[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1302095] [NEW] unity-fallback-mount is perming inotify_watch_add every 4 seconds on the same files

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: unity-fallback-mount is polling away doing inotify_watch_add on the same paths every 4 seconds: PID Process Rate/Sec File 30142 unity-fallback-mount0.250 /usr/local/share/applications 30142 unity-fallback-mount0.250 /usr/share/ubuntu/applications Th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1301984] [NEW] unity-scope-loader is adding the SAME inotify watches regularly every 4 seconds

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: unity-scope-loader is adding the SAME inotify watches regularly every 4 seconds: Inotify watches added: PID Process Rate/Sec File 3495 unity-scope-loader 0.250 /usr/share/upstart/xdg/menus/unity-lens-applications-merged 3495 unity-scope-loader 0

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: unity Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1266873] Re: gnome-settings-daemon is polling for seemingly no good reason at all

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266873 Title: gnome-settings-daemon is polling for seemin

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
Can't reproduce this now, so looks like it is fixed. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972 Title: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopbac

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1289532] Re: NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds on the Desktop looking for /var/lib/ofono

2014-04-03 Thread Colin King
With version of 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5 I still see one of the threads doing: inotify_add_watch(8, "/var/lib/ofono", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) poll([{fd=9, e

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1199877] Re: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage

2014-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dp-unity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-s

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1234289] Re: accounts-daemon is progressively causing more wakeups over time

2014-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234289 Title: accounts-daemon is progressively causi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292021] Re: gconfd-2 is polling every 30 seconds calling periodic_cleanup_timeout

2014-03-26 Thread Colin King
@Sebastien, I messed around with a concept of a fix, https://code.launchpad.net /~colin-king/gconf/lp-1292021 - however I'm not sufficiently experienced to know how to get this fix into the package, so I'd prefer if the desktop team could handle it for me. Is that OK? -- You receive

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1289532] Re: NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds on the Desktop looking for /var/lib/ofono

2014-03-26 Thread Colin King
So, I think this could be classed as a regression in Trusty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289532 Title: NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1289532] Re: NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds on the Desktop looking for /var/lib/ofono

2014-03-26 Thread Colin King
I've got some stats to show how this is now one of the top wake-up offending processes on the desktop now: http://ci.ubuntu.com/power/eventstat/image/3105/machine/1/task/NetworkManager/details/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribe

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292021] Re: gconfd-2 is polling every 30 seconds calling periodic_cleanup_timeout

2014-03-26 Thread Colin King
Perhaps I've made a mistake; I guess I wanted the fix for gconfd-2 as this is a little busy: http://ci.ubuntu.com/power/eventstat/image/3105/machine/1/task/gconfd-2/details/ Have I sent a fix for the wrong package? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packag

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292911] Re: firefox is pegging 2 CPUs at nearly 100%

2014-03-17 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1292911 Title: firefox is pegging 2 CPUs at nearly 100% Status in “f

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292911] [NEW] firefox is pegging 2 CPUs at nearly 100%

2014-03-15 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Top is showing that 2 CPUs are being consumed at nearly 100% each: PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3916 king 20 0 1160372 264036 50188 S 198.7 4.5 36:54.78 firefox Seems like it is spinning in pthread_cond_wait()

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1266885] Re: rtkit-daemon canary and watchdog threads could be less busy to save wakeups

2014-03-13 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: rtkit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: rtkit (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292021] [NEW] gconfd-2 is polling every 30 seconds calling periodic_cleanup_timeout

2014-03-13 Thread Colin King
responsiveness of the daemon. I am suggesting that the polling time is doubled to 60 seconds. ** Affects: gconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1289532] [NEW] NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds on the Desktop looking for /var/lib/ofono

2014-03-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I was looking at what's sucking power on the Trusty desktop and found that NetworkManager is polling every 4 seconds adding an inotify watch on /var/lib/ofono (which does not exist on the desktop - isn't that a phone related component?). Anyhow, strace on one of the threads o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1266885] [NEW] rtkit-daemon canary and watchdog threads could be less busy to save wakeups

2014-01-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: It seems that the rt-kitdaemon has a couple of threads that ensure rtkit-daemon is sane, namely a watchdog and canary monitoring thread. These are waking up by default every 5000ms, which between them means rtkit-daemon is creating 24 wakeups a minute just doing sanity checki

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1266873] [NEW] gnome-settings-daemon is polling for seemingly no good reason at all

2014-01-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: One of the threads in gnome-settings-deamon is polling every 4 seconds trying to add a watch onto a non-existent directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11: inotify_add_watch(16, "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELE

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1234289] Re: accounts-daemon is progressively causing more wakeups over time

2014-01-07 Thread Colin King
running strace on one of the treads shows the culprit: poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 2, 3998) = 0 (Timeout) inotify_add_watch(8, "/etc/gdm", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR)

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1040724] Re: lightdm: truncated login box

2013-11-07 Thread Colin King
Sorry, forgot to get back, no it does not occur any more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040724 Title: lightdm: truncated login box Status in “unity-greeter” p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1238083] Re: friends-dispatcher is a little busy doing data updates on idle systems

2013-10-11 Thread Colin King
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.friends interval 15 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to friends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238083 Title: friends-dispatcher is a little busy doing data

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1238083] [NEW] friends-dispatcher is a little busy doing data updates on idle systems

2013-10-10 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I've noticed that on an idle system friends-dispatcher is doing writes to a bunch of files and logs periodically. install fatrace, cd to / and run it and you will see the activity. This is what I observed over a 30 minute interval on the ubuntu-touch phone: 14:21:52.912959

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1234259] [NEW] NetworkManager wakeups have increased since 21 Aug 2013

2013-10-02 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Network Manager has increased the amount of wakeup events it generates since around 21st Aug 2013, see: http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/power/eventstat/image/2736/machine/1/task/NetworkManager/details/ It's gone from an average of 0.2 to 7.5 wakeups/sec inside the vm test machi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1232580] Re: USB sound card not detected

2013-10-01 Thread Colin King
Upstream commit 3a126f85e015701e56240884f27f97543580d5f7 kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer types -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1232580 Title: USB soun

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1231531] [NEW] accounts-daemon is polling frequenly on phablet images

2013-09-26 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Running today's image on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus I am observing frequent regular periodic polling by accounts-daemon on an idle system. Running strace on it I see: poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}], 2, 537) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12270

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 473589] Re: GEGL Easter Egg in gnome panel is corrupted

2013-09-05 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/473589 Title: GEGL Easter Egg in gnome panel is corrupt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1173216] [NEW] print to file to desktop actually always print to my home directory

2013-04-26 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: When printing to file in firefox I am asked where where to print to "Save in folder:" and I select Desktop and it always instead prints to my home directory. This has already left me over-writing a file I didn't want to clobber. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 P

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1093543] Re: Battery status behaves erratically

2013-01-28 Thread Colin King
** Also affects: upower (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-nexus7 Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to upower in Ubuntu. ht

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1057513] Re: signon-ui crashed with SIGSEGV in exit()

2012-09-27 Thread Colin King
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to signon-ui in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057513 Title: signon-ui crashed with SIGSEGV in exit() Status in “signon-ui” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Testing bet

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1057513] [NEW] signon-ui crashed with SIGSEGV in exit()

2012-09-27 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Testing beta2 amd64 ISO today and had the machine idle for ~50 minutes. Somehow this application crashed, not sure what triggered it. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: signon-ui 0.10-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4 Uname:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-09-11 Thread Colin King
Any updates on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972 Title: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly Status in “gnome-disk

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1040724] Re: lightdm: truncated login box

2012-08-23 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Photo of lightdm issue" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040724/+attachment/3273596/+files/IMG_20120823_155542.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1040724] [NEW] lightdm: truncated login box

2012-08-23 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Testing today's ISO image on an Lenovo X220i: Image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120822/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso following ISO test case: Testcases: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/219/builds/21646/testcases/1300/results http://iso.qa.ubun

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1030028] [NEW] gnome-control-center, bluetooth setting not persistent over reboots

2012-07-27 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: In Precise 12.04 LTS the bluetooth settings were persistent across reboots, which is useful since most users don't use bluetooth and disabling it can save ~1W of power. Having to disable it every time one boots up and logs-in is annoying. In Quantal 12.10 this feature has di

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1018896 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018896 So, yep, looks like a dup of 1018896 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1018896 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_ui_manager_new_merge_id() -- You received this bug notification because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1018896 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018896 gdb reports: (gdb) where #0 0x7717b580 in gtk_ui_manager_new_merge_id () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 #1 0x004d4d09 in ?? () #2 0x00472228 in ?? () #3 0x

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023784 Title: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 7f887a426580 sp 7fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1023784] [NEW] nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I'm getting seemingly random segfaulting of nautilus and as yet I've not been able to figure out what is causing it. Kernel log reports it as: nautilus[2210]: segfault at 18 ip 7f887a426580 sp 7fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000] ProblemT

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 745836] Re: encrypted swap corrupts application stack/heap [was: soffice.bin SIGSEGV cppu::throwException()]

2012-03-16 Thread Colin King
SRU justification for Lucid: Impact: The ECRYPTFS_NEW_FILE crypt_stat flag is set upon creation of a new eCryptfs file. When the flag is set, eCryptfs reads directly from the lower filesystem when bringing a page up to date. This means that no offset translation (for the eCryptfs file metadata in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04-beta-2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972 Title: compiz segfaults when mou

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Thanks for fixing this! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934117 Title: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: Ne

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: compiz segfaults when quickly mounting/unmonting a loopback filesystem [ 4855.938753] compiz[6801]: segfault at 18 ip 7f4360b470d0 sp 7fff03eed728 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[7f4360b2f000+37000] Testcase: See attached bash script. I hit this proble

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] [NEW] compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: compiz segfaults when quickly mounting/unmonting a loopback filesystem [ 4855.938753] compiz[6801]: segfault at 18 ip 7f4360b470d0 sp 7fff03eed728 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[7f4360b2f000+37000] Testcase: See attached bash script. I hit this problem running a bunch o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "reliably crashes compiz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972/+attachment/2829184/+files/compiz-crasher.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 906987] Re: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is started with the -R XRecord extension option

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
Let me see if I can rig up a test and see exactly how much each wakeup costs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906987 Title: syndaemon polls 5 times a seco

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
So on a clean install I was connected to the network by ethernet and nm- applet behaved w/o the 10Hz polling. I then associated the wireless and I can now see the 10Hz polling. Not sure if that is a useful data point. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packa

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
I belive the poll in question is: (gdb) where #0 0x7f74414c2d40 in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x7f7441a08136 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x7f7441a0859a in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x0

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-13 Thread Colin King
Yep. It's kinda invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, that makes sense. Not a bug then. Thanks for looking at this for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU S

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
On 12/01/12 15:11, Chris Coulson wrote: > Is it a fairly fresh account, or new-ish profile? It could have been the > indexing > This is an existing account with *thousands* of messages. Perhaps moving to the new thunderbird from Oneiric to Precise forced a re-index. Colin -- You received this b

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, I think this may be a false bug report - after ~30 minutes of grinding away it is now settled down. I have no idea how to re-trigger this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Thunderbird strace log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324/+attachment/2669534/+files/thunderbird-trace.log ** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbir

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 915324] [NEW] thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I upgraded from Oneiric to Precise and now thunderbird is consuming >50% of my CPU all the time. Attached is a strace of the busy process. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: thunderbird 10.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15+mouseh

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
So, I only see a single timestamps file too, the timestamps.096F6V filename is probably a short lived temp filename. As for the configuration, it was a clean install and connected via wireless (and possibly ethernet). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Pack

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913856 Title: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
The culprit is periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps() which is being called every 300 seconds because of: /* Update timestamps in active connections */ priv->timestamp_update_id = g_timeout_add_seconds (300, (GSourceFunc) periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps, manag

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
strace shows: open("/var/lib/NetworkManager/timestamps", O_RDONLY) = 20 fstat(20, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1646, ...}) = 0 read(20, "\n[timestamps]\n3c32aa58-a2ed-44e7"..., 4096) = 1646 read(20, "", 4096) = 0 close(20) = 0 open("/var/lib/Net

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 913856] [NEW] NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Network Manager is periocially creating dirty pages that are being written back to disk and causing uncessary drive wakeups. Using SystemTap I was able to observe the following dirty pages being created on the following files 0 7951 NetworkManager sd

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 906916] Re: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gwibber in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906916 Title: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 906916] Re: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gwibber (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gwibber in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906916 Title: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 906916] [NEW] gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The gwibber-service forks off a child process that runs a polling loop constantly at 10Hz which causes a lot of wakeups on an idle system. On my Lenovo X220i this constitutes 7% of the wakeups on a cleanly installed system when running idle. Extraneous wakeups waste power

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 854138] SoftwareCenterLog.txt

2011-09-19 Thread Colin King
apport information ** Attachment added: "SoftwareCenterLog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/854138/+attachment/2427903/+files/SoftwareCenterLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 854138] Dependencies.txt

2011-09-19 Thread Colin King
apport information ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/854138/+attachment/2427902/+files/Dependencies.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 854138] [NEW] software centre closed unexpectedly, libapt-pkg.so.4.11.0 segfault

2011-09-19 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: ISO testing, image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110919 /oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso Following http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem, before I did "prepare for shipping to end user" I installed TuxPaint. During the installation I got a segmentation fault