[Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2018-10-18 Thread QuentinHartman
Found this lkml thread for other issues related to this change. It seems the effort to run it down fizzled. What would be the best way to tie this to that to hopefully raise visibility / priority? https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/6/221 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2018-10-18 Thread QuentinHartman
and here is the commit that adds these events that are causing us such issues on the Dell hardware: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1455cf8dbfd06aa7651dcfccbadb7a093944ca65 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2018-09-24 Thread QuentinHartman
I've found that just sticking with kernel 4.13 has been working fine for me. It works around this problem and for my use case hasn't had any downsides. On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 2:15 PM SB <1759...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > why is this still not fixed, it is quite a showstopper on dell systems

Re: [Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2018-05-27 Thread QuentinHartman
You need to actually downgrade your running kernel to 4.13. Just downgrading the headers isn't enough. QH On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Jesse McNichol wrote: > Similar problem for me. Dell E6530, Ubuntu 18.04 > > Downgraded to 4.13 headers as suggested above, disabled

[Bug 1759836] Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

2018-05-14 Thread QuentinHartman
I noticed this problem because my wireles KB/Mouse combo became nearly unusable after upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04. I'm seeing the high CPU consumption as reported above and the dell HID messages as reported above. Also, if I unplug the transceiver for my KB/Mouse it stops working until I reboot.

[Bug 1608280] Re: package libapache2-mod-security2 2.9.0-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2016-08-18 Thread QuentinHartman
In looking at the postinst script /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod- security2.postinst, it appears that it is trying to enable the "security2" module, but that module does not exist in /etc/apache2/mods- available, so I don't think it will ever succeed. If you modify that script so that chunk is

[Bug 1311810] Re: /etc/init.d/rsyslog is an init script not a link to /lib/init/upstart-job

2015-03-12 Thread QuentinHartman
Trying to change my syslog config today this bit me . I couldn't figure out why my changes weren't working, and since I don't write syslog filters often I figured I was screwing something up. Turns out they were fine. /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart was just silently doing nothing. This is terrabad.

[Bug 1311810] Re: /etc/init.d/rsyslog is an init script not a link to /lib/init/upstart-job

2015-03-12 Thread QuentinHartman
Trying to change my syslog config today this bit me . I couldn't figure out why my changes weren't working, and since I don't write syslog filters often I figured I was screwing something up. Turns out they were fine. /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart was just silently doing nothing. This is terrabad.

[Bug 660490] Re: Shotwell: Change picture size?

2014-07-01 Thread QuentinHartman
Just wanted to comment that the only way I discovered this feature was via this bug. I've been opening images I wanted to resize in Gimp to do it all these years... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1159748] Re: Random apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so)

2013-11-22 Thread QuentinHartman
** Summary changed: - Ramdom apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so) + Random apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to apache2 in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1159748] Re: Random apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so)

2013-11-22 Thread QuentinHartman
** Summary changed: - Ramdom apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so) + Random apache2 crash in Ubuntu 12.04 (libpthread-2.15.so) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1159748

[Bug 499773] Re: Race with ureadahead can mean that /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs appears in /etc/mtab

2012-08-14 Thread QuentinHartman
This is mainly for the benefit of people who search google for this problem and end up here. I've seen this on several servers. A simple umount /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs removes the errant mtab entry and cleans up df output if it's bothering you. It's highly unlikely that this mount lying

[Bug 829980] Re: upstart-udev-bridge eats 100% cpu calling dbus_message_iter_append_basic()

2011-11-09 Thread QuentinHartman
I just installed the patched upstart and rebooted. The 100% cpu-usage problem is gone and in the 5-minutes or so of testing, there aren't any obvious new problems. Thanks! I'm running a late 2009 15 MBP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2010-12-16 Thread QuentinHartman
Ok, I will try those as well. Sorry for the delay in getting information collected, this week got kinda hectic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 Title: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2010-12-08 Thread QuentinHartman
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Tim Gardner tim.gard...@canonical.com wrote: Please try the Maverick Live CD. I've upgraded to Maverick on this machine and I am pretty sure the problem still exists. Is there reason to believe the LiveCD would behave differently? I'll confirm that the problem

[Bug 541937] Re: Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow

2010-10-27 Thread QuentinHartman
I switched back to the 2.6.35-22-generic kernel because I didn't want to fight with getting Vmware working with the newer kernel. I started a large copy to the OCZ Rally2 stick I've been using, and for some reason this time the copy more or less stopped decelerating around 5MB/sec. It's now

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2010-05-11 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Rami Autiomäki rami.autiom...@gmail.com wrote: I have JFL92 laptop. Until now I used kernel parameter clocksource=jiffies to prevent machine pauses. This has a downside that processor is polling all the time and consuming a lot of power. I discovered that

[Bug 300637] Re: autofill problem evolution enter breaks address

2010-03-12 Thread QuentinHartman
I just started seeing this behavior in the last few months in 9.10. Used Evo for years and never seen this before. I've created a screencast illustrating the problem, but since it potentially contains sensitive- ish information I'd rather not post it on the open internet. If a dev is interested in

[Bug 300637] Re: autofill problem evolution enter breaks address

2010-03-12 Thread QuentinHartman
Ok, I re-recorded the screencast w/o the extra information and attached it. I type the first three letters of the email address, the auto-complete pops up and I hit TAB. Note the comma incorrectly inserted. In most cases, this results in email getting erroneously sent to someone who should not

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2010-02-11 Thread QuentinHartman
I'll give that a shot. -- Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 450702] Re: no sound on 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

2009-12-08 Thread QuentinHartman
Thanks David, disabling slmodemd did the trick for me. I ended up removing it entirely since the odds of me using the modem on this machine are less than zero. -- no sound on 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

[Bug 450702] Re: no sound on 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

2009-12-07 Thread QuentinHartman
This is suddenly affecting me too. Didn't exist on a pre-final Karmic install. Started maybe 2 weeks ago? My pci id and fuser ... output are the same as Paolo4500's above. The laptop is a Sager NP2092 which I've not had audio problems with before. Installing alsa-backports did not help. The

[Bug 395630] Re: Broadcom STA module is not loadable on karmic due to unknown symbols

2009-11-16 Thread QuentinHartman
removing linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-15-generic also worked for me, however, I need that installed to allow the modules for vmware workstation to build properly. So the process that I run through anytime the kernel or vmware changes is: -Install backports-modules -rebuild vmware kernel modules

[Bug 416488] Re: poor wireless range on MSI Wind U123; updated drivers not default?

2009-11-16 Thread QuentinHartman
I am seeing this same (or perhaps similar) problem on a Gateway laptop that has this same wireless chipset in it. It will associate with the access point, but never manage to move any data (like a DHCP request), unless very very close to the AP. Worth noting that the AP in question works fine with

[Bug 465352] Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/0x00000001/5767, CPU#1

2009-10-30 Thread QuentinHartman
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34713531/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: OopsText.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34713532/OopsText.txt -- BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/0x0001/5767, CPU#1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465352

[Bug 465352] [NEW] BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/0x00000001/5767, CPU#1

2009-10-30 Thread QuentinHartman
Public bug reported: This doesn't seem to affect userspace at all, but I keep getting the crash reports as I use a virtual machine in Virtualbox OSE. Not sure where the bug actually lies, may be there... ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to

[Bug 441995] Re: Macbook Support Not Working According To Wiki

2009-10-13 Thread QuentinHartman
I have a 5,4 15 MBP and the keyboard backlight keys are not working for me under Karmic either, so this is not just a 5,5 issue. -- Macbook Support Not Working According To Wiki https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-06-19 Thread QuentinHartman
dmesg output. Hope it's useful! ** Attachment added: dmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28128836/dmesg.txt -- Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-06-11 Thread QuentinHartman
Ok, So I am running the daily mainline from today, June 11, and the problem still exists. After rebooting I had to recompile my Nvidia drivers. During the compilation the progress stopped at 30% for about 3 minutes. Once that time passed and I was quite sure it wasn't just thinking _real hard_, I

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-06-04 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Stefan Bader stefan.ba...@canonical.comwrote: Hi Quentin, sorry for not getting back for that long. If you have some time it would be great if you could verify tat hangs against the latest daily kernel from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds We want

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-05-08 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Justin Lloyd captll...@gmail.com wrote: I too have this issue on a Sager NP2092/Compal JFL92. I have found that switching the hard drive controller to IDE mode seems to help. However this is a less than ideal solution. Yay! I'm not alone! Does switching to

[Bug 351053] Re: Alternate install hangs requesting jaunty CD

2009-05-01 Thread QuentinHartman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 360460 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360460 I just discovered this same bug on my desktop system using the final 9.04 alt install disc. The suggeted work around seems to be working, I'm mid-install now. This is the first clean install I've done on this

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-04-06 Thread QuentinHartman
Just modified the title of this bug to make it more accurate. ** Summary changed: - Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls + Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook. -- Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook.

2009-04-06 Thread QuentinHartman
just found a BIOS update for this machine, upgraded to version 1.16. doesn't seem to have made a difference. still getting hiccups that have to be tickled away with kb / mouse input. -- Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 hiccup on Sager notebook. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2009-04-02 Thread QuentinHartman
Ack, looks like the few minutes were wrong. Got some stalls now that I have jiffies turned off. Output from uname -a: Linux sage 2.6.28-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 10:01:17 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux logs of requested info attached I'll remove half the RAM next... ** Attachment

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2009-04-02 Thread QuentinHartman
Ok, removed half the RAM (so I'm at 2GB) and the problem still exists. Attached are new logs and dmesg output. ** Attachment added: dmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24728819/dmesg.txt ** Attachment added: lsmod.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24728820/lsmod.log ** Attachment

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2009-04-02 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM, TJ ubu...@tjworld.net wrote: Quentin, any news on this? I just finished upgrading to the Jaunty Beta last night and took out the jiffies hack. In the few minutes I had to work on the machine after that, it seemed to be behaving normally. Hopefully I'll have

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2009-02-27 Thread QuentinHartman
I'm working on producing the information you asked for. An interesting data point though is that using the Jaunty Alpha 5 64 alt installer, there have been no signs of stalling during the installation, which is where I first saw the behavior before. A good sign? I hope so -QH- -- Hardy

[Bug 325515] Re: Rhythmbox fails to play a particular MP3

2009-02-05 Thread QuentinHartman
An example can be donwloaded from the URL above. I specifically did not attach it because it is unclear if redistribution is allowed. Attached is the debug output you asked for. However. When I tried to import / play that file this morning it worked. I am unaware of any updates that have

[Bug 325515] [NEW] Rhythmbox fails to play a particular MP3

2009-02-04 Thread QuentinHartman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox Intrepid, fully updated. RB 0.11.6 I have an MP3 that I just downloaded from http://www.clockworkquartet.com/music.php . The title is The Watch Maker's Apprentice. I have not attached the file because redistribution rights are not clear on the

[Bug 325515] Re: Rhythmbox fails to play a particular MP3

2009-02-04 Thread QuentinHartman
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21998363/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21998364/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21998366/ProcStatus.txt -- Rhythmbox

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2009-02-04 Thread QuentinHartman
Returning to this. Problem seems to exist in the latest Jaunty as of Feb 2nd 2009... -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-12-22 Thread QuentinHartman
Gotcha, thanks for the info. FWIW, I updated this machine to Jaunty over the weekend, and it still seems to stall out randomly without the jiffies fix. The video is also kinda broken, but I know that's fixable. As soon as I get that straightened out, I'll start poking at this problem again. If

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-12-09 Thread QuentinHartman
This is not a dupe of that bug. Though the behavior is similar, that bug was found to be a flaw in KVM. That was fixed, according to the comments in that bug. This problem happens on _real_ hardware. I believe it is a kernel problem. -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-12-02 Thread QuentinHartman
I have not. Do you have specific suggestions? I take it using alternate clocksources is not a desirable work around? -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-12-01 Thread QuentinHartman
@Stefan So, noapic lapic does seem to reduce the severity of the problem, but it does not eliminate it like the clocksource=jiffies workaround seems to. There was still at least one pause durring the boot process that had to be tickled away, and while the interactive performance is much better,

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-11-29 Thread QuentinHartman
Stefan Bader: I'll post the dmesg output of the system without the jiffies workaround and the output of /proc/interrupts shortly. I'll get both of those pieces of information collected as shortly after a boot as possible to limit the amount of extraneous data. I've finally been able to do a

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-11-29 Thread QuentinHartman
dmesg output attached. ** Attachment added: dmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20059344/dmesg.txt -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-11-29 Thread QuentinHartman
/proc/interrupts output attached. ** Attachment added: interrupts.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20059366/interrupts.txt -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 255847] Re: vimtutor does not load the tutor file correctly

2008-11-24 Thread QuentinHartman
Well, this seems to have either been fixed in the intervening time, or there was something wrong with that particular installation. I've tested this on both and Intrepid box and two Hardy boxes, and they both behave as expected now. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid

[Bug 182799] Re: Evolution: Messages aren't deleted from POP mail server with SSL encryption after specified number of days

2008-11-12 Thread QuentinHartman
I'm running Intrepid and I'm still seeing this problem. Evolution reports itself as version 2.24.1 . I have my deletion interval set to 30 days, but I now have over 120 days worth of mail accumulated on the server... -- Evolution: Messages aren't deleted from POP mail server with SSL encryption

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-10-11 Thread QuentinHartman
After further testing, this still seems to be a problem on this machine. The boot process usually stall unless I tap keys, so I turned the jiffies work-around back on. I'm currently running the 2.6.27-5 kernel because last time I tried 27-7 the machine would not boot at all. I'll be trying that

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-10-08 Thread QuentinHartman
I just upgraded my machine to Intrepid beta and removed the jiffies work around. It seems to be performing well! I throw my second HDD in here this week and do an install using the Intrepid beta installer and report back... -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-08-22 Thread QuentinHartman
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Stefan Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please verify that this problem is still occurring on the latest Hardy kernel (and maybe also try the latest Intrepid alpha for comparison). If the same problem still is there with the work-around still good,

[Bug 255847] [NEW] vimtutor does not load the tutor file correctly

2008-08-07 Thread QuentinHartman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vim-runtime SSIA, really. running vimtutor on my Hardy x64 box gives me an empty vim instance. The tutor files are correctly installed, so I copied the tutor file into my homedir and ran vim tutor and everything works, but stilll... ** Affects: vim

Re: [Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-06-13 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Ian Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Smith's work on the LDAP library, plus the other updates above, have solved the problem for me - Evolution is back to about one crash a week, and is usable again. Many thanks to Paul for his heroic debugging work!

Re: [Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-06-11 Thread QuentinHartman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Bill Gjestvang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been drastically improved, if not fixed, in the latest updates. Is anyone still seeing this? I'm running: I just updated to those versions as well. It's too early to say if it's had an impact on me. I'll post

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-05-25 Thread QuentinHartman
Louis-Dominique: If you add clocksource=jiffies to your kernel options at boot time, the stalls will go away. I've been running my machine with this setting since I discovered it in April and it has been working well. -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

[Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-04-29 Thread QuentinHartman
Alright, so my work around gets things working, but it seems that the exchange backend still silently fails as I fairly regularly get Unable to retrieve message, communication with exchange backend failed notices when trying to read new mail in Evo. A restart of Evo gets around the problem, but it

[Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread QuentinHartman
I upgraded to Hardy this morning and it seemed to work fine initially, but after the initial sync up, it now refuses to see new mail on my exchange server, as you describe. OWA works fine, I can see the new mail there. I am also getting a bunch of weird exchange backend crashes, like you describe,

[Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread QuentinHartman
One other note I forgot to mention. It seems that the exchange backend is not _completely_ ignoring new mails because when I go into OWA, all of the new mails have been marked as read, even though they have never appeared in Evolution. -- Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

[Bug 215614] Re: Evolution Exchange unreliability in Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread QuentinHartman
So, I tested Evolution in a clean installation and it (so far) works normally. If I import a backup of my old Evolution settings and folders, it breaks again. It seems that there is some incompatibility between the data from Evo in Gutsy and Hardy which is the root of this problem. Can you confirm

[Bug 206916] Re: Totem cannot play DVD

2008-04-27 Thread QuentinHartman
I have this same problem on Hardy 64-bit. I'm not sure if it is a libdvdread problem or a totem problem though. If vlc or mplayer use libdvdread and the de-css lib you can install for it, than it is likely a totem bug as mplayer and vlc on my machine play back DVD's fine, only totem and elisa

[Bug 72790] Re: Hard lock using BCM5751 (tigon3)

2008-04-27 Thread QuentinHartman
I no longer have access to the hardware that was exhibiting this bug. Fixed or not, I can no longer test it. -- Hard lock using BCM5751 (tigon3) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/72790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
I get this problem on real hardware, _not_ KVM. In my comment above I list the model and specs for reference. I also reference that in bug #217849. -- Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217815 You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Colin King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It maybe worth booting with clocksource set to one of the alternative clocksources available on your machine. One can see which clocksources are available using: cat

[Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
I get this problem on real hardware, _not_ KVM. In my comment above I list the model and specs for reference. I also reference that in bug #217849. -- Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217815 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
I've been adding my experiences to bug #217815 over there, Colin King suggested that one try different clock sources On my machine I have hpet, acpi_pm, jiffies, and tsc as available clock sources. hpet seems to be the default. Here are my results using the daily from the 21st (I think...) hpet:

[Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
@Colin King: On my machine I have hpet, acpi_pm, jiffies, and tsc as available clock sources. hpet seems to be the default. Here are my results using the daily from the 21st (I think...) hpet: stalls acpi_pm: stalls (perhaps worse than hpet) jiffies: Works! If this does not eliminate the stalls,

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM, davmor2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no fault on the test I just ran using the image 20080421 on hardware. If possible could the original report please test and see if he still has the issue with the new cd? I am downloading the that ISO now, I will

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Soren Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If further testing reveals that disabling the tsc actually helps, I've prepared a kernel patch that will fix it for us: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=soren/ubuntu-

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM, davmor2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no fault on the test I just ran using the image 20080421 on hardware. If possible could the original report please test and see if he still has the issue with the new cd? I am downloading the that ISO now, I will

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Soren Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If further testing reveals that disabling the tsc actually helps, I've prepared a kernel patch that will fix it for us: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=soren/ubuntu-

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-18 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:32:48AM -, Jamie Strandboge wrote: I have tried these many times (without lvm+encrypt) and see the hang until keyboard event on most installs (~80%) if I don't use preseeding. If I use

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-18 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Dustin Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So thinking much earlier in the installer, anything come to mind? Particularly something that might have been added since Gutsy as we now believe this is a regression? The only thing I can think of that should be

[Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-18 Thread QuentinHartman
** Attachment added: unnamed http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13559865/unnamed -- Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-17 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. It was impossible to cancel the erasure while it was in progress. The Cancel button did not have focus, and there was no response when pressing tab. I haven't been able to get to the Cancel button on the Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-17 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Jamie Strandboge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too reproduced this with the server iso from 20080416. I'm currently using an installation from the nightly on the 14th, and I noticed something for the first time. I am occasionally getting the stalling behavior on

[Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-17 Thread QuentinHartman
@Rick I can very consistently recreate it on my Sager laptop. It is a Core 2 Duo T9300, 4GB RAM, NVidia 8600M GT video, 80GB Fujitsu HDD. more details can be seen at http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=46090 on the specifications tab. I unfortunately do not have access to any

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-17 Thread QuentinHartman
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. It was impossible to cancel the erasure while it was in progress. The Cancel button did not have focus, and there was no response when pressing tab. I haven't been able to get to the Cancel button on the Ubuntu

[Bug 217849] [NEW] Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: debian-installer I have a Sager NP2092 (specs can be seen at http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=46090) laptop which stalls during the installation of 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Beta, as well as the nightlies from 4-13 and 4-14. The behavior

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
perhaps a duplicate of bug #217815 -- Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
Using Hardy Alternate 64-bit disk (both Beta release and recent nightlies) I see this same behavior on my system. I can get things to pick up again by pressing keys, I haven't tried mouse clicks, but hitting any key on the keyboard (I usually hit ALT or ENTER) seems to unstick things. However,

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/1453/195 reproduces on real hardware. I must confess I have very little idea of what's going on here! It is mysterious to me as well, although I'm not entirely positive that it

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Quentin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really ahve no idea where to go to dig further into this. It almost seems kernel level... I'm going to burn an earlier alpha and see if it does the same thing. Hmmm well I can't seem to find any mirrors that

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
Ok, so I just sat and ran through the installation process, letting the installer sit when it stalled and timing the lags. I got to the point that I had previously thought was an indefinite hang where it was preparing the encrypted LVM stuff and went to lunch. When I came back an hour later, it

[Bug 217849] Re: Hardy 64-bit beta and nightly alternate installation stalls

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
I really don't think partman-crypto is responsible for this as the stalls exist even when doing an unencrypted install. The partman-crypto related portions of the installation seem to just be creating particularly large stalls. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename:

[Bug 217815] Re: When selecting LVM Crypt, erase never ends

2008-04-15 Thread QuentinHartman
@Stéphane: I really don't think that is a valid work around, it just takes too long. Further, the problem exists even when not doing an encrypted install. See my comment above and in bug #217849 for some times and an explanation why I believe waiting for entropy is not truly the root of the

Re: [Bug 117254] Re: Audio becomes stuck in loop

2008-03-08 Thread QuentinHartman
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Danny Staple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quentin, I have not yet been able to reproduce this. That is also not for lack of trying. Since it may not necessarily be starfighter that was at fault, I am setting the defect to invalid. Sounds good. I was not able to

[Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-03-03 Thread QuentinHartman
With the installation of hal 0.5.10-5ubuntu8 tonight, this problem seems to be solved for me. -- 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194719 You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-03-01 Thread QuentinHartman
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Sense Hofstede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bug #197090 someone reported a similar issue but solved it by restarting hal. Does that work for you? No, restarting hal does not work in my case. -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman- -- 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch

[Bug 196688] Re: GPM in Hardy seems to have a memory leak

2008-03-01 Thread QuentinHartman
I think this bug may be related to #194719. -- GPM in Hardy seems to have a memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-03-01 Thread QuentinHartman
I'm wondering if HAL is completely to blame for this behavior. Take this with a grain of salt because I don''t know exactly where HAL sits in the stack of things, but I've noticed today that the output of 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/*' shows that the 'remaining capacity' line is no longer

[Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-03-01 Thread QuentinHartman
yoops, I just realized those packages are i386, and I'm running 64-bit here. How would I go about re-creating them on my side? I'm fairly familiar with compiling software, but patching and packaging is a little shaky. -- 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detect the battery properly

2008-02-29 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Daniel T Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? Well, from my relatively ignorant point of view, it seems that it would be worthwhile to attempt to get this actually fixed in time Hardy. We really don't want people living with this sort of oddness for 3 years.

Re: [Bug 196124] Re: clock location timezone database is inaccurate

2008-02-29 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Ralph Janke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the same behaviour as this bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/96151 ? Don't think it is the same behavior. Based on the description there, it's hard to tell for sure, it could be. Does

[Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detecting the battery properly

2008-02-28 Thread QuentinHartman
Moving my comments / findings from my other bug #196151 report here. Attached is an archive containing output form the commands that Sense listed above. For the dbus-monitor command I plugged and unplugged power several times and let the machine sit for a couple minutes to let the battery drain a

[Bug 196688] [NEW] GPM in Hardy seems to have a memory leak

2008-02-28 Thread QuentinHartman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager I've been using Hardy on a new laptop for a few days and have run into a few bugs related to GPM. See #194719 for those details. Twice now I've also had GPM eat up RAM, to the point that the process was consuming all available (2GB)

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detecting the battery properly

2008-02-28 Thread QuentinHartman
In my case, it reports that the remianing battery time is unknown. I've discovered that GPM also seems to have a memory leak, not sure if it's related to this or not though. see #196688 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Sense Hofstede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. It looks like this bug

Re: [Bug 194719] Re: 01_proc_sys_batteries.patch causes a regression making gnome-power-manager not detecting the battery properly

2008-02-28 Thread QuentinHartman
That's exact behavior I'm seeing. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Chris McCauley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For me the battery charge as shown never diminishes. I can work for hours and the charge shown will be the actual charge in the battery when the ac was removed. Meanwhile I can see

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