[Bug 249352] Re: openoffice javaldx could not find a java runtime environment

2008-10-16 Thread Charles Twardy
Some additional info. Mine appeared to break worse, but it's better now. Unfortunately, there are too many changes to be diagnostic. Yesterday my OO ran fine. Today it began to complain. I accepted a lot of updates today. My problem started with the javadlx complaint when trying to run ooimpr

Re: [Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Twardy
Yann, Many thanks. -Charles On 10/22/07, Yann Rouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I had some time to investigate what I discovered (in comment 68). > Still not sure if it's the cause of this bug but I am now able to > reliably reproduce a serious similar bug: -- Charles R. Twardy Science

[Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-10-19 Thread Charles Twardy
OK! Adding a /etc/login.defs for Ubuntu Feisty i686 > uname -a Linux Athena 2.6.20-16-386 #2 Thu Jun 7 20:16:13 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "login.defs for Ubuntu Feisty i686" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10063924/login.defs -- Adding a user to a group modifies other users

Re: [Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-09-13 Thread Charles Twardy
First, boot to recovery mode or boot from the CD again. That gives you root access and you can change passwords using passwd. Also, you can view /etc/group and /etc/passwd to see if your regular signon was modified. Note: no one else here has yet reported a problem with the *command-line* utilit

Re: [Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-07-16 Thread Charles Twardy
not muck around with my work system, as I'm not convinced I've localized the damage. My office might be able to dig an old machine out of storage, but I'm swamped for the next week at least. -Charles Twardy On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Green wrote: DG>Hmm Well it has been

[Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
** Attachment added: "Fixed-up /etc/group file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8449998/fred2 -- Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a dire

[Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
=== Summary === I've just reviewed the duplicates, and marked a few others as duplicates. The problem seems to be that the graphical users-admin tool has some SEVERE bugs that make a system unusable and insecure. It makes several unintended changes to /etc/group under various conditions, includi

[Bug 49815] Re: users-admin removes privileges after deleting user

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 26338 Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords -- users-admin removes privileges after deleting user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 51201] Re: Removing one sudo user removes the sudo privilege of another sudo user

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/26338 -- Removing one sudo user removes the sudo privilege of another sudo user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51201 You received this bug not

[Bug 51201] Re: Removing one sudo user removes the sudo privilege of another sudo user

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 This was marked as a duplicate of #49815, which is it. I'm changing both to duplicates of #26338, where there is more active discussion. Admittedly, this bug gives a clearer statement of the problem, though the

[Bug 49815] Re: users-admin removes privileges after deleting user

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 This is still a live issue. The active bug appears to be #26338: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/26338. Note, like many related bugs, the first posts are about some device not

[Bug 107524] Re: users-admin suddelny emptied! users in /etc/group

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 Hm. No automatic link markup. How about: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system- tools/+bug/26338">#26338. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 26338 Adding a user to a group modifi

[Bug 107524] Re: users-admin suddelny emptied! users in /etc/group

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26338 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 This sounds like #26338 and duplicates. The graphical users-admin reliably strips information from [i]unrelated[/i] users in /etc/group. Let's take further discussion there. -- users-admin suddelny emptied!

[Bug 107420] Re: Incorrect update of /etc/group when changing user's main group

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Twardy
Possibly related: #26338 and duplicates -- Incorrect update of /etc/group when changing user's main group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107420 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bu

[Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

2007-07-06 Thread Charles Twardy
Still a problem -- I just hosed my system trying to add a user. It basically lost everyone's group membership. That knocked me out of admin, and killed network functionality (especially gaim) because lots of userids should be members of haldaemon, but no longer were. Not knowing who had lost what

[Bug 86749] Re: evince does not automatically set or remember the paper size

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Twardy
I'm not sure this is an instance of bug #349102. I don't think this is about remembering configurations. It is about ignoring system configurations. I have the same problem in reverse. For example, my copy of evince insists on printing an a4 document as a4, despite my system papersize being "lette

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Twardy
Changing the font path (-fp) may help. Like Stefan, my Xvnc started failing with thousands of "Transport endpoint is not connected" errors. Downgrading didn't help. What was happening is that Xvnc kept dying, and Xinetd kept restarting it. Thousands of times. Running Xvnc manually, I found it was