Re: [Bug 223206] Re: Can't upgrade Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Green
Oh my goodness this is old. I have no recollection how I got around it. I probably just trashed the installation and loaded clean. Might as well close this as 'too old, irrelevant now' -- Can't upgrade Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223206 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 293873] Re: fails to fetch online maps.

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Green
Confirmed. New install of Kubuntu 8.10. Updated to current on all packages. `sudo apt-get install xastir` then `xastir &` launched the program. After configuring my station location, I enabled tigermap.geo, and immediately got the error mentioned above in the konsole window from which I laun

[Bug 293873] Re: fails to fetch online maps.

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Green
Well, recompiling from source didn't work for me: sudo apt-get build-dep xastir sudo apt-get source xastir sudo chown -R rtg.rtg xastir-1.9.2/ cd xastir-1.9.2 ./configure make ends with: map_tif.c:1312: error: ‘TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC’ undeclared (first use in this function) map_tif.c:1312: error:

[Bug 293873] Re: fails to fetch online maps.

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Green
Found the problem. Ubuntu (and I'm told other Debian derivatives) installs libgeotiff in a non-standard location, so when compiling under ubuntu, an override is necessary at the './configure' step: ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff" Reference: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowT

Re: [Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from kubuntu Dapper requires manual intervention and kdm shutdown

2008-10-05 Thread Richard Green
Thank you kko for confirming this bug and parsing the evidence out of the log file for easy readibility. I gave a suggested resolution in one of my first posts: A one-line warning in the web page, instructing the user to use the server update process from a console TTY, not from an terminal win

Re: [Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from kubuntu Dapper requires manual intervention and kdm shutdown

2008-10-06 Thread Richard Green
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, kko wrote: > "So why does it take six months to get a one-line change made to a single > web page???" > > Hmm well, there's a limited number of eyes looking at bugs and of people > fixing things, so patience is a virtue. You did mention you're impatient > though. :-) Yes, I

Re: [Bug 219685] Re: package update-manager 1:0.81.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-ext

2008-05-19 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221382 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221382 I did `apt-get remove audacious-plugins`, which also forced the removal of audacious and ubuntustudio-audio. I then ran `do-release-upgrade`, which completed the upgrade process. I then did `apt-get instal

Re: [Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2008-05-25 Thread Richard Green
I'm happy to report that after upgrading my ubuntustudio install on an emachines M6810 to hardy (amd64), I got a full-brilliance display on the first boot! -- LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12637 You received this bug notification because yo

Re: [Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Green
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Adam Plumb wrote: > Maybe someone else with an M6810 (would be rare, the laptop is almost 5 > years old) can confirm. Otherwise, I would call this one fixed for > jaunty. > I have an M6810 running Ubuntustudio 8.04. The -rt kernel was reportedly broken in 8.10, so I was a

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Green
Verified again with kernel 2.6.15-25-686 -- Fail to boot smp kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/24533 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Green
I stumbled on a few blog posts, writing about a fix for Ubuntu Bug #36596 and #38802, (note: the fixes here may also apply to bug #16873, #38181 and #47775). My system also is equipped with a Radeon 7000/VE, so I'm curious that this bug, too, may be another manifestation of this same problem.

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-08-27 Thread Richard Green
Verified - The problem still occurs with kernel 2.6.15-26-686. I booted into a text console, then issued the startx command. the system froze up as it got to the 'restoring session' phase of KDE initialization. -- Fail to boot smp kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/24533 -- kubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Green
I found an old Matrox Millenium PCI video card, and swapped it into this machine. lspci reports it as: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev 01) With it, I've been able to boot the 686SMP kernel, and startx with KDE. It's been running all of ten minutes no

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Green
Another data point: The system seems to be stable with the 686SMP kernel with an ATI rage pro PCI video card installed: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) Now, the question seems to be whether the bug is specific to the Radeon 7000 chipset, or possibly som

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Green
System booted and appears stable with X and KDE running. Current video card is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) So it isn't the AGP bus per se. Unfortunatly, I don't have a PCI version of the Radeon 7000 card available, to see if

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Green
OK, here's the last video card in my drawer: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) It's an AGP card, and the system appears stable running X and KDE. So here's the bottom line: kernel 2.6.15-26-686, and at least four earlier 686 kernels, lock up solid

[Bug 24533] Re: [Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Green
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Antonio Ricardo Soares da Silva Correia wrote: > Richard, perhaps you are right in what concerns the ATI 7000 but that > doesn't explain why my system works flawlessly with the other > distributions and only fails with (K)Ubuntu. Oddly enough, now, even the > plain 686 kern

[Bug 24533] Re: [Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Green
That's not the issue. the 386 kernel is the default, and is what I've been running. The desire for a 686 non-SMP kernel is to determine if the problem is with the 686 optimizations or the SMP code. WHat I really want is for someone with knowledge of the kernel internals to look at Paul's pat

[Bug 24533] Re: [Bug 24533] Re: [Bug 24533] Re: [Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Green
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ben Collins wrote: > How about booting the 686 kernel with the nosmp on the boot command > line? That was suggested earlier, and I reported that it threw all kind of wierd missing interrupt errors, finally giving up on mounting the disk, and dropped me into busybox. > > A

[Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Green
I was also looking at the discussion on bug # 16873, which appears to be the same problem, but they are looking at the radeon driver side rather than the kernel, and they appear to have a patch that's looking promising, but it's edgy only at this point. But a 'stable release' (does that mean dap

Re: [Bug 188705] Re: The update manager can't update Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

2008-05-01 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 221382 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221382 That's not the point. Of course a reinstall works. But an upgrade is supposed to work as well... -- The update manager can't update Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188705 You received

[Bug 222568] Re: package update-manager 1:0.81.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra,

2008-04-26 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13936782/Dependencies.txt -- package update-manager 1:0.81.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably

[Bug 222568] [NEW] package update-manager 1:0.81.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra

2008-04-26 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Attempting to upgrade ubuntustudio on AMD64 to Hardy. Went to bed when it told me it needed four hours to download over 1000 packages. Got up to this message. ProblemType: Package Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 26 02:11:26 2008 Distro

[Bug 149396] Re: Remote desktop crashes X,Ubuntu 64

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Green
Just encountered this: Upgraded my Kubuntu Dapper box to Hardy using update-manager -d. This box had been set up with vnc support in xorg. Next time I attempted to connect from my workstation in the garage(Kubuntu feisty using vncviewer), I can log in, and get the desktop displayed, but with

[Bug 223206] [NEW] Can't upgrade Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept-updater Adept offered me a version upgrade. I made sure I had refreshed the repositories, and applied all available updates, then I asked for the version upgrade. It showed me the release announcement for Gutsy, and then told me it was downloading

[Bug 223226] [NEW] Upgrade from Dapper requires manual intervention

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: I just upgraded from Dapper to Hardy (Kubuntu) using the command-line process described on the web site. Several issues actually: part-way into the upgrade, it tells me that kdm has to be manually shut down before it can proceed. Grrr! I'm running this in a root konsole

[Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from Dapper requires manual intervention

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Green
Issue #1, here's the web page I followed: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-db224ea9add28760e373240f8239afb9b817f197 Towards the bottom of that page, is the following: Network upgrade for Kubuntu desktops (recommended) To upgrade from Kubuntu 6.06 to 8.04 over the Internet, use the

Re: [Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from Dapper requires manual intervention

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Green
Well, the first one was about manually configuring nut. There was something about manually converting postgresql databases. There were lots of errors from some perl module telling me that it couldn't set locale because of some missing file, and listed three environment variables it was trying

Re: [Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from Dapper requires manual intervention

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Green
Here are the logs. The evidence is in apt-term.log, although it isn't easy to see. It's surrounded by curses escape sequences... -- Upgrade from kubuntu Dapper requires manual intervention and kdm shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223226 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from kubuntu Dapper requires manual intervention and kdm shutdown

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "apt.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13983377/apt.log ** Attachment added: "apt-term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13983378/apt-term.log ** Attachment added: "main.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13983379/main.log ** Attachment added: "main_pre_req.log"

[Bug 223226] Re: Upgrade from kubuntu Dapper requires manual intervention and kdm shutdown

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Green
** Description changed: I just upgraded from Dapper to Hardy (Kubuntu) using the command-line process described on the web site. Several issues actually: - part-way into the upgrade, it tells me that kdm has to be manually shut down before it can proceed. Grrr! I'm running this in a

Re: [Bug 88692] Re: Touchpad not fully functional

2007-08-22 Thread Richard Green
The bug was still present in the released version of feisty. I have not tried installing any of the gutsy milestones, since that machine is in 'production' use right now. Perhaps if I could locate a spare drive sled for it, I could again do test installs on it. -- Touchpad not fully function

[Bug 103163] Re: Unable to commit changes

2007-04-10 Thread Richard Green
The original problem seems to have been fixed (fail to commit) with todays' daily build (20070410), the 'version upgrade' problem is still there, but different: the message offering a new version is still there, but the 'next' button is now labelled 'version upgrade' and is not grayed out. The me

[Bug 103163] Re: Unable to commit changes

2007-04-10 Thread Richard Green
see also bug #'s 104542 and 105139 -- Unable to commit changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103163 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for adept in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

[Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-11 Thread Richard Green
Sorry, I got that 'demidecode' from a comment/info request on a similar bug #81548... -- Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 196858] Re: Video not detected Hardy KDE 4

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Ditto on another system with ATI Radeon RV100 QY(Radeon 7000/VE) -- Video not detected Hardy KDE 4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196858 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.ubun

Re: [Bug 196858] Re: Video not detected Hardy KDE 4

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Green
I think you missed the first line of my report. I was runing a daily build of the LiveCD, and the problem was manifest by X not coming up at all. I won't be able to run a browser to log into launchpad, so I'll try it again, and see if I can find those files and ftp or sneakernet them to anothe

Re: [Bug 196858] Re: Video not detected Hardy KDE 4

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Green
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Dereck Wonnacott wrote: > Please attach your X server configuration file > (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) > and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to the > bug report /etc/X11/xorg.conf is present, but is a zero-length, empty file. /var/log/Xorg.0.log is non-existant, as is any

Re: [Bug 196858] Re: Video not detected Hardy KDE 4

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Green
Here's the dmesg output. see file attached. These are the lines that look to me to be video related, and they don't say anything unusual to me: /snip/ [ 24.140033] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 24.140042] console [tty0] enabled /snip/ [ 25.865200] Boot video device is :01:00.0 /snip/

Re: [Bug 24533] Re: Fail to boot smp kernel

2008-02-10 Thread Richard Green
I had also reported and confirmed this bug earlier. This weekend, I built up a test system (Dual PIII-550 w/ Radeon 7000 video) I booted it with a Hardy Alpha 4 server(already on HDD), then used aptitude to install kubuntu-desktop. I was able to startx, and the KDE desktop came up fine. I th

Re: [Bug 88691] Re: Dim LCD backlight on boot

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Green
Don't do that! The bug is still there in Gutsy. -- Dim LCD backlight on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/88691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

[Bug 88691] Re: Dim LCD backlight on boot

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 12637 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12637 I missed your request for info a month ago. I'm downloading hardy alpha 4 now, will test against that. I've also marked this as a duplicate of bug#12637, which appears to be the same problem on the gateway

[Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Green
Just booted the Hardy alpha 4 live CD (Kubuntu amd_64), and the LiveCD session booted up normally, without dimming the LCD! Since this is a working laptop now, I don't want to do a complete reinstall with the hardy alpha. Is there a way I can install just the kernel package from the hardy CD

[Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2008-02-12 Thread Richard Green
Here's some more info. I went to system/administration/services, and disabled gdm, thinking I'd reboot to a console, just to see if this was a kernel problem, or possibly an xorg problem, since it's happening just milliseconds before the screen blanks to switch to X. Well, that wasn't clean a

Re: [Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Green
Well, I saw the problem with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Ubuntustudio x86_64 at the 7.10 release, so I don't think it's a desktop issue. Also, last night I managed to boot clumsily without X and gdm, and I also saw the problem when there was no X launching, so that kinda confirms it for me that its n

[Bug 196858] [NEW] Video not detected Hardy KDE 4

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Hardy daily build 20080220 KDE 4.0 Booting liveCD on AMD Duron 1.3G, 256M system with SIS video, the system appears to hang before KDM comes up. Looking closer, I found a shell prompt buried within the boot messages, so I decided to investigate. Neither dmesg nor tail /va

Re: [Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2007-09-20 Thread Richard Green
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Robert Drake wrote: > If I get the chance, I'll start throwing "got here" kprintf's in the > kernel in places before "Kernel is Active" to see what I find. > On my emachines M6810, the 'Kernel alive' message comes on bright, followed by a message beginning 'kernel mapping

[Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-25 Thread Richard Green
With the feisty release kernel (2.6.20-15) The problem is still there. As well as an additional problem: I can hibernate the machine just once. After returning from hibernate, the system is in a 'screen locked' state, which wakes up with a stroke on the touchpad, and I can unlock the screen and

Re: [Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Green
I don't know if I'm up to the challenge of compiling my own kernels. I haven't done that since about 1.2.x sometime... And that was just to config in a driver. I'm an old PL/I & COBOL programmer, and quite 'C' challenged. One item of note: this happens with amd_64 kernels only. Last week,

[Bug 103719] Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20 My AMD_64 laptop, an emachines M6810, refuses to wake up from suspend. I was tracking bug # 74877, but when that was apparently fixed at 2.4.20-14 for the HP laptops, and I continue to have the problem, I was asked to open a new one

[Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
/var/log/kern.log.0 ** Attachment added: "kern.log.0" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7179507/kern.log.0 -- Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact f

[Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux rtg-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 16:32:46 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lspci -vv >kerndebug.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lspci -vvn >>kerndebug.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo demidecode >>kerndebug.txt sudo: demidecode: comman

[Bug 103719] Re: Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "dmidecode.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7192533/dmidecode.txt -- Won't return from suspend on emachines M6810 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 103558] Re: Feisty beta ISO testing

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
with the 20070405 build, I experienced the same problem, and one additional problem: The CDR came up with DMA support off. WHen I started k3b, it notified me that DMA was off, but for the next few minutes, my system was incredibly unresponsive. Even the cursor! It took me several minutes to mo

[Bug 103988] [apport] ubiquity crashed with ImportError in ()

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity Booted from Feisty desktop amd64 daily build 20070406, after frist having verified CD integrity. Clisked on 'install' icon on desktop. Received crash message. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 7 04:51:31 2007 DistroRelease:

[Bug 103988] Re: [apport] ubiquity crashed with ImportError in ()

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7193329/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7193330/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7193331/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 103558] Re: Regression: k3b fails to verify

2007-04-07 Thread Richard Green
here's the 'debug info' produced by k3b while trying to burn the 0407 daily build. System --- K3b Version: 1.0 KDE Version: 3.5.6 QT Version: 3.3.7 Kernel: 2.6.20-14-generic Devices --- Slimtype COMBO LSC-24082K JBK2 (/dev/hdc, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM,

[Bug 71856] Re: KDesktop crash on KDE-initiated restart (SIGSEGV 11)

2007-04-07 Thread Richard Green
same - immediate crash as KDE starts. First launch of daily build 20070407 on amd64 backtrace attached ** Attachment added: "kdesktop.backtrace" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7214003/kdesktop.backtrace -- KDesktop crash on KDE-initiated restart (SIGSEGV 11) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 71856] Re: KDesktop crash on KDE-initiated restart (SIGSEGV 11)

2007-04-07 Thread Richard Green
I ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg (see bug #89289 ) and rebooted. X and kde came up with the right resolution, and no crash this time. -- KDesktop crash on KDE-initiated restart (SIGSEGV 11) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71856 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 69838] Multiple definition of 'struct sockaddr'

2006-11-02 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: trying to compile Maiko's JNOS2 package: www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~maiko/jnos2_fc5src.tar.gz I get the following errors on both Dapper and Edgy systems: gcc -DUNIX -g3 -DDEVELOPMENT -DDEBUG -W -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wagg

Re: [Bug 87814] Re: Kubuntu 7.04 chash at update

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68267 *** Which tool did you use? I had this experience with adept, and I was successful in completing the update with 'apt-get upgrade' on the command line. -- Kubuntu 7.04 chash at update https://launchpad.net/bugs/87814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun

[Bug 79016] Re: Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceGo 7300

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
I installed Kubuntu Herd 4 AMD_64 on an emachines M6810 (amd64 w/ATI radeon 9600), and experience this same problem. So it may be a larger X problem, not just nv. Initial install selected 1024x768, when I have a 1280x800 widescreen. I changed resolution to 1280x768, and the 'test' showed a scr

[Bug 88670] Re: graphics card has wrong resolution and no acceleration

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Confirmed on emachines M6810 with ati Radeon 9600 and 1280x800 LCD -- graphics card has wrong resolution and no acceleration https://launchpad.net/bugs/88670 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 88687] qtparted abnormal exit

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity Installing Kubuntu Herd 4 AMD_64. Selected manual partitioning. qtparted opened in a separate window, very small. Had to expand window in order to use it. When I finished setting up my partitions, I closed the qtparted window, revealing th

[Bug 88691] Dim LCD backlight on boot

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Feisty Herd 4 on emachines M6810 (Radeon Mobility 9600). On boot, screen is very dark. I must use fn-F8 hotkey to raise backlight brightness in order to make screen usable. This is both in 'liveCD mode, and after installation to HD. ** Affects: xo

[Bug 88692] Touchpad not fully functional

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Feisty Herd 4 (X86_64) on emachines M6810. Synaptics touchpad only partially works. Cursor movement OK. single-tap sometimes works, but not on all buttons. Double-tap/drag does not work. Scroll area at right of touchpad not recognized as a scrol

[Bug 88697] dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept after installing Kubuntu Herd 4 X86_64 on emachines M6810, I ran adept-updater by clicking on the quickstart notification icon next to the clock. It presented me with 200+ updates. Downloading them seemed to go quickly, but as they were being

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Additional info: I just ran adept from the K menu, ran 'fetch updates' and learned that adept is upgradable. I requested installation, and again got the same error. The popup window is labelled 'Debconf on rtg-laptop', the message requests an integer between '-20 and 19', and the active butto

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
I keep trying... I ran 'apt-get install adept' from a root shell, and it told me that adept was already at the current level. It then went on to tell me that there were 5 packages not fully installed, and it gave me 5 'setting up...' messages for x11-common, libxau6, libxdmcp6, libxcb1, libxc

[Bug 88697] going backwards...

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
I ran 'apt-get install apt' from a root console. It upgraded 11 packages, including apt-utils, adept-manager, adept-installer, adept-updater, and adept-notifier. Then I tried another adept run. 'Full upgrade' told me it would upgrade 195 packages, but when I clicked 'apply changes', the adep

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Back to the root console apt-get update;apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade' followed by a reboot, and now I can use adept again. I successfully installed the xastir package, as well as the 10 dependencies it pulled in. SO this was apparently fixed by one of the ~200 packages updated since t

[Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Green
Bug confirmed still present on emachines M6810 with kernel 2.6.20-9 x86_64 (Feisty herd 4+) AMD Athlon 64 3200+; ATI Radeon mobility 9600 Just before it dimms, the graphical screen is replaced by a text screen, and I see the words 'Kernel is Active' briefly appear at the bottom. -- LCD Brigh

[Bug 79016] Re: Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceGo 7300

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Green
I'm on herd 4, AMD_64 with ATI radeon 9600. While I've messed with the X config using the system settings GUI, so I can't be absolutely sure, here is the relevant section of xorg.conf.1, which I think is the original one from the installation: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Confi

[Bug 88692] Re: Touchpad not fully functional

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Green
More info: initial install mis-identified the touchpad. This might explain the limited functionality. Snippet from xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" option "CorePointer" option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" o

Re: [Bug 79016] Re: Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceGo 7300

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Green
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Richard, please make a seperate bugreport for your problem. If they're > similar then you can mention that here. > > I did: #88691 (LCD backlight set to dim at boot) #88692 (touchpad not fully functional) -- Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceG

Re: [Bug 79016] Re: Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceGo 7300

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Green
Done, #89289 -- Wrong resolution with an nvidia GeForceGo 7300 https://launchpad.net/bugs/79016 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 89289] Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Initial install of Feisty Herd 4 on emachines M6810 showed problems with hardware detection in xorg: LCD is 1280x800, but X came up as 1024x768 KCD backlight very dim on boot (Bug # 88691) Touchpad not fully functional (Bug #88692) I had init

[Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Still happening on Feisty herd 5 Kubuntu live CD. -- LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/12637 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 88687] Re: qtparted abnormal exit

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Installing herd 5 - Apparently a change has been made to ubiquity. WHen I select 'manual partitioning', I now get a disk summary within the ubiquity window, that looks different from gparted or qtparted. Since I didn't really want to repartition, I had to poke a bit before I discovered th

[Bug 89878] Screen blanks, locks during install of herd 5

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity While installing Herd 5 (Kubuntu X86_64), after partitioning, at about the 70% mark while installing files, my screen went from the X desktop, to a text console (probably pty0, it had the kernel messages on it, with 'Kernel active' at the bott

[Bug 89898] CD drive locked while restarting Feisty

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Feisty Herd 4 and Herd 5 X86_64 When restarting a liveCD session, or restarting into the freshly-installed system, theCD fails to eject as earlier releases did. I'm left with a message on the screen that tells me to remove the CD and press enter. When I press the CD tray

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 85979 *** Fresh install of Feisty herd 5 X86_64 Adept updater tells me there are 115 updates, two packages to remove. After downloading, window shows a progress bar labelled 'preparing...' at 0%. A second window opens labelled 'Debconf on rtg-laptop' with the

[Bug 89289] Re: Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
OK, here's a herd 5 update: LiveCD, as well as initial install gave me 1024x768. xorg.conf is attached. At a suggestion I read on another (nv, but similar) bug report, I switched to a text console, logged in as root, ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, then rebooted. It came up in the p

[Bug 89289] Re: Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Here's the xorg.conf as produced by dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver- xorg. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf produced by dpkg-reconfigure" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6634504/xorg.conf.reconfigure -- Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD https://launchpad.net/bugs/8928

[Bug 88692] Re: Touchpad not fully functional

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Herd 5 now: same problem on initial install. While researching another problem (#89289), I was prompted to run 'dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg' This re-created the xorg.conf file, and did indeed detect the synaptic touchpad. The vertical scroll area and the double-tap-and-drag selection

Re: [Bug 89878] Screen blanks, locks during install of herd 5

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
My second attempt to install went without a hitch, as I forced myself to sit on my hands and not explore the LiveCD system while ubiquity was busy... -- Screen blanks, locks during install of herd 5 https://launchpad.net/bugs/89878 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com http

[Bug 89988] [apport] jackd crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Fresh install of Feisty herd 5. installed jackd, jackctl. Modprobe raw1394, jackd -d freebob produced this SYSSEGV immediately. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Mar 5 18:46:17 2007 Disassembly: 0x2ad1ae10: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr

[Bug 89988] Re: [apport] jackd crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6639670/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6639671/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6639672/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment ad

[Bug 89779] Re: Regression [feisty] HP TC4200 fails to resume properly after suspend

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
Also experiencing this problem on an emachines m6810 AMD_64 with ATI Radeon 9600. Suspend is slow, but eventually goes down, leaving power light blinking. When I touch any key, the power light comes back on solid, but the video never comes back. Pwr cycle and reboot is necessary. -- Regress

[Bug 89988] Re: [apport] jackd crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread()

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Green
another note: jackd -d alsa did not crash, in fact I was able to start ardour and make and play back a simple recording. At the time of the crash, no firewire audio device was plugged in. I don't actually own any device supported by freebob, I was trying to get the software loaded and configured

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68267 *** I see someone marked this as a duplicate of #68267. WHy would anyone think this is a problem with x11-common? It seems clear from my experience, and comments on others also marked as dups to 68267, that the problem clearly happens when running adept

Re: [Bug 89878] Re: Screen blanks, locks during install of herd 5

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Green
Actually, I wasn't able to get this to repeat. It occurred on an AMD64 with 512MB RAM as I was exploring the K menu (not actually opening any apps) while ubiquity was doing the initial load. The system didn't crash - just the screen went blank. I could see the hdd light blinking, so the file

[Bug 88697] Re: dpkg: invalid nice value

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Green
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68267 *** I got the error three times: First, when the adept window just said 'preparing...' Second, when adept said 'preparing update for x11-common' and a third time, soon after, when I didn't catch the package name in question. I also got it when using adept

[Bug 89289] Re: Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
OK, Here's a copy of casper.log from a live session Kubuntu daily build 20070401 amd_64 ** Attachment added: "csper.log from live session" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7099830/casper.log -- Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD https://launchpad.net/bugs/89289 -- ub

[Bug 40503] Re: Synaptics touchpad detection (regression)

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
I've been having this same problem occur with Feisty, from herd 4 thru today's daily build (20070401) I'm running Kubuntu AMD_64. laptop-detect returns true. on herd-5,the last one I installed, dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xorg did correctly detect both the touchpad and the monitor, giving me the p

[Bug 12637] Re: LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
Confirmed again on Kubuntu Feisty daily build 20070401 amd_64 -- LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/12637 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 99825] Installer crashed at 'manual partition'

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity This appeared as I selected 'manual partition' in step 4 of the installer. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 2559, in data return QVariant(item.data(index.column())) File "/usr/

[Bug 99825] Re: Installer crashed at 'manual partition'

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "/var/log/partman" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7099954/partman -- Installer crashed at 'manual partition' https://launchpad.net/bugs/99825 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 99825] Re: Installer crashed at 'manual partition'

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
** Attachment added: "/var/log/syslog" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7099956/syslog ** Tags added: regression -- Installer crashed at 'manual partition' https://launchpad.net/bugs/99825 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubun

[Bug 32460] Re: [UNMETDEPS] Uninstallable on AMD64

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Green
Confirmed: Still uninstallable on Kubuntu Feisty daily build 20070322.1 amd_64 -- [UNMETDEPS] Uninstallable on AMD64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/32460 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

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