[Bug 1745457] Re: Indicator Multiload no longer refreshing consistently

2018-02-06 Thread Rick Poyner
More info: * I was seeing the 'Dl' state of indicator-multiload when the display updating was stalled. * Grabbing some stack traces with gdb, one of the threads was stuck in a read() call. * Following the few stack symbols, and reading source led to update() in cpufreqprovider.vala. * Experimen

[Bug 1745457] Re: Indicator Multiload no longer refreshing consistently

2018-02-06 Thread Rick Poyner
I was able to temporarily work around the symptoms I saw by doing throwaway reads of the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq files. $ uname -rvm 4.13.0-32-generic #35~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 25 10:13:43 UTC 2018 x86_64 $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s):

[Bug 1016777] Re: dotty missing labels and context menu is broken

2014-06-24 Thread Rick Poyner
Font issue solved for me: * sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi * restart X session (log out and back in, for example) Perhaps some xfonts package should be added as a dependency, or at least to Recommends:? I did not investigate whether/why fonts-liberation could suffice. re: context menus in

[Bug 1016777] Re: dotty missing labels and context menu is broken

2013-07-23 Thread Rick Poyner
Having upgraded to the upstream latest 2.31.20130722.0446 from ppa: gviz-adm/graphviz-dev, I still see the missing label problem with dotty. Rendering with 'dot' (to png, svg, ps, etc.) has always worked fine for me. I have installed all of the Recommended: and Suggested: packages. FTR, my font r

[Bug 1016777] Re: dotty missing labels and context menu is broken

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Poyner
The only symptom I see is (1) from the original description. The following just renders an ellipse containing a dot: $ echo "digraph G { foo; }" |dotty - "Save graph" seems to work right, so the problem appears to be graphic rendering, rather than reading the dot language input. -- You receiv