Public bug reported:
System: Kubuntu 12.04.2 LTS w/ backports PPA enabled, x86_64
After the update of Kubuntu in the very early morning (about 6:00 MET)
of Feb 9th, 2013, the KDE desktop does not start anymore. X11 and kdm
runs, as does the XBMC standalone session. When starting the update,
the
On topics 1.+2.: Would be helpful if 'ubuntu-bug' could accept a command
name, i.e. the above invocation would not fail and derive:
a) 'ubuntu-bug' is in the path, it is '/usr/bin/ubuntu-bug'.
b) '/usr/bin/ubuntu-bug' belongs to package 'apport'.
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Unfortunately, apport is itself buggy...
1. It crashes on invokation with a non-existant pkg name: Try "$ ubuntu-bug
ubuntu-bug" -> crash
2. It's name does not match the command name - an average user would not be
able to find out that ubuntu-bug's pkg name is 'apport'
3. I
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Public bug reported:
KDE Bug 311212 - notification app to install additional pkg: empty list
and never closed
k3b starts a notification app to install additional pkgs to enhance k3b's
abilities. After I installed the pkg, the app was never closed and the list
did not change - I could select an
Hello Brad & Joseph,
I had a conversation with Tino Reichardt who wrote the TRIM parts of the
patch. Dave Kleikamp did not answer, maybe I choose the wrong e-mail adress
or because he went from Big Blue to Oracle?
Tino will support me to get the patch upstream, but he is "a small light" (and
In the meantime:
$ sudo adjust the ubuntu docs so it's clear for newbies to which kernel
version diff against (kernel.org/linux-meta/kernel.ubuntu.com)
and
$ sudo initiate to throw the debian so-called "helper" kernel-tools out of
ubuntu.
See my other bug filed concerning that. It took me a few
Hello Joseph,
[short summary]
I do not follow kernel mailing lists. My infos are from news articles on the
internet and the web sites of Tino Reichard and lkml.org. I'm not familiar
with linux kernel interna and do not know who is the maintainer of JFS in
linux. I trust these, so I can deriv
Update: With a low-latency kernel (3.2.28 aka ubuntu-3.2.0-31.50)
responsiveness was better, but still much worse than on my old system w/
rotational HDD. Probably the problems were related to KDE/Kubuntu, because
now, out of nowhere, the system is...
...FAST! _Everything_ is smooth. I do
Public bug reported:
I backported the (now uptream since linux 3.7) patch to add DISCARD/TRIM to JFS
filesystem from
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/250 to ubuntu kernel < 3.7. It contains two
other minor fixes, too.
It's quite straightforward, the only change is to exclude one line (a
call to
Public bug reported:
"Those who know can not explain and those woh don't can not
understand..."
In https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/kernel-baking.html
The command "fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image"
fails AFTER building the whole thing (i.e. aft
Am Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2009 21:11:46 schrieb Jonathan Thomas:
> You must set the language as the system language using the "Set system
> language" button.
>
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
>Status: New => Invalid
No. An
Public bug reported:
Release: Ubuntu 9.04
KDE 4.2.2
Setting the language in the KDE4 (Kubuntu 9.04) system settings does not change
the related env vars.
KDE apps then have the new language, but e.g. firefox does not. It's still
shown in the system's default language,
in my case german. After
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33450240/Dependencies.txt
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33450241/ExtensionSummary.txt
** Attachment added: "profiles.ini.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33450242/profiles
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: qtemu
qtemu_1.0.5-1ubuntu1_powerpc.deb
The program used over 1 gig ram, and it was slowly increasing.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Thu May 21 00:12:00 2009
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: qtemu None [modified: /var/li
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26905292/Dependencies.txt
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378023
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kget
On startup, kget shows an icon (a harddisk with a green arrow on top) that
falls from the top of the screen. It periodically swings around the middle of
the screen for a few seconds and then stays there.
Although this is a really fancy eye-candy b
Confirmed for PowerPC (32bit)
The 3rd example of the "learning D" webpage with many writef/ln crashes.
Rewriting to import C libs printf is an ugly workaround.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235955
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Binary package hint: gcc-4.2-source
The packages needed to compile gcc-source could be in the "suggested" section.
E.g. besides a standard C dev environment, gcc-source depends on dpatch and
autoconf-2.13 (for ADA config things).
The patches subdir is not under debian, but i
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376581
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
Error message is:
W:Konnte http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/jaunty/Release nicht holen
Unable to find expected entry partner/binary-powerpc/Packages in Meta-index
file (malformed Release file?)
, E:Einige Indexdateien konnten
n to
stabilize, then this can be reverted.
** Changed in: apt (Debian)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Torsten Eichstädt (torsten-eichstaedt)
Status: New => In Progress
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adept-updater reports many pkgs DEFECT
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181891
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** Also affects: synaptic
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: apt (Debian)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: glibc
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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adept-updater reports many pkgs DEFECT
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181891
You
1.: It is imperative to either
- set root's locale to 'C' and to change 'sudo' to implicitely include
root's login profile when a user switches to the root role, even when not
called as 'sudo -'. Don't forget to update the docs ;).
- or switch to the 'C' locale inside various system too
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: adept-updater
WORKAROUND: Don't let the upgrade run in such a case; wait and try again
later.
Today, adept-updater presented me a long list of DEFECT packages several times.
The action suggested was to remove them. The list included many essential
pack
'dpkg --configure -a' fixed the package database temporarily.
Note: I had to get the NFS lock things run for the command above to succeed.
But I ran into problems with the package management system again today; I'll
post annother bug on that.
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KDE crash handler backtrace:
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
...
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1235621680 (LWP 13062)]
(no debugging symbols found)
...
[KCrash handler]
#6
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179052
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I mounted /var/cache/apt over NFS, because my disk is only 4GB, free space was
about 700MB .
Upgrade seemed to do fine, so I went away letting it download the stuff.
When I came back, all packages were downloaded, and I started answering the
questions.
The upgrader's window
Burning with k3b (a wonderful program!) works out of the box in Kubuntu 7.04
I successfully burned the OpenSolaris DVD ... :)
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Yes. My suggestion is to integrate such a tool like rsync into the updater.
I.e. lower level tools providing such techniques are available (and _mature_),
so why not integrate it?
I realize that this might have low priority, because in principle an update
works with or w/o diffs. But it would b
Most likely I installed a package from world or universe that installs
libpthread, e.g. native POSIX threads library.
So with a plain bare ubuntu system this problem might not occur.
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update from libc6-2.4-ubuntu10 to *-ubuntu12 fails
https://launchpad.net/bugs/68389
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In fact, with k3b it actually _is_ possible to burn DVDs. The bug I
encountered in k3b happens when you want to copy (clone) a DVD and you
select the button for copying a CD from the main screen. Choosing "Copy
DVD" from the menu works.
Wishlist: If it's easily possible to detect the media, the
Additionally, the programs use /tmp for temporary storage.
Correct is to use /var/tmp, because for CD/DVD tasks the amount of storage
needed is large. According to the FHS, /tmp should be used for small storage
needs. E.g. I have /tmp as a tmpfs (like many others).
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Public bug reported:
This affects
* k3b: fails at 98% reading the DVD
* k9b: it takes about 1 h to read a DVD, so I canceled
* xcdroast: (horrible) enabling non-root mode is a do-nothing option...
it says I have to install ProDVD, but neither ProDVD nor
DVDpro is
Public bug reported:
On laptops, it is possible to unplug the CD-ROM while the system is running in
2 seconds, just like a PCMCIA or USB device. Consequently, the average user
will do that, but then the system hangs.
(My friend asked me for my DVD burner, so I plugged it off)
Wishlist: the de
The exact error message was (re-translated to english):
Preparing to replace libc6 2.4-1ubuntu10 (with
.../libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12_i386.deb) ...
Matching libraries: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.20 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
A copy of glibc was found in an unexpected directory.
It is not safe to upgrade the C libr
Public bug reported:
I use adept updater, (it downloads > 600 MB every time I run it, but that's
another bug...) and it stops immediately when trying to unpack the new
C-library. I can not copy and paste the error text because the dialog box
telling theres an error does not give away the focus
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: adept-manager
This bug might as well be assigned to adept-common, -batch, -installer
or -updater, I can not decide.
When installing a package that requires user input during installation,
e.g. adding gdm when kdm is already installed, progress stops. An
I added a comment to bug #48229 suggesting to group all these bugs together:
48229
9440
10535
14330
I forgot to add two bugs filed by me
63825
63873
I suggested that these bugs might be related:
10712
14135
16127
19634
Instead of beeing angry about changing a basic vital system tool in the
same
I had a very similar bug that I think has the same source:
ntfs-resize worked well (I enlarged the FS).
After writing a new partition table with the partitioner shipped with
edgy-alternate-beta-i386.iso as of Sep 28, installing grub or lilo (tried both)
failed and I couldn't write a new mbr with
Public bug reported:
This happens with kernels 2.6.17-10-386 and 2.6.15-10-27-386.
It does _not_ happen with 2.6.15-26-386, when all other things involved are the
same. This does not mean the bug is in the kernel but IMHO there's evidence.
System: Laptop Acer TravelMate 610, graphic Intel 815 (
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: partman-partitioning
bOYS!
How can you ship a broken partitioninng tool with a beta release???
It writes incompatible partition table, leaving the system unable to boot.
I posted a workaround as comment for bug #63869.
This is not the first time I thin
I had the same bug.
The partitioning tool shipped with edgy beta is _definitely_ broken. It
writes wrong (incompatible with at least XP) partition informations onto
the harddisk.
It broke my system -- I could not boot anymore. Running the XP CD in rescue
mode, issueing "fixboot c:" and "fixmbr"
Public bug reported:
keyboard is frozen when exiting a shell on the target system via rescue
system
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Updates should be tranmitted as binary diffs. This is IMHO "no point of
discussion".
- Not everyone has a highspeed network connection
- Especially a beta release has many updates
- Especially with a beta release you might install several times to test the
install procedure
Public bug reported:
to reproduce:
1. Boot CD
2. Press to select your language
3. Press to start the installer
4. Follow the install procedure until it wants to install grub boot loader
FYI: System is a laptop, XP installed, 1/2 the space is already reserved for
Linux
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