Re: [Bug 1007221] Re: Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-06-04 Thread Lincoln Smith
On 05/06/12 06:42, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: Indeed, ubiquity doesn't bother with checking the DHCP host name. Perhaps it should -- that would be a bug in ubiquity. This is possibly why you can't replicate the issue on virtual machines, in this case are you using the alternate installer?

[Bug 1007221] Re: Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-06-03 Thread Lincoln Smith
Mathieu, In this case yes, installation was done on the same network so the same DHCP server and lease info was used/received. Doing a standard install from a live disk Ubuntu doesn't seem to use the DHCP supplied hostname: the live disk hostname is ubuntu, and the gui installer auto-generates a

[Bug 969489] Re: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early?

2012-06-03 Thread Lincoln Smith
Just an update that I still get this very infrequently - maybe once a week across many reboots of several machines - post applying the 'DEVPATH=*card0' fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1007221] [NEW] Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-05-31 Thread Lincoln Smith
Public bug reported: We assign hostnames to machines using dhcp. For this to work in 12.04 you seem to have to remove /etc/hostname (or have it empty, the behaviour is the same). However doing this results in the first attempted graphical login after boot failing. I have reproduced this

[Bug 1007221] Re: Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-05-31 Thread Lincoln Smith
** Attachment added: .xsession-errors failed login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007221/+attachment/3171002/+files/xsession-errors -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007221 Title:

[Bug 1007221] Re: Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-05-31 Thread Lincoln Smith
** Attachment added: x-0-greeter.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1007221/+attachment/3171004/+files/x-0-greeter.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007221

[Bug 1007221] Re: Removing /etc/hostname results in failed first login attempt

2012-05-31 Thread Lincoln Smith
** Attachment added: lightdm.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1007221/+attachment/3171003/+files/lightdm.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007221 Title:

[Bug 970234] Re: Selecting spice and qxl mode results in blank screen

2012-05-25 Thread Lincoln Smith
+1 for WinXP guest blank screen and 100% cpu when trying to boot with spice+qxl. My install is an amd64 upgrade from 11.10. Happy to provide more details/testing if needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 969489] Re: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early?

2012-05-23 Thread Lincoln Smith
Changing 'card0' to 'DEVPATH=*card0' seems to have fixed the problem for me, at least across a half dozen reboots. Udev log attached. ** Attachment added: udev log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/969489/+attachment/3160255/+files/udev -- You received this bug

[Bug 969489] Re: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early?

2012-05-21 Thread Lincoln Smith
I'm getting the same symptom - more often than not getting dropped to the low-graphics alert during startup - and the change to /etc/init/lightdm.conf listed above has *not* made a difference. This behaviour is consistent across several different machines. From googling around this bug seems