[Bug 1338973] Re: scrolling unusable, touchpad too sensitive

2017-10-24 Thread Chris Cowan
I just updated my macbook air (2013) from Ubuntu 16.04 to 17.10, and the touchpad scrolling is way too sensitive. All instructions I find seem to be X-specific and involving editing X config files. `xinput list` doesn't mention any touchpads like any examples I can find online. -- You received th

[Bug 1570132] [NEW] 16.04 beta Couldn't log in after today's update

2016-04-13 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 16.04 beta had some updates today. I installed the updates, rebooted, and logging in would never complete. When I logged in, my desktop would appear, but the dash, launcher, and titlebar would never appear. The problem resembled the issue reported here: https://askubunt

[Bug 1560896] Re: [16.04 beta] REGRESSION - nm-applet does not show all connections

2016-04-09 Thread Chris Cowan
I no longer have my issue with VPN connections being unavailable. I assume an update fixed it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560896 Title: [16.04 beta] REGRESSION - nm-applet does n

[Bug 1560896] Re: [16.04 beta] nm-applet does not show all connections

2016-04-02 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm unable to connect to VPNs at all because of this. They don't show up in the VPN Connections menu. The VPN Connections menu only shows "Configure VPN..." and the grayed out "Disconnect VPN". Clicking "Configure VPN..." or "Edit Connections..." brings up the window showing that my VPN connection

[Bug 1471634] Re: After suspend/resume, screen brightness can only be switched between 0 and 100%

2015-11-10 Thread Chris Cowan
I've just tested 4.3-wily (4.3.0-040300-generic #201511020949) in Ubuntu 15.10 and I still see this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471634 Title: After suspend/resume, screen b

[Bug 1471634] [NEW] After suspend/resume, screen brightness can only be switched between 0 and 100%

2015-07-05 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: I have the same issue as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1197482. I have a macbook running Ubuntu 15.04, and if I suspend and then unsuspend, then my screen turns off when I set the brightness to to below 85%ish (4 presses of the brightness do

[Bug 1245081] Re: macbook keyboard layout maps the tilde key to something else

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Cowan
I ran into this problem on a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04 on a Macbook Air. The "echo 0 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout" workaround worked for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1440012] Re: The cursor disappears on the top of the screen

2015-04-26 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm getting this too in Ubuntu 15.04 with nvidia 346.59, but only on my left monitor when I'm in dual monitor mode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1440012 Title: The cursor disappears

[Bug 1404147] Re: Screen is stretched when using dual monitors

2015-04-26 Thread Chris Cowan
This still happens in a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04 with "NVIDIA binary driver - version 346.59 from nvidia-346 (proprietary, tested)" installed from the Ubuntu Additional Drivers tool. Though I think I discovered a work-around. It seems like it only happens later if my monitor was plugged when

[Bug 1404147] Re: Screen is stretched when using dual monitors

2015-02-17 Thread Chris Cowan
Is this being worked on? Are there any known workarounds? (Besides switching to gnome-shell -- I ran into a bug there too! https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741749 ) I'm the only one I know in real life or among my online contacts that doesn't use multiple monitors. It's especially frustr

[Bug 1422608] [NEW] media keys don't work for several minutes

2015-02-17 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: When I log into Ubuntu, none of my media keys (volume up, down, mute, play/pause, previous, next) work immediately. Instead, they seem to buffer up, and after a few minutes they all trigger at once. Sometimes this buffering behavior occurrs at random later times too. I'm on U

[Bug 1411091] [NEW] nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: I started up my system, it told me the system experienced a problem, asked me if I wanted to report it, I hit the report button, and now I'm here. I'm on a laptop with an Nvidia card and a built-in intel card. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: nvidia-

[Bug 1401591] Re: package nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Cowan
On my machine (Ubuntu 14.10), dpkg's output at the end goes a bit differently: DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here stop: Unknown job: nvidia-persistenced userdel: user nvidia-persistenced is currently used by process 2035 dpkg: error processing package nvidia

[Bug 1401591] Re: package nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm having this too. It's refusing to let me remove the nvidia-331 package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401591 Title: package nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgra

[Bug 1388043] Re: /etc/mailname no longer used for outgoing message domain

2014-11-02 Thread Chris Cowan
I guess it's "mail" that sets the From value, not postfix, so this isn't a postfix issue then. ** Also affects: mailutils Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1388043] [NEW] /etc/mailname no longer used for outgoing message domain

2014-10-31 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: I've recently been setting up a new server using Ubuntu 14.04 to replace a 12.04 server, and found if not a bug, then at least a breaking change that doesn't seem to match up intuitively with the documentation. Both servers have postfix installed. (12.04 has 2.9.6, and 14.04

[Bug 374101] Re: Brasero hangs at Normalizing tracks

2014-04-25 Thread Chris Cowan
On Ubuntu 13.10, have this same issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374101 Title: Brasero hangs at Normalizing tracks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.lau

[Bug 505645] Re: Sansa Clip+ (CLIPP, Clip Plus) digital audio player not recognised properly

2013-12-19 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm on Ubuntu 13.10, and my Sansa Clip+ is only detected by rhythmbox if I put a ".is_audio_player" file in its root with "audio_folders=MUSIC/,RECORD/" in it. It was detected perfectly fine automatically in Ubuntu 12.04. some lsusb output: Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0781:74d1 SanDisk Corp. Sansa Clip

[Bug 30378] Re: Joystick activity does not stop the screensaver

2013-09-26 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, and each of the Steam for Linux games I've played that support gamepads don't seem to inhibit the screensaver themselves. I don't know if it's realistic to expect them to all patch to deal with this themselves, and I'm not sure the responsibility should be on them. -- You rec

[Bug 876273] Re: Banshee won't sync my music with my Sansa Clip+

2011-10-17 Thread Chris Cowan
If I run banshee with the --debug option, I get the following output immediately when I hit sync: [19 Debug 01:46:31.830] Starting DAP sync [19 Debug 01:46:31.840] Starting [19 Debug 01:46:31.939] Ending DAP sync [19 Debug 01:46:32.432] Starting DAP sync [19 Debug 01:46:32.436] Ending DAP sync [19

[Bug 876273] [NEW] Banshee won't sync my music with my Sansa Clip+

2011-10-17 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Just upgraded to 11.10 the other day, and decided to try out the Banshee media player as it seems to be the default. (Used to use Rhythmbox, which worked pretty well.) When I plug in my Sansa Clip+, Nautilus opens it up like a flash drive as it usually does (with the media pla

[Bug 716959] Re: Incorrect generation/handling of generics compared to Sun javac?

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Cowan
Something that sounds like a similar issue: Under OpenJDK, when trying to compile https://github.com/sk89q/worldguard (commit 49bdccf020 currently), I get [INFO] Compilation failure /home/chris/Coding/bukkit/worldguard/src/main/java/com/sk89q/worldguard/protection/ApplicableRegionSet.java:[277,26]

[Bug 270781] Re: unix_chkpwd abnormal exit: 11 unix_chkpwd crashes under gnome-screensaver and prevents unlock (/dev/null corruption?)

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Cowan
I had this problem, and it turned out I had chown'ed /etc/shadow as root:root instead of root:shadow. I was really confused because my password worked fine for logging in normally and for ssh, but just not for the screensaver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 518216] Re: empathy doesn't support MSN group chat

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Cowan
In MSN at least, I can't invite people to conversations and can't get group chat invitations. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit with Empathy 2.32.0.1. -- empathy doesn't support MSN group chat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 453807] Re: nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'xyz' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Cowan
(10.04) I'm having a similar bug with a PPTP VPN. It works fine until I try to set it to be Available to all users. I assume this is because the password isn't in the connection's file under /etc/NetworkManager /system-connections, and it's only in my user's keyring. Adding "password=xxx" or "pass=

[Bug 569292] Re: opiepasswd does not always generate valid seeds

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, and I had the 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1 version of opie-server. -- opiepasswd does not always generate valid seeds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 569292] [NEW] opiepasswd does not always generate valid seeds

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: After installing the opie-client, opie-server, and libopie-pam packages, and making the apparently needed edits to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/pam.d/ssh, I go on to set it up for my user. ch...@cowan-laptop:~$ opiepasswd Adding chris: You need the response from an OTP gener

[Bug 61335] Re: opieinfo isn't setuid, whilst opiepasswd is

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Cowan
And when I run "sudo opieinfo username", it correctly gives me my sequence number and seed. -- opieinfo isn't setuid, whilst opiepasswd is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 61335] Re: opieinfo isn't setuid, whilst opiepasswd is

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm having a problem where running opieinfo doesn't work, and I think it's because it isn't root (and /etc/opiekeys is only readable by root). When I run "opieinfo", I get: Error opening database! (errno = 13) -- opieinfo isn't setuid, whilst opiepasswd is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61335

[Bug 32457] Re: gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games

2010-03-29 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm running compiz 0.8.4 and I still have the problem I mentioned earlier with the screensaver interrupting QEMU. -- gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32457 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a dir

[Bug 258935] Re: program freezes when changing the volume with multimedia keys.. also once it loses the audio control it is horrible at reclaiming it

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Cowan
About every other time I use Rhythmbox lately it's been acting up again still. Has anything been figured out about this bug? -- program freezes when changing the volume with multimedia keys.. also once it loses the audio control it is horrible at reclaiming it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258

[Bug 258935] Re: program freezes when changing the volume with multimedia keys.. also once it loses the audio control it is horrible at reclaiming it

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Cowan
I have no clue what's different besides a few days of time and a few reboots, but I no longer can reproduce the problem with rhythmbox. I'm glad for now, but they say that problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves. -- program freezes when changing the volume with multimedia keys

[Bug 258935] Re: program freezes when changing the volume with multimedia keys.. also once it loses the audio control it is horrible at reclaiming it

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm suddenly having major issues with this bug. Rhythmbox is completely unusable with this. It freezes for about 30 seconds at a time when I use my volume controls, and about half of my open windows freeze with it. I just logged out, logged in, tested with rhythmbox being the only thing running, an

[Bug 482504] [NEW] Rhythmbox crashes after I hit "Previous" to go back to specific midi

2009-11-13 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox I have a certain midi file, that after rhythmbox says it has finished playing, it keeps playing for another second or two (on top of the next song), and if I hit the previous song button to go back to it, Rhythmbox simply crashes and disappears.

[Bug 32457] Re: gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Cowan
I just noticed today that this problem also shows up while using KVM/QEMU (current kvm package from ubuntu reps). While running a virtualized system that has control of the mouse, the screensaver doesn't notice any keypresses or mouse input as long as the mouse is grabbed by KVM's SDL window, and s

[Bug 377060] Re: [jaunty karmic] espeak missing words and phonemes from sentences

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm having similar trouble still. I've called espeak multiple times in a row with a single word or so ("a", "test", etc), and about 50% of the time it doesn't work. Sometimes it just lets out a short blip of noise. Other times it works fine. I'm figure this is related to this bug post. Ubuntu 9.04

[Bug 304958] Re: Network manager handles teredo interface inappropriately

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Cowan
Pedro: I don't think that would help. This bug is a problem with Miredo (missing automatic reloading when the network is changed) and is solved as far as I can tell by the script I've posted in post #9. NetworkManager is not at fault here. This bug is set to expire soon, some action needs to be do

[Bug 32457] Re: gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games with compiz enabled

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Cowan
I've noticed a similar problem lately (it's not a new problem, just quantified it now) with other games (besides UT2k4 as I mentioned). UT2k4 never likes to let go of the mouse, but several other games I've played (Quake 3, zdoom; both open source) will release the mouse on certain events it doesn'

[Bug 304958] Re: Network manager handles teredo interface inappropriately

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Cowan
Oh, I hadn't stopped to think that an IPv6 interface could trigger the reload script. (Could the interface that miredo brings up trigger it? Would that cause it to go down and up again? I'd assume not as my system has been pretty stable, but is still worrying.) I've attached a new version of the s

[Bug 397184] Re: KVM title bar reads as "QEMU" instead of "QEMU/KVM" even with hw support

2009-07-29 Thread Chris Cowan
** Summary changed: - KVM title bar reads as "QEMU" instead of "QEMU/QEMU" even with hw support + KVM title bar reads as "QEMU" instead of "QEMU/KVM" even with hw support -- KVM title bar reads as "QEMU" instead of "QEMU/KVM" even with hw support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397184 You receiv

[Bug 397184] [NEW] KVM title bar reads as "QEMU" instead of "QEMU/QEMU" even with hw support

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kvm I'm running KVM, and many tutorials I see mention that if the hardware virtualization features and the kvm module are used, the title bar should read "QEMU/KVM" instead of just "QEMU". Running "egrep -o '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo" outputs "vmx" twice.

[Bug 366699] Re: LG cell phone mass storage connection hangs usb (it worked great in intrepid)

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Cowan
I just got a voyager, which shows up in lsusb as "LG Electronics, Inc. VX4400/VX6000 Cellphone", that doesn't show up otherwise in Jaunty when connected. -- LG cell phone mass storage connection hangs usb (it worked great in intrepid) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366699 You received this bug n

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Cowan
I've been trying to find a way to allow the mouse to be released from a program (UT2004) so that way I could do other things (answer IMs, browse internet) and switch back to the game later without exiting it. I heard this feature could let me do this easily, but then I find that the feature has bee

[Bug 32457] Re: gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games with compiz enabled

2009-06-20 Thread Chris Cowan
I've had this problem since 8.04 (maybe as far back as 7.10, fuzzy on memory) with UT2004 and other games, exactly as ToastyX and others described. Still have this problem in 9.04. I found if I use Metacity instead while playing, I have no problems (alt-f2, "metacity --replace"). Is there any pro

[Bug 388197] [NEW] -net socket,listen... segfaults

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kvm I'm trying to get two virtual machines on the same vlan, looking at directions from http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/qemu-networking.html . When I use this command: "kvm -cdrom ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso -net nic -net socket,listen=:8010" I just get "S

[Bug 304958] Re: Network manager handles teredo interface inappropriately

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Cowan
Here's a script which fixes the problem, by reloading miredo automatically whenever a network interface comes up. Just placing it inside /etc/network/if-up.d does the trick. I think it would be good to include this in the miredo package. The script is based off of the script used by OpenSSH, wit

[Bug 304958] Re: Network manager handles teredo interface inappropriately

2009-05-22 Thread Chris Cowan
Miredo should restart whenever the networking interface comes up. The OpenSSH-server package does this by putting a script inside "/etc/network/if-up.d", and I believe doing the same thing for Miredo would make Miredo restart as needed automatically. -- Network manager handles teredo interface in

[Bug 350743] [NEW] url escape codes not recognized correctly in host

2009-03-28 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 Firefox version 3.0.8 EDIT: Shorter version. If you click this link: http://%E2%9E%A1.ws/%E3%AD%8E : Firefox will say it couldn't find the server. If you click in the address bar, and press enter, it will load the page correctly. ORIGINAL:

[Bug 347083] [NEW] Routine Check of Drives message does not go away until system is booted up

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: During boot-up, my machine did the "Routine check of drives: /dev/sdb1, press ESC to skip" thing. The main boot progress bar stopped while it did this step as it should. When it seemed the routine check finished, and the boot-up bar continued, the "Routine check of drives:...

[Bug 313085] Re: Screen lock goes away if flash drive plugged in

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm not able to test it now with the Live CD, but soon as I can I'll get back to this. -- Screen lock goes away if flash drive plugged in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 313085] Re: Screen lock goes away if flash drive plugged in

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Cowan
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit, with the latest updates (backports,proposted,etc are all enabled too). I also use Extra Effects in System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects. I'm suddenly having trouble reproducing this, so figuring this out again... Ok, I have some steps that seem to work ever

[Bug 313085] [NEW] Screen lock goes away if flash drive plugged in

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Cowan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver Normally when I plug in my flash drive, nautilus opens it in a window. If my screen is locked when I plug in my flash drive, the screen lock disappears completely, showing my session as if it was unlocked, with the new nautilus window

[Bug 37350] Re: Pressing power button unlocks locked screensaver

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Cowan
If I press the power button while the screen is locked, the "Shutdown the computer" menu comes up (but behind the screen lock - I have to unlock the screen to see it). The bad part is that it informs me it will log me off in 60 seconds, so that means that someone could log me off right from the loc

[Bug 191041] Re: [hardy] gnome-screensaver blocks multimedia keys

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Cowan
If this was put in, I would want a way to disable this feature. If I pause my music, lock the screen, and walk away for a few minutes, I don't want someone else to be able to resume my music and go to a different track. -- [hardy] gnome-screensaver blocks multimedia keys https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 200509] Re: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Cowan
This effects me in Intrepid with backports updates enabled. I'll be in an online game, and suddenly I start lagging completely; its as if my wireless stopped uploading - I can't move or talk, but I can still see the game playing on without me for a bit of time. I'm not able to reconnect, or browse

[Bug 264977] Re: Filenames in ~/.Private are not encrypted

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Cowan
Would a solution to this (I'd assume an implementation of a "one-user crypted directory" like mentioned above) also encrypt directory names, and directory structures? The organization and names of folders could be stored inside a single encrypted file (that could even look no different than other f