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maxbTheMuso: ok, will do - thanks02:03
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ebroderThe mit-scheme package is currently complete broken - uninstallable. Do I have a chance of getting a freeze exception to essentially re-merge with Debian?07:31
ebroder(Actually coming up with something like a minimal path would be more work than I'm interested in doing, but I think I mostly have the merge finished)07:32
Hobbseequite likely07:37
Hobbseeis that even a new upstream version?  You could probably just do it, without the exception07:38
ebroderIt's...not technically an upstream version, but it seems that the "releases" for a while have just been dated snapshots07:38
ebroderCool - I have one more build to try. If it works I'll go ahead and open a bug07:40
ebroderHmm...if I'm putting multiple LP closers in a changelog entry, is that "(LP: #123456, #654321)"?07:47
Mithrandiriirc we made that work, yes.07:48
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bluefoxicyrhythmbox is eating freaking lots of CPU17:04
bluefoxicy87% to play this MP317:04
xtknightwhat configuration file is written to when the primary mixer track is changed under Sound Preferences?17:13
xtknighti'm having a problem where my system forgets the device i select upon next reboot.  trying to debug it17:13
xtknightalso where is the sound preferences applet stored since there is no capplets/sound-properties in capplets-data17:27
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calccjwatson: i was reading on tytso blog that for non dual boot systems that are being freshly installed using GPT may be a better idea than using msdos partition format, has there been any discussion on doing this in ubuntu?18:34
ITechJunkieDoes anyone here know why my terminals don't seem to be refreshing right? I have to press enter twice just to see the text output of the next line...18:34
RainCTITechJunkie: Same here, please tell me if you find out how to fix it :P18:34
ITechJunkiegnome-terminal is the worst, xterm isn't quite as bad18:35
RainCTWell, it only happens some times here with irssi and such, not always18:35
ITechJunkieRainCT: I'm wondering if it was an update...18:35
ITechJunkieYeah, i'm using irssi now and it's being janky...18:35
RainCTITechJunkie: as a workaround, pressing Ctrl+L will force it to refresh and after doing that a few times it may work again18:36
ITechJunkieis that for irssi or gnome-term?18:36
RainCTITechJunkie: for the terminal, I think18:37
ITechJunkieIs there a log where I can see the updates I have installed recently?18:37
Laney:q18:38
Laneywhoops18:38
geserITechJunkie: /var/log/dpkg.log18:39
ITechJunkiegeser: thanks18:40
ITechJunkieI really hope it wasn't that kernel update that came out...18:41
ITechJunkiebut I bet it was, i've had several problems since then including nvidia drivers18:42
zygahello, I'd like to ask if pydoc3 is broken by design or is something invalid with py3 in jaunty? compare: 'pydoc os' vs 'pydoc3 os'?18:53
ebroderDo I need to argue for a freeze exception for bug #339618?18:57
ubottuLaunchpad bug 339618 in mpb "Update libctl to use guile-1.8" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33961818:57
RainCTkirkland: Uhm.. Where did the key binding to close windows in screen-profiles go?19:03
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JanCzyga: there is a thread on c.l.py about that, I think19:09
LaneyIs it possible to sync from lenny instead of sid or am I better off just uploading myself?19:58
slangasekit's possible, yes19:58
slangasekArneGoetje: can you help me understand why we have -base vs. non-base langpacks?  the latest langpack uploads with duplication of the xulrunner translations have contributed to kicking us back oversize on CDs - I'd like to keep the CDs packed as tight as possible during development so we have early warning when something's getting bigger than it should, but that doesn't work so well when I get a full langpack's-worth of fluctuation from the langpack20:03
slangasek... themselves :)20:03
johanbrtkamppeter: I recently tried printing 40 pages out of a 350 page pdf document with total size 4.5 megs. Those 40 pages were run through gs to produce a 100 meg ps file. Cups then converted this to pdf again to mess with it for a bit, giving a 166 meg temporary pdf file. Finally this was piped to pdf2ps to send to the printer.20:21
johanbrIs this really the way things are supposed to work? This is with Jaunty, by the way.20:21
tkamppeterjohanbr, the plans are that no PostScript at all is involved in that process.20:36
tkamppeterThe first conversion to PS is probably caused by the application from which you are printing. Which app did you use?20:37
johanbrevince20:38
johanbrwhich uses the gtk printing libraries20:38
tkamppeterCUPS is PDF-centric from Intrepid on. This means it turns everything to PDF and if it gets PDF it leaves it as PDF. Then it does page management (N-up, selecting pages, ...) on a PDF data stream which is more reliable than on PS. Now it converts PDF directly to the printer's native language (the native language of some printers is PostScript, here we have to convert to PS).20:40
slangasekbut no one told our primary pdf viewing software about this?20:41
tkamppeterIf your printer is not a PostScript printer make sure that you have a PPD file of Intrepid or later (with two or more "cupsFilter" lines), if not, re-create your print queue with system-config-printer.20:42
johanbrIt is a postscript printer (HP Laserjet). And the print queue was created on a fresh install with a Jaunty daily build from a month or so ago.20:44
tkamppeterGTK has standard functionality for generating print data, opening a print dialog, ..., but unfortunately there are many ways to call these functions, and this makes a simple patch like in bug #258421 bot switching all apps to PDF. Some apps need to be taken care of individually. Patches welcome ...20:46
ubottuLaunchpad bug 258421 in gtk+2.0 "GTK apps should send PDF to CUPS when printing" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25842120:46
johanbrfrom bug: "Other programs, like evince and Firefox still send PostScript. Here there are probably similar patches needed in the applications themselves."20:47
johanbrI see. Thanks for the explanation.20:48
tkamppeterslangasek, perhaps the patch needed for evince is as simple as the patch of bug 258421.20:48
ubottuLaunchpad bug 258421 in gtk+2.0 "GTK apps should send PDF to CUPS when printing" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25842120:48
calcanyone able to spot what is wrong with my compiler args here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/128477/  ?20:50
slangasektkamppeter: I just don't understand why it wasn't a priority to make sure the PDF viewer was doing the right thing as part of the cups transition...20:51
calcit compiles the code it just refuses to link it for some reason20:52
johanbrtkamppeter: looks like a simple patch to line 1016 of ev-print-operation.c would work.21:01
johanbrhttp://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evince/trunk/shell/ev-print-operation.c?view=markup21:02
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RainCTArr.. If you move a file which Totem is playing it stops.. This didn't happen before :(21:12
tkamppeterjohanbr, so I will add an evince task to bug 258421, please add the link to the bug report.21:13
ubottuLaunchpad bug 258421 in gtk+2.0 "GTK apps should send PDF to CUPS when printing" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25842121:13
johanbrtkamppeter: Sure. I'm now compiling evince with the change I mentioned. If it works, I'll attach the patch.21:14
tkamppeterjohanbr, it looks like that the line 1016 gets the desired output format (PS or PDF) from some centralized configuration. Perhaps we should change this configurationm to get more apps to print in PDF.21:17
TheMusodtchen: Will we be able to push a new rev of pulseaudio before Tuesday?21:23
johanbrtkamppeter: Right. Looking at that now.21:25
UnixOnehi21:43
UnixOneI've had some problems with the package comerr-dev. Kind of dependancy problems.21:43
UnixOneIs that a known error?21:43
ebroderWhat exactly are you running into?21:43
UnixOneebroder: I tried compiling the latest kernel that requires installation of several -dev packages. which was never a problem for me. But my apt got stuck with the package comerr-dev which has some dependancies that were defect also because of it.21:45
UnixOneebroder: It's a clean system no foreign repositories except the backports.21:45
ebroderYou're still not being specific enough21:45
UnixOneebroder: the un/install routine of comerr-dev is defect21:46
ebroderWhat version of Ubuntu is this on?21:47
UnixOneIntrepid21:48
jdongcould you pastebin the exact error message?21:49
UnixOneonly checking the backports maybe even the proposed updates. causes that huge error.21:49
UnixOnejdong: I've manuall uninstalled it by hand.. I don't like to run into that trouble again.21:49
jdongwell then the short answer is no, this is not a known problem.21:49
UnixOnejdong_: I removed the installed files and reset the status of dpkg21:50
ebroderThe group that I work with uses a lot of software that depends on comerr, and we haven't had any problems with it21:50
jdong*cringe*21:50
jdongyou hand edited *WHAT*?21:50
ebroder(Well, I mean, we have, but those are related to comerr being worthless, not the packaging being wrong :-P)21:50
UnixOneebroder: did you enable backporst and proposed updates?21:50
jdongI use both here on all my Ubuntu machines.21:50
UnixOnejdong: are you running kubuntu?21:51
ebroderI use -backports on virtually all of my machines, although not -proposed21:51
ebroderShouldn't matter21:51
jdongbackports doesn't do anything related to comerr21:51
UnixOnemaybe proposed-updates is the key factor21:51
jdongand kubuntu vs ubuntu use the same repositories.21:51
UnixOnejdong_: indeed21:51
jdongI'm looking at this month's and last month's propsoed uploads21:51
jdongsee nothing comerr related.21:51
jdongnext time, please capture a precise error message -- without it diagnosing something like this is next to impossible21:52
UnixOnejdong how can I find the cause of that error?21:52
ebroderThat's impossible to say without knowing what the error was21:52
UnixOneI mean how do I reversely look into that dependancy problem21:52
jdongI don't even know what error you are referring to.21:53
ebroderThere is no dependency problem. The package installs cleanly21:53
UnixOneebroder: ok, I'll install it again21:53
jdongand "some package has a defect" is not really helpful21:53
* jdong notes there is some irony about errors in libcomerr :)21:55
ebroderYou know what the best thing about the common error library is? There are so damn many of them21:55
UnixOnejdong: a question before I do install it. may it affect the system when I used backports+proposed to upgrade my system, when I remove proposed now?21:56
jdongnot really?21:56
UnixOnek21:56
slangasekebroder: only one in Ubuntu :-P21:56
ebroderslangasek: Incorrect21:56
UnixOneI'll uncheck proposed updates then21:56
ebroderAFS ships its own com_err :)21:57
slangasekeh, really?21:57
jdongwell AFS is weird in all its own ways :)21:57
slangasekkrb5 uses the common one21:57
ebroderRight21:57
slangasekI would've thought someone would send up the AFS stuff by now21:58
ebroderThere's a lot of muttering about how someone really should, but I don't think anyone's actually gone and unified the libraries21:58
ebroderActually...I bet Heimdal has a separate com_err from MIT Kerberos21:58
ebroderSo that might be 321:58
slangasekheimdal may not use it at all21:58
UnixOnecomerr-dev is an error for me :P but it's installing.. will pastebin the logs21:58
jdonglibopenafs-dev: /usr/include/afs/com_err.h21:59
jdongAFS definitely has its own :)21:59
UnixOneyay I've an errror with comerr21:59
jdongso we've heard the first time21:59
ebroderYeah - the default API calls have afs_ prepended onto them, but there's a #define you can set to make it collide21:59
UnixOneehrm how do I copy the log out of the terminal window in synpatic? STRG+C or STRG+SHIFT+C don't do it. Synaptic asks I really want to terminate. I say no. And I can't copy it.22:02
UnixOnebut I was able to copy the popup that appeared before22:02
jdongctrl-shift-c will do it22:02
jdongotherwise use mouse paste22:03
jdongor use a screenshot22:03
jdongI think /var/log/apt/term.log or something stores transcripts too22:03
UnixOnejdong: yes, I got it. It was related to klipper a clipboard tool default in kubuntu. It just gave me the earlier content of the clipboard. I deleted the clipboard history have done another ctrl+shift+c and voila.22:06
UnixOneshort version(popup) http://paste.nn-d.de/839 very very long version -> (terminal) http://paste.nn-d.de/84022:07
ebroderWell, English is definitely my only language, but I'm pretty sure that the problem is with gettext, not comerr-dev22:08
slangasekboth give the error22:09
ebroderHmm...good point22:09
UnixOneI tried installing THIS http://paste.nn-d.de/841 in short build-essential kernel-package qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev22:09
slangasek'subprocess post-installation script returned 1'22:09
jdongwell yay.22:09
slangasekUnixOne: 'info' is broken on your system22:10
UnixOneinfo ?22:10
UnixOne:D22:10
UnixOnelol22:10
slangasekspecifically, the install-info script provided by dpkg to register info documentation22:10
UnixOnefirst the error was broken, now it's info22:10
jdonginstall-info --quiet --section "Development" "Development" \ --description="" /usr/share/info/gettext.info22:10
jdongthat is what gettext attempts to do22:10
slangasekit's failing in the postinsts of any program that calls it22:10
ajmitchbut which install-info is being used here?22:11
UnixOneI there's a part that needs translation or is important I could translate it22:11
UnixOneit is  info_4.11.dfsg.1-4_i38622:13
UnixOnethe default one I guess22:13
slangasekUnixOne: what's the output of 'debsums -s dpkg' on your system?22:13
* ajmitch was meaning more along the lines of 'whereis install-info', in case you have one in /usr/local/bin or otherwise22:14
UnixOnethat package isn't installed currently22:14
UnixOneslangasek: debsums: checksum mismatch dpkg file /sbin/start-stop-daemon22:15
slangasekwell, that's interesting22:15
slangasekbut not directly relevant22:15
UnixOneyes, has nothing to with comerr-dev.. somehow. strange22:15
slangasekUnixOne: does /usr/local/bin/install-info exist, as ajmitch suggests?22:16
jdongwhich install-info22:16
UnixOneslangasek jdong yes /usr/local/bin/install-info22:16
slangasekyeah... you'll need to get rid of that22:16
jdonguhh.22:17
jdongyeah...22:17
jdongthat could be problem #1...22:17
jdongthough maybe dpkg shouldn't be operating with /usr/local in the PATH?22:17
jdongor is there actually a use-case for that22:17
slangasekjdong: the general principle is that dpkg shouldn't behave differently than the rest of the system wrt PATH22:17
* jdong nods22:18
ebroderI could imagine wanting it for testing purposes22:18
jdongindeed the rest of the system is no different about succumbing to /usr/local poison22:18
ScottK-desktopThat's by design.22:19
ebroderIf the system didn't respect /usr/local, then you'd have people putting a bunch of stuff in /usr, and that just doesn't end well22:20
ScottK-desktopIf an admin installs something, it should take precendence because presumably they know what they are doing.22:20
anderskpython3-minimal is currently getting pulled into all Jaunty installs. Can someone look at my debdiff in bug 330613?22:35
ubottuLaunchpad bug 330613 in python3-defaults "python3-minimal should not have 'Essential' set to yes" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33061322:35
UnixOneebroder jdong can you help me?22:40
UnixOneI've sent you all logs. do you know what I can do to fix that error?22:43
ebroderUnixOne: remove the install-info in /usr/local22:46
UnixOneebroder: sudo mv /usr/local/bin/install-info  /usr/local/bin/install-info.backup ?22:48
ebroderSure22:48
UnixOneok22:48
UnixOneand then reinstall those packages, right?22:48
ebroderShould work22:48
UnixOneok22:48
ebroderIf you've got anything else lying around in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin, you should think long and hard about whether they should be there22:48
UnixOneebroder: why? I've just texlive2008 installed22:49
UnixOnein the default location22:49
UnixOnethat's /usr/local/bin22:50
UnixOneebroder: it worked wow22:52
UnixOnegenius!22:52
TheMusodtchen: With the work you are doing on pulse, will things be in a state such that we can push a change for alpha 6, due this week?22:54
UnixOneebroder: why did install-info in /usr/local cause an error?22:54
dtchenTheMuso: yes23:09
TheMusodtchen: ok great.23:09
ebroderAnyone willing to sponsor an upload for bug #339449?23:10
ubottuLaunchpad bug 339449 in mit-scheme "FeatureFreezeException: Merge mit-scheme with Debian" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33944923:10
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rbritoHi there.23:15
rbritoI am an experienced linux user and I would like to help with the PowerPC port of Ubuntu.23:15
rbritoI have 5 packages on the Debian archive and I use PowerPC since 2000.23:16
rbritoI have also contributed some patches to the Linux kernel.23:16
rbritoWhat would it be necessary to be a contributor so that PowerPC gets in a better shape?23:17
rbritoFor the task of helping with the PowerPC port, I can test it under an OldWorld computer (a PowerMac 9500/180MP upgraded to a G3/400MHz), a NewWorld computer (an iBook 12" G3 600MHz) and a Kurobox (an embedded device using a Freescale processor).23:22
rbritoOf course, the easier task would be to get things running with the NewWorld computers.23:22
TheMusorbrito: please head over to #ubuntu-powerpc and we can chat there.23:23
rbritoBut I would like to know how the ports of Ubuntu are maintained, so that I can take the proper measures.23:23
rbritoTheMuso, Thank you very much.23:23
johanbrtkamppeter: Forcing evince to export pdf doesn't seem to work very well. The pdftopdf filter runs out of memory on large documents, and on small ones I get black borders and similar artifacts.23:25
tkamppeterjohanbr, can you direct the PDF printing output of evince into files to investigate the integrity, for example to see of acroread or gv handle this PDF correctly?23:27
tkamppeterjohanbr, what is your Launchpad user name?23:27
johanbrtkamppeter: Sorry, I partially take that back. I think the small pdf document I started with was not very good.23:36
johanbrand I just subscribed myself to the bug23:36
johanbrFor the "large" pdf document, pdftopdf grew to 1.6 gig resident size and the computer started swapping like crazy. Even though the original size is less than five megs.23:37
johanbrtkamppeter: Which options does cups use when it calls pdftopdf? I tried running it by hand, and it worked fine (even if the resulting pdf file is a bit large, about 100 megs).23:45
tkamppeterjohanbr, can you attach the large PDF file which causes problems for you to the bug report?23:47
tkamppeterTo test CUPS filter chains there is a utility named "cupsfilter". See also its man page.23:47
* calc didn't realize he was going to end up learning how to write gnome code to fix bugs in OOo, heh23:50
tkamppeterIn general a CUPS filter (or backend) is called with 5 or 6 options. See "man 7 filter".23:50
* calc hopes he learns fast enough to fix the gvfs/gio bugs in OOo by beta23:51
tkamppeterjohanbr, you can call CUPS filters simply with "<filter> 1 1 1 1 '' <input file>" and get the output file on stdout.23:54
LaserJockcalc: OOo uses gcfs/gio directly?23:55
LaserJock*gvfs23:55
johanbrtkamppeter: Unfortunately I can't attach the document to the bug, but I could send it to you privately.23:56
tkamppeterjohanbr, then please do so: till dot kamppeter at gmail dot com23:57
johanbrInterestingly enough, calling pdftopdf directly produces a large file (~ 100 megs), but calling cupsfilter produces a file of the same size as the original (~5 megs).23:57
tkamppeterjohanbr, is the file too big to attach or is it of confidential content?23:58
johanbrThe latter. Well, semi-confidential.23:59

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