[Bug 310420] Re: Simple shell scripts hanging using 100% cpu on Intrepid

2009-03-28 Thread BagpussNZ
Great - but would still like a fix for 8.10 though. I'm sure development will be thrilled if I say I have to upgrade 100 workstations to fix a bash bug :-)(mind you - the programmers wont mind. "downtime yeh!") Ian. -- Simple shell scripts hanging using 100% cpu on Intrepid https://bugs.lau

[Bug 310420] Re: Simple shell scripts hanging using 100% cpu on Intrepid

2008-12-29 Thread BagpussNZ
Hi, Further to this, I tried a few experiments. First I tried recompiling bash from source, but it didn't make any difference. Then I noticed that if you ran a new bash shell after logging in (i.e. just running bash), then the problem went away. So it only happens in the initial bash shell from

[Bug 310420] [NEW] Simple shell scripts hanging using 100% cpu on Intrepid

2008-12-21 Thread BagpussNZ
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bash This happens as follows: 1. In home directory with the default .profile and default .bash_profile 2. ssh to your machine (using gnome-terminal or suchlike works ok). 3. Create a simple script containing the single line ls -al (anything will do).

[Bug 155547] Re: Thunderbird typing in compose window is occasionally very slow

2008-11-30 Thread BagpussNZ
Yes - in fact it's worse. (I'm not original poster - but see symptoms). Running 2.0.0.18 (20081125) on 8.10 on a Dell e6400. I can type about 30 characters in the compose window and then go wait about 30 seconds to see it. Cheers, Ian. -- Thunderbird typing in compose window is occasionally ver

[Bug 285323] Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

2008-11-03 Thread BagpussNZ
A similiar thing is happening to me on my Dell e6400 running 8.10. It only seems to happen when I'm running a dual head display. When I'm at home, with only the laptop display (i.e. now) I can't make it happen. I find occasionally (mostly when running a virtualbox vm and clicking the hot key to le

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 causes lockup.

2006-11-04 Thread BagpussNZ
Confirmed also on 6.06 and D620. I have to boot into windows to run presentations - that 6Gb of my disk wasted. Please someone fix this! -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 causes lockup. https://launchpad.net/bugs/50243 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:/