[Bug 385305] Re: rebuilt initrd with lvm fails to find live fs

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Dodd
No dmraid machines around here, but yes, any "virtual" block devices look as if they would cause problems, ditto any odd (non-PCI, non- USB/IDE) hardware (perhaps on non x86 platforms.) Do you know of / can you think of any situation where the "ugly hack" would do anything useful? If not, I'd be i

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-18 Thread Steve Dodd
(I've already emailed soldonz, but for anybody else who wants to fix a 9.04 live USB/CD setup..) I've uploaded a patched version of the initrd to a hosting service, I don't know how long they keep stuff: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-2e60bf8e.html The md5 is 0263a21a04c56bf5d24c8f6c16f9ac

Re: [Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-19 Thread Steve Dodd
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:11:45AM -, soldonz wrote: > I just tried the patch, now there are only a couple io error messages > shown at shutdown screen, compare to a full page of io error messages. I still see those sometimes - I don't think they're harmful. The important thing to check is th

Re: [Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-19 Thread Steve Dodd
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:14:02AM -, soldonz wrote: > If this bug occurs in every ubuntu persistent install, then it may be a > good idea to give it a bit more attention? Realistically, it's too late to do anything about Jaunty (9.04), and the mechanism used on the live CDs for union mounts

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-19 Thread Steve Dodd
As I said, I think there is still sometimes a residual I/O error or two, but they don't seem to be harmful - casper-rw seems to get umounted OK (check the kernel log to make sure, or fsck the file when booted from a different system.) Attached is the full replacement /etc/init.d/casper for 9.04 - m

[Bug 376145] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_pool_get_presentables()

2009-06-21 Thread Steve Dodd
I've just seen this in VBox using an alternate CD install (using today's snapshot - 20090621): Jun 21 21:33:04 ubuntu kernel: [ 152.508292] gvfs-gdu-volume[3546]: segfault at c ip 003ebfda sp bfc4d680 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[3e3000+22000] For some reason apport is still disabled by default wi

[Bug 181788] Re: File chooser not working in current folder

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Dodd
I think gnome-bugs #540788 () is related, if not exactly the same. If anybody's grovelling around in the code, could they take a peek at this as well? >From my comment on gnome-bugs: "This bug drives me nuts on a fairly regular basis, I think the

[Bug 392315] [NEW] [karmic] lilo.conf kernel command line options mis-parsed

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: os-prober os-prober 1.29ubuntu2 [karmic alpha2] To help test GRUB2, I created installed it in a partition boot sector and chainloaded to it from LILO, my current bootloader. I ended up with rather a lot of stuff in the grub.menu, but one of the entries w

[Bug 392315] Re: [karmic] lilo.conf kernel command line options mis-parsed

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "Current lilo.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28382086/lilo.conf -- [karmic] lilo.conf kernel command line options mis-parsed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 392315] Re: [karmic] lilo.conf kernel command line options mis-parsed

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "Generated grub.cfg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28382209/grub.cfg -- [karmic] lilo.conf kernel command line options mis-parsed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 382379] Re: pdftops CUPS filter has several problems

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Dodd
Martin wrote on ubuntu-devel: > I'm actually more concerned about also testing printers which work > fine in Jaunty. I can help out with a Samsung ML-1610, and I guess > Till can throw his armada of printers at it which he has at home, but > we should send out an extra call for testing in blogs an

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-07-03 Thread Steve Dodd
Hmm, that definitely points to a filesystem type probe issue, and judging by , there may be something to do with symlink resolution going on as well (at least on my machine, /dev/sr0 is a symlink to /dev/scd0.) Anybody who knows the code

[Bug 371477] Re: Jaunty: Buffer I/O error on casper-rw persistence partition

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Dodd
Hi, this looks very much like a duplicate of bug #125702. ext3 rather than ext2 seems to mask the problem pretty effectively, but as ext3 is probably less flash-friendly (extra writes for the journal, and in the same place which may wear a hole in anything that's not doing wear-levelling) it would

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Dodd
Hi Aleksey, Yes, I think this is the same problem. This fix requires changing two files, one in the initrd.gz, one in the main filesystem. Fortunately you can make this second change in the casper-rw filesystem, so there's no need to rebuild filesystem.squashfs .. The first _is_ a bit of a pain b

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Dodd
Damn, some of the lines seem to have wrapped.. see attached text file. ** Attachment added: "fix-howto.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26318419/fix-howto.txt -- casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bug n

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Dodd
Meh, you'll also need to make those patch commands: patch ... <<'EOM' (Note the single quotes around the delimiter..) -- casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 377426] [NEW] [karmic alpha1] gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-16 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gvfs [ 943.171002] gvfs-gdu-volume[3675]: segfault at c ip 00700fda sp bfb35f60 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[6f8000+22000] [ 1071.837061] gvfs-gdu-volume[3717]: segfault at c ip 00668fda sp bf8767c0 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[66+22000] This is Karmi

[Bug 377426] Re: [karmic alpha1] gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-16 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26830368/Dependencies.txt -- [karmic alpha1] gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 377426] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
1) If you read my original report you'll see that apport didn't catch the crash. There is no crash file. I tried to attach with gdb but the process doesn't run continuously. I have however provided steps to reproduce which seem to work reliably (here at least.) 2) I haven't tested the bleeding edg

[Bug 377426] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
Just updated my VM to the current state of karmic, this is still happening. The nautilus windows no longer close themselves but the segfault is still logged by the kernel. This is still gvfs-backends 1.3git20090512-0ubuntu1. libgdu0 is 0.3.0-0ubuntu2. Attached is a manually updated Dependencies.t

[Bug 377426] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376145 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376145 "If you are running the _Ubuntu Stable Release_ you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart." Karmic is hardly the stable release, but you're right, having checked, apport is not enable

[Bug 377426] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376145 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376145 OK, it does look like a duplicate of bug #376145. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 376145 gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_pool_get_presentables() -- gvfs-gdu-volume segf

[Bug 376145] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_pool_get_presentables()

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
I seem to have steps to reproduce this listed in bug #377426. -- gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_pool_get_presentables() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376145 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

Re: [Bug 377426] Re: gvfs-gdu-volume segfault in libgdu.so.0.0.0

2009-05-17 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376145 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376145 On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:59:00AM -, Martin Olsson wrote: > However, right now on karmic with all updates up to may 17th I > consistently see 3 gvfs-gdu-volume crashes in my dmesg after every > single re

[Bug 371477] Re: Jaunty: Buffer I/O error on casper-rw persistence partition

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 125702 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 125702 casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown -- Jaunty: Buffer I/O error on casper-rw persistence partition https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Dodd
FWIW, I've justed tested and I can confirm this problem is still present in Jaunty, as Aleksey and bug #371477 suggest. -- casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 125702] Re: failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2

2008-05-31 Thread Steve Dodd
drewster: you could boot from the Live CD, then install dpkg-repack and use it reconstruct the packages you need. -- failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 312996] [NEW] jaunty alpha 2: cannot auto-install codecs on live CD

2009-01-01 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-app-install I noticed a problem using the Jaunty alpha 2 live CD: 1. Open totem 2. Select the Youtube side bar 3. Search for "cats" 4. Double click the first search result The automatic codec install window pops up listing a couple of items; selec

[Bug 312996] Re: jaunty alpha 2: cannot auto-install codecs on live CD

2009-01-01 Thread Steve Dodd
Incidentally, I checked using today's daily build (2009-01-01) and the problem still exists. I'll try to remember to grab a copy of ~/.xsession-errors next time I boot the live CD. -- jaunty alpha 2: cannot auto-install codecs on live CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312996 You received this bu

[Bug 311976] [NEW] [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2008-12-28 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nv Version: 1:2.1.10-1ubuntu2 (Can't seem to use ubuntu-bug, reporting by hand) The nv driver has never automatically detected my widescreen flat planel display (LiteView LM15W) properly, but I've always been able to work around that

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2008-12-28 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20782037/lspci-vvnn.txt -- [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2008-12-28 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "EDID info" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20782040/edid.txt -- [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2008-12-28 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "Xorg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20782066/Xorg.0.log -- [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2008-12-28 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20782080/xorg.conf -- [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 310259] [NEW] cron job should not run if gnu locate is not selected alternative

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: locate Using Hardy 8.04.1: I've just noticed that both locate (GNU locate from findutils) and mlocate run their own copies of updatedb out of cron. The only reason I have GNU locate installed is because dlocate requires it, and dlocate doesn't use the ma

[Bug 310259] Re: cron job should not run if gnu locate is not selected alternative

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "cron.daily/locate: check if we are selected alternative and abort if not" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20618362/p ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: findutils + Binary package hint: locate Using Hardy 8.04.1: I've just noticed that both locate (GN

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
I'm seeing similar issues accessing CD-Rs here on a Hardy box (8.04.1), but I've just tried updating to the latest kernel in -updates and no joy: [ 4697.036353] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK [ 4697.036365] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
Aha .. inspiration. I'm mounting manually ("mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom", a mental regression to the days before /media/xxx!). If I do "mount /media/cdrom0", everything is fine, presumably because my fstab has: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 I'm guessing that so

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 218834] Re: dvd or cd does not mount

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
Given that this bug seems to a have tracked down a particular (timeout?) issue with hal that is being worked on, perhaps those having slightly different problem might get more joy over at Bug #293570 ? -- dvd or cd does not mount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218834 You received this bug notif

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
Looking more closely at some of the comments here: alanmilne: your problem looks like it might also be a type probe issue - the ratio between the sector and block numbers in your dmesg output suggest a filesystem that is expecting 4 sectors / block, for whatever definition of "block" is in use her

Re: [Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Dodd
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:38:30PM -, Richard Driscoll wrote: > Mar 17 17:35:50 dart kernel: [ 2851.200673] cdrom: sr0: mrw address space DMA > selected > Mar 17 17:35:50 dart kernel: [ 2851.202951] cdrom open: mrw_status 'not mrw' > Mar 17 17:35:50 dart kernel: [ 2851.241371] cdrom: sr0: mrw

[Bug 293570] Re: CD/RW Mount Problems with Intrepid

2009-03-20 Thread Steve Dodd
stracing my problematic mount command shows that the problems occur when then mount process itself is trying to access the block device, not in e.g. a mount syscall. I'm guessing that this is a (statically linked) libvolume-id trying to the determine the filesystem type? (Incidentally, the machine

[Bug 312996] Re: jaunty alpha 2: cannot auto-install codecs on live CD

2009-02-13 Thread Steve Dodd
Seems to be working on Alpha 4.. ** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- jaunty alpha 2: cannot auto-install codecs on live CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 346941] [NEW] casper-helpers:where_is_mounted fails in obscure cases

2009-03-22 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: casper where_is_mounted() in casper-helpers contains the following line: grep "^$device " /proc/mounts | read d mountpoint rest This will not work, as the read command is executed in a subshell because of the pipeline and so does not set the variables i

[Bug 125702] Re: failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Dodd
I created a persistent setup on a USB stick using the 'official' USB installer in Intrepid. I haven't had any corruption problems (yet), but the ext3 journal on the casper-rw (loopback) filesystem still seems to get replayed on start up, which presumably means it wasn't cleanly unmounted (or the bl

[Bug 125702] Re: failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Dodd
Just checked that again, and the journal does get replayed, so the rw fs isn't being umounted cleanly. I also noticed block device I/O errors on shutdown. Digging into this a bit deeper, some observations: * Whatever this line from /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs is supposed to do .. PROTECTED_MOUNTS="$(

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Dodd
Here's a patch, based on casper 1.152 (the version in intrepid.) I don't know if this is the best way to achieve this, but it seems to work for me - this problem can be tested in Virtualbox using a live CD image and a hard disk partition labelled 'casper-rw'. ** Attachment added: "Expose /cow and

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Dodd
I've rebuilt the intrepid ISO and this patch seems to work. I'd upload an rdiff but it seems to be ~200Mb - anybody got any ideas about how to make a squashfs that can be sanely rdiffed against the official live CD image? I've tried with and without -nolzma using squashfs-tools 1:3.3-1ubuntu2 .. -

[Bug 258990] Re: LiveCD Persistence: home-rw not mounted when both casper-rw and home-rw are loopback files on the same partition

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Dodd
Hi, I wondered if bug #346941 might be the cause of your problem - Colin Watson's uploaded a fix, so I guess you should be able to test with the RC when it comes out .. -- LiveCD Persistence: home-rw not mounted when both casper-rw and home-rw are loopback files on the same partition https://bug

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2009-04-05 Thread Steve Dodd
Thanks Scott - it looks like it might be. Using a modified version of the patch in freedesktop-bugs #19557 at least allows a correct (i.e. using the EDID info) modeline to function. It still doesn't autodetect correctly without the modeline though. (Note to anybody else who wants to play with the

[Bug 311976] Re: [intrepid] can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100

2009-04-05 Thread Steve Dodd
Forgot to mention this still occurs in jaunty beta. Retitled. -- [jaunty beta] (still) can't drive widescreen flat planel at EDID-supplied mode with GeForce 6100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Dodd
Humph. Looks we need to sync and sleep as well. New patch attached .. ** Attachment added: "new-casper.diff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25210241/new-casper.diff -- casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bu

[Bug 357870] Re: fakerebooted kernel doesn't work

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Dodd
Excuse me piggy-backing on this bug report, but the other issue with the kexec reboot is that it's impossible to reboot into another operating system on a dual-boot machine with it enabled. Even if it is/becomes stable enough for use (I have to say it works fine on my machine), it might be worth on

[Bug 206615] Re: VirtualBox crashed with signal 5 in RTSemEventSignal() - it always does if left unattended for a while

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Dodd
Incidentally, the start up speed variation is probably due to the virtual hard disk contents being cached (or not). -- VirtualBox crashed with signal 5 in RTSemEventSignal() - it always does if left unattended for a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206615 You received this bug notification

[Bug 396957] Re: udevd segfault after "worker did not accept message" and "worker unexpectedly returned with 0"

2009-07-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Just booted today's (20090709) i386 live CD and seen this after booting with quiet and splash removed from the command line. This was in VirtualBox 2.2.4 with 512Mb of RAM allocated to VM, and no virtual HDD set-up. I've got to dash off to work now, will try and do some more testing, i.e. on real

[Bug 396957] Re: udevd segfault after "worker did not accept message" and "worker unexpectedly returned with 0"

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Dodd
Applying the two patches to udev 143-8, rebuilding and patching it into the live CD I was having problems with (20090709) eliminates the segfault and the error about not accepting messages, though I do often still get the "unexpectedly returned with status 0x" messages - see screenshot. I've

[Bug 396957] Re: udevd segfault after "worker did not accept message" and "worker unexpectedly returned with 0"

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Dodd
Yes, other than the message everything seems to work fine .. -- udevd segfault after "worker did not accept message" and "worker unexpectedly returned with 0" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396957 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 103794] Re: Cannot have overlapping partitions

2009-08-10 Thread Steve Dodd
I ended up in a similar situation with a logical partition inexplicably listed as primary instead, which was preventing me testing Wubi. No idea how that happened, the only things that should have touched the partition table on that disk are gparted and WinXP's installer. Anyway, for anybody stumb

[Bug 185319] Re: UDF CDRW and DVDRW drives not writable

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Dodd
Dupe of bug #87056? -- UDF CDRW and DVDRW drives not writable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185319 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.com/mailm

[Bug 87056] Re: Can't write to UDF disc in Feisty

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Dodd
I think you need to set up the packet writing device using pktsetup from package udftools, then mount the packet writing device: mount /dev/pktcdvd/pktcdvd0 /media/cdrom1 -t udf -o rw,noatime (At least in hardy - maybe things were different back in the dark days of 2007!) -- Can't write to UDF

[Bug 345162] Re: cannot utilize packet writing support

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Dodd
I've seen this if the dvd+rw was formatted using mkudffs using --media- type=dvd instead of the (undocumented, but mentioned in the README) --media-type=dvdrw .. (Given that mkudffs only creates empty filesystems, what on earth use is a setting that makes it read-only, I wonder?) -- cannot utili

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Here's a new version of the patch, this time leveraging the existing SHOWMOUNTS functionality that I didn't notice the first time around. This has the advantage that it works with multiple stacked .squashfs's. It's still aufs-specific, but's that fine for jaunty and I gather the hope for karmic is

[Bug 385305] [NEW] rebuilt initrd with lvm fails to find live fs

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: casper I set up a persistent live USB and installed some updates that triggered an initrd rebuild, so I thought I'd copy the new version into /casper on the USB stick and use it. Sadly, booting failed, apparently because I'd also installed the lvm2 packag

[Bug 125702] Re: casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Marking this confirmed as a number of people have seen this problem. I hope that doesn't breach ettiquette .. ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- casper-rw fs not cleanly unmounted on persistent live USB shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received t

[Bug 385305] Re: rebuilt initrd with lvm fails to find live fs

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Slight correction to the earlier post: the problematic code in question only seems to be called for non-USB/SCSI/IDE devices (anything whose udev path doesn't match "usb|pci-[^-]*-(ide|scsi|usb)") - I've no idea what devices these might be - onboard flash memory (MTDs) in embedded systems?? Anyway

[Bug 90261] Re: Volume Control plugin can't be added to xfce4-panel

2007-10-24 Thread Steve Dodd
I'm seeing this on Gutsy final. It seems to be dependent on the theme - (Applications -> settings -> user interface -> theme tab.) For example, "Human" causes the crash (BadAlloc, rather than the BadAccess mentioned in one report above), "MurrinaStormCloud" is OK. -- Volume Control plugin can't b

[Bug 90261] Re: Volume Control plugin can't be added to xfce4-panel

2007-10-25 Thread Steve Dodd
Sounds like there might be multiple bugs here, some of the attached duplicates don't sound the same either. -- Volume Control plugin can't be added to xfce4-panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90261 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug con

[Bug 78380] Re: Fiesty Live CD crashes during Boot

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Dodd
digger: The upgrade should have left your earlier kernels in the grub menu - does falling back to those help? Also, dmesg output would be useful (if possible - don't know if dmesg is included in the initramfs), alternatively booting without the 'splash' and 'quiet' kernel command line options migh

[Bug 144945] Re: kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Dodd
Brian, Looks solid here, couldn't crash it... -- kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -

[Bug 138915] Re: unionfs NULL pointer dereference in 2.6.22-11.32

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dodd
Angelo, Ben Collins has fixed bug #144945: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu- modules-2.6.22/+bug/144945/comments/8 Anyone know if the problem originally reported in *this* bug (BUG in fanout.h:128) has been fixed? Mario's comment .. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubu

[Bug 144945] Re: kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025

2007-10-08 Thread Steve Dodd
Incidentally, does the reversion to unionfs 1.x mean that bug #84591 (live CD/USB persistence broken) is back (if it ever went away)? -- kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144945 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 84591] Effect of reversion to unionfs 1.4?

2007-10-09 Thread Steve Dodd
Hmm, will the fix to bug #144945 .. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu- modules-2.6.22/+bug/144945/comments/10 .. which reverts to unionfs 1.x, break persistence again? Has anyone tried with the image linked in the bug #144945 discussion, namely: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~bco

[Bug 78380] Re: Fiesty Live CD crashes during Boot

2007-09-29 Thread Steve Dodd
Here's another thing that might help .. I've got an old machine here that the kernel disables ACPI on, because it thinks (incorrectly) that the BIOS is too old. With no ACPI, it somehow doesn't seem to setup the second IDE channel properly, so I can't access the CD-ROM. Adding "acpi=force" to the k

[Bug 144945] Re: kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Dodd
I'm getting this running the Ubuntu i386 Gutsy Beta Live CD. Loading firefox, going Tools -> Add-ons, and selecting "Ubuntu add-ons" seems to trigger it for me. ** Attachment added: "dmesg output, including oops" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9527291/dmesg.crash -- kernel Oops in unionfs with

[Bug 144945] Re: kernel Oops in unionfs with l-u-m version 2.6.22-12.32 using Edubuntu amd64 daily 200709025

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Dodd
A couple of the crash dumps posted elsewhere seem to be at the same location as those above: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu- modules-2.6.22/+bug/138915/comments/3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu- modules-2.6.22/+bug/138915/comments/4 https://bugs.la

[Bug 138915] Re: unionfs NULL pointer dereference in 2.6.22-11.32

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Dodd
John and Mario's oopses are at the same location as those reported in bug #144945 -- unionfs NULL pointer dereference in 2.6.22-11.32 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 175532] NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22 OK, this is a weird one. I have one machine acting as an NFS server, and another diskless machine mounting its root filesystem over NFS from the first. After almost exactly 15 minutes, the diskless box will be unable to access any file

[Bug 175532] Re: NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Dodd
OK, I installed portmap and nfs-common on the client, and that doesn't help, which is a bit worrying - could LTSP installations potentially be affected? -- NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175532 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 175532] Re: NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Dodd
Disabling avahi on the client seems to fix the problem, still trying to work out why. -- NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175532 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 175532] Re: NFS v3 file accesses return 'permission denied' after 15 minutes

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Dodd
ARGH! >From exports(5): IP networks You can also export directories to all hosts on an IP (sub-) network simultaneously. [..] Wildcard characters generally do not work on IP addresses, though they may work by accident when reverse DNS lookups fail. I'll change thi

[Bug 84591] Re: feisty 20070210/herd5 persistent mode doesn't work

2007-11-23 Thread Steve Dodd
waxhell: If I'm using persistent mode (home or root type) with the iso contents as well as the persistent fs on a USB key, I get block devices errors on the USB key on shutdown, the persistent fs isn't unmounted cleanly, and sometimes some files seem to get corrupted, particularly files that are li

[Bug 109714] Re: open office impress says it crashed and will recover in next time launch, afterwards opens openoffice writer without calling

2007-04-24 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 90513 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90513 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 90513 weird document recovery attempt of openoffice after fullscreen slideshow with oo presentation -- open office impress says it crashed and will recover in

[Bug 90513] Re: weird document recovery attempt of openoffice after fullscreen slideshow with oo presentation

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Dodd
Still present in feisty final. Really surprised this wasn't fixed for the release. -- weird document recovery attempt of openoffice after fullscreen slideshow with oo presentation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 78282] Re: vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Dodd
vino is also very, very slow compared to vnc4server, at least in my experience. -- vnc4server does not start Desktop environment after security update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubu

[Bug 90844] Re: strange messages on live cd shutdown

2007-03-30 Thread Steve Dodd
Interesting. I guess the clue was the splash screen gave way to the error messages for you, where as for others (and me) the splash stayed on screen - even though the same messages could be found by manually changing VTs. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 84592 feisty shutdown eject d

[Bug 50113] Re: amaya crashes: Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch

2007-03-27 Thread Steve Dodd
In feisty beta (amaya 9.53~dfsg.0-1) I get: (amaya:7762): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed The program 'amaya' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attri

[Bug 90513] Re: weird document recovery attempt of openoffice after fullscreen slideshow with oo presentation

2007-03-27 Thread Steve Dodd
I've just seen this in Feisty Beta, after following the long test procedure (), simply by opening /usr/share/example-content/oo-presenting-ubuntu.odp, playing the slideshow, and quitting the application. Like the OP, I get no crash dumps, no apport, nothing in

[Bug 98543] Re: [apport] gnomebaker crashed appending to multisession CD

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Dodd
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7040909/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7040910/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7040911/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 98543] [apport] gnomebaker crashed appending to multisession CD

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Dodd
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnomebaker Possibly related to bug #71684, but I got a crash as well. This is on a fresh Feisty Beta install, from the alternate install CD. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Mar 29 11:27:43 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /

[Bug 98543] Re: [apport] gnomebaker crashed appending to multisession CD

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Dodd
Here's some possibly relevant bits of ~/.xsession-errors, as well. ** Attachment added: "xsession-errors fragment" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7040920/gb-xsess -- [apport] gnomebaker crashed appending to multisession CD https://launchpad.net/bugs/98543 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 98664] Re: (Feisty) Crash after full screen presentation of any pps file

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 90513 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90513 Pretty sure it's not gfx card based either, I saw on this on a machine with an ancient 8Mb Matrox card .. -- (Feisty) Crash after full screen presentation of any pps file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98664

[Bug 90844] Re: strange messages on live cd shutdown

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
I've tested Feisty Herd 5 Desktop CD on two systems, and on both the CD fails to eject, though the splash remains on the screen. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 yields much the same messages as above (from memory): * Unmounting temporary filesystems umount: /cow: not found

[Bug 90844] Re: strange messages on live cd shutdown

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
Looks like Bug #84592 () is a duplicate of this bug, and that it is fixed.. -- strange messages on live cd shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/90844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

[Bug 84592] Re: feisty shutdown eject doesn't

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
Bug #90844 looks to be a duplicate of this bug. -- feisty shutdown eject doesn't https://launchpad.net/bugs/84592 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 92680] Re: Vista partitions don't show on "My Computer"

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
This looks like a duplicate of bug #73227. -- Vista partitions don't show on "My Computer" https://launchpad.net/bugs/92680 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 73227] Re: [feisty] some partitions do not appear in Places menu

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
Bug #92680 looks like a duplicate of this bug. -- [feisty] some partitions do not appear in Places menu https://launchpad.net/bugs/73227 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 90844] Re: strange messages on live cd shutdown

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 84592 *** ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 84592 feisty shutdown eject doesn't -- strange messages on live cd shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/90844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

[Bug 89466] Re: "Desktop Effect" blow out the display

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Dodd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 87486 *** Is this really a duplicate of #87486? That bug discusses a crash, this one describes what seems to be the "normal" behaviour on an unsupported video card. Anyway, I get the white screen problem too, on one machine what an ancient 8Mb Matrix card, and a

[Bug 85895] Re: Feisty Herd 4 live CD's booting splash screen progress meter has a slight graphics glitch

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Dodd
Still there in Feisty Beta .. -- Feisty Herd 4 live CD's booting splash screen progress meter has a slight graphics glitch https://launchpad.net/bugs/85895 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

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