Re: Boot-time improvements

op sit idly for more than 15 minutes at the login screen, it eats multiple gigs of RAM and hours of CPU time trying to render the monstrous svg: http://launchpad.net/+bugs/218499) GNOME login time annoys me more than boot time. It takes ~35 seconds, during which the disk is busy doing I/O. Mariu

Re: Boot-time improvements

o the rescue! And here's my 1:09 bootchart: http://mg.pov.lt/hardy-20080822-3.png. It also has zope2.9, but I don't see offhand why it is 20 seconds shorter than the first one. What is that 'exe' process near the start? Marius Gedminas -- Linux is a fast moving project, with ve

Re: Boot-time improvements

gt; > As long as computers take more than a couple of seconds to start up, > there's work left to do. Hear, hear! Marius Gedminas -- BASIC: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. signat

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

ne of the versions I tried has managed to bring up X. Even replacing the video card to the same one I have in my desktop didn't help. > On those systems > you can probably not install Ubuntu/Kubuntu in the first place. That was my reluctant conclusion. Marius Gedminas -- If Linux

Re: Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

IRC, restarting pulseaudio and making sure the player talked to it solved the issue. Can you try and narrow it down? E.g. can VLC play movies that aren't DVDs? What audio output device does it use (ALSA, pulseaudio, OSS)? Marius Gedminas -- I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so su

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

y, just wanted to note that ntp refuses to touch your clock if it's too far out of sync (more than 1 hour, IIRC), so ntpdate may still be necessary. Marius Gedminas -- Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-d

Re: Default font size in gnome

ant "many") > devices? Since the X server uses EDID-reported physical size to determine the DPI, it's at least as precise as basing the font size on DPI alone, no? Marius Gedminas -- Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. signature.asc Description: Di

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

stem? If people start creating files in /home that are going to be lost on reboot, it would be nice to warn them about that. > I created as a stub wiki page: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AufsBasedUpgrades Marius Gedminas -- Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

pplets showing up one by one with agonizing pauses in between and the disk running at full throttle. Marius Gedminas -- We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-disc

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

spinups. I'm wondering why readahead doesn't load all those thousands of small files needed for desktop startup during boot, before I try to log in. I'm guessing that it just doesn't know the particular ones that I need - everyone's GNOME settings are different, applets

Re: ssh-add

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:58:46AM -0600, Hatem Nassrat wrote: > piping /dev/null to ssh-add, or running ssh-add not from a TTY causes > SSH_ASKPASS to be triggered on all OS and Desktops including > (K)Ubuntu. > > Similarly under Ubuntu (Gnome) trying to ssh to a machine will pop-up > SSH_ASKPASS

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

> processor up. Unless I am mistaken, this is a bug. What information should I > attach to the bug report? Why is it a bug? According to Matthew Garrett, to save power, you want to finish executing a task as soon as possible, which means running for a shorter time at 100% speed. ht

Re: lib file ist missing in iptables by jaunty

where can i get this file or lib package ? http://packages.ubuntu.com lets you search for a package containing a given file. And it tells me there isn't one. In fact, Google doesn't seem to know anything about 'f8to0'. Is that the correct name? Marius Gedminas -- Did you

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

is my worst Linux experience ever, but thankfully > Ubuntu 8.04 works beautifully here that I'm thankful after all. It's > really sad my favourite OS reached this level of instability and > bloat, but hey, I at least have 8.04 till 2011, which I couldn't ask > for more. &

Re: is anyone ever going to fix this major bug?

gt; If no one actually > uses the bug tracker, maybe take it down so people don't waste their > time reporting bugs... There are millions of Ubuntu users, but only hundreds of developers... Marius Gedminas -- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked a

Re: Postfix authentication default configuration

rather ephemeral. Perhaps you'd like to put it on http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/? Marius Gedminas -- MCSE == Marginal Computer Software Enthusiast signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or uns

Re: Split all documentation into their own packages

fer to use find /usr/share/doc -depth -type f ! -name copyright -delete || true find /usr/share/doc -empty -delete || true instead of piping filenames through |xargs rm/rmdir? Marius Gedminas -- Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few th

Re: update-manager dropped from repository; friendly update method?

did I get it? Was it included in maverick-proposed at some point? Marius Gedminas -- Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world. -- Andrew Hume signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists

Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

completion > etc, which cleans up the command namespace a bit. Doesn't Ubuntu put both /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in $PATH by default for all users? My /etc/environment contains PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" and I'm quite s

Re: help compiling unity.

been declared > Any pointers would be appreciated. It sounds like Unity trunk needs a newer version of nux than is available in Oneiric. Marius Gedminas -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-

Re: Ability to set correct DPI in 12.04 (still forced to 96?)

d. Thoughts? What am I missing here? http://blogs.gnome.org/danni/2011/12/15/more-on-dpi/ http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/dpi-2011-12-07-04-35.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157671.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/15776

Re: Lucid -> Precise trouble with do-release-upgrade

ouse input). I haven't filed a bug because I've no idea what happened (neither /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old didn't have anything suspicious like a stack trace; there were no segfault notices in dmesg). Should I have? Marius Gedminas -- This host is a black ho

Re: server went unbootable

going > to change it for precise now, but it'd probably be possible to start it > as soon as all *local* filesystems are mounted. Feel free to file a bug > about that. Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/975985 since I also would find it welcome. Mar

Re: The place of the Ubuntu Software Center regarding Steam, Desura and others

ntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/630730 "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/630730";, closed as Fix Released two years ago. I don't think that's the bug you meant to reference. (I've often wondered whether introducing a checksum digit into Launchpad bug nu

Re: Different behaviour between bzr builddeb and pbuilder-dist

auto_install: dh_auto_install rm -f $(TMP)/usr/share/info/dir i.e. pass -f to rm so it won't fail when the file doesn't exist. Marius Gedminas -- "...the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest" signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-

Re: apt and pdiff files

ffs only make things slower: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/01/pdiffs-1.html Marius Gedminas -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

Re: Our Networking Story

nager.conf. It's generally a good idea to start by reading README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/$package whenever you want to do something about $package. (Sometimes it's README.Debian.gz) Marius Gedminas -- Read what I mean, not what I write. signature.asc Description: Digital signature --

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

he partition. > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Marius Gedminas -- "Learning Perl" is actually a very well-written book for

Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

rompt on this. apt-get install used to always show a prompt. Then it was streamlined to show a prompt only if the packages about to be installed are just the packages the user specified on the command line, i.e. if there aren't any additional dependencies or conflicts that could be surprising

Re: Using iwl3945 instead of ipw3945 in gutsy?

etect my > wifi hardware with iwl. Does this work for other people? Network manager doesn't quite work with ipw3945 either: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/121439 Marius Gedminas -- Of course I use Microsoft. Setting up a stable unix network is no challenge

Re: Compiz and workspace switcher

become obsolete? I don't think so. Marius Gedminas -- The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: which package owns the gnome quit button?

al-system-power-hibernate-linux I'm pretty sure everything goes through a DBUS message to HAL which executes the appropriate script. (The script itself tries to determine which of the zillion suspend solutions you have installed and calls that one.) Marius Gedminas -- Eagleson's Law: