This bug still seems to be active:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8537062.html#8537062
It is still happening on my machine except the interference seems to be more
corrupt along the lines of Simon's image.
I believe it briefly stopped some time ago but by the time I started checking
the
STILL active on 16.04. WTF??? Ubuntu Gnome Flashback Metacity, drag and drop a
2Gb self-extracting exe (even renamed to .ex_) and the system grinds to a halt
as wrestool tries to do a completely unnecessary (and unwanted) activity.
Do not read the entire file into memory just to extract an icon.
I can't send details of the current crash since all peripherals are dead
(keyboard, mouse, network and probably everything else) if I boot into -34.
However, the combination of upgrades makes for an interesting logic puzzle.
Initial 14.10 upgrade - no problems.
-34 upgrade, boot into -34 OR -32
Upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, formatted and reinstalled 14.04, restored from
backup, installed NVidia drivers and Gnome3. Everything finally working,
then did the 3.13.0-34 update.
Screen flashes in graphics mode light, dark a few times. Returned to
text mode, blank cursor top-left - sometimes white,
This is well and truly broken and not just on netbooks. Running an Acer
laptop in 1280x768 still isn't enough to give access to the close
button. Clicking on a blank area of the window jumps down to the
invisible part BUT the click offsets are wrong and so clicking on the
close button doesn't
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dvdrip
Using the default version 1:0.98.11-0ubuntu2, attempted to set the path
to /media/Expansion Drive (with and without quotes). System announces
that special characters are not allowed and changes the value back.
Firstly, spaces are not special
Great! Can I add a little addition, still on the theme of dynamic file
systems?
If, during a download, the destination device is removed or dropped then
the download continues unaware. It can claim to have downloaded the
entire file and it is only when the device is remounted and local data
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: transmission
Transmission 1.93 (10621)
Karmic, Lucent and possibly Maverick. Currently using netbook edition but this
bug seems to be by design.
Reproduction:
Download complete torrents to a removable USB drive.
Close Transmission.
Unmount drive (or
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pacman
Turning into a wall should not stall pacman (he's very hard to actually
stop short of running head-on into one).
The simplest fix is that if he can't go in a new direction, he should
try continuing in the old one so in pacman.cc:
int
