[Bug 1668148] Re: Booting installer in EFI mode with existing bios mode hd crashes

2018-06-20 Thread Graham Mitchell
I linked the wrong bug; sorry. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767703 is the one to view the carnage in the aftermath of this change. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1668148 Title:

[Bug 1668148] Re: Booting installer in EFI mode with existing bios mode hd crashes

2018-06-20 Thread Graham Mitchell
I spent days trying unsuccessfully to do a clean install of 18.04 onto a system with an existing version of Linux. Each time the installer would appear to be working properly, only to bomb out with an error after half an hour. Eventually I gave up, REFORMATTED MY HARD DRIVE and was able to get

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-06-20 Thread Graham Mitchell
Wonderful news! I'm glad we finally have a proper bug we can track. Thanks for the update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767703 Title: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed'

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-06-14 Thread Graham Mitchell
For the record, this bug is in the top 30 out of ALL of Ubuntu by bug heat: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?orderby=-heat=0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767703 Title:

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-06-14 Thread Graham Mitchell
> I did get the warning. I'm sure you did. With 293 people affected by this bug I'm sure there are some that got a warning and ignored it. I agree with Till; there is definitely something wrong with the detection in some component somewhere. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-06-06 Thread Graham Mitchell
> A warning message prompted you that this could be a problem Why do you keep saying this? I ran the installer maybe five or six times and NEVER saw ANY warning message. Stop claiming that I did. This bug is NOT invalid. ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid =>

[Bug 1768230] Re: Long time booting : Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.

2018-05-28 Thread Graham Mitchell
This bug also affects me; clean install of Bionic onto real hardware. Let me know if I can supply any data that would be helpful in debugging. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768230

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-05-15 Thread Graham Mitchell
Thanks for weighing in. I don't mean to imply that there's a bug in Ubiquity. But there's clearly a failure somewhere in the installation process. And I'm going to complain every time this bug is closed as "invalid" until there's a more appropriate bug to reference. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-05-15 Thread Graham Mitchell
There are some edge cases when the user's disk is partitioned to boot in bios mode, but the EFI mode installer doesn't detect it. There is supposed to be a warning message about this combination but it does not always show up -- as evidenced by this thread. For these users, there is NO

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-05-15 Thread Graham Mitchell
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767703 Title: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed To manage

[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

2018-05-10 Thread Graham Mitchell
I've been running Linux as my sole OS since 2001 and have been dual- booting Windows and Linux since the summer of 2015. In particular, Windows 7 with Ubuntu 15.04. Upgraded in-place to 15.10 in December 2015. Then to 16.04 in May 2016. Upgraded the Windows side to Windows 10 without issue in

[Bug 1769544] [NEW] failed clean install

2018-05-06 Thread Graham Mitchell
Public bug reported: Trying to clean install Ubuntu 18.04 from a flash drive. It failed to install and suggested that I file this bug report. I have nothing else to add, sorry. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 1679528] Re: Missing Skype & Google Hangouts tray icon in 17.04

2017-04-23 Thread Graham Mitchell
It seems the indicator is not displayed at all in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus under Unity for *all* Electron-based applications. For me it's Discord that doesn't work. Editing the .desktop shortcut with "env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity foo" works for me as well. I agree that changing the variable

[Bug 1637024] Re: fwupd consuming very high cpu after startup/login

2017-02-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
I'm seeing the same behavior after a reboot. Two fwupd processes consuming 100% CPU each. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637024 Title: fwupd consuming very high cpu after

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-02-03 Thread Graham Mitchell
Updated to the latest version of thermald and rebooted. $ dmesg | grep "locked by BIOS" (no output) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656528 Title: thermald spamming syslog with

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-02-01 Thread Graham Mitchell
The VERY first time I ran the stress test there was a single message: Feb 1 18:04:11 graham-desktop stress-ng: invoked with 'stress-ng --cpu 0 -t 300s' by user 1000 Feb 1 18:04:11 graham-desktop stress-ng: system: 'graham-desktop' Linux 4.8.0-34-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 21 17:24:18 UTC

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-22 Thread Graham Mitchell
Well, it took a week but the messages started back up again. I did a 10-minute strace, so hopefully the log has the info you're looking for. ** Attachment added: "strace-2.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1656528/+attachment/4807602/+files/strace-2.log -- You

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
I'll reopen the bug if they return at some point and try to get you that strace. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656528 Title: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
Thanks for all your attention to my little issue. Sorry for rebooting in the middle of a diagnostic session; I guess that's bad form. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656528 Title:

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
For the record, Crashplan is backing up a LOT of files for me: 3,324,286 files, so "watch file system in real-time" really could have been a LOT of inotify watches. 25 minutes of uptime and still no thermald messages to the syslog. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
I've got good and bad news. I configured Crashplan to no longer "Watch file system in real-time" and rebooted (to get rid of any stale open inotify watches). And so far there hasn't been a single 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw' message written to the syslog since rebooting (19

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
I attached the strace log. Is there a chance it's related to this? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/285529/internet-stops-working- failed-to-add-run-systemd-ask-password-to-directory-wa https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894483 After I updated /etc/ssh/sshd_config I got an

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
** Attachment added: "strace.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1656528/+attachment/4805141/+files/strace.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656528

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
Yikes. Well, it looks like I need to disable SSH password authentication but here it is. ** Attachment added: "thermald-2.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1656528/+attachment/4805137/+files/thermald-2.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
Attached. I'll save you some suspense, though; it's literally the same line over and over 38,000 times. $ cut -b 16- thermald.log | sort | uniq -c 38147 graham-desktop thermald[1086]: sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw ** Attachment added: "thermald.log"

[Bug 1656528] Re: thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-16 Thread Graham Mitchell
$ grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (repeated 8 times) And there's really nothing in the kernel log, I swear. I've attached it just so you can see for yourself. ** Attachment added: "/var/log/kern.log"

[Bug 1656528] [NEW] thermald spamming syslog with 'sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw'

2017-01-14 Thread Graham Mitchell
Public bug reported: This seems somewhat related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1543046 For some reason thermald is writing the message "sysfs write failed constraint_0_power_limit_uw" to the syslog every few seconds. However, there's nothing in the kernel log. $ cat

[Bug 1655521] [NEW] package linux-image-4.8.0-34-generic 4.8.0-34.36 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128

2017-01-10 Thread Graham Mitchell
Public bug reported: Just trying to update using Software Updater ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: linux-image-4.8.0-34-generic 4.8.0-34.36 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-34.36-generic 4.8.11 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-34-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm

[Bug 792085] Re: Automatic remount of safely removed drive

2014-10-19 Thread Graham Mitchell
Still having this problem. $ uname -a Linux foo 3.13.0-27-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 18:06:16 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS -- You received this bug

[Bug 1242321] Re: USB 3.0 not recognised by Ubuntu 13.10

2014-03-20 Thread Graham Mitchell
I also have this problem. Nothing shows up in dmesg or lsusb when I plug a hard drive into the USB 3.0 ports on the back of my PC. The same drive works normally if I use a USB 2 port instead. Let me know if I can post any diagnostic information that would help tracking this down. -- You

[Bug 886714] Re: ushare crashed with SIGSEGV in avformat_open_input()

2012-08-13 Thread Graham Mitchell
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 842572 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842572 Also happens on a clean install of 12.04. Crash was repeatable when USHARE_ENABLE_DLNA=yes ...was in /etc/ushare.conf. Removing it (changing back to) USHARE_ENABLE_DLNA= ...fixed the problem and ushare

[Bug 913580] [NEW] Not sure. Trying 12.04 alpha 1 installer. It crashed and directed me here.

2012-01-08 Thread Graham Mitchell
Public bug reported: ? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: ubiquity 2.9.5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.5-generic 3.2.0-rc3 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.292 Date: Sun Jan 8 17:37:01 2012

[Bug 913580] Re: Not sure. Trying 12.04 alpha 1 installer. It crashed and directed me here.

2012-01-08 Thread Graham Mitchell
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[Bug 387081] Re: depmod (module-init-tools 3.7~pre9-2) fails on 2.6.27-10-generic with bus error, causing Intrepid-Jaunty dist-upgrade to fail

2009-08-29 Thread Graham Mitchell
Same issue for me; attempting a dist-upgrade from 8.10 LTS. Upgrade threw an error but then seemed to finish. However, upon rebooting, the system was in an unusable state. Thanks to seeing this page before rebooting, I knew to try # apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic ...and then the