[Bug 1021676] [NEW] fwts: dmi_decode test errors are too terse for CERT and we need more advice text to help them understand the error message

2012-07-06 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The dmi_decode test is really pleasantly pedantic, and outputs quite terse error messages. Unfortunately I'm getting loads of requests about errors and I need to keep on clarifying what the errors mean. We should probably add loads more advice text which adds some context t

[Bug 1021676] Re: fwts: dmi_decode test errors are too terse for CERT and we need more advice text to help them understand the error message

2012-07-06 Thread Colin King
** Package changed: fwts (Ubuntu) => fwts ** Changed in: fwts Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021676 Title: fwts: dmi_decode test errors are too terse

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-07-09 Thread Colin King
I've discussed the older patch with upstream and we now have a patch that has landed upstream that may fix the u300 suspend/resume issue, so I was wondering if somebody would test it to see if it fixes it. Updated kernels can be found in: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/lp-904261/v2/ If this does

[Bug 1022500] Re: ext4 d_off values too high

2012-07-10 Thread Colin King
It seems that the following commit changed the dir name hash: commit d1f5273e9adb40724a85272f248f210dc4ce919a Author: Fan Yong Date: Sun Mar 18 22:44:40 2012 -0400 ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type Traditionally ext2/3/4 has returned a 32-bit

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-07-11 Thread Colin King
Thanks Peter, I will start the SRU process with this fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904261 Title: Lenovo U300s does not suspend To manage notifications about this bug go to: htt

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-07-11 Thread Colin King
== SRU Justification == A class of new machines from Lenovo (such as the U300) and some ASUS laptops are hanging on suspend. == Fix == This patch is already an upstream fix that makes acpi_pm_device_sleep_state() conform to the ACPI specification. == Impact == Machines like Lenovo U300 and som

[Bug 1023784] [NEW] nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I'm getting seemingly random segfaulting of nautilus and as yet I've not been able to figure out what is causing it. Kernel log reports it as: nautilus[2210]: segfault at 18 ip 7f887a426580 sp 7fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000] ProblemT

[Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 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/1023784 Title: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 7f887a426580 sp 7fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000] To manage notifi

[Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1018896 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018896 So, yep, looks like a dup of 1018896 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1018896 nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_ui_manager_new_merge_id() -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1023784] Re: nautilus segfaulting at 18 ip 00007f887a426580 sp 00007fff40b25a78 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.506.0[7f887a149000+4d1000]

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1018896 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018896 gdb reports: (gdb) where #0 0x7717b580 in gtk_ui_manager_new_merge_id () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 #1 0x004d4d09 in ?? () #2 0x00472228 in ?? () #3 0x

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

2012-03-24 Thread Colin King
I wonder if this is to do with a faulty BIOS frequency limit. To check this out can you try the following: Edit /etc/default/grub (you need to do this using root privilege) and change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash processor.ignore_ppc=1"

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-24 Thread Colin King
Hi, Just wanted to throw some analysis into this bug report. It's take me ~30+ hours of running tests to gather this data, so apologies if this comes late in the day once the fix has been committed :-/ I've measured Spin Start/Stop counts on a HP Mini netbook measuring the start/stop count during

[Bug 962038] Re: ASPM doesn't work completely on Asus Zenbook (regression from 3.1)

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
For reference, the patch used to address this issue. ** Patch added: "0001-PCI-Allow-pcie_aspm-force-to-work-even-when-FADT-ind.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/962038/+attachment/2940407/+files/0001-PCI-Allow-pcie_aspm-force-to-work-even-when-FADT-ind.patch -- Yo

[Bug 961482] Re: 3.2.0-19 kernel fails to boot (-18 OK)

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
OK - so to make any real progress with the underlying issue we really need a full trace of the crash, so I've spun a kernel that will dump out the stack trace with some delays inserted to allow us to take a few photos of the stack trace. The debug kernel .debs can be found in: http://zinc.canoni

[Bug 965514] [NEW] btrfs map_private_extent_buffer+0x12/0x150 NULL pointer dereference

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: While running a soak test I hit the following WARNING followed by a null pointer de-reference on btrfs inside a virtual machine. $ uname -a Linux server-7362 3.2.0-17-virtual #27-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 24 15:57:57 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To repeat: Start up a v

[Bug 965514] Re: btrfs map_private_extent_buffer+0x12/0x150 NULL pointer dereference

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Test to exercise inode race conditions" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965514/+attachment/2942296/+files/test.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965514 Title:

[Bug 965514] Re: btrfs map_private_extent_buffer+0x12/0x150 NULL pointer dereference

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
Just to add, this is repeatable each time. I've throughly exercised it on different real H/W and not been able to trip it on H/W, just inside a virtual machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 965514] Re: btrfs map_private_extent_buffer+0x12/0x150 NULL pointer dereference

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
Can't easily able to run apport-collect on this virtualized instance. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965514 Title:

[Bug 965514] Re: btrfs map_private_extent_buffer+0x12/0x150 NULL pointer dereference

2012-03-26 Thread Colin King
Still happens on Linux server-7362 3.2.0-20-virtual #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 22 02:42:19 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965514 Title: btrfs map_p

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

2012-03-27 Thread Colin King
On 26/03/12 21:30, Tony Espy wrote: > @Colin > > I'm running 32-bit with the PAE kernel, so I can't install the amd64 > debs. If you could spin me a PAE kernel, I can give it a try tomorrow. > @Tony, 32 bit-pae kernel now ready for your testing -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 961482] Re: 3.2.0-19 kernel fails to boot (-18 OK)

2012-03-27 Thread Colin King
Photo DSC03081.JPG looks like we are jumping to pcie_aspm_configure_common_clock + 0x25b which seems to be 0xd4b so I suspect that is the BUG_ON(!pci_is_pcie(child)) statement below: d4a: c3 retq d4b: 0f 0b ud2a <--

[Bug 961482] Re: 3.2.0-19 kernel fails to boot (-18 OK)

2012-03-27 Thread Colin King
We've been working with upstream and we've got a patch that should be tested. I've put some new kernel .debs in: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/lp-961482 Can you please try these out and see if it works without the pcie_aspm=force workaround and let us know if it helps. By the way, kudos to M

[Bug 961482] Re: 3.2.0-19 kernel fails to boot (-18 OK)

2012-03-27 Thread Colin King
Thanks for the speedy response Hatem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961482 Title: 3.2.0-19 kernel fails to boot (-18 OK) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.l

[Bug 856233] Re: CPU frequency less than HW supported maximum

2012-03-06 Thread Colin King
Can you try the following: Edit /etc/default/grub (you need to do this using root privilege) and change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash processor.ignore_ppc=1" and then run: sudo update-grub and reboot. Maybe this will work around the is

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

2012-03-06 Thread Colin King
Oneiric SRU justification: Impact: After passing through a ->setxattr() call, eCryptfs needs to copy the inode attributes from the lower inode to the eCryptfs inode, as they may have changed in the lower filesystem's ->setxattr() path. One example is if an extended attribute containing a POSIX A

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

2012-03-06 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Oneiric) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Oneiric) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 948972] [NEW] compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: compiz segfaults when quickly mounting/unmonting a loopback filesystem [ 4855.938753] compiz[6801]: segfault at 18 ip 7f4360b470d0 sp 7fff03eed728 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[7f4360b2f000+37000] Testcase: See attached bash script. I hit this problem running a bunch o

[Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "reliably crashes compiz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972/+attachment/2829184/+files/compiz-crasher.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972 Title: com

[Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-07 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: compiz segfaults when quickly mounting/unmonting a loopback filesystem [ 4855.938753] compiz[6801]: segfault at 18 ip 7f4360b470d0 sp 7fff03eed728 error 4 in libgdu.so.0.0.0[7f4360b2f000+37000] Testcase: See attached bash script. I hit this proble

[Bug 947075] Re: ecryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
** Tags removed: verification-needed-natty ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947075 Title: ecryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs To man

[Bug 723518] Re: inotify DELETE_SELF notification disappears on ecryptfs mount

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Natty -proposed i386 ** Tags removed: verification-needed-natty ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723518 Title: in

[Bug 947143] Re: eCryptfs: Infinite loop due to overflow in ecryptfs_write()

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Tested and passed on Natty -proposed i386 ** Tags removed: verification-needed-natty ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947143 Title: eCryptfs: Inf

[Bug 947075] Re: ecryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified OK on -proposed Natty i386. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947075 Title: ecryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs To manage notifications about this bug g

[Bug 902818] Re: Compiz has 50-60 wakeups per second

2012-02-02 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 917210 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 917210 compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 877560] Re: Audio codec draining power when not in use

2012-02-02 Thread Colin King
So the basic issues here are that we need to get accurate and consistent power measurements that we know are reliable. I suggest running powerstat from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~colin- king/+archive/powermanagement * Make sure the machine is not running any unnecessary power sucking

[Bug 925001] Re: fwts segfaults executing the msr test in a kvm instance when using Precise as the host OS

2012-02-02 Thread Colin King
I propose just checking the BIOS DMI info for "Bochs" related firmware and skipping this test for virtual machines as a workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925001 Title: fwts s

[Bug 925526] [NEW] Huawei E1552/E1800 (12d1:1446) doesn't modeswitch

2012-02-02 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: My 3G USB dongle (Huawei E1552/E1800) doesn't modeswitch automatically. I can get it to work using following magic in /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf DefaultVendor= 0x12d1 DefaultProduct=0x1446 TargetVendor= 0x12d1 TargetProductList="1001,1406,140b,140c,141b,14ac" CheckSuccess=20

[Bug 947270] Re: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => 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/947270 Title: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable To manage notifications ab

[Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Thanks for fixing this! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934117 Title: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

[Bug 948972] Re: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback device quickly

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04-beta-2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948972 Title: compiz segfaults when mounting/unmounting a loopback

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

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
Since this mechanism has been reverted back to the old style of dialogue box, this is no longer an issue. Marking as invalid. ** Changed in: gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: gnome-screenshot (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug

[Bug 723518] Re: inotify DELETE_SELF notification disappears on ecryptfs mount

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723518 Title: inotify DELETE_SELF notification disappears on ecryptfs mount To manage

[Bug 400443] Re: ecryptfs_read_lower errors

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400443 Title: ecryptfs_read_lower errors To manage notifications about this bug go to

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/719691 Title: ecryptfs returns EINVAL rather than EISDIR on read() on directory To ma

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451368 Title: ecryptfs_truncate should not call vmtruncate on lower inode To manage n

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932987 Title: lucid: ban stacking ecryptfs over ecryptfs To manage notifications abou

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 ** 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.launchpad.net/bugs/50918

[Bug 938584] Re: hud-service consumes all the cycles on my CPU

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Hi Ryan, I checked the latest code in the desktop-team ppa, and the new HUD is using up less CPU cycles now, but at times it can be quite busy. Attached are my test results. Hardware: HP Mini 210, Atom N450 @ 1.66GHz, 1MB RAM Test: Type in 25 character phrase and then delete back to leave an em

[Bug 938584] Re: hud-service consumes all the cycles on my CPU

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
BTW, I'm using the cpustat tool in my PPA to make the measurements: ppa :colin-king/powermanagement - to gather the data I run: sudo cpustat 1 -q -r cpustat.csv and then I can import the data into a spreadsheet and plot the graphs. Maybe this can be of use to you. -- You received thi

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
your findings if it does or does not reboot. Thanks! ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received

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

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
Hi Didier, I see this keeps on getting pushed back in unity from 5.2.0 through to 5.8.0. Will this land in Precise before the we hit final release? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91721

[Bug 904435] Re: Excessive CPU/power usage after laptop resumes

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
** Also affects: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904435 Title: Excessive CPU/power usage after laptop resumes To m

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

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
verified on 2.6.38-14.58 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs lower file systems. ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885744 Title: pathconf(

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

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
verified on 2.6.38-14.58 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs lower file systems. ** Tags removed: verification-reverted-natty ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 947270] Re: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
verified on 2.6.38-14.58 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs lower file systems. ** Tags added: verification-done-natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947270 Title: eCryptfs:

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

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified for 2.6.35-32.68 -proposed with ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs lower ** Tags added: verification-done-maverick -- 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: encry

[Bug 904435] Re: Excessive CPU/power usage after laptop resumes

2012-03-29 Thread Colin King
@Julian, I've been trying to reproduce this on a variety of machines but as yet, no luck. Just so that we can factor out any kernel regressions can you try a kernel from a previous release (e.g. Oneiric?) and see if you can reproduce the bug? -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 904435] Re: Excessive CPU/power usage after laptop resumes

2012-03-30 Thread Colin King
@Julian, I think I will let this bug pass over to a pulse audio expert. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => David Henningsson (diwic) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-30 Thread Colin King
Just to add my 2 cents worth, I'm concerned that there are a class of "green" drives out there on the market where hdparm -B 255 is the only way to ensure they don't excessively impact the Load_Cycle_Count, for example: WD20EADS, WD20EARS, WD15EADS, WD15EARS, WD10EADS, WD10EARS, WD8000AARS, WD750

[Bug 969165] [NEW] hdparm: excessive Load_Cycle_Count with some WD "Intelli-Park" HDDs

2012-03-30 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: On a Dell E5420 I noticed the HDD is constantly spinning up/down. The drive is a WDC2500BEVT-7 which is apparently a "green" WD HDD which has firmware magic called "Intelli-Park" to park the HDD to save power.. Apparently the default settings it parks the heads after 8 second

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-30 Thread Colin King
I've filed a separate bug 969165 for the WD drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952556 Title: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds To manage notifications abo

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-02-22 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
I belive the poll in question is: (gdb) where #0 0x7f74414c2d40 in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x7f7441a08136 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x7f7441a0859a in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x0

[Bug 934117] Re: nm-applet is calling poll() at ~10Hz

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
So on a clean install I was connected to the network by ethernet and nm- applet behaved w/o the 10Hz polling. I then associated the wireless and I can now see the 10Hz polling. Not sure if that is a useful data point. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

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

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
@Didier, is this bug going to get fixed on the 5.6.0 release? It is the #1 top wakeup event generating process in the system by a long way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title

[Bug 723518] Re: inotify DELETE_SELF notification disappears on ecryptfs mount

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
Lucid SRU Justification: The IN_DELETE_SELF mask for inotify_add_watch indicates that an event should be emitted when the watched path is deleted, however, this does not happen on an eCryptfs mount. To reproduce: mkdir upper lower sudo mount -t ecryptfs lower upper and compile and run the foll

[Bug 906987] Re: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is started with the -R XRecord extension option

2012-02-27 Thread Colin King
Let me see if I can rig up a test and see exactly how much each wakeup costs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906987 Title: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is started w

[Bug 919815] Re: Ubuntu freeze on battery after power on/off - blacklisting ath9k stops freeze

2012-02-29 Thread Colin King
** Summary changed: - Ubuntu freeze on battery after power on/off + Ubuntu freeze on battery after power on/off - blacklisting ath9k stops freeze ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 780040 wifi softblocked atheros ar9285 cannot unblock ideapad z570 -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 919815] Re: Ubuntu freeze on battery after power on/off - blacklisting ath9k stops freeze

2012-02-29 Thread Colin King
regression with the latest kernel. Thanks, Colin ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 919815] Re: Ubuntu freeze on battery after power on/off - blacklisting ath9k stops freeze

2012-03-01 Thread Colin King
Hi Joerg Upstream commit 07445f688218a48bde72316aed9de4fdcc173131 may help, so I've built some test kernels for you to try. http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/lp-919815 Please download the appropriate headers + kernel debs for your system (e.g. amd64, i386 or i386-pae) and install them (using sudo

[Bug 959286] Re: EFI related kernel panic on reboot from alternate installer

2012-03-19 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/959286 Title: EFI related kernel panic on reboot from altern

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
Hi there, thanks for verifying this with older kernels. I'd like you to run the following: sudo pm-powersave off and see if the problem still exists -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
Oops, my mistake, should be: sudo pm-powersave false -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952556 Title: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds To manage notifications a

[Bug 133146] Re: ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
Checksum errors are due to the BIOS getting the checksum wrong or possibly (very very rarely) the firmware data being corrupt. It's more likely to be a BIOS bug. The original bug report reported that table TCPA was producing the error - this is not a problem since the kernel doesn't care about th

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
I'd like to also know if you have got laptop-mode-tools installed or not. Can you let me know. Thanks! ** 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 subsc

[Bug 959286] Re: EFI related kernel panic on reboot from alternate installer

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
Gema, As you requested on IRC, I've built the beta-1 kernel .ddeb (and their associated .deb) packages, you can download them from here: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/lp-959286/ Also, I've applied a couple of upstream patches to the current Precise kernel, can you perhaps see if these fix the

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-19 Thread Colin King
Swâmi, what tools are you using to check for HDD start and load cycles? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952556 Title: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds To mana

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
@Swâmi, I've tried to reproduce this on a few machines with no luck as yet. Just to eliminate any misbehaving application that may be doing writes (and possibly) causing this problem can you do the following: sudo apt-get install fatrace sudo apt-get install powertop-1.13 sudo power-usage-report

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
@Swâmi, I'm suspecting it may be that Precise is doing less disk activity now that we've worked on fixing a bunch of applications + daemons that were causing a load of (frequent) unnecessary writes. I wonder if the hdparm setting in /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions when running battery is too aggres

[Bug 952556] Re: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every few seconds

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: hdparm (Ubuntu) Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952556 Title: [Precise] [Hardware-killer] HD restarts every f

[Bug 959286] Re: EFI related kernel panic on reboot from alternate installer

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959286 Title: EFI related kernel panic on reboot from alternate installer To manag

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

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- 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: System shuts down due to CPU temp exceeding critical thresh-hold (

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

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951049 Title: Lenovo T410 is overheating and shutting down To manage notificatio

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

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Incomplete -- 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 w

[Bug 874355] Re: Dell studio 1747 overheating, fans spin slow even above high temp.

2012-03-20 Thread Colin King
@Daniel, I'd like to get some processor related settings from your machine to see what's going on. Can you do the following: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/powermanagement sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install intel-thermdump sudo intel-thermdump > thermdump.log and attach the thermd

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

2012-03-21 Thread Colin King
Tested Timo's package and my eventstat tool is showing ~2-5 events/sec on an idle machine - this is a most excellent result - a huge improvement! Thanks! :-) Note: With a webbrowser running with some stupid flash animation it averages ~20 events/sec and glxgears its ~60 wakeups/sec, but that's to

[Bug 961202] Re: A locked screen (blank screensaver) has compiz generating ca. 40 wakeups/second

2012-03-21 Thread Colin King
Confirmed, a locked blank screen is generating 19-20 wakeups/second on my idle machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961202 Title: A locked screen (blank screensaver) has compiz gen

[Bug 1186004] Re: Power consumption increasing on linux 3.9

2013-05-30 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (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/1186004 Title: Power consumption increasing on linux 3.9 To manage notifications about

[Bug 1132649] Re: display brightness is very low by default

2013-05-31 Thread Colin King
Can't the kernel be quirked to handle broken bios defaults like this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132649 Title: display brightness is very low by default To manage notifications

[Bug 1120240] Re: microcode test fails because intel-microcode.dat does not exist

2013-06-04 Thread Colin King
Fix committed, 8afc65a378909b59f79b915d9e513452cd401277, will appear in version V13.06.00 of fwts ** 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.l

[Bug 1180394] Re: ubuntu-nexus4, lttng-modules-dkms won't build with current kernel

2013-06-04 Thread Colin King
I installed the image + headers + lttng + lttng-modules-dkms. Then manually installed the kernel into the flash boot region, rebooted and was able to get lttng to work: root@ubuntu-phablet:~# lttng list -k Kernel events: - timer_init (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint

[Bug 1181889] Re: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs.

2013-06-04 Thread Colin King
Hi there, can you run the following command: sudo apt-get install acpidump sudo acpidump > acpidump.log and attach the acpidump.log to the bug report. Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1181889] Re: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs.

2013-06-04 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181889 Title: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs. To manage no

[Bug 1181889] Re: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs.

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
Also can you run: cat /proc/ioports > ioports.log sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci.log and attach these logs to the bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181889 Title: After installi

[Bug 1181889] Re: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs.

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
I think I've figured out the first warning: [ 11.149181] ACPI Warning: 0x0460-0x047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.HEC1.TCOS 1 (20120320/utaddress-251) [ 11.149186] ACPI Warning: 0x0460-0x047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.H

[Bug 1181889] Re: After installing ubuntu12.10 x64, dmesg has some error logs.

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
[ 11.149199] ACPI Warning: 0x0500-0x053f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SI_.SIOR 1 (20120320/utaddress-251) [ 11.149201] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [ 11.149202] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s)

[Bug 1027370] Re: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress ** 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.ne

[Bug 1027370] Re: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
Warning: "lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt" ACPI OpRegions are conflicting with the same I/O region used by the lpc_ich driver for the Intel TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) timer (iTCO_wdt, this is a watchdog timer that will reboot the machine after its second expiration). Acc

[Bug 1027370] Re: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
Warning: "lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich" This again is because ACPI OpRegions conflict with the same I/O region used by the lpc_ich driver, this time for the GPIO region. Again, I don't believe this is an issue to worry about. -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 1027370] Re: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt

2013-06-05 Thread Colin King
I don't think this are bugs per-se. The lpc_ich driver uses these I/O regions that are already reserved by ACPI OpRegions and they seem to co- exist OK without any issues. The warnings are alarming, but can be ignored. There's nothing to fix. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Prog

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