[Bug 1730627] Re: xz compressed control.tar files not supported

2018-06-15 Thread Phil Evans
I'm seeing this bug on Ubuntu bionic 18.04 with dpkg v.1.19.0.5ubuntu2. $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release:18.04 $ sudo apt-cache policy dpkg dpkg: Installed: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.19.0.5ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.19.0.5ubuntu2 500 500 http:

[Bug 1333294] Re: 32-bit kernel HDD slow write speed

2014-07-21 Thread Phil Evans
I have had a similar problem recently, although not with Ubuntu. When the speed starts to go very slow, try doing: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I think there may be a kernel bug related to buffers which causes this slowdown when the buffers are full. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 991492] Re: Precise Pangolin Fails to Suspend

2012-04-30 Thread Phil Evans
I had this problem too, however I realised (after browsing /var/log/pm- suspend.log) that I had a custom file to get around a problem in 11.10 -- i.e. I had /usr/lib/pb-utils/sleep.d/00Custom Removing this solved the problem for me. Not sure if this helps the users above or not, but I thought it w

[Bug 787203] Re: ubuntu 11.04 will not wake up from suspend

2011-06-15 Thread Phil Evans
Hi, I also have what I take to be this problem. I have a very different system to those above, I have a Dell Studio XPS (L501X). Suspend/resume worked fine on 10.10. On 11.04 suspend works fine; on resume the hard drive lighjt flashes, the computer seems to wake up, the screen powers on, but then