[Bug 430348] Re: NFS root device never ready

2010-05-08 Thread Jim Rees
Never mind, what I'm seeing is Bug #537133. -- NFS root device never ready https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430348 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-05-09 Thread Jim Rees
I can confirm this is still broken with portmap 6.0.0-1ubuntu2 installed. My workaround is to turn off statd in /etc/default/nfs-common and add nolock to the root options in fstab. Portmap still tries to start and I get error messages but the boot eventually succeeds. -- mountall issues with NFS

[Bug 430348] Re: NFS root device never ready

2010-05-04 Thread Jim Rees
I've just installed lucid on a diskless system. It boots from a usb key, not pxe, but has an nfs root. It hangs in or just after init-bottom, apparently because statd and portmap both exit immediately after starting. My "fix" was to disable them both then add "nolock" to the root mount options in f

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-06-03 Thread Jim Rees
Another suggested fix, from Bug #548917, is to run mountall twice from mountall.conf. Or I suspect you could put your remount in mountall.conf, just before the "exec mountall," since it's only the root that needs to be remounted. I'll try this when I get a chance. -- mountall issues with NFS root

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-05-26 Thread Jim Rees
I had to try a number of different things to get it going. It took several hours. I don't entirely understand the way the host gets its IP address. The kernel ipaddr=x.x.x.x option doesn't seem to work, it always uses dhcp. I ended up using a dhcp server with a static IP for the host, and also conf

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-05-26 Thread Jim Rees
I should also add that I am not using the mountall patch. And I'm doing this on i386, not amd64. -- mountall issues with NFS root filesystem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2012-03-12 Thread Jim Rees
Kind of unbelievable that this is still unfixed and still marked low priority. Can we at least have an explanation of what's broken in plymouth that makes it impossible to apply the suggested fix? I can look at fixing plymouth if that's the problem. -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2012-03-12 Thread Jim Rees
The vt.handoff kernel param shouldn't be there in the first place. See my comment above. And I don't see why this would be an uncommon installation. It's the only way I know of to install a command line system that's not a server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 630420] Re: Lost pointer after installing Kernel 2.6.35.14 on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-12-06 Thread Jim Rees
This bug is fixed in the kernel git. I don't know if the fix made it out to apt yet. The fix is here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/24/108 By the way, when the disk died in my x40, I replaced with a CF card on an adapter. Faster, cheaper, lower power. And since I'm running Ubuntu, not XP, I don't n

[Bug 635047] Re: After updating to latest Maverick 2.6.35-20 X.org does not start anymore

2010-12-06 Thread Jim Rees
There used to be a working video driver for the Intel 855GM, but since it actually worked, it was removed from Xorg. You now have three choices. You can go with the default, which is fbdev, and suffer crashes every few days. Or you can use the new intel driver, but it doesn't work either. I'm using

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Rees
Maybe I'm missing something here. What you have described is certainly a bug and should be fixed. But why is the nfs root being mounted read-only to begin with? An on-disk root is mounted read-only so that if it's dirty fsck can clean it up. But that makes no sense for an nfs root. -- mountall is

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Rees
The fstab hack makes sense. I hadn't thought of that. I wonder what would happen if you used "nfsroot=10.10.10.254:/nfsroot,rw" as your kernel option, and "rw" in fstab. Would the root then be initially mounted rw, and the remount skipped? The doc says you can put nfs options after the comma, does

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Rees
That's a bit odd. I would expect if you had rw in your kernel options, and ro in your fstab, that it would do the remount. But in any case I think the kernel should mount the nfsroot rw unless you give ro in the kernel options. I'm going to bring this up on the nfs mailing list (I'm an nfs develop

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2011-10-10 Thread Jim Rees
I'm still getting this with the 11.11 beta2. Why is this considered "low" importance? It makes the system unusable and can take a while to figure out, even for someone who knows what they're doing. It's especially pernicious in a VirtualBox VM, where ctl-alt-F1 doesn't do what you expect. Please ra

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2011-10-10 Thread Jim Rees
The real bug here is not so much that grub is asking the kernel to switch to vt7 when there is no splash. The real bug is that grub is requesting a vt switch at all. Grub has no business making this request because it has no way of knowing whether there is anything on vt7. The way this should work

[Bug 761830] Re: grub2 still hands off to blank tty7 on non-Server command-line-only systems and some Server systems

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Rees
I found the perfect fix for this bug. I wiped my disk and installed a different (not Ubuntu) distro. I am much happier now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761830 Title: grub2 still ha

[Bug 759469] Re: Ubuntu hangs when restoring a session in Firefox

2011-04-18 Thread Jim Rees
Are you sure it isn't just hanging because of the disk errors? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759469 Title: Ubuntu hangs when restoring a session in Firefox -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 574854] Re: lucid xorg regression - thinkpad x40 (855GM) freeze at xorg startup

2010-07-02 Thread Jim Rees
Any progress on this? I'm running kernel 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 (built from source), with "nomodeset" option, the last kernel that works for me. I've got a x40 2386BHU. The x41 has similar problems by the way. -- lucid xorg regression - thinkpad x40 (855GM) freeze at xorg startup https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 665577] [NEW] Firefox dependency on gnome-icon-theme should be made explicit

2010-10-23 Thread Jim Rees
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox The maverick firefox package 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 depends on the gnome-icon-theme package for the "forward" and "back" button icons, but this dependency isn't explicit. So if you just install firefox without also installing gno

[Bug 537133] Re: mountall issues with NFS root filesystem

2010-10-23 Thread Jim Rees
Does anyone know if the fix is in 10.10? Do you still have to disable statd? -- mountall issues with NFS root filesystem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-04-29 Thread Jim Rees
Here's how I did it: Get the source tarball and apply all patches from: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html apt-get install libfreetype6-dev lesstif2-dev ./configure --with-t1-library=no --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 make xpdf If you do have libpoppler-dev installed you

[Bug 660380] Re: 855gm and kernel 2.6.35-22.34 mouse cursor invisible

2010-11-03 Thread Jim Rees
This is what fixed it for me: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/24/108 -- 855gm and kernel 2.6.35-22.34 mouse cursor invisible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660380 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 564247] Re: xpdf renders and scrolls very slowly

2010-06-15 Thread Jim Rees
Me too. Thinkpad x40, Intel 82852/855GM graphics. Dragging the scroll bar causes the same long pause, where it used to just immediately scroll the window, so it does look like it's re-rendering for some reason. As a workaround, grab /usr/bin/xpdf.bin (not /usr/bin/xpdf, which is just a wrapper) fro