[Bug 1367338] [NEW] unable to open pdf file even with PdfjsViewer installed

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Clicking a pdf link still claims there is no PDF handler to view the file. However, 1) I have PdfjsViewer installed. 2) I should be able to download the file to the disk and open it later. ** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 1367379] [NEW] Gets stuck in edit mode

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: 1) Touch a contact so that the grey bust icon appears to the right of it. 2) Long-press the same contact by touching the name to go into edit mode - a green tick will appear next to the contact. 3) Press the bust icon to switch to the full details view. 4) Press back. 5) Obse

[Bug 1349899] Re: [MIR] new b-d's of rdflib (sparql-wrapper-python, isodate)

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
= isodate = Availability: Currently in universe. Rationale: Build dependency. Security: No security history. Quality Assurance: - DEP-8 tests + watch file added to package: https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/utopic/isodate/add-dep8-tests/+merge/233902 - No debconf prompting.

[Bug 1367412] [NEW] no landscape support

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Long contact name handling seems to behave somewhat erratically but normally ends in "...". The expectation is that turning the screen sideways would allow the full contact name to be shown but the app doesn't seem to support this yet. ** Affects: address-book-app (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1367411] [NEW] missing URL and notes fields when syncing google contacts

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: subject says it all really :) ** Affects: address-book-app (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.launchpad.net/bugs/1367411 Title:

[Bug 1367410] [NEW] deleting a contact greys it out but leaves it in the list of contacts

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: The entry remains in the list but is no longer selectable and has a very slightly darker grey background to the remaining list entries. ** Affects: address-book-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: avengers -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1367416] [NEW] searching for term not found in contact name spins forever

2014-09-09 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Searching for a term that is _not_ in the contact names makes the search dialog spin forever until I touch the cross to cancel it. Expected behaviour: present a message saying "not found". Ideal behaviour: search all contact fields, not only the contact names. ** Affects: ad

[Bug 1349899] Re: [MIR] new b-d's of rdflib (sparql-wrapper-python, isodate)

2014-09-10 Thread James Hunt
Availability: Currently in universe. Rationale: Dependency. Security: No security history. Quality Assurance: - Package works out of the box with no prompting. - No debconf prompting. - There are no bugs in Debian currently: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;

[Bug 1349899] Re: [MIR] new b-d's of rdflib (sparql-wrapper-python, isodate)

2014-09-10 Thread James Hunt
There is a dep problem here though: We're wanting to have python-rdflib Build-Depend on python- sparqlwrapper, but python-sparqlwrapper Depends on python-rdflib. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1349899] Re: [MIR] new b-d's of rdflib (sparql-wrapper-python, isodate)

2014-09-10 Thread James Hunt
As doko has noticed, we also need to understand why the python3 tests have been disabled in the sparql-wrapper-python_1.6.0-2 in proposed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349899 Title:

[Bug 1368135] [NEW] touching ubuntu icon when (non-favourite) scope open does not display home screen.

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: 1) swipe up to open "Manage Dash". 2) open a scope. 3) swipe left. 4) touch orange ubuntu logo. Expected outcome: main home screen displayed (phone, messaging, contacts, etc). Actual outcome: the scope you opened in (1) is displayed. Steps to get from the scope back to the h

[Bug 1368140] [NEW] add guide lines overlay option

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Both iOS and Android cameras have an option to overlay 2 evenly-spaced vertical and 2 evenly-spaced horizonal white "guide lines". These are a very useful alignment aid when composing a shot. For details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds Bonus points if we could

[Bug 1349899] Re: [MIR] new b-d's of rdflib (sparql-wrapper-python, isodate)

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
PYBUILD_DISABLE_python3=test is set because of syntax errors reported by python3. However, there is a newer version of the package (1.6.4) which includes python3 fixes and I've successfully run the python3 tests with that. Debian Bug#761177 raised to get version 1.6.4 into Debian. -- You receiv

[Bug 1366391] Re: re-prompted for already-known password when switching networks

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
1) Connect to network A. 2) Connect to network B. 3) Re-connect to network A. 4) Attempt to re-connect to network B - this results in a password prompt (it shouldn't as I've already connected in (2)). 5) If I click "cancel", I *do* connect to network B (not the original network A). -- You recei

[Bug 1368253] [NEW] main screen shows updates available, but there aren't any

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: I think this issue started some time this week. My phone is fully up-to- date but the main system settings screen keeps showing there is 1 update available. Clicking the icon displays the spinner which then tells me my phone is up-to-date. ** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings (

[Bug 1368253] Re: main screen shows updates available, but there aren't any

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
root@ubuntu-phablet:~# cat /etc/ubuntu-build 30 root@ubuntu-phablet:~# cat /etc/device-build 20140908-d8c11f3 14.09 rtm branch. ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1368253] Re: main screen shows updates available, but there aren't any

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
sorry, it's krillin. I've just gone to check again, but now the mysterious update message has vanished. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368253 Title: main screen shows updates availab

[Bug 1368253] Re: main screen shows updates available, but there aren't any

2014-09-11 Thread James Hunt
No, I don't think I had a red "[1]" on the launcher whilst system- settings was still showing 1 update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368253 Title: main screen shows updates availab

[Bug 1312260] Re: [browser] There is no search in page option in webbrowser-app (like ctrl+F)

2014-10-09 Thread James Hunt
Giorgio - the spec doesn't appear to specify the colour that should be used for the highlights. If the highlight colour is fixed as say yellow, it would have no effect if the background colour of the page was the same colour. What if the background colour is white but the text is yellow? -- You r

[Bug 1372937] Re: no ssh host keys generated when booting with systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: system-image (Ubuntu) Assignee: James Hunt (jamesodhunt) => Michael Vogt (mvo) ** Changed in: system-image (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1379021] Re: after utopic upgrade: boot delays for 2 minutes

2014-10-13 Thread James Hunt
@Dylan - which packages did you purge? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379021 Title: after utopic upgrade: boot delays for 2 minutes To manage notifications about this bug go to: htt

[Bug 1380674] [NEW] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader

2014-10-13 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Please add package lp:~ubuntu-foundations-team/+junk/ubuntu-core- upgrader to the archive. This package is required for the Ubuntu Core project. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Assignee: James Hunt (jamesodhunt) Status: In Progress ** Tags

[Bug 1381075] Re: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com

2014-10-14 Thread James Hunt
Note that the kerneloops packages communicates with apport using the /usr/share/apport/kernel_oops "pipe" program so a script could be written to make use of similar pipe specifically for respawn failures. Ideally, that kernel_oops utility would be made generic, accepting args to specify the name o

[Bug 1381075] Re: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com

2014-10-14 Thread James Hunt
The most appropriate way to do this would probably be to use apport to check for respawn limit messages in: - the system log, and - the users $HOME/.xsession-errors file. Even at the default upstart log priority of 'message', when a job reaches the respawn limit, upstart will log a message to one

[Bug 1380674] Re: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader

2014-10-15 Thread James Hunt
@dholbach: Thanks for reviewing! Package updated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380674 Title: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader To manage notifications about t

[Bug 1380674] Re: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader

2014-10-15 Thread James Hunt
LGTM! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380674 Title: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

[Bug 1330387] [NEW] 'pactl load-module module-native-protocol-unix' tries to autoload module-esound-protocol-unix which now fails

2014-06-16 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Running the following as part of an lxc unprivileged container setup (see [1]) used to work fine: pactl load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=$PULSE_PATH However, as of today, this fails. Looking in syslog I see: ___

[Bug 1330850] [NEW] cannot enter text when started at desktop start with keychain and gpg

2014-06-17 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Attempting to run keychain from my ~/.profile results in my being prompted (successfully) for my ssh passphrase (using /usr/lib/openssh /gnome-ssh-askpass). However, when prompted for my gpg passphrase via pinentry (using /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4), I am unable to enter my passphr

[Bug 1330850] Re: cannot enter text when started at desktop start with keychain and gpg

2014-06-18 Thread James Hunt
Checking my setup, I see that I'm forcing ssh passphrases to use gtk rather than qt by specifying the following in my ~/.profile: export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass See bug 924731. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 1332907] Re: /scripts/local-top/kbdrate.sh: permission denied

2014-06-23 Thread James Hunt
This looks like a local customization you have added to the initramfs since file /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/kbdrate.sh is not / no longer provided by an archive package. Somehow that script seems to have lost its execute bit. I would check the contents of that file and if you rec

[Bug 1300235] Re: init crashed with SIGSEGV

2014-06-23 Thread James Hunt
Jeremie and Peter - thanks for attaching the crash files, but like the others affected the core file encoded inside '_sbin_init.0.crash' were generated by chrome / chromium-browser so we cannot use these to debug the system crash. There seems to be some strange interaction between chrome, upstart,

[Bug 1383086] [NEW] rebooting defeats the screen lock timeout

2014-10-19 Thread James Hunt
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: If you enable pin unlock, then repeatedly enter the incorrect pin, eventually you'll get a message stating that the phone cannot be unlocked for 5 minutes. However, this restriction can be trivially bypassed by simply rebo

[Bug 1383085] [NEW] background in app carousel view does not show background image

2014-10-19 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: A swipe from the right edge of the phone towards the center fans out all the apps, showing a carousel-like view. However, the background is always black, whereas I would have expected the background to be the selected background image. Black is problematic since if one of th

[Bug 1381075] Re: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com

2014-10-20 Thread James Hunt
brian has pointed out that changing /usr/share/apport/kernel_oops isn't necessary; apport now has a generic pipe program in the form of /data/bzr/apport/apport/data/recoverable_problem. We will need to make minor changes to the recoverable_problem utility since it currently requires a pid but in t

[Bug 1383085] Re: background in app carousel view does not show background image

2014-10-20 Thread James Hunt
Seems that the camera issue is not only just when the lens is covered. The live preview feature has gone away, so if the camera is running, the carousel will show an "invisible" black camera app every time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1380674] Re: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-upgrader

2014-10-21 Thread James Hunt
Discussed with slangasek who is happy with having this package in the archive (universe). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380674 Title: [needs-packaging] Add new package ubuntu-core-u

[Bug 1381075] Re: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com

2014-10-23 Thread James Hunt
I've added more info to the cookbook wrt respawn. Here's the simplest method of detecting hitting the respawn limit: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#detecting-a-job-hitting-its-respawn- limit -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1381075] Re: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com

2014-10-24 Thread James Hunt
Something like the attached can be put into /usr/share/upstart/sessions/ and it will detect when system-level and session-level jobs hit their respawn limit. We could then use whitelists to identify the desired behaviour (restart job, reboot, etc) for particular services. ** Attachment added: "r

[Bug 1385444] Re: lightm/upstart crash leaves 2 unity8 processes around

2014-10-24 Thread James Hunt
Daniel - please can you attach the existing /var/crash/_sbin_init* to this bug. I appreciate they do not represent the current issue, but if may have been a re-occurence of the problem which did generated the crash files so I'd like to see those anyway. -- You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 1385444] Re: lightm/upstart crash leaves 2 unity8 processes around

2014-10-24 Thread James Hunt
The oldest of the two unity8 proceses (pid 2640) has been SIGSTOP'ed. Since unity8 uses SIGSTOP to indicate to upstart that it is ready, this suggests that when lightdm died, the session init was killed somehow before unity8 was ready (either on first start or respawn). -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1385464] Re: logrotate fails to run, if status file is corrupt (logrotate running during reboot?)

2014-10-24 Thread James Hunt
To be clear, this issue was observed on Touch. Interestingly, we already have a fix for this, but it hasn't landed in the archive or on Tocuh; the upstart session init has a logrotate job (/usr/share/upstart/sessions/logrotate.conf) which is used to rotate the users session init log files. I'd not

[Bug 1237587] Re: updated the system, after a while got an error about upstart

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
Thank you for reporting this bug. However, to help us diagnose the issue, please can you run the following: $ apport-collect 1237587 This should attach crash file '/var/crash/_sbin_init.1000.crash' to this report which will allow us to understand what caused the crash. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1238078] Re: global environment table is not serialised

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
This may explain bug 1234731. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238078 Title: global environment table is not serialised To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.laun

[Bug 1234731] Re: calling 'initctl set-env -g' from within an upstart job is lost

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
See bug 1238078. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234731 Title: calling 'initctl set-env -g' from within an upstart job is lost To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://b

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
The problem is not observed when the only connections to upstart are the standard upstart bridges (since they use nih_dbus_connect()). For reference, here is nih_dbus_setup() which includes one or more calls that unity seemingly should be calling itself: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- branc

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
This problem can now be demonstrated with a single connection to upstart that makes the following calls: dbus_connection_open() nih_dbus_proxy_new () The problem is not seen if the app instead calls: - nih_dbus_connect (upstart_session, disconnect_handler) - nih_dbus_proxy_

[Bug 1238058] Re: upstart apport hook asks me in a crash report whether this is for the system init or a desktop session, when it should already know

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
This seems to be because ProblemType was "RecoverableProblem" which is not currently handled by the upstart apport hook. ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- Y

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
Note that disabling libIndicatorsQml.so with #44 did not resolve the problem. However, I am confident this is because there were other connections to the Session Init (probably resulting from libupstart-app- launch1). This does need to be confirmed though. -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
C program to trigger this bug. Run it in an environment with UPSTART_SESSION set (such as a desktop/Touch environment), then run the about-to-be attached spam.sh script. ** Attachment added: "trigger-bug-1235649.c" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1235649/+attachment/387261

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
Run as: $ spam.sh ** Attachment added: "spam.sh" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1235649/+attachment/3872619/+files/spam.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
Program attached in #51 demonstrates the incorrect calling behaviour. To demonstrate the correct behaviour change the #if0/else/endif such that rather than calling dbus_connection_open(), the program calls nih_dbus_connect(). nih_dbus_connect(): No memory growth. dbus_connection_open(): Memory gro

[Bug 1238208] [NEW] libreoffice icon is too bland

2013-10-10 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: The main libreoffice icon seen in the dash is too bland. I can see that it is attempting to represent in the most minimal way the overall office suite (by not including text, cells, formulae, etc), however, subtracting all content from the icon gives it an overly ascetic air

[Bug 1238514] [NEW] dbus no longer supports Upstart service activation

2013-10-11 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: In certain areas, Ubuntu Touch needs to use D-Bus activation to start Upstart jobs. = Overview = This bug is for tracking the re-enabling of Upstart service activation in D-Bus. In certain areas, Ubuntu Touch needs to use D-Bus activation to start Upstart jobs. The version

[Bug 1238058] Re: upstart apport hook asks me in a crash report whether this is for the system init or a desktop session, when it should already know

2013-10-11 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => 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/1238058 Title: upstart apport hook asks me in a crash report whether this is f

[Bug 1238078] Re: global environment table is not serialised

2013-10-11 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238078 Title: global environment table is not serialised To man

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-11 Thread James Hunt
Note that the following call on the server side does not resolve the issue: while (dbus_connection_dispatch (connection) == DBUS_DISPATCH_DATA_REMAINS) ; -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-11 Thread James Hunt
Neither does calling the following help: dbus_connection_flush (connection); -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1235649 Title: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upsta

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-14 Thread James Hunt
Just got a much more interesting valgrind run. Juicy excerpt: ==9366== 147,560 bytes in 1,190 blocks are still reachable in loss record 187 of 188 ==9366==at 0x402B965: calloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so) ==9366==by 0x408E730: dbus_malloc0 (dbus-memory.c:572) ==

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
Hi Steve, The trace in #59 was produced by: - Running Upstart via valgrind which upstart linked against debug builds of nih and dbus. - Running a single instance of the test program (#51). - Running spam.sh (#52). - Waiting until init was consuming ~200MB, then sending SIGTERM to the init/valgr

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
Another valgrind log taken using the same precedure as above. However, this time I waited until the init process was consuming over 2GB of RAM. Top showed: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15329 james 20 0 2463m 2,0g 12m R 100,0 26,1 6:51.59 memcheck-

[Bug 1238078] Re: global environment table is not serialised

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart 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/1238078 Title: global environment table is not serialised To manage notifications about this b

[Bug 1120660] Re: Kernel Panic when running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' ?

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
@alien: Please raise a new bug with full details - take a picture of the screen showing these messages if possible and attach to the bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1120660 Title:

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
** Attachment added: "test_nih_dbus_client.c" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1235649/+attachment/3878664/+files/test_nih_dbus_client.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
** Attachment added: "spam_dbus_server.sh" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1235649/+attachment/3878665/+files/spam_dbus_server.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
I can now recreate the memory bloat using a basic NIH D-Bus server program and associated client program. 1) Run the server as: $ ./test_nih_dbus_server unix:abstract=/com/hunt/james/foo com.hunt.james.Foo /com/hunt/james/Foo 2) Run the client as: $ ./test_nih_dbus_client unix:a

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-15 Thread James Hunt
Valgrind log from test_nih_dbus_server.c run using 'valgrind --num- callers=100 ...'. ** Attachment added: "vg-test_nih_dbus_server.log.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1235649/+attachment/3878682/+files/vg-test_nih_dbus_server.log.gz -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1227115] Re: upstart-file-bridge EVENT documentation examples incorrect in cookbook

2013-10-16 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart-cookbook Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1227115 Title: upstart-file-bridge EVENT documentation examp

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-16 Thread James Hunt
FWICS D-Bus is behaving as designed: since the client has not called dbus_connection_set_wakeup_main_function(), and since D-Bus messaging is reliable, all libdbus is able to do when a signal is sent to a connection is cache any messages the client has not yet processed in the hope that at some fut

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2013-10-16 Thread James Hunt
TBC, using the patch on #69 results in no memory bloat. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1235649 Title: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive am

[Bug 1227115] Re: upstart-file-bridge EVENT documentation examples incorrect in cookbook

2013-10-16 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart-cookbook 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/1227115 Title: upstart-file-bridge EVENT documentation examples incorrect in cookbook

[Bug 1240686] Re: Upstart overrides the user's umask

2013-10-17 Thread James Hunt
: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space

2013-10-17 Thread James Hunt
This is not an Upstart issue: - Upstart in Ubuntu provides a logrotate script that is run to compress session logs in ~/.cache/upstart/. So, by removing logrotate you have broken that facility. - Upstart is correctly capturing the seemingly huge amount of data generated by these applications,

[Bug 1342586] Re: [utopic] [proposed] cgmanager breaks lightdm login

2014-07-17 Thread James Hunt
** Also affects: systemd (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.launchpad.net/bugs/1342586 Title: [utopic] [proposed] cgmanager breaks lightdm login To mana

[Bug 1342586] Re: [utopic] [proposed] cgmanager breaks lightdm login

2014-07-17 Thread James Hunt
Note: systemd packaging branch is out-of-date. Attached patch stops a NULL deref which would explain this issue. ** Patch added: "Don't nih_unref NULL value." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1342586/+attachment/4154594/+files/bug-1342586.patch -- You received this bug

[Bug 1315060] Re: Allow --confdir to look for system jobs in more than one directory

2014-07-17 Thread James Hunt
Upstart 1.13 now provides _three_ options for full flexibility: --confdir=, --append-confdir= and --prepend-confdir=. All options can be specified multiple times. See the MP for details and examples and init(5) for the gory details: https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/upstart/bug-1315060/+merg

[Bug 1344869] [NEW] simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-19 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Attempting to scan via wifi from a Brother MFC-7860 DW fails; the scanner shows scanning but: - no image appears in simple-scan. - simple-scan consumes 100% CPU - the ~/.cache/simple-scan/simple-scan.log grows indefinately until disk space is exhausted. This used to work pe

[Bug 1344869] Re: simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-19 Thread James Hunt
When simple-scan is spinning, the following entry is added to the log repeatedly until ENOSPC: [+15,29s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:1310: sane_read (0) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 0) Further details: $ cat /proc/$(pidof simple-scan)/stack

[Bug 1344869] Re: simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-19 Thread James Hunt
** Attachment added: "strace snapshot of simple-scan consuming 100% CPU" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/1344869/+attachment/4156869/+files/bug-1344869-strace.txt.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1345505] [NEW] lightdm leaks keystrokes to window "behind" greeter

2014-07-20 Thread James Hunt
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: When my machine comes out of suspend, I am shown the lightdm greeter. However, occasionally I am unable to enter my password since the password box is not given focus. Clicking with the mouse in the password box also doesn

[Bug 1344869] Re: simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-21 Thread James Hunt
Hi Robert, Sorry to be vague, but I don't actually scan much so the last time I recall doing it I was running trusty. Yes, the proprietary brother drivers are required for wireless scanning AIUI. $ dpkg -l | grep brscan ii brscan-skey 0.2.4-1

[Bug 1344869] Re: simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-21 Thread James Hunt
'ltrace -o /tmp/bug-1344869-ltrace-xsane.log -s 1024 -fl libsane.so.1 xsane' log from a successful wireless scan using xsane. ** Attachment added: "ltrace -o /tmp/bug-1344869-ltrace-xsane.log -s 1024 -fl libsane.so.1 xsane" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/1344869/+

[Bug 1344869] Re: simple-scan consumes 100% cpu and fills disk with logs attempting to scan wirelessly with Brother MFC-7860DW

2014-07-22 Thread James Hunt
Yes, I confirm that the issue is resolved with 3.13.4.2-0ubuntu1. Not relevant to this bug, but I do notice that the scan speed is quit slow using simple-scan. Comparing with xsane at the same resolution (300dpi): - xsane: 23 seconds - simple-scan: 2 minutes. Thanks very much for the fast turn-a

[Bug 1345505] Re: lock screen leaks keystrokes to window "behind" greeter

2014-07-22 Thread James Hunt
** Summary changed: - lock scren leaks keystrokes to window "behind" greeter + lock screen leaks keystrokes to window "behind" greeter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1345505 Title: l

[Bug 1346848] [NEW] install error

2014-07-22 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: $ sudo apt-get --purge --reinstall install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances Lecture des informations d'état... Fait 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 réinstallés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à

[Bug 1324096] Re: dbus call needed to set multiple environment variables in a single pass

2014-07-22 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => 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/1324096 Title: dbus call needed to set multiple environment variables in a si

[Bug 1345505] Re: lock screen leaks keystrokes to window "behind" greeter

2014-07-24 Thread James Hunt
I've found a way to trigger this without needing to suspend (which hopefully will make it easier to debug :-)... 1) Open a terminal. 2) Run: "sleep 5 && gnome-terminal --maximize" 3) Quickly (before 5 seconds has elapsed), press "CTRL+l" to lock the screen. 4) Don't touch keyboard or mouse for abo

[Bug 1235649] Re: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume massive amounts of memory on Ubuntu Touch

2014-07-24 Thread James Hunt
** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed => 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/1235649 Title: uevent spam causes libdbus client code in session upstart to consume ma

[Bug 1348275] [NEW] gdb message "Got object file from memory but can't read symbols: File truncated."

2014-07-24 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: $ cat >>foo.c< #include int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { printf ("hello world\n"); exit (EXIT_SUCCESS); } EOT $ gcc -ggdb -O0 foo.c $ ./a.out hello world $ gdb ./a.out GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.91.20140723-0ubuntu1) 7.7.91.20140723-cvs Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software F

[Bug 1090289] Re: Commands with backslashes are making troubles

2013-01-09 Thread James Hunt
tatus: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: upstart Status: New =>

[Bug 1085766] Re: /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage

2013-01-10 Thread James Hunt
ureadahead itself hasn't changed in any significant way for a long time now, so this is looking like a possible kernel issue. ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1085766] Re: /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage

2013-01-11 Thread James Hunt
Problem is seen on i386 and amd64, but NOT on armhf (panda ARMv7). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1085766 Title: /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage To manage notificati

[Bug 1085766] Re: /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage

2013-01-11 Thread James Hunt
I tried this using ... linux-headers-3.8.0-999_3.8.0-999.201301110405_all.deb linux-headers-3.8.0-999-generic_3.8.0-999.201301110405_i386.deb linux-image-3.8.0-999-generic_3.8.0-999.201301110405_i386.deb linux-image-extra-3.8.0-999-generic_3.8.0-999.201301110405_i386.deb ... however, removing the

[Bug 1085766] Re: /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log contains garbage

2013-01-11 Thread James Hunt
Looking more closely at my /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log, this looks like memory corruption: ureadahead:^P^P_í,<8b><97>¿add): Ignored relative path ureadahead:^P^P_í,<8b><97>¿irqd: Ignored relative path ureadahead:^P^P_í,<8b><97>¿er/0: Ignored relative path ureadahead:^P^P_í,<8b><97>¿er/0: Ignor

[Bug 1096531] Re: After touch /forcefsck and reboot: Assertion failed in log_clear_unflushed

2013-01-15 Thread James Hunt
Investigation shows that this problem is only triggered by '/forcefsck': the actual problem results from jobs that satisfy both conditions below: - *end* before /var/log/upstart/ becomes writeable. - has spawned one or more processes that continue to run *after* the job has finished and after /va

[Bug 1096531] Re: After touch /forcefsck and reboot: Assertion failed in log_clear_unflushed

2013-01-15 Thread James Hunt
Status: Fix Committed => In Progress ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this

[Bug 1100198] [NEW] source_linux.py logic fails to detect 3.8.0-0-generic as an Ubuntu kernel

2013-01-16 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: I am trying to report a bug against the Ubuntu kernel. On my system... $ uname -a Linux azul 3.8.0-0-generic #3-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 11 17:26:08 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.8.0-0-generic (buildd@lamiak) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linar

[Bug 1100202] [NEW] IPI backtrace in dmesg

2013-01-16 Thread James Hunt
Public bug reported: Noticed when my USB serial device failed to appear, but seems unrelated to that. __ [ 131.963067] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 132.527081] EXT2-fs (sdb1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

[Bug 1100198] Re: source_linux.py logic fails to detect 3.8.0-0-generic as an Ubuntu kernel

2013-01-16 Thread James Hunt
This also affects apport-collect. Running: $ apport-collect -p linux-image-3.8.0-0-generic 1100202 ... reports the erroneous mainline kernel message and then hangs hard. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1100202] Re: IPI backtrace in dmesg

2013-01-16 Thread James Hunt
Due to apport bug 1100198, I am unable to run apport-collect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100202 Title: IPI backtrace in dmesg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 980917] Re: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job [SRU]

2013-01-17 Thread James Hunt
Branch lp:~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/precise/upstart/sru-bug-980917 updated and new package created and uploaded (upstart_1.5-0ubuntu7.2) to correct build failure seen on ARM. Note that the changes are purely test code changes: the code for Upstart itself has not changed in this new version. -- You rec

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