Re: [Bug 879334] Re: nfsd from nfs-kernel-server very slow and system load from 25%-100% from nfsd

2012-11-11 Thread perpetualrabbit
Since then I have been forced to leave the ubuntu server platform and went to Redhat enterprise linux. Canonical needs to understand that these are critical bugs that should have been fixed in hours or days, not in weeks or months. On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Karsten Suehring

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-08 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Christoph Bartoschek Any load over the number of cpu cores (X) is not acceptable. You have X camels. Each camel can carry one sack of flour. If you want to move more than X sacks of flour, some camels will have to make second trips. That is how `load´ works, right? Any load over X will make

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread perpetualrabbit
@christoph With resources I mean: Our virtual nfs server was assigned 4 virtual cpu's, 8GB ram and about 8Gbit/s network, depending on how much the other virtual guests are using the network. And yours? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Christoph: Can you tell me more about your situation: - How many clients? - What is mounted and how? - What kind of authentication (ldap, kerberos, AD, passwd/shadow,...)? - Real nfs server or virtual? - What resources (memory, # cpu's, network bandwidth, etc)? What did you try to diagnose and

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-03 Thread perpetualrabbit
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable To

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-31 Thread perpetualrabbit
All right, I am doing tests right now, but as far as I can see the 3.4.0-030400-generic kernel has the same behaviour as stock ubuntu 12.04. With ubuntu server and this 3.4 kernel: Test: - all workstation writing a separate 4GB file with `dd´ to /testhome, which is nfs4 mounted from an

[Bug 1006446] [NEW] nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Problem: -- I just had to remove ubuntu server 12.04 to install redhat enterprise linux 6. The intermittent slowness was completely unacceptable for the users, who have workstations with /home mounted with nfs4 on

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
I forgot the `top´ example roland@asselijn:~$ cat top_example top - 16:08:57 up 13 days, 5:13, 3 users, load average: 7.82, 5.95, 5.28 Tasks: 290 total, 5 running, 285 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 30.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 69.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 :

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
As this is a server system, there is no firefox or X window system on it. Apport-collect starts a text-mode browser and in that I could authorize the collecting of logs, it seems. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Tags added: apport-collected **

[Bug 1006446] AcpiTables.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: AcpiTables.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169211/+files/AcpiTables.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] AlsaDevices.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169212/+files/AlsaDevices.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] BootDmesg.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169213/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169214/+files/Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1006446] Lspci.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169215/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4

[Bug 1006446] PciMultimedia.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: PciMultimedia.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169216/+files/PciMultimedia.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1006446] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169217/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] ProcInterrupts.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169218/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1006446] ProcModules.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169219/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] UdevDb.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169220/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title:

[Bug 1006446] UdevLog.txt

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169221/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title:

[Bug 1006446] WifiSyslog.gz

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
apport information ** Attachment added: WifiSyslog.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446/+attachment/3169222/+files/WifiSyslog.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
You realize this server has been decommissioned, right? I can no longer do real life test on it. What I can do is give it a disk (well virtual disk, it's iscsi) and export that to all workstations and test with that. Just what I that in pre-production testing. I now know I have to watch out for

[Bug 917144] Re: Other ... option is missing

2012-03-01 Thread perpetualrabbit
I am really worried by this total disregard for `corporate users´, concluding from your remark: corporate setups which need ldap login should be able to deal with custom configurations to enable that (it's a simple configuration change) Really? I am a sysadmin at Leiden University, and every new

[Bug 806784] Re: Oneiric installer crash: not enough space to unpack kernel headers, different size needed for btrfs

2012-02-21 Thread perpetualrabbit
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 220961 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220961 @cjwatson: The bug is gone if I install a precise pangolin system instead, with the same specs otherwise (i.e. as a KVM virtual machine, same partition layout, same filesystem sizes and types, etc.). Precise

[Bug 806784] Re: Oneiric installer crash: not enough space to unpack kernel headers, different size needed for btrfs

2012-02-13 Thread perpetualrabbit
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 220961 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220961 I just downloaded the oneiric server iso, and tried to install oneiric on a KVM virtual machine. It fails with writing the linux- image-3.0.0-16-server package, where it tries to write some kernel modules

[Bug 220961] Re: [MASTER] ubiquity crashes instead of notifying the user of not enough disk space

2012-02-13 Thread perpetualrabbit
It crashes every time with installing the same package: linux-image-3.0.0-. I tried with btrfs, and my own custom partitioning. This did not work so I tried letting the installer choose lvm and its preferred choices of filesystem sizes and type: / 322 MB, ext4 /boot228 MB,

[Bug 220961] Re: [MASTER] ubiquity crashes instead of notifying the user of not enough disk space

2012-02-13 Thread perpetualrabbit
Could it be that update while installing was ENABLED for all systems affected by this bug? If so, it would corroborate my theory that it is the linux-image-3.0.0-... package which is at fault. During my second try at installing, I did not have this enabled, I think. So if I'm right, it makes sense

[Bug 881380] Re: bonding and vlan configuration options should really be available during ubuntu-server installation

2011-11-10 Thread perpetualrabbit
I unfinished a sentence there: And even when I get it to work, the network does not come up after a reboot. You have to restart the network by hand. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 881380] Re: bonding and vlan configuration options should really be available during ubuntu-server installation

2011-11-09 Thread perpetualrabbit
I second this. In a typical virtualization environment, you have a server with several real network cards. These are typically combined in a bond device. On top of these you have bridges, and on top of those you have vlans. Virtual servers may exist in different networks, so you need this stacked

[Bug 837385] Re: hostname from dhcp STILL not set, despite multiple ubuntu fixes and bug reports

2011-08-31 Thread perpetualrabbit
So, adding a file `hostname´ to /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ with this in it: # = begin /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/hostname == if [ -n $new_host_name ] then echo $new_host_name /etc/hostname /bin/hostname $new_host_name fi # = end

[Bug 837385] [NEW] hostname from dhcp STILL not set, despite multiple ubuntu fixes and bug reports

2011-08-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Despite multiple bug reports and attempts at fixes, ubuntu versions maverick and natty do NOT set their hostname from dhcp. See: #537978, #482313, #90388, #476491 Releases: --- maverick: lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.10 Release:

[Bug 837385] [NEW] hostname from dhcp STILL not set, despite multiple ubuntu fixes and bug reports

2011-08-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Despite multiple bug reports and attempts at fixes, ubuntu versions maverick and natty do NOT set their hostname from dhcp. See: #537978, #482313, #90388, #476491 Releases: --- maverick: lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.10 Release:

[Bug 835790] Re: kexec does not work in natty as a kvm guest

2011-08-29 Thread perpetualrabbit
To add why this is important to me: I use a virtualisation host as a platform for distributing images to networked workstations. So I run image machines as guests on the virtualisation host, and run tests of installing those images in other virtual guests. Using pxe, I load a kernel, initrd and

[Bug 835790] [NEW] kexec does not work in natty as a kvm guest

2011-08-27 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: I have not tried running kexec in a real machine yet, so it may not have anything to do with kvm. I can load a kernel and initrd, and several things happen: - sometimes the (virtual) machine just `powers off´ - if that does not happen, it always hangs during boot two

[Bug 672438] Re: cups upstart post-start script hangs forever when local socket is disabled

2011-05-19 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Martin Pitt, I did some more debugging. What I did is try to move a working cups config from a redhat server to a new ubuntu natty server. So I stopped cups, renamed the ubuntu /etc/cups to /etc/cups.ubuntu. The new config dir was /etc/cups.lorentz, and I made a symlink

[Bug 672438] Re: cups upstart post-start script hangs forever when local socket is disabled

2011-05-19 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Martin Pitt I realize my last post could be more clear. What I meant to say is I often make a number of test configs for some service I'm working on. They are in, say, /etc/config.1 /etc/config.2 /etc/config.3. I then switch between them by making a link /etc/config to one of them. This is what

[Bug 672438] Re: cups upstart post-start script hangs forever when local socket is disabled

2011-05-18 Thread perpetualrabbit
I am running a natty narwhal server (fully updated) and I am trying to set up a cups server. The cupsd process does not start. The cups configuration is unaltered. `start cups´ hangs forever. `stop cups´ also hangs forever. I can break with ctrl-c and then `stop cups´ succeeds if I run it a

[Bug 652503] [NEW] Bluetooth applet crashes

2010-09-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Bluetooth applet crashes while trying to connect a bluetooth audio device. Jabra BT8030 Can connect to headset function, but it never works. Cannot connect to audio function, and applet crashes. While being greyed out (using compiz) the desktop is mostly frozen. Can move the

[Bug 652503] Re: Bluetooth applet crashes

2010-09-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
** Attachment added: AcpiTables.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652503/+attachment/1659981/+files/AcpiTables.txt ** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652503/+attachment/1659982/+files/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: AplayDevices.txt

[Bug 652503] Re: Bluetooth applet crashes

2010-09-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
I hope it is not just me who cannot seem to get bluetooth audio working right on ubuntu... -- Bluetooth applet crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 141613] Re: npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV

2010-03-24 Thread perpetualrabbit
That's not a fix. That is called a workaround. The fact is, there are still multiple bug in this 32-in-64 wrapper thing. Because of the severe problems people were having with this, choking up their linux workstations, I banned it from the network altogether. I needed it for acroreader and flash.

Re: [Bug 523188] Re: Make it possible again to let dhcp server set the client hostname

2010-02-20 Thread perpetualrabbit
I will check that next week, time permitting. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Chuck Short chuck.sh...@canonical.com wrote: Thanks for the bug report Ill have a look at this. If possible can you check to see if this is fixed on lucid? Regards chuck ** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)  

Re: [Bug 523188] Re: Make it possible again to let dhcp server set the client hostname

2010-02-20 Thread perpetualrabbit
I will check that next week, time permitting. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Chuck Short chuck.sh...@canonical.com wrote: Thanks for the bug report Ill have a look at this. If possible can you check to see if this is fixed on lucid? Regards chuck ** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)  

[Bug 90388] Re: hostname supplied by dhcp server is not used

2010-02-17 Thread perpetualrabbit
Hello?? It used to work in Hardy!!! Therefore either a newer version of dhcp3-client or network-manager or a change to the default configuration by the ubuntu developers must have caused this to stop working. The ability to centrally manage large numbers of workstations includes the ability to

[Bug 523188] [NEW] Make it possible again to let dhcp server set the client hostname

2010-02-17 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: This is an important option for managed workstations like in universities and such. In Hardy it was perfectly possible to let the dhcpserver set the clients hostname. In the server dhcpd.conf you can set hostnames for the clients like this: host appel {

[Bug 90388] Re: hostname supplied by dhcp server is not used

2010-02-17 Thread perpetualrabbit
Hello?? It used to work in Hardy!!! Therefore either a newer version of dhcp3-client or network-manager or a change to the default configuration by the ubuntu developers must have caused this to stop working. The ability to centrally manage large numbers of workstations includes the ability to

[Bug 523188] [NEW] Make it possible again to let dhcp server set the client hostname

2010-02-17 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: This is an important option for managed workstations like in universities and such. In Hardy it was perfectly possible to let the dhcpserver set the clients hostname. In the server dhcpd.conf you can set hostnames for the clients like this: host appel {

[Bug 479956] [NEW] udev or kernel or both do not properly recognize Mac harddisk when connected via a SATA to USB adapter, while Fedora does.

2009-11-10 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Description: A user came along with a Mac he spilt a drink in, and asked me to copy his harddisk to the network. I have this Serial ATA IDE to USB adapter, from conceptronic, which is a very handy gadget in which you can plug any harddisk and connect it to

[Bug 479956] Re: udev or kernel or both do not properly recognize Mac harddisk when connected via a SATA to USB adapter, while Fedora does.

2009-11-10 Thread perpetualrabbit
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35471581/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35471582/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35471583/Dependencies.txt **

[Bug 19586] Re: When nautilus cannot unmount a media, it must tell why.

2009-02-20 Thread perpetualrabbit
I have another problem with the unmount/mount dialogs in Nautilus, related to the bug. I have a USB stick with four partitions on it. Inserting it in a hardy desktop machine results in the machine mounting these four partitions nicely under /media/disk, /media/disk-1, /media/disk-2,

[Bug 19586] Re: When nautilus cannot unmount a media, it must tell why.

2009-02-19 Thread perpetualrabbit
I totally agree with this issue in fact being a bug. Why? -- Nautilus provides a GUI in order to take things like save mounting/unmounting to preserve filesystem integrity down from system administrator level to everyday user level. I am a system administrator for 70 linux desktop, amongst

[Bug 62195] Re: edgy update-grub destroys kopt

2008-10-21 Thread perpetualrabbit
No worries, I was not trolling. I personally don't want to switch from ubuntu to anything else. It is true however that ubuntu sometimes does things that make sense for the home user, but not for large collections of workstations. This grub bug, or rather decision by ubuntu developers to overrule

[Bug 62195] Re: edgy update-grub destroys kopt

2008-10-16 Thread perpetualrabbit
I use a workstation as an image for a number of other workstations, and install and update those with rsync. So, if I upgrade the image and a new kernel is installed, update-grub is run. This means that the UUID in menu.lst will now be spread by rsync to all those other workstations, rendering

[Bug 156085] Re: Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices

2007-11-18 Thread perpetualrabbit
I have a Trust media center keyboard with builtin trackball. After a reboot, suddenly the trackball responded very sluggish, like with a ball-mouse (not optical I mean) with dirty wheels inside. But it couldn't be dirty yet, it is brand new. I noticed earlier that usbview did not work, but used

Re: [Bug 154366] Re: need word-wrap option

2007-10-24 Thread perpetualrabbit
Hello Alexander, you are right of course. I know it is not a bug, but still I would like to have this word-wrap function to deal with problematic websites, as you say. Please consider this a feature request. Firefox naturally has word-wrapping built-in; I just need an option to apply it to a

[Bug 154366] Re: need word-wrap option

2007-10-19 Thread perpetualrabbit
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10064389/Dependencies.txt -- need word-wrap option https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154366 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 154366] need word-wrap option

2007-10-19 Thread perpetualrabbit
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox In many web pages, such as this one: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-October/002726.html, I encounter sentences with no end-of-line. This results in very long lines, that run out of the viewable window, and I must use the