo sh -c 'echo session optional pam_ck_connector.so >> /etc/pam.d/login' did it for me. Took me some time to find out the second part, though.. -- [Hardy]Xsane needs root to operate scanner https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205496 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 154284] Re: faulty and fragile version detection for ghostscript

2008-05-28 Thread Martin Sander
fixed in upstream release 0.91.2, which is in hardy. ** Changed in: matplotlib (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- faulty and fragile version detection for ghostscript https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154284 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 190515] Re: [Hardy] Low bandwidth with rt2400 / rt2500 drivers

2008-08-30 Thread Martin Sander
It seems to depend on the wireless access point you are using, too. pre-up iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M worked for me when I used a T-Sinus 1054 DSL AP (shipped by T-Online in Germany), but with the "Arcor-DSL Wlan-Modem 200" built by Zyxel, the bandwidth was as low as ever. However, thanks to Cedri

[Bug 137258] Re: xdvi alternative is broken in gutsy

2007-10-22 Thread Martin Sander
Had the same problem. Fixed it myself with $ sudo update-alternatives --set xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin -- xdvi alternative is broken in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137258 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu

[Bug 152580] Re: Upgrade to gutsy beta crashes because of insufficient disc space

2007-10-17 Thread Martin Sander
Confirmed. Workarounds: a) resize the partition containing /, or /var/ or /usr. or b) mv /var/cache/apt to a different partion and make a symlink to it or c) mv /var/cache/apt to a different partition and edit /etc/apt/apt.conf with the following line: Dir::Cache::archives "/path/to/your/archive/d

[Bug 154284] Re: faulty and fragile version detection for ghostscript

2007-10-19 Thread Martin Sander
or /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:390ff command = 'gs --version' stdin, stdout = os.popen4(command) line = stdout.readlines()[0] v = line.split()[0] as: $ gs --version 8.61 Maybe regex would be the right way though. -- faulty and fra

[Bug 114707] Re: matplotlib pdf generation fails with tex text

2007-10-19 Thread Martin Sander
pdf seems to be not officially supported, see: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html I'd recommend using eps and converting with ps2pdf. -- matplotlib pdf generation fails with tex text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114707 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 125739] Re: mpg123 and mpg321 won't play audio preview in Nautilus (Gutsy)

2007-10-21 Thread Martin Sander
I don't use gnome, so I have no problem with that mouseover stuff, yet I want to use mpg123 on the command line, and it failed with: Creating link /home/me/.kde/socket-mymachine. can't create mcop directory So I found this bugreport here. It seems that mpg123 wants to use arts, but since upgr

[Bug 154284] Re: faulty and fragile version detection for ghostscript

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Sander
This is fixed upstream in 0.91.2. Guess we won't see that one in Hardy, will we? -- faulty and fragile version detection for ghostscript https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154284 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 125739] Re: mpg123 and mpg321 won't play audio preview in Nautilus (Gutsy)

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Sander
As I wrote earlier: $ echo 'default_driver=oss' >> ~/.libao See libao.conf (5). If /etc/libao.conf exists on your system that might be your problem. See my above post. -- mpg123 and mpg321 won't play audio preview in Nautilus (Gutsy) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125739 You received this bug

[Bug 160683] Re: vmware-server: Package requests recursive update

2007-11-15 Thread Martin Sander
confirmed, 1.0.4-1feisty1. Really annoying. Consider deactivating the commercial repositories until this gets fixed... -- vmware-server: Package requests recursive update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is t

[Bug 83753] Re: Ignores/Forgets Paper Size Setting

2007-06-11 Thread Martin Sander
Same here. acroread also ignores the settings made with the cups web interface (http://localhost:631). It could be a problem with the gtk printing dialogue as it also happens with firefox, although this can be fixed by the setting "print.postscript.paper_size" in about:config. -- Ignores/Forge

[Bug 58002] Re: Some programs create root-owned files in user $HOME when run under sudo

2007-04-18 Thread Martin Sander
Hey, bug #93449 is a duplicate of this one, but as here it hasn't gotten a lot of attention recently. Could somebody file a bug where it is more appropriate? Obviously it is not vim's fault, so maybe it should be a sudo-bug.. I have spent some hours banging my head against the wall today trying

[Bug 93449] Re: Wrong .viminfo creation permissions when running "sudo vim"

2007-04-18 Thread Martin Sander
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 58002 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58002 confirmed. this is a duplicate of bug #58002, it has been pointed out there that it is not a bug of vim, but of the usage of sudo in general. Another workaround: use $ sudo -H foo.txt or $ sudoedit foo.txt **

[Bug 463536] Re: msmtp-gnome is not installable

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Sander
Workaround for users: $ sudo apt-get source msmtp $ cd msmtp-1.4.17 $ sudo apt-get build-dep msmtp $ vi debian/control # remove gnome-keyring-manager dependency and trailing comma on the previous line $ sudo apt-get install devscripts $ dch -i # put in a random comment to prevent the package to b

[Bug 525375] Re: msmtp-gnome uninstallable on karmic

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Sander
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463536 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463536 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 463536 msmtp-gnome is not installable * You can subscribe to bug 463536 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msmtp/+bug/463536/+

[Bug 463536] Re: msmtp-gnome is not installable

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Sander
This was fixed in debian in 1.4.18-2, current version for Maverick is 1.4.20-1. ** Changed in: msmtp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- msmtp-gnome is not installable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 257135] Re: notify-send(1) can't replace an existing notification

2011-01-29 Thread Martin Sander
Workaround: hack something together in ruby/python/. As I have done here: https://github.com/marvinthepa/cake/blob/master/bin/notify (probably not idiomatic Ruby, I know much more Python and Perl..). Maybe I will add the missing stuff so that it is fully backward-compatible to notify-send and c