[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1943434] Re: gnome-shell periodicall becomes extreemely active and eats CPU like crazy

2021-09-13 Thread Colin Ian King
** Attachment added: "ASCII log of health-check analysis" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1943434/+attachment/5524939/+files/health-check-report.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shel

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1943434] [NEW] gnome-shell periodicall becomes extreemely active and eats CPU like crazy

2021-09-13 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: At seemingly random intervals throughout the day gnome-shell becomes very active, the CPU gets very busy and the fans kick in because of the large load. I attached health-check to the busy process for 60 seconds and got the following utilization stats: sudo health-check -p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875767] Re: When operating install/removal with apt, zed floods log and apparently crashes snapshoting

2021-04-07 Thread Colin Ian King
There has been no update on this bug report now for a few months. Closing it. If this is still and issue please re-open and update the report. ** Changed in: zfs-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: zfs-linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1894329] Re: ZFS revert from grub menu not working.

2020-09-08 Thread Colin Ian King
This is a useful workaround, the fundamental issue is a coreutils issue with dd. I wonder if the coreutils maintainers can figure out why dd has an executable stack. ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Importance: Un

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1875767] Re: When operating install/removal with apt, zed floods log and apparently crashes snapshoting

2020-09-02 Thread Colin Ian King
@zsys maintainers, is this anything you can look at, I don't know much about how zsys and zed interact on these kind of zfs on root upgrade snapshots. ** Also affects: zsys (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: zsys (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Didier Roch

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1883887] Re: Focal installer destroyed my datasets

2020-09-01 Thread Colin Ian King
** Also affects: zsys (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: zfs-linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: zsys (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: zsys (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Didier Roche (didrocks) -- You received this bug not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1865236] Re: zsysctl inconsistency in handling snapshots/states

2020-03-27 Thread Colin Ian King
** Also affects: zsys (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: zfs-linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: zsys (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to zsys in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1847765] [NEW] network manager using small timeout polling timeouts

2019-10-11 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to identify wakeup events that cause the CPU to wakeup from idle on a "idle" laptop on Ubuntu Eoan. The good news is that NetworkManager doesn't utilize much CPU when idle, however, it does seem to wakeup from poll()/epool_wait() system calls once every 4-5

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1846779] [NEW] gsd-housekeeping is regularly opening /etc/fstab and the atime update is causing meta data write fluesh

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: gsd-housekeeping is opening /etc/fstab every 60 seconds and because it is being opened without the O_NOATIME flag the access time updates are causing regular meta data flushes. On an idle laptop this can cause the HDD to spin up, flush write and spin down every 60 seconds. Th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1846771] [NEW] gnome-settings-daemon opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds or so

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to figure out why my HDD keeps on flushing metadata out every minute on an idle laptop and discovered that gsd-color opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London on my machine at regular intervals. This causes the access time (atime) to be updated causing a metadat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1846768] Re: gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 60 seconds

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Oh, actually, it was doing 10 accesses in 300 seconds, so it's polling every 30 seconds, higher than I first thought. ** Summary changed: - gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 60 seconds + gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds ** Changed in: gnome-calendar (Ubu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1846768] [NEW] gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/* every 30 seconds

2019-10-04 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to figure out why my HDD keeps on flushing metadata out every minute on an idle laptop and discovered that gnome-calendar opens /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London on my machine every minute. This causes the access time (atime) to be updated causing a metadata f

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1830059] Re: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.6.3 ADT test failure with linux 5.2.0-0.1

2019-06-04 Thread Colin Ian King
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Assignee: Colin Ian King (colin-king) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Won't Fix ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => New -- Yo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1830059] Re: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.6.3 ADT test failure with linux 5.2.0-0.1

2019-06-04 Thread Colin Ian King
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Ian King (colin-king) ** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress -- You received

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1758163] Re: Please remove xchat-gnome from Ubuntu (again)

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Ian King
I deem that it should be removed, it is too much of a maintenance overhead and has way too many issues to be fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xchat-gnome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758163 Title: P

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1627409] [NEW] xbrltty seems to be active even on a totally idle machine

2016-09-24 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I've been trying to figure out what processes are active even on an idle machine to try and save power consuming wake-ups. I attached health- check to the xbrlapi process for 10 minutes on a totally idle machine and observed quite a lot of open/close and socket activity (over

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1271777] Re: cannot type in search or page boxes in evince

2016-07-15 Thread Colin Ian King
This affects me, the search does not work, which is a real pain for large documents of thousands of pages; not being able to search makes the tool unusable for large docs. ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Mediu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1505756] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT

2015-11-16 Thread Colin Ian King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1510970 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510970 Yep, this seems to have fixed things for me. Thanks! ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1510970 Intel driver crashes on Ubuntu 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1505756] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT

2015-11-09 Thread Colin Ian King
This occurs ~10 times a day on me and I'm losing work each time it crashes :-( ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Critical ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subs

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1471029] Re: ELF programs with R_386_RELATIVE blocks are badly mapped into memory

2015-07-23 Thread Colin Ian King
Commit a87938b2e was included in 3.19.0-20.20 (see commit b51621abbcb4694b8d2842ce3a66006a60bba6e5), so perhaps trying this would be the first step to see if that commit fixes things. As it stands, I've checked the heap and stack on a VM image using this kernel and there is now plenty of space for

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1466273] Re: gstreamer fails intermittently

2015-07-06 Thread Colin Ian King
It may be that the process is swapped out, so the delivery of the SIGKILL takes a while for it to be swapped back in and to hence get the signal. To test this hypothesis: a) one could disable swap and see if the process can be delivered the SIGKILL and how quickly it responds to that. However,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1397232] Re: unity-settings-deamon is continually crashing with SIGABRT because of a free on an invalid pointer

2014-11-28 Thread Colin Ian King
Wasn't this code being statically analysed with CoverityScan to avoid this kinds of bugs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397232 Title: unity-settings-de

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1397232] [NEW] unity-settings-deamon is continually crashing with SIGABRT because of a free on an invalid pointer

2014-11-28 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I'm seeing crashes every 24 seconds because of a free on an invalid pointer. Attached is a strace using: strace -v -s 8192 -p $(pidof unity-settings- daemon) -o strace.log This is slowly driving me nuts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: unity-settings-

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376357] [NEW] lightdm writing the same DEBUG message to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log

2014-10-01 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I was trying to figure out where excessive file system writes were coming from on the ubuntu phone (to try to reduce flash writes and hence reduce power consumption) and I spotted that /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log is getting the same debug message written to every every 300

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376358] [NEW] lightdm writing the same DEBUG message to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log

2014-10-01 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I was trying to figure out where excessive file system writes were coming from on the ubuntu phone (to try to reduce flash writes and hence reduce power consumption) and I spotted that /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log is getting the same debug message written to every every 300

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376322] [NEW] telepathy-mission-control is spamming dbus.log with error messages

2014-10-01 Thread Colin Ian King
Public bug reported: I was trying to figure out where excessive file system writes were coming from (to try to reduce flash writes and hence reduce power consumption) and I spotted that the dbus log on my phone is being hit by messages from process 2046: root@ubuntu-phablet:~# ps -ef | grep 2046