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Hi there,
I am going to stop reporting bug reports for now, as you people will not read
them anyway.
I have confirmed with the help of canonical support that the laptop I am using
has no defective hardware. The BIOS is not broke, since I have reflashed the
BIOS with an upgraded version, from the Acer website. For the few bugs I could
easily reproduce this does not change a thing. What we have found out is that
the BIOS developed by the Phoenix people for Acer, does not support 4 GB. Acer
claims that the system supports 4 GB, but the people from Phoenix must have
limited the BIOS to 3 GB, since it was made for use with Windows 32-bit. The
system has two identical sodim sockets and I have two identical 2 GB chips,
that were sold to me fully installed by an official eBay reseller. I have
tested both sockets and both chips by memtest86+ 1.65 1.70 and 2.01. Everything
came up clean except the alfa 5 2.01 test, which had a bug, but is now fixed. I
had a problem before when trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, as the 32-bit
only recognises 3 GB. Back then a
faulty memtest86+ test surfaced. I have the memtest86+ version in backup, but
it is preinstalled and backed up with Windows Live OneCare and I have no idea
how to determine the version number. Really it does not change anything, as
when I remove one of the chips, the same bugs seem to persist. That is, the
ones that are easily reproducible. I now get less crashes both due to the fact
that I now only run Ubuntu repositories, other than VirtualBox 2.0.2 and
Skype-debian as described in the community docs, as well as alfa 6 and maybe
also because I only use 2 GB and the BIOS update. I do use many multiverse and
restricted applications though.
I maybe still able to help with the following data:
My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I have
tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and Valgrind log
several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since he suspected
hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes everything away to
the RAM chip(s) and crashes when they are full, without utilising the 2 GB
swap I have.
The gvfs trash bug I reported as new because of a different title was actually
caused by opening different applications with nautilus, it gave a wastebin
popup and all other stuff, nautilus and firefox include just crashed. It also
occured sometimes on startup, but since I keep my wastebin empty and with all
the updates it stopped happening. Maybe some people don't know how to solve
their wastebin permissions issue.
The consolekit bug resurfaced only once, during an upgrade of hardy to the
latest 8.10 alfa. I tried to open a deluge torrent video file that had not
ended downloading fully, I got a freeze up and a fatal system crash requiring
reinstall. I could not rescue the system since HAL had not finished installing.
I noted however an error message in the terminal pointing out a console kit
conflict. I have copied it manually, but it is rather long. Just ask if you
need it. I think I installed X kernel or core dump through synaptic and I have
backed up var and etc, but I do not know how to use that. I asked for feedback
on this earlier but have not received it.
The landscape bug that is still open (sysinfo) may be reproducible. I had my
landscape account open in a firefox tap. I ran '$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup
low'. When I got to landscape config I accidentally pressed yes, yes and did
not fill in username and password. Then it crashed.
I also asked for help on how to find my bug reports that were closed down as
invalid, to recover my comments. Tormod said I should activate something in the
GUI, but has not tolled me how to.
Canonical asked me specifically not to Google for stress testing tools and try
them out, since if it crashes something the will have to provide assistance for
that too. They wanted to search for suitable tools for this in main, but I
agreed that I should not use up their time for that since I do not have any
major problems in hardy.
I have spent a lot of time on trying to reflash the BIOS, since my Freedos live
cd displayed an error code and the RedHat flashrom tool would not work and
such. Anyway, I found it was easier and faster for me to format the entire disk
to ntfs and relash from Windows, as I had to reformat anyway.
I have not a lot of time available anymore since the holidays are over, so ask
me in first person if you need to know something or give me instructions on how
to recover my closed reports first, or I will have to let everything time out.
Thank you for helping make Ubunu better,
Thomas
----- Original Message ----
From: thomas delbeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: launchpad-users@lists.canonical.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:53:05 PM
Subject: feedback
Hi there,
I am going to stop reporting bug reports for now, as you people will not read
them anyway.
I have confirmed with the help of canonical support that the laptop I am using
has no defective hardware. The BIOS is not broke, since I have reflashed the
BIOS with an upgraded version, from the Acer website. For the few bugs I could
easily reproduce this does not change a thing. What we have found out is that
the BIOS developed by the Phoenix people for Acer, does not support 4 GB. Acer
claims that the system supports 4 GB, but the people from Phoenix must have
limited the BIOS to 3 GB, since it was made for use with Windows 32-bit. The
system has two identical sodim sockets and I have two identical 2 GB chips,
that were sold to me fully installed by an official eBay reseller. I have
tested both sockets and both chips by memtest86+ 1.65 1.70 and 2.01. Everything
came up clean except the alfa 5 2.01 test, which had a bug, but is now fixed. I
had a problem before when trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, as the 32-bit
only recognises 3 GB. Back then a
faulty memtest86+ test surfaced. I have the memtest86+ version in backup, but
it is preinstalled and backed up with Windows Live OneCare and I have no idea
how to determine the version number. Really it does not change anything, as
when I remove one of the chips, the same bugs seem to persist. That is, the
ones that are easily reproducible. I now get less crashes both due to the fact
that I now only run Ubuntu repositories, other than VirtualBox 2.0.2 and
Skype-debian as described in the community docs, as well as alfa 6 and maybe
also because I only use 2 GB and the BIOS update. I do use many multiverse and
restricted applications though.
I maybe still able to help with the following data:
My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I have
tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and Valgrind log
several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since he suspected
hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes everything away to
the RAM chip(s) and crashes when they are full, without utilising the 2 GB
swap I have.
The gvfs trash bug I reported as new because of a different title was actually
caused by opening different applications with nautilus, it gave a wastebin
popup and all other stuff, nautilus and firefox include just crashed. It also
occured sometimes on startup, but since I keep my wastebin empty and with all
the updates it stopped happening. Maybe some people don't know how to solve
their wastebin permissions issue.
The consolekit bug resurfaced only once, during an upgrade of hardy to the
latest 8.10 alfa. I tried to open a deluge torrent video file that had not
ended downloading fully, I got a freeze up and a fatal system crash requiring
reinstall. I could not rescue the system since HAL had not finished installing.
I noted however an error message in the terminal pointing out a console kit
conflict. I have copied it manually, but it is rather long. Just ask if you
need it. I think I installed X kernel or core dump through synaptic and I have
backed up var and etc, but I do not know how to use that. I asked for feedback
on this earlier but have not received it.
The landscape bug that is still open (sysinfo) may be reproducible. I had my
landscape account open in a firefox tap. I ran '$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup
low'. When I got to landscape config I accidentally pressed yes, yes and did
not fill in username and password. Then it crashed.
I also asked for help on how to find my bug reports that were closed down as
invalid, to recover my comments. Tormod said I should activate something in the
GUI, but has not tolled me how to.
Canonical asked me specifically not to Google for stress testing tools and try
them out, since if it crashes something the will have to provide assistance for
that too. They wanted to search for suitable tools for this in main, but I
agreed that I should not use up their time for that since I do not have any
major problems in hardy.
I have spent a lot of time on trying to reflash the BIOS, since my Freedos live
cd displayed an error code and the RedHat flashrom tool would not work and
such. Anyway, I found it was easier and faster for me to format the entire disk
to ntfs and relash from Windows, as I had to reformat anyway.
I have not a lot of time available anymore since the holidays are over, so ask
me in first person if you need to know something or give me instructions on how
to recover my closed reports first, or I will have to let everything time out.
Thank you for helping make Ubunu better,
Thomas
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