[Bug 1307794] Re: CPU frequency scaling not available

2014-04-23 Thread Colin King
The firmware does not supply the _PSS (Performance Supported States) object that informs the kernel the supported processor performance states of the system.This explains why cpu scaling does not work for any kernel you chose. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1294669] Re: bash crashed with SIGABRT in programming_error()

2014-04-24 Thread Colin King
Tested with bash 4.3-7ubuntu1, and I can't reproduce the issue now, hence fixed for me. Thanks! ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1246947] Re: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 0.26.08-0ubuntu1: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms kernel module failed to build

2014-03-27 Thread Colin King
I fail to see why this is a fwts bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246947 Title: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 0.26.08-0ubuntu1: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms kernel module failed to build To ma

[Bug 1297670] Re: [Dell XPS13 9333] klog, method: Critical Failures

2014-03-27 Thread Colin King
This "Detected error 'Type'" issues is now fixed in fwts 14.03.01 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297670 Title: [Dell XPS13 9333] klog, method: Critical Failures To manage notificati

[Bug 1294669] Re: bash crashed with SIGABRT in programming_error()

2014-03-27 Thread Colin King
Yes, that's a reproducer for me too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1294669 Title: bash crashed with SIGABRT in programming_error() To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 1294669] Re: bash crashed with SIGABRT in programming_error()

2014-03-27 Thread Colin King
so it appears the ! token is the culprit at a guess: ps = {parser_state = 524288, token_state = 0x1629768, token = 0x11f4008 "!", token_buffer_size = 1520, input_line_terminator = 0, eof_encountered = 0, prompt_string_pointer = 0x6fc920 , current_command_line_count = 0, remember_on_history = 1,

[Bug 1234289] Re: accounts-daemon is progressively causing more wakeups over time

2014-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234289 Title: accounts-daemon is progressively causing more wakeups over tim

[Bug 1199877] Re: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage

2014-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage To manage

[Bug 1227000] Re: update-notifier is polling every 5 seconds

2014-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-consumption Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1227000 Title: update-notifier is polling every 5 seconds To manage notifica

[Bug 1300722] [NEW] hud-service is eating up 100% of one of my CPUs in a pool loop

2014-04-01 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: hud-service is polling like crazy: Context Switches: PID ProcessVoluntary Involuntary Total Ctxt Sw/Sec Ctxt Sw/Sec Ctxt Sw/Sec 2295 hud-service 46084.6342.94 46127.58 (very high) 2325 hud-se

[Bug 1300722] Re: hud-service is eating up 100% of one of my CPUs in a pool loop

2014-04-01 Thread Colin King
Hi Pete, how do I look that up? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1300722 Title: hud-service is eating up 100% of one of my CPUs in a pool loop To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1300722] Re: hud-service is eating up 100% of one of my CPUs in a pool loop

2014-04-01 Thread Colin King
What I am seeing is the following poll: poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, 18813) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLIN}]) poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, 18813) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLIN}]) poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, 18813) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLIN}]) write(3, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8)

[Bug 962947] Re: CPU scaled back to very slow speed, cannot increase speed

2012-04-20 Thread Colin King
Can you supply the ACPI dump when it gets stuck in a lower CPU frequency state too? It does seem curious, but the "faster" CPU configuration does not supply the _PSS in the tables, which is what was originally limiting the CPU speed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 509180] Re: ecryptfs sometimes seems to add trailing garbage to encrypted files

2012-04-20 Thread Colin King
@JD Rogers, the relevant fix is in Oneiric, commit 3aeb86ea4cd15f728147a3bd5469a205ada8c767, so perhaps you are seeing another related issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180 Title

[Bug 971886] Re: QA: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

2012-04-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971886 Title: QA: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict- aliasi

[Bug 859568] Re: fwts: method test could give references to ACPI specification when it detects non-compliant AML

2012-04-23 Thread Colin King
** Summary changed: - fwts: method test could give references to ACPI specifcation when it detects non-compliant AML + fwts: method test could give references to ACPI specification when it detects non-compliant AML -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 509180] Re: ecryptfs sometimes seems to add trailing garbage to encrypted files

2012-04-01 Thread Colin King
@Adam, it was verified for 2.6.38-14.58, which was in proposed at the time of testing. Check that you are using this kernel before filing a new bug. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 883441] Re: Kernel 3.0 (11.10 default kernel) won't boot unless acpi=off, worked fine with the default kernels of the 3 previous releases

2012-04-02 Thread Colin King
I've submitted this patch to the mailing list to be applied for Precise and as a SRU for Oneiric. For the Oneiric SRU I'd like it tested and verified so that we can be 100% it does the trick, so can somebody test this for us? I've put the kernel .debs at: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/lp-88344

[Bug 883441] Re: Kernel 3.0 (11.10 default kernel) won't boot unless acpi=off, worked fine with the default kernels of the 3 previous releases

2012-04-02 Thread Colin King
Oneiric SRU Justification: Impact: commit 64b3db22c04586997ab4be46dd5a5b99f8a2d390 (2.6.39), "Remove use of unreliable FADT revision field" caused a regression for old P4 systems because now cst_control and other fields are not reset to 0. The effect is that acpi_processor_power_init wil

[Bug 885744] Re: pathconf() does not reflect reality

2012-04-02 Thread Colin King
verified on lucid 2.6.32-41.88 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs lower file systems. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-lucid ** Tags added: verification-done-lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 745836] Re: encrypted swap corrupts application stack/heap [was: soffice.bin SIGSEGV cppu::throwException()]

2012-04-02 Thread Colin King
verified on lucid 2.6.32-41.88 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs lower file systems ** Tags removed: verification-needed-lucid ** Tags added: verification-done-lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.laun

[Bug 987840] Re: [HP-Pavilion-g6] hangs during suspend

2012-04-24 Thread Colin King
Can you edit /etc/default/grub and change: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash no_console_suspend" then run sudo update-grub and reboot. Then change to a virtual console (e.g. press Ctrl-Alt-F1) and login. Then run: sudo pm-suspend and see an

[Bug 987840] Re: [HP-Pavilion-g6] hangs during suspend

2012-04-24 Thread Colin King
last line should have read: "and see if an oops message appears on the console, if it does, can you take a photo..." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987840 Title: [HP-Pavilion-g6] han

[Bug 987840] Re: [HP-Pavilion-g6] hangs during suspend

2012-04-24 Thread Colin King
@Parameswaran, just to confirm, with "no_console_suspend" you are now able to successfully suspend/resume from the destktop and using "sudo pm-suspend"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/9

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-24 Thread Colin King
@Brendan, can I get access to this machine so I can debug it further? Also, we haven't got anything like powernap running during theses tests have we? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 987840] Re: [HP-Pavilion-g6] hangs during suspend

2012-04-24 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987840 Title: [HP-Pavilion-g6] hangs during suspend To man

[Bug 988252] Re: Launcher missing after desktop install

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Just to add, I'm seeing the same issue (no launcher on an external monitor in mirror mode) on two machines: Dell Inspiron 1501 (AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50, ATI RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] and also Dell Inspiron 6400 (Intel Core 2 T5200), ATI M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] -- You recei

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
So this bug isn't a kernel issue at all. the culprit is the following script: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~checkbox- dev/checkbox/trunk/view/head:/scripts/cpu_offlining This offlines CPU1, and then tries to grep for cpu1 in /proc/interrupts for some reason that completely escapes me at the moment

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Just to say, this is one of those issues where bailing out of a situation early without restoring the state gets us in one big hole. The script offlines a CPU, then bails out. When detecting any error condition, code should try to restore back to the proper pre-test state where possible, e.g. on-

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Back to comment #1, offlining and already offlined CPU is giving you an invalid argument error. Likewise, onlining and already onlined CPU will do the same. The semantics of the interface may have changed between releases, but I don't think we should class this as a bug since these interfaces do

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
My intuition is telling me once we have the script fixed it won't be offlining CPU1 and bailing out and hence we won't see this problem. Lets get the script sorted out and then re-test. Incidentally, the semantics of the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online are such that offlining an already offlin

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
@Brendan, ping me when you have some results, I will dig into this deeper if we trip the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926136 Title: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and I

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Just for the record, I think the test script needs some more bullet- proofing. 1. The echos to /sys/devices/system/cpu/$cpu_num/online should be followed by checks afterwards to make sure EINVAL errors aren't returned by the kernel. Just a simple bit of sanity checking can't harm. 2. It is wo

[Bug 988517] [NEW] oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon died message

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Installing today's ISO image, following the OEM installation guide "Install (OEM setup) in Ubuntu Desktop amd64 for Precise Pre-release" on a HP Mini 210 netbook, testcase: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem On test case ID: uoi-003 "End user selection" I enter

[Bug 988517] Re: oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon died message

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
I was able to close this error dialog box, and then I got the normal login prompt and was able to login correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988517 Title: oem-config-remove-gtk:

[Bug 988517] Re: oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon died message

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Tried to reproduce on Dell6400, can't seem to easily reproduce this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988517 Title: oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon died message To manage notifications a

[Bug 988517] Re: oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon died message

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
Still cannot reproduce on HPMini210 after several more attempts. Looks like a sporadic low occurrence bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988517 Title: oem-config-remove-gtk: daemon d

[Bug 926136] Re: CPU1 on Dell PowerEdge M610, R715 and IBM X3500 M3 goes offline after exercising frequency governors

2012-04-25 Thread Colin King
@Brendan the reason why it fails on machines with 10 or more CPUs is because one is grep'ing for cpu1 which matches on CPU10, CPU11, CPU12, CPU13, CPU14, CPU15 on the 16 CPU machine. So the script is broken. It looks like /proc/interrupts CPU* headed columns end with trailing spaces, so we could b

[Bug 988799] Re: Precise freezes under heavy i/o

2012-04-26 Thread Colin King
Couple of questions to get an idea about your machine: 1 which tools are you using to create a VM, and how. 2. how fast is your HDD? use the following and run 3 times, please supply the results to the bug. sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda sudo hdparm -T /dev/sda 3. Please run: vmstat 1 > vmstat.log a

[Bug 988799] Re: Precise freezes under heavy i/o

2012-04-26 Thread Colin King
So, I suspect we have some conflicting requirements for the I/O operations which aren't helping here. If you are running firefox I suspect it may be issuing occasional fsync() calls which isn't helping. My current hypothesis is that the virtual memory tuneables may need tweaking to match your mem

[Bug 988799] Re: Precise freezes under heavy i/o

2012-04-26 Thread Colin King
d in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988799 Title:

[Bug 988799] Re: Precise freezes under heavy i/o

2012-04-26 Thread Colin King
OK, so I hadn't realized the machine was a desktop, hence the vm settings are fairly low anyhow, so we shall scrub that idea above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988799 Title: Precis

[Bug 988799] Re: Precise freezes under heavy i/o

2012-04-26 Thread Colin King
Can you try: echo "deadline" | sudo tee /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler and see if that helps with interactivity while doing the heavy write I/O activity. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 885744] Re: pathconf() does not reflect reality

2012-04-02 Thread Colin King
verified on oneiric 3.0.0-18.31 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs lower file systems. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-oneiric ** Tags added: verification-done-oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 951049] Re: Lenovo T410 is overheating and shutting down

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
@Amber, can you next try: I understand you did a recent upgrade from Oneiric to Precise. It would be useful if we can see if this issue occurs running Precise but with the older Oneiric kernels. If you can boot your machine and press shift down at boot time to get the one grub boot menu and then

[Bug 953205] Re: System shuts down due to CPU temp exceeding critical thresh-hold (100C)

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
Tony, so a couple of things: Can you boot with a Oneiric kernel and see if these issues re-occur and let me know, I just want to first factor out the kernel from the changes. Also can you also do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/powermanagement sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install

[Bug 953205] Re: System shuts down due to CPU temp exceeding critical thresh-hold (100C)

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
Oops, typo, should be: sudo tp-thermstat 1 > thermstat.log & ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 953205] Re: System shuts down due to CPU temp exceeding critical thresh-hold (100C)

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
@Tony, since the tp-thermstat gathers data on running processes, you may want to email the data to me rather than put it in a public bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953205 Title:

[Bug 926292] Re: automake distdir.test fails because of an EPERM error

2012-03-13 Thread Colin King
Verified with ecryptfs lower on ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs for Oneiric -proposed. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-oneiric ** Tags added: verification-done-oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

Re: [Bug 917210] Re: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system

2012-03-14 Thread Colin King
On 14/03/12 07:36, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Sigh. It looks like some new regression is in Unity 5 compared to Unity > 4. The fix for the autoscroll timer still works, but it doesn't get the > number of wakeups per second much lower than 40. But that's a different > issue... > I *really* appreciate

[Bug 885744] Re: pathconf() does not reflect reality

2012-03-14 Thread Colin King
SRU justification: Impact: statfs() calls on eCryptfs files returned the wrong filesystem type and, when using filename encryption, the wrong maximum filename length. If mount-wide filename encryption is enabled, the cipher block size and the lower filesystem's max filename length will determine

[Bug 955287] Re: Ubuntu should handle "hot" CPUs by taking preemptive action and warning users

2012-03-15 Thread Colin King
oops, made a typo, make the thermal parameter: thermal.tzp=10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955287 Title: Ubuntu should handle "hot" CPUs by taking preemptive action and warning u

[Bug 955287] Re: Ubuntu should handle "hot" CPUs by taking preemptive action and warning users

2012-03-15 Thread Colin King
"However, the kernel seems to emit an ACPI event when it detects the CPU(s) are merely "hot". I suggest we consider adding an acpi hook to attempt to avoid a "critical" scenario." In fact, I suspect the kernel *will* emit a critical thermal event, but the temperature zips past this threshold and t

[Bug 745836] Re: encrypted swap corrupts application stack/heap [was: soffice.bin SIGSEGV cppu::throwException()]

2012-03-16 Thread Colin King
SRU justification for Lucid: Impact: The ECRYPTFS_NEW_FILE crypt_stat flag is set upon creation of a new eCryptfs file. When the flag is set, eCryptfs reads directly from the lower filesystem when bringing a page up to date. This means that no offset translation (for the eCryptfs file metadata in

[Bug 745836] Re: encrypted swap corrupts application stack/heap [was: soffice.bin SIGSEGV cppu::throwException()]

2012-03-16 Thread Colin King
+ SRU for Maverick too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745836 Title: encrypted swap corrupts application stack/heap [was: soffice.bin SIGSEGV cppu::throwException()] To manage noti

[Bug 955287] Re: Ubuntu should handle "hot" CPUs by taking preemptive action and warning users

2012-03-16 Thread Colin King
@James, if you can email me the logs you get with tp-thermstat I can still analyze them and spot any dubious looking fan control characteristics. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955287 T

[Bug 400443] Re: ecryptfs_read_lower errors

2012-02-15 Thread Colin King
Note: SRU for Ubuntu Lucid ** Project changed: linux => ubuntu ** No longer affects: ubuntu ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 932987] [NEW] lucid: ban stacking ecryptfs over ecryptfs

2012-02-15 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Ubuntu Lucid: SRU Justification: Stacking ecryptfs over ecryptfs can lead to many kinds of errors. There doesn't seem to be any good usecase for this and we should follow the upstream policy of disallowing the configuration. Fix: Without the fix, we can stack ecryptfs over

[Bug 451368] Re: ecryptfs_truncate should not call vmtruncate on lower inode

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
SRU Justification: When truncating inodes in the lower filesystem, eCryptfs directly invoked vmtruncate(). As Christoph Hellwig pointed out, vmtruncate() is a filesystem helper function, but filesystems may need to do more than just a call to vmtruncate(). eCryptfs needs to go through notify_chan

[Bug 451368] Re: ecryptfs_truncate should not call vmtruncate on lower inode

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
Attached is a truncate soak tester. ** Attachment added: "Soak test source" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/451368/+attachment/2745474/+files/test.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 719691] Re: ecryptfs returns EINVAL rather than EISDIR on read() on directory

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
SRU Justification: Impact: Read on an ecryptfs directory should return EISDIR if not supported however currently EINVAL is being returned rather than EISDIR. Fix: With this patch a .read operation for ecryptfs directories is connected up to generic_read_dir() which then performs the correct behav

[Bug 934187] [NEW] gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory

2012-02-17 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: If I take a screen shot using Print Screen and I don't have a /home/$USER/Pictures directory I get a crash pop-up saying "Sorry, Screenshot closed unexpectedly". I'm confused - the old mechanism allowed me to save the image, but now it's being dumped in a directory not of my

[Bug 934187] Re: gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory

2012-02-17 Thread Colin King
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934187 Title: gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubun

[Bug 934187] Re: gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory

2012-02-17 Thread Colin King
Hi Sam, thanks, however, I'm still flagging up the main issue which is: "If I take a screen shot using Print Screen and I don't have a /home/$USER/Pictures directory I get a crash pop-up saying "Sorry, Screenshot closed unexpectedly"." I'm pretty sure checking if a directory exists is better tha

Re: [Bug 934187] Re: gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory

2012-02-18 Thread Colin King
On 17/02/12 22:32, Sam_ wrote: > Agree, though I think when 927952 solves the root cause which introduced > exactly the deliberate move to pictures directory, then there won't be a > reason to crash. The issue currently is that user has no interactive > mode to select from a dialog where to save th

[Bug 676997] [NEW] Volume keys don't function - mapped to WMI events and requires driver support

2010-11-18 Thread Colin King
Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- Volume keys

[Bug 677525] [NEW] Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process

2010-11-19 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client My colleague shared a folder so I could write to it on Ubuntu One. I started copying a lot of files to this shared folder and then the folder got unshared. After this I was unabled to re-sync and I had to kill my ubuntuone processes and

[Bug 677525] Re: Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process

2010-11-19 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client My colleague shared a folder so I could write to it on Ubuntu One. I - started coping a lot of files to this shared folder and then the folder + started copying a lot of files to this shared folder and then the folder got uns

[Bug 677525] Re: Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process

2010-11-19 Thread Colin King
Also, when I touched (created) files in the shared folder I got conflict files. Is this a feature? -- Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677525 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 677525] Re: Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process

2010-11-19 Thread Colin King
Attached: Logs ** Attachment added: "gzip'd tar of logs" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-client/+bug/677525/+attachment/1738403/+files/logs.tar.gz -- Client stopped working when copying files to another users shared folder which got unshared during the copying process ht

[Bug 309493] Re: Thinkpad T60 high pitch noise Ubuntu 8.10 under no load

2010-11-20 Thread Colin King
I believe the noise is the micro capacitors charging/discharging. It's a physical characteristic of the machines. It's not a kernel bug. -- Thinkpad T60 high pitch noise Ubuntu 8.10 under no load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309493 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 676997] Re: Volume keys don't function - mapped to WMI events and requires driver support

2010-12-09 Thread Colin King
SRU: Impact: Dell device is lacking volume up/down hotkeys which require a WMI driver to handle the WMI hotkey events with the GUID 284A0E6B-380E-472A-921F-E52786257FB4. Fix: Update WMI core driver to support multiple WMI events with the same GUID, and add in WMI driver for the two up/down volume

[Bug 676997] Re: Volume keys don't function - mapped to WMI events and requires driver support

2010-12-09 Thread Colin King
Downloaded the propose i386 generic kernel, tested, works fine. ** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676997 Title: Vo

[Bug 701530] [NEW] Volume keys don't function - mapped to WMI events and requires driver support

2011-01-11 Thread Colin King
nd to key presses: event ID: 0xc0 (key-up) event ID: 0xc1 (key-down). ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed i

[Bug 701530] Re: Volume keys don't function - mapped to WMI events and requires driver support

2011-01-11 Thread Colin King
SRU request: Impact: Dell device is lacking volume up/down hotkeys which require a WMI driver to handle the WMI hotkey events with the GUID 02314822-307C-4F66-bf0E-48AEAEB26CC8. Fix: Update dell WMI driver to support GUID 02314822-307C-4F66-bf0E-48AEAEB26CC8. and handle firmware bug in _WED meth

[Bug 701843] [NEW] Newer version 0.20.19 of fwts available

2011-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fwts A newer version 0.20.19 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-firmware-test- suite-natty-stable/+packages These changes include: 1. tighter integrations of the ACPICA asse

[Bug 701843] Re: Newer version 0.20.19 of fwts available

2011-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "debdiff between V0.20.10 and V0.20.19" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/+bug/701843/+attachment/1791793/+files/debdiff-0.20.10-0.20.19 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: fwts A newer version 0.20.19 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool i

[Bug 701843] Re: Newer version 0.20.19 of fwts available

2011-01-12 Thread Colin King
. ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 701843] Re: Newer version 0.20.19 of fwts available

2011-01-13 Thread Colin King
@Felix, thanks for sorting this out and also the spotting those two mistakes - I appreciate your attention to detail. Colin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701843 Title: Newer version

[Bug 684058] [NEW] Newer version 0.20.00 of fwts available

2010-12-02 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fwts A newer version 0.20.0 of the fwts tools is now available: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-firmware-test- suite-natty-stable/+packages This contains most of the new functionality that I was intending to implement for the N

[Bug 684073] [NEW] Natty OEM liveCD install - no install icon on desktop

2010-12-02 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: ISO test, image: Ubuntu Desktop amd64 [20101202]: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/info/4860 Created USB stick image from ISO, tried the following test case: Test: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem Ubiquity OEM Install Case ID: uoi-001 1. Start your ma

[Bug 684073] Re: Natty OEM liveCD install - no install icon on desktop

2010-12-02 Thread Colin King
Just to note, I was using a non-3D accelerated graphics system, so I got by default the "Classic Desktop" and not a "Unity desktop". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684073 Title: Natty

[Bug 684073] Re: Natty OEM liveCD install - no install icon on desktop

2010-12-02 Thread Colin King
Attached, casper.log ** Attachment added: "casper.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/684073/+attachment/1753187/+files/casper.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684073 Tit

[Bug 673422] Re: fwts: --stdout-summary reports aborted tests as failed

2010-12-03 Thread Colin King
Fixed in commit cf313a17617081bbe9c9c177d38405b0490aed30, in fwts version 0.19.16 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (c

[Bug 684663] [NEW] fwts: fix powerPC and ARM FTBFS

2010-12-03 Thread Colin King
truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `AcpiOsSignalSemaphore' defined in .text section in ../src/lib/src/libtestsuite.a(acpica.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Pro

[Bug 684663] Re: fwts: fix powerPC and ARM FTBFS

2010-12-03 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.20.3 of the fwts tools is now available which addresses this bug and contains some more features+fixes. https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-firmware-test- suite-natty-stable/+packages Can this be uploaded for me? Thanks. -- You received this bug notificat

[Bug 684663] Re: fwts: fix powerPC and ARM FTBFS

2010-12-03 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684663 Title: fwts: fix powerPC and ARM FTBFS -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubu

[Bug 638783] [NEW] fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test

[Bug 638783] Re: fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
Fix in http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=cking/fwts/.git;a=commit;h=5539dfef34b77f9df35805fa10cd80682b1ad995 -- fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 638783] Re: fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.18.4 of the fwts tool is now available to fix this bug. 0.18.4 also includes a single character typo fix in cpufreq test. https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-firmware-test- suite/+sourcepub/1294539/+listing-archive-extra Can this be uploaded? Thanks -- f

[Bug 627959] Re: fwts FADT test is not checking correct table from /sys/firmware

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
Oops, please ignore my recent sponsorship request. My mistake on wrong bug. -- fwts FADT test is not checking correct table from /sys/firmware https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627959 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 638783] Re: fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
Sorry, I accidentally subscribed Ubuntu Security Sponsors by an incorrect click. Apologies. -- fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 638783] Re: fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
Hi Stefano, Couple of questions, excuse my ignorance here: 1. Pretty minimal diff, no problem. However it doesn't close this bug with the correct syntax. Fixed in upload. What does "it doesn't close this bug with the correct syntax" mean? Can you explain a little more? 2. Can I suggest that you

Re: [Bug 638783] Re: fwts nx test (test 3) reports incorrect CPU number when test fails

2010-09-15 Thread Colin King
Thanks, my sincere apologies for that mistake. Is this now acceptable?: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=cking/fwts/.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;h=d9452886a66ee759fad3bcec830b7c0d5bb6e3b3;hb=HEAD On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:35 +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Re the bug closing, I corrected this for

[Bug 1234743] Re: omapfb module floods system with udev events on samsung galaxy nexus

2013-10-18 Thread Colin King
[Test case] 1. Install the updated package on an x86 system. 2. Reboot. 3. Confirm that the machine boots successfully. Check on Lenovo x220. Works OK. Passed. 4. Install the updated package on a non-maguro arm system. 5. Reboot. 6. Confirm that the machine boots successfully. Checked on LG Nexu

[Bug 1242812] [NEW] ext4 random block I/O write performance regression with 3.11 Saucy Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Colin King
~10-20% faster than the non-fixed kernel. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium **

[Bug 1242812] Re: ext4 random block I/O write performance regression with 3.11 Saucy Kernel

2013-10-22 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242812 Title: ext4 random block I/O write performance regression with 3.11 Sa

[Bug 1231531] [NEW] accounts-daemon is polling frequenly on phablet images

2013-09-26 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Running today's image on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus I am observing frequent regular periodic polling by accounts-daemon on an idle system. Running strace on it I see: poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}], 2, 537) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12270

[Bug 1231585] [NEW] ubuntuappmanager has a thread that is polling at 2Hz

2013-09-26 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Using today's phablet image on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus I observed that one of the threads of ubuntuappmanager is polling every 500ms. I am filing this bug in a vain attempt to try and reduce system wakeups and hence reduce battery consumption. Tracing this with strace, I see:

[Bug 1231854] [NEW] Sync eventstat 0.01.27-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2013-09-27 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Please sync eventstat 0.01.27-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) Changelog entries since current saucy version 0.01.26-1: eventstat (0.01.27-1) unstable; urgency=low * Makefile: bump version * eventstat: fix kernel thread detection issue (LP: #1226787) -- Colin

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