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

2012-03-14 Thread Colin King
On 14/03/12 07:36, Daniel van Vugt wrote: Sigh. It looks like some new regression is in Unity 5 compared to Unity 4. The fix for the autoscroll timer still works, but it doesn't get the number of wakeups per second much lower than 40. But that's a different issue... I *really* appreciate all

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

2012-03-14 Thread Colin King
SRU justification: Impact: statfs() calls on eCryptfs files returned the wrong filesystem type and, when using filename encryption, the wrong maximum filename length. If mount-wide filename encryption is enabled, the cipher block size and the lower filesystem's max filename length will

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

2012-03-13 Thread Colin King
Verified with ecryptfs lower on ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs for Oneiric -proposed. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-oneiric ** Tags added: verification-done-oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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

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

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

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
@Amber, can you next try: I understand you did a recent upgrade from Oneiric to Precise. It would be useful if we can see if this issue occurs running Precise but with the older Oneiric kernels. If you can boot your machine and press shift down at boot time to get the one grub boot menu and

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

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
Tony, so a couple of things: Can you boot with a Oneiric kernel and see if these issues re-occur and let me know, I just want to first factor out the kernel from the changes. Also can you also do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/powermanagement sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install

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

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
Oops, typo, should be: sudo tp-thermstat 1 thermstat.log ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

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

2012-03-12 Thread Colin King
@Tony, since the tp-thermstat gathers data on running processes, you may want to email the data to me rather than put it in a public bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953205 Title:

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

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

[Bug 400443] Re: ecryptfs_read_lower errors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012-03-09 Thread Colin King
Tested and verified working for Lucid -proposed i386 2.6.32-40.87 ** Tags removed: verification-needed-lucid ** Tags added: verification-done-lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012-03-08 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947270 Title: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable To manage notifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012-03-05 Thread Colin King
written 0 ? 0 : 2; } Note: This patch has already been picked up in Lucid as part of the stable updates process, but got overlooked for Natty. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee

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

2012-03-05 Thread Colin King
is greater than 1GB. Without the fix, the following will get stuck: truncate bigfile -s 5G With, the fix, the file is truncated to 5GB as expected. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu

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

2012-03-05 Thread Colin King
) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 906462] Re: ubuntuone sync daemon is writing IDLE messages to the log every 2 minutes

2012-03-03 Thread Colin King
Well, every 15 minutes is definitely better than every 2 minutes, so yep, lets go with that as a compromise. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906462 Title: ubuntuone sync

[Bug 944990] [NEW] ecryptfs: Extend array bounds for all filename chars

2012-03-02 Thread Colin King
for Natty. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

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

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

2012-02-18 Thread Colin King
On 17/02/12 22:32, Sam_ wrote: Agree, though I think when 927952 solves the root cause which introduced exactly the deliberate move to pictures directory, then there won't be a reason to crash. The issue currently is that user has no interactive mode to select from a dialog where to save the

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

2012-02-17 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: If I take a screen shot using Print Screen and I don't have a /home/$USER/Pictures directory I get a crash pop-up saying Sorry, Screenshot closed unexpectedly. I'm confused - the old mechanism allowed me to save the image, but now it's being dumped in a directory not of my

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

2012-02-17 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/934187 Title: gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory To manage notifications about this bug go to:

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

2012-02-17 Thread Colin King
Hi Sam, thanks, however, I'm still flagging up the main issue which is: If I take a screen shot using Print Screen and I don't have a /home/$USER/Pictures directory I get a crash pop-up saying Sorry, Screenshot closed unexpectedly. I'm pretty sure checking if a directory exists is better than

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

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
SRU Justification: When truncating inodes in the lower filesystem, eCryptfs directly invoked vmtruncate(). As Christoph Hellwig pointed out, vmtruncate() is a filesystem helper function, but filesystems may need to do more than just a call to vmtruncate(). eCryptfs needs to go through

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

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
Attached is a truncate soak tester. ** Attachment added: Soak test source https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/451368/+attachment/2745474/+files/test.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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

2012-02-16 Thread Colin King
SRU Justification: Impact: Read on an ecryptfs directory should return EISDIR if not supported however currently EINVAL is being returned rather than EISDIR. Fix: With this patch a .read operation for ecryptfs directories is connected up to generic_read_dir() which then performs the correct

[Bug 400443] Re: ecryptfs_read_lower errors

2012-02-15 Thread Colin King
Note: SRU for Ubuntu Lucid ** Project changed: linux = ubuntu ** No longer affects: ubuntu ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

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

2012-02-15 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Ubuntu Lucid: SRU Justification: Stacking ecryptfs over ecryptfs can lead to many kinds of errors. There doesn't seem to be any good usecase for this and we should follow the upstream policy of disallowing the configuration. Fix: Without the fix, we can stack ecryptfs over

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012-01-31 Thread Colin King
Thanks Daniel, great work! Any idea when this will land in Precise? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates 50 wakeups a second on idle system To

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

2012-01-31 Thread Colin King
Most excellent! Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates 50 wakeups a second on idle system To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-01-27 Thread Colin King
@Matt, thanks for that data point. I will see if I can get any sense out of contacts we have in Lenovo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904261 Title: Lenovo U300s does not suspend To

[Bug 906462] Re: ubuntuone sync daemon is writing IDLE messages to the log every 2 minutes

2012-01-26 Thread Colin King
The fact that users aren't complaining about the line being logged doesn't mean it's not unwanted - users just don't know about it. We do get users complaining a lot about power consumption issues, and things like logs periodically being updated will keep the disk from going into an idle state.

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

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
Daniel, I'm able to measure wakeup events using a tool I wrote called eventstat in my PPA https://launchpad.net/~colin- king/+archive/powermanagement - alternatively use powertop. Colin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

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

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
@Daniel, incidentally, how does one set the default mouse polling interval to 500ms? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates 50 wakeups a second on

[Bug 917253] Re: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
Great! Many thanks Vadim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917253 Title: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 917253] Re: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk

2012-01-17 Thread Colin King
HI Vadim, thanks for picking this up so quickly. Attached is a gzip'd log as requested. ** Attachment added: gzip'd indicator-weather.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/917253/+attachment/2678503/+files/indicator-weather.log.gz -- You received this bug

[Bug 917156] [NEW] desktopcouch-service is polling at ~9.9Hz

2012-01-16 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Running Precise with all of today's updates I'm observing that the desktopcouch-service is polling at about 9.9Hz, running strace on the process shows: poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}], 4, 101) = 0 (Timeout)

[Bug 906924] Re: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

2012-01-16 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571648 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571648 ** Also affects: ubuntuone-client Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: -

[Bug 915843] Re: ThinkPad X201: intermittently powers off instead of suspending when closing the lid

2012-01-13 Thread Colin King
Steve a few simple things to try: 1. Can this be reproduced with a previous kernel? 2. Can this be reproduced with power connected? 3. What kind of failure rate are you seeing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-13 Thread Colin King
Yep. It's kinda invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 915261] [NEW] avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: avahi-daemon on a network with many clients is doing poll() with a zero timeout and timing out immediately. This looks like a busy wait to me. poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN},

[Bug 915261] Re: avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Also affects: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915261 Title: avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout To manage

[Bug 915324] [NEW] thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I upgraded from Oneiric to Precise and now thunderbird is consuming 50% of my CPU all the time. Attached is a strace of the busy process. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: thunderbird 10.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: Thunderbird strace log https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324/+attachment/2669534/+files/thunderbird-trace.log ** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, I think this may be a false bug report - after ~30 minutes of grinding away it is now settled down. I have no idea how to re-trigger this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
On 12/01/12 15:11, Chris Coulson wrote: Is it a fairly fresh account, or new-ish profile? It could have been the indexing This is an existing account with *thousands* of messages. Perhaps moving to the new thunderbird from Oneiric to Precise forced a re-index. Colin -- You received this bug

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, that makes sense. Not a bug then. Thanks for looking at this for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU To manage

[Bug 446657] Re: Bluetooth's on/off status doesn't update from the SetProperty D-Bus method that bluetoothd sends

2012-01-11 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: bluez (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446657 Title: Bluetooth's on/off status

[Bug 900930] Re: pm-utils: typo in set_sata_alpm()

2012-01-11 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) = Martin Pitt (pitti) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900930 Title: pm-utils: typo

[Bug 913886] Re: Power consumption regression (12.04)

2012-01-10 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 818830 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818830 Unfortunately the i915 RC6 patch was dropped with commit 371de6e4e0042adf4f9b54c414154f57414ddd37 because the RC6 fix still seems to make some systems freeze and as yet we've not got a reliable list of

[Bug 898298] Re: pm-utils: power.d/disable_wol won't work by default as it requires ethtool to work

2012-01-10 Thread Colin King
Well, if ethtool isn't going to consume lots of space then I'm happy for it to be seeded too.The moot point is that it doesn't appear to save much power (the measurements were close to the noise levels of the readings). So, it's one of those cases that either we seed it and it works as

[Bug 446657] Re: Bluetooth's on/off status doesn't update from the SetProperty D-Bus method that bluetoothd sends

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
Problem also in Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446657 Title: Bluetooth's on/off status doesn't update from the SetProperty D-Bus method that bluetoothd sends To manage

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

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906987 Title: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
strace shows: open(/var/lib/NetworkManager/timestamps, O_RDONLY) = 20 fstat(20, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1646, ...}) = 0 read(20, \n[timestamps]\n3c32aa58-a2ed-44e7..., 4096) = 1646 read(20, , 4096) = 0 close(20) = 0

[Bug 913856] [NEW] NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Network Manager is periocially creating dirty pages that are being written back to disk and causing uncessary drive wakeups. Using SystemTap I was able to observe the following dirty pages being created on the following files 0 7951 NetworkManager

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
The culprit is periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps() which is being called every 300 seconds because of: /* Update timestamps in active connections */ priv-timestamp_update_id = g_timeout_add_seconds (300, (GSourceFunc) periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps,

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913856 Title: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups To manage notifications about

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
So, I only see a single timestamps file too, the timestamps.096F6V filename is probably a short lived temp filename. As for the configuration, it was a clean install and connected via wireless (and possibly ethernet). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 906462] Re: ubuntuone sync daemon is writing IDLE messages to the log every 2 minutes

2012-01-06 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906462 Title: ubuntuone sync daemon is writing IDLE messages to the log every 2 minutes To manage

[Bug 911325] Re: pm-utils: additonal power.d scripts to save power

2012-01-03 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: pm-utils power.d script to put USB webcams into low power state https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/911325/+attachment/2655617/+files/usb_bluetooth ** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 ** Tags added:

[Bug 911325] [NEW] pm-utils: additonal power.d scripts to save power

2012-01-03 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The kernel allows us to save power on a range of devices - currently pm- utils power.d does not make full advantage of these power savings. Tools like PowerTop provide advice on which devices can be set into a Good power management state. Analysis on a selection of

[Bug 911325] Re: pm-utils: additonal power.d scripts to save power

2012-01-03 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: pm-utils power.d script to put PCI devices into low power state https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/911325/+attachment/2655616/+files/pci_devices -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 906474] Re: zeitgeist database contains the plaintext names of files in my Private ecryptfs directory

2011-12-29 Thread Colin King
So basically, unless one can figure out what kind of meta data is squirreled away in hidden databases, partial encryption is rendered useless if one wants filename encryption? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 906470] Re: ubuntuone client allows one to sync ecryptfs encrypted files to the cloud and logs the unencrypyted name in the syncdeamon log

2011-12-23 Thread Colin King
Perhaps the ecryptfs tools should inform the user that moving ~/.cache into ~/Private is a recommended practice, or alternatively the sharing of encrypted files in Ubuntu One should be only allowed if the user is warned there is an associated risk. -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 907188] Re: Asus EB1007 can't wake up from suspend when suspended using pm-suspend

2011-12-21 Thread Colin King
OK, I can't see any thing obvious in those logs. Perhaps the desktop is passing down some quirks which we aren't passing into pm-suspend when we run it standalone. Can you add the following to /usr/sbin/pm-suspend just after the #!/bin/bash line: echo $@ /root/pmsuspend-args.log and the run

[Bug 906916] [NEW] gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: The gwibber-service forks off a child process that runs a polling loop constantly at 10Hz which causes a lot of wakeups on an idle system. On my Lenovo X220i this constitutes 7% of the wakeups on a cleanly installed system when running idle. Extraneous wakeups waste power

[Bug 906916] Re: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: gwibber (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906916 Title: gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing

[Bug 906924] Re: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906924 Title: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

[Bug 906924] [NEW] ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a read on file descriptor 4 (which appears to be a pipe). Polling waits at 10Hz is quite excessive, especially on an idle system. For example, on a cleanly installed Lenovo X220i, this constitutes ~7-8% of the total wakeups on an

[Bug 906924] Re: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

2011-12-20 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906924 Title: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read To manage notifications about this bug

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