Most of my comments about this bug (which still hasn't gone away) are in
the other bug report. However, as regards your question here, I have
been unable to find any logs that contain any useful information about
what has gone wrong. Basically, that mean means I went back after
crashes and searched
I don't understand the system well enough to know how to merge or close
bugs, but I don't think there is much new information in this bug report
that needs to be preserved in the other one... The original bug report
was based on a feeling that the underlying bug might be related to
Firefox, but at
Just had another one, and there was a day last week when I had about
three of them in just a few hours. Seems like it's getting worse again.
However, it also seems like no one else is seeing it... Not sure what
that signifies, but I don't feel like this is an especially odd machine.
Perhaps the mos
I have just confirmed that it continues to exist in Ibex, but I still
have no real idea about the real cause and I'm still unwilling (and
regard myself as basically technically incompetent) to tackle the
complicated backtrace procedures.
Currently what I have done is disable the proprietary driver
Bug has survived the transition to Ibex, apparently. I initially did the
upgrade to a scratch partition and ran it for a few days without seeing
the crash, but as soon as I upgraded my main working partition, it
returned. At least twice in the last few days since I did the upgrade.
I noticed that
Mostly just noting that I ran into this too, and think it should have a
high priority for repair. Many, or perhaps most people will never even
notice that it's hung up.
I also wish someone would modify the misleading directions. Being too
enthusiastic, I used the version that said to detach from t
Well, I just checked the latest Japanese file, and it's still broken,
and xpdf still works properly.
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Whoops. I forgot to note that I'm running Ibix 8.10 now, and with all of
the latest updates.
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With poppler-data installed it shows garbage characters all over the
place. Some of them were graphic characters, and others looked like
numbers from Unicode. Seems like xpdf is still the solution.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Knocking on wood, but it seems that Jackalope has fixed this bug. I
haven't seen any of these crashes since I upgraded to Jackalope.
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I should have known better to say anything...
It's back! Unprovoked and unexplained white screen of death.
Oh well. Overall I still think Jaunty Jackalope is generally better than
the last few releases of Ubuntu for this troublesome machine. Time to
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Not sure exactly where to report this, but the problem is really a kind
of anti-Firefox problem. The security certificate is supported by IE,
but returns the error message below from Firefox. I've tested it both in
Ubuntu and under Windows (in the same machine where IE accepts
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Figured out how to read it, though not how to cut and paste it into this
system (though I'd think some expert there should be able to figure it
out from the file I attached?). So here is the scoop on the anti-Firefox
security certificate:
Common Name: GlobalSign Domain Validation CA
Organization:
I ran into this same certificate authority being used by NTTPC, a
subsidiary of NTT, the main phone company of Japan. IE accepts it, but I
don't think it's pure anti-Firefox behavior, just typical mindless
incompetence from the NTT zombies.
The status of this bug seems to claim the bug has been fi
Well, whatever is going on is rather more complicated, but I'm going to
report those details over in a newer bug report. However, what I can say
is that there is definitely something wrong with the way Firefox is
handling this Certificate Authority, even though the appropriate root
authority is ins
More data: There appear to be two GlobalSign root certificates--and they
are already installed. Here is a case-by-case report of what I know:
In Ubuntu (with Firefox, of course), the NTTPC certificate fails,
reporting that GlobalSign is not known. Looking in the list of installed
certificates, it
Well, now I can't find the other bug report that I prepared, but the
problem is more complicated than it appears, and it only affects
Firefox. Since I can't find that bug, I'll go ahead and summarize the
critical details here, and attach the NTTPC certificate that is supposed
to use GlobalSign.
It
I'm still confused why it works for IE but not Firefox, but this doesn't
seem to be the right venue for that discussion in detail. I did try to
find out what was going on, but obviously didn't get the right
reference. Can you post a URL for an explanation focusing on the
specific problem you refere
Public bug reported:
No warning messages or anything, but NetworkManager is unable to share a
connection unless dnsmasq-base is installed. When you select the option
to share the connection "Shared to other computers", it should obviously
warn you if dnsmasq-base is not installed.
I saw some evid
Public bug reported:
This D02HW is a Chinese-made USB device, but will not connect through
NetworkManager. I've been told that eMobile has configured their network
in such a way that this problem affects many of the other devices they
supply for use with their wireless network. (The eMobile suppor
The frequency of the crashes is increasing again after a low-crash
period. Lovely pastel death this morning.
Right now I have to regard the machine when running under Ubuntu as
unsuitable for any serious work (unless the working program includes a
Gmail-like remote backup every few minutes). This
Well, I can now confirm that the .gnomerc approach did not solve the
problem. There was one crash since I added that file. Just to confirm I
did it right, here is the cat result:
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export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity
I need to run another memory check from GRUB, but I b
I haven't been willing to try Intrepid yet, but I'm still seeing it on
one machine. I actually have a highly reproducible version on that
machine. Do you want me to try to get some diagnostics, or can it be
regarded as a moot point as Intrepid arrives?
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There was an error starting the GNOME Set
I can't be sure on it, but I've done at least one similar installation
later and did not encounter that particular error. However, I can't be
sure of the configuration of the disks being the same in the two cases.
The older machine has actually died since then, so I can't even look at
it now.
I ha
I still see it sometimes, but more rarely. It's become one of those
things that's fluttering at the edge of traceability. That machine
actually has two versions of Ubuntu on it right now. My feeling is that
the problem is less common with Hardy Heron, but more common with Gutsy.
When it does happen
No one else has reported a similar problem on this bug, and I haven't
seen it in a long time, so I think it can be closed on the belief it was
related to some software that was upgraded later on. However, I don't
see any way for me to close it.
Wait, maybe I found it...
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Seems to be the only thing I can mark it with, though it's basically
just a guess that the bug was fixed by something somewhere.
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Nope. I see where I can add new statuses, but none of the available
options seems to be the correct one for it.
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Mostly I'm running Hardy now, and I haven't attempted to use Java on my
last Gutsy machines. However, I concur that the bug is probably
closeable, but still don't know how to do it.
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Getting really bad these days, with increasingly frequent crashes. Minor
variant is that not all of them are white screens now, but sometimes
pastel colors of various types.
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There is no .gnomerc file here, and I have upgraded to Hardy. The
problem is rather sporadic, and so far I haven't been able to spot any
sure-fire trigger. Sometimes it doesn't appear for weeks, and other
times it will happen several times within a few hours.
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Just had another one. At least three or four crashes in the last few
hours...
I'm trying your .gnomerc solution, though I'm not happy about the idea
of winding up in a unique configuration that I don't really know how to
maintain
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Current frequency seems to be about once per 6 hours. However, at least
they've fixed the recovery part via fsck. It doesn't need the manual
intervention now, but will recover by itself after two reboots.
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Hadn't seen this for a while, but it's back again. At least twice in the
last few days. I sure wish there was some way to diagnose it, but it
seems that all I can do is keep my eyes open and look for some pattern--
and I'm not spotting anything obvious. Something in the officially
released version
It's a Mebius notebook, so no graphics card. I think the chipset
information was supposed to be included with the files that wound up
attached to the other similar bug I reported with the Help menu option
inside of Firefox.
Pretty sure it is only Firefox. I can switch to other windows and do
thing
You make it sound like having thousands of bug reports is a bad thing.
Unless you have extremely bug-report-diligent users or extremely bug-
filled software, it implies you have tens or even hundreds of thousands
of users--which ought to be a good thing. If you can't make plans to
deal with and eff
Sorry, I don't live in America and I don't know who Jerry Springer is. I
hope it's a comedy show, but I'm not even interested enough to run it
through Wikipedia. Anyway, I admit that I am too easily annoyed
sometimes.
Back on the bug itself, I was interested enough to investigate the fix
reported
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
I'd be pretty shocked if this is a rare crash, but I'm not sure how to
describe it. I'm not sure how to find which previously reported bug it
belongs to. I'm not sure how to diagnose it better. I followed the link
about debugging procedures and th
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
I was trying to link this information to the bug report I filed just a
few minutes ago with the same summary. However it does not seem to be
here, perhaps because I filed it just under "firefox" without the
version number? Can someone move thi
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Hadn't seen it for a while, but just had one a few minutes ago. Still
don't know what diagnostic information to collect, and still can't stop
any particular trigger event.
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Any particular reason to think that might be useful? Are you [darb]
saying that it includes a utility to prepare the bad sector information
for the satisfaction of gparted?
Anyway, I am still unsure whether or not to recommend that the bug be
closed. It seems pretty clear that gparted is relying u
Not sure which way you're handling this, but the bug is still present in
the default document viewer as of today. However, my workaround was to
install the xpdf viewer, and it handles the Japanese without any
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Seems to be worse than usual now. Already two crashes this morning.
At this point I'm teetering on giving up Ubuntu. It's not very useful
when the machine can crash at any moment, is it?
I suppose the alternative would be to try a different computer, but that
sort of cancels the argument that Lin
I'll just note that I ran into some of these problems again in
conjunction with some more upgrades. I'm getting much too familiar with
the internal GRUB commands to find partitions and to find and display
files.
I feel like the proper solution would be a graphic repair interface for
GRUB. In almos
Seems pointless to note that I'm another victim of this bug, closed or
not. Main reason I'm replying is because this particular description of
the problem seems to match my own particular version of the problem more
closely than the various other bug reports I've looked at. I would say
"so far", bu
Me, too, on the death of sound. Tried many of the things in this thread,
followed some of the links and tried lots of the things in those places,
too. Already spent way too much time on this, so I'm giving up, but just
feel obliged to note that it seems to be another example of Ubuntu not
being rea
Just confirming that this bug is persisting with the latest release (RC
1). I think the most distinctive instance is actually when I try to quit
from Firefox. Very often it fails to close all of the windows, and winds
up in this state. I still haven't figured out the pattern, but most
common is tha
Thank you [Alexander Sack] for your reference to the backtrace
procedures. I've been too busy with other matters to look into it until
today, though I have seen several more crashes. (Pretty much daily now.)
Unfortunately, the instructions for the backtrace procedures are quite
complicated. They s
Something changed about this bug, and I received a notification, but I
don't know what changed and I don't know if you want confirmation or the
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What new information did you ask for? The bug still existed the last
time I checked, but you never asked for anything else. I understand you
want to close the open bug reports, but shouldn't you fix the bugs
first?
Would it help to remind you that Microsoft Office does print tategaki
correctly?
*
Just had another one, but that's only the second time since switching to
Jackelope, so I feel like it's mostly cured. However, I'll say this was
an especially nasty one to fix. The automatic recovery did not work and
after several failed iterations, I remembered to try a manual fsck,
which seems to
I've had trouble with that new bug reporting feature you mentioned, so I
have mostly been bypassing it. I should try to go back to it to see if
the bugs have been worked out of the bug reporting...
As regards this bug, I just installed Firefox 3.5, and I can confirm
that the same problem exists th
I'm the original reporter, but I'm unsure how to check it. I can say
that it does sound plausible as the explanation for what I saw. If so,
then what I did with the Windows internal (chkdsk?) disk checking
utility (whatever it is in the tools from the disk properties?) was
actually resetting or rep
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I also confirm that Daniel Carrera's three line solution worked for me.
As a neophyte to Ubuntu, I have to express appreciation for such
guruness. (Now if I could just stop it from frequently engaging Japanese
input mode (via Anthy) when I'm typing...)
Public bug reported:
For example, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_information.
The section starting \mathcal is a complicated equation which is not
being rendered by Firefox.
Opera 9 under Dapper Drake (on the same machine) does render it
correctly, and Firefox under Windows also hand
I should have included a location reference just in case you don't see
the problem, though so far it seems consistently reproducible. The first
unrendered equation appears after "can be written".
Also, I checked with IE (*ugh*) and IE also renders it correctly. Only
failure here is Firefox under U
I'm not a different Ubuntu machine now, and I don't see the problem,
either. What it was displaying on that machine was "\mathcal..." and a
whole bunch of other notation that was pretty obviously a mathematical
notation system rather like TeX or LaTeX. It was doing that for all of
the equations on
Well, I hope that someone else finds this thread and benefits from my
mistake and doesn't just repeat it in a new guise. Problem was that I
had somehow changed the image display settings on that particular
machine--to only download images from the same server. Those images are
coming from a differe
I can confirm this problem afflicted another new Ubuntu installation. In
this case, I did a pure Japanese installation, but later switched the
user language to English. Japanese input was not accessible. (It also
messed up the keyboard settings, which had been set for Japanese 106
before.)
The env
Public bug reported:
Since upgrading to the Dapper Drake, the random screen saver feature has
always been locked on one specific screensaver, the one called Xylap.
(Actually, I'd rather remove all of the screen savers and just use a
power saver, but I haven't gotten to that level yet... It seems
Basically just noting that I have the same question, but so far haven't
been able to come up with an answer. I would like to remove several
components from ubuntu-desktop without sacrificing all of it.
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Binary package hint: scim-anthy
All I did to find the bug was install scim-anthy. Sorry, but I can't
provide much more information. However, I did it on four machines, and
on two machines it works properly, and on two of them it does not work.
There are two hot keys to activa
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub-installer
(Lots of reports of grub-related problems, but I couldn't find anything
that seemed to match this.)
The one-off error is for an existing Ubuntu on a separate partition. In
the menu.lst file that is pasted in below, the first entries are fo
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This misbehavior only appears after an upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon. I
usually have several Firefox windows open, and I switch between them
pretty rapidly. I have them tiled so they are easily accessible, but now
when I click on the exposed part of the window I want to switch to, i
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This actually appeared some months ago. So far it has only affected one
of my machines, but the machine has two disk partitions configured for
Ubuntu. There are obviously no hardware differences between them, and
they even share the same swap partition.
Before the Gutsy 7.10
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Very minor bug, but annoying. New windows in Firefox used to open
slightly below and displaced to the the right of the active window, but
since installing Gutsy 7.10 the new Firefox windows open directly on top
of the original window. So far, I ha
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/133374
was where I came from, and that description seems to match my problem
very exactly. However, it is listed as a duplicate of this bug, and when
I read this one I am unable to understand the relationship.
To recap: After booting,
Though the last comment from Alexander wasn't addressed to me, I hoped
to apply it, but roaming was not selected, and my wired interface is not
listed in /etc/network/interfaces.
I have done some more experiments, but still have no real understanding
of the problem. I still can't even understand w
I'm still not sure it's the same underlying problem that I'm trying to
report, and I wish someone would post a clear diagnostic test here. What
I can say is that the problem has survived the Gutsy upgrade. The
workaround of disabling and then enabling networking still works to fix
it. I've only upg
At this point I think compiz is not related to the problem. If I
understand the situation correctly, my display settings are not using
compiz at all--though some of the component files are presumably
present. I'm still seeing the crash from time to time, but I also doubt
it is related to Firefox, s
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Binary package hint: boinc-manager
Not so serious, but annoying... The statistics are pretty weird, and
especially at the end of a job (work unit?). Basically it will be
working along pretty steadily, and the progress statistics make pretty
good sense, but then it will get al
Still incomplete? What more is needed?
Anyway, a couple of additional glitches I should have remembered to
report. The first one is on the edge of the statistics problem, but may
still be related to the implementation of the specific World Community
Grid project. That's a consistent slippage in th
I still don't know how to describe it properly... This time I'm trying
to describe the workaround or quasi-fix. After tweaking it for a while,
my hypothesis was that gparted was looking for some information about
the bad clusters which had never been created on the NTFS partition (or
somewhere else
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gparted
Not sure how to best install this, but confirmed it with several recent
versions of gparted, including the one inside the live Hardy CD, two
bootable gparted CDs, and a Mandriva live CD. The gparted program runs
normally, but the NTFS partition ca
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+ Not sure how to best describe this, but confirmed it with several recent
versions of gparted, including the one inside the live Hardy CD, two
bootable gparted C
I confirm that the same problem exists in FF3 under Hardy Heron.
Actually I've been using FF3 quite a bit since Hardy was released, and
so far I've only noticed a couple of minor improvements and a much
larger number of problems with the new FF3. Overall reliability is quite
poor and unstable on t
I've been using this feature for a long time and found it very helpful--
on the theory that the Ubuntu people actually wanted to improve the
software by making it easy to report bugs. Now I see that this new
problem was discovered, reported, and marked to be ignored two months
ago.
Excuse me, but
So a couple of weeks ago since this was discovered and reported.
Meanwhile I've already found a clumsy workaround and reported that, too
--and still no sign that the Ubuntu people have even noticed the
problem.
I actually came by to report that a very serious bug (a white screen of
death total sys
And your [Sebastien Bacher's] comment was constructive in exactly what
fashion?
Since you apparently think this is some sort of debate, I'll deal with
it on that basis--but be advised that I do *NOT* regard your approach as
constructive and is an excellent example of why I have basically stopped
r
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
Running Hardy on two machines, and both of them are showing problems
around Firefox. On one machine the problems are clearly related to
JavaScript, but I'm not sure about the second one. I feel like the
unresponsive JavaScript warning is the less
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I don't know if this will help, but it seems to install properly on some
of my Ubuntu systems, but I'm getting that same error message on this
one. This particular machine has never been able to handle Flash
c
What I'm seeing here (every time I try to reinstall) is the download
seems to work to 100%, it announces the download is finished, then
announces the md5sum mismatch on the gz file, and concludes with a
notice that the Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Works fine on another machine. I saw a lot of di
All of the update repositories are enabled except for pre-release. I
really don't want to do any beta testing that I can avoid.
I'm not sure what you mean by "crazy", and I don't want to say anything
about the complexity of your work. I'm even willing to go somewhat out
of my way to answer any que
Well, putting on my professional technical editor hat, I would ask you
[John Vivirito] to be careful about the precision of your wording. You
seemed to be asking me about the update repositories, which do appear on
a specific Updates tab of the Settings->Repositories. However, it now
appears you we
Below is the output you requested. I also tried another reinstall just
to see the same error message as before.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy
main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the
I interpreted your instructions as meaning to manually edit the
sources.list file to add "multiverse universe" to the line that
mentioned the feisty-updates. After doing this, I started Synaptic and
did a reload, and it now told me that four packages needed to be
upgraded, including the flashplugin
Oh yes. And a full reboot, too, just to make sure.
Not sure if it will help in the diagnosis, but I'll note that the
particular website that I'm trying to test from is the Comedy Central
website. They have different versions of the video, but I'm using the
same steps that work on a different Ubunt
Guessing the "you" of the previous post was me. Done that, also
rebooted, No joy.
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No, the md5sum error went away after the manual editing of the
sources.list file.
The about:plugins returns the following information, which seems to show
that a version of the Flash plugin is now installed--but I'm pretty sure
this is an old version and that Adobe is currently at 8 or 9? I'm quit
Eureka! That seems to have done the trick.
I'm greatly appreciative, but I still have to suggest that someone's
installer, either at the Adobe side or Ubuntu side, should be checking
for earlier versions and removing them... Thanks again.
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Basically I'm just happy that it finally works and that one more thread
linking me to Windows has been cut.
However, I'm doubtful of that explanation for the cause. My
understanding was that the md5sums problem was recent, whereas my Flash
problems on this machine went back for many months. I actu
Again not sure if this is related, but if so, it suggests the problem
may be deeper than Firefox... Somehow I suspect it may be related to the
windowing system itself. Concretely, it also lost the language
information. Not just the Japanese stuff, but all of the language
support wanted to be reinst
Just had another one, and still no idea what's provoking it and no ideas
about how to diagnose the cause. Only thing I noticed this time was that
Firefox had clearly lost some of the status information that should have
been recorded in that session.
No one else is seeing anything like this? No one
I'm another victim of this problem, and I also confirm that the
sudo update-alternatives --config java
solution does not work. I have installed and reinstalled so many damn
things that I have no idea what is going on at this point. I do have the
hypothesis that the real problem was caused by gcj
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
After opening a PDF file full of Japanese text, all of the Japanese is
missing. Layout appears to be correct, but nothing there.
My system is fully enabled for Japanese and seems to handle it for all
of the other purposes that I've tested, but the
Not sure what this test file is supposed to look like... There is some
Japanese that does appear when look at the file, but other parts are
almost surely garbled and missing text. I'll try to test both of them on
another machine later, but it will probably take me a couple of days.
This Sharp is ki
Recent patches have evidently made the problem worse. Seeing one of
these almost every day. Only new wrinkle was that the last one wasn't
completely white. There was a bit of stuff like a bar code in the lower
right corner, so apparently part of the video memory had been walked on?
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Second time in the hour. The machine is approaching unusable.
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