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RedSingularityHey guys, i am interested in becoming a bug squad member.  Where can i begin?  I believe i have joined the squad on launchpad already.00:02
ddecatorRedSingularity, have you looked over https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage ?00:05
RedSingularityddecator, yes sir I have.  What is next?00:13
ddecatorRedSingularity, if you think you have a good handle on that, then you can start working on some basic things. you can look for duplicates, ask for more info, etc, just make sure you subscribe. i also recommend requesting a mentor. and, as always, if you have -any- questions, then feel free to ask them here =)00:14
RedSingularityddecator, Ok great....i am requesting a mentor now.  Thanks a lot!00:18
ddecatorno problem!00:18
ddecatorbtw, RedSingularity , you might want to look here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses and think about installing firefox-lp-improvements (if you use firefox)00:28
RedSingularityddecator, Ah very good, i will look into that now.00:29
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RedSingularityddecator, where can i begin looking at filed bugs to try?00:39
hggdhyou can go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu00:41
hggdhthen select your poison ;-)00:41
RedSingularityOk so these are bugs related to Ubuntu?00:42
hggdhRedSingularity: the above link is a bit wrong00:42
hggdhhttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=00:42
hggdhthis one gets everything00:42
hggdhRedSingularity: look for the ones that say (Ubuntu)00:43
hggdhthese are fair game. The others may *not* be fair game00:43
RedSingularityAnd should i be looking for ones that no one has touched yet?  "New" ones?00:44
hggdhyes, you can. It is probably a good idea to browse first, and find some you feel confortable with, and start there00:44
hggdh(it is much easier to triage packages you *know*)00:45
RedSingularityOh ok, but what if someone has "subscribed" to it already?00:46
hggdhusually at least the OP (Original Poster) is subscribed00:47
hggdhBut any bug is fair game, as long it is an Ubuntu one00:47
hggdhbeing subscribed only means you are interested in the bug life, it does not make one the exclusive owner00:48
RedSingularityhggdh, what if the bug is assigned to someone already?01:18
rmunnWhich package is responsible for the "The program 'XYZ' is not installed, you can install it by typing apt-get xyz" messages? Is it apt, or something else?01:18
crimsuncommand-not-found01:19
rmunnI believe LP #523264 is caused by this package (names unix2dos and dos2unix disappeared from package tofrodos, but tofrodos is still being suggested to the user)01:19
ubot4Launchpad bug 523264 in tofrodos (Ubuntu) "[lucid] dos2unix is not in tofrodos (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52326401:19
hggdhRedSingularity: which bug is this?01:21
RedSingularityhggdh, actually i found one that is unassigned.  Should i assign myself?01:22
RedSingularityIs that how you do it?01:22
RedSingularityAssign myself?01:23
persiaIf you're going to fix it.01:23
persiaWe don't usually assign ourselves for triage.01:23
persia(this helps make it more clear that it is available for someone to fix, and also prevents reporters complaining we aren't helping when we unassign ourselves if triage is complete)01:24
RedSingularityHow do you make it "your" bug report then?  I mean how do you let others know you are working on it?01:24
persiaGenerally there's not much competition :)01:24
persiaBut one could say something like "I'm working on bug #524148"01:25
ubot4Launchpad bug 524148 in onboard (Ubuntu) "onboard has overactive dependencies (affects: 1)" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52414801:25
persiaOthers might look and offer advice, but leave triage to you.01:25
persiaWe usually work cooperatively, so that one investigates a bug, leaves a comment, and moves to another bug.01:25
persiaIt's good practice to subscribe to bugs one is triaging, but someone else might also help.01:26
persiaIn case of confusion or collision, just ask here.01:26
RedSingularityYeah thats what i mean........lets say i want to do some triage on bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/524168 what would i do?01:27
ubot4Launchpad bug 524168 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) "No audio output from rhythmbox (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New]01:27
persiaRedSingularity: I usually start by trying to replicate it.01:36
RedSingularityOk sounds good, if i can replicate it what should i do?01:39
RedSingularityBetter yet......what if i CANT replicate?01:43
persiaRedSingularity: If you can't replicate, try to get closer to the reporters environment.02:03
persiaKeep track of what you changed, as these become areas of suspicion :)02:03
RedSingularityIf i cannot get replication even under similar settings should i assign the report as "invalid"?02:09
persiaWell, how similar did you get?02:12
persiaIf I can't replicate, I usually set "Incomplete", and ask for detailed instructions to replicate.02:12
persiaI've seen bugs that only happen for certain hardware, or only happen in Hungarian, etc.02:13
nigelbhggdh: are you around?03:51
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nigelbcan someone set bug 354259 to triaged?05:06
ubot4Launchpad bug 354259 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "Rhythmbox doesn't skip bad files (affects: 1)" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/35425905:07
om26ernigelb, done05:09
nigelbom26er: thanks :)05:09
ddecatorbug 523236, [triaged, low] please =) (simple cosmetic translation problem)05:14
ubot4Launchpad bug 523236 in nautilus (Ubuntu) (and 2 other projects) "Translation problem in Nautilus (French version): 21ère (affects: 2)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52323605:14
ddecatormicahg, how about bug 51992805:28
ubot4Launchpad bug 519928 in firefox (Ubuntu) "firefox has problems rendering table borders. (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51992805:28
micahgddecator: well, you've been triaging a little while, what do you think?05:29
ddecatormicahg, it would be nice to know what version of FF he is using, but i also can confirm the behavior on FF 3.705:32
micahgindeed05:33
micahgddecator: how familiar are you with web technologies?05:33
ddecatormicahg, depends what you mean about web technologies...but i guess i'm pretty basic right now05:34
ddecatormean by*05:34
micahgHTML, XHTML, CSS05:34
ddecatori know a decent amount of html, but that's all05:35
micahgok, I just verified got it to pass the HTML validator and I sitll see the issue05:36
micahgddecator: what video driver are you using?05:36
ddecatormicahg, i have the nvidia graphics driver but idk if that's used for video as well05:37
micahgddecator: k, so we have different drivers05:37
micahgddecator: k, so, then it would seem to be valid, so let05:40
micahgs check for dupes05:40
ddecatormicahg, i don't see anything05:45
micahgddecator: k, let's upstream05:45
micahgddecator: do you see any bugs that are similar upstream05:46
* ddecator starts looking05:46
ddecatormicahg, i don't see anything...05:52
micahgddecator: mozilla 41095905:55
ubot4Mozilla bug 410959 in Layout: Tables "[BC] Table cell border widths render incorrectly at various zoom levels" [Normal,New] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41095905:55
ddecatorhow the...i looked up "table render zoom" and nothing came back05:55
micahg:) try simple first...I tried borders zoom and then followed some of the links in the bugs05:56
ddecatoralright, i'll remember that...anyway, link them?05:56
micahgddecator: yeah, I think so, i'll add the LP bug upstream05:59
* ddecator will look at how you format the addition05:59
* micahg has canedit privs upstream :)05:59
micahgoops05:59
micahgcanconfirm05:59
ddecatoraw, someday...05:59
ddecatorwe'll have to update the LP description too06:00
micahgddecator: k06:00
ddecatormicahg, whats your ubuntu version, FF version, and video driver?06:04
micahgkarmic 3.6, intel :)06:04
ddecator32 or 64 bit =p06:05
micahg6406:05
micahgddecator: why?06:06
ddecatormicahg, -shrug- just something i usually include in my descriptions06:07
ddecatormicahg, updated the description and title, but idk what tags you guys (the mozilla team) like to use, if any06:08
micahgddecator: standard tags06:08
micahgnone in this case06:08
micahgddecator: what importance06:09
ddecatormicahg, alright. i don't see your addition to the upstream bug. i would say "low" since it's more of a cosmetic bug and doesn't seem to limit any functionality06:09
micahgddecator: I added the bug to the See Also field06:14
micahgddecator: yep06:14
* ddecator never noticed the see also field06:14
micahgddecator: it's new in bugzilla 3.406:14
micahgddecator: Triaged in LP06:15
ddecatormicahg, nice addition, but you need extra access i'm guessing?06:15
micahgddecator: yes, canconfirm06:15
micahgthat's why I got it :)06:15
ddecatorsomeday06:15
micahgddecator: one thing at a time06:16
micahgI was upstreaming bugs for over 6 months before I got that06:16
ddecatormicahg, yup, that's y "someday," i know there are more important things to cover first06:16
micahgplus one of the mozilla guys was watching me from the beginning06:16
ddecatorthat's always a nice benefit06:17
ddecatormicahg, alright, another one?06:18
micahgddecator: sure, I;m waiting for something to finish here06:18
ddecatormicahg, i'm looking at bug 518422 but i'm guessing we would just want to ask them to update to the latest version before doing anything else?06:21
ubot4Launchpad bug 518422 in firefox (Ubuntu) "Firefox does not start (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51842206:21
micahgddecator: yes, most likely already addressed06:21
ddecatorthere should be a "please update and report back" canned response...06:22
ddecatoralright, left a comment and marked it incomplete06:24
micahgthere is I thought06:25
micahgoh, I did that :)06:26
ddecatoryou made your own? haha06:26
micahgddecator: there's a response on the responses page though06:26
micahghttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#About an obsolete version of the software for reporter's release06:26
ddecatoroh yah, i just noticed that06:26
om26erhave it screwed this bug report? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/52368606:26
ubot4Launchpad bug 523686 in dnsmasq (Ubuntu) "[needs-packaging] dnsmasq need update to 2.52 (affects: 1)" [Wishlist,Invalid]06:26
ddecatormicahg, bug 513884 looks like fun...06:27
ubot4Launchpad bug 513884 in firefox (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "Images loaded in a separate tab will sometimes disappear after rendering (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51388406:27
micahgom26er: what do you mean?06:27
om26ermicahg, I marked it invalid as 2.52 is already in lucid but the reporter seems to have reported against karmic06:28
om26er21hours ago06:28
micahgom26er: that's correct, we don't update versions in stable releases, the user can file a request against karmic-backports06:28
om26ermicahg, should I add a tag or leave it there06:29
micahgom26er: you can explain the stable release policy and suggest adding a karmic-backports task if they want it backported, you should probably look at this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports06:30
micahgddecator: already upstream...06:30
ddecatormicahg, the reporter filed it upstream himself, but it's not consistent and he tagged it 3.7 but says upstream that it's 3.6...just leave it?06:31
micahgddecator: I'll triage it since he reported upstream as well06:31
micahgddecator: no, read closer upstream06:31
ddecatormicahg, oh, doesn't =)06:31
ddecatormicahg, so i keep finding bugs that aren't running the latest version. i'm asking them to update and report back, but are there any bugs you know of that would be good for me to pay attention to?06:40
micahgddecator: well, idk06:43
ddecatormicahg, haha, alright, any "homework"? certain types of firefox bugs i should work on or anything?06:50
micahgddecator: nah, just ask if you have questions06:53
ddecatormicahg, fair enough, thanks for the help06:53
micahgddecator: BTW, installation failures you should look through the apt log for problems06:53
ddecatormicahg, good to know...06:54
SwedeMikehi, I've reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/516524 12 days ago with step by step how to reproduce the problem in 10.04 (and it also is a problem in 9.10 but to a lesser degree) but still there hasn't been (as far as I can see) any activity on the bug. What am I missing? Can I do anything else?06:55
ubot4Launchpad bug 516524 in ubuntu "Passphrase request at bootup doesn't work properly (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New]06:55
SwedeMikeand this is a regression from 9.04 and earlier where it worked perfectly06:56
micahgSwedeMike: try back a little later maybe if no one answers, this is usually a quieter time for this channel06:58
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ddecatormicahg, the only things i saw in that apt log were a problem with the adblock extension and the gm extension, and it mentioned ff 3.5 but nothing about 3.6...07:01
SwedeMikemicahg: thanks.07:01
micahgSwedeMike: this is the right place to start poking though07:02
* syn-ack tickles micahg 07:15
syn-ackhows it going?07:15
micahghi syn-ack07:15
micahgsyn-ack: know anything about ecryptfs?07:16
syn-acksuch as?07:16
syn-ackI know a little...07:16
syn-ackmicahg: and by little I mean, >< much07:17
micahg bug 51652407:17
ubot4Launchpad bug 516524 in ubuntu "Passphrase request at bootup doesn't work properly (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/51652407:17
syn-ackOh, I was just getting ready to look at that one in my mean07:17
syn-ackin my email07:17
syn-ackmicahg: Im not trying to cop out but I wonder if this is yet another problem due to plymouth07:20
micahgidk07:21
SwedeMikeit didn't work properly in 9.10 either.07:21
SwedeMikebut there at least one was dropped to rescue mode and could fix it manually.07:21
SwedeMikeI'm actually afraid to reboot my 10.04 right now because I'm not sure I'll be able to get it working again.07:21
syn-ackyeah, I saw you mention that in the email07:22
syn-ackI really don't know bub, I don't tend to run encrypted parts on this machine since it's my development machine07:22
SwedeMikeand it's an alternate cd from 8.04 or 8.10 install with crypt+lvm for /07:22
syn-ack(I reinstall quite a bit at times)07:22
syn-ackSwedeMike: Have you tried using a karmic or lucid installer to check and see if that happens with them? Im not sure how much of a difference it would make, maybe the configs arent getting properly updated from something that old?07:23
syn-ack(shot in the dark)07:24
SwedeMikesyn-ack: no, I haven't tried the alternate installer for lucid or karmic to do this, no. I can do that during the weekend though.07:24
SwedeMikeyou mean that some of the configuration has changed and now it's supposed to be done another way?07:25
syn-ackwell, for example, grub2 is now the default boot manager, right?07:25
SwedeMikeyeah, that's true.07:25
syn-ackwell it's config is COMPLETELY different from grub07:25
SwedeMikeoki, I'll give that a shot.07:25
syn-ackI mean, I could be totally blowing the fine grade here, but I'm wondering if that might have something to do with it07:26
SwedeMikeI'll update the bug during the weekend with that information. It's just that if someone right now comes along and does an 8.04->10.04 upgrade I guess it won't upgrade to grub2 ? Anyhow, I see that this is important information to add.07:26
SwedeMikebut for the 10.04 problem with just any crypted partition that is mounted somewhere, it's still easily reproducible in a vm per my instructions. I see that this is two different problems though.07:27
syn-ackwell, it upgraded but maybe that bit of the upgrade wasnt as clean as it could have been07:27
SwedeMikeno, my 10.04 machine still runs grub, not grub207:27
syn-acktry upgrading grub then07:28
syn-ackthere's an "update-grub-something script that does it for you07:29
SwedeMikewell, my vm fresh install that the reproduction pictures in the bug came from is a fresh 10.04 install though07:29
syn-ackI've forgotten what it is07:29
SwedeMikeso it runs grub207:29
syn-ackhrm07:29
syn-ackI don't know then07:29
syn-acklike I said, it was a shot in the dark. Hell it could really be something within the code its self like I said the first time. crypt really isnt my area of expertise07:30
SwedeMikecheck.07:30
syn-ackSwedeMike: ask me an aa question. :P07:32
marmutaHi persia are you there?08:31
marmutaquestion concerning Bug #52414808:31
ubot4Launchpad bug 524148 in onboard (Ubuntu) "onboard has overactive dependencies (affects: 1)" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52414808:32
marmutaInstead of patching X11.py on build wouldn't it be preferable to permanently modify the source to reference full sonames?08:32
BUGabundo_remotehey o/08:43
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kklimondashould we encourage people to reports bugs if they don't know english at all?11:25
seb128no11:25
seb128we already have too many bugs correctly written11:25
seb128ie there is no need to add some we will never look at, that's wasting submitter time and triager time11:25
seb128or point them to the answer tracker11:26
seb128they can open questions in their language there11:26
kklimondaok11:26
edakiriWill removing plymouth help me see info at boot for debugging purposes?  Is there any drawback?  I don't count missing graphics covering up text as a drawback.11:29
kklimondaedakiri: you can try removing splash and quite from the kernel command line in grub first11:32
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_Narc_Hello all. I'm still earning to triage, sorry about the stupid questions. When a bug like #524356 is "solved" by the user, should it be marked Invalid ?13:13
_Narc_learning *13:13
nigelbbug 52435613:13
ubot4Launchpad bug 524356 in totem (Ubuntu) "totem is mute (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52435613:13
om26er_Narc_, yes you can mark it invalid13:14
om26erwith a comment13:14
nigelb_Narc_: as om26er says, mark as invalid and say closing as user reports everything works fine13:15
_Narc_Ok, thanks, I'll do that13:16
_Narc_Is it wrong to use the standard comments I found on the wiki ? Not in that case maybe but generally13:16
_Narc_It's a bit impersonal but they're convenient13:17
nigelbIt is generally suggested that you *use* the standard replies13:17
nigelbthere is even a firefox plugin that does half the work for you13:17
_Narc_Ok. I'm asking because one day someone mocked me on Launchpad for doing so13:18
_Narc_Oh really13:18
_Narc_Which one ?13:18
nigelbsomeone mocked you? bug number?13:18
_Narc_Well, not really mocked but said to the submitter to nevermind my copycat comments13:19
_Narc_I don't remember the number13:19
nigelbif someone is overly abusive, you should report them13:19
nigelbhere's the plugin https://edge.launchpad.net/~gm-dev-launchpad/+archive/ppa13:19
nigelbadd the ppa and then install13:20
_Narc_It was a few months ago, when I started to triage13:20
_Narc_Ok, thanks13:20
BUGabundo_remoteneed help putting this in the right place https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/+bug/52441813:26
ubot4Launchpad bug 524418 in eglibc (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "*** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x00000000024d7950 *** (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New]13:26
BUGabundo_remotecan't find aptitude13:26
nigelbbug 52441813:27
ubot4Launchpad bug 524418 in eglibc (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "*** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x00000000024d7950 *** (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52441813:27
nigelbBUGabundo_remote: I dont get what you mean13:28
BUGabundo_remotenigelb: hi. I found libc5 no prob there, but can't find aptitude13:29
BUGabundo_remoteto report it against13:29
* BUGabundo_remote may should have used apt-get or apt :S13:29
nigelbI thought there was already an aptitude task against it?13:29
chrisccoulsonit should only be reported against aptitude13:30
BUGabundo_remoteok chrisccoulson13:31
nigelbBUGabundo_remote: there is aptitude in the packages list.  donno how it didn't turn up for you13:31
BUGabundo_remoteI cannt *ever* use search to find anything :(13:32
BUGabundo_remoteI suck at search13:32
BUGabundo_remotechrisccoulson: I invalidated libc6 task13:33
BUGabundo_remotenot if only I could fin aptitude task in ubuntu project :\13:33
nigelbBUGabundo_remote: I'll do it13:34
BUGabundo_remotethanks13:34
nigelbBUGabundo_remote: done :)13:35
* BUGabundo_remote refreshs13:36
BUGabundo_remotecool13:36
BUGabundo_remoteshould the upstream task be kept ?13:36
BUGabundo_remoteor invalidated13:37
nigelbI'm not sure about that.13:37
nigelbsince its not linked to an upstream bug, I doubt if it causes any harm13:37
nigelbseb128: there are a few old rhythmbox bugs with logs given by OP that we have not been able to look at.13:48
nigelbIs there some place I can see how to interpret the debug logs?13:48
nigelb(or I can triage them all and give the list of bugs I need help with)13:50
nigelbmorning hggdh :)14:00
hggdhmorning nigelb14:39
nigelbhggdh: finally I reached the rhythmbox bugs filed against karmic14:43
nigelbphew, adopting a package is a load of work ;)14:43
hggdhyes it is... mostly when it is something like rythmbox (or however the name is written)14:45
* nigelb plans for spelling lessons for hggdh ;)14:46
nigelblol14:46
hggdhit's dyslexia ;-)15:16
nigelbyeah rite :P dyslexia of the hands15:21
nigelbthey just seem to press the wrong key15:21
nigelbhggdh: btw, you joined canonical? or just the QA team?15:21
* nigelb was reading logs of last qa meeting15:21
hggdhnigelb: both15:21
nigelbw00t15:22
nigelbcongrats!15:22
hggdhthank you15:22
nigelbdoes this mean you'll not be at the whim of your clients?15:22
nigelband have a more or less sane schedule... ;)15:22
hggdhyes. There *are* some advantages15:23
hggdhOTOH, now I have one single manager ;-)15:23
nigelbgreat :)15:25
nigelbhggdh: anything more I should be doing to edge my suitability to bug-control?15:29
hggdhnigelb: *now* you are dong what you needed to be doing ;-)15:30
hggdhso you are OK15:31
nigelbhuh?15:31
nigelbmeaning triaging a lot of bugs?15:31
hggdhyou were off for a while, remember?15:31
hggdhyes15:31
hggdhjeeezzzz s/dong/doing/15:31
nigelblol15:33
nigelbyeah.  My laptop had issues.  Now its not fixed, but I found a work around15:34
thekornwow, hggdh, congrats ;)15:34
nigelbhggdh: you seem to be high :p15:34
hggdhthekorn: thank you. Who would have said one day I would get there?15:35
thekornhggdh, that's 'xactly the question I was asking myself ;)15:36
hggdhnigelb: sounds fun. Of all companies that offered me positions in the last years, this is the single one I think it would be fun15:36
nigelbhggdh: its fun to get paid for what you like to do in free time15:36
hggdhthere you go15:36
nigelbI wish certainly wish I could..15:37
hggdhand *now* I can, who knows, have a bit of real free time ;-)15:37
nigelbhahah15:37
hggdhnigelb: for you to get an idea: my first two employments (University CS research center, and a government research center) were fun. Really.15:38
hggdhall the rest in between was money15:38
nigelbhggdh: ah, lucky.15:38
nigelbhggdh: I've been stuck in a very boring position for ...ew... 3 years.  Waiting to finish my bachelors to do something I like to do15:39
hggdhyeah. Soi first 6 years were fun, intermediate 30 were not really fun, but paid good.15:40
nigelbgasp..15:40
nigelbyou have 36 years of experience?15:40
* hggdh is sort of old15:40
hggdhpretty much, yes. I started in 7415:41
nigelbwow15:41
* nigelb bows15:41
nigelbanyone seen pedro around lately?15:43
hggdhhe is on vacation/holiday15:43
nigelbouch15:43
nigelbhggdh: I've got a list of bugs where OP has given requested info but we've not looked into it.  I dont understand the debug.  So, I guess I'll just make a list and ask seb15:44
hggdhheh?15:45
hggdhgive me one example, please15:45
nigelbhold on.  screen flicking.  restarting15:45
nigelbback15:48
nigelbbug 486467, bug 32886415:51
ubot4Launchpad bug 486467 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) ""Error transferring track" (affects: 4)" [Low,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/48646715:51
ubot4Launchpad bug 328864 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) "rythmbox plays a short piece of a song and skips to the next song in order (affects: 2)" [Low,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/32886415:51
BUGabundo_remotehggdh: #ubuntu-pt sff15:57
vishnigelb: send 328864 upstream ...  you have adopted the rhythmbox package right ? ;)16:04
nigelbvish: yes16:04
nigelbvish: its painful dealing with a lot of old bugs16:04
vishnigelb: thankless , painful jobs are the doc team and the bug squad ;)16:05
BUGabundo_remotewb ogasawara. long time no see :D16:05
nigelbvish: and the one you are most likely going to get cursed at16:05
vishthat too :D16:05
nigelbvish: have you ever touched an ubuntu one bug or the one big bug with lots of dups?16:06
nigelbduane got cussed coz he forgot to add the dup comment before duping it16:06
nigelba big bunch of people got mails and said like "lp notifications suck" and the likes16:07
vishoh..16:07
vishnigelb: didnt understand > "have you ever touched an ubuntu one bug or the one big bug with lots of dups? "16:08
nigelbvish: lol, if u have, you would have gotten the mail too16:08
nigelbmost people have touched at least one.. there are some 50 dups for that thing16:09
vishah those.. yeah , i must have... nigelb if you dont get yelled at by some reporter it means you havent done enough triaging ;p16:10
nigelbgood point16:10
charlie-tcahggdh: congrats on the move up!16:21
hggdhcharlie-tca: thank you very much16:22
kklimondawhat move up? what have I missed? :)16:22
hggdh:-)16:22
charlie-tcaI'm glad you got something you enjoy. Took me 33 years to get one I liked a lot.16:22
charlie-tcaThen I had to give it up... illness16:23
hggdhsorry. For me it took about 30 years...16:23
kklimondahggdh: you work for canonical now? congrats :)16:24
charlie-tcaAhh - it's life. At least I got to enjoy it for a while. Now it is all volunteer work, which means I still get to do what I want.16:24
* vish blinks16:25
hggdhkklimonda: yes, I do16:25
vishhggdh: werent you already working for canonical ?16:25
hggdhvish: no...16:25
vishhggdh: ah..  congrats :)16:25
hggdhcommunity pretty much like everybody else -- which I still love16:25
qenseHow do you make sure when writing an Apport hook that the report will be marked private when it's reported?16:26
qensehgddh: Congratulations with your new job! What is it? ;)16:26
thekornevery apport bugreport will start as a private one16:27
thekorn*I* think16:27
micahgthekorn: that wasn't always true, you sure?16:27
thekornno, I'm not sure16:27
thekornlet me read the source16:28
hggdhqense: it is pretty much what I have been doing -- QA, but directed to servers16:29
qensehggdh: good luck with the job!16:29
hggdhqense: thank you, I appreciate16:29
hggdhbrb -- reboot after a ton of updates on Lucid16:30
thekornwow, that's complex16:30
nigelbqense: you can run the report against staging and try16:31
nigelb(the apport hook)16:31
thekornqense, you are safe if the 'DistroRelease' and the 'Traceback' fields have some content16:32
thekornthen this report will always start as private16:32
qensethekorn: I'm writing an Apport hook for Gwibber, and with that I want to include the ~/.cache/gwibber/gwibber.log file, which sometimes does contain sensitive data like Facebook uids. I'm not sure if filling the DistroRelease and Traceback fields with garbage would be the right way, I'll look for another solution. Thanks for your effors anyway!16:33
kklimondaqense: it sounds as a terrible hack16:34
kklimondaqense: you should probably ask pitti16:34
kklimondalike a*16:35
nigelbqense: you want the reports to be made private?16:35
qensenigelb: yes16:36
nigelbqense: I played around with it some time back.  lemme get back to you in 5 mins?16:36
qensenigelb: that would be great, sure16:36
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thekornI think all apport bugreports have a DistroSeries and Traceback by default16:39
thekornand if they don't have a Traceback16:39
thekornthey have a CoreDump, which is another condition for a private report ;)16:39
thekornso no need to fill in garbage ;)16:40
nigelbqense: okay.  there is no direct method that I can find to make it private :(16:43
qensenigelb: Ok, thanks for looking for it anway.16:43
nigelbnaw problems :)16:43
nigelbqense: do you know which packages the report automatically becomes private?16:44
qensenigelb: no16:44
nigelbif you know of one, you can look into its hook to see how its done16:44
nigelbdoesn't evolution make reports private?16:44
qenseI've looked into several hooks, but couldn't find anything about marking it as private.16:44
qenseI'll look at evolution then16:44
qensenigelb: there's no hook for evolution16:45
thekornqense, don't care about it for now, write the hook, test it on staging, and see if reports are private, I'm pretty sure all report are prive ;)16:46
thekornprivate16:46
qensethekorn: will do16:47
micahgcould I get someone on Lucid to please test 'ubuntu-bug firefox' with the -0ubuntu4 update?16:47
qensebtw, there is this comment in an Apport configuration file: "# NOTE this will change Fall '07 when RHT switches to bugzilla 3.x!"16:48
qenseisn't that a bit old news already? ;)16:48
micahgqense: go ask pitti in -devel16:48
qensemicahg: ok16:49
thekorni will fail if RHT was suing apport, but I don't think they do16:50
qensethekorn: according to pitti Fedora decided to NIH Apport, whatever that may mean.16:51
ograNIH = not invented here16:51
jpdsNIH: not invented here16:52
kklimondayeah, they did16:52
qenseok16:52
qensegoing afk now16:53
vishmicahg: ubuntu-bug firefox , works with -0ubuntu4 or do you want me to file a test bug?17:30
nigelbseb128: need your help with rhythmbox.  Can you ping me when you got time?17:34
BUGabundo_remotevish: lucid?17:34
andreyfrHello, I'm new to Ubuntu and very new to Lucid. I have 2.6.32-10-generic and 2.6.32-13-generic to choose from in GRUB. If I choose the 2.6.32-13-generic - video isn't properly initialized, although from sounds and behavior I concluded that X is running. I wonder if I shall report it and how to do that17:34
vishyup17:34
vishBUGabundo_remote: ^17:34
BUGabundo_remotepython broken for me17:35
nigelbhggdh: what would be your take on this.  totem and rhythmbox use the sample plugins and work similarly.  Is there anything extra I should do to get totem apport hook working with rhythmbox?17:37
hggdhnigelb: you could use the totem hook as a base, yes17:38
nigelbhggdh: not much of changes to be made if i'm not mistaken?17:38
hggdhcan you pastebin the totem hook?17:39
hggdhhold on17:39
nigelbyep17:39
hggdhI have it17:39
nigelbI'll give you my modified version (just made totem to rhythmbox17:40
nigelbhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/379875/17:40
hggdhit is a first start, yes17:42
hggdhnow, are there specific configuration files for rhytmbox?17:42
nigelbwhat more is needed?17:42
nigelbI have no clue17:42
nigelbchecking17:43
nigelbgenerally, we only ask that the OP run rhythmbox in debug mode and attach the log17:44
nigelbnow, if that could be done inside the hook itself, it would be awesome ;)17:44
hggdhheh17:45
charlie-tcaCheck out the alsa-base hooks, they do something to get it to run the alsa-info script17:46
hggdhyou might list the gconf entries for rhytmbox17:46
hggdhbut there might be private data there17:46
nigelbcharlie-tca: alsa base hooks can be triggered from inside here17:47
charlie-tcaCan you use what they are to trigger the debug?17:48
nigelbcharlie-tca: do an ubuntu-bug totem and you'll get an idea17:48
nigelbthe thing is, it helps avoid bugs like " I cant hear any sound" being filed against totem (i'm trying to do the same for rhytmbox and some more17:49
charlie-tcaIt was just a thought. Maybe you can trigger the rhythmbox --debug the same way they trigger the script17:49
hggdhon the gconf: you could run gconftool-2 -R /apps/rhythmbox and add the output as a seciton17:49
nigelbyeah.  thats what I'm trying to do too :)17:49
nigelbhggdh: that is indeed possible.  lemme hack python17:50
hggdhlike report['Miscellaneous'] = '\nPlugins:\n' + apport.hookutils.command_output(['gconftool-2', '-R', '/apps/rhythmbox'])17:50
hggdhbut check if you need all of it17:50
nigelbhggdh: that gconf thing helps17:51
nigelbespecially to check what is enabled/disabled.  I dont have to ask for it17:51
hggdhand charlie-tca's suggestion still applies -- see what else is done in alsa-info, and add it in if needed17:52
nigelbbut alsa info is anyway triggered17:54
nigelbsee the script.  if the issue is audio, it goes to the alsa's hook automatically17:54
nigelb(or so I think.  Correct me if I'm wrong)17:54
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hggdhyes, seems to17:55
nigelbeven if I'm not thorough with python, I seem to know enough to hack around it... strange17:56
hggdhcollecting the gconf data may require anonymising, since the user's directories will be reflected there17:56
nigelbwhich I'm not sure how to do (yet)17:57
nigelbif sense figures it out, I could use it too or else I have to find a way to remove all instance of $username with 'username' or something to that effect17:57
hggdhshould be easy a search & replace on the list18:01
nigelbhggdh: this line plainly fails for me...18:20
nigelb"report["GConfInfo"] = apport.hookutils.command_output('gconftool-2', '/apps/rhythmbox')"18:20
hggdhoh. I just copied & pasted from another hook, it has to be adjusted (most probably the 'report["GConfInfo"]18:21
hggdhpiece18:21
hggdhhold on18:21
hggdhoh, the signature changed18:22
nigelbmeaning?18:23
hggdhreport["GConfInfo"] = apport.hookutils.command_output('gconftool-2 -R /apps/rhythmbox')18:23
nigelbthat one clearly didn't work18:24
hggdhcommand_output (of old) received at least two parameters, the programme to fire off, and the parameters to the programme18:24
nigelb"report["GConfInfo"] = apport.hookutils.command_output(['gconftool-2', '-R', '/apps/rhythmbox'])"18:24
nigelb^^ worked18:24
hggdhyes, globbing them together, and -- most important -- adding the '-R'18:25
hggdh:-)18:25
hggdhsorry18:25
nigelbhow do I figure out current user?18:26
nigelbnow, all lines with 'username' 'password' or my home directory's name should be removed18:27
hggdhit is probable all references to your home dir will be in the form /home/<string>/18:37
hggdhso a regex search for '\Wpassword =' should get the passwords18:39
nigelbhggdh: I have to remove all these strings "library_locations, download_prefix, share_password, username"18:39
hggdhremove the lines, or remove sanitise the values?18:40
nigelbI think remove the lines as such would be safer18:41
hggdhand share_name, probably18:41
nigelbyeah that too (how did I miss that one)18:42
hggdhyou missed it because you are starting to look at it :-)18:42
issyl0Hmm, that's weird.18:43
issyl0Can't I mark bugs as "wishlist"?18:43
nigelbissyl0: only bug control18:44
nigelbjust ask here and someone will do it for you18:44
issyl0I just saw this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/524548 and thought well that's not a bug it's what someone wants18:44
ubot4Launchpad bug 524548 in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) "please backport "Allocate Xv buffers to GTT." from upstream for lucid (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New]18:44
issyl0Oh okay18:44
issyl0I think that's right; I'm new to all this bug triaging, I'm trying to get more involved :)18:44
nigelbissyl0: next time, say bug followed by number, bug 52454818:45
ubot4Launchpad bug 524548 in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) "please backport "Allocate Xv buffers to GTT." from upstream for lucid (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52454818:45
issyl0OK :)18:45
issyl0So what can I do to get more involved then, if i can't tag bugs, as such?18:47
nigelbissyl0: heard of 5 a day?18:48
nigelbhggdh: how do I remove that line?18:51
nigelb(not able to figure that part out)18:51
nigelbhm, bug 479241, the last Triaged to Fix Released seems suspicious18:52
ubot4Launchpad bug 479241 in rhythmbox (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "rhythmbox assert failure: RhythmDB:ERROR:rhythmdb-tree.c:1641:rhythmdb_tree_entry_delete: assertion failed: (g_hash_table_remove (db->priv->entries, entry->location)) (affects: 1)" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/47924118:52
andreyfr I have 2.6.32-10-generic and 2.6.32-13-generic to choose from in GRUB. If I choose the 2.6.32-13-generic - video isn't properly initialized. Shall I report this?18:54
hggdhnigelb: corrected to triaged, thank you18:55
hggdhnigelb: give me some time for lunch, will be back in a few18:56
nigelbsure :)18:56
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hggdhnigelb: I am back, let me look on your search & replace19:19
nigelbhggdh: my search and replace is a total disaster, so I deleted it19:20
nigelbcan you give me a basic workflow of how I'm supposed to do it?19:20
* nigelb feels totally n00bish to python19:20
issyl0nigelb: sorry, I went out.  Yes, I have heard of five a day - what can I do there then?19:24
nigelbissyl0: triage bugs of packages that you can understand19:24
nigelbdont try much19:24
issyl0OK :)19:24
nigelbjust make sure you work on 5 new bugs every day19:25
nigelbhggdh: I tried to use a for loop and split lines19:25
nigelbsomehow I messed it up19:25
hggdhheh19:25
hggdhhold on19:25
nigelbhggdh: yaay! I managed to get the debug working :)19:36
nigelbit opens rhythmbox, collects debug, attaches to the bug report19:36
nigelbnow only sanitization of this gconf data19:37
hggdhnigelb: have a look at http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html19:39
hggdhregex would probably be easy to use -- the pattern you are looking for is simple -- ^\s(password|share_name|name|<etc>)\s=\s(.*)$19:41
hggdhwhich means: ^\s  -- start of the line, white space19:42
nigelbI still gotta split?19:42
hggdh(password|share_name|<etc>) -- this is group 1, which will match *either* of the values19:43
hggdhyes, you need to split19:43
hggdhfor line in report.splitlines():19:44
hggdh\s=\s  -- followed by white space, an equal sign, white space19:44
hggdh(.*)$ followed by *anything* until end-of-line19:45
hggdhthis also happens to be group 2 (second '(' ')')19:45
hggdhand you need to change group 2 to -- say -- '##MASKED##'19:46
nigelbhggdh I'm utterly lost19:47
nigelbmy statement now looks like "\s=\s == (.*)$(##MASKED##)"19:49
hggdhnooooo19:50
hggdh:-)19:50
nigelblike I said, I'm lost19:50
duanedesignseems we have someone assigning themselves to ubuntu One bugs and then setting the status to incorrect values.19:50
nigelbduanedesign: lp ID?19:51
nigelbgot an example bug?19:51
persiaexample bug is more interesting19:51
duanedesignbug 47865319:52
* nigelb kicks ubot4 19:52
duanedesignlol19:52
duanedesignthere are quite a few. The U1 guys are working on a way to correct them19:52
hggdhnigelb: see http://pastebin.com/d61bbc6e419:53
duanedesigni guess the first step, other than fixing them, is sending a polite letter attempting to educate the user on correct protocol.19:53
nigelbduanedesign: open a launchpad question, talk to someone in #launchpad, they'll do the polite thingey19:54
hggdhhttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-client/+bug/47865319:54
nigelbhggdh: that is complicated.  No wonder I got lost19:54
ubot4Launchpad bug 478653 in ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "BadTransition: SYS_OAUTH_ERROR (affects: 124) (dups: 62)" [High,Fix committed]19:55
hggdh<sigh/> I wonder if it is the same person as the last times19:57
seb128nigelb, hi, sorry I was not working today19:58
hggdhhi seb128, long time19:58
nigelbseb128: ah.  I've been working with hggdh to get an apport hook for rhythmbox19:58
seb128hey hggdh, how are you?19:58
seb128nigelb, ah nice19:58
nigelbsecond thing: there are some rhythmbox bugs, which has enough information which no one has got around to triaging.  Can I give you the list where this happens by next week?19:59
nigelb(I dont speak the debug launguage ;) )19:59
nigelbyet20:00
seb128nigelb, sorry but I'm too busy to do triaging20:02
nigelbseb128: no problem :)20:02
nigelbI'll get a hold of someone else to help me understand the logs20:02
seb128what do you call "triaging" there?20:02
nigelbjust getting an idea of what the logs say20:02
seb128if they have enough informations they are usually to forward to gnome20:02
seb128not to triage20:02
nigelbthe thing is, I donno if its a bug or not :(20:03
seb128logs are pretty clear usually20:03
seb128what do you not understand there?20:03
nigelbI can't make head or tail out of it :(20:03
nigelbis there some document I can refer to, to understand them?20:03
nigelbseb128: no worries.  I'll try again.  If I run into very grave issues.  I'll get in touch with you some other time :)20:07
nigelbhggdh: I suppose I have to say "report["GconfData"] = newReport" at the end?20:08
nigelbhggdh: something went wrong.  I dont see that file attached20:11
seb128nigelb, logs just list lot of infos on what the software is doing20:13
seb128there is no magic way to read those20:13
seb128just look for the info which is useful for the bug20:13
nigelbokay :) I'll try that again.  Probably peeking at source code a bit might help20:14
seb128well you should not ask for a debug log if you don't need any info from there20:16
nigelbit was asked earlier and I'm just trying to close off the old reports20:18
nigelbhggdh: ping me when you're back?20:31
hggdhnigelb: yes, you can say report['GConfData'] = newReport20:34
nigelbexcept it doesn't work20:35
hggdhpastebin the beast ;-)20:35
nigelbhttp://pastebin.com/ma40947120:35
hggdhnigelb: move lines 22-24 (the def : entry) after line 220:38
hggdhnigelb:the python laws, as sent over by the author, state one module per import (but this is just aestetic_20:40
nigelbhggdh: now the whole thing got shot to hell.  I cant even see the menu20:43
hggdhyeeeh20:43
SwedeMikehi, I've reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/516524 12 days ago with step by step how to reproduce the problem in 10.04 (and it also is a problem in 9.10 but to a lesser degree) but still there hasn't been (as far as I can see) any activity on the bug. What am I missing? Can I do anything else? this is a regression that appeared in 9.10, works great in 9.0420:44
ubot4Launchpad bug 516524 in ubuntu "Passphrase request at bootup doesn't work properly (affects: 1)" [Undecided,New]20:45
hggdhnigelb: pastebin it again20:47
arandRegarding Bug #39321 with upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3188, the patches constitute a huge improvement on the current state of text selection in poppler/evince, however the patches are not commited upstream and it seems they might be planning on taking a while, making a separate API for it (ref. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-December/005386.html). However I still think that the patches are importan20:48
ubot4Launchpad bug 39321 in poppler (Ubuntu) (and 3 other projects) "Some problems with marking and copying text (affects: 1) (dups: 1)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/3932120:48
ubot4Freedesktop bug 3188 in general "Pasting tables cells in strange order" [Normal,New]20:48
hggdharand: please email ubuntu-devel-discuss -- it would be a better place to discuss this than this channel20:50
hggdhor try #ubuntu-desktop20:50
arandhggdh: Okies20:51
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phantomgraphI'm not sure if this is the right channel, so please direct me to the correct one if this is not appropriate. I need some help figuring out why when I installed the latest CUPS update fragged all my windows machines to see the print server I set up on my Linux Box.22:47
persiaphantomgraph: Which release are you running?22:49
phantomgraphLatest one - 9.1 I think...22:50
phantomgraphJust upgraded.22:50
phantomgraph(it worked prior to the cups update)22:50
persiaOK.  You'll want to ask in #ubuntu22:52
persiaBe warned that the traffic in there is high-volume.22:53
persiaThere may also be an #ubuntu-XX channel, where XX is a country code (e.g. #ubuntu-qa for Qatar), which may be a less-noisy forum.22:53
phantomgraphI should explain I upgraded and installed all the drivers for 9.1, set up everything and it worked, then the cups update happened and now I cant make it work...22:53
phantomgraphOn #ubuntu I've asked several times (and on different days), no one ever responds or acknowledges my question..22:55
persiaThat's annoying.22:55
persiaFile a bug, and mark it "regression".22:55
* phantomgraph nods22:55
persiaFor extra points, check the changelogs for the packages that you updated, and reference the bug the package attempted to close.22:55
persiaAnd please share the bug number here, so we can track it.22:56
persiaWe don't offer support here, but we're very happy to help make sure bugs get in good shape and get the right attention.22:56
phantomgraphGreat! Now for the 1M$ question.. the 'package attempted to close'.. ? it's got to be cups is that what you mean?22:58
persiaSo, you updated some package.  Perhaps cups.23:00
persiaMaybe some of the other printer stuff.23:00
persiaThere's documentation of all the changes in /usr/share/doc/${PACKAGE}/changelog.Debian.gz or changelog.gz23:00
persiaOne of the updates should mention some critical bug that was fixed, which fixing seems to have broken your setup.23:01
persiaMentioning that bug in your new bug report may help to get the right attention.23:01
phantomgraphNot sure... but I tried deleting and reinstalling.23:01
phantomgraphI even had to delete the conf file..23:02
phantomgraphI'll take a look at the change log file and see if anything strikes me.. all I can say now (And will to the bug team) is that the upgrade messed it up and nothing I could do would fix it.. (Or think of doing)...23:07
phantomgraphThanks for the advice persia!23:07
persiaPlease do file a bug.  We'll try to make sure the right people see it and sort it.23:08
* phantomgraph hugs And takes your advice.... }:8>23:08
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phantomgraphI will, good day/night/ whatever for you.... and with my thanks.23:09
phantomgraphPG23:09

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