When trying to start a virtual machine with Gnome Boxes, I get a prompt about keyboard shortcuts. The prompt text is localized, but translated back to English (I think, based on [1]) it says:

Boxes wants to inhibit shortcuts

You can restore shortcuts by pressing Super+Escape.

In my locale (Finnish), it says

Sovellus Boksit haluaa rajoittaa pikanäppäinten toimintaa.

Voit palauttaa pikanäppäinten toiminnan painamalla Super…

(sic; see attached photo)

So the actual key combination is truncated, defeating the point of that part of the text.

This isn’t a localization error (AFAICT; see [2]). It’s caused by the text being forced to fit on a single line of an arbitrarily fixed width, instead of wrapping to span as many lines as needed.

(I’m reporting this against gnome-shell as opposed gnome-boxes based on [3]. Feel free to reassign as necessary.)

* [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874526#28
* [2] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell/+pots/gnome-shell/fi/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=pikan%C3%A4pp%C3%A4inten
* [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668036

For some of the depressing history of this, see bug #875002 (which has been incorrectly marked as fixed by someone without a clue) from way back in 2011.

I’m using 20.04 and a Wayland session. My preferred focus mode is to have it follow the mouse cursor:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode
’mouse’

Unfortunately this causes GTK apps’ popup (RMB) menu to jump to the app window corner when opened. I’m attaching a screencast, where I demonstrate the bug first, then reset focus-mode to ’click’ to demonstrate the bug no longer manifesting. (Please excuse the flashing. It’s just a video artefact caused by Gnome’s built in screen recorder, which was the only one that at least somewhat worked.)

This has been reported upstream, where a fix was recently merged: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/1103

Happy to report that the proposed packages did fix the issue for me also. Thanks everyone!

@Marcus: yup, that seems to be it:

jani@saegusa:~$ dpkg -l ’libcpd*’ ’cpdb*’
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nimi Versio Arkkitehtuuri Kuvaus
+++-========================-=================-=================-======================================================
ii cpdb-backend-gcp 1.0.0-0ubuntu2 amd64 Common Print Dialog Backends – Google Cloud Print Back
ii libcpdb-libs-common0:amd 1.1.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 Common Print Dialog Backends – Interface Library for B
jani@saegusa:~$ SAL_DISABLE_CPD=true libreoffice –norestore
func=xmlSecCheckVersionExt:file=xmlsec.c:line=188:obj=unknown:subj=unknown:error=19:invalid version:mode=abi compatible;expected minor version=2;real minor version=2;expected subminor version=25;real subminor version=26

That is, no stack trace nor other apparent problems when starting LO with SAL_DISABLE_CPD=true.

Can’t speak for Stuart, but I’m the other one affected, and still so:

jani@saegusa:~$ apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
Asennettu: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
Ehdokas: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
Versiotaulukko:
*** 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
jani@saegusa:~$ libreoffice –norestore
Application Error

Fatal exception: Signal 6
Stack:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x13568)[0x7f5cb050b568]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c3a6)[0x7f5cb05343a6]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7f5cb0145f20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7f5cb0145e97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7f5cb0147801]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2d5c882)[0x7f5cb34ae882]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application5AbortERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0xa2)[0x7f5cb343a2b2]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x1d0d470)[0x7f5cb245f470]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2cedc5d)[0x7f5cb343fc5d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x163b2)[0x7f5cb050e3b2]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c26f)[0x7f5cb053426f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7f5cb0145f20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xb1646)[0x7f5cb01b8646]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml+0x124)[0x7f5cae74dce4]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2d6aa3b)[0x7f5cb34bca3b]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0xc92d6)[0x7f5cae7432d6]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0xc9518)[0x7f5cae743518]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0x8d1a3)[0x7f5cae7071a3]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0x8dbc6)[0x7f5cae707bc6]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0xc1082)[0x7f5cae73b082]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0x8d1a3)[0x7f5cae7071a3]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(+0x8d1d9)[0x7f5cae7071d9]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x155)[0x7f5cae15b285]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x4c650)[0x7f5cae15b650]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x2c)[0x7f5cae15b6dc]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk3lo.so(+0x41444)[0x7f5c9ac63444]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application5YieldEv+0x2e)[0x7f5cb343a9be]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application7ExecuteEv+0x45)[0x7f5cb343c165]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x1d12e93)[0x7f5cb2464e93]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2cef846)[0x7f5cb3441846]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z6SVMainv+0x30)[0x7f5cb3441950]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(soffice_main+0x115)[0x7f5cb2485fb5]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x78b)[0x557ff5eff78b]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x7f5cb0128b97]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x7ca)[0x557ff5eff7ca]

The Debian BTS has a related report [1] which suggests to me this issue should have been fixed way back in v1.11. But even if installing wasn’t broken, with the legacy databases discontinued, it’s not much use in the long term.

Geoip-database-contrib has already been removed from Debian entirely [2] due to deprecation by upstream, apparently in favor of geoipupdate [3].

(I’m not affiliated with either package and have no solutions; I’m just documenting the connections here.)

* [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666063
* [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900400
* [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885441

Yep, retrying does work.

I’ve now reported this to Mozilla and linked to it. Thanks, Olivier!

Tested all combinations of both (Ctrl-s/context menu in safe mode and normal mode), all with the same results. Could this be locale-dependent? The UI is in English in safe mode though, so I’m guessing safe mode should be locale-independent, as I’m on fi_FI.UTF-8 otherwise.

And just to clarify: my testing of Bionic was on real hardware as well, and I ran these latest tests on Cosmic on another computer (real hardware).

== Steps to reproduce ==
1. Open https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/what-is-the-actually-difference-between-udimm-and-dimm.1575984/
2. Right-click and select ’Save page as’. Point the dialog to your directory of choice.

== What I expect to happen ==
For the directory to contain a downloaded copy of the page.

== What happens ==
There’s no copy of the page in the target directory. Going to about:downloads reveals that the download has failed, without further details.

== Other info ==
I’m reporting this from up-to-date Disco, albeit with a 4.* kernel (as gdm currently fails to start in my VirtualBox VM with 5.*) but it’s equally reproducible in Bionic.

Any page under https://forums.tomshardware.com/ seems to trigger this, but I have yet to come across other sites that do. Pages can even be saved from the main Tom’s Hardware domain (https://www.tomshardware.com/) without issues.