[Bug 1164809] [NEW] Install formats partitions and copies files before config is conplete

2013-04-04 Thread William Anderson
Public bug reported: when installing Ubuntu 13.04 i386 image downloaded on 4 April 2013, the install asked me what to do with the drive. i choose to keep the existing partitions, but to format the file systems on those drives. The partition manager stated that this action was undoable at this tim

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

2012-05-11 Thread William Anderson
upgraded to new kernel today with update manager. new kernel (version 3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files on encrypted home directory with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-05-11 Thread William Anderson
today updated to new kernel version with the update manager. this new version (3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Ti

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

2012-04-01 Thread William Anderson
This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-04-01 Thread William Anderson
This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

2012-03-12 Thread William Anderson
if space is not pre-allocated the small image file is created with no trouble. this problem has something to do with the writing of big files and have seen this in other applications including dd and transmission. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

2012-03-11 Thread William Anderson
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952489 Title: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.

[Bug 952489] [NEW] process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

2012-03-11 Thread William Anderson
Public bug reported: On my system, several programs that create gigabyte sized files fail. the process allocates around a gigabyte then goes into a state where no more data is written to the disk, but the process consumes 100% of the cpu. this issue first lead to the reporting of bug #925309, whe

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-03-11 Thread William Anderson
This morning I found that there is another kernel upgrade available (3.0.0-16.29, up from 3.0.0-16.28). I installed this kernel and booted up into it with no trouble: william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 12:49:42 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Run

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-14 Thread William Anderson
I have no problem making bug 913787 a duplicate of this one. I think that the major issue regarding that bug is on the Linux Mint distribution which, while it is based on Ubuntu Oneric, is not actually Ubuntu and it is not unreasonable to expect that the Ubuntu team to not want to support it. My

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-13 Thread William Anderson
I noticed that there is a new kernel in the update manager (3.0.0-16-generic). I installed this and booted into it to see if this bug is still an issue with the updated kernel. qemu-img is now running at 100%, i am unable to kill the process, closing the terminal window that the process was run un

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-02 Thread William Anderson
** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.3-rc2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manag

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-02 Thread William Anderson
today i caused this bug to come out when i tried moving one of the big image files into my home directory. same 100% cpu, same unkillable. i downloaded and installed the latest mainline kernel ( 3.3.0-030300rc2-generic-pae), booted up into it with only one issue, my wireless network driver is no

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-02 Thread William Anderson
Hi, Just an added note, running the qemu-img command on a directory that is not encrypted results in a 5gb image file being created so fast that i thought there must have been an error of some sort, but there is a file created. william@ishtar:/home/Books$ qemu-img create -f raw Ubuntu-11.04-deskt

[Bug 925309] [NEW] unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-01 Thread William Anderson
Public bug reported: creating disk images with either VirtualBox or qemu-img causes the process to stop responding and consume 100% of the cpu of one core of the dual core processor. Kill -9 does not effect the process. the only way to stop it is to reboot the computer. i also encountered this wit

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

2012-02-01 Thread William Anderson
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+

[Bug 403130] Re: All my desktop icons were rearranged

2010-01-02 Thread William Anderson
my icon reset experience This issue occurred on my laptop. I think that this is caused by either a corrupt configuration file or by a version upgrade that does not handle the old versions configuration correctly. At this time i think that the former condition is the cause. I upgraded to Ubun

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-11-19 Thread William Anderson
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that this problem came back. It is fixed on my laptop by commenting out the two video quirk entries in the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm- dell.fdi for the Inspiron 8600. At this point running pm-suspend and pm- hibernate from

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-17 Thread William Anderson
I was able to fix this problem by removing all quirk definitions for this laptop in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20 -video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi . By default the -quirk-s3-bios and -quirk-s3-mode were enabled. With both the laptop would freeze at a blank screen with a flashing curs

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-16 Thread William Anderson
Another change, somewhere along the line the sleep/wake system to use, as defined in the file /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module, was changed from the explicit tuxonice to the default kernel system. With the kernel sleep/wake system, the command "sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-bios -quirk-s3-mode" gives th

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-16 Thread William Anderson
Today I found the Free Desktop .org pages describing how the HAL sleep quirks work and how to debug them. http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html I downloaded the quirk checker script and it recommended that I add the broadcom b44 module to the unload_modules file (

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-16 Thread William Anderson
And the kernel.log section. ** Attachment added: "kernel.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25576046/kernel.log -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 361853] [NEW] suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-15 Thread William Anderson
Public bug reported: Suspend fails to wake up on this laptop. Command pm-suspend causes this as does the gnome power manager in response to acpi events such as lid close. Suspend works, screen goes off, disks and fans spin down, power led throbs, pm-suspend.log lists either “success” or “not

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

2009-04-15 Thread William Anderson
** Attachment added: "this is the pm-suspend.log file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502365/pm-suspend.log ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502366/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502367/CurrentDme

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

2008-08-18 Thread William Anderson
I tried installing nvidia-glx-new again on my up-to-date install of Hardy on my XPS m1530. Perhaps rather obviously, it's still not working. Is there going to be any work done on this at all, or do we have to wait for Intrepid Ibex, which IMO would suck. -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

2008-06-15 Thread William Anderson
90 package updates under hardy-proposed? Pass :) -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lis

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

2008-06-15 Thread William Anderson
I'd prefer to see progress being made in updating nvidia-glx-new to use the latest, working drivers than advising on how to manually install them. I have a brand new hardy install on my XPS m1530, and I don't want to sully it with a "hacky" video driver install if I can at all help it! We know th