[Bug 1764417] Re: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop

2020-01-27 Thread Phil Ayres
Following up on my previous comment, after removing Chrome Remote Desktop three weeks ago I have not had any crashes on login. That old program (which Chrome didn't register as being installed, but was running in the background) seems to be the source of the issue for me. -- You received this

[Bug 1764417] Re: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop

2020-01-06 Thread Phil Ayres
Very similar issue to the other reports. I see this every few days when I login. Typically I go to Nautilus, mount an encrypted FUSE drive, open Chrome, then randomly the session just dies. Interesting, my dual monitors are reversed so the order of them is wrong (left is on the right, and vice

[Bug 1436090] [NEW] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-3.13.0/mm/slub.c:3365!

2015-03-24 Thread Phil Ayres
Public bug reported: Periodically (every few days) I'm hitting this kernel bug, which causes the session to close and drops me back to the login screen. If I attempt to login it does some stuff (usual screen flashes) then drops me back to the login. It seems to be when I'm doing something

[Bug 762918] Re: Natty Screensaver freezes system after some period of inactivity

2012-03-09 Thread Phil Ayres
Just like appier, I have experienced this with Xubuntu 11.10 too. I'm therefore not in a hurry to blame Compiz. I moved to Xubuntu because my performance with the regular Ubuntu / Unity mix on one PC led to slowdowns (fewer complete lockups). I'm trying the power management tricks, as I think

[Bug 569818] Re: massive memory leak, evolution-data-server

2011-10-24 Thread Phil Ayres
Like I said over on bug 648618, I quite using evolution because of this. Unfortunately you can't apt-get purge evolution* if you want a clock on your desktop. So I wrote an app indicator so I could completely remove the leaky evolution stuff from my system:

[Bug 648618] Re: evolution (e-calendar-factory) memory leak

2011-10-24 Thread Phil Ayres
I finally updated to Ubuntu 11.10 and scrapped Evolution because of this, and some other annoyances. Completely scrapped it. Unfortunately that meant I had no clock on my panel, as the Evolution data server is a dependency (hmm, poor segregation of duties there). I wanted a clock, so I uninstalled

Re: [Bug 745836] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::throwException()

2011-09-23 Thread Phil Ayres
Ian, Out of interest, are the checksums that are different on zero byte files? I saw that hinted elsewhere. Phil On Sep 23, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Ian! D. Allen idal...@idallen.ca wrote: My testing is showing that the ecryptfs bug is still there in a fully-updated Ubuntu 11.04 on x86_64 with

[Bug 745836] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::throwException()

2011-09-22 Thread Phil Ayres
Scott, is that fix in base 11.04? I have been away from my pc for a few days and my 11.04 ubuntu was still crashing libre office before this. I believe that people see a crash when the system is inactive for a while due to inactive libre office apps being swapped out. High ram usage just

[Bug 648618] Re: evolution (e-calendar-factory) memory leak

2011-09-05 Thread Phil Ayres
I've been struggling with this bug since upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 then 11.04. I'm on 32 bit Intel, kernel 2.6.38-11-generic Evolution is whatever version is current right now. I have two Google calendars configured and I've stopped using the Evolution UI in the hope that I can avoid this

[Bug 648618] Re: evolution (e-calendar-factory) memory leak

2011-09-05 Thread Phil Ayres
Continuing my previous thought, if it would help the developers directly identify the problem, I'm happy to set up a couple of Google calendars in my corporate Google account, so they can play with this directly. Just let me know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 654429] Re: evulution leaks memory

2011-07-25 Thread Phil Ayres
I'm struggling with the same problem. In case it helps others make a connection, I'm using IMAP to pull from two Google email accounts, calendar and contacts. I am not using any other email accounts in Evolution, so I think this might help to limit the scope a little. Just simply running htop

[Bug 814329] [NEW] package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Ayres
Public bug reported: I was running an upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 (all successful) to 11.04. I got to the final steps of the upgrade when this error appeared that initramfs-tools failed to install and that my system might be in an unusable state. I haven't tried to reboot yet, but I'm hoping

[Bug 814329] Re: package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Ayres
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814329 Title: package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned

[Bug 814329] Re: package initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Ayres
I didn't get a warning until afterwards, but it seems my boot drive was full. Shame it didn't warn me. ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency with $HOME on encryptfs

2011-06-29 Thread Phil Ayres
SereiS Interesting! I had changed swappiness from the default of 60 (I think) to 10, to make the desktop feel more responsive. I did this before eCrtypfs, so I don't think it is that. It is one area that should be a complete black-box to application though, shouldn't it? I mean, shouldn't OOo be

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2011-01-28 Thread Phil Ayres
@antex, did you identify what fixed it for you? I have seen several kernel updates but no OpenOffice updates. I'm still getting regular crashes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579966

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-29 Thread Phil Ayres
I just tried a quick test to remove encrypted swap (I had set ecryptfs to encrypt my original swap partition, and its now disabled at startup). Running OpenOffice with unencrypted swap and files on encrypted home and OOo still crashed as before. I'll continue to investigate. Maybe I'll be brave

Re: [Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-28 Thread Phil Ayres
Cameron, Good work. A quick question to help me get things straight. Is your home directory encrypted, or is it just the documents folder where your open office documents are stored? I'm going to retest my previous scenario to see if OOo crashes if I use my standard profile and an unencrypted

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-19 Thread Phil Ayres
Another step in the right direction... With my unencrypted test home directory I created in the previous comment, I can now focus in on the problem a bit more. I'm running OOo under my standard username (phil), but changing the HOME environment variable before running the ooffice executable:

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Ayres
I have had some success. After failing to get any decent debug information despite following all the guides I could, I went for another approach. I've not solved the problem entirely, but I have shown that this is not a hardware related issue. I followed the instructions for creating a chroot

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Ayres
Further progress on tracking down the cause -- I can demonstrate that it is related to an ecryptfs encrypted home directory. At least in my case... To demonstrate it, I created two new users, one (testoooe) with an ecryptfs encrypted home directory and the other with no encryption (testooo). I

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-10-05 Thread Phil Ayres
I have another data point for this bug, which hopefully isn't a red- herring. I see that when I experience a crash, when running atop the SWP line is highlighted red. As I understand it, this means that I have tried to overcommit the virtual memory available. I have been experimenting with swap

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-09-20 Thread Phil Ayres
After my wifi red-herring (I think this was just a cover for the real problem that is when OOo will crash when it is forced to page due to low physical memory, which is 100% reproducible for me), I'm trying the new PPA Brendan and Cameron have been trying. I forced the system to page, running an

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Ayres
I had a bad day yesterday. A bunch of crashes again. What was happening? Two things different from previous days: 1) I had plugged in a new USB CD-ROM drive, and it was filling dmesg with log messages, and 2) I was running imagemagick and forcing a bunch of applications to page as it consumed all

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Ayres
I managed to get an apport dump, although I feel that it might be an unrelated issue, so created a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/633423 I can consistently recreate that crash through forcing the system to page as described in the bug. That, at least is

[Bug 633423] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::throwException()

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Ayres
** Visibility changed to: Public -- soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in cppu::throwException() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-09-07 Thread Phil Ayres
Brendan_P and Cameron, I wonder whether disabling through the hardware is sufficient? Have you also tried right clicking the Network Manager and unchecking the Enable Wireless option? Maybe a software disable is different? Anyway, I'm still hopeful in my fix. I haven't crashed for several days

[Bug 579966] Re: OpenOffice crashes with high frequency

2010-09-01 Thread Phil Ayres
Maybe I have another data point, and not just a me too... I have been struggling with OpenOffice crashes for a long time now on one PC running 10.04 (my little netbook on Ubuntu 9.10 is fine). I've tried both Ubuntu and vanilla version of OOo with the same effect - swapping applications back to

[Bug 300637] Re: autofill problem evolution enter breaks address

2010-08-05 Thread Phil Ayres
I have this problem, but I don't have the source to build the patch shown on gnome bugzilla. I'm running Evolution 2.28.3. I would happily test a pre-built patch if you (maybe David Mansfield?) have one. -- autofill problem evolution enter breaks address https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300637

[Bug 591952] Re: OpenOffice 3.2.0 crash due to interference from another Java application in Lucid

2010-08-04 Thread Phil Ayres
For me, OpenOffice typically crashes after copying text in an Evolution email. I disabled Hyphenation in OpenOffice, since that hit me once with an automatic hyphenation happening. But in general it feels that the error happens when I switch between applications with Alt-Tab and swap back to OOo.

[Bug 455421] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_set()

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Ayres
I see a similar issue in Lucid, up to date as of yesterday's updates. In syslog I see this at the time of the crash. I included the pulseaudio ratelimit message just before, in case it is relevant. Jul 28 12:28:51 consected-sv1-001 pulseaudio[1670]: ratelimit.c: 130 events suppressed Jul 28

[Bug 277578] Re: ecryptfs does not work properly over nfs, cifs, samba, or aufs

2010-07-27 Thread Phil Ayres
I'm not sure if this is related, but I tried ecryptfs with .private on a Rackspace cloud storage filesystem (cloudfuse) and it would crash the file system every time (http://github.com/redbo/cloudfuse/issues#issue/4 ). I'm sure this is a problem on the file system side (which shouldn't just

[Bug 352228] Re: Intel Wireless 5300 AGN: iwlagn: No space for Tx

2010-07-01 Thread Phil Ayres
I just saw something odd happen that may be related. I was using Skype and it started to see lost incoming packets, which is normally a sign for me that I'm about to lose the wireless connection. Today it held on by its fingernails and suddenly kicked back in. dmesg showed: [ 5182.259875] iwlagn

[Bug 352228] Re: Intel Wireless 5300 AGN: iwlagn: No space for Tx

2010-06-29 Thread Phil Ayres
I've just experienced this bug for what I believe is the first time. The syslog from the first entry that shows a problem is included below. I have the cheaper and nastier Intel 5100 card and had previously fixed most of my wifi problems by disabling ipv6 at boot (see my response to bug

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2010-06-01 Thread Phil Ayres
Me too with a workaround (yes, I'm very happy!): I'm on Lucid with with kernel 2.6.32-22-generic, running an Intel 5100 wifi card and iwlagn driver. I was getting the two minute 'no probe response' error like the bug creator (see my syslog below). I fixed it on my machine by disabling IPV6 in the

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2010-06-01 Thread Phil Ayres
Oh, just to finish my though, I'm on WPA2 personal, with a NetGear router running at 11 / 54 Mbs (b or g). Network Manager seems fine. I never had any problems in the past with the wired LAN, and the Intel 5100 card is brand new, albeit offering a pretty puny signal strength compared to the

Re: [Bug 580076] Re: Problems with multiple Streams

2010-05-24 Thread Phil Ayres
with multiple Streams Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 17:07:12 - @Phil, please can you try to reproduce this issue using default theme for gwibber? -- Phil Ayres Home office: 617-379-0737 Cell: 617-794-2330 -- Problems with multiple Streams https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580076 You received this bug

[Bug 580076] Re: Problems with multiple Streams

2010-05-21 Thread Phil Ayres
Here's a screenshot showing the problem. You'll notice in the second column (messages for all accounts) there are both Twitter and Facebook messages appearing, but the background color for all of them is the same. In the first column, this appears to show differently. Strangely, in neither column

[Bug 546359] Re: nouveau does not work with nVidia G94 [Quadro FX 1800]

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Ayres
For anybody else that has been struggling to get a Dell Latitude D800 with Nvidia Go 4200 geoforce card running, due to nasty distorted graphics and mouse on the splash screen and in Gnome, the suggestion to add the blacklist option to the grub loader worked perfectly: blacklist=vga16f I wish

[Bug 546359] Re: nouveau does not work with nVidia G94 [Quadro FX 1800]

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Ayres
or if I could type: blacklist=vga16fb -- nouveau does not work with nVidia G94 [Quadro FX 1800] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 546359] Re: nouveau does not work with nVidia G94 [Quadro FX 1800]

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Ayres
OK - so I feel stupid now - sorry for all the repeated comments. I apparently needed a new kernel to get this to work, not the blacklist I mentioned above. Bug #518387 talks about a new kernel being worked on that clears up some KMS issues (I think). I added the kernel from the PPA mentioned at

[Bug 518387] Re: vga16fb sometimes claims fb0 before kms driver, a causing blank screen on boot

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Ayres
Hey, I just tried the new kernel mention by Bryce in the second comment. I'm running an old Dell D800 with nvidia go 4200 card, and neither the 10.04 liveCD nor an upgrade from 9.10 allowed me to run with the Nouveau driver. After updating the kernel from the PPA, I am now the proud owner of a

[Bug 580076] [NEW] Problems with multiple Streams

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Ayres
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gwibber When I am viewing multiple streams, the color selection for the different accounts appears to be ignored. When a stream shows messages from multiple accounts this is a problem. ** Affects: gwibber (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 250367] Re: Audacity uses 100% CPU on opening any file dialog

2009-12-16 Thread Phil Ayres
I have the same issue as Andres with Audacity ® 1.3.9 (Unicode) on Karmic, making Xorg use 80% CPU or more. Often when I try and edit any section of audio (though typically one that touches the end of the audio file), the CPU jumps to 100%, and Audacity becomes largely unusable - most menu items

[Bug 250367] Re: Audacity uses 100% CPU on opening any file dialog

2009-12-16 Thread Phil Ayres
A quick update to this, as I continue to struggle through the project I have in Audacity. I find that if I am editing and the CPU rockets, I can normally recover by undoing the last change I made (Ctrl-Z), then the CPU returns to normal. I think there is an issue when I delete large sections of

[Bug 246099] Re: Screen corruption while scrolling gnome-system-monitor process list

2009-05-05 Thread Phil Ayres
This is a bug for me. My configuration is a Dell Latitude D800 using NVIDIA proprietary driver version 96. I tend to get horrible scrolling performance in any Firefox that is graphically rich (or maybe that's Adobe Flash doing that) , but nothing that corrupts like this. System Monitor: 2.26.0.1