[Bug 193686] Re: nm-openvpn with preshared key doesn't work

2009-05-07 Thread Benjamin Bach
Bug also present on 9.04. Tested with shared key and UDP connection. Switching to TLS connection type worked fine. May 7 19:49:36 host nm-openvpn[4301]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.2.1 pointopo int 192.168.3.1 mtu 1500 May 7 19:49:36 host kernel: [27688.086905] tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions

[Bug 129383] Re: Slow CD ripping (Sound Juicer)

2008-06-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
Same problem here. Ripping a cd with ruby-ripper and sound-juicer takes about an hour. However encoding is fast and regular reading shows no problems. E.g.: ~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/dvd /dev/dvd: Timing cached reads: 556 MB in 2.00 seconds = 277.78 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB i

[Bug 129383] Re: Slow CD ripping (Sound Juicer)

2008-06-05 Thread Benjamin Bach
Tried searchingGoogle and Fedora bugzilla. The bug doesn't seem to affect anything but Ubuntu. Can someone experiencing the problem please confirm if it's also a problem on other distros? Otherwise why forward it upstream? -- Slow CD ripping (Sound Juicer) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129383 Y

[Bug 316252] Re: Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book

2009-01-12 Thread Benjamin Bach
Okay, everyone.. try to keep this a (de)bug-related discussion and take all the other stuff to the Ubuntu forums. The bug is confirmed and the workaround is well-known. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1037515 -- Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316252

[Bug 297890] Re: on photo capture cheese blanks the screen until logout

2008-12-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
Cheese -v doesn't yield any output. Should I recompile with debugging enabled? ** Attachment added: "Output from lsusb and lsmod" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20726518/lsmod_and_lsusb.out -- on photo capture cheese blanks the screen until logout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297890 You rec

[Bug 297890] Re: on photo capture cheese blanks the screen until logout

2008-12-21 Thread Benjamin Bach
I have the same problem. The white flash stays, so the screen goes all white. Cheese doesn't freeze.. it just paints the screen all white. Doesn't react on alt+f4, though, because the white area takes focus. Alt+tab shows the window switcher but is unable to switch away from the white area. There

[Bug 293553] Re: git push return "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs"

2009-02-19 Thread Benjamin Bach
Sry. Not like that. Like this: machine domain.name login foo password bar -- git push return "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 293553] Re: git push return "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs"

2009-02-19 Thread Benjamin Bach
You probably need to add and edit ~/.netrc In the file, you should put hostname, username and password like this: servername domain.com username foo password bar I had the same issue. It's not a bug, just something that's pretty badly documented and seems to have caused people a lot of headache

[Bug 240736] Re: Firefox maximized under/over panels after screen size/xrandr changes

2009-03-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
I run 1024x768 and have exactly this issue. After playing around in localstore.rdf I found that these lines should be changed: Into these: Which somehow fixed it. Apparently setting the width+height to a value too high (for instance the exact screen resolution) indirectly causes the issue

[Bug 110859] Re: k3b does not detect normalize-audio

2007-05-10 Thread Benjamin Bach
I can totally confirm this! I've deleted all my K3B settings files and removed all KDE cache and nothing changes. The program is correctly installed. ** Changed in: k3b (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- k3b does not detect normalize-audio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110859

[Bug 95358] Re: syslinux depend on mcopy

2007-08-17 Thread Benjamin Bach
Yup, I can confirm this... -- syslinux depend on mcopy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95358 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

[Bug 127553] Re: [gutsy] rhythmbox doesn't play wma files

2008-01-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
I can't play WMA with crossfading enabled and that's absolutely persistent. 1) Play a WMA file without crossfading enabled. It works, right? 2) Enable crossfading. Restart Rhythmbox. 3) Play a WMA file. Now it doesn't play, but other files work. Can others confirm? Possibly re-open this bug and l

[Bug 127553] Re: [gutsy] rhythmbox doesn't play wma files

2008-01-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
Oh jolly. It's been reported already upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424836 -- [gutsy] rhythmbox doesn't play wma files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 132611] Re: Crash of installer when partitioning - "dont_use" filesystem

2008-02-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
It looks like the installer is working because no errors are thrown and it's fully functional (pressing Cancel gives me a modal dialog right away). Anyways, here's the debug output for 7.10 installer... ** Attachment added: "installer debug" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12215374/debug -- Cra

[Bug 39073] Re: nvidia driver doesn't work at latest upgrade

2007-06-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
I did an "apt-get remove linux-restricted-modules-386" followed by ""apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-386" effectively reinstalling the restricted modules, which fixed my problem (X complained that it couldn't load the nvidia kernel module). My problem also occurred after the latest upgrad

[Bug 1775592] Re: git delete-branch did not work in case the called git config fails

2018-10-12 Thread Benjamin Bach
Confirmed and quite annoying. Yup, I've successfully built 4.6.0 after a uupdate on the current 4.5.0 released with Bionic. It fixes the problem. There are other bug fixes in 4.6.0: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/releases/tag/4.6.0 Since upstream Debian has already packaged 4.6.0, can we jus

[Bug 1796031] Re: Panel listing packages empty, but upgrades are available

2018-10-28 Thread Benjamin Bach
Here is the output of running update-manager while reproducing the issue: update-manager --debug DEBUG:AptClient.DebconfProxy:debconf socket: /tmp/aptdaemon-fwlr2n2s/debconf.socket DEBUG:root:debconf.start() DEBUG:root:debconf.stop() INFO:root:holding back phased update gnome-software (0 < 100) I

[Bug 1796031] Re: Panel listing packages empty, but upgrades are available

2018-10-28 Thread Benjamin Bach
update-manager: version 1:18.04.11.5 Sorry, this report should perhaps be moved to the update-manager package? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1796031 Title: Panel listing packages em

[Bug 1796031] Re: Panel listing packages empty, but upgrades are available

2018-10-29 Thread Benjamin Bach
** Description changed: - I have 23 upgrades available, but they don't display in update-notifier. + I have 23 upgrades available, but they don't display in update-manager. See attached screenshot. See attached screenshot. Behavior is reproducible. These are the upgrades that are

[Bug 1796031] [NEW] Panel listing packages empty, but upgrades are available

2018-10-04 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: I have 23 upgrades available, but they don't display in update-notifier. See attached screenshot. See attached screenshot. Behavior is reproducible. These are the upgrades that are available: ~ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

[Bug 1796474] [NEW] Traceback should be uncollapsed by default

2018-10-06 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: I'm reporting this in the role of a developer getting issue reports for non-Ubuntu projects. Apport could work great for this purpose, too, since it detects our system service's crashes. For us, the most valuable information is typically in the Traceback field (it's a Python

[Bug 1790205] Re: systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically

2018-10-06 Thread Benjamin Bach
A month before the release of 18.04, a change was released to make systemd journals persistent, but the setting SystemMaxUse was left unset in /etc/systemd/journald.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1618188 The bug's regression analysis seems wrong, as it states: "The jo

[Bug 1531184] Re: [SRU] dnsmasq doesn't start on boot because its interface isn't up yet

2019-09-22 Thread Benjamin Bach
The fix by Terrence Houlahan works for me on 18.04. Thanks! However, I'm wondering if adding this "After" clause is a problem since the package doesn't currently depend on Network Manager? Does "NetworkManager-wait-online.service" satisfy a more generic SystemD target? >From the dnsmasq package:

[Bug 1767431] Re: restore type-ahead find, again

2019-09-22 Thread Benjamin Bach
Issue has a patch, so wondering: What are the decision criteria for bringing the patch into 18.04, perhaps backports? Does it have to happen upstream (through persuasion of Gnome devs)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. h

[Bug 1531184] Re: [SRU] dnsmasq doesn't start on boot because its interface isn't up yet

2019-09-24 Thread Benjamin Bach
Adding to my previous message: After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service will not work, as it doesn't respect for instance setups where networkd handles connections. @Robie Basak > Will this delay boot for laptop users who are offline, for example? If someone has installed the dnsmasq package wit

[Bug 1790205] Re: systemd journals take up a lot of space, and it's not obvious how much is used, and what the upper limit is.

2020-07-16 Thread Benjamin Bach
Same issue on Bionic, installed May 15 (2 months ago): ➜ ~ sudo journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active journals take up 4.1G in the file system. My logs are definitely clogged with endless JavaScript errors from gnome-shell. Something I would not expect to

[Bug 1836571] [NEW] Wrong dist codename in mirror.list (using "artful" in all builds)

2019-07-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: Thanks for maintaining this :) Installing apt-mirror on Bionic renders a `mirror.list` with `artful` repositories. Should be replaced with `bionic`. Best, Ben ** Affects: apt-mirror (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1836571] Re: Wrong dist codename in mirror.list (using "artful" in all builds)

2019-07-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
This is also the same in the Cosmic, Disco and Eoan builds. It's that CODENAME is defined wrongly in debian/rules - could it be that builds got copied directly from Artful instead of being rebuilt for each target dist? ** Summary changed: - Default Bionic apt-mirror with mirror.list using "artfu

[Bug 1790205] [NEW] systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically

2018-08-31 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: After running Bionic for 3 months, I had 2.6 GB of journals. I would not expect from a normal desktop user that they should have to run commands like `sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=10d`. I would nominate this command as a sane default to have running at each reboot to ensure

[Bug 1790294] [NEW] Tools=>Bibliography launches Software Centre but fails to find "libreoffice-base" package

2018-09-01 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: Selecting Tools=>Bibliography in LibreOffice Writer will ask for missing software to be installed. After this, Software Centre will say that "libreoffice-base" couldn't be found. I am not sure if the cause of this issue is in the way that Software Centre is invoked? The pack

[Bug 1790294] Re: Tools=>Bibliography launches Software Centre but fails to find "libreoffice-base" package

2018-09-01 Thread Benjamin Bach
Thanks Paul. Apport says "Package libreoffice not installed and no hook available, ignoring" Anyways, the bug is straight-forward to reproduce on default 18.04 without libreoffice-base (which isn't installed by default). I have reproduced on two different installations. ** Changed in: libreoffice

[Bug 1631859] Re: brightness, contrast, quality for Canon LIDE 60 ill defined

2016-11-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
I can confirm this bug on 16.04 with Lide 60. Is it a bug in SANE or simple-scan? Can anyone with another scanner (driver) quickly add if they are *not* experiencing this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1631859] Re: brightness, contrast, quality for Canon LIDE 60 ill defined

2016-11-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
Since I cannot reproduce this with xsane's brightness/contrast controls, I would guess the problem is in simple-scan.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631859 Title: brightness, contra

[Bug 1648806] Re: Arbitrary code execution through crafted CrashDB or Package/Source fields in .crash files

2016-12-16 Thread Benjamin Bach
Question: The release notes state: "Use ast.literal_eval() instead of the generic eval(), to prevent arbitrary code execution from malicious .crash files" The change should be in ui.py in this revision: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3114 Just to be clear: How

[Bug 1691222] Re: Netflix won't run on Firefox 53

2017-09-27 Thread Benjamin Bach
This does not seem to be a bug related to Ubuntu's Firefox package - but an upstream issue. Should be reported here if still relevant: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1272870] Re: no context pane plugin for trusty rhythmbox installation

2014-05-25 Thread Benjamin Bach
Patches look fine, any reason not to merge the first one? I guess it's debatable whether rhythmbox-plugins should be a dependency or a recommendation, but most definitely, the context panel is missing from rhythmbox-plugins. On a related note, recent changes to trusty's rhythmbox include: 47. By

[Bug 1389582] Re: software-center misses a dependency on libgtk2-perl

2017-07-28 Thread Benjamin Bach
dino99, how is this problem solved on Vivid? I don't see libgtk2-perl mentioned in dependencies of the latest trunk? http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-control-tower/software- center/trunk/view/head:/debian/control If something has happened with the way that gtk-based debconf wizards are disp

[Bug 1577198] Re: Imported gpg keys do not show up in Seahorse 3.18.0

2016-09-06 Thread Benjamin Bach
I agree, this was a very annoying bug as there are no error messages. Keys are just missing, and importing the old pubring.gpg through both Seahorse and Enigmail interfaces doesn't work. The "bug" also affects Enigmail. There is a nice description here regarding how to export your old pubring.gpg

[Bug 1450287] Re: dput hard-codes path to gpg binary

2016-09-07 Thread Benjamin Bach
A work-around is to convert your gpg2 keyring (pubring.kbx) to a gpg (pubring.gpg) keyring and store it in your gpg home dir (~/.gnupg/). This answer explains how: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34221494/405682 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1483923] [NEW] dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-08-11 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: On 14.04, adding a divert for /etc/nginx/nginx.conf would have the package installation and configuration proceed after installing with just one error: Setting up nginx-common (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.3) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for ur

[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-08-11 Thread Benjamin Bach
I'm going to take a wild guess that the issue is because vivid's nginx- common.postinst has this line: invoke-rc.d nginx start || exit $? Which will make postinst fail if nginx fails to start for the first time. 15.04: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- branches/ubuntu/vivid/nginx/vivid/view/

[Bug 1282469] [NEW] Add release notes to bug report

2014-02-20 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: Would it be possible to start linking / quoting upstream release notes? For instance, this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1274894 ...would look good with this link: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/24.3.0/releasenotes/ ** Affects

[Bug 1272870] Re: No context pane plugin for rhythmbox installation (Trusty/Utopic/Vivid)

2015-04-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
Confirming that these very simple patches do their job. The "rhythmbox- plugins_3.0.2-0ubuntu2_*" package is now correctly rebuild so that the context pane plugin is installed once again. Patch #1 (rhythmbox-plugins.install) I would definitely say that this should be added back in 14.04, it's a b

[Bug 951585] Re: gvfsd-afp consumes 100% of processor cycles

2013-10-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
Just adding a curious note, that I'm experiencing the same as Ilya Flyamer connecting to a Synology NAS' SMB share. But actually, I'm even on a network now where the Synology is not available. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 1389582] Re: software-center misses a dependency on libgtk2-perl

2015-11-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
It seems that there are also cases where update-manager freezes when libgtk2-perl is not installed. I can confirm this has just happened during the grub-pc upgrade on 14.04.2 This process got stuck: "/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub- pc.postinst configure 2.02~

[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-09-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
@Thomas Ward Firstly, a correction: 14.04 also has the issue, I was looking at the wrong file ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/nginx/trusty/view/head:/debian/nginx-core.postinst is correct ) Let me try to summarize the issue a little better: You have a package, john

[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-11-06 Thread Benjamin Bach
Just read this: > > Conceptually, a diverting package actually pre-depends on the package > > being diverted. Furthermore: > Current behaviour of dpkg-divert is not an excuse to retain it, IMHO. > Conceptually, dpkg-divert in preinst scripts is just wrong. >From this discussion: https://lists.

[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-11-11 Thread Benjamin Bach
Regarding the discussion about dpkg-divert: It's inevitable -- I wanna change something in nginx.conf that's not possible to change elsewhere because /etc/nginx/conf.d is only loaded in the http { ... } segment: 2015/11/11 22:29:32 [emerg] 15102#0: "worker_processes" directive is not allowed here

[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

2015-11-11 Thread Benjamin Bach
Won't fix +1 Pre-Depends is really an easy work-around!! I see problems with dpkg-divert, but I also see work-arounds and room for discussions and improvements of individual packages. I don't think we need to say that "dpkg-divert" should be discouraged because of debian policy, nor do I see a ne

[Bug 1389582] Re: software-center misses a dependency on libgtk2-perl

2015-10-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Other sources confirming this issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions/485036/installing-a-package-that-asks-debconf-questions-doesnt-work-with-the-software http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236891 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1352425] Re: libgtk2-perl missing from Ubuntu 14.04+

2015-10-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1389582 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389582 Marked as a duplicate because the other issue has more information. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1389582 software-center misses a dependency on libgtk2-perl -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1389582] Re: software-center misses a dependency on libgtk2-perl

2015-10-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Another apparent version of this bug, "eula not shown when installed via restricted-extras" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1389582 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 926581] Re: eula not shown when installed via restricted-extras

2015-10-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1389582 The missing dependency is a more general error that causes lots of debconf stuff to be missing in default Ubuntu installations. Using Pre- Depends doesn't solve this, reporters say. I would suggest closing this as

[Bug 42178] Re: apt-get doesn't use the same pinning as synaptic

2012-05-11 Thread Benjamin Bach
This is very confusing. It is not clearly mentioned that locking a package in Synaptic does not lock it in dpkg. How to properly lock/freeze/hold a package: echo "package-name hold" | dpkg --set-selection How to release a package for updates: echo "package-name install" | dpkg --set-sel

[Bug 1457353] Re: Software Updater freezes when trying to upgrade grub-pc package

2015-12-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
I would think the issue is related to the debconf of grub-pc -- Brian, if you still have the test ready to run, try clearing the debconf of grub-pc (or related package) before upgrading the package. Something like: echo "purge" | sudo -E debconf-communicate grub-pc As a general rule, Update Manag

[Bug 1444315] Re: Package missing dependency: unity-webapps-common (The following schema is missing com.canonical.unity.webapps)

2016-03-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
Confirming, also confirming that installing the package fixes the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1444315 Title: Package missing dependency: unity-webapps-common (The following

[Bug 1444315] Re: Package missing dependency: unity-webapps-common (The following schema is missing com.canonical.unity.webapps)

2016-03-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
Oh great, I thought I was gonna have my first stab at bzr but now I see you actually track the code on Github... made the PR there.. https://github.com/freyja-dev/unity-tweak-tool/pull/132 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 1304702] [NEW] update-manager fails because of postgresql-server-dev-9.1

2014-04-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: After removing the package, it works. The cause of the problem was found by fetching the log output using "ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core" but I think it's problematic that none of the upgrading tools show the cause of the problem when it's known... Cheers, Benjamin

[Bug 1304712] [NEW] configuring libc6 prompts "...to the question below" when there is no such option

2014-04-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: See screenshot. ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304712 Title: confi

[Bug 1304712] Re: configuring libc6 prompts "...to the question below" when there is no such option

2014-04-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
The fix is of course to change the text to say "please answer No to the next question". ** Attachment added: "Screenshot showing text message error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1304712/+attachment/4076021/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-09%2000%3A2

[Bug 1304712] Re: configuring libc6 prompts "...to the question below" when there is no such option

2014-04-09 Thread Benjamin Bach
I managed to upgrade. But my old system's debug info is available in this bug report that's as fresh as this one. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release- upgrader/+bug/1304702 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1273482] Re: ID3 / Vorbis tags missing data

2014-04-15 Thread Benjamin Bach
This bug is not present in Trusty after an upgrade from 13.10. I have verified that tracks which were missing the "Year" tag are now imported correctly in Rhythmbox, and tags are shown through Nautilus file properties. You could go ahead and close this if no one wants to work on it, since it only

[Bug 1273482] [NEW] ID3 / Vorbis tags missing data

2014-01-27 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: I've had a look around my music library, and I'm unable to find a single file with "Year" appearing correctly. This is both regarding metadata displayed in Nautilus and in Rhythmbox. I presume that they both use the gstreamer id3tag demuxer to gather this information. Steps t

[Bug 1241573] Re: thunderbird crashed with SIGSEGV

2014-01-07 Thread Benjamin Bach
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1236351 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1236351 I have tried debugging. My traceback from "thunderbird --debug" is pretty useless, so this is my experience + a seemingly fine workaround. I'm under the impression that the rest of the Thunderbird community

[Bug 497151] Re: /etc/nullmailer/remotes file contains string "mail." by default causing incessant DNS requests that fail.

2013-03-09 Thread Benjamin Bach
I would like to suggest reopening this innocent looking bug report :) ...and configure nullmailer with a default of not connecting to anything. Instead, it should simply discard mails. That is much more sane and to be expected from a fresh installation. Guessing a remote mail server on a workstat

[Bug 991899] [NEW] list of online videos is not mine

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: When I open Dash -> Videos, the list of Online videos is not mine. I have never seen them before, and no one has been using my computer except me :) Maybe a developer commited his own data? Maybe I just don't understand the logic of the default data? Anyways, why not just re

[Bug 991899] Re: list of online videos is not mine

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Bach
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of my online videos" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991899/+attachment/3120250/+files/onlinevideos.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991899 Title:

[Bug 991899] Re: list of online videos is not mine

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Bach
Thanks, I understand now. But then I recommend changing the text to "Top online videos" and maybe removing the feature, since it's not very useful. I guess discussions of unity-lens features is not supposed to take place here. Got a mailing list or similar? -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 991899] Re: list of online videos is not mine

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Bach
Thanks, I think some attention has to be paid to the benefits of such default features. First of all, there are the deamons, and then secondly there's the problem of slower loading of the Dash menus. unity-lens-video: 5.6 MiB unity-music-daemon: 11.2 MiB unity-musicstore-daemon: 572 KiB unity-file

[Bug 1022832] Re: "Important Security Updates" not in visible area

2012-07-31 Thread Benjamin Bach
Adding screenshot of how it's supposed to look. I just experienced this problem when there were no other types of upgrades, ie. all upgrades were "important security updates". However, the headline did not show up until there were other headlines in the list of available upgrades. ** Attachment a

[Bug 1022832] Re: "Important Security Updates" not in visible area

2012-08-01 Thread Benjamin Bach
I now know how to reproduce it... When there are more than 4 Important Security Updates. If you see the headline by default, then there's something different. I don't. What you can do to force the situation: Scroll down using the arrow-keys. Just press it until you see the headline disappear. Th

[Bug 1022832] Re: "Important Security Updates" not in visible area

2012-08-01 Thread Benjamin Bach
The issue about the invisible scrollbar is reported in #828172 of the light-themes package (containing Ambiance). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022832 Title: "Important Security Upd

[Bug 828172] Re: Overlay scrollbars are invisible against a selected element

2012-08-01 Thread Benjamin Bach
Same problem in both Ambiance and Radiance. May I suggest the following solutions: * Make a colour difference so the marker is clearly visible, even on top of a highlighted panel element. * Make a margin between the highlighted panel element and the scroll bar. * Ditch the puny scrollbar and ma

[Bug 966744] Re: Resume from suspend leaves me with black screen or a screen of the desktop before it suspended (though the mouse still moves/changes cursor)

2012-08-10 Thread Benjamin Bach
This is a hard nut to crack :D If someone needs a quick run-down of the most important findings, I think this will do OP as well as many others are talking about suspend/resume, and many point to intel drivers and compiz... BUT: #33, #34 says it's related to closing the lid. #52 and #94 says

[Bug 1036114] [NEW] (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has no way of answering

2012-08-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: Hey there! This is roughly how the flow went as something unknown in my system just crashed: 1) "System crash detected" 2) I say that I want to report it and to know the details. 3) Apport says that "precise" is no longer in development, and therefore I have to choose betwe

[Bug 1036114] Re: (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has no way of answering

2012-08-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of dialog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036114/+attachment/3259093/+files/screenshot30.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036114 Title: (usab

[Bug 1022832] Re: "Important Security Updates" not in visible area

2012-08-14 Thread Benjamin Bach
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 828172 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828172 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 828172 Overlay scrollbars are invisible against a selected element -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1022832] Re: "Important Security Updates" not in visible area

2012-08-14 Thread Benjamin Bach
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 828172 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828172 I suggest going with the light-themes bug, because most essentially the reason why a user does not see "Important Security Updates" is that the scroll bar widget has visually merged with the background. I hop

[Bug 1036114] Re: (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has no way of answering

2012-08-16 Thread Benjamin Bach
@brian-murray: But the window in the screenshot is called "Apport"? Are you sure? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036114 Title: (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has

[Bug 1036114] Re: (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has no way of answering

2012-08-22 Thread Benjamin Bach
This is the current flow Crash -> Ask user the above dialog -> Show info about crash It should be Crash -> Show info about crash -> Ask the user about what to do Do you have a quick shortcut for a (preferably harmless) crash that will trigger Apport so I can click around and get to terms with t

[Bug 996040] Re: Error playing sound files mp3 and m4a: sound choppy.

2012-06-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
** Changed in: rhythmbox (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/996040 Title: Error playing sound files mp3 and m4a: sound choppy. To manage notificati

[Bug 905355] [NEW] Never let users save in /tmp

2011-12-16 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: When you download something and choose to open it in LibreOffice, it will be saved in /tmp. If you choose Save As, the default saving location will be in /tmp. I just lost a partly written exam that way. I thought it was on my Desktop, but oh no, it was in /tmp and after rebo

[Bug 905355] Re: Never let users save in /tmp

2011-12-16 Thread Benjamin Bach
** Attachment added: "Screenshot at 2011-12-16 15:56:21.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905355/+attachment/2636129/+files/Screenshot%20at%202011-12-16%2015%3A56%3A21.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 887793] Re: Kworker constantly taking about 100% CPU

2011-12-20 Thread Benjamin Bach
Confirmed. I suspended my computer after vacuuming my room and updating Ubuntu 11.10 (don't remember the order, but there were no kernel updates involved). After that, the kworker/* processes started occurring. They halt and block keyboard and mouse input at random intervals (like every 10 seconds)

[Bug 887793] Re: Kworker constantly taking about 100% CPU

2011-12-22 Thread Benjamin Bach
As mentioned, once I do "ifconfig eth0 down", the problems stop. Once I do "ifconfig eth0 up", they start again. powertop reports between: 99.2 ms/s 0.0kWork e1000_watchdog_task and 393.2 ms/s 0.1kWork e1000_watchdog_task While the network interface

[Bug 876626] Re: Unlocking the second crypto disk (/home) echos password on console

2012-02-08 Thread Benjamin Bach
@ilf: I would suggest a bit less sarcasm and a bit more encouragement for hard-working volunteer programmers! Is it possible that some other process is receiving the keyboard inputs and echoing them back? I'm thinking this because typing in a password for the swap partition only echoes *s -- but l

[Bug 1031449] Re: rhythmbox leaking memory

2013-05-23 Thread Benjamin Bach
Dear package maintainers -- please be our heroes and fix this :) Memory leaks were fixed in Rhythmbox 2.97 and 2.98 as noted in #976534. I'm currently running RB 2.97 from ubuntuupdates.org and it works without leaks. This was my result before: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM

[Bug 873517] Re: When upgrading from maverick to oneiric receieved a number of error messages about ssl certs

2011-12-02 Thread Benjamin Bach
Confirmed that it is still present when upgrading to 11.10. "sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificate" after upgrading + selecting yes to trust all certificates and selecting all of the from a list works as @Eric Larson hinted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 657416] Re: eog does not save changes if image is rotated and flipped once

2011-07-12 Thread Benjamin Bach
Patch containing bug fixes from 2.32.1 - I do not know how to create new packages, but I have tested the patch, and it works. It addresses the follow commits from EOG svn, including the above-mentioned fix. + commit 389db0ff522f4d471e42e34ce3607368b7deb26b + Author: Felix Riemann + Date: Fri Oc

[Bug 1973353] [NEW] Unresponsive UI if choosing "go back"

2022-05-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Public bug reported: What I did: * Select "Go back" after selecting the install target * Try to open "Advanced Features" dialogue * Notice that the interface is now unresponsive. Gnome Shell has also stopped responding to click events, "Restart" does not work Version: ubiquity 22.04.15 ** Affe

[Bug 1973353] Re: Unresponsive UI if choosing "go back"

2022-05-13 Thread Benjamin Bach
Screenshot of dialog that seemingly spawned the issue ** Attachment added: "IMG_0966.JPG" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1973353/+attachment/5589554/+files/IMG_0966.JPG ** Description changed: What I did: * Select "Go back" after selecting the install target