Possible regression in Karmic: "valgrind echo foo" has problems

2009-08-30 Thread Mike Pontillo
Hi all, I am trying to triage some strange segfaults on my Karmic system. It seems like I am seeing intermittent crashes in seemingly random programs. Last night I found a reproducible crash. After installing the 'samba' package and running 'net usershare list', it *always* crashes. I tried

Re: Possible regression in Karmic: "valgrind echo foo" has problems

2009-09-02 Thread Mike Pontillo
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jarkko Palviainen wrote: > > Happens to me as well. I'm not sure what's the problem with the binary > package, but rebuilding it seems to help. This is what I get with the > rebuilt valgrind_3.4.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb: > > $ valgrind echo foo > ==25041== Memcheck, a me

Re: Update on audio, call for testers, and ponies

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Pontillo
Hi all, Since I am part of the "vocal minority" I thought I'd speak up. I am using an HP laptop with an integrated Intel 82801G controller. I imagine there are a lot of similar laptops out there since HP likes to mass produce things. =) The speakers on this system sound *terrible* unless the PC