[Bug 1164809] [NEW] Install formats partitions and copies files before config is conplete
Public bug reported: when installing Ubuntu 13.04 i386 image downloaded on 4 April 2013, the install asked me what to do with the drive. i choose to keep the existing partitions, but to format the file systems on those drives. The partition manager stated that this action was undoable at this time. Next i went to set up the keyboard, at which point the X server crashed due to a bug that likely has many bug reports already. when i went to reboot the system, instead of the old system, i was greeted by a Grub error 2. Booting to another Ubuntu live cd, i was able to see those two partitions, but found that the root file system contained Ubuntu 13.04 files. The installer should not touch the existing system until the user is actually ready, as at the end of the install configuration. it especially should not do so after the partition manager tool clearly states that the actions taken there can be undone! fortunately, for me this is a test system that has nothing on it, but imagine if this was my main machine. what if i change my mind about installing Ubuntu before i finish answering the configuration questions? what if the power fails? In past releases, nothing was changed on the old system until the user specifically presses an Install now button after the configuration questions are all answered. This is what I expected to happen this time. I assume that this is done to install things in the background while the user is answering questions to make the total install time shorter, and that is OK. However, it is not OK to change this behaviour with out telling us in the installer, nor is it OK to explicitly state that the partition action is undoable when, once the user clicks to the next window, it becomes undoable. This is a major issue because it can cause the loss of someone's system. ** Affects: 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/1164809 Title: Install formats partitions and copies files before config is conplete To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1164809/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
today updated to new kernel version with the update manager. this new version (3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu
upgraded to new kernel today with update manager. new kernel (version 3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files on encrypted home directory with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952489 Title: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/952489/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux After I booted into this kernel, I found that I was able to make big disk image files with both the qemu-img command and through the VirtualBox GUI. I was also able to interrupt the file creation process with ctl-c in the command window, or by pressing the cancel button in VirtualBox. This issue seems to be fixed with this new kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu
This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux After I booted into this kernel, I found that I was able to make big disk image files with both the qemu-img command and through the VirtualBox GUI. I was also able to interrupt the file creation process with ctl-c in the command window, or by pressing the cancel button in VirtualBox. This issue seems to be fixed with this new kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952489 Title: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/952489/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu
if space is not pre-allocated the small image file is created with no trouble. this problem has something to do with the writing of big files and have seen this in other applications including dd and transmission. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952489 Title: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/952489/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
This morning I found that there is another kernel upgrade available (3.0.0-16.29, up from 3.0.0-16.28). I installed this kernel and booted up into it with no trouble: william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 12:49:42 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Running this kernel, I executed the qemu-img command to create a disk image that reliably causes this problem to occur: william@ishtar:~/test$ qemu-img create -f raw Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img 5G Formatting 'Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img', fmt=raw size=5368709120 This is running on my encrypted home directory. Watching in top, I saw this command alternate between 20 and 60% cpu until the image file grew to around 1Gb in size, then the CPU percent stayed pegged at 100% and the file did not get any bigger. Up to this point this is behaving exactly like the bug report issue; however, with this kernel I am able to kill this process. Ctl-C in the terminal killes the process, as does kill PID. The VirtualBox VBoxSVC process goes straight into the consuming 100% cpu state when creating a big disk image. However, as with the qemu-img command, I am now able to kill that process, too. At this time, the 100% zombie process problem seems to be fixed with this latest kernel update; however, the issue of creating gigabyte sized files with both of these tools on an encrypted home directory still exists. Both of these applications run with no issues on a non-encrypted directory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 952489] [NEW] process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu
Public bug reported: On my system, several programs that create gigabyte sized files fail. the process allocates around a gigabyte then goes into a state where no more data is written to the disk, but the process consumes 100% of the cpu. this issue first lead to the reporting of bug #925309, where the process was unkillable. The unkillable part seems to be fixed in the latest kernel package 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu, but the failure of the programs that caused this is still present. this problem is not only in qemu-kvm, creating disk images in VirtualBox also triggers this problem, although i currently have the VirtualBox packages installed instead of the Ubuntu VirtualBox packages. Both of these applications work with no problem when writing to a non- encrypted file system. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: qemu-kvm 0.14.1+noroms-0ubuntu6.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Mar 11 13:27:08 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-img InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot - Release i386 (20111012) KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD MachineType: LENOVO 2958 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-16-generic root=UUID=a6551c5d-43b4-4962-b132-0ddf59cb55ac ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: qemu-kvm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-14 (56 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/05/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 18CN45WW(V2.54) dmi.board.name: NITU1 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: REFERENCE dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr18CN45WW(V2.54):bd05/05/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2958:pvrLenovoG550:rvnLENOVO:rnNITU1:rvrREFERENCE:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: 2958 dmi.product.version: Lenovo G550 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952489 Title: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/952489/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu
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[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
I have no problem making bug 913787 a duplicate of this one. I think that the major issue regarding that bug is on the Linux Mint distribution which, while it is based on Ubuntu Oneric, is not actually Ubuntu and it is not unreasonable to expect that the Ubuntu team to not want to support it. My system, where I am having the same issue, is running Ubuntu 11.10. My current work around is to install the mainline 3.3-rc2 kernel described in message 3 above. To use that kernel, I had to change and re-configure the Broadcom wireless network card driver (changed driver to b43 from the wl driver the Ubuntu installer choose) and remove the Ubuntu Virtualbox packages and install the packages from Virtualbox.com which seems to successfully compile and install the vboxdrv kernel driver. With those two changes (and remembering that anything kernel related cannot be automatically installed or updated) my system runs with no trouble and this bug is not there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
I noticed that there is a new kernel in the update manager (3.0.0-16-generic). I installed this and booted into it to see if this bug is still an issue with the updated kernel. qemu-img is now running at 100%, i am unable to kill the process, closing the terminal window that the process was run under did nothing to it. the only difference this time is the memory allocated to the runaway process is not freed in response to the kill command. otherwise, this bug is still here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
Hi, Just an added note, running the qemu-img command on a directory that is not encrypted results in a 5gb image file being created so fast that i thought there must have been an error of some sort, but there is a file created. william@ishtar:/home/Books$ qemu-img create -f raw Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img 5G Formatting 'Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img', fmt=raw size=5368709120 william@ishtar:/home/Books$ ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 2 rootroot 4096 2012-02-02 00:48 . drwxr-xr-x 8 rootroot 4096 2012-01-20 00:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 william william 5368709120 2012-02-02 00:51 Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img william@ishtar:/home/Books$ file Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img: data VirtualBox also created an 8gb disk image file with no trouble. both of these results were running the latest 3.0.0-15-generic kernel. there seems to be a bad interaction with the kernel and the encrypted file system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
today i caused this bug to come out when i tried moving one of the big image files into my home directory. same 100% cpu, same unkillable. i downloaded and installed the latest mainline kernel ( 3.3.0-030300rc2-generic-pae), booted up into it with only one issue, my wireless network driver is not loaded, so i have no network connectivity. after booting into the newly installed mainline kernel, i tried all of the failing tasks to try to reproduce the unkillable process that uses 100% of the CPU. i started with the mv command, moving the 5Gb disk image file to my home directory. watching my mv command in top, the cpu percent in not 100%, but a more reasonable 30-60%, and data continues to be added to the destination directory. after a minute or so, the file finished copying, all 5Gb of it. creating a disk image using qemu-img also works as expected. creating a 5Gb raw disk image file works. i am also able to stop the qemu-img process at any time in the terminal where i ran it from using Ctl-C. creating a disk image using VirtualBox also works as expected. the VBoxSVC process spends a lot of time using 100% cpu, but the image file continues to have bytes allocated to it. the process creating an 8Gb disk image file completes. pressing the cancel icon on the progress dialog changes status message to Canceling..., just like when the VBoxSVC process was unkillable; however, this time the process continues to allocate disk pace to the image file and, once all eight gigabytes is allocated, exits as expected. i think that this bug does not exist in the latest mainline kernel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.3-rc2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 925309] [NEW] unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time
Public bug reported: creating disk images with either VirtualBox or qemu-img causes the process to stop responding and consume 100% of the cpu of one core of the dual core processor. Kill -9 does not effect the process. the only way to stop it is to reboot the computer. i also encountered this with transmission at one point as well. on my system, to reproduce this, simply run the command: $ qemu-img create -f raw Ubuntu-11.04-desktop.img 5G this is supposed to create a five gigabyte raw disk image that i can install a copy of Ubuntu under qemu. also happens every time i try to create a disk image in VirtualBox. Start VirtualBox, and create a new virtual machine. give it a name, select the OS and version, memory size, virtual hard disk, create new disk. this starts the virtual disk creation wizard', i choose the VDI image type, and elect to have all of the disk space allocated by checking fixed size. next choose the location and size. lastly, a summary is displayed, clicking on create causes a status dialog to pop up and VirtualBox starts to make the disk. shortly, the VBoxSVC process appears and after a time, consumes 100% cpu time. this bug is likely related to bug 913787 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/913787 . like Sampo, my home directory is encrypted. however, his dd command does not reproduce the bug for me. in my case, this issue seemed to apear after upgrading the kernel to 3.0.0-15-generic, however while VirtualBox worked with 3.0.0-14 and older, this problem occures with qemu-img in 3.0.0-14 and -13 as well. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: qemu-kvm 0.14.1+noroms-0ubuntu6.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Feb 2 00:19:02 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-img InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot - Release i386 (20111012) KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD MachineType: LENOVO 2958 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-15-generic root=UUID=a6551c5d-43b4-4962-b132-0ddf59cb55ac ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: qemu-kvm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-14 (18 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/05/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 18CN45WW(V2.54) dmi.board.name: NITU1 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: REFERENCE dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr18CN45WW(V2.54):bd05/05/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2958:pvrLenovoG550:rvnLENOVO:rnNITU1:rvrREFERENCE:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: 2958 dmi.product.version: Lenovo G550 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/925309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 403130] Re: All my desktop icons were rearranged
my icon reset experience
This issue occurred on my laptop. I think that this is caused by either a
corrupt configuration file or by a version upgrade that does not handle the old
versions configuration correctly. At this time i think that the former
condition is the cause.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 on 13 November from version 9.4. According to
Synaptic, the version of Nautilus installed is 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 and the
version of Gnome is 1:2.29.0-0ubuntu1 .
This issue started for me sometime in mid November. This was after the
upgrade to 9.10, and the system worked without a problem right after the
upgrade. The upgrade did not cause this problem.
What I think caused the problem was my filling up my home file system.
Shortly after this (on the first reboot, which was a couple of days
later) this issue appeared. I ignored the problem for a while as I only
log out when I reboot or more frequently, kill the battery on the
laptop. Today I decided to find and fix this problem.
After searching the web i found several bugs at both the Ubuntu and the
Gnome bug sites with issues that seem related to my problem.
(Desktop icons get shifted after relogin at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330298)
('Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop reload at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589156)
(Desktop icon placement reset at login at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/36244)
('Keep Aligned' option always resets to 'true' after desktop reload at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/399974 )
(All my desktop icons were rearranged at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/403130)
The older reports (from 2006 to 2007) are all closed as resolved and
fixed two or four minor versions before the version that i have
installed. Could this be a regression test failure and the reappearance
of an old bug. Possibly.
On one of the newer bug reports, from July 2009, indicated that the
problem occurred in one user account but not in another. To test this, I
created a second user account on my laptop. When logging in, creating a
group of empty files and directories and moving them around, then
logging out and back in, I found that the custom positioned files
remained in the same location that they were placed. This means that the
problem is in the configuration files of the user that the problem
occurs with and not a global software issue.
I then made a list of the configuration files that were created when
that new user was created and logged on. I made a tar archive of those
files for reference. I also made a backup tar archive of all of the
configuration dot files and directories in my home directory. I then
deleted the configuration files that were created for the new user. (All
of this was done not logged into a gnome session and logged in to a
terminal console session.) The list of files deleted at this time is
.config/ .gconf/ .gconfd/ .gnome2/ .gnome2_private/ .gvfs/ .nautilus/ .
Logging into gnome I found that all customized settings were reset
(background image, home as desktop, window themes, etc), as expected. I
then moved a file or two, logged out then back in. This resulted in all
of the files being sorted back to where the desktop wanted them.
I then again removed the first seven configuration directories and
removed these directories, too: .cache .checkbox/ .compiz/ .dbus/
.debtags/ . This netted me the same result.
Next I deleted the symlink called Desktop that was pointing at my home
directory to satisfy some applications that insists on saving to the
path /home/william/Desktop regardless of the gnome/nautilus desktop
setting (Firefox). I let this directory get recreated during login,
restoring my configuration to what should be a truly vanilla state. I
got the same result.
Next, I deleted all of the above files (at least those that were
recreated) and also deleted the following dot files and directories:
.egl-0.0/, .gksu.lock, .h2h/, .ICEauthority, .icons/, kde/, .local/,
.orca/, .qt/, .pulse, .pulse-cookie, .seq24rc, .spumux/, .themes/,
.tovid/, .update-manager-core/, .update-notifier/, .wapi/, .winff/,
.xine/, .xmame/ . I did the log on, move files, log out, log back on
test, and found that the file icons that i moved stayed moved.
One of these files or directories contains the source of the problem. To
isolate exactly what is happening, I started copying files back one at a
time to make the problem appear again.
.tovid/, .xine/, .xmame, .seq24rc, .spumux/, .qt/, .orca/, .debtags/
.wapi/, .winff/, ./fr-, .h2h/, .compiz/, .egl-0.0/, .ICEauthority,
.update-manager-core/, .update-notifier/, .checkbox/, kde/
All of these files do not cause any trouble. At this point, I am left with
configuration directories and files that have been recreated. I will start
replacing these one at a time:
.pulse, .pulse-cookie, .themes, .icons/
The directories/files above have no effect, The problem remains gone.
Last
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that this problem came back. It is fixed on my laptop by commenting out the two video quirk entries in the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm- dell.fdi for the Inspiron 8600. At this point running pm-suspend and pm- hibernate from a terminal window suspended to ram or hibernated to disk with out an issue. In both cases, the computer resumed with no problems what so ever. However, closing the lid did nothing but blank the screen regardless of the ac plug state. To fix that, I had to add a line to the file /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module to explicitly choose the kernel sleep module. This is contrary to the statement in a comment in the file that claims # The system defaults to kernel if this is commented out. After a reboot, everything works as expected and as it was working before the upgrade. William -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
I was able to fix this problem by removing all quirk definitions for this laptop in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20 -video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi . By default the -quirk-s3-bios and -quirk-s3-mode were enabled. With both the laptop would freeze at a blank screen with a flashing cursor with the back light on. With either quirk option alone, the laptop would resume, accept commands, and be accessible over the network, but the back light would not come on. Adding the -quirk-dpms-on option did nothing. The only way to try no quirk options seems to be to edit the .fdi file and disable the quirks that match my laptop. With no quirk options, my laptop suspends with no problems, and the Ubuntu check box sleep test script ran with no problems. You might visit the Free Desktop hal quirks page at http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html and try the various combinations of quirk options, as well as no quirks, and see if any of these fixes the problems. Note that that site claims that running the pm-suspend command by hand without any options does not use the hal fdi quirks, but in my testing this was not the case. The pm-suspend.log file, which lists the quirk command line parameters showed the matching quirk options from the fdi file when the command was run with no parameters. -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
Today I found the Free Desktop .org pages describing how the HAL sleep quirks work and how to debug them. http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html I downloaded the quirk checker script and it recommended that I add the broadcom b44 module to the unload_modules file (Add 'SUSPEND_MODULES=b44' to /etc/pm/config.d/unload_modules!) I did this and found that there was no effect. Further reading I learned that the quirk information is saved in fdi files. The dell fdi file, /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi, has my laptop listed and has quirk-s3-bios and quirk-s3-mode enabled. The site described how to run the pm-suspend with various quirk options and I tried some options. First I tried to only quirk-s3-bios. I did this by running the command “sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-bios” from a virtual terminal. The laptop went to sleep ok as before. When I woke the computer up, the power light came on as before, but this time the disk activity light flashed. The display stayed black, no back light. Switching virtual terminals did nothing to the display, but the disk activity light continued to flash. Switching back to the virtual terminal that I suspended from, typing commands that cause disk activity (like ls and find) caused the disk activity light to flash in response. Executing the command “sudo init 6” caused the system to shut down and reboot. Clearly the system restored but the display back light was not turned back on. After rebooting this was plain in the pm-suspend.log and the kernel.log files. I then tried the command “sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-bios -quirk-dpms-on” and got the same result as above. Next I tried the commands “sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-mode” and “sudo pm- suspend -quirk-s3-mode -quirk-dpms-on” both with the same results: the system resumed, I was able to enter commands and shut down the computer, but the lcd back light would not come back on. I have attached the pm-suspend.log and the portion of the kernel.log files for the last cycle. If we can find out why the lcd back light does not come on this problem might be fixed. ** Attachment added: pm-suspend.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25576033/pm-suspend.log -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
And the kernel.log section. ** Attachment added: kernel.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25576046/kernel.log -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
Another change, somewhere along the line the sleep/wake system to use, as defined in the file /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module, was changed from the explicit tuxonice to the default kernel system. With the kernel sleep/wake system, the command sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-bios -quirk-s3-mode gives the same results as the above tests. I can shut down the system and enter other commands, but the lcd back light does not come back on. -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] [NEW] suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
Public bug reported: Suspend fails to wake up on this laptop. Command pm-suspend causes this as does the gnome power manager in response to acpi events such as lid close. Suspend works, screen goes off, disks and fans spin down, power led throbs, pm-suspend.log lists either “success” or “not applicable” for each subsystem then reports that it is preforming suspend. On resume, the display back light lights up to a black screen, flashing cursor in the upper left corner and nothing. Disk activity light does not flash. No key actions (ctl-alt-bksp, ctl-alt-fX, ctl-alt-del) do anything, must power cycle by either removing ac adapter and battery or holding power button down for 6 to 10 seconds. Note that the older script /etc/acpi/sleep.sh works almost flawlessly, only requiring the network to be manually reconnected. This fails this way every time I try to suspend this laptop using the pm-suspend script, but the acpi sleep script works everytime. I updated the bios to the most recent version (a14) available on the Dell support web site from a08. This fixed the blank screen with non flashing cursor issue with the /etc/acpi/sleep.sh script, and the resume from the pm-suspend script went from blank screen with non flashing cursor to a blank screen with a flashing cursor. The pm-hibernate script shuts off the computer with no problem. On resume, X comes back up, the network is connected, but the virtual terminals are a gibberish of corrupted video. The /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh script also saves and shuts down the computer, on wake up freezes the computer with lines of video corruption when X should be restarted. ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: This occured during a previous suspend and prevented it from resuming properly. Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume Failure: suspend/resume InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6 Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 8600 Package: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.41 ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=404d3cc2-7b16-4241-b6d3-e852644392da ro quiet splash ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.41-generic SourcePackage: linux Tags: resume suspend Title: [Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 8600] suspend/resume failure UserGroups: ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-kerneloops i386 resume suspend -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop
** Attachment added: this is the pm-suspend.log file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502365/pm-suspend.log ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502366/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502367/CurrentDmesg.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502368/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: HalComputerInfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502369/HalComputerInfo.txt ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502370/Lspci.txt ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502371/ProcCpuinfo.txt ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502372/ProcInterrupts.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502373/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502375/ProcModules.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502378/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment added: SleepLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502381/SleepLog.txt ** Attachment added: StressLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502382/StressLog.txt -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death
I tried installing nvidia-glx-new again on my up-to-date install of Hardy on my XPS m1530. Perhaps rather obviously, it's still not working. Is there going to be any work done on this at all, or do we have to wait for Intrepid Ibex, which IMO would suck. -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208718 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death
I'd prefer to see progress being made in updating nvidia-glx-new to use the latest, working drivers than advising on how to manually install them. I have a brand new hardy install on my XPS m1530, and I don't want to sully it with a hacky video driver install if I can at all help it! We know the latest drivers work thanks to those who have taken the plunge with a manual install, but when will this bug be assigned and worked on? -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208718 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death
90 package updates under hardy-proposed? Pass :) -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208718 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://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
