[Bug 1725609] Re: no wifi after upgrading to 17.10

2017-10-27 Thread Geoff Williams
Brian, good question. I assumed it was the upgrade but it wansn't. I've done some digging and found this: geoff@monster:~$ aptitude why linux-image-4.13.0-16-lowlatency i docker-engineRecommends aufs-tools i A aufs-tools Recommends aufs-dkms i A

[Bug 1725609] [NEW] no wifi after upgrading to 17.10

2017-10-21 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Overview After upgrading Xubuntu 17.04 to 17.10, wifi stopped working completely Expected behaviour == Wifi should continue to work after an OS upgrade Actual behaviour Wifi not available, no driver loaded Analysis System

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-11-05 Thread Geoff Williams
Update: Not sure if anyone other then me was affected by this - in the end I was able resolve things and get a 100% usable system by removing the nouveau driver - cheers! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1513446] [NEW] ruby error when running vim-addon-manager in a non-login shell

2015-11-05 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Overview === When running /usr/bin/vim-addon-manager in a non-login shell, users receive a ruby error and are unable to use the program Expected Result = vim-addon-manager should be able to run normally within a non-login shell and perform requested

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-06 Thread Geoff Williams
As I was unable to usefully bisect the ubuntu kernel, I tried again with the mainline kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ This gave a much clearer result: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14.37-utopic/ -- works

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-03 Thread Geoff Williams
Hi Christopher, I've tested a few more kernels by compiling the source packages linked from the kernel bisection page. There is NO clear breakage that I'm able to find, instead I see this: linux-image-3.13.0.48.80 - OK (last fully functional kernel) (self-compiled) linux-image-3.13.0.49.81 -

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-02 Thread Geoff Williams
Alberto, Appologies for the delay in responding. Good news - I've been able to boot linux 4.0-rc6 and the system is now stable. I used the package linux-image-4.0.0-04rc6-generic for Vivid from the from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0-rc6-vivid/ There are still a bunch

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-02 Thread Geoff Williams
Ok - looks like I spoke too soon. On shutting down after running all day with no problems (largely unattended) the laptop crashed hard after trying to shutdown. I found this in syslog after rebooting -- this is Linux 4.0: Apr 2 20:30:07 monster kernel: [ 69.841098] ACPI Warning:

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-02 Thread Geoff Williams
Relevant portion of syslog from a crash on Linux 3.17: Apr 1 09:49:28 monster kernel: [ 10.722076] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][:01:00.0] HUB_INIT timed out Apr 1 09:49:28 monster kernel: [ 10.722082] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][:01:00.0] 409000 - done 0x0240 Apr 1 09:49:28 monster kernel: [

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-04-02 Thread Geoff Williams
Hi Christopher, I've tried the available pre-built packages but there are graps between the binaries and upstream. The early 3.16.0 kernels work for me but with no graphics acceleration, which I think is why they don't crash. It looks like the later builds switch acceleration back on and

[Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Summary === I think I am affected by this same bug, I have all the above systems and get hard lockups with Linux kernel 3.16 every 5 - 15 minutes. Attempted upgrading to (x)ubuntu 14.10 to see if this improved stability and laptop crashed so badly during the upgrade that it broke grub and

[Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: photo of crash message https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1371401/+attachment/4361960/+files/20150330_233205_small.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: log file showing crash - search for the word stack https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1438708/+attachment/4362059/+files/syslog.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Additional info: Looks very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1371401 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1438708 Title: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: log file showing crash - search for the word 'stack' https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1438708/+attachment/4362057/+files/kern.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Apologies, I now realise I should have created a new bug report which I have done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1438708 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371401

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: log file showing crash - search for the word 'stack' https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1438708/+attachment/4362058/+files/kern.log.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1438708] [NEW] frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Summary === I think I am affected by this same bug, I have all the above systems and get hard lockups with Linux kernel 3.16 every 5 - 15 minutes. Attempted upgrading to (x)ubuntu 14.10 to see if this improved stability and laptop crashed so badly during the upgrade

[Bug 1438708] Re: frequent lockups asus g705js/GeForce GTX 870M

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Hi Alberto, I skipped recovery mode and installed the kernels directly from my functioning 3.13 system: ii linux-image-3.17.1-031701-generic 3.17.1-031701.201410150735 ii linux-image-3.18.0-031800rc2-generic3.18.0-031800rc2.201410262035 I was unable to boot 3.18 due to

[Bug 1173468] Re: release upgrade doesn't properly calculate free space needed for /boot

2013-11-27 Thread Geoff Williams
Latest (k)ubuntu installer checks for free space on /boot and aborts the upgrade if there isn't enough space -- thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468 Title: release upgrade

[Bug 1173468] Re: kernel-image package doesn't check free space on /boot

2013-04-30 Thread Geoff Williams
Flo, If you were just out of disk space on /boot like I was -- and it looks like you were, then the simplest way to recover is just to uninstall some old kernels as you likely have a few installed, eg do: $ dpkg -l|grep ii[[:space:]]*linux-image and remove the oldest version, making sure that

[Bug 1173468] Re: distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected dist-upgrade raring ** Description changed: Hi, I'm upgrading from to the latest Kubuntu release and the installer prompted me to raise a bug report when it got to configuring the linux- image package. I know what's happend -

[Bug 1173468] ProcEnviron.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcEnviron.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657339/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657340/+files/VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657341/+files/VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657342/+files/VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657343/+files/VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657345/+files/VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657346/+files/VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
apport information ** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468/+attachment/3657344/+files/VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1173468] Re: distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
Hi Sasa, I think there are about 4 separate issues which are all mangled up now the logs are visible: 1) KDE window manager died during the upgrade - not sure why. All window controls and task bars disappeared during the upgrade 2) There was insufficient disk space to install the kernel image

[Bug 1173468] Re: distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
PS this bug was raised through the click here to report bug system in the installer... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173468 Title: distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for

[Bug 1173468] Re: distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
Sasa, Its definitely out of disk space for the linux-image package on the /boot partition - it happens to me every time a new kernel gets installed. I can see the error in /apt/term.log: SNIP Setting up linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic (3.8.0-19.29) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs:

[Bug 1173468] Re: kernel-image package doesn't check free space on /boot

2013-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
Hi Sasa - good idea. changed the bug title Cheers! ** Summary changed: - distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image + kernel-image package doesn't check free space on /boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1173468] [NEW] distribution upgrade - failed package upgrade for linux-image

2013-04-26 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Hi, I'm upgrading from to the latest Kubuntu release and the installer prompted me to raise a bug report when it got to configuring the linux- image package. I know what's happend - I've only got a ~100Mb boot partition and I've got a couple of kernel images installed

[Bug 598308] Re: Volume at login set to Maximum

2011-07-23 Thread Geoff Williams
I've been affected by this too: Kubuntu 11.04 amd64 kmix 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu2 Comment #7 fixed it for me. After doing rm ~/.kde/share/config/kmix* and cycling , was saved. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 773908] Re: Evolution - after upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 could not send receive emails on pop3 / imap

2011-05-04 Thread Geoff Williams
I'm using Kubuntu and this one got me too. I tried using kde system settings to disable the proxy but it still didn't work. I found a fix though: you have to run gnome-control-center and change the proxy setting in there too. After this, I was able to fetch my mail. Thanks to the posters

[Bug 776931] [NEW] Kubuntu distribution upgrade 10.10 to 11.04 behind http proxy fails with Could not download the release notes Please check your internet connection

2011-05-04 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Hi, I'm trying to upgrade an amd64 box from Kubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 behind an http proxy. I have set a systemwide http proxy in kde system settings using the Manually specify the proxy settings option and have the correct proxy details

[Bug 772355] Re: upgrade from kubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 fails with invalid package information

2011-04-29 Thread Geoff Williams
Alk thanks for your fix, I changed my mirror from ftp.iinet.com.au to mirror.optus.net and now the upgrade proceeds. How about if the installer could detect the problem was with the mirror and display a less serious sounding error or prompt the user to switch to a suggested mirror? -- You

[Bug 772355] [NEW] upgrade from kubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 fails with invalid package information

2011-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Hi, I tried to upgrade an amd64 install of kubuntu 10.10 to kubuntu 11.04 this evening using kpackagekit. The upgrade fails with the message: Invalid Package Information After your package information was updated the essential package

[Bug 772355] Re: upgrade from kubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 fails with invalid package information

2011-04-28 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: Requested log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772355/+attachment/2092958/+files/dist_upgrade_log.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 56880] Re: The installer should use system proxy settings.

2010-05-27 Thread Geoff Williams
I had this problem today with 10.04. The root cause is that environment variables such as http_proxy are not preserved when you use sudo. As a workaround you can get a root shell with: sudo bash Then set http_proxy to what it should be: export http_proxy=http://user:p...@stupidproxy.com:8080