[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-12 Thread john reid
I replied to your original suggestion by mail, probably the wrong protocol. after adding set -x > etting up mythtv-common (0.21.0+fixes18722-0ubuntu1) ... > + case "$1" in > + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > ++ '[' '!' '' ']' > ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 > ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY > ++ '[' '' ']' >

[Bug 295592] [NEW] MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-08 Thread john reid
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythtv INSTALL OF mythbuntu-control-centre. Appears to work, but continually fails to configure mythtv-common, and all therefore all dependent packages. Setting up mythtv-common (0.21.0+fixes18722-0ubuntu1) ... dpkg: error processing mythtv-common (--con

[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-11-08 Thread john reid
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19490155/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "DpkgTerminalLog.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19490156/DpkgTerminalLog.gz -- MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 htt

[Bug 295592] Re: MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2008-12-15 Thread john reid
For me, it is only the first adduser command that fails. If I comment out the first, then the others do not cause a problem. -- MYTHTV-COMMON 18722 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295592 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 276831] Re: Thunderbird crashes with "Segmentation Fault", debug log shows "failed creating protocol instance to play queued url", trying to download headers from Dovecot IMAP server

2009-07-29 Thread John Reid
I'm getting the same as David Kaplan. -- Thunderbird crashes with "Segmentation Fault", debug log shows "failed creating protocol instance to play queued url", trying to download headers from Dovecot IMAP server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276831 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 1899361] Re: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken

2021-05-20 Thread john reid
This problem is still in 20.04.1, but appears to have been fixed in master udisk2, patching from 10 mins to 60 mins. https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/407#ref-commit-326b182 I assume this is in 21.x, but not available in LTS (?) As a workaround, you can turn off the smarts functi

[Bug 1899361] Re: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken

2021-05-20 Thread john reid
Sorry should have been: smartctl -s on /dev/sdX. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899361 Title: udisk prevent disk from standby, standby timer is broken To manage notifications about

[Bug 1880405] Re: Unresponsive GUI and journal flooded with: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9

2021-05-23 Thread john reid
** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1880405 Title: Unresponsive GUI and journal flooded with: JS ERROR: Ty

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-31 Thread john reid
Rocko, Slightly OT I see a variety of behaviour., based on the disks. On 14.04 with the 30min polling patch: If you set the spindown to 15 mins and poll at 30, all of my disks spin down and stay down ( see list above). If you set the spindown to 5 and polling to 10, I have problems with the WD

[Bug 1065196] Re: update-grub sets wrong kernel root for linux dual boot systems

2014-04-25 Thread john reid
Just updated to 14.04, dual booting 12.04 and 14.04 from diffrent disks, grub always sets root to same partition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065196 Title: update-grub sets wrong

[Bug 1065196] Re: update-grub sets wrong kernel root for linux dual boot systems

2014-04-25 Thread john reid
Ithink this is not a bug; further searching found https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686754#25 which explains the issue. If you have multiple grub.cfg files, one in each /boot, then the primary grub.cfg will populate its config for Other partitions from their grub.cfg. so if the s

[Bug 1317599] Re: Evince doesn't show "fi"-ligatures in a pdf file

2014-05-08 Thread John Reid
Happening in evince and xpdf for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317599 Title: Evince doesn't show "fi"-ligatures in a pdf file To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-02 Thread john reid
Can confirm that the SMART polling by udisk2 every 10 mins appears to reset the sleep timer on all of my disks: So all disks are kept awake by SMART polling where sleep timer > 10 mins. As previously stated later WD disks have a minimum sleep timer of 10 mins ( hdparm -S120 /dev/sdx) defaults to 1

[Bug 1281588] Re: Disk standby timer is broken

2014-05-02 Thread john reid
--- udiskslinuxprovider.c 2014-05-02 13:54:46.826781083 +0100 +++ udiskslinuxprovider.c.30minpoll 2014-05-02 13:55:54.034178153 +0100 @@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ g_list_free_full (udisks_devices, g_object_unref); udisks_info ("Initialization complete"); - /* schedule housekeeping for eve

[Bug 1015358] Re: Duplicate playlists in Banshee

2012-10-10 Thread John Reid
This affects me as well. Banshee is great but this bug makes it very frustrating to use. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with libgpod 0.8.2-4 and banshee 2.4.1-3. There is this mailing list post about it: http://banshee-media-player.2283330.n4.nabble.com/Banshee-Creates- Duplicate-Playlists-Every-Time-iPod-Sy

[Bug 992486] [NEW] xpdf crashes opening document

2012-05-01 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: john@john-dell:~/Writing/Phd/thesis$ xpdf thesis.pdf * MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89 * CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89 * Rotate = 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 g 0 G 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 rg 0 0 0 RG 0 0 0 BT Tf /F15 17.2154 font: tag=F15 name='GMG

[Bug 992486] Re: xpdf crashes opening document

2012-05-01 Thread John Reid
This only started to happen after an upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992486 Title: xpdf crashes opening document To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-02 Thread John Reid
Also see same question here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/315292/how- to-restart-banshee-after-crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after crash

[Bug 1196828] [NEW] Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-02 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: If banshee crashes the sound/audio system menu still shows it as available but nothing happens if I click on it. With ps I can see a defunct banshee process that cannot be removed. If I try to run banshee from the command line nothing happens. Restarting gdm and/or unity also

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-04 Thread John Reid
See link to askubuntu question for ps output but I don't see what you can learn from that. I'm not sure it is a banshee bug either. Banshee is dead but why cannot I start another banshee process? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-08 Thread John Reid
I see this on that link you provided: "init can never have zombie children. From the wikipedia article: When a process loses its parent, init becomes its new parent. Init periodically executes the wait system call to reap any zombies with init as parent. One of init's responsibilities is reaping or

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-19 Thread John Reid
I think better than rebooting might be unmounting the network share. I'll try that next time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after crash To mana

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-19 Thread John Reid
Here's the log you asked for. ** Attachment added: "debug log as asked for" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1196828/+attachment/3742400/+files/log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-20 Thread John Reid
I did run that command. If it happens again I'll make doubly sure. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot restart banshee after crash To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1205214] [NEW] Banshee hangs on startup (MTP related?)

2013-07-26 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: When I start banshee, sometimes it hangs. I do "killall -SIGQUIT banshee". I've attached the log file. ** Affects: banshee (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: banshee mtp ** Attachment added: "Banshee log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12

[Bug 1201387] [NEW] Banshee crashes with locked database message

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Public bug reported: I was running banshee in debug mode when it crashed with a message about a locked databse. a john@W530$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 13.04 Release:13.04 Codename: raring john@W530$ dpkg -l | grep

[Bug 1201387] Re: Banshee crashes with locked database message

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
john@W530$ lsof ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME unity-mus 2969 john9u REG 252,1 45050880 401760 /home/john/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db banshee 25995 john9u REG 252,1 45050880 401760 /home/john/.config/banshee-1/banshee

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Banshee crashed again but the process didn't disappear. Here's the log for the banshee I'm trying to start. john@W530$ banshee --debug ** Running Mono with --debug ** [1 Debug 17:54:39.785] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue I've attached the log for t

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Here is the current ps output: john@W530$ ps -ef|grep banshee john 2170 1711 0 17:58 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto banshee john 25995 15673 4 13:00 pts/700:14:35 [banshee] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Good point, I didn't check the output too closely. 15673 is the bash shell I started banshee from: ~/Downloads john@W530$ ps -ef|grep 15673 john 4724 4624 0 18:59 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto 15673 john 15673 10712 0 Jul09 pts/700:00:00 bash john 25995 15673 4 13:00 pt

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Killing bash make the PPID 1 and banshee won't start ~/Downloads john@W530$ kill 15673 ~/Downloads john@W530$ kill -9 15673 ~/Downloads john@W530$ ps -ef|grep banshee john 6435 4624 0 20:04 pts/21 00:00:00 grep --color=auto banshee john 25995 1 3 13:00 ?00:14:35 [bansh

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
OK I can try and kill bash but I'd like to know what to do when the parent is 1. That is the problem and forces me to reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196828 Title: Cannot rest

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-15 Thread John Reid
Thanks for the pointers. I'm pretty convinced it happens when there is a problem with my network mounted filesystem (/etc/fstab): //192.168.1.74/music/mnt/htpc-music cifs noauto,credentials=/etc/samba/user,noexec,uid=john,gid=john 0 0 The advice in the noah.org article looks good

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-18 Thread John Reid
Is it really solved though? Despite the problem being caused by a cifs/nfs error, banshee's behaviour is still quite bad. A GUI shouldn't really be unresponsive even if there are network problems behind the scenes. BTW I have been running using a NFS mount instead of CIFS mount for a few days now a

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2013-07-18 Thread John Reid
Agreed the situation wouldn't be much better in terms of playing music but I think banshee's behaviour could be. At the moment Ubuntu appears not to work as I try to start banshee and nothing happens (not even an error message). Are there no system calls that can return errors instead of deadlockin

[Bug 276472] Re: cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error

2010-08-14 Thread john reid
Surbhi, Fix works for me. I haven't done extensive testing, so don't know if it breaks anything else, but the permissions problem is fixed. excellent ! -- cp -p on CIFS mount does not preserve permissions and returns a permission denied error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276472 You received