[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2016-06-05 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes according to Bruno Nova's

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2016-06-05 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes according to Bruno Nova's

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2015-09-18 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
16.04 still using Unity 7? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061852 Title: Unity Application Lens slow to load To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2015-05-02 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Thanks, Bruno. I tried your earlier proposal from July by making a startup entry like this: sh -c sleep 15s ;/usr/bin/unity-scope-loader applications/applications.scope applications/ That didn't seem to make any difference, but now I've been using your last workaround for about a week and it

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2015-05-02 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Noobs mistake on my account, in other words. Thanks, Bruno. I've been coping with this bug since 12.04 and your tip is the first to have made a difference. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2014-12-05 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Well, I've still got it in 14.10. There's no doubt that this isn't a priority. We can probably only put our hope in Unity 8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919801 Title: Unity dash

[Bug 1029289] Re: Need to authorize my google account each time I boot the computer

2014-08-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
This seems to work for me too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1029289 Title: Need to authorize my google account each time I boot the computer To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 814833] Re: Opening the dash is very slow and laggy

2014-07-10 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
This exact same behaviour has been reported in Bug #919801, which was origunally filed for Ubuntu 11.10 (sic). It's a bug that affects many users but never seems to attract enough resouces to get solved. Please register yourself as affected to help raise focus on this problem. -- You received

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2014-05-10 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Still a problem 14.04. :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919801 Title: Unity dash file search is extremely slow To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2013-11-24 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
This is still a problem after upgrading two computers to 13.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919801 Title: Unity dash file search is extremely slow To manage notifications about

[Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly in 13.10 (saucy)

2013-11-09 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've got the same problem. I don't even have the US keyboard layout installed and yet, upon each login, the layout is set to US. Manually setting it back to the correct one (Finnish in my case) works but after a reboot, it's wrong again. Very annoying indeed. -- You received this bug

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2013-06-07 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Trying the sqlite vacuum command didn't work all that well even though I think it helped a little. It got even slightly better by deleting everything in the ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/ directory but still, Dash is quite slow to polulate the first time after login. Now, the results of the files lens

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2013-06-07 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Trying the sqlite3 vacuum command on my worst behaving machine didn't work all that well even though I think it helped a little. It got even slightly better by deleting everything in the ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/ directory but still, Dash is quite slow to polulate the first time after login. Now,

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2013-06-04 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've had this problem in Precise, in Quantal, and now in Raring, and I've had it on totally four Ubuntu machines in the household. The rest of the Dash is also very slowly populated but the Applications lens loads slower than anything else. It's been worse in 12.10 than in 12.04 and I had high

[Bug 919801] Re: Unity dash file search is extremely slow

2013-06-04 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
According to this link (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2106949), you could achieve the same by installing sqlite3 and performing: cd .local/share/zeitgeist/ sqlite3 activity.sqlite vacuum I'll be trying that on the worst of my three Ubuntu machines. On this one, I tried emptying

[Bug 1061852] Re: Unity Application Lens slow to load

2013-06-04 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
According to bug #919801, the problem can be eased by cleaning the Zeitgeist SQlite database. I'll be trying that on the one of my machines that is worst off. On the laptop I'm using now, I'm down to a couple of seconds for the dash to populate the first time after login. Not perfect but a clear

[Bug 1071209] Re: memtest86+ test #7 false positives (random number sequence error)

2013-01-02 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I git this bug too. Tried to figure out problems with an old computer gone instable and found memtest86+ claiming that all three RAM sticks were faulty. Then tried some good (I thought) sticks from another computer with the same result. Then tried all sticks from both computers in the second

[Bug 770158] Re: Totem fails to play any media after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

2012-05-05 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I can confirm this fix solves the same problem on a 64-bit system recently upgraded from Oneiric to Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770158 Title: Totem fails to play any

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2012-04-11 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've upgraded to Oneiric since my last post. I used again the tip above to force Unity to starat, and it worked fine even with nvidia-current. Looking forward to Precise as Unity is said to be even snappier in that version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-12-31 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
After Christmas, after way too long time, I was just about to follow the given recommendation and post a new bug on this issue when I realised that the computer all of a sudden had started to function properly after one year of problems. Failing to identify any recent updates that I'd expect to

[Bug 871667] Re: .Xauthority sometimes owned by root, which blocks login

2011-10-24 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I issued bug #877622, which was marked as a duplicate of this one. I've now worked around the problem by issuing the following command in the terminal: sudo chown -R username:username /home/username This allowed me to log in graphically to my user account for the first time after I did a clean

[Bug 877622] Re: Cannot log on to Oneiric after fresh install

2011-10-19 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I'm travelling at the moment but will submit the lightdm.log file when I get back home next weekend. Is the file located somewhere under /var/log? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877622

[Bug 877622] [NEW] Cannot log on to Oneiric after fresh install

2011-10-18 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Public bug reported: I made a fresh install over Natty, keeping my home partition untouched. When booted, I feed my password to lightgdm and the screen goes black for a few seconds, then goes back to lightdm. I can do Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login via the shell, but not via the graphical login. Also, I

[Bug 877622] Re: Cannot log on to Oneiric after fresh install

2011-10-18 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
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[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-10-06 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Right. I might be waiting until the release first. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863 Title: Maverick slow and flaky after first login To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-09-27 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I tested the tip in this link to force Unity to start: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37629/geforce-go-7300-7400-blacklisted- can-i-still-run-unity It did start but the launcher was a mess. I then deactivated nvidia-96 and activated nvidia-173 in stead, and now I have Unity working with Compiz

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-09-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
The problem still exists in the newly released Oneiric beta 2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863 Title: Maverick slow and flaky after first login To manage notifications about

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-09-04 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
This is posted from a Live CD session of the just received Oneiric beta. However, I had to log out and then back in to get control enough to do this. In other words, the reported bug still exists in Oneiric beta. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-08-31 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
@Alberto: I noticed that blacklisting entry also in the first output i posted. Is it possible to change or remove the blacklisting? How? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741930 Title:

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-08-29 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
@Alberto: I think your point would be very valid if the hardware that was very old too. But in Lucid, I got full 3D effects using the nvidia-173 driver, in Maverick, I had to downgrade to nvidia-96, and in Natty, there's seems to be no way to get 3D neither in Ubuntu Classic or Unity. Maybe I'm

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-08-28 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've disabled Cedric's PPA and purged all nvidia stuff, then reinstalled nvidia-96 again from natty-proposed making sure to set gl_conf to auto, reconfigure nvidia-96, and run sudo nvidia-xconfig. Still, I get no Unity support or 3D effects in neither Classic nor Unity 2D. I've attached again some

[Bug 757419] Re: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news

2011-08-08 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Gwibber still doesn't work in Natty but trying out the Oneiric Alpha 3 live CD, Gwibber again updates my Facebook feed. Any chance of seing a fix coming to Natty? After all, it's a while still until October. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-08-08 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I tried out Oneiric Alpha 3 and still no change. I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition alongside Ubuntu now and while that works perfectly, it really doesn't feel like home to me. Some action or at least some feedback would be much appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-08-08 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Would it be better if I reported a new bug about this on Natty or Oneiric? I guess Maverick bugs aren't really receiving a lot of attention anymore, or am I wrong? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-08-01 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've purged other nvidia stuff, added Cedric's PPA, and installed nvidia-96 successfully. I've set gl_conf to auto, reconfigured nvidia-96, and run sudo nvidia-xconfig. As far as I can see,everything should now be OK but still, I get no 3D effects or Unity support. Either, I'm doing something

[Bug 757419] Re: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news

2011-07-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Gwibber says the last feed was updated 64 days ago. Anything happening with this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757419 Title: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news To manage

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-07-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
This is to confirm that this bug also exists in Oneiric alpha. Please adress it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863 Title: Maverick slow and flaky after first login To manage

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-06-22 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Almost two months with Natty, always keeping it up-to-date, and adding xorg-edgers fresh X crack PPA. Still no remedy for the problem. Today, I installed Linux 2.6.39-3 from the kernel PPA but that didn't help either. What's the status of this bug? -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 573259] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 makes RTL8111/8168B network card unusable until cold reboot

2011-06-20 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've had this problem too on using an Asus P7P55D-E LX motherboard with Realtek RTL8111, a Core i5 processor, and an Nvidia GTX460 graphics card. After exchanging every single component except the CPU, graphics card, and memory sticks, ethernet now mostly behaves decently but I still have the

[Bug 757419] Re: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news

2011-06-19 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
More than a month without a working Gwibber now. All resources going into the next Ubuntu release already? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757419 Title: Gwibber doesn't update

[Bug 757419] Re: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news

2011-06-07 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Gwibber hasn't updated my Facebook streams in eighteen days now. Anything happening with this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757419 Title: Gwibber doesn't update Facebook news

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-05-09 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I installed the updated driver from NVIDIA's web pages as it was claimed to support xorg-server 1.10. However, it seems that the X server still loads the Noveau routine and I don't know how to prevent that. So no luck for me. Hope that with time, something is done with the distro- provided

[Bug 741930] Re: [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met

2011-05-08 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I got this too. Didn't notice it before install as running from the Live, it couldn't run unity anyway. I've always had to install proprietary drivers anyway before having any serious eyecandy so expected things to work out after doing that. That being said, when going from Lucid to Natty, I had

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-04-29 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Yesterday, I made a fresh install of Natty and sadly, the stability issues upon first logon after each boot remain the same. It makes no difference whether I log on to Unity, Classic, or Classic with no effects. HOWEVER, I have now booted into recovery mode and as I write, I have thirteen (13)

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-04-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Today, I've tried a lot of different live CDs and it seems that one thing common to the distros that have the problem I've reported here is that they use xorg version 1:7.5. v1:7.4 or older seem to work well. The only exception to the rule so far is Debian 6 as mentioned in an earlier post. But

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-04-24 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
The Natty beta 2 live CD still has the same problem. I'm going to give Natty a final shot after its release but I can't say I'm very optimistic. The rest of the family now refuses to use Ubuntu on this computer and if the problem continues to receive what appears to be no attention at all (forgive

[Bug 749535] Re: Natty Beta installation crashes

2011-04-14 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Redid the installation with 5GB allocated for /. This time, the installation went fine also with internet update during install time and with 3rd party software installation enabled. A couple of days and a couple of normal updates later, things still seem fine, so I guess this bug can be closed.

[Bug 749535] [NEW] Natty Beta installation crashes

2011-04-03 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity I'm trying to install Natty Beta amd64 from an ISO image to a VirtualBox VM. The installation wizard lets me through fine, including the partitioning, but at the end, I'm presented with a window stating that the installation program has crashed

[Bug 749535] Re: Natty Beta installation crashes

2011-04-03 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
** Attachment added: Contains syslog and partman plus a screenshot of the error message (in Swedish) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/749535/+attachment/1973774/+files/Attachment.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 749535] Re: Natty Beta installation crashes

2011-04-03 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I uchecked the automatic installation of 3rd party software and the internet update during installation and managed to complete. The system restart after finish halted, though, so I had to force-quit the VM. After starting it up again, it seemed to work fine, though, and a normal update completed

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-04-03 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Tried the recently released Natty beta live CD today. The problems remain, however. Natty beta has xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11 and linux kernel 2.6.38-7. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-03-23 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Tried the Debian 6 Live CD today and no problems there. It uses xorg v1:7.5+8. Maverick uses v1:7.5+6ubuntu3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863 Title: Maverick slow and flaky

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-03-20 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Today, I tried running PCLinuxOS 2010.12 from a live CD and discovered it had the same problem as Ubuntu. Since the PCLOS Live doesn't use autologon, I could log out without rebooting and log back on. The second time, things worked as they should whereas the first logon was slow and flaky just

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-03-07 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Another note: After receiving the computer from service last Friday (due to a networking problem on both Win7 and Ubuntu), several major components have been exchanged; The MB is now a P7P55-M (no longer P7P55DE LX), the PSU has also been changed along with the DVD station and even the tower

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-03-06 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Just to add some information, I've now tried to run the live CD of Natty Alpha 3 on my problem computer. It reverted to standard Gnome in stead of using Unity, and it was just as flaky as Maverick. Noteworthy, Natty Alpha 3 Live ran smoothly, with Unity, on my Sony Vaio laptop with AMD processor

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-02-27 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
That's great! I'll await any further instructions. Do let me know in case more information or any actions are needed from my side. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720863 Title:

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-02-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
The computer in question is currently on service for a network problem but I'll try the file system check once I get it back, probably in the middle of next week. As far as reinstalling is concerned, I've already done that once and it unfortunately didn't help. -- You received this bug

[Bug 720863] [NEW] Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-02-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Public bug reported: Shortly before Christmas, I bought a brand new gaming computer for dual- booting Win7 and Ubuntu. After testing the 64-bit Maverick live CD and finding it flaky, mildly put, I still opted to install it on a dedicated hard drive as planned. After enabling the proprietary

[Bug 720863] Re: Maverick slow and flaky after first login

2011-02-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
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[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-08-06 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Once you have Nautilus open, e.g. by typing nautilus in a terminal, you can navigate to and right-click on any of the objects in your Places menu and choose other application etc. This made my folders open with Nautilus again, whether I do it from the Places menu, using GNOME Do, or from within

[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-08-05 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Actually, under right-click and Open with Other Application, it doesn't say Nautilus but rather File browser (or whatever it's called in your system language). After doing this once and clicking remember this, my problem is still gone. -- opening a directory using an application change

[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-07-20 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I opened Nautilus and right-clicked on an arbitrary folder. Under Open with Other Application, I chose Nautilus and made sure the remember this... check was toggled on. Now, folders open with Nautilus as they should. Let's see how long it lasts... -- opening a directory using an application

[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I thin I've got this too. Opening 'Computer' launches Nautilus but double-clicking any other folder opens Brasero. This appeared after my first (intentional) Brasero project since upgrading to Lucid. Simply no idea what has happened or why. Any help would be appreciated. -- opening a directory

[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I thin I've got this too. Opening 'Computer' launches Nautilus but double-clicking any other folder opens Brasero. This appeared after my first (intentional) Brasero project since upgrading to Lucid. Simply no idea what has happened or why. Any help would be appreciated. -- opening a directory

[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I think I've got this too. Opening 'Computer' launches Nautilus but double-clicking any other folder opens Brasero. This appeared after my first (intentional) Brasero project since upgrading to Lucid. Simply no idea what has happened or why. Any help would be appreciated. -- opening a directory

[Bug 555169] Re: [lucid] Keyboard and mouse freeze after grub, usb and PS/2 keyboard not working in X (after upgrade? bad-upgrade to lucid)

2010-06-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Unfortunately, the problem isn't solved after all. I still have the occasional (and rather frequent, it feels) keyboard and mouse lag. Moreover, which might be related, I sometimes don't get to the login screen at all. I'm just left at the splash screen forever and am forced to use the power

[Bug 555169] Re: [lucid] Keyboard and mouse freeze after grub, usb and PS/2 keyboard not working in X (after upgrade? bad-upgrade to lucid)

2010-06-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I used gdmsetup to change to automatic login, then rebooted, changed back to multiuser again, and rebooted twice more. I now have the following warnings in my log files: gdm-binary[902]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found gdm-simple-greeter[1376]: Gtk-WARNING:

[Bug 500377] Re: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf'

2010-06-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Papukaja's tip about using gdmsetup to change to automatic login, then back to multiuser again helped me get rid of the warning about /etc/gdm/custom.conf. The following two warnings I've had before are still around, though: gdm-binary[902]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found

[Bug 539440] Re: gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow

2010-06-17 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I've got the following messages in my log files: gdm-binary[902]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found gdm-simple-greeter[1376]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow gdm-session-worker[1378]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL:

[Bug 590966] Re: The login screen hangs for a while after boot

2010-06-10 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 555169 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555169 It seems this bug is a duplicate of bug #555169 so I'm marking it as such. So far I have good experiences with writing a new xorg.conf from the NVIDIA X server settings application. I'll wait a little longer

[Bug 555169] Re: [lucid] Keyboard and mouse freeze after grub, usb and PS/2 keyboard not working in X (after upgrade? bad-upgrade to lucid)

2010-06-10 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I issued bug #590966 but have now marked it as a duplicate of this one. I've been experiencing a lagging mouse and keybord for some time after getting to the login screen. This seems to have been solved by writing a new xorg.conf from the NVIDIA X server settings application and as such, I'm quite

[Bug 590966] [NEW] The login screen hangs for a while after boot

2010-06-07 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm I have a fairly fresh Lucid system installed from scratch over Karmic. In Lucid, I often experience that the lightning-fast boot presents me with a login screen as expected but when clicking on a user, using the arrow keys, or pressing enter, it

[Bug 486264] Re: tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready

2010-05-27 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Doesn't seem to work in my case. Well not every time at least. I'll keep it for a while and monitor how it works. -- tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486264 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 518204] Re: Should exclude very large files

2010-05-16 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Migrated to Lucid recently and I now seem to gain up to five seconds when ureadahead is used compared to when it's reprofiling. -- Should exclude very large files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518204 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 486264] Re: tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready

2010-05-16 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
The problem didn't seem to be fixed by Lee's workaround after all. Anyway, I recently migrated to Lucid and assumed bu the fast boot that the problem was gone. However, my syslog says: May 16 19:18:51 Internetdatorn kernel: [ 17.560017] tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready May 16 19:18:51

[Bug 518204] Re: Should exclude very large files

2010-04-08 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Coming from bug #491956, I can confirm having the same problem. I'm running a 32-bit Karmic on a Pentium D-based desktop but have the same on an older P4 system. The longer boot times have been there since sreadahead was replaced by ureadahead shortly after karmic was released. Removing the pack

[Bug 486264] Re: tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready

2010-03-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I don't use mythtv but I've also been having the timeout issue. Lee's workaround works for me whereas the fix of Jose Catre-Vandis from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1316032page=3 does not. -- tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486264 You received

[Bug 502837] Re: bind mounts cause lots of init: ureadahead-other main process (1234) terminated with status 4 messages

2010-02-03 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I too have the mentioned boot messages. -- bind mounts cause lots of init: ureadahead-other main process (1234) terminated with status 4 messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 511387] Re: Services don't start on boot after Upstart update

2010-01-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Finally, somebody stumbled across a solution that worked also for me (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8728987posted=1#post8728987). The trick was to stop using CONCURRENCY=shell in /etc/init.d/rc and instead revert to CONCURRENCY=none. But honestly, CONCURRENCY=shell is a long-running

[Bug 497299] Re: upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing)

2010-01-26 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
In bug #511387, It's been noted that the use of CONCURRENCY=shell may also prevent services from starting. -- upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497299 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 511387] [NEW] Services don't start on boot after Upstart update

2010-01-22 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: upstart Running on a freshly installed 32-bit Karmic, I've got the same symptoms as in bug #497299. After boot, pulseaudio is the only service that runs. Manually running sudo modprobe vboxdrv will allow me to use my VM's and sudo service cups start will

[Bug 500520] Re: Some essential services are not started

2010-01-21 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 497299 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497299 I also tried downgrading to 0.6.3-10 but it doesn't work either. Is something happening with this upstart issue? And where's the bug report that this one's supposed to be a duplicate to? -- Some essential

[Bug 444597] Re: After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

2010-01-15 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Still no way to make it work on my main system but I've discovered that also vboxdrv does not start upon boot. This is definitely not a CUPS problem alone so I'm now following bug #500520 in stead plus some related threads on the Ubuntu fora. -- After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

[Bug 500520] Re: Some essential services are not started

2010-01-15 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 497299 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497299 I've got the same problem. At least CUPS and vboxdrv fail to start upon boot. The loopback contents in /etc/network/interfaces weren't the issue. I'm considering to downgrade upstart but I'm worried about

[Bug 444597] Re: After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

2010-01-06 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I got it working on one of my two computers by using sysv-rc-conf to add run level S to the CUPS entry. It didn't work on my main system, though. While fooling around, I broke my older system (the one where i got CUPS working) and had to reinstall Karmic. Before any updates are loaded, I now see

[Bug 444597] Re: After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

2010-01-06 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
After two rounds of updates and HW driver installs, still no problem with CUPS on the old machine despite not being set to run at run level S. Strange, and why doesn't it work on my main system. Hope I don't need to reinstall that too. -- After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

[Bug 444597] Re: After upgrade to karmic cups server do not start.

2009-12-27 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I also have this problem. CUPS doesn't start on boot. It happened after one of the more recent updates (I now have CUPS 1.4.1) on both my desktops running Karmic (fresh installs). No problems until less than a week ago. I've searched the web and found this and other threads about people having

[Bug 237002] Re: Evolution cursor creates a track.

2008-10-11 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Hello there, I can confirm having this bug too. Two different machines, both with different Nvidia graphics cards. Running Hardy now but I think I had it at least back in Gutsy, maybe even in Feisty. Regs. -- Evolution cursor creates a track. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237002 You received

[Bug 235539] Re: Laptop boots at Midnight, by itself.

2008-08-10 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
I'm really not fluent in these matters and part of what you wright is really beyond me. However, the motherbord on the plagued PC is an MSI so it's not impossible that it's got a BIOS from Foxconn. I'm prevented from checking it at the moment, though. Still, even if it is about a bad BIOS, it

[Bug 235539] Re: Laptop boots at Midnight, by itself.

2008-07-11 Thread Lars Ola Liavåg
Hello there, I got exactly the same problem when upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, or probably rather after running the update manager afterwards. I've played around in BIOS to find a solution but without luck and went on to test boot parameters more or less randomly. After testing a parameter