[Bug 343242] Re: python-xml seems to be broken with python-2.6: xpath does not work

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Werner
Streamlining the use of the standard library xml module is probably a good idea. However, the removal of python-xml breaks not only packages in universe, but also third party applications. At my company, various products include code built around PyXML's xpath module. While they run perfectly well

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-10-07 Thread Daniel Werner
> /: Root inode is not a directory. Now this is interesting. If the root inode of any file system wasn't a directory, how could you traverse the file system at all? I'm not too much into the internals of inode-based fs', but the output of "ls -ld / /. /.." may prove useful. -- filesystem check fa

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-10-07 Thread Daniel Werner
> The weird thing is that / (/dev/hda5) shouldn't be being checked at all at > this point The root filesystem is first checked by /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh, but is checked again by checkfs.sh together with all other filesystems. Interestingly, during the aftermath of a power failure, I've come to

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-11-02 Thread Daniel Werner
Mathiasdm wrote: > /dev/hda1 FAT32 +-3GB (Acer recovery partition) I've never heard of this Acer recovery before, but it may be liable to confuse dosfsck, causing it to take so long and ultimately fail. It may be worth a try to investigate if older versions of dosfsck have this problem, too. > Wh

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Werner
> A google search turned up this thread: The guy in that thread not only inhibits checking the volume on boot, but also sets it no not mount automatically at boot. Mhh, I thought 'noauto' was the default setting for vfat partitions after installation. It should be worth trying to comment out the w

[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2006-11-04 Thread Daniel Werner
Agreed. On my system, those dosfscks actually take longer than the remaining boot process combined. > Perhaps it should be run after a certain amount of mounts or a certain number of days. The problem is that unlike ext2, Reiser3 et al, FAT doesn't store such when-to-check information in its supe

[Bug 115949] Re: »Secure Connection« set tings in account editor not user-friendly

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel Werner
This report is about the general unhelpfulness of the account editor's »Security« section towards non-technical users. I believe this situation could be improved by implementing the above-mentioned proposals, in order to help the user to decide which encryption mechanism to use. -- »Secure Connec

[Bug 111434] Re: xen-image-2.6.19-4-server package metadeta is wrong

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Werner
The description makes another two contradictory statements, which may be oversights on part of the maintainer and/or indications of cruft: > Supports Generic processors. As ski mentioned, there are xen-image-*-generic* packages already. > Geared toward desktop systems. Isn't this supposed to be

[Bug 84849] Re: (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Werner
> There is now a slight pause (approx 3-4 sec) after the password is entered before ssh displays /etc/motd, is this due to the system checking what is specified in the hosts: files dns line in /etc/nsswitch.conf [?] A delay *after* authentication is probably caused by your login shell's startup se

[Bug 72624] Re: Message(s) too gender-specific

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Werner
The ticket in pidgin's bug tracker referenced by this launchpad bug goes far beyond the scope I had in mind. Quoting from http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/184 : > Pidgin should be gender-aware > English version of pidgin doesn't need to care much about gender, but many > other languages need to.

[Bug 111434] Re: xen-image-2.6.19-4-server package metadeta is wrong

2007-05-23 Thread Daniel Werner
** Changed in: xen-source (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- xen-image-2.6.19-4-server package metadeta is wrong https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111434 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 47132] Re: Documentation index not available -- yelp confused

2007-05-23 Thread Daniel Werner
Fixed in upstream and released in Ubuntu. ** Changed in: bzr (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- Documentation index not available -- yelp confused https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47132 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a dire

[Bug 116371] bzr doc-base directs to wrong index page

2007-05-23 Thread Daniel Werner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bzr The bzr package contains several pages of HTML documentation. Yet, ever since bug #47132 was fixed, file:///usr/share/doc-base/bzr directs to file:///usr/share/doc/bzr/html/tutorial.htm as the index page, effectively making it impossible to access the

[Bug 84849] Re: (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect

2007-05-20 Thread Daniel Werner
> Sorry for the bother Not at all! The Community is here to help. Regarding your problem with SSH: The "resolution" you described seems more like working around the problem. Changing "UseDNS" to "no" will simply prevent sshd from commencing a reverse DNS lookup. The real issue is thereby circumve

[Bug 115949] »Secure Connection« settings in account editor not user-friendly

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel Werner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution The account editor offers a »Use Secure Connection« option for sending as well as receiving mail. However, the order in which the items appear in the drop-down list does nothing to clarify which one should be preferred: »No encryption«, »TLS enc

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Werner
Andy, is the Ubuntu installation on your old machine still intact? Although you are currently not annoyed by this bug anymore, your input would still be helpful to either prove Theodore's thesis, or to prove it wrong. -- filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad https://bugs.launch

[Bug 84849] Re: (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Werner
Thank you for your bug report. To analyze the problem's potential cause, some debug output would be helpful. Please retry the connection with "ssh -vvv [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and attach the output. By the way, if the "15 sec delay" appeared only after your upgrade to feisty, it may be related to bug #

[Bug 84849] Re: (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Werner
Could you please (as a test) try the connection with GSSAPIAuthentication disabled anyway? This would help to distinguish the issues you were experiencing from those described in bug #84899. The easiest way to do this: ssh -vvv -oGSSAPIAuthentication=no [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>ssh-nogssapi- nomdns.l

[Bug 84899] Re: SSH with GSSAPIAuthentication option on SSH servers are very slow

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Werner
Another user faced similar performance problems with SSH, documented in bug #84849. Again, the problem was solved by disabling mdns4_minimal resolution in nsswitch.conf. So far, some people benefited from disabling GSSAPI-Authentication, some others had to disable mDNS to regain acceptable perform

[Bug 84849] Re: (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Werner
** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Daniel Werner -- (bash) ssh to other systems fails to connect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 60032] Re: no Umlaut in filenames from smbmount by default

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Werner
> codepage=cp852,iocharset=utf8 finally works. > codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 also works. > Note that the iocharset option must be given as well. Thanks a lot for these hints -- umlauts are converted correctly at my site, at last. Specifying the encoding as 'utf8' instead of 'utf-8' did the trick

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-10-30 Thread Daniel Werner
> When booting, the system falls back to a shell while checking /dev/hda1. Could you please quote the output of fsck just before Ubuntu enters the shell? Which boot loader does your system use (GRUB, NTLDR, LiLo)? The /boot partition being the last one on disk looks problematic, too. Is there any

[Bug 35375] Re: Scorched3d SIGSEGV on startup

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Werner
Maybe I can provide a solution for part of the mystery. Some weeks ago, I was quite amazed to find that on the very same machine, Scorched 3D ran on all user accounts but one. When started as the latter, Scorched segfaulted throwing the very backtrace mentioned in the initial report. wxGetUserName

[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2007-01-04 Thread Daniel Werner
Duncan wrote: > But since fat doesn't support it I suggest we don't try and make it make > complicated than necessary With hindsight, I'll have to reluctantly agree. Kludging even more proprietary enhancements onto FAT has the potential to create more problems than it solves, especially because W

[Bug 29050] Re: cupsys does not automatically detect parallel printer

2006-11-15 Thread Daniel Werner
...and another frustrated person to confirm this problem, this time with Debian. I've had the same "no parallel port printer discovered" problem for some time now. The antiquated HP LaserJet worked just fine when attached to a Debian 'sarge' system running LPRng. If I remember correctly, it still w

[Bug 29050] Re: cupsys does not automatically detect parallel printer

2006-11-15 Thread Daniel Werner
Bad luck. Even with lp, ppdev, parport, parport_pc loaded and cupsys restarted, gnome-cups-add won't detect anything at all. Some kernel output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | tail [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R300 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 us

[Bug 34651] Re: ACPI does not work on Asus motherboard with nForce chipset

2006-11-19 Thread Daniel Werner
I can absolutely second this. After upgrading my girlfriend's ASUS K8N4-based system to Dapper, the onboard sound, Ethernet and USB controllers failed to configure correctly. This behaviour was also exhibited after wiping the hard drive and installing Kubuntu Edgy. Fortunately, the pci=nommconf wo

[Bug 72293] Re: Boot fs-check error - Differences between boot sector and back-up

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Werner
There are some open questions remaining in Bug #48563 whose answers could be valuable. The more detailed information we can gather, the better. -- Boot fs-check error - Differences between boot sector and back-up https://launchpad.net/bugs/72293 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 59632] Re: Evolution throws error with imap/ssl

2006-12-01 Thread Daniel Werner
I have been noticing a similar problem since the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. Trying to contact my company's IMAP server always resulted in an "Unknown error", not even in "SSL negotiations failed". Refreshing folders etc. didn't work, not with TLS, not with SSL, not even with plaintext passwords (

[Bug 59632] Re: Evolution throws error with imap/ssl

2007-02-01 Thread Daniel Werner
The "settings not actually applied until restart" issue has already been filed under Launchpad bug #34058. It seems this is a known upstream problem since at least 2001. The GNOME bug tracker has gathered half a dozen duplicate bug reports, which shows that people still keep stumbling over this one

[Bug 64220] Re: Confusing message

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Werner
Chris, your patch looks good so far. If you'd like some more Python practice, you could now expand your patch to cater for cases where more than one package matches. At the moment, the message "The program '%s' is currently not installed" is not displayed if len(packages) > 1. -- Confusing messa

[Bug 67726] Re: wrong exit code

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Werner
Couldn't this be fixed by simply rewriting the 'try' clause in /usr/bin /command-not-found? I've got something like this in mind: try: ... #except KeyboardInterrupt: # don't need this anymore # ... finally: import sys sys.exit(1) This would ensure that no matter wha

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2006-09-26 Thread Daniel Werner
Could you please include the error messages you mentioned, even the "minor" ones? -- filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad https://launchpad.net/bugs/48563 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1622601] [NEW] Xubuntu 16.04 installer crashes in VirtualBox on Lenovo ThinkPad P50

2016-09-12 Thread Daniel Werner
Public bug reported: While trying to install from the Xubuntu 16.04 Live CD in VirtualBox, I get roughly to the keyboard layout selection screen before the installer crashes with a message roughly like "installer crashed, this could be due to a damaged install medium, try burning at a lower speed

[Bug 1622601] Re: Xubuntu 16.04 installer crashes in VirtualBox on Lenovo ThinkPad P50

2016-09-12 Thread Daniel Werner
** Attachment added: "partman" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1622601/+attachment/4739330/+files/partman -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622601 Title: Xub

[Bug 1622601] Re: Xubuntu 16.04 installer crashes in VirtualBox on Lenovo ThinkPad P50

2016-09-12 Thread Daniel Werner
The full error message is: The installer encountered an error copying files to the hard disk: [Errno 5] Input/output error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622601 Title: Xubuntu 16.0

[Bug 1622601] Re: Xubuntu 16.04 installer crashes in VirtualBox on Lenovo ThinkPad P50

2016-09-12 Thread Daniel Werner
I was able to resolve this issue by re-downloading the Xubuntu Live CD ISO. I didn't check the MD5 sum, but since re-downloading made the installation work without "input/output error", the previous ISO was probably corrupted. (Downloaded through BitTorrent the first time, while using a "normal" mi

[Bug 645023] Re: libwv2 release package compiled with DEBUG flag

2011-05-16 Thread Daniel Werner
** Changed in: wv2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645023 Title: libwv2 release package compiled with DEBUG flag -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list