Where is the bug?

[bob]

I found removing the nVidia driver (reboot) and installing the default
nouveau driver (this should just happen but you may need to go to
recovery mode first, reconfigure and restart the xserver, procede with
basic graphics) and then when at Desktop selecting the 3D experimental
driver (a plugin for nouveau?) delivers a faultless Unity on Natty
AMD64bit and i386. 

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 07:10 -0400, Chuck Peters wrote:
> To introduce myself, once upon a time I was the Systems Administrator
> and Executive Director of the Chester County, PA freenet ccil.org and
> I have been running Unix/Linux since 95. I feel like I should know how
> to answer this question...  How can I do a better job at determining
> what package actually has the bug?
> 
> lp:#760632 Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/760632
> I ran into this bug when testing natty prior to its release.  The bug
> report started as a kdebase bug, then moved to xorg and then to
> nvidia-graphics drivers.  And now it seems everyone is waiting for
> nvidia to fix it.  I'm not convinced it is just a bug with nvidia
> because one of the workarounds that seems to work is downgrade some of
> the xorg packages or disable compiz effects. So how can I give the
> developers something more than maximize or resize konsole and the
> system freezes, and one or twice I could login via ssh and kill xorg
> or reboot?
> 
> lp:778788 mythbuntu-repos overwriting mythbuntu-repos.list without
> adjusting for proxy.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778788
> I thought it was against some policy to simply overwrite files like
> this in /etc without asking the user.  And the replies to the bug
> report were not too satisfying. The first response was partly a cut
> and paste to an old post at
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/177, not anything
> documented in Ubuntu or Debian.  When I looked for more documentation
> on /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy I didn't see anything that would clarify
> how I might do that with the way approx does things... So maybe I
> should file a documentation bug?  Or open another bug on the
> mythbuntu-repos overwriting the file.
> 
> I have been running approx this way for more than a year, perhaps more
> than 2 years, and it wasn't until recently that the mythbuntu-repos
> pakage started doing the file overwriting without asking. Then to top
> it all of he closes the bug with "After further discussion and
> research marking won't fix. Proxy settings for apt should be
> configured in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy"  What discussion?  He didn't
> discuss anything with me or point to some mailing list thread or irc
> log, because if he had I would have looked for that policy on
> overwriting files like this.  I removed mythbuntu-repos package and it
> removes the repository authentication key and then i have to manually
> add the key, not very user friendly.
> 
> I could just do the usual and let someone else file a report and fix
> it...  Or better yet maybe one of you knows of another repo package
> that does this correctly and then I could compare the two and send in
> a patch?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>