Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting#head-dca0372aa8fd490a9717ad0c72c9b400c236a581 .

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-11 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:34 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 10.05.2008 um 11:58 schrieb Sitsofe Wheeler: > > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > > Hardy. > > How would one notice? Is Hardys hibernating/standby still so flaky &

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-11 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 09:48 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Issues with slow-loading GNOME popped up in Gutsy. There's been a lot > of discussion on that bug. It seems the gnome-panel just hangs for a > while opening and closing something. Do you have a link to the discussion? Were things supos

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-11 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 12:53 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > It's curious Fedora 9 showed such poor results compared with Ubuntu (and > compared with Fedora 8), given that they are listing fast Xorg boot as a > feature. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX I wouldn't say it is surpri

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-12 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 03:37 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 08:28 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > Do you have a link to the discussion? Were things suposed to be any > > better in Hardy? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bu

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-17 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Olá Mackenzie e a todos. > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 05:14:51 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> The results of using Bootchart to map the GNOME startup process, for the >> many users that did it, consistently showed gnome-panel as the culprit. > > How does one use boot

Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
This is a quick heads up about a w3m bug that was reported many years ago and has not seen any responses. As w3m is installed by default and the bug has easy steps to reproduce the problem I'm making a last ditch effort to raise the bugs visibility: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/w3m/+b

Re: Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Martin Olsson minimum.se> writes: > > For the first bug I recommend that you upstream it. There is not a lot That's an extremely useful reply and is the sort of information I could have done with a few years ago. I won't follow that suggestion at the moment though as prior to my original post I

Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving things like the mouse pointer in X) and periods of up to half a second where interacti

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 04:28 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:37 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > > noti

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:37 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > Are all of your detected audio devices capable of hardware muxing? Perhaps not the microphone but all output devices are, yes (just the one SBLive sound card). -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the forums as well as within launchpad. One of the more recent version of these reports w

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:27 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:09 +1100, David Dean wrote: > > From memory the "old" way to deal with this was to create a tiny slice > > at the start of the disk, and install boot there - whether the user > > This was the so called "/boot" par

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-08 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Matt, your reply is the best so far - it has addressed every point. On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:08 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Most GRUB failure modes only provide a numeric error code, and so it's > difficult to determine the cause of the issue. You may see many similar > reports, but it isn't n

Ubuntu Policy on binary driver bugs

2007-03-28 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hello, After reading yet another series of threads regarding the NVIDIA binary drivers I would like to ask: "What the Ubuntu position is towards binary driver bugs?". Does Ubuntu take a similar stance to Red Hat whereupon the moment you taint your kernel your bug will be closed and you will be dir

Re: Bug #96084

2007-04-28 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:44 +0100, Michael wrote: > Which prompts the question: why isn't ndiswrapper included in the Feisty CD? Well it's not all that supportable (you are at the mercy of whoever wrote the Windows driver) and doesn't it need the user the extract the Windows driver before it can b

Re: cupsd in infinite loop, feisty amd64 canon

2007-05-13 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:55 +0200, Daniele wrote: > I had a problem with my cups daemon. You might be better off posting your bug report on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ ... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify se

Disabled Intel SATA bug policy (Bug #117314)

2007-06-03 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, The "SATA disk is in PATA mode with kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (piix claiming SATA controller on ICH4/ICH5 Intel chipsets)" aka "the great renaming" ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/117314 ) has been around for a week and it appears that the patch that led

Re: Disabled Intel SATA bug policy (Bug #117314)

2007-06-04 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 11:43 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > > Are people that relabeled their partitions with /dev/h??? syntax (rather > > than UUIDs) going to get notice that things are going back the other &

Re: Disabled Intel SATA bug policy (Bug #117314)

2007-06-04 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Could you point out where this was advocated as a fix? The only > supported configuration for /etc/fstab is using UUID= and LABEL= for all > devices. OK, here's a bug where the reporter advocated a rename to /dev/h??? - https://bugs.

Re: State of cleanup-audio-jumble

2007-07-25 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 01:49 -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 15:15 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > pulseaudio instead. As far as I can see, esd is still used in Feisty > > and I wonder if someone still cares about it. Moreover pulseaudio > > esd will still be used i

SVG Ubuntu logo, Company/Project vector logos

2007-07-29 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I've just stumbled across this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Ubuntu_Logo.svg on Wikipedia which is debating whether the Ubuntu SVG logo should be pulled. It would be good if someone from Ubuntu could weigh in on this one. Additionally I just made this SVG Brief Logo Guide detailing

gvim menu icon is hidden

2007-08-12 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Over in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/3222 there is a bug concerning gvim and it's hidden by default menu icon. I feel this change is unnecessary because gvim is not installed by default and so long as its desktop item is only installed when gvim is there is no harm. Additional

Thinkpad T60 power usage

2007-09-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I've been sitting on some power results for a while because I haven't had time to tidy them up but by posting them perhaps they will turn out to be useful to someone. This email is quite long and the results are somewhat raw and in no particular order. Rough conclusions are at the end. On Linux I

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:46 +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > I once reported a bug about this, but Justin Wray suggested that I > discuss this on a mailing list, first. Curious. I filed a bug about disabling periodic fscks (as most other operating system like Windows 95 and above along with OSX

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 20:13 +0200, Thilo Six wrote: > There are two parts of computer users. > The first one do backups, and second ones never had a harddisc > failure. Here's a variation on your theme. There are three types of people in the world: Those who don't do backups. Those who do backups.

Re: Spelling library consolidation

2008-02-04 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:11 +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: > I've just discovered an old blueprint on Launchpad[0] and the > corresponding wiki page[1], that Ubuntu was planning to consolidate I also filed a bug alluding to this a few years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffi

Launchpad bug retesting

2008-03-20 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Many bugs reported turn out to be "hit and run" reports where something is filed and never followed up. As such it is good that bugs are aggressively closed where possibly to prevent launchpad cluttering up. Unfortunately there are scenarios where this becomes problematic. These days I see people