[Bug 249937] Re: xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length

2008-07-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
xargs -0 touch < foo Where foo is a file containing no NUL bytes that is longer than 128Kb. If the file is shorter, I get an error from touch instead, which seems reasonable (file name too long). But why does xargs complain? In fact, I got the error message slightly wrong, it is: "argument line

[Bug 249937] Re: xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length

2008-07-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Stock kernel: Linux canta 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 249937] Re: xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length

2008-07-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
This is not what I find. Instead, I have: /* * These are the maximum length and maximum number of strings passed to the * execve() system call. MAX_ARG_STRLEN is essentially random but serves to * prevent the kernel from being unduly impacted by misaddressed pointers. * MAX_ARG_STRINGS is cho

[Bug 249937] Re: xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length

2008-07-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
You're quoting from a non-stock (or at least, non-hardy) kernel. Is this limit re-established in later (Ubuntu?) kernels? If so, I'm deeply disappointed, as this was a great innovation in Linux. If it's Ubuntu- specific, I'd like to know, so I can file a bug against the relevant kernel package. --

[Bug 190909] Re: system tray icon shown in window in trayless WM

2008-08-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
The current version of karm in hardy is 3.5.9, so how would I know? :) -- system tray icon shown in window in trayless WM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kdepim in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs

[Bug 190909] Re: system tray icon shown in window in trayless WM

2008-08-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
What I can tell you is that it still happens with the current version of karm in hardy. -- system tray icon shown in window in trayless WM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kdepim in ubuntu.

[Bug 248214] Re: Package description refers to non-existent file

2008-08-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
This bug is hardly something that requires my installing the package to test: you can verify it by (quick) inspection of the package description and list of files installed by the package. -- Package description refers to non-existent file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248214 You received this

[Bug 248214] Re: Package description refers to non-existent file

2008-08-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
OK, I checked and the bug is still present. The package descriptions of both linux-headers-2.6.27-1 and linux-headers-2.6.27-1-generic say: "Please read /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-2.6.27-1/debian.README.gz for details." This file is not installed by either package. -- Package description refe

[Bug 303293] [NEW] Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU

2008-11-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: audacity I opened a .aup file copied from another computer, and Audacity presents a dialog labelled "Inspecting project file data..." which does not seem to progress. There is about 1Gb of sound data files. Audacity consumes about 10% of CPU, and the X

[Bug 303293] Re: Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU

2008-11-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20039273/Dependencies.txt -- Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 303293] Re: Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU

2008-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
This bug appears to be the same as that reported upstream in http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6877 -- Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 303293] Re: Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU

2008-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
It's useful to note that the upstream thread contains a much more detailed description of the bug, plus a workaround which worked for me. -- Audacity fails to import its own .aup file, makes X use lots of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303293 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 384503] Re: Battery power warning should be informational only, not warning

2009-06-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27617659/Dependencies.txt -- Battery power warning should be informational only, not warning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 384503] [NEW] Battery power warning should be informational only, not warning

2009-06-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mlocate When mlocate's updatedb doesn't run because the machine is on battery power, this should not cause an email to be sent by cron, i.e. it shouldn't output an error and it shouldn't exit with status 1, as this is a normal and desired behaviour. I sug

[Bug 384764] [NEW] /usr/lib/i686/cmov searched before /usr/local/lib

2009-06-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: I have built ffmpeg from source on my system in order to get facilities not available in the Ubuntu versions (including "unstripped"). I use the default configuration, which installs libraries under /usr/local/lib. However, when /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg is run, the various libra

[Bug 384764] Re: /usr/lib/i686/cmov searched before /usr/local/lib

2009-06-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
BTW, touching /etc/ld.so.nohwcap makes the libraries under /usr/local/lib be found first, confirming that it's the hwcap stuff that's the problem here, not the basic search order. Of course, this is not an acceptable workaround; what is is to copy the libraries in /usr/local/lib to /usr/local/lib/

Re: [Bug 378759] Re: Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar

2009-06-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
2009/6/26 Pedro Villavicencio : > could someone explain why the comment was added to a conduit report > upstream? Yes. It was idiocy on my part. Sorry. I searched for relevant bugs and failed to realise this one was against conduit. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org Aphorisms work only in retrospect -- E

[Bug 364481] Re: offlineimap constantly goes for a spin consuming 100% cpu

2009-06-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
See also Debian bug #525007 (inconclusive, but the symptoms I was having seem to be the same). -- offlineimap constantly goes for a spin consuming 100% cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364481 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 380030] [NEW] Typo in man page

2009-05-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: blueproximity "measurementin" should be "measurement in". In fact, I suggest an improvement to the English here; change: If you move away from your computer and the distance is above a certain level (no measurementin meters is possible) for a given

[Bug 380030] Re: Typo in man page

2009-05-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27120694/Dependencies.txt -- Typo in man page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380030 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list u

[Bug 225733] Re: last line of info dir appears blank

2009-07-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
I'm still experiencing the bug. I attach my /usr/share/info/dir and /usr/share/info/dir.gz. I get the former when I run info; the two have different contents. ** Attachment added: "dir" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28639822/dir -- last line of info dir appears blank https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 225733] Re: last line of info dir appears blank

2009-07-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "dir.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28639851/dir.gz -- last line of info dir appears blank https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 395851] Re: Please update to working version

2009-07-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28715234/Dependencies.txt -- Please update to working version https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395851 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 395851] [NEW] Please update to working version

2009-07-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: copher Debian have just packaged the current, working version, 0.2.0, which is needed owing to changes at SourceForge which make the old version inoperative. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: copher 0.1.2+20081201-2

[Bug 370142] [NEW] plpfuse is broken in jaunty: don't modprobe fuse!

2009-04-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: plptools /etc/init.d/plptools should omit the line "modprobe fuse" now that fuse is build into the kernel, as this line will fail and hence plpfuse will now never work. If you want a test which will work with kernels that don't have fuse built in, then d

[Bug 342604] Re: Please update to 2.63 (Debian has it)

2009-05-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Since autoconf 2.63 is in jaunty, and since autoconf-doc only provides documentation (and is hence "safe"), could you please add the autoconf- doc to jaunty-updates? -- Please update to 2.63 (Debian has it) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342604 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 378759] Re: Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar

2009-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26984875/Dependencies.txt -- Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 378759] [NEW] Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar

2009-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution I have a newly created calendar in Google Calendar. When I import it into Evolution, only a few entries are imported. I can't see any systematic difference between the types of entry that are imported and those that aren't: for example, some all

[Bug 378754] [NEW] Typo in package description

2009-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: "your your google" should be "your Google" in the package description. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: calendar-google-provider None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/calendar-google-provider.list] ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/

[Bug 378759] Re: Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar

2009-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Sure. Can you sort out apport and/or launchpad so that in future this happens automatically, please? It would save your time and mine. -- Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 378759] Re: Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar

2009-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
I added a comment to GNOME bug #510097. -- Evolution doesn't read all entries from a Google calendar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ub

[Bug 289005] [NEW] gnome-control-center should depend on iso-codes

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center If iso-codes is not installed, gnome-keyboard-properties cannot load a file it needs, and new keyboard layouts cannot be added to the setup. Installing iso-codes fixes the problem. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: U

[Bug 289005] Re: gnome-control-center should depend on iso-codes

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18880449/Dependencies.txt -- gnome-control-center should depend on iso-codes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289005 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 289009] [NEW] Update manager says nothing about apt-listbugs prompt

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager If apt-listbugs is installed on a pre-intrepid system, then while upgrading to intrepid it runs during the apt update, and prompts, as usual. This blocks the installation, unless the user thinks to open the terminal, and answer the prompt.

[Bug 290050] [NEW] evdev ignores autorepeat settings

2008-10-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Whether I use xset r rate or gnome-keyboard-properties, if I let evdev manage my keyboard the autorepeat settings are ignored. If I use kbd, it works fine. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: x

[Bug 290050] Re: evdev ignores autorepeat settings

2008-10-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18953452/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "LsMod.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18953453/LsMod.txt ** Attachment added: "LsPci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18953454/LsPci.txt ** Attachment added: "Xorg

[Bug 272334] Re: Setting AutoAddDevices to false in xorg.conf is required in order to disable Emulate3Buttons

2008-10-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
I think the last response is missing the point of the bug report. The reporter just wants an easy way, using the standard Ubuntu preferences tools, to set the status of middle button emulation. He is not asking for evdev to be reverted. I am in a similar position: with evdev, I cannot change the a

[Bug 238530] Re: Please sync with Debian

2008-10-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
I repeat this request, as I've upgraded to intrepid and am still missing the console dialogs. -- Please sync with Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 117710] Re: gotmail has been superseded by getlive

2008-10-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Getlive has been packaged, so this bug should be closed and gotmail should be removed. -- gotmail has been superseded by getlive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117710 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs maili

[Bug 288945] Re: ktimetracker starts some karm tasks after upgrade

2008-10-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
It was, as you excellently put it, inappropriately starting previously set tasks. Since it was a one-off bug at upgrade time (starting ktimetracker again shows everything being well), I can't provide a screenshot, sorry. -- ktimetracker starts some karm tasks after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 288954] Re: gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts

2008-11-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
I no longer have the log file for that particular session. Do you want me to run gnome-keyboard-properties, reproduce the crash, and then attach the log from my current session? -- gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288954 You received t

[Bug 295554] [NEW] microcode update does not apply at boot, works later

2008-11-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: microcode.ctl At boot I get the following message: Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update... firmware_helper[3893]: main: error loading '/lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-09-05' for device '/devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode' with driver '(unknown)'

[Bug 295554] Re: microcode update does not apply at boot, works later

2008-11-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19488338/Dependencies.txt -- microcode update does not apply at boot, works later https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 288912] [NEW] Two spaces in "About 1 hour remaining"

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager When the update-manager's time estimate is exactly one hour left, it has two spaces in the message "About 1 hour remaining" (after "hour"). ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: update-manager 1:0.93.30 P

[Bug 288912] Re: Two spaces in "About 1 hour remaining"

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18870389/Dependencies.txt -- Two spaces in "About 1 hour remaining" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 288943] [NEW] Crash when cancel deleting a task

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdepim If I try to delete a task, then click "Cancel" (I found out by clicking on delete by mistake), then ktimetracker crashes. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: ktimetracker 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bi

[Bug 288943] Re: Crash when cancel deleting a task

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18872161/Dependencies.txt -- Crash when cancel deleting a task https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288943 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 288945] [NEW] ktimetracker starts some karm tasks after upgrade

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdepim When I started ktimetracker for the first time after upgrading from karm, a seemingly random selection of tasks started running immediately. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: ktimetracker 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu2 Proc

[Bug 288945] Re: ktimetracker starts some karm tasks after upgrade

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18872224/Dependencies.txt -- ktimetracker starts some karm tasks after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 288954] Re: gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18873272/Dependencies.txt -- gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288954 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 288954] [NEW] gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts

2008-10-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center gnome-keyboard-properties crashed my X server when, starting with a UK layout (correctly detected) I added first Greek, then Bulgarian Phonetic, then Israel. When I clicked "OK" to add the last, the X server exited. On restarting X, m

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Here's the trace: $ strace -e trace=open stellarium 2>&1|grep home open("/home/rrt/.fonts.conf", O_RDONLY) = 10 open("/home/rrt/.fontconfig/d544ea4b8d8dc2979e64767eed8bccb4-x86.cache-2", O_RDONLY) = 7 open("/home/rrt/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = 8 open("/home/rrt/.Xdefaults-canta", O_RDONLY) = -1 EN

[Bug 237352] Re: ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14989156/Dependencies.txt -- ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237352 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 237352] [NEW] ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ivman I have ivman installed with default settings. When I put a DVD in my drive, it is mounted with uid/gid -1, which means I can't access it. Further, the directory in question, /media/cdrom0, is not even executable by root. The only thing I can find i

[Bug 237352] Re: ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
The problem seems to have arisen because the device (/dev/scd0) was mentioned in /etc/fstab, which was written by the Ubuntu installer. So perhaps this is rather an installer bug? Or maybe it's not a bug but a potential problem which needs to be documented? -- ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-exist

[Bug 237352] Re: ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
As far as I can tell the actual mounting is done by pmount-hal, so there are now two problems, neither of which is necessarily ivman's, but I'd appreciate guidance on how to proceed: 1. The Ubuntu installer writes an entry for a fixed cdrom drive in /etc/fstab. This seems to prevent disks in the d

[Bug 237352] Re: ivman auto-mounts DVD with non-existent uid (-1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Once I removed the /dev/scd0 line from /etc/fstab, automounted DVDs now have the correct user/group (either ivman.plugdev if I run ivman system- wide, or my uid and gid if I run it with ivman-launch) but the DVD is still mounted without execute permission on the directory, so I can't actually enter

[Bug 237361] Re: Small problem with man page formatting of pmount(1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Also, there's a line break before "udf", which there shouldn't be (unless the list of file systems is all meant to be displayed somehow). "man pmount" should make the problem fairly obvious in any case. -- Small problem with man page formatting of pmount(1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237361

[Bug 237361] Re: Small problem with man page formatting of pmount(1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14991269/Dependencies.txt -- Small problem with man page formatting of pmount(1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237361 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 237361] [NEW] Small problem with man page formatting of pmount(1)

2008-06-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pmount The section formatted thus: .IR udf , \ iso9660 , \ vfat , \ ntfs , \ hfsplus , \ hfs , .IR ext3 , \ ext2 , \ reiserfs , \ reiser4 , \ xfs , \ jfs \ and .IR omfs. leads to bad line breaks in the man page; in particular, a huge horizontal gap betw

[Bug 272443] [NEW] Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot It's good that one can install a non-X version of Emacs, as it starts up faster than the gtk version. Hence, it would be good to be able to always start "emacs-nox" regardless of which version one has installed. Could an emacs-nox alternati

[Bug 272443] Re: Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1435/Dependencies.txt -- Please have emacs-nox alternative https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 272443] Re: Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
In general there's no way to know that Emacs will be running for a particular user, and if one has to start it up, the delay is not avoided. It's nice to use emacsclient if a server happens to be running, but if it's not, then it's also nice if ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set to something that starts up fa

[Bug 272443] Re: Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
By the way, the proof that there is demand for this functionality is the popularity of Zile (of which I am the upstream maintainer). Zile does have a niche on resource-constrained systems, but I would like to be able to do away with it for most uses; however, for quick startup it still beats Emacs

[Bug 240880] [NEW] Remove "previously known as" paragraph

2008-06-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 The paragraph "This browser was previously known as Firefox 2, Firebird and Phoenix." should be removed. Rationale: Firefox has been around under that name for some years now. Those who care about the old names "Firebird" and "Phoenix" already

[Bug 240880] Re: Remove "previously known as" paragraph

2008-06-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15406272/Dependencies.txt -- Remove "previously known as" paragraph https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240880 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubun

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
For me, I see the original issue in hardy: stellarium segfaults on startup. If I run it with LANG=C stellarium then it starts up fine. Hence, this bug should still be open. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
By the way, my default locale is en_GB.UTF-8. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Hmm, I now can't get it to start up at all, even with LANG=C. I also tried removing ~/.stellarium, but no luck. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
I don't even have a /var/log/crash directory, and can't find anything similar; should I be looking elsewhere or do I have something not installed? If I run it as a fresh user it seems to work OK. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
As I already said, deleting ~/.stellarium under my normal user does not help. Also, it ran once (with LANG=C), then not a few minutes later. I checked in /var/crash, but it's empty. -- Stellarium crashes at start-up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68724 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Right, but clearly not an application setting issue, as, as I said, I removed the application's settings directory. And I never changed any application settings for stellarium, as my experiments with it never went as far as finding out how to. What settings are you thinking of? -- Stellarium cra

[Bug 248211] [NEW] Needs a final "." at end of package description.

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dhcdbd None. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 13 21:08:19 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: dhcdbd 3.0-1ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/us

[Bug 248211] Re: Needs a final "." at end of package description.

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15999312/Dependencies.txt -- Needs a final "." at end of package description. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 248210] [NEW] Package description is not line-wrapped

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: autogen None. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 13 21:05:46 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: autogen 1:5.9.3-4 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr

[Bug 248210] Re: Package description is not line-wrapped

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15999289/Dependencies.txt -- Package description is not line-wrapped https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248210 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 248215] [NEW] Problem with quoting in man pages

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: coreutils At the bottom of coreutils man pages it says something like: If the info and ls programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils ’ls invocation’ Unfortunately, in UTF-8 locales this command is not

[Bug 248215] Re: Problem with quoting in man pages

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15999422/Dependencies.txt -- Problem with quoting in man pages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248215 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 248214] [NEW] Package description refers to non-existent file

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: linux-headers-2.6.24-19's description says: "Please read /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-2.6.24-19/debian.README.gz for details", but there is no such file. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 13 21:10:36 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_h

[Bug 248214] Re: Package description refers to non-existent file

2008-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15999360/Dependencies.txt -- Package description refers to non-existent file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 248211] Re: Needs a final "." at end of package description.

2008-07-15 Thread Reuben Thomas
Reported to Debian. -- Needs a final "." at end of package description. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu

[Bug 176391] Re: Lyrics plugin fails to load: missing python-glade2

2008-07-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Reopening this bug: using the latest hardy rhythmbox, if the python- gst0.10 package is not installed then at least the song lyrics and python console plugins will not work. Suggest that python-gst0.10 be added as a dependency or at least a recommends; in the latter case a sensible error message s

[Bug 176391] Re: Lyrics plugin fails to load: missing python-glade2

2008-07-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Sorry, I am slightly off-topic, as the original submitter mentioned "python-glade2". That is quite probably required too, but I can't check it as I have several important packages on my system that already depend on it. -- Lyrics plugin fails to load: missing python-glade2 https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 249937] [NEW] xargs complains command line is too long, but kernel allows command lines of arbitrary length

2008-07-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: findutils I am getting xargs: command line too long errors, but I am generating command lines of only a few hundred kilobytes in length and the kernel is perfectly capable of handling these, as I find if I construct the command-line manually. ProblemTy

[Bug 68724] Re: Stellarium crashes at start-up

2008-05-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
As already noted, this bug is not fixed in hardy. I can run stellarium, but only if I try with a newly created user. With my normal user, it crashes, regardless of stellarium's settings (even if there are none). So, there's still some bug, whether it's the original one that caused this report to be

[Bug 248210] Re: Package description is not line-wrapped

2008-08-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Can you please explain what you don't understand about my bug report? It is pretty simple: the package description of autogen is not line wrapped. In other words, the package description is a single line, and does not contain line breaks as it should. -- Package description is not line-wrapped ht

[Bug 212225] Re: [hardy] console quote (in man) corruption

2008-08-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
The bug should be fixed, surely? I just found a way of fixing the effect once it occurs, not a fix for the bug. -- [hardy] console quote (in man) corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212225 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 212225] Re: [hardy] console quote (in man) corruption

2008-08-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
It's the console font that is being corrupted, so I'd file it against whichever package sets up the console font as a reasonable target; but I have no idea what actually corrupts the data. Presumably if something I run can corrupt the font data, that's a bug in whatever manages the fonts (with obvi

[Bug 254757] [NEW] sepia won't work with emacs-snapshot

2008-08-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sepia Sepia won't install to work with emacs-snapshot. Please fix it. (Currently its dependencies include "emacs21 | emacs22"; as far as I can see, this is not a limitation of sepia.) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Aug 4 20:57:52 2008 Dep

[Bug 238530] [NEW] Please sync with Debian

2008-06-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Please sync with the Debian package, which has some useful improvements, in particular console dialogs, which are rather more convenient than X dialogs for users launching vncviewer from an xterm. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Jun 9 12:07:50 2008 DistroReleas

[Bug 238530] Re: Please sync with Debian

2008-06-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15143705/Dependencies.txt -- Please sync with Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 306719] Re: ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1

2009-01-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Indeed, ath5k is not currently shipped in Jaunty kernels. For the moment, a workaround is to build wireless-compat from: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download which is what I do every time the jaunty kernel is updated (I'm running on a Samsung NC-10, which needs the Jaunty kernel for sound

[Bug 219405] Re: Improve package description

2009-02-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Presumably you should also change the mention of "Debian packages" to "Ubuntu packages", as "Debian" here refers to the distribution, not to the package format. -- Improve package description https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 314249] [NEW] This package should be removed or updated.

2009-01-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: contacts-snapshot The version of contacts in the contacts-snapshot package is rather older (0.5) than that in the contacts package (0.9), so the -snapshot package might as well be either updated or removed. ** Affects: contacts-snapshot (Ubuntu) Imp

[Bug 241652] Re: Some security problems (with fixes)

2009-01-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
There were no CVEs. The security implications are as follows: http://www.lua.org/bugs.html under "5.1.3": * patch 2 fixes a potential stack overflow. * patch 4 fixes a crash (possible DoS for Lua-scripted applications that run user scripts) * patch 5 fixes a crash (ditto) * patch 6 fixes a s

[Bug 317554] [NEW] Firefox says it will open a PNG in gthumb, but runs gimp instead

2009-01-15 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 When I click on a link to a PNG image, Firefox pops up a dialog offering to open it in "gthumb (default)". I click OK, and the image is opened...in gimp. If I explicitly set the application to use to /usr/bin/gthumb from the dialog, it does i

[Bug 317554] Re: Firefox says it will open a PNG in gthumb, but runs gimp instead

2009-01-15 Thread Reuben Thomas
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21241777/Dependencies.txt -- Firefox says it will open a PNG in gthumb, but runs gimp instead https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 312138] Re: Packages reported as newer than archive when they're not

2009-01-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
It seems that the above packages are all updates; maybe that helps track it down? intrepid-updates is listed in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and all the updates were installed with apt-get, so apt-show-versions should be working with them. -- Packages reported as newer than archive when they're not

[Bug 288954] Re: gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X server when adding layouts

2009-01-12 Thread Reuben Thomas
I tried to reproduce the crash, but failed: I removed the extra keyboard layouts, and then re-added them. So it looks as though this bug can be closed; I can always open another one (and I now know what to do!) if I come across a similar problem in future. -- gnome-keyboard-properties crashes X s

[Bug 311514] [NEW] getXuser function doesn't work for user who ran startx

2008-12-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: acpi-support The getXuser function in /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs doesn't work for me, as I log in on the console and then run startx. Hence, finger does not list me as logged in to an X session, but rather as on the tty on which I logged in. Henc

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