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=== mthaddon changed the topic of #ubuntu-devel to: intrepid alpha-1 released, archive open | frozen: Ubuntu 8.04.1 | Development of Ubuntu (not support, not application development on Ubuntu) | #ubuntu for support and general discussion for dapper/feisty/gutsy/hardy, #ubuntu+1 for intrepid | #ubuntu-motu for getting involved in development | http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment | See #ubuntu-bugs for http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs
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lamontso... if I have a random laptop with network-mangler installed, and I want to tell it to STFU and let me manually configure both the wireless interface and the wired interface is that trivial without killing various applets and daemons and such?03:09
RAOFlamont: Yes.03:09
lamonthow?03:09
RAOFlamont: Unless it's changed in Intrepid, any configuration of an interface will make NM ignore it.03:10
RAOFFor example: left-click on NM's applet.  Hit "Manual configuration". :)03:10
lamontkewl03:11
lamontand afk while it's still light-ish outside03:11
lamont`RAOF: telling NM 'Manual config' not so much love.  editing /etc/network/interfaces? love03:49
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RAOFlamont: NM->Manual config should be brining up something that edits /etc/network/interfaces.  It didn't?03:56
lamontit did03:56
RAOFIt just didn't work?03:57
lamontand I left it there and used my other tool for editing interfaces...03:57
lamontsince the gui is extremely cumbersome, and vi is love03:57
lamontand then it decided that just because I said manual config, didn't mean that I wanted manual config, and started doing it's thing.03:57
lamontso I finshed the vi session, and there was love03:57
lamontafter all, my question was "how do I make it STFU", not "how do I edit the config in a nice pretty gui"03:58
lamont:-)03:58
RAOFRight.03:58
emgentmorning04:01
lamontRAOF: and definitely a more elegant hammer than the random kill commands I was using the last time when it pissed me off04:02
saivannIn case a ubuntu developer want to take a look at it, bug 189814 contains very detailed informations about a bug which seems to be clearly well identified.04:22
ubott2Launchpad bug 189814 in linux "[hardy]computer and touchpad is buggy with BIOS password set" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/18981404:22
TheMusoHrm when attempting to install into a kvm image from an iso, the alternate CD, it always seems to freeze at the stage where its instaling the bootloader. This is hardy alternate.04:23
Hobbseepower!04:57
Hobbseeelectricity!04:57
lifelesseducation!04:58
Hobbseeit's very boring without power :(04:59
persiaHobbsee: You just need larger solar arrays ...05:00
Hobbseepersia: i wish.05:01
ScottKWe had a several hour power outage a few months ago and it was kind of fun continually telling our 5 year old that no she couldn't X because there was no power.05:01
ScottKSo I think she would agree.05:01
Hobbseehaha05:01
persiaI lived in a house for a while with a bank of "Navy Batteries" that didn't have the "No power" issue.  Unfortunately, it did have the "not enough amperage" issue on a regular basis.05:02
* ScottK cheers the new firewall script running without locking me out of the box.05:04
RAOFTHat be a winner.05:05
ion_BoFH excuse #612: the new firewall script locked everyone out of the box.05:06
AmaranthI lost power Friday night05:07
Amaranthwas out for 17 hours05:07
TheMusoOuch.05:07
Amaranthyeah05:07
Amaranthreally nasty storm05:07
ion_That’s #329.05:07
ion_And ouch, too. :-)05:07
Amaranth90mph (144km/h) winds, 120,000 lost power, 2 people died05:08
TheMusoReally ouch.05:08
RAOFEeep.05:08
TheMusoAmaranth: Where are you?05:08
Amaranthomaha nebraska05:08
Amaranthwasn't even a tornado, just wind, rain, and hail05:09
TheMusoThat is nasty.05:09
Amaranthworst hit part of town is less than a mile from here, we got it pretty bad05:10
* Amaranth 1-ups Hobbsee 05:11
* Amaranth goes to read xkcd05:11
Hobbseeouchy05:15
RAOF!!!05:19
RAOFEvolution seems to have gone on a no-holds-barred spam hunting expedition.05:20
RAOFAnd, in the process, marked almost _everything_ as spam.05:20
TheMusohehe05:21
RAOFSo if, say, you've responded to a bug I'm subscribed to and are a little bit surprised I haven't done anything about it...05:22
persiaWe should poke you mercilessly and update the bug hourly?05:23
RAOFWell, until evolution stops classifying all mail as spam, I'll remain blissfully ignorant of your bug updates!05:25
* RAOF wonders where "Sonopia" is, and why he should join someone there.05:27
Hobbseepersia: do you think you'd be able to write a howto for the sound cards, and getting decent sound on intrepid?05:33
Hobbseeforums people are advocating all sorts of crack05:33
Hobbseeor i could be not lazy, adn do it myself, i guess.05:34
RAOFHobbsee: Are you referring to the pc speaker thingy, or what?  I haven't noticed sound problems?05:35
ion_“forums people are advocating all sorts of crack” – business as usual. :-)05:35
persiaHobbsee: I'll write the MOTU Meeting minutes for you, if you'll write the HOWTO for sound card selection.05:35
StevenKHeh, yes05:35
HobbseeRAOF: yes05:36
Hobbseepersia: deal.05:36
Hobbseepersia: i knew i had something outstanding.05:36
Hobbseeion_: it's only safe to say that when you're in a room not full of forums people :P05:36
Hobbseeion_: i tested this out in sevilla.05:36
* persia appoints Hobbsee high-user-educator-for-all-things-alsa05:37
ion_hobbsee: :-)05:38
Hobbseeion_: iirc, it was the planet editorial spec, and they were talking about what to do if information gets published on the forums where it shouldn't.  I suggested that there was often a lot of incorrect information on there anyway that it was unlikely that the correct rumours would blend in rather well with it - or something similar to that.05:40
Hobbseeperhaps that wasn't such a good idea :P05:40
ion_Hehe05:41
Amaranthit scares me that the intrepid forum is the 346th they've made05:49
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dholbachgood morning06:33
Hobbseehey dholbach06:43
dholbachhi Hobbsee06:49
jengelhkirkland: then if you are so unhappy about pam_mount, why not report the bugs?06:51
geserHi Hobbsee, dholbach06:53
dholbachhiya geser06:54
Hobbseehey geser!06:54
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sistpoty|workmvo: do you happen to know some details about libcap vs. libcap2? (zsh b-d on libcap2-dev nowadays, but that's in universe)07:58
mvosistpoty|work: I'm somewhat disconnected from it (hasn't seen changes in a long time) but my understanding is that libcap2 used to be a cvs snapshot and provides essentially the same functionality08:25
sistpoty|workmvo: ah, k.. thanks... then I'll try to rebuild zsh with libcap1 instead :)08:25
mvook, good luck08:26
fabbionemorning guys08:39
siretarthey fabbione!08:39
fabbioneogra: you around?08:39
fabbionehi siretart08:39
siretarthow are you? I haven't seen you for quite some time!08:40
fabbionei am doing fine, you?08:40
fabbioneyeah i don't spend a lot of time on IRC anymore08:40
siretartah, right. I'm doing fine as well, now working at the university, and probably doing some research that will involve work in ubuntu/debian, we'll see ;)08:42
asacogra_cmpc: ever opened a bug for the nss issue?09:14
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IulianGood morning.09:35
asacogra: ping ;)09:39
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asacsoren: there?09:54
sorenasac: Oui.09:54
asacsoren: about NM-Xvpn :)09:55
asacsoren: i have updated 0.7 packages in ~network-manager ppa and want to update the vpn plugins09:55
asacNg: you want to test NM 0.7 on hardy? :)09:57
tjaaltonasac: I do!09:57
asacNg: the ~network-manager PPA has hardy packages09:57
asacthey should be fine09:57
asachttps://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive09:58
tjaaltonoh, sorry, not hardy09:58
asactjaalton: intrepid?09:58
tjaaltonasac: yeah, dist-upgraded yesterday :)09:58
asactakes a few more days as it doesnt compile due to gcc pickiness09:58
tjaaltonah, ok09:58
Ngasac: yeah :) thanks09:58
asactjaalton: lucky you. i am still waiting for 8.04.1 before upgrading :/09:58
tjaaltonasac: well I need to test the new x stuff as promised ;)09:59
asacNg: only thing to remember is that you might need to sudo killall wpa_supplicant after resume10:00
asacotherwise it works great here10:00
Ngasac: ok. I'll chuck it on at lunchtime and file some bugs ;)10:00
sorenasac: Oh, I see. Erm...10:00
asacNg: hehe. yeah10:00
sorenasac: I really don't have the time to work on them right now,  I'm afraid.10:00
asacsoren: sure. i can take them over i guess10:00
sorenThat would be lovely!10:01
asacsoren: did you always rip them out of the NM svn?10:01
asacsoren: or did they just recently move to a subdirectory of the svn tree?10:01
sorenasac: Yep. I don't think there was ever a proper release of any of them.10:01
sorenOh, no, they've been right there all the time.10:02
asacsoren: do you maintain them in debian too?10:03
sorenasac: In theory, yes.10:03
asacsoren: now mbiebl took over?10:03
sorenasac: Well, they're in the pkg-utopia thing.10:04
sorenasac: ..so I guess they're meant to be a bit of a group effort anyway.10:04
asacsoren: how did they end up there?10:04
sorenmbiebl was my sponsor from the beginning, and he suggested we put them there.10:04
sorenIn retrospect, I wish we hadn't, though. The main thing that has kept me away from working on it is that svn-buildpackage kept getting in my way. :/10:05
asacsoren: ok, but you are Maintainer: ?10:05
asacsoren: if so, we can move them to the ~network-manager team in launchpad ;)10:06
sorenAh, yes.10:06
asacsoren: if you still need a sponsor i can do it too10:06
sorenasac: I'll be sure to keep that in mind.10:07
asacsoren: hmm. so move the branch or not move?10:09
asacsoren: i need to know what and how to do ;)10:10
sorenWell, we can put the ubuntu packages there, no problem.10:11
sorenI'd need to talk to mbiebl about the Debian packages.10:11
brooniesoren: Are there any plans to look at the issues with n-m reporting connected status too early?10:12
sorenbroonie: bug number?10:13
broonieDon't know off-hand, let's see if I can find any in lp....10:13
broonie152794 looks like one of them.10:14
asacsoren: I'd like to not duplicate work on those packages10:14
asacsoren: i am still trying to convince mbieble to join efforts, but he appears to be not really interested10:15
broonie(the bit where it gets a connected status reported but no IP configuration yet - only seems to happen for some cards/systems)10:15
sorenbug 15279410:18
ubottuLaunchpad bug 152794 in nis "nis daemon fails to attach to domain the first time it is run in Gutsy" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/15279410:18
mvo_asac, I just tested it here on my laptop, works nice, but a reboot is required, otherwise it gets pretty unhappy10:20
sorenasac: I totally understand. My other main problem was that I was really more interested in getting stuff into Ubuntu, so the process was: a) Get it into Ubuntu, b)  rework package to get it into Debian, c) do useless merge.10:20
asacmvo_: how?10:25
asac(unhappy)10:25
asacsoren: right. I'd suggest -> we maintain the packages in bzr and inject to debian10:26
asacthen sync them down to ubuntu :)10:26
asaci think NM 0.7 is or is about to be in debian experimental. so we could upload there.10:27
mvo_asac, the icon was displayed but showed that no network was attached and the terminal printed something about a dbus method that could not be resolved10:28
sorenasac: That sounds great.10:28
mvo_asac, sorry, I haven't investigated further10:28
mvo_the test machine was crashing then (unreleated most likely) and I had to reboot10:29
asacsoren: so how to proceed? i suggested to mbiebl that we rebase the branches on top of the "official" gnome bzr mirror: http://bzr-mirror.gnome.org/11:12
asacsoren: now the vpn plugins are somewhat not available as a top-level project.11:12
asacdoes this mean we cant do it?11:12
asacmaybe we should just build them in the network-manager source package ;)11:14
sorenasac: Well, IIRC the vpn plugins aren't in the network-manager release tarballs?11:17
sorenasac: They're only there now because the package is based on an svn snapshot.11:17
Riddelllool: why is sdk-default-icons a native package?  also why the generic name?11:18
loolRiddell: Debian renamed it to something more specific; I used the usptream name as used at maemo.org11:21
sorenasac: But apart from that, it makes perfect sense to build them out of the n-m source package.11:21
loolRiddell: and also the name we were using in gutsy11:21
Riddelllool: why don't we sync it from debian?11:22
loolRiddell: It's not in Debian yet11:22
Riddelllool: well if debian renamed it, we should too11:22
loolRiddell: I worked on it for Ubuntu and when we discussed it in the Debian chan there was interest for it; I didn't expect to push it to Debian when I started work on it11:22
loolRiddell: Indeed; so please kick it out11:22
loolRiddell: We'll use whatever name Debian accepts11:23
loolAnd concerning the native package, it looks like I misnamed my orig tarball11:23
loolI had to repack upstream's to drop debian/ IIRC11:23
siretartRiddell: could you please remove the source package named 'ffmpeg' from intrepid? It has been superseeded by 'ffmpeg-free'11:31
cjwatsonyou can file bugs for removals, and we're not especially far behind on our bug queue ...11:31
ograasac, hmm, i was sure i had ...11:32
ografabbione, pong (sorry, slept in, i had a long night)11:32
Riddellsiretart: yeah, bug please, I'll get to it in a bit11:32
siretartah, okay, will do11:32
asacogra: at least you didnt give me the bug id ;)11:33
* asac searching11:33
ograits weird, i could swear i did but cant find it myself11:34
asacogra: did you search for all bugs by "reporter ogra"?11:34
ograno, i searched my evo bug folder where usually all lp mail lands11:35
ogra(and which is ten times faqster than LP :) )11:35
asacsoren: the svn tags (and bzr branches) contain vpn-daemon for 0.611:36
asacsoren: guess that means we can just use NM. now we need to convince debian :(11:36
StevenKCan I bug an archive admin to look at bug 236979 ?11:36
ubottuLaunchpad bug 236979 in opal "[intrepid] Please sync opal 2.2.11~dfsg1-4 from Debian" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23697911:36
cjwatsonStevenK: doing11:38
StevenKcjwatson: Thank you :-)11:38
cjwatsonStevenK: so the Ubuntu patch just isn't needed any more for some unspecified reason?11:40
ograasac, wow, i used tracker for the first time ever :)11:40
* ogra hands asac Bug 24237911:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 242379 in nss "constantly shows popups with certification errors on some pages" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24237911:40
StevenKcjwatson: Well, it was a fix an FTBFS in Hardy, it doesn't fail to build. I can track it down explicity if you wish.11:40
persiaI tracked it down previously, and will comment in the bug to indicate as much.11:41
cjwatsonStevenK: how about this, you get to reinstate it if it fails to build on the buildds ;-)11:41
StevenKcjwatson: Happy to fix it if it breaks :-)11:42
fabbioneogra: ehhe no worries....11:48
fabbioneogra: do you still have that dvb-t card around you mentioned a while ago?11:48
asacogra: triaged ;)11:49
ografabbione, yes, want me to test anything ?11:52
fabbioneogra: yes if you can.. i am having problems with my dvb-t card on intrepid kernels and with updated drivers from dvb-t tree.11:53
ogra(i might need to rebild the kernel for that, the dvb-usb fix i need is only in intrepid afaik)11:53
fabbioneI am trying to nail down if the problem is my specific driver11:54
fabbioneor the general dvb subsystem11:54
fabbionei can't even scan for channels basically11:54
ogradid it work in hardy ?11:54
fabbioneyeps11:54
fabbionebut as i said, i am trying to nail the problem within the subsystem11:54
fabbioneor the driver11:54
fabbionetesting another driver is not an option as i only have one card11:54
ograhmm, i know pitti did a lot of work on the tools there are packages in his ppa11:55
fabbioneso if you could fire up intrepid kernel and tell me if you can scan for channles that would be awesome11:55
fabbioneok?11:55
fabbioneso it might be userland that needs smashing?11:55
fabbionethere was a thread on one of the fedora mailing lists that the userland interface was broken by mistake but it was also fixed again before rc8 AFAIK11:56
ogranot sure, pitti ?11:56
fabbionemaybe the change is not in ubuntu yet... that is entirely possible11:56
ograi know there was a fix in dvb-usb11:56
ograwithout that my card oopsed11:57
fabbioneok..11:57
fabbionewell anyway if you have time to give it a shot that would be great.. otherwise no worries11:57
fabbionei will just wait the next kernel11:57
ogragimme some time, i have no intrepid install here, need to upgrade one machine first11:57
* ogra is stuck with hardy for subnotebook work :(11:58
fabbioneplease don't kill your machine for me :)11:59
fabbioneit's really not important11:59
ograwell, i'll test it anyway, will just take some time... stay around and i'll ping you if i know more12:03
fabbioneok cool thanks12:03
* ogra still didnt find the time to install his dvb-s card :( its lying on the shelf since nearly a year12:04
ogra)12:04
lagabah12:04
lagayou're too lazy.12:04
ograhaha12:04
asacStevenK: if liferea just builds with xulrunner-1.9-dev we need to check if the startscript is ok. otherwise sync and provide the debian -dev package name12:15
asacStevenK: hmm. we still have the ubuntu feeds. nevermind12:18
bliZZardzwhen would pitti be online? any idea?12:24
halexwasn't he on earlier, or am i imagining things?12:25
bliZZardzi see him online..12:25
PicibliZZardz: Hes been idle for 4 days, his away message says "holidays, back next Wednesday"12:26
bliZZardzPici : thanks... :)12:26
bliZZardzi can ask the Q here at the expense of it being OT. If someone can shed somelight , then it would be great12:27
cjwatsonit's generally better to Just Ask12:27
bliZZardzwas wondering how DBus is being used in GNOME? when callbacks are already present as part of the GTK. How is Dbus implemented? Sockets?12:27
cjwatsonGTK callbacks implement in-process communication, not inter-process communication12:28
bliZZardzok.makes sense - corollary to that Q : do callbacks leverage multi-core?12:28
StevenKcjwatson: Note the lack of opal build failures. :-)12:29
StevenKcjwatson: Now to teach me a lesson, sparc, powerpc and ia64 will fail. :-P12:29
bliZZardzcjwatson : and hints on other Qs?12:29
cjwatsonStevenK: heh, cool12:29
CompanybliZZardz: glib callbacks are single-thread as they guarantee execution before the callback emitting function returns12:30
bliZZardzCompany, and DBus uses IPC - is this using sockets?12:31
cjwatsonbliZZardz: I don't know all the answers. As an example, processes that require administrative privileges mostly now call out to PolicyKit over D-BUS to gain authorisation.12:31
CompanybliZZardz: yes12:31
cjwatsonbliZZardz: it might be worth reading the D-BUS documentation12:31
CompanybliZZardz: dbus is IPC using unix sockets12:32
cjwatsonhttp://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus12:32
bliZZardzcjwatson : i even looked at teh source - it is a little confusing, would be better if i get some guide who can show me the door12:32
cjwatsonstart with the documentation, not the osurce12:32
cjwatsonsource12:32
bliZZardzcjwatson : so where is it being used in GTK? i couldnt find the reference of Dbus in GNOME - though am finding some references the other wat12:34
bliZZardz*s/wat/way/12:34
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cjwatsonbliZZardz: it's not used in GTK itself12:35
cjwatsonbliZZardz: a variety of GNOME applications use it12:36
bliZZardzcjwatson : can you name a few?12:36
azeembliZZardz: grep your Packages.gz12:36
cjwatson'apt-cache rdepends libdbus-1-3'12:37
cjwatsonyou can then use 'apt-get source' to get source for individual packages there12:37
bliZZardzcjwatson : ah...good one. missed it completely :)12:37
james_wI'm merging a package which introduces init scripts. I switched the dh_installinit command to not install symlinks for runleves 1 and 6, however, I left the priority for runlevel 1 the same.12:43
YokoZarDo the build daemons now autoinstall recommends by default as well?12:44
james_wI see that there is a bug that means that really this should be set to (100-priority). I can easily do this, as the package has not hit the archive so there is no transition to worry about. However, is there a danger that acting unilaterally would break something else? (i.e. stopping earlier than dependent services)12:45
ograapt does .... the buildds use apt ...12:45
* ogra would expect so 12:45
james_wI don't think there are any dependent services in this case, so I believe it should be safe, but can it be assumed to be so in every case?12:45
YokoZarogra: They might be passing funny switches.  I'm not sure how it works when you have pbuilder using satisfy-build-depends = gdebi, for instance...12:46
cjwatsonjames_w: it's 0 and 6 that we normally disable, not 1 and 612:49
james_wcjwatson: yes, sorry, 0 and 612:50
cjwatsonjames_w: I don't think we can always assume it to be safe, which is one reason we haven't really worried much about changing all those to date :-)12:50
james_wcjwatson: thanks.12:52
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Keybukok, my laptop is definitely doing odd suspend/resume things13:00
Keybukit appears to suspend as normal13:00
Keybukbut when I press the power button to resume it, it just boots13:00
ograKeybuk, try blacklisting the button module13:01
Keybuk(and usplash still prevents the X server from starting)13:01
ograi had similar probs on the classmate13:01
Keybukogra: I tried that, it just stopped the power button doing anything13:02
ograSUSPEND_MODULES="button" in /etc/pm/config.d/default13:02
ograhmm13:02
StevenKasac: So, we do need to merge liferea? Should I drop the patches aside the Ubuntu RSS feeds list, and see if the dratted thing builds?13:10
emgentmorning13:25
sorenNo, it isn't.13:26
Hobbseeevening soren!13:27
sorenNo, it isn't evening either. :/13:28
Keybukit's Mailman Day *and* Abel & Cole Day ... double celebration!13:28
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HobbseeKeybuk: i hope you're advocating listadmin as much as possible today, then.13:34
HobbseeKeybuk: oh, and reping!13:34
Keybukreping?13:35
Hobbseere-ping, as you didn't answer the first one.13:35
Hobbseeis there any chance you can set an address for ubuntu-core-dev on launchpad please?13:35
Hobbseeit would save us all getting spammed every time someone decided that it'd be a good idea to assign a bug to them.13:36
Hobbseeubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com is probably a good one.13:36
Keybukhttps://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-devel-discuss13:38
Keybuklol13:38
HobbseeKeybuk: merge the accounts?13:39
ograits all calcs fault !13:39
KeybukHobbsee: the merge mail probably hit the mailing list13:39
Keybukor maybe the moderation queue13:39
Keybukwho has mod access to u-d-d ?13:39
Hobbseecjwatson: may well?13:40
Hobbseei don't, i've only got it to u-d13:40
asacStevenK: yes, keep that + the other patch introduced by fta13:40
cjwatsonHobbsee: I don't think I do13:41
Keybuklistadmin says evand13:41
asacStevenK: fix_systray_behavior13:41
* Keybuk tries to find a duckie who isn't at the QBR festival of love13:42
StevenKQBR festival of love?13:42
lifelesshi13:44
Keybukhttps://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-devel13:45
Keybukhttps://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-devel-discuss13:45
Keybukmake those go away please ;)13:45
KeybukHobbsee: the answer would appear to be No.14:03
KeybukI cannot change the contact address14:03
Keybuk\o/ LP14:03
HobbseeKeybuk: why?14:04
Keybukbecause LP has automatically created accounts for those addresses14:05
Keybukrepeatedly it strikes me that LP's auto account creation is more trouble than its worth14:05
HobbseeKeybuk: you can't merge them?14:07
Keybuknope14:07
Hobbseeor force a rubber ducky to merge them?14:08
Hobbseebut why?14:08
Keybukseems that LP decided they're teams, so they can't be merged14:08
Hobbseeteams can still be merged with other teams, surely?14:08
wgrantHobbsee: At ducky request.14:09
HobbseeKeybuk: so requests from ducks fail, i presume?14:10
wgrantIt was deemed a restricted enough use-case that it wasn't to be exposed in the UI.14:10
Hobbsee!!!14:10
Keybukducks just get OOPS14:11
Hobbseeah14:11
wgrantSo you need a superduck.14:12
wgrantCan't a duck unassign the email address, at least?14:12
* Hobbsee finds it odd that such a decision was made, when autocreating accounts of teams or people, yet deciding that merging a team to be a corner case. Because in almost all cases of teams created, they will want to be merged with a real team at some point - whether it exists now or later.14:13
Keybukmore OOPS14:13
Hobbseeyay, launchpad.14:13
HobbseeKeybuk: okay, i'll attempt to poke.  i'm really not liking the fact that people can spam 50 or so people with a click of a button.14:14
wgrantI guess this is the same reason that MOTU Media maintains every package in universe.14:15
wgrantEr, all modified packages.14:15
Hobbseeprobably14:16
Hobbseeoh, wait.  they attempted to get that one merged, and i don't remember the problem being an oops.14:16
Hobbseebut i don't remember what it was...14:16
wgrantIt wasn't supported at the time.14:16
ScottKArgh.  Are the Perl Artistic license and 4 clause BSD (with the advertising clause) compatible?  I think so, but am looking for second opinions.14:18
Riddellmvo_, pitti: bug 241431 SRU for feisty looks ok to accept, should I?14:21
ubottuLaunchpad bug 241431 in update-manager "edgy to feisty upgrades fail due to use of old-releases" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24143114:21
mvo_Riddell: I proposed it so I should probably not be the one who has the final say. it would be nice14:22
mvo_Riddell: pitti is on leave today14:23
mnabilguys, how can i revert the last ubuntu update, i mean i need to return the state before the last update(remove the last update)14:26
Keybuktests/com.netsplit.Nih.Test_impl.h:31: warning: array ‘my_interfaces’ assumed to have one element14:26
Keybukgnargh14:26
KeybukI hate C sometimes14:26
* Keybuk tries to remember how to declare in the header that there's an array of pointers in the C file14:27
dholbachthekorn: is there a bigger problem with the HTML connector right now? :)14:28
sistpoty|workKeybuk: s.th. like "extern (int*)[20];" iirc... not to sure if I got the braces right though14:28
Keybukit's the [20] bit I don't want to do14:29
Keybuksince the struct is just declared *foo[] = { ... }14:29
thekorndholbach, oh, dont know, let me check14:29
RiddellScottK: I would expect so, might depend on the exact form of mixing14:31
Riddellmnabil: support in #ubuntu14:31
nxvlgood morning!14:31
dholbachthekorn: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24205 :-/14:32
dholbach(that's with pylpbugs/main14:32
dholbach)14:32
ograLaney, hey14:33
Laneyogra: Hi14:34
sistpoty|workKeybuk: int (*foo)[] ?14:34
ograLaney, did you check debian for the xaos update ? can we just sync it ?14:34
Laneyogra: It's been orphaned, there is no update14:35
sistpoty|workerm... my foo is the name of the variable not of the type though14:35
Laneyogra: I do plan on working with whoever to get my new version in Debian though14:35
ograLaney, well, i was pondering to take it over in debian, since it falls into the edubuntu package list i maintain anyway14:35
ograbut i'm extremely busy atm so it might still take a week before i can look into that14:36
ograLaney, are you upstream ?14:36
Laneyogra: Oh, well I'm almost ready to upload my new version to LP. Perhaps you could use that when you get time14:36
Laneyogra: No, just looked through the list on ubuntuwire and picked that out14:36
ogracan you ping upstream to take your fixes ?14:37
LaneyShall do14:37
thekorndholbach, ok thanks, this is fixed in my intrepid.merge branch,14:37
sistpoty|workKeybuk: that works only as argument of a function of course... you can't declare a variable like that (since no storage size)14:37
* dholbach hugs thekorn14:37
dholbachawesome14:37
ograLaney, thanks a lot :)14:37
* ogra hugs Laney 14:37
Keybuksistpoty|work: sure you can, storage size is inferred from the initialisation ;)14:37
* Laney hugs ogra14:37
Laneyogra: Are you a DD?14:37
sistpoty|workKeybuk: oh, you want to initialize it in the header?14:37
ogranope, only UD ...14:37
LaneyBah, OK14:38
Keybukno, initialise in the C, but make it extern14:38
LaneyWas hoping you would be able to sponsor it ;)14:38
LaneyBut no matter14:38
thekorndholbach, I hope to merge this two branches soon14:38
ograbut xaos woul be a good opportunity to go for DD :)14:38
* thekorn hugs dholbach 14:38
ograLaney, i can find someone14:38
sistpoty|workKeybuk: I'm not too sure that's possible... from what should any other compilation unit know the storage size then?14:38
Laneymmk14:38
dholbachthekorn: it'd be nice to get at least into the PPA too14:39
LaneyJust porting the patches to quilt, then will put the diff up14:39
Keybuk/usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `my_interfaces' changed from 8 in test_com_netsplit_Nih_Test_object-test_com.netsplit.Nih.Test_object.o to 24 in test_com_netsplit_Nih_Test_object-com.netsplit.Nih.Test_impl.o14:39
Keybukoops14:39
Keybuk:p14:39
thekorndholbach, https://edge.launchpad.net/~bughelper-dev/+archive has all these changes (~ppa4 or something)14:40
dholbachah ok14:40
Keybuksistpoty|work: trouble is I can't find any way to make it visible at al14:40
nxvldholbach: would you please do one more build for me?14:41
Keybukonly way so far14:41
Keybukis in the .h declare it as a **14:41
Keybukin the .c declare static as a *[] and then a second extern as ** taking its address14:42
dholbachnxvl: can you ask somebody else? I'm quite busy right now - I can do it later14:42
nxvldholbach: ok, thanks anyway :D14:42
nxvldid someone has an amd64 machine and want to build a package and run lintian for me?14:42
sistpoty|workKeybuk: you mean s.th. like that? http://paste.ubuntu.com/24209/14:50
nxvlsistpoty|work: i think i have it14:50
sistpoty|worknxvl: excellent!14:50
nxvlsistpoty|work: and raphink says he has test it14:51
Keybuksistpoty|work: except I don't want the [2] in the header14:51
nxvlsistpoty|work: and now it works14:51
sistpoty|workKeybuk: you can't do that. otherwise gcc cannot determine the storage size of instance_of_foo (and e.g. the sizeof would fail)14:52
Keybuksistpoty|work: so how do I use that array outside of that C file? :)14:52
Keybukeven declaring it static foo **instance_of_foo = {14:52
Keybukdoesn't work14:52
sistpoty|workKeybuk: oh, I forgot to declare the type foo in the header14:55
sistpoty|work(instead of in the c file)14:55
sistpoty|workKeybuk: then you can simply use s.th. like "instance_of_foo[1]->x"14:56
Keybuk?14:56
sistpoty|workKeybuk: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24213/14:57
sistpoty|workmeh... pastebin doesn't like me14:57
sistpoty|workKeybuk: now: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24214/14:58
Keybuksistpoty|work: you still have [2] in the header14:58
Keybukwhich is the bit I don't want :p14:58
sistpoty|workthat's where it gets tricky *g*15:01
sistpoty|workKeybuk: I'm not entirely sure, but imo "extern struct foo **instance_of_foo;" should be the right thing15:02
Laneyogra: New .diff.gz uploaded if you're interested :D15:05
ograi'll take a look if i find time15:06
* ogra is swamped with building some custom images15:07
LaneyWell I've subscribed the sponsors queue anyway, so no need for you to specifically review it15:07
LaneyJust though you might like to know15:07
* Laney is out for a bit, bye all15:07
sistpoty|workKeybuk: hah: http://paste.ubuntu.com/24220/15:09
sistpoty|work(I was not aware c allows such wonky things in the first place)15:09
cjwatsonsistpoty|work: C allows a significant amount of wonk, as long as it fits neatly into machine implementations ;-)15:22
sistpoty|workheh15:22
geserhas someone an idea why the build of libgnupg-interface-perl fails? (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15667866/buildlog_ubuntu-intrepid-i386.libgnupg-interface-perl_0.36-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz)15:29
geserI don't have an idea why it can't find gpg which is installed15:30
Hobbseegeser: no build-dep on gnupg?15:30
Hobbseeoh, hm.15:30
* Hobbsee wonders if the gpg is actually in the chroot itself, or only gets used before the unpacking, and the unpacked bits get fed to sbuild.15:31
Keybuksistpoty|work: that doesn't work15:32
geserHobbsee: dpkg-source is run inside the chroot, right?15:33
persiaHobbsee: In the repo sbuild, it unpacks in the chroot, without a secondary chroot.15:33
Hobbseeahhh15:34
Hobbseegeser: i don't know the internals of sbuild :)15:34
geserI wander also about the "sh: gcc: not found" message (but I guess it's unrelated)15:34
gesers/wander/wonder/15:34
sistpoty|workKeybuk: hm? works in the test case... are you using -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE? (I could assume that would implicitely add a sizeof then, and hence would bail out)15:35
KeybukI am15:35
sistpoty|workKeybuk: hm... then I can only think of a little trick to still make it work... give me a sec15:36
Keybukthe only way I could come up with was declaring it static in the .c15:36
Keybukdeclaring a ** that took the address of it15:36
Keybukthen making that extern15:36
Keybukoh, great15:38
Keybukthe laptop suspended mid-update15:38
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persiaOn the list of things that should block suspend: add "high CPU or IO load", which often means one went for a beverage whilst waiting.15:39
Keybukthat's not the problem15:40
Keybukthe problem is that the laptop currently doesn't want to resume from suspend15:40
ograi think g-p-m has a gconf key for that15:40
ograto check for CPU usage before suspending15:40
ogra /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/check_type_cpu15:41
ograsilly name15:42
Ngwhat if you have a stupid screensaver going? it'll never suspend15:42
Ngshouldn't the update thing be emitting the suspend inhibiting signal?15:42
ograthats why its disabled by default i guess :)15:42
persiaogra: Right.  It's just whether we turn them on.  If we didn't suspend for all the possible reasons, we'd not often suspend.15:42
persiaNg: On the device I suspend most often, I have the screensaver configured to only load on mains power.  If I'm on battery, I'd rather suspend than do a screen-saver cycle (mind you, it takes ~1 sec to wake up, which helps).15:43
ograpersia, i dont maintain g-p-m anymore so i rarely look at it nowadays :) but that key was never enabled ...15:43
* ogra finds the network_sleep key and wonders why we still use pm-utils scripts to shut down NM on suspend15:44
Ngogra: could be because we remove network modules too15:45
ograwell, then we can leave the list of modules in SUSPEND_MODULES and not maintain the extra scripts15:47
ograpm-utils and g-p-m have proper functions for that, no need to duplicate them15:47
sistpoty|workKeybuk: yes, your solution seems the best one imho15:48
geserHobbsee: please give-back pbuilder. Thanks.15:58
Hobbseegeser: given back15:58
MacSlowhow can I best inject a freshly built goffice (from my PPA) in my intrepid-pbuilder environemnt?15:59
MacSlowcan I just extend my /etc/apt/sources.list under the pbuilder-intrepid environment with my PPA?15:59
geseradd your PPA to your pbuilder16:00
MacSlowgeser, ah ok16:00
sistpoty|workcya16:13
MacSlowhm... the build did not automatically pick up the goffcie 0.6.3 from my PPA while trying to build gnumeric 1.8.316:15
MacSlowbut I guess I found the reason16:15
seb128build-depends not strict enough?16:16
ograPPAs are not signed ....16:16
ograyou will likely run into probs with any autobuilder (i.e. pbuilder) wih that16:17
HobbseeMacSlow: did you, by any chance, edit your /e/a/sources.list when logged into pbuilder, then quit that, then run pbuilder build foo.dsc?16:17
MacSlowHobbsee, I know that his kill all my changes to it... as it recreates the environment from scratch each time16:18
MacSlowHobbsee, but right now I'm staying logged in and do all the changes in one session16:19
HobbseeMacSlow: that's correct, but i don't think that answered my question?16:19
Hobbseeah right.16:19
HobbseeMacSlow: i presume you ran an apt-get update after editing the sources list, inside?16:19
MacSlowHobbsee, edited sources.list -> apt-get update -> apt-get install ...16:19
Hobbseeogra: it'll whine, sure, but i didn't think it was a terminal error?16:20
MacSlowand now I've my goffice 0.6.3 from my ppa installed16:20
ograHobbsee, for me it stops then ...16:20
Hobbseeogra: oh.16:20
MacSlowogra I just got a warning and said "Yes" to continue with the installation16:20
ograoyu have to set the pbuilder apt opts to allow unauthenticated16:20
ograoh, right, if yu do that nteractive :)16:21
HobbseeMacSlow: for one thing, you dont' want to install anything extra, before you run the build.16:21
* ogra has scripts that run various pbuilder thingies ... these will hang forever 16:21
MacSlowHobbsee, but apart from what I do now I don't see how I could test building my merged gnumeric16:22
* Hobbsee is also confused at the order you've done things.16:22
MacSlowit needs goffice 0.6.316:22
HobbseeMacSlow: to build?16:22
jengelhkirkland:16:22
MacSlowgoffice 0.6.3 is not yet publicly available16:22
Hobbseeoh, that's right, you have to do fun stuff with that.16:22
* Hobbsee hasn't had the fun of building an unreleased kde for a while.16:23
* MacSlow has a different idea of fun16:24
MacSlow:)16:24
ograHobbsee, you should try a mobile build :) they come from ports, -updates, -proposed and PPA to build whole systems16:24
ogranow thats the real fun16:24
MacSlowbuilding Xorg if far more satisfying16:24
Hobbseeogra: i'd probably just change the sources list, use --save-after-login, and then use the standard pbuilder build foo.dsc, at that point.16:25
Hobbseefor bonus points, by creating a mobile pbuilder, with the repositories set up16:26
ograheh16:26
Hobbseewhich is far simpler, in the long run, then fudging around inside pbuilder.16:26
tedgI haven't tried, but does a PPA include itself in the build environment?16:27
Hobbseetedg: yes16:27
tedgHmm, that means one should be careful when moving packages from a PPA to a distributed repository.16:28
Hobbseecorrect.16:28
MacSlowI still get "dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2"16:32
HobbseeMacSlow: that's akin to saying "something died here."16:33
MacSlowfrom trying to "dpkg-buildpackage -j4 -rfakeroot" gnumeric16:33
HobbseeMacSlow: -v16:33
Hobbsee(as in, look higher016:33
MacSlowxgettext: error while opening "./POTFILES.in.temp" for reading: No such file or directory16:33
MacSlowERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult16:33
MacSlow       error message above if there is any.16:33
MacSlowmake: *** [configure-stamp-gtk] Error 116:33
MacSlowmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....16:33
MacSlowhm...16:33
MacSlowstill missing something from my pbuilder-environemnt?16:34
seb128MacSlow: the build likely doesn't like the -j option16:34
seb128would be an upstream bug and not the first one to have the issue16:34
seb128try not using -j and see how it builds16:34
MacSlowseb128, so gnumeric doesn't like parallel compilation?16:35
MacSlowjust started it without -j16:35
seb128that would be my bet, but just guessing I didn't look at the issue16:35
MacSlowcompiling now16:35
MacSlowphew16:35
MacSlow/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libgoffice-0.6.a(goffice.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC16:40
MacSlow/usr/lib/libgoffice-0.6.a: could not read symbols: Bad value16:40
MacSlownot good16:40
cjwatsonoww, localedef is hideously complicated inside17:05
cjwatsonI think I might be close to doing something about its memory use though17:05
ion_Nice17:08
cjwatsonit turns out that what it's doing is keeping a big table in memory of the byte representations of all the possible characters in the current character set17:10
cjwatsonwhich, unfortunately, due to the locale definition file format, it pretty much has to do (well, it might be able to use an mmapped temporary file I suppose)17:11
cjwatsonbut it could represent contiguous ranges of characters with "contiguous" byte representations much more efficiently than it currently does, I think, at the cost of somewhat more painful code17:11
bmhmHello. Please set Bug 244591 to urgent/critical.  It makes Pidgin useless and may make People go away from ubuntu.17:44
ubottuLaunchpad bug 244591 in pidgin "Cannot connect to ICQ ("The client version you are using is too old.")" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24459117:44
bmhmHello, some dev around?17:47
cjwatsonbmhm: IRC is an asynchronous medium; please be patient. (I've set the importance to Critical, but don't get overly fixated on importance please.)17:52
bmhmcjwatson: I know IRC, I am sorry for my inpatience. I just didn't want my message to get "lost"17:53
* ogra sighs 17:54
ograwhy is the whole of X depending on cpp17:54
darkfilehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/24459117:56
ubottuLaunchpad bug 244591 in pidgin "Cannot connect to ICQ ("The client version you are using is too old.")" [Critical,Confirmed]17:56
cjwatsondarkfile: scroll up17:56
cjwatsondarkfile: oh, it was just before you arrived - anyway, bmhm already mentioned that17:56
darkfilecjwatson, im not in here long enough :)17:56
darkfiledo you know if this will be fixed for 7.10, too?17:57
darkfileor will i have to upgrade to 8.04?17:57
cjwatsonfor a start, I'm not a Pidgin developer, but, on the face of it, a reasonable fix for this kind of thing would be eligible for updates to all stable releases17:57
cjwatsonobviously it needs somebody to do the work first, though17:58
darkfileok thanks for the info17:58
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alex-weejcan i get any ubuntu package from bzr?18:13
Laneycjwatson: I'll have a go at the SRU once a fix is out if that's OK?18:14
cjwatsonsure18:14
cjwatsonalex-weej: not yet, though we're working on that18:14
alex-weejcjwatson: that would be absolutely rock18:15
alex-weeji really wish i could do all my development in Ubuntu rather than having to build everything an the kitchen sink in JHbuild then port changes to Ubuntu packages18:15
cjwatsonalex-weej: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/distributed-development-importer18:16
cjwatsonwe'll be doing it in stages, so it won't be fully joined up at first18:16
alex-weejthat's cool. only concern is that, in some cases, even the development packages we have are way behind upstream18:17
cjwatsonright, we'll get further along eventually; baby steps :-)18:17
cjwatsonultimately we want to be able to update to new upstreams by 'bzr merge' or similar18:17
ograalex-weej, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NoMoreSourcePackages18:18
cjwatsonthe spec ogra quotes is an older version of a similar idea18:18
ograoutdaed but essentially still the target18:18
alex-weejright. awesome. really glad people are working on it18:18
* ogra updates his links18:18
cjwatsonactually that's sort of a middle phase rather than the target18:18
cjwatsonit's a possible benefit we might be able to pick up along the way18:19
slangasekcody-somerville: hi, why have you milestoned bug #220899?  this seems like something that should be reasonable to fix in an update after the point release, no?18:41
ubottuLaunchpad bug 220899 in xubuntu-default-settings "[Hardy] Wrong default image browser" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22089918:41
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Keybukthat's weird19:18
Keybuksecond time the computer has hung/crashed since the hardy kernel update19:18
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loolcjwatson: Hey, mobile-meta made it to the archive and I proceeded according to plan; http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches-mobile.txt seems to be empty, could you tell me where I can find what generates it to check whether it's still working?20:32
ogralool, it has the generation date at the top usually the script is called anastacia (at least is once was, not sure if LP has taken over that part as well since i last looked) i'm not sure where its stored though20:43
ikoniagents has anyone got a solid understanding of how gnome/hal deals with automounting file systems20:57
ikoniaI'm trying to troubleshoot an issue for an ubuntu-user in #ubuntu, and the feedback / information he's giving me suggests that gnome/hal now mounts the disks in userspace, I'm struggling to find informtion on this so if anyone has first hand knowledge on this it would be appriciated20:58
Kopfgeldjaeger2Will there be an SRU for the pidgin/icq issues?21:31
LaneyKopfgeldjaeger2: Yes!21:35
lagawhat about kopete? ;)21:36
lagaooh, there is a workaround for kopete21:36
slangasekcody-somerville: bug #228784 also awaits SRU verification for 8.04.122:01
ubottuLaunchpad bug 228784 in xfce4-session "xfce4-session-logout : buttons not localized except "Restart" and "Cancel"" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22878422:01
apacheloggerlaga: shouldn't be necessary22:01
slangasekcody-somerville: actually, I meant bug #232364; so both of them do, really :)22:01
ubottuLaunchpad bug 232364 in xfce4-utils "dbus-launch hangs at session start waiting on socket output in libxcb" [Critical,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23236422:01
apacheloggerlaga: kopete has an auto-update feature kicking in once the connecation failed22:02
apacheloggerconsidering it works properly ;-)22:02
slangasekblah, an auto-update feature that hasn't been disabled in the packaging?22:02
lagaapachelogger: yeah, i saw that.22:02
lagaapachelogger: after i asked i here :)22:03
slangasekso anyone who uses kopete on Ubuntu systems is subject to updates that haven't been QAed through Ubuntu?22:03
apacheloggerslangasek: yes22:03
apacheloggerthough22:03
apacheloggerthis update feature only effects icq22:03
apacheloggerand actually only it's desktop file, defining the version stuff22:03
apacheloggerslangasek: and I can say KDE also has pretty good QA ;-)22:04
slangasekyes, the point is that it's not been QAed in situ22:04
slangasekthere's no guarantee that the builds have been tested to work with Kubuntu itself, as opposed to KDE generally22:04
apacheloggersladen: there is no build22:04
apacheloggerslangasek: ^22:05
apacheloggersladen: sorry22:05
apacheloggerslangasek: http://kopete.kde.org/oscarversions.xml22:05
slangasekah22:05
apacheloggeronce the login failed it downloads that file and if necessary adapts the versions in the desktop files22:06
asactjaalton: do all common intel chipsets get EXA by default?22:42
asacbryce: ^^22:42
asac(in hardy)22:42
bryceasac, correct22:43
asacbryce: how sure?22:44
asac(percentage) :)22:44
bryce85%22:44
asacnot much ;)22:44
asacnot enough ... hmm22:44
brycethere may be some internal logic to fall back to XAA for some chips, I don't remember22:45
asacjcastro: what graphics chipset do you have?22:45
ogra(==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration22:45
bryceasac, what prompts the question exactly?22:45
asacjcastro: i remember that you saw the ffox rendering bug until you flipped to EXA on your intel22:45
jcastroI have an i96522:45
ograogra@osiris:~/Devel/liveusb-creator$ lspci|grep -i vga22:45
ogra00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)22:45
asacjcastro: so for you EXA was not enabled by default back in london?22:46
jcastroI don't remember22:46
asacjcastro: are you still on hardy?22:46
jcastroI think it was, because looking at my xorg.conf right now shows I enabled it and added that greedy thing to it22:47
jcastronope, intrepid22:47
asacjcastro: ok. i guess that means that not all intel chips use(d) EXA :)22:47
asacbryce: SRU verification talk raised this question22:47
jcastroasac: you can of course do what you want to it during the next sprint.22:48
jcastronot that that helps you right this instant22:48
asacjcastro: no. that would be too late ;) ... can you restart X with the EXA line removed and see if you still use EXA?22:49
jcastrosure.22:49
asac(in Xorg.0.log)22:49
bryceyou shouldn't need the greedy line either22:49
asacwhat is greedy?22:49
bryceif you had that in there it makes me think you'd configured those back before we switched to EXA by default22:49
asacbryce: when was that?22:49
jcastrobryce: I think so as well22:50
bryceit's a memory migration heuristic, that is a workaround to a bug that was preventing us from switching to EXA by default22:50
jcastroOption "ExaNoComposite" "true"22:50
jcastrodo I need that?22:50
asacbryce: ok. so when did you flip the switch?22:50
asacjcastro: i guess the idea is that you shouldnt need any option ;)22:51
jcastroheh22:51
brycejcastro, that's for preventing compiz from going, and I would imagine you'd only need that if you had a severe problem with compiz for some reason22:51
brycejcastro: so in theory you shouldn't need that, unless your HW has some weird bug22:52
asacheh22:52
ograjcastro, the idea is that you shouldnt need an xorg.conf ...22:52
ograespecially as US american with the right default keymapping22:53
bryceasac the switch was made around the end of march22:55
jcastroasac: ok, it's all using EXA according to the log22:56
jcastroogra: I thought we weren't quite there yet for going xorg.conf-less22:56
jcastrothough I can try that next if you guys want22:56
asacjcastro: ok thanks22:56
ograwe need it for keymap and mouse settings22:56
jcastrodoes it default to US or something?22:56
ograbut with en_US you shuldnt need the keymap part and with a default laptop touchpad the mouse settings shouldnt be needed either22:57
jcastroactually, I won't try it, I'm in mid-move and this is my only working PC at the moment22:57
ograjust move it to xorg.conf.bak and try ;)22:57
ograah, indeed22:57
ograwell, it works since gutsy22:58
jcastrofind another victim, I'm actually on vacation and need to finish packing. :D22:58
brycejcastro, it will default to US22:58
slangasekUbuntu 8.10 will ship with a GPS dongle to auto-detect your keyboard preference based on latitude and longitude23:06
ScottKBut only if you're outside where the sattelites can see you.23:06
LaserJockslangasek: but what if I'm an American in Europe and want the US keyboard? :-)23:07
LaserJockme wonders what keyboard would be set in Antarctica23:07
ograslangasek, can we get these dongles as totrrents please to not make the shipment costs explode ?23:07
slangasekLaserJock: when in Rome, swear at your keyboard like the Romans23:07
LaserJockslangasek: lol23:08
slangasekogra:23:08
slangasekogra: I'll see what I can do23:08
ogra\o/23:08
Chipzzslangasek: wrt Kopete QA... I have had the same reservations about firefox23:12
slangasekChipzz: is firefox auto-updating itself in Ubuntu...?23:13
Chipzzslangasek: shouldn't ubuntu patch firefox to not have the auto-update feature at all?23:13
slangasekhaven't we?23:13
Chipzzslangasek: it isn't, but there's an option for it which can be turned on23:13
Chipzzhrrrm I though it wasn't... maybe need to check23:13
slangasekoh; well, if users want to shoot themselves in the foot like that, I don't see the problem23:14
slangasekremoving the feature entirely is just more likely to cause unnecessary friction with upstream23:14
Chipzzfucking up the packaging system is not something we should allow IMHO23:14
Chipzzheh23:14
Chipzzmozilla needs to get their heads unstuck from their asses23:15
slangasekit doesn't touch the system binaries23:15
slangasekunless you run it as root :)23:15
LaserJockwell, I happen to like having Firefox updates for most things23:15
LaserJockbut I understand the thought behind turning the auto-update off23:16
Chipzzslangasek: if it only works as root, there's no point in having it anyway23:16
LaserJockI'm more concerned with all the extentions23:16
slangasekChipzz: I didn't say it only works as root, I said it will only update over the *system* binaries as root23:16
slangasekif you run it as a user, I expect it does something horrible like downloading and installing all of firefox into your .mozilla directory ;)23:16
Chipzzeither way you get a broken system23:17
ChipzzLaserJock: yeah, but exactly how many extensions does ubuntu package?23:17
slangasekmaybe, but users have to opt in to that brokenness23:17
LaserJockChipzz: 10+ I think23:17
ChipzzLaserJock: out of... ? several hundreds?23:17
ograChipzz, do i hear you volunteering ?23:18
LaserJockumm yeah, that's the problem23:18
ScottKThe one package I maintain in Debian/Ubuntu that ships from upstream with auto update capability is missing it entirely in Debian/Ubuntu.  I think it's generally a bad idea for distros.23:18
LaserJockif some of your extensions come from Ubuntu but others through the "normal" means it confusing23:19
Chipzzogra: I'm merely pointing out that while updating extensions via our packaging system would be ideal, it's not feasible in practice23:19
LaserJockI just use Firefox's method, I don't trust our extensions really23:19
ScottKOf course the fact that it uses checkinstall to generate it's updated packages might have influenced my thinking.23:19
ScottK(my package, not FF).23:19
Chipzzalso, won't installing an extension via the packaging system install it for all users?23:19
LaserJockpresumably23:20
ogralikely23:20
Chipzzwhich is not something you want anyway23:20
Chipzzmore mozilla suckage23:20
LaserJockright23:20
* Chipzz repeats above statement about mozilla, heads, and asses :P23:20
LaserJockso I'd rather let Firefox handle it23:20
Chipzzproblem is23:21
Chipzzin a lot of ways firefox is mainly a windows app23:21
Chipzzwindows lacks proper package management23:21
Chipzzmozilla devs work around that by features such as auto-update23:21
Chipzzwith no regard for linux23:21
LaserJockwell, I doubt they'd do it much differently if it was more linux-centric23:22
Chipzzmacosx has the same problem23:24
slangasekkees: where does atlas's debian/rules weigh in, at 1145 lines?23:24
asacChipzz: whats you issue here?23:24
Chipzzasac: mozilla wanting to be something that's already provided by proper linux distro's (ie: proper package management)23:25
Chipzzand the possible havoc ensuing from users updating firefox through it23:26
asacChipzz: we dont allow that23:26
asaconly extensions are auto updated23:26
Chipzzasac: that's actually patched out?23:26
asac(if installed in profile)23:26
asacChipzz: 1st. its disabled by upstream if you dont run as root (e.g. if not having write permissions)23:27
asac2nd. its patched out by us (explicit upstream request) to prevent root from auto updating app23:27
Chipzzah k23:27
Chipzzhow long has that been patched out?23:27
ChipzzI seem to recall seeing that checkbox, but that may have been in an old version23:27
asacChipzz: it was there in b5 (if you start ffox as root)23:28
Chipzzmy laptop is still at feisty I think, so would have been ff223:28
asacChipzz: in ff2 it was always disabled23:29
asacunless you flipped it on by editing system config filed in editor23:29
Chipzzhrrrm23:29
Chipzzdidn't do that23:30
Chipzzwhere did I get that idea then?23:30
asacChipzz: most likely you confused the app-auto-update feature with the extension-auto-update thing23:30
* Chipzz boots laptop23:31
asacChipzz: but to be fair, i cannot speak for the initial edgy release. just since feisty.23:31
Chipzzasac: just checked23:33
norsettoasac: 0.6.3 will be out today, where should I upload the gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer packages which I would like you to review for debian?23:33
Chipzzasac: the checkbox exists but is grayed out23:33
Chipzzversion 2.0.0.10+2binonly-0ubuntu1.7.10.123:34
asacChipzz: yeah23:34
asacits deactivated23:34
Chipzzasac: with you as packager ;)23:34
Chipzzshouldn't we just not show that checkbox at all instead of greying it out?23:35
asacChipzz: i dont know ;). i doubt that it creates lots of confusion for the normal user ;)23:37
Chipzzasac: btw, what's your opinion on packaging extensions?23:38
asacChipzz: i addressed that quite extensively in the beginning of the last FF extension packaging session i gave during openweek23:40
asacChipzz: the logs are https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekhardy/ExtensionsPackaging23:40
keesslangasek: hehe, I'm not sure.  I suppose I could generate some kind of stat.  :)23:43
Chipzzasac: reading that page... but won't installing extensions as packages enable them for all users?23:44
asacChipzz: thats one deficiency, yes.23:46
asacat some point we should do something about that23:46
ogradepends on the extension ...23:46
ograparental control is surely something that makes sense to have installed systmwide23:46
Chipzzasac: hence why I asked about your opinion on packaging extensions ;)23:47
Chipzzogra: but for example flash-blocker isn't23:47
ograand i bet there are others where its sane to have them not per users23:47
ograright23:47
Chipzzespecially on large sites23:47
asacChipzz: my opinion should be clear from the logs ;)23:47
ograis likely only a minority23:47
slangasekDaviey, superm1: images aren't finalized just yet, but I wanted to check with you guys whether you'll have some spare cycles for testing 8.04.1 alternate ISOs for mythbuntu23:47
asacChipzz: i wont teach people how to package if I'd think its a bad idea ;)23:47
Chipzzasac: I'm not saying it's a bad idea :)23:48
asacChipzz: so you dont ask about opinion, but vision?23:48
Chipzzbut like you said, having them enabled for all users is a deficiency23:48
asacChipzz: yes, its a lack of flexibility23:49
Chipzzwhat I was most curious about was your opinion on the enabling-for-all issue23:49
asacChipzz: its not really a blocker. users usually can disable their extensions23:51
asaceven if installed globally23:51
Chipzzasac: maybe the extensions should be disabled by default then?23:51
asacChipzz: why?23:52
Chipzzasac: prevent unwanted side-effects on large sites?23:52
Chipzzasac: consider the case of a university using ubuntu, with the flash-blocker extension packaged23:52
asacChipzz: as i said above. the only deficiency i see for the enable-ing-for-all approach is a lack of flexibility23:52
ChipzzI'm pretty sure that would cause a whole lot of confusion for a whole lot of users23:53
Chipzz"Why doesn't flash work?"23:53
asacChipzz: yeah. if the admin thinks its a good idea to install flash blocker for all, its his decision23:53
Chipzzasac: my pov is the "making available" pov :)23:53
asacChipzz: thats not the current use-case covered23:54
Chipzzadmin installs a huge load of extensions using the packaging system, all disabled by default23:54
Chipzzuser wants to use an extension, just clicks on enable23:54
asacChipzz: yes, that might be a valid use-case, but still a corner case23:55
Chipzzasac: well what it boils down to I think is there are 2 use-cases23:55
asacmost users want to install the extension and use it23:55
Chipzz1) single user install23:55
Chipzz2) large site deployment23:55
asac1a) home install (a few family users)23:55
ogra1.5) LTSP server  :)23:55
asacfor 1* its ok23:55
asacfor 2 it could be better, but that is something the admin has to take care of23:55
asacfor now23:55
Chipzzogra: LTSP is exactly what I had in mind with 2)23:56
Chipzz;)23:56
ograwell, thats rarely large as in enterprise :)23:56
* cody-somerville notes that whoever highlighted him earlier today needs to do so again: freenode netsplits pushed it out of buffer23:56
asacChipzz: what you want is an integrated installer23:56
asacChipzz: the right way is to make the globally available extensions accessible for users in the firefox addons "install extension" tab23:57
Chipzzogra, what are your thoughts on this? :)23:57
asacChipzz: there is no real point of discussing this ;)23:57
Chipzzasac: what will that do? copy the extenion to ~/.mozilla ?23:57
asacdisabling extensions you installed by default will not happen23:57
asacbetter integration of extension install wizard: yes, but needs cycles23:58
asacChipzz: that is undecided and needs to be specified in a specification unless someone just does it23:58
ograChipzz, as i said before i see it valid to have extensions systemwide on a pre extension base, for some it makes sense for some it doesnt23:58
ogra*per23:58
emgentnight.23:59
ograthings like adblock or any parental control extensions surely make sense in that context23:59
Chipzzthat's what I was thinking23:59
Chipzzbut take flash-block as an example23:59
ograor even flashblock since the user is always able to installflash in ~23:59
Chipzzhow would you handle that on an LTSP install?23:59
ograheh23:59
asacChipzz: for now we need to fix the addons dialog to support multiple search/install methods.23:59

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