[Bug 1298021] Re: Google Chrome (not chromium) won't start in guest session

2015-01-25 Thread Eric D
This bug still seems to exist (25/1/2015). Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this: just installed Edubuntu 14.04 (on 25/1/2015), let it install the updates. Now I am trying to use Google Chrome (yuck; version 40.02214.91) in Guest mode. The error Failed to move to new namespace: PID

[Bug 454301] Re: warning given about disk health due to smart not being enabled

2010-02-27 Thread Eric D
I've got an Eee PC 4G (701) (in use since March of 2008 with Xandros) and Ubuntu 9.10 reports this error on the internal solid state drive after being woken up. I'm guessing the problem is with the fact that SD cards are not designed for high volumes of write operations and the virtual

[Bug 403303] Re: power manager reports 1% battery even though it is full on Asus Eee PC netbook

2010-02-27 Thread Eric D
So... until the devicekit-power is rewritten to take care of the erroneous mAh reading there is a simple workaround provided by Ubuntu itself: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Using#Customizing%20the%20tiny%20desktop Do not display the incorrect battery warning at login gconftool-2 --set

[Bug 454301] Re: warning given about disk health due to smart not being enabled

2010-02-27 Thread Eric D
Ok, I figured there had to be a simple work-around. There is! Create a swap file and use that instead of a swap partition. This will drastically reduce the number of unnecessary writes that your (irreplaceable) internal SD has to experience (especially if you have 0.5 GB of RAM).

[Bug 361689] Re: hald crashed with SIGSEGV in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev when assembling mdraid devices

2009-05-27 Thread Eric D
Yes, I have the same problem. From my quick investigation, the problem was when the findfs binary was called and it was stuck on that binary execution. -- hald crashed with SIGSEGV in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev when assembling mdraid devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361689 You

[Bug 361689] Re: hald crashed with SIGSEGV in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev when assembling mdraid devices

2009-05-27 Thread Eric D
my system is AMD64. -- hald crashed with SIGSEGV in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev when assembling mdraid devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361689 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 361689] Re: hald crashed with SIGSEGV in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev when assembling mdraid devices

2009-05-25 Thread Eric D
excuse my ignorance, but do we have any idea when that fix will be available when I update my system? shouldn't the severity be high as it breaks any installation that is using raid afaik? shouldn't that issue be listed in the release note (i would not have upgraded if I had known..). I've