[Bug 898564] [NEW] pm-utils: power.d/hal-cd-polling probably should be removed

2011-12-01 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/hal-cd-polling seems to be redundant now that we aren't using HAL, and hence should probably be removed, or at least marked non-executable. It serves no purpose and consumes a bunch of CPU cycles to execute for a no-op every time pm-powersave is call

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

2011-09-30 Thread Colin King
Hi Marcello, I must say, I'm a little puzzled by this too. I cannot see any _PSS, _PSD objects in the ACPI tables, which seem to be required for the acpi cpufreq driver to work, so either acpidump is not getting all the tables (unlikely) or I've misunderstood the driver. I believe natty and late

[Bug 863175] [NEW] fwts: should examine the PCC tables

2011-09-30 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The Intel PCC interface http://acpica.org/download/Processor-Clocking- Control-v1p0.pdf could do with some sanity checking. Fwts should probably do PCC table sanity checking with a new "pcc" test. Section 2.1 explains the table format quite clearly, so it should be relatively

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

2011-09-30 Thread Colin King
Marcello, I'm really puzzled now, it seems that the bios_limit is really low - I will look at the driver again, but my conclusion so far that the BIOS settings are the root cause to your problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 865384] [NEW] fwts: should be able to detect WMI event errors

2011-10-03 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: fwts klog scanning should detect WMI event errors such as: [ 113.569826] dell_wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11) [ 114.778619] dell_wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11) [ 115.819808] dell_wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11) [ 116.543335] dell_wmi: Received unknow

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

2011-11-10 Thread Colin King
Hi Marcello. Any updates on the system in question? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/856233 Title: CPU frequency less than HW supported maximum To manage notifications about this bug g

[Bug 874373] Re: dmi_decode test can have false positives when DMI info is out of spec

2011-10-14 Thread Colin King
@Brendan, for reference can you attach the output from: sudo dmidecode Thanks! ** Project changed: fwts => fwts (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You rece

[Bug 874373] Re: dmi_decode test can have false positives when DMI info is out of spec

2011-10-14 Thread Colin King
Thanks, one more request, can you run: sudo ./dmidecode --dump-bin dmidecode.raw ..and attach the dmidecode.raw image to the bug too. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874373 Tit

[Bug 876331] [NEW] fwts: SMBIOS test should fully sanity check the header and preferably dump the header in information fields

2011-10-17 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The current implementation of the SMBIOS SMBIOS Entry Point Structure check is way too shallow. It should sanity check more fields and also dump the structure in log info fields. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist Assignee: Colin King (colin-king

[Bug 876331] Re: fwts: SMBIOS test should fully sanity check the header and preferably dump the header in information fields

2011-10-17 Thread Colin King
Fix committed, commit 0edfdf1b6f85ffe857a0a20a5dab5cdbc2557c83. Will appear in fwts V0.24.08 ** 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.launch

[Bug 861927] Re: fwts on armel won't install because it depends on dmidecode

2011-10-21 Thread Colin King
Fix committed, commits: 59f3632f391dbdea1ac0a4d660f05825da49b6f7 098584d7848ce61987f497ea732b49af2609df37 b2d07aa2377a452b357292ca4266e6f2c7c6 9bbba991675f52af72a10c056fc87a620ff113c4 Will appear in V0.24.10 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Changed i

[Bug 808509] Re: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small

2011-07-11 Thread Colin King
@Tim, does this invalid these patches for a SRU then? Or can we still run with them? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808509 Title: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone

[Bug 808509] Re: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small

2011-07-12 Thread Colin King
@Tim, Will do, however I will probably get around to this on Thursday as I'm off on sick leave until then. I have a good set of reproducer scripts + H/W that can faithfully trigger the bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-21 Thread Colin King
Anyone care to re-test with this new kernel? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774947 Title: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool To manag

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-22 Thread Colin King
Seems like the machine was overheating and stopping because of a bug in the C state selection when stress loading the CPU. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774947 Title: [Lenovo Edge 11

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-22 Thread Colin King
FYI, the kernel that was tested used upstream patch "cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds" (merge commit f310642123e0d32d919c60ca3fab5acd130c4ba3 also found as 2.38.y stable commit 4a1163dff6592dcee594b2bee597aafd749b93ee). -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-22 Thread Colin King
Please can you attach the output from the following: sudo fwts -- and also on the post resume state where the keys don't work please run: sudo fwts brightness -r brightness.log and attach the brightness.log Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-22 Thread Colin King
Sorry, typos, please ignore the above, and do: Please can you attach the output from the following: sudo fwts --dump and also on the post resume state where the keys don't work please run: sudo fwts brightness -r brightness.log and attach the brightness.log Thanks -- You received this bug n

[Bug 355666] Re: [To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.] suspend/resume failure [non-free: nvidia]

2011-06-22 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (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/355666 Title: [To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-23 Thread Colin King
@Marc, I'm confused - are these regressions? Can you see if we get the same failures with Maverick on this machine? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773716 Title: [Lenovo T420

[Bug 788539] Re: [T520, Lucid, Natty kernel] Resume broken

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
@Torten, what's the state of this bug? Can we close it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788539 Title: [T520, Lucid, Natty kernel] Resume broken To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 788539] Re: [T520, Lucid, Natty kernel] Resume broken

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
Ooops, sorry, I typo'd your name, Torsten. Apologies. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788539 Title: [T520, Lucid, Natty kernel] Resume broken To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 754712] Re: [Lenovo L420] System unable to resume from suspend

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
@Marc, debugging this is not going to be easy. Can I get access to this machine somehow? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/754712 Title: [Lenovo L420] System unable to resume from suspen

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
Can I have some information into how is stress being run? Are there any specific test modes that cause the failure? ** 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. ht

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: - As part of the Natty cert test on this system, I used the Slep Key + As part of the Natty cert test on this system, I used the Sleep Key (Fn-F4) this successfully put the system in Suspend. After hitting hte power button to wake the machine, the screen was very dark.

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
Hrm, debugging this is going to be tricky as it requires cycling S3 *and* interacting with the keyboard. Is there any way of getting the machine sent to me so I can investigate. This bug seems like the GPEs are not being enabled, but I require hitting the keys and watching for SCIs and GPE events

[Bug 797649] [NEW] fwts: oops detection should report as critical errors not medium errors

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fwts fwts oops test should detect and report oops as critical errors rather than the default medium level error. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts

[Bug 788539] Re: [T520, Lucid, Natty kernel] Resume broken

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
Since it seems that commit 7bdc8a75790424dc526ff2616c625b340546ea75 fixed this, marking it as fix committed. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. http

[Bug 805980] [NEW] fwts: syntaxcheck can segfault when fwts_iasl_reassemble returns an NULL list of error text

2011-07-05 Thread Colin King
, run with: fwts -q --dumpfile=AcpiTables.txt syntaxcheck - ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 805980] Re: fwts: syntaxcheck can segfault when fwts_iasl_reassemble returns an NULL list of error text

2011-07-05 Thread Colin King
Changed in: fwts (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/805980 Title: fwts: syntaxcheck can segfault when fwts_iasl_reassembl

[Bug 806349] [NEW] Installer crashed, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110705.1/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Failure mode: ISO testing, OEM Desktop install. ISO Image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110705.1/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso H/W: Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop Test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem, failed on Case ID: uoi-002 (Desktop Ready For En

[Bug 806349] Re: Installer crashed, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110705.1/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Photo of failure" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806349/+attachment/2193558/+files/installer-fail.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806349 Title: Installer

[Bug 806349] Re: Installer crashed, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110705.1/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Attached: gzip tar of /var/log ** Attachment added: "var.log.tar.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/806349/+attachment/2193559/+files/var.log.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 806358] [NEW] no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Failure mode: ISO testing, OEM Desktop install ISO Image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110705.1/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso H/W: Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop Test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem, failed on Case ID: uoi-001 The menu bar along th

[Bug 806358] Re: no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Screen shot of missing menu bar" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806358/+attachment/2193585/+files/Screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806358 Title:

[Bug 806358] Re: no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "output from lspc -vvnn" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/806358/+attachment/2193586/+files/lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806358 Title: no me

[Bug 806358] Re: no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Just to add, when I move my mouse over the blank menu bar I can click on the items on the menu, but I cannot see the menu bar at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806358 Title: no m

[Bug 806349] Re: OEM Install failed - KeyError: "The cache has no package named 'python2.6-minimal'"

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Just to confirm, the laptop was not connected to the network (no ethernet connection and the wireless was not yet associated with my Access Point) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806349

[Bug 806358] Re: no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-06 Thread Colin King
Is this due to the way stacking is broken? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806358 Title: no menu bar on top, compositing bug? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bug

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
@Jeff, what does cpuinfo_resource do? Can you run: cpuinfo_resource | awk '/count:/ {print $2}'` --vm `awk '/MemTotal/ {num_vm = $2/262144; if (num_vm != int(num_vm)) num_vm = int(num_vm) + 1; print num_vm}' /proc/meminfo ..and add that to the bug so I can see what --cpu setting is being used. T

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
@Jeff, can you run the test in two phases, one with just a --cpu test and one with just a --vm stress test to see if it's CPU loading or memory traffic loading (hence overheating on the northbridge) that causes the failure? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-15 Thread Colin King
@Jeff/Chris, any change of getting my hands on this H/W? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773716 Title: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep To manage n

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-16 Thread Colin King
@Marc, any possibility of me getting the kit shipped to me so I can work on this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773716 Title: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't

[Bug 755066] Re: heavy i/o on sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs

2011-06-17 Thread Colin King
SRU Request: System hangs have been observed when performing heavy I/O on sandybridge systems with small memory footprints (for example, less than 2GB of memory). kswapd consumes all the CPU and the machine effectively becomes unusable because kswapd is missing every cond_resched(). Also, we need

[Bug 773716] Re: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work after sleep

2011-06-20 Thread Colin King
@Any follow-up if I can get my hand on this kit to figure out why it's failing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773716 Title: [Lenovo T420s] function keys and other things don't work a

[Bug 755066] Re: Heavy I/O on Sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs

2011-06-20 Thread Colin King
** Summary changed: - heavy i/o on sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs + Heavy I/O on Sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-06-20 Thread Colin King
Hi there, can one re-try the CPU stress test with one of the kernels in: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/lp-774947 Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774947 Title: [Lenovo Edge

[Bug 797649] Re: fwts: oops detection should report as critical errors not medium errors

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.23.11 of fwts is available which fixes this bug and incorporates most of the updates for the Oneiric release. It can be found in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~colin-king/+archive/ppa/+packages Can this be uploaded this to Oneiric universe? This includes changes: fwts

[Bug 797649] Re: fwts: oops detection should report as critical errors not medium errors

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
** Patch added: "Diff between V0.22.14 and V0.23.11" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/+bug/797649/+attachment/2216658/+files/diff-0.22.14-0.23.11.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launc

[Bug 797649] Re: fwts: oops detection should report as critical errors not medium errors

2011-07-19 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/797649 Title: fwts: oops detection should report as critical errors not medium

[Bug 808509] Re: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
I've repeated the test scenario as described in comment #7 with 500 copy operations using the script (see comment #7 too) to give it nearly 4 hours of intensive file copying soak testing. Works fine, no lock- ups/hangs. Marking it as verified. ** Tags added: natty-verification-done ** Tags remo

[Bug 774947] Re: [Lenovo Edge 11 AMD] system locks up completely running the "stress" tool

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
SRU Request: When running the 'stress' stress testing tool a Lenovo Edge 11 locks up because of CPU overheating. This is fixed using upstream patch "cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds" (merge commit f310642123e0d32d919c60ca3fab5acd130c4ba3 and 2.38.y stable commit 4a1163dff6

[Bug 808509] Re: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: verification-done-natty ** Tags removed: natty-verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808509 Title: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is s

[Bug 755066] Re: Heavy I/O on Sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs

2011-07-19 Thread Colin King
Just to make things a little more confusing, the patches in the bug got replaced by a better fix and these are being tracked in bug 808509 namely: "SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small". I've tested the -proposed kernel and it addresses this bug (since it's essentially a

[Bug 813376] [NEW] fwts: AcpiHwDerivePciId() operates on uninitilised value

2011-07-20 Thread Colin King
of AcpiOsReadPciConfiguration() does nothing. Need to re-write AcpiOsReadPciConfiguration() to fake some returned PCI config data. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 760131] Re: Power consumption raised significantly in natty

2011-07-20 Thread Colin King
I suggest testing out the latest natty -proposed kernel, it contains commit 9ee653dce0efc6bad29f0d68b4ac74dbed093131 commit 9ee653dce0efc6bad29f0d68b4ac74dbed093131 Author: Tero Kristo Date: Thu Feb 24 17:19:23 2011 +0200 cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds BugLink:

[Bug 806358] Re: no menu bar on top, compositing bug?

2011-07-20 Thread Colin King
1. Yes, it's a ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:7149] (answer to posting #6) 2. It happened every time I booted, so it was repeatable (answer to posting #7) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 808509] Re: SRU: Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small

2011-07-13 Thread Colin King
@Tim, managed to get some overnight testing on this kernel, results are very good: Did 1000 x test cycles, each copying ~795MB of data (~7 hours of soak testing), no lock-ups on a SNB laptop with 4GB memory. Also re-ran with 500 x test cycles with 2GB memory (as this *really* exercises the bug).

[Bug 755066] Re: heavy i/o on sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs

2011-06-07 Thread Colin King
Update: I worked with upstream on a bunch of the patches for this issue and the good news is that we have two fixes that hit GregKH's stable 2.6.38.8 tree a few days ago: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=commit;h=2020aa625c559d371518040290b5476356e7aacf http://

[Bug 755066] Re: heavy i/o on sandybridge systems with small memory footprints causes system hangs

2011-06-07 Thread Colin King
Just to add, kudos to Minchan Kim, Johannes Weiner and Mel Gorman to name but a few on working on this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755066 Title: heavy i/o on sandybridge sys

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-15 Thread Colin King
@Miroslav, thanks for the update. I hope to be getting access to one of these laptops in the near future to debug this a bit deeper. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656745 Title: noteb

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-15 Thread Colin King
@Miroslav, Looking at the iwl driver it has a workaround for a H/W bug that addresses instability on the PCIe bus L0->L0S->L1 transitions and disables L0S. The workaround seems to check the PCI configuration as set by the firmware, hence this may a reason for the bug. Currently I suspect the fol

[Bug 381457] Re: (Intrepid) Wifi stops working unpredictably, Intel 5300

2011-03-15 Thread Colin King
This bug may be occurring because of PCIe link management disabling the link + hardware. It may be worth booting with the following kernel parameter to see if it helps: pcie_aspm=off I've seen this kind of bug being fixed by a BIOS upgrade because the BIOS changes the PCI_CFG_LINK_CTRL_VAL_L1_EN

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-15 Thread Colin King
Miroslav, sorry, one more request, can you provide output from: sudo lspci -vvnn Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656745 Title: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vos

[Bug 728623] Re: Battery present rate always 0 from /proc/acpi/battery/BAT?/state

2011-03-16 Thread Colin King
@Earl, How do you think we should proceed with this - are you able to contact the BIOS vendor and escalate this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728623 Title: Battery present rate alw

[Bug 736874] [NEW] fwts: 32 bit ACPI table pointers break when running on 64 architectures

2011-03-17 Thread Colin King
. A workaround is not to malloc() these tables but to anonymously mmap() with MAP_32BIT to ensure all tables can be 32 bit addressable. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status

[Bug 736874] Re: fwts: 32 bit ACPI table pointers break when running on 64 architectures

2011-03-17 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.22.08 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available which fixes the above issue by ensuring tables used by ACPICA are allocated using a mmap() with MAP_32BIT and also checking for broken ACPI tables that may return an incorrect table size by the firmware. New version fo

[Bug 725336] Re: fwts 0.22.02 has lintian warnings that need clearing up

2011-02-28 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.22.03 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available which fixes the above lintian build warnings. It is available at: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/scratch/+packages Can this be uploaded? -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 728685] [NEW] cstates test does not work - it needs to use the new /sys interface

2011-03-03 Thread Colin King
Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** 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 subs

[Bug 739256] [NEW] fwts: failes to build on systems that don't support MAP32_BIT

2011-03-21 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fwts A recent bug fix introduced MAP32_BIT which is not available on all platforms and caused ARM and Power builds to fail. This requires fixing. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status

[Bug 739256] Re: fwts: failes to build on systems that don't support MAP32_BIT

2011-03-21 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.22.09 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available which fixes the above issue by providing a MAP_32BIT alternative for architectures that don't support this mmap() feature. New version for natty is in the PPA: at https://launchpad.net/~firmware- testing-team/+archive/

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook crashes on battery with particular wlan or other pcie devices enabled (dell vostro 3700, asus, medion, acer and others)

2011-03-21 Thread Colin King
@Mateo, it could be because you laptop is consuming more power, but it could be subjective. The trick is to run the machine on powertop for 10-15 minutes with and without the workaround to see the power consumption difference - it's the easiest way to check of the ASPM workaround is causing the mac

[Bug 730132] Re: fwts thermal_trip won't work on 2.6.38 kernels

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.22.07 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available which fixes the above issue by removing this test as it's incompatible with the natty kernel. New version for natty is in the PPA: at https://launchpad.net/~firmware- testing-team/+archive/scratch/+packages Can this b

[Bug 728623] Re: Battery rate always 0

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
Rate value." There is little we can do in software to fix this at the kernel level. ** Tags added: acpi-battery ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 730132] Re: fwts thermal_trip won't work on 2.6.38 kernels

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730132 Title: fwts thermal_trip won't work on 2.6.38 kernels -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
@Miroslav: > My question is: What side effect can I expect from "pcie_aspm=off"? PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM) defines a protocol for the PCI Express components in the D0 (fully on) operating state to reduce the Link power. This is achieved by putting their Links into a low p

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
@Miroslav, It may be one of several issues. So if you are willing, we can tease these out with some sanity checks. I've just read an ASPM document from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg462958.aspx and it states: "If the BIOS indicates that the platform does not properly suppor

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
@Miroslav, Thanks for the ACPI data, it was most helpful to bring some insight. the IA-PC boot flags does state that "PCIe ASPM is not supported": [0x06d 0109 2] IA-PC Boot Flags (see below): 0x Legacy Devices Supported (V2): 0x0

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
My mistake, the bit is set to zero on your firmware, which means ASPM can be enabled by the OS, so let's ignore that for now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656745 Title: notebook alw

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook always crashes if on battery (dell vostro 3700 and others)

2011-03-11 Thread Colin King
Miroslav, perhaps it works on the Broadcom Wifi card because it can handle the link request to power it down, where as the other device cannot. From what I understand, the ASPM protocol can power down the link and where possible, devices on the link. I wonder if pcie_aspm=performance will make it

[Bug 728685] Re: cstates test does not work - it needs to use the new /sys interface

2011-03-04 Thread Colin King
A newer version 0.22.06 of the firmware test suite (fwts) tool is now available which fixes the above issue and resolves a progress calculation bug that was associated with the same problematic code when I re-tested. This latest version also addresses a few other bugs: * acpidump test: use more

[Bug 728623] Re: Battery rate always 0

2011-03-04 Thread Colin King
I suspect there is an issue with ACPI _BST (Battery Status) not functioning correctly for some reason. Can you attach the output from: sudo acpidump thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 730132] [NEW] fwts thermal_trip won't work on 2.6.38 kernels

2011-03-06 Thread Colin King
ow it has been removed in 2.6.38 this test is no longer sensible. Thus the thermal_trip test should be dropped. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (co

[Bug 746428] [NEW] fwts: should use sysconf() to determine number of processors on a system

2011-03-31 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fwts fwts is currently using /proc/acpi to determine number of CPUs on a system. Instead, fwts should use sysconf() instead. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress

[Bug 746428] Re: fwts: should use sysconf() to determine number of processors on a system

2011-03-31 Thread Colin King
I've now bumped to version V0.22.12 for natty is in now in the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/scratch/+packages Version V0.22.12 addresses bug LP: #746428 and also LP: #744405 Can this be uploaded? Thanks! Attached - diff between V0.22.10 and V0.22.12 ** Patch added

[Bug 746615] [NEW] Inspiron n5110 panics after several S4 iterations

2011-03-31 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel Running multiple S4 cycles causes a kernel panic. See attached photo of panic. This can be reproduced as follows: sudo fwts s4 --s4-multiple --s4-sleep-delay=30 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: xserver-xor

[Bug 746615] Re: machine panics after several S4 iterations

2011-03-31 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/746615 Title: Inspiron n5110 panics after several S4 iterations -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

[Bug 746615] Re: machine panics after several S4 iterations

2011-03-31 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Photo of panic" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/746615/+attachment/1960025/+files/DSCF1571.JPG ** Summary changed: - machine panics after several S4 iterations + Inspiron n5110 panics after several S4 iterations -- You received t

[Bug 656745] Re: notebook crashes on battery with particular wlan or other pcie devices enabled (dell vostro 3700, asus, medion, acer and others)

2011-04-04 Thread Colin King
Just to add, we are actively trying to acquire some hardware so that we can debug this one further - we've not given up on this. @Mateo, can you open a new bug, as I'm not entirely sure you issue is the same as this one. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 751248] [NEW] fwts: misc minor typos and error message fixups

2011-04-05 Thread Colin King
e "specific" ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu)

[Bug 751248] Re: fwts: misc minor typos and error message fixups

2011-04-05 Thread Colin King
diff from 0.22.12 to 0.22.13 ** Patch added: "fwts_0.22.12_0.22.13.diff.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/+bug/751248/+attachment/1983271/+files/fwts_0.22.12_0.22.13.diff.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 751248] Re: fwts: misc minor typos and error message fixups

2011-04-05 Thread Colin King
I've now bumped to version V0.22.13 for natty is in now in the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/scratch/+packages Version V0.22.13 addresses these small typos and minor bugs. Can this be uploaded? Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

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

2011-03-28 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => 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/673422 Title: fwts: --stdout-summary reports aborted tests as failed -- ubun

[Bug 744405] [NEW] fwts: method test accounts for semaphores incorrectly

2011-03-28 Thread Colin King
overall accounting is hard to follow with this bug. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: Fix Committed ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided =&g

[Bug 744405] Re: fwts: method test accounts for semaphores incorrectly

2011-03-28 Thread Colin King
Fix committed a22fa692b97b6e85a58750a86e9fe7a01649cfcb in git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cking/fwts/.git -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/744405 Title: fwts: method test accounts for semaphore

[Bug 838672] [NEW] OEM installation, end user creation phase, language selection uses very hard to read language colours

2011-09-01 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: ISO Testing, test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem Phase: "Desktop Ready for End User", (Case ID uoi-002) The language selection screen displays the available language in a very pale colour and the text is almost unreadable against the background, whic

[Bug 838680] [NEW] ISO testing: USB stick: OEM installation mode cannot be deselected after an OEM install from the USB stick

2011-09-01 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I created a USB stick containing todays ISO image (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110901/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso) and first did an OEM installation test (ISO Testing, test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem). After this test, I then re-booted

[Bug 838680] Re: ISO testing: USB stick: OEM installation mode cannot be deselected after an OEM install from the USB stick

2011-09-01 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: I created a USB stick containing todays ISO image (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110901/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso) and first did an OEM installation test (ISO Testing, test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem). After this test, I then

[Bug 838680] Re: ISO testing: USB stick: OEM installation mode cannot be deselected after an OEM install from the USB stick

2011-09-01 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: I created a USB stick containing todays ISO image (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110901/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso) and first did an OEM installation test (ISO Testing, test case: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem). After this test, I then

[Bug 838696] [NEW] Ubiquity: Installing Ubuntu Oneiric (auto-resize) title to dialogue names releases inconsistantly.

2011-09-01 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: ISO testing: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110901/oneiric- desktop-amd64.iso Test: Install (auto-resize) I already had a previous installation of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric installed, and I did an install size-by-size auto-resize option which displayed a dialog box with t

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