[Bug 317781] Re: Ext4 data loss

2009-03-11 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I strongly agree with Aigars Mahinovs in comment 98, the problem here is not the delayed sync to disk; the problem is the significant discrepancy in time between truncating the old data and syncing the new data. Particularly in case (2), the nice thing to do here is to make renaming a file depend o

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-12-08 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
This continues to be a problem in the 9.10 release. I find the easiest solution for myself is to disable ACPI since this is an always-on media center. Any thoughts on whether the ATA command passthrough hiccup is specific to this model of hard drive enclosure, or potentially a more widespread pro

[Bug 482870] Re: ibus causes application crash when using chinese py input method

2010-02-14 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I have also seen this on a 9.10 desktop installation a few weeks ago, but I didn't figure out what was causing the application crashes other than some association with using py input method. I don't have access to that machine anymore and can't replicate this on a current 9.10 netbook remix instal

[Bug 438605] Re: external firewire disk not mounted on boot

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
This looks related to mine: bug #440338 -- external firewire disk not mounted on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438605 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I've done some research, it looks like the ATA command which is being passed through the SCSI-over-firewire connection is IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE (for errors with "a1" in the next to last byte of the hex dump) and IDENTIFY DEVICE (for errors with "ec" as the next to last byte). So something is tryi

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I should also add this may be related to bug #438605. I replicated the problem with another disk (500MB seagate barracuda 7200.10) in another enclosure of the same model (Macally G-S350SUA). I tried running smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sdb and it locked up. ctrl-C and kill -9 were unable to kill the

[Bug 440347] Re: screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubun

[Bug 440347] Re: screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
This has gone away with recent apt-get upgrades, so no longer an issue. Still would be nice to know what was triggering the screen-blanking though, it still happens at the mythtv menu system, just not during mplayer. Perhaps a function of mythtv itself? Launching mplayer from the commandline (no

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I have tracked down the source of the sbp2 passthrough commands. ps ax -F during 'normal' operation, then again during a stall, then see what's different: root 5313 1017 0 459 480 0 21:35 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh -c /etc/acpi/power.sh root 5314 5313 0 459 508 0 21:3

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-04 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
Looks like the 95hdparm-apm script in particular needs to do something about not calling hdparm unnecessarily... on drives where it is not supported (e.g. my external firewire enclosure) this causes a stall on access to the drive which interrupts things like video playback. ** Package changed: lin

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-25 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
I see that this bug is still alive and well in the release candidate... this bug makes realtime tasks (like watching videos) from (some?) external firewire drives unusable due to frequent skips and pauses. Perhaps should be fixed for the release? -- reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee13

[Bug 440338] Re: reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-01 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32844107/Dependencies.txt -- reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440338 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 440338] [NEW] reading data from firewire drive stalls, ieee1394 errors appear in messages

2009-10-01 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
Public bug reported: When playing video from an external ieee1394 drive with mplayer (unsure if it occurs other times too), the video will stall at an irregular interval. After a second or two it will start playing again. During this time, 'top' reports ~100% CPU utilization waiting for I/O (%wa

[Bug 440347] [NEW] screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen

2009-10-01 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: metacity This is a laptop running as a media center. I have power manager set to never blank the screen. I am also running a minimal session: metacity& xrandr --output LVDS --off --output S-video --mode 800x600 sleep 10; # to let pulseaudio get its act t

[Bug 440347] Re: screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen

2009-10-01 Thread Ethan Tira-Thompson
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32844373/Dependencies.txt -- screen goes black after 10 minutes, while watching mplayer full screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is