My Dell Mini suffers the same problem...Sometimes all the system crashes after
trying using the webcam (with any software, like cheese skype or dell video
chat).
I hope the solution should be soon backported to hardy (and so to the Dell
Ubuntu lpia-version dedicated to Mini) due to the number of
I finally fixed on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1662, Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 - HD
Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB) by editing the file:
/etc/hdparm.conf
with:
/dev/hda {
apm = 255
spindown_time = 255
}
No more parking at all and non problems of over-heating.
My girlfriend's laptop (Toshiba A100, Kubuntu Gutsy
I think I have the same problem with my 3 years old Acer Aspire 1662wlm...
My notebook has a shining new HD Hitachi 5k100 60 GB, the previous 2 Hitachi HD
were broken (the first on January 2007 after more than 2 years using XP and
just 6 months of using Kubuntu, the second broken on September 200
I experience the same problem from tribe version of Kubuntu gutsy to the actual
stable release.
Nothing changed during all upgrades.
No crash log for me too...the installation process with gdebi is VERY slow and
resource-expensive but ends correctly.
I suggest using kpackage instead of gdebi-kde
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdebi-kde
My system is Kubuntu Gutsy.
When I install a package *.deb using gdebi-kde I experience an impressive
growth in memory allocation (about 400 MB of physical RAM and 350 MB of Swap
over the previous allocation) associated with a CPU usage near
Same problem for me.
I've installed gutsy on 3 PCs (2 notebook and 1 desktop) since the release of
tribe versions and regularly-daily updated all of them.
Last update found this morning (19 October).
This evening I noticed the bug: the version updater option in Adept manager is
active even if the
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: adept
I installed Kubuntu Edgy Beta yesterday. After a pair of automatic updating of
the system (with adept) now it's impossible to use Adept because it crashes
whenever I launch it. Ever after booting up the system it crashes automatically
and appears