[Touch-packages] [Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-09 Thread William Geiger
from my auth.log file: before modifying the terminal flag in gdebi.desktop Jul 8 15:20:46 johndoe-Latitude-D630 polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action com.ubuntu.pkexec.gdebi.gtk for unix-process:998:23188 [/lib/systemd/syste

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-09 Thread William Geiger
after some sleep I have a couple of additional comments: the /usr/share/application-registry/gdebi.applications file the mime list should be comma-delimited or at least that is what they did in the liboffice.application file (it is the only other file in the directory). while the steps in my prev

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-07-08 Thread William Geiger
I finally got around to tracking down this problem it seems to be a mimeinfo.cache issue. If the reader is not familiar mimeinfo is part of the freedesktop and contains all the mime types and their program associations. for deb packages the primary mime type (called media types now because why no

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

2018-05-11 Thread William Geiger
I am experiencing the same behavior in Xubuntu 18.04 (has been a problem for a while) when using "open with" on the .deb package from Thunar (right mouse menu). If I start gdebi-gtk from the command line and use the "file open" menu option then everything works ok. I will dig through my logs for m

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1429098] Re: systemd[1]: ureadahead.service fails on vanilla kernels, needs Ubuntu kernel patch

2016-03-26 Thread William Geiger
I am running Xubuntu Xenial and was getting the same "ignore relative path" statements in my log files. I ran the following to fix it for now: sudo ureadahead --force-trace --verbose / adding the "/" for the mount-point for uredahead rebuilt the pack file properly. ran sudo ureadahead --dump

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1369493] Re: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2016-03-20 Thread William Geiger
I am also getting this on Xenial I found a bug report on Debian that discusses this issue and the causes. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718232 The last post on Debian claims that this was fixed with resolvconf (1.75). I have resolvconf (1.781.78ubuntu2) on my system and the bu