[Bug 695152] Re: package mythbuntu-control-centre 0.28-0ubuntu1 hardy1 failed to install/upgrade:

2010-12-28 Thread JP Vossen
I'm going to guess that there was some odd dependency thing going on, because after the post-upgrade reboot: # aptitude full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states

[Bug 1480446] Re: Old notifications are triggered when adding a remote calendar

2015-11-21 Thread JP Vossen
Same thing for me on 3.10.4 on Mint 17 (more-or-less Ubuntu 14.04). Started in 2008, I'm up to 2010 after 20-30 mins... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1480446 Title: Old notifications

[Bug 848968] Re: Google Calendar reminders display unnecessarily

2015-11-21 Thread JP Vossen
Me too, me too!!! Added comment and subscribed too the new bug, 3.10.4 on Mint 17 (more-or-less Ubuntu 14.04). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848968 Title: Google Calendar reminders

[Bug 34813] Re: gedit fails to save files over smbfs/cifs

2016-01-15 Thread JP Vossen
My use case is a Mint 17.x VM using a VirtualBox vboxsf to a Win8.1 host. I had this same problem in Geany and it was driving me insane until I found http://wiki.geany.org/config/all_you_never_wanted_to_know_about_file_saving and then "Edit > Prefs > Various > use_atomic_file_saving: checked" fixe

[Bug 341725] Re: Can't save changes in VirtualBox Shared Folder. Nano, OOo do it.

2016-01-15 Thread JP Vossen
My use case is a Mint 17.x VM using a VirtualBox vboxsf to a Win8.1 host. I had this same problem in Geany and it was driving me insane until I found http://wiki.geany.org/config/all_you_never_wanted_to_know_about_file_saving and then "Edit > Prefs > Various > use_atomic_file_saving: checked" fixe

[Bug 868570] Re: Can't edit or delete bookmarks in Vinagre

2015-01-06 Thread JP Vossen
2015 and still not fixed... Not too good. Ugly work-around, hack at '~/.local/share/vinagre/vinagre-bookmarks.xml' with your favorite editor, but it's XML and all 1 line so it's extremely ugly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1002267] Re: [tuxcmd] failed to start, AccessViolation at startup

2012-12-04 Thread JP Vossen
This bug looks like a dup of Bug #916295. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002267 Title: [tuxcmd] failed to start, AccessViolation at startup To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 916295] Re: Tux Commander fails to start with overlay scrollbars

2012-12-04 Thread JP Vossen
I can confirm this in 12.04 also. The "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" hack worked for me. And see also Bug #1002267. You'd think you could do something like "Exec=LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 tuxcmd" but that won't work for me. There's probably way to wrap it in a tiny shell script... Yup, that wor

[Bug 1019708] Re: Firefox pegs CPU usage immediately, even in safe mode

2012-07-08 Thread JP Vossen
I had 4 machines affected by this problem, 3x on Ubuntu 10.04 and 1 on 12.04, all with FF 13.0.1. It also seemed like Thunderbird was a problem, though not as bad as FF. Reboots "fixed" them all, but that's very disappointing. Ubuntu/ntp/GNU/Linux should handle time and leap- seconds more gracef

[Bug 964044] Re: Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04 upgrade leaves blank or empty desktop on first reboot

2012-03-24 Thread JP Vossen
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964044 Title: Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04 upgrade leaves blank or empty desktop on first reboot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.l

[Bug 964044] [NEW] Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04 upgrade leaves blank or empty desktop on first reboot

2012-03-24 Thread JP Vossen
Public bug reported: I did an 'update-manager -d' upgrade of a pretty stock Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04. It asked 2-3 questions about overwriting changed config files, which I allowed, otherwise the upgrade was very smooth. But when I rebooted and logged in, the desktop is empty. The display is worki

[Bug 964044] Re: Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04 upgrade leaves blank or empty desktop on first reboot

2012-03-24 Thread JP Vossen
Thanks assassini! I did think of that, but how to do it wasn't obvious & I got distracted and never really followed up. 2d worked for me two, and now that we talk about it, I vaugly recall having to go out of my way to specially install and use 2d on the previous release, so I should have seen th

[Bug 963633] Re: Unity 5.8: Login to blank screen (all black or just wallpaper)

2012-03-25 Thread JP Vossen
unity --reset and logging back in seems to have fixed it for me as well, though the process did "scary" things to the desktop and on the terminal where I ran it which adds a bit more newbie unfriendlyness to the whole issue. Having said that, I don't think 3d ever worked on this machine before and

[Bug 964429] [NEW] Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated at /usr/sbin/fcheck line 1366.

2012-03-25 Thread JP Vossen
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release:12.04 Package: fcheck-2.7.59-17 I upgraded a pretty stock Ubuntu 11.11 to 12.04, and now I'm getting cron emails complaining: Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated at /usr/sbin/fcheck line 1366. This is du

[Bug 965654] [NEW] /var/log/auth spam every 2 mins: sshd[*]: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 [preauth]

2012-03-26 Thread JP Vossen
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release:12.04 openssh-server-1:5.9p1-4ubuntu1 Not really sure that OpenSSH is the real culprit, but it's what has been reporting the log spam since I upgraded from 10.10 to 12.04 a day or two ago: $ sudo grep 'Conn

[Bug 737359] [NEW] unity-2d in hide_mode 0 covers left side of full-screen windows

2011-03-18 Thread JP Vossen
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unity-2d Testing Natty in VMware, host has old graphics and can't run "unity" so running unity-2d. But I wanted the launcher on-screen all the time so I set '/desktop/unity-2d/launcher/hide_mode= 0' That worked, but full- screen apps still assume that i

[Bug 737359] Re: unity-2d in hide_mode 0 covers left side of full-screen windows

2011-03-18 Thread JP Vossen
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[Bug 737359] Re: unity-2d in hide_mode 0 covers left side of full-screen windows

2011-03-22 Thread JP Vossen
Yup, that works, thanks. OTOH, I think the fact that I had to discover all of this via Google (i.e., the initial '/desktop/unity-2d/launcher/hide_mode= 0') and this bug report to be a bug itself. "/desktop/unity-2d/launcher/use_strut true" could mean anything, is non-intuitive and not-discoverabl

[Bug 737359] Re: unity-2d in hide_mode 0 covers left side of full-screen windows

2011-03-22 Thread JP Vossen
"Whenever the autohide settings will be made available to end users, a GUI will be introduced." There it is, that's what I was hoping for... Perfect. As far as using Unity-2d, I was forced due to an old graphics card, but I *like* it. The first thing I do on my other systems is turn off Compiz;

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-24 Thread JP Vossen
UPDATE: I added the work-around in comment 3, and it seemed to have no effect. Then I had to reboot for other reasons, and since that reboot I've had the messages only once, as follows, which is a great improvement. I did *not* mess with /sbin/hdparm as I mentioned I might in comment 25. Jun 23

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-24 Thread JP Vossen
@Jarige, I thought the work-around I applied from comment 3 *was* the "disabling udisks-probe-ata-smart in /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules" one in comment 7. I didn't read the file-names carefully enough. Having said that, '/lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules' says right at the top "# Do not edit

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-18 Thread JP Vossen
Dell Mini9 running clean Lucid install. Fully up-to-date but no work- arounds attempted. Upgraded RAM and 16G SSD I see messages like this several times a day: Jun 17 10:37:02 mini9 kernel: [541557.000145] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58) Jun 17 10:37:02 mini9 kernel: [541557.004104] ata1: dra

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-18 Thread JP Vossen
I should have noted in my comment 18 that I noticed this issue via logcheck, and that I was previously running Ubuntu 9.04 LPIA, with logcheck and did NOT see this problem. I made 2 attempts to upgrade to 9.10 and both failed utterly, presumably due to the terrible LPIA ports. So as noted this is

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-20 Thread JP Vossen
@Jarige in comment 21, what work-around, the one in comment 3? @Tommy Trussell in comment 20, interesting point. I will "grep '^... .. ..:3[567]:' /var/log/*" and take a good look at the results, when I have some time to spare. -- udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations https://bugs.launch

[Bug 574462] Re: udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations

2010-06-21 Thread JP Vossen
I tried the one in #3 and it does not seem to have worked either, though I didn't restart anything or reboot so I'm not 100% sure it took effect. Different idea: I'm hazy on just what hdparm is needed for. What if I just rename it, and create a symlink to true in its place. Will that cause any B

[Bug 473622] Re: presenter-console is displayed on same monitor as slideshow

2010-06-22 Thread JP Vossen
Ran into this bug on a clean install of Lucid i386 on a Mini9, while attempting to present at a LUG. Not good. We had literally a room full of Linux experts and it took us 20 mins to figure out what it was doing and work around it. (Not online so I didn't find this bug until hours later.) We fo

[Bug 475093] Re: screen content is not updated

2010-07-07 Thread JP Vossen
It doesn't work in 10.04 either. :-( I get one initial screen paint, and then nothing updates no matter what I do. I am running a clean and up-to-date install of Lucid 64-bit on a Dell Latitude D630 laptop, using the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]" restricted

[Bug 1757202] Re: xubuntu / bionic / nvidia-driver-390 can only be used by one user at a time

2019-12-27 Thread JP Vossen
Drat, I meant to add this too: Search keywords: linux mint switch user wrong resolution -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1757202 Title: xubuntu / bionic / nvidia-driver-390 can only be

[Bug 1757202] Re: xubuntu / bionic / nvidia-driver-390 can only be used by one user at a time

2019-12-27 Thread JP Vossen
I just had this problem on a Mint-19.3 XFCE upgraded from 18.3. For me, the fix was: * `sudo nvidia-xconfig` * `sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf` The 'Section "Files"..EndSection' block already existed but was empty. I added this: Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia-340/xo

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