[Bug 444818] Re: External disk won't spindown

2010-03-18 Thread Antti Salminen
Oh well, spoke a little too soon - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522859 seems to indicate *some* scsi commands do indeed, or have at some point required read-write. In any case that does not seem to be the case for sdparm -C stop. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #522859

[Bug 117713] Re: WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more

2010-03-18 Thread Antti Salminen
I am pretty sure this bug is the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sdparm/+bug/444818 although the success reports with the posted scripts in earlier comments are confusing as they should not be working if that is the case. In any case that one should prevent all USB disks from spin

[Bug 444818] Re: External disk won't spindown

2010-03-18 Thread Antti Salminen
I did some further investigation. This is *exactly* the same issue as with hdparm. sg_start and sdparm both open the device file in read-write (O_RDWR) mode even though they only need to do it on read-only in order to do ioctls. Ubuntu's udev configuration watches the device files for being closed

[Bug 444818] Re: External disk won't spindown

2010-03-18 Thread Antti Salminen
This doesn't occur only with sdparm but also sg_start from sg3-utils. My LaCie external HD has the same issue both on a Karmic desktop and a Jaunty server. Problem seems to be related to udev as the copying of a modified udev rules file to /etc/udev/rules.d temporarily while running the commands a

[Bug 238261] Re: gedit crash on save as

2008-07-06 Thread Antti Salminen
I had this exact problem, on amd64 and right after doing an upgrade to Hardy from the previous release. Removing .gtk-bookmarks fixed it, I'll attach my .gtk-bookmarks here as well. It looks quite different from the one already here... ** Attachment added: "gtkbookmarks" http://launchpadlibrari

[Bug 207598] Re: GTK2 Open File Dialog causes crash

2008-06-16 Thread Antti Salminen
Reopening, hopefully my additions will complete the report... ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Incomplete -- GTK2 Open File Dialog causes crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207598 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 207598] Re: GTK2 Open File Dialog causes crash

2008-06-16 Thread Antti Salminen
I've got the same issue after a fresh upgrade to Hardy. I've tried to produce a valgrind log with the symbols you need, please let me know if it helps. It's from Rhythmbox, trying to do "Add folder" triggers the crash. ** Attachment added: "Valgrind log from Rhythmbox" http://launchpadlibrarian