This is not the behaviour I see on other versions of ubuntu, so it
changed for the worse between 18.04 and 20.04; it seems quite a
fundamental default to have changed, and in very much the wrong
direction - that 'within the first 15 characters' seems absolutely
archaic.
I notice that
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This is 20.04 after a do-release-upgrade
$ killall --version
killall (PSmisc) UNKNOWN
Copyright (C) 1993-2017 Werner Almesberger and Craig Small
butternut@butternut:/scratch/dujella/5,-8,s210,aux$ ps 2593054
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2593054 pts/16 R 9:52
I am not happy with the state of this in 16.04: I do 'sudo do-release-
upgrade' in the anticipation of getting 18.04.1, and I get instead
'Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.'
even if I have just run sudo apt-get update; sudo
grep -R apt-check /etc
on my ubuntu-16.04 boxes exhibiting this problem
shows nothing
Tom
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Title:
apt-get update runs apt-check at nice 19
Public bug reported:
When I try to install a new package on one of my compute nodes which are
running one nice-0 task per hyperthread, there is an extremely long
delay at the end of installation as apt-check is running at nice 19 and
getting almost no cycles. Renicing it to -5 resolves the
Public bug reported:
If I do 'taskset -c 0-5 /home/cluster/bin' I expect it to auto-
complete to 'binaries/' and leave the cursor after the slash so I can
keep typing the path to the executable; instead it auto-completes to
'binaries ' so I have to backspace and type the slash myself.
**
Public bug reported:
Jobs with more than 10GB RES use have it reported as a number of
terabytes with three decimal places
PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30362 tomwom01 20 0 1432536 1.351g 1428 R 100.0 4.3 37:45.96 msieve
Public bug reported:
On a machine with one i7-4930K CPU (six cores; twelve threads), I run
apt-get install gmp-ecm
echo
417851657851322288874010837856502301110211653321414464007924033448506685217369529551512221034931058157509867474898886146419540545861923501516226812207
> N
for u in $(seq 1
Public bug reported:
pumpkin@pumpkin:~/4788.5236.la$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:03.0/:03:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v10DEd1080sv10B0sd0401bc03sc00i00
model: GF110 [GeForce GTX 580]
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
driver : nvidia-340-updates
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42298
Public bug reported:
I tried to report this against 'launchpad' on the
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug page, but that's apparently
not a package that exists in Debian either!
Version: current
Public bug reported:
apt-get autoremove regenerates the initrd after removing each kernel.
Since you generally call this command only when your boot volume is full
of old kernels, it seems sub-optimal to regenerate the initrd eight
times when removing eight kernels. Could something be done with
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 42298 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42298
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package picker lists unpublished (invalid) packages
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On 12.04, I have reliably found that a job which starts 4 long-running
threads on an otherwise-idle machine (there are some other threads which
have been running for some time, but they have been kill -STOPped) gets
the threads allocated to 4 distinct cores on my Haswell.
On
The machine is in a data centre and doesn't have the ability to start a
browser
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When I do /usr/bin/time ./a.out, where a.out is a program which just
allocates 512MB, writes to it at random then stops, I get told that the
max resident space is about two gigabytes. Looking at other programs,
it is consistently given as too large by a factor four.
'top' shows no processes but an increasing load average; 'iotop' shows
flush and jbd2 processes in 100% I/O state.
I've returned the laptop and acquired another one so will be unable to
help with further diagnosis.
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This happens whether or not I'm using compiz. Machine runs stably under
Windows 7.
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Still hangs after a few minutes if I boot, go to a text console, do
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
to stop X, and then leave a few 'openssl speed' jobs running
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Point three isn't true; I've had setups with sda1+sdb1 forming a RAID1
pair and sda2+sdb2 forming a RAID0 pair
Point five isn't true for RAID5, where the capacity is (minimum size of
devices) * (number of devices - 1)
I would just offer RAID1 as an option, and require selection of two
drives on
I don't have Lucid available to test, but I can confirm that my
instructions for replicating the issue no longer cause the issue on 9.10
installed from the standard installer; it may be that this is because
the RADEON rather than VESA driver is installed.
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Binary package hint: gdb
This is on 8.04.3 LTS, GNU gdb 6.8-debian
% gdb
(gdb) x 'pibble(wibble const)'
No symbol table is loaded. Use the file command.
(gdb) disas 'pibble(wibble const)'
Unmatched single quote.
This is at the very least an extremely unhelpful error
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Binary package hint: gedit
(Ubuntu 9.04; gedit 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 )
If I turn the mouse wheel while pointing to the 'Ln 2396, Col 59' region
at the bottom of a gedit window, the window manager switches to a
different pane.
I don't think this behaviour is sane.
** Affects:
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: command-not-found
When I type 'java' with java not installed, I get a list of recommended
packages
The program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
* gij-4.3
* java-gcj-compat-headless
* openjdk-6-jre-headless
* cacao
* gij-4.2
* jamvm
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This is a particularly frustrating bug to replicate, since it kills all
your gnome-terminal windows over all your desktops and completely
derails your train of thought; I've had it happen in ubuntu-8.04 64-bit
both when changing the size of the scrollback buffer (to something
enormous; I prefer
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: command-not-found
If I try to run 'tex' on an ubuntu-8.04 machine with no tex installed,
command-not-found suggests
apt-get install texlive-base-bin
which is not enough to get a working tex - you get a weird error message
about tex.fmt not found.
It
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
See screenshot: the processes which have been running for 8800 minutes
(about 6 days 4 hours) are reported as having run for 1 day 4 hours.
This is ubuntu-8.04 running on a core 2 quad.
** Affects: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
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Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
See screenshot: the processes which have been running for 8800 minutes
- (about 6 days 4 hours) are reported as having run
The curses.curs_set() command just changes the visibility of the cursor,
so it looks as if whatever Konsole tells curses about its capabilities
includes a claim that it can't change the visibility of the cursor.
Removing the line curses.curs_set(0) should remove the problem.
Same problem with
Public bug reported:
Yesterday morning, the computer was working well, and happily accessing
files over NFS.
I turned off this computer; when I turned it back on, it wasn't visible
on the network.
There is no sign of ethernet in either lspci output or dmesg (no useful
matches for grepping
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xorg
* Install AMD64 ubuntu-8.04 from alternate CD on machine with Asus M3A78-EMH
HDMI motherboard
* press ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to a virtual console
* press alt-f7 to switch back to X
* the palette has been corrupted, the orange backdrop has turned
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: live-installer
I'm trying to install hardy on an Intel P35 board with 8G memory and an
Nvidia 7300 video card.
I boot from the live CD, and after a few minutes the computer crashes
with a screen full of pink and yellow stripes.
This seems to happen
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: live-installer
I have three md volumes spread over six partitions on four hard discs.
When I boot from the 8.04 CD and select 'install ubuntu', the
partitioner doesn't do any detection of them, and gives me only the
block devices to choose from. It
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: live-installer
I have three md volumes spread over six partitions on four hard discs.
When I boot from the 8.04 CD and select 'install ubuntu', the
partitioner doesn't do any detection of them, and gives me only the
block devices to choose from. It
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: live-installer
+ Binary package hint: ubiquity
I'm trying to install hardy on an Intel P35 board with 8G memory and an
Nvidia 7300 video card.
I boot from the live CD, and after a few minutes the computer crashes
with a screen full of
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I'm trying to install hardy on an Intel P35 board with 8G memory and an
Nvidia 7300 video card.
- I boot from the live CD, and after a few minutes the computer crashes
- with a screen full of pink and yellow stripes.
+ I boot from
Public bug reported:
If I go to the page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7370285.stm
in firefox on my ubuntu-7.10 installation, a gtk-gnash process starts up
and proceeds to allocate memory at a rate of about 200MB/second without
visible limit.
Installed gnash is 0.8.1-0ubuntu3, firefox
Is there a plan to back-port this to gutsy?
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Binary package hint: gnash
sudo apt-get build-deps gnash
apt-get source gnash
cd gnash-0.8.1
debian/rules build
fails to compile because it can't find the SDL_audio.h header file
This is provided by libsdl1.2-dev, which therefore ought to be a build
dependency, but isn't
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: coreutils
echo -e 1 3 4\n1 2 3\n1 2 4\n | sort -n
sorts numerically on fields 1, 2 and 3 in succession, giving
1 2 3
1 2 4
1 3 4
as you would expect
echo -e 1 3 4\n1 2 3\n1 2 4\n | sort -nu
prints only '1 3 4' - it's doing the uniqifying on only the
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Binary package hint: sudo
crick% date
Fri Aug 24 11:28:15 BST 2007
crick% sudo umount /mnt/z1
sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Aug 24 11:28:14 2007
crick% date
Sun Aug 5 11:29:43 BST 2007
crick%
** Affects: sudo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status:
Public bug reported:
Some pages (most recent example is
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/08/21/freeman-and-fincher-rendezvous-for-
sci-fi-space-thriller/ )
rendered in Firefox have very obvious colour fringing.
I haven't changed any defaults; taking a screenshot of a normal text
window indicates
See screenshop
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Select, say, a long and complicated path name from a terminal window
Press alt-f2
Type 'emacs ', and press the middle mouse button to try to insert the
pathname
Discover that the autocompletion process has destroyed the clipboard
contents
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Public bug reported:
Load a file which is more than one window in length
Click and drag somewhere near the beginning of the file
Drag the mouse up above the top of the text window
You will find yourself at the bottom of the file, with the whole file selected
Expected behaviour: window scrolls
I don't have it at the moment.
I don't know whether it will come back at the next requires-a-reboot
update.
Would it be useful to add another comment to the bug if the issue
reappears after a future dapper update?
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This is using the i810 driver from xorg on a G965 motherboard.
To reproduce:
* Have mozilla-plugin-gnash installed
* Open Firefox
* Go to any page with Flash content (I used
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm)
* Drag another window over the
Here's the xorg log file, which ought to contain information about the
setup
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This is Ubuntu Feisty.
running xman says 'Xman Error: No manual pages found.'
** Affects: xman (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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This is Ubuntu Feisty.
- running xman says 'Xman Error: No manual pages found.'
+ running 'xman' says 'Xman Error: No manual pages found.'
+
+ running 'xman -helpfile /usr/share/man' says the same
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xman appears to have been horribly miscompiled; 'strace xman' includes
many lines of the form
open(${prefix}/share/man/man1, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1
and only works at all if I do (the truly hideous command)
ln -s /usr \${prefix}
My shell is /bin/bash, if that's relevant and the
I've tried installing nautilus-dbg, but get an unresolvable dependency,
presumably because what's on :
crick% sudo apt-get update
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Get: 3 http://security.ubuntu.com
** Summary changed:
- '#' in the alt-F2 box crashes evolution
+ '#' in the alt-F2 box crashes nautilus
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Steps to reproduce:
* Press alt-f2
* Type a single '#' character in the box that appears
* Press enter
* The application Nautilus will quit unexpectedly
Version: Dapper with current updates applied
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status:
OK, I've installed the dbgsym packages on my feisty machine (I was
wanting to install them on the dapper one at work), and there I get
exactly the same kind of behaviour as hggdh has: an endless loop writing
to nautilus-debug-log.txt, where that file begins
0x7601b0 2007/04/17 19:57:38.9127
Problem returned with upgrades to 6.06 on 12 April.
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This seems to be a problem that is caused by some classes of package
upgrade (would have to look at the list of recently-upgraded packages,
which I don't know how to obtain) and goes away when you reboot.
Obviously it would be nicer if it didn't; slight brokenness disappearing
on reboot is
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 43752 ***
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I have the stall on 'starting sendmail' too; there's a message about
being unable to create a temporary file for a here document on a read-
only filesystem.
I suspect some package installs sendmail, rather
I had the same thing happen after the 12/4 update, which was purely of
KDE packages and linux-kernel.
Disappeared on reboot, thankfully.
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I plug in a firewire drive (a Western Digital MyBook Premium); nothing
happens.
If I have udevmonitor running, no messages appear, whilst I get a screed
of messages if I plug or unplug my USB card reader.
The drive doesn't seem to be physically dead (it makes a happy
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Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
When running a remote IRC session (to chiark), I get various sorts of
redraw and scrolling problems: the most obvious is that text entered at
the bottom line stays there rather than being cleared when you hit
return, and that updates of
Got the same issue when installing with the update manager at 2345 on 5
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It looks as if Firefox is using a bold Cyrillic font for the letters
that don't have good matches in Roman alphabet, and a less-bold Roman
font for other letters (e,c,p,y,o) for which superficially-identical
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hugin
When I select PTStitcher as the stitching mechanism in hugin, it
crashes.
Running hugin under GDB gives that the error is 'illegal instruction' at
0x4c06b7; a disassembly of that region says that 4c06b7 is a 'ud2a'
instruction, which is explicitly
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I have a text file which begins 'P13438 = 2 * 3 * 7 * 1047137401 *
8868717860281682366053088136263931781236052676953 *
37740643638981149828904962487908210028313437770048087043525652181' -
it's a list of factorizations of partition numbers.
For
I'm using Feisty, and the problem's still there in updates as of the
evening of 30th March.
If it's an X-server issue then it might be relevant that I'm using Intel
G965 graphics.
I wonder whether it's a termcap issue; is gnome-terminal supposed to emulate
TERM=xterm? I'm using, as you see
The situation in which I want to change the frequency arises when I'm
running one compute-intensive background job per CPU at 'nice 5' so that
I get decent performance in interactive jobs as well; it seems that the
default governor regards the situation in which niced jobs are using
100% of the
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http://librarian.launchpad.net/7006676/Dependencies.txt
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http://librarian.launchpad.net/7006684/Disassembly.txt
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Binary package hint: firefox
I had just visited YouTube which informed me that I didn't have the
right version of Flash, but I don't know if that's relevant.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 27 21:04:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath:
Here's the log file, I don't notice anything I would expect to affect
middle mouse buttons in the 27/2 update, just ekiga, imagemagick and
slocate.
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Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
I think this appeared after I downloaded upgrades to 6.06 on Monday.
Previously, if I press alt-f2 to get the 'Run Application' box and type
'gnumeric', 'gnumeric' appeared in the box; the 'meric' part had
appeared, highlighted, as soon
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
After upgrading 6.06 on 26 February, selecting text in gnome-terminal no
longer puts it into the place which emacs uses to find what should be
pasted on a middle-button press.
If I select text in emacs, go to a gnome-terminal window, and
Hello Sebastian.
I didn't take a note of the packages I upgraded ... I just pressed
'mark upgrades' and 'apply' in synaptic; is this logged somewhere that
I could find it out for you?
Tom
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Binary package hint: partman-base
Scenario: installing 6.10 from a USB stick prepared according to the
instructions in http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~twomack/DG965WH.txt
I was indecisive, so changed my mind while doing manual partitioning
about whether / should be on
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On at least three occasions, I've done an update by selecting 'mark
upgraded packages' in synaptic; it requires a reboot, and upon reboot
I'm unable to log in using our yp server. The symptom is a one-minute
hang after entering the username, and another one-minute hang after
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I copy a file from my home directory which is represented by the generic
graphics icon to a USB memory stick, and it becomes represented by a thumbnail.
I copy a file from the memory stick that is represented as a thumbnail
to my home
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