[Bug 239960] Re: Firefox freezes on visiting YouTube.

2008-07-04 Thread Martin G Miller
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 192888 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192888 You should not have to reboot to end a non responsive application, as long as the rest of "x" is still working. Open a terminal, type the command "xkill" (without the quotes). Your cursor is now an applicat

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin G Miller
Paul, you didn't look at the gui for network manager very closely, did you? Network manager does write to resolv.conf. This is how you set up for a static IP connection: Right click the icon, select "edit connections", highlight the connection you want to tweak. Click Edit and then select th

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-11-10 Thread Martin G Miller
Damiano says: "I also confirm this bug, adding that on my floppy drive I have the activity led always on." This is usually an indication that the data cable on the floppy drive is installed backwards. Try unplugging the data cable and turning it around the other way. Unlike IDE drives, it is ea

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-11-11 Thread Martin G Miller
I didn't know that you were successfully using the floppy in other OS's without the light staying on. I suspect the cable is correct and you may have uncovered a different issue. -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 159389] Re: ghostscript take all memory

2008-11-12 Thread Martin G Miller
I have upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid (8.10). I have also upgraded my hardware to an AMD triple core CPU, 3 1/2 gig of ram, SATA II HDD, etc. 4x6 photo prints still sit in que for 40 seconds with gs using 85% CPU. At least I have enough horsepower now that I can do other things while I wait for th

[Bug 206952] Re: suspend only works once

2008-11-17 Thread Martin G Miller
I have a 32 bit clean install of 8.10 rc1 that has updated itself to current with an ATI 9600 GPU running the stock open source driver. Suspend/resume worked perfectly for me from day one with this machine until some recent updates. Now it suspends and resumes once per session. On the 2nd suspen

[Bug 155794] Re: pam_env can't open /etc/default/locale

2008-11-13 Thread Martin G Miller
I have a hardy to intrepid update and I also had this error message. /etc/default/locale did not exist. I ran sudo update-locale and that seems to have fixed it. At least it created the file. But As the last poster stated, we shold not have to run this command by hand. -- pam_env can't open /e

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-15 Thread Martin G Miller
I am running Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit. I have a Logitech Dinovo Edge bluetooth keyboard/trackpad that used to work correctly after suspend resume until the latest update to package bluez 4.12-0ubuntu5. Now I must unplug and replug the bluetooth dongle to get it to work again following a resume from s3

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-15 Thread Martin G Miller
After examing the patch above, I see it is setting HID2HCI back to 1 or enabled. This disables my keyboard/trackpad and the only way I can get it to work on boot or resume is if I have this setting disabled. Apparently, the Logitch dinovo edge dongle does not work in HCI mode. Is there some way an

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-15 Thread Martin G Miller
If I change this command in your patch: if [ "$HID2HCI_ENABLED" = "1" ] && [ -x /usr/sbin/hid2hci ]; then /usr/sbin/hid2hci --tohci to read: if [ "$HID2HCI_ENABLED" = "1" ] && [ -x /usr/sbin/hid2hci ]; then /usr/sbin/hid2hci --tohid I have my bluetooth keyboard

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-16 Thread Martin G Miller
Mario Limonciello wrote: "After entering hci mode, try to pair your keyboard using the bluez gnome ui. The computer won't know about IT otherwise." If I have bluetooth set to HCI, the utility does not detect the keyboard dongle. Pressing the pairing button does not work. I have to unplug the don

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-16 Thread Martin G Miller
Chow Loong Jin wrote: "1. Set HID2HCI_ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/bluetooth, and then manually run PM_FUNCTIONS=/usr/lib/pm-utils/pm-functions /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/48hid2hci This results in no error message." This would not give an error message as it has just switched the device from HID to H

[Bug 268877] Re: bluetooth service does not restart after a suspend to ram

2008-11-16 Thread Martin G Miller
I tried what you said. rmmod btusb resulted in "ERROR: Module btusb does not exist in /proc/modules" Even though the file was there and it was set as executable. The device was not visible in the UI. On resume from standby, it was also non functional until I unplugged and replugged the dongle.

[Bug 375593] [NEW] cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-12 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: samba I maintain 2 networks with mixed ubuntu / Windows XP SP2 machines and this problem started suddenly in September of 2008. All of my Ubuntu machines whether they are clean installs of 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit or upgrades from earlier ve

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-13 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is the requested output. This machine has the changed smb.conf file and is both a samba server and also accesses shares over the network. ** Attachment added: "smbclient.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26682205/smbclient.txt -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf http

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Martin G Miller
OK, I set the smb.conf back to original and logged off and back on. The network browse gui now takes a long time to appear and clicking on the displayed mshome workgroup also takes a long time to resolve. Trying to click on one of the shown computers in the workgroup produces an error message "Un

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Martin G Miller
I set the smb.conf back to the default and here is the output of your 2 commands. These 2 commands take a while as it seems to time out after a bit. If I run them with my modified smb.conf, they execute instantly and show a lot of info on my network, with no apparent error messages. Could you pl

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Martin G Miller
The closest I could find was /var/log/samba/log.smbd ** Attachment added: "log.smbd" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26776642/log.smbd -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Martin G Miller
ping upstairs does indeed try to resolve 67.63.55.3. This IP address is nowhere in my network. "ping" does resolve it, but it takes about 23 ms. I have no idea why this should be. I have the exact same problem on 2 different networks in 2 different towns using different brands of routers. They

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Martin G Miller
One last thought. If the default resolve order is using DNS before broadcast, doesn't that slow down local network browsing? Since this may turn out to be an ISP problem on my end, wouldn't it make sense to change the default resolve order so it looks at the local network before trying DNS? Usin

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2009-06-18 Thread Martin G Miller
I have now helped a friend install 32 bit Jaunty on his office network. All work stations are clean installs of Jaunty that need to browse his file server which is Windows server 2003. He also has some printers attached to and shared by his Ubuntu work stations that need to print from the file ser

[Bug 367767] Re: the system freeze when I insert an audio cd

2009-06-19 Thread Martin G Miller
This problem seems to be brand &/or DMA speed specific for the DVD drive. I have an Asus DVD-E616P3 with firmware 1.06 that will freeze the system every time with audio CD's. When I swap it out for an old Pioneer DVD-500M or TSSTcorp DVD burner, I have no problems. The main difference is the Asu

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2009-06-01 Thread Martin G Miller
If you are using turboprint, there is a new version, 2.10-1 that addresses some specific issues with Jaunty. You may want to update your turboprint driver. I have had no problems at all with turboprint and a canon i960 after upgrading to Jaunty and the newest turboprint driver. -- slow photo pr

[Bug 389909] Re: Nautilus can't browse local network if ISP uses DNS redirection

2009-07-01 Thread Martin G Miller
Is there any way to detect that DNS redirection is taking place other than the long delay in getting the gui to display? Or, you could just use a time-out that after a certain amount of time or a failure to detect the network correctly a suggestion pops up that DNS redirection is/may be taking pla

[Bug 389909] Re: Change resolve order so Nautilus can browse local network when ISP uses DNS redirection

2009-07-02 Thread Martin G Miller
>KDE/smb4k also use broadcast and bypass settings from "name resolve order". So you are saying that trying to browse a network with seperate LANs and AD deployed using KDE would also be slower than trying to browse the same network with Gnome? If that is true, then given the current state of DN

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2009-05-11 Thread Martin G Miller
I maintain 2 networks with mixed ubuntu / Windows XP SP2 machines and this problem has not been resolved for me. All of my Ubuntu machines whether they are clean installs of 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit or upgrades from earlier versions all exhibit the failure to display or browse smb sha

[Bug 269851] Re: Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Edge Keyboard/Mouse dones not work anymore

2009-04-25 Thread Martin G Miller
I have the same Logitech Dinovo Edge bluetooth keyboard/trackpad. It also worked OOTB in Hardy but had failed in newer Ubuntu's. I did the /etc/default/bluetooth HID2HCI_ENABLED=0 trick and that worked in Intrepid, but in jaunty, it gives intermittent problems where the trackpad works, but the k

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-18 Thread Martin G Miller
The smb.conf resolve order change is one of the first things I have to do on new installs, so that is a work around for me. The fact that it returns the wrong ip address on a ping command is something that I am interested in. I tried the same tests at my office in another town and it behaves exac

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-18 Thread Martin G Miller
Thank you for that link. There is an opt-out provided for DNS redirection. I tried that and with the smb.conf set back to the default, the network browse gui is now working. If i try a ping however, it returns a "host unknown" error. Pinging to the ip address works as expected. So, there is s

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-18 Thread Martin G Miller
I found an interesting link here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=826938 They edited both smb.conf ( name resolve order = lmhosts bcast wins host) Notice this resolve order is different than the one I am using. They also modified nsswitch.conf (hosts:files dns wins) to get name

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-05-18 Thread Martin G Miller
What had stopped working was ping . ping yahoo.com worked fine. What I have as of now is: 1) DNS redirection is turned off 2) smb.conf set to: (name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host) 3) nsswitch.conf set to: (hosts: files dns wins) It took a restart to get everything to settle d

[Bug 254309] Re: UPS USB connection causes power management to freeze system in Hardy

2008-10-15 Thread Martin G Miller
Since filing this bug report I have changed motherboards and cpu. I am now running as ASUS M3N78 Pro mobo with an AMD phenom triple core & 4 gig of ram (3.5 GB detected as I am running 32 bit). This mobo does not see the UPS at all. lsusb does not show the device as being detected. I have tried

[Bug 262974] Re: [MASTER] networkmanager display connections twice in intrepid

2008-11-03 Thread Martin G Miller
I did an /etc/init.d/hal restart before I read the above. After doing that, the duplication in the list went away. So did nm- applet and my network. On reboot, nm-applet came up and showed my 1 static IP and the auto eth0 DHCP connection I had deleted earlier. The auto eth0 DHCP was checked as

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-27 Thread Martin G Miller
Here are some workarounds that I have been using on 2 networks with mixed Ubuntu and winxp sp2 machines. Workaround #1) If you want to stay all gnome... gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf (you need to be sudo to do this) scroll to the area that says: # What naming service and in what order should we

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-27 Thread Martin G Miller
One last follow up. Although I have enabled workaround #1 above on all my machines, I usually use workaround #3 (carefully) to go to all the shares I need. Once I am at the shared folder, I save it as a bookmark in nautilus. On subsequent sessions, The shares are all listed in my Places menu in

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-10-31 Thread Martin G Miller
Same here. Had to sudo modprobe floppy. Clean install of Intrepid rc1 and all updated. -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255651 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-10-31 Thread Martin G Miller
Right after I did this, there was a kernel update. On reboot, the floppy was gone again. 2.6.27-7 32 bit. Again, sudo modprobe floppy brought it back. -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255651 You received

[Bug 243167] Re: kdenlive crashes with SIGSEGV upon starting

2008-10-31 Thread Martin G Miller
Still present in Intrepid final. I can get it stay open by executing it with the following command: kdenlive -caption "%c" %i But after trying to use it for just a minute or so, it crashes. -- kdenlive crashes with SIGSEGV upon starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243167 You received this

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-11-03 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is some follow up. After a reboot, I have the network manager applet in the tray and it works, sort of. It was showing my DHCP entry and my static IP entry twice. It also kept defaulting to the Auto eth0 connection which is DHCP, even though I had unchecked "connect automatically" for that

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-11-03 Thread Martin G Miller
"so its a feature that they get reused for multiple devices." If I only have 1 nic and 1 connection type specified, there should only be 1 entry in the drop down list. I have another machine running Intrepid from a clean install of rc1 and it has 2 nics in it. The drop down correctly shows 2 ent

[Bug 262974] Re: [MASTER] networkmanager display connections twice in intrepid

2008-11-03 Thread Martin G Miller
This was first reported iln bug#279262, but really belongs here. After an upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid and after removing many blank lines and extra cruft from /etc/network/interfaces, which finally got nm-applet working, I have a problem with what network manager displays. After several reboots

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-11-06 Thread Martin G Miller
I just had to actually use my floppy drive, not just detect it, to generate some driver disks for a windows XP box. I tried using a live CD for Ubuntu 7.10 and an installed 8.10 for comparison purposes. Of course 7.10 detects the floppy just fine. But also the entire process of accessing the dri

[Bug 255651] Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2

2008-11-07 Thread Martin G Miller
Alienexplorers said: "modified the fstab file to auto mount floppy if a disk was present" Interesting. What was the command line you added to fstab? This works if you just popped a floppy into the drive? -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.2

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-29 Thread Martin G Miller
Since upgrading from hardy to Intrepid I have a similar issue. I had set Hardy up with static IP and on upgrade to Intrepid, I have no nm- applet I am online, but can't manage my nic. It gives me the read only message mentioned above. Oddly, the Network Configuration shows I have 2 nics, eth0

[Bug 73835] Re: evolution slow to display images

2008-10-29 Thread Martin G Miller
It was somewhat improved in hardy. Since upgrading to Intrepid, the pictures load much faster and the delete button will work before they have all loaded. I can also switch between e-mails while pictures are loading without problems. It appears this is fixed for me with the upgrade to Intrepid.

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-29 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is my syslog from today. ** Attachment added: "syslog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19055066/syslog.txt -- [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before) https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-30 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is an update. I reexamined my /etc/network/interfaces and I found a lot of blank lines that obscured the "phantom eth1 info" ***The file contents starts here # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them.

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-30 Thread Martin G Miller
It didn't show clearly in my previous post. here is what it looked like starting with what should have been the last 2 lines of the file: # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces. # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem. The blank lines started here. There wer

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-31 Thread Martin G Miller
I had only 1 nic defilned in Hardy with choices of a static IP address and DHCP, set up with the old network manager. Here is the contents of interfaces.dpkg-old, which I assume is my old interfaces file. There are no blank lines and only 1 static IP nic is listed. # This file describes the netw

[Bug 279262] Re: [regression] devices/interfaces not set to "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces get blacklisted in 0.7 (intrepid) but were managed in 0.6 (hardy and before)

2008-10-31 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is the output you requested: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /etc/network/interfaces* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 325 2008-10-31 07:53 /etc/network/interfaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 537 2008-10-30 20:35 /etc/network/interfaces~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496 2006-04-19 11:49 /etc/network/interfaces.dpkg-o

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-09-25 Thread Martin G Miller
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 32 bit and this bug hit me suddenly this morning. Up till now, I was able to browse my office networks smb shares without difficulty. As of this morning, none of them work. All 4 of my ubuntu workstations are affected. I have saved bookmarks to places on the network t

[Bug 241139] Re: Intrepid Ibex: Cannot access samba share "Unable to mount location"

2008-09-25 Thread Martin G Miller
Maybe it works for Vista, but it broke every smb share on my 4 - 8.04.1 1 winXP pro SP2 network today. It also broke it on my home network with 2 ubuntu 8.04.1 and 1 WinXP sp2 machine. It was working perfectly until this morning. I have 6 Ubuntu machines and all 6 are affected. -- Intrepid Ibe

[Bug 241139] Re: Intrepid Ibex: Cannot access samba share "Unable to mount location"

2008-09-25 Thread Martin G Miller
I am curious which repositories Stephen Cradock and Thomas Novin have enabled. I did see there is something in Hardy proposed, but I don't have that one switched on my default as I tend to get unstable results with it. I have security, updates and backports enabled. -- Intrepid Ibex: Cannot ac

[Bug 236903] Re: Nautilus (GnomeVFS) does not detect/list windows shares on the network

2008-09-27 Thread Martin G Miller
I have 6 Ubuntu 8.04.1 machines and all of them developed the same problem at about the same time. The workaround noted above of editing smb.conf worked in all 6 machines. It does take about 44 seconds for the Places > Network applet to appear, but after that, browsing the network is fine. I als

[Bug 259978] Re: GVFS/Nautilus won't list or connect to samba shares

2008-09-27 Thread Martin G Miller
I have 6 Ubuntu 8.04.1 machines and all of them developed the same problem at about the same time. The workaround noted above of editing smb.conf worked in all 6 machines. It does take about 44 seconds for the Places > Network applet to appear, but after that, browsing the network is fine. I also h

[Bug 192888] Re: firefox crashes on flash contents when using libflashsupport

2008-07-11 Thread Martin G Miller
I just upgraded to the flash 10 in Hardy backports and don't have libflashsupport installed. I can't even finish loading this page all by itself, I don't get the chance to scroll, it crashes Firefox while the page is loading. http://mises.org/story/3037 On the other hand, if I go to a youtube

[Bug 177814] Re: nautilus ftp client needs an option to change to active mode

2008-06-01 Thread Martin G Miller
I also just discovered I need to get into an ftp server that only runs active mode. I was finally able to do it after installing filezilla from the repositories, but I would like to add to the above suggestion that there be an "advanced" button added to the dialog to allow for active mode connecti

[Bug 123920] Re: Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Keyboard/Mouse don't work

2008-10-09 Thread Martin G Miller
The latest updates to bluez in intepid beta replaced the /etc/default/bluetooth file with a greatly shortened one, but it caused the problem to return. Again, editing the file to "HID2HCI_ENABLED=0" returns normal function to the Logitech Dinovo. -- Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Keyboard/Mouse don't

[Bug 123920] Re: Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Keyboard/Mouse don't work

2008-10-06 Thread Martin G Miller
Confirmed with ubuntu 8.10 beta and logitech denovo edge. It worked out of the box in Hardy, did not work at all in Intrepid. The bluetooth utility didn't even see the dongle. I modified /etc/default/bluetooth as noted above and now it works. This default needs to be changed. -- Bluetooth Log

[Bug 279398] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV requesting properties over ssh

2008-10-06 Thread Martin G Miller
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18280647/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18280648/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18280649/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 279423] [NEW] tsclilent in intrepid does not enable sound

2008-10-06 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tsclient 32 bit Ubuntu 8.10 beta as of 6 October, 2008. Using terminal server client to connect to a Windows XP pro sp2 machine via RDPv5 will not play sound over the connection. It does work correctly in Ubuntu 8.04.1 On disconnecting the session t

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2008-09-16 Thread Martin G Miller
Mattcasters, I tried opening a bug at ghostscript, but after a brief go around with them, they decided it was just my system, so they closed it. If you add your experience, maybe they can figure out what's going on. Here is the link. http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689850 -- slow pho

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2008-05-12 Thread Martin G Miller
Since upgrading to Hardy, the cups issue is resolved. I have all the cups settings back to system defaults and there is no mention of it in top during photo printing. Unfortunately, gs still spikes to 88+% and 4x6 photo prints sit in que for 85 seconds. The ghostscript bug is still open. -- sl

[Bug 161071] Re: evolution segfault

2008-08-13 Thread Martin G Miller
I am having the same problem suddenly in 8.04. Attempting to click on the calendars or memos or tasks buttons results in an immediate crash of evolution. Also clicking the date in the top panel causes the panel to crash and reappear. Running evolution from terminal shows the following error:

[Bug 130658] Re: evolution-alarm-notify crashed with SIGSEGV in giop_recv_buffer_get()

2008-08-17 Thread Martin G Miller
Hardy 8.04.1 2.6.24-19 generic kernel I am now getting an evolution-alarm-notify crash any time I try to use Calendars, Memos, Tasks or Edit > Preferences in Evolution. The log file says: Aug 17 06:38:37 tux kernel: [34371.975594] evolution- alarm[7621]: segfault at eip b6b58283 esp bf

[Bug 247990] Re: Cannot update Adobe Acrobat Reader via Update Manager

2008-07-13 Thread Martin G Miller
I had the exact same problem with acroread failing to update. Menjamin Drung's suggestion worked for me. -- Cannot update Adobe Acrobat Reader via Update Manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247990 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 254309] [NEW] UPS USB connection causes power management to freeze system in Hardy

2008-08-02 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Version of Ubuntu: 8.04.1 Version of package: gnome-power-manager 2.22.1-1ubuntu4 What I expected to happen: The panel icon should report state of battery charge, but tell me I am running off the wall. It also should not affect t

[Bug 254309] Re: UPS USB connection causes power management to freeze system in Hardy

2008-08-02 Thread Martin G Miller
** Attachment added: "messages log from several reboots with problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16499183/messages_log.txt -- UPS USB connection causes power management to freeze system in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254309 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 234177] Re: No way to change time/date

2008-08-20 Thread Martin G Miller
Here is a stacktrace I get when trying to run time-admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb time-admin GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistr

[Bug 234177] Re: No way to change time/date

2008-08-20 Thread Martin G Miller
I have resolved this problem by reinstalling gnome-system-tools. I then had to copy the files /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab and zulu from another machine running Ubuntu 8.04.1. All functions of calendar and time setting are now functioning normally. -- No way to change time/date https://bugs.lau

[Bug 236778] Re: gnome-appearance-properties causes CPU spike hardy-proposed

2008-06-06 Thread Martin G Miller
I also just noticed this bug. Everything worked fine 2 days ago when I changed my desktop wall paper. Now top reports gnome-appearanc using 96% cpu and I can't change wallpapers. I do not have hardy proposed enabled. I do have backports enabled, though. -- gnome-appearance-properties causes C

[Bug 236778] Re: gnome-appearance-properties causes CPU spike in Hardy

2008-06-07 Thread Martin G Miller
As Mike Rooney said: "I *think* what happened is that the original problem appeared in hardy- proposed and this bug was filed. Regardless of this bug the -proposed was pushed to updates, and as such people are commenting about having the issue without -proposed (I can confirm I have this issue wit

[Bug 236778] Re: gnome-appearance-properties causes CPU spike in Hardy

2008-06-09 Thread Martin G Miller
I have updated to the latest packages from Hardy Updates and the bug is resolved on my system. It worked without logging off and back on. I also tried logging off and on and the bug remains resolved. Mouse changes wallpapers as expected. Thank You. -- gnome-appearance-properties causes CPU sp

[Bug 279423] Re: tsclilent in intrepid does not enable sound

2009-01-04 Thread Martin G Miller
Because this bug results in an error message on disconnect, it attempts to reconnect after 30 seconds. This makes it unusable in my office where I rely on ts client from 4 different work stations to RD into a single logon in a windows server. I rely on the new connection to end the one from the p

[Bug 130208] Re: package nvidia-glx None failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2

2009-02-02 Thread Martin G Miller
I think I need to reopen this bug. I have a system that I upgraded from 5.10 incrementally all the way to 8.10. I was recently cleaning up some residual config files and ran across this nvidia-glx problem. In my case, it is conflicting with the nvidia-glx-177. I know it used to run nvidia-gl

[Bug 130208] Re: package nvidia-glx None failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2

2009-02-02 Thread Martin G Miller
Just as a follow up, I have never installed video drivers using envy or any of the other scripts. Everything came from the official Ubuntu repos. Thanks. -- package nvidia-glx None failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 307421] Re: deskbar fails to grey screen after closing window

2009-01-06 Thread Martin G Miller
As a work around, right click the deskbar applet, select preferences, and go to the "General" tab. Put a check mark in the option: Window Behavior "Stick to panel". Click Close at the bottom. To close the dialog box that deskbar creates when set this way, either hit the Esc key or click on th

[Bug 307421] [NEW] deskbar fails to grey screen after closing window

2008-12-12 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: deskbar-applet Running Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit deskbar 2.24.1 I would expect that deskbar would continue to work after closing a search or closing the search box even if not doing a search by any standard window closing method, ie, hitting escape key or click

[Bug 250266] Re: "open with" application list has duplicates and is unsorted

2009-02-22 Thread Martin G Miller
This has been an ongoing problem for me for years. The list presented makes no sense in terms of the order the apps are presented. Also, since there are multiple entries for many apps, why are they not listed together? They are scattered at random throughout the list. If "the list is sorted usi

[Bug 63996] Re: Istanbul starts but hang up when try to stop recording

2008-08-31 Thread Martin G Miller
I also can't run istanbull in Hardy 8.04.1. I have uninstalled it and installed gtk-recordmydesktop. It seems to work perfectly. -- Istanbul starts but hang up when try to stop recording https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 362699] Re: npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV

2009-04-16 Thread Martin G Miller
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25581920/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25581921/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25581922/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 318465] Re: Logitech MX5000 doesn't connect via bluetooth under ubuntu

2009-04-04 Thread Martin G Miller
My work around for this has been to edit /etc/default/bluetooth. Scroll to the line that says "HID2HCI_ENABLED=1" and change it to "HID2HCI_ENABLED=0". save the file and reboot. I don't think just logging off and back on works. This has been successful for me with a Logitech Dinovo Edge BT keyb

[Bug 254309] Re: UPS USB connection causes power management to freeze system in Hardy

2009-04-05 Thread Martin G Miller
I am still using the same ASUS M3N78Pro mobo and with Intrepid 32 bit patched up to current, the UPS is detected and functions normally over USB. I have no lockups and all is good. The panel icon does say the system is running off backup power and the battery state is 100%, where I would expect i

[Bug 343219] Re: Adding Fast User Switcher applet causes shut down options to disappear from System menu

2009-04-06 Thread Martin G Miller
There is more to it than as stated above. The shut down command works differently in each of these 2 locations. 1) If you have another person logged on and try to shut down from the FUSA, it won't let you. It forces you to log on as the other person and log them off before changing back to the f

[Bug 355513] Re: Suspend-resume works only the first time on Jaunty 64 bits and never after (solved)

2009-04-10 Thread Martin G Miller
This is not solved for ATI. I have an ATI 9600GT running the open source driver (there is no proprietary driver for Jaunty) The System goes into and out of S3 sleep once per session. AFter that, it tries to go down and gets stuck on a blinking cursor or the video shuts off, but won't come back u

[Bug 355513] Re: Suspend-resume works only the first time on Jaunty 64 bits and never after (solved)

2009-04-10 Thread Martin G Miller
I just noticed that the bug reporter had to compile a custom kernel to fix this issue. This is still an open bug then, as the standard install can't suspend/resume more than once. I also forgot to mention that mine is a clean install of Jaunty on an AMD 64 bit 3200+ with 2 gig of ram. -- Suspen

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2009-03-29 Thread Martin G Miller
Since updating to the ghostscript package: 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.3 (Intrepid Security) All the remaining printing problems that I had have resolved. 4x6 color prints sit in que for no more than 10-15 seconds and the printer starts instantly while the que is still open. As before, normal text or

[Bug 123920] Re: Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Keyboard/Mouse don't work

2009-03-30 Thread Martin G Miller
Alex, have you tried editing /etc/default/bluetooth as noted above? This worked perfectly for me in Intrepid. It did require a reboot. -- Bluetooth Logitech Dinovo Keyboard/Mouse don't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123920 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 161071] Re: evolution segfault

2008-09-10 Thread Martin G Miller
In my case the crashing panels and the crashing evolution were both caused by a single missing file. /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Once I reinstalled the tzdata package, all problems resolved. Apparently, if that file is missing, anything that uses the calendar will crash. -- evolution segfault

[Bug 215284] Re: Ubuntu Hardy doesn't detect Canon PowerShot A460

2009-07-10 Thread Martin G Miller
My Canon SD550 works as expected in 8.04.3 and in 9.04. This is no longer an issue for me. -- Ubuntu Hardy doesn't detect Canon PowerShot A460 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215284 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-08-02 Thread Martin G Miller
Hi Chris; Glad it worked. If you look at my post #18 above, you will see that "name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host" is the order that I recommended. Assuming you also removed the leading semicolon(;) from the line, then, that is probably what did the trick for you. Changing the workgr

[Bug 403184] [NEW] weather applet removed intercity locations

2009-07-22 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-applets Since upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04, the weather panel applet version 2.26.1 no longer lists intercity locations. For example, I live in the United States in New York State and if I clicked on New York City location, there used to be a drop d

[Bug 403184] Re: weather applet removed intercity locations

2009-07-23 Thread Martin G Miller
I have reported this as 2 upstream bugs, one for the main problem and a separate one for the wishlist item. -- weather applet removed intercity locations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403184 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 403184] Re: weather applet removed intercity locations

2009-07-24 Thread Martin G Miller
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589484 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589487 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #589484 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589484 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #589487 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589487 -

[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

2009-07-25 Thread Martin G Miller
When trying to edit OS configuration files, you need to have root privileges. The command to use in this case is: gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf It will ask you for your password, just use the same password you use when you log into Ubuntu. For most help on these types of questions, you should

[Bug 37898] Re: Ipod won't re-mount

2006-07-30 Thread Martin G Miller
I have 3rd gen Ipod with firewire and final release of dapper updated from breezy. The Ipod only mounts once per boot. It can be found in system>admin>disks and can be mounted to a directory from there for subsequent remount attempts, but still doesn't show in "Places" and can't be unmounted. gt

[Bug 157044] slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Martin G Miller
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ghostscript Since upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy, it now takes several minutes for a 4x6 photo to be sent to my printer. In Feisty, this took only a few seconds. The printer applet in the top panel says the print job is "processing". Running top shows

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Martin G Miller
I have tried the first 2 things you suggested above, I added the line FileDevice yes without quotes to the end of the file. however, I cannot modify my print queue as you suggest. I cannot open the file to edit it. There is a red - icon next to it and it says no known file type if I try to open

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Martin G Miller
OK, thank you for the explicit instructions. I did this for the 4 instances of the i960 printer that I have defined on my system. (one for each paper size and photo paper vs. plain paper) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpstat -v device for DeskJet-895C: smb://home/UPSTAIRS/HPDeskJe device for i960_4x6_p

[Bug 157044] Re: slow photo printing since upgrading Feisty to Gutsy

2007-10-26 Thread Martin G Miller
Thank you for you quick response. I undid the lpadmin command as you suggested and after tinkering with the turboprint driver, finally got it to print again. However, the prints still looked horrible. I then tested the printer with a windows machine and discovered I had a hardware problem that

  1   2   3   >