[Bug 231236] Re: libtotem-plparser10 Will not install.

2008-05-17 Thread mr.goose
Problem reported, discussed analysed and fixed in less than 24 hours!
That is very impressive. Well done & thanks to everyone concerned! Shame
a certain Redmond-based corporation can't do that. Ah well! :-)

Anyway, I just did "sudo apt-get update" & "sudo apt-get upgrade" on all
4 of our local Ubuntu-based machines and they all are fixed. Lovely!
Thanks again.

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[Bug 104542] Re: Error in 'Version Upgrade': Could not download the release announcement

2007-10-20 Thread mr.goose
And me.  Is this a poorly mirrored repository issue, perhaps?

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[Bug 104542] Re: Error in 'Version Upgrade': Could not download the release announcement

2007-10-20 Thread mr.goose
A screengrab - if that helps...

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[Bug 154532] Similar issues here whilst trying to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-21 Thread mr.goose
Very similar issues here, discovered whilst attempting to upgrade from
Feisty to Gutsy...

==
warning: could not initiate dbus
current dist not found in meta-release file
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 91, in 
app.main(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 
1017, in main
gtk.main()
KeyboardInterrupt
==

I checked my "/var/lib/update-manager/meta-release" file and it's fine.

Any ideas?

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[Bug 130985] Re: Error "Could not download the release announcement. Please check that your internet connection is active." When internet connection is functional

2007-10-21 Thread mr.goose
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 104542 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104542

I get it upgrading from Feisty to Gusty. I have never attempted to
upgrade to any pre-release versions of Gutsy. Seems this is a fairly
widely experienced bug. I have posted more details in 154532.

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[Bug 104542] Re: Error in 'Version Upgrade': Could not download the release announcement

2007-10-21 Thread mr.goose
May also be related to bug 104542 perhaps?

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[Bug 104542] Re: Error in 'Version Upgrade': Could not download the release announcement

2007-10-21 Thread mr.goose
Sorry I meant bug 154532. Been round in circles trying to fix this and I
am going quite crazy! Apologies!

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[Bug 105620] Re: dvb-t DMX SET PES FILTER: Function not implemented

2007-11-03 Thread mr.goose
So how does one stop Kaffeine using an ioctl on non existent devices?

Interestingly I have a Peak DVB-T stick using the "dvb-usb-wt220u-
zl0353-01.fw" firmware and that works great on Kaffeine.

But I can't get my DEC2000-T to play on Kaffeiine or Klear. (though it
will tune on Kaffeine). But I can get sound only on the DEC2000-t using
GXine, if I wait a few minutes.

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[Bug 529882] Re: user switch crashes with process termination (lucid alpha)

2010-04-09 Thread mr.goose
Sadly, when I swap user and the screen goes blank, I cannot get a text
console using Control-Alt+F1 either.

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[Bug 401126] Re: Realtek RTL8192SE WLAN Card Fails to work on Medion Akoya E1312 Netbook

2009-10-22 Thread mr.goose
@ Dmanges et al.
I was also tearing out my hair over this. 

I been working on a brand new Novatech Explora that my mother is going
to use. I recently installed Karmic Koala beta, in order to make the
wired network work - which it now does. Shortly afterwards, Karmic was
upgraded to the release candidate, earlier today. This RC has the
2.6.31-14 kernel.

And needless to say, when I tried to get the wireless network to work,
the rtl8192se driver would not compile whatever I did. G!!!

So I tried a different tack. In a nutshell, instead of "sudoing" the
compilation commands, I used the switch user command, thus: sudo su.
Then I ran make & make install.

Whilst the compile part still threw up a couple of warnings, the install
part worked perfectly and now I too have a fully working rtl8192se
wireless network.

To reiterate, cd to the directory containing your extracted driver files
and then do this:-

sudo su
make
make install

I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone else. And I'd be even
more interested to learn WHY it works! :-)

@ David Woo: Thanks for all your efforts on this. People like you really
do make the Internet a better place IMHO.

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[Bug 401126] Re: Realtek RTL8192SE WLAN Card Fails to work on Medion Akoya E1312 Netbook

2009-10-23 Thread mr.goose
@ Fiat1100d. Sorry to hear you still have problems.

Interestingly I just looked at dmesg and it seems I'm also getting some dmesg 
errors - though not the same as you:-
 6123.160234] ===rtl8192se_update_ratr_table: ff5
[ 6123.160243] ===>set to B/G mode

However, the device itself seems to be working perfectly. In fact, I
just done a 300MB upgrade to my system. And I been listening to internet
radio almost all day, without issue, via
http://www.garfnet.org.uk/internetradio

And I'm sending this message from the very same machine.

Seems the driver is still a bit buggy though. There may also be a
separate kernel problem in your case, because Googling this it seems the
SW-IOMMU issue seems to be fairly common with other cards too, from
kernel 2.6.15 onwards.

Which Kernel version are you using? Is it 32 or 64 bit?

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[Bug 449839] Re: I can't scan for new dvb-t channels. All buttons are disabled.

2009-10-24 Thread mr.goose
Same here. Just upgraded. Downloaded the scan data. But still unable to
scan channels. Buttons grayed out as described by last poster.

My card is a LifeView Duo (Philips Semiconductors
SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder). It has worked
perfectly since Gutsy.

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[Bug 669761] Re: Ubuntu can only access the internal memory but not the the flash card on Olympus LS5 & LS11 series.

2011-01-09 Thread mr.goose
Can anyone shed any light on this please?

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[Bug 680444] Re: dbus-daemon eats 100% cpu and is not responsive

2011-09-12 Thread mr.goose
Further to my last, seems kpackagekitsmarticon is not always the
culprit. I'm finding that killing kpackagekitsmarticon does not always
solve the problem. It would appear that a number of other applications,
including Firefox and Thunderbird can lead to dbus going bonkers too.

Ho hum. Back to the proverbial drawing board...

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[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-08 Thread mr.goose
For those who dislike Unity intensely but do not want to leave the
Ubuntu community (yet) here are couple of possible workarounds that
might offer you the familiar look-and-feel you require.:-

1. sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
This will install the beautiful-looking and Windows7-like KDE4 desktop. The 
start button is in the right place. The pop up applications menu, the task bar 
and status area all make sense. And you can have the desktop as a desktop or a 
folder or an app or widget or slideshow - your choice. In fact most people I 
show it to ask if it's a new version of Windows! Most of KDE's notorious early 
issues have been resolved. Basically KDE4 was released long before it was 
ready.  But it's OK now.

pros:- Familiar look-and-feel; very feature-rich; very pretty; highly
customisable; shed-loads of eye-candy; lots of extensibility; super KDE
apps available (though you can run these on other desktops too); ; my
girlfriend likes it - so does my bro.

cons:- Can be a bit resource hungry; you really need a decent machine,
especially if you want to use all the whirling desktop cubes and wobbly
windows and stuff;  there are still a few annoying minor bugs that
remain unresolved.

Not sure if this is a pro or a con:- After you have used KDE 4 for a
while, and customised it to your liking, all other desktops, including
Macs might seem crude, or lacking in functionality. My g/f has to use a
Mac at work and frequently comes home complaining about all the "Things
the bloody Mac won't do!"

2. sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
This installs the simple but stable XFCE desktop. This is fairly customisable 
but generally has the look and feel of a plain vanilla Windows 95 desktop. XFCE 
can be beautified. However, my experience is that many XFCE users are not 
interested in beautiful desktops. They just want to look at the web or read 
their email etc., with the least amount of hassle or delay.

Pros:- Very stable, very simple; very familiar look and feel; does not hog 
resources; doesn't get in the way; Linus Torvalds uses it; my mum likes it. 
Cons:- It's a bit plain-looking.

FWIW, I chose option 1 (KDE) for my desktops/laptops and option 2 (XFCE)
for servers, for most of my customers and for elder family members. I
have just one customer still determined to give Unity a fair go, and
even he's considering dumping it.

HTH, best wishes, G.

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[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-09 Thread mr.goose
@Tal Liron...

I was not offering a solution to the core issues raised by this bug. I
was careful to describe my suggestions merely as "possible workarounds".
Having completely dumped Windows in favour of Ubuntu back in 2007, Unity
was very bad news indeed for us. We have paying customers who depend on
Ubuntu, that describe Unity as a "worse than Windows experience" or
"Ubuntu's Vista". Therefore we had the stark choice of finding some
viable workarounds or dumping Ubuntu altogether.

I agree with you that forcing a half-finished desktop on users is a very
bad idea - something the KDE devs have very much learnt the hard way.
However, I'm not sure I would agree that Unity is a "terrific desktop"
though. At least with early, buggy incarnations of KDE 4, one could see
that once the bugs were fixed and features properly implemented, that
KDE4 would be a great desktop. And it is.

The situation with Unity is entirely different, IMHO. What we see with
Unity is a crude, Fisher-Price style interface, with loads of really
stupid annoying features that get in the way of doing any serious work,
e.g. the disappearing scroll bars and menu bars. These features are
stupid and annoying. Users hate them. Regardless of how much polish they
apply to Unity, these features will *always* be stupid and annoying.

Added to which, whilst I am a great admirer of Mark Shuttleworth, I
think he is presenting himself very badly in this instance. Frankly, he
comes across as arrogant and uncaring. As you put it at top of this
thread, rather more politely , "This appears to be a communications
failure between the people who make Unity and its community of users."

The knock-on effects of this communications failure should not be 
underestimated. This article by Scott Gilbertson in The Register entitled "Sick 
of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead" sums up the situation far 
better that I can:- 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/30/mint_12_under_the_covers/

And doubtless you have already seen Bruce Byfield's blog in Linux Magazine, 
that discusses this thread:- 
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/A-Disturbing-Dialog-About-Ubuntu-and-Unity

And if that is not enough to indicate that Ubuntu is heading in the wrong 
direction, Distrowatch's page hit ranking now places Ubuntu at #3,  with Mint 
occupying the top slot for the last 12 months:-
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

Like yourself and many other contributors to this thread, I am a huge
Ubuntu fan. I am so very sorry to see it embarking on this path of
wilful ignorance and ultimate self-destruction.

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[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-10 Thread mr.goose
Benjamin.

I took great care in my posts *not* to criticise the state of the Ubuntu
community in any way at all. My criticisms with regard to engagement
were aimed at the seemingly high-handed approach of the leadership and
undesirability of forcing a half-finished and some would argue
fundamentally-flawed desktop on its community of users. Like the o/p and
many other contributors to this thread, I wanted to express my concern
with regard to the damage this course of action is likely to cause.

Clearly, there is a significant number of users for whom Unity is
entirely inappropriate. Therefore I also suggested some safe and
relatively straightforward workarounds so that users could stay with
Ubuntu, whilst using a desktop environment that was much more suited to
their needs.

Finally, now that you mention it, how *do* you measure community
engagement? And what makes you so certain that the Unity fiasco is
really doing no harm?

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[Bug 823699] Re: Critical update to Adobe Flash Player, please update to 10.3.183.5

2011-08-11 Thread mr.goose
Just installed the Flash upgrade as part of routine Ubuntu upgrades.
Flash is now completely broken on all my 64 bit Ubuntu Natty (11.04)
machines.

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[Bug 680444] Re: dbus-daemon eats 100% cpu and is not responsive

2011-09-11 Thread mr.goose
@Alexia, that's a very useful tip. I have tried it on two of my Kubuntu
Natty boxes and it worked both times.

One just needs to remember to leave a terminal open because sometimes
dbus locks up so badly that one cannot actually launch a new
application.

As a matter of interest, where did you find out about
kpackagekitsmarticon?

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[Bug 876286] Re: Libreoffice Calc crashes when sorting spreadsheet tabs

2011-11-28 Thread mr.goose
Simply resizing the worksheets-tabs slot, without even moving the tabs
will crash calc for me! You have to be sure to save your work before
renaming or touching the worksheet tabs in any way because it could
cause Calc to die at any second.

 Very annoying indeed! If you use more than one worksheet in a workbook,
then this bug renders Calc almost unusable!

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[Bug 882524] [NEW] Gnucash Import CSV data corrupts user data file

2011-10-27 Thread mr.goose
Public bug reported:

Whenever one imports CSV data (e.g. Paypal history) , the datafile
becomes corrupt and cannot be reopened.

To reproduce the bug, simply import some CSV accounts data. Close
GnuCash and try to reopen it. The splash screen will hang at "Loading
user data"

Earlier versions of GnuCash were fine. Problem seems to have started
with 2.4.7

GnuCash:
  Installed: 1:2.4.7-1
  Candidate: 1:2.4.7-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.4.7-1 0
 
Ubuntu 11.10

This is actually quite a serious bug because years worth of accounts can
potentially be destroyed.

** Affects: gnucash (Ubuntu)
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 Status: New

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[Bug 882524] Re: Gnucash Import CSV data corrupts user data file

2011-10-27 Thread mr.goose
Here's a tab-delimited text file exported from my PayPal account. It
seems to import fine. But when you save your accounts then restart
GnuCash, the user datafile will not load.

I'm sure I don't need to say this but PLEASE only use the attached file
on a dummy set of accounts. I'd hate anyone to corrupt their real
accounts!

Best wishes, G.


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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-06-10 Thread mr.goose
I can also confirm that using the 275.09.04 drivers package from the
"philip5 ppa" resolved the various issues for me too. In fact it seems
to work remarkably well. No more nasty screen artefacts, no more random
crashes from gnome-terminal or gedit. Whilst I still maintain that
NVIDIA was very slow to investigate the issue, once it actually started
addressing the issue, it has resolved it commendably quickly.

As a side issue, I was interested to note that Philip Johnnson describes
his personal package archive as a "Ubuntu experimental rolling release
repository." By adding his PPA to one's repository list means that one
receives updated versions of many other applications. I'm very
interested to see how that pans out because I have found the concept of
a "rolling version" rather intriguing.

If a rolling edition of (K)Ubuntu eventually comes to pass, then will it
mark the end of rushed, untested versions of (K)Ubuntu, banged out
quick, with serious bugs such as this, just in order to meet artificial
deadlines? Or will it lumber users with more bugs not fewer?
Interesting...

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-06-13 Thread mr.goose
This is a serious issue that has affected a large number of users. In
the total absence of any formal word from the Ubuntu developers, I
personally am very interested to learn of other users' experiences.

Furthermore, I would respectfully suggest that for new and inexperienced
users, uncertain whether they should apply the upgrade or not, the
experience of other people would be of great value in making an informed
decision.

I certainly do not consider users posting their findings conforms to any
definition of "spam" of which I am aware.

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[Bug 584198] Re: search doesn't work after upgrade to lucid

2010-06-29 Thread mr.goose
A bit early to mark this bug as invalid methinks. A space character in a
file name also causes the search to fail! E.g.:-

DEBUG: Opening dialog "Search - Zim"
INFO: Searching for: test
WARNING: Ignoring file: "Info-Nine_Albums_of 
Psychedelic_Rock-Heavy_1968-72.txt" invalid file name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/gui/searchdialog.py", line 48, in 
search
self.results_treeview.set_query( self.query_entry.get_text() )
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/gui/searchdialog.py", line 90, in 
set_query
result = self.searcher.search(self.query)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 205, in search
return self._filter_and(query, query.root, RootSelection(self.notebook))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 214, in _filter_and
selection = selection.filter(key, word, regex)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 144, in filter
tree = page.get_parsetree()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/notebook.py", line 1380, in 
get_parsetree
self._parsetree = self._fetch_parsetree()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/stores/files.py", line 183, in 
_fetch_parsetree
lines = lines or self.source.readlines()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/fs.py", line 575, in readlines
content = file.readlines()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 674, in readlines
return self.reader.readlines(sizehint)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 583, in readlines
data = self.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 472, in read
newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 50: 
unexpected code byte
DEBUG: Closed dialog "Search"


Also, it would appear that a "bad" character *inside* a file also causes the 
search to fail as well! At least, I'm guessing that is the cause of this debug 
output because all my files use standard ascii chars - and no spaces:- 

DEBUG: Action: show_search
DEBUG: Opening dialog "Search - Zim"
INFO: Searching for: test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/gui/searchdialog.py", line 48, in 
search
self.results_treeview.set_query( self.query_entry.get_text() )
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/gui/searchdialog.py", line 90, in 
set_query
result = self.searcher.search(self.query)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 205, in search
return self._filter_and(query, query.root, RootSelection(self.notebook))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 214, in _filter_and
selection = selection.filter(key, word, regex)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/search.py", line 144, in filter
tree = page.get_parsetree()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/notebook.py", line 1380, in 
get_parsetree
self._parsetree = self._fetch_parsetree()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/stores/files.py", line 183, in 
_fetch_parsetree
lines = lines or self.source.readlines()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/fs.py", line 575, in readlines
content = file.readlines()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 674, in readlines
return self.reader.readlines(sizehint)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 583, in readlines
data = self.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 472, in read
newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb4 in position 1735: 
unexpected code byte
DEBUG: Closed dialog "Search"

Please don't dismiss this as invalid. Zim is a great tool. But without a
reliable search, sadly it becomes practically useless and one might as
well use Kate or something.

Many thanks. Best wishes, G.

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[Bug 584198] Re: search doesn't work after upgrade to lucid

2010-06-29 Thread mr.goose
Crikey, you're fast! LOL! :-) Seriously thanks for your response and
comments Jaap. Much appreciated.

Sorry, I should have said which version. It's Zim 0.43, as packaged with
Ubuntu Lucid. Am I going to have to compile from source - or is there a
later version of Zim in a PPA? I try to avoid compiling from source if I
can and try to stick to the Ubuntu repos on live systems because it
means we benefit from automated security updates. But I'll make an
exception for Zim if you think that's what I should do?

To answer your other question, I do have some files that were imported
from elsewhere - quite a common scenario I would have thought? In fact,
quite a few of my older notes files came from a Windows system - written
before I finally dumped Windows. I used to use Notepad, for taking
notes! I was delighted when I moved to Ubuntu to find Zim, because it
enabled me to file notes properly.

HTH, best wishes, G.

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[Bug 584198] Re: search doesn't work after upgrade to lucid

2010-06-29 Thread mr.goose
I managed to clean up my text files. I have several hundred, of which
about eight had a couple of non standard characters. But it took hours.
I had to open each one on Kate, see if Kate opened it read-only (a good
indicator of a UTF8 file with non-UTF8 chars, as it happens) fix the
problem (often just an apostrophe or a pound sign)) and save the file.
TBH, it would be handy if ZIM would at least identify the duff files en
masse. On version 0.43, all that happens is the file does not open and
then you have to restart ZIM because no other file will open either -
except oddly, in a new window! That is really tedious.

But no matter. The search works now and that is a great help.

I will look around tomorrow and try to find a PPA updated Zim. I am a
big fan and it would be great to play with the latest incarnation. I
also have kept back a couple of problematic text files so I can see how
it reacts to them. I will report back when I have something sensible to
add.

Best wishes, and thanks again for your very rapid response. G.

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[Bug 584198] Re: search doesn't work after upgrade to lucid

2010-06-30 Thread mr.goose
I can if that would help you. But is there any point? That happened in
v0.43. I'm now installing v0.47.

Best wishes, Garf

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[Bug 680444] Re: dbus-daemon eats 100% cpu and is not responsive

2011-09-06 Thread mr.goose
@ Tom Cloyd. I have a lot of sympathy for your comment. I have been
trying for months to find a fix for this. I have several 64bit KDE
machines and they all do the same after a day or two - dbus snaffles
large amounts if CPU and the machine grinds to a halt.

Seems the KDE team has actually found a fix for this problem, way back in June 
2011.  However, it would appear that the fix has not been incorporated into 
Ubuntu yet...
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261180

Anyone any idea why this should be? Perhaps it's in a PPA somewhere?

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-04 Thread mr.goose
Switching off the desktop resolves the issue of the desktop freezing.
However it still leaves lots of nasty screen artefacts - mostly random
black boxes or parts of the screen that don't refresh. It's usable I
suppose - but only just!

Sad to note that there is still nothing from NVIDIA - other than its
usual deafening silence!

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[Bug 772311] Re: X freezes when maximizing konsole window

2011-05-03 Thread mr.goose
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 760632 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760632

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 760632
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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-03 Thread mr.goose
Seems NVIDIA is well aware of the issue - and has been for  the last
month! Sadly there is little sign of any activity from NVIDIA with
regard to solving the issue.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161180
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161308

Also seems this bug report has been duplicated here:-
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/772311

Finally, it is possible to hang the system with gnome-terminal too!
Granted, gnome-terminal is not quite as unstable as konsole. But if you
fill the gnome-terminal window (e.g. run "ls" on a large directory),
then grab the edge of the gnome-terminal window and resize it a bit,
then it will start creating some strange artefacts on-screen. If you
continue resizing then eventually it will hang. Sometimes you will have
to wobble it about a bit. Other times it will hang straight away.

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[Bug 739780] Re: Session starting with a zeitgeist-datahub zombie process

2011-05-13 Thread mr.goose
That's great. Thanks for fixing. When is the fixed package likely to
turn up in the repositories?

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[Bug 739780] Re: Session starting with a zeitgeist-datahub zombie process

2011-05-13 Thread mr.goose
Do I actually need it at all?  As I understand it, all it does is log
what I'm doing.  TBH, I'd rather it didn't - not that I'm doing anything
I shouldn't! lol. I just hate the feeling of being spied upon by my own
computer!

It seems a rather pointless waste of resources in my case. And I'm fed
up with hunting and killing the resultant zombies. What would happen if
I sudo apt-get removed it? Would that break my system?

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-14 Thread mr.goose
gnome-terminal is also affected, certainly on my systems. You have to
try harder to crash it, but it still crashes. Also there is the matter
of the strange on-screen artefacts.

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-21 Thread mr.goose
@eagles051387
I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I think we CAN pin the blame fairly and squarely 
on nVidia. This is a copy of the latest response I have received from nVidia's 
"customer care", following yet another a fairly strongly worded email from me 
with regard to nVidia's total lack of activity in this regard:-


"Hello,

I escalated this problem to the Linux Engineering Manager. An Engineer
has been assigned to work on this at high priority. We are targeting the
fix for the upcoming 275.xx driver which is currently planned to ship in
early June 2011."


Added to which, it is NOT just Konsole that is affected. Granted it is the app 
most likely to crash the entire system. But resizing gnome-terminal will also 
crash the system - though I accept you need to try harder in order to do so. 
Then there is the matter of the weird desktop artefacts. Sure, there are 
workarounds for the crashing - though I've yet to find a workaround for the 
artefacts.

Fact is that nVidia claims to support Linux. Many users, including
myself, bought nVidia products on the basis of nVidia's advertised
claim. Remember, nVidia's software products are also closed source,
which means its users are lumbered with whatever it provides. Added to
which, nVidia is NOT  just a handful of well-meaning open-source type
guys, working for free in their bedrooms.  nVidia is a massive, profit-
making, NASDAQ 100 corporation, with more than 6000 employees and an
estimated enterprise value of $9.6 billion. In other words, nVidia has
PLENTY of resources at its disposal.

Therefore, the onus is clearly on nVidia to honour its advertised claims
and fix the problem. It is not for its users to work around it.

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[Bug 772311] Re: X freezes when maximizing konsole window

2011-04-29 Thread mr.goose
I'm suffering exactly the same problem with NVIDIA graphics on Natty.
Googling:-

NVIDIA Konsole crash

it would appear this problem has been around for some time on other KDE
distros - with no real solution in sight other than a very crude and
tricky xserver downgrade.

This is pretty serious because if effectively renders Kubuntu useless
for NVIDIA users.

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-04-29 Thread mr.goose
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Arch Linux)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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[Bug 560386] Re: uvcvideo doesn't work with BisonCam, NB Pro

2011-04-29 Thread mr.goose
Further to my last (and I say this in a particularly shame-faced manner)
- my problem with the camera stopping working after the upgrade to
Natty, actually had *nothing* to do with Ubuntu.

Seems that during the upgrade, the camera became switched off! Having
gone all around the proverbial houses, I found that simply pressing
FN+F10keys fixed it!

My machine is a  Novatech X16Pro. I post this hoping it may help others.
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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-10 Thread mr.goose
Thing is, NVIDIA has been aware of the issue for over a month! Five
weeks in fact. Perhaps if NVIDIA is unable to resolve the issue in a
timely manner, then it should release the source code so that others may
have a go?

I shall certainly remember this fiasco next time I ever consider
purchasing an NVIDIA product. Meantime, if I do find a fix then I will
post it here. But don't hold your breath! NVIDIA clearly is in no hurry
to fix this and we could be waiting quite a long time.

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[Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-11 Thread mr.goose
FWIW here is the response I received from what nVidia laughingly
describes as "Customer Care":-

"Hello,
 
Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

This problem has already been reported to NVIDIA Engineering (as you
know) and is under investigation. Please check for the fix in a future
driver.

Unfortunately there is currently no schedule I can provide.

Let me know if any more questions.

Best regards,

Mike
NVIDIA Customer Care

So there you have it folks - nVidia Customer Care that is about as much
use as a chocolate teapot!  Something  one should definitely bear in
mind next time one purchases any computer hardware, methinks.

Pretty poor show IMHO.

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[Bug 662077] Re: WxWidgets apps don't have menus

2011-04-28 Thread mr.goose
2011-04-28 Natty was officially released today. However, Truecrypt is
STILL missing its menus in Natty.

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[Bug 662077] Re: WxWidgets apps don't have menus

2011-04-28 Thread mr.goose
Further to my last post, I have been trying workarounds to this problem.
Truecrypt is very important for us and not being able to access the
menus makes it virtually useless to us. My observations:-

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 - does NOT work for Truecrypt.

However, un-installing appmenu-gtk - does work.

I hope this helps folks in a similar situation to us,  until a proper
fix is published.

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[Bug 560386] Re: uvcvideo doesn't work with BisonCam, NB Pro

2011-04-28 Thread mr.goose
BisonCam working great until I "upgraded" to Natty Narwhal - the latest
Ubuntu 11.04, c/w kernel version 2.6.38-8-generic.

Now its broken completely. Doesn't even appear in dmesg output at all.
Almost as if the firmware is not loading.

Anyone else having the same difficulty with Natty?

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[Bug 669761] [NEW] Ubuntu can only access the internal memory but not the the flash card on Olympus LS5 & LS11 series.

2010-11-01 Thread mr.goose
Public bug reported:

I have an Olympus LS-5 Linear PCM recorder. This has two recording
media, a built-in 2GB memory and an SD slot. In Ubuntu Linux, I can only
access its internal memory (2GB), not the memory that belongs to its SH
card. However, both Windows XP (SP2) and Macintosh OSX will recognise
and access both volumes perfectly. Neither XP nor Mac OS require
additional drivers in order to do so.

I have also tried its sibling, the Olympus LS-11 on a Ubuntu machine.
This exhibits exactly the same behaviour as the LS-5.

A quick "dmesg" on a standard Ubuntu box indicates that the Olympus
LS-5's SD drive is not being detected by Ubuntu. As you will observe,
Ubuntu sees "sdb1", but not "sdb2". I have several Ubuntu boxes some
running Lucid and others running Maverick. None of them see the SD
drive.

Interestingly however, I have one Ubuntu (Maverick) machine running
Windows XP, SP2 in Oracle VirtualBox. On this machine, whilst Ubuntu
cannot see the SD drive directly, Windows XP inside Virtualbox can see
both drives perfectly!

The following outputs are from a standard Ubuntu laptop running
Maverick:-

dmesg | tail

[95086.475507] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access OLYMPUS  PCM RECORDER 1.00 
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[95086.479523] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[95086.498996] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] 4014080 512-byte logical blocks: (2.05 
GB/1.91 GiB)
[95086.499738] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[95086.499743] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[95086.499746] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[95086.503627] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[95086.503637]  sdb: sdb1
[95086.516873] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[95086.516880] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk


uname -a
2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 10.10
Release:10.10
Codename:   maverick


sudo lsusb -v
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Device Descriptor:
  bLength18
  bDescriptorType 1
  bcdUSB   1.10
  bDeviceClass9 Hub
  bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
  bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
  bMaxPacketSize064
  idVendor   0x1d6b Linux Foundation
  idProduct  0x0001 1.1 root hub
  bcdDevice2.06
  iManufacturer   3 Linux 2.6.35-22-generic ohci_hcd
  iProduct2 OHCI Host Controller
  iSerial 1 :00:03.1
  bNumConfigurations  1
  Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength   25
bNumInterfaces  1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration  0 
bmAttributes 0xe0
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup
MaxPower0mA
Interface Descriptor:
  bLength 9
  bDescriptorType 4
  bInterfaceNumber0
  bAlternateSetting   0
  bNumEndpoints   1
  bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
  bInterfaceSubClass  0 Unused
  bInterfaceProtocol  0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iInterface  0 
  Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81  EP 1 IN
bmAttributes3
  Transfer TypeInterrupt
  Synch Type   None
  Usage Type   Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002  1x 2 bytes
bInterval 255
Hub Descriptor:
  bLength   9
  bDescriptorType  41
  nNbrPorts 4
  wHubCharacteristic 0x0002
No power switching (usb 1.0)
Ganged overcurrent protection
  bPwrOn2PwrGood1 * 2 milli seconds
  bHubContrCurrent  0 milli Ampere
  DeviceRemovable0x00
  PortPwrCtrlMask0xff
 Hub Port Status:
   Port 1: .0100 power
   Port 2: .0100 power
   Port 3: .0100 power
   Port 4: .0100 power
Device Status: 0x0003
  Self Powered
  Remote Wakeup Enabled

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip 
Fingerprint Sensor
Device Descriptor:
  bLength18
  bDescriptorType 1
  bcdUSB   1.00
  bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass 0 
  bDeviceProtocol 0 
  bMaxPacketSize0 8
  idVendor   0x147e Upek
  idProduct  0x2016 Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
  bcdDevice0.01
  iManufacturer   1 TouchStrip
  iProduct2 Fingerprint Sensor   
  iSerial 0 
  bNumConfigurations  1
  Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength   39
bNumInterfaces  1
bConfigurat

[Bug 669761] Re: Ubuntu can only access the internal memory but not the the flash card on Olympus LS5 & LS11 series.

2010-11-02 Thread mr.goose
** Tags added: kernel-bug usb

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