It's not just Karmic, as Gav pointed out. I installed Fedora 12 two days
ago in part because I was curious if this problem would follow me from
Karmic. Sure enough, a panel failed to load and my dmesg output had the
same ata errors as it did in karmic. Even though my partitioning scheme
was differe
I had not zeroed my drive prior to installing Fedora 12 so I attempted to
follow Andrew's suggestion (#91). Unfortunately every time I try dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (which is definitely my 32GB SSD) I get the following
error:
dd: writing to '/dev/sda': Input/output error
676065+0 records in
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I have the exact same issue with my Kensington Expert Mouse. Wired USB
plugged directly into the computer.
** Attachment added: "shotwell_kensington_dmesg.log"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51857273/shotwell_kensington_dmesg.log
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Shotwell makes USB mouse flaky
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug
Thanks Adam, I appreciate the responsiveness and, as a developer myself,
understand the difficulty in tracking down something you can't
reproduce. This is the trackball: http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-
Expert-Optical-
Trackball-64325/dp/B9KH63/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1279698338&s
Just saw the issue closed as worksforme on yorba. Which Kensington mouse
did you guys purchase? Maybe this means it's not all Kensington devices
which could also mean it's not just Kensington devices. At any rate, my
Expert Mouse (which is actually a poorly named trackball) is definitely
wigging ou
