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PovAddictcan apport be used independently of launchpad and Ubuntu packages?00:23
PovAddictfor example, is there any way for an app I compile from source to configure apport so that it handles its crashes (even though it's not from an APT package), and reports them directly to the developers?00:23
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PovAddictlooks like it's not possible yet...00:50
cjwatsonPovAddict: ask pitti when he's around (European working hours)00:51
PovAddictI actually found a wiki page about it00:51
PovAddictabout how it's "in plans" :)00:51
PovAddicthttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ApportForUpstreams00:51
PovAddictbtw why is the launchpad blueprint part of 'ubuntu' instead of 'apport'?00:54
jibeldoko: ping01:05
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NCommandercjwatson, you around?05:08
ytooxhow can I install TAO on ubuntu?05:10
ytooxI mean, tao-opengl05:10
ytooxhello?05:12
NCommanderytoox, this isn't a support channel, please try #ubuntu05:14
ytooxI did, but no one pays attention05:14
gQuigsanyone looking at this: 28532305:29
gQuigsbug 28532305:29
ubottuLaunchpad bug 285323 in gnome-power-manager "Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28532305:29
NCommanderDoes anyone know a good lightweight repo management tool I can run as non-root?05:43
ScottKNCommander: Dunno if it qualifies, but did you look at falcon?05:44
NCommanderScottK, never heard of it05:44
* NCommander wants to have an easy repo tool he can dump into his homefolder on zinc05:44
ScottKOK.  Try that.  It's packaged.  Dunno if it fits or not.05:45
NCommanderI don't have root, so packages are kinda useless ;-)05:45
ScottKOh.05:45
NCommanderyeah05:46
NCommanderI want a place where I can easily upload built PowerPC (and other ports) kernels05:46
NCommanderScottK, I think I can use reprepro, although I had to install libdb4.6 into a folder in my home folder05:59
ScottKGood luck and good night.06:00
NCommanderthanks ScottK06:01
pittiPovAddict: apport has an abstract "CrashDatabase", so one could implement this to do whatever with the reports; /etc/apport/crashdb.conf does the switching09:05
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jussi01anyone around? if so, can anyone point me to information about why we change libopenal in intrepid? ie. why it had an ABI change?10:17
Hobbseejussi01: when did it have an api change?10:19
wgrantIt broke ABI, not API, I believe.10:19
Hobbseeoh10:19
jussi01Hobbsee: not sure exactly, but its different intrepid10:19
wgrantWhy do you ask?10:20
wgrantIt's not abnormal to have ABI breaks.10:20
wgrantIn this case we moved to a different OpenAL implementation.10:20
jussi01wgrant: I guess Im looking for a bit more information specifically on what changed10:21
jussi01and why it change - what was broken in the old one that needed fixing10:21
wgrantBug #19491910:22
ubottuLaunchpad bug 194919 in openal "libopenal needs replacement" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/19491910:22
wgrantABIs break. That's life.10:22
jussi01yeah10:23
persiajussi01, Because the old one was creative's and not being updated very much, and buggy, and trending towards greater hardware dependence.  We selected a fork that is hardware-independent, and much more active.10:23
jussi01persia: ok, thanks a lot.10:23
persiajussi01, Umm.  Actually, let me get you a real reason, as that's a bit off-the-cuff10:24
persiaDebian bug #494909 is probably a good reference10:25
ubottuDebian bug 494909 in ftp.debian.org "RM: openal -- RoRA; superceded by openal-soft" [Unknown,Closed] http://bugs.debian.org/49490910:25
persiaDebian bug #473128 has more discussion10:26
ubottuDebian bug 473128 in wnpp "ITP: openal-soft -- linux-port of the windows implementation of the" [Wishlist,Closed] http://bugs.debian.org/47312810:26
persiajussi01, For even more detail, read the debian-devel-games ML archives.10:27
jussi01persia: thank you very much, I appreciate your help. :)10:28
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juliuxmdz: displaybrighness is still not working on my x4114:24
askandHi! Suppose I would try fixing bug 3235, that would mean adding some files to the defaultinstallation of Ubuntu, how would I do that? How does it work? Would I make a package installing those files?14:33
ubottuLaunchpad bug 3235 in nautilus "Install Template Documents" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/323514:33
NCommanderwow, such an old bug14:45
smarterArneGoetje: ping14:55
smarterArneGoetje: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/scim-bridge/0.4.14-2ubuntu4 << I don't understand this change, the new patch checks if scim-helper is running, but there is no binary named scim-helper on Ubuntu...14:56
smarterso, the bug fixed by 0.4.14-2ubuntu1 is back14:56
smarterand Kubuntu 8.10 has the 10/20 seconds at startup of each app14:56
smarterdid you test your change?14:56
smarterArneGoetje: just saw that the patch was completely disabled in fact, so my comment on scim-helper is not really relevant15:05
smarterBut we should revert to the state in -2ubuntu215:05
smarterRiddell: ^15:05
cjwatsonsmarter: do you have the scim package installed?15:13
smarteryes15:13
smarterand skim15:13
cjwatsonsmarter: I commented on the scim-helper thing when reviewing that change, but as you say the patch is disabled so it's not relevant15:13
cjwatsonArne tells me skim should not be installed15:13
smarterI tried removing skim but it doesn't work better15:13
cjwatsonas the bug in the changelog indicates, the state in -2ubuntu2 left GTK broken. We can't just revert to it15:14
smarterwasn't -2ubuntu3 which broke GTK?15:14
cjwatsonI tested Arne's change in GTK when sponsoring it, but was unable to check KDE15:15
cjwatsonpossible, I suppose15:15
munckfishcjwatson: FYI just testing the desktop install CD for PS3 - not working :( - uses usplash of course which is one problem, second problem trying install_nosplash option is it can't mount /dev/loop0 or something - investigating15:15
cjwatsonmunckfish: oh, will need to turn usplash off in cdimage too15:15
munckfishcjwatson: ok15:16
cjwatsonah, but that's no good if install_nosplash is broken ...15:16
smartercjwatson: according to the date of the bug, I'm pretty sure it's -2ubuntu3 which broke GTK15:16
smarterso Riddell's change should be reverted15:16
munckfishcjwatson: yep, I'm checking that out now will get logs and other info15:16
cjwatsonsmarter: but he made that change for a reason, right?15:16
cjwatsonI'd like to know what that reason was!15:16
smarterme too :P15:16
cjwatsonI don't approve of reverting changes without finding out what they were for15:17
munckfishcjwatson: but good news is installed from alt installer on Friday night, the installer has a few scary moments but once installed everything is working lovely :D15:18
NCommanderhey munckfish15:18
cjwatsonsmarter: so why would -2ubuntu2 help? all that did was just check whether scim is installed, and the dependency in -2ubuntu4 satisfies that without that patch applied15:18
cjwatsonsmarter: in other words, -2ubuntu2 and -2ubuntu4 ought to be equivalent for KDE, aside from the focus fix15:19
munckfishcjwatson: the one scary in the alt is it hangs for about 20/25 mins at 6% in "Selecting and installing software" section, watching the syslog it seems it's reading packages from the disk for about 10 mins with no log, then after a while it says "Extracting templates: 1%, ... 2%  ... etc"15:20
munckfishNCommander: hi!15:20
NCommandermunckfish, see my email to ubuntu-cell?15:21
munckfishoh not yet15:21
munckfishhaven't got my email on15:21
munckfish(checking)15:21
cjwatsonmunckfish: anything that isn't a showstopper, I'm ignoring right now15:21
smartercjwatson: hmm, you're right, sorry, the bug is there in -2ubuntu2 too, but not on ubuntu3 on KDE15:22
cjwatsonright, and ubuntu3 broke GTK.15:22
cjwatsonso why isn't scim running?15:22
cjwatsonsmarter: are you using a locale where you would expect to use an input method?15:22
smarternop, fr_FR15:23
munckfishcjwatson: sure of course wondered if you would be surprised by it thats all15:23
cjwatsonmunckfish: vaguely heard of it, not worried at the moment though15:23
cjwatsonsmarter: ok, so I tested the same kind of scenario in GTK and it was fine15:23
cjwatsoni.e. scim not running15:23
smarterif I launch scim-panel-kde or skim, it works15:24
cjwatsonso perhaps we should move the check in that patch to the Qt4 agent15:24
smarter(no delay on startup)15:24
smarterthat looks like a good idea15:24
cjwatsonor I suppose alternatively we could actually fix the check (scim-helper-launcher IIRC)15:29
cjwatsonscim-helper-manager15:29
cjwatsonsmarter: if you launch scim-panel-kde, is there a scim-helper-manager process running?15:30
smarteryes15:30
cjwatsonsmarter: would you be able to build a test package for me from source to try it out, or would you need me to give you test .debs?15:33
smarterI know how to build a package ^^'15:33
smarter(I'm a MOTU :P)15:33
smarterand I'm on amd64 so your .debs would not help me I guess15:34
cjwatsonthat would depend where I built it :-)15:34
cjwatsonsmarter: in that case, try just applying http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/scim-bridge.debdiff to -2ubuntu415:35
smarterok15:35
smarterhmm strange, it FTBFS15:37
smarterhttp://pastebin.com/m2982897415:38
smarter00A0C0T0I0O0N0 0t0r0i0e0s0 0w0i0t0h0 0p0b0u0i0l0d0e0r0015:39
cjwatsonsmarter: built fine for me15:58
smarterbuilt fine on a pbuilder too, strange15:59
smarteryour patch seems to work :)15:59
cjwatsongood, just testing with GTK now15:59
smarterand no scim-{panel,helper,...} instance running16:00
cjwatsonhave you tried in both fr_FR and in some locale that uses scim-bridge (e.g. zh_CN.UTF-8)?16:00
cjwatsonit would be helpful if you could - you just need to check whether you can type letters into an editor or something and have the input method widget appear16:00
smarter00A0C0T0I0O0N0 0t0r0i0e0s0 0t0o0 0i0n0s0t0a0l0l0 0o0t0h0e0r0 0l0o0c0a0l0e0 0u0s0i0n0g0 0q0t0-0l0a0n0g0u0a0g0e0-0s0e0l0e0c0t0o0r0016:01
smarter*another16:02
cjwatsonyour IRC client is screwed16:02
cjwatson16:01 <smarter> P0AP0AP0CP0TP0IP0OP0NP0 P0tP0rP0iP0eP0sP0 P0tP0oP0 P0iP0nP0sP0tP0aP0lP0lP0 P0oP0tP0hP0eP0rP0 P0lP0oP0cP0aP0lP0eP0 P0uP0sP0iP0nP0gP016:03
cjwatson                P0qP0tP0-P0lP0aP0nP0gP0uP0aP0gP0eP0-P0sP0eP0lP0eP0cP0tP0oP0rP0AP016:03
smarterOo16:03
persiasmarter, Is that UTF-8?16:03
smarterno idea16:03
smarterI didn't see that16:03
cjwatsonit's not UTF-816:03
cjwatsoneach character is surrounded by some control character junk16:03
cjwatsonit's only when you use /me16:03
smarterüber strange16:05
cjwatsonok, that works for me except that it should be pidof scim-helper-manager >/dev/null16:06
apacheloggersmarter: no garbage here16:07
apacheloggerwe learn: quassel ownes them all16:07
cjwatsonyou're both using quassel and I guess it must be buggy then16:08
smarterprobably16:08
cjwatsoneven smarter's CTCP VERSION output is broken, but apachelogger's isn't16:08
cjwatsonso perhaps smarter has some kind of "use my proprietary format" option checked16:08
apacheloggersmarter: do you run the core on your local machine?16:08
smarteryes16:09
smartermaybe I should restart it16:09
smartersince there was an update today16:09
apacheloggeryes!16:09
apacheloggerthat could have done it16:09
apacheloggerwe screwed up a QByteArray ;-)16:09
cjwatsonah yes16:10
cjwatsonscim-bridge uploaded16:10
* smarter test16:10
smarter^ better?16:10
cjwatsonyes16:10
cjwatsonthanks16:11
smartercool16:11
smarterand thank you cjwatson for your patch :)16:11
cjwatsonsmarter: did you have any luck testing in Chinese?16:11
smarterI'm downloading it16:11
cjwatsonI'd feel better if we knew that it worked in KDE with scim switched on too - the fourth case out of four16:11
smarteroh, it's installed16:12
smarterwhat's the locale name of chinese?16:12
cjwatsonzh_CN.UTF-816:12
mitsuhikois there a chance that wbxml2 is upgraded to 0.9.2-5 before release?16:12
cjwatsonmitsuhiko: what for?16:12
mitsuhikothe current version seems to have a bug. my nokia phone can't sync with opensync16:13
mitsuhikothe #opensync guys tell me to upgrade the wbxml2 lib16:13
smartercjwatson: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=zh_CN KDE_LANG=zh_CN kate, kate pops up, but there is no scim running16:13
mitsuhikohttp://libsyncml.opensync.org/ticket/153 <- related bug16:13
smarter(and it's in chinese, afaik)16:14
cjwatsonsmarter: you need to restart the whole session in Chinese for it to work properly16:14
smarterhmm okay16:14
cjwatsonisn't there a language selection thing in kdm?16:14
smarternop16:14
smarterI'll just change the language using qt-language-selector16:14
persiamitsuhiko, simultaneous traffic in -motu points at Debian bug #487217 for wbxml2 (and #ubuntu-motu is probably the right forum for this discussion)16:15
ubottuDebian bug 487217 in libwbxml2-0 "libwbxml2-0: Several SyncML flaws" [Important,Closed] http://bugs.debian.org/48721716:15
cjwatsonmitsuhiko: needs an Ubuntu developer to assess bug 267397 / bug 287838 and decide if it's a safe update at this point16:15
ubottuLaunchpad bug 267397 in wbxml2 "Sync package with debian" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26739716:15
ubottuLaunchpad bug 287838 in wbxml2 "msynctool of nokia 6120 crashes with 0x43 permission denied libwbxml" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28783816:15
smartercjwatson: and should I let skim installed or not?16:15
* mitsuhiko tries the debian package for a moment to see if that fixes the problem16:16
cjwatsonsmarter: I don't believe Kubuntu installs it by default any more now16:16
cjwatsonmitsuhiko: we are five days before release, and any update needs an Ubuntu developer standing behind it and ready to fix any regressions at short notice16:17
smarterbut it's probably installed by the language-selector thing16:17
cjwatsonmitsuhiko: I would suggest that this might be better as a post-release update ...16:17
cjwatsonsmarter: not as far as I know16:17
smarterokay, I'll try without16:17
mitsuhikocjwatson: can it become any more broken? :D16:17
cjwatsonin fact, I'm pretty certain it isn't16:17
cjwatsonmitsuhiko: it could break other phones16:17
mitsuhikoi can't sync a single nokia phone right now16:18
mitsuhikoat least none with s60 on it16:18
mitsuhikois there someone in the ubuntu team that uses opensync i can talk with?16:18
cjwatsonI really can't say whether it's a good idea. Find a developer to investigate it. As persia said, #ubuntu-motu is a better forum16:18
mitsuhikookay16:18
mitsuhikothanks16:18
smartermy system is still in french(probably needs a reboot or something else in the config) but I have scim running in the panel16:20
smarterbbl16:20
cjwatsonsmarter: and does typing in an editor go through the input method?16:25
ramviHi, I'm unsure how to ask this question and where to ask it, but I hope maybe you could point me in the right direction: I have a svn server with a web page. How do I do that code accessable as the web page. So that I can make a changes and view it17:08
smartercjwatson: nop17:09
smarter卡龌17:10
persiasmarter, That looks right.17:11
smarteroh, it works if I choose some random stuff in the left-click menu of scim and then right click on a field --> IM --> scim-bridge17:11
smarterat least with pure Qt apps17:11
* smarter tests with Kate17:11
smarterhmm, it doesn't work but IIRC I need to define an env variable to make it work17:12
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smartercjwatson: it only works on apps which let me change the input method(Kopete and Quassel, but not Kate or Firefox)17:23
smarterbut that's probably another problem17:23
cjwatsonsmarter: ok, this sounds like scim configuration oddness rather than anything wrong with scim-bridge, so I'm content17:39
smarterI am too :)17:40
PovAddictpitti: thx for the info, I'll have a look at that file17:47
cjwatsonsmarter: thanks for the testing17:50
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zygahello, is there anyone interested in usb-creator && vmware && fixing small issue I have identified and resolved?18:56
zygaI have found that attachning a USB disk enclosure does not allow you to make it bootable for some reason18:57
zygaafter digging for a second I found out that the issue is caused by HAL not thinking this device is removable, usb-creator does not consider non-removable devices18:57
zygaI commented out that single dependency (on removability) and it appears to work fine18:58
persiazyga, Surely that's a HAL bug though, rather than a usb-creator bug.19:03
zygapersia: I'm going to report it for usb-creator first but I think you may be right19:05
zygastill I'm not sure that usb-creator is doing the right thing to require removable devices19:05
persiazyga, Hmm.  Well, when would you want to use it for a non-removable device?19:06
persiaI can maybe see the use case for mmc cards (where the storage isn't removable, because the entire interface is removable), but that's somewhat of a corner case.19:06
PovAddicton Windows, if I do "safe remove" on one of the drive letters from my memory card reader, it "unmounts" the card reader, not the card... can't use reader again until I reboot19:08
PovAddictwould my card reader be considered a removable device by Linux's HAL? (can I check?)19:09
zygaPovAddict: yes you can check19:10
zygaw819:10
zygaPovAddict: I think you can use hal-device to see what hal thinks about your card reader19:11
PovAddictit thinks it's four devices19:11
ScottKlamont: Any chance you could give primero a kick and get it going again?19:11
zygaI'm going to leave and reboot to my usb disk now19:12
zygaif anyone is interested the bug is id: lp #28959919:13
ubottuLaunchpad bug 289599 in usb-creator "usb-creator does not work with usb/ide disk enclosure" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28959919:13
PovAddictlinux.hotplug_type = 3  (0x3)  (int)19:13
PovAddictstorage.removable = true  (bool)19:13
demontagerwhy alsamixer shows only one channel "Master"? Where is other tunes?19:46
elliotjhughi, this seems like the sensible place to ask this. Does anyone know what the source package is for the Main Menu in ubuntu (the default apps, places, system one)?20:34
persiaelliotjhug, gnome-menus20:51
elliotjhugpersia: Thanks20:52
NCommanderScottK, you around?21:04
ScottKFor about 120 seconds21:08
ScottKNCommander: ^^21:08
LaneyTense! Will he make it back in time?21:09
ScottKNope.  See you all later.21:10
PovAddictlol21:10
* Laney waves21:10
liwis it still possible to get a program onto Rosetta (LP's translation thing) for intrepid?21:29
persialiw, From traffic in -release, I think the final langpack builds just started, which would mean no.21:29
liwdang. ok, serves me right for being late.21:30
persiaYou might be able to get it into the langpack updates, but I don't have any idea how that works.21:30
PovAddictthe name 'Rosetta' is too overloaded :/21:32
LycusIs there a way to show the guest account available from user switching on the Login window list?21:34
CarlFKis there an easy way to get python with debug symbols? my current plan is apt-get source python... build...21:48
PovAddictpython-dbg?21:49
NCommanderCarlFK, python2.5-dbg - Debug Build of the Python Interpreter (version 2.5)21:49
RainCTCarlFK: uhm.. python-dbg?21:49
NCommanderlol21:49
CarlFKbam bam bam!21:49
CarlFKthanks21:49
* NCommander loves when answers come in stereo21:49
CarlFKhow many things have a -dbg version?21:50
PovAddictapt-cache search -dbg | wc -l21:50
NCommanderCarlFK, most libraries do21:50
PovAddictalmost six hundred packages21:50
NCommander73821:50
PovAddict589 here :)21:51
* PovAddict has hardy21:51
* NCommander runs intrepid21:51
RainCTerror here xD21:51
NCommanderahaha21:51
RainCTE: Command line option 'd' [from -dbg] is not known.21:51
persiaAnd when there aren't -dbg packages, there are often -dbgsym packages available from ddebs.ubuntu.com21:51
CarlFKhmm.. guess the count isn't what I was wondering ... just knowing about -dbg is all I need21:51
RainCTok, now 73521:51
RainCT(with \\-dbg)21:51
RainCTNCommander: did you use \\- too or am I weird? :)21:54
NCommanderYOur just weird21:54
RainCTah k, that explains it all21:55
CarlFKhttp://dpaste.com/86899/  python import fg; g = fg.Grabber();  help(g) segfault.  is that a python problem, or fg.Grabber() ?21:57
CarlFKpersia: how do I use a .ddeb?21:57
CarlFKfg came from http://antonym.org/libfg21:58
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Rioting_pacifisti have a pretty bad problem with lsusb #kubuntu and #linux wernt much help22:11
Rioting_pacifistbasically lsusb, lsmod, modprobe -r, rmmod all freeze up the terminal in which i use them (i can still type in it but nothing has any effect), i think its a pretty bad kernel bug and would like to try and find the cause to report it, any ideas?22:13
Rioting_pacifistit was caused by loading up a beta webcam driver but i dont think freezing up the lsusb can be blamed on the driver22:14
johanbrSure it can. Buggy kernel modules can wreak all sorts of havoc.22:15
jdongsounds like the module oopsed the kernel22:16
jdongthat's typically common of buggy kernel modules.22:16
jdonglook in dmesg for a stacktrace22:16
Rioting_pacifistgot the stacktrace, makes no sense to me should i pastebin it then pass it on to the webcam driver developers?22:18

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