[Bug 872075] Re: possible evince memory leak, system unresponsive with high iowait

2011-10-10 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "Block_diagram_Pat10.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872075/+attachment/2535710/+files/Block_diagram_Pat10.pdf ** Description changed: When viewing a particular file, attached to this bug report, evince causes my entire system to go unresponsive due to very high

[Bug 872075] [NEW] possible evince memory leak, system unresponsive with high iowait

2011-10-10 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: When viewing a particular file, attached to this bug report, evince causes my entire system to go unresponsive due to very high memory use. The pdf does eventually show, but in the process, memory usage appears to rise up to 900 MB or so on my system, and presumably the use of

[Bug 670201] Re: evince freezes with high iowait, locks up entire OS

2011-01-07 Thread David Dean
If I need to provide anything else please let me know. I am having the same problems on a new dual core HP ProBook 4320s with 1.8 GiB of RAM and 9.3 GiB of swap, so it is not just my original machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 670201] Re: evince freezes with high iowait, locks up entire OS

2010-11-08 Thread David Dean
It turns out I was having some problems with a failing hard drive causing high iowait when swap memory was being used. However, I have replaced the hard drive and are still having similar problems (but of a lesser magnitude) in a clean Ubuntu 10.10 installation. I have a HP 530 Notebook PC with 1

[Bug 670201] Re: evince freezes with high iowait, locks up entire OS

2010-11-02 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "Rajitha_SST2010.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670201/+attachment/1721264/+files/Rajitha_SST2010.pdf -- evince freezes with high iowait, locks up entire OS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670201 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 670201] [NEW] evince freezes with high iowait, locks up entire OS

2010-11-02 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince When I open the attached pdf, evince freezes with high iowait, and the entire system is unusable. It's difficult to even start up a tty using Ctrl+Alt+F1 so that the offending process can be killed. No problems exist with viewing the pdf with xpdf

[Bug 664956] Re: evince printing fails with CUPS error "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"

2010-10-21 Thread David Dean
I have attached the output of the printing troubleshooter tool. ** Attachment added: "troubleshoot.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/664956/+attachment/1706351/+files/troubleshoot.txt -- evince printing fails with CUPS error "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"

[Bug 664956] Re: evince printing fails with CUPS error "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"

2010-10-21 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "PDF file that causes the CUPs error" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664956/+attachment/1706347/+files/IS100453.pdf -- evince printing fails with CUPS error "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664956 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 664956] [NEW] evince printing fails with CUPS error "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"

2010-10-21 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince Printing a PDF file (attached) using evince causes the print job to stop and the print diagnostic tool to load. The error reported is "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed". This does not happen with xpdf or acroread to the same printer using C

[Bug 181915] Re: page scroll causes loss of context to the reader

2009-11-04 Thread David Dean
Just a quick note that a workaround that seems to work for me is to peform the page-down by clicking on the empty area on the scroll-bar. This seems to perform a more sensible approach, with only a line or so of context instead of the much too large amount when the space bar or page down is used.

[Bug 17962] Re: newly opened gnome-terminal windows don't have .bash_profile sourced

2009-06-22 Thread David Dean
So this has been reported a number of times in different guises .. for example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/72714 which links us back to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150521 Which shows that the gnome folk are not interested in fixing this. So as a distribut

[Bug 278883] Re: [intrepid beta] totem doesn't load playlists

2008-10-05 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18248065/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18248066/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18248067/ProcStatus.txt -- [intre

[Bug 278883] [NEW] [intrepid beta] totem doesn't load playlists

2008-10-05 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem When I try to open a text .m3u playlist file with totem, it complains that it cannot open the playlist with the message: "GstDecodeBin: This appears to be a text file". The following messages are also output to the console: ** Message: Error: This

[Bug 259294] Re: Evince takes a long time, cpu to render document

2008-08-19 Thread David Dean
Pedro, in that case can you please link this bug to it's duplicate so that I can see if there is anything I can do to help. -- Evince takes a long time, cpu to render document https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259294 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

[Bug 259294] Re: Evince takes a long time, cpu to render document

2008-08-19 Thread David Dean
As a matter of interest, I have also attached a very similar file (also exported from Oo.org impress) that does *not* have this problem with evince/xpdf. ** Attachment added: "EEP129_Lecture_4-08.pdf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16922087/EEP129_Lecture_4-08.pdf -- Evince takes a long time,

[Bug 259294] Re: Evince takes a long time, cpu to render document

2008-08-19 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "EEP129_Lecture_5-08.pdf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16921597/EEP129_Lecture_5-08.pdf ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16921598/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16921599/ProcMa

[Bug 259294] [NEW] Evince takes a long time, cpu to render document

2008-08-19 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince Occassionally with some pdf documents evince seems to take a very long time to render pages (and sticks at 100% cpu usage while doing so too). In this case it appears to be happening with some pdfs exported from openoffice impress. I'm not sure if

[Bug 200401] Re: paper orientation should default based on image dimensions

2008-05-07 Thread David Dean
Submitted upstream (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531898) ** Also affects: eog via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531898 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- paper orientation should default based on image dimensions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200401 Yo

[Bug 200401] Re: paper orientation should default based on image dimensions

2008-03-09 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12534891/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12534892/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12534893/ProcStatus.txt -- paper

[Bug 200401] [NEW] paper orientation should default based on image dimensions

2008-03-09 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog It gets annoying having to always change the page-setup when I want to print screen-shots and photos and other landscape orientated images full-page. Surely the orientation of the printed version should be based on which would print the largest image

[Bug 159414] Re: skip forwards is different than skip backwards

2008-01-08 Thread David Dean
It seems this is by design. But I still feel it should at least be mentioned in the menus as it is not obvious and can take some getting used to >From http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ : Q: Why does seeking with the keyboard keys (Left and Right arrow) in Totem not seek the same amount of tim

[Bug 159414] Re: skip forwards is different than skip backwards

2007-12-20 Thread David Dean
I'm pretty sure it happens for any file. I have tried it with mp4s avis and mp3s and the same think happens for all of them. One minute forwards, 15 seconds back. I've kind of gotten used to it now, and If it is by design I could probably put up with it, but it still seems a little counterintuitiv

[Bug 159414] Re: skip forwards is different than skip backwards

2007-11-01 Thread David Dean
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10245172/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10245173/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10245174/ProcStatus.txt -- skip f

[Bug 159414] skip forwards is different than skip backwards

2007-11-01 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem 'Skip Forwards' in totem skips 1 minute, but 'Skip Backwards' only goes back 15 seconds. This seems counterintuitive to me, at at least should be configurable in some manner, as the 1 minute skip is a bit long for watching short video podcasts, such

[Bug 85112] Re: Firefox crashes after watching embedded video (undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit)

2007-02-17 Thread David Dean
Just to demonstrate, hit this link .. it kills my firefox instantly (and gets saved in the current session, so firefox then crashes on start. ) http://hereisyourpolicebrutality.ytmnd.com/ -- Firefox crashes after watching embedded video (undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit) https://launch

[Bug 85102] symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so: undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit

2007-02-17 Thread David Dean
Public bug reported: I found this in liferea, when clicking the below item from an rss feed - liferea dies instantly. I'm guessing it's the Quicktime embed? Are these supposed to work on Feisty? with --debug-all flag on: ** Message: NP_Initialize ** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded /usr/bin/life