[Bug 1874985] Re: d1x-rebirth freezes after the intro at the "Loading" screen on Focal

2024-03-17 Thread zapman
Indeed, this works perfectly on 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) 64-bit. No idea if it was (or will ever be) backported to 20.04, but I think we can mark it as fixed now. ** Changed in: d1x-rebirth (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 2058151] [NEW] [needs-packaging] The Common Desktop Environment

2024-03-17 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: It would be nice to have the Common Desktop Environment in Ubuntu, not only for learning purposes but also for systems with limited resources. FYI, the description of the project reads: "The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, F

[Bug 1875239] Re: No way to start any of the Vice emulators on Focal

2021-02-10 Thread zapman
Works fine now, closing the bug report. ** Changed in: vice (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875239 Title: No way to start any of the Vice emula

[Bug 1875480] [NEW] Impossible to move or resize a VirtualBox VM window in MATE since Focal

2020-04-27 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: A few seconds after a VM has been started, it becomes impossible to resize or to move its window with the mouse and the menu icon at the top left corner of the window title bar doesn't work, i.e. it doesn't display the drop down menu. The Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 keyboard shortcuts d

[Bug 1875239] [NEW] No way to start any of the Vice emulators on Focal

2020-04-26 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: I simply couldn't find a way to start any of the Vice emulators since upgrading to Focal. Purging and then reinstalling vice didn't help. When trying to launch from the terminal, the error message is as follows: $ x64sc ffmpeg avformat lib has version 3a1d64, VICE expects 3a1

[Bug 1874985] [NEW] d1x-rebirth freezes after the intro at the "Loading" screen on Focal

2020-04-25 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: I can launch the game, pass the intro but then everything freezes at the "Loading" screen. I have to kill the process from a console to take back control of the computer. (The descent.hog file was extracted from descent-pc-shareware.zip, so this shouldn't be the issue. Besides

[Bug 933394] Re: mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
** Changed in: mscompress (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933394 Title: mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64 To manage

[Bug 1067981] Re: mc tries to use unarj instead of arj, which leads to an error message

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
** Changed in: mc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067981 Title: mc tries to use unarj instead of arj, which leads to an error message To m

[Bug 1088131] Re: ls --color doesn't recognize an arc archive as an archive

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088131 Title: ls --color doesn't recognize an arc archive as an archive To ma

[Bug 1870422] Re: The terminus font isn't rendered at all on Focal

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
** Summary changed: - Doesn't work on Focal + The terminus font isn't rendered at all on Focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1870422 Title: The terminus font isn't rendered at all o

[Bug 1870422] Re: Doesn't work on Focal

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
This is a problem for the nfoview package which recommends and uses the xfonts-terminus fonts by default. In fact I used to have these fonts in MATE Terminal too and everything was working perfectly in Bionic, but when I upgraded to Focal 20.04 yesterday I got empty squares all over the place. A

[Bug 1870422] Re: Doesn't work on Focal

2020-04-24 Thread zapman
** Attachment added: "A sample NFO file to make tests easier" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfonts-terminus/+bug/1870422/+attachment/5359675/+files/vodo.nfo -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1794368] [NEW] When the desktop environment is in Turkish, launching HexChat opens several error windows

2018-09-25 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: When the desktop environment (MATE in my case) is in Turkish, launching HexChat from the Applications > Internet menu results in 4 error windows being opened. These windows read "Error, invalid argument $", please see the attached screenshot. Other than that HexChat just works

[Bug 1794348] [NEW] When MATE is set to Turkish, libsensors returns an error

2018-09-25 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: When MATE is set to use Turkish, libsensors returns an error and can't read the temperature. mate-sensors-applet simply displays "HATA" which means "Error" in Turkish. In English or French, everything works fine. Please see the attached screenshot for an example. Config infor

[Bug 1781449] [NEW] File doesn't have expected size for Hexen2

2018-07-12 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: I tried to install Hexen2, but when run from the Terminal, I got the following error message: "FATAL ERROR: Unable to find a proper Hexen II installation". Then I tried to install the game's data files with game-data-packager which failed with the following error: $ game-da

[Bug 1182783] Re: gtk-gnutella will not run

2014-01-26 Thread zapman
Hi chris_debian, I may be wrong but AFAIK the fix of version 1.0.0-1 won't be applied to older versions. The current release is 1.0.1 and I'd recommend compiling it from source or, as a last resort, using the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zapman/+archive/gtkg Alternatively, yo

[Bug 1268117] Re: GTK-Gnutella crashes with memory-error 8263

2014-01-26 Thread zapman
Hello Volodya, AFAIK this bug is very similar to bug 1182783 and is fixed in the latest version of gtkg. You may want to install 1.0.1 by compiling from source or by using this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zapman/+archive/gtkg and see if the problem still occurs. Besides, gtkg 1.0.1 has been

[Bug 1182783] Re: gtk-gnutella will not run

2013-10-26 Thread zapman
This also happens on Xubuntu 13.10 i386 with gtk-gnutella 0.98.4-1. I get the following message when I launch gtkg from the command line: zapman@xubuntu:~$ gtk-gnutella ***MEMORY-ERROR***: [2882]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes (alignment: 512): Cannot allocate memory Aborted (core dumped

[Bug 1085305] Re: [needs-packaging] mate-desktop

2012-12-19 Thread zapman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876675 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876675 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876675 [needs-packaging] MATE -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.laun

[Bug 1090290] Re: zoo creates archives with wrong date and time on the filesystem

2012-12-14 Thread zapman
Looking a bit closer at that issue, it seems that only the last modification time is taken into account, the access time doesn't seem to matter. The following terminal log should be self-explanatory: zapman@ubuntu:~/work/bugs/zoo$ touch -d "2004-02-29 16:21:42" testfile zapma

[Bug 1090290] [NEW] zoo creates archives with wrong date and time on the filesystem

2012-12-14 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: After creating an archive with zoo, if you check its date and time with say dir -lha, you'll see that it's rather inconsistent. It seems very close to the date of the original file which is archived (so if you archive a very old file, or if you modify the date of the file you'

[Bug 1088131] [NEW] ls --color doesn't recognize an arc archive as an archive

2012-12-08 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: When listing the content of a directory with ls --color an arc archive isn't recognized as an such and isn't displayed with the appropriate colour. The following terminal output should give an idea: ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ ls sources.list ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ tar cfZ sources.t

[Bug 736135] Re: way old version in "supported" lucid (LTS)

2012-11-08 Thread zapman
Indeed, I think it would be great if motu updated gtk-gnutella regularly, and not only for Lucid. That said, compiling gtkg from source is extremely easy. Just download the source tarball from , extract it say in your home directory. Then open a terminal and

[Bug 1067981] [NEW] mc tries to use unarj instead of arj, which leads to an error message

2012-10-17 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: When viewing an arj archive, mc apparently tries to invoke unarj even when arj is installed and this leads to an error message (unarj: not found). This bug is very easy to reproduce: just create a dummy arj archive with arj a whatever.arj whatever.file then launch mc, select t

[Bug 1052080] Re: [needs-packaging] Glaxium -- a free OpenGL shoot'em up

2012-10-02 Thread zapman
Sorry for the newbie question but have you tried with the patches from Fedora which are available at ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1052080] [NEW] [needs-packaging] Glaxium -- a free OpenGL shoot'em up

2012-09-17 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: This is a little space shooter game that is really fun to play. It exists on Windows and GNU/Linux, but unfortunately there is no easy way to install it on Ubuntu (./configure && make fails, as does alien from a Fedora rpm). Although it is no longer maintained by its develope

[Bug 876675] Re: [needs-packaging] MATE

2012-07-17 Thread zapman
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #658783 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783 ** Also affects: debian via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 892788] Re: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64

2012-07-08 Thread zapman
** Changed in: zoo (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892788 Title: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64 To

[Bug 892788] Re: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64

2012-06-27 Thread zapman
repositories, extracting an archive works fine but there's an error message which gets displayed. An example follows: zapman@ubuntu:~/zootest$ zoo x test.zoo Zoo: WARNING: Archive header failed consistency check. Zoo: dummyfile.txt -- extracted Version 2.10-27 also fixes that. Thanks

[Bug 608802] Re: NaNs in multiple screens

2012-06-20 Thread zapman
I'm using Precise and this bug affects me too. This is apparently fixed upstream but the latest version needs to be packaged. A Debian bug report was submitted (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677446). Bug 749834 which is a duplicate of this one has additional information. ** Bug

[Bug 210643] Re: g15mpd crashed with SIGSEGV in pthread_join()

2012-06-17 Thread zapman
What Andrew said. The error message I get on 12.04 Precise amd64 with g15mpd version1.2svn.0.svn319-3ubuntu1 is a bit different though, but it's a segfault. ** Attachment added: "g15mpd_terminal_output.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/g15mpd/+bug/210643/+attachment/3194018/+files

[Bug 912044] Re: scroll lock doesn't work, which affects users of badly designed backlit keyboards

2012-06-17 Thread zapman
Bug 969082 is probably a duplicate of this one so I marked it as such. It may provide additional information and apport data. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912044 Title: scroll lock

[Bug 969082] Re: Pressing Scroll Lock doesn't toggle its keyboard LED within X

2012-06-17 Thread zapman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 912044 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912044 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 912044 scroll lock doesn't work, which affects users of badly designed backlit keyboards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 701876] Re: Caps lock led does not light on TTY console.

2012-06-17 Thread zapman
This bug affects 12.04 Precise too (I'm using a French AZERTY keyboard). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701876 Title: Caps lock led does not light on TTY console. To manage notificat

[Bug 969082] Re: Pressing Scroll Lock doesn't toggle its keyboard LED within X

2012-03-30 Thread zapman
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969082 Title: Pressing Scroll Lock doesn't toggle its keyboard LED within X To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

[Bug 969082] [NEW] Pressing Scroll Lock doesn't toggle its keyboard LED within X

2012-03-30 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: The problem: The Scroll Lock key doesn't seem to be properly supported and its LED doesn't toggle within X. As a concrete example, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get into tty2, login and then type top. Pressing Scroll Lock will pause the task list, and pressing it again will reënable d

[Bug 933394] [NEW] mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64

2012-02-16 Thread zapman
t return any error messages, so it's probably an architecture problem. Many thanks to Stefan Handschuh, the developer of jAOLT, who advised to use the file command and suggested that the header could be incorrect. A terminal output would probably be more explanatory: zapman@ubuntu:~/msc

[Bug 933394] Re: mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64

2012-02-16 Thread zapman
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933394 Title: mscompress creates files with wrong header on amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 510800] Re: speedometer crashed with AttributeError in __init__()

2011-11-27 Thread zapman
Just wanted to report that I tested this command (speedometer -tx eth0 -rx eth0) on 10.04.3 LTS and everything worked fine. speedometer: version 2.6-2 python-urwid: version 0.9.9.1-1 uname -a gives: Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-35-generic #78-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 11 16:11:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux --

[Bug 892788] Re: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64

2011-11-25 Thread zapman
I sent a message to Carl Johnson who had provided the patch for Debian and he kindly replied with the solution. Should you need to contact him you can find the e-mail I used to contact him on the Debian bug report. His message follows: "I finally think I found the problem. Could you please forewa

[Bug 892788] Re: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64

2011-11-20 Thread zapman
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892788 Title: Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

[Bug 892788] [NEW] Adding a file to a zoo archive returns a fatal error on amd64

2011-11-20 Thread zapman
Public bug reported: Under Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS trying to add a file to an existing zoo archive results in a fatal error. The bug is very easy to reproduce, just create a zoo archive and then try to add a file to it: zapman@ubuntu:~/zoo$ zoo -add archive.zoo test.txt Zoo: test.txt -- (28