*blocking* bugs in development versions (e.g. Gutsy).

2007-09-30 Thread Scott (angrykeyboarder)
How does one convey the message that a bug is severe? A recent update to HAL (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu9) in Gutsy won't install/upgrade due to errors and therefore it's dependents (and their defendants) won't install/upgrade I've been running Gutsy for weeks and this is the biggest bug I've run into (and

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:08:05AM EST, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > If you want fsck then you should be able to turn it on, but please > don't assume that anyone else wants to have fsck enabled, by default. > As many people have reported, it takes awfu

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > On 9/30/07, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> umount the partition and *then* run: >> $ sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY >> >> that will reduce fsck period to once a month, regarless of bootcount. >> But do that on yo

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 9/30/07, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > umount the partition and *then* run: > $ sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY > > that will reduce fsck period to once a month, regarless of bootcount. > But do that on your on. > > Distribution wide i canĀ“t think off any good reason to disable fsck a

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Thilo Six
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote the following on 30.09.2007 19:14 > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:46 +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: >> I once reported a bug about this, but Justin Wray suggested that I >> discuss this on a mailing list, first. > > Curious. I filed a bug about disabling periodic fscks (as most

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:46 +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > I once reported a bug about this, but Justin Wray suggested that I > discuss this on a mailing list, first. Curious. I filed a bug about disabling periodic fscks (as most other operating system like Windows 95 and above along with OSX

Thinkpad T60 power usage

2007-09-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I've been sitting on some power results for a while because I haven't had time to tidy them up but by posting them perhaps they will turn out to be useful to someone. This email is quite long and the results are somewhat raw and in no particular order. Rough conclusions are at the end. On Linux I

Should trackerd run in KDE or not? (was [Bug 147017] trackerd vs. strigidaemon)

2007-09-30 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Bug 147017 [1] reports that when logging in KDE with Gnome installed, there will be both trackerd and strigi running, which sounds useless since both are indexers. So my question is, should we disable trackerd from starting in KDE? As Michael Biebl (who is the Debian maintainer for tracker) said,

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Tygier
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > Are there any alternatives? Here are two examples: one alternative is fsck at shut down. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck sam tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.c

recovery CD?

2007-09-30 Thread Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby
Hi, I made a fresh install on a laptop I am going to give to a dummy (on computer) person. I would like to know if there is some way to create a recovery CD of the installation. I installed some restricted drivers and that person would be unable to do so. Especially after a disaster. I would li

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
On 30/09/2007, Martin Peeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/09/2007, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a temporary cosmetic work-around, something like forcing the output > > into a pseudo-window on the boot screen (so that it doesn't look like > > the whole thing crashed to comman

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Peeks
On 27/09/2007, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a temporary cosmetic work-around, something like forcing the output > into a pseudo-window on the boot screen (so that it doesn't look like > the whole thing crashed to command line) might be nice, e.g.: > > > u b u n t u >

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Reordering this mail to put the important topic on top. On 9/28/07, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, in sleep-to-disk mode you can even pull the power plug without > enforcing booting. Yep, sleep-to-disk is the best mode if you care about your environment, but if you want to sugge

Re: Reporting bugs for unofficially support ports (powerpc in particular)?

2007-09-30 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Michael R. Head wrote: > I've been trying to report a bug about an app on the powerpc > architecture > ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpar2/+bug/146606 ). > > It's been marked invalid because it occurs on powerpc, even after > assigning it to the PowerPC team. I'd still like to try and