[Bug 1202994] [NEW] EXT4 filesystem corruption with uninit_bg and error=continue

2013-07-19 Thread Dave Gordon
Public bug reported: There was a long and complicated sequence of activities involving mdadm, lvm, and specifically pvmove leading up to the point where the corruption was discovered, but I suspect most were irrelevant. AFAICT, the bug was triggered by the following simple operations: * the FS

Re: [Bug 1202994] Re: EXT4 filesystem corruption with uninit_bg and error=continue

2013-07-19 Thread Dave Gordon
On 19/07/13 18:34, Joseph Salisbury wrote: The commit(b0dd6b7) you mention in the upstrem bug report is in the 3.2 stable tree as commit 76f4fa4: * 76f4fa4 - ext4: fix the free blocks calculation for ext3 file systems w/ uninit_bg (1 year, 1 month ago) Theodore Ts'o It was available as of

[Bug 1103256] [NEW] Kubuntu installer failed at grub-install (on wrong device)

2013-01-22 Thread Dave Gordon
Public bug reported: Disks earlier prepared using mdadm(8) and lvm2; /boot is an md(4) mirror, while /, /home and /var are lvm2 logical volumes. In the live environment, I installed mdadm and lvm2 using apt-get, and started the arrays (which also configured the volume group). Then I started the

[Bug 1100978] [NEW] kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:1177 isolate_lru_pages

2013-01-17 Thread Dave Gordon
Public bug reported: This appears to be the same as a bug reported on Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697139 (same line of code) but this report may provide extra information as the stack trace is somewhat different and this is on a 64-bit architecture, whereas that was on

[Bug 94940] Re: mdns listed in nsswitch.conf causes excessive time for dns lookups

2011-09-05 Thread Dave Gordon
My network was showing this (multiple) 5-second timeout problem. To test it, I turned off DNS caching # /etc/init.d/nscd stop and then # time curl -I www.google.co.uk which consistently took more than 5 seconds. I tried several of the approaches described above, and eventually determined that

[Bug 767048] Re: py-slice.py crashed with TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float

2011-08-15 Thread Dave Gordon
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 733055 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733055 Probably down to a change in Python 2.7. Up until 2.6, if you passed a float to a function that was defined as taking an int, the float would automatically be converted, though possibly with a

[Bug 688138] Re: gnome-osd always crash

2011-08-15 Thread Dave Gordon
Probably down to a change in Python 2.7. Up until 2.6, if you passed a float to a function that was defined as taking an int, the float would automatically be converted, though possibly with a DeprecationWarnng. In 2.7 (and Python 3000) it's now a TypeError. So, you have to put in an explicit