[Bug 1571918] Re: Constant high cpu usage in xenial under qxl/spice

2016-06-15 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
It turns out this is because of a kernel bug (see https://www.mail- archive.com/linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org/msg1152720.html). A workaround to to add qxl.modeset=0 in /etc/default/grub for the kernel commandline. After update-grub and reboot CPU usage is back to being reasonable. This also fixes

Re: [Bug 1571145] Re: After update-manager -d crash apport reports report is damaged 'incorrect padding'

2016-05-03 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Unfortunately, I've since reinstalled that vm after having found a workaround to get xenial installed only to discover that in a kvm vm with qxl/spice compiz chews up huge amounts of cpu (I've reported a bug in launchpad about that) and consequently reinstalled the vm, so I no longer have the

[Bug 1571143] [NEW] apport disappears after pressing 'send report' and browser doesn't pop up

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: After a program crash and apport is triggered, pressing 'Send Report' results in apport disappearing an nothing else occurs (browser for launchpad should appear). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 1571145] [NEW] After update-manager -d crash apport reports report is damaged 'incorrect padding'

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: After attempt to update to Xenia Xerial Final Beta via update-manager -d and getting a crash report (something about SUDO_UID), and attempting to support a crash report apport complains that the report is damaged due to inccorrect padding. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease:

Re: [Bug 1571511] Re: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
And a log from working hpijs on trusty D [18/Apr/2016:11:46:46 -0400] [Job 21] envp[19]="CHARSET=utf-8" D [18/Apr/2016:11:46:46 -0400] [Job 21] envp[20]="LANG=en_US.UTF-8" D [18/Apr/2016:11:46:46 -0400] [Job 21] envp[21]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/HP_Officejet_J4500_series.ppd" D [18/Apr/2016:11:46:46

Re: [Bug 1571511] Re: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
It appears that in both xenial and trusty the hpcups ppds do not work for some models (e.g. officejet j4500 series which uses deskjet 6500c as cups model type). On trusty hpijs ppd does work, but the hpcups ppd fails. Based on comparing the ppds, it appears that there is a difference in what the

Re: [Bug 1571511] Re: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
A log from non-working hpcups ppd on trusty D [18/Apr/2016:11:19:09 -0400] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Apr/2016:11:19:09 -0400] [Job 18] 4 filters for job: D [18/Apr/2016:11:19:09 -0400] [Job 18] bannertopdf (application/vnd.cups-pdf-banner to application/pdf, cost 32)

Re: [Bug 1571511] Re: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
, Daniel On 2016-04-18 02:58 AM, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote: > Didn't get assigned to right package > > ** Package changed: libvirt (Ubuntu) => hplip (Ubuntu) > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 1571511] Re: hpcups ppd fails to print; hpijs ppd works (hplip printer)

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
** Summary changed: - hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial + hpcups ppd fails to print; hpijs ppd works (hplip printer) ** Package changed: hplip (Ubuntu) => cups (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: hplip (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug

[Bug 1571915] [NEW] Header cpu %'s don't match reality or per-process usage

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: The header of top (i.e the part that looks as below) is frequently reporting unlikely result. With high load it is reporting mostly idle, even though the per-process cpu usage is reporting multiple processes with 100% and one with 200% cpu usage on a multicore machine. The

[Bug 1571918] [NEW] Constant high cpu usage in xenial under qxl/spice

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: Both VMs that I upgraded to Xenial experience constant high cpu usage, and top reports compiz is by far the high user of cpu. The high cpu usage is more apparent from outside the machine, were host reports guests are using close (or over at times) to 200% cpu, than in the

[Bug 1571170] [NEW] nouveau with triple head = blank screen

2016-04-16 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: Unfortunately apport can't report from the right driver because nouveau ends up with a blank screen when running with three heads, and removing one or two doesn't recover without a reboot, and with a single head the system fails to get to a useable state because either unity

[Bug 1571171] [NEW] with triple head plymouth is blank instead of showing hdd encryption password entry box

2016-04-16 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: With triple head and nouveau driver, plymouth fails to display hdd encrypt password entry box and instead ends up with a black blank screen. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6

[Bug 1571173] [NEW] with two encrypted hdds recovery system becomes unusable

2016-04-16 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: With two encrypted hdd one enters the password the the first hdd and recover proceeds normally, however after some time a second console session gets started on the same terminal prompting for the the second hdd's password and then the console ends ups unusable as the two

[Bug 1571511] Re: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Didn't get assigned to right package ** Package changed: libvirt (Ubuntu) => hplip (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571511 Title: hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in

[Bug 1571511] [NEW] hplip not compatible with cups, dbus in xenial

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Public bug reported: The hplip in xenial is not compatible with the versions of cups and dbus (and various other libraries) in xenial. The initial symptoms were that after running hp-setup -i (text mode only box), and attempting to print a test page from hplip, there was no output. After

[Bug 1553563] Re: bconsole to Bacula Director fails with authorization problem message

2016-09-13 Thread Daniel Curran-Dickinson
Version 7.0.5+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1 from -proposed solves the issues of local bacula-console failing to connect to Director for me. It also solves remote bacula-console-qt failing to connect to the same director (without upgrading bacula-console-qt, only the director host has -proposed package). --