[Bug 1940754] Re: Scanned images are deteriorated by compression artifacts with Brother MFC-L2710DW

2022-03-13 Thread Karl Kastner
The problems has disappeared. xsane and scanimage work fine now: - The xsane gui offers scan resolutions up to 9600 dpi - No compression artefacts, tested with 1200 dpi - No error messages are displayed by xsane The reason is a mystery, neither any sane nor brscan related packages seem to have be

[Bug 1960711] Re: USB does not work any more after wake up from suspend

2022-02-20 Thread Karl Kastner
This problem is still affects 5.15.0-22-generic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960711 Title: USB does not work any more after wake up from suspend To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1960711] [NEW] USB does not work any more after wake up from suspend

2022-02-12 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: On Lenovo E14 Gen 2 kernel 5.13.0-22 exhibits multiple bugs, one of them is that he USB sometimes does not work any more after suspend and a reboot is necessary. This problem occurs every few kernel versions, so it would be really nice if there would be a way to reload the bui

[Bug 1960710] [NEW] Ant war on primary laptop screen after attaching an external monitor and switching it on and off

2022-02-12 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: On Lenovo E14 Gen 2 kernel 5.13.0-22 exhibits multiple bugs, one of them is that the primary screen shows white noise (ant war) after attaching an external monitor and switching it on and oft This cannot be solved by switching to tty or restarting the display manager, reboot n

[Bug 811604] Re: uvcdynctrl spams uvcdynctrl-udev.log and fills up filesystem

2021-11-02 Thread Karl Kastner
20.04 focal, uvcdynctrl-udev.log is 21G. The first entry in this log file if from Fri Dec 4 21:01:36 CET 2015. This file should be added to the logrotate list as suggested by James Mitchell (jmit) on 2016-10-19. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1750278] Re: Bionic ISO installer too wide for 800x600

2021-09-08 Thread Karl Kastner
The minimum specifications suck, as Ubuntu defaults to 800x600 sometimes when the appropriate graphics drivers are not loaded. I remember brand new laptops where the live CD just booted in low resolution, and I had to navigate through the installation menu by hitting tab and enter by mere guess, be

[Bug 1910908] Re: Web-login page for captive portals not opening on public wireless networks

2021-09-07 Thread Karl Kastner
I found meanwhile that the web login worked at most other places I have been to since then. Thus, Ubuntu 20.04 seems to ignore the captive portal only under particular circumstances which indicates that one of the less common captive portal variants does not work. -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1940754] [NEW] All scans via sane deteriotad by compression artefacts for Brother MFC-L2710DW

2021-08-21 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I have a Brother MFC-L2710DW printer with integrated flatbed scanner. There are two major problems when scanning with sane: The first problem is that the quality of all scanned images is very poor due to 8x8 pixel JPG compression artefacts. The root coarse seems to be the bac

[Bug 1820866] Re: File dialog extremely slow scanning network mounts

2021-07-30 Thread Karl Kastner
I have the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS since a couple of days, esp. in libreoffice and evince. Sometimes I have to kill the applications. The problem occurred out of the blue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. http

[Bug 1928325] [NEW] Linphone package is of outdated not properly functioning version

2021-05-13 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The current linphone release is 4.2.5, yet the default package in ubuntu 20.04 is merely 3.12. The version 3.12 is outdated. It has been discontinued and is also not working properly, for example, the wizard fails to create/store sip account settings, clicking the call butt

[Bug 1926143] [NEW] DNS resolution faulty over openconnect

2021-04-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: When connected over VPN, then some domain names are incorrectly resolved. In particular HTTPS/SSL is not working for many sites. Steps to reproduce: 1) Connect to a vpn via openconnect 2) Lookup an address: nslookup www.bing.com Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127

[Bug 1910908] [NEW] Web-login page for captive portals not opening on public wireless networks

2021-01-10 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Focal Fossa the web page to log on to public wireless networks does not open. Without this, it is not possible to access public networks in cafes and hotels. It neither works with Firefox, Chrome nor Konqueror. I could ping the gateway so the redirection

[Bug 1895262] [NEW] Installer windows do not fit on screen, when live-CD only boots with 800x600 screen resolution

2020-09-11 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I recently got a new laptop, ThinkPad E14 G2 with AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics. The live-system boots only with a screen resolution of 800x600, which cannot be increased. The problem is that the windows of the installer do not fit the screen so that the buttons for "

[Bug 1880620] [NEW] Fcitx input stalls GUI

2020-05-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Select Fcitx as input method, log out, log in again. The GUI (gnome) becomes extremely sluggish, and does not react to keyboard input any more after a couple of seconds. CTRL-Alt-Backspace luckily works. After several attempts I managed to change the input method back to Ibus

[Bug 1792085] Re: Regression: MTP not working/very slow

2020-04-12 Thread Karl Kastner
I have a similar problem in 18.04, extremely slow mpt access to a Huawei P20. Installation of libmtp9_1.1.17-2, libmtp-common_1.1.17-2 and libmtp-runtime_1.1.17-2 did not result in any improvement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1865101] [NEW] No signal to external monitor after [drm:intel_pch_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder B FIFO underrun

2020-02-27 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Since recently, my external monitor goes black in random intervals of 5-10 min. I have Dell monitor connected via display port to a Lenovo ThinkPad T510. I always switch off the laptop screen with "xrandr -q --output LVDS-1 --off" and work only with the external monitor. This

[Bug 1859409] [NEW] Lighning fails to modify events and to store login credentials for Google calendars after update

2020-01-13 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Google calendar became inaccessible after a recent update. The boxes of the respective calendars are discoloured and displayed in grey. I installed the google provider add-on to facilitate the log in. With the plugin, the calendars are shown, but editing events and password st

[Bug 1773207] Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer

2019-11-26 Thread Karl Kastner
The file in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib are both identical. I kept the old one in a separate folder and it has the same sha1sum. But the file in /usr/lib seems to be spurious as well, since it is not associated with any package and variants with newer timestamp of libsqlite3.so.0 persists in /usr/l

[Bug 1773207] Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer

2019-11-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Ah, thanks, Nautilus works again after removing /usr/local/lib/libsqlite3.so.0. Wonder where the file in /usr/local/lib came from. It's also strange that the files in /usr/lib and /usr/local lib were identical according to diff. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1773207] Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer

2019-11-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Output of ldd and dpkg is attached ** Attachment added: "dpkg-ldd.tar" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1773207/+attachment/5307849/+files/dpkg-ldd.tar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1773207] Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer

2019-11-24 Thread Karl Kastner
The bug still persists. sqlite-autoconf is neither installed on my machine nor contained in the repository. Purging and reinstalling natilus, sqlite and libtracker did not help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1840942] Re: Distribution functions missing from Octave

2019-08-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Ah, I had completely forgotten about this pitfall for MATLAB user's, thanks a lot for the quick response -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840942 Title: Distribution functions missing f

[Bug 1840942] Re: Distribution functions missing from Octave

2019-08-26 Thread Karl Kastner
** Changed in: octave (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840942 Title: Distribution functions missing from Octave To manage notifications a

[Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2019-08-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Lenovo T510 with 4.18.0-25 is also effected, this strangely almost freezes the GUI, despite that systemd-udevd only occupies one core -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759836 Title: sy

[Bug 1840942] [NEW] Distribution functions missing from Octave

2019-08-21 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The distribution functions like normcdf are missing from Octave. This seems to be a repackaging bug. The distributions where recently moved from the base to the statistics package. Apparently, the package versions in the repository are out of sync. I installed all octave packa

[Bug 1838397] [NEW] convert-im6.q16: not authorized `figure.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/420

2019-07-30 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Out of the blue, imagemagick stopped working for pdf: convert figure.pdf figure.png convert-im6.q16: not authorized `figure.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/420. convert-im6.q16: no images defined `figure.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258. Fix: comment the

[Bug 1833991] [NEW] Unable to connect to Android phones via mtp (usbfs: process did not claim interface 0 before use)

2019-06-24 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I cannot connect to my Huawei P20 Lite running Android 8.0 via mtp. This does neither work with mtp-tools, jmtp-fs nor gmtp. Creation of a device-specific udev-rule did not help. sudo mtp-connect [sudo] password for pia: libmtp version: 1.1.13 Device 0 (VID=12d1 and PID=10

[Bug 1826423] [NEW] Dolphin takes ages to move files to trash

2019-04-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: It takes very long (seconds to minutes) to delete files, i.e. move files to the trash folder with the dolphin browser. Furthermore the system load goes up to 100\%. Even copy+sync to another partition is faster. PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TI

[Bug 1826415] [NEW] Videos do not play in presentation mode

2019-04-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: It is not possible to play embedded videos in the presentation mode. This affects PDF slides created with the beamer/multimedia latex package. Initially, no controls are shown on the slide with the video. In the normal mode, video controls appear when the video is clicked with

[Bug 1822544] [NEW] System clock miracoulously jumped ahead by one hour overnight

2019-04-01 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The clock miraculously jumped one hour ahead on my system overnight. Two nights ago there was the switch to summer time. This went fine, i.e. the UTC system clock was not changed and the system just added another hour to interpret it as UTC+2 (CEST). However, this morning I fo

[Bug 1816641] Re: [nvidia] Xorg Session crash out upon resuming

2019-03-07 Thread Karl Kastner
Thanks for the advice. I thought that the crash report would be attached automatically when I do ubuntu-bug command-name. Anyway, the new bug is #1819008. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1308169] Re: apport-bug on .crash file does not send report

2019-03-07 Thread Karl Kastner
This bug still persists on 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308169 Title: apport-bug on .crash file does not send report To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1816641] [NEW] Xorg Session crash out upon resuming

2019-02-19 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Resume, suspend, find yourself logged out and all processes terminated. Used to happen until a week ago only when there is an external monitor connected and the VGA cable unplugged. Now it happens all the time after resuming from suspend to ram. Bug #1721428 (#1733127) for 17

[Bug 1789165] Re: Cannot select from web-context menus with mouse click, only with keyboard

2019-02-12 Thread Karl Kastner
Apparently, the problem still persists on some sites, like creating new folders on Google Drive. So I debugged the issue and finally found that this problem is created by the "Enable Right Click and Copy" plugin. That plugin seems anyway to be out of date so I removed it. Should get used to checkin

[Bug 1789165] Re: Cannot select from web-context menus with mouse click, only with keyboard

2019-02-09 Thread Karl Kastner
It works again with Firefox 65. I just tested this at Linkedin, where items from the drop down menus could not be selected with the mouse until recently. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1769819] Re: [nvidia] Xorg crashes after system sleep / wakeup, in libwfb.so+25597 → nvidia_drv.so+60a46c → [heap]+d35cb0

2019-02-05 Thread Karl Kastner
This happens to my XMG/Clevo W230s with GM107M [GeForce GTX 860M]. I have an external monitor connected and disable the laptop screen with xrandr --output eDP-1-1 --off. When I suspend and close the lid, then disconnect the VGA cable and therefafter resuspend, Xorg crashes and I have to login again

[Bug 1811651] [NEW] r8168 has to be reprobed after suspend to reconnect to the network

2019-01-14 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: My system currently fails to automatically reconnect to the wireless and ethernet network after resuming. The system reconnects when the r8168 is removed with modprope -r and then reloaded. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: r8168-dkms 8.046.00-1 ProcVersio

[Bug 195782] Re: Users not automatically added to "scanner" group: No scanning functions of HP multi-function in Hardy

2019-01-06 Thread Karl Kastner
The bug still persists in cosmic cuttlefish in combination with Samsung SCX-470x, 13 years after #195782 was filed. The workaround also works still, after I installed libsane-extras, xsane miracally started up without an error. I suggest to change the package dependence so that libsane-extras is in

[Bug 1808397] [NEW] Evince does not show content of inserted text comments

2018-12-13 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Evince does not display the content of text inserted by acrobat reader annotations. It does show the blue triangles and opens a box when one clicks on a triangle, but the inserted text is not displayed in the box. In contrast, the content of yellow sticky notes is properly dis

[Bug 1801395] [NEW] Lightning

2018-11-02 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: After upgrading to Ubuntu Cosmic 18.10, the Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird stopped working. The calendar also did not reappear after I reinstalled xul-ext-lightning. I had to manually download and install Lightning from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightn

[Bug 1731626] Re: Bash disregards umask: All new files are created world writeable (Posix default)

2018-10-31 Thread Karl Kastner
Finally found that acl rights were set which overruled umask. After removing those with "setfacl -b" directories are again created with the proper access rights. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1670959] Re: systemd-resolved using 100% CPU

2018-10-19 Thread Karl Kastner
This annoying bug affected all upgrades to Bionic and Cosmic Cuttlefish I did so far and also effects Cosmic Cuttlefish. systemd-resolv and dnsmasq consume each 100% CPU and internet access becomes extremely slow. My latest workaround is to disable automatic overwriting to /etc/resolf.conf with su

[Bug 1621780] Re: upgrade failure from older nvidia release

2018-10-18 Thread Karl Kastner
This blocks release upgrades to Cosmic Cuttlefish. "dpkg --purge --force-all libcuda1-352" does not help, but vmagnin workaround does work. apt-get upgrade libcuda1-352 ... Preparing to unpack .../libcuda1-352_361.45.11-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ... Failed to stop var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount: Unit var-lib

[Bug 1797935] Re: Sending mail and saving drafts suddenly stopped working

2018-10-16 Thread Karl Kastner
After debugging a lot I found that the problem is caused by the Add-on "Subject Manager 1.1.1". After disabling this plug-in sending works fine again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797

[Bug 1797935] [NEW] Sending mail and saving drafts suddenly stopped working

2018-10-15 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Since today I can neither send messages nor store drafts. Restarting thunderbird does not help. No error message is displayed. Receiving messages works fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: thunderbird 1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 ProcVersionSignatur

[Bug 1789164] Re: Grub2 boot line indication out of sync on external monitor

2018-09-11 Thread Karl Kastner
I press e and edit the boot command, then there is an instant reaction to the keyboard on all monitors, only the indicator in the main and sub- menu of grub seem to be affected. I noticed that the sequence is at the moment slightly different then to what I originally described: cursor down one tim

[Bug 1789165] [NEW] Cannot select from web-context menus with mouse click, only with keyboard

2018-08-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: On many web-pages that have drop-down menus, I cannot select from them by mouse. For example, I cannot change the language in google translate: Goto https://translate.google.com/, select the triangle next to the default languages, hover over any language and left click to sele

[Bug 1789164] [NEW] Grub2 boot line indication out of sync on external monitor

2018-08-26 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The boot line indicator is out of sync on my external monitor connected via vga (Philips 241B6Q) with that displayed on my laptop (XMG/Clevo W230SS, nVidia GM107M). If I press the cursor down key, the indicator moves to the second line on my laptop screen, but not on the exter

[Bug 1622730] Re: No sound on headphones after suspend

2018-08-03 Thread Karl Kastner
Did you try the workaround posted on 2016-12-19? You may have to add modules i2c_dev and i2c_i801 before running init-headphone: sudo modprobe --first-time i2c_dev sudo modprobe --first-time i2c_i801 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1780240] [NEW] Wifi password change not applied by NetworkManager

2018-07-05 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I cannot anymore change the wifi password for existing connections. I have to update the password every three months in accordance with the security guidelines at my university. Steps to reproduce: wifi-settings -> cogwheel on existing connection -> security -> enter new passo

[Bug 1728012] Re: Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change

2018-06-16 Thread Karl Kastner
Samsung SCX-470x,04e8:3457 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, is affected as well, the scanner is detected, but if a scan is attempted, the error "Failed to start scanner: error during device i/o" is displayed. Then the connection to the device is lost and I need to restart the device. Rajasekharan wor

[Bug 1773207] [NEW] symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer

2018-05-24 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Just completed a do-release-ugrade from artful to bionic. Now nautilus does not launch any more. Following error message is displayed: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker- data.so.0: undefined symbol: sqlite3_bind_pointer ProblemType: Bug Di

[Bug 1662294] Re: package nvidia-opencl-icd-352-updates 361.45.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: няма скрипт в новата версия на пакета - ще се предадете ли

2018-03-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Effect also 17.10 as well. It is a shame that bugs are automatically closed with new releases without having actually been fixed. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ... The following packages will be upgraded: libcuda1-352 1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. 112 not fully

[Bug 1754866] [NEW] Xorg crashed with SIGABRT

2018-03-10 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvi

[Bug 1753140] Re: X-Session killed / forced log-out after suspend

2018-03-10 Thread Karl Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1754866 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754866 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of private bug 1754866 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1753140] [NEW] X-Session killed / forced log-out after suspend

2018-03-03 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: X-sessions on my system are killed or automatically logged out when I suspend from resume. Steps to reproduce: gnome-screensaver-command --lock & systemctl suspend -i Wait for system to suspend. Disconnect, power, external monitor and usb devices. Resume by pressing the pow

[Bug 1747918] Re: Qgis does not display menue: Warning: loading of qgis translation failed (also for US English)

2018-02-07 Thread Karl Kastner
Workaround: Settings -> Options -> Application -> Style -> change Plastique into GTK+ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747918 Title: Qgis does not display menue: Warning: loading of qg

[Bug 1747918] [NEW] Qgis does not display menue: Warning: loading of qgis translation failed (also for US English)

2018-02-07 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: When hovering over a menu icon Qgis displays an empty text box. This is annoying because users have to find the tool they need by trial and error like analphabets. On start Qgis displays the error: Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US

[Bug 134313] Re: pdfimages produces inverted image for black & white image

2018-02-04 Thread Karl Kastner
Still occuring for regularly on ubuntu 17.10 artful. I regularly ocr pdf of scanned document and this occurs frequently for fax-compressed files. ** Attachment added: "Test file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/134313/+attachment/5048705/+files/orig.pdf -- You received th

[Bug 1746258] [NEW] Local servers not reachable as NetworkManager adds spurious nameserver 127.0.1.1 to resolv.conf

2018-01-30 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Since upgrade to 17.04/17.10 I cannot reach any server within my university domain over LAN: >From within the university network: ping webmail.wur.nl ping: webmail.wur.nl: Name or service not known >From outside: ping webmail.wur.nl PING webmail.wur.nl (137.224.252.102) 56(8

[Bug 1745737] [NEW] Firefox fails to start up and displays XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

2018-01-27 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Firefox does not start up, instead a window opens that shows: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Line Number 1165, Column 7: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745737 Title: Firefox fails to start up and displays XML Parsi

[Bug 1740828] Re: USB devices are detected but not working

2018-01-04 Thread Karl Kastner
Maybe, as automatic updates are enabled this is not certain. I did not experience the same problem recently. The mainline kernel does not install on my machine: dpkg -i * (Reading database ... 1028499 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack linux-headers-4.15.0-041500rc6_4

[Bug 1740828] [NEW] USB devices are detected but not working

2018-01-02 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: USB mouse, keyboard and memory sticks are detected, but not working with kernel 4.10.0-37-generic. They how up in lsusb, but moving the mouse or typing does not result in any reaction on my laptop. No /dev/sdx devices is created for the memory stick. Internal touch pad and key

[Bug 1731626] [NEW] Bash disregards umask: All new files are created world writeable (Posix default)

2017-11-11 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: umask is set in my system set to 022. This is also what umask on the bash spits out. However, new files are always created with permission 666 and new directories with 777, thus world writeable, as is the posix default. When I explicitely set umask in my .bashrc, for example t

[Bug 1727339] [NEW] Cups never prompts for username and password

2017-10-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: To print over a network, I have to provide my credentials that differ from those on my local workstation. This works, if as long as I hard code the credentials into /etc/cups/printers.conf with "DeviceURI smb://user:passowrd@printerurl". This is inconvenient, because I have to

[Bug 1727247] [NEW] Upgrade fails to automattically install modules with a new kernel

2017-10-25 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I report this, because the problem has occurred several times during recent upgrades: A new kernel was installed during the upgrade, but the accompanying kernel modules were not. As a consequence, the twofish modules were missing, and encrypted volumes did not mount anymore.

[Bug 1702961] Re: Intel wifi instability with 4.10 and Intel Device 24fd

2017-10-24 Thread Karl Kastner
For me, running Zesty on W230SS Clevo, it is even worse: wireless networking stops working entirely about 1-2 hours after booting. Reboot necessary. Still waiting for my first release upgrade without serious graphics or networking issues, sigh :( [ 8976.597078] [ cut here ]

[Bug 1308169] Re: apport-bug on .crash file does not send report

2017-10-19 Thread Karl Kastner
Had to follow Rocko's advice to be able to report bugs in zesty 17.04, this is annoying, apport should be more verbatim instead of silently not uploading the report -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1713511] [NEW] Colours of tracked changes change after crash

2017-08-28 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I collaborate with a colleague on a document and use the change tracking. Libreoffice crashes sometimes. This is annoying, but not too much, as there is the auto-recovery. However, it is very annoying that the colours of the tracked changes are different after reloading the cr

[Bug 1708114] Re: Gnome-shell crashes randomly and causes black screen for 1 second

2017-08-05 Thread Karl Kastner
Just happened again, attached the backtrace: ** Attachment added: "_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1708114/+attachment/4927641/+files/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1708114] [NEW] Gnome-shell crashes randomly and causes black screen for 1 second

2017-08-02 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Gnome-shell crashes randomly and causes a black screen for about 1 second. It immediately recovers and one can continue the session without logging in again. This occurs once daily, so it is not yet annoying. dmesg shows, that the segfault is caused by the spidermonkey librar

[Bug 1699682] [NEW] No Lan, no Wireless Lan and no wireless usb mouse after kernel update

2017-06-21 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: One of the frequent show stoppers of Linux: New kernel => no network. However, usually the cabled Lan works, but this time there is also no connection over eth0. I've two ethernet cards, one internal one over usb. The one over usb is not even detected in 4.8.0-54. Everything w

[Bug 1698768] [NEW] Lightning does not display and mixes up time zones

2017-06-19 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: I send a meeting invitation with Thunderbird/Lightning over a gmail address. The meeting was scheduled 10am and so it appears for me in my calendar. However, all guests see the invitation as 1pm. The time zone on my local machine as well on google calendar is Berlin GMT+2. The

[Bug 1697379] [NEW] USB ports die randomly

2017-06-12 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: All USB ports died randomly, dmesg states "HC died; cleaning up". Users lose control on machines with USB-keyboards. I'm lucky to work on a laptop with an integrated keyboard. USB cannot be reset with reloading the usbhid module. Reboot necessary ProblemType: Bug DistroReleas

[Bug 1579142] Re: Evince windows cannot be resized after upgrade to Xenial

2017-04-21 Thread Karl Kastner
The problem still persists in 16.04, which is, that the resize cross hairs do not show up when the mouse is howevered over the borders of the window. This is only the case for some applications, most applications, like gnome-terminal, are not affected. However, at least in the latest release I can

[Bug 1614100] Re: Upload dialog in Firefox does not have an address bar any more for entering pathes

2017-04-21 Thread Karl Kastner
Just found that there is also a setting for the gnome file upload dialogue, so that path can be entered as text on default, not requiring the user to press ctrl-l: In dconf-editor, set org->gtk->file- chooser->location mode to "filename entry". ** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => gtk+3.0 (Ubun

[Bug 1614100] Re: Upload dialog in Firefox does not have an address bar any more for entering pathes

2017-04-21 Thread Karl Kastner
I just found a solution: In the file upload dialogue, hit Ctrl-l to bring up to the address line instead of the path bar. It would be nice, if the address bar were there on default, or if there would be a hint on the bottom of the box, how to bring it up. If this should stop working at some point

[Bug 1614100] Re: Upload dialog in Firefox does not have an address bar any more for entering pathes

2017-04-21 Thread Karl Kastner
I noticed that there is a similar issue with the path bar in Nautilus, this however, can be resolved either with ubuntu-tweaks (Tweaks -> File Manager -> Use the location entry instead of the pathbar -> On) of the dconf-editor ( org –> gnome –> nautilus –> preferences -> always-use- location-entry)

[Bug 1574266] Re: Xorg freeze [drm] stuck on render ring - gpu hanging too fast, banning

2017-03-31 Thread Karl Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1454964 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454964 For me, this also sometimes happens after suspending. Then, characters are not anymore displayed and I have to restart the display manager with ctrl-backspace. This problem emerged over the last year, so pro

[Bug 1622730] Re: No sound on headphones after suspend

2016-12-18 Thread Karl Kastner
So, after a while tried it again and I finally managed to get the headphone jack working: 1) Update to grub2 if this has not yet been done. 2) Set the following acpi kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="uveau.modeset=0 acpi_enforce_resources=lax" 3) update-grub 4) Reboot

[Bug 1622730] [NEW] No sound on headphones after suspend

2016-09-12 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: This seems to be a common problem on XMG Clevo W230SS there is no output on the headphone jack after suspend. The headphones are detected and the speakers are muted, but there is no output to the headphones. Init- headphones does not help: sudo init-headphone WARNING:root:Ke

[Bug 1616623] [NEW] do-release-upgrade brakes system on network failure

2016-08-24 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: On a friends computer the release upgrade was interrupted due to a power out. On reboot, the system could not be fixed with an apt-get -f install and then apt-get dist-upgrade, because some packages were not yet downloaded and the system was in a state were the network was not

[Bug 1614100] [NEW] Upload dialog in Firefox does not have an address bar any more for entering pathes

2016-08-17 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Since recently, the upload menu in Firefox allows only for browsing. Thus, instead of simply entering the directory on the keyboard or copying the pwd from the command line, I have to click myself through the directory tree like a monkey. ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Imp

[Bug 1506612] Re: pdfimages extracts black rectangles instead of the images

2016-08-17 Thread Karl Kastner
I can reproduce this for certain files in xenial. Most of these files are pdf files that were converted from ps format. ** Attachment added: "77-321.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/1506612/+attachment/4722623/+files/77-321.pdf -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1600173] [NEW] Pmount hangs on bash autocomplete

2016-07-08 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The bash freezes on my machine when I try to autocomplete pmount. Type pmount tab-tab, bash freezes. Cannot be unfrozen by hitting CTRL-C. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: pmount 0.9.23-3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-30.49-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linu

[Bug 1587101] Re: Grep silently discards tails of long text streams

2016-06-01 Thread Karl Kastner
Hello Seth, thanks for the quick and detailed response. The attachment is deleted. Please feel free to make the discussion public. Apparently the issue is not the umlauts (at least on my machine), but ligatures, &c. I've a script to rename files, but some always slip. Especially the incapability o

[Bug 1578135] Re: suspend does not work after upgrade to Xenial (kernel 4.4.0-21-generic)

2016-05-15 Thread Karl Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1566302 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566302 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1566302 Ubuntu 16.04: Suspend freezes the system after upgrade to linux image 4.4.0-16 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 1578135] Re: suspend does not work after upgrade to Xenial (kernel 4.4.0-21-generic)

2016-05-15 Thread Karl Kastner
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1566302 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566302 Similar here, suspending does not work since upgrade to xenial, but my system unfreezes when switching to console and back. ** Attachment added: "dmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xor

[Bug 1512095] Re: Hugin crashes at start-up with /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/object.h(160): assert "wxDynamicCast(ptr, T)" failed in wxCheckCast(): wxStaticCast() used incorrectly

2016-05-14 Thread Karl Kastner
_usr_bin_hugin.1000.crash ** Attachment added: "_usr_bin_hugin.1000.crash" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hugin/+bug/1512095/+attachment/4662836/+files/_usr_bin_hugin.1000.crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 1512095] Re: Hugin crashes at start-up with /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/object.h(160): assert "wxDynamicCast(ptr, T)" failed in wxCheckCast(): wxStaticCast() used incorrectly

2016-05-14 Thread Karl Kastner
Still persistent in version 2015.0.0+dfsg-1 (xenial). Hugin log file is attached ** Attachment added: "hugin.xml" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hugin/+bug/1512095/+attachment/4662829/+files/hugin.xml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 1525724] Re: boot hangs with more than 1 luks device in crypttab

2016-05-07 Thread Karl Kastner
By the way, just did apt-get dist-upgrade and the following warning appeared: cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda2 cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab /dev/sda2 is my unencrypted root device. -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1525724] Re: boot hangs with more than 1 luks device in crypttab

2016-05-07 Thread Karl Kastner
I've only one encrypted device, but since upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial my machine fails to mount it and stops booting. After entering the password for the device, the system just displays: "After login in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs". Booting can be resumed by hitting enter and the

[Bug 1579142] [NEW] Evince windows cannot be resized after upgrade to Xenial

2016-05-06 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Since upgrade to Xenial, windows of evince cannot be resized on my machine. Windows can be maximized and restored, but windows cannot be resized with the mouse to arbitrary width and height. Works fine for windows of other applications. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu

[Bug 1574209] [NEW] Libreoffice calc crashes when undoing spell correction

2016-04-24 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu4 crashes on my machine when applying the spell checker and then undoing them. Data entered since the last auto-save get lost. Steps to reproduce: 1) open an empty spreadsheet 2) enter any misspelled word into A1 3) run the spell checker and correct the word 4)

[Bug 1573709] [NEW] gnome-shell crashes and makes gnome-terminal invisible

2016-04-22 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: gnome-shell crashes randomly on my system about once a week. This is preceded by a soft lock (lock of the gui, CTRL-ALT-F1 switching to console still possible) of 10-30 seconds. This happens mostly when a busy task is running in a gnome-terminal with multiple tabs open. Th

[Bug 1571980] [NEW] Evince does not display PDF annotations

2016-04-18 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Evince does not display the content of PDF annotations. It only displays an obtuse yellow symbol, but not the annotation text. This affects not only documents where annotations were added with adobe reader to existing pdf files, but also pdf files where the annotations are cre

[Bug 1560389] [NEW] MFC40.DLL does not install with winetricks

2016-03-22 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: The link to MFC40.DLL on the Microsoft homepage is dead. Consequently MFC40.DLL does not install any more. winetricks mfc40 -- You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WI

[Bug 1557605] [NEW] Evince omits pages

2016-03-15 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: Evince omits pages and swaps the page order when displaying the attached document. Evince (GNOME Document Viewer 3.10.3) displays incorrectly: cover, 1, 3, 3 (repetition), 4, 16, 6, 7, 38, 9, 10-65 Acrobat reader 9.5.5 displays correctly: cover, 1-65 I am not sure if thi

[Bug 241604] Re: Maximum zoom in Evince is 400%

2016-01-31 Thread Karl Kastner
The minimum zoom level is annoying, too. The current minimum zoom level is 10%, which makes it impossible to display high resolution pdf on a single screen width. This effects PDFs produced from scans where the density was set to a wrong value, i.e. a 600dpi scan labelled as 75dpi. Evince should no

[Bug 1523210] [NEW] laptop-mode-tools suppresses usb keyboard input

2015-12-06 Thread Karl Kastner
Public bug reported: 1st) laptop-mode-tools deactivates usb devices after a few seconds of inactivity. This makes input with usb keyboard and mouse a nuisance, as the first keys are gobbled. Prolonging the time before deactivation from a few seconds to a couple of minutes would be reasonable. 2nd

  1   2   >