[Bug 395537] [NEW] Wacom tablet stops working after hibernation

2009-07-04 Thread Simon Woolf
Public bug reported: After hibernating and resuming, my Wacom (Volito2, CTF-420) tablet does not work. It continues not to work even after restarting X; a reboot is needed to make it work again. Running Ubuntu 9.04, with wacom-tools and xserver-xorg-input-wacom both at version 1:0.8.2.2-0ubuntu2

[Bug 395537] Re: Wacom tablet stops working after hibernation

2009-07-04 Thread Simon Woolf
** Attachment added: "The relevent part of kern.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28687650/kern.log ** Tags removed: hibernating -- Wacom tablet stops working after hibernation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 180866] Re: [XPS M1330] Eject Button Doesn't Work

2009-07-04 Thread Simon Woolf
This is still a problem in Jaunty, and it's not specific to Dell laptops either: I have the same problem on my (completely generic, self-built, with generic DVD drive) desktop. To summarise: the eject button works fine if no disc is in the drive or if one is in the drive but not mounted. If a mou

[Bug 270994] [NEW] Context menu key doesn't work in Synaptic

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Woolf
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: synaptic The context menu key (between AltGr and Right Ctrl on most modern keyboards) should, when an item in a list has focus, bring up the same context menu that right-clicking on that item does. Per the Gnome HIG, Shift+F10 should have the same effect

[Bug 17052] Re: Cannot right-click on pinned package

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Woolf
I can confirm as well. I'm not sure why is this wishlist. True, whilst most of the items on the normal right-click menu are available in Package menu, so it's not much of an inconvenience, surely that doesn't mean that not being able to get the context menu of a pinned package is expected behavio

[Bug 245843] Re: should be prevented from adding 'admin' as user

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Woolf
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 236305 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236305 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 236305 Creating user with username 'admin' hoses admin group, sudo config -- should be prevented from adding 'admin' as user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 271126] [NEW] [users-admin] changing password via users-admin doesn't change seahorse password

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Woolf
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools When you install Ubuntu, the "login" keyring is created in Seahorse using the supplied login password, which is then automatically unlocked when the user logs in. However, when you change your user account password with users-admin, th

[Bug 271126] Re: [users-admin] changing password via users-admin doesn't change seahorse password

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Woolf
> You just happened to choose to make your keyring password match your login password way back when it first asked Without wishing to contradict you, that's not correct -- not with recent versions of Ubuntu, at least (I'm not sure about older versions). If you don't believe me, create a new accou

[Bug 271126] Re: [users-admin] changing password via users-admin doesn't change seahorse password

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Woolf
I'm using 32-bit. I've just reconfirmed that the bug definitely exists on my system by creating a new user account and setting up a mail account in Evolution, which worked fine with no keyring prompts asking for a password. I then changed my password in users-admin and logged out and back in again

[Bug 271820] Re: gksu does not warn about programs not in root's $PATH

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Woolf
** Attachment added: "Would you notice the period?" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17734701/gksu.png ** Visibility changed to: Public -- gksu does not warn about programs not in root's $PATH https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271820 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 271820] Re: gksu does not warn about programs not in root's $PATH

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Woolf
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gksu The gksu prompt is identical for running programs wherever they are located. This gives rise to an easy method of privilege escalation (albeit with an element of user interaction). For example, an intruder with current user privile

[Bug 341389] Re: gnome-open keeps re-running itself if set as default opening application

2009-04-05 Thread Simon Woolf
Confirmed. I've just been hit by this myself (on Intrepid). It took about half an hour to work out that it was gnome-open, because neither top, nor htop, nor gnome-system-monitor were any use at all. All three showed 100% total CPU usage, but none showed what was using it: adding up the CPU total

[Bug 201593] Re: gnome-display-properties cannot put monitors beside each other, no other tool to do this available to users

2008-04-04 Thread Simon Woolf
Without wishing to sound obnoxious, or ungrateful for the excellent work the Bryce Harrington and others are doing in this area; is it really the case that the latest version of the most popular Linux distribution on the planet is shipping with no way to graphically enable multiple monitors (for xr

[Bug 201593] Re: gnome-display-properties cannot put monitors beside each other, no other tool to do this available to users

2008-04-04 Thread Simon Woolf
Apologies: I retract part of my post, to the extent that I've just tried gnome-display-properties again, and this time, it *was* possible to enable both monitors (i.e. giving dual screens). Last time I tried this a week or two ago, enabling the second monitor disabled the first; so I assume the to

[Bug 196135] Re: Timidity shouldn't depend on freepats

2008-04-07 Thread Simon Woolf
The fluids package that's in the repositories doesn't seem to come with a .cfg file; so I've attached one that I got from the Timidity web site and made the relevent changes to it so it works with the Ubuntu fluids package. Just dump this somewhere (e.g. /etc/trinity/) and change the "source" line

[Bug 515275] Re: Kernel panic when I remove USB wi-fi stick 'D-link DWL-G122'

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Woolf
Thanks for your reply. Forgive me if I seem rude, but I'm not really sure how I can usefully respond to a copied-and-pasted response asking that I see if the bug is still there on Karmic and attach apport debug information, when my original report shows that I am already running Karmic (and you, i

[Bug 515275] [NEW] Kernel panic when I remove USB wi-fi stick 'D-link DWL-G122'

2010-01-31 Thread Simon Woolf
Public bug reported: The above USB wi-fi dongle (D-link DWL-G122) usually works fine. But occasionally it stops working (lights go off, I'm disconnected, error messages like "rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0410 with error -110" printed in kern.log and sy

[Bug 515275] Re: Kernel panic when I remove USB wi-fi stick 'D-link DWL-G122'

2010-01-31 Thread Simon Woolf
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38591093/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38591094/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "ArecordDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38591095/ArecordDevices.t

[Bug 456530] Re: empathy crashed with SIGILL

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Woolf
This just happened to me, with pidgin (worked fine yesterday, broken today, weirdly); upgrading gavl fixed it. (Ubuntu 9.10, fully up to date) -- empathy crashed with SIGILL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1584539] [NEW] 16.04 regression: exceptions in ruby code in plugins have started causing vim to segfault

2016-05-22 Thread Simon Woolf
Public bug reported: In 14.04, an exception in the ruby code of a plugin caused the error to be printed to stderr, after which vim would launch, skipping the offending plugin: Error detected while processing /mnt/terra/home/simon/dev/vim-livecoding/plugin/livecoding.vim: line 37: NameErr

[Bug 938758] Re: AutoHidden launcher reveal sensitivity adjustment should allow disabling push-past for wacom tablets

2012-04-04 Thread Simon Woolf
Using a Wacom Volito2 on 12.04 beta 2, icb410's workaround - setting the "Launcher Reveal Pressure" setting to 1 in - doesn't work for me. I've tried fiddling about with the settings in ccsm, but can't find any combination that makes the launcher respond to the tablet. -- You received this bug no

[Bug 979880] Re: Skype causes almost-full lockup after 30 minutes of operation

2012-06-17 Thread Simon Woolf
Annoyingly, for the past week I hadn't had this problem at all. (Well, good for me, but annoying for bug-fixing purposes). I've just upgraded to 4.0 today, and it seems to be fine, but I don't know if that's because it's actually fixed, or if it's just that whatever changed a week ago meant I'm no

[Bug 979880] Re: Skype causes almost-full lockup after 30 minutes of operation

2012-05-30 Thread Simon Woolf
Funnily enough, I only started having this problem after I upgraded to 12.04. A few more details: - The system starts reacting very slowly because skype is using up all available system memory almost immediately after you log in to it. (Note: it is on log-in, not actually starting skype; disable

[Bug 740767] Re: gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGSEGV in gwd_get_decor_frame()

2011-05-27 Thread Simon Woolf
The only thing I've found that works to get around the problem that the old, broken setting (gtk-window-decorator) replacing the correct one (compiz-decorator) whenever you log out & in is actually manually making /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator a symlink to /usr/bin/compiz-decorator. Not a particul