[Bug 1350871] [NEW] location service is waking up at 10Hz causing possible unwanted wakeups

2014-07-31 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've observed that location service is waking up ~10 times per second due to a 100ms sleep ps -ax | grep 2295 2295 ?Ssl0:00 /usr/bin/ubuntu-location-serviced --bus system --provider gps::Provider eventstat shows it's the top waking userspace process on the

[Bug 1350871] Re: location service is waking up at 10Hz causing possible unwanted wakeups

2014-08-01 Thread Colin Ian King
** Changed in: location-service (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350871 Title: location service is waking up at

[Bug 1350871] Re: location service is waking up at 10Hz causing possible unwanted wakeups

2014-09-02 Thread Colin Ian King
BTW, which binary blob is the chipset driver? i don't mind looking at it and seeing if we can tweak it a bit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to location-service in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350871 Title:

[Bug 1433720] [NEW] shutdown request timeouts out and leaves tty in non-echo mode

2015-03-18 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I believe this is a change in shutdown tied somehow to systemd, but I am guessing. How to reproduce the bug: sudo shutdown -h now [ wait a couple of minutes, don't enter in one's password ] authentication times out and one is left with non-echo on one's tty. This has to be

[Bug 1438301] [NEW] desktop machine suspends with systemd after ~3 minutes, does NOT suspend with upstart

2015-03-30 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: For reasons I cannot fathom, my development server goes into deep suspend after ~3 minutes after startup with systemd, however, if I boot with upstart it does not. This happens everytime I boot with systemd, the machine just goes into a deep suspend without me requesting

[Bug 1470845] [NEW] systemd on wily desktop generating short lived threads every second in a quiet system

2015-07-02 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I noticed that systemd on my idle Wily desktop is creating very short lived threads at 1Hz. While these aren't doing much, it still consumes power doing wakeups to create these periodic threads. Showing thread creation with forkstat: $ sudo forkstat Time Event PID

[Bug 1271777] Re: cannot type in search or page boxes in evince

2016-07-15 Thread Colin Ian King
This affects me, the search does not work, which is a real pain for large documents of thousands of pages; not being able to search makes the tool unusable for large docs. ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Low =>

[Bug 1615685] [NEW] systemd-analyze stats for kernel startup time looks suspect

2016-08-22 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've instrumented a kernel so I can clearly see when processes start and exit, this allows me to see when exactly the kernel has handed off control to userspace. The time the kernel actually takes to initialize compared to the time systemd-analyze reports are different. $

[Bug 1626651] Re: brightness keys are handled slower in Yakkety than Xenial

2016-09-22 Thread Colin Ian King
I think this is a systemd/udevd kinda bug isn't it? ** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1696970] [NEW] softlockup DoS causes systemd-journald.service to abort with SIGABORT

2017-06-09 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I was running the new stress-ng softlockup stressor and observed that systemd-journald gets killed with an abort and this corrupts the systemd journal. How to reproduce: git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cking/stress-ng cd stress-ng make clean; make sudo ./stress-ng

[Bug 1758163] Re: Please remove xchat-gnome from Ubuntu (again)

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Ian King
I deem that it should be removed, it is too much of a maintenance overhead and has way too many issues to be fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to xchat-gnome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758163 Title:

[Bug 1846768] [NEW] gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to figure out why my HDD keeps on flushing metadata out every minute on an idle laptop and discovered that gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London on my machine every minute. This causes the access time (atime) to be updated causing a metadata

[Bug 1846768] Re: gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 60 seconds

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Oh, actually, it was doing 10 accesses in 300 seconds, so it's polling every 30 seconds, higher than I first thought. ** Summary changed: - gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 60 seconds + gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds ** Changed in: gnome-calendar

[Bug 1846771] [NEW] gnome-settings-daemon opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds or so

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to figure out why my HDD keeps on flushing metadata out every minute on an idle laptop and discovered that gsd-color opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London on my machine at regular intervals. This causes the access time (atime) to be updated causing a

[Bug 1846779] [NEW] gsd-housekeeping is regularly opening /etc/fstab and the atime update is causing meta data write fluesh

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: gsd-housekeeping is opening /etc/fstab every 60 seconds and because it is being opened without the O_NOATIME flag the access time updates are causing regular meta data flushes. On an idle laptop this can cause the HDD to spin up, flush write and spin down every 60 seconds.

[Bug 1943434] [NEW] gnome-shell periodicall becomes extreemely active and eats CPU like crazy

2021-09-13 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: At seemingly random intervals throughout the day gnome-shell becomes very active, the CPU gets very busy and the fans kick in because of the large load. I attached health-check to the busy process for 60 seconds and got the following utilization stats: sudo health-check -p

[Bug 1943434] Re: gnome-shell periodicall becomes extreemely active and eats CPU like crazy

2021-09-13 Thread Colin Ian King
** Attachment added: "ASCII log of health-check analysis" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1943434/+attachment/5524939/+files/health-check-report.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to