Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-08-22 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 06:10:50PM -, Aditya wrote: > May be the community is looking for the solution in the wrong direction. Well, I will elaborate on this bug once and for all. First of all, we can't blame the Linux kernel for this bug, because it is firmware-specific. "firmware-specific

Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-08-23 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:05:34AM -, Aditya wrote: > Thanks Marwan for the detailed description of the bug. You're welcome. > I just posted this as a fix for the users who were unable to change brightness, and I had no idea how deep the roots of this bug are. And, I don't blame you. I just

Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-08-23 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:09:46PM -, Aditya wrote: > Hi, > by different I mean that the system freezes in both the situations, with > nmi_watchdog enabled and disabled, and this happens as soon as I soon as I > change the brightness levels, and this is the reason I actually reached this > b

[Bug 1021375] Re: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not

2013-08-25 Thread Marwan Tanager
I have the same issue on Ubuntu 13.04 and was able to workaround it using the Christophe's trick from comment #22 Thanks, Christophe, but we would like to know the rationale behind your workaround, in order to better know why the bug happens at the first place. -- You received this bug notificat

[Bug 1098525] [NEW] Can't complete resume from hibernation unless +i or +e is pressed.

2013-01-11 Thread Marwan Tanager
Public bug reported: I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my Dell Inspiron M5010 Core i3 machine. When I use pm-hibernate, the computer hibernates successfully, and when resuming it, the process completes to 100%, but after that nothing seems to happen, and I stay in the black-and-white text mode scr

[Bug 1098525]

2013-01-11 Thread Marwan Tanager
It turned out that the problem is in uswsusp. pm-utils uses s2disk and s2ram from the uswsusp package for hibernation and suspension, and only resorts to the kernel as a back-end if this package (or the tuxonice patch) is not installed. I purged the package and after that pm-hibernate worked as

[Bug 890784]

2013-01-29 Thread Marwan Tanager
As a workaround, there is another terminal emulator called 'terminator' that is based on the same virtual terminal widget used by gnome-terminal but doesn't suffer from this problem. Basically, it's the same as gnome-terminal, but with many more advanced features. -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 890784]

2013-01-29 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:36:59PM -, Matt Hellige wrote: > #12 is incorrect. AFAICS, this is actually a libvte bug and all libvte- > based terminals suffer from this issue on my 12.04 machine. I've used > gnome-terminal, terminator, sakura, and I think evilvte and lilyterm as > well. > > FWIW

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-10-07 Thread Marwan Tanager
I just tested that bug against the development version of oneiric (the 7-oct-2011 build) and everything is fine. All the files are loaded into the playlist and are played normally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1052210] [NEW] mail-notification checks every new message after every reboot

2012-09-17 Thread Marwan Tanager
Public bug reported: Usually I have a lot of unread messages in more than one mailbox on my system, and I've added those mailboxes to mail-notification. When a new message arrives, a pop-up notification allows me to know of the new message and that's OK. The problem happens when I reboot the s

[Bug 1052210] Re: mail-notification checks every new message after every reboot

2012-09-17 Thread Marwan Tanager
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1052210 Title: mail-notification checks every new message after every reboot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

[Bug 1091965]

2013-04-05 Thread Marwan Tanager
I confirm this bug, too on Ubuntu 12.10. It renders the entire application useless, because a location can't be added initially. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1091965 Title: weather

[Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-01-07 Thread Marwan Tanager
I have the same issue on a Dell Inspiron M5010. The workaround in comment #71 works for me too. pcie_aspm=force is irrelevant here, though. acpi_backlight is the one that did the trick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1023964] Re: apport-collect has missing dependence: launchpadlib Python

2013-01-07 Thread Marwan Tanager
For someone who wants to use apport-collect, is there any workaround? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023964 Title: apport-collect has missing dependence: launchpadlib Python To mana

[Bug 1023964] Re: apport-collect has missing dependence: launchpadlib Python

2013-01-08 Thread Marwan Tanager
Sorry, I meant apport-cli, not apport-collect. That's becuase I got the same error noted in the bug description when I ran the command: apport- cli -u I have python-launchpadlib already installed and apport-collect worked fine for me when I tried it. Thanks. As far as I understand from the man p

[Bug 890784] Re: Gnome-terminal continues to show outline cursor after getting focus

2013-01-08 Thread Marwan Tanager
No, I just upgraded to 12.10 a couple of days ago, and I encountered the same issue multiple times. Actually I'am here because I was going to file a bug report against gnome-terminal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 1069132]

2013-01-08 Thread Marwan Tanager
I have the same issue since upgrading to 12.10. Hibernating using s2disk used to work fine most of the time in 10.04, but know it's totally broken. s2ram works without problems, though. Marwan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-06-22 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:07:27PM -, Savio wrote: > I have Dell inspiron with Intel core I3 and Intel HD graphics with ubuntu. > 13.04 . > I tried setting acpi_backlight=vendor but no help > but setting acpi = off works but no touchpad support > > setting brightness manually in /sys/class/ba

[Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-06-22 Thread Marwan Tanager
** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #57571 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57571 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007765 Title: brightness adjusting crashes syst

Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-06-22 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:07:27PM -, Savio wrote: > I have Dell inspiron with Intel core I3 and Intel HD graphics with ubuntu. > 13.04 . > I tried setting acpi_backlight=vendor but no help > but setting acpi = off works but no touchpad support You can eliminate this problem for now, by putti

Re: [Bug 1007765] Re: brightness adjusting crashes system

2013-06-22 Thread Marwan Tanager
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 04:59:03AM -, Savio wrote: > Thats help, but adding this line in /etc/rc.local before exit 0 statement > making brigthness hotkey unusable. This couldn't be caused by disabling nmi_watchdog; this is totally unrelated. My guess is that you've booted the system with acp

[Bug 846367] [NEW] When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-10 Thread Marwan Tanager
Public bug reported: I put all my movies under one directory, each movie is in it's own subdirectory. When I open the parent directory which contains all the movies subdirectories ($ totem my_movies_directory), all the video files in the tree are added to the playlist. Navigating through the playl

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-10 Thread Marwan Tanager
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: - I put all my movies under one directory, each movie is in it's own - subdirectory. When I open the parent directory which contains all the - movies subdirectories ($ totem my_movies_directory), all the video files - in

[Bug 846367] GstreamerVersions.txt

2011-09-10 Thread Marwan Tanager
apport information ** Attachment added: "GstreamerVersions.txt" https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/846367/+attachment/2383055/+files/GstreamerVersions.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 846367] LogAlsaMixer.txt

2011-09-10 Thread Marwan Tanager
apport information ** Attachment added: "LogAlsaMixer.txt" https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/846367/+attachment/2383056/+files/LogAlsaMixer.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846

[Bug 846367] XorgLog.txt

2011-09-10 Thread Marwan Tanager
apport information ** Attachment added: "XorgLog.txt" https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/846367/+attachment/2383057/+files/XorgLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846367 Title

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-11 Thread Marwan Tanager
Here the output. It is attached in the file named 'log'. I noted that the too many 'mp3parse' warnings are generated when I've tried to play the files that totem can't play. ** Attachment added: "log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/846367/+attachment/2385121/+files/log

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-11 Thread Marwan Tanager
sorry, I meant noticed (not noted) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846367 Title: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't pla

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-11 Thread Marwan Tanager
Navigating through all the files in the playlist I noticed that a line, like the one below, is the common denominator with all the files that couldn't be played: 0:01:32.405488455  2193 0xe46160 WARN   ffmpeg gstffmpegdec.c:2215:gst_ffmpegdec_frame

[Bug 846367] Re: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them won't play

2011-09-17 Thread Marwan Tanager
I will report back as soon as I do the test. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846367 Title: When opening a directory with totem, video files are added to the playlist but some of them