[Bug 1325899] Re: evince is excruciatingly slow on some documents

2015-12-12 Thread cro
This appears to have been regressed somewhere. 15.04 with libpoppler 0.30 - a PDF that used to render instantly (and renders instantly using muPDF) now takes on average 10-15s to render a single page using Evince or Atril, or longer if focus is missing. As the behaviour is the same in both Evince

[Bug 1525526] [NEW] evince/atril is excruciatingly slow

2015-12-12 Thread cro
Public bug reported: For image-heavy PDF files, both Atril and Evince are extremely slow when rendering the page. 'Slow' being in the region of 5-30s (timed), depending on the page, and depending on focus. Thumbnails take an equally long time to render. The same PDF files opened in muPDF render

[Bug 1432171] Re: [udev] Shows starting version 219 boot message even with quiet

2015-04-27 Thread cro
Well, I resolved the error - by installing `upstart-sys` (which replaces `systemd` with upstart) So it appears this is an issue where the removal of `upstart` breaks startup of some display managers and prevents the running of login scripts. The workaround is to manually start your chosen

[Bug 1432171] Re: [udev] Shows starting version 219 boot message even with quiet

2015-04-26 Thread cro
I get this error as well, and I do NOT have sddm installed, so the provided fixes don't work. I cannot boot to a graphical user interface by waiting, I don't have quiet enabled and I'm using mdm. The only way to boot is to switch to another tty (F1 - the only one available) and execute sudo mdm

[Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

2015-04-05 Thread cro
I'm going to re-open this issue, as it's not solved, and in my case is not a file system issue - as banshee is stuck in a fuse_write stae, writing to the primary disk that everything else is running on quite happily. Banshee will restart once I reboot, which is not a viable option. I've tried

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-06-15 Thread cro
I disabled tmpfs when I started seeing this issue, however the swapping has continued, albeit with a lesser number of issues - until today, when the swapping issue was so bad that I performed a hard power down after my laptop had been unresponsive for 24 minutes (clock showed 14:32, I forced a

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-06-15 Thread cro
Ack, and I meant to add: So I don't think this is related to tmpfs, at least in my case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1152736 Title: system swapping itself to death in raring for

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-05-21 Thread cro
I made two changes to my machine yesterday in rc.local: I commented out this: # echo deadline /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler I added this: rmmod rts5139 (this is the smart card reader poller) I've not had a swap to death instance since that wasn't directly related to too many embedded objects

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-05-20 Thread cro
to continue working. Here's my 'free' status when kswapd0 is using 100% CPU. In this situation kswapd0 is using between 90 and 120% CPU according to `top`, and everything else is under 5%, including firefox. cro@zen:~$ free -h total used free sharedbuffers cached

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-05-20 Thread cro
Nope, I'm not using LVM snapshots. I'm thinking it's something to do with embeds or media objects - further attempting to work today showed that whenever the flashplugin was loaded (in either firefox or chrome, showing a video in a page) it would swap to death until those processes were killed.

[Bug 1152736] Re: system swapping itself to death in raring for no good reason

2013-05-01 Thread cro
This bug affects my laptop as well, regardless of swap or swappiness settings. The laptop is an Asus UX32A, and has only ever had 13.04 installed (from the RC prior to release) /swap is configured with 4G of space on the internal SSD rather than the HDD. Under normal usage kswapd0 starts using

[Bug 1055534] Re: [regression] since linux 3.4.0, kswapd0 uses 100% cpu when low memory is available

2013-04-25 Thread cro
I've started seeing this problem with the most recent kernel(3.8.0-19), even when swap is turned off. For example, when resuming from suspend, kwapd0 will start using 99-100% if CPU according to top, even though the reported swap usage is 0. running swapoff -a has no effect, and the only way to

[Bug 1055534] Re: [regression] since linux 3.4.0, kswapd0 uses 100% cpu when low memory is available

2013-04-25 Thread cro
(also, apologies for changing the status, I wasn't aware I could do that) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055534 Title: [regression] since linux 3.4.0, kswapd0 uses 100% cpu when low

[Bug 1007976] Re: Windows jump to different workspace when switching workspace

2012-06-09 Thread cro
This bug appears to relate to the place windows compiz plugin. I can reliably reproduce this issue by enabling or disabling the plugin. With place windows plugin ENABLED: * rotating the cube to the right will move all maximised windows to workspace 1, once the workspace with a maximised window

[Bug 1008399] Re: when shutting down, speakers make loud crackling noise 12.04

2012-06-04 Thread cro
In addition to this, I also have the no sound from speakers, but headphones work fine bug (similar to but not exactly #946232) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008399 Title: when

[Bug 876198] Re: When switching workspaces with rotate/cube previous Ws contents are momentarily displayed

2011-10-21 Thread cro
This appears to happen regardless of window manager. I've seen this behaviour in Unity, Gnome classic, XFCE4, LXDE, Lubuntu and MATE (the Gnome2 fork). The focus issue appears in all the above, as well as the moving windows with keyboard shortcuts. A serious regression seems to have been

[Bug 764051] Re: Second monitor useless in dual desktop mode

2011-06-04 Thread cro
I think the wider issue here is that this is a specific change in functionality, wherever it may be. Under the prior version of Ubuntu, configuring a second monitor/second video card as a seperate X screen would result in the second screen being set up the same as the first when it came to window

[Bug 489196] Re: evince cannot print pdf files

2009-12-02 Thread cro
Confirmed using the following printers: HP Colour Laserjet 3700n HP Laserjet 4200 Printing documents is possible to both printers using alternate Applications (such as OpenOffice or GIMP), it is only evince that fails to print. Same environment as the original reporter (evince version,

[Bug 447448] [NEW] package human-icon-theme should depend on package tangerine-icon-theme

2009-10-09 Thread cro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: human-icon-theme Since the Human icon theme inherits from the Tangerine icon theme (/usr/share/icons/Human/index.theme), the package human-icon-theme should depend on the package tangerine-icon-theme. The Human icon theme also inherits from the gnome

[Bug 284505] Re: 8.543 Crashes on login screen

2008-11-04 Thread cro
My apologies - I didn't suggest that the problem was in the vboxdrv driver - I suggested that it was caused by a module compiled and installed for the previous kernel version. It just happened that I had only one module installed for a previous kernel version (the vboxdrv module - after I removed

[Bug 292441] Re: X crashes with fglrx after upgrade to 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread cro
Duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx- installer/+bug/284505 (I can;t mark as duplicate though) -- X crashes with fglrx after upgrade to 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 284505] Re: 8.543 Crashes on login screen

2008-11-03 Thread cro
Here's an update: I managed to resolve this issue (and will cross-post to the forums as well) by referencing this against another bug in another package/forum: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2288 I found that essentially the same X error was being caused by the vboxdrv under Ubuntu

[Bug 284505] Re: 8.543 Crashes on login screen

2008-11-03 Thread cro
Marcus: Try removing fglrx, 8.543, 2.6.24-21-generic, x86_64: installed (original_module exists) if you get the 'Saw signal 11' error in your Xorg log. It appears (perhaps) to be the conflict between the module built for the old kernel that causes the module for the new kernel to fail. Alejandro:

[Bug 291210] Re: fglrx doesn't work with Mobility Radeon X1600 on 64bit intrepid

2008-11-03 Thread cro
This may be related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284505 -- fglrx doesn't work with Mobility Radeon X1600 on 64bit intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291210 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 284505] Re: 8.543 Crashes on login screen

2008-11-03 Thread cro
Error also appears on AMD x86_64, 2.6.27-7-generic SMP, with Radeon 4950HD. Going to try some source compiles today. [snip from Xorg.0.log] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//amdxmm.so (II) Module amdxmm: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 1.0.0

[Bug 292103] Re: Sapphire ATI 3850HD (AGP) does not work with Intrepid

2008-11-03 Thread cro
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 284505 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284505 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 284505 8.543 Crashes on login screen -- Sapphire ATI 3850HD (AGP) does not work with Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292103 You received this bug