[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2012-10-21 Thread Chad Hogg
OK, I've changed the status to Invalid. Not because it is not a bug, and not because it was not confirmed by several people, one of whom is willing to keep testing it, but because I personally cannot take the time to test it right now. It would have been nice if I had not lost the interest of the

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2012-10-21 Thread Chad Hogg
As Nate pointed out, I no longer have an Ubuntu installation to test with, and I do not have a spare partition available for one either. I could test some live CD's, but since Nate has exactly the same issue on exactly the same hardware and has already tested both the current release and the upstr

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-09-06 Thread Chad Hogg
He was referring to merge 2f2c779583e9646097b57599f8efeb8eca7bd654 being the last one before a series of kernels that would not even successfully boot on my hardware (and presumably yours as well). That is useful information, but not that useful since whatever was broken in that series has already

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-09-06 Thread Chad Hogg
Unfortunately, I am no longer able to participate in testing. After losing John Johansen's interest, I overwrote my Ubuntu installation with Debian Stable. Whether this will be an issue for them as well once they adopt a more modern kernel remains to be seen. -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-08-10 Thread Chad Hogg
So ... have we given up? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-27 Thread Chad Hogg
Neither release candidate boots, but kernel #41 does (and is GOOD). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-26 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #40 does not boot. Release candidates 7 and 8 are not in your www directory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notificatio

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-22 Thread Chad Hogg
Every one of them fails to boot on my system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.l

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-19 Thread Chad Hogg
rc3 has a brand new failure mode: early in the boot process the screen goes completely black and stays that way permanently. I can attach a dmesg log from it if you would like. /me weeps. The rebuild of kernel #35 is still GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-19 Thread Chad Hogg
Neither rc3 nor the rebuild of kernel #35 are actually at that location on the webserver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifi

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-18 Thread Chad Hogg
You might think that, but you would be incorrect. Kernel #39 is untestable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-17 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #38 panics at boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-16 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #37 is also untestable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-16 Thread Chad Hogg
I have only more frustration for you: kernel #36 is untestable (same as #6, #11, #16, #21). Back when I was trying this myself, I recall reading "but git may eventually be unable to tell the first bad commit among a bad commit and one or more skipped commits" in the documentation. Perhaps that is

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-15 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #35 is GOOD. I suppose that constant branching and merging has some major benefits in development, but it certainly makes this difficult. If there were a linear series of commits, 18 tests would have been sufficient to find an offender among the entire 235277 commits that I am seeing in th

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-14 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #34 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-13 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #33 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-13 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #32 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-11 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #31 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-07 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #30 is BAD. Maybe we are actually getting somewhere! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-07 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #29 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-06 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #28 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-06 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #27 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-06 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #26 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-05 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #25 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-05 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #24 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-04 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #23 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-04 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #22 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-04 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #21 is untestable, like #6, #11, and #16 before it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: h

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-03 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #20 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-07-01 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #19 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-30 Thread Chad Hogg
Actually, I think there was something wrong in your last bisection. Prior to kernel #18, we knew the problem was introduced no earlier than e7ee762cf074b0fd8eec483d0cef8fdbf0d04b81 (Sep 24, 2010) and no later than f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f (Oct 20, 2010). Your post claims that kerne

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-30 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #18 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-29 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #17 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-29 Thread Chad Hogg
Kernel #16 is untestable, like #6 and #11 before it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-28 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #15 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-28 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #14 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-27 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #13 is GOOD. If it's not too much trouble, with future ones would you mind posting what revision they are based on? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowne

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-25 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #12 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-24 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #11 fails to boot, in the same way that test #6 did. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: ht

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-23 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #10 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-23 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #9 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-23 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #8 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-22 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #7 is GOOD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-22 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #6 does not panic, but it does not boot either. Rather, it seems to stop in its tracks after "CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 37968 nseclock script 1" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #5 is GOOD. (With the same caveat.) I understand completely; if most commits did not need to be skipped, I would have continued doing this myself. (Are there no consequences to breaking the build other than the piles of dead kittens?) -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Hogg
Test #4 is GOOD. (Well, except that neither it nor test #2 seem to recognize my wireless networking hardware.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Hogg
The third test kernel is bad (boots, but exhibits the bug). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Hogg
I am pleased to report that this one boots and does *NOT* exhibit the bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793437 Title: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8 To manage notifications about t

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-15 Thread Chad Hogg
That kernel panics at boot time. It does not write anything to /var/log, so I am attempting to transcribe the last part of the screendump here: RIP [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x6e/0x140 RSP ---[ end trace 0005c10720098185 ]--- general protection fault: [#8] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/LNXS

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-12 Thread Chad Hogg
I installed the 2.6.38-02063808.201106040910_amd64 mainline kernel following instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds/, and found that the bug persists there as well. Following that, I performed a manual binary-ish search between the newest kernel known to work and the oldes

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-07 Thread Chad Hogg
I ran a test of my own devising, in which I wrote a trivial C program that calculates the square of a number using a quadratic algorithm, built it, and ran it under both the old and new kernels. Here are the results: [2.6.35-28 kernel] chad@siga-asus:~/temp/testing$ time ./a.out 2 The square

[Bug 793437] [NEW] Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-06 Thread Chad Hogg
Public bug reported: After upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04, I found that my system ran several orders of magnitude more slowly. For example, as part of my debugging process I removed and reinstalled the proprietary nVidia drivers. Running `sudo aptitude remove nvidia-current` in a gnome-terminal re

[Bug 793437] Re: Unusable Slowness In 2.6.38-8

2011-06-06 Thread Chad Hogg
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[Bug 585462] Re: random interface freeze

2010-05-29 Thread Chad Hogg
It looks likely that you were correct in marking this as specific to Nouveau. After switching to the proprietary Nvidia driver I have had 48 hours of uptime with no issues. Thus, I no longer have a personal stake in seeing this bug fixed. However, if there is any further specific data I could co

[Bug 585462] Re: random interface freeze

2010-05-25 Thread Chad Hogg
It does not appear to be to me. My problem did not present with memory issues, and the file /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/gem_names contains only the header line. -- random interface freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585462 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 585462] Re: random interface freeze

2010-05-25 Thread Chad Hogg
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49083628/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49083629/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49083630/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 585462] [NEW] random interface freeze

2010-05-25 Thread Chad Hogg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg I have used 9.10 and earlier releases on this hardware daily with no problems, but after an upgrade to 10.04 I experience the following problem once for every several hours that I use the machine. There is no specific trigger that causes it. The sy

[Bug 259798] [NEW] Audacity silently truncates export when disk full

2008-08-20 Thread Chad Hogg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: audacity If there is insufficient disk space when exporting a project to WAV, Audacity will simply write as much as there is space available and report that the export was successful. It should instead inform the user that the export failed. This occurs