RE: [Bug 902670] Re: blank (white) desktop, no icons, no windows

2012-05-31 Thread David Mitchell
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RE: [Bug 902670] Re: blank (white) desktop, no icons, no windows

2012-05-31 Thread David Mitchell
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[Bug 902670] Re: blank (white) desktop, no icons, no windows

2011-12-10 Thread David Mitchell
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[Bug 902670] [NEW] blank (white) desktop, no icons, no windows

2011-12-10 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: When I start a regular Ubuntu session, the left black/gray (launcher?) bar shows, but no icons. Mouse-over flashes 'tooltip' descriptions of what should be there, but otherwise nothing. The top 'tray' bar shows with its proper icons. The main desktop area is dead white. No d

[Bug 778286] Re: Help on usage of ubuntu-bug is wrong

2011-05-06 Thread David Mitchell
Yes, I do, but when I select "other", which is the correct option, it presents a dialogue box saying "You need to specify a package or PID. Please see help for more information". So clearly, the help, which says "If you have a hardware issue or don't know the name of the program affected, just typ

[Bug 778290] Re: Switching to full-screen requires reboot

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
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[Bug 778290] [NEW] Switching to full-screen requires reboot

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dosbox I've been using Dosbox happily on previous versions; but since I upgraded, pressing alt-enter to get full-screen mode crashes so badly that only hard reboot works. I don't actually think it's Dosbox's fault, I suspect some of the kernel drivers ar

[Bug 778287] Re: Natty Narwhal upgrade reboots at random

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
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[Bug 778287] [NEW] Natty Narwhal upgrade reboots at random

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unity Upgraded this week on an HP-510 laptop, and a generic desktop. Both now reboot at random, (straight to blank text screen, with blinking cursor, followed by BIOS display and reboot). Thanks for finally making a version compatible with Windows. Pro

[Bug 778286] Re: Help on usage of ubuntu-bug is wrong

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
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[Bug 778286] [NEW] Help on usage of ubuntu-bug is wrong

2011-05-05 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: The help page "Report a problem in ubuntu" says: "If you have a hardware issue or don't know the name of the program affected, just type ubuntu- bug" This doesn't work, as ubuntu-bug requires the name of a program or PID. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package:

[Bug 691027] [NEW] USB Printer not re-enabled after printer power off

2010-12-16 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: Possibly udev bug. After last updates to Lucid (10.04 LTS). libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-14ubuntu0.2 libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.6-1 udev 151-12.2 uname -a gives Linux fitsserver 2.6.32-26-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:28:32 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have a server running 24/7 whi

[Bug 645211] Re: USB HDD and Flash Drives no longer recognized

2010-12-15 Thread David Mitchell
#16 as per my post #14 is possibly (also) fixed by latest kernel update to 10.04 LTS... David -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645211 Title: USB HDD and Flash Drives no longer recogniz

[Bug 645211] Re: USB HDD and Flash Drives no longer recognized

2010-12-14 Thread David Mitchell
Possibly fixed in lastest kernel revision - my box is now running da...@fitsserver:~$ uname -a Linux fitsserver 2.6.32-26-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:28:32 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux da...@fitsserver:~$ ^C da...@fitsserver:~$ I there are no usb errors (unable to enumerate) in dmesg David

[Bug 645211] Re: USB HDD and Flash Drives no longer recognized

2010-11-14 Thread David Mitchell
Same / Similar issue - USB was working (Flash drives and USB Canon i965 printer) & then stopped working... Found turning off ehci allowed both to work cd /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/ sudo sh -c 'find ./ -name ":00:*" -print| sed "s/\.\///">unbind' (echos unbind to the ehci device id) l

[Bug 439163] Re: HVR-1300 HVR-3000 HVR-4000 broken in kernel

2010-11-09 Thread David Mitchell
Not sure if it is relevant or not... After a reboot mythtv cannot tune any channels and femon doesn't show a 'locked' message UNTIL I run a scan (after stopping mythtv-backend...). Femon shows 'locked' during the scan and channels are found & the locked message persists after the scan finishes (

[Bug 27441] Re: Prevent extended periods of thrashing

2010-07-29 Thread David Mitchell
I have landed here because I have a 2GB (MAX possible) system which has gone into swap thrash mode. I know what has done it as I have launched about 15 python scripts, however it would seem that one cure would be to slow down the multitasking - at present it seems that a process is scheduled, start

[Bug 536699] Re: "hda-intel spurious response" messages and intermittent GDM startup with Intel D945GCLF Motherboard

2010-06-19 Thread David Mitchell
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- "hda-intel spurious response" messages and intermittent GDM startup with Intel D945GCLF Motherboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/536699 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 536699] Re: "hda-intel spurious response" messages and intermittent GDM startup with Intel D945GCLF Motherboard

2010-06-19 Thread David Mitchell
Problem still extant - no updated comments because no-one has suggested a fix and there are only so many 'me too' messages it is worth posting Problem on Intel atom board, mythbuntu 10.04, latest ALSA drivers as of 12/6/2010 loaded & built & still there. And also on HP mini2133 but that would

[Bug 451518] Re: [i945G] karmic: INFO: task i915/* blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2009-12-26 Thread David Mitchell
Also seem to have same issue - Intel Atom 330 dual core with 945 chipset. identical messages in syslog uname -a is Linux Mythbox-1 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux syslog has Dec 26 21:13:06 Mythbox-1 kernel: [ 6001.203871] Call Trace: Dec 26 21:13:0

[Bug 381087] [NEW] Update Gnu ddrescue package

2009-05-27 Thread David Mitchell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gddrescue Please update the version of gnu ddrescue to the latest version (ver 1.9 17 November 2008) - Current package version is 1.3 I think Available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ Reasons... Latest version. Supports --direct option which avoids