[Bug 829980] Re: upstart-udev-bridge eats 100% cpu calling dbus_message_iter_append_basic()

2012-03-20 Thread Thomas O.
I noticed these log entries during the boot process after applying the fix from comment #32: --- init: upstart-udev-bridge main process (497) killed by ABRT signal init: upstart-udev-bridge main process ended, respawning init: upstart-udev-bridge main process (661) killed by ABRT signal init: upst

[Bug 599589] Re: LTspice IV & Qucs restart X server

2010-06-29 Thread Thomas O.
Found a very similar bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553478 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #553478 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553478 -- LTspice IV & Qucs restart X server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599589 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 599589] [NEW] LTspice IV & Qucs restart X server

2010-06-28 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Dragging components in either of the mentioned programs cause an immediate restart of the X server. Inductors in LTspice IV, and any component in Qucs cause crashes. Steps to reproduce: - Install Wine - Download LTspice IV from linear.com (it's freeware.) - Install. Run.

[Bug 509111] Re: Recording cause system to slow down with ATI Graphics

2010-04-17 Thread Thomas O.
This also affects me. With radeonhd driver, it works perfectly, I get almost 20 fps on screen recording, but then my GPU overheats eventually because radeonhd doesn't seem to switch on any kind of power saving (GPU hit 95°C, then it decided to shut down.) -- Recording cause system to slow down wi

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas O.
Anybody? I think this is fairly serious. I've decided to upgrade when 10.04 comes out, but I've already backed up stuff. Currently I'm avoiding this bug by keeping at least 200 MB disk space free. If I run out of disk space, then files get truncated, and then I have to repair the damage. -- sever

[Bug 537193] [NEW] high disk I/O on resume if CPU% is high when suspend is initiated

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pm-utils If I run a CPU heavy process on my computer (e.g. VirtualBox) just before I suspend, then resume takes much longer than expected, and during resume, disk I/O (on the HDD) is very high and the disk is reading or writing some data. Approximately an

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas O.
I have one file which is corrupted, my VirtualBox config file. VirtualBox reports an XML error, and from looking at the file, I see it is truncated. This happened when my disk space was low. I am going to be reformatting ASAP (in the weekend, I cannot afford to lose my laptop during the week) but I

[Bug 525406] Re: ubuntuone crash

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas O.
** Attachment added: ".home.thomas..cache.ubuntuone.log.oauth.login.log.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39483348/.home.thomas..cache.ubuntuone.log.oauth.login.log.txt ** Attachment added: ".home.thomas..cache.ubuntuone.log.syncdaemon.exceptions.log.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/3

[Bug 525406] [NEW] ubuntuone crash

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client apport report ProblemType: Bug .home.thomas..config.ubuntuone.syncdaemon.conf: [bandwidth_throttling] on = True read_limit = 4194304 write_limit = 4194304 .home.thomas..config.ubuntuone.ubuntuone.client.conf: [ubuntuone] bookmarked

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas O.
In one case, many files could not be copied across to my memory stick (with 2 out of 4 gigs free, NTFS) and each continually reported "Input/Output error" or "Unknown error" (I think this was one of them.) I am not sure if this is corruption, but the file could not be completely read, the data mig

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas O.
I'm getting more strange errors like this, but it seems to have improved on my system. I think the bug might be triggered by low disk space since when this bug occurred I had less than 200 MB of space available. [ 104.399013] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas O.
I have just noticed that my USB drive is showing a write speed of 594MiB/s on Conky. It is disconnected. I am not sure if this is related. -- severe ecryptfs corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521523 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 521523] Re: severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas O.
Attachment of dmesg log, note event log is much larger than this but only last N entries or so are recorded. ** Attachment added: "dmesg log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39154825/dmesg_log.txt -- severe ecryptfs corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521523 You received this bug notific

[Bug 521523] [NEW] severe ecryptfs corruption

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: I am experiencing filesystem corruption with ecryptfs on my /home partition, which is separate from /. I am attempting to back up important stuff, but struggling to do so (it is incredibly slow and 100% cpu usage on both cores) In general, the following errors are occurring:

[Bug 213099] Re: gnome-screensaver freezes and does not bring up the password prompt if mouse/keyboard activity

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas O.
I too am experiencing this bug. I can type my password in blindly for now, and Ctrl-Alt-F1 followed by Ctrl-Alt-F7 fixes it temporarily. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 on a Dell Studio 15. Bug is new in Karmic. intrepid and Jaunty did not have this bug. -- gnome-screensaver freezes and does not br

[Bug 505350] [NEW] Resuming from suspend sometimes causes instant suspend upon hitting lock screen dialog

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pm-utils Upon resuming and hitting the lock screen dialog, the computer will *sometimes* suspend. I can see the dialog for maybe a second (it flashes on the screen.) If I am fast enough, I can type in three characters of my password before it suspends. Up

[Bug 499288] Re: Nautilus console messages

2009-12-21 Thread Thomas O.
By the way, I'm running on Ubuntu 9.10. A similar "issue", if you could call it that, existed in previous versions, though it didn't emit many warnings, especially about the hash table or unknown signals. -- Nautilus console messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499288 You received this bug no

[Bug 499288] [NEW] Nautilus console messages

2009-12-21 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus I just noticed Nautilus produces a lot of console output. Maybe it shouldn't, especially all the warnings. It could be indicative of a more serious bug. tho...@kamikaze:~$ sudo nautilus /home/thomas (nautilus:657): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferen

[Bug 410407] Re: Flash does not work correctly [READ DESCRIPTION]

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas O.
I am affected by this bug. However, there is another workaround, better than the right-click trick. If you move the mouse around a lot, then clicks are more likely to be registered. I don't know why, but they just are. -- Flash does not work correctly [READ DESCRIPTION] https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 358111] Re: [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas O.
MORE GREAT NEWS! fglrx has fixed the problems and suspend/resume works perfectly!! (Awesomesauce.) This is very nice because I'm not stuck with the old Ubuntu 8.10! -- [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358111 You received this bug no

[Bug 469734] Re: [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas O.
I found a workaround. Please see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/358111/comments/8 -- [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 358111] Re: [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas O.
GREAT NEWS! It works! Sort of. Here's how it works for me (Ubuntu 9.10 only so far; not tested with fglrx): - Suspend computer by closing lid - Resume computer by opening lid - Press Ctrl-Alt-F1, wait 1 second - Press Ctrl-Alt-F7, wait 1 second - It works! However, a process called 'vbetool

[Bug 357889] Re: Restoring windows causes brief freeze for 1-2 seconds (Jaunty only; regression)

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas O.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 351186 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351186 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 351186 [M76] [ubuntu 9.04] [ubuntu 9.10] slow unminimizing with ati card and desktop effects enabled -- Restoring windows causes brief freeze for 1-2 second

[Bug 469734] Re: [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas O.
Is there any workaround at present? You're talking about quirks, I don't understand. If I apply these changes, might it help with suspend/resume? -- [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469734 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 469734] Re: [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas O.
This bug affects me. Suspend/resume whorks in Intrepid, neither Jaunty or Karmic successfully resume (they do suspend though). Always get a blank screen. Hibernate works. Dell Studio 1535 with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. There is a similar bug #357877 filed by me. A partial workaround is to swi

[Bug 469734] Re: [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas O.
Correction, bug is actually bug #358111 the other one is a duplicate. -- [RV620] dell studio 15 karmic kernel crash on resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

[Bug 358111] Re: [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas O.
Just adding some extra info. This bug still affects me, but I'm using Intrepid at the moment which works well (actually, right now I'm just trying out Jaunty to test a few things, but I mostly use Intrepid). I'm hoping to be able to switch to Jaunty. Anyway: - Stand-by works: the computer appear

[Bug 361144] Re: [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] hibernate/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-04-14 Thread Thomas O.
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25455864/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25455865/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25455867/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 361144] [NEW] [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] hibernate/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-04-14 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: I don't know what caused this. But it happened. I remember my system did not resume from hibernate. Normally resumes. Does not currently resume from stand by. ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: This occured during a previous hibernate and prevented it from resuming properly

[Bug 358830] [NEW] gpm "error click" is uninformative

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager If you pull power out from your laptop, you'll probably hear a click if you have the "use sound to notify on an error" feature enabled. This click is not very useful as it gives little information. It should be changed to a beep or so

[Bug 358064] Re: Minor graphical corruption (ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3400 / Dell Studio 15); rare corrupted pixels -- Regression: no such bug in Intrepid

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas O.
A pretty large amount of corruption can be seen in Firefox - part of the page is black where it shouldn't be. ** Attachment added: "DSCF0001.JPG" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25128547/DSCF0001.JPG -- Minor graphical corruption (ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3400 / Dell Studio 15); rare corrupted p

[Bug 357877] Re: resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Didn't get past first test. See data here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/358111 -- resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357877 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 358111] Re: [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25085494/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25085495/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25085496/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 358111] [NEW] [Dell Inc. Studio 1537] suspend/resume failure [non-free: fglrx]

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Note: did not resume; had to pull battery out + got this report... this data might be inaccurate because of this. However, there was no other way to get an apport report. ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: This occured during a previous suspend and prevented it from resumin

[Bug 358064] [NEW] Minor graphical corruption (ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3400 / Dell Studio 15); rare corrupted pixels -- Regression: no such bug in Intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Occasional graphical corruption is sometimes visible on web pages in Firefox (but possibly other programs). It usually takes the form of blocks of corrupt pixels (black/white typically) no bigger than 15 pixels. Sometimes it is just a line. I am using proprietary drivers (fglr

[Bug 357877] Re: resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Thanks I'll run that when I get some spare time. -- resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 357889] Re: Restoring windows causes brief freeze for 1-2 seconds (Jaunty only; regression)

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
** Description changed: When trying to restore a window that has been minimised, there is a freeze for about 1-2 seconds before the window appears. This happens with all windows; Firefox, gedit, and gnome-terminal are all affected. The window list button is shown depressed and programs suc

[Bug 357889] [NEW] Restoring windows causes brief freeze for 1-2 seconds (Jaunty only; regression)

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: When trying to restore a window that has been minimised, there is a freeze for about 1-2 seconds before the window appears. This happens with all windows; Firefox, gedit, and gnome-terminal are all affected. The window list button is shown depressed and programs such as glxgea

[Bug 357877] Re: resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
** Attachment added: "lspci" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25049110/lspci ** Description changed: I have a Studio 15 from Dell. The laptop originally came with Vista but I use(d) Ubuntu 8.10 on it. After putting Ubuntu 9.04 side-by-side with it to see how it works & see if I can find an

[Bug 357877] [NEW] resuming from suspend on Dell Studio 15 does not work in Jaunty - regression; worked in Intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: I have a Studio 15 from Dell. The laptop originally came with Vista but I use(d) Ubuntu 8.10 on it. After putting Ubuntu 9.04 side-by-side with it to see how it works & see if I can find any bugs (already very pleased), I noticed suspend does not work; it suspends, but fails t

[Bug 68695] Re: Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when the screen is locked kills the X session

2008-12-01 Thread Thomas O.
Well, I can see a reason for allowing it. For example, if gnome- screensaver were to freeze. It'd be no worse than pressing (and holding) the power button, and we can't disable that, so why disable Ctrl-Alt- BkSp? -- Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when the screen is locked kills the X session https:

[Bug 303637] Re: Ability to kill gnome-screensaver makes it easy to defeat the lock screen dialog

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas O.
No, I simply changed tty with my keyboard (Ctrl+Alt+F1). Some people leave the ttys open, which could be security problem as they are not automatically logged out when locking the screen. -- Ability to kill gnome-screensaver makes it easy to defeat the lock screen dialog https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 303637] [NEW] Ability to kill gnome-screensaver makes it easy to defeat the lock screen dialog

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver By going to any of the ttys it is possible to terminate gnome- screensaver and gain access to the machine. Although ttys themselves are protected with passwords, these can be left unlocked accidentally, and running "killall gnome-screens

[Bug 300413] Re: xorg starts using 70%+ cpu randomly

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas O.
** Attachment added: "Xorg log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19816032/Xorg.0.log -- xorg starts using 70%+ cpu randomly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300413 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 300413] [NEW] xorg starts using 70%+ cpu randomly

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Occasionally, xorg will start spiking and using large amounts of CPU. A solution is to do Ctrl-Alt-F1, which switches to a virtual terminal. This seems to stop Xorg misbehaving, but also has another, strange effect; it will switch back to the graphic

[Bug 155138] current desk number is incorrect

2007-10-20 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Rolling over the virtual desktops shows "Current workspace: Desk 1" for all desks, regardless wether 1, 2, 3 or more is actually selected. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- current desk number is incorrect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 154785] super+tab then super+e causes black windows

2007-10-20 Thread Thomas O.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz This bug is more evident in the slow-motion mode (activated by shift+F10) but still happens in the normal speed mode (though you need quick fingers). When you press the Super key (win logo key) then Tab (activating "Cover Flow") and then pressing S