[Bug 160173] Re: [Upstream] [hardy] Impress -effects cumulatively eat CPU

2009-03-27 Thread Adrian R Goalby
This problem with Impress still exists in intrepid, using openoffice .org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1 I'm using an old slow computer so problem is noticeable with even an extremely simple presentation, ie. 2 slides, each slide has 2 large words, 5 seconds per slide, no special transitions, repeating

[Bug 90575] Re: MASTER: need further sanity checking on grub device names

2008-02-28 Thread Adrian R Goalby
I hope the user is told what the valid ones are, eg. by drop-down box as suggested above. Is the user going to be expected to know the weird grub naming convention, which seems to be used nowhere else in the installer, or is the installer going to show the same drive/partition names as are used by

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-02-28 Thread Adrian R Goalby
18 MONTHS TO FIX INSTALLER I think this is the first bug that I have been interested in and actually seen fixed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90575 Its got 26 duplicates already, probably still more to come. First duplicate reported 2006-10-29 Marked as Fix Released 20

[Bug 141430] Re: Other OSes added to GRUB menu even when GRUB installed to partition (not MBR)

2008-02-28 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Agree strongly with TerryG above. When installing GRUB to a partition some people NEED all the OS's available. The change should be to ask the user whether they want this grub to include all other OS's in its menu. Suggest default to "all the OS's", because ignoring unwanted entries in a menu is a

[Bug 191541] [NEW] No "Need Restart" notification from Aptitude

2008-02-13 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: aptitude Used:- aptitude update aptitude --full-upgrade A new kernel image was installed, but there was no notification that a restart was required. In this case it was obvious a restart was required, other cases may not be obvious. Please change aptit

[Bug 39249] Re: (Dapper) can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied

2008-01-04 Thread Adrian R Goalby
I'm also still getting this with Gutsy Server log file:- Jan 4 18:51:54 brown dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.0.1 port 67 Jan 4 18:51:54 brown dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Jan 4 18:51:54 brown dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied Jan 4 1

[Bug 65230] Re: startup messages continue on screen after first login prompt appears

2007-12-14 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Suggest consideration of the order you actually want the events to happen. Is it a good idea to allow users to login before the standard daemons have been started? -- startup messages continue on screen after first login prompt appears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/65230 You received this bug

[Bug 46125] Re: phppgadmin apache2 setup

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian R Goalby
I also hit this bug with Gutsy, I wonder what year it will be fixed. I fixed using slightly different link:- ln -s ../../phppgadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phppgadmin.conf because this seemed to match the link used by phpmyadmin. Suggest fix install script for phppgadmin to match phpmya

[Bug 76512] Re: Edgy Synaptic filter section list is empty

2006-12-21 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Tried: $ LANG=C gksu synaptic still same problem. Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 I think I should probably change this sometime from US to UK, but I don't think that's the problem. Screenshot showing large empty white space attached. ** Attachment added: "Synaptic Filters

[Bug 76512] Edgy Synaptic filter section list is empty

2006-12-19 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: synaptic Went to Settings/Filters In Synaptic Package Manager to add a new filter. The list of sections on the Sections tab is empty. In Dapper this shows a long list of sections to include/exclude, on Edgy nothing . Package: synaptic Architecture: i3

[Bug 76226] Grub wrong kopt entries in edgy

2006-12-17 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub Grub menu.lst, kopt and kopt_2_6 need merging for Edgy. On a fresh Edgy install the menu.lst for Grub contains something like:- # kopt=root=UUID=9b63a575-ba40-4bf3-b5a4-e421c02c3b02 ro # kopt_2_6=root=/dev/hda1 ro My computer needed additional mem

[Bug 76192] Install Edgy - drive designation for Grub install

2006-12-17 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: During install of Edgy the user is asked where Grub should be installed, default "(hd0)", this uses Grub's own weird disk/partition numbering system. The interface to the user should display and accept the same disk/partition designations as the rest of the install process (eg

[Bug 52857] Re: ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!

2006-09-14 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Dapper is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) I think this implies that this problem should be corrected in Dapper. Edgy is not released yet, and even then support for Dapper will still be required. This Bug #52857 and Bug #53384 together with Bug #53996 against dosemu all need to be fixed to get

[Bug 53384] Re: dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

2006-09-14 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Dapper is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) I think this implies that this problem should be corrected in Dapper. Edgy is not released yet, and even then support for Dapper will still be required. This Bug #53384 and Bug #52857 together with Bug #53996 against dosemu all need to be fixed to get

[Bug 53996] Re: DosEMU compiled without X support

2006-09-14 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Dapper is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) I think this implies that a backport is required. Edgy is not released yet, and even then support for Dapper will still be required. This Bug #53996 together with Bug #53384 and Bug #52857 against dosemu- freedos all need to be fixed to get dosemu wor

[Bug 53996] Re: DosEMU compiled without X support

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Had same problem with Ubuntu Dapper. Installed dosemu_1.2.2-5_i386.deb (from Debian testing) and it seems to work properly in X window, terminal window or after text mode login. Had to force the install because of slight version difference in libc6 between Debian testing and Ubuntu Dapper, but st

[Bug 53996] Re: DosEMU compiled without X support

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
** Changed in: dosemu (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- DosEMU compiled without X support https://launchpad.net/bugs/53996 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53384] Re: dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
** Changed in: dosemu (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dosemu => dosemu-freedos Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big https://launchpad.net/bugs/53384 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

[Bug 52857] Re: ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
** Changed in: dosemu (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: dosemu => dosemu-freedos -- ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! https://launchpad.net/bugs/52857 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53384] Re: dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Tried later version of freedos package as suggested for Bug #52857 by Mantas Kriaučiūnas. Downloaded and installed package dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb (from Debian unstable or testing). More detailed instructions if anyone needs them:- Browse to Debian mirror list for package http://pack

[Bug 52857] Re: ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!

2006-08-03 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Tried later version of freedos package as suggested above by Mantas Kriaučiūnas. Downloaded and installed package dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb (from Debian unstable or testing). More detailed instructions if anyone needs them:- Browse to Debian mirror list for package http://packages.debi

[Bug 52857] Re: ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian R Goalby
I also had the "cpu exception", I found the following mailing list archive that seems to describe the same problem. http://www.gatago.com/linux/kernel/14721949.html It included:- > I had the same problem and found out that disabling > address space randomization (echo 0 > > /proc/sys/kernel/rando

[Bug 53384] Re: dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian R Goalby
-- dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big https://launchpad.net/bugs/53384 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53384] dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: dosemu fails when started with:- ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big Used command "dosemu -dumb" in a Terminal window after applying the following fixes from bug #52857 (i) insert into /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf $_layout = "uk" (ii) sudo -i echo 0 >/pr

[Bug 52857] Re: ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian R Goalby
The above fix helps (I used $_layout = "uk"), but I think dosemu should be able to get the keyboard layout automatically from somewhere. This only relates to the additional problem reported by Jeff Buchbinder, which should have been a separate bug report. The main "cpu exception" bug is not affec

[Bug 52797] Workspace Switcher does not show minimised applications

2006-07-12 Thread Adrian R Goalby
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel There seems to be no indication in the workspace switcher when a workspace contains minimised applications. This makes it very easy to forget to close an application before logging out. The minimised applications are only appearing on the ta