[Bug 259181] Re: KDM background image not displayed correctly on low resolution display

2008-11-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I confirm the exact same problem as in the bug description in released Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, on a 1024x600 display (Acer Aspire One). -- KDM background image not displayed correctly on low resolution display https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259181 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 296064] [NEW] [Intrepid] Text editing in KMail 1.0.1 dreadfully slow

2008-11-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Since upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, text editing (while writing an email) is dreadfully slow in KMail 1.0.1, to the point that it is hardly usable, especially when inserting reply text in the middle of the replied message. Text is typed at a speed of no much more than 1 cha

[Bug 295536] Re: cups-pdf fails bad status reported and no pdf created

2008-11-24 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming here also (Intrepid) . Using Intrepid, attempting to print to PDF logged as a normal user in KDE causes « (/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups- pdf) stopped with status 5! » and no PDF is generated. However, using the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631), logged there as "root", trying to p

[Bug 301757] [NEW] [Intrepid] Courier-maildrop broken for LDAP while worked in Hardy

2008-11-24 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: After I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, courier-maildrop is broken :-(( Investigations show : - the "vmail" user (often used with maildrop and virtual domains) is apparently no more a "trusted" user, breaking existing config (and this is hard-compiled) ! - maildrop doesn't

[Bug 303064] [NEW] [Intrepid kernel 2.6.27] LVM snapshots causes I/O freeze and system lock / hang

2008-11-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image Happens on : 2.6.27-7-generic, 2.6.27-9-generic (x86_64) Severity : Major issue for running a server using LVM snapshots. Regression : This issue temporarily existed in a much older kernel version (don't remember which, think it was a 2.6.1

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Bartek: « the MTRR fix is (AFAIK) to improve EXA performance ... and you were clearly running UXA as per the log you posted. » I don't have a clue about what EXA or UXA are, I'm no graphics drivers expert ;-) I only know that UXA seemed disabled (per Xorg.log) before I applied the suggestions fro

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Bartek : OK, set at 1024x600 (which is my EeePC resolution) full screen and configured to display FPS, playing PlanetPinguin Racer shows me a FPS rate mostly comprised between 3 and 5 _...@_/ :-( I've seen it max to 5.7 for very short periods. Besides this slowness the graphics looks allright a

[Bug 366775] Re: [Kubuntu Jaunty] : WPA2 not supported - Network plasmoid

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348275 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348275 Installing linux-backports-modules-jaunty-generic apparently fixed WPA2 for me as described in Bug #348275 One may however wonder about the need for installing "backported" modules less than a week after the

[Bug 348275] Re: [iwlagn] networkmanager applet cannot connect to WPA2 home network (intel 4965)

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Installing linux-backports-modules-jaunty-generic apparently fixed WPA2 for me as described above. One may however wonder about the need for installing "backported" modules less than a week after the Jaunty distribution was released... KDE 4.2's NetworkManager plasmoïd is definitely buggy anyway

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Thanks for this document Bartek, I'll take a close look at it. Now for the fun : - Upgrading Hardy => Intrepid severly impacted the graphics performance of NVidia cards - Upgrading Intrepid => Jaunty : -- Breaks Intel cards driver -- Completely removes the "fglrx" driver for ATI cards. So... No

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Using the experimental PPA packages with UXA acceleration brought me some observations after some hours of use, besides the occasional screen "flashes" I had already reported (I use a "blank scren" screensaver that fires up after 5 minutes): 1/ Once the screensaver blanks the screen, it will somet

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I've just tried using EXA accel instead of UXA with the latest PPA drivers : - glxgears reports 550-590 FPS with EXA where it would report about 230 FPS with UXA. - ppracer is smooth and fun with 25-30 FPS with EXA where it would be 3 to 5 FPS with UXA. - I haven't yet had time to investigate if

[Bug 348275] Re: [iwlagn] networkmanager applet cannot connect to WPA2 home network (intel 4965)

2009-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I'm puzzled ! WPA2 support in Jaunty with KDE network plasmoïd "suddenly started working" on 2 machines after I just rebooted them, without having applied updates yet ! - An Acer Aspire 3104WLMi using the ath5k module - A Dell XPS M1330 using the iwl3945 module I have not installed the backport

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Looks like my latest reported configuration works good : - PPA drivers - EXA config as described above Getting good performance, haven't seen any graphics artifacts or corruption, apparently survives system suspend/resume with no problem (but only tested 3-4 times). The exact same config (but wit

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Having it working properly for a few hours was probably still too much :-( A couple hours ago got released to the mirrors "xserver-xorg-video- intel_2%3a2.7.99.1+git20090502.cfb98f3d-0ubuntu0sarvatt2_i386.deb" and this one definitely breaks EXA : xorg does UXA even though EXA is specifically reque

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Gnurou : you can still manually download the older packages from http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/ > « I am really close from dropping Ubuntu on this one. » So am I. I'm not sure if any project "head" at Ubuntu/Canonical is aware of the seriousness of such issues and t

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Even with EXA... Trying for fun to run Hal-Life 2 in Wine, the game starts loading and it ends with a graphics crash while my console displays : « Mesa 7.4.1 implementation error: i915_program_error: Exceeded max temporary reg Please report at bugzilla.freedesktop.org » -- [i945] (Needs UXA) K

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Valentin Neacsu: You should first check if this I/O wait is not caused by hard disk access : - Make sure the system is not swapping much too much to disk (not enough memory) - Check your hard disk health: Look for HD error messages in syslog, check disk health with smartmontools... Gnurou's righ

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-05-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252094 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252094 @unggnu : « Who uses Linux for gaming or an Intel graphic card for 3d cad anyway? ... No one really needs composite to work. » Sure. I'm always puzzled by people who say that something can be broken because n

[Bug 334191] [NEW] KDE 4 branch SSL certificates support completely broken

2009-02-24 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: KDE SSL certificates support in all the KDE 4, 4.1, 4.2 series is completely broken. KDE bug : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162485 This impacts (makes impossible) all use of SSL certificates in KDE, including KMail. This is a real show-stopper to me and I can't belie

[Bug 366775] [NEW] [Kubuntu Jaunty] : WPA2 not supported - Network plasmoid

2009-04-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, I've seen several bug reports about WPA2 not working in Jaunty, most turning into considerations about this or that specific wireless card driver considered as the possible issue. Well, I've upgraded 4 laptops using different Wi-Fi cards (with ath5k, ath9k, ath_pci or iw

[Bug 366805] [NEW] [Jaunty] Upgrade to Jaunty => HDA Intel (ICH7) sound broken

2009-04-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Machine : Asus EeePC 1002HA Sound Chipset: r...@xtro:/etc/modprobe.d# lspci -s 00:1b.0 -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 834a [...] Kernel driver

[Bug 366775] Re: [Kubuntu Jaunty] : WPA2 not supported - Network plasmoid

2009-04-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348275 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348275 Bug #348275 goes in many directions, focusing on some specific WL NIC drivers, or stating "can't connect to anything but open networks", or discussing the issue of having simultaneously 2 frontends to Network

[Bug 366805] Re: [Jaunty] Upgrade to Jaunty => HDA Intel (ICH7) sound broken

2009-04-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
After exploring a bit the available models choices in kernel source's Alsa source code (a pity it seems undocumented besides the available models listed in the source code), I tried in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa- base.conf: options snd-hda-intel model=eeepc-p901 Which seemed to be the closest hardware

[Bug 369062] [NEW] [Jaunty] Kernel compiled without USB_PERSIST

2009-04-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic After upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty, USB storage devices show as "just plugged" each time the system is suspended then waken up. I suspect Jaunty's 2.6.28-11 Ubuntu kernel has been compiled without the "USB_PERSIST" opti

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming this bug on Asus EeePC 1002HA, "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller". Upgrading from Kubuntu Intrepid + KDE 4.2 (PPA) to Jaunty severely broke KDE graphics. First things I noticed were serious issues with graphics elements redrawing, i.e. KMail toolba

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
No matter how good the reason and explanations can be... It's very good that the developpers of a given driver or package improve it, and it may result in occasional regressions and trouble. But we're not talking about a driver's development but about a _major distribution_ and it's the responsib

[Bug 342923] Re: [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc.

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Bartek wrote : « in order to follow the howto to enable mtrr one has to install an unsupported, pre-release kernel, that's not an option in any way, or am I missing something? » I tried this experimental kernel with all the hints from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582, however the 2

[Bug 366805] Re: [Jaunty] Upgrade to Jaunty => HDA Intel (ICH7) sound broken

2009-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 315971 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315971 I could in the end get some sound out by: - Enabling a so-called "iSpeaker" switch - Pushing up "Line-out" control However on this machine my mixer only shows the following controls : - PCM (Volume slider)

[Bug 295861] [NEW] Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Same problem met on 3 different machines : During upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid, upgrade manager silently crashes (its window disappears, "ps" shows it doesn't run anymore) and the machine is left is a severely incoherent, half-up

[Bug 295861] Re: Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19505086/VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz ** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19505087/VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz ** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz"

[Bug 295859] [NEW] Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Same problem met on 3 different machines : During upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid, upgrade manager silently crashes (its window disappears, "ps" shows it doesn't run anymore) and the machine is left is a severely incoherent, half-up

[Bug 295859] Re: Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19505055/VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz ** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19505056/VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz ** Attachment added: "VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz"

[Bug 275578] Re: [intrepid] upgrading from hardy package amarok-common 2:1.4.10-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: tentata sovrascrittura di `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/da/amarok/config.docbook', che si

2008-11-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming Amarok upgrade issue during Hardy => Intrepid dist-upgrade. I suspect this to be the possible cause of the complete upgrade-manager crash that results in the machine left in a totally incoherent state (unbootable). -- [intrepid] upgrading from hardy package amarok-common 2:1.4.10-0ubun

[Bug 295861] Re: Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295859 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295859 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 295859 Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid -- Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid https:/

[Bug 295859] Re: Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

2008-11-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Yes, on the only machine where I saw the upgrade finish properly without crashing, it ends in "cleaning up" and uninstalling a lot of "obsolete" packages. I would love to know how to start this step after having finished manually an upgrade that badly failed - especially because I have a netbook on

[Bug 286936] Re: konqueror/crypto manager lose trusted certificates

2008-11-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming. KDE 4.1 SSL certificates manager is completely broke in all aspects. Displays a dummy "ACME" personal certificate. Cannot import my real personal cert. Cannot import C.A. certificates whatsoever. Does nothing when you supposed it dit, or freezes, or segfaults :-(( Now I cannot send e-m

[Bug 246496] [NEW] [Hardy] Several artsd competing for 100% CPU

2008-07-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: arts This happens on an Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi after upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy (problem didn't exist in Gutsy) and has persisted thru all Hardy updates so far. At KDE session startup, not always but very often, and especially when restoring at the sam

[Bug 217846] Re: Slow suspend/resume in Hardy

2008-07-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Here the /etc/network/interfaces is not involved in slow resume after suspend to RAM, so the proposed workaround doesn't help. When resuming my Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi, my hard disk always works like crazy for at least 1 minute before I at least get the screen backlight to light again, and still mor

[Bug 247180] [NEW] [Hardy] Kubuntu live CD installer can't install on unformatted LVM volumes

2008-07-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, I usuall install Kubuntu over LVM (possibly encrypted) using the live CD, because I find creating the LVM manually (would be nice if the live CD could include the lvm2 and cryptsetup packages, they're rather small and it would save me to "aptitude install" them each time

[Bug 231429] [NEW] [hardy] Upgrading from gutsy doesn't create initramfs entry in grub's menu.lst

2008-05-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Sorry, this one may be a duplicate, I thought I had reported it before but I can't find the bug report ;-) I now have upgraded a number of Kubuntu machines from Gutsy to Hardy, and it's the 4th time I happen to fall on the same issue : After upgrade, the new initramfs has be

[Bug 222714] Re: konsole gets corrupted when compiz switches viewports

2008-05-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Issue confirmed here : - Hardy, NVidia board, latest hardy-included NVidia drivers : Konsole text gets corrupt / scrambled when Compiz active and cube rotated. - Also some other text shows this corruption, i.e. text in Kontact status bar - « Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "true" » in xorg.conf seem

[Bug 222714] Re: konsole gets corrupted when compiz switches viewports

2008-05-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
It's an XP inside the VirtualBox, and I believe my VBox config has nothing special regarding the video. Just the "Virtualbox additions" installed, that's all. Anyway, I have just quit using Compiz on this machine because I observed several system locks (not real locks, I can SSH into it from anoth

[Bug 129801] Re: kde-window-decorator crashes in gutsy

2008-05-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I confirm a *lot* of kde-window-decorator crashes in a fresh Kubuntu Hardy install, Intel graphics card. That makes the use of compiz a real pain. -- kde-window-decorator crashes in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129801 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 88377] Re: Suspend to disk fails: image_size too small

2008-05-27 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I'm currently working with 3 laptops and here's a short report : - Asus EeePC, 512 MB RAM, 700 MB swap, EeeXUbuntu 3 (equiv. Gutsy with a 2.6.24 kernel) : Suspend to disk works out of the box. - Dell XPS M1330, 2 GB RAM, 4 GB swap, Ubuntu Hardy latest 2.6.24-17-generic kernel: Suspend to disk wo

[Bug 345492] [NEW] KDE 4.2 PowerDevil daemon doesn't work after suspend/resume

2009-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace-bin Noticed on Kubuntu Intrepid with PPA KDE 4.2 packages (System : Asus EeePC 1002HA Netbook) - KDE PowerDevil daemon doesn't work anymore (doesn't react and change power profile nor display any info popup on AC adapter plugged/unplugg

[Bug 217841] Re: Hardy recent update broke suspend to ram on Thinkpad T61p

2008-06-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirmed here (alas) with an Acer Aspire 3104WLMi running Hardy (fglrx drivers, madwifi drivers). Initially resuming from suspend to RAM was quite fast, but after recent Ubuntu updates now "suspending" looks normally fast (except once, trying to suspend ended in "kernel panic") but resuming takes

[Bug 217846] Re: Slow suspend/resume in Hardy

2008-06-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirmed here (alas) with an Acer Aspire 3104WLMi running Hardy (fglrx drivers, madwifi drivers). Initially resuming from suspend to RAM was quite fast, but after recent Ubuntu updates now "suspending" looks normally fast (except once, trying to suspend ended in "kernel panic") but resuming takes

[Bug 217846] Re: Slow suspend/resume in Hardy

2008-06-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hmmm... Actually I tried to ping and SSH to the laptop after I got tired of waiting in front of a black unresponsive machine with a gone-crazy HD. By that time the machine was actually properly anwering ping and SSH thru Wi-Fi, but it had already been "trying to wake up" for at least a cigarette

[Bug 217846] Re: Slow suspend/resume in Hardy

2008-06-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
On the other hand, my Dell XPS M1330 laptop (madwifi, Intel video) wakes up after "suspend to RAM" in approx 3 seconds... Both machines run Hardy with all updates applied and on both machines (Acer Aspire and Dell XPS) I initiated "suspend" just by closing the laptop screen with KDE "power manager

[Bug 346439] [NEW] Power button shuts down brutally when KDE 4.2 running

2009-03-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: acpid When KDE 4.2 is running, pressing Power Button causes brutal system shutdown because /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh doesn't properly recognize KDE 4.2, so it won't result in displaying a KDE shutdown box, but will start a system shutdown sequence. /etc/acpi

[Bug 303064] Re: [Intrepid kernel 2.6.27] LVM snapshots causes I/O freeze and system lock / hang

2009-03-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Problem still exists in 2.6.27-11 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: linux-ports-meta => linux -- [Intrepid kernel 2.6.27] LVM snapshots causes I/O freeze and system lock / hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 280762] Re: knetworkmanager under kde4 doesn't recognize the static IP connections that I have configured.

2009-04-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming in Intrepid + KDE 4.2 from PPA, knetworkmanager Version: 1:0.7svn864988-0ubuntu1.8.10.3. When trying to set a fixed IP for an interface with KNetworkmanager, the connection will fail with a syslog message such as : « NetworkManager: connection_get_settings_cb(): connection_get_setti

[Bug 152254] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Beta: REGRESSION: Laptop won't hibernate (but crashes)

2007-10-24 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Since I submitted this bug report 11 days ago and it didn't get no attention so far, I found in Gutsy's release notes this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted- modules-2.6.22/+bug/121653 that seems to cover the same issue. There's a good probability that this bug repor

[Bug 157154] clamav-daemon eats 100% CPU forever on feisty server

2007-10-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: clamav-daemon On my server, Feisty, all updates applied, clamav-daemon (0.90.2-0ubuntu1.4) frequently goes "mad" eating 100% CPU for several minutes or more for no visible reason. clamd consumed cpu time is over 150 hours after 20 days server uptime... T

[Bug 158036] Dependancy issue : Encrypted filesystems fail miserably at boot

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 139635 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139635 Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cryptsetup cryptsetup is called by initscripts for mounting (non-root) encrypted filesystems. cryptsetup has dependancies upon libraries located in /usr/lib (libgcr

[Bug 158036] Re: Dependancy issue : Encrypted filesystems fail miserably at boot

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 139635 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139635 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 139635 [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup -- Dependancy issue : Encrypted filesystems fail miserably at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 158043] Kubuntu: adept_manager bails out in error for config files

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept-manager When upgrading Kubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, adept_manager bails out in error everytime apt issues a question like "Config file for package xxx has been modified. Install package maintainer's version or keep your version ? (Y/N/D...)" This mak

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I was just hit by this one in Gutsy :-( Sh**, my encrypted partitions fail mounting (and my system fails starting) just because libraries cryptsetup depends upon lie in /usr/lib where they should be in lib :-( -- [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
And by the way, the links "solution" is definitely not one. In my case, /usr resides in a separate partition from the rootfs, so having cryptsetup depending upon anything which is under /usr is a *bad idea* because cryptsetup is called before /usr is mounted... Futhermore, it's not just an encrypt

[Bug 156058] Re: Upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy doesn't put initrd line in Grub.

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Bug confirmed, seen on 2 different machines here : Upgrading a Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty to Gutsy creates for the new 2.6.22 kernel a grub's menu.lst missing the "initrd" entry. Guess what ? The new kernel won't be able to boot the machine unless the correct "initrd" line is manually added... (Which may

[Bug 132044] Re: VPNC broken after gutsy upgrade

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124238 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124238 Upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy completely broke SSL on my system :-((( - Apache SSL b0rked - Postifx TLS b0rked - Courier-IMAP-SSL b0rked * Sh***t * My server is unusable :-((( -- VPNC broken after gutsy u

[Bug 156143] Re: Upgrade to Gutsy breaks Evolution/Courier SSL communication

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy completely broke SSL on my system :-((( - Apache SSL b0rked - Postifx TLS b0rked - Courier-IMAP-SSL b0rked * Sh***t * My server is unusable :-((( I'll have to check for the fix... -- Upgrade to Gutsy breaks Evolution/Courier SSL communication https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 150067] Re: Courier 0.56 has broken SSL support

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy completely broke SSL on my system :-((( - Apache SSL b0rked - Postifx TLS b0rked - Courier-IMAP-SSL b0rked * Sh***t * My server is unusable :-((( (HELP !) -- Courier 0.56 has broken SSL support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150067 You received this bug notifica

[Bug 156143] Re: Upgrade to Gutsy breaks Evolution/Courier SSL communication

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sorry Scott. I guess that seing my server mostly broken on a sundy after a distro upgrade which I expected to go smoothly a bit upset me ;-) Regarding Apache, a config update of /etc/apache2/ports.conf duplicated the "Listen *:443" that cas already in sites-available/ssl, causing Apache to die at

[Bug 158136] /usr/bin/dspamc file permissions incorrect

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dspam /usr/bin/dspamc file permissions should be the same as for /usr/bin/dspam (owned by dspam:dspam, setgid bit set) otherwise calling it as non-root causes it to complain it cannot read /etc/dspam/dspam.conf, and abort. ** Affects: dspam (Ubuntu)

[Bug 158253] Sympa won't start : /var/run/sympa missing in tmpfs

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sympa Now that /var/run is tmpfs mounted, the sympa daemon won't start due to /var/run/sympa missing. It should be created by sympa startup initscript. ** Affects: sympa (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Sympa won't start : /

[Bug 158252] dspam won't start: /var/run/dspam missing in tmpfs

2007-10-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dspam Now that /var/run is tmpfs mounted, the dspam daemon won't start due to /var/run/dspam missing. It should be created by dspam startup initscript. ** Affects: dspam (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- dspam won't start: /

[Bug 157154] Re: clamav-daemon eats 100% CPU forever on feisty server

2007-10-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sorry I won't be able to test the Feisty-backports version as I have upgraded this machine to Gutsy since... -- clamav-daemon eats 100% CPU forever on feisty server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 157154] Re: clamav-daemon eats 100% CPU forever on feisty server

2007-10-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Then I'll post a comment if I see this happening again. If I don't see it happening, I'm not sure after how long I should assume it is now fixed ;-) -- clamav-daemon eats 100% CPU forever on feisty server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157154 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I could temporarily work around this by manually copying libgcrypt.so.11.2.3 and libgpg-error.so.0.3.0 to /lib, with their symlinks, but this is not a satisfactory solution. I'm dissatisfied seeing that this bug importance is yet set to "medium" as this can prevent a system from booting ; I feel t

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I agree that static binaries are *much* better for critical binaries that are needed to mount filesystems. But if the Ubuntu team wants to keep cryptsetup dynamically linked, wouldn't there be an easy solution modifying the libgcrypt11 and libgpg-error0 so they simply install into /lib instead of /

[Bug 152254] Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Beta: REGRESSION: Laptop won't hibernate (but crashes)

2007-10-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, My laptop (Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi) was hibernating to disk, and waking up, perfectly good with 7.04 Feisty Fawn - so well that I was actually surprised - but, since I upgraded to Gutsy 7.10 beta, it doesn't work anymore: - When trying to hibernate laptop, I immediately ge

[Bug 152256] Kunbuntu 7.10 Beta ubiquity installer freezes at 87%

2007-10-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity This bug is on purpose a duplicate of Bug #145743 which was reported by another used on September 27, and to which I added confirmation and comments on October 6, but which didn't receive any further feedback or answer yet, so I would like to mak

Re: [Bug 152256] Re: Kunbuntu 7.10 Beta ubiquity installer freezes at 87%

2007-10-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
ug 145012 comments, I feel it's indeed the same bug, so hopefully fixed. I'm sorry I dont' currently have any spare machine on which I could try with the RC CD, but I'm confident that the bug is most probably fixed :-) -- Swâmi Petaramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://petara

[Bug 145012] Re: installer hangs retrieving langpacks when network is down

2007-10-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I confirm that this issue is fixed with Kubuntu Gusty 7.10 RC, for a french installation all now goes well. -- installer hangs retrieving langpacks when network is down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145012 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 152254] Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Beta: REGRESSION: Laptop won't hibernate (but crashes)

2007-10-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I will add to this one that I tested this several times and it "consistently crashes". When I ask to hibernate and get a black screen with a blinking cursor, after a while of "nothing happening" I cant shift between text-mode terminals, but can't login : getty is probably already dead. Can't do an

[Bug 145743] Re: kubuntu 7.10 beta desktop cd freeze at 87%

2007-10-05 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirmed. Same here (tried twice). - Compaq Presario XL307 (Celeron 600, 384MB RAM) - Fresh install from scratch, no other OS on machine - Installing in French (Paris, French keyboard) - Installation goes smoothly up to 87%, configures network, finds mirror, displays "downloading languages packs

[Bug 145743] Re: kubuntu 7.10 beta desktop cd freeze at 87%

2007-10-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
And it happened again on a completely different (and recent) machine in a different location with a different network connection. Exact same problem. I'm afraid I'm reverting to installing a 7.04 Kubuntu. -- kubuntu 7.10 beta desktop cd freeze at 87% https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145743 You rec

[Bug 137852] Re: package python-apt 0.7.3.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

2007-10-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Same error when trying to upgrade from Feisty to Kubuntu Gutsy Beta. -- package python-apt 0.7.3.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 224732] [Solved] After upgrade Gutsy => Hardy, exiting X session hangs machine (fglrx)

2008-05-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This problem was solved by patching /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh (package xorg-driver-fglrx) as described here : http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2008/04/fglrx-blocking-xorg-on-logout.html « Patch /etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh being unproperly configured, you need to change XDM_AUTH_MASK=/var/lib/xdm/a

[Bug 226096] [NEW] Hardy: Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic hangs on machine

2008-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic Hi there, On a desktop machine that was running Gutsy's kernel 2.6.22-14-generic with no problem, and upgrade to Hardy shows that the new 2.6.24-16-generic kernel is absolutely unbootable on the machine. Whatever boot optio

[Bug 226096] Re: Hardy: Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic hangs on machine

2008-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hmmm ? I don't believe the 2 bug descriptions look that much related... -- Hardy: Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic hangs on machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226096 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 226096] Re: Hardy: Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic hangs on machine

2008-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sh*t ! I just get the same problem after upgrading yet another AMD processor Gusty machine to Hardy :-( So that makes 2 updated machines for me that don't boot and hang with « soft lockup-CPU#0 » after upgrade. I upgraded 5 machines, 2 of them won't boot. Really makes a bad percentage :-( This o

[Bug 226096] Re: Hardy: Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic hangs on machine

2008-05-03 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, I think I found the cause of the problem, this [ntdriver:3632] part of the error message that the remote user didn't tell me helped me isolate the problem : Both machines that hanged after upgrade have a Thomson WLG-1500A USB Wi- Fi adapter, which is driven via ndiswrapper and the "sis163u"

[Bug 132905] Kubuntu install partitioning tool problem

2007-08-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: base-installer Trying to install Kubuntu (from live Desktop CD) on a system with a rather complex partitioning scheme and a large number of "partitions" (system using EVMS + LVM2 with already existing partitions and LVM setup), the "Manual" choice in the

[Bug 160707] Re: [Gutsy] cryptsetup error while booting (libgcrypt.so.11)

2007-11-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This is a duplicate of bug #139635 -- [Gutsy] cryptsetup error while booting (libgcrypt.so.11) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160707 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.ub

[Bug 162582] Gutsy: cryptsetup leaves /dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-[0-9]+ devices lying around

2007-11-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: cryptsetup In some situations (I could not yet clearly determine in which exact conditions this happens), after running cryptsetup, a device /dev/mapper /temporary-cryptsetup-[0-9]+ (pidnum ?) is left lying around. Looks like the same as reported in Debi

[Bug 185955] [NEW] [Gutsy] : SD card readers fail, all kinds.

2008-01-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Hi, I've seen several bug reports about problems with SD cards readers of different kinds, but I'd like to report here that I have encountered trouble with *all* SD cards readers that I've tried to use with Ubuntu Gutsy, on 3 machines : 1/ A desktop system with an externally

[Bug 162582] Re: Gutsy: cryptsetup leaves /dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-[0-9]+ devices lying around

2008-01-25 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I haven't seen it happen again since I installed cryptsetup 2:1.0.5-2ubuntu2.1, but as it was previously happening rather sporadically and inconsistently, it will take me more time before I can be positive about it. -- Gutsy: cryptsetup leaves /dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-[0-9]+ devices lying

[Bug 177024] Re: I can't mount my stick datatraveler reader 2gb of kingston

2008-01-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
PS: The Asus EeePC comes with a preloaded Asus-customized version of Xandros Linux. I have erased it so quick that I even didn't try the SD card reader, but other folks I know running the "original Xandros Linux" that comes with this machine reports their SD card reader works like a charm. This As

[Bug 177024] Re: I can't mount my stick datatraveler reader 2gb of kingston

2008-01-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Interestingly enough, I have an Asus EeePC ultra-laptop on which I have just installed XUbuntu 7.10 Gutsy. This machine has an integrated SD/MMC card reader that identifies itself as an USB device with ID 0951:1606 Kingston Technology exactly as your USB pen does. It shows more or less the same c

[Bug 177024] Re: I can't mount my stick datatraveler reader 2gb of kingston

2008-01-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Here's the "lsusb" output for the Asus EeePC SD card reader : Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0951:1606 Kingston Technology Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Good news there will be a fix ! Any idea about the time it will take to reach the Gutsy updates ? Besides this, I'm rather surprised to see the previous comment display "Urgency = LOW" when I otherwise see that listing the "release critical" bugs for Gutsy, importance "high" displays in the top

[Bug 158252] Re: dspam won't start: /var/run/dspam missing in tmpfs

2007-10-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I used the following at the beginning of dspam initscript : [ -d /var/run/dspam ] || { mkdir /var/run/dspam; chown dspam: /var/run/dspam; } (Did the same for the "sympa" initscript) I believe the "chown" can be useful in letting the daemon act on its pidfile once started, isn't it ? If seen some

[Bug 119308] Re: Gutsy shutdown doesn't

2007-10-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Not sure this is the same bug but : Recent desktop system (AMD Sempron, NVidia chipset) which was shutting down perfectly with Feisty now sporadically hangs on shutdown after upgrade to Gutsy (kernel 2.6.22-14-generic). Not easy for me to be very specific, the machine is 400 miles away, it's a f

[Bug 159015] Gutsy release overall quality and regressions

2007-10-31 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: I'm not sure wheter this is the appropriate place, but after I've fresh- installed Gusty - or upgraded Feisty to Gutsy - on 7 different systems (1 server, 4 desktops, 2 laptops), I have felt quite disappointed with this new release, as each installation or upgrade on each mach

[Bug 139635] Re: [cryptsetup] library dependency in /sbin/cryptsetup

2007-10-31 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I added "libgpg-error" to the "affects" as cryptsetup has dependancies to both libgcrypt11 and libgpg-error0, both currently being in /usr/lib, and both needed to be moved to /lib ... ** Also affects: libgpg-error (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [cryptsetup] library depen

[Bug 156058] Re: Upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy doesn't put initrd line in Grub.

2007-10-31 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
On one of the machines for which the "initrd" grub's menu.lst line wasn't added, my /etc/kernel-img.conf says : do_symlinks = yes relative_links = yes do_bootloader = no do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = no I would add that on this machine, the root filesystem resides on EVMS whi

[Bug 156058] Re: Upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy doesn't put initrd line in Grub.

2007-10-31 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Would it explain why it got the "kernel" entries and lines and not the "initrd" ? The 2nd machine was a clean first-install of a Kubuntu Feisty then network-upgraded to Gutsy with some trouble (every Kubuntu upgrade I made caused trouble with adept_manager bailing out on error and forcing me to fi

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